THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947.
"Hey, Joe, what you got to sell?"
THE
IIE editor of a volume en- titled "Who's Who In America" has sent nie several queries about my Inoffensive existence, including this one: "When were you naturalised an American citizen?"
I hastened do reply: "I have -not been naturalised an Ameri- can citizen, and never will be.",
THAT'S the greeting that was shouted from every
Italian port to GEORGE MILLAR who is sailing with his wife in the yacht Truant. Millar, D.S.O., M.C., wrote the best-sellers "Maquis" and "Horned Pigeon"
"You
If my reply was a litle abrupt I must be the editor's pardon aud cluins extenuating circumstances for man any and munters. Chlef of these chor circumstances la duất 1 received his | helding. letter while sailing round Italy, and every time we push our bowsprit anto na Italian port I am greeted with this about: "Hey, Joe! What you got to sell?"
For example my wife steered our bant out of the-life-elp in the Straits of Messina and past the golden alatue at the entrance to Messina Jabour.
1 stood forward, preparing to drop Ahe anchor, and sounding the bot dom, which in Hunt harbour is much fouled with wrecks.
The traders pwo black
We have called at the ports of Oneglia, Savona, Portofino, Porto- venere, Giglie, Civita Vecchia, Anzio, Ventotene Ischia, Santa Lucin (Naples), Marina Grande di Capri Palinaro, Vibo Valentino, We visit ed Roma by train and by car.
Our first impression of Italy was a good one. It seemed 'that there was more to be bought in the shops than in France, and that the Italian workman was rendier to work and cheerful, than his French brother (or should I say "distant cousin").
muc
These things are probably true of the north of Haly, but, while at San Reno or Rapallo in the north we could buy, fairly reasonably with our favourable exchange, a variety of food and clothing that the shops in Britain probably will not show in two years' time,, in impoverished south apart from cities like Naples an intelligent and Reggio, there is squalid misery I said to him when the anand much fear of tho winter.
clevel and apparently
sem to L
Whs
"Molto Intelligente," he agreed, handing me bis visiting card which gave bis aume, called him a ship- had owner, and claimed that be offices in Augusta and Naples as well no Messina.
Such gentry have their carda printed before they look for the offices, the typists, the notepaper, or even before they quite know what they are going to do.
The money
tell me why everybody
THEN er maly imagines that
Und weather, when we left Capri. drove us to shelter between the coast and a small, uninhabited island called the Isolutta Cirella.
The hotel
DUMBBELLS
MAY
I HAVE
Two PIECES OF CANDY?
OFFICE
CERTAINLY TAKE ONE
PIECE AND BREAK IT IN HALF!
Internment Reflections
have
RELIEF FOR
CHINESE IN
BORNEO
The Chinese government will; be asked to ald Chinese suf- forers from the war and Japanese occupation in Sarawak and British North Borneo, said Dr Wu Pank-shing, Chinese | Consul-General for Malaya. after a tour of the two Bornco colonies.
Dr Wu sold many Chinese women whone hunbands were slaughtered by the Japanese in the Double Tenth massacre in 1943 par- ticularly need relief,
The Consul General; whose duties also extend to the two Borneo Colonies
well as throughout Malaya, suld the 100,000 Chinese In North Bornco and the 130,000 Chinese In Sarawak were lying in "close harmony" with all other raves and were "chergetically" tackling the numerous problems of the post- liberation period.
"when communications have Im-
A few of the
After visiting 40 towns and centres The following verses
both colonies during a one-month CINCE the swell was so flerce that been supplied by a reader who tour, he observed that Sarawak, our boat was almost uninhabi-states that they were written in praved, will be well on the way hacke table, we
went to and food and Shamshulpo Camp in 1942 by a to its former prosperity, While only lodgbur at the nearest town on the mainland, a place called
gold mines are func- Hongkong Volunteer Diamante
whose tiening, the rubber plantations and, (diamond), because it is shining and name he has been unable to fto some extent, the pepper planta- lovely ns
tips have resumed Work."Asso- trace. At the main hotel in Diamante
einted Press. pleasant people scraped and search- ed to find us food, yet our dinner would scarcely have satisfleet
by the mariner.
well-grown pullet.
slings. The
next
ጎ
the
LET US GIVE THANKS
We fought for simple liberty Which brethren
hearts
deserve. Let us give thanks for what we
my wife and I are American,
elsewhere 11 marketeers in swift You are both fale-haired. You in the best bedroom,
Although there were no blankets preserve; rowboats beat the mud-pilot to wife is pretty. You have a yacht things with teeth and things with For that fair
there were For Homes, Tradition, Decency: our side, and before I had dropped Therefore you live money. There- anchor there gentlemen had offered fore you are an American. Every weather-bound, we stayed on
Peace our night, still to kell me petrol, cigarettes, chewing|body knows
that the British have Island, among the lizards, the red fum, condy, diesel oil, sugar and spent all their money, Besides, son, and had also offered to buy suppose we hear you talking Eng-ants, the aea hawks and the mos from me at "advantageon prices" lish, it is surely more polite to guess
tiltoes. petrol, cigarettes, dollar bills, foun- you are American?" tain pens of i certain American make, candy, sugar and soap.
all
When had wearily refused their proposals, one of these Stellfans, a man of swarthify prepos- sessing aspect, thought to maintain relations with social conversation.
The question
46 17HAT · part of the States are
you from?" he aslad.
"Why?"
"The Americans. have all the
money. Everybody American."
want: to
serve.
Splendid snub-nosed electric trains We lost materini freedom, yet run almost hourly down the coast Our smug complacency was tossed railway past Diamante. Why do Into oblivion, so let not some of them be
places some of the merchandise that Kluts the markets of the north?
Just one thing worries me. Wil
"I don't. Do you?" "Sure. Everybody's broke here. There's no future in Italy. Lank!".
From his left hand trouser pocket he pulled out a wast of perhaps 200 greasy dollar bills. From the ear- responding pocket on his right side
carry to xuch
Let us give thanks for what we lost. Us never averrate the east,
the Greeks, shoul: "Hey, Joe! What We have our lives, our sight, our you got to self?"
he drew a wad of clean notes re- TELEPHONE USES presenting perhaps 40,000 Italian lire
This good," he said waving the dollars. But this and he spat on the tre notes, wiped them, and thrust them contemptuously into his pocket.
in
the
"From the State of Great Britain," I answered, surprised that gentlemen traders who imagine themselves to shrewd should not even ather to recognise Red Ensign, *
It seemed to me that the conger "El?" said the Sicilian,
cel, prowling 11 being
undersca beyond his comprehension that any- wreckage of a hideous war, probably body but an American could travel has a more elevated outlook and a freely across the Italian seas. But brighter spirit than the Italian black then he recovered and remembered marketeer. that Montgomery and his new had Also passed that way.
"Sorry, Misier and Miss," he said.
The shops
INFRA-RED RAYS
A new telephone that transmits the voice on Invisible rays of intra- red light has been revealed by Northwestern University physicists, says United Press.
The sending unit resembles
Electrical searchlight.
impulses vary the brightness of its light beam in conformity with the amplitude and frequency of the original volce sounds.
health
Berliners Prefer Widows
A widow with a home has the best chance of marrying these
there is a large excess of women days in battered Berlin, where
according to the city registrars. over men as a result of the war,
Though thousands found eternal
sleep: And rarer than forgotten wealth women from
We have the Right to laugh, to weep
doors Can make our fights of fancy cease, Nor bar the dreams We sail to
shores Which know no
thon
PTCSJ.
You know all the answers. Dad!
Not all fathers are as wise as their children think them to be. Otherwise fewer widows and orphans would bo left in straitened circumstances.
Life Insurance enables any father to provide a guaranteed monthly income for his dependents in case of his untimely death.
THE
MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
READ OFFICE *
(Established 1887)
* TORONTO, CANADA
HONG KONG WINDSOR HOUSE
Tel. 34156, 34157
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MACAO: Av enida Almeida
Nylon Shoes At Welsh Fair
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Next to widows over 40 years of
rate age, whose
of marriage is described us "astoundingly high." The first multi-coloured nylon | dinghy and the barrage balloon. are considered to be those most like-tain are being produced at the pounds is made of aluminium alloy
the ages of 16 to 23 shoes to be made in Great Bri-en-foot ladder weighing only Let us give thanks for what we keep.ly to find husbands, says Associated
formerly used for Lancaster aircraft. rate of 500 pairs a week by the Inkstands and trinket boxes of a Though captives In the Besh. FRE In the latter age group, steno-Astoria Company of Cardiff, new plastic composition (a wartime graphers, secretaries and saleswomen and were the centre of much secret with radar)" can be bounced are given foremost chances of
interest at the Welsh Industries on the ground and do not break. matrimony, nul only because they meel more men but because of their Fair, which has just opened in Several of the new firms exhibiting usual good looks.
London.
at the Fair were started by refugees "A woman with good looks *tjil
from Hitler, established on the has the beat chances," the registrar
of The fair is a show
Treforest trading estate. From the in the suburb of Schoenebert sold. diversity ad features the new light Central "Formerly.
European capitals thes many men married Industries introduced in South Wales brought the skill and knowledge women
In their money. To-day, during the last 10 years and the glove-making for which they were when no one has any properly worth, manner in which war processes and famed, and set up factories in what mentioning. this motive has been war materials are being turned into was once a depressed area. shunted into the
They background and peacetime novelties.
have given training and employment good looks mean more."
to hundreds of our people. Welair Women betwech the ages of 25 and There is, for instance, inflatable girls, they say, have shown them- 35 have less hope of finding hus-furniture that can be carried in a selves exceptionally adaptable. bands, said the registrar, because the handbag and pumped to full size with war has torn the greatest gap in the concertine bellows in less than a ranks of men of these ogen,
minute a development of the rescue
other state репсе. Let us give thunda for their release. We find new beauty in the skies, New shades to colour joy and pain; Our eyes shall paint a Paradise On canvas lately drab and plain, Let us give thanks for what we gain. Though brutat greed and cruelty
Strong in the lights of chivalry Our Island Empire's brightest star Let us give thanks for what we are.
"You got any pistols or tea or cof- !!" down the Italian coastline from into sounds In a telephone headsel. The tale of countless nations mar,
fee to sell? I give you 1,600 re for pound sterling, 1,450 for a pound Egyptian, and 9,000 for a golden pound (sovereign)."
has taken us six weeks to sail
San Remo. In the north, to Reggio, Cainbria, the last part on the "toe," our jumping-off place for Greece.
The infra-red rays are Intercepted by a photo-sensitive receiver that transforms the varying light pulses
The telephone has been tested be- tween the shore of Lake Michigan and ships some distance away.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
for
extreme
f
"Wales can make and sell, it" is the slogan adopted for the show,
"How to Keep the Peace"
BY KEMP STARRETT
NEVER, NEVER SAY...."ON WHAT A LOVELY DRESSA
TOO BAD THEY DIDN'T HAVE YOUR, SIZE!^
LEARN TO READ TYPE UPSIDE DOWN: IT SAVES LOTS OF ARGU- ALENT.
KEEP A FILE OF SUBJECTS TO AVOID
AND GIVE IT A QUICK ONCE-OVER BEFORE THE GUESTS ÁRRNE.
LET HIM HAVE ALL HE CAN HOLD TOR. ONCE AND THEN SEND FOR THE DOCTOR..
Ledger Syndicate
NO MATTER WHAT SHE WANTS”.......... AGREE, AND THEN GET OUT AND HISTLE FOR IT.
WHEN THE BOSS GOES BERSERK...KEEP THE MOUTH SHUT AND LET HIM GET IT OUT of HIS SYSTEAL..
NEVER TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE FLEA-POWDER. THEIR DOGS DON'T HAVE PLEAS: THEY JUST SCRATCH TO KEEP OCCUPIED....
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