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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.

GILES HEADING NORTH

LONDON-MANCHESTER-

First lap on the road to Blackpool ·

GRANDMA GILES arrived in the North

to begin a holiday with her younger Alster Millie. Both of them wero in a bit of a huff due to the fact that Grandma Giles nearly always is and Grandma Millie had been waiting in the rain for several hours. 'Twas an unfortunate coincidence that this first illustration had to be a wet one, but Northerners must not think 1 am carrying on the old worn joke about Manchester and its rain. It was raining in the South when Grandma G left, it was raining all the way across to the West where she discovered she was on the wrong coach, it rained all the way back to the South, and it rained all the way up to the North. If it keeps raining all the time she's there It won't matter much as neither of the Grandmas is what you call the outdoor type. The remark by the driver unloading Grandma O's Ofth heavy suitcase: "What have you got in this one. juv-sun tan cll?" was ignored. And rain or no rain, the fine fresh breezes from the Manchester Canal were more than welcomed by the passengers who had spent the journey trapped in an aroma of peppermints. liniments, and camphor balls.

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NEWS FROM BRITAIN

LET THEM NATTER

By RONALD BOXALL

London.

RE we becoming unshockable? I ask this because in

announced their possession of an inter-continental bailis- tie missile, I have not once heard it discussed either on a train, a bus or in a pub.

Not one taxi driver has dripped wisdom on the subject and no London bus conductor has convulsed his passengers with an appropriate Cockney comment-at lenat, not in my hearing.

The fact is that no one was than factually, "Oh yes, but the very surprised. Once it is known medles have just about got that: that scientists cre working on a ore licked."

succws. Such is the awe in which selenec I held these days!

disease

with

THE

FIRST OF A NEW SERIES ABOUT THE MEN WHO FOUND A WAY OUT OF AN IMPRISONED CONTINENT

ESCAPERS

Paris. TINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Marie Therese le Calver project, the layman is already Wel, have they? In spite of three-paris convinced of Its the progress made against the chose a strange time to go streptomycin, walking down the rocky P.A.S., and isoniazid, tubercu-path to the beach near her losis still has the authorities homa in Brittany. worried.

Experience gained with mass radiography shows that there are 75,000 unsuspected cases in Britain at any one time. And fectious.

The reason for the apparent lack of concern on the part of the

Londoner-who average would certainly be on the re- ceiving end of a world rocket in a nuclear war about this latest

wonder of science is that the mellind of delivery is unlimpor- tant beside the fact of the nuclear weapon itself. Is a child any more afraid of a ghost ho- cause it may come down the chimney Instead of walking through the wall?

ALREADY A FACT

Besides. it a rocket with a nuclear warhead een be directed from Russia to land on London, surely 201 equally effective weapon can be directed from Britolo to land on Moscow. That's

why we have scientists, isn't it?

Let them natter on about the s!!!! unsolved problem of "re-

entry."

a fair proportion of them are in

Much more starting, however, Is the fact that tuberculosis costs Britain 20,000,000 man-days of

When her mother saw her go out of their cottage at nights she asked no ques- midnight on the darkest of

tions.

Marie Therese walked work a year. That is many times down the path with only more than the number of days starlight, to guide her and, work lost through strikes.

This has been particularly every now and then she

bad year for strikes, but, even so, the number of days work lost up to the end of July through industrial disputes was less than half of the number lost in the sume time through tuberculosis.

By FRANK TOLE

Iost year- comparatively peaceful one on the industrial fron-just over two million working days were lost through strikes about one-thirteenth of stomped down and placed a the number lost through tuber-

handkerchief culosis.

besides the

Progress there itas certainly path. Each handkerchief Wa laymen take it for granted been, but the disease is by no marked a Gersian mine. that a rocket fired into the means besten, stratosphere won't always melt T.. Is no longer the certain When Marie Therese had when It plerces the earth's killer it vice to be. But, said finished her atmosphere on its way down. So British report this week, com- "safety corridor" leading to walk the far as we are concerned, the placency is not justifled, inter-conumental ballistic missile

Bonaparte Beach was ready for use.

is already a fact.

What we have heard this week merely carles n slage further

T.V. COMES OF AGE

the trend that has been going

Twenty-one years

ogo

this the

that children

on since the first German.Va week, the B.B.C. Cave landed un London the trend Weria's first publie demonstration away from the use of ploted of television. Now TV is so aircraft for warlike purposes to- commonplace wards the remote-controlled would just as soon play inarbles delivery at destructive weapon's

es watch and even some by rockel.

their parents switch the set off before the end of the night's programme.

In the midst of all this science non-fiction, але was attle puzzled at the reason given by the Ministry of Supply for re- fusing to allow aircraft dying in next week's Farnborough Air Show to make supersante bangs. They said it might disturb the public.

Well, it might at that.

HIDDEN MENACE

Britons are not an especially hypochondriae milon, but they are as interested as anyone in their health, Pallo outbreaks are

of

There never was such a fas- cinating medium of inass enter tainment-nar a more, maligne oite, Once it was a point of Snobbery not to own a cel at

merelal".

Along that perilous path 150, airmen weat back to England between January and June, 1945, after baling out over Oc- cupied territory.

ONE MORE

EW of them realised

when they scrambled

☆ To 150 men of the R.A.F. Bonaparto Boach meant freedom

- they could dodge the Germans and reach it. Their route was a chain of hide-outs. Their guides, French Resistance heroes. This month airmen and guides mest in London 10 recall their adventures-adventures like these.

The argument against tole Therere and her friends YARD. WIDE.

E

The "man in the black beret," Clement Huet, shows how the escaping men and their helpers had to crawl on their hands and knees through minefields abava the beach

ull; now it is a sign of superior board a Royal Navy craft, WHO FIRST MARKED OUT "My Instinctive reaction," ho Intellect not to have "com-which took them to Dart. THIS SAFETY CORRIDOR said, "was to jump down and,

mouth, what risks Marie ONE MILE LONG AND ONE throw it into the sea, forgetting that the safety-pin was still vision has always been that it

attached and the grenade, 13 habit-forming. One becomes took to get them' away.

.Hu become Д Resistanco therefore, harmless. an addiet. And what becomes of

Achter after, being a Fleet A the art of conversation

when

They had grubbed with Arm test pilot, and his couragá "We slayed, hardly breath- everyone's eyes are glued to the their hands in the soil to was cited 44 "beyond all ing, until it seemed safe to go TV screen?

An hour later we find 17 mines, all near the British Empire Medal after the heard the muffed sound of cars

praise" when he was given the on again. Montion national news and the arrival of night's programmes is still made escape path. Later, after war.

nf the previous Aslan 'Bu in a headline ovent.

Lung cancer in discussed as in vaguely apologetic tones. And the war was over, the Army openly--and as fatalistically-as only the ankest outsider begins brought mine detectors, and mortality on the roads. Mental conversation with: "Did you there, right on the path liness, thanks to a recent tele- ce so-and-so on the telly last they found an 18th mine. vision programme, is on his way night

to

bocaming respectable.

But the fact remains: campaign for greater cleanliness vision

wonderful is a

tele-

Mario Therese must have

thing. without leaving my walked over it a dozen times

In public eating places, arouses Recently, a stato of real-but armchale, Britons to

have down in awithout knowing it was momentury-bulgaction.

holleopter over the sea; been there. We are, on the whole, fairly underwater with frogmen; sat woll Informed -about our beside the pilot of ca RAF.

ago..

live ammunition; koked at an

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That will be a story to

BY SEA

DONAPARTE Beach Was within rifle range of n cliffs where there were sound German, lookout post on the detectors and searchlights,

(It was too tark to see the Royal Navy men approach) and after a silent hardshaleo our pirmen were on their way to England."

The airman, trom as far away as Belgium and Luxemburg, were assembled in Paris hide outs and sent ̈ down in small groups with a guide to Brillany. A SIGNAL

Marie Thérèse.

nightly walk

"Bonjour a tous dans la maison d'Alphonic" "Good morning 10 everyone In Alphonse's house," which meant nothing to anyone except the small group waiting at the cliff top.

Apart from the risk of walk- Ing through the minefield one chances of survival in this transport plane; been in the talk over when 50 people Aume-ridden,

falan step might bring the nerve-wrzelding middle of a mock battle with who helped R.AF. men to enemy down on them, and the

Alpine peak; and watched an escape visit London this penalty if caught was death THERE in collages like that of Maria Thoroso they international athletica meeting. month as the guests of the So when Clament Huet huddled near the mdło waiting And those hero "live" pro- R.A.F. Escaping Society. dropped

grenade, for the code

signal that the Television doesn't ruin cot- AMONG THEM GOES THE kept ready in caso they met à Navy would arrive,

German patrol, the, clatter. B For her the groat moment vereation; it makes it wa-MAN WITH THE BLACK made on the rocks sounded like was when the Fehad. tho informed.

BERET,

CLEMENT HUFT, doom.

EILEENMAN ÉRSEN : Lanston!

But there is one thing we don't talk about or even think about if we can help it, That is tuberculosis,

If T.3. crops up at all in con- versation. It isn't long before tippsfully

grammes.

hand 4

To them it was the signal

to march silenity in singlo Gle, keeping to thỏ hedgerows for 'cover, stepping clear of Marie Therese's handker. ohiefs, and watcblog all the ume for eucuy patrols.

At his carpenter's shop next Bonaparte Beach Clement Huct laughed about the time when he left his black beret near the path as a signal to the others

at ho

would return after searching for an almun e thought had gone astray.

The airman furned up later on the beach with another guide, while Clement Huet was silk crawling round ́en his hands and knees in the bracken looking for his pre- clotis beret. "We'd no GOD- pons to buy another one,” bo explained.

As for Marie Therese and hor Light walks through the mine- field she said simply, "We. að shared the same risks, and the worst part was walling for the radio message from London whlio we kept our airmen bl- don for as long as 12 days."

The "Maison d'Alphonse." last stopping place la a chain of hideouts for 150 airmen on their way to freedom, is now a ruin The overgrown with weeds, Germans blew it up with hand grenades just after the owner, Jean Gicquei, got away his wife and newly born baby.

Now he hopes to meet in London some of the men who waited at his cottage for the next boat to England,

NEXT WEEK: "Last Bus for England."

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