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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1950.
"Hey, Staffy! What about taking my friend and me for a ride across the Gap?"". "You'll have to ask the Horse".
•Man
World Copyright,
Dy arrange intent, with Dally Iterald.
Touchy? Why, even a game
of marbles started
by SYDNEY SMITH
a massacre
CALCUTTA. Na narrow
little Calcutta lane, more than a garbage-filled rats' run, a cluster of street urchins knelt to play marbles.
Young Ibrahim Khan bounced Ram Lal Gupta's best alley, with a plop straight into the crusty scum of a flooded, drain.
ASSAN
PAKISTAN
Dacce
GAL
WAY OF BENGAL
ear.
GEE
Ram Lal howled until his father uncrossed his legs and scrambled down from the shelf of his fruit and betel nut stall and caught Ibrahim by the Then Ibrahim's father arrived to what it was all about.
CALCUTTA...scene of the India-Pakistan tension,
Moslems dice in the pitched battle this year.
biggest
I sat in a command post with an indian Army officer.
Africa and Europe.
Switching On The Sun
T
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
OXFORD.
gradually by
friction between
HE weather men should water drops and ice particles. Change all the water to lee, and Hoon be able to big charges should be eliminated.
. arrange sunshine for the scientists argue.
the next Easter Parade and
on"
#turn
during rain droughts. That in my
WEATHER QUOTES
belief after talks with the ★ TO CELEBRATE its con- tenary the Royal Meteoro- world's leading meteoro- fogical Society has published a logists during the interna- fascinating collection of tradi- tional "Red sky at night shep- tional weather conference, herd's delight" type wenther
which has just ended here,
an
Details of
astonish-
ingly simple ground- operated device, which can give con- siderable con- trol
ovor clouds, were disclosed by
Amerien's
signs,*
Atie-
pioneer rainmaker DR come when a
One for those disappointed by cold wind and rain Acold, moist April fills the cellars and fattens the cow. One I find most reliable
giaring
sunny moming never comes to a good The one end.
I liko best —
Spring har
mait can act her
VINCENT SCHAEFER, foot on seven daisies at once.
The device is a stove,
burning a mixture of char-
coal and iodide of silver. Its
SWIFT SNOOP
Oxford's
for a daily
the rafters of smoke scatters minute UNDER
ugly University crystals of the iodide of Museum, two relentints are set- silver high in the sky. Any tg up spy-holes of the crystals which drift down-to-duske snoop Into the in- timate family lives of 20 couples. into clouds made up of very due to take up residence there cold water-drops immediate this month.
ly trigger off a chain-reac
The couples are swifts Immi- tion, turning the whole grating from South Africa. The cloud into ice.
spy-holes are the glass backs of The ice particles then tunnel-shaped nesting-boxes in witch the switis will rear their fall. Depending on tempera- twins or triplets. The scientists authority DR and his blonde
isture and other conditions, are famous bird chest was bright with the they either turn to rain on DAVID LACK British campaign ribbona
of the way down or change to wife ELIZABETH, was
Between them the Locks proud of them. He was a Hindu vapour, leaving a clear sky.
One watchman's brazier- own the only human eyes which He shot 18 Indus in one day
can shot sized stove .cently, while his troops
clear 200 have ever seen the rearing of a swift family. Switte usually more to rescue 15,000 besieged square miles of "super-cool" build in inaccesible places. No- J:1 Calcutta-in New
Delhi, Moslems.
clouds. A chain of them body thought of offering them 100-no one besitates to
Britain's openly that Nehru
skies nesting-boxes until the Lacks: covering would sign
did it last year, his own death warrant if he compromised 011 Kushnir Bengal, or even deadlock.
on the
507
آئی
Spirit of sanity would serve three uses
trade talked the linge of the old Make many of the clouds,
H'Indian
otherwise Army. Ilc
which would was pakka. "You see, old boy, drift over during droughts,
The refugees although they divided the best shed their rain.
way
They found that both parent wifls take a turn of incubating duty, relieving each other every three hours. Which is just the me my wife and I And most relieving each: convenient for
A silling
not in Arin we have army forgotten what we learned-ner Disperse those low-lying other during our watches," said HIEFS of the Mahasabha, la the friends we had and fought misty clouds which carry Lack.
conference in Calcutta, de beside Moslem, Hindu, English, little rain but obscure the cided that the best
swift just edges to We are non-communal and we're force a war lu more
over slightly when Lack its Moslen, Bght to keep the peace right sun for days in windless slaughter to provoke
reprisals now.
weather.
out cacli youngster for its daily against Hindus In Pakistan
R. A. F. boffin DI spring-balance weighing. It does: "I know nil the Pak Army Bengal. This would justify In-
thinks not seem to mind when ho dia's armed Intervention.
chaps on the other side, and if RONALD FRITH
intercepts
"parcel" good I met them now I'd say, Hello, that clearing cloud to let brought in for the youngsters by Forty-five minutes later
Because they believe Indra old boy, have a drink. Just like the sun through for Derby the other bird. Each "parcel" the mist of lear-gas lifted
will attack I'nkinn Hindus we used 10.
Day, the Cup Final, and the contains up to 800 insects, all from from the militant rubble of
Pakistan Bengal are
on the wing, Lack were ordered to war, I wo the ut stones and sticks and bricks
swarming into Calcutta
week, of course, we would to just the Lord Mayor's Show is an caught to show 27 bodies lying in munities have died in the pro- rate of nearly 100,000 a
But if we can crack immediate possibility, cholera, cess-from
dysentery They are adding their weight same
Lack will probably apologiso this hard enough on the silent lane-Hindus and and
down
Make flying sater by starvation, cigarette-tin of poverty, fear and homeless
not have to
to the swifts in print for his to prevent
His Moslems.
helping
book None of them bombs and "tube guns"
Peeping Tom act. and ness to the 6,500,000 others who madness we shall
turning Calcutta fight-there will be no war he- had cared about a marble knives, Is uncertain.
are already
were thunderstorms and by dis- describing his scientific studies (rather game or known about ents'
If the official allegations from into a gigantic slun, a breeding tween the blokes who
friends and fellow-officers
persing the cold water of robins is dedicated both sides are to be believed, round of desperation.
the old Indian Army.
clouds which ice up aircraft. coyly) "To all those robins who eyes alleys.
permitted at
my Intrusicus in progress Experiments Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory the intimacies of their lives." are showing that the tremen- dous electrical charges which arc bull up cause lightning
How Inany of both com
seem
a
in
it cannot be fewer than 20,000, From such a background war
In that spirit-of those who terrible it might be 50,000, Non- cuunot Some had died because but
remeinher sanily and the best But I did find one
inoy be stil they cared about pigtails communal independent climates prospect,
add 1 up to
10,000. only
bright ray, down in the indus that was there and sandalwood paste The dead casinot tell. But the trial heart
Calcutta-income hope. smeared on their foreheads, living, the homeless, the stary- 11owral-where 400 Hindus and and others because they be- ing and the diseased in refugee
lieved that there is only one God and that Mahomet is His prophet.
None of them had wanted to all or die. But they did it be cause they were afraid.
This is not fiction.
on both sides ATC pretty colid cash testimony ใน the distress,
of
-(London Exprota Service
'War readiness' C.V.R. Thompson Reports The U.S.A.
ŢUINEE-QUARTERS of Pakin-
already
NEW YORK
Jast year
of
reports.
*
IRONY
into
A SCIENTIST here who helped design the R101 air- chip, which crashed in 1930, told me in, ironical behind-the-scenes
The ship's 769-ft.
Ube away Two serious defects were wine found in the tube when it was
10 to send
laken out for repair-te nianu-
mer-
long Embarrassed and angry, the behave to U.S. airmen stationed framework contained more than Tribune: 40,000 metal lubes, fixed at each to girders. When the gratuitously end are moks THE HE usual story in the police have hunted the thief, or in Britain, Sald the
they are "The It is one Budget is devoled to keeping; U.S. just as in Britain, is leves, as diligently
the brunting
counterfeiters apologising in advance for their skeleton was almost finished a workman dropped a hammer the these two of the minor incidents In
on one of the tubes. Commmwealth that a domestic job is the passing ten and 20-dollar bills countrymen." Bengal netblours
"wat state of
which present India-Pakistan
all over the town.
SCOTCH ULAT last one to take.
look communal war, recorded in the readiness" nainst each other.
they At lost
on Government swooped To death and devastation are Well, that is not the idea
ata from police report book of a Calcutta
English pubs and even joined the economie blockade of of the new maid in a Miami, James McMahon, porter slum. There are others.
block of flats. They caught him shops off more obscure: the pickpocket both sides. There have cut
Florida, house.
with one basket in his posses Americu is not selling tou well.facturers had made it too small arrested in a bus who escaped trade, commerce and communi-
him Zura Houston does not seem clon. They brought
10 According to Harry Lourie, New and it was insecurely fastened. while the mobs forgot him na cutions almost as drastically as
biggest whisky to be different from any other court as the "master-mind" be- York's
Both these critical points had three if the borders were they burned and stoned
Negro mald.
bind the Dig Basket Robbery, chant, that is because most of 1! ftring lines.. more buses....
(sisted
lesser known rscaped the inspector's eye, So written seven But the court dismissed the case But she has
how the designers wondered brands. While at the top a sprinklingnutstanding novels and she is a for lack of evidence, The Moslem who could not
The police are still more em. Mr Lourie is suggesting an many more tubes were as bad. pay his bill of 1s, 11d, for his of men of wisdom and good doctor of literature.
advertising campaign to break The only safe thing to do, short headed by Jawaharlal And
she has taken a maid's barrassed and angrler. betel chew to the Hindu shop will,
down what he calls "consumer
of dismantling the airship, was keeper and started a communal Nehru and Liaqat All Khan, are juba for this reason:
becoming candidates fot You can only use your mind riot that sent 27 others to hua- fast
Gandhian martyrdom by seek-
seek so long-then you have to use tition over jel-liners. The pitul.
Budget Bureau ing a compromis, great
has earmarked PEPPER, sald a Government eatyour hands. lower
"I
cook are vociferous middle and
Jike to
and keep £4,000,000 ns n subsidy to help decree is just "a desirable instances These small
fanatical, house.
Why shouldn't do it US. manufacturers meet pro reasoning" and not a necessity. part of the haunting black middle class, led by
and for someone else?"
duction costs of a jet-lineral And so the Government will not magle and terror which in the semi-educated windbags
the hit accidentally up stocks against the drawing-board stage-which bulld ted ambitious political uprooted amen past two months has
TUIE GREAT wastepaper they say is as good as the Comet. chance of another war cutting faulty one in the airship. threequarters of A million feurs, is howling for
r Moslems The militant nationalist basket mystery still Congress has yet to approve the off supplies. Bengali Hindus and
A month subsidy. mystery after all,
omcials, with
CONFESSION from America's from their centuries-old homes. Hindu Mahasabha, which
death, ago New York
doctors
by way of their It has sent them trekking across brought Gandhi to his
accom- their minds on tidying up the PANKED by
thos Medical Journal: We can find Inwards an artiücial 2-year-old burder has proclaimed, to the
clamourelty, put 1,000 big wire baskets Tribune to swell the refugee burden on pantinent of popular
Calcutta, that India mustat street corners. Since then Washington air force chlefs who no way to prevent your hair
handed out hints on how to turning grey. two already bankrupt British in
fight and Nehru must resign. 753 have been stolen. Commonwealth Governments.
NANCY
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the Chicago
were
By Ernie Bushmiller
LUCKY I CAN'T GET AT
YOU
every
months.
tubc. The job
took
Result: the tube the workman was the only
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