1954-03-20 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1954.

CLEVER CANINE COPS

By TOM EYTON

A

TIN of opium has been hidden. It lies concealed under six inches of sand, in a wooden trough. A police dog, big und binek, barks excitedly in its kennel some 50 yards away. Instinct and weeks of training tell the animal what is expected.

The station yard is n live of activity. A fight has been reported, und Iwo police assaulted. The

constables

station's reserve strength j forming up and orders are being issued right, left and centre,

constable Jeads

A Chine Lena from the quiet sunity of her kennel into this hustle and bustie, to where Divisional Superintendent A.

A. L Gordon

Lands in the muddie of the yard. It 14 the rest-headed Superintendent who has hidden the tin of opium we part of

exhibition to

how

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show

quickly and efferently his songs can flid the drug.

She's off

Lena joke up at Me Go don

Jet

expresomat

quizzient,

›

almo

"Now as if to say. look, dock, a joke is a joke, but why on earth do have to play skupiel gammes in the middle of the aftern I don't want to Ex looking know esh enough. And porter

the

ferent.

opium. You

nd the stuff easily

why is this guy.

" newspaper ro-

wants I put me in paper. well that's dir- let's start work."

She sniffs at Mir Gordon's Angers to get the scent of the She plum, then she's off. TOY artand, cruuches, Hes Hat and sniff. Slowly, alowly, she makes her way, use to the ground,

She to the thought, for a secund, then her wuits paws begin to work like mnad. She

her digs furiously Teeth close around the tin box cintaining the optam.

Her

HOND

twitches and her

fail wags proudly. Mr Gordon grins his dog has proved

worth.

This

her

exhibition of the intelligence and obedience of police dogs wIS given for my bencilt at Kowloon City Police Station, where they have two Berce looking Alsatians, Lena

and Bingo. With the strong

JUST MARRIED

"Honey-this is a swell time to tell me that one of your aunties is a Commie."

Tarzan of the Apes

It

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Kent A. A. Milne lies

N

a nursing-home

and

teeth and well-muscled bodies of fighters, this pair of canine cups move gracefully with lithe, springy steps, yet lensed with every sense alert.

Bingo's turn

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severely ill. The name

London Express Service

Billy Bunter

Bulldog Drummond

Jeeves

Muffin the Mule

Sherlock But Holmes ?

YUM YUM-

Seems Women

Absent!

Are

By C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS

the

ceremony. flicks on a switch of of publicity and propaganda unveiling automatic recognition - A. transforming

whole people seemed to know any A. Milne and Winnie-the process of developing them? Thing about it. Pooh. They link together I will tell you a story. Questions were asked In this day.

The scene is set in the Parliament. spacious days before

Then the story came out. first world war, in 1904 Sir Barrie, that apparently shy James Barrie bad com and unworldly figure, had pleted his play, "Peter Pan," thought of putting

When I saw Binge and Lega

Swan and closely as In their cages, they made a

Zam. most unholy din. They barked Edgar, Negretti and and growled. started and bra, Gilbert and Sullivan.

untel Mr Gordon This is the test of a magic grunted, quietened them with a word.

You utter it - atal name.

the

not

Few familiar scenery, authority

to allowed the statue re- main, and it is there until

There are two postscripts to that story.

did The incident prevent Barrie being award- the ed a baronetcy in 1913.

And when Frohman went had showed her instantly, without a further paces, Bingo was also given her word of explanation, every his play. Beerbohm Tree, missioned the well-known down with the Titanic that

an oplum tracker.one knows who and chance us

the famous actor-manager, sculptor Sir George Framp- year he quoted Peter Pan's Her first attempt falled, Ap-

was crazy. ton to do the job. And he famous phrase, "To die will parently she had not been given you mean.

It is like a select little thought Barrie a acent and was unable to locate the dope,

club; called Frankensteins Charles Frohman. his had arranged privately with be an awfully big adven- car some 100 yards away. perhaps, for some of these American impresario, urged the First Commissioner of ture."

characters are monsters stponement. Jer second attempt was more

that overshadow and per- successful.

their overwhelm haps

After Lena

hidden in a private

what

Only Barrie

had faith in statue there. He had com-

THE STORY

Works for the statue to be THE CARTOON

crected.

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be leaving with his employers.

Billy Bunter and Tarzan of the Apes also seem less famous than they were.

The new names Usat come forward stem mainly from the strips. From America we hear of Superman, Dick Tracy, of Li'l Abner. In England a new group of characters is being developed to

challenge their Trans-atlantic cousin. The names the Gambols of Rupert and rank high among them.

And of course the TV screen has built up Mun the Mule to outrival even the three loqua cious ladies Lady Barnett, Lady Docker, and Lady Boyle.

Yet curiously enough there

Nomes. Men, yes. Children, are no women among the Magic

yes. Animals, yes.

But the nearest woman to it is Mrs Mopp. And she is less Peter Pan has not died, a person than a symbol. On the night of April 30,

You see headlines like "Mrs After a shaky opening, 1912, the statue was put up

And my contention, is that creatora.

Barrie's astute publicity confidence

the wor was in secret. As Barrie said, he

women who clean out the That has never happened

was the magnificent Foreign Ofee. Just as Colonel hidden from I to

it at night so that move Milne. For justified. The play ran for did A. A,

forerunner of a new tech- Blimp in his great Evening at the Duke of children next morning

Standard days was not a specifie Bingo was let loose about vigorously he has pursued months

nique in launching what would believe in fairies.

military man but the embodi- 80 yards from the tin. In a

called have

ment of prejudices not generally many other interests outside York's Theatre, matter of

Then a few years later a And, of course, Barrie

Names,

shared. whining and pawing at the his most famous invention

curious thing happened. footed the bill.

No longer do these names Of course, there is Mrs Dala. |---a teddy-bear.

Although in Kensington

MP's

when talk about Mra But his illness today Suddenly, This sense of smell is uncanny.

shake their heads, and the mature slowly with the help Dale we really mean the whole The dogs never

once smelled must bring

nursemaids in Kensington of circulating libraries. The horrible octopus of a family. <ucation the opium itself, their only clue fascinating way the

Gardens were slightly rum- modern arts of publicity

The opium in a flat in about six inches sure was placed on the ground, under a red wooden board, completely

view.

board.

was seconds she

Barrie's

to mind the Gardens, a bronze statue of

of Feter Pan appeared.

scent of Mr Gordon what makes a magic name How had it been placed after he had handled the opium.and are the modern tricks there? There had been no

Yet each time with unerring Dccuracy they were able to go straight to the hiding place."

On Patrol

They are trained in the New Territories under the supervision

B. of Mr N.

Fraser, MBE, Senior Superintendent of Police,

to Hongkong sent

und are

police stations for duty. Kowloon

to make

four-

- legged wonders. Every night

might

the Magic

Mopps

ops Strike," meaning, say,

It

Mrs Dalo's and is

not

istrative convenience, -not and the strip through force of character. television ed by the change in the and huckstering, allied with Doctor Dale's Diary for admin- cartoon, bring the magic

PICTORIAL STAMPS NEXT?

they are out an patrol with Parliament.

two constables, one of whom is

a fully-trained

al-

the

By J. W. TAYLOR

penny

names of today much more THE REASON

The reason

Women know that dreaming gets you nowhere.

That's why Newton and not Mrs Nowiony discovered gravity. That's why Columbus and not Mrs

Columbus discovered America.

That's why Shakespeare and not Mrs Shakespeare wrote King Lear

In short it's because women never do the really first-rate things.

London Express Service)

quickly to the forefront.

to me is plain, Whether such spectacular You must identify yourself with successes as this technique these modern myths to fall un- achieves will last so long is der their glamour, and women another matter. Quick fame know that's silly. Again, the Issue of large-size NCE again the question considered when it was decided

Just as the slower a tree of pictorial stamps for to replace them by stampa of a pictorial stamps would entail often means quick death.

different design. Thus are expensive alterations to existing

its stamp-selling grows, the tougher is philatelists keeping their fingers automatic City is one of the first stations ordinary use through

would

create timber, so the fame of the these use of

in crossed over on intriguing possi- machines and post has been raised

difficulties where spaces are re- The reply of bility.

and old-timers may endure after Earl Postmaster - General

Previous unqualified refusals served, as on postal orders

the small size the TV heroes, have sunk of pictorial stamps have been receipts, for

into oblivion. stamps. handler. de la Warr in the Lords based on several grounds. First dog Down alleys, up streets, along recently as to whether he was to beat forgers. A portrait

was chosen Another snag la that the great THE CHANGES roads....always obedient,

would consider the issue of Queen Victorin ways shining. I hope Alsatians

pictorial for the first postage stamp the number of postage stamps issued

But I see some big changes black-when in Britain makes engraving, the famous never suffer, colds in the head, of small. British

most colonial are coming in the club. The Lena and Bingo are not just stampa.of low value bear penny postage was introduced in method used for

monarch's head 1840. It was felt that forgers stamps, too expensive for or old guard of "Imperishables"

Com The exhibition

have ing the

the would be less able to reprociuco dinary use. The present photo are facing some heavy the name of

gravure process proved their worth in practice, and

does not lend petition. For though Sherlock much more accurately such a portrait than a

still itself to the production of the Holmes in a hansom cab for crime has definitely lasacred country was

delicate tones which would be pleks his prim Victorian way in at the areas they patrol.

favourable than heretofore pictorial design.

neccssary to make a success of front of many tough guys with Yat surprisingly though, they

speedy roadsters, dolls, gats, and are pot encouraged to use their for stamp, collectors the apprehend world over who have been

small-size pictorial stamps.

wisecracks, some of his com- sharp

Almost all the colonial stamps panions are falling back. criminals, "They are primarily watching this aspect of

pictorial the country on the ponny black, of the new reign are

Bulldog Drummond is fading tised of trackers.

fon philately very closely.. does not like the idea of antting

thus cblishing the dual tradi- in design, whilst still showing fast. Suportaxed out of immort them to attack a mm. He feels The Earl said that the current ton in Britain that only the portraits of the Queen. Itiality, perhaps, like the rest of that pubile opinion would be tech series of stamps of the portrait of the reigning monarch possible that it was this type of tile stiff-upperslipped class.

atamp

the only British example. And it looks as if Jeeves may- strongly against the use of dogs new reign had been well re should appear in the design.

The Colonies and Dominions of which was the George VI five follow him. He may not long for this purpose.

ceived and whilst this perhaps was not the best moment to can have in the main observed this, shilling one with its vlow of the survive, the virtual disappear sider basic changes in their except that the name of the white cliffs of Dover, that the ance of the gentlemkits gentle- content, the questioned views country included on their Postmaster-General's questioner man from the gentleman's home. in the Lords bad lo mindi Faithful to the last; he some so

• would be carefully noted and stamps.

dogs.

Mr. Gordon

The dogs are not encouraged to attack, but woe betide anyons who interferes with either, then or their handlers

And since no other country had over issued postage stamps at that time, it was deemed un- necessary to print the name: of

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