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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947.

NEWS IN FINE FOCUS AS RAIN FELL IN ENGLAND

ONE MAN'S BENEATH THIS

FLOOD

HILLROW, near Ely, April 2.

【ENRY THOMAS BURTON used to have a farm on the edge of the Fenland. Today he has a farm on the edge of a wind-whipped sheet of water that has swallowed up his neighbours' homes and robbed him of 80 of the 120 acres of land he has toiled at for a quarter of a century. ·

Tom cycled a mile along the Hillrow-St. Ives road to meet Police Constable Pegg and other men' who were waiting with an Army assault boat. Tom, galtered, collarless, took one of the six paddles, and for three hours was out on the flood making a recon- naissance of ruin.

They went to five homes. It was hard going, steering by the

REPORTED BY

line of telegraph posts that JOHN REDFERN

marked the lost road, and thenj twisting away over the farm- land which the Hillrow Fen menj

PHOTOGRAPHED BY

DELUGE LIE IN

RUIN THE LAND

AND THE HOPES

OF TOM BURTON

Now, the car is no use to him. The way to his land is blocked by the slapping waters.

This water is going to worry Tom Burton for years to come. He won- ders whether there is any chance of growing anything on his sub- merged 80 neres for a year or pur- haps twe. Drowned earth is July he will

nood. If the fand is not cleared by ROW mustard and plough it in to enrich the land. But that will mean no crops this sea-

500.

used to speak of with high WALTER BELLAMY pays for the foods to go.

pride.

t

This stretch of the Fens, Tom

Burton reckons; was in a top state of cultivation, 25 percent. better than when he first trudged across it as a boy. But doday the richness is drowned. The water is five feet six inches above the land. They measured against the front door of Jack Burling's house on their water

tour.

They prowled round three of the to tell the houses, noting things

rats, windows owners. Traces of

Luck-through warping, a radio set and hobbing about on the flood,

Cat tables floating. There was a

and skinny. perched, wild threshing-drums.

on

2

One of the party reached it and put it in a bag.

again, When they made landfal! and undid the bag, the cat hurried alf across the mud as though it had known the flood too long and was scared of the dry land.

nbury

been

was going to be such I

April. They should have getting up the chicory for the fac tory it St Ives.

Like everyone else, Tom Burton He wants to be at work again. At pre- sent his son and Stanley Hostler are Ming in time.

Shaken men

THE Burton team has one advan- tage. The lender is cheerful.

ac-T

men

Tom Burton's team for the tivities of the spring was small but Bood. His right-hand man was his When he came back from his flood

he was with son Leonard, who married, with reconnaissance a seven-year-old son Geoffrey. His who were shaken by what they had assistant was Stanley Hosiler, aged seen of their trapped homes,

All the same, Tom smiled. "I 22-and a good boy, too." Recent-

the worst, you know ly Tom Burton, Bxed him up with you know tive neres to give him a start. Those where you stand," he said,

Then he went down the rond to Hive Police Constable Pegg a handt five acres are under the damnable, glinting waters with the rest.

had the help of Then he

his with the lighting of the Jumps

barrier

keeps which

the pretty, dark-haired daughter Joan, the

motorists from the Fenland enemy--- who works at home in the morning and helps a Fenland dairyman with the loods. his books in the afternoon.

Joan Inves the Fenland-or did- and is a member of the

Young Farmers' Club at Haddenham. The young furmers think so much of her that she was sent on a specini visit to France with a delegation last au- tumn.

Waiting

THE members of the Burton clan col- Bur-are now sluck, like runners on the start line whose shoes

ladder

At two of the houses they lected odds and ends. Tom 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. ton's brother-in-law, Arthur Thul-

bon, balanced gingerly on a

In and fetched out a trunk. when the boat came in, they had one cat, one trunk, one tin box and five chairs.

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trip had been "real rough."

Tas Police Constable Pegs put i

the

The water was breaking over

tired skles at times. They were men, and Mr Burton took it slowly as he cycled back to the farm.

Somewhere underneath his paddle when he was out on the water was gear: the shed where he kept, his

tractor riddles. scythes, potato

he last Sunday spores. A week wrote off the shed and its contents. He was standing at the gate which now marks the edge of the flood at the top of

hamlet. The Hlllrow water crept towards him, then he turried away because he could that-his-shed was going down.

Somewhere underneath this glint- ing lake Tom Burton has three sets of harrows. two

ploughs-one bought recently for £66, and never used-and a chicory plough.

And there are also 20 arres

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THIS POIGNANT FICTURE of Tom Burton disconsolato- ly regarding his rich farm lands transformed into a bare sheet of water grimly illustrates the havoo which the English foods have wrought. Thousands like Tom Burion have been ruined. It is for the relief of these victims

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COMMUNISM'S

DRIVE IS

By

very natural public reaction caught just before the all-important! THE fear of another war is a leap that sets them on their way. to the recent international Now Stanley Hostler is cutting up events, but the world should not trees that have been blown down, let that possibility-shocking as Leonard Burton is cleaning out the it isnto blind it to an actuality ditch on land near the farm. Farmer Tom Burton is riding to and which is of an even more im- from the foods cager for the latest mediate importance and it is bit of news about his neighbours. this:

WORLD ON

Dewitt Mackenzie

Some 100,000 people in the great Ruhr mining area have been making quantity public protests over the of food they are receiving and there was an ugly climax when the 4,000 miners refused to resume digging coal, which is the economic life and blood of

of Europe because of the economic crisis

Authoritative sources soy this Ruhr trouble had been inspired by the Reds, who exptoli every situa- tion which is a potential trouble maker. Such Communist tactics

11 double purpose. Publie agitation creates. public unrest and tends to break down the Rovernment, and if the food situation la overcome, the Communists will claim they forced the authorities to

This is not the way Tom Burton The Moscow-directed world revo- planned to farm. He came to this lution for the, spread of Com- farmhouse 25 years ago with a great munism, which was born with the will to work. He and his wife be-establishment of the

revolutionary serve Kan in the village on £10 capital Soviet government in 1917, is at last truly Interna- in a cottage with one room up and in full swing on a

It is mobilised to the une down.

tional basis. utmost strength Russia can muster the pending her recovery from

ravages of the war..

On top of that they had one row and one pig. But they increased

Some people find it difculi to be- their hold on the land by successive grips. The farmhouse and paddock leve at anything so terrible could here cost them £250. They went be a reality--especially in the Unit- in as tenants but inside five had become owners.

Jika A

seem years ed States. It does

melodramatic Betlon, but the world would be crazy not to recognise its

Then, cautiously, they added silce tru -after-slice-of-rich-lard-£180 for

Their When Stalin came to power---in one old, £550 for another. way of life was to get up at 5.30 in 1924, he temporarily shelved most the morning and to keep going til of the direet action aspects of the

Soviet scheme--that is, the use 6 at night even in the winter.

force-pending the development of They went to the cinema at Ely, Russia industrial and

uf

art.

This sort of thing is being carried Communists on intensively by the throughout Germany дя they manoeuvre to gain control of the entire country, Such operations represent the Indirect action which is used as a softening-up process before direct petion is applied.

There are plenty of examples of direct action-the Lovernments established by force and the liquidation of the opposition:

the

the

The United States is now in softening stage. The American governmental drive to clean House of Communists is calculated to prevent the development of direct action stage in the country- Associated Press.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

WAGGLING PARVA.

Monday. (By telephone 8.34 a.m.)

pectation that the clock in year. Holidays were hard to come would be putting the cart before the Waggling Parva market place. by-one spell at Clacton inst year, horse 10 try to everus teak striking 8.30, was heard for

a

́ed?" -The new era la-more-than-a

minute late.

A slight hitch

20 UTOPIA is still there. The

of nine miles away not more than once, strength. He thought Comary 0 deep was the hush of ex- 8.37 crowd is beginning to, grow

wheat, for which the seed cost 50s.

an acre,, 80 tons of potatoes

"

(say

ton), and five acres of chicory at £60 an acre. There are 30 tons

for feeding his uf mangolds stock.

own

Mr Burton looked hard today, but he could not see any of his man- golds. And mangolds you can rec- kon at 30. a ton.

the first break for six years.

CROSSWORD

57

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H. A dotensive organisation. (3)-

9. Reason, 10

to. it would take a pecullar gradu-

ate Lo dance this, (5)

12. Rent (4)

14. A torm of mers. (4)

15. Bouth American monkey. 15) 10. Tatlieka 5. 14.

17. it takes more than allusion

advine. 141

18 A Carpenter

Anger tips

21. Sounds like a man who can. 14) 13. Swallows. (5)

25. Consumed in patent medicine.

(3)

27. The part of the publis the 5.0.0.

Wans, (91

28. I leave the Big Four. (0)

22. Near it I made sttiiness. (7)

Un the

The world war which Hitler un

had leashed as 5000 as Moscow

upon 60

Communism

of hin created exactly the sort chaos

which thrives

the Red now we see drive being pushed to the- utmost everywhere in order to take full advantage of that chaos.

not

The

in a pigskin reticule of vast pro- Els little hat, absentminded here

8.32

he issues his statement.

treat. It suspense Doctors 100 great a strain. The bead appears at a window. He is while tussiu herself was weak. Still, with the years things eased Stalin's five-year plans did won-miles around. There stood the giving instructions. The crew dis-

the ders bit, and Tom Burton joined

in building

Soviet great rocket, Already Mimsic mounts. Swift as fire in an Eastern bazaar a rumour spreads. Somee local bowling club (subscription £1 Union's strength,

Slopcorner had been helped in thing

la wrong. Utopia will a year), Iri 1940 he bought a car

by the Mayor, wearing his chain of cudge. "A technical error," say the 103 valuable for for £105. It

office and his dog-snatcher's boots, knowing ones. Presently the Doctor market days and for short trips

innnka Bam, Jabbering unintel- dismounts, goes to the rear of the round, the Fens,

signed a non-aggression pact with fible Stamese words, had joined her rocket, and pushes; doubtless enden-

Then came Professor Greisa, carry vouring to ascertain whether it ng charts and geological hammers caught in anything. He

scratches

portions.

Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht

flaw

ho says. somewhere,2% appears with the crew, six sturdy "Probably one of the ratchet spans fellows. The crew gets into the bas become detached from its Naturally, the United States,

rocket The Doctor, dressed in an coliber. A small matter which can the most powerful nallon of

plastic be recufted oatmosphere-proof sult of

hours.. A In twelve time and a capitalisile one at that serge, and wearing a small felt hat, slight postponement, that is all." Is the main objective of the Com-slowly climbs into the great machine. The disappointed crowd disperses, munist drive.

while mechanics work on the land- given plenty of New era delayed America was

bound monster. warning in the sensational testi-THE hush grows deeper. You can mony developed recently before the hear a lady spitting out apple. Perhaps on Wednesday Congressional Commitico on Un- plps. Somewhere

women borks. MEANWHILE, the American Activities and in a

sudden cries of "Cantaci!" ring I want to know what Mimsto to the Congress, by the Committee all lean forward. 8.34. Slopcorner was wearing. She was

the new era in about to begin, fraught dressed in grey damask The report declared

United with who knows what for mankind. with starched leggings

overalls, Communist Party in the

of rectifled States is part of the world-wide re- The sky is cloudless. Every second organdi, and a kind of diver's helmet volutionary movement taking orders now we expect to hear a terrible with car-holes and eye-pieces. to sound as the monster breaks from its Nothing very feminine, but all de- overthrow the American Covern- concrete moorings and cleaves its signed to suit the vagaries of strato

ruthless passage into

the mysterious spheric weather. Interviewed later, The world is envered with events beyond. Not a muscle moves in all she said, "At first I thought we which are developments of the that agonised crowd of watchers, were moving so fast that we didn't world revolution, some representing 8.35, We rub our eyes. No. Utopia sce

seem to

move. Then I noticed

that bloody violences and other political Is still there. The Doctor leans out, we were still at the launching-place.

and taps the side with a felt-topped. It has been a wonderful experience." swivel-guard. Then silence, deep We should be ready for another and impenetrable. The murmurs, attempt on Wednesday," "What's going on? What's happen- Doctor.

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