1960-02-09 — Page 6

Private Line

by Chapman Pincher

THE COLUMN

OF DISCLOSURE

London.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, HOBO.

MA

[ANY hundreds of civil servants are working in deep underground tunnels built below London as Government atom-bomb shelters but now largely abandoned for this purpose as not being H-bomb proof,

The tunnels, below Whitehall, Holborn, Victoria, and Leicester Square, have been secretly converted into offices to house special security and overflow from Service Ministries, the Works Ministry, Post Office, and other staffs.

These "Whitehall Moles," as they call themselves, operate special shifts to Civil Service which the unions turn a blind eye so that defence and security services can be operated round the clock.

emerge as andible speech from

foudspeaker.

It may be possible for people barn dumb to the the apparatus if they can be traited to mouth words.

Paradox of the bombs

of atom numbor the THE

H-bombs, and in the weapons

Many of them like Tbombs.

quiet.

the key Moles would be: evacuated to a much deeper, underground Government hul- headquarters being lowed out far

away from London.

Tocket

Now The British Health Ministry Is to call for morc volunteers to serve as burn guinea pigs in common cold ex- periwits,

SABOTAGE, MURDER ... STILL THE RUMOURS LIVE AFTER”44 YEARS

Are they shielding a guilty man?

It is 44 years since Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was drowned when a warship sank on the way to Russia. Even now, official censorship is still clamped down on this strange, unexplained disaster. What possible security reason can justify such a decision ? Is someone being shielded ?

Others believed A bomb And been planted In the ship by the .R.A. (Kitchener had been trailed by the 1.R.A. for several weeks before Lite disaster).

By BRIAN GARDNER

Kitchener had been dead for the former view; the other the

Enigmatic

a long time by now, but as the latter. There were reports, and even years went on some people con- Now, for the first Lime, some evidence, that there were tinued to feet uneasy about the the private povera of Lord two German ·sples aboard the

whale episode. and strange Kitchener (there are several ship, dressed as British sailors. happenings, referring to the trunks full of them) ore to be There avas even more sinister story, continued to be reported put on view at the Public talk. Some people went to the in the newspapers.

Records Ofee, fantusile lengths of suggesting In May 1932 a man named that Lloyd George, a bitter P. J. Duquesne was Arrested enemy of Küchener, had himself in New York at the request of Will they give the clue to this engineered the whole disaster. the Uritish Government. He enigmatic historieni Bgure, whose

Enemies...

was said to be in possession of fece 45 years ago loomed out at a diary dealing with the loss of the country over the words "Your Kitchener undoubtedly had the Hampshire,

Country Needs You," whose many anemice at home, and It was also discovered that on photograph was found clutched Gallagher and in the hands of dead soldiers in people who Still Irishman named Think that there were secret been at the Orkneys at the France and Flanders?

the sinkdug, with o The fantastic thing is that to ..ent

boat the stricken vessel sailing

equipped with after all these years, the Publie the sinking had radio, The Chief of the I.R.A. Records Ofice intends to keep

that been seen from the shore, the admitted

Gallagher had even some of his private papers lifeboat in harbour}

Others refused to believe that

are

THE great grey cruiser steamed through heavy THE

seas less than a mile and a half from the coast there of Orkney, not far from Scapa Flow. It was a These Will be aimed pro- wild, overcast evening, with dark scudding clouds, orders that no help was to be time finding an effective drug treat and a driving rain half-blinding those on deck. It (although ment for colds.

<tucing vaccine and possibly

of

At Strommers remained been connected with Kitcheners from public view.

death,

such a great gure, who had be to come a Eving institution in his

Controversy

They aco legally entlited to

do so under un Act of Parlin- ment which lold down a 50-yenr this embargo on all papers of

1004 Thus it will be

was 7.40 p.m., June 5, 1916. The ship's name was the Hampshire. Enter the

On board was one of the greatest men of the Abandoned Earl day. A man whose fame was equivalent only

own lifetime, was dead at all. The business was last raised kind. that of Wellington before him and Churchill after. There was a widely held theory in the House of Commons on before those papers relating to He was the Minister for War, Lord Kitchener of that the great "K" as he was April 28, last year. Dame Irene the 1914 war can be examined. And two of the Alos cannot the Orkneys.

"would now make available the be shown for a further 50 years Khartoum ... a great national figure at the heaving in a cave in Ward asked if the Admiralty

The mystery und strange documents referring to the inss after that. This is because height of his fame.

circumstances of Kitchener's of H.M.S. Hampshire,"

an old and surely outdated Act inereused by Mr Orr-Ewing, Parliamentary under which papers relating to While Paper Secretary to the Admiralty, the Irish froubles are hidden messenger which appeared several years replied that these papers equid way for 100 years.

the after

disaster. It

There may well be something was be seen "with sonic exceptions

and UTI certain conditions," in the last papers of Kitchener be adequatë, and even mis-

by reputable historians,

of Khartoum that throws light seemed.

big leeding. Somebody.

death;

threatening He added "The Admiralty, an was trying to hide something.

however, reserves the right to letters from the 1.R.A.. for scrutinise the draft of the pro- instance,

**THITEHALL'S public re- In the event of emergency world has greatly increased Wins departments

as a result of the

suspen- which already have sion of nuclear tests.

air vice This paradox has arisen be general and an

BA the roster cause when tests are permitted marshal the bomb production lines are should soon be able to boast

months to

a belted earl. uften stopped for enoble now Improvements re-

Air Chief Marshal the Earl of sulting from tests to be incor-

Bandon who revels in his nickname OL "The When there are no tests the RAF.

standard models Abandoned Earl," is earmarked Ministry's to become the Air ques on withou: interruption.

chlef spokesman.

He wants to make the dumb speak

N electronic instrument

to speak was demonstrated

to me the other day by Mr

porated."

reduction of

Monkeys in

"

that

Lord

Admission

of

He was on his way to cords. The cards were hardly death were only

the Admiralty when Petrograd, at the invitation dealt

of appeared saying Nicholas of the Czar

Kitchenef required more agreed nearly everywhere to Russia.

beriding.

the Russia

The Anitors was being de-

groaned; mus! be feeling fented by the Kaiser's Ger- landlubber

Just

The 11 really many. The grent Kitchener cupboard where the extra

Now dead was going to see for him blankets were kept was

Later, the Admiralty admitted posed work and to require the Cooker rays self what, if

opened. anything, being

was the existence of another secret ments to the text which appear If certain people are being

report. This report has never on the moor could be done to help the loud explosion, and a must of

hol air. rushed down Ruasiana.

been made pubile, and it seems necessary in the publle interest." shielded-who are they? And The fact that even now some why, after all these years, is it passages.

one outside the documents

are excluded only to Important to protect them? Within 15 minutes the Admiralty has ever seen it.

of those who might be Hampshire was Research Air Ministry is now

at the bottom

now tire A month after the diaster, Sir seems to confirm the idea that Must

there is all something to hide concerned of the sea, with only 12 gasping fichard Cooper, who had taken nearly 45 years after the event. Church negotiating with local

five survivors managing to reach the shore. Kitchener was last seen

alking to two of his aides.

the cold war

R DAVID TYRELL, the

Council scientist who has

Lionel Fothergill, the bril-D Medical

Jiant inventor of

the

machine which enables doc-

tors to hear the heart-beat discovered the first way of authorities near Whitby fo

of a baby while it is boing growing

born.

Foaming sea

there

the

that

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author

to make any

amend-

dend;

is one of the few

u succiul Interest in the matter. As well as the mystery of lending figures still alive, but in servants. As the standing on the deck, in uniform asked in the Commons: "Is one Kitchener's death, there is the 1010 he was in the political

With him were softon them up for ac-aides, a detective, a driver, cald

the cepting

£35,000,000 and two human anti-rocket radar station to cruiser throbbed

be set up on nearby Fyling- the gale, all were dale Moor.

far from well

from

common outside the gorms body, got his load The now device is a simple polio vaccine, I find. vibrator applied to the throat Polio

made by vaccine is been growing pollo germs in kidney of people who have once

monkeys. able to speak but have become tissue obtained from dimb through loss of the vocal Comman cold, germs are now cords or mental afliction. When being grown hi kidney

formerl naiselessly obtained from stillborn

and tongue they premature babies,

words are

by the lips

through feeling

The thearies What had happened.

the theories came As the rays are similar to As cascades of green, foam- For years

Some sad the those used in radio-cookers, the ing sea poured over the decks tulek and fast. difficulty is to combot

the normal life of the wild

ship ship had struck a mine (but the stories about birds being went on below. In the petty waters in the vicinity had been

officers' mess of brought down already roasted.

a group of men swept, and were regularly used London Express Service). were preparing for a game of by inerchant vessels).

tissue

Two Toughies Talk

IN LONDON TOGETHER ROBERT MITCHUM and TREVOR HOWARD

FIND THEMSELVES

ANSWERING

THESE

SAME QUESTIONS

were two

TREVOR HOWARD

IN LONDON recently actors famed for the scope of their bell-raising #etivities: TREVOR

HOWARD and ROBERT MIT- CHUM. Both are colourful, both are: outspoken. And, for the first time, both are making pictures here simul taneously. Howard, hegrined with bogus coaldust from cloth cap tg miner's boots, was rehearsing i sequence for "Sons and Lovers" at Pinewood Studios. Between takes, he pondered question, answered forthrightly.

4

ROBERT MITCHUM

cach

Mitchum slouched in his dressing-room at Elstree nursing a cold after a day's shooting of "The Sundowners" and, between coughs, answered recklessly. DINAH KERR asked the questions.

Are you really a

HOWARD:

-- complex I couldn't understand it MITCHUM:

myself, so I quit.

Qwhat type of role do you

prefer to play?

HOWARD:

Anything but drawing room men. Something that matters.

MITCHUM:

I have no ambition. All I want to do is get off easy.

of the day

What is your first drink

and what time do you usually take it? HOWARD:

burn over it. Unfortunately I enormous capacity. have ar

when I'm People don't realise stoned. I don't myself until three days later.

What was the most recent doctor's advice given you?

I don't work to any pattern - HOWARD: haven't had a drink for three

The least demanding. I like a

weeks. But when I'm not work- Didn't give me any. He said I was it as a Deo and had the blood pressure of a young girl. role that calls for the minimum why not? I find it makes

people nicer.

MTTCRUM:

of attendance and the maximuni

of attention. I always play the MITCHUM:

same role, anyway, the kind Coffee at 6.30 in the mornlig. Try to get some more sleep ond where every time the writer runs I don't like hard liquor much, do something about that cold. short of ideas they kick you in i get a sort of emotional -heart-

the belly. All I am is durable.

You're known as a hell- raiser, A renegade soclety, yet you have married only once and remained married for several years. Explain

HOWARD:

My wife would hate me nny other way. We're both mad. MITCHUM:

I can't explain It At an early age I became aware of a simple with me once they had to get biological arrangement that the motorcycle police out. If I seems to have escaped a lot of tough were in London, I'd go home. people and I jusi took ad

It's not gay enough here for me. vantage. MITCHUM:

No. But I attempt to enjoy life and hard living doesn't come hard to me.

MITCHUM:

No, I'm n mild guy, really.

I'd go to bed. I'm an insomnine and one of my hobbies is trying to get sleep.

People think I'm tough because Money I came into relative prominence

"

aside, what job

at the beginning of the era of other than soting that you have

ugly leading men and few done in the past would you willing to wear dirty most like to return tot

were 19

etothes and fall about as I was. HOWARD:

Q

Are you relicious?

HOWARD:

I try to be a good man and I believe in God. But these guys

pulpit who emele from a don't believe a word they SAY

MITCHUM:

I believe in God, but I don'i I've never had another job. I believe you have to

join I weren't neling, I wouldn't church to prove 1.

TA you had an evening like to work at all.

ahead with nothing planned, MITOMUM: how would you spend It?

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a

Wind ambitions have/you

I suppose I'd wrile. I used to not fullled? be a cort of lavatory post:20

HOWARD: Dependa the country. In years ago. I was the darling of 110WARD: ' New York I'd go around the The Baverly Hills Ladies Literary I

London Exprées Servico),

U.S. ATOM-SUBS USE

'AIR CANDLES'

New York.

CHEMICAL candles were used to supply oxygen to the crews of America's atom-submarines in their long history making cruises through the oceans and under the Polar icecap.

supplied about

Captain Jack L. Kinsey, who The candies acted *05 medical observer the same amount of oxygen as aboard the Nautilus on is a bottle of compressed stas, in voyage under the North Pole, relation to size and weight. revealed that the top-secret But the air candles are still chemical candies were wood to considered only a "stopgap" by supplement

compressed the U.8, Navy, which soon oxygen carried in conventional hopes to be able to supply its bottica.

the

"A stopgap'

submariner

oxygen by breaking down sea water.

Captain Kinstry sald that such prolonged voyagon as the Sea- wolf's 60-tiny submersion with- Although exnet details con- out surfacing also have revived, not be disclosed, he said the interent in air ions-the charged? candleo were composed of particle alven off by electrioni sodium chlorato and finely equipment in submarines, divided frm particles.".

An excess of positive long hing "When they inre igalted," he an unpleasant effect on tho added, “thựcy, give off oxygen crews, but on excess of neta. and, the reaction is keyptjgoing tvo forum moteris to aid both

of the turning mental and paynical boallh

--={London Reprem Betvice),

thn/boat elli haven' maalered Jazz joints. I took Bob Mitchum Suutely. My stuff became so clarinet and the drums.

thự by

doon."

of the survivors

under arrest

to

at the present time by diree- controversy as to Kitchenor the wilderness and couldn't possibly

kie h men. Was

dedicated be connected in any way. tion of the Admiralty for an

Why not then scrap imperialist, a brilliant military offence in connection with the tactician, and an administrator absurd 50-year rule?,, A, in loss of the ship?" He received whom foresight was largely re- In his memoirs Sir Anthony a non-committal reply.

sponsible for winning World Eden is able to come out with all kinds of revelations. He was Five years later he declared War 17

-examine

secret Or was he a plunderer in the allowed that he then knew more about

cisewhere papers. And yet the private 11 but "I have to admit there Suden. India, and

of a man who lived in (when offered ornate caskele, papers are aspects of the matter that

an age te remote from our days it is not in the public intercat he is said to have retorted,

nre 110W

Agincourt. to disclose,"

woak, need gold plate"), a

contained In 1926 Sir Robert Hamilton, uncertain man with homosexual guarded as if they

whose who was M.P, for the Orkneys, tendencies,

reputation the top strategle secrets of the

ilme. again brought up this question has been called gigantic "It is high time the Kitchoner in, the House. The First Lord confidence trick"? said: "There are valid objec No one seems to know.

tions to the publication of the [report."

Less

National

-isation

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DS

mystery was laid wide open, public was told ali There are two leading bio- and the graphies,

One tenda to givo there ta to know.

Prakardo

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from

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