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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1960.

Now Japan DOSSIER ON DISAPPEARANCE

may be heading back to terrorism

By PAUL JOHNSON

concern

by DONALD

CAMERON

IN THE heaving, grey wastes of the Atlantic Ocean, a woman passenger vanishes from a liner. On his bridge, Captain Arthur Patey is told -in the same way that he learned of another dis- appearance from a ship of his 13 years ago.

The disappearance, in October 1947, from Cabin 126 of the liner Durban Castle, of 21-year- old actress Eileen Gay Gibson.

Castic finer Athlone Cusile had been entirely taken over for the voyage by a South African travel organisation;

And later, there was the sen- sational tria; for murder of one of his crew, 31-year-old deck steward James Camb,

Camb

sentenced to Fares had been slashed from death, reprieved. given a life the normal £89-245 to sentence. and

from le as £38. released prison

your. ills tar

His was in which

was

Just

a trial for in

murder there was no body.

THROUGHOUT the world, the country which is made, legal history.

currently causing the greatest Washington and even in Whitehall-is Japan, "We may be on the eve," as one American diple- mat said to me, "of the biggest disaster to the West since China fell to the Communists."

This month Japan went to the

Facht thrust Japun further polls and returned the present towards totalitarian rule conservative rule of the pra uteruational conquest, Anserten: Liberni Party. The Socialists, however, maite some Kains.

And now what is really at stake is the future of parlia- mentary democracy.

constitutional In Japan, government is slowly being re- placed by mob-rule and

Julence.

Worse still rule by violence appears to draw powerful sup- port from the Japanese mosses. Most of these, plots, when dis- covered, were hushed up their lenders escaped with light or ever suspended prison sentences.

Only in the 1936 plot-alled the "imperial Capital Rebellion," which led to the successful Consider the following esassination of four senkor Incidents during the last five tnluisters--was anyone executed. months. In June, a week of and even in this ense two lead- violent demonstrations by ing conspirators escaped scot- 500,000 Leftist "students" and free. their afiles feil to the entireilu- tion of President Elcahowor's visit.

Significant

In July the Premier, Nobusuke Kishi, was wounded and nearly killed by a tight-wing assassin Last month the Socialist-leader. Inejiro Asunuma, was knited to death by another Right-wing killer, and this in turn has been followed by a violence in Tokyo,

Seen against the background of recent Japanese history, these Incidents

week

NI

Inub

assume

terri-

For the

fying significance,

militaristic regime which, in the 1930s brought Japan Into the Nazi

camp and spread WIT

Often. Indeed. The assassins Levanie popular heroes. The young army officers who killed Premier

1032 received 110,000 Jetters from admirers, mony of them written in blood. There were more than 30 major political assassinations Letween the wars each evoked

mass public support.

Despite the efforts of General occupying authorities to stamp out violence and install parkla. mentary

democracy. the Japanese still lid force in high esteem.

MacArthur and the V.A.

Assassins

Professional assassine--known throughout the Far East, was as sohi- still survive (in a country which has abolished the

itself the benettelary of organised

political violenev.

The records

Each was organised

death penalty).

Until modern

The facts

Now at this second crisis these were the facts Captain Patey had to consider:-

The missing woman was Mrs Edith Frances Agnes Duncan, 40. With her husband. nged John Sandison Duncan, 45, and their children, Helon. 15. and Peter, eight. she was (1 her way from Yeovil, Johannesburg. to her native Aberdeen,

The trip had sounded good The 25,000-ton Union

fun.

AT SEA

Passengers did not take much Mr. Duncan

that suggested He, a natice of the Duncans.

the children should run an stonemason,

Ball. be- errand to the smoke-room. Mis would not spectacled, dark-haired, cheerful. Duncan sold they

And the way through the She, to shy and highly queues. strung, asked pretty stewardess Ethel Ryzale about the running There was, sald Mr Duncan of such a mighty ship. She had later, a slight tf. His wife never travelled in one before, muttered something he did not she said.

The Athlone Castle, ploughed her way northward, through the Tropies. The Duncans developed line brown tans-Peter. We son, loo much tan in fact. He had to see the ship's surgeon about it,

Friends

With alewards, he worked It proved to be David Hugta methodically from stem to Jones, a fresh-faced, 19-ybar-old tom South- stem. Crews' quarters dest- ordinary, setman class cabina, tourist-class cabins, amplon, Halfway through him even lockers,

8-12 watch he had been sent from the bridge to the crow's- nest and thus had an all-round view of the ship.

This was the first indication the 800 other carefree passen Bers td that something might be amiss.

Horizon viability was good, ba Over the ship's loudspeakers said, but the sc round the appeals went to Mrs Datean to sito was dark and yeasty, Ho

slope report to her cabin immediately. had not even seen

overboard. At 2.15 the first officer to Captain

gave the news quite catch and disappeared Patey. from the cabin and from hla sight for over.

Whof his wife left the cabin, strolled to the Mr Duncan

dining solcon, tourist class expecting that she would either be there already or would soon Juin ilm.

Noun came, then 12.15. He eating noticed that ho Was The family mode quiel hurriedly. He was worried. Al us friendships in the tourist-class 12.30, he left the sutoon, aad first-sitting with the help of a friend started tourist-class looking for his wife.

Еп

ale the

.

smoke-room. lunches Eight

were cabaret artists

salooni. from Englariel being flown out to entertain un the voyage.

Finally. the grey, northern Nearly all the family's fellow seas were reached. passengers were gay and high-

куды

At first he was looking not searching. The anxiety mounted, At 1.20 he told stewardess Ethel Вужик.

Search

spirited. It is suld there were It was Wednesday, No- partles every night.

vember 2. The time

The

ship's 11.}. The Duncans boarded the 11.45

of Athlone Castle on October position off the coast 21. Mother, father, and Spain was 42 degrees N.. little Peter were given 10.5 degrees W. Cabin 576 in the forward,

There was a heavy sea rus- 1ourist section of the ship. nlng. The Athlone Castic was Helen was to sleep near by. riding it easily, but Mrs Duncan

had felt sick all the morning. At 155, First Officer William She was in her cabin with her John Howson, 36, of Sevenoaks, ship-board Kent, started a thorough search

of the ship.

With planes diooing in salute.

overhead and bands playing on husband the shore, the sleek. single, of Peter's

friends. funnelled liner Det sail,

and Peter. young

and two

The cry of a bird

ORD MEDWAY, the

LORD the 27-year-old son, believes that birds may help the blind. The birds are swiftlets, which nest in pitch-black caves in In- donésia."

Echo sounder

strange They sercem out a rattle-like coil to and their way So Lond around in darkness. Medway is going to Indonesia for six months to record their crica.

The recordings will be gent

may help

the blind

By PETER FAIRLEY

a

cases

a lengthy and cutly project~ not to be started without real need.

are six

of

Stewardess Ryzok, a 26-year- old brunette on her second voyage, remembered 'Mrs Dun- can and her questions about the ship. She made her own search of rest rooms,

Look-out

After two and a halt hours the search was aban- doned. The Athlone Castle resumed her normal course for Southampton, And Cap- tain Patey wrote in his lor He had been told about against the name of Mrs Gay Gibson in just the Duncan: "Missing at sea; same way by a first officer supposed drowned” 13 years before.

If Mrs verbourd

Duncan had

gone two and a quarter hours before, there was almost so hope of her survival in a sen whipped up by a fresh south- westerly wind.

to

to

Inquiry

Recently, when the Athlone Castle docked, the Ministry of Transport held an inquiry,

An inspector heard Captain The coplain decided back and search, Lower port- Patey say that the docka were

that bone dry, and holes were made fast so the Athlone Castle

could turn no possible chanee into the seas without syamping Dunein could have been washed

overboard. herself.

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Al 2.30 she was steaming full ahead course"---back she had come.

int there was that Mirs

The Inspector also heard bow. from 4 "reciprocal Mry Duncan suffered

nervous disanter. She had been along the way

姓 patient in South African hospitals. She worried Al 2.83 rgent radlo messages trivialities, suffered its of de- went to aller ships to keep a

pression,

Fight ships neknowledged it. watch for the missing woman. Captain Paley doubled his

own look-outs and checked whe

had been on watch during the vital 30 minutes between 13.45

and 12.15.

Now thinking at New Guy's House, the £1,750,000 surgical block at Guy's Hospital dae to be opened for patients in the spring-every ward has a "nurse alert" system, The nurse sits at her dosk. The patient presses a switch by his bed. A map lights up at the desk, showing the nurse which -bed is calling. Adsa...

goldfish tanks in casualty wolting rooms doctors have found they have a restful, calming effect....... Infra-red ceiling lights at the entrance, to keep accident cases warm when they are carried from the ambulance....gray gowns for operating theatre staff-white dozalas, green gives a false picture of the patient's colour.

over

And the inspector torsed the entry in the cap- Lain's log: "Missing at sea. Supposed drowned."

-(London Express Service).

Revealed: 1.000 deaths by roasting

From GEOFFREY THURSBY

LAN

N ancient king actu- ally roasted a thou- sand men and women alive in Israel's first

have high blood pressure. And with normal hearing National capital-the city of She-

by

that this is true.

doctors believe that in them may collected lie the clue Trouble in humans.

to controlling the Institute for the Deaf indicate chem, which stood in what is now King Hus-

It is thought to be due to the sein's desert kingdom of

traineet

"

fact that the deaf are Deaf drivers,

con-

THINKING NEW

on the treatment of burns in

The mumps virus attacks the home-put an ice-cube on

those which solivary glands the burn, Or dressing keep the mouth moist and start

to use their eyes, become sharp-Jordan. ice-water. In digestion. *There

The roasting has been sighted, and react swiftly to the times, the Samurai knightly class to the department of Electrical soaked with

Almost all heart and artery message flashed from their eyes firmed by a Harvard Universlty- so that were allowed to kill with ImEngineering at Birmingham-rocant experiments using them, the most important lylig

just in frant and also behrid diseases have their counterparts to their brains. burns

archaeological team which Hay Hence in between 1931 and 1940 there, punity, and plays extolling their University, where scientists are ice-water on

animojs occurring Spon- were eight major coup d'etat” exploits are still performed to

working hard on a mechanical admitted to hospital, doc. the bottom of the cur

pear-shaped the

face that oneously. A condition akin to Furthermore, they are not dis-just uncovered evidence of it, Lime To about packed houses throughout Japan, ald for the blind.

tors found that pain was results.

atherosclerosie-degeneration of tracted by the general roar of and dated the Lord Medway tells me. "These quickly relieved and the

the arteries -- is widespread traffle, hanking of horns, con- 1150 B.C.

The king was the Old Testa What is even more alarming is,

cave-dwelling swiftlets are able the evidence that pre-war nesas-

infection

among turkeya, budgerigary and versation in the car or music.

ment chameter Abimelech, who darkness

old fowls, shration

So the Insitute is deeply up-touched off a revolution in the groups have been to navigate in total revived and are attracting grow with incredible speed. It is created.

The

set by what it believes to be, ancient capital when he tried to ing numbers of young Japanese thought that they use their call

prejudice on the part of some establish himself as Israel's first like un echo-sounder as a bat

magistrates against deaf drivers ruler. docs.

As Julger ix, 45 tells it in Bible: "And Abimelech the

all that fought against the city day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was there- in and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt."

jn Japan. by the extreme Right.

Eneli hinged on the systematic essassination of leading pollll- cians.

Euch had powerful backing in students, the army.

TALKING

POINTS

There are at least 16 uftra

•Right-wing groups now operal- ing in Japan. All are the direct descendants of pre-war terrorist budies. They have names such

this

"But unlike. the bat's ery can be heard casily by the

sisk

of

do-

human car, The University MUMPS IS ABOUT. Why is to protect #roup wants to analyse the call there no vaccine

Flast es the Great Japan Production to see if it can be reproduced in people from it today?

nobody

dies an echo-sounding device to help because

ever blind people to find their way directly from mumps, second,

1:ecause preparing a vaccine round a little better."

Parly, Myriad Weapons, National Martyrs Youth Corps, National Essence Mass Party and ironically the Harmony Party.

All are committed, in varying

Call no man happy till dentrees, to violence. All are not he dies,

-HERODOTUS.

ouly anti-Communist, but bitterly anti-Wes, tox,

If they come to power, they would turn Japan into a violent- ly nationalist neutral, On the

Men tire themselves in basks of a "business dealt with pursuit of rest.

-LAURENCE STERNE.

I am armed with more than complete steel-the justice of my quarrel.

-ELIZABETHAN

DRAMATIST.

★

Heroism is the brilllont triumph of the soul over the flesh.

--AMIEL.

Communist Ching.

Naturally, the extreme Left is arming. 100, The Japanese Communist party. with its fellow-travelling associates, now has perhaps the best network of armed underground cells in the world. Working through the "students" unions, it can bring mags violence into the streets at an hour's notice.

Her fate

Between these two totalitarian millstones are the Socialist and Liberal parties which also bute cach other to the point of

Even the youngest physical violence. Time and among us is not infallible in they have turned the BENJAMIN JOWETT Japane parliament Into J

Agiting madhouse,

*

This

A inancler is

# pawn- broker with imagination. and

-PINERO.

of course, pattern, evokes sinister memories

not

only 1n Japan.. The Weimar Republic WOR crushed between the rival forces of Communist and Nozi terroriem. Wil! the young Japanese democracy safer the thesome tate?

Many a man in love with u dimple makes the mis take of marrying whole girl.

-STEPHEN LEACOCIC

Children have more need of models than of critics.

-JOSEPII JOUBERT,

*

There is not, a flercer hell than the failure in a great object.

KEATS.

There is tile the Americans can do. If they intervene they will unlie all Japan against them, and moke a Communist

victory virtually eertain.

Decisive action to uphold the law and the constitution can only be taken by Javan'a des mocalle leaders.

And thear - like the politi- clans of the Welmar-aré now frightened and uncertain men,

---(London Kaprese Service).

II CUBA

NATO

USSRIT

CHINA

HOLY LOCH

AFRICA

is

Animal clue

Briskel discasc of The virus can also attack the mountain cattle closely resembles sex glanda and the nervous a huraan chest iness,

illness producing an system

pollo. mistaken often Fortunately thore 14 no paralysis and serious damage is exceedingly rare.

for

Medical research is taking a closer look at the giraffe and the turkey. The reason? They both

RTING POINT

World Copyright by almo

paz

Animal studies have a ticular attraction. They can be telescoped In time. A dog's life of 10 years for instance. is equivalent to 80 in man.

Why are deaf drivers less accident prone than motorists

It is fighting every case where it considers they have been given a raw deal,

Brain food

Starting this month, all pupils: at a Southwark school will be given breakfast on arrival each morning.

These children are classed educationally sub-normal. They come mostly from poor homes Around the Elephant and Castle Homes where breakfast

often missed out,

The LCC's fattening-up plan is intended to give them more zest during the day. To enablà them to make the most of what mental powers they possess. But question; I raises the broader can food affect the intelligence of a child?.

Doctors and teachers of back- ward children now femly be heve that if you can improve the environment in which a child lives ita L.Q. will in many cases, go up. Regular ments are a small, but important port of the general environment,

Experiments in several hos pitals. recently have shown that if you supply severely retarded children with eztra amino- acids their mental capacity does improve.

-(London Express Serpico), ́›

Confirmed

Not combens with that, Abimelech then burned alive a thousand men and women who had taken refuge in a 'tower.

The Harvard team is trying to relate bibileal history to known

# events in ancient times, and week-end announcement says they have been sensationally successful with the city of Shechem.

The archaeologists have been ably, to confirm the Old Testa- from ment story of Abimelech fragments of pottery they have discovered and analysed.

King Abimeloch reems to have been a more fiend, all round, “On his way to power he murdered All his 70 brothers except one, Jothan, who cursed him,

But retribution came after he successfully seized the town of Thebiz. As the dust of battle was settling a woman cast a piece of millstone down upon his skull.

com-

Abimelech knew he was dy- ing. Rather than have it said a woman slew him he

to manded his armour bearer run a word through him, It was done.

--London Express Service),

sith the Manchester Guardian

MACHINE used by the U.S. National Bureau of Standarde te translate Russian paper on ensionering kept recording the phrase "Water gost." The china's supervizory discovered I was leglog to say “Hydrṇulio rkm.”

TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Edward Quigley plunged 133

from Brooklyn Bridge, New York, recently

He said he dived "to prove his fearlesmėsa.”

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̈and · 11yes.

FOLICEMAN on night patrol at Newark, Nottinghamshire, stumbled across Brigitte Bardol, scantily ́drémed, and lesning agalnat, the WAIL "Miss Dardot was promptly taken falo enatody,? said " bellow sideer, allow,Burdet wan a life-sizes, cUL-PEL POTICAÍS stolen from the forer of a loosi võtadon,