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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1050.

New French Premier Mystery box

in Parla is the French Pictured at the Elysee Painco Remocrat.Sociallat-Radica leader. Rene Pleven, commissioned

now Cabinct to re-

R. Pleven WAR His Covernment has National Assembly,

by President Vincent Auriol to form a colve the growing pollileat orisiz in France. Defence Minister in the last Government. received a vote of confidence from the (Associated Press Photo),

Authors have to be

out of their mind to write good book

London, July 17.

A man has to be out of his mind to write a novel

-ask General Korsh.

For Kersh, a character so fabulous he would be unbelievable in fiction, has just completed a 200,000-word book more than half of which was dictated in a state approaching delirium.

a sud commentary on us authors," he averred today tugging moodily at his fierce, black, Vandyke. "that the publishers, Doubleday, should consider the book a master-

Its

plece.

想

"Ab, you might say, 'what a novel would have been Kersh had been in ful! possession of his faculties. But there's the rub. I don't think I would have done as well,"

With a string of best sellers hehind him. Kersh returned here for the premiere of the 20th Cen- Tury Fox film "The Night and the City based on his novel of the stunn title about the London the chine anner-world

Ile is still stumbling around on a cane after malaria and double pheumonia almost combined to end his astonishing career. The ilineases struck him after he had written 100,000 words of "The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small." I was while he was suffering from a

raging fever that some imes touched 108 that he dictat- ed the Inst 100,000 words.

"Dog," he snarled, pointing the cane like a sword at the heart of the interviewer, "Hear this: they haven't been able to cut a single, word out of it. What price sanity, eh?"

Wrote in bod

But then nothing usual ever happens to the 40-year-old for- mier professional wrestler and

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Kersh was for a brief time- one issue-publisher of a news- paper in Florida. is first edito- rial started: "This lown needs another newspaper like a long distance swimmer needs a toilet."

"I guess I was too convincing," he said. "The public agreed, they didn't need another newspaper."

United Press.

RAIN HAVOC IN WESTERN INDIA

Rajkot, Western India,

July 16.

At least 15 have been killed in widely scattered areas of the Saurashtra Union as a resulf of the heavy rains in the pas few days, faccording to report here today,

Rain and flood waters destroy- ed or damaged more than 000 houses.

came

Saurashtra has already had 23 inches of rain, which is 12 Inches more than the normal rainfall for the season. The rains with mild showers early last weck, reaching their peak on Friday, with nearly three inches. At Morvi, 50 miles to the 11 were killed in house North, collapses. Some 500 head of cat- tle were washed down the swol- Ien Machhu River.

In Rajkot itself, 184 houses collapsed and a similar number were damaged.

ferent success as n writer he was burrying to a publisher with the manuscript of a novel in 1940 when a German bomb landed

The Government has opened near him. It shattered his legs-eight relief centres for 400 home- and destroyed his manuscript—

The refugees.

turbulent five years of work.

waters of the Phadar River Ashapura seriously damaged' Dam, inundating a wide area of cultivated land near Londal,

He wrote a short story from his hospital bed. It received wide acclaim and became the nucleus of his first best seller, "They Died with their Boots Clean," #agh at

Joss

miles to the South.

50

As the rains subsided, the the Coldstream Home Minister, accompanied by Guards. After that same other Saurashtra "Faces In a Dusty Picture" onda officials,

Government

varitable torrent of short stories

at least two of which later bo- cama Gim.

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began touring the affected areas to start rollef measures and to assess the damage.Router.

SOVIET AIR DAY WASHED OUT

Moscow, July 16. Heavy rain today forced the cancellation of the Russian Avia- tion Day, display, at Tushing Air- port, Moscow. All newspapers had celebrated the occasion with fron!-page portraits of Marshal Stalin wearing a Marshal's "uni- form with headlines like “Mighty Stalinist Aviation" and

gaviot Union, Fatherland of Flying

Marshal Stalin's aviator son, Lieutenant-General Vnsally Stalin, wrote in

ono newspaper: "Before" all other lands, Russia fald; the foundations, of aviation science. The Boviet peoplo, lave their airmen and call them Stalinist falcons, thereby ens phasising the immense services which Jose?"-falarionovich Btalin had in the creation of the alr Acol of our Tallerland-Router,

lands in Canada

Toronto, July 18,

A weird apparatus sup. 'ported by 20 balloons today plummeted dawn Inta * health farm at Elgin Mills, Ontario, Four of the 15008 were deflated. The other 18 were belleved filed with highly inflammable hy. drogen gas.

From them dangled a col. tophane box. Ave feel by thrag foot marked "danger. eur, do not touch.".

The polico at Autrim, where the rig was taken, any it belongs to the University of Chicago. The cellophane box

marked HU.8.

wat

Novy," Officials from the University are on route, to Autria to retrieve it...Unlied Preta.

KARENS MURDER

BUDDHISTS

Rangoon, July, 16, Government communique today reported the cold blooded murder of Burmese Buddhist monks by rebel Kareas near Wakem in the rice-producing district of Myaungmys,

The communique said the re- port was made by a monk who

escaped by diving into the river and swimming to safety,

According to this man, tho Karens lined up their victims on the river bank and machine- gunned them.

lie said several villagers were also executed this way.---Asso- tinted Press.

POP

BRITISH MINISTER

SAFE

IN PYONGYANG

London, July 16.

The Foreign Office onnounced tonight that it has been informed by the Soviet Union that Captain_Vyvyan Holt, missing British Minis- ter in Seoul, is now in Pyongyang, North Korean capital.

The information was given by Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, to the British Ambassador in Moscow, Sir David Kelly.

M. Gromyko informed Sir David of Captain Holl's whereabouts on Saturday,

The Foreign Ofice also nounce that M, Gromyko inform ed Sir David thint four other. Brl- tlah subjects who had been miss- Ing cince the North Korean Com munists overran Seoul are also in Britain had mode for-

TASK IN BURMA

Rangoon, July 10:

The Prime Minister lot Burma, Thakin Nu, has told the nation that five per cont of the tusk of the National Peace Council-pledged to achlove peace within a year by the target date of July 10-was yet to be achloved and that a five per cent resurrection of insti Davies, told the House of Cam-gency may develop again. *- mone that Captain Holt was in Seoul at the time of its capture] by the North Kordans. There had been no news of him since then..

He sold the Anglican Bishop, the Reverend Alfred Ceeli Cooper, was understood to have

been

But while declaring that the unfulfilled five per cent must not be under-estimated, the Prime Minister added: "We have en visaged new and expedient mea

these outstanding zures to meet tasks in our next peace plan.""

Thakin Nu was speaking to the Peace Council, which had before

former Foreign Minister, U Nyaw Nycin.

enquiries from the Russlans away from Scoul at the time of the report of its Secretary, the

about their whereabouts.

The Forcim Office announce ment gave no other details.

Britain has

has also inquired about the fate of the

he Bishop of Korcu, who also has been missing since the start of the Korean war.

The Foreign Offee did not say how the information about Cop- tain Holt was transmitted to Sir David, whather in a note or ver-

bally. A spokesman for the For eign Office said later the informa- tion was contained in a meryage sent to the Ambassador.

Bishop's fato Last Monday the Becretary of State,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOU CAN HEAR ME, WHERE ARE YOUR

| CAN YOU SEE ME?

RIP KIRBY

SO YOU

SEE, I KEPT (HIM DIGGINS FOR İTHE EMERALDS.

THERE.. AND THERBAND

THERE...

I CAN'T SEE

YOU, BUT

IT ISN'T NECESSARY. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE

JOHNNY HAZARD

J-JOHNNYI:

LOOK OUT! HO'S TRYING TO KILL US!

JANE

WHAT DO THEY DO.

AT THIS BLUEBEARD CLUB?

THAT'S WHATTM I HOPE TO FIND OUT FIL. TELL YOU-

TONIGHT! GO LONG...

Its capture but was presumed to have been in that part of South Korea which had been overrun.

The Secretary listed among the Council's objectives for the cold? He also told the House at that Ing year the extension of military our operations to rural zones, the Ume. "We have Instructed Ambassador in Moscow to make vigorous pursuit of the produc Inquiries of the

tion drive, and the control 6 ment to find any Information that, the profiteer.. is available."

Soviet govern-

Sir David has been in touch

with the Russian Ministry and M. Gromyko about proposals for a possible peaceful ́ ́ settlement of the Korean war. He has conferred with M. Gromyko twice en this subject. Reports of their discus- Under stons have not been disclosed,

Ernest Associated Press,

Him--EMPTY ROAD. I THOUGHT THERE MUST BE A CAR FOLLOWING THIS TAXI--RUNNING AT BY REMOTE CONTROL--

¦ I KNEW EVENTUALLY AND YOU (SOMEBODY WOULD COME STILL DON'T ALONG..IF HE COULDN'T {KNOW THE

SPOT?

FIND THE SPOT WHERE I THREW THE EMERALDS......

"DOWN

WITH

WOMEN.

Thakin Nu will outline the thik before Burma when he speaks on mass meeting on Wednesday, the the stabilisation of peace third anniversary of the death o Major-General Aung San, whi

with was assassinated

sover other members of the Executlig Council by armed men whe broke into the Council Chambic in Rangoon.-Reuter.

Briefcase encounter

CARRY YOUR BAG SIR?

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

U

NO, ITA NOT FOLLOWING|| YOU. CLEVER OF YOU TO

REALIZE THAT THE TAXI IS REMOTELY CONTROLLED--MANY OF MY VICTIMS IMAGINED I WAS HIDDEN IN THE ENGINE OR

GAS TANK--

OF COURSE

I DO! I KNEW

IT ALL THE TIME Į

BY THAT LITTLE |

BUSHI

HAVE YOU

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ONE I'VE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO

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