1955-01-26 — Page 4

Page 4*

BELT

BAZAAR

Pioneer.

the mark of a

TAK

Pioneer colors your life... with a new Tropicolor braided elastic bell. Top styling, real freedom- choore one today!

Pioneer's Stretchways, the belt that out-

does itself for comfort Co Full

inch... has stylo oplenty!

Featured at your favourite

mon's outfitters

The most brilliant event of this decade. England's distinguished artiste

Dame Sybil Thorndike⚫ Sir Lewis Casson In a recital of Shakespeare and poetry at the

EMPIRE THEATRE

on Wednesday, 16th February, at 9.30 p.m. Seats may be reserved now at international Films, Ltd., 107, Holland House, Tel. 21832.

Whiteaways

THE CHINA - MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, -1955.

1855

Cummi

1955

BRITAIN

TO THE COLONIES

"GOOD LUCK, BOY! GO OUT AND SEEK YOUR FORTUNE!!

FOR MORE THAN 350 YEARS THE GREAT TREASURE SHIP OF THE SPANISH ARMADA HAS ELUDED THE GOLD. SEEKERS. ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES

Tobermory Galleon

T

IMES change and em-

pires vanish. It is

strange now to think

By IVOR HERBERT

what expediently the two Earls of Argyll of their reign went to the scaffold for treason, and their demise slightly handicap-

of the continuazice

the ped

of a day when Spain Duque de Florencia mysteri- 1908). Pereria demanded provi- promising start of the search.

the tocal chieftain, overrode the Western World, only sunk within 84 yards sions from had Europe beneath her

of the Scottish coast. There MacLean, and after a few proud exchanges between the two foot and the Americas in

she has lain ever since pre- leaders a bargain was struck. her grasp. Her dominion served in clay, and misfor- and its threat to us are long tune and two violent deaths

Grande Napoleon's

have tried to break her Armee, Hitler's Third Reich secret. have followed it into history.

gone.

The MacLeans, us might be ex- those days of inter- pected in minable clan warfare, were in the middle of n feud with the MacDonalds. If Pereria ient him

company of troops to help masta

the Jocal

ency, Mac- victual Florencia

Q

in exchange

and

the

for

For the then Earl of Argyll and one, James Miller, had con- vinced themselves from Spanish records that the Florencia was indeed the bullion ship of the Armada and that it carried "30 millions of cash hidden under ye Seil of ye Gun Roome."

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

H

ERE is Old Moore bellove them. But not the okt Gubbins again giving age pensioners, Bronzed and fit they will marete in' moshate you his terrifying down Whitehall demanding £40 forecast for the New Year. a week. Those inclined to sneer at

DECEMBER. As this month fan O.M.G. might remember blank in Old Moore Gubbins' that many of his somebre crystal ball he thinks the Bod- predictions for 1954 came of-Worlders may be right when they say there will be no Christ- truc.

mas 1955. Except possibly for :- cld age pensioners.

JANUARY, The weather will bo vile, but not so vile as the weather next Juno. The in-

fluenza virus, having flourished Dog Reads

and multiplied during the mild HOMESATAÉTAR---------- December days, will strike In in full force about the middle of

the month. A warm, sunny spell will revive the tiresome arguments about H-bomba interfering with normal weather conditions, End-of-the-Worlders will ask: "Is winter changing

to summer and Bummer to winter, according to the Prow phecies?"

Shakespeare

HE

Animal'a Newspaper edited by N: Gubbins, Esq., has had a busy time.

Members of his brilljant team of animal reporters were sent to interview ihroo beasts In the FEBRUARY. Half the people news Monberno Gerald, the St in the country will be down with Bernard dog who can do sums, influenza. As soon as that half tell the time, and read sentences gets up the other half will go written on a blackboard; polico down. Just as the second half dog Rex III, who was wounds is getting up the first half will by a gunman's bullet and was go down again. A flerce cold spell, followed by one hot day League's awarded

and and another cold epoil, followed Meckie, the American seafaring

somi-

the Canine Defence bronze medal; by shom period of

cat who travelled across the tropical heal, will knock Pacific on a ratt with Mir almost everybody out. End-of- William Willis and ate the only the-Worlders will say, "This is it," but most people will be too days before arriving

other passenger, a parrot, three at Pago ill to care,

Pogo

Here are the brilliant inter-

Wrinkle-browed, one-year-old,

MARCH. There will be a lot of talk about a General Election after the Budget in April and views. how old age pensioners will vole. As oll political parties are scared of old age pensioners married "Berny,” there may be secret hopes that Influenza epidemics have

т moved mast O.A.Ps from the electoral register. These hopes doomed to disappointment, O.A.Ps, stronger and fitter than

of us, will still be menace to political aspirations,

arc

most

sad -eyed, Bin.. un as the dog gonius Mr. Monberno Gerald is known to his numerous friends, barked 54 times when I asked han "How many shopping days to Christmas?"

Afterwards, as one animal to another, he said:

APRIL. Winter sets in with

**I could have answered snow, frosts, and gales. Migra- Arty-four Just like that tory birds will turn back at the cept that it would frighten court, and anybody who writes people to hear a dog speaking. to the papers saying he has So I have to bark instead. This heard the first cuckoo will be becomes tiresome when dealing a llar, Cuckoos will be either in big numbers. I con only In 1588, as in 1940 and at

frozen stiff or their voices will hope nobody asks mo how many Yet Spanish might and a the start of the 19th cen-

Relics Found be drowned by howling winds.

mlies it is to the moon." chain of strange events lie tury, only the impudent Lean would

MAY. The severe weather will

Questioned about his reading behind the latest attempt to English island

remained part of its store of gold. So it M 1683 to inspect the wreck in have been fiddling with the Gulf

NȚILLER, in fact, descended in start a rumour that the Russians Mr Gerald mid: raise the Armada galleon in outside the empire of happened that band of

"Of course, it's kids' stuff Tobermory Bay. Three hun- European conqueror, The Spanish soldiers tramped about a primitive diving bell. The gal-Stream. End-of-the-Worlders

will worn

for the reading 'Bring mo "Prepare

my shoes' Scottish hills, and being leon had not then been silted dred and sixty-six years Spanish Army under the the

bolter armed

armoured over and, Miller "found o crown worst," but as we shall all be and Bring me my paper on a have passed since the great Duke of Medina Sidonia

gled of a little warmth wherever blackboard, but again it would put or dladern and had hooked the that the local barbariana, was massed in the Nether- many MacDonalds to the sword same but being chained It fell it comes from nobody will take be unwise to let people know. I

As it is lands. A second invasion and set their villages on fire. amongst the timbers,"

any notice. Political parties will can read anything. dfer old age pensioners anything can the headlines of the paper army waited in Spain. But

Two executions in the familyap to £5 a week for their vote before I bring it and read most The Spaniards. once

wiah pro- and the obvious the quick little ships of the

of the letters left lying about. visioned, were not inclinica Royal Navy, like the fighters dally. They dreaded the arrival treasure

to English monarchy to have the JUNE, While lee will be form- Some of them are most reycal-

for liselt somewhat ing on the Thames it will be ing." of the R.A.F. 14 years ago, of an English warship and they damped the ardour Di the boiling hot la Moscow. This will had first to be overcome be wanted to get home with what- Argylla for the hunt. Time revive the rumours about a

passed, the galleon settled Russian weather plot. Bye- asked, fore invasion could take ever it was they carried.

sea deeper in the bed, and withcases will give acoourite place.

existence To ensure that the Spaniards appliances. then in

Russhin aircraft dropping H- paid for their provisions, the were not capable of penetrating bombs in the middle of the Gulf chief ΟΙ the clan MacLean the clay.

Stream. As the General Election draws nearer old age pensioners will be offered £10 a week

NUARY,

BIGGEST EVER SALE

FINAL REDUCTIONS

Men's Chupplee Sandals in Brown Leather.

Crape or Leather Soles

Men's Lightweight Shoes in Brown Willow

Calf. Perforated Vamp

Ladies' Buckskin Shoes. White with Blue

Trim. Low Heel.

Casual Style Ladies' Suedette House Shoes. Sling Black,

Wedge Heels

London Pride Blouses. Very Attractive.

36-38 Only. Short Sleeves

"Meridian" Tee Shirts for Ladies. Outsizes

Only. Special Price to Clear.

Originally $39.50 Now $19.50

Originally $75.00 Now $39.50

Originally $85.00 Now $45.00

Originally $19.50 Now $10.50

Originally $57.50 Now $16.50 Originally $7.50 Now $ 2,50

Rival Fleets

PRECEDED by weeks of prayer that Catholic Spain might subdue the English Protestants the Invincible Armada finally sailed in May, 1688, and on July 19 it appeared off the Lizard.

of the

Two days later the rival ficets made contact of the Isle of Wight, and a running fight en- sued up the English Channel. The Spanish plan was for the Junction of the Armada with Sidonia's army in the Nether-

As long ago suo 1683 an intrepid treasure-hunter sought the lost lands, preparatory to a joint int vasion; and the Armada carried

chip in a primitive diving bell, Today frogmen probe- the silt. with it not only the troops to conquer England and the nobles

Spanish. From time to time in the 18th to occupy It but a vast hoard of when returning the

three officers troops kept goid to pay the Spanish armies.

as century various valuable relics hostages,

clansman

e were recovered, but it was not Mocteon's With it, too, went the great acribed variously as crown to be placed on Philip's son MacDonald or a man named until the invention of the diving head in a Westminster Abbey John Smollett) went aboard the suit in the 1870s that further restored to the "true faith." galleon to collect payment and, progress seemed possible. Down Bo it is said was immediately went a diver, but failed to find The English ships, more captured.

the wreck in the silt, and as he nimble and better sailed, struck down a handful of the great In any event either as a free was searching his air pipe burst the narrowest Spanish galloons. But the agent or as a prisoner, the and he had Armada, only slightly damaged, Scotsman heard

salia

being possible escape from drowning. reached Calais.

holster on the galleon, broke

· Into *the

store gunpowder

Hunt Is On Fire-ships; looted blazing Into struck flint, and blow the ship Its anchorage, drove it out and in half. So much is reported Into confused battle. Then in further letters from the squall got up and the wind English Ambassador and in the The late Colonel Foss made

THE

the next attempt, having gale blew and the annals of the clan MacLoan. Armada ran before it up the,,

traced the galleon's resting invasion

of England on its board a fey got ashore and b. But his ́ ́ early 1 efforts

the Channel party of thom was Inter seen la ended by the First World ho returned of War. When The Spaniards and the Oww.the storm 24inburgh..

that fleet. One hope those days were, QED contem again in 1918 he found remained: . that the survivors Originally $7.95 Now $ 2.00

portraits how not marks he had left to pinpoint should get back to Spain round

warthy but generally red the wreck had mysteriously dis the north of Scotland then a haired, and a scattering of red- appeared and no one could tell sovereign und neutral state haired Scotsman in the area of him when or where they had Originally $13.50 Now $7.95

* Mull may suggest that the gone, ---

southern. soldiers may have

REGARDLESS OF COST

"Lystav" Blouses. Attractive Tailored Style

in White Only. Sizes 34 & 36 Teddy Knitting Wool. 3 Ply in 12 Attractivo

Colours. To Clear

Long Evening Gloves in Soft, Black and

White Jersey Fabric. To Clear Knitting Bags with Zipper. In Four Colour

Combinations

Cotton Tee Shirts for Children, Striped

Design. Prices From

changed and Originally $23.50 Now $12.50

Channel. Junction with Sidonia, Of the host of soldiers on place ch'a long lost chart. Originally $25.50 Now $17.00

Originally $3.95 Now $2.95

SOME AT HALF PRICE OR LESS

Whiteaways

and retreat Wero all

A Bargain

the

JULY. The first polar bear seen at Lord's, where cricket will be played on ioc. Polar bear bowls everybody for ducks. Desperate politician offer old age pen Bloners £15 n weckt.

by

"Fond of Shakespeare?" -I

"As a matter of fact," repiled Mr. Gerald with hig deep, rumbling laugh, "I find Shake speare rather a bore except that It's always a pleasure to savour the beautiful and familiar lines. "Wan and But I enjoyed. Fence," "

to "How can you and time read so much in private, Mr Gerald?"

AUGUST. Britain surrounded "Sometimes I read

over

icebergs. Eye-witnesses people's shoulders," said Mr describe Russian H-bombing of Gerald, "but more often I am North Pole to drive ice south in able to switch on the kitchen new conception of cold war, light when everybody is in bed While End-of-Worlders advise and spend many cosy hours. doomed humanity to throw all with a bone and a book in front their money away, tough old of the stove." age pensioners, encouraged by politicians' wild promises, do- mand £20 a week,

"PLEAS

HOP

call me ASE don't hero" were the first SEFTEMBER. Whole country

words uttered by handsome, Inozen up. A Cabinet meeting brown-eyed, long-nosed. Sit, Bin. decides not to have a General (on his hind legs),

pollco Election as the only people Mr Rex when

I asked for strong enough to get to the polls detalls of the exploit that won would be old age pensiones him the bronze medal for gal- now demanding 225 a week lantry, "I was just doing my Tropical flowers in Moscow.job and I suppost 1 was lucky. First alligator seen in Siberia.

I am sure many other police OCTOBER. Sudden thaw with dogs deserve the same recogni- temperatures in the 90s floods tion.”

entire country. Old age pen- Asked if he expected to win a sioners swim to House of Comban to his decoration, Mr Rex mons demanding £30 a’weeke

NOVEMBER, As weather gets cracked back: botter and hotter ⠀ End - of- "I don't know, but I shall Worlders say this is certainly i have to spend a long time in an Fold-Marshal Bij many gongen most people are inclined to the service before I win

Lord Montgomery.!!

werp

POCKET CARTOGN by OSDERT, LANCASTER

tha

settled and made the best of Colonel Fars had to begla their unhappy exile

Silver

-again-from #cratch

spoons encrusted swords: and TOWARDS

That is how the Spanish galleon Spanish dargers, fakes from September the great dalloon ĉarno to rest in the mud within gold, aramelled i slivers calvers Florencia, battered. by the a stone's throw of our, mores.

Innalilently y retrieved by: storm, rounded the North How it has remained there ever using pressure hoses to dispersD et Scotland and short - since is also an odd chapters pl

Aelay. But one of thesa food and water,war,

the colonel, happened to strike. injuring han so severaly CZING ETs) nourly? died, and certainly, pro vented him from pursuing thr

cautiously down the grey wa

of Western Bootand: Downtihe came a part the: Hebrides and [korve-to-linku:Bay

for the Isle of Mulk off the Booth main

oberm

The right to the wreck are Val Charter. In the

CLEEK, dark-haired, green,

(eyedi," many times married: American Baliór cat Mr Merkio has no regrets for eating the parrot three days before reach-i Ing port after being shipmates during their 6,500-mile voyage - on & Taft

I guess I was hungry, and he had been giving me tha Billingte for weeks vanid Mr Maniche

You don't regard it as mur-

τ