1959-05-09 — Page 5

DID IT HAPPEN?

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1959. NEC

MAN

ON THE MOON: III

another story to sel you guessing

WAS leaving Basle by the Rheingold Express. Finding my reserved seat I settled down to read. The only other occupant of the carriage was a young woman in a mink coat, and beside her on the seat was a baby in a blue carry-cot. We exchanged a few words. She was Dutch, very pretty and smart, and was on her way home to Rotterdam.

There were sume 20 minutes to go before the train was scheduled to leave and I was deep in a detective story, when she suddenly exclaimed in dismay, "I've left my passport behind!" She hunted wildly in her bag and pockets.

"I took it to the Consul to get baby's name added," she said, "and I must have forgotten to replace it in my bag. It must be on the dressing-table in the hotel. It's only a few minutes from the station. I can just make it."

'Koop an eye on baby'

She got up decisively, and looking from the baby to me she aald appealingly: "Would you keep an eye on baby for me until I get back? Ill be so much quicker on my own. Will you be so very kind?

I agreed, of course, and she rushed away down the platform. The baby was asleep. Little could be seen of it under the blankets. My detective story was so enthralling that I only looked up from it when the Swiss ofcial stamped my passport, Beste being a frontler town. He pointed to the baby inquiringly.

"Mother's coming," I sald. He seemed satisfied although he Icoked at his watch.

Two elderly Swiss people had

clolined the two far corner seats.

I became engrossed again my story. When I looked up tha train was pulling out of the station.

Old trick!

1 nehed to the window, but there was no sign of the baby's mother. The Swiss couple were curious at my agitation. I told them in French what had hap pened.

That's a very old trick," said the wife contemptuously. "Find- ing meene to hold an un wanted baby and then disap- pearing. I don't suppose you'll ever see her again,”

Her husband gave me a dis- look is if he doubted, agreeable my story, and

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whispered something to his wife In German,

1 decided to find the guard and, leaving the still sleeping baby in their reuolant care, went clong the train, The guard was maddeningly facetious old man, deliberately sicw understanding my, problem. He kel on chuckling us if he found the whole thing a joke.

No address He accompanied Lngty

to

Back 10 the

*Cire him to me," shouted the old woman abere the din.

Passenger without

will

missed the train she certainly try to inform you by telephoning some station ch route." He went out and I SAV him wink at the disagreeable old man.

reflected on my position? If the young Dutch woman were Keritine and I felt that she was

then the guard was right. She would surely try to do some- thing about letting me know.

Rotterdam and I knew little But it was a long way to

bout bables. And another complication loomed ahead-the German passport offlelais. For we were now in Germany.

I looked in the basket beside the carry-cot. It contained

rapples, a vacuum, flask full of in milk, a flask of water, o feeding vultle, and all the impedimenta which travels with a baby,

No nome

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a passport

By OLIVIA FABRY

OLIVIA YA Rived and worked in Holland, France FABRY is a portrált painter and designer

and several other countries.

She writes on ballet and art in several langusgen and is now working on a satire on modern art.

Barn in the West of England, the now lives in Chelses

13.

Tago

EXPLORING THE

MOON

[HE moon has been under observation as long as there,

really knows about it.

It was James Rogers' job to fill in a few gaps in this knowledge.

His rocket ship had been eased down, tail-first, in a deep pilo of dust at the bottom of a crater,

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The moon is pock-marked with such craters. But what put them there? Astronomers have been arguing about it for centuries. Was It volcanic eruption or meteors?

By

John Maclean

ment to meat, he set to e

At its mouth, he set up equip at the rock, and, radioed back to earth a report of everything he had done so far. He would make another report when ho was about

to take off for the return fight and repeat the

He worked fest, but it was no great effort with so little gra- vity to overcome.

In an hour and a half he had message twice more-in ctạc họ his samples. Now he came back didn't get bacte to where the ship was tail down Then he gathered up tho the hatch with the equipment stowed In the dint and dug to meover radiation-counting machinery, to drill for water.

the hand drill and checked the rocket controls.

The bour was up.. Heatly, he turned the handlo which

cranked up the deep drill, collected the rock, cores, drill back into and swung the Then he would take of.

place.

He worked furiously, aware

Are there valuable metals self. He stepped down. Despite of the danger from the heat and buried in those oratore? Might the heavy out, the fact that the radiation, In another hour it

meant that he could, if he chose, bound along like a kangaroo,

they one day be salvageablef moon has practically no gravy freezing.

would be dark again. And

la there, perhaps, water seal- jed deep in porous rock?

How much radiation strikes the atmospherėless moon?

And what is on the far side of the moot?

Rogers, had already swered that question the far side of the moon, never before seen by man, is just like the near side dull, expected

It was answer.

the

Now, as he cased himself into his heavily-weighted moon auit, Atted its great plastic globe around his head, and lasted his air supply, he was going to seek answer to some of the remain- Ing questions.

sink in the dust as long as ho

It also meant that he did not :

kept moving.

A sample of that dust work prave something. Was it vol 1950's when, backed by Hoyle, canic?

Wow Gold right in the he surmised that the reason only marked wis that, although great meteora strike everywhere, the moon's heat flakes, oft lis sur- face and the particles drift to- wards the centre and completely fill some craters.

*

and

• The hatches were self-locking.

He got the hatch open

In the cabin, he pushed, the eased the glant tripod, which button marked

"Return," and swung out under electric power, strapped himself to the couch. the drill could bite into towards the crater wall where

He glanced briefly at the rock rock. It would extend a hundred for the first three hundred feet. Golld tores. They showed hard rock and fifty feet on its davita trom then

a level of

the side of the ship, and ground There might part of the moon was peck

porous rock.

bo water there None had shown,

control had landed him neatly somewhere. a hundred feet from the wall,

though. The drill was a wild chance.

He checked the instruments Even if there was water on the and saw that the amount moon, it wrs unlikely that he radiation would be fatal to an would find it by such a hit and unprotected man exposed for a miss method as this. But the full day on the moon,

Around him were the great drill would bring up rock cores walls of crater. Astronomers' and they would tell something He would not find out much, had measured it many times and about the structure of the moon. maybe only that a man could

found that the size of its walls Lend on the moon and gather just matched the

amount of

Rogers returned to the ship, that would have been leaving the drill to tear away

dala.

earth

The pie was flowing well from scooped out by a meteor. the tanks. The space ship had

A simple could tell If it was an emergency algae-cperated volcanic or not.

air purifying system, but it was not to be used except in emer- FEAT geneles. For tny normal trip, the air in the tanks would be Įsufficient for his needs.

of

undesland carriages. I took the sip German. He turned to me and, paper from above my seat and emunciating every word, asked, waved it at them. "Is the child, a boy or a girl?"

Insisted A guess

"Look!" I said to the Swiss me unwill couple.

"She meant to travel

not carriage with the child. All Its things are that I did SOL for himsel! and here and her, suitcase is on the examined the lubels on racks." the

suitcase on the rack. They bure only the Kord KUTTERDAM-but no name or address,

col and on the

They said nothing as I took it down and, Anding it unlocked, examined it for some means of Identification. It contained ex- pensive clothes--but nothing tu tell me her name.

Now came a rapid interchange of Gernun belween the old couple. They were under the I think that the old woman Impreslin That I could not thought I was genuine, but her understand. I was a Hitle pecu- husband did not believe a word Jer, as young mothers often are, I sald. Meanwhile the cause of

Quy Breed. The baby was all the trouble elepi. obicusly mine, but for some extraordinary reason I was pre- tending that it belonged to the stranger.

I asked

"What shall I du?"

the

Both gabbled

did not even know! The young woman in the mink coat nad merely called it "baby," To get rid of the official i guessed. "A boy!" I said in German.

Ha ocamed, patted the infant in the cot, and sald firmly to the Swiss woman, "She understanda German perfectly well."

Then

i wished me a picasant journey with my sont

before you've finished with that You'd yourself in gaoi

baby," observed the disagreeable

He had with him a porioblo electric drill, a huge thing but easy to carry en the moen. With it He would driit out bits of the Durface.

And, when he got the chance. he would unhinge one door of The young parents

As he stepped through a door the rocket and pull out the sild- that I stay the night with them, into the outer shell of the rocket ing tripod from which emerged and they sent me to London by and closed the pressure lock bo-

a 500-foot drill 10 probe dor adrul him, he felt no particular underground water that could airplane the next day.

Now they

He had been trained have been left there from fram emotion.

the friends and the little boy in the last to.

ime the moon had an atmos- carry-cot is my godson.

phere.

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my

DID'IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

old man, and the two of them. • Put a tick cgainst your choles

in the space above, deported for the luncheon car.

My ticket

was booked to

My fears about trouble with the German passport authorities prove all too true. The official asked at once why the child was the guard frantically, "Can not an my passport, I began try- you stop the wain?"

interrupted me and both gebbled London. The train which passed ing to explain, the old couple

at him, but he cut everybody short,

through Rotterdam connected "You must SAC to it im with the Hook service, I decided mediately you reach

to get out at Rotterdam Englund.

and You may have trouble-you will

miss the boat. What else could be taking

I do? undecumented person into the country. I can

1 fed and changed the child afford to be lenient only because I had guessed right. It was a who was beginning to whimper. you are In transit through

Germany."

He shook his head, pointing to Wiek wooded country through which we were passing, "You would have to get out too.

and you'd be stranded in these forests kilometres from any. whore. The train is not at all full, it can safely stay on that sect,"

"But whit shall I do with 17" I demanded.

an

woman

He shrugged his shoulders. "I? The elderly Swiss there really were a lady who interrupted him again, saying

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boy, The baby knew how in- competent I was and roared his He swallowed all Gisapproval. the milk very quickly and then roared for more. The apples were bewildering and I was fumble-fisted His yells in- Creased, By the time the eld couple returned I was frantie.

"Give him to me" shouted the old woman above the din.. She

that Icoked

But he could not held back a shudder

He saw nothing s he walked through like valenic rock. Probably the the next door into the blinding light of a um unfiltered by any meteor theory was right

there were no volcanoes on the aimorphere and out onto grey Aurface of the moon, lite, moan.

He bounded towards the cave fess and soaring hot in the day. and, in its shelter, began to drill He sank knee deep in the cruter dust.

the

To his right he could see the dark tunnel where cn enormous meleor had buried it-

The answer is on Pars 18. -London Express Service).

long,

Two men and

£800 add

up to Success

NE-HUNDRED-FOLD increase in turnover in eight years that is the achievement of two men who took the furious bundle and created a group of companies which have been responsible. re-arranged the napples. "You for many new and successful ideas.

all," she said scathingly, so3th-

know nothing about babies at At the end of the war a young man, Jack Silver, in ing the baby with expert sounds valided out of the RAF, was offered a job in a factory at and featured

Slough it made asbestos cement products Within nine: months he was appointed ranaging director.

..

In Holland

"No," I agreed, meekly.

and

ate my sandwiches while she pus He found 4 general French subsidiary, Ets, Gordon

him back in the cat where he manager in Gordon Felber, Feiner (France)

formed.

slept percefully again until we who had been shot down reached the Dutch frontier

Venlo,

S.A. wür

At an agricultural show the 家 over North Africa and was directors spotted the American

And now all my apprehensions just back

about the passport question year's returned There would be the war. same

fuss and attempts explanation to which

at

по

one

seas.

after several Mayrath Groin Conveyor. Jt

a prisoner of was simpler, cheaper and faster

than

any in use in Britain. They Rot

Heence

to

11.

and

sold. It

for

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At the Ume of the Suez crisis titey warned the Maymath comm British markat

Before long the factory import would Ilten. The party of Dutch was working day and night under £40. The sales T officials were already boarding shifts and selling 95 per into thousands of machines the train and coming down the cent of its output over year- corridor, If caly I could hide the baby under the seat!

They compartment, a man opened the business was extinguished might be lost unles they door, locked at the slip of paper overnight. Australia and granted them a lleeneo to make above my seat, and called: "Here Now Zealand, in financial the conveyor here. it is. In here! Sent number |016."

this promising pany that the In 1950, outside my stopped

difficulties, had cut trade

The

Americans

A charming railway officiat with Britain. About the DOUBTED entered the carriage, and same time came the ban on addressing me in English, said: new factory building in whether it could be made suc- doubled "Are you the lady ⚫ Dutch

com- cessfully in Britain. The pro- woman caked to mind her baby Britain. The parent

pany decided to close it cess wis highly technical. How could a newcomer hope to down.

match either the quality or the low price?

in Buale this morning?"

"Yes," I gasped thankfully, "She has

been telephoning frantically all the afternoon. All

she know Aves the number of your seat. She noticed it whe 015. She will be at Rotterdam to meet the train. She took the airplane from Zarrich."

Vindicated

÷

I looted at the old couple.... and they looked at me. I was vindicaled.

But now Britain

-

THE START

the

is making conveyor more cheaply Gordon than the USA. It

belig

A

Jack Silver and Felber left to form their own sold all over Europe and will company with a joint capital of sale by a new Austrailen sub- soon be produced, on big about £800.

Using their technical know- adlary.

cement they Tho partners have an unusual ledige of esbestos produced Industrini buildings at Interpretation of joint contral We all began laughing. The low price. The biggest cus They share the functions Fatory hed spread all down the tomers turned out to be, not the bustuess, and neither en- train -and. Passengers kept industrialists, but farmers. They croaches on the other's sphere,

Ideal buildings coining in to peep at the baby | bought and me.

thousanda.

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Adulated, & Plan, 9 Retailed, 11 Helenied, 13 Once, 15 Probibli, 18 Deducted, 19. Head, 21 Minority, 25 itetainer, 20 Tour, 27 Meditate. own:

In: Bollerdam, so the trein · The company left Itfits 1 Spur, 2 Tall, 4 Dies, 5 Load, Talon, 7 Dodge, 9. Rapid, 10.

stemmed in, stood the young oder, and moved into large women of the mink cout with; building at Oxfont Circus (1 Tepld, 12 Eexle, 14 Cheat, 10 Degin, 17 Tutor, 10 Harem, 20 a tall young man. Both Zooised The business expanded in Acted, 21 Mint, 22 Neat, 23 Iron, “zi Yarn,

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so each understands the whole

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That had been predicted. Rogers relaxed.

(To Be Concluded)

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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