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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1947.

Sidelights On The Fall Of Berlin

By A Special Correspondent

The man in bluè uniform set out on his mission through the ruins at. Berlin to the zoologien) muscÚM,

stormed Potsdam,

of

the

the the

Berlin.

Through the (and fall of Berlin; surely one of "Will you please trace this rareglare of battle the Russians broke the most momentous events In shark which has been preserved into the Royal town and swarmed human history. In spirits in the Berlin zoological over the Boulevards, with their Between the first of April and muscum? That is the kind of ques- quaint canals, and into the July 1045, an unwritten chapter tion that is shot by the Control Frederician houses where the old in the history of war was enacted. Office at harassed conclentious military familien had lived since The details are with the directors Control Commission omelal in Frederic the Great made this town of hospitals, museum Berlin,

curators, the residential capital of Prussian with the concierges of private Germany.

houses, with the tram conductors They broke into the Hohenzoljand railway officials, with KENRICK: On 11th September on the Invalidenstrane and canelern mausoleurs and opened sixty town counsellors and with

1847, at Queen Mary Hospital, back with the following answer: coffina

Hohenzollern man in. the, street. This is not an to Vivienne & Douglas, a "Dear Sir, Bave to inform dynasty searching for rings annecusation, and an indictment of daughter, Miranda, sister for you with regret that the Cura-Jewellery. Bloodshot and wateraz the Russians because anyone who Liiden.

for of Ashes in the zoological cu they wrapped the corpses, can imagine the destruction of pair of Aino rastern Europa and western Rus- museum has been drowned and and, finding a that the shark in question, has shagreen boots upon one prince, sian by the Nazis will know that it is not possible to point a morat putrefied, the spirits in which they look them off, and mude he was preserved having been fedish of Erving them on. Queens in the ruins of Germany against .A consumed by Russian force oc. and empresses wore turned out anyone of the allies. But it is of. their last repose in this sunoky very sketchy record, for which cupying Berlin,"

wearz bave official corroboration, of the orgy. Exhausted, deathly Jetter that was written but the the Russian skllers, found

I am paraphrasing the actual from weeks of infantry combat strange tricks that were played these with European civilisation in case of it is true. The worthy curator of the fish section of the padded colling mure comfortable those three months of April, May than anything in which they had and June 1945 while there was zoological museum took refuge in slept for many months and theyne established civil power in the

cellar in May with, the dragged them into convenient: capital of Germany. Russians stormed into Berlin, and

TRUTH?

1

"

the

the

U.S. FLEET TO STAY

Rome, Sept. 9. Admiral Bernard H. Bierl, Commander of the United States naval forces in the Mediterran. can, told a correspondent of the

newspaper

Navy and will contlure to vi gate Italian waters and other Mediterranean zones even after

Nothing is more badly needed in the world today than under- standing of an sympathy with, the problems and difficulties of other peoples. Castonis, habits, lives of thought and modes of action differ tremendously from ne end of the world to the

a light hearted Red Army soldier positions and slept in them other, conditioned by a thote-

whe had fought his way into the sleep of the dead.

When they had finished and converging inctors of capital turned a fire huse down search for lost, the Russian, pri- life and circumstance. To an

le steps with thes object of di lodging any dangerous Nazi ele valea raided Prince Oscar's house ever increasing degree, out lives ments below ground. This mild old and removed the enamel plumbing ure influenced and altered by German envant thus met his death with the mistaken idea that they could clamp it on to any wall and policies and events in faraway in the watery elements and the

træet the water to flow from it. Italian

"Momenta places which in their turn are inexhausted Russian stur

Two Years After Suenced and altered by the things which his pet shark had been pre- afterwards drank the spirits in

Sera" today thint "the American Doubtless it would be possible to | Ficet in the Mediterranean which happen to us. Much of theserved for twenty years.

drag the Seine for such incon- in here to stay." all feeling and friction between Whoever delves beneath stones irruities in the masacre of Saint "It will continue the Closest nations is due to imperfect un- and ruins in this fantastic coun Bartholomew's night or find 123

co-operation with the British of similar tanding, not only of the pro try will find such extraordinary Lenotre nightmares

facts. defying earbeill:ument, hue from the French revolution, lems of others, but of one's own

The interesting point is that, two prablems in relation to the gest

years after, not a single attempt ged the world and lack of under-

Master Pieces

ha heen made aeriously to collect the signing of the German pence standing as the hurt cut to pre- Does anybody know how the the historical data on the siege treaty."-Reuter,

and intolerance. Len word lost eight hundred master. Leditas, discussing in "War and pieces of off orinting? When they

first stormed into Berlin, the Ru Pew the fores that move na

sian troops occupied the Kniser They d the question of free Friedrich museum and barracked will or inevitability, says, "The | in its vnst galleries. It NU

at it's pletira first consideration is the clearness paned that some of our perception of the man's were still stored relation to the outside world, and the greater or lesser clearness of our understanding, of the definite position occupied by the man in relation to everything co-existing 1946, the art experts were lit with him." These words were rified to discover that the worl written after the European had lost eight hundred works of upheaval caused by the Napoleonic art including, Tintorcitos, Pau Wars but are even more thie of Veroneses and Van Dycks.

Someone sone day must write a the world today when the te.

Listen to another.

Inss soldiers set one floor alight within a few days. The fire was extinguished, but within a week another floor caught

fire, and when the troops of the western alles marched into 'Berlin in July

Just A New Spanish Custom

By CEDRIC SALTER

CARNIVAL ITUM By Dick Turner -

"He ploks up a tidy bit of extra cash doing those glass

desk tobe!"'"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities?"

SEEK SAFETY

IN SLAMS

So many points are at stake in a slam contract that IL rubber bridge player will strive to

Wext led the club Q to the A. and Seath scored only 11 tricks--- | adding on three in spades, seven in diamonds before he had to lose to the heart A. whereupon Entst set him with the club K.

the

ten

place auch an effort in the safest

Knowing that he had a keen" declaration. The slight gain in partner in the North, South hail total from being in the higher two safer courses rench a la.... paying call-such as a major in which could be made. Even after preference to a minor Dr

getting the 6-Diamonds response Trumpa in preference to a sult-tols 4-No Trumps, he might should not be con

considered except have bit 0 Diamonds with when one declaration seems aiden that, this being his third bld...........” free from danger 25 the her of the suit, North would feave it-- That is not always so in mates with any

kind of support or would point duplicate, where falure to shift to spades if they were nearer be in the higher-paying declara. to soll. Or he might have made tion may lose the hand. But in

a kid of d-Clubs after the 5-Dia- Spain's new summer sport lajin one hand while the other rubber bridge it is sound to say monds. North would not possibly- under-water fishing. At every helps the frog's feet paddles in that every alam contruct should leave that; he had Mediterranean sea-side resort, lila stealthy progress while bo in whatever seems the safest.carts in the two majors m: from the Fence frontier to stalking his fish. Gibraltar, you will see peculi- It sounds a bit complicated, arly armed enthusiasts diving but the fact that the sport is in, gathering the painful fact blue-green water among the men the repercussions of everything from the victors" and the van.

as well RA men, proves 95 that happens on it. Much hasquished as

modern

odern recks. to how this

that it isn't nearly as difficult HJ7632 Once in a while, after an ex- Babylon was

D32 as it sounds. encompassed been said and written of the destroyed. To it belongs the store tra flurry of foam from the wonders of this scientific age of the desperate egoist in the air rubber

Personally, however, I find it CQJ062 "frogs' feet" shoes simpler to buy my fish at the The four corners are linked to-rald shelter, Adolf Schickelgruber, which they wear, one will little shop around the corner, gether by mere split seconds in named Hitler, and the nameless emerge with a prize. Perhaps but don't let that discourage time. The world has shrunk to people whom he led, decolved and luza: quite often it is a baby

and countless sufferings-of the it will be a flapping 3 lb. mer-you.

motest corner of the globe feel history of the occupation of Befor their dinner in the deep.80 general in Spain, among wo

Gruesome Story

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "China

Surf Rolling

resorta. What

season when

SAK 10 6 4 3 2.. H K 8 5 4 DK 7

shown

couldn't have more than three; clubs, inadequate support for a suit of less than Bve cards. Overt: that North would have bid 6-Dio. monds. Still another try for South; would have been a club que-bli!) at either the five or six level in- stead of Blackwooding.

Tomorrow's Problem

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North-South

Can you figure out how to take for South's G.

is around Barcelona, or across scores of very unhappy Portu- about his partner's support of din enough tricks

South therefore know nothing

in the Balearic Islands, that guese peasants from Inland ar-monds, so placed the slam in NoSpades contract after West lens you will find it most generally rive at the coast, having been Trumps-an unhappy choice. practised..

The complete equipment, which in on sale in any of the big spurts outfitters in Spain, Corta about "EZŐ, and consista of the following items.

Spring Pistol

the diamond "Q7

Yugoslav-Austrian Border Incidents

Belgrade, Sept. 10. Discussions are taking place between British and Yugoslav army commanders to settle com- plaints of incidents on the Yugoslav-Austrian border before they become international in character.

complaints Include

a very small place indeed, but forgot. To it belongs the story of octopus, the size of a fist, furi- everything that conduces to bring the frat loot of Berlin, when sucously squirting ink, hideous to For Acaside entertainment, North countries closer together brings trensures poured out of the canita

look at, but delicious people closer too.

when give me the boisterous surf- The rapid of Nazism into the hungry was properly cooked together with rolling "sessions" which are.

of Russia as would figure strides in the field of mechanical largely in the total Russian re rice, parle, mussels, lobster, the order of the day' at the

very invention have not been equalledparations claim of ten millard red peppers and chicken--which Portuguese

If North and South had been74 or even approximated in the of dollars.

surprising mixture, for your with the shortage of news using the 4-No Trump in Ita sphere of human understanding.

information, appeurs on the print a'most the world over it natural meaning, North's

G-Dia- We know far more about things The curator of Charlottenburg menu'ns 'paella."

might be a sound idea for amends bid would have told South than we do about people; we ap castle, the last family, possession The sport is popular, too, in journalist to have a spare-time all about the adequate support preciate the things that are made of the Hohenzollern in Berlin, Spain's north coast resorts of occupation, at that; and I have held for that suit. But since the far better than we widerstand could tell you a gruesgine story of San Sebastian and Santander, found one-the job of Profes-Blackwood convention was in use, (Dealer: the men and women who make

but, the sea being much war- sional Bather.

the response spoke only about vulnerable).. North's them. We, in Hong Kong, have

mer in the Mediterranean, it This is the

possession of a single nce.

been chided for our lack of civic Fesponsibility, but that is only the first page of the first lesson.

ordered a course of son bathing Until the peoples of the worki

by their local doctors. The develop a sense of responsibility,

great majority of them have not only towards their own cono-

never even seen the sea before. munity, nation or commenveelth,

let alone bathed in it, and doc- but towards the whole world and

tors' crders to try it are the the people living in it. there can

signal, in their homo villages, be no lasting peace and prosperity, !

for the signing Last Wills Just as no man can live for him- Mail").

and Testaments and general First, a light metal pisto', family mourning. self alone, no nation, however (at Singapore) of Mrs. Gutzlaff, fitted with a strong coil spring,

We regret to heir of the death

The party arrives on the Ereat and powerful, can be wife of Dr. Gutzlaf well and loaded with a cord attach-beach, already wailing with in-

the sufficient unto itself. If there is known Chinese scholar,

ed. Pressing the trigger fires telligent anticipation, Neatly one lesson that the history of the

the harpoon accurately under dtcased in a bag-like garment past century should have taught By letters from Shanghal it is

water for six feet or so-less composed of half a dozen layers intimated that the USS "Preble"

of thick black cotton, designed us. it is that we stand or fall to had arrived from Japan with the reliably for, perhaps, 10 feet. gether, not as separate countries crew of the

Second, American whaler

very light metal along the lines of an up-to-date or continents, but as the human wrecked in that neighbourhood rubber mouth piece which the dawn in tightly round the neck suggestion of the British Ambas periodical arrests by the Yuga-

tube about a yard lang. with a sack of potatoes. This is The conversations began at the British race and that we should foster last year. The Japanese did nɔi international goodwill and probity display much courtesy: In the fisherman holds in his teeth, by tapes, while similar precauador in Belgrade, Mr. Charles Rays of British personnel, who

reception of the Commander and to the full. One of the most officers of the "Prebin fact. breathe while searching for tim off, from any risk of im- meeting between Marshal Tits,circles here, felt that

can tionary measures seal the vic- Penke, immediately after the stray across the frontier. Britian powerful and far reaching means the men of the west were treated his fish. This enables him to malesty, at wrist and ankle. | Premier of Yugoslavia, end Lieu. between the two countries could of influencing thought, stimulat- shabbily,

keep his head below the dazz-)

Pro. Bathers

tenant General Sir James Steele, be considerably Improved if the ing interest and encouraging

ling surface reflections for Standing in about four feet Commander of the British forces incidents were settled locally, Light wines for Summer: long enough to have a good) of water are two male and two and British High Commissioner, preferably by personal contact · tolerance and understanding is Smith & Brimelow have received

between the British commander through the medium of the Press. an extensive assortment of Sam. look around in the cool green female Professional Bathers, in Austria, at Bled on Monday. Almost everyone who can read mer Wines, consisting of St.depths where his dinner may muscled like all-in wrestlers,

and his Yugoslav counterpart. Incidents along the 'Austrian- at all has access to newspapers Jullon, Chateau Margeux, Lioville be lurking.

The Yugaalny agreement on who seize the patient in a re- Yugoslav Third special water-tight gog-lentless grasp, and proceed to caused considerable friction, and to a large extent, depends on Lefette, Claret from $4 to $8 per

fropiler have long displaced persons signed In Blod Dozen: Hock of different brands gles, un cach side of which are awoosh him, or her, the information they disseminate from $8 to $12 per Dozen; light small rubber bulbs of air, wards through

back-

on Monday provided that legill- far the formation of views on Spanish Wines in Quarter Cask which deflate as the

The Yugoslave charged dis-mate half-a-dozen placed persons in the British should be satisfied and that rights Yugoslav requirements current events. Truth, we and bottle; Pale Sherry from dives deeper, and so keep the puniment of shrieks of terror, and ralding border posts causing should be fully safeguarded. wearer Atlantic rolers, to the accom Zone with forming armed bands of Yugoslav displaced person know, has varying, shades of a Byass, Harper, Shaw and Max. air-pressure steady on the eyes which are echoed from. the dis- loss of life and property.

well &c. pratarice according to the angle

and avold the otherwise inevit-tracted relatives, who stand on which she is approached.

By a Fast Boat, which has a begins as soon as you get,

ablo mistiness of sight that wringing their hands on But when truth is deliberately rived here this bring distorted and exaggerated, with Macao, we were put in possession than a few feet down."

more bench. Just for good measure the Professional Bathers then the object of fomenting ill-will of the latest news 1917. From a Lastly, to complete the out-give thely captivo a final dunk, and discord, the responsibility is Chinose passenger have rofit, are rubber shoes, with long, head and all, rather after the a heavy one. The reporting by which we leave to loptolon,ut those uned by

coived the following information, wide, toe-laps, exactly like manner of an American "dunk some foreign correspondents of our readera

the British ing" a doughnut in his cup of the disembarkation at Hamburg The Oplum trade is very dull water defences of the Nor-

'frog-men to attack the under coffee. is a case in point. Condemna- and it is almost confined to the mandy beach-head on D-Day.ed and lie prostrate on the The victims are then releas tion by leading British newspaper tinually deserting the place.

Portuguese, The Chinese are CON

We

The Expert tions against British troops in the stopped at Bazaar, vory little pro. for his victim, has only, his feet subalding as the immediata ex- of the fantastic stream of accusa- hear Chow-chow stainiso to be The expert, while searching pathisers, their shrieks slowly and will be ready for pubilention at the end of September.

sand, caurrounded by sym-

handling of the Jews, sent to visions now to be sold (dear); the on the surface, and keeps his pactation of death recedes..

All orders for coples. (320 each) should be forwarded, not later certain American ·ICwspapers, fear of being brokin inlo by the

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