ENDURANCE
TWO MEN from the WILDS RAISE the QUESTION: HOW LITTLE FOOD do you
really NEED to LIVE?
St. John's, Newfoundland, TOW long would you expect to stay alive on two
of salt if you were LOST IN THE SNOW?.
Two English thers, who were reported missing in the snow-bound wilds of Newfoundland, can now give the answer. They reached givilisation safely 10 days after crash- funding deep in the Newfoundland forests,
It all began when David Cobley, aged 31, of Birmingham. and Nick Temperley, aged 41, of Hexham, near Newcastle- upon-Tyne. ran into heavy fog while taking a helicopter to the International Grenfell Mission town of St. Anthony.
Cobley, the pilot, had to crash-land the helicopter into some fir trees,
Then the pair had to decide a tricky question: to wait for rescue or try to get back to civilisation on their own?
decided to walk it clad only in overalls and They light jackets; and with those two, tins of jam, the pound of prunes and a few tablets of salt."
For water, they ate snow and 'sucked the fog-soaked branches of the fir trees Says Cobley:
"We had to taler it easily in the deep snow and, thick forests. We walked until the afterneen, then started a dre to dry ourselves bul
We never doubled, that we would make it safely."
NOT A BAD FEAT
Meanwhile, searchers did not doubt that they would" NOT make it. They had abandoned hope. When the two men walked into the little shing settlement of Little Harbour Deep (pop. 52).
A doctor who looked them over pronounced them "a
bi fatigued but otherwise fine."
And it makes you wonder just how much fand you do really need to go on living
Not a bad feat of British endurance,
Earlier this sene two men lived Blizzard again in Newfoundland had no food at off.
through 44 days in a
and for days at a time
They were Donald Baird, aged 22, and an Eskimo called Cotochie, and they got caught by the blizzard on a 300-mile
to Frobisher Bay, Said Donald-- Trek To
Food ran low.. we had to kill sive of our dogs." Then there was Justin Rodriguez. of Finsbury Park. London, who last wear fed his five children, aged nine to 17. or 600-mile barefoot march through Burma.
It took them three weeks and they lived ou nothing but
a le rice and ash.
all
And they were apparently none the worse for it.
How long could you survive if you had no solid food at Indefinitely if you could get some milk. For milk
is the one porfiet "food."
Without milk you could last out say, 60 to 70 days. But NOT lost in the snow or trekking across Burma.
Jack White
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955.
A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT
How 100 people owned up to their secret anxieties
By JOHN S.
MATHER
THE purpose of this ex. « periment is to inquire into the personal anxieties pre- dominant in the minds of people today.
One hundred people have been gathered into the in- quiry. People rich and poor; people living in the country and in the heart of the big. cities; young people and old people.
Most of those whose .“ analysed answers you will be reading are unknown people and they have spoken under the pledge of anony- mity.
Sir ROBERT
BOOTHBY
about.
SIA ROBERT BOOTHBY, H.P.
we consider
-I can.
MICHAELA
DENIS
Sir Robert had one after
Sir ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS
SIR ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS
disease, or even death. And I'm
and water.
DIANA WYNYARD
"My idea of real horror: To WYNYARD
be aboard a sinking ship, and
have to jump into the water DIANA Wynyard tucked her
from an upper deck,"
MICHAELA DENIS
MICHAELA
DENIS,
kness under her chin, look. ed 15 instead of neerly 50, sed said:-
"I'm not afraid of my age- ‚I'm 49. I'm not afraid of grow. the ing old, and I'm not afraid of povery. I started with very visittic and I could go back to
very little."
us can be afflicted with those "Here, look at this lot. But among the unknowns little human anxieties you my special pride." The author thought: "I have got another 12. But I am afraid of heights DIANA are some familiar and know the shamefaced ones of Fight to Live" (his big worry. Call it a secondary
unscrewed 3 onc. famous faces. We begin which are all the harder to put autobiography)
because up with
glas far. Packed with more with..
"About the world situation, them weakness.
pills and rapsules eight kinds. I'm quite worried about it being All wrong. And here are four ali mixed up and absolutely no blown, to smithereens... famous and very honest knowing which was which, people to prove it, by telling you "I woke
up feeling a bit of THEIR secret
anxiety, the one the other night and not know. normally they would never ing quite which all would do that CIR ReberL
talk Boothby, Knight want to
the job.
I took nine kinds, one ER ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS, Commander of the Order of Sir Adolphe Abrahams, Haricy Sir Robert, of course. Then
one of Har y Street's most exolage and the British Empire, Officer of
"I woke up in the morning ratus doctors, snice-
personality with no lecard in Street dettar and arodigal feeling wonderful.
tel: the
**I can
you instantly her lap but with two mon- Legion of Honour, M.P.,
"And then. Miss Wynyard, tolk- to the Internationel
mosi "There's nothing wrong with what I'm
afraid of poses in her bathroom-told of yasked his dressing-gown about adviser
It terrides me.
the things that do not in her fla: everlooking the poverty his sturdy middle, straddled his Athletic Board, Michaela Denis, me, mind you. Perfectly fit.
I can see the med legs and considered the TV explorert and Diana "My doctor tells me off about "It is quite irrational, Ppjammeri
of terrify her (spiders, makes oncon Zoo
elephants from my bedroom"} the question What is your Wynyard, the actress,
course; but meet human fears and upwards to elephants) and sold what she IS afraid of..... pills. He says I must have now my Sir Robert was in the bath-acoustitution of iron to survive
ure irrational bigg moment. The hydrogen, room of his
They exist and of the one thing that does.
"Drowning," she
ент "I'm said. A long
very afraid that any we have to put up with them." nal in London them."
He was in the library of the have ta de a lot of underwater has been a fuke. A fluke i success I've had in the part bomb? The Big Four "alks? The Eaton Square. Looking down at Well, Sir Robert is a good economic situation? ན
an opened drawer
deal fit at 55 than many men Westminster Hospital, where work and it makes me really
can't repeat. most afraid," said Sir" "There you are" he said.
It scared. his shape he is consulting physician. years younger. And Yes. there they were. Fifty-s just right for m gnificence. was Robert. of getting too far."
"I'm not a good swimmer. And that
was the surprising five bottles and boxes. Of pills, "I really would like a slim, start to an investigation that was All shapes and colours and all Southful figure," he said. "I's a constant battle between this full of surprises.
diferent. For you may have thought. I have great faith in pills wish and self-indulgence. that eminent people must come ANY pills." said Sir Robert, "On the whole self-indulgence how always have eminent with his TV, grin. "I've no idea wins. You
very worries. That only the rest of what they do I just take them." greedy.
anxiety?
sce.
I'm
DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. The answer will be given on Monday
PROPHECY at the party
Your husband will be drowned at sea before he is 35'
T
was in the 1920
that I married my
Lake
•
By URSULA BLOOM
lively parties, made a good and everything in our garden deal livelier by the fact that is lovely."
have
Drawing by SHOWELL, and then went on with my hand.
The fortune-teller nodded ..
There were happening to us. still a couple of months to my husband's birthday. and 1 realised that I simply could not face them. I must do something to conquer my anxiety but what?
The door opened, and my husband" entered.
secund: husband, # sleep. I did not write and tell My husband did not look at me naval oflicer. I had my husband. I did not wont He sat chewing a.. grass and. been a widow for some time him to know, but I admit it staring into the distance. After before I fell in love, and we
worried me terribly-
a while, I asked, "Is anyting This anxiety was intensified wrong?" were wonderfully happy. At the fact that within the next "No, not exactly wrong,, but first the was' serving abroad,
few weeks something she nad Tve heard all that before." and it was while I was in predicted occurred. My husband "You've heard it before? But England that this happened. returned quite unexpectedly to you can't have done, 1
In a single instant the whole One evening I was asked to Cne morning he walked into the
up a new appointment. never mentioned it till now." formidable fear was brought back into the room with us, and a literary party which I was house, just as she said.
He shook his head. "It was before I could stop mysel! I had told would be the greatest
of days" told me when I was serving in gasped "This is the day
"But but she'll go to went out fun.
with sea?" those he said, "they've sent me back Hongkong. I It was one of
to the shore job I "most wanted some chaps one evening and
there was a little Chinese girl "Of course she'll go to sea," who told fortunes. We went in
To me the worst had hap- to see her, and 'she said I'd be drowned before I was 35. Also en Being a woman I beg- that it would be a collision, and ged him to co something about it. I insisted that I would I'd get myself entangled in
desert
rather than go through for he said it would rope."His voice sounded queer with it. That made him thing, not because I do not last at least two years. I felt and realised that I should but it was a grim laugh for all absolutely all right. I've had a
laugh,
believe in it, but perhaps that if he stayed. ashore
until
that. After a while. --I realised because I do, which is a far he was 35, then we should be happened to me.
that now we could only leave it safe. Just before we went down- stronger reason. I
"But it can't be true," I said, with fate, and pray for the best, hung to Portsmouth,
to take up the as brightly as I could. "Nobody, but I knew that both of us were 'back.
job in the Vernon, I happened can foretell when a person is very unhappy over it.
run into the fortune-teller going to die, and neither the "Oh, but she really is herself, when I was shopping in Chinese girl nor my woman most remarkable, and what the King's Road, Chelsea.
really knew. It just can't she predicts always came. Instantly she recognised me, true."
"Has any of true" my hostess urged, and stopped me.
it come true?" she asked. "But and finally, because I could of course your husband is back think of no further excuse, from Malta, as I said?"
a famous fortune-teller was - installed in the study. I have always had a certain hesitation about this sort of
L
I was ushered into
the
study where the fortune teller sat.
Like a book
She
A reprieve
A shore job looked like a reprieve.
years."
never have told him what "had
Rather strange
be
By this time I had the days marked off to his 35th birthday, and was praying that something would happen to stop her sail- ing. For the moment she was at Portsmouth and should be there fer some weeks. Something has
A grey smudge"
thank
He was wet through, the water running from his uniform into little puddles on the carpet, but his face was more radiant that
It had
for weeks. "It's all he cried, "it's į ducking, and the darned thing is over and done with, the Lord.",
"What-what's happened?"
'I've come back'
He almost laughed. "A drifter rammed the picket boat while we were still in the harbour. If we'd gone down without a doub the whole lot of us would have been drowned, but, by the grace
Heaven alone knows how, but she did. She's out of action, and I've corne back for dry clothes, and Here's what's
..
WES not
A trifle stiffly he said, "No, of got to happen, I kept telling "Yes, he's back," I admitted, course it can't be true," but I myself. My husband never of God, she righted herself. and going to a shore job for a knew that he was not
happy,
mentioned it. couple of years, by which time and was privately quite sure he will be over 35,"
that this would happen. We "I know" she told me, "but tried to talk gallantly of other that
job won't last the two things but I think we were both rcekoning up the number of
There came an autumn day the matter with you?"
When I came round 'be I turned away and left her, months until he was 35, when when the sea was roughish, that was а middle-aged
could sullen shade of grey that is still saying that he woman with searching eyes, and for I couldn't bear any more, we could consider it sale.
i
Secked with little pencil lines think how they'd not gone about her a composure that was went down to Portsmouth, but
that
are chalky, Mist was
down arresting. She took my hand, was so wretched over it all that
"Well, say something," "he finally I decided that I'd tell my thing, to do was to uproot it ing about. We had had break and I admit that she read it like husband, hoping that he would like some ugly weed in a garden, fast and he went off to
catch urged me. a book. She told me of myTough
from I looked, at him. "I never me out of it. He was and throw it away-if we could! the 8 o'clock picket boat first husband's death, my widow-
dockyard. It was TE- one of the happy-go-lucky N.Os Thirty-five seemed a long time the hood, my writing, and my
the
again," whose
officers' boat ahead that first spring in Ports married. very matter-of-faciness
and marriage; then she
mouth! should have helped me. ....
y always crowded
out, which abruptly,
worried me, By the next spring we had managed to live it down a little. Some time after he had gone, My husband was installed in the I glanced out at the sea The
"What is it?" I asked,
stopped
"How old is your husband?” "He is 33," I told her.
In the country
•
We tried to forget it. The
have my fortune told was what I said,
I never have.
WORLD, COPYRIGHT RESERVED
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
NO
I told him one day when we Vernon, and we got through the Hood was just a grey smudge at had gone into the country near- subsequent ... summer happily Spithead, the only warship there She nodded, then went on by to gather cowslips. We sat enough. Possibly both of us had for the moment, and
although with my hand,"He is
on a grass bank, and I decided that it didn't do some down
#35 to he had said that the sen thing to do with the sea told him, probably because he think about things that were nothing, trying to laugh at my gather and he will be drowned gave me the opening a
hurtful; it was far better to anxiety, I thought it looked very "You haven't been yourself pretend that they just weren't, nasty from the window. There before he is 35. There will be
above and. Anylling
the matter? there,
was no doubt about 1: I was Tick off in space
watch
on for the answer, determined to worry you'd
Monday," when there will be, a day The pre- that he came back in the after. After a time I had to put my new story by and wished that I had never diction that he would be drown-qoon, walking in, and throwing writing away, because I just allowed the hostess to persuade ed at sea before he was 85, down his
сар. me to go into the study. I left worsened by the fact that when strange
a collision, and he will be entangled in a rope.”
T'wes
Jalough 1
'd like being here
It was on a September
I for
a couple of years" completely horrified, Then it came
looking rather couldn't do it. In my heart GEOFFREY GORER
there was the feeling that I
as soon as I could, but when II met the woman in the King's Tve been appointed to the availed disaster, and at this Did yesterday's story actually got home that night i could not Rosd, she had stuck to her-story-Hood" he said.
very moment something was happen? Answer: YES, PHIL
very
quiet; and
a}1
This fear
very comes up rehearsal for n
Sir Adelphe talked in low tones was taught in Australia about time I begin
four years ago by a little girl new play. I'm afraid I'll sud- Appals Him. of the thing that
tind: I'm I have the fear,
Lip and he said, called Ann-she couldn't have denly wake what I might become poor, been more than three.
not really an actress at all. "Soon I've got to be tipped
"I think I can't do it's rally poor, and have to go and
all been luck." And "then, after a cance for a live in the slurs the land I tu et knew
I've had student 50 years gramme. as a
for:able time Oh, I know they don't aro. exist any more, bu: I said this
passes off.
fcar was irrational
"It terrifies me,"
TV pro-
husband.
Michaela and her Armand hunt wild animals
Never she said. "I always fral very calm when there is real danger,
Any
2 thoroughly uncom- of it, the fear
One ---
other
Lears?
This fear leads me so with cameras, and Michaela moths "Not the little golden practise some rather
absurd has been in some pretty picky ones the big ones. They flap economies.. I never spend spots. Never scared?
round the light and I switch the mimid taxis though,
light out to money on
make them go you
I'm sometimes absurdly
away. And then, in the dark- ext"apart in other ways.
ness i don't know where they've ress, "For instance; I'm afraid of "But I tell you what does gone" under-tipping. Moral cowardice, xare me--UNTIDINESS. I get of course; but then I admit I info 1 queer scrt of panic iry a moral coward) in some untidy surroundings and things.
doesn't go off until I've got "I'm not afraid of pain or everything neat,"
ACTI
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