1958-06-14 — Page 14

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS;

GOOD MANNERS-JUNGLE STYLE: It's bad form for a young man to give his Abort- box of sweetheart gine Handlterchiefs,

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A Governanical report Malaya'a litle Jungle folk says: are for- "Aburigine inaider: bidden to take presents from of all their intended cast handkerchlets. The superslitu- ion is that handkerchiefs are to wipe away fears a sure eign their love will founder."

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, ‘JUNE 14, 1958.

EDWARD_ALLCARD tells of volcanoes, broadfruit, and a palm-fringed place called Portsmouth

he found them all on the latest stage of his round-the-world cruise in the ketch Sea Wanderer.

CARNIVAL time was in full swing at Fort de

France, Martinique, when my 10-ton ketch Sea Wanderer lay anchored.

were

The evening was calm, stars charm is in the children. Indeed, reflected in the glassy rearing children appears to be water, and the temperature La the main industry, next to fish- my call singed at 00 degrees.

ing. Many of them are blonde From the shore came the and all of them polllc.

anatches strains of two bands, of mughter from the crowds, and a blurred volume of Frenchi from a loudspeaker. The French wero enjoying themselves us caly the French can, and the night was young.

sat alone in my cockpit, content for the moment to revel in the peace of the still water after my rough crossing in

Adds the report: "There is no harm in giving an Aborigine Hiri a dozen hankies so long as trude wind from the island the la not your sweetheart."

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TALL ORDER: A British tailor toured the United States with forty different shades of flannel trousers, reported heat sule from Florida.

There our client ordered one pair of treasers in each of the forty thades at forty dollars a pair.

of Dominica.

My volcano

This marked the end of the first up of a cruise down the West Indian lalands,

Walking down the main street - cement walkway, for there are 110 bars here-i in tiself a faseinailng postline, A "bon four" to a man newing a sail in his front garden and you pass on to where two men are bullė- Ing n bont. In the next door- way is a woman of vast-nge making a huge sordine net a

our of weeks.

The fishing boats-fast, Flim white to madels, spotiersly nutch their salts are pulled up beach and on every avaliable

in the are easily the nurtest West Indies.

The fishermen look very ple The cruise of exploration hard furesque in their wide brimmed included seeing my Hirst active carrying a small dragon with been packed with interest and hats turned up at the sides.

1 next met a group of boys volcano. sampling strange tro- its feet led together. At least pleat fruits, and visiting a group that is what the animal looked of Islands which might have like. it turned out to be na been a part of Brittany-ig had not been for the palm trees, ruano, ft. from nose to tall, Farmer How Tans, 5B, ut Kun-Frenchi island of Guadeloupe. La

The active volenno is on the and they intended to cut it. tu, Nurth Malaya, worshipped an 18-foot python as a gud. But Soufrierg, us it is called, rises when the shake ate his chickens up nearly 5,000ft, and ends in characteristic Bat-topped he had i eaught and served up the

summit usually enveloped in for diemer.

clouds.

TWILIGHT OF THE GOD:

SCHOOL'S OUT! A 14-year- old boy confessed that because he disliked lessons he plied straw under de school, poured paraffin over It and set it alight,

Three bulidings troyed. Damage: £10,000,

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LEFT

LUGGAGE: Railway police found a sullease contain

of dynamite in a ug 103 15. train

Can!nzaro (Sicily). Passengers salt it was left by a mrun who disappeared before the police entered their compart

ment.

Struggle

Its fate

I felt like buying it and set- ting it free, but then this would only have postponed its fate, They are ant dimcult to catch.

I would have been happy to I was lucky to see the crater free nf clouds for minutes on spend more than a couple of eri, umply lung enough for me days in the Saintes, but other two slender but Islnds to the south were calling. to distinguish

Shortly after dawn. Sea defalte plumes of smoke writi

Wanderer was neudkling towards ing slowly Into the air.

it in some awe, the distant, blue DURKS of I gazed at were des-

for an increase in Dominica bound

Ports Elf experting

no less. But I cannot activity. I wonder if the people mouth, who spend their entire lives Imagine anything less like our under its shadow ever give it own Portsmouth.

thought.

As I swept route the high bluff leading to the anchorage 1 found that the West Indian Portsmouth was set in a three- mile-long palm-fringed bay, Green banana plantations and coconut groves stretched up a wide valley behind the town, A struggle 10 windward on o fresh water river Bowed from this valley into the sea at brought me under the lee of a group of small islands called the the south end of the buildings. Saintes. These consider the Portsmouth boasts u steel "Happy 1stes" of the West band, and a good one

is one that has Indies. They are French-owned, A steel band look like the islands off the the instruments made out of oll Brittany coast and are peopled drums, exhaust pipes, and the by a mastly white population like. But belleve me, these who are the descendants of the instruments are played with skili Bretons who originally settled and harmony. The West Indian there.

loves musle my With bananos their each, and

GOOD CHEER-TO MUSIC: On sale here: a decanter that plays For he's a jolly good Jellow" as it pours.

NO PIPE DREAM: Singapore Murine police suddenly bralce off their pursuit of an oplum Ernugglers' boat In the Straits of

Johore.

Their launch had been struck by lightalaz.

Clearing the south end of the isiand I met the full force of the trade wind eddying round the volcano, Sea Wanderer began to pitch and crash.

These Island: expectations.

Part

execeded

of

the real thirst- quencher!

7up

at that.

at farthing

I felt so sorry for

the dragon in

the street

and other

mangoes, pawpaws, soft fruits, 1 brought a good selection at negligible cost.

I thought I should like to try the famous breadfruit, and there were several tall breadfruit trees the Krowing right alongside inalt street. I asked in a store

The Negro near by,

woman called out for her con and told him to ellanb the nearest tree for me.

of an abundance

Nothing does it like Seven-Up

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I ulso obtained

detalled instructions as to how it should be cooked. I was assured that one breadfrult would make more than a complete meal in itself, A whole meal for a few pence!

Was I on to a good thing?

Disappointment

to improve matters, I then fried it. It tasted the same.

DOMINICA:

FATLANTIC NEOCEAN

Fort de Prussen? MARTINIQUE

Where Alicard saita...

•JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Three Suits Get Squeeze

By OSWALD JACOBY

ONE

NE of the characteristics of

the

bridge really great player is his ability to take ad- vantage of everything that goes on at the table.

Alvin Roth of Washington, D.C, who has been on every- one'n top ten ilat for years, ducked the king of spades and West continued with the quçen, East had Lerrible tumo

Anding a discord on that second spade and finally dropped the nine of hearts, Alvin ducked again and. West gave up the spade sult and shifted to the ten of hearts.

The game was duplente and overtricks were Important. Alvin Chought a while and decided that

· East'n trouble at trick two was due to possession of three four- card sults. In that caso

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I must odd, by the way, that I do not Ilke roast chestnuts, So there was nothing for it but to dump the breadfrült over the side and open a tin of tomato minutes, and devastated

Pierre. Only one man escapert, soup Instead.

When I sailed from Dominten is criminal in a dungeon.

ud I had one bonus from the for Martinique, the wind

wind. veered to the south-cast and strong

Two flying fish It was a were lying on deck, just in time piped up to strong. rough ride with seas continually for breakfast. sweeping the deck all through After salling for 27 hours after the night. I did not reach shel- leaving Portsmouth, I entered ter til dawn when I had the the bay leading to Fort de sleeping glant of Mont Pelee France find thankfully anchored rearing beside me.

uff the town.

Revived by a sleep In the afternoon, I went ashore in the evening ready to sample zome real French cooking.

Alus, I have to report that the

Mont Pelce is called dormant whole question of breadfruit has been a great disappointment to but not active. I watched it e. I cooked it most carefully carefully though. It erupts at cooker and 28-year intervals, and the last In my pressure melted butter over it. But it eruption was 28 years ago!

like a mixture of ronsi The worst eruption, in 1902, Hoping killed 28,000 people in two

Evidently breadfruit is not prized delicacy and the general opinion is that Captain Bilgh the transplant- rather overdid ing of the fruit, I call it a full tasted although it is really a vegetable, chestnut and blanket.

Do the

Do

WITH THE WORD Dictator

had an excellent dinner. Breadfruit was NOT on the menu,

IN THE AIR.

we know enough about

to

past that dictators want

hide?

we know all there is to know about Nasser? Are the British Intelligence services and the Foreign Office making a really all-out effort to dig out the skeleton in Nasser's cupboard and the cup- boards of his family and associates?

Hitler wiped out the village of Into his possession. and Doellersheim, where his fathers them carefully hidden.

kept

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was on opportunity for a three sult squeeze to pick up two extra tricks and Alvin decided to play for it,

He won the heart lead in his own hand and led back hi [remaining low space, A heart |was discarded from dummy and East dropped a clamond. West Idd his last heart and Alvin won In dummy, He now came to his Jown hand with, the ace of clubn

and was ready for the kill,

He played the age of spades and discarded a diamond "trơm dummy.

East went into a hopeless- huddle but there was nothing ho

set up two heart tricks right. way and a club or diamond discard would simply postpono the inevitable,

birth as an legiümate child was There is much else of fascinat-uld do. A heart discard would registered.

Interest that by turning it into ing

Jetzinger an artillery .range for the hes dug out concerning the carly German Ariny.

youth of Hitler that would have been highly relevant to people Fact No. 2; In 1913

the framing British polley towards Austrian police had a wars pre-war Hitler Germany.

run out for the arrest of young Adolf Hitler. He Was wanted is a deserter from the Austrton

Army.

Invaluable

TT would have been invaluable

to cur propagandists; I cannot help thinking that four Intelligence men had been looking into Hitler's past in the early thirties they would have

The police caught up with 1 wonder If we are spending Under the Nuremberg anti- him in Munich. The Mes of hits enough on finding out what Jewish laws which Hitler him- case still exist. They include a kind of a finanelul rakeoff the self formuinted and promulgated long, gravelling apology written relatives of this oh-so-incor- with the help, incidentally, of and signed by Hitler himselt ruptible idealist dictator are at least one of Adennúer's most and a report by the Austrian getting on the deals his Govern- intimate and trusted advisers milltary authorities in Salzburg been able to explode it effretive- ment puts through.

today this fact would have dis- where on February 5, 1913, the ly when the time came.

Let us hope we are not mak- qualified Hitler from holding future Fuchrer reported for his Let no one tell me that the offer in the Government or the medical: "Unt for combatant ing the same mistakes of negli- private skeletons and the private urmy.

over Hitler's Egyptian lives of our enemies are no

Austrian officers wrote down, successor. concern of ours and not worth

Too weak. Unable to bear The time to dig up Nasser's the attention of the Intelligence

arms."

skeleton is now--Express Ser vice.

men.

Take Hitler

JUST look what we missed by not making a really all-out drive before the last war to know the skeletons of his past which Hiller was hiding.

The psychological upsets our political warfare prople could

It's grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, it now turns out. was a servant in the house of a Jewish family named Franken- berger in the little Austrian town of Graz.

Anna Schicklgruber gave birth in 1837 to an illegitimato baby.

This was the son of the young Frankenberger, and the Frankenberger family went on aging Anna alimony over many years.

bave caused in Hitler's none- The proof of all this, delzinger too-balanced mind and in those admits, is not absolute, but what

of his supporters, had they had evidence there is goes to confirm

at their disposal the facts about it. Hitler's early youth known to- day, would have been worth many millions of pounds for their effect In undermining

Village razed

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and auxiliary duties,"

Signature

the Benea

this, Hitler put his signa- turo in pencil,

Just think of the sensation it would have enused the B.B.C. could have broadenst this material during the wor and leaflets could have been dropped in Germany which reproduced these documents.

Hitler himself was well aware of the dynamite which was sing around, ready to blast his authority sky-high.

"On March 12, 1938," reports Dr Jetzinger, "when Hitler, now the conqueror of Austria, revisited Linz for the first time

German resistance and shorten- quis illegitimate son of Anna in 30 years, he sald to the ang the war.

1 Schicklgruber and the young newly-appointed Nazi gaulclter, Jewish Frankenberger was Eigruber: "Here in Linz there Just Imagine, for instance, the Alols Schickigruber, who in his must be a military document effect on the Germans had we turn was the father of Adolt concerning

me, I want been able to spring on them two filler. (Schlekigruber, us te tocument found and delivered Secrets of Hitler's past now dud world knows, changed his name to me personally." oul by a painstaking German to Hitler.) historion, Franz Jetzinger.

It may come as shock even today, 13 years after Hiller's detent and suicide,

FACT NO. 1 Hitler almost certainly had a Jewish grand-

father.

that

The following evening Eigrub- er reported: "Mein Fuhrer, ap- parently there were some docu- ments, "but tlicy have been removed,"

Hitler, himself was scared to death that his quarter-Jewtat ancestry would come to light.

Not only did he put his tructed

and attorney, Hans From that moment on, right henchman Frank, on the job of hushing it up to 1945, the Gestapo hunted up (Frank was condemned as for the mlasing Oles. They never a war criminal at Nuremben found them, in spite of all the and hanged), but when he arrests they made.

• "Mister's, Youth," Franz Jelainger occupied Austria in 1930 he took

(Hutchinson, 18.)

FERDINAND

en even more drastle step,

Dr Jetzinger, by a strange chance, had himself got them

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❤+CARD Sensek♦

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East South West Pang 34

Pass Pass

You, South, hold: AA2 06543 +10885 433

What do you do?

A-Bld four spades. This shows the ace and alves your partner a chance to take full con- trol from then on.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner, continues with a bid of five diamonds. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

This Funny World

"Give him some. That'll cure him."

By Mik

"Early bird"

your cargo

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SWISSAIR.