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SIAM WILL FULFIL RICE CONTRACT
The recent visit of Sir Harold Sanderson, Director' of Rice in the British Ministry of Food, to Slam, will be of great benefit to that country, stated Mom Luang Chitchua Kamphu, the Siamese representative to the monthly food conferences arranged by Lord Killearn's office in Singapore.
Alive to the needs of the starving people at the end of the war, the Guvernment lost no time in
in-
Mom Luang Chichua was Because these three needs were country's obtain, the confident that Siam would be difficult to
rice production suffered seriously able to fulfil her deliveries, to which she was committed, dur- during the war years. ing the first three months of this year, writes the Straits Times correspondent in Bang-ducing farmers to go back to their rice furms in order to increase to reveal production. The Government also He, however, declined
offered numerous Inducements, nny Bgures as he feared profleer foremost among them being the ing dealers might take advantage of this to exploit the situation for supply of cloth to farmers. their own selfish ends,
kok.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947.
DAB &
SHORT STORY
HEDLEY CHARLES
FLOUNDER
T thirty-eight Miss Gif- ford's efforts to look ten years younger were being defeated by the infiltration of crow's feet around her watery eyes, and the deepening of the lines around her
too-small mouth.
by WALTER
The Midas Touch
handwriting to the Jandit with some sight Information on her history, to- gether, with the astonishingly small fee of two shillings and sixpence, she would receive in return n highly per- sonalised reading from that seer of all seers.
hundred
AI
Jests And Jeers
Beware of the wolf in Spring clothing!
•
Love may be blind, but it man- ages to find its way around in the dork.
They said of a certain eager-and now wher-young woman at Happy Valley that she was like Lndy Godivn. She put everything she had on a horst.
A couple of atoms were discus- king a third who had dropped out of Bight.
"I wander" one suggested, “I he's gone assion."
The fellows who are waiting for something to turn up should begin with their sleeves.
Mary had a little skirt, It was split sideways in hvalf; And everywhere that Mary went,.. She showed her little call. ·
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She was a lovely young bride, fair, dewy-eyed and as a wand. Sho walked down the aisle, a picture of girlishi slender us
Innocence and simplicity, on her
intimacies in their conversation, ingly small sum of two shillings and There was a smug satisfaction in sixpencer The reply was short and thinking about it. She found It to the point. "Yes, dear lady." sald pleasant, too, to reflect on the way Jandit Jehu, "you would be wise to he had talked settling down and invest at this time. Your money getting married.
cycle is in the ascendancy. The Midas touch has visited you, and also in the crystal are the many Miss GITord had sent the two shil-
marriage NE thing, and one thing alone, signs of
For further 1ngs and sixpence, and now she was
troubled Miss Gifford, and that readings send 28 Gd to Jandit' Jehu ni conscious of the welling of excite-
of the hundred the above address." ment as she picked up the second was the matter
She had done it. That afternoon radiantly pounds. Now, as she thought of it, letter, Jundit Jehu's rending:
.....The strong outlines of your she relaxed the discipline of her face she had drawn the money from the
pounds. writing are rising like a cloudy mist long enough for a frown to make its bank. The in the crystal, forming, taking a mil-appearance on her brow. A business first Russell had demurred, but she
had finally managed to prevail on father's arm deal, Russell bad said it was. It was Just the chance of 3 It was a defeat, however, she on shapes, vanishing...at
lifetime, something, im to take it. something is coming. It is the shape was not prepared to concede. An of a human head, and the hair is to do with the purchase and recon- hour each night was devoted to. in it the redness of glowing fire, version of army stores. A quick turn the consolidating of her position. There is a man, a man coming into over and a big return.
"The biggest chance I've ever had, an hour from which her thin your life, a man with red hair, and
small
fortune in it and not face emerged pasty with the beyond that I see a vast happiness. Emmy," he had said. "There's
Is a happiness you will share with
shadow of arlak. And what hap application of beauty prepara- this one of the red hair. Together you pong?" Sho remembered the way tions, her raucous yellow hair will find happiness and trust letter can't make it because I'm a paltry suld about the smell of beer on his "it was a hundred."
his shoulders, he had shrugged hundred short of the purchase price." The shoulders had slumped.
involved in the intricacy pins.
of
Miss Gifford dropped the bael: on to the bed, and a sigh escap ed her. It had happened! The thing that Jandit Jehu had foretold.
This night Miss Gliford had been more thun usually industrious, and when she had Anished she prodded
IT now seemed much longer than her sharp nose 'towards the mirror
a week since she had frst met and surveyed the result of her work
Her suul filled with a Russell. She remembered the way his critically.
She was ready, hot had tilted back over his red hair vague satisfaction.
as he helped to restore the scattered come what may,
She pulled her dressing gown parcels to her arms. She had stared around her and moved over to the at him with the look of unbelief in He had misconstrued the bed. On it, spread out, were the three her eyes. sheets of paper. On each the name look. "Yes," he had said, "and I'm of Jandit Jehu was prominently dis- trying to think where I've seen you before. It's your hair. I'd remember played across the top.
it anywhere.
SHE
CHE took the first, I was a letter from Jandit Jehu Intimating that of "in if she would send a sample of her Surig were purchased
Several milion He was also optimistic that the ducement" cloth Siamese Government would be able to deliver the full amount of the April allocation,
and distributed to the farmers,
Mom Luang Chitchup complained that Sir Harold-Sanderson's Im- pression of Siam's rice altuation had been misunderstoodi und misinterpreted in Singapore,
Harold
Commons Criticism Actually, he said. Sir Sunderson regarded his recent visit as a sort of conference solve certain dimeulties.
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Sir Harold Sanderson, according
earlier reports, had been
the British Siam by
act
Shipments of farming tools have also been arriving, regularly the Slum delegate to the World Food and Agricultural Conference in Washington early last year, was promised tho assistance of the United States in the supply of farming equipment,
he
Long Term Measures
contemplated
on
500,000,000
new
R fourpoint rural
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the
As she reached the chancel steps her tiny feet brushed a flower-pot, upsetting it. Silently she looked at the dirt, then raised her sweet, child- ke face to the old elergyman and opened her beautiful eyes wider.
"That's a hell of a place to put a #ly," she said,
Now as she climbed into bed: she amiled to herself. She reached and switched off the light und in the darkness she lay thinking: There were things in the future to be de- elded. There was the matter of his smoking. A Althy habit and a waste of money. There wasn't going to be nay smoking in her house, And drink. There landn't been anything Jandit Jehu frowned. "I thought. breath. Miss Gifford's thin lipa
Bair the red .The man with when they were ri
"It was," he said, "until I grinned. tightened.. Yes, room for improvement. She closed can't expect me to take them to the there would be plenty of tools a tenner out for expenses. You
her eyes and settled down to concentration of going to sleep.
the pictures, and things for nothing?"
married
"You could get it from the bank. "Banka! Too much time. Emmy I've got to have the money by Wed- It'd take me that nesday afternoon. long to
Jandit Jchu looked at him with maite the appointment with the right man in the loans section."
troubled eyes. "You shouldn't have M-m-m-m," she had said, and THE man with the red hair looked, come here," he said. "It's too risky. there had been a tightening of her across the table at Jandli Jehu. I don't want to be seen with no one thin lips. She was aware that such "Joe," he said, "business is boom- with red hair at any time."
The man with the red hair waved individuals as confidence men existing." He thrust a hand into the
ful of notes on the table. "Another name of the next lady to have n red- ring about Russell's ring about was a vaguely familiar pocket of his coat, and tossed a land- a hand. "Joc," he said, "give me the
story, Now, back in her room, she pick- ninety, Joe, to split between us. hatred man cross her path and I'll be
on my way." ed up the third of the letters with Nice business. Forty-five apiece." the name of Jandit Jehu across the
another
Things had moved quickly after top. IL was the reply lo that. There had been a night at the letter she had written in her own pictures, the rapid growth of small handwriting, enclosing the astonish-
This novel tries
(and some will say it is shocking)
to justify Judas
on
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Graves's hardheaded
Boman for the
nd-
a ministration in setting up as King of the Jews one who preaches the doctrine of non-violence.
cud.
He Helped Poor Boys And Girls
Soon the number grew to 300, and a bigger building had to be bought. This was in famous Regent Street. Today that building is known the Regent Street Polytechnic, and le one of the best-known technical col-
This year the school leaving age ranged simple trade teaching for the for Britain's boys and girls goes up 35 boys he knew. from 14 to 15 years. That means on stay that, although they may after that age, they cannot leave be fore H. Education has come a long way in Britain in the last 100 years, A century ago there was no com leges in the world. Todhy about pulsory education at all. People had 20,000 boys and girls attend it for
education. children to technical
learning all to pay to send their school, and, of course, poor people kin of trades and professions and
many languages. could not afford this,
worried One man who was very about the condition of the poor boys formerly ex-and girls he saw on way from
tical reven-year Chainat Irrigation project, which when completed will make possible the cultivation of the crop during country's secondary
and the
OPERT GRAVES sent the dry season,
builds PILATE, cynical there lifted, cool, terse, and humorous, his comfortable home to the London fical Food 50,000,000
novel is expeeled
accords well with the portrayal of office where he was a cleric was Mir! his
King Jesus advantages Minister as the result of a sham economy plan, which
12s. 6d.).
sophisticated and sceptical patricians Quintin Hogg. His grandson, of the (Cassell,
Herod and bencilt farmers by eliminating to
Pilate. But the same name, is to-day a Member of system of pro- criticism of tho
year-to-year economic de-
central theme of this story is far Parliament. curement of rice from Siam voleed their
iniddlemen, are new hypothesis about the birth
like remote from the world of the Em- In the House of Commmuns.
pendency
the
measures and life longterm
work of Jesus of umong
But Jesus will have no truck with peror Claudius and his pro-consuis. envisaged by the Government
Nazareth.
these, manoeuvres. In the
It is profound, frogic. It is set Increase rice production.
Pilate accepts from Herod Antipas He asks his renders to accept thirty gold talents for consenting to among fanatica and mysties, among remove by crucifixion a potentially wild peasants, priests and prophets while they read-that Jesus was the.
In whose belles there burns a holy, lawful heir to the throne of Herod dangerous rival to the throne.
It calls for a greater and that this circumstance explains
That, in bald outline, is the story furious fire.
through the exertion of beauty and power in the the mystery surrounding His birth. which Graves tells,
His mouth of Ababus, who is supposed writing. Graves proves equal to the Herod, His resemblance to
Alexandrin, call. The book does not fall down is noted.
Pilate to write the story in by
through any defect in writing. about AD 93. grandfather. among others,
Jesus is also a Jewish prophet,
BVIOUSLY, it is a and devoutly faithful to Jehovah following the teaching of the grent Rabbi Hillel.
Siamese official circles, however, numerous altention to the draw incentives offered by the govern- ment to farmers-and- rice-dealers. in its efforts to encourage rice production and deliveries to which
commilted. It is
Clothing, food and farming the three most equipment are pressing needs of Siamese farmers hoarding laws passed by the Gov
emment have had little effect. 2. present.
In spite of all these inducements corruption has in no small measure humpered the efforts of the Govern- ment to encourage rice deliverles.
and Anti-smuggling
CREATING A NEW
RACE OF GIANTS
anti-
Cattle and sheep could be doubled in size by injections of a gland extract recently prepared at the University of California. Given to children, the preparation would turn. them into giunts nine feet high or more.
Dr Herbert Evans is the Amerl-1
has discovered can biologist who how to extract the potent growth- promoter from the pituitary glands
of oxen.
Injecting it into experimental ant- mals, he has made rats grow to the
And that is, only size of hores. baglaning!
..
When the pituitary gland of a young rat is removed under anaes- thesla. the animal becomes a dwarf. Without its pituitary, the rat ages but does not grow.
If the same rat is then fed with young enough, it proceeds to grow again!
the Evans extract while it is still
In-
nor-
Evans pituitary extract promotes growth by lessening an animal's out- glant-creating put of body-building nitrogen. "Boom food"-the Lood of the gods," which H. G. Wella stead of being excreted at a imagined in one of his carly novels, mal rate, more nitrogen than usual is now actually resting on the bench la retained in the body for protein formation. The net result is a larger animal. of an American selentist.
But it will not be left lying about Within reach of careless hands,
There is no chance at present of washs, growing to the size of birds by feeding on the new preparation, as Wells once supposed."
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Many cattle are required to take small pinch of the precious powder. The "food of the gods" in sill very Nicholas) 3. Killed a expensive.
1. (b) 1,1601; (a) Overall length. 1.031ft; (e) 399it. 2. December 8 (Santa Claus is a corruption of St fox (other than by hunting with hounds), 4, He is playing polo. 5. Dr Thomas
Crushed together and chemically Barnardo, founder of the homes. 0. treated, pituitary glands from cattle Eightien (5 each fore-paw; 4 cach viold the sama growth-promoting hind-paw). 7. North Pole, 1000, by. substance which exists in the pitul- Feary: South Pole, 1911, by Amund
Nitrogen
Res. 8. Butterfly. D, A hod: normal- tary gland of a living human beingly a bricklayer has a man to
11. 10. K.L.M-Koninklijke Lucht Output Of-1
vaart Mantechappij. or Royal Dutch
Situated deep within the akull at the bees of the brain, the pen-shaped pituitary gland is a veritable store- house of active chemical principles.
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Though he lays claim to the icing- ship, it is as a spiritual monarch. not a political king challenging the Empire. He power of the Roman will be the sacred king of the Jews. not the secular King of Israel. And his kingdom will be a golden age. In which the rich gives freely of his superfluity and. If he will not work must starve among his money-bags,
IT
The clearest understanding of the purpose of Jesus is, in this fiction, reserved for Judas the treasurer. He is appalled when, on arriving in Jerusalem, Jesus appears to abandon preaching the Imminent Kingdon of God in order to agitate in pubile for a restoration of the monarchy
narrative
which is liable to. startle many who read it; It may even cause them pain, which is by no means in the mind. The marriage of author's
GEORGE
by MALCOLM
THOMSON
Jesus to Mary, Bister of Lazarus an unconsummated wedlock--is, for which must example, an episode shock some people.
Mr Hogg said, in telling his story: "I felt as though I should go mad unless I did something to try and wretched little help some of the chaps I used to see running about the streets." The first thing he did was to buy a secondhand shoe-black outfit, and at the end of his day's life work at the office he would go out into the streets and share the of the boys he wanted to
help. Then a friend took he and n
room in poor district, where he could live NOVEL, so slight in bulk that it mong the boys, teach them to read be overlooked-butt and write, help them to keep them- may should not-is Celia Dale's To Hold selves clean, and finally help them the Mirror (Hurst and Blacket, 75. to earn their livings decently. ad.); Ils story is that of a brief love
nge,
a
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Then Mr Quintin Hogg realised affair of a Polish boy, a refugee in London, with a middle-class married that if these boys were to have any woman, twice his
living in chances of getting on in the jobs he Muswell Hill.
had helped them to obtain, they must It is a sad, foredoomed little ro- luve some sort of technical aduca- mance. It should have ended-as it tien. Se he bought a nause and or- would probably have ended in real
Life-wryly, in common Benac regrets. The culminating drama seems out of key,
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Was a doctrine hard of com- prehension for those who is tened. Particularly was it difficult for the Zealots (who may be re garded, approximately, as the ex
An author has, of course, a right treme Zlonists of that age). among whom was numbered the disciple to ask that his novel should be Simon Peter.
judged and can only be judged cond of these plays, the famous "Huis as a piece of fletion. But with this Clos" (here called "In Camera"), is Readers with stout hearts-and good theme of all themes, the right is hard a terrifying fantasy laid in hell. Besides, the book is, as it must he, consciences-will find It unpleasant tendentious. Graves submits nr but
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New Writing: from guments to justify his thesis.
by John Lehmann (Leh- into politics, mythology, delves ritual, magic, Hebrew prophecy and mann, 89, 6.). Good collection from Mosaic Law-and strews the fruits ten years' output by some of the
more significant
of to-day. poets of his searches over the book. In his perplexity, Judas concludes
The value of his scholarship is for Mirror in
stormy days. inverse of Black Caribbean: R. W. Thomp- that Jesus is now playing the role, others to determine.
But I will
Ad- famillar in Jewish thought, of the avow here that it mightily holds up son (Macdonald, 128. Od.). shepherd who takes upon himself the action. Hardly an incident but mirably written account of wartime the sins of the fack. And when he must be elucidated by same esoteric travel in the West Indies. Touching in betrays his Master in the manner symbolism or referred to some pro- Its description of the loyalties and prescribed by the prophecy, he be phetic utterance!
hopes of the people and cloquent in lieves that ho, is carrying out' that. The novel call for, and in due ita plen for the responsibilities of Master's will,
course, rewards, patient application. Empire.
of David.
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