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THE CHINA' MAIE,' WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1958)
A Weekly China Mail Feature
PEOPLE
in the news
HE KNOCKED
RED OFF HIS
SOAPBOX
AND BROKE
HIS JAW
By People Reporter
THE
HE Man on the Soap-
box
was running
down Britain.
Communism, he said, won the
thing. Were there any ques tions?
The Map in the Crowd hadn't any questions, Ho Bad an
He knocked the spalty off his
IN
N mid-September, a
62-year-old British General comes out of re-
Trooper's General To Follow Monty
tirement-to-take-over-D-Day to secure the Normandy Emplox. Tf36 spraker's jaw one of the top military eachheads.
was broken in two places. He posts of the Western couldn't spark. the emuldn't
week for four weeks, The Man in the Crowd walked
away. He felt better inside,"
£10 FINE
He was an ox-Paratrooper,
World.
He tall and bulky Nir Richard Nelson Gate, who suc- ecode Field-Marshal Lord Mont- Roinery in the £5; 110=N=Yor 22-job of Deputy Superem Altid
year-ol Arthur Lovell, of Commandér, Europe. High Short, Wickham Market Suffol
He
Sir Richard Gale refired in Anci # Ipswich he was: 1957 after five years as Com- fined to with £3 costs for mander-in-Chief of the Northern Assaulting the M on the Auny Group. Allied Land Soapbox, Mr Joe Ben, ex-Forces #h Europe, and of Army captain and prospective B.A.O..
bought his Coinraunis! candidate for soldiering days were over and Southwark, London,
was completely surprised te be Cornhill, appointed Monty's successor, Ipswich, Lovell, who pleaded guilty, tell the story stalement to the police. ***I saw a bunch of people listen-
ing
soapbox speaker.
It happened at the
in
I realised It was Communist meeting and the speaker was tolling people what
'FISH OUT OF WATER'
He was also delighted. For Sir Richard out of uniform, was, in the words of his wife. “Hike
a good fish out of water." thing Communism Is. He was running Britain down and to me it is as get o country and tralian any in the world.
GOOD LADS
Horn in 1896 and of
Aus- descent, he hus byen since 1015 when he soldiering went to the Royal Masy Academy, Sandhurst. It is the only profession that he knows.
"I just lost my temper and went over and struck him on the
As Secund Lieutenant in the side of the jaw. Then I walked
Itegiment, he Bway and telt better inside. Worcestershire
L
"I have knows so.ne gond lacts won the Military Cross dering Cap- killed in trouble caused by World War 1. He became
Major In 1938, Communists, and I couldn'ļtain in 1030, stomach what the speaker way L.-Colonel in 1939, and a Brt-
gadiler in 1041. saying." Lovell, now a metal finisher at
Luton car works, served in Germany, Suez and Cyprus, He
is going back to the Para-borne Division, which a year later dropped before dawn ORI troopers soun
ન
By Richard Berry
He won the D.S.O. by walk.
Such is the coolness of this Ing late the mithile of a No- sokler that he actually went o mandy battle to enemurage' his me. Rifte pols whistled all drop on his way to Normandy in a lider. He awoite refreshed around him, but he stood his ground veiling his boys on, He and ready for battle.
wore steel helmets.
In 1945, Sir Richard raised and commanded the 1st Para chute Brigade, being promoted to Major-General the following year. In 1947, he was a It- General; in 1952, a-General.
With his bluff and forthright. manur and a great sense of humour, Sir Richard Gair is a European future, possessing a re- markable lack of establishing the best of international re-
tations.
Alter World War II, Sir YOUNGER THAN MONTY Richard became G.O.C. Dritish Troops, Egypt, and Mediter-
His new oppointment is hard- ranean Command. From 1940 to 1952 he was.
Director-General ly surprising, for no man seems As better suited to the job. Commander the Northern Army Group of N.A.T.O., he became a close friend of the various commandergeet national contingents,
of Military Training at the War Omer.
He became Colonel of his old reghment, the Worcestershires,
1050, and Colonel Com mandant of the Parteltute Re- giment In 1050.
Known to his men as "Windy" Gale. Sir Mehard is a "trooper's General" a man who has a gift for winning affection and res- peel from all ranks,
of
And the manner in which he
reorganised the British Army of the Rhine showed him to be a man whose Ideas have moved with the times an old soldier who has a keen understanding of the needs and make-up of new atomic-age Army.
In Normandy, his men were so afraid that is one leadership night escape oficial recognilioh that they sent a round robin to Sir Richard is 6ft 3in tall. He the War Office, expressing their is eight years younger than Lord admiration for his qualities. A Montgomery and has a small tittle later he was awarded the energetle wife to act as hostess D.S.O.
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Teheran.
One of the main subjects to In May, 1943, he was appoint-
of the B Air.be derided now that the Shan ed commander
bin two has returned mantor of the Far East, the United States and Europe, is the question of his re- marriage" and the future of the
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TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acres: i Vi-go-ur, 7 Ecau,
¡ Pablovi dynasty, of Persia,
A But the choice will be made : only after very thorough medicul examinations have es- tablished the new bride's pity- sical ability to bear children. For much against his personal inclinations, The 38-year-old
No 1
Queen Fawzich, eldest
sistor of King Farouk. Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, in March this year, divorced bla berusian wife, 20-year-old, ex- Queen Sorbya Bakhtiari Erfan- ¿diri, whom he married in a faky-tale imosphere early in --because he was not able to products a zon and, heir to
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at his ometal Paris residence.
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Quech Soraya, Porsian
At the Royal Institute Galleries, Piccadilly, fifteen-year-old Rouban Archer of the Kingston School of Art is seen with his entry in the 11th National Exhibition of Children's Art "The Gardeners" which won him the £300 Art Training Aword. Keystone
Love Letters Girl Slaps The Farmer
By STANLEY BONNETT
weig Bet 19
BACHELOR farmer Tony Phillips- sipped a pint of beer the other night
in his village pub and said: "At last I can look forward to 14 days of prace." Peace for 27-year-old Mr Phillips was guaranteed when Woking. ham magistrates remanded to prison for a medical report a girl who fell "madly in love" with him.
Brunette Angela Bowl, 20, love with her within a given pleaded Kulity to Assaull time she would pester him all ing the udhi.
to
fartmer and his life."
damaging £10-worth of A week ago the girl called at
windows at his home, Wheat- lands Manor, Fincharopstead.
were
married his housekeeper, and she had been "terribly lonely,"
"When I left, convent school she said, I went to France," "My father fold me about Mr Tips in his letters.
No affair
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his home, and when told to go በክ started to smosh the Mr Phillips talked while she windows. was on her way to Holloway.
Eventually Mr Philips tried The sun glinted on his £3,800 to restrain her. Police Mercedes sports car outside the called, but half an hour later him, and we all bad a drinks to-
au he said:
the girl relurred and struck "I beur Angeln no l-will, but him across his face.
In peace there has never been anything
between us."
Ten a day
"Later he introduced me
gether. I was just 17, and fell madly in love with him."
When she found her love was not returned "for months and months I had the idea that my life was not worth living,"
The Rules
Of Love
For
Teacher And Pupil
By People Reporter
TOPHAM, ENNETH
Kayed 27. fell in love
with one of the pupils, 16- year-old Ann Straw, when he took over the sixth form French clnsa.
He asked her shyly If he coul a short call on her at home. She agreed.
She fell in love with him. she
Earlier the girl who was "Mr Phillips does not want
She had twice tried to k! educated at a convent school any compensation," said Mr stond demirely in the dock Drake. "ile just wants to be herself, and had spent
perlou in mental home. wearing a black woollen dress, left in peace."
From London, where It was then that Miss Bowl, worked as a hotel receptionis,
For two years they kept their whose address was given as a and where she often went "ob-secret. For two years they kept Monistry of Supply lastel at bing around the streels," Grazeley Green, near Reading, started to send him letters. called out:
"I wrote to him every weels "Where is Mr Phillips? It is telling him all the time I loved rather necessary for him to him.
here for mic lo defend myself.
Mr E. Maurice Drake told the court: This all began in October 1957, when she started writing leltets to Mr Phillips.
ba
"Long, rambling letters.... three or four times a week.
Mr Phillips walked Into the tiny courtroom, and Mic Bowl She phoned him every day, cried: "There he Is. A strong sometimes fen
times
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and sometimes half
mes in half an hour.
be to three strict rules:
"Once I look a taxi to 1:1 house but, ilke overy aller fine, I was turned away.
There must be no talk of love
marriage.
There must be no kissing, not even affectionate hond-holding,
They would never go out to- nogether or be luft nione.
Mr Drake said there wLS truth in suggestions that there
day, man, yet I am accused of had been an association between Then Ann left school, Thorne
dozen assaulting him.
Miss Bow! said her parents
the girl and his client
Grammar School near Dancaster, Any Idea of an affair "exists | Mr Topham proposed. "In me lotter this giti were divorced about six years solely in the latugination of this
And Ann, now 20 und wrote that unless he fell la ngo, Her father hnd since unhappy girl."
teacher herself, will
merry
Mr Cobbold's
Shorts
Upset His Neighbours
By People Reporter
EAN grey-haked
Cobbold often wears
Tom only
shorts when he repairs care in
his backyard, The other day, neighbours complained.
Said Mr-Kenneth Clements:
The Fortune
Of Odd-Job
Albert
By People Reporter
FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Albert Bacon thought
he was worth a fortune after he checked his. pools coupon and found he had a winning line on
"He does not even put on a shirt Littlewood's treble chance. He celebrated.
when he comes to the front door
Mrs
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her former teacher at St. Nicho- las Church, Thome.
Discreet
Her widowed mother, 44-year- old Mrs Daisy Straw, mald t her home in Lime Tree Grove: "They were very much in love, and but Ken made the rules they kept to them
"They realised they had to be very discreet and that if it were known at school it might have caused a lot of ally talk which would probably have affected Ken's career and my daughter's schooling."
Sald Mr Topham, of St Nicholas Road, Thorne: "It was love at first sight, but we decided never to talk of love or whils openly show our love Ann was still at school. Then,
Λ Bubbling with exeltement he fathor, "Corman mother.
neighbour, to greet customers. He often goes
Lydia right out into the road with only told friends and neighbours in Dowlen, aged 82, mald: when she went to. Hereford The divorce decision was taken a pair of shorts
Hove, Sussex: "I've got a pool Bacon was not in good health after years of consideration and; "My wife, who is home all up."
I think the excitement was too
following medicat consultations day, finds it objectionable to see But Albert Bacon, chaln- much for him." and check-ups in Europe and him so scantily dressed."
smoking odd-job man, never the United States, ont on the At a Ministry of Housing in Ilved to collect his winnings. advice of the Persian elderly: quiry there were
objections to Dr to discover that his success slatesmen. All medical examina-18-year-cla Mr Cobbold's appeal would still have left him a poor tions Indicated that Queen against Dartford, Kent council's man.
With the title of "Princess"
in Marcel Rend, Dartladi.
Soraya would never boar a child.: refusal to allow him to continue He was found dead in his and a pension of £1,800 sterling his che-man car repair business room in Tisbury Road, where he per month approved by thổ; Shah, ex-Queen Soraya is now; staying with her German mother and her father, Khalil Esfandiari Bakhtiari, in Germany,
Who For No 3
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lived alone with his cnt, Tibby.
Then Littlewood's ስያ - nounced the dividend for his 22-point line £5 49.
Police called
To the complaints about bla shoria Mr Cobbold ronlled: "Clements end, Alkinson (stolher
·David neldļbdur) wear shirts in their Twenty-one-year-oldi gardents.
who lives with its
Lloyd,
Record Baby
Melbourne.
A baby, which weighed 18 lb. ozs. when born at Royal Wo men's Hospital, is belleved to be the biggest ever born in Aus- trulla.
The child is Carmen Stagno: whose mother come from Malta five years ago.
"It comes to beauty con-mother in the fat above, sald; lest,, 1 am sure I have a better"I saw Mr Bacon late on Satur- looking body than either of day night. He was very excited thon."
and said, 'I'm worth a fortune There were also objections I've won the pools. that Mr Cobbeldi made foo much "Nobody sew him ki! day polie besting out panel, and that Sunday G on Merday We children, two of whom wolghed smell in his point entry was found his door will loétced." The 12 lb 11 ors and 12 lb 0 özs, al
police were coin.
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Mrs Stagno has three other
birth-People Special
College to train to be a teacher, we decided to wait another two
yeurs before marrying"
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Aan, who now leaches at local inqnis' school, Bald; "Mather wanted to make sure it was not just a schoolgiri crush on a master."
ANN BERAW
"Mollur wanted to make sure"
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