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1. I
you wero coming through the "Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Carib- bean your direction would be
roughly
S. to N., E. to W., N. to S., W. to E.
2. A matterjack is
Soap-box orator, kind of toad, discontented callor, night- Jar?
2. Would the Chancellor of the Exchequer prefer a bil- Hori
Dollars, franca or pennies?
these wives of
4. Who are famois inen?
(a)
5. Which
IDI
football
play on the grounds-
clubs
Fratton Park, The Valley. Roker Park, 167ox Stadlum, Den?
0. Can you name the first London omnibus proprietor?
H
the
Lost a fortune carrying Hving, regained it by carrying the dead.
7. What have these books In готтар
Malory's "Marte d'Arthur." Wilde's "Dr Profundia," Bun-
***lgrim's yan'a
Progress," #kler'a "Mein Kamf”?
છે. If a person Trally drivel he should......
talks
Speak without thinking, talk faal, slobber, keep his tongue in his cheek?
D. Where in Eurape do wild monkeys liv...
Sicily, Gibraltar, Stekss Alps, Dolomites?
10. According to Johnson, what is the noblest prospret a Scotsman ever sees—
Edinburgh Castle, Road to the Isles, high road to England, banks of the Clyde?
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U. S. Air Force
The United States Air Force has Tevealed plans to triple is plot training programme.
The expanded programme will in- crease the number of aviation cadets from 1,000 to at least 3,000 during 1948. This is expected to aid about 2,000 flying officers to the Air Force ench year-Associated Press.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1947.
Truth about luxury
homes
R HERBERT MORRI.
M
SON IN the latest Socialist Minister
scotch a rumour that he
to bas
9
of Ministers
by GWYN
LEWIS
The statements made are as "£1,000 for it in 1935. Until lila re- bought a house costing thou- baseless as the rumours about cent breakdown in health one of his sands of pounds. The whisper Mr Morrison's
to mow the house. What week-end tasks was going round was that he had does a survey of the homes of paid £18,000 for a 20-roomed our rulers reveal? house at Chislehurst, Kent.
Mr Morrison's 'dental follows on a public denial by Mr Shin- well that he had bought a large house in Surrey, and a £3,000 mink coat for his wife.
Mr Aneurin Bevan's spokes- man at the Ministry of Health has also had to deny that the Minister. exercised requisition- Ing powers to obtain a house.
Mystory rumours
It is a mystery how these rumours originate. But here is a typical example in a letter to the Sunday Express by woman giving a Lancashire town
her address. She writes:
"IL has
come to my knowledge that Mr H. Morrison has acquired # house in its own grounds. on the outskirts of London for £16,000; also that Mr Aneurin Bevan has quisitioned a house in Len- don from its occupier under the pretext of the Ministry of Health requir- ing il.
re-
"I learned from hearsay that he himself is living there with a butler in at- tendance."
Last night this was another letter received from Wales:
Д
"Is it the case that Mr Aneurin Bevan inhabits requisitioned house in Belgrave-square, staffed and furnished at the payers' expense 7
tux-
"Is it the case that at the time of the acute national fuel shortage last March Mr Aneurin Bevan instructed the Office of Works to instal an elec- tric heater in his lavatory for his personal comfort?"
Premier's homa
lawn.
MR ANEURIN BEVAN and his wife, Jennie Lee, share an unpreten- tlous house with their "in-laws" In Clivoden-place, off Slonne-aquare S.W. ATTLEE, as all the world know lives at No. 10, Downing- They have no servanta, Jennie and street, with week-enda at his official her mother doing all the housework. residence, Chequers, at Wendover, in They have also collage in the the Chiltern Hills of Buckingham- country. shire.
MI
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MR SHINWELL, likę Morrison, is When he became Prime Minister a suburbanite. Ho lives in a detach- he was living in a substanila) de- ed villa in Beechcroft-rond, Tooting, tached house at Stanmore, Middle- SW. Mrs Shinwell keops house and sex one of London's outer suburbs, still washes her own doorsteps.
He sold the house for more than £5,000 to a neighbour on moving to Downing-street.
MR HUGH DALTON lives next door to him now at No. 11. Downing street, the Chancellor's official resi- dence. Hla only other Test- He also has a home at Radmage, dence is a country college at Ald- near West Wycombe, bourne, near
Sallsbury, which ho shire. built 10 years ago.
MR LEWIS SILKIN, in charge of Town and Country Planning, lives among the clootors and surgeons In Cavendish-square W., where he has a flat. He also has another flat ni the Ministry offices in St James's- square, S.W. Omclals say he rents it,
A small flat.
MR P. J. NOEL-BAKER, Minis-, ter for Commonwealth Relations, pays rent to Lord Cecil of Chelwood for the use of part of his house in
South Eaton-place, S.W.
MR TOM WILLIAMS, Minister of Agriculture, rente a small fat in Whitehall-court, S.W., where he has as neighbour SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS. Bernard Shaw has a flat in this block of bulklings, which fles behind the War Office,
Mr Wams when not there, in ot his home in Doncaster.
country
VISCOUNT ADDISON, Lord Privy Seal, occupies a small service fint at Duncan House, Dolphin- Sir Stafford also has a square. Rents in this vast popular address. Frith Hill, near
Stroud, London block of flats are of the or- Gloucestershire, П small cottage, der of £350 a year.
which he rarely vialts now. His fat and cottage are in striking contrast to Buckingham- the 40-roomed home of his boy- hood. Parmoor, near Henley-on- Thames, standing in 1,265 acres.
GEORGE TOMLINSON, Minister of Education, goes home to a quiet backwater of Victoria, where he has a flat in Park-mansions.
Only .one of UIF Socialist) Ministers, MR C. W. KEY, Minister of Works, lives in London's East Ent,
The Lord Chancellor,
LORD
Lords.
MIR ERNEST BEVIN and MR A. JOWITT, sold for £30,000 hle Tudor Y, ALEXANDER make use of the house, with 240 acres, at Wittersham, residential "perks” të which their Kent, and gave up his nt in Mar- office entitles them,
shm-court, Westminster, to live The Foreign Secretary lives rent with his wife and child at the official
the House of Tree in a new flat at No. 1, Carlton- residence in Hardens, close to the Foreign Offee. This is a five-roomed that
CHUTER EDE, It was prepared for his occupation
the Home at a cost of = £18,500; beneath
continues to live in the spacious official entertaining rooms, style of a small-town magistrate He had previously lived in a modest Tayles Court, Ewell, Surrey, Hat in Kensington,
which county he is a J.P,' ME ALEXANDER, Minister of Defence.
continues to use the official
the he occupied at
that
are
Asla
Secretary,
Union's gift
nt いま
miralty 33 First Lord, but has When MR GEORGE ISAACS Was
His home is a fat in Wellington- buildings, Wellington-way, Bow. But
his week-ends are spent at als bun- galow at Gerrards Cross, Bucks.
Elven part of It to VISCOUNT a printers' trade union executive his HIS SPEECH TO
HALL, who succeeded him ns First union bought him a small house in Lord, Mr Alexander and his
Enst wife Wolsey-road, have lived in the flat for eight years. Minister of
'Millionaires' Row'
Wealthy
enere.
Molesey. As
Labour he
Ives
It is an eight-roomed detach- ed house. They employ o
the local cinerrra.
char-
MR 1, G. STRAUSS, Minister of Supply lives as he has woman three times a week, and once lived for years in a large house in a month Mr Isaacs takus his wife to Kensington Palace-gardens, which is known as "Millionaires' Row,"
But he is one of the country's very rich men.
SIR HARTLEY
MOTHER
Chief of the United Nations Press Section, Danish
Paul Journalist Vejby Johansen, is going to make a 15 minute-speech to his old mother in Denmark, but he will not be
pre- sent and will not even know when he makes the speech, Johansen Recently,
wos inter- viewed by the Danish Broadcasting System's Washington correspondent, Niels Grunnet, and the interview
broadcast in Denmark at was
days ago. Unfortunately Johansen's old mother, who has not seen her 5011 for 12 years, did not hear the broadcast.
The family also have a house Oxford. Mr Wilson has a wife and one child.
MI HAROLD WILSON, the new President of the Board of Trade, Ilves with his parents by the Thames SHAWCROSS, in a flat at Richmond. It has five
घ the Attorney-General, has a small small rooms. flat in Tufton-court, S.W., but he is more often to be found at his Sussex farm, with its pedigree stock, near Lowes. The house has been moder- nised.
Minister of State M HECTOR BIR HERBERT MORRISON McNEIL lives in Hampstead, where lives in suburban Eltham, S.E.0, he has a modest fat in an old where he h a modest vilin in fashioned house in Primrose-car- Archery-road. He paid less than dens.
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