THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1958,
P.O.W. HID PLAY IN MODEL YACHT
KEN Atilwell explains to his wife how he hid the script of his play "Sayonara” in
11the hull of a model yacht.
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Indian Army Thanks
Το
Commonwealth
"Sayonara" Reaches London
London-Diary:--
ANNA NEAGLE NEW RECRUIT
TO FANY'
"Sayonara," a play about life in a Japanese prison camp during the war, ha just reached London. Critics have, on the whole, been kind to it not because it is a great play, nor even A particularly good one, but out of respect for the
She worked closely with selling out the semi-urban fringo courage of its author. FANY officers while making of his estate,
Life in a prison camp was "Odettu"-story of Odette than £50,000 worth of property never good, even at its best. To Churchill, one of the 2,000 to the tenunta. The rest will be budding playwright, it pre-women secret agents who auctioned roon. Altogether the rented its own peculiar prov were in the corps.
Newest recruit to the First-Aid Nursing
Yeomanry Corps (FANY) is Anna Neagle. The commander and officers of the corps have given her an honorary commission as an Ensign, a tribute to her performance in the film “Odette.”
lems.
An author, working in
the comparative luxury of his As on offer in the corps. in London may Jack Anna Nengle will be entitled to material. but at least he does wear uniform, but will receive not have to
to devise a plan tono salary. Wide the script every night: from his landlady-even if he owes her rent.
But author Ken Altlwill, au
BBC WOMAN PADRE
-Already the has sold more
zåle should bring him well aver
£ 100,000,
Among the places to auctioned
arc the Brokenhurst
be
| Manor golf course, and the New Forest Club (15 tennis courts, two aquash courts, ballroom, and so on).
The Morant fomily took over
The RAF's first woman padre! Australian P.O.W, found his Congregationalist whio in
olers most inhospitable towards married to an Anglican vlear Brokenhurst Manor in the 18th Recently the local writers in any form. Naturally, is joining the BBC's religious de-entury. they would have prefered to partment next month.
authority have taken to spellingt their name "Brock-"; but the documerled evidence have no
nhout life in one of their campai
She is the Rev. Eisie D. Cham- Morants keep to the old ft lying around. Had they berlain, Minister of the Vineyard "Brok--". and if they would no doubt Congregational Church, Rich- have taken personal responsibj. Juond, Surrey. fity for itand punished- the writer into the bargain.
Mir Morant is a race horse Gwner. tic i.; retaining the Mist Chamberlain Joined the maner and about 2.500 acres of RAF 1956, resigned her com-agricultural and park land. Bo Ken Altivill buik a model mission in July 1947, when slo yacht-on Innocent enough marred the Rev. John Garring H.G.'S GRAND-DAUGHTER object in the eyes of his racleston. Var of All Saints, Hamp
Husband and ton. Middlesex,
marry: Catherine Into the hull of this yacht he
cach other's! Anne Wells, grand-daughter ofj
II. G. Wells, and John Walter churches. fier he bad filshed working
Stoye, an Oxford don, on it.
Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood has received a letter from General K. M. Cariappa, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, paying tribute opped the sept every night with to those officers and other ranks who were responsible for the building up of the Indian Army. General Cariappa says in his letter:-
I write this to you, as under our command and con- We have learnt a very great It stood up to the deal from you, our past the seniornost serving ofli- trol
Cauffethus” of the many at-teachers. I write this to request cer of the Indian Army, try problems which came after you to accept and to unvey tu behalf of myself and all lurtition,
the offers in the Common- dlun ollicers of our army, to We think av all the British wealth, who have either phy- and etenlly served in ur with the thank you and all oflicers of the nok, both males
Inge Tian Army or have been in- femmates, who worked the Commonwealth who
aray from time time in directly responsible
10
for Dir were responsible for build-sarkaus empacities for their con- training, &e, our most
Arale- ing our army in the manner tention in this respect. ty thinks for all you have done i
f us. We earnestly hope you it has been built, and also!
[will take continued Inferen" in for all the help, advice, and
our army as you are stil mem- guidance
here of it, as indeed you are in chirit.
y
you pave
Somewhat
TRADITIONS
Involved
Now Ken Altiwill, his play and the yacht are in London.
GRADUATES CHOOSE RAF AS CAREER
are
An increasing number of
graduates university making the Royal Air Force their career.
All undergraduates are defer-
Nationid Service cuminis-
Soon 10
Her job with the BBC will hel part-line.
Mig Wells is dark, 50. Gin., She is 30, year older than her husband, in tall 50 21. She is at Oxford hier-
Somerville-and with brown hair.
Mr and Mrs-a Garrington are now on holiday this year taken her tais Sho
in Cornwall.
FILM ABOUT CARUSO
has
| intencia-is-stay at Oxford an-
ther your. Her subject i mathematics. She wants to take a diploma in statistics,
A film is to be mate on the
Stoye, who is 33, is an his- life of
Caruso based on the torian. Il s Fellow of btography written by his wife, Magdalen College. They expect is reported in Paris.
te marry early next year. Records of Carusola volee willi
Mi Wella's father, George be heard in the Him. The part Philip Wells, to n lecturer on of the singer will be taken rooforty at University College. the Dalian betor Mario Lanza.
London, He is 48 and HG.'s eldest son.
UNWILLING PEER
גיז
Ills Appreciation
AN enthusiastic spectator is giving a one-man wvation to "Miss Cote D'Azure," representing the southern const of France, at a bathing, beauty contest held in Frankfurt, Germany. She was one of the numerous entrants in appearances being held prior to the selec tion of "Miss Europe" in Paris next October, and her brief Bikini suit caused a storm of front row applause,
(Aeme),
Burma Veteran Leads Commandos Bound For Korea
Surroy-born Douglas Burn Drysdale, 33-year-old Royal Marine lieutenant-colonel who is leading the R.M,- Commando which is being flown from the United Kingdom to Korea, has had plenty of experienco of the lightning raids and Isolated landings behind the enemy lines his special service unit will be required to undertake on behalf
Each Year's of the United Nations.
Missing
Oito of the curiosities
Di
HS, Cassure you every one of us which trained our oficers so in thi, ummy is just as unalous you aff were to insist 011 well that we were able
10 keeping the traditions
hope we will have replace British officers. in customs of the Service, no mat- Pleasure of seing as many of
Mr Quintin Hog who at 431 We are sm as posible our army after sur country te how ill, always
becomes Viscount Hailsham en here to visit not gained
inter equally, if
is an U- more, your old units and formations, red from National Service dure his father's death. her freedom
etermined to see that the past am sure t am rojcing then the period of their stutien.
willing recruit to the House of)
He joined the battleship that were mined and defended August 15, 1947.
traditions of the Indian Army VCDS
When they graduate, however. Lords. He has frequently called into they are liable ነበሩ
Renown when World War by arilllery, and machine-guns, for their N- Mas the good pane that was commissioned officers, other
efitia! Servier commitment andherentary principle.
presed his disapproval of the
Two broke out and served had to wade through three feet To reach the beaches they We know that foundations of it by your hard work are ranks, and non-combalanis in
*mony go to the RAF.
as a captain with 101 Royale thick mud, and most of the our army whe truly, and weil mantained and enhanced sotus army, when I ray that we
Oxford Tories have no roudly. Jaki by the blood and sweat of that our army will continue to want you to cone and sve us
Marine They are eligible for three
Brigade. After men had to strip and be hauled made candidinte to step in as and hunt and shoot and fish" types of commissions-National Hong's place as MP.
by rupes. you all and of all those gallant be regarded in the worki
They then London life is that about the Dunkirk, he went into Com-shere officers who have gone before
found themselves in mangrove stond to none ami, possibly, with us as of old,
Service, hort sevke and per-
rome number of people are bined Operations and by You left benial for us, become the best army in the
manent.
xwamps, deep in mud, with the Tory majority at the election going missing each year. Abul 1943 was brigade major 10 Jupancre Such efficient tonchiknery Deal, world.
I am glad to say that the
making suicidal four-cornered i 1.000 Fondeners, or people who the 3rd Commando Brigade enunter-attacks. standard of mess life in today
was 3000 in o just as high as if ever was. All¦sions are granted for the 18ight, Liberal Mr D. Tweddle, have chosen London for the,
votes, who polled 6807
a purpose, drap of the record which was concerned in one. After than morths period of their vonne omfleert
two days full-
of bitter are more
In the fold again. And it is every 12 months.
of the fiercest battles of the hand-to-harid nghiing with that e service in the Education possible that Mr E. Keeling, h anximus to see that this can- dard is
lowered.
skill, tenacity and courage Our Technend, Airfeld Construction, RUL
are Equipment, SeerManial, Medical, Cemetest, may stand uguin di appearance is short-lived, but
maturity the Burma Campaign. and have been
which the Commandos tawang imagnificent. In ali my 20 Dental, Fighter Control, Physicalhe a local man.
when the police
This close a year's]
Brigade,
was well known, the Brigado seized which years of service I have neverFitness and Catering branches
there account
L always The Socialists are my unpre
composed of
narrow wooded iwo Army Com-HI 170, a fand in the NAP Regiment. eren their murale higher.
Ail
who have
commanded completely mandos and two Royal Marine ridge which
the pared as the Tories for a by-number ...additional opportunity for me election. Their candidate last
vanished.
srized the island of battefeld of Kangaw, The Gurkhas are just as hers of University Air Squad-
| Akyab off the Araktan coast Ju Erand as wver before-under
in that they can obtain me, Pakenham, withdrew, Eart Tast your as the report of January 1945, and then struck our young lads comminilities tecm-serving
National Service commissions in month, Mr J. T. Huddart, the splendidly hoth
Brighton candidate havs. left (Flying)tressful in duties in mid to the civil branch.
nonimied in her place, al power and a netive azrvice in
wildew for personal reasons. the Aeld.
GOLF COURSE FOR SALE
Some well-known places in This aspect is denoted when
for sale. Mr John Morant, who eally that many persons reported | awns nearly 3,000 acres at to the police as mission cannot the privilege of being eligible Brockenhurst, Hampshire, the recorded as genuinely so. for direct entry to permanent
KOROLYN LOW, aged two, got herself all wound up in a glant sousaphone at the 49th annual Music Industry Trade Show in Chiengo. The big brass horn was one of the largest items in the display which attracted thousands of mus'e dealers. (Acme);
K.
0. CANNON
IN THE BACK OF THE LAUNCH, CANNON STRUGGLES FRANTICALLY TO ATTRACT ATTENTION AS HE HEARS THE POUCE·LAUNCH TURN AWAY.
the
General Buties
Short service ennumissions are available Itz Humber of branches but, for some, entry must be through the ranks-
With the great
units,
Commissioner of Police at the mainland across beaches
62 disappearances for which account has not been rendered. These withdrawals are often intriguing rather than sinister.
YARD REPORT after graduates are called up. the New Forest are coming #Sir Harold Seatt observes Iconi-
ON BBC
Graduates of miversities have
A report of investigations by commissions. These fre avail- Scotland Yard detectives into able in the General Duties, allegations of bribery concern Technigal, Secretarin! at ing the BBC has been given to | Equipment brunches and in the Mathew, the RAF Regiment.
Sir
Theobald
Director of Public Prosecution::. The report does not indicate any large-scale bribery.
Chief Det.-Insp. A, Howard i compiled the report for Str Harold Scott, the Commissioner. ) The decision of the Director of) Public Prosecutions on whether there is evidence likely 10 substantiate prosecution is ex- pected in about three weeks.
Hoppi-copter Production
Gordon-Walker Has Talks
In Ceylon
Colombo, Aug. 30.
Mr Patrick Gordon-Walker, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, who is pending four days here on his way home from Australia, today had two-hour oMelal talk with the Prime Minister, Mr Don Stephen | Senanayake.
a
Neither British nor Ceylonese
Bournemouth firm is lo circles would disclose the sub- produce Hoppi-copters-motor-jects discussed.
cycles of the air-which My 10
Mr Gordion-Walker said that
to 15 feet above the ground at he would have only one other meeting with Er Senanayake, 50 miles an hour.
and spend the rest of the time The hoppi-copter is simply a "on holiday." seat with an engine beneath and Official quarters in Colombo rotor blades above. It weighs 150 declined earlier to comment on lbs, and is expected to tell at suggestions that Important de- 1:500 Trials with a prototype fence matters would be con- were completed recently at sidered during the talks-Reu- Hurn airport.
ler.
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
LUIGI!!ATTENTON
STOP HIM!!
“STOP HIM.... HOLD HIM! YOU BLUNDERERS !!
Drive-in
Mural
DON Clever, atop fire ladder, had to ask help from the Fire Department in San Jose, California, to finish, his maural of a bronco-busting cowboy at a drive-in theatre, Looking on is Ozzle, the flagpole sitter, who is trying to break the world's record. The girls are ushereltes who lend:Clever some picturequo support as he labours.
(Acme).
RECTOR FINDS MEAT TOUGH
for
Aro
Immediately after the battle, Lt-Gen. Christison, who com manded the Corps of which the Brigade formed part, sued special
order of the day, in which he remarked that the battle
of Kungaw had been the most decisive DS the whole Arakan campaign, and that it was won was due very largely lo the Commandos
nugnificent courage
tl 179. The reputation of the brigade, Je soki: "for indifference to
danger. for ruthless personal
In success and for re- determination in ad-
The Rev. R. B. Gribbon, pursuit 56, rector of North Plainsourceful Field, New Jersey, who versity,"
spiration. exchanged livings for six
had proved An in-
months with Canon H. A. This ferce action was the Hayden, 62, vicar of St brigade's last battle. It was Nicholas, Warwick, returns withdrawn to India and under- went a course of junglo to the United States next training in preparation for the month.
next campaign
dub to bo fought in Malaya. 14.-Col. With his wife and four chil-Drysiale whs appolated 10 dren he, sallah the Queen command of No. 44 R.M. Com- Elizabeth on September 14, mando Unit, but the Jopunese passing Conon Hayden, wht surrendered before I could leaves New York the same day. (take the fed again, and it was in mid-Atlantic. Mr Gribbon sent la Hongkong. summed up the Impressions of his family.
Bnek in the United Kingdom, he served for a time on H10 They were disappointed at only slad of the Commandant- two things, small congregations General, at the Combined Opera- and tough mest. "Congregations Training Establishment in tions are not so good here as in North Deven, and then as America."
Instructor at the Staff College, "The spirit of the nucleus of Camberley. Last January, he workers is grand and the loyalty becerie Chief Instructor of
拉程
the
of the choir splendid. But on Royal Marine Omeers' Schoqi no Sunday has the adult con- nt Plymouth, gregation at morning servico been more than, 100, the number we get in North Plain Field an July and August when people are on holiday.
EXPERIMENT
The men he is taking to Korea are mostly volunteers and have en selected from the toughest froops in Britain trained in.. amphibious and commando fighting. Many were battle. hardened in World War Two. "The whole exporimont has and the unit will, in his own worked out to the best of our words, contain a mixture of expectations, and perhaps a bit youth and experience." beyond, them. I would willingly For reasons
do it again.
Warwick and North Plain security, the
Field have much in common,
there are
but
of operational size composition
and departure and arrival times
are not being an-, During World War
Two, there. Commander, were unlis of some
of of the unit greater extremes income in
in Warwick. Practically nounced, everyone in North Pinin Field self-supporting treats it as a dormitory town for 450 to 800 men divided into Ava New York. While some peoplenghting troops of 60 men spiece go from Warwick
wick to Coventry with a Headquarters Troop and dally, they are not so many.
a Heavy Weapons Troop, "People here, have been most
Although the Mariner have
since 1644, this
lond
cordial in opening their homes,
we have really seen Eng- fought in practically every part cottage. Both parishes were will be their first experience' of originally reluctant to consent Korea. They have, however, to the exchange, but both have operated several times in China. now declared themselves to be since 1810, and have paid & fput
from the castle to the of the world
very pleased."
#ridis to Japa