THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE. 16, 1950.
ALONG THE PROMENADE-IN REGENT STREET,
THEY had a half-day off; it was not hot. They swam; it was cool. They got out, saw the thermometer standing at 83 degrees-and decided to stay cool. So they kept their swim-suits on and window-gazed in Regent street on their way home. Few people stared. The girls, who work in London, are Anne Dwyer, aged 22, from Dublin, and—in the two-piece-Connie O'Shea, aged 19. from Tralee.-(London Express Service).
Abbe probes mystery of the rock paintings
Desert Dream Comes True
mental
Pte Blandy
Built His
Own Empire
Following a long wartime interruption, ocean cruises from the principal British ports are being resumed. Popular choice of those in funds are the luxury trips to the dust-free island paradise of Madeira, with its immense tropical moon, Atlantic breakers and romantic tradition.
Maybe it would not have become so popular had not British private soldier John Blandy more than "used his lonf” and followed up his short but hectic Army career with a venture into business which enabled him to found in Madeira a pocket- sized holiday empire barely 32 miles by 12, rising to mountain peaks 6,000 feet high with vineyard yields of 200,000 gallons of Madeira wine annually, from honeyed Malmsey to precious Soleras.
Private Blandy was there of farmers harvest the Blandys with the British occupation land without paying a penny troops in the Napoleonic invent. They merely surren
xter wars. What he saw there a mall percentage of the Boon convinced him of the ro remunerative to both sides This procedure proved crops.
excellent prospects for in the past that. It attracted civvy life.
many cager settlers. The only Il request to the C.O. for unsettled and now la suitable demobilisation оп the
Leland for goats, not pioneers, and to be allowed to setile
£ 1,250,000
Kangaroos For England
Four baby kangaroos jhave just arrived in Eng-
Bewitched land after a 12,000-mile alr Mountains Give Up
Atom Ore
CAPE TOWN.
Journey from Australia. They are a present from Mr E. J. Hallstrom, the pro- minent Australia industri- Jalist, to the Duke of Bed- ford, who is hoping to breed kangarook on his estato of more than 4,000 [acres at Woburn. 'Bedford-
shire.
be
Sixty-year-old Captain The kangaroos are now be Henry Martin, of Dover, los coming acchinatired in a small returned from a year's ad-paddock, but will soon ventures in the bewitched turned loose on the estate. The and forbidden mountains of Duke's
private collection. of routhern Tanganyika, where fanimals at Weburn includes a he claims to have found rich herd of North American buffalo deposits of uranium.
and 1 different types of deer.
Daphne
run
over with one of them on the Duke's
estale.
there was granted, after due It เตร่ the Blandy's who warning had been given of the publicized the island's tropical
his A little-known aspect of Britain's Nationalment market. Soon after attractions. In average sensors, Health Service was introduced to doctors, psychiat
comrades had sailed for Britain, 1,000 visitors land on Madeira
John
Blandy opened a daily. With a new £10,000,000 trists, Government and local authority health ex-small store on his meagre Army air bars in preparation, the perts and hospital staffs who visited the Social saving, plus a ready terapie still pioneering Blandy family
n to credit to a sympathetic have
today refurnished the Psychotherapy Centre in Hampstead, Middlesex, merchant.
hotels and restocked the famous recently.
WINE FOR LONDON bazanza ready for a postwar It was the first institution; vinced that a lot of
boom. They hope to skyrocket I was not long before op-the of its kind when the new trouble can be ended if people
A year spent Health Service started, but, can have opportunities to meet portuning Blandy wan cending by ocean-going visitors.
other people and form clubs. wine to London,, When sailing
If confirmed, it will uphold as a result of its achieve Thus there are clubs for ball chips turned into steam, Blandy
Henry, BOAC rc. They are continuing too, the the long-held theory that the ments, one has now been room dancing, drama, art and shipped coal from Newcastle lo
accompanied the of the fast ships on the Atlantle run. development started at Leeds and another reulpture.
island's rich uranium deposits of the ceptionist,
felgian Conga. the world's kangaroos to Wobur and is people are will follow soon at New-shed their reserve by being told Dandy interests of his descen-cochineal,
induced to So he prospered. Today the rich worklwide trade in sugar, biggest source of atomic scen in picture making friends
embroidered linen minerals,
caniwanl castle.
that they will join A club dants range from ship-cooling and Madeira wine, which all the border inlo Tanganyika. "where all the people are shy" and cruise catering to selling The clubs are
by the buns.
swell the resort's healthy And the uranium will belong
to the British Crown. finances. patients themselves,
veteran of Captain Martin, this centre white serving in the MUCH LONELINESS
Wherever you fo in the island desert with the 8th Army. Wher
General Smuts's East African And Dr Bierer is struck by of Madeira it is impossible to I came home, I started it, and it the number
Army, set out from England of lonely people avoid the Blandy touch, Ships a part of the Health
Π Gelger The Bandys are the private with
radioactivity in Britain, breame
"I think there is anchoring off Funchal take in Service In January 1947,"
much greater loneliness and water supplied the Binady's kings of the island, Nominally, counter Jent by the Ministry Alcoholics,
ef Supply, and a new prospec- Juvenile deshyness than in other countries," in
the 384 square milen of tropical tor's handbook from the Depart- Blandy fighters built Southern Rhodesia, which When he returns to Johannes-
linquents, the shy and the he says,
Blandy shipyards,
Most of He also belleves that "thou island's flour is ground in a Twice a year that Government
the paradise belongs to Portugal.ment of Industrial Research. burg in six weeks time he will mentally all are assured of he visited two years ago,
organise a further expedition to help from the staff of friendly sanda of patients in mental Blandy mill to
umed into Southwest Africa to make psychiatrists. Patients, sent by hospitals should never have fresh bread from the ovens of collects a few million escudos full examination of the Brand-hospitals, doctors and probation been there,"
the Blandy bakeries,
Blandys
avsin taxes and occasionally fires
Suld he: "I've got a bit of berk rock paintings.
oflerns, come from all maria of There is also a day hospital own the island's largest bank, oft a naval round or two of
the patients go home at night which considerably finances the authority in the harbour, but protector so I decided to go n.oney-l Was oner gold which is designed to obvinte local trade. Reit's is the name the matriarchal Mirs Blandy back to Africa
feeling of chronic sickness of the chief hotel, but the
and feel
have # the look." sometimes
by normal Blandys have
majestically under caused
a financial In-
His discovery is secret "hospitalisation."
terest in it, as well as in four Jacaranda trece on the terrace In an experimental "dream
of her fabulous villa to survey South Africa, where it is an group" the members meet to or five other hostelries.
offence to publish such details. with pride the
prospering But in Cape Town he said: interpret cach Should you desire to rent a
For graceful speed there is farms. other's dreams in the hope that vihm for the season, it will most
"I have accomplished what no sport tike skating, and the According to girl on this slamp shows you
Wha
Abbe Henri Breuil, veteran French archacolo- gist, leaves Johannesburg, in a few days' time to
Africa
in- try to establish whether Southern habited by a white race thousands of years ago.
He is going first to Chibij haired woman wearing a white Reserve near Fort Victoria, jaren.
Then he found rock paintings of people with white king and and long red hair carrying European type bows and arrows. He was unabjo to stay long make enough
a thorough to study.
Thris years ago he form pathfin 111 the Brandberg Mountains,
Southwest Africa,
conritiers which were dated to those of Chibi,
in
he
One Brandberg painting he his named White Lady, Incause;
white-skinned, ved. it is of
College Girls Test Value Of Spinach
Six
Cornell University co-eds went on a four-week spinach for breakfast pro- gramme as an experiment to discover:
How well does the human body use the iron from spinach? Will eating beet with spinnch affect the amount of it on the body gets from the vegetable?
Spinach is known to contain tots of iron. But, back in the 1930
qualmieation 411 source of the blood-building substance came under a clout, Cornel nutritionists explainer). A study at that time showed Spinach was likely 10 Bass through a child's body with is iron content untapped,
In addition, scientists have
shuv questions whether when a food is caten may be as un- portant to the body as winat ak esten.
The answers from thu spinach breakfast texts will not be known until late next year because of time needed for scientific analysis, said associate Prof. Frances Johnston, who is .guiding the project.
K.
did
He aims to discover whether
Mediterranean nation once mmigente overland to Southern Atries, becoming absorbed into the natives.
Dr Joshua Blerer, its medical director, says: "I dreamed
of
London, the Home Counties and farther afield. Last year about 600 people
were treated, in- cluding 118 children
"Group treatment" is one of the centre. The staff 13 сол-
HIS HEART'S. NOW
HERS
ON ARRIVAL in New York for a Broadway engage- ment, rumba king Xavier Cugat demonstrates his affection to his fiancee, Abbe Lane. Famed also as a cartoonist, Cugat draws his heart that belongs to
Abbe, singer in his band. (Acme).
0. CANNON
CALM DOWN, VIDODQ1 CAN WE TAKE IT YOU'VE DECIDED THAT ZUCCI WASN'T KILLED BY THE GUN LEFT BESIDE
HIM-AND THAT THE SUNIDE HOTE WAS A FAKE?.
HOW DO YOU KNOW, -80 MUCH, M'SIEU
CANNON?
discuss
and
Tun
PRIVATE KINGS
vineyards,
theatres,
KEPT SECRET
This stamp
24
teaches you to skate!
they may be able to "expose the likely belong to the Blandys.shops and shipping which com- I set out to do deposits in the how to whirl on the ice.
underlying disturbances."
whose family estate agents prise the Blandy empire.
I tests made, the Dr Bierer says there is a need will conclude the letting. The
nimast inaccessible voleante for hundreds of such centres in
other inhabited jeland of If she should smile, maybe region of southern Tanganyika As she pirouettes into the only Britain. and he belleves that the group is Porto Santa. it's because she is musing over are undoubtedly rough and help her to balance on one foot.
rich.
Orst turn her arms are raised, to, they will be established "If we supply it. the Blandys run the 000-year-old Madeira abertundeveloped, the nearest track
classic The country can prove that it is possible in fret of steamers on the coastal remance concerning this way to treat a patient for trade.
half what it costs now."
The centre is administered by the Central Middlesex Group Hospital Management mittee.
To
She raises the other foot until
it is parallel with the ice.
Machine and Anna d'Arfot. being 20 miles away. These lovers
fled from the "Africans refuse to enter the NO MONOPOLISTS
wrath of their parents by boat ata because they say the near-
This is a difcult movement and were cast on the island by by mountain is forbidden and and you should not try it until Com- Madeira's chief newspaper,
There they remained bewitched. Three prospectors you have had lots of practice. storm. printed in Portuguete and
there to crabl the romantic have
The stamp marks a rally of English, advertises Blandys tradition of the island.
my coarch I was winter sports "stars" in Eastern hotels, theatres, excursions and
very ill. I had prickly fever, Germany. shops and the paper itself be-
Wha left to Pte John taularla, and a poisoned leg. longs to the Blandys.
Blandy, most entertaining of I spent two months in hospital Price: Face-value 24 marks The Blandy# consider them-British Tommies, to foster before coming to Cope Town | (49. 8d.); set of two costs 4d.; selves no monopolists. Hundreds and make it pay.
perforation 13 by 13.
The Thriving
Wallabies
Ten little wallabies-five pairs of them-went to Whipsnade Zoo, Bedford-: shire, 15 years ago. Now there are so many of them the keepers do not know what to do.
They
have multiplled with such leaps and bounds that for the last three or four years they have been selling at the rate of
40
a year. And a year-old wallaby, says the Zoo superin- tendent, Mr M. Tong, is worth
£25.
Most of the zoos in Europe now have Whipsnade wallables, and recently in Rotterdam two pairs (with three Shetland ponies and some birls) were exchanged for a pair of seals.
Many of them are sold to the OWNCTS of private estates, and ene Whipsnado customer is the London County Council who hay taken some for suburban
parks.
A pair of wallabies often have three families in two years. Less than an inch at birth, a male sometimes measures six feet from head to fall.
big
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
I WAS TIPPED OFF THAT ZUCCI WAS LEFT FOR DEAD SLUMPED OVER HIS DESK} BUT YOU TOLD ME HE WAS ON THE BLOOM ON HIS BACK':
WHICH GAVE ME THE IDEA,
VIDOGO, THAT HE DIDNT
SHDOT HIMSELF }
AS IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT, SOMBONG MUST HAVE 'OBLIGED',
FOR YOUR INFORMATION - THAT SOMEONE IS
ON THE WAY NEPE NOW!
It
"Burpeared
for convalescence."
THIS
IS
A
FOXY
BALLET
THESE ballet-dancing foxes appeared in a shop window in Paris, Merchants in the hub of the city staged a contest in window displays depicting scenes from famous plays or bullets. Thi
French ballet. (Acm3).