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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24; 1952.

THEY JOINED

JOINED THE

THE ARMY

LIEUT.-COLONEL DIONE WOLF, 31, whose home is at Süichester (Berks), is an instructor at the WRAC's Stag College at Frimley Park, Surrey. She was born in Foochoto, China, there her father was an oft man. She joined the Army as a private in 1942, road to be a military assistant on Lord Alanbrooke's staff when he was Chief of the Imperial General Slag. This month she is marrying a major in the Royal Scots.

ANN A. FARRINGTON and Jane A. Farrington are twins. aged 18, from Norteich, They foined the Army three months ugo. The idea was their father's. He is a CON- merchant, a war-time lieut.- colonel. The Farrington

twins are cadets at the Officer Cadel Training Unit, at Hindhead, where one has been placed in the Edinburgh com- pany and one in the Windsor: they live in different huts. "There's something in this life in uniform that clolitan life doesn't have," sold Ann. **1,wouldn't swap this job for any other," Jane added.

THE WRAC's Christmas card tous designed by Captain Audrey Barfoot, 34, whose home is in Bournemouth. She is a star captain at the War Office, and foined the old ATS

as a private in 1939, -

In 1945, Captain Barfoot was demobilised. She took up her old work as a commercial artist, "It was dificult to settio in civilian life, I joined the Territorials, but that did not seem to satlafy me.". She Joined up as a Regular again, in her old' rank.

WRACS hear the call of adventure

by HUGH CLELAND

Tomen's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) has a map of the world with Hogs to mark where members of the Cops ara serving. "Flagged on the mop are military stations in Bermudo and Hangkong, Gibraltar and Germany, the Canal Zone in Egypt, and Kenya,

year's Christmas card of tha

The days have gone whan a girl who wanted to join the Army vos thought odd. Now, the spirit that has mayed gederations of their brothers, „mayes them. They join for the far-flung possibilities of adventure.

They join a Corps that is just over 6000 strong. Their pay range is from 361. 9d, a weak, all found, for a recruit, to £1163 a your for a brigadier. most pay-rates allowances must be added.

To

They are girls and women like those pictured on this page.

MARGARET, BURGESS, 24. is a private in a mixed anti- aircraft battery,"stationed in Susser. She joined the Army. 21 years ago, after being attracted by G recruiting poster,she saäw in her home town, Teignmouth, Devon.

DRUM MAJOR EVELYN WHITE, 30, an ex- Dagenham Girl Piper from Rainham, Esser, has been three and a half years in the WRAC band. She marches ahead of the band tossing into the air the "mace"you may have seen her doing it in the Lord Mayor's Show. She is self-taught in the art, and had to lead the band on the day after she joined it. Band tours have taken her to Italy. Egypt and Palestine, as well as around the British Isles. The 48 girls in the band (35 on parade, the rest training) receive no extra pay for Service engagements: if they appear at fetes or carnivals or other, cluilian functions, each member receives part of the fee. London Express Střelce

CORPORAL BARBARA STEVENS, 20, of Wallington, ta a training instructor at the "WRAC Depot, Guildford." "Her father toas 28 years in the Royal Horse Artillery and

Royal Artillery,

OFFICER-CADET NORA DUGÁRD, 29 (left), 1008 in the ATS from 1941 to 1946. When she was demobilised, she opened a photographic studio in her home town, Hereford, foined the WRAC as a Territorial, and later rejoined the Regular Service. Oficer-Cadet Betty Sutclife, 23 (right), ta the daughter of a Tory MP and is a musician.

"FAULTLESS" RECTOR SUFFERER

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London, Dec. 23. Staffordshire, stace 1938, denied minority can create in a porish Mr Benjamin Challinor told all the allegations of unbecom-it, they are so minded."

Ecclesiastical Court

ating conduct and neglect of his

Our Australian Newsletter

Sheaffer's TM "SNORKEL

Living

The Bush Fire Plague Language

Makes Early Start This Year

FROM H. KING WOOD.

Sydney, Dec. 19.

Australia's annual summer disaster the bushfire has struck carlier than usual this year.

In a sickening three days one fire did damage that won't be re- placed this century, caused a loss of something like £1-million in property and stock and wiped out in a few hours a life-time's work.

Each year these heart-breaking fires sweep through hundreds of miles of valuable country in all States. Each year they leave behind their trail of dead stock," burned homesteads, blasted hopes. They prob- ably destroy more of Australia's natural wealth than all other forces com- bined. Each year they seem to get worse; each year we seem more powerless to do anything about them

The outbreak this time was in the rich Trangie 'area in outback Now South Wales. There, in two days, 250,000 acres of fat lamb and wheat country were turned into a blackened, smoking waste. Fifty stations wore badly damaged and losses in sheds and out-buildings were tremendous. Here and there in the blackness is the gaunt remains of a vehicle-a tractor or a truck- which could not be moved in time broke the burned-out: flatness.

Here are some of the heart, curried fowl is out, All meat|eitend and is leaving Tokyo by breaks that happen when an and garne Is destroyed air cu December 22. Australian bushfire strikes:

Grazier A. K. Butler lost 4,000 high class merino breeding ewea which had taken him 40 years to build up.

Immediately.

Why we say, Pain,

The derivation of this word throws up one of the oldest beliefs of man- kind. It comes from the *Latin

paena, meaning penalty or punishment. All through the Old Testament, and especially in the Book of Job, it is argued that evil commit ted is repaid on earth with pain and sickness.

Mail Notices

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The Intest Limes of posting shown below are those for on-, registered correspondence posted at G.P.P., Hongkong. The latest posting timen elsewhere which, In general, non enzilor than the OP.0. times, can be ascertained by enquiry at the loeuk omes. The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars ro garding parcel mails can be as- cariained by enquiry at any post. omes.

Chrleiman, Arrangements To-morrow, December there will be one general de- very commencing 10 KM There will be no delivery on Friday 26.

„The public dounters at the 0.7.0. and Kowloos P.0. wil bo open an December 2 and 26 for the sale of stamps, and delivering of parcels from © 201 to noon, All other Post Oncer. will be closed on these days.

DECEMBER 24

WEDNESDAY AT

Two scouts are coming from Iceland, two from Borneo, 100 A two-year-old boy crawled New Zealand; 11 Britain: 84 into a 19-gallon milk can on his Malaya; 53 Singapore; 25 Indo- parent's form in a dairying dis-China; 56 New Gumea, and Ten other graziers

loabtrict near Sydney. Then he found others from Ceylon, Fiji, Indo- around 3,000 sheep each.

he couldn't get out. His parents hesia, Solomons and Bruncl. AL least 80,000 head of sheep tried all the tricks they knew

ESPERANTO? are dead on other properties, and couldn't move him either. A Australian Navy and Air maybe 1,000 hand of cattle.

to the neighbour came

resque Minister Mr MaMahon, just back About 75,000 acres of wheat with a pair of tinsmith's snips, from a tour of the Far East went up in the blaze and some cut the bottom out of the can lunched at Hanol with French 500 miles of fencing is downL

Blem, Malaya, Indonesia, Austraila. Some idea of the loss can be and extracted a very frightened commander General Salan and

local Airy commander General New Zealand. 4.30 p.m., C.FL little boy.

de Linares. He had a pleasant Indo-Chins (Tonkin only), 4.50 p.m... the sheep would average about

lunch, talked to his hosts on CPA

Forsen, Okinawa, › USA. (New £5 a head, the cattle about

all sorts of subjects. After the York), Canada, @p.m. meal the Australien Air Attache N £7.10 and to replace the fencing would cost about £500 a mile

Jagan, 6 p.m., 1.0.A.C.

By Burface approached him, said: together. You must encals very "You scaned to get on well'

good French?"

"Not a word," said McMahon.

11 sald "Odd,"

the attache, scratching his ear. "They don' speak a word of English!"

Contract For gained if it is remembered that

Every British

Worker

London, Dec. 23,

The Government are to put ¡ into operation the Workers

Charter, the Conservative code for humanising relations in in- dustry and increasing the status and security of the worker,

Terms of the Charter provide

པ་ that every working man and woman should be given a writ- ten contract and that length of notice should be adjusted the period of service.

to

The aim is to scrap the system under which the manual worker is paid by the hour and, even after long service, can be dia- missed at short notice.

It will also lay down the prin ciple that extra effort should always bring extra roward, and that promation must 'be bý merit.

The Government, have de- cided that it will not be necess-

ry to introduce

legislation. The Charler will be put into operation in Government in- dustrial establishments and in the nationalised Industries. 1ts acceptance by private industry will be voluntary.

Radio Hongkong

1.K.T.

3. Programme Summary; 0.02 Christmas Variety: 837, The Virai Nowell-A Programme of Carols for Christmas sung by the Fleet Street Choir end Introduced. by Alec Robertsen (BBCTE). Interlude: Sweet singing in the Choir (BBCTS). A Frogramme of Carols for Christ. mán kung by the Fleet Street. Choir

7. Time, Signal; and

THREAT TO WOOL Artificial fibres had developed so alarmingly in the post-war period that within 10 years the In one area a farmer watched United States would probably not 8,000 bags of wheat disappear; need to buy any natural wool. and in another fire reduced 2,000 bags to blackened chaff

Professor T. G. Hunter, pro- At tlie weekend property fessor of chemical engineering owners had the sickening tank at Sydney University and an of of riding around shooting badly authority on synthetic fibres, sheep and cattle to put issued this warning. The pro- them.

mcans out of their misery. fessor is by no

anti- Japanese rocosourse punters Every now and then they came wool, but pulls no punches may shortly be using Australian upon kangaroos, paws red-raw when talking about our wool automatic totalisators, Managing Dkestor of Automatic Totalian- said that the Japanese

with burns, many devoid of fur, wool - marketing (tors

some blinded. A bullet ended their agony, too.

Tax Shing

睿

Mac-a, 2 a.n.: û pm, us Lee ling Indo-China 3 pm, Sun On.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 By Ala

. Formom, a a.m.. via C.AT.

Phulpphia) Guam, Hwall V BẠ (San Francisco), Noon, PA.A.

Star Busyne, India. Pakistan,

Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe Noun, B.0.A.C.

Philppmes, N. Borneo, 4.30. “Umu C.P.A.

Dy Surface

methods are medieval and our Government had decided to hand ·Macao, 0 .m.; 0 p.m.. Le national policy on the wool In over Government-controlled race-Hong/Ink Shing.

tracks to private interests which am train via Canton,

China, People's Republic. 8.30 he

Burma. 10 s.m.. 3 Helios. totes.

Indonesia, Noon, - Tüklen Malaya, Aden, Middle East Great

dustry 1serwaty 21C Wing were keen to use. Australian

We are

the

REAL NEWS

TIMBER LOST

Fires causing slightly less

most elementary pre- To lako. damage swept through other cautions-to-protect the wool in And here is real news The Arttala, Burc.pe, Noon, as Clytoneus.. oreas. In the north a State dustry, although it is gravely Australian rice famine has been forest caught alight and

threatened hundreds of acres

though it co- and of valuable

temporarily ended until Christ- more than half our presents timber went up in smoke. Fire-

tuas. Previously only Aslaties or fighters who worked around the

tlic overseas trade.

people with a doctor's certificate | c.PAL The threat, clock were lucky to control the

synthetic Abres

could buy it. The rice normally flames, let alone put them out. to the wool industry has grown would have been shipped to & West Africa, it a.m. Air France,

So much for the Great not in a year's time demands delays have diverted a lot of Vem

alarmingly. The position now-Pacific Islands, but

back. That's one place where you still need plenty of heart to be able to take it and come back for more,

the

of

Immediate attention Federal Government.

it

may be

by

CHRISTMAS_HOLIDAY MAAA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 By Air Formosa, a., Via C.A.T.

· Japan, - U.S.A., Canada, 9 km Indo-China, France. French North

Indo-China, Frases, French North

shipping & West Africa, 4.30 p.m.. Al

the to the local market.

Philippines, Guam, Hawill, USA,' Housewives this week'rushed p.m., P.¿

Okinawa, JA, (Seat Formora,

Canada,·· grocers who advertised rice for the Western

N, Borneo, Australia, New Zu- only land. 6 pm. Q...

Japan, & p. B.Ó.A.C.

"My only fear is that already

be too late. Curious part of all this is that

"Figures already show a fall fres were fought in freezing, bitter wind, so cold that of £12,075,000 in the value of Arefighters wore

wool overcoats as

purchases by the United

October this year. But

they patrolled the fire boundary. States over the period July-

Unheard of at this time of the

year, snow has been falling is growing all the time."

in America the output of

of synthetics the Australlen Alps and the bitter westerlles sweeping of them have spread a cold the State,

As he spoke the Professor cigarette lighter.

wave overs

But even. this hasn't stopped the Christmas rush and cities are crowded, with spending a record.

said,

wick is obre glass," he blowing out the flame.

A moment later he wiped some ink from his fingers onto his shirt "It's nylon," he ex-

plained. "Come out tonight

A woolgrower in an outback when I rinse it." town in northern NSW has a He got up and walked around

that's the

and Introduced by Alec Robertion; amb of many colours, It has jet the room. "Nice flannels these,

point World News | black legs, a brown saddleback, ondon Bug Vocall: 7.15 Sports 7.10. Christmas with Patti

a black car with a tinge of blue they're not. They are Review by Brig Young Studio); while the rest of its body is the synthetic Abre much inferior to

uquai greyish-white.

7,20, Orchestra of the Week-London Studio (Concert: New Symphony Or chestra cond. try • Denis: Wright (BBCTS); 159, Weather Report;": 8, Lucky Dip-Variety mequests pre- sented by Margherits (Stulo). Alec Guinness la "A Christmas Carol". (BBCTS), A Radio Version Dickens of the Story, by Charles Produced by Clellind Flon: 930, The Festival of "Nine Lessolle and Carola (EBCHS)! From King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Introduced by Baall Groy:" 10.39, Appointment with Music; 1650, Weather

ch? But

carly

now

the stuff they

are turning out

CURRY WORRY-

Among annual prize winners Students from Eastern coun- at a boys' high school near tries stuying in Sydney axe Sydney are

Latvia, six from getting worried about their curry. three from Poland, two At Kingsford Smith airport the the Ukraine and one each from

from

other night there was consider-Germany, Hungary, Estonia, able argument when Customs France and Holland. They top- classes, officials confiscated a parcel of ped eight of the 16 Report: 1 Radio News Steel London Relay food being brought in by an In- three came second and thres Recorded: suw, A Christenes Jaik | dian student.

third.

by the Archbianov 'of Canterbury The parcel contained curry, the Most - Hov, „Geoffrey S. Fliner Landon Helari: 1130, Carol Servies curried fowl and curled pan. Caine land. (On); .midnight, Fontleed.

from the Roman Catholic Cathedral,

fiest Ten Mass Grom, the ́floman President of the Overseas Cathol Cathedral, Commentator: Students Association, Ali Asgur, The Ray, Father Fgan, BJ (UB): who is studying at the Sydney

Stoke hearing charges against duties the first such charges to INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION God Save The Queen: 1, Close down University of Technology, said the Rector of Talke, the Rov. | be brought in England, Enoch John Davion:

and

His counsel, Mr. K. Mynett, "Mr Davies is an excellent said: "-ddmit that sometimes parish priest. I think this care Mr. Davies may, have acted up- has been brought about by widely, injudfelously, public-house gossip which has folly, but I wonder whether gone on after service on Sunday the conduct of any of us, would evenings.

bear completo investigation.

"There ivna n "There is nothing he can be

small parly faulted" for!` added Mr. Chal-¦ compaigning, against the rector, Jihor, a former churchwarden. and it does not need much im- Sby - four - year - old. Mr. ogiration for you to realise how Davies, Rector of Takke, much troublo a small and vocal

This test raises two points of interest. (1) The

fact that the marnica gra in three, bags, Radi not in only one, doesn't make an difference to the odds, (2) iD doesn't matter how many of the non-red marbles, are yellow and how many aro Durposes they are merely for our non-red. Honoo: If there are p marbles in sif, of which m are red and j. are

BAD LANGUAGÉ

NO OFFENCE

London, Dec. 23. When a man was summoned at hovered (fellow and area). Mansfeld for using bad language ((~2), (0-2)/p(0−1

the clerk/conruited lawj book 0/21 whence p is 9. nia 0, 2

and announced:

therefore m ta 3.

· and .*

Bo the chance that a red marblo in drawn from each bag $2.1/957, 50:1/04.

The required odds are 83 te ena ainut

Vlanden Kryteja, Nervios,

"It isn't an offence to

rale and some steres tet aside } 5.M., H.K.A./N...

special counters to CVD

rice.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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- BCOUTS' JAMBOREE Scouts from: overseas are be- ginning to arrive in Sydney for the Pan-Pacife Jamboreo-the biggest gathering of scouts in Australia's, history,

Portion of the Malayan con- that about

2,000

Eastern tingent is already here, 80 are students in Australia found expected to arrive from Hong- locally made curry" "not up"to kong by air tomorrow, and a standard".

further 25 from Hongkong will "Wo, look forward to getting arrive next week in the Chung- some of our own curry when sha. The Jamboree will last curvjaiting friends arrive," he from December 29 until January, said: "It is going to be a bit of Two thousand tents will be

blow if your Customs Dept, proad through the 300-acre "How about that other Santa Claus down on the corner is going. tart confiscating comp alte,

the position is not ar bad Eleven thousand scouts are secria The Department expected to attend the Jam-

Language Layoff ow 1 bure bed higher The Department expect

anyone else's for that matter."

Case dismissed.

COPR. 1950 MY NEA BESTVICES INZÁT, ME, BELL, SL, S. PAY, OFF.

with the bellis ha some relative of yours2;} };

Printed and published by,, WILLIAMS'

can bring as much curry into Hidesaburo · Kurushima" "wili | 'and on behalf of South China Morning Post: the country as they like-But | be: the lone Japanese scout to Wyndham Birent, City of Victorias, in the