| Show jo v I I 1 jj Wild Jungles Go Ta Tal Has Huge Hospital Camera Fan 1 n Ry By PETER EDSON Editor NEA TA Service Ice Malaya Malaya His His Highness Highness Highness High High- ness Prince Ahmad youngest son of the Sultan Sultan Sultan Sul Sul- tan of is a n candid camera nut and a radio ham call letters station 7 You probably wont won't be able to raise him now for the war censorship censorship censorship cen cen- has cut down on overseas overseas overseas over over- seas amateur wireless But when the going was good Prince Ahmad Ahmad Ahmad Ah Ah- Ah- Ah mad was one of the most enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic devotees In the orient From the palace grounds he pounded out code messages and broadcast by radiophone to anyone anyone anyone any any- one he could pick up Once he almost got in bad with the British government From some place up in China he picked up a station which speaking to him in English asked him to deliver a message to a aman aman aman man on board a steamer due shortly thereafter in Singapore The message was cryptically Dont give in to the old Ahmad debated w with it h himself for a long time about that mes mes- sage It might be a communication tion to a spy or i it 11 might be just justan an innocent message to a son having trouble with his father Ahmad finally decided to take a chance He would mail the message message message mes mes- sage let it pass through the British censorship at Singapore Then if the censor didn't kill it Ahmad could claim that the message message message mes mes- sage had been passed by the authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au which would let him out The thing worked out that way and Ahmad got a letter of thanks back from the recipient of his message but hes he's still wondering what It meant SUBS PORTRAITS FOR Prince Ahmad also played cupid cupid cupid cu- cu pid with his radio set One night he picked up a call from an amateur on a rubber plantation down in Sumatra This Sumatra hams ham's best girl was coming into Singapore by boat The ham wanted to come up to Singapore and marry the girl but he wasn't sure that the authorities would let the girl land or that he could get a license li license li- li cense to marry her on such short notice Ahmad got all the dope on short wave fixed it up for him met the girl at the boat and stood up as best man at the wedding Ahmad's candid camera activities activities activities ties have ha taken a more serious bent lately At one time he had about every every kind of they made with every conceivable conceivable able gadget in the way of range rangefinders rangefinders rangefinders finders telescopic lenses and filters fil uI- terse f. f He did his own developing and printing but after a time he grew tired of all the promiscuous So he bought a studio camera and has gone in for portraits of native types and characters Hes He's going to have havea j ja a one-man one show of ol them too j The extreme modernity of of Prince Ahmad is cited here as evidence that civilization is creeping up on what was once one of the most wild tiger infested elephant-infested jungles in the world Ahmad himself was of course educated in Europe b but u t he doesn't cut much of a figure in the government where his elder brother the Crown Prin Prince e Ismail rules during their fa fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa ther's absence in England Still Ahmad has honorary positions on traffic control boards and the supervision of a new brand 1000 bed hospital the most modern in the east now being completed completed com corn at a cost of Theres There's a lot more interest toda today in that new hospital than there is in the old sultans sultan's palace palace palace pal pal- ace a rambling pile of stone marble tile floors ponderous beds carved teakwood furniture furniture furniture furni furni- ture and a dozen rooms barred and locked double-locked filled with gold and silver service ceremonial ceremonial ceremonial nial robes and regalia crowns jewels by the handfuls and encrusted encrusted encrusted en en- crusted arms and armor the armor the whole thing being worth no one knows how many millions to to- to day Theres There's also a museum wing filled with stuffed trophies of the hunt many of them shot in the Malay Jungles by the J tan himself elephants 7 01 hl tigers crocodiles and water i b bl rare black panther Prince Ahmad was wa fj l' l person to sleep In Int the e the oJ I ace He spent his honl there several years year 5 he wouldn't trade t the th 1 ag I 1 works for the little fO which his father gave M private residence It is complete with 1 plumbing electric ice Ice room dark-room and studio fo photography and a ro room IC radio set in a garden ii with native helpers a and aid from the British colo ment of agriculture he ments with wild orchids tIk Iti the other native flowers w jungle Ahmad has been bees ll t a few times but he ia hai hu bl tt shot a never thing deer even S jg MALAY STATES 1 i RULED FROM SINGA Crown Prince Ismail a much more pretentious sultan residence residence also a gift gilt of j tt l Ismall Ismail nail really puts it a 01 head of the state he coni content the British government to se sees all the big planters and exporters JJ ant aM r. r around as a big shot J itself is just lust the then 11 Malay states which i I up the peninsula from to Thailand Siam An All states have different fora fo local government but they 1 ruled from Singapore i 1 In government house fi tt Ii resides the high commiss of the king who gives give t all these states and they're If 1 by treaty to follow it Rights all the states are contra money and men men to war effort and they have p f Tc ty of both j I |
