IS

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950.

Increasing The Tempo

LONDON COMING TO A STANDSTILL? Cyclist, taxi, runner and

race Piccadilly-

T

car

to

:

and the cyclist wins-

THE SUNDAY EXPRESS PUBLISHED RECENTLY THE RESULTS OF A LONDON ROAD TEST WHICH WILL MAKE THE POLICE SIT UP-AND THE RESIDENTS (AND VISITORS) TAKE NOTICE.

Tho_world's greatest city was already the world's most congested city before

petrol was freed.

London's traffic is moving moro alowly every day. And the Sunday Express has discovered just HOW

NUNS WANT slowly by staging a race between four contestants-a

TO VOTE

BY POST BECAUSE they are cut off

from the outside world by their voluntary vows, 16 2014, including the Mother Priozess, in a Car- melite convent in Edin- burgh, are asking to be placed on the list of absent voters.

private motorist, a taxi-driver, a cyclist, and a runner. The four set off from Liverpool-street Station, with the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, as their destination.

Taxi is second

Here is the astonishing result of the race :— The CYCLIST won. He covered the distance in 111 minutes, and travelled at 18 miles an hour.

17 'minutes; The TAXI came second. speed 14 miles an hour.

Time

The RUNNER arrived in Piccadilly third: Time 20 minutes: speed 10 miles an hour. This uk enable

And last of all came the humble private MOTORIST. Time-20 minutes; speed 10 miles an hour.

them to vote by post at General Elections.

The application was heard at Ectinburgh Sheriff Court by Sheriff Sir George Morion. After being told that there was not likely to be any ection to a civil court seeing the vows mande by the nans, he reserved, his Judgment.

Ar Charles Gray, on behalf of the uns, said they were mem- bern of one of the strictest of all When closed religious orders.

they took their vows they did not leave the convent except for

R

very serious reason,

At the last election the Archi-

bishop in whose diocese

they

were residing granted a special

dispensallon to enable them to 갔다 to the polls, but it was

strielly against their own rules

to leave, the convent. Some of

not

those who had voted had

convent for

been outside the more than 20 years,

Not "A Servant” Referring to the section of the Representation of the People Act

10-19, under which the applica- tion was made, the Sheriff said he supposed it would not be proper to describe a Carmelite nun as being in "employment." "sqrvant of the Was a nun a

“ Church"7

the route of

The car, the cyclist, and the runner took the average road-user-Cannon-street, past St Paul's, along Fleet-street, the Strand, Trafalgar equare, Lower tegeat- street to Piccadilly..

Test lessons

They cabby was allowed to use his Intimate knowledge

of London. He chose the Embankment route #quare,

to Trafalgar-

And it is fair to mention that the roads were dry.

Those with

dry cough,

stand up!

1

What does the test prove?

That the Metropollan Police three census of traffe of months ago was jong overdue.

2

That a cyclist and a mon on foot are quicker than a private car in pentrating London's West End.

must

Ute whote

др- traffic

G-13

GUY Lombardo's newly rebuilt Tempo, Vi, three-time winner of speed-boating's run stace Gold Cup, skims over the water near Freeport, N.Y., in its first trial being remodelled. The Tempo VI is the past holder of many water speed marks, and has been lengthened six fect.

Careful with the barrow

-it may be an ancient monument THE Ministry of Works states that a farmer in re- That something

be the west of England done about it. More diver-cently rendered himself Table to prosecution by en routes and fresh preach to

burial mound. problem are essential if small- destroying a barrow, a'pre- pace rato and complete stand-historie. sits are to be avoided.

the Ministry scheduled by as an ancient monument.

Wishing to cultivate the used field, the farmer employed a contractor with a bulldozer to THE CYCLIST (Ronald Drum-level dry mond, of Summore, Middlesex):

ORD HORDER, who is consulting physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, relates in the cur- rent issue of "The Practi- tioner" that the apothecary in charge at "Bart's" Dilt- patient department

Mr Gray replied that a num was not "a servant" in the sense years ago used to that

at she had a contract of ser-Those who have vico and remuneration. Most cough, stand up." nuns did have an occupation.

There were using nuns and teaching nuns.

Order was

were purely

Carmelite The not an occupation. because its mans were

and had contemplative nounced the world entirely.

town

re-

oclusion

Mr Lindsay Stewart, deputy

of Edinburgh, oppos clerk the application, said that this, so far as could be user

the fir tained, was since the new Act in which a court, certainly in Scotland, had been asked to decide a case of He submitted that this nature.

ruins did not fall within the terms of exemption laid down.

They were then hamled

100

say:

a

Cyclist 'lucky'

Here are reports from

contestants:-

In

exchangeable at the dispensaryen nearing lights I went in- yards in diameter.

for Haust Quin C. Pot.

inter-ally

an un-

Short Quirks

Heatwave Worries

LONDON DIARY

Mildmay's Million. The MPs' scramble Film in Jamaica for Hazel Court

RACING

men

will be She will take her five-week- old daughter if she accepta astonished to learn that

Her husband, Dermot Walsh. Lord Mildmay, the amateur will not be able to go. Jockey, left more than a Tho Kingswood Company million. They knew he was have leased the air base for 15-

"Our nims," Bays he comfortably off; but his years.

Cutler, "will come under tho

wry of life was modest, and Bettich quota na Jamaica la a I doubt whether Mildmay colony." himself realised he was n millionaire.

Many of his friends are mystified by the clisclosure. They recall that Lord Mild- may's father, who died in 1947; left only £540,000.

How, they make another three years?

Roducing trip

AN Ealing

school teacher named Kathleen Harrison ex to New York soon-to re- duce her weight.

ask, did Milord

half-million in American

Half-million gift?

Miss Harrison, 28, believes lent and vilaming will take off what English starches pad fats have put on. her gure.

Last year sho spent two York with hor

He was not a gambler, either weeks in New

the Stock Exchange or married sister, but that His bets were never wasn't long enough. This year

01

the turf. big; there

were many

Umes

when he did not back himself the will spend five weeks; and

the wants her present 20-inch

to bo down to

and his mount in a race,

One solution, his friends are waistling discussing is that Lord Mildaches by the time lo returns ту hud.

half "hidden"

million; that his

father made

home.

him a gift of around £500,000 $160 MPs vanished while still alive.

BOUT 100 MPs vanished Such a gift, mnde not later from the House of Com Ovet mons

cturing all-night alt- the first Landing. And there is going to bo

thing 1942 not less then years befora Bildmay died would Save trouble about it.

Three-line Whips were sent In 1947 cstato duty about £375,000 in estate duties

on out for the debate on the would £545,000

have been Finance Bill. For theco occa- about £324,000, On a million sions the Socialists do not it would have been £700,000. allow "pairing"; this is

Lord Mildmay's father was a device by which MPs of oppo- shrewd, man.

site sides arranga -to be awây. at the same time so that their sbsence

not does

M

Verdict MAX

KRIENDLER, voting

affect the

lours,

tho

round tha

the

owner of New York's -21 In the carly club, sailed for home recently whisper went

For four months he has been socialist Whips had relaxed louring Europe studying cater their "no pairing" rule, and Inga hotels and clubs.

"Thero Ha judgment: nowhere to beat England.”

Is

That anyone who could get a "pair" could go home,

NEW YORK: So much water Lord Camrose at 71 Peace in the garden

teasca by Neju Yonkers

in the years frat heatwave MOST men

1 ex

when they Dass

rose

that the city's official rainmaker 70, feel it is time to ease PRIDE of

work again. They have of a little in their busincas out him a new name now-setivities. "hudbuster."" And the heat-

usive became so bad that three overworked refrigerators caught

fire. The fire brigade had to be called.

+

1k

Starting Young

Lose.

the Queen Mary

garden in Regent's

Not so Lort Com-Park Is a new yellow 1010

called Peace,

Ho is 71, spends still

most days at the Dally Tele- omeo graph directing the affairs of the

great news.

paper of which

MIAMI: Russell* TONERY O 15 bolh

Junior, of Miami, training for chairman

and

an attempt on the Englishhor-in-chief.

Channel in August, got ils ple-

Lure

the

the papers after He is in ex- swimming 22 miles down the cellent health allssippi river. On his next and of such un- birthday he will be five years diminished

|oll,

*

*

"A Great Performance".

CAPETOWN: A

energy that the prospect of re- tirement has no for attraction hlm.

Hackwood

nian, pla. At

grown there for

the first time this year.

The petals of Peace are delicately

with tinged palest pinks.

Also in

garden for t first tumo

the

0.10

the deep crim-

Mauroon

the maries

Gre fory, and the Prima

10504

Donna

whlelt

the head gar-

dener tells me have attracted

1

Camrose... 71, not out

great deal

of attention

Park. his from foreign visitors. the circuit court that on the country house near Basing wedding night his wife called sluke, he walks for miles over Sculptor's 15ton work Englishman."his estate, is still capable of N sculptor

{Jsfus

He slapped her. The next day covering 20 miles in a day. she

told him: "You have always zaid I was When I walked to with

the after

#

Prize carnations

Frank Dobson's wooden studio at the Royal College of Art in South Ken-

Linglon

a full-scale

model of

a remarkable

clay

hich

the fold was a burrow, "I was lurky, admittedly, for which was attened, and

for 30 con- nearly every traffe light changed bones it had held

turies or more were irreplace- strewn over clrele 18 tickets my favour. I kept mostly to

the outside lane of traffle, but ably

The Mitry of Works points Iod

side and naked my way past

vehicles out that knowledge of the life "Those who have a wet cough, the slowing-up motor stand up" was the next request, until I was at the head of the and customs of the Bronze Age tomb of the period, and though and patients received a ticket queue. I was always first across is derived almost entirely from for Haus. Senegie Ammon. the lights.

"At no time did I see the there are thousands of barrows England, Scot- with a dry cough cough more and

That we still saw the patient other competitors. On the way 1zcattered over

chat with an Hand, and Wales, of a dozen or leurely

two are alike

actress, a good dryly and more painfully on other cyclist I rode at a com-150 varietie ̧ ço

By destroying in unclent

Vou

· Lord Camross Is at Hack dose of five to ten grains of tortable speed."

and the THE TAXI-DRIVER (Bernard burial nummuni which had be.n

In the British Gulana: Dobson, at 81, ammuniuin carbonate.

scheduled for preservation the Actress Adela jorgens pre- the finest action I have ever wood every week-end. Sceliv, of West Norwood)!

The man I should have gardens he grows prizo cama- is fashioning his greatest work. Lough less effectively on potas- Skirting Feet street and the farmer risked a fine of £100 or sents this alluring pose to done.

favourite flowers And his ingest. Strand, chose a slightly longer three months' imprisonment

Tho The husband was ife has also won prizes for thei

relief Hort will

in British Gulana Since the Archbishop hnd viat not only wisdom.but know-route-about four miles-along under the Ancient Monuments/illustrate in Hollywood what married was aliing in the con- | 15-4

pick sheep he raises on the chipped to the Em-act of 1931. Que Victoria-street,

in sections, 1951, crated ibankment, and Northumberlari-

Lord Camrose has four sons, reassembled there. avenue into Tafalgar-square.

four daughters. His heir, Mr structed Guiana granite, it Seymour Berry, is deputy weigh 15 tons, chairman of the Telegraph. So zm. by 9ft. Gin. Dobson's full- the succession to the chair scale model has consumed two manship is clearly m-rxed. and a half tons of ciny:

The rellef But newspapermen will wish!

(highest projec veteran this vigorous

many tion: Din.) portrays two reclin- more years of success and in- ing agures.

luence in Fleet Street,

the

patient with "wet

the

bromide did dum

cognised an election as being proper occasion on which thre tus should get a dispensation from their vows, he established principle that he was likely to nel upon on every similar occasion.

cough

but show

ledge nhau liigerer at times...

"Today, both of these prescrip- tis are sit in the hospital pharmacopoela and

Worst halt

Our

both. are "I last minutes in hold-up, "These nuns knew that thes

used in general practice In this mostly at teme lights. world be cutting themselves off country, despile the lxirs and wont halt was for two minutes from the world said. Myrups of the wholesale chemists, approuching Trafalgar-square," Stewart. "Thus they knew that both British and foreign."

they would not be able to take

part in the hurly-burly of eletken contest,"

A

Stop watch hiccups

An

TIME and mollon man bas

Ier investigating recipe

THE RUNNER. (L/Corporatį Lord Horder, who was writing Re Lowther, of the Coldstream in a symposkim on "Favourite Guardi

Prescriptions," stated: "It is said "I ran to the in dway most

of that great clinician Boerhave, of the time and gireled round that as his experience widened red lights."

he reduced his list of drugs 50 much that ultimately

he con- fued himself to bicarbonate of latt) :- sexia..

4

בק}}

pregation,"

is meant by the word glamour, granted a restitution order.

BEES IN THEIR BONNETS

The

Canon says:

Old Testament

is lies and war

CAN

THE MOTORIST (E.V. Tul-

flye "We were Bekl

the Hevoss minute. Eelting Although I have not got 10 Strandi of the function with

tervals between hircoughs with that the

"Antaelds" two modern

miles an

for curing lecoughs. The sug-

a stop watch "you get so inter-(more expensive and more pro-yards ested in trying to beat your re-prietary) possess more virtues cord that you forget to cough."

7

hic-

than this.old remedy."

hour for

war.

Alderman says: Broadcasts for

schools untrue

**

Johnson, former

ference at Scarborough.

WA

Larm,

rollef for a post office in

be

and In recon-

will measure 17ft.

A doughty fighter. Dobson relishes the physical

Scramblo

It has engaged him, new, for 15 arduous months. But

labour of large-scale scuipung. *PATRICK HANNON, It in a healthy profession,” 76-year-old chairman uf he tells me. "Sculptors live a Club, was long time. Rodin was nearly 90 guest of honour at a luncheon when he died." ANON T. P. Stevens, vicar of St Paul's, CRITICISM of recent school the Constitutional

club's broadcasts on "How Things

there by Riven

tho Wimbledon Park, England, has banned some Began was made by Ald, S. F. 1litical Committee. It was in Old Testament stories in his Sunday Schools. In his

Mayor of accognition of his life-long

There was wild scramble.

tirme 80 MP Committees con marks his retirement after 29 within a short Ketion is that by timing the in that length, I am not convinced Waterico Bridge. We crawled at parish magazine he asks what purpose is served by Southend, at the Association of services to the Tory Party, and

years as MP for Moseley, Bir from each side had paired. 200 teaching stories which deal with murder, lies and Education

pangham.

The next division showed a Kindly Sir Iatrick,

Only white big drop in the voting. there is one thing

dild the Whips realise haired and pink-complexioned, then runner in "We sighted the

The canon's comments the teaching of the Gospels and should be careful about, it was a pleturesque figure in what Was happening, The Piccadilly and porsed him a few

and good. Then we records later,

were were on a letter from Dret the Acts, well

ried that the trail and nothing but the last House; he is really erder went round that Socialist But the Bible as a wholt! in

members mtasi Dr Hugh father, consulting held up by two sets Ut lights

stop pairing took 00sec... Involved seven

Lard Woolton proposed the .hiccoughs and, revere mental physician at Derbyshire Royal music succession, and the run- Cash, Bishop of Worcester, cave me from such superstition. the truth shall be taught," he missed in the present House.

clergymen. The letter

"It takes a man of consider sald. "We cannot teach religion;

toast to Sir

Mr and stay in the Hour." Patrick. to the ner jut on a spurt to finish at to strain in trying to clock then. Infirmary, contributing

It was too late. By this Eden We said: "It is our sacred duty oble intelligence to understand if we are going to allow broad interval; symposium, declares: "From the the Ritz in racing style.

also spoke, nie the young and nimble had inter-hiccough

crawl the last 25

con- the whole Bible, tench the Biblo

casts to be given of a nature Anthony

Left behind were the to were as follow: 22sec.; Usec., patients' point of view, one of the were left tu

Sir Patrick was pregone. Then "Some of the storica are

quite contrary to the Bible. ·

blus leather olll and Infirin," and "some of 195cc.,

Ilsec. best paris of treatment is the

sented with helpful. Interesting and that kinuously in such a way that doctor in whoin they have faith. Recent tests suggest

elgar case and wallet, his in the stouter-hearted MPs. Sses, and 9 1-5see.:

do- lowed the children will remember

Inv-13, hai quite often they

I hear thero will be a It took a man eight days 10 Although our medicines may be Landon's traffic

deal with rape and murder, as founded on a common formulary down by a third compared "with {it.""

MONKEY'S DESCENDANT this engraved in gold,

Mr Churchill could not mand for explanations at the get hiccouds after being

Hen and brutality, exag-

there. But, he sent a message next meeting of Socialist MRS. signed the job. The results of we must not permit any system prewar.

Kerated nationalism and service to standardise the

He said it was "playing with beginning: "You are •met to the experiment do not justify or

Fdoctor's persunailly,

War.

truth" to "tell me that I am the honour in Puddy Hannon Too many cigarettes the effort.

"What purpose is to be served descendant of a monkey up man who has

Conservative by deaching all these unpleasant tree, laughing at a tiger down fighter for the

If they

The man says his experiment

The

K.

15sec..

CANNON

1.WAS. DEMOBBED OUT HERE THAT'S NIGHT! FROM THE R.A.F. I'VE SEEN CONRY DON'T "YOU BEFORE, SOMEWHERE- RECALL YOUR

NOT 8TH.ARMY WALLAH ĮTAND, HOLLIS ....,

BY ANY CHANCE 2.

thyards"

has

-OBOT Express Service)

Canon Slevens writes: "ll the dear bishop had recommended

THE MIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

I'VE GOT TO TALH QUICKLY. DON'T SHOW ANY SUPPRISE JUST LISTEN, I KHOVY ALL {ABOUT YOU-AND WHY:

YOU ARD HERO-

GOONI.. THENKS A LOT & VANT

„TO KNOW.

V

SEY ME AT THE AIRPORT TOMORROW HOON. I HAVE A SMALL FRIVATE PLANI THERE, WE CAN DO UP (WHITE. WE CAN OB

SUNE OF HOT DEINO ́OVERNGANO.

OKAY FOR YOU?,

RIGHT, HOLLS8, ILL BE THERE

stories to the young,

In a state of decline partly be

}

Cause to many people cannot enough for the tig to clflab moke inn nor tall of it."

1

C'

been a doughty

Because

RITISH doctors are cautious American reports than 40 years... are inteligent they will get the below, and that the safety of nd Unionist Party for more about

that excessive cigarette smoking In the increase of la factor strangest ideas of God I be the monkey was due to thin Hove the Christian religion is branches not being strong Offer to Hazol Court cancer of the lung

One speciallet tells me there ICAR-SMOKING ir Leater

about the increase Cutler is in London conia-anxiety

catsen "Bul robody stura for a new and its fracting for

· ODD MAN OUT

Dr D. L. Alexander, sceretarz alm-making venture in Jamaica. can say that cigarette smoking Canon Stevens, says: "No al that the Association was Hla company," Kingswood la the cause of it.

100- leased the matter how many say the Bible represented on

of the standing of the School Films, have should be bught in full, I am

The

ques. here former United States. By the American investigators their

treated with not going to do it. Men like Broadcast Counell, Shaw, Bennett anit Wella len raised had been most care-ing base at Kingston, Junalca, reports aro

and have bogun production enspect. But so far no organizoh

similar lines test on turned

ameng aloinst the Church fully reviewed,

their first film. through

sufferers is planned WRODLOUI teaching,

Ho Wants Hazel Court to play pancor vlen: they could have been The problem was

colour in here. British reseach workers a nowerful force for us, '

B.B.C. must tackle, because the the Jend in a

ato tackling the problem by "Unfortunately,

could not Sunken Treasure. whole individual teacher -tizo

One thing he likes about taking more, and more care in Christian Church is against me. it was right to present scientific-

Itories. I am an odd man out over this fact and truth so far as we Mtis Court 1a, her red hair. "It securing detalle in case "quation"..

know it at present,

ono

thu

Aims perfectly in colour."

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