THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1960.
On the WAY they suffered a LOT from Hard. FinELY The Boar got stuck on Plymouth Rock*on
GENERAL TACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendes Ships, & Couldn't EVEN LAY DOWN.
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in SCHOOL Last Week We Learned ABOUT How Thanksgiving
GOT STARTED.
Lots of Years 280 A BUNCH of Tourists came) To America in a boat, who were. called Pilgrims
WOO-
Woo!
Age 321⁄2
The May FLOUR
OUCH
¬ only that, but they couldn't find a barbershop to get a haircut. But the indians helped them out.
don't cut "It too
Short...
Own
Wow is This a Hard SHIP
A Count of they couldn'T STEEP So good,
Which is a big Rock in Massachoosets.
So they decided To have a PICNIC & Give. THanks for all the fun They were Having in.
america. They ATE TURKEYS & CRAM BERRYS,
Now-A-Daze we still Give Thanks ON THIS Hollyday...
} & THEY EVEN invited a couple of indians to The but for a PenT REASON+.
|Picnic & Smoked a piece of Pipe With Them.
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LAND OF meet the THE SHAH
It is as impossible to tell when you firat loved a country as to mark the moment
when you fell in love with a woman,
A 'lord'
in Iran
BY FRANK ENTWISLE
YE
YESTERDAY the big train trundled across the Persian salt desert. This morning, a differ. ent world. High cliffs transform us into a pigmy
caravan,
Deep gorges and milky tor- renta plunge and spin a few feet from the steel wheel's rims,
How comes a rallway here in the remote Zagros Mounwins? Surely no life is here but our enchanted train tolling along its ledge.
Cap an
*theran
MAD
BANDAR SHAH
PERSIA
200
The train halts, We begin breakfast of cold chicken, SABON Perslan caviare and sweet
ARABIA Shiraz wine.
And suddenly we are surrounded by a hundred women end children; from nowhere. The wornen are black robed, handsome: with foir fares. turquoise beads, and arms full of primrosCH......
Laughing
“Agħa, Agha” (Lord, Lord), they cow. We "lords" lean out and buy until we want to buy Tk2 more.
Then, laughing, they bom- bard the train with flowers. Primroses on the floor, strewing
The border. 15%)
PERHAPS it was the day four
solemn peasants with henna- streaked beards shared their hubble-bubble with me in a mountain hut.
PERHAPS
It WOS travelling north at dusk across the plain. the gold sheathed dome of Fatima's shrine extinguished behind us in the holy city of Qum. And ahead, above the blurred blue of approaching night, the snow peak of Mount Demavand still a burn- ing rose in the sun 11,000 feet bove Teheran and a hundred miles away.
Snow peaks
has
the
But
desert the strongest spell of all. A great plateau as blg ts an Decan stretching into cold, eternity: here and there a red or green or Indigo mountain rising abruptly from the st; a
combs of snow peaks towards the Bakhtiari country.
trail-blazers
in a great adventure
By MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
The blue and orange.doms of the Mocrossh-i-Modor-i-Shah (religious college at the 'Shalf's mothre) bulit 1706.
shipped from one country to 'Dego" I wouldn't deserve to
lishman to be a bit
eccentric
TIS Imperial Majesty the Shahanshah's arrival another," he justifiably enthuses, land a contract.
"It took four shiploads from "They rather expect an Eng- HIS
recently on a British-constructed air-strip on Liverpool. The parts weighed tiny Kharf Island in the Persian Gulf will mark anything from 1001b, to a ton. another major stride forward in his country's each numbered." rénaissance.
And his ceremonial opening four miles by two and four of the £32 million Gachsaran years ago of little interest to will underline anyone but the 200 fishermen oilfield scheme
the leading part who scrape a living there, enco· again being taken by British firme in Seven-Year Development Plan now in full swing.
You cannot feel the desert, encased in your car. You must stand and talk and hear the smallness of your voice
under the the turquoise sky, or see a dis- tant caravan travelling a route that was there long before the Prophet,
And Isfahan the old capital, where the Zoyendeh Rud (River of Everlasting Lile) nows under a great plavilioned bridge, from whose portals, I am told, lovers lean out and talk on suring evenings,
The Maldon--Shah is perhaps the biggest, oldest and most beautiful city square in the world.......
"But back in history it was on the silk route from the Far East Alexander the Great knew it..."
On the move
:
But what, I wondered, of the man on the job: "Tim" to Innumerable contacts from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, 35. unmarried, six years on the trail?
"Yes, it's a
- a bird-watcher or something like that.". I'm afraid ́ grukt playing 'is all'I can, offeri
"But my Bentley-so for 63 I losow the only ons in Persia has become a ind of trade- mark. Villogters in the remotest districts hear I'm on the way.
"Yes, I'm on the move mist of the time...".
He was now! I followed his fascinating job." gaze through the dossier-stacked ho agreed, "And there's a lot aling cabinet, through the dis-
For the jetty from which all will gush inte supertankers from the black mouths ef pipelines Now from Costain's jetty two more to it than a shrewd eye for solving West End ofloe biocios. that have enaked 99 miles over 100,000-ton tankers a day can be business. A representative should
The roar of London's mighty sca-bed is British sent Icaded to the ends of the be an ambassador for his coun- desert and
earth with a cargo richer than try as well as his arm.
traffic muted to the purr of a Bentley dicking up the dust made.
"I like the Persians: They're along the Golden Road to any that burdened the camel
the loyalest of friends once they. Samarkand. Caravans of antiquity.
trust you, If I treated them ne
The boat-harbour for barges and sca-going bugs is. British made.
are And British-made. many of the steel and aluminium bulldings that still have the sharit-dwelling Islanders agape
Jetties, bridges, spin fron
· pressure pipes, prefabricated fo-
10,000ft. high,
Here the Ali Qapu, atories may not have the obvious Bercening
flavour of romance. the Persian pieln
from strange, pavillon palace from. whose verandah Shah Abbas the Russia and the Casplan, now Great watched polo, in 1011. silver-blue with snow.
Here is the Imperial Mosque
►
challenge
cold blue tiles Yet the story of British From the ale Teherun seems a where the
in the revitall- small desert elty at the foot of numbing your shoeless feet in participation the mountains. In fact, this the vast court are forgotten in sation of one of the world's most ancient civilisations is in capitsi (population 1,250,000), wander.
fact one of trail-blazing fascina and all the great plateau that stretches south to India and east towards Afghanistan and China, is about 4,000ft, above sea level.
..
And here' - is the Luttollah lion, Mosque.
Now the 120 labourers and 60 staff permanently resident there have clube, a cinema, self-service store, hospital and clinic to root them in the present....
In his spacious modern offico looking down on Paddington Station, Mr Ian J.. Bowler, director of constructors Johri Brown Ltd.. describes with how brick matter-of-factness the' desert can be made to blossom like the rose.
His arm is nearing completion of Persin's first ferillaer plant, a 20,000,000 project at Shiraz, a half-hour's chariot-ride from the ruins of Persepolis, where Xerxes once held court,
BYO
(London Express, d'avion).
THE WAY
by Beachcomber
HAT fun Rabelais would manoeuvred block votes of have had with those piteous unions to decide what policy the of the creatures who stupefy them- elected representatives selves with soft drinks.
Labour Party ned to follow. After all, under the present un- In this country the phrase pair conditlaris," many of those
that the mar is "He drinks" is always taken to who vote, Labour in an election
a do not belong, to any union. mean
poor drunkard; whereas the fellow may merely have drunk Film note more Poopaiboola than, is good.
seats in the breakfast PERHAPS it was in the treat ing an English poet) that here ing challenge as well as big has been burned in the course of two-straw) man. The result is ́ in his mammoth film "Tem-
the
basket.
but
to
The train draws away. We'
Jonger "Lords" arano. Englishman
the way Abidan with an embarrassment of primroses.
un
It is as impossible to tell when.
you flast loved a country as to
mark the moment when you fell
I first rubbed shoulders with
laughing, the
mercurial
Poetic
Immaculately groomed behind their London desks, they might ata glance · serin eminently unsuited to the title "trail
"""
nghires of their firms 60s, can also be used, of course,
I have been talking to some Aziz - Hataml. a Persku col- of the men for whom the future
The plant will simply utilise for him in a foolhardy attempt WISHING to use. Tolstoy a league, has written (araphras of Persia has become an absorb the natural gas that up to now to become a two-bottle (and ▼▼ song, "Goodbye, Summer,"
in the Luifaliah "One 19 closer business.
bringing oil to the surface" he a clouded judgment and the urlanie Rides Again" Hogwasch called Lalezar (translation: to God than anywhere cise....
death of coherent thought. His was told by Cy Muttle that Where the Tulips Grow) when
explains.
allly giggle proclaims his unter was Tosti who wrote this "To make the powder-like for- perla habits as surely as the and Tolstoy who wrote tilisers ammonia is extracted roaring of comic songs is sup and Peace." "O.IC Học arowds.
from thes and brought to posed to brand the merry beer- Watch "use both mambers, It is a Toheran
gether with nitrogen extracted drinker with the mark of the Said Cy satirically: "Whethe narrow. rather ugly shopping
Persia is a land of poots' blazers,” street, with not a tulip in
heek's “going into tryinto a sing in of But behind the prosale feels from the air by compression. The sot, Bight. The mir was serid with (where Omar Khayyom
"War and Peace ?" CURILA akowered mution kebabs cook-tile account next to the pools and
Delirionico" replied: Hogwnách. ing in the charcoal embery of Sa'di, Hafe and Ferdaust) projects, the accounts of con- for lighting, and the manufas
"It's a book,!! sals - Cy. "What THE bellringers who recently 187 aiced Hogwarch. a sircet vender's Bro. Adive where people burst into verae, at tracts won in key compdullen ture of, plasties,
picture of true/twerkleth Hisor from the plant are hours may be interested to leara that most melodious of Aryan the thronged street. DA Innguaster. Noley with the To Hatomi 1 kreply with century adventuring.
The Lambeth offices of expected to revitalise some that & Taher dent woman i in Awkward moment folk songs of central Asia, Persian couplet
200,000 arid: ecres a year,
Methenolghbourhood romarkedi
When amused, the gurdles Turkish love ballads, Persian par ferdaus bar,ruga zamin ast; Richard Contain Ltd., Mr LA M poems, Edmundo Ros, from famin het. u hamin at
Winchester prods an offshore Just back from the far from after the first two hours of the
Brid, cotton-producing shores of business)Wouldn't you think with laughter, PERMACUí hamin at specle on a me the record shopa.
Charts: Baland. "I was at the the Caspian Bea, MCAT someone would have the sense (Gossip column) (If Paradise on earth,
2 dh lúcty sitting next to a soviel luneta sin for the Sheh herb Maybe of Taylor Woodrow to answer the door over there!" A DANGEROUS A when he paid his first vit fpreads phploraks of two pro-
Veltliner he made': azok
Ring-a-ding-dong
in love with a woman. But with theaing-song of Foral stele functions, at parties, or, in with other nationalRos, emerged more than 40.000 tons of fet: xùng · 12,240 chances in '0% it." sald Cr...
must have been at such a time, To me, Persia, or Iran (which moans land of the noblen), la^a. mental,albim of such moments. PERHAPS It was on my drot morning in Tehoram, with: Ico
on the courtyard pool outside
PERILAPS it was in the streets
myroom and core and of the coppersmiths and honbaed Donkeys and lay liveramitha deep in the roof
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