THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, 'SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1949.
Wicksteed
unpacks his bas
had 1173 in. of rain in 24 hours. That's early as much a London gets in six months.
un-
I was caught out by the storm while riding inan elent taxi. The road" turned Into a river, the engine aplut- tered and stopped, and the roof leaked so much that to remain
inside was to risk being drown-
BERNARD' WICKSTEED'S great Journey is over. His Round-the-World Air Ticket No. 1 is used up aftor. 12 wooks of adventure. Today ho tears the labels off his case and tells you the memories each one recalls... LONDON. and insisted on spending his
cd. night on earth Insido the 7ELL, here we are back Inst
in England after fly. largest of the pyramids. Next
morning when nothing ing round the world. happened, someone took Everybody keeps saying in a cup of tea and asked "What was it like?" and I he felt. find it very difficult answer.
fault of
to
That's the
the modern neroplane. It
moves too fast. You are always get ling to the next place before you've had time to digest what you saw and did in the last.
Five hours after circling the Acropolis in Athens, for Instance, you are looking down on the pyramids of Egypt. Flit
civilisation first from one another at this speed gives you mental indigestion.
to
But now that I'm home, un- memories packing my bag, the
come trickling back. Oft come the luggage labela, one by one, and each brings n experience to mind. The pro- cess goes something like this:
The only thing to do was to had bolt into the nearest house, and him there I was entertained for six brown how hours by a family of
people, who were so charming and courteous to the dripping stranger that my opinion of Ceylon is now even higher than
He apologized for the miscal culation, but said he'd stay on because he was sure everything would turn out all right in the end. He might have been there still if the suspense of wailing hud for the end of the world not driven him to drink.
before.
lonely
eslate.
Singaporo
THE THING
1 remember about Malaya
planter on his rubber
He Was removed when tourists began to complain that is the night I spent with a there was a strange Englishman inside the pyramid. The whole place reeked of gin, they sald, and the sarcophagus of Cheops was full of empty bottles.
H
There was barbed wire round the bungalow to keep the ban- dits away, and we drank with beside revolvers on the table our glasses. The planter was THAT'S where 50 glad to see someone
Basra
from
I met n man home that we sat up talking all who makes & night.
forgotten Hving selling mud. He said he got 24 ton for it from the sit companies, who use it they are drilling wells.
Prague
when
host
it was there too, that I went I REMEM- to a feast at which the DER it. That served us two sheep roasted wan my first whole. We pulled off the bits stup. I wonder how that French we fancied, and ate them with man met in the bar of the our angers. „Alkrou „Hotel is gelting. DI.. The Englishman nexi in me, He was going to marry a Czech who'd been in those parts come girl, and the day before The years, said: "This sort of thing wedding the police
her is all right at first, but what
wouldn't I give for a Yarmouth kipper...."
away as a spy.
drank Ve
Scotch" whisky Poland, made in
and the Frenchman told me the police forced her to write letter say-
in -she-was escaping-over-the- border into Germany, but he'd found out she was in a Prague tool all the time.
I don't suppose I'll ever know the end of that story. I left the next day, and I've forgotten his name.
Athens
said;
•Round about 3 a.m. I
"Don't look up now, but I can see three pink lizards walking across the ceiling-one big one and two little ones."
The
Au
"Don't worry about them, said the planter. "They're reni. big one's a ghekko the little ones are cheechoks. They don't fall off the ceiling because they've___got suction pads on their fingers and loes,"
"That day at the Test Match sure put some zip into boy Sam's bowls."
London Kurena Horvick
Sydney Smith sends his first report from Shanghai
You Daren't Argue With
A Rickshaw
Hongkong
A
CHAP
there
I
W
to
mel
h turned out
Agra THAT'S Customs service, and he took
ben preventive oficer in where the me out for a week-end in his Taj Mahal Hunch. The days we spent an is. There's a matice outside the chored off an "Istand--bathing. main gate saying: "First-class visiting the shing villages, and guides, two rupees; second-class listening to a Chinese
cuckoo guides, one rupee."
thai sounded Just like they do at home.
Boy
Today
C.V.R. Thompson Crisis day
in Reno
RENO,
NEW YORK.
with a record
number of visitors all seeking either easy divorce or in legal gambling table, faced a crisis the other day. Every bartender, cook, wai- ter, and bottlowasher went on strike without warning
So the churchmen forgot all the their sermons and came to rescue of the divorcees and the gamblers.
few
Women do-gooders panised a municipal food service in hours. They took over all the city parks, and hired cowboya to roast pigs and cattle whole. They served all-comers from loud- a menu announced by speakers: "All the roast beef or pork you can eat for 50 cents." The crisis was not enough for the churches to take
the bark. Local business stepped in there.
over
men
In one hotel five millionaires becomic barmen. And they got for more Custom than
the regular bartenders, because
drinks they served
a's they liked them-a glassful of whisky with just dash of
sodo.
"
*
ANTI-SLUMP BILLS to pre-
vent the present, depression from worsening are ready
to
Ko before Congress at moment's notice. The Bills will spend nearly £4,000 million at home, making jobs in depress- ed arena through publie worka and other devices.
p
PROGRESS report on TV in the US: In six months statins in operation Increased “Shanghai, June 30. trainees from north of theit means a lot of uneasy Foreign diplomats are re- HEN the Chinese Yangtse.
things already-such as milltary ceived by the Foreign Affairs from 50 to 70; sets in use control officers visiting private Bureau Nationaliats scram-
In a private capacity from about 1 million to 2 mil- homes, factories, and offices to only, and one British. Consulate lion. ask loyal Chinese why they are member who admitted he was working for foreigners,
making an official query found It is best not to his interview abruptly ended. your tricycle
bled ignominiously That initial force is mul-
rapidly south from Shanghal last tiplying
re
AINST man accused of being a It means the month they left a city of education swells its ranks
hit-and-run pilot in US 514 million people, almost with enthusiastic "New De-shaw-driver-if-ho-wants-more--The American chief of Wadley, Alabama, soon. Robert history, comes up for trial in prostrated by years of mocrats. The city's muni- money or you may find you the UNRRA organisation, who Pennick is charged with fail- corruption, vundalism, and cipal staff are just beginning have behaved in a proud and wrote a note of protest to the ing to report hat he knocked a a month's course of political arrogant fashion" which will Military. Government about the farmer off his hay wagon and misgovernment.
In a people's handling of atores, has received killed him while circling training "to reform their land you rapidly
the note back-torn in small search of an emergency land- pleees.
ing place lle will bo charged mocratic discussion."
with manslaughter.
}
Yesterday's bombs, drop. ped by the Nationalists in of section the northern Shanghai, were the first Interruption of the city's sibilant chase, but the cunning junk quiet reformation.
I saw alone for no rupees, paddling about by moonlight in my bare feet on the cool marble terraces, and THAT'S
my way between the where I who sat in little groups picked up a lily ponds talking in
At night we prowled about picking in the launch, peering into the Indians darkness for smugglers' junks.
by the The second night we had п
skipper cluded us by slipping middle of fishing feet at anchor, and pretending
chip of marble from a stone- whispers. mason's pile at the Parthenon. It was peaceful and beaull- ́into tie
I
ful, but for some perverse re-
For the Communists came the son the part I remember mest to be one of them himself. in, unfrightened by vividly is the cup of tea I had was too dark for us to pick him un my way there from Delhi.. out from the others.
I carried it round in my pocket t I got to Alaska, where gave it to a driver of the High way Patrol.
He was putting up a cabin in the woods, and
The journey took hours and. had hours, and it was so hot in tho spent two
year hunting for car I thought I'd die. At last coloured stones to build we came 10 a place called a fancy fireplace. He liked the Muttrn, where they had i rall
a buffet. The of way plation with said cakes
were awful, but
bit
the
idea of incorporating the Parthenon in it, and he'd send me an Alaskan gold sweet, scalding hot tea saved nugget in exchango, I don't my reason, if not my life. know if he ever will.
A
Cairo
THE CHAP
thoughts and ideas by de- police station, getting summary
judgment with costs.
'No spikee
Workers who cannot be spared are dealt with on their jobs by special squads whose most fanatical mem- IT means that none of your bers are uniformed girls of .16 to 20 years.
Most foreigners are stilt pre- pared to believe that such an allitude, will end with an under- standing by the new regime of the old that foreigners can give.
former Chinese Government
There is no doubt that so far trients will speak to you in English
the Communists are handling any more. gloomy forecasts that
The Engilsh counter notices the reformation of this great Shanghai would be too big With lectures on the New in the cable office have gone rambling, gold-loving city with What was
answer in Chinese and snuggling? for them, and started their China, followed by party The friendly and obliging staff a good deal of sense and skill.
They know they have captur- of songs and dances, these ex- look as though they could kick Nothing clean-up Oplum? Arms? Gold? so romantic, sald my host. It the expected heavy-handed port cheer-leaders whip their themselves when they forgeted it-now they are trying to
win it. would be either paraffin or rice. force, sweeping purges, or meetings to frenzies of en- und let slip an "Okay" as I
+
he
with
none
►
They told Shanghai to get . I ILAD D most delight-on with its work and behave.
paralysing readjustments. thusiasm. Tokyo
And new rules
now
hand in my message.
BIG
(FOR BIG LOADS)
* ful escort Nothing more. Colombo, on my travels to Japan. He was HAVE one Japanese-ex-diplomat,-who'd
As the big, bright limou- THE foreign and Chinese Some like 'em been to Oxford, Heldelberg, and on record as
businessmen get their: saying that Brixton Gaol. In between takk-sincs slid out again along me round told Ceylon is one of the lovellest ng fellows, like myself round the streets and the neon share of reformation me about a man who thought places on earth. The day after he tried to make a living sell-signs fluttered by night as daily spates of trade, taxa-
Ing Insurance.
who nhowed
the world was coming to an end I sent that message heme we
Get Him Out of This!
by ERNEST DUDLEY
The Armchali Detrolive
hand and foot to an Bft. Gin. B subter- high stalagmite in ranean cavern. He is also dag
Snip Carton, Insurance Agent, able depths by some
under-
is investigating the crime. He ground freak every hour com- suspects the Irish butler named pletely fills the cavern.
C. O'Rilla, who anyway looks
ideally cast for a second-fenturo
film with an "I", certificate.
O'Rilla and Fred have, of course, made their
Retawny
in
brilliantly as ever on clubs, tion, banking, and currency
The only trouble was that he restaurants, cinemas, and regulations. These have al- kept exposing my ignorance of dance halls from the Nan- ready put more than £3 mil. conditions at home by asking after nearly everyone named in king Road to the Bubbling lon worth of foreign cash Debrelt. "By the way," heWell, the northern suburbs into the People's Bank, in would say in faultless English, took on again their grey exchange for the scarlet "what's happened to Lady So-mantle of industrial fog. notes of the People's Money. and-So? Does she sti hunt with the Pytchley?"
Labour in getting its reforma-
Things looked so. normal Scattle that the pavement black tion by a brisk change of ideas. EVERY time marketeers came back, cau- It is learning with pained dis- you go totlously at first, and then in may that its previous freedom to America you almost riotous force, clink- strike, agitate, and blackmail they've Invented n now kind of slot machine. They've ing their silver, dollars and extra bonuses is not tolerated got one now that serves four flashing their
American when It holds up production.
And
sorts of hot coffee-black with greenbacks.
sugar, black without, white
with or white without, accord..
The idle butterflies of Shang-
ing to which knob you pusli. Smoothly, and with so hai must reform too. Lipstick
the
But the one I liked best was little disturbance that we and nylons are
automotie life Insurance hardly noticed them go, tionary. machine that you find at every 2,200 of them, including the airport. You put in a quarter big inside operators, were (1s, 3d.), All in your name, pull whisked off to guol. n handle and out comed 1
policy for £1,250.
But even in America things New 'democrats?
don't always work out as they should. I put In my quarter
but when I pulled the handle, STILL with the velvet glove instead of a policy I got two and without disruption of quarters back,
This
#
THERE'S on. Indian
ont
declared reac-.
If all this helps a trade boom and ends a system in which. jobbery and graft were basic foreign businessmen feel that they will have been well justifled in their
principles, Shanghai's
decision to sit tight.
half of them British.'
аго
the city's routine, the big There is just one doubtful seemed good business, reformation began behind cloud of anti-foreign feeling so I put in one of the quarters the closed doors of the red-shadowing, the future of the THE priceless Dragon's Blood ged by an old gag of Dick Bent-again and pulled the handle fagged Government offices, city's 7,000 foreigners nearly
once more, This Ume I got. Ruby, belonging to the ley's
policy 'all right, but it was banks, and factories. celebrated physician, Dr. Wince, At his feet is a chasmt 14£t. made out in favour of a Mr has been stolen from the.
Botticelli for a flight
As a foreigner I am in this, owner's home at Ouch-on-the-wide in the floor of the cavern. Cesare
An unarmed force of 250 below, water-from Seattle to Italy. Several feet Crouch, Beds.
which goes down to unfathom-
yellow uniformed techni- to Chinese newspapers Montreal cinns, professors, and stud reminding me dally that my graduates from the pride can be tolerated no longer. north took over the empty seems that I have been reservation u desks of the top executives
macy of Chiang Kai-shék's ru- from the Cavern of Doom by a few miles from the city, in all Government offices, spofied by the "kow-low" diplo there in a bus and the They declared all bureau- aetionary Government, which Also Snip Carton has seen Indular placed across the chins went
notice O'Rilla hobnobbing in the focal and by n rope-ladder up the first thing I saw was a
cratic capital" factories, ""War Dances Baying:
Every
turned mé into a "foreiga mas~ Barmaid's Arms with Feline entrance-shaft. Rather selfishly
properties, and firms of ter" with the habit of treating Afternoon At 4 Fred, the notorious cat-burglar. they have taken step ladder and
Chiang Kai-shek's backers the Chinese people "as con- p.m." ropo-ladder with them.
to be Government property.querors treat slaves." While Snip Carton is being
And so, after decoyed by the coy portourmald, So, once again; Snip Carton 84 dnys and Antia Thesla, over a cup of ten, faces a ghastly death by (A) 25,000 miles in Jam-pults; and sidelong glances, Starvation, (B) Cramp, or (C) O'Rila and Fred creep up, be- Drowning by, the rising water in the air, to the last label and hind their unsuspecting victim the chnam. Unless you and knock Snip Carton senso HIM OUT OF THIS! All the the best
them all ION- leas with a rock coke.clues are in the pleture.
DON. When he regains conscious
GET
nose he finds himself chained (SOLUTION ON PAGE 13)
Picture ∙at home ***(London: Express Bernice)
Twelve members of this the newspapers point out that forco were identified as the only foreigners excepted Chinese, Moscow - trained from this accusation? are, of political and economic ad- course, Soviet citizens and mam visers. The rest were the bars of the Eastern European | pick of the Communist democracles.
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