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HE
THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
athaniel Gubbins
unseasonable only weather not fooled the birds who have been next- ing in Surrey, but had
effect much the same Albert, The Robot Column- ist.
on
He appeared at our desk with a limp dahlia hanging from A slit in his metal chest. A whirring, whining him indicated noise inside that he was tryng to hum a little tune,
You're uru.lime
late,
Alber!. Our wirk
W'elly
Mit Westling, "O. Miss Westling,
in
your arme I would
be
nestling.
Careful, Albert.
now black with fury, flash their hatred at him,
"Perhaps the thought OTUS- tho body was going to pinch pearls" said The Sparrow.
"Her mother was crying, poor
ho! "Aren't you making rather, a
"Nothing?" about
blowing rings of thing
fuas
drawled, amoke Inlo an atmosphere "FI bet her father wasn't,” Or Mir Italy, Christina Fan charged with emotion, "What's said The Sparrow,
wrong with a midnight drive. in a car?"
tont
Yos? Christina Fantoni, Christina
Fantoni
On an island with you all
alone all alone-i,
That will do, Albert.
I could even do one for Miss Ceylon, Jeanette de Jonk.
I have spoken, Albert. Of Jeanette de Jonk
I make Utile sank. Howe
lonk, how lonk
the
un-
#gul they may lit, you (Joko SU daughter you in ta som
Who says?
HO
everybody. And so was her old murac.
"Be was her old truse, what?" "Crying, of course," "What for?
"Because she was so happy, I suppose. She was wearing her bit of blue,"
the
"Aren't you making rather a fuss?" "What's wrena?"! The phroses whirled round Sylvia's head and hammered into hor brain. Was this the man had promised to marry? Was this the man whose dark, ruly heal had lain upon her shoulder at the pictures, whose
"Who was?" asked derp, they voice, had told her
The nurse had Spartow, all she wanted to know, made the most ordinary avowal bridel
Wos
something ***Bomathing . old, this sound like a poom?
with whom she had new, something borrowed, some planned their dream home? thing Bite. Would you, like your trant to string alonk
had ten how?" With you, de Jonk
She remembered how she
had gone
"No thanks," said The Spar- The Not very clever, Albert, I sup- blushed when they fur
such as the row as he now away to 1020 this feast of beauty has over the details,
out of nursery with its play pen and Tree Tops Club. "I know where the funny little pictures on the I can get a better drink driven Marilyn Monroe
walls, and how he had laughed that and better conversation. at her in his teasing, fascinat- [World Coypright.] ing way.
for starting
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The flowers
that bloomL
N
the spring tra la
For one thing, 11's not ring. Albert, and for another,
his is
not the Time of the day Gilbert and Sullivan Cona car ing you were made only a ko while ago, 1's astonishing you know full these old songs
I spent an hour in the British Museum and, with my wonder- ful recording memory, i learned all the opera by heart in ten
minutes. I read all the histori books
and alt the old news- papers, I know everything
The French robot now operat ing in Paris can write poetry and compose music. Are you an clever as that?
If I hadn't taken on
1
could
dio anything.
compose a symphony.
get the right key.
me, me, me, the
this job
I could Let me Me, me,
No, not this morning. Albert, please.
you
must.
mind this week Marilyn Monroe"
ית
who
a
Ittle poetry ! What's On
Apart
VOLLT framin
woll
Antigone
th..
{"th beauty
compositions for Exypl?
Miss World.
You standa
Yes.
You'll
flox
Constancia.
dimet
For
Must I wait for de Jonk? Dear Jeanette de Jonik,
Don't get me wronk
yrer mir
Vo could write poetry about her, too.
Go on, then.
Roses red. violeta blue,
I love Martlyn Monrue Neither originat nor amusing, Nor does it rhyme.
But you haven't heard the last two liner. They're terrific.
I don't think I want to hear Biem.
But listen.
Enough is enough, Albiri.
Smashing Serial
And now I was di over, At one thoughtiwe suggCSJON all her life's hopes were shattered
They stared at each other for without
speaking a moment mind against mind, will against will. Then he said:
"Darling, it's not too much to ask. Other men have taken you for midnight
before drives
now."
some.
Once more her eyes, Limes blue, sometimes brown, sometimes
Kray, sometimes
In
than
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CONCLUDING “7000 FEET UNDER THE SEA
"
WHAT I SAW AT THE
green, flashed back at him. "Y-y-yes," she stuttered
"H-b-h- helpless rury. She was so sllck at writing her
of men have taken me if hundreds rhymes I asked Albert
drives, but magazine for m-m-midisigh he could begin
J-i-Mule 1-1-lousry FI serial that would make our for not
tund.
Typing madly for a tro c-c-ar like that." ments, he produced the fol- lowing:
Sylvia and Roger faced each other across the divan where a
rhyme anything with Antigas moment before he had declared
Lanter No, I won't. Take a gander, take a gander At the Agure of Constanda,
As a pet she would be grander
his love in no uncertain His cheeks were flushed,
with shame. not
1
The next instalment will have Albert.
to be better than that, What happens?
Shall I whisper it?...
OCEAN'S
T 7,052 feet Houot
A
started
Pazz
What?
Pep.
way.
but
Pazz zap paiz sape.
We can't publish things
Uke
4h-t. Albert.
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh,
They were still red from the stinging slaÐA the highly strung girl had given
Than a peke or giant panda. him when he had suggested
#
Not bad. Albert, but hardly midnight drive in the broke Albert Salutes
poetry
What else is on your eager
1312
mind this beautiful sunny day? bought second-hand.
The other 15 world
beauty
competitors who didn't win.
Be had -
just
"Y-y-y cad," she whispere
clenched her
teeth.
Are you still looking a thrie through
ส jast photographs
Sunday Dispatch?
Yes.
gesture
the
bathyscaphe's two
small
motors. At
ocean
In
many a
BOTTOM
By Claude Chambard
we were
encrusted
CTW
could
observe
or stcel
Yes
the
con
"Before you die, build, borrow some machina which will enable you to explore the This was depths of the ocean." how the pioneer of undersea ex- ****- with "Twenty Thousand equipped
hia enthusiaan. searchlights, pletely vertical but that the top ploration, William Beebe, first we hardly seemed to be
and bulged outwards in an overheng. pressed revolve slowly
Boobe had nothing like moving, but soon we were Leagues under the Sea," Jules would Verpe
wrote: but
The Navilius, transmit to the "bathyscaphers"
I suddenly remembered what bathyscaphe at his disposal. Ho appre- thrust downwards by its pro- making slow
a complete picture of the bot- ciable progress along the
peller.
down- tom through 360 degrees. Once Captain Taillez had written in had to be lowered into the sea sliding on its ocean floor.
turned
hydroplane, burled it something interesting had been his book: "In the coral zones, in a sphere hanging on the end self in the utmost recesses of
of spotted the bathyscaphe could the bottom silts up into huge of 3,000 feet of cable and liable
12 in which bathy to the most unpredictable move- the potholes The bottom was covered the sea,
instead There,
of be steered towards it and
could very well be ments. the soaphe by an age-long deposit of marvels of nature, the mass of
directly through the swallowed up and lost."
By comparison, the bathy- tiny white organisms which, the waters presented to my eyes object
terrible perthole while the moving and
television ision
Houot looked at the time: scaphe FNRS in the height of THEN drew Albert's attenke an unceasing snowfall, scen
scene. For
crossing camera would continue its all- "We will have to go up comfort. No movement is per- tion to another robot, the
This is not just again."
ceptible during the dive. Breath- white that part of the Mediterranean round sweep. £80,900 British-built electronic bad laid
which is continually disasters. bed. so prolific
Television has a pipe-dream.
"We're going to be late," ing alr to carpet on the werk's "Y-y-you unspeakable *-c-cad." brain which has been sold
underwater anid,
"They will get worled up purified and As a
glimpse, strewn on the bottom, already helped in
observat already some
malco, your by search for the sunken British there.” Italy.
the customers
coral, others clothed only In
as in a laboratory. "Oh no, I'm nearly always peacefully want the robol
even bove.. to recovery of wreckage from tho
down And you don't lato. It
peaceful 10 Comet jet airliner off Elba.
worry about being disturbed by layer of rust, anchors, cannons submarine, Affray, and in the
here." cannon-balls, iron fittings, pro- pellers, blis of machinery.
the belephone (William Boebo shattered
He pushed a red, button! cylinders, smushed 14.00p.m. Still immobile on
"There goes the guide-rope, hack a telephone with which to then hullk, floating off the bottom bollera,
The ground s
communicate with the surface). behind as We leave it the boltom.**
covered with a smooth layer
Salt water covers three-quar of mud, pitted by occasional souvenir for the fish."
Like a real tyro, I had some ters of the globe. In the power hole. No sign of any living
secret qualms until 1 saw the of this ocean, which has no for creature.
craft was really rising.
revealed vry few of its socrets 14.14 p.m. On
the to man, the bathyscaphe - has 10.00 p.m. "We're move We have reached a for- way now," Houot sald. "The begun to trace a discrrot path NOR my own part, I saw a tin again.
there'll be nothing which will be followed by other Jagged trip's over; precipice. moments midable
and more powerful 'devices the more to see" boulders out
are perched We burst
odgy of the cliff, Just in front of us les a yawning chasTTİ, "Feeling Hougt.
We took It in turns to look out of the porthole. Com- cardboard mander He fished into a
Houot grabbed the
You're not going to write silly itle rhymes about them all?
Why not? Most of them are pretty smashing.
B
smile
Roger lighted a cigarette. His
face broke into handeome cynical but appreciative as he watched her breast heave and her bril- with ludipnation
blue, Bant cyes, sometimes
brown. there's Mia Sweden, Margareta sometimes
sometimes green, grey. Westling.
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a smooth to their Generally the bottom was manufacturers flat, although in places the
Lo play the Italian national anthem. But as "carpet" rose in a gentle no one at the works can tell the mound. Here and there a brain what the tune is delivery dark shadow marked a pot has been held up.
hole.
I suppose you know a lot of songs and tumes, Albert?
Yes. I know Parlez-Mot
d'Amour
Let's keep off the love theme for a moment.
Д
The searchlights cast dim halo around us. There were no "sea monsters" to be seen, not even a fish. The only vestige of life was shown by the luminous or-
these a er and even theganisms,
And I know Un Peu d'Amour
and L'Amour,
'Amour.
l'Amour,
Tout
At Rest
FORm and, a few
a
A
bottle.
hungry?" inquired.
I asked you to change subject. Could you teach your} became almost invisible mighing.
when the headlights were switched on.
brother robot to play the Itailan national anthem?"
And I know some old English love songs, but they're not 90 hot as the French.
We don't want anything hot We want the Italian national anthem. Do you know. It?
NO.
I'm surprised. I thought you I hope you knew everything.
the know
British national enthem?
I know the tune. It goes Da da da da da-da
You don't have to go right through it, Albert,
Da da da da da-da Рот рот рот роль,
"Our shark's not around to-
tho
ori
Going Up
.on
a
"The son is everything," declared Captain Nemo. The ch, is nature's vast reservoir where, you can say, fe began
S the bathyscophie rose to the and where, who knows, lite may
of box and drew out a formidable movie camera. After filming A surfact, the massive "hu" finish. That is where you find day," said Houet. On each Its previous dives the bathy- oil of sandwiches, thoughtful the spot, he made a rapid sketch of the buoyancy tank swept the the supreme peace a scaphe had been greeted at the ly provided by Captain Philippe of the crevasse in the log and sea clear in our path. The Hay Ah! Sir, live, I say, live in the bottom by an inquisitive shark. Tallez, who founded the French noted down the bearing.
Undersea Research bathyscaphe these hospitable Navy's Perhaps
cropt creatures don't like Journalists. Group after the war and who edge of the gulf.
is now doing his second tour of duty as its commander.
the
were
Steep Slope
my
2:40 p.m. We are just north of
I munched a sandwich, keep- eyes fixed ing
The motors porthole.
bathyscapho had stopped. The cons to rest and was squatting on top of its guide-rope on the
hill side of
on
elimb it, we let go mrer my
over
The Cliff
The
we
bosom of the aca There only
SCLT,
The
the
up to the organisms or fish, which
have might otherwise
Navy's bathy were flung aside far beyond our scapha FNRS 3 and Professor field of vision. The water did
aro Plecard's "Trieste
first - indeed gleam with pinpoints of man-made craft to paint the way luminosity but, when the head towards Captain Nemo's ideal. lights
on; were switched
They and the perfected devices realised that they were caused which will follow them, will still by olly drops from the buoyancy, make possible the most extra- ITH its guide-rope
ordinary discoveries in the world W dragging on the edge of the tank.
of the sea, Source of so many 15.50 p.m. 4,300 feet. rising and quickly warn the
cliff, the bathyscaphe hovered
Jet Бо
known. little cgends and As we are alone you don't commander. In actual fact it is
while the sheer drop
With nothing better to do, I
of eclent fo number have 10 crenk to attention, the bottom which is dropping
Houot started the echo-sounder. started watching the barometer Albert.
•below. us. Ahead, the "Pity
we've only one port- The marks on the band were which registered the condition theories about the sea have away. Tum tum tum tum-te-tum- same slope risce in a hill. In hole," I remarked glancing
shoulder at Houol, not easy to read. We could of the air inside the sphere. I already been proved wrong" All right, if you must salute order to
a start." I shall have to stand up and some mere bailast. The metallie The really interesting things only guess that there was a 70- made some comment and Hougt says Commander Houst. "That's
shower raises a cloud of mud to be seen may be right behind foot precipice, followed by regulated the oxygen supply.
steep slope. The general very
When wo reached a depth of 49."
configuration of the ground here
Having A Look "Yes, that's one of the draw was very similar to the land- 800 feet, Houot turned to mo backs," admitted Houot We scape behind Toulon. The sol with a smile and said; might one day consider fitting was poor, very rocky and bereft
"We are back in civilisation
dives in the the bathyscaphie with a YOR? DA of fauna.
now. Submarines. can
roach ONLY a few 13.20 p.m. We are dropping underwater television.”
bathyscaphe were necessary Now the guide-rope flipped this depth. We will soon be at
for the man behind the plexi down again.
The commander outlined the off the cliff-edge and we slowly the depths reached by
Life glass porthole to realise that cilg Underneath the descended the 13.47 p.m. On the bottom at general idea.
1. frogment quickenød. Tha manifest itself with ; fabulousS- sphere D television 0,890 feet.
camera, realised that it was not, com- Our
balhyscaphe was shooting up interity right down to very -It is manifested great depths, wards Ilko a bubble, -...
The water began to clear, I by the dense layers of plankcion Bushing wondered what the weather was and by the multitude of
points of light cbserved, all the oing
to be like und way down bo 13,000 feel. This Then a gentle motion showed
from the bottom."
salute too.
Pom
pom pom-te-pom You should never salute with i
13.16 p.m. Wo have risen 500 your head uncovered, Albert.
feet. Houot decides to release Pom pommey pommey pom-
some, gasoline.
to tum.
Da-da-da-da da DA.
The Sparrows
JUST as The Sparrow
was little
dozing off in his armchair in front of the glow- ing twig in his tiny fireplace, his wife hopped into the Nest, Her eyes were bright with Ox- clement. She was a little out of breath.
"Oh, It was lovely," she said, Lovely
lovely, lovely, lovely." What was lovely, lovely
lovely?" naked The Sparrow glaring at her with
lovely,
course.
one beady eye. "Why, the
wedding,
faco.
THE COMMODORE RETIRES
A
By J. W. TAYLOR
at-pes.
•
Our
us that the bathyscaphe had had not been the previously.
Aurfaced.
accepted thea
Thoodowe Monod, ail telephone and unhooked the who had been down in the
Houot switched on the radio- Professor
'Such & Me for this chief stewardess days of big tips passed
under
Houet, was surprised to discover
Vast Reservoir
VOICE from the world out already been
down
which has side invaded the privacy of difled, will one day be equipped
LL the neighbours are most recent decoration was the colved from passengers, glad to see the Com- Coronation Medal for her work stared away in her sen trunk, headphones. "Balhyscaphe to bathyyscape with Commander she will tell you: "Oh, no, Samson; can you hear me?"":3," that there were currents--at-a modora home for good after
depth of 4,000 feet) This wa It has been bu
Tho adventurous
another discovery which could 80 years at sea.
long
*ago, And, anyway, it's of
made only be nice woman to have as a whose work has taken her all the important, wealthy folk who
and over the world.
Up "Know India surprise you. They don't "What poor fool has been neighbour, they avow.
like a book," the tells her as handsomely as you might married on a day like this?"
Thirty years ago, Miss Isabella riends, and in more expansive think "I'm sure I don't know. I
was keeping, house, for moments she will recall some of Mackay
All tho stewardesses
with grabs to scoop up selected only know it was lovely. Ever her mother in Uddington, in the fabulous mabarajahs and her recent command have felt the spheres so lovely."
"Are you telling me," asked Scotland and had never been other Indian potcntates of the very sad at her departure, forgamson to Bathyscaphe, samples of the bottom, wit
A Then one gay thirties sho, has attended in she was very populer. At hear you leud and clear. Wa nets to capturo parecime The Sparrow, "that you have beyond the Border.
ceremony in Liverpool, have just righted you!! pr
and and with recent
all the income been to a wedding, and you day she decided to go to sea and sea-going liners,
for colleagues already ashore. Commander Houot sent à necesary for a modern ocea don't know who was being became a liner atewardess with
the Anchor line. Now, n
into
clubbed together for a parting me for Engineer-Leitenant graphical resear of things! married
she has retired from She has her other memories, gift to her
a wallet: wife. I go to weddings be the post cause I happen to Tko wod Btowards to keep house for Battle of the Atlands with Now she face where tha
But othe dings. She looked straight at bar 07-year-old mother and am ammunitionstips and tankors started home.
invalid sister, after
having going up like boxes of matches never regretted having gone me and emiled."
travelled round the world
zlarins, the gundre; and to mitee the life and 'the' com- The bride,
She times than I care to remember in the fames and the camage peak Already she fr bosannins e of course,
Kalos moet er san goers, Miss the bombing, and the pilihi! (panionship wear white sain Mackay is 10th to talk about her survivors matched from's walery
white wall, and white
"Of course L' don't "kok his years of Dive," of Comúnddre too of the»» Horrora; of" the, čajning 2.40. ; win back in Toulons 20 16the time comes, there will,
bibsanta her hair ideat and of the perils of grave, rattrut Uhese are, terriblo
wand you call, this ocean iravels in wartime, but things one wants
*Cha Sparrow, sbe.adnilta to being one of few all
*ed on a free.neet women
of ca
not to mention.
to
time
brough
spoke
his little toy prodigious, harvest of new
ties on corromlions sodut the soa?
it back to the have become a veritable Funder-
bke alantly but his ords: brought hone
bride of comradeship
to