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.DEATH
IN 20 YEARS
By GLANVILLE CAREW
18
always been a highly respectable one and Innocuous and, in the
eyes of some, even a symbol of tendencies. Not goody-goody
bl of them will care to recall, or will even know, that in the
certain
inorals of cur
Cocoa-Binge
Evil thoughts have never been have inspired, nor
any next morning headaches been induced by even the most prolonged and determined cocon-binge, it is not recorded that there are seriousS after effects of over indulgence. has not been | It is true that an extremist in
An Item of news which will disturb. muny
people, but, will probably leave all more folk completely unmoved, has just been given to us in a newspaper. 24354
It appears that 'an expert' has said that coeta may disappear altogether within the next 20
At present, however, it is sald 18th Century there was a pass years. We gather that even now that the Ministry of Food [ing and wholly groundless fear there is a more or less imminent worried about the situation. aphrodisiac qualities which might
that cocon possessed danger of a shortage of cocoa, Icon hardly be that, behind the
Insidiously sap It seems that a virus is attack-scenes, the cffcipl
expect. ing the trees in West Africa Ling to be rushed by hordes of young women—especially at the with the result that in the Gold cocua-crazed addicts inflamed by servant class, ... Coast alone some millors of the fumes of their favourite tip imes are out of health and may ple and demunding to be told be dying.
what they are to do, Twenty and Such news is indeed serious thirty and forty years on when nough in itself but there is an coroa shall be no mare; and why addendum to which
the Is more hasn't
Government dane SILVA. ON Sunday, February than serius. We are told that is mething about ?
15, 1948, at the St. Maric exports do
not know Hospital, Shanghal, Augusto nature of the virus and that so
the
Not Rationed Thiero Da Silva, aged 8 tar, they are 'baffled' -- which is years, dearly-beloved hus- amazing that
So far, c:coa we can only band of Mrs. Julia Barrettope and trust that the experts rationed at all and even in the ardent liquora (such for Da Silvn, father of Alzira,
are not attached to our Food, or worst times of general shortage stance an Peter the Great whont Joan, Gustavo, Maretts and Health, or any
many other Ministry, of Regina and grandfather of In this country we
things it has always ideal restorative 18 said to have know
that been readily and plentifully ob-been
Inced brandy generously Reinaldo,
only the great detectives of tajnable in the stores by the with cayenne
would pepper) Scotland Yard are ever 'baffled"; public.
hardly consider Inspiring and experts never, or hardly ever.
Even if the threatened shortage | would certainly find it Insipid,
it leads only to rattoning Any way, research is going on
done will nevertheless it has never but the virus has not Mr. & Mrs. DAVID DRUMMOND baptized even with initials, hikely numbers
any harm, yet been be a serious deprivation to vast working Comilies
Curiously enough, eceon, which because the experis can't who rely upon it less as a grate was introducted into England In think of n
ful and comforting beverage than the days of the Puritans, when name ст 13 num. 8.8. "Canada Mall" ber for him. They wifi, of Jas nourishing item of their austerity, was as it is now, the
course, given time: they need household catering.
nutionu) motto, has always been nut despair. A couple of hun- We cannst afford to lose any
with Ras:clated
religious non- Even "YEAR OF TEST”
The today or earlier, e more sustaining items, fluid or conformity. yeurs ago,
cocoa firms,
wh:se east soild, from our domestic bills of famous virus attacked people in Having broken all
Cadbury, sorts of Anglia. The experts of the day fare but we are nervously con-names-Fry,
Rown- records in 1947, Britain is enter-apparently became 80 giddy se us that when such pleces of tree-are household words with
P.P.C.
L
dred
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
T39
19012
GJPR, 1947 BY KEA SEN
Dak Tam
10.3
"It seems mighty funny to me that all the conversation,
ceases the minute I come into the room!"
BUSH AIRLINE THAT
ing 19.18 prepared tur Even while running around looking news sumchaw treep into news us are of fine old Quaker stack, CRISS-CROSSED THE
more austerity than in 1947 for a name to fit the
challenging
Britain's war
100 Years. Ago
acc.
cacou
can
of
A Jovial drinking song like the "rhein wine" translated into a rollicking rouring chorus of
'Pour out the cocon 'Let it flow
'Like a free and running river...!
often merely It must be admitted that cocon stranger paragraphs they
marked galety | Ax Sir Stafford Cripps, has just that they decided to call him, foreshadow official intentions and does not tend (put it, 1948 is tu
tem, be a "year pro
spirit. Fancy if we Whirligigousticon, we speculate whether and Just uf test.”
whereupon be vandshed. Verb how long it will be before cocon Joins the list of rationed or even Sap. This
prospect
vanished things. seems paradoxical when viewed
So we shall see what we shall against industrial statistics. The
Meanwhile consumers of explanation uf the paradox is
reflect complacently that
Josses were
that their favourite beverage has so great, the setbacks she suf fered as an international finan cier su devastating, the postwar price rise in things Britain needs has been su strep, that the gains in production and export in 1947 do not promise any quick sui- ution of Britain's problems, but only indicate that there good chance of sulving them in time, with sufficient effort, Coal hay been the
Licen
in
A
most
From the files at the "Chiwa Mail"}
to
ten.
any
U.S.
Navy Of The
# large
Not Afraid
Future
BANANA BELT
From Lachie McDonald
both ways
Sydney, January. the whole flight and three trips. Ned Kelly's Airline has were being, mate scrounged its last piece of engine each week.' and “traded" for its final carton of American cigarettes along the 6,000 mile mall run from Melbourne, 38 degrees north.
Twice A Week
Today Lancastrians are fly- ing the route twice a week, «tho Australian officials knew this only stop between Australia and Ine 85 the Royal Australian Japan being at Clark Airfield, Air Force courier service to Japanese terminal now is Bofu, Japan. Twin-engined Dakotas west of Iwakuni. A from November, 1945, to early servico carries on mail and pas- this January made 577 trips sengers for Tokio. without one serious crash.
feeder
more
It's quicker now, and comfortable for priority pasaen- Boys flying, the route and
gera in a hurry to reach Japan. men along the way who relied But it will never be the same on the Dakotan for their letters as when Australian Air Force and frequently for their food, boys were flying the service on has a lot of other names for the a shoestring and their own in. service. It was one
of those genuity,
passengers and air crews sti}] couldn't get anything to cat Melbourne-Adelaide - the berwech and
ናይ'
Tsingtao, Feb. 22.
United "Sir-If anything en sth the Thanks to an expert reserve fleet, the pillow of a dying man-alleviate his States "need not be afraid of any Naval even- sufferings,
art solace bis East
tuality in the immediate future," Vice-Ad- monsents, it is to be found in the
miral Oscar C. Badger said yesterday. sympathy with which he sees himself difficult hurdle. But miners have regarded by those from whose exalt The nation's Navy manpower reserve "already is
working lunger houtsed position in life he is little led voluntarily. Mechanization pro-to expert compassion much less
in very favourable position and getting better all the time," he told the Associated Press. gammes are taking shape. Ex-experienceng, their hands the
The U. S, Navy's promptness and is worthless. It must be a part of ports of coal to
the Continenterest and most signal sers of thoroughness in patting vessels and team."
hal kissines and quentiun, and" began with the New Year, aim-those ta 11 time when they are equipment in storage soon after thi
The reserves, he said, "are a very i ing at a 1948 target of 10,000, ost required and consequently best which can be tapped on short notice, being baik to a fine state of spirit anything except guts.
produced
reservoir essential part of the Navy. They are out that never had enough of By the middle of 1946-when ooo tons, with 15,000,000 the appreciated. bull's-eye for 40. They will "It gives me unspeakable pleasure in face of new aramic and other meat are coming along very fast."
The Navy, he said, did not stands and endeavour. Armories and equip. "Ned Kelly's Airline" Belp to offset expected declines record in the calms of
your l
favourite term, "I am satisfied with the result of the journal the deep sense of gratitude developments in warfare. in some other lines.
which 1, in common with all
"In general, as new motherl
In case you don't Darwin except tea and a biscult the recruiting programme," he said, friendiest, When one puts
know the achieve rates of this Regiment, feel fa warfare are developed, the proper referring to the reserve.
your Australia,
at Alice Springs-no.one would Ned think. ments of British workers beside our
have been bold enough to fore. whose worthy Colonel,
Admiral Badger arrived on Thurs Kelly was an oldtime bushran- ben-adjustments in material and
Admiral day to take over the West their continuing sacrifices, one evolence and beneficence-always, ining are being made," said
Pacific ger whose name to succeeding cast another 18 months operation Command from Vire Admiral sees that, for Britain the war is deed, conspicuous-have known
bounds since the present great
Older Dakotaa then The history of the past is that Charles M. Cooke-Associated Press. generations has become a local without a single casualty. tar from over. The Nazi ambitality-broke out among
synonym for cool check, new-weapons-never-fail to develop · Recruits Needed-
cracking up Skilled --mainten.-———)- ion to reduce British power in "With a philanthropy as
nol
Washington, Feb. 21 The U.S. Navy's main nim is
There was plenty of that in anca mechanics were flocking the world had partial fulfillment and disinterested as it is creditable.
[F At least 70,000, men must be the Australians reduce the time interval between the
who planned from the service back to civilian An the economic level. Now praiseworthy and useful, he fearless
life. Transports were being Britain is fighting its way back.
braves death and disease daily, appearance of new forms of figly recruited, or re-enlisted, by the the first flights to Japan, and in
brothers who did the grounded along the route more night
almost say hourly tay! evening and the adjustment in them. In United States Navy before July their mere chapter ni no
and more frequently. the stillness and melancholy
the past, DE
Government economies and 1 to ensure the peace of the flying. competition with other countries night) perambulating the warls other factors made this gap a big and world." sald Mr. J.L. Sullivan, for the world's trade but
the Hospital, and whispering expensive one, he said. This tun Secretary of Navy, in a broadcast
Only aircraft available to fly here today. the tion has improved today,
mail to Australian troops going gigantic job of economic salvage words of hope and comfort to
The capital ship of the future, he
Declaring that the poor patients, whose pallid.
Because the Australians flew to help occupy conquered Japan in and out of Okinawa in wen- that will eventually do much
tenances are lit up with a smile of said, will be a far ory from yester; needed to keep ships, planes and were beaten-up Dakotas] that to put all the world's trade on gladness whenever his welcome fool Jay's battleship whose emphasis fell shore stations operating, he add- had been on transport service ther that often stopped U.S.
better balance.
on heavy guns and armainent alone. ed. "Upon these men, these ships during the Pacific war. steps are beard approaching their
Rervice North
transporta, American beds!
mechanica at Naha genially
"This is
•
the
as it
រាជ
ITCOM
celin
Badger.
counter weapons."
men were
"Adopted"
were
To-morrow's Capital Ship and these planes depend to of Darwin was only one Austra "adopted the Australians and
will large, extent our security and the lian-operated landing strip suit-
"Tomorrow's capital ship-
Mr. Sullivan said that the men
needed becausé were
of the
that
worry.
Japan. This was on Morotai aightlong with engines Island in the Halmaheras, the weren't an American now ex-Dutch-owned islands northeast This helped small, hard-press- of the Gelebes. Beyond Morotai de Australian maintenance units all airfields were under Ameri- at Iwakuni, Morotai and Dar. can control,
win to keep a handful of the older aircraft going until re placements arrived,
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
[
Talk Their Way
Trade Pact
"it in, I assure you, as delightful
If there are
touching to witness the of carry rocket guns, in short, every peace of world. We must not fall." able for aircraft running to frequently left their cois to fuss political over fectionate solicitude and paternal weapon to make it effective
aloat. the trade tones in
Speed and manoeuverability will be pact which anxiety which are depicted on Britain recently signed with "his own dear boys,” as he familiar the battleship of yesterday is outda: short-term ́enlistments
manly brave ahe mingles among important. Without modernization, Soviet Russia, the British do
ly calls learning their wishes ed. Remember, the big ship alone, piring-Reuter not seem to be conscious of them. and
wants, and Their foreign policy, they say, providing for all their little necessi remains... tied to the Marshall lies out of his own private resources. Plan, which the Soviet, leaders "Many Jitite comfort and kare trying to_wreck.
luxury which the cutablishment does or aford, das we supply. But at he To be sure, the announcement be kind and considerate to the of the agreement inspired an he is doubly so to
"widows an the unusually enthusiastic demonst- the fatherless,* whom he takes ration in the House of Commons, pedally under his protection, and
for whom he opens liberal subscrip which gave added hope to the tion lists, his own name standing in Labour Party rebels, who have variably at the head of each for been pressing for a more lenient a considerable sum,
British policy toward Russia.
It is apparent from London
KOWLOON
Peninsula Hotel
Louny
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
Liberty 1
Sole Agents Forly
By SHEPARD BARCLAY.
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
HEED SUCH AWARNING
Cross-Ruff bidding I just
have
the
So now the Ned Kelly has
So pilots on early flights to closed down with a clean record Iwakuni. In Southern Honshu, of nearly 5,000,000 miles. It that part of Japan handed over carried, without one casualty, a
It should have been clear to East for occupation by British Com-total of 3,600 passengers, 370,- thet South was very short of dia-monwealth troops, literally had 000 lbs, of freight and 671,000 mande and spades and that Narth to talk their own way into land- lbs, of mall.
Three times I scrambled for about was short of hearts. Otherwise good ing rights, petrol, facilties, the most emphatic warning that can bidders would never have reached meals, spare parts and anything sleeping space on its mallbage. MILES-LIX," be given against doubling the that alam. But East Uked the looks else needed on the long flight Lancastrian passengers will ponents high contract.. When they of all those brilliantly-tinted face between Australia and Japan never know the tin sheds of reports, however, that the British will in turn work
satisfactory fit in one cards, six of them, which he had, to produce wit and each has bid another ul never bid.
shown
Darwin, the wet jungle-camp foresee no sudden improvement things for export, where possible, on the side, you should beed
From Mortal the Australian crawling with insects near the in Anglo-Rusian political re- to countries which will pay in news that the declarer probably can
survey flights looked into Tas- strip at Morolal, the torn, tents lations as 1, resulf of the new dollars or currencies exchange-ure his trumps, one at a time for ruff-ventional meaning of most double General Douglas MacArthur Nor will they know the joy of West decided to disregard the con- loban on Leyte Island where under the palms, at Tacloban. *rade agreement.
able for dollars.
ing purposes. It la
Is extremely baz. of slam contract to direct a lead What they mainly see is a Meanwhile, the new
ardous to double in such a situation of the suit bid by the dummy. Hurned to the Philippines fresh American sheets and 750,000-ton sack of grain which agreement illustrates one of the tricks in the trump suit and thereby the cross-rus type of bidding, hope Force
Ende unless you are in position to score properly opened his club because of and where men of the Royal Air towels in • mosquito-screened will help to feed pigs and European facts of life which Impede the ruffing process.
Transpere Command quonset huts. At Samar" and poultry. This in Russia's Marshall Planners and Soviet honours in your band are likely to A. would win with it and then re tralia in support of the British at Long and the frosty Sideful that his partner would have the camped after flying from Aus Naha the coffee and doughnuts. part of the bargain. Britain is leaders alike may well remem-"
raffed, get..
especially vecond-round turn another trump to limit ruffs. to supply Russia with industrial ber: trade must go on between onours like kings and queens. equipment. The agreement is a eastern and westem Europe, and 981 short-term one, and has been will. By the Anglo-Russian trade
D. Q 107 6 "arrived at only after protracted agreement the Soviet Union is Arguments about : the rate of undertaking to contribute to Euro- . 9-7-3-2
3. interest which Russia is to pay pean recovery; reluctant as the D. A 312 WE D.K 9.1.4 the upade 9. scored the club and placo and, in typhoon weather posite of 35 wholesale comm:dily
E: 6.3.2.. N H. KQ 14 pade: 8, ruffed the heart 9, ruffed tip of Los was » refuel on, debts to Britain, contracted contribution may be. Sometime the G-1-2- outside the Lend Leasa frame contradiction shown here between
8 :
and the established kestr 10. At the an overnight stop. Nahare o work during the war. On this economie reeds and political
end he gave up a dismand trick--ner. | Okinawa, and Twakun!/ ware however, to the doubles, but the Russians drove tat.hard theory, must be resolved" for the gain, and
the rate from, a ecoriomie needs are:-Russian- az to of
well those of other pe and the best way (oh), fillfa
the
would be throug
channels
Pacific Fleet during the last drinks în Ainérican clubs that months of the Japanese war, were so generously, opened to South, however, › won and then | Sout the · Australians found" 'a the transients,cu proceeded with a whale of a Frosa more suitable overnight stop at _full_He scored_the_heart_Atuflet,
8, KJ 10 the milled the heart: 8, ruffed the Island, Labag, on the northern AngENADA NOVA, York; Feb, 235 the 7-secored the spade Atuffed ad Navy affold on Sandr AP INDEX
A 10 93.7
Bough, „North-South-
If you hold two
to next fields. (Last wES
kawa, a former: Japanese |tary flaki?áz Tokiói:
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four-card minor route as they stepped up that
The Atisgeallada.Improvid
; top: honours; and
The Associated Presscom-
riček" turned about this week to
our with vice. Last year the only elore, & what call in the Philippine MWAIPALEM
nedir by Clarke Field „outaide, Mani
Maker Actual flying time, then hi CHEGARA OCE
been,cus, to under 40:
climb in