1958-03-26 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1958.

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WORLD TOUR

CHINESE girl wan singing an American rock 'n' roll number in Chinese with a band.

Filipino

I was in a Chineso restaurant In Singapore, which they still call the crossroads of South-Euat Asla among other things.

Mr Aw Cheng-talk"Just call me (Cheng-talk if you can"- a charming Chinese millionaire wwho was giving a dinner in my honour, apologised for the fact that the girl singer didn't know an appropriate song like "

belong to Glasgow."

was thankful she

Braving beard 11 sung

didn't,

in beery

mariners baritones in Bombay,

Calcutta, and oven Bangkok.

It's magic

FE were sliting at a Large

No. 5

Yam Seng!

It was that

(eich)

sort of a night...

Wcircunt table. Among the And Tiger Balm.

dozen br so guests there was started it all. unly

one other European, un-

The other bold newspaperman,

On my right was Mr Ooi, editor of a local paper. Opposite wan the beopectacled Mr James

Peter Chin," amlable

secre aty of Cheng-talk. On my left was Cheng-task himself, who, at 29, must be one of The youngest local millionaires.

Tiger Balm tism, arthritis, to snake-blies..

dandruff, and athlete's fool, father and uncle of Off the menu!

were humble Cheng-task, who

Chinese struggists, expatriate Brst put it on the market. made und is

vast fortune.

making o

It In more than just an ointment to practicalty every Chinese in South-East Asia. It With his brother, sister, and is a

рапасад with magical, cousins he rules a firm which almost mystical, qualities that is Includes a chain of newspapers, good for anything that ails you banking and insurance houses, from headaches, colds, rheumn-

Chameleon

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by

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That, paid fielas Chemsiren, with "meter mer u! jou” straps, comes in handsome mauve jewellery bag

The evidence is most conclusive!

TO BALETI QUELS LONDET

SALAT PETLENEL ITA

T does not contain powdered the gers whiskers, ignorant peasants ance believed and it can be swallowed In small or large doses for internal complaints.

was no I was assured there Tiger Bubn on the menu that night. I was ready for anything It has taken me else, though. three weeks to recover from my Bombay dinner.

While we were waiting for the food to arrive, I learned the meaning of "Yam-song," which be considered the most might lethal words in the Chinese language.

I

They mean simply--"Bottoms But when Chinese up." gentleman lifte his glass to you and says "Yam seng" he means "Yam seng."

If you don't empty your glass you are guilty of Immediately grave discourtesy.

As the guest honour, I was being yam-senged on all sides. The moment a glass was emptied

41 was immediately constantly refilled by a walter

In attendance with whisky and brandy boilies.

An old joke

★ WHICH MEANS SIMPLY

'BOTTOMS UP'

vinegar. Mr Chin, eager to air his knowledge of London, was upstanding and toasting "Fleet and Street, Plecndilly Circus that fascinating place Billings gate, Yam seng."

Cheng-taik said he

wouldn't be offended if I didn't eat the On came the shark's in soup. sucking plg, or piglet. It was. I am happy to say, delicious,

During this course the cabaret

set appeared. "Miss Dona Kaye Irom Kansas City, presenting

music with a difference." Miss Kaye played a miniature plano accordion and sang "I've Got HERE was a temporary tulla Crush On You" while somer-

when

first course saulting and standing on large platter of hoad, Chinese hors d'oeuvres.

arrived-o

the

She

her

She had pretty legs but the It was placed or the revolving

voice like 1 Kansas Iray on the centre of the table had a

was certainly and guests helped themselves hogcaller. different. with chopsticks. I missed a mussel with my chopsticks and got a piece of cge with the yolk dyed black.

was on old Chinese joke.

But despite the

● Did a hotel register and a bottle of champagne show that a high dignitary of the Church was living an immoral life?

◆ Or was there a deeply-toid conspiracy to ruin an innocent claric? ✪ The evidence led to a fugal stolemate — and a public furore. ✪ Then the Privy Council decided that the Venerable John Wokeford's sleeping hobits settled the issue ...

Pyjamas ruin

the Archdeacon

MATELE RATELLI | DINE

WIE

ID the Archdeacon

Carson pounced. He wear pyjamas? That was the D

merciless cross-examiner. question which had all England talking 37 years ago. This was no ordinary case. Archdeacons are not often accused of adultery,

And the Venerable John Wakeford, Archdeacon of Stow, Canon and Precentor of Lin- coln, was known all over the country as a preacher of great power and popularity. The pro- secution claimed that the Archdeacon sent a postcard re- serving a double-room, that he arrived on Good Friday with a woman, that he dined that night and breakfacted the next morn-

woman,

asked Mr Oci what the blacking in the company of the same delicacy was that had just been served. ile said: "It is a bird. It is pigeon. Very good."

The manager testi- fled that he saw them arrive

greeted 11:10 then the manager's that she Baw

LONDON

DRAMAS

By IVAN YATES

Mr Chin was on his neat feet again with yet another toas!.wife "To that celebrated Square them at dinner, at break- known

world. fast throughout the

ond their bodroom To Trafalgar Square, Yam A waitress said she escorted the Fong,"

pair upstairs, where they had a bottle of champagne, and Inter walled on theni at dinneT. The Co-op. munager of the local stated that he saw them arrive at the hotel he noticed the goitera. Three Archdeacon's police officers gave evidence that they saw them in and around the hotel.

I decided to relatlate slightly. I offered a toast to "Tiger bolm. Yam seng."

the

At midnight precisely Filipino band played "God Save the Queen." Every one of the cosmopolitan diners in the French. restaurant - Chinese, German, American, Malayan, and Dutch business mer-stood stimy to attention. For me li was a

strange, oddly touching sight. For the diners at our table it was also a considerable achievement.

THE FAVOURITE

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THERE is ú Lairly high suicide rate among the Chinese who mako

50

It was a formidable nrwer.

CRSC to

"Do you know that Mr Moore was very hostile to Archdeacon Wakeford?"

"No," replied Mr Worthing-

"Do you not? Do you not, now? Do you remember when Moore was charged with staying in an immoral house?"

This lightning thrust went home.

"Yes, I remember,"

"You know it was Wakeford

who had sent these papera the Bishop?"

"Yes, I know."

to

"Did you hear that Moore and Wakeford had controversy about a church which stood up- of the

on some property of Moore's?" that he nover

"Yes, I heard."

denying the presence nightdress sald wore pyjamas.

don't on นก-

"Then you do know,

Was the you, that Moore

friendly terms with your brother-in-law?"

"Yes" Worthington,' cornered, had admitted the truth.

He called Miss Fanny Drury, house-parlourmaid at Precentory. She did the Arch- dencon's packing. She said his night ntire was always a shirt. Except in Fronec. There he wore pyjamas. On this occasion, not being in France, sho packed a shirt.

"Did you tell your sister there about the Honours seemed equal in this were prove rumours

Archdeacon's morais?" But could the rest

And to cap it all the exchange. manager of the hotel, Mr Pugh, saw the Archdeacon add the words "and wife to his entry

In the hotel register.

But the Archdeacon never wavered in his stout denials.

had

GO

of the evidence, se certain, compelling and so corroborated Could all be explained away? those winesses have made the same mistake?

The Archdeacon was scrupu- laus in the witness-box. When he gave his evidence

denying

register.

suggest

Carson, relentless, pursued his quarry.

"I did."

"Did you advise her to leave him?"

"I didi"

"Was it Moore who gave you of the hotel

the statements people?"

"It was."

"Did Moore send a detective

"Yes."

His meals he took by himself. As for the suggestion that he that he had written the words to give you a helping hand?" had had a bottle of champagne "and wife' in the

cross-examining bore per cent of Singapore's popula-e regarded the statement as an counsel

aspersion

hlo character. down on him: "You on tlon of one and a half miles. Nelther, he added, did he drink that the entry in the visitors' The favourite poison is caustic

"malt liquors or splits." soda. So caustic soda can only be bought now on permits.

FOR A 'QUICKIE'

saya

NIGHTSHIRT

they

As a footnote to these revela- ilons, the Archdeacon's wife, who testified that her relations with her husband were ones of affection and trust and that sho never complained of his light- ness of conduct with a woman, claimed that she was present when Moore had once said, "It's the all right, Wakeford. I will get

book was a forgery?" To which the Archbeacon firmly, with dig nity, replied: "I am not going to be drawn into a demurelation of anybody. I am hero simply to defend my honour."

In his support Archdeacon INGAPORE bars close at Wakeford called a number of

But Sir Edward Carson, midnight and after that, witnesses who said that

the law, no drinks may saw no woman with him in the Archdeacon's counsel, was not you yet,"

elreumspect, He alleged So on this issue o distraction be served. But in Bugly Street dining-room.

And it Was this the piglet had been gobbled up (pronounce i Boogie) you can. the two sides were deadlocked. coumiracy,

accusation which until only the tall was left sit at one of the open-air cafes But there were other considera- sariling

the quiet Cheng-talk said I was 匯

crowded curling up dellantly and sadly

within & sleazy 100 tions. There were those brought drama Inlo specially preserved 100-year-old in the middle of the platter. yards and drink till three or pyjamas. Most important of courtroom on Downing Street and lent to the trial its high Chinese ega. which I gathered

four in the morning. Watched fall, there was the alleged con- by the blind eyes of at least two {spiracy.

pitch of excitemet. palicemon. You can also buy anything else you fancy, includ- watches, was in cigarette lighters, message delivered to Cheng-talk

oplum and caustic soda "for quite a quick.suleide." telling him that the late nowa developments brought no fresh in the Indonesian rebellion, so we could relax for the moment,

He said: "We used to sell a

Next came birdnest soup. Another drink which Lasted

birdeest like

soup.

Mr Ool ("Call me 'Oui' like APHONE

"When I the French") said: was in London recently I tried all the Chinese restaurants, but the food was terrible, not like this."

"Mr Chin stood up and offered n toast to me and to Great Britain. He ellaited his glass

lot of Tiger Balm in Indonesia but not since It became We lost a good independent, market, but nothing. compared with the market and the money Communists took over in China." we lost when the

Yam seng! against mine.

Cheng-talk, who is jovial and Orientally plumply

good with a looking,

magolficent hair-sprouting mole on his left check, offered a toast to our friendship. "Yam song!" He swallowed and went on: "I am a pre-colonialist, a traitor. 1 cm just not in favour of too much independence too

in scon Singapore.

оп

"The British naval and mili- tary bases employ 40,000 people and spend thousands of pounds What would materials. happen if they left suddenly?"

by the He was interrupted arrival of the shark's art soup, which is seasoned with black

Cummings

He looked mournful, bul only for a moment, then he was on his feet again toasting. "Let's drink to the brotherhood of maan. I am Chinese, my skin is yellow, I respect Chinese tradition and Chinese culure.

"But I was born here under the British fog. My family and I have prospered here. To my British brothers. Yam seng."

molo hairs His

quivered emotionally as he drank.

Maudie Littlehampton

(wife of an Earl and mother of the last of the Debe) is on hor way to America,

Maudle In one of this news-

of paper's unrivalled gallery cartoon charactors.. the Glies family, the Gambole, Pop, For- dinand, Rupart.

She is the arch-debunker of the sophisticated poso.

Har arrival.on Broadway should be davsetaling.

The journey begina on page 10 today.

Was

UNCLERICAL

This strikingly unclerical conduct put the Archdeacon's position in a new light. Why, after all, if he wished to commit to How had this case arisen in adultery, should he choose The hotel manager swore he

advertise his presence in a well- saw a nightdress and a pair of the first place, he asked? pyjamaa on the Archdeacon's It brought as a result of a publie known hotel in a cathedral city In the city of Peter- in the neighbouring diocese to bed. The Archdeacon instead of scandal

borough?

his own? Why should be pro- claim himself with his adulterer Apparently not. The origin in full canonicats? And on Good was at once more curious and Friday. more sinister than that. There were some rumours, it is true.

And who was the girl anyway? They came to the ears of Mra She was never produced, She never come forward. Where did

Wakeford's

alco brother,

a

cleric, the Rev. Herbert Worth the Archdeacon pick her up? ington. He paid a visit to the

But there remained the evi- Whatever Ball, then went off to consult

dence against him, fellow-cleric, the Rev. C. T. the motives of the two clergy- Moore. On his advice he went men who had leveiled the to the Bishop.

charge. against the Archdeacon, only wholesale bribery could A curious action for B

have produced such a wealth of brother-in-law? Carson clearly evidence, highly circumstantial, thought so. With a wealth of fully corroborated all poluting sarcasm he questioned Worth

ington. "You were only an on- dinary Christion,

clergyman??"

friendly

the same way.

gulit

So the Archdeacon's was found. So his career was dashed, After seven days, public interest

"I would not put it as high during which

as that," came the revealing grew to feverish heights, the answer to the accompaniment of Privy Council delivered fitters from the public.

judgment: ruin.

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