Water Carnival
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1950.
THE
Venice
Biggest Motor Show
Ever
For
London
(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTI
London, Oct. 10.
The greatest international annual event in the motoring world is scheduled to commence on October 18 the Motor Show at Earl's Court. London. The exhibition, organised and presented by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, is the 35th since its initial appearance in 1903, and will for 10 days be a major attraction for hundreds of thousands of visitors from home and abroad.
The Society anticipates of motor boats te
well as
a whisky, cotten geene and manusi that the attendance will ex- composite drplay of small sail- factures
polterg-uthrie: maximnura | major industria exporting tu
those markets,"
average daily
craft up to
ceed even that of last year.length of 18 feet. when the
In the Caravan and Light figie for the geural, Trailer Section the display will públic amounted tex 35,000, į sonst:1 of the late t in themel and rome - 2,000 foreign
wheel" m many equipped in the nost
luxurious fashion, and buyers visited the slaw,
all box type special purpuse For this event. 16,000 man-jind uality trailers, all
which
Tom have been Kent trs 451- are designed to be towed by car,
divaloof overseas
All sections
represented at
L'an podacima adräft !
The most exciting set of
MORE than 500,000 tour- ists and natives of the water-city line the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, as hundreds of
WAS KIDNAPPED
BY TERRORISTS
JUDGE WINDHAM GOES TO KENYA NEXT MONTH (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
London, Oct. 10,
Mr
Announcement of the appointment of Ralph Windham as Puisne Judge, Kenya, recalls his sensational Kidnapping by Jewish terrorists while President of the Tel-Aviv Court District in Palestine in January 1947.
He Was sented in his courtroom that morning of January 27 when two arni. ed terrorista burst In through a door immediately
Patients
behind his chair, dragged Can Be Told
him through the court pas- sages and pushed him into a saloon car waiting at a back door.
Too Much
For 30 hours, the British police how much a patient should The surgeon must decide and Army secured in vain know about his condition, districts surrounding Tel-Aviv.]
the Jewish capital. Search was said Sir Cecil Wakeley, Pre- carried cin also for another sident of the Royal College British victim of the terrorists of Surgeons, recently, Major Harry Culling, kidnappedf the some day as Judge' Wind-i bam.
Then came the dramatie teie phone message from Judge Windham to the police: "I am free, Come and pick me up."
orange grove.
11e was deliyeting the augural address of the West- minster 110spital Medical School at Church House, Westminster. His subject was "The changing face of surgery."
He sait that
Instruction in
He telephoned from a factory gondolasat lamat Gan, suburb of Tel the early signs of cancer might make a magnificent pro
Aviv. He hand been hidden in be justinoble, "but it would be a 12-foot square cellar near anja tragedy if we were responsible cession during the world's
for creating a national cancer biggest water carnival.
phobia among the population." The costumes Are [U› thentic replicas of the mediaeval
more
years reign
ones
worn
than six hundred ago, during the of The Doges.
(Acme).
Culture Vultures Crowd Out Artists
SHEET ANCHOR
Describing at his home fu Saron later how he had been freut, Judge Windlanı said: "The terrorists took me blind- "When the mystery goes out fulled out of the cellar, walked of surgery,
the patient oflen me around for an hour-and-a-oses a great deal of his co quarter and Bald I would go.operative power and confidence They left me banatos, Granges his ful troovery," he said. and cigarettes b they would' Some individuals would benefit not have the cigarette packel frem a description of the opera- for fear of fingerprints
tion performed or tiein, while Suele owledge would transform personal offers into nervous wrecks,
the sheel-
There Wak 20 vendetta against Judge Wind-| Jam, He was being held us a "Confident hostage in connection with the anchor as far as the patient is death sentence passed (not by concerned. Oner cundente Is Windham) on a Jewish youth, cri
established the patient will Dov Gruner.
Gruner was cele to worry and the surgeon eventually executed,
have little culty In getting co-operation throughout During his captivity, the any form of treatment that may Judge said, be WES well-be necessary." treated by his guards, who discussed art and religion with It might well be that future him. He had one annoyance research would eliminate some with them-they kept his wiz forme of surgical operations
#souvenir.
and that some diseases which quit for ticket, hvo for the show will contribute many stamps you can buy today The Via Margutte. "It was the only une I had."had been treated by surgical rived from some 50 countries, new product te to revented to tells the story of mutiny in Rome's Greenwich Village, Windham said,
Intervention would be cured by Cau.. motor beats. caravans the public for the first time, in the Bounty, a British arm-is suffering the same
Intravenous drugs от other the traiters and-or an adition to which
fale
The kidnapping" provided an forms of treatment, ed ship commanded by Cap-Jas ling craft working exhibits and
the Little Bohemian anxious time for the Judge's) will be on view, tagether with items of outstanding Interest tain William Bligh.
section of New York's young wife. She was then 24.-
DOCTORS' TRAINING the supporting exhibits ofi Telegraphie
Bligh was bad-tempered, Manhattan- the "culture Judge Windham, who is now in facitille to all
with no
on leave, has been Sir Cecil hoped that components,
when talent parts of the world will be him adrift
officers seized the ship and Get vultures"
Puisne Judge in Ceylon. He the new Medical Act come into sand Transport service available. The station will be
an open boat, but plenty of money are expects to By to in
Kenya soon force, making a year's post- linked with the Central Tele-hen the mutineers
ailed to squeezing out the real after November 10,
graduate experience compulsory graph Station of GPO Cable and Tahiti, a Pacific paradise klund, artists, Wireless Services,
musicians and
before registration, the qualified student would be able to take part of his year's post-graduate training with a geitoral pract!. Honer.
dist in smal
buyers, and
play of mine crugine, and will be on view.
lynny #quipement
in the Car Section the curtain will be raised a number of brand new moxtele to be shown to the publie for the first time. many of the details are
ש
special
other
from which
radiates 150,000 miles of sub- marine cable, 50 wirelers routes and 19 raó picture services,
A corps of interpreters will be service of overstas
being kept Fecret untal i ip:1- mediately before the show upens Other automobiles, though entirely novel, wit be found to visitors. embody improvements and re-
the
Mr W. Lyons, President of the
hisements in cugine and body Socie
Society of Motor manufacturers
PICA
2.
philosophers.
An "emergency committer" met a! the crumb-covered, wine-stained table at the Taverna Murgutta recently to face the challenge and try to forcel "enllous, coulless landlords i keep rents down,
design upon their prestocesors and Traders, commenting on got married and went to live on of a year ago. In all, the 32 the
the forthcoming Motor Show. Pitenim Island, where pineapples the problem Botisli 12 American and raid that:-
ami oranges grow.
For high rents are the hub of in this cobble- Canadian, eight French 144101 "In its export trade the car ich reached safety, He ishemitiful Pincio Hill which has stoned street on the slopes ot three Italian car exhibiters will industry is able to claim dest buried in Lambeth churchyard. have come the models on their pince among Great Britain's)
attracted slands.
This adventure happened 161
painters, poets and eller earning enterprises. From years ago.
authors for thres Frem the sleck fines of the January
Pictured
centuries to August car ship-
оп the They have had latest and best in British and ments to the USA and Candace Bligh, the mutineers, course, little money,
Pitcairn land anel a map show.
foreign
to the Jikewise bolt of which continued on an ing how to get there. graceful ymmetry of the marine upward trend) brought in over| craft rection exhibit:..
Face values: range from 10!
visitors 554,500,000, nearly as much as to 3d.; perforation: 11 by 1116) to the Show will ve before the combined dollar equivalent priet: a set of five, is. 36. uu- Them A wide and varied gange, recor:ied against exports of used.
All
Out
For
Fm
WORKMEN are getting ready for the traditional October Festival in Munich, Ger
the U.K.
Aged 15, he is heir-presump live to Sir Philip Bowyer-Smyth,
Weyland
"Apprenticeship Bula the student on his mettle. He must rely on
his clinical acumen rather than on all the anellary are ready at hand
PLAIN ENGLISH IS alds which
BETTER
London Transport has talent but, of opened a campaign for the eradication of obsolescent sesquipedalianismg and moribund or archaic syntax from its signs.
RICH TAKE OVER
Italian painter Gino Zuschl put it in a nutshell:
In other words, they will be written in plain English from
How on.
"This has always been the
For several weeks London haven of the poor artists of all Transport has had its staff re- nationalities. Now, the snobbish writing the underground bus rich are moving in, paying and tram signs that guide more exorbitant rents, just to have passengers than дру other a Via Margutta address. They transport system in the world. want to live with the artists
but if this keeps up there wonk be any artisis around to live
with."
They have orders to ar "more friendly."
"Simple and homely language is not only more easily under-
The artists have flocked here stood but it 16 frequently because, under an old law, rents shorter," said
are controlled at low rates, Burent.
now, once a tenunt dles o moves, the dat is de-controllce and any rent can be charged,
NOISY, TOO
announce.
SHORT AND BRISK
Bryce Beaumont, who is charge of the rewriting, pinyed these examples;
In
dis-
Old style: "Small dogs may,
As a result rents have goneja! the discretion of the conduc- sky high.
for and at owner's risk, be carried without charge." "That's ridiculous," a French New style: "You cant take Aculptor all. "Even American your dog with you. It travels GI students with their $75 free but at your risk." month can't make IL"
1101
In hospitals,
There is a tendency today to overlook clinical observation and to rely too much on X-mya and pathological or biochemical tests in making a diagnosis."
Old style: "The London Pas- Peruvian poet Don
Carique senger: Transport Board endnot Barbosa momed that not only be held responsible for fallure the rich but the commercial to adhere to the scheduled me were invading the street thuit of the buses; nor con they was once a quiet place "to think guarantee the running of the find work and dream." The charm services to be as litated ing ground floor studios, though every effort wilt | be resound with Karage and made to maintain them. In ip-
shop, noises,
clement weather, on Sundays, certain buses are liable to be can write or paint in cancelled without notice.” that aunpsphere?" said Barbosa, New style: You cannot hold
The old-timers
London Transport responsjuic In the Vip your bus is lote, or does not Morgulta don't know exacus run: London Transport does. what they can do. Their hope not guarantee that is services
machine
"Who
many, by setting up merry-go-rounds, flying cars and beer tenta, For the first to dw the attention she will keep to the timetable or time since the end of World War II, huge oxen will be roasted on an open fire.
At the right is a beer tent." (Acme).
flome city government to the will run at all, although it does plight of their community-its best to see that they do," United Press.
-United Press.
Bombed
Dutz
A WEB of scaffolding surrounds the shell of the Church of St. John the Divino in London. Bopiled during the blitz of World War II,,work is now being dime to restore it to be the Church of the Festival of Britain during
the planned celebration of 1951. (Acmq).....
Sticking Them Up
HANDS 'up high, North Korean soldiers, are shown on Wolmi Island surrendering to UN troops. Although obviously unarmed, they are told to hold their hands above their heads because of their cleverness at con cealing hand grenades in their clothing. "In some cases, they were forced to strip entirely to forestall their efforts to blow our troops 16 pieces after capture. (Acme).
Prisoners
Of Vietminh
under Communtat fæder Ho Chi Minh KING 1946, TAIV = [ "HIMI" SUMEE27, they ranch hostages, who have been held by the "ribd
China, after being filed. Fifty-two of the 1,500 hostages held
exchange for 59 rebels met fine by the French.