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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945.

A "Fellow Traveller" On

LIFE ON THE BRITISH RAILWAYS

Death Of A Season

By JOHN KIRK NELSON

cater.

Now that i am

part-owner of, the restaurant

car will

drive, the whole network of British underground one of my favourite railways very seldom travel by manifestations- the surreptitious train. Lite is like that.

But there was a period of three years when I had my All of the Iron Road. I seemed to sleep, eat, and work in trains, 1

tish

..

Ening

"Labour braces for Churchill

journess, but the little nap seated fury in Commons.”

in case he snaps his own in the in a crowded compartment

heat of debate?

Again you have the surrepti tices type, pretending to be read- ing when he is really asleep.

And you have his opposite somebody. I number--the exhibitionist sleep about for recognition.

er, who announces his intention, of having a bit of shut-eye (as) * he will inevitably refer to it) by a series of elaborate gymnastics.

sec, is

peking

"Almost from his ear to the

tanned Apollos and nymphs childish Krustrations about trains duced she will are Do not ask me to explain why seat, the result of a duet many

Secret Bites By IAN COSTER

According to the propagandists It is a trait peculiar to the Br-

the people's democracies, гасе that cating packed Having elbowed himself into of Infinitely sad is the "death ten spent one week travelling lunches in trains is ever so slight the position of maximum com- somebody's in a Tito corner.

on the footplate "between London of the season", in Cannes, for and Grantham

ly indecent, and consequently fort to himself (and of maxiraum on some fimsy the big hotels are closing protext of research.

best done unobserved.

discomfort to the others), he falls

a deep and noisy sleep, crooners please note. down and the crescent beach

-The technique of the surrepti- into During these three years tious sandwich-eater is constant usually finishing up with his head to the Company CHINA MAIL is no longer covered by sun- worked off all my long-pent-up the packet of sandwiches is pro- on the lap of an outraged spinster corner of his mouth ran a long

time as a paper on his right but merely dotted with a few want to alman

BR=CH-The book is openede gine-driver or pale and hardy English

or you a swift look now and then this particular traveller should year even a stationmaster.

to satisfy himself that you he have an outrageable spinster sit- It no longer amuses me taleve he is immersed in his reading next to him Plece decept pore over time-tables and work

According to a contemporary out the shortest route from Mening and only then will saatch my word for it that this is almost

invariably the case.

yesterday, the newly-arrived hos- heniot to Malaig. I can see my

Another sleeping phenomenon,pital ship Maine was built in a pang of envy. That's how it packet with undisguised son's clockwork engine without sandwich-cater, who opens the observed from the same eye-level, 1902...and purchased by the is with me about railways, now

for the wors ́s the spinster referred to above. Admiralty in 1920

to be looking in: In you happen if prepared

Either this one of the world's that I'm an involuntary share spects each sandwich and its con- her direction at the moment of oldest operating steam or our holder.

Itents with furrowed brows, looks her waking she will glare at you contemporary should get a new In this period of satiety, tur- upwards as though asking heaver for all the world as though you reference book. ng these long but never tedious to witness his martyrdom, and have come upon her in her bath.

my then chews

Reading moodily-usuall

in trains brings out its journeys, I spend much of time pandering to my inquisitive throwing away half the 1oo. nature by observing my Yellow blatantly through the window. travellers.

Sleeping Beauty

RECOGNITION MOVES

Most of the mercenare Apollos have beach concessions, with bars and chairs, parasols and boats for hire. When BBA whipped me The survey of local opinion ago, it cost about 3s. to get into there in a few hours, three weeks conducted by the

"China the bins water. Now nearly the Mail" on the subject of re- whole beach is free and empty cognition of the China Com-

The last of the bronzed torsos munist government showed, was leaning moodily over the rail as expected, that such a looking at his desolate bit of move is favoured by most beach huts, sunshades, and sections of the Community.vans having been carted away. What are you going to do in The inescapable fact is the winter ?" I asked him. He that our economic position hook his early head in despair. and commercial welfare areDrive a truck as usual, I guess."

he replied. so tied up with the adjoining mass of the mainland that the Colony's traders are naturally anxious to achieve

Bat amid the general debacle of closing restaurants and dwing ling lights one jaunty figure comes striding alone the pre-

to starboard over a rad: fac His shirt is royal blue, his slackes a shade darker. He swings a

a resumption of normal re-menade. A battered hat sits well lations.

stout, worm-caten stick.

Happy Maurice

attend

As a man or a woman may r

a quick bite.

There is also the wife-bating!

as if

own eccentrics. The one I like best is the man who appears to

Talking about the annual police be reading for the first time: He review, a local writer reported holds a book at arm's length and that "two sealing blocks will

be provided for spectators. veal their true natures only at Generally, people in trains re-

seems to be reading it out of the

To hold them glued to their the wheel of a car, so there is veal themselves as falling inte corners of his eyes and with

seats? about train travel that che something

of two main groups-theock of frank distrust.

Just you try to jump out of highlights human behaviour in overt and the covert some of its pettier idiosyncrasies. Sleeping in trains illustrates my hand." he always, seems to I'm afraid that the return of this-and I don't mean on night be saying to the bock. "I'll learn

Paul Temple's Casebook

By MAURICE WILTSHIRE -

Your

2

Another reader belongs to the infuriating category of peop who must conduct an invisible orchestra when listening to music: this man composes hi face to the sort of receptivity it should display according to what te is reading

Many people make

no bones about revealing the skeletons in others lockers.

•

1

Chinese Press, or, the Seven

Pillars of Wisdom,

"bandit re "Wicked rascal," bel" co Tse-tung," "Mr. Mao "Chairman Mao,"

Our new great leader."

Interviewed yesterday, several businessmen said

It is pointed out that Bri- tain itself is vitally in need of export markets for her manufactured goods,

and cannot afford to give up the

What vagabond is this? Why, Puzzled by the complexities in the Godalming or Guildford China market. Further it is it's Maurice Chevrlier, delighted of "The Madison Mystery," district.

Only when the face is set to Tse-tung." that he's been invited to claimed that the Reds-parti

Six-feet-one-ingh of braw reaction does he begin to read e Rol Command Variety Show Scotland Yard's most special Shanghai and

and weighing 14st Temple And then by his expression it k cularly in

in London. For 20 years he has branch has again called on looks, with his hair still unfleck possible to spot at 10 yards it! Tientsin have already shown lived on the Reviera, and he oans the services of Paul Temple, ed with grey, five years younger it's a leading article on economics willingness to exchange their several villas, including the one h; the 42-year-old novelist-de- than his age. He is still a scratch that he has in his hand, a Hong Kong products for Western com- lives in at La Bocca, just around tective, who has helped them golfer, and has carried off the of "Punch" Winston Churchill's that now the blockade had been modities. Apart from the

most coveted prizes at his local

an extreme Left-

extended South China, it patchy Nationalist blockade, Maurice and I promenade, and

perlodical left by a fellow meant that the Communists he says that he has worked hard

Though his exploits are the But in recent months fishing traveller is both they say, all that stands in

senses of the

would only be able to get their the has claimed more of his free time word the way of flourishing busi- and n 1 am 61 years and Property of everyone with

Xoods in and out through Hong risine 62 he believes in taking strength to turn a radio dial, Little He says that of all the sports he The catalogue is complete Kong, poor comrades. ness is the question of poli-ife easily. He is a littly and is generally known about the knows this permits the highest without the fond parent who is

One chap was so overcome by tics. The godowns are bulg. walks a lot. He reads and he's man who is about to make his degree of contemplative relaxa-convinced that her little horror is the sad state of affairs that he ing with supplies ready to writing another autobiographical 11th descent into the twilight of tion.

brightening everybody's journey had to console himself by going be shipped to the millions of bock-about his travels.

the dog lover, the conversational out and buying a new Cadillac. bore, the train drunk, and the consumers across the border.

persistent opener and

shutter of windows

Meanwhile, yesterday's re ports from Washington in- dicated that the recognition issue will be the subject of heated debate in the next session of Congress, which begins in January. It is now believed that America has no intention of accepting of- ficial approaches from the Feiping regime as long as there is still in existence and in resistance the "lawful" Nationalist government. Pos- sibly with this in mind, the Red armies are not resting on the capture of Canton, but are pushing on into the South West provinces.

Several conditions are un- derstood to have been laid down by US. legislators: (1) Are the Communists in ac- tual control of the territory they purport to govern? (2) Are they ready and able to sustain normal international to carry commitments and out normal international in- tercourse? (3) Are they in power by at least the ac- quiescence of a majority of the persons under their con- trol?

the point

Though he looks about 40, he emphatic that romance is no longer for him, But at that

moment z mretty girl drives be in a station wagon and rives tim a smile of recognition. Maurice turns on his beam in reply.

"What are you to do 1" he ex plains pretty girl smiles at YOU 30 you must smile back. yes?"

You're not feeling nearly old as you try to make out said.

A Busy Year

as

I

so effectively in the past. club.

the underworld in as many years. The son of the late Lieutenant General Ian Temple, he was bor

Great Ambition

At work in his London flat, or

pounding

in or

to

•

of The Nih dimension.

tionalists lack an Einstein to

gure out a suitable formula.

in Ontario and at the age of 10 in his study at Bramley, Lodge, came to England, where he was be sometimes dictates his stories,

Yes, if the proper study inter educated at Rugby and but is happiest when

mankind is man, the British Rall- Only trouble with this trading Magdalen College, Oxford. the battered portable typewricways provide a good academy. soner for time is that the Na-

Since the age of 22 he has on which he has turned out most The fares are dearer than they earned his living as a writer of of his novels. His main ambition.

one of his insistence on study 1936 failure with a bit play. good-class detective fiction and, at the moment is to wipe cut his "ing, the criminal mind at danger- In his career as a criminal in. ously close quarters, has built up vestigator he has developed a for himself a reputation as one close friendship with Sir Graham of the most brilliant criminologists Forbes of Scotland Yard, but one in the world.

were in my time but it's in a good educational cause.

As for me, I am very happy these days-with my bicycle.

NEHRU A BIT OFF THE BEAM

Manila, October 28. The "Manila Times" editor-

A visitor was induced to try his hand at golf last week-end He made a hefty stroke at the first tee, scattering the turf bat missing the bail.

"What did I hit?" he asked his triend.

"Fanling," was the laconic re- ply.

of Temple's most intimate com "Oh, ves." he protested, I aro For obvious reasons all his panlons in all his adventures is old. I do not fel strong enough books are

Francis a 36-year-old

Durbridge, published under to put on, this winter, that one pan-name,

strangely another writer of thrillers, 11 is though. man show at the Hippodrome enough. There is No Mystery," to him that

Paul Temple But perhaps the winter after-

his only signed novel, has turned his life. wards-it London wants me."

Francis Durbridge, a Birming out to be his most successful to date. Paul Temple

has made ham writer of BBC programmes,. only one attempt at the theatre. was on the look-out 12 years ago: detective character who His play, "Over My Dead Body" for a He's renting after busy ran for only seven performances would move in eccentric circum ial said today that when the

in London in 1936.

stances without any eccentricities Indian Prime Minister, Jawa of his own. He had to be an in- harlal Nehru, says that the that the water is now getting too tellectual man of action, tough Communist Movement in chilly for bathing. but not brutal. With a snap of China is an 'agrarian uprising' the angers Paul Temple was and has no relation with the

rear: apart from stage appear Ences be has made a French film. "The King."

We promenade in the direction of the white. Moorish facade of Palm- Beach Casino, which. deprived of film stars and modest table of chemin de fer and millionaires. now runs only one

one of roulette.

A bluc-nosed shark has beca

seen by a yachtsman.

This is regarded as a sure siam

Fun and games.

"Birth: To Mr. and Mrs at the Central Hospital, a laughter."

of two major ideas-first, he was

Like His Books

The most important phases in born

Since then this highly adult ideology, he seems to be a bit on books. The Temple's life read like one of his

first time be child of Durbridge's fertile mind off the beam." was asked to help the Yard on a has thrilled radio listeners and "The Times" added: "Commun- Chevalier does not gamble. He slight but infinitely baffling case thriller readers act only in Bri-ism found in China a number of has

discontentments, bet in Canada, Austrația, unrelated reached wisdom about the of murder he was helped by a tain

was only not begging for mything, second, pursuit of cards and the clatter well-known Fleet-street journalist South Africa, and nine European which the agrarian

he would not permit India to side roulette ball "When I win of the time who wrote under the countries.

one Communism has succeeded I find I am not very happy,” he name of Steve Treat

He is granted a peak listening

with either East or West in the says, "end when I lose I sin Her real дале was Louise hour in Holland, where he meets assembling them into a powerful arent global row. vairy unhappy, so it is better I Harvey, and she and Temple with phenomenal success under dynamic machine whose principal | Referring to the second point, do not play any more."

were married at St. Mary Abbot's the name of Paul Vlaanderen. driving force, whatever may have "The Times" said: "When Sin- We part on the strand *Br Church, Kensington, S.W., in 1933, Now Durbridge has sent for been its origins. is the ideoloskiang went over to the Chinese the way," I said, pointing to the Since that date they have lived him to solve his latest case-a of Marx-Lenin-Stalin Commus Communists, it virtually gave the 400-mile frontier church on the hill above the har-

Soviet Union at Temple's country It will probably be easy bour, is that Mont Chevalier Bramley Lodge, near

home. strange affair of counterfeit dol- ism." Evesham, lars. estered in the files of Scot-: It said that Mr. Nehru in the with Mr. Nehru's home province, for Mao Tse-tung to named after you?'

Yard as "The Madison United States confined himself to Kashmir."-United Press prove that he

"No." he says, "but the averne but they are now locking for a land dominates where I live at La Bocce is tire house nearer London, preferably Mystery."*/* most of the area under his Avenue Maurice Chevalier, be- flag, but the other two points cause I have helped with chari- are not so easily demonstrat- ties, you know.”

ed. He has already indicated

that he will repudiate the commitments of the Nation-

Who

'Who Is He?'

Rules Of The Roost

By ALLAN J. RANDS

Maurice strode off, and 1 alists if-and-when he sees fit, dropped into a cafe for a coffee and whether he will offer and fine and began talking to a An effort to compile the munities himself, he sees in man new, and satisfactory com- sergeant of US. Marints. (Can- mitments that will be honnes has been regularly treated to story of the London starling, kindred spirit? It rather looks! oured remains to be seen.

visits of Royal and S. Navies. which has never been proper-like it, for the trees and reeds of-the-countryside-are- his tradi- I pointed out the disappearingly written, is being made by tional home, and in Lamdon he Further, Americans are jaunty figure of that great char- bird enthusiasts of the Lon-sleeps not only the trees but coming to believe that the mer and artist to the sergeant don Natural History Society. the nooks and crannies of the

the heck is Maurice Chinese people in the main

Chevalier? asked.

he

This roistering I tried to have not agreed to the taking explain.

swaggerer big buildings. among birds, a bully among those This is a problem to which the over of the country by the Never heard of him," said the of its kind yet apparently a naturalists are not likely to and Communists. It is said that sergeant. wid comes from Okla. lover of man's company, has, an answer, but they hope to the Red armies cared not one home. "Garcon encore de biere." thanks to its amazing adapts throw light on at least two ob- Thorh this town has been fail bility, greatly increased in num-seare problems: from what places whit whether the war-weary

of British and American sailors bers in recent years populace wanted them or and marines, there have been as not, in other words, a train- fights. The only incident" was ed, armed and disciplined two US, sailors who went swim- Birds," R.S.B. Fitter records that it migrants.

the rescue, by shore patrol, of In his new book, "London's tage among them of Continental minority simply imposed its ming, in fril tropical rig, off the is little more than 30 years since will on the people, as hap beach one night. pened in the Communist con- As they were draveed out the quest of every other country protested their right to paddle

where and when they wanted to. from Russia onwards.

and from what distance the star- lings fly for their, London roosting | places, and what is the percen-

starlings first came to roast in By the ringing of the birda the city. Then, of course, their which they hope to do, despite numbers were small; now their the difficulty of catching creatures vest gatherings in many parts of that rnost in such inaccessible the metropolis are a nightly places they will find some of

the answers.

Apart from the question of highly unlikely to welcome spectacle. new Chinese representation Peiping's interference in the The assemblages of starlings in One interesting thing they will in the United Nations, there settlement with Japan, and London and other British towns, discover is when and, perhaps, is another difficulty-parti- for this reason alone we con- for that matter are greatest af why the starlings leave the trees cipation in Pacific peace sider the question of recognihem come from the Continent. At this time hundreds roost on

this time of year, when hordes of in London for the buildings treaty negotiations, which it tion, at least by America,

But why does he love to roost trees in the parks and on the

has been insisted must be will not be agreed to quickly among the town buildings? Embankment. Usually, they are multilateral Washington is or easily,

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