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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1947. :
CHINA MAIL England's Famed John Bull
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WAR DEBTS
By A LONDON CORRESPONDENT
A couple of centuries ago,
certainly don't smile when pull- or, to be exact, in the year 1712,
Ing wheels or carrying shop- a writer named Arbuthnot who
ping bags. Most of them are was a close friend of Drun
much more likely to gaze wor Swift and Alexander Pope,
riedly into these receptacles pretty summer
and-if they are Cockneys and published a satire on England's conduct of certain affairs. He frock and hatlesa,
typical to remark to each other: should be on hor shopping baswot the...I'm to give the ole entitled it "The History of
ket and should show happy John Bull and from that day
dressed in a Her smile
if I know.
Sporting Women
to this John Bull has been the anticipation of the meals that man for 'is supper I'm B-blowed
will be made for her family." the name commonly used for ... H.K.$18.00
English people nu a body.
Another, equally imaginative, B.K.$16.00
At a much Inter date, an says "let un have a Mrs. Bull artist represented John Bull in portrayed as one H.K,$72.00
of those a sketch which hit the popular many cheery buxom housewives fancy to much a degree that his we see so often in quenes. Put drawing still studs today in a shopping basket in her hand the minds of millions as the as a reminder to everyone that symbol of the typical English-Lu.til we have all our shouldera man. All the world knows the to the wheel and pull together Mr. Dalton's insistence on a
burly, countrified middle-aged] Mrs. Bull will still have substantial scaling down of Briman, somewhat corpulent and worry about rations and quenca tain's sterling debts naturally out of condition, clad in a cul- and shortages." commands wholehearted
sup- away cont, breechen and top- port. This is not because the Bri- bools, wearing a Union Jack Well, there is a lot of mixed tish people wish merely to free waistcoat and 急 low-crowned stuff in these new ideas about a new John and Mary Ball even themselves from an unsupportable | hat. burden on their postwar economy,
In England the figure of this though they would be far less Englishmau has been especially typical than was our old Jufina jeering word, or a terse con- but because they consider these debts to
in
to
London, May 13.
unexpected
From all sorts of
urces comes convincing cen-
(trmation that the era that rc. garded sporting women, as nurs trous and a suitable subject for ridiculé is part of the dim and dis tant past.
Not song ago a scoffing laugh,
be unjust, Given the liked because of its genial ex- -Ivenuse he really did exist at¦ demning phrase was all that could;
bluff good natured simplicity pression and its suggestion of one time.
be expected when women's sport
and honesty. We took it
Many a British girl is bright was mentioned, but now the ap and breezy
the complimentary today but proving eye. even ourselves because we recognised when he is a young housewife written word and the flattering those pleasing characteristles with
inacie movie camera a shopping banket she art of the the as preeminently Our
all combine to enhance the at own doesn't dress in pretty summer Even so, it would appear that frocks to stand
the more strenuous quenes for traction of this name and the figure of wet Ash nor does she smile into spare time activities for the mo. John Bull have not invariably the basket in anticipation grdern freedom-loving woinan. aroused similar emotions meals she will get for her In an idle imment, I dropped
nor does the family
the hearts of other peoples,
*****
the
family
—
in to see a movie an English country town. Showing in the programme wiss a 50-minute fen-j Lure An entitled "Women In Sport"-Just to remind 113 GC Bouverie Street.
CARNIVAL
SADIE MAS SWEET SHOPPE
Tokel
LEDAD 1967 BY HEA KERVICE,
By Dick Turner
"Coo, Mitzi! Your eyes are just like the rich, golden, nougat contera in our $2.98 special!"
Missing Links In Atomic Research
the
The air around the world is stripped so that only -Her-with-missing-links-in-the-nuelous-remains,-each-ono—a
It was a good, sensibly.inade secrets of atomic energy whose proton, each falling with tre Alm, bul inevitably it caught discovery la the great postwar mendous velocity. some giris in unusual-not to say goal of physical science,
These hydrogen nuclei, 'hit' unllattering-postures. A Iew
Que of years ago that provincial uullener
the atomic bomb the air so hard that the nuclear
A. energies of atoms of oxygeŃ"''
Runour at the light of some of the autre-mer-upurual shots. But they remained silently admiring throughout,
No: Our typien] London usewives of today-however woukt have indulged to the full scientists, Dr. John bright or buxom they may be their notoriously, halve sense of Wheeler of Princeton (New and nitrogen are jarred loose, Jersey) University, tells about These energies emerge in the there links in the current issue form of five kinds of particles of the American Scientist, n and two immaterial rays. The, quarterly publication of the particles are protona, neutrons,¦ Society of The Sigma XI.
"electrona, poaltrons and mesons,*;
The latter are rays as yet not.. found anywhere except in the.. uir.
Krakatau
Menaces Again
simple facts of this extraordinary war indebtedness for Britain's sterling balances have no parallel history-the individual ៩។ judge for himself whether British attitude is justified. These getling balances, totalling rough Iv £3,500,000,000 consist of debts, incurred by Britain overseas in cation of the Allied war ef fort. They are held by a large are beginning to suspect that
However, in these days we smile. number of countries, chief among thin accepted symbolical pre- And how the dickens Bre them India and Buma with ap-sentment of John Bull is not moba of cheery busom ladies proximately £1,900,000,000, The only out of date but out of burdened with bags to join with Dominions-account for £111,000,--tune with the times. It in to the rent-of-w-in putting ali 000, those of other sterling area reminiscent of the age when our shoulders' to a wheel while countries close on £600,000,000,
the lower orders' were content we simultaneously push and Large sumns were spent in build- to nek the deity to bless the puli?. ing up the defence of Allied ter-
squire and his relations keep us in our proper stations: itories overseas, New roads were also that John Bull in a trile built, ducks, barracks and air out of condition and consider firls. Further, part of the debtably over weight for a day of was incurred in the purchase of rations and general austerity. war materials and supplies. Some It is recognised that John is Countries who were Britain's no longer typical and that to-
is furnished
Even the sight of the distinct. supplies and day one might wander along
ly corpulent British woman scull- facilities on the basis of cash pay- every road in this country withs
In some nations, the study men in sterling, which sterling out ever meeting him in
ing champlon driving a fantasti. they have placed
cully fragile sculling "shell" like is said to be part of an interna- flesh. on deposit in
un urrow through the That being so. there are
water tional atomic weapons, race. In Britain and which have nav ac-
brought hardly a titter from those the United States, the study Also emitted 'are those who Any the time cumulated to the total mentioned.
hay
appreciativa povie fans. They nat is when we Come
purely scienting, with no rays, that are he searchlights, ought to doj Britain's sterling balances are, away, with the image of old
enthralled while * skilful in short, the result of her war John and replace it with an-
mentator described in full detall America's air forces and navy tion is in doubt.
com military restrictions, although and neutrinos, whose constitu
Neutrines, effort, an effort directed to the other and a younger namesake.
the intricacles and benefis of most are giving money, men, planes however, are regarded un Uitle of the sports at present victory not merely of Britain but Also that the new John might, of all the United Nations. As take unto himself
popular with the fun-loving fair and apparatus for the quest bundles (or quanta) of energy. wife-
Many of the bits produce Mr. Dalton has said, "These Mary Bull.
The links are seven kinds of star-shaped explosions. There – Batavia, Java. May, 13, Comic relief was provided in- are our fruits of victory: these Folks are even writing to the Anak Krakatau-the child of tentionally. There was the tradi- atoms in the air. They are call- more showers of the particles radioactive rnys that come from are more of these hits, and. vast debts nominally owed by us newspapers about it and some Krakatau-la showing explosive ionnily beautiful but dumb to those who fought with us inches of a young,
are ranking preliminary sket signs today of repeating the blondd who appeared at intervals ed cosmic rays, which is mostly and rays at high altitudes. But the great inter-Allied effort". alert working man' with
muscular,
misnomer, since all except same rays come all the mighty eruption with which its and disastrousty tried to emulate A The result is that
bix
in the earth's down to earth, and penetrate Britain has Bleeves rolled up and fists rais
and the fonts of the experts. But in ene are known father destroyed itself
the etncluding sequence, showing radioactive minerals. The lone hundreds of fect of earth- emerged from the war as the one ed to the sky apparently either frightened the world in 1863, and only belligerent with its ex defying, invoking or threaten- Eruptions of the
weli.exception also is expected to water. original expert diving girls at a
known swimming pool, tie Miss be found in common rudilone- Common at the levels where ternal capital position very ing something or somebody, Krakatau, a lonely island Dumb-bell hnd her moment. tive substancea.
men lives are mesons, electrona gravely impaired. Financially, it may be the lightning, a trade Volcano isolated in the Sunday Climbing to the top of the high. It visible, these air, has fared worse even than the union or an employer. Let Sumatra was the greatest in perfeet 60-foot swallow dive.
Straits between
rays and gamma, or X-rays, Java and est diving board she performed 4, would look like swarma of The difference between Axis nations. If the sterling leave him thus for a moment
shooting stars, interspersed 'raya and those from radioactive debts were to be maintained at
and see what people write to human history.
Local girl made good! Feeling with acurchlight beams, Their minerals and laboratory up- Thirty thousand Indonesians very happy about this, the audi direction is mostly downward, paratus, is in power. One air the present level, long after the the press about Mary. defeated
The symbol for a New Bri- were killed by the mighty tidal ence listened enthusiastically to for they begin at something ray sometimes has an countries had ceased tain could be a bright, braczy, waves and
hail of falling the commentator's signing off paying Britain would be paying typical British girl, with a shop-/ stones which devantated South cominents and heartily applauded more than 100 miles altitude. in electron-volts of one follow- a form of tribute to the rest of ping basket full of the good Sumatra and the Bantam re his highly ermplimentary remarks.
The Bource of these rays ated by 17 zeros." the world for her part in achiev- thinge of life and even those gion of West Java.
Yes, thnes certainly. have the top is unknown. They sp- The extraordinary energies ing victory. These are the rea- in short supply.
to be hydrogen Tidal waves swept three times changed. United Press.
atoms, of the air rays are relied upon to clear up the mysteries at be around the world,
how nuclel get their
great energies and how they may be tapped for universal power.
a
sons why Britain regards the "Preferably she should present volume of her Sterling
debts
as unjust.
Nevertheless,
she seeks nor for their repudiat-
tion but for a scaling down to
down to 100 Years
Ago Today
By STANLEY SWINTON
Volcanic dust settled as far way as the United States.
For 10 days the, Indonesian skies were darkened.
dis-
The original Krakatau appeared in the explosion which gained tremendous new violence when sea water poured into the red hot gap as the, island split
(Excerpts from The 'China upart. Mail, May 14, 1847).
sex.
most
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities”
A GOOD RESOLUTION
by the Q. The diamond Kwan given to the A and. the heart 10 drove out East's K. Struggling to get in the dummy, East led the apade to the J and Q, for the your defence's third trick. The heart 0.
If you want a good New Year's
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requences
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Moscow Report
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reasonable dimensions. There is one other factor which justifies tois cuim; during the war prices rose very sharply in some of the creditor countries, yet despite the depreciation of these currencies!
In 1928 Krakatau emerged compated to sterling Britain
from the sea. It disappeared in throughout paid these countries for Just Received Per "John 1929, reemerged in 1930 and resolution gonds and services an unaltered Ogaunt"!-Asscrted Invoice of promptly erupted on n amall bridge, Just say this to yourself:napade A then set the con rate of exchange. Apart from the Gentlemen's patent leather wolk-scale.
"I am going to give myself and tract, which was impossible moral issue involved there areling Summer Walking Shoes; A Dutch nav party aboard my partners every possible make against good defence and Washington, May 13. strong practical reasons for reduc- Violet Powder; English made silk
A destroyer recently made the fitting major
chance la find out if we have a might even get sot twa. tion in Britain's war
Umbrellas: als: A choice let of first postwar, visit to the son trumps in each hand." To carry indebted-
four ault with
Both the Gecond and third the US Army Air ness. In the first place, iter small Cumberland Haine in first of Krakatau. Steam geysered that out, you must be prepared to that could have been done. East
batter bidding Forces today denied re- rate condition and a few dozen ability to repay these debts is of real Devonshire Cyder.
up from the lagoon.
bit a Tour carder topped by leas actual rould of 2-No Trumps, was Ports published in Mos- strictly limited by her capacity to
HOLMES & BIGHAM.
1. Within one hour there was high card strength than the aver, very bad, when he should have cow that former Japan-
two mightly submarine
called one of the majors. Even ex- og book prescribes. All such plosions.
suit really requires, in order to after the 2 No Trumps, West airmen were being avoid undue riak, le a secondary could have done better than rebid enrolled in the AAF. One member of the explora-high card or cards which would his diamonds or raise to 3»N« [M] tory party salt, he saw a ginnt probably stop the auit if it got Trumps as he did. If he was
truly A spokesman said there was boulder weighing at least a ton fell against a No Trump contract bent on winning scares, he could "not a word of truth" in the hurled Yo fest into the air. bid by your partner.
have hazarded 3-8pades over reports, which appeared in the New measurements showed.
depending on the surplus strength Communist Party Krakatou's crater was 620 feet;
indleated by the No Trump Jump to protect
lack
"Pravda." his own Today we have made a selection above sea level-45 feet higher
strength. No matter which part- ner reaches 4-Spades, it is mak- rapid slowing down in Britain's from the official etiamunication than when last checked in 1940.
ablo by proper play, losing the United States occupation diamond. authorities paid Japanese, flera spade, "« hourt and
to train at airfields in Iokata Tomorrow's Problem and Saltama..
caru foreign exchange. Payment
to the creditor countries in the form of exports of plant and manufactured
goods.. would
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essential to the British production
machine. This would result in a
and
much esteemed
purchases from world markets.
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war damaged that in order to bolster up the destroyers which rondezvouged economy but she is confident foolish expedition and his own there found the water £te) - | that with will power and re-own reputation, Sir John Davia away all the murine vegetation.
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