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1. Which is the longest thicke-

(a) liner Queen Elizabeth; (b) Westminster Bridge, or (c) full-size football jitfch? 2. The

of

-festival of Santa Claus falls on~~

Dec. 0f Dec. 25; Jan. 1; Jian

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3. If a person is guilty of vulpicide he has~-

Wounded someone, net fire to a house, preyed on his feltown,

led a for?

4. De file man playing game (if so, what game)

or

handling a cardening tool (what tool)?

3. Who was known as "The Foster-Father of Nobody's

Children"

Sir James Barrie, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Dr Barnardo, Charles Kingsley?

6. How many claws

your cat hav

10, 16, 18, 20, 24?

shaold

7. Which เวฟ discovered first-

North or South Pole?

8 The

is or was-w

Camberwell Nesuty

Edwardian actress, a bufter- flu onion, Derby chrysanthem214957

9. A

bricklayer carries his

bricks in a-

Trope, tee, pup, hod, troutel, maulstick?

10. In the travel world what

is the meaning of

K.L.M.. PL.M.. R.M.S.P., B.O.A.C.?

CATS DIE OF HEARTBREAK

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947.

Shanghai is now a city of despair

SHANGHAL-People used to It is an Inevitable reflection fö- say that going on to Shanghai. day that the theory of Shanghat be- one of the pleasantesting one of the great cities of the world, a little smaller thun London įthings about visiting the East, and a little more debonair, gay and

WIH

because I reminded

much of Home."

one So wicked than Paris, in a thing of the

past.

Ben-

The English were particular- ly enthusiastic about Shanghai because there people very sibly drove on the left, and double-decker buses joggled merrily about the streets.

There WOR 10 Extraordinary tranquility and circumspection about Municipal affairs, and Just that lend of indefinable satisfying pamp and Isolation about living in the city's suburbs that made leaving at sloping hillside in Devon not such n bad thing ofter all.

Dying Metropolis

Steamers that leave Suez today on their way to the Far East con- tinue to bring people who have' a Botion that returning to Shanghai experience, would be a pleasant

of

It has become just a big post-war mud-fat, with profusing riots country people on it trying quito desperately to get along.

Every day it gets to be more of a village and leà like a metropolis.

decided that they are luxuries. They much for this January us for have been banned, but are still com- last.

ing in via the route of the smuggler, and are openly exhibited in the shops for sale,

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but

Shop attendants have a hard time altering price-tags every day, sole is reported to be brisk.

Transportation is at premium, The condition of pubile vehicles, like buses and trams, would ruffle the composure of a tin of Finnish mac- kerel.

Women no longer talk of fashions Opulent Crooks

and the latest Strand Magazine re- cipes-they Now exchange bitter stories about how expensive he formerly cheap Chinese servant has become, and what outrageous do- mands someone's No. 1 Boy made the other day.

have be-

flickshow and pedicabs come expensive. China's man- power, keeping in line with many other traditional disruptions, is no longer cheap, regardless of how one looks at it, although the poor Chin- ese coolte will not get too much with his wad of $1,000 bins.

The men no longer talk About home-leaving in Canada, the Lido or the American Adirondacks; they Boberly, contemplate currency in-

The worker's cost of living in Nation, the rate of foreign exchange, terms of money was seven times as reduction of household expenses, import restrictions.

fraught perhaps with all the trim- Street Names Changed |

mings of its pre-war lace and laven- der, its embroidery, ils pre-dinner gimlet and its annual solemn Armis- tice observance at the Cenotaph, But....

The bewildered returnce will soon

his anticipatory composure have destroyed by the labyrinthine rituals of the Customs.

too astonished to question and later infinitely regret to pay..

The avenues have had their names

no more.

Large

sections

of green

the

Everything locally-produced seems higher in price than imported goods, Just the bowlidering opposite · of whab things used to be.

Distilled water out of the" mean- dering Whangpoo River costs inore than Royal Dutch-Shell petrol.

In the mud-huts of the labour classes there is Just as much con- sternation and uncertainty of the future as occurs in the finer upart- ments of the elty, now symbolical- ly peoples by a class of Shanghai- landers, rich from the spoliations of the black market, ornately bejewel- led, driven in luxury cars, and given to smoking Innumerable Američan cigarettes.

with

Everyone is comparing the past is the present and no one

over the obvious really happy shadow which the weeping ruins of the Cenotaph has somehow cast so methodienlly and unconsciously over the Bund-Reuter.

Has First Perm At 91

AUSTERITY TO STAY

By

4

MISS

ALICE LECOCQ,

daughter of a Hampshire farmer, has always longed for curly hair. And recently, at the underground workers-were follow-age of 91, she had her first ed by an increased meat output. permanent wave.

Lenders In Industry, however say The Crimean medals were being HAROLD GUARD

it is still not easy to be optimistic distributed when Alice LeCocq was regarding prospects for an Increase born. Everybody said what a fine in production which would enable head of half the baby had and what United Press Correspondent,

that Britain to go through 1047 without a pity It was

no amount of formerly Manager, United

any check on Industrial reconver- coaxing would make it curl, sion.

Her mother, in despair, cut It Press Hongkong Bureau.

short like a boy's. There is no indication that the

When she went to school in Bel- Large deficits appear unavoidable overseas demand for British goods glum Alice's mop grew so thick that

reduction it had to be put into four pigtails. with the United States, Argentina would show any marked

in 1947 and any check to the ex-

When Miss Alice put up her halt and Sweden, and considerable sur- pluses appear probable with the port trade are more likely to be the

fashionable Victorian coiffure; and it account of shortage of raw currencies of which cannot be used on

materials occasioned by the lack of was harder still to achieve the high-

piled Edwardian style. currencies to buy for offsetting these defeits.

Thus, white Britain's over-all im the necessary

GAVE A PARTY port and export figures may well them. balance' this year, It will stili be necessary to draw on reserves until such Umes as more currencies be

changed, and the lyricnt innuendoes LONDON. Analysis of of Avenue Joffre, Route Cardinal Britain's economic prospects for Mercier and Bubbling Well Road are 1947 prompts the conclusion that there is little or no possibi- spots lity of any appreciable relaxa- along the Bund have been pulled tion in the degree of austerity throughout prevailed apart. Where once waterfront which landscapes used to delight the eye, 1946. ilis sense of precise mathematics now stand plers and make-shift The beginning of this year will be outraged by the demands of wharts; buildings along the sky-Ilne snw Britain with substantial porters, who will harass him with a

have become. dilapidated without financial resources composed of Seventeen pet cats, who were rè. dizzy fight of tees that he would be the bencilt of even cursory repairs. existing gold and dollar reserves, European and sterling countries, the result of inability to dellver supplies she found it hard to contine in tho

The friendly nonchalance of the together with the unused part city's once-fomous cosmopolitanism of the United States and Cann- The ride to his hotel would be a has been substituted by a tendencydian credits. somewhat baffling experience; traffle to be anti-foreign. The feeling is driving along the rigat, pavements not generally discernible, but it monopolised by people with things emerges every now and then.

to seil-not places to go to-pedes-

Getting down to material consi- trians nonchalantly defying acciden-

no rationing of tal possibilities, masses of humanity derations, there is

wave of anything in Shanghai. Everything struggling in wave after

is legitimately available-for Д sardine emulation, and a Cenotaph

price. monument, its roll of casements November

of

legated to an animal home last week in London because they were judged a nuisance to the neighbours, frelted so much over their fate that they died of heartbreak.

Miss E. Cook, superintendent

There the home, said:

ents had been turned partly into human beings. They would have nothing to do with anybody but Mr Waples."

Mr E. V. Waples was the cat's owner who was fined £5 and told to part with the cats. He said the cats died of "heartbreakt."

Anyway, when Mr Waples appear-shorn of its ed at the kennels, the cats became, docile. and affectionatą, enting everything put before them. But when home attendants tried to feed them or pet them, they bacited away and sulked.United Press.

honour withdrawn, its uprooted, and its quiet signifleaner thrown to the Lour

winds.

Pears Soup. Ponds Cream and Yardley products should be cheup, but have not been rendered so be cause the Chinese Government has

Britain's These resources moet

until CX- overseas financial needs ports have been brought up to the level of Imports, and until all the main currencies in the world are multilaterally convertible.

be

come convertible,

On the Industrial side, the ques- tion of supply of home-made con- sumer goods is bound up with that of availability of labour.

of

rnw

possibility Apart from the critical shortages of coal and materials, however, full employment appears probable throughout although the sellers' market is pected to be much weaker by year end.

The effect of this will be that if Britain has an adverse balance with any country, this balance must paid in gold or in US dollars

If, on the other hand, Britain has a favourable trade balance with any other country, gold or US dollars will be obtained only if the coun- and concessions made to miners food and clothes rationing

try's currency is convertible.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

OKE

"BETTER CUT IT KINDA SHORT) ITLL BE GETTIN' VARAL

HOV!

1947 CX-

the

In the last war she had her hair cut short again....

"But it was a nuisance putting in curling pins at night and when Mr Dennis, my hairdresser, suggested permanen! waving I thought 'Well, here's something I haven't tried yet"

General conclusions reached from, After three and a half hours un- The over-all picture is one of the foregoing survey in Britain In der "the machine." Miss LeCoca

no sign of acute shortage of manpower which, 1947, can look for some lightening showed

Tailgue. according to

the the Government's of

present conditions

of brought a book, but I was so in- would be

nu terested that I never even opened Digest of Statistics, is likely to per austerity, but there

to approach

the return sist during 1947.

of I," she said. Nationalisation of the coal mines normal peacetime standards,

stay.

such as Increased meat rations

to

"f

and

would

Miss Alice gave a tea party at the Kensington hotel which is her home -In honour of her curls.

'April Foolishness'

Bỷ KEMP STARRETT

"DO YOU REALIZE

WHAT THERE IS TO BE

DONE AROUND THIS PLACE? GARDEN TO

BE CLEANED UP

PAINTING PORCH

FURNITURE AND

AID... ETC

ETC

THE KIDS STILL TRY TO FOOL'EA WITH "THE "LOST" WALLET GAG...BUT OVER- PUBLICITY HAS RUINED THE STUNT,

IN THE

GOOD OLD

SUMMER'

TI-M-E

IN APRIL SOME FOLKS THINK IT'S SAFE TO START BATHING AGAIN.

ALMOST EVERYBODY

BECOMES OPTIMISTIC IN APRIL.

Ledger Syndicate

THE LAD VAO

LEFT HOME IN THE MORNING DIS- DAINING AN UMBRELLA

AND TOPCOAT...BUT WEARING A JOY- FUL SMILE ITS APOILS, HE SAID.

IN APRIL EVEN AN OLD MAN'S FANCY WOT-SO-LIGHTLY, TURNS TO THOUGHTS OPTIMISTIC ..... ABOUT A LOT OF THURGS ESPECIALLY THE SCENERY.

YOU CANT CURE SPRING FEVER NO | MATTER HOW LOUD YOU TALK. IT JUST

HAC TO WEAR OFF. REMINDING WA, OF VILATS TO BE DONE ONLY ADDS TO THE JAALADY

APRIL SEEMS TO ∙BE THE TIME TO START GETTING RID OF VINTERS FAT..

BUT WE'LL BET THE HORSE GET RID OF MORE

THAN THE

RIDERS.

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