ROUND-UP
"MONTY"
FIELD-MARSHAL Viscount Montgomery's retirement prompted
Mr W..J. Pomroy, of Callington, Cornwall, to play a march entliled "Monty" on his piano nccordion of Gunnislake Wesley Church. The music was composed by Mr Fomroy while serving with the 8th Airborne Division, und a copy was submitted to the Field-Marshal, who gave permission for the march to be called after him.
ARMY SCHOOLBOYS
URING 10 day's holiday in Belgium, 07 boys of the Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover, made four appearances on television, and staged six ceremonial parades. They were guests of honour at receptions by the burgemasters of three elles, visited the Brussels International Exhibition and were taken on conducted tours of three factories.
HELPS FARMERS
FARMERS throughout Britain will soon be seeing a film made in Bedfordshire showing how they can protect themselves, their Jivestock, crops and water supplies should an H-bomb fall. The
flim he been made by a group of Bedford amateurs at the request of Bedfordshire Civil Defence Corps. So impressed were Home
Office officials when they saw it that they decided it should receive mation-wide circulation. It is in colour and runs for 25 minutes. Cost was between 400 and £70. Entitled "Let's Face It Together," the fim features the Vicer of Kempston, the Rev. H. John, who is seen rushing from his home to start the church bell ringing the alarm. A number of local farmers are also in the cast, REAL MONEY
WHEN customers call at the Olde Cott Inu, ut Darlington, near Totnes, Devon, they give their money away-ond the man- ageress sticks it on the wall. Covering the bar wall are currency notes from all over the world. The collection started when a form- er customer, Cecil Pitz-Maurice, now the Earl of Orkeny, sent two notes from Korea. Mis J. Hinda, the manageress, pinned them on the wall. It was not long before other customers brought in foreign notes. Now any customer who goes abroad brings back a note to add to the display.
MODEL TRAMS LARGE-SCALE model trams are one of the features at the Model
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1858.
Are we driving our best friends away?
IVAN YATES EXAMINES 'THE SILENT THREAT'
Bill SLIM little
Everyono la born with one- retum -to his homeland even- Rather than face this they may called A domicile of origin, tunlly. But the terms of the stay at home. Or, more likely, masking ก silent Later, if a man moves to on- Bill transfer the onus of proof go elsewhere.
to threat
London's other country and decides to live to him, He has to rebut that there for good, that becomes his tatal presumption, an interna domicile his domicile of choler, status as
it slands, is very tional centre of finance, But the law,
presume such a commerce and trade, is change, resting quietly during the long summer recess. Important
Early in the new session it will be introduced into the Ilouse of Lords.
It has been there before. Lord Muston Introduced it last session and shepherded it through all its stages. Next session it will make for the Statute Book, taking in the Commons on its way.
Demure
reluctant to
to live
Just across the Channel is the Continent.
Tho European com.c's Common Market which into force in January makes Western Europe an attradive alte for the beadquarters of an
The Lord Chancellor took the point during last session's debate on the DUI. All these people have to do, he said reasuringly. is to make clear their intention International business. The Free to return to their own country Tmdo Ama-it it ever Oxlets
will eventually,
attractions, increase its Why wantonly add to them? Why go out of the way cocourage a flight of firms from
their traditional
to
centre-
"... in my old Kentucky home for oway..
HM SPECTR
That will no longer be so—it
It is not as simple as that, the Domicile Bill is paused however. The cases show the unamended. For the Blut lay the courts have always pald down in new, presumption-that ittle attention to declarations London? a man who has a home in n of Intention. Much less than
is the greatest London
These men do no como lo The Domicile Bill, as it stands, country intends
there those making them would like, capital in the world, an London, however, solely because is such a disadvantage. Already permanently.
After all, anyone can make unrivalled hub of trade and of its prestige. They themselves, overseas executives in London declaration, And If the effect
are thoroughly alarmed. The Domidle affects texatlon, A of doing so is a favour from the cradle of culture, a magnet for by coming, help to add to its
should They are a priceless Government
DESUO KO fema and Individuals from all prestige, MRA resident In England taxmen who would refrain?
their alarm. And amend the over the world. Especially from set to people in Britain. They and domiciled there is taxed on Whatever Lord Kilmus may
and from will not come so readily if it is
to their disadvantage to do so.
his income and possessions all think, something more is re- the Commonwealth
over the world. But a foreig- quired to rebut the new The title is demure enough. ner or a citizens of the Common- sumption. The Donlelle BII, Nothing there weath realdent in England, but man, domiciled in his country of origin, to aluṛm the common
best known to the Inwyers,
Domielle, after all, is a concept is taxed only on his Beftish in Flippant
remittances
His
But come and on uny Westminster,
if the Bill goes through as it made to him in Britain. slands it may affect some people tax liability is much reduced, very adversely,
That is why it is so important I could drive away from to determine what London many of the great Cum domicile is. And that is why it for foreigners metiwealth and American firms is to important
London to retain which make their headquarters working in
their domicile of origin. in England.
Hallway Hobby Show al the Central Hull, Landrm. Built by members of the Tramway and Light Railway Society, they will be of particular interest to many London children who are too young to remember the trams before they were with- drawn in 1952. Two-million model trams were sold in Britain last year and the exhibition-urgest of its kind in Europe-- enfbraices all sections of what he now became big business. There
exhibits from and special
the British ore many trade stands Transport Commission and French Railways. In addition nearly 60 entries in a nationwide model-building contest will be on show. French Ralways show a model of "C.C. 7107," the fastest locomo- tive in the world which hauled a train at noe than 200 mph. RIVER CARNIVAL
MAIDENHEAD plans to hold a river fete in July next year and a
preliminary meeting to discuss details has just been held. long swim, Among the suggested events are a watertnans' regatta,
a carulval of decorated bouts and foals a live boat show and between Bray and Boulters Locks. It is provisionally estimated that the fete will cost between £1,000 and £1,500. It is hoped to obtain this amount during the next few months by raffles, donces, jumble sales and a Christmas draw. AFTER 77 YEARS.
AFTER 77 years as a military
centre the depot of the Bed- fordshire
Hertfordshire Regimant GLL Kempston has closed down. The Regiment ceased to exist on June 2 with the merging of its 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment to form
the 3rd East Anglian Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Young. 57, the regimental secretory and the last commanding oficer of The Regiment's 2nd Battalion
becomes regimental secretary
of the 3rd, East Anglian Re giment at the new Brigade Head-
quarters at Warley, Essex. The future of the barracks at Kemp aton is undecided although the regimental museum will continue to be housed in them.
HELP SAVE LIVES
QUBLICANS in Devon's seaside PUB
towns can help to savo county's Chief lives says the
R.
How is Uils? What is domicile Not simple
that jt can Issue in such a Inconce? It is best defined as
A MAN'S
pre-
Lord Meston, Indeed, the Bili's spoor, suggested that Scots- wish to prove that they are still men, living in England who domiciled in Scotland, should walk about wearing a kill, with a sporran, carrying a boilie of Whisky in one hand and in the other hand a banner "My home is in Peterhead in Aberdeen- shire and not in Petersfeld in Hampshire."
The country in which a person That is where Clause 3 of the But the matter is too serious hus bile home and in which he Domicile Bill deals the foreigner for such flippancy from Liberal intends to live permanently. Sa in England such a shrewd blow, peers. Even if overseas business- a man can have only one domi- raising the presumption that men can rebut the presumption there is he and establish a foreign domicile, cile, however many homes he where he Bves, may have scattered around the domiciled. True, I upen to who welevines a law sult? Who
Only one at world.
EL ume, him still to prove that he always is anxious for the expensive, that Is.
intended to leave England and uncertain process of litigation?
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
the United States.
Domicile Bill. Quickly.
-(London Ezprea Seruice).
Champagne
chat in Moscow
THEN THE LAWYER (AGED 72)
SANG IN THE HOTEL LOUNGE -BUT NOBODY CARED
MOSCOW.
Botanist Found A Flower Yard Wide THE first word I
MANY men have faced terrible dangers in the
Another was a god in Tibet cause of science, and none has been braver
than the botanists. The first unofficial director of
the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Surrey, was When he found the plant, and
learned in Russian, only a few hours after I arrived,
"Cham-
But retestists like the brilliant pagnskoya.' obtained 70,000 seedy, the Sir Joseph Hooker could not be
structive.
a widely-travelled explorer, Sir Joseph Banks. He Brazilian Government were ob accompanied Captain Cook on his famous voyage to Australia.
Landing o the uncharted small open boat. Some coast, Banks found amazing vived but Nelson died on botanical treasures. In one spol Dutch islands of Timor, alone he collected u thousand strange plants. Botany Bay in New South Wales owes its name to his discoveries.
A
Kew
Bardener
of
When the Crew Great Industry
Nelson's More bread-fruit plants,
people have been drowned off the Devon
precious which he
had hoped to plant in the West Indies, were lost overboard.
With Bligh and 17 others,
2
was
kept at home. He was director No sooner had I sat down of Kew Gardens in 1935, but at my Moscow hotel table before this he had roamed the than I was joined by a world,
white-bearded 72-year-old
out
two ex-lawyer. On
But he shperected In Betting the seeris to Kew, where
• He went sur- thousand plants were grown in
the 1870. In Ceylon, the plants peditions to the Antarctic In
died, but in Malaya they start the Erebus and the Terror. ed a great rubber industry.
When Hooker sailed: in
and
scraped the edge.
We found a comman language -French. He called for a glass the of "champagnskoya," was visibly the walter was delighted when
brought him a bottle in error.
"No
cried matter,"
of
.Я
he
да a singer.
DONALD SEAMAN
REPORTS
onc
took
news of new bumper crops over its entire front page.
Russian scientists in the Ant- arollo have reported the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth 97 degrees Centigrado below zero.
at
It comes from their base the Magnetic Pole, with the news that they are already pre- paring for a fourth expedition.
One hundred and twenty men will be stationed in Antarctica under Dralkin, a leading Russian polar explorer.
Principal aim of the exped!-
to tion is
prove Western Leography books all wrong-to
show, as the Russians belleve, that Antorelka is a group of
The expedition's task is a trek of 3,750 miles, from south to north, entirely through unchart- taka ed territory, estimated to four months.
On his second expedition, in- 1701; Bligh had another garden- The man who founded the Erebus it caught fire, er on board. He was Christo- British settlement in Singapore, driven into the ice by a storm! pher Smith, also from Kow, who Sir Thomas Rafies, discovered
the champagnskoyu. No named cceeded where Nelson had the world's biggest flower ол Constable, Lieutenant Colon) | Nelson Jointed Cook for failed by taking 300 bread-frull the island of Sumatra. He ex-
towering iceberg. But the sprightly, vigorous old man, the slightest notice of the sing islands, not a land mass, Bacon, Local authorities third voyage and was later at trees to Jamaica.
plored the forbidding Interior, botanist survived," although the "Pure cau-de-vie, this stuff! I ing lawyer. have put up warning notices and tached to the ill-fated expedi-
shall drink it all." accompanied by his fearless chip sunk on a later voyage, ied flags but the Colonel feela tion led by Captain Bligh
wife whom he described as "o thit if a pubilean emphasised the Bounty.
He did too. Ifalf-way through Among his vivid
I flew from Prague to Moscow perfect heroine."
memories, the bottle, as the band blared in the new Russian jet liner the the danger to his customers it mutinied,
Hooker would recall
how hea
Western oldie, "Music, would be a great help.
time, Tu104. · Flying
bad One of the Botanical Gor- The atnazing brick-red was held up for ransom in Maestro, Plchse," the lawy weather, only two hours Len dens' coast this holiday
greatest pioneering Rofesia, as it is called, men India and treated as a god in disclosed
had been trained minutes. I compared the 104 Tibetan П the Was
Entering trans- stres a yard across the petals, Tibet. seuson than off any other county
achievements
with the Comet, which I flew weighs 151. It has a temple, he was astonisher to of the portation
para-rubber and
a portrait of himself plant from the Amazon forests central cavity nine inches deep. And
There and then, in the in three months ago, painted
the io Maluya. Henry Wickham A wax model was made for ex-
wall,
crowded lounge, he sing lustily "Flowered find this valuable bibition at Kew.
coat, spectacles, from
It is more spacious, beauti- "Roletto." Imagine was sent to
out, and rock- plant and bring it back alive
beard and moustache, drawing
man bursting into song from his fully afted
steady. Only one Kew man survived in a notebook, with an angel table at Cloridges. With only the sketchiest in out of the 54 who set out for on one side offering flowers
But the band played on. Dinner Ham, black bread, rmation, the salled
the the Congo in 1016. As a result, and a devil on the other side,
went dancing by. A sausage, and potatoes,
Pravda the other day devoted Amazon in a canoe and caved no further expeditions went out doing hemage." Hooker's fame Couples discuse anel other dangers. from the gardens for 14 years. had spread before him.
poker-faced waller poured more tea with lemon-ultra-plain by three columns to an attack on
airline standards.
provincial government officials for wasting the State's time and One complaint: the 104 is money on pleasure trips to much noisier Inside than
the Moscow. Comet.
in the West of England,
Nelson
WILS
cast adrift in
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·Special equipment Is rolling off the factory lines in Kharko for the expedition: fractors with yard-wide snow tracks, 500-hp. engines, capable of operating at altitudes of up to 12,000 feet, drawing Bleds made of super- light duralumin.
A sum
of £2,000,000, says Time-wasting and form-filling Pravda, has been "blued" by at airports, the curse of all who visiting officials accompanied Travel by plane, has been cut to by their typists-in the last five a minimum hore. I was in and
months. out of Moscow Airport within 10 minutes.
An interpreter met me off the plane and talked me through oficialdom at Tu104 speed. He leld on a taxi.
One man spent 125 days out of total 210 having fun and games in Moscow, including visits to the Dynamo and Spartak Soccer
matches,
Pravda complains that their jobs could have been done ot "one-thousandth" of the cost The new Moscow gimmick to by writing letters. bring customers to the cinema, threatened by the invasion of TV, is to spread the film over three days and charge entrance fees each day.
The intest Russian epic, "Quiet Flows the Don," taices more than BIX hours to run. 80 the Russians show it in three paris with the plug line "Don't miss tomorrow's show."
One man told me: "You just can't wait to see the next instal- ment, whatever 'you' think of the picture."
The same raios weather that has plagued British farmers) has worked wonders for the Russlan farmer in drought areas.
This year's will be 'wondor crop and will exceed the mil- to record set up in. 1056 of 52,000,000 tons of wheat.
Pravda, the official Communist Ferty, now paper, spread the
ARTIE...
"We All right take that silly
grin off your' fluči 2***
"