1960-09-24 — Page 12

Strangest story the

rain has brought...

WHISPER it softly

in the City. The umbrella has succumb- ed. Tell the Guards officers to keep it under their bowler hats, but someone has manufac tured a man's umbrella which is not black.

Shattering as it may be tes the purista, This is probably the gayest news to be gleaned from this year's wet and dreary summ- mer,

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For as many years as there have been gamps (opinions vary on this point, but it is suggested they were invented along with rain) they have been black.

In Thundercloud black.

fact. And 8,000,000 of them were sold In this country this year,

Today in London a man con bay from one well-known gentlemen's eatfitters a many- coloured brolly.

He can choose between plain covers in grey, green or maroon, or a permutation of the coloura In a checked or striped pattern.

DISAPPROVAL

So far the breach into this standfast bastion of the English- man's fashion has been small. But, according to Mr Lungley Powe, the managing director of the firm of outfitters, the trend is encouraging.

It would be wrong to think that Mr Powe's campaign has the rapturous approval of the rest of the umbrella world.

One of the leading makers of umbrella covers in the country süld: "Gav umbrellas for men? I would like to say Never, 'sir." but there are certain indications that in the future there might be a market for them,"

The brigade' major⚫ of the Brigade of Guards said: "I cer- tainly wouldn't carry a coloured gamp myself. I think coloured benllies are for the golf course and the very young, brush type. Not for Guards officers and not for the City type. Can you Imagine the bowler-batted City

woriter with B moroon-striped

embrella walking down Chan- cery-lane-URE"

PREDICTION

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1960.

BY

an other Thing We Learned is that The

JACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendelsohn WRIGHT BRUthens, were the 1st People Out of A GUN before you hear it Shoot, is on a

Now that School is, FINELY OVER, i'll Tell You all the diffrent Things

We Learnt This TERM:

CLOSED

aLSO WE LEARNT THAT Africa is known as The Dark Continent, *** •Mainly because They don't have

ELEKTRISITY

Africa

[PS, 24)

Age 321⁄2

for instants in Science We Learnt that the 1st WIRELESS was made by MACAROTI.

/The city of Suffolk WAS Named after The Earl of Suffolk, who|| diep of Suffolkation

GASP

give me

To FLY, and Pretty Soon After That the Airoplane WAS INVENTED.

A full set of Teeth in A Human Bean is Made up of 8 Canines, & Cupids,

MOLERS & 8 Cuspidors, AP

Whee

ABE Lincoln was born in a Log Cabin Which He BUILT with His own hands.

also the reason WHY YOU SEE the Smoke come Count of The Smoke COMES OUT FIRST,

Horse Power is the Distance You CAN carry a Horse in one hour.

an other Thing is that the USE OF THE PANAMA CANAL is to Lower & HighER BOATS,"

©1960 Kits Features Studicate ing, World rights Reserved.

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Pant

(PUFT)

Boys Bang!

OH & i all most forgot

The Bottom of the Ocean! is Composed of Clay & fine Sentiments

Germany's Atom Arsenal

by

by Chapman

Pincher

AS Herr Franz-Josef Strauss, the West Ger- man Defence Minister, negotiated, in London for a share in Britain's nuclear rockets and ad- vanced military aircraft, it is opportune to spot-

light the already stag- gering potential of the

reborn German forces in nuclear armaments.

Through plans already far The testing time for these advanced, Germany is scheduled

Mr Fawe's confident prediction is that they will come round it eventually, particularly 31 Inext summer is wel.

"At present, out of every 10

umbrellas 1 sell to men one is

coloured. This is only the start.

And this isn't a simmick. The men who buy my brollies are the well-dressed executive types," he suld.

predictions will come later this year when the makers

to

deploy jong-range Mace flying bombs, with a destructive

of Kry power equal to 5,000

brolles will try. fer the first

time, to cultivate a market in Hiroshimas, by 1963.

the North of England, where even black umbrellas are re- garded with great deal of masculine suspicion.

If they aucceed then the writ- ing is on the will. It wiit spell wut the epitaph for the black umbrella and not all the rain in

· Marchester will wash it out.

Michael

Rocketry

In addition they will soon possess more than 200 coinbal lighters each capable of carry- ing an H-bomb 1,000 miles into Russian-held territory.

German crews and territory also figure prominently in the U.S. plan to equip Nato with Parkinson Polaris rockets to be mounted

→(London Express Service),

on mobile trailers and railway wagons.

Greet your friends with

Whisky worthy of

their friendship White Horse. Skúful blending has given this Whisky the race qualities of excellence.

All over the world men

who know best choose

White Horse for preference.

WHITE HORSE Scotch Whisky

Debüteen JARDUE, MATHESON & CO. LTA

HONEST JOHN : "Short-range rocket with a small atomie warhead for tactical use in battlefield fighting against troop concen. trations and supply lines. Herr Strauss hopes to replace it with the much more advanced Bluc Water rocket, being developed by the British,

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STARFIGHTER: American-bullt, it is to be made uniler llcence, partly in Germany, partly in Canada for the new Luftwaffe. Though bought primarily as an interceptor, I is capable of carrying an H-bomb. to targets more than 1,000 miles away at 1,400 miles an hour,

'--'

Each Polarls can carry a half- rockets for battlefield nuclear will be officially under U.S. or

fighting.

Nato control. sized H-bomb far into Russia.

The Germans have also been Under present plans nuclear In practice this means that a Honest John warheads for all these weapons U.S. officer will be attached to equipped with

Doctor's discovery may aid 10,000 Moroccans

A

this

"But the discovery gives us

BRITISH doctor hos Dr Glees added: "Nearly a

has elapsed since discovered something year which may hef the 10,000 tragedy, so I do not know how beneficial cortisone would Moroccans who were stric- prove n this stage. ken after eating poisoned cooking oil. Many of the something to try out quickly in the event of any fulure cases of victims were paralysed, be- this poisoning occurring in, say, causa unscrupulous mer- Industries which use it.'" chants had mixed surplus U.S. Air Force engino Dil

with it.

Cause of this parnlysts was a polson called trlorthocresyl phosphate, which is used in the all, plasties and insecticide in dustries.

SPACE BALLOONS

O up by rocket — como T down by balloon.

The World of Science

by Peter Fairley

This novel experiment A tried out by American space

That Is the latest idea being aimed at showing up the cause of badly worn stretches of scientists. They believe balloons track, particularly sharp curves. The Briton, Dr Paul Gices will have to be used to slow down The camera, mounted a

jew who is a lecturer la physiology a heavy rocket capsule or space- inches above the rails, shows up at Oxford Univesity-painted ship as it enters the atmosphere, exactly how the boges behave. ist on to the combs of bene. Parachutes cro amrellable for and is linked to the cinema by

Then he found that cirtisone speeds twice that of sound. -the hormone drug widely Tho balloons will be ejected "Very informative," reported used to treat rheumatold behind the arthritis-hade strlidng effect them, then slowly reeled out to

craft, stabilising the engineeIN, -

on the poisoned birds.

closed circuit.

malco the most of "thicker" ROCK GARDENING

Thoir paralya's was reduced to patches of atmosphere. Later,

a mild state, they began to eat parachutes can be used.

heartily, and their general con-

dition, improved rapidly.

"Since the nervous systems of

TV ON TRACK

hens and men react to this

poison in a very similar way, we

A

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE doctor has devised a simple "racking-stool to take the back-ache out of

RHODESIAN enging gardening.

| have every reason to think that driver is puffing around It is a hollow box, curved at cortisone will have a good effect with a British TV camera the front edge, with slota Across

an human victims also, Dr strappad to the wheels of half the top

Glees told me.

The Moroccan Embassy in his

DRAWINGO BY MICHAEL RAND AND · ROY CASTLE- MACE: A self-gulded flying bomb capable POLARIS: The U.S. Government is press- i of carrying a large nuclear warhead foring hard for Nato forces to be equipped more than 1,000 miles. One hundred Maces are to be bought from the U.S. and will be German property, though their war- heads will remain In U.S. custody on the missile sites unless needet for action.

with at least 500 Polaris rockets each' capable of carrying a medium-sized II-bomb up to 1,200 milles. They will be mounted on trailers and trains and moved about Europe to keep Russia guessing.

eich base with a key to attivate about to do so, few military au- agrees with him, whatever, he the bombs and warbeads, which thorities believe that the Ger- may may in public. must remain attached to their mans, who are to be the biggest missiles to be in a slate of Nato force, will tong submit to The financial resurgence of readiness.

this inferior defensive posture. Germany out of a mountain of rubble has been staggering. But It is General de Gaulle's to the historians the military maxim that no modern nation resurgence OL this Over- can call itself a great Power ambilicus nation after G, war without an independent supply fought to disarm it will seem of nuclear bombs and rockels, even more fantastic.

(London Express Keroler).

Recovery

With Britain and the U.S. al- ready deploying independent nuclear weapons, and France

locomotive. In the towards your plants or weeda Sit on the slats, rock forward London has sent a full report of privacy of a mobile cinema, and tuck the rubblats down the Dr Glees's discovery to ila several coaches to the rear, hole, behind you,MON Foreign Office, A Moroccan Government officiel is expected railway engineers are sitting It was made to allow garden- to fly ever and visit Oxford watching the

wheels to pursue their hobby es before.

Ing enthusiaste with back straine } }

shortly,

---(London Express Service).

round.

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