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THE CHINA", MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1936.
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
OR
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month that names, nor tried to grab hot rheumaticky pair, plates from the stove with bare Indetin while he fell over the Ooch (your Uncle Nat) and Owch, the Plucky He was thinking of getting a Little Woman, have been job as a chef when Owch came
home, separated.
Had he made
Yorkshire
pud? No, he couldn't do that. What's more, he knew of thou- sands of others, Including pro- fessional chefs, who couldn't do it either.
One D.O.P. sold it was caly and went into all the details. Another said never let a woman carve. They always used blunt knives and left a shapeless mess
Owch has been in hos Return of Owc.. pital for awch treatment while Ooch, still stiff in the wick, has been struggling along with the shopping and cooking.
our vegetables for her homecoming Sunday lunch.
WOH was to have roast sirloin on the dish.
Yet another asked if Ooch was serving hurse-radish sauce. She was to he on the settee, Ouch admitted he had to.gotten ht pale, anwald hands idly and 1024 obliging grocer Turning the pages of a maga- offered to open up his shop and ZiM. ch, anxious to demon – get so.ne. abylong strate his skill, was going seriously, which is not often, he give her u stuprise, strulles
Although not much shooting a line Choch (BNNİS anying this for himmell he decides
the problem Fetus and works according to seja sis
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POCKET CARTOON [by USBFRI LANCASTER
"I say, bet you're all
zoing to feel pretty strange with a face one can actually Front remember
Bruch unce again!”
an
Niv
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Bul when she
Dock changing his clutae, Her curl- Nity WB: JANI CI the ch ex plained he was putting on hus trousers. An werent Cooking pair he had been using because he felt intha a tool in an apron.
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FIRST PROBLEM: SHOULD HEAD EAST OR WEST?
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By PETER TOWNSEND
In this second article introducing his own story of his world tour, Group Captain Peter Townsend tells of the decicions he had to make when planning the journey.......
the
FI may be forgiven was the up and down bits could go sideways all
n' rather elemen- which worried me because way to India and then turn tary treatment of the they meant a departure down to Singapore. Flat- problem, I found that from the general sideways tening out I would arrive
The the trouble in planning my direction.
annoying in Australia, then cross it round the world drive was thing was there were three and come to New Zealand. that the American, African, up-and-downs and this al- It would then be necessary Australian continents ways made me end up lu the to climb up again to Japan and
tho and then sail across are all in a more or less "up and down" direction.
North Pacific and land high Whorens
up on the American con- the most con-
tinent. Down I would go venient and practicable way
bottom of again to the of getting round the world
South is "sideways."
America and then
Dock Thunked him, but ex- plained he
be back must 1300 hours
wrong place. to turn the joint, The grocer said he wouldn't be five minutes and the D.O.PA said jointa cooked just as well without being turned.
When The rover arrived with the horse-rudish it wan 1315 Then Gaweh wennterf to know hours. Doch teled to go home, Whet WAK
Sae Coding
was saying vegetables were on tho to mund t
More D.O.P.1 bust boli.
came in ne As nobody tell. Owch this They wanted to drink Owch's with ampuEY surs soon found health. They were interested
Javid
And
Was
in Floch's kitchen sujam vening (ken understood at last the exaspera- tion of women when they sai! "Bet mat of my kitchen “
Oweh, still rather weak, wandering about
walker, telling
Ooch's cooking. They all knew how to make Yorkshire nud.
WH5 AL 1330
Ooch asked holira itke a sleep- them
all to hunch. it seemed Coch how
the only way of escape. Luckily deal with his carefully prepared they refused, but most said they
up sauce would come vegetables, picking
round and
say had
pans and putting them out of hullo to Owelt after they
it the ven
reach, asking
and drunk her health. berti properly houted, what temperature 1ise oven was 14! how long the joint was golog to be cooked.
So at 1400 hours, when every- body was thrown out of the low lavērti, a noisy little procession started for home
Doch tried to explain that he itad worked out like a mili- had Everything Tary exeresse. been timed to the nute. I only Owch would leave him the hall alone the lunch woul right
172
When The front door Was opened there was a blue haze in
Owch, unable to take“ ali anything out of the oven un oc- count of her rheumaticky orm. with was lying half kippered on the
the seller.
When they had collated ench other several funes embittered Ouch Temple T cooking trouseES, eatinged Into fancy pants. and went to the low "tavern. He said he would be back to turn the servin ex: etly 1300 hours,
Return of Ooch
Hin
1125 The kitchen Doch had grown
in love was full of smoke. glenining saucepans wer: black with burned vegetables.
Some gallant D.O.Ps wanted 10 rescue
Others, Owch first, more practical, wanted to rescue the sirloin. But when they pened the oven door they were diven back by fumes.
After the funny ones had mug- met gested sending for the fire bri- IN the Low Lavern Co
They gade, Goel, the precise planner, many dear old pals.
organiser of military congratulated him on Owch's re- The
asked them to leave In- exercise, covery end were intensely
and reached for his tin-opener. terested in his cooking.
แ
But starting from my home in Brussels, should one head east or west?
Sun's Rotation
FIRST examined this question In terms of the sun's rotation, but quickly gave it up as irrelevant. It
and
If, for instance, I set off for the west, crossed the At-
to Canada lic descended to South America. I should then have to come up again to get a bout to Australin. Japan or Working west again from
even
gel a boat again across the South Atlantic to South Africa, finally working my way up to Europe and
Singapore towards the home.
Middle East I would then have to drop down to South Afrien and come all the way up again to get back to Europe.
Hending enst much better prospects.
I was clear that heading cast would work out besi, though
there were still serious coin- pleations in the route, which
became gathered
offered
1
about It,
The scene through the lens--the Land Rover being unloaded.
more
evident As
мото
Group Captain Townsend photographs the arrival of
his Land Rover in Brussels ....
I back I am astonished at two
firstly, my information things:
complete ignorance of the nature of my
and task:
the secondly, enormous amount of information I have since collected.
Preparations
PART
chance I
from
be
Had I con- anyone with me.
Bom Conc celved the plan with else we would naturally hava gone together, and it would, be agreeable to have a companion who had
been with
me from The very start.
Loneliness
that the
In my ignorance. I have had In advince from the very start studying my over unknown country. My A world map I also seized every Arst
approach to every new could of tetking To fenture had always to ptople in the Congo who had tentalive. und ns I beenme BUT it so happened
Didea of the journey came to crossed the
In the subject Sahara betler versed
knowledge to me through
DI long chain Kained
enough motored 10
rench decisions. I have had to circumstances which
bayc muke many decisions which never affected anyone who were reached after seeking a lot could possibly come with me. It of advice and giving much would be a mistake, I am sure, thought Many of the decisions to take a stranger. We would
either
Desert
or
hind
Capetown.
I know a Belgian
109 who crossed the Sahtera on a motor- bike. The fact that he broke
A
3000 ind we were at down five minutes after leaving the irrevocable, and if wrong I very
variance with one another, and Brussels did not deter him from sholt regret them later.
the Journy would come to continuing to his destination.
The first thing to decide was premature end. met and talked to numbers of
what kind of car to other people during my stay
go in. i fondly that 11 might be 1 shall suffer certain draW.. the Congo. The conversations possible 10 take an ordinary backs through being alone, the I had with them encouraged me suloon. After some preliminary feast of which, I think, will be to think that a motor journey inquiries I invited
In
imagined
round the world was possible.
driven
By the Ume 1 left the Congo Biglans to lunch. and returned to Belgium I was Penacol, sure that I wished to make such Storeley.
Laloon,
ht
onc
two young a sense of loneliness. One could Euch had
more lonely hardly have been than when sitting in a single- dork Armstrong tea er in the middle of
I don't Brussels night. from
ever remember was feeling alone, though I was It should the opportunity occur. do that pret of the journey,
no doubt that a saloon could often fairly fightened
but Loneliness is a fearful thing,
a journey, and that furthermore I had the Intention of making
10
Delhi.
There
my friends som convinced me I know, but there is always Although it was a month or that my changes of doing it with you en* eternal Presence
two before the events which
led to my resignation from the lore in a saloon were remote, in whose
So I thereupon decided his feel alone. RAF presented me with he was not cimeult-to go in a car opportunity, I started to make preparations in the belief that
with fourth wheel drive,
company you cannot
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it would sooner or later come. Some people think it is rather In Part Sirletly Forbidden). It is now exactly five months odd that I should wrat to go since I fled the first letter con- alone. Perhaps it is, but it has cerning my journey and looking never occurred to me to take
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HOME FROM HOME FOR
N
COLONIAL STUDENTS
0.1 Hans Crescent" is known to Home
thousands of students from British colonial territories
By ALAN STEWARD
Director of the hos‘el at 1, Hans Crescent, London, run by the British Council,
of
for
programme is sent to members. The premin£S aro much used, too, by Students' Unions and such organisations as World As- sembly of Youth, United Nations: Student Association, and the..
Royal African Society.
as a place where they have largo and impressive, if clothes. The only domestic duty newly arrived students. During Jived while studying in somewhat ornate, building which is required of them je vacailons temporary residents.
As students are also gellingt that they should make their own usually students on a visit to the habit of It has London, where they have of five storeys.
holding send-off. beds.
London or new arrivals in tron- parties and wedding receptions stayed on vacational visits accommodation
220
sit, occupy any vacant places. ihere. a day Any bona fide colonial student
seldom passer from other parts of the students, and its amenities is eligible for admission, but, as
without some function or other United Kingdom, or where include a handsome hall, the there is considerable competition sented at No. 1 Hans Croscent the first sitting at dinner is a The subjects of study repre- taking place. During term-lime they have attended lectures, furniture
which ia for places, preference is given are retreshingly varied. Though gerai-formal occasion, with High concerts, exhibitions or reminiscent of an Oxford to new arrivals.. An endeavour law is still the favourite, medi- Table
also made to preserve B
taken in turn by the and cino dances, or just dropped in college, n roomy and com-
engineering are catch Director and members bairnco between the various ing up, and the other cours, 50 House Committee, who invite of the to meet their friends.
fortable lounge in which the territories so that the numbers in number,
range
from bakery their own guests. radio is seldom silent, a in residence roughly rodect the to Bantu languages, and from As & British Council quiet library, a snack bar, a number of students from each tailoring to television. Though residence for Colonial television
region at present in the United many of the students are at room and
Kingdom.
London University, a large Students it is barely six remarkable glass-walled and
number attend technical colleges Before the out glass-domed room years old.
other non-univerzity In- Varied STUDIES
In December Inst the intudents' break of the Second World was once the hotel's "winter
stilutions of higher learning. and staff were honoured by a War it was a hotel, but in garden" and is now used for
visit of Queen Elizabeth “II, the 1989 it was taken over by plays, concerts, film shows, largest contingent (about 60 from afecta House Committed on a the occasion of the 1st anni- of each Patron of the British Council, At the beginning of Reademic year
the residents and the Duke of Edinburgh, on the Government and used
which
Atrica; naturally, has the
Nigeria alone) followed by the
and
QUEEN'S VISIT
....
for many purposes, until, in receptions and dances.
Far East (Malaya, Singapore regional basis, The Committee, versary of the formation of the 1950, it was rented from tho Most of the students live In and Hongkong) and the West which elects its own officers; and British Counell Ministry of Works by the single study-bedrooms, though Indies. In the present year no sub-commitices, co-operates Among those, who have dined -there" "are"also- a 1nlimber of fewer than 31 countries have with the administration to fur- British Council, adapted, double rooms and a few treble, been represented. As a matter of ther the welfare of the students at Hans, Crescent in recent redecorated and equipped as The charges vary from just over polley, and to avoki any sugges and to arrange social activities, months have been of Britain's of State for the a hostel.
23 to just over £1 per week flon of "rogregation," between In such a mixed community the Secretary.
QUIET DISTRICT
for accommodallon, breakfast 20 and 30 United Kingdom most onerous office that of Colonies and parties of Journal- and dinner, Launch also is served students are also admitted, most Chairman of the Food Com isla from Italy, Germany, Swit on Saturdays and Sundays, and of whom, intend to do work in, mittee, which bele as a liaison orland, Norway, Yugoslavia, and occasional meals can be pur- or related to,. the colonial between the residents, and, the Brazil, chased at other times in the
entering managercas, h territories,
"There is no doubt that: Hans Crescent is in
jack bar,
nidence at Išans, Crasconi. Students normally remain in In addjison to being a hostel, garded by most athonists quiet residential district in: Bathrooma
numerous, residence for one year, after No. 1 Hang Crescent Le also a privilogo, and that the West End of London, there abundant hot water, which, with the help of the Centre, for colonial/students in mid the opportunity
And in the within a few hundred yards
Lindry: British Council Student Welfare Londokar AV Mobiltural activis
meiting followAYL
jutuden "where, students;; Lybay Department, they immove #into. Sieg - kipu Hyde Park and No. 1 fan wilde ?
from theic lodg
zóonthly - creeds of the Commoner
are
and make room; for (#ocial funetibar