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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

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"One whift, moddam, and he'll forget all about M.1.5 und the Official Secreta

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PARADE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER · · 15, · 1955.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

SAUSAGE MAN Do you knew Jumbo winder.--Minds a mà- fivès have been hearing more vriticism of this aspect of their BAFFLED ALL what a jumbo chine used in carpet weaving,

winder is? Or. Sparrow bill maker.-Forges country's Immigration system. Sparrow bill maker? Or a wrought-iron nails from iron: back end girl?

rod.

These phrases baffled officials Back endi giri.-Refills shuttles OFFER of a friendly society whose job and mends broken threads at is to find out what

would-be back of Swiss embroidery bon to pass, through ศ Lalin members do for a ving.

machines.

from Paris has arrived in Lis-

American Embassy,, an offer of sanctuary for ex-President Feron- The society found that there.

Fly gatherer-Sweeps up and of Argentina in the South of are more than 10,000 different bags waste and “fly" (fibre dust) France.

Britain, occupations in

many in spinning room. with slong names,

Now the Rociety's magazine bins published a list of odd jobs "after many hours of patient in-

vestigation.

The jobs include:

A British Crossword Puzzle

(2

12

ACROSS

3 Trespasses (8)

3

18

110

16

13

14

21

22

23

#4,840 square yards. (1

Delvamine

11 Went down (8).

13 Check (4)

13 Got the better of (8)

18 Make new (8).

19

Abound (4).

•

21 High army offers (0).

25 Made beloved (8).

26 Beak (4).

27 Muse (8).

26

DOWN

1 Solid body (4).

2 Shellfish (4).

4 Necessity (4).

5 Land measure (4),

6 Discourage (5).

7 Water vapour (5)

9 Additional clause (5).

10 Numeral (5)..

12 Custom (5).

14 Praise (ā).

18 Allude to (5).

17 Drugged (5).

19 Unit of heat (6)

20 Finished (5).

21

Method of walking (4).

22 Tidy (4).

23 Greedy (4).

24 Solitary (45.

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD),~~Across: 1 Forbid, 4 Glebe,

7 Sentinel, 8 Loose, 8 Seance, 11

Opposed, 13

Fortune, 15 Treble, Down: 1 Fasts, 2 Baleri, 3 Dungeon, 4 Gallop 5 Endersca, Extend, 10 Arrogant. 12 Pensant, 13 Forget, 14 Untrue, 18 Agile, 17 Dodge.

Abused, 18 Right, 19 Neulised. 20 Tithe, 31

NEW BOOKS reviewed by ROBIN HUTCHEON

THE

STRANGE

MAN IN

THE HOME OF THE

THE GODS

TIN

SANCTUARY A secret counter KANCHENJUNGA. By John Englishman, does not mention it, the failing portor and hurled as a figure of immense evil who cast a fatal spell en Kanchen- Tycker, Elok Books, Lon- I rather suspect his reticence is down the mountainside fellow-

D pover for shame-and that ed by an avalanche of cascading junga and all who climbed on It, don. 21/.

Crowicy was a fellow country- ice and snow.

makes John Tucker'a' book tion... book IL

about

Four men were killed. "Three excellent reading..

He has in climbing in the Hima-He had climbed Mexico porters and Puche,

bright, breezy style. He ribs his

'morcilessly And Crowley? Was be shaken, companions

and this week, 1 and the Alpe before coming to layaa

the Himalayas with another or shocked by the nows? He treats the march to the moun- Why is this mole being modefound one of the world's famous mountaineer, Oscar oat down and wrote a letter to gain as a hilarious plenie, 1 Beetle culter,Cuts and through Lisbon? I woes that

strangest stories.

Eckenstein. The first venture a magazine, The Pioneer, de-

the was 12, shapes huids of wooden mallets whoever is the interested party

second highes ploring the rashness ol (beetles) used in finish textlien. in France wants to keep his

Not about yetis, or a lost mountain in the world, Neither the Buzzer-Puts wet yarn

or Qual d'Onay, nor the Argentine tribe, or a new Shangri La, Crowley turned up with cloth into hydro-extracting ma- Embassy in Paris, knows afy or some pecullar sight the "small library" of poema be-

Can also be called thing about the sanctuary offer

he said lorry "Slinger," "Swlaser," "Whiz- in France, which is said to inexpedition had seen on the cause

seemned more, essential to him render help." zer" and "Wuzzer."

clude a chateau "somewhere in mountain.

than material comforts.

chine.

to

ittentlity o secret.

But ft scema possible that

Glass heaver out-Transfers Auvergne." bottles or other partly finished Peron may go to live in Lisbon orúcies from one mould

firm, thus following a long Jine another.

of famous exiles to the suburbs Dog whipper. Superintends of Estoril. work of pony drivers and lead- er in metal mines.

home of the Gods.

food

companions and professing no sympathy with them whatever,

He said he was not ever- anxious in the circumstances to

to

Unfortunately his small panty did not reach the summit, But the expedition did as much as Shipton's party for Sir John Hunt's climbers on Everes{-- they found a feasible route, the summit, less direct that The next day he was scen Crowley's but, they decided, descending the mountain. He safer. But a strange man who

did not bother to inquire about tried to climb the terrifying

of his the condition

Injured Little in told of what happen. comgades. He aimply walked ou heights of Kanchenjunga in 1905; a mountain which the ed on this climb except that he deserted" as Dr Guillarmed

Banlier this year Dr Charles local people still say is the led the expedition, that it foll- put it-and they never saw him Evans and his party

followed ed, and that when another mem- again.

their trail to the summit---or ber, of this party, Knowles, was

the This is all that Tucker tells rather, a few feet below invited to join the Kanchen- junga

his top, to preserve the aneredness Crowley apart from of expedition

which ol

success in blazing a trall up of the heat of the Gods," Crowley was to be leader," declined because he claimed Kanchenjunga which may have

Many readers may prefer to that Crowley had tried to shoot led mountaineers to the summit wait for Dr Evans' recount of him 20,000 feet up on the bitter in later years.

the second major British suc- heights of K2.

But they avoided it--even cos in the Himalayas,

But if you enjoy high adven- Almost from the outset of the Tucker's party.

ture of this kind, I can recom expedition there WRI 1805

It was is though Crowley had mend Tucker'a book as one of grumbling over his leadership,

in- He treated the porters like dos put a curse on this part of the the most enjoyable and

mountain. For while some dis- formative accounts ot moun- and expected them to climb.

that a therough end taineering

I havo CVDT glaciers barefooted. One day he missed him as

and a rotter, others regarded him read. cracked an almost hysterical porter over the head with the steel haft of an ice-axe to "bring him back to his senses."

Fantastic

#valanches

crash

200 SEEING Nearly

people 100se RED

have jumped to death Flirter. Removes

from the 18681, bizh briatics, hair or Abres from

Clifton suspension bridge or the down its icy slopes bombarding filed brushes.

its serrated skints and glacier rocks in the Avon gorge, Bristol, valleys with ingred ico bould in the last 50 years. Now theers, frozen snow clumps question is asked: "Does the red tortured rocks. oxide paint on the bridge affect highly strung people?"

of

One phrase, Muster the Casings Trade, baffled the off- cials completely The man who held that title furned out to be a maker of sausage skins.

and

Local superstition has it that Mr J. Nelson Meredith, Bristol these are missiles cent down by, Clly architect, said: "I have the vengeful Gods to warn off colour trespassers from their cruel and always objected to the SHEEP AND It seems that one

aspect of British of the suspension bridge. Colour bitter domain, COATS

Ind un- immigration pro- Play: a very important part in particularly annoys our subconscious lives."

He told members of Bristol foreign visitors. That ly the

and Trade Council that if the bridge segregation of foreign Brlish passport holders when were painted a different colour, they arrive at a United Kingdom there might be Tewer suicides:

in the Avʊn gorge, port.

cedure

To this primeval

Land came Aleister tamed

an international Crowley with team of Alpine climbers.

morale.

He

he

A

In Prewar Peking

MY BOY CHANG. By Hope It was Chang and his pre-

Danby, Gollancz, London, 13/6.

When the porters tried to de- sort, he decided to give a hair- "White lead would be much John Tucker's first reference raising exhibition of his "super-

decessor, Wang, who introduced Since this is practised by a better than red oxide," he susto Crowley caught my attention, natural powers" In an attempt

her to the subtistics-and my- gested. Red is a most exciting The 1905 expedition, generations

stories of life in China, who flung race who have for

he said, to restore

deliberately down

guidance to refugees colour at it anybody is highly given sanctuary

won led by the notoricus Alet himself

gave her benevolent * THIS IS

a pleasantly-written on her associations and general from all over the world, it can strong it does affect them."

stor Crowley" which ended in sleep ice-slope overhanging

nt the very A hardly be assumed

rock cliff, and

story about the author's le conduct with the high and the that it is

Mr Meredith bold of London's shameful disaster.' symptomatic of xenophobia.

humble: the population in and verge of the precipice, righted in prewar Peking. Blackfriars Bridge, which had

of her Now mountaineers, like any himself and jumped to his feet.

compound for swifter its colour changed from dark probably makes

It is ú panorama-famille brought A In the lower camps revn't

touch of passage through Immigration brown to a light green. He suld other sportsmen, do not talk of

like that began. Dr Jacot-Guillarrod enough to many in Hongkong oriental humanity to her "fairy control.

a close watch was kept on this tamous predecessor:

climbed with a small party to now, but probably breathtaking palace"; the servants who stood bridge and it was found that unless there is some good rea- the number of suicides from son. For Crowley was an expert Crowley's tent at 21,000 feet to to the strange that is pointed by devotedly as her little "time-

climber, expent enough to be tell him he had taken over the in delicate colours. was reduced by 20 percent.

Eiven charge of a Kanchenjunga leadership. expedition at any rate.

It

Nevertheless. It would appear that it is resented by sensitive visitors who are left foreign with the impression that soine- how they the being distrimin- ated against.

EASING The United States Air to adopt Force is UP

British-style uniform khaki shorts and bush jackets)

interest Having excited my the author unteindly made me read twenty more pages before is next dramatic reference to

Crowley,

this

Crowley WTx thunderstruck by the news but as Dr Guillar- mod turned to begin the des cent, the black magician pro

one of the climb- strange phealed that

in ers, Pache, would be dead

out

Who warm

Com-

of

less"

to crumble world began with the coming of the Japanese And i is a good picture of a life which many say come close and finally disintegrate to their concopiion of the Ideal pletely with the bombing of

even the sublime. There is Pearl Harbour. nothing sentimental

this

Truly this is the portrait retrospect. The author has re-

a perfect servant and a devoted produced the scene faithfully friend, if I have one slight ob- and obviously with great care.

Jection it is that she has treated the book Appropriately

15 im with a little too much con- dedicated

to Mrs Danby's boy, sideration, or rather she bviously Chong, a loyal, intelligent, en accentuate: Chang's

Inde-

caricaturing High qualities by the others, For example, translates his Chinese, Terally halting and beside the poor,

Now, without pausing to sun- gest that other countries might for service in the sun. Hitherto put their

house in order the U.S. Services own

have been before criticising Britain, United conservative in their attitude to

Then he told authorities words the tourist

and story: short sleeves Kingdom

Works won by Brush, Austra Crowley was, do wis notoriety ten minuleinutes later, as the terprising and and government officials Gre

lian and New Zealand foregs inter as the self-styled "Grept And getting together to see if any- thing can be done about recti- the desert campaigns”,

Beast" of the Apocalypse, back small party "climbed down The

influence American "this unfortunate

the leading fying

magician and Satinst.

mountain. some religious de-:

balance largely of

I don't know whether he was porters lost his pression."

nominations has felt it impro- English, Scottish or Irlah. The allthered down a snow-covered ministration of her per to expose legs and until now spelling of his Christian name slope. They were all roped to- that made possible her exploita pidgin of her other servants, it' long trousers have been stan-Alekter suggests one of the gather. One after another they tion and fulfilment dard wear in all U.S. Services, latter two, but as Tucker, were jerked off their feet by golden hour.

Am

And al an Infernational tourist agency get-together in Switzerland, British representa-

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

LITTLE ARTHUR GETS AN IDEA OF WHAT

HE'LL BE UP AGAINST WHEN HE

STEPS OUT INTO THE ADULT WORLD.

HE THINKS THAT BECAUSE HE CANY READ HE DOESN'T

HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL,

School Daze

on

MAYBE WE

SHOULD GET

HIM A TUTOR /

one of

entirely the pendent servant.

for it Appropriately, ond Chang's smooth and able ad- household

W09

of each

BY HARRY

"GOSH! I'D LIKE A

TOOTER / “

WEINERT

THEY HAVE GRAVE. DOUBTS

ABOUT THE SCHOOL BEING ABLE TO

DEVELOP HEATHCLIFF.

"NOT YOU CAN NOT

TAKE YOUR PLANET

DISINTEGRATION GUN Į “

is scholarly stuff.

she

The intention is understand- abfo and the parody gentle enough, but the effect-though amusing-is sometimes a le undair.

·

Mrs Danby's book brought back mentaries of many happy years spent in Honkow, Tientsin and the countryside outside Shanghal before the war. Alas, 61 is a period as remote today as Boswell's London and Tolstoy's Russia.

I liked it for another reasori: I am lucky enough to have a boy ke Chang who enables me to live my full and happy lite in Hongkong.

Murder record

JOHN GEORGE HAIGH, the

acid bath murderer who was

and

John hanged in 1949,

Christie, who was hanged two years ago, were more than two of the most notorious killers of recent years.

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They share, appears, the record" for largest number of victims among

British murderer.

This somewhat morbid claim to fame is recorded for posterity today in stockpile of facts and records. The Guinness Book of Records (Ltd., 59,)

While

to whom nine victims were

uscribed,

and Christie, who killed at least six women at his Notting Hill house, had

more victims than any other identißled killers in British cri- minal history, Britain's most prolifle murderer was the per petrator of the Inftunous serice of Jack the Ripper inurders' in Londón “In 1888. He is cre dited with one more, victim than Haigh

THERE ARE PROBLEMS—AND PROBLEMS.

IN THE LAST SCHOOL THEY DIDN'T ALLOW

HIM TO EXPRESS HIS

PERSONALITY ♫♪

BESIDES INSTRUCTING THE YOUNG THE TEACHER IS EXPECTED TO SEE THAT JUNIOR EATS HIS LUNCH SLOWLY THAT EGBERT DOESNY SIT IN A DRAFT — THAT MIRADOR WEARS HER RUBBERS AT RECESS—AND THAT CHESLEY.. CAN BE LED, BUT CANNOT BE DRIVEN

COPR, 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

WHEN THEY SEEM MOST STUDIOUS THEY RE DOING THEIR BEST DREAMING.

OFF TO THE WARS..

MET À NEW KID TODAY

BOY/DID WE HAVE FUN 7"

MOTHERS PRIDE AND JOY, JUST, LOVES

TO MAKE FRIENDS,

60-SECOND | BOOK

WHAT do a man think ・of when he knows that lu s few minutes he will be dead T

A Japanese war criminal, Major

Satoshi Ole, fell maleep just before he had to -face the firing squad „4, and`

sored fondly, tha

Another war criminal, so of a Japanese liquor dealer, alghed "What wouldn't i give for a drink!” (He got one.)

Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister" and wRKS erinstṇal-in-chief, was full of thoughts aboul - the future life," Egám sure there le ac paradīta.” he said. " Maybe it is in the stars): Maybe it. is in a separate world GDES believe we shall be:able, 10% comantisloste With LED S world in the future through. the development of radio,

The way of Dalibérance,*% by%20%¢hro fonajama joollanor, 168.3.

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