POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
**— and when you've quite finished singing songs of Aroby it might interest you to learn that this is the
Israeli Legation 1"
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956,
OUT OF SANDHURST Book Of The Month
COMES A KIPLING
W
BOW
to
to "Bhowani Junction
that.
achieved But before le manhood Jackio went through a lot.
HAT wonderful passed fifth into Sandhurst,
tales come out of 1930, when he became adjutant. When his father dropped him the East. Do you off at the Sandhurst gates he remember "Kim," "Soldiers was slightly ashamed of his
He Joined His father
the Prince of Three," "The Painted Vell," father's appearance.
Gurkha Rifca. was un ex-colonel of the Indian Wales's Own "On EL Chinese Screen,"
Anny, with a D.5.0., "broke, He learned the Gurkha code "I "Bengal Lancer"... Kipling with nothing to show for his will keep falth." He saw a man #crub with his kukri Somerset Maugham service but a few fading photo- outling
sharp. broad - bladed graphe," working as an agricul- (very
knife) alice his thumb half off, foral labourer.
When his son alled
the bile of the remains, and put it forms for his Sundhur entry in his pocket his other stated baldly that he In the evening, having finish- went to When he od his work, the man a "wincherd”
the doctor and said, with D
back for me, Birth
Gurkhus are tough. He
Mostern also tells the story of n cali for volunteers to jump from balloons at 1,000ft.
F. Yeats-Brown? Now we have BUGLES AND A TIGER (Michact Joarph.
165.). by John Masters, the
"Bhowanil Junction” man.
And
WIK
up
BUGLES AND A TIGER, by JOHN MASTERB (Michael Joseph, 161.)
by...NANCY SPAIN
I am sure that his book im dropped his son off at the gates happy laugh: "Can you put this plains, of icy nights in the hills
the best of the lot
For one thing 1 is all truc Here are the ringing facts of "Jackie Mustery life of
Wellington College, 18 yours old In 1033. when he
the From
A British Crossword Puzzle
120
1 Test
10
ACROSS (A)
4 Vawned (5).
Scatter (81
1 Horeden (3)
22 Put anode (43).
14
* Jot seguaning to etist (7)
13 Jody up t
18 Carosal (5).
15 Peels 181
10 Wobbly (8).
20 Hurry (5)
21 Put of a
garment (U).
12
21
DOWN
1 Fashions (5).
2 Oust (5)
3 Torture (7).
4 Welcomes (0)
& Royal lody (8).
Refrain from (6).
10 Animates 18).
12 Helps (7).
13 Make wealthy (0),
14 Greet ceremoniously (9).
16 Relative (5)
17 Manner (5)
YESTERDAY'N CROSSWORD.-Acros 1 Mener, 4 Ruscala, 8. Aped. Farr, 10 Volumes 11 Punar, 12 Tell. 44 Framed. 17 Oster, 19 Wame. 22 Supt. 20 Spr, 27 Reds, 28 Challeri, 20 indo, 30 Sim 31 Priests, 32 Red Down 2 Exiles, 3 Sample. 4 Revue, 3 Adorne, & Crude, 7 Lieke. 20 Aame. 21 Tender 121 Lirap in Hamp, 18 Deed, in Areat
200 Pater 21 Pere, 23 Sells
ho WAS wearing a pearl-grey homburg and an overcoat made out of a travelling rug. looked, says his gon, like Central European refugee. By 1950 he had begun to appre- cinte the quality of sacrifice that gave his son his great eureer.
halm
Gurkha code
He is
To everyone's surprise only 70 glum Gurkhas stepped forward. So it was explained that pora- chutes were very efficlent
taly very occasionally never operert. Seventy Gurkhas looked "happier, were joined by a few
hundred more.
And
of the North-West Frontier 4,000ft. above sea level.
Of fighting, of comradeship, of resentment against occasional Buthority, but never of despair.
Nightcap
is well written,
It to
AND NOW-THE GHOST GAME
Two Old Friends Return to Page 14
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
UP & DOWN]
PARTNERS
BUDGESTION BOX
PARADE
piuse
ما
I BELIEVE in hosts. I have exercise lege Sense of for meaning to practitioners reads as follows: "Manufactur-
A like Lady Cynthia Asquith, who
It is a OWNERSHIP No one in the TS is a happy book.
free world would man's growth towards maturity,
wonderful story of a younE A CRIME
think FOR Jackle did well at Band-
through all the hazards that the twice about purchasing a type hurst. He won the Norman
It writer if he required and could Medal (top endet in the Indian "Oh," said their N.C.O., "we Indian Army can give And
afford one. And certainly he Army), and he won first prizes jump with these parachutes do
would nut lear legal Conse- so well written that 1 That's different." tor military history, economics, we?
have kept this copy by my best quences. German, and mup reading.
then there are the for A weck,
In Rumania the ownership of reading a little Today little Jackle is Colonel wonderful descriptions: of every
have night
very that could a. typewriter can #O Musiers f the Indian Army
ainister implications. A decree Himalayan scenery, of the lotus enjoy it before falling asleep. retired, like his father before life on leave In Kashmir, of the A most satisfying
nightcap, of the Praesidium of the Grand not broke. red-hol, dusty <inys the "Bugica and a Tiger."
National Assembly of May 21, 1034 forbids citizens to own, use, repair or even to give away typewriters without special permit.
Article 208 of the Penal Code
trans- holding. Ing. repairing, Jefty Rugby player. Father has gathered 27 beauties into mitting or acquiring in any way arrived with "a her "THIRD GHOST BOOK without licence typewriters is by Imprisonment (James Barrie, 154.). I think punishable
from three months to three I like Marghanila Laski's best of this bunch.
years, or by fines ranging from 100 to 2,000 lei."
Similar laws exist in other Marghanita Lask! has a lady
The countries. tourist climbing
haunted entelllte A
Ministry of tower in Raly. As she got up, Czechoslovakian suffering terribly from vertigo. Suite Security has ordered local As she authorities to compile registers she counts 470 aleps.
of persons owning typewriters, comes down, absolutely terrifed,
and a case is reported of a Czech 503, and counts 501, she
502,
citizen having been sentenced to dear me, there is no end....
ve years' imprisonment and Lord Dunsany tells his story
He goes for ned 150,000 crowns for falling in the first person.
to report his possession of K a walk in a valley and meets a tall, lowering, grey thing who the ella him: "My father was
After mist over the stream." u little chalter, the ghost says:
poing
among
mel and spoken to at least Evil, which had alarmed two.
Some people
very Marlndale are intojerant nboul this. They breytury, patience cards, not only don't see them, but rosary, 11 thriller, won't belleve in them.
Pity. For this is the lime for ghosts, And there are three ghost books out this week
First, the true ghost stories. Seventy-year-old
اله
and was positively steaming with Holy Water. He blessed
The rooms, "calling such spirits ns might be about by the most insulting nuures, and then Sir Shane apologising in case they might (pronounce Colleen
it Shawn, please, to be quite nice ones and the Evil rhyme with
Bawn in the people they met." Leslie has spent years patiently BOOK compiling his GHOST
Hollis
Carter, 12s. 66.). Haunting spirits are apparent.
A whizzer
O'DONNELL, MLLIOTT
like Sir Shane, has spent
Is of three kinds: 1 Diabolical. a lot of his le pursuing people
about 50 of them into a book, HAUNTED PEOPLE (Rider 158.).
2 Souls in Damnation. 3. who are ghosts, and now he puts
Souls in Purgatory. Ghosts
vin
jucose,
mike,
"Manifestations,"
truculent,
ог
saya
Sir
Shane, may be genuine, but
not the manifester,
Napolton saw a tall red man and the ghost of the Empress Josephine, saya Mr O'D.
Charles I was warned by dead Lord Strafford about the Battle of Naseby
And Sir Shane also explains the
of the Roman attitude Catholic Church towards ghosts. The Church, says he, forbids the
And the second Lord Lyttel- dead to be evoked, but there ton posilvely whizzed about the
after is nothing to forbid the dead countryside
his death telling his friends he'd been making the gesture themselves,”
Str Shune telis a marvellously den for some time. funny
about utory
Father Bui
must you Martindale
went to the manufactured ghost
who
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
HOLD THAT LINE.
INTERCEPTED
PASS.
KICKOFF.
FORWARD PASS.
go
to
stories
am
away
tegis
10
Some
start
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by Walter
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
This is a radical change from the "love Russla" mood of a few
werks ago.
neu Bulganin
then touring Krushchev were India, attacking Britain anil winning hysterlent neclaim.
Britain, together with Now any party that uses democratic
and Zealand
Australia, is methods But recently certain anxious to confirm and consolid- Communist leaders have shown ute previous claims and to set their hand." up permanent bases in areas al- This may ready under' dispute. mean clashes with USA as well as the Argentine and Chile.
Meanwhile the USA alms at
bid D spectacular for making NATO supremacy in these cold The immediate aim is regions to build a landing ground at the South Pole for light aircraft and transport planes and to set up radar stations in the vicinity.
This will make things bum in the Kremlin.
Now the bulk of the Com- munisty who welcomed the Soviet leaders to Bombay are in nol. And ikely to stay there. Other urreals are expected.
•
DIET
*
ever
Diel tads
and come Inds 400 but ka FACTS diel
America CRACK DOWN Nehru
ordered a swamped with them. Thore are ON REDS
crack down probably as many theories about on the Indian Communist Party, human nutrition as there are Directives have been sent out Americans.
to all provincial Governments to 150 "every
the mears, even military" to destroy subversive elements.
The Communist organisation shocked Delhi by their ininu'e and emetent organisation of the recent nation-wide riuts,
Investigations have also been
of the source
the
On the other hand, it is prob
that more serious ably true research into the problems of nutrition lo be carried on in the United States than in any other country in the world,
The trouble is that, at the moment, the best advice is probably "eat what you feel like ordered
of the and when you feel like it." plentiful Indian Communist Anyhow, some of the facts funds
unearthed by
Nutrition duplicating machine.
The political boss of Bombay, Foundation and revealed recent
K. Patil, said: "I haven't ly are these. ANTARCTIC Expect
diplomatie pro any proof personally that Russia FURORE
The biggest problem arising has been financing the Indian unicorns, griffons, and wyverns." flying around in the near future Communist Party. But it may out of nutrition is weight and what controls it. But research "But are there such things?" connection with the various already be in the hands of our has established that anyobdy.
Lord Dunsany. "There expeditions
10
secret service." asks
the Antarctic.
Patil
Nehru's used to be," says the ghost,
declared her
"trouble can lose weight or gain weight Russia, who has By now, Lord Dunsany k
own keen interest in this area, shooter," He organised and wou if he really wants to.
take in moru bit sick of being lectured by a down to be sympathising the Andhra State elections for Unless you
with Latin American claims to the ruling Congress Party in the calories than you burn up you ghost.
face Antarctic
of Дегос territory, and may
Communist won't get fat.
presa
this viewpoint in the opposition.
The number of calories you United Nations In
Sald Patil: "The time has come a renewed
depends ол effort to win the backing of this for a showdown with the Com- take in probably
And appotile, your appetite, munists. No one can object tu vital blog of countries.
says Foundation Director Glen King, is probably controlled by a dynamic equilibrium of many nutrients supplied into the com- mon pathway of nutrition for the central nervous system."
I
"Are there such things as phosta?" he asks, teasingly.
A wind blows then, and the ghost is suddenly gone.
"There used to be,” it says,
Rah-Rah!
TOUCHDOWN!
COU. ELWORLD DIS
COPR, WE CALLS RESENTED.
FRATUPLES
LATERAL PASS.
說好
10-9
SECOND
DOWN
AND THREE
TO GO.
BLOCKED
KICK.
BY HARRY
WEINERT
OFF-SIDE
HUDDLE.
So, if you fell hungry, you al- most certainly need to eat and unless you feel hungry, the odds are that your central nervous system is getting a fair balance of food. If your central nervous system is being fed properly, probably the rest of you is, too. There are complications, of course especially emotional complications which can affect everything from your appetite to the way your body uses the food it finally gets.
But, if you're a calm, fairly sane sort of citizen, it won't hurt to take your appetite as your rulde.
FOOD
QUACKS witch doctors
The
Nature cure "quacks"
described IS are
und Bracketcers" by Dr W. Edwards in the February issue of Family Doctor." He says that savages who gave up enting, row roots and owned stow pans lost nothing but their indigestion.
"It is quite right to eat salads occasionally," he writes. "It is very pleasant to eat fruit, but a diet of nothing but fruit and rulad would kelli us all off is no time, unless reinforced by steak and kidney pudding, fish and chips, sausage and mash, bacon and wrgy, Irish stew and Lan- cashire hotpot,
"Some of these nature cure people have no conception of diefecties at all. They igne the very fundamentals of the sub- Ject. The only thing you can do on their diet is to fast, which may for a limited time be # good thing for gross eaters, but Is better called starvation for
everyone else."
Sick
states, rational
be
people, Dr. Edwards And it diffoult to
about their own diseases. They are pathetically easy proy They need, to be protected against thesO witch doctors, these nature" "cura swindfors,"
BEARD Nows has just reached RACE London of a “Great
Board Growing Com petition In the Amtarctic. Thirty-four members of the first big photographic Dorial survey of British Grahamland are competing because they bo love it helps to boost morale and also overcome the tedious business of; shaving".
mornings.
The party called from London in, October aboard the world' smallest aircraft were Vertex Danish qurgo ship of 500|
co-