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“Dinner will be a little late today, dear."
London Express Service
I pin my hopes in the Valley of Adventure
TE is as
H
cat,
Meantime, it will submerRE -
an area larger than London.
Valdi introduces mo Do the Indian engineer in charge.
His It tumbles, or rolls, or lazes, of the job, as good-looking
Bro Sahib. on, the as a 300 miles itself before it merges ancestors, were granted vast ex- And he is on into
majestic Hooghly, tates 300 years ago for come own Father Thames, tough military service to the Meantime, this Damodar River Mogul emperors of India.
the sunny side of 60.
India's
the
Ho sayo, speaking of a friend: "He's a grand chap, is the very Devil in a land a that, but ho's getting to be third the size of Wales. old. Of course, he's younger than me.”
He is impatient and impetuous, with a pocketful of swoots for the children and a saucy glance for the girls, He cusses his men, and they work overtime for him.
Fils name is Valdi. He was a Hungarian soldier in the First World War. ("Wrong alde, it turned out," he says cheer- fully.) Now Valdi is an engineer.
He builds bridges and dams. And he has built these useful to things from Murmansk Teheran, and from, the Nile to the Ganges.
At present he is busy building both in the Damodar Valley, India. Damodar River rioes in the 4,000-ft mountains of Bihar Province, a couple of hundred
miles west of Calcutta.
Sitting on the
Hotel, Dournemouth. class food,
comfort,
Tri-
service,
Central heating, gad, log fires." -Times advt.
RAW the curtains
closer, Jane
More logs on the fire
Is that sleet or is it rain?
The wind is rising higher. Have the evening papers come?
Thank you, Mrs Grunty "Fuel Cuts In Every Home"
Goodness, what a country. What's for dinner, Mary Jane?
Mrs Grunty's starving Not that currled beef again? Nothing roast for carving? Cooked-up meat is always hard
(Death to Mrs Grunty) "A shilling's worth a Ration
Card"
Goodness, what a country.
A glass of sherry, Mary Jane, More blankets on my bed
A
pill for Mrs Grunty's pain
A cushion for her head
I think a little tempting dish
Is best for Mrs Grunty "Higher Prices Now For Fish" Goodness, what a country. Shall I poke the fre, dear?
Dinner won't be long
I'll read the nows about Korea
Waiting for the gong. "They dig their foxholes in the
snow"
(Listen Mrs Grunty) "They fight in twenty-four be-
low"
Goodness, what a country.
Forward glance
Mioven
ДТС under
#n way high quarters to review sen- some of the chief
crimbals."
teboes. on
Gertn.ag. Wor
From the newe
"I formed, the new German
army will be given only gh
Fence....by
NATHANIEL
GUBBINO
I vill not at der soldiers play dingy feathers and depression. unless I have der big gun dot According to the latest figures. boom, boom. Nor will I at der 93,000 birds have been slaugh- sailors play unless I have der tered up to date." big ship mit der big gun dot also go boom, boom.
Nobody asked you to play at sailors, son. You'll be wanting to play at airmen next.
If I at der airman play I will hat der bomb dot go whe-ee-ee- ce-bong--crash-rubble-rubble,
Listen, son. How would you like to see some of your naughty Ittle friends again, like Sonny Raoder and Sonny Deenitz and Funk and Speer and that funny little chap Hess?
Very much would I like to seo mein liddle friendts again.
of
"Oh how dreadful," said his wife, hiding her head in the
"The poor things.” plilows.
"They're probably belter out
their misery," said Sparrow "In some parts of the country they're burning them."
"Not alive?" screamed his wife, sitting up in bed,
The
"They did it to Joan of Arc," said The Sparrow.
"You'll be back soon, won's you?" asked his wife.
"Maybe," said The Sparrow. After he had called on the doctor, he flew straight to The Tree Tops Club,
"I want a room here," he said to the sparrow at the door. "For
weck."
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"Certainly, sir.”
"The wife has fowl pest.", "Very catching, I believe, str?" "Very. Get me a glass of the usual, will you?"
"Of course, dr. Large?" "Of course," said The Sparrow.
How's that, Hogan?
"The British
"Oh, we plundered the land all right."
Sahib, Bays Haq genfally. And he reckons it is fair that he should now be help- ing to restore its bounty.
It's a devil, because it Booxia (and has drowned, only seven years ago) ito entire valley. Thousands of people were choked sun pours down
H is blazing noon. The without pity and
in the rising watere, and scores from a baked blue sky, of thousands of their boasts. Valdi is showing me what he
It's dovil, because, when that ol' river piles itself up, t
Frank Owen
and his men did so two other mountains.
They made them into one- and captured the roaring gun-
river that ran be gling tween. Now it will ii-
PRESENTS IN PART TWO THE MORE
HOPEFUL SIDE OF HIS ASSIGNMENT TO, INDIA...
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gato a plain.
It in evening.
And w
are looking at the
last
dam. It will send electric light and power to Tatan- where 30,000 men *agor,
are working night and day in the greatest single steel plant in the world. To do this Valdi's boys pushed a kiver a mile out of ite course, and trained that too.
it is night, and we are still
washes away uncounted maaces of tons of priceless, irreplaceable on the high, kingly hills, this soil, having, after a sca, a desert. Inexhaustible Hungarian and me. Far away below us we can It's a devil, because the high
nee a rod glow across the plain. its torrent bear away upon
They are smelting, steel down breast 1 storming
leeser
there in Tatanagar, to build streams, draining in a single orgy the earth of all its water. more bridges and more dams, to opan more valleys and hold To bring more more water. So bold and big-thinking men
and more.. decided to tame that Old Dame bounty to the land, Damodar, put her in barness, food to the hungry families of and make her pay her passage to the sea. This plan is known as the Damodar Valley Project. It is operated by a public cor- poration bearing the name. It is based on the model of America's famed
Tennessee Valley Authority scheme.
And it is backed by the per- sonal experience of some of the loading engineers of that fine, imaginative social experiment.
Come away from the sprawl- ing slum of Calcutta, which is still one of the ten greatest cities in the world.
India.
Exciting
AND up here, in the sharp cold A of en Indian upland night. there's a strange and exciting thing going on, too.
Tractors ado tearing around in the light of their own glant headlamps.
They are ploughing up the land according to a carefully worked designed to out contour plan, hold the rain when it falls, and make it also pay its proper toll to the soil before it seeps into the rivers to run to the sea.
Thus,
while the engineers
of the land. inspiring effort, being made to drown some part
they will save infinitely more. build a
Aner India.
On the hills of Orissa, above the Damodar, almost as bear to Calcutta as Wales is to London, marke! is not
ond you Stan-
can see a valiant so importar as it WI, dards of Iving have rien in home Ou South America. market is now Britain's greatest corpettfor for CULT meat."- Senor Hogan, Peron's Ambas audor.
Yes, it is a great adventure to It is pale, gleaming dawn. be in Damodar Valley, India,
children, for all wamen and "We should worry," Hogan said and already 3,000 people-men, either by day or by aleb
so ruave and must work in Poor India--are
toiling on the Konar Dam.
With smile pleasant,
"What's Joan of Arc got to do with
ith it?"
"50 I don't
see why, they shouldn't do it to you. But you needn't worry. They're only burning the bodies. How are "The beef you scorn will help
legs?"
to feed your
"Weak and trembly." "Ah,"
The Argentino peasant."
that old Valdi, For here, youthful dynamo of 58, may be setting up the prototype which This vast earthen and concrete is going to help India to win
All right, then. Suppose I let them off the rest of their lines and let bygones be bygones?
said The Sparrow, "An- But if we pay your prices high, wall of two and a half miles her most splendid victories or will you play at soldiers then? other symptom. According to What then will be your slogan?pans the valley of the Konar, peace.
When built, it will deliver cool- "Let hungry peasants go to hell River, which runs into Damodar.
Is that your slogan, Hogan?
ing water to a huge thermal superb capacity in war. power plant at Bokaro. -(London Express Service)
Jo, ja. If mein liddle friends this report, birds with fowl pest stagger about as if drunk and I again see ve vill togedder at then collapse. I think I'd better der soldiers, der sailors und der go for the doctor." airmen play, mit der liddle guns Cot go bang, bang, der liddic machine guns dot go tat-tat-tat, der big guns dot po boom, boom, und der bombs dot go whe-co- ee-ee-bong-crash-rubble-rubbic.
Nobody has ever doubted her
-{London Express Service}
INSIDE INFORMATION
MALENKOV, one of the
The Sparrows M Soviet Big Five, has
flown to Peking with Mar-
Russian part of China
weapons."—Also, from the n IN The Sparrow's Nest The shal Malinovsky,
Sparrow's wife was lying in Commander-in-Chief in the maps.
the following conversation
the counce and their little bedite was
The Naughty Boy, The Kind trembled
A tear
on the Hp of her Far East. Uncle represents Britain and awollen, red beak, protruding America The Naughty Boy re- from the doll's house blanket. The Sparrow, reading a little bit presents Western Germany,
of newspaper by the fire, glared: at her.
How would you like to play at soldiers again, sonny?
Of der playing at soldiers I am tirdik
You wouldn't like a little gun that goes bang, bang, bang?
If I at der soldiers play I also must haf der big gun dot go boom, boom, boom.
But you can't have big guns yet, son. Remember, you've been very, very naughty. What about a litle machine gun that goes
tat-tat-tat?
"All this fuss about a head- ache," said The Sparrow. "You! ought to try a hangover and see what that's like."
"I think I've got the flu," said his wife.
"More likely fowl pest," said The Sparrow.
"Oh, how could you say such an awful thing," said his wife. "Fowl pest. Fancy."
"You've got all the sympTM toms,"
By MERCURY
in new Peking of Supply
A U.S. loan and a plebiscite to decide Afghan claims
prices.
soor
with ceiling
Ministry officials will be given on powers to inspect scrap-yards Mamulisky, a veteran Com- Pakistan territory are the aims to prevent hoarding that right.
of the Premier of Afghanistan. retard defence work.
munist, is with them.
hold conferences They will with Mao Tse-tung and Asian Communist leaders on the anti- Western Spring programmno.
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The Chinese will enthrone the Panchen Lama as ruler of Tibet.
A
of
Afghanistan corridor to Pakistan. claims.
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Prices of zinc, copper and brass scrap are to be controlled shortly to stop profiteering.
Shortage of packing materinis, particularly waterproof paper,
is worrying British exporters. They fear shipping delays.
The British Colonial Develop-
а also wants
The British Government are ment Corporation has flown ex- Honduras to Increases through considering
in the perts to British the sca
her rates of interest on National take over a big cattle ranch. India supports
Savings Certificates, Post Office savings, Trustee savings bank accounts "and Defence bonds, This would assist a big savings campaign for rearmament.
British and French officials favour four-Power talks with Russia even if they are confined to German problems.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has hell a conference
It will raise cattle in Swaziland as well in a plan to make Britain les dependent on Argentine beet.
Chinese aganta are Altering
sald The
Sparrow, into the Ladalch province "Watery eyes, running beak, Kashmir, which is marked as control of the British Ministry from all districts.
Scrap metal will come under With National Savings workers visits from General Eisenhower
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Large
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wool shipments dro There will be more B30 flights loving Australia for Odessa to to Britain and visila by U.9, increato Russian stocks, The, warships.
US. and Britain' are perturbed.
The armed forces of Bulgaria, Britain and the U.S. will in- Hungary and Rutrusula are nearly vest in the Spanish making in- three times as large as permitted dustry, which is suffering fram by the 1947 peace treation lack of equipment
The pics of Apanish pyrites and quicksilver have risen steep- Ty" with rostenseDent,
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