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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1952.
By EXCLUSIVE RADIO. We have examined The Social Services of SMARS,
The Minister of Ignorance, having a go with Pickles,
had been cut because
explained that Education
if the Gov! spent so much on Things to blow brains IN, it wouldn't be able
•to afford things to blow brains OUT. Anyway, the Govt had decided that the way To defeat bad ideas was to stop thinking, and all that children needed To learn was obedience and the National Anthem, .The Dean reports that the Public Health Service
now makes a charge for artificial Tails,
LOW'S- SPACE-SHIP EXPEDITION
World Copyright. By arrangement with Daily Herald
Pte WHEELER
N
He tells women how drab they are -and makes a fortune, doing · it
THE DARING of
Mr. WILLIS
.....................æginasmusze wys eutelsattus
NEW YORK. to invite and got a frante EAT but not oppraisal of their appearance by
glamorous,
Mr Willis. Lols of them have Good been visiting Britons. This 'Is figures-but they hide how Mr Wills comes to be an them. Very attractive, authority on British womanhood. but apparently quite un clothes are far too severe. Who "To start with," he said, "their aware of it. Those are can see a pretty figure in a English.. women in the suit or coal cut straight up-and- opinion of a daring 43-year-. down? Admittedly
They old New Yorker, who thinks heat. And perhaps tidier than he knows. all there is to about a bit more glamour? A our American women, But how know about women.,
dro that clings, perhaps. A In the past few years he prettier colour In materials. has told 350,000
touch more make-up, maybe.. women Setter hair-styles."
look
A
what is wrong with them, PULLS NO PUNCHES their, general shapes and Mr Willis pulls no punches in their clothes. Not only has telling his television victims he survived, but he has where they go wrong. If a figure made for himself
is in need of minor repair, or £44,000 year in doing it.
nat badwapele overhaul, he L clean- Richard Wills,
Excess-poundage, he begins to ward in saying, 50, shaven, sleek, with blue think, is the major cause of the
1
Some
Even
pin-stripe suits (and happily clipiritedness he encounters in
.so many women, married even though he
At times Me Willis introduces chooses all. his wife's hats, a touch of psychology in bis at- and clothes), runs five tempt to restore his "patients" days a week television 'confidence in themselves.
"I am not," he told a plain, programme in New York mousy little woman, one night, called "Looking At You."
A stream of women trot duti fully before his camera cach day
MARCHED
UNDER THE IRON DUKE
66 T
AM at a loss which
to admire 'most,
the most in- tropid courage
to a
Remarkable numbers have I seen die under sack. This forms my pillow, at to perform the duty on
"trying to make you look liko Hedy Lamarr, I'm just trying to improve on what you've got."
with dexterous hand restyled ber hair, dabbed on some make-up (he was a Hollywood make-up man for, years) and rearranged the hang of her. sult. What, apart from some blunt advice, do the women get out of
។
They get a new £35 sult and
£10 hat, each guaranteed by the expert Mr Willis- to do all the things för them that they ad not known enough to do for themselves.
the most writhing torture, and the same time segures my kit privates pay and later Se-bracket, M: Willis collects from thele places filled ag by and provisions from midnight geant.)
marauders. The haversack
TOP BRACKET Apart from an income that _my puts him in the top. Broadway
...his chosen task a' certain, sar- letters, just others, who only came to pass
donie satisfaction which, cannot Wellington: (appointed to com- be expressed in dollars and a few days in misery and then to then converted into a nightenp.
mand the Allied forces before be taken to their last home." brought to light,
Being stripped, my legs are of our squares, exposed as
cents. He feeds that he has made He tells of incredibly
the long thrust into
sleeves of Waterloo): "I never remember a career of doing what thousands they often were lestructive fire from the of war and life maches, of thieving "cumails an old watch coat, carefully, tied anything what caused such joy, of other men have longed to do
sariat" who stole the rations and at the cuffs to keep out the cold, our men were almost frantic, and have not
not dared. watered the rum, of the "ngue" The other part of the French artillery and at the
every soldier you met told the And there is some evidence in the days of Walcheren, of eccentric or wrapped round my body served joyful nows. I happened to be among his tremendous fan mail same time or in less than a minute surrounded on all
tyrannical commanding officers, for underblanket and sheet. Next out in the city when the order that he may be right. He shows the "Thin Red and gives this experience of my trousers are drawn on my was delivered. As I was return with pride, for instance, a letter sides by the enemy's
troopship:
legs over the sleeves of
of the
ing I was
vas accosted by every one, from a husband in 0 distant Heavy Cavalry, who would Line," when
my red Jacket has the with "Glorious news. Nosey has
cky. guished place covering my seat got the command. Won't we give of honour and lastly my blanket them dru
drubbing now. When I a Waterloo was
covers all.
had a billet), 1
ride up to the very muzzlea of our men's firelocks and
cut at them in the squares,
But this was of no use, not
a single square-could they brake, but was always put to the rout by the steno
Kreat
fire of our troops. In of those charges a
overcharged them- many selves and could not ret back without exposing themselves to. the deadly fire of the infantry. Not choosing to return by the way they came they took a circuitous rout and
came
a
have
cont
coat,
"Please, My Willis," wrote the (their husband, "accept my grateful thanks for telling my wife in slept as comfortable as a thrust up to my mouth, and 00 wanting to tell her for the lust
In this manner. I 'arrived at the of save minutes what I have been
called merely When the gun fired all the prince."
"Three ces the watch. I descended by the Days'
soldiers were ordered down ex-
Salping: "To pass. the main batohway, all was hou? in
voices shouting 'drink hearty to
a dreary the health of our old Comman 25 years,"
the trench we found. der, we dont care a d-p for all Frederick Cook ·
Fight." darkness, and the dock troops, on the muzzle of our firelocks a Napoleon, etc."
com- amusement in putting our cops France, supposing' everyone was
By PETER LOVEGROVE
The frst step I took off the ana
and. breastwo
shew them over the
ips was on some ones leg, the both the cap. We scon held out until 31st October. A
second on an Irishman's face. I deery, a mrda notter stride and found 4urned
The French troops This would always several
(one of tributes); "Pompluna
this sport to advantage...
there was nothing but shots under cover, then shew, a
bodies to walk on...But the
this was stationing some good considerable time before they surrendered the Garrison was
E:catert
newly caulked, the heat of so enemy enger to make us pay for nd: an animal of my
the butcher savo
many
stu
then-nor's horse,
101
the
rascives, thus many brave French- were all des and.
rata
Is to cane. The decks had been fiw.caps for a decoy, some of the reduced to the
bodies had drawn the peeping would expose pitch and the morning.
so that we were stuck fast
It men fell behind their wells to was the most ludicrous sight rise ne more" the head, others had got an arm imaginable--some were fast by secured. Those who had lald In their backs were completely fast,
who were wrapped In their
and was prepared, we open ed our fire, the work was
Life in the Army was hard a done in an instant. By the
Yet the bright side of Army century and half ago. Disciplife is also there the comrade time we had loaded and the line was harsh Wheeler re- smoke had cleared away, cards the brutal fogging and she sense of adventure, the comforts of occupied and garri- one and only solitary in reduction to the ranks of a ser son towns and the booty. dividual was seen running geant and corporal of a guard Wheeler intensely proud
•
Whiteness
and then જય મા they marched, Sa ghastly word down the road on our left. ful natural style, and throughout
the appearance of the men that There were nearly 100 of His shrewd and sympathetic re
one would have supposed they them, all Cuirassieurs, porting provides a unique pic-
hed all risen from their graves, Down they rode full gallop, lure of war and life in the day's
I was told they held out until of the "thin red line" as seen the trees thrown across the through the eyes of the man in blankes came off best, but their
completely starved. What more bridge on our left stopped the ranks and at the time he saw blankets were completely spoil- of the windows, and tops of perial Army and to their coun- Entry Into Madrid: "The whole could be expected from them.
They are an honour. to the I them. We saw them coming it. The editor has limited him
It was a Ane treat for the houses ed.
crowded were
with self to some paragraphing and bluejako to see all the lobsters Spanish beauties Waving white y punctuation.
stuck, to the docks"
hankerchiefs. The people e92- deavoured to drag us into their houses. But mit all this plea-
happiness we
were sure and
to submit to a custom so usEnglish that I cannot but feel disgust now I am writing. It was of his regiment and came to to be kissed by the men, What love the Army. And his letters made it still worse; their breath omphasise the unchanging nature was highly seasoned his Bud of the British soldiers his grous- lick, then huge mustaches
well and ing good humour, adaptability stiffened with sweat, durt and resource in battle and out smuff, it was like having a hair of it; his remarkable knack of broom pushed into ones face getting on with the local popula- that had been daubed in a dirty men and horses could be
tion, whether neutral, enemy or gutter." friendly; huddled together, there
confidence in his The modical services were supreme commander; his respect they lay. Those who were
fleld surgery Was 10: a gallant enemy, and his shot dead were fortunate, primitive; for the wounded horses in crude and without anaesthetics, contempt for so-called nilies, as
these lypleat extracts show; — their struggles by plunging "It was necessary to amputate and kicking soon finished what we had begun."
Because a sentry had been drunk brow over the
in our on duty, and the public, execu- front......I went to
a much respected ser see tion of what effect our fire had, geard who had struck an officer
beheld when drunk, and never before such a sight in so short a
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En arm and both legs. Dr Web- ster commenced the operation With
a leg, this done the amm followed. It was thought proper.. that the man should rest awhile before the other limb should be
Women: "Your humble servant does not intend to get entangled with any of them. It might be
all very fine in its way and no doubt there are many sweats in having a pretty lovely young woman for a comrads, but then I know from observation that there is on definite number ok Old Soldiers: They are con- bitters attending R. A
goldier tinually rolating such marvel- thould always by able to say cut off, but the man Insisted dous tales of murders, rapes and when his cap is on, his family is that the Dr should proceed, ob robberies that would frighten covered, then he is free as air Thus wrote William Wheeler serving It's no use to make Old Devil Dunk himself if he (That did, not prevent Wheeler of the 51st Foot (now the King's two blies of a cherry, what use could hear them. I listen to getting married a little later.) Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) is it in making so much fuss their tales with
degree of
Am ablo,
of an incident in what he called about a leg that will be of no fraterest, often doubting the Promotion; "I have no desire. the "three days' fight", for it service to me or any one elsd truth of the fatigues, eter they I have always declined every offer, made to me, simply on this had not yet been given the name again. It was soon off and he seem to delight to relate. of Waterloo. This vivid extrant dropped into a deep sleep. Early Kit-inspections: Some of our ground. I am young and I have Copics of photographs is taken from "The Letters of the next morning the Dr visited men sold theft blankets to pure so far kept out of trouble..
to perform my Private Wheeler," which have him, he found him leaning on chase come biscuits. The Col. always endeavour. taken by the South China ust been edited by Capt. B. B. the enly elbow he had left soon discovered what had taken duty in the best way
to fear. Modell-Hat.
smoking a short black pipe." place, and several men were I have therefore nothing Morning Post, South China
Wheeler volunteered in 1809 Wheder
der himself was wounded punished. My comrade had soud, But should I be intrusted with a raight ·wot into⋅
inta
Sunday Post-Harald,
and was invalided on pension in at Nivelle; gangrena pot in, but his for a doilar
their neglect. boy. My Blanket a scrape through 1923. During his 10 years: with he was saved from amputation to cheat the old we managed guard, perso the Colours, he served at Wal- by a Spanish doctor, who clear was made into two, and to make There is time enough after the pared around my chín choren... through all the main ed up the infection with a mix-it appear a proper size, we had razor, has
folded up some torn in 22; this some hundred time more before battles of the Peninsula cam ture like pepper and salt."
onanswered the purpose until the bible |
about
of any paign
under,
Wellington; at
(Yet, tha general hospital," Battle of Fuentes d'onor when the Morning Post Building In Paris, and then, at Gibraltar, was one continued scene of of
of course wa uppliet
within a few months Wheeler ourselves
Was, promotes. Corporal had Malta, Conful and other Ionlan misery and woe, the dreadful with good ones.
sufferingage of the patients is Sleeping out in winter. Every no alternative: If I refused, then Ablanda E ORDERS BOOKED ~~ 11o had a remarkably obser- beyond description. During the night the contents of my haver thould be appointed lance was in it, what zaak is transferred to my krape corporal, that is should have vant mind, a' forceful and colour, five weeks w
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