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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1956.~

URGENT + PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ANNOUNCED TODAY RUUSIA HAD RESUMED PESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS

CAN BRITAIN CATCH UP? YES!

AS

RUSSIA

ATO M BOMB

carry them

Estimatad

H-BOMB

Scheduled for ! Scheduled for

NIL

Total

· member ́et:

riod.

EXPLODES ANOTHER-

First tested

First dropped from aircraft

First atomic shell fired

First atomic cocket fired

number of A-bombs In stockpile

First dropped First tested from aircraft

Estimated number of H-bombs in stockpilo

1

Scheduled for i

AUTUMN 1956

NIL

Warbands ready but no j

TTY YYYY

rockets to

SPRING 1957

SPRING 1957

MAKAUPIGA

SEVERAL HUNDREDS

LUROTMAN TUKANG PROTE

NOVEMBER 1952

MAY 1956

313155

AT LEAST

SEVERAL

SEVERAL HUNDREDS

! THOUSANDS

ALTOR

Russia

SEPT 1949

OCTOBER 1951

UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

AUGUST 1953

NOVEMBER 1955

AT LEAST

1 MORE THAN

1,000

MORE THAN 100

Britain

U.S.A.

OCTOBER 1,952

MONTE HELLO

JULY 1945

AUGUST

1945

MAY 1953

NEW MEXICO

HTMETNINASA

NEVALA

Rockets and warheade plentiful but bellaved none fired

YYYYYY

---BRITAIN STANDS BY WITH FOUR MORE

These test-explosions which }

flying eritical on two counts.

to

1001

111***

bombs each peeking a punch as

As the

weapon which Kval dt vastated Hiroshima

1

For the Best Time fightin men will be involved to such

Lests the ፡ ፭፡ extent That virtually represent the handing ve of the atom bomb fran

As the dramatie announcement the celestesia for the Forces "Russia has

tested

another

from

Two of the four blusts are curtain-maizers. for the test Britain's let H-bom

24 hardtalej to take place. of Christmas falusid to the Pacific next spring

nuclear weapon" came President Eisenhower, Selener Reporter Chapman Pincher was flybag to Marsings, Australia, where Britain ha holding her biggest stom tesia. Before he left he

the prepared

super- chart above to show where we

So the success of these Aus- the alom race.

cabled Traian tesla with largely decide en lake her acationat prediction: whether Britain

luce as an H-bomali Powor

stand now

And Lai,

his ok

Way

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

B

IN TEST No. 1, hundreds

of

RITAIN will be a far I soldiers mre 10 De

more

into the 190

L weapon:

the

As they [ee] the heat and

formidable "Indeleinated" military atom of alomie

battlefeld Power than the bold figures

the bomb- scoreboard above suggest bust of the boint exploding on after the critical series of His high steel tower, they will Ienta wha! IL is like to bu tests now starting in the threatened with the fearful fre

juwer of shells, rockets, and

Australian desert.

The NEW

DOMB No. 2 will be expièncied

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The lighter side on a troubled island WITH THE GAY“ GORDONS IN CYPRUS

By FRANK HARRISON

"EXP.

It's amusing to hear how the

HAVE had a taste of guested to step, nut, The Greeks soldierlag in Cyprus have works for T:

piralento - Outside, please," OE out with a three-hour cupants had to be searched, and mobile patrol of the Gordon a thorough check of the vehicles Highlanders, who as you made maja oh may know are among the

Scotland's elite of giments.

We took a route that was new up through the to mo, going foothills of the Troodos mour-

Brah soldier. automatically re- apres into pidgin English

this case: pidgin Scots). trying to make people of other race understand intentions.

when ah-

"You open motor-çar bormet,** į talos—a winding, tortuous road courteous lance-corporal

through the Archangelos regio. quested of the feat driver to be The little mountain villages or glogged. "Me star-repel" And that road are Dascinating, how embarrassed Ule lande

corporal

looked when the

to hang from the slopes by some mysterious, gravity-defying cypriot pnswered im in doroc, and their gleaming white

fluent

and foulties Boglish, stucco standing out against the with less of foreign" "stcent

hillsides than the Scott

of the [vivid green

makes a glorious picture in the brilliant sunlight.

Their beauty, and their

pearance of tranquillity deceptive,

Counge

oď

can

We pass

COY EXPECTATION

The road block soon becamo the stopping place for a clutter ingh on od through

the EOKA-infested of farmers' Jorries,

playcles, and children; and bus hove into sight up with towns of Kalokharie, Petra

the Kato Koutrapha but oli were Highlanders' eyes. lit dozing in the evening sun, with OSPITOUNUT the little families (the men black the women in brightly- ocloured dresses)

sitting sound their front doors on small wicker seals. It seemed 100 peaceful

the Christmas Island H-bomb inpentous idan, believed to be

will

do more than

to be true. bring unknown to any other nation. fert

Britain level with America and

[ca

Russia

deferrent which means closing three year

power-

227 22

They are confident that it will

Bon the ground to simmalate po fritain HEAD

an afonte shell or rocket war- kernict

EXPLOSION No. 4

Is

In

E

ROAD-BLOCK

coy expectation, while at the time they seemed to ad-

same

quire an air of gallantry well- suited to their nickname "Gay Gordons"

Tealised why, I speedily

for one of them voiced the thought that

was in at their minds. "Girls!"* he said, anticipating to be

H-bomb. That is why it is to be dropped from a big Valiant. The crew of this plane will have those who he one of volunteered for the extremely hazardous task of dropping the real H-bombs, which will sel parallel to the coast road, about some belles in the bus.

1,000 tracs T оп an explosion

Xeros-Nicosia road more powerful.

I am mcIVE

eflee's

down that there were bound

Alas for their from it, and. The bus groaned to a standstill fond hopest

Presently

miles inland joined the the (with which

WO swung

the entire foot- than and disgorged

Letka, and

nothing else. footballers, The

nothing iesa Australia

T- full-dress ulmost than hearsal for Christmas Island

the From

decide familiar) at the village of Astro- ball team from the town of It has been cleverly contrived

will bomber experts so that it will also serve as

rond-block was es- A what evasive action the crew meritA,

and then tablished here, atomie should ordinary of *ཟླ་་*

the lake 10 escape the

through Morphou Cypriots to R.A.F.'s devastating blast weapon

Christmas pressed on at

and set up another block, which Island.

the

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concentration

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This sounds a remote hope in It will provide vew at the position revealed in information about the new

Bit The big band scoreboard such effect

screebo mi dots not what the biliary tecties

"how is the outstanding genius ol Penney N

a designer

stockpile.

of

I will als produes facts and Agures bout the intense ground-alonie hardware. shock which would be produced The coming Christmas Island if an atomike bamb or H-bomb H-bombs are based on struck the earth to produce

crater Shelters of dit- huge ferent types have been built in the shock zone,

THE

a

TE No, 3 BOMB, which will be defonated on top of tower, is the final test of the triggering device to be fitted in the

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All vehicles had to be stopped. and the occupants politely re-

If you could face your

problems today as this man faces his...

AN ASTONISHING INTERVIEW BY MERRICK WINN

round his

neck on

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and this character became hop Icsa with

when the lance-corporal

Wigglingly

SUB-

gested to him that pockets might be full of bombs.

had

something wrapped In a handkerchier which tho lance-corporal made him open, A bunch of mouldy-looking carrots was revealed!

The footballer was reduced to convulsions of, merriment

regrets I've done many when the Seot intimates with a

twinkle stupid things, wrong things.

in his eye at the carrots were probably a new "But what is the use? If I type of

weapon of the BORA faction.

had my life again I'd do these same things. I'd be the same *No terroris"," the Cypriot person, I wouldn't change." chartled, with less command of

ibad English

Aoma of his But what would be give for fellow countrymen. "Rule Bri- Low torc years of üte? tannia, all gone finish. But me Would be, for instance, barter no terroria"!" the books he has written?

babbled something He then Greek which had the whole "No," he said. " wouldn't football team in hysterics, and

'OYCE CARY, one of It hangs

What were Joyce Cory's first Britain's greatest a black cord. It was to call for thoughts when he knew he was die? "Well," he said, novelists, is dying, about his room.

if he fell help

while getting going to But not now. "for some months I'd been hoping barter when I went to see Joyce Cary will not get on of for a cure. him at his Oxford home, it bed on his own again.

***There was a doctor with a seemed natural for us to

brand new treatment. He tried they're it out on mo. talk about death.

and so,

How to meet it and how to face the fear of it. What It will be like to die. What happens afterwards and all the other problems that perplex every one of us.

But it was not a gloomy talk. We laughed a lot. We laughed because co

still many people think him a woman ("Joyez was my mother's maiden name") We laughed at the doctors who, decided, know not much more then we did.

we

His dignity

DEATH has

not touched his features yet, except to shade the eyes a ittle, to pinch the checks. This it has done with dignity, even beauty.

And if death has touched his mexif- spirit it has done so cently. He is almost unafraid.

"We must all hate to die," he said. "But I think now I can accept it.

one. Not for 10 more | of life. It im't that youre Think my books so good, but me and they're some-

It didn't work. thing I have done with my life," Poor fellow, he must have been So we came to the final prob- terribly disappointed....

lem After death--what then? Ho stopped, because he had Joyce Cury is not a Christian in suddenly seen the funny side of the Christian conse this. We laughed. He went on:

Then

had a tremendous feel- I have to much ork still to do.

Ing of ingency

W

in

it was with great good humour that the and back-slapping Highlanders hushed them back into their bus and bade them a cheerful and noley forewellf FOUR LOVELIES

Immediately afterwards a 'car drew up containing • family man complete with four “layety His religion la complex, and Cypriot daughters The Scots personal. It came out of suffer-fell over themselves in vying ing.

with one another to make I shan't finish it. "Of course,

dives "began trying to write when capture-of

young ladies' I have 15 hair-unished novels. i

They succeeded, and I new novel, you

I was 31. I had to go on trying, smica never start know. I carry on with one I'd end falling, until I was 13. Unii was remin ed of the oft-repeat-

I had found my religion.

ed pronouncement that, by and batore. given up, possibly years

"Britain's best ambassa Lagre "Now I'm doing a novel called The Captive and The Free, my first about religion. I'm writing the big scenes first and then I'li all in the rest I always do that."

"It would be harder if I knew the date, and the time. But I know only that I shall die some time--so do you, so duos every- on

There will be no pain. paralysis can cripple all his body, but it cannot hurt him. E lay there, propped up on Neither Can it hurt

his mind; Have pillows in a four-poster

right to the end his brain will Het coughing. He went

His wait

Pathetic?

Perhaps two years. Perhaps would

not so long. The paralysis creep ing over his body reckons with

um

You

would

The

not

His belief

“I balleye in a personal Power, bigger than me, that I am con- tent to call God.

soldiers." were

dors are Britain's These Gay Gordons suredly no exceptions. "But I cannot believe in the

Finally we were on our way divinity of Christ, in eo inspired back to Aberdeen Camp, balta- Bible, or in the miracles. And

of the Gor-

Hon

headquarters 1, um inclined to think there is dons. I was pretty estevótis, fole no after-lito.

we had to pass over numerous

meeting- "I think my death will be the culverts favourite end of me.

places of EOKA bombs. A truck "And I do mind leaving the blown up on one of them would come to a very nasty finish in- world. I mind very much.

deed in the river below. His message

who has

I

Upon

"Oh, yos," he said. "I look life as a gift from God. I

LTE stopped again—this time for

bed, and locked back on his 67 be clear.

on: "I shall not be able to use He also looked, years of life. but not sadly, to the time that think so could you see him. You a pon much longer, but I can

And my feeling (of-upprehen- I'll go on as long lies abroad. The time of waiting, would feel warmed; and you still dictate.

sion was by no morbi velleved wish that you too wil as my voloo Bauta."

been by the inquisitive attentions of have in you to die like this,

So do not imagine self pity, or the only sign of fear in all the has written come of Britain's company for a time, shoot-

It was then that I mw in him So the man

Joyce Cary for 67 years, who a huge black: variture that hope no calendar. There is only one brooding.

three hours I was with him. He finest prose, will become nothing ing and floating disrally, over. "I never think about dying, I said "You see, the paralysis may in death. Nood he have lived? certainty: there is no cure.

and occasionally sweep- head, "There's a chance it will slow don't think people do in my affect my voles, and sometimes,

ing down to take a closer look position.

I never talk about it I think it is already doing so." for a while,' ho told me.

at us. It came so-mear, that “I "But

You're the first person at the moment I

either. tkm deteriorating rather rapidly." to whom I've really talked about

of a head. I told him, truthfully, that his did nothing to earn it. Now the could seo its bald monstrosity

distinctly, and It was a statement of fact, no 11.

voice was clear and strong. He time is coming to give it back glittering body · eyes behind mone.

"Dylang jo something

you said:

the evil curve of its beak; "I think you mean that. I have no right to complain."

What was the most important He added: "I'd always hoped must do alone,"

It's a relief to hear you say it.”.

Cypriot villagers will tell you thing life has taught him?, He that a vulture podsesses second to die suddenly. us through a

Then we talked about the old, said: would leave bullet in the hood.

His hope

this sight, but I dancy this one was old problem: how, at the end, to message Seize the day, for cross-eyed and must have afraid, is the slow way..."

deal with our regrets, our Te there isn't much time."

strayed from its banoful "beurt," Slow, and certain: With al- THEN he said: "It to, frankly, more for the things done and

When I left him he began to for 1 am glad to report that wo ways a new sign, a new abudow. a rather solitary nitair. But the things left undone.

write again, He hasn't much finished our homeward Journey For instance, the allyer whistle it is a loneliness you must

time.

without miliap, a accept. There is no escape,

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOUR NEIGHBOR.

MR. CRAD REPORTS HE SAW A MAN SHOOT OUT

OF YOUR CHIMNEY AT THREE AM.

SHOOT WHATT

GUNT

NOT A GUN A MAN HIMSELF

HOW.

∙LIKE FUNNY SANTA CLAUS REVERSET

There was comfort in his answer.

"I've hundreds of

PLEASE FORSET THE WHOLE THING, OBVIOUSLY,

HE SAW SMOKE

AND IMAGINED. THE REST.

PERHAPS HE WAS INTOXICATED,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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