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"Tho Sirdar" (Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army).
WINGATE OF THE SUDAN, boy
By Ronald Wingato Mur-
21. 274 pagos. HIS is a good mo
tho ment, with modern Sudan fae- ing new dangers, to recall the personality, and achievements of one of the handful of soldiers who made it Sir Reginald Wingate, once known to every school-
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The night after the battle of Omdurman was won, Kitchener had a "vision" of a new Africa, nad д
In peaceful, thriving, united, the Sudan the first phase vision was realised during
Its chief Cromer, Kil- decades that followed. architects were
and a tough, chener, Wingate
Austrian, chivalrous
Rudolt Slatin.
Famous speech
Roosevelt When Theodore nade famous speech in the London Gulkhali in May 1910 the vision was already emerging from the clouds.
at village stopped at
After I was Suday) the the fret that, while of children,
twelve. under
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were kurwn as 'Govern mint childern," breuse in It was days of Malxdileum Jeral truth that. In a very large proportion of the cumununities, every child was either killed or died of starvation zalask hard-
[ship. "
That was Kitchener's "vision" in terms of human lives.
Wingate's share in the great Lask was that of soldier, intelli- came gence officer, alur. trom family of small Scottish genury (Chundit Wingate was
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Arst cousin unce removed), who had gone into trade His father did young, leaving his mother with ten children to bring up Somehow Wingate was sent to Woolwich, never all through his
he have carre d
penny plice to hie naine.
A knack What he did pissess was a gift for fanguages (three months to tearn THW B., a knack for on with (and getting getting iruth out of) men of other races
He would not have understood the meaning attached today by Russians, Americans and some Englishmen to the words "Imperiasm and Colonialism." His duly was to make Egypt und and their people. the Sudan,
inde- und free, self-sufcient Dendent pend
#
evez
It was a task for men with a touch of idealism, ase of
mission, a capacity to use power wisely.
Wingute fell at last (in 1919) because he wished Lord Curzon 10 adopt a more liberal attitude to Zuglul, the Egyptian nation 21
Curzon took the list leader.
events opposite course,
revognise has forced him to blunder. But then --
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"Wingate could not return (ie Egypt). He had advised righity and his advice had been refect- ed. Disaster had followed and
his advice w what had been
Curzon-It row adopted." #hobbly familiar story in poli-
Roman
to Senate, preferred write poetry and keep bad com- pany.
thrico- Sensuous, gifted, married, he became an ornament of the fast palace set dominated amusing dissipated, by Julia,
daughter of the three-married pelo emperor.
Deadliest
Julia At lust
alice
BEWARE
of
would
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
agreed to meet (annually. In a Twickenham public house to talle over old times.
of cranes. The Command has an women with nounced that it will not expand OF THEM!
untidy hair," was an ale force bombing and gun the "warning", given by Mr renty range on Malogordo Frank Greix, the Master of the Island, off the south-east coast The Battalion was started by
Hair of Texas. Incorporated Guild of
a group of men who travelled dressers, Wigmakers and
Per
from Twickenham to the annual fumers, at
by train con-, Plans had been made to ex- of membera al pand the range to train more the City before the First World ference Stratford-on-Avon.
Mr Grein sold it was so true combat crews in handling planes War. When war broke out they nuclear formed a voluntoer unit, bought carry could tell
people's which
their own uniforms and used that one characters by their hair, that weapons in war. when an author of a
play
dummy elfles. Later came off- But the whooping crunes, swe wanted to deplet a woman
elal recognition and a proper the Malagorda Island area as fi enemy Joose chameler, a drunkard or
winter resori.
tille for the. Battalion. They breed on shocked hern oplum smoker, he usually
the Great Slave Lake, in the extremels imperial tather beyond endur- showed her with
North Canadian
Now Some members joined the re- wilds by taking es her lover untidy hair. Julius Anthony, soTS of Mark He said: "Hair is also an in- there is a danger that they may ular foneca but .400 remained
become extinct. There are only with the ("Friends, Romans, dication of health, although, Anthony countrymen").
until his death
the contrary, great masses of 20 left and authorities in the the deadliest encamy of Augustus. may be a sign of constitutional United States and Canada have
banished from Rome weakness. As to character, one blondes are imperial edict and, from often notices that
The US air force, in making blondes in more SC1150s boredom or annoyance, starved often
Its decision known, mode Redheads than
are herself to death.
one,
direct reference to the érants, simultaneously Ovidd,
physically active and they say
that there hall but admitted pleased the emperor by publish that sometimes they are quick-
And that the been a confllet between "military "The Art of Love," (cumpered.
und most
and efficient requirementa diest hair interests." full of witty, stil topleal advice hardest on the diet, eumetics, tactics of workers have the
and the tidest clothics.
When the love affair:
for appileonts sent from biterviewing "Let white onions,
other Megara, be eaten; eggs too and jul 1. tike many
players. trice notice of Hymettian honey."
"While is a shameful colour colour of the hale
let every lover be neatness of style," a suckien sieme, pleas also prove your
"Let feelings."
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for a ma 10 sack being inconveniently right This, at any rate, the pleturv is presented by Wingates this amateurish bul
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In
useinating blography.
Julia was
by
a poem,
A dramatic moment in the " story occurred when Curton and Boner Law to Wingate met
Cur- ur- discuss Egyption matters. 7 said that, were his views not adopted, he would have to **consider
his
poslou a record Witsgals left! sequel:
of the
there was
er cathedra. and Bonar Law cald, Lord Curzon, you are
ember of the Cabinet and
when
11
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On
you talk of considering graceful entrance when the Lamp FAT
your position you are talking of
u Cabinet mattes, at must ask you to say no more. zon ld not speak again."
His pension
Dismissed after
10 three
service
been protecting the birds.
Battalion, training the evenings and at during wook-enda, and doing their civilian jobs by day. When war ended the Battalion was dis.. banded but tho Old Comrades? Association, now down to the Just sover, has been meeting privme annually over since,
no
The private interests" เค- cluded the Canadian Govern-
societies, and ment, bird United States Government Fish and Wildilte Service.
the REUNITED When John
the
the
have
wild life
un
The extended bombing range
the island would a successful brought exploding boints within
悲 half mile Channel swimmer
iale. "Arrive
and
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faults."
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later,
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written
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one must, primari- sanctuary, hren get delay will enhance
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plain, ty, be almormally far.
conclusion reached after a the upsy you will seem fair and the Cu
will night herself
inves.Ign= hide your three-year medical
on into the ability of Channel Augustis swimmers
endure pretext? water.
Lo
cold
of a
The world's first indoor bullring
Spain. Until rings
have
Is being planned in now Spain's buil-
been open to
the
IN KOREA Francis of East Farleigh near Kent, Maidstone,
and Jack Gulley of Sydney Australia, Uni- said goodbye at Oxford versity 11 years ago they never expected to meet again. Now, both
have jus captains, they been
reunited at
station in Korea,
They first met at
1944 went on
Army
Skinners
B
School, Tunbridge Wells, and WORLD'S
in
together to a career of exiled the poet.
Oxford where they shared Tests wire made during each FIRST an immoral | peoplen, Ovidi had
Ovid had of
called: the International cruss- Wingalo was as pour as when paem.
room. Then they were
John became a regular up. His pension was imprudently got mixed up in the Channel swimming races since he began it.
and there were also ex-
soldier and went to India, re- 1051 To be £600
a year until King social misdeeds of another Julin, 1248 oll flame,
volunteers
Britain in in
turning home to periments with George V intervened to get it daughter
Lake Windermere, The Prinsky on the Roman arena style,
1948. Jack served in Europe Curzon, per- Julia Twice was too often.
New, however, the designer of
Palestine and went back cipal conclusion drown is that
and the raised to £1,300
new
(Bilbao bullring Moving verse
twice archilest Don at the competitors had
Frederica de
to Australia in 1947. ngs of the thickness sub-cutaneous e
Ugalde) maintains that his '70- idea will enabja ring
for to be used footbali matches, athletic dis- plays, and other public events bs well as for bullfighting.
remors.
by stricken exerted himself to get Winga.c
Suez Canal directorship.
Bul Lloyd George had ear- marked that plum for one of tus private secretaclest
These were the rewards of au
But there was als honourable and resplendent life
of service. the Sudan.
Ovid (familarly known "Nosey") WILS całomal town at
The
mers grease.
found
volutionary
wäs
Ihc
serat to a small fat found in the average well-
the mouth of bullt individual, and this
for their great Etsy Darul where the natives responsible
lo cold. birresistance bewaited tivusers: were
thet investigators note moving verse, pitiable kit inh
here appears to be loss of con- Later he became reconciled to
swim- Adence among Channel bis barbarous surroundings:
In the effectiveness ci the learned the language of
K
washes off mostly the during Died, at 00 in THE METAMORPHOSES OF sered savages and mood for
the town council. OVID. Penguin, 3s. 6d. the year 17 A.D.
The "Metamorphoses" are the warm without it. 394 pages.
of this most reputable
work nimble-witted, FTER two scandals in the
sophisticated within 10 Roman, mingling the sparkle of royal family years, the Emperor Augustus the society entertainer with the
seven members, all over 70. the true poet. SURRENDER America's Strategie AFT had had enough. Pleasure-loving natringency of
Command, The funds poet Ovid had to quit Rome for "They contain his most famous TO CRANES
arc exhausted of the line: "I see which is the better girl. Ovid, a member
controls thousands of they have been used to help Italina gentry. had been brought course, and I approve it; but which
great warplanes, has surrendered members in need--and the last lawyer-politician still I follow the wOTEC,' up to be a
little flock of whooping of the "old and bold" have to a Ovld wrote it; lived it. with the prospect of a seat in the
A
Simple Hobbies
swim, and
Just they can keep
they
"THEY ONLY FADE AWAY.... Comrades' Association of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, now has only
Once 100 "strong
the
Old
"THERE'S NOTHIN'
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
"THATS WHAT YOU THINK!"
After four years with the Com- Australian Broadcasting mission he was recalled for 12
months to
Korcu, serva There the ore-time room- inates mo again--both: cap- tains,
PRISON Across the Irish Sea
they have been DEAL
ury- ing out a Now Deta Ulster's prisuns, which should appeal to any good for bad) Irishman, North or South, And the treatment la proving success. It is making prisoners more law-abiding and content,
Briefly, the idea is to make prisone brighter; reward good behaviour; remove feelings of despair.
Last Christmas privileged men were allowed to go home 10 their families. All reported zack on schedule.
They were also allowed to smoke. As a result they seem- ed happier.
This year Christmas leave
will again be given.
But not
ly that. The authorities aro considering granting prisoners a week's holiday in the summer,
OLD VOX POPULI WIELDS HIS PEN AND
TELLS THE POWERS THAT BE
HOW TO RUN THINGS.
DON'T YOU
HAVE ANY
OTHER HOBBIES ?
DO YOUR FLOORS SHAKE ? DO YOUR DISHES RATTLE? ARE YOUR NERVES SHOT TO PIECES ? TO PUT IT SIMPLY," · DO YOU HAVE A BUDDING BALLERINA IN THE HOME ?
L'COMĀ, 19SE SY BEHERAL FEATURES
CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
MORE AND MORE BUSINESS MEN ARE AMUSING THEMSELVES WITH PAINTING."-
NO SMOKING
DISRESPECT FOR THE LAW
IS HIS HOBBY.
EI TO CROSS A London cabby whose THE ROAD best fare was
a man who wanted to cross the road and paid him £1 to get Across-has rotired after 60 years in London.
of
One of London's oldest cab bies, Mr Skiney Newman, 81, Slough, Buckinghamshire, remembers emong his most famous passengers the Prince of Wales, now Duke of Windsor, and the late King George VI. When they were boys ho fre- quently drove them. from. Lon- don's Bath Club, where they used to go swimming, to Buckingham Palace. Another of hig Royal passengers, was Princess Beatrice, sister to King Edward VII.
The man who wanted to erom the road pushed a £1 note into Mr. Newman's hand outside, the Ritz Hotel and asked to be driven to the Mayfair, Just across the street. When he alighted he handed over another 10s. note, probumably as a tip.
Mr Newman, who served in both "world wäre, changed over to a motor taxi in, 1908 and was one of the first drivers to hold a licence.
LITTLE MORE
MAGICIAN.
"WHAT DO
THE
LEAVES
SAY
"DE DONE.
I SEE A
TALLY
DARK:
"THANK YOU SO
MUCH? SHOES · ARE A HOBBY
OF MINE?
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