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NO CONTACT!

SECRET

POLICE BAR IT

By Maurice Manning

NOVIET spokesmen

SOVIET

are

consistently calling for closer contacts between the peoples of the USSR and those of the free work. This trend in the outlook of the Soviet leaders Was underlined by Marshal Bul- ganin and Mr Krushchey when they requested received facilities Lo meet members of the Bri- tish public during their official visit to Britain in April.

und

Perhaps my use of the word "trend" la unfortunate. I should have said "apparent trend," for while Soviet visiters in Brilon

encouraged to make coIY- tact with the ordinary citizen, the Communist authorities 111 the USSR deny the Treedom to foreigners visiting the Soviet Unton

VAIN HOPE

The same month as ESLA- HT and Krushchev MITU visiting Britain, the Brat Forneh

to visit the Ukrain

tourists

(Krushchev's nalive pubbej arved La the mily of Odessa On their arrivai By Were asket to prepare list of the things they particularly wished

14 SEE YOST of the requests were subsequently turned down.

All of them hoped to visit a Resdan home, but WIN ม vain hope, though some would undoubtedly have done so but For the interference of the puller.

מזין

The Weident was described in the French paper, Figaro, by Georges Havon, a sprejal respondent who WIS companying the tourists. "A young girl (Maroussia) de- tached herself from the crowd before our hotel the rumour of our arrival having sprend and proposed that she should take us to the

home of some friends who would be delighted to welcomo us

"It is not

for.

A few mit walk and we stand befurs an apartment house similar to dweilings of moderate rental in our own country. Although was mid-afternoon

utes

boxes

of

refuæ were still standing the

vestibule when Maroussia

left us to announce our arrival.

"A quarter of an Sour went! by without any return of

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY· · 26, · 1956.

́ ́THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A LEICA

* not the Russians sticking bombs under the ship, Sie-only me and Albort coming homo a bit late" London Express Bervico

The porter hid the secret note under his tongue

•

and soon the Prime Minister was taking steps to rescue

THE PRISONER IN

PORTLAND

T

HEY called him the

Father Chinese Republic":

of The

he was the man who

inspiresi the revolution which ended feudalism in China and finally overthrew The last of the Manchu em- | perors,

vel, in London nearly 60 years age, he was known simply as the prisoner in Portland Place."

He was the central figure of the strangest "diplomatic incident" that London has

ever known,

Sun Yat-sen was then 29

Sign of the years old. He had not long

our DCW friend graduated from the Hong-

Passersby formed a circle round

us, curious, smuling, and show. kong medical school, where

ing the most lively affection furho had met and consorted

Soon the with secret revolutionaries whistle whose one aim was the set-

the tting up of a Chinese demo-

cratic republic.

the French visitor. sound of ព strange herpided

the arrival uf police, who cleared the

pave- ment. At last after aboul bult

Maroussia hour,

ቤን

appeared, accomparded

woman with a showi

re.

by

UVIT hor

head. Both darted off in buste

without looking at

Maroussia knew

and

us Do

we did not get

Soviet home."

IF LEFT

LLS. more

In 1895 he took part in an attempted revolutionary coup.

SUN YAT-SEN

PLACE

friends of the Eni- culture, and, what was more, he puror,

have ob- served passing by him the man pleaded Teil Sir the alight, youth- James Cantile I nm here. ful figure of the God's sake tell him goon!" man with £100,000 to his wife.

Cole communicated his on his head,

elmed to be a Christian.

And every time Cule went to

For

fears And she, a woman of character and action, wrote at onon to Sir James Cantlie, "Be careful,"

Sir James at first could hard- friends must have ly believe her story. He asked It this warned Sun. "One for

more evidence,

of these days you man indeed be Six Yat-sen, toli him to write me a note. I can- will pass the Lega- hot do anything tion onco too filmsy

evidence often."

sald.

On

such

To this," he

And one night conscience (for he felt he owed Colo, after wrestling with his

in October, 1896, some loyalty to his employers), he did just that. finally agreed to smuggle out a Bole. But how to do so, with-

He had hardly out exciting the Legation's sus- crossed the sweep- piclone?

Together he and Sun Yat-sen

ing width of Port worked out a plan. land Place when

two men sprang

Government demanded his from the doorway of the cupture alive or dead and a Legation. Sun had not time

on his head.

price of £100,000 was placed

Now in London Sun had influential friend, Sir It failed: and the price of un inside a failure, £19 Sun's fellow- James Cantile, the surgeon, conspirators later dis- who had been his medical covered, was death. But Sun guide and mentor in Hong- was lucky: he managed to kong. At this time Cantile Devonshire Street perfectly escape, and he fled to Eng lived in niakez a

and frequently Sun would of land. citizens

themselves,

visit him.

10

Ravon vicar

the that Oxicssa, left would gladly have admitted the French tourists to their homes.

On the arrival of the Sovic! leaders in Britain Marshal Bul- ganin declared that

differences

Captured

ND 10,

In political structure "should not AN

be a hindrance to our living a

good

Sun would walk from Gray's Inn Place to Devon- shire Street (for he lived

from his new frugally and could rarely home in London at No. B afford the luxury of a han- neighbours, co-operating Gray's Inn Place, Sun Yat- som cab) through the maze

actively

relations."

to call for help before his arms were plafoned and he Was bundled inside building. And once inside (as

THE

A Note

NE

Cole look up day scuttleful of coal (by a happy

the weather the chance

had now note underneath it. Soon after- turned cold) and Sun hid his

ONE OF WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES, TOLD BY HAROLD WALTON

and Improving our sen begun to organise the of streets north of Oxford Sun himself knew) he was

exiled Chinese into his re- Street and then across Port- volutionary movement, to land Place. collect funds for the revolu-

to

no longer protected by Bri- tish justice. He was official- ly on Chinese soil,

But I Marshal Bulganin and Mr Kushchev really want estabilah normal relations with the non-Communist countrite, tionaries and to disseminate And in Portland Place lay an important contribution would his anti-Manchu propaganda the Chinese Legation. How He was hurried upstairs be the lifting of the Stalinist throughout the world. often, through the discreet. to an attic, the door was restrictions silli imposed upon So successful was he that ly curtained windows, must locked upon him and he was foreign visitors to — and eldents in the USSR.

the Imperini Chinese the officíab of the Legation, left to ponder on his possible

THE BOOM IN LEARNING

By YORKE HENDERSON

the war

SEVENTEEN years ago a more came at the moved into

They are not intended to

ult of the books grace the shelves of uni- policy is that the versity dons as well as crvening sweepers, of judges as well as housewives,

their

fate--a slow boat to China, and there, death by the sword.

す

Two men sprang from the doorway

His arina Wero pinloned.

This is the entrance to the old Chinese Legation at 49, Portland Place.

and them a peremptory demand to the Chinese Legation that Sun Yat-sen, legally kid- an English street," apped in should immediately bo set free. And the same morning two

Legation with orders to inter- hefty British plainclothes men were put on duty outside the feru

in.

at once if any person or bulky package were brought out, The Legation, however, gave The door of Sun Yat-sen's atile was opened and he was told to go.

And go he did-to become, in the fullness of time, the first President of the China and the neclaimed "Father of the Republic."

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warda Cole went back to room, ostensibly to roll scuttjo.

the

the

WHE

went out

Ho returned with it to the basement, recovered the note, placed it under his tongue and Intu Porland Flore. Within

he minutes

was £13 Devonshire Street at the home of Sir James Cantile.

Sir James read the note with Increasing

concern. It said: "I was kidnapped on Sunday lost by two Chinese and forcibly taken into the Chinese Lego- tion. I am imprisoned and la a day or two I am to be ship- ped off to China in a specially chartered vasací, I am certain

to be beheaded. Oh, woo in me."

Sir James decided on ime- diato action. He went at once to Marylebone police station, showed the note, and demand- him to the Legation. ed the police should accompany

Το his surprise the police re fuse to do any such thing. It was no concern of theirs, they wald, what went on in the Lega- tion of a foreign country. They How could he communicate were very, very sorry-Six with the outside world? That Jamos, they said, had acted In reporting the was the question he kept asking correctly himself. The little window of arts-but there was nothing his allic was barred, and though they could do.

through it no

Sun fried calling to

and dropping it through the window, but this was caught by the wind and lost in the London sireoto.

Ho tried writing a short note

Jond's "Tenel Yourself Philo Leonard Cutts had an idea sophy" was obviously a gamble. for a new series of books. Yet it rocketed into the best His firm was dubious. But seller lists,

Since then the young man persisted.

"Ethics," "Psy chical Research" and

"Psy

How, then, to explain He launched the "Teach chology" have all made

the popularity?

But then came a stroke of good Yourself" series.

Over Kl years they have fortune. It so happened that the

Last year the series' sales

just announced-topped

6,000,000 copies. They sold

grade,

•

Cutis proposes to In almost every country in put Nuclear Physion on the lints, the world.

Now Me

felda and

ย

bia

•

A Promise

pur Sir James was not to bứ put off. Angry and indignant ho went to Scotland Yard. Surely they could help him. But the sewer was. the same: the Chinese Legation was Chinese

man could act foot inside it,

Ble James was

now la dos pair. Then he thought of an old

him he told his To

lanco at the Foreign

proved themselves. They on Legation had an English port territory, and no British polico-

the keys to the fields they Mr George Cole (who WEB live in Biraam Road, purport to cover. They do not later to

Holloway) and Sus was placed let the exact douth,

As the world has grown more under his

Care. But he haen't forgotten the old complex swerve his grip on with his monis, look after

so the oltiintry man's Cole's job was to serve Sun -the grocery busines desire to Among its titles you can find

"Guide to Western has grown. "Teach Yourself" clothes, keep his soon warm and anything from plas to Persian, Thought" are both on the way, is the man-in-the-street's an-jag foell, The two Chinese who

This time he obtained a pro- from physiology to philosophy. Me Cults promises nothing in wer to the expert.

kopt guard outside the attic door me. It was that the matter At fitw the series started with six cany lesnoter. Not even In It will och him to do told Cole: This man is only a would be brought at once to the the obvious things Latin, 10 carry lessons. The books are, this expert's job. But it will poor lunatic. He will not hurt attention of the Primo, Minister, French, Mahemolice. Then came designed to provide the back teach him to distingulah bo- you."

Lord Salisbury the war and Culle launched into ground to the field they cover tween the real expert and the But as the dark paced Cole So to the Prime Bělilator Immolately praction

fields: They are usually eary reading phoney and to understand the regan to fool worried. Ha pel-, went. And Lord Salsbury, his Teach Yourself to Fly," "Teach --but their contents are not expert,

soner, was obviously no funutit. benso of English Altice right- LOUDER AM Navigation."?

vsky, to learia.

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