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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,,
AN ADVENTURE STORY:
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Hongkong,
Thongs Holstroll, on Engilshimar who was murdered by Dinghar with Flet Retief.
Mänwanent Końia; Prethrin. The clock and ucen put back 100 Fents here and you live in the time of the Voortrekkers. "There was Theresa Vignpiù, who provided South Africa's an Italian woman, and there was greatest ndvelture story.
old Chief Moroki, who come to Arrian is the official tah- | thờ aid' of
the Voortrekkers guge in these parts, which has the Orange Free Sints. hurt a lot of English-speaking "If you build a monument to South Africans, but, things he- kist 1,000 yeam you must
By NOEL MONKS
ing as they pre. English woal, be nấ out of place orf this muddy has a Cockney at the Curlton Club.
Alien British This alic. and the
massive Voortrekker monument that stence on it, in advertised as on 11 South African slow, but that could possibly be because mostly taxpayers' money has pold for it The Voortrekkers trekked from the Cape to get Away from th British, and though they wer thankful for the help of the very same British later on when they ran into the Zulus, anything B 18h is ill regarded an allen on This fe
br
great and Five honour. Where Honour in due. So this monu ment honours not only Afrikaners but men like old Moroka,”
Mr. Moerdyk hos Axed' ' that at midday every day the man will shine through an aperture in the itsmed roof of the monument, un to the sarcophagus and will light up the words "Ons vir jou Suid Afrika."
"We shall live.
We
hat ale for you, South Africa") |
worthy pasange that the chur-
acters
cters who tried to prevent Smut from speaking could have Bule interest in.
As treks Journeys
of
the
(4--Dr went the the Voortrekkeri from Cape Colony perVAS Orange River and away up int Hie Transvagi anci even inte Roklerin weren't QUA great milenes or numbers as America's "covered wagon", treks. But in enterprise atıd endurance, in dangers and hordships, the old Afrikaners whose descendants are
The two toll representatives of Arthin in the Union--the Gover-camped today on th's hill knew
Ap
-General and the High Com. missioner - have "other engage ments" In Cape Town and Lou don repertively, and
and "Oubos.” Smuts, charoplas
Britain
the score.
Makers of history
In the first deemle of the Great) Tek Ture that 12,000 cleared i
It is
well as of South Africa, is being put from Cape Colony. allowed to speak only in Afri-thought that about 1,000 died in hann when the otheiat celebra-battle with natives, by massnere,
and from sickness.
tion will the hold
Inspiring sight
None of the great leaders-Re- Potgieter, Vanrepsburg, und athers -lived lung enough after their perilous journeys to enjoy their the plas Their Dames op this monument are expected to at all, but the committee wisely | see the next 1,000 years out. sent them or thee way
When the trekkers finally come
A gunup of ex-internees (re- louped by Mulao) approached the alonument Commitive to have Smuts prevented froni sporking
Trek there
Two leading ladies (A REPORT ON THE
Mrs. Marta Eva Duarte de Paron (loft) wife of the" Acuén - tino President seen during a recent popearance in be, puta, capital of the Province of Buenos Airga, accómpaled' by Mrs. Caporale de Mercante, wits of the Governor of the Pravings, said to be Paron's best friend. Thà Argentino gawąpapers refor
to Mra, do Mercante as "Second Lady". (AP Photo)
Red tactics in
sion si today
Afri-
Germany
Econunile Commissien
to
POLAND ACCUSED
DEATH OF A HOUSE:
GOING
CONE
They had told the Squire's folk to rest. He was outbid for widow that Ber Manor House was the front hall illes, but bought warth more dead' tibi aliye.
some of the main floor widows "Sell It in blts, they said. "You and Butters. got noro, for it a foot-bogrur} and Window-punos,tilds,
notify man, with no tie, and with a bricks, than on a habitable house stud, stjcking out of its collarlera So the Lady of the Manos or chief þjù 420 10s, for the landing Ministead, Naw. FotoalMia. Hen“ | ani soven ntain bedroom floor-
By RHONA CHURCHILL
boards, and told me he could make a profit by chopping them db and selling them ad kindling wood.
Α
timid, self-conscious woman, who said she has dry-ret i her London, home, dame to Bit for the Manor Houng dok nogring. She gave in at 15 tok the 100 aquare yards of jurity noor, then, womanlike and with girlish giggles, btd 15 for inaller quality in, the drawing-room.
ry Compton sat aristocratieally acept on a feathertopped camp stop surrounded by rough-clad leolition dealers nnd New Forest gipales, and stened as the
uotioneer broke up her house.
"Worth £30, that là, muttered instead Manor House, scene in a dealer, who said he had refused I beyday of county." hunt balls to lift for her "on principle." and shooting parties, meeting Dealers like a closed shop, and place of the New Forest Hunt, and generally got it demolition country. sext of one of Hampshire's tales, Imagine buying a wooden wealthiest land-owners, was up Book, then having to carry it for auction prior to demolition. awayt
Next day the carpenters, the stoncinasons. 150, tilers would move in with their hammers and chisels. Today they were staking their claims to the bits and boba at the old Georgian mansion that Comptan children had lived in for zoberations. The minor itself is mentioned in Domestay Book
Sad derelict
DI
the
The old house was sadly dere liet. Paratroopers, Pioneers, and Royal Engineers had ali taken their toll. On the Lady Manor's bedrboni 'door you coul 'read "18 Men" (no Horses). On
"Ser hst drawing-room door. Keanta Mess
trace back.
Piece by piece
doing?" "the
"How ate we Squire's Lady kept asking. "Very well, said her agent stitomatical- for 30s, windows for 18s. Both ly. Bedroom doors were going
smiled opatentedly when the lend on the roof fetched 2025.
They sold all the fears, the mahogany doors, the marble man- telpieces, the window-pants, the tiles, then came to the "main shell or fabric"-the bricks, mortar, and pillars.
"What nuctioneer.
the
I bid?" naked
"It's worth bundreds," called camp-stool. "Why, it cost thou- the Squire's wilow from
sands to build."
her
It went for £112 10s. "Bargain," said the Lady. "Be fucky if I make a profit," said the dealer.
well con- Actually, both were
tent!
In quieter days the Squire a HIND Berlin, December 22.
employed 38 servants and 12 gaS -
The pstoupent is inagnificent to rest their wagon trails became
The Communist Socialist the Soviet zone to East-zone gov deners. The gardeners devoted of work It has taken ↑ the outlines of a new history Unity Party in the Eastern Gerernment did not appear to have six weeks of each year to tree and nearly 10 years to build war has | Without the
apprecluble change shrub pruning blond, might man Republic is continuing to brought any
This week hia Lady sat in the relationships between the
lone tu31 Incru than £300,000 11 The Ver have been the Rand gold park the higher levels of the gozlet and German authorities, on her camp-stool, with only portrays in a viviti, virile manner
own ReuleT. minės, ir Kimberley's diamondta. | Administration with its
Frank Hallet, the catate carpen- perhaps the most unipun bent event.
Which is another way of saying members, the monthly report
ter, to remind nor of better days. in South Africa's
there might never have been the of the British Control Commis
· The (Squire's Lady had netted Haletts have worked for Comp South Africa of today.
tont for longer than anyone can over £2,000, which had the satia- tying effect of justifying her re- English speaking South cans have no quarrel with the I added that signs of a mount-
Frank no longer softs his caps fusal to sell the mansion intact for Afrikaners about the
Parls, December 22. greatnessing atthek on Liberal slaaneots in
to the Squire's widow or calls her £1,400. walking round this tent etty, bu errage of the Voortrekker's the non-Communist parties and had violated its cultura ac sante friendly banter he
France today charged that Po- | "Ma'am," but treats her to the But she walked away mutter- physically and historically it tee of the part they played in build apparent and that "all
bande] ink that it did seem a plty she had alleged ing his nation, nor of the worthi-inancial swindles longs to every use of the Union's
Both obsent-mindedly sold the monor cord by expelling a French, tea- dut to liis other neighbours. Saxony- Who 2.300,000
cher and closing French culturni | find humour in the situation, I collars in thecs of this monument. Were Ric
"mhelf or fabric.” Anhalt are being exploited in
establishments in Poland,
"They'd have been Joe Payne, the village binder
ab useful The French ndie, delivored to and undertaker, wa Gerard Mherd, the meilument's minded Government would have Communist Ines,"
there, try when the siớin bombs start drop- the Polish Embassy, Was in aning to fored the price up," he pink, she said. "The tenants architect "They were not only extended the courtesy of using
sold
used that the swer to the Polish protest of sold, by bidding for things he did could have
them." Then descendants of Hollanders and the country's two oneful lan-change-opt
Dom Soviet ! December, 14 denouncing the ex-not, really want. For as long us She was allent, and turned away Huguenots dissatisfied with Bricuages for the celebrations that tary administration to Control pulsion of Polish teachers from anyone can remember he and his as it remembering that the ton- tish rule. They had among them are going on at this kóple. Commission and from the Ger- France-United Press.
forebears have lald Manor House ants; as such, have also dloḍ.
mat
the unnt lospiring Spiritually and
belong to une section of the nation only, ng
by
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Christmas
1949
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1950
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