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GOURLAY—To May, wife
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1943.
THE MINSTREL BOY OF
THE 20TH CENTURY
Like a troubadour of old, an 18-In Italy he stayed for 10 days, when they met a boy whoseija- year-old Liverpool boy is work with a Russian prince and his lets plastered with gaily- ing and playing his way through English wife; he was in Milan for coloured badges. Europe:to: colatır, Ladventure" the "Battle of the Flowers, in and good companions.
Venice, Rome or Naples as the whim moved him.
His parents consider that he is born out of his time; that shesis But at frequent intervals his ufugitive, from the Twentieth feet bave turned towards Switter-
By GUY WALLER
Fluent German
The Land OFA Mea A Day
By ALAN #HUMPHREYS
According to our printers yes- Ferday, a derband made, in Tokyo
for improvement of trade • “in-- classes some of the most fortnight requests yet made by Japan.”
It does seem as it-they didn't want to appear weakly.
After a short that" they said good-bye, and headed for the Alps. But when they reasbed their "Swiss hotel, there was the same laughing boy playing classics on the piano, They beard. Every evening. between elesta him speaking German to a walter, and supper, in city, town, and as fuently as he had spoken silage, the Greeks come out to explains how plane is down in
stroll in the main square "and sitecture."
French the day belére,
Century 26 last year! Wilfred Birch put. Es into his- wallet. strapped his rucksack, containing this favourite pieces of mušie.
his back, dropped his front door key on the mantelpiece, scribbled
They asked him his nationality at the pavement cafes. note which said: "Don't worry,
Liverpool," he grimed Mum, and left his home in Ade
They look neat and cheerful, but Why has
become Wilfred laide Road, Kensington, Liverpool.
wanderer? It is the culmination u notice they don't spend much, By the following morning he
of three or four years of trust the Germana five years a
For although Greece was liberated had hitch-hiked to Dover and land. There, he says in the letration Lake many other boys, this month; ber 7,000,000 people that evening he was in France. ters which fill three drawers at he started work in anodice when now face a new struggle, a battle
There he began his great his Liverpool home, is peace, and 15. But somehow he did not St dawdle through Europe, working, music,
in
(for economic survival.
hotels, lice a modern minstrel times. Once he asked an English at home his odd sense of time with her her kid boy. When he needed money for diplomat for a drink of water bamed his parents, hungry to food and shelter.
Instead, he got a magnificent-rime means nothing to him.” Her For the rest, he has gone where meal.
his father told me. That is the to buy he pair of n
sister: sxved fancy led. He has visited eight
On another visit à Jewish greatest puzzle. He just does not countries and has even paid a woman invited him to dine, you heed time the same as we do. Tas girts have no quick visit behind the Iron Cur look as you could do with He will sit half a day listening stond husbands they have to Stat
to the birds, or just watching the keep up appearances.
light on a mountainside." That man who sat for two In hospital he was eight lis-bours playing tristrac over a 3d tewing to lectures on "Senatomy
Robert 5. Gourlay Kowloon Dock on 21st Oct at Teresa's Hospital, a son.
RUSSIAN DEFEAT
Soviet Russia has received
she said.
***
der. If they
a
"Hong-Kong Airways captain
Just like the bloke I was talk. log about the other day who ex- plained the art of flying in a nut- shell.
Reporting on women's clever- ness at investing: money, a co temporary asks: Have you ever
ad
"you" put it that wapim, 1
Yesterday's prizewinning small
For sale Three':
piece suit large settee."
Room for an extra pair of
*
was at-
He has toiled in the fields, She ate little herself. He given piano recitals in hotels and asked why. "I had some experi- of Gestapo persuasion in the private houses,, printed · signs for, she told him, "and I have when he should have;been;in bed itas of'edifice, sent home to a smo} trousers at a moment's notice. wayside cafes.
He was in Holland for the been on dict ever since.".-
He was sent to technical col-per of bread, cheese, and olives.
The
solemn ceremény in_-_ crowning of a new Queen, and All his meals have not been lege to learn engineering.
The average Greek hamly has Dublin's pro-Cathedral saw. Princess Margaret in Capri like that. Once his resources. Instead he sold his childhood toys only one cooked meal a day, tanded by President O'Kelly in a From Sicily-ur the English Chan-were so low he stayed with to get money to study French Three-quarters of the money spent state" nel he has joined in the music Italian monks, tending the monas and Gennan. and the talk-dances of the
very
foodtoes on vegetables. He probably calmed down later, garden to earn bread and
Birch, pea-
a. postman, and rescaroni, and bread, which are The Irish always do. sants.
soup.
And on his last visit to soldier in two wars, says of hira: sig but not costly, Mestis Paris he wrote home, in 'diasy | "Wilfred" is "not with us. He is too expensive arid accounts for A correspondent suggests that form: "MondayNothing to eat out of this world." since Friday,"
A few weeks ago Wilfred only 10 per cent of the family judging by the condition of the
budget.
local dollar notes, all wwe, have in crossed - the plain of Lombardy on his way from Rome to the
Hong Kong.is: filthy lucré Alps. There on the anniversary of his break for freedom, he dined
„Bensat. Performance.. with his sister Violet at kagana.
Violet.and her husband; return - ed home-bur Wifred-stays.
Honoured Guest
a slap in the face by the elec. tion of Yugoslavia to the Security Council. Columns of vituperation in the controlled Press and volumes of abuse over the radio propaganda network will tend to increase For days he was an honoured | 10 find him. Most of their.letters the temperature of the anti-est in a Luxembourg chateau His host, a nobleman, begged him Tito cold war, but will not to stay and entertain him with alter the situation.
more music. But the open road Mr.
called, so the nobleman bade him farewell with a gift of money and well, Liverpool, motoring Be is still a fugitive from the
a new suit.
His parents never knew where arrive too late. A few weeks ago he was in "France. Now he is believed to be in Switzerland after travelling from Rome.
Mr. Norman Taylor, of Chile
W3S
through France with a friend Twentieth Century.
Alberta's Oil Will Give
Navy More Freedom
Vyshinsky's heated charges were true in part. Whatever geographical hairs may be split, and however strongly it may be insisted that Yugoslavia is a Commun- ist country, the fact remains that the rest of the Eastern bloc is definitely hostile to her, and she is therefore not representative of the region.
It is also obvious that the Stalin-Tito war was the rea- son why the United States and) others chose to back Yugo slavia, in the hope that she will gradually veer into the Western orbit and.away from the Kremlin. Had Czech- slovakia been chosen, her voice would only have added: to the chorus of the puppets, but Yugoslavia may favour the West-or at least take a re- latively independent view-sembly, and European Assembly, point.
The Navy
Thinking At
Slow Pace
By. A Special Correspondent
'Scotland has a "National As-
Both are widely within their respective
representative spheres.
dollars, be
For here is what Greece is up against on her way back to econ omie recovery
Half A Million Refugees
"Two witnesses testified that they had seen him-slay his wife- ance when he became genraged ver. Finding a shirt talaundered and again over a necktie". There are about 500,000 ome-Said Myrtle last night with a less peamless refugees: there are little sigh, Too bad everybody | 250,000 men in the army, win
little prospect of demobilisation likes them they give such
marvellous parles." for many of them.
Rocably, one Greek in seven depends for his income in pay, pension or relief on the Govern
event.
in foil?
the baby does not digest Its mall, it should be boiled"
...
Another great American dis- It is now almost a weekly thort of American
Four-fths of the waterthant (covery from radier Winchell's occurence in Tponton, the cause among other reasons she ninth biggest in the world, column. very heart of this momentous has had to spend millions was fort during the war.
Things I-never knew till now. ail discovery, to hear of yet year to buy oll and oil products,
Eat very soon she is going to Because of charge culties god right leg swing together.
**When,ym, walk your left arm. another well, showing great make dollars by selling her vil overseas Greeks jhave cmostly promise of production, yet to the US.
ceased remitting the £7,000,000 there is hardly any excitement An easing of Canada's dollar they used to send every year. The superintendent: took str here at all
situation would leste her more stead, they ship parcels of food
with the sterling, and goods to their relatives. No fortunes are being made free to trade For lost and there is nothing to area, and as the UK. is her best
By JAMES ROSS
The Politburo is naturally. The Scottish National Assembly furious. To be a "capitalist is entirely unofficial, the outcome denote that Edmonton is in the customer, Canada is naturally imperialist" is bad, but to be of a spontaneous-movement. The the centre of the biggest oil boom anxious to be able to do this,
European Assembly is consulta
ive only, and limited in its "terms of reference:"
It should therefore resolve
vyks, iindeed.
of the Scouts to the camp in his carey slept in the open and Pre-war: 60,000 tourists/spest (cocked their vitals-over-an open about £2,000,000 every year in fire. It was certainly a unique Greter. Today there is only the experience for the boys." merests trickle of tourists, Latk of internal security has hitherto kept them away.
And Life Is Not Yet Secure
...
"Mr.
..
visited the university and lectured on 'Insect pests, a large mumber - being present.”
No-need-to-be-rude-about it.
By-any-other-BRINE. · ·
Mrs. Smith fell downstairs
ber home, breaking Jaeg
on record.
Americans exploiting the oil itself in the end to an increase of Torts are being made toat finds are at a loss to understand purchases from the U with restart the tourist trafic with my bodudududududosy and suffer The Scottish National Assen the quiet complacency of the consequent benefit to Britain's Rhodes and Corfu as the majored painful injuries.”
Canadians. "Gosh bly, though representing highly you allows are sitting on the From the strategic point of
google.
with a long tradition of sectaria-
F
they say.
attractions.
a Trotskyite or a Titoistone who has been in the fold but disagreed with the dictator-. is even worse. There shall be no other gods but Stalin.
We do not subscribe to the disparate elements in a country largest oil field in the world, and view it is of the greatest import But the mainland Vis (still not school of thought which be- nism, has adopted a definician to one would know it to look at ance, because it assures usin wholly secure, even in Athens. lieves that fair werds and of reform in Scottish government
the free movement of ber Fleet Perhaps the
reason for this koperating from Canadian bases, the inside light when you tride The taxi-driver must switch on friendly gestures will 'in-.
The European Assembly, attitude is that hardly anyone and an adequate supply of fuel after sunset. Too roshy hand- fluence the Kremlin. In this though the waters before. It are owns land with the mineral rights and oil in time; of war.
grenades have been thrown front" instance Russia has suffered of wide and serious import, has on it. Over a period of time the Soon; there will be azul pipe darkened taxis. a diplomatic defeat, but it is so far been largely engaged in provincial government has a line alaning
the fields in quired the mineral rights and it Alberta, far not easy at the same time to discovering obstacles.
In the suburbs, by police order): away on the West is the provincial treasury that is Canadian prairie, to the head of a light burns outside every house see what particular benefit,
International thinking is filo drit and produce oil at
rich by selling the right the Great Lakes in the *Past, door to help the street licht except in a negative way, ing at a perilously slow pace. It to
pipe-line to the West Too many shots in the dark Washington expects to reap by Fascismo, Nazism, and Russian companies.
thas been insidiously intuenced Tabulous figures to the majtx oil cos will be add both the most ballet to pencemen
British combined fleets, and the back. Sovietism. Their intolerance has The benefit the locals are get-LAžerican. fleet, reen-shiel (with somehow fostered the notion that ting out of it is in more w1.an ease, and, thus save long antidi dan-My hotel corrider is spatrolled Trade Prospects
nations could not federate save indirect nature. The strike has gerces Sourneys bringing oil over by a policemen with a revolver at on a-basis of The public statement by the and social torical, economic, brought increased trade to dois the Alantic, or from the Middle his hip in id-doms WAY
waiformity.
of local industries, and has led East
is a Minister-suite Communist commissar in the The attitude of Russia is much to a great increase of population Shumchun area that he favike that of the Church of Rome Trum 118,541 in 1947, to ours an early resumption of days, or at these intrepid Scottish
absolutist and persecuting expected 140,000 in 1949.
It is drawing people from far trade with Hong Kong is very Calvinists who, in the 17th cen- and rear, and even brought the interesting at this stage. It is try, set out to impose their sys cabsidiary of a large Shefield believed that Lau Yi-sam hastem upon England and Ireland steel company, who have opened
and considerable sway in the Kremlin is the political Vatican ment for the ellidustry.
ope generally. The plant to manufacture equip
ON border region, although it is uncertain how long his rule of the Communists, and Stalin is pipe is very badly mention, and is will last. It is also impossible The Lastening
its.itg
Europe
Pope.
of
an
at the moment being imported
to say whether his views are system upon nations file Poland from the States,
shared by the Peiping govern- ment, or whether recognition
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