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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1959.

Water Of Life?

DID IT HAPPEN?

another story in the series that kaups you guessing

He began to captius,and merry

wow't steeping well,

-Scotch To You

SCIEN

Scotland.

CIENCE has come to the aid of men who distill the Water of Life, and has overcome a serious problem with ten thousand pounds' worth of glass, Water of Life--that's the not fram malze or rye (an in trarstation tuinge-beather-the-Amarina)_The_cereal_used_by_ term used for denoting whisky in the Chinese was rlee, the old Gaelle language of the Scottish Highlands.

The man who

made things

HIS

[IS voice was rather tremulous, with a It trace of stammer. so

Incidentally, there is small risk of any Interruption in the production of Scotch whisky due

Scotch whisky is Bol anelent a drink he some bever shortore of grain in Scot- ages to which mankind is partial, beit It Is mattoned as tur nek as the 14th century, when Scol-

Lish tuwmakers placed n tem porary ban on the distilling of It because of a dearth of grain,

In the present century the Americans became the world's biggest

T CATATAN

uisage brutha that

1lac reel Mackay" that comes from Scot- fand. And this despite the fact that migrant Scotsmen laid the foundations, generations ago, of a brisk whisky distilling indus try in America itself.

DEMAND

There is still an enmoins de mand for "Rotch" on the phet of citizens of the U.S.A.. and Canada, Sentral distillers weakd

land nowadays,

A considerable amount of the barley used in the distilling of this mid-twentieth Scotch In century comes from Austraila.

1 s

Traditionally, Scotch

casks In matured in sherry prted from Spain, but latterly there have been shortages of these, and Anserien has supplie! barrels to meet the requirements at Selfish distillers and the requirements of which have begun operating in the Senftish Highlands.

U.S. Interests

The manufacture of whisky, of case, is strictly controlled and de-around with legisla- Hon. Nevertheless law-breakers

furn runtinue to

out tax-free qtur from illicit stik.

On the less serious side, there bunch of be desperately hard hit if there is the story of a

"Constater-resiskture Beyond-the-law whisky-makers AUTEN who were active in an American

city during Prohibition days.

were ever

the

to their WDINKY Atlantic-as there was not so long ago in France ver a liquar dispute with Great Britale as a whole, wher certain Paristan shopkeepers and enfe proprietors made themselves appen "ridivu- lous in Scotland and England by the stupid assertion that "Seutel" was "English."

LUSH PARK

They chose a hush park as a dumping-ground for a quantity of "mask" or waste matter fron their Belt sull... and before There In a waying In the

long many of the habitues of the trade that whisky is nu tem-

park were crazy-<irunk. woman. peramental

distillers aro Blenders

No, not citizens prone to quote this, and have and rodents who frequented Hastrated with a number and who had been quick to

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and

but birds it

เป examples--one being the fart that if whisky should pick up impurities of copper or iron from pipe-systems, In a ratio of more than one part

in a billion, it wil be spoiled.

it i

important

That is why nows that one very large com-

sample the mess of alcohol saturated grain.

It seems the park-attendants

had a memorable tue of it watching the confused antics of the tips wild life.

And from Scotland rames the pany has overcome the problem story of two co-operative High By installing, on the ivice of landers who led revenue officials Weir Jaboratory

10 dilapidated make-shift still researchers, £10,000 world of visible-flow

in quiet glen, and thereby be- came entitled to a sutential ass piping. The piping covers

reward which had been offered length three miles, which

Der Information on the location is a hat of glass

Heit ot any

"whisky-making plant,

Scotland hers claims to having originated whitky. though the Irish say that isge beatha. like the Gaelle latugunge, was Aral concreted in the Emerate Isle.

On the other band, the Chinese were Making a com- parable drink more than two thousand years back, but not from malted barley CON In Scotland and Ireland).

and

The make-shift mill was carried off in triumph by the bounty revenue men, and was duly paid. With the re- ward-money, the two worthy Highlanders bough! brand- equipment and went new back to their unlawful cupation of whisky-making in

another quiet glen...

A British Crossword Puzzle

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came over the telephone to me when I was News Editor of The Daily

The voice said: "Th-this is Barnes of the Ludden- I can forth Weekly News. give you a rail smash, about tw-twenty killed and a lot injured. You'll have it be- fore anybody else. You see, I was in it."

happen

An anticipation” of events? A gift for being in the right place? There was certainly something strange about

the new.reporter

that

WOR

I had his name checked students are tomorrow, aren't while I cross-examined him. they?" he'd say, "What

science Yes, he was all right; he'd really behind

commitling suicide? recently succeeded another student

What are these chaps thinking man as our local correspond and saying, privately, I mean, ent. It was a very good rabbed of eyewash?" go he story-told you just what it trotted round at odd times. felt like to be in a crush; to the and he'd talked engine-driver, who was un-

Exclusives

usually distressed because. When the

Vice-Chancellor

his wife had had a baby that had a seizure crossing the quad, morning a typical Barnes Darnes helped to carry him up touch, us I was to learn.

Inner fire

Wiki

He came to ser me a few days Inter. Could I give him a job, thought he'd been on a local paper longt Phough. He both shy and determined, looked fragile, eyes too large, chin too pointed, hands too pale and slender, cars rather prominent,

as

a

some inner Bre. I took him on. "OI

what Barnes

by JAMES L. HODSON

me: "But It doesn't happen to anybody else."

He wasn't listed. And I wasn't sure I Was satisfied, elther,

JAMES LANSDALE HODSON has spent 40 years writing lor and about newspapers, for five yours he was news editor of the northern edition of e London daily, and he has written of last five novels which deal with newspaper life.

In the 1914-18 war he was an infantrymon, in the second o correspondent in France, North Africa and Burma.

Return to the Wood, his most recent book, in ⚫ war novel. He lives at Blockheath

altogether

He began to be captious,

nervy, jumped when the phone rang. saw a queer look

Gyer

Ho looked half dead when he crawled into the office to write his story--Indeed, he couldn't write because his hands were ho trembling too much, but dictated it.

Then he collapsed and we sent him to hospital. Next day he was delirious, assuring me, when I went to see him, that he had made no compact with the devil.

L .hbo oftener than I

He look some time getting liked. He said he better, but at last his youth and wasn't sleeping long hours of sleep restored him well - would 1, and calmed his mind. When he put him on late was it to travel I gave him en duty which air ticket to Rome, told him I would keep him had booked a hotel in Sicily. up till 3 or 4 He had certainly earned it. He a.m.?-be'd

in be said all that had happened better tiring the past looked dreamy now, he himself out. guessed his imagination had said i was. think- worked overtime In thinking be

ing of the op-

posite for him

a rest. But that upset him, he

was different from any chap. Sure, 1 saki.

News flash

other

About the time he was due to return

to his room, hesrd his Jast words Go forward. Never despair." That was one of the first news stories of Barnes's that we put his name on.

Our Exclusives

mostly the

rivals began,

pretty well" He stopped and I ask- saw it as giving in.

second-sight?

So allowed him to have bis result of hard work, forethought, seriously, to try to find out in ed if he meant

was He hald In H way yes, his planning. But I now began to advance

I was at my desk think there was more to it than covering. It was a Press Club mother always believed she had way. And the spate went on-

the hell's that it. After a

The telephone Vice-Chancellor's joke-"Where

pause he neded: "I in the small hours a suicide in sipping my tea.

from Rome Call Who's feel drawn to places." "Oh, I the principal hotel; a policeman buzzed. that, for the

tonight?

said, "but I control nearly at shal when

snid cat coming through," watching hun?"

chasing seizure fired a train of events man Barnes which involved Barnes.

Не your movements, not you."" There was chaff in our own

We could make jooked very queer then, I know burglar; a ferible fire at the switchboard. But the line went reporters room, too. "Here you believe you do,” he said..

gas-works with people living wrong and

nothing of it.

my It crossed in night near by evacuated comes the news magnet." Swift

mind it might be Barnes, but would soy. Onec

More striking events of course it might have been I heard "Pull yourself together," I clothes. Webster add: "Magnet? He's a said. "It's luck. And the luck happened during his first week

someone cise, bloody little Faust, aren't you will change, you'll see." I tried of late duty than in the preced- old boy? - sold yourself body to rally him, "You're not sug- ing month. and soul for news. When's Old gesting, are you, that it you Nick coming to claim his own?" were not

things there, these

you wouldn't happen?- that make them happen?"

A masterpiece

Altogether be looked man might who's burned up by

Armistice Day was upon us. course," I said, "I shan't and I sent him to a coalmine to expect you to be on every train describe how the two minutes

itself into a smash." silence, was kept half A mile that geis

lookeri awkward, down. He flushed, uchieved a grin, suid nothing.

Не

He

Second sight

reckon-

He looked puzzled, stared into his glass.

I broke it up there. I ed Webster was jealous, and I "No," he said, "that would be saw Barnes was upset. I took absurd, wouldn't it?" He glanced him out for a drink on my way Into my face, half-fearful, half- home, told him he was not to appealing. worry-they were a bit sore about his luck-they'd get over

When he was

entering the If newspapermen are ever cage to,

come up, an explosion born, he was. He wouldn't go occurred in a place which was tone. His own work

Anished. called, I remember 64's deep, he'd go along with a senior man | on a job for the fun of it. He'd

persuaded them to give #passion for ships, 100, and him a breathing apparatus and would, in spare moments, wan- to let him accompany a rescue der round the docks. One day he party. Twenty-four men were told me about a trawler that trapped.

strove with the men were saying ought to go rescuers, came up top, tele

sen-too far down by the phoned us and went down it. head-if she went and strucie gain; this two or three times.

curious He replied he had a his foul weather she wouldn't re- His youth,

courage, his turn.

endurance-these

the feeling sormetines-felt he knew

-knew in advance. manager over.

Besides. he was Barnes: he I sald other men have had it Armly. "Absolutely fantastic," could have charmed a bird out to same extentan anilcipation "Yes," he said; but a moment of trec. Moreover, he could of events, a gift for being in the We didn't, of course,

print write. His

story, in its way, right place. that but it proved quite true.

was a little masterpiece. But that Next, he'd a

to

New ship

that slatements

won

He asked:

"What do

Queer look

"Of course it would," I said

A suicide

0

The came the last ordeal the dicaster in the river; collier collidod with the Irish packet Shamrock on a night of fog and snow.

Barnes persuaded the police boat to take him out. He tried to leap aboard the half-sunk passenger boat, missed and tell In the river; was pulled out on partially to the Shamrock,

the captain revived, talked to and injured passengers and, with a note of some the casualties, dead and injured, managed to get back to the

later as much

to himself as to landing stage on a tug.

you

that the future's already hap- pened, Hre like a journey, the towns on the route are there,

them we just

haven't got to

story of a brand wasn't the end of his luck think of this theory of Ume?- new ship in which, before shy that is what it was. When he sailed, volees were heard from

paid an off-duty visit to the the crow's nest when the crow circus, a tiger mauled its trainer nest was empty. We did print and a trapeze artist fell, break-

from her first officer and the bo'sun; and she ing his leg.

Again, when the Bishop ccle- was in collision on ber first

brated his Jubilee and Barnes

I said there might be some- voyage.

interviewed him, he launched. thing in it. Another of Barnes's passions unexpectedly, bri uttack un He sold: "If, in a sort

the university, "These municipal corruption.

vision,

was

yet."

you see further

of

en-

of

the

Later in the afternoon a news flash came in an aircraft which hud let Home 1430 hours was missing over the sea; search pro- ceeding. I had a horrible feeling 1 par- that Burnes might be senger. He was. There were no survivors.

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES NO

Put a tick against your choice in

the space, about.

(The answer is on Page 18)

-(London Express Service),

BULOVA

WATCHES OF DISTINCTION

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22

ACROSS

3 Provides more

withdraws (8).

drinks

and

7 Hotel rebuilt for the use of

oursmen (5).

@ Can be maintained (8).

10 Solid lump of dripping, so to

speak (0).

13 Abandons to under canvas?

:(7).

16 Gome culling for immediate

decision (4).

17 Battics or deeds (7).

18 She was alicched

(7).

20 It may be bowed

(4).

29

DOWN

I Remained, we hear, quite

sober (5),

2 Musicul pick-me-up (35).

3 Teritory, mainly actually

existing (5).

4 Dlderly old party (4).

6 Pink and white specimen (8),

G Black ment (8).

9 A good mesi (8),

11 Ylelled (3),

12 Carp (but not fah) (5).

14 In short supply (0).

to Portia 15 Sisal man (6).

10 Mr Dolls? (5).

down to 18 Moron (6).

21 Senator's trenchery (7).

26 Youll find ou in

gambling den (6).

27 Greets heartily (8).

10 Flattened

pitch? (0),

Like 3 cricket

this 22 Relaxes the tenalon (8),

23 Simply D nursery-rhymo

character (5).

28 Leave with marriago in 24 Observed Îl could describe a

mind? (0).

plano (5),

29 They're not steady on their 25 Heal hard work (4).

fret (1).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Collar, § Right,

o Remit, 0 Drafia, 10 V-aunt, 11 Spoll, 12 Crib, 18 (w)Eight; 16 Scorch, 18 Gretnn, 20 S-U.S.A-n, 22 Brer, 23 Shark, 25 Clico, 26 One 27 Argue, 20 Bella, 39 Senco Down: 1 Codfcils, Leaving, 3 Arts, Respect, Riviers, 0 Italic, 7 Hunch, Cheriding, 16 Touclos, 16 Senhora, 17 Onerous, 10 Rancal, 21 Unit-E, 24 Koes.

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