The Vigil at
Petain's Island Gaol
By HUGO CHARTERIS
molives were subsidiary. To-
motive of an active day the Pelainist is mainly to justify his yesterday.
Be d'Yeu. HIS mound, five miles by three, on the eats tern fringe of the At-
But also inclules a dash of lantic, where the wind Anglophobin, of anti-Semitism, seldom stops blowing, was of "the workers - mittal - ber just a name in an utlas to kept-in-their-placeism," and of most people till General de the backward look to 14-18,
are modelly Gaulle sent Philippe Petain here to end his days in the old fortress, Pierre Levee.
Seven bleak lighthouses, three chuteli pires, tal four tunny factory sinuke-stucks make the sharpest becak in the skyline, Lut the thing that you see fret 4/11 the horizon when you come in the Forry, and last when you leave, is the pine-clad rise which marks Petain's prison.
Wa
assorted
group on the islanul today.
There is Maitre isorn, the old anti's towyer, who may night the next election "as 2 syrabol." There is Canon Gait-
rd. formerly General
for Gaulle's Chaplain-General the Free French in Britain and ancien of Verdun,
He says be has come in a "purely private capacity" but adet significantly. That he is
Trasts,
FOTO
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extra
THE CHINA MAIL; SATURDAY, 'MAY 5, 1951.
AND THAT YOU DIVED INTO WATER WHICH IMMEDIATELY EVAPORATED?
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...
W YOU WERE
[POURING FROM À POT OF TEA BUT YOU COULD. NOT STOP IT
POURINGTM)
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
A dream has never merely one interpretation; it symbolises many things, wishes, fears, con. flicts, otc.; which only a prolonged analysis would reveal. One could spand a your analysing ONE dream-if one wanted to, and if one thought it worthwhile.
In this dream there are several elements. One element is the desire to relieve a physical need.
CITY HOARD TO BE SHOWN
AT GUILDHALL
THE "Chepside Hoard," a col-
lection of priceless Bizabe- Ruan jewellery, found early this century during excavations in Cheapside, will be on exhibition at the Guildhall Museum during the Forival of Britain.
Umler the
"Nineten Centuries of
the City Life,"
adornments and house- xhibition will include Landon's bold rocils, dating from Roman times to the
It would not be a bad sison, lad to make an act of "oniost as prisons go, if the prisoner were younger than 95 or in good and reennciliation," -beskl.
And then there are ten of Brazilian Pettin lives in a concrete cuse. Pelain's relatives, nate, furnished like a barracks business ulfire. A recently permitted bet journalists, including two Britons gives a comfortably sedate and and a Spaniard, bourgeois
the Republican Guards, a special Appearance tu
policeman to guard Mme. Petain, the Jesuits aloner for all French prisons, 20 cartier pigeons, and come strangers"
wwwll the inand's population of 1,000 human beings { duster, and 1,590 dogs.
otherwise utilitarian cell.
THE
Just one window
E orange curtains made by Petain are of the Mme. same material as those in her own bed-sitting-room at Ports Joinville, half rule away A tiny dra talte stands on rectangular carpet
Outside the one window is the sunken court used as a netball pitch by the guards. In winter It stands under water; in spring
normal
Twice a day the prison doctors send a hulletin down to the one hojet, It is pinned on the wall between the rack for aperitifs and the cash desk, under à baro- meter stuck at tres sec.
Hard" believed. to
be the stock-in- trade of a Chy jeweller moncler, who buried his good during
0! sim period
The "Chef en dag.
AN OYAL WATCH It includes pendant in the forma
#rape duster ih #chly jewelled fan-holder, a Karnit ctors and an oval watch with an ennncil-
Sonne of
and the pendanda clams are patterned with baw thorn Bowers, daisies, and wid
with gems reses, adome
01
The Journalists--some of them A spells of gorse blossom, and from June to Setember of state have been here three weeks- sardine
oil, which the wind break off from bilhards, Ishing, blows from the factories. From or playing records to leak.' Then the window you
pounds. can see only they put phone calls through. the sky.
Press reception
This is the place where the Government in Paris have de- elded that the old man is to be
MME PETAIN lives check-by-
buried, for they want to avoid
jowl with the Press. She trouble. Today the two reputa receives reporters in the even- tion of Marshal Petain, the ins after her daily visit to her Man of Verdun and the Man of husband. In her Voom 416 Vichy.
are very much alive.
massou of mementoes, bric-a- A Many Frenclunch approve both, bene, relies of other days. some neither, some one but not trieniour ribbon hangs from a
other. the
medallion of Petain over her The people who approve both
bed. are the dieulty. They are, so to speak, clamouring at the pri son dear. They have an ice in Parks, Stition, and a rich publicity
They want
revised, pomp at
At 75 she walks with a stick, climbs 20 stairs to her root,
must go across one road to eat, Bul arruss another to wash.
Petain released, Petain's trist she gratefully says: "The people
here are kind. They have he Petain buried in and
cepted me." Douuttmont.
Parcels of food and wine arrive She seldum for her weekly, acknowledges them but takes them as her husband's due. "None. from England," she com- death and burial in the bleak plained once to a French jour-
A Tew ambitious ones in this however, see a politicut group. -future-for-Petainism These men would like to see the Petain legend
by his strengthened
quadrangle of his urison.
A mixed bunch
IN
nalist.
Not
much happens on the le 'Yeu. The main social event of
TN 1940 perhaps 80 percent of Porto Joinville's life is the daily merely took the arrival of the ferry boat from course of least resistance. Other the mainland 20 milles. away.
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The goms incradle memb from Colombia, topaz from Brazil, Indian rubles and lapiz zuli from Persia, The volkene tion has not been on exhibition in Longion shee-the-flis- gear. after, the wor.
Bymał Krabha
The pouring symbolises the gratified wish; the inability to stop pouring symbolises the fear.
The diving into the water symbolises a desire to roturn to the pleasant irresponsibility of childhood. Unfortunately the water evaporates; childhood is gone and in the depths are revealed serpents, i.a., adult instincts, conflicts, desires, etc.
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This dream is merely a temporary escapism- as dreams often aro. Thore is NO moral,
MAKING THE SUN
WATER OUTLET TO MAIN TANK
SUN'S RAYS HEAT
A HELIUM IN (HELIUM, PLANE"
COOLED HELIUM DRIVES "SOMOR" MOTOR
WATER PUMP DRIVEN BY "SOMOR" MOTOR
WORK
WATER FROM WELL OR DORE
1
THE FABULOUS
FIELDS
★HE hated children, Christmos
--and film stars
*HE gave gin to the baby
-and drank two quarts a day
★ HE opened 700 bank accounts
--and was mean to the last.
W. C. FIELDS; hjr follies and fortuner, By Robert Lewis Taylor,
Carroll. 16. 282 'pages.
THE
THE altitude of W. C. Fields towards men, women, money, property, art and religion was governed by the deepest distrust. His small, frosty-blue eyes were on constant look-out for enemics and ambushes; his brain was intent on getting hla blow in first,
His rigid principle, explain-
ed in this wide-awalce, friend-
biography, was "Never give
a sucker an even break,"
ถ
but
by
GEORGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
NO PAPER? But Britain leads with NEW BOOKS on clerk lent him 10 dellars an
In carrying it out Fields had 10 watch carefully for the enemy
He was fond of drinking within, his other sell. He was
martinis,' practice which hard case with a soft core; consisted of holding a battle yellow strank of kindness ran of gin in one hand and a bot- through his truculent character. tle of vermouth in the other and taking alternate pulls,
When he was broke a sin.
10
for his fare, Just to see if the favouring the gin. He adhered to one stem rule of health: "I common report about theatri- by JON HOPE
cat people was
Fleidsver drink anything stranger true.
than gin before breakfast," In not only wept, he pald back
dranit two Despite
later years, he paper dimeullies the 10 dollars with interest.
quarts of it a day. British publishers have been This was utterly apposed issuing inore
new books than his ethical teaching:
COCKNEY'S BOY Figures just received shows sensitive, mulisht that United States publishing Arouses featured 11 022 new
HEADER TANK
the Americans.
This diagram explains the working of an Italian machine which uses the sun's heat to pump walor.
A "helium plane"-a fol tank The heated helium flows along filled with helium gas-absorbs a pipe to a "Somer" mator. the sun's heat.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD,
There's no better spot to picture children than at the beach, where light reflected from the sand and water softens shadows
cast by an overhead sun.
bu!
to
the salten
on
inglependent
being
titles in their lists last year. born in Philadelphia, son of a That is 0,030 fewer than in Bri-Cockney costermonger inia.
Best selling noved was Cardinal. It
The
found 588,400
buyers,
600
out
*
He kept his liquor in an up- stairs room of which he alone had the key. The lock was --change monthly. Even so, he with and looked on his servants
suspicion. was drep
When he became a comedian he Follies named with the Ziegfeld Dukinfield from whom, aged 11, employed as a valet an excep- called he parted on terms of effusive tonally stupid dwarf
Zieg- "Shorty" knowing that What sort
Dukinfield of bucks get the mutual disrespect,
aver- a fe had a superstitious with poper in America? Or the 11,022, had struck his
his son to dwarts. Shorty was in novels accounted for 1,907; chil | shovel. Fields retorted on
father's head with a dren's books,
woodch due ecurse pro ted to be 1,102; religious
4 stooge In box. books; 770; scientife, 060.
stage golf act lite of juvenile delin- "borrowed" from Harry Tate. queney followed. Stealing from "It's selfish of me to hog your Fields said, Chinese laundrymen proved a incompetence," profitable enterprise. While a "I want to share you with the confederate held up the street public." Mart significant trend in ears outside, thus causing a li
He fitted
Shorly out with United States publishing the deafening clamour of bells, squeaky shoes to walk- across rise of the paper-bound, pocket-Fields woult
act. clear
during the the the "green" sized raprint. Last year's sales? Chinaman's till and bolt.
Tris was such a hit that Fields -214 million.
cut It oul, convinced that Later, deviating Into honesty, he
His Shorty was trying to steal the old newspapers. Ordeal By Fire
methods were his own. mor- show. A And Eow to current pap pick out sume kem
BANISH HIM! ing the main news, he
would where a diftulties add ordeal by fire. When publisher James Barrie name appealed to his eccentric TN his film career he formed
"Brouistaw 1 the - same suspicion of Viola Mey-humour and bawl: manuscript
and Hell's ters he planned publication for ucar-old sheep-dog. Detalls on between takes would sit around The motor employs the move. May.. Then 'u
eyeing the child and uttering corner of the Page 26." and contraction of the printing works went
These upin From this period in his life vague, injured threats. helium to turn a flywheel, which damus. Including
"Ophelia,"
dates Fields's infection with took shape one day when Fields is geared to a water pump. Wish no carbon copy to be found the commercial virtues, notably surreptiously poured gin into
I looked us though
the five caution. He feared theft and the baby's orange juice. While After driving the motor the
years Miss Meynel had helium is piped back to
spen poverty. When, having become nurse and studio hands flutter on her bock were wasted. But д "helium plane."
touring Juggler, he got some ed round the comatose infant 40 hours later the nuguished
he would open & pank Fields crowed Walk money, the author discovered a fair enough account wherever he went. He him around, The
copy for printers. Rush work on said that at one time he had per! Send him home!" type settings now making up 700 accounta in various parts He dicked children as much The smallest, costing £180, for lost time, Ophelia will stf of the world. Some were un- na he disliked Christmas. will lint 1,800 gallons of water be presented as planned, May-
der strange names: Sneed for his fellow-stars in the cine- time. an hour from a depth of 338,
Hearn, Figley E. Whitesides, ma flimament, he dislike was Dr. Olis Guelpe, and Die lice.measured.accurately by their At his death 30 necounts were, success, located. He is said to have A friend tools him to see an lost 50,000 dollars in the Ber- carly Chaplin film. Half-way lin bombing.
through, when the Mughter Also dating from this vagrant was deafening. Fields said phase was the animosity which needed air end left the theatre, dogs always displayed towards He was found afterwards sit- him. As a friend sald: "Look-ting outside: In the car. HIA ing through his fine clothes and judgment on Chaplin was un- synthetic dignity, dogs see the compromising:: "The best ballet former hobo."
tlancer that ever lived, and if I get a good chance I'll kill him with my bare hands,,
In this motor, woler cools the sent novel "Ophellu," to prin- | Gimp acquires licence for two- Baby LeRoy, aged two,
helium and contracts it.
-ment
The Italian firm makes machines in three sizes.
the
Shorter
84 to 1
odds
550,000 to 1 8888
MORE
FORE mothers are likely to
have twins and quads. The chances have so increased that they have upset the mys
cricus natural law governing multiple births,
IN COURT
of
310 -
A
he
re-
He had a prodigious memory. THE former hobo became, by
a passion for odtl names like dint of strenuous pre Postlethwaite and. Smunn; and tice, a music-hall turn of in- the curious ability (shared with More babies, at 3,930,500, ternational repute who always Jack Dempsey) that he could were born in the six war years looked back wistfully on his read the Ietlerin on's than in the previous six years life of crime. Pedag as an ex- volving gramophone dise of peace-3,640,000. And twice per on prkons, he gave praise In later life, he developed a to the English variety while phobia about kirinppers. - His as many babies
beluga
maintaining, with *ang of method of warning off this adopted by the end of the war civle pride,
"When you
get 7,770 in 1940 and 10,357 in right down to it, 1943.
Other highspots of the port:-
MARRIAGE:
21 was under
were
re-
menace
ing like Philadeere's noth- me was to carry on, in the
BEACH SHOTS OFTEN BEST PHOTOFINISHER who is a beach or the water itself. This harsh neighbour was talking of helps
a strong sun pictures the other day... talking shadows which with a background of experience otherwice easts, helps Hght your
developing
and make gained from
and subject, evenly
The faw-known to scientists
of the night, loud con- attractive picture. printing thousands of amateur attracts
as the "rule of 87"-said that
Actitious Breause of this abundance of
body- versations with snapshots over a period of yea76,
one set of twins arrived for
He admired the Engilch
"Take 16 easy. I know guards: "You know," he said, "I may light, however, you'll want less
every 87 single births, a set
novelists of the nineteenth cen you boys are
prize former be wrong
I expect that
for beach shots than exposure
of triplets for every 87 sets of
tury and the English practice fighters and
but I'd gunment more gasd
made for other scenes. For example, pictures are
Nearly one of hanging fowls outside but rather you didn't shoot to Idll. of children at the beach than when making a clos-up at the wins, and a set of quads for
lots of shot with figures in every 87
triplets, bride in every almost anywhere else. If I wan- beach or
four by 1945 chers shops: He did not re- Try to get them in the spinal Figurds 10. Britain, just pub- try using fiches, show how the
odds
remove cord or the pelvis. Ha, ha, ha, ted a good picture of my grand- the foreground,
years of age. gard it no larceny to 1/100 at 1/11 rather
Morc than 100,000 wartime these birds. But gallantry was this ought to be, good" child, and wanted to make it exposure of
Feven years
3 FUNERALS". the easiest way, I think I'd snap than the customary 1/50 at f/11 changed in the
Irom July 1, 1938, to Decen- brides married members of the the more usual reason for his
later
police appearances in Allied armed forces, him playing on the sand on a which is used for most normal
rubjects with most roll films. ber 31, 1945-
couris.
་ the sunny day."
AT age of 00, this f's also well 12 ramember me as His comment struck
His drinking regime soon al- DIVORCE: Upheavni at home AGAINST TWINS.... 84 to 1
doughly, exuberant and that
more tracted attention. He travelled cross-grained personality, who interesting,
cometimes 12's necessary to particularly 05
during the war years there's good reasta for it. For cut exposure even more: For AGAINST QUADS 550,000 to
There was cne set of triplets than doubled the rate: 7,755 in with two wardrobe trunks, to had become one of the great beach scenes or close-ups have instance, beach scenes in which
which he added a third fitter! of turning our botter no people are included in then every 10,000 births-longer 1940, galust 15,034 in 1945. n way
up as a wine cellar. Later he comedians of the screeni
overtaken by the result of, a than other shots. Simply be near foreground require even olds than under the "rule, of
POPULATION: Though war threw out some clothes so that hard life. On Christmas Eve, cause the sand and water hep less exposure. The long range 07:
casualties amounted to about he liat two wine cellar trunks 1040 the fellow with u
"tho" to reflect the sunlight,
views of a beach-scanio shots-
300,000, the population of Eng- and a third for his juggler's bright nigt
nightgown" (his favourite often should be made with an
land and Wales rose by 994,000 equipment. This proportion he way of
way of referring to death) exposure of 1/100 at f/10.
between 1039 and 1943.
thought about right.
came for W. C. Floids, -John van Guilder
To the end, he was He left his closect woman friend 25-dollars a wook. The bulk of hlafen
fortune, 500,000 dollars, went to a collego for
and while
orphan bby's
girio "where no religion of any sort should be that he
He gave
As a result, the Eght not only strikes your subject from over- head but is reflected from the
JOHNNY HAZARD
4 Foreign (5).
8 Brace (4).
cerning sheep (5).
11
Ward off (5).
13
Measure of land (4).
LOOK
OUT!
14 Verve
DiMcult (4).
18 'Sign
10-Pronks
કોઈ
26-Rage (5)
23 Active (4).
2 Binal (8).
20 Cook (4).
20 Gem
(7).
30. Prollic
at US, coin (4).
99 Once more (8)
33 Political party
·(4)·
10 Best part (5).
17 Mica (4).
18 Monster (4).
20 Mban (7).
22 Frult (4).
21 Alfudo (6).
20 Obvious (5)
27 Successor (4)
28 Worry (4);
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Hubbub, 7 Rein, Brink 10 Sleve, 11 Tarn 13 Restricted, 15 Neat, 10 Menu, 19% Intercodes 22 Sped, 24 Eclat, 26 Drove, 20 Free, 27 Netted. Denn: 2 Unlis, 3 Baker, 4 Bitect, 6. Prolence, 0 Pler, 8 Evade, 12-Notes 13 Rompa 14 Trundled, 17 Niete, 18 Exton, 20 Chuet 21 Drone, 23 Pest,
DOWN MASTER!
All told there were 59,300 rets of twins, 408 of triplets, chd nine of quads..
By Frank Robbins
BROKÉ UP A BLOOD. BATH BY LUCK...GOT TO
· GET THE BABY WHO „TRÍGGERED "THIC /
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* Rememberi qur slogan, "A tittie
apeni, a. lat gained,
GANDA YAH: Chan, 433
Manager,
was
mean.
should have no
no funeral. Ho had three: Roman Chhole funeral, Spiritumist funeral
a non-sectarian funeral,
The secret of Fields'
GUR- cera?
his Destienti
• professiona life to repaying nocicly for
the hurts of childhood, by, op- pentod to a SCADA Por infuntion.
and a desire for revende, ure is one of the peresin folibe thing of humans (or) Mat male) erradion,NIENC
* LEWIS TÄYLON, marítés,a two children, divga in commeETICKÝ (Septhaibh the New Ze