1950-03-25 — Page 9

What theyre not on our pay-roll?

These amateurs'do a better

job for us

than the pros,

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950.

BERNARD WICKSTEED reporting from Darkest Africa

2 pink

men see an

elephant...

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DELMER (taking his NEWSMAP

to Burma to find out what may happen when Mr. Bevin's £3,750,000 offering reaches the Road to Mandalay)

gets gonged in the Golden Pagoda

INR

(13

of the democratic ant imperialist movement of nailonal bera-

on

RANGOON (via Calcutta). Obediently

champions I slipped a China' ☛0 longer um 1 in a rupee through the slit in

position to blame the box, suitably enough Mr Bevin over got up in the image of a his latest Burma yawning dragon.

A rupee, however, Was

folly. Not since my

Visit

The argument in favour of the loan is that by saying the Burmese Government from distress caused partly by war bart mainly by

to the Golden Pageda this not enough. The gloomy devastalion, morning. That proved to young man did not utter a civil dhorder and its own In- me that I am just as bad as word, but

clanged ability loudly he is.

to administer

we #hall

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prevent

TIBET

INDIA

Bay of

-Bengal

ON THE SLOPES OF

KILIMANJARO,

Irate colonels,

telephone girls, simply

wild elephants → you

'VE had a bit of luck. have to talk nicely to them and

they'll calm' down, I've obtained an in- terview with African elephant. The sub-phant. I'm from the Presa.. ject was ivory, which is a

ท

So I said: "Excuse me, ele-

For answer there was a nolee Nke a motorbike starting op sore point with elephants, "What on earth's that?" I asked

"Nothing to

The African elephant is the white bunter.

Worry about now," he said,

a will follow who hates the That's a good sign," sight of the human race, tummy rumblin. He's bigger and stronger

That's his

"It shows he's decided we're than the Indian elephant, harmless. He's able to control but he won't do a stroke of his rumblings, you know, and if He was anxious about us you work.

wouldn't hear a sound,

If you were to offer him a bun or a contract with Bertran Mills he'd probably trample you

As relieved as the elephant, 1 continued the interview.

It appears that elephants are of n large-seale

to death or pick you up in his the victims trunks and bash out your braim, vory poaching

So I thought that while I was racket,

and amuggins:

in Africa I'd look one up and Shooting by Europeans is con-

find out the reason for this un- trolled. co-operative attitude.

You have to have a licence (which after March 31

A white hunter who has a will cost you 2100 an elephant you are only long list of elephants' ndi Kenya), and dresses took me around to call allowed to shoot two in a year.

on them, but we never found Strange poison

one who was in.

We even spent a night sitting

in a tree above

n

TH knocks them off with poi-

waterhole THE African native poacher hoping we might get a word I

with one over a drink. Lots of noned arrows at 3. 1. per head.

other interesting

quick a wart-hogs,

0110--

characters

turned up

BU

for

§ MANDALAY

reros, and

rhino- rtotous

party of harte-beester but no elephants. Then one inoming at breakfast a native tracker came and told

us there was an ele

helt

milo

Phant

down the road.

SIAM:

Wo

hurried there

ti in truck, and

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The poison is made

the

of herbs in isolated villages und mysterious

thing

about it in that most of the plants used are

not poisonous them- selves.

You could eat them and get nothing more tummy achie,

than a

Yet when they

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and

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by

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the gong again until I part-try,

economic misery from driving TE Karen guerrillas

I had just stepped out- cd up with some more. barefoot, X the law de. munds-from the shadows

was the

1 other

the Durmese into the hands of the Communists, It

We shall earn the gratitude er By the time of I the Burmese lenders, turn their

•hrin bar paid out rix rupes",

uspicion into friendly

And pron

of the long, covered stair- way into the dazzling, sun- not a word of thanks did trust. lit, marble and gobi court- receive, just etary and glares

askin for more. yard.

1

Without strings erity which

any more.

were driven recently out of towns and villages near Toungoo, on the

The read to Mandalay, Burma Government, corkahoop, Furgot that it is the nature of guerrillas in evacuate so that they may later fall upon the extended ths of communication of their advancing enemy.

The Government, says Deimer, by Jekther the troops nor the administration to hold the road tu Mandalay should it succeed in opening it up.

secret African process

the way the white hunter load that has defled malysis, the re-l ed his rifle, I put a point on my sult is so deadly it will kill a man in two seconds, and an pencil.

elephant in o quarter of on hour.

There be wag, about Ave tons of wild bull elephant tearing up grass with the end of his nose and stuffing it into his mouth.

WE

Ear problem

E left the truck, and after testing the wind crept up to within about 40 yards of hun, From that dance he looked the size of a London bus.

It doesn't matter where the elephant is hit by the arrow, It is doomed in any case, So the poacher stays up in his tree daybreak and then looks in

the sky for the vultures.

He knows that where they are circling there he will and his deari elephant, plus any- Thing up to £100 worth of

Of course.

Next to his temper and overall ivory. size, the most noticeable thing about an African elephant is the acreage of his ears. They are dead elephant, or even its tusks, so big that if he lles down on in your pocket and saunter part them he can never get up again, the village policeman with an Every year dozens of them die innocent look on your face. So because they forget that they the poachers bury the ivory till

sn't lie down on their cars, the coast is clear, You

the underneath car

Later on it is cut up into short gets pinned down by the de-

and he can't lengths, sealed in petrol cans, phant's shoulder lift his head. And without rain and smuggled to India or Arabia

in his head he can't get up.

They will follow our advice and in no time at all the country. will once more have the mos There, praying at the

E vender the shrine of Baddha, knelt an

British

and which its rich old, oli maan. He was a I drove away I realised I resource; deserve,

From what I have seen and pensant to judge by his A had no right to criticise Mr

As we were looking at this them executive con- and give I had sue heard here during my ay in dress, probably from one of Bevin

one of ours the wind changed or am convinced that trol of their departments.

the hands The Buiznese the rebelocempied villages cumbed to the same treatm.mt, Rangoon, I

of such meu, something and, he became aware Honged for cash, this view is fake. Ind been

When buon beings sec Government would of us. outside Rangoon,

Burl I had paiti up.

have no score of attitude, for Burma's

They think

more become strong pink elephants on the end of the due, unce Above him, sheer and Tho paralled went, even fur- the loan.

bed, they don't feel too happy, Had I bought a packet of to their cleverness in the pay respected. immediate, Spiralled the ther

ind of the West against the My old pensant of for Golden and this fellow was clearly dis- leaf at one of the stalls

Paroda

to perceive two little massive, twisting tower of old

would find his prayer turbed 011 the stairway and presented Rurians and Chine:г.

answered. There would be no pink men behind a bush. the Pagoda climbing high, that. I should have bad the 15ut above all the situation

prespect for Communist expaa- He spread his cars like a mon- golden and smooth, into the satisfaction of knowing that my here reminds me too much of

sion Into Bunnu.

strous bird, mised his trunk, and was being tad to přes that money blue sky.

which I found in Chiang

gave us a dirty look. rved the golden beauty of the Kai-shek China in the autumn Pagoda

of 1948, Prayer for peace

But, like Mr Ervin, 1 hud offered

cash THE oki man on his knees strin

had attached nu strints." held out his hands to the conditions as to how it was to shrine, clasping in them be used, stipulated for no zer- to be rendered in re- Vicca bunch of

tum. tions, a volive offering to The only difference, between his Gol. He began to us is that where I gave six of my chant in a high-pitched old own rupees, Mr Bevin is offer

Ing the Burmese Government man's volce.

£3,750,000 of your money and

The £3,700,000 is the United the

taxpayers' contribu-

me.

crimson

#1

carna-

"Enlightened One," the -old man

without Back to anarchy

As things are, however, I am certain our £6,000,000 is just going down the drath as far as combating Communism is con- cerned.

Good sign

by dhow.

Price

DOWN

ON SALE EVERYWHERE

THE

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IN THOUSANDS

34

+32

you can't put a

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of wives

on the coast there are still tribes who buy their wives with ivory,

"Wouldn't these things make you wild?" Enid our elephant, alvincing towards us. “Suppos- marry the lady Ing I couldn't elephant of my heart until Pd) given her father a set of your' teeth? That would be something to put in your paper, Eh?"

At this point two little pink THE white hunter Angered his

trikker and said: "If he men bolted back to their truck charges, keep by me. Don't run and vanished in a cloud of dust, or you'll be a dead duck."

As you know from the ms. reporters get used to anything.

The interview was ended.

-London Express Service.

Seretse Khama knows a

bit about exile

THE Wherefore, Mr Bevin, let ne JUST an America cent millions

beseech you-don't let them of dollars to Chinn, so Britain on you. Put strings on your

been putting millions of money. pounds from public and private funds info Burma. One oll

-Londen Express Service. ulong has spent company

£9,000,000 in rehabilitation.

AM in China, most of the money

has been sucked into "What is he saying?" 1 my money,

swamp of incompetence asked a friend who speaks Kingdom

and corruption. Burmese. "He is praying on to the £6,000,000 Comision- Burma, in fact, is back to anarchy which reigned for peace," he said, and wealth loan which Mr Devin at the the British came TIL translated the prayer for the Colombo conference por- before

sunded the Dominions to join hundred years ago. As in China, too, the burden of the Guvern- him in offering Burina,

incompetence und cor ment's

oppression ruption and bandit fall heaviest on the peasantu, "Lord of the Thirty-one row we did it I cannot con-

Burma's Socialist Government Worlds, Master of the Four Hue For Burma's Socialist-or

on handling all rice

It depends for exports.

il TOT surprising that Truths, Attainer of the jed Government have?—

vast margin revenue

on the

Seretse Khama asked Nirvana, Most Glorious

all community between Repudiated

the price it pays the before going to London for Lord Buddha, I--and all 1 of interes

with the Com-

anti millers and the growers those of my village who monwealth:

price it rets for the rice from a guarantee that he would

be able to return.. number of the British Ministry of Food, have sent me beseech 2 Expropriated a

This British Arms, and sabotages

year, in an attempt to Thes: bring peace once and

obstructi the trade of secure a higher price, it is is family had twice before more and order and those British and Indians re- fo

refusing to sell. Mills und and unfortunato experieners obedience of law to our maining in the country;

ware houses are filled to burst with the Colonial Under-Secre-

Small fariners are į tary. And coloureit

men have stricken land." *

Expelled from its civil ser- ing point.

unable to sell their crops and long memories. And then it happened,vice all but a handful of the

trained Burmese and Indian are having to turn to exorbit- 'Suddenly a loud clang inter- officials who had served in the unt moneylendera.

The Arat Tshekedl affair was, The result is that rice produc- of course, comparatively,

chanting. Was

thus

False view

NOT

fresh

By CYRIL AYNSLEY

his During

anxious day* of waiting In London, Sereise Khama has had a childhood story to worry him.......... It is a reminder and a warning-that coloured men have

long memories for Justice.

Two years later the Under- Secretary for the Colonies was asked in the House whether he knew that Sekgoma war de-! tained as a prisoner without

Ogainst any charge

klm and had been refused an application to defend himself at a trini.

"It necessary," told the Under-Secretary, to avoid the. likelihood of tribal war, to pre- vent Sekgoma's return."

The following year Sir Ed- ward Carson applied to three Bench Division Judges King's

effelent Burmese civ tion, less than a third of pre-in his mind. It was in 1933 sald had a better right to rule, f n writ of habeas corpus to

war

man's highly

under the British (and Bervice

place. The is likely to be reduced that this uncle of Seretse had in his reduced the Administra-

been suspended from his head- commissioner refused. 10 un incredible level of still further next year..

Three weeks later he apologised, the

the old rupted prayer. I looked round.

In a corner beside a glass case filled with rupee notes a gloomy young man Was wielding a gong. He clangel

me malevolently.

incompetence and corruption);

Refused to join in any kind

effort Communist and

One solution

Burma.

But Seretse Khoma

samo

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assistant allow the chief to defend him- St. ship for flogging a white man, But when Sekgoma-he bears self. It was granted, then turned

name as Seretse's down by the Court of Appeal, and the Omee reinstated him. father, and win

distant re- Lord Justice Vaughan WI- lative went to Kimberley for liams expressed the opinion that has an medical advice, the tribe ousted Sekgoma was not a British sub- and plected his half- ject in the sonze that he could brother.

claim the right to be brought before a competent tribunal,

What happened to him?

Khama's Seroto

a

The British Government rent conunissioner to find out what

ot defence pret golat HERE is only one solution to the gong again, staring at Communist penetration of Asia; the problem of

5. Directed its main milltary That is the solution which the ven earlier reason for wonder- him Three times more 110

to fighting the anti- Burmese Government is as uning how long his exile may be,

He has grown up with tho pro-British likely to accept as was head- clanged his gong, each time Karen tribes, white leaving the strong Chiang.

story of Chief Sekgama, of the tricked more loudly and angrily, Communist, bands unscathed;

Was Burma's Batowana tribe, who While preserving

it was all about. After an in- "Ho's gonging you," Bald In its newspapers constantly full independence as a sovereign into exile in 1900.

the British and and independent State. the Some members of this tribe quiry Mathibe was confirmed in my friend. "You must put abused

Americans да

He probably died.” Imperiallat Burmese Clovernment should asked the assistant commissioner his post and Sekgoma, was daald in London: "We don't know. Bomething in his money oppressors

while saluting So- engage European and American to depose Sekgoma and put his talood at Gaberones. In the box"

and Communist administrators and

--London Express Service, officials half-brother, Bathibe, who they Protectorate.

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