A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Duplicated (0),

5 Dizzy (3)

8 Uncanny (3).

9 Piece (6).

10 Solitary (5).

11 Feel (5).

13 Egg-shaped (4).

13 Makes supplication (5).

18 Loathe (8).

18 Reviled (8).

20 View (5).

22 Vocanic discharge (4)

23 Incursions (3).

23 Mad (6).

28 Mount (5)

29

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1 Makes up (8).

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2 Manner of speaking (8).

3 Sheep (4).

Expunges (7).

3 Clutched (7).

Loafers (0).

7 Drab (0).

Reached (8).

15 Sit astride (8).

16 Feared (7).

17 Олега (7).

1 Not matured (8).

21 Cunning (5).

24 Condiment (4),

20 Merited (0)

27 Gem (5).

29 Heavy food (alang) (6).

YESTERDAY'S CROBRWORD...---Across

Ark, V

Acid. 7 Slope. Dust, 10 Fracted, 12 Aska, 10 Urges. 18 Erus, 10 Irons, 21 Raves, 22 Knee. za Fleet, 20 Gott. 20 Agerold, 30 Ex

9) Pira, 12 Raplu. 3 Tidy

Down; Alaţi, 2 Epicure, 4 Crude. 3 Bata, d Risk, 9 Begn, 11 Krane, 13 Sloe. 14 h. 10 Since, 17 Brag. 15 Evil, lent 24 Cept, 24 Laird, 23

Olls, 28 Feat.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1954.

PARADE

| A 'COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

CLOTHES FOR There's zip hero and

there but not swal- DETECTIVES Sherlock low it.

Holmes touch; The men are some of Britain's about the Hendon Police College beat beer judges and their job offort to make London delce- is to pick cut the championship tives clothes-conselous 30 that brews from a record 758 entries. they can improve their disguises without wles, false bou.d, D. dark ginaseEI,

Scotland Yard like 10 se detectives in rutural clothes and looking anything except a CID officer.

The College tuters have many times related the slury of ex-

Here is how the experts week 'cui a atod brew: 'First hold the bter to the light to examine it for brilliance and polish. Then look for a molt, creamy, head that dcern't go eft like scopeds. Next test for nose or aroma good beer should have a pleasant arena.

New Zealand has a Wors crime rate than Britain, France or Germany. In cold, hard

res, the dominion, in pro portion to population, has 60 Dervent - more people in prisons, ortu urut a half times as" many young proɔle ainien:ed. 10 Borstal, and twice as many young people acten.ed

rm as a Britain.

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Theo sppalling figures also thow that sex offences ans ca and a half times more prevalent -3 the taglio the fact that palshmetab Ko consisteily heavier. In short. Now Zealand ho the worst crime recced in the Commonwealth and one far won?

mort European cotantrios.

The chief headaches caused by recidivism-the repetlion of crimes by an already FORTUNES IN Want to make victed person, Ot 905 convicts THE AIR

quick m serving rentrees of more than tion?

It's ret

monta:.

80 more than United Sta.ce, Cary in 1.2

All pereat have previous convic- you have to do is open

Up tions. television slation and then sell

- a vast p:oft.

The list and neat important detective Tel Collins, a Will- test is for flavour. The beer shire men who spent years in should not be too sweet, er i the Force and was known OR

wen't have the necessary palate Farmer." He eunty-

fullness. Neither mual it be so type clothes, West Country ac.

bitter as to give a reugh taste. Tural cent and

mannerismx focied many

eriodinate earned him the euminen lalinn e the Metropolitan Poller Com missioner. Muni

nowadays favour navy blazera, spordo, their old school badges, modein style sultan, of backing jackets. One South London detective re- cently gave evidence wearing The cloth cap and choker of a barrow boy.

reerulls

FS:

C

oruy

being used

Morocco

where

LORD RUSSELL TILTS AT MAN'S MORALS

But he has a récipe to make the world kappy-by A.D. 2954

HUMAN SOCIETY IN the humiliating veneration with conscience' and thinks that ETHICS AND POLITICS. paid to the sage. As nimble "in", is a fallacious concept.

Bartrand Russell. in his own way as an elderly, once

Nor is reason By

all thot. it was cracked up to be, Ho Allen and Unwin. 15s, dancing master, Russell in quotes with approval tho 239 pages.

his latest book is as philosopher, Hume, "Reason, ta- lucid and irreverent as of the passions." This is all very and ought to be only the algvo

F

Morals

and

OR the beat part of ever,

00 years Bertrand Its subject? Arthur William Rus- politica: What is right? Why is.. soll, like a genial but poa. It right? And what bearing do simistic schoolmastor, has right and wrong have in the been brandishing his cane dangerous sphere of public

affairs? near the coat-tails of man- kind.

How foolishly it was be- about right and wrong [having, obeying impulses Irather than reason, clinging

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well, provided it is a slave to the right sort of passion.

It's shaky

But the passions important in politics, as disclosed by Russell, Knowing from personal

be an 10 prove

ungitractive perlence that men's opinions group: acquisitiveness; rivalry; are vanity; above ail, the love of power which may be open, as with Napoleon, or secret, as with Baron Holstein, who lived in a slum, refused to appear at court on the ground that he had. no court dress and guided the

years Chancellor.

to cbsolete myths instead of following the guidance of

by

is

the

of

*

BOOKS

GEORGE

by blackmailing hie

2 gait you get a chennel of air hem the Government, or MAKING For the first tune on rather a ince to use a cerie RAIN

sunny

Spanish tar Says Yard senior detective channel. The Lence

ritory... / (apparenüy ne stili sunny) artificial tall clear-eyed self-interest. If MALCOLM THOMSON. Kaiser's foreign policy for 30 Inspector: "The guys are gone nothing, though

dolla. The

it did not mond its ways, its when a plain-clothes man eculd cost thrẻ,

to overcome org effects of prolonged drought. The faty would be dire indeed. - Intensely variable, Russell takes be spotted a mile away because

is you must prove to Suce he wore a uniform under his 1. cence commissionera you have

relish in exposing the diversity At the mergy of such im fawn raincoat.”

$250,000 to set up the station.

In his missión, Russell of moral codes, particles of

'pulses, humanity seems to have Well, the United Slows his oaice of miver are being "shot"

little reason for confidence In almost run out of channels, and into the air from the ground to has had as little,success as

Cannibalism was, to the its future. What then 14 might have been expected Aztecs, disagreeable religious Russell's recipe for survival? It the formation now TV stations are being trades "stimulate

com.medit'es.

cloud massÈS,

and has suffered aome duty. Confucius thought that is an exhortation rather than a ups and downs of fortune. a young man was morally bound hope:

will be only people to accept a lucrative post in the more tolerant, if only fanaticism

civil service since (now growing) will abate, Chinese his father and mother comfort- aut its own happiness before salary and pickings could make only each nation will decide to able in old age.

the misery of others then. sc may survive. And, the next 1,000 years, a happler state of aitaire may emerge.

BEER-TASTERS Eighty- Ove WON'T DRINK thund pat

the best Brith beer

el before will be 30 men at next month's hibition at London's Olympia of the Brewers' end Allied Tradera' Exhibition, but narry a drop of i will they drink,

They

K

w merely amell hol it to the light and take u

LADY LITTLEHAMPTON IN THE MIDDLE EAST-3

Osbert Lancaster spreads himself across three columns today

"Kingsley Martin's right!

The time has come to reconsider the whole question of our traditional relationship with the non-European peoples."

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

A CAT FIGHT ISN'T SO BAD

IF IT'S A GOOD MOONLIGHT NIGHT AND YOU CAN SEE IT,

Just

like

Prices Juu higa. Several The worst-hit drought areas

have sold for $3,000,000.

Rif and the tre ho

Kert in still suffering to castern Morocco, Only 70 channels_remain be alleled by the Government. from summer-tong, drought. There are 105

first uppleants for The effects of the Some sharp deals are in grough hous" are described as

them. the air.

"limited".

anil-

NO TIME space-ship research

Re

Naked dancers

He is a hereditary noble man who includes here- dity among the many things he distrusta. He was sent to prison for defaming the alljes of King George V. WASTING An Institute for He received the Order of

It is a rather shaky hope but Merit from King George V's sect) refuse military service and, clings to it in the last sentence The Dukhobors (a religious "beyond all reason," Russell is to be

be established In Stuttgar. this autumn.

son. He was deprived of dance naked round their camp of a book which may stimulate vealing this, Dr Fritz Gerlach, a professorship in New York fires. They were persecuted for and annoy but is not intended chairman of the German Society for EX book regarded as the first reason in Russia and to comfort. those fated to live fur Space Restzech, adds that "Iccherous, lewd, lascivious for the second in Canada. The some

he institute 15

by

Amish ( religious sect in He received Pennsylvania) are filled with a Government, and obscene." by the State of Baden- the Nobel Prize in Stock moral abhorrence of buttons, Wuert.emburg and by German holm, where a more favour. industrialists.

Mortems will not eat pork able opinion of his writing Hindus beef: Manicheons would The moment there aro no Allied restrictions

the prevailed. on

He has repre- tolerate only fish among animat the theoretical study of rocket pio sented human wisdom in foods. Each defends its diet, on UNPARALLED It rot i pulsion by Germany although its luminous serenity and grounds of high moral principle.

says Dr Gerlach, experimen.shas been

RUSSIAN ! future, according A MUST to an announcement by Cachoslovakia's amalgamated Trade Union, no Czech citizen will be allowed to hold any position of importance unless he, or the, can spouk fluent Russian.

The Union ex-

versed in up-to-date industril methods or local government un less they have rend Ausdau text books!

plains that no one can be well the West Getmainanced

Chicago, S CRIME WAVE

in London or Borlin, that one may now lack for the world's wIST erline figures, but in outwardly" - spectable, evra-tempered Life in New Zealand,

The trial conviction of the two lecnage xirle who murdered the mother of one of them have helped to spoilight crime stilsties in this country, but figures prov that this care le but a symbol of a nation-wide rot

involving actual rockets will have to wait until the Allled ban on general German.actonautical.. research is lifted.

Nevertheless, believing

that

this day won't be far off, the in-

stitute is already offering the

times.

married four

'A crank'

time in the

next 1,000 years. It is, at least, a slight ad- Vence on the philosopher's former dictum: "Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair ·· can the soul's habitation bo safely bullt."

LIVE AND LET DIE. By lan Fleming, Cope. 10. 6d. 240 pages.

Even within the same creed, wide divergences of view

may be found. Protestant countries condemn cruelty to animals, while Pope Pius IX forbade thứ the formation of a branch of the SPCA in Rome, regarding it as heretical.

DESUMING his exploration of of glossier ranges capionage, Mieming mixes with expertise a new cocktail_com- pounded of sex, cruelty, danger and secret service know-how," Where, then, can firm moral

bo Now, in old foundations found? The His James Bond (007 in the to appropriate office in London) is

He has been derided as post of insitute director to' Dr Eugen Saenger, one of Gera crank and denounced as many's foremost rocket experts.

a firebrand. It was Dr Saenger who helped Hitler unleashed on London. nobody shall treat him with Divine authority, is dissatisfied "M" to America. There he has

develop the V-weapons which age, he is determined that question is all the harder

answer since Russell rejects sent by his chief, the mysericus

Sleeping On The Porch

SWEET ADELINE-

THERE ARE

WAYS TO GUARANTEE

PRIVACY.

WET PAINT

WHEN THE PARTY NEXT DOOR BREAKS UP AT THREE A.M.-WE DON'T MIND HARMONY (7)ON THE NIGHT AIR-IT'S THE IMPATIENT WOMEN HONKING HORNS THAT

WE OBJECT TO SE

COPE, 159 BY • CORP, THAWÓRES

MATURES

BEWARE

OF THE DOG

AT LAST YOU

GET THE

MOSQUITO THAT HAS BEEN WORKING ON YOU

FOR THE PAST. "TWO HOURS.

BY HARRY

WEINERT

DON'T OVER-SLEEP

UNLESS YOU DON'T MIND AN AUDIENCE.

ISLEPT ON THE PORCH

LAST NIGHT/

COMES

THE DAWN

AND

THE BIRDS "START TO CLEAR THEIR THROATS.

'LOCKED OUT AGAIN~ EH Z

the misfortune to

bc pilted against "Mr Big,"

Haltian whoso role in the history of Negro emancipation is (to quote his own words) to be the first of the great Negro criminals, Mr. Blg is also suprerne head of the Voodoo cult and a huge- .. ly respected operative of tho Russian spy ring:

In combating this unamlable personality Bond at one moment.... enjoys the height of luxury in fabulous hotels, at, the next suffers extreme bodily, discom- fort from the more ingenious

His

leutenants of Mr Big. ecute, if impersonal, interest in women (which never interferes with his official duties) centres... upon beautiful Creole, whose approach to the life of ine emotions is in broad accord with Bond's.

In the end, it is a neur thing. whether Mr Big will be blown up or Bond will be eaten alive by sharks. Bond survives... to enjoy with a good conscience and the blessing of "M," company of his lady love,

Tense; ice-cold; sophisticated; Peter Cheyney, for the carriage trado.

LIBRARY LIST

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● THE CUT OF THE AXE, By Delmar Jackson. Hart - Davis, 12a. 64., 260′ pages.. Crime and punishment in a small, corrupt American town. After the rape and murder of a worthless young woman, two innocent vagrants are' avrested" and "in- terrogated.” ...It seems certain

Or

honest

will be legally murdered

victims of the -die-

wob in which - town is caught. But, fór badi reasons as well as good; evente take a different turn. Unplea- mat, violent, gripping story, away but of the ordinary for dramatic quality, DRAG

• THE FOUL, CONTINENTH- By Orbers Bliwell,~/ Hinamiliemy. 254.- 238,PAgen : In a.book-con- structed with laborious art and written with convoluted BCE, Bitwell discourses, on the","Wiki- ders of the world as seen during 40 years of travel. He talks of old masters and modern, mági, cians of "Ameriones airouses and Italian cities; spine

Lantary on

Above all, recalls how of his father Str 4ought

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