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THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1953.

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Crossword Puzzle Che SNAPSHOT GUILD With the Gloucesters in Korea

1:3

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1 Representative (0)....

5 Dato (5).

DOWN

1 Bound (4).

Festive occasion (4).

8 Spindle upon which wheel 3 Converts raw hide into

revolves (4).

Sloping (0).

11 Cancel (5).

12 Agree (0).

14 Command

(4).

16 Wush out (5),

18 Plank (a).

10 Flock (4).

20 Distant (0),

24 Lift (5).

25 Disinclined (6).

20 Historieni tule (4).

27 Symbols (5).

211

Most

nior (4)

leather (4).

4 Area (0).

5 Troit (7).

6 Vie with (7).

7 Consoles (7).

16 On the move (6).

13 Swallows up (7)

14 Refraining from food (7).

15 Direct in writing (7).

17 Angry (5).

19 Dutiful reverence (8).

21 Eat-shaped (4).

22 North American Jake (4).

23 Dextrous (4):

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across; 1 Abuts, 4 Mas- ter, Bishop, 10 Ovine, 12 Ordeal, 14 Matinee, 17 Cure, 18

27 Smeared. 24 Reverie, 22 Arla, 23 Dastard. Tower, 30 Sonople, 31 Darker, 32 Die Down: 1 Atburn, 2 Upset. 3 Swoon, & Alor, Tailor, 7 Recled, 9 Preside, 11 Vacast, 13.Demens, 15 Aver, 1 Ite-axe, 18 Hear, 20 Railed, 21 Viewer, 24 Stad, 25 Ample, 24 Dregs, 20. True.

YOU WERE

ADDRESSING A MEETING

IN A VAST HALL WHEN IT

RAINED VERY HEAVILY ON

YOU ALONE. THE RAIN WAS DRIVEN VIOLENTLY

IN YOUR FACE

Nomad lets

THIS DREAM MEANS: Your anxiety dream ends in elation and confulence, an excellent algu,

"Addressing a meeting in a vast ball" means getting your personality over blg; the driving rain is possible opposition and failure: it disconceris you, i.e., you feel anxious.

But something within

Jon

drives you

The sky is an excellent background against which to picture

the graceful charm of delicate blossome,

Cherry Blossom Time

TREES in full blossom

seem to have a special magnetism that attracts

cameras.

Every time I read or hear of the fained Washington cherry blossoms, the picture that forms

off

✯A REGULAR SOLDIER'S STORY OF ACTION✯

ROM the grove, the This graphic account of the from thetr.

of frozen to the metal. And they elvilian way "Faint crackle of a

drst action in Korea of a platoon life... The bulk of the bat- ace squalor and death in many of the Gloucestershire Regiment tallon's officers and NCO's were forms. breaking twig, which could is taken from Tobert O. Holles' regulars. There was a sprinkling They geltle down in Compu easily have been a magpie "NOW THRIVE THE of National Service volunteers. Valley; they find comradeship Á shout, carrying ARMOURERS" (Harrop. 12/08). All of life was represented in they hold u Christmas party, au

bottles of this polyglot company, sharing, trade

whisky for appeared. over from a long

which has recently had several at firet, only the common yearn- Anierican tents. They take Hil distance

Wo have The slight drone books on the Korean campaign in to get back to Blighty" and 327. They go to Tokyo for five of an aircraft passing over by war correspondents and the common resentment at having days' heelle leave. And, lastly, at a great height.... observers from the sidelines, so to "come all this bloody way to they find glory on a hill in the mind someone else's business. valley lending to Solma-Ri on of his Bren gun, was watching

account from a serving soldier It

it was intently

wore a gallery of ribbons won description of that famous final alow moving himself, "from the middle." the shadows among

Completely factual, it is a strik in hot battle during the Second stand contains some of the moat the fire na trio of flares burst simultane ing, soldierly narrative with no World War were not disposed moving passages in the book.

towards Aghting an ously a mile to the north. The emotional overstressings, mock- kindly

heroles or dramatisation--just obscure campaign in a country shadows seemed to fode at irregular intervals towards the one very observant man's story of they had never heard of for a edge of the

what trees, and halten into the ground. Lane rubbeded. his eyes hard, and stared again Nothing moved. He nudged Woodbridge, pointing: “Somethin" down yonder."

Pusan in No- "Woodbridge peered over the yember 1030 10 parapet of the trench, Al first that

"Lano, leaning against the butt to speak-but this is the first not their war. Men who St George's Day. This restrained

happen-

to tho Glucesters

on the time their troopship at docked

Fre tion

10

Krim

he saw nothing, until a series of battle on the dark patches moved across a gap River Imlin in In the undergrowth four hundred April

1051 In a which brought Woodbridge world recogni- yards down the hillside. hoarse undertone,

the section: sald to

"They're the along coming up About ten of them. single right in front of us. close to in your sights, but Gamer until the Bren opens

make a noise." opening "There was a steady rustling

now In the bushes, and acrabbling of loose earth.

In selecting your subject, look for quality rather than quantity. ge masses of blooms seldom photograph as effectively as simple grouping or a flower. Get Just as your subject as your will permit, or use a attachment. Your lens

close-up

in nind ipchudes many more should be ani! (1/10 or 1/22)

cameras than Trees.

or

flowers in the garden, there are floral points on a few hosie photography it will pay to re- member.

the

this the Lrack. great regiment, They'll

The author is poss Get them a 20-year-old don't fire. Regular Army up. Don't Sergeant in the Royal Electri- cal An i

u Mechani-

"Three hundred yards....The Chinese were just visible, moving slowly and doubled up, weaving in and out of the cover.

"At two hundred Woodbridge ngures passing twelve

cal Engineers,

and who was the Gloucesters' KUTTYOUEST Kares. wrote his story, his first full- fengu work,

Sergeant Robert Owen Holics, of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical. Engineers who

the WAN

Gloucesters' armourer in Korea,

ins

Ho

by.

they

19

that

he

COLISE which The Gloucesters bear on their had 20 many Colours more battle honours than in the rmeations any other Regiment

British Army. It was at their which

hend that Wolfo scaled the would

nat Heights of Abraham, and it was quite grasp.' In the arms of one of the

They are Regiment's lieutenants rushod up died. At Alexandria, they fought north of the back to back to repulse 38th Parallel, simultaneous attacks, from Just in time to sides. At Salamanca, six reliefs defend the rear

car of officers

and sergeanta feil of armies roll under the Colours, which wors back in a burne in the last assault by two ing series of leap- privates. At Waterloo, they werd frogging move the only English regiment to be IRGILLS,

their mentioned in Wellington's des-

and nerves strained patch. At Dunkirk, almost an by continually entire battalion was sacrificed digging in and protect the withdrawal. At Hill pulling out in 235 on the Imjin,

they added cold so Intenso fresh and undying lustre to their that t froze story of gallantry. tho onll-freeze liquid in

PETER LOVEGROVE

vehlcien and iruzen pellets,

the

ما

"Now Thrive And

The to its Armourers", in addition realistic presentation of the Korean battlefront, provides con- the clusive

that evidence Gloucestershire soldier of today hos lost none of the fortitude, rain like hard, humour and humanity for which

his forbears were renowned.

to insure a range of sharpness sufficient to record retails. With Whether are scapping the slow shutter speeds that go

you of pictures

decorative with these the

apertures, you may eberry trees, the apple blossoms prefer to place your camera on in your own back yard, Extent, 29

a tripod rather than run

picture-ruining camera of risk movemmit.

an im

in five months Lighting is always

in his spare time at Warminster. in pic- portant consideration

It was accepted at once by the ture taking, but especially so in noted picturing blossoms. Since across his line of vision.

They see Pyongyang disinte- shadows are essential for repro- "At one hundred the laboured publishers, has been serialised la n daily newspaper, and is soon duction of the flower form, side breathing of the enemy patrul to be turned into a film. Most grating in smoke and ruin. They THE to be lighting is desirable. Therefore, could be heard distinctly as they

of all, it provides the see the suffering of the Korean up the avoid the noonday sun, if pos-mounted

British civilians -- the

executions sible, and do your black-and-which passed directly in front of public with the first authentic. South Korean police, the tragle white shooting in mid-afternoon the section positions.

picture of the Infantryman cur Thirty. Lane there his everyday life ris: his and emaciated people fighting to "Fifty er in the morning, say after

his dif- plight of the refugees, ragged 66 life; his yards. o'clock, when the light hits one hunched his shoulder behind the ficulties and discomforts;

car ten years side of the blossoms. A hazy gun, trembling with anti- frustration and helplessness in collect scraps of food, the forgol-

had driven straight ago day, with light clouds velling the elpation. The features of the the face of much inhumanity; his ten children roaming half-wild instead of crooked I should

provides good light

for Chinese were now clearly visible. anxieties before and his fortitude about deserted, ruined villages. not be whining till I'm still Suf either colour or binck-and- "At fifteen yards Woodbridge in action; his humour, grousing Many of these scenes will be

tapped Lane's shoulder, and the and Ingenuity;

THEN SUDDENLY YOU WERE LIFTED AT A TERRIFIC SPEED THOUSANDS

OF FEET UP YOU WERE NOT FRIGHTENED BUT

WONDERFULLY EXHILARATED

Irrestdibly up against all this; you feel elated and "bigh." The best actors experience acute stage fright before their important performances; ambitious people MUAL cffcative, similarly, get anxiety dreams before a really bir project. Although keyed up, you stil! feel "on top."

It might help though if you could think

much you can help In terms of how than how much you can impress.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

SO I SAID

BLAB-

BLAB-

BLAB- BLAB

น

HE DREW HIS

TRUSTY BOWIE

-KNIFE--HE-DREW POP CORIY

HIS TRUSTY

BOWIE

KNIFE

ETC.

KEEP TALKING AND TALKING

WHILE HE IS TRYING TO READ-

"NOW WHERE

ARE YOU

GOING?

ETC.

rather

white film.

narrow truck portant informed

that odd

by

and The background is very im-night was suddenly hideous with amnity of men exposed to a com- difficult to forget, especially the

any the nuise of gunfire. Seven

fell on peril which can never be description of the pariant, too. Obviously, Plutter will detrnet attention immediately under the withering found" in uny other cir women,

of the Bren. Three from the delicate blossoms. The blast

more cumstances. sky is usually the best natural followed as the riftea picked them background, even if you need, patted the section with a

of the remaining two, one

10

assume a worm's eye view level

to get it. Otherwise, all I on from a carbine before slithering.

*

names out of

DENTON WELCH JOURNALS. Hamish Hamilton. 15s. 268 pagol.

ND if a silly woman

in u

all through."

one

to

The "silly woman" hati, haggard

June afternoon in 1935, a child bound to her changed the life of the 19-year- back by a lthy sash, who hacks old art student named Denton a hale in the ice of the river Welch by knocking him off his

and

an irre- with her wooden clog and then bicycle causing His characters-they have been drowns her emaciated child so Welch

perable injury in his spine. faced years of pain hospital, sy is the plainer and simpler mortally wounded, into the brush. given, fictitious

more years The background, the better your The survivor panicked, crashing consideration for those who lost hat she can continue the retreat and flower pictures will be. A K-2 downhill through the scrub until relatives during the fighting-are with two other older children, in which he zeemed almost

recover and then grew worse, or G Filter will dorken the sky fussllade from all the section no Errol Flynn types flamboyantly Or that of the refugees clingin dying in 1948, aged 31. and make the blossoms more weapons poured into his retreat- making the world At for demo- to the outside of rallway waggons

He was born in Shanghai, whte hud to be knocked off the attractive by contrast.

ing back. The crashing echoes eracy: "They were composed."

a well-to-do American reased, making the silence more he writes, "chiefly of reservists outside of railway 'trucks at the the -John van Guilder

they had Englishman and his who had been disturbed, rudely, Brst tunnel because

wife. He was brought up in England and meant to paint. He showed promise and distrust. Iliness drove him to write; short stories; sketches of hosptial life; novel; this

real."

How To Annoy A Husband

BY HARRY

WEINERT.

"HUMPH – HALF AN HOUR

LATE-WHERE DID THE

BOYS MEET

TODAY?

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"1

DON'T TELL ME YOU WERE ON TIME!

FOOL HIM BY BEING ON TIME→

EVERY TIME HE GOES TO THE KITCHEN

FOR A SNACK- GIVE HIM THE THIRD DEGREE VON

GOSH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ? THERE ARE SOME ARTICLES I WANT" TO READ OUT- OF-PRINT STUFF!)

.

WHEN HE TAKES YOU TO THE MOVIES, BE SURE TO REMOVE YOUR SHOES AND KICK THEM THREE

ROWS FORWARD.

COPIL 1963 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVINO,

"DID YOU SEE MY SEWING

BASKET?

HERE YOU ARE-

IT SMELLS LOVELY /

TRY THROWING AWAY HIS OLD

MAGAZINES.

ALWAYS PARK YOUR SEWING".

BASKET ON HIS PET CHAIR

#

"THEY ARE. MY

FAVORITE - SNIFF -

PROGRAMS- SUCH "TERRIBLE \"THINGS HAPPEN TO EVERYBODY..

GIVE' HIS FAVORITE

PIPE

A

BUBBLE

BATH.

TUNE IN ALL THE SOB STORIES AND

SOAP OPERAS

son

journal.

ot

self-

During the war, his small but real talent with Its. Intense per- sonal vision, began win at- encouraged by Edith Sitwell: "He uses words as a born writer," she said, "he never fumbles."--

tention. He

His meeting with the poetess is a passage of light relief in this journal which is, for the most part, an unhappy story of pain and frustration, of protest that health is denied him, of envy of those young men whom he would watch, fascinate, as they bathed on summer after- noons.

It is a very frank document; some of ita confessions wiili shock, As It goes OD, the writer's need to hurry growa more poignant: "I think that I cannot really have a great deal of time to do anything.”

Ono day in 1948 he stopped his journal, with the unfinish- ed sentence: "Even "now as I wrote, "

con- energy,

From that moment, ho centrated all bis pathetically slight, on finishing fils novel, A Voice Through u Cloud.

He could work only for thres or four minules at a time, be- tween bouts of raging headache, In a few months, he was dead. The novel was still unfinished. The unstrained freshness of his writing makes it likely that Welch will be read when many of his contemporaries wrote and falshed more he did are forgotten.

who than

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