1956-10-06 — Page 5

THE CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1956.

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THIS is the Gin

¦ RAJAH

by

JOHN MCKENNA

THE

land the Rajah Brooks saved from the pirates and the warlords the land once rich in goid and diamonds and more re- contly rich in oil is in what looks like deep trouble.

The Colonial Office's re- port on Sarawak for 1955 revealed this week that it will tako

immense 221 amount of capital and some ingenuity, at Дельмі equal to that of the original James Brooke, if Sarawak in to become the prosperous modern state the Rajah dreamed of.

Since 1947--when the third Brooke decided that he could It alone repair the damage dono by the JupanezC during World War 11-Sarownic been a Briligy colemy.

And Ita

fochng.

ha been

Here are some of the rateONS

revealed in the reput

O running out The 170 wells which provide the volumev average 65,000 l

of oki

year hove, in fuel, been on the dele since 1929. Until ce cently, however, it was though that now doing vouk val

more.

215JE

Burl £1,000,000 were DETA prosjedo doring 1955 sigidant titie were unac

• NOT ENOUGH RICE

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Atlee production- the country": mujor agricultural enterprise

totes above

is still unable to meet kend die. 17:00d. In 1955, 31.000 tons of rice had to be imported-more 12452 x handi the 1934 Import' figure.

Although march

Jurid could be put under rice, the cont of making It ready would b phenomenal, and thore is some doubt as to the long-term prose pret of the kml

more

crop.

Sago is another major But, alhough there are 130,000 ceres under go in the colony,

drelined from Exports

12.000 9,000 tons 10 tons In 1954 to

1986. Low prices are officla By binmed, but the

port points out that the "yfeld is not high and methods of extracting the flour are sometimes prim live and the quality poor,"

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Rubber is only slightly more hopeful. Owing to rising price the retum on exports rose by 70 percent during the vene But. again, quality is a serious prob- lem, and the report recorda "most of the rubber frees are old seedling rubber In try pong condition and must be res gurdert a wasting ungest

Pepper

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from

15,000 tons in 1954 to 10,000 in 1945, Yet even that is nal hopeful The administrators admit that niny growers are now unable to make a profit an their pepper, and "erious dis ense conlinuts to lake Its foll in certain artis **

• POOR CONDITION

Nor does copru fare any bel- ter "Many of the palms are olds and in very poor condillon, Somo copra is export but the quality is usually very low."

Some effort is being made lo grow coffee, So far," however, not much has been achieved,

The report says that

pino- apples "will grow on most lypes of soil in Sarawak, and fruit of high quality can be produced

on the drained peat solls" Ye! it dues not mention any attempt to exploit this fact, nor does it mention that any pineapple was exported.

Cattle nee

not faring much better. Various attempts to im- cattic port Pakistani and Ball have not solved the problem of pasturage, which is almost con- Hently wor A Hereford bull brought into the colony has 50 fur not aired any calves at all.

What, then, is the future for Sarawak?

It was,

after ail, once Labulous in Hindu legend for its gold cud ite diamonds. Ils

riches brought Chinese traders

hundreds of years ago.

It sank into oblivion

owing

to piracy and local wars, which were not

settled until

James

Brooke, agreed to become Rajah in 1841.

hi

Sarawak

daring Englishman,

Under

prospered

DEEP TROUBLE

Now it is in what looks like deep trouble.

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Princess. said the "Not long after the Corontion in 1953 she told Cousin Louie, YOU must write it all down 16 a buok.'

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And sitting there, listening to her, I I began to realise Just how fascinating that work is going to prove to readers everywhere.

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bu did he personally plan for the First World War"

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Again Princess

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I began like a fairy story. deeper. She would remember Bul life in Anholt failed to keep

promise. Nino the morning when, sull a girl, tho

after that happy ride MT best-loved cousin Alix had burst into her room, flung her

of Windsor disaster fell. arms round her neck, and cried

Tho Princess, "Oh, Louise, I am in delight:

husband, was on going to marry Nicky."

Canada.

And when the terrible news Russia-it was dld arrive from

al Sunday

lunch Just before Windsor Princess Marie Louiso was given the task of travelling to the Isle of Wight with a letter from the King. Her purpose......... to bring the news, before it was released to the press, to Princess Victoria, mother of the present

YELIA Out

without ber 10 holiday

Suddenly, 82 visit to the Governor General, She got a cable from her father-in-law. is message was brief: Return to Germany at once.

Disturbing

Lord Mountbatten and sister of Tills was disturbing enough.

the murdered Allx.

the

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But an hour iater Governor-General came to her Then.

memes rooni these

Ft with another cable. said: Ingers an ever darker cloud.

"Tell my grand-daughter to come home to me, V.R."

Eton cheers

WHEN she was 18 Princess W Mario Louise went to Ger- HOT memories: memories, Ite son-in-law.

many to attend a cousin's wed- inctly, of her grandmother's in crepe, she rode out with

<ling. Al the marriage feast the indy-in-waiting, Ledy Errol. iminense Indness and love.

Errol tried consolation. met a tall and handsome young cavalry officer. She fell in love. of reunions talked

of the But there were other moods Sha

pointed out that Then the Kaiser heard when heaven, She

the too. of course, Once,

Within romance. in

a year Princess Marie Louise was not they would all meet again

mnounced. But the engagement quite two, she was left with her Abraham's bosom,

Within a few more months the "1 will not sister in the great Queen's care, Queen stiffened.

young Princess was leaving while their parents took n meet Abraham," she announced

Windsor Castic in un open holiday abroad.

For Princess Marie Louise, has too,

familiar carriage on her honeymoon. tragedy flavour,

Soon afterwards, in France, the mother and father received brief cabic: 'Children very well, but poor little Louise very

uply"

At another time the Queeni was in mourning for a favour-

William Hickey

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Consider the assmastmtion of Czar Nicholas with his wife and

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Around her shrilled the cheers of Eton College boys: they had bean given a whole holiday for the occasion. Beside her sat the children in 1917.

handsome cavalry officer, Princo little Goran For the rest of us this was a Aribert of the crime,

But for State of Anhalt. an outrage,

A PRINCE IS STUNNED

BY A TEENAGE PRINCESS

The prince said that in fact

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har back, puzzlod, anxious, to

her Own country. There, parent's home, she learned the truth. At her husband's demand her marriage was to be annulled. The head of any German State then had the feudal right of mudding his own laws for his family. No protest was possible.

Yet this striking and vivacious never married again. Princet And

that she she explains ragards the vows she mado in the chapel at Windsor as bind- ing and unbroken.

but it hug A bitter tragedy, bean her country's gain. She tunco began a career of ser- vico which fow have equalled.

Her mother, Princess Christian, had founded a nursing service, Princess Marie Louise let her She energics reach still wider. has worked in the slums. She has hacked out a stint of cool down mine. She has run 3 leper colony. She has danced with a Pearly King. She has, to this day, boen a constant and the stage.

I found Miller and producer patron of music Now Princes Beatrix is look-

Now, Brook hundled over the

by Publishing her friend--preferably Peter

stript with actor Peter Quayle memoirs, it may be that she 14 YEAR OLD Ella Fudge, daughter of a Lon- ing for

blue-blooded-to share it. don painter and former model,

will do us a still more lasting schoolgirl princess, I to whom he became engaged

and Mary Ure. read this week, had last year, is now in Rome."

Said Quayle: "Show me the service. She will bring us into lines that the censor has blue contact with a royal tradition become engaged

And he will probably

pencilled." Said Miller: "No can that is centuries old. Italian prince.

nounce the date of his marriage

do. He just blue-pencilled the to her in the next week or two.

lot." End of mory, ********

to

an

"I want to beat the record of Princess Ira von Fuerstenberg," she was reported to have said. "who married at 18."

The girl anxious to attain this dubious goul:

QUIET LIFE

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LIFE for the 20-year-olburgh of the Duke of Edinburgh takoon more seriously Princes Monica of Liechten- will be etein ["very grown-up for

her from now on. terest in exploiting it. It is age," say friends.).

No late nights, no wild parties not yet certain. that they will decide to mino it in a really The object of her teenage for Princess Beatrix of Hohen- big way-though there are desire: 20-year-old Prince Pier lohe-Langenburg. thought to be at least five and Francesco Borghese, one of News about a few of them- a half million tons of bauxite Italy's top architects,

somewhat coloured when they appened.in German newspapers waiting...

is cont There

too-ow I wondered what he had

todave brought a mild "rocket" estimated io run to 3,500,000 say about the princess's pro- from, her father, Prince Gott tons. But up to now only a nouncement. I asked my Rome, tried, Japanowe firm, whose offer was correspondent to inquire. The

considered at the time the prince who stunned. NUDES written, has sought,

reogvered to say: this: "It's all nonscrise.

to mbloit it.

The gold and diamonds lerb are now unimportant,

Beyond that there in the posk siblitty.of

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I have mot Monica, a couple

of times. I find servery, Migo,

an agricultural re-buat-1 can sure you I have go volution. By Bar

Intention of marrying a

By It looks is though that year-old girl. To bo a nutro has will need another Rajak never been my vocation

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cse of her great- scripts returned to me absolute- grandmother, Caroline Malhido. ly lathered with it."

who became Denmark's "Queen Miller, back in hio "egg- of Tears.” Not that Marilyn need worry head" uniform of shaggy grey

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