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The Queen's Welsh corgi, Susan, has bitten a Grenadier Guardsman in the ankle. Now while there is apparently no penalty for corgis who bite Guardsmen, the So the punishment for Guardsmen who say "Ouch" on duty is pretty stiff. Guardsman stood his ground as if nobody had bitten him at all. News of this fascinating little game of Susan's quickly spread to the rest of the doggle world.
WHAT LIVES ON MARS?
This month Mars is closer to the earth than at any other time since 1939. Is there life on the planet? find out. Scientists are watching closely to
by Sir HAROLD SPENCER JONES
(The Astronomer Royal)
Once upon a time
a poor clerk had two daughters...
A
BOMBAY. PREMIER deposed and put under house arrest; Д country placed under "emer-
gency rule"; race rlots and
A NEW FAIRY-TALE ENDS HAPPILY FOR THE GIRLS BUT GRIMLY FOR A LAND TORN BY FEAR AND HATE
the
Not a Briton--oh dear no. Ho
mass arrests-and at the
Yes, there are lessons to be back of it a fairy-tale that learned from the tale of Yusuf came from WEST Pakistan. explains so much of what and his two daughters.
This is divided from Dual welt is happening in strife-torn First a
over 1,500 of Pakistan by assumption East Pakistan.
Indian and Pakistan politicos miles of ludian territory. It has alike that acquisition of offer no linguistic or natural economic
only entities That is what I have found not
them to links with East Pakistan. in my journeyings through feather their own nests but
help friends and relatives, the Indian sub-continent.
You can imagine the kind of administration this produces in
trie
song
to
But because, like East Pakia- It is predominantly in- habited by Moslems, the Pakis- I cume across the fairy
tans were federated by Britain's that is like theme a country like India, where. Socialist planners in 1947.
So India was divided into now outside agriculture, the majority to the drama
paris, eoch mutually being played out, in-of all of people employed are in some three
kind of State
communal hostile to the other.
there in places the secret minutes employment; where of a Cabinet meeting.
vast unemployment, particularly among the millions of half- of univer- It starts with 12 clerk educated graduates
where called Yusuf, who, in the silles and high schools;
Socialist mel.ods of economic tradition, control
put terrifying true fairy-tale
had two daughters whom he having the greatest difficulty in marrying off.
Wax
The civil service depurt- ment he wRS working in decided to transfer him. And that would have made the task of finding suitors even more difficult,
So Yusuf appealed to his 80-year-old great - uncle. Great-uncle Fazlul Hacq WELS a powerful figure. He was the new Premier of East Pakistan, heading a Nation- alist Government.
Great uncle Hacq acted swiftly, He sent a note to the Minister of Healths about Yusuf, "I shall be grateful,” he sold, " you will kindly have transfer cancelled."
the
to
Fazlul Hacq explained to me later-by then he was under arrest in his own home. with police camped in his garden and
"I had In his front hall help the poor fellow. It Ais iniquitous He had just found for Jals Invalid daughters."
All the higher forms of life sutiors require a fairly high concentra- tion of oxygen. which by Its
DENOUNCED
SEFTON DELMER's
Newsmap
West
PAKISTAN
CHINA
INDIA
com-
Eust
mercial power in the hands of Ministers and officials,
You cmm also Imágide" "We demoralising effect of this on the
who find that in people, the seven years
the eince departure of the British their
services have been going down, down, down, and down.
BEST JOBS
and the IN the view of Haeq
of vast
masa
the Bengall population theso "foreigners," sent to East Pakistan since the "liberation" by Pakistan's Central Federal Government in Karachi, have come to form ኒ thin upper crust of rulers.
Between them they have come to control all the best Jobs, ali the best bargains, all the best import and export licences,
The anger of East Pakistan against West Pakistan, brilliant- ly exploited by Communist led to the race riots ogitators,
and of April
May in which more than a thousand people were killed. factories burned and and looted,
millions of pounds worth of damage caused.
It has forced the Central Government to proclaim emer- gency rule there. Tough soldier General Iskander Mirza Was only just in time to prevent the whole of this strategically vital from passing into Communist anarchy.
arca
It was when Mirza began to unako mass arrosta that Yusuf was caught in the net.
PROFITEERS
not so
real wages in terms of food and Wmuch the fate of Yusuf as
WHAT WOrries me is
the fact that this same Taolal and tribal resentment at rule by being funned foreigners" is into militancy in every part of India I have vislied.
It makes them look around for new leadership to rescue PUT the fairy godmother uct them. It is understandable that more and more Indians and
beca started something. The re-
combustion in the body pro- vides warmth and energy. Cold- blooded animals can exist at lower concentration they can go into a state of torpor, in which bodily activities a for a time largely suspend- F the various planets and not perfectly straight, ed. On Mare OXY could not is ao de that in the solar system There has been much contro- fleient
is any Are and their satellites, veray about the true nature of bo lighted,
Strughold these markings and no definite possible. Dr Mars is the only conclusions have been reached. cludes that no type of animal world, apart from our
life. with the doubtful e-cep-
lowest types The sightings in recent years tion of the
of which it Earth, on at all possible that life some sort might exist.
seeme
of
The questions whether there is life on Mars and, if so, what forms it might take, huve often been discussed,
Mars is
an extremely arid world. Much of It is desert, which gives the planet its ruddy colour.
It has no oceans, lakes or rivers.
Water in some form is essen- tial for life. But Mary is not devoid of moisture,
compound each of its poles a
for
white
dis-
cap of snow or frost forms
and grows as winter advances, shrinking and appearing as winter gives place to summer. These caps are not more than a few. Inches thick they cannot be compared with the thick polar lee-caps of the
Barth.
Further evidence of moisture is provided by the clouds which from time to time partially obscure the surface features of
ما
A
nor
Con-
Everywhere there is agitation quest. following channels East Pakistanis think they have for a new carve-up of India on established by his British pre-
this in the Communists, linguistic lines. decessors, duly reached a per- found manent official heading Enst who, they are told daily by the
And it is all building up new Government Press and radio, antbitions, Pakistan's Ministry of Health.
opportunities have
in China for maladministration, done wonders
tion, and favouritism,
The official denounced what he considered
* gross example and Russia. of ministerial favouritism. He fired in
a flerce minute-faith-
now
corrup-
Yes, the Commulsts
are the The second point arising from
by Britain's of unusual objects In the sky-cold-blooded creatures, can pos- fully entered in the Cabinet Die the tale of Yusuf Is the racial true profiteers of this tragic protesting at "the Premier's threatens to split up still further started on the road of partition
tribal, and sectarian hate which mistake made
Socialist Government when it dangerous
with interference
this once united area,
and sub-division. The Teal normal procedure In personnel
troubles of East Pakistan and matters." (Oh yes, it was most AL perfect Whitchallene.)
the rest of India are only just has beginning. The fairy-talo become a grim drama.
we
the so-called flying saucers- albly exist there. have caused
some people
If there were animal life on conclude that they are visitors
Though Mare, it is not to be expected from another planet,
argu- that it would be similar to any very strong there are ments against this interpreta- forms of life with which
of flying saucers, it has are familiar. But the basic re- His lon
Hfe, the quirements for directed attention again to
the form it may take, are the Possibility of
same. A sufficiency of oxygen planets being inhabited.
is essential, The possibilities of life on Mars are discussed from the physiological uspat by Dr
some of
whatever
For vegetation to exist, there must be some carbon dioxide, and it is, in fact, present in the atmosphere of Mars in meder- ate amount. Under the action of sunlight, by the process known as photosynthesis, the carbon dioxide is broken the carbon being used to build up the plant cells and oxygen. being produced.
Cold Comfort
up,
for The conditions
photo- synthesis, on Mars are compat- able with those on the Earth Just under the snow-line very high mountains, Only the Jower. orders of cellular planta, resistant are extremely cold and drought, could
such enduro
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was
the
80 least
percent of Premier Hacq's ruge at "in
and aolence
insubordination" protest
because provoked Premier. He got even ongrler official was a "foreigner," and demanded: (1) That the transfer of his relative be can- celled without further delay: (2) That the offending oficial be dismissed the service for "insubordination and insolence.”
There
Cabinet a dul? meeting, duly noted in the files which were shown to me by the Cabinet accretary. And a com- promiso
The was reached. official stayed where he was, So did Yusuf,
WDS
So In one way the fairy- tale ended happily for Yusuf hap succeeded in Anding hus- bands for his daughters.
But he has also found himself in gaol along with 1,100 others, and the fairy godmother is no longer Premier.
POCKET CARTOON
to
by OSBERT LANCASTER
OL
to
on Mars does not exceed and They are the barren_lava may be much less than that in extinct volcanoes, Next our atmosphere at an altitudo them come the primitivą, mossea of 100,000ft., or 3 times the
-the liverworte. : height of Mt Everest.
Βοπιο laboratory
of
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The theory that Mare inhabited by intelligent beings
From a discussion of the was strongly advocated by the: American astronomer, Percival tested in low-pressure chambers, plants, Dr Strughold copcluded
animals, physiological requirements Lowell. He depicted the dopert can endure conditions which that the only types of plant life arone of Mars na crossed by a correspond to altitudes up to that could exist on Marm geometrical network of
of sharply 30,000th, but the greatest height the lichens and dry mosses, 24.00 defined markings,
which he
heat which they have been seen This is in agreement with the 15.00 Interpreted as artificial water to mako
their homes in 18,000ft.
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engaged in a
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