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·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1947.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
AN old man in the caves of
Roquefort
BOG
said. years ago, that nothing, not' evon war, would banish good cheese from the world.
I said that I thought people in * England now preferred sham cheese. He said: "That fad wi
So, merry at heart, I went on my way to Millau in Millau under the Aveyron. Cousses,
Milku. happy Title
which is just a big as a town phould be, and where nothing has happened since Fabre the natur
beetling in the lanes; alist went
into once chasing specimen Rodez, whereat the Bishop come tearing out of his Palace and said he would have none of this in his diocese. Utinam, elthe, would that I had an entire issue of this paper in which to praise Milinu. Interlude
Prodnose: You must be crazy. Who wants read praise of Millau?
Atyself:
to
Every self-respecting
man but not, of course, a rancid ttle gadget like you who were ever wont to make four hundred and sixty-one gulps of a quart of stingo, and are at this moment probably crying your eyes out about Hammond,
Zoological causeric ZOOLOGISTS
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иге wondering whether the egr fald by an emu in mid-Atlantic will hatch If the bird gets down, we're out.
done for, unless they can find a very patient cow lo si on the egg. No other animal is
แล elfective substitute for the emu,
it is not
to it on to
wet it Casy the cgR without smashing the sheil. In
of course, they lower the cow
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cently on a caNO, -
until it is seated in position. To keep it all it is dosed with: benteni a
a potent Indian sedative. It seems a lot of fuss about a baby emu, but zoologists are so touchy. And an emu's egg in shell does; not grow on every tree, as it
were.
In passing
ERE is, one of the funniest things happening today, and one that is too rarely laughed at. Every day people sit down front of a microphone at Broad- casting House, and read manu-
effort scripts. They make
every to pretend that they are speaking spontaneously,
They
develop tricks with the voice, And the millions who: are listening krew perfectly well that the whole thing is a fake. und that the sneaker is reading stuff passed by the officials. Oho
little and so on.
THE professional politieinn who
can't make said that you omelettes without breaking eggs 021 old- was talking through
Omelettes today fashioned hut. are made
Chinese sawdust of (Near-Egg-Type Extract) if: there is no omelette powder left.
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The news came recently that the R.A.F. has revised the claims of the Battle of Britain fighter plane heroes in the light of evidence
from Germany.
Don't worry,
'Sailor' Malan
EAR "SAILOR,"-I am afraid it will come. as a shock when you read that the H.A.F. has amended its figures for German losses in the Battle of Britain.
Mr Noel-Baker, the Air Minis- ter, answering a question in Parliament, said our total claima of German planes shot down between July 10 and October 31. 1940, were over-estimated.
To Group-Captain A. 4. 'Saltor' MALAN, D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar
of the grantest of one "The Fow"--goes this lottar to S. Africa from
BASIL CARDEW
was
to
yenuine."
"With 100 Huns milling around, with guns spitting from every angle "Stuffy" says, as I have often with the cockpl feeling like 1,000 estimate their victims and check up heard you say over a half-can degrees Centigrado, they could only of beer: "I must disclaim any with the Observer Corps and radar exact necuracy in the estimates when they got back. They had no be anything cine* but of enemy losses. All I can say time On that great day of Septem is that the utmost care ber 15, 1940, when we claimed taken to arrive at the closest 185 destroyed, German records possible approximation, Special show that 56 were lost, though Intelligence officers examined they admitted only 43. This pilots individually after their and other changes, made front- combats."
Tails up
page news.
Now the Air Council accept- the German figures as authentic
because they were returned by NOR was Sir Archibald Sin- the Luftwaffe squadrons on a clair's Ministry concerned day to day basis in demanding to fake the figures of German
losses to bolster public morale. replacements. The units, as
Morale was at its highest in you know, would be unlikely to minimise their losses in these that tremendous summer and autumn. We had our tails up. circumstances.
to use an R.A.F. term.
The Air Ministry regret having to alter their figures. They say they were mistaken; they did their best, but were wrong.
Your glory
Known, unknown.......
VER the years the others have said the same-Mungo Park be- fore he was killed at the end of '40; "Sawn-off" Lockle, who went a little later, and the great leader Beamish. Or Tony Bartley, husband of m Hawkeye Kerr. Deborah actress
Max
Wells, the man who could see an enemy plane minutes before his pals, Aitken. or the old war horses who leavened the team--Al Deere. M. Stephon, the first man to Michael Robinson, Johnny Hill, H. get his Bil D.S.O.
Britain. over fighting Carey and many whose names will never be known to the public be causc they paid
paid the price with their I was reminded of you when lives before the Battle was over.
Did they shoot line when, red-- I spoke to Wing-Commander
their reports? Did the Air Ministry Stanford Tuck, another Battle eyed from lack of sleep, they made of Britain leader, your friend consciously fake the returns to keep and mine. He explained that up the morale of the people?
which anved mankind Fighter leaders at that time the battle would not allow their squadrons from Nazi dumination for all time,
less splendid, less herole
con
Д
Was
than the
THE mistakes were made in to follow the Hun to the ground. world has been led to believe?
that it was
the heat of battle. Proof He is not sure
of this is the fact that when the an order, but hil the comman- Battle was not so fierce, our ders kept to it for very good claims were fewer than the ac-
tual German losses,
Do not let this paring down You will not get many Hawaiian in the official records worry you. WO clerkly comrades stood
You and your boys won at the windward end of guitars in St. James's or Pail Mall: It does not really matter one roller skates or false moustaches jot. -Pall Mall discussing-so are your affair you are advised to the Battle.
try up the street. But if you have
The young men who put in inappropriately-the latest of a mind for First Follos, trout flies, those gunshot melodramas that Court swords, George 11. salvos, ove and six sorties a day saved bullet-proof waistcoats or a pink
Britain and democracy. have taken to defacing London's pick-me-up, this is for you.
the clubs. are Of course there
By the squadrons flying and story.
for ing Mr Almark began to cater
reasons.
Decoy trick
I
Smile on!
DON'T need to ask you and your men. Some of you may be dis- illusioned with peacetime standards. But all you must be happy (and I feel that you are) knowing that you brought about a turning point REMEMBER you frequently said, ot Biggin Hill, when climbing in the history of the world. And from your Spitfire after a scrap: no figures can take away that glory. "The fellow who follows a plane down won't live long. It's often a What were our losses? Now we It was decay for planes above to bounce know the heaviest day. him.'
August 31, 1040. Forty-two RAF. Some of those enemy planes which machines fell in the defence of this spiralled down with smoke pouring country. front the engines managed to ལ straighten out and hedgehop home.
Result of this battle was chrono-
Most remote and even a litt. From the time when the enterprise fighting 60 hours a day, which This will explain the altered figures. foglenily set out in captured Ger-
were
is five hours for each pliot, the coarse it seemed, in this slaid and the gregarious buck they have con- massive backwater of triple-tested-regated there. From the time of German Air Force was defeated
those
mos and the invasion called off. Turkish baths- liberal-minded of respectability and substance-Club- the famous "Bagnios."
and how chastened now, how screme) Those figures I get from Lord lund, as it calls itself.
"Stuffy" Dowding's despatch those, and solemn and sound! 1 could have told Yet
Anyhow, where are these famous and he was your C.-in-C. at the criminologists--was dying to, Indeed,"
out cluba? If you look for a range of time. since I had only just found
standing, Neon signs; BOODLE'S..BROOKS'S myself-that they
THE CARLTON
ure .... you right there, where o much
more smartly recalled to the fact that you sensational assassination had rocked aren't in San Francisco any more; London even more than Charlotte- nine times out of ten there is not street. In fact, the first of the gun- even a brass plate..
How many a troubled guest, in- vited to lunch
the Júnior at
bis sherry- Pundits, has wasted time trailing up and down those anonymous facades!
men.
It was there--just outside what is now the United Services Club-that the three hirelings of Count Koenigs
years ago, mark walted, some 200 for Tom of Ten Thousand to pass by.
....
And what a street it turned out to bet In that great No. 80, lived Tom-Thomas Thynne, that niro Gainsborough-how many plumed clously rich Wiltshire M.Phad bonnets and swan-like necks passe crossed swords with the count over through that door? some romantle difference of opinion, count's onswer and this was the poked through the carriage window: three rounds rapid from a blunder- buss..
It was all over in next to no time, greatly appreciated Including a
just there triple hanging,
Bame footpath.
on
the
Bucks' parade
THERE was Sarah Marlborough's palace, and up the road, at No. 25, the fashionable best-seller Sir Walter Scott, and Mrs Fitzherbert, morganatle wife of George IV.
The day after I know the standards you worked man documents. to in Nos. 11, 10 and 12 groups of August 15 (when the RAF destroyed Fighter Command-the men who, in 70 German planes and damaged 32). that
order,
toolt the brunt of the at--an enemy-order was issued delaying tack. To claim a "certain" kill the still further the decision to attack. falled. By October 12 they had Hun had to be seen disintegrating in the air, bursting into flames, er Invasion was called off because the losses suffered by the Luftwaffe had the pilot baling out.
Another commander Group- smashed the plan. Captain D. E. Gillam, DS.O. und So be proud of your gongs, "Sal- two bars, D.F.C. and bar, who like
the Regency bucks and the Georgiun Tudors built St. James's Palace, and said: beaux could look back to when the marvel at the endurance of things
A
lor."
The nation gives thanks to is now in Civvy Street, gave me another point when I told him about you all; knowing that figures are
The figures only disclose that the this on the phone to Yorkshire. He not deeds and deeds saved the world..
when the C.O. was away.
was commanding Squadron 616 Luftwaffe could take less punish-
The ment than the fighter pilots of Bri-- boys-had only one job to do-to stop lain were led to believe. And then war the Hun and kill him. They were
Yours Sincerely the Quarter not bank clerks with ledgers and
WAR did not treat was to under pencil. They did their damnedest
18th century fragile elégance, too to be accurate in their alm and their much Georgian black-washed brick cinlm. and plaster to disintegrate so easily under the bombs.
wax
And who recalls the night, in October 1040, when Wren's lovely roof of St. James's Church scattered and burned--and from the Fifty Shilling Tailors opposite the dummies dropped down blazing ilke
Poke? some ghostly
Now they have something else to talic about the Government is tak- ing over Carlton House Terrace, and
For, indeed, all the men of the out will go Crockford's and the There are fewer excltements, by Georges used this street as no other. Savage and the Union. But to be and large, going on there today. St. There
Gibbon and honest, now: since the Nash facade Fox and go Jaines's, in its fractious times, clings Sheridan off for Brooks's passing is to be preserved not much harm be done; the tattered and ragged to Its Atmosphere, like any sturdy William Pitt maybe on the way, Clubman clinging to his chair.
Here comes Byron limping from front will be none the worse of a his house at No. 8, St. James's-street little demolition.
i So the old will remain across the with another session of "Chlide
the new, that immense Harold" off his chest And Swift road from
Elegance
where in
can
most
If still contrives, more than any striding down Bury-street, and. Mr Ponderous pile that is London's
the West End, to Addison..
Citadeperplexing war-souvenir-the- embalm the most elegant, period of That, now, would be the Prince It remains, Just Inside Admiralty England's time which I grow more of Wales and the Duke of York rid- Arch-that monstrous impregnable will and more to believe) Bowered being over the cobbles, and Johnson oddity, Georglun St. James's tween 1750 and 1820.
brooding in front of Dodsley's book crumble and reappear as Glorious shop window, and Horace Walpole Luxury Ofice premises, but the with a trifte bought at Christie's Citadel, no doubt, will outlast them
In St. James's the shops-the Good Places, naturally-still go to greut lengths to look as neaty as possible like something out of Pepys.
NANCY
But time whistled by as fast in all.
as a memento to us foolish
St. James's us anywhere else. Even people that the brave days are done,
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