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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1951,
ARAB
NATIONALISH
TANGLED RELATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
World Cefariki do arennopment with 'Detto Harald
L
VISIT THAT
CANADA
THE
STIRS
By Patrick Nicholson
OTTAWA. ple should halt on their par ground in the world's largest IEUTENANT and.
of the longest nickel mine; view the Com- ucular plece
most Royal-footstepped monwealth's biggest goldfield; Governors, Mayors, red carpet in the Common behind the dramatic water curtain of Niagara Falls, which Red Indian chiefs, re. wealth.
hydro-electris huge Royal Highnesses drive
ncross
The
Rockies
gimental colonels, Cham will, of course, in the short power stations; ride bors of Commerce, and in- time at their disposal, not bo endless flat prairies and rolling dustrial magnates are battl- able to see all the places that ranches, and drive along roads warns Cana- cut right through hugo. trees ing for every inch of the they would
in western forests. 10,000-mile transcontinental das Prime Minister. tour of Princess Elizabeth So fur-trappers, and the Duke of Edinburgh, formers, lumberjacks,
They will admire the breath- and busy workers are already this autumn.
planning to travel hundreds of taking grandeur of the Rockies. spectacular miles to the. transcontinental probably in the
Horte catch this drive through Kicking railway line
of once-in-a-lifetime glimpse Pasn their future. Queen:
coni-
Each boasts that his munity offers Canada's most spectacular view, or most fo teresting gold mine, or must beautiful autumrat colours, or smartest Highland regiment, or most modern lumber camp, or warmest Octovci waather, best moose hunting, or most ypical Canadian village,
10
OF
most
loyal tribe,
dramatic ollfield.
most the
They are all besioging Government committee er- ranging the tour with invitations that the Royal cou-
THE PROGRESS OF
0%
ก
SINGAPORE
(By A Special Correspondent)
expectations
of the
In 1028 Roméo of
Southeast Asia,
Novalists
#
popular. elections
reduced.
to
prairie
miners,
Definite Musts
They wil sall through the 86-mile Strait of Georgia, dol- ted with Islands co beautiful that Queen Elizabeth · wanted to buy one. "Why buy them. Daked the your Majesty?" loyal steamship ob- are all yours now lain. "They
rewarded by a
They will be waving hand as the Royal car rlage drives along a city street, or a few words from Ute servation platform of the blue and alver Royal train halted briefly at some lonely whistle atop, or a glimpse of the Royal night of airliners passing over head, for part of the long journey will be speeded up by
air travel.
silk
Cowboya in bright shirts and embroidered high-
Redskins heeled boots;
In white buckaldin dress and tea- thered
ROUT
West,
from
groot
war bonnets; urgent
doughs in plaid shirts; farmers in the garb of the Old and other Canadians of more than 50 rpelal, origins, Princess Elizabeth has some
every continent,
will definite "musts" to do and see them with more Union Jacks here, and wants two three-day
and less formality than they private holiday atops "away have ever seen before. from it all," which will be in- David Williamson, the cluded
suggested shepherd from Glamis Castle, for and William Whyte, the
wheat farmer who was
were
First Elections
in
tho
the
them.
born
ac-
kopt
n
Holiday Air. JA Their Royal Highnesses twin want their visit to be
· World's Wil: simple. So the New 2,000 only monarchy la planning from million-dollar tour gayer and which less protocollsh than Their
Bri- Majesties tour in 1939.
There will be a spirit among crowds,
holiday the welcoming which in Canada's alr champagne-like autumnal
.the will prove infectious to
1813 following recorsillution of Itinerary to be submitted the Municipal Commission, Com- her approval, shortly: m'taloners were appointed by the
After
landing at
at Quebec City on the Glamis estate, may be Governor, and then in 1948, the oldest fown in North among the unexpected
in-America and once the luxurious quaintances who will greet the capital of New France, Today the Municipal área is Royal party will visit Ottawa
Chief Duck of the once run by a Commission of 27 and the capitals of all 10 pro-
cltles ferocious. Blackfeet Tribo will Unofficial Members; the President vinces, and other large
proudly show them his irca- is a seconded officer from the and industrial centres.
Their tour will include Mon- mured pleture of the Red Singapore Government Service,
"Great French-Canu- dians" beloved
While N the evening of While the
or treat, the gay College was and combines the duties of Moyos din metropolis; Hamilton, the Queen," Victoria: January 28, 1819, Raffles in relation to commerce opened as a centre for higher and Town Clerk in a UK. town. Sheffield of Canada and
had been amply grailed by education of two Englishmen 1914, in two major respects his standard, and in 1949 the union remaining 18 are elected
univery of the 27
nine are members,
of the
and Argyll home nominated by the Governor; the Sutherland Highlanders of and a Sepoy guard aspirations remained unfulfilled.
by which Princess Elizabeth College and the King registered voters-British sub-Colonel-in-Chief; made their
in It was his opinion that Singapore, of the way
the the in view of its vital position in Edward VII College of Medicine jects over 21 years of age. lakehead ports of Fort small boat into
Liam and Port Arthur, the line of trade and communica- Into the University of Malaya old Strait of Singapore. tions from the Mediterranean saw fulfilled the last and most
astonishing miles Joland One of them was Thomas and the Indian Ocean to China resplendent of Rames visions of
the ocean but through Stamford Raffles destined and the Antipodes, should be- Malnya us the cultural centre of THERE is no literacy qualifica-sail wheat and four for
Malta of the come
tion
taina. for voters and no need to to become the Founder ofAt the time of the
outbreaks
although and playwrights be English-speaking. Singapore,
the of among
From Afar war with Germany in 1914, greatest cosmopolitan the adjacent islands of Blakang were accustomed in. years gone candidates must be able to read Mall and Pulau Brand were by to invest Singapore with an and speak enough English to take
They will go to Winnipeg, in part in the Council's proceedings, mystery centres in the world.
fortified, and Singapore boasted aura of romantic
which oplumden
entirely in the great Scottish centre; Cal visitors. dens and secret which take place. a gatrizon force of
of two bat
Chinese The
gary, the beef town turned all vision and courage of talions, but the Colony bore mu exelling and colourful part, but The first elections,
English Societies
the. móst A special postage stamp will were held capital; Victoria, Sir Stamford Rafles are recalled
In the and 'British city
world, commemorate the visit, two the announcement that resemblance to
Mal of the the indisputable fact is that the in 1948, and have always aroused East.
Indeed, on February 15
where tweedy retired English peaks of the Rockies will be island never earned the reputa real interest; there have been no
Edinburghs, of a city.
1018, one of the battalions,
the A life-size
Com rose gardens; and many towns and the Princess will be made For many decades
in the of U
are
represented
popula Canada's first lady Privy Coun and and villages all with been no mission Progressive Raffles now stands on a pedestal 5h Light Infantry, stalloned at gave it..
Alexandra Barracks, muitnied, yearly crime bill has in front of the Victoria Memorial, and more than 40 white people, the average English town and independents.
tions at least trebled by wel- cillor. than that of Labour-with number of more formidable
ted comers from afar. Оле elected on the very Empress ino where tradition has always were murdered before the rising the members of the public: Rave Member is a European, returned, Wilting sed cuields and foundland, after four
will be bedecked heid that Arst landed.
he
was put down.
been able to go about their low- by an Asian electorate.
many decorated with trium Although he was only 37 at Naval Base ful occasions without fear of
The Commission
memories ciphal arches, like, that made of weeks, they will carry away
of unforgettable that time, Raffica had already
molestation.
monthly in its own
Council wheat
King 10, generous sheaves for
and devoted subjects The first Statute incorporating Chamber, which made its major saved Malacca from destruction THE incident served
to the Mother perhaps like George V, or and ruled Java as Lieutenant- phasise the Colony's defence the Municipal Commissioners of appearance in history as the spectacular honour which Country and faithful to its de Governor
for Ave ycars.
less position, particularly in Singapore WZ3 the
Straits scene of the Japanese surrender tonished the Prince of Wales, mocratic freedoms, are con His researches revealed the world where neighbouring Japan. Municipal Act of 1850--which to Lord Louis Mountbatten in made of cod liver oil drums scientiously striving to forgotten past of the island of had gradually become the third provided for the election of 1945. In the buildings now and draped with dried codijah. the King's parting prophecy- Singapore, where a prosperous leading naval power and was
Commissioners to hangs a Union Jack, preserved Commercial centre had flourished known to entertain ideas which
throughout the by interncos under, the name of Singapura were not in the best interest of
that Act. provisions of
From Japanese occupation. in the thirteenth and fourteenth the British Empire or the peace centuries, until it was destroyed of the Far East.
by
played
an
Singapore is to have the status (unhappy date for Singapore!) tlon which imaginative wrllers uncontested seats. Two parties? majors sip ten in year-around named after the
monument
10 cm-
by the Javanese about 1377; and The Imperial Conference, [ his imaginative power had also 1921, therefore decided that suggested to him the Immense Singapore should become a strategle and commercial value fortress, and by 1938 a first class of its position on the direct route naval base had been constructed.
with complete
graving and
to and from the Far East.
an air base was
to
C2-
Municipal carry
into
execution
the
the
When they bid their last as they sall from New-
crowded
of
tuim
Canada's in 1030: "By God's grace yours They will sample
natural may yet be the example which huge Industries, and wealth; go half-a-mile under- all the world will follow."
Sitting on the Fence.... by
THESE
are
the dog.
sub, and when NATHANIEL
docks big enough floating Took Lease accommodate the largest capital DAFFLES had been commis- ship;
tablished and the Carrison
daya, usually the hot- sioned by the Governor considerably strengthened a
teat period of the General of India to establish д
year in the northern hemi- trading station in Riau or Johore, Malta of the East, in fact, and he decided on Singapore. He Raffles had foreseen.
Unhappily, the world-embrac-sphere, when the dog star, first took 6 lease of portion of
a
which Hitlerle!
or Sirius, rises and sets the island from the then Sultan ng cataclysm
Germany unleashed the following of Johore, and five years later year, joined by Japan in Decem- with the the island was bought outrigh';
Great Brilain even good-tempered people within a very few years a new ber 1941, found city sprang up.
ately engaged in the battle desperately
the attack become irritable, bad-tem in the West, and
Japanese launched pered people violent. Following the acceptance of which the
in the
an Only
astrologer could British protection and guidance, against Singapore
Sirius Couses the Malay States, hitherto un hinterland of Malaya, thus em- tell you why
or- unhealtby,
and phasising the undeveloped
fundamental such behaviour, but any sparsely populated territory, differences between the fortress dinary man reading the news papers can see that it's true. were transformed into the most of Singapore and that of
Britain's of all
Britain's naval and air strengli dependencies. .In this
nature was required at that development Singapore naturally played a primary part, for it was protect the heart of the Empire w and could not be diverted in to ave there that European
Quantities can processes zumcient of in melting were introduced Singapore, and the tragedy in In 1887, and it was also there the
Far East marched to its the to enforced
was vla
time to
that the director of the inevitable conclusion-in
Botanical Gardens first exhibited ease of Singapore, cultivated rubber to the public surrender on February 13, 1942.
cray which was to make Singapore the chief rubber ex-
11
port centre of the world, for its. cultivation
spread rapidly to the Peninsula, to Indonesia and to Borneo.
Under Enemy
*
mea
In the Aldwych last week a marr s'apped his girl's face. protested. Two other Blows were exchanged.
Four other men "Jolnwod in, averybody within socking rango. The, police arrived and two were bustled off to the cooler. A
becauso among`·
GUBBINS
is working overtime, on Aus- Yes. Are you always 'Uke
а
Yes,
Funny, Isn't it?
In't tr
Fond of sport?
tralian journalist reports that this with boys!
fihee, "urunily Syngmon friendly old man, has COM- pletely lost his reason so far H at Communism is concerned;"
Stung, no doubt by pointed questions and mosquitoes, be yelled back at Fresumen: "T would like the war to go on tit not one Communist is left alive."
No. You fond of it? No,
Reading?
Sometimes,
I like it sometimes. Nima?
Some Alms.
900
If so, read about the racing pigeons started off from Nantes, France, forthele home lofts in Yorkshire,
Only 17 out of the 900 ar- rived. What happened to
*thĩa
it. " cannot
The exports called and mafor disaster! think of any explanation.
If they can't, I can. Pigeons are not fools. They have heard about pigeon ple and have down off to some unra tioned country.
...
What's more, they have
probably read shout
elenks,
and
horso
donkeys served up
as veal in England, and know--
Like perfectly well that if
29
people who love borses and stroke: them :donkeys noses will eat
without a twinge, of con-
there. Isn't *science, What's your favourite colour? chance for a pigeon, who is not greatly loved and hardly
I like some flims.
I say. Look.
Haven't got one,
Neither have 1.
What at?
A cat. Where?
Over there. Licking
Yes,
You couldn't do that. No.
What did you say? Only "No.
As for poor, little Dr Monsa- deg, the Persian Prime Minis ter, he has taken to his -bod again in a temperature of 110 in the shade.·· The day after, 250 Thames boatmen of the passenger pleas What with Persians threaten
ing to bump him off if he between OR three-and-a-half years,
sure boat service Malaya and Singapore were occupied by the Japanese, whose Greenwich and Kew wont on gives way on the oil dispute.
stomach. other and Englishmen warning him vaunted
co-prosperity strike Population followed prosperity much
legs no wonder ho "alternates, bo the sight of women's
outbursts and in a continuous upward curve, sphere benefited no one, least of complaints they were sick of of financial, ruin it be doesn't,
all the subjugated people, climbing in and out of their tween angry
tosses When the citizens were last Thousands of Chinese and other boats, on and off the piers. peevish tears as he counted In 1047; they numbered
"They show as much as pos- from side to side in a stuffy 938,144, of whom. 720,479 were nationals died at the hands of
lucrat sible and giggio," sala ona bed probably full of toast Chinese.
there before the
of the frig
Boutheast Asia Irritable striker. "They ought crumbs. Command under Lord Louis to be slapped."
Mountbatten, The following day a reader (now Viscount) fresh from their victories over the
enemy In Burma, entered complained to a columnist
me badly, but during the last *Six months later, Simspore week of two she has bitten ma3 white community, including
na 2001 AR §£ arrive?, Britishers, Australians, New became a soparaba Colony, the vagely as
Ameri- two other settlements Fenang home." Zealanders, Canadian
and Mulacca intimately joining cans,fr French, Dutch, Swiss, the Federation of Manyakanga Gorming, Danes and Italiana;
In Hollywood, crooner Frank A the Maisys, and a host of The other expectation of different kinds of Indonesian, Rafles which was not im Sinatra, nouailymita sort will their traditional colourful mediately fulfiled was that of chap
No. Malta
THROUGHOUT, the
present fre century, Singapore has attract
ed people of all nationalities; the the city on Beptember 1, 1945. My wife has always treated
....
Full stop
Cowben 1 am talking to a girl, Haters out the corvarmation.
come, fali, alop.” Leiber, to a NEWSPAPER | SOFIA talet, o
ID YOU Bay comething?
thought you did.
No. It was just thinking,
About what?
I've forgotten.
I thought you sai thing elter Me? No. Oht
· some-
Warning to animals
the huma
alou - mask | him about his friendship with
odep, pace with com
1,GAMMEN Forgotten:what?! BOWLINE" "was: thinking about think
anim
stroked.
much
though doge can'tay they had better, watch out.
Alegady prairie, dogs-Tata being
canned in the Argentine and sent to Italy for human 10 consumption. According reports, they taste like ruck- Ing pig?
can't do Well, doggles more than warn you
In the hungry days to conę when all the horses and dabe keys have been deatah," when all the pond, in Eritain "are" empty but for
devoured EPSOL
the frightened birday Xhavit flown away, do not trust hands that ơndo, yớc the voice that Cosys
“fourlits; » @knifa
and occasionally setbewerki men of the hiL REJE
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