1958-08-16 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST, 16, 1958.

There's Something Pungent In The

Seaside Breeze

by FRANK ENTWISLE

Hambie, Hants.

ȚIGHT crept nerons the NIGH

vieurnge Jawn and turnished the silver gleam of the estuary through the trees in this lovely and peaceful corner of England. The bespectacled vicar peered out through the large window of his book

int study and said shurp- is, "This place stinks!. It is an abominable stink... foul stink! Sometimes it makes us feel quite ill."

LWO

milo

Southampton Water;

mell pany

chusers. And a Society for the Protection of the Salent Area has been formed 10 fight a proposition to bulld scound rennery on Soitthampton Water.

In the bar of t the King and Queen Bear Ham- pub cuiled ble's waterfront, customers smile wryly at a local newspaper cartoon on the wall. It depicts

perfume saleswoman saying "Now this, Madam, is our new his. Froururce of Fawley,"

Summer resident Jimmy West, of Coulsdon, Surrey, sald: "1 revolting. I've lived next to a sewage farm, but I'm not suro which is worse."

The American-controlled Esso

Some people have grown Pefroletan Company's Fawley accustomed to the smell, in the refinery, couse of this unclericnt Royal Thames Yacht Club across pungency, lay shining like a the river In the village of distant Blackpool Bumiantions, Warsash, Mr John Chamier,

away aerose yacht builder, atd "IT'S

£68 ellist smell. But it's like million city of pipes, towers and having trams running past your chimneys where millions of barrels of sulphur-laden Middle door. You get used to IL"

An official of the Warsuch Katepayers Association add The but, shoolin' and fishin' types create Hell about it. The others think a lot of noise being made about nothing."

Fast oil are processed each year,

FOULS HULLS

Since hererential opening by Lord Attlee in 1951, it m been the cause of even stronger Lugunge among the inhabitants of this sticweb of green shure,

Soap say the garlic-like smell that

sometimes dritts across Southampton Water is strong enough to keep them awake at night, and makes them too siek to rat rakfat in the morning,

Yachtsmen--and this is one of the Kreatest centres of yachting ita

Britain with nearly 1,000/ vesela meored in the Haile Taver entoplain that water- berne ut fouls their bulls and splashes expensive sails.

NEW LINE

OIL POOLS

3 walked along the shore Bear Werans-with-a local coilclter, We picked our way between of covered, seu pools and clumps of einged grass. Along the sen

wall ran a black larry de-ne hit by all

you began to wonder if there was ä amoil after all.

"Recently we bad an oven moro impressive chap who were horn-rimmed spectacles, tolked about oil in Bible lands, The audience lapped it up. gavo a rigmarole about solence,

ated

"If you bring in the Bible you cannot go wrong in England. Especially if you rummed spectacles,

wear horn

"God gure un fresh air, vy should Ühe refinery chops take it away from us in the name of civilisation?"

PRECAUTIONS

Oll company spokesman C. R. Young—the man with the horn- rimmed spectacles me in his offee that £100,000 a year was being spent to minimisẽ air pollution,

see

He drove

to me

all deodorising plant ("nol abso- take lutely foolproof, but we more

precautions tho any other refinery in the world").

He denied That the refinery the sky chimneys, wilch stab 350 feet above Southampton Water, cause soot depozİL probably comeu from Octan the Uners"); and he disowned floating oil that angers yachts- men and prevents bathing.

"IL is definitely not from the retinery" he said. "1.is pro bably from the bles of passing vessels."

PROSECUTIONS

Iwo hours later I was check- Herald think the Fawley a list of prosecutions at Hythe magistrate's court. They cups do everything they can to minimise lo nuisance.

were But I

brought against oll tankers for cannot say, the same

spilling of in for the

Southampton Water nkers that unload then."

while The Vicar

moted at the refinery jetties. of Hamble, Rev.

In 1955 fines and Coste S. C. Watson was more forth totalled 2131.

Last year the right.

figure was £1,706. So far this people have year the figure is £1,083.

going There have heen public pro. clever

"We can always tell when it lest meetings. Oll company ex- round trying to kill opposition is going to rain down, heat, by ports hve given explanatory ho declared. "Five

yeara o the since! from Fawley lectures and appointed a "amells we had a man down here to relinery," a taxi driver said. officer" to head a learn of cumi- spenk. By the time he finished,

~~(London Express Service),

And some proply even say that the fish raught nearby tastes al Middle East oll.

AMMAN.

MOUSSIN JEDAI stood

like a chieftain in the doorway of his deseri He rubbed a village store.

great hand raspingly over a ebin that bristled like a prickly pear,

and pro- nounced rather than said: 'Sair, 93 per cent of the people here say the British soldiers are the finest people in the world."

1 would have said the figure was slightly high, bul Moussin is a businessman with a proper respect for percentages, 50 I didn't argue.

He and his brothers, Montr and Nalm, have been setting up tle shops like this in shanty on in the wake of British

armies since 1932.

"Ah, safe," he said, "irst army was the Hampshires, üne men the Hampshires, you know them?

Then was the Emexes. What men the Essexes were, you know thein? Then tho Watch.

Money

"I have shop in the

spoir There business

Black

town, is very good. But soldiers much better.

In town everyone is buying on tick. Soldiers pay cash.

"Tho, rennery publicity

mon

Your

Soldiers Finer Men Now, Sair

THEY PAY ME IN CASH, SAYS THE VILLAGE TRADER

vory

£2 10s, prolt for me, sair. "Oh, English soldiers ne, sair. You know when Turks was here, soon as you learn to read and write they cut you Throat, sair."

His voice

12 a day. That is unly £1 or best for a present is a pint of

English beer from the Angel,

"Suit, we're having a party. 1's going to be on a roof gar- den over a cafe in town. quite a lot of shaps are coming, and an Arab sergeant we've met and becane Paternal. our platoon officer, Licultmani oficere should make "You know, sair," he said, Gerry Harrison, and we're conso-having beer and sandwiches, lations for these men, sair, and we've got a photographer "Soldier leaves wives, families, coming. I'll be quite a parly"

On brothers. Omeer should male

Moussin's Laco

he danco a week for him."

listence was the look of a man Moussin's tone was that of a who has let an opportunity slip man who knew of a dunce hall by. It will not surprise me to lying idle.

Then he became fired by tomorrow that he has a thoughtful,

Beer

For outside a handsome Pura- "And soldier nowadays much trooper, Ronald Diamond, of finer men, sair. They have Townsend Road, Staines, was much more money. How much saying: "It's my twenty-first they spend here" Perhaps £10- on Saturday and what I'd like

CROSSWORD

19

10

1. Call-up. (V)

11. Ouldg. I

Across

9. Speech. 17}

Seen In the sky. (6) Wot. (4)

14. 04.01

10.

kind of bulk transporLEIM,

10. Feature, O plate. (5)

17. Longing, (41 20. Catherstons 11

21. Eany AHOR 101

Unbalanced. (0-8)

Down

1. No vowel. (B)

2. Destroyer, for instance. (6.₤4)

3. Mix-up (4) 4. moka kā)

B. Way. 141. 6. Unbroken, d

7. Bounds

(0)

omethiu

inental knot,

(3, 4)

10. Proportioak,

10. Projections,

King of Ban. (4)

Teaterday's anti

•

BY

да

on his nolice

store saying: "Parties catered for twenty- firsts a speciality."

-London Express Sarvi;}

FROM

JOHN CLARKE

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

•

SUK in ubysinal ignorance, I the match production section of had not realised that * the Board of Statistics, speelat · Act ot Parliament 17,539,241 matches are struck (within its oiva menning) is every hour. This figure drops needed to allow any stuffed considerably between 2 ajn, alīd animal to be removed from the • RJD., Gyen mhong smokers Natural History Museum,

The way to stimulate the sales of matches is to manufacture

In view of the long waiting tiny men which will not last list, legislation should be rushed long cough to light a cigarette, through at once. The trouble and will turn the fingers the

Is that busybodies are sure to minute they are lit. say that the Government had no mandate at the last election, to

Vital information seemed too good to be true

THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM

The Cicero documents were of "vital im=", portance and historical significance. “Yet, because of their internal hates and jealousy, the Nazi leaders failed completely to make any ute of them, ... Would the outcome of the Second World War have been different if Hitler had listened?

THE

HE Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, Field- Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, looked across his desk at the three officers sitting in front of it. Tapping a bulky buff-coloured file blazoned with the "Top Secret” diagonal red cross, he said:

for notes

money-he "We may as well face up big

askod to the meaning of these £20,000 in English £1

against his Arst delivery of latest reports, The Hun

the Alms has got an agent in our

Moyrisch, well-trained to be Embassy in Ankara. What's more, that agent has acccus wary of such offers, and parts- cularly of the double-agents to 'Ambassador Only always In good mupply in telegrams and top-secret Ankara In the war years, took papers. We've tried four the simple Une, "Dolleyer some tests now in a month, and goods on approval, and then I will give my answer". They the Hun has renciad every greed on a cover name-Cleery time."

and arranged a meeting two days later.

At that meeting, Cicero hand-

ed over, in the toolshod of the movement

of British agents Ribbentrop and Kaltenbrunner. The present whereabout of and To use von Papen's own wards, Cicero la anybody's guess--it he

The rest of the conversation must remain secret for it dealt with slepe taken to deal with the situation. It took German Embassy, two rails of through Turkig territory, place in January 1944.

Aim. Thoir contents proved his reports

tions, genuineness, Ro vaisablo sy, up to the hilt. Moyzisch ported Immediately to the Ger- man Ambassador,

A Knock

On the night of October 20, 1943. Herr Albert Jenke, First Secretary at the German Em bassy in Ankara, was going to bed when ho heard a knock at his front door. Opening it, he was surprised to see tanding man he had employed as a sorvant pomo six or seven y cars corller.

there

His Value

10-

3.

Von Papen, who always look- ed with distaste upon Himmler's activities, agreed to send signal to Berlin seeking per mission for Moyzisch to take the considerable riak of dealing

on Anglo-Soviet rela- "Incredible mutual suspicion in is still alive.

high places led to a depart. mental conflet.. between Rib In returi, cicero received bentrop and Kaltenbrunnor

of

Inoney-English

Funs

American dollars, pounds and with a total face value of some He was also given £300,000. some diamonds.

Icre,

the story of Cleero takes on an amazing and Ironical twist. His information was too good, too authentic, too detached, too accurate.

Moyzisch was enthralled with

Jenke remembered vaguely with an agent in another Ex- the material he sent on to Ber-

that the man claimed to be an Albanian, that he spoke porfect Turkish and fluant French with an appalling accent.

The caller asked the Secretary if he could see him on an urgent Having heard private malter, wint

St

to

was, Jenko went straight the telephone and called L. C. Morzisch, the representative in the Embassy of the RSHA

Important

The story had 1 curious sequel.

When the aim of his exploita was being made in Istanbul, a mun presented himself to the director of the production and The Cicero documents were of claimed to be Cleero. He pro- vital importance and historical quod documents to prove his significance. Yot becasue of identity, and offered, for pay- their internal hates and jealousy ment, technical advice. He was the Nazi aders falled com taken co, and his advice was plefely to make any use of them. remarkably accurate.

But they played a typical Nazi trick their informent, Nearly all the notes they paid

By

Lt-Col.

JOHN BAKER

WHITE

Reich Security Department, the bassy in a neutral capital, Por- in by diplomatia hag after it him with were forgeries-made explonage and counter-espionage mission was granted. servico controlled by Himmler and run in the latter part of the war by the notorious Kalten-

brunner.

Big Money

Moyzisch arrived post-haste and Istened amazed to what the night visitor had to offer. The

man said that he was personal valet to the British Ambasador Sir

Knatchbull- Hughe Hughessen. For big money he was prepared to sell the Ger-

From then on, at a series of meetings that scored 10 hayo been arranged with most com- plete disregard for security

British though the

Embassy never appeared to have checked up on the Ambassador's valet's movements Clearo handed over Dom.c of the most valuable material cullucted by any spy on either side in the war.

It included the secret reports

for

But was it the ex-valel, the Albanian who loved money, silk shirts and wetches; the

who said he loathed the British because they had killed his brother?

The Turkish Security Police are absolutely certain that it was not. And they, of all people, should know,

TARGET

TRC

A

S

got a

had been seen by von Papen, in Berlin on the printing presses But in Berlin it was a very of the Nachrichtendienst, a different story. While the Nazi section of the Reich Security

and Ribbentrop Department, Foreign Office were convinced that it was gemine, Kaltenbrunner and the Shortly before Christmas 1943, Reich Security Department were the British Intelligence equally evinced that it was hint of a leak in the Emanpsy false,

Ankara. Certain security measures were inleen,

Warning

in

Mayzlach

On April 6, 1944 new that Cicero had been dis on covered. Moysis is convinced that his agent was given away by his assistant secretary, who

Even when one report gave warning of an Allied air raid on Sofia which did tako place the date gives, Kaltenbrunner still held to his view.

Il so happened that the Cicero had disappeared from the Nazi a few days earlier. reports started to arrive at a Embassy

when there wis

That is as good an explanation me the smouldering

qizarrel

babacon as any; there are others,

mana photographs and films of on the Cairo and Tcheran. Con- top-secret documents and tele- ferens, the preparations grams passing through the Am- the Allied Invasion of Europe,

bombing plans. basadory hands, And he meant Allied

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

EMPLOYEE HANDS $100,000 NECKLACE

TO STRANGER...

CLAIMS "I DON'T REMEMÝ

Parallel to pay

robbery cited

Police are baf! strange

EVERYBODY IN THE STORE BAW YOU WALK OUT-HAND THE NECKLACE TO A MAN IN A CAR!

DON'T-- REMEMBER.

JUST LIKE THAT PAYROLL ROBBERY YESTERDAY?WHAT

IS THIS-AN ERDEMIC! OF ALL THE LYING -

1

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

CHUCKLE --CHUCKLE

CHUCKLE CHUCKLE--

E

Hul medy

wards of

or more TAN you make from

the

jetters in the myaure on. the left? Jp making es

word, the

letters Em

each of the Mali Mares may be tied once only Each word must contain Clan large letter in the rentes square, and there mutt be at

test one ning-ietter word in the

wards NO PEDDEL

No plural, No forelku

TODAYS TANDET: 62 "wards. Good ki words "unty Food: h Workin, #zcellent Walution Monkiny

on

「

YESTERDAY'S VOLUTION, A MIS anaan an930. anen saned sanna stone WOMEN CANNONADE part 13 sented inde, HATA East “taniëd sastan dekat deng' isin nada nama nené

Dey c

Sheaffers!

JOHNNY HAZARD

GOSH, SKAP, IT'S BEEN YEARS, SINCE I ATE HOT DOGS AT A BLL PARK,

· FOLLOWED THE BATTING AVERAGES" YELLED MY HEAD OFF AT THE

THE MANAGER OF THE *L.A, CLOYERS 15 AN OLD BUDDY OF MINE,

JOHNNYŁ WE CAN STAND DIRECTLY BEHIND THE CAGE | PURING BATTING - PRACTICE!"

PAYS LATER THE TV INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE NILAM

IS RUN OFF ON A COAST-TO-COAST NETWORK....

WHAT A BOMBSHELL OUR SWITCHSCHÁY CLOGGED WITH CALLS! TELZERAMS AND CABLES FROM EVERYWHERE... JOHNNYŁ SHAPE WHERE ARE

YOU GUYS I

CONTIN

By Frank Robbins

'I TELL YOU WERE A CINCH TO GOʻALL, THE WAY THIS YEAR WE MIGHT EVEN COP THE SEDES) THAT NEW BOOKIE PITCHER IS [GOKNA WIN 25 GAMES!

MAYBE HE WILL... BUT HE'S SURE GONG TO DRIVE THE MANAGER NUTS BEFORE THE SEASON'S HALF OVER!

'NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXOLUSIVE

STERLING SILVER TIP

AUSTIN

for

HOME LEAVE

FERDINAND

for

meridie in such matters. Letters More than he bargained would pour in. "Had 1 lenown

thai my member was going to support the movement to loose

herds of stuffed animals on us, A DISTRICT COMMIS

1 would not have voted for him" SIONER in Uganda War My own view is that the ques- asked for a buil, to be satrifleed tion is above party politica. The to bring mins after a prolonged | Whips should be withdrawn, drought. By what may Juve even if it is only a matter of bem, a clerical error the triben« removing an pritique molluso men received a goot isabond of temporarily, for re-stung. u bú)). An omzalate sumë' to` rè-

-port on the drought' WAS, UN

able to enter the district ow.

floods ing to reidekoems and

Trade secret

NEXT your a single factory. Next time tho Commitque

will be producing four will pond a 'inadler andāmā»ta million matchet an hour.. AC- be sacrificed. A. news,. Dothapa, cording to the latest report of to bring a light shower or fro,

Dandi inv

METRO CARS (H.K.) LTD. | Rs 4.

PORTE

bu

By Mik

SWISSAIR