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BRIDEGROOMS

ALL HAVE THEIR TRIALS

By Harvey Day

a curious how, all over Osaka, end nil fiye brides lived the world the bride- happily froom is an object of commiseration. He ofte etagus a will stag party and has a last fling before sur rendering Into voluntary servitude.

with their bustands Incidentally, in cach affray D dozen young men were malmed and the bride's house wrecked:

il

Among some gipsy trans is custominry af the westting fest to provide a cake made of flour mixed with a little blow from the wrists of bride

happy

This is calen by the pair. And in Bulgarin the hands of the groom are tieel to those of his bride yo that he can't make a quick getaway.

At any marriage ceremontajes traditional acts, whose meaning: have now been lost. ore 10) observed. In the remoter paT'S of Scotland t was lice Th custom for the mother-in-law la break a plate of salt over the groom's head at the start of the fenal. What an opportunity, in she disliked him, of using plate made of cock suit!

Aborig Oriental

Jews it IN

still usual for the bride to pre- form leap over a large plattes heaped with itali

have devisst Savage tillars Innumerable or leuds Bar The prospective groom to prove his manhood Among the aborigines of Arnhem Land, Northern Ter ritory, Australla, he has test for 15 days in the burning sun. without Justermukk Only then Is he considered is for marriage.

Rice-throwing

in

In some innds mock fights are taged in which the pair wrestle or fight until the bride in over- come and carried off. This wha once a Cornish custom. Among the Makuan, o mock battle is staged in which both parties enter with gusto. The defeat of the bride is a cue for her father and mother to rush at the groči and beat him soundly with clubs

in a ceremonial way,

The Babar Islanders lock the bride

dark In a

rom strewn with traps and pitfalls-nails for bridegroom to tread The

ut), booby traps, und string that enlangles him, Eventually he tinda her bven if it takes hours.

Rough Handling

men

In parts of Kamchatka have an even thinner Line.

The bride Ix

hidden under Innumerable coverings, and the gcom must find her and strip But every rog. Then only con

be his. he

Just before h

Berate

of her friends

from hiding, beat him, and tear the brie away. When he recovers from their rough handling he has an- other go, and again they swoop. Faint heart, they TAY, never won fair indy!

The Betsiloes

of

Madagascar

try to impale the groom with he must show his spears, and akill a dodging. In Now Guinea carred with knives and The ancient cus.com of throw he is

terd in a bug with tiger ants, ing rice comes from the trapita where rien

1 symbol of

In some of the islands of the terility and In 1

he has to undergo Had Indies MARTinge veremonies. In the an examination by a committee Celebes, for fristance, They of women; if they approve, throw rice in ander to prevent asked up for 40 days and the groom's soul from ying fattened! And many vilirges away,

he is haled before the relatives the bricke who lusult hlm with every abusive term in their

[21 Set the male

evidence

be

almost Tovarlatly required to fertile vocabulary If he can give

of his stand that he can take anything superiority Marriage by eap- the bride can say when he is

customary 211

ture

Japanese country districts.

th

was

Renour. Fought back and smulched the girl away.

That year ivo marriages by capture

reported

were

Harry

Odall.

says

ןן!

I feel highly honoured to be able to announce what I believe will be the most brilliant event of this decade.

netlei.

Greatest Ordeal

one

If her father interfered, her lover was in honour bound to

and this shoot him,

always started of those ruthless veniettas which

Last for When the Italiang generations. took over Albania they ordered this custom to be abolished and lold down stiff penalties for those who broke the law.

even

the

Most marriage customs are based on the belief of man's superiority and Christian service endorses this when it makes the man say, "with all

my worldly goods I thee endow," and the bride promises that she will "love, honour and obey."

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1955,

FEN MEMO TO SIR DAVID ECCLES

WHOL`AB MINISTER OF EDUCATION, HAT ANNOUNCED HIS NEW SCHOOLJI PLAN

"Sir! Smith says he LIKES the bad old mixed-age schools,”

THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT ADVENTURE

I DIVE 7,000 UNDER THE

4

A.M. As we drove under the archway Toulon into

navy base. the sentry, Jean and recognising the rangy silhouette of my eom. panion,`jumped to attention and saluted without asking for our passes.

"Our early rising habits

on the bathyscaphe are get- ting us quite a reputation," Commander Houot told me with a grin,

A corner,

scaphe."

see

BY CLAUDE

Commander Houot

London Express Service

FEET SEA

CHAMBARD comfortable

the Nautlius. I felt a thrill of pride In the 10' ecntury Frenchmen who were making it

come true.

planning to take a well-paid and

civilian job. But the chance to serve the bathy- that. He scaphe changed all stayed in the navy and is vir tually never off-duty, Lor look- ing efter the bathyscaphe is a

mission, round-the-clock most

Important responsibility is the delizave task of watching the charge

on the acccmulators, our beam. Usually Everything depends on these ac- the bathyscapho is towed by the cumulators. The ballast, the restarch ship Elle Monnier

nnier guide-rope and two of the bat- belonging to the French Navy'a teries are held in position by while current

The harbour lights blinked rod, then green,, Our tug, the Samson, bore down on us and stopped

on

an electro-magnets

· special · branch for Undersea Research. But the Ello Mon-

nier was having a rent in dry is required for the searchlights, the motors and the apparatus that day. This meant that, installed in the sphere.,

REMAINS OF BRITAIN'S

ROMAN PAST

By J. W. TAYLOR

NURTHER recent Roman discoveries in

several parts of Britain, including the unearthing of the temple of Mithras behind London's Mansion House, has led to increasing public interest in the story of the colourful Roman past, none more 80 than in the Northwest, where the country is rich in romains of the Roman occupation of Britain, with Chester, the ancient Legionary fortress of Deva, the centre and focus of it all.

One Chester find gave all the details of the conditions of service of a Roman Legionary, with a striking ahnilarity to those of the National Serviceman of today. It was in Chester that

the famous fighting Legion, Legia XX Valeria Victrix The Twentieth, the Valor- ous, the Victorious" - was gorrisoned.

Like the Army of today, their infantry division had divisional sign which the soldiers left inscribed on the fortications they erected. It was of a wild boar running, surmounted with the crudely ascribed. "LEG: XX" beneath a

head

In

From Chester the Legion soldiers built n road northwards to Wilderspool, near Warring- ton, where traces of a military camp have been found Then on to Ribchester and Lancaster, where altern, walls and baths have shown

evidtere ot

docupa-

Claude Chambard, cor- respondent of the Agence Franco-Presso, Is the first journalist over to make a plunge into the ocean depths in the bathyıcapho of French Navy Comman- dor Goorges Houot, Ho is the first civilian "passenger" to make a really deep dive and the Fifth mon in the world to havo” reached

· the · · depth of - 7,000 foot (1 1/3 milos). In this series ho gives the first ayewitness dc- count by an in- dependent observer of how man is on the way to realising Jules Yorne's dream of "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea."

Islands lay along the horizoną“

tion by the Romans. To the cast went a military road to the tort of Cocctum, now hidden beneath the centre of industrial Wigan.

At the

| Muscam, where

Grosvenor

Cheater ak centra

Roman times is the chiar cars

of

exhibited "docu- conditions of

interest, an ment tabulates the

service of the Roman soldier. Including those relating to bit checks and daily rates of pay. deductions for kosta of equip ment and, barrack damages and allotments to be made to de pendants. For the man with 20 years' satisfactory service therm was an honourable discharge and a pension in the form of a

and gift.

SERVICE CONDITIONS

At..the little village of. Rib- chester, a few miles un the Ribhjo from Preston, children digging on the river bank unearthed a brenze Roman helmet complete with mask. It was a wonderful plece of work and

TATRAMATI

ship, skilfully worked with the figures of gladiators and hora monadowning the headolece Experts later confirmed that it was a ceremonial helmet worn by ravelrymen on epocial unsions; but probably kept in the temple, just as gimental

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during our dive, we would not The coxswain told me: "List Giene peninsula and the Hyeres, be able to keep in touch with week one of the dockyard

churches today, unde the surface by ultrasonic morse

When Houot returned to the Further expiation of the sito Samson workers in the base shouted at singals because the

me:-Hasn'

thing

sunk tug, he seemed pr.occupied bu was not cquipped to receive

on which the helmet was found got real mad. What hi yet?--I

report Was reassuring. led to the discovery of temple them.

the hell has that got to do with "There's nothing wrong It's

a stone with an inscription

certain

Once the tow had been made you?--I yelled at him. I could simply a bit of gasoline seeping other, Rothen relics, includ-

ing a

fast, we went aboard the lug have wrung his silly neck. He out. But the water is very warm relating how a and the little convoy picked up went off lookding as stupid and we speed and steered for the open ever.

Men like that just don't submer may have trouble in Floridias onder in

understand.,how you can The diving point selected by about your ship" Commander Houot, 01⁄2 miles was only BWRY.

UPKEEP

foel

charge of

regiments and The buoyancy of the bathy-governor of the occupied district, raphe is calculated on thehad, lo accordance with the wish difference in density between of the god, restored the temple the gasoline and the seawater and dedicate it. If the craft 1 trimmed abit CONFUSED, MASS

ght, it is enough to

cause

HAGGARD SMART-LOOKING launch, more like a millionaire's difficulty in gotting her under. The "name" of the mentioned yacht than a Navy ship, swept The time passed quickly. god was undecipherable, “but “it up alongside the Samson It From the bridge of the tug. I was possible to ascribe the in belonged to theUndersea looked over the Mediterranean "cription to the beginning of Research Group. The little craft as catri Ma amill-pond.he third oralury AP The sidled in close. An officer was Strangely I felt less apprehen-ublet is now in the keeping of Cupping his hands, he bawled near, than when I first learned the helmet rests in the British waving to catch our attention. sive, now that the moment was St. John's College, Cambridge; across to us:

"We

a long swimming

We can smell gasoline a way astem, of the batbyscaphe Tell the ammnder."

"Stop, the

ordered

A few yours ago Ultai Main, In prewar Albania a man scen

The silence of the dock- a 17-year-old village felle, was taking a woman into his house

yard was broken only by her way

legally home from the was considered to

motor our no ere the purring of even though pubile bath in Osaka when she married

the screech of been performed. If and the bundled inlo

und my trad kidnapped. Her brother lex a after this her father refused to tyres. In the white glare rescue party and recovered her, expt him, it was his duty to

of the electric lights the but the grom, being a man of elope with the girl.

little submarine chasers lay huddled against the harbour

"No smoking" is of course wall. As we hurtled round

the the rule. Anyway the gaso I could huge black

the line fumes gave me such a south of Cap Skie, of mask battleship "Richelieu" out feeling of nausea that

hours steaming a three cigarette was the last thing I could hardly believe the water lined against the sky.

well over I wanted.

a mile deep lay so close to the coast, Houot parked the auto-

board the Samson 1 When he first took charge coplous, brockdast put me in the mobile alongside one of the repair shopв?

of the bathyscaphe, Com- mood for the day's work. While mander Houot

told we were cating it in the ward "There she is the bathy- Engineer-Lieutenant Pierre behind like a puppy on a lead room, the bathyscaphe, trailing Willm, who perfected the plunged and rolled in the first craft: "If I understand gts of dawn.

excavation of this rightly, your little toy is

site revealed a con- only dangerous when she's

the skipper of the. tug. The fused mAAN of broken Roman Houet, who had been snatch beat of the engines, died away pottery, metalwork and ambed on the surface.” Standing

ing a rost down below, appear and they Samson glided to stonewerk, with a sprinkling beside Houot in the conning FTER breakfast, I got talking ed on deck, his face haggard halt. We had arrived here and there of the skeletons tower of the bathyscaphe, IA to the coxswain of the bathy with Jack of sleep. Tue A seaman looked at me and or fall, powerful men of, the silently endorsed that senti. scaphe, a chief electrician. The bathyscaphe is his entire reopen thook his head pllyingly. He military type. It toki se old

and he must watch seemed to be thinking: These of coxswain, who is responsible for, sibilliy

ancient wars of Roman the upkeep of the bathyscaphe's every defall whether it be Inndlubbers

completely Britain deserted by the Legions I approached it cautiously,

engineering or nuts. They can't be bothered at the end of the occupation; of Intricate cloctrical apparatus. is paperwork, picking my way amung steel Naval launches took us in submariner" of the old school, seamanship.

to go to sed on the surface arched earth polley adopted hawsers which seemed to tow and we moved out into Betore the war he spent twelve

The convoy stopped. The Straight away they want to after failure to Bad off the bar- have been put there special the darkness of Toulon bay years in the submarine flotillas Samson launched her scabont start poking around in Davey hirous Northern Friher of a ly to trip me up.

to meet the tug which would which were then the pride of and Houat went away in it to Jones, locker

defence of - Ribchester hopeless France's powerful fiect. He has cheelt up on the bathyscaphie.

<--and--a-polifūgeour "kitsland in take us out to the diving a

**World Copyright 1954 submariner's the

special The sea" rocked: with

a gentle

unti -the burning point just south of Toulon." pride in his “boat". BUOYANCY

swell. The sky. Was a dirty grey;

roof and great portico had crash- (To be When he was picked to look, through which the sun "gieamed

|ed downt--upón- the last of the The Idea of going down in the after the bathyscaphe, he was fitfully. To the eastward, the THEN my rubber soles were bathyscaphe had long been my cherished ambition und, when skidding on the steel the chanse came, I grabbed it. easing, of the bathyscaphe. But the two days I had to The reek of gasoline caught wait in Toulon before the big me by the throat. I was un- tiny were bad on my nerves. Wendering alone through E easily aware that I was narrow streets of the old port, standing on a tank contain baying a solitary meal in a

my hobel bedroom, my Imagination ran riot,

is thai

DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE and SIR LEWIS CASSON, England's distinguished But the greatest orden of all

marriage customs artists, will give a recital of prevalent

among the Wahele Shakespeare and poetry at the and Waxogo tribes of East EMPIRE THEATRE on Wed-

even the idling Africa, where of a a ilon single-handed is not nesday, 16th February, 1955, sumcient prove a marve

9.30 p.m.

A limited courage. The

is required groom

night with the number of seats will be sold.to sleep one

mother-in-law before ho For further particulars call place a finger on his bride. International Films, Ltd.. This, undoubtedly is the origin of the phrase "a fate worse than Telephone 21832.

death,"

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PHOTOGRAPHS

I followed Hount's point- ing finger. On the inky waters of the dock, I could Bee a gleaming yellow hull with a central conning tower like a submarine.

ment.

Staff Photographers ing over 17,000 gallons of restaurant or dilling by myself

by

our

· Agricultural Show

Sea Scout' Party Seafarers Judo Exhibition Cardinal Spellman's Visit St. Andrew's Church Party Philippine Delegations Government House Garden Party

• Little FlowerClub Annnal Dinner Burmese National Day Celebration Dock Company, Dinner ECAFE CONFERENCE AND PARTIES Heep Yuan School Speech Day Opening of New Buddist School' S.P.C. Persian Buffat Supper Julius Katchen Cocktail Party Hongkong Unfort Church Party All Local Sports Local Presentations

Local Weddings:

etc. etc.

highly inflammable liquid. I n understood why the first thing Houot had said to me, when I called on him, was: "Have you got any rubber sneakers or, at least, some

CONVOY

tomorrow)

the

*

Searchlight on South Africa., by Rene MacColl

MAN IN THE PLANE ATTACKS MISSIONARIES FOR MEDDLING

THE

THE

TT is not often that all the Protectorates Basutoland, ditog T

shoes without any nails or WT if the contraption dia leap to their feet to stare population, just over 1,000,000 the old tribal discipline! and tias been done by the mission-

steel tips?"

not come up again? What awestricken downwards at in the Union of South Africa it caught are on the surface a hole in the ground but run by Britain, not

Union, and plummeted to the bottom below.

Capetown. We got on to the question of terrible, harps by:ikoly:"med", for youth the very people who havn libérated, bly and given Bechuanaland, and Swaziland,

him a sense of responsibility. passengers in an airliner which are tribal enclaves (total

The missionarien," "Ho | says, in on the Note have already -largely destroyed

when wo see the harm that the authority of the African chiefs. Varies we may be just in me Pit will be a long and to undo it in South Africe-do The gasoline is not used with Houet and me trapped in That is what everyone did The Nationalisis of South laborious task to restore the you think we are going to stand is fuel. The bathyscaphe is the stool sphere and tho

:Africa think it is Britain's authority of those chilets and by and watch the mindonaries in reality an "underwater busyncy bank ripped open by in the plane which brought moral obligation to hand over thus to restorass of dis go about the same; disastrous

Capetown from these native territories, the heat? What If we hit amo to.

cipline and proper respect policy in those thire Protec balloon". It has a big wrock or surfaced right under Johannesburg.

among the natives for other and forstest buoyancy tank shaped like neath a ship which hed

higher authority he went on. It Was no onlinary hole, From MORAL OBLIGATION strayed Into the the hull of a midget sub-

diving

it was Inkeri -the stuff that! I mentioned to Mr Hertzog "You Brita in Rhodenia aro

CONTROL: marino and filled with gaso The night before the trip. I engagement rings place by there a moral obligation not disistä blood bath perhaps, illuminates a couple of billion that many people in Britain fool building up towards an appalling line. The gasoline has the ad dined with two friends in name of Kimberley, same function as the hydro- the gardens of what was onco This minor corallement to hand over the Protectorates..simply because you refuse t gen or helium which gives the home of the futurlat brought me into conversation I asked why, South Africa, 2 bag kan s buoyancy to a flying balloon. Went Thousand Leagues uns was short slender, well

Jules Verne, whose book with the chup next to me. Ho which I deeply concurand over We Afrikaner's have The crew of the bathy the Bea" fett, pictured men with a good profile, intell scapho are crammed into a navigating in the ocean depths res, and a little silky, steel sphere underneath the The restaurant, which is

graying equivalent of the gondola of the pen, bears wish warns of Lionalists La flying balloon din nowĄTAL Verne

„Naina and R

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD buoyancy tank which is the Modelion promontory overlook the wed

Available at

Wyndham÷Straatp

the

the question of how to deal with and lived with tho her own million of-coloured hundreds of years, people, wants to add thead many What to Beat Lor him, h

"to the problémicasglu

full stinier of the

kiss, and tho

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