THE CHINA MÁIL, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1958.
PRING, and the gipsies were" on the move again. We first saw their caravan train far below, winding like a stake through the narrow pass.
Soon our car overtook them, and as I passed the gaudy vans I had a sudden envy of the sipsica way of life. They seemed so happy, so content, se Lound up in their litle world which is not ours.
What n wonderful prospect ... No worries... no com- mitments
getting nut-
brown in the sun; Bthing when you want to fish; stopping when you have had enough; and all the time your bed with you, on the spot.
The thought grew in my mind, and began to wonder whether It would be possible to get away, it only for a couple of months, and 1ve the kind of life they do.
Lung after 1 hod passed the caravan train this deaire per- sisted. For years before the War I had ridden the wild irulls but since the wer had lived same place. practically in the
The call to be away that is ever in my blood surged up again on this spring day.
That evening slipped out of the house and made my way the encampment where the gipsies had halted for the night
in a secluded valley.
I drank ten and smoked with them. The winking fres, the autt Rumany voices, and the fragrance of a slew which
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swear consisted of game added could be to my yearning. I denied no longer,
through The thoughts raced my head. I would buy a caravan and a horse. I would Iravel the country in which I was born bul about which I knew su Hile. Time would cease to
On the road exist.
my watch remain unwound. We would would be bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun.
Big enough
The Sunshine
and a caravan on the open road. Who has not dreamed of that carefree life? And now one man has made his dream come true
by THURLOW CRAIG
are
Thurlow Craig ... ahead ties the open road
I'm off
on the GIPSY TRAIL
And when we got him home we found that he was also terrified of going into the best of our long-discussed loose boxes.
Sudden dash
Then called on a friend to help me try Dismul out. Dal Giftins is good with horaes, and Admired Dismal, the harness,
the caravan.
We clinched one to the other and sailird forth expecting almust anything, but our qulet country roads held no 1errors for the horse. He was as good as gold.
Next day was scheduled for my departure, the only un- toward incident in the next 24 hours being the fact that while being shod Dismal stamped on the blacksmith's foot and nearly
IN the morning I went to IN
groom kim after my elder son had cleaned the lecse-DOX out, and everything went well until I opened the door to leave. He made a sudden dash le get ՆԱՆ My body and his passed through the doorway simul- There was a loud Lancoily. and painful crack.
The vilinge is now 1:1 Two Later, the doctor having schools: those who say that I strapped up the broken rib. he shall speedily come to grief, and sold it would be all right In those who predlet a garlanded return after a long and adven- turous Journey into darkest Britain.
dangerous looking catapuli (her you nul, and you
rich vad heaved a signi A
of relief husband's second-ben, she said; ye. Sif, we are poor. If we when he was knocked down to and a grim family photograplı. had money, do you not think me, but I had to go up to 35 tut would not pay the drinks guineas. Then I learned the Below the window and acruss
round for round?"
drst Btte felble of Dismal the vin Wan the bunk, long
Jemmy 59 1 automatically about a month. enough for a man to stretch
named tin. He was terrined night"out in. Underneath this
of entering a horse-von. were two doors-each one Alted with u-mirror at oor level. RU that to shave 1 would have to
stand on the ground outside the door, at least six feet from the mirror.
The
Canvas
well-stretched roof, she vowed, was rainproof "What are you asking for 17" when we sat down O trying to make it sound as I skel,
casual as possible i men- opsin by her are, but she would hot say. Her husband was out the poned that I might be in
(with The market for a light caravan, in, getting a pheasant
with best catapult), but I could see order, guing
complete harneys.
ham in the morning if I was arjous about buying.
Immediately a buxom young woman jumped up a painter
I said I would be in our local
to hers. Only 17 hundtrect- the following moming to dicker weight loaded, she swere. One with her husband, and she pro- puty would get it up Stwdon misi he would be there, and down the other side.
for
she Big enough
two, explined, it would be too smail when the expected addition to bet family arrived. And she would sell-at a price.
Would I care. to inspect it? If so, I was welcome,
An easy step to the shoft and another over the coming took me into the half-doored en- irance.
On my left behind the door WEN neat cool stove with its
Brakeless
TEXT day the gipsy arrived on a brakeless bell-loss bike just at the hour of opening, so we went inside and pints were
Applause
A at exactly the figure 1 had AN hour later we met halfway been
prepared to pay. There was a buzz of applause. Jim wiped the sweat from his brow and sank a final plot. Then wrote out receipt for him to siga.
But most of my ready money was in Avers, which he would not necept. So we went to the bank to exchange them for one- He counted the pound notes.
in money five times the next ten minutes, and then a stamp was Fluck on the receipt. The manager courteousy handed his three-guine pen to Jim.
“Tin net much pota nt" wri= ing," said Jim, licking the nib well. "But you should ser my nuntie. Ske can read almost write in capital anything and
Thien letters. The big ones."-
he squared himself off to write. I have never seen a gold mib
ordered. My dark friend (whose spit sa far without actually name was Jim) apologised pro- breaking off. I held my breath. fusely for the fact that he had The manager went deathly pule. money at all, not even a Jin heaved a sigh and proudly penny. Three rounds later the stood back to survey his initial main subject was gently touched triumph, on by me.
H
My rib, not Disjaal's.
broke it.
ROUND-UP
3,000 Pacifists Will Be Sent Back To Siberia
VANCOUVER. ¿HREE thousand- Russians, who fled to Canada 59 years ago
Then tour Crist persecution are preparing today to go to
Rumla-to a collective' farm In Siberia,
They are members of the fanatical. Doukhobor seet, who call themselves "Sons of Freedom." For the past 10 years they have been wrangling with the Canadian Government over the education of their children. To back their demands they have staged bomb- Hgs, rints, end nudlat parades
Dozens of young Doukhobora were rounded up and kept in guarded Government schools when their parents refused to let them attend the ordinary publle schools. The "Sons of Freedom" inaintained that the teachings in the schools violated their strong pacifist saticfs.
The Douidhobors are an offshoot meet of the Russian Orthodox Church and the 3,000 "Sohs of Freedom" are the extreinints among the 25,000 members in Canada.
They practise ritual nudity and they have backed their disagreement with the Government by bombligs and house- burnings.
In 1954 Mr Ralph McIntosh, a school attendance offler, was diased by 20 nude Doukhobor women when he tried to send their children to school. During a nude parade police sprayed the marchers with itching powder, but even this did not make them dress.
The Doukhobors also refused to pay taxes or to adopt the manners and customs of ordinary Canadians.
The first batch of 500 Doukhobors with leave the Nelson area, 500 miles north-cast of Vancouver for Russin in June.
From Vancouver they will charter one or two ships to take
Trans-Siberla them to Vladivostok and they will go on by the rallway to Barnaul, where the Commulets have offered them. 20,000 acres of land to start a commiział farm,'
British Columbia's Premier, Mẹ W. A. C. Bennett, says his Gortrament may pay some or all of the £500,000 bill for moving The Doukhobors, provided they renounce their Canadian ritizenship, sign an undertaking not to come back to Canada, and slow written proof that they can settle in Russia.
But whether the Government helps or not, saya Peter Einsoff, spiritual lender of the seel, the Doukhobora will start moving this
Lumm...
"We hope we will all be moved by next winter,” he adde 1. The Russians promised a Doukhobar delegation, which went lo Mercow in January, complete freedom to educate their own children and exemption from military service,
£250-A-Week To Raise A Sunken Liner
NEW YORK.
TEAM of 30 divers has begun the most difficult deep-sca salvage job ever attempted the raising of the 29.000-ton Itallantiner Andrea Dorla.
The laer went down in 225ft, of water, 50 mlies off Nantucket Island, after colliding with the Stockholat two years ago.
Within wecks, Armando Conti, a millionaire New Jersey Eusinersman and Richard Meyers, Detroit saivnge engineer and former navy ofleer, began to plan their operation. For the past sear they have been testing equipment in New York harbour. Now they are ready to start,
Leading the divers is John Sherwood, 27, who has been doing deep-sea work for eight years. He has chosen his team from all over the world,
TWENTY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER A PROBLEM
Do you REALLY
want to get on?
TOW ambitious are you? Do you really want to get ahead? Or is it just that vanity makes you say so, while in your secret heart you are really happy as you are?
These questions have been prepared by a Psycholo rical Consultant to bring out th truth of your attitude.
"That's a good jay," he said, "My wife wants £110 for the "Now I'll get on with the rest." pipe sticking out through the caravan complete," said Jim. root. On my light was small
Minutes later his three-letter corner-cupboard containing "I was going to suggest £30 Arst name had been well and tideration when the questions
dug Into crocks ranging from a fin must complete," said
und almost unblushing, truly
through the paper. He laid the but genuine and ordering another round. teapot
quite
pen down. "That caravon was not buili yesterday."
to an incongruous
Queen Anag
good repair,
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At the far end was a square curtained window with a rack "Neither were you, Sir" he above which held toilet gear, a politely answered. "101
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And were prepared.
get ber, it's not whether you
answers the Individual
right that matters. It is the total you
Have you ever stood up to Ryk a question si a public
can do the rest if you tell score. me huw," he said.
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"Just make a CROSS
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the
stamp and that'll do," gasped the manager. "I witness it."
meeting?
(u) Yes, (b) No.
His mark
HANDED ny
ball-polut to the gipsy, because that is pen which can perform many feats, even to the progging of small, deep holes in the ground for planting out seedlings."
Jim made co excellent cross, the manager witnessed f, and the dent was through. Wobbling
his incredible violently on bicycle, he departed.
Next, there had to be a horse, and far is 1 went to my home iown market
some 30 miles
Do you sometimes feel you'
more energy than others in getting things done?
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
3 What is your
to attitudo
to "work
those who seem themselves to death"?
(a) It's the only real way to
get ahead,
for those who like it but les
(b) It's all right
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the fe for you. (c) They're wasting the best
years of their lives.
4 Do you suffer from insom- .
nia?
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
away, for the first time in many 5 Do you regard your immedi many years.
How things had changed! In the old days I remembered a scething throng
TOYS, assorted rogues
of man
boost. Dealers, astlers,
and and and
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vagabanda, peers after a hunter. country doctors looking for sturdy cob to ride their rounds, all were there in foree,
ate boss na one who
(a) has had more experience than yourself and has a lot to teach you?
(b) is overpald?
(e) is just someone who has been around longer thun yourself?
Would you say, that many people you know do not really work as hard as they shouldr
(a) You,
BBY YOU
Hunters, hacks, ponies, and cab-horses, draft-horses light
(b) No and heavy, every kind of horse
Would you 7
had was present,
more, self-confidents ihan But on this spring day in others!
(A) Yes, 1958. I stood dismayed. Instead of the ok crowd, there were
(b) No dozens of boys and girls
who 8 looked as though they couldn't even cheat at conkers. But. It was evident that they, know the ponles.
Finally n smarlish cob whose only visible. fault, was the fact that ho lacked his neur came before the rostrum.
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The bidding for this obviously not-perfect cob was quite lively,
Do you dislike the use of rang or colloquial English? (a) Yea
(b) No.
Marti
Cut out the day-dreaming... be candid with yourself,
(n) án clucàlun Umt will At him for a really good job, that will (b) An education
broadly develop him as on individunt
naoming you 11. When.
·could afford it, would you buy a new cart
(a) When a new model comes
out. (b) Every year. (c) When your old
beginning to run down, 12 If you arrive home in the evening after a hard day's work, do you
car
is
(0) Turn on the radle or TV
and relax?
(b) Read a good book not connected with work?
(c) Plan your following day's
worki (d) Larry on with the work you have brought home with you?
13 Would you
others?
Bay Your
memory was (a) As good as most others? (b) Better han average? (c) Not so good D9 most active How long have you had your 14 Do you take an present JobT
part in any political (rads, professional or other associă- tlont
(a) Yos. (b) No.
(a) Two years or less,
(b) Frean two to five years.
(c) More than avo yearn.
10 Which do you regard as
the more important 15 Which feriates education for a childy
most
You the
(a) The odd, awkward, Indil- vidual whose views. on most things seem to differ from others? (b) The vast majority of people who all seem to have the sume opinions? 16 Would you say that many ptople leas intelligent than yourself were earning nore than you do?
(a) Not really.
(b), Quite a few, but not that
many.
(c) Probably a very consider-
able number.
17. When getdag down to a
difficult job
(a) Do you concentrate well? (b) Are you inclined to day-
droom al times?
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(c) Are you about average?
Do you agree that many boys when they siart work them days ute overpaid?
(A) Yes, definitely.
(b) Sometimes,
(c) Not, In view of present
wage levels.
19 When did you first hope to have your presenť job? (1) Just before you took it. (b) You had had it in mind
for about a year. (e) You had had it mind for
over a year.
20 Would you any that in to clothes your attitude and appostsDOO FOR WETH
(n) Fussler than others? (b) Not Us particular
others?
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(c) About average?
AND YOUR RATING?
A. 1-3; (b) = 2, 2. (A) m); (b) -3,
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6. {0}=1; (b)=3; (0) =2. B. (3) (0) = L.
1. (a)=3; (b) mi,
6. (d) m3; (12) m1.
9. (a)~3; (b)m3; (~1. 10. (a)-8; (b) -1, 11. {x}=3; $b)=8; (0)=1 1. (!=; (b)-1; (0) -3:
(d) 3.
13.. (a) m2; · (b)=3; (c) =), 14. (a) mă; (b)=1.
16.' (x)=1; (b)-3.
16. (a)=1; (b)=2; (0) -3.
17. (a)=3; (b)=1; (0)=2.
~ 18. (A) m3; (b)=2; (0)=L. 1. (6)=1; (b) =2; (c) w3. 20. (RT=3; (b)=1; (0)=2. KEY-Under 30: You really may be one of those who preter
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Over 631.Sorry you've been Troubled-you're ambitious mil right
"I've got the best men in the
game. It is going to be a don- gerous business. I will take
four or five thousand dives and. we probably won't get her up before 1959. But all of us be- Have the job, can be done," ho
says.
Each man will be paid £250 a week,
Meyers and Sherwood pion to raise the Andrea Doria fort. off the sea bed, then tow her ashore. until che grounds in about G011, of water.
There is at least 2,000,000 dollars worth of money and Jewellery aboard and 200,000 -
pleees of mail.
Most of her
cargo will now probably be worthless. But ono hold was stacked with Italian wines and liquor.
The hulk itself is worth about 40,000,000 dollars, and it might be possible to restore it to the Trans-Atlantic service,
Unesco fresco
DICASSO
PICAS
has
Paris. finished the
mammoth 859 sq. ft. fresco commissioned by Unesco for ita new headquarters in Paris.
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The fresco 1s painted on a series of numbored panols which whil bo put together like
gsaw puzzle. It will then bo presented to Mr Luther Evans, director
courtyard
Vallauris,
of Unesco,
of д
the
the village big
It,
the school in
only place in
enough to Lake
Picasso has taken his time in carrying out the work which: was
lagt commissioned early year. He intended to do it last i 35 autumn, but inspiration did not
came,
J
Then he planned to start last November, using the big central hall of a Cannes hotel during its annual month's closing for hotel repairs. But when the reopened for Christmas, Pleasso had not even started,
Then early last February Please finally get the idea he wanted and drafted it out on a sheet of paper from 4 school exercise book pinned on a piece of cardboard,
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It was then that he decided to abandon the idea of anding a place big enough to take the entire fresco and paint the work bit by bit on a number of panels,
Kampala
HERE wero 1,125 elephants shot in Uganda last year 230 by big game hunters and 875 by African guards protect- Ing farm and foretta.
This total, 1 fewer than in 1050, is much less than tho natural increase in Uganda's elephant herds, game offcinia
state.
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