Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10.
1. At what
velocity Goes
wind become a galo-
20, 25, 30, 47, 53 m.p..7 2. Broach 1
Fish, Indian city, ornamental pin, footpath?
3. The word "news" occurs only once in the Bible. It is Its
Gencala, Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs, Matthew, Revelation?
4. Two of the British Isles. Do you know them?
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5. You would expect to Und an "Act of Parlament" clock
Law
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House of Commous, Courts, public_house?
6. Which is the oldest of the classlo races
Oaks, Derby, 2,000 Guineas, St Lever, 1,000 Guineas?
7. Bullion is
Gold coin, solid gold or silver, banknotes, silver coin?
8. Who is "Father" of the House of Commons...
Winston Churchill, Herbert Morrison, Lord Winterton, Ernest Thurile?
D. The element hellum was first discovered in-
America, Bulgaria, Yorkshire,
the sun, the moon?
10. What point of the compass is midway between N.E. and N.?
HURLED SPOON
AT GENE
Life with Oleg Cassini, Mexi- can count, was never dull but sometimes terrifying, Gene Tier- ney said in evidence.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947.
MILLIONS OF CHINESE AGAIN ON THE MOVE
By Thomas Aldeguer
I
Addin
HAVE been busy de signing something for you to make as n sure- vinner present for your. wife or mother-d strong vegetable. bin. NE of the greatest migra- tious project in China's history since
YOU WILL NEED: "In addition to the tasks of pro- Five 10in. squares of tions in the history of the building of the Great Walla curing and China lo in progress as, trillion dollar, three-year programme rehabilitation supplies," said the re-ends and top partitions. distributing relief and timber, lin. thick, for with the advent of milder wea- to reclaim more than 2,000,000 acres port, "special problems of determin- (Fruit box ends from ther, millions of war-displaced of the country's best farmland and ing land ownership, seeking a remis- your persons, living in what was once rehabilitate 5,000,000
greengrocer people who alon of taxes and the restoration of do).
will "Frce China," set out on their sacrificed their livelihood to stop the village industries. to mention only à long trudge back to their pre- Japanese.
Eighteen battens each few matters, will be necessary over 2ft. Gins. long by 2ins. war homes in former occupied
wide areas where there has complete abandonment of villagers." It in. Umber cannot be bought your
been wide by in. thick.
grocer. may be able to let you have' some old cug boxes which will pro- vide good 5-10in. timber.
areas.
The majority are destitute peasants and manual labourers who sold their fow worldly pos- sessions during the war years to keep body and soul together. Now, as one Chinese relief official puts it, they are de- termined to return to their an- cestral homes "to live or die."
the Dy far
greater
number, estimated at something like a million and a half, are making for the vast orea which was flooded by the Yel- low River-recently shifted back to its prewar course for the past eight
years.
"
| INFLUX INTO HONAN
to semi-offelal CCORDING A Chinese sources, refugees are ar- riving at the rate of 1,000 to 2,000 a day In the former Blooded districts in Honan province, which in most cases are still nothing more than stretches of sand or weed-covered
wastes.
In one townlet, the population has nlready grown seven times compared with a few weeks ago, adding to the burden of relief agencles, as there is not a blade of grass within radius of three miles,
Other sizable groups of displaced persons Dire slowly and painfully inaking their
Way
are still standing.
20,000,000 war refugees are 300 war orphans who have returned to their native city of Mukden, in Manchuria, without having to do any walking. Travelling under the care of roller organisations, they made their long journey from their wartime refuge of Chungking to Mukden by river boat, train and ocean steamer.
to
com-
A CNRRA announcement reveals that CNRRA and UNRRA, with the active participation of a number of Government ministries, are
joininst forces in a elgontic campaign
production, bring new life, merce, transportation and health ser vices to 38 flood-devastated countries in three central provinces, inundated when the Yellow River's course was diverted in 1038 by Chinese troops to check a Japanese drive.
The long-range project will bo carried on by the Government minis- tries
concerned at the end of the UNRRA programme,
NO CROPS TN many areas of Honan, sald the report, no crops have been grown since the region was first flooded, so the only seed supplies will be the tile the returning population can
bring with them.
"The fooded land provides no forage for livestock,” the report con- tinued. "There la little shelter. Wells essential for domestle water The first phase of the programme has already started in Honan, An- supply and village gardens are allled, hwel and Klangsu, where dyke The most urgent problems, therefore, repair projects, reed and implements are the distribution of seed in time distribution,. farmers' loans,
dircet relief and mass tractor ploughing for the planting of the first crop this projects are helping the farmers to spring, the construction of temporary recover from the ravages of recur- houses, the excavation of silted weils ring floods and paving the way for and the provision of sufficient food to new settlers.
keep the people alive during the transition period."
The Government is reported to be prepared to spend CN140,000 million
(£3,000,000) for the first year's As relief work gets under way, operation of the reclamation pro- diplomatic representatives
of tho gramme, while UNRRA has agreed
to contribute agricultural, industrial United States, Conado and Australto, and communications equipment with in their capacity as delegates to the an estimated value of more than UNRRA Courell of the Committee US$12,000,000 .(£3,000,000) launch the mammoth rehabilitation warned UNRRA, CNRRA and the to for the Far East, are said to have
programine.
tion
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is
FEEDING STATIONS
But note: t you use the lighter wood you must strengthen the lower bin, as well as the upper, with n middle partition. This will give you four small compartments instead of one large one and two small ones..
long by 24ins. wide by in. thick, Four pieces of timber 2ft. Gins.
for the lers.
by in. thick, to be cut into 12 pieces Twelve feet of battening in. wide to hold the lengthwise
battens in position against the ends,
14in. and 2ln. screws, STEP 1: Shape the legs so that they Laper slightly towards the bottom (ate drawing.)
makes a
present for mother.
SCIENCE SHORTI
IS IT LOVE AMONG THE PENGUINS?
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Little George is the dead ond kid among the penguins which we have brought back from Antarctica, while Butch and Babe have fallen in love.
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Serawny George stands ten inches high, the tiniest of the score of rock hopper and golden crested. pengulas aboard the Byrd expedition flagship, As
to the ends and central partillon, Mount Olympus, whose stern is three on each side of each bin and j menagerie of birds and dogs. three across the bottom, Side over-penguins go these are a tough lot Japs the bottom and is nailed to with plenty of fight.
-to prevent boltom angging.
Relatives of assorted shapes and STEP 3: With your longer screws, fix alzes from 12 to 10 Inches tali de- the battens on the sides and bot-light in throwing pecking punches tom of the end of each box. The at George, but the quick web-footed screws pass through the long bat- George usually manage to return one tens and into the end pleces. This peck before scrambling is for strengthening.
to safety, squawking periguin cursus. STEP 4: Screw on the legs, two at ench end to hold the bins in posi flon, titing the bins forward at în l angle of about 45 degrees to the Προς,
STEP 5: Paint with a colour to match
your kitchen.
I have green- enamelled the outside of mine, and dark ank-stained the inside. NOTE: If you want to make a bigger
bin, you must use corresponding STEP 2: Make the two bins by firmly ly heavier timber to bear
screwing the lengthwise battens on weight.
[WATCH FOR CHIPPY NEXT SATURDAY]
MYSTERY OF LOST CORPSES CLEARED
the
The mystery of the lost corpses, which has dis- tressed French medical students for months past, has now been solved by the discovery that Paris undertakers are operating a ghoulish black market: of their own.
3.
Chinese Government officials that IMMENSE SCOPE
unless a solution is found to the military problem in Honan-where said the THE programme Lowards
to be lighting le going on Immediately similar in many respects to the north of the former flooded area- coustal areas recently recovered from the Communists, most of them with- Tennessee Valley Authority project the flood
In the United States, and to involve
reclamation programme out any knowledge of the present
rehabilitation, river may founder. conditions in their prewar villages agricultural or even whether their old farmsteads dredging and Irrigation, rehabilita
of small industries and rural of commu- Gene, who won granted a divorce The luckiest of China's estimated economy, reconsument of HIGH relief oficials are said to be from Oleg, sald:
nications, and the "My husband has
The investigation leading to Social welfare violent temper,
contacting the Communist When things
public health and
au-this discovery was prompted by didn't suit him, he threw things,
services in the flooded areas.
thorities in an endeavour to secure students of the Paris Faculty of Once he hurled a hot spoon at me,
The immense scope of the
project loved price and expected
can be seen in a preliminary report non-interference with the reclama- Medicine, who complained that me to go out with him night after
that the rehabilitation of the flooded. by rellet experts, which declares tion programme,
the bodies, or "stiffs," normally night.
areas will require the provision of Meanwhile, a number of
at their disposal ΓΟΥ When I told him I couldn't be
mass put have been set up autopsies and medical study subsistence Partial
for several feeding stations a gay wife and working actress at
million people until crops can be throughout the flood-devastated area, were no longer available, the same time, he went out himself.
It has been the practice in Paris, purchase and distribution of live- brought 10 or 12 girls I hadn't met
there are no feeding to medical students the bodies of and didn't want to meet. He dunced N view of the grave situation in stocits, farm implements, hand tools, tion where
well-digging equipment and
and stations,
food and cash are being paupers who died in public hospitals. with the girls, and neglected me." the former Yellow River flooded housing materials; the clearance or Jissued to the returning refugees.
Thus the body becomes entitled to Gene
These bodies were sent to custody of her area-covering 2,500,000 acres of rich drainage of large areas of land; the won the
Le a formal burial, with services of the three-year-old daughter.
It is estimated that 5,500 villages Grand Charter," farmland in Honan, Anhwel and delivery of large stocks of UNRRA were destroyed
or the principal undertaler, at the expense of the Casaini. who renounend his le Kiangsu provinces-caused by re- supplies; repair of dykes, and
by the Yellow morgue of the Paris Medical School, city of Faris. The undertaker an American
the River's floods in the past few years, citizen, turning refugees, the Executive Yuan use of power machinery for reclaim-
But the number of bodies available
secures a fee and the medical still designs Gene's frocks, although has ordered CNA to submit de- ing extensive areas of Honan which 300,000 people killed, and 1,300,000 bus declined from the prewar figure student loses a "stiff." they have been separated for several | talled plans for what the Chinese have been completely abandoned for displaced from their native places which the medical students declared the unprincipled stratagems of post- 70 a month to only 10-a gure Thus is registered a new low in press described as "the most ambi- a number of seasons.
I was inadequate for their researches. I war business operations In France.
least
at
Currently Moulting
The whole gang of black and white penguins with golden crests. liko querulous eyebrows is currently froway from moulting, but will be more presentable with new feathers on their arrival in Washington, Ori- ginally there were more, but some died and others were traded to the Wellington Zoo for two graceful, black swans with red bills. Tho awons. live in a separate wooden crate near the penguin cage which has a swimming pool and a canvas tover for protection against the tropical sun.
About ten penguins died at the oulsci Blologist Jack Perkins had to force feed them all, patting a penguin's stomach to make its mouth Pop open and then quickly stuffing A down Its throat. Now almost all of them are eating themselves with robust navy appetites.
Difficult To Toll
Butch and Babe, two sintely em- peror penguins, have fallen in love with Perkins and maybe with each other. One caso is easy to under- stand-Perkins Bands out the daily fish. But whether Butch and Baba actually are that way about each other is a problem.
Investigation led to the disclosure that some undertakers are offering bribes to margue attendants in Paris No one can differentiate between hospitals for information about un-male and female penguins excepting claimed bodies.
maybe penguins, and Perkins says at he has read that Adelle pen- With this information, an under-guins cannot even tell themselves. taker goes to the hospital, makes a H He says it a male penguin makes fictitious statement of identification, pass at another and gets no reac-
tion, it's
an unresponsive female. It proper--Uough pauper-burial.'
the second penguin wants to fight, it's a malo,
"I gave a party, to which Ole RECLAMATION PLAN harvested; and the manufacture, and more are being erected. In secus elsewhere in the world, to deliver and asks that the body be given a
to become
months.
Reuler.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHAT DAY IS THIS... MISS. ER, MISS... MISS.. WHATS YOUR
NAME AGAIN?"
YOU'RE PLANT
•BEANS!
of
打
So Perkins doesn't know. whether Butch and Babe are mates or just a couple of girls or boys. But they appoir affectionate, indulging in mutual backstratchlog and other co operative, services, leading to specu- Zoo someday will have an emperor lation that perhaps the Washington penguin family-Associated Press.
"We Don't Have to Think"
BY KEMP STARRETR
"IF THERE'S
"ANY THINKIN"
TO BE DONE
AROUND
HERE I'LL DO IT!
IT MUST BE SWELL TO ACCUMULATE ENOUGH -MONEY SO THAT ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO THINK: ONE CAN HIRE THINKERS FOR NEXT TO NOTHING
·ANYWAY........ ASK THE SCHOOL TEACHERS........!
WE DONT WORRY ABOUT WHAT TO PLANT IN THE SPRING. THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE TO TELL US.
THE PUG DOESN'T HAVE TO THINK THATS DONE FOR AW. IF HE WINK IT'S H MANAGERS STRATEGY,
FHE LOSES THAT'S JUST IS HARD LUCK.
ON ANY JOB THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE TO DO ALL THE HEFTY THINKING.
WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TO THINK OF BIRTHDAYS ..... WE'RE NOTIFIED OF THE DATE IN PLENTY OF TIME TO GET THE REQUESTED
GIFTS:
·SOME MEN CAN REST THEIR BRAINS PERMANENTLY... AND LET THEIR WIVES DO THE THINKING AND DECIDING.
THE TIRED BUSINESS AN DOESN'T HAVE TO W THINK HOW HELL SPEND HIS EVENINGS... ITS ALL ARRANGED FOR HIM. HE'S JUST DRAGGED ALONG.. IT DOESN'T MATTER.. HE CAN SLEEP
ANYWHERE.
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