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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952. ⠀
A British Crossword Puzzle
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4
1943-4 Churchill's Fifth Volume- -CLOSING THE RING
from On such irreconcilable views, as a practice ground by the
13th anniversary of 8,000 Il., much below their Churchill was constantly sitting local Homs' Guard.
It doas not seem to have been used for a very long time. Such a conspicuous place ought not to look untidy, unless there Is some real need which can be satisfied in no other way
N September 8, 1952, ed the crews to bomb
let-up. usual height and told them if the start of the war, Mr the
operation falled it would in judgment. Never a
ever a complaint Winston Churchill publish have to be reported regardless Yet hardly
from him of his burden. ed the fifth volume of his of ensualties. Second World War
The Blow Forty of the 671 bombers memoira, "Closing the were shot down.
The loss of Rhodes was to Ring." This "latest addition to the Premier's best sell- attacks from early 1944 until He had hoped to bring Turkey But the rald postponed rocket him the year's bitterest blow. the September, when the main into
the war and open the twelve months
between launching sites had been over- Black Sea to convoys for Russia. The Public Relations Omecom June 1943 and June 1944 run by the Invasion,
15
17
ing memoirs
18
20
ACROSS
1 Accident (0).
4 Vision: (5).
7 Gel near (8).
8 Give permanent
to (5).
9 Strain (6),
11 Everlasting (7),
13 Muddle (7).
15 Mend (0),
18 Cook (5).
19 Ruling (8),
20 Follow (5).
21 Carry on again (0).
covers
Prime Minister to Sir Ed-
~
ward Bridges, July 14, 1943.
The failure to move quickly are becoming a scardul, and the Anzin beach-head whole system requires search-
'scrutiny.
drastic and disappointment. Ing
"I hoped wo pruning. Pray advise me how
to proceed. were burling
another
the year when the tide of The raid made the Germans out of tho war was turning in our shift their experiment work to was favour. It was serialised in Poland. Ger- nese the China Mail last year. mon patrola.
raced after
You just alt back with this each rocket
by
book in your hand, and Winston and collected William Barkleyį
DOWN
ing
D
1 Laments (5).
2 Mob (0),
3 Lauds (7).
Income 4 Plan (0),
5 Flower (8).
0 Garden tool (6).
12 Dog (7).
10 Plunders (8).
13 Water-bottle (0).
10 Liquid measures (5).
14 False (0).
17 Rascal (5).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Chic, 4 Idialic, 8 Moke, 14 Teasers, 17 Lone, 9 Anua, 10 Satiate, 11 Reel, 12 Emits, 19 Vague, 22 Tenders, 26 Vend, 37 Rise, 28 Solaced, 20 Rush, 30 Sets, 31 Reients, 32 Edna. Down: 2 Hansom, 3 Claret, 4 Inset, 6 Dealer, 6 Omits, 7 Inter, 12 Melt, 13 Kiln, 15 Edge, 10 Seed, 18 Arrest, 20 Averse, 21 Union, 23 Evoke, 24 Drake, 25 Sides.
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
frank
of
vory dream botlled-
up
been bottling up your
for
It
sion. You've
sentment
the
be.
week seems to be sguinst world general
(people
Vague and
YOU SENT US THIS DREAM .....
Churchill talks to you for hour the fra after hour. It ends with the ments.
Poles got to ene; unexploded greatest armada in history sail-
Invade to
Normandy on rocket before the Germans and Day. Operation Overlord, it hid it in the River Bug. It was
called. Its preparation salvaged in the dark..
all else overshadows colossal year the mastering of the U boat, offensive against Japan, loss of Rhodes, the cap ture of Sielly, Salerno, Anzio, the full of Rome.
The Rocket
In this
A Polish engineer was picked up by an RAF. Daicota and flown to England with 100 1b. of the new weapon's parts,
a wildcat on
to the shore, THE COLDITZ STORY, P., R. but all we got -
Rold, 15, Hodder & Was strand- .........................ed, ed whole."
Staughton. Churchill had a big debate in Parliament, puiting Anzio in proportion. It was about three months, now, to D Day, and he commented at the end of a long cable to Smuts:—
means
"Here at home all goes fairly well, though the little folk" the critics, passibly the. Com
ho munists, possibly Herbert Morrison, as Minister Bevan are more active. How for Home Security, was
pro- ever,
their chirrupings will be alarmed ot
by the foundly
the stilled before long
THE COLDITZ STORY is one
of the really outstanding escape stories of the war because it con- sists of many exciting stories and a number in a humorous rolled into one.
vein
It was apparently impossible to escape from Colditz Castle and within its walls were packed the cleverest of recaptured escapees and the highest concentration of The names of some of morale. the daring and colourful charac ters occur in so many parts of the book in various wild escape
Churchill makes fascinating prospects of the rocket. Total thunder of the cannonade". talks of the meticulous piecing evacuation of London was can- SAMPLING CHURCHILL'S schemes that the reader quickly
* Cassell & Co., 308.
одо
Д
gols to know. them. A list of dramatis personce is given at the end of the book.
"
together of evidence that the sldered. Germans were developing the
OWN EDICTS rocket,
Churchill's confidant, Lord took the The bombing of the experl-, Citerwell,
opposite Prime Minister to Foreign
The author served his escape mental station
flying-bomba at Peenemunde' view, thinking
Secretary, July 1, 1943. "apprenticeship" at Laufen where on the Baltic was ordered. It more dangerous. In the dis-
the Camp Commandant explained was too far for fighter protec- cussions over months the
About King Peter's marriage, paradoxically "To escape is im- tion. Air-Marshal Harris order- side seemed to think the rocket we should recur to first prin- possible. Anyone attempting it If you escape might annihilate us; the other eiples...Nothing could be more will be shot, that it was unimportant.
becoming than that young a second time, you will be sent king should
After T- marry a highly to a special camp". suitable princess on the eve of connoitring, a tunnel was his departure for the war. planned, and gradually the keen and reliable escapees sorted Thus he has a chance of per themselves into a leam. The petuating his dynasty, and any route lay through the wall of a how of giving effect to those target store, alongside a cess-pit Instincts to which the humblest and up into a woodshed. Through of human beings have ait escaped the author, dressed as
Foreign
Office a woman, Rupert Harry and A few days later 18th-century Peter Allen.
YOU WERE WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE WITH' VAGUE, UNKNOWN FACES.
YOU TRIED TO HIT ONE:
OF THE FACES BUT YOUR HAND HAD
NO FORCE
unknown faces): but it may be that you dare not admit even in the dream whom you really hate.
Instinctively you would like to lash out at this cock-eyed world: but something holds you back; in the depths of your mind is a subconscious drama; a struggle between hate, and a feeling of guilt about your hating. It is that guilt that holds you back.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"YOU'VE HAD 5 HARD-BOILED IGGS ALREADY LITTLE GIRE. SHOULDNT HAKE PIGE OF
THEMSELVES
YOU TRIED AGAIN BUT COULD ONLY TAP LIGHTLY. YOU FELT ANGRY AND - FRUSTRATED. THE PEOPLE JUST STOOD BY
AS IF WAITING
We all of us are prone to hate 'as well as to love: we repress our hate at least as much as we repress.car love. We refuse to admit that we hate. Yet repressed hate causes much unhappiness: much melancholy is repressed hate, hate, formed inwards so that you end by hating yourself.
For your rellet I would prescribe a real temper-tantrum: á good emotional binga does no harm-ONCE in a while.
By The Beautiful Sea
right...The
should discard
politics and take a simple and they were followed by Dick straightforward view My Howe, Harry Elliott and Kenneth
advice to the king (Peter of Lockwood. Yugoslavia), if you wish me to
After five days of freedom the
end
see him, will be to go to the first trio were caught while walk- nearest Registry Office and take ing at night. The other trio en- a chance. So what?
joyed eight days at large were caught 63 miles away. All Prime Minister to Minister six were transferred to Colditz of Works, March 7 were they were joined fooper orlator by many of their mare 1944.
enterprising fellow prisonera.
At Colditz the prisoners were Just below the Foreign
outnumbered by the guards. Tho Office, on the grues opposite St. castie wat like one from a fairy James's Park lake, there is a tale built on the edge of a cllit, very untidy sack with holes in beautiful but forbidding. But the it and sand, leaking out, a spirit of the Inhabitants was
structure, and some clestrle. sandbag kind of obstacle dormerly used
BU KEMP STARRETT
""WHATSA MATTER?·
DON'T YOU LIKE THIS BEACH S WOULD YOU
LIKE TO....
ETC.
L-L-LETS G-GET D-DRESSED ANDG-GO B-BACK T-T-TO TTOWN AND G-GET W-WARM /*
Polish
them officers laught how to pick locks, Dulch offers -notably van Doorninck-could teach them cunning and audacity, and Frenchman, Maraka,
д
Lebrun, staggered them all with successful escape of pure daring a flying leap over barbed wire in full view of the guards.
the
The story is told up to the author's ow successful escapa In 1942, and the book is graphle and if at times almost un- bellovable the circumstances that made Colditz made it so.
Tho illustrations by John Watton, one of the prisoners, are reproduced from the ILLUS- TRATED LONDON NEWS, Need- less to say, they are excellent.
DAYS AT THE BEASA ARE FULL OF LIFE'S LITTLE: SURPRICES.) YOUR SPROUT TOR INSTANCE, "TURAS OUT TO HAVE RÖCOLUM IDEAS; OFFER TOUC LET VARMINTS
RUA LOOSE AND SCARE PEOPLE POP-EYERS,
“GEORGE? YOU'VE
GOT TO DO SOMETHING?
ABOUT THOSE BIG
RONDIES...
HURRY!
REIFY THEIR HERVE
"THE ONES WHO GO TO THE BEAGA TO / COOL OFF
OFTEN DO GET COOL...ASCOOL AS A PENGUNT
INSTEPS.
OTHERS TAKE THEIR: BEACH-BATING AT. HOME, AVOIDING A LONG, HOT TRIP, SAND IN THEIR FOOD AND | SHOES, AND THOSE
HUNGRY SAND-FLIES,
ACHTO REST, ANCI
SNAPSHOT GUILD
Pointers on Posing
VOU can improve your pictures by knowing how to pose your subjects. And the secret of posing, condensed in a nut- shell, is not to pose but to be natural. Webster dennes tha verb "to pose" as "assure studied attitude.". What want is not a studied attitude but a natural one,
People
you
That's why, na a general rule, the best Informal pictures of show them reading, cutting flowers, potting a dog, or engaging in some other simple activity. Such shots are natural shots
The subject, patication absorbed by what he's doing, for the
doesn't "freeze camera.
But granted this point there are several other tricks that can help your pleture. One is to pose your subject in a plano paralici to the dim. Another is to keep the pleture compact. It's possible to make good snapshot of a girl
irl'stretched out full length on the floor, roading the Sunday poper. Possible, but not easy. Generally, such a shot will wind up as a windmill effect-all arma and logs.
After all, when you post for a picture, you hope it will do you justice. And when you take someone else's picture," you should be fair to them, Make, mura
and ecun- Being
ing comfortable is the first step to
to being natural.
Some are relaxena
Remember, unless a person looka pleasant and comfortable in your. irr
Ander, he won't look pleasant and comfortablo in your dalshod print..
Joàn. van” Gulder,
SOME GO TO THE SKÓRE
TO SHKONU OFF THE. *PHYSIQUE,
A GAL CAN GET PAINFULLY DIS~`?* ILLUSIOND ON A BEACH........THEREBY LEARNING THAT CLOTIES' OFTEN DO MAKE THE MAN.......UNTIL HE GETSİ
A FARM-SUIT
COM, INT IN GENERAL FEATURES COU. THE WORLD MBIIS KISARYCON
WWE, KHOW SOME WHO GO TO TIR, CEA- SHORE TO SEE THE BEACH "FACIONS - ÁRD KEEP AN EYE ON THE YOUNGER |FITE="SOMDALDOF- BERAVIOR.: