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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956.
HOW THE WHALE HUNTERS
BEAT THE
THE ALCOHOL BAN
OF WHALES AND MEN.. By
R. B. Robertson, Macmil-
tar 21s. 247 pages.
HY, I asked, do
W1 16,000 men, Nor-
wegians, British, Japanese and others, go
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
Because, replies with warmth, human curiosity, psychiatrist Robertson, and a psychiatrist's detachment
is an admirable, if after his eight months' tour His book
uneven, amateur job.
of duty with a whale fac-.
About that time, a Norwegian named Sven Foyn invented the harpoon gun. Modem whaling -the hunt for the big bluc
whalo was born.
Some scientists think there are less wasteful ways of doing the job. But, one way or another, the hunt in the grey Antarctic will probably con-
to attract the "psychopath" and the writer.
every year on whaling ex- tory ship in the Antarctic, period of deepening gloom: it is inue to have enough mystery
peditions?
A British Crossword Puzzle
12
14
115
116
18
20
22
2.3
124
26
ACROSS
a Forlications (B).
Come inła view (01
#Muddle (8).
11 Deliberate us (8).
12 Insect (4).
13 Slow mover (51.
14
Femurr (5).
19 Enstieg (4).
22 Unpaid players (8).
24 Assembly (8).
25 Request for repelitlum (6).
26 Theatrical attendants (8).
25
DOWN
1 Dry up (5).
2 old view (5).
3 Beaming (7).
4 Barren (4).
impov
rished (4)
4 Conundrum (8).
Extend (61.
10 Pigment (5).
14 Srent (5).
15 Harkers (7).
10 Calm (0).
17 Ecstatic state (0).
20 Teacher (5).
21 Flower (5),
17
22 Exclamation of woe (4).
23 Assert (4).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-Across: 3 Ascribed, 7 Lafer, 8 Earni ings, 10 Tulemi, 13 Elevate, 13 Once, 17 Emerald, in Recluse, 20 Onus, 21 T'sutter 20 Greuse 27 Unabated 20 Erode. 29 Trenches Down: Ele. 3 Arena, 4 Ren. Banana 4 Duched, Attest JL Allen. 12 Evils. 14 Emerge, 11 Orule, 10 Clues, 18 (obuvi. 19 Curate, 22 Order. 21 Tatan 24 Nefer
2 Stule
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The long voyage south was o
always so, nobody knows why. But with the sighting of South
they are "psychopatha," that is to say, "too healthy to be acceptable to the Georgia everybody cheered up: civilisation into which they it is always so, nobody knows
why. are born."
TRIUMPH, REGRET
MAY 29, 1953. The whaling companies try to
possession.
prevent alcohol reaching this Far-South British In consequence, the whalemen. New me expert brewers and dis- tillers, The favourite local beverages are made
Among the psychopaths with whom Robertson sailed were Mansell who had once bcen
consul in Orleans (no one knew what flag had flown outside his consulate).
#1
From raising laced with compass fluid:
Age
of
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
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by Walter
242
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
the
The day the repl of mountaineering ended in triumph-and regret. The day Everest was climbed, R. Ulimon says in
BOTTLE I Scotland losing The resily sturdy ones worked It is now process of succeed- For, as J.
out their frustration at not being ing Mountaineering WAR
Edwardian the cold war in the
rig. as The
bottle? Scottish MP able to work out the sums by uniform of teen-age hooligans. (Collins, 308.); "Everest cilmbeð
Britain's
desks, and un smashing school
Traditionally the duffle-coat is will never be the rane ns Emrys Hughes,
wants to marched On Jocal Everest inviolate and no other official court fester,
education khakl-coloured or dark blue. offoca
Fashion
leaders andong mountain will quite capture it know.
being At He thinks the inroada
Burdwan, 60 miles from adolescent brawlers, however, place in the imagination of men." Reports that somewhere modo by vodka In Canada and Calcutta, police were called out have ruled that it should be first to protect teachers supervising black. And black it is, with From hair cream (invigorat in for western China is a moun- the United States are the
path exams. and unpalatable,
stops along the slippery saya tain higher than Everest must
that londs to loss Scotch und Robertson):
apparently be dismissed.
(hence) lower morale. From heating a popular boos
it will polish and straining it through connoisseurs a loaf of bread; prefer to let this brow ferment for three days, after which it should be kept in the cellar for four months. Four months is a long time between drinks
A Norwegian who had once sailed on a crazy ex- Ing pedition to populate Bouvet island with white foxes,
A lowland Scots wire less operator, whose gran father had been on the first whaleship through Davis Strait and-"it was time his grandfather's wetted."
was in the Southern Ocean,
also a silent There was individual known 1.4 the Lone Flenser (expert who strips blubber from the
whale) who spoke to no one
was never seen to leave his cabin save to do his job, but proved to be a bridge player of high calibre.
SCORNED
The seamen were Shetlanders known as "North Sea Chine- me." because they take an work scored by other British sailors). The engineers
All the whating side Scols.
FOR A CENTURY
The nect with which Robert- sun salled totalled 14 ships, cost £3,000,000 of capital, and was organised to hunt and kill a
which (on average) mammal
Ullman tells the mountaineer-
ing sagn which began one day prophesy.
In 1700 when a Genevan named de Saussure looked up at Mont Blanc nad feit the first symptoms of "a kind of illness. could not even look upon the mountain without being seized with an aching of desire."
A kind of illness became, through two centuries, a kind of herolsm. Ullmon passes on the infection, although not to me.
OVERTONES
|
He
So far, no answers.
Where
are
can
also do
will supply sought blubber to FROM Victor Gollancz a book CAVE Fifteen Spanish
make votive candles for SL Peter's for A century
and enough meat to
give every Intrabitant of Liverpool a hom burger. Its value will be about
£2,000.
with social overtones.
thetr
•
Success
1
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capacious pockets which can so- commodate a flek-knife or sharpened bic
blcycle
on
a embarrassing bulge. Without
•
感
There is in
the daro DENNIS THE Dennis end he doesn't
MENACE
sca-lion dis-
Last weck
duffle-coated covered at gong were hauled into a court Board of Trade asked President,
Peter Thorneycroft, Christchurch, NZ, last week that near London on charges of in the House of Commons for a seal hasn't the same privileges dance-hall brawling. Polica re-
Mir Thorneycroft as a performing dolphin.
inforcements, said the prosect-- statement.
Inspired by the ducked. (On security grounds,
of tor, had been necessary to break perhaps?)
Opo, the frollesome dolphin from up the row when, in the words the But
still Oponini, who is so tame that of Mr
is Hughes
young mobater, 01 one worried. "What can we
do children ride on his back, Dennis duffle-coat gang wanted to "out about it?" he asks, sadly.
thought he would get in on the 'em to pleccs."
ono of A stiletto was
the Scottish distillers
act.
Hadn't
been Opo wondering what they
given weapons
police found at the Ravernment protection? Hadn't scene of the brawl. about 11.
a new dance, the Opo ho had roll (otherwise the Dolphin fox- trot) named after him?
SYNTHETIC But when Dennis tried to "CREATURES" existence a machine students of archaeology emulate Opo, he came a cropper. MEN
W. Grey Wolter have taken up life " Children fed him so many leo. which Dr The Bridgebum Days, by la Stone Age" in a prehistoric
creams that he refused to leave Director of the Physiological in cavem
Aragon, northeast
of tho Lucy
Burden Sinclair (165.), is auto-
the yacht harbour. In fact, he Department Spain. Headed by
don,
became so possessive
Institute, Bristol, that ho Neurological blography dressed us fiction. An
Gutierrez, swamped dingies and bit swim- mechanism that can be expected Bays "is perhaps the simplest "Insitution child tells what it 35-year-old Carios was like to be brought up in # they will become Stone Age men
1 to behave like a rudimentary foster home by, "Old Ma, who for thirty days--hunting or fish-mers.
So Dennis was entleed into a animal." making best Tried her
with olding with stone weapons,
Dr Walter described it at the and a hard fires with fints, sleeping on dry net, towed five miles out to sea fashioned notions
and shot.
Royal Institution in London as a palm to bring up her waits to leaves, using the skins of their
their clothe
small mobile machine resembling A righteousness.
wan little prey to
bodles.
DUFFLE The dubito-coat has a tortolso in appearance, picture of a pathetic childhood,
Smoking and shaving have BOYS
long boen An ac- It has only two artificial of been forbidden - as anachron-
cepted part of the "nerve cells" in the form British scene.
and ISTOR.
relays During the war wireless
valves it was the preserve
"whereas the human brain con- the fr
ten thousand million and sailors who manned the convoys tains roots MATHS Square
"It differs from the Aretle and the North living cells. logarithms are the in RIOT
machines Intended to extend odd charseters, humorous in Mulberry Bush (Seeker and
latest cause of riots Atlantic. After the war, for a eldents, out-of-the-way in Warburg. 10s, 63.1, may be read la India, Hundreds of students short spell, it was affected by human faculties (such as motor.
It is
men-about- cars or electronic computers) be seen. formation. Did you know that until it can
is all over West Bengal have rioted the smart
town. With it
they carried not only in its extreme simpli- penguins or used as an inter- fresh, inexpert, its dialoguo toe because the maths paper in
Lightly-rolled umbrellas and city, but also in Its tendency nation currency
between the bookishly brilliant Its people matele exam was "100 stiff." Wore curly-brimmed bowler explore the world and to scol world's zou!?
The sums are so stiff, in fact, (fading Oxford dons and their women)
number
of awkwardly and ob- that at Calcutta atinately
alive.
Properly students are reported to havo trimmed "The Mulberry Bush could take root and flourish in up exam papers and burnt then
in inkwells. the West End.
when
Whalemen drink whale's milk they get the chance, believing it to possess health giving properties. Robertson could not bring himself to follow their example, were
He did not drink the buot polish either.
the
of the expedition was in the Armly monopolistic honds Norwegians.
I found his story of
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TOO BOOKISH
Ta time when the British
quite
with Angus
of voyage, the hunt and the tech-A entre needs new talent,
The whale gunners make the
money.
are There British whale gunners,
no
One is
a Swedish-Norwegian-American ex-New York taxi-driver and
He rum-runner.
Is highly successful.
Robertson found his shipmates
interesting and unusual human beings and he writes of them
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
—AND YOU NOW HAVE A CHANCE
TO WIN A URANIUM MINE OR
A PLATINUM CONVERTIBLE,
IS THAT ALL RIGHT
WITH YOU FOLKS ?
*
DID YOU
HURT YOURSELF?
nique enthralling. I
ot
whaling
bristles
Edison killed the sperm whale fishing In 1882 when he turned
the switch power statlen
of Pearl Street in New York.
Wilson's play
What Do You Think?
"DON'T TELL ME
WE'RE GOING OUT AGAIN TONIGHT ? “
COFR. 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES GORA, TMAYORED RIGHTS RESERVED.
ANYBODY HOME ? “
ARE YOU SURE THE DENTIST
DIDN'T FORGET
My
APPOINTMENT
The
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naked
a
hats.
young
J
of
It was next affected by
fainted. Sturdier ones just tore arty set. This time it went with (obstacles of such
no haircuts, open-tle sandals,
blue
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
"IS SOMETHING BURNING ? *
"IS THERE SOMETHING
THE MATTER WITH IT?
"TIRED?"
jeans
certain limited gools (moderate the light) and to avoid extremes and bright lights). synthetic and Groups
creatures can form elementary societies and 'foed' themselves on electric current."
This machine concerned with reflexive behaviour is one of a number of simple working models designed to aid in the study of brain function.
*
SPECS IN THE At Mr J. FARMYARD Cooper's poul➡ breeding station at Bridport, Dorset, visitors are often surprised SCC cockerells wearing, dark apoctacles. Cockerells fight and the station used to lose one o two every day.
The birds took sideways for feeding but forward for fighting. Now when they begin to acquire aggressiveness the spectacles are fixed to their beaks with pins through the nostrils and they find they cannot see to their front. The spectacles have re- duced the killings by at least two-thirds,
GOING London Bridge, Ad- UP
cording to the nursery rhyme, has been falf- ing down for, as long as anyone can remember. In
real life, London Bridge—a prosić stretch of steel and asphall-is quite all right, thank you.
The trouble les with Tower Bridge. And the trouble is not that Tower Bridge is falling. down but that it is going up. Tower Bridge is London's most famous landmark the bridgo that looks just like all the nursery rhyme illustrations of London Bridge.
But it was built in the daya when ships were smaller and traffic moro leisurely. Every time a ship of any size passes under It is
ils span
must be raised, The process of getting the span up, getting the ship under, and getting tho apan down again takes a long time. The result
L that trafle, piles up all the way back to another of London's famous landmarks -- the Mile End Road, a grubby: artery 'a' good mile away. And it is often three-quarters of an hour before the last car. In the line gets moving
afoot
a move
So, alus, there is a'm to pull Tower Bridge down. It It comes down there will be no soring Gothic towers with their 'great "spikes" (replicas of spikes an an earlier bridge upon which heads' were' once impaled as a caution to inbound ovil doers). 'In their place, there will be steel and concrete and asphalt, which neither fall, down, nor go up.
LITERARY An blow on thei BUMPTWntaumer, starte 66-year-old Martin Marin carpenter of La Solana, Carlile, „ori: a literary esteet (17 bump went downs