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THE CHINA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958.
WHAT LIES AHEAD?
"
Deep in thought, Peter Townsend looks on his car is shipped to Brussels, starting point of hio world tour and all the adventure hold for him.
it may
AFRICA
PAKISTAN
RUSSEN!
CHINA
FINDIAN OCEAN;
AUSTRALIE
£9,000,000 GOING
“PACIFIC OCKAN
ZEALAND
AMERICA
SAHARA
AFRICA
EUROPE
NATIVE ROUTES #068119ERANG
The World Sees Me As A
P
Special
Case, It Seems
over-zealous
and
Preparing For My World Tour... By
Peter
Townsend
ther through the Shan States roads are not exactly perfect, and over the Thailand border to and the chances of being delay- Bangkok,
od are far from negligible.' ✰ in From Bangkok the road leads was now expbcted to spy, south again all the way down effect:
to leave propose mid-October. the Malay Peninsula to Singa- Brussels in
run pore When I say road, it must down to Singapore and calch the not be thought that I mean an 10.30 boat for Australla on
indeed asphalt surface, or
a February 14, 1007. level surface at all, It is true
that over this firat long stage to It was making a lot of anyone Singapore there are some ox to give a snap answer like this, collent roads. Occasionally one and it was not until I had re- may find them in the most un- fected very carefully that I expected places. But there are could screw it out of myself to thousands of miles where the plump for a given date. My dia- imagined when, best kind of going I can hope for will be full of bumps and melding up my mind, the whip- potholes with mud or sand for ping company replied that they variety and rivers to ford.
were sorry there was no room;
be
The stretch of my Journey the entire ship was charlerod from Brussels to Singapore is for schoolchildren.
fraught with complications and uncertainties. I have had many setbacks in making my plans for it, and at times I have nearly lost heart. At one moment, I
Heard No More
OWEVER, I found another found myself with an injection which sails a fow days ear- for diphtheria in one arm and
also
another for typhold in the other, lier, and I hope I make it in time. As it will take me to Freemantle, with a smallpox vaccination from where I shall strike cac. thrown in for good measure. across Australia un I reach
1 had just come off a horse with Sidney. There I have reserved quite a bump and I was
a cabin in a boat sailing to New waiting to lose half a stone for
Zealand, and after an all too A race. I was consoled, however, short stay I shall have to return in my discomfort, with promis- to Sydney and take another boat Ing news about the Burma road from there to Hongkong Rod
Then there arrived, by the Japan
One.
Fame pust, two letters.
from Delhi, said it was likely Of all the visus I have applied
from
more
China is perhaps
the Chinese En
On my return from England or less, over what for me will the Burma roule be closed, was food, that it would be
about
I
re-
ERHAPS I was a expressed what I wanted
I spent a long time with them, that there would be strong ob- for, that for allowed me reasonable latitude and they gave me the Kittle
most jections to my approaching the the one I most covet. My ap- with the dates. I had des- precious Information and advice. Burmese frontier from the In- plication to but in my desire to patched to the forty odki em- They had motored, six of them, dian side. The other sald that easy in London mot with get as much as pos- bassies and consulates concern in two Land Rovers from Eng the boat which was to take me courteous reply which said, as
before the l. sible lined up
sighed with rellet and innd to Singapore, and I shall
Ceylon to Singapore should be following their route.
to Pelsing. I have heard start and thus prevent de. awaited the replies.
China My hope la lo enter lays on the route, I was
many had already
arrived; be the first stage of my journey, now unlikely to call at Colom- no more since.
bo because of the Suez trouble, anxious to got as many others were to follow before Brussels to Singapore is
I felt a cloud of depression from Canton, on the mainland visas as possible in my pass long. I found that my perfectly 18,000 miles by road.
ordinary request had been met I must now any a word about descending on me, in which all close to Hongkong, and spend a seemed week or ten days in the country. Here I with the greatest courtesy and my itinerary.
progress beyond India port before I left.
abserice In the
of a decision blotted out.
about the vise, I have had to ran into serious trouble. My goodwill by the authorities. Al- portant consideration was that
make provision for the visit current passport only had though the regulations did not the itinerary should fit in with
that
to say
count on normally provide etc. etc., they the weather, wherever I happen- a few pages left for visas, would be prepared, as a special ed to be, I must avold monsoons
having to disembark myself ami and I needed these because case, to grant me a viss. I feel and seasonal rains and floods,
the car at Hongkong and 1 am frequently rushing off humble and grateful
embark on a ship leaving some ten days later for Japan If I cannot enter China I shall have rained or wasted-en days.
to various European coun- willingness to help. tries to ride in amateur
races.
I
the In any event passport would expire at
year the end of this should have to get a new one which I would use ex- clusively for the journey.
ing."
at
Ready Help
10
whose
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very
im-
Snap Answer
the
such which would make the ronds DEOPLE say to me, what fun
impassable. The itinerary has
it must be organising worked out alright on this score journey. I agree up to a point, as long as I can stick more or But there are times when you loss to my schedule,
get embroiled in situations which
the
I have already described how fill you with dismay. It seems
they through Germany, Austria, countless forms and regulations
where the
WHOOSH EVERY YEAR Ghastly Problem who takes 10 smooth
By Chapman Pincher
Science Reporter Pincher, who flew to Australia to observe the atom-bomb explosion at Maralinga, has bren investigating Britain's other science-war
He now Bles projects in the Australian desert. urgent warning to those who hold the purse-strings for these projects: You are not getting your money's worth!
T
an
fire to
them.
A
to
Two Routes
of
to
Nothing has happened yet make me give up my hopes of getting through to Singapore by road. But I feel I have done enough organising for the time being. My plans are laid, and with good fortune, they should
ما
From Japan I shall cross, the-
Nicaragua,
The Gaps
SHALL bo following the great trunk
route known LA tho Pan-American High way". It is not yot My departure from Singapore pleted and there are ♫
IRID such introduces a problem, which un- gops where there is no road
ard
In
through
There
(Contd. on Pare 7, Col, 0)
UTHORITIES, when bound by 1 came to get right, as you look impossible that you will succeed Pacific to San Francisco, head Rockdea, then down south and regulations, often appear in at the map, and not left. My in threading your way through north into Canada and over the towards the difficulties many of them back into North Amerion. Then human. But they often relax the plan is to strike out
Brussels, I may say, imaginary-which over the border, down Mexico southeast from rules, and then you and
and so into the functi way," are as nico, and sometimes nicer, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, until I create in your confused thoughts.ped part of Central America "I am sorry," said the Consul, than anyone. In some instances, come to istanbul. There I shall But as you approach your obs formed by Guatemala, El Sal "but the regulations only allow more trouble than I have ever cross the Bosphorus into Turkey, jective, the hate always seerns
Honduras, vador you to have one passport at a expected has been taken on my in Asin Minor, and turn south to clear, and your prospects Costa Rica and Panama. time." My heart sank. It would behalf, especially in as far as cast towards Syria, the Lebanon getting through brighte need weeks to take the passport concerns countries
and Jordan, then turn cast round to forty embassies, some going may be difficult. of them in London, to have it The Colombian Minister
in- across the desert to Iraq. vised. I pleaded with the Con- vited me visit him. We sul. He regarded me with arm had an agreeable talk about his pathy and replied slowly so that country,
geographical i could get the full measure
until recently of position was
HAVE a strong desire to travel work aut the concessions he was about to hardly known to me. The Afghan
Ambassador in London received through these Arab coun make.
I long to seo we do sometimes me, and I had a most enjoyable tries and "Well make a special case for people and profound conversation with places as Belbeck, Petra til
1 quite recently never all, and where the car must be rello of an ancient dreamed would be a very serious shipped or put on a train. The in the Services who need a him. My krantan colleague, the Babyon; and Jerusalem, the number of visas in order to Military Attacho in Brussels, has
one. I
now find it is one of the biggest of these gaps is between" take up a distant foreign post- given me invaluable advice, and symbolic city of the faith which most tricky of all. I shall have Panama and Colombia.
the Thal Embassy in London inspires the Western world, Ros have assured me that measures cent events, however, have made to catch a boat to Fremantle, the road has not yet penetrated in Australia, I bad foolishly some of the most formidable my me doubt whether my route can
a cabin Jungle and swamp in the world." way through Thailand
take me through these countries. magined 1 could book
and space for the Land Rover a Here again I shall have to get The BurnD section of the The Syrians and Jordanlans. to few weeks before I arrived and a ship, and my idea is to sall, have expressed my thus be reasonably certain of to La Guairin the poet of LTHOUGH I didn't fall com- route has greatly exercised my whom I
gratefully apprehension on this score, as- An aircraft fitted with a prong pletely into that category I mind-and. I should
whe sured me of a welcome, and I decking on a particular date of Caracas in Venezuela and then
world down the long, long road ». The Corsid add, the minds of those
It believed them. I shall have to sailing. I was quite wrong.
From the replies which came which passes was to spear them as they came teil half into it.
OVELY kindly had my
new passport have been such a help too.
the ace how has been necessary to ask
things go and down by parachute.
hopa in from the shipping companies variety of climate, through low Tests ut Woomers
all will be it war clear that there was no lying tropical regions and over have prepared and endorsed for every permisden of the Burmese Goy- against hope that
the
well. pass through proved this feasible, but nothing country in the world we could Within a few weeks
because in some regiona If I am obliged to avoid Arab time to lose if I wished to make lofty mountain pupes and leads Colombia, me southwards through sure of a cabin. This put has been done to put it into use. think of.
a third passport, the population is in stale of countries I shall have to con- in a terrible quandary, Singa- Equador, Peru, Bolivia and The Woutera men cannot be more I had
The Government has nue duc cast the delay. They but I was bound and scaled to revolt."
after leaving blamed for
15,000 miles. from Chile, pore fa direct the the original new one,
from Brussels. As have said the are largely dependent on
whose shown every readiness to help. Ankara and pass
Iran by way of gulted missile plannars in pages were now rapidly fling
practical Turkey into There is only one Whitehall, where it is privately with visas.
route from India into Burma, Tabriz to Teheran, Eastern Tur-
and admitted the programme has Another ghastly problem con- that is trem Ledo, over the key is a military zone.
north have therefore had to ask the nasco. EXAMPLE. It cost half a been a Adela'de
authorities The missiles have been hope-fronted me, and filled me with frontier in the extreme
for per- doubt and anxiety, A visa is and down the road built by the Turkish HE rocket range at mtian to lay 450 miles of tele-
lessly out of phase with the air-dot
valid from the moment it American General Joe Siliwell mision to pass through it, ernft designed Woomera, in the Aus- he entile on the range.
are case I may have to do so, But during the loat war. It has rare- stamped in the passport. д Sirvenuity, the range was built Ether the aircraft has been
In Teheran I must make up tralan desert
the the period of validity is normal I used since, and it was at first on the understanding that Bri fiture, as happened with
In difficult to get any information my mind I am unable to costing £10,000,000 a your
Fireflash only three to six months. sh mille trus would transfer Swift, for which the
rare cases a year. Six months about it, but now I have a very so yet which of two routes to to
Either I only about most of their work to Australia; missile was run and
it is like, take to Afghanistan. intended, or the from the start of my journey i good idea of what £1,000,000 worth of useful which would become the arsenal missiles have not been
go due cost to Meshed, ready
shall be no further on than New There is some tough going in shall work is coming out of it.
then across the frontier to Herat of the Empire.
for the aircraft, 09 happened
Up till then I shall parts-too tough I'm inclined Zealand. have needed visas for ten coun- think, to take on alone. There and continue by way of Farah to uproot with the Javel.. This is my considered view on
trler: thety more would remala are quite a number of rivers to there's a broad river to be ford- A themselves, and the difficulty of allor revisiting the ratige
ford, and some of them may be ed there to Kandahar, or I und from
to be sought en route,
be shall go south from Teheran to three-year interval and talking taking weapons to
Australia has put a terrific drag
As I have said, 1 may have rather deep. There may
to with leading rocket scientists.
frontler and work round PIRMS have been able to make question, but out at out the visa insures one and there, or a Ispahan, then on to the Pakistan
rather than leave tree across path.
Quetta and over the frontier to of things to chance and risk de-
Kandahar.
From Kandahar the road leads misalle business is known here mined to try and get these viras
to Kabul, then through the in my passport before leaving
Peshawar, Pasa to N engineering industry to as the "rocket racket"
Khyber 继 Some progress to being made
support a project this sizo
The Australians have now For days I strove with the SUCH is the land where I was with nail-aircraft rockets,
my father Lahore and Delhi. By the time born and where
I hope to have have does not exist in Australia. So no operational weapons
when missile founder on trial, agreed to build up their indus problem of drafting a suitable yet been issued to the RAF.
Any event my route" gões” on to Javed. he There is no prospect that any as many have, they have to be try to give hotter support to the application. I had to explain I spent much of his life as an ad- I reach Delhi
And something must be done was making a journey round the ministrator-a land and people news about the Burma road. In
world by motor car as a private thing with a range longer than sent back to Britain for altera range, but this will take time.
Paina, when turns north to to quickly
breathe new life into individual, and that in order to decided to ask our Embassy wards Nepál,
If they would facilitate the planning of the Woomera set-up,
my in Rangoon Woomera was an aboriginal journey could I please have the be kind enough to approach the namo for a spear-thrower. It visa now? Moreover, in order to Burmese Government mustn't be allowed to become a cover the risk of possible de behal After an anxious wait I
Jays, could the visa be valld received modern name for a flop.
an encouraging lotter
Government F all goes well I should reach saying that the from... to...!
would make itself responsible the capital, Katmandu by for my safety as I passed from, Christmas. It will be a Christ- village to village. As the pollifcal' mae whiter and more beautiful and, military situation in the than any I have ever seen, with country was always changing, Mount Everest and by the y brain was soon reeling however, they could not From Kothandu I shall make
Himalyas in the background. M.
under the effort of trying to positively until a later date forecast dates of entering and whether I should be able to my way back to Patna. If I do leaving countries: My itinerary pass through. I am due there not obtain permission to enter to was still provisional I had to at the beginning of January, and Burma 1 shall travel down the reflect very carefully before de I expect to hear in Delhi in length of India, cross over ciding on a probable date of mid-December what the verdict. Ceylan and take s boat from Colombo 10 Singapore, it the entering, shall we say, Nicaragua, is, drug
Burma route is open, I hope that when a hold-up In Honduras might delay my orrival at the When I was in London, not the Indian authorities will allow Nicaraguan Border and so throw long ago I met some members, mo to follow the Brahmaputra out my whole schechale for the of the Oxford and Cambridge river right, up to Ledo, in the rest of South America, the Ledo road through turn south over the Inper * Expedition who recently motor-i northwest corner of India, then I eventually arrived Burma Into Blm hope to be and take the Bulwell roedd
•stra, formula walch. Jedectively follow in they tradema
The Arms refused
In spite of much Ingenious on progress. equipment and an enthusiastle
staff, little is going on at Woo- morn. Few usable weapons are on the stocks.
tu!
Obsolete
will be fred tions and out to Australia again.
at 500 miles
for a reiriol. Woomern for years yet..
No
Estimates
A big launching ramp la being wonder so many projects
because to were scrapped
they bullt for a research rocket
obsolete before they probe the atmosphere 120 miles became up. But Britain is far behind were ready.
It proved Finally,
extremely America and Russia on high
dificult to keep top-grade talent altitude space research.
in the Woomera aren, which is a scientifle Vacuum for an ambitious man.
EXAMPLE. Dr Jack Green, de- 17HAT has gone wrong? Why head of the aerodynamics
far partment, has now quit with is, the programma so behind schedule as originally the bulk of his team for Bri that will take planned though. more than toina gap £70,000,000 has been spent on months to fill.
WHAT
the range?
Thera, also seems to, bo
First, the difficulties of using serious delay in getting decision
a range 12,000 miles away from at the top of Woomers, probably. the home base, were hopelessly because the range is a Joint underestimated. So
'Racket'
such huge prots
out
technical failure that the guided lays on the way, I was deter- Six Young Men
MONTE BELLO 1","
MAKALIN
trom
and
were the British Australian project. e rilis □ Woomers “ show! costs of servicing the range and EXAMPLE, Two years ago Fugita:: remeteness desert township, of 3,000 people, someone had a bright, iden, for Australiais veillen
EKAMPIE, á The air service saving money and time by re-relation to steen teet grourida as obate of the range how exceed covering test pockets before,
Thay hail the gro
Brain Reeled
on
my White Christmas
do
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