THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1946.
BERNARD WICKSTEED'S SATURDAY FEATURE,
It's Fun Finding Out
But The Brisling Was A Quisling
WE'VE done a little history Brinling--we'll keep on the right,
in this series, so how about some geography?
Just to get ourselves started For let's ask some questions. instance: "What is the capital of Norway?"
That's
All Oslo
answer. you
have right, but you wouldn't away with it when I was at school. We called Christianla then.
The Norweglans changed the name in 1024 because it reminded them of the time when they were ruled by the Danes.
The original Oslo was founded by nking called Harald, who left it to go looting in England and was killed at Stamford Bridge-not the Chel- sen football ground but a pluce in Yorkshire. This happened in 1000, honestly it did, just before William the Conqueror landed.
Harald's Oslo got burned down In the seventeenth century, and the King of Denmark-like most Danish kings he was called Christian the
over Somethingth hurried
con-
best when
About mountains side of the law-ore
THE they've been matured in the tin, Norwegian mountains, on the Bvenge, are only half as high when as the Alpy, but they make up for and there are vintage years they're particularly fat and juicy.it by being much older.
(You can also buy vintage sardines In London at a shop near the Palace Theatre.)
About lights
WHEN I was in Stavanger recent- ly, a mun gave me half a dozen tins of 38 which he'd hidden from the Germans all through the war. There seems to be something in the vintage business. because they were simply delicious.
As many £25
12,000,000 - brisling one houl-
Geologists call them pra-Cum- brian, which means they must be
and
at least 175,000,000 years old, old
When Is A Sardine,
?
HERE'S HOW to tell the difference between a sardine and brisling, if you ever catch
a
that is older than the oldest fossil.
one:- In mountaineering circles they're known as dissected platenus. non-mountaineering
circles.
In
you'd say the whole place was once a plateau and the mountains are just the hard bits that have been left behind after the rest was worn down by weather.
In
Hold it up by the back, fin. If the head drops forward it'e k a brisling; if the tall drops it's a sardine.
per-
Supposing it balances fectly? Well then it's a herring, or so Mr Chapman Pincher says.
About the King
COMMENT By "Candidus'
UNLESS you happen to be
one of the few exceptions, from your window you can see that monstrosity which squats on the summit of Mount Cameron, If you are one' of the exceptions whose view is not constantly marred by that un
will speakable abortion, you atill remember that it exists, and possibly not thank me for reminding you,
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Like me, you will again wonder, as you and I have wondered often, why this reminder of rapu and torture is still permitted to foul the view and outrage our feelings. Is it that its removal presents too dimcult a problem for our engineers, or can it be that those who are empowered to order, its destruction fail to
its appréciate
#hostly significance?
I think of the shades of the meri who on the surrounding hillsides
in suffered unutterable
angulsh endeavouring to stave off the onrusti of the Japanese; of the thousands of Chinese who during the occupation. Memories worth hallowing.
untold
"dled"
- חן!
Those of us who saw the spenkable tortures and atrocitica perpetrated by the Japanese can hold only one opinion--and yet the dominates the monument which
Colony re
erected those flends,
by
allowed to remain!
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THE present King of Norway is
The tortures of the Spanish In- named Haakon VII, (pronoun-quisition pale into insignificance be- ced Hawkon). You'll have seen his side those practised by the Japanese, Brave men lingered for days, weeks Pictures in the papers.
and months, finally succumbing to the flendish tortures inflicted.
There have been Norwegians
No one has ever driven them out and no Norway since 2,000 BC. foreign invaders have ever settled there, so they are one of the most ancient nations in the world.
There are no big landlords in That catch Norway. The average size of a form the is 8 acres and there's a strict law
He's a Dane, really. Ile started of primogenliure that's to say life as Prince Charles of Denmark his eldest bon. farmer must hund on his farm to and being a second son, never ex- pected to be anything else, but in don't get terms 1905 the Norwegians who were then The boys who either become saliors or go
sharing a king with Sweden, decid- America. In the last hundred yearsed they would have one. their nearly 1,000,000 Norwegians have emigrated to the States.
have been caught in enough for 400,000 tins. was worth about £4,000, and man who did it used a submarine selecting apparatus, which he bought
an surplus war stock.
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About skis
to
of
wimple majority vole in Par-
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Harent (they call it the Storting. "Slor" means "big" and "Ung" means "thing") they chust Prince Curies on condition he would change his nume to Haalton.
the
Previously, the method of telling built a new city which he named whether there were enough brtaling
In a shoal to make them worth net after himself.
The Norwegians are tall and fairing was to lower a piece of siring In fact, there are more blue-eyed with a weight on the end and count blondes in Norway Uan anywhere the number of fish that bumped into else in the world except Sweden and it. that gun for the men. too.
There's no coal in Norway, but Sixty-four per cent of the scripts in the army have pure blue, plenty of wood. Having rio coal they eyes, and only 7 per cent have brown don't worry about gas, which makes
or cent have or them independent of gastric eyes. So its a
Electricity made from water power peroxide.
is so cheap that in some places in the summer there is no charge for About 'sardines
lighting at all. You can leave the FISHING is one of the main in-awitch on in the kitchen all night
dustries. The Norwegions catch and it won't cost a penny. everything from whales to sardines
The houses are nearly all made and make money out of them. If you go into an English shop with of wood, and few of them have both- your two points and ask for sardines f rooms, which the Norwegians don't islands whilch can't be far off another in Norway and even the royal family those who would stilt
the chances are you'll be given tin from Norway, but when you look at the Inbel you'll find they're called brisling and not "surdines."
This is on account of a famous law case that lasted four years and was finally settled in the Bench Division by Lord Mr Justice Darling and Mr Justice Avory.
King's Reading,
They decided that a brishing was a quisling, and mustn't be called a sardine in Erkan..
But in America it's different. There the law is that they must be called sardines on the tin, or they're not properly described. every exporter has two sets of labels, une for America and one for here.
י
So
seem to mind.
PEOPLE seem afraid to refer to soun? names. Can it be too Do you remember Fraser, Block, Newnham, Grayburn, Pearce, Sorby, Shrigley, Ansari-the Indian offleer who, when led out to the execution had ground because la torturing left him too battered and weak to cxccu- walk, proudly said to his iloners: "You may torture me; you may kill me but you cannot break of British Omcers." Or The new king was married 10
the spirit
Into unknown soldier brought Moud, third Caughter of our Ed-Bov
lying Bowen Road Hospital after wurd VII. She' already settled out on the hillside for seven days down to life as a Danish princess and nights to breathe his fast at the let begun, pl up the langunge portals of inercy, Some may think where she studenly for herself this a discordant note at this special fime of the year. I think it a Atting time to think about honouring our who own and dishonouring these Queen of Narway and expected te
Shall we not determine now, the moment when our thoughts turn to have been with us had the Japanese possessed the least sense of decency and humanitarianism, that another Remem- to that brance Day shall not Ecc monument to the glorification of those who caused so much suffering. That constant reminder of happen- ings, the thought of which make all decent men shudder..
TN Norway the trees grow further north and higher up the moun- tains than anywhere else. Skiз were invented there and by a piece of re- markable detective work I've found they were introduced into Switzer- and by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's man servant.
From one end of the country to the other is 1,100 miles, but the constr straight line it would go halt is so wiggly that if it was stretched way round the world or from here 13th in the line of succession to the conducted the reign of terror.
This is record. to Australla.
Round the const there are 150,000
There are almost no private schools
have to send their boys and girls to the one round the corner.
In a
record.
learn Norwegian.
Their son and heir, Olav, is also
British throne. -
About letters
Tourist agencies call Norway the For food the people live almost en-Land of the Midnight Sun, but the tirely on fsh. As well as enting it truth is that the great majority of fresh they dry it, salt it, smoke it. Norweglans have never seen the sun
at midnight and are never likely to. THERE are 29 letters in the Nor- and beat it up into powder.
You have to go quite far north to wegian alphabet and one of their miles is equal to 6.214 of ours which They make fish soup, als culce do that.
There are two languages in Nor- is quite a step If you're walking. and even fish pudding. In fact, what
Norwegian housewife doesn't know Way, One of them called the coun-I doubt if you'll find it mention- about making fish taste like some-try language, is spoken by the farmed in any book, but there are beav
ers and fishermen, and the other, ers in Norway. I know this because thing else is quite insignificant.
called the King's language, is used I've seen them.
There are also goat in towns, in the universities and in bears, wolves, elka and gluttons. Another thing they eat Is
Besides being blondes and good cheese. It's dark brown, sweet and commerce. The two are as different
cooks the women in Norway walit on the ration. Most English people as the poems of Browning and Burns.
Here's an example. The townɛman on their husbands at table, and don't don't like it. They say It smells of
ask them to help with the washing- goat, but I've never noticed that. It says "eg" (pronounced "yigh"), and
"egg" (pro- | up. reminds me of the clean, the countryman says
I'm married to a Norwegian. always
Bolh of them but she never mentioned this. fresh mountain pastures from which hounced "egg").
mean "1",
had to find out for myself. it comes.
Smith And The Secrets Of Schmidt
by TREVOR EVANS
RAČUNA1967) RAVELOKUURVOYAGE
Journey. But Mr Smith may show
WILLIAM
HICKEY
STONE WALLS...
FIRST
hundred tons of which keeps goods bought in Feb- Barnack Seam have beentory still in warehouses awaiting
Gansport. delivered to Westminster to
"It's rotten to the point:" he said.
help reface the blitz-damaged when I'm getting nothing out no- walls of the Houses of Parlia | new. This Government says it is ment.
helpful to foreign buyers, but don't eu belleve it. They just fool me around and do nothing."
The customer is always right.
Stonemasons say this silver-grey stone is good for a thousand years, which seems optimistic.
In texture and strength It is the
long, since exhausted, which one that di ta ned Barnack Rng was used in building Ely and Peter borough Cathedrals and many of the Cambridge colleges.
Old and new quarries are only four miles spurt at Wansford, near Peterborough.
please in these recruit-short says was very plain when an inquiry was made ut Kensington Barracks
TT the Army is most auxious to
were
I
P
and
I've seen three wars. And fought in two I've lost by scores, Good friends I knew, War widows and war orphans rue
The sights I've seen.
The maimed, the blind,
The shell-shocked men.
The crazied mind,
The carnage; then
The lips that breathed their last
Amen,
All these I've seen.
Mull our 'kin "fear
Such savagery?
Or shall this sphere
Henceforth be free?
O God may men at last agree
In peace serene.
Catholics Who Lead Scientific
Thought
Catholics in Britain who take terest in science have their own professional or layman in- organisation to encourage their studies.
of
A BRITISH Government sent for-and Mr Smith need not authority agreed with that's investigations may break new me recently that to put the ground.
spout new blaped orders. Within a month he is off to Frank- nominal value of Britain's
fort, in the American zone, or Bad-
Complaint by RASC was that they being blancoed about by probe into German trade Oeynhausen in the British zone.
changes in the regulation coleur.
the This in
British Gund secrets at less than £100,--
The Samples
Quarry-master is TOM WALLS.
Commanding
Mendel and Panteur, which recently oficer. Yes,
Colonel the one and only--April the
held a Conference of its members 000,000 would be niggardly.
the R. D. S. ANDERSON, had the answer Derby winner, THERE he received by specially Filth is his
In London. The Guild in dealented put, explained that the only blanco
to the monk who stated "Mendel's This rifling of German brains trained officers who house him, "Crowthers of Bankdam" his new
rent of it including they had been able to get for some
Law" of inheritance and the Catho time was "dreadful mud-coloured tie bacteriologist. Its main Interest and ingenuity started within a provide transport,, arrange inter-im-and all the
AL Linst.2. week of the landing of Allied viewa
This is the family business; he is stuff." Now there was a fresh and is in biology but it does not limit Mr Smith has the status of un
docg it restrict und för troops on the beaches of Nor-cflcer. His instructions are obered. now senior runer, first sent stone Rood suply which everyone was to
if he wants drawings made or sam-
to scientists.- to Westminster for pre-biltz repairs wear. Blanco costa 4d. n tin; clean-
membership mandy two years ago.
ing allowance is 6d. a week.. ples
The sermon at its Conference was asks for to the Victoria Tower. provided he merely Technical investigators, British and them. They are flown back
preached by Fr. S. Loycester King, SJ, PhD., a member of a number of 'learned societies in Britalt and Europe, who is a recognledd con- sultant and lecturer in psychology is one of and social hygiene. Ha the many British Catholics who is well-known for his selentine learn ing. The president of the Guild is Professor Loula Renout, a London- born: scholar who holds the Chair at Cork of Biology and Zoology University. His is one of the names
of modern selence.. it is easy to call-up in every phase
to
American, followed the fighting men. Smith's report. at the end of KING GEORGE, in Balmoral re-
They were after munition secrets.
Britain's supply departments were "eager to exploit rockets or any up
tried weapons against the Far Eastern enemy. But after SHAEF was wound up in July 1945 the turn of the industrialists came..
The Journey
his tour is made available to all the cently read how thieves missed other button-makers of Britain and
stealing his aut, telephoned his taior in London. the United States.
In the Russian zone Mr Smith is "Sorry to read about the burglary usually able to make on investiga- told the King. How is my suit? tion only if it
It happens that a button-Hone It is all right."
The suit is all right. A blue one, maker of Kharkov wants to come into the British zone at the same time. It will be ready "umetime soon"! Now the field is.all but exhausted. Price uloga (with purchase tax INCE then nearly 3.000 British Nearly 10,000 plints have been in 20 1bs.). Coupons, 28, will be sent business men, technical special- spected. More than 1,200 British from the Palace when the suit is ists, engineers and scientists, have technical reports have been produced. Onished.
waiting for become temporary servants of the Nearly as many are Stote, donned uniform, signed a do- claration under the Official Secrets Act, and gone off to Germany.
Suppose John Smith, button: W
maker. of Bradford, wants to know the secrets of his old rival, Johannes, Schmidt, of Hanover.
publication..
The Lessons
WHAT are the main lessons?
Not content with that, the colonel spoke to the adjutant, Instructed: Ward a note to the new order: say that any man may use up his old bianco before buying new, in order to save himself expense."
"Now am I being fair?" he asked.
Yes, sir.
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TAPANESE, struggling to under- stand democracy and how it werks, shocked British parliamentary delegates by asking at Tokyo 'con- ference: times thi year Mr How much and what kind of hiss-
MICHAEL COMER has crossed ing and boeing occurs in Parliament ARE YOU SURE?
debates? during
the Atlantic from New York to buy
Commander THOMAS `D. GAL- British. He has spent thousands of pounds un things Britain does not BRAITI (Pollok Division of Glas- want, particularly Victorian silver gow) earnestly denied hissing and 1. German supremacy Was most
and plate which "Ats In with our booing, but had to admit to occa- *lonul crles of "Withdraw" or marked in the processing of Gamboyant style of decoration." "ersatz" or substitute materials, This time he is not buying, but Shame" and also to derlaive laugh.
at ineptitude ter.
Japanese, just wanting to know, naked what that was. Galbraith saw engineering and it in time, declined to demonstrate.
Mr Smith may apply for facilities particularly in textilca. They were ranting and raging through his trade association to the excellent too, in heavy machinery, Board of Trade. He is referred to optical instruments and woodwork- the British Intelligence Objective ing
craftsmanship in
ANSWERS
(Questions on Pare Four) ·
Alois
i Butopest, Hungary; 2. Senefelder; 3. Ferdinand de Lesseps; 4. Twelve; 5: 190,000,000 people; 0. Adam; No; B. Death Valley in California's Great American Desert; Sub-Committee,.in Bryanston-aquare, Their mines were heavily mech-shipbuilding was below Clyde and
9. Station KDKA of Pittsburgh, 'anised, although much of this equip- | Tyne standards.
Pennsylvania, established in 1020;- ment is unsuited for British condi They had a weakness for thatalling OVER since, P. J. LAFFEY, of 10. Only about two pounds; 11. At Elgantically heavy presses and ham. Wigan, first würd I atarched San Juan Teotehuncan, Mexico; 12. 2 German Irms were not as good mers which were effective in mass school collar, he has been losing the Belgium: 13. John Milton, 14. A as the average British firm in produced munition processes, but same back-stud with regularity for, hole in the snow where a skier has many metallurgical industries. Their quite uneconomic commercially, 33 years, Any challengers?
fallen.
W.
Tijnen Alen show him, the technical | ilons. reports of experts.
He may be. ratisfied, or ho may want further drawings. These oro
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