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THE CHINA MAIL-SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1955.

The last chapter of Erskine Childers's life remains a greater-riddle

THE RIDDLE OF

THE RIDDLE

OF

THE REBEL

THE

SANDS. By Erskine George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

278

Childers. Rupert Hart- Davies. 10s. 6d. pages.

“I

of

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE 'UNUSUAL ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

whose It's got a helicopter" blade Reason for the ban, Sir John job it is to keep above the cockpit, plus a normal said, was numerous complaints

from the public,

track at the traction propeller.

[

FAREWELL The TO MARS whims of the nation's toy-users It can land, or take off, in 33. are currently reporting back to yards, gays Signor de Pasquale.

DEAD For once Mrs Carlotta base the Arst signs of a revolu- And the price-roughly. £450, tion in juvenile tastes.

Hothamn of Hull really RICHT the house

into did see

the One day in 1922 where he sheltered WES sur-

at the The "spase-man; era." they ANNUAL Brilbin's Lesther future just by looking rounded by Free State troops, say, is on the way out More

Institute,

cards. Last week she did it for which MILEAGE Childers drew a pistol to shoot and more small boys, it appears,

supplies the mater- two girls, Shirley Hudson and who had asked it out, but a woman of the house T dismissing goldfish-bow! tale to repair 200 million pairs Norah Hughes. threw herself between him and space helmets And atom-ray of shoes a year, has told the her to tell their fortunes. fine tale with an authentic Swedish? More likely a rene- the soldiers. He was sentenced

ced disintegrator-guns Its "kids' housewife that she walks eight

Mrs Hotham asked Miss and a halt miles a day just do- be executed. He died, game, stuff." 10

Hughes to shuffle a pack of RELAND'S Evil atmosphere, and a carefully zade Englishman.

ing her household chores. Genius" wrote one accumulated tension. It lacks What is certain is that Doll- fanatical and Protestant, by the

man has a pretty daughter and bullets of Bring squad at And the signs are that

the

Institue statistics reveal, too, cards, and spent the next three best to get the earliest, the speed of later models that he does his

cowboy that the policeman walks 14 quarters of an hour telling her Beggar's Bush barracks near Lever really-defunct squall. Dublin.

craze will bloom again. But in a miles a day one less than the of past and future happenings.. and still one of the of its kind. Its end is a little Davies drowned in a

Davies wonders why.

slightly modified form. The Im- milkman.

She told both girls, who were Why is Dollman so anxious His est letter to his wife ran, eginations of the, juvenile avant-

other girls. best. of spy stories. It is a

the dressed like any Frisian Islands

shali

by the be that the criticism This

"I feel what. Churchill said garde has been caught made about the life of its not be explored? Davies' thinks about my hatred and malice to- colour and heroes of America's salesgirl walks eight miles. But that she could see them in, ar-

also working How well we great

era. by men topping them all is the plough- fürm and autor, Robert Erskine Childers, it is because they play a vital wards England. He took part in four wars two part in Cermany's plans for know that is not truet Idioflike using Sharpshooter man who trudges 25 miles a day in the fields If he doesn't have loving England...." for Britain, one against her, the naval defence.

a tractor. Carruthers at last hits on the fourth

the Irish Free against

Loving England, war and the State. He was shot as a rebel in true answer: the Germans plan

he wrote a spy story that the last of these military ad-war-time descerit or the Eng- sea.

lish coast

to be carried out by had the power and the verisimill ventures.

shallow-draught barges which tude to raise a nation's alarm, be assembled in the net- H fierce and tortuous life sug- will work of channels behind the gests that a deeper enigna was Carruthers takes part The Riddle of Erskine Childers. islands. in a rehearsal of the invasion... After that he and Davies sail

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 Resided (5).

+ Toy with (6).

Accident (6).

10 Reek (3).

12

Roll (8).

14 Set free (7).

11

Narrative (4).

19 Colour (7).

20 Division of a book "(7).

22 Col up (4).

23 Times of the year (al-

27 Outer coverings (6).

30 Encourages (5).

30 Property (6).

31 Must senior (6)

32 Fish (5)

32

DOWN

1 Rabe objections (5), ̈) 2.Artist's stand (5).

3 Diadem (5).

5 Repose (4).

6 Flowery (6).

Lace-hole "(6).

9 'Own (7).

11 Foreign units of length (8).

13 Hide (7),

13 Reverberation (4)

16 Skilful

(6).

18 Spare (4).

20

21

Beasis

into being (6).

(6)

of burden (5).

25 Speak (5).

20 Aroma (5).

29 Employs (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aero$t: 3 Premotes, 8 Heat, Redolent, 11 Conscled, 13 Mean 15 Differed 18 Serenade, 19 Sert. 21. Seasonext. 25 Reveilie, 20 Swag. 27 Sedition. Down: 1

9 Roles, Chic, 2 Gain. 4 Reel, 5 Mood, 6 Theme, 7 Satin, Defer. 12 Onine 14 Addle, 16 Revel, 17 Dense, Raved, 21 Sat, 22 Also, 23 News, 24 Digs.

10

19 Sires. 20

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tame.

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cannot

He had a life unusually ad- venturous for one of his oc- cupation: clerk in the House of Commons.

in

To serve her customers

out

men in uniformi.

She was dead right.

with

Mrs

court 82-year-old Holham was fined £2 for pro- fessing to tell fortunes.

The girls were policewomen

Crockett, Lavy

Se obviously it will not mean just digging out the Stetson hats and 45 Colts that went under the toy store courters when the WILD Seven exhausted bell-

staggered ringers space-man. craze began.

BELLS

Capetown's of

St. Sticklers for

accuracy the youngsters Mary's Church the other day things like this, are beginning to demand coon- and one of them is still in the skin caps and junior-size fint doghouse.

To mark the second anniver- Inck muskets.

Ah, well The space era was sary of the Coronation of Queen mert of spheres and the odd whoosh ing through quarter peal-as of an atcm-ray-disintegrator!

A number of West

Brys

PAID BIRTHDAY German

notably a depart- store in Kiel-are now

tull pay-on their birthdays.

Everything, might have been hurriedly home with the news. A TRAIN OF POWDER. By too quiet to last. Just the music Elizabeth, the ringers were go- giving employees days of

different had he followed what was plainly his bent-a mäitary career. As things tumed

ho came to the study and practice of war as an amateur.

of

The story, product of an imagination familiar with sall- ... and,

ing ends with the death of Dollman who is, as Davies suspected, an English turncoat.

maybe, with spying.

A

conclusion.

"Rebecca West. Macmillan.

21s. 332 pages.

ON

1

novel count of

to be.

NOT CRICKET

*

1

it is called when one of them With due ceremony the follow came in in the wrong place and ing passage has been added to

the firm's

statutes: "Birthdays everyone got confused,

should be celebrated. Every The British Legion There was nothing to do but

member is therefore Club of Porthcawl, start again. Off they went, with staff

and entitled to a work-free and fully nervous, Wales, has suspend- everyone highly od a member for three months again the wrong bell rang after paid birthday." for eating snails and candles to u minutes.

and discom- the consternation of members."

fort

new

he

and this Again they started time it was perfect. Each bell- ringer pulled his rope 1,344 times, and the peal took 96 minutes. "

*

BALDNESS IS NO BARRIER

By John Hines

planet where the day had. sex, 72 hours, Rebecca

be the ideal strangely West would

1 ironice since Erskine Childers porter fer daily newspaper. eye, the In peacetime he was an en- himself died-and by many of She has the reeing thusiast for small boat sailing his earlier associates at Hailey telling phrase, the luck that In his yacht,

he the Vixen, bury and Cambridge he, too, guides her to the signißcant explored the *:ost dangerous might be regarded as an English ide. She has even the fault

But it wasn't that so much waters of the North Sea coast- turncoat.

of the good reporter, which is to which got the club men wild Velicve that her "story" has line, usually alone. Page after

The fellow did it for a bet- Riddle is plainly

ac- but some members claimed page of The

inore importance than it transcribed from experience. The

tually possesses,

lost the bet because he didn't chilly

discomfort, the stark

cther hand, she is eat the wicks He marched off in the ranks of On the

of the candles. MILLY'S Milly the lamb ot FATE lost in the shuffle danger and the exultation of a the City Imperial Volunteers to move, discursive and philosophi-And that just wasn't cricket.

in Croydon Last man gambling his life on his own fight for Britain in the South cel then rust earthly reporters

week and suffered the fate to skill pitted against the sea-The African War, He met his Americ afford to

a which she had led hundreds of Riddle is caked with a salty can wife when he visited Boston To see her talent at work on NANKING Chind reported deposit

sign of her hat brothers and sisters. worthy of it, the ac- DUCK those spartan with a party at the Honourable material

ett-boasted pros- emotions.

At a slaughterhouse in that the closing scenes at Artillery Company,

the south London suburb, Milly had Trial may be perity this week and The book had the fortuitous The Riddle of the Sands, is the the Nuremberg

the best of treatment, including How industriously she sign said: "Nanking Duck." advantage of being published at work of a British patriot. Ile studied.

the

of Nanking Duck, essence

announced a special diet and the privilege in gropes for the right time, in 1903, when the book part as an observer

would go back on

of wails in the park on a lead. Goering who Britain's Best alr

"used imperial trade officials. Entente Cordiale

Mer jaht was to lead her un- being

BESIDES becoming New Cuxhaven сп Christmas Day gestures so vulgar that it seemed to world gourmet markets this formed and Britain was waking

the relations to

York's Number One probable in certain bars the fre-years-and in tins. It would join suspecting up to the fact that the Kaiser's 1914; was awarded the DSC.

had called him The such other famous Chinese de- slaughter.

Licacies Germany was a military menBCTS

Kwangtung lichees Last week, however, the fates tourist attraction, the U.N. But his mother had been Irish, pe Hess is grasped more |

has become and might soon become a naval and the more proletarian foods caught up with Milly. She was Organisation

such

tinned As

fruits, pork,

In a rush consign- resigned to receiving ail up passionate

mixed fervour, Childers part of his mind

ment and soon afterwards she kinds of peculiar requests. espoused the Irish Home Rule lasted away except the depth beef and fish.

All this would go to help the was ready for market, The Betitious narrator, Car-

cause: quickly moved over to its where the nightmares.

They get about 60,000 increase in tinned percent

"A bit of bad luck," said an ruthers, a civil servant, goes to

Red republic official at the slaughterhouse. letters every year from his friend Davies whose extreme Republican wing. In his I join

yacht,

the Asgard, 2,000 Belgian South

"The kids will miss her."

women who want to be yacht, the Dulcibella, is in the files were smuggled into sardonic pendant to Nuremberg, plans for this year.

to Baltic. Together the two men Ireland at Howth in 1914 to arm In

married, buried or even cruise among the German Frisian the Irish volunteers; later, he were

Including the TRAVEL Now the air scooter. BAN London's famous give birth, within its pre- islands which exert a strange was said to be chief of the secret man who had "L-O-V-E

It's the latest form of GUM

"bobbies were toll his mises. spell upon Davies.

Sinn Fein courts.

tattooed on the four fingers of

air transport, and it

week to stop chewing After a while, he explains When the Irish modcrates his left hand; H-A-T-E" on

was shown chis week by Signor gum while pounding their beats. "Bir_hs," said one United why.

status, those of the right. accepted the dominion

de Pasquale, of Naples. It's the The scolding came from the Nations official, pontifcally, "can A few weeks earlier, he had Childers and de Valera held out It was

worthwhile sending flying equivalent of the scooter Commissioner of the Metropoli-be better handled through the Police. Sir John Kanti- 15th Police Precinct. They're fallen in with Dollman, an 22- for a republic. Michael Collins Miss West to Greenville to bring bike--a single-seat machine for lan parently wealthy

yachtsman Bung at him the taunt back that equivocal crumb of the businessman to fly to and Bower, writing in the current better equipped," who is what? German? "Ireland's Evil Genius.”

from the office.

was.

Menace. The Riddle was in tune with its times.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE EVER

MADE IT

مرجب

DEPARTMENT OF UTTER AMAZEMENT ..

RESERVED FOR FATHERS.

OH DEAR? I WONDER

IF THEY'RE READY

„FOR FIRST GRADE '

* 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES:

KINDERGARTEN STUFF.

TALWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

GET UP! YOU'LL

BE LATE FOR

·COMMENCEMENT"!

WAIT UNTIL HE COMMENCES PUNCHING A

THE CLOCKCH

raid. over

"had been

67

A lynching trial vene. I food exports the

evidence..

Carolina

Graduation

SOME GRADUATES

NEED A DIPLOMA

LIKE A

FISH NEEDS FEATHERS,

REMEMBER, YOU'RE

SUPPOSED TO

APPLAUD

NOT WHISTLE

GRADUATING FROM JEANS TO DRESSES

IN THE JUNIOR HIGH LEAGUE,

5-29

WWX

makes

4

the defendants

AID

BY

་

edition of The Police Review.

HARRY WEINERT

"THERE GOES THE BEST BACKFIELD

IN YEARS ! *:

ALL IS NOT JOY- AMONG THE CHIEF MOURNERS

IS THE FOOTBALL COACH.

"MY BOYS

DID YOU

GRADUATE

E- WITH

HONORS 7

"WE HAVE CONQUERED

THE FOOTHILLS --

THE MOUNTAINS

ARE BEFORE US-

ANT IT THE TRUTH

NOT EXACTLY BUT HIS TEACHERS DESERVE

MEDAL.

VALEDICTORY

Marriages and deaths are equally discouraged.

The prime target of America's unattached women, however, is Swedish Dag Hammarskjula, blond U. N. Secretary-General- in possession of most of his hair and a sizable salary, he is one of America's mast eligible bachelors.

en-

Willing brides. write to Mr Hammarskjold constantly, closing photographs. One woman

went

on for two years until someone broke it to her gently that such correspondence doesn't even reach the much-occupied ofacial,

THIN ON TOP

For anyone with designs on the United Nations favourite

bachelor, I would Suggest a little study of modern art. Dag Hammarskjold has (on loan from the Museum of Modern Art) one of the finest collections of modern paintings in the U.S.A. He spent two hours picking them, and-unaided chose some of the finest worka in the museum's collection,

Since we are on the subject of men and malimony, it is.. perhaps interesting to note that one cut of three American man is bald, geing bald or receding at the hairline.

This seems to be no handi- cap to romance, Lowever. Stckowald was thin on top when Garbo spent a much- policised vacation in Europe with him

Audrey Hepburn married Mel Ferrer, whose hairline will shortly be a thing of the past. Elizabeth Taylor has to keep an eye on the hair department too, and Rex Harrison, playboy of so many British movies, isn't so well off tansoriaily.

MODERN WIGS |

A dozen izlevision and film personalities lean heavily on the hairdresser-Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer," Van Heflin, Alec Guinness, Fred Astaire, to name a few, not to mention the peresmially cupeed Mr Benny,

Today art – can doccmplish what Nature can't New York's Louis, Feder, who has created :75,000): dollies), etvots F

(2 dolly covers the head from front to backa.divot. covers baid spot at the back

areal hundred percent jobl) modernitzwinis disk and ref caught in a

And I willenly cost tween ** £30 and £70, Vivat: Progress):