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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1954.

Reasons why you must have ă G.E.C. Refrigerator

a

Communist

Thy for victory.

in the

Tongking area

1.

r your kitchen is small, this is the model for you; sturdy and compaci with a maximum of storage space, ecunomical in operation. Thermosta- tically controlled with freezer and takes even tho tallent bottles. Exterior, While porcelain enamel. Interior, unchiippable plastic-on-steel.

DE, 31, T $900

2. Tircu

I refrigerator, a family favouritu tur TILASY years, extra Murage room, extim shek area, larger freezer, special plastic meat of tia chiller. A plastic salador # Theamostalis control. Interlur IN 1 automatically when the door La apened.

DE. 51 $1400

3. you entertain on a larger scale,

1.

in the model you need. The i Inude! him 12 aq ft of shelf Apace, an ample freezer with natale comartinezla

for

two

*

frozen Tuoda. Glam-covered plastle chuller for ment or fish, and a deep saludor for vegetables And Interior Aghts up when the door as opened.

DE 70. $1550

4. This luxury GEC. Refrigerator in-

Corporates every refinement and re fileration aid that could be dratred. Extra large freezer and frozen food Jocker, tilastle Hiller. two plastk

special glass Baladure with

cover plates. room for even the largent battle.

G.E.C.4

THE GENERA, ELECTRIC ON LTS, OF RIMLAND

DE. 71. $1700

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"M" Eden is said to believe that if no time limis were

Set the negotiations could eventually succeed.-*

SAYS A DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT.

TIME FACTORS

NATHANIEL

O for the Stock Ex change has not heard much of the activi ties of that other Cockney financier, London- horn Nat Gubbins. This is because Gubbins has only just entered the arena where won and lost, fortunes are and shrewd chaps in the know can acquire tax-free money without working for it.

As Gubbins sincerely believes that work of any kind Is the curse of Adam, and that only the devil himself denies us the paradise of complete Idleness, he Thought the gates of his kind of heaven might be opened Throgmorton Street.

not

In

Industrialtat, great

American Impatience

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GUBBINS

own

currency,

Podson?

BRITAIN'S NEW

DESERT ISLAND

RESIDENCY

From

KENNETH MACAULAY

Bahrein, Persian Gulf. ly covering the patterned Na desert bland set parquet floors, The elce- in the hot, shallow trical fittings are modernis- waters of the Per- tic. Rich thick curtains slan Gulf, Britain is build- cover the windows to keep ing a £600,000 headquarters the heat out, and keep in the from which to administer chilled air from the contral 1,000 miles of equally desert air conditioning plant, constline.

The whole effect inside is of an Ambassador's

The island, 84 miles long worthy and ten miles wide, is still raided by pirates, and coastal waters fished Arab divers for pearls.

residence. And Mr Burrows bas the rank, if not the title, of its an ambassador. He is respon- by sible for the external affairs of one Sultan, an uncountable number of sheikhs and 900,000

people. Theso Include 18,000 The headquarters site at Britons, Americans, Pakistanis Jafair, facing the sen, on and Indians, most of whom are the most northeasterly employed in the world's largest single oilfield in Kuwait and in polnt of Bahrein, la superb, the lesser field in Bahrein Island. And Ruccessful attempts nre being made grow palms to give shade, and shrubs to give green relief, to the sun's steely glare.

to

The only "cool" breeze in this blistering climate, which can rise from 112 to 126 degrees in the shade in a couple of hours, comes the north from

of the

and

is

Poll-

the Plucky his life partner,

is clever, or very lucky, with foreign money, always getting Little Woman, had visions of a villa in Nassau. She thought the right change

You must der four ounces of Jafair gets it first. (when lucky, of horself lying in the sunshine inore) and giving sensible tips, der porridge onts take, der vus

The principal building all next winter while Gubbins, Gubbins, who can't tunt cooked egg take, der 4 pint of

count

milk take, der salt und mustard. the home In his change now

abroad by der brown sauce and two table-tical Resident, Mr B. A. B. followed sprawled like a half-cooked seal is

elther

of spoonful of der chopped pickles speers or a stream

tako. insults according to whether he has tipped for

much or innocently given nothing at all.

There is also the question of weather,

beside her, barking orders at a

towering secretary.

"What have I made morning. Lickspittle?

this

"Just under a million, sir." "Why under a million, Lick- spittle? I usually make over a inillion."

"I don't know, sir."

"Well, I do. It's because they're not working hard enough in my London office. Fire the lot. Tickspittle."

"

"The lot, sir?"

100

Piss, but does" dut mean der English OCT brown sauce und der pickles in der porridge put?

Nein. Dot means der English in der Homburger der porridge If the PL.W, takes a soparate holiday, the sun shines upon her. put. The wind veers from East to South. If she takes o holiday with Gubbins she travels under his private cloud which has fol-

all over Britain, lowed him France, Italy, round the Medi- terranean and to the United States where he became known as The Rain Maken

to

So he mught the advice of

said the lot, Lickspittle.

She would also have to endure stockbrokers and was amazed at Hurry. hurry, hurry. bustle.

which pursues his East Wind, their eagerness to help, though bustle, bustle. And fire yourself him like a living enemy, like a

so amazed when he

dise for not hearing the first time.”

guided missile with his name covered for the first time what

The next day the shores and address on it, determined to they charged for their services. Terrified at the beglaning to in- dropped 11⁄2d. Gubbins felt too find him wherever he may be. vest in anything that was not slek with fright to eat breakfast.

after safe, he started with timid pur- The day

they dropped chuses of gilt-edged securities. 30., then another 3d.. and an- As they did't crash within a other, and the vision of Nassau week, as he fully expected, his faded. confidence grew. He tried a tiny gamble in what

called are "industrials."

When he mentioned it as a gamble the

At the time of writing they are back to their original price and Gubbins, the humbled Anancial wizard, reduced 3d. by

stockbrokers were 3d. to

TOT VOLLS wreck, is

Burrows.

Pliss, but der Hamburger der place for ler porridge isa not.

You must den der grease heat und der oats in it cook mit der soft egg und der milk und der is a

dot you mustard.

Box-Shaped

His Staff

Also, the Political Resident his title is a relic of the days of the British Raj in India--has an ambassador alze staff. Under him are First, Second and Third Secretaries economic and firan- cial advisers, a military officer and a medical officer. He has twelve British typista and clerical staff as well as locally-recruited drivers, messengers and guards.

On the "non-diplomatic" side there is a Political Agent, cor- esponding in rank with a con- aul-general. Three other Britons complete the consular stalk, with offices In a large white two- storey building in the heart of Bahrein Town.

Four other Political Agents maintain satellite establishments This Residency consists in Kuwait Qatar, the Trucial of two single-storey, box- States and in the Sultanate of

buildings, roofed Muscat. shaped with corrugated asbestos,

Besides the Jafair Residency, but with no architectural the new compound, when com decoration. Between them pleted, will comprise two smaller, flat-roofed bungalow houses, a block of flats for the staff and office buildings. There der structure containing the is a power house in case the hurd eggs chop in more hot principal drawing room and town electricity supply should greaso fry and to der mixture dining room. Certainly, the

fail,

well as the air conditioner der brown sauce und der chop-buildings

which will supply the compound pod pickles add.

not impos by underground pipes from a

central source,

After

Pliss, is dot vot der English Hamburger iss?

ing.

are

It der English Egg Ham-construction, burger vos.

Poddon. but mein stomach over turning iss.

In The Sea Nest, which for tunately sways and rocks in the Wind without falling down like the Empire State Buliding In New York, the easterly gale Mein stomach also over turn- forces its way through windows ing vos. Before we are sick we

vill out into der fresh air go. and walls and gots him while he is in bed, playing havoc with his inalde and making him more

(World Copyright) irritable than usual.

highly amused because their thinking of selling them before There is also the question of

idea of a gamble is Investing they go any lower and buying time.

100,000 in on unknown dla National Savings Certificates. mond mine. But

10

Gubbins

they were a gamble because

they were the kind of shares Holiday Discussion

that go up and down in value

according to the news and peo-

ple's habits and lastes.

The day after Gubbins bought

IN this merry month

when there is usually snow on ground

The impulsive PL.W., who hates to wait for anything, likes her holidays in May. She likes the spring flowers, the song of mating birds, and the seaside places before the terrible tour- 1sts swarm over them.

But May is the month when

the shares an exetting thing high ground and low

increased happened. They

In and often down the back of Gubbins is hit by gout. On any value by 3d. The next day they your neck, when wild winds blow morning in May (usually his Icaped by another 3d, to ed, and migratory birds, shivering birthday) his big too swells When they jumped a shilling in the trees, earnestly tell each suddenly to twice la normal size Gubbins saw himself as a finan other that they will never come and he spends most of his holl- cial genius. He began to read here again, Gubbins and the day, groaning in bed and cursing City columns for the first time. Plucky

discuss anybody who moves. Little Woman not understanding a wurd he holidays. read. Perhaps he was cleverer

had

that makes

EO

June? In June Gubbins is free than he thought? Perhaps ho The P.L.W. always wants to of gout, but the FL.W. is hit by

Gubbins

A hollday in June abroad,

always hay fever, the touch fortune overnight?

wants to stay in England. The means that the P.L.W. will spend P.L.W. is adventurous; Gubbins it hot, unhappy and red eyed IL was when tho shares in is not. The P.L.W. loves travel; and sneezing non-stop behind a

The PLW. handkerchief. creased in value by 2s. 94. that Gubbins hates it.

MAKING THE GERMANS

COLONIES-CONSCIOUS

Bonn.

CAMPAIGN to make Germans colonies-conscious and

As neither of us likes holldaya in July, August, and September, because in these months the terrible tourists are swarming in earnest with their screaming children and yapping dogs, only the autumn and winter remain.

The PL.W., prepared to wait for once, said she would settle for an autumn or winter cruisa, But when Gubbins, after study- ing world events, said there might not be an autumn or win-

tests both prove it! New Colgate A extend the German trade drive oversens is being tar for anybody, she thought

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planned by Chancellor Adenauer's West German Govern- May might do whether Gubbins

had gout or not. ment.

Plan Number One: The revival of the Kaiser's Colonial School at Witzenhausen, near Kassel, which used to train German Vot Diss Iss? farmers for their jobs in the Relch's African colonies till World War I.

The "German Colonial Associatlon," formed mostly of old colonial officers and experts in tropical agriculture and research, has asked the Bonn Government for financial support for the ventura.

They intend to adopt the precept: "Teach the natives -- but

Items of news, "Germany

with first-class natiyo cook-

ing is rapidly becoming the calinary rival of France on the Continent" and "Many foreign chefs and their wives vikit

do not try to rule them. Avoid the mistakes made by others."

The school is to send top men of all branches of colonisation England to study English cookć everseas after extensive studies. These men will, besides farming to be ready for insular you wonder Ing. be taught the import-export business, and the know-how of tourists make modern apdicultural machinery.

about the reactions of Her Hade

(chat)

Frau THE Just now the Bonn Government is pondering how much to Schmidt spend on the scheme, and the reaction of officials is very Schmit if they were reading

They talk about £30,000 a year,

recips for Kog Hamburger favourable

published in an evening; newas Plan, Number Two. The dispatch of hundreds of young technicians and other experts from modern industry mining, paper last week. machine-building. construction, road-buliding, "shipping, and ! Two-founces of das dripping electricity to countries, in the Noar: and. Middle East, and to der arst ingredient voa, colonial territories as "outposts" in the German export drive.

·

The technicians are to teach the inhabitants of the countries "Plise): Hans, but vot, der drip- covered by the scheine the use of modern machinery and new log Ins?... farming and industrial techniques. At the same time, they are

act as advertising and sales agents for: German firms. 299

The plan is sponsored by the Association of the German, de Building Industrym together with other maKARTELA) CLEATS Balanagan

to

Other houses, still under are built in similar style, but with only one "box" attached to the main bungalow.

The interior of the Resi- dency, however, is furnish- ed with fine English car- pets of modern design near-

03

The Resident's former head- quarters in Bahrein were taken over from the Royal Navy when Bushire, Persia, was abandoned in 1946 a British H. Q. on the Gulf,

But, even then, the bullding 4 Tuin. Once the was almost dining room celling fell down a moment after the former Pollfl-

cal Agent rose from breakfast.

OLD MASTER MARX treats ALL CHILDREN ́(cigar-smokers and non-smokers) to a poker-face piece

GROUCHO'S Bed-time Story

"TELL ME, Groucho," said Reporter DAVID LEWIN to the Prince of the Poker Face, the Doyen of the Deadpan "tell me, what sort of bedtime stories do you tell

NCE upon a time In New York

there was a little

boy called Tommy. Now, Tommy's parents were very poor. They were so poor they often had nothing to eat,

One day they were all very hungry and Tommy decided he would go out and try to find something to eat

He went into the streets of New York, boping that something would happen to bring him luck.

Then he saw a little giri.eraming the road, and there was a ¡car coming straight at her. Tommy made up his mind

· in a flash and dashed into the road to save the little girl.

your little girl Melinda?" GROUCHO MARX, now sampling London's weather for the first time in 25 years, pondered; and told GROUCHO'S BEDTIME STORY....... Mare it is

give you THREE THOU- HAND DOLLARS!!

git He took her to the pave-

“Oh, thank you i ” said ment and the little girl's nurse said you inve Tommy.** Now I can go saved her. Hie. Her father and buy food for my ty will be very grateful. He mummy and daddy 2) in misoĮváry rich. You had

Waked the rich

e.co.th o better comna kibose with us hungry? because pho, will want to father. foreward you,

Bo Tommy went home with the little girl and her LAZINESS, The Attias: told, the #TRÁLNE WELt had happened

and the father was very:

Very hangy Tommy, 22 And

So the father.

Hi. bullet" to: anked Mad-a.

Muk. He felt much better. Then he started to TO Home and the rich man said: "Here is ・ ・ your. reward. Tommy, TWO THOUSAND YIVE, HUN- DRED DOLLARS!”

The rich man had.

(náld |--That was the end of the.

ortared

:

story." Lewin said to Groucho : "And how old te Melinda who hears that as

a bedlime, story 7" mon

(ahe has to find out!

Hy jou Khalil, and drink the ni ruhan of things sometim

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