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THE CHINA · MAIL," SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1958,

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THES

"Don't mind us we're the Canal Users Association."

TROUBLE

IN THE

MOUNTED wallace patrol the Turt, b

side of the teari

Oke Syrian hunder Diests pathe wood front hi toore's feet far too the maintain at Turkey PO dve Boath to sheep galing! Contes kept by fivren Ros.. sånn norsetrait my east by near topu salle jeep tracks to Persia nut Teleron.

To his south the romis am he like thin firea of darst through the seruh of Syria's The better

arid con

be ruled and move prosperoni Lebanon.

Trouble

The Middle

East, wherever it comes and however it runs, merens one

in the Lebanon...

Now the

thing

money.

which

までいろい

Janet

is blossoming skyscrapers.

foster

MEANS MONEY

MIDDLE EAST

WILLIAM SMYLY tells how the game is played

than These,

daisies. The building rate foreign

rivals Hongkong's. The

Serond, the trucks need ronds. arc built with money. They Can also be balit (n every place except Turkey) at o lut proti lọ con- Lebanon knows how to play serie, and in such a way that

but repair this "trouble game,"

will bills

keep the other funds are learn huilders wealthy after the role

are done.

ink.

New Prosperity

EAST and suuthenst the trails pabers daily wage

the

But bad ronds not only keep busy. te Conlangtors! pockets with £1 percentage at every road re- They also rum too cover the Arabian break up the cars that use them. trucks to the asphalt And Hashing desert,

agrey-brown

East is really "high tableloth that covers a whole Middle contient from the Red Sea to finance." the Persian Gulf.

This is how I pays.

11 19 the land of the canel, First, employs an army of

but the worst thing you can call a man in uny Arab state (not

excepting

(ver) "camel driver,"

inuster.

"Jew")

is

mechanics and welders, Shacks filled with iron and surrounded by lame

vehicles and piles of torn tyres and broken springs and wheels run for miles en nie outskirts of every lown

This mounted Turkish soldier will tell you that "camel" to- day is now spelt "Cndiline," and

The welders are usually good. rich men count their wealth by But the mechanics One day an the number of ears they eun slectrical conacetion broke

Instead of camels, trucks and my pint-sized Briush car, and I the stopped at a garage where no car machinery raise dusi on

Do small had ever been seen tracks that fan nut around, and some of the new prosperity has before. come to his own land, Turkey a central country in team of the Baghdad Pact,

Even Russian vehicles had the not cume their way, and in all

The the north. bulidozers, graders. earth carriers and porcupine rotiers from the United Slates make bright patches of orange every ten miles between Antioch and Con- stantinople.

To the cast, American and German diesel trucks with four- wheel bogey drives grinu ปท the Ok Silk Road

All

around this mounted

nt the gate of the Middle East the eulumes of dust ke flags of prosperity,

rist

up

and descend in showers of silver from Russia and gold from the United States,

In the Middle East "old" and "rehabilitation" are major in- dustries, second only to olt.

Fat Profits

I

the mechanic's experience he system of Insurance. You could borter post not 30 miles away, hud nover seen the engine of insure your car with him for and wero at loggerheads with any make other than "Ford" 1JS$0 a month. If anything war' the Syrian police. If one closed and "Chev." Ife raised the non-

sinlen then, he would return it their border post the other was net, looked at the unfamiliar free?

bound to have theirs open if engine. and asked: Is thi

that the Army broken-dow}} cars Cnly to prove

orders from the motor car?"

nid jobs for u ring of scrap does not Lake Second, breaking trucks gives merchants,

Ministry police. jobs lo still holders,

The largest permanent market in any small town is the "spare parts" murket, where you can buy anything from screw fo an old bus chassis. 'The only thing you cannot get hold of is

new part supplied by factory.

24

Liic

At A Price

THESE markets in turn support.

the union cr

car thieves, whose members stend spare parts If the to supply at holders.

got what st holder has not you want, and you explain carefully, and there is another

car of the same type as yours in lown, something crn always be worked out at a price,

The head of the motor thieves in Teheran when I passed through

a man coiled He even hid a Rustom

Wits

Zabul

William

Finally,

and keep elerks in Damascus busy order- ing more trucks from Russia and Amerien 10 "keep the kettle boiling."

One way and another, broken ears and bad roads keep a lot people happy in the Middlo Each,

The time I met this Turkish patrole, 1 had walted on their border three days wandering when pollee manoeuvres on the end and let Syrian side would me through. On the third day, u French sports car drove up ledy got out, wearing a slim black dress, white gloves, and asuu hat from Paris,

nho a

"We've been here three days and for all we now we'll be stuck for

Doni thirty

The Syrian police are playing mock balties on the other alde," we told her.

In

reply she laughed, and told us the Syrian army had a

Hickey

A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE

even sounded London, She did. Sho

WAS invited to A television audition strictly as a spectator,

and found it a fas oinating experience.

#1

cement dust in the air.

was

Some, or the bells are intact, Comp are

cracked. All are inscribed with the ship's name and date..

Selling, if you please, BELLS. halter.

The Admiralty has put up for Maxin told hier that be sale 1,300 bells since the war. thought he could, find a place This year 300 are on offer. for her in one of the BBC pro-And there are more to come grammes. A second girl came next year, I'm told. In-she sang "Stormy Weather." An excellent volce, The setting itself was rather forbidding:

But something guunt, white-

wrong. washed room, the smell

of The song was eultry. But the girl uld not look sultry. Maxin THE frontier patrols on Arab

told her to come back after she It is part of chargers walk prettily at

the huge block and her hair cut in a "cheskler

Salt a spokesman for Lord Hailsham:

The

belle rangd the side of the road that leads to that the BBC is building near

style."

ity sizo; from a 16in 157b Syria. To the north a unit of Shepherds Bushi...

Always Maxin's approach was, bell from HM.B., Implacable Turkish infantry. that won its A dozen girls entered the

to the 5lm. dib, one from the Jaurels, in the Korean war is room while L was there. The considerale, helpful,

So it goe on, hour after minesweeper Bicklington. preparing for manoeuvres How only furniture in the room:

hour

after day the do the roads and the masoeuvres | grand piano, and a few chairs. "earch for TV talent.

day

"And, there is a bell angraved nffeel these frontier guards? The and man in the room wee One thing puzzled me: the H.MS Binck Swan 10 Why do They love trucids and madores Fren girls that I heard being au from the frigate anocited desplac the bamėl?

producer. It was howho

ditioned seemed so much better, the Amethyst in the Yaman Tinieks today pay for themaking the milition,

* rather expected h Hard- than nine out of 10 of the people exploit which occurred digears

bitten,Hollywood atmosphere. First, they are supplied by Koling, of the kinu,

of barter for trouble" "mory,

Rusia and America on

cámo

plano, mng. "Forma

Maxin, said:

trouble andre ?: "trucks" If thuight, who, win

Arnarica do Efeel like paying

I

Then she swung her car with a wave of a white glov, a cloud of dust, and a roar.

We followed, and it was true.

THE

Tradition

that news

Turkish manoeuvres are taking place again as close as possible to the Syrian border brings back the picture of this mounted Tærdsh soldier,

the

well-informed French Indy, and the gay old world around them

The manoeuvres may look like blt of the flint anti another steel that started the Suez bon- fire. Perhaps it is. But it is abo part of a tradition that was old when the siege of Troy wis

yet there is young....and difference.

The difference is that trouble never paid so much before as it can pay today.

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