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PUTTICK-On 2nd January 1947, at Kowloon, to Emilie, wife of Maj. L. C. Puttick, a daughter (Patricia). well.
Both
K.C.R. INCIDENT
'THE' CHINA MALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947.
LONDON DIARY
Hollywood
Takes
Possession Of London
Hollywood, with a flurry of, record, 43 per cent. were dia-dows," providing sheltered nest.
satisfied, and 13 per centing places for the birds. didn't know or couldn't make up their minds one way or the other..
mink and a flash of sapphire, has taken possession of London and London has surrendered unconditionally.
The almost riotous frenzy with which the usually staid city greeted Its glamorous visitors was a subtle form of escapism from the unrelieved gloom of which London has long had a surfeit.
Since that day, when peace! arrived 10 disrupt a fairly united world, Londoners who The distressing K.C.R. shoot read their newspapers have ing affair, in which a British re-known to a nicely when and sident
what emphasis. Foreign was shot dead and two with ather Europeans and a Chinese Minister Bevin would bang his
on, the Peace were wounded, by armed Chinese fist desperadoes, re-emphasises the de- ee table, when and with what mand for rigorous measures at all vehemence Molotov would say "No" in umpteen different stages to check the post-war rise languages, when and with what in serious crime in the Colony. unemotional calm President British law prohibits the applica- Truman would make one of his tion of the summary methods of periodic pleas for increased dealing with gangsters recom Jewish immigration into Pales- mended by Chinese contributors { line.
the correspondence columns of the newspapers, but there can be no compunction", about imposing sentences of the utmost severity on
Conferen-
. This week Londoners learned more important and more elemental facts-at what hour curvaceous Joan Bennett likes
Singapore all convicted terrorists, including her morning cup of tea; how
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the administration of the "cat." In a large measure, this course has bren followed at the Criminal Sessions, where maximum sen tences have several times been im- posed, with indications that some gain has been achieved. It remains, suppart of this policy, for the polier to tighten up crime suppres- sian by every means at its dis- onsal, including increased border patrols, and examination and house-to-house searches in areas)
Dorothy Malone keeps her what nylons from laddering;
Milland thinks of Ray
his breakfast Eggs (dried variety) and the colors of Pat O'Brien's. flamboyant ties.
Press photographers had a gala week taking shots of Kim Hunter hunting for a taxi, of lissom Maria Montez strolling down Piccadilly, and of sundry lovelies displaying their jewelled wealth and elegance in the PANGKONG - MANILA
dining-rooms of luxury West HONGKONG- SHANGHAI
End hotels. HONGKONG--HANGKOK-SINGAPORE Thursday 9th Jan.suspected of harbouring criminal
The significant point is that elements. In the tragic. New in normal times the film stars Year's Day incident, counter-arrival would have occasioned
Agents:
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"Saturday, 4th Jan. Monday, 6th Jan.
Peninsula Hotel Arcade Te 85440.
If as now seems inevitable. non-essential factories are closer down during the winter be
By G.C
cause of the fuel shortage, the Government's popularity
will probably take a nose-dive.
Closing of these factories would mean even fewer "luxur
les" and more stringent aus- terity for a public already fed to the teeth with austerity and stoppages.
Miners Won't
Work With Poles The man in the street finds it difficult to understand why te miners won't allow exiled Poles in Britain to help get the coal which the nation so vitally needs.
The position of the Poles is a puzzling one and nobody is more puzzled about it than the Poles themselves.
There are now 108,000 of them in Britain, and a further 62,000 will arrive from Allied theatres overseas, in the next few weeks.
Many of them flew with the RAF during the war and gain ed many decorations.
Yet, on the whole, the Poles are definitely unpopular, and have been described as "strut- ting, arrogant Fascists."
Much of the ill-feeling against the Poles is due to the fact that others of them, mere youngsters at the outbreak of war, were conscripted into the German army or labour or ganisations, and only joined the Allied forces from prisoner of
war cages.
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fered for information leading to The fantastic publicity which the arrest of the murder gang. It enveloped this week's proceed seems more than likely, however, ings proved two things-first, that the hold-up of the K.C.R. that Londoners are hungry for rail-bus was the result of an in-glamer: and, second, that a cursion from across the border. nicely-filled silk stocking is now-Fascists. and a lapse of more than 24 hours adays more interesting than a
sombre political speech. since the attack without an arrest
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Also high in the list of awis' favourite resting spots were old hollow trees in farm grounds.
Now the old buildings have hollow been Awept away, the trees have been felled-and the owl is left without a twig above his head.
Result has been a decline in Britain's owl population.
Apart from the owls, the over the unly people worried
who decline are the farmers, used to rely on owis for keep- ing rodents in check.
in A well-housed burn owl good hunting form can dispose of four rats, und 25 mice each night.
Small comfort to the owl. and even less to human house. Tele- a "Daily huntera, was graph" advertisement offering for rent a house which would sleep seven persons. The rent asked was a modest 30 guineas
a week.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
COPR. 1940 MY NEA SOOVICE, NO, T, M. REG, VIG PAT, DIF.
8-20
"I was never so embarrassed in my life-the patrol wagon broke down and we haddu walk right through down!”
"Speckers" Are Wishful Thinkers
People with a speculative eye to a cupro-nickel financial Montgomery of Alamein gives a little advice on future have started to hoard half-crowns in the wishful be lief that they'll rise in value -as the sovereign did after world War I--when copper and nickel coins replaced them.
How To Win Battles And Lead People
and
wasting The hoarders are their time, as the value of the silver in the present shilling is silver
Gone are the good cld days patient of the inefficiency about fivepence, and would have to appreciate con- siderably before the half-crown when a thousand soldiers could dilatory methods of Parliament, an impossible compared it, unfavorably with his is worth as much as its face be lung into
salient and march out len strong own ability as a soldier "to give value.
In addition to the half-crown compensated by the thought of an Immediate decision and to see During the period, in which shortage, there is, in the mean- Tennyson's theirs not to reason it take shape at once in action. time, also a copper famine, and why."
Field-Marshal Montgomery, of he ruled England he tried out bank clerks have been instruct- ed to ration copper supplies to
customers.
Alamein, hastens to acknowledge five different systems of govern
than
this in his Walker Trust Lecture ment, and all falled. At the end and was governing alone News-vendors and others Leadership to the University he Although they are
much more absolutely than ever, of St. Andrews,
The soldiers of today" he Charles had attempted to rule. fully "screened" by security who deal in 'small change, are to cashing in on the shortage by
says, "will no longer follow Napoléon hat the same troubley authorities before coming
blindly, and unquestioningly to From the time he became First England, the impression per asking and getting-6,0 for a siets that many of them are 5/- bag of coppers, from shop an unknown end. They require Consul, political rather
keepers short of change. With the acute labour short- Official reason for the copper age and dwindling fuel sup shortage is the weather.
cannot The recent cold spell caused commander must ensure that his concile plies, the Government bodied men, and it is probable meters, and as the gus meters Shinwell are cleared infrequently, there will strongly urge the miners is a resulting scarcity of pen- that Fuel Minister to change their minds on the nick. question of the Poles,
more enlightened handling than military factors influenced, his the soldiers of bygone days. The decisions, and his failure to re- his political aspirations
dually led him to the disasters
Idoes not encourage high hope that politicians this week ran a, poor afford to ignore 160,000 able- lots of pennies to be put in gas troops know always what they with what was militarlly possible
the fugitives will be quickly up- prehended. Such immediate action
as was possible was taken; includ ing a warning to all border posts, and it can be safely assumed that efforts will not be relaxed. In- ridents of the kind have not been unknown across the border, but this was the first attempt at ban ditry upon a Kowloon "local" and repetition must be discouraged.
TEST OF AUTHORITY
It is little wonder, then, that second to glamor. Stayed Away In Millions The municipal elections were carried out in an atmosphere of complete apathy.
Pre election meetings
The Poles aren't the only" throughout the country were people having difficulty in set- often attended by so few electing down in England. tors that telephone kiosks would Two Army
Bergeants who have been more appropriate will soon be demobilised wrote assembly places than large town from India advertising for two wealthy brides, "us that is the only way we can face life in civvy street."
Applicants were requested to send photographs and certified financial statements.
halls.
The results, however, showed that the Labour
Government
hasn't lost any great measure of public support, and that the Tory Party has a long way to go before it comes back into popular favor.
On the other hand, the latest Gallup Poll illustrated that there is no wild flush of popular
It's A Hard
It is perhaps indicative of ber- ter things that the World Zionist Congress has concluded in a de- finite strengthening of the more
World For Owls moderate and statesmanlike ele-
Latest inhabitanta in Bri- ments in the movement. The re-
tain to be affected, by the hous- election of Dr. Weitmann to the enthusiasm for the Labouring shortage are 'barn owls.
They used to be comfortably post of President was, at the out- Administration.
housed in old farm buildings and barns which often
set, a point to the protagonists of The poll showed that 44 per reason, though his majority of cent. of those questioned were
had
101 against 48, with 130 absten- satisfied with the Government's specially-constructed "owl win tions, qualified the satisfaction i
with which his victory could be acclaimed. Dr. Weizutann stands for the older, spirit of Zionism, before the sufferings Hitler in- flicted on the Jewish community| engendered violence out of des-
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This Hat Is
Really Something
I deff my diarist's hat this
week in tribute to that adorn- ing the fair head of Australian nightingale, Marjorie Lawrence, why is visiting London...
Marjorie's hat is truly thing to be seen.
are being asked to do.".
Gone are the days, too, when of Muscow: and the Peninsula,
the loss of battles could be blam-
ed on the man in the ranks. As long as his military pur- Monty lays that lie by the heels pose was uppermost in his mind when he says: "Failure in war he succeeded: but when political considerations dominated hix
By NOEL OTTAWAY policy, the desire to impose hill
is
always due to one of two causes: To: faulty command or
io bad staff work and sometimes to both. I can think of no instance where failure has been due the fighting man."
I It
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L
works out like this: Two
will on Europe Jed him to un- dertake milliary operations which were beyond his power 10 achieve,
The "pulitical". campaigns Bri- fain fought in the Second World War without any hope of win- ning them, although not specifical- ly mentioned by Monly, meet their condemnation in tour grief sentences: ...........
I am no fashion expert, and mostly don't notice what peo- ple are wearing, but even can't fall to notice a hat when armies are locked together in bat it has two 12-inch stuffed to and the issue is hidden be-
"Many battles have been kangaroos sitting on a nest of hind the black smudge of fire fought for political and not for and smoke and the squat bulk military reasons, and these have gum-tree kaves and nuts.
Miss Lawrence, who is here of tanks.
been the graveyard of many a Then, miles behind the lines, soldier's reputation. The soldler for a month's series of recitals, explained that a Melbourne de one of the opposing commanders is the servant of the statesman, signer modelled the hat special- begins to lose heart. Unconscious-and is therefore bound to be ly for her as "a morale-raiser."ly he conforms to his opponents subject to political pressure.
of attack and slowly his She added that it was the plan
"He must be strong enough to In the forces are smashed to pieces.
resist such pressure whenever it only one of its kind
"A commander must-watchconflicts with his clear military
world..
I could readily believe that carefully his own morale. A purpose.
He must be prepared to very, firm and to refuse In
be bo
Much as
1 admired Marbattle is a contest between the
two opposing comman jorie's extravaganza, I'm glad will of I bought my own hat is Syd- ders: the one whose heart falls forced to do something which he whch the issue hangs in the considers is not capable of being
ney.
I've just seen a 19th century tempérance leaflet.
balance, will lose."the", battle.”. done!
Even the soldier-hero who bèi, comes the soldier-politician is
D
ab
,
It bears an alluring picture debunked by "Monty" If there Has: age, anything to do with 'ality was able to command respect
of a mug of foaming beer and is one piece of advice he under the sueness of a military leader? I was no certain augury for the
man lines, it is that that the general "Monty" thinks not. The art of triumph of the kind of policy he
cautions, the working against spending his sustenance who lays down his command war. is relatively simple and the
when the war is won would be qualifies which make great? is likely to favour. However, the
on liquor......
ralher decision to suspend six members
Warming up to the argu-well advised not to enter Par commander are inherent of the extreme Revisionist group
THERE IS one kind of situs
by liament under the misapprehen- than acquired. for their alleged activities in the tion which is absolutely ideal for been made, at Wes; except forment, it points out that
which West obtained.
abstaining completely from beersion that because he could lead Napoleon was 27 when he con- soldiers. In, battle he can Jend aucred northern Italy. Wolfe was United States is an unmistakable your holding the ace and one or
the lead of a singleton. It includes With the perfect combination
he could save 45 a year.
civilians in peace.
34 when he' captured Quebec; at West circumstances of of
for it. bid by the moderates for
Under the picture of the mug
the other end' of the scale, 'Marl- two small trumps or the king and opened his heart singleton, South
of beer is the caption: "Every thority and discipline over the two little ones. It also includes.
won it in dummy and
borough was 52 when he first immediato
The Duke of Wellington retired rise to high and independent reckless elements. The curbing of knowledge of what is your part-ly led trumps, finessing the 10 Time This Pint Mug Is Taken
to politics when his military command, and Abercrombie con- career was ended,, and" Coleridge ducted, a short but brilliant that as fourth-best, so knew My envy at the thought of complained that he tried to rule palen in Egypt at the age of wine., Second, when he South had only a singleton. He beer at 3d a pint was out England as though it were incited desperate acts, is one step leads trumps, you expect to win therefore, took it with the A. in weighed by the arithmetical devast parade ground. towards asserting control over the while still ha
оде or two stead'
end of a lower card, to make duction that the 19th century "The qualities required by a month. gangsters in Palestine itself. The your partnera auit for him to Ka nice play.
small trumps.
you lead West think he did not hava the working man would have to soldier and by a politician are decision whether or not to parti, win. Fourth and last, he zeturns
East of course returned his drink 2600 pints of beer a year at opposite poles, and only a cipate in the Palestine Confer- your singleton suit and you ruff heart 3 The latter, reckoning that is a lot of beer to step sesed both."
men in history have pos- 8 for West to ruff with the before he could spend £45 and few ence in London when it is
A FC with small
the irresponsible Anglo-phobes of it. With that lineup, first you
ner's best suit, because he had bid through to the K, Now. West led To a Public House To Be Filled
the movement in the United your
your
lead
States, whose verbal excesses have presumaon which the declarer als diamond 4. East could read' It Costs 3d."
[sumed on Ján, 14 still remains in suspense. The act of participa-
tion itself would be some assur-
ince that the Jewish leaders were
prepared to try their footing on SK 93
the middle ground of partition H 9 and, if it coincided with a re- D 10 7 5:4 solute attempt to put an end to C 9 8 0 4 2- terrorism, a new atmosphere
East could not win the next dia- drinking.
Random Notes On The Cuff ·
a GB.
Cromwell, who fried both I fighting and législating, found
Montgomery will be 59. next
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of two if he had taken the spade
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S J87 HKQ75 4. D.8.3 2,
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