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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1956.

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MARCO POLO

EASY ON

A

FIRST

Was

nid

Lanni

111 sulta nelauttee

at the Lanchow air- port. A white uni. formed medical worker moved among the

PIARON- gers in the stuudi dusty want ing room, passing out hand

I imagine fuls of pills. they were for airsickness, but it was only a guess. My interpreter was gone and was inarticulate as a baby; unable to read a sign understand a word

Mak.

or

RUSSELL

HAD IT ROAD

THE

SPURR FLIES TO SINKIANG

with grunting and groaning and checked, Overweight Brunty expectorations.

are prohibitive.

Icon, entrated desperately on

charges patch of cultivation with one

and small sunbuned town

Real water of singko lufi pageida,

airstrip

WER bare

•

pocke

There's a clock to, which the stewnetiess now put back two hours That made F Taly Indian Standard Time* By the time we reached Urum- chi I guess we would be alxnut. the longitude of Delhi.

The heat haze vet mountaitis.

the depression Beche. Tipping northern Tiber escorteri us flowed in the sheams, although on the horizon shimmering in and rolling like a storm-tossed along ship, we

crossed a

the

Thy snow-capped peales

bumpy second lap. the dried-up Again the same upsets among shaven face.

Ground-lovel told, nicans passengers, river dotted with lozenges of the

Joviality_quick- cultivation. Mean 1 parse

dicef; lands fecked Wius grazing and occasionally the round skin tents of nomad tribesmen,

Then

the

Iy

colour faded

from sigging

A fresh

anyone suddenly an ample countryside ble began

of elongated gelds, trecy and high-walled house. The plane

An atrine offeral had to lead banked and lurched upon the mit i The well-worn, green- uneven airstrip of Wu Wei, camouflage} Dakota because Another medical attendant

Lo embark.

un-

I couldn't make out the onÍCT was waiting. Now i could me why he was sorely needed. The Departure was late, which is pusseligers staggered off, buying

China.

minched Pleasantly pale, and Pilots wisely refuse to By if down fresh handfuls of the im- there's the lightet sqm of bad

A few minutes later Kiten

were fresh us ever, slurping

Th

זנ.

and

bags.

splitoons papar

Even began to quaes- tion the wisdom of the exper- Jon.

The oasis round Wu Wel gave way again desert.

A

was grey

Dow

wenther. Bus Hight to Urumahi

mut they were fresh whopsticis lunch.

Joelies

long about 1,000

and would take all day. Somewhers in the route,

All the Chinese, that is,

hud

jook that dlazed <

all the way

to

I vining Husslan couplu later learned, where had been acquirtų

lasted them knigh, Urumchl,

earth

“understeems.

It seemed

Cffortless

trundling off die bare

strip and aerogy the

denuded SECONDARY

Kansu hills. They looked bare

and brown and crumpled,

the papier-mache backdrop

like IR travel is still a socundury

to

11

and hostite

with

laced ravage rovines that scarred down from the nearby

Loins. A

appeared

moun

road

peopled with

A form of conveyance in China, cowling trucks,

of the Cam-

and oncMEN the ribbon of the

Sinklang now rallway. Other

munists' pontrol that they have concentrated on developing rail communications. A few comfort. able Russian Ilyushing have

a dreary wisc been introduced on the more emptiness

Otherwise will challenge importan Foules,

an ambitious model railway. In It's a measure the distance, misty mountains, blue and purple in the morning sunshine,

their peaks nglisten with sternal snow. Below, the age-old camel

trudden by Marco Polo, by countles merchants, monks, soldier adventurers.

And

Dakotas,

That

RUSSELL SPURR has been touring Red China during It was the past six weeks. his third trip into the coun- try, but his first to Sinking.

all the

have been But no than up

JIN J mid-air It must The name, I'm like an oven below more uncomfortable "Wine Spring."

More medical here, surely? My typewriter for Vanderi for the third time in the the passengers. Russian woman's lap. The More juice for

attention

the

More

Dakota major apologetically youthful my vomit bag.

Attards with UNINVITING

Russian tommy.

Marc

revivals of good. spirit

mong

the propaganda magazines

the dusty wait-

וארו חי

WAN

borrowed

cruel landscape, re- lated more to the moon chan to the earth, Sharp fangs of like what rock from

Baked sold first lova The soil was burned and! blasted. streaked with memories of kng-absubď

hills lack rivers. Little nounced a range of big black hills with pavel-silted valleys. The most uninviting area anyone! not a word 1

1 vointy

starched for the follet. No ust

asking

sold

was un-

derated.

an-

In

the world. Nothing but infertile earth tortured once in some und volennie cruptions, Al vast last I found it subject now! to the whims of

brick hot sighing winds and

dis modic, meagre roin, isolated which

a grey

building

creetly

- оп

spas-

felt like chocrity when at last the plane emerged over un- some kind soul dulating fields of ripening rice. hod painted LADIES and Trees clumped about a hump- backed mountain. Down, down W.C. in thicke

to Urumchi black paint,

#rport. There were hedges and box-like mud houses Vegetatio; and the hummocks of ancient died out again tombs. Haystacks gleamed from Com- past Chiu Chuen. Scrub pimple scattered farmyards; telephone they'r still left to the old munists' ingenuity, no

matter the plain for a few dozen miles, poles slanted towards us; graz- A 17 Che now ing goats fled, and we thudded comunasideered from how hard they try to translate then nothing.

would have been conspicuous as former

down at last on a strip of sand airlines. It into fertile fields. Nationalisa

A solitary came!

and stones. Pressurisation

insulation and

The peaks crept closer-great a skyscraper. are unknown;

"We are taking you to the smoking is for shoulders of snow-ancired rock train stood out like a naval con- hidden no matter how long the crowded with tufty cloud, The voy, Even a couple of nomads, hospital," said the young man

way across the meals IT seemed a bare deliance of

at staging plain turned light, and

into foothills, the picking their history, gliding above the wide

posta est extru,

foothills into mountains, serap tracks on horseback, were un- meanderings of the Yellow River

In East China fares are still Ing just below the plane. One mistakeable at 4,000 feet. and the blackt werunchments of

and One worthwhile gadget in the wind-swept Gobl. This was cheap. But the baggage allow mure bump, it seemed,

Heading west-

we'd hit them, anco is

If the Chinese airliners is an altimeter trall demanding burdship,

remote Sinkiang. wings managed to hold.

fixed to the forward Dulkhead. timeless pullendo. A sweat and wards

prices rise steeply, and every

Chiu Chuen was another It tells you how much the plane Trail, where the

unwary

in carefully clearing in the desert. A crowded drops every time it hits an air mard even

ven the strongest were ounce of baggage sometimes lucky to survive.

DEFIANCE

a

mud

died

This was so

so different, so effort-

at that we all hit the

roof. The plane had run into

an air pocket, dropping at least 200 feet. The cups of hot green tea the young shirtsleeved olewardess was handing round splashed all over the compari- rained down ment. Luggage from the overhead rack.

There belts. wire no

t. The only thing to do was hang on to the

arm

resia and hope for the best.

up hilltops seemed to have died

small.

Into

even

who

came to meet

me, He meant the hostel, but a hospital might have dono just as well.

(COPYRIGHT)

Monday: Urumchi, Hangover of Intrigue

GO ON-FAINT! IT DOESN'T

MEAN THAT YOU ARE A COWARD

'away Only the most faded about felds struggled for life in the doctors

tho

RE you a coward?

Do you believe that

By... CEDRIC CARNE

But what worried Jimmy was not only the fact that he had fuinted but that it had hap- bravo people never "All the same," Jimny - "Perhaps," I said, "but what pened more than once.

Recurrent rainting attacks The scenery below had grown faint? How many times insisted, "women faint much more about all of those tough soldiers more derolate. Even the miser your life have you fainted? commonly than men."

who faint when given an injec- are common. The enusts can be be able cultivations upon the dried-

done so in tion? The type The colonel held strong 'views

Recurrent The causes can They may have

of person who these questions. "You Victorian times but this is much faints under those conditions, for either psychological or consti- of course, haven't Invented an less true today.

example, le often very courage- tutional there was ous. He just happens to have

on oct

malady like valleys, woon they too gave up inciuni to measure a man's of truth in the colonel's bellet a more introverted type of per

A short period of emia. like you measure Dejected shrub courage yet

vigorous exercise often causes truggle, shadowed the sunnier slopes. until then I have to keep to my twoen

relationship be scality. blood

he said, "so that there is pressure,

an attack in a neurotic indivi courage and fainting. Sometimes the vivid green of

"And even thore most dual. But some people without waterhole exploded into view. A own theories. Yes, it's the first For when do people faint? They

question I ank mas: In my pleasant

fant in escape tromi ir iki prychologically robust can faint heuroses are liable to, such great parched plain

These are often tall, Paraded

inil

situation, to times have

escape at the onset of an abrupt fever attack, past, then more mountains bare you fainted

from witnessing a distressing or after standing still for s

-GRADED. EXERCISE any life. Alt pockels aammered, the colonel that had brought his operationa

"Like me," haplained that 'n man faints

said Jiuny." the blood vessels in the what plane from the sunbalced earth,

son ito..00% İYUN. Jimmor had... TRUTH HURTS

do you advise then, muscles and th the tiver and in doctor?" A Haggering, roller-coaster ride fainted and he seamed ostiamed began, to the discomfort of the of himsel

Not long ago Krushchev told the duneys dilate, causing, a fall

Gradest physical exercises, passengers,

"Just like a woman," he said, the truth about Stalin to a hall in blood pressure, so that legs

and, eirangolv. development of Chinesgale travellers sicken

Idk, ba-fouhér packed with faithful Come blood flows throuds the benin the leg muscles sounts to help

intmists, Marty of them, it is: This resulte in a tyrosionit -th the treatment of rich cases, Wignoring the reported, fainted Why? Be of condonines

Butylimmy did not fancy ark- cause they did tior wars to hear your Lather. If he can aboup cycling mud. control the amount of blood in his father "to" bug him a tmt flows through the brain, blercle, “Courago."

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It was this attitude of the sight Vicó a street Goellent or an; dimo, or in a hot environm lanky, stooping individuals.

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