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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1947.

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Wrapped in her shawl was a tiny baby, blue with cold. encrusted its twig-like limbs with sores. She begged the soldier for medicine without which, she said, her bambino would die before the sun set. Though deeply moved, the soldier had to tell her that the isolated unit had no medicines the emergency other than

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GLASS IDOL

by HODGES

What Craik did not know is that Lieutenant PHILIPPE STIBBE re- who|covered, was freed in Rangoon, now live in Leicester, Rifleman MAUNG TUN was not shot, now owns a patch of his native valley, his buffaloes,

tends

WILLIAM HICKEY

OMPLEXITIES of London trame

have postponed retirement

of SIR ALKER TRIPP, Scotland Yard's traffle chief.

ANDY Brigadier BER- NARD FERGUSON, wears a monocle, upstanding moustache and the ribbon of one of the best D.S.O.s of the Burma campaign, was the em- barrassed idol of the Karen Mis- sion, now in London to argue BEGAN Sir Alan Herbert at heavily police-constable chauffeur, is apt to

about Burma Constitution.

This Chindit had 600 Karens in his command on Wingate's first ex- pedition: writes, speaks with convic- tion of the courage and absolute loyalty of these northern tribesmen.

At Karen conclave,

angular Sir HENRY CRAIK re-lold Ferguson's intensely moving story of the British officer so badly wounded that he had to be left behind in the jungle the walt for

Jups or death, of Karen rifleman who disobeyed or ders and stayed with him.

Lang afterwards, nows altered through that the officer had inst been

In seen desperately 111 Japanese prison homital, that the brave Karen had been shot.

gold-laced dinner party: mirals and gentlemen.”

Motorlats between Westminster and Hampton will take pour view.

Zealous Tripp, driven daily by headquarters cockaded, but stilt "Adgang speedsters. Chauffeur then ex- plains that Assistant Commissioner thinks this and that.

LD-TIMERS get nearest to origin of war-torn phrase, "When I get my bowler,"

Postcards from long-memoried readers agree that term is pre-both wars: is undoubtedly Edwardlant and the suggestion is that when Guards' officers resigned their commissions they got their bowlers again, which was the usual headgear of the time.

from Postcard

A. reader G. BROWN, 43, lleming-rond, Edgware

this Middlesex, was the first with explanation. He concludes:

"Any officer resigning his com- mission....left the Service in the. same dress as he entered-hence the tradition."

Children's Corner

Conducted by Uncle Peter

What is Electricity?

Electricity is a powerful force of has but touched upon the fringe of the mighty power which lies nature which scientists have managed harnessed in the little atom. to harness for practical use in every- The woman wept, rocking back day life. An electric current is merely and forth and bolding out the baby stream of "electrons" which is made in supplication. Finally, the soldier active by some impetus or force ap- went into his tent and enme outplied to it. with n tube of white saive.

"Squeeze this over the bambino's If you stand a score of bricks on legs." he told her. "Rab it in well end touching one another, and then --and pray. Perhaps it will help.'

As they came up to the soldier, the men removed their hats and the women crossed themselves. Silently, the woman held out the baby,

A week later the woman returned give the first brick a push, the whole peasants, line will fall over, though the brick with a group of ragged

moved any you pushed has hardly distance at all. Something like this occurs when an electric current passes along a wire. When this is done, what really happens is that electrons Its legs were completely cured. In the weeks that followed, the

pass from atom to atom, each atom American soldier's fame as a healer spread

through the

mountains. as it receives and electron glying off Every day before down the lame an electron which flies to the next and the sick gathered outside his atom until the end of the wire is reached, and a bell la rung, or the tent, waiting for him to and treat them with his

his magle salve.

whatever is current made to perform A dozen

burned in candles honour in the litle church, and in function it is intended it should do. the spring two babies born in the village were named after him.

His name the prasants took from the tube containing the wonder- working salve-Barbasol.

-FRED ROSEN.

T

merge

We do many things with electricity nowadays. We light and warm our homes,

drive our trains and the machinery in our factories; yet man

Skeleton

CLUES ACROSS

1. Thin 10

Worthlean stuf (that's

tun).

L. Whore

Latigue,

my

to

one has the

BUCO.

8. Sueba latform Should mult tho Man Wo 1. achloving auccess.

Whore sball Wa turn for

a mlaar?

M. Bird found

chlody by

Yorkshire.

Hussex, or,

East Anglian rivers,

14. Realzas, having got the vocal.

late all upset.

15. Weapons to take up

when going to defend someone else. 10. With the French a meadow, IT. Messenger who should soon be

getting a pOSE.

8.10. The coal Wo are getting does

ttttte more than ignite.

21. Eygu one letter is enough, as

It happens,

23. Those swinging tunes we have

still to nako.

25. There should be pleats of nea

In this faciac area.

20. Not so many have mution at

hart.

27. Haro mercy on the wib i.

CLUES DOWN

Something for the gardener when he has nothing luside.

NANCY

Rupert and Ninky-30

The little scout doesn't answer Rupert's questions at once, but is stili laughing at Ninky's name. Donkey Ninky, Ninky donker. he chuckles. "Why not go one better and call him Niaky, the dinky donkey? Ha, ha," But

doesn't want to be funny. Rupert tell me." he pleads. "Where is he? Are you Boy Scout? Why did you take Ninky ? *** The little fellow grins. in not a Boy Scout. I'm a Toy Scout. I go scouting, for new kinds of toys, and your cloth dankey took my fancy."

'ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,

Crossword

B. Islande whore card-gambling

has been put down.

4. Such a position aquatters have

been the bridge-playing

5. Fault

cricket umpire 7

6. "I wandered lonely 9 2 --"

Wordsworth).

7. To a very old lady it's always

the day before.

D. Militars prisoner of my age.

10. Bucha a sir, should have

ce with SOMTO→→→

12 and puch a babby is moes

particular

13. AS THE

5,"

ear, 10 catch

10. Finitariya Parson or a coù, 20. Festivities cles munt anish. 22. I have to go in for a competi

tion short-that 15 after ilve.

21. High vronne, you meat in Rott

ing down to the

Lessons in Submarsion

NANCY/---`YOU'VE BEEN IN THAT TUB FOR TWO HOURS

YES, MAM

WHY DO YOU WASTE

YOUR TIME LIKE THAT?

Is the section Crossword 200 have ve li to lack squares and place elite mumbers as well as volvo the clues. The furry black, and thres, ciye nambero tin thể puzzle Klve you a start.

The design belug symmetrical, every black square in the top left quarter must have a correspond- ing linek in the top right buttom left and bottom right quarters. Su black all the stpuntes corresnand- ine to the four atrendy sanded nud You have 14 bliek sufitarem.

Study the clue numbers, Before elno 8 you have to hid places for 1 and 6 Arrois aud 2, 3, 34, 6 and 7 Duw, ( thẻ hư$ (DEF there must be an Across clue ta correspond to No. 23 with winB bntance on the left.

Notice (but cite is Across and there is on I Down, so you ran black, in the square under that containing. No. 1, and the thres athers to correspond. The rest should be easy, No words of less than three letters ure used.

LAST WEEK'S 90LUTION BU

I'M NOT

WASTING

MY TIME

wear

Position of errant motorist who insisted on being summoned by either would

has be interesting, never been explored. As police- constable-chauffeur does not uniform, he may not institute speed- Assis- ing proceedings. Nor may tant Commissioner, whose constabu- lary powers are the same as yours,

MRS JUNE NORBURY, of Thorne- this road, Doncaster, acissored advertisement. thinke It blood- thirsty:

"Fur gloves re-backed with your own skin."

Are You

Sure?

Ansipers on Page 10

Chicory

for

oblained from="

ODIT.CO

la

A bean, nut, leaf, plant rooi.

bark of a tree?

2. Docs Britannia, on

the

top left-hand corner of a £1

note, carry in her left hand-

Asprig

of myrtle, trident, spear, sword, orb, olive branch? 3. A history of the English Abigail has just been published. An Abigali i

A wife of a clergyman, lady's-maid, midwife, apinster?

4. The Latin word Vete

Is frequently In the nown. It

means

I will it. I dislike it. I do not agree, I forbid it. I overrule?

5. Two well-known Glm KATE. Do you know them?

0. The first English sotila. ment in India was—.

Bombay, Madras, Seringapa- tam, Pondicherry, Gos. Surat, Calcutta?

7. Groz-blossom is- Redness of the nose, flower of Juniper plant, floral mirage?

8. Are-aye 19- A native boat, animal, sailor's

cr

which has longent--

Plymouth

Town,

Rock, Aruple, Hos?

been there

Brethren,

10. With what, in apert, do you connect

The. Baseball Ground; Inver Eleith; Westward Hol

According To Culbertson

One

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

of the most popular mis- conceptions of bidding has to do with Bo-called "sign-offs." Let's take a look at a typical enne:

South, dealer North-South vulnerable

NORTH

4AJO ❤985

• KJ 42 75

WEST K7 2

❤D 32

+ Q 18

KQ 10 %

.

SOUTH

10 3

KAST 9854

A 10 7 0

AX 10 76 +85

The bidding:

Renth

Work

P

3 begeta

North 1 spade

J

West opened the club king. De- clarer won and returned the spade

1cn. When West played low

dummy

did

and likewise,

Granting that a four-heart con- tract might have met defeat against a less favourable position of cards. the fact remains that North was something less than

the

when

even reasonably coor he passed North said, "But how could 1 bid again with only about. two tricks in my hand, when you (meaning South) signed off with two henila?**

to two hearts. Discussing

เve

And there you have the mis- conception referred 16 above-the Idea, held by so many

players

| opener's

strange,

"average"

that a mere rebid of

suit is a sign-off. It

and

disappointing, that

this fallacy should be

is

so hard to

destroy. Consider, please, its very filmsy basis.

It is generally understood and the opener must not Agreed that jump his rebid unless he holds a very powerful hand, with either a long, strong suit of his own, of good support for partner's suit, ΟΙ another suit of his own in a very

good haml Obviously, South's

holding did not conform to any of these requirements, so he could do East th

won with the queen. The club re- nothing else but bid two hearts over turn was taken by West, who now

sign-off, however, is to claim

spude..

shifted to a low diamond, but South tended to treat this 35 an in-

Huessed correctly, putting in the that a hand is either very big or very bad, when the obvious fact is jack from dumuny, and from that that there are millions of holdings time on the defence was not-existent.in between." Four hearts

two

bidi

made-but only

SIDE-GLANCES

North unquestionably should have raised to three hearts.

By Galbraith

COPR. 1948 WY NEX SERVICE, INO. 7, M. RES' STEEM, DEN

"George really would have preferred to stay home to- night, but he didn't want to give his cold to the childrent"

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'M DOING MY.

HOMEWORK

WITH MY UNDER-WATER

FOUNTAIN .PEN

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