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SOMEONE rang up Bernard Wicksteed and said: "How would you like a trip to Ascension?" "Certainly," replied Wicksteed. "Where ia it?"

"Parm me, Bud-is this where we jump for the Little Ma show?"

drop drop in spot

of

Om

isle

behind by the Navy but no streams molten lava that Day, 1501; but no one dreamed

one to hang.

Also there are moths but no butterflies, scorpions but no snakes, cats but no dogs, and

fly an unswattable that is so rubbery you can't squash it.

Ascension

is

ASCENSION, South Atlantic Ocean. ELL, I am now in

a position (7° 54′ At the moment the popu- lat, S.; 14° 25 lation of long, W.) to tell 171-50 Europeans and you exactly where Ascen- 121 people from St Helena, sion is. It is here. I um 700 miles south. It was standing on it half-way 170, but another was born between Africa and Brazil.

recently.

SHANGRI-LA,

•

poured out of the craters have of living here till Napoleon was cooled into a thousand night- sent to St Helena. Then the maro shapes.

Navy put a garrison ashore to prevent it being used as a base for his rescue.

2

Right in the middle of this multi-coloured desolation is mountain 2,020 It, high and the top of it is bright green.

WIMBLEDON PARI

London Express Barvion

WICKSTEED of the isles

ATLANTIC

OCEAN.

8. AMERICA

AFRICA

· Et. Heianuk

CASCENSION:

-this wook ASCENSION The Navy called It HMS. west communications more than Ascension and garriconed it these going north and south. with Marines till 1822 when the So when it is difcult to radio But for this, lite on Ascension cable people took it

between Europe and over. It direct would be insupportable; for the green: Is vegetation and the was the Navy who turned the America you can send messages mountain top is a Shangri-La of een mountain top into a farm south of Ascension and north cool gardens, pastures for cattle, and in true naval tradition they again to Montreal. and bungalows among the trees put up cow-sheds and barns to for holidays and week-ends.

It is also the sole source of

water.

tast for ever.

When you look at them you could bellevo You were in

Portsmouth

GALA NIGHT

YOU think you like the

D life these Britons lead? A

ship's captain who called some ago reported that he Chatham Bar years or

on the raclts instead of on the top of a found seven women mountain in the middle of the land and one of them were

on speaking terms.

But if there is anything like that now we do not see it-be

As you might expect, there is whoopee on Ascension: tonight, These exlies, whose cables and radio beamy keep the world in sea.. fouch, ́ ́ having put on a party Five deep-sea cables meet on

Ascension but the island's cause tonight on Ascension is Let's ait out on the verandah importance today is as a radio gala night and we shan't go to and ask Mrs F. G. Eastwood link. Sunspots upset cast-to- bed till dawn, how she manages with the

one of the 4 of them, Europeans for the visiting RAF. crew.

Except for Tristan da Cunha it is about the lone- llest Island in the British Empire. And strangest.

and St Helenans, work on this heap of cinders for to and a half years at a stretch. They spend their lives In a communications business, but they have had, no mail from home them- selves since May 28 and do not expect any till the

The whole island is less than a quarter the size of the Isle of Wight, and there are 40 extinct volcanoes on it, cach one 1 different colour.

Only inhabitants are end of July.

Cable the employees of

So you can imagine the joyous and Wireless Ltd., plus welcome we got when our one policeman. The mana R.A.F. Hasungs flow in with ger has two-desks in-his-green peas, an ounce of tomato 400lb. of cabbages, 150lb, of office because he is also seed, and the script of "Char the Resident Magistrate ley's Aunt" for the local drama and he moves from the Le society.

housekeeping. She is the wife of the assistant munager has two young children.

and

The kids run around all day "It is very healthy," she says. without hats or shoes. We gel plenty of fresh fish, and milk from the mountain farm.

"You have to bring qut all the clothes you will need for two and a half years because run out of cotton, needles, - but- you can't buy any here. If you

without. But you can buy l tons, or elastic you have to go stick and powder in the barber's when the mali steamer

shop

one to the other accord- Our 4,400-mito night

from calle ing to whether he is work- Lincolnshire was part of a ing for the company or the Davigation training exercise and

wo landed Colonial Office,

on an old airstrip

ROUNDABOUT.

TWO EVENTS have put Ascen- sion on the map-the sur- render of Napoleon and To look at Ascension

Ladiscovery that sunspots upsel Д strip radio, something between cartoonist's idea of the surface

built between the volcanoes There's a gaol on the during the war. island but no prisoners, 12 children but no school, 19 European women but dress shops, a gallows left a

the

no of the moon and a painting on The island was first sighted Kindergarten wall, The by à Portuguese on Ascension

Your slip is showing

A

Sonia

by ERNEST DUDLEY

the Armchair Detective

MYSTERY CLUB

kinked. Even Harley Street's was the house-dotective framed own Sir Everso Nutts-Batty in the doorway, and it was. D falled to cure him—in fact, Sir pleture I never want to see Everso finally joined up with again.. Luke in his life of crime."

"But as we faced each other Sonia took a delicate sip from I began to talk my way out of her cocaine cocktafi (I stuck to it. Olibly I "fibbed how my cup of cocos) and continued. mistaken the room for my own.

luke planted me, under the Just as I realised my mistake

"I working with a dapper alias of Rose Bush, as a mold one I'd

maid on a heard someone else' coming

ra

was when I was

after me. Panicking, lad from Lancashire, named hotel in Full Moon Street, hidden behind the door, hoping

Crewe We low that a New to slip out unobserved. Luke, Smurt, Sonia purred York jeweller, Hyam Meen, who in her sultry, velvety tones. was as close-fisted as he was

rich, was staying there."

I had called on her for supper-kippers and candy- floss at her latest hide out, a barge moored in Lime Grove Baths: "Not only was Luko a jewel thief of the trouser-legs and picked up a well-dressed type," Sonia disiy-box from which she pro- "I described how I'd leaped. continued, "he was also a ceeded to squeezo a mutical out and nearest him off, causing tune, Itefreshed by this inter- him to drop the jewels. When dual personality:"

lude (and, another huge gulp, you: came in ''I told the dates- from her cocktail) abe went on tive, I was huist putting the stuf with her pulsating yarn

back:v where It belonged

Sonia paused as the cry of TUEN sho described to the sea-gulls fromì, the B.B.C.'s tele- fascinated house-south, how vision studios across the, road from her hiding-place she saw reached her.

a man, face hidden by a black She crossed her bell-bottomed scarf and hat, enter und pocket

the diamonds.

leaned forward › eagerly to healthyệt "another of the notorious Crime Queen's sordid), under-world tales. ?

"On the night arranged for Then Sonia's icer-drops, began our coup I let myself into Hyam to fall so fast I was kept busy Meen's room! with, si “skeloton baling out the barge. "ld have key, It had once been a bath go away with the hiccup room, and was the cheapest pedif only I hadn't' made one Under the flama of Ivan room in the hotel. It was empty fooldata Knorrlakoff tied once, ming in and I went to work. opera. But his benz was pretty

the one gain, YOU, of bush and he wild thrown out on“ · "Tå lust grabbed a handful of course, hoonespoutad.: Sonia's his topsides ezparkiem, from a drewing-table silly slip:: No? Andthor: blance "Resit bis mind? was per- drawer when I heard someone at the picture: gives you; the manently warped, twisted and behind me, I was caught). I ustaj cius or turn to Page 19.

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Switzerland changes

definition of "chronometer"

UNTIL November 15th, 1951, the Swiss Federation of Watch: Manufacturers ruled that the term "chronometer" was descriptive of: "A precision watch regulated in different positions and various temperatures, capable of obtaining an Official Timing Certificate."

On November 16th, 1951, the Federation modified this ruling. It now reads as follows: "A precision watch regulated in different positions, HAVING OBTAINED an Official Timing Certificate."

In other words, in accordance with this new Swiss regulation, no watch may be termed "CHRONOMETER"

Look for the Rolex Red Stoljartached to arvey Rolex Chronometer

unless its precision has been proved by a Swiss Ocvern- ment Testing Station or by an Observatory,

Rolex welcome this new, logical, and, clear-cut definition. We feel it will prove beneficial both to the public and to the Swiss watch industry.

We have always considered it necessary to subast our watches to the impartial tests of the Swiss Govern- ment. Every Rolex chronometer offered for sale has previously obtained an OFFICIAL Timing Certificate and bears the words OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED CHRONO- METER on the dial.

This new definition, therefore, vindicates a policy which we have applied strictly for a great many years.

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time measurement

Having been pioneers in the development of the wrist-watch since it was first timidly introduced at the turn of the century, we record with pride these landmarks in the recent history of time.

measurement

1902 Our factory is the first to manufacture exclusively move-

ments (for wrist-watches) with fewer escapements.

1910 Rolex démonstrate, at a Swiss Government Testing Station, that a small wrist-watch can be made accurate enough to obtain an OFFICIAL Timing Certificate.

1914 At the world-famous Kew Observatory, Rolex obtain the flest class "A" Certificato ever awarded a small welst-waich. (These stringent tests lasted 44 days in five timing positions and three temperatures and were identical to those applied to large chronometers, no allowance being made for the smaller size of wrist-watch movements. This was, in fact, the first wrist-chronometer over produced.s

1976 To ensure lasting protection to the accuracy of their wrist- watch movements, Rolex invent and patent the World's first waterproof case, known today to every country as the famous Rolex Oyster." She S

1931 To ensure even greater accuracy through a 'more even Tension of the mainspring, Helen introduce the forerunner of all modern wrist waschen, the famous? Oyster Perpetual"" with the self-winding Korer mechanism.

1936- At the Bienne Official Testing Station, 500 Rolex wrist-

chronometers, numbered 501-1000, ALL obisin'an Oficial): Timing Certificate with, the mention ""Especially good results," thus proving as longius, 16, years sin that the serial. manufacture of wrist-chronometers had been accomplribed.

1943 Rotex introduce the famous “ Datejust,” the world's first waterproof-and self-winding wrist-chronometer showing the date automatically.

1949 Rolex Obtain 140 clars "A"? Certificates from Kew Observ

vatory for 140 small, round chronometer movements'of- 21.7 mm., a performance which so startled, the watch. industry that is veracity was seriously questioned, (7)

1949 Rolex et a new accuracy record for wriu-chronometers mi

"the famous Geneva Observatory for a round movement;

of 28.5 mm, with 859 points,

*1951: To date, Röles has obtained more than 173,000 Official ¦¦

Timing Corilicates for, wrist-chronometers - from," the

- various. Swiss Goverument Testng Stations,, of which

· 121,695 uro⋅ for self-winding wilsat-chronometera. (Within. the last ten yeats 69,750, Certificates have carried thi mention""" Especially good resultą.").

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