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SCHOOUNG

AND MANUAL LABOUR ACT.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1958.

"If Comrade scholar tells me once more how to do my job Comrade scholar will be going back to school with a

'Missimo' May-Ling||

London,

Tand the rattle of air- BE crashing of shells

craft machine-gun fire over the Formosa Strait cannot drown the voice that speaks out for Nationalist China.

The voice is that of woman, Madame Chiang Kai- shek, 59-year-old politician, diplomat, military

SHE FIGHTS HER

HUSBAND'S

ENEMIES WITH

Strategist THE FEROCITY

and one of Commanism's bitterest enemies.

In a life that has taken her from enormous political power 111 Nanking 10 threatened extinction on the island of Formosa, Madame Chirag hos fought her husband's enemies with the ferocity of a tigress.

That. ferocity

not diminished over the years. Now virtually the successor of her agod and

red warrior husband, Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek, she has established force herself us the driving behind "Free" China's hard

pressed cause.

And yet no one in Formoza, least of all Madome Chiang.

⚫ will admit that this vibrant

woman holds the reins.

Amid

of

OF A TIGRESS...

and watched over by unseen quickly in pericet armed guards.

It 13 here that May-ling Soong. in semi-Western style dress, entertains her guesta

This slender, smooth-skinned matriarch to a gracious hostess. Her quests mostly American officers and Cabinet Ministers are fed by the best chiefs and served by the best butlers from

Chino.

English,

drawing constantly at her specially made miniature cigarettes, she refers time and again to The Day"the day when her husband's Nationalist forces invade the Chinese mainland,

Madame Chieng has officially

retired" from politics. But her retirement is un active one, to say the least. She talks polt- tica ondicesly, personally chooses propaganda material for Free China broadcasts from Formosa,

gives technical ad-- vice to American forces on the But in pollitent conversation island, and pores over Red Madame Chlang's demeanour Chinese bulletins in ber ele-

The Chiangs live today in a reveals a deep and frustrated gani "writing room," white

villa (one

the price, a bitter hatred of Com- Generalissimo's four) set snugly, munism. the bright green Formoson hills, sheltered by At the mere mention of the mountains, surrounded by new regime on the mainland cherry trees and rocky streams her eyes harden. Speaking

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

19

1 Insult of little importance

(8).

4 A lot may get knocked down

when this falls (5).

7 Possibly petty people (0).

0 Increase the tempo? (1, 2).

9 Frison that's not so hot

(0).

14 Sincere Eastern, perhaps (7).

18 They're little but, may be

cocky (7).

10. Red-nosed performer? (0). 10 Blacked-out" (8),

20 Word and muate (French)

(6).

21 Walk like the very young or

the very old (8).

15

21

5

DOWN

1 Couldn't-care-less type? (5).

2 Cook a third-degree meal?

(5).

$ Pythagoras, for instance, pro-]

pounded one (7).

4 Ollmen's delight (0).

5 Immenalty (8).

6 It won't casily lot go (8).

10 It's decorative

useful (8).

rather than

12' Lily-mald's place (7).

13 Good advice to one getting

'all hot up (0).

14 May be seen in French wait-

ing and hoard in Franch speach (0).

10 Savoury (6)› ̧

•. 17 Chen benver (0).

FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD~~~Across: 1 Able, 4 Mission, B Mood, @ Arab, 10 Sattled, 11 Arch, 12 Sour, 14. Slander, 17 Pinks, 19 Bat-on, 22 Not-ices, 25 Dott, 27, Asiom, 28- Bandage, 29 Item, 30 Last, 31 Be-late-d, 82 Sash. Долуд: 2 Borzol, 3 Embark, 4 Moses, 5 Ideals, Bala, 7. Chese, 12 Span, 13 Unit, 10 Date, 16 Rant, 18 Beagle, 20-Admits, 21, Otters, 23 Crate,. 24 India(man), 20 Stead.

Ber strony personality dominates the cool villa, where 71-year-old Chiang

spends much of his time these days in meditation, reclining in sulphur baths, studying the Bible (raking copious side-notex), or taking long walks.

An interpreter Xves in the Chiangs villa, though the doughly Generalissimo speaks and reads English well, But That is simply part of An elaborate game they play in

COMPLETE

SURRENDER

ક

GILES

scholarly thick ear.”

COMPLETE SURRENDER . . . In 1945, it meant victory over the Japanese. Today, the same two words sum up the Chiangs' war alms in a new struggle -- against the regime in Com

Formosan Government Circles By

a game they call "Madame has retired".

Madame Chiang's story begins one day in 1870 when iz rich and ambitious Chinese Methodist, called Charllo Joties Soong, and his wife, Nl, took 'n ship to America and there had three song and three daughters,

The three daughters were galled Al-ling, Ching-ling and May-ling

The girls were to become a uniquely powerful trio.

munist China.

Simon Kavanaugh

Bible-printing Arm, and steered his daughter In three Important Marringes.

Very

Eldest daughter Ai-ling mar ried Dr H. H. Kung, Clina's Minister of Finance. Ching- ling wed Dr Sun Yat-Sen, Art President of the Chinese Re- public.

Soong stayed in the United. States long enough to see his ful Mood married Generalls. May-ling (It means "Beauti- children college-educated (May simo Chiang Kai-shek, then ing herself attended ten un Commander. of the Chinese versities). Then he returned to

armies and Prime Minister of Shanghai, where he started a

the Nanking Government.

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TODAY'A TARGET:

even

It was typical of May-ling that, Soong's purposefulness

to while engagend her demanded Generalissimo, she

West-style sex equality. Chlang was forced to walk beside her not in front, as was the Chinco custom. They were wed in a Mothodist church, though Chiang WBA A Confucian. (Later, she converted him to Christianity.)

Once married, she set out to win power of her own.

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Wherever Chiang want, May- ling was sure to follow. She camped frequently on the g talled front lines during the 1037-45 war with Japan. She wus the Generalssimo's inter Between them, the three, preter, secretary, advisor, sa sisters wielded enormous poll-well as his wife, tical power. But by war'a ond Communism was spreading through China and when Chinng's Nationalists were ex- pelled in 1950, their fortunes, and

were their sympathies, split violently.

Today, Al-Ung lives with her exiled husband in a sumptuous Long Island (New York) home. Widow. Ching-ling › Ilves En Peking as vice-chairman of the Central Chinese Feople's Gov.

ernment.

For years she pounded a powriter, making headlines of her Nationalist propaganda all over the world," writing; bookę

Chian In

and Prace War,” "China Shall-Rise Again,” ote) clominating every organisation, political and social, that was open to her.

She is little changed today, Still Indubitably a woman, stiúi giving politics a woman's touch. Example: her propaganda war. May»king remains in Formoen against Red China's law forbid- NAPR. 2), with 10 million "Free". Cainoso, ding marriage between persoon spolewomen for the Nationalist living benanih stipulatech – maka-

BULUTION.

4

It is a subject eines to her heart. Omes, during her days in power, she tried to encourage marriage by setting up spins- lers' organliations.

Their advertising slogan was: "Our mating scazon is now oTL”,

CROSSWORD

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Down

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

CUPID BRIBED GOD

OF SILENCE WITH A ROSE

THE world's favourite flower must be the rose.

It is certainly one of the oldest to be named. Twice mentioned in the Bible, it was the subject of many legends which came qut of the East in the earliest years of Christianity.

Eve in said to have chosen a England's history is entwined rose when she was allowed to with à rogs.. Edward 1, father take ono Bower from Eden. The of the Plantagenets, used a Vingin Mary's tomb wOR Alled simple while rose as his badge. with roses after her Ascension In 1405, Edward IV stomped the Into Heaven, and this led to the flower on his 10-shilling ploce. celebration of "Rose Sunday" in which became known as a "rose- the Middle Ages.

nable".

the flowers of the Gods and were

LITT

In pagan Rome, roses were WARS OF ROSES ontwined round the pillars of It was in the 18th century that temples. Rose garlands were many

Englishman diled thrown round. the necks of cursing the rope. The fower heroes and into their chariots, was then the emblem of fear, But & Roman who wore rose bloodshed and civil war. Nobles out for turn was looking for of the Houses of York and trouble. Lucious Fulvina, a Lancaster were walking in banker, was imprisoned for 13 Temple Gardena, London, when years for wearin a crown at a dipute arose. Angrily they |roses in publiz

plucked roses, the Yorkists red and the Lancastrians white Cleopatra said it with flowers as symbols of their rivalry. They when she gave a feast for Mark swore to oppose Antony. The banqueting hall until death.

one another was up to four feet in rose.

of the

from the ceiling

Knights wore one rose in their

Nerd was also a good customer caps and another blazoned on florists. He ordered their salds, and the Ladies 30,000 Toses for a single supper. wave I into their tapestry. Most of them were showered Eventually, Henry VII married the Yorkist heiress, Elizabeth, and adopted the double rose as emblem of the united houses, Cranwell trampled on the Stuart lose but it still appears today on the back of England's Borin.

PRETTIEST GIRL Raman bathing pools were also perfumed with reses and guesis drank rose-favoured wines and ate rose puddings.

Another link wah the pas! is that on every Midsummer Day, London's Sword of Office is laid

Young Roman guntlemen, known as Sybarites, were no cn robes, fastidious that they slepi on The Army also has rcac Juan petals. Even then they can custom. To celebrate the Battle plained that they could not sleep of Minden In 1700, nine the petals were crumple officers of tisc Lancashire Pliny the Elder, one of the Fustileri est a newly-plucked earliest botanists. revealed rose in champagne, that roses were used 04 A medicine. Ho recorded, their re- medies prepared from leaves and petala.

Probably the least known of all rose stories is the derivation of the Latin phrase sub rosa under the rose. Cupid la sup- In Germany the rose stood for posed to have given Harpo- cvll as well as good. Immoral crates, the god of ellence, a rose warm had to wear a red rose to bribe him not to betray the and those proved Innocent a indiscretions of VerALS. As a white rose. There Wis alan result of this legend, the flower

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a custom in one village that became an embled of silence on trial was acquilted and was sculptured, an the the same day, he could claim the ceilings of banqueting rooms to white Tose from the prettiest remind quests not to repent

irl in the locality.

what they heard there.

ROUND-UP

VOICES IN THE BOX:

MICHAEL REUBY, 23, of Cheam, Surrey, who has gone to Antarctica with the Folkland Islands survey team as weather man will find in a cardboard box, on the way to him-not to be opened until Christmas day-the volces of his mother and father. Father is a policeman. In the box is u tape recorder from which he will hear not only the voices of his parents but also of friends at home, 10,000 miles away, and the family's two pet dogs barking their greetings.

BURGOMASTER

IN London, to learn all I can about local government," s Burgomaster and Doctor of Philosophy Dr Stiewe of the S. 'W. Berlin suburb of Zehlendorf. He has been a town councillor for ten years and is responsible for the administration of more than 40 schools. With his wife, Dr Stiewe la on a friendship visit epending a week at the home of Lieutenant-Colonel Ashley- Scarlett, Mayor of Hampstead, London,

JAZZ FOR TROOPS

EIGHTEEN and golden-haired Miss Jackie Trent, of Stoke-on- Trent, Staffordshire, starts a troops entertainment assignment in Aden, the Persian Gulf, and Cyprus soon. She is one of the Top Five troupe, the others being Bobble Brition, singer with Ted Heath for the last five years, comedians Wally Dunn and Ken Wilson and planist

They will be away seven weeks. Jazz is in great Boatman.

demand those days from the troops, and jazz is Jackie's speciality. This is her second troop enter- taining journey. The first was a 4-month tour in Germany. JOBS FOR EX-OFFICERS

EMPLOYMENT opportunities are brighter in the North than in the South for ex-Army officers retired from the Servicra under the Government's reorganisation scheme. A statement Issued by the Northern Commlites of the Regular Forces Resettle- ment Service says that though there are no more jobs available in the North than in the South fewer people are applying for thom and opportualiles are therefore better. The first six ex-officers to volunteer for a business training course in the North will arrivo in Newcastle in Noventor. The courts is to fit them for possible executive Jobs in Industry and commerce. Sir George Walton, chairman of the committee, said there had been a favour- able response by Industry in the region to about 2,000 lectore asking, for co-operation in considering · ex-regular Service men when filling vacancies.

ANTARCTIC PROBE

PROFESSOR David Linton, whose eyes can see more than the camera Jons, is leaving Britain this month on a 0,000-mile journey to the Antarctic. What he sees in the Icy Wastes of British Grahamland is going to mean much to explorers and 17. Bumatologists who want to develop this remote territory. He was called in to interpret thousands of photographs taken during the Just two years in an nexia) survey of Grahamland. Now he fi being sent south by the Falkland Island Dependencies. Survey to make an investigation, using the knowledge he gained from the photograph. During the last war Professor Linton was a leading photo-interpreter, After a keen inapóction by him what seem iả a stretch of harmless countryside often proved to be the hiding. plece of enemy gun positions and arma factories.

1. Un ta asia, (6) 3. Entertain, 401 B. Doubt. (

4. Gear. 13)

6. Number of years. (3)

7. Bourk Jutler" (4)

10 Flot, Dene.

16 Opposition. 10., Bing

10. Yes homes. 12 Kunate or

paper money. STAM

HERRING FISHERMEN.

THE Herring Industry Board are to run a series of competitions.

for herring fishermon during the forthcoming East Anglican season. There are to be niz weekly contests, carrying prizes money amounting in all to over

Ahe competitors will be in two woolloni, Scoltish and EriTES

¡with the prizm, going, to the crows whose horring landings in any one week at Great Yarmout ad Lowestoft reaing the highest value at auction. Five prizna iptalling £359 små to be awarded by the Board each week for six weeks. It is the krst time in the history of the harringt Industry that much competitions have been promoted.