1947-03-01 — Page 8

TO RESUME PEACETIME SERVICE

The K.P.M. 21,700-ton motor liner, Ithys, which was requisitlused rarly in the war and used as a troop transport, has been undergoing reconditioning in Hongkong since December, and will resume her role as a passenger shilp on March 4, when she will leave for Shang- hal. She will then return here and irave for South Africa and South America on March 12.

British Zone To Be

•

Jointly Garrisoned

Britain's "international army" plan for the British zone of Germany, under which Allied forces will garrison nearly a third of the whole area. is now nearly complete, reports United Press,

First major part of the plan.

-the taking over by a complete MEN'S WEAR:

Belgian corps of the south-i

western corner of the zone-is

due to be completed within the INFORMALITY

are

merely

next few weeks. At present, Belgian troops stationed in the southwestern Rhineland, west of the Rhine itself.

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CHILDREN'S

COLUMN

By Uncle Peter- Britain's Young Concert Artists

SHORT STORY

By

CLEANING

D'electric, cleaner

n

AISY O'BELL pushed the Dalsy sighed over her cleaner.

over the "It was fined down to three of fourth floor. At the door of them in the finish. There was Tom Sulte 418 she met Jessie Down- inherit kis father's business, and

Stadd, the butcher's son, who would try doing her share of the profitable one at

that. There was chores.

Alan Dremner, whose pa was in the bank and intended to put Alan there too. And there was Wally O'Beli who didn't have any people in town and who did odd Jobs all

place over the

for anyone who would give him a few quid.

"Wally was the best looker them all. A danher he was. had appeal, if you know mean, Jessie,"

had been по

While still at school and the cleaner, swept back her untidy hair Daisy dropped the handle of her age of 13, a girl in Britain has and tenned against the glass door

With a won a national championship at of Suite 418.

backward motion of her hand she indicated the British Brass Band Festival, the modern appointments, soft, car She is Batty Woodcock, of Stock-pots and plush chairs of the inside-

office. bridge, near the steel city of That should be my class, Jessle, Sheffield, who became champion that's what I should belong to it all it should. I've had cornet player of the country this cleaning up for other people at when she appeared at the Royal all hours of the night."

"Now don't take on, dearle," con- Albert Hall in London. She was soled her fellow worker. "We given a great ovation. Betty can't all be in the money in this and her brother, Stephen, are

world." both experts on the cornet and won their first medals when they were seven years old. They were taught by their father.

They are two of the many young people in Britain who have showed musien! talent at an early age.

Another young performer is 12-year-old Eliza beth Powell, who, when she played Haydn's Concerto in D

Major with the London Sym-

duct for her.

phony Orchestra at a London theatre, hnd Fistoulari to con- She began to study the pianoforte when she was four years old. She also has appeared at the Albert Hall, at which, in the present season, many of the greatest musical

"But I would have been a lady," hadn't been telling Hea and making Dalsy went on, "if certain people out to be what they weren't."

of

He what I

EDMUND HUDSON

"I know," murmured Jessie from, the floor with a long-ago look in her eyes.

UP

"They had heard pa talk of Uncle Henry. He had Fold mincs or something like that in South Afrien I told them how Uncle Henry had died and left a legacy that was coining out from South Africa to come inwyer in the elty and I was going to get some money. I did not know how much but pa told me it would be a good "lot.

"That night the butcher's son and the banker's son both came around and proposed. I was oll set to take one of them 'when in came Wally O'Bell In a brand new suit and done up to kill,

"What's got into you? I asked na cyed off his glud raya.

"My folks in the city have sent me a packet, and pop wants me to take over the mills and come home."

Come home,' I echoed,

"the

mila"

Wally explained. Aw-my pap booted me out a couple of years ago,

going back to run nia mills, woollen said I had to earn my own living, But now he's getting old, and I'm

"But of course," went on Daisy, "the other two had prospects. They used to come at different times and accepted, for the other girls and fel- It was sure after a while that one of them was going have to be lows were getting married in the mills. of

some woman might carry off town, and you never knew but what my lot if I left it long enough.

"It was the legacy that brought

甲 rech,

Jessie nt down on the floor the wall and asited the corridor with her back against encouragingly "Why, dencie, have you been hard done by?"

"Heard done by. I was," started of Daisy. "When I was twenty and and my pa a right good-looker I was, too, me and ma lived in a ne house and we did all right. And J was pretty well sought after by the lads in the town."

It to

"They had been calling for and none of them had said any-

aze thing, so I gathered the three of them at the annual Saturday afternoon and I told them Fair Ol1 a about Uncle Henry.

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They're worth thousands." "And then Wally proposed. 'I was wondering,' he asked. If you would like to come, too. Back to the city as Mrs O'Bell7'

"Well, that settled it. I married Wally O'Dell, and here I night, cleaning the bank's floors."

"What happened the mills?" asked Jessle.

am to-

"It shows you," said Dalay, "just what depths some men will sink to. When married Wally O'Bell I found his pop wasn't worth a penny. There weren't any mills and there wasn't any money. It was a trick, Jessic, a trick to marry me and get my money from the legacy. Ho OF man in the Far East to-day, publicly doesn't work, and never has these H. austere, inwardly seething, the man twenty years." Jacoby but whose every art has been warped didn't let him get at

who was China throughout the war,

"But Daisy," asked Jessle, "you Sloane by the conviction that the Commu-Ifenry's money, did you?"

your Unele nists are

"Oh that," answered Daisy, "the more lethal

ethal enemy than

competition was getting tough, Jes- Japanese; General Sillwell, ie in the world have anus book is likely to be one of the sperb military man whose refusal

I had to hook one of them be- The best incks on China to

fore it was too late and to accept the Generalissimo's desui.. peared before London audiences. several years-and it packs plenty tory technique of fighting the enemy

someone

of thunder.

up To "get on the radio" in the ambi-

led to his unfortunate and undesired This careful, readable, concisi de- tion of many composers older than count of what has happened in China basa

meall by President

A who believed in tell- near London. Peter hos realised will not be welcome to those who sided situation, whose Embassy was ing Washington both sides of a two- this ambition at the age of 10, for a have felt that r nan such as General- "Cone: rto

rto Fantasin" which he wrote issimo Chlang Kaleshe told deal the best informed in China, and who

no kewise broadcast frors

departed; Ambassador the north of England studica of the those whose hackles rise at the slight his achievements and whose terms

fror wrong. Nor is it designed to soothe

Hurkey

whose uniform outshone British Broadcasting Corporation ut est commendation for Communists of agreement with the Communists Manchester. Peter, who received of any nationality. In a word, the his arst music lesson in 1938, is nuthers give the Chinese Communists Tse-tung, the Communist leader, the were repudiated by Chiang Mao studying at the Royal Academy of much the better of the struggle with ruling genius of his Party who had Musle in London. He gained entry General Chiang. there by composing two pianoforte

the basic problems of the Chinese never been abroad, but understood sonatas in 1942, when he was twelve.

peasant; and a handful of others, good and bad..

Easy fitting garments

artists But their new area will finding most favour among men in Britain to-day. That applies both to sporis and formal wear, and the general trend appears to be summed up as "not too stiff. not too tight, not too fashion- able."

extend not only cast of the river but well into the southern Rubr.

The sports coat for casual wear is

Am

eie got them. So I made that about Uncle Henry dying and leav- man somehow, you know,"

Peter Hodgson, who lives in Essex } la cause the current pritracted crisis sshdor Gouss, Roosevelt, ing a legacy. A girl's got to get

Tab: is just one part of the plan which will give the smaller Allies their chance to use the fteich as

for planoforte was still a great favourite and there is training and drili ground for new a marked tendency among younger and. Inexperienced forces, and wille to buy sports jackets of un-

also cure the British occupation bur- den.

obstrusive hue for general wear. A porta cont tailored from Harris tweed, for

for example,

and alectm- North of the Buhr, the Polish panied by the new

vue of sports type forces, including the famous Polish trousera with appropriate secessaries, armoured division that

fought can present an appearance of easy through Normandy, and the Polish well-being on all occasions. paratroop brigade, are to be re- placed, and discussions have been in progress with the Dutch au- thorities in the part they might wish to play in occupying the extreme northwest of the zone.

Further east, a Norwegian brigade, 4,000 strong, is to take over the Harz mountaina area.

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World War II, of course, held up the trend towards more colour in men's › wear; nevertheless, colour fads expression in the acceòrics to sports wear-In coltured cardigans, in pullovers with bands of colour multi-coloured at neck and cuffs, In alipovers with course, in Fair Isle sweaters.

designs, and, Science is playing its part in the Daniali troops are also likely to clothing industry in Britain to-day. be used in the zune, though the

Experiments in processing fabrica exact area is still under discussion.

make them wind and waler repellant and, at the same time, more durable All these Allied units will be un- and supple will result in "healthier" der British command, and while they clothing in the future, Shirts and will have certain administrative swimming trunks can be treated with

al inililory government water repelling duties in their respective orers will ments rendered rotproof, moth- be retained by British Control Com-proof and flame-proof.

mission officials.

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to

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But

Return of Norfolk Jacket Sports coat and flannel trousers have for long been the "uniform" of the Englishman off duty. now there is a change in the design of the sports coat, fashion experts say. New models are based on the old -

Norfolk -Jacket-famous aders of detective fashion generation ago, because it was adm theways worn by the great defective

Sherlock Holmes.

to

credit equal to US$24,375,000 cover- Another change in casual wear la

ing wartime claims for goods and

services provided by Australia and

the return of the tweed cap. Pre- ferred styles seem to be one piece

to assist in meeting current expenses models in tweeds, showing checks in

of Netherlands Indies agencies Australia, Kays Associated Press.

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Rupert cannot imagine what is meant by the conjurer's words, but he follows him into the house and watches him take of his coat and enter a small room where a Sianta C2 is seated on a table. "Place donkey on table." says the man, Ruperi obeys. The ca at once brgins to Edget. prowling round and Razing at Ninky, but refusing to go near him. "Yes speak truly, little -bear," says the conjurer.

fears donkey, therefore there is magic in donkey, but what kind of magic I know not."

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

For years, the world has been watching the struggle in China be. twren General Chiang's Kuomin- tang and the Communists. It is a schism temporarily and incompletely patched during the long, bitter struggle with Japan. Then, the au- thors point out, "within 48 hours of

lavy."

elvil war was enging neroKA

And, to-day. the

prospects for pence have vibrated back and forth In the headlines until even some of those whose heart is big for China are losing interest and resolving ty wait for a stabilisation of the situa- tion.

This is, in a sense, one of the trage-

The great trends are followed. too-the peasant whose lot it was to become either soldier or can- noa fodder, either a political en- tity or a serf: the early courney of the Kuomintang and the Com- munists, their

heir parting of the ways and the and

reasons herefore: the famines, the general perfidy, the ure of the end of the great war military campaigns; and the fail- var to bring victory and peace to China,

The Communist political secret on the other hand, is neatly pack-

dies of China's two factions. But afted by the authors in these words:

"If you take a peasant who has beth windled, beaten, and kicked about for all his waking days treat him like a man, nak his opinion, let him vote for

a local

Kov- ernment, let him organise his own police and gendarmes, decide on his own

Laxes, and vote himself A reduction In rent

and interest do all that, that peasant

it is the pattern, origin, and growth of that tragedy which "Thunder, Out of China catches. It deals with the issues which gouged a chasm between Chungking-Nanking Yenan and which have torn for over ind 20 years a

whose popula country tion is so huge that no one knows for certain how large it is. Estimates--if you

run from 400,000,000 persons to 550 becomes a man who has something. 000,000 but the discrepancy alone to fight for, and he will fight to

larger than die total population

of the United States.

preserve it against Buy enemy,

The authors' brush touches them Japanese or Chinese." all Chiang, the most controversial.

Skeleton

CLUES ACROSS

1. Plants

that

come in

Budd

apurts.

1. Couple of

cals Queer xind of

thor'll give you 1

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9. The p

DAISON In giving 4 dance in front of the

11.

of

12. Kind

movenwrit one would expect in

battle ui tobatera.

15. Prominent Conservative, fond

of heath country.

10. Sort of barley? Well, only Just 17. The little devil gots in without

dimeulty.

18. Useful Qressing, if you bare

ter to give dinner to.

21. Such a ten-party! Such

dance

21. An himoderato cater focure

exccan wright.

23. Figure out this word.

four ""

It bas

26. ile backs horsea at the road.

xide.

27. Tittle piece of land~is

not mold.

211, Bally unsettling to Tartes 29. School most farmers go to.

CLUES DOWN

1. About men who keep laverna→

can't

Can the well be royalists.

At Cricket, or on the stage. It's good for a run,

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Crossword

4. Beat for judge and prisoner

alika.

6. Bizips of paper put together

with paste.

6. They make a lot of women.

Joriat foot, but a buffoon (two words).

10, It's Rod's turn to tako stopa. 11. Geometrical Sgures you should get long before you ankh.

13. Where to put & mutinous

*** calor (if the matter's preos

127) (two words),

14. Buitable punishment

Londoner.

for

ID. Que can find a girl, if not

around one.

20. Dog Track.

ul. A szil, and a tent, and nothing,

In the two of them.

26. Inanincaist creature found in

ponds and Leftist circles.

20. 2itor's plich-binck,

No skeleton Crossword you

have to to black squares and place clue numbers as well as satre the clues The four black» and three clue gumbers in fr

pakte give you a start,

The design being symmetricas, every black square in the top let quarter must have a correspond log black in the top right, boltum left and bottom right quarters. black all the squares BOITENDONG- Ing to the four already shader. and you have 14 black squares.

Study the clue numbers. Before cine 8 you have to find places fir 1 and 3 Aeross and 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 0 and 7 Down. On the third the there must be an Across clue tu correspond to x. 25 with stoollar balance on the felt.

Notice that Clue ? l a dirastar. ward one, so this and all einer up to 7 must start in the first line The rest should be easy. No words of less than three letters are sted except in phrases,

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FANDURONT

MODISHTE 21

-ERNIE BUSHI

SIDE GLANCES

Are You Sure?

Answers on Page 10

"You intoxified bruicl...... you insensible block?

Look at the cluck!-D Look at the clock!"

Thus Winifred Pryce greela her husband in the Ingoldsby Legends, Bul

what was the

Lime by the clock-

Cloring time, midnight, three in the morning?

2. If you had eaten no-cake you would.

De hungry, short of DUs. Have caten parched Cori chopped almonda?

3. Which of thesa #ro natural plasties

Bitumen, celluloid, bakelité. shellac?

4. A country in Europe. Do You know (12

5. The Feast of 10 Egi- phany commemorates the ip- pearance the star to the wise men of the East. When is i celebrated?

TIEDO the

6. Can you author-led recently, the world-famous song "The end of

perfect day?"

the

our

7. From which parable in

Bible do

Fot expression "the eleventh hour?" 8. One of these towns has received the D.8.C.-

Calais, Dunkirk, Lille, Sear- borough, Plymouth, Athena?

2.

What is the number re- sulting from the division of X by Y called?

COPE, 1946 BY KEA SERVICE, INC. T. X HO. U. 3. FAT, OFF.

By Galbraith

10

"It must be exceptionally fine music—it certainly sounds awful."

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

To-day's deal was just a cruel joke intended, of course, to establish a long:

as far as the North and South players club by ruffing, and this would have were concerned.

South, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable

Rubber bridge.

WEST

473

NORTH

4QJK

ФАКС

AJ

+ JB 14

EAST 443

• KQ 199 + Q 10 0 6 2

J 10 8 2 878432

48 *SOUTH

4 AKIO 0872

054

+0

↓ AB

The bidding:

Lis

Ispade Spades tha

3 clube

7 DAN

www.

then $44)

been easy if the mult had broken 3-3 or 4-2.

The 5-1 division, however, proved too bad to bo overcome and South could

not salvage bis heart loser,

Obviously, the contract could have been fulfilled through the supremely simple device of finessing against the club queen but there is the point -that inesse had far less "percent- age" than the club-establishment plan actually used by South. A bad player might have made. the hand. by finessing, but no good player would make it, because no good player would take the finesse.

This, however, was only part of the grievance North and South had against Fatet Strangely enough, the Biferior contract of seven no tremp could not have been lost!

At that

contract South would have no clinice but to win the diamond ace, cash the

Moon

fop hearts, then run off all seven There was certainly nothing spades and, the club nce. wrong with the grand-siam contract, while, West would have had to but down it went, and South played blank the club. queen in order to the band correctly, tool West opened hold the diamond queen, and now, the diamond king. The ace wan; when declarer led his low club.to trumps were drawn in two leads, ward dummy, the club queen would then South cashed the club ace and actually appear and make the finesse. led, the club five to the king. He unnecessary!

By Ernio Bushmiller

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