1961-11-20 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1961.

Malayan newsletter

from Gregory Wong

IT'S MAGIC!

Kuala Lumpur.

Rumours of a

MANY things happen in Malaya which to the average eye have no ex-

planation and to the average person is "magie”. dream, a strange happening and publicity and practically anything can be made "magic" in Malaya.

Recently there was a report. that a cowherd had fream of a "holy man who showed him where a "magic" spring could the denunch A Mod of code water was found near the rail. way track in Klong. 25 miles northwest of the Federa, rupi- ta, and this became "magic" spring which was supposed to entre all illness

Thousands

spring whaci

Bocked

Th

4

RHERO people from all walks

h has visited the spring People es en started exporting waters interscas 10 places

allinnagh:

Tak: Hongkir. Tashlete of Medical Research Centennivel

Kheavily Bacteria

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the

Sparta

Cuteainfoated

Crowns blocker

about making The spring longer go there seeking its "sacred."

"Guring" waters and the old villagers will be able to bath and wash his clothes again.

They sent an investigating team 10 the site and found that:

The spring has existed for

many years and WAS dried up for some time; An Indian boy dreamt of the spring, not the cowherd; and

The spring was fast drying Kij because ** heavy buying and selling of its

Water

The Selangur Religions De- Partnant warned Masters that

in magic

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by

12 water

was 70

train

rock and ran tot FINE of get for an over, while the enter- prising gjes set up [s*bs & sell the "heating" water to thease who cuid not get near the crowded spring

Then " SECON "Tuagic" spring was tund in Seremban. 50 miles from the rapital, also bestde

a railtrack Here the Erowds got so out of hai that police bad to oisperse Bwmn with tear gas.

Water pipe

But the railway autho

the

A spokesman said that there

objections

to people With 320

ho had

faith in the spring going there to take its water,

everything

"If we have faith in God. anything and possible." he said. "If you have complete faith that your

lap water at home can cure you of sickness, you drink it and, God willing, you will be cured."

Dry up

A 60-year-old villager who lives near the spring said that he used to use the spring for washing and bathing and had heard nothing of its miraculous turing powers before It used

rities pul a quick end to dry up during a drought but spring No 2 when

they

A

DREAMS

While on the subject of stronge happenings, a Chinese businessman in Kuantan, 200 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, haḍ dream in which his dead mother told him to dig up her grave and burn the coffin and her remains.

He dismissed it as a bad dream-until an

excited coconut plucker rushed into his house and told him that his mother's magnificent $2,000 tomb on a hill had been dug up and the coffin broken open, Jewellery worth about $140 -iwo jade earrings and one Jade ring-and a rich silk dress

in which the woman had been buried in stolen.

were

The businessman immedi- ately called in a Malay medi- cine man to help trace the thieves and get them to return the Jewellery.

"The Jewellery must be found. It must be returned to my dead mother or her soul will nut rest,” said the businessman.

The mother died three years

ago.

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would fill up again after rain. found that it had been A

railway official finally caused by broken under came up with an explanation of ground water pipe.

the spring. The

It was merely shut off the water and the und of them along the train There were thou- "magic" spring disappear racks throughout Malaya and

ed.

However.

religious

autho-

water trop. www

water

that A woman, whe had to fend for herself and her six children after her husband sub-contractor was killed in a traffic accident,

They collected drained off the tracks-especial- ly during the rainy season. rities were starting to get wor- Now the nied about the popularity of Sing up again--it is the mon- spring is rapidly Spring No. I as there was talk soon

people

season-bul

no

the

awarded $32,900 domage by High Court here recently.

After her husband's death two years ago, the mother became a hawker and made candle-sticks to support herself and her child. ren.

In another case, a young wo- man whose boyfriend stopped visiting her after she lost four fingers from her right hand in

After 10 years of Conservative rule.

ARE THE TORIES LEADING

US TO

RUIN?

an accident, was awarded $7,800 THE Cabinet has been reshuffled.

damages.

while

She lost her Angers working an machine in a cake factory

electrical mincing

The United India Fire and

General Insurance Co. Ltd. and the Singapore Insurance Com- panies Employees Union have reached new terms in an agree ment.

Among the many things the agreement provides the workers a cup of tea or coffee in and afternoon, Telrospective from January this

with, is the morni

year

STRIKE

"Double-banking" is the order of the day. It is the tactic usually resorted to by a besieged force en- tering the keep in the final stages before capitulation. On the other hand, a desperate sortie may be being planned,

The spectacle of so many well- known political figures firing over each other's shoulders could be heartening if one was sure that the fort's portcullis was to be raised and that real knights in armour would emerge. Alas! It does not appear likely.

Let us consider Britain's pre- Three hundred

is even more school sen! plight. It students at an English col-humiliating than Suez. jege in Alor Star, neor We have received a loan of the Malayan-Thai border, £700 million to save

us from devaluation and, as a

quid pru went on a lightning strike

quo, have accepted a request last week demanding the from the U.S.A.

mest to enter the dismissal of the headmas-Common Market, thereby en- and three other dangering our trading surplus

defeit

ter

Teachers for their alleged worsening our

with the Commonwealth

"high-handedness.”

One hundred of the boys in the senior classes booed teachers, banged desks and prevented teachers from conducting lessons with by drowning them out noise. Teachers left their class- rooms and repeated warnings by the headmaster to keep quiet went unheeded. police and he closed down the Eventually he had to call the school

trading with Western Europe.

Archaic

સમર

son with subsidies and restric- Our economy at bome is sod-

live practices and the social

scene is rotted by the effects of an archaic system of taxation, from which only the specious rogues escape,

a scathing indictment

by Viscount Hinchingbrooke

TORY MP FOR SOUTH DORSET

Commige

The shifting, casino-like feck- lessness of some groups, fashicht i able or unfashionable, cannot hide (perhaps it explains) the enormous essement and satisfac tion in millions of homes, the manifest health and harmony In

we jointly agreed to control 18 On top of that, we enter the nearly every face and the pride. of winter with a major threat of and concentration in work of the

years ago, a little patch ground that hath no profk in it industrial unrest brought on by well-paid expert in a thousand but the name."

a long series of previous with Jobs Elsewhere. through stark fear drawals in the face of trade. of a little unpopularity, we

union aggressiveness. are preparing for a grand with- drawal from our military bases what are still Colonial terri- tries.

Britain is busy and cidivis dually purposeful, albeit that the national figures spell out catastrophe.

Though Mr Lloyd is making a brave effort manent reforms, there is no cer-

to initiate per-"

But we have to look too tainty that his plans

at the overall loss. Alas, it is. will not run to little local difficulties gain.

equal to, or greater than, the after the usual, six months and oh, so gently, be allowed to

We have allowed the United Nations to send a force to em- errass a close neighbour at Northern Rhodesia and, as if that were not All is quiet at the school now

enough, bave miscarry. sought to appease the violence dismissed are the student ring-with the mighty Soviet and the people who have been We are on the verge of war in that country by promising to Union consider the revision of a Con- leaders of the strike.

over the status of a city which stitution not four months old.

As the Government prepares to close the door a little

IMMIGRATION

After all, we were glad to

call them British

British...

by Anne Sharpley

WHO SAILED TO BRITAIN IN AN IMMIGRANT SHIP

HOW regrettable it is that those to be hardest hit by the immigration controls are the West Indians. Inevitably it looks like a colour bar.

Would there have been.

among

the same need, one won-ber} there is high unemploy ders, if they had not been ment. Unemployment black. If the 200,000 West West Indians in this country is Indians had simply been only three per cent. Irishmen (not even in the

When exactly do we intend Commonwealth!).

acknowledging our responsibility The West Indians as a to the West Indies? group have proved neither

same footing as the foreign

workers we import from Eur- ope in much the same quantities?

The West Indian has not only contributed greatly to the wealth of this country for 300 years-- but he has fought in our wars. "We feel as if we have a vested interest in this country," said one to me.

Let's have

a little bit

of

•

common sense..

by CMDR. John Kerans

areas.

TORY M.P;, HARTLEPOOLS

This loss has nothing to do with gross material comfort:/It { is an aspect of dichotomy of the The present

mind, a form of spiritual Government is the weakest from separable from advented dez L

wickedness which weens in which Britain has suffered office

Conservative

the collapse of Mr Balfour in moerbeles, but ought not to be, 1905. There is no spyirit of drive or determination to be found on war it will be because of this

If Communist win any front, except that of mas factor. The enemy, waya steals sive bribery of the electors. in through the bind spot in the

The old laissez-faire of Mill and Adam Smith was a philoso- phy always fought by Conserva- tism, but nevertheless it

was

eye.

What is this 10?

It is the failure of our politi-

moulded on a backbone of finan- cal and industrial lestess to trust. cial and industrial integrity.

The present middle-of-the-

the people,as

It is the mistaken belief that

road laissez-faire contains a far while the masses are prepared more virulent virus. It is a to impoverish themselves in wary a

piece of social and economic de- and die for a just cansé, bauchment, a gigantic moral will vole only for selfishness fraud.

for what makes them idle and materially prosperous

The object

It is the speeches made in Tevour, of equaliter amigas en fair shares against douans, and actions which lead to the reverse.

It lets everybody have his way. It is the desire fortate.

It retires in the face of every economies in general and pressure group, yields to every vote-winning possessor of power,

with the particular.

Ringle exception of Mr. Krus-

expenditure

chev, and what terrors await" a It is the bluster miscalculation on this front no- ganda in the cota War body knows,

evokes no responsive

In 1943 Lord Hailsham, Mr Thorneycroft, myself, and others

the hearts of the people

It is the unive

started the Tory Reform Com, talk of the Establishmen mittee.

for this purpose colleagues and myself.

The rem

can be discerned ever where in books, plays and filmscript in a demoralised Press and tote vision, in industrial forties: in the rising Enger of fessional classes

The object was to get our society clear of the stifling com- mercialism of the twenties and 'thirties and to start the post- war period by giving such HAVE no, repeat no, especially in densely populated employment exists and where powers to democratically

elected I It is not sufficiently appre-

housing is available. All this men of light and leading as colour prejudice ciated, moreover, that many West

Large houses, sometimes due means greater liaison at source would enable them to direct the mahis is the root chin Indians do return home

a few and in this country. (about whatsoever and only for slum clearance in

development of our society in

malaise, 3.000-5,000 a year during the wish

They have every right to be peace on the same basis of The people are not fool- last five years). And as a migre -

to see sensible years the, are bought--high

rents are charged, and over here and I feel that more could honour, integrity, and righteous They realise it and the de Those that tion officer in Jamaira told me: yardsticks applied to crowding is the order of the

be done at source to explain to hear on which the war, on the have

them conditions in this country whole, had been conducted been to the problem of immi-perhaps the most difficult is and ensure that that they become a tremendous gration as is done Britain are so much improved

they as th in the question of employment. We div

dividuals are not exploited. Raset. In Britain they get how many other countries.

have at present. In this country And finally what of the get here." how and skills they could never

by and large full employment. future? The first necessity is for a

Percentage-wise, the However, for argument's sake coloured population is probably proper medical examination at let us say that we get a slight about 1 per cent but families source. Surely it is nonsense to allow heavy inmigration from

recess

and s measure of un- do tend to multiply and in the

We looked to the resurrection the coloured years ahead could well be a of our society after the way, abuse) tropkal climates without

check-up whatsoever.

worker is kept on and the white difficult social problem.

founded on a strong fpteign Secon il surely it is reason- quickly

Is sacked. I can see that very

policy banked by high exporte

and a Will Be y

dical ana foancial DO MORE

mayda would allow lent be some financial minimum re-

it is only right

in I think that it quirements on entry and the that the immigrant who has a

every field of the arts. sciences, and commerce, certaints of a job to go to a bad criminal record should not to assist the West Indians in teed national windm

can we not do more to any height above reasonable prospects.

enter this country and similarly *** one committing oriminal offences

The West Indian comes in. for most of the attention and, What was in fact a great ex- unhappily sometimes disease nor crime-ridden. periment had just begun. Britain.

because he is more conspicuous, Many of them in fact are a an adult, wealthy and

benign good deal more Christian country was to prove that she

-could-cope with the greatest- challenge of our times racial

than we are.

CHALLENGE

Unlike the Indians, the

PREFERENCE?

Yet are there not arguments prejudice. Black children would for giving him special facilities,

(If only we

go to our schools can have just one generation to instead lumping him with, the two could live together, love and allowed to come before the prove this int) without incident. est. Certainly he should be workers we shall mably

Into

The count rejoin

凝

any

able to propose that nere should the BHAWAN Burt

LIAISON

An exemple of how

Feckless

to

Lastly,

imum, sub

thelf van country? Why clin only

to

h this country should be depot invest capital and th abuse of mone

be decrease their own industries and inter the think

i

this

dan

onthe the

Imteras

Pakistanis and the Cypriots, understand one another comisión Market design work is shown by the close Tufe. Non did especially from the a contentious, rūbject, but pro-

the

they speak our language. They love our institutions. We who have contributed so They belong to us, and we tuch to the harm done to these Here ho not only and

people were to be the ones to for himself but he o belong to thom. They redeem 12. think of themselves as Brit is true that this has

his people that ren tish.

not territories that beon lost. But immigration con- to call to Brkiseli irol is an unfortunate step, it

And it seems we can, and Weems to me.. employineert for them whörers

to have led to

in their ownlands (entirely Why should the West Indian real

of our creation we took them who are our own people and our LHero Zrü, Walt Airidh, Finiom responsibility, be put on to the

son that exists between the Bar

und End

figures

West Indier wil how a marked Luxe Before the dehdirib is Hed. • Bünte

Restriction of Immigration is partisan Vided we can approach the problem with humar unders standing and undeavour "not to make poiltiin ospital out o

ing

pre

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ures of reform instituted.