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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1952.

POCKET CARTOON

By OSBENT LANCASTER

*Mark my words, Schizold, once we allow ourselves to be dragooned into the Defence Programme wa shall gravely compromise the scientist's inalienable right to be totally irre sponsible."

Talking of buying a bike.

From R. M. MacCOLL

:

SILKWORMS GET EXTRA RATIONS FOR THE CORONATION

London.

THE letter from Clarence House said: "Her Majesty would

be very pleased if the Coronation robe could bà made with silk from Kent farm."

on.

+

By JAMES DOW

service.

where, including, It is hoped

Army la Korea, if the

still engaged there. Much training, rehearsal and time-and-motion study in getting them exactly; into the right position and gear- Dramatic now history will be Owners of bombsites are being speed goes into the achievement clockworkc the famous added to ancient tradition when contacted. If no building is due of the

the television engineers now to start on their sites before precision. working in America

Look further into the amazing", complete June 2, 1953, stands will be

the ramifications of

pre plana. i am crected. It WAB addressed to their spectacular

Booking has already begun at Coronation activity, and you see. Britain's only silk worm told there is very little if about

theso.

the big hotels. Some could what a fabulous organisation It farm-at Eynsford. The

already have filled themselves is. looking Aircraft flying Queen herself,

at heights of due times over. miles above the The British Travel Association ahead to the multiplicity of eight to ten

Atlantic can and, the foulest

test expect an all-time record for detail

Ministry of Works architects the involved in

weather permitting, will relay visitors, including 50,000 from now get busy designing standa Coronation, has set the ball the transmission." Ono plane Australia. These visitors they end decorations for the Toute,

will pick up the view in the believe will amount to one in Ave 'Royal parks' rolling.

gardeners are The silk worms in Kent are Abbey and along the processional of the spectators.

already plotting for flowers to Coronation route and re-transmit it to a And, for all the conglomeration deck the facades. Musicians will now engaged on

in the next of rigid custom, quaint offices

composa new settings for the. business, with extra supplies of television receiver

and titles involved, the Corona Coronation music, new fanfares; mulberry leaves to spur them plane.

Hecit is the smoothly- St John Ambulance Brigade plan) And busy, beaver-like For the first time in history tien

breakfast) dovetailed work of hundreds of to lay on the biggest first-aid work has begun in many parts Americans (before for the greatest

organised will in effect be taking part as exparts.

The supreme organiser, the witnesses in a Coronation.

And the C. I. D. begins a spectacle of modern times.

Next

Coronation is year's

The Monarch "phewing her- Duke of Norfolk-mobbed by a elearly being recognised by the selt unto her people for their crowd calling "Well done, Ber- general comb-out of suspicious astonishing number of people acclaim is part of the traditional nordi" after the 1937 Coronation characters in Westminster and

will presently

be engaging a all those who fatten illegally on directly or indirectly concerned purpose. So this most highly- as the event of the century. organised "show" of the century staff of 12 or more clerks and crowda.

is developing

from typists for his Earl Marshal's strictly

Claims for the right by an- office.

cient title to take part in the tradition -A

ceremonial will soon be pouring, quarter of a million Amert-

into the Court of Claims set up cans will come to watch the

under the Lord Chancellor, guineos for

Barristers arque before the. scat among the chimney pots

The Earl Marshal decrees, court to establish who will bo Procucion-at two down to 50 guineas on the ground among other things the costumes the Queen's Dispenser, Naperer, floor.

to be worn by PeorcasOK. In Glove Sergeant, Saucerer, Keepar And from all over the world 1937 there was a change, "Ave of the Falcons, Marshal of the applications have beer pouring Tappets (flaps) would be worn on Hawks and, among other things, into Britain since the funeral of the kirtles," and an à previous Sergeant of the Silver Scullery anelent and brilliant

King Georgo VI for the privilege

occasion,

sion, "The petti surrounding a young of filling

petticoat might (claim last made at the Coronae

brocade tion

George IV Queen, already well known to

Grannies which will line the have lace embroidery correct disallowed).

.but It would not be many proples and read has ad procession route.

The Duke of Atholl and Lord imagination as no the world's

Ticket agencies and travel to introduce any colour."

Ceremonial robes for Peers Derby can each claim the right previous Coronation has ever bureaux, gambling that the path

and Peeresses will cost from 73 to present the Queen with two at the Floyal procession will be And few realise how much the same as in 1937, have viewed fuiacas (a baron, mock ermine) falcons on Coronation morning, preparation work in so many with critical eyes the rooftops, to above 580 guineas (a duchess), and the Dean of Westminster. Is The 1,200 Peers, and Peeresses entitled to claim wine, fish and offices, factories and quaint back- balconies, windows, bombsites,

their own right (who may

bread from the Queen on Corona- which stretch from the Abbey to

not tion Day. Ben told the commission: water workshops is entailed.

De bring their husbands), With

Coronation Com Buckingham Palace, via the

invited but summoned to the "We can offer English light-

announced, calico Embankment, Trafalgar Square, Coronation

"to make your weights at a better profit to in slump-hit Lancashire Piccadilly, Oxford Circus, Marble Cor

up thousands of Arch, Hyde Park and Constitu- all excuses set apart.

personal attendance on Us.... We make more on an began to pilo

Which rolls of bunting and fings. The tion Hill, anfol English bike than on

command that can be and functions? makes it a

The answer fa gold lacemaker, C. L. Hislop, has

denied only by ill-health. that they are all part and parcel American."

his skilled craftsmen busy at

The Duke signs each copper- of the subjects inalienable (and plate summons and sends out indivisible) rights to share in the

und invitations 6,000 other

significance of

Washington. DEN Wein likes selling British bicycles because he makes more on them than on American bikes. And Ben. one of New York's biggest retailers, sells nine British light-weight cycles for every one American,

He was giving evidence before the United States Government Tariff mission.

The U.S. bicycle trade is trying to cut the British quota. All that it seemed to do was to confirm that Britain can still beat the world.

us,

to

Television experts are already planning to relay transmission hy give 150,000,000 aircraft Americans and Canadians close up viewing of the crowning of the Queen while the ceremony is

The

done.

mission

He was asked: Do you looms find that you buy the Garden. English bikes, at a lower cost than the comparable American bike?—Yes.

Price is right

50

Why do your customers for an English lightweight bike, if they often don't know exactly what it is?-Nine times out of ten it's because the price is right they seem to feel they get more for their money.

Are you saying that it has previously been established in their minds that when you ask for an English bike you are getting es.

good value at a low priec?

Do you

consider that American-made bikes Gre good as the British? They are, with the exception that to buy an American bike of equal quality would cost more.

Wein startled the commis- sioners by saying that his profit on an American bike which costs him 60 dollars (£21 85.). Is 14 dollars and 15 cents (£5 103.). But on « British bike, which costs him 48 dollars and 95 cents (£17 10s.). his profit ls 21 dollars and 5 cents (£7 10s.).

More produced

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in

The secret

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London's

Covent

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1 The current estimate is Ware and revolutions have come

and gone, but the Queen's quarter of a million seats (equal chemists have already made to the number of Americans ex- sure of their supply of fragrant pected). olla (of roses and cinnamon,

Already 10,000 people of all musk and ambergris, civet and nationalities have made firm re- sesame and other things) with gistrations for any seats which which the Queen's parson (head become avaliable, and more than and hands). will be anpointed. 30,000 others have written asking formula for the for details as soon as they are

has been kept known. since the seventeenth Prices dropping £10 each century.

floor the higher you go-are 100 In the College.of Heralds.old percent up en 1997. For seats records, deeds and documents which costs thirty shillings to been dusted off and erect in 1937, next year will cost checking is

going on of the £4. available supply of extra coppar- Already one ticket agency, the plate writers needed for the mass first of the dealers in the Corona- of proclamations and summonses tion Seat Stakes, have written to to Poors that will still be written the 300 property owners along In machine-defying script,

the 1937 route.

hove

TITO WON'T JOIN "PAPER PACT"

From SEBASTIAN PRATT

Belgrade. bers who are now conferring in

Athens.

MARSHAL Tito in

臨

speech declared he

Three times In two days the The question went on: Do you will not join any "paper Greeks and Yugoslavs had im- think that the prices of in- ported English bikes will go up? pact," but; in the event of portant moetings in Athens and formal pact is -No. I believe that as more and aggression, he and 2,000,000 Belgrade. No

expected, but the contacts are more English bikes come into armed Yugoslavs would belleved to be definitely con- this country, competition. will fight in the ranks of the cerned with mutual security to

tend to bring the price down.

peace.

J. Auerbach, chief spokesman Western forces. defending clear the way for military talks for the Bleycle Manufacturers of America, was asked: Сап you produce a lightweight bike without British nidr

to work out a common plan of action in the event of any attempt at a "Balkan Korea." Addressing a conference of Yugoslav reserve officers, Tito Yugoslavia, Tito said, now has He replied: We buy British sold his reluctance to enter for a strong army, capable of parts but we aren't dependent mai alliances was not dus to any expansion to a farce of $2,000,000 on them. U.S. parts cost too ulterior motive but to Yugo and more" men under arms if much. There's no incentive to slavia's bad experience in the war should come to Europe. your

Parls

manufacturers to past. make these paris that we get

Though the danger is. less than last year," he added, "we "We do not intend to join the still live in a world where mad- Atlantic Pact or any other pact,

from Britain. Another

manufacturer, big Willian Snyder, snid

"We've struggled for years to not even with countries with men dream of solving disputes by

lesser the danger, put out a lightweight bike that which we have identical in- war, and the stronger we are the

This was a reference would challenge the British, but terests,"

"We have had pacts before," ho we simply cannot put one out to suggestions that Yugoslavia is

enter a defensive mid, "and they became a pilo of that comes anywhere near the about to

and paper. Today we do not believe British price."

alliance with the Greeks (London Express Sorulce)

Turks, NATO's newest mem- in paper, but in reality."

JOHNNY HAZARD.

洗

M'SIBUS WILL KINDLY WAIT OUTERE THE DOOR WHILE I PREPARE MY

PATIENT FOR VISITORS/

MAMSELLE LAURIE, YOUR FIANCÉ AND HIS FRIEND ARE HERE...BUT I WOULD ADVISE ★ NO RASH ACTIONS/

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What, you cause

may ask, is the these out-of-date offices

to the symbolist..

monarchy.

completely rezealed Abbey. Ques- tions of precedence and of posses The increased strain of a vast mean heavy and careful screen- new television audience in closo contact with the ceremonial ing.

For a two-mile long procession would have been enough to have working inflexibly on the maxim daunted the stoutest monarch in "the Royal Coach must never the

past. halt" more vast

Men will not be incking to planning will shon be started at the War domand the privilege of standing ofcc.

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