Now that the drama
has ended, this
story can be told
THIS IS THE PIRATE!
by
DENIS PITTS
THERE was
never u
pirate quite like
Henrique Galvao.
Or was there eve; a piešte who
Tead Byron and Shakespeare. asino drank only mineral water,
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arvements of stress”
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And borraneer who are weekly wife Betters of four or dive thand words in length?
it
The whi bowed low when tool- dangert Or plotted refaction tra Fine muste Bethoven!
This mas Galvao (proniTrince
it Calsiem) is a meet anbiely pirule Agure.
Fretle
violettem.
1. he haley
1: ww Vodener. rel saving Africans in Angola - which turned him suddenly aut dramtfically against friend Salazar
June morning
close
in 1917
pillared
the National Assembly fled into thenate, baretr Jhment in duben to hear The report of the inspector of Oversets Departments,
Change
Ti would be, they expected, an average. "All-Well, nothing- to-worry-about" specch t
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1961.
THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING FOUR LEGS.
MORE DEATHS ON THE ROADS
DEATHS IN BELGIAN RIOTS
MORE KILLINGS IN THE CONGO
PIRACY AT SEA!
Monstrous Outrageous
Inhuman!
OFFICER KILLED
PRINCE PHILIP! SHOOTS
TIGER
SECOND DAY FROM THE SOUTH SEAS ISLAND THAT LIVES FOR LOVE
FIRE on the Bounty!
SOS...SOS...CREW
FIGHT BLAZE AND STAND
BY THE LIFEBOATS 1,000
MILES FROM LAND
"
"Do your duty and lay on two dozen," says Bligh.
nine tails. Bounty sails
Out of the scarlet bag comes cut Lash descends. His Majesty's brigantine again off the coast of Tahiti in the South Seas after an absence of 172 years.
At ten knots, her seven sails billowing full before south winds, we are spanking beside a coral reef. The scent of vanilla comes heavy off two volcanic islands on which breadfruit trees which brought the Bounty to Tahiti, palm trees, mango, avocado, pandanus, banana, and casuarina abound.
Sometimes we catch the perfume of flowers-gardenia, hibiscus,
the worl which would please | bougainvillaea, jasmine, frangipani.
Selazar
The spreek began quietly, The mecko was Galvan, a tall, grey- haired men with a sofi voier
and a ferling for poetry in the words he used,
valer
Quite suddenly changed, his tone changed, and he spoke out Hercely against the gross Injustices, the slavery, the squaler And the corruption he
bad seen in Africa.
was
But
The National Assembly hyotised by this heresy, from the minment that Galvao stepņuori down from the rastrum Ps was a hwn in disgrace,
Within four years he had bee arrested, on a charge of attempl- ing a ente d'ets. There was no trial, Galvao was inprisoned for 16 years.
Until this
In his
a
Minister
sudden
change plitude. Galvoo was Without Parl- do in Sadazal's Government. Be Was the arrager
tional exhibitions, the
اده
gul made ennversation at state
banquets, the President's chief
link with the Church.
He remains a majer Portu- Keeso
playwright one of performed in WILS 14sbon less than a month. ago.
his plays
It was a tragedy.
Portugal
AVENI and
In prison he wrote three books none of which published learned Shalterpeare by heart while he plotted excape,
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This he made with the con- nivance of a doctor friend also
a revolutionary-who slyned o medical certificate which sald that Galvao was dying.
His bills
He was taken to hospital. Three weeks later he packed his bed with pillows and escaped
In a surgeon's white coat'.
On the following moming, still white-coated and carrylug a bundle of loundry, he went
LO
the Argentine Embassy and nsked for asylum.
Since ihen he has living alternately Argentine
been the in Venezuela,
aatl writing, lecturing, and preaching freedom,
For a while he lived in a luxury suite on the Afth floor of the Tamanaco Hotel, a conerate palace in Caracas.
The £25-0-day bill was met by the big colony of Portuguese oxpatriates and axiles who welcomed him to South America,
In halls, in school-rooms ond universities be lectured on the cvlls of thɑ Salazar regline,
He found a wining nudience of young students imbued with
the heroics of Fidel Castro.
They began. their "revolution" by stonlify the windown of the Portuguese Embassy in Coracao, But they had to fire of this.
to
They could not get Portugal-Galvno had been told that he would be jailed for life.
And then Portugal came them. In the form of a gleaming liner.
"And so," cată a
to
close cup- porter of Golvao in London,
they simply invaded that,"
**London Express Artvigs).
Trovor Howard, as Bligh, aims to mako
This is how Tahiti, then Otaheite, must have Iooked to Captain William Bligh in 1789 before
the grim events that led to her seizure by Chris-
these
tian and the rascally section of the crew,
If the captain's ghost still moves in waters the spectre must be puzzled indeed to see the 1961 Bounty built by MGM for £250,000 in a Nova Scotian shipyard and sailed here for the remaking of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Outwardly she reenptures the glories of the great days of the English saling
ship. Bul beneath oaken pinnking she is a conglomeration of Min-making paraphernalia and the luxuries and technical securities of 1001 living.
4 GM's Bounty-hor authontic exterior canogals:suoh modorn safo- guards against mutiny as twin diesels, radar, and air conditioning
by ALAN GARDNER
matadi, veckan memaomei TAHITI #25 meterkas pe
tongue.
Captain
â
barefoot South Sea malden with sen fully half the members of
whiskered, Hlowers this
evil-looking long hair dotted with and a languorous walk like a crow spent unhappy. hours swaying coconut nalm, nite into banging over the side between a coach for a picnic lunch swini takes. ming party at a remote lagoon.
There is bearded Noel Pur- who plays Captain Cook, when he touch- eell, from Dublin, He tells, with a rueful shrug, must have been in the Tahitian There are cabins marked
Into
ed Tahiti, wrote in his log with McCoy the
and shanly man he nearly ran how "Director" and "Make-up
some surprise that "native ands Tahiti too hoi and Bounty-sized disaster Room." soundproof against
Irving Johnson, "We had ler South America
women of most attractive ap- Brando not to his taste; Irish- twin diesels that lend a helping and
Ed. Bynie, the 1,000 miles from man with 20 years' experiencr pearance seemed concerned only man were hand with the sall
in surrendering their persons to master, who thinks the land," he said, "when there was in salt in the South Seas, says:
them Brando business a bore. "I don't see how Cook, Bligh, sailors." Bligh reported line explosion and fre a fuel
co-operative. ran across the engine room. or any other navigator had any men at all left to work the ship There is an automalle laun- was a dangerous moment on
sailing ship dry, two huge deep freezes, and wooden
and when leaving Talit. And the
Near-disaster
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a magnificent cooking range in mustered the crew on deck and irony is that when breadfruit the galley, radar that
20 sent out n general 8.0.5. Fur was at sres miles, two powerful-radio nets half an hour it was touch and In contact with the American po
mainland, and air conditioning. Tit
original Bounty
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to put off in two small cost have
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Jow would you play at six
H°
spades? You win the spade Lopening in dummy and your Best thought is to try the diu-
the mond inesse, if
fnesse works you have a cinch ond even it loses you still have plenty of play left, but with the actual break of the cards this play won't win for you. West WIEL take his king and lead a second spade and you will have to 40 down.
In his new book, "Piny Bridge with Reese," Terence Recre of Londen, who is one of the showr world's greatest players,
a better play that also happens to work.
instead of trying the diamend finesse, Terence ledi the queen of clubs from dummy and when Enst played the ace Terence dis carded the queen of hearts.
Then he retused the diamond finesse; cashed one high spade io see if the suit would break 2-2. It didn't, so Terence play- ed the ace and king of hearts, ot went over to dummy's ion sp:des and discarded his three remaining diamonds on the gond hearts.
The whole play appears to be rather far-fetched, but if you salting take time to study it carefully whole you will see that it was sure to win against any 3-2 break In dhu- hearts, provided the first mond didn't get ruffed.
the last CARD Sensek♦
The fearsome Hittle clup with the sandy beard and the dagger tucked into his pants is Welsh- Now, two centuries after, all man Hugh Grimth, that can be suid is that times surviving mutineer, who
and be brought his wife "lo protect haven't changed. Easy kiss caress, their way of life is ap- me from the natives,"
happi- parently their greatest ness.
long Inst introduced in the West Indles negro slaves wouldn't eat it."
of 24 (sovel Today's crew
Another Briton who brought Hfe-bonts. Then the mainland officers, bosun, 12 sailors,
tlree messboys)
his wife is Duncan Lamot, who In the main cabin is Caplain radioed that four ships were cook, Ellsworth Coggins.
this land of Lolitas, plays Williams and gets flogged. W But In a short. within 600 miles and altering having the time of their lives.
Saturday She is a pretty wife, too--Pat dour, nautical expert, and one course. Fortimately we had the
from where every night is The Canadians chosen
the British wrote begging night,
mutineer Driscoll, TV's Moid Marian,
regarding
says
Q-The bidding has been: North
East South
West
1
Pass
10
Pass
34
Pass
30
Paza
Fats
?
You, South, hold:
What do you do?
of the last craftsmen of the days foresight to load heavily with thousands who of sail, who was given the job carbon dioxide and, by pumping for a berth have found Tahili crow of the Bounty and Ameri- Then there is Richard ("The of sailing the Bounty on her pounds into the heart of the the same paradise as in Bounty can technicians are 8,000-mile, 30-day
clays. voyage fire, we eventually doused It." through the Panama Conul te Whatever may have been the
song the Sirens sang, sure,
him loss viitainous ...
The South Pacifle.
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the ship with less than delight. Ginger Man") Harris, who per- Today I watched some She rolls how she rolls, And trays Bosun Millis. He is back them, each with an attractive when the Bounty took them to with his wife, Lord Ogmore'n daughter, from whom are was estranged last year; and they are enjoying a second honey- moon in the tropics.
"Ho.
», ·Madam, {It's ›not <pirates-it's the steward with your damnod élovenses, and we've been in deck:for two days." -
London Express Dervies.
Nominally in charge of this bunch of British desperadoes 1s Captain Trevor Bligh Howard, "A an whose suppressed temper is wonderful to behold," soy director Sir Carol Reed.
Dislocated
Howard, who has made five pictures for Sir Carol, is hero doing his first for Hollywood. It may be his last.
While his wife, Helen Cherry, was water-ski-ing, he told me, "There isn't much satisfaction for an actor in the way they put these plctures together."
He means the constani short, dislocated sequences beloved of the Hollywood spectacular- makers.
"I feel they have made Cop- lala Eligh too black," he adds. "I want to alter that before we are through. I'll try naything once."
TOMORROW:
The curious philosophy of Tarita
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A-Bid five diamonda. You
never had any intention of play- spades don't make your hand
ing hearts and those two small
look slammish.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You bold the same hand and your partner raises your one dia- mond response to two. What.do you do now?
Auswer "TomOYTOW
POCKET CARTOON) by FRIELL
Now: that Calanet "Libbytu's been made a general, I trust he realties the next stop 1.5D retire and torile his memotra,"
London. Kspruce Jerajan,
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