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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952. ⠀

A British Crossword Puzzle

12

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.:

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