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HAVE no means knowing_how

THE CHINA MAIL,

I history will deal with the ovents I now The Last

go on to describe. Within twenty-four hours of the fall of Shanghai, rumour

was well on the way with her fios, her MARVE distortions, her exaggerations, deliberate and "undeliberate,"

gainsay there danger.

Vou

from the British firms, and fire, make a bolt for the river.

who having a ray ball, a much reduced community,

y through their work.

rougnified that incident In-

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Into

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1958.

Days

Of Shanghai

Battle

On

FROZEN WILDERNESS

DID you know that the sprawling mass of leo we cail the Antarctic was a frozen continent, bigger than Europe and Australia combined? Did you know that it covered an area of some six million square miles, a frozen wilderness that up to this very moment has defied man's curiosity?

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Shanghai. In short the' the Nationalist Army move mouthful of gum. He sat in all for releasing these men,

WAB, should towards the western out- a chair, uninvited, And from duty. The truth is, as far as the sound appreciation of the question

military tacties prevail over skirts of the town. Truck spread his feet languidly foreign community and the situation.

I refused. The servants the long term tactica of after truck wont by, full of under my desk. My hend peaceful Chinese' com-

Before the warships left, softening up the city? For- infantry soldiers. Then clerk brought in tea, and we who did not wish to asso- munity was concernd, there

their stores and settled down to discuss the ciate themselves with this was not the lightest danger, the emergency plan was to tunately for all concerned, followed

creature were alarmed. and they placed the Interests of equipment, the stores and situation.: Had you broken regulations have rallying centres,

placeit should things get out of the people before the glory equipment wero magnificent, Was I aware that the deliberately

The Nationalist official and

pattern and attuation was grave? I said seamed ill at ease. Again yourself in the way of the hand, to reau'sition trucks of reducing the city by shell the same

quality I had geen the US. I was fully aware.

Various explorers have made Georgia, but how familler is the advancing patrols,

he asked if I understood his

into this frozen pattern of Man's behaviour Two things. perhaps Infantry use during the war. did not look

on this might have stopped a ballet,

Did I know that the men mission. Did I realise that their way

nemes wherever he steps of continent, indeed their

Slaughter, blind but if you stayed indoora, where presumably, a erui- inay security objects on The soldiers

the Speit, discriminate called as you wer: to'd to do, r would take away as their own, gave some con- any too good, but on the of Shanghal were flocking my servants would not be are now household words from world,

butchery as up for duty if I paid Captain Robert Falcon

when creatures are cruelly done to was 1 many members of the com-

their behalf fourteen .N., up to this moment

Dr Vivian Fuchs and Sir death for their fat and oil. It munity possible. The

pieces of silver?

Edmund Hillary are leading the makes sickening reading Amethyst neident put an An all tales pellam in Fond to that plan, to another

I told him the usual price Commonwealth Tranz-Antarctic Liversidge, with graphic pen

Expedition.

brings such things to light, Fortunately, telling. Thert wore pany was formed a the basis of

economie man," If The servants did was 30.

Few people take trouble to not humane man, now affords not want to go. I refused to buy them off. The out- fundamental diets better the lustful sea-elephant and his differences between kind, some protection. Another In section of the book, gives on come WILS they were left the North and South Poles.

Dougles account of the men who opened alone. But many people who The Last Continens,"

that expedition which set out in of ice. Captain Cook, Scoli, were without 1949, to visit various bases WC have montioned Rear- to say that most peopic gut foo hut, British subjects fidence to the British com- other hand, soldiers do not to the defence of their be- likewise refused to pay the laueridge himself a member of up the way to this vast world

I said I had blood-money

Falkland Isinads. Admiral to bed, and in the could go to one or the other munity. One was a plaque go to war in brave columns loved town?

Richard Byrd, Sir went

centres, and and provided by the

Shackleton, right up to main stept through the these

British these days, so I did not con- noticed no such demonstra servants that day. On the

other hand, many people did Dependencies Survey, and finel- Ernest

ly to witness the roltet of Dr the present when, men are shelter and food until law Consul which Bould be sider that their avoiding a tion. night.

V. E. Fuchs and his party, de- battling their way, and Nature and order were restored. fastened to the gate of your march of ten miles was in

from experience the is preparing to hit back at a But to begin at the begin-

So I was wrong, in fact huge desolation of this ice bound challenge, of such dimensions, This was the danger as it house or compound, which any way significant. ning. Slowly and methodie-

mass, which differs from to her last stronghold. wrong land "British Residence." Everyone was read: ally, the Communist Army was seen,

It was about this time that usked what my visitor the planners wore tightened the ring around aware that the Nationalist. The second was more subtle.

renown, on official business, first I unsavoury episode of hold Shanghai, but the sea route Army was

worldwide some was still open had any ships fight at all jitting up to Some days before the Com- an English family achieved wanted, and that if he was altogether. In spite of this the North Pole in that the latter

Our guess was munists entered Shanghai, felt inclined to run the risk. that they would flee the every foreigner who held a Beyond the western out- must have evidence of his ing the town to a kind of WAR the fine card which showed that he of silver, Chiang Kai-shek Of course, no civil shipping town as the Communists ap. post of any executive con- skirts of Shanghal out at authority. He produced a ransom, and cleaning it out

pronched. But there would sequence received through Hungjao be an interregnum

mail a letter residence of Mr and Mrs belonged to a kind of secret was going to fight. which the ordinary

Satisfied as to his

And here we were in the no more would be exploited by the from the Shanghai Com- W. J. Hawkings. In view- police. Inwless elements, and also munist Party. It told us to

rear patrols of the stay, that we were in no Nationalist Commander de talk. cnraged anit discredited danger, and that our lives elded that this house was in was, Occupying troups. Although and property would be res there was not a single fire pected. Some of us received

shared among

th a second letter which told British community. it was

U4 we were good (sic) thought that a slight show people, and that the New streets after seven, p.m., of force in numbers might China welcomed our pre- although as DRDY homes be sufficient to hold the sence.

came near.

Early Seven

FOR once in its life. Shag

hai had to go to bed curly because the curfew forbade

anyone on

the

the

arm

were in compounds, it was leeing savage looters at possible to slip into a neigh-bay.

Bour's house. Out came the

bridge tables, and many a Fortunately, the Libera- one's bridge improved as tion Army had a similar the besieging Army drew "ppreciation of the situa-

nearer,

Magnificent

Wo sipped tea, and grow- ing rather tired of it all, I

pay.

of

the

scribes

in mostly frozen sea. wheress

the Antarctic is a continent that once held ilfe.

"What les beneath this white

ng his lines of defence, the bona fidea, we resumed our midst of it, caught like rats years, no

The substance of it

the school servants

By John Luff

in a trap.

But hark! The streets are full of the noise of men at arms. Hugo trucks are swinging cast. The warriors are returning.

out

nounce

The People

con-

Perhaps the most exhilarating desolation is one of the world's unsolved mysteries. Because part of the book is that which man's existence on the earth is doals with expeditions which than a few thousand have now entered into the glory

human суся ever

of man's eterðal challenge to beheld the Antarctic's virgin the unknown. Told by one who there, who has seen landscape. For the Afth larges! has been

and endured the terrible continent, ravaged by the furtes

of Arturile fury, the of blizzard and cold, died long ditions

gains a vividness ago and has lain in its icy tomb stary

previous for a hundred million years at unencountered in any

felling. For Instonee, take least,"

Captain Robert Falcon Scoll; "I I am not qualified to pro- do not think we can hope tor the scientiae any boller things now. We upon

the, end, The column halts outside exactitude of that theory, but it shall stick it out to

to me that holding the but we are getting weaker, of grounds. We seems

essential facts. St is as a ecurso, and the end cannot be the line of fire. From a were ordered to the barri the school

es the next for, military point of view, such cades with the object of hasten onto the balcony to theory as good

until more data are

"It scams a pity, but I do not as undoubtedly was utter nonsense, if only putting in a hard day dig- see what is taking place, The Belentist's

they think I can write morC. Nationalist soldiera

Wave released,

R. SCOTT. will be, following Dr Fuchs' for the simple reason that ging trenches.

-to Цв. Some call

recent journey across the South Shanghai could never have

Pole. By this time I had taken "bye-bye."

But it makes fine read "For God's sake look after aur been defended from lines

Ing because it is fine writing, people." a thorough dislike to him.

What makes this book such I told him he could take the So they are leaving the and such is the fascination of

sitting.

opens in this manner. "....Dr However, the Nationalist school servants as far as I field without firing a shot this book that I read it at one fascinating reading? Chapter 13 Did you ever consider this? V. E. Fachs told me of his secret Commander decided that the was concerned, but first, I But where is their magni-

Where Suppose we could melt the lee ambition. It was he said, to house must be blown up. should summon them and ficent equipment?

overland expedition the Late from the Weddcil Sea to authority than saw Mr and Mrs Hawkings were; ask them if they wished to are all the small arms and of the Antarctic, than on no less lead art

equally decided that it go. I would not stand in ammunition? Left on the an

Professor Sir Edgworth David, Ross Sea, calling on the way at of any man who field for an advancing army who served with Shackleton: the South Pole. Frankly I should not be blown up. the way

Never! At night│"..........It would send up the thought the plan would never This made an excellent news felt he should do his duty. to seize.

Douglas throughout mature."

Liversidge we shall look westwards surface of the sea

Con...."It was with story, and an enterprising

therefore, that newsman not only got his

astonishment, carly 1955....five years after story out of Shanghai, but

Our conversation,...I read that into the British papers back

a dream had become reality. Dr Fuchs home. It made an excellent

War to attempt the Trans-Arclic crossing 'and have feature showing Mrs Haw-

Edmund Night comes. No flames.

the support of Sir kings defying the whole So the servants were as-

sembled, and my chief No scorched earth. West- Another Nationalist Army, but from clerk spoke to them and told ward is all that ammunition between the two Poles is that of

Lion, realising perhaps, that HOWEVER, there was no so near the town. in tackling the largest

choice, we had decided to town that could fall to

stay long before. them, their future advance would be judged by the Somewhere around Thurs-

I May 19, very manner in which they took day,

The British plan as laid down by the British interests authorities seem

ed to me to show a

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goes

The Land

cat difference Hillary,"

a military point of view, them of my decision. and equipment which will be living matter. In the northlands. is still in progress gives this

the whole thing seems crazy.

Hne of fire. But as no line of fire was ever contemplat- matter

Antarctic.

The fact that this expedition added fillip. We still However, I had under- used some day. At least, it animal life persists, all the year book an

the short flowers give

Arctic reading, we have some ex- It happened though, that estimated the concern my will not be used in this sound, and forests thrive and do not know the end. but by But perlence of what such a journey some of the beautiful houses visitor felt for our welfare. fraticidal strife in which summer a touch of life.

Per-nothing but smali coarse lichens exacts in courage and endurance. at Hungjao were reduced to How difcuft it would brother kills brother.

The book contains some a heap of rubble because bo to keep the school hapa, at a later date it will that cling to the rocks in some they were in the imaginary clean without servants. kill members of the armed coastal regions are seen in the excellent photographs of men right up against the ice and of the

horror generous

BOMC of desolation; I told him that did not. forces

Such information as this, to excellent plates showing the in such serious donor. Then down town, I

gether with much scientifle ed, it appears that this times and that the servants hear some strange rumours. speculation as to the past of the animal life. And a particularly happy photograph of Dr Fuchs tales. In-Antarctic continent, Introduces on his previous expedition, drastic action was tanta.

would suffer no loss of Unbelievable

These, togolher avith the mount to an act of sheer

wages for doing their duty, credible tales that will make the reader to

maps, provide the reader with vandalism,

Liversidge then an Douglas

up-to-date guide that is, if they really wanted a good starting place for fascinating hours.

next week,

address himself to that part of Antarctica, whüb sitting in the to dig trenches for his cause,

history which sent man down to earnth of tola favourite But again he showed a

the fringes of Antarctia. Names armchair. Heroes Or Cash sympathy for me right be

we miss on the map come fleet- Ing before our eyes. Graham Land, South Shetlands, South

yond any reckoning on such Ho a short acquaintance.

NEXT WEEK:

number of

to

John Luff

THEN came one of those offered to release my ser

incidents that caused the vants. Fourteen dollars in The Fall of Shanghai| THE LAST CONTINENT. (DOUGLAS LIVERSIDGE 21/-).

| blood of everyone to tingle.

Came the cry. "Citizens to the barricades." Whatever side you favour, you cannot

admire help but

that stirring call which sonda every ablo bodied man to determined the barricades

to sell his life dear in the defence of what he holds. sacred. I can never hear "The Marseillaise" without feeling the inspiration that; Bummoned the common people of France to put down tyranny. The cry of '48. "Citizens, to the barricades," fills me with the same emotion, and also, an in- cident, much more recent, when the men of Britain, tired after a day's work, took up shot gun or club, and stood to arms during the long twilights of sum- mer, 1940.

Now rang the cry, through Shanghai. Every able bodied man was to go to the front, and those incapable of tak-| ing up arms should dig trenches around the city. In this, I was personally involved.

-There come to my office a' rather seedy-looking Chinose

rentleman' okow

BANK OF

ENGLAN

HEAS

PRIVATE

WIAD

DIRECTOR

“We are going to inquire into it and see if it is abnorma