THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE
2, 1950.
STAR
ON ICE
SNOW PLACE FOR MOTHS MPS QUESTION
IT but the temperature the moths fear in this sublim- ing room In Kearny, New Jersey, it's the flakes. They're the kind that go into the making of moth balls. A huge pan of liquid naphthalene, taken from coal, evaporates and reforms into this snow covering, which gels shovelled from floor and celling. (Aeme).
Communists Too Busy To Invade Tibet Fabulous
New Delhi.-Diplomatic circles believe Chinese Com- munists aro unlikely to attempt their threatened invasion of Tibet this year.
One source said Mao Tse-tung's government at Peking appears to busy on other fronts to undertake a difficult military campaign against the land of the' Iamas.
That fabled land lies hid-¡paration? because the Tibetus den among the world's high-are traditionally secretive. est mountains between here and China.
MID plans
ket year to
"liberale"
PRESS BAN
TAKING NOTES AT
OFFICES
REGISTER
Two M.P.s are to ask questions in the House of Commons on June 15 on the ban, on the taking of notes of forthcoming marriages at register offices. They believe this to be a limitation of the rights of the Press and against the public interest. A circular appeared on the instructions of the Registrar-General, Mr G. C. North, in all register .offices recently in England prohibiting the Press or others from taking notes "for commercial pur- poses or for publication in the Press."
Lt.Col. Lipton, Socialist) "I think it is a serious abuse Member for Brixton, who to stop legitimate public interest as supplied by the Press. in will ask Mr Bevan, Minister any case the Registrar-General's ' of Health, whether he au petion is completely unneces thorised the Registrar sary. People can still look at General's ban, said that the the notices, memoriso
names, go outside marriage ceremony was, of them down, and then repeat the necessity, a matter of pub-performance. lic concern.
BBC CENSORS
COWARD
a few
anci write
WHOSE AUTHORITY?
"If the Registrar-General is authorised to do these things I want to know who gives blin that authority, how it has been exercised and how it will be exercised in the future,"
Mr Prescott, Conservative in Member for Darwen, will ask Me Exte, Home Secretory, whether he will annul the ban
ihe
freedom of the
Some of the lines Noel Coward's "Ace of Trumps," having its first as being contrary to the prin- run at Manchester, have ciple of been altered at the request Press and contrary to public ip of the BBC to make the terest."
"It is in the public interest show "suitable" for lis-
that the Press should have the teners.
opportunily of publishing banns, they so destre," he said. "It
Mr Coward rald he is also stupid, because a repor-
had altered the Unes ofter could memorise the names, "Josephine," sung by Pat Kirk and the Registrar-Genern) cun- wood, "Something About Sailor," "Chase Me, Charlie not say what goes in the Pres" Land "Like America."
A
The original of "Chase Me. Charile," Gung ax duel by "two cafe," wast
"Love in the moonlight can be
subline,
"Now's the time, Charlie I'm "Bound to give in if you'll only "Over the garden wall
climb
"Waiting for you" is subɛtj- tuted for "bound to give in."
"Like Amerien" the 11 original read:
"New Jersey dames, no up in 201cone mentions
An eight-man Tibetan delega tion cloaked in yellow Buddhist flames, if robes has been encamped in bed." announced Calcutta, awaiting transportation
Tibetana
The substitute is "In Ten- from the rule of the teen-nged to Hongkong, where it hopes to
urssee, the DBC would blush wontact Chinese Communists to Dalai Lam Reports trickling
"amicable settle-to hear what's said.” from the forbidden Tibetan discus capital at Lhasa indicated that ment"
the Computat
Fry
threain have Most foreign observers stem frightened the boy ruler's d-conv need the mission is doomed visers into a frantic renovation to failure-United Prem of Tibet's mediaeval army 10,000.
MAO'S STRATEGY
of
Diplomats here belleve Mao's smtegy in the next few months
will be limited activities and
pressure
to fifth column
other subversive fomenting aimed at unreed amongst the Dalai Luna's one milion subjects,
New Delal press reports sald Tibetans were being .3,000 schooled in Communist doctrine in the adjoining Chinese domin of the Panchon Lama, another teen-ager who claims to be the reincarnation
"Boundless of
Light."
The Pauchen Lama is the Chi- for the nase-backed contender throne of Lhasa.
Diplomatie quarten sald the Tibetan have been spared tem- porarily from invasion because Mno has his hands too full plan- ng the invasion of Formosa
consolidating his grip
sand
China Proper.
The
On
DOURCES said the invasion of Tibet would be no enny tank,
the weakness of despite
the
Lama's forces Their heaviest were sain to bo weapone oboolete Inachine Kang and
howżizare.
FEW ROADS
Tibet is one of the world's most inaccessible countrien. Its Jagged Blor-swept torrain averages more than two miles in height.
The few roads which wind through its gorges and frozen passed are to narrow and rocky that wheeled vehicles are un- common.
The Tibetans
were reported
to be recruiting 20,000 new troops for training in modern guerilla warfare. Little- is known about the defence pre-
SMALL
Mr Coward sald that he received a letter of thanks from BBC after making the
alterations.
20-YEARS' POLICY
A spokeman in the Registrar- General's office said: "The circular merely emphasizes whit has been our policy for the last 20 years. The Press have never had the right to Lake these notes, and we have had legal advice on the matter for a long
time."
Other views expressed were:
TEN-YEAR-OLD Yvonne Sugden executes a perfect stur during the competition for the Junior Cup at Wembley. Yvonne was the youngest of the 18 girls in the competition and displayed expert form. (Acme).
Veteran
Of 50,000
Weddings Finds It No Less Stirring
By GAY PAULEY
New York-Ono marriage is par for most women. Mrs Wilma Allen will chalk up her 50,000th this month. Even with that record-shattering total, she still gots dowy- eyed as an 18-year-old when she hears the organ break into a wedding march.
Throat,"
.
St. Cyr Prepares To Restore Its Military Glory
ST. CYR, France.
This bomb-battered village at the western fringes of the royal gardens of Versailles' is pre- paring for its most impressive ceremony since Napoleon.
In those days' the emperor paid his periodic' visita to inspect the cadets of the national military academy ho founded in 1808.
brought contributions, from as far away as China and North and South America.
The magnificent buildings where past generations of French officera learned the
St. Cry, unlike West Point, elements of military tactics
opened its doors to cadets of lie in ruins today. They friendly powers, including many were blasted into rubble young men who inter · became British and when Allied bombers amash- generals In the
ed the German headquarters | American armies, the Nazis established in the. French military sources point famous school during World out that this War II.
was one of tho earliest examples of tho samo Lort of arms integration pro- The purnde grounds where gramme that the Atlantic Pact some of the world's greatest nations are now planning in the military geniuses marched as Interchange of officers in train- boys are pocked with bombing craters.
Lt. Col. A. Deenudin, in In this setting of ruin, Pres-charge of the fund-raising can cerit Vincent Auriol, most ofpaign for the statue and himself the French General Staff, high-andunte of St. Cyr, pointed ranking officers of all major out that France once more 'may Western powerg and hundreds {aksume such a role as the p at St. Cyr graduates will gathertions of the West complete their on June 11 mld the ghosts of defence programme against pos the past and memories of their sible aggression from the East.
United Press, own youth.
WHITE STATUE RAISEr
They will stand at attention before a gleaming white statue dedicated to the cadets of St. Cyr who fell in batile during the last 140 years,
They were thosC who died from the show-covered Napoleonic retreat from Moscow to the Battle of Verdun in
War I, World
to the tragle defect in 1940 to the jungles of Indo-China.
That Inst battlefeld will be the most poignant, even for the French who love the lore of history and the past glories of their nation.
For, while most of the world in tavolved at most in a cold
war, France today is fighting a battle against the Communists in Indo-China which costs them
In Brit-
Marriage Guidance Council: "We have for many years suffer- ed similar ban. We have.
"Even after 22 years
of arrest was at 9.30 am, as the us many officers as St. Cyr now asked if we may take notes of
weddings, she
wan en route to her third wax-graduates in a year from its new forthcoming marriages to help sweating out
our work, and though nya, "I still get a lump in my ding. But the policeman's heart postwar headquarters us in
he explained any softened when
he provided a superintendent.registrars
her hurry and many
Some of the older men who have been anxious to co-operate |
siren escort to the scene. we have not been allowed to
were brought up an schoolboys Her second encounter with on the legends of Foch and dio 50
the law didn't turn out so well. Petain and earlier of such D3 Ney, Koneruis She was heading for wedding Napoleonie
will No. when she was nabbed for Grouchy and Bernadotte.
inore of bringing France's "West Point" back "o speeding. A hard-hearted cop meak once gave her a ticket.
St. Cyr where It was born,
even
finds that
SOME GAL.!
Mrs Allen, native of Went Salem, Ilinois, is a bridal con- for the Jay Thorpe chair-sultant Mr R. S. W. Pollard, man of Marriage Law Reform store here, Society: "It is a piece of im-
She and a staff of pertinence, and the legality of the Registrar-General's circular curvise about 3,000 weddings It is bureaucratie annually. The shop outfits the thes doubtful.
whole wedding party, if the Lofsense.
Mrs Alien Fays that bride-to-be wants it that way.
LOOK TO FUTURE But it also provides free counsel with all the practice she's hind on weddings right from the ut weddings, she
Others thero for the dedication France's memorial to time the breathless young Ung when it comes right down to a
dress marriage in her own family, the of the
in walks in looking for 12
Intlen wil: concentrate
'JANE ́ ́ Russell ls one of until the trips down the nisle to cair disappears.
France's future speeches on
Hollywood's all-round say "I do,"
"When my Fon Bob married," role in a world in which the still loses an entre
sportswomen. Relaxing Orice the vows are said, Mr she confesses, "I forgot I was nation
after finishing a picture Allen is through. Sho han no the bridegroom's mother and graduating class cach year.
with Frank Sinatra, Jane plans for advising the lovelorn, was supposed to walk down the
wears this attractive although she gets plenty of realele, Finally someone gave me
n shove and I remembered this jene which was powdered inte World War 11. quests along that line.
time I was in the wedding rubble by the
rebuilt sports outfit for tenuls by a special subscription which and badminton., (Acme)
GUEST
IN
LARGE
HOUSE
A BABY grey squirrel has taken up residence in the lion house at the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago, after apparently falling from its nest, Sitting up in a plastic crib, the foundling now takes its meals from a medicine dropper. (Acme).
K. O. CANNON
PRETTY, TOUGH ABOUT ZUCCI'S BUICIDE, WASN'T. IT, WR.CANNON? HEY! YOU DON'T PECKON CARES55;
LENT THAT OUN OF MIHE
TO ANYONE, DO YOU?.
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
SINCE YOU MENTION IT. MITCHELL, GHE DID BUS-LET
IT TO A QUY.. AND WHAT
-DO YOU THINK 69% DDJ-
WITH IT 7 HE SHOT
HIMSELF
"EN ZUCCA SHE LINT↑
IT TO ZUCCIP HE
DIED WITH
MY GUN?
IN
HIS
The memorial Itself replaces
FAMILY'S
Thero was the time during party, not running it."-United bombing. It has been the war when a service manPress. wrote pleading, "I heard about you from a buddy. Will you Call please do me a favour? my tancoe in Brooklynor at icast she was my flancee-ond tall her how great you think marriage is. She's angry with me and I'm afraid some other guy will move in before I'Ect home."
$30,000 GOWN
Wilmin Allch
handled weddings for people of about very profession, religion, poul- tical leaning or social standing
She has gowned brides who could afford a $30,000 outlay on 2 dress: brides who could pay only $25.
That $30,000 number was the most expensive Mra Allen ever had a hand in making. It was entirely of rose point lace and had a five-yard traià.
Mrs Aller won't say wore it
who
The wedding consultant sald Dulling off either a big or small If she just hindig is a cinch, can keep Mama out of the ple- Jure.
She observed: "It's not only faughter a big day, but Mama's, oo. And Mama manages to make the most of it. Of course, understand how mothers feel. Um one myself."
When Mrs Allen speaks of to the wing brides right church, she's not kidding. This levotion to duty is time-con-. uming and alco produces its hare of catastrophes, or near-
tastrophes,
POLICE CALL, HALT
Flowers have been rala placed, maid-of-honour gowns fost, traffic laws violated.
One day she did nine wed
dings. In 18 hours and was halt- ad twice by police. The first
FOOTSTEPS
LITTLE Benny Schumann, a member of the world-famous circus family, staris his training early in Stockholm. The horse seems a bit for Benny, but the safety rope is there to keep the young rider;
"
(Acme).
trouble.