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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959.
CHINA "Flying Fire" Was Man's Little
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First Step
Into Space
Washington, May 9.
One way you look at it, the Wright brothers' first
flight was man's first shaky step toward outer
space.
But the Chinese must take some credit.
They were using missiles or "arrows of flying fire”—as
carly as 1232 A.D.
English
As She
Is Spoke In Italy
Rome,
"Carriage doors with automatic opening.de- vice are to be opened by the locomotive."
AL
This, in the eyes of ord for, Marina line 17/fit Queen's Road
majority of Italians, is Central.
perfect English.
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Hungkong, 14th May, 1969.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
Consignee per
CIE DES MESSAGERİES
- MARITIMES
m.v. "MEINAM”
are hereby notified that their cargo will bo direttarged into the long Kong Kowloon Wharf & Dodown Co. Ltd.'s Godown where it will be of Cunaignees risk and subject to 1 Wharte terms and, condilim storage and where deifvery my be obtamed
at
Damaged packages are to be left In the godown for examination by consignees and the "bompany's Sur- vayor Bleisra. Wood A Browing nu ID on Friday, 15th Slay. 1919.
No CirlWin De aunted
the guts have left the gedown and goods remaining undelivered ofler Use 16th May, 1930, will be subject to rent.
All latina againal the vessel inuad
be presented to the undersigned og
what an example of It is Italy's English Jungunge 42%= perts produce,
sechs
There is an ok saying that French Italian speaks every until it gets down to finding the French for "asparagus." Much the same
for 10 go English.
Most of the English notices and advertising are written by Iating who think they know easily The language and are believed by bosses, who do not know it at all
Some painfully outdated grammar books and dictionaries for which me stopped in the Victorian era may be partly responsible.
Delights
Sample quotes from English notice in Italian trains:
"Make sure that the ex- ternal de doors fitted with lock are closed. The handle In the interior should occupy the position Indicated in the diagram....
"Whosoever daronges and dirties the railway corringes,
tc...."
From the publicity of a lead- ing Rome restaurant:
"Came too here members of the royal houses of aly, Spain, Austria, Germany 'Sweden, Greece and Russin have been to savour the delights of its cook }ing. 11 have left their
In fact, all man's efforts to break or evade the law of gravity, no matter how halting, havè forc- shadowed the era of antel- lites, ballistic missilea and plans for manned voyages into space.
This approach Is taken in a fet-packed little booklel, "Bustles, froin Concept to Countdown," produced by the Alreraft Industries Associa- tion,
In layman's lagguage, the publication concisely traces the history of man's efforts to get himself, and his explosives, off
the ground,
Ship Rockets
Among the milestones;
• In the 1780, Indian Troops tobbed o
fairly ad-
vanced form of rucket at the they British, against whom were matched in the Second Mysore War.
19th Century
• As the began, Britain's Sir Walter Congreve came up with some- in rocket fuels. thing new This enabled the British to pell the Americans with ship- launched rockets in the war of 1812, which En Turn inspired Francie Scott Kry's. line and the rockels* rcd Flare
• An American by the name of William Hale brought stability to the rocket when le rigged it up with nozzle vanes, causing it to spin lite a bullet,
The rocket really began to come of are in 1915, when the navy and a private con- tractor worked out a misella that could be guided, No longer want a mere mailer of "aim, ire and hope.”
Rut the AIA concludes that Be Wright brothers really mode the big step)
They got into the air for a few seconds, and thus touched of study and research in terodynamics and propulsion that were to produce the roaring military and selentlite machines of today,
signatures in its visitors book." "Buzz Bombs"
Consolation
From the instructions ou use of a syringes
"Being every piston exuelly itted to its own cylinder avoid
changed pistons being another."
The
have
translators tenuating circumstances.
OND
a
Eden
Adam and Eve started of course in the Bible, but they've turned up in some pretty odd places since-including films, comic strips, and poems, But none so odd as this-the bathroom of the Chelsea house of documentary Sim maker James Verner.
Mural was painted by emigre Russian artist Ronetantine Erinskl; models were Verner and his wife Ilelea. Hays Verner: "We thought that the bathroom was the dullest room in the house-so we decide to brighten it up with this vision of primal innocence." — Express Photo,
"Maintenance Order Is Gallantry Run Mad"
London.
Men, as every woman knows, have made a lot of mistakes. One of their
worst may have been the appointment of women as judges.
TARGET
R O│W
SAD
D
NW
How many
words of four letters or more can you make from
lettore in the
th
the left making each word the Lattere la esch of the umalt squares may be used onre unty. Each goed, mure contain the large letter in the centre AQUATE. • and there must be at Jenas one nie-letter word jo the Na plurals no foreign words: no proper
E. TODAY'S TARGET: 30 words, good wards, very good; 25 words, excellent. Bolution tomorrow.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Clet left cori craft crotter feet Tell ferret fetor Are Beer feet Bon Boret force ture forret fort Forte free freer fret fore_left loft lofter orie reef refer redest REFLECTOR reft.
(London Express Service).
HILE THOU GIFT
FOR TODAY
Things began to speed up after that day at Kitty Hawk,
During World War I Bie
God gave us not a spirit army experimented
with
fearfulness, but of retilo-controlled pilotless air-of craft known as "The Bug." It power and love and dis-i wasn't used against the enemy, cipline-II Timothy. *x-
There is no cause for fear the wars, tot if we have an all-powerful more research went on. Then, Friend. Do your best and Loward the end of World War then trust God. He has with the V-1 "buxx bomb" infinite power to spare.
A recent edition of a trading Italian - English dictionary
carefully records such English
words
"lansquenet," "byaieno-
"portcullis"
药理
pan
peira" but fails to give any riue to the meaning of radar, (solope, air-conditioned,_ngon. lights or skyscraper.
There is no trace of “jet plane, and a bomber is a tri- motored bombing machine,"
If this is any consolation, the written Haltan of some Amerl- eung is just as bad,
The Allied Military Govern-
or attore the 8th June, 1939, dement during the wor jysued
they may not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
CIE DE MESBAGERIEN
MARITIMES
Hong Kong. 14th May, 1960,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
Consignees per
CIE DES MESRAGERIES
MARITIMEA
m... "SINDTH!!
are hereby notified they their cargo will be discharged into the Hung Keng & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd Godown where it will be at Consimees risk and subject to Ure Wherte terms and conditions of storage and where delivery may be obtained
Demesed packages are to be aft in the godown for examination by consignees and the company's Sur-
vayon. Messrs. Wood & Browne, at
10 .. on Friday,
1039.
No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left tho gedown ani all od remaining Lindellvered after the 18th May, 1939, will ba subject to rent.
All elama, skilnst the vervel mpat bé premated to the undersigned en or before the 10th June, 1959, of they may not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
CIN DES MENDAGERİES
MARITIMES
TRONG. 2000 Sinh Hay, 16.
entity cards for elvinns with
Italian
notice, translated back into would be roughly:
everybody public
Lutherited duly...."PI.
but I worked.
Between
13, the
Germans
came up
and the even more potent V-2 rocket.UI.
BY
Prest-Radio Bible Service, Ine Coinnati, Ohio,
THE WAY
by Beachcomber
JOINT efforts, leading to
Two men a judge and J barrinter-hinted at this line of thought
in
0
cuse
Garnham, a Lon- involving 3. don seed salesman.
Gambar had been ordered
by another court to pay half of his £12
salary
work
in inaintenance to his wife.
The amount of Garnham'a support payment was not at lasue in the second ease,
Nor did anyone way in so many words that it wa woman Judge who ordered him to pay 50 per cent of his earnings to his wife, who has a job and Income of her own.
But it brought the following views from County Court Judge Geoffrey Howard and barrister J. K, Slack:
Judge: "It is a devastating order....I wonder if it is due the growing number magistrales. It gallantry run mad."
women
Crippling
CROSSWORD
20
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Acrous
1. Lepas 'trymonita, (4, 5) 10. Temperate, (4)
11. Water-sold. (4) -
Shakespearian obarctor, (8)
11. Insect attack, (S. 5)
16. Racing CAY. (7)
of
18. Talk, (0)
Is
20. quality of sound. (4)
23. Носемагр.
Barrister: My have rarely ☐ crippling come across such order. But in my experience women are the most sympathetic magistrates."
Judge: "A man must sup. port his wife, but there is no need to murder him.
"What fulure has this man to look forward to? He cannot buy himself a half-pint of beer or a packet of cigarettes without stating himself of food."
Garnham had to satisfy him- elf with the sympathy of his fellow males so far as the main- tenance order went..
The speelfle reason he was in court was to answer a sult by Lofton-tur-10 worth of furniture purchased by wife. Garnham was her guarantor,
The court's ruling: Gorham had to pay the debt and costs his of £5-11s or go to gaol for a
week. UPI.
of
move tawny
his
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES in the event of a satisfactory Jungle les prestrate in the dirt.
for-
the size atate, a Jewel frank exchange of views on pomegranate gleaming in which, the navisability or
non-advir hunting turban. Beaters English, ability of exploring the passi- ahead. disturbing the
bifiles of a tentative approach tigers in their lars by whistling Fits card must be shown to to discussions to be held prior through their teeth. Then, as a oftelal to a preliminary clearing of the beast crosses a sunlit glade, the
ground, may eventually result maharajah, at a signal to
handed a in talks designed to straighten jemadar, in
rifle. out the problem of what to do Bang! One more tord of the
dash agreement being reached.
The photographers ward, and the star Trouble at Narkover
places her fool on the recumbent corpse, **MANUALORE"
POUR boys who played bridge her rifle tightly clenched in both Damaged carro ex this vessel wil Smart-Allick was addressing the
Dexquisitely manicured hands. he surveyed by Messrs Wood & whole school on the reasons for
-London Expreză Serotcs.). Browne at Holl's Wharf from 10 the confiscation of a number of m., on May 25, 1958, and conalgners packs of marked cards found in are requested to have their repre the tymnasium were sentatives present during the survey
repri- |manded. „A strike kas beon doclared unless the reprimand Is withdrawn. The Chisarooms ure being picketed, and several masters have joined the boys in manhandling blacklegs. Dr
· BUTTERFIELD & AWINE,
Agenis
Hongkong, 15th May. 1955).
quite openly while
Mail Notices!
THURSDAY, KAT 14 By Als Formoss, Okinawa, Korea, 4 p.m.
halland, Burma, India, & p.m. India, Adan, Afrina, Groat Diritain,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Smart-Allfeit threatens to close rope. O p.in.
*MENELAUS
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will be surveyed by Mesa Wood &
Browne at Holl's Wharf from 10 8.m. on May 10 and 16, 1959, and
coratgown are requested to have their representatives present 'durt the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & SWINE, Agenia. Hongkong, 15th Blay, 1900.
the gambling hail in the school casino. It is thought that the boys will give in. Safari
It is not every
neiress who has enjoyed the hospitality of a maharajah.—Gossip "Colunin, ALMOST every "dim actress hce, nowadays. But some content themselves with a mere rajah. They look so enchanting riding an elephant side-saddle. "Gee-up!"" crlen the mahout. Beside her, on another elephant, frides the dunky Indian poten-
Häwall, U.R.A, 0 p.m.
By Surface Thailand, 3 p.m. Macao p.m.
FRIDAY, MAY 19 BY ALL For, 20.
Vietny Cambodia,
Pakistan,
ramden, p.m. Maixa, Indonesia, 1 p.m. Anh buon han qu Australia, New Zealand, 7111, 3 p.D.
Haww, dp,m.
Chords, U.S... 4.7.0.
By unrends "China, Propia's Eigulillo, 7 a..
Macro, 1 Dim. Palliosine, à p.sh.. *m, 4 1.10.
31. The present month. in abort
Down
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2. Individum), (4)
3. Safety precautions 14. 11
4. Company. (0)
3. Ring up. (Sİ
4. Pi na nelj
checkor. 171 EJNAR
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Tree (3)
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Yesterday's Solution,
(London Exprver Service);
On The Brain
JAPAN NEWSLETTER
By David Gordon
Is
Japan Learning A Lesson In Diplomacy
Tokyo.
Japan's politicians and bureaucrats are now being taught by Russia-and very painfully—that arrogance and assertiveness aren't appre- ciated in Moscow when agreements are being negotiated.
Soviet - Japanese Circussios as the biggest single party in on salmon fishing in the North the Upper House. Paclie, commenced early in February.
the
Should this occur, of Liberal-Democrals take and beating I will probably mean
The sunson is already opening, but Japan's entire fret is sull the end of the Kishil regime- Idling in harbours simply be and could even see his
party cause a day or so before the split off into two opposed camps. lalks opened, Japanese ministers and others announced that "Japan would insist its demands be met.”
This kind of
Your columnist, some time ago, quota suggested that Mr Kishi would And it "convenient” to retire after his trip to Europe and undiplomatic Latin Amersea which starts in
stupidity, has seen Japan's early July.
"insistence" dwindle down to fawning and
In Krovelling
There is now open specula- order to get its ships to sea- tion in pollient quarters, that he
exacity this. and toko a little more than half will do
TWD former the original "demand",
Prime Ministers, Yoshida und Hatoyama, set Bul the Russians are still precedents by enjoying onc
thare and loking their
will burst of supposed glory al the probably stick out for their taxpayers' expense, then re- last offer which was exactly tired upon return. It is a fair half what Japon wanted.
bet Kishi will do the same.
Meanwhile, the cost to the salmon fleet owners runs to about £15,000 dally as all ships are fully manned and ready to go to sea at a moment's notice.
The unfortunate crew mem- bers mostly have their famlifes at the ports, waiting to bid them farewell, so their humble wages are being caten
burden.
up with this
It is already obvious that will be Japanese housewives paying much more for simon thia year as there outgoings will have to be covered-and with a very roduced harvest.
The Education Ministry hasn't helped in this matter either.
thief
The world's meanest went to work this werk.
He meaked into the morgile of Toneyama Elospital where spoor old wornan waa keep- ing vigil over the body of her son. He threatened her with a kalfe and grabbed the humble Y3,200 which she had brought to defrag funers) expensis,
Tokyo International Trade
They came out with new Fair opened during the map of Japan, showing Shikotan
and Haboral Islands which week and appears to be and headed for another success.
the Russians now occupy
claim as being part of Japan proper.
This hastiness probably cost at least 20,000 toma of salmon by Russian reckonings.
Once
*
*
more a Tokyo
Foreign exhibitors had their traditional bother with Customs which does such crackpot things nis weighing a visitor's letter- hoads and envelopes for assess- ment.
A few others risked electro- cution by xng their own taxt wiring after untangling crossed
Cit
driver displayed remarkable leads. But despite the wild con- honesty.
fusion of the previous day, by He found envelope contaming Y1,135,- rome mysterious meats, every- In order for the ribbon-cutting ceremony,
000 on the back seat and thing immediately turned it, in to the nearest palice box-then refused
PWNET AJ
duty"
a reward from
it was
"only his
If they would only drive with auch ethics, alas.
Wag
α18-
Cis-
A happy note was struck the
visitors the first day when
covered that Canods wIS tributing cellophane-wrapped made with alices of brend
right Canadian wheat, while opposite the Netherlands Dalry. Bureau was giving away alices of Edam and Gouda cheese,
Bread and cheese sandwiches caught on quickly and these two half exhibitors blessed the coinct-
dence which set them together.. -Athene shown I can never the Woodworking Machinery Hall where ingenuity appears to have no lim Mra Ann Rudd, mother of six
Full don't know how you children, wrote a cheque to pay the Socialist Parly, with the deposit on a holiday house support from minor parties and can bore R perfectly square trailer but the
came independents, holds the neces- hole in cheque
a piece of wood, or aary 1/3rd of the votes reces- carve perfect Chinese characters back,
sary to prevent the revision of in a matter of split seconds int the Constitution,
Dinther. IL hopes to increase this But these machines are there advantage and actually, emerge alright.
Titchfield, Eng.
Instead of "two pounds six shillings" she had written "two pounds six children."--UPL
Electioneering for the seats in the House of Councilors is now in full resist
swing.
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