CANON WARNER Never sell your independence to mother-in-law even for £4,000
ANOTHER
WRAC IN
A
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930.
MILESTONE
HISTORY
of these 1950 UGUST
However, neither repre- Just completed their basic train-.
and organisations was given official ing, went over the camp sented another mile training quarters, planted a tree status, and it was not until the stone in the history in commemoration of the first manpower situation became In- of the Women's Royal Royal visit to thla well- creasingly serious stier the cost- Army Corps, which became appointed, dower-bedecked ly Sommo battles of 1910 that an integral part of the camp, and then opened the new British Army last year.
Her Royal Highness the Prin- cess Royal, Controller Comman- dont since 1941, spent two days amood her Corps at the School of Instruction Huron Comp, the Training Hindhead, and toropa
Centre at Queen's Camp, Ouild ford.
| A# 1000! By my husband goi really good job, Tris mulher began to enjoy bat trait, and how the has She enjoyed it ever since i maker no attempt to dreas even moderately fashionably, heract in layers of clothes, and vors to bed at seven every night We have had her to stay with 143 twice, each time a dismai failure. She left in storme of
She is a Sla abuer and tears. contented, mischievous, Napping trouble-maker. Now she wants to return to us; fiving rent free an the base that she leaves us her money (2000) when she dies.
I feel that 1. whom God has blessed with superb health and be morr happines, should
tolerant. Should I grit my teeth and have her back, or should I Irave her alone to drive hericit into melancholia ↑
..
ONCE your mother-in-law
installed, your
She will be not be your own.
will be able to queen, blackmall you with that 24,000 She will have moved out of her
She
WRAC museuna.
of endurance to
She told the recruits that she know that the transition from elvillan life was not easy, either physically or mentally, and the hours of active
work on the square and to the gym bad put their qualities the test. They had still much to learn in other ways to ac- A Hindhead, the Princest custom themselves to a commu- Royal inspected the parsing-out nity life and to work as one of
Arst 25 women a team. parade of the cadeta to receive the King's Commission. In the Regular Army, The importance of status thai women have atlained
WOMEN PIONEERS
be
it was agreed that women could employed on non-combatant duties in back arena in Franco, This brought about the forma- tion of the Women's Auxilary Army Corps, whose first draft went Overseas under Heien. They were such a suc-
that,
re-named
Domo
Queen Mary's A.AC. 14 months later, 10,000 of them served on the Western Theatre and 57,000 ih all were demobliged.
The officers were called "unlt administrators" with roses in- stend of pips as badges of rank, while the senior officer, termed arca controller, had a fleur de lys
Hor badge to mark her rank.
the kery"
shows the
SHE WILL BE FAMOUS
BEHOLD THY DAUGHTER. By Nell Paterson. Hodder and
10s. Stoughton.
pages.
H
·
6d. 479
by
ERE is a novel as vigorous and forthright as any that has appeared in many a day. Its virtues are as simple they are remarkable; a 48 powerful, romantic story, hay. ing for its central figuro a young woman of strong, un-. romantic character.
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OH, MR. H✩M✩N✩W✩Y
by JON HOPE
PRESENTING
"We wish," she added, "the in the military sphere was ein- Women's Royal Army Corps to
was the name for phasized by the presence at the be respected wherever it may parade of the Adjutant-General serve throughout the world, to other ranks, and they wore A to the Forces the Deputy Chief be known for its smartness, long, ugly smock buttoned up to of the Imperial General Bar devotion to
and loyalty, the neck, a rather duty
sloppy felt and military attaches of eight The history of the past is made, hat, long: gaiters and square toed notions.
and we know it is good; the black shoes-but an order pre-
the museum The cadets, selected from the history of the future is in the served in ranks of the Corps or entered making, art we leave it in your that as a concersion, direct from civil
life, had just hands knowing that each one of heat is fell to be excessive, the home will in
undergone a nine months course, you will do her best to try a top button of the coatfrock may
be left unbuttoned," Those who are to undertake make it even better.” -
All Innks wore shoulder Present on both occasions patches of beech-brown, which specialist duties, such as in the
of the women bas Signal service, will receive fur-
distinclive remained the ther lustruction at Army tech- were several
had helped ical centres.
to
the Army Similar courses pioneers who
past history, and service to the present day. ibal before at the make have been held
Clerical workers curried 29/6d | 70 which the moulded the Service step by step, Hindhead School,
weck, and those on domestic Like the Old Man of the Sea, WRAC hny occupied for the past from a curiosity in 1917 Into a
gol £20
And a year, two years, but successful con- full-edged Corps which has duties she will be an Incubus ou yourdidates had never previously now taken over many military restriction of privileges" was back which nothing will rejoined the Regular Army as duties formerly undertaken by
the usunt punishment meted out
for offences. cominbaloned officers. She won't really be happy. of lealousy, An nimusphere
and bickering will drive
present home, and alternative rooms are notoriously dimcult to ret, If you should find her un- bearable.
move,
hate,
18
ch
A ceremonyfai Sash for the
Among them were Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan and OUTSTANDING CADET
Dame Florence Simpson, who have been connected
the with her all the more into self-ply outstanding leader among the Services, since its inception, and Lady Swaythin, who as Mre This self-pity will be agres cadets was presented to Ofer Jean Knox played the leading vated by the fact that the Cadet A. M. E. Marshall, of living with two people who are Cropthorne, Worcestershire, and part in its great development be- no obviously happy together. At
certiftente for The best all- tween 1341 und 1943, every farm she will be remind. Found officer cadet was awarded ed of what she herself has miss-to or/cat E. A. Haggard, of ed. Is this really kindness on Torquay, Devon.
At Guilford, Her Royal Hign- your part?
neg saw other ranks who had
You tell me that your hus- see her twice R band goes to week, but that you don't go be- cause the sight of you with her Fon is more than stie can bear. This silly woman has destroyed the most precious thing in lite
the
love of her son and the affection of her daughter-in- law. By what sudden alchemy do you think that your genero- will alty in taking her back change this?
would be Your husband
Uhe superman to and up to double demand on tits loyalty under his very root. It is not right to ask it of him. His first loyalty is to you; yours to him. That is the meaning of marriage. Fortunately, kindness to your with mother-in-law coincides
husband, if your duty to your you take the long view. Curry Brrange- on the present wise ments, and let the £4,000 look after itself.
(London Express Serulce)
42 T39:
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but it's an out- rageous price, sir... my lart one only cost half that, and swore twice ai much...
London Express Sarvice,
colour of
work
A
with asteraiks...
BOOK of the Month
Bareviewed
•
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
marries Mr
And at
18 she
William Skene, aged 53, the
owner of the inn.
Quick work, you may think? One has to assume that Thirza's
les
creator has
done
than.
Jos W
good sense, excilement and fun. A salt wind blows across its pages, bringing the smell of fish from the curing yarda,
- Thirza, as native to her sur- roundings as the broad Buchan speech into which sho WAN Talsed, is something new in heroines. And with Dirk Stul- len danger enters the story, thu zpice that Thirza has been crav- Ing.
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. By W. R. Burnett. Mac- Donnid. 8s. 6d. 240 pages.
Thirza Gare is not one of your Justice to the girl's comeliness, le police department is cÖT.
clinging love-lorn beauties, In- or else that Mr Skene is a man with remarkable insight into
bunco rupt. The
deed, it is a little doublíul character. There are those, of works with the con men.
4101
squad
The
though not to Captain Dirk
Stullen and
a few others to course, who declare that Thirza police are taking a fortune from syndicated prostitution, The what extent she is a beauty at Is
simply a designing hussy.
this racket sqund allows big-time- Minister
conveys nil. The most that one can say,
to the girl in the racket men to operate for a con- on the evidence given, is that very view
oulcers are cloth deration. Police Janguage of hip Thirza is well enough formed by plain
getting rich on protection money nature to rouse and to experi- (Free Kirk version). ence the passion which she 59. John Galt.
of comedy strongly resents.
The Minister, She is a
convinced
a feminist before the days of feminism, a wuman
with
of a
Ecenc
Д
It is worthy of from bookies.
In fact, when the new police into the although un commissioner sieps
asphalt
Jungle of this Mia. Mr Skeno that
Western city, he does not have romantic man Bomething of the outlook really the most a man and
certainly with Thirza has met, concludes: "In to look for for his life work. Particularly. as little Dr Rio- more than a man's share of de. my consecdered opinion, ye'd
Ane braw wife for menschneider arrives about the crmination, ambition, self-con make
time with samo
a well-con- William Skene. So you needna sidered plan fidence and acquisitiveness.
for a million- slam the door on me, Inssle."
dollar jewellery haul, And, for all her realistic, At this point, Thirza's future Hemingway boyish approach
Somewhere between crimo to life, com seems to be clearly laid out. She a woman, pletely
born on a will harness her businemibilities documentary and straight As Goon as the American
stern coast and among a stiff. to the Skene business, take over thriller, "The Asphalt Jungle" is Version of his Intest
novel, ipped people. A woman of un- control when her husband dies, tense performance in a tough women's Acres the River and Into the usual stature, round whom there fight to the
death against the genre. Well out of the ruck, Trees," reached
to publishers comes life a magnificent unscrupulous Carmichael in- Jonathan Cape, it was rushed story, destined to the widest terests and emerge victorious. SUCH DARLING DODOS. 10 tive> printers. When
the popularity.
By Angus Wilson, Secker proofs came back they revealed
"Behold Thy Daughter" is
and Warburg. 9s, fid. 212 number of expressions which
going to find countless readers. She will grow old, with a high though possibly asy
pages. Thirza is going to be famous. chio and a hard mouth, rich, "American eyes) do not escape
She is brought up in the autocratie and widely detested the cleansing blue pencil in poverty-stricken cottage of an in the town; towards the end, Alterate fisherman In Kayrie, she will be increasingly cecen- et to the offending pas-on the rocky shore of the Muray tric. rages. In come blanks, asterisk. Firth, in the iniddle years of
made to measure Inst century.
of
Brilain Su
i
Hemingway makes Its pearance early September.
Adict
*
over
非
of
np-
CECOND batch of stories from » purveyor of this article who made a huge first-impres slon success last year with "The Wrong Sel."
Wilson's own mixture ot
Good
lile
for value
the
adult
BEST KNOWN WORK The Women's Legion was re- was not vived in 1034, but it
And so it might have worked the Munich crisis until muturen 1938 that the Auxiliary
out, had it not been for Captain Stullen of that low, bhek bor. naughty wit, unkind satire and ப kinci of desperate sensitivity in Territorial Service, the successor
que, the Foolish Virgin. What of the Q.M.A.A.Ç., came into
Soon sorrows come. Fleeting Stullen's business at sea may be here on exhibition once more, being
For by Royal Warrant.
Smuggling?
example, in the Portraits of these three luciles
The occupy a place of honour in the hows how the auxiliaries, who
ofair Thomson-Christie, row when her dar Davie dls we can only guess. graphically Muuseum
(an Incident A Thoma supporter telis me appears
half-Blockade-running? What busi- story, where, reluctant yet de wholly amusing, ness
lighted, we meet Tony, who is poignant and
Kayrie is the week-end
brings him to e nuseum, which will provide had the choice of being cooks, tha
which ww Het the in tine a complete visual record clerks, orderlies, storewomen or
read MER Chriside's "Dumb
Arst only too plain: the Yankee skip- 55 and sleeps in cold cream and a slumber rict. How Tony longs of the progress of woman's con- drivers only at the outbreak of
of Thirza's Winers" (written 1937
quality). per keeps a woman there. gimpse In it
Deeper sorrow when her mother Thirza uses the American to to be, once more, in the avant- he found that tribution to the Army, it is not World War Two, took over more
M. Poirat Kave difes.
bring off the coup that restores garde! How delighted to find much more than the framework and more, technical and high-away the plots carlier books
Thirza does not the moment, with wiforms, skilled
wait for the Skene fortunes. He runs n that the post-war youths are all his and eventually by
creator-"Mysterious badges and photographs is the operated in over
others to settle her fate. When cargo of her herrings inte finns ke him, reactionaries. hundred Affair a
"Murder of her #Styles."
her father remarries, she de burg during the German-Danish main exhibits, but carefully different capacities. They served Roger Ackroyd felines to go and live with her war. Ilis fee is high, however,
"Mystery of
A mind. treasured documents,, personal in ME.F., C.M.F., B.A.O R. the Bite Train,"
And he lakes Miss Sayers mother. Already, the child, Thirza herself. letters and other reminders of and Austria, India and Ceylon, Clouds." Perhaps
has found herself a pesment
too and great ecco in East Africa and the Cari- would care to take the matter 11.
ently, LIBRARY LIST special events
job as a lady's maid in Cnt- Thirzn's objections, although sions will no doubt soon find beans, Norway and even in A with M. Poirot. It seems michael House, seat of the
and give it Japan.
near sincere, are not so fanatical as their way there
sentry family that dominates might have been expected. In character and individuality.
the town and trade of Kaysie. the captain she had met her A disagreeable brush with a match, in more senses than ous. To ask a Sikh called Singh if travelling revivalist which con In the end. hopelessay en- he knew another of the sames Thirza in her opinion that langled in Stullen's lawless ne- name I met in Burma was sex is disgusting as well as silly, livities. Thirza taken to the high a Welshman if leads to her dismissal. She be- sens with her lover. She has
ruiter he had ever met a man called comes a
with a herring Just
time before escaping to Evans.
the firm. Anyway, I put
divide her wealth between the question to Kushwan: Singh- With the superstition of her burgh of Kaysle and her special is busily educating friends. These last pages of the PRO at India Housewho has race, she Juri pubikhed
Somo collection of herself all this time, even to the story put ล hort stories called "The Mark point of learning to speak Latin credulity It may be forgiven of Vishna." Of course, it turned [with
of a the ald
drunken them for their pace and drama. whom he befriends. nut he knew him very well.
"Behold Thy Daughter" Now I'm locking for a Scots-Before
is promoted Bock of the Month und, for that long, the know a mean from the herring barrel to the matter, the novel of the year, to man who might named MacGregor,
Lotflee.
date. It has humanity, robust
A SUCCESS
The museun starts at 1017, but he employment of women on certain military duties actual-
Their best known work was on the gun sites of A.A. Com- mand, where they undertook operational duties as instrument
Dre numbers,
and control Kearchlight
the logical thing to do.
H
ly goes back some years earlier. every operators, and proved I had ar orking
S
15
and
rellable as men.
brought In 1941. they were Apart from Army nurses, who first saw service with an ex- under the Army Act, with the peditionary force in the Crimean same privileges responsibili-
ties War, there was formed in 1914
the other Armed
Forces car of the
the Crown. How well they a Women's Volunteer Reserve, who worked in canteens and on acquitted themselves has
A year later, a passed bate the nation's proud domestic duties. Women's Legion wan emaled to history, and has earned them a provide cooks and waitresses for permanent place in the Regular the War Department at home.
Army.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*HI,POP/CAN 1 HAVE THE CAR. TODAY, POP?
CAN 1
1400, POP
now
"YOU PROMISED
TO WEED THE BEANS -REMEMBER!
AND I WANT YOU TO HELP ME SELECT SOME WALL
k
*
doninle
nonc
strain
1
Bolling Down the leg. By Oliver St. John Gogarty, Constable. 13k 478 pages Come Back to Erin, played with irreverent variations The qually of good conversation and the quantity of bad,
Our Sprons Căme from Wool- worths, By Barbara Comyna. Eyre and Spotswoode. Be. 64. bas pases The babbler, fringes ot artistic" London, with characters to match. An arffen, bitter, some- tundr funny, narrative of murtable marriage, from which the heroise mercifully CICADOS.
The furious Hugh Hickling.
10. Gu.
13y
Evangelist
Alvin Redman. 884 pages. A mid uitje Lawyer become Involved in fantastic eventa, includlar. overthrow of the British govern- ment by elements inspired from ⚫ foreign syren. A wild tale told with fire and conviction.
Father's Day
Bu KEMP STARRETT
HURRY UP, DADDY!
HAVE YOU GOT EVERY-
THINGS
****
THE IDEAL FATHER'S DAY WOULD BE FOR SOMLONÉ TO TIKE ON THOSE SUWAER CHORES, SAY TOR THE NEXT SIXTEEN WEEKS.
AND YOU SAD YOU'D
PAINT THE PORCA CHARS/
PAPER
AND
"POP
VIDED
Y'GOHHA
PLAY
CATCA
WITH
ALES
"DADDY, I SAY THE
KEENEST
DRESS-
DADDY
- WAIT UNTIL HE GETS NICELY KETTLED TO ASK HIM TO OPEŇ
A JAR OR CAN: IT WILL HELP MAKE THE DAY INTERESTING.
"WHAT'S A MATTER?
AM I SICK OR
SOMETHING?
DON'T!
41.POP!
SAPPY
POP'S
DAYEY
COPA, 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORF, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
IF RE COMES DOW TO BREAKFAST LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A BOWERY FLOP-HOUSE LET IA GET AWAY WITH
IT
DON'T FORGET THAT DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS, FAIRER DESHES OFF TO Á PLACE CALLED BUSINESS AND DOES SOMETHING- CALLED "WORK" ALL DAY LONG JUST TO KEEP YOU IN BOBBLE GUM OR MIIK...OR. ANYWAY, RABBIT.....
"DON'T-CHERŪDO, TAAT FATHERS DAY SOLAČÍ FELJÜK BE WORRIED STIP ALL WIL WEESCE
BE SURE TO PLAN SOME JOLLY ENTERTAINMENT, MAYBE A PICNIC, FOR FATHER'S DAY...
IF YOU'RE
GOING TO GIVE HALA PRESENT, LIKE
SAY, SLACIOS,
BE SURE
THEY FIT...
OR. HE
MAY THROW
OLE.
1.