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COLDACO.—Ün Wednesday, June 6, 1946, at his residence, 6227 58 Avenue Joffre, Shanghai, Adolfo Matheus Collaco, aged 47 years, the dearly-beloved husband of Maria Via Collaco, father Humberto, Gilberto, Renaldo, arguesia,
of
Sotero, Alberto, Lucilin, Collaco Mrs. nors. Mary Pintos and Mrs. Bertha Sedincek, stepson of Maria Anna Coilaco, brother of Maximiliano Collaco, Mrs. Quinha Roliz, Camillo, Jona and Louisa Colinco and grand- father of Carlus, Jainic, Oscar, Flavia and Migaelis.
HOUSING PROGRESS
Monthly progress reports on housing rehabilitation in Hong Kong would serve a useful pur- pose. Subject as they would be to analysis, just as are those issued | in England by Mr. Ancurin Bevan, they might conceivably in- dicate that, in point of fact, actual progress is being made. At! the moment, it is difficult to de- teet. It is true, of course, that
By
Dick Turner
COPH. 1540 BY NO OVERIGE BEI MIRIO DA FIT, CE
"You're fortunate it's only a hát, Rev. Tidimma --my wife is praying for a fur coat!"
THINKING ALOUD
even to
It wasn't that he was a coward., shabby; there are some At times of emergency he besny that only by gruce and ler- hoved, like most of us, with plod-unce s Britain accepted any ding courage and almost antic tonger in the counsels of the first Government has made consider good temper. It was just that he clogs Powers. able headway in the repair and didn't like being dragooned. but one thing Britain has, and He would not stand being in must never lose. She has the renuvation of a number of Gov-
a position in which some other
power, by her past exploita and crnment quarters and of build-man, of dubious merit, could tell her present example, to appeal to ings which are intended for use as him where to go, what to do, how the conscience of the world. It is Government hostels. Many of to think. He saw his life slipping a spiritual force of great
fast in
a pro- gequence. them have been ready for re-away from trim occupation for some time and if fession, the stage, where youth comes before talent, charm, per- sonality, and every ather good- fairy virtue.
cruent,
they still remain vacant, that presumably is the business of Gov-
But housing rehabilita- It wasn't even that he didn't want to fight Hitler. He simply tion in Hong Kong, is not esset-wanted to fight Ernest Beyin a bit tially, or even largely, a matter | more.
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THE MOON AND ONE-AND-SIX
The scientific aubject which I ble. That is, it travels from intorcats the largest number of weat to cast. In dry weather people is the weather, and, in the air la dusty, but in' bad - consequence, more unscientile weather either the air is wash- nonsense to believed about this ed clean by falling rain, or un- aubject than about any other. fallen rale condenses on the Most people believe that the dust and forms drops too big moon has effects which they to scatter light. could disprove for 18. 6d, by buying a new publication called Weather,
People prefer to believe hits of weather lore rather than the evidence of their senses.
Thus April this year broke many records for warmth, and all over my Surrey common the blackthorn
was
Se red aky at night means that the air to the west, from which tomorrow'n weather is coming, is dry and dusty and with no rain clouds to hide the wan. Wo are right in expecting fine weather.
Not A Certainty
In tho anme way grey aky particularly in the east at dawn means that fine, yet on a warm day a neigh bad weather is passing away to bour sald: "We shall have it the cast and gives us a hope
cold so long as the blackthorn
is in flower."
Another does not expect the weather to change though, in fact, It has been changing every day until the moon changes.
Red-Sky Sign
By JOHN
LANGDON-DAVIES
"Daily Mail" Science Editor
When I was very young my of fine weather to follow it. mother told me that a red sky
delight and
red A
Red sky at morning simply
from below
at night уля a shepherd's indicates the presence of nearby
aky dloud illuminated in the morning 13 shepherd's and is a for less safe prophecy warning, a fact which I have of what is to come. taken for granted over since. Of course, there is nothing certain about red sky at night meaning good weather, because tithough weather on the whole comes from the weat, it is often temporarily blown back from the east,
I have only recently. rend scientific evidence which shows that, in fact, this happens to be truc.
We all know that the white ight of the sun can be split up into, colours
if it is pasard through a priam.
The rainbow is simply sun- light split up by the prismatic effect of water vapour in the
sky.
Very fine dust prevents rays
Most of this I have learned from Weather, which has just been brought out by the Royal Meteorological Society, and will be on sale once a month at your
newsagent's.
Apart from the fact that it
of light from continuing on will clear our minds of a great their way straight hhead. It deal of nonsensical superstition scatters the light in all direc-about weather, I think this new tions, but it does not scatter magazine should be welcomed all light equally.
because it shows that learned scientific societies are beginning to realise that we all want to now a great deal more about scientifle subjects.
The part of aunlight which is most affected is the blue light That is why tobacco smoke looks
L
When they drop the refined edi-
atom bomb in the blue. tion of the l'acific one day this summer, two
In the past too many scient- hundred sheep, goats and pigs are
Smoke Is Yellow ists have resented anybody tak. ing an interest in their subject of finding homes fit for return- Having come to this
battleships to be used an targets. The blue light passing except themselves a Nazi atti- ing civil servants to live in. It is, for five years ho lived
The purpose of this seems to be through it towards your eye is tude if ever there was one, of a nomad and a cheat. or should be, primarily, concern-heavily. He was always on the some check
that scientific man has to have affected by the tiny particles It is time we gave up belloy- with the broader problem of vun. He could never stay in a would call it) before he can really
for control,
and sentiers in all directions, ing that a full crop of berries remedying the acute housing shurt-job, even some remote little conn-be happy about
so that you see a blue cloud meane' n hard winter; that we en experiment. age which affects the communitytry repertory company, for longer And in this case the primary obetween you and the source of can prophesy what is coming
light.
from whether the ash comes as a whole. And in the direction
ject of the experiment is to find He was caught twice. The first out exactly just how horrid
If you think that tobacco out befcr& the oak, or vico of measures to meet that problem, time he claimed he suffered from can be to man. I feel no sorrier smeke is really blue, and that versa; that the wind changes nothing has developed from which epilepsy and they let him go. The for the sheep, goats and pigs than its colour is something more with the tide that there will be any special satisiaction can
I do for mice infected with the than a mere effect of light rain (or, alternatively, fair that
By
flu gern. Some good may come scattering by particles, you can weather) if the moon is "on its out of it. Government is bending its entire
PAUL HOLT
very easily prove that you are back." But it is now reported that in wrong. energies to the meeting of its own
preparation for the bang the na-
Take a handkerchief and blow immediate requirements, and leav-next time he developed-nnd acted | tives of the Pacific lagoon called lled ing the rest to luck and to land-out for a month-s most telling Bikini are being evacuated from their atoll and moved elsewhere. lords, may very well be wrong, and repulsive neurosis. That, in the absence of evidenceins rushed to ald him. They are peaceful and do not murder Army paychiatrists and chap- Tho eport says that the antives or indications to the contrary, is followed him and smothered him each other, a feeling widely spread, which in countless hours of menta They'll learn. could, possibly, be corrected by therapy and good-fellowship. At the issue at frequent intervals of ast he eluded them and worked
To Mr. Ingersoll: away doggedly to get on in his plans and progress. profession. reports on
May I add my penny-worth lo Without such information, the He wasn't doing badly at all, ⠀·
The sun, being low, has more public must Judge by what it sees, not badly at all when peace and the Ralph Ingersoll controversy?
In 1944 I spent from July to dusty atmosphere between itself then he came. And since ddenly and that, so far, is precious little, hest had one carefree day, on September with General Bradley's and us and loses all except the There has, on the other hand, night of full rest.
1st U.S. Army and at the gene-red component of its light. As men come
ral's headquarters.
Bradley's staff talked u
This only happens if the par- lot ticles of dust are smaller than about Monty. They plainly re- grandma's spectacles stenl
the battle.
moont
Hit
When Cats Wash It is quite true that cuts wash the smoke through it. The re- themselves when it is going to sult is a yellow stain; the real rain, and equally true that they ticles is yellow.
smoke par-wash themselves when it is go- colour of tobacco
Ing to be fine, the atmosphere is dusty, It is not anfe to use your most of the sunlight passing corns as a barometer, though a through it is lost and only the bit of dried seaweed will pro- red rays get by. That is why bably tell you if the room is clouds may look red at sunrise damp, a fact which you should or sunset.
know without any seaweed.
Li
been
a series of disquieting re-back from the Forces he finds jobs ports hinting at failure to seize spaced further and further apart. opportunity to speed up the gen-He can't get a room, let alone a cral process of providing new ac.[ pt, to sleep in. He lives in hoa-garded him as a tartar, who would a fifty-millionth of an inch.
tela and stil finds
Cust of the living above his means.
This week the young man who fought for so long to escape nu- thority gave in. Sick of what his irdependence had brought him, he igired the Merchant Navy.
commodation for the many. An offer to import pre-fabricated houses is reported to have been refused. The reason given, the report has it, was that such houses would not stand up to typhoon conditions. If that is true, and all the truth, it shows a type of
Two Voices
Broad and circuses,
But th
with Monty's joyed ing not
only hla the skill of his which they profited
The belief that there is fine weather coming if there is enough blue sky to make a sailor's brocches simply shows that hope springs eternal in every human brenat.
I think Weather will appeal That is why the aun locks to many readers, but do not ex- red through a smoke fog, al-pect it to tell you if the course all the though, because water drops are is going to be dry or muddy for they on twenty times as large as this, the Derby.
admir- the sun seen through a damp Scientists are human; they do
but mist looks white.
not know the answer to many
the most important
A Moral Here
Now, in Britain most of our of
:
By
BY THE WAY BEACHCOMBER
•
And was followed by Match-
Icss Joy, Starbright, Venella Euphorişlum,
Proud Damson and Seaford
Boy.
top-ranking soldier at weather comes from the Atlan-questions. camp knew.just what it meant to have Monty pinning mind that requires a drastic. shak- The darker loaf should be here down the bulk of Rommel's arm- ing up. Another thing. One of in time for the Victory Parade.
our while they ran wild across the the sources of despair about the am alarmed by what this bread Cotentin peninsula, through Brit-
I have always maintained, Mishap At The Stadium prospects of rapid repair of the crisis is revealing. There seem tany, and aweeping down to the that when anybody on the tele-Twas gala night at the races,
Loire. ravages of war is the shortage of to be two strong voices In the Ca-
were on Hur- And all eyez binet. One says:
Curious, I never once saw Mr. phone assumes that he has got "Live danger- materials, and one of the short-
Tho Pother
Ingersoll ously."
"Remem camp.
-ricane Jack, at General Bradley' the right number, you should ages mentioned in
leave him happy in his naive, When somebody drow a red the Housing ber the Foolish Virgins.""
bellof. Á voice sald angrily:! It must be a little of a shock
herring Committee's report is timber. Yet!
"This is Tom. What about that! there is reason to believe that to ordinary folk like you and me,
Across the crowded track. conscious of a coming world fa-
cupboard?", "There's a cat in The favourite swerved for the a Government was offered and re-mine. stole in face of a tighter belt. A fable of our times: Once upon it," said 1. "A cat?" "Yes"
dainty, fused, without examining the to come, now
to read
that the time quite recently an onlight-"Well, put it out, and get the shipment, a large consignment of crisis, so far as it concerns us, is ened employer decided that he cupboard along." "I can't put it timber at a price approximately simply an argybargy about how would like to find out just exactly out. It's ill." "Oh, stop fool- of wheat we what it was that made the dia ing! What's the matter with Migull Lo and his Orchestra on the stand dispensing the one-fifth of that quoted in the many million tons
may keep in our back cupboard. In his factory work. Ho selected |
the cupboard local free market. If the answer Now at Jast the Cabinet say 12 and told them that
he was you?" "I'm in to this is that Government is berause the Americans are doing going to use thein for his experi- too." Then I rang off.
Chorus: Singing Heigh-ho, Home Corner
derry-down, derry-down, dido, carrying out its various works by so-and-so, we have offered to do, ment calling for tenders from local con- wall for any nation to show us a room by themselves. They work-sausage contains enough rotten
so-and-so. Since when have wo
"Tho, new back-to-glamour A Treat In Store
The millions of tourists' who tractors, who provide their own our moral duty? Did we wait in ed 10 per cent. harder. inaterials (at local market rates?) 19807
Then why now? The Then he gave them a free lunch. cardboard to make a now heel will shortly be coming to this for 4 broken boot," writes country will. want à rollable it is fair to suggest that the whole famine is all part of the same Work stayed oven.
"Dymphna."
guide-book. I am trying to policy demands re-examination. It!
The Filthistan Trio meet their needs, and from time has always been assumed that
Honourable Sir, Ho, yes, as to time I shall publish in this housing policy clearly contem-
Footnote to the above para-hen he allowed them to have that we are reading that this column bits of useful informa
friends in to lunch. Work Mammoth Fair is plated a position in which Gav-
also the tion about historical monu- ernment would be responsible for graph:
World Industrious Expedition ments and other matters, begin- Britain is poor, Britain la Finally, ho took away all their
somo hints for the purchase and importation of
privileges and loft them where he of goods we hore Bay, that woning with building materials of every kind, has generally been supposed. The had found them. Work stayed thres, will be of quite willing to horsemen who wish to ride in with the express object of making misunderstanding, if such it is, siendly 10 per cent, above normal display upon our plank agricul- the fashionable Southampton them available to private builders would emphasise, too, the value thuailed. he naked them why ture machines, potteries, motor Row.
Tall-Piece cara and all others of things were working harder, who at or near cost price. It may be, of keeping the public in constant was the main factor of incentiver yes, Flank qu- belly, up, down up bring up a child without first needed to further, trados, ho, "No woman should try to of course, that Government has touch with month-by-mondi de"," said all the timber it needs for many velopments. Nothing is lost by theas nice things
did for us. down.
bringing up a great ape,” she months ahead, in which case, the publicity if there is nothing toment you made us feel importan
But when you started this oxport-
sayo.. } situation would be happler than keep under cover.
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