1958-07-21 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1958.

ROUND WHAT

UP

SERVICES HAVE 62,381 ACRES OF

WALES

THE Admiralty,

ΤΗΣ

War

Oce

and Air Ministry between them occupy 62,381 ocres of lord In Wales. This has been revealed by Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, in a writ- ien Parliamentary answer. The Artny is by far the biggest oc- cupler with 48,305 acres, of which Brecknock con claim 30,011 acres. Merioneth, 9,431,

Pembrokeshire, 0,736, ure the other Welsh counties with the highest content of Wor Offre land. Or the Admiralty's 4,795 neres 3,643 ore in Pom- brokeshire and 1,670 in Mon- with Anglesey, *mouthshire.

1,100 neres, Glamorgan, 1,095, and Flint, 1,533, rank the three highest Welsh couplies with Air Ministry land, of which there le 0,191 acres In Wales.

24 WARSHIPS IN EXERCISE

TWEN

WENTY-FOUR warships, the greater number of them mine-sweepers, will be engaged in "Exercise Forth Right," a port defence exercise which Takes place in the Firth of Forth area from July 16 to 18. A small party of Royal Marine Com- nundoes will be embarked, in 11M. Submarine Thule and land on the cost of Fife during the exercise. Object will be an uts mobile radar station

taek on a

which will be defended by ʼn platoon from the First Battalion Black Watch.

BOYS MAKE "ARK ROYAL" FROM BARGE

THE latest "Aric Royal" is @ fariner 760 former coal barge, converted by schoolboys. Sixteen of them are hauling the vessed from the Grand Valon Buzzard, Canal, near Leighton

IT ALL

དཀ

MEANS

THE CHINA MAIL CALLS ON EXPERTS TO EXPLAIN IN SIMPLE TERMS THE NEW MIDDLE EAST BOIL UP

A Chinese Consul

Hongkong

for her maiden voyage up the

Th maps

Brentwood. from Seventy boys of Stockgrove Park Special School, Leighton Buzzard, rette the barge. It Tuck months of spare true working, and cost £300 from the fun built up by the boys from sales of work and other Enterprise. "Ark Royal" is being tied up on the Thames at County Hall for four days,

NEW LINER CAN MOVE SIDEWAYS

THE now

THE

40,000-Lon

Orient

Line ship "Oriana," How building at Harrow-in-Forness, atst of £14,000,000, will be the first ble ocean liner to be all to matioeuvre sideways. Circular steel casings through the beam of the ves el at bew und slem, containing propeller assemblies, provide the pro- pulsion for the crabwi-e move- ment in confined waters. The units are, controlled

The from bridge and operate instantly.

In

would be to

inviting a gorilla

in Surbiton

A BAR of soap....and a jar of hair cream.....from those small things the highly trained instinct of a top a picture falling into shape, Today, reporter senses Frederick Ellis reports the story behind those toll-tale signs.

You

see the Chinese industrial threat to the 'West in the fabulous factories of China, but even in the cosmetic counter of the State departmental store on the "late Morrison Street," Peking.

Without a word of Chinese you can select "Lifebuoy" soap,

scale. All at the expense of Bel- tih industry.

Dr. Chi Choa-ting, one of the

Cumming

like dinner

cognition in Hongkong, a pure- remorseless affront to the Chin- chief obstacle ly British "baby."

ese-remains the to a vastly Increased Britch trade with China,

WHY Τ THINK IT

WON'T GO

NASSER'S WAY

by JON KIMCHE

LEADING

OF

THE

AUTHORITY ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND EDITOR

OBSERVER JEWISH

MIDDLE EAST REVIEW

THE first reaction of mobs

T

ruted the strecta of Recently Cairo began to Bagdad and other cities,

warn that the hour of reckoning

one of the best- Alter. the fallure of the "was drawing near." Tho informed Middle Palestine war, Nuri came back Regent, Nuri, Jamall, and King

and re-established his authority Hussein were named East oil executives, with the help of the army and collaborators but not King when he heard the news the secret police. Kubba's party Faisal. All this helped the Iraql was dissolved and his chief rebels, and they in turn made from Bagdad was to ask: associates imprisoned.

use of the popular enthusiasmu "Is this another Sera- From his past experience for Nosser in their own broad-

Kubba, so he told me, learned costing, jevo?"

Was this the beginning of ane. other chain-reaction of which wo could not foresee the end?

He was right to ask the ques- tion For the immediate impact of the revolution in Bagdad is much wider than that of Nasser's coup in Calro just six years ago.

the secret of Iraq) politics. IL In many ways their paths was that you could effretively are parallel. But that is loss overthrow a Government only it important for the immediate the army was on your side. it future than that there are two was on his side In 1941 and heads to the · Arab · revolution again in 1948,

instead of one, Cairo has

The ablest

now

A nationalist competitor In place of an opponent who was au cazy target for nationalist Tho Egyptian revolution

But then Nurl won it for his propaganda. against Farouk was essentially cause. Or so it seemed, But But who stands now behind domestic: At only assumed through the years in the wilder, this real triumvirate In International overtonca as the nots Kubba was not idle. He Bagdad: Kubba, Kathem, the and Shansholl? Who standa home problems became increas- cultivated key officers in

army, and especially [ Ingly incoluble.

small to gain most? But

who Negulb

Notser's group around a brigadier and Assumption of power in 1902 had served in the Palestine war threatened no other regime than of 1948, Abdul Karim Kathem. Farouk's.

But Kubba's most effective ally

་

No stooges

The Bagdad upheaval

essentially

International.

Dossiers

of

The Bagdad Pact is disrupted in Cairo hardly know

The this trend.

Pro-Nasser in its essential ak with

Its head arters propaganda helped to Increase Arab world,

the unpopulerity of the Nuri is in the hunds of the volu regime and of the Sherman caries. The dossiere- and files It monarchy.

of the counter-sübversion com-

were Ars

tho

In

for

Is a threat to every Middle East Nasser did not work with or mitee, which

than the through Kubba. He used his headquarters building Government other Egyptian and Syrlun: It is a blow own clteles based on the work Bagded, are now open

many curious to the Bagdad Pact; it deeply of the Egyptian military at- inspection by affects Nale; and, not least, IL tacho's office, which was the and lalerested parties. puts all Middle East oll in centre of his subvėrėion,

The secrets of the anfi- Communist mensures of the jeopardy.

and

Americans

have

The men behind this uprising Constant Raids Turks and Pakistanis, not to are not just Nasser stooges, It was useful to Kubba, for it speak of their Western allies, They have been in the bustness diverted attention from his own will make interesting reading...

They, now have the massive much longer than the Egyptians, preorations the army and They are tried revolutionaries, with the army. Nasser's cam with Instructions) which the defence equipment (luteal modete not raw officers:

paign against Nuri was a use- The brains behind

this ful stalking horse for him, The Brush sudden frenzied outburst of mois same was true of the constant supplied during the Inst

Centurionis, violence, supported by the army, raids on Communist

the latest cells by yearn: have made their calculation Nuri's police,

'jels and secret' radar equipe What are they going to from experience. The men who The third man in the Kubba- ment pull the strings are carefully Kathem team was possibly the do with it? distributed in the three organs ablest of the three, the new of power.

He fled

Three points.

Kubba

once

twa

explained his

Minister of National Guidance, Sodiq Shenshall. He is a much younger, much more Western- minded man than Kubba. He programme The Chinese_viewla simple.

ta me. Hu suid with him in the 1041 he would exchange Britain and China

not rest until its First, one of the members was Charge d'Affaires-why not For Britain there la a golden of the Supreme

Presidential prising and then escaped with three points had been achieved. Chinese concul in Hongkong?

THE FIRST was to get rid 'et Berlin, where Shenshall opportunity to salvage some- Council of three is Mohammed him "Very strange," commented thing from the post-war trading Mahdi Kubba, the leader of the became the Arab spokesman for all Western influence in Iraq. Dr Chi blandly, "scing there is wreck the embargo has wrought Istiqlal Nationalist Party banned the Axis for the rest of the war.

Ho Wa again Kubba's over complete ce trop in the so much trade between China upon British industry. and Hongkong."

Our chance

Britain should scrap the ban

before it is too late,

Dr

Chi confirmed that there would be an immediate increase in But nothing is simple in this trade if the ban was lifted

puzzle. There Bro To ignore a market of 650 Chinese nearly 2,000,000 Chinese refugees million--an ever-growing market in Hongkong and you con be

confine himself to pure must export to live. trading activities.

a tablet of "Lux," nye, even, as I did, a bottle of "Brylcreem best-known Chinese in Britain sure that a Chinese consul would sway for a nation which

all homemade.

refleet

and boss

the

The Chinese

as a mallon of "in- Japonese ventars" everything the West produces is strictly reproduced and labelled "Made in China."

In 15 years....

From the bathroom

soap

not

of the China trade promotion committee, told me:

"We

Britain's appreciate efforts to narrow the embargo

A Chinese outpost in Hong-

st. but the time element is kong would be like inviting gorilla lo diuer in Surbiton, equally important, "By the Ume

an item has

Thus trade with China is put- been taken off the 1st China side the business man's arena- is making it herself."

it is a political jungle. And there is so little left on that China the embargo list

Headaches (BAYER) to the intricate machine tool cannot get elsewhere

Toothaches Colds

are quickly overcome by

CAFASPIN

And with brimning confidence the Chinese elahn they will pro- duce them better, faster, and more economically... all with- In 15 years.

Bul I am convinced that or make the lifting of the embargo

hersel! that it has become a Western farce,

Scrapping the embargo would be a demonstration of good faith

dous increase in trade.

And the banning of exports to by Britain and lead to a tremen- China on strategic grounds The State Planning Commis- delays the reproduction perlod only by a few months.

The very ,embargo policy

which. rion,

"master-minds" China's economy, estimates that a quarter of China's foreign

fores the Chinese into the "do trade would go to non-Socialist It-yourself" business on a major countries If the embargo WAS

lifted.

But the embargo is not the lack of The only barrier, friendly relations with China on the part of the British Govern- ment is another brake," anys) Dr Chi..

PHOTOGRAPHS

by our Staff Photographers

Launching M.V. Thanada

Opening of Yuen Long Fire Station Northcote Training College Open

:

Day

La Salle-St. Joseph's Annual Dinner Danco Tea Party for Blind at the German Consulate Opening of Ambulance Bathing Pavillon at Stanley Speech Day of St. Stephen Church Primary School Shak On School Graduation at Boys' Scout Association Peak School Parent-Teachers Association Annual Meeting Juvenile Care Centre Speech Day. Lower Albert Road, Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society School Speech Day Now Kwong Wah Hospital Foundation Stone Laying

Franch National Day Reception at H.K. Club - A Salvation Army Wanchal School Graduation

AII Loca Sports,

Locat Presentations Local Wedding's

Etc. Etc.

Available at

* Refugees

For although Britain

recof- nises the existence of China and her 650 million people, Britain that support to does not carry recognising China at United Nations.

"We regard that as a terrille Dr commented inconsistency,"

that Chinn recognises Chi. Britain ́ cannot "go it alone" At UNO, but support for China's ambitioris would case the trad Ing barrier.

Next in line against normal truding relations is FoTAKOJA--- the dirty word in China. The Communist Party bosses erupt at the mention of Chinng. Kal- shek'i private empire.

"We are unconditionally · op. posed to the view of two Chinse." kald Dr Chi, "and it. the fun-

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.damental question in our ferelen

ze Wyndham Street:

Finally there is the Chinoes.

· demand... for coneilaELLIES

TOMORROW: Gool for adultery

by Nur

uri and the Regent to flee the the non-military

Cabinet.

THE SECOND was to take

olifields,

THE THIRD was to settle accounts with Israel.

It was he who was the brains volce" during the 1948 anti- tragi behind the pro-Nazi uprising in Nuri upheaval. And he is now man among Bagdad in 1941 which forced the most powerful

group in the

Compared with Kubba, Nasser is quiet and rational, Kubba 19 The important fact is that a fanatical Moslem with the three key men single-mindedness of his klod. the man." They have made use of formidable shadow of unrest considers himself as a "Nasser And behind him stands Nasser, but now they will go that immediately affects Jordan, Arabia, and Persia. their own way: not take orders Saudi

And also Israel. For Kubba's from Cairo.

stand Cairo Hadio, It is true, has been soldiers

now

the helping them and warning that Jordan, on the border with

country, until the British Army brought them back again.

Kubba was the brains of the none of these movement which threw out the negotiated with Ernest Bevan, Portsmouth Treaty

Nuri find again to flee the country, and for weeks Kubba's

help to

town the Austriats

Gл

here to her art time was short if they wanted Ifrael. Will they be allowed to In 1914, which led six wosk Tater to td set before Nuri struck against remain there, a threat to Israel jhe outbreak of the First World War. Byrja,

and to King Hussein of Jordan?

NURI'S

THE irredeemable error

ZANIES was

SOFT DRINKS

DOGGY

CHEST

CLUB

BIG

MISTAKE

2.

United Arab opposition to When ho Communism;

became

Prime successful Minister in 1930, tuis Orst act Britain,

with co-operation

3. The demuction of Nasser. was to negotiate o 20-YDOC In his own land Nuri was the his age. In the Middle

In If true, you may call it the alliance with Britain. He, bulwarks of the monarchy. East today, Nasser has murder of the old generation by allowed Britain two ale bases very detail of policy the Prince end the right to keep forces in Regent, Abel Tish, and Faisal taught the Arabs to iden- the new.

relied upon h's guidance. tify the old with the renc- A fortnight ego I was shaking Iraq.

But his polley of friendship But others saw him as the horny hond of Nurl in

the tionary, with the oppres London.

with Britain mét sudden death obstacle to the accial revolution sive.

Now the

Tumcur swept they believed should neecompany report in 1939, The of the Bagdad that the young Klug the ecoremle change. And they Ye! spritely old Nuri, who from Bagdad toki was 70, has in fact been the slaughtered body of Nurl lying Ghazi, who died in a car crash, writhed under his suppression most ilheral ef rulers in the, in the street of his capital on had been murdered by the of political and Press opposition Arab world,

the Tigris for the mooking British. At the

of the population to gape at. moment pubich he was negotiating a bigger share of ok profits with

enemy's

COURAGE

The enraged met stormed the British consulate and lynched

the consul, Monck-Mason,

ESCAPES

* And Nurl' himself? That

It was Nuri who restored bushy-browed countenance,

Tho cld ches will not "mack, the Iraq Petroleum Company, The old ones who remember Britan's to dance a vast £99,000,000 a the brillant courage

founder

old

friendship in bubbling with humour, grew

All

and Poct, which was his inspiration. and on his frequent visits, to London And the energetic charm. And ifio quiet volon INTO WAR

Sing Six.. times

havo tried to snatch the los from that obstinate body, Olice he got away in a madbag in the trans-

year development and welfare youth, when, for example, he Then he drove out his pro-filter at the ecunctis of the Bagdad of his the crucial carly days of 1941. familiar to Western diplomats programme in Iraq. H

this deserted the Turkish army to opponent Rashid quiet, solonn-faced young king. Join Lawrence's Arts revit in declared Iraq for the Allies. Faisal, had been seen to p 1917. Who remember that it was Summ the fine development

the old Nurf who was a euch achievements, Samara dam, the bloody member of the Nadi-al-Arb

After twar he fought events might well have been pen-Arab organisation,

Those were the days of avoided.

Turkish domination. In these running political battle days, Nuri Con strives to weld preserve Iraq's association with the Arbs in the face of a newfrom Estyps and from Russia

Britain. And as the now threats domination--from Russia.

HIS DREAMS

to

desert mall-blado. DamEINGIAN, Ambassador and his wife in a once under the foot of the U.S.

Bit the young king did not His Kurdia's birth, in the town, scotched their long shadow, car going to a British cocktail

West's 'desort oll prove almacit. *Had he at Kirkuk. (to become, the over ho done so, even the intellectuals famous off contre), gave him sources, Britain came more and Party In Habbaniya,

the emplo and young officers and bitter, special insight to guide his more to rely on Palestinian might : bave rup country. posted the regime.

Nor

old man Narl's tough corpse is beckoning others to

· restore his dronimus A

EL The civilissä development of Re: Middle blank » by the

strong back of Nur),

They have got him now. Britatı, kcording to Amb: morality- He could view with detach Under Nuri's leadership Jing has the death of a friend to ment the faulls peculiar to the became the symbol among Arab avenge; or according to Wes em rest Araba the extravagant szalara e notably in the oil principles, the spell of a frien fanaticlan of their political for bearing Pershan – Gulf, areomot? to remicznot, religious billete and theBe“ kwurde

realities; to Antarcérence aves

12 It was Vakambria to theKK)

TOM STACEY