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PRISONER in the

EMBASSY

The floorboards

In the van were wild aride and tho prisoner puffect

up...

THEY TRY TO SMUGGLE HIM OUT

T

BUT KANG IS WATCHING

HE tyres of the pass- ing traffic sang on the wet road and from the grey autumn sky a gentle drizzle fell. Inspector Brewer of the Special Branch, stirred

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VICTOR CANNING

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957,

"And now, the old fox has become a police dog?"

Dr Ktary shrugged hs shoulders, "All men start on God It Is to our credit 1 we finish up a lie better than we began.'

restlessly and his fingers swam in the lighted interior like made then,

beat a faint tattoo on the

driving wheel. At his side for

vivid flon of film.

their

"Last week," said the Inspec- "the Embassy ogents got Dr Kang, a plump, benign, their hands on a man who has elderly figure took off his been particularly valuable to us. thick-lensed glasses and He could tell them a lot if they

got him back to uver polished them carefully on country. So far, from inside a silk handkerchief.

sources, we know he hasn't been will brought to the Embassy. But he

later he'll be, and

be smuggled out and abroad. That's something we can't afford to tuve happen-for his sake nad

"You call for me in your cur, inspector. You take me to lunch, and now we have been sitting here for 20 minutes and still you do not tell me what you want."

Methods

change

Durs."

"We would pay you well it you came back to us,"

Dr Kang smiled. Across the rood a Post Office van had pulled up by the kerb, and a postinan got out and unlocked the door of a plilar-bux to collect the letters, "I am old," said Dr Kang, "and 1 is good to sleep at night with both eyes closed."

"A

"But it is not ridiculous. Drugged, he is now travelling with the malls. A few minutes ago, at four o'clock, a Post Office van collected the letters from the pillar-box by the Embassy. Send out a call and have it stopped. You will And your man Inside."

Inspector Brewer frowned and Dr King laughed and said:

them

"No, I am not mad. Call up your cars now and give their instructions. And then we will wait until they report that they have picked up this man you want."

Rather reluctantly Inspector Alexis, and Brewer had his sergeant send pity," Bald after a few more words he turn-out a call to the waiting cars. "And you want an old agent's ed away and went back to the Some time later a report came back from one of the police cars. help?" said De Kang.

Embassy. Dr Kang sat on.

"Yes."

Dr Buddha-Uke

his

chuckled, Kang

face creased in a The Inspector twisted his fat smile. It is a hard winter

head round and nodded across "You know that the road. building?"

Dr Kang cocked an eye to- wards the other side of the street. A dag hung inply from a pole that jutted out from the third floor level.

"In your

Inspector,

tho

when wolf ents wolf."

"You can have a soft winter if you pull this off. You can earn yourself enough to live fat un the Riviera."

Dr Kang nodded, pulled up the collar of his raincoat and reached for the door handle.

"I will see what can be done, he said.

"The Embossy? Yes,"

time," said

in your bad, old, tunes, you worked for many foreign embassies. You had to pass in and out without being He walked a few yards down neen?"

the road and sat on a beach

"It was necessary sometimes, opposite the Embassy. Above rain dripped steadily And there were many ways of him the

but doing it,

the methods from the leaves of a plane tree. change. The wise fox never uses the same entrance to

too long.

#r

A bus thundered by and for moment the' passengers" Inces

He sat on the bench from two

And

Drugged

The Post Office van had been

The afternoon faded and the street lights came on. Eventual- ly he got up and crossed the road. He walked up and down past the Embassy once or twice,

a stopped about a quarter of a then he paused for moment by the red pilor-box mile from the Embassy. Inside and stood there lost in thought, the little red van, drugged, was the police wanted. In the old days he had known the man

and he knew that With him was an official of the Alexis well, he never did anything without Embassy. purpose. Like the bee he was niways working and, though there was honey in his mouth, there was a sting in his tail.

That evening be telephoned Inspector Brewer.

'Come to me'

"Your man," he said, "is now

listen

Inspector Brewer turned to Dr Kang. "How the devil did you

know?"

and I will show you.”

"Drive down to the pillar-box

The car swung out of the park and drew up some way short of the pillar-box outside the Embassy. Dr Kang and Inspec- tor Brewer get out and walked to the pillar-box.

in the Embassy. Now his den

o'clock until six o'clock. Now Every afternoon from now on I and again a car drew up outside shall be sitting on a bench oppo- the Embasay and people came site the Embassy. Have me

van watched from a police car in the and went, but near the

gate that led from the pavement Dr Keng purk. The moment I take my and wipe my forehead recognised the lounging figures hat off

with a handkerchief come to me ed two plain clothes men, and a little farther down the street quickly." was a police car. He knew that there all around the building would be similar watchers.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"It's not that we don't trust | him—it's just that the Parish Council are determined not to take any chances."

He smiled

one afternoon at

"How on earth did you find all this out?" asked the Inspec-

tor.

car In

ጎር

Dr Kang chuckled. "One of the Embassy staff told me."

afternoons later, Two For three day's Dr Kong watched the Embassy, and then Inspector Brewer sat in a police the park watching Dr Lour about

he saw him give the o'clock the front door opened Kang,

down to the signal. He hurried over to Dr pavement, hesitated, and then Kang.

"Well?" inquired the Inspec- worked his way through the

Dr tor, impatiently. passing trafic BUTOSS to Kong.

and

a man came

belleve," said

The

"The van, of course," said D Kang, "is not a true Post Office

Embassy

people provided it, painted it with the Royal coat of arms and put the driver in postman's uniform. All that was easy. And just as cany to make a key that would fit the door of his pillar-box. You know

these things cart

be how arranged."

"But Our man couldn't have been in the box?"

REPORT FROM CANADA

for the "New Canadians"

Ottawa, Monday. the horse and break their citizenship and immigra AM writing this for leg and perhaps their neck. tion. those of you who are thinking of "becoming New Canadinna; but I hope

by DON IDDON

If I were 24 instead

of 44 F'd try to buy›

» paper in Canada.

The British who come vestigating the immigration like at home." This is a

This is not England. This Benoit said: "Send all the is Canada, the third largest British you can, but, let's it will interest all Britons. country in the world. It is make this clear, Canada is and strong and powerful, with a no longer a British Colony Canada wants you Canada needs you, but...

tremendous potential. I and doesn't like the word The "but" is big and black. have been spending a few Dominion over-much.

days here, with calls at

"Never mind what it's You will not fad Montreal and Toronto, in-

Plor or the Blackpool Front hore, sondy, but there are com- here (and there have been

different country.

pensationa In the magnificent some) riding a high horse

"Wo want, workers, people lakes and mountains, with ski- and saying: "Really, at I called on George Benoit, who are prepared to take any Ing, hunting, and in a tree and home we don't do things the head of the editorial sort of job at the beginning and easy way of life-all the four like this at all" will fall off services which handle then build up. Adaptability is freedoms of course-and plenty

of good hard currency,

situation..

THE JOYS OF

BEING MARRIED

TO A WOMAN

OF TASTE......

by Cummings

The cord across the couch?

Oh, to prevent us from sitting there—the fabric is too delicate.”

"I never tak

the bus from the station nose

-we're saving

up to buy a pair

The

of Georgian candlesticks,"

the

"No. The van drew up. postman got out and he opened the little door of the pillar-box, But he only pretended to take out the letters, shielding what he wus duing with his body. Then he slammed the door, locked it and got back hito the car.

"After all, if he took Dr Kong, He stod before the bench and walking back towards the police letters the real Post Office van smiled. He was a middle-aged, car, "that under your

Post which comes at five would have dark complexioned man, bare- Office regulations, if you put o discovered it. Also the false headed, and there was a flash of label round a man's neck and

postman didn't dare alter the time-of-collection tab gold fren his mouth as he smiled the correct postage you can send little and said, "Greetings, Dr Kang." him through the mali?"

above the door, The real Post Alex....it is many

"Maybe. years

collectors But don't tell me Office

Would have since I had the pleasure," said they're going to post this man?

noticed that." Dr Kang softly.

Don't be ridiculous,"

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"You mean you noticed that the tab hadn't been changed?"

I did. Alexis made me sus- picious of the van. The un- changed tab convinced me.”

"But how on earth did our man get into the van?"

A manhole

Dr Kang pointed to the road- way close to the pillar-box. "The Embassy wanted some vehicle that could stop here without

causing attention. Your people never gave the Post Office van a thought. A strange lowy would have had them watching it. See, in the road there is

manhole cover. The other man

inside the van slid aside the floorboards, roached down and pulled up the cover while the van was parked and up into the car came the man you wanted from the Embassy.

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"If you coamine the newer below the road, you'll And I'm sure, that it runs back close to the Embassy cellars and that on entrance has been cut into it.”

Inspector Brewer stared at Dr. Kang in admiration. "Well.... No wonder you used to give tho polico a headache,”

"It is no credit to me," said Dr Kang, "If you, watch every step you make you will end by tripping. Alexis was too anxious to take my attention from some-

should thing I

have |noticed.”

never

Tuesday:

LADY IN DISTRESS

"Oh, no-no one has a favourite chair in this house-but the dealer did say this one, belonged to the Empress Josephine."

"Nothing is uglier than brilliant lighting hanging from the centre of the ceiling."

'As my wife says,, this car is already so ugly, what does a little scratch master?!!

what's needed.

66

Many differences

THE immigrant has got to Canada hurably, likod

love

Brighton

The Canadian dollar is worth three or four cents more than the American.

Am I being guilty of culogy?

I don't thirit so. Let the Now

a good wife, and be prepared Canadians speak for themselves,

for lots of differ-

ences between Eng- antARTZOzung

land and Canada,

Once that's under-

stood, well, the op-

portunities

Ümitless,"

Between

are

60,000

and 100,000 British immigrants are ex- pected in Canada this year.

IF you're adaptable

...

you're willing to work

your chances are limitless

USERMINOSAURUOROV

What will the New Canadian And?

Well, he can expect twice the wages he earns in Britain and half the income tax. He will have to pay a quarter of his monthly earnings in rent, and houses are still hard to find.

The cost of living is about 50 percent gher than th Eng- land, and there is no Welfare State on the British model.

But big money can come fast here and social security legista- tion is being considered by Parliament.

H

Listen to Peter John Peters, formerly of Seville Road, Hayes, Middlesex, end now ton, Ontario.

of Hamil

"I was born and raised in Brighton and was employed by engineering firms as a technical author.

"We

arrived in Canada in December 1950. I was hired by

Westinghouse Canadian assistant radio supervisor, now supervisor over persons."

Made good

I lunched at the parliament-, #THOMAS MITCHELL, 105-

ary restaurant in the House with two

I

merly of Salters Road,

Canadian correspondents London, E.17. says: "After ardi Toss Thatcher, an aggressivo soveral business ventures Liberal M, P.

England I decided to come to Canada. We made our way to Toronto, where I

down made a

stores

Thatcher is a millionaire from Moose Jaw who has hardware payment on a home, and with on the prairies and the remainder of $0,000 I had recently has taken to farming. brought with me purchased tha

Hart

Sash

IF you're a dooter with a. bedelde manner... there's £7,000 a year just waiting

QueOrJRAKENNUSA

He reminds me of a Texan, but he is all Scots-Canadian.

же

He sold: "All we need is people, have everything cise, But we don't want snobs and stuffed shirts and we don't want people who expect hand- outs,"

What about the weather, the intense cold in winter ari in- tense heat in summer," I asked.

Austin Cross, one of Canada's best newspapermen, said: "We have the weather licked. Science has licked it,

"Almost every home has a perfectly good heating system and so has every car. Air- conditioning takes care of much of the heat in summer."

Someone else said; cidentally, every

*Flow

and

though I knew very little about CBT- pentry and wood- work.

business

"I have not drawn less than $5,000 a

year from the busi- ness for

my per- 1190 sinag sonal

1950." William Webb, formerly of Bedwelity, Cem Forest, Pa Бат,

Wales, Bays: After three weeks here I got a job as a varnisher and Atter. I started at $1.35 an hour and am now the purchasing agent and productor scheduler at $100 a weeke."

•

William Balderstone, formerly of Dean-Street, Padiham, Lancs- shire;

"The first month I do... cided that to get along I must become Canadian, in the way I dressed, the way I thought, and the way I worked, No' ono wanted to know what good fellow I was back home.

W*

Second choice

two good friends immigrant MADE

of Ukrainian origin and who has the stuff in him con we combined, to open a printing expect to own a car, a radio, shop. We lost all our money and a television set in no time." and our business and came out

Another member

of Parliament camo glumeCABERNET

up and joined our discussion.

Ulkoa, Engilsh doc tore," he said.

They have bedside manner and don't mind visiting

while ours make you go to their

office unters you

BUT IF you're a snob and

·can't forget, old England, Canada doesn't want you..

i

are nine-tenths dead, I reckon lowing that only about ten percent of \$20,000. doctors in Canada carn less

somewhere around

"We started again, viewed a thin $20,000 a year, That's properly, saw an agent and toki

1,000

In Engikh This is my sixth, visit to we, have one of the finest res Ottawa and my 1001h visit to taurants of its type in Van- Canada, I love the country, and couver. Our buildings and-innd

I wore 24 instead of 44 I'd aro worth $90,000 and our tum settle hero and try to buy a over is steady at $2,500. a nowspaper instead of working month," for ona..

many fum we had only $100... today

Easy-going

There are lots more. In my fles I now have Merally un- dreds of personal recorda ---- clerks,

farmers enginedje

TUHAT is Canada really like? miners, big and little

W Canada is ten countries in men, doctors, Claraviton Las one. It offers as milch variety yors odd job chaps and ty and a future as big as, or big coons. They are sold on Cansup. ger than, does the U.,

Only a handful say they don't This is a first-name.

ilke the country, or the people, going country with iliile class. diftinction and no feudalism. and stuffed, or, the no-goods who "They are either the starched

easy

Ond in every ten adult Cana-

dian residents has lived here could not cam a lying any-

where. less than tơn years,

Superficially much of Canada. The story of the Now Cann. has an American stamp. There dian, is the story of Canada sa the drug, store, ⠀ the 'Cócum. ¡tself, Ittain muccess story. Cole, aid", the hot dog, the with a happy ending or, perhaps. American, type of semi-figury, I should, «say, a extremely”, adiejent hotel,

future.