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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941.

M. MAISKY ON THE BUILDING OF A BETTER WORLD

JUST NOW A VERY dark night has des- cended upon mankind,” said M. Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambassador to London, speaking last night at a meeting held in London in com- memoration of the great Indian poet, Rabi- dranath Tagore.

"In this darkness the gleaming figure of Tagore, personifying the highest form of cul- ture and the highest ideals of humanity, re- minds us

once more that the murderous jungle which exists to-day will have an end.”

Continuing. M. Maisky said, "I there am Armly convinced that will come better times. To bring this about, hundreds of thousands, Day, mi lions, of my countrymen are now spilling their blood In stubborn, heroic struggles against the mechanised hordes of Hitler.

"But this blood that has flow

DIED IN VAIN BID TO SAVE BROTHER

Two brothers, told not to go swimming, but to go to the cinema instead, ignored their mother's warning and were drowned while ed, this terrible fighting now go-bathing in a bomb-pitted lagoon Ing on, will not be in vain. Final victory will be ours, and a bet- ter world will be built in the end."

M. Maisky, together with Ma- dame Maisky, was welcomed

#t

the meeting which was held joint- ly by the India League and Na- tional Council

near Bogno: Regis

RAF WINGS

OVER RUSSIA

It is expected that British planes will

soon take the air over Russia," said the An- kara radio announcer yesterday.

The announcer .add- ed that while. Ameri- can aid for Russia is planned on à long- term scale Britain in- tends to give imme- diate help and British aircraft would probab- ly be flown to Russian territory via Iran. Reuter.

BISHOP ON

Philip Thomas Hodge, 15, of! HORSEBACK

Hampshire-avenue, Bognor, went|

into the water sitting astride a THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD

rubber tyre and then began to swim.

SAID RECENTLY THAT OWING SHORTAGE HE ΤΟ PETROL WAS EXPERIENCING DIFFI- IN HIS EPISCOPAL

He was unable to get back and disappeared. - Philip's brother Eric, 13, dived CULTY

OF THE BIG-

of Civil Liberties to the rescue, but he was trapped / TRAVELLING IN HIS DIOCESE, by the chairman, Edward Thomp- by weeds, and his body was not WHICH IS ONE son, writer and an old friend of recovered until the following day. Tagore, who said:

"You will want me to say to His Excellency the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, how much we ad- mire the tremendous and majestic chapter his country is writing now in the story of human freedom.

"Rat'dranath Tagore would, in- deed, have been much moved by the presence of the Ambassador of Russia here to-night."-Reuter.

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MONEY'S

IN HIS POCKET

Nobby Clarke, bookmaker and

A policeman said at the inquest that the lagoon was a terrific depth in places. Bombs had made steep craters.

Verdict: Accidental death.

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He said he was hoping to do what he could by means of pil- on foot, but if the images transport problem got worse he would have to revert to the older methods of episcopal locó- motion and take to horseback, altogether which uninviting.

Meantime his long legs and love of walking would carry him to Princess Juliána of the Nether-good many parishes. lands has

Until recently the Bishop was a registerd with

Cross Voluntary keen follower of Canadian Red

hounds in Staffordshire.

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Dear, Dear! There's A Weed

SUN-TANNED ALF Blye, keeper of Britain's antique dealer, of South Norwood, "perfect allotment," winced. He started back as if

London, is a man with a broken!

heart and £100 in £5 notes in he had been struck in the face. his hip pocket.

There, standing cheeky among the peas, was a Almost three weeks ago Nobby's Weed. I recognised it at once, for I am an expert in dog disappeared. He has been such matters, writes a London reporter.nik

searching vainly for it ever since.

The £100 goes as reward to its finder.

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Alf left my side in a bound. In average gardeners passed Alf's a trice the life had been choked 90ft by 30ft, plot in. Hyde Park. from that weed.

They gave a cursory glance at

"People think ma "crazy." The allotment, which the Min-the-growing vegetables and pass-

Nobby told the "Daily Mirror”

But their feet faltered "The dog's

a mongrej notistry of Agriculture hope will be ed on. worth & tanner and as ugly as used as a model by Britain's two and they looked again, sin. He is· ́a black devil with million new gardeners · resumed white breast and paws and its perfect appearance. stupid, stubby tall. His hind. And for that I was sorry. quarters are covered with pink was too perfect; too orderly, too 4ft. up the sticks. The tomatoes warts and he has the terrible picture-postcardy, name of Pongo,

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There was something different about these veg. The beans were It4ft. up the poles. The peas were

were more than 2ft. high. So in the Not a carrot was out of line. different from the veg. Not a bean grew further up the back garden. "But he has been my friend pole than its neighbour. Not an and companion for fourteen years, onion had fly. ever: since he was a little pup. That one little weed gave just chose him because he was the the touch of realness to the ugliest of the litter.

whole thing.

"His very ugliness made love him more. He has

me

everywhere with me.

Out They Come! Without it one got the im pression that it was all done by "All the jockeys and coma mirrors or something.. knew him,

But Alf. lifelong gardener, "And now he's gone. He went would have none of it. out for his usual morning walk "Weeds is weeds," he said, one day and never returned." out they come. Anybody

Together, Mr. Clarke and his have an allotment Illes wife have combed the neighbour-they work to a' plan."} hood of their home.

While wo faked doze

He has printed more than 600 notices bearing the dog picture and announcing the reward. Errand Boy”, „newsboys, road". men,jöstmen, costers and-beg.: gora have all beens ibtorylowed. " "I have drawn twenty£5 notes from the bank," Mr. Clarke added. “I

Hates Sparrows

They wandered in to talk to Alf. And Alf was only too will- ing to help them with their pro- blems. A

"But why they always have to come when I am in the middle of don't a long-row of peas. know," he said.

"They pinch every blooming thing he said. "If I was in and the country I'd net the peas and can shoot the sparrows. But I can't it do that here because I am only. demonstrating what the average. gardener can do."

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A CHINESE THRILLER IN MANDARIN