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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947.

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PAUL HOLT, Float Street reporter, wont to the United Statos by the Queen Elizabeth hor maidon voyago. His impressions of America to-day have appear- ed in those columns during the past few weeks. In the following article written on the return voyage, he reports what sover English people are thinking of America and their own country.

EVEN English voices open this column to-day. They belong to Reven men and women who are returning in this ship to their homes from visita on pleasure or business to the United States.

What do they all think about corning home?

One feels patrlotte, thinks he doing his duty and gels a kick out of his "ancrifice." He is smug and hardly bearable.

Seven people discuss their future in England

Two "That could be. 1 said, and we| August; but the one thing he loved Is great ship is to-day a lovely

left it there.

Two are whimsically funny. Just crui't wait to tell their friends and business collenguca whni jug- ginses hey are to put up with so inuch.

One woman is glum because she says she will starva for colour m England. The last one can't wait to Ket into politics.

All these people exist. I don't give their names for the very good reason that should they read any of this on the train home they will smartly change their present opinions.

Lancashire lad

about it was the freedom. You could |

chinos of galety and breakages. do as you pleased about your own. The second fellow I talked to was affairs and nobody much bothered Broken heads and broken glasses. It is like the Inst days of Pompeil, save in a'far greater quandary.

you if they went wrong.

that we all know that a grey dual of The managing director of a com-

Before the war he grew cotton In Kenya, but he is bored by the pros-pany which makes instructional films restriction and inediocrity is about to Lo America to find out about his pect of going back there. He is far in England elinched it. He had been settle on us.

the Americans fre from poor. A month ago he decided business; how to stand himself the treat of doing 1 better than he can. holiday in Americu, "to get my ideas straightened out."

Ho returns with ha ideas in more of

a muddle 'than when he NUMBER ONE, the mug one, is un IN

expert in a Lancashire textile started. He still does not want to go works. He has been to the States to Kenya. He says he can't live in to study new methods of making England as a gent of leisure because clollis from glass.

He says: "What are the chances in England of my putting my brains to work to-day? How can I become

198. Bd. tax In the pound is at least 6d. too much.

He had no views at bli on life!

Meanwhile make merry. We are Travelling now at 29 knots and more in a crlo and rolling sea that follows-

behind ika A goal

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as she is lived in America for the us. The waves come up of us from good reason that he plainly prefers it an ho lives it in England, But he dowager. is senred by the restrictions he has briefly forgotten.

"I

Out of touch

will take me at least a week to get used again to the paper work

Already here are people in the hospital, some with fractures. They slipped and fell just as you might have done in the black-out

At lunch time on the verandah

and the slow rhythm of delay I took grill, which is the snob restaurant for granted six weeks ago. I shall way up over most probably be out of touch with such my whole staff and lose a lot of bankers and business friends."

He spent the night quite solemnly a Dupont or a Rockefeller or a Ford? discussing with me an offer he had There is no scope felt for a young from a millionaire friend he visited man's initiative in England. But I'm going back just the same," says in Florida. The job is to act as but-

to his friend at! ler and secretory this ambitious young man.

€1,500 a year and all found.. Bertie Woaster turged Jeeves, in fact.

He asked me should he do it.

"Going back. But why, If thts the way you fecì?" i mag.

"Because the war isn't over yet. Because there's more to do day by day. Because I believe England needs me," says the lad from Lancashire.

"Are you quite other way around?" I asked.

The

managing

director of

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famous in Orm at gloomily in the bar of the ship drinking somebody else's gin. "D'you know we're going to lose the whisky market in America "Seems a bit like letting the old within 13 months if we don't bestir country down," he said.

ourselves?" he said.

I asked him what he thought of life

His simple theme was the rapid

American sure it isn't the in Ameris, thinking this might give skill of

companies in some clue to his curious desire.

blending 25 per cent, of Scotch dis- stilled whisky, which they import to our vast discouragement, with 25 per! gent, more Canadian and 50 per cent.

of their own natural spirit.

"T'other way round? You mean I need England?"

He said that he found Florida to be rather like the Isle of Man

In

RONNY THE RAT FLEW TWICE

AROUND

This is a story about China's most travelled rat, Ronny, but develop ments have proved that the name was

wrong.

THE WORLD

By HAROLD K. MILKS

the stern, there was jollity. Mutor magnates, peers behaved like schontboys as the vast bulwarks of the ship dipped deeply out of their sight and the champagne glasses smashed and spilled in their laps as they clung to each other.

The world turned

over and the

Low hours

grey seas boiled, and England, home

but 'a and Beauty lay ahead.

AN

Promise of rain

ND while stewards balanced miraculously like ballet dancers, going down on one knee, leaping to catch a chafing dish and rising with "It's drinkable," he said sadly, an unspilled Martini on the rebound, "They tell me that It gives you a bit and there was a great roaring sound of hend in the morning," he said, of fun around on this, the worst brightening, "but it's drinkable." We weather day the QE. has ever known and civilians adjourned to his cabin to try a me in all her military dicinal nip.

career, people began to wonder whe- ther and when it would stop.

This good man was properly con cerned with a psychological problem,

The commodore, Sir James Bisset, The English are patient and willing has slowed down, and comforted pas- to forgo their Christmas tots of sengers with a promise of rain whisky if they can be sure that the ahead. He said he thought it might benefit comes back in dollars. But quieten the sea.

if we lose the American market any-

way there is little point in the denial. Never have 1 known the English so gratified by a promise of rain. They I am waiting for to-morrow's began to think it would be good to be complained of the cold during the China, saw frigid Manchuria, and routine Right. Cabin heaters were even resisted the efforts of the British headache to decide this point for all home again. turned on, and within a few minutes to induce him to desert his neria! (of us.

for the warmer climate Ronny stuck a whiskered snout out, home

of the heater vent, took a quick look) Hongkong. This rat flew more than 50,000 around and popped into a new hiding miles an uninvited pausenger on place. the C-17 transport of Lieutenant- Colonel Otto Haney, United Statco Air Altache in China.

Ronny was one of the hardier specimens of the rodent family from Chungking's wartime airport of Poi- chlbyi. Anyone who has been rats at Poichihyl can attest to the fact that they are a sort of "supermen" of their race, and Ronny was no exception.

Apparently, Ronny crawled inte Haney's plane while it was parked at Polchihy last March, liked its looks and settled down to a comfortable,

For more than six months there after Haney and his crew played hide and seek with Ronny, but the super- rat evaded every search. He appeared occasionally for a look around while in light, but always disappeared be fore the crew could draw a bead with

wrench or a ration can.

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Not at home Alarmed over the possibility of The daughter of a Cambridge - don Ronny fouling the control cables or

was longing to get home. She sald eating his way through the electric

friends the frock and hat she had wiring and short-circuiting some vital she couldn't wait to show her girl installations, Haney and the crew bought in Beston and she hoped fer- commenced commo

vigorous eviction prevently that the Customs would not 1 gramme.

First of all food was removed, but Ronny continued to thrive. Several times the flers donned oxygen maska and flew to extreme altitudes in the

He lived comfortably on the 10-in-belief that the thin air would end 1 rations carried as part of the emer- Ronny's career. After each flight rency equipment, seemingly happless they heard Ronny paltering about the

plane's Interior us lively as ever. on army crackers.

Crew members sleeping in Ronny the Rodent's flying bungalow during overnight stops always heard him

ordered drastic action and a trop was When altitude flights failed, Haney set-baited with Ronny's favourite Rat was dead.

mean about her problem.

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A defeated candidate tu the

who Flood for tu Commons, Liberals In 1045, could

to resume his wait to get home political studies and a new cultivation of his constituency. He considered America to be so old-fashioned politi cally he was huming with a refreshed belief in his old creed.

The wife of a band leader sald wist-

fully: "I shan't mind dried eggs or

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. but not long, life therein.

Denne rouent fier made his first ap-taking about on midnight inspection pearance soon after when passengers rips. Even his little footsteps, they army crackers. Next day Ronny the grey bread. But I feel I'm going t

suld, sounded as loud as an elephant's hoofs within the metal shell of the aircraft cabin.:

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simple method of sterilizing milk, which promises enormous benc- its to rural areas where pas- teurisation, facilities are lacking. has been developed in Italy, says an American Chemical Society publication.

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The new process, which is now being used to treat all milit consumed in the Milan area, is expected to be appled throughout Italy as soon as production and transportation difficulties are

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be starved of colour. That is what. 1 shall lack most.'

Curiously they all mentioned grey This does not end the story. Be cause Ruity was misnamed. A few bread and frustration. That is what For more than six months Ronny days after lis demise, un inspection of they remember best. Yet they didn't Hike America, any of them. made every flight in Janey's plane, the aircraft brought proof that the really like travelling the equivalent of twice error was in the form of two baby. They didn't feel at home there. They around the world.

rats nesting comfortably in the felt like the guest who had been to a ife shuttled on transfer fights to heater bay. On which trip Ronny wonderful but the hosts had been where the hospitality had been the new Capital at Nanking, visited met their father is still a mystery.

quarrelling. metropolitan Shanghai, toured West Associated Press.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1945, by Ely Culbertson)

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to passing live hearts with as strong "I didn't claim. n hand as he held. in any of my bids," he said, "that I had anything in spades. If you (speaking to his partner) could all be slam-minded without that spado assurance from me, you had to have the suit controlled, yourself."

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practically shouted; "Pasa If you have two spades; bld six hearts if you have one spade."

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lost no time in laying down the spade accompanied by a singleton in each ace, and Enst, of course, won the of the other suits. Surely, it was up spade continuation. The stam was to South to look at his own, spade defeated before South could get int holding!

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