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BY THE WAY
A Curly One
Since Lady Vertigo was seen
·By BEACHCOMBER
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mark.
Said one farmer: If this continues we shall be able to breed them just for thely tails, and throw away the rest of the pig."
Later: Lady Vertigo-indig- nantly denies she had a curly pig's tail in her bat.
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Later, still: Lady V. not admits It might have been a big's tail, but certainly not a curly one.
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Dr. Rhubarb says: Put L mackerel on your shoulder an take it off when he tells you
.
G.F. writes: I put the mac-
home."
Well,
OF
But since the world is not real in any demonstrable sense. it can be proved; that nobody exista, and that, therefore. even an individual entity has no existence cutside its own
allucination.
It follows that you can all 30 azn you like, since none of you exists.
Looking Ahead
A scientist with a delicacy. f touch which recalls Enrico „Guano (the Seagulls' Friend) who played Chopin' in boxing- tuves, has discovered a methol of "destroying crops, deflect
ng 'ccean currents, and pro- ibiting life in large areas."
Other scientists are more reasonably employed on Aπ "Electronic becile chaserts i race the movements of click- beetles or adult wire-wornts.'* I hope it will not be long be fore somebody builds a click -beetle · stadium, where an ́én-
raptured public will watch the wire-worms flashing down the track, pursued by the elec tronic device.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner TODAY IN
#CHYICE, INC. †, M, DIG, U S. MATÍONT.
"That's Joe I was telling you about he dukes tip the niftiest quarter of a pound af Batter in town!"
German Plotting In Teheran During Critical War Days
of
shor.age
man-power.
oughout his despatch th
EUROPE
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
-Whatever, controversial issues may be "ralica dari the next session of the British Parliament, however, Ukustiy disputed may be KUMENTASUTES" vileLovernment may seek to put taruugh, there is She sentgdica" blik? which ̈ ̄will bo'
universany upproved......
ed. Anown as Memorial Act of
The
་ཕ་
s***ta "provide
or the erection. In Grosvenor
are in the City inimiset, of a statuic of Fr lin Delano Roosevels, the layin Suc or the square an 4zarden, and is opening for the use and „jus meat of the pubik in per peraity.
To present Priament with a special act may
seem clumsy and funncesssary lengthy method SLIDE up a memorizi· to one Get the arvalist friends this coun“
nas ever known. But owners, property in London are hedged Dat."With restrictions, and the Juke of Westramster, who owns carly square mile of real estate a the centre of London' is.
no ex
According to the Grosvenor Sasure Act of 1836, exclusive
Sights
the
to use and enjoy the squar are conferred on the owners and occupiers of houses on uremises encompassing and shut- ing on the square,” Since the
reposed garden is. to be open to he public, there rights have to be "extinguished"
by an act of Parlament. Two other ae's, the
Preservation.
of
199uares
wealthy half
De Rhubarb's Corner
The proposition that concep C.F writes: My husband tions of democracy differ from keeps on telling me that une political school to another roughtn't to go about with quires no elaboration, The sharp mackerel on my shoulder. Soviet theory and British ideas ont first, as, of course, I neve what constitutes democracy has have a mackerel un. my shou der. But I realise now that h beck brought into high relief on-s
is serious. What can I do? .dozen occasions since VE Day, 11 dis not, however, generally difficult | to follar the lines of thought which prinduce sudi conflicting conclusions. The same can hard | ly, he said"at", "Hong Kong's wild
casay in demneracy which on Fri-keral on my shoulder, but he day resulted in the election of a said nothing, and I had to keep member of Legislative Council to it there. We went out to tei represent the Unofficial Justice and my aunt said, "Gladyx.. why din't you take that man- tumight to be the purpose of the kerel off your shoulder" My
which restricts, altes „plection. Apparently, however, husbani! flared up and said,
rations to such properties, and thờ Settled Lands Act, which con- there is still some slight dubt "Don't be idiotje, Aunt Lucy. on her there's no mackerel
cerns the legal position of a land- about it. The result of the voting
shoulder."
of course.
lord whose property is entailed, has not
yet been officially there was. What shall I da When the Germans were en- age of motor vihlies of all types' Meyer and others, to_organis. will also have to be amended. meed, and we gather that it
Dr. Rhubarb says: Leave the
Last Of Unspoiled' is not likely to be until the gentle mackerel where it is for the joying the flood-tide of their and a serious naucity of resources Cola actly ties Fersic for the repair of these la preparation for the expects.
Grosvenor Square and Bel- inan "elected" has received the sake of peace and quiet in the then successful campaign in which did exist, to say nothing berian invasion. Insa plot h
a Persian Cabinet Muister rent London squares to remain of
erave Square are the last of the volved endorsement of his nomination b
South Russia in the Summer The General eslinisted at one three
Members of Parliamen the Secretary of State. Everybody
unspoiled. Both form part of the of 1542) the British War Office time during these hazardous seven denerals and many othe Knows, or helieves he knows, that
Duke of Westminster's sprawling senior officers operations that after exploiting
of the ·arniy, dr C.F. writes: I kept the mac were in anxious" communication, a table local souses 14. well as the Washzal tribes. Early state. This is a qu from sixty to seventy J.Ps re-
teret there for two days, and
varied strip of London-the corded their votes and that Mr.
once, when I was feeding it, with General Sir H. Maitland unply of skilled men was 15,000 in December General Zahidi, wa
square mile of bias commander short of requirements. This, in was implicated. was arrested in Watson received a majority vote my husband said, "That's a Wilson, who was
air contrasting with the mean in his favour. The figures give nice mackerel you've got
n-chief, Persia and irak Com-uch a mountainous country was Italian,
Italian, and this lind, a steady
streets and grimy, riverside instal
farther. outh. ing the official result of the pull your shoulder, Connie 1 was mand. He tells the story in his very serious matter.
Square have been withheld, we under- labbergasted. He apparently espatch covering the period
itself. and refers time. to the succial dilldulties tha memorial. The glory of its great.
umi.
choice for the proposed stand, until such time as he knows I'm going about liko August 21st 1942 to February
So 1-took it off my 17th, 1943 which has just been. As the Secretary of State has given his this.
arase out of the, obligations to 4571-
s") mnnsions has vanished, but its Sta ingrad and in the North Cau- sure maintenance of the flow of dignity remains. The blocks of approval to the assumption of a shoulder and hid it. and he released for publication,
Allid supplics to Russia. in fats which will gradually replace the Legislative Coun- kept on saying, "Connie, there's
The initial successis, gained casus, the probable date of a Ger- Ad
other transport facilities the empty GE el by the successful can- no mackerel on your shoulder." by the Germans during the nan advance into Persia was put area where neither parts per rall
carefully summer of 1942 in their-South aack, first. to November 15th-1942 reilly "efficient for sun the square,
to preserve the Georgian. didate. All of which seems to us Oh, what shall I do?"
ΟΙ Dr. Rhubarb says: "It doesn't Russian offensive made it - and thesis H. Maltand Wilsos ficient. Describing these short few people could ever afford
then to April 15th. 1943.
Since to to come very close to ludicrous.} Either the J.P.s. have the right or
possibility that they might pace and he says of his plans "da much cessary to take account of the made good use of the breathing comixgk in detail, the
the Genera.
maintain a
a houst thera
again, this is the best alternative. And in the privilege to elect one of their
succeed in occupying the whole
where are the main reason
no circumstances will sny build- number to the Council, or they
of Caucasia and later of under-
prior to and during yings be used for
and offices have not. If they have, it is
taking an invasion of Persin"
sociated with America and Ameri
'nquere has been closely rather remarkable even granted
says the General. "Simultaneous- that it is likely m be no more!
cans ever since the Revolution. I have been reading in my ly their advance into Egypt net
John Adams, first American Am than a pure formality) that there paper about a
who only denied to the Commander-
this country Dastador
lived Ishould be an official "screening" "threw eighty eggs at her hus-in-Chief Mid-cast, for the time,
No. 9. and the house stiil bedra a of their nominer before he can band, and they all missed and the freedom to move forces
alaque commemorating his tenure. exercise the right to put The were broken." Probably he was rapidly from Egypt to Persia
Page, that great Walter Hines friend of Britain during the first "HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD.. ¡Honourable in front of his time. able to time the arrival of earh the basis of previous plans for
World War, when he was the on the other hand, the pri- egg, and so duck to dodge it the defence of the latter coun
American Ambassador, lived at vilege of election is conditioned by This was the technique used in try-but led also to the with-
my play, "Sardine Pio." Forty-drawal from Tenth Army of was still not in a position to main-dard of commercial' morality pra- No. 6 from 1913 until 1918, Gen. a further test of acceptibility on two shots are fired at regular troops, equipment and transport tain sumeicht forces lar enouga valent in Persia which has les Eisenhower's headquarters during higher level, then the point and intervals
employers of the
Kingdom at the hero, who to reinforce the Eighth Army forward to make sure of stopping.
do the last war filled the square with the con
con American uniforms. And at pro value of setting up elective ma ducks between each shot. After in Egypt. Early in August, the enemy before he reached the chinery at all miss us entirely. the forty-seconti, hu ducks 1942, it was estimated, by the Northern green of irncies whous pigmes in Britain of all "Aid Font, the American Embassy, wi The procedure presumably is just again, but there is no shot. So War Office and by General Ardebli and Tabrizi way intentia: Russia" storca) to exploit the at
uples several buildings on tho "At the time I assumed- in the circumstances
most those areas for as long as possibl51 the shortage of personnel t survivals of a bye-gone age.
favourable to them the Germans enciny. South and South West of CACER
and, subsequently to defeat the qu
Final Plans cacek malpractices in the con The final plans for the layout against which, constitutional re
might succeed in reaching the Mianch if he should
servide had becua formers struggled ineffectually
succeed in transport River Araxes in North Persianavancing so far.
acute, and the United Kingdon. the garden are now being con- thirty to forty years ago. It seenis
by late October. Unless there- |
Commercial Corporation was atidered by the Pirin Society.
under
- f• whose) auspices the fore immediate steps had been "The defence of Northern Iraq tomating to obtain additional per
memorial will be erected. attack fron Laka sonnet by release from
and by taken to strengthen the defence bux.si an
Ministry of Wark, The of Persia, the enemy might have nia I proposed to entrust to service. The whole position.secre been allowed an opportunity to the Polish Army in the East, need to me to be so unsatisfactor follow up SUCCESS
of the fraud that a conference was held car in the Bisted by troops Caucasus by striking at the army. One aspect in the situation in over at my which gave causo.
attended by senior for some an-
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SIR HENRY
MAITLAND
WILSON's
DESPATCH
reasons fing
tenure of command, the valume of goods moved forward from that Persian Gulf oorts, to, Russia `ha“ consistently fallen short of ex pectations."
Another Snag
He adds some very significant comments on another obstacle which he termed the, low stun
sence of
The
o..
houses will be
Chop
at
́ts many departments, still oc-
the
une more of these unpicturesque | be. stops ducking and is at once/ Headquarters Middle East, thari remained. therefore. to secure of supervecomand he goare,;,
shot through the head..
Hallucinationalism
He calls it Hallucinationne
of th
and
The
square is to be laid out as a lawn, with the statute at one end. The fiqverdiment, will bear the east of and, as soon as the bill Karden
to be a device by which the portals: Impressed by the gullibility of the Council Chamber could be and lack of intelligence of peo safeguarded against the invasion ple who call Existentialism a of a stormy petrel. In that sense, philosophy, my own philosophi- it is as fully anachronistic as any-cal correspondent has invented Part of the Colony's constitutional an even newer philosophy. hields and installations at the xiety was the time required to get miter United
Cor approved, tna Pligrim: Society - Lill launch an appeal for
for funds to set-up, and lends powerful support lism, and explains that it in Head of the Persian Gulf, and "chu forces is position and easy fever the cost of the Tatina. Sir to the argument that the reform based on the fact that every Allied war effort in the Middle road come.
on the security of these the ta meet, the German thrust General United
State's Cffice, th measures now under study can individual seems to have an East India and the, Far East
Wiliam feld Dick has been com- Sintes Persian missioned to execut Service Command, Gulf
bronze nor stop at the creation of Muni-dividuality and an entity, the largely depended". In addition
To ensure the greatest flow of others concern
concerned," AE this confer
nfer figure of the late President. vipal Council machinery, Whether } entity being that part of his to his task of defending the oil bulk of Tenth Army heen with- my General Headquarters hoitiquare la battered and dres. Nis-
ald to Russia. not only had the ence decisions were reached that Af
After six years of war, the the not Govenment is, at this individuality which is related to field and oil installations Sir drawn some 500 miles, firm its assume the xeneral direction of taken the place of the cool, seclud on of sen huts and. Army lorries have juncture, prepared to concede his ega, in the seose that he Maitland fanything to those who advocate an himself is only himself by vir equally important responsibility tion of the lines of communica- the United Kingdom Commercialed gardens
Wilson had the den'ayment area, but the prepara- the road transportivities Wholesale Distributors: THE, ARGOSY, Gloucester Areale Unofficial Majority on the Coun
of 1836. But of ensuring continuance of the ton on which it would depend had Corporation: and that it should gardens were railed in, hidden flow of Aid Russia supplies been retarded. Furthermore the became responsible for maintain from the public eye only resid- through the Persian Gulf ports, decision to curtail or suspend. Las in its feet of vehicles, and ends of the square had access to and his despatch shows how surply of material ald to Russia, should take over a
at hold the
them! hold
The rallings have long hich since vanished, taken for conver tyres which aften these two tasks were in to permit of my, forces,
forward large stocks of mate sonillet wih each other. Con-ed in their
the far
and the weapons of war, had already Cor new Grosvenor Square, will be # ditions were not improved by fraught with many difficult portion or were un the water. I open space, free for anyone to
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part of it.
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Snake Hips Are "Out"
London. Oct. 0.
certain number of
of baked liver in fuels trouser
cuffs to lure valuable podi- greed dogs away from owners, says the British National. Canine Defence League.
*
sion.fita.
those
this Army and Royal Air Force in the last wasible moment oud-tellers 16-sist the command the square fitting
ful Liming.
Ufo In the service of world free- Poration officia's. Bol Br { system Alas asset ingeriting, dom, "Dnce. Ogfore there Wes_D fourside all there purely mili-the working of the service. Later statue in Grosvenor Square. In tary, problema, were political dant the request of the Russian all-commissioned to build threa
1725, certain
P: John: Nont was Cers and fifth cajums activities.
thorities. corkain)
frank
George port units were allocated to carry statue of
foran store to cusure that sequent defacement of the status ammunition and
certain
of that "unpopular konarch caus-- other In milled the authorities to have, it re-
Teheran Plot
L' But the enb-
eharusained in se moved. There will be no danger)
this
Jebat, TEDirál Jences, for there is no man living".
the or dead whom London Honours so made in highly and cherishes en warmly as Verse Tale-paident Roosevelt,u'
mot help from the British clear it had to be deferred til was on able to make available. The drurs de Roor velt will its defence of the Caucasus- would have coiled for very care United Kingdom Commercial Cer-memorial to a man who gave bir
Small-Forces The only troops available in The thieves scem the crude, old-fashioned trick of sprink-September 1942 in Persia and Ting anisedd on their trousers; Iraq to meet a German invasion Divisions and A National Canine Defence were two Indian
one Indian Armoured") Division, League official said that thieves of these the former had each "In Cetober 1842 says the types of stores New York, Oct. 6, are constantly adopting new only two infantry brigades and General political crisis occurr The Dancing Masters Con devices to eat dogste in wara bulow establishment and de- red retterna in connection with Fesult vention in Chicago has decided Some thieves can whistle scient, in artillery, engineers and the provision of paper currency vet fully that hip movements in dancing a way audible to doge bat in-signals, and the latter had no tog Allied use; arrangements were
Agarant are no longer to be stressed qudible to dog-owners
medium tanks; both were short of made in consu.ration with the
road transport service British Minister in Tehran, de Then in December, The convention ruled that the Many dogs desert their un transport. Br rhumba will be danced with the suspecting owners when they Fortunately the Russians held feet, not with undulating hips, hear the thieves' whistle, up the German advanes suficient prepared to move-
Owners, who have heard y.to aliow time for frengthen at short notice. This crisis was age, and the process of chants Delegates and jumping Jive. steps were obsolete, and dan- nothing, are astonished when ing troops to reach Persia and eventuaily avered without a Brilih to United States Amby course hito, the, une troops. In administration control of file cera should "cut a smoot) rug. they discover that their dog Iraq. A Polish Army in the East December shortages of food in parts and transport systems wa not a wild ruff," to "get in the fan disappeared,
which still going on
the land, this dizi-cuminated in sloting between groove, Were The longue official said that KHANIQIN, two British diri- the capital led to trouble, which
closed Derticuiperdegnatch · "was. Dancers should twirl their thieven strat dogs worth 30 tons, the 5th and 6th partners instead of swinging 000 in the streets of London.verted to Sir E. Maitlend Wfly and 10th Thermber 1: The St R. Malah, Won, however, thorised sources said today thatờ
on the arrival of sermite himself this combient, them over their shoulders, every year
son's Command, and these were a subsided o to be followed by the 7th British ET SANATE A One delegate said that a new There is a tremendous der Armoured Brigade from India sad forma AMY ZACK: Waited States Army troops to the French Viehw Government
inor place on
TECrd that the arriva The dance gaining popularity was mand for dogs; døring" the pre- the 5th Indian and Brd, Caracoldental/Canessarykovanie teralfave them thus coment, 'stima iwil be sent to Washington, ayİ?
Lo axxist is!
force of one British. Brigade to American front
LO Teherau comedying the man-power short-
military
NEW TURKISH
- ENVOYS
London, Oct. 6; Radio Ankara, “quoting ane
hew (Turkan b
PO Box 380
the Bovecita Csent crimp, wave, and
The movement of the dance many people are setting was similar to that of a boat Home again, after the rocking on water, the
the added
when pathian Polish: Divisions from the
up] Middle East
ties were
Investigations
wars
|==| cone.derable acriod culminated in when much of the heavy work of Deputy Hold: Abdul Other troubles then beset the the dieravery of an extensive plat preparation and development is as new Turkish Minister General: There was dire short instigated by the German agent an end and about to show resulti Router
-and.
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