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TV MAN MISSES
World-renowned TV commenta- for. Arthur Godfrey revealed Inday that his mission to India Brad failed.
mirsed cut on shooting a darned tiger," he lamented. Arthur arrived in Hongkong by Air India on Saturday after a hunting-filming holiday In the wilds of India.
"I did everything from flying the world's latest helleopter to playing the guitar whilst perched precariously on the back of a lumbering elephant, bat si no ger," he added glamly. Auburn-haired Godfrey ut
of 57 today recalled A tumor operation which he underwent, Just-11 months ago,
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the
U.S. sailors
fined for being drunk
Two American ilor. Frank Viz. 18, and Johnson Ronald, 20, were fined $50 cath by Mr K. A. S. Puitlips at Ceniral Court this morning for being drunk in a public plaen. Ronald was additionally lined $200 for psstufting TELOK Cheung and Mr Phillips ordered him to Ly Tsinx $200 e- pensation.
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"They told me that I had lung!
cancer and only a 5 per cent chance of surviving," he said. Godfrey told the China Mail re- parter that he made no special arrangements when lold of the news, apari from altering his will.
"Then comes the operation, they
chop my lung around a little bit, told me that everything was okay and here I am. Gghting fit, fooling around on
hunting trips."
Despite Arthur's failure to bag a ilger, the sharp shooting grandfather of two children managed to add to his hunt Ing credit two leopards and a glant bison-"and dozens of other things, much smaller but
REPORTER ABOUT
Nu saved my life
Pilot was held by Burmese TIGER rebels after plane crash
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Your leading articles on Buage! sporches last week cun be described by the same term Government's as you apply to tnches, though in a diferent scpsc.
From the Files
25
years AGO
March, 1935
Government is not always right any more than the 'reas or anyone else, and most of us not infrequently disagree, wha their decisions, but to mount a full scale' newspaper campaign
PROM the SCM Post's 25 to impune the sincerity of able and conscientious officials-for Years Ago column: thai is what your criticism "The first step towards the amounts toia to bring your future greatness of Hong-
steamroller into the garderi te that ally The husky, tanned Australian pushed his way through the
battery of officials who surrounded Burma's dusky, smiling crush nails which aren't there, kong was the erection in Premier-elect, U Nu.
he
much tastier than old tiger," Godfrey, who first started an a radio 31 on commentator
became famous years overnight with the way used to read commercials. "Poke alle harmless fun at a sponhor or product and what have you gat? Thousands of tho people rushing to stuff."
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The big man grabbed the smaller man's hand, pumped it vigorously and
said gratefully, "I would like to thank you once again for saving my life."
U Na pecred hard for a split While in India, together with second at the man in front of
him. Mr Charles E. Andrews,
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Despite his hunting disappoint- is determined men! Arthur to get satisfaction, "Fil be back ju India, one day
and then, tigers watch out!"
Final concert by
Eileen Joyce
BY D. E. GRAY
Burly officials, concerned at the welfare of Burma's top statesman tried to lead the would-be Intruder out of the hotel foyer. V
"No wait a moment," the Hitle man's face creased prith
a big smile, "but of
you are Mr Ken BegS.
pilot 10 years ago.”
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course my
Berg, a veteran pilot who Is resident Hongkong Tora heard that U Nu arrived in the Colccy last Saturday.
The officials
" would have lel: terrible t he had left without me being able to have a word of thanks to him," Begg said today.
"I knew that I wouldn't be able to get past his officials 1 1 bad called him on the phone,
"So the only alternative wor to wait in the foyer of his hotel
HE 19th century American music critic, Finck, and approach him as he was
once said:
THE
"The paychology of sonata!
of
0
"And thus it is that Chopin's
walking out.
"You can Dever be 100 grateful to a man who once saved your life," he added.
En November 1949, Begg was
on a special flight to Rangoón.
While dying over rebel-held
Ken Begg greets U Nu-China Mail photo, territory about 350 miles from has come and Rangoon, Begg's plane ran out; the prospect of death and find and he was forced to that some complete stranger gone. She is a very fine pianist; of fuel and she must (and would wish make an emergency landing.
Surrounded to be judged by the highest standards. During her Friday recital, as in the previous one,
form la false; rnen and women habitual neglect of sonata form, do nal feud happy for ten instead of being it delvet, minutes 43 In the opening reveals his rare artistic aubioty Sub-Inspector Yip Tai-yau sald allegro
then and grandeur", - conala, Tsang WEN wallding along melancholy for ten minutes Queen's
East
Eileen Joyce ear in the following adagio, then Monmouth Path about 11 mm. frisky as in the scherzo, and
n Saturday
when the de- Anally nery and impetuous for fendants who appeared to be With- drunk, approached him. cut apparval reason, Ronald Tag and pushed him to the ground.
Four
Beeth were Jonsered,
4.
The
an
ien minutes in the finale.
"The movements of our minds
saves you."
Last Saturday night U Nu "I hadn't hit the ground a recalled the incident and chat- minute when the plane was sur-ted abcut it with Boi.
Nu said quietly.
are seldom sa systematic as this. did not hear one wrong note, rounded by some very unhappy "I think you were lucky,"
She played one work atter on-looking Communist rebels, some U other with impeccable execu- tion. Never have I heard such of whom had never even seen a
white natt," Ken cald. lightness and delicacy of loach, The Communists moved in
enchanting planissimo such from any keyboard exponent.
Sad and happy thoughts chase one another irregularly as they The call: then run usado in the composition of Chopin but were stupid uy a police-which therefore are much truer man. any were later taken to whoes of our modem retic still and hospital for examination and feeling than the reriled to be drunk,
kutmal classical sonata.
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of
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and at machine-gun point took him to their quarters where he was beaten by soldierS,
"Next I knew I was facing a court martial on charges of being a government spy.
"They even imported India'a top Communist to attend the
But I also feel certain that she Is far happier in shorier works than in longer ones, and that she is Bot at her best when trial, called
develop and Цроп sustain particular mood for long periods.
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She is most effective in muste which is a reflection of thoughts one and moods which "chase another irregularly."
Elude,
anyone
Imagine I cannot playing Chopin's Berceuse, Liszt's Gnomeпrelgen, and Debussy's La Cathedrale Eng- loutie better than she did on Friday evening and the same could be sald for Chopin's Fantaste In F minor, Liszt's D Bat
and
Ravel's Ondine.
Wherever the music had a "programme" Miss Joyce CX- celled. Most people make their own "programme" in listening to a work like the Chopin F Minor Fantasie. I found myself thinking of what Chopin him. self is reported to have given DA the exciting cause composition, viz. a quarrel and reconciliation between him and George Sand.
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*I don't link they were 100 keen on the Court Marlia), half of them including the prosecutor Just wanted have my head blown off," he told the China Mali,
'And then
Bega was imprisoned during the trial for about one month. Prospects of his survival looked extremely bloat when just on Castmas, Ken received the best Present er his life,
A soldier Elennat into
his cell, dragged him to his feet and look him to the chief rebel.
He found to his unazement that he was a free man. But how?
Only a few hours earlier the chief rebel had received a very
defolte cable.
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"Release European, he is nos completely neutral, of this
involve innocent people."
Bigned U Nu. "Then Nu even stuck his neck out further and rent a
I hope the few words above may be regarded as an nitempt to do justice to what seems to be the finer aspects of Miss Joyce's plano playing. The | Music Society is to be
mended for bringing her to Hongkong I hope she will make a return visit before too long.
com-
A point which I neglected to mention last week was very effective stage lighting at both the Elicen Joyce concerts. Wo ato much inditted to the Music Society and the University au- thorities for talding such pains to direct the proper combina- tion of lights which undoubted- contributed greatly to the Buccessful presezyła Uon of two excellent comicoria,
Cigarettes Stolen
Thloves broke into the ground floor of No. 69, Shauklwan Road between 1 o'clock and 0 o'clock ! this morning and stole a quon- ity of cigarettes to a total value of $1,700.
llowever this is the second lime Begg has had the oppor- tlic of tunity
thanking brilliant pollilolan.
TE was only six month after the court martial incident that I was able to serve U Ku," Begg explained,
from
"Nu was flying Rangoon to Ceylon for a big Buddhist gathering.
Buddha's tooth
volunteered
"I immediately to fly the special plane which would take him to Ceylon.
"It was expecially impor- tant au U Nu explained at the time because he WAB carrying one of the most sacred possessions of the re- ligton--the tooth of Buddha,"
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BCM said that all through the fight U Nu seemed tremely nervous because of the Importance of safeguarding the sacred tooth.
Hongkong roads inadequate
- magistrate
}
and can flowers.
a road Hongkong nooded
system capable of carry- ing the increasing number. of vehicles, Mr Morris, Contral Magis- trate, told the Court this morning,
He
also suggested it was essential that there should be a bold scheme of roadworks and not isolated patches which led 10 traffic congestion in the
Central area,
Mr Morris fined Lee Loy, of 526 Queen's Itoad West, $100 or coven days! jail for careless driving on January 14.
do no good to
W. C. G. KNOWLES.
MACAO NEWS
the 1841, the year the Colony
WES
taken over from the Chinese, by Messrs Jardine, Matheson and Co of the first substantial
and house godowns at East Point.
"The Mercantile centre was then located at Wongacichong Valley, British and foreign merchants having come over from Maeno to prospect in February of that year, The un- healthiness or the distelet, violent typhoos and a destruc- tive Are retarded progress. Visiting Macao during the Nevertheless, the Superintera-
wook
Mr Thomas dent of Trado moved from Anthony Jefferson, Macao to Hongkong in the fol- lowing year. Queen's Road was Queen's Messenger.
ald out, the Arst nowspaper, He was a guest of the British Friend of Chine established and
Consul
Taylor,
Macao, Mar. 28.
was
and Mrs Alexander
Mexican and other Republican dollars declared to be standard
The Grupo Coral Polifonico, in all matters of trade,
"The city was named Victoria ably conducted by Rev. Fr Aureo du Costa Nunes, made its 1 1842 and by the end of this large English accond public appearance here year twelve tast night.
firms, ten English merchants of At the St Joseph College's a smaller scale and about six gymnasium the 32-voice choir Indian firms were established, sang to a full house, Including "As a result of peace, tho
Governor the
Lho Madame Just trade declined and
opening of five trealy porta in- Silverio Marques,
Shanghai, adversely
and
The well balanced programme | cluding
of anered music and folklore affected the trade of the new
songs had many encores, and at Colony.
the end the young maestro and
"The
Arst Hongkong built
the singers received thundering vessel, the Celestial of 80 torn applause.
was launched at East Point."
This choral group is expected
to give a concert in Hongkong
in the near future.
Writing in his column Old Capt. J. V. Dias de Silva, the Hongkong, "Colonial! dia- fnemer commander of the Macao eussed the history of steami Police Force is bidding farewell laundries, the first one of
to his many friends as ho s
leaving Macao or March 30, for Hongkong and Lisbon
Capt. Delfim Nunes is acting commandar of the Macao Police Force-AFP.
sokich came to: Hongkong in
1801.
Prior to
this.
date the
Colony was entirely dependent on the Chinese washermen whose efforts, not always fully confined, no sanitary, were doubt to such, large pools os
'L' driver offered themacives, with com-
fined
|venient granite, boulders near-
by.
Here, probably, we had the equivalent of the
famed
Eastern laundryman sohage A 21-year-old woman learns activities were summed up by
driver, Tai Fud-ling, of
1A
--
Fung Fai Terrace, 2nd floor, was an American visitor as "try. Aned $450 by Mr 1. T. Morrising to eplit a rock with a at Central Court this morning shirt."
Colonial reported that four for driving while not being ac-
licensed In-ateam laundries tried to break companied by
the Chinese washermen's monopoly between 1804 and 1000. They all failed.
Finally one was established in Causeway Bay in 100% which flourished.
structor. ..
She was also charged with driving and carrying a passen
an instructor, ger other than
and being a learner driver driv lng a car without displaying an "L" plate:
One of the directors was
to
Feng Fu-chun, 20, bank cm- ployee, of 33 Marble Road, 1st Sir Paul Chater and its shares Finding the defendant gulity, Boor, was fined $450 for alding were quoted on the Stook
Then it Mr Morris said the case self and abetting Tai in the com- Exchange. Wis not of very great im- mission of the offences, which bought over by a Chinese portance but it served to re-
and moved took place in Tin Hau Temple syndicate mind him of the infuriating Road last Wednesday,
Yaumati, in Kowloon, traffic congestion that occurred "When we loaded safely in the Colony from time to time. think Mr U Nu was more thankful than I was when he saved my life."
Berg who is now strugging to start his own airline told
"The question sometimes ask- led is should private motoristo be restricted to that public and other forms of transport can or should freely
move more
U Nu that if ever he wanted better roads be built to take
a special flight he would be the necessary traffle?" only too glad to plot it,
"He was tickled pink at my
it
team of blockade runners suggestion, and I don't think through rebel infested territory, will be too long before I'll sce to bring me to Rangoon,
him again, once again as bis "It's a strange feeling after pilot and still a very grute- you have realgned yourself to ful man for being alive."
Skidded-then crashed
into two parked cars
Mr. T. Morris al Central Ma-
glairacy this morning dian
ed a summons tor cartless driving against Mak Shun- fat, of 00 Bulkeley Street, ground floor. Mr Morris hold had that the Prosecution adduced insuficient evidence. Mak, driver of a car belongtha to a newspaper agent, dented that he drove his vehicle cure- lessly down Wyndham Street on January 10, Ho muld tho road surface was wet at thai | time, His cár skidded an bumped into two other cars parked by the roadside,
of
WASTEFUL
Mr Morris said some people maintained that in certain areas private
motorists created a wasteful and completely ex- travagant demand on inadequate rocd space and parking facili- Lics,
I will not invite a story of protest by expressing views either one way or the other but one thing is certain we cannot slop, indeed, we should encour uge and welcome, as a sign of progress, more and more tramc on the roads and somehow we have got to provide a road system which will cater for 1
ho said.
Mr. R. G. Hutcheon, owner
ong of the damaged cars,
"It is of course, in the contro testlied that at 9.05 am. onof this city that wo peg the
10 he January
was in his
greatest need for actiuni and office whim his ear cleaner informed him that his car
involved in been had accident.
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yet it is precisely there that trafle is being blocked, again and again, it scene, because of an inadequate programmio,
"We should get bold schemes and not Isolated, patches of
furthermore. should not wait until the pro- totally unmen-
·Ho - wont into the street to Investigate and found another car had bumped into the rear | rondworks, mudguard of his car.
we
Ito also told the Court that the biers becomes
road surface was greasy then.ageable and then, perhaye clap ci privalo CATE and Mira Sylvia Ng, owner of the ban
other, damaged ear, sald the other forma of transport and to rear mudguard of her ear wan rely on regulations and restale Jamoged,
tlone."
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