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by OSBERT LANCASTER

"By the way, Jennifer's new boyfriend paints!"

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THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, - MAY

-1955,

MR LEAHY GETS A SURPRISE FROM THE STONE AGE GIRLS

less outcasts.

not as

GOLD-PROSPECTOR peopled waste, half-hidden selves. On the outward journey Wahg wives are responsible for they won awe as visiting spirits, working the family plantation, was drifting down the in rain-cloud and fog.

Returning, they realised that for porterage, for cooking, for sombre waters of the

con- tending the all-important pigs Purari in New Guinea. They propsector was Michael familiarity bred vicious

are still one form of] Cagney-faced Irish tempt; local leaders had de (piga Suddenly he met with 4 Australian formerly a railway Bounced them

envoys, currency in the valley),, new, uncharted

An alert from spirit-land but as worth-" river clerk in Queensland:

Altogether it is small wonder flowing

Purari man, this Leahy-for not long

that into the

long engagements ter, in January 1933, he noted after cu

In Stone from the west. And bobbing a

popular with wemers stretch of cloud particular

Age valley. Small wooder that on its broad stream

were midway along the Bismarcks

nat the

prospective wives postpone, the corpses one with dark costern wall. It was

usual massy mountain cumulus, skul cleft open.

day so often that most marriages the kidnapping of begin with but the lighter cloud which "

the reluctant bride-a shotgunl rises from grussland.

marriage in reverse,

This "token of tribal war held a special mystery: for, the unknown river camé from the Bismarck Moun- tains and the Bismarcks were held to be, an

A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Heat (6)

ACROSS

9

12

16

4 Money offered as an induce-

ment (5)

7 Musical instruments (8)

8 Side (S)

10 He

He's (4)

12 Wander about (7),

15 Purport (5)

16 Weary (4)

17 Tribe (4)

19 Has a meal (5).

20 Bird of prey (7)

21 Daybreak (4)

23 Intends (5)

24 German (6)

25 Grown-up (S)

28 Rejects with disdain (6)

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21

1 Bird (8)

16

un-

Unfrightened

to

dls-

bad

Valley-

Later, violence

Several times before they could reach base Leahy's 'party were forced-under a squall' of stone-pointed arrows-to answer with ric fire,

Swindlers

KFD

Succeeding contacts with ateed friendship mingled with THERE'S a wild poetry in the

great swingers, of Whitaker

Take

of lives

the

case

It was the prelude covery. By April, acting boldly

duced en these clues, Leahy

mis- sudden violence. Two found

the Wahgi

a pro- slonaries were murdered; a country which time a spector was found on the cres; Wright, who swallowed cyanide

of half a country gotten, B

the of a ridge near his camp. He and died in 1904. million people still living

had a single-barrelled shotgun Some of the money Whittaker Stone Age.

with the hammer cocked, Wright milked from investors

his hands. There The story of their discovery, clunched in of how they met the impact of was an arrow in his chest, just spent on building Lendon's Bakerico Lanc some was spent hay man,

gone over the heart. The body was modern

en Canadian development; most strangely untrumped. It is still warm."

Thus the familiar was spott on Whitaker Wright, told in full for

pattern seemed Bet;

Lea Park-his houre'in Surrey. for gradual white en est £250,000, plus £400,000 croachment, for en for improvements, forced civilisation with its two-edged bless- ings. But

the

Arst time by Aus-

One Lea Park attraction, was

a huge room built under a lake. a glass roof, visitors

the Australian Through

Government had other could see. fish swimming above plans. Land purchase them, by, whiles was restrict

rolian travel author

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Colin Simpson in his Adam in

Plumes

NEW BOOKS

(Angus & Robertson, 213.).

Agc

men

First of the Stone

to

greet

naively

by Pitman Robert

clothes and pink skin.

plumes bristled from their head- civilisation. dresses: they were collars gleaming pearl-shell and carried carved, ceremonial spears.

of

DOWN

2 Sailing meetings (8)

3 Colour (4)

5 Softened. (8)

8 Badinage (6)

9.Danger (5)

14 Sentry (8)

12 Pattern. (3)

13 Calamity (8)

14 Remains (8)

13 Myth (8)

22 Retain (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Strangle, 8 Toiler, Ridicule, 11 Informed, 12 Spct. 13 Remus, 18 Darts, 19 Ebon, 22 Socrates. 24 Retainer, 25 Demure, 29 Relieved. Down: 1 Strip. 2 Tiffs 3 Serried, 4 Trim, 5 Arid, 6 Grumpy, 7 Events, 10 Dernur, 14 Mason, 16 Stirred, 16 Tergor, 17 Portal, 20 Stout,. 21 Ashen, 27 Sire 23 Čede,

Leahy were unfright- ened. tall, curious at the, sight of

Ld: the best tribal' customs -stimulated;

The

tale of Wright,

od

London Begins To Grow Up

By TONY WHITE

London.

ONDON does not want to be like towering New York. It wants to stay much as it has been for centuries, squat, sprawling, year by year stretching farther out on both sides of the muddy Chames, growing out instead of up..

But as its millions pack tighter, architects are publicly saying that soon the city must change; it will have to climb skywards or Soon there will be little room left for it to grow in.

Their reasons are practical. Building out, they say, uses up far too much valuable space in a small island where land is being built upon at the rate of 30,000 acres a year

They say suburban development is eating Into the country "green belts" which separate London from Home County towns and villages.

They say there must be more space in the city to solve traffic problems alone.

And there are the economics of it: in these times of rising travel costs, people must not be forced to live farther and farther from the city's centre, where they have their work. Building new suburbs, widening the bread perimeter of Greater London, is no good. London must bullà mère multi-storey fats ncarer its heart.

Many Londoners oppose their ideas. And their reasons are primarily gentimental,

There is St Paul's Cathedral to consider. Its 386 foot-high beauty would be sh- literated by brussy skyscrapers, they say, And so would that of other churches and cathedrals and, old buildings which tower a paltry few hundred feet into the city's grey skies.

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All the architectural treasures öf London and at any other city would be lost in the bright, slab-sided incongruity of towerw ing medern blocks of offices and fats.

No, Londoners say,' we want to remain as we are.

They are proud enough that the nation's Highest building, Salisbury Cathedral, Is 404 feet high. And it does not matter to them that it is more than a thousand feet shorter than the Empire State building...

But some architects are sure that soon the Government will have to pass some kind of law to permit them to plan higher. They do not want Manhatten-siyle buildings, but, merely pigmy skyscrapers rising 30 to 50 sicreys.

Slowly London is beginning to mow up. Already a 29-storey building is planned for the Thames South Bazic. And flats of 15 storeys or more will go up elsewhere homes for hundreds on third-of-an-acre sites.

PARADE:

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Three out of every four are in daubed aboriginal medicine men SEEING The tiny Dutch town

of Oirschot, will be the

"Ane had been group which has

using DOUBLE

double secing

this grooves"

to penicillin and "pointed pre- similar For low month.

on "May 21 jections."

a score Bottomley, Hatry, and of other" adventurers

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A wealth of bird-of-paradise the people were left to choose france is recorded in Very hundreds of pairs of twins from The prints of the smallest

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Q

centuries

antibiotics for

A species of native, mushroOT), Private Enterprise by Aylmer many parts of Europe will 'go

"European group, to which only one person common around Adelaide, could What has been changed? The Vallance (Thames & Hudson, there for a two-day

fcr Twins" Congress

to talk in 50 belongs, are characterised "yea, she said, another icind of feads have been outlawed. 155.).

Bfe-saving drug. serious about "the

problems by a great many fine grooves. Tuberculosis, malaria have been

Mr. Vallance is clearly a dab unique to this category di But it was their plain-clad checked, Harmful tribal prac- wives who startled Leahy tices e.g., self-mutilation, cut at Agures and air beck is citizen."

in bursting with balance sheets," Anger-joint, Screeching between tears anding off a

debentures and quid assets. laughter. they embraced his mourning-have been followers, claiming them as dead aged. relatives returned from the

spirit world.

after

discour

What has survived? The

of stil the land valley is The valley itself,

the plumes. The missions do not drabnces 23 a symbol dank New Guinea coast, was insist on paradisaical — a Switzerland of Christianity. And the Wahgi under the Southern Cross. And Valley is still the people too had planted

It se:ms perfect bedtime read ing for cry crime fan who is à chartered accountant as well.

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Horses...elks

the spinster's Elysium; the unmarried girls FINALLY, I recommend:- ornament groves still strut about adorned with bright with flowering shrubs plumage and pearl-shell; the ta fringe their tribal dancing

claborate

grounds.

These people are artists, not savages!" the wondering ex- plorers told each other.

und amid burned huts they found a

by ground ravaged dancing marauders, its trees ringed to

Bays of Elk and Buffalo, by

girls not the mea-ill take Florence Hayes - Turner" (Arco, the Paliative in courtship: and 12s. 6d.). the girls play the dominant part

BULLETS Seventeen

Cairo be- YOU CAN Yes, And outside conference hours

Buenos BEAT HER

divorce court Aires doctors are.

ruled last week, the twins all of them over 15 IN BRAIN wildered years-will take part in com- puzzling over the strange case you can beat your wife. But on petitions for the twins who look of Antonio Pilato. Thirty-year- no account can you slap her. most alike, those who look least old Italian Antonio got into a

laid down the alike, the fattest pair, the thin- lover's quarrel month ago. He principles of legal wife-beating nest, and the funniest,

wound up with three bullels in when granting a divorce to

22-year-old wife whose husband, his train

had slapped her.

And for the best looking, the title: "Twins of Europe 1955."

Officially he ought to be dead. But he doesn't even feel sick. X-rays reveal that the bullets

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The court

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Declared the court: "We are agreed that a husband may beat

his wife only with the aid of a

cane no thinner, than a finger, and must not strike more than one part of the one blow on body.

But on no account could ha strike, her on the face-"which reflects the beauty of a woman,”-

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TONGUE South African Dr are still there. Yet the X-ray

Bernard Squires plates are the only sign of any GROUPS

has found another thing wrong Miss TurceT was brought up

division in, the human race- in the festive kanana trency in Colorado amid horses, comic people are divided, he says into fuss about....I feel great.”

Says Antonio: "What's all the an official, highly-stylised routine

a great tongue groups" of firtation with young men relatives, corrals, and

quantity of elles and buffalces, from neighbouring clans.

For a year he has been Marriage? For New Guinea's She now recalls these delights, Stone Age girls it means the end Background le Murder, by laboriously collecting "tongue" JUNGLE Scientific researcher Nancy Atkinson death with stone axes-the work of fashion in parmes, the end of Nigel Morland. (Werner Laurie † Prints and sorting them accord- DRUGS

came out of 15s). A plain retelling of the into the number and type of

caser, from "Tooves" which appear in the Australian outback last week NAPOLEON'S Chidding- fold villagers best-loved murder

after a six-year study of Austra-WILLOW, prints.

here

are split Lian plants and

and fungi Kabe Webster of Richmond

over the fate of the willow tree There Wallace et Liverpool, Unoriginal

are four groups, he reported:

Life-saving penicillin will find it re- Lezys Just as in blood groups,

was on the village green. Should It but devotees verost,

most people belong to one group, really

paint be singled out for public atten

tion with a plaque, or jest to be just another tree?

of a rival clan,

adornment. By Wahgl standards woman is fashlly Such feuding, the constant a married bloodshed, was, they learned, overdressed if she flaunts much

And more than a fibre skirt. the staple of valley life.

the soon they were to sample

Marriage also means the be- labour. them- ginnbog of a life c warring temper same

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

JUST A WET SUNDAY —— TWO KIDS AND A’

PUP (THE GOOD-WATCH-DOG TYPE)

to

Wanted--A Desert Island

—AND WHO DO YOU THINK WAS IN IT? THAT FELLOW WITH THE CUTE MOUSTACHE WHO WAS A BIG STAR BEFORE WE WERE MARRIED ETC.-ETC.....

A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE-LATE SHOW AND WHO CARES ?

PON'T EXPECT SOLITUDE ON THE FIVE-FIFTEEN- SOME CHARACTER WHO CAN'T TALK AT HOME OR IN HIS OFFICE IS SURE TO JOIN YOU.

COPR. 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP. BAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

HEY!

YOU CAN'T. PARK HERE

THIS IS BOUND TO HAPPEN ANYWHERE WITHIN A MILE OF WHERE YOU WANT

TO GOT

IF A DESERT ISLE IS TOO RE

CAVE, OR AN OLD CLOSE

WONE

*

nothing Tew:

BY HARRY WEINERT

IT'S A GIFT BEING ABLE TO SHUT ONE'S EARS

TO A HUSBAND'S STORIES ABOUT WHAT A BIG SHOT HE IS IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

"DON'T YOU THINK

IT'S TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT YOUR INCOME.

TAX

"IF YOU WERE ON A DESERT ISLAND YOU WOULD BE SQUAWKING ABOUT THE MOISY SEA GULLS

the

moment

צבח

General feeling at the

s against bid to- distinguish the willow. For memories Ary this quiet corner of England are long-and the willow came from

a cutting of the tree planted on Napoleon's first grave

on St Helena;

It was given to the me

by

a descendant of the British doc-

for

whe attended Napoleon

when he was dying.

Says Parish Council chairman Mr A. Clare Robinson: "People have told me they can't under- stand why we have accepted: this testimony to England's greatest enemy bar Hitler."

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LONELIEST If you were PUB

order cne at the Lord Nelson Inn at Barton Hill's No. 1 clearance. ares, Bristol, you would be having a drink at Britain's loneliest pub...

Hundreds of houses on all sides of it have crumbled and vanished, leaving the Inn like a rock, in an ocean. Only because of its solid construction has the pub escaped the demolition order.

Landlord Edgar Henney and his wife stay on in the centre. 01. this biggest property clearance scheme Bristol has ever known, waiting for the day when the

· customers come back. They will one day when the new 15- storey flats are built next door. Mrs Henney's family have run the Lord Nelson for nearly 79 years. None of her bears visualised the day, would come when all the terraces of houses on every alde of the Inn would disappear, «

There is still a little trade, at the Lord Nelson, and Mr and Mrs. Henney courageously stick it out waiting for the new flats and their tenants to keep them company.

SAUSAGE Hefty (300 lbs): Sir Roy Welensley, de- CHAMP

puly premier of thi Central African Federati

claims as new title

sausage eater.

The first title?

booding Chamioimm Rübúdenias,

Tha: second: A knighth 1959

Now comes the other misht one-time

baker, bermany / starel

gineer, trade union lead

Welensky ato five footbis girin

of compára-beon

Lata cumonfira estinzi

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