1959-02-20 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20,· · 1959. ·

BUS CONDUCTOR

MADE

HIS OWN TICKETS

London, Fob. 19.

For 13 wooks bus conductor Gregory Williams, behind with hire-purchase payments, boosted his £9-a-wook pay to £26 by issuing his own tickets.

مگیر

A stray ticket found on the floor of a bus gave the One morning when he lenew first clue about what was happening. Detec- the bus Inspectors were at breakfast, Wiliams strepped on tives were put on Williams's trail, but for his secret machine for the last weeks he outwitted them. Be was hally caught by a bu kesyector who mised his

breakfast to trap him.

In The Canteen

William.. 32-your-uld Birborne toner, Wht guofed" for six monthe 41 Swam va tor em- bezzling 223 from the Wales Typort Company

South

and

"Tor the

His secret? He found a ticket nchipe in the Gniver and stele 11.

The company did not find out for in weeks and then they did not know where it had gone.

Then on inspector found a used ticket on the floor of a bus

wit.. the mumber 5.217 stamped on it. It was the serial nuanter

of the stolen, nechine.

But Conductor Williams was uning his official machine at the time. So the inspector szid nothing and called in detectives. Not Once

works For

the detectives. travelled ar passengers on Wil- lang's bused. Not onto did he the slelen issue lickel from machten while they were there. Tot other detectives secretly ruinmaged through the used. Brket boxes on the buses after each chil!! They found several with the number S.217.

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A British Crossword Puzzle

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13

15

time>

For Inspector Harold Morgan, 51. tall and very sharp, went without breakfast, Jumped on Williams's bus, and caught him in the act.Express Service.

Why

De Gaulle

Sacked

Simone

From ERIC KENNEDY

Paris, Feb. 19.

THREE

with

of President de Gaulle's closest ad- visers, womun and two colonels who worked him during the Free French days, have been-sacked- because they are divorced.

Several of the 140 sorvants

the 80-roomed Elysee Palace

They

are also under notice. te have been divorced.

Echind the sackings, I was told, is de Gaulle's 80-year-old

QUEEN MOTHER Karen

-GREETED

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is enter. tained by Arab sword dancers during her visit to the old dhow harbour at Mombasa during her tour in Kenya. Leading Arabs from all over Kenya's Coast Province were presented to the Queen Mother. --Reuterpboto.

Cardinal-Says 'Cut Mixed Marriages'

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London, Feb. 19.

►OMAN-CATHOLICS are being asked to work and pray for a decline in the number of those between a Roman "mixed" marriages Catholic and a non-Catholic.

The appeal is made by Cardinal Godfrey,

Page I'

Sun Talks

About Her Hobbies

somewhat ung and am recordings, she unakert

Five Pupils

XHILE We sat in her room preachin a fitting and amount of proparation to do for

with splashes fully furnished flat, Miss plants, exquisite furniture and,

of green potted throughout the year.

Karen Sun poured ten and a-red fled floor. discussed

teaches her hobbies of

On top of this she While interior decoration ap- | singing and at present has fivo painting, sculpturing and

peats to bo £ very natural paplin. Euch of these students interior decorating.

talent with Mim Sun, her receives two half Hur kasona painting and sculpturing have per week, Har dining room which is e reconverted garden terrace had been preened to a fino point under the supervision of the presented a due to its somewhat triangular Lula in Aberdeen,

serious problem well-known painter Mr Chan

shape,

"Look behind you," she said; Indicating the for wall, "and you'll see what I. mego,”

Grace, Colour

I turned to observe 2. long brick wall set at an angle which, let on its own, would I have been a serious drawback to the design of the room,

MISS KAREN SUN A

a niral

Instead, however, Miss Sun had made it into a vital part of the decor by using it as upon which she painted a de- lightful marino scene showing both grace and colour.

Enhanced as it is by a row of

wife Yvonne-"Aunt Yvonne Archbishop of Westminster, in his Pastoral Letter large light-giving windows, the

tu 17 nephews and nieces,

Mme. de Gaulle has ordered a "au diverce" rule for the stall und the guests at the presiden- tial palace and when Rene the guests Coty was President 11iled 4,000 a year.

Loyally

The sacked woman is Madame Simone Servals. When de Gaulle went into retirement in 1945 she became secretary to Paul-Henri Spook on his appointment es Nato secretary-genierol.

But the left this well-paki, tax-free job when de, Gaulle swept to power last year and asked her to work for him nguin. De Gaulle became Prime Minister. Simone Servis be- came his secretary at the Hotel Matignon.

De Gaulle became President and, movet ta the Elysee. Simone Servals went as well- as personal secretary,

One of the two colonels left an important post with Shape to rejoin the general he served In bomb-blasted Brilain ond on the Normandy beaches. уже became military aide,

The other colonel had retired

from the army and gone into

business. He

Gaulle's staff.

rejoined

Silently

de

'Aunt",

Throughout the "whe Yvonne stayed silently in the membackground For 14-year's

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3 Smiled affectedly (U).

7 Rascal (5).

8 Tells (B),

-10 Infrequently (0),

13. Gulded (7).

Ancestor (4).

17 Snuggled (7).

15

10 Protects (7).

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20 Part of the oye (4).

21 Grave (7).

20 Considered statement (0).

27 Medium (0)

28 Armada (B). ·

20 Pieces of furniture (8).

DOWN

Ignorant (5).

2 Spry (5).

9 Spaniard (3).

4 Wine (4).

Sell (8).

6 Scurried (6).

Reparation (0),

11 Atmosphere (5).

12. Volleys (5).

14 Wilderness (0),

15 Denude (B).

10 Repeat (8).

18. Dulled (6).

22 Chains of rock (5).

15 Violin (6).

23 Percolated (8).

24 Express (5). 25 Limbs (4).

THURSDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrosa: 1 Thrash,'B'Curse, 8 Talon, 9 Miastor, 10 Vital, 11 Frles, 12 Book, 18 Roses, 10 Berent, 18 Scored, 20 Sleel, 23 Damp, 23 Rapid, 25 Mimic, 26 Savage, 47 Bawor, 20 Steel, 29 Severa. Down; 1 Timorous, 2 Response, 3 Stop, 4 Harrier, & Covered, & Unison, 7 Spate, 14 Separate, 16 Suppress, 18 Solaced, 17 Revises, 19 Cerise, 21 Twist, 24. Dare.

I during her husband's post-war Leclipse she made sure that he was never tethered While he walled for the second call to power which she believed would

come.

Now she has set the Paris socialites and politicians totting up the score of who will and who won't be welcome at the palace. They have a period of for thero will be no grace

receptions at the Elysee during

Lent:

After that she will prepare the lists of guests and the menus for presidential dinners and lunches-and divorcees will be barred. Express Service.

ROAD BRIDGE COLLAPSES: THREE DEAD

for Lent.

1

Devoted entirely to marriage "It is for this reason that the DULLES FEELS

Church expresses SQ clearly and designed to "correct mis-

of these taken ideas about it," it was strong disapproval

marriages." rend from the pulplis of all Roman Catholic churches in hia Cardinal diocese.

Codfrey's pro- nouncement thought to $17~ dicate a hardening of the alt- On "mixed" marrloges Car-tude of the Roman Catholic dinal Godfrey says: "It is well Church towards mixed marri- kuown that voine turn out well | nges. because of the goodness and loyalty of husbadd and wiực ani of favourable circumstances.

"Experience chows, however, that when persons of different faiths become mon and wife, their falth, their chlidren's faith, and domestle harmony are Imperilled. -

"FINE"

Washington, Feb. 19.

Mr John Foster Dulles today was reported to be feeling "fine" before he begins to receive ext ternal radiation treatment to- morrow for his abdominal cancer-

It follows the decision two recurrence. months ago by Dr Heenan, Archbishop of Liverpool, that The Secretary of Stale, who In his diocese Roman Catholics Is in Walter Reed Army Hospi- intending to marry non-Calho- | tal, conferred for about 15 ilca would have to give at least minutes this morning with one three months' notice before the of his special assistants on a marriage could be sanctioned number of International develop- London Express Service,

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LAST NIGHT'S FIRST NIGHT

Never Were The Stage Club

Nearer Greatness

OROBABLY the best, PROB

and certainly the most important produc- tion to appear on the Hongkong stage this! season is "Crime Pas- sionnel," written by Existentialist Jean-Paul

says

JOHN LUFF

lillag, bleat, "you can't make Sartre, and produced by an omelette without breaking Mr R. Oblitas for the Hongkong Stage Club at

"

"Crime

110011WHICH Toronzinge himacit, Hugo becomes tough"," “Sur”in “ke" duing betrays"aikška={ ideals he has taken to the party. Never puting foot wrong in the role of Hoederer is Ronald A wonderful role of Strahan,

pany lender who must die, Not for a fault, but for a sub- jective idealist deviation.

A minor aside which throws spotlight on types in the the two killer party is found

A

roles of George and Slick laken over with a near Chicago man- Passionnel" showsner and accent, by Jan Mac-

crushing umlerfoot all who

the Loke Yew Hall. you can't join the Party without Callum and Fellx Carrady,

orc

14

The outstanding performance among the many good per- formances is given by June Elliot. As Interpreted the role, the much more than her bourgeois husband, Hugo, understands the dogma of the party.

the

of

Crime Passionnel is quite not in line. different from the usual run of Decency, human dignity, play. Written more like fim'doing the right thing' are' oll script than three údy acts, It bourgeolo sentiments, has the continulty of a film, Now to get this over in a yol ranges whero tow Bum manner which holds an audience dare, in that it presents an beyond the length of the usual atmosphere, a

statement upon pluy; to sustain interest; ta nord humanity, and begs the ques- people out into the street in a tion

of mind, is as to the meaning of exis- thoughtful frame

Hanging through all tence.

surely a remarkable achievement entollons from cynical sentiment For the purpose

of the for an amateur society,

to utter contempt, sha interprets This the Hongkong Stage Club better than any other perform drame, we are eat down In

party

about. the achieve, Mr Oblitas has somewhat the war-time Europo, whe battle between rival ideologies how got his actors right into Frightening in a way, with a the mood of the play. It is word or a gesture, she reduces was second only in importance good, very good indeed.

Values the lightly held First to takez, the singe

western society to dust. Valerie Fry, and uport her de Supporting roles, all played pends entirely whether tha well are taken by Eric Meredith audience understands what. It is as Prince Paul, Gerald Strick- about. Az Olga, party member, and as Karaky, Michel Mero-

idealist, and persuaded

she dith as Ivan, Charles and Loula

and on the party line of by Adrian Rowe-Evans takea suppressing all bourgeois sent!- Gerald Moore.

The sets by G. H. Hollman Yet in pleading for a second seemed to reveal to me that chance for a faultering comrade, drabness and futility of life, she betrays herself pod the party that kind of optimistic possim to the ethics which have hitherto iam existentialism assumes to,

gulded man.

interpret. Yet, and I think this I considered it a splendid was intentional, an arctle blue performance, a glowing inter patch of sky, the cold unpur- pretation, exact and convincing, poseful hope of the party.

Barton, Lancashire, Feb. 19. Three workmen were killed today when four girders

to defeating Nazi Germany, weighing 100 tons col-

So Important do I consider lapsed during the building this production that bind I tas of a £3 million road power I would compel every bridge here.

mature person' in the Colony to Four Injured men were taken geo it.

**In brief, it shows the compul- to hospital

Ambulances, rescue teams and sion that follows those who join the Communist Parky, and in- firemen rushed to the seene.

The girders, resting on tem-cidentally proves that many join it for the loaves orid Babes porary trestles of tubular steel,

which become, by the way, crashed be icef 10 the grid cavier and champagne if they Seven mon were working on

are lucky enough. them at the time.

*

ment.

The new high-level Barton Bridge is botworn Eccies and The play, in its origin, I should Stretford and forms part of a fumigine, bud those silly little by-pass being built over the | firts of St Germain des Fres in Hurd, the bourgeois idealist. Never have the Hongkong Manchester Bhip

Can mind. Those allly fills people is taken over by Ray Txy. A Stage Club bem nienzos great- who are kiter à mass political long mustalised, prig of changing ness than in “Crime Pasalonnal.”

Rejser.

Miss Sun,

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studying under him twice

who has been

week for the past two years, lus many works which show her accomplishments in oila und water colours.

[

Active Life

"I have always led an active fe," she says with her winning. smik and sparkling eyes, 30 I'm hopplest when I've got all these things to do."

ever

A keen sportswoman since she can remember, Miss Sun was, at the age of 15, the Chinese women's Pentathlon Champion.

It is interesting to note that at the time she won this award, she set new records for three of the five events: the discus, javelin and shot put.

Today, she plays an excellent game of tennis end badmintén and is a member of the South China Athletle Club.

"I'm very careful who I tako as a pupil, says Miss Sun "as

feel that singing is something

that should be taken up serious- ly and with the intention of going into it professionally, Too

PEOPLE 1 MEET

by JOANNE

BLAIR

biany people tend to regard it as a hobby," "

"Yos," he added, "I'm very

Even though her professional lite means a great deal of hard work, Miss Sun, like most suc- cessful artists, ands it both re- strict about it." warding and satisfying. Aside Miss Sun will give a recital from the one hour per day that this Sunday at 9 p.m. al Loko

University Holl, she practises regardless of sing-Yew

programme

of

Ing commitments and the 3 hours Hungkong. Her of daily practice prior to a con- will consist 6. European A tremendous classics and Chinese folk songs. cert she

has

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