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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-Across: 1 Reduce, 4 Spied,

7 Qubset, 8 Peril, 10 Stlr, 12 Dilated, 16 Sewer, 10 Rose, 17 Eyes, 10 Fever 20 Resides, 21 Deal, 23 Plant, 24 Dandit, 25 Swede, 20 Torrid Down: Register, Despises, 3 Chef, 5 Prepared, Exiles, Fires, 11 Resigned, 12 Defer. 13 Toreador, 14 De pleted, 18 Yellow, 22 Dadlo,

YOU WERE IN A STRANGE

HOUSE WITH YOUR FAMILY

AND ABOUT A DOZEN

TIGERS YOU TAMED

ONE AND DID NOT FEEL IN THE LEAST

AFRAID

THIS

DREAM

MEANS:

The tigers are, of course, the raping emotions in the depths of your nature which you feel well able to control and tame,

Even in strange surroundings away from home you still feel you have your family with you, the moral support of your loved Fives you trength and confidence in

Dres your

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1953.

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT..........

Captain Bligh a villain? No, No, No

ESEARCH by London

RESEARCH Conchon

disclosed that "Bligh of the Bounty" lived at No. 100, Lambeth Road, Lambeth. The fact is recorded in a plaque of blue and white.

The Council, erection of the

demn the popular

notifying the plaque, com

impression,

"fostered by Alm toon"

and car-

that Bligh Was ofile of the und men of history. Indeed his consideration for his crew was greater than was common at the time.

BLIGHT'S

PARADE

when

Patrick

*

ACOLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

from EMIGRATION, Malta's three- hoard until he returned. Where from IMMIGRATION emigra was the last pluce a thief would tion team set look. The dustbin, of course. the off last week to have a look at And so, smiling smugly at his his own lugenuity, he locked up This week, they were back the сива and left.

•

•

Home again he

this

he made straight dustbin, scrabbled franileally through the rubbish, found nothing. He dashed into

1

•

arrived be PATRIOTIC Britishers at when Britannia

suffering Camp. Elizabethville PAT

Kores, fumad liver fuko; the tropical killer- returned POW Major - dlacaso

attacks which Weller said the Reds liver

causes Internal Brazil, and con haemorrhage. had put him in solitary

And But South African doctorą, again. Anement for ten months.

"They missed the boot in Lon- for of transfusioná all for singing God Save the began a series

don, Queen.

in which Claudy was given 23 Eventually he Then Weller confided: "Mind pints of blood.

is Ceylon the house to be told by his you, I was singing It 24 hours a rallied and last week he called SMART Violence day.

used to have a char- smiling senord, home barlier When I wasn't singing at the local blood transfusion GUYS

"thanks".

acteristic oriental air than expected from visiting myself. I organised other people service offices to say

•

about it: It came with the relatives, that she had given tho 10. do it for me. We formed a

homeward sudden, vielout flash of a knife dustbin contents to the local Pilgrims of God Save the Queen QUIET

the merciful swiftness of ragman.' committee Just to make the SEASON bound from Islam's or

Holy city, Mecca, club-crack on the skull,

The senor and the senora, aro Reds uncomfortable."

But crimes have changed. still looking-for that ragmen In a bid to stem the never told questioners that 1983 had

Ceylonese villains have affect- ending flood of patriotic senti- been "a mild year" for El Haj, honan - the plaque is Arrowed.

a Hollywood suavity and ment

the Communists locked the mass pilgrimage by world ed

Matho-w Raymond Chandler character.

Talbot start- this voyage bread-fruit was dis-the singing Major in lavatories, Moslems. Only 600 pilgrims had they plan with the cunning of a FOR AN

died from heat, they confided. damp cells and dug-outs.

drink- covered at Tahiti.

When he emerged after ten

mg on Richard Aluvihare.

the In August 1701. he fought

committee BEWITCHED Two witch doe- chief Sir

movic Dublin docks when he was 12 at the Doggerbank battle. He months a reception

fors were whisk- Ceylon's mushrooming was appointed to the 200-ton of his men were walling

him. Gleefully they greeted ed off to prison in Livingstone, houses have been flooded with years old. He went on drinking Bounty. in December 1767,

last werk gangster pictures—95 percent well into his prime. Occasionally, bim with strains at their Northern Rhodesia,

for a divoralon, he gambled, arriving at Tahiti 10 months national anthem.

Ind their costumes and lets from Hollywood,

But one Surturday night he later.

And the Ceylonese lap It up- The Reds gave it up.

donated to the Rhodes-Living- native

Ply- Object of the voyage was to

stone Museum.

perhaps without noting the last went, roaring drunk, to borrow? for accompanied Captain collect brend-fruit

plants

Beamed the curator: "Com- seconds of the final reel when money from his friends, They

turned him down. are the good guy triumphs. bis second voyage their introduction into the West DELICATE On the Royal Air plete witch doctors' kita

as coling Indies. world

This week, the government round the

Force air station at diMcult to oblain." QUESTION master in the Resolution. During In Apeli 1789, Fletcher

Nicosia, (Cyprus), He has hopes of profiting fur- acted: Gangster films are oul Christian led a mutiny, and

a delicate question of protocol ther from the gaolings: "witch *Bligh

doctors in prison often become THE RAGMAN Wages and his 18 companions very delicate. were put abroad an open boat, Forewarned that Queen talkative and reveal the secrets ONLY

without

mother of of their craft, still shrouded in RANG ONCE Zelne

of Jordan, for three King Hussein,

would be stop- mystery, months, covering 3,000 miles, ping en route to Turkey, RAF

Bounty The mutiny in the may have been due not to spite against Bligh, but because

the luxurious climate and easy life on Otabelle (Tahiti) made the men resentful of the rigours of naval life. Bligh, mouth, Cook on

of

•

LOND

WILLIAM BLIGH

provisioned charl. They

but

sailed

1754-1817

COMMANDER OF THE

"BOUNTY"

LIVED HER).

趋

Here is the plaque

THEN A MUGE PANTHER CROUCHED AND

SPRANG AT YOU - YOU SEIZED IT,

AND TWISTED ITS HEAD.

FORCING IT TO THE FLOOR

Karvard Brandthe

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ability to discipline your desires: to prove that. you twist the panther's neck for him the moment he tries to dominate you. 8, it emo- seems obvious you have some violent tional problems to grapple with.

However, you've got hold of something Important, the greatest help to solving. one's dimcult problems is to realise your own people are on your side.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHERE ARE

WE GOING -

TO THE

SOUTH

POLE ?

*

AFTER A MAN' TOSSES TOGETHER. A PAIR OF OLD SLACKS, TOBACCO AND A FEW FISH HOOKS, HE IS ALL SET

A

·

for

EX-DRUNK, And no wonder, says police BEATIFICATION

meagre alinust standard

Ara

Saddened, he went to church next day and promised the priest he would reform. He did,

He became a well-paid clerk, by spent his time on theology and any his money on charity.

In 1925, when he was 09, hế Barcelona... But one collapsed and died on the street. And what do the witch doctors

about their

enballero six-month peseta-loving

gloat- The pollee found heavy chains men turned over all the lak

the 5,000 the poutances? They're quite happy.

dollars led around his body. on facilities of their mess to

The Votioen has Just ; that of visiting royalty.

A prison sentence confirms them he had manugel to save in his

und 25 years.

nounced that the case for us Vacation bound, he worried beautißeation is notring come with their

about where he could eacho his pletion.

eventually reaching Juve,

The

sellled The mutineers

with some Phcairn Island the women from Tahiti.

Returning to England, Big was promoted to comunander, are then to the

Islas gained

Soci Plain. A voyage him the Gold Medal of the Society of Arts,

young

Work

While the Jordan Air Force as bona fide practitioners plane refuelled the Queen was

in the mess. The prestige at home. entertained visit over, deferential officers bowed her out; respect. fully saluted their farewells,

Later in the mess "you" In 1794 he was captain of

an orderly dis- the Werrier off Ushunt and in know-what" 1797 he commanded the Direc- covered a large, regal diamond Red - cared oflicers He also ring. for at Camperdown. distinguished himself the wondered how to

at

alsclosing mutiny of the Nore.

return

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without indelicately where it had been found.

The problem was solved

Royal alr-

After several other commands he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, where his them by a very plebian signal

kursh nuthority was

He was

his

sunny

.U over

AN AUSTRIAN TAUGHT THE

DALAI

LHAMA SKI-ING

the summer residence

little

By JAMES TAYLOR resented. from the airborne

courtesy and good humour. ring missing. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, dom-in the Potala Palace, and deposed by craft: "Queen's forcibly

By Heinrich Harrer, 16% Dalas Lhoma himself.

of the Detomined not to go back, they' Major, George Johnston of the Probably left in RAF toilet. 102nd Foot,

imprisoned Please hunt."

He can bamboozled their way into the and

(Hart-Davis) until March 1810.

Relleved RAF men radioed

12. A sured that his book will interior. Far from upsetting the Johnson was tried for this back: "Ring safe in RAF

pents come understanding for officials whom they met later in and cashiered.

Bligh

was recustody."

THE heavy veil that has a people whose will to live in Lhasa, they found that ova

boty treated the affair as a huga leased, returned to England,

hung for so long over care and freedom has won su Tear-CHANGED Bright-eyed, three- Tibet. in drawn aside for us indifferent world". was given

Joke. Nevertheless their journey from sympathy

an joke. flog as

to the holy city was exceedingly admiral of the Bluo, and sub-

ΒΟΥ

year-old Claudy

perilous, They were

as - sequently 05 admiral of the

Lannoy will leave in a book of exceptional in-

A keen climber and explorer, equipped to face the weather f In 1814. Up to this time Capetown for his Belgian Congo terest that will rank in Harrer and his friend Peter were to deal with robbers, he had lived

they at 100, Lambeth

hune a different boy from when slature with the account of Aufschnaller were caught by the from whom Read, but on his retirement he he arrived a very different boy. Kon-Tiki.

they had many outbreak of war on a recon- resided at the Manor House,

narrow escapes, naireance in the Himalayas and Farningham, Kent,

Interesting the journey was,...); No European has ever before interned at Dehra-Dun. They it is the delights on the por He died en December 7, 1817, in Bond

London, and blood content of his body ten been in as excellent a position made a break and found their sonalities of the people, and the Street was buried in the churchyard of times in four months. Two of us that enjoyed by the author way through the mountains to descriptions of curious customs.

the transfusions St. Mary, Lambeth, where an

the He has given us a complete and Tibet, Although the Tibetan au- that make the book outstanding: same week.

unblased record of the life and thorities did everything to make but most remarkable inscription on his tomb recortis

are the No one really that he died "beloved, respected

thought the people, having lived in the them go back across the frontier eye-witness accounts that Harrer Claudy had much of a chance very heart of the Tibelan King- they were treated with perfect has been able to give of intimate. and fomented."

In

operations; a series of doctors have changed the entire

were

уч

Happy Holiday - Ha

COPA (MELY GENERAL FEATURES

COR THE WORLD RIGHTS RESETTIO,

A LIST A MILE LONG OF THINGS YOU'D BETTER DO WHILE SHE'S AWAY— NOT TO MENTION SOME YOU'D BETTER NOT DO.

POP WHERE IS MY

HARMONICA.?“

"I CAN'T ·

FIND

IF YOUR, HUSBAND SPLASHES LIKE A WALRUS IN THE TUB AT HOME BE PREPARED FOR THE 'QUAINT PLACES YOU WILL

FIND ON THE ROAD.

GOSH-ALL

I MEANT

WAS. YOU

MIGHT LIKE

A CHANGE FROM MY COMP'NY!“

MY

UKE, EITHER:

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GOME THINGS ARE LEFT AT HOME

ON PURPOSE.

عب

THERE IS BOUND TO BE AN EXPLOSION WHEN SEPARATE VACATIONS ARE SUGGESTED.

BY HARRY

-DANCING, TENNIS, SWIMMING,

RIDING,

ETC.

"ETC"

JIVEY

PINES

14

WEINERT

"DO THEY HAVE A

HAMMOCK ? *

DAUGHTER PICKS THE SPOT

AND POP IS ON IT.

"WHAT DID

YOU SAY

THE NAME

OF THE PLACE

15 ?*

"DON'T FORGET

SNAKEBITE

REMEDY

- CURES ANYTHING !

THE ONLY

THING

HE FORGOT

IS WHERE THEY'RE GOING.

AND SOME FOLKS EXPECT THE WORST

THEY TAKE ALONG EVERYTHING BUT

THE MEDICINE CHEST.

religious ceremonies that have been closely guarded secrets of all time,

LAUGHTER-LOVING

The Tibetans aro Ukable, laughter-loving people, superati tious but surprisingly tolerant of the beliefs and behaviour other people. Governed foudatty by dual system of religious and secular aristother seems to be a

lack, of

Intrigue or jealousy. omeinin laugh heartily at themselves, at their

colleagues and

oven ar

ther religious customs.

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Matters of state are frequently settled by reference to oracle a priest with powers similar to those of

spiritualist medium. While in a trance sans of these mediums perform syrations and physical feats loo bending sword Into spiral. Such spectacles are frequently. Luyed at the annual deling week. held in the summer palace of the Dalai Lama,"

The two Austrian prisoners of war quickly flised Into the social life of the city, undertaking pro-: Jects from dam-building" toʻ painting religious statues with gold; from arranging a general- Ing plant to drawing maps of the city. Some people showod a lively interest in the outdo world and gladly rent their

| children along to

to bo odu

end

Introduced tennis

found

that

to the city football was forbidden, and enjoyed

the

traditional Fibotan sports like trick horse-riding. An werving experience was the race of riderless horses that burst. Into the town. It was the business of the spectators to sea that the right horse (belonging to the Dalal hama) should win!.

J

DIFFICULT PATH ... The present Dalai Lama is u boy of eighteen. Ho is believed by the people to be the Incarng- tion of Buddha and was, dlje covered at the age of two, a few years after the death of his predecessor. From his earliest years he has worn the

the power. with which he has been invested with

great

dignity

Hoxhas Assurance, is

is intelligent and may be progressive. In Asia, w ever, the progressive ruler often and his path extremely difficult. The author became a clot friend and tutor of the Deloi Lhama and introduced him to the art of ski-ing,

From the very highest and also from the very humblest points

of vantage 'Keinrich' Horror weites a story that no body clue could write about a country that not more than, a tiny handful of Europeans have ever been able to vidit. It has been

polpetiol as the Book Society Choles