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ENGAGEMENT
MARRIAGE
1040. THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17,
Poter Stumberg, "Daily Harald" Correspondent in India sur- vaying the election results finds that
.
PAKISTAN IS DOWN:
rooms
GOODWILL_IS_UP
BY THE WAY
By
BEACHCOMBER
PARIS TURNS ON HER OLD MAGIC
By WALTER FARR
in the window for the fruit time since 1939.
People stand, and stare at them as if they were looking at fish in an aquarium. Tho man bohind
on the ballot become evident that the Con- be largely for bargaining pur me of our swood If we ing-the old, shining magic of yellow or Que or rod of new taxis nuniber of Sikhs. In the Pun-have found a wish for agree. | are ever to face seriously man's Paris low hours ago all Paris] Dew taxis for pubite uso since the The provincial elections, which jab election it received almost rent among the people them back ein ons day, we
selves.
For instance, I have talked on more than one occasion with a Moalein who was a good Lea- guer, but who, when we got on the pubject of Paklatan, spread his hands and said:
"Frankly, I don't believe in a
Gay Moment
than any-
it might seem as if Lord Pet for his separate Moslem State can be settled. There will have Nudreforth, and said he wanted whole aspect of her stroots Engilahman arriving here is more Cripps and Mr. Alexander had West Frontier Province, Sind. because India is a geographicalter was, so non-plussed that is blooming hora.
other.
As for the vital
the Moslem
wait."
be
me; I could hardly believe therchent join, "It is wrong to s
such a fine
to
to fade Away.
now
The
Around me on this open-air ter-The nice p. Engl.h"
ita stem
At
We are and oven.
conter
Old fogeys and reactionaries They are still voting, in mat-] The voting has disclosed that well as Mosleme, was more than are talking of fet air liners that
will travel faster than sound.
On a Paris Cafe Terrace, Bome to millions. abucks beneath covered
the the Congress Party has
But who wants to crawl about Yet Mr. Jinnah still claims
Wednesday Afternoon. Coconul palm trees, and in bare measure of support from the
someone
The big news in Paris today in hidden Musiems. In the North-West The Punjab for Pakistan, and in that fashion, when
far more in line with what white-washed
mid the clutter of the bazaarà. Frontier Province it won a ma- breathes all kinds of threats of
always called the best contom- not the political squabbling, not The illiterates make their jority of the Moslem senta. In what will happen if he does not porary thought has started play- the threats of crisce to come, or
the now French Constitution, or the counter assures you they are got it. choice from little pictures or other provinces it gut only a
ing with the idea of travelling the Black Market, or even the "Vrai style Anglais-real Eng Despite Mr. Jinnah's uncomfaster than light? That is talk-
lish stylo. sigas, such as a spinning-wheel very few.
By the same token it has promising attitude, which may ingi "Faster-than sound" reminds Petios trial.
The stream of traffle is splash- The big news here today is the beside the name of the Congress
grandmothers Party candidate
We spring. The old magle is returned here and there with the bright sheet, or a crescent and star by greas Party represents a largo poses during the negotiations, I with their smelling
in the spring.
Just put on the roads, the first the Moslem Leaguer.
crying. need to got to the moon Only a
must
a aud- Paris taxi fleats were comman- began in January are still go as many votes as the Panthic Akali, the Nationalist Sikh
den warmth has come that sud-deored by the Army in the grim abandon this miserable, defeatist was shivering. But now attitude: Faster than wound! ing on.
den, almost tropical warmth days of defeat. As Mr. Attlee has said, they Party, which will demand "Sik.
Damn it, are we snails or mon?
which, perhaps mere
So far you can't hope to get one Narkovor will decide the political future histan," a separate Sikh - State
are really if Pakistan is granted. as they
Reports from the dear little thing else, makes Faris the true Just by hailing it. You have to qpone up at the snarest polloo capital of spring. scholars of Narkover suggest
post. You are supposed to have The engagement la announced and of India,
Pointing The Way the marriage will shortiv take elections to a Constitution-mak-
that somehow a refining influence
a special permit card, but if you The Punjab election is a good place of Capt. Alastair Robert ing assembly.
in at work, which may be follow
show British passport they put Denholm R. A. only son of The great populous provinces
This is surely one of history's you immediately at the hond of ed by a revolting spectacle of
gayest moments. For the first the queue, Mr. and Mrs D. M. Denholm of Madras, Bombay and Ben-e to illustrate both points divizion of the country."
In the same acnse I have wholesale self-abakemont.. The third of India's which I have made about Pakis-
France intends to allow 160,000 of Cheam, Surrey, England gal. where a
tan and the
Congress Party. talked to Hindus who have said: other day a perfect thug of a time for seven years, during and Patricia Kathiya Sholla, four hundred millions live, are Besides being one of the pro- Mr. Jinnah have his Pakie- boy, with a record you could smell which Paris has been trampled on tourists to come hero from abroad five countice, presented liberation Sighting, then packed about diplomatic trouble between
by the Germans, battered by the this summer. Despite all the
talk by Mr. Jinnah tan as long as the main issue across only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Pasco at 13 Bowen in the middle of voting.
After what the Premier said, yinces claimed
himself to the music master. Mr. with Ailled troops so that the Paris and London, the average Rood, Hongkong.
the others are the North to be some kind of co-operation hick-Lawrence and Sir Stafford
The max changed, a to return, stolen money.
a truly Parisian spring
popular than at any time since in the
was tongue-tied. He reported the
eid Entente Cordiale Jaya. set off too soon. It might seem Assam and Bengal-it
A spring without soldiers (or the ou dont hear now the phrase A New Spirit
matter to Dr. Smart-Allick, who almost), a spring in which the sometimes heard before the war, as if they will be asking the province in which
said, "Split fiftyfifty, ang war shadows are really beginning The dirty English."
we'll and Mrs. Rose Lectong Ahlo, wife of Indians to sign for freedom be-League did nu well as in any
The spirit of goodwill
say no more about In the Punjab the Congress understanding between the two my money, stolen from my note the late Dr. Anthony Leefong fore they have made up their just exactly how they Ahlo. wishes to announce the minis
Party won six out of the ten main factions, the Congresa casa, protested Nudgeforth. "All
race, which for the first time this The proud old face of Paris is Actually, although the elec. Scheduled Classes ("Untouch- | Party and the Moslem Loague,right," said Smart-Allick, you year has every one of its six rows having wedding of her only daugh-
spring-clean. Four ter, Veronica Hauoli, to Me. want it.
It did better has been helped by Prime Min- keep it as long as you can,” ables") seats.
of chairs illed. the aperitif-craftemen aro The refining lnfluence Stephen Benediot Nech, only
suspended beneath is eald sippers are throwing off bhoir
the magnificent sculpture work on son of Mrs. Neoh Pee Teck ftions are not over yet and athan, this in other provinces, Istor Attlee's recent speech, the
26th though millions of votes have of Singapore, ол
stili to be recorded, the results almost knocking out Dr. Am-good effect of which cannot be to be a new boy, who said loudly, faded hats and scarves and fray the Arc de Triomphe doing up tho
during a game of whist he had | over-emphasised. Ontbedkar's Untouchables Party as
ed seven-year-old January, 1940, (Singapore,;
overcoats and feat of one of the figures which One Congress man said to Malaya. Honolulu and Shang-are quite apparent now.
were The novelty of the idea even loosening their neckties. seem to be political factor.
A perspiring waiter pours out tion fightials de Luxembourg- damaged during the libera the surface these
issue of hai papers please copy)..
attracted a fow unconventional contradictory, for they show
sugary-tasting, bluish quld which that the provinces claimed for Pakistan, the final figures for Mr. Attlee was the kind of man strict.
have just who could make
he calls an aperitit into a glass where the spring peace Getting Round A Difficulty
with a large part of the acparate Moslem State of the election, which
Miss Dawn Kedgaree has a broken off. statement." Pakistan voted against Pakis-come out, roveal that the Mos-
This spirit of goodwill and ways longed to play Desdemona. tan although the Moslems votedlem League received 079,923
VOLCA, which works out at about understanding will be increased Finding they couldn't hit the part for Pakistan.
two-thirds of the little more still further if Lord Pothick into the musical film about Bach, The bold prophet who would
A fact which the elections than a million Moslems who Lawrence makes a further de- the Hogwasch executives have in-like the old pro-war terrace po hazard a forecast of the state of have underlined is that the
claration about independence on troduced a dream-sequence, in tions, but no one complains.
The
sunlight dances in the glass One Third Only Hong Kong's internal economy Congress Party does represent
of Desdemona, la inspired sto twelve months, or for that matter, the majority of Indians.
It has gained sweeping vie- However, the League got only he gets here. It will force the
for clavier and flute.
At the next bright red table to are back on their pedestals over- two years hence, probably does
mine not exist. All that can be said tories in all the provinces which a third of the popular vote in Farties to come to some form of compose the first of his sonatas sunlight is the sunlight of Paris.
Are You Cultured?
a young French couple have looking the majestle sweep of the had their Alled glasses bofore Place de la Concorde. have voted so far, except two-the province, as the total poll, eompromise.
At any rate, there is a bright
£1,786,429,831 is the figure of them for half an hour without A gang of men is busy on tho with any confidence at this mc-Sind-and the Punjab-and in which included Hindus, Sikhs,
(1) The National debt (2) daily drinking.
topmost spires of Notre Dame, re- ment is that those who were hope the latter it has been able to Scheduled Classes, Christians, hope that the negotiations will
stone- national expenditure (3). annual fully expecting a relative early form a Coalition..
Anglo-Indians and Europeans sal be successful.
placing the centuries-old expert trade (4) football pools
work shot away during the Battle return to stability in trade and
annual turnover (b) annual cost
of Paris of imported American films
Nazi Victims Ward is (1) the Women's Au- parable to 1941 are more than
Fuci Distribution Organd xiliary likely to be disappointed. The
sation (2) an Indian Secret So factors against it are accumulating!
ciety.
The Acropolis is (1) a film rather than diminishing, while the
theatre (2) West-end hotel (3) influences which might be expect-
a Moroccan chieftain. ed to set the tendency into reverse-
The tent company, people who must
What Next?
vivid green and yellow ribbon- to swim then cerp that used scem, in such statements as that
to be believed, are
The experiments carried out at and somehow the twist of the
Top priority has been given to made by Mr. Kenrick, of the Co-was installed a long wire fence ban on private visits to Europe's be unseen lonial Office, to be held in check, between the pavement and the playground is lifted from April still with her. The great actress Muckhampstead. to teach hans to ribbon makes her look perfectly the job of alling up and beautify.
the occasion.
Ing adi the lakes and pools in the and it created quite a 1 and travellers can now spend is acclaimed onco more as the lay bricks, has proved a dismal dressed for people used to various anelant chateaux around if they are not actually receding, verge,
Remember Un monologuists par excellence,
Book of the Week is. Eric fed on brick-dust, went on laying terracest Though, the newspapers The bar in the centre of Paris
argue about politics on the Paris the capital. These are days, it is true, when furore. Some people thought it 100 or a holiday there.
is offering a good deal can happen in a short meant that railings were coming agency
day holiday costing Linklater's "Private Angelo", a reges though nothing.
by A in the kiosk opposite us tell in named after King George VI. which includes hotel tale about an Italian soldier who pened. They were joined Time, provided the conditions are back and that the parks would lay
which Who after enormous headlines what the Gov
the Germans re- ved
the words "King"
and right, and there may be no justi- be once more enclosed as they 430
were before the war. "Give the accommodation, meals, travel, le very good at running away sentimental bricklayer, fication for an unreserved
Parks and Garden Squares to reserved seats, and entrance from battle. He is streets aheat four days, laid a small ogs. This ernment may or may not do next.
erk, and the egg is to dum," here on Sunshine Torrace The Montmartre cabaret shows titude of pessimism. It is, how the People" movement is quite fees to kursais and special reef all competitors. So, appar- the Brst time a human being and all about the "Great Referen- has resumed its old name.
politica are not Passport charges and ertly, is the book,
are opening late again now that ever, a fact that conditions of liv-a strong one and certainly feel sort.
Londoners'
ls back to Women are appearing in hats
this afternoon mentioned.
the electric supply ing in Hong Kong are today more ferous at times. The Regent's vinas cost extra.
There is silence-the silence
normal.
Some of the loading that comes to people who are feol- dancing girls in the snappiest and difficult after seven months of re- Park authorities were howled enthusiasm for a holiday in n covered with coloured lambswool They're
ing warm for the first time for six often tout daring Montmartre occupation, particularly for those down as reactionaries and kill-land of plenty needs no excusing, which the designer has christen-
months."
shows are English. in the better-income groups, than Joys until they had a chance to It appears, according to somo ed "The Postillion". they were in October and Novem-explain their case. The idea, it one who has just came back reminiscent of Regency days. ber. Equally, too, the financial appears, is to plant small hed- from Switzerland, that you can't Very rakish, Favourites against problems associated with what ges instead of railings in orde help but have a good time there the cold are short jackets made
And the It is a land of plenty-but the of corduroy velvet, and against fifty-seven to protect the grass.
tourist will need all of his 100 winter drabness, big flower ear- cheese filings. Food is strictly ringa, blouses in sky, turquolue,; aflame and peach,
H.K.'s Economy
voted:
prices on a level reasonably com- LONDON LETTER
at-
ence hacked
man
is to be held-they have away a huge concreto Ger- Just Silone
air-raid shelter specially The tante is certainly nothing built for the HA. staff of the Luftwaffe, and laid out the gaz- deng 13 they were before, ready for the international dele-
the An-India Radio 8000 after which Bach while reeing a vision with the brokon stem, and the four prancing horse statues
There Is A Hat Famine
At Regent's Park lately there tickets for Switzerland.
16
On
to
failure.
Twelve selected hens,!
has laid
e autographed by the Mavor at banquet, and presented to the
• How should I know! local múscam.
Come Into The Kitchen (With Mrs. Whelkstuffer, that dear old saucepan). Tomorrow: One hundred and ways with savoury
They lean back in their shaky wicker chairs with their eyes half closed. The shampagne in the air is their aperitif today.
The
because she cannot afford a Paris She still, wears a winter frock
The French Government has spring frock, one of those foamy, given orders for new carp to be frilly fracks which cost something | placed in the pool in the Chateau like £7 or £3.
of Fontainebleau, near Paris. But she has a new ribbon in (The Germans are said to have her' elaborately plalted hair eaten the
Top Hats!
In the corner shop across the busy avenue they have top hats genuine, gleaming silk-on sale
Life In The Country
By
ERNEST WILLIAMS.
Tho
-
The Recipe
little bouquinistes the book stalls along the Left Bank The book- are opening again. sellers have one complaint as they loll in the sunlight: "We can't get enough English books."
More
than an hour has passed and, scarcely anyone has moved from this terrace. The carefree crowd meandering along the street grows thicker. Mandriefly. word. No one
of
me
la tho
about
may be called the tiding-over wire fencing has had to go period in rehabilitation are caus-in order to protect the small to spend,. ing increasing headaches to Bri-hedges. In time, of course, the rationed; not so much nз
There's nothing stylish to And when Swiss milk chocolate drop with tish commercial firms. How far hedges will grow.
All restaurant note about the men except this is true may be estimated from they are sufficiently high the out coupons.
meals are couponed, too, which remark that they don't seem to the approval given by Govern-wire fencing will come down.
removes the inequality of the favour hats. This may be duc
A distinguished Cumberland It's good to see Green Line rich eating more by eating out. to two reasons: (1) many of the ment recently to, a 33 per cent. increase in the cost of light and coaches on London streets again. There are three meatless days a demobbed are not to proud of woman, Lady Cecilia Roberts, "Issue ardent Radical and Temperance
A Frenchman aiks power, and to an increase of 100 To those who can use them a week, for which they apologies the hats which are
astonished ап ди-
England, "You my people per cent. in the ferry charges. un alternative to overcrowded, and offer trout or eggs. There (they're so hard that you are advocate, Following on higher hotel food punctual suburban trains they la more saccharine than sugar, likely to break your wrist hodience not long since by an- by a network of bus routes, the your country are still war-weary Although but drink flows. Soap is ration-you top it on to your heat)nouncing: "Life in the country countryside is now well organis Mais alors everyone in England and accommodation costs, these are a great boon. moves merely add to the anxieties they look very sleek in their ed, so is electricity, and central (2) there is a hat famine. Lon is far more cheerful than life ed in its social life. Centres of should just sit for half an hour coats of new paint, the coaches, heating and hot bathe are spas-don hatters have to turn away in the towns", Daughter of an this urganisation are the village on a terrace like this and think of of those who are unable to do nevertheless, give the impres- modic.
a multitude of customiers every; | Earl with large estates, wife of Institutes,
spring. Your country 'would smile much more than attempt to orsion of being built on utility At last there is something dif-day either because they cannot the Chairman of A County Largest, keenest organisation again.
**"You English. Do You Dot guinise for the future. On the lines. I hope, however, they art ferent on the menu in, the way their customers or becaue Council, mother of an M.P. for is the Women's Institute move-
Agricultural facts and the figures, there ap-not quito so "utility" as those of vegetables. Cauliflower has there is nothing in the shop ex-an
constituency, ment. In Cumberland it has work too hard? Do you not for pears to have been good cause for London buses which have cus- had a long innings this winter cept a cap or a Sherlock Holmes Lady Cccilla knew what she was 112,branches and 6,000 mom-get that spring is here?"
But it la an burs. The Women's Institute the raising of the utility charges, hionless seats. How long before and one can scarcely remember deer-stalker. I made a tour of talking about. but the hard reality does not take that nice rubber padding comes a meal without it. But now West-End hafters the other day argument hard to drive home. movement has emanicipated the
recreation and back? When one, forgetfully, there's broccoli and spring cab-and could not and a hat any- Take the post-war experience. countrywoman--from loneliness. range
The men of a family tears interest, ona ..may well the necessity for the step out of sits down rather too quickly on bage and savoys coming along where. Eventually a very oblig. In the towns the war might still
the gossip. gak: "Why the continued gave me a tip. be on the realm of the unfortunate the hard, bare wood, one la in- and, at a reasonable price soon, ing assistant
for all the difference to women' about
the towns, why tho Light and power charges are clined, in these bleak, wintry we hope, some lettuce, Other "Come back tomorrow morning Peace has as far made in social But the mon like the women to drift to everywhere reflected in costs; and days to muse, "if austerity ends wise meals remain just about at half-paat nine Just as we life. Halls remain commandeer- belong to the Institute, because shortage of farm labour, why it is logical to assume that ulti- can springs be far behind." the same; fiah three or fouren and I think I may be able ed, food restrictions romain it keeps them good-tempered, the poor response to the Gov- other domestic ernment's offer of assisted agri-. mately they will be reflected in
There has been a rush to the times a week (after the swifto fix you up":"
cultural training for 'ex-Service- rigid. After the working day, and confers Rumours current in Fleet the fored masses turn almost benefits. prices. Moreover, it requires no tourlat agencies to book travel disappearance of the meat ration
usefulness, and men? For zeal, over the week-end) and Inevit Street that in April sufficiant automatically to the cinemas.
Trying to get an answer to laboured argument to support the
ably the macaroni-cheese dish paper will be released for daily But the countryside, more hos- popularity, 1 rank next to the suggestion that charges go up more quickly than they go down. curs, must harden the core. In for those who like it and for newspapers to carry six pages. pitablo, more friendly in a com- Women's Institutes. the Young these questions, I joined in a movement, these with a group of Intelligent There is no warrant for the con- tliese circumstances, it is not sur-those who don't. Bread does not This may do something towards munal way, does not see why Farmors Cluba. A compara practical talk the other evening.
a boon to country countrymen. tention that the rate revisions suprising to note the growth of a appear to have changed colour curbing the persistency of the after years of intensive toil, 1 Hively now
are enthusiastic It all bolled down to this. thorised automatically create a school of thought which calculates vot despite its lower pure flour campaign for more newsprint should wait indefinitely to cole clubs, arc
content.
which the Press has been con- hrate our hard-won victory. 1 youth, who
They touch the Life on the land in not popular) Film of the Week is "Gitting ducting but it may not mean The countryside Has been go-1 about them, serious danger of precipitating an that Hong Kong must settle down upward spiral in prices. Power and adjust itself to the idea of a Gortle's Gartor" which, say, the that the publie will get more ing say all through the winter, technical side of agriculture by becauss It is a hard life The Costs at terion pre-war are still ap- stabillaed double-1941 standard is advertisements, is "the funniest newspapers. Except you're with dancos, whist drives; con- agreeable methods. They, form countryman lives laborious days, They remove the severities of the English proximately 50 per cent. lowers more or less permanent feature. Alm since bedrooms were invent-regular with a newsagent, it certs, plays, darts and domino a healthy social and sporting fochigil the vagarics and than the general levels There is, In our opinion, this takes an un-ed. Not so, reply the critics, is still difficult to buy a paper contests, Dances most of all, rendezvous. However, reason to fear that the daily gloomy view of the outlook, one of whom dubs it as the yaw The casual customer gets swift Hearly supper and served with shyness of the rural boy and climate. "You cannot have Not that there is so vary Bernard Shaw. Men born and locvitable, result will be to, pour Kid however a possibility that has lost yarn since Hollywood was refusala' but little discourtesy, food from the larders of the ghlander health without hardship' Bays
Witness the politeness of the home-baking wives of the coun discovered. pone the restoration of more compus,reckoned with, and those
are planning for no longer rather the playing
Play of the Week is not a play notice which a street newsboy Liyalde Returning Servicemen much shyness. The tradition bred to agriculture achieve one fant, through the other. But the fortable levels. Resistance to this
Mlás has chalked up above his stand receive furful welcomes at these that tho, farmer is
allow, if to my town wellór hesitates: "Tetting at the corner of Parlament fektivillersrand manng sometime rather surly.
wait upon wuare, not. The Stroef: "Positively do extrapili ithstood alonene hairytarz, thinking, my part) exis not even for You, sirl".
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breaking down #bró
cratically Stileñód:
Fin whatever: sphere it oc
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