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MITCHELE LESSED
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1947.
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the
At the Trades Union Congress bir Isaacs, Minister of Labour, annsunced his gletermination to round up apivs did drones, which he preferred to call cele and butterflies, and make them do some useful work.
Which acris to indicate that
if. ห่ม ล pet much worse The Man Gubbins will be directed to take up some useful empley- ment,, despite the promise that professional *CH would exempt. If things get really tough nobody will be exempt.
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On the land
Le
THE man Gubbins doesn't think he would care to be directed to work in the mines. Although he has never been down a mine he has read something of mining conditions.
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
What is the use of pretty dairy- ment for the removal of Gubbins, mulds when there are no wicked thousands of lids and handles with squires at large? It's all a question no articles attached will have been nt supply and demand..
produced, and orders for Bilish Bends will be cancelled all over the world.
Gubbins believes that landworker Gubbins would find pleasure, in die society of ploughmen, cowmen
edgers and hutchers.
radio
Dc-
The evening at the manager's home proves to bo a disaster. leving Gubbins to be a dipsomaniac, the monoger offers Gubbins nothing but glass of weak, warm beer. which usually makes Cubbins foel nick.
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Choking Gubbins frics to cat the , dinner, but leaves most of it. He resists all attempts by the manager's wife to jolly him up. The mana- ter's clean, funny stories leave him no depressed tint he is almost in tears.
Fhuling Cubbing is not interested in any subject under the sun, the manager's wife tries 'one Jast disperz'e throw. She brings out photographs of her childrets at all nges, believing that all men, unless they are beasts, are fond of tiddies.
POCKET CARTOON
*You rang. Sir?"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
AM convinced that fuel eco- After hearing Gubbins' comments nemy, measures could with on her children's personat appear advantage be made much more ance, the manager's wife 53 2017- vinced that Gubbins is not only a porsonal. Here are three tested beant, but also half mad and oughty methods: to be locked up somewhere,
During the following week the faglory manager will try to remain cairn. He will tell himself that Gubbins is n dficult case which though not as a fellow worker.
In fact, he has already done so, needs careful, sympathetle handling.
He will first of all try It was partly his deep sym- Sa long an none of them turned music and talks. But this will only pathy for miners which deter-ut, to be intellectuala listening to multe Gubbins worse.
the Third Programme every night mined his political opinions way instead of sinking pints in
Thousands mure articles will the back in the early twenties. Waggon und Horses; so long as none jids, and thousands more with two the manager, tries to force Cubbins the 4in with slow-burning material. produced with two handles and no Jolly foreman, on instructions from the lid of an old coena tin. Stuff
to sing jolly sangs in Works Won-such na wet hessina. Ignite the nłow- ders.
burning material. Carry the tin
But, if he has to be directed at all, he doesn't believe ho would consider working on the land a very great hardship.
of them wanted to disettes economies, ant, music or literature, or anything lids and no handles.
nere diMeult than potatoes or turnips, Gubbins would have Л happy time with them.
Gubbins thinks that one of the
In the factory greatest hardshipa to be undured on The land at this moment must be HO will be the unlucky factory the modern farmer sitting at a desk WHO
manager to employ Gubbing if with a typist and two telephones and he
is direted to Inclory no" and
work? answering "Ectually
"D- finately yea" to all, questions when Heaven help him, whoever he may he ought to be maring round the... place in muddy alters, dangling his boots and bultons, and getting a gormed up about everything.
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The Snal tragedy occurs when a
1. Carefully bore seven holes in
It is then that Gubbins, maiden- about with you wherever you go. ed by the terrible voices of lis 2. Taking it straight from the fellow workers, throws aver A The manager's next move will be little amateur psycho-analysis. He switel and blows the factory to pry into his past. will have Gubbins up in his repm everybody in it to pieces.
This past will shock him so muh that he will make a further applica- tion to the Government for the re- moval of Gubbins, giving details.
The details will not interest the Government, but they will in-
At Brst the name Gubbins on his list of new hands won't mean any- thing to him, though it may give him a laugh. It often amuses people wh, have never seen a joke before. ing.
terest the manager's wife that even-
13
The factory manager should be · As the Government still refuses the warned that this will be his last to move Gubbins, the manager
laugh while Gubbins is on the faced with the problem. "What to
do now?" premises.
Still believing himself to be
Another hardship must be dairymaids.
When Pepys wrote his diary they brought the milk home in twin pails slung across their shoulders, while pipers danced before them.
This was a normal, unrehearsed occurrence, and not a stunt organised by some local busybody passionately interested in folklore.
According to Pepys these dairy- maids also looked pretty buxom, no doubt because they were drinking milk straight from the real before it was pasteurised, peptonised and pulverised.
cow
On the first morning the never- psychiatrist, he will then take ending band (or whatever it's called) hand in the social life of Gubbins. will stop, because Gubbins hus He will visit the Gubbins lodgings, switched off something instead of where the landlady will tell him switching on something,
that Gubbins is quiet but queer."
He will learn that Gubbing never
gat
In the afternoon the never-ending band will break down altogether gives no trouble except that he hates because Gubbins has dropped some
regular meals, would rother thing Into the works.
bread and cheese at midnight thun n cut off the joint and two veg, at the proper time.
The next day the foreman will re- port to the manager that thousands of articles have been produced with- out lids or handles.
Even hundred years ago they were still good-looking enough to This will be because the dreamy be ruined by the wicked squire, but Gubbins ha forgotten to do some- who would want to ruin them now? thing the silliest little girl in the tall, pale girl in pebble glassen who factory never forgets. knew Kar! Marx backwards and wanted to be a paychiatrist,
The last one Gubbins saw was a
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By the middle of the week the factory manager will beg the Gov- ernment to dake Gubbins away at ence but Government officials don't act as quickly as that
It will also be whispered to him that Gubbins spends most of his earnings in the local, but never says a word out of place.
and on Insert a' hot boked King Ed- ward potato into A skunk muff *Place bath hands in the muff and
keep them there,
On the site
WBAT else could Gubbins do to nalion out of its help the difficulties?
directed to
He might be
the bullding industry if they would let
him into the union. But what help to n builder is a man who can't even put a washer on a tap?
3.
Wrap yourself first in grease- proof paper, then In corrugated In weatherproof cardboard, tren
ong felt, then in a pair of cosy. ex-Government flying overalls. Then complete dressing as usİRİ.
That's the way to save 2,500,000 tons by winter. Do you care?
1 Ilay
on--
many
hairs
are thero
Although he was once trained as a carpenter and made, with his own elumsy hands, a picture fraze and cribbage board, he still can't hit nail on the head without smash-Drayton's head, a sportin?
A caterpillar, a bull's foot, Alfred
ing his fingers.
If he became a bricklayer, the bricks would all be Inid crooked. If they made him a hod earrier he would fall off the plank because he is always dizzy at heights.
Plumbing has
doesn't mystery to him. know why water goes upstairs, and is only waiting for 500,000 readers to tell him.
always been Ic still
П
Tho record number of unsocu-
tive hiccoughs is-
74, 121, 122, 407, 1,009, 7,4557
Namo which two of these are
dogs-
Shi Tzu, Grifen Bruxellots, Kees- band, Bulldog. Papillon, Spantel.
4 man took from his pocket a A Recently a well-known public
pipe, knocked it ca the back of the As for electricity, he is just plain replace, filled 1, struck a match, seared of It. He has never yet the pipe, then stood in the hearth ing out of himself. Gubbins needs jollying up or takt- touched any electrical instrument with his elbow resting on the man-
or gadget, apart from switching on telpiece. As might be expected, the pain- light or power, which has not given ful process of taking Gubbins out of him a shock. himself proves to be the manager's Waterloo.
The manager then decides", that
He night became a mortar mixer, When Gubbins is taken or but feels he would either add 100 wrenched out of himself he feels little or too much water. naked and nervous. Therefore, As all wicked squires will soon bu Before the manager has filled up he either sulks and says nothing at Ho might become a cement mixer directed (were they not always a form which will enable him to all or lashes out with such verbal except that he never knows cement spivs, drones, cels or butterflies?) obtain the form which will enable venom that his tormentors cower when he sees it. He remembers he maybe it won't matter very much. him to apply do the wrong depart- away to lick their wounds.
White Slav Movement Adds
To Trieste
Trieste, October 7.
DDED to the complexities of this troubled territory, whose "destiny Includes nearly every
kind of unrest short of a civil war,
is the new political movement by
Complications
By OSGOOD
CARUTHERS
the so-called "White Slava", whose more supporters, especially among sole concrete platform is opposition the Catholes and formerly wealthy to the Communists.
local democratie groups, native to the
be
ance fed it to his chickens, lleving it to be an austerity poultry ...food.....
So what. Is he to do if the Gov- ernment decides to direct
overy- body, irrespective of age and
-00
Who was he?
Tory challenge
"I've been- a- chain-smoker · alt my lie, air, and this feller Dalton isn't going to change 110 11010 1**
cupation, and no furmer is plucky Ole Miss Nature enough to give him a job on the land?
of
If they revive the Ministry Information he might, with influ- ence, get a job there. If he does, it will be a big departure from tradition.
to
The bird's call-note is much like the "chizzit chizzit" of the Pied Wagtail; but perhaps a’Hilla softer and etuld be written more truly “zizzit zisk”
gloomy, but Ursiel's weekly. paper
-Nature lover in Local Paper, has sounded a note of optimism in the hope that followers will be at- It has always been rather unusual PERSONALLY we think It could tracted by a programme of real one Ministry which requires
employ newspaper men at the bo even better written "post! democracy with Hberty
some psst" and more resembles the noise the knowledge of news and newspapers. inade by a Pie-gyed waxtail calling Western sense. oriented politically toward the West."
The usual procedure was to employ somebody's attention to the fact that retired clergymen.
somth.dy's dip is showing.
im
fe-
Leaders say they have not businessmen and Industrialists who nounced any of Yugoslavia's claims have lost their property under Tito's for Merritorial expansion. They The al-Slay movement consists of nationailsation progrurime," he said, blame the Communists for mis- Trieste territory, and Yugoslavs who The age the Communists will handling the peace treaty negotia- part have fled from Marshal Tito's Com- surely use is the fact that among tions and for failing to obtain
=9- munist regime. The latter are a less them are some groups whose names of Istria and Teleste and especially Yugoslavia Gorizia, which they claims the stable group, upon whom leaders of are black in the new the movement
place
little hove for sonic Chetniks, sore former Ustasha capital of the predominantly Shav
had fled from the territory. leadership or aclive participation. Or and some who the former group, many were par partisan war in the woods when they Usans during the
who earned the Communists were lead- who fought against the Fascists and Nazis, in it. They are fanatically unti-Tito.
war
They say they are going to fight The White Slav movement But Communism; but, according to one Many of then claim to be Yugoslav fered
a serious blow when its spokesman; "We will not fight with patriots who suddenly awaite to find leader, Slavko Ursich, who started the terroristic methods used by the that they were fighting for
Com- its weekly
Reds. because it would put in a Gorizia, newspaper in munism and not for their country.
was kidnapped early last month. He bad fight with the rest of the world." is reported to be in prison
They at Ljubljana awalling trial probably The greatest threat to their prestige for treason,
capionage, collabpra- as a political power is the heavy pro tion or all of them. paganda axe which the Communists hold over heads and an
apparently
do pot claim to be particular- friendly with the Italians, and they have rspecially voiced dis- satisfaction with the Allied Mitary Government, for its lack of support There are other lesser leaders feft, and personal protection of members. MALAGA At 2.30, 5.20, organised programme of kidnappings, but right row they are looking for Their pro-Yugoslav alma naturally beatings and threats directed at their à strong man with ability and little are inimical to the Italian factions. leaders.
The programme of terror, accord. concern for his life to take up the Leaders of the movement claim they ure the only organised opposition ing to one leading member. hus
Slay group with any hope of galning frightened away many followers. The immediate outlook for the political significance. — Associatea "But we hope to attract more and new-born White Slay movement is Press.
Cathay
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THE THUNDERING ACTION....:.
THE FAST-MOVING ADVENTURE
.THE TENDER ROMANCE...
The
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17. Capo Dutch. 14)
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• doing his duty, (9)
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