Frank Owen
-AS INTEREST IN THE EAST SWITCHES FROM TROUBLED LANDS TO DANGEROUS WATERS-JOINS A SMUGGLING CHECK OFF JUNGLE SHORES...
We go hunting guns in
Kuaka
The Malacca Stratt
tricky waters
HER PRESENT VOY- AGE: A 500-mile patrol of the const from Singapore to North Malaya.
HER TASK: To halt and search all ships within the "three-mile limit, and see that no man or gun or bomb in run ashore to the bandit forces in the jungle.
Since the tradition and proc- tice of smuggling in these parts are as old as Cornwall's, li xe- quires respectful study,
Towing the other seven sam- pans is a battered antique ditto decorated with fearsome Asia- head paintings, and Altted with an outboard engine.
To her Mounts Bay' loud- baller brusquely calls Across the water in Malay: "Berhenti, berhenti (Stop,
top)!" The Caravan cotues uniidily to
rest,
Down porn the Mounts Day whaler, even oarsmen and a coxswals in lifebels, and An ofleer with revolver ut belt.
The admiral'
UICKLY we are alongside and aboard the "flagship"
MALACCA STRAIT. of the minipan fleet. The "ad- HE eight sumpang miral wears a seanty loincloth look like a caravan of and a large conical hat, and camels on JA desert smokes a cheroot, the last two of which he politely removes as skyline as they move in file he produces his own and the across the sunset.
ships' papers.
OUR OWN COURSE is
set Nor' west.
OUR SHIP: 11.M. Frigate Mounts Bay (Captain J. H. Unwin, D.S.C.).
CANON WARNER DEFINES
A VAIN HUSBAND
**My
husband hd s always carned good Toages, bul
have
been given only suff- cleat to lire on. To aure i have had to give up all enfou- ment such as going to the pictures. I hardly ever go out, do not smoke, and have never touched strong drink. Am wrong in thinking that my husband should allow me more?"
Twentions of a stand's
All okay. So is the identity eard of every occupant of every other sampai in his fleet
So the whaler is noen home. As many of our 100 en as can sleep in hammock slung on
the the open deck, or lie on deck itself. The night is clear, but the stars seem infultely ar off.
At two am, the engine-room bells awaken me. On the bridge
Caplain Unwin, watching through binoculars Iwo tall, chostlike red sails, swaying Ja the beam of his searchlight.
Whaler
AT the size
stands a
Led Bren gun.
again
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.
"Suppose we ALL said wo woren't going to do any more wooding until wo saw who won the war-what thon?”
London Express Service
5
BROADENING THE PROGRAMME OF THE WORLD BANK
By T. W. KIENLEN
many
THE lending programnie dollars for most of the
of the World Bank, things they needed. which already has played a Now producers in other coun- major role in the postwar tries are able to offer
heretofore scarto items, Borrow- economic revival of the CTO often ask that. loans be Western world, Is being made in Swiss francs, Dulch broadened under the direc- guilders or nome currency other tion of Eugene R. Black, the than dollard, bank's President.
Demand Met
In respons to the growing Since starting operations on demand, Mr Black has recom- June 25, 1946, the bank has mer.ded to member countries - made 20 loans to member that they authorize the Bank to..
for Ioan purpos cur- countrics totalling US$803,- 645,000 and ranging from US$2,300,000 to Finland to Under the article of agro- US$250,000,000 to France.
encies, other than dollars, now deposited with the bank.
was in the
ment of the World Bank, signed Until recently, World at Bretton Wooda in July 1044, Bank Jonas predominantly each participating country con- have been in dollars simply tributed a designated sum, of
which 18
percent because borrowers had to currency of the participant. rely on US. manufacturers Two percent was in got or -who had to be paid in U. S. dollars. The remaining 80 percent of each subscription 13 subject to all by the bank "only when required to meet.,' obligations of the bank,"
SIR EDMUND GIVES THE GIRLS 'GLOSS'
By EVE
PERRICK
ROM one of the state-
ly homes of England --one which is unfor- tunately in a rather in-
accessible spot in Norfolk
of the bridge and therefore not a paying fer with mount-proposition as an open-to- He watches, too. the-public at 2s. 6d. a head
Two decks below, the whaler venture-a dignified cream crew stand by again.
"Herhenti. berhenti!"
mands the tom-bailer. layat (Haul down sall)."
gum-and gold brochure is being
"Jatoksent out.
The home is Oxburgh Halt, Down come their sails. And built as a manor house in Nor- down Rock nur whaler again,
times by OGERUS mam
de
our searchlights planing the PUGETS and then In 1482
junks on the
Their beams.
spcarpoint of
turned into a 100-roomed castle- type of residence by an early
In our boat toes Leading SeaBEDENGFELD with a tale for mon J. Winter, 23, born al St
Panerns in London, but duken
at an early ate by bis mother
larite living.
The brochure announces-
"SIR EDMUND and LADY
10 her rubber plantation in PASTON BEDINGFELD the Sarawak,
two
uf
So
and his wife ----
selected
Elizabeth, Nicole, and Lady Bedingfeld watch Sir Edmund glee Margaret a lesson in bow-and-arrow target shooting.
and
Thirteen countries now have authorised the bank to use their 16 percent in the making of loans, subject to approval by the country whose currency is to be used.
Saving Dollars
These countries include the United States, which authorised, the bank to 1
its entire subscription of US$3,175,000,- 000, and the United Kingdom Others are Belgium, Costa Rica. Canada, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Honduras, Italy, Mexi co, the Netherlands, and Para-
may,
dollors
The ablly of bank member countries to borrow currenties other than dollars and to buy the goods they need with cur rencies other than makes pasible the saving of ccarce U. S. dollars. It has been the world-wide scarcity of collars in the postwar period that has made it so diment to make the necery economie Indjustmenta
This shortage, plus vrelyn exchange restrictions in vir-
the tually every country, and development of the cold war has kept the World Bank from realising the actual goats set
Woods. for it at Brellon
Big Lender
Instead of being a guarantor of loans by private agencies, such as banks, the World Bank has become itself one of the biggest lenders
the world, since it is able and willing in
a time of uncertainty to "face risly avoided by private · len- der
This change in the Bank's role was clled by the National Advisory Council in a recent report to President Truman and to Congress.
John is the chip's invaluable Present owner Malay lingoist. But he is no take into their home a limited Roud tonight, for neither of the number of carefully
boy in the young ladies from forcips coun- men nor the hist sampan we board under-tries, whose parents wish them stands on worth, beint Chinese to learn English and the ways of English country life in the TIERE are few surer in- from far Hainan Island,
They grin, produce no papers genuite atmosphere of an old
Noting the provision -of the Thoroughly we English country house." kind. nny
In other words,
articles of agreement that au- the nth character than the way he search, pulling up deck boards,
and bis
thorises the Bank to guarantee deals with the financial side perring in binges.
Pretty wife But we fedaroniet
Jou are irying out a new den
loans made Uưrough private in- nu bandits and no contrabant.
vestment channels, the NAC of his home life. There are
"Search number two. Tellin solving the old problem of some husbands who have both to wait while you return." how
to maintain the family finish as sort of super-shine Cuthbert are free. Archery.
Lady Bedingfeld takes the into an art studio-not beesuse cald:
Its illustrious associations,
Tho
original in homestead. Oxburgh Hall has on top of that.
expectation blank of inferiority
under the personal Instruction lower-arrangement class, and of we draw deep sense
When
because it has "Juxury" the fri-becorne a
finishing
of Sir Edmund, is also
a north that n considerable part of the on the the normal working staff at but
The secret when they get married. This number two, we go to
Initial trio theshol
This
of house. это.
euphoards Bank's butlices would take the Oxburgh have proved willing light and pick up
other hidey-holes heve form of guarantees of privately may be due to many causes Kate's side
Extra for, just
course, the guinea pigs. Pupils captain's Chinese steward, anti-
three young "Well,
curriculum excursiona teachers in other subjects.
come In useful for keeping noated really. they're more to see what is going on in the
loans has not been of which the husband
ini: Mr Leung.
ladies are being finished there like house-guests," explains her world outside are arranged.
For instance mechanic-handy- tennis toga, NICOLE HANSOM,
realised in practice, under the totally ignorant.
The elaborately carved and conditions prevalling in the man WILFRID ANDERSON of Paris, ladyship-pay £40 a month for MARGARET SCHNEEBURGER, board and fulton in one langu
teaching Elizabeth to drive Sir droped four-poster beds, one of world." Switzerland, and ELIZA DO.
Every Wednesday and Friday Edmund's car in any spare time which boasts a spread embroid- HERON,
age: English for the foreigners of Malion.
have a choice the Bedingfelds have the place he gets from gun-spraying the ered and the natives
by MARY QUEEN OF Major Role
maybe a little awe- 10 themselves while the girls antique woodwork of the house SCOT, are
But, nevertheles, the Bank's inspiring, but they
are cosic loans school is go, alternately, to Cambridge with linseed oil. From then on the
have played a major than the dormitory cots found)
asserted, run on a cafeteria system. Pick for the Shaw playa and Norwich
role, NAC postwar the Against oli this academio in most schools.
because they Ananced im- and Margaret what you like and pay for what for the current offering at
reconstruction countries which you pick, Chargeable "extras" local rep.
torical atmosphere of the house the breended salon, where An English mistress, soon to itself. Binishing schnols offered Include sailing, fencing,
Oxburgh Hall has all play ping-pong
under the with a resident on the deck by the and Elizabeth has already been riding, hunting, painting, flower be reinforced
the things Ah Englishman's approving look of QUEEN light of a lamp, Mr Leung con given the prescribed treatment decorallon, and secretarial teacher, who will also act да
ANNE, JAMES II. and the ment. By thus making his wife com-
from his country-for Juren forth
turning schoolgirls into courTG,
chaperon, comes in to look after Castle-home should have. ha Naturally, there
room Bedingfeld who was killed at pletely dependent on him Onan men dealty cards, ship's re-debs in a Swiss establishment, Swimming and fishing-in the the foreign girls. For the rest,
QUEEN ELIZABETH the Battle of Worcester frown- her in dutiful gistration and fishing licence. clally he keeps
what the girls are getting at moat which has to be shared special tutors are on tap in the where
That
them from the With smiles, Jokes (stili unio- Oxburgh
is not so
has been turned ing down on subjection. This gives him the
slept. much A by
trout an ancient
named near-by university town.
walls. and sense of power which basically telligblo),
salutes
When he gets married he hus come kind of picture of
place he should have in
the
the
All found
of
BETH
hame as head of the househola NOW Mr Leung is a main- Essex-all 10 years old.
innd
of himself he affinity
If he is unsure will often show it by holding all ninun
Chinese, and hus
no with whatever
tho mariners' Chinese,
the money-strings in his own Sul, all Chinese people under- band.
*
Guinea-pigs
Nicole
Since stand certain things, like the came from British abroad. squatting
And very soon, specialise in
his nature Iacks It pleases his round, our crew pulls back.
all
vanity when his wife comen to At 3.10, as lightning warns of a coming storm, our radar picks
ask for money.
A husband who feels no need
to bolster his manhood by much crude methods will differently.
the home and money which
he likes: third,
which his wife she likes.
behave
up a large tongkan, or motor- driven bout, lying inshore.
tobacco,
of three.
Chaperon
18
activity there is the heavily his- The girls' rumpus-room imediate
financing economic
Sex test'100% certain
TT is now possible to pre- Idict the sex of an un-
in touch with born baby with 100 percent
the right to such suns, however bricks, cement, rope, pineapples,
mill they may be
Your wages. His behaviour chowa
husband carnis good Like Howe
that ho lacks confidence in him-
certainty.
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
been
Lp,
I
present this chart of Арствие annual Lemperatures recorded at Oxford during the Inst 00 years.
*430-
1405
4400
Ancestral gazo
ey
the war ended
Wha
and are NOW develop-
US$28,000,- As an example, 000 In bank funds has been Belgium, and used in France, Luxembourg to rejuvenate and broaden the production of stock
While steel still must be Im- the
In the dining-room it's the ported into Europe from stare of the Arat SU HENRY United States, nevertheless the B. which dominates the teene. investment of US$28,000,000 in steelmaking facilities has had Somehow he seems have
beneficial effects on employ- more benign ex
expression.
income in "After all," says the presentment and national Lady Bedingfeld, he should be those countries,
Similarly, India
is using used to young girls. He was Governor of the Tower of Lon- US$72,000,000 for the develop don when Elizabeth was imment of electric power, a rail prisoned there,"
system and the improvement of Sul, in spite of about 2,000 her agriculture-United Press. family portraits looking down their aristocratic noses, the new girls at Oxburgh Holl are winning through,
Now there is a drenching wind and a frain. n driving
swelling cca. It is not easy to He realises that There are came alongside our Jutesl three directions in which all client, or keep
into the home her when there.
sclerosis has
There has been nothing like money coming
selentile report to the medical seminated should go: first, housekeeping, Yet she has got to be "gone Doctora at Brussels' famed profession. The test has caused tracked down by Oxford Uni- the current upward surge since rent, and all thit is needed for over"-and thoroughly, to St Pierre Hospital claim no mishaps at Brussels. But it versity scientists.
family: second, For while her
They papers are far
be an believe it may her "mixed to have discovered an in- involves a clight risk which the
form of poisoning ho can spend as from satisfactory,
by eating vegetables admilar sum cargo" is extraordinarily mixed, fallible teat for determining doctors do not consider justified. Insidious
And as Rosa maya: "Most caused Strait after the sex of a child as carly as parents are only mildly curious grown
soil excessively rich in can spend as even for Malacca
midnight: It is fish, bananas,
four months before its birth. about the
sex of their future lead,
The Bedingfeld ancestors who cloth. kerosene, ice,
While Investigating six conos
He under the chapel'are prob Both husband and wife have beer,
which occurred within 500 yards
doing enough grave After a critical inquiry at children."
ably. their magnificently equipped
COPY-CAT
of each other in a Berkshire
to make the burial- laboratories I am convinced FURTHER proof that the village, Dr ARCHIBALD CAMP.
turning 30 1909 190 1920 1930 1940 1950.
ground into a ploughed field but copy-cat BELL found that the gardens that their claim is fully sheep the prize
there has been only one sign of the animal world justified.
comes there coniuloed abnormally high 10t0, says Meteorolonicul Ulice that anyone is worlding against from Scottish scientists who quantities of lead. And so,
The crown . sur- takes time to cort
The test, which they stumbled have been studying its cating according to his colleague, Dr scientist is LILIAN LEWIS, the scheme,
mounting the Bedingfeld coat; Lieutenant Claude on while doing other research, hits.
R. HERDAN, do the teeth and who complied the figures.
of arms on the headboard in: to me by 32- it as methodically was explained
A cheep resting contentedly tissues of people suffering from Howe of Scotland year-old I OLIVER HUBÍNOT,
will im disseminated sclerosis.
the Parton Room has suddenly after a good feed Yard.
A SURPRISING method of and inexplicably disappeared. As we walked round the hos mediately. Jump up and start Above. there i a curious pital's huge fifth-Boor maternity eating again If a hungry flock
HAT CRITICS
protecting animals, and possibly i Fino training tho half-circle fringe between
against the effects of is startlingly simple. wing. It
mate happens to begin grazing WOMEN'S hats came up for humans
Sir Edmund shrugs his shoul- vast blackness, light and the
A sample of special
Ecrum
near I, they report,
bitter criticism at a recent inter. atomic rays has been discovered i
Dia plan to make Ox- Take your problem to come like a rainbow of mist in
Belgian national meeting of bird-experts, hy from the expectant mother in
LIFE-SPAN
scientists-giving ders. counsellor whom
seat of learning wiso
your
And then cavern.
this
treated with dyes, then examined
continues. husband might be willing to se smugglers' scene there gildes
under the microscope, If cer-
DOES the age of your parents 1 hebr. Why? Because feathers weak Injections of prussic acid burgh Hali a
UNLUCKY 17
Lady B. says there is no other and who would put before him
merchantman,
Cer- long, low
tain cells in the serum show up when you are born have any from rare birds-of-paradise are poeltion. the unfairness of your
I COULD hardly believe it place like it in England. passer slowly, silently by
But womanly whims have red then the child will be a boy. Influence on how long you live? coming back into fashion.
when I heard a tainly it should soon be recog- could be true also yourself watch can
"She was a Japanese,"
The age of the father has no
When life-span, uses for ornithologists. effect on a child's for opportunities of congratuin- Lieut-Commander Sangster, our they are blue it will be a
who might girl.
Young ladies medicine refuse to sleep in Room for ting and
Ciolinguished Italian professor of nised as the best training ground into other over-taxed got back
at last, having taken
young mother delicato marsh-tit without in at my Belgian hotel because marry tongkan friend in low and FIERRE ROSA. the 33-year-old study of this question. But, they SOUTHERN wanted to catch
that was his unlucky number. stately homes. he has. If he comes to feel that our
who
first di Bay, having
it he trapped it—in a
Where else could ope get the His superstition was so strong you see in him things to admire, into custody,
to hand over to Rynaecologist
to show so covered the tert, has tried it on substantially increases a baby's juring
woman's hair-net
that when the manager told him necessary experience and that you
are not one who the polico. "But she came
LEAD TROUBLE-
HOTTING UP
customers round the Incertly carpe and criticises, near and seemed so inquisitive, 30 expectant mothers attending expectation of life.
FOR those hard-headed perse atler, leks sinister, number cash come back to I thought the must be a Rus- the hospital. Hia prediction
proved tight every time." A CLUE to the cause of a
The doctors adviso sanat crippling and so far baffling mists who still doubt that Bri. Was available, he left the hotel place? routine use of the test in their nervous, complaint called, die tain's climate is steadily hotting
self and in his position in the ALL this home. Yours is a dimcult prob- out, and lem to solve because the causes Upton does for this inferiority complex may 03 Ronnle lla so deep.
You
*
Into
And
shyt
and praising him for the frigate's Number One, when we Stocky, bushy-moustached Dr Finnish doctors report, after a Oxford University's Dr II. N. good qualities which Do doubt
he might well better frame of mind,
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