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British shipyard workers are breaking output and speed records to replace the 19,000,000 tons of British and Allied shipping destroyed in the war.
Six Times U.S. ̧
Not only are yards rebuilding slipways compared with the British Merchant Navy tons launched abroad. they are coping with an ever-in- creasing flood of orders from oversens owners..
Ships on British stocks at the end of December, according to Lloyd's Register figures, represented 1,937,- 032 gross tons, 627 per cent of the work total and our highest figure since 1923.
America, Britain's nearest rival, is building only, a little over enc- sixth of the tonnage figure achiev
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1947.
DAB & FLOUNDER
CHILDREN'S
COLUMN
By Uncle Peter
QPRING is here, and we shall have a long spell of sunny days. There will be every opportunity for you to observe how plants, bird, animals and insects behave during the change of season. Everything comes to life again.
Very Interesting to observe is how the green leaves make most of every ray of sunshine. Have you ever noticed! how leaves spread themselves out so that they do not overshadow their neighbours too much, and so keep them from doing their work!
I
"D". DAN) NURSING HOME
The cow ate
WAS spreading dung over the root ground about three furlongs from the house, when I heard a scream.
It was my wife. 1 dropped my prong and ran back home. I got nearer I could hear her As
calling "Jan, Jan.”
She was standing by the gate wiping her tears with the corner of her apron. I began to prepare to aympathise for the loss of a rela
tive.
"Not one left!" she exclaimed.
Look at the Ivy, or * Virginia Creeper, growing on a wall, and you FOR a moment thought of all my will see how carefully the lenves
In-laws laid with one blow by arrange themselves so that each one a plague-for her griet could not may have its fair share of light and | have been more painful. alr.
Of
Notice, too, the different shapes of the leaves. Plek 7 leaf from every tree and plant you see when you are out for 11 walk in the country, and you will not find two exactly
allke. There are marre leaves and smalt leaves; some are round, others oval. heart-shaped, star-shaped,
cut out into all sort of patterns. Some are like brund ribands, others long, narrow and pointed like swords or Ane and sharp as needles. Some leaves have smooth edges, others scalloped, fagged, or cut into fin- gers or fringes--there really seems no end to all the different kinds of lenves we find growing on the plants in the fields and lanes and jroodlands,
Now it is not just by chance that leaves are so different one from an- other. Every plant has leaves that, by their shope, can best catch the
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Rupert & the New Pal--16
Creeping with every care, Rupčil and Bill edge their way up the slope Then until they reach the brow. they prep gingerly through the **Can you scr grantes at the top. anything of the black cat? breathes Bill Nothing at all.” whispers Rupert. He must have run on ahead." Rising cautiously to their feet they gaze around, but- there is no sign of the cat anywhere "Well, this is the limit " says Rupert. "We were only a few jerr behind bir and Vanished "
1.
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John Keats.
for the re- 2. A general name glons adjoining the shore of the east Mediterranean Le. the coastlands of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolla and Greece:
3. For its leper colony.
4. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 5. In temperate arid moderately cold climates.
"All gone?" I queried.
"Not even an old one left."
"What about your sister?"
"Hers don't at me...."
I withdrew my sympathy and be- gan to disentangle our cross-pur- poses.
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"What exactly have you lost?" "Come and see," she replied, and led me off to the orchard. "Not one pair left." she cried. Slowly re- membered that as I had gone off to work I had seen her standing in the orchard hanging her new slik stock- ings on the line. A couala had sent her some pairs from America.
This waste of tears amused me.
"What
are you grinning about? All your shirts have gone, too!"
This was indeed no laughing mat- ter. Apparently, my wife had done
the
by WALTER
Em Acco
clothes
line
fali dend any moment. But for from it. When the vet, arrived about three hours later, was quite happily digesting my the cow shirts and my pyjamas, I told him the story. To my surprise he be lieved it. In fnet, he immediately capped our experience and remind- ed me that a cow's stomach has room for 10-60 gallons of water.
"That isn't very my wife's remark.
DOOXS
helpful,"
Was
"It's a question of what is worth more, the cow or the clothes," the vet, replied.
Jests And Jeers
The wolf at the door has probably called to take the young Indy out to dinner,
Some women like the man with a past, but the majority profor the. man with a present,
.
·
A
Drunkenness is passing out, soya #doctor. So many a mun discovered.
has
"Have you run out of razor blades??
"Why, yes, how did you know?" “A little beard told 150.”
Many
girl has acquired first- second-hand
hand knowledge in a
car,
The most frequently defective part of a motor car is the nut that holds the wheel.
An IAF plot, who made a forced We worked it out. The cow was landing in Belgium, was rescued by worth £20 and would probably dle & nun, who toole him to a convent. anyhow: the clothes were worth Hore he was handed a nun's outôt that at least, plus the coupons, and and was counselled; "Lle low. Say the yet promised us they would be nothing. Be us inconspicuous as all right if we decided to operate possible. Sonner or later we wil jinmediately,
ind a way to get you back to Eng- land.""
For eight weeks the pilot spoke to no one. He shaved eight mes a day, and was everything a model conveni 'habitue should be.
One evening, however, he spiled a beautiful sister alone in the pantry, awept her into his arms, only to re- an Irresistible Impulse ceive a terrific sock on the jaw.
I followed him into the shippon. The enw was despatched to her an- the entire reslors, and out of her came forth clothes-line, with even the pegs still attached.
The mural of which story is some-and with what obscure. Perhaps it is a note to the Minister on his false economy on feeding stuffs.
"Old yer 'orses, can't yer?" said a masculine voice, "I've been 'ere "JAN." myself since Dunkirk." *
Miss Caldwell
moves the furniture
-regardless of expense
the washing early in the morning MISS TAYLOR CALDA``
and hung it out dry. During the
WELL'S novel, This Side late afternoon she had gone to fetch of Innocence (Collins, 103, 66.) clothes in to find the entire line missing Three of my shirts, two may not crcak, but it rumblas pairs of my pyluinns, my socks and most confoundedly-as if some- my vests, not to mention mout of one were moving heavy Vic- my wife's underclothes, and the torian furniture in a large precious stockings,
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
and fineness. And Jerome. Vie house. A house, let us say, like charming if vicious here of the main „They couldn't have blown away. Hilltop, at Riversend, New action, now reveals the darker side There was no wind. It was plainly York, where Jerome Lindsey of his nature. Miss Caldwell, who a case for the police. So without waiting for tea, I went up to 'phone travelled on a night of fearful has never approved of this charac- the constable, who said he would get storm to prevent the marriage ter, takes ample revenge on him. on his bike immediately and come of his cousin and half-brother, These developments occur and Inspect the orchard, though Alfred, to the lovely, low-born Philip, the hunchback son of Alfred, what good that would do I couldn't
by his arst marriage, meets and understand.
adventuress, Amalie Maxwol), falls in Inve with Mary, the
of
when
daughter of Amalie and Jerome. Jerome behaves abominably.
To this leisurely tale, Miss Cald- fiction. well brings a steady flow of inven- love, lion and a plentiful absence of
has And, in fact, Miss Caldwell furnished her premises with pieces of immense weight and solidify from the emporium of Victorian Gnawing passion, frustrated
remoise, humour. blazing adultery, searing
largest conceived on the
LTHOUGH
It was the twilight-let us hope. the final twilight-of the Interna- tlonat White Trash-by-which name * Mrs Pulsifer denoted the gilded r17- raft of de luxe hotels and Riviera resorts.
Mrs Pulsifer, rich and above re- that proach, knew
Trash, and despised. It henrilly. Leaving Paris at the last possible moment, slo made for Monte Carlo with her de- voted chauffeur Ennery.
Meanwhile, in Venico, the Princess D'Orobelli, a great lady. among the said Trash, was parted from her lover and, worse, from her jewels. Most pillful of all, she hnd to itee, with hordes of hateful, that is to say poor, people, suddenly grown insolent. She reached Monte Carlo a le before Mrs Pulsifer.
Serafino, the Princess's mald, went to Rome to fetch the jewels. The story tells how they were
part played by Ennery, that sterling last brought over the frontier, of the character, of what happened, dread" fully, to Serena and how the Prin- cess remained, to the last. Interna-
lonal White Trash.
A bitter, dramatie trifle.
at
Ugher level of art, and Ferguson Way is on an "olto- feelings. It truth and is winged
bears the impress of with magic, Bromfield has been deeply moved.
Ferguson, who fills the
Zenobia most of the stories
Sho bod
THEN I got the cows in, fed them, had my tea and went back to the shippon to milk. I was sitting by the side of a heller, and my wife all are was milking an old cow which I'd scale. bought in cheaply for a drop:
But Miss Caldwell is a competent, in Louis Bromfield's new collec- whole of this canvas, was an old extra winter milk, when suddenly if painstaking, novelist. Her story tion; The World We Live In (Cassell, woman, of partly Indian blood, who I noticed that the cow's tongue was may rumble, but it moves. It may 10s. 6d.) rise scarcely above the level had loved passionately and, by ac- hanging out in an odd fashion.
be muscle-bound, but it has power. of commercial art, two display not cldent, killed her lover.
little bit queer, and "What's wrong
may be introduced only the technical skill but also the then one a with that beast's The characters mouth?" I called,
Wondering us conventional types, they may ex- genuine creative gifts of this writer. Hved by herself up Ferguson Woy with the birds and the beasts who In Death of Monte Carlo, he fixes were her friends. There Bromfeld. perience none but the most stately, whether it had been bitten by
even if deplorable, of emotions, they
when an old and visited her as a boy. His visit fs snake.
may talk in a high-toned manner upon the time
disreputable order came toppling the story. that is daunting when it is
not down. Franco won about to fall;
Italy's rulers were screwing up their It is worth while being an ac- courage, or screwing down their complished writer..to bo able, once conscience, to strike a dishonourable in a while, to make an enchantment blow.
like this.
We both got up to have a look I took hold of the row's tongue. It downright funny-but they develop. possession of their own was strangely thin. We examined They take it. I held a silk stocking in my Kves. hand! I pulled the "tongue," entire silk stocking appeared not JEROME did not prevent Alfred's even laddered. But it would not marriage to Amalie, that brazen come free. Surely there wasn't another one beliind it?
The
1 yanked open the cow's mouth. There was a clothes-peg holding the stocking and a rope disappearing down the beast's
ly beautiful creature. He tried liard, first with the aid and then against the opposition of his sister Dorothea, grimmest of spinstera.
thwarted
But Amalle had her way. And Lhroat. Surely Jerome, to
everybody's surprise. not? Surely the whole clothes-line couldn't be in the cow's belly? But gave up his rackety life in New A glance at her stomach told usYork and went into the family bank at Riversend. For he had fallen madly in love with his cousin's wife. her. River- divorce (surely one of the speediest
was 50.
Nor did she suffer any apparent What is more, he won
send was rent by scandal-by discomfort, but stood there with the of Windsor, who stocking hanging out of her mouth, acquired the title when his father with no comment but an occasionni on record), and a now marriage.
0.
The Duke
George King
V ascended the throne. hiccup. 7. A small two-masted boal 8. One of a chain of islands which separate the lagoon of Venice, Italy and the Adriatic.
9. Dulch.
10. Platinum, palladium, Iridium, rhodium, ruthenfum and osium, - i
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But, although this may be regard- ed as the climax of the novel it is by
At that moment the sergeant ar- no means its conclusion. For Mias, rived. Nor would he believe It. Caldwell, there are latencies In her till we showed him. "It's a vet, you people, hardly noticed in the earlier need," he advised and promised to stages of the story, which must stiù out the old fellow dragged himself
phone for us. Laughing his sides be worked out.
11. The Chinese who piped na-Up the hill pushing his bike.
tural gas, in bamboo tubes from salt My wife finished milking the ALFRED, who at first appears a
12. China,
From shipbuilding centres came mines. these proofs that last year's, great teat of shipbuilding la ilkely to be exceeded in 1947:
CLYDE yards are working on 144 NANCY ships with an aggregate tonnage of
and a
630,000-equivalent to one half pre-war years, plus much re- pair work and overhauls.
WEAR orders total 500,000 tons. MERSEY' shipyards have 40,000 men on bullding and repairing.
BELFAST has 20,000 men work-
lipers, down to tas and is turning away orders.
ed by fewer than 250,000 Britishing all out on ships from 25,000 ton
workers.
Not only are more ships being bullt In British yards, but they are being Inunched at a faster rate than where else in the world.
any.
In the last three months of 1948 ships totailing. 207,700 tons left the
Most of, the tonnage is medium- sized cargo vessels and, tankers.
After Britain, Tending countries are: America, 320,703 tons; Sweden, 248,205 tons; Franke, 100,458 kons; and Holland, 190,338 toms,
I'M GOIN' SKIING OVER ON DEAD MAN'S HILL: | TODAY.
sanctimonious, jack, a poor foil offending cow. I stood by holding for the versatilo Jerome, discloses off her in case it should unsuspected qualities of strength.
All But the Ambulance
BE CAREFUL ****
· THAT'S A DANGEROUS SPORT
I THINK I'LL GO OVER AND- SEE HOW HE'S
MAKING" OUT
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HAPPENED. TO YOU?
NOTHIN
BUT IF
| ANYTHING.
DOES, I'M ALL READY
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