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WINDOW ON THE

It may be Pantomime scast in Britain but if you were in Tangier you could beg Ali Baba And hia forly thieves in renl life, and what is more you would koo:1 realise that All Habi won a small-time crook compared with the Tangler shy. stors.

WORLD

Reports from all over the globe

assembled by

JASPAR SAYER

they

the single point scored by cous ing your opponent to lose his

for her stride.

Being Gift 1, weighing 12% stone and having played 'rust" gert when young, Salter gets along alright now that, he under- stands the rules!

A Mod

Artist's Death Correspondent G. D. K. Me., their free drink st. The iden

For art lover comes Cormick reports that 13 was is that the sply will find the real spiv's Chrktoms in that miges who will spend the money, dispatch from correspondent C. interuational city. Splys Bike it and The when

have S. de Andrade in Bombay well- THE ENGAGEMENT is ammine. jed of Carol, only daughter of Me. breanse they can go there with warmed up after three or four, Ing of the death in his Himala. and Mrs. John Robins of ont visus onl the law allows with fal: for some varket which Jan, home of the fumus Rua Hongkong. to Alon Clive Burn,

them considerable latitude. Re. the piv proposes. The racket sing paliter Professor Nicholas

K. Roerich, younger sm of Sir Clive and Lady | tired Portuguese Admiral de may be "keg money" for a flat. Burn of 1, Upper Beckelty Street, Magalhaes Corres, Administra. The black market price of

The Professor, who was born for of Tangier, has been a wor- pitve of land, or merely the tip ste un uver the festive sea. off of a good business

Three muntelpál scandals! The fur proprietor will get and the study of Asiatic culture.

commission on the deat

London, W.1.

MARRIAGE

son

deal.

A "rough house", of ad- ferent sort, also reigns in Rome,

HILL ABBAS: The forthcoming three weeks were his Christ-

marriage Is

ma box from the neketeers, 1450 k between Mr. F. N. Hill, There was a sugar scandal, a Principal Cheer. Prison

fish rket muidle and a petrol Correspondent Department, Stanley, to Miss shortage, att involving members F Abbas. Principal Ward- Female Priseti, Lai Chi-Kok,

F

B.O.A.C. LOSSES

of his staff

****.

Courie

Salter

tells me that sure he arrived in Rome he has thought almost; affectionately of the good old British queue, In Rome, to buy a Hekit for cinema he has to hurl himself into a milling mob, and, by sheer muscle power, win his

Now the Tangier spty is work. ing on another racket and one which is bitting British inter- He is buying up hundreds In the circumstances. under of Gibraltar State Lottery tickets which it has been compelled to Cintended to raise money for way through to the box office. operate, it was inevitable thating in Gibraltar),

is as well that it should be made clear that the service from Poule to Hong Kong has had a good year and that its share of the loss does not exceed £250,00. What- ever these initial losses, however it was always plainly essential in the British national interest that

etliciem air M**- vice should be inaugurated, what- ever de difliculties.

sta

Cars Struggled!

SMUK

and

Smuggling has proved lucrative that the smugglers are|

Amerient

No Holds Barred

taxi driver

in St. Petersburg in 1875, de voted his life to art, archaeology

The Roerich Museum In New York contains over 1,000 of his

paintings and 2.000 athers of his paintings nữẹ in the Louvre, bert Museum, Stockholm, Hel. Luxembourg, Victoria and Al- sink and in the United States. The body of the Inte painter, who

was pure vegetarian l

the latter part of his life, has been cremated in the Kulu vai- ley, the "Valley of the Gods”, which in recent years has be come a place of pilgrimage for artists from all over the world.

Peking Relics

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

RAILROAD

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DICK I

CONTIMIT BY KEA SERVICE, ING. J. M. REĎ, IL A PÁT. OF

"You're slipping with your signals, Cassidy-the caboose overshot the crossing and a couple of these motorists sneaked across before we could back up!"

Britain's Defence

Organisation

A

prepon.

into Tangier | British Overseas Airways Corpora. lng them

tions would make a loss, though itselling them in Spanish money No holds are barred, and jab. serat profit, promising to hing with the elbows below the Day a bonus prize in sterling belt is considered a stylish bit

Further East sill we stumble over and above any prizes won of technique. Biting and the on another artistic outpost. Backding of shins is chivalrously? Correspondent Leslie Smith re- reserved for man only.

ports that the lovely old city of The same applies to traffic, Pelping now bulging with the brazenly looking for burger both vehicular and pavement. relies of the departed refugees

A significant allusion to the future, disappointed. This idea has taken the who left nearly all their effects of the Defence Services was made by hold of a told that and briter articles to smuggle. One used us be

number of the younger the behind WAS

them. These range a popular Paris,

Mr. Shinwell, the Secretary of State arhoud, with probably of his from Japanese army trucks. ne at the moment, and only a limate manifestation

in for War, speaking at Manchester re derance from the air side. Opposition few weeks ago customs officinis kind. Don't you believe it. military and civilian employeently.

has come chiefly from the naval side. of

Though steps seized £1,000 worth of gold that When it comes to breaking all ment and a huge quantity

"We cannot the said) afford our

may be taken shortly Japanese military equipment | presem bravy expendhure on the integrate small part of the ad had been smuggled in by place, the known road rules of god

replace the Forces,

are many

ministrative departments of the three Rest touch of all is that bar man the Parisian seems a shy and arms used to

former spivs on and diffident fellow when com

molley assortment of ments overseas, but, consistent with Furces, grouping of Navy, Ariny and

shed them 1222397

on Air Force under one centralised cum- proprietors have put

pared to his Romart prototype. weapons ared by the Chinese, to i fecurity

as possible. One method, mint has definitely been ruled out speedily On the pavement it is a ques. dolls and clothing.

time

being. tion of careful, timing. The In Priping's Embroidery the most important, of enfor the

efficiency and reduced Two inter-Service committees have game, of course, ta ta try to Street, the shops stock piles of penditure is to bring about a large been endeavouring to save manpower barge your opponent when he is obla-Japanes women's saghesmeasure of en-ordination of the three and supplies by the co-ordination of off balance so that he will fall beautifully worked in shimmer-Services."

administrative services. par- ticularly the This statement is likely to arouse a

the medical and Burling under an approaching taxi. Hing gold and silver brocades. he is killer outright that counts Lovely

of similar good deal of comment in interested arrangements, but so far their report in known, 5 points and game night off, material fetch about £5, while circles because for nothing has has not been issues.

heen disclosed about the many dis- however, that many drawbacks have bern found to what on paper seened Cbetween the Services during the past

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By general consent this has been anered by the B.A.Q.C. de- spite the absence of must of the requirements laid down in the Corporations report for 1947, is vital to eliciem and economic! uperatam. It is equally apparent, however, that a deficit of eight million pounds, approximately for every passenger

carried, cannot

long be allowed to continue. This is especially true as, with admir- [able frankness, the report states į that the large network of routes could undoubtedly be operated rounumically. given suitable air-

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "China Mail"}

The owners of the new American

craft and adequate route organisaSteamer "Spark" entertained a large tion. The subordination ai com party of friends ou bual that vessel mercial to national considerations[un Friday, when she made a pleasure in planning the services may have trip of the Island, touching at to be accepted. The only point Shik pai-wan and skirting the sides

progress

at which the present unsatisfactory of the different drep Bays in her situation can be directly attacked is in the provision of aircraft. Either the Corporation must be given the maximun freedom to purchase the machines it needs of else all pretence at commercial Operation must be abandoned,

Nanking Rebuff

scapegoats

for

About 2. the Steamer anchored year the head of Taş-tam Bay, and the party sat stown 10 a

plendid Campain Tilen provided for the occasion. At Ja'clock she was again under weigh air) for the Lye-moon passage, by which she reached Hong- kong Bay a little before 5 a'clock.

Hi Excellency the Governor was on board, and with everyone else seemed to enjoy the trip, which the fine weather and the exceedingly cuvenient accommodations of

the Boar rendered

very agreeable, The circuitous track of the vessel

kimonos

There

commit

ся

but owing to the highly develop-] thirty shings will procure you cussions which have been taking place lous economict. It is probable that

ed sense of self-preservation of an exquisite old. Visitors, most of the players, you usually pectully the Americans, are buy-year.

some saving can be effected in the have to content yourself with ing plentifully of these for they i understand that the protagonists || supply of clothing, food and vehicles

make charming evening jackets,jot a single Defence Service combine troon vite sastree,

Every curio.shop has ita quota ing the three arms are likely to be of Japanese swords, which the. Yankee servicemen buy at from 21 to chor more ench.

Challenge: If You Are

Interested

Do you want to break a world re- beard? Anyone can.

un-

who

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Two Women Murdered

PARIS, JAN. 18.

Best Solution

Given a large amount of goodwill it is felt that the Defence Committer which was up last year on the So big has the demand be

farmuation of the Ministry of De- come for these things that the

fence is still the best solution to the wily Chinese have opened

problem of unifying defence policy. This Committee has executive powers, factory for moking imitațion ¦ Japanese awords while a genuine |

whereas the former Committee of THE FRENCH POLICE Imperial Defence bad only advisory Japanese sword

es-1 WERE TODAY INVESTIGAT- functions. tablished at Tsingtao has been ING TWO WEEK-END MUR- it is interesting to note that the kept at work since the end of DERS, A WOMAN the war supplying swords for sale to the querors.

factury

Purple Cow

con.

BEING Americans, who at one time seemed genuine THE VICTIM IN EACH CASE to be in favour of a combined army, in one, the battered body of "avy and air force, are now studying a dairywoman, Madame Lucie ton of the German method during

our own model, A thorough examina fornana, was found in a pool the war has also not revealed any of blood on the floor of her shop striking proof that on over-ali com- at Vincennes, near Paris, mand is necessary for efficiency

The police ure seeking war.

As if the pink elephant re ported from Stam in this column recently was not enough, I con- elude this week with a

correspondent Hulme of a which has been found in Florida- near Marseilles, where 18-year prestige he test after the

from

in

report young man last seen wearing

The new Ministry of Defence or- gatisation has Clifford | American Army gloves.

now shaken

down, The second was in a wood Alexander, has not yet regained the though the Minister, Mr. A. V. PURPLE COW

Govern.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

It is on record that a muti can- Hold his breath for 20 minutes 5 seconds; The diplomacy of Nanking bas

Stay

under water for 5 minutes, 29| suffered a rebuff by the Soviet

seconds:

Live without sleep for 115 hours: Union's rejection of the Chinese

Run 5625 miles in 59 days; effort to bridge the differences be and the novelty of the scenery pre Live in a

heat of 24% degree tween the Moscow view of the vented much sitemtion being given to Fahrenheit; japanese peace conference and her actual speert, but in this respect Live in a cold of 103 degrees be-

And as if this was not fantastic old Marie Cassini was found ment's sudden decision to reduce the that of the rest of the allies. The there is but ang opinian-she is very low.

All you have to do is do belter, enough, atomic scientists have suffering from head wounds. length of conscription from 11 months impression is given that the de fast, and easy in a seaway.

Sixty-four Vancouver smokers retraced the reason for the cow She died in hospital-Reuter. to 12 month clining reputation of the Nanking| "Sir, My attention has been calt-cently gathered to see how long they changing colour, They found Government throughout those ed to a paragraph In the last mum- could make a pipe last. The winner that the soil, and consequently parts of China which acknowledge her of the 'China Mail.' in which the kept his one-right of an ounce pulf the grass, was deficient in cop. its authority has led it to seek liter, alluding to certain proceeding for 1 hour $7 minutes.

per. The animals became liv. ings instituted against me in the its own short-

Fly-Swatting Champing skeletons and their bones Supreme Court, says the Judge comings. This is the explanation awarded him more than he claimed. What price the R.A.F. corporal were so fragile that they broke of the campaign conducted in the

This asse

assertion....is positive

= recently swallowed yard under alight pressure. truth... controlled Chinese press to prove

long glass of ale in $5 seconds, the When copper was added to needless for me to enter into champion packer who has squeezed the fertiliser of the "It-in that the United States is building

soll, the (FARE)

up Japan at the expense of effec- the ground of resistaner, or to assure has, the

detailed account of the claim or of 187 different objects inte a match-herd grew fat and healthy, and

Tokio champ fy-swartre. the purple cow turned black. HK$180.-

|tive aid to China, and that China's you that Mr. Shortrede suffered in who swatted 180,003 flies in a day-

interest is to appose a treaty with this matter a defeat.

sufficient no D.D.T. and no cheating? 35,

Freak records are muthing new. In Japan upon constractive lines for the present inerely to contradict

falsehood. I regret to aid that this 1891 Silvain Dornon walked 1800 300.-

which the Far Eastern Commisis not the first time this painful duty miles from Paris to Moscow in 58 sion and General MacArthur de has been forced upon me by

tate days on stilts. 250.-:sire.

Nanking apparently hoped ments which have appeared in the În 1900 Jubanına Hasslinger strait-

·400.- that skilful use of the traditional China Mail." My admonitions, howel 875 miles from Vienna to Paris on

her hands. 209.-

Chinese technique of playing off ever, have hitherto been unavailing.

Cujus autem aures veritati clausar

Back in 1880 Johann Ketzler, al une interested power against one sunt, ut ab amico orrum audire porter by trade; a champion eater by :-350.- another might increase its own negurat, hujus saus desperanda est, inclination, ate 80 liver eausages in

120-prestige and, by showing come

WILLIAM MORRISON. two hours, 200 fried potatues in three

42 doy hours, a whole roasted ex

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ing spade shift available East shift- ed instead to the club J. South won MOST

with the A and led the heart 10, Contracts made because of mistakes which he sent through. Now, to cash

hy the defense far outnumber those that sult, South needed two entries which fail because of the declarer's to the dummy. One he got by finen- error. This is no more than saraling the diamond J

since

Play

Went

the defenders are as to the total strength of

of their own The heart K went to the A, East asses and the location of them in discarding his diamond 3. West re particular suits, whereas the declarer turne

turned the club to the 9 and K. knows exactly what he has to work Now the diamond K was overtaken. with and also just what strength the by the A to score the heart I and 6, opponents have. The only fact he East torsing first the diamond 8 and doesn't know is how much is his best the spade 10, whereas the Q right and how much at his left, discard would have caused trouble.

in the dark could have ruined by playing the Q.

respect for the Russian point of view, at same time incline the So- and which they are not asked to

Washington, Jan. 19. viet Union to believe that more accept. But to young doctors, the Jackson and Pele McClaren, hold the The United States is under- satisfaction could be got from basic salary will be a godsend. A double-handed haw championship, stood to have demanded an ex- Nanking than from the Chinese third objection is to participating lteing through a tree 78 inches planation from Hungary for 5. AJ+2

Fircumference in 42 seconds. Communists. If this was the idea, in a State Service at all because,

the seizure by Russian troops. A 87 + on Hungarian soil last week of

5. 8 1 I. KJ 6 3 2 D. A J & 4

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George Hostfield won the world's

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two properly accredited assis-C 76 3 tant military attaches of the American Legation in Budapest. On the nature of the responac probably will depend a decision

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it has misfired. Moscow has re- they say, it means joining the typing championship by rapping out fused to respond, and there seems bureaucracy". To doctor with a 119 words little clunce that Soviet support viĮ genuine vocation, this point would familiar printed copy for an hour. the Chinese Communists will hardly occur. The fourth objec-

A Manchester barber can shave a tion is even to that degree of man in 12 seconds, negative "direction" which is

weaken.

National Health

CAK Q 3 (Dealer: Eant. East-West vulner-

by the State Department as to A Scotswoman has knitted a necessary to ensure that all areas,

Eating And Drinking gelatien Army sock in 112 minutes..

A U.S. naval officer can tie 772 different knuts.

Anyone game for 7737

pale

as you can see on the next play. The

3 was led: If Esut had kept. the 10, West couli now have taken two spades. But East wen with the Q. Unable to repeat tise suit, he cashed his diamond 10 and then had to lead a clubs from the 10-5 the

to give South twa

tricks and contract. That made four in clubs, two in diamonds and three in hearts. with none in spader, his original suit bid.

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UNION METAL WORKS LTD. the public Another ohjection is to obey, its decree. But-it-will be in 27.6 seconds, 200 yards of spaghet and finally released there.

whether a protest should be fledable). So far the B.M.A has shown rich and poor, pleasant and un-

with the Hungarian Govern- East no inclination to recognise the au- pleasant, get a fair share of doc

Pass whether ment and also thority of Parliament, which set tors. This is obviously an indis-

denunciation of the Russian Pass Pans up the National Health Service Lpensable condition if the Health: To swing a club 17,000 zimes with troops' action should be delivar-| It required a good deal of cour and decided that it should come Service is, indeed, to be National. aut stopping?

ed to Russin. To sit on an ice-block 2712 hours into existence next July. One If B.M.A. secures what it con

The two men, Lt. Col. Peterge for South to bid 3-No Trump.8. 2

after North hail made that weak re. A. 10 or on a flagpole for 300 days? objection is to the abolition, sale, siders a big enough majority to To drink $7 seniding cups of coffes J. Kopcsak and Lt. Col. Bernard bid of 3-Hearts when he should have D. Q 98&W EDA and purchase of practices. This is "bun" the National Health Serat a sitting.to rock in a rocking Thielen, were arrested by the bit 3-Diamonds. But his doing so an anachronism from the point of vice, each doctor will still have to chair 92 consecutive hours without Russians at Papa, taken to Aus- was typical of the daring rubber C. KQJ4

tria, questioned by Sovlet Oc-bridge played by some of the view of efficient medical service to decide whether he personally, is cushions?

A gallon of beer has been drunk cupation Authorities In Vienna bridge players in Pittsburgh, where

this deal

D. J 7 4 has been remembered by

C. 7 $*** to the payment of basic salary as very much batter for the credit of ti consumed in five minuten,

Officiala hero said they were participants and kibitxers for a half

a dozen years ** an example of (Dealer: North. Neither side vul a A bathchair has been taken round equipped with proper diploma declarer ketting away with murder. nerable). part of a doctor's income. The the medical profession if, as an dichards insist that this is this thin organised body, it decides to place the world.

tio identity cards which entitled West's right lead was the club 7, What would you goneider' correct end of the wedge of a full-time its skill and enthusiasm whole for a mililon polats.

A game of ruminy has been played them to travel freely inside but instead be opened the heart 4 defense against South's J-Spades on salaried system, which they ablor, Heartedly at the nation's disposal.! Can you beat any of these? Hungary-Associated Press, The won that and with a damag~this duplicate dea!?

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