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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1949.
ISRAEL FINDS IT HARD
FINDING HER FEET
Goldfish
Popular Again
By F. G. PRINCE
WHITE
A hobby that was "all the rage" in China nore than 1,500 | years ago is today claiming the spare time and cash of tens of thousands of people in the Bri- tish Isles,
They call themselve, quar- ints"—which is rather a hirsh- sounding equivalent of the an cient Chinese poets' euphonious "keepers of heavenly shes,"
But
inoxler goldfish- stefanclers are much more seient!- fie than poetle in their attitude to the venerable cult they faster,
JOKHI DHUNJEE of 11. Rut-
tanjer & Son, Ltd., died n SL Francis Hospital Monday, 2nd August, 1040. Deeply regretter.
Dur
He caught my pitying look. Joshua the cerpenter was fashion squatting in Oriental
in front of his ramshackle |workshop, which was merely
By GEORGE WEIDENFELD
bo
Bood Borning
The Czech consul-general has been kicked out of Zagreb,
Tut, tut! Those You-go Slavs gain....
in Beersheba from the transit) camp where all now knmigrants are screened, fed, and sheltered until a job and a room can found.
When Joshua's family applied for work in the Negev they re- ecived about £12 a head and tools for the workshop on a long- term credit.
Nearly 200,000 people have thus New Citizen' been settled in one year,
The Row of immigrants since That's why Joshua and his
British troops withdrew has family of three, who hail from averaged 1,000 a day, six times them scrub their back? Morocco, have moved there one!
on (no landing the of the first 180 families of Beer- a week
Sabboth). They crumi from sheba, one of the 250,000 Jews Fastem Europe, who entered Israel since May 15, camps in Germany and Austria, from the DP 1948.
town.
a shed propped up inside the wells of a ruined Arab house. ambitious plan to cultivate that whole arid region fructify it will But Joshua was undaunted. He be a vital rail centre and market gestured towards the thin row of nheds and stands lurking mong the ruins which faced him on the other side of the main street of Beersheba; and, snid;
"You wait. In five years this
aver seen,"
will be as he a town as you have Beersheba is the Southernmost town of Israel, the capital of the aren and should the Nerey
Not all of them have been ab-
Only six weeks ago he arrived from North Africa, and Anta.
sorbed. About 70,000 are still in cumps. They, are adequately fed, inadequately housed, and hopo- lessly dispirited.
Pocket Napoleon Conquers Again
By FRANK OWEN
(the
wore
of
comes
who
to the
It's the frustration of being fenced in within the Promised Land which has crushed their spirits, There would be jobs for many thousauds on the land in the collective settlements, but only a few want to go,
With years of coercion and camp
cach behind them, imunlgrant dreanis of a room of his own, a little shop or even a or stand to sell or Miz, the local fruil
Gazos
No Direction
Rhapsodising about it yester- reported, doy, contemporary "The plenie was over at 0 pm. themselves after guests bathed in the bench."
Wot, no boye provided to help
•
Jewish Internationally-known dies et 74. speaker, author and commentator
Zioned off at last.
Deep Thought
*
"Lord Vansittart Claims Red Menace Serious,"
*
Follows his Bent
At the end of the rope In my Benthoscope,
The depths of the deep I scan For. monsters weird.
But I'm not feared, As their awful shapes
plan..
But with n sword on
take
I feel like Flash Gordon.... Or should I say Superman?
"First Summer Lull In Inter- national Affairs Noticeable."
Probably used a gelger counter.
"Forces Civilian Welfare Organ to Held Dance."
Couldn't they have used per- sunsion instead?
"Cripps Still Looka Tired." Which fan't really surprising when you consider how long he's the follar gop boan watching
"Please don't turn me clown. pleaded one menin to Myrtle.
זיי
The SEQUIERA-REMEDIOS --
forthcoming marriage is an- between Irmme nounced
of Mr. Catherine, daughter & Mrs. Max Sequlers, and Mrs. S. Jose Julita, son of M. Remedios and the Mr. J. J. Remedios, which on Sunday, will take places.
coant, In the Army List, until the ton East Africa's For them all that glistens in other day, his name and fame vast ber 1949, 11.00
mysterious purple land wheelbarrow 11th Septemb
nan Catholic am at the Roman
the home aquarium is certainly read this way: Major-General beyond mighty Lake Nyasa. drinks. Cathedral and reception not gold. Their constant concern
Thomas Wynford Rees, CB., Alli
the elimination of the dress later at Club Lusitano,
in breeding "good CIE, DSO (twice, In two world encountered
He's done it. The trucks and relatives and friends are cor-
types" of
tractors and jeeps rolled Roldash. They are as wars), MC.
In on The Government is sensfilve dinatly invited. No invitation | VP
time. The vital rice crop carils
there to this mood and has therefore issued, keen as dog-breeders on produc- being
ΤΟ the In Ash with the excellencles of
19th magnifteent
will be saved this year. through refrained from fullfledged dtree- (Marmo papers please copy).
Indinn Division ("The shape and colour that will count
Dagger the crocodile rivers and the tention of labour. Division"), which he led across veld the little convoy have got for "points" at a show,
The Government of Israel is a There is a boom in the breed- 500 miles of mountain. Jungle, through, led by the ittle five-
coalition of moderate Socialists ing of goldfish in Britain. Chlef and river he was known by other foot-five General
doesn't and religous Conservatives, and reason is that at the begining of names.
smoke or trink.
answerable to a freely elected Parliament. correspondents, properly The war importations of the fish
War
Lloyd George, his great coun- Its leader is Ben-Gurion, a yawn. stopped, and aquarists who had seeking dramatic titles by which
tryman, sald: "In our larut we formerly relied on strengthening to pick out the commanders
judge men's stature
stocky, tough little man with the from The then their stocks with "new blood" that
"Forgotten Army heck upwards."
untidy white hair, the face and (he from France and Germany and dubbed him "Nap" slands
gentures of a tragic actor. Nothing has stirred us in Bri- A trade union lender, army know I'm not match, 1st I'm all the United States were obliger 5ft. Sin, and looks a bit like the
than the Lain more Just month "Docker" (he
organiser, and classical to "make do" with the materia!
scholar, I've sot." Corsicon);
the strong man in THIRD PARTY
from Barry. South they hatt,
Wales): Wonderful story of the Amethyst he is today Gremlin" They succeeded so well that at "Green
and Israel. For he was responsible for entire saliors on the China river Fourteenth Army Despite all the emergency the present time stocks are con-
fungle the wonderful story of the ex-some vital decisions which result- battledress);
"Chola Soldier In the
forest. ed in 'victory, and almost as in- regulations and ordinances, aiderably improved--and, Indeed, green
such portant, preserved national unity. fehota General
for While our country breeds America artes
India is many breeders in
The Istnell Army owes much to Hong Kong continues to be
now actually anxious to obtain "small":
some who knew he men it need never fear the whole
the spirit and tradition a boiling pot of alien political specimens from them.
was Welsh (but did not know world.
British Services. activity. There are big events
All over the kingdom aquarists him personally) called him have banded themselves together "Taffy": the troops he lex Just afool in China and the Far
in clubs and societies and have
called him Pete along with East generally, so the oppor-grown very learned about their some other affectionate diminu-
for reserved
the Bose, tunists, power-seekers, gen hobby. Some of their discussions tives
changes in urna-either in the Services or Civvy-; uine reformers and malcon- on biological
mental fish sound almost worthy street tents are scheming more of the Royal Society itself.
Irt the First War Rees served busily than ever. There are Apart from these experts, in the Mespot Campaign, where there are large num he got his first DSO and his MC fabulous pickings to be had however, in such times, as the familiesbers of ninateurs who do not pro-Subsequent years in Burma gave of the former Big Three Less to be anything more than him priceless knowledge of the "goldfish-lovers. They are the terrain and, above all, of the could testify.
folk who like to keep one or two indomitable Indian soldier.
young man, and whenever I have subaltern Pete Rees fish in a bowl or a small glass
Small Salaries a worry I'm going to pass it on tank in the sitting-room-partly climbed the flagpole at Fort Duf- as a decoration, but mostly for ferin, citadel of fabulous Man-chair parked in the first-floor amount in the new Civil Service. are you going to pay him?
to him
"Good idea," I said, "and what the delight of the children."
dalay.
"He knew that under the deep window of his sun-baked cot-Many of the senior administrators "Twenty-five hundred a month." moat which surrounds that tage under the white cliffs of served in British Government "What? You complain of bad miles-long fortress-palace
weather runs Dover, his
eye con- Departments under the Mandate, trade, and pay a man all that just They prefer goldfish that look like gold fish; they shake their another
When his tinuously scanning the sea and Yet Civil Servants eam very to take care of your worries! heads when they are offered "Dagger Div." had arrived at the sky through binoculars and lile, are hardest hit by Inflation Where are you going to get the
the austerity programme money to pay him? varieties that may be coloured gates of the city by recard forced telescope, sits Mr. "Jack" Bur- and
Whereas an unskilled building blue and green, or a mixture of marchies, Pete
Indian will, the man who will give | Mi probably see occasional pro- the hues of the rainbow, or suppers secretly by night along starter's orders to the young top Civil Servant's salary is £20 worry.""
worker geta £2 68. a day, the "That's going to be his first
Would-be leaders and the prophets of a new order, with varied backing and appeal, attract varied numbers of supporters. Their moves are clandestine that usually so the police are unable to root them out, although we shall
secutions from time to time. The Colony is an ideal place
the
new
new
TD planned by a student, is de-
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·
•
Under Fire
troops had brought
on
trees below the In some hospitals an aquarium dead o trolly is regularly wheeled order scribed in the "China Mail" faith in its therapeutic value. today.
Those which have hitherto come to
round the wards, such is
the
sime
African
Channel Swimmers
Follow Him
By RHONA CHURCHILL
On a little wood-and-wicker
of the
Some people in Damaseus For power seem quite delirious. But we'd say If you ask 115----
fun take
too their They
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syriousN.
"Bishop Dies in N. Korean
Going through the list of senior Prison." | Stall officers I found that most of
them were Dritish trained. Those who served in the British Army.
Infidel brought him to book, apparently.
include the Israeli Directors of Now that the ceasefire has been Training Staff Datles, Intelll- agreed to in Indonesia, gence, and the Chief of Opera over bar the shooting. Wons.
The young Israeli Air Force is
it's all
•
Gent in a fair way of busi- 80 to 10 per cent. British, Southness complained to me the other African. and U.S. trained-Ita
day: "Life's just one worry after Commander-in-Chief served in another. But I'm going to try out the RAF. And the Navy to a now scheme. I've engaged a fed by British-trained personnel.)
Western Influence is also par-
are even entirely black-yet are this hidden way to blow up the sters now queueing up to swim a week. A Cabinet Minister's no less goldfish for all that.
walls of the citadel. They had the Channel.
salary is £1,500 a year, little if are hard workers, panderous, and for such intrigue, being near Goldfish of every variety, prepared it when the Jap enemy He chuckles as he walts. He any more than taxi-driver's slow, rather than mercurial, very
though, have a great fascination suddenly quit.
knows that in a-boarding-house earnings,
sober and matter-of-fast. the mainland, easy to enter for
for children. Particular proof of
But a few yards away the swim- Language still presents a dim-
I talked to Dr. Klausner, ono and leave, and having a free this has been gained in hospitals,
mers all eager to be fral across, culty. Hebrew is the official of the oldest professors of Jeru- where the mere sight of fant
fantastic currency market.
are Bghting for his services. language. French has now suc- salem's University, who was full Several
politica!ittle creatures with goggling cyes,
English as the second of praise for the seriousness with For Jack Burwill, 59-year-old ceeded or tails like widow's weeds, or
Standing on the Sacred Hill of owner of the motor-boat June language, but is mainly used for which the young people go about parties have been, or are be-
heads resembling nothing
Mandalay, and gazing down on flose, is accepted 06 the Dover diplomatic communications. Eng- their studies, "Their present ing, projected-most aimed much as large raspberries, has the doomed city to which
the plot you must have with you ifah remains the official language mood is a very sober one," he at grabbing some power in been found astonishingly effea-dash of his British-Gurkha-Indian you want to succeed in
But while in a Chan-
to the middle-aged rald, "They are suspicious of any cious in stimulatin small
He knows all the and older people Hebrew is a form sentimentulity.
pf China,
him, either patients who have been slow to came under the Are of a resolute tricky currents in the 20 miles tongu
Reesel swim.
they have laboriously) "In fact, they have a gently through collaboration with rally from the effects of an Japanese snipper hidden
that separate Cap
of their native mocking attitude to the 'impres Gris-Nez acquired on top the Communists or opposing operation or protracted illness.
from abroad hill. Ho shot from Dover, and can forecast the German, English, Polish, or Rus- sionable sightseer
is the slan, Hebrew
natural and his outbursts of enthusiasm. them. The latest attempt,
tho General's Gurkha weather with uncanny accuracy,
of the young "They call it 'Zionut, or Zion- He has piloted more swimmers mother-tongue orderly.
ist sentimentality." said to a British oMeer who across
generation. the Channel than any
the had stood in the
This new generation, which is HA father did
The first year of Israel, now increasingly getting hold of "year of miracles," has not gone party: other boatman. "Why did the Jap kill Nerve Tonic
the the job before him. Gurkha? He could have
responsible positions, has its own to the head of the young, because killed
special stamp. To look at they they realised that it was not the Goldfish are a help to dentists the General."
There And Back are all, wiry, of athletic buildi] end but only the beginning of a our notice have,
as well as to doctors. Many a Sak the Staff officer: "I reckon
they have a strong sense of long period of hardship and however, been relatively dentist's waiting-room Ju now that the Jap shot at the taller of If you want to try swimming rotundness, of "belonging"; they sacrifice. small fry, and possess little equipped with an aquarium, and the two (the Gurkhas are about from France to England Mr. Bur-
size children and grown-ups are tran- the value. I more than nuisance
"Chote will will run you over to Cap Well,
Gris-Nez in June Rose, drop you Most of the formerly estab-quillised before being called to General").
chair simply by watching the
Pete, challenging fe in the water,
and lot his lished parties now have re-graceful movements and sudden alway
always in his flamboyant red row back alongside
you in his the fish.
scarf. stormed Mandalay, presentatives in Peiping, and antics of
Sidney, rowboat
all for £30. In schools, too, goldfish are 10th Division had a glorious re- That price includes are willing to work with
payment for boon and a blessing as cord first proving
Chindwin Mr. Burwill's crew of four on a Mao Tse-tung in governing a form of visual education: chil- River; frst дегов the Ina fog that will take about 20 hours. the country under a basicallydren of all ages are immediately wadds
into Mandalay (of)
It will
mean starting at mid- Interested in them. Many tea- which Winston told a cheering night, with Communist framework.
a chilly two and a in the question markchers have made a special study House of Commons: "The valiant half hours chugging across
of the fisti in order to satisfy their Fourteenth
Army,
marching night blackness, for Mr. Burwill miles hanging over Hong Kong to pupils' demand for more than a trough 1,000
have stormed Mandalay, the City
9. jungle likes you to start swimming at 4 whether a really important superBelal knowledge of them.
of the Kings-and, third party can be successful-
thank God, If you haven't changed your have reached ot last
a place mind by the and you'd hardly ly formed, to take the place Mao's regime, but at the ve
whose name we can
all pro- dore do that after all the trouble of the discredited National- moment most of them would
nouncel"
people have gone to satisfy your - A year ago the Army had whim they ists as a rallying ground for jib at the thought of renewed
grease you down, further use for Pate, at the age and leave you to kick off. all opponents of the Reds, fighting.
of 50 Pocket Napoleon had been with a view to driving them
It might take years, but it both Staff Oncer
Burwill leads the way in and Reg the motor-boat. The rowboat out of China. It is already is certain that a determined mental Officer, so he understood keeps alongside you, its occupants being suggested that overseas clique with plenty of money both sides of the hill. I know watching for you to get stomach
cramp, cold feet,
But
waddy; Arst
no
of
thetr
across the
TIO
men
go hlươ, got
Chinese have come forward could eventually make an en- which he preferred: as a hungry, or just start sinking.
with offers of financial supormous
impression on
30-Second Meals
officer on the North West tier he went out himself of nights *2 APB 13 port, if a leader of the proper China's future. Sun Yat Sen, against the tribes with ride and stature can be found, with for instance, received his im- kukri (the Gurkha knife). He
understood both apetus and financial backing enches, liked the latter most beef tea, and lungs of sugar, al- lieutenants, able
and platform likely to appeal to from supporters abroad.
Obtainable at all leading Stores and Chemisti
misrule.
HQ, and the
They feed you with glucose,
("on the whole, you meet the towing you about 30 seconds per meal overy hour or so. Mustn't
of
à population soon expected to Hong Kong, however, may best chaps there"). be soured with collectivist not in this age be the perfect Six months ago he was seeking waste time eating or you might
site for preliminary opera- another assignment. Some fool mus the tide at Dover.
Of the you
youngsters now waiting Such an organisation would tions. The Colony's govern said: "There's not much
to swim across bir, Burwill says: Bome sensible fellow admittedly have a difficult ment wants to keep out of market in ex-generals, y'know." to
said: The Yor
boy, has stamina Yorkshire task. After decades of war politics concerned with the This chap, has fought in two but lacks speed, the Dutch girl and extreme privation, the other side of the border, and desert wars, under Allenty and feels the cold terribly, the Danish Chinese people are indescrib-could give no help to a third Wavell, led Jungle battle under girl gets cramp suddenly, and the Slim, snifted 20,000 troops across American girlwell, she's a good the main only looking for aims, if it proclaimed its worst climate of the world, galette ably tired of it all, and are in party to worst terrain in Bu
victory which whu Ting dreamed of swimming the Chan- peace, the chance of living existence publicly. Not that Ing. their own lives, and enough such discouragement is going down through history. No good?" nel and he'll say "Not likely Ny The Sensible Fellow gave Pets Dad told me: "Always swim, miong to eat They are already be to stop the hopefuls from Rees the job of blasing a new the beach, son, never out to sea. coming disillusioned with tryi
| 500-miles jungle trail from Lindi, And I never have.”
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