1960-03-14 — Page 61

THE CHINA MAIE, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1300,

Chief Foreign Reporter RENE CORNWALI AVE. IS HIS!

MacCOLL gets vital disclosure "There'll be a hell of a row because I've told you this'

SAYS SIR ROY WELENSKY

Ho 19

And in this he was indicting that procemion In his capacity

citizen. a private HUGH GATTSKELL. leader of inescopably the Leader of the

ritnin's Labour Party,

This is because Mr Galtykell· has lent his support to the boy-

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. one man 期 particular-MR IR ROY WELENSKY, the dynamic Prime SIR

Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, disclosed to me an extraordinary switch in what Mr Macmillan called the "wind of change blowing through Africa": a vast and rich chunk of the Belgian Congo, which becomes independent on June 1, may throw off its old associations and join up with Sir Roy's Federation.

"This soul! be

definite

political

alignment with the

Federalon - KUDOS- from the

- alon

Congo 1 usked In Home surprise. "Yes,"

rejoined Sir Roy

then addler charac- teristically and with

eye! twinkli

Β

"Now

suppose there is going to be the hell of a row for iny having told you thist"

The

province is

KATANGA, In the

Fuuth-east

of the

Jutting

deep into

Rhodesia.

corner

Cont(0,

tongue

Northern

Its capital, Ellsa-

bethville, stands al-

most smack on the

frontier,

AFRICA

KATANGA

FEDERATION RHODESIA AND NYASALAND

SALISBURY

KAYANGA... VAST AND RIGH

The province thoroughly "That while the Federa- tion is well disposed to- overworked deserves the often

wards the

the people of adjective fabulous, Belgiany

Katanga, any move for a closer amvelation with the Federation will have to come from the people them- selven rather than from others.".

for over the YCATA have extracted diamonds, copper, and uranium to the tune of stagusr- Ing wealth.

Sald Sir Roy: "Suggestions have been made to me I got the late letter on the subject

Sir Roy is a man of great only a few days ago from a sincerity with an allowance of Source which

I had better not personal charm which

Federation positively unfair. the name that should hold out The hand of friendship to Katanga when the Congo gain its independence.

"But I have had to make my position clear:

is

But it was in sombre mood possible that he discussed break-up of the Commonwealth "inter-criticista and because of fault-finding among members."

"She's a terrible gossip.

repents everything say."

"Looky Daddy. I-wat- Fundor', hale just like Jeune“

the

Opposition in all he does, and he cannot wear two hats.

"It is 1 highly dangerous cott of South African goods la situation-and a threat to Britain and spoke at a rally in future of the Commonwealth. Trafalgar Square the other "Even more disturbing is the question: What next? And who next?

"You see," said Sir Roy. "L is so diffcult from far away to understand properly the reasons for what goes on in the other countries.

"One of the things which has

been the Interference affairs.

Chuckle

"I tell you. Mr MacColl. the

held us together in the past has position is far more serious than most people have eu for realised in implications for other Commonwealth countries.

principle of non- in опе another's

Concern

Minister -ɑ

"dislike apartheid no much as anyone else and I have often Sald so. But I view with concern the fact that a potential British Prime Prime Minister in walling-should be hending a South African boycott move streh as Mr Gaitskell has Just seen A1 to do in London.

Gently almost broodingly, this outstanding Commonwealth statesman went on: om one who remembers that Jan Smuts was a South African and that thousands of South African- both Boer and Brilon -- gave their lives in the last war.

And he said: "I passionately Want to see South Africa remain In the Commonwealth.

"But I think the position becomes almost impossible if one tries to look into the future and sees Mr Gaitskell as the head of a British Government deal- ing with South Africa,"

The Commonwealth, first, fast and always the 5 the Commonwealth, thing."

No businets

no stille. Tojo waita glumiy during a slack period, He works sometimes 14 hours a day.

Tojo is back in business. Its infectious and ugly little smile creases his fat fase. Another dollar goes to the Tojo coffër.

THE two grimy little urchins crashed heavily to

the ground as they struggled fiercely.

By

The smaller one gained the advantage and, in STEVE DUNLEAVY

a sur-

a few seconds, his assailant had raised rendering hand, staggered to his feet and walked dejectedly away,

FRESH FIELT S

length of Cornwall

Tojo the invincible bits? Won out once again.

What did he do?

the Up "Sometimes I win sometimes I Avenue.

with equal For the first few months Mick luse," he adds That was just six years ago when a pint-sized Bttle fed the scrawny little character simplicity.

he built up his "business."

But, always he stayed. How- Fuklenese boy Phot his But the customers took so

But what of the little fellow first fight and the right quickly to him it wasn't long ever now after many months of

bickering and who is so much the topic of War and to operate a shoe-shine before Tajo gained his inde- iguing

ef his rivals conversation? Where does he pendence and started to feed and brawling, most

live? Which dong từ đời ln: P1: Sir Roy Welensky is a stand.

Leknowledge his supremacy, clothe himseit.

spare time? tranh đoạt bởi do man, und

"Only sometime when now with his money? mercurial, ebullient

I know him as Tojo, some suddenly the mood changed.

boy come is

For the last 12 months he has there trouble,”

been paying for his own Erdish Tojo saya, With a good-natured chuckle people call him Kiwi-nobody

knows his real name.

lesions. 12 was

one of these One day I'll be too big to he thought about the Trafalgar

necasional "trouble limes" that be shoe-shine boy. Then I must Square goings-on and the cur

Business raced ahead and it

bad ihe alde splitting rent inquiry in Nyasaland into the goings-on when Mr Mne-

wasn't long before the wlies experience of being present. millon was there.

tile bootblack was looking for

It fresh Лelds.

Sunday afternoon very long Tols and the bars ware parked with Bo before

American strade confidently from shop to shoe-shine-hungry shop with business propositions. sallors.

He would

al rum

their and do odd jobs if messages they would let han operate his business in their shops,

"You know," he said, "I was

tempted 10 send sarely

D

telegram to my good friend Harold Macmillan offering to let him have a Rhodesian jutge in case there is an inquiry Into it, and expressing the hope that there was no brutality on part of the bobbles!"

Poverty

the

Back switched the mood once more. "Alus." said Sir Roy. "a real many people here have rather lost forth in the U.K.

"People here just cannot Sir Roy asked: "And where does

We have understand why their own kith this stop?

In and kin should apparently sce many forms of government

Commonwealth' and it no god in them. would be a travesty of truth say all are democratic in form.

out

Danger

to

"But does this now mean that each member State is going

And then Sir Roy spoke of a topic in which he believes passionately.

"There is no political solution to our problems here," he said. "None at all. The solution lies

in the solution of poverty.

"It is no casy for the metro-

longer

to begin to attack other member pollian powers who no States whose

ideas

coincide with theirs?

not want do

this boycott

"I seo in move, so publicly supported by Mr Gaitskell, almost the greatest danger

to the Commonwealth since Miller's attack in 1930,

"This Commonwealth of ours has done more than any other force in the whole world to preserve sanity and peace and order. But this sort of thing could lead to its disruption.

"It is no use anyone prétend- ing that Gaitskell was heading

A

to carry the burden-o pay the price to say: 'Here is

your freedom.

**UF I sayt Freedom to

Το starvor what?

To return to the days of bloody tribal warfare?"

"I consider that what is bel done in many parts of Africa today is nothing but a straight- forward betrayal."

And with that Sir Roy finished his tea, sprang up like a du about to charge, and mangled my hand in a remorseless grip.

-London Express Service).

BOY WHO STUMBLED

ON TRIBAL SECRET IS DOOMED TO DIE

Perth

YOUNG Australian aboriginal is doomed to die because he accidentally stumbled across the witch doctors of his tribe performing a secret ceremony. For three weeks Charlie Yundar, 15, has refused to eat or drink in the Royal Perth Hospital

Doctors say there

nothing The boy has been in a trance- phyaleally wrong with him. They like condition for woven weeks. ano feeding him through a tubé, but he is getting steadily weaker. He is wiling lmdelt to death because the witch doctors have "put a spell on him.

In trance

Air anthropoìbilai, Professor E, M. Berndl of uló Unversity of West Amirulfa, has been called to try and reale the spall:

Carlo cotnes from end of the

A which doctor of His tribe near Derby, West Australia, jabbed pointed sticia into his back and put a spell on him, because He drcovered the socrois of a native "ntza-shaking” ceremony.

Charlie has not spoken'a word since he arrived at hospital. He was left to die alone. Ja the desert, but he crawled to a high- way wliero a lorry driver found him, MAHARASTRAS

Dr Beide said he is uyin to madio aboriginal tribes which discover which dialect the Boy rom the Austroller interior. understandja, maka ite then'bassfo Their, wald, dog obrigens have persuada ulam 116 dol't HAVE changed little during hundreds to die, of yours.

tLondon Exprem Kérulce), .

Soldiers toute his hair, shop- bla

keepere always give him a hello and he is the prided mak- cot of every, bar in Cornwall Avenue, Kowloon.

These days 14-year-old and' still very pint-sized, the skinny Bille frome of Tojo struts proudly down Cornwall Ave.

Cornwall Ave. is his.

TIRED

They obliged and' in no time Tojo found himself the official chot-shine boy of Cornwall Ave. Money came in but so. did Watch his walk, watch his his working hours. In fact pug-nosed little face listen to there are very few days that him talk and you'll know that the Cornwall Ave. belongs to Tojo.

It's been four years sinco Tojo gained his "excluzive rights" to The shoe-shine business in that Telmshatsui street.

It all started when Australian Mick Sims, owner of the Waltzing Matilda Bor, tired of the dozens of Bot- chasing 'shine boys that pestered his customers.

"He was the smallest of the lot and seemed to be better behaved," Mick told me.

"I told him that if he wanted to be the official shoc-shine boy he would have to tell the others

to keep away.

"I bought him a new shoe outfit, cleaned shine

and drossed hum up. He was

thrilled," Mick added,

undersized little fellow doesn't ply his trade 14 hours a day.

was 1

Too great was the emptation for the other boys to stay nway. I looked out the door of one of these bars to find at least a dozen of Tojos" rivals gathered round the entrance,

HIS FLASH

hia

There was only agiri behind And with the monopoly came the bar and no one in authority the invaders-by the score to help Toja, discourag all ready to challenge Ble business threat. exclusive rights to the lucrblive business that he had bulit up.

FIGHTS

Many of his rivals approached the bar owners with propositons But everyone had got used to the little fellow and they lied him.

Tojo was in and Tojo was in for good,

But things weren't' easy. Tojo says that at first he used to be continually fighting.

"Sometimes smalt boy, some- Ines big boy," he explains simplu.

be businerman, So I letn English," he says seriously.

SPARE TIME?

Then there are hier roller sicates. His pride and joy a set of skates which ho tells with laughter how he had to retrieve after a wayward relative; had sold them

No he doesn't skilte, hac JUST likes to shine themy, Idkk. At them and dõik the whZENS

And "spare time," he tells me definitely, is never.

Many peoples had often said that they would like to follow Todo home to 'sen"wheri'ne lives his parents are Fight them? Out of the ques- and see what tion. Too many. Argue

with like.

thirty in the morning, them? No effect. Threaten them? nothing to do so I followed him

Couldn't be done.

It was at this stage I watched.

over in the corner,

Two

home,

with amusement as Tojo ilehed Back alleys, across busy roads, mlong lonely janes 1 tralled him. of the time he was Then quick as a flash he sicked Most up to one of the regulars and whistling or singing a terrible dirge. Happily he asked could he borrow his big tunciess Chow dog?

Tojo gathered the swung his little shoe-shine box cash, pulted the huge dog to his until he slowed down as he ap feel and went into notions. proached a group of people Dragging the dog out the door sleeping on stretchers in Woo and barking Betitious commands, Sung Street, Tejo, half the size of his newly pequired guard, set upon his quietly rivats.

He flipped off hka shoes, nudged one of thi stretcher occupants, and wild' in ↑ beside him covering his head TLD with a colourless blanket. Tojo was home.

Within seconds the crowd kids dispersed in panke. laughing loudly chased them all

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