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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1987.

THE

WORLD

W

GOES BY

AKING up

this morning with one of those heads with which you are doubt- less

familiar, I realised

CRASH LANDING IN FRANCE

Incident Provokes Enquiries

Paris, To-day. The crash landing made by at Spanish Government aeroplane near Brive la Gaillarde on Sun- day has caused much comment in the editorial columns of Paris newspapers,

Brive is 250 kilometres from the that Franco-Spanish frontier and the I had broken, with a loud crashing two occupants of the plane, who noise, one of my most important were not injured, declared that

.

Accusations

the

New Year resolutions. I had pun-they had lost their direction. ished a bottle with a white label on The "Matin" expresses doubt as it, and now the bottle is punish to the veracity of this statement ing me. Yellow snakes wearing and believes the plane, was a purple top hats and check plus-fours French machine. are crawling over the paper. Specks

were made in are dancing in front of my eyes. French Chamber recently that De- At intervals everything goes blank. voitine planes, the latest and best But need I continue? You know in the French Air Force, had been what I mean.

supplied to the Valencia - Govern- Anyway, it leads me to ponderment. This was denied by the Air on the origin of New Year resolu-Minister. tions. Their making is a barbaric custom, so is their breaking, bat I can find no mention of them in plane made a forced landing on Sunday near Miramony, in Gascony. the early history of our race in

The aviators also declared they spite of a most diligent search.

had lost their way and did not realise that they had crossed the French Frontier.

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I have searched through ency- clopaedias, a tattered Bradshaw, Burke, Old Moore and Mrs. Beeton's famous publication, as Wel as a lot of other learned tomes, but| -I am still no wiser as to the origin

of the whole business.

:

One thing is certain. It must be of Anglo-Saxon origin. Neither Josephus, nor Heroiatus, Homer nor Virgil, make any mention of it.

Or perhaps they simply ignored it because they didn't know any better.

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Another Incident

Another Spanish Government

"Le Jour" asks how one can fiy across the entire Pyrenees chain without seeing it-Trans-Ocean:

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

Britain Bringing Pressure

London, To-day. Over half the Powers concerned However I have ferretted out a have not yet answered the ques few hundredweights of perfectly tions of the non-intervention com- useless information, which I will mittee regarding control of the now pass on to you, thus fulfilling Spanish civil war, declares the the first function of the press,"News Chronicle.” schools and other institutions sponsible for your education.

Although Portugal still main- tains her attitude of refusal it is The Persians, for instance, cele stated that the British Government brated the New Year by exchang- is exercising pressure to bring her ing presents of eggs. A survival into line with the other Powers. of this custom, slightly modified It is also believed that Germany through the passage of the years, and Italy have intimated to Portu- exists at political meetings, small-gal that she should not stand in the way of effective control of town variety shows, etc.

Our own Henry III used to ex- troops and munitions crossing the tort New Year gifts in the form of Spanish frontiers. Trans-Ocean. taxes from all his subjects in much the same way as Mr. Chamberlain does to-day.

In Rome they used to give presents

to the magistrates with much

YOUTHFUL KING OF EGYPT

flourish of trumpets. (Local beaks Planning Lengthy Tour

please note).

Some unkind people may add that the custom still persists, though not exclusively as a New Year rite, in the United States of America.

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I'm sorry.

This is a trifle seasonal, isn't it? But I'm going to start again. You will to make the best of it.

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Of Europe

London, To-day. -King Faruk, the 17-year-old ruler of Egypt, will begin a tour of Europe at the end of the month, ac- un-cording to press reports from Cairo. not. The journey will be in the nature have of an educational tour and the mon-

arch will travel unofficially, accom- pamed by his mother and sisters. There is a notice on the Star He will visit the important Ferry advising passengers to pass dustrial countries and will proba along quickly. Now, I realise that bly arrive in London during one shouldn't stroll leisurely off Coronation festivities.

the ferry humming a swatch of Oce

song but why all this haste shown

by so many people? Thank God

Fm off the boat," they seem to say, odd

rans-

intruding it into those ments when we can saunter

and tread on feet and ances gen-along with all our worries, tem-

erally mine) in their efforts to put pozrily, at least, forgotten? I be

as great a distance as possible believ tween them and the noble craft

which has just transported them

across the harbour.

Surely we have enough

(horrid word) slung

morn till night in

Chinese who

that

most break their necks get somewhe

er and the

have rea

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