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introducing DONNA
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From the novel by NEVIL SHUTE
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1960..
Wilde's Last
ON VIEW Ann Gets
FOR FIRST
TIME
London, Jan. 3. The manuscript of Oscar Wilde's last work, written whan he was in prison, has been opened to the public by the British Museum Trustcos after 50 years..
But It was something of an contents anti-climax, for the were one of the worst-kppť literary secrets in centuries.
na "Do Part was published Profundi" in 1905, Ove years after Wilde's death in his self- Imposed exile in France.
De Profundis was an apology, couched in terms of remorte, for Wilde's life.
The
Wilde's #terary executar, Robert Ross presented
10 the British manuscript Museum in 1908 on condition it should remain unopened for 50 years.
No Rush
The Trustees of the Museum made the original manuscript available for inspection on New Your's Day. But there was no neth to examine it.
The Brst of the manuscript's sverets wan revealed in 1912. This was the name of the friend 19 whom it was addressed-Lord Alfred Douglas. It was Wilde's with homosexuni association Douglas that brought him to two years in Recoding Gaol, eventual bankruptcy
self-imposed and exile.
Arthur Ransone, engaged
a literary study of Wilde
on
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Ross. In his book on Wilde, Ransome without mentioning Douglas by name, said the manuscript was addressed "to a to whom Wilde felt that he owed some, at least, of the circumstances of his public dis- grace."
iman
Sued
Lord Alfred promptly for libel.
sued
The manuscript was
Work
Ann Gets Tough Too
Police Chief In
Row Over
'Tactless' Card
London, Jan. 4.
A row began yesterday over the official Christmas card sent out by the Chief Constable of Birmingham, Mr E. J. Dodds. In a written protest a city councillor said the card was tactless and unlikely to improve relations be- tween police and public, The front of the card bears o
City
of Birmingham police. Inside Is the message: "All good wishes from the Chief
of the officer and member
of Local Government Officers. Be wrote to Mr Dodds:
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lsh Museum strong room and a jury found for Ransome and dis- missed the case.
Douglas died in 1945. Four years later, a year before the copyright expired, Wilde's only surviving son, Vývyan Holland, published the entire text of the manuscript.
The must interesting thing about the manuscript now open to inspection is that it was writ- ten in prison, at a time when prisoners were allowed to write three one letter unty
every months.
When he had served Hittle more than a year in prison, Wilde appealed to the Homé Secretary for writing materials to "help distract the mind." Otherwise, said Wilde, he feared he would lose his reason,
One Sheet
Materials were supplied and the prison governor was order-
ed to allow Wilde one sheet of paper at a time, cach com- pleted page to be held by the
governor.
wilde Anished the maru- hie de March 1892, pad was freed two months later,
Within 24 hours, the sailed across the Channel to France- AP.
Boycott Inadvisable
Capetown, Jan. 3.
J
Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the South African United (opposition)
considers
sequences."
Constable and the City Police Department." Facing the mess- age is a photograph.
The photograph is the cause of the protest. It shows police escorting food convoys through an angry crowd during the rail- way strike of 1911.
The protest came from Coun- cillor William Ensor, a welfare
U.S. TRACTOR COMPANY
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London, Jan. 4.
"This is a tactless card. It reminds people of the bad old days when trades unions had to their 8ght tooth and nail for rights,
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"Christmas is a time when people are supposed to forget their entitles and to show good will towards one another.
Co
"In any case, the photograph has nothing
whatever to with Christmas. So why was it it could be interpreted used? provocatively, especially in view of the recent spate of Midland ririkes."
A Birmingham spokesman of the Transport
General and Workers' Union said: "This card is in extremely bad taste. 'There appears to be no just- fication for the inclusion of the photograph.
men
The girl between two tourh 20-year-old Ann Thomas and in the last six months she's had to get pretty tough herself. That's the time It's taken her and her father (left) with three crewmen, to sall the 48ft ex-irawler Isabel May from Anglesey to Austra- Fla-20,000 miles. The crew chanred two or three times during the trip German Bill Halling (right), 28, was picked up in Panama. After touring Australia by car, the Thomases plan to all home again. →→→ Express Photo.
WEDDING RING NOT SCORNED
London, Jan. 3. The career girl who scorns a wedding ring is a thing of the past, say British social workers.
British Airk of the rock ** to roll generation Just want settle down as wives ond
sooner mothers and the
the better.
One marriage guidance coun- sellor says 10-year-old lassies who aren't married consider themselves on the shelf—“they just cannot wait to plunge inte the responsibilities not only of marriage, but of child-bearing." In a new survey "Working Wives" Dr Viola Klein,
at the social research worker London School of Economies. end more married women now hold jobs-brit they're not striving for success in a man's
A Birmingham police head- The J, I. Case Company of quarters a spokerman said that world.
the thiet constable was not
America,
one, of the avalable! He hides that no world's looding, monufer we cut count tamento turers of tractors, has chuss the photograph and, why, formada E1 million British intrat used..
subsidiary,
it was nounced here today.
an-
The new subsidiary, register-
ed as J.I. Case Company Ltd, will
have headquarters in service London. Sales and
the centres are painned for Midlands and Scotland later.
Initially British operations busic comprise will
eight nodels for industrial and con- structional use.
The new
Didn't Like It Down Under
Falmouth, Jan. 3. A large group of passengers at Janded from Australia
abourd the be Falmouth today
Party, that the proposed boycott of
company will both for manu- liner SS Falrsky, which put South African goods would be responsible
with a damaged "Inadvisable, Ineffective and facturing, sales and distribution into harbor would have dangerous COD- In Britain and for sales in repeller.
Among the 350 Immigrants Europe, the Middle East, India,
Africa and Pakistan,
other was Bert Hawkins, who is re- turning with his family to Commonwealth countries.
Cristol
"There is
no security out there, either in housing jobs," Hawkins said.
He expressed this opinion"
n letter to Mr C. 1. Aub, who had written to him on behalf of United Cambridge University
Nations Association, which has appointed a commission of five to go into the question of boycott-Reuter,
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Monaco, Jan. 3,
Sir Winston Churchill was guest tonight at a small
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Sir Winston, appearing excellent health, spent the day in the luxurious Hotel De Paris in Monaco where he arrived yesterday for a winter holiday on the Riviera,
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LARGEST, MOTIVE Money is undoubtedly the
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work." Dr Klein said. "Three
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every four women Interviewed gave this as the main reason,
"Home and family are the focal point of women's interests and ure
them- regarded by selves, as well as by others, as All their main responsibility. other occupations are sub- ordinated to this central func- Uon."
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More than a third of girls gel- in Britain today Ung marries! are under 21, marriage coun- seller Rose Hacker told audience of women public health officers.
"Statistics show that girls are maturing earlier," she said-
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Council
The Cardigan City One of the passengers, Mrs seid today that construction of has been held Flurence Foster, 53, who left pubile housing
because thousanda DX Shefeld with her husband in up 1937, died on route to England. starlings have eaten the fresh Offelats said death was due pulty on the window frames.--
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