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COLD FACTS! CASH FACTS!
BILL FOR THE SUEZ SETBACK
By FREDERICK ELLIS
London But whatever happens now Suez debacle now the cost of transporting every- we buy must up-for
Tove out of the hot this in paeltaged transport in
Street.
air of the political arena everything we buy on High into the jungle of hard economic facts.
The bill for the setback in the Egyptian sands starta to roll in. And im mediately Britain is forced to draw on its last-ditch reserves and that ditch is no canal.
Bravely, we attempted to retain some degree of control
over the Canal to secure our economic lifeline.
We have lost the Canal, we have lost the even more vital oll, and truly our real economie lifeline is threatened. and now we face an intern Bulgot.
takes
Before the Suz crisis Britain faced economie dangers. Now Mr Harold Macmillan drastic actions.
Industry was imperilled by n fuel oil famine. Now America throws Out
feline-and Whitehall grabs ii.
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POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
H. M.
FORE1UY
OFFIC
"-after all those nasty cracks about collusion the len we hear about Royal David's city the better”
Take Mr Everyman Di London. His bus buses admit that the new off Imposts will cost them £2,000,000 a year. Weil, kiss goodbye the 24d. fare
for over..
Already Mr Macmillan sounds the warning of higher income tax in his April Budget.
And deop down in the economie Jungle stands tho L sterling, assailed abroad by the international currency
specula-
tor,
Be sure the cost of all this will be felt by every one of us.
THE LOAN
Then there is the
American
Loan, on which Mr Macmillan scoks to walve paying interest.
The Socialists in December 1045 borrowed £930 million from the Americans. We "blacd" it on extravagant living, food, hims, and fogs.
Until December 31, 2000, we pay back the interest and capital on this Socialist folly.
to
Now we go cap in hand the Americans asking them to allow us to forgo the Interest payment due of £37,100,000 in dollars.
Part of this sum is due to the Canadians, who will follow 'a Washington lead to allow Briteln to pass up the moneylenderB'
cccount.
THEIR HOUR And now which people in Britain can do most to help the country out of its plight?
No doubt about that: the miners.
Aneurin Bevan once sald it would loke an organising genius to produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time Well, we face a shortage of fuel
-food remains to be seen.
Coal stocks are relatively high. Production struggling. Dollar Imports couring.
This is the miners' finest hour, as it was once the nation's. The nation did not fail us. The miners are now on test. Every extra million tons they produce will Indeed be black gold,
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THE CHINA - MAIL,
TUESDAY - JANUARY ́ ́ 8, 1957.
NOTHING TO DO WITH NASSER
BY GILES
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F1 were to commit a murder," Francis Quarles said, casting a slightly menacing glance at his friend, the author Brian Teale, "I should use the simplest possible method. The overturned rowing boat, the push over the cliff or, better still, off the edge of a crowded Underground plat- form-from a murderer's point of view there can be nothing better than those simple recipes. The more fanciful and. ingenious ways of committing murder are fluttering to the murderer's vanity- how clever I am to have thought of that!
but they are dangerous because usually once the method has been discovered the murderer's identity is clear."
"Example, please," Teale said,
"Why, certainly. Do you remember case of Professor Hoger Magerson?"
the
"No. I must have been out of England, The name rings no bell at all."
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Mager -. son (Gald Quarles) had Just returned
from a trip
Murder-but
how
was it done?
The manager called, and then used his pass-key to unlock the door.
SHARED Å BATHROOM AGERSON had timed his re.
was
no dinnER PARTY
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PRIVATE DETECTIVE
FRANCIS QUARLES
FINDS OUT
was deadh, lungs full of water, cause paralysis very quickly. not much doubt about cause of There was a tiny puncture on death you'd think. Must have Magerson's chest the doctor had a heart attack, seizure of might have missed it if I hadn't some sort, caused him to slip asked him to look,
under the water. So sudden "When Magerson became couldn't even ring the bell for paralyzed and silpped down in help.
Obvious thing, wouldn't the bath, this poison dart- you say?"
that's what it is
really.. "Yes, I should". Teale was dropped out. If the bath had bold enough to say further, "I been flushed it would have run don't 600 why anyone should away and the only evidence of think anything else."
murder would have gone?
SOMETHING UNUSUAL
Quarles rubbed his big
"Nehin refectively. "Bad luck
"You said. It wasta poison cart. It was fired at Mogerson then." Teale's brow was cor- rugated in puzzlement.
"Yes,"
cn
"You said the puncture was his chest. Was there a window on that side of tha room?"
Quarles shook his head: “No window anywhere in the room
"A glass roof perhaps?"
PRESSURE WAS STRONG
UARLES again,'
shook his head "There was no
to several of the the
for the murderer in a way. I South American
republies, very excited fact that Pickles took a path at other guests arrived. Wendle happened to be staying at the because he'd found some now exactly, seven o'clock avery telephoned up to Magerson's hotel. I liked old. Magerson. varieties of snakes, some pecu- evening, just the time when room, but of course got no reply. He was a character, although Harly unpleasant scorpions, and Magerson himself liked to bath. At twenty past seven Pickles rough, and tough one. So hap- so on. He arrived in London
evening On this particular
almost apoplectic with pened I'd seen Magerson accompanied by his ever-faithful Magerson was intending to steal
couple of days before and he He sical rage. shouted and thumped wife Rosalind, who always went a march on Pickles by getting on the bathroom door, got no told me his doctor had Just on these expeditions with him, into the bathroom just
balore answer,. and went to call the given him a thorough gol g' and stayed at an eminently seven, I was an important manager. The manager and over, said he was sound as a respectable hotel.
evening for him, because he'd Pickles got back to the bath- bell, should be good for another invited Claypoole and two room at the same time as Giles 20 years." other eminent figures attending: Wendle, who had come upstairs
There to investigate.
"Even 80, doctora can bo means of exit or entry to the the congress to dinner.
The manager
wrong," Teale 'objected.
room at all apart from
the he was going to reveal his dis- called, and then used poss
door." "Doctors can be wrong. But coveries, and crow. Magerson's key to unlock the cd his
"Then it must have been fired you'll understand why, when I through the keyhole. Though I MA
secretary, Giles Wendle, turn so that he would be
young who had been on the expedition
happened to arrive on the
'really can't see anyone, kneeling able to address some inter-
but wasn't staying at the hotel,
sectio Just after Magerson's outside the door with a blow- national congress that was meet-
body was found, I looked at it
pipe In his hand." ing in London on the subject of was also coming to dinner.
Wives, even ever-faithful
with special interest, I found his discoveries. He particularly wives, weren't wanted at such THEY found Magerson in the something unusual. I'll show looked forward to putting
out
bath. He'd been using the it to you. It was underneath
***I've got it,”. Tealo' said the nose of a rival a function. Rosalind Magerson of joint
attachment to the bath the body. Magerson must have excitedly. "Mogerson was alive, named Professor Claypoole, with, went out at 0.30 to dine with a spray
She was seen and it was still on, in the water, fallen on it when he slipped and for some reason didn' woman friend whom he'd had a
great con- to leave the hotel, and arrived so that water was going out down in the bath."
answer Pickles. 'The hotel troversy, n year or two cartier her friend's flat just before through the overflow. Mager- From a glass-faced cupboard about the habits of scorpions. seven.
son had slipped down under the Quarles took something that me was the first person
In the Toorn and--"
His water and his lungs were full reposed on a bed of velvet, Magerson was found dead in
voice died away... his bath at the hotel about
of it. He was quite dead,
Teile examined the object. "No. Magerson died shortly Quarles paused, and looked It was perhaps half an inch alter entering the bath. Leu mo 7.30 in the evening. The times
at Teole with a quizzical gye, and circumstances are import-
long. The point was as sharp, give you a clue. The water in ant.
Well?" Teale sald question as a gramophone needle, the the bathrooms came, in a quite His room hadn't. a bathroom At seven o'clock. precisely ingly. And added, "I don't see body was a small, round suc, unorthodox manner; direct, off attached to it. He and his wife Pickies came out of his room, any puzzic."
sealed at the other end. "You
the rising main. The pressure shared a bathroom with the tried the bathroom door, found "Of course, there was no mean this little thing killed was accordingly. Very strong.". room across the passage, which it locked and returned fuming dinner party. Rosalind Mager Magerson
"The pressure was very was occupied by
Yes. It contained one of strong." Teales thought hard Irascible to his room. He tried the door son was telephoned Wendle: an
of five minutes knew Pickles. at Intervals
where sho retired colonel named
was and those polsons used by pygmies and then almost shouted, "The Magerson, who was also pretty afterwards, with no success. arrived in a state of collapse. in Africa and South America, sprayer." : irritable, had been Infuriated, At a quarter past seven Glies Doctor who lived a couple of and formerly used by the 'Red, his wife said afterwards, by the Wendle, Claypoole and the two doors away was called in.. Man Indians, which don't kill but
At two or three minutes. be- fore seven, also, a chamber maid in the hotel saw Magerson go come out of his room and into the bathroom.
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Tumer'
equally pattern
Mr Discipline came hard to auch officer just published under found
there, but the Army, and the entertaining when writing of the title, "Gallant Gentle British officer of the future."
By 1748 Not all the officers mentioned Navy too, were tough schools, officers, in the Navy. men," "covera more than in this book were gentlemen, and a etern system gradually a professional type was being the three and a half centuries of nor all their actions gallant, evolved, whether the gentlemen evolved who overshadowed
The practice
liked it or not, unul first at sea and the more uncouth Army life. It is written by
Commissions persisted
of purchs the Royal Miltary Academy tas
was bluff,
"Why, yes." Magerson's killer E. S. Turner, an authority on the Criment War, opposed to new ideas was the person who had casiost on military matters, who is Just a century ago. The colonel the following year, the young and had "a good dash of choler access to his poisons, who knew also editor of "Soldier," a was anancially responsible for offler cadets ravelled, in him." How well we now his he was going to bath on that particular evenlog before monthly illustrated maga- his regiment and could make a These embryo gentlemen had' type even today!
Colonel Pickles, who knew that zine, dealing with contem- pront out of is provided he did been "forced to undress for BLIMP COULD LEARN –
in the bath ho Jalways used the not taka loo large a cut and bed in the dark... allowed to
spray attachment. Only one porary Army life.
thereby provide
public exercise only in small Tho 20chapters in Me person could have known thoro
Fast two things "playground".**** punished for Turner's book are all absorbing. Being a "Fortrait of the scandal,'
Magerson's British Officer 1800-1956," it TOUCH SCHOOLS smoking by incarceration for ly interesting, some of the later murderess-she'd fallen in love.
But those were the practices 48 Hours in a black hole, alx ones goes back to the time before
with comument.
"tha}}/young... secretary the standing
was of the times, and each age feet by army
without bed, "Temporary Gentlemen, he wendler and thought that when established and, in doing so, necessarily produces, ita own light or fire allowed only traces the qualities of gallantry
type ..ot gentleman. As Mr 22 for six months as pocket
In their might be returned was
over-fallkFUEL: Romaling."**** the Turne
Turner cara: "Every gentleman money and,permitted to and gentlemanly attributes
thond for early British oficers: Which, who sold up his plate for the change their inen only on who know anything of is Defective Quarles will appear
survived in the pro came felt he was entitled to
› Wednesdays) and n: Mondays
and ways of the Army Even fessional officer of today,
Commission, and, the more Fridays, tagapa
Colonel Bump himself could again on this page on Indood, Bays Ba Turner plate he sold the les inclined After an Inquiry, the Duke of learn a lot about the Army by Thursday is paddasu "among the better, types of was, he to be fobbed off with: Cambridge informed the cadete juve: zwading "Galant Gorle-
QUARLES DOES HIS Cavaller pillcor, lp be low rank."
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