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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
THE MAN
THE CHINA MAIE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1953.
India's “Joan Of Arc"
WHO
SOLD SUNSHINE
NOMETIMES : they seem of all men the most to be envied, those who stand behind the shiny counters of travel-agencies, glibly recommending this exclu- Hive Continental resort, that
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Dublin, something bap- Elther his con- pened to hin. selence spoke up, or fic lost his nerve tur the escape. The morning of his arrival, he walk- ed Into the Dublin branch of the travel agency, and admitle everything. •
dream island in the Carib-I".
bean;
As they make it the magle
tickets, these men spent
with
(1:247 familiarity of remote, romantle destinotions. They give
was borne time before his story
could be checked. Albert cine back to Londen, and got himself a Job a
A kit-
chan porter, and waited for the police to come for him.
At last they came, Albert was you the impresion that they brought to Bow Street where spend most of their liven cum-before the Chief Magistrate, Sir muting from one delight to an Laurence Dunne, he pleaded ether by trains de luxe, ineuilty to two charges of em- and the latest neroplanes; that
and asked for six
bezzlement,
consideration.
"I'll pay the money back, sir, week," Albert sald
despairingly. "I know all the trade secrets of my firin, but i'll never go into the travel bust- new mid use them against them, He told of his wife sir av and daughters.
...
they do briet duly at the count-other cased to be taken into er, dispensing the whom s Klariously acquired,
only in be- tween times, while waiting, may, for their laundry to catch up with them,
It is, or it seems to be, the life
you look at the 17107 counter-clerká more closely, and you see that they like you are n-starved and pale. You begin to wonder whether
their all
Ingle case," Sir might not be second- Laurence hall. "Til knowledge ban. muggest
up from books and bvchures studied over gas the police amounts to a gesture sume all you've done to help Moves in London lodgings,
ut contribution. Had you not behaved you did, should Infinitely heavier sentence on you, As it Ing sunshine, ski mauris, 500-| is, you will go, to prison for six cruises, over the counter of months."
ALBERT, for instance. He for
30-odd years, has been sell
ם
have passed
RS-
West End travel agency; and, Albert, going out, looked no one looks more in need of a strangely relieved, as if already. change of air than he
he were starting life afresh.
Albert, is a gaunt, craggy man with a conscience crystal clear, of 58, He is married,
kind of change he
but I was the separated from his wife; and his needed.
three grown-up daughters, hel says, will have nothing to do!
with him.
He is a lonely man, therefore, whether he brought the
though on himseit or nut.
to say.
One
it is impossible thing is certain; he has been
it trying to exape from by drinking a greal deal more
for him than was
good
on hisi
either
or than he could afford
pay
as a booking clerk at the
ticket agency
The
London Tea Centre Set
A Record
London, Jan: 20. London's Tea Centre, just off
Ile wanted to forget how Piccadilly Circus, had a record attendance of 344,034 visitors in 1962 against 205,208 the previous year.
lonely he was; and the inore he drank to that end, the more drink it needed to "nelfieve for getfulness. Albert began to steal Sponsored by the Tea Bureau the money he took for travel and started in 1046, it has become tickets. All through the busy a popular rendezvous for West season he stole. Six End shopper and tourists who summer pounds here, £ there, once as drop in for a quick eup and a much as £13, once as little as chat.. 30. By September last, he had stolen over £120.
raised
The
Increase in public at- tendance has been helped by the policy of staging exhibitions of suddenly
the national as well as of teclinica! enormity of it all, and pande interest at the Centre. seized him. His holiday was topical exhibitions relating to the due. He told his friends he Coronation have been planned
Three
was going to Jersey; and he who for this year.
or this year, the Council of in- had booked so many Uckets for |
Design. will display other xople, now booked one ilustrial for himself. But he booked to current Coronation Fouvenirs
Jersey.
chosen from thousands submitted
Dublin, lack of his mind, con- by manufacturers.
-At
But the fugerity, he believed he could
In the second, the Lullington show how the shed his identity and begin life Silk Farm will
Coronation robes all
again in Ireland. For material for over when his thefts came to light, was produced from slikworm to
his friends in the office would finished product. remember what he said about
The third exhibition will be a his holiday; the hunt for him display of souvenirs of past Royal would start in the Channel occasions, such as Coronations, Islands, and perhaps would end jubilees, weddings and similar there, too.
events,
A British Crossword
Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Building (8).
8 Chant (6).
9 Optimistic, (8).
11 Eat-(8);
12 Fall to includo (4).
13 Permission (8).
18 Fascination (5).
19 Frolle (4).
22 Throws dweży (8).-
24 Item of Jewellery (8).
23 Distant (0).
20 Put off (B).
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DOWN
2 Weight (5).
3 Makes certain (7).
4 Quantity of paper (4).
Teeth (4).
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1 Peculiarijles of language (4).
7 Jewish quarter (6).
10 Pluck (8)
14 Month
15 Chosen by vote (7).
18 Investigated (0).
17 Collision (8). *
20 Sag (0).
21 Show Jn (5),
22 Expensive (4),
23 Withered (4).
YESTERDAY'S chosɛword: Ácross.—3 Streamer, 7 Habit, B. Addendum, 10 Astute, 13 Dissect, 16 Ment, 17 totales, 18, Please, 20 Real, 21 Estates, 20 Famine, 27 Converse, 20 Alike, 20 Sediment. Down:-1 Ahead, 2 Abots, 3 State, 4 Even, 8 Mid get, 0 Remiss, 9 Decres, 11 &idle, 12 Usual, 14 Torsos, 10 Madan, 18 Seven 18 Precis, 10 Eamed, 22 Treat, 23 Timid, 24 Sewer, 25 Termi.
Empire Division Gets
Praise From
India's "Joan of Arc"-screen star Mehtab Modi, Mehtab, in 2 sequin-enthroidered peach coloured sari, has just completed a film of the Sepoy mutiny of 1857, In which she plays the fille role of the Rhani of Jhanal, the girl rebel. Her husband, Sphrav Mod), directed the Ulm. The couple have Just spent six months In England Arranging for the colour processing of the picture. Express Photo,
Bottle Message
Arrived Thirty Years Late
London, Jan. 20.
Adepts at the intriguing pastime of throwing overboard from ships on the high seas personal messages in bottles are the British Servicemen, who are well up in the list of writers whose floating missives have been tossed about by the oceans for astonishing lengths of time before finally being hauled in by the finder.
over the seas.
Gen. Roberts
"WELL-FOUND FORCE"
"The
London, Jan, 20. closely-integrated British Cominon- wealth Division in Korea is as well-found as any Britain has ever put in the field," said General Sir. Ouvry L. Roberts, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, on his return to London after a short tour of inspection of the Far East.
He said he had been tremen- now dously impressed by all he had reen, and could not speak too highly of the spirit which per- vaded the whole wealth Force
in
The General, famed commander of the 23rd Indian "Fighting Cock" Division during the bitter siege of Imphal in Burma in World War Two, visited forward troops north of Seoul and various installations in the South Korean capital and Pusan, and all base units in Kure, Japan, as well as the Elbisan Leave Camp, four miles from Tokyo.
being fried, Fighting troops were unanimously favour of them, as they were sure that they saved crisualties und reduced the seriousness of particular wounds. Armoured He had talks with General trousers were also being con- Mark Clark, the Supreme Com-sidered. All present patterns mander, his Chief of Staff, had been made in the United General Van Fleet, the Eighth States, but when they
had Amy Commander, and Licut- passed the experimental stage General Kendall, who led the they would be put in produc- ist. United States Corps Intion in Britain, which the division is serving, All were high in their praise of the Commonwealth Division. which they regarded as at least as good if not better tham any they have.
Common
NEW WINTER KIT
Our men in Korea were bet- ter fed than the people at home, Sir Ouvry added. Al but the outpost platoons re- ceived the American, fresh ra- tion, which was brought up to railhead in refrigerator vans After some of the scare reken, ham and eggs not on daily and included turkey, chic- ports circulating inst
winter, special occasions but as a mat- General Roberts was able to
ter of course. Troops in the reassure the people of Britaines
most forward positions that the
could troops were splendick-****
not, naturally, be so well fed, ly clothed, equipped and fed,
lived and they
on one-man Travelling around the forward
Ward pack rations supplied by the areas in an open Jeep, starting Americans and containing
dawn, in
he high proportion of beans. ho thought they would be rather
before
zero.
"I
tometimes temperatures below was able to test personally the tired of beans," he said, "but troope clothing as he wore the the men standard cold
I spoke to would weather kit not hear of IL With the "and I was not cold at all, he added.
were small heaters on
the
packs
which ting could be warmed). Some of the items are the
One thing the troops would envy of other nationalities, use
appreciate pecially the ankle boots and
papers sent out by air. It was which plastic insoles,
afford not easy to supply them In maximum Insulation and venti-bulk because the air freight
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WAS
moro news-
lation by providing a layer of charge was £1,500 a ton com- warm air under the stockinged pared with £8.10s by sea, but feet, and the parka jacket, General Roberts
appealed to familles to
the
which is worn over the combat
mock in the coldest weather. issues. senti individual
or
Chinese enemy, cotton General Roberts said that they
as Aghters as the Japanese he
now
This is made of water repel-
and windproof lunt gabarding lined with wool pile. were jolly good fighters. They Its hood can be worn over a had about the same qualities Besides Servicemen, all sorts of people for a met, and the outer edge of the had met in Burma, and fought
hel- combat cap or balaclava variety of reasons send bottled messages floating front cowl contains malleable in much the same way. But in
Some are mere hoaxers, others wire so that the opening can Shipwrecked sailors, quite a few scientists en- neccry. deavouring to trace the movement of ocean FURTHER currents and the migration of fish. The outward and homeward-bound sailor and soldier do it as a mere pastime,
be reduced 10 the minimum
IMPROVEMENTS
the
some respects they were better
Bollers, having learned from experience what the Jap never learned. The Jup Was rigidly trained and
unable of warfare, The Chinese had adapt himself to condiilons been able to adapt themselves much better. For that reason, and because they had Russian equipment
and,
obviously. Soviet training advice,
they were better soldiers than the
"Nevertheless," he concluded, British soldier Icela superior man to man. He has
Part of this kit (which al- together weighs 10 lbs against the 8 to 0 lbs of cloth ing troops wear in Britain) Some of these bottled messages about 60 miles from Albany. The
will be even further improved have been known to remain woman recipient was afloat for an astonishing number Gladys Severin, of South Aus bat trousers will be made of
Miss by next winter,
The parka jacket dad com- of years before being retrieved, tralia, when the writer, Lieut The most remarkable
Japanese were. recorded Harry Blunt, then an Australian a material called "teen" in- case of all concerned one thrown Sapper, thus wrote to her by
stead of
and thethe of gabardine, into the
sca during the Boer War bottle post" years before. They parka will have a detachable
from by Trooper Jones
the had long since been married hood and include breast tropship Orient, a ploneer ship when his message was finally res pencil pockets. A heavy cardino illusions about the Chinese,
of the line of
the same name,trieved for her. lis message was enclosed in the
"BRINGING KAISER"
was tossed #t
is
gon Jersey, to be worn
replaces
and
the combat smock, is d knows that he is a good
ing trials and may
in
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old-fashioned soda water bottle, Year
after year
Written in penell on his way present woollen jerseys. A about the ocean and survived to the front in the thysses, the outer woollen gloves until at long last it was retrieved Sopper Blunt's message read:
worn oveT another pair 30 years later close to Albany. "In the Bight. 90.10.15. Satur
** wollen wristlets, are Jones himself survived the war, day. Going well on the s.s. not wholly waterproof, a num- and when his bottle was given Ulysses, troopship A 30. Just had ber of experimental patterns up by the sea he was a man of after it. Concert on boarding studied, in ore
honza dinner and feeling in plastie material are now be over 60
60 years of age.
Improved Nine
years
ago Jack Oppi, of tonight. Think I will rights for types of snow goggles which Condobolin, New South Wales, ¡1, Au revoir, Austrolla. Wil eliminate metal parts and pre- had returned to him a message apper. H. S. Blunt, dih Rein-
the Kaiser back with us. vent misting up. which in April 1910, he threw
All troops will also be pro- overboard into the sea between forcements, No 2 Signalling Com-vided with the bigger size Encounter Buy and Kangarou pany, No.-Section A. I. F. en sleeping bags, including a press Islands when he was serving in route for Egypt, Will finder be button fastening to a long exit the 1914 war with the Australian good enough to forward this to slit for quick exit in an emers Army. His pencilled message in the following address; Miss G. M. gehey, and a new pattern of a lemonade bottle was recovered Severin. Box 9. Eudunds. South fully waterproof valise. by a woman on the west coast Australia, and greatly oblige."
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yen
for-
ARMOURED VESTS
of
of Tasmania and returned to him They had been happily married
years later.
long
before the bottle was Five years ago another boliled found and the message
The US. Marine-type nylon message ended is long sea warded nearly a quarter of Demoured vests, 1,000 of which Journey 2014 years after it had century later to Lleut Blunt's had been issued to the Com- been tossed from a troopship by wife. being sent to the Australian A notable round-the-world to stay. A new pattern, look- woman for whom it was intend-bottle-message was reported from Ing rather
monwealth Division, Maxi como
like a le-jacket
ed. The bottle was washed up Australia in 1935, the time taken und weighing 0 Ibs, who on a beach near Cupe Riche, being 2,447 days, or almost seven
years, as against the 80 days in Jules Verne's imagination. This bottle was one of several sent out
'Flu Epidemic by scitatists studying currents.
In Bavaria ·
It was put overboard half-way betwden Tasmania and Kerguelen leland. It salled eastwards akrosi the Pacifle, drifted right round the world until at list it came allure on the coast of Western Australia.
:
Ex-King Talal Improving
Aghter prepared to kill; but he knows that he himself, backed by all his superior cquipment and support, is in every way superior."
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Munich, Jan. 20,
Calto, Jan. 20. Many schools in Bavaria
Ex-King Talað of Jordan, de-| have been closed to, checks the
poseu in favour of his son, Hussein, last August, har loft spread of an influenza epidemie which has só far caused eight A few weeks ago
a bottle the Helwan Clinic where he was deaths, health authorities said message from Australia wah undergoing treatment for today.
Wallied up on Great Yarmouth mental break-down and is stay The deaths were all in beach, after a voyage insting ing at a hotel, in Heliopolis. Munich and the Alpino district nearly four years. It was thrown Dr Benjamin Belman who Into the sea at Melba on January treated the ex-King, it his clinic of Traunstein
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the other is quite a ntrity.
valceting "—Neuter.
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