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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1961.

GREAT ANIMAL STORIES NO. 2

F.

was now early May, and I had been in London for more than three `weeks, three weeks of im- patience and nostalgia for Camusfearna, and I felt I could wait no longer to see Mij play- ing, as I visualised him, under the waterfall, or free about the barn and the island beaches.

I went by way of my family home in the south of Scotland. where Mij could taste a partíni but guarded liberty before eman- cipation to total freedom in the north.

by Gavin Maxwell

TODAY'S story is an extract from the author's best-selling novel Ring of Bright Water, about Mij the otter he brought- from Iraq.

How do you prevent

an otter from

?

stopping a train .......?

Travelling with otters is a very expensive business. There was now no question of again confining Mij to 21 box, and there is, unfortunately, .no other legitimate means of carrying an otter by train. For the Illegitimate means which I his lead heedless of the shouts followed then and after, I paid-as do all who have recourse to black markets -highly.

He travelled with me inst frst-class sleeper, (1 form of transport which for some reason be enjoyed hugely; Indeed from the very first he showed a per- VETSC predilection for railway stations, and a total disregard for their deafening din mid alarming crowd scenes,

Dog_ticket

At the barrier the rallway official punched for me a dog ticket ton which I had noticed the words, "Give full descrip- 1on) and had already turned to the next in the queue before his eyes widened in a perfect double take

Then Mij was tugging up the crowded platform at the end of

and the bustle.

Th14, however was precisely He gripped

I was, however, of a type entirely new to him, operating what he had done, and when the communi- by 'downward pressure, gud not my eye t on him he already cation cord I had planned this operation a drop could he draw from it had it firmly between his teeth firmly between with some care, visualising cach for a full dve minutes: at last, while exploring with his paws his teeth... hazard and circumventing it, as trying to lever himself into at the tunnel into which its ends far as possible advance: my upright position, he put his fall disappeared. hush money was already palda weight on the tap handle and the basket I carrted container food himself "Merally. In his everything conceivably neces-, element. sary, to MI) for the journey.

When the of the citadel, as it were, passed off without the slightest hitch, I tell that I hud reaped no more than the just rewards of my forethought.

Initial penetrallen That cord

Mij hard an instant eye for anything connected with water, and the most cursory, inspection of the steeping compartment cunyinced him that in the wash basin, however dry at the me- ment, lay the greatest pleasure potential.

He curled up in it, his form fitting its contours as an apple its a dumpling, and his paws hekan increasingly · feverish ex- portments with the chromium kap.

There was only one incident that evening, an incident, huw ever, that pr

a moment bade fair to bring the whole train to a stop and to expose to the puraged eyes of officialdom my irregular travelling companion.

Drawing by Borry Driscoll'

until suddenly inspiration came my feet, he arranged himself to me Mij was extremely tick- as he had on the first night at lish, particularly over the region my fat, on his back with his of the ribs. I began to tickle head on Be pillow and his arma him feverishly, and at once his outside the bedclothes. jawa relaxed, into the foolish grin that he reserved for such occasions.

removed his fingers from

As I started towards him he the Tccess and braced them against the wall for the tug. -

It takes a surprisingly strong pull to ring the communication bell (I have once done so, when the only other passenger in my compartment died while Hghting *Fi his pipe), but Mi had

necessary strength..

I caught him - round

the

the

The sleeper

grip, and as I pulled him I saw several times to reach the cord shoulders, but he retained his Later that evening he tried the chain bulge ominously out again, but by then I had redis-

posed the suitcases.

ward.

My attention had wandered from Mit had-not occurred pushed him towards it, but he I changed my taction and to the that he could, in that very merely braced his arms afresh. confined space, get into any It seemed a deadlock, and one rerious mischief, it had not that night und in cressed my mind, for example, that by, standing on the piled lagrage he could reach. 1' e com-

inleation cord.

Green.

I was in unfamiliar

roundings such as these

our- that

Mil appeared most often to copy ignominy, any actions.

That night, though by now he Published by Longmans, had become accustomed to sleep inside the bed with his head to

of courage to wedge

piece

گونگی

He was all so disposed when the attendant brought my tea in the morning.

He stored at Mil, and said: "Tea for one, or two Sir?"

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Algiers.

SAM WHITE'S

VIEWED from Paris

⚫ events in Algeria take on an almost lunar unreality.

There on the spot the problem takes on flesh and blood - fespecially blood.

Algiers Newsletter

Every day, killings, bombs by the score

The Alglers newspapers haye now laken to running two ad- Joluing columns of local news under the succinct headings of "Assassinations" and "Explo- slons." Itst month, the average In a week, in Algiers alone has been 20 assassination daily and following 23 explosions.

In u

Nevertheless, the army ta Plasticine containing ап marc mute than mutinous,

explosive charge into a crevice sullen at the continuing treason of a wall at night, as that trials in Paris, rising from last

needed by }} schoolboy to April's putsch.

scratch the Arst letter of a

four-letter word on a wall.

Furthermore the plastic ex- plosions never continue after the midnight curfew,

DANGER

It will not betray Salan. but neither does it share any longer

A ROTTEN APPLE his crackpo: dreams of French

Algeria. It realises that even if de Goulle is overthrown his Algerian policy cannot be

circum-

THO are the chief tar. reversed and in these

the most Imminent

W gets for the plastic dangers are those of a purely

bombs ? Mainly Europeans futile uprising or an Inter-rncial selling out and planning to blood-both in the major cities of leave Algeria, and Govern. Alglers, Oron and Constantine, ment officials loyal to Paris. Now, for the third lime, peaco talks between the French 'ond These latter forming a small FLN are about to resume and hung group at the top of the adminis- this time they are ilkely to auc- johy over the city and the trailon, and all recruited from ceed. shirt-explosions started shortly after the Civil Service and Matro

pm. Usually, my host pointed polian France, are caught in youths That sleeved

out, each explosion is greeted the cross-fire of hatreds, his surrounding tenements lounged with applause by the elegant

And, to add to their frustra corner in the Yacht Club patrons, but they tons, they operate an adminis

murder-

the

recent Week seven The boy was well known in the Arabs were hideously lynched district.

the funeral of J Outside, Europear young ed by the FIN. meant seven more funerals, time of Masiems, giving Moslems seven separate slons for revenge.

Occa-

A perfect slekle 110011

Kongs

of from

the

ut every stroot

There was not a sleory het. Meslem to be seen.

were silent that night,

We counted 12 explosons

in

An hour and a halt. Across

BEST VIEW

the harbour came the wall

an ambulance siren,

Must killings—a grenade loss fed into a cafe, a bullet fred into

the unpe of someone's neck

are the work of the Moslem the Nationalist Underground, FLN. The plastic bomb explo- sions are the work of the Euro- Mainly in order to fend off a pean Underground, the Secret possible Arab descent into the Army Organisation (CAS) led European quarters, the city has by ex-General Salan la hiding been in a virtual state of slegę since the fullure of last April's thoughout this week as funeral putsch somewhere in, or Bear, followed funeral. Algiers.

LYNCHED

What officials here call "the Infernal cycle" continues killings followed by funerals. followed by riots, followed by further funerals.

KOK

POSITIVELY FINER

I went to Bab-el-Oued to see

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י

Two major policy decisions are necessary or both the French and the FLN side to avert the danger of catastrophe.

trative

In the Arst place, machine, largely per

de Gaulle must

and swallow his price mealed by the OAS.

tall directly to the poor whites In these circumstances their of Algeria as though their fate of efforts to help catch Salan and was in principle, as well as in the other fugitive oflcers be fact, his major preoccupation. comes a will o' the wisp chase in Secondly, the FI W must call oft "It may be nothing.

of which every move is transmitted to gunmon In the cities. course," said my host, "ever to the fugitives themselves. De- The following night I dined in Algiers people Ket op- forehand. u a different setting 418 the pendicitis."

The apple of independence is a cafe proprietor friend. Bab-ci- guest of a wealthy Frenchman Qued, perched high, over Algiers at the Alglers Yacht Club. He

Civilian complicity with the about to fall into their lap. If they shake the tree too hard at by Of all the forms of terrorism OAS Is paralleled hi the working-class siurb

this moment, the apple will be took me there because, he said, plectic bombing is surely the complicity. No army umit, duckers, railwaymen, bus drivers, it provided the best view of the most cretinous and cowardly. It example, clerks and minor officials-with

minority Moslem population, ghly plastle bomb explosions, requires about the same amount betray Salan to the authorities.

SOLID?

Before the Moslem rebellion broke out seven years ago it was solldly Communist. Today it is solidly QAS.

My friend, of Spanish origin, had never been to Frence, but his cafe evokes Paris, The neon Nights Nash out its name: "The

St Germain-des-Pres of Dab-el-: Oued." Then underneath "Atmosphere. golely, joy." was deserted.

"What do you expect?" said the proprietor. "People are afraid."

It was getting dark and there was the steady rumble of half- tracks as troops and riot police moved in to occupy Bab-el-Qued

the night.

For

Behind them they had created an enormous fráme jam) and motorists were klaxoning their Impatience to the tune of! slogan "Al-ge-rie Fran-caise,”

When conversation. became possible my friend gave vent to his bitterness; We fight. | You may it's hopeless and maybe; you're right. Nevertheless we |fight rather than go to

France wo don't know and which docen't want us, 'or hand] over the country we've made to the FLN.":

Is was shamefaced about the

blind fury,

| Lynchings. "What do your

expect? It

Was

Briny for

is ever expected to rotten when it drops.

ORDERS

{LONG-UAS

BE WOREY

--(London Express Service).

and so I say, men, like atomic power and space flights, this thing was inevitable"

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