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"Star Of Hope' Stamp Speaks To The World
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you would like to be able to speak to people from all over the world you can do it by learning. Experanto,
This lankuare was invented by a
Rusalan Dr L La Za
Zamenhof, 02 year ago, to make everyone friends, Boys and girls from 26 nailone spɑks it when they wont bathing ne Bournemouth, where 1,600 Experantists opened' their 2diti Universal Congress recently.
of
Britain' did not leme u stamp welcome. But mairy of the visitors treasure, this stamp Istuéd by:Austria In' honour of her own Esperanto, congress;": Just concluded.
If shows the movement's green" five-pointed "Star of" Hope" resting on an olive branch for peace.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1949.
A BEWILDERED LOOK Step on it,
AT ENGLAND
"Is this your type-
writor?"
"Yes," ·
"Bought in America?" "Yes."
"You mustn't «dispose of
it while you're here, you know.
"By dispose of it, would mean sell it?
you
it
---(London Exprone Serators
Facd-value: 20 grschen (about- 1344,); Perfórallon: 14 by 1234.
FROM HERE AND THERE:
The
Colour Bar In Reverse
WELLINGTON: The colour hobors are not what they used bar has come to New Zealand, to be. fnisiced of arriving by but in reverse. A retired Auck- train most of them are dying in land woman church worker has for their meeting. It is the mad advertised for mic a £1,500 truth, and hobo Davis, that house divided into two flats, ono most of the boys are now in vacant for the purchaser, bút conventional Jobs. insists that the buyer must have children by a Chinese, Hindu, Maori or any
coloured race-but- not a European Reason to colour discrimination by. Dr. Malan in South Africa and Mr Calwell in Australia-and sometimes in New Zealand.
Striped Terror
SINGAPORE: Night
after night the striped terror roams a 10-mile area near the town of Alor Star Kedah, Malaya. More than, 0,000 Drople four villagea live in dread of bauds of marauding pera, bolder than ever before in live Ing memory. Three ment and many cattle have been carried of. Terrified villagem have
cameramen
PAMELA FRANKAU
is the author of these notes 'from a returned wanderer's diary
Not for long. The Dorselshire Twently, pecent,” sold the hotel could not give me lunch literary guest. "and anyway nt 1.25 p.m. This I accepted, but nothing of yours depreciates. when three people in the hotel You just coin moncy informed me that they could subsidies at our expense."
the former.
Equipment depreciates," said
COWE,"
on
· British 'accent, Ausrican' busbandt,
PAMELA FRANKAU
Mr. Morgan
THE RIVER LINE, By.
Charles Morgan. Mac
by
GEORGE
-millan 8e. Gd. 227 pagos. MALCOLM THOMSON'
OME
awiftly and tersely.
situations in
* fiction and drama do- mand to be resolved freedom, Sturgess belleves he On the eve of their dash for
has proof that Heroni . Speed is everythizig. "A German agent. No risks can be word 'anved fa'ns good as a min. Mario orders him to be word chosen with the in. killed. Wyburton kills him
The war is over. Wyburton sight and power of genius
and Mario, ato, husband and itself. Charles Morgan has wite When Sturgess comes to
here conceived such a situa- tion.
timo
Turcanevents now come", tö-
love. Sturguss realises that
"You mustn't give ¡atoa}},"
rot give ma sandwiches becauso
velt them, there; in another "Why not?"
there was nobody to cut them,
visitor a girl named Valerie, to But the subject, unlike cut the sandwiches itself,
ny split personality offered to
The River Line is a war wom Sturgess tells the story "Can you," I asked him, "get
of escapo channel my suitcase,
of the River. Line. was already
all the equipment. "you need?" Then the smartly dressed lady "Lord, yes," he said, “At the closed. The 15 pairs of
through occupied France to gether to make the crials, of the in chargo nylons cost nie. £2 10s. in asked for
ghrage was Agricultural Show there was water. Sho ap such a duty.-I-might-bring in 400-pronewed us languidly crying machinery going on that you leave it at one o'clock.
• par_oft.complicated the church; he would like us to Spain, Mario la one of the Valerio and Sturgess Tall wildly
Links in the chain of do in Jove cigarettes and one bottle of n-watering-can-
couldn't hear yourself, think.
Tampau fürgolion-the-panië OF SIVILY Wyburton, British Valeria scent duty free, but no
Embarrassment that overtakes and Sturgess, American, are dead Tile "I suppose you know where 22 only unsatisfied man I met
ho simultaneously
discovera nylons.
she murmured. had gone there to buy a simple the British when religion looks officers on their doubtful that Heron" was innocent."-The
hand hoc. Come and look at the like coming out into the open way to freedom.
lotter addressed to Germany They scuttled round the aisles, Marie is caught by the Ger- which had weighed so heavily "Not I sold the literary darting anxious glances to leftmans. Wyburton and Sturgess in evidence had, after all, an Agure disgustedly. "I've worked and right, then hurried, whisper reach safety a third officer, honourable explanation.
The situation is simple and out that every one of your cowa ing among themselves, to a safe known as Hieron, a charming,
distance in the 'courtyard. poetic, young man, zomchow cruel. The way out. Is equally costs me three pounds, As for
contriver to excite the suspicion simple. Valerio persuades Stur you," he called after me, "write
The whisperers decided that of his companions. this down. What we have got a ritual of a foreign, elaborate In this country is a dictator-
and unsultable nature www ship
about to occur. Some prudently bundled their children into cara and drove them away. Others waited. In vain. The monk had shut the doors, for half on hour because it was time for his lunch.
On the other hand, I Appeared to be entitled to two extra pounds of candy sorry, sweets-and some ex- tra soup.
Mine not to reason why. I Elophant's baby married an American in '46 NEW YORK: The pregnant and I am now in the fifth elephant which was brought
of my transatlantic year from Slam to have her baby in
I have a America will have an audience achizophrenia,
British accent and American of -200logists and" when her baby is born on a Los clothes; I have a British Angeles animal
form.
They passport and an American will watch from behind a parti- bank account. The pounds tion of "oneway" glass. will not even
For that I earn in Britain take know they are there.
eing about a fortnight to turn Precautions are taken to prevent her killing the themselves into dollars. bab when it is born, the custom of elephants
which
On my yearly visit home I give birth captivity. "If the bring tho dollars back and baby lives, mid-Frank Whit-everybody is very pleased to see beck, one of her new owners, them and it takes less than five "both
will be worth 23,000 minutes to turn them into dollars. An ordinary elephant is pounds. worth only 4,000. Flora, in her
It goes in7" Could she check the oll? No. she couldn'i, she 'wouldn't know where to find (a) the oil or (b) the long thing that you dip into the oll
"Everybody," she explained; "is off this afternoon," and with a little."Jaugh, she wandered away,
Tuesday.
There is another whom I shall remember. I had
ten in her hotel and afterwards went up stairs to wash."
There was nobody, to direct me, so I hunted down a bath- room and met the nies lady as I came out. Her expression suggested that she had just seen a slug in a enlad -
on a note of advanced acidity "Can. I. help you?" she asked, "No, thank you; I just went up
Thursday....
"What we need in this coun fry sald the chemist, "is a dictatorship.
Saturday....
We had reached this point in the conversation by rapid stages, The bath-cubes that I had
"What do you think of tho bought were sold loose and not fri 避 box. That, sald the situation?" I asked my intelll- chemist, was how everything gent, balanced and authoritative was nowadays. A dictator would friend. "It couldn't be better."
was the reply, "Food Improv help.
"And the first thing for him back in the shops. Health of the ing all-the-time Everything. to do is to call off rationing,”
population better than It's över "What would happen then?" been. It's got to stop."
he Bald, but only
"I beg your pardon?" for three weeks. Then it would
-"Well, of course, it's got,to- it that stop. American ald's got to stop, keepers would see to nobody got more than his share. Nothing else will bring our
lo in the war position home to us. with glucose. Just as I used
to wash."
"Chnos," Her face turned into a vizór. me, the vizor
clamped down a curfew, cvory- present condition, le... valued, atinsked how I like America, For recited angrily, "The realdents' and its own level. The shop-
one keeping indoors after sunset, Watch towers have been buil on treetops and bunding parties raised to track down the man- eaters. The tigers are very crafty and keep out of the way during daylight, But as dusit falls their Tonry encircle the villages, and mothers grab their children into safety. At night Enuffing at
heard
tigers are doors and pawing at windows. The latest man known to have. bean eaten by a tiger Malay school-teacher.
Hoboo-by air
ROCHESTER:
10,000 dollars."
Amateur strip-tosso MIAMI: Winter plans to lure
more customerd to Miami, on America's Riviera, have been announced, and among them is
new kind of night club entertainment — amateur strip- tease contests.
S
For a part of the year 1 am Looking past the other part of the year nobody asked me how I like England because it is taken for
nobody could.
granted that at the moment,
Monday..
toilet is upstairs. The catuals tollet is across the yard." dollars, you have been warned. Foreign casuals, here with the
Wednesday..
and
"I am
"You always look a little "We're lot of mugs," he bewildered when you first come added "We don't work and we back, don't you?" he added, don't care."
kindly. "As though you didn't quite know where you were:" arrest Mr going to Strachey," said the besutiful • PAMELA FRANKAŬ 41- Ave-year-old boy with the voice year-old authoress, has written of a Canterbury bell... "I am 22 books, of which The Willow Then we shall get some meat" ing school worked th going to put him in handcuff. Cabin la the latest. After leavi- Fleet Street for a while, and broad- cant for the BBC. Joined the ATS in 1942 and served until
Nobody? We have, I told The Devonshire, farmer (algo myself, as I drove through the a racehorse owner, MFH New Forest, the most beauti- JP) said that he had no com- Old but trdo
ful countryside: In the world, plaints about the Governmuit BERLIN: Was a
Do you areol (And it is most blessedly old.
"Don't listen to that sub- "Ono should every day at least After a year in the United States versive rubbish," said the dis- listen to a little singing, read you see more clearly than ever, tinguished literary, Agro, who
good pour, look at a first- that the fields are old, and the was his guest. class painting, and if this could trees, and the lines of the hills.) be managed, sponk a few in- telligent
words."
This was And on this blue morning, the farmer, "nobody seems 10 We reached Buckfast Abbey October 1945, when she married
Marshall written by Johann Wolfgang with orange-coloured cornfelds have noticed the blessing of the at 20 minutes
to.. one.
The von Geothe, born at Frankfort, shouldering up to the sun, I was 26 percent tax reduction for mank standing by the door asked Francisco. that Germany, 700 years ago.
depreciation."
us gently not to stay too long in
Hoboes from all parts of America will meet for annual
convention in Rochester soon. But their boss, Jeff Davies, complains
in love.
"In curslag the Budget," said
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
| "HIE GOOD OLD WEED-CUTTER
THAT JUST BENDS THE
TALL STUFF OVER....
BUT LET A TWO-INCH
NAIL GET IN THE WAY.
*YOU BEEN WANTING ............. TIESE CUELVES, HAVEN'T
YOUR
Friday
HOT WHEN I'VE GOT DINNER TO COOK FOR. EIGHT PEOPLE...HOV DO
Y THIK I CẦN WORK WITH 2 YOU ALESS- HIP AROUND THPLACES
Jr DIII,
of
San
~~(London Express Service)
DAB and FLOURDER-
By WALTER
·JUNGLE
Hess, that he need feel no blame. Since everyone has acted for the best, no one need feel the pangs of bad conscience.
A little too easy a solution? Maybe. It is a more serious); criticism that Morgan has given, a diffuse treatment to a concen- trated theme.
+
In novels, Inflation is rarely a wise policy.
CHARLES MORGAN, en- tered Navy as cadet 1911, served through 1914-18 war Chief dramatic critle of The Times 1928-39. Served at "Admiralty in World War II with intervals In France and U.S.A.
| FOOLS RUSH IN By Tina Spencer Knott, Ham- mond. 10s. 6d. 224** : pages. MANY people have wanted to buy a derelict farm and
sono a smaller company-havé done so. But mighty fow, have lived to write a game, vivacious account of the adventure. This is one.
The great majority, who pro- for that others should do their ploneering for them, will find
·bere=not · Indeed ́a humorous diverting
masterpiece--but
narrative which, begins in De von and desolation and ends with a Guernsey herd and
milking
A
parlour. And what, pray, is' a' railking parlour?
Read and learn.
* TINA SPENCER, KNOTT, 33, was born in 'Muswell Hai, graduated at University College, London, married with three children.
"It's A Contrary World”
OR
BY KEMP STÅRRETT
* TILY MUST HAVE TAKEN
THE LATER TRAIN........WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AN HOUR. AND TWENTY MINUTES,/
THE GRASS GROUT LIKE CRAZY I DE GRAVEL DRIVE
BUT THE LAWA
·BALD AS A DOOR
HOB
"EVERY DARU
ONE OF EA, IC FILL σ WORKS!
• I TOLD YOU YOU SHOULD'VE SPRAYED THIS.
YEAD
SPEND 4022. TO SPRAY THE FRUIT TREES, FROST.........KO APPLESISAVE THE MONEY, DON'T SPRAY, APPLES BY THE THOUSANDS..
ALL ROTTEN.
GEORGEY GEORGE LITS EIGHT,
LO'CLOCK?
·TIE LAD VIO'S BEEN PROWICING FOR A YEAR OR MORE TO PUT UP COME SHELVES ALWAYS GÉIC AROUND TO IT., YOU KNOW WHEN.
Ledger Brudicots.
WOGAVEIT TO ME... ITS IMPORTED..
HE ONLY WORE IT ONCE
2011,MY HEAVENS, AND
LEFT THE ROAST IN THE OVER....A
WHEN YOU GET TO THE RAILROAD STATION IN TIME TO MEET YOUR GIECIT
I THEY TAKE A LATER TRAIN .......BIT IF YOU |ARE LATE THEY'LL HAVE BEEN WAITING
FOR YOU FOR TORIY MINITĖS,
"IT WAS BEČKU”, AND MUSEUM AKD
·SHOKIN' LIKE A FOUR, ALARK
THẤT 1 CAU
GET IT TO
A GARAGE [AND THE DARN' THING BEHAYES LIKE A
CLARM 415
-MENTION THAT YOU HAVENT MAD AHAT IN MONTHS...AND WHAT HAPPENS ?
WAY CAN'T YOU EVER GET
TO CLEEP 'UTILATO
TIME TO GIT-UPS
ÉGET KOJAKTUING FOR. NOTHING FOR, OFCE FAID DOES IT TIT