FLES
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"Taffy, it don't make no sense ter me-why the 'eck ain't the Welsh wamin' ter speak Hinglish like the rest on us?”
London Express Service
Brrh! Here I go off to the Arctic
Manby, Lines. Friday. N. view of the awful winter we are having nt home and the
imminent approuch
As It It
were qui
of
cold enough
bere
another ice age I thought it would be a good Iden to fake a course in Aretie Survival.
Ever heard of it before? It's all the rage now in the armed forces. The Amerleans have a
Surelval school of Aretle
In Alaska, The Royal Canadian Air Force hus phottier outside Edmonton, and I expect the Ruslans have dozens more in Siberia,
by
BERNARD WICKSTEED
Other items of Intelligence The_Services are interested_In_that I noticed at this lecture because they think the North were: Pole is going to be a no-man's- land in the next war.
Do you remember that R.AP. plane that camo dawn on the Greenland lee-cap last summer? 11 was because the crew a been briefed on Aretle Survival ilot they come through alive.
So here I am with a party of R.A.F. wing-commanders and quadron-tenders getting ready to set off by air for the igloo and country,
-THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1953.
foul together. There are plenty of rabbits in part of the Arctic. but something is incking In their flesh, and If you eat nothing else you weaken and die.
ם
times IT TAKES three long to do anything in extreme cold as in normal temperatures. YOU CAN'T exist indefinitely
Arctic in the
on body heat alone. You must have some nort of Bre some of the time. By the time the squadron- leader had finished his lecture I thought I had got double
Just listening pneumonia him, but a doctor who was attendance said I hadn't, so I was unable to back out.
to In
Our equipment for this Bight Includes 1,7001b. of survival kit for use in emergency. We have three shotguns, three rifles, ten axes, and 12 huge knives that can be used for culting SNOW or skinning polar bears.
We have shovels, pipenstocks, nylon ropes for pulling people oal of crevasses, stoves, now keitles, a pressure cooker, and enough food to lost the 18 of
us a week.
zcro W
SEEMS SILLY
E also have sleeping-bags, a
mountain of blankets Ave.
MY WAY TO Spring
BEAT FLU
E. I don't get flu.
Tonich
M That's no ground -don't get it!
almost everything except wooden legs. Why, then, don't I get fu? I have never thought that ques- tion over before.
Here en constantly exparet to infection, attasked, indeed, by larger doses of du germs the most folks as an ordinary hazard of my, calling.
Il certainly imm't a
case of frnail, Frequent doses of the geans building up my defences.
A dose of mumps p: whooping cough mostly guarantees you ngalnut another attack for the rest of your life, but flu doesn't work that way. It can catch up with you again in a few weeks,
Why don't, I get it? I Was wounded and in hospital for the 1010 epidemic. There were 23 in my ward. Twenty-two of us were gargling and nasal-douching He feeding me on the farm I just did nothing, for some rea- son that has now escaped me. * But I do remember that I didn't get the flu and all the others did.
No bogey
THERE'S a lesion there, you know, I didn't see the 11- ness as a big black bogey. It has to do with one's spiritual make, up to some extent, I think.
My Dr Jekyll beats my Mr lyde every time about flu and. after all, everybody has a bit of Dr J. and a portion of Mr H.. in his or her ingredients.
You have to guard against the said Mr H. He pushes lots of citizens into divers illnesses, in- cluding u. This is how he works as you travel here:-
Jekyll (mark the doubt and the trivial nature of the supues tien: "I think I am getting a bit of a cold.”
Hyde: "You're too gallant, old boy. You're feverish. Tempera- ture's way up. You're in for a dose of flu. Feel chilly?"
Jekyll: "I've certainly found It cold today,"
Hydo
By A DOCTOR
me that L
Jekyll: (shivering slightly): more butter on my bread. My "No, but I think I'm getting a system is telling needs extra oils. headache."
Now
Hyde triumphant): "That's fu. Lol of people collecting proumenia, with it. You won't be tork in town for a month,"
And pour wife opens the door to a shivering wraith with a pain in his back End all the trim mings.
But Hyte helped to put these trimmings there. What with the cold war and cold comfort rub, you were depressed any. way. Then Hyde painted out
Brum
Formosa on the front page. That was additional to the hind atmosphere
the und
crazy barometer that had taken the starch out of Jekyll beforehand.
If he had been in ordinary form and sald "Rubbish" to Hyde once or twice, and rudely, maybe you would have escaped.
evitable Hincs3.
I just
'can't afford I am strictly one-man business, 31
and no Iccum can do my work for me. And I get colds,
I Okay. swing into action with every- thing I've got, swatting
aparate symptom with sledge- tammer blows.
cach
It Ion't that my Mr Hyde frightens me rather that Dr Jekyll is resolute.
Skivery? I have hot drinks and warm up, if necessary, with hot bath, hot water boltle and blankets for sheets.
Sweating? I'll have a good. .rub 'down, and change my ryjamas. If I let the sweat stay on my akin I might reabsorb some,
I
Nose Tuuning? I believe that's part of my body's defence, wipe li, but no blowing.
Head
backache? and for There's nothing
to touch dear cld aspirin.
So what?
MIND you, fu germs aren't
what they were. In 1918 they stormed through Europe leaving 10,000,000 dead in their trail. This isn't that sort of nu.
Cheer up, It will quite soarı, Don't doctor more than You'll have your on the grindstone
. But you may be miserable Of course, I don't go about and in bed with flu es you arking for flu. I make very read this. sure my shoes are watertight, be over and I don't wear damp clothes, bother the The
possibility of rain glucs you must, mr hat to my head. If It Is nose back cold and
Windy I wear within a weeks. muffler, making sure it covers the V of my
waistcoat; rain welcome there, drops aren' either.
Why not wear clothes "reason- „ably?,-. That's only common
ange Ferkon
Sad to say so, but you will then observe that the story of your illness is too common to rate sympathy in the office or even a kindly half pint in the canteen,
I can tell you, though, what wouldn'! Fay I a. helpful Dr Jekyll would say "It's bothered about that. But, walt to you, if Hyde did not get la (cheerfully): nothing of the sort. Nice wam a minute, I and myself wanting the way. It would not be a day. It's the liners.
breakfast, Got a dippers for
ealing dead loss either. He would say: snibbely bits of fat and taking "So you've had flu. So what?" pain in your back?"
THE LAST THOUSAND
FEET'S
THE
By J. W.
THOSE who tread the by Tensing and
last thousand feet of last year. Everest tread the physical limits of the world."
Thus wrote
WORST
Taylor
adventures feet high, rubber suits that you Frank Smythe after they are not unmindful of the
the
the south- the to
ALWAYS talte your bouts or ur mekluks to bed with you. It helps to dry them.
WHEN your fingers get frost-
Lambert success, Colonel Hunt will carry
ol the Assault the bitten you put them under your When it's your toes
"Shipton Way," plotting armpits.
through that are bitten you put them
What of the party of gallant new route someone else's armpits
rdventurers who recently left on western approaches under Gif he'll let you).
the eighth British challenge to mountain, as against the other below AT 20 degrees
the late the peak "one of the last great hazards made from the north. under you can dry your
the approach, Colonel Hunt still has to face still left to man?" But whatever socks by hanging them out to
British uttack on
problem of view of the recently unsuccess the freeze and then beating the lee put on and blow up if you foll 1933
altitude and in the water, fishing tackle, Everest, the highest moun- oul.
ful Swiss expedition, which got weather, which have thus for MAGIC FUR
bon rabbit shares. and an entire IT'S more Important to keep
tain in the world, had to within 150 feet of success, kept inviolate the final pyramid. You can packing case of spare socks.
about The only thing HALF of them are going to warm than to cal.
the failed at 28,000 feet. The that "whoever eventually cumbs
Real trouble for the Everest Hot Ass for so live for five days without food,
right to the top of Everest will that seems limit of human endurance owe it to a whole expedition
miracle. Everest climber, the Colonel told they hope) and the other half but you can die in a few hours silly to me is that we have to had before him also been cannot yet be conquered until listeners, began above the
from the cold.
feet. Higher. development of leight of 23,000 at that height by
devices to enable the climbers than this the effect on It's cold enough right here Norton, Mallory and Irvine to hold out against the storms climbers' physique increases.
in 1924, again in 1939 by has taken place." Wager and Wyn Harris, and
in Canada, I have chosen Chnada myself. If I fail the course I shall at least leave my bones in the Empire and not on crashed aircraft.
come foreign snowfleld.
The RAF. flying college at Manby is one of the centres of Arctic Survival loro in England because it is from here that so many R.A.F. fights start off for Greenland, the Pole, and similar northern resorts.
It is also about the only place in Britain where you 'mn walk | Into the quartermaster's clothing store and sign for a pair of mukluks. These are a form of Eskimo boot and you get £16
A HOLE in
the
snow
ga
warmer than the inside of
Alaska to Canada and learn how to survive.
of and
in Lincolnshire now.
AN EXCLUSIVE DIET rabbit doesn't keep body
--(London Express Servios)
10
CITY OF SLEEPLESS
New York. THE Latina in Manhattan are giving the New bad
THE
-knocked off your pay if you lose York authorities
them (or eat them).
You can alto draw, as I did, a parka ined with the fur of the Canadian glution
or wolverine,
attack of insomnia,
а
Amorica Column
from
DONALD LUDLOW
Revolutionary. parties from almost every "banana Glutton for Has magical proper- republic" in Latin America 26-year-old teacher at his school tles. When you breathe it have
made their head of dancing, 200 of their students at 40-below zero it doesn't turn to solid ice as other furs do.
quarters in the city and the danced round the newlyweds.
against whom?
REMEMBER
reached
NIGHTS
elect the debutantes than we have."
AMERICA'S young women, not content with borrowing the cowboy's blue jeans for play) clothes, are now taking the shirts-off the Englishman's back. Current rego is the "Rugby shirt," as designed and worn by
British footballers,
the
proper
the
Pipe-smoking Colonel Jolin Hunt, of Knighton, near Shrews- bury, leader of our Coronation
The last 0,000 feet, leading Year challenge to the peak by
above tho the British Mount Everest Ex- to
established. pedition-mainly
of maximum height of successful A party mountaineers sponsored by the acclimatisation, establishes great They cammot be Royal Geographical Society and problems. the Alpine Club-revealed to conquered at the former rate listeners in a BBC broadcast on of progress, and "rush inetica" the eve of his departure the must needs be tried, which, in Blow. some awareness as Smythe of reality, are painfully
Three
camps will be necessary those last thousand feet.
for this and at least four days of ellmblag, loads having to be corried to strategic points In staggered time efforts by others not destined to reach the top. Commenting on. the fact that- only this last, height of Everest
Regarding the all-decisivo It is being produced in six remains untrodden, Col. Hunt factor of weather, the Colonel
were three main. colours: navy, green, gold, red, sald there problem is: who is plotting An altar was set up in the white, and blue, and shades of essentials to the solution of the showed that of our seven pre- war expeditions, only In 1824 ballroom, and Miss Charisse's the serum with stiff while problem: la be ready to seize did the weather and snow con
the first weather opportunity by ditions coincidentally favour ten-car-old son Nicky was one collars!
being in a position at 22,000 feet the climbers. The height slows Tako one case. Five hundred of his father's two best men. Dominicans were to set off by
UIERE are anxious frowns on up, accustomed to the height,
faces of California and ready to launch the final and wears down the climber, special train for Washington to
move at the carllest kely and food further spins out the attend
Powerful groups of business mement
(May 18) with honour of General Rafael L.
period he requires to achieve backed by Protestant a ready up: 2-have enough The squadron leader wat Trujillo, Dominican Amberzador guess. It is a matter of social churches are putting their full climbers with equipment and his nim. Then the weather steps
graduate of the Alaskan at-Large at the United Nations, protocol
weight behind a campaign to food to take advantage of any in to shorten the casential time school.
Then a whisper reached the Two groups of dowagers Uning outlaw tote betting. If they fino period and engage in a ho nests, or it may refuse to "Don't forget," he said, "that police that the train was to be furiously, but refinedly over the sucose it will mean the end of series of Anal onslaughts, oblige stall, "ha ipleos are out. You need a blown up by anti- Trujillo right to decide the official list
In of the bust 6.000 fext, or weakened condo ho, is far Unacclimatised and upedal kind of snow for them plotters So at the busy Penn of debutanins. For years hope- State-racing in the sunshine either speed up the climbing
the station
500 fut parents submitted the names
|gn|| fortify), the climber for · cou-, you might freeze to death ba- Junketeers were
were all "friffked" for of their daughters to the old BACK from Korea now on Louing upwards, at slower more a prey to wind and So weapons
stationery firm of M. T. Bird and thusiastic reports of the speed without physical effect or weather than climbers braving ordinary no more igloos, please, baya.' No weapons were found but, Co. which passed Judgment and Army's "Cold Bar" suit, a plastic being placed at the mercy of the the local elements on ord
He also told us that the said a police officer: "We daren't published the list:
battle garment that keeps a man weather, Both theso latter peaks at home. The problem International SOS in the frozen take chancez. These Latins are
wwwm, by his own steam.
could be achieved only by ad really starts much lower down Recently 72 rebel matrons north was three fires in full of temperament,"
The sult, of spongy material, ministering oxygen,, and of the than those last 1,000 feet. It triangle. By day you make
met at another stationer's and is worn next to the skin and two, the Colonel preferred "ths begins from the time the party sithens, amoko- and by, night binze.
announced they were, producing insulates the womer-against wet, first--speeding up. A
first arrive in the area of the WHEN Nico Charisse, 40, for their own list. "Bird's Hat may wind, and cold to creating a
mountain and embark on a milit Like the 1062. Swiss - and complicated programme of mer husband of actress Cyd · Be a tradition" they said, "but vapour layer.setti Charime, married Alla Torres, no one has a better right to It weighs less than Gib.
pedition which camo, so none to preparation.
YES
had we
10
ESTERDAY attend a preliminary lecture "on" ́survival. That was In case
we 'come down'in 'the snow, on; the way to our Arctic schools.
gave us the lecture was himself.
·
and if you use the wrong sort sylvania
fore you got "the roof on.
10
If you haven't got anything
light a fires with you give.
three blasts on a whistle.
the
In TROUBLE in prim-and-proper sportsmen. demonstration - *
Boston-and, na you might
men
State,
and his need for shelter, warmth
his
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