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THE CHINA MAIL;

SATURDAY, DECEMBER V,

"THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE GROW OLD AND AT THE SETTING OF

THE SUN WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

Letter From Honolulu

THE flight from Formosa to Tokyo was uneventful in itself but I was intensely curious to see at first hand the nation that was our ally in the Kaiser's war and our onomy in Hitler's war. Night had set in by the time of our arrival and the streets of Tokyo presented a curious spectacle.

The main avenue in the centre of the city looked like Broadway on an off night. It was garish, strident, and strangely unimpressive. In- stead of feeling that we were in one of the world's great capitals I felt that we had somehow landed in the illuminated midway of the Toronto Exhibi- tion.

Yet our hotel was as modern as anything in London, Paris or New York. An excellent dance orchestra was playing the latest Broadway hits, and everything was as spotless and fresh as if the hotel had just been opened.

Truly wiver Are un- But next day in the frank- iden. ness of the noon day sun prodletable creatures. there was little in Tokyo to stir the senses or to charm the eye. It is difficult to explain but wandering about the streets one felt that somehow Tokyo was

Muu- provincial town like cheater masquerading as the capital city of England.

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FROM

SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

command of Possi. Harbour at that time, we should remember with gratitudo and admiration the manner in which the Ameri- can: fighting machine on land, in the air, and at soa Was brought to concerted pitch oven though 1t took a toll of valuable time.

Let me record what Samuol Morrison wrote in his "History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II."

"Madam Bulterfly." It was

rato i decided the wager which also in the skies of Hiroshima makes the climax of the book.

that and Nagasaki

the first

Two days later the British als

"Never in modern history," party bombs were dropped Consul-General threw

was ending for us and among the guesla was he wrote, "was a war begun. although the wor

hod almost Admiral

American with so smashing a victory by Hopwood, Admiral-in-Chief in the Pacific, one side, and never in recorded His headquarters are at Pearl history did the initial victor, pay Harbour and he invited us to so dearly for his calculated visit him there when he would treachery, take us around in the Admiralty

and resistance censed,

Two hours after we had left the Geisha House we were in the air once more for the long

15-hour Bight to Honolulu. Wo were Aving Japan Air Line and our smiling little hostess was delightful, and utterly tireless in her desire to be of service.

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launch.

The bitter war in the Pacific formally ended on the quarter As we molored to Pearl Har deck of the Battleship USS. bour next day my mind went Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sep- back to that Sunday morning, tember 2, 1940. Japan signed

terins the fateful the

which were “un- December 7, in year 1941. France had fallen, conditional' surrender,” America TVILS benevolenth But I could not shake off the neutral but not more and the slege of London had begun. feeling that Japan is a country Then came the news startling. From the Admiral's houso which has lost its illusions, per unbelievable news. The little where we were having a cup of hapa even its dreams. I was brown Jap had attacked and ten with him and his family, we fold by diplomats there that the

devastated the American Pacille heard the bugles from the dis- Emperor, instead of being a god Navy in the dawn of a golden tanco and we watched the mal- low sun beginning its farewell on earth, counts today for very December Sunday. little. Let us admit that the At the very time in Washing to the gold tinted hills. Beauty Institution of royalty has never ton Japanese Emissaries were and tragedy were saying good-

a logical creation, but to

negotiating with the U.S. bye to another day. maintain been

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Sitwell the poet son of a famous family of poots.

So off we drove to a Geisha eats-blishment and were duly admitted

by smiling Geisha girls In huge dressing Gown that revealed nothing more reductive than their china. They Invlled us to sit down on the hardwood floor and served tea in tiny glasses about inches high. Then, let me con- (ether words they took off our fess it, the strip tease started.

und Therefore when we found

gavo us sandals congental married couple from

they brought in three Vancouver we readily assented

len, after

on wrote those llues: cups of more liny their suggestion that we which they gave us hot moist should spend Lie weekend, towels to wipe our faces. which had just begun, at en Kotel in the mountains. So duly we boarded a train equipped and were rattled through countryside that was flat to the Again I had point of tedium,

OUT and

the curious feeling that Itinerary had gone wrong that Wo were still in Lan- cashire.

But on our arrival we began a long motor drive and once more we bowed to the majesty of the mountains. They were Wag nerian in their grandeur and we watched with awe the swift

Chal gurgling streams

down the mountain side.

raced

shoes Then

By this time I was aching in all my joints. That hardwood floor was certainly living up to the its name. Meanwhile Geisha girls, still muffled like Alaskan explorers, were giggling delightfully as if it was all the Kreatest and most daring adventure. Our spirits 1050 when they held a whispered giggling conference. Obvious something was up! Something indeed! Out they ran and in no time returned each of thun bearing a one inch gless of tea. whereipon I addressed my two friends in 。 solemn warning that even on holiday there should be a limit to debauchery When the weekend was over and orgles. So we took off our we returned to Tokyo but telt sandals and put on our shoes. the same sense of dialliusion- Such is the recuperative power ment as on our arrival. Perhaps of the human system that by It was because we had only seen the time we had returned to things on The surface that our hotel and to our wives we caused me to acquiesce to the were almost able to stand up- suggestion by a couple of men right, and our bucks there that we should ceased to ache, or almost. friends Icave our wives at the hotel and ybit Geisha House.

Yot To my

it

and Was Japan surprise The lady whom I Japanese music

Inspired married was all in favour of the the luscious pathos of Puccini's

that

A British Crossword Puzzle

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14

15

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1.The uncertain have them

(3).

4 it wil, it 'shortened,' be

suitable for sheeting (3).

7 Wipe up the favourite,

deart (6),

d Garden pesta (B).

10. They're often dear

correspondenco' (4)...

13 Learned (7).

16 Twist some string (6).

10 Singles (4).

17

Brain-wave possibly (4).

In

10 Concerning a permanent

finish (5),

20 In this is certainly touch-

ing (7).

21 Bernies eagle (4).

23 Tea-time is It? Then pop

Ini (0)

24 Gun dosə? (G).

23 For handling coal or augur

20' Not decellful (0),

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22

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DOWN

Servant in the home (0),

2 How few acc the

aristocracy) (6, 8).

3 Frontier row (4).

Praise for a boring

completed? (4, 4).

6. Ambassador (0).

D Lost case river (6).

Killing flies (8),

12 Establish by law (0),

13 Early alrmen were

so-called (0),

14 Highly considered (8).

had

real

a system of royalty Government. It is easy. enough Back at the hotel in Honolula the people must be willing to to say that America should have we ran асто

Sacheveral to attribute god-like qualities their ruler. Even in Britain with been on guard yet who but a modman could have foreseen its constitutional monarchy the such porndy and such audacity?

"Do you realise," he askondi, reigning Sovereign is regarded Three hundred and fifty-three that it was in an island near and accepted as someone above

were launched in the attack -- said the Admiral as we turned towards the tragic silhouette of US.S. Arizona, nearly sub- merged yet even in death re- fusing to surrender.

all others. It is not logical, it is Japanese carrier-based aircraft hero' that Robert Louis Steven-

not common sense, yet humanity a complete has not yet found

for substituto

constitutional monarchy.

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So Into the skies of night roared our pinue while the Pretty stewardess smilingly do- monstrated how simple it was to abandon the plane in fight in case of necessity. We were not to inflate the water wings until we were in the water and she hoped that we would have pleasant journey. Incidentally, It is in the flight from Tokyo to Honolulu that a calendar day la netually lost. Don't ask me to explain but we left Tokyo on a Thursday, arrived in the even- ing, went to bed and woke up next morning to find that it was Thursday and the same date as as we had left Tokyo. I imagino that it was this phenomenon, or at any rate this idiosyncrasy which was used by Jules Verne

word

Over eleven hundred men went to their death In the Arizona, the fortunate were killed, the othero trapped in 立 floating prison from which there was no c cape. There they lle today in the ship they loved, and at tho appointed hour tho bugle and the sounds the beginning end of each day

They shall not grow old as we grow old, and at the setting of the sun their comrades re- member them.

'If we still find it difficult to understood the astonishing in eplitude of the American secret

to give his climax to "Around service and the equal ineptitude the World in 80 Days". At any of the American admirály In

ROUND

FATHER CHRISTMAS

FOR ment of the Royal Navy serving off

Iceland this Christmas, Banta Claus wit

be calling with gift-laden yellow rubber dinghies. They will be floated from British trawlers to the chips of the Fishery Protection Squadron now guarding trawlers. inside the 12-mile limit imposed by Iceland and un- recognised by Britain. Almost every trawler leaving Hull and Grimsby for Icelandic waters In the weeks before Christmas will take ham- pers, parcels and gifts for the Navy. Crackers, games and long-playing records will also be on board. It conditions are stormy, breeches- buoys may be used to transfer the gifts.

PEOPLE EAT MORE

THE people of Britain ate more between 1993,

the last completo year of rationing, and 1867, according to the Treasury's monthly re- view, Bulletin for Industry fust Issued.The average person's weekly grocery bill rose by 24 per cent from £1. 25. 8d. £1. 180, id. Food prices increased averago by about 17 per cent, there was a "real" increase in food consumption of about six per cent. The people's choice changed as their appetites grew. They ate more butter, canned fruit, meat, cheese and cgga and a good deal loss bread, jam, flour and potatoes,

UNIVERSITY AIRMEN

THE University of Leeds Air Squadron has been presented with a handsome trophy to be awarded annually to the best all-round member of the squadron. The trophy originally Bolonged to the C10 (Auxillary) Squadron, which drow ita recruits from the Bouth Yorkshire area. When the 610 was 'diz- banded the cup presented by Squadron job Lender L. Casson Commanding Offer of the Squadron was put in the safe keeping of Doncaster Corporation, Now, at Squadron- Leader Canson's request the trophy has become the property of the University Squadron, EYE OPERATIONS

often

18 Spotted for facial disguise A METHOD of carrying out operations dory

122 İtoad girl? Might be (4).

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION-Across a Crossing, & Callan,

Down

9 Blacking, 11 Impotent, 12 Doll, 1a Newte, 18 Soak, 19 Even, 28 Seawards, 24 Opulence, 23 Trudge, 20 Mattress. Acrid, 2 Clips, 3 Caatler, 4 atole, Seet, 0 Irises, 7 Gale, 10 Anita, 14 Wonen, 16 Skewers, 10 Re-form, 17. Remult, 20 Pride, 21 Aspen, 22 Bear, 23 Acta,

'Inside the 'nye 'without outting any ayo structures is now being used at Moorfields Hopital, London. Instead of being out, defec- tive tissues ago turned away by an instrument working on the principle of the burning-glass.

GIFT CAR

NEW car hon been presented to a Dorchester,

Dorset, viear by an anonymous donor. The Rev. D. Jenking, Vicer of St. Mary's, answered n knock at the Vicarage door to be told by a......... go-between: "I have brought you this car from someone who wishes to remain anonymous," The car was a shiny black Hillman Minx, Mr.

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"Under the wide and starry

sky

Dig the grave and let me die; Glad did I live and gladly die And lay me down with a witi. This is the verse' you gave

for me:

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Here he lies where he longed

to be; Here is the sailor home from

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of

And the hunter home from

the hill"

The blue waves broke against

and the noon-day. the shore,

a golden radiance upon the foam.

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had; consumption course," said Sitwell.

Strangely, enough the worda did not seem cruel or insenal- tive I was"; "Sitwells why of 'saying that Stevenson bad written his own epitaph in the very presence of death, and, in the process, had enriched the human spirit,

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Jenkins said: "I have no idea who sent the car. It was an absolute surprise. After coaxing along a 1935 Morris 8, this car is really some- thing."

£20,000 GIFT..

THE Scottish Sports Development Fund has received £20,000 from an anonymous donor to help the development of new recreation facilities in the Cairngorm aren. The: money will be spent conditionally on the public sub- scribing a similar amount. Expert advice is being sought on the most useful development of the Cairngorm area for ski-ing including the construction of a chair lift for skiers and climbers.

BANDMASTER'S MARCH

NEW inarch has been composed for the A King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) by the bandmaster Warrant Officer Edwin Smythe, It still has to be approved by the Royal Military School of Music but members of the regiment are reported to be enthusiastic about it. The regiment, which was formed last September by the amalgamation of the old King's Regiment (Liverpool) and the Manches- ter Regiment, At present on ceremonial occa- slons, such as presentation of now colours, the marches of both the old regiments are played.

130,000 RECRUITS

OING to the aid of the General Post Office U to deal with Its huge Christmas malls are more thap 180,000 men and women, mostly students and housewives. An extra transport for parcels, ice-cream and furniture vans" aro being hired. Arrangements have been also made for the, taking over of hundreds of halls and other premiseš na supplementary sorting offices.

TATTOOED, TURKEYS

INDER & scheme of the National Farmers

Union, many poultry keepers in Britala aro using their own brand mark on turkeys tattooed on to the wings of the birds. "Hundreds of farmers have branded their birds. They will be able to recognise them anywhere,” said an omi- cial of the N.EU. Dogs are also being used to, duard the flocks Wired 'enclosures patrolled, night and day,

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WIND SHAKES Cathedral

ÚTRONG Winds oro a grantor danger to York Minster than passing traffic, saya la, roport His pued The cathedral argfllect recently waid that the whole of the edifico

shiring o wits to vibration don trees but selestists from the Department of Mining af Leeds Univerally disagree. Their report'mys it Vis Almost certain that windy weather would produce larger vibrations than those seen 'and ...caused by trafle during the tests,

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