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THE CHINA MÁIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1952.

1

A British Crossword Puzzle And Still More War Books-

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26

ACROSS

3 Fault-finding (8),

7 Divide (5).

28

15

A

5

6

DOWN

Bird sound (5).

2 Slant (6).

8 Literary compositions (8).

10 Rest (6).

13 Command (7).

15 Flank (4).

17 Oriental (7).

18 A number (7).

3 Stop (5).

Excursion (4),

5 Dog (6),

Diminish (6).

9 Abrogate (4),

1 Went wrong (5).

20 Prepare for publication (4). Eight musicians (5)..

23 Youngster (6).

21 Merciful (7).

27 Go abroad (8).

28 Beverage (5).

29 Feeler (B).

لم

▸

Special aptliude (6)..

16 Denude (5).

10 Idler (5).

10 Thing seen in a trance. (8),

18 Pick (6).

22 Relative. (5).

23 Period (5).

- 24 Negotiate (5).

20 Operatic song (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: Forbid, 7. Rein, 9 Qulek, Spell, 11 Sucs, 13 Compressed, 15 Rent, 10 Earn, 10 Intervenes, 22 Lava, 24 Tucks, 25 Level, 26 Toll, 27 Little." Down: 2 Oplum, 3 Baker, 4 Desist, 5 Preserve, 0 Vile; 8 Elude. 12 Siles, 13 Creel, 14 Pinnacle,17 Rivul, 18 Vessel, 20 Valet, 21 Novel, 23 Atom.

YOU WERE TRYING

THREAD A VERY -LONG' AND ENORMOUBLY THICK

PIECE OF COTTON THROUGH A VERY

SMALL NEGOLE

KTM 900. Finalidis

by

DONALD BRUCE

4

who was

a prisoner

of the Japs in Malaya

command

IX years after the living in the pre-war opulence war, war books still of Raffles Hotel, who edged away from the British Other Ranks, tumble off the print- who had come to defend them,

Some ing presses:

are as they had leprosy, cynical gaud, some are bad. And about the appalling lack of tigh cccasionally one leaves such Malaya when the blow fell on

preparedness an impact on you that when December B, bitter about his own you finish the last page, you officers who say: "Now, there is a parade ground discipline on men who had just come through the book,"

bestiality of the death railway horrors.

I say that of "The Noked Island" a bold, down-to-earth tale of his adventures In Malaya and Slam under the Japs, writ- ten by Australian Russell Brad- don.

"It is the story of the little man cul there who in the end proved himself the big man, the story of the common soldier's hardship and heart under a merciless sun and encr.

*

Braddon puts it all in proper focus, so that it becomes almost the story of any ordinary man who went through that man made hell. Braddon was typical

of them.

chucked

tried

to

enforce

But, after all, they were the cmall people in Malaya, And there were lots of big men, who shine through the book like a beacon on a dark, dark night,

Men like Noel Duckworth, a padre, an ex-Cambridge COX, who stayed behind at Batu Pahat with wounded men, although he was ordered not to. Duckworth became something of a legend in Malaya. He compelled the Jops by the force of his own person- ality to look after his wounded. and kept the morale of his men up in gol by peddling the most preposterous news of Allled vic- tories at a time when we faced ruin and disaster on every front.

1:

Ronald. Searle Illustrates tho book brilliantly. His left hand, his drawing hand, was horribly ulcered and he sketched instead with his right hand. The roalism of his sketches is a tribute not only to his ability. but to his own great courago.

Ronald Stars -

A prisoner performs a rock-holding endurance test (during his rest period) for the amusement of the Japanese guards.

a triumph of mind saved who, wcht out and stole

from the Japs so that they could' buy food on the black market for the doc.

He was thrown into Puda Gaet in Kuala Lumpur, scoffed at, kicked, beaten, and

Duckworth learned early on around like a yo-yo. He saw that if the mind rotted, there men who tried to escape brought was no hope for the body, but back to gaol, made to dig their that a strong, we'll-get-through- it, it was uwn graves, then shot and kick this mind could keep a man go-, over batter. ed into them.

ing even if his body was a piti-

He would sell thent worthless How

make ful collection of bones. can You ever

things, so that he could buy food friends of such wretched people"

There can be no other ex- for the sick. Things like pens. Braddon's tule is cynical. bit- tes, frank, ccenpelling. It is no pination of how men, "nourish- He'd shout to a soldier and smile or cf" with a calorife content that pleasantly at him and say some- the faint-hearted

He is cynical doctors said would keep life thing like: "Come here, you rot- about the Singapore snob whites, ding only if one didn't work and buy this worthless pen." Or: ed possessions

ten piece of Japanese garbage, coolled for 12 and more hours day and were still on their legs "Come here you Althy swine,

the war and fork out some of your l (albeit ulcered) when

pay for this useless ended. To be loosely funny about gotten.

book for the squeamish,

"The Naked Laurie, 15s).

Island"

(Werner

THE COTTON KEPT DOING INTO STRANDS AND ONLY A VERY SMALL

PART MANAGED TO GO THROUGH THE EYE

VIGNETTES OF LIFE:

YOU KNOW WHAT THE DOCTOR.

SAID ABOUT MY BACK..........

AND BESIDES I

HAVE A SORE

THROAT.

AND

ETC.

-THIS DREAM MEANS:

This dream symbalises quite obviously your feeling of Inadequacy. futility and helpicas ness: the thick cotton, the small needle, the vain efforts: the harder you try the less you succeed.

The nature of your problem and what you are trying to do is not revealed in this part of the dream. A series of your dreams would undoubtedly lead to it

If you are married, it may be a sexual mal adjustment, requiring the expert advice of u medical psychologist. The symbolism u con sistent with that possibility

Winter Sports

trinket."

There in no

more touching story in Braddon's book than the spectacle of men trooping in and out of the sick doctor's hut carrying their own treasure- of food and medicine to keep him alive.

Through "The Naked Island'

And Major Kevin Fagan, an Australian, a doctor and there shines the cameraderie...of the. were no heroes In Malaya like men in chains. Men got to know doctor heroes. On that dreadful each other in common suffering march that sick men from Singa- and helped each other to deleck the twin enemies of Nipponiem pere took through the jungles and itiness. If a man couldn't do of Siem to work and die on the his job, someone else did his

death rallway, he saved lives by crude on men

amputations in the jungle share for him. They stole for

whose legs had been the sleit horribly poisoned and ruined by camp in East Asia.

cers and saved amputations by scooping the poison out of their legs with the only instruments he had (spoons sterilised boiling water).

in

And when he himself was

as well as for them- selves. That was true of any

Many a man is alive today be- cause, when he was sick and ncedod dl, he was handed part of a comrade's‘rice ration.

ultimately overcome by his own And in a prison camp, there exertions and lay slek and close could be no greater sacrifiés than to death, It was the men he had that

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"WHEN?

WHEN

WHEN

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he said...

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ONE OF THE MOST PREVALENT OF WINTER SPORTS IS AVOIDING ANY CONTACT WITH A SHOW SHOVEL.

ANOTHER POPOLAR, WINTER, SPORT IS TRYING TO STAY WARA BY KEEP- ING RALF BOILED ALL WINTER....

D.

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·TRYING TO

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ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY . PRACTICED OF WINTER SPORTS: OVERCOMING THE OLD MAN'S SALES RESISTANCE TO A NEW FUR COAT....SHE'LL PROBABLY. SUSPECT HE'S AS TIGHT AS A PACK-MOLE'S GIRDLE.

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IT TAKE" STRONG- HERVES TO PUR- SUE THAT INDOOR; WINTER SPORT, READING A SPINE-CHILLER?

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TRYING TO GET POP TO DO SOME OF THOSE ODD JOBS HE SAVED UP FOR THE LONG WINTER EVE- NINGS... AN ALL WINTER SPORT

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KLEDING THE TRAFFIC LANES OPEN TIROSOR; THE KITCHEN IS ONE OF

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