WHAT'S

GOING

O N

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

M

to see me."""

RS JOYCE BRIT- again shot him up, if I am alive TAIN JONES, per-

I shall be delighted to see him, sonal friend of the d if I am dead he would like Duchess of Kent und of the late King George II of Greece, has lived in an nt- mosphere of mystery.

Now, secretly, she has married a man of mystery

One

Fallen idol

man fra i time plays many parts,... CONSIDER. Nnamdi Azikiwe, better known Nigerian. Dr handsome wealthy as Dr Zlk, viciting Londo Colonel Edward Boxshall. ngain.

of the

He links her once more with Balkan affairs. For before the WEAR, in Bucharest, Princess Elise, whore Papern

Washington

He calls himself "George Jungle": his followera call him God, By way of making a living he is he married wner-publisher OPTIVE NEWE-

father, Prince Barbu Stir- But the roles of liberator and bey, went to Cairo in 1944 deity. are fading.

to negotiate the armistice has fallen.

The prophet

between Rumania and the For on his lost visit to Lon- dom Dr Zik, preceded by great publietty, headed a delegation

Allies.

Boxshall WAH the man demanding Nigerian Indepen behind the scenes.

When King Michael abdiented In December 1947 a six-year-curl "mystery boy“ travelled to Bra fan with the royal suite.

Ne WAR Coronel Boxshal's grandson.

Age of age

"Or if by

strength.

dence.

He brought also £13,401 of to followers'

money for this purpose

He

indepen-

dr

withou!

left

This did not piense the men who Jnanced him, and his National Counell for Nigeria nt and toppled,

Now DE Zik has arrived and alone; he has no melly denants and no £13,000

more

of auch

To Queen Mary

In some fourrure they be Yet doth the strength

old men but grief and labour prove;"

Psalm 90, Church of Scotland version,

կ

At 87 BISHOP WILLIAM F BROWN has bren elected tem Jorary successor to Archbishop Amigo. Bishop af Southwark who died recently, arest 85

Bishop Brown's new title

Bishop Capitulai

At 94 Mr

343

دولان

Shaw has written

"Buoyant Billiores "

R DOW

Bernard play

AL BE Mr Nerberl Walter Howell yes marited a Won 49 years younger than himself thus emulating Sir Stephen Fox. who, in 1703, when le bus 770 your, inarried a girl 125 and beraine the father at four

It was Lord Holland, his son. who, when dying, remarked of a visitor

* Mr Selcim calls

AT THIS TIME vi yeor pare on the Seetlish expresses wateb uver wooden crates marked with the royal cypher These carry 1237 from

Bal

to the royal house- belda in bondon.

171 10

Kee Info cold ants! lasts throughout The year, un arrangepent which

! always sell the staff Buckingham Palace,

For The food, which is an expensive luxury in restaurants agapeurs too often and too nge

on the Paince menus.

Many crates are consigned to Queen Mary Marlborough House.

up o

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 19491

BOUT PATIENTS

"That'll teach you to go telling everybody 'The cuts might have been worse. ́*

LONDON, NOV. 4.

con-

Langen Express Service

What's Wicksteed

been up to

Actually

Well, this

wack I've

had charge

of SOMBORD

aged two'

with thumb-screws or red hot cally no English, which didn't needles. AVE

you ever

help the colonel's vocabulary. it isn't sidered how awful it beat him.

we who What the future holds I dread It's he who beats to think, because the next one being two yeara 1124 He pours out some torrent we're getting is Spanish and know perfectly of orders and when they are she also speaks no English.

"How- what you

out want, but

do you get a Spanish of the room selzes a rod from nurmp? She was sent us by you're surrounded by mo the stair carpet and basliés us the Labour Exchange. De- rons who can't understand with 11.

cause we have two gangsters what you are saying.

is For The King keeps

You started by his her, old 7 custom who, after Edward VII's death, Kame and venison from Balmoral to Queen Alezandro,

Höndlun Express Service!

Japanese Spies Who Became Invisible

By EARNEST HOBERECHT

JAPANESE apies oner jenrried nad avated

the art of making

cher

well

not understood hestorms

An aunt of ours who used to and une potential gun-girl In call round fairly often won't the faintly, our form applying I've come into contact como near the place now, for help was marked with the problem this week She's been terrified ever since "Priority."

she misunderstood an instruc- because the

who tion and got beaten up with a jused to look after our kida bucket.

has packed her bags and gone.

She'd been through two wars and a German occup- ation. but six months with us finished her off. We've

wah of had the same experience

them. the place he intended ly enter. with Home of our helpers selves invisible, but they Opening

convenieni door before haven't used this sOTA" wen- nogelessly, be entered the house. it he met anyone in inore. And when they did use the corridor, he flattened him-

por: for a hundred

During

years or

So, pending the arrival of un-

fodder, we've had a redivision of the house- hold duties and father's

it, they used it on theinsives. self against the wall or jumped other lamb willing to offer her-

the feudal dys of up and held his body in mid-selt ng oursery Japan, when rivalry ntul sus- air above the person by grab- picton among military leaders bing the side-posts.

was high, the Japanese deve. loped

"He

he

been

words

Those forms...

THE

THE mention of Government forms raises another line of thought. How is a form born? Arc the dear little things found blank under Rooseberry bushes? Or drop. ped in a basket by the stork or

secretary bird? Well,

I am In the happy position of being able to an- swer your questions because I've discovered there's a book on their natural history. Word of honour there 15. It's called "The Desig of Forms," and anyone can buy it at the Sta- tionery Office for 2s. 6d.

Unlike the beusia and the birds and the bees, a Govern- ment form has many parents. Hundreds

sometimes. That's

is so often a that no one can un-

Of-duty moment - in

life of a "gangster

the

why the result monster derstand.

In

of the

allotted the two-year-old

ure only two There wend wherever to its the art of sUY

of spying

and listened to the this child can say coherently and thest degree. Local warlords pleased

At the always had splys

talk of the household of his both of them are "No." In the tri-

inaster's adversary, rilories of their enemies.

And when sight of me advanchig on his col

many ways the child's

One of the purposes was thick in those he had the information ho in the morning he goes through Intrigue

and problems are rather like those book is to end all this and to whole repertoire days.

And because captured wanted, he allently returned to his

screams "No! No!" like a damsel of some old colonel who comes simplify

conception of sples often got their cars sent report his findings."

In the formE. from a lifetime

therefore So far as Occupation person- in dire distress.

opens no one at with two basic questions: nci

It goes on like that all day. Orient know, the art of the in-

understands him In What is a form?and visiblo spies 15 not being They are the only words those home

if you were to paste a What is the purpose nitwits who great

serve him fact,

n form? to understand. and he moustache on this Infant of

Mony answers come to mind, them whenever he sees ourn he'd be a perfect minia- but the ingenious authors of

home on cushions,

boya in the rockel

the better developed

the art of ninjutsu.

Ninjutsu is the art of in- practised today. visibility. Japanese legends Even Sanzo belleves not, sem

and popular tales are full of The modern electric light, he yells the supposed extraordinary admitted, probably would have one approaching. accomplishments of these sples, put even his great-great-great-

people today admit the grandfather at a logs,

but

claims for those magicions

may be Hittle exaggerated.

Still, it's a fact that ninjutsu experts really existed. They mastered their art only after long years of hard and difficult training.

BARBER TELLS ONE Sanzo Kimura

one

of

Tokyo's best barbers, knows all

must

*SATURDAY AT THE

bark

and Ands

him

ture blimp,

The last woman we had was that Norwegian and spoke

this

practi- pre

an Sure the neighbours

think we torture

DIAMO

HORSESHOE

Shoe-shine speech

about the "lost art" because HE is the story of Tony

ho 19

a great-great-great-

Tand his half million

grandson of "one of the best dollars. If you've already ninjutsu operators that ever heard it, don't try to stop lived in all of Japan."

Billy Rose

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work havo devised two DEPARTURE

are fit to print.

They (a) A form

*} of is a picco paper on which entrios are to mude, bearing printed or otherwise marked headings, captions or descripilve matter intended to define

be

(So now you know.)

the entries.

(b) Forma are essential tocis of clerical work and are used $0 that formal Instead .01.

arbitrary methods may be prac tised. (Hence

the Whitehalt proverb. Abad bureaucrat blames his forms.")

about

apply

usudi

unusual channel I about, when I was 'in

I mustn't waste any more elther, so people who the main tople. was the specia-space Anyway, that's What Sanzo mo....

cular success of the immigrant want to know anything

to will tend saya, and here's what he soya

boy. Finally the host rose, made forms dollar bills tumbled, but on the a neat little speech about

through the usual channels, his ancient relative did:

Recently, a small Italian gentle desk. "When

ged individualism, and man with a paper bag In his my honourable *

then "Hely Andrew Mellon!" old asked Tony to tell his story.

and channels an- vestor was, sull a boy, he first hand walked into a bank and the president. "What Upe of

talking about ND learned to walk and run fast took his place on the line in

It's a not- so much," said channels reminds me of a' faster than ordinary persons. front of the teller's window, He uses are you lo?? Ho trained himself to go without

the Italian, getting to his feet. hghly kept tugging

tio and make-a good money in my. Twelve year ago, me and my k at his eating and sleeping for many shifting his weight from one parlour, suld Tony... shine sista wo come-a to this country. Alosko, It's three miles wide

foot to the other, and finally a -the shoes. Got three shoe. Then my wise and honour-bank guard walked up to him, shine, parlour."***

I buy-a the shoe box, pick good and

Diomede Island. apot near the railroad station, Diomede Island in the Behr- able

ancestor learned to walk "What's the matter, Bub?" softly and noiselessly

-the mined asked. "Got

keep-a the polish off-a the ants? where, to climb up perpendieu-

socks, and make plenty dimes. My name, sho's--Tony, lar walls, jump, over high not Bub," said the litle man, years

In Ave years 1, rent shoo- fences,

and shut doors and I open without making any noise, see million dollas."

wanna deposit hafta do the best I know how," Tony shine shop hire other fella, what makes the channel so un-

· Eight year, I open things in semi-darkness and to

two more usual... La the International shop, hire, more tella, Now I Dateline, that runs down tho

idays

any-

have a specially keen sense of hearing.

SKULKED IN BLACK

When

my kind, wise and way." honourable ancestor went on a

"Amazing. How long havo you been in this country?"

"I come-d- from Napoli twelve Christmas İN Just-a

sold modestly,

applauded.

questo

runs between Little and Big

ing Straits.

Big D. balonga to. Rusda, and

D: to Little

America:

But

other

The guard's eyebrows did, o "Tell you what," said the got three shop and much-a middle. When it's Tuesday on hop, skip and jump. "Just executive. "I'm having a dinner customa I thank-a you”. ono sido. it's Wednesday on the follow me, mister," ho Bald. party at my house tonight, and The banker, and his

The president's office is this I'm sure my guests would get a

So the Russians can look great thrill out of meeting you.

"One-a thing I almost for across and see what the Ameri Would you come?"

95" [cans"are doing yesterday. And mission

got," said Tony! While I shine for the for his master, he "What can I do for you, my "Sure boss, sald Tony,

Americans it is oven dressed himself in light black good man?! aslood the banker That evening when the

a the shoes, my sista alles-amore: fun, because stroo

they can outfit which covered Hino Tony entered.

marry five rich fellas Last-a seo into the future and watch head and face, except The Italian upended the banker's guests crowded around Wook who's a dio and leave me the Russians at work to-

half a million dollar"

dollar

رائز

shine man

showed up,

:.

whole

for small holes for the cyes. paper, bag-ho was carrying and him as if he were He bolected a moonless night overal stacks of thousand- Khan, and all through, dinner

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