Prince Left The Sun To Hunt Whales
CUNNY Monaco, six miles of holiday land between France and the Mediterranean, earns a tot of money from tis stampa. Now it has issued a set of 14 io cominëmorate I'rinoa Alberi, a aca-loving ruler who left the sun to hunt whales in the Arotio.
Alberi, who ruled from 1889- 1922, also organised deep-sea_DX- ploration and built an aquarium; ho woarotied for the bones of pre- historio land monsters and built a museum; ho filled a garden with exoile plants. And he married a Scola girl, Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton.
The stamp illustrated here shows the prince" manning a harpoon gun as he closes to kill a whale. Face value: 13 francs (about 20.): Perfora- tion: 124-by. 1236,
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Their Elevenses Are Mechanised
Blower
NEW YORK: To save those ploy laundries and sands of man-power hours lost cleaners. It is possible for them every year through employeed to buy an all-nyion wardrobe, roing out for their elevenses, including even pleated dresses, Boston's City Hall have Installed which can be washed in a basin
pense hot coffee, cream and an hour later, Now dyes and sugar for threepence.
automatic machines which dis-
Automatic tan
TENNESSEE:
and worn without ironing half
weaves make nylon usable as a dreas material, Cost of a typical summer dress - £4 19s Gd.
Orders have
and not.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1949.
RUSSELL PASHA TELLS HOW HE FOUGHT THE VICE RINGS
EGYPTIAN SERVICE; 1902-1846. By Russell
Pasha. John Murray, 188. 294 pages.
D
O not be, discouraged by the pedestrian title. Here is an encyclopaedia of real-life adventures, Humour, toughness, courage, the instinct of the hunter, the marksman's eye-these were the qualities brought by this famous British officer of Egyptian police to his quest for excitement. They did not fall him.
He found adventures with Sudanicae trackers in country which pre- . serves the footprints of the past so lovingly that the wheel tracka of Napoleon's army transport were still visible into the twentieth century.
This drug
nearly
Adventures with nnnke. charmers. thoso dedicated 12 short-lived men.
Adventures with the
vica ringa of Cairo. Above all, adventures with the drug' barons and their minions. But, at that point in his Hfe, Russell Parha's adventures become a passionate crumde,
an
The conquest of Egypt by drugs In
ironie modern tragedy. Upon the Nile country there generation, the blessing and the fell, during the last curse of civil engineering. could be grown where one was A blessing because two crop
The
grown before. A curse because, when dams were built, the flow of the Nile was slowed up, thus enabling a certain water small to make his way up-river. email was the host of a parasitic infection called bilharzio, which
years,
A Tennessee Arm has started production of an
No fancy namos automalle machine for use al NEW YORK: beaches. For id a Fun-bather gone out for furriers to call rab-attacks human beings. can step into an aluminium bit RABBIT, cabinet and get squirted with seal, chapchilla, muskating, or auntan oil. Price £00 a machine any of the 47 other glamorous, und 358 a gallon for the bil names they have invented for it. Skunk may no longer be called Alaska sable.
Before his time
COPENHAGEN: Heger Lind,
a Danish radio bechnician, has revealed that radar was invented
Rumit as head of the Caire police,
killed a nation
by
George Malcolm Thomson
*EIR THOMAN WENTWORTH Interior, 1902, Commandant of Ceiro RUSSELL)" entered Egyptian Clvti Service as inspector in Stinistry of City Police, it, Later, Director of THE WILLOW CABIN. By telligence Bureau. Retired 1940. the Egyptian Central Narcotics In
A
SEWARD
Armorel, an impressionable young girl of the moneyed class, peer Glan, a Cockney-Italian tough, being hauled off by the police.
Having tried to лаго him from the low, she insists on
the manifest reluctance of Glan marrying him, in spite of the opposition of both rambles and
himasif.
persuade
Nothing in the world will mo that Armorel she is. And so Mr Hutchinson's would have done it, tiresoma as
290,000-word structure Ls, for me, built upon the quicksands of incredibility.
from
Pamela Frankau. Heine mann, 105. ed. 442 pages. AROLINE
La young actress with a genius R. C. HUTCHINSON, after leav- for her profession and ing Oxford, worked in advertising Arctic In the space of 30
bilharzia han reduced the work The genfus we take on trust. 3ob. Li at Farnham,
plentiful flow of bad language, fore making writing a whole-time department of a mustard firm be-
ing power of Egyptian labourers
Surrey, For "the languagʊ, by nearly 50 percent.
we have keeps strict ouice hours. Aged 4, It has ample evidence,
has two sons, two daughters. also caused a decline in sexual Caroline meets Michael FABLED SHORE. power, all the more trying since Knowid a brilliant young only males are exposed to the surgeon with interesting hands infection.
and a wife named Mercedes. Today, 85 Egyptians suffer from bilharzia In spite of this, the falls wildly of He calls Caroline "my child.TM or a similar infection. Seeking in love with him. Her language services stimulant for flagging energies, improves And she is prepared hymns, prayers, sermons, and all millions of them turned first to to sacrifice the stage to
from his two-peater
plane,
ne, hashish and then to heroin. The lover. equipped with a powerful sound latter, Introduced by a popular But Michael is still attached system. "I will come down to a Catro chemist in 1920, was, as in some indefinable way to his thousand feet whenever I sight Russell Pashe puts it, the drug wife. Caroline worries a good
crowd," explained Mr
Mr Wetzel that nearly killed Egypt. deal about this, especially after "and then I will fly around and, around during the service, which III5
Sky service
NEW YORK: The Rev. Curt
religious
as early as 1905 by a German Wetzel is to become a sky pilot enginder, Christian Huelsmeyer. Once a professional flyer, he will His invention was called the telemobilescope (patented and conduct registered, No. 185540,) but the German High Command rejected the invention as being of no interest Patent No. 195540 was later totally' forgotten."
Where was Rita? NEW YORK: Dack from a holiday on the Continent, author Aly Kahm reported that every hotel receptionist gave him ex- cellent servico and expressed surprise that he was not accom- panied by Miss Hayworth.
a
percent
the Pyrenees to Por tugal. By Rose Macaulay, Hamish Hamilton. 15s. 200 pages.
A pathetic' account or a motor
LIVELY, witty and sym-
THE NOES HAVE IT
DAB and FLOUNDER --by Walter
DANS FRIENDLY LOAN SOCIETY.
CHIPPY COFFEE IS SERVED...
HAVE just mado this all-purpose fireside coffee tablo which is low enough and strong enough to "accommo date a member of the family circle in omer- gencies, and is faced with cork flooring tica so that I can rest my feet on it without Indignant warnings about scratching the polish.
The surface can be cleaned
with a wipe of a damp cloth and
oiled occasionally to keep it in Exploded condition.
vlew, 'C,
The dimensions of my table showing
are:
Ieight12ins. Lengil 3ft. dins. Width-ift, Gine..
The first problem is, to cut the four leg members accurately,
What Makes A Good Soldier?
A FIGHTING KIWI GIVES
HIS
ANSWER
IS," sald Howard prefer Speights, sir, but I don't
think they really mind." Kippenberger (Kip ... Well, I suppose we for short), "le going to be see a lot more of each other." the best infantry in the
world." Fast him. trudged,
some none too sober, & stream of men in old civilian
trip along the Spanish Mediter ranean coast and as far to the west as Cape St. Vincent.
Miss Macaulay was enchanted clothes. by most of what she saw and
I conduct with the help of a re 15 war against this trighting Bdchnel dies through taking too amused by most of the rest. I
+
cah
COOLNESS, the
special
quality of the Maori sergeant.
anita brackete
Stretcher ral
on
and to do this mudo a paper pattern with a soft peneli newspaper drawing the dia gonals of a rectangle 12ins. by 18ins. By laying these diagonals. along the edge of my Umber, which must be at least 2in. stuff. I was able to mark, the cut accurately.
The paper pattern also gave me the point at which the leg members cross and Aro half Jointed, as shown in DIAGRAM A. It was essential that the Icg when
members "matched," so they had been screwed together. laid them one on top of the other and trimmed exactly.
who stopped Kippenberger in a dash from his slit trench to an ends (DIAGRAM B) and the The stretcher rail with shaped armoured car, and stood talking metal anglo brackets were then- to him under rifle are from 200 screwed to the leg members, as yards away.
shown in DIAGRAM C.
Spain was, to her, a fascinating Now, Sir Howard Kippen- spectacle, she was an even more berger,
COURAGE, typified by three My table top was made from KDE., CD, DSO. interesting spectacle to Spain.
privates, surprised by 20 Ger-the side of an old broken cup- truthfully claim-in his book, mans. Beside their bodies were board, about 4in. thick, but "Infantry Brigidler"-that he later found three lots of empty tongued and incredulous
grooved boards cartridge cases, numbering three, glued together and held, with kept his word.
seven, and ten.
cross bars at each end would be equally suitable. What makes a good soldier?
FEELING, 23 expressed by Among the qualities listed by Alamein: "If ever there was
General Freyberg just before Bir Howard are:
Just cause."
A companion: wit an, gis- the
now
many tableta Accident? cording machine from the cock-
evil became a world-wide Not until she meets Mercodes campaign, pit. It
battlo of wits in California does Carolino get cept when the weather is bad. York
works wonderfully, ex-fought from Istanbul to New things straightened out. Bad weather gums things up."
against cunning and Michael had loved her. And it Shouting and wealthy foes.
was an accident.
mobs pursued
her everywhere, Not so funny
Ono French factory alone was
managed story: Children throw stones at her, on exporting two and a half times pert Advico for suitors
/ ROME:
alightest opportunity, A Rome municipal the world's legitimate require tening.
It dog catcher, annoyed
and lasting, na nail was expained apologetically that CHICAGO!
by the ments of heroin. The drug was varnish; Recipe for win- comments of a bystander who concealed in blocks of cement, in colourful as her vocabulary.
a heroine almost as this wan simply "ha ning a woman-aby
Spain." woman was laughing at his vain at- coffins, under the robes of bogus PAMELA FRANKAU, aped 41, Engel, under arrest in Chicago the bystander
and monks,
Mieg Camels were daughter of Gubert Syankau, Mar
Macaulay thinks for bilking countless women of plece of his scalp.
and bit off a
Navy. Was Sintor Commander up to half a million pounds in 50
ders of drugs. Radar was Ars,
foreigners (especially foreign years of romantic promises-be
called in to put an end to that ELEPHANT
women who wear hats) is courtly, mannerly and offer her
particular ingenuity.
endemic, like the piety which CASTLE. security and £5,000 and you've
By R C. the Spaniards gat ber.
Hutchinson. Cassell. 158. eccentrically with periodic 692 pages.
burning of churches. is is the story of Armore
and 200,000 words long,, which is Glan. It la about twice as long as it need be.
given by 73-year-old Sigmund tempts to catch a dog, attacked nun to swallow metal cyfried to Laut, barshall Dili, U.S. differently. Maltreatment of the
Nylon wardrobe NEW YORK: American women are now independent of
Air etiquette
NEW YORK: An etiquette booklet for air travellers pro- claims that it is all right to fuck one's napkin under one's chin while eating in bumpy weather,
mado
Gradually the police got the upper hand. But the war roeS on,
An exhilarating and entrance ing book by one of the great Englishmen who became a legend in the Middle East.
AND
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
AND IF YOU'LL FORGIVE A BAD PUN LASKED HIM IF THEY CALLED THE HORSE-MEA
FILLY MIGNON...
HEW.HEH!*
1
combine
attrist, daughter of G. C. Macaulay, ROSE HACAULAY, 10Delist and lecturer in Engla Literature at Cambridge. Lives in Marylebone.
London Express Service)
VE THOUGHT YOU SAID IT WAS TO BE FORMAL SO SORRY!
NONCHIALANCE, at the right For example, General Freyberg, after a final inspection
time.
of his division, interviewed com- manding officers. His talk with Kippenberger on this awesome occasion was limited to this:-
"Do your men drink beer?"
"Yes, sir."
"What They say they
And paradoxically
the joints.
The cork tiles are: glued into place and sand-papered flush at
The fillet, mlired at the four corners helps to keep them in place.
LACK OF FEELING. After an unsuccessful attack with par- ticularly heavy casualties, Kip down on the floor, and screwed I placed the table top upside penberger entertained two New the leg frame in position, using Zealand editors to a "particular- rather short tapering screws to ly gay evening joined haltway avoid forcing the tiles away from through by the general,"
the wood surface,
--[London Express Service)
-(London Exprós Service)
"Those Phoney Apologies”
BY KEMP STARRETT
I HOPE YOU⋅ WON'T MIND. THE WAY THE
HOKE
LOOKS...
MY MAID. IS SICK,
AND.
APOLOGIZING FOR THE "TERRIBLE PUN WHICH HE SECRETLY CONSIDERS A PRETTY NIFTY BON MOT.
————AN'MY PAY'S
BEEN HELD UP... THE WIFE IS SICK, -THE BILLS ARE
AWFUL...AN THE KIDS'VE GOT TO
HAVE TER MA
TEET! STRAIGHTENED
THE LAD WHO JUST BOUGHT
AN EXPENSIVE TELEVISION SET
APOLOGIZES FOR. KOT PAYING UP CLD BILLS.
I DON'T KNOW
WHATS GOTTEN INTO
HE
RECITES IT BEAUTI-
FOLLY
TOO BAD YOU." COULDN'T HAVE SEEN IT LACT YEAR VE JUST RAVEAT- HAD THE TIME TAIC YEAR.
APOLOGIZING
APOLOGIZING FOR THE WHICH LOOKS BETTER
**
THE LADY, WHO SPENT TWO DAYS CLEANING AND POLISHING THE PLACE TRYING TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT GENERALLY THE HOUSE IS ALMOST TOO CLEAN TO LIVE IN.
#SADA. VALITTLE BAD
LUCK MITA THE PIE
THE ONES VIO TORGOT THAT THE PARTY WAS TO BE. INFORMAL, DOLLED UP LIKE PLUCH COPASTUUAUD MADE.
·EVERYBODY ELCE FEEL LIKE AMATES OF A FLOP-HOUSE.
Ledger Syndicate
"SHORRY...
''DI'N REALIZE
SOLNE
THE APOLOGY FOR THE FOOD. MICH SIE KROVS DARK WELL IC THE BEST SIE EVER TURNED OUT..
OLIMSO SORRY.
"THAT'S THE
WRONG
HELL REALLY BE
SORRY, IN THE MORNI
ANVALE