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JAK AT A HORROR FILM

HAEXT WEEKS START

CIRCLE

COMING

NIGHT FRIGHTS

SIR LARK

THIS WEEK?

DRACULA'S

MOTHER-IN-LAW

ORRIFYING.

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JAK

"No more horror films for you- this is the third timo 'you've passed out when Dracula has give that scream."

London Rapides Bervice.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1958.

The new order:

Nicosia.

THE British Army in Cyprus has just been given

THE

its strangest command ever to walk out

of barracks with its tongue in its cheek.

This order comes from the le to build up good will, to look

top man, Major-General Ken- forward and not back."

Journey

THE

Part

Of No Return

HE fog is so thick that from my writing room at the top of our house in St John's Wood the gaunt leafless branches of the giant pear tree in the garden seem to be reaching out like an amorous skeleton. Yet I am glad that all is dank and grey and barren because in a few days we shall say good-bye to it all for ever and for ever.

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LONDON LETTER:

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

In short wo have sold the house which has been our 'home for a quarter of a century and soon wo shall have moved into a flat in the explanation. The domestic to the morning room for coffee, pleasant region of Holland Park just beyond Kensington,

With the supreme sense of login which women pozCAY MY wife informed mo that a fiat on one floor. not as large as a house with three floors and a basement. Did I agree? Yes, I agreed. Therefore, said my wife, we must got rid of a lot of things. But what?

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To the normal unimaginative portrait of Disraeli which I male this transference of the bought from my constituency Baxter family and the Baxter headquarters because it was on furniture would involve nothing the wall when 1 defeated Dun- more than a mero van or lorry can Sandys for the Parlament making half a dozen trips and ary nomination of Southgate all is Bettiod. But actually exactly 25 years ago. there has been nothing O On that occasion a hostile member of the Asociation planned and complicated since the landing of the British troope asked me if it were true that in Normandy.

despito my name I was a Jew, Somewhat startled I saw the portrait of the great Dixxy Just above the man's head..... all of which gave me an Idea. "Do you mean," I asked, that like the great Tory Leader Benjamin Diruel! I am a Jew?

But in the moment of crisis I would be proud to be a Jew but you must accept or reject expert on everything to do with the Ambassador's valet at the me as a mere Gentile like the painting, altering, and hanging Spanish Embassy telephoned to

It is good-bye to the garden wall which separates us from rest of you." It was probably in a flat, stort out every morn, nok if we would like to have a that incident which won the ing and retum exhausted but young Spanish couple who had our next door neighbour and

Duncan jubilant in the evening.

just emigrated to England. So

which still nomination

shows where tho "Don't you think this will look up camc

pretty young part of the wall that collapsed Sandy because it was only by a majority of four votes that I was lovely in the bathroom?" they brunette and her swarthy good from the concussion of a nearby

Their names

bomb in the Blitz; adopted in a gathering of the almost shout as they unroll a looking husband.

.wallpaper that looks like are Luis and Margaretta and full Association.

firmament of green grass and they speak almost no English shining stars. To me it seemed, whatsoever. fitting for the boudoir of La Pompadour.

servant situation ta dificult is ho Bays: **TOSCAT" Once i theso democratic times when asked him to put on the gramo- even In England a man is as phone record of the opening of the bargain was struck. Good-good as his master if not better the last Act of Puccini's master

and a female servant is worth piece and Luis obviously bye dear Bechstein, and thanks

her weight in jewels,

decided that this was part of for the countless hours that we

the family rifus). So it is n casO communed together. A four-

About a year ago we ex• of coffed and Torca with no legged aristocrat has left John's Wood for a palatial Perienced a difficult problem prospect of a change,

when the last of our domestics country house built in the days retired on a pension and becamo

So, now M to до moro when England ruled the waves only a part time assistant, Tho au revoir to the house where and pretty well everything else. women readers will understand we lived for a quarter of In our new flat we shall have a that a big house on four floors, a century, but adiou. No longer plano with all the worthy but built in the reign of Good will wo sit in the garden on a modest qualities of the British Queen Victoria le not an easy summer's day and hear the dis- character today.

proposition for a long housewife, in fact it is impossible.

"Well, for one thing, she said, we cannot have that Clipper picture. In the flat, At any rate I always hated it becaure looks like an ad vertisement for some brand of cigarette." Vainly 1 recalled how, many years ago, when wallding down the Strand in a grisly, misty morning I saw this painting in an art dealer's shop. There was the ship with all its colla straining in the wind on a journey that would never end. Look at those waves breaking into foam as the bow of the great clipper hurled her way forward! Look at the majestie loneliness of the seat

"I'm sorry, darling." That was the death sentence, Aa far as the Baxter household was concerned the endless voyage had come to an end.

However, there was nelther grief nor argument when sho pointed the finger of scors at a painting of the Epsom Downs, "Give it to your bookmaker," she said. On the other hand sho that I could keep the Dyreed

From MARK WILSON

be friends

hus friends and Fome unrest, which

murdered

and it'll take them time to get over it. always been malleable,

neth Darling, who is racing from That is what the General is reached the General, camp to pmp every day giving telling the Army here, and such Twenty thousand soldiers But the British soldier has his soldiers Monty-style pep is the British soldier that the, have got to be shipped out of talks on the barrack square.

great bulk of the 25,000 troops this island within a year. By have jul shrugged their May a great many of them will

Good will

his

Smacking the air with stick he tells them: "I want you ·

shoulders at the last four years be on their way.

of what the new situation offers

against

**

.

"All right, darling," said my "You can have Disraeli." wifo which proves that even women are not without sentiment.

But then there emerged a What about the major crisis. Bechstein Concert Grand in the drawing room which has been my escape from reality through the long, long years! Not only would it be too big for the fat but the plans could not get into St. Yet by a lucky chance wo solved this problem two days later when we went to spend a weekend at a country house which is almost as large as the Toronto Armouries.

discovered

In fact the whole affair has resulled in a meritol separation but no divorce, My wife, in the role of commandér in-chief, and a friend of hers who is an

happy."

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You will remember that Byron wrote a poem in which a hand-

tant exultant shout from Lords cricket ground when England scores another run, Nover #geln will we watch the giant pear tree burst into blossom Da if it were celebrating the marri age of a Juliet.

"Now darling," says my

some young man and a beauti- It is good-bye to the housO Life,

ful young woman were wrecked opposite where, during the war, "we shot show you

on à desert island. Their only I used to play three-handed your den where you write and keep your books, language was. Love and, as a bridge with a little Scottish And we'll hang Disraeli on result, they were deliriously doctor and Alexander Fleming that wall so you will be happy. Then, if I remember who gave Penicillin to a sur-

correctly, they learned some fering world. words and the happiness was no longer perfect.

No longer in my daily walk up When Luls drives me to the the terrace will I pauso at the Houso of Cominons in our

Church at the corner just north modest car he leaps out, opens of our house and look at the Was it too late for one last the door, and nearly sweeps the fading engraved names on a plea for the Clipper picture? It ground with his semi-cadet Stone memorial of the young

Farewell sweet sailing cap. "Call for me

men of the was.

here, ten

parish who ERVO ship on your endless, timeless o'clock tonight," I say. "Here,

their lives in two wars. The

There wE

rain, and the wind have almost You're going to do Ten o'clock * tonight,* an journey.

obliterated the names as if there. Grand plans, a little bit of travelling now on "Thatsalright," coys Luis all English Baby

I hope that you will in one word. pleasant of tone and graceful in dry land.

Fortunately my were no place for memory or secretary works during the day grief, design, but all too small for the come safely to harbour.

1 am glad that the giant pear vast room in which it was placed. "Look at the lovely view at our house and answers tho Why not do a swop? And so from your window," said my telephone, but our friends who free is gaunt and lonfices. In wife. And there, on the opposite call up in the evening when wo fact the tree is not unilico a side of the road before my eyes, are out have strange experiences. Ehostly gibbet waiting for the was a tiny garden leading into According to their description execution squad. And I am glad.

that the sky is grey and min- less.

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

WEST'S double had nothing to commend it. South had opened with a forcing two bld and even with bunched trumpa West could not hope for a sub- stantial penalty.

the sult. South was. in with

East won the opening club "I am telling them all exactly lead with the ace and returned what stage we'd reached in the the queen and promptly laid fight against EOKA when the down the ace of trumps. When emergency ended and. I may East followed South was ready that's the past and we got a to operate. new job to do.

Waz

and set out to make the most A lot of these, troops have their money in inverted all

West's double quite obviously to get out of camp and meet They have done it all before, inx-free crx, certain that they

"We've got to maintain the

based on great trump the Greek Cypriot people. And in Germany and Italy and the would be here for the necessary

South decided to play when you do you've got to ex Far East. Commonly it is one year before shipping them calm though I don't want my length.

troops on duty in the streets him for all four remaining pect to be taunted by some of called "soldiering on. Nobody home.

Now, does it better than the British them saying EOKA beat you.

somehow, they have again. That's the job of the trumpa. soldier, "Well, you know better than

got to find that tax money of police.

"And we've got to wipe out He cashed the king, of cluba The that, but you keep your tongue

£100 and more to get the car In your cheek,

of the past and and ace-king of spades. into England, because there is the ill-will, Army

practically no demand in build up good will. Cyprus for used cars,

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But the changed situation has. Your job now brought troubles to the

A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Term.

ACROSS

& Animal track

6 Contest.

28

1. Choose..

2 Corrode.

3 Wind instrument.

4 Estate.

9 Usage.

11 Caper,

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18 Temperate.

12 Agreement.

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20. Woour.

24 Fion of absence.

26 Tinctura.

26 Fragrant QIL

27 Symbol,

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17 Crime.

19 Drug.

21 Bystem of weights,

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"It can be done. There are enough reasonable and respon- elble Greek Cypriots who will see the necessity of it.

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There is trouble, too, for countless Service families who have bought the essential re-

"I am telling the soldiers to friparator here on, hiro pur mix with the Greek Cypriots chase thinking they would lon't like the word Anter have two years to pay. And nisation: It's too American. day now they may have to "I want the Troops to sharo and the rest i of the price at

A song life with the Cypriots, These вто the rell and Tut's wach of COMTES, problems that, Cyprus peace they'll favo to havo their has brought to the soldiers, but tongue in cheek because some even they are not now.

one is bound to say EOKA Thousands of troops were won, which isn't anything like pulled out of Germany with the truth. I tell the soldiers to little noteo ot the time of stop and think of this-at long Suez, and they managed to last we have got tho. two keep their cars and their re- donkeys of the Grecks and frigerators conchow.

Turks running on the same At General Darling's HQ track in Cyprus. Now I have where fewer guns are now to

Just got to see that, they jump be gen. than at Malcarios's the obstacles together."

king of diamonds was overtaken Archbishopric-I talked with But the real problem for by dummy's ace and a second him about how the Ariny were the British troops-tax-free car diametrulled. Now South reacting to the ending of the and the nover-nover fridge led the nine of spades and West emergency,

stay, and General Darling aid,

was in with the queen, Very well Indeed. And I that he would have the mean that,” he said. "I don't problem fully investigated by

this staff officers to sco pretend that there aren't a

what few of my soldiers who feel could be done to help. embittered They saw their -(London Express Serulos);

WEEKEND Friell

ENOSIS

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Bouth Wat North East ❤ Przy 2 N.T. FaES. Pa 3N.T. Pass Double Redbl. Pass Pais

Pars

Opening lead--- 10

Sinco West was down to nothing but trumps he led the six spot. South won with the eight and shot the Jack back. West was in and had to load another trump and South, had the rest of the tricks.

West had mucceeded in mak- ing only one, trump trick with Ave to the queen-tën in back of declarer and South had mado his contruct.

10

CARD SIEKI

The bidding has been:

West

FER 19. FASE FAN

You, South, hold:

459 VEJLE OKRES MASS **What do you do?.

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TODAY'S QUESTION Your "prings jumps to four hearts after your three-diagon BIA: What do you do powt

Answer on idonday.

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"Ia Sir Beverley there?" "OCOLOBITUS/

an enchanted wood. What on the conversation goes like this: amazing place London 13! Imagine in New York looking*** out upon a forest of trees and winding patha,, Imagine even in Toronto.

it

"What about the domestics?" I asked. But this needs a word

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*I beg your pardon?” "OCOLOBITUS," ‹

On such occasions as I lunch at home alone Els serves the meal and then, when I adjourn

The Baxters, plus their minia- ture Spanish arinada, will soon have begun the journey from which there is no return. "Luis pour me a whisky and soda.”

"OCOLOBITUS”

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