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Red airliners

'spy on

H-bases'

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

A TOM

"THE CHINA. MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1959.

LOST

WORLD, 1959

TURN UP FOR A RODEO AND MEET

THE PEOPLE WHO CARRY CHROMIUM BEDS ABOUT

Ulan Bator.

THEY brought in the

sheep, whole and roast- ed, and plonked it on the table in front of me while a brown-faced woman in a

security chiofs suspect that two British || high-necked robe sang a secret weapon stations at wailing, yodelling song. Foulness, Essex, and Orford Nees, Suffolk-are photo- grophed by Russion Tu104 jetliners travelling between London und Amsterdam.

by

CHRISTOPHER

DOBSON

CHINA MAIL

I thought it was a tradi- Reporter in Russia tional mountain song, but I was quite wrong.

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sides of hills.

The woodwork was all painted was all about those two al an impossible ungle to the

In bright colours and a plank the tent off the favourite Russian words And all the time the sun floor Talsed They believe the Russian and "druzhba" burned down on to the prurie grass.

dotted with herds of animals ("peace" and "friend- und the white Mongolian leila ship").

with sheep's milk cheeses drying en their roots.

planes are equipped with oblique photography recon- maissance camera, which can reveal minute details of from ground installations heights up to 40,000 ft.

SECRET

The work of the two stations is HO secret that the authorities are anxious to prevent any unauthorised photography -- even from outside the security fences.

I was guest of honour at tiny village some 00 miles north Ulan Bator, a village which. of all unlikely things to Bud in Oulde of Mongolia, was a

Pictures

I was made welcome in the 90 per mis--yurts in which cent of the Mesgolluns live. They cost 1,300 tugriks, and wich tugrik is worth ts. 10d.

It was

watch

long, wild stallop to the hills, with the rider gradually pulling on pressure, heaving back on the pole until eventually he brought The horse to a standstil nud the half dragged ond haif| pushed the almost stranglect animal back to the herd, where he was held and saddlest.

On another ride across the plains I came to a coalmine. miles from anywhere, with no proper roads, to 1 and all the tracks round it a maresa of mud and water, and the rallway the only way in and out for coal and machinery.

Unreal

That

cartoon again..

China Mall 1-4 Friday.

WAS GILES TOO HARD ON BRITISH WIVES?

Dear Sir;

No.

Yours faithfully.

$7ALES

WE superior males know that we can never get

nway with such a ronelse, space-saving reply to the dozens of irate housewives who are complain- Ing to the Editor that all housewives are not as dilapida-

| ted as the ones which appeared in

Friday never then- tioned that they were all like that, but let it po

This was the home of a herds- man, his wife, and their three-

The miners' homes were children. They are still nomads, moving from pasture to pasture tents clustered around the alt- -built only on the land belong- head. The manager of the mine Ing to their collective farm. explained that there had bren

my cartoon no permanent building because on this form that I watched a wild horse being, they were stl finding out just

The whole village where the coal lay. broken in. turned out--1 think to the strange Engilshman Just as as the horse-breaking much They spread out, colourful ira their robes, while horsemen They A wood-burning stove pokes circled the restless herd,. where

horse they forms the roof. In the winter s its pipe up through what looks pirked like a great cartwheel which wanted, and then one of them urged his own horse into the cuts covering of felt is put herd after the wild one. over the tent and snow is banked up round it like an igloo to keep out the intense cold.

Mongolians, like the Russens, are great believers in the era

ive properties of mineral waters and they have built a sunatoriam over the springs that well 1: - out of the high valley skulls of cattle mark the sawless fly and the whitening dust Tracks between the villages

Few roads

There are few asphalt ronds in This country. You simply point your nose across the prairi and hope that nothing goes wrong with the ear.

It is also believed that every Thor rocket site on the East Const has been pin- There i. no one read. Look- pointed from the air. Foring them the hills, the track this reason security restric- tions governing these sites are to be greatly relaxed.

----(London Express Service),

make in and out, sometimes four or five different tracks roughly parallel, just like the wanderings of a demented spider.

We forced streams. We got stuck in mules. We cling

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tho

Lassoed

But if there were no howMS, certally the mine was modern full of Russian equipment and producing 2,000 tons of coal a day.

There were Chinese workmen there, some of the 10,000 Chinese who have come to work in Mongolia to build bridges and roads and factories while the Mongolians attended to their traditional pastor! work.

1 Lake 13 Las granted 11 is the Dve rejects

they оте referring to and not the one on, the right who has

janded the

Jut for her hunkaru?,

But to Mrs Walke (from Blackpool whe emigrated to Wembley Middlesex, Aind Who WTITOS: "And if he thinks we look like there women, he la living in the past," I have of that may drew- ing of British house- wires was not too f

We are

to happy publi's 4 snapshot of these name five ladies, who appeared In the cartoon, leav ing our offers after lodging a complaint with the Editor at 1 was our hard on their husbandy,

He carried a long pole with n

tr nature. was loop of leather at the end. This is ine Mongollun version of the American cowboy's larcu.

There is usunile a mall, low table next to the stove. And it was there that I t nd terved with the traditional Mon golian dish of koumister mented mare's milk-and sweeti,

Three

chromium beds were ranged against the wails of the yurt and in between their was

elest of drawers and a dresser carryiur pletures of Marx und Lenin,

It seems unreal, somehow, to see the pit wheel turning over This really the age-old tents. is the grafting of, an industrial on to and rovolution

u medieval civiliation.

wheeled The horses plunged, kicking up the red dust to hang shimmering in the light of a magenta suntet.

The "cowboy" dropped his loop over the wild horse's hend and they were away--on on a

TOMORROW:

Abominable Snowmen

-London Express Service),

"I'd like to *** mine clout me with The Site. Vae. columnes and live tu tell the tales

Bid one.

And г lay odds that C. It. Onions of Chichester. Who wrote: YES,

once gain that von Giles has excelled auself. How true to te ore his characters." is no housewife.

Thank you, MISTER Onions

THE SINATRA

STORY

FRANK SINATRA'S and Ava Gardner's comings and goings made head-

lines in Hollywood, New York and Mexico.

Much of the time they were together. Frank was on edge, high- strung, nervous, impatient with himself, with her, with almost everyone who came into his orbit.

Sinatra's close friends were worried over the unwanted, and, affen, undeserved publicity..

fired to recognise any reason for cutting down his high rate

of living.

He was losing weight no

When he went to Kenya to his hair was thinning. His finans holiday with Ava while she was cial advisers told him that he filedug "Mogambo" whh Clark had to reduce personal expenses, Cable and Gruce Kelly, he What personal exploses? arranged for exotic foods, enam- Well, he had to eut out those page and pounds of the finest gifts to pals and acquaintances Beliga caviare to be flown in the $300 solid-gold elgarette for his wife and company, and lighters, the 3300 gold watches, ended his sojourn in "Darkust the diamond and gold cult-links. Africa" by having a luxurious

hower built for her,

Big month

I WAN

a momentous month for him. Before leaving Holly Although he had to borrow Wood he had made a text for 20 weeks' salary in advance, the role of Maggio in "From $100,000, from M-G-M, during Hers to Elemnity." one dificult period in order to Jy Income taxes, Slutra re-

»Bayer's TONIC

BAYER

·TOHIC

Both Frank and Ava had read the book and both insisted that he was right for the role,

Columbia Pictures' chief, the tate Harry Cohn, did not take such a bright view,

when I got through the story, I made up my mind to get that rola"

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extraordinary change that I saw in Sinatra after "From Here to Eternity” was in the attitude to his work.

There seemed to be a passion but his work, a concentration on the job on hand.

Lives ruined

and guts.

Much less kidding and ribbing

"What do you get out of it that he has the stamina nerded

for the full life.

17 l tell you, the satisfac- (lon of doing what you do

I am reminded of the apocry- betler than ever. You just phal comment made by Ava can't compromise as I used to, Gardner to Humphrey And this I found out the hard way; the only guy that can hurt you is yourself."

It's been my experience in Talking with Frank Sinatra over the years that he makes sense.

Frank talked to me on the set of The Man With The Golden Arm." In the film he When he doe ́n't feel In tho played a dope addict. He was mood for talking, he can, be intense. speaking quietly, curi, brusque and downright passionately.

belligercat,

By MICHAEL RUDDY

والمعدة

After Ava Gardner divorced him in 1657, he seemed to be more sensitive about his female friends who mattered to him.

For his portrayal of Maggio, tough. lense American-

soldier, "I remember when I was 11 peacetime Sinatra got $8,000 instead of his kid in Hoboken-there was a who noted real $150,000 pleture salury coupla older guys and the Academy Award for funny-and I found out later they were Junkies, hocked. In the best actor in 1953.

Hoboken and tough neighbour- Later, I saw him oflen with hoods like it, the pedlars and the Laurin Bavall. Soon, Sinatra pushers can ruin a lot of kita and Bacall were h Hollywood lives...

"romance" and the experts wore setting the date for them.

Knowing them both, I gave cdds to the experts thot they would not marry.

"I

world have done the ple- ture for nothing." Sinatra told

the Awards, In before knew Maggio was for me when And I began to read the bok.

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Order of 50 or

"From now on. I want to do movies that say something,

"I'll do song and dance and comedy whenever the stories

That's sure for me. come up.

"But I need variety. 1 require different rcles, You can ecl} it challenge if you lice. That's a tired teim. I know what I want now and it's taken me a few years to find out."

As for Lady Bently rong Is ended.

Busy

that

On December 12 next, Frank Sinatra will be 44. He earns

One at Frank's sayings. is £500,000 a year. Time lukes CATC of many things."

He henda a dozen' companies, owns a music-publishing con- cern, is n partner with Peler And he admits that, like many Lawford In Puccini's, Beverly

of us, he is his own worst ceny Hills best fallan restaurant.

He blamed himself when his ezreer reached its nodir.

Makes sense

owny u hilltop house, und a maralon in Palm Springs, Ok yes, and some blocks of apart- ments, and several films.

Now, he is fiming "Never So Fow" with Gina Lollobrigida, "I happened because I didn't and Peter Lawford. In Septein- bother how I cang. I just want- ber, Sinatra will begin "Can) calendarsed to relax and enjoy my sue- Can" a musical, with Meurice cess, y'know how it is, you're in Chevalier, and Shirley Mac- the big time and you think it's Laine. Between flms, he will |has sold reflectively.

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go on for ever," Sintim make records, and do three TV

im-

shows. "Well, I tell you, nobody who PHONE 20002 Is ruccessful

As you will agree, I believe, sito back and Frank Sinatra is a very enjoys It. When you are gorlant man in international more placed before August 31, 1959 will be successful, no matter at what, show-business. delivered early in December.

you've gotta work at it all tho time, all the time, much harder then when you were a nobody.

Today, Frank Sinatra works hard and playa burd, and chows

Bogart,

very late one night at a ERY party. Pointing to Frank, she rald: “Don't you worry about the little mán. He'll be around long after you and I are dead and forgotten."

THE END

THIR

Just Fancy That!

HIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Misa Stella Thonipson decided not to move from her one-room

"desert" o fat to a large, modern houso tell to her by her father because she refuses to wild mouse she has befriended. She calls the mouse "Wii-o'-the-Wild,"

"Who will feed him if I go?" she asked, "žie depends on me. He is very shy and cannot fend for himself." Miss Thompson, who lives alone at Fairfield Road, Hlavani, Hants, added: "I have had as many as 28 mice running about this flat.

"My father's house is at Crowborough, Bussex, but I cannot leave Will' to go there. cannot take libn because a change of surroundings' might kill him."

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Coburg

TORTOISE returned the other day to his owner in Coburg, Ontario, 25 years to the day he

was lost 25 miles away.

'NOT OUT!

London Express Barsice.