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JOAN CRAWFORD JOHN WAYNE PHILIPDORN REUNION IN FRANCE
REGINALD OWEN - ALBERT, DASSERMANN - JOK
CARRADING◄ AJE 'ATAKS • 2. EDWARD HROMBERG
"THE PERILS OF PAULINE"
IN TECHNICOLOR
Cathay
THES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1948.
"Abolishing capital punishment is simply asking for this sort of thing."
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the Fence
HE Sparrow's wife, n little
bit of newspaper in her claw, was crying quietly
in one corner of the Nest while the Sparrow was trying to doze in the other.
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"What are you reading?" asked the Sparrow, opening one epe to stare at her, "the death of Little Nell?"
"No," said his wife, a tear rolling down her benk.
Then what are you nivelling
abnut?” asked the Sparrow.
"I'm frightened that's all,"
"I suppose his wife. frightened if I like?"
can
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
said Any fool would know that your first
enreer be object for a cat would be a mouse,
"After Crippa's speech everybody's frightened, or ought to be," said the Sparrow, "but if we all eat.cry- ing i corners Loretta Young would have something to talk about."
"I don't know anything about Cripps or Loretta Young," said his wife. "It's the police I'm frighten- ed about."
"Why?" asked the Sparrow. "Have Nou pinched something?"
"According to the papers,"
said
his wife, a fresh tear starting in her eye, "there are not enough" police- men to protect us."
"Protect us from what?" "Burglars. The paper says tho crime wave is on the increase."
"To hear you nattering about nothing" said the Sparrow, "any- one would think you were an old- time Duchess smothered in pearls and diamonds."
"They take anything nowadays," said his wife. "Even carpets,"
"They can have Ours with pleasure," said the Sparrow, plane- ing down at the
inch threadbare metting.
aquare
"And bed linen and even curtains."
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nucer
erase the next is a of milk?"
"As a matter of fact it is."
emailing more original,
object. whate the third
animal, Vegetable, or mineral?”
"Animal."
HANY legst "No."
"ATM8??
er it swlm?"
"YER."
"Te to Bah?”
"Yes. You're, brilliant,"
"So are you, at the obvious. I only asked about arms in case it was a mermaid."
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"Next, please." -
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"My next is vegetable.”
"Can you eat it?"
"No."
Natural or manufactured?"
"Manufactured,"
"Is there any in this room?% "Yes,"
OF
IN AND OUT
PARLIAMENT
By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.
THE knife is out from under the cloak again and official Labour has been stabbed in the back by some within its own ranks.
It is difficult to imagine a more deliberate flouting of party loyalty than the sending, by some 40. Labour M.P.'s, of the telegram wishing Ruccess to the Communist-Socialist conlition in the Italian elections.
In the list of signatories there are some "innocents," but the others must be taken as contemptuously spurning party policy, and affirm- ing their preference for Communist dictatorship as against democratic government.
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FROM overy standpoint this is the graveat and nt the same time most scornful act of indiscipline which has occurred since Labour took office in 1945.
Labour's foreign policy will be brought into. contempt and the discipline of the party will go to pleces unless action is taken against this betrayal.
"Always accuse pour enemies Satantam.
of
П
Of course, poor Adolf came cropper chiefly because he thought, he knew everything (a fatal mis- take, Mr. Gubbins), but he never made the mistake of associating his activities with me.
If he had I might have come cropper myself.
A
The world might have perceived the true Influence behind power politics and extreme political views And I might never have had the op- portunity to make preparations for the crowning triumph of my career.
undone and one must do one's best However, what's done can't be to remedy the harm caused by this well-meaning old man.
During the last 2,000 years of my have many of my puplis Wanted to neclaim me publicly. have always advised
against it, Imowing from long experience that it in the easiest way to rouse the Churches of the world against you and, with them, a considerable body
I see that he has asked me to let of influential public opinion.
him live another six months, A That Impetuous boy Adolf Hitler rather foolish request when such a often pleaded with me to allow him boon would give him a chance to to reveal his true faith,
But I always refused. sold;
say something silly every day for at I always least another 182 days.
"Adolf, you will Berve mp pur pose better if you do the exact re- verse, like all my other splendid con- querors and war-makers.
"Tell the world you are on the side of right and goodness and vir
Luc.
The unabashed widow still tends an Invitation to
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her "dear
Nat" to join her on a cruise of the South Seas.
She hopes you, are not feeling too dull with your wife and family in that itle seaside town.
Yours ever,
Mephy.
Atom Bomb Base Goes
of
"On the wall?”
the
"It is frequently seen on walls" "On the floor?"
"Sometimes.
THE
"We have to windows, so we have no curtains," said the Sparrow, "So what are you worrying about?"
"You sound very brave," sald his wife, "but I don't know what you'd do it a burglar came In this minute."
"I do," said the Sparrow, prepar- ing to leave.
"What?" asked his wife, "Get out quick," said the Spare TOIU."
"And leave me alone?" naked his wife.
"Certainly," said the Sparrain, an he New off to the Tree Tops Club, "There's no sense in both of us pet- ting bumped off, la there?"
Twenty questions
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Flaming ROMANCE Blazing ADVENTUREI
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. MAUREEN O'HARA - WALTER SLEZAK SINBAD THE SAILOR
- ANTHONY QUINN - GEORGE TOBIAS
JANE DRIER • MIKE MAZURKI
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Nowakalay by John. Twigt
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of
"Is it on the floor now?” "Yes"
"There's a carpet on the floor and sometimes they are hung on walls. But it can't be a carpet because Hitler used to eat them, didn't he?"
"Yes."
"Do cats play with it?“ "Yea."
"It can't be wool because
wool
is animal. Is it that piece of string?"
"Correcke in nine questions." "Think up something more dif- ficult next time, will you?"
Letter From Mr. Lucifer
EAR Mr Gabbins,
Communists, in their exclte-
Back
To Nature
By James E. Roper
TINIAN, Marianas Islands. HE airfeld that hurled the atom bomb against Japan lles deser-
cattle today. Wild across the great landing strips.
fed
Nobody cares,
There is
to care.
away
nir
Streiching
from the
marked paved roads strips are "Broadway" and "Eighth Ave." Each is nine miles long. Each la of polka-dotted with thousands African nails, descendants of the snails which the Japanese brought nobody here to eat.
probably This base, with world's greatest array of has been abandoned. .
roam
They menace the only commercial farm the undertaking on the island--a
to
furnish fresh runways, intended
vegetables to American service per- A Guam and Saipan. sonnel on half-dozen Navy men tend for the rusting Tinian port, and about 200 Army men have been destroying the stagering piles of serial bomba when the which were abandoned war ended, Now that work has
the stopped to save
bombs for China.
Runway "Abel" is the one that the atom bombers used. But there are six others, all paved with white coral that makes them glare under the Pacific sun. Laid out parallel, the they form great grids across island.
Each runway is 8,500 feet long and 500 widethe envy of every airport, but just an, annoyance cattle searching for pasture.
An Intellicence test arranged ment at the near prospect of world for Latile, devi! cat and feline iners lately, some of which you have where
domination, have made many blun- Near the
to
DEBATE on the question of the death penalty provided a dramatic occasion.
There is no doubt that the decision to abolish the death penalty was A shock to the Government, and a blow to its prestige.
But the Government cannot justly feel aggrieved.
It decided to appeal to Caesar, ed House of Commons, with the in the shape of a free and unfetter- Whips off, and must now perforce accept Caesar's decision with the best grace possible.
It remains to be seen whether the- police, who are vitally concerned with sanctions against violence, will feel they have been let down. by this coming change in the law.
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Secretary, can rightly feel badly- MB CHUTER EDE, the able Home treated over this business. He was indeed wounded in the house of his friends.
Authorised to announce retention of the death penalty as considered Government policy, and to plead for- It solemnly in debate, he was aban- doned in the division lobby...
What must have hurt him most was the fact that he was thus left to face humiliation by the majority of his own Ministerial colleagues.
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THE soft-spoken member for
Coatbridge, Mrs Jean Manın, is unique among our women members- In the doft way she uses the weapon of irony.
Before she came to Westminster In 1945, at her third attempt, she hark done a considerable amount of public work.......and was well known. in the Scottish Labour movement,
Gifted with humour of a kind generally called pawky. the House finds her both entertaining and acuto,
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ITER modes! demeanour, quiet:
or" volce, and slow manner speaking provide an effective back- ground for next and unexpected. quips.
It was she who recently likened the Chancellor's caution in the re- duellen of purchase tax tô "the peck of a stepmother's kiss,"
Rather rough on the stepmothers, perhaps, but much to the taste of Ustening members.
MAR-C
a
Same 10,000 oriental civilians cur- vived on Tinion when the US. Marines captured the island in nine-day campaign in July 1944, at
American is the
building the cost of 200
lives zen
were When the war closed, the
United bombs atom pointed out yourself.
assembled. Typhoons have torn open States sent the Tinian residents back
to their
homes Japan, original Any I now draw your attention Its sides. Artillery aminunition was
to their latest gaffe uttered by an-stored inside. The ammunition Okinawa, Iwo Jima and Korea, Now a civilian population would be wel- comed.
on
tellectual,
the lines of B.B.C.'6 Twenty Questions Framthe. N. Gubbins, Esq., the question master.
the
pro-
"The first object is animal,”
"Four legs ar, two?”
"Four."
"Small or largo?”
"Small"
"Can you eat It"
"I couldn't."
"Could 17"
"If you were very hungry.”
"is it a mousa?"
the
elent Comrade Corradetti in Rome? cases are rotting.
This irresponsible totalitarianist said:
enthusiast for
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A little farther on are two-pits where atomic bombs once rested.
"I thank Satan that I have Rived Now they are partly filled with to see the day when the great popu water. A frog, disturbed by the lar masses united. I beg Satan
10 first visitor in weeks, leaps into the pive me six months more so that
water, and sticks his head out pro- shall see the Front in operation,”
testingly. As you will readily understand,
this is a great embarrassment to one, An occasional plane iands at and may prove to be one of the Ave many small Indiscretions which could destroy my plans for the final "I ought to have done. It in one. world catastrophe.
"Correct. You did that fit questions instead of twenty."
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"The faland of 36 square miles is loaded with hangars, barracks and other ground Instàliations that would serve as housing if maintained. Right now, the buildings slowly caving in. But the landing Elrips, which together used to put B-29's in the air of the rate of one every 10 seconds, are In perfect the condition and could be cleared the quickly of the cows, frogs and snails
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