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by OSBBRT LANCASTER

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1955.

PARADE

Abbey

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

. PEOPLE" "AND ́PLACES AND ⋅ THINGS

tombs of Engi Wook, beside the Westminster, and laboured in from the weather

kings, lay the body of Christopher Jumer Blaney, road-sweeper. Liko the coffin of a sovereign, it bore richly embroidered pall and

end⚫ stood cach

gleaming

at

in a

THE MAN in

the Iron Mask

BURIAL IN In Westminster fore that he had worked for 20 But when Farmer Brown L THE ABBEY

last years usa-road-sweeper In gets down to inake a forecast report with the Abbey's shadow.

this technical note at his elbow he might find it a triffe difficult, For the weather experts say? "An attempt is made to survey

brond way

the different rundamental form that the take, to examine the disenso-weather relationship can methoda the criteria for disease and test of determining and expressing

disease and warnings and to classity plant test no bulletins, and to consider the limitations

candlesticks.

They carried him into the Abbey in solemn procession, and in St. George's Chapel they read the service for this man who used to swelp the roads

The story?

For 18 years Christopher Binney had been gatekeeper in one of the Abbey's yards, Be-

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DOWN

1 Clutches (5).

ACROSS

.2 Denude (5).

3 Firework (7).

0 Disturbs (8).

11 Royal lady (8).

12 Tie up a boat (4).

13 Planet (5).

18 Staggers (5)..

18 Peruse (4).

22 Renegade (8).

24 Muddled (8).

25 Fruit (0).

20 Of evil omun (8),

4 Border (4).

He helped guard the Abbey, es a firewatcher, in wartime. He Was there when Princess Elizabeth married and when she was crowned Queen,

Eight months ago Christopher, aged 74, found his sight falling, It meant the end of the job.

Without the Abbey he was lost," his widow, sald,

But the Abbey was true to the ancient tradition, that all'ils servants lay, in slate among the nation's kings,

DEATH A trout preferred a death leap to being LEAP

served with parsley on some gourmet's plate at a fashionable sea-food restaurant in London's West End.

As a chef was plucking it from a tank, ready to kill and cook it, it wriggled, free on to the windowsill, gave one more wrigglo and fell three floors to the pavement

Sald a waller afterwards;

water, put it back into

It swam round twice, looked up at me and dles,"

sake tables in

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5 Complete collections (4).

6 Quota (6).

7 Abandon (0),

10 Outcome (5),

14 Hot drink (5),

15 Slim (7).

10 Summary (0).·

17 Gun (6).

20 Foolishness (6).

21 Tale (5),

22 Buckets (4).

23 Army corps (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 3 Overwen, 7'Tramp, 8 Erupt- ing, 10 Galore. 13 Emerald. 15 llest. 17 Errands, 10 Destine, 20 Erne, 21 Targets, 20 Desist, 27 Careless, 20 Trend, 20 Nosebags. Down: 1 Stagu, z Fable, Opera, 4 Ribe. 5 Whitten, 3 Sights, Relent, 11 Amber, 12 Orale, 14 Dreads, Hanga, 10 Adits, 18 Deacon. 18 Snares, 22 Nests, 23 Elder, 24 Study, 25 Club.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

SOME MEN CAN SLEEP

THROUGH ANYTHING

ITS A GIF

IF YOU MUST SLEEP IN PUBLIC — the

PICK A SOFT SHOULDER."

ILL CALL

You

IN THE

'MORNING!

NO-

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CALL

You?

more

which

may attend term warnings."

Phowl

the short

The exports emphasise that "it was because of the failure of the potato crop in Ireland which led to the great famine of 1840 and was this one of the enuses of the Irish emigra lion to the U.S."

LACKING The Africans who FLAVOUR gave away a for-

Europe thought of Bismarck as the tough, relentless Prumian-the fron Chancellor. There was another Bismarck... the weeping Bismarch, the man whose merces could not

stand the field of battle.'

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

BISMARCK. By A. J. P. ment an account of his personal confessed that instead she was

Taylor. Hamish Hamilton. relations,"

pleased. Every summer Bismarck Ho did his best to escape mill- would spend a few

works ot 18%, 286 pages.

laty servico by pleading a pain Biarritz with Kathie; to the day in his right army; was bored stiff of his death he wore oặ

HH HE public legend of in his Potsdam barracks, and watch chain an onyx medallion

Bismarck is simple won as the sole military de- she had given him. and severe: the "Iron etration he earned a life-say- The diamonds, stolca from a Chancellor" who spoke within recal for rescuing & cor- local airport, were passed on to

tuno diamonds because they thought they were salt are cooling their fiecls in gaol in Abidja Ivory Coast,

alligators.

remained

constrictor und

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seven

TH

Sound appear

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querade.

A bundle of nerves; given to

dich.

An eccentric

the civil

service:

of Bismarck. Bismarck threaten- ed to have Herbert sacked from prevailed on the emperor to exclude from the entail on his estates anyone who

married divorced woman; threatened suicide.. In the end, Bismarck wor

One side of the man was

romantic: into a sentimental and

it a woman who tried to use them relish of "blood and iron"; al who had fallen

was not the only side. Although As minister in attendance on he found happiness only, in his GEISHA Ancient bullet-headed to flavour her food. She threw the Junker statesman who

generals and veteran them out when she discovered cunningly ARMY

the lured Austria his king at

Battle of family, he destroyed the happi- NCO's of the

old that her food

adoreit

eldest BOX and France into disastrous Sadowa, Bismarck was, alarmed near of his Imperial Army hammered their seasoned.

for Herbert,

wanted to Herbert glasen on club and bar

When toyal marry a

divorced princess who Another part of the loot is War; the diplomat in the his master's passi

real despairing fury 10- before to be in the hand or a helmet and moustache of expostulation and folien a lon

was.and this was the cently, for the High Command jocal sorcerce, bra police are a Prussian officer; the do- reptitious kiek delivered by the offence-related to an old enemy of the new Japanese army hud thinking twice about approachvoted servant of his King minister at the flank of the announced that, "o introduce

duce g nu. His but is guarded by and Kaiser.

king's horse brought both to safety. dash, colour and attrac-

had a boa tion into army life," it had

How very different was Bis- been decided to arrange honour

marck the man! How much able classes in flower · arrange-

more complex! A. J. P: Taylor ment, music, painting and sing- ing for all ranks of the armed COSTLY Former Lesile Green shows the truer quality of this

strange, not wholly unsympathe forces of Nippon,

His favourite reading was the of Bishops Waltham, tle character who has chosen to English BANGS

classical novels, espe The High Command admitted

is wishing there was

before history in mns- clelly Tristram Shandy. He saw

He was extraordinarily ran- that it was dissatisfied with nu such thing as the

corous. The only time be was himself as an eccentric on the wounded in a student duel he the morals of new recrulls and barrier. For it has already cást

same patter discouraged by the

lagging ham about £6,000.

Young Blamarck rode halloo- swore that it was by, a foul enlistment figures.

Health authorities last week his of weeping when he falled ing through the woods, seducer and 30 years later had not for- "They are geisha girls in condemned 5,000 of his tomato to get his way; with delicate trousers!" rumbled old General plants because they were Alled hands and a reedy voice. He peasants' daughters; released a given the incident,

a lady's drawing-room

At the age of Qyuma. "Even the Italian Ariny with

30, Bismarck minute

Splinters found the society of his fellow He was called The Mad Junker, was given a high diplomatic Class

boring- never went this far."

enused when the blast of an air Juniors Intolerantly

after his clever, At one moment the thought of post. He had no experienes and cratt supersonic bang shattered took

sophisticated mother, whom he joining the British Army in no qualms. He never doubted 174 panes of glass in his green- could not forgive for her refusal India, but reflected: "What harm that it was a suitable appoint- POTATOES The common or houses recently,

to love him.

bave the Judians done to me?" ment, Was he not the only clever spud hus "The splinters must have been

Taking a nice plain wife, sunker TO YOU! garden

**1 shall do my duty. bech getting forced into the green tomatoes

named Johanne, he also took up It is God's affair to give mo studious attention from weather by the blast of u bang we had

ber religion" like picly in understanding," experts at the headquarters of several weeks ago," he said. "It

women and".

a dig at his tho World's Meteorologiclal was not until the tomatoes

mother "have a horror of Organisation in Geneva. The began to ripen that we saw the

feminine cleverness." news came out with the words; minate marks in the siding."

When, on the verge of 50, he "The World's Meteorological

Mr Green's troubles with the the Prusslan ideal of service- fall wildly in love with pretty, Organisation communicates the

Doing his duty, as he and the The jet age began earlier this year he was an incorrigibly insubor- following information

servant. day, 22-year-old Kathie Orlov, Goa of Luther saw it, Bismarck dinate Junior civil grass root of the matter is that when he lost 28,000 lettuces in When he went absent without wife of the elderly Russian became the dominant states

produced a the same way.

Icave to

English ambassader in Brussels, he told man of the nineteenth century, the experts have technical note on how to use The government has

con- heiress, he informed his Johanna flow charming his mis- quelling the hostile Berlin Par-

Johanha felt weather data to forecast potato pensaled Green to the extent of superiors that "he by no means tress was.

she immen with hia haughty blight."

only £1,000,

intended to give the govern- should have been jealous, but lorgnette-and with speeches,

COPR. 1916 BY GENERAL: FEATURES

-CORP, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

The Gentle Art Of Dozing

AN ACCOMPLISHED

SLEEPER CAN

PUT ON THE COFFEE AND BUST A COUPLE OF EGGS WITHOUT. OPENING AN EYE.

Without leave

As for the idea that Bismarck

was the austere embodiment of

pursue

fox in

BY HARRY

WEINERT

"NINE-FIFTY-NINE ?- WHAT WE

NEED AROUND HERE IS AN ALARM CLOCK—/

NO ONE BUT A SIMON LÉGRÉE

WOULD EXPECT A GIRL --

TO WAKE UP BEFORE

THE TEN O'CLOCK, COFFEE-BREAK.

WHEN THE WIFE'S FRIENDS CALL,

GO ON WITH

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ANYWAY

18 brandies

sustained by as many as 18 tumblers of brandy and water..

He had many political de- vices, but one undeviating purpose."The secret of politics? Make a. good treaty with Russial"

Making a good treaty with Russia, Bismarck could without Kear spread Prussiao power West and South,

One man alone spoke back 2. to him, hia doctor;.

don't like being asked questions," Bald Bismarck.

Then get a vet," retorted Dr· Schweniger. "He doesn't ques- tion his pallents."

In the hour of Bismarck's downfall, when young Kaiser Wilhelm II dismissed him, the old fox contrived to humillate his victor. He appeared to be trying

clumsily to conceal

papers in a dispatch case, Fall-

e into the ing

trap, the Kaiser demanded to see them, snatched them. Ono was awter from

the

Twar, calling the Kaiser "badly brought up and untrust. : worthy."

Secret papers

He carried off from his offcial residence 300, packing-cases ot secret papera (property of, the state), and 18,000 boltles or wing [(property of Bismarck), Ho ́was seen off at the station by all the |high-officials of, the German Empire; a military band played a slow march, “A. stnim funeral with full hottours," said BIS marck, as he settled back. In the cushions of his compartment.

During the years of retirement in his hideously furnished 'coun- try house ("the essential thing is to eat, weli"), the Kaiser'a health was drunk at Blamarok's table in deadly silence; the chins from his pocket were laid out. with the Imperial saglo upper-¡ most "so as not to see that falso face

· The servant-ot four PrúsKÍNÁ Kings said to the English re publican, Bir Charles Dilke, The rule of kingia the rule of women. The bad women are badi and

the good are, wOBET,YER DO woman,, good or bad, hachang part in his fall;

As for the politlen he could no longer maké yet could not lave alone, "he" mw, neold men do, | only troubles' ábendingTab.

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