1956-12-12 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER - 12, 1956. '

PEOUS

WORET

SORRY NO PETROL

FILE

"First Sunday I've had off since I opened this garago

30 I thought I'd run the family down to the coast."

CLOSED

たこたに

Luisa Spagnoli

Brings to Hongkong

Rome Fashion

With its Newest Styles

On Sale at All Leading Fashion Stores

Sole Agents: K. Caudron & Co,, French Bk. Bldg.

Exquisite brends Elegantly packed

FLEURS DE ROCAILLE

CARON

Perfumes

PARIS

ON SALE AT ALL LEADING PERFUME COUNTERS

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

S Christmas is almost upon us your Uncle Nat and the Plucky Little Woman considered it was time to think up some funny jokes, particularly as Your Uncle is frequently necused of being serious minded.

Since

pantomime

"Yes, what is your wife doing for Christmas?"

ding."

"She's making a Suez pud-

We both laughed miserably at that,

Kind to Tum

and WE

VE then turned to the news

radio gags usually have 24 topical twist, we thought

tune

and found that it is National Smile Week In America,

Next week will be National we might give free assis Mother-in-Law Week and after to comedians and that National Relaxation Week and National Indigestion (Be script writers already Kind To Your Stomach) Week. struggling to invent

comedy lines about Nasser, Uncle's outline, the F.L.W. said With a sharp glance at your JUNO. Aki Dog Ham- there had evidently been a Be

nurskjald.

★ ✰

Our first attempt was in the style of the cross- talk comedians.

11

"If Nasser worked in hospital as bone mani- pulator for rheumatism do UNO what he'd be call- ed?"

"No. Do UNO what Nusser would be called

if

he worked in a hospital

an

for

11 bone manipulator

rheumatism?"

Kind 10 26 Certahy Stomach Week. She had noticed that all alimming diela bad been abandoned. New white bread and hot rolls were being con- sumed in alarming quantities, So were vast mounds of cream- cd potatoes,

Moreover she bad noticed that during the crisis a Certain Stomach had been cosarted more frequently and for longer intervals in the low favern,

Reading from o newspaper she quoted: "Fat men have algnificant predilection for alcohol."

4

Those pol-bellled tipplers are classified by scientists as endomorphs, though it was not stated it the alcohol made them fat or if they were born fat and craved for whisky in their milk

"Yes. He would be call- ut an early age.

ed a Cairopractor."

SECTION ONE

to

90 feef

SECTION THREE

GLORIA DI

A DENGIANTS

GENLAND

AMERICA'S ANSWER... THREE LITTLE ROCKETS MAKE ONE SUPER ONE

TO SUPPLEMENT WHAT BULGANIN WAS

SAYING ABOUT THOSE ROCKETS

The Record Leap

சொக்கர்

200 MILES SECTION ONE

*- 400 miles

3000 miles

NOW CONFIRMED: THIS

ASTONISHING FLIGHT

AND WHAT IT MEANS by Chapman Pincher

A

in

afr

base,

sec den hadd

URGENT

of

was designed by the V2's gramme to develop the fissile inventor, Werner von Braun, misstle is beginning to gather

momentum. who is now a UB. citizen,

SECTION 2 was a side-by-side The American reaction to the cluster of four Sergeant rocketts, Suez intervention has convinced tach about 20ft. long. The the Government that Britain Sergeant is an improved version must have her own stocks of of the Corporal ground-strafing these deterrent weapons if she is rocket, now being supplied to to remain a front-rank Power. the British Army, and can carry Sir William Penney believes an atomic worhead.

that

after the

British Arsi SECTION 3 was a single Ser- H-bombs are tested off Christ- geante

mas Island next spring he will U.S. Army roc ranges up to 1,000 miles, but

The missile took off from be able to provide a warhead ket launched secretly there is no evidence of anything Patrick

Florida, packing the power of more than this inter-continental from Florida has

powered only by the Redstone's a million tons of TNT, yet small category,

enough to fit in a rocket mighty engine, plunged into the At-

The defence chiefs consider

After a

fight of about 200 reasonable size. After this we invented

lantic after a flight of 3,000 that it is absolutely vital that miles, the Redstone fell away something even worse, such

miles three times further the Russians should not get a and the motors of the four mid- "When

the United

lucky than any missile has flown monopoly of even a few weeks section Sergeants simultaneously

They thrust the on the fissile missile, Free from roared into life. Nations gets its teeth will ectomorphs, thin men who dis-

before.

fear of rocket retaliation, the the missile a further 600 miles guided anti-aircraft weapons to they be on the National liked alcohol,

The though she ad-

news of this technical Russians could possibly gain before they too fall away.

this new long-range work as a Health Service?"; and

by threat Then the tip Sergeant, with matter of extreme urgency, they might be scinny triumph, which was confirmed in their polliical ends

Washington, is of supreme poll- alone,

its own power boosting its The Woomera range

In the really shocking effort by miseries.

tical significance on two counts:---- Marshal Bulganin's announce already enormous speed, flew on Australion desert is now being your Uncle, never any good

She

and Instrumented to thought the luckiest

ment that he had contemplated alone, finally falling into the sea cleared THOUGH this nt this sort of thing.

0011. women of all had married meso-

rocket reprisals against Britain cast of the West Indies after an cope with rockets capable of long mlastle was morphs, muscular, cheerful

not for Intervening in Egypt last arched flight of 3,000 miles covering 1,500 miles and more, operational dovleu chapa who enjoyed an

The missile men have far to month strengthened Allied fears which had taken it 400 miles occa-

trans- sional drink on special occasions which could be used in war, that the Russians will take an above the earth.

go before they can,

but knew when

leave it to

gave practical proof that extremely tough line if they get it

The acientists were surréised form a contrivance like that the rocket capable of deliver the fissile missile first. alone.

-and relieved to find that the fired from Florida Into a piece ing hydrogen bombs

final rocket had not been badly of operational hardware capable This shamed endomorph, who | continent to continent is für

burned up by the terrife fric of delivering on H-bomb with was just trotting off to the low from being a science-fletion The historic, 3,000-mile light tion an it plunged seawards anything lika-the accuracy faveri took off tils overcost,

fantasy,

was achieved by making a through the atmosphere,

required poured himself one pink gin, and spent the evening at home.

08.

The P.L.W. said some

bad women

married linear

4 mitted

"Who was that lady I saw you with lnst night?"

"Dag was no lady. was my Hammerscold."

Dag

Your Uncle tried to ex- plain to the P.L.W. that "Hammer" had been substi- tated for the rolling-pin wielded by scolds in jokes of long ago, but she still didn't think it very funny.

Three Wise Men

from

HISTORIC

Firms are being switched from development of small,

IT provided the best three-section. composite missile Before this fight it WDS But the ease with which this evidence yet that the out of existing rockets which feared that this heat-barrier flight has been accomplished Americans are at least separately could fly only a few effect on re-entry into the suggests that 10 years, and on level terms with the Russians hundred miles.

denser atmosphere might be a possibly five, will see both East In the race to develop this sile SECTION 1, forming the base, ncar-insuperable dimculty in and West stockpiling push- missile and may well be shead, was a 60ft. Redstone rocket—a developing the fisille missile. button weapons so devastating Allied radar has detected many scaled-up and much improved This U.S. achievement comes that neither side will dare to

when Brital's pro- push the buttons.. STILL reading from the papers tests of Russian rockets with version of the German V2, It at a time

the PLW, Baid, although

she couldn't understand what. Elsenhower and Duller had to smile about during National

When she was sulkily asked Smile Week, they were evident-

to do better she let this

go:

one

ly a bit thead of schedule National Relaxation Week.

on

Eisenhower was playing gol

BIGGEST CHRISTMAS

THE

THE number of shopping.

days to Christmas be

*By 'GEORGE HOGAN

SPREAD

NAAFI bakeries in Britain' also produced 10,000 lbs of mincemeat and expect to turn out some, 200,000 mince pies for home consumption alone, Borne

lbs, of decorated, alap

"What is your wife doing for

and "eating a good lunch at the gins to worry the average. Christmas?"

club" ant Dulles was fishing in British housewife Komo "What is my wife doing for Florida. He was reported to be weeks before the festivo Christmas 1956. Some but the soldiers "Mum" under 20,000 lbs of Christmas caker Christmas"

thoroughly

stands the unusual "exigencies of 11,000 to dati season, but there is one orders were placed, ship the Service, and before the end cale and 11.000. Yule logs and

robot

tall "family" that has to look ping space booked, ware of October NAAFI clube and Enteaux, before dinner,

:: much farther ahead and houses, and-- cold · stórago; stores in all parts of the workl Perhaps this might inspire which begins to malo plans accommodation organised had received their Christmas Chocolates ton for the modern serviceman has a sweet funry Uncle Nat to scribble :i

British

tooth, NAAFI has obtained parosty on Good King Wences for the next Yuletide, at home and overseas, supplies. Wherover

forces are stationed, at home,, Laus?

spread almost before the British forces in sorte 20 Germany In the Middle, and 363,000 boxes of chocolaton Just After one more pink in the current one is consumed countries, as well as those on the Far East, on a dat in the Pacife for Christmas, and 10,000 tins

home front, were being catered humorous unele produced the and the trimmings tidied for, and Christmas, supplies bo or in the Americas, their Christ of iaculis. In addition, an following: A AN away. 36:

Spirita; cigarettes . and fan to How Into mich places as we supplies are how ready and Sorotis quantity of wine,

waiting in ZRELA Balta

Gibraltar. Cyprus Eisenhower he looked out This is the vast family

claus have been, sasembled for Bongkong, Singapore. And wint au appetite has me the great day, y On a world of trouble,

Nor hava the Service children Played his golf and had his of British servicemen, Kores Ceylon, Konya, Jamaica, Yerom family! NAATT lunch, ez egypt their wives and children, at little speck of an ac away in tune aprendo tocal 28.0

"British Guiana," and even to a in poultry, alone for

may be. For them

· Gobble" gobble, robbie dial home and overeeni

„Pacifio Chriæterena Kutorsd/12003 Marlenerzel 65,000 235μ) Duller took his fahing rod; wMum" in their case is the BFwheret Britain's first 9,000 lbs of duckig. Coɑiciali in a shokariahús

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