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'IT'S FUN FINDING OUT" "NO HIDING, PLACE" "ENJOYABLE COOKERY”.

C. M."POST..

HONGKONG and "KOWLOON,

THE CHINA MAIL,

"Dad-

to the

✪ CUP FINAL

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1952.

by GILES

—we've found your Cup Final ticket we hid"

London Express Service)

Sitting on the

Fence..

by

Nathaniel Gubbins

Being warning to Mr. A. Just thought, well, that's a pic- Grein, director of the Incor- ture of Highland cattle.

or

them

nervce

Grein. on

H, Mr Grein, oh, Mr

you've got my edge.

1 far for you, dear Mr G., be

cause of privilege.

that

the of

America to argue with sena- lors..

NEWS TO MAKE THE 'OLD SWEATS' MARVEL -And to cheer up every young man

who'll ever carry a pack on his back

T

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

HERE is a break for the footslog- ger. at last: For years he has marelied with a lumpy load, on his back while boffins have produced refinement after refinement for the men who drive and fly.

Now they have spared a thought for easing the load of the soldier who advances on his own two feet:

A team of Army doctors and scien- tists has designed a webbing equipment. which takes much of the sweat out of the old sweat's job and sets a new standard in comfort and efficiency.

It is the first time that the soldier's "battle-order" has been radically

changed since 1908,

Focal point of the new equipment is a long, narrow canvas aclt to replace the box- taped back-burden soldiers humped about In the last wor

It fastens to the bell at the back-which is an innovation-as well as to the shoulder straps. so that the blk of its weight ia

supported by the

hips.

It can be slipped from the belt In an emergency by a quick-release mechanism, For extra comfort the belt Is made of flexible material and the

wide on

Ammunit

pouches in the new

kit ur

ure supported belt and

by the

carried in front to

aulance the load.

Enormous effort, Involving

patient experi- ment, went Into the design of this equipment which is now to be tested- on manoeuvres by the War Office.

Doctors, machine.

A

NEW

The old

The new

SILHOUETTE

FOR A SOLDIER

-The-old--THE SOLDIER AS A TARGET

The new

its designers to cater for any kind

of country.

using an electrical exclusive inspection of measured the work laboratories, done by different muscles in

What I saw convinced me that Evans has invented a simple carrying the old and new packs.

in a con- device shaped like a shooting- They assessed the amounts of these men working

home in the stick with which reconnaissance discomfort due to chafing and verted stately

atockbrokers country" near Byfleet, Surrey, are not only patrols can rapidly measure the streamlining the Army but saving tank-bearing capacity the taxpayers' money,

sweating.

the old-style and medical

They faulted pock un both military grounds.

Its shoulder straps are too

of any

soil, Operational Research, includes. From hurilreds of samples the scientine study of information already tested the War Oflea is obtained during battles and preparing "fank-bearing maps

of Europe.

While this is going on the potatoes bolt over and put the gas out, smoke rises from can- ned peas burning over a ferce narrow and put the weight on

weak muscles. It tires the manoeuvres famo In a redhat saucepan, soleller unnecessarily by causing and the week's meat ration

is in far too much sweating. (two chops, usually) flames under the grin.

☆

whose bave

come

lying

by front line

observers. Its results are rapidly

replacing chuck-and-chance-it methods of every phase of military planning.

The new approach was born in

Other Byfleet scientists are the last war when former ack working out the most effective

to work out time-saving loading drills which will speed the aring rate of Britain's newest weapons.

The urgent need for it now in recordings of gun-crews'in action

of the highly the develocment Men behind this painstaking mobile Atomic Age army is work are typical of00 com- illustrated by the work of 32 paratively unknown but ex-year-old Ivor Evans. tremely influential boffins who make up the Army's "Operationul

Research Group."

As this charred mess Is be- porated Guild

Imirdreasra,

When a rifleman lies down to ack chief General Sir Frederick One day enlightened ing transferred to dishes crack-

an who, despite the recent appeal

fiery fire or hide the box-like pack on Pile realised that the gunners ways of using guided missiles, against Communist will explain

and defences against ing in on aven,

getting **15

too radar, for breach of privilege

his back makes him lins Lord Mancroft.

a con- equipment mighl alggested the cattle look either angry or breath

lavolved for coreminders to use alomie weapons. attend dejected that women. 31.P.s should

because they aro

ro stra'ght from the open gates spicuous torget.

It without selcntists to help to their Hair and make

thinking: "If we belonged to " of Hell, Stalin

La answering

Motion-study expert Harry selves more att pelive.

collective form we would pro- back, under his ingrowing The new pack streamlines the them.

Mound la'using film and, sound soldier's beef for

silhouette by vide milk and

mcustache, Tovarich: instead working-classes

should

alart closer to the body. "Why

120 feeding the Idle, gluttonous

something

100 shall when achieve bourgeoisie."

world Communiam by frightening the

the West and making you spend all your money an armaments," As the underdone notatoes being mashed and fly off at tangents on to the floor an Security has guarded the American senator is booming: work of this

group unifi the "The way

the War Ofee had allowed me an off Lo stop One of so-and-sos is to hit them hard right nowa everything we've got." It is at this moment Take the Devil Cat, usually fatervenes.

if you don't know about it

net, you'll know about

later,

it

That it's a crime to criticise a

woman legislator,

The

Take another picture, Stag at Bay."

Without Commun'st instruc- tion you would never know that the stag represents the working classes the persecuted

revolu- jurning, at last, with tionary ardour, on the hounds, who are the dogs and cannibal of the capitalist world.

Oh, Mr Grelu, dear Mr. Gren,

oh, please don't play foot;

was

are

with

that

THE OLD SWEAT'-O-GRAPH

All women in the H. of C. arc

smart and beautiful; When they stand up to make a So far, we don't know what

speech they dazzle the be- The Laughing Cavaller holder

laughing at, tinless he was. an

un the last occasion; excited With daring hat upon the head aristocrat sneering at the suf- by the smoke, the flames, and and chip upon the shoulder. ferings of the working-classes, the smell of burning moot, she but I must say I am glad I jumped on to your Uncle's Not only are they beautiful, but have been put right about the shoulder ca he was carrying a

beautiful and bright;

Mona Lisa.

dining- loaded tray into the Like women not in Parliament,

In my ignorance I always

room and brought it crashing they're always, always right; thought the girl had indigestion. to the ground, No problems are too big for I thought her agonised

smile. them..no potiles appeal, was a smothered burn and that Enigmas of the Welfare State the picture ought to be called

they solve and know them "Pardon Me." all.

7

For, after all, ll'a‹not quite nice

to pull the legs of girls.

Here comes cookie,

General Elenhowe; put on a white apron and engked din her for 15 people." Resort from Luxemburg.

16

He has not been allowed to cook anything_since.

(London Express Service)

THE OLD

THE NEW

fhe An Minh then whiro stm Found a dark pressed mast krävtly te

a soldier's sea

THE BOSTON

He has reshaped the alphabet so that men and women working hurriedly · on ack-ack plotting When Afled tanks were forced tables cannot confusa letters Uke

the Fonda Jit Northem C and G. Europe la the last

The hard results of Operational of them were bogged down be Itesearch have so impressed the cause insufficient thought had Staff Chiefs that the Byfleet been given to their ability to

waz, score.

travel over soft, ground when bons are called in almost daily to give advice at the highest they were designed.

levels.

-- bound to sink in saft soil. -

}

Our carly tanks had so few The group's able-chief, De wheels that all their weight was Alfred toss, is now in Montreal concentrated at only a few points for secret talks with Canadian it the truky. So they were and U.S. defence experts on how Operational Research can be After seven years of expert- uplled still more effectively to armies of the kinds of soils strengthen the

Western Fowers.. a formula is enabling our tank

ments on many Evans has devised which

-(Landon Expresa Sarbica)

BOSTON SYMPHONY IN PARIS

From ARTHUR JACOBS

THE Boston Symphony creases have been settled.

The orchestra was under its brought out the noble passion

Orchestra

played in regular

So, My G, you must not ray such things about their hair. You must not say they're ever wrong because it isn't faly, No one must crilicise ther

speech, their habits or their seems that the general and his Uncle Nat have cntis,

in common. They

Paris, May 7. the box-office when all festival dry work." But Munch gave It human cennieel efficiency of something are both amateur cooks.

an Inspired performance and the Philadelphia Orchestra.. Of course, his Uncle has

to cook for

Ner has Sir Thomas Becchiam never irled

Charles beneath. conductor people. His I'mit is two, or Paris this week 3,000 miles Munch, who is himself Frenchi Both in thess Rems and in the und als Royal Pheharmonic Or three if you count Lotile, the

from home--and touched The programme combined second sulle from Roussel's bal- chestra any need to fear eclipse. Devil Cat.

the third

French and American music. round in

let, "Bacchus and Ariadne," the But certainly the Boston Sym- This may be because Eisen-off

or Europe's battle of the top Opera House was packed from ductor's demands..

gil-and-plush Paris orchestra rose finely to the con- phony Orchestra, has proved hower is a general with

worthy of its reputation and given distinction to this cle, who couldn't organise A

fear ilers. President Auriol velvety tone, even in quiet, coffee stall, never rose abovo The New York Philhar- was there with Foreign Minis- emphasised passages. The wind the rank of Acting Unpaid Lance-Corporal after nearly monie Symphony Orches- ter Schuma five years as a backward 'pril-tra was at last year's Edin- vate."

If you perscat, dear Mr G., re-

member Kipling's tale "The female of the species in mere deadly, than the mate,”

If this be true, dear Mr. G., 1

think one might infer Thai girls who sit in Parlia-

ment are even deadlier,

The

ganising ab'lity, while his. Un-grade American orchestras. the stalls to the highest of the The elrings have on effortless has

festival,

Pardon me

art expert A COMMUNIST

has explained, in Berlin,

burgh Festival. Th that the agenised smile of the

Philadelphia Orchestra Mona Lisa shows she Identified

came to Britain two years herself with the sufferings of 'Another advantage enjoyed the

a earlier... working by Eisenhowers that progressive classes."

must general of "his" abilly have the gift of intense

So you see, comrades, how simple life becomes when once you have embraced the Com- munist falih. All problems bro solved the moment von unde nland Inter

con-

un-

Instrumen's "can speak. with grace or with a thrilling "bite." And the whole blends like a reat

team;

יד

ho

wils

Nicolas. Nabokov, the Russian- born

composer' who has come from America, to set, as the fes- The mudlenes gave only brief, perfunctory applause to the two One man, more than anyone tival's tritic, dirte er, told me *** Yustonished" at the American works, Walter

Pis

eke, built that team. He was hostile criticism of the festival ton's. "Toccata" and Samuel Sage Koussevitzky who can- Barker's overture "The School ducted the orchestra for 25 in the French press, whern com for Scandal," This overture is yetra. 20 the tome, conventional land of На died last summer. But emiraton of this and that ceme

plaints have made over the

But the Boston Symphony C. centration, whereas his Uncle chestra has never before been finds it dimcult to concentrate o Europe in is 70 years his plece which makes music-lovers his predecessor, Pierre Monteux, PEACE. for more than a minute eventory. Now it has come us

think of the Americans os' mor? a '77-year-old "wonder, is here. "Masterpieces provincials of music. star turn of the what be is do'ng now. 00

Ho will also conduct 109-

tho

is of the Twentieth Century" -Therefore, when a meal

silly, fval of Paris, designed to ro- that everything is re- being prepared by these Biller to the Comminist charge that the "Symphony for Strings by four, and will play at London's

to

movement.

"I suspect that other forces The orchestra BOORD HOES on are using these writers for their blitical But how the audience checred

own ends, he cold.", forges? I dare not eay so. working-class fumbling

the French-Swiss composer Ar- cyal Restival Halt on

On Monday, mind is wandering in a world West culture is decadent.

But, as to quality of per Un till now, when hink of make-believe,"

composing It cost':

the festival 103,000 thur Honegger capecially when May 20,

noeds I do not say that the arches-formance, Mr Nabokov enlightenext seria of the sb-dialogue, thinking up rhymes dollars (£80,025) to bring over they found he was in the

orchestra's

magtra-all male, except for one of only to keep the concerts up to 104 players, theatre called Western democracies and metres, for doggerel verse, the

harpleks UR has previous the two

the tonight's lovely and the critica This symphony hdva looked at the picture and even flying off to Russia, Only about one dollar in five la "ighland Cattle" they have to argue with Stalin, or to expected to be recovered from ly seemed to me to be a harsh, superbly drilled, almort in will not worry, tim,