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EVERLASTING
LIFE
..
"The Village
of Everlast-
i
of
L. H. JONES ON BOOKS
STRAIGHT INTO
ACTION IN
BATTLE
By Donald Smith. Gooffroy Blas: 10%, 6d.
ORDER
members of the British
ing Life" is North Greenland Expedition are
the name now given to the small
village Appenine equipped with
electric shavers Missano de Zonca, near Modena, AND ALL THE TRUMPETS. 10 use if they like. Those re-
But the convoy never arrived turning now after months in the
where, because there has not been a burial for admit that beards are
there another last-minute decade, over
change of plans. going out.
the local Council has ปก
The ships mado all' pomible animously agreed to
to diamiss the
Singapore. Even the hair of the huskies' community's only gravedigger. HULL Speed Ahead-that pred to
Troops FULL
were told to leave the major homely pelt is a rarer sight,
For ten
years, 71-year-old
the order. And part of their kit on board and They are being ousted by gravedigger Arduino Carboni the ill-fated 18th Division be prepared to go straight into Weasels, the tractors which has been paid without doing a raced towards generate current for the razors stroke of
Singapore. action in battle order. work. Comments the as they carry forward the shavy dismissed Arduino: "I am happy The time, early in 1942. What happens next le told in "And All Trumpets" by Navy.
At a snap decision, the Donald Smith, then attached highly mechanised to the Intelligence Corps. division yet to leave Eng- But Mr Smith gives a limited
that no one has died in ten years, even though it means I most am out of a job." ROLLED IN Michael Whit-
Statistically speaking, how- THE BARREL toker, 21-year ever, gravedigger Arduino has land had been redirected picture of the fighting on sinto He arrives, goes from ita Middle East Pore Island. old cooper's dug n grave during the 10 years
action, and is taken prisoner apprentice
Heaton Road, to bury his cat.
destination in a desperate an in 42 pages. Gosport, Hampshire, will not
attempt to stem the wave His first base at Bukit forget the day ho became a
of Japanese forces sweeping Timah, but he omits to mention A fashion-towards Singapore.
of
Journeyman. Hi
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Royal Clarence Yard
at the
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21 Commission (8).
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24 Concine (3).
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Dors
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
MAC'S
"HI, JAKE-
WHAT'S COOKIN' ?
OYSTER HOUSE
OYSTERS
'R'
IN SEASON
JOE'S
PIZZA PALACE
OPEN ALL NIGHT
"HES OUR BEST SALESMAN- BUT HE'S ALWAYS BROKE- NO GALES-RESISTANCE/
SALES MAN
ур
Arena.
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of the
MY MILLIONAIRES'
CAOL
DO
into
the battle there. To those of us able rc-
Everyone now knows the out- In the area, the story of the last sidence for come
rand et Bukit Timeh was rome- of this eleventh hour cost him gullon of millionaires today ia Mexico becz, but before
action, and how the 16-inch thing more than common know- could City's Federal Penitentiary. In
ledge. it to his workmates he the Inst few weeks present
In guns of the island fortress faced had to go through an infliation than
fower the wrong way towards the sea. three millionaires have The men, some of whom had ceremony dating trom the
His book, clearly, is not in- Middle Ages.
the Laken up residence there-all Bren action on the Dunkirk tended to portray the history of Under the critical chars
charged with murder and beaches, others eyes of four experiened coopers robbe
Inexperienced the short-lived actions. It 1: Territorials robbery.
Saturday Incidentally,
Night the Sara-and, Incl
story of one POW's ex- With
these three young soldiers," had left England in periences in the hands of the 200 guests he had to make a
millionaires as now residents October 1941, bound for Halifax Japanese. cask. When he had done every plus another young man of con-in Canada. thing but At the Anal hoop be alterable wealth, who killed the transferred to
There, they were He reveals nothing now, how- lifted Into the barrel, driver of a car for sounding his and became
American shipa, ever, about life in the Changi tho Arst British POW showered with soot, four and horn, the Penitentiary Is
camp. with its sawdust.
many fast
troops ever to be carried and working parties. The change.of and rolled about the beeeming a home for the idle convoyed by Americans. yard, yurd,
Then, as his health
dict to the rice ration is hardly was rich.
What a show the Yanks put touched upon, although it seem- on! The troops were carried in ed of all-importance at the time. Tu kurneymaa
the Hnir America, Irish Perhaps this is because Chong), his ROMAN PIN Á man who goes re Apprenticeship kad ended-and
in the from her maiden voyage and now with all its se backs, was looked digging he was allowed to siori off his
FACTORY
the renamed West Point; the Man- bed
as almost a holiday upon later n hattan, renamed Mount Vernon, camp, compared with career with half-day holiday. River Thames negr the Kew and the Washington,
others, now the And even songs The casks were originally made Bridge believes he has found the Wakefield. The escort consisted
were written to be filled with food for long cite of a Roman pin factory. Mr of the aircraft carrier Saratoga,
about it.
The book really gels sca voyages, but nowadays thay John Wiggins of Lit le Ealing a battaleship, two cruisers, and way on his arrival at Whangpo, under carry the Navy's rum - and Lane, Ealing, 36-year-old fourteen destroyers. vinegar.
SMALL
the beer he bad be
p'orialm-
•
ارا
on the
Slam-Burma rallway.
His account of those dark daya
has the full ring of authenticity.
In this convoy the ships sailed I can bear witness to that for
I
Thames boat builder, has found several dozen bronze and gold toga and scart pins,
He says that 1,800 years ago into It was chilly days there was almost certainly
Cape Town, round the I, too, was at BEER for holiday-makers
Cape of Good Hope and into the went on to in 1954's
Roman market whett Kew Indian Ocean,
where within-memory summer, but it Bridge now stands high de cul Brush cralser, Dorsetshire. Whangpo was not far up the
Although duties were taken by colder cheer for Britain's it is exposed at low water and
was brewers.
worst-
Beer output in August-most popular holiday month-was the lowest since the war, reflecting scanty attendance in the pubs,
At 2,168,000 barrels, it com- pared with 2,807,000 barrels in the warm August of 1948, when postwar celebrations drove bear- drinking to a peak.
SAINT'S BREAKDOWN
bc discovered
•
escort the main po. and
one of camps which
mentions.
(up country as we would
"Now we're all right," the line Mr Wiggins belleves there are troops joked. But things were say) and so not in the midst of more pins to
happen. beginning 10
Pearl denso jungle. Mr Smith draws there.
Harbour was attacked, and the upon the reports of others for Japanese were on the rampage his account of the fight against in the Far East.
disease, heat, rain, and malnu- The Feast of Orders were issued for the trition in clearing the area for SL Michinel convoy to be redirected, The the railways. was cancel- Wakefield was to call in at led in Voletta, M Ran: Mombassa and then head for The saint had a breakdown. Singapore.. The rest of the con- Mr Smith's story of the later
During the night before the voy were to go to India.
stages in the construction of the But altogether, Britons seem feast someone broke into the Once there, the troops were Menim Road, however, reflects to be losing their thirst During church and removed the nuts given three weeks'
the Extensive some of the conditions in the first eight months of 1946, and bolts which hold his wingstraining and then rushed to higher jungle camps.. beer-drinkers downed 20,377,000 to the rest of the statue.
Malaya..
The behaviour of the Japan eso and Korean guards in his camp were much the same a.s elsewhere. Thoro wert the usual beatings up and vengeful cunishment. It often appeared that the guards were merely giving vent to their feelings, for the severity of punishment had
Shop Talk
IT WAS THE CHEAPEST ENGAGEMENT RING
I EVER GOT".-
COMA. 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES
IWORD ENEMIES ALSERYEA,
"THERE'S NO HOKUM
LIKE THE OLD HOKUM/
WLINKTY
10-10
"CURSE THESE FLEAS ✔ I'VE TRIED POWDERS, DILS AND RINSES —
AND STILL THEY THRIVE?
ME-LIVE AND ́ ́LET LIVE IS MY
MOTTO ? “
BY HARRY
Į
WEINERT
"ÎM GIVING HIM SALMÓN TONIGHT-
HE DOESNY LİKE IT BUT THE
CAT LOVES IT/
WHERE
"AN'I SAYS DO YOU THINK YOU'RE. GOING 7 TO A FIRE?”
"WHITE NEW ?
Ittle with the nature
of the
Mr
story
ot" the repatriation may seem, indeed a little far-fetched to the ordinary reader. But, having had similar experiences, I can testify that these things did actually happen.
On the whole, Donald Smith aahleves his purpose in setting cut to tell one man's story
A
His book makes goed reading and will once again remind people of the atrocities commit- · ted in the riame of war, THE GLASS VILLAGE. By
Ellery Queen. Gollancz 10s. 6d.; 222 pages. WRITING far better than the W who-dunnit market de- mands, the Ellery Queen com- bination devote their first 42. pages to witty drawing of В Yankee rustle scene: gnarled villagers
Christian names like Calvin and Hosea; shrewd In this
distaste for "furriners."
paradise, on the day, after In- dependence Day exercises, Aunt Fanny Adams is murdered.
Aunt Fanny, aged 2.01, has
made a
like
a minit of moru tilp
Grandma Moses,
what she sees: If folks.ore enough to pay for
they could have
fool
only
what
for nothin
if
nly they'd · KISO their two eyes let 'em pay through the nose. What she saw and put down on her
lost
canvas proves TO
to be the clue leading Judge Shinnand his nephew Johnny to the old lady's killer.
A superior sample of Ellery Queen's humorous, crafty, ac=" complishment. A
A PRIDE OF LIONS. By Jähn Brooks, Golfansz; } 126. 6d.; 308 pages,tay TANDSCAPE study of East Bank, shabby half industrial town near New York, putting up [n losing, fight against "Invasion
Family
by big businesingin
non
andi. fight
big
Uncle
whleact the
Albert and Mamma, who
publishing business & and love In New York to the old rolans aËS
or
painting
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