1958-09-29 — Page 4

I set off for the sun deck

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1958,

As the Chinese Communists stop up their hot war on Quempy and Matsu, their subversive ́ ́. drive continues down Into South-east Asia.

Bot Lord Lambton, now touring the Far East,

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reports that their drive is faltering to the troubla-spot of Indonesia." -

How

long can Sukarno

survive in this chaos?

... with combinations, two vests, a shirt THE situation in In-

and a double-knit pullover

-saysRAMSDEN GREIG-

Aboard the trawler Aston Villa

However, If he happens tʊ

you probe deeply post a miTTOT on the way he enough into life aboard a fishing trawler you will come

will reallee how idlotte a non- chalant expression looks on

petgreen complexion,

a

coma down to a gentle 45 de-

gree, the foolish thought enters C's concussed head that a nap in the sun might be just the thing to bring the roses back to his green, cadaverous cheeks.

up By dinner-time, If the sun has against what is re. come out and the ship's roll has garded by some people as a funny side. That is what I propose to write about today--if the damn thing will remain steady.

Forgive me if I do not laugh, I am on the last lap of a three lo Iceland, -weeks fishing trip

and I return bowed and bloody.

Dowed because I am 6ft. Žin. fall end the highest point of the bripile celling (5 5ft 10in Binody because I have not al- tena remembered statistics.

there vital

Bed sores

Fish only

The North Atlantic being no Mediterranean. he puts on the long combinations he thought only grandfathers wore, the cor- duroys he last had on when he painted the outside of the house, two vests, a shirt nad that double- knil pullover mother made him when be was in the Services.

On deelt PCP trics to fin himself a cear Ittle un-trap: It is then that he reallees that the British trawler is designed to only-FISIT.

My legs are weary through ecmodate one commodity stane ing on the one spot for hours

Ad I have bed sures The main deck is cluttered with through lying in an iron bunk for equally long periods.

£12

When you are sailing in 1 ship that is 166ft. long and 271 wide there is not much op portunity for an invigorating constitutional.

plaice, halibut, heddock and cod. Every inch of the boat deck is taken up with deuma of fish liver. Since these are the only two decks penetrated by fresh air he returns to his bunk trailing n bouquet of fish liver.

When you tell the boys in PCP might think a little light the club that you are going reading will pass the hours until fishing on a trawler you will tea-time until he remembers always find

Romeone who has that when he packed his bag ho done it before you.

He in the told himself something about one who walks unill others have getting all the fresh air he could wished you "Bon voyage" then and not bothering about reading treats you to a knowing smile material. and a drink and says: "And the best of luck."

Since whemen are too busy shing to read, the only litera- ture PCP can find aboard neo the newspapers that do

When fishing, trawleren month-old work the round of the clock, duty

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donesia can be described only by one word chaotic. And there is a distinct chance that President Sukarno may be supplanted by a military regime.

Internally, the country is in desperate financial Aedits; the rupee has depreciated 300 per cent in the last two years, and you can got three times the official rate fre the pound on the bucks market,

by LORD LAMBTON, MP

Slogoporo

can hardly got any lower. standard of living is so low

Bandits

However, he has also to thee the revolution, with its brilliant Because of the for from tenders and the fact that the du mant revolution, trade has my is not unsympathetic te suffered and inflation runs riot. many of them; the Communists, Despite this, the government-und the fact that the Air Force ishing rhind with the most is tympathetic to that ideology: ambitious scheme:,

A typleni and above all the fruits of his example is the recent decision own polley for by the expulsion to bulld 350-mile canal of the Dutch he removed from Drough the country's tidal the country all experience, and swampe, a task which would responsibility. 10x The ingenuity of A do Lesseps and the Treasury of a Croesus.

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But to all warnings of caution

the government turn a deaf ear.

New leader

SIMAIRE

مام الرأي

Singapers

BORALO

ENJOIN

Bakarta

UGLIN

PHILIPPINES

The troubled area of South-east Asia,

PATRIC

Fiwer

Without doubt, his influence is Krowing His fin ling han quietened and alarmed the Communists, and it has recent- ly been noticed that he hos pinced army officers in key positions in many of the minis- closer together, the one pro did not send the proposed arms,* İrice.

viding the strength, the other, they would get them from also- the popularity.

where. It is dificult to under- -stand our decision, But it is hard to believe that when wo

"especially remember that this such a liaison can endure and it spring. nt the risk of dividing might woll come to an end over NATO and allenating To add to the general condu- Therefore, in the normal a disagreement as to the treat- we sent arms to Tunisia which sion the army and alr‘forco are

course of events, it would ap- ment of the rebels, bitterly

likely opposed to each other pear

that he would

was openly helping the Algerian and often take the law

rebellion. Into emerge as the new leader of the Sukamo is said to feal bo

But that would their hands, Not long ago the country.

not could not deal with them, but consideration the If Nasution was to find that ho army arrested a senior govern- take into ment official as he was in his extraordinary popularity of Pre- could he might, with the aid of dictated by the loss of a way to an International con- sident Sulcarno, whose people their talents, be strong enough and it came up heads for Tunis ference.

hold for him the regard that the to form

government inde- but talls for Indonesia.

Another thing that greatly de... Egyptians have given to General pendent of the President, Nasser,

using him as a figurehead it his pressed me was the British Em- pride would allow it,

bassy compared to the American and Russian.

Searched

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be a

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France,

It looks da

If policy

Shoddy

The American is a

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coin

modern

Is, therefore, unlikely that the general would try to or But whatever happens, there senior

When I was at Djakarta a would win a trial of strength appears at the moment

army offelat trived at with such a formidable

from appo- drift the airport on his way

Communism. to nent. Singapore. Just as his airplano

therefore seems rather apliy that we should have refused to was about to take off it was While I was in Indonesia, send Indonesians heavy arms to Alhambra, the Russian a palace, stopped. Two air force officers Sukarno's mother died. The please Australla 'and Holland ours is a pokey, hired building Law and order is no longer came aboard and searched the sumptuous, most royal burial whose fears that they may at crowded to the doors, while be- outside of the big airplane for three hours, read given to her gave a clue to the lack New Guinen aro really side stands what I thought try and many towns. Bandits roam the coun- ing all the passengers letters. President's character, and some laughable when one aces the at first sight was a cow house

main coods in

of the grandiose comments re-weakness of Indoncala.

but what was, in fact, the newly Java are closed at night.

Nevertheless, a serious ni minded me of the opening scenes

order is of Jallus Caesar, when Brutus laughing Foreign Minister in his service.

When I saw the genial, erected home of our information tempt to establish being made by General Nacu- and Cassius discussed his vanity. newly bullt foreign office, his Not by such shoddiners will

on Chief of Staff of the 200,-

near future Sukarno pollteness topsed for a moment we gain the respect and trade of 000-strong army.

and Nasution will probably come and he flatly stated that, if we an impressionable nation,

the rule

other day

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If Ananelal worries were all that President Sukarno hud to Only face, it is possible that he might bands were killed in a pitched

have to bother the battle at a hill station.

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ROUND-UP

CHANNEL Link

EXPERIMENTS in laying a power cable to link the British and

half-mile lengths of in mid-Channel by the Central Electricity Board. The electricity link is expected to be in operations by the

one country to another at peak load periods, which occur at

French electricity grids have been slatted by the laying of two

winter of 1960. It will then be possible to transfer electricity from different times in Britals and France. The link will mean a of £8,000,000 in generating equipment and £300,000 annually in operating costs,

This is becZENE the move fish blurbs on the back of the cercal they catch the more money they

tablecloths and the "QUIZ"

curn).

But for the Pleasure Cruize Passenger the day begins with

no

packets.

He then thinks he will write

to

Postcards to his worst enemies breakfast at 7 m.

saying: Wish you were here. Getting up

That is before It occurs ut seven is particular hardship

PCP him that there is to

place to (Pleasure Cruise Passenger) post them. Instead what he does since, ten to one, he has been Is climb out of his bunk, have awake half the night picking his tea and climb back into his himself off the cabin floor and bunk again. putting himself back in his bunk. He could, of course, sit up and

Gales

the crew talk about

listen to black frost, submerged reefs Whereas at home he wally and the number of tines conked out slap giances over the morning papers ensines have after breakfast PCP Fumbles bang in the middle of gales, along the deck (expexiting his

Instead he reclines on his

thinking passage as he treats on a wide cast-iron couch

up variety of sh) to the

white lies to tell his radio little operator's cabin and glues his friends when he gets ashere. ear to the man who gives out Little white fles like: "Darling, of course I had a wonderful Moderate winds are what PCP time. Senslek? Who, me?" prays for.

Gale warnings are Or he practises over and over what he usually hears.

again the delivery of the line he

the weather report,

person who asks him where he

Once the galo gets hold of his is going to lose out at the first to ship PCP puts on what he thinks is his best nonchalant has been for the past throw expression, yawns and says: "O1 weeks. He is going to say-oh, well, won't see much scenery

cocusually-"Been fishin', old through

Kale. Think I just man. Just Ashin'." nlp back to my

bunk."

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In the

ALAN BESTIC MEETS A DOG WITH A PLUSH-LINED INCOME

Maurice the poodle

DARK good looks,

breeding, charm and intelligence spell success for most people. Maurice has all these handy knick-knacks and,

£1600 a year

-And no time for holidays

earns

"But don't run away with the iden that he is one of thogo neurotic stars, Q hol-house flower, Adi of • temperament," said Man Grievson. "He works herd and be plays, hand

very properly, he has a lamps, carting two guineas engagement books-e has one he blows all the exotic air of the capitalised them.

He has a pitisti-lined income and lives like a pro-war lond. A bown house in Kensington and a country cottage. An entourage of

Batter him.

And for all this worldly suc- cess he works hand at two exteling jobs,

"AMBERWELL,, South London, Borough Council is entering an inter-borough "quiz" league, to be run by the Civic Recreation Omeers Association. A team is wanted consisting of a housewife, crafting, a public servant, a member of a profession, a council lor, a schoolboy and a schoolgiri.. To find them, the council's Enter-lovely women to casset him and Lainments Officer has distributed six questions throughout the borough. First is, "If there are two ducks in front of one Uuck, and two ducks behind one duck, how many ducks are there?" At first sight it looks as if the answer should be "five"--but try putting three ducks in a straight line.

BAD DRIVER

R

RIVERS who have had a number of accidents should have the letters on their number plates changed to JBD after the first few, sald, Lord Muncroft, Minister without Portfolio, when he presented the prizes at the lorry driver of the year competition at Coventry. "This stands for jolly bad driver," he said. "If they get worse they should then have the letters changed to DBD —- damn bad driver. If they have any more accidents it should be BBD.... and you can work that out for yourselves."

OFF THE FARM

who keeps 40 head of cattle and grows mixed crops. Now, PUNNING a form at Ticknall, Derbyshire, is Edward Moult, 31,

Recently he appeared on television to take part in a serious dia- however, Farmer Moult, has found another field of success.

cussion on agriculture and found neeldentally that he could be funny na well. So he has been signed up as a new mumber of the panel of “Whal's My Line?." - Within a few weeks he will be "Former Moult" to millions of viewers, "I like making people lough," he says, "but not with farming Farming is a serious business. 1 carn my living on the land and that has been my ambition ever since I was a schoolkid."

COLOMBIA

FAMILY MAN

Maurice is no lounge Ulzard. Primally he is a model, suave and impeccable beneath the hot

COLUMBIA

an hour,

Secondly-and hend. I must tread delicately-he is what I would call a good family man, a justifiably proud father. In fact, he tas over 400 children.

for modelling and one for wives -he knocks back win zy guineas a week.

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I was proud to meet Maurice, who is, of course, French, thougli British born.

"At week-enda wo, being flan down to the country cottage and

Chenes calon out of his hair. robblis. Whoops. I up like any huntin', shootia', Sahin' type,

TRAŁ work he is the perfect

polite man-about-town

Ho cherming and considerite: does what he has to do for me long as he is asked to do it. He never gets inalable"

brittis carves

ite into

We were introduced-bis full And thirdly, I had better add swiftly, he is an apricet phodie name, incidentally, is Maurice of who two or three times a week Bouchard-in Town wx Country takes unto himself a wife foc Dogs, a canine teaste-wensie Fame, di course,

headaches. It which he receives a dowry of 10 salon in Kensington. guinets per wedding.

Mrs Jane Greven, who owns Maurice's private lie. He can- Even on the rare occasions the salon und Maurice, has been not go for a walk in the park when there are pops in his trimming, tinting and generally without total strangers stopping titivating poodies and sumiry him talking to him, breathing

all over him. othen poodfrom thene for 10 years. She bred Maurice five year

"My two sons, Christopher. ago and found she had one of and Richard, love fun, but they the apricotest poodles in the keep threatening they'll never world on her hands. Most poodles take him out again," said Mrs of this lush shade todo quickly, Grieveon.

Maurice blow

but Maurice has kept his glor- jota tam.

all the exotic air of the

salon out of

his hair at

"He

began

week-ends by

chasing

COLUMBIA

rabbits.

·

WORKS HARD ・・

his

WAITING LIST

"They say they can't bear all odelung theco silly women who burble modelling

career, when he was 18 months over him when they went to

play with film senaibly," old, maid Mrs Grieysso,

"This year tre hasn't even had. time for

docent

There is a permanent walḍing holiday. 1st for Maurice's unborn pups. Normally we go down to the Mary of them will go to country for about six weeks in America. Already, Indeed, his the summer, but this time

we offspring are dotted up and fed to keep popping back to down Hollywood's Sundet town for modeling and wed Boulevard,

dinga."

-(London Express Service);

J

COLEM

MASCOTS #255

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