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TEA, In British homes, it was. DEAR neither the doings of Mr Malenkoy nor of Mr Mao Tre-tung which caured dis- mast last work. It was the rising price of ida, basle necessity without which Britain wouldn't be Britain,
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But the women have nothing to take the place of the after- noon cup, with the teapot the ceutra of A million gossip
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across; } Paplar, 5 Swede, Lever, 9 Sprout, 10 Carol, 11 Minus, 12 Aver, 13 Lease, 10 Regale, 18 Truder, 20 Steed. 22 Cash, 23 Piles, 25 Cocoa, 20 Robins, 27 Stray, 28 Spree, 29 Lagged. Down: 1 Passages, Permeate, 3 Altum, 4 Retired. & Secular, d Weasel. 7 Dross, 14 Aerating, 15 Enthused, 10 Ralate, 17 "General, 10 Repose, 21 Troop. 24 Sayn
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1954.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
pártiça. · Nor have the "old people with tiny penalong, whoco main solace. Is their pot of (cu.
But the price is going to rise sharity by eightpence to around Os, fid. per pound for the popular grades.
There are three main feasons for, the rise.
Americans are drinking mura sa than ever before; U:S. visitors and-servicemen station in Britain have helped spread the håbli at home. :
Indonesian exports have been cut because of labður unrest in | the tea plantations,
India ກາກນ
suffered flood diensters In her tea-growing
districts,
In consequence, there has been heelle buying recently at
the big London lea auctions, with bidding continuing up to seven o'clock.
would cause, raised eyebrows at la vicarage garden purly;
Last week, the CEN-derpile fis name it is
not the official organ of the Church-turned Ita big guns on the divorce prob lem." And the result was woll upp Rhodes standard, It came in the form of an appeal for a get-tough campaign by Church leaders...
Recommended action included imprisonment for co-respondents in certain cases and a legal maximum two divorces for any person with the second very difficult to get.
the CEN may have touched off a large-scale national row.
Is
that
nephew?
THE PRIVILEGED : NIGHT.
MARE," By Gilas: Romilly and Michael'. Alexander. Wiedenfeld and Nicolson 1.21. 6. 246 pages.'
HE Nephews wore
T
really
Winston's
asked the Nazi
The strange story of Hitler's
'privileged prisoners
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Berchtesgaden. They caught sight of a major whoso rimless glasaca, soomed farmliler. "Don't look now," gald George, "but in't that our
friend old Himmler?"
Their olds friend Himmler, as
well
as Hitler, himself, hind ordained their execution. This
news was broken to them by SS General Berger Who, fold them that Instead, he was going
Han farewell party followed in lines. A fantastic and bacchana- to send them to the. American
Berger's, mountain stronghold,
set apart from the other prisoners of It was strange, said the leader,|
warin Colditz that a man can destroy a home Castic. They had a room of and cause untold misory and their own. They did not, and silent, determined, that his the Nephews had become real. Dawick (Haig) was Scottish men. The special nightmare of not be guilty of any criminal offence di oli”.
excrcise with their fellow captivity would not be wasted. Already the American gains captives, but went for a Remembering a 1914-18 war could be heard. The Prominente With paling alvoice roles
more than walk, heavily guarded, in story of a PoW who had prae- were taken southwards. Dawick He presented John, as senior epusing concemi in.
tised with stick and tennis ball took his cartyises. George officer, with a handsome platal church circles, it is likely that the castle park.
until ho reached Wimbledon brought Oscar Wilde's "Do Pro- which Hitler had given him. The Maybe they were a shade standard, Dawick set himself to funds. It was the only beek others, were given huge cigars. better off than the others, fearn painting. He is all paint, they had; nobody felt like A couple of days later, John Certainly they had their ing.
was talking by telephone to kis own special burden of care.
of them doubted that, aunt the Queen from General: headquarters, Her Who
once they were. handed over to Patch's were they? George,
the
naked about George, SS, death was probable. The Majesty the King; As if to emphasise nephew of over 03,000,000 FANFARE
John, FOR FARCE that Britain was nophow of
whole of their effort, in which George had a bad cold. the Queen; Giles, Charlie (Hopetoun) was the John was the flerce and voluble getting back to nephew of the Prime Minister: most energetic, first as organiser leader, was
No thanks and Michael, nephew of Field of theatricals then as a serious transfer.
to prevent the Marshal Alexander. In more student of philosophy; se orious. formal
First stop on a weird journey language. they
that his health suffered. Max through a Germany in chaos Viscount Lascelles, now Earl of wa Harewood; the Master Elphinstone; Giles Romilly; and Michael Alexander.
Stocks hold in bonded ware- houses throughout the country are now down to 70,547,000 lbs. compared with lbs, this Ume last year,
"normal." Landon lest week sow the Aldwych force tradition revived or something markably like it.
wero
TC-
NOT A Timmie, the 12-year- MEOW od pet feline of Mrs Between the wars these bubble
Arthur C. Trautwein, and froth plays
as of Buffalo, New York, has 900 much a part of London life as eat for company in his mistress' Big Ben and the barrow-boy. Authored by playwright Ben Travers they packed
home,
the
The youngest
were
together with
the ginn.
He dominated
.
Special danger
an-
Charlie
Dresden
In the
and Dawick, both
felt thanks.
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an argumentative, theol was at Konigstein Castle, near invalids, walled at Konigstein John (Elphinstone) was Drezden, where they were hos- unill the Russians arrived. dominating personality, pitably, received. A portrait of Before this catastrophe, the ferce,
soldierly and clear- Hitler was politely turned to the German commandant offered headed. On his fist arrival at wall as they entered. Then a them the Saxon crown jewels Colditz, the deportment of his German colonel gravely
(In 12 suitcases, worth' £3,000,- fellow Prominents had eppalled nounced the death of Roosevelt. 000) which were in his keeping him.
All stood allent, with bowed "a present to the Britishi
Royal Family, the Bri heads,
Although he was willing to throw in the pictures from the noden galleries, piso hidden.
Giles; as a civilian,
obliged, was in Prominents, the last of the speciol danger of being handed decline, over to the Gestapo. Captain
curious story of this van den Hauvel, Dutch master eniall, high-level pocket of the of the art of escape and a war cannot help being interest-
Konigstein, fellow captive at
proaches, exciting. It suffers in it has two ed shattered Munich, where he the telling becau
of one. It l spent some crazy days of sight- authors in cause i seeing before the Americans marred by patches of pro- for example, arrived.
tentious writing: George, John, Max and John "seizing a silence, he frowned Winant were carried off to towards his next question." REST OF THE NEW BOOKS
flut Timinie will never hear a Aldwych Theatre off the Strand
These four, friendly "rew" out of a single and made paticnal names of Charlie, son of a Viceroy (Earl one of them. They are inade out comedians like Tom Walls and of Hopetoun, now Marquess of of the
There they were, the nephews power, fountains of of everything from china and Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Linlithgow): Viscount Dawick, unshaven, with buttonless glass to woud, rubber and even Alfred Drayton and the formid-son pine cones.
of a fleld-marshal, (Ear! battle-dresses, sloppy balaclava abic Miss Vera Pearce.
Haig): Max de Homel (cousin helmets and muddy boots, "Is of Mrs Trautwein's love for cots
Mr Churchill's grand- that really the nephew of Win- They were farees, pure started her 13 years ago on her
and children); and Jater. John ston Churchill?" asked onc collection-which includes two unadulterated, involving, usual-Winant, son of the American horrified Nazi. "He looks more
Ambassador in London, and the highly-prized pieces a century much rushing in and out of
Jike an old lady." olet. One is
candle holder, on bedrooms. Walls and Drayice Polish General Bor Kortorow-
In segregating these exalted were the traditional bully-boys ski, herole defender of Warsaw, which a cut Is perched, other is feline figure that
had some crazy notion of bar bults holds a brandy glass.
whom the bewildered little band
their German
What Hare
gaining life against life. the rabbit-brained geolers called the Prominente."
certain was that a new was They had been picked up Many pieces in the collection Flynn. And for people all over
sinister world Ralph Lynn's "silly- the enemy at various places on lives opened the
chapter in their were imported.
uss" character
ors the day that epitomised the the map between Narvik and Colditz was surrounded by SS mythical English aristocrat complete with monocie and buck-leeth. It was fun by for- mula. But Britain loved It,
An
with.
The who with Miss Pearce made | completed the select and isolated young men, the Nazis may have organised his fight. Giles reaching and, as the climax ap
and
by
the Western Desert. Now their story is told in a new book,
George was the youngest and GET TOUCH In
most imperturbable; "not even unpre
on amateur soldier," he Insisted. EDITOR possessing office under the
Time has taken its toll, how-In a box with a blue velvet lining, shadow of London's St. Paul's
ever. Playwright Travers is he kept a clarinet which he Cathedral, works one of hearing his seventies. Bully- would take out; lovingly assem Britain's hardest-hitting news-
boys Wells and Drayton are ble; blow a few notes on. Then dead. But this week the aur- sadly, he would put the clarinet papermen.
vivors took the singe again with
Jenes and
The Rev. Clement Rhodes, editor the Church of Eng- land Newspape:, pulls nu punches and men involved in colonial affairs have learned to bok out for his leading articles often couched in a style that
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
YOU NO SOONER GET THE SUMMER COTTAGE FIT TO LIVE IN THAN IT'S TIME TO
TURN IT BACK TO THE FIELD MICE | AND OTHER WINTER TENANTS.
WE'VE NEVER BEEN SEPARATED
A DAY SINCE
WEVE BEEN
MARRIED/
NO GOODBYES HERE- THE LADY GOES ALONG-
ALWAYS
SEA BREEZE
SPECIAL
a first-time farce by youthful liv The notes had falled to
playwrights Peter John Joweit.
And Lendon reared it appre- clation of a beloved tradition revived.
CLAM COVE SEA LEVEL HEIGHTS
BLUE POINT
and
THE
A
First, BUILD an Empire
OF
LIFE
LORD abusid - and misunderstood. I' So this new life of Roberts,, A ROBERTS. By ⠀⠀ David · Is denounced as aggression", brave chivalrous, dutiful British, James. Hollis and Cartor. and sneered at as "colonialism soldier and defender of the The bravery and the sense of Empire, comes at an opportune 301. 503 pago),
moment. Thero could hardly that Inspired
a better story, of modesty comings as a performer. His BEFORE you give an Empire builders are alike forgotten by and humanity to put before
away, you must first build it. `ono generation among us and young men and their seniors. Today the building process is "are, unknown to the next.
up to George's busiera artistic standards.
However, he made up as n musical pundit for his short-
knowledge of opera was and dogmatic.
vast
The Last Week-End
COM, 1114 BY GÉNIEAL FEATURES
IM.WORLD RIGHTS RISLAVEQ.
WINKE
mission
BY HARRY
WEINERT
WE HAVE NO USE FOR MEN WHO SEND THEM OFF WITH A GRIN
THEY MIGHT SAVE THEIR SMILES TILL THE TRAIN PULLS OUT,
THAT MELANCHOLY"
FEELING AFTER THE: SUMMER VISITORS DEPART
HOLDING THE TRAIN WHILE HE PROMISES ·
1. NOT TO FORGET HER.
4-5
2. THAT HE'LL BE THINKING OF HER ALL THE TIME, ́3, THAT HE'LL JOIN HER THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
"THEY'VE
GONE ✔."
AND DONT FORGET
JOE'S PLACE
CLAMS
BA
WRITE?!
す
PIZZA
THE LAST WEEK-END AND AN INCREASE IN BUSINESS FOR THE POST OFFICE FOR A WHILE.
the
be
Hero they may read perhaps for the first time of the storm- ing of Delhi and the march to Kandahar, of the Martişlere, a Lucknow school founded by French soldier of fortune, which Is the only school in the Com- monwealth with its own' battle honours.
They will find-and it, will be. a useful corrective the great Marshal Lynutey's dictum: "Colonial war has nothing in common with war between nations; it is constructive not destructive; creating life, not ruins."
To a different mood the words of the CIGS in 1909-will appeal: "As regards aeroplance, 1 am not quite convinced about their military value. To 'sustain them- selves in the air they necessarily have to move at a very high speed, say from 30 to 40 miles sa hour, and I doubt whether a reconnaissance of valuo cah boi made at that speed.
"As regards dropping explo sives, there is nothing to guldo us Informing an opinion. Dirigible airships are, of course, In a different category,"
DANIEL DEFOE. By Brian
· ́-FitzGerald. Secker and Wardburg $186,248,
pugen
WHO was the original::of A famous. Moll Flanders, the greatest and hot the worst of all women characters in English fiction?
the
Good authorities bellave, that was a Tilbury oyster-girl named Mistroas Norton, who for some time shared a house with Defoe and seeme to "have had a ion by him: Benjamin": "Norton, who was thrown into gnól"" for. Journalistic activitión dieplensingt to the authorities. His grandson was hanged at Tyburn for way robbery:
dynaty
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