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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1954.

HONOUR at STAKE

the

N April 9, 1986, the

Chancellor of Exchequer disclosed."

in secret to his Ministerial colleagues what proposals wero contained in his forthcoming Budget, due for presentation within fortnight's time. On April 10, 11, 12 and 13-being

week-end Easter Colonial J.

H.

♫

Secretary, Thomas,

the

The

sumed business on April 14, Mr Bates insured against a rise in income-tax.

then

No.1

by Edgar Lustgarten

DID JIMMY THOMAS BETRAY

THE BUDGET SECRETS?

Twa

and

Bales' had first Secretory;

had forecast u

major Arst seen the Colonial Secretary: On April 21 ----Budget Day then

had correctly forcast two

There itself Mr Thornas received

major Budget changes. fore.

*

not say.

"You saw Bates, though, con- however,

chairman.

into

wald, renders my continuance is a member of the Government Impossible." The Andings ren- dered impossible any thought of his return, and thus, in this unhappy manner, ended a most

But how?

the most of

weighed more

un-

OK-

Concluding: Nature's Poison Punches

THE STINGERS

By IVAN T. SANDERSON

Like o

Never-

NEVERAL deaths have, their transparent bodies aro been reported ng a re- some hazy loops, often coloured

sult of what may pale blue.

These strange things are born honourable and valuable career. be called "underwater fire" of the sea and when they do off the coasts of East go back to it, but when they ashore. they just Africa, Persia, Florida and are washed

mait into d mass of jelly-like Austraila.

stuff and disappear. The most horrible case theless, they lead most com- would be occurred in August 1949 plicated lives. never created ordinary lot of a senior Minister, "followed immediately after that

The real animal is actually foolish to chal- when a ten-year-old boy post hoc propter hoc transactions

of plant-likka thing at Bort and Печет inflicted he appeared at the tribunal and holiday at Easter."

tho post hoc

longe Which was merely

Brian McNamara grows attached to a rock, or Mr brigado swiftly got to work when trouble

named gossip flow around as gossip harm. But the practice threw assorted earnestly that he had Budrot to

hoc translated

antmous conclusion

his other underwater_object, on 4 spent in financial circles almost always him into the company of men spoken about the

The juxtaposition of

after was swimming with -formed

This elongates English thoeo

could auccessful more acquisitive than himself nobody at all. More than that propter a golfing and social holiday does about

noting every wit-father

oil the coast of short pet, having an ореп

He swam into mouth at the top "I simply did not do it, he dates did not solve the basic

ness's demeanour-Queensland,

surrounded by with certain Mr Baten, pre-Budget operations. The proud and theron lay the seeds of his he manifestly

detectives call it putting two and political undoing.

repeated. "No advance know- problem: was it all, as Bates arki

reached by three a giant jellyfish whose ten- tentacles. Eventually, this whole one of his closest friends. E

acute and When Thomas Lorned of the ledge of the Budget came from Bult averred, sheer coincidence?

tacles closed around him. thing develops rings at regular Ан хоол an the City re-two together, being unable, by

distinguish between

rumours that were current, he me one-and-a-half.

There were factors of conduct, perienced and responsible legal its myriad tiny lashes stung intervals throughout

that

One must In England

These rings becomie the

deeped was deeply shocked, and at once

fact.his skin and," although his These

belt anked the Premier for an in-

all around just on it a Thomas's conduct, but in that accept the disclosures us

thrashed what circumstances father

around each. and D in

been tightened partial inquiry. Simultaneously stantly during Easter," said the heavily; not factors in Jimmy minda

Chairman

Lloyd's

of Bates and Butt. They had But "Certainly,"

Blico the ringe pounded at the great mass Finally, these the

the Government that

pains

to maak exactly were they made? informed

"Whatever the fact may be, takon unusual

Identities in their

of pulsing stuff, its poison whale animal into disc-shaped then float away, the amount of insurance taken

Thut opportunity to their own

remains ever open to the days before the you hud ample

several transactions. They had

fum upside-down, develop their Budget Hormexi dispropor- tell him about the Budget?"

conjecture. Disclosures may be killed the boy. The animal places which

own pets of tentacles, and start made deliberately or by inad-let go and swam away.

The boy had no died, it was to swim as "jellyfish." Most of vertence. A bantering retor to

learned, from these animals spend the major subsequently question, a semi-bantering

fright heart failure but from part of their lives in the form

we know. to be wholly acute neurotoxic poisoning. In statement intended non-committal but which gives fact, the jellyfish had done just

the

job as my snake that

as deadly a something nway speaker does not realise, even a could have achieved.

The animals that inhabit this are erotable for very odd uttio miscalculated gesture or grimince

into bo divided

a structures, liko tiny glands, on earth can -any and all may serve as

different number of

and distinct certain parts of their skin. These clue for those on the look out.

are little cups, or, rather, flaske, classes or groups, oach of which

with

on the openings KITOW duffers from all others in many Whether the truth in this ense

of but surface ways, but

the animal, in be found in these alterna-and often almost tives I would not presume even for the fact that all are alive which a minute bulb floats in a

The variety

soems endless and special liquid. to Buggcut But that Jimmy

This bulb is attached to the and wickedly yet there is among them, the

onc examines lining of the flask at the bottom, closely of not only post but propter; Thomus wilfully

the

of the moro betrayed

them all, some

appearance of and has a long thread at the and they reported their opinion Budget I do not believe,

other end. onder, that,

both

Mr mistances,

This thread or Josh is normally most important One of the RESERVED Thomas had

un- made un

to everybody, colled up inside the flask with groups is known authorised disclosure.

"

morning call in his private A from Str Alfred Butt, MP, an- other intimate friend. As 2000.

49 own

as Sir Alfred returned tha

office. I Low, insured against

6 rize in income-tax, and also against a zi in the chily upon tea

Gossip grew

A

hours

FEW Taler the

תו

and

of

The inputations of a leakage

volume, hourly grew

ltimately reached the cars the Minister himself.

Jiminy Thomas-known thus affectorately to millions-WIL an outstanding figure in British

Starting public ure

on ordinary

carcer

vut

Ace criminologist Edgar Lustgarten

• begins a new series on some of the most solounding cases over heard

large compared with

years.

worker on the Limately

into vibes railways, he had come up

T politics through a

hard trade-

union school and achieved for and esteem himself popularity that transcended party sectional divisions.

and

10 form

Badges became

reparty public "Three-ponce more income tax, 2d. more ora tem Now there

4211

extremely common

uf faulty Tensoning which professional logicians, in their

refer style,

stangy

10 DA

the fallory of post hoc propter hor.

it

He was shocked

So free eminent lawyers-all

"I could have told anyone," came the justifiable answer.

"Was there any discussion of of any klud matters

of thein stili in active work to financial day. Lard Porter, Lord Simonds, during Easter?"

a 2.3 Justice Oilver--aut Mr

Jimmy Thomas slowly shook special tribunal to inquire whe-

any thee there had been!

dis- his head. closure of the Budget secrets, and If so, whether such disclosure for private had LHxiu

VOU could dis- gain..

agree

You with

This quiry lasted many days. The actipities of Bates and Butt

Jimmy; you rould tlicht his ideas Tooth and were closely scrutinised, and coch explained anness-bux It means, though, nothing moro

nail, but you could in the

him by antici hardly fall like what prompted abstruse than this: the element-

und admire the pate the Budget as he did. ary error

that. of axsuming

Nut just betuuse m himself. upon If one occurrence followA

he was humus.

Not just another, the earlier is cause and the latter effect. I had straw- beenuse he was genial. Not just hshrewdness and berries for lunch, 1 hod stomach- because ol

But sense. urho this

therefore tact and exumon afternoon,

all because beneath . 11 was the strawberries that gave live

stomach-ache.

Hippant surface, The Om slightly servatives (or Socialista) rule, could discern a deep integrity and unemployment rises; there

(or Socialist) fore Conservative policy produces unemployment.

inferences Mind, these

re

the

"I considered the general out- look serious," said Bates, "Hun- dreds of millions were requned 1st gourmanent; it was obvious) to me that income-tax would rls." txe

that

"I don't remember any."

al that "Financial questions time were of considerable Im- portance?"

"Obviously."

"And Bates's insurance truas actum." observed the cluiuman,

B

worked

their nominees.

vialt

все

to contrary custom through

after his And Butt, Thomas, had reversed his pre- vious trend; tall that moment, he had been laying against a rise in income-tax.

The tribunal deemed it a case

In

may

secrets

COPYRIGHT WORLD

ם

a

Next Saturday The inquiry itself had aiready "the impelted his resignation,

The man who played cards way in which my private affairs with the Prince of Wales. have been bandied about,"

fre

MAJORCA REVISITED

RITISH

By IAN MERCER

to being carted away to the scrap

or

Jellyfish and their relatives

"thought a rive in income- tax was probable," said Bult. "As That is not to say that Jimmy

for tea, I felt convinced the

holidaymakers thoughts nostalgically Thomas had 110 weaknessCA,

who have visited that distant past when war heap, and the shattering roar of Cumbling was with him a do- Chancellor would also try to tax

heard as enthusiastic arilllery minant passion; whether it took that part of the community

and far from being excluded. The the form of betting on a horse, does not pay income-tax." They Majorca-and there must be was unknown and he income their quocessors is often to be

cute, they claimed, many of them, for they are tax negligible, is slowing experts try out the latest wolling shares took their strawberries may have given you or buying and

from personal Judgment, not said to number more than being taken out of commis- best engines of destruction, from:

the New World Exchange. Slock stomach-ache. Conservative (or

50,000 every year will sion. The snub-nosed mon. Socialist) polley may have, pro- Gambling is no crime, and the from private information.

Frequently-las--you see un duced unemployment. But evi- English, gamblers born, are the Jimmy Thomas's own evidence doubtless be sorry to hear sters, bought second-hand

that in the course of the from abroad, which are ap Islander shudder when they of necessity wus negative. Detaching himself fur few past month or two several of pearing in their place, hardly off. sign that anxiety neurosis the

of Ha Jimny Thomas been mere

ever break down, and citi (one of the curses of our age)

has Anally come sequence

plague but seldom even recognised as only its tip protruding from the of the clllzen, his proclivity hours from the continuous furry the antiquities which made invite Is

derisive private

being a form of living creature, opening on the skin to

depurt the place so different have zens of Andraitx, accustom- Majorca.

ollen seen in the animal. When anything comes from the

been looked upon of Cabinet meetings, logiclans by would have

It is more and major

vanished forever. us amiable and endearing-and, mental committing the fallacy of port

ed to spending not less than ปเอ

This, no doubt, accounts for form of blocks of stone forming near the skin of the jellyfish, are the indeed,

ouple of hours stretched hoc propter hoc,

his personal gambling pubik sporches

out in the ditch while the the arrival of two psychiatrists our buildings, as islands in the all the tiny threads uncoll and and the mudden popularity of tropic seas, or as trinkels hung lash out of the holes with such driver scatched his head and such booka na. "How To Live around the necks of our women force that

dence in support of these con- last to reprobate it.

clusions must be sought; to rely

upon eventa Boom

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It looks like a lovely light fixture, but' lu a

zoophyte capable of inflicting a serious poison punch.

plant-ilko

man

they can penetrate They carry with, them a The picturesque old bus wondered what on earth to Without Being Afraid." In the folk. The group--though known surfaces even as firm as human fluid in which however, not coral-has,

ting of the from Palma to La Viletto, do with an engine apparent- okt days, the Mallorquins knew respectively as limestone, akolis,

within

their to read about it.

even a popular name in our they normally le for instance, that was known ly on the point of exploding, how to do that without having and

flasks. This is a very strong language.

The result of swim- far and wide as the 'death- complain bitterly that effi-

The vast host of animals, irritant.

larger jelly- watch beetle' (propelled by clency is all very well, but

varying in size from consider- ming mto certain from how are they going to spend energy supplied

ably less than a pinhead to a fish is thus Instantaneous and wood-burning oven attached the time saved?

larger than the startling However, the march of time mas of Jolly

The main body of one of or largest bird precariously to the rear) has

has not yet caught up all along grossest

is so sote that lived, and weighing these animals been replaced by a newly-

the line. Genova, Palma's most that

it is be one hardly knows that delightful residential quarter, over half a painted, petrol-driven job

exquisite called "zoons of iterally, alongside one in the water, but its uny but

It includes if you happen to touch the which has only been on and The typleal Mallorquin bars- with

plant-like animals."

and the exquisite tentacles, the corals, off the road since about so cosy, so dirty and so cheap museum, can still only be reach the

whiplashes--which are. For this part of the st exist, it's true, but in every

ed by tram (forty minutes when anemones and the jellyfish. 1929.

eer technically

0.3 nematocysts Now, jellyfish are very queer come into play, you feel a violent Island there are

it doesn't break down), or taxi}

and it is come mushrooms world, that's the dernier cri part of the

springing up like

of lures, indeed, in modern transport..

overnight those brassy joints quarter of an hour in one as the Yanks call them which, the modern Jobs, twenty-five person in a million has ever 'unuous burning sensation. This to the simple inhabitants, seem minutes if nothing but a

•

to stand for all that's meretri- 1914 charlot happens to be clous in the hydrogen bomb era In which, they realise to their the rank.) dismay, they too, are condemned to live out their lives.

+

pre-seen

The electric train stlik 'runs' to Soller: the 'puffing Bille' that

The

that

сап

tiny

known

no more than one stinging wach turns to a con-

and the white may last for The tram, from the capital

hours, one, full-grown 0

fow on only a very

more know stung parts, of your skin may to the fashionable suburb of

what the adult form of the turn bright red, swell up, and C'as Catala, that served the

animal looks like.

throb abominably. best of the seaside hotels,

There are kinds of jellyfish, has been taken off before it

known as Portuguese men-of- semi transparent; war" that blow up their bright fell off, and in its stead a

connects Palma with Manacor umbrella-shaped things that we

and anil over the fine 'new' bus (1981 model)

has not yet been relegated to a

do know, which are seen float- blue bodies

surface of the ocean with little now accomplishes in twenty

ply museum; covered wagons

gelatinous, semi-circular Balls half-develope 'minutes' a journey which

the larvae

above the whilch they raise What is waves and The cinemas, where one used dally for hire along the watering about in the sea, pro

front; visitors may (and do) buy

which bavo even used to take fifty, when, as to Beo flims that carried one.

drinks from the horse-drawn young of the bounts. seldom happened, it kept to right back to the green years of art

more

virulent although they look like waved

nematocysts. cafe 'movcalong the

nothing very much more than mono (On an average youth, now-belleve it or not→→ schedule.

are large enough plicated: beasts with a

of Boen a sort of

Aro strung along great trailing of them,

animal. Sufficient stings from eyes and other sense organs, stomachs, and all the other para these have been known to in-

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These

the current failed twice a ure showing 3D pletures. One photographed object of its kind

"La Tunica Sagrada" in the erstwhile Island of Calm: jelly, bley are really quite common with the oh, to be got through a morning with. (The Robe), has been playing to, and shorts and off-the-shoulder primitive, blood system, nerves, tentacles that depend 'from the

day, and the vehicle never

out leaving the tracking at least once.)

(in. the capital, packed houses for two months, creations

unsanctioned least) are as So, in one thing, anyway, tho Mallorquins see eye to eye, with ever they were. their transatlantic allies.

at

$1

phernalia of more solid capacitate a swimming man so

Jellyfish, as we know

2

swim about the ses near the that strength falled him and he

e drowned #urface,

ofter

in countless

So you sco that despite the millions, by opening and closing

they bout the complexity, or the Last, but by no means least, their umbrellas and, as

of the beast, you The fleet of archaic buses

trifle higher plump along, a bunch of tentacles simplicity Ameri- prices, though

always Again thanks to the

beware, and

the place should Paima connecting

the ancient guns which then they were last year, are usually hangs from Andratx, an unspoilt little

until quite recently formed this still substantially lower than where an umbrella's shaft would almost any creature may carry town of tremendous charm strategically important Island's anywhere else In the world. be, or from the edge of the a powerful poison punch that of circular mantle, and stream out can, in the right oireumstances, along the coast; which has chief means of defence against a How long they'll remain so,

behind. All one can B00

in bo⠀ deadly, turned many, a tourist's possible aggressor, are at last course, is anybody's guess.

cans,

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