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THE CHINA. MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960.
For chief engineer MISS Drummond Baby falls
This is the life'
ON HONGKONG - SINGAPORE RUN
By Our Own Correspondent
Singapore (By Airmail). Britain's only woman chief engineer in the Merchant Navy, Miss Victoria Alexandrina Drummond, has just visited Singapore on a nostalgic visit to the Far East.
A sea veteran for 35 years— "This is the life want" she is proud to have "friends in every port,"
A god-daughter of Queen Vic torio, Miss Drummond is chief enghicer of the 7,005-ton_cargo ship, Grelrosa, on the Straits porta Hongkong run
The brown-eyed
ship's
She attended the Technical College in Dundee and later the School of Engineering at Poplar, London. She has been second engineer in 20 British Vessela and chief englaoer in eight other ships before joining the Grelrosa,
Her first ship was the Anchises, on which she served as a jurilor engineer, She be- executive has three Chinese came chief engineer only after engineer officers and a Chinese the war.
engine crew under her charge. During the war she served as She said she was fascinated second engineer on the Aftan- by the Far East where she made tie-Atrien rum and Pacific In miany friends during her all types of transport vessels voyages to Japan, China and and tankers. olher Aslan porta before and after the war.
She said: "Like my ancestor, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion Robert Drummond who captain- not exceeding 25 words, 25d an East India Company ship cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
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In 1707 an sulled round the Cape of Good Hope to China six times, 1 find inspiration from my voyages to the East." Miss Drummond is inco
She has been awarded the Lloyds War Medal for bravery at sea, the MBE for devotion
to duty and disregard for danger. the Allantle Blar with сідер, the Coronation other Medal and Numerous campaign medals,
• BY THE⚫ Malayan newsletter from Gordon Hung WAY MR MAUGHAM TOOK
by Beachéomber
AN eminently successful bullder of gigantle ediflers, bvin with a silver twenty-two storey
block of offices in his mouth, ins disclosed the secret of the
breath-taking beauty of modern architecture.
What gives these palaces, of Today their magic, says he,, is their height. It is because they
Are taller than Beauvals Cathe- much drat that they are so more beautiful.
Sean Lonergan
A
CORRESPONDENT asky mne why the well-known Ave-
HIS DISAPPOINTMENT
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PHILOSOPHICALLY
Kuala Lumpur (By Airmail).
When the Sultan of Johore was crowned recently, it was the first coronation in Malaya for 65 years and unique in that this symbolism is not known elsewhere in Malaysia.
The 46-year-old sultan, Sir destroyed plants, half - enten Ismail, thus became the 21st cakes, broken bottles and bunting ruler of this 420-year-old state and banners trampled on.
the third largest in the Federation.
The ancestors of the Sultan at one time ruled an ancient em- pire that not only stretched from Perak and all south but included parte of Sumatra and Rho island
lo
But the present dynosly only. just over a century old after the British chased the Portuguese out of Malacca and Rhio and was revived.
the Johore Royally
into washing machine
London, Feb. 23. TGHTEEN-MONTH-OLD
Shirley Larkin pulled a chair from the table to- wards the washing machine, climbed up on the chair to have a look. The chair over- balancod and Shirley foll in and drowned in savan laches of water.
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It all happened in five minutes that Mis Kathleen Larian was of the kitchen feeding scene
chickens,
Mrs Larkin, of Swords, Co Dublin, wept at the Inquest the other day when Dr D. A. Mẹ Erican told her;—
"No blame can be attached to you."
NO REPLY
Mrs Larkin had told him:-- "When I returned to the house- be-I could not see Shirley. I called her and looked about the house, but there was no reply.
"Then I saw part of her coat sido
Two baby elephants
longing to the Regent of Negri Sembilan walked up the steps of the high sticking out of the washing court in Seremban ap-machine. She was lying parently attracted by a large crowd which come to hear a case, Before their kecyer could move them away, one at the elephants picked a fighter from the pocket of a lawyer, Mr David Marshall, former Chief Minister of Singa-
line alanza is called a limerlek. The explanation is a simple one. It was a form of verse vented in 1842 by the Limericks poet Sean Lonergan, and he gave it the name of his native place. He was something of a wit, and when a critic attacked him wild- ly he called it "empering the wind to the Sean Lonergan." Wagner in a whisper
HEAR that at a recent per- formance of "Tristan and Isolde"
the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York, the
to was changed,
But for one Royal gues!, au- by the audience,
Tristans to
and thor Somerset Maugham, all this was old history, as he had been Isolde." The leading tenor had a sore throat. His place was taken the Sultan's late father's good pore. by another tenor, who also had a sore throat. A third tenor also had a sore throat. Each sang, or The rather whispered one Art. cffect was so beautiful, in com- What they were, she
parkson with the customary up roat, that arrangements are being not elaborate.
Her favourite hobby is photo- Milss Drummond's contract made for a whispered opera. The the Grelrosa, which
is plot is simple: all the characters, graphing lowers in colour and with
doctors, have embroidery.
owned by Jebshun Shipping including the
Hongkong, will | Jaryngitis. The
she stopped Company In only time going to sea was in pre-war end in three months,
the world *twice or
Perthshire, Scottland, Her Miss Drummond has gone ancestors all served in the Sar- round vices. Her brother, John Drum- thrice," mond, is an author in Perth- She said: "I expect to retire these all after shire, She bas sister in Lon- from the sea
years, but not yet. When I do I caur begin to do all the things I had not had the time to do be fare."
don.
Of her work, she said: "I love every nоment of " section materials,
Miss Drummond breame interested in marine engineering in her teens, and was an ap
Ship- prentice in the Caledon building and Engineering Co, in Dundee for Sve years.
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"I was the only girl among 3,000 men," she recalled,
MISS DRUMMOND
would years when she broke her arin
in an accident.
With a week to go before he loaves Gormony and the US Army for America and the life of a star, Elvis Preslay gave his verdict on the people of Bavaria, where he had been taking part in Nato's "Operation Wintershield" exercise. The people aro
I like them." simple and nico.
The Gorman paper reporting his statement was reciprocally complimen tary. Picture shows: "Just another soldier"--but with a rather longer train of followers.-Express Photo.
FILMS AND NIGHT SPOTS
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KING'S & PRINCESS: "The found of the flaskervilles", starring Peter Cushing, Andre Morell and Chris. topher Lee. (Added: "A Mihion Lights Hall Glow," a travej kan of Hongkong).
10OVER & GALA: "The Gazebb," starting Glenn Ford, Debbia ivy- nusda and Cari Kelner.
NOXY & BROADWAY; (A1 2.30 'JA 8.30 p.m.) "South Pacide" in Toda. A starring Rossano Draxat, it Menynut, Zotin Kerr and Yrance Nuyer. LEE & ASTOR: "Goliath And The Barbarian," starring Støve Redyna, ROYAL: Wall Disney's Bl
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Cantonese Upara RITZ: "Rome Like It Itoi," starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curl, and Jack Remoon. ORIENTAL "Next To Na' Time", starring Kenneth More and Delay
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KAJKSTIC:
Collegiennes." starring Christine Cartes, Agnes Laurent and Veronique Varikac. CAPIZOLI "Utamaro" (apanese Film with English and Chines sub>title)
starting. Scpha STAR! "Attica"
Loren and Anthony quian. METROPOLE:
(Chinese).
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 By Air
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Guam, 3 pm.
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Korea, 3 p
Masad, 4 P.
Macau, a p.m.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
By Air
China, People's Republic, 7., Thailand, Cambodia, Majaya, Indonesia, Caylon, Noon.
Dorma, Pakistan Middle East. Africa, Grant Britain, Europe, Noon.
Japan. 3 D.
PhUppines, Guam, Australia, New Zealand, Fill, 2
Okinawa, Karen, 0 p.m.
Formosa, pm.
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Maso, Pim.
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FRIDAY, VEDRUARY 20
By Air
Hawali, USA, C & S America, a
Vietnam, Pakistan, France, am Thailand, Aurma, India, Noon, Cambodia, Noon.
Middle East, Africa, Aden,
Great
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Japan, 1 pm.
Guinea, Philippines, Dutch New Austraila, New Zealand. Fl. 3 p.m. Canada, USA., C & S. Amerien, 6
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NIGHT SPOTS PARAMOUNT: Giancarlo and t
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And his band, Vocal'ky Deany. BLUE UKAYEN: Allen Brothers and
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Allen
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In Saturday's Chino Mall.
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Stacao, 4 p.m.
Macao,
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BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Dy Burlaco
China, Poople's Republic, 7. Iran, Iraq (Bahrain, Kuwait þar. cela direct), Noon.
Sarawak, North Noon
Malaza, Adon,
Európe, Noon,
Macho, 1 p.m..
Cambodia, 2 p.m.
On to victory
AT King's Knucklefurther a
crowd obstructed the trac tion engine. Many people carried
banners,
friend.
in a crooked position.
"I do not know how much she- had was covered by the water, as 1
pulled her out ́immed Eicly. Sher scomed to be unconselous,
The crowd laughed and the Mr Maugham was one of the keeper retrieved the lighter and earliest guests to arrive at the gave it back to the surprised palace for the ceremony, but as lawyer. he was not one of the immediate fomily he was sented in the pavilion outside the small throne room by 6,45 am.
But it turned out that he saw nothing of the actuni corunation ceremony because he did not know that there were television
sets in the pavillon for him and other guests to watch the cerc- monies imide the throne room. bearing the legend: Later Mr Maugham said he "Welcome! Happy landing" didn't know anything about the One man held aloft a placard TV sets. But he took his disap- saying, "Arbitrate, Don'i Lili-|pointment philosophically. gate," and
of youths A group representing the Anti-Chinese "After all, I was not expecting League handed out leaflets with an invitation and it came as "Opium is the Religion of the a surprise in the Arst place." People" in large red type. One
fur two local wags yodelled,as
Roy Boundered by on his water-
skis, and a fat matron in an After 10 years, the Fedora- upper window cried, "Bring ut
tion is to have more say back
chamois, matey!" A
in the Malaya, North grocer's assistant struck up "A
Borneo Currency Board Life on the Oecon Wave," but was hushed by the village -the controlling body of constable.
the Malayan dollar that is used in the Federation, Singapore, North Borneo, Brunci and Sarawak.
-(London Express Service),
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London Express Bersion,
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Maloya, in which two-sirds of the currency circulates, is to have two members on the Board, one of whom will be the chair- man, against one member from the other four states.
Malayan currency is virtually unique in having more than 10 per cent backing and the January 1 figure of notes and clrculation amounted to a total of $1,125.5 million, which is ul. backed by sterling assets.
coing in
Now the Board has decided 1. Invert a little more than a quar- ter of its assets in locally Issued securities over three years. This move has been trailed in. Inancial circles as a great boom to local development.
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The next time the Chung Khiaw Bank in Singa- pore gives a party they will keep it a secret,
Their 10th anniversary chil- dren's party recently turned into a rush-and-grab show when 10,000 united guarts-mosily children turned the Victoria Memorial Hall into shambles.
The bank's managing director, Mr Lee Chee-shan, said: "I sill haven't got over the shock,"
The crowds which turned up at the hall overflowed into the streats and stopped lunchtime trafic.
Police had to be called in to control the crowds and the |traffle. Many guests went away when they found they could not get in.
Mr Lee explains how the party | became dicorganised:
to
and
"We sent out invitations 4,000 including parents guardianis. Wo alated plainly that the party was from 10a.m. to 2 p.m.
"At 8 am, people begun to BITIVE. For every child invited, four or five turned up.
"We could not very well turn them away, although they were not invited.
"By 10 the hall was already full. And more people were try- ing to get in. We had to call the polico,
"Then wo found that the children who had been serveși would not leave. They had their drinks, their eaker and other things. But they would not go." Food and drinks ran out be- forg 1 pm, even though the paily was to continue to 2 p.m. and when it was all over the hell wes dne mees of debriy
.
A
19-year-old Singapore plumber will always have a story to tell his when Chinese children New Year comes around.
water
The chair in which Shiricy had been eltung at the table when 1 left the kichen was on its side about half a yard from the washing machine."
Verdict: Accidental London Express Service,
death-
SNHILK THOUGHT
FOIL TODAY
The merchants were the great inen of the earth,-Revelation 19:23.
is
He was repairing two
But that did not save Babylon pipes on the road when a loud from destruction, for the blood bang at his hair afre
of prophets and saints cried out
Materialkım against her. temporal not eternal.
Press-Radio Bible Service,
Inc Cincinnati, Ohio.
Now his slick long hair has belune a stragay crew-cut after a giant rocket-cracker exploded
in his wel creamed locks.
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