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THE CHINA 'MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1952.

WINSTON: "It's no business

of mine, but a certain granpa is going to get something on

his napper." CLEM! "You should talk.”

TRIALS,

THE SEASIDE

World Copyright. By arrangement with Dolly Herate.“

Turkey's legendary comic hero stars in her first animated cartoon and first colour film

It's Hoca, But Say Hodja

By HENRY THODY

Istanbul.

This tyrant, who erected a

OU may shortly be pyramid of 90,000 skulls on the of Baghdad, was 扭曲

Y laughing at two of credibly ugly. One day in his

Turkey's national court he asked for n mirror, comic characters loved by looked at himisolt In It then burst into tears. His court, in- generations of Turks.

pathy.

They are starg of cluding Hoes, wept in sym→ Turkey's first animated car-

Hoca continued lour toon, and first colour film, after the conqueror had stop-

But

asked

"Evvel Zaman Icinde" (Once ped. "What is this?" Upon A Time), which 1 Tamerinine. "I wept because I to weep in sympathy. But

have just watched nearing saw how ugly I was. You had completion in Istanbul.

why do you continue crying

O.

King, replied Hoca,

The two legendary Turkish after I have stopped?" humorists are Nasreddin Hoen (pronounced Hodja), a white "you wept when you saw your Omar Khayyamish face in mirror for a moment.

bearded,

court jester, and Keloglan, A

I weep because I must look at

bald-headed fairy-tale dwarf. It the whole time."

Although Nasreddin Hock has been dead some seven hun← dred years he is

is still the coun-

try's most popular comle,

modern Turkey's Bob Hope, oper Westernised Turks In their latest American limousines still ask cach other, "Have you heard the latest Hoca?"

Nasreddin Hoca was always one with a quick answer in the

tho days long before

wise crack.

But sometimes he was por- trayed as being particularly stupid..

But Tamerlaine, one of the bloodiest mass butchers in his- tory, tolerated such Insolence from his Jester.

Hoen's grave at Konya is a shrine annually visited by thousands of Turks. Although it has huge tron gates heavily fence padlocked, there is no around the grave. It was built like this on Hoca's instructions

his Inst joke,

to

Walt Disney is reported hava nad his eye on Hoca as a cartoon character. But it is ding that he will first come to the screen

all-Turkish ber," almost as famous in Tur-

creation. kish legends as himself..

In the One day when he was short in Istanbul, overlooking the A.N.D. Film Studios

Hoca owned a donkey, "Kam-

nם sם

of money he decided to reduce thin beauty of a mosque mina-

Kamber's feed.

Ho ret. I watched Hoca on the

A MAN ON THE RUN FLEES AFTER ARREST IN PARIS

I get another false passport

PH

ARIS was the worst place in the world I could have chosen as a hide-out. The French have a passion for passports and permits.

Very

worried. It had me Everywhere I stayed I had produce my passport and, while this was seemingly in order, I did not know whether the issue

of it had been traced is me.

The day after I should have surrendered

at

TODAY Frank James White ends his confession. He has jumped £1,000 bail in England, alter being accused of fraud, and he has entered France on a false passport. He

thought he would be safe in Paris,

PRÉFECTURE DE POL

DIRECTION POLIER SINDIALE DE LA

73

31 MAI 1952

REFUS DE SÉJOUR

· Papéication de la cirvisers, manentiello ki

de 20.9.1946

with his smuggled jewellery and his knowledge of the city."

It was not to be. 9.. And this is the document that ended his stay in France.

a chance encounter

danced the Sombe until day thanks to ball to my

light.

in a cafe with an English girl who was #governess to some newspapers French children I was able to forgotten me make a better exit.

Little did I She told me the names of all know that a couple of why the important local English

detectives had The following Sunday

been people-she, herself, belonged I was French

to the English Club, having a coffee in one of the following me for weeks,

Newent [the village in Glouces- tershire where he had a man- The English sion] most of the English papers seemed to have had something to say about the Easter was near. man who had "done a bunk."

big cafes on the Champs Elysees To French police forced when I heard an English voice their way into my apartment Бау: This fellow doesn't look at six o'clock in the morning as though he knows what A of Maundy Thursday. I was gay time is."

in bod. I gave them my pasɛ-

Escape again

I

Un-

cut his oats, first by drawing boards. one handful, then two, Hend cartoonist Yuksel until he was feeding sal and his team of artists had the animal nothing never worked on a cartoon be

all. Hoca was delight ed; his donkey was now living on air.

fore. But all had a background

of ancestors whose artistic achievements still live in the Then he went to the ornate palaces and resplendent stable and

found his harems of old Istanbul. donkey dead, “What As we watched the bad luck!" he cried.

car-

loosis at work, director Tur- gut Demirag told me further Hoca stories.

"Just as I have trained my donkey to live on nothing he ROCS and

Hoca, Uke Omar Khayyanı dies."

who lived more than a hundred Behind this, and years before him, ked to many other such tales, stretch out under the shade of the Turks discern

moral which they medi- Late over In their coffee-houses where they exchange "Hecas" for hours as they puff their hookahs.

Hoca

actually lived

tree and meditate.

One day he lay beneath an oak tree. "Allah," he -asked, little acorns on such a big tree "why do you bang those silly while the pumpkir exista оп such a

a small plant?"

At that moment · an ''acorn In Central Turkey in fell, hitting him on the nose, about the thirteenth "May Allah forgive mo century.

At one me doubling hia

he is

wisdom. What to sald

have would have happened to my been

jester court

to noso if pumpkins grew on ook Tamerlaine the Tartar, trees?" the dreaded descendant.

of Genghiz Khan.

Trying To Catch The Comet

From Nowell Rogers

was searched to dis- Nar icket for Morocco.

TEXT, morning, I bought on Casually, I turned towards Tori and the speaker. He was not talking over if I had a gun, to mo, but ho was pointing to

They allowed me to wash and took it to the American Express my photograph

It had the Sunday caption: "Police hunt for man who loves a gay life."

AMERICA has then packed my one suitcase and

papers.

Ford.

of

invention, Soviet New York. car-a

entered course astonishingly like a 1830 the race against Bri-

we all went out info the cold to Morocco by a boat which left six years behind. displeasure of the dawn-to the at 9 o'clock on the day after. Prefecture of Police.

shave, and when I was drated and told them to send it forward tain's Comet jet air liner THE Briton endlessly written about in America is, of

Then,

two hours after the In California, the Douglas I was petrified that the man I was charged with having a ship had left with my case, and Aircraft Company has announced would turn and recognise me. I false passport. That was

all two hours before my plane was its readiness to build jet trans- finished my coffee and

slunk the French could trump "British. Consulate and explained

due to leave, I dashed into the porta.

Douglas made the Dakotas-or an offl

officio! that I Inadvertently

DC-35, wartime work-horses of packed my past the alr. Yard came 10 Paris, They port in the sullcare which to suggested that I retura with Fave money-I had

had sent forward "HROUGH ạ girl friend I met them without the fus and by sea My plane was due to DC-B. It will have two seating

n man who was the son of delay of a warrant of extradi- leave in two hours.

away with a pretended limp.

Goods to sell

against me,

Deleelives

from

a prominent French banker. He tion,

had acquired an option on #1

to

Scotland

class, 120.

The new jet is to be called the

plans. Luxury or Arst-class I could only identify myself! by saying that I knew Miss X, cats, 70 to 90; tourist, or second- vast quantity of American They gave me cigarettes, and and Mrs Y. and Colonel Z. It Tentative, specifications--cruis- surplus goods. He agreed to pay warned me of the horrors of was such a pity I was so pressed ing speed of 500 miles an hour me a commission on anything French prisons and the inter- for me.

eight

miles up, four engines, I managed to dispose of.

minable delays. I might be two They issued me with another crew of live, wing apan 127 feet, years in a Frerich prison before new passport. Soon afterwards length 134 feet. all the details of extradition. I was high in the sky over the could be completed. But if I coast of Spain. went quickly......

A small advertisement in the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune quickly put me in icuch with prospective pur- chasers. Respontes came from Mexicano, a Spaniard, a Turk, Dants and Dutchmen, and 11 hardsome dellow from Peru.

I never thought that I should ever try to sell mosquito nets in a snowstorm, or that. I should have to tell some of the stories I did....

r

I

say

'No'

.

was all very tempting. The possibility of being locked away for two years awaiting ex- tradition, and then to have to stand my trial for the original charge I had escaped from, # bitter and hopeless

was

I had been told that in no prospect,

circumstances whatever was I

to mention the origin of the Something made me say No. goods or mention any names. I

told

the Eriglish police

It was an impossible position. that if they wanted me so

I told them I had a friend who badly they had better extradito WLS a dancer at the Folles Ber- me. I felt that in France I had a boy friend, stood a better chance than I gire, who whose father

connected would ever stand at home. with a tank which had taken While was seven weeks in ‘a an option to buy the goods French cell, At the and, of that was such an impassible time he was released-on con-

o It

was

and fantastic story that even 1, dition that he left France within who for years have specialised 4

In

of it.

The effect I had on, the

a week.

But, his folsce.

what he did

only the improbable, was ashamed had been impounded

place to which he could tegally men

gb without one was England. I told it to won electric, They But there he would be arrested loot all interest in the surplus So, once again, the Man on the goods, but wanted to meet the Run was on the run, This is girls of the Follos Bergere.

Despite the fact that I never I decided to try Morocco. 7 __A to sell a boot or to night train, took me to the managed

On curn a single franc I met a lot south coast, of France. of amusing poople and had an arrival I put up at the best awful lot of durk I heard plenty hotel in a port from which I of Latin-American music and I might get a small boat, - bnat !

The planes are expected to cost more than £1,000,000 each, There, in the International and the Arst production model Zone of Tangler, we leave Frank will Gy in 1956. James White, allas Hargreaves, the Man on the Ru,

London Express Service)

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

[**İ''assure you, my dear, Flora, that the moment he opened his mestih I realized he was an American!”

Why is America six years be- hind Britain in the jet-liner race7

One reason is that U.S. alt- graft makers have held back from commercial jets because of the cost. The firms wanted

But Government help..

the Government is interested in Anancing military jet research.

The Comet cruises at 500 miles an hour, has four engines; wing rpan, 1162.; length, 93rt; crew of six.

CIX YEARS ́is a long time to

walt, The magazine Ameri can Aviation suggests today that U.S. airlines may have to buy. Comes after all It says: "Such calo is not impossible. Do Havilland has cunningly forced the true with alot to competi uve routes. Britishi jot trans- port leadership is coming too close for comfort.”

DUSINESS MAN

Stanley

the

D Slotkin went to Olymples in Finland in a British car. He arrived home with a four-door Soviet Pobeża soloon under illegal Russian law,

-an

export

How he got it is a secret. If cost him more than B00. Wide-eyed American food the

Nasreddin Hoca once did spell da a village priest, but soon grow tired of the dally

sermon,

mounted One day he

the pulpit and asked the congrega- tion: "Do you know what I am going to talk about?" The con- gregation replied: "No."

"Why should address a who knows noth- congregation ing of my subject?" sald Hoen,- and went home.

I

Next day he asked again: "Do you know what I am go- ing to talk about?" This time the congregation replied "Yes." "Well, then, there is no need for me to tell

and went homo," said Hoca, When he asked his question. CAITSO, Churchill. Americans the third day the congregation,

buy his war who had

worked out a plan continue to memoirs. Yet their thirst for before he arrived, kept silent. Churchilllan knowledge knows He repeated the question. Sull

A chatty new no end. graphy by Robert Lewis Taylor has 18,000 copies.

blo-

no answer.

to be

"I seem alone," said Hoca, "So there is no need for me to preach."

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