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WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1958.

A Shepherd's Boy Led Children's Crusade

But 100,000 were drowned or sold as slaves

FROM the end of the 11th century until late in the 13th, there were eleven crusades. Christian nations of the West fought valiantly to recover the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.

The most amazing expedition, Aquitaine, Auvergne and Gas many

however.

rushed

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that

converted

was П youth named joln the Nicholas, who promised was known as the cony. "Children's Crusade," in 1212, crusade. Some were n young not only the Holy, Land would The reigning Pope, Innocent as eight years old. Many became be wrested from the Moslems 11. bad sent bishops anil priests preachers themselves and were but they would be fur and wide to urge the peoplo even described in stories about to Christianity. to make another effort to con- the crusade.

pro. quer Palestine. There was little phets," response to his enll.

10 and

shepherd boy numed Stephen, from Cloyes, France, becane fired with a desire win back the Holy Lanki stop the sufferings of Christian pilgrims. He toneled he und re- ecived a divine call to lead n want children's crusade, so

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Ugly Scenes

Bearing

the banner of SL Denis, long processions set out to join the flory Stephen. The najority of the young crusaders avi off for St Denis, near Paris, were children of peasants, but preaching to children 09 · 116 wen!,

he

even

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of children's love dressing-up, the

fol- 20,000 lowers of Nicholas adopted A uniform-a long grey

COAL with a cross on the breast and

broad-brimmed hat.

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Pious people on the route to the Mediterranen supplied the

uldren with food. Somo Heved that when the children reached the aca, It would purt children of noble rank and allow them a dry path took part. Unfortunately, bad the East! character started ugly scenes As in France, however, trou- Ho persuasive was the 13- chlidren who had no religious ble came from vagabonds who year-old boy that thousands of zeal but merely wished to break robbed and naltreated the youngsters left their homes and

away from the restrictions of children. Hundreds fell by the followed film, farenla were home fc.

way, weakened by hunger. Only alarmed but could not quench

about half the original number But it was not only in France the children's enthusiasm.

Στους Germany reached the i Buys and girls of all

ages, that the children rallel to the Ata, and fewer stil crossed to Brittany, from

114 Normandy, crusade.

apostia in

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were

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children returned to homes, but thousands seized and carried of as slaves. Others died on the march, from sickness or injury.

Terrible Fate

At Genon, only 7,000 remain- and cd in the Procession, Italians offered them perma- nent hours, But they would not give in unil they found the waves refused to part. Disfig- sloned,

youngsters some eepled shelter and others made their way to Rome, where they home were advised to retur

ac-

and join an adult crusade inter. Meanwhile, the French con- Mar- ingent had married to sellies. They hnd

journey, grown Travelling

an

SILES

RAF HEADIESS ROCKET BASE FROLINES MUSET SUTEND, BERY

"Minding their rockots with no heads is one thing-doing fatiguos with handles with no shovels is another."

My day in the jungle

I keep a date with a Red in

a Singapore attic

SINGAPORE.

AFTER the elections And he tells me: ‘Britain's plan

of next spring

easter Singapore will have self-

had

but Stephen

Insisting on отгода,

charlot with boys of noble birth as an escort,

is mad for you, good for us'

inrge

government apart from British soldiers and a its external relations civilian labour force. Just as at Genoa, however, and defence, which will

Peace on the island is there- rolled

and the rea

the on,

both our trade remain in British hands. force vital 16 and security. children halted on the benches. Two evil merchants offered

How will this change give them free passage to the

ships affect the crossroads of the Holy Lund. and several were loaded with young

world so rit-

vital to our

in terests?

saders

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But a terrible fate walted them. Several ships foundered, and all on board "were drown- c. The other vessels put in at Alexandria, where the children

FLST

slaves to the

were sold Moslems.

Some 100,000 children BIL. thought to have perished as a result of this strange "Pied

Piper" episode. Many of the survivors turned Moslems, but it is known that at least 18 kept their religious zeal to the end.

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I must confess to having grave qualms that in the coming years we will have severe pressure put upon us to leave the island alto- gether and will have to make the choice of either

suspending. the Constitu- tion or seeing the establish-

outpost ment of Communism.

Problems

of

Neither can I understand

A: You have no future. Com- munism is the future of the world

sensu.

Now there was in this arro- ganee and optimism but also As long as we go bark- wards and backwards we can hope for nothing but reverses. Perhaps the most disheartening

Much obviously depends therefore upon which party is returned to power next spring, for while the return of Mr Lim aspect of our thinking in Eng-

-LORD LAMBTON, MP.

who is touring the Far East trouble- spots, sends his second report

д

Yew

Hock's

the beller held by Labour Front land is would ensure a peaceful period many people that you can apply Ghana of rule, the success of Mr Leo the same standards to Kuon Yew's P.A.P. party, as to Littlehampton and to backed by the Communists, Singapore aa to Southsea, It would bring about every sort of a fatal mistake, difficulty.

WENT last week for a day

Into the jungle, to ass the conditions under which Bo many of our troops have been living and Righting during the past 10 years.

舒

ast off from Kuala Lum pur with A Coldstream Guarda Brigadier to visit platoon

the Malayan Army under bis command. HAUNTED

of

After driving through milen of alternating palm and rub- ber plantations, we reached the end of a rough road and the meeting place with the Jungle platoon.

When ho entered the Jungle it was like going into a haunted house from a busy street. All was wrapped in a conspiratorial silencs,

We walked at a great rate and the path was exceading- ly narrow and winding. At no point could one see more than 10 yards on either alda. Once we had to cross A deep. swift-flowing rivulot upon a submerged and flp- pery log.

with

After about two miles we arrived at the Jungle camp. The Arst algn of it was

bo- strand of crespar tied tween two trees about four fast from the ground. Thia was the outer defence—a trap to catch a rebel by the throat and surprise him into noise.

The camp was hardly dis tinguishable from the Jungla, being but 14 bashes (half tents) of grean canvas lost in the general green. We rested and brushed off the leeches who were hungrily looking for foot.

BIG TASK

To look at this war mɛ 1 did was child's play, but to live in it, to spend, night after night, 12 damp hours of mosquito-ridden allonco, followed by days of fruitless searching, is a task indeed.

Yet it is ons which ha been carried almost to a triumphant canalualan by the Jaint efforts of British, Čom- monwealth and Melayan soldiers,

The

Eastern Speaker of Pakistan was actually killed

300 secret socielics engaged in Internecini: strife without a glimmering of under while in the cluir by members standing of Democracy. Half the of Parliument. propla are under 21 and sympathetic to Communism,

Without doubt also, if Com munism comes to Singapore It will permeate Malaya and our 10-year war will have been in vain.

While I have been in the Far East three incidents illustrative is of how unready they were for responsibility have occurred.

There was a free fight in the Parliament of Ceylon.

What we are doing here is lo the necessity for granting To judge for myself I heard grant home rule to a community home rule.

Singapore is both sides of the case.

not a country; it is a port Mr Lim Yew Hock, at present

and a base whose original Chief Minister, Lave me a Inhabitants make up only a delicious Junch in a Chinese fifth of the population while restaurant,

the

and over the many

Title dishes spoke confidently of dominant race, the the future. Ohinese, are themselves

divided into nine or 10 He is a man of ability and

And in the elty counell here One member told another ho would like to cane him.

By Aro

Wa

I return to my beginning: grunting home rule wo

201 Invitation to riving anarchy and eventually will surely have to make the choice of staying and revok- ing the Consultation or got iing out.

London Express Service).

ROUND-UP

groups speaking different chann who has worked his way FLOOD DEFENCE languages and

separate loyalties,

to the top after starting us a

holding clerk in a cold storage Arm. HE cost of the Great Ouse River Boat Is plan Nevertheless, I thought that, at THE to protect the Norfolk Fens trom flooding

the moment, he was mentally has risen from £7,250,000 to between £8,000,- This is crying over spilt exhausted, and it is to be hoped 000 and £9,000,000. The work is being carried milk. What we have

that he regains that confidence to

which alone can win elections problems by next spring.

necept is

the

facing us.

However, it is understand

essential

to

tho island's special relation to

Too far

our It is said his trying to form security. To begin with, it is a coalition with the P.A.P. He a port upon which our Easter will not succeed. trade depends, while during the last few years it has beet

After a good deal of trouble I established

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military arranged b

meeting with a headquarters of our three fight- Communist supporter, and after Ung forces in the Far East.

giving my word of honour that I would not disclose his name he spoke to me with a frankness and cynicism that I found most revealing.

I went round the Army base. Tis size and scope is consider- able and no one could fail to be impressed by the manner in which it is maintained by o comparatively small number of

ARTIE.

*“Mline's a Comet, of course!"

out in three stages. The first is the building of an 11-raile relief channel. It is expected to be Anished next Summer. Next 19 miles of the river will be deepened. The first stage is a 29- chol. This has moont mile food-diversion building what is belleved will be the biggest, sluice in Western Europe. It is almost complete it has used more than 60,000 tons of concrete. "RED DEVILS"

Red Devils of Arnhem and all airborne troops who lost their lives in the last war, will be remembered at a service at St. Martin- in-the-Fields, London. next month. This year's Memorial Service will be held at the famous church in Trafalgar Square on Friday, Novem- ber 7. Afterwards, there will be a Next-of-Kin Reunion tea.

Our meeting place was in at "MAGPIE”-SOUVENIR

ottic at the top of some rickety little stairs in Chinatown, and

eur conversation ran as follows:

Question: What do you think of our giving home rule to Singapore?

SOUVENIR from H.M.S. Magple now being

A de-equipped at Devonport before being

serapped has been sent to the Duke of Edinburgh who commanded the frigate in the Mediter- raneon. It is the "Captain's Sight" incorporating the gyro compass_repeater, taken from the Answer: It is mad for you. It bridge of the sip. Standing some tour feet high. and used to control, the ship's armament, it has is good for us.

wooden stand. been specially mounted on a When the Duke was captain of Magple, the Queen then Princess Elizabeth, was often a vlailer on board and once went In the hip her way to through the Corinth Canal on Athens,

V

Q: Why is it mad for us?

A: Well, it is our opportunity. You will have gone too far to go back. Power will be in our hands.

Q: But what if Mr Lim Yew Hocke in able to come to Dzi arrangement with, the P.Ä.P.

A: He will not. They will play along with him and then make him look silly, as they did at the elly, elections

NEW YACHTS

E Royal Navy is to get five new yachts for cadets at Dartmouth College to foster sensense, leadership, initiative, discipline and

overcoming fear of the sea at particularly in

Seamanship tekining craft, as close quarters. they will be called, are being introduced as a resuit of the new training scheme brought in st Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in Q: Then you do not think we 1950, because there is a need to hod a substitute have a future in Singapore? for the experience which young officers former-

ly acquired in bontwork during their time as midshipmen. The new yachts are to be delivered next year,

TRIED TO ARREST OFFICER he approached 1 Guards THE day when

offeer at Windsor Barracks with a com milial order to take him to Oxford Prison is re- colled by 65-year-old Mr Harry Hill, of Ded- worth Road, Windsor, who has retired after. a 60 years association with Slough, Buckingham-

which

was bali. shire, County Court, "He was oft. 4 inches without his bearakin. Ho burst cut inughing when I told him my business and said.. 'You can't arrest me, my man, I'm just saya going to take the Guards on parade," " Horry. The officer paid his debt after the parade. Debtors have threatened Harry with all kinds of weapons including a towel rall and a kettla of boiling water. Harry has been on the staff of the County Court, frst at Windsor and at Slough since 1923. For 18 years he cycled 8,000 miles a year, receiving 2s. 6d, a week allowance. In 1903, he was paid 23. Od. a week wages, and breakfasts.

NEW TANKER

WHEN the 37,000-ton oil tanker, Ellora, just launched on the Tync, sails for the oilfields members of her crew will be able to swim on board in a built-in pool. There will be a “Bar”” for buying drinks. The tanker is the first of eight of the same size being built for the British India Steam Navigatin Co. Lic. They are in- cluded in the comparty's building prograntno of 17 ships in three sizes-six of 18,000 tons, eight of 37,000 tona three of 48,000 tons. TV AND FAMILY LIFE ITELEVISION in the home is making family life happier and more interesting in tho opinion of the majority Britain's parents. Because of it families are spending more limo together and children are betier laförmed. Most mothers and Inthers, however, atlil profer their children to play out of doors, to rend or draw rather than sit in front of a set. Twenty parents out of every 100 belleve that television makes children menially lazy. Six in every 100 think It makes them violent and cruel. These and- ings emerge from the report. Just published of a survey carried out by the Children's Advisory Committee of Independent Television Authority 10 discover what parents, as a whole, feel about the influence of television on children.