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THE CHÍNA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 22, / 1958,

NOW... LET'S TURN AWAY FROM POLITICS

months' jail

for adultery!

FREDERICK ELLIS......... Reporting on

THE SURPRISES YOU FIND IN CHINA

incon-

CAUGHT in the Im- pationt surga af rovolu....... tion, Chine today in a nation of the gruous, the paradoxical, the half-comic and the half tragic. Today, Ellis concludos his ro port on the country with

o study of its people and its life, in snapshot form....

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freedom by becoming \\\spiteful, vicious shrews,

Those in top Government jobs boss as no man would dore. I

net two who do incalculabic". harm to China-Madame Chang and Miss Chong, who run the Peking Foreign Offee Informa Hon Departements,

China has the death penalty, but it is rarely carried out.

Bad drivers

ELLIS TAKES A RIDE WITH CHINA'S ONLY. CAPITALIST :: I A PEDICAR MAN

hoarding to advertise the The only things I wm- latest films. treated in China werk motor 1.5) cars. The driver ore appallingly be bad and rom the car into.

Their task 1s to otlend Westero Journalists. They do so with the affection of gear linder 10 miles an hour, grizzly bear.

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top

No Chinese; home or hats!

corilely furnish rooms is

Petrol is of evil quality with an octane rating of 58, which without a glant vacuum Bask is 10 degrees worse than pool This provides the ready supply petrol In Britain during the of Bolling water to make green tco which the Chinese drink round the clock,

Adultery is rare in Ching-war. and for good reason. It is u gaol

offence, with sentences up to a ear for persistent offenders.

...

It sells at 9s. o galion and is rationed. I never save a petrol pump any where it China.

HE Chinese are de- dicated to eliminating feminity and they have succeeded in

Hoth men and women risk creating a mass-

Much There is a transport famine good for illegal love, produced womanhood depends on the attitude of the everywhere. In Mukden, a elly

and a husband the size of Birmingham with that is alarming to offended party

saw or wife

a churge of population of 2,000,000, I can lay behold.

adultery at the People's Court. fewer than 10 cars. "Education" 13 The first trenfinent.

The women are the drabbes! in the world, for despite stim, Hthe figures Buy diviss Tike engine-drivers.

They all wear dull, mk-blue, tuarse cotton overall jackets mad fromas that sag miserably on their slender shoulders.

Arkirt is a are look-back- and-see-apain. Makeup exists, but I saw it only on the cosmetic counters of the departmental

store,

Aut women shale unattraz- tively along the streets inedit- heel shoes with their hale dank. and lank.

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During my stay I never drank loss than 30 cups of green tea 4 day.

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Even on the trains the tea

at a boy is serving non-stop П

penny a cup. On long journeys you buy a strip of tear-off tickets for tes

The trains

fox

on

Man and mules form An Ossential Bak in the transpor

are torture

Both are Street

beasts of foreigners. Compartmenta girls-once major system.

are In Chinuho longer burden and both

inter wired for sound and records of profession exist, not even in Shanghai, changeable.

Both 'pull the Peking Opera, an indescribable once the world's wickedest clły, never-ending stream

two- noise that norinds like cola of

the rooftops, blare non-stop. Communisis rounded wheeled trucks. The them up for "lucation, which

Chinese are Impervious la all included teaching them to knit.

And the streets stay cleaned

forms of noise and they are like dent people, inclined. be the threat of six

nolsies than most. up with months ol for both sexes for

left love.

The only real capitalist Text in China Is the Pedicar man, who will be your cycle' rickshaw slave for-15%; a day.

The Communists have tried to drive these men out of business. 'Now they carry on a war of attrition against these, colourful, cheerful men by denying them spare parts for their rickshaws. But with the genlus for im- provisation, the Pedicar are winning

men

IN PEKING gaol the prisoners work in a hosiery faclory, with slogans urging even them to over Top-brass female Communists take Britain in 15 years! ere indistinguishable trein shop They make 3,000-pairs of

THE BRITISH. 1914-18 Until the Communists arrive gaily coloured socks a day,

prizes for War Memorial on Shang- women were slaves and vngsals and earn cash

famed waterfront, And the educated good work and good be har have celebrated their haviour.

Mirla.

In Chian.

Women

The Bund, is now used as a

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And, like Mussolini and other dictators, Mao has made the trains run to time.

Customs

ROUND-UP

ARMY REPLY TO INCOME TAX

INSPECTOR

AN income tax Inspector who became curious about "2 Port Task' Force Provost Company (T.A.)" wrote demanding details of the company's business, directors, shareholders and articles" of Osociation. The letter was sent to the headquarters of the War--- wickshire Territorial Army Association, and details of it, with the unit's, reply, have been published in the Journal of the Royal Mili- tory Police. The unit, asked to name directors, gave the Queen, the Cabinet, Wer Office and the Provost Marshal. To “Nature of business?" they replied, "Protecting the nation,” adding, "We don't sell anything," Asked who founded the company, they said: “Queen Boadicea." The inapoclor wrote back apologising, While conceding most of the replies, he retuused to accept Bondices who died in A.D. 02.

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·Observer corps cameras Keep

WATCH

WHITE enamelled drums are being made to fit on top of hundreds

of underground shelters, sited all over the United Kingda, + They are, in fact, cameras, giving complete cover right round the horizon, keeping night and day watch for atom bomb explosions. Detalls can then be phoned by volunteers at the Royal Observer Carps to the R.A. F. and Home Office. The dugout watchers esa inké frequent and regular checks of the amount of fall-out, as« shown on an instrument. This and other equipment is in daily use at the Corps camp at West Malling, Kent, where 500 men and women take technical coupees.

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can be mobi- FLEET AIR ÁRM STOPS DROPPING

-"POUND NOTES"

them manpower Hised on the hour-from a few. thousand for a rat campaign to half a million for a Moy Day parade,

And the workers get no an- nual "breasts"-merely six days off a year at national holidays.

Sports

It takes three hours to cross the iron bridge that separ ates Hongkong from China. And among the things the Chinese Customs want to know is how many lottery tickets you have. China in the only pince

Outward bound from China the world

will where you Customs officers went never see an American tourist. through my luggage. And every All China la anil-Americon, but une had to listen to my portable, the favoured sports are Ameri-

ape recorder, even though they can, baseball and basketball. could not understand English.

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'Gauleiters'

And the Chinese will be the next world champions of table tenuls, using the penholder grip favoured by the Japanese.

over ★★★★

PLAN to drop 100,000 pound notes" by the Fleet Air Arm at Lee-on-Solent has been "grounded," It was planned to drop them from helicopters on ten Towns along the South Coast from Littlehampton to Poole. The leaflets, printed to look roughly like pound notes, advertise the Navy's air day at Lee-on-Solent August 9. Cancellation has laken place because 'some town coun- cils objected to the litter and danger to motorists. The notes, now to be distributed through schools, are made out to the "Bank of Daedalus"-Lee-on-Solent naval air station,

FLEET "LOOKING IN" ON HOLIDAY-MAKERS -

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"OOKING-IN" on thousands of holiday-makers has started at the seaside holiday resorts of Britain by Home Fleet salps and submarines. Going to Brixhum and Paignton, Devon, is cruiser and seven anti-submarine destroyers headed by "The Tyne"

The cruiser Kenya which was flagship for the Suez operation.

at Bournemouth and due at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in the frigate Pel- coastal Jew. Hamsgate's ship visitors on August 3 will be three

ninesweepers. The minelayor Plover goes to Sandown on August

3 and the trigate Hardy to Swanage, Dorset, a week later.

CRYPT MEMORIAL

CHINA always attempts REGIMENTAL PENNANT TO JOIN barter doals in trading. Oddent attempt-to swop of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, is to be

Government contrat

is insidious. The the people chain of command reaches down to committees dn-every street and

chairman lanc, with the

the "Gauleiter" of the street.

Every 30 familles elect three goose feathers for a power to the com- station plant worth representatives mittee, which selects the boss.. £1,500,000. Enough

Through the street commitice

feathers to fill the bolsters the State con domit nte Lvery seats, phase of Chinese life. Through of Europe.

There are two eldases on the rains-burd and soft

AN addition to the Glider Pilot Regiment memorial in the crypt

the regiment's blue and maroon pennant. The regiment, coinmand- ed by Brigadier G. S. Chatterton, was disbanded a year ago. The Brigadier says the flag will be placed in a position of honour on, July 25 near the regimental memorizi, which takes the form of the head of a glider pilot in his maroon beret.

THE MIDDLE EAST CAULDRON BOILS UP AGAIN

Emperor Nasser Must Be

Laughing!

As I See It This Is His Most Sinister Coup Yet

and

THE news from Iraq is empire of such wealth

the worst blow to Bri- power that there at this time is little doubt tish interes since Suez and congratulating the Voice of At the moment it is impos- Cairo on its splendid work, for in a for stronger Bible to tell exaelly what he is now

has happened, but on the postulan than he has ever been, basis of present reports

our

whole position, and

indeed our ability to stay in the Middle East, becomes

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His Aims

As well as this he has achieved his aims without sell- big himself too far tu Russia. Iraq was the lynch-pin our and he may well be able now Polley. On i's stability to ma'ntain his empire of in- money from pro-West policy depended the uence not by success of the Bagdad Pact, and Moscow, but by what he can If there now is set up there a

extract, hy what will amount to pro-Nasser government there is blockmail, from the West. Little doubt who haur won the

It is worth while discussin battle of the Middle East, for a moment the events which have led up to this coup d'elat, After the catastrophe of Suez it always appeared perfectly plain to me that Britain had to take one line or another.

such had either to bring I economie pressure upon Nasser that he would broken or 1 had, upon resumption of the use

What Fate?

Ict us therefore consider what will, in all probability. row happen.

Without

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The strategic setting. Iraq was the geographical centre and general unify- ing force of the Bagdad Pact formed to check Communist infiltration of the Middle East.

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perently without initiative, tag- Bed unwillingly behind.

A few months ago Jordan merged with Iroq. taking that step there is little doubt that this unsettled little of the Canal, to try to achieve the Western Powers not to in-

kingdom would have come to an end.

What will be its fate now? Instead of associating itself with a friendly Power, It will now an absolute bo Involved with enemy whose only wish and policy will be to get rid of its King.

You will then have a pro- Nasser bibe of Syria, Iraq and Jordan, with its 300,000 dis- contented refugees, pressed up

against Isract

Stronger

and

working understanding with him, on the condition, that if he was not reasonable our help would immediately be with- drawn

Pressure

But for some recon

neither

Then a few weeks ago came the uprising in the Lebanon, and the eventual determination of

tervene on the side of President Chamoun, who had toyaily stood by the West,

BRITAIN'S OIL

STAKE IS BIG

By GEORGE HUTCHINSON

And so IRAQ, modern successor to

Nurl Sold himself came to England a few weeks aga and deplored this decision. precisely the same forces which won in Syria, which are winning In Saudi Arabia, now appear to have won in Iraq.

Of course we are fighting an We are using unequal battle.

against arms, and the

of these alternatives was chosen by Britain and America. Instead

at hearted pressure upon him. United Nations against intra of bringing him down we brought words The result was that he stayed ton,

where he was and worked with

a will against us, his "Voice of Calro sanding forth messages

Must Help

.

Force has carried The Uny against our friends, as it inevit by would. But of one thing we must be determined. If there yal rematra within Iraq a strong

And what hope on there be cast, west, south, and north, to for the Lebanon, and what hope the dismay of our policies. for the Sheik of Kuwait,

Americo, it is true, did all it the King of Saudi Arabia, unicas could to help him. Twice in the they follow the line delated to last year and a half the Ameri- them from Cairo?

can. Fleet has loomed Uke a pro-Western movement, we must Persia also may well be left shadow over the Middle East, Immediately come to its ald and "Isolated, a pro-Western island only to withdraw, leaving be- help It to the limit of out

behind the Noser line,

hind it bitter anti-American-

powers, Indeed,, it the news is true ism.

For without a pro-Western this is a black day for British- In both Syria and Egypt the Iraq the Mickile East, upon which Interests, And what is there Americana asocipted themselves cur oll supply depords, is on that we can do about it. with plots that a schoolboy could the verge of chats, with which

Our supply, of oil will, now have seen, through, and we,"ap- ŵy are deeply involved. become dependent en inloresta

directly antagonistic to our own,“

and Nasser has achieved an

· by Lord Lambton, MP

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Immediate repercussions might

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Biblical Mesopotamia,

ne be very great in Britain. ercated by the Alles after the, For Kuwait Is producing nearly 1914-18 war, and has since be- come a major source of oil-for Britain.

in the Iraq Petroleum Company Street, W.1) Brilain has a (headquarters: 214, Oxford

double the amount million tons a year. But, whatever regime may be int power in Bagdud, Ireq depez da upon the oil royalties, Last year the Iraq Government

received £50 million royalties. And that was a poor year, due to the cutting of the From the company's - Northern pipeline across Syrin after, the

Acide at Kirkuks the all has Suez Intervention, beca dowing at the rate of 25 Normally Iraq can expect to Million tons, a year.

financial Interest of roughly a -third

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cars more than 70 milion a year in uil royalties. The Southern fields, near the

swelterity date, groves of In London today the company. Basra, arb producing a further^ ́ ́had received, no word- from 10 million tons a year.

the 6tields, where it has mere Those 35 million tens are now

than 10,000 employees, 01 Imperilled. The oil industry, whom $70-not counting their ever sensitive: to polities, E wives and children dro Bri- eculely vulnerable to tumult fish of the order, that has apparent ly dostroyed the pro-Westerh regine in Bagdel

In Dagdad, the rule of the

Husson dynasty La over- aftor 37 years and three kings.

Much of the company's oll is Faisal 11, 23, years old, is the

shipped to Franco and Italy, `a

grandson of the Arst Tulsat liklo to the Far East. If hups (who assumed the throne in plies were interrupted, – tho August 1921. tr