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NATHANIEI

GUBBINS

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955.

THE SPIRIT OF GENEVA

Cummings

HE war between men

T and women is hotting

up.

It was stated in a divorce court that a powerful opern singer, aptly named Mrs Everest, threw her husband over her head, fell on him and bit his ankle.

Following up her advantage

the chased the retreating enemy

tried to break dowII atl Jocked bedroom

choor

escaped by jumping into the Bordew.

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of American

failure caused by fight.

4

Mrs

that brary The mind probers say

concerning American women have acquired &huilze, who recently addressed such "unnatural domination a gathering of women at Kansas over the male that thousands City.

men die of heart

"We must never Sho said: allow men again to dominate They have been

scared

Bo the home as they did only 40 We have got them utten for so long by thousands years ago.

angry little women that they where we want them and we Да алу often drop dead

on the

way must keep them there,

soldier will tell you, when once Figures prove, if they over the enemy is on the run hit him

anything,

bbo with all you've got." fatal heart CROCS majority of

terrified

bome.

prove

Our Boon after the

that

le leaves his office following ume of those telephone conver- rationa about inner spolling in the oven.

60-year-old Forward glance

Еля Coloracha farmer emplumed to a judge that his wife, a truck rifle shot. opened fir on him a he re- turned from work in the even-

ing.

IT

use thi

it

■T has been one of my night- This war be- tween men and women will one

develop into

shooling He was obliged to approach day

both sides manning his front door in short rushes, war with

of trenches, stomach ling Blues taking gover on his

harted wire Separated by when the gronatul was favour-

weil able.

entanglements, they may be armed with rifles, bayonets, Granting hum

the machine-guns. a divorve

hand gratuites, judge said พ.เช only Jus mortars, light and heavy artil military training in World Wallery, tanks, Very light....the I that anved his life

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In Pisa, Italy, a Story Gag lone, suing his wife for assault, magistrate that she polted him with kitchen ware Whenever he was ten maj iate for the rayloli

Asked if she had any evidence of unfaithfulness, the wife sud, "No, but

looks guilty Husband

always

whole let. Even

od imen

Although her remarks were probably intended to be humor

bo ous sne will undoubtedly Field-Marshal Mrs Shultzo when the shooting war between men and women begins.

La Hippo

"Trees were uprooted over a 300-yard radius when two bull hippopotami fought over a female hippopotamus be- Lake St. Lucia Zululand. Ʌ CONLE ranger died and the said that one other was not likely to live.”

From the news).

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E lovely female, known La Hippo because she is the of the hippopotamus Le Loll community, sald in an Interview yesterday:

"Of course I'm terribly sorry about it all but then one can't help being attractive, can ne? "I mean, I never Hive either slightest encouragement, the and one esn't go and hide in a forest in case one's tatal beauty

uses trouble,

huntly pick up a paper without being partures of fierce giris blowing march, of 1973 thr trumpets hanging drains, or firing rifles Bisley. They are nirendy In training for the battles to come Almost any day you can also muscular see pictures of tiny, women hurling herge, bewilder

ver their shoulders at Justo cinse They will be the she de pe die commandes for night

"Naturally I did happen pardela on enemy is to capture

for questioning prisoners

prefer one of them which might divisional headquarters,

have caused jealousy, but there We were jus! Ther

was nothing in it. ire ulso the girl

I think I shall go athletes throwing

hammers, Kol tienda.

away somewhere and try to for- Jarling Javelins, kuping

playing Exxcer and get."

tempting offers with tongues

La Hippo has no plans for com- out of agonised faces. of They will be the unpopular peting in a Miss World Beauty mludle-aged American men dle physical training experis of the Competition next year.

Elaboraung her theory, mid she suspected him of wish- ful thinking about other Which is about all he could do in ten minakes,

women.

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Although doctors in the

U.S.

have been working on the

pres

Position

that

thousanda

at

over

of coronary throtalusis because women's army keeping cannon-

ton

muen richt

the heart,

Despite may

Weighing two tons, her mea- surements are:

Hips: 150 yards,

At for

the front

1

Waist: 130 yards. Bust: 250 yards.

the above

took focker girls cising lite lumps of fat to line. elog the arteries of

Since writing the psychiatrists have another have come ACTORS IN Idea, as you might export,

my private

item in clipping news

(World Copyright)

Would your watch have kept

time on the sea-bed?

WEARING a Rolex Chimer Perpetual, a professor of Milan University went for a swim oft Capri. But the strap-bucile was loose, and his watch broke from his wrist, and sank in the bouom. Without much hope, the professor asked some divers, working nearby, to keep an eye open for his watch. Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it seat still keeping perfect time,

It is not really shredible. For this superb watch, completely protected from water and sand by the famous Oyuer waterproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual "rotor" mechanism another Roles invention.

It is in their ability to stay accurate under such incredible tests of endurance that Rolex watches prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch.

Tala Rolex Oyster Perpetual is similar in the one be the story, Permanently mattypif lain Ögitir Cave, it is given perfect necuracy by the Perpetual Windingspute the Rolin Red Sial:

Beth RWY Chronometer.

After seven days beneath the 'sen, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, brought up by divers, was found to be will showing the right time! (The original letter of Profeur Cuisle can ba inspected at the Rolex offices, 18 rus du Marche, Gruron.)

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'SURELY YOU CAN ACCOMMODATE YOURSELF TO OUR POSITION?

'FRAULEIN... HELP MY BABY,' SHE CRIED

F

OR

RHONA CHURCHILL continues

Erkelenz. ed of them all.

her

series on

reborn Germany a

have

Wild-eyed, There was no alternative. I years have tears streaming down her The war would wondered what hap face, she clutched at me and wait. pened to the baby cried: "Fraulein, help. My I bundled boy I helped into the baby. It comes." world during the battle of Erkelenz in February 1945. American troops had fought their way through the small market town and were mopping up in the villages.

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Nearby stood her doctor, "Can't you help her?"

her small

I

asked.

"But how? With what? Where?" asked the

poor

man,

All around was devasta- tion and panic-the town, a frontline one for six months, had been virtually bombed out

existence. The AND villagers were pouring into

kit it seeking protection.

My job that day was to a report what happens in

Into a jeep

1

where indeed } handed him my first-aid some cotton wool and wee bottle of dis infectant.

--

It was, of course,

In the

a

boy.

was

For a few days the rest nat moaning: "It' bo. 20 to Everyone had said it would be, back

before we get straight The war bad roughened their years

shouldered Then they bonguca, but not hardened their again.” hearts, for they fed and slici- spaces and joined in the clear- the woman,

tered the entire family that ing. Soon all Erkelenz children, and night,

engaged in the task, qach man giving food hours of his spare grandma Into a jeep and

Jewish time, unpaid. morning the drove to the first aid post. doctor said to me: "You know

Farmers like Katharina Men- The young doctor in what? I feel real good today." nan

into brought their carts charge was a Jew, a refugee, Then he pulled out with his town and drove away the rub- He was expecting many GI

unit and I with mine, That was ble, otso unpaid. In two years He must have the last I saw of Erkelenz until the streets were clear. casualties. had a heart of gold, for when today.

yeurs later I begged him to let me use I drove to the police station. building-programme was racing The police still know every- ahead Half of the wrecked a corner of his post as a

thing in Germany,

buildings had been replaced. maternity wing, he made

the child bom at 7 It was a combined operation p.m.?" they asked. room in the cellar.

"Then he between would-be householders

Was

Three

And work

the re-

This man's family had died is Johnann, born to Katharina and professional builders.

Rath." in Auschwitz. He couldn't wear Mennan, of 147, his heart on his sleeve, so he I had hoped to talk to Johann said to me, gruffly: "You know and discover what he was mak- what?

bo anothering of the life we helped to who'll want to kill my sons 20 give him. But I found only his Little Johann Was family, town immediately after a He held them up to me

ycare

now." from

probably 1 war casually be battle. 1 stood on the rubble

- one in each hand. I can But he was kindness itself to

fore he was born. doing just that.

still see him standing there, the woman. Then out of the mass of a sickly smile on his face. Poldier's stretcher, and, between

glving blood terrified people stumbled to "But, Fraulein...." was all wounded Gis, he delivered her wards me the most frighten- he said.

baby

He put ce on a

transfusione to

KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

BUILT THIS CHAPEL ROYAL

By J. W. TAYLOR

the

most

M Royal, The first or mitirang

Delicate boy

been

MODEST house costs about Part of that sun £2,500. was provided by State loans re- payable at 1% percent over 30 years, a smaller part by war damage compensation, and somo by another loan at 7 percent, But each man had to furnish la

HIS parents ran a small farm, cash, or hard work, about one- His father had been quarter of the sum involved, "missing" in Poland for four months. His mother had

This meant that every man in sick with worry before his Erkelenz needing a new house birth. Always delicate, he died had to dig out his own cellar of pneumonia following measles when 11 months old.

space, lay his foundations, and undertake to do other odd jobs They took a picture of him before the builders moved in to lying in his coffin so that his lay bricks. father would know what he had looked like. It stands en

mne,

Some men spent the whiter building their own the dresser today. But his father months never came back.

doors and windows. Others did Frou Monnan remembered plastering, painting, wiring- [OST celebrated of all associated with the Sovereign's became

and we soon settled down whatever they could to speed the to gossip.

Times had been hard; work and polain the loans, It goes back as far as 1135 in pointments. at St James's Palace, has the reign of Stephen. Wherever

they still ware, but farm prices The builders used cranes and wero Although the fine Carolean been reopened for Divine the King went, there was hia

good and the family ate the most modern labour-saving even on small sites. service, to which the public. Chapel Royal. They attended gold plate and Holbein ceiling well. Her chief worry was her equipment even

now 18 .and 17. They often large concrete blocks re- are admitted, after being Henry V at Agincourt and at are two of the glories of the St sons,

the discipline its greatest lacked

of a placed bricks. Soon they wÜTÜ closed for four and a half the Feld of the Cloth of Gold James's Chapel,

glory is its tradition for fine father. They no longer obeyed building in six weeks a house"

that would have taken three music. years for cleaning, rebuild with Henry VIII.

Its choir is probably her.

"I have to employ hired help, moutha before the war. ing of the organ, restoration The Chapel Royal singer the most ancient in tradition and

and that cuts most of the farm been associated history in Britain. of the famous painted cell- have chiefly

profits. Sometimes I think that was a good thing little ing by Holbein, and for re- with St James's Palace for over short 400 years, except for a

died. It has been bad decoration by the Ministry of period when the Blueris moved Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal Johann

raise two Works.

the Chapel to Whitehall,

she said, Frau Menoan told me a little of the miracle of the rebuild ing of Erkelenz, but it was at the new town hall that I heard the full story,

enough

the children to

At the moment there are six it

"Children and ten

of Chapelle." The boys still wear Henry VIII built this beauti- Chapels Royal are looked the ancient costume and enjoy

and the cradle of English monetary

educational ful Bittle chapel, less than 60 upon as feet long and 25 feet broad, as a Cathedral music. One historian privileges, privato sanctuary to his newly- tells us: "Almost everything erected manor house at St worth remembering in James's, which arose on the site history of English zmusic can bo of a leper hospital dedicated to traced to the influence of the that caint-hence its mame....

MORE CEREMONIALS · ·

the

RIGHT TO CHALLENGE

Royal.... which hng They have the right to chal

Bove.

Laid flat

Bonus schemos

MEN

EN started work at 6.30.2.m. and often worked 68 hours. a week. Overtime was paid only when it was compulsory. Bonus schemes provided all the

ell- couragement needed.

To hasten

things the Stato

All the factories' are

the shops filles, the

people

bullt some houses, but haa now sold them to the tenants. Thero are no council houses in Erko đ as Armly established lenge any soldier who, attempts |

town virtually lenz, no subsidised houser, no us the Throno limit, offering to enter the sacred, building, TERE was a

All the bombed buildings patronage, education and ex-wearing his spurs, and can im- did not in 1945. Here, in houses let at uneconomic rents.

It is recorded that 1985, was a thriving town which periance to musicians; dispens pose a fine. In more recent Umes it has Ing them in due course to the Wellington was challenged on showed little sign it had ever have now been replaced or re-

by boen touched by war, become a place most closely

cathedrals and great, churches one occasion, but rotoried

Here, in minintura, lay, the bud

od associated with the more inti- where they bare established asking the boy to repeat his made and solemn occasions in the Chapel Royal's floo tradition and the Duke, according to old in fen short yek, had rebullit

charge. The ind failed to do so,

story

of how West Gremany, warm and well fed.

In

many. of the new houseS the life of the Royal Family for music.”

now familles are being raised It has probably seen more great

time usage, was exempt from a

the by the Germans Hitler took as they lotted up ceremonials than... even

The tradition of the Chapel

damage George's, Windsor. One of the came to the cathedreis when the

in Excelent it was: children and, through, his youth ceremonies now bost known to

There is a potable list of Town hall,, hospital, station, movements, turned into fanati- church, throo schools, cal Nazis. What are these young takes

place there problem srose of the broken

Chapel. It includes such out-three factories, and one house parents teaching their childdon? Epiphany, when go voices of the Royal chorister musicians associated with the parisis

Children of boys--the

destroyed. What do they believe today? "gifís of goki, ftanidin- vereign's

Queen

Elizabeth, Mending names as William Byrd,Į in threo Guidings, barel

Tallis,

For the answer I want to 's John Bull, ALL Mix Thermals ocrise and myrth-the traditioned Chapelie."

mordy

girl I had interviewed ten years damaged, prosents of the Magiare taken solved it by awarding each boy Thomas Morley Orlando Gilb were

ao, a Hitlermadi known to the there.

gratuity of £30 when this boos, Henry Lawes, Pelham ly happened, and it

became Humphreys

John Bow, Henry The arder went out from the Allies as Maria of Monschaul. Actually, the "Chapel Royal customary for the sum to be Purcell, willem Boy Thomas mayor: All Nexia rust clear And' out is xibt #place at all, but spent on apprenticeship to the Allwood, Samuel Bebasan Waway: sport rubble," the name of a group of vingas, Chapels organist and composer, Ley, John Gous and Arthur Sul- in the ztrost, with their spader

consente no... that the boys naturally, Hvan

15 and buckets, went all the Maxis. Maria: The Hitler To

the public

every

tho"

other

OMORROWĄ

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