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,
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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
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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
ม
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
the It
(0)
(b)
The Smile
that wins-
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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
the Aga
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