They Don't Like Their Silly Name
OUSEWIVES living in
Huntine Bottom, Puckle-
church, are in revolt against the name of their village.
for yearr They claim that they have been embarrassed by having to live at a silly address.
Their husband, us Poperty i
#pett- owners, have signed
tion to have the name changed 10 The Vate.
The women claite they often carry heavy parcels home from nearby Bristol rather than say where they want then sent.
"The name makes everyone
Drople wh laugh-except the
live
tre," raya Mra Allee Taylor, white husband is now!
the petitioners.
Decision on the name chang
bas been postponed until views
the local parish
ut
have been heard.
counci!
Engine Bottom Hot its nu hom an engine-house in a di
rd pil winch once operated there,
Stateless Mechanism Deplored
General today
Part, June LA.
Galle Charles do
urre! the United States!
help Fraser to add up a trong nalal defence in whi the country, while linked to other States would be flating for Pruner,"
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1950.
ANCIENT
JACKPOT
CENTURIES-OLD Spanish, English and French coins are being examined by Joseph Barr, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Barr found the coins in an ancient leather pouch, and his discovery has revived old stories of pirate treasure buried near by. (Acme)
There Is Truth
In This Job
Twenty six-year-
A silk-shirted street sweeper, who gave up a £1,100 He told the cloăng ression of sterling a year job because he felt "it was not right for me the teal Rational Congress of; to carn so much money," has provided Britain with its his organdi: lion, the "Rally riches-to-rags story of the year. the French People," that he d not want Furce to joitt would not protect her against
invazion He thought any system would b bad 11 which the French armed forces were dispersed
Red Coup Feared By Tibetans
The Tibetan Government has given up hope of resisting the Chinese Communists. It is seeking Lo reach a compromise agreement with the Government in Peking, writes a special corres- |pondent of the London Daily Telegraph from
Gangtok, in Sikkim.
Information received in Gangtok, the "gate- way to Tibet," indicates that the authorities in
themselves
been Lhasa regard
as having "deserted" by the Western Powers. They are now trying to devise some formula to preserve as much of their autonomy as possible.
Experienced
observers) The Tibetan Goverment has four that any "autonomy" considerably modified its state- to Peking's willments in answer granted by Peking
threats that Tibet, which Chinn of its territory, prove of the same illusory claims as part
GOO be "liberated," mature as the Communists should
There is no
no more talk of war have meted out, elsewhere to states falling under their and resistance to Invasion, control.
It is felt to be only a matter of time before this
closed and My terious
Jand,
with its
adachronistic theocrney is forced to the Communist orbit and
rule Mu row's
reaches the Himalayas.
A Tibetan mission to the Chunere Communist Government has been waiting In India for facilities to proceed.
It is signideant that missions to London and Washington are being delayed. They left Lhasa some time ago, crusing moun-
tuin trails with mule trains.
*We
The Regent of Tibet, 25-year- old Takin Rimpoche, is reported with to advocate compromise Peking. His regency lasts until: the Dalai Lama, the 10-year-old spiritual and temporal heat of the Stule, attuins absolute authority at 18.
Lhasa reports say that the:
Government Tibetan
realise?
that without ald from abroad its army of about Joosely-trained
15,000, armed with ittle more could nol offer then rifles, serious resistance to the Chinese Communist forces in the event of an Invasion.
BEAUTY AND THE FISH
BETWEEN takes during filming of her latest picture, at Bishop, California, actress Shelley Winters, a city girl at heart, tried her hand at fishing. for the first time. But cleaning her catch was nothing new; she had at least cooked fish before, even if she hadn't caught any. (Acme)
From These Things
Priest's Plan For Utopia
A
ROMAN CATHOLIC priest has established a communal settlement at St Mary's, 40 miles from Mel- bourne, Australin.
Every adult in the settlement
to a shareholder.
·Families will grow their own fruit and vegetables. A com- munity factory will can
the surplus.
Profits will be spent on im- provements, or paid back to s shareholders as dividends.
Pioneer st the scheme in Father Pooley, who says:-
"We went to get away from the paganism of the cities, where fe is a continual com- I promise.".
He hopes that there will. aventually be 150 familles 113 the settlement. Af present there are seven.
The seven men at St Mary's already have built seven tem- porary three-roomed houses, o cottage for Father Pooley, and In small school for their 15
children.
The women have made beau- Uful church vestments, which have been sent to many Roman Catholle churches throughout
Australia.
Saya Father Pooley: "People are resllc. They want to come back to the life they are meant I live,"
Come Happiness SAFE AT LAST
"Holiday Inn” is a boarding house in a London residential district operated by a former Yugoslav Finance Minister who today has trouble keeping his
own books straight.
old his new job has given bien his/had hoped for support from have announced that the Indian common strategic system which wartime RAF bomber pilot at real happies and helped to us win India, and especially Army wouldnt march In de- or phy a musical instru-y are
| fence of Tibel,
atcme deeme
it
tion いず
bim to
Band,
the Com-
Tndin
RIVAL GOVERNMENT A Tibetan official in Kalim-
They
that way
there ta pong explained his country's
practically no hope of such aid. saying. predisumint by
Government sources as Indian the West. B was
a great shock tive my Christianity Britain, recognised Laurie Page became the and not to preach it."
Page, munist regime in China so coon. Such juba are few,
"If recognition had not been centre of curiosity when he started sweeping the streets who threw up his pilot's post:
might have worked out in, the London Borough of with Brith Eurom an Airways given to quickly, the situation
I have discovered the truth, differently." Kensington for Ea a week, the, arbed daily in
fresh silk and the truth has set me free, shirts, expensive corduroy happy. My wife is happy. And we are expecting our first The National Congres today pants and sandals. Nor was child eagerly. atlopted foreign policy result=|
full fure Page's frizzy
Page, who clained there was the Schum tion; suppurling
the crank about sold he belongs to In!" Plan, opposing French recogm- heard the current mode for "nothing of
church, chupel or society. tion of Communist China or as the city's huby sweepers. admission to the United Nations
At his luxury Mayfair Bat,
"My church in the street the Atlantic where his and calling 01
attractive ex-actress
and is of life, meeting the bots", he Powers
their wife welcomes him to concentrate
Fox, He is Mr R. N. vaen said. " do not preach to anyone, bartow home major defence effort in Europe. madman'a
Low I am trying to live my Chris-technician who operates a radio -Reuter.
Page explained
tianity and not to preach 11.
talion. His wife is a Tibetan,
"Stateless mechanizin which they would lice character.
.vening,
PRIZE WINNER
SCULPTOR Sauveur Riolo studies his statue of a French boy shot by the Germans during the occupation of Paris. On exhibition at the Grand Palace in the French capital, this statue won Blumenthal Prize in the French Artists Exhibition. (Acme)
K. O. CANNON
́S KNEW THE CARTRIDGES
CAMESSE USED WERE BLANK,VIOOCO, BECAUSE BRAD MITCHELL, SHOWED ME THE BOX OF BLANICS WITH WHICH HE LOADED THE GUN HE LEFT HERE...
tho
GAVE UP JOB
between
Dimovic
You don't have to paint the people and that the major!-
behind him," kald. "But I do not envy him a room there, and would not change places
that
power
They have also implied thatment to get
might
This is part You also have to be pretty "I know !!uW of New Delhit's polley of strictnimble, because Dr Nebus Di-could not bring me happiness. neutrality towards Communist movie, the proprietor, leaves Do your hear military supplies. That of but you'd feel out of place. with lim
the people up- regimes in the Far East.
This bicycle lying about.
stairs playing their mandolina Any NEW HOMES SOUGHT
arrangement
"This bicycle changed my and singing? That music, the Peking and Lhosa would prob-life," he said. "I bought it dur-landscape on the wall, the bust Some Tibeinns, who obviously ably include some understanding the war, when it was im on the labte, thin violin--frogi
the position of the possible to get transportation. regard the future with foreboding on ing, have been buying property boy who is regarded by sotne
Kalimpong.
Dimovic quit the exiled Yugo- only
Cabinet
London, the Tibetans as their spiritual leader slav Englishnan working for
In the Chinese rented a large house, and sol Tibetan Government in Lha controlled province of Chinghai himself up
as a landlord. Ho has
evacuated
and is being used by the Com-called his house "Holiday Inn” children to Gangtok,
muplats as a puppet head. because he feels he has been on
holiday since he got it.
in
110
he
my job because "I gave up there was no Truth in it, said. "I was not right for me to (arn much money, 1 started business selling vegetables
in
me
front door to door, This was not the truth. The frightened people
i11 who peeped
frum bebind their doors Wanted something more than fresh vexetables."
"I tried many jobs, but there was no truth in them", he said. Then it came to m A job
that I could do without having it
my on
consciener---sweeping | the roads".
Page's mother said her son's decision was a bitter blow to ine," but his 24-year-old wife, Elleen, said she had got used to the iden.
"I did not agree with Laurie
nt Arel" Mrs Page said. "It seemed hard to give up luxury for the near-poverty
now facing. Laurie and I
piness which
in the world
We re
But now I know have found hap- no other couple
can surpa.
I
would rather be just a street sweeper's wife and happy than the wife of a milonaire and be
miserable."United Press,
Egypt Raises Duties
Alexandrin, June 25, The Egyptian Cabinet today a series of approved
decrces providing for
In altermions Customs and Excise duties aimed, according to the Finance Minister, Mr Abdel Motaal Bey, at protecting home industries.
There were increases in duties: on wines, tobacco and private and reduction in duties on cars,
and raw imported machinery materials needed for the coun-
development.- try's Industrial Reuter.
The
Panchen Lama, the 14-year-old
now Te s
his wife and
EX-KING
EX-KING Yugoslavia
Peter II of is shown upon his arrival at a New York
airpori from Europe. Ho announced that he was in the US. on a business trip and might stay for some time. (Acmo)
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
#{IT IS CURIOUS,M'SIEU CANNON, WHENEVER
THẾNG IS TROUBLE - $ ALWAYS GAY 'CHERCHEZ
LA FEMME? AH,OU! THAT REMINDS ME I MUST FIND CARESSE LACROIX AND PUT KER MIND AT NEST.
DON SOIA, M'MSELLE WHISPAIRE, DUN SOIN, M'SIEU CANNON, YOU TWO YOUNG PEOPLE WILL NOT WANT AN OLD POLICEMAN AROUND......
CHINESE AID
ONE-TIME WIZARD
these things come happiness."--, United Press.
Kissing Job Caught On
Hts supporters, with Chinese
Love came unawares' to military aid, have established n Renting rooms bringe him policewoman Alice Robin- "Provisional Tibetan People's enough" "must weeks" to Payson and Constable Geoffrey Government" and dominate expenses, and be spends his
of Notting- some parts of Eastern Tibet. time painting, cutting figures Everitt, both
Just sitting ham, one night on a park Admission of this boy to Tibet around with friends and talk bench. Inay be insisted On by the ing. He speaks English without Chinese. Lihasa has so far retrace of accent. fused to acknowledge The authenticity of the claim that he
out of stones, On
were Last summer, they detalled to wear civilian clothes while I get visit and 1 "lesing "Once in
and cudding" or them- reincarnation of the ors who still think
selves as politicians, but I have among courting couples in Not- Panchen Lama.
tingham forest. The idea was to for them," Dimovie no time
ratel
sneak-thief who crept I spend my Tibet, # 13
on up couples and stole hand- believed may said. "Why should
plotting 10
overthrow
DOES appeal to India, Britain and the time
happier with United States 10 help her Tilo?
Sure enough, the bag-snatcher brushes and
my bicycle."
came alonit. and was caught by preserve autonomy. But, con-
A one-linte flanelal wizard. Everitt, but the courting assign- fronted by India's polley, Lhasa is resigned
self-exiled Yugo- My
ment was to much to the liking to a ciluation in like
slays,
feels Robinson will
Dimovic said he not give much closer which the West
and Everitt .tout to Marshal Tite they took it up seriously. concrete assistance.
Recently, they were marrico Fat St Andrew's Church, Not-
am
Remembering
their history, since the break with the Com- Tibetans fear that Chinese in Inform." Altration and forced subservience "While once I would not have tingham, and passed under the
almost thought so, I now belleve Tito arch of their now
Us deing wonderful job for jcheons.
to
Peking
inevitable.
arc
Where Names Are Names
Fiji newspapers weren't impressed when the New Zealand press credited police inspector Levani Tamani- kairukurukulovalau with the longest name in the world. The Fiji Times and Herald started competition. One
produced correspondent
40- Daucakacakawa- leiter Isikelt
somamainavalentvelvesumalnav- avnon-which means. "Islice, habitually VID."
a prisoner at Va-
That certainly beats Tamani- kairukurukulovalau's 26 letters. But then up came, a patient at Tamovun hospital, Alcuila # Tawake, who claimed 51 leiters In his second name.
Take a deep breath. IL's: Senikaunikatoälmatckcirafurale-
Akulia
sikinikinilaukinemoli explained this
masterpiece id based on common Fijian prac Lico
to connect names with lives of some noted relative or ancestor, It refers to the flowers on the coffin of Ratu Salesi Kinikinilau at the Namoll cemelery at Tubou, Lakeba.
By way of frosting for this frult-cake of names, the Fijian stof of the public relations omico dug up the longost of them all. It's the naina of young cricketer Bula, who play. ed cricket for Fiji in New Zea land.
. His full namo:---- Talebulamaineillikenamainaval. eniveivakabulaimatnakulala keba,
colleague's trun-
MONSIGNOR Minhallo- vies, aged 62, who has been cluding the Hun- garian police' for some time, is shown arriving in New York en route to Chicago to visit Cardinal Stritch. (Acme).
ONLY MAKE-BELIEVE
noviny znaky, flugumaine task of making the town look- war-damaged. It is to be the locale for an American motion picture, and most long-unemployed, are busy creating a background of rubble for
(the
"the ilm.""" (Acmé);
of the citizens,