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Field Identification

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1952.

A British Crossword Puzzle

37

18

ACROSS

1 Equine galt (8),

4 Fleet (5).

7 Tale (8).

B Mistake (5).

Walk heavily (0).

11 Slim (7).

13 Tu aside (7),

15 Humbled (0).

18 Cunning (5).

19 Plunders (8).

20 Dandies (6),,

21 Discourage (6).

=

12

IT

DOWN

1 Concede (5).

2. Clear (5).

3 Objection (7).

4 Part of a garment (0).

Trespasses (8).

6 Extreme fright (6).

Laid bare (1).

10

12

Erudite (7).

13 Obstinate (6).

14

Warde off (8).

18

17

Accumulate (6), Darkish (5),

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Prop, 4 Massive, 8 Emit, 9 Oven, 10 Notable 11 Noon, 12 Dado, 14. Reveres, 17 Alzne, 19 Lapse, 22 Torrent 20 Scam, 27-Gift 28 Stätter, 20 Erpy, 30 Rear, 31 Actress, 32 Need, Down: 2 Reveal, 3 Penson, 4 Minor, 5 Atoned 0 Spare 7 Valse, 12 Daft, 13 Dour 15 Ripe, 16 Stem, 18 Angers, 20 Astera, 21 Sample, 23 Optic, 24 Hotor, 25 Tires.

THIS DREAM MEANS: Look Ilke sliter trouble. Each plece wood

and

Field

Notc

Book

of

by

G. A. C. HERKLOTS

Revised and enlarged edition

$7.50

ON SALE AT

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

HONGKONG AND KOWLOON

turns Into alster: it re- fures to burn

with others: being

the

down well: you тападо to save it

with dimeul-

ty.

YOU WERE TRYING TO LIGHT A FIRE BUT THE WOOD SLIPPED THROUGH YOUR FINGERS AND DOWN.A WELL IN THE BOTTOM OF THE GRATE. AS EACH PIECE FELL IT TURNED INTO ONE OF YOUR

SISTERS

LOVE IN HONGKONG

Dr. Elizabeth Tang (Now Comber) Tells A Great Love Story

REVIEWED BY SUE DAWSON

China, are sent abroad to study and then return from Ufe academic abstractions of West to the stari warts of the East." So it is that in facing different questions, we exhibi different characters. One of the real, unsettling problems, to which eloquently discussed, Conditioned by it is difficult to do Juice in her peculiar cir- out-of-the context snatches like

theac.

"A MANY SPLENDOURED. It is with all things under. Important thing in, tha book, too. THING" by Han Suyin. Heaven, to whom all things are Everything olse is inextricable,

equal."

int background, (Jonathon Capo 157-)'

Dr Ilan for the author is "Hongkong is a funny place;

Doctor of like a ship, and you never know a London-trained TT is in the words of what, is going to happen to Medicine has a heritage from Francis Thompson that people on a ship" sald someone both East and West, and intel- Mark Ellott and Han Suyin to Han Suyin bot long after she lectually, all the assets of both

hod arrived, with her mall worlds. describe their love as a daughter, from many-splendoured thing. England But

Suy

thought "The angels keep their

che know exactly cient places: ---

what

in to Turn but a stone and start a

One wingi

an-

"Ta ye, us your estranged

Inces

That

mito tho many- splendourod thing."

But it is in Shelley's words that one could describo this book which in its wholeness, "Life, like a dome of coloured

with Blass" Anamuting the stuff of every

many

love

day into something significant, tremulously alive.

are turned and

Many stones every chapter starts more than one iridescent wing.,

"Life, like a dome of many-

coloured gingsTM Staine the white radiance of

eternity..."

So many colours, but through It all there is this feeling of elemily's white radiance, Han Suyin's great faith in continuity, that levelling and timelessness which Third Uncle in his beau- tiful brush-written letter cap tures thus: "As in the wheel, the empty spaces as the spokes fashion its virtue as a wheel, so

happen.

taying she thought was that, love,

of which sho

had some experi--

ence, could not possibly happen to her againy and certainly

never upset _ail But her plans,

then Mark Ellott, the foreign cok- resden of d well-known

tish

Br..

newspaper,

'HAN SUYIN'

cumstances, first

ir

Asia, then

The same balanced view, stem- in Europe, and ming from a deep awareness of then balanced on the motion, colours, 1bvs. (ho "get-wet loyalties and hates of living con- -wetcentrated in a little space, fanned

between

Pock"

mwareness shar***

both, her malumot by China's hot flame on one side and licked by the West's cold pened by the draught of reasoned bewilder multitude

and ment on the other, oqmes to bear оп all the variousness which varlely of her experience, there makes up life in Hongkong On the missionaries forced, from Le probably no their China-numbed, hurt of person more philosophical the New Chin suited to present whose seeds they helped to sow what is the with their campaigns for social first story to service, health, honesty be written about more hospitals; on the Chinese Hongkong and refugees, the wealthier ones its environs since doing their own

kind of Somerset Maug-

and

unsung relief opera au har..

had not yet ar rived. "At their first meeting

ham dipped his

bouring of hordes of relatives (to quote the

searing pen inte friends and friends of friends dust-cover) the

the controversini On, doctors, government offices miracle occurred. It was nots, ink of "A Painted Veil". Both individual Americans, the Enge it could not be love. They did not

have been students of surgery ish, the little close-knit cliques. believe in love, an emotion and both have the surgeon's of social life, on inevitable trivial and insignificant com- instinct to expose and if neces- evils, on people and more people, pered to the mighty upheavals sary to use the knife on what is and on all the beautiful things of the Asiatic Revolution Bretton and corrupted. "I try to which they were, plunged. But tell the

Truth, truth.

liko Sur

so that the words relled like,

mirror but in sharper, more vivid for them this personal, human gery, may hurt, but it cures outlines the colours and conflicts emotion which changed their are Dr Han's own words about of contemporary China and lives was more important than this book. She uses her knife Hongkong. anything else." It is the most with a superb sureness which

in no way kills her under- -standing of the patient,

IT WAS ONLY BY CLUTCHING THEIR HANDS THAT YOU SAVED THEM FROM. SUPPING OUT

OF SIGHT

Which suggests you feel apart in relation' to 'your sisters, their help but despite Ik. Youlare trying to bulid a warm famlly They are wooden, they, do not feel as you do. You cannot start 'splationship but without co-operation. afre with the wood, La., you cannot create a Warin and friendly. Your sister relationship wants watching or you may develop atmosphere with their help. You save the situation not with a Cinderella complex.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"YOU SAID YOU'D BE READY IN FIVE. MINUTES: I'VE BEEN WAITING TWENTY

WITH THE MOTOR.

RUNNING...

"WELL I CANT GO LOOKING, LIKE A TRAMP,

CAN

"NO, THANKS!

NO, AO NO, NO, NO, HO

NO/

HAVE YOU A LITTLE BOTTLE- NECK IN YOUR HOME → WE'LL BET YOU HAVE AND WE ONLY BET ON SIRE THINGS.

SINGER

THAVES

MASSAGES HOT TOWEL MUD PICK

IP. YOU WART FIVE DOLLARS YOU CAN GET. OIT AN HISTLE FOR IT

LIKE!!

· HAD TO

ANOTHER FINANCIAL BOTTLENECK IS THE

LAD WITH THE HIGH- PRESSURE RESISTER..

"MERE SEEMS ALWAYS TO BE: A BOTTLENECK ON TREA ROAD TO THE POT OF GOLD

YEM!

COPIL INI TY CENTRAL FEATURES

• CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

More Bottlenecks

PRACTICALLY

EVERY PARTY, LINE HAS ITS: OWN BOTTLE-

HECK.

THE BOTTLENECK ON THE ROAD TO ROMANCE:/

THE OLD-FASHIONED FATHER, WHO WON'T LET HER GO OUT ANY- WIERE...AND STICKE AROUND LIKE AN UNDERSHIRT ON A HOT AIGAT

"THE CRITICS TIE ASPIRING "YOUNG AUTHORS' BOTTLENECKE

NOTHIN DONY NO MORE O!!

HE CUFF

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Here is the essential' Chinese: dilemma; their passionate fustine tive desire to be associated with their own people, right or wrong, an essentially nationalistic urge, with its deep sympathy for tho

It is this strength that enables impulses which set the whocks her to dissent, with penetrating tur

turning. On the other hand insight; such 'anomalies'

as their horror at the virulent way Eurasianism. The mid-way rock in which the New Order in all raw humbug is with the land wind howling on its murderous,

side and the sea's roar on being forced on the people, the 'her. "Racial Eurasianism, ing them anew with chains. Here is not worth talking or

cand

bind-

about. It is a small, ho chineze, Chinese, gifting on, the

are the Red Chinese, the White"-"

prejudice....

If some racial fence Han Suyin affirms the

hunger: of... Eurasians carry chips on their old eternal truths; the

beings after moro shoulders, resent the Whites, human

it is be than the bread of life. For Man' cause they apa

of would always strive to co living and White injustices.... the

grumble at incq440390 world, to establish the

There is no problem for Eura of men in the name of his God, sians who accept their Asiatic Will banners and shouting side. But intellectual Eurasianism legions and crosses, eagles and afiets many young Asians and suns, with slogans and blood. Feet in the dust, best among has nothing to do with race."".

tha stars

And in a different Thus, Dr Han comes to constrain, written with the sparkle. sider the "spilt, two-layered of a summer den in sun-le kwe souls" of those, who grow up in watched the acylics at dusk

By KEMP STARRETT

DO YOU. KROW HOW MUCH I HAVE TO PAY OUT IN TAXES THIS YEAR

:

30%

SOME GALS EVEN GO TO THE TROUBLE OF MARRYING. ONE OF THOSE PERPETUAL FINANCIAL

BOTTLENECKS.

THEY SAY THERE ARE BOTTLENECKS EVEN IN THE: BOTTLE GOODS BUSINESS.

✔ AND WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE TO FALD, TAIS

BEHEMOTA.. OLD NEWS-

·PAPERSS

ARD OF COURSE COME OF THE BERT MARRY BOTTLENECK

rake gold and emerald and tar- quoise out of the earth, and wille stars,-anonymous heads at a thientire filcony, peer. numerous and cold from vacuous sky.

All the famillar things wo know and half know become, enchantingly alive, from. king fishers.. and swallowtaliq beauhinias and "lady slipper orchida with their pple speckled lips to the p the old "Grippa

that

Bealing restaurants of Aberdeen and the harcourt

pur? "Largo ships, d-sprawl like cockroaches on their backs,

and funneld

their focting like

CruncJ

from their bellies. cling to their flanks uke ante swarming, Funky the dead Iriseot Skifte like small spring butterflies skim the top of the water. A whitestroyer. Aldes

lazily past

Squat farries ply their shallow furrow balween the land and Kowlcon. The cream-colourat Macao baat cuts tiraight, through the pliant water no scissors through silk..

Han Suyin is able to give ench word a soul as well no a meaning, and this is perhaps the greatest

It a writer can have Frem; : theso two hundred thousand, words transpires an immenso

de for human life and ex

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But for all its value a document on life here today, the book is above,

01

kely

fovo, and such that i to bo Tanlood with

semo of

the

greatest lova

stories writion Yet.min.

and

may not love too much, Suyin and Mark Elloth, know- ing this, attempted to plecato the jealous goda for an uneeth ly happiness so great that ""everylling was alive, even the under out, fect"

slopes

Pres

we invoked those

piteri esorced that t

about by the senhore, among

the graves, in the woods; spirits of water, half-dry

ed by akimpy camurtinair, spirits of earth, leaf, kren," flower, rast, Reverence we exhibited toward their invisible manifestati and a touching, bem!-carnest cult came to us spontaneousl But Mark

woleed and thoʻqu

wth belovedl £2. by the gods en well, and there is a saying "Thooo whom the gods love die young". Thus it was Ham Buyin was loft alive, with a Fort of Incandescent: Blue hai death-dodying, "Death to only an decident, what matters, lệ ife”, the caya,

Told with complete honest transpareully incore, 40 bei ful story unfolding wilki Inevitability of dawn, "MU Splendoured Thu thoma Dories, that sit privilego

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