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"No prompting, dad, it isn't fair!”

ROBER

"We're looking for vonison's who, willing to start at the boslom—and itay there.”

Chapman Pincher

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1960.

It was a fabulous, fighting

life-and this woman

ONE day in 1946, at

the height of the Indonesian rebellion against the Dutch, A group of correspondents gathered in ballet- riddled mountain resort in East Java and gazed in astonishment at 'a small, red-haired, Eng- Hishwoman wearing the red-and-white ari-band of the revolution.

day, charmed by a fire about wall, The Last Paradise, she decided to go and live there.

From the day, she nagtved, she Reandpilsed the Dutch rulers of the island by, going native In

"You don't look B0 a fairly spectacular way. She dangerous," one of them was adopted by a Rajah as his

daughter, changed her "narhê, said to her doubtfully, and took to woaring native. "We had pictured you

as a gun-elinging moll, From your voice, you ought to be teaching dic-

clothes.

Adored her

Unforgivably, she treated the

tion in some high Bainese os equals: They, school."

Dangerous.

"Burabaya Sule," as site be- came known throughout In donesia, has quite a story to tell, It is the story of Just how din. gerotis

brave, dogged arie woman can be, even to armles and governments.

She was bom on the Isle of Man and taken as a child to Hollywood, where she became a reporter. Quite suddenly one

BACK FROM THE PENTAGON SAYS:

America cries

AF

"Treachery'

FTER a fortnight of top-level briefings in the Pentagon, State Department, and military out-stations during an 8,000-mile US. tour, I can. confidently prediet that the recent defeat of Mr Gaitskell's defence polley will have a shattering effect in Washington.

to exchange theer atomic in- formation.

Inadequacy

J

The

return, acred her.

After a while, staked out by small contributions from the she built a hotel, peasants tantustically decorated by local craftsmen, called Sound of the Soa, It was, staffed by Balinese artists and dancers and became famous throughout Asia, to the unnoyance of the Dutch,

There was a delicious scene at the airport when Duff Cooper. to Aue- stopping on his way

"to face two fralfa, arrived competing reception committees: u columm of shining

chose to lead it

As a counter-opy, she per- #onally folled a Dutch-inspired

· from Hollywood to Indonesia for attempt to dislodge Sukarno

adoption by a rajah, torture by the Japanese,

and fame as a resistance worker

with

of 50,000 guilders on her head

lalnak limousines. on one side and Miss Tantri, at the head of a gorgeous but undeplined of Balinese sporting Sa array Union Jack on the other.

Duff Cooper summed up. the situation at a glice and plumped for Miss That

Begged

4

"But Excellency," an official protested in horror, "her hotel is a native hotel.” official

price

"I always wanted to go were detested almost as much native," grinned Duff Cooper, o the Japanese, she was invited

When the Japanepo seized to toln Suknd's Stuerpiklas.

Becomie to

Mrs Indonesia, in 1912, she only

"us the took up the profession of gun Thomap "Fate of Intlonessing running for the thuistance. She, they begged Her. She wccepted, wee optured, besters tortured with appalling persie. tence and cruelty, and finally halimazed and bbondoned, haff-Daritysed, to two years of solitary, confinement,

und

She never revealed; the names

of, her fellow-spies

|

Foiled

She broadcast from this, rebel radio station, was captured by a rival" group of guerrillas, who wanted her services, and then captured back again by her

When the war ended, at a time when Europeana in Indonesia friends.

Hunt of Everest

TRAVELLED up to Lon-

I don from the Lake Dis- trict recently in a compart- ment filled, apart from my idle self, with five strupping and handsome girls.

Shining Laves suddenly softened with Dowder only five minutes out of Euston. Thick studded boots and ruck- ancks on the luggage rack..

Flagged mementoes pasted, to their climbing luggage from Scotland, Norway, Switzerland, and the Union Jack surmótin.f- ing them all.

Protest

Girls just as much at home. after they had daubed their aces, in a Kensington coffee bar us on the perilous rock face in the Langdales in the Lake District or above Capel Curig in North Wales.

warns

cliff- hangers

by Cyril Aynsley

"MODY young people have

The

A minor revolution. In fact, in

My tour of U.S. defence establishments, which are all to an astonishing state of readi

120 idea of the dangers of the behaviour of youth witch has shown up the

mountain travel even in our without the spur of great casinos monstrous Inadequacy of Bri-

own small mountains expecially be the Spanish revolution tain's defences,

But much more dangerous in bod weather."

mass unemployment, or kidivi- It has convinced me of

result: the innkeepers; dualism in old-style war Is find urgent riced to build them up on the mountains than in the

coffee bar.

'bank clerks, road men and lag Its own sense of advere, until peace can be assured.

Yet, the policy advocated by

form the unpaid grocers who They are accident prone, and his

rescue teams in the more re- Mr Frank Coushis

lind villages Britain followers would make

Sir John Hunt, leader of the mote towns

go out without walls successful Everest expolition, Britain have to into a fortres

and other mountain climbers blinding rain and swirling mist and a Government without any

attention fo the la rescue them in trouble, The spectacle of this great have drawn

of accidents party maximireg itself growing number political with, self-inflicted wounds like among British rock climbers. afanatical.pacifist to dodge military service is not only ad but frightening

The Defence chiefs and the American public will suspect that if Gaitskell is finally Touted andness, the Socialists adopt unilateral disarmament as their policy then 50 per cent of the British voters will be in favour of shamefully throwing away their arms in the face of the enemy.

Anglo-American the Coming on top of General de destroy Gaulle's tough anti-American illance. Their carefully foster atitude, this suspicion could ed "Yanks-go-home" campaign

has consistently failed. Jeid to the resurgence of isola- tionisia,

with- eventual

must be Khrushchev the

Mr

and troops to dumb-founded

delighted of US.

America," and the that the Socialists now

of Europe 10 bent on handing him this mighty

Communists military victory.

drawal

"Fortress

abandonment

whatever fate the have in store for it..

After

Implacable

seem

For it has been made

clear to me that any sug the bullying anties of gestion that the US, 18

Khrushchev at UNO, seen by being abandoned by its millions on TV, the American public is in no doubt that Allies will inevitably lead Ruesta is an implacable enemy. The U.S. official view that only

America's atomic strength has

to a resurgence of isola-

prevented an all-out Communist tionism. attack on the West: his bein made credible to millions who roay not really have bellevied it before.

It is, therefore, not sur prising that when at this crucial time the party representing half the British nation. voles to throw away Its H-bomb and kick the US. Forces out of their bases, many Ameri-, cans see it as nothing short of treachery.

Expulsion

For the Arst time a with.. drawal to "Fortress Americé" is militarily tensible berints of the build-up of long age medica the US. and the development of now, long-tihe Bombers

-

How can the us, coven- ment feel any iller way about the current sõudlik //proposa in which would trusts, the slom of the file tankerské káu Thor Tiles from Britain, with 6 drawal from Nató, thâ...the repudiation of hard-won atomle agreements? NAZAR

Alfeldy in Vrikalini tên. Talkro Nro unfortunato (styfifckoltus, VENE deliver sinem, the war Stalin dril - defenen dwaeputihinta PAREN Khrushchev have fought to becoming policcably less reddy

For it could lead to the day when the Americans wil say. that if Britain Wants to lay her head on the Kremlin block 50 badly, let her get on with it.

--(London Express Service,)

Dangers

rock-face

01

in

JOB:

Askance

John

everywhere and they're to be ericouriged,"

@hat they maat be trained to

the job.

The

spori

100

Be

The Dutch put a pret of 60,000 guilders on her head, Miss Tantri coolly broadcast an offer to give herself up in exchange for "a mubstantial contribution to Sukarno's funds to the enor mour amusement of the Indonesians,

Miss Tantri has something more than extmordinary cour age, a kind of noble pig-headed- пев Perhaps it is just plain, old-fashioned Leminine ob silnacy.

She refused to be intimidated by the Dutch who did their beat to pot rid of her. She -her Japanese refused to hate

She, moyed, calmly tormentors.

bloodstied and through" the chaos of the revolution with the Hasrince ofa schoolmistress, determined to see that the rules uze obeyed.

LAURENCE

MARKS

~~(London Express Service)

TALKING

POINTS

Reading is thinking with Bomsone else's head.

SCHOPENHAUER

It is astonishing how little

allowed to fall into disrepute.” one feels poverty when one

This kind of accident doesn't huppen in Russia, it seems. "I

recently met beme Russians from

the Caucasus. They have rigid

loves.

BULWER-LYTTON.

*. *

Poetry is the morning controls there, stout mountain dream of great minds, je vou

elimbing. We don't want, "to bring in that kind of fatyskon. Here. But fare is a good deal to He sold for very careful train-.

irig

And Sir John Hunt suggests. fecites in modern secondary and granar schools, leaflets instructions and a sice Wolfenden sports millions to promote, these things.

At the same time he admits thất Witre there is adventure.

er will be accidents,

LAMARTINE

and

Freedom our pain plenty our disease.

DRYDEN.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

BERNARD SHAW.

"Tinte enough to think of

future whiến the1 haven't any future fo

I asked him if he eyer, took of." risks when he was learning the ganic.

Hunt, Mari- Yet curiously this increase in borough and Sandhurst, adlersly," he said.

accidents is a sign mitted: Before the war we of encouragement.

used to look slightly cilënce ut them up in Wales and the Lake District,

"The maid thbig la

should "He ́alued up. That 'Is

"Enth year rock climbers are krowing vastly in number" Sir John Hunt told me. It is absolutely splendid to see them. "Felt they Were poaching on we sık,”

Whole sufficient It is a minor revolution that is our preserves. But the

taking place."

thing's changed now. They're

Sir John Hunt. says they are often ill-equipped, inadequately clothed, and without training and experience.

-ionton Express Service),

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Now they are all happy!

Tory 7

for

15 years

SEAT

OF

POWER

-SHAT

City life: millions of people being Tonesome to- gether,

----THOREAU.

be

Arguments should avoided. · They are always volgar and

often con-

vincing.

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