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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1957.

THE HISTORY OF A NAVAL

AND MILITARY CAT

ESPITE .con-

D'siderable research

the exact time and

by NICK GALTRESS

Jooks, foună, him irresistible. For his part, George loved them and left them nutical abandon,

with typical

effered his friendship to a vertain Field Officer, who un- gratefully rejected it. Hia sub- sequent advertees to subaltern officers were not any better received,

tome

Hitherto unknown loneliness and injured pride became the dally

of his accompaniment exlitence. In this slate of mind he lived on to the mess until one day from the Royal Air Force All this was, however, the Mess across the road he received eclm before the storm which a kladly word. George was in a uroke about his head quite un considerable duemma. Ho kajew expectedly. The Brigadier cur- that to cross that narrow road rintly George's protector and was to accept finally the measure provider was posted home to of his fall from favour. Mo England. This worthy man 11 withheld his decision unill one hould be said did not leave day he caught sight of a well Before long, wind of these without taking steps to provide berabened

offeer of as resched the car of The tor George but his efforts were dignity being iccelved with Admiral who, being of a purer not nitogether successful, what parsed for great ceremony ature hanself, was upset in the incogst the senior officers of hy The Royal Air Force acres extreme, After much heart his aquaintance there seemed to the way, A temporary glimpse eching and disappointment ki be a marked lack of enthusiasm of his foner glory Dassend character, The Admiral made up that as no new benefactor could slow

It was finally settled through his mind and with a and resigned step he his mind to put a stop to this be ford of a rank befitting crossed the narrow strip of road.

sued orders. inecalineace. Thereupon he George's post career, * Con

promise must be reached. This was arranged and George was "This was the unkindest transfered to a mosa presided of all marked the start over by a brigadier who lived The out of mess. This gentleman it George's fall freen grace. Arst step in this decline was the should be said, if the rest of this A transfer of George from the story is to be understood, al- creature fitted in every actual reason for this speak rats, was rather more kk station, the Air Force unit was Royal Navy to The Army. The tough kindly disposed towards

vices WER .an overpowering coother in a period of contents place of George's birth wonkness for the fair sex. In ment second caly to that of his

every port George had is novel days. has

undis- remained

nimirovs. These poor creatures covered. This is a pity, impressed no doubt as inuch by as one look at George static a life as by his good will suffice to assure you that here is no ordinary cat. His physical good looks, proud bearing and haughty demeanour clearly distinquish him from the ordinary run of cats. At first glance it is clear that here is no byproduct of a light hearted Baison on the moon-lit tiles. One sonses on first acquain- tance that this is

respect to look at queen.

his failure to

felkie for cats.

any able fell from grace is not cless-ly

be

GOOD. EFFECT Such were the qualitles which first brought George to the olice of The Royal Navy. Mere precisely, he fell under the eagle eye of an itåtergut amlent, who isiste: that George "signed a”, It is doubtful whether this recognition, coming tot di carly li ils life, had good effect on his already k flated ego, Welcome alike in "Wird Room" and Cabin, he rode the waves in on ever in treasing aura of glory,

inclined

towards

THE SEQUEL

Fate was to play yet another rind trick on George, when before he had ever had time to begin his campaign of rein-

moved away, Culting his Bosses towards dogs and restraking his distress he ly known. It is considered, how than

anyth.og ever that a party, som Png's In this atmosphere George once of his former Any Meas. There else. took up residence in the kitchen and a fair measure of gai were more tried to assert himself. In the klad but unfeeling bands the aguts of this disaster, in short,

of the Chiuso Mess staff he is

whilst

Hongkung ¿L} waters, an exchange took place Admiral and a between The certain brigadier, of George for

bottle of Port.

HIS SHAME

living of this time. LONELINESS

The sequel to this story is, in i conclusion,

worth

relating. Whether age had detracted George is perhaps happier 10w from his power to impress or the ever before, Ho has his whether the inhabitants of the woahtre comforts close at hand. mess were, in the absence of the He is no longer subject to the brigadier, less inclined to be whims and foibles of scrlor The feelings of George at this agreeable it is hard to say, Yet officers. His arrogance has gale time can culy be imaged. is the culcome, was that George a la his new found humility thume was, however, somewhat was kindly but coolly recclyed, he has discovered himself cace willgated when he landed win Gently but firmly removed from more. He has time to meditate the first Bellish troops in Korea, chair after chair, It became upon the precarious coxd uncer- It must be realised here that painfully clear to him that he tain nature of his former life, there is no greater

lower his and if he moves quickly from means of would be obliged to gainkig respect for a peacetime standards. This sterifice would under busy feet, keeps quiet and successful, e leued to dis-

soldier than to be able to talk in he felt galo him nothing but shows a Httle gratitude, he may Tinquish between the various

Mess of experience -taval-ranks

of actual praise.

and heart he yet avoid the cook pot. and signia. Ho

combat. Thus George with his allowed himself to be stroked by Korean experience behind him the heavily emblazoned arm of

regained SOC&L

of Ls The Aciniral but was quick to

of farmer self-confidence. With cold-shoulder the advances

this assistance to his efforts in He had men of lesser degree.

those qualities rel his standards and knew that discovered that to lower them was to displease which had once endeared him to

With the speed of the svelally

sme

en admiral were socn make his benefactor. Hallitude did

him beloved of The Brigadier. little to coder him to The

He became once more a presence Ward Room at general but y The Altonal had filled to him, the Mess, for whom efter The

who dare but follow suit? 119 Bobbery was suffered a silence.

WEAKNESS

During his voyage

sca et sumewhat unfortunately George developed many of the least destrable characteristics of scu- fabig folk. Grealest of these

Brigadier the best chair was al- He returned ways left veeant. ngal to his arrogant ways. and Was quick to discover that amongst soldiers as with sailors there are reaks and grudes. George leamed that there were kheki elud legs against which to rub and similar ce agakist which it was unbecoming to be Pampered ant protected he passed from one brigadier to

acer.

What's On Tonight

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Funny Face". Americans in Paris, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. STAR and METROPOLE: "Men in War". A private feud in a public war. Robert Rynn and Aldo Ray,

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Il Mel by Moon. light". A daring escapade in Crete '44. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, and David Cusack. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Silk Stockings". Songs and dances both sides of the Iron Curtain. Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse,

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Hatful of Ruin". A grim episode of dope. Don Murray and Eva Marie Saint,

16A Des Voeux Roed.

With u

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

PERFUME

9.1

"I'vo quit using perfumes my boy friend reacts only to cooking aromas!"

it's here...

Lanz

FALL COLLECTION

Paquerette Ltd.

EQUI

ANNE SHARPLEY.

has tea with

IVY COMPTON-BURNÈTT

SHEAFFER'S

Skrip

The woman who

"W

lives alone

OULD you like some co-o-ol cucumber?" The cucumber, cradled on a dolly, graced the tea- trolley. I decided hunger was the better part of poise and refused it.

Mas Ivy Compton-Burnett cut herself a slice of the cucumber Just an eighth of an inch thick. pared it, salted it and, allcing it into tiny strips, ate it with com- plete attention.

be.

All was exactly as it ought to

One could not imagine any- thing as barbarous us breakfast. or as gluttonous as dinner with Mug Ivy Compton-Burnett, But tea, as one of her charactera would say, is “a normal part of

Throughout her 15 stronge novels Miss and cultIND Compton Burnett pours con- versation Just as she was pour. Ing China lea now.

They talk on

Atid, fragrant and al but colourless, her characters talk on Large Edwardian familles in large houses casually rovesi- ing and then just as casually

covering

up some monstrous crime-murder, adultery incest. blackma!).

"I think all my books aro much of a muchnees. I don't geni na some people, do with princes ore day and cabbago acup the next." Bay

Miks Compton-Burnett, who is rather plain-spoken despite her books being masterpieces of allusion.

Her voice with lis Edwardian tendency to over enunciate rings round the large grey room in the Earl's Court end of Kensington. It seems a bare room because all the furniture 1 drawn up close against the wa{İS as though it were sheltering from the rain,

Her hair (grey with [atut yellow tinge) is scrolled round her head into a velvet bandenti that almost rests along the brow. Har features are delicate, but the set of her jaw is masstre. monumental,

Tailored suit

She is dressed in a speckless black milt, fallored, one guesses. in the 1914-18 war.

Lin

The angertips of her ampl white hands are pointed like obelisks, Bhe la possibly by now 10, although no one knowÁ.

"I think there were a lot of skeletons in the cupboards of those large but not very grand houses where people used to live. And every story must have a bone and therefore perhaps a akeleton.

**There was a great prolonging

....... and writes of

families with

skeletons in

their cupboards

In my

time."

oi childhood explains Milas Compton-Burnett. who did not herself lve in one of the large but no grand houses but whose father d before the place was sold.”

"People got desperately on each other's nerves. Daughters stayed at home and they bad governesses. There were younger nons who came home for the holidays. Nowadays, of course, if a girl hasn't a lot they think she's not capable of inking one, But in those days they were il together at home, very often hating one another'

'Died off'

Miss Compton-Burnett'a OWN Jarge family has, as the pata it.

**died off*

"But I have a suzer I see quite & 101 of,"

Miss Compton-Barnett lives in her grey, echoing five-room Bat

lone.

"I don't like iving alone," ane says, and her voice becomes even more matter-of-fact as she relates wiat 10 fact must be a great sorrow.

"It isn't natural for me to live. alone. But for 30 years I lived with Margaret Jourdain, who LiBod to write books about furniture. She died six years ago. When you have lived with someone who was everything to you for so long it is dimncult to live with someone just because you feel the need of company." Even the Rat where she pursues her great grey solitude is no longer kuze.

"I am very much threatened by the Rent Act. They are nuttunk up my rent enOTOVINY,

The other people here seem sa game to pay it

The Conservative Geyer- ment: hita" people with private means so. It li'ye, who have to toll up to the eighth door tow.”

Her present fint where she has geen for 23 years is on the first Moor. Perhaps the increasing popularity of her books, plus the private means shie hina, will naye her that toll up to the eighth Door

Her book sales

Although she will discuss the book Balm of other women authors she will not, reveal the number of her own.

"My sales are moderate.' I am not popular at all.” she says staring hard out of the window as she sits in her black velvet armchair, he has. Blared out of the window most of the time. except to take shreds of cucum bar and sips of tea.

"People either like my pouka very much or any they cannot read them. I have friends who read them who a maure wouldn't if they were not my friends

At her feet a larke' square tapestry cushion is sch On It a dish of fruit.

"Ilave a greengage," alio invites, my greengrocer tells ne they are French. They are not as good as English ones but English ones are never ripe.

Oh, yes. I do my own shop. ping." the replies, "my mald has

big fat to keep clean,

"I have never lived abroad. I think it is always better to live in one's own country... I have known BOVATAÍ people get expatriated but it never worked, they soon felt homesick for a penny bun or a bruised apple I think London is much nicer than Paris and much nicer tu look at... I don't think I have had any French-Iriends. I don't think I know any intimately.

Implicit

One does not have to have her belief in and preference for English

country life 50 frequently conarmed. implicit in everything she does and says.

"There is nothing better than an English peach from a south wall, but then one has them only two or three times in one's lita Thay ripen so seldom.“

And it is an Englishwoman's duty to wait for these inter mittent rewards in, a spirit of well-bred patience, she implies. London Express Service

UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG

The day the squirrel

chased the stoat

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under

· 33079JTHB

From the Files

25

years AGO

FCC's, team to meet Mr Hon- cock's XL J.C. Lyal (Capt)

F. Goodwin, E.C. Fincher, EF. Fincher, G.C. Burnott, A.T. L2Y, W.C.

C. Hung, J. Hunter, N.A.E. Mackay, F.S.W. Smith and FE. Sklaner.

'Mr Hancock's Xl: AW. Hay- ward (HKCC), EJR. Mitchell (HRCC),

GR. Sayer (CSCC)

JE. Richardson (CSCC), LI, AH. Musson (Army), LA. A.Ç. Hamilton (Army), Lt. Comdr Southern (Navy), DJN. Anderson (University), F.D. Pereira (IRC) and E, Zimmern (CCC),

da

"The

THE King's Theatre (advertis-

ing laclf then lost comfortable and the only air-conditioned theatre Hongkong) was showing "Dia- orderly Conduct" starring Sally Ellers, Spencer Tracy and El Drendel-A dashing daring debutatanie whose excapades

ker from Look

the society front columna ta

page head- ints."

In Hongkong RADMINTON Dwas given decided Alp when the Taikoo Recreation a bnd- Club officially opened mainten rection on Friday ever- being Ing. cxhibition gamics

and given by Denis H. Hazell S.A. Gray,

16

14

In the Lawn Bowls League, the sentor division standings were as follows: Craisengower 22 points, Club de Recreio, 17 points, Civil Service CC, points, Kowloon Docks, points, Kowloon CC, 14 points. Taikoo RC, 11 points, Police RC. sle points and Kowloon BGC, four points, (Craigengow- the in er were also leading funior division with 22 points, with Yacht Club and Civil Ser vice second with 15 points),

Government

The

Gazette gives full details of the 'con- ditons for tendering for the road transport service of the a period of 15 Colony for years from June 11, 1933. This 15 in

accordance with the Government's published inten tion last June and the condi- tions cover the terms announced nt tte ཐོས་

time, such as the sub- stitution of 'n royalty payment on the gross receipts, instead of seating tax, the the present

Toutes, official

control. stopping places and timetables, the inclusion of maximum fares and

£11 the provision that vehicles usod shall be of British make. It was also stipulated that lenders would only be accepted: from British subjects or firma companies In which the majority of the partners directorate are British subjects, and on. condition that the, con- trol will be in the Colony and Essentially British.

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Considerable alarm UNIE created

Wongnelchong shortly before three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, when portion of an earth bank at the foot of which construction work carried out, alict

If they were war being a leafy and ruthless strength, no matter America, and

whether it be against a Uny allowed to crease unchecked down on to a number of work- canopy through which wren galiantly defending her it would be disastrous.

ers. The incident occurred at dropped dappled sunlight, nest-or against a stpat.

They would seriously deplete the new Jockey Club stables, my intentions

All the coolics, escaped injury frankly

cur small bird population, lethal, for that morning and the western hills, an

One day, between the Marcites causing incalculablo harm to except one who was treated for

For the grey squirrel had attempted countrymon know was taking small birds take that grows is

Hillo which minor injuries. to force an entry into one Hreys for the bounty, and for more than repaid by what of the grace and favour retten alder stump.

a rasket in Inests in the

garden wall.

suddenly heard

buttressed

tits

Furious and frantic warned us of the outrage, and u well-aimed new potato sent the barbarous Intruder flying.

Now, I was waiting under the squirrels highway, through the trees, thinking of fils beautiful but allen menace.

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old

crops.

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they kill that crawis and flies.

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On Saturday October 1, Hev, LN. Watkins acd TILA family will anil for New Zea- lond after just over three years Yet, though 1 class grey work, in Hongkong. During this squirrels among the worst of period as Priest-in-charge of vermin, I believe they can be St Peter's Church. Mr Walkins tamed and would make cachant- has been most successful in in- ing pots. They are beautiful, fluencing a very considerablo graceful, and intelligent. They number of people who, before are small, would be cheap to his coming were out of touch keep, and are clean in their ? with the Church, slates the Dean habits.

in St John's Review. There are The grey squirrel is not,

At this point in my muss aber the help which he has given „Imany who will always remem- some declare, a "tree, rot," proef

family, of grey squirrels, camo them. of which can be seen in his haavlly · muscled and tremen- Vermin 7 They could da

into sight, rippling easily from peta...... "doyaly powerful arms, incorpora-

branch to branch. I could not ruin such a picture with a shot. Ing a collarbone sknlier to ours

General Chang Teung-chang, There was a frantic scuffing Instead, I lay stilt, watching.. but lacking ground rodents. in a hole by the root, when a

former Military Governor A young one slipped and tell Shantung Province, was cold He is a true squirrel.

stort dashed out with piercing ten feet before his clawing bloodedly assassinated on Friday Lalike the harmless Dalive red variety, the grey squirrel is full pelt by a fairge gray squirrel. swung him it an ero to portoise he was entering;a léain

screams of distress, followed at fingers hooked a branch that; savagely omnivorous. He loves The stoat, much the worse for A parent looked down with dia- route for Tientsin. Three rail- Talhon, capital of Shantung, en any kind of agg, from that of wear, was obviously, raining for approving clicks, while the re- when to goose. 1o will eat young its life, and before my fri matiing youngsters seemed to Chang was described as one of ante.. were arrested, Generat birds and wentanly destroy the could shoot, both animals had to leughing their pretty heads neate, while I have heard that in vanished it, the undergrowth.offuntil one caught sight of me the most picturesque warlords some counties he is driving rabbits wholeenla from their rouch more, predatory in Eug-prise

Ticio Ittle allens seem to be, and pointed in horrided. sur modern, China. He had the reputation of a ruthless ad- burrows. It that be true and then over in their nativo Then they were gone.""

w'nistrator. His death was the serious, fort you cannot control..

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at

Kanašlatif said lie was a nephew

At result of revenge, Chia of the

| brush rabbită savo by gun, kaaro, pone

and the barbarous gin trop."

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The grey, throws into battle behalf of South: Chlum - Mortiing -Port Limites st, 1-3 Wyncham | srecuted at Teinian in 1937, “bu wybry, scrap of his furious energy! Street, City of Victorin In-tag Colony of Honghong.

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