1956-06-11 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1956.

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Bond meets the big Boss...and sees fear in the eyes of a girl

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JAMES BOND, English secret agent trying to smash a diamond smuggling gang in America, has been kidnapped by a couple of gunmen employed by the "boss of the Spangled Mob and is being taken to Spectreville, where the wealthy and eccentric Mr Spang has established a replica of a Wild West town. START IT HERE

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HE car lapped up the dead straight road with the needle of the speedumeter wavering around eighty. The telegraph poles shifted by with

the click uf Д metronome,

In

апу

caan.

Bond reassured himself, he was just about to achieve his main objective-to get to the end of the pipeline and Seraffimo somehow link Spang with his brother in Londo

They were counting us $4 section of high wire fence wila gate in it and big bouce

single light.

Lup

by their

It makÍ: SPECTREVILLE CITY LIMITS

DO

NOT ENTER.

DANGEROUS DOGS

23

CHAPTER EIGHT

sawdust floors, and girls legn mesh stocklings.

10

went back on his heels against

AND

THERE WAS

the door jamb. The gun clat TIFFANY...

fered to the floor,

The snout of Fraser's revolver HANDS

drinks, appeared nursed

doors. widest

the

through the awing

It weaved quickly round towards Bond, like an aiming ON HIPS

a thick grunt and carne for him downwards with

snake. As its blue and yellow "Come on, sissy."" said Me tongue lleked out, Bord, his Gonigle, giving him a midge blood singing with the batile, with his lovely held gun. Bond lived for the ground and for the slowly straightenech himself gan at McGonigle's fect He measuring inches. Ho limped heavily as he followed the man got his hand on it and frod two He quick shots upwards from the the door of the saloon.

floor before Metionigle stamped head US the awing doors on his firing hand and landed arms failing. paused napped back into his face. He felt the prod of

gun on top of him. As Bond went Frasso's

down, he

caught a glimpse of from behind.

Frasso's gun between the swing doors, pumping bullets into the ceiling. And hie tirne: tho crash of the body on the plank ing outside sounded final.

:

*

Now! Bond straightened him- seit and leaped through the

swinging

dour,

both

his Bond twisted to prolect stomach and the gangster's head hit him in the ribs and the two fate crashed into his body.

Bond's breath Whistled

through his teeth with the pala,

he but

focus kept

on Me- Then McGonigle's hands were Conigle's head below him and, that at him and Boud was kneeling with a twist of the body

McGonight's back was just in on the ground with his head put all his shoulder behind his front of him and, beyond, down trying to protect his eyes, hand, he whipped in A hard there was a brightly it, empty The gun was still on the floor left, and, as the gangster's hand

bar-room in which an automatic within reach of the first free came up, he lashed out with his

phare was playing to itself.

to

in

the

Bond wrist

Case.

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DRAWING

BY

ROBB

THEY LISTEN

Diamonds TO CLICKS FROM

are

Forever

by

IAN FLEMING

"Guess you never seen rulbon

OUTER SPACE

By JOHN MCKENNA

Harwell ticles" about which vary

a corner of a lush, little is known.

green Berkshire field, Many of these particles 91 geiger counters lie can only be produced by

like that, Lamey," said one of spread out in a neat triangle. bombarding atoms with the guards proudly. "Now git Day and night, month in and particles travelling at in- goin'" His volco was muffled month out they spell out credible speeds.

by the black silk hood.

•

The Interior of the Pullman essages in an endless patUp to now they could not be produced at will. Selen- glittered with Victorian luxury.tern of metallic clicks.

The messages come from tista had to travel to moun- At the far and of the state room, with his back to a small outer space, and a team of tain tops and observe the open freplace flanked by book-physicists has been working results of cosmic rays col- shelves gleaming richly with

for two years to decipher: lding with atoms in the gold tooled-leather bindings them.

upper atmosphere.. a red shood Mr Spung. In leather

Ensali armchair near

So far they are very little But in these collisions writing desk half-way down

half-way down the wiser than they were at the natural or man-made les car Titany

beginning. the

the answer to the ultimater right. Bond didn't care for way sho WILJ holding her The mystery they are try questions of the relationa cigarette. It was nervous and ing to solve the mystery between matter and energy. arundal, It looked frightened of the origin of cosmic rays

up-

ever.

·

Far From Clear

philosophically A relation-and

One of the physicists

Bond took a few steps down remains as intractable as the car to a comfortable chair. He turned it round to face them both and eat down and crossed one knee over the other. He shrugged took out his cigarette case and when I asked him if the job control over it would

lit a cigarette and swallowed didn't deep lungful of smoke and let the smoke come out between his tooth with a long relaxing

hiss

MR

COMPLETE answer to that Q completa means

frustrating. complete

Beem

mastery

Curious Thing

known

is the

of

the

"Two years," he said, "Is a physical univery by man,

In theory, of course, scien- very short time, when you ilsta have known ever, soo consider the age of the uni- Einstein that matter and energy verao."

re convertible in a precise way? A particle travelling at the speed of light becomes pure energy, TR SPANG had an unlight

But the details are still very from the cigar Jutting

far from clear. exact centre of his mouth. He

Our

partial mastery of the ዘደጋ 1 They roundiert

took it out. "Now you his HIS attitude typifies the

Foundation of outlook of the more than problem mountala and went down a hill

eyes glittered angrily at Bond, and inten brightly lit. strugating

Jan.

right to the chin.

"who are you and what's going a thousand research scien- our progress in atomic energy

Operations like, this might be ressembly of about 20 bmblr.

For

fought seconds they

The impact of the two blows

at Harwell, summed up as On?" Bond's hands shot

tists at work

the "Far West" out and

McCanigie and Beyond, the moon glinted on a

In a Western dress she on?'

Bond looked up into the the British Atomic Energy of modern physics--the un- the single

above the silently, like animals, and then straightened

of him back on his feet. truck

looked like something out which caught railway

hard face. **If you

thick will frontiere elbows.

Gun," He lifter him off his Bond got to one knee and gave rocked

"Annie Get Your

She tense lanced off. straight

die.

his shoulders Bond was on him like a panther,

why Authority's research esta. kno talk to me.

mystery. feet and swung him round and great heave

him and raining towards the distant horizon.

inshod

stood and watched Bond, Her want to the upwards at inta

But physics also has its Mid- the swing doors and into and

Crowding

until the body They drew up among the grey

eyes were shining. Her full red didn't you just call me on the blishment.

The curious thing about west its relatively "tamg Frasso who Wil halfway glimpse of a face and the weight blows to

began hours

neul shops **

£56.

parted and telephone?" clapboard

lips were slightly markted

it is that their attitude has areas bristling with possibilities "Drugs,"

through them. The whole clap came off him and he rose to a gangster "Harbor,

grabbed at one weaving

she was panting as if she had "You don't get the mČSSgė, and "Wella board house trembled

Bs the crouch.

and dived for An anklo and been kissed "Farmers Bank,"

feller," Mr Spang said softly. produced a bewildering ar- for quick cash returns.

Uranium, for instance, be-, Fargo," under a hissing gaslight

yankeed it away from the floor.

The other half of the quartet "Mebbe I better bring you up ray of highly practical re-

for safety after comes too hot Then he put out all his outside a two-storey building

strength,

in black to date.

coded signal Gotta the two men

sults. full turn to which said in fader gold, "Pink

hoods who had beaten up the yesterday from London."

life as a fuel aunt Carter Saloon,"

de almost a

momentum, and lung

The first job of a research theoretively short span in its Jockey in the mudbath at Sara

Usually, uranium fuel can less than one percenti the sideways into neath, "Beers and Wines,"

Bond knew he was for it and scientist is to push back the toga. Each of them held a .38 the sweet nasal

Police Positive There was

was a rising gun in his hand. Bond's chin and knocked him to

4 lurap trained on part of his mind slowly digested

be consumed. honkey-tonk Bond's left caught him on the his feet with a snap of the teeth oom

There was a first twanging Bond's heaving stomach. twang

the knowledge, wondering how frontiers of knowledge. No

But somebody has discovered piano playing "I Wonder Who's shoulder. At the same time his that shook his skull.

Bond slowly took out a hand- it was going to be done But at one can tell whether or not Kissing Her Now?" slightly flat open right hund slapped down

Bond had no time to clear his crash as the flying figure

the upright pianola and then,

and wiped his face the same time another part told one morning the 91. geiger that, if you dissolve the "burnt

in nitric acid and The music reminded Bond of hard on the

McGonigle head before the gangster gave with

he had discovered explosion of metallle kerchief G

with it. He was feeling light him that

oxygen and then extract the discord's and breaking wood, the

headed, and the scene in the what he wanted to know, what counters will reveal a story uranium

uranium from the solution dying instrument toppled over

brilliantly it saloon, with Its he had come to America to and of immense value to man

kind.

again, it comes out ready for and, with McGonigle spread-

brass nttings and its homely out

Not far from the field second round. engled across it, thundered to

advertisements for long- the floor.

vanished beers and

The two Spangs- the one in whiskies, "Cut

London, his brother in America Where the geiger counters the beginning tick away incomprehensive- dld represent and the end of the demondly, another team of scien- moment, hetists is at work on the de- pipeline... At this

اد

two bodies met anci Frasso fall

doors and back through the crashed on to the sidewalks. McGonigia entapulted

She did so McGonigle's knee, anet wonted to end back As did

gun.

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the

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IT is a girib voice and i came from the direction

the bar.

Vlieself

Bond shook turned slowly round.

o!

and

Four people had come into the saloon They were standing in tho line with their backs to mabogary End brass bar be hind which ranks, of gleaming bottles rose to the telling. Bond had no idea how long they had been there.

A merp in front of the other three stood the leading citizen Spectreville, resplendent, motionless, dominant,

DI

Mr Spang was dressed in full Western costume down to tho long silver spurs on his polished black boots. The costume, and the broad leather chaps that

was

⚫ was suddenly macabre

Mr Spang broke the silence, **Bring him over.

There was a faint jingle of spurs on the woodera

Now,

Ho

►

Mr Spanig left the room with But out to do. a last look at Bond, a look that. Anggero, held some message that Was musi get the answers back to more than the obvious warning his boss M.

the girl followed him.

to

The two Bond and the big one said: "You heard."

*

There was a door behind the MR Spang sald flatly: "You're

a cop or a private eye bar. Bond pushed through it

At

*

of

Even Greatòr·

GAIN, it has been discovered

floor as had completed the job he had

the sign of a machine which will A that uranium can be made to somehow, he take tiny neutron particles do more than one job at once,

and propel them in a spiral While it is making power

speed just under the will also, for instance, convert.

relatively cheap. thorium into. speed of light,

an efficient nuclear fuel, That It will generate way it actually produces more 6,500,000,000 volts more fuel than it burns.

similar, la in this bustling power than any of

machine available in the West" that most of Harwell's

researchers are working. and found himself in a station some sort and I'm going to find

world. More than that, it

that out who you are, and who you.

Their difficulty," there, is waiting-room with benches and work for, and what you know. will propel 100 times more they produce more Ideas than

notices about

time, or the old-fashioned

"Right," sadds one of the You look like an eye and you

facilities or the staff-to make men and Band turned through behave like one and he turned particles at their incredible they have the

Tiffany speeds than any similar full use of with sudden anger, on a sawn-off swing-do mind on Case "how you fell for him, you machine now in existence. to a plank station platform.

silly bitch. I just can't.Sgure."

The Answer "The hell you can't," flared Tiffany Case. "I got handed

trains.

ND, then Bond stopped in his the guy and he acts okay And

Already they have made atom-generated. electricity as choop 0 conventionally; generated power.

There is no doubt now that

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After that, the next step la No one can say exactly, thermo-nuclear- power the But the results may be power generated by the

H-bomb.

But even that, startling.

The neutron particles are beginning.

sharp prod in the ribs from a around. And for all you know fuy may be telling the gun barrel,

truth

Her angry eyes swept frain in the world. over Bond and he caught the barrelled revolves which pro- beats probably the most eruded from a holster down The engine was ors of the old glint of fear, fear for him, bo

thing only, the of the "Highland/hind them. cach thigh, and the broad black locomotives

The men who are now. cläss from belt

of around 1870 which they hung was Light

“Well, we're going to find used as bullets. They are which Bond had heard called ribbed with ammunition.

out," said Mr Spong, and go on fired into a "target" which bombarding atoms with particles stkam loco- Mr Spang should have looked the handsomest

finding out all the guy croaks, consists of whole atoms. The travelling at the speed of ligne may be on the verge of" some", His molives "dver built ridiculous, but he didn't

idea is to smash the atoms thing even greater. Coupled to the tender was a and if he thinks he can take it,

into their ultimate compon- And beyond them there A Gre Listening maroon coloured state Pullman, he's got another think coning"

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ent parts a bewildering still the

patiently to the clicks from mahogany panels were narrow

TOMORROW: That ginagain. array of "fundamental par outer space... pickeys out in cream

big head was thrust slightly forward and his eyes were cold, force slits.

On Mr Spany's right, with her hands on. her hips, was Tiffany,

/

REPORT FROM PEKING by RENE MacCOLL

THE BASIS OF CHINA'S STRENGTH

ย

Arms,

either from

painted: lo bright Peking which swooned into the heat Every few hundred yards one ing that, we were

enme across another group of Russia or aroma 'satelllie' yellow," "and when LEN!) was hate,

miniature HERE it sprawia the

Idagged plangit of several hundred or more, Almost country: Great Wall of Ching. Only a place the size of China naked, they worked away in the The etiquette at such moments Bewildered, I asked what e

windmidalbed You've read about it, would have dared plan the 90-degree. beat beneath ther you've seen the photographs turning battlement. Only huse straw cartwheel huis

produced China could have 2 but nothing can prepare

enough workers, to get it done. The earth was carried away Liny baskets, stories, and you for the reality

There

a moral to be drawn,

to te drum rockt were laboriously uprooted A stupendous serpent: made As I set off, on

by hand. and a of falt blue bricks An im- journey of two hours possibility, going, is weldly, quarter back to Polding the almloss way across the vast Czech-made car Was

mountains, An impos- bouneed and bounded along

really atrocious road. 2,000 year old. „Asi: X' paced for /its

growers

*ibility 2,000

hour or

i moro along its broad ramparts Y.

för ellmabed panting up its verli-

A

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thing

the same N

is to applat right back ut could be, and was informed them, which always malces me rather sharply, that it was: tike

* newest type of horma-drawn feel uncommonly foolish.

harvesting machine. the In

dekts theblack- trouvered women worked with FOOTNOTE: China? Would the mme «ittenéneas the wovide a gigantic neid day tor And all over this great land, long line upon line of Dr Buchman as voluntary con which is to all intents and them, rubbing and adoling dession and a recital of errors":

methodically. S

is still very much the dors purposes. 'roadians,

tising My Anki, might bord thun In going on

THE PEOPLE

floor servant apparently, thought

· I were interloper. En my Everywhere the toiling men, China's strength with 11cm in hotel bedroom and i tried. working to build: the, roads. A hvert people, for, in alte of the order me out, 4 veran

600-milion population, build big sorts of the set ave-year I told him in an Anglo-Saxon

plan and so forth, the country, phew of classic terweniola ja saw whole dit -wtili arcibusqguely remove himmelt/dart. Reslaing

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Wall. gilamp lasher mind's eye the than 'd' gout track, and only in bulk the fabulous labour force which the Balkans have 1 encourriered *- mat anve helped to bulla imnything words,

long ago before Chri

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