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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950,
African sergeant-majors fly 3,500 miles-to learn to bellow SQU-A-A-D
They Like Drill-But Not The Climate
Eight warrant officers and two sergeants, pick of the Royal West African Fron- tier Forca, have flown 3.500 miles to Caterham. Surrey, to learn how drill is done in the Guards.
In 95 parades of 45 minutes rach they will be put through six weeks of the Ariny's stiffest drill course. Then they will fly home again.
Put through their paces by Drill-Sergeant D. Lynch, D.C.M.—RS.M_Dobo, M.M.. R.S.M. Numan, M.M., C.J.M, Dosso, MM.
Unara Numan, and C.S.M. Amadu Dorso all hold the M.M.
The ten West Africans—two. of them are R.S.M.S utx C.SM.a-re enjoying their Brat via to England-even the i drills. But they And our Umoru climate a little chilly,
The others Bre C.S.M.s
Malduguri, Seidu Kangaro, Tujand Cande, Munia Moshi, and Kramo Wongara, "They are kepift of thick and Sergeants Musa Sinuku
and Mark Banh.
woollen underwear with ankle- Jength
partis,"
Captain zald E. D. Upton, who flew them over.
"And so that they do not silver at nytht each houz been Riven eight
in."
blankets to sleep
R.S.M. Mursal Doba, RS.M.
At the Guards' depot they have FL hut to themselves. When they return to Nigerin and the Gold Coast they will soldiers from Britain. train local N.COS to replace
-London Erpres Service)
NEW BEEF
FOR
Bing Crosby Wants To Quit But Can't
By R. M. McColl
Paris, Apr. 22.
A Fortune Sizzled On His Stove
Kirkland Lake (Ontario). Millionaire Charlie Chow, Chinese cook who made n gold fortune out of his fry- ing pan, hnd n jubilee the other day.
Old-timers of the North Ontario gold rush, two of them millionaires, came to Charlo Chowe hotel on Government Rond, now called The Golden 2001 Milc, to celebrate the birthday of the 40-room hotel.
Nearby, almost on top of the first gold workings, Bit, Charfie; opened a tar-paper shack with eight stools in the mud.
Then millionaire to. bo William Wright was just an op- timist from, England, And Harry Oakes, a millionaire today, was. an Australian Immigrant trying his luck.
Oakes, who struck it rich, paid his miners half in cash. ball in shares. They pald. Charlie the cook only in shores.
STEAK MONEY
Aproned Charlic, frying-pan in hand, would stand pleadings "No more shares, no more
shares." But the miners would dis-throw scrip on his till.
"You know," said 45-year-old Bing Crosby in Paris, "I'd like to retire right now. I mean it. But I just can't. It would mean too much LANDption and hardship for many people. I've got to keep right on, like it or
BRITAIN
A great ranching estate in Bechuanaland's Kalahari Desert will provide succulent steaks and joints for the Sunday dinner in Britain, if the find- ings of experts who have just surveyed the territory are accepted.
I asked him what he is worth. He thought it over for nearly # minute. No Coyness. He held up a steel- shafted driver and squinted along it.
"Let's see," he said. “Assuming I decided to liquidate tomorrow,
I mht be worth, I think, about
a million and a half dollars in
The official report on the rainfull is zoinetimes only six cash." empty, unused Kalahari has inches a year.
gone to the Colonin! Develop-] There is water under the ment Corporation. But it is desert-300 fret under,
a secret.
From the Bechuanaland Government secretary down, no
one dare say a word,
The area earmarked for cattle
• raising-50,000 square miles-Is Inhabited only by roving bush- men, amoel! whom a five-footer
talt non,
is
Government service.
a few
holes new ey
Bare
are meded
to keep the cattle alive.
A sulle glints through, "Preity good for n very bad singer.
on't you think?
A CHARMING MAN... A two-month survey has been completed by a mission
Harry Lilia Crosby, worth which £500,000, then, and wearing included Profesor Frank Deben-tteringly expensive expedition to the Antarctic 38 charming man. liam, geologist with Scott's clothes, is an easy, keen-eyed,
years ago,
The mission's reached the
golf
BIG-BUSINESSMAN DING
- Practice? I never practised anything in my lila,
There were fights, Men were thrown through the walls. Later Charlie learned to listen to news) of gold strikes, and what chores to accept and to buy-for a
"You see I owe a whole lot of back taxes like nearly every-sleak. one else in show business. And I owe a bunk of money to the banks.
"I got raselt property, too. Some of 11 Is mortgaged and some of it is clear, Then the price of eattle varieg consizlerably.
What about that disruption, if be rotired?
Saya Crosby: "I keep a per- manent office staff of ten people. Then there's a household stuff of four-nc, five with the gardener. Out at the ranch in Nevada I've 10 cowboys.
two
WITH A BIG 'FAMILY'
"There's
radio my weekly PROKTAMINE. There's 2 25-man orchestra, tree arrangers, # vocal group of cap oozes down over his foreve, two writers, head. He wears
chocolate producer, twoj 11
engineers, coloured sleeveless sweater over a canary yellow jersey with large lage hands, two secretaries, two collar. There are tan slachts,
handymen and tartan socks and brown leather
an accountant brogues.
"Then I've two He may wear this outht for the of my brothers
"I can show who British Amateur,
work for up in a blue and grey cum-
mc, and my The Crasbu abination," he says, "or may be
father who helps
Grip awn or Kreen Trouble is to tot up my private accounts.
I can't tell
As he poses for pletures in the wanderings courtyard of the Ritz Hotel, Molopo river, the Argentine millionaires and Europeans, most of them in southern boundary of French dukes peek excitedly
Bechuanaland, where 500,000 through the window" neres are being turned into a holding ranch.
For it is not every day that Labour needs are calculated you can see Bing Crosby hefting thet 3,000 to 4,000 African cow British Amateur Golf Champion- the driver he will wield in the boys and 200 European super-hp-and hear him nonchalantly
gurgling a few bars of song.
If the plans go through, in a few years there will
be
Bechuanaland beef on. British tables And Jeu from Argentine.
CATTLE NEEDED
The planners are prepared to treble the present beef production of the Protectorate.
For that they need 756,000 cattle in ranches each covering 640 square milies and holding 10,000 entilo
Although this
Katakari
Is
. desert on the maps it is not Beau Gesto country. Sweetgrass, excellent food for African breeds, grows five-feet high but is patchily distributed and needs murting.
The rough tracksure too much for cars. Lorries are essential. The Bechuanaland police use cantels for the toughest part of their bush best of 275,000 square mites.
The Kalahari is healthy, with brilliant. mild winters. But
STRIKE HAD
NO EFFECT
Rome, Mny 3.-The Com- munist-called, natlon-wide half- haur general strike to pro- test against the killing 131 two peasants on Sunday ended at noon today without in- cident.
Except for the industrial north, where workers downed tools and halted production in factories, the strike had no ef- fect on transportation und general business,
Some 5,000,000 members of the Communist-controlled Gen- cral
Confederation of Labour were ordered to cease work in protest against the death of 1W0 workers and the wound- ing of 21 others at Celano, in the Abruzz! region.-United
· Press.
visors.
But there
аге lluns to be dealt with before they can get The thing ensemble is down to those juley Beefstenks. smasher. A huge bulbous plaid
K. 0. CANNON
HYDE PARK
TULIPS
AMERICAN girl Rhae Sanders, of Charleston, South Carolina, with the tulips-in Ilyde Park, London. (Express Service)
YOU ARE QUICK ON THE UPTAKE,MSIKU [CANNON ....... zucci
WAS A CUTE BINDI SOMEONE MAY HAVE BEEN. PLUĆKING MINI ↑ GOOD DAY, TO VOUĮ
I'm colour blind. green from blue."
That £300,000
now. He is frank about the things he has to take into account in arriving at the pure****
education.
INDIAN'S LONG Twenty-two years ago I saw
FAST
The other night, Oakes and Wright teased Charlie and tried to find out how much he is worth. But Charlie Chow Just grinned-he nhower he
has been giving for 25 years..
SUDANESE DEMAND FOR
FREEDOM
FULL OF EDUCATION
THREE Barnard College students, in New York, compare their book-carrying baskets. Left to right, Martha Distlehurst, Nancy Jane Price and Ruth Schachter are among the students who have adopted the basket method of carrying school books. They claim it's a lot easier on the arm muscles. (Acme)
Gaelic Unpopular With The Irish
By Derry Moran
Dublin.
Gaolic, ancient language of Ireland, is disappoaring from the everyday life of the nation, despite intensivo offorts to revive it as the official language,
and.
Khartoum, May 3.-The
Once the vernacular of was being "pushed" in every National Bloc, which was the whole island, Gaelic is way. recently formed by a com-
Government advertising bination of Unionists and now used as a medium by
ration coupons were produced In Liberal Ashigga, has cabled only a small minority of the English only;
English was for ' of the first time on Irish postage the British Foreign Secre- population as a means
nationalist expression. stomps; there was a decline in tary, Mr Ernest Bevin, and
the amount of Irish used in the the Egyptian Prime Minis-
Even in the Gaeltacht, colour-civil service, and increde în ter, Nahas Pasha, claimingful west coast area until a de- the sufficulties of the citizen
ago completely desiring to practice the native to be representative of true cade Sudanese
which Irish-speaking, English, is being opinion
accepted on the everyday lun allegedly aims at a free guage of the people. Sudanese government union with Egypt.
in
im-
or two
But despite the regression, lis supporters are determined to establish Gaelic as the official vernacular of the nation.
These assert that without ita
language, he declared.
"With, regrest," Mac Fhionn- laoich also criticised tho zution's Catholle clergy for an alleged lack of support for the language
movement.
OTHER TARGETS Other targols for alleged lack
"Sure. I often feel I'd give anything in the world to quit I'm lazy, muster. It's an effort to Tho cables declared that any work. I guess I have enough Anglo-Egyptian settlement of own official language, Ireland is to give my tour boys a fine the Sudan question will not be nothing more than the "western of interest in the national lan-
accepted by the Sudances unless
less end of Britain." All indientionsgungo were "But I've got to keep right on it fulfils all the demands. The are, however, that the vast moss run
the Government- radio going. It's an obligation."
station, Bloc also demanded an
Radlo Im- of the population is quite con- Eireann, trade unions, commer- mediate Anglo-Egyption declara- tent with English,
cial concerns and country and Crosby in a
the nightclub in Bnition. to be endorsed by
urban councils and boards.. more, Maryland.
United Nations, for the
DRIVING POWER
The He was no of mediate evacuation of foreign
Government ill gives Paul Whiteman's Delta Rhythm
Driving power of the lan-money to troops.
the Irish movement, Village Huron, Quebec, May Boys
fungo movement. In the Gaelic the large granta made by former 3-Jules Sloul, self-appointed
It also demanded that the League, founded late last cen-Premier Eamon de Valera's lender of the North
I asked him how much time he declaration include immediate tury by the Republie's Arst Fianna Fail Indian National Government, devotes to singing practice now. liquidation of the present rule President,
the Inte Douglas drastically reduced when Cos went into the 71st day of his He roared with laughter.
and establishment of a Sudanese Hyde, to awaken nationalist tello's government took office. hunger strike today weighing 58
which feeling, then dormant in tho "Practice?" says Crosby. "I democratic government pounds less than when
Irish is sill taught as n com- henever practised anything in my would shape the kind of rule population after more than 600 started.
life. And with a volce like mine acceptable to the Sudanese years of British administration.pulsory language in schools, In the case of the vast majority I'd be plain seared to expose it people.
The League's outgoing 'Presl of students, however, it is for- {to practice."
The cables added that a me-[dent, Diarmuld Mac Fhionn gotten by the time they become morandum supporting the de-laofch, bluntly charged that adults Only students going in mands would shortly be sent to instead of the resources of the for government pasta, for which The British and Egyptian Go-state being used for the promo- Goelle is compulsory, retain its vernments-United Press,
tion of the language, English | use.-United Pregs,
American
He has refused to cat until the Prime Minister, Mr Louts
"enslaving"
St Laurent, stops
the Indian people.
Soul weighed 170 pounds at the start of his fast. He takes only a 1c sugared water each day.
Ifis physician, Dr Gaston Jean, sald he probably could live another 30 days on his present diet,-United Press.
Bishop Yashiro
For Australia
-{London Express Service)
Egypt May Buy Arms
From Czechs
Cairo, May 3-Egypt may buy arins from Russia and Czecho- Flovakia becattse The United
Staten and Britain are hedging
newspaper
AI
Tokyo, Muy 3. Bishop inn weapons agreements, the Michael Yashlio left Tokyo by Independent pline this morning for Australia | Abram raid today. and New Zealand.
"Dificultles planted by Bri-
Egypt's way on rearming her- self are sufcient to induce ber to accept generous Soviet offers to supply arms," the paper sald in a front-page story.
The Episcopal Church Bishoptain and the United States in Is the first Japanese authorised oftelally to enter Australia or New Zealand since the war. He has been invited to attend the 100th anniversary celebration of the Episcopal Church in New Zealand-United Press,
A NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER
Cina want" GNCON? IN THAT TRAV
HAPPENS TO BE FOR
ROOM 102.4 I'LL TAKE IT!
MAM ZELLE WHISPAIRE!
..ZIS HES ZE GARCON.
CET.EES YOUR BREAKFAST...
At Abram cald Britain was demanding that Egypt help de- fend the Suez Canal and recog- nize Israel, to realise America's plans before supplying arms under the new agreement. It added that Britain alsó demand.. ed constitutional reforms in the Sudan which previously had been rejected by Egypt.---United Press,
Mother is 14, Father 13
Nice May-2---Marthe--Conție, aged 14, today gave birth to a healthy baby, boy, and reveätka that the father wins, her 15- year-old farm neighbour, ¿Ro“. bert Fabre, Fabre's parents objected to: the
jesst. until Robert, unishes. grammar" school...United From:
MYSTERY
REMAINS
Government were
UNSOLVED
WHEN the Ave-masted schooner, Carol A. Deering, went nabóre on Ocracoke Land, North Carolina, in 1921, its salis were set but none of the crew remained aboard........... The mystery of what happened to this ship has never been paired and now, almost 30 years later, its remains can still be seen on the beachýb
the Caps Hatterns ares. Its story is still a necrot. (Acmo)ūk