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THE "CHINA MAIL":"TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1952.

GILES AT THE CIRCUS NE

"You're very naughty to give the elephants Daddy's last bottle of Scotch."

The Old Adam And The

66T

'New Soviet Man'

N literature and on

the stage we must

show the Soviet

DEWAR By HUGO

man the builder able" woman.

One day

to make

them.

BERNARD WICKSTEED sends a porsonal story from Korea which suggests that the Army ... hasn't changed very much

I COULDN'T STRIKE

A LIGHT

SO T

*Korea, : STRUCK

you have got enough influence in the Army today, that is to say if you are on drinking terms with tho quartermaster-

Bergeant, you can some-

BARGAIN

times get hold of a con- the naxl idea. Why trivance called the paraffin pressure lamp.

are

An Ingenious old. soldier had solid fuel tablets? They Issued to troops for cooking in. just the thing.

should be the front line and

AU

In theory it is supposed to be an Improvement on A deal was done with a cor- the old-fashioned candle poral who had acquired a sup stuck in a bottle with which ply and didn't know what to the soldier lights up his do with them. They had fallen

off an American truck.. tent or hootchie (the new They burned beautifully with name for dugout).

the same hot, blue flame But the troops are begin-. methylated spirit, but gave off ning to wonder if it is not tuch fearful fumes really n

staggered choking. from Chinese tent. secret weapon designed to send looked at the container and were In the gathering dusk wo the British Army mad: just able to read "CAUTION..

Once you get the thing Breathing the fumes of going it is all right, but it bustion may cause DEATH."

is supposed to be lit with

that we

the

com.

methylated spirit, and this A swop... the Army does not issue. WITH a reproachful look I The only methylated spirit WITH

geve them all back to the

We

in Korea is the limited corporal and once again supply used by doctors for were back where we started--- rubbing on your arm when except that by this time, It was.

dark,' they give you a jab with the needle.

subal-

and

The only thing left was to try patrol. Everyone wouldn't work, and it didn't. I Something odd filed the place with smoke and covered the lamp, the inside of QUITE all right for the the tent, and Wicksteel with

didn't provide: Boot, bist chapa who heard about. crough heat to get the mon market price) to whoever may wunt ...and Golyakov en-this. They got away with it. strosity going. ters it all very properly in the They went up to the M.O. Next day I swopped the lamp books.

or one of the medical, or with a newly arrived she workshop committee want it appear that the application Pigs, of course, grow from derlies, and asked casually tern for an electric torch of the future in such a cays to her husband: "I'

of motor mechanie Kropinova piglets which are delicious for the loan of a little six candles: He thought he had made a terrific bargain. Little a spa." light that the audience and to go to

Director's meth. for a free holiday has been at six months. The

does he know, Hat Hal the whole world will see the Well, my dear!" he replies, discussed and agreed to, "since wife simply adores

But by the time Wick the is one of the best Stakla Whenever she sees one she Gays steed got his hands on a moral and spiritual superi- "Just wait until my salary....

to her husband: "Let's have novile workers”. ority of people who have "Welt!" she interrupts indig-

one. It's so sweet" So the pressure lamp-by, methods been reared in a Socialist nantly. "What! You, the head. This illuminating little talo Director pays a nominal Bum that would not stand a de-

phenomenon, society....It is the moral of a department, and you can't is no

the Soviet presa, to keep, the Stock

purloined tailed investigation the right, replaces the and ideological superiority of arrange for your wife to go to student of

must know. It is taken from piglet with another bought on Royal Army Medical Corps our people which makes our a spa?" representatives superior to Yes, It. Is true, the husband the trade union paper Trud, of the market. True, there is a had begun to suspect that

head September 6, 1951. And since difference in the price,, all others in the world tri- reflects: what sort of a

(Soviet Literary am I if I can't manage a little then this kind of activity has that's Colyakov out something odd was going

The knows how to work bunal."

thing like that? I'm in charge clearly not been checked.

Inumerou journal Krokodil November 23, of the trade union funds, and

car- has published numerous she really does need a rest.

the toons on the subject and Let's send her to a spa for a following appeared in Septem month.

ber, 1952.

Father, 'mother and small son

at a pre seen scated

Gazette,

1946).

According to

Soviet publi- cists, in this new Soviet type of man all the "old Adam" has been extinguished and all the best qualities brought pilch of perfection.

to

"

,

CONVERSION

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things,

these on.

:

....

"What do you want it for?" the M.O. asked. asking for "Everybody COVER UP

methylated spirit? Has the entire British Army. taken table yes, he knows, quite a ist. to drinking it or what?

19ia Golyskavall about

from generals the

Everyone groaning with good things food "missing" from the stores Those

post and food "golpg bad to the down to the newest recruits whose knowledge of the Soviet O the matter is arranged, of moist chicken, a suckling

by extent of a loss of 10,000 rou-are lining up for methylated cours, it la not simpla, be- melons, and co on. Union is confined to the claims

"Daddy, bles father:

single year. free says to his put out by Soviet propaganda cause, in the first place, accept this boast without ques holidays are only for workers or been auditing, a kolkhoz, Director also owes 2,000 roubles spirit.".... haven't, you?"

for rent, lighting and radlo.... tlon. They fondly believe that, with outstanding production re-

But they cover up nicely for in

chair. the short

of 35

cords. So the deputy years, Space

each other, these two, and live human nature... _in_the

wite has somehow to be

-very › pleasantly at the State's

expense.

Union, has been

Soviet man's into a factory. Worker

transformed. There the over-riding concern

ding concern on paper, of course. ". After There of each individual is for the that, everything goes smooth-

welfare of society as a whole. ly.

from There, apart a few back- clements," Bliders "hostile

The

TWO PALS

ROKODIL of October the

1952, expanded on the themes "Two Pals"..

in

But when Kropinov, head of in the following tale, entilrd. material, its wide

all have cleansed themselves of Department No.

6, hears of

wile

·

The

ties that allegedly characterise Clay at home! I won't stand Golyakov'in high esteem. little foundation in fact in the fiento for that. We were back

the non-Soviet type of man.

As I went out, empty bottled, an orderly whisper- ed: "Try the petrol point. sir. That's where we draw our supplies." .. The amount of space devoted So down Wicksteed went to the Soviet press to this kind the petrol point where you can range, get anything from a Jerry-can und the fact that it is nearly to a forty-gallon drum of petrol

per by simply asking for it. The Director of the District always directed against

а But

tiny

bottle.

of the sins of avarice and ecquisi- this he reacts strongly, What!

Ford Combine at Kromav, B.M cons in relatively high positions tiveness, gluttony and greed; in Perepelitsa has sent his

about methylated spirit? No, sir, you short. of all those, evil quali off to a bpa and mine has to Pushechnikov, holds accountant shows that the bausts

For the "w Soviet man" have have to have a doctor's certi- for thott So he sends for the Golyakov is a conscientious

where wo started: deputy

of the some in order, who can put his hand!)

worker, whose books are always real Soviet world. insurance

or: dine in workers' couneli and orders him on any document at a moment's to make arrangements for a notice, who paya wages on time, free holiday for Madame Kro and in short is never at a TT be in alluring picture. Would pinova, Krepinoy can be very loss.

that were true! But, curt and quick-tempered when he properly alan, the Soviet press self-he likes, and which is not intended for frightens the Party: "activists). perusal beyond the Iron Cur-

The only way to carry out tain has another tale to tell.. One or two stories culled from his wishes, they feel, is to do it will give us a closer under what Purepolitsa

connivance Di With the standing of Soviet reality..

the is aware that meat is getting personnel manager, a certificate low, in the latter a pig falls

showing that prepared

, and, of course, has to be The deputy chairman of the is

quiet Madame Kropinova- is not a slaughtered. Everything is done Azovstalstrol Trust is a

molor according to the regulations docile man, but his wife, book- housewife, at all but a

depart anechanic. Then they sit down the meat is to be sold at so keeper in the finance

a much per kilo (a third of the ment, is a "worldly,, fashion and doctor the minutes of

BUT, ALAS!

In fact, neither of these two are ever-pt. u 1059. And their friendship is cemented by the Combine's pigs! Very under- pigs!

standing animals, these has done. Even before the Director's wife

Chapman Pincher advises:

EAT NUTS AT CHRISTMAS

ANY almonds, walnuts, the circulation is improves that

hazels or filberts you eat, at Christmas may help against to protect you chilblains in the New Year.

Miss Dilys James, a' scientist, claims that those nuts bro sur prisingly rich in a vitamin call ed nicotinic acid.:

Cold makes them contract, and in some people they remain tightly contracted for a long time after the händs and feet have warmed up.

Chestnuts carry only meagre supplies And these are largely destroyed when the nuts, are roasted.

.

Ho

POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

TOYJAI

"Heavens above, Misn Loveday! Don't you realise THAT model doesn't come. off the Secret List until after Christmas!"

DAVID LEWIN on a satin-lined safari

Honey-Bear Ava turns up

with a Sinatra

Kagera River, Tanganyika. ONEY BEAR AVA and two New York-bred leopards arrived here · just after a pride of lions made a dawn Faid on the camp.)

Gardner

To greet Ava (Honey Bear is her film nick- name in "Mogambo" which is being made in the bush here), n red carpet in provided

Tolereul the rare and expen- sive black leopards, there is M and B for one who is sick, and arshop-polish-like lotion to paint ever, thej bald patch, on tije rest, of the other..

ROARING OFF

Misr Gardner. decided to take a

shower.

tuck-box

Suddenly a rush,, (a tawny streak; and a Hon leaps from the undergrowth in front of us and over the bonnet of our car, followed Immediately another. Mar

Everyone in the cast is work Ing now. West End" attor Larry Nabem‍th, as o ́river cap-: tain, to piloting an animal. armada, upstream. Philp Stainton and Erie Pohiman. are Gable's assistants; unloadi the cargo

There is a worrying moment. when à, giraffe falls on Stalo- ton. "Worrying for the giraffe, that la," says Stainton - be weighs 18% stone.

DE-TANNED

forest something stir nothing serious, only three'scroplane en- - gines specially flown in to

But when it comes la manufacture a hurricane, Shor

Clark Gable and Grace Kelly. Donald Bndon, 29-year-old Bri- battle through it. It looks un tich; actor whose first Blm part comfortable, but Gable says: was a lead in "The Cruel Beo, "Don't worry about actors, the camera crew any he testoo They are always comfortable. sinburned to appear as a new- ly arrived tenderfoot in tho Then Honey Bear Ava comes

de-tanning

bungalow/

Dim; with: baking.

t

The lions three of them HE PAPPLE-PIE

are greeted by armed white Dround Tek. Christmares from now the hunters and roar off

smile apples and pears which follow to camp. perimeter The blood-starved tissues after the Christmas pudding may away.

To add to the frills of this swell up into (ching chublains, be replaced by papples--a scodin-lined sutari, Miss Gardiner

between the two,

brings with her from sick leave Nicolinic acid is closely re- Miss Jamos las mate the first". The Bust-ever undoubted in London two crates of special lated to nicotino, but; smoking full-scale analysis of the bobrid between a pear and on.j drinking; water in bottles and a to Gabio's, four-roomed":: jungle, wie The problem En will not help to prevent chilb- vitaming in nuts at bristol apple has been grown by British fuck-box provided by husband lains. By contracting the blood Univeralty research siption in plant breeders.

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"Ava's

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Ava Daniner, “Bighe caution of keeping your hands tomatoes, of any fresh-fruiti

A trend Glade Kelly, co-star Clark lunch, Bunny Allen, the hund Mr. M. B. Crane, who grew Geble, director John, merd, and whko hunter, gone off to churd Cfun, the Mus miestng, de as and feet warm is the most r liable way to prevent chilblains Walnuts, hazels, and Alberts them, has no iden yet what fresh cameraman Bob Burice out the lons who areia qull sun-baked africans (Stims in a

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