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GERALD BOWMAN continues
adventures his articles on the of the Caterpillar Club
OFFICER WILLIAM ALLISTON sat in the
Pmid-upper sunner's turret of a Halifax bomber of
No. 10 Squadron at Melbourne, Yorkshire, as the big aircraft thundered off down the runway on the night of April 10, 1944.
In the navigator's seat Flying Officer "Junior" Steele gave the pilot his course for their target, the marshalling yard of Tergnier in Franco,
A brilliant full moon provided perfect visibility for enemy fighters as they crossed the French coast, but their tight, until they were well inland, was strangely peaceful a matter which Alliston instinctively distrusted. His eyes raged the whole are of the вку beyond his perspex turret-
cover but HOW
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1954.
F/O Alliston on right, dressed as a French peasant, among the wreckage of his crashed Halifax.
SAVED by INSTINCT
nothing untoward until the ed after that moment until
aircraft turned
borbing run.
anyone presence
on to its he recovered consciousness
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LEARN TO ANALYSE
FANDWRITING,
H
ter.
HANDWRITING
one
of the means of com- munication, la also a
By "SCRIBBLER"/
show
The SLOPE of your hand- writing, that is whatter it has A Londency to Euphill or deathkill, or whether it goes in guide to a person's charac- vertical, or does it slant' The writer. with a back- and down or rays on an oven keel, indicates whether you are In all driectiona? The slant hand slant shows that his Your handwriting shows of your writing
over his heart. optimistic or pessimistic. reveals head rules
when His writing goes whether you are stingy or whether it is your head There is no outer display of the optimistic writer generoua, loquacious or or your heart that controla emotions, and his enthu- uphill. When this uphill hand- witting at an extreme angla tight-lipped, a pessimist or your feelings.
siasm is held in check.
the writer is a confirmed The extreme backhartd
optimist. He keeps his head In an optimist, an introvert or
Let us deal first with slant also shows the head- the clouds, and It reveals
often suffer. extrovert.
because of a judgment. whole
your
an when Alliston recovered consciousness to Bnet that he was the found himself floating down the dark sky down the dark sky with his with his parachute fully open above his head parachute fully open shove
his head.
Then us so often happens, an enemy fighter mutorial- ised from nowhere at all, to attack the bomber's vulner-
His first conscious realise- able belly. The first thing tion was that his left boot knew about is and his left sock were miss.
Next that he was a shattering ing.
WAS burst of ennnon shells which swinging so wildly that he into the starboard feared his parachute would collapse and spill its vital Next he cushion of air.
the aircraft blazing HAW fiercely below in what ap peared to be a shallow lake, And he seemed to be about to land aquarely in the finmes
crashed wing.
Ip the same sucond stray sholt exploited In Alliston's turret, splitting the perspex cover which was then whip ped off by the slip-stream. The blast hit the half-dazed Alliston and tore his flying helmet half off so that the straps wrenched thront.
his
However, he missed the blaze and landed henvily, biting his tongue violently. The lake' proved 10 be nothing but an it and lusion, He grabbed for
He was lying in the middle of clawed
plouthed feld, difficult v with back on to his head in time brightly illumined by the burn-
ing wreckage. to hear the pilot suying over the inter-com.:
Come
It
bale out 011. bale nut
"Sorry, chaps
everybody!"
LLISTON climbed down.
A from the turret seat and
n
He staggered to his feet and began scraping a hole to bury hus
parachute and harness, His fly he was tortured and finally died
WHA of typhus. aust, he discovered, Ing ripped all over as by Tazor slashes. A burning pain throbbed In one of his legs and above his eyes and round the back of his head were deep cuts.
navigator.
FROM
FIL
When they were well enough to move Callar decided that he
would become
} of
ene of the re- istance movement and stay in France since his knowledge the R.A.F. might prove valuable which indeed it did throughout the remainder of the war.
to
121
บ
Ais is the time to celebrate
Rome because we will all go
because but displays his
the
A
lina sbows
nrud
a downhill
willer gives an outer im- slant is a pessimte), and when
He is in
it is
deceitful.
up.
personality, specimen that slants about over-heart trait, but to Handwriting which Koca which is permanently re- 45 degress to the right. greater extent. This writer
the page in a straight that the writer corded as your pen traces This forward slant, which is just as emotional as the
his mind functioning its way across the paper as is most usually found, re writer with an extreme for eps
veals
with
ward slant, but instead of c
his moods are person A
on on even koel. The affectionato you write.
displaying his emotions like. There is a close associa friendly and
inde. writer is level-headed, He is not "cold" the forward slant writer, ho pendent and moderately aggres to hetween handwriting nature.
is extremely reticent about rive, and is usually hivio to take EXAMPLE I
expressing the warm feel care of himself.
The writer with This ings of his heart. pression of being cold and the downhill slant is at an ex- treme angle the writer is ni- Alliston made for nearby
aloof, although there are
ways in the "dumps." wood as best he could, and as he
hidden wat he heard sumento blunder
emotions beneath Lines of writing that "make" ing through the brarken chise
Alliston and Steele derided to
that hard crust. This cold across the page, undulating un- by and found himself face to
back and
OST "Junior" Steele, the try to g
exterior might hide a vol- certainly, as in EXAMPLE 2, show that the writer's mind is Junior whispered with the cbject of climbing the love with
**T! personality
feelings cano of emotions which is stabbing in different directions, questions as to how the rest of Pyrenees into Spain. Incredibly
to explode at any He not trustworthy and the without people around him time.
probably
These the chaps had ter on, but Allis- enmagh they managed itin two every nervous and muscular This person is generally lost able
they motion originates in
His cold-bloodedness Subsequently
writers usually find it hard in ton, his tongue swellen so that nonths. He to
Britain brain. Your hand holds the because of his genuine social makes him keep a straight me adjusted to any pur repatriated hh meath, were answer vaguely by where, after leave, they both re-pen or pencil as you write, feeling.
face when other people aro sult
careful which roult only
calls for turned to uperational flying.
but it is the brain that sagin
Then there is the person weeping, and he represses to the writing starts off at the The rest of that gallant crew guides the hand across with the exception of the rear page. Sitting on the beach, whose writing slants for to all his emotions.
downhill going to slope This extreme fact strongly inhibited, full eft margin loolding as though Kunner and the pilot who were killed were taken prisoner and your toe might trace out a the right.
The forward slant still Indicates of inner conflicts and ul- and then suddenly zooms the sand.
hill near the right margin, it It word in after the war. TROM that moment onwards repatriated
EXAMPLE 2 he and Sterle kept together seems clear that the pilot gave marks you make will have friendliness, affection and approachable, And passed through a series of his own life by slaying with the the same characteristics as demonstrativeness, but in a
order that
more extreme degree. This fantastic adventures. They made Pircraft too long in
your handwriting. a chance of their way into village and they might have
The science of analysing writer is over-eager and en-
called thusiastic, and the handwriting ia blthough it was then about mid survival.
graphology, and in simple tic impulses are quite ardent, words the graphologist at- This person's emotions, in- tributes specific character. tense and passionate, will istica to certain signs in the fluctuate rapidly and erratic-
ally. The writer is ex- EXAMPLE 1, which shows discloses a person who will be handwriting he examines.
cautious in anything he does, You
become An tremely sensitive. and takes handwriting that slants one
but once he had started he will for, Fit/Lt Collar, D.S.O.,
way and then another, dis Anish it enthusiastically. had also chosen the cottage for with a seven-year-old daughter amateur graphologist and offence quickly.
On the other hand, lines that bid for
or help and was and living in the London areanalyse your own your A vertical handwriting closes that the writer's head there to shake hands with them. Perhaps understandably he gives friends' handwriting, This
down show that the writer Next day the cottagers look up a great deal of
of his
do one starts energetically on a job but balance between the heart the mind wants to them to the house of M. Maurice work on the Executive Commite series of articles will show shows that there is an even and heart are la conflict start to go uphill and then dip Dupuis who was an enthusiastic tee of the Escapers Socicly, an you the fundamentals and the head. Sometimes thing and the heart another. soon loses interest. Ho lacks member of the underground organisation which
keeps in simple language. Have fun! this person's face shows no These uncontrollable moods stamina and perseverance,
this nuvement,
Fascinating touch with members of the Con- Entertain your friends!
sign of emotion, and tinental war-time underground
at make this person fickle and (Follow This first article deals other times he relaxes and critical of trifles. His serios, Next Saturday, the. The Dupuis family hid them, movement and their dependant with the SLANT and SLOPE occasionally releases his in- moods are seldom the same size of handwriting will be
and children. Every year greet-
visits of your handwriting. ings are exchanged, and b
Make M Later arranged and matters of charity
a sample of your on unlined Dupuls paid for his philanthropy organised--In lasting gratitude handwriting with his life. After his wards for the wonderful services that
paper preferably in ink, had left him his activities were were rendered.
about 50 words. Does your discovered by the Germans brid
handwriting SLANT to the right or the left! Is
night, took the chance of knock- ing at a door. A strange provi- dence seems to have made them thouse that one cottage out of which the village
DILOT OFFICER Boine 200 of
WILLIAM For there they ľ was made up.
ALLISTON, who was later awarded the D.F.C., is now
marriedi
found that their wireless uper usiness man happily
his first
he
the fuselage staggered up towards the nose of the air-
As he did 30 craft. realised that it had lurched over and was in a spin with roaring furnace streaking back from the starboard wing. He made for the escape hatch and caught a pilot still glimpse of his fighting with the controle so that his crew could get out.
In the strange freakish- ness of war Alliston has
no inemory of what happen-
With
r/o Alliston in a gun turret.
Les
London. the
looked after their wounds, them, found the clothes
false identity carts.
fed
he wus transported 10 the notorious Dachau Camp, where
Armour
remote uplands
the Chote Professor to
"HEN a director of crowded valley.
In
of Mind
und
Next Saturday: Mystery
in the Western Desert.
to
Britain
a sonsארי
associated
with
30
can
in
Today
it
hibitions.
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roman-
Prisa; the timin
on two consecutive days.
ISLE OF
na-
Michael's Mount, the ploturesque little rocky island in Mount's Bay, near Now it happens that, tradi Penzance, Cornwall, which tionally, the policies of British Logic at London— the law may supporting Socialist Outlook''
boen is joined to the mainland by be inclined to take a
parties have rather is intended to have an indirect political the National Agri- The "elf-sufficiency required serious view of the thing.
rather than a direct effect. changed from the inside, and an artificial causeway, has
the in the "uplanda“ is a
6 new Advisory for life
way to get cultural
idea been presented to the Have Professors Ritchie, More bluntly, the party's translated
Into action
haa tion. Service beging to question commodity no longer produced.
Broad, und Ayer some seer National Executive la serving always been to join one or the virtues of mechanisa Britain's farms are, in fact,
other of the major parties and not. But. tion, the time has possibly producing 50 percent more food
plump for it. Slace come to wonder whether than they did before the war.
persons directly Inclined to suppose that no one concerned are so few that most! Working that way, major cows will soon be jumping
reckon Now, much would devote his time to de- party members probably had to parties have changed radically over the moon.
society tres by reducing the in- vising ways of figuring out the consult a reference book to dis- Over the years and, since any has always been fair The growl of com- dividual farmer to the status of number of marbles in a bag un- cover just what "Socialist Out party
a factory worker, and by casting less he had some ulterior motive look" was, the operation was gumb for new ideas, Britain has avolded the bedeyling multi-
of
which parties pilcity wrecked meny another mocracy,
the
bine Harvester and the soft phul-phut of the tractor have long been sweet music
mon
But ol What cost?
Who can
whole nation in
wager between them? Certainly notice on heretics in general.
the other the low being the law, it may be
the same
or other.
on
hand.
Ritchie, in so far as he works in
the
economical in the extreme.
The party has given Its "object lesson"
without any risk of a consequential loss of membership.
de
If the now fashion
Party Labour
*becomes
in the the
Many legends attach to the Mount, which is 1,100 yards in circumference and about 240 feet high. Standing on a rock on the Western Cilit, St Michael ls said to have appeared to sume fishermen in the year 495.
St Joseph of Arimethen is teported to have teen among traders who, with the Phoeni cians, shipped their tin from the Mount harbour, and Cormoran the Glant, whom Jack killed by enticing him to rush down the hill and causing him to fall down the Mount. Another Cornish tradition connects the Mount with the story of Tristan and Yseult.
mould?
The law may even suspect philosophers were Who can say how much of a Upt the in the cars of these gentle drag the decline in homecraft ploiting to clean up on the egg whose wor cry, puts on the whole economy? guessing game in Huddersfold. "mechanise or starve", has,
At the very least a dream is It will certainly be wrong if But the matter is serious for standing rule, the citizen with a in postwar years, replaced being shattered-the dream of it does. But life may become a all that. It is a symptom of a now idea will have no chaise the well, is sald to have lived on the blast of the hunting the man who wants a chance to little confused for these learned sharp change of putlook in but to sirike out and, form a horn and the occasional stand on his own, to face the gentlemen none the less. Prof. British demperaer.
now organisation, neigh of the plough horse world on his own terms.
Scotland possibly Д more The particular hiresics of At the worst the determined civilised country-may be free "Socialist Outlook" are prob- as the characteristic sound
Since that, in contemporary hus been of the English country- individualism which side.
ably hot serious-they consist conditions, is next to impossible, of attacks of the party's leaders he will probably (for the time at the root of much of human of suspicion.
and of attacks on a few policies, Being, at least) he dehled any opportunity to make himself notably German- rearmament,
heard. When presented with a poke,
Thomero att that the can we guess the number of heretics, are heroties is sufficient pigs in it without having a
to ensure their downfall.. officially unileomon at our side asking illegal for Englishmen to whether we are proposing to rethinking" a polite term. guess the number of eggs in a take bets on it? for an admission that the bucket if such guesses involve a standing policy has been wager, 1 fear that the national breaking a large number of way of life may take a marked there aro egrą to make a amallish omelette.
Guess What!
progress has been dealt a And wliht of
ordinary mortals? But Mr W. B. Mercer, serious blow. provincial director of the Service, seems to have been doing what government ofli-AT clals delight in calling "basic Now that it
turn for the worse.
more US
*
And n man surmising that two peas in a given pod may be asked by the law
In making At first sight, no doubt, the whether he
definite statement of fact or Anes imposed by the Hudders merely "a gudss of such a kind field magistrales on a company The trouble, reports Mr awning a chain of grocery stores us to consiliulo evidence of a Mercer, is that mechanising and on the minager of one of Wager.” the farms has also resulted these stores may seem harmless
enough. in mechanising the people.
"Since everyone learns from the same textbook, in dividuality of village charac- ter has become much less marked.
com-
។
Aa for citizens muttering about snug bugs in rugs-thay had better have, a good,defence ready.
Party Heretics
But the decision was municated to us Just da wo were reading the latest pro nouncements on the approved ascertaining methodology for the fumber of marbles in a bag, written by A. D. Ritchie, Pro- "Dialpat is becoming a marg burah Univentyphy at Edin- IT is not customary to us
technickl
addoen blishment
፡
pile driver jo-squash gnat—unleri, perhapm): you are
In to far as Prof. Ritchie moes interested in ndio-making may be taken as denylrig lanots than fri gnat-killing
litio homeoraft, bald strongly by two other najed of Punze spo
Slingopher Professor C., D. Bearing them's parts "od? coed, Knightsbridge Professor. In rokoda, la, boabe - Down
denied
The monestary on the Mount was granted by Edward the Confessar to the abbey of Mont Michel in Brittany, which is very much alike in size. Between 1133 and 1150 It was rebuilt, but
St
denturies.
The party,
to fresh9utes of the 14th and 15th itself accom Ideos, will eventually find itself The Labour Party Boems to a mere keeper of archaic slogans have decided that its policies of no interest to anyone. havo somehow achieved Divine Sometibes and that no onɑ must question. them.
But perhaps the gentlemen in Transport House will wake up.
JOHNNY HAZARD
CAN'T TAKE A DET AT. HIMU NIGHT MIT AH INNOCENT BYSTANDER
'İN THE OPEN? HIS CANT GET VERY FAR on 2?
TO`SPOT FRAISE
for all good.
analysad)
CORNISH
LEGENDS
Henry VI gave the Mount to the Convent of the Brigoltines of Syon Abbey.
After the Reformation became Crown property, but in the 17th century it was granted successively to the Earls of Spilsbury and the Bussel family, until finally passed in 1000 to. the St Aubyns, who have owned it over since.
Lord St Lavor, head of the St Aubyn family, who served In the Grenadier Guards in the two World Wars, has now pre- cented it to the National Trust subject to a lease to the family of part of the. Castle, and cer- tairi freehold properties on the isiana, including part of the garden and some small houses, are excepted from the gift.
so far as farming, forestry and tho conservations of finture allow. Ita houses and gardens; many of which are ranked and
temnants, maintained by
thrown open to visitors. Ita function, In fact, is not to tum a a great part of Britain into a museum but to hainbein varied character of the country,
the
It owes Its origin to the havoo caused by the Industrial Revolution. When England was at the zenith of her prosperity towards the end of the Victorian era there were a few terüle who, looking through the hare the of smoke, could perceive heavy price which their country was having to pay for has suc- cest. They saw cifles stretching out their tentacles and absorbing the countryside; lovely vallers choking under sipg-heaps; chim- hey-stacks growing where deke had stood.
Showrooms of the Castle will continue to be opened to the publie twice a week throughout the year. The principal rooma Among those who contem- are the restored 14th century plated these developments were chapel, the 18th century blue three practical idealists-Miss drawing rooms built on the site Octavia Hil, Sir Robert Hunter of the original chapel, Chevy and Canon Kawuloy. They co
the monies de- Chase, formerly
ceived the idea which took shaya Cha
well known
as the National Trust. Their for ite 17th century Hunting fricte, and the plan was to set up a body of armoury, Lord St Lova has responsible private citizens who also provided a large endow would act for the nation in the ment for the maintenance of acquisition of land and house
deemed worthy of permanent the Mount for poularity,
preservation. They would hold such properties as trustees, pro tect them from destruction or undesirable development, and allow the pubile to enjoy them.
The National Trust is not, in spite of is name, a department of state, and yet all ellens enjoy the benefits of its good it has work. The lands that cáp-
through acquired
privata generosity are freely accessible,
The mount was a fortress from the time of Richard I as well as a monastery. It was. often attacked and sometimes tured, The Benedictino monks lived there until 1428, when
By Frank Robbins
W. Taylor
vation
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