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ROUND THE EMPIRE

Thomss

DOUGLAS

-5TH EARL OF

SELKIRK (77)-1820- FOUNDED THE FIRST "AGRICULTURAL COLONY IN

CANADA

ON THE ISLAND OF ST. JOHN, NOW PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

LINDER HIS LEADERSHIP 800 SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS FROM THE DISTRESSED AREAS OF THE HIGHLANDS ARRIVED IN 1803 AND, DESPITE STRONG OPPOSITION FROM OTHER IRISIS, ESTABLISHED A SETTLEMENT.. GOOD BROWNINOS MAKE HAPPY ENDINGS }}

· TODAY FOR DESCENDANTS ARE AMONG THE TO MOST PROSPEROUS INHABITANTS OF TIL ISLAND. S

SWORDFISH.

·STUCK ITK SPKAR-387 LON „COMPLETELY THROUGH ZILE HULL "OF THE SCHOONER FLAUTIO TROUKAI ŠA DION OF COPPER SHEATHING AND 4ÝŠI INGRES

KID TIMBER-IDADETH

•DANA, OLBERT I- SNED DOWS TWORDAIN BE ABOUT 700 MILES AN HOLDE AND TRAMVO PONCE (E

ASTRONOMIC ACCURACY

BALLE BADU

with Pateman

-MALGRAVE ÍSLAND HORRES STRAIT, New QUINCA Rest of Yams 1945. MODERY WAR HAS REACTED ON NATIVE

CUSTOMT & COMPTE. INSTEAD OF TRADITIONAL HeadDRESS FACH DANCER WORK ON HIS HEAD A PERFECT MODEL OF AN AIRPLANE

2. THE DANCERS MOVED IN V FORMATION, ALL HUMMING LATE THE DRONE OF PLANCE AND FINISHED UP, WITH ARNES

{". EXTENDED, MA MIGHTY RUSH FROM ONE SICK HOW LONG IS A LINE,

OF THE ARENA 73 THUR HOW MUCH CAN A COUP TAKE, Z WHAT DOES A COVER COVER AND A PIPE HOLD

?

THE ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE AT THE YALE OBSERVATORY, WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY, JOHANNESBURG, S. AFRICA, CAN PHOTOCSIAPH A SHILLING A MIÈR AYNY WITH SUCH CLEARNEST THAT THE DATE CAN BE READ 2 mon

OTHER

THAT

WUSTLES.

THE SPINNING GUM

- EUCALYPTUS PERRINLANA-

Tatmania, a S.Auritalia.

INSTEAD OF THE LEAVES GROPING FROM THE STALK THEY GROW FOound it, SO PUT THE STUDEEREMIS TO GROW ZZZOUGH THE LEAR AS THE LEAF DIES IT BECOMES PAOPETLER-SHARED AND DETPONED FROM THE STAIN, GRAMINO FIGUND IN TE.. BRAZKA TO EMIT A THRILL. WIRSTLIAI STOLIND.

(Answers to Quiz on Page. 13).

The flat shortage hits

N the old days, if you were caught speeding in New York, the motor cycle cop would pull up alongside and say

the fire, Bud?" Now he says: "Where's the vacant apart- ment?"

Bomb Squads Have 20 Jobs with heavy sarcasm: "Where's

Waiting In London

Nineteen "live" enemy bombs, and one British anti- aircraft shell, containing an estimated total of six tons of high explosive, remain buried in the Greater London' aren, according to figures just compiled by the War Office.

"Although reports are

still tioned at furlingham, said that since coming in at the rate of about December 1940, when the B.D. squads started work, No. 2--then a company five a week," said an official, probably recovered more than they are mostly. false alarms, 2,000 unexploded bombs and shells, or reports of ground subsidence, containing more than 100 tons of where we usually find that the high explosivo. bomb has already exploded."

The C.O. of No. 2 Bomb Disposal | Squadron, Royal Engineers, sta

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Where bombs aro

Ingvorked The figures were still being worked

Omec out by the War oficials, he said, and details would be issued in about two months,

The remaining explosives, the C.O. these explained, were buried in places:

1

1.-St. James's Park; his squad 1. Bendigo, Australia. Bendigo start work there shortly. The bomb was popular name for William weighs 1001b, and is buried beneath

(1811-1880). 2. Brick the footpath on Thompson

the north side of jayer.

methods There are several ods the lake. It is within 20 yards of a 1,000lb. bomb of bonding or interlacing bricks. 3.

the bridge where Outside Buckingham Palace, it was

`was recovered last year. 1851. 4. Jeanne de moved in

Kavanagh, script- Casalls, Ted

2.-Stade's Garage, Gateford-street, don, Durham, Winchester. Twenty backyard, one other bishops sit in order seniority of appointment. 7. sex, Perthshire, Herts. I. Man who introduced penny postage. 9. Raised. 10. Skylark.

New York

by EVELYN WEBBER

ing worse weekly. Governor of New. York Thomas E. Dewey has affirmed. that homes will be completed only when controls are removed. In this he is supported by. Pravda reporter Yurov Zhukov, who visited New York recently.

JESTS AND JEERS

One way to get to the first 'rank' in Hongkong is to become a good! seconder.

About the only crop the recent rains haven't ruined is the crop ut. rumours.

General' Wedemeyer has been' zuf-` fering from a severe headache since arriving in Nanking, reports United Press. Nuft sod!

The girl who-expects men to put- her on a pedestal may end up by. finding herself on the shelf

"He plays a fair camo of poker," "Yes, provided you watch him."

The Chinese Government has an- nounced its intention to sell textile and other Industrial plant seized" trom the Japa in Shanghal. Wot, no prinung presses?

Boys will be boys-but girls cont also be boisterous.

ending is the cheque book.

Another book with an unhappy

+

A doctor had an urgent telephone Discussing the housing shortage tall from a man whose son had Mr Zhukov wrote: "Hammers are

swallowed a fountain pen. rattling everywhere. Twenty to 30

"All right," said the doctor. "I'll. .structed in two or three months. come right way, What are you.

single new house Bnished, and it is But I did not see in New York adoing in the meantime?", almost impossible to get a place to "Oh" said the father, "I'm using a

There was no lift and the flat was invest more money in houses that storey houses made of steel are con- six floors high. The man from the they may not sell. private car beat me to it. An I reached the top floor I heard him buildings have now

Last year's projected 2009 new dropped to say "ll take It."

about 800, and the situation is grow live."

This will give you an idea that. New York also has a first- class housing shortage. With out a single house having been

In the midst of intense scarcity destroyed by bombs, this city, however, there are several thousand dat vacant in New York. Mostly at least they are "coldwater flats" in the it is estimated, is 100,000 flats short. Half a mil- least desirable parts of the city down lion people are living "doubled by the gas-works and the abattoirs, up" with other families of eat them. They have rooms, they have latives, often under the crudest refrigerators, they have gas cookers.

and most difficult conditions.

A London fat hunter would leap

But few have steam-heat and none have lifts and the New York/fat hunter wants luxury above all else. He wants his flot pointed and de- carated by the landlord and he would

a sooner live with his in-laws than take

something less.

So, to humour him, the city off- cials offered to landlords the op-

To get a flat in New-York is very different from getting 4

There is flat in London. rigid rent control law. It has nothing to do with Washington, but is a State of New York law. pertunity of renovating and re-let And sometimes this law works, ting the "cold-water flats" tax-free, but under controlled rents of £3 10s, not a month per room, The landlords Premiums racket has spread to these parts. But New want to charge £4 a room.

while there the matter rests York, never the city to yield much-neaded Bats remain empty. first place to any other when it

NEW HOMES comes to rackets, has thought

And the

Hitler's Generals

say that it was all Hitler's fault

pencil."

BOOKS:

by

Georges Malcolm Thomson

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writer. 5. Minoru 1900-6, Lon-¡ Marylebone:"1001b:-bomb In--the up several brand new and pro- NEW dals are sprouting though, all look like the Prussian officers of the belief that, after-all, Normandy - Hitler gaying he would rather shoot

of

Sus- 3-Prince-street, Depiford: 100

bomb buried deep in the back garden

CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle- Across: 1, Farmhouse; B, Arcola; 10, Tin: 11, Natation 13, Abate; 15, Tile; 17, Aside; 18, Icing; 10,- Hair, 20, Clan; 21, Malta; 23. Ant; 24, Afoot; 25, Lle; 20, Intone.

of a house.

4.--Yeoveney-road, Staines: pected 1,000lb. bomb in a gurdien...

front

-

་

fitable ones of its own.

along the East River, a few minutes' walk from the site chosen

vesant Town development.

Berlin.

HABBY, shambling and Hitler is cast, in most of those and the mest popular figure in the

the part apologetic, the men who confessions, for

of eblef Waffen SS ("decent but stupid" "in villalu. He was wrong when he Rundstedt's verdict conquered a quarter of the

on him) world, and terrified

wds prevented Rundstedt from destroying ordered by Hitler to make a stand the rest the British army, at Dunkirk, and in front of Vienna. His crack, opened their hearts.

to Major wrong. on a vastly bigger scale, divinions were forced back by vastly Milton Shulman.

when he invaded Russia

superior numbers. In a rage Hiller But when it came When this Canadian officer where the Allies would land in cherished emblems.

to predicting ordered them to be ripped of their went to talk to the German

Europe,

Hitler Was rich! and Dietrich's reaction was to get military leaders they did not Rundstedt was wrong.

drunk. Recovering, he summoned look like supermen or military

The curious thing was that, having his commanders and said, "There's wizards. They did not even guessed right, Hifler held troops your reward for all you have done,

back in the Pas de Calais area in He dispatched a fery message tradition.

was a feint.

himself than carry out the order. Life. had passed them by.

When he got no One of them is that you walk for the new United Nations' head-

had rejected them. Keitel groaned

answer, he bundled up his décorations and sent quarters. There, on a spot which History up to the landlord, smile cheer- is, the city's worst slum a few They had even failed in their pUNDSTEDT is more

them to the Fuehrer-who by that annoyed fully, and say, "I'll bet you a years ago, 8755 low rent Bats are profession. And they looked with Keltel, the res-general," me was dead in his bunker in.

Hitler. thousand dollars you haven't vera un ne vous new Stuy for all the world like the that with the disastrous,

The one thing wrong' While the Battle of Normandy was middle-aged fallures of any raging, he refused to speak to Keltel got a vacant apartment." At Stuyvesant tenants will get wash-calling.

that few of those German gen-, save in the direst need. When he may be alarming but it is trud that price he usually won't take ing machines, gatages, ultra-modern Sus-

Nor was their esprit de corps did speak it was with cold contempt. erals. see anything wrong in the war you. But if you raise the ante Hollywood kitchens and incinerators.

They will have private children's very marked In an early pri- Keitel suggested that Rundstedt except its result. And for that to two thousand dollars, you'd playgrounds, clubs, beautiful gar-soner of war camp for senior was somehow to blame for the Allied misfortuno-the blame rests with be surprised how often it turns dens, and their own shops. officers there was but one bath-uccess. Rundstedt retorted, "Per- Hitler. Defeat was his crime. We out that he has.

like to come and have in embryo, a dangerous Best of all, there will be no bonu-tub. to which access could be lead this futh,"

Cherbourg fell and Keltel groaned, .Middlesex: 500lb,, buried in a potato involves paying large sums-quite cause written applications of would- of Keitel, who imposed a ban on "What shall we do?" Sald Rundstedt: Meanwhile, here they are, those

Then there's the "bonus game." It ses or bets to get a fat there, be- had only through the bedroom

Bourbons.neckdeep in illegally for things like electric fit bo tenants are studied by selection through traffic. To deal with idiots! What else can you do?" And passing, grousing, undignified, the "What shall you do? Make peace you world defeat. Backbiting, buck- 7. and 8.--Slade's Green. nearings. Or the car-for-apartment committees who allocato flats to those this difficult problem. the au hung up the receiver. He was die men who strutted through Europe Welling, Kent: Suspected 1,000lb. swop also illegal-which necessi-, with the greatest need.. bomb in marshes, and 2,0001b. bamb tates an initial "oullay df anything

and shook the world, pass miserably The rents are to be raised, how-thorities brought Rundstedt to missed within 24 hours.

At the other end of the scale from into the shadows, muttering excused. in a feld.

from two to four thousand dollars

ever. Even before the development the camp. As senior to Keitel. for the hard-to-got___new car,. in. Is completed the builders are peti-le must have the strategically the aged and vastly distinguished. What price mors?

Rundstedt: 9-Allotments at side of Beckton | addition La the thousand-dollar

the SS Major-general LIBRARY LIST by-pass. Stepney: 5006. bomb

bonus you give to the motor dealer. tan city officials for permission to important bedroom. He decreed Kurt Meyer, 34

old, tall, blue- raise their rents from £3 10s.

that all generals were free to

fanatically Nar

The Hopeful Hears, Philip Gibbe "beneath some lettuces."

Active flat hunters Congregate room per month to £4 Bs.

pass through and bathe, save He alone among those fallen war (Hutchinson, 10s. Od.). Novel. A around the city's newspaper offices at

600 FOR UNO

one-Field-Marshal. Keitel. fords did not denounce Hiller, Meyer story of our own times the war, 11 o'clock cach night. They wait for.

saw the war no an attempt by the the after-war,, the General Election, the frat editions to come oft the

Europeans to stem the tide of Ablatie the problems of Europe and Eng-

5.-Themes-road, Barking: pected 1,000lb. bomb in marshes alongside the road.

Under vagotables

G. Brickfields-lane, Harlington

3,

feld,

Down: 1Fanatical; 2, Arable Retailnte: 4, Moat; 5, Ulopia; 4, Sin; 7. Enumerate; 9, Aleshaft; 12, Tea; 14, Adit; 16, Ennul; 21, Man; 22, Loo.

CHESS PROBLEM

"

By L. REGUS Black, 6 pleces.

White;;@-pieces.

White to play and mate in three, Solution to yesterday's problem!

1 K-K4, any 2. R. Kt, or P (übľ ch) mates.

10, Springfield-rood, Hayes, Middlesex 500lb. bomb in a feld.

11. Paul's Croy-hill, Orpington,

Kent: 500lb. bomb in a field.

Feltham, 12--15.—Frig's-road, Middlesex: A ""clutch" of four 100b. bombs in a ballast pit within yards of each other.

10-Aberdare-gardens, Mill Hil 301b, mek-neic shell buried in a backc garden.

Four 'mysteries

The remaining four bombs," he said, "are all large ones, but we cannot reveal their location until they are definitely certified as being

*alive!"

Total strength of No. 2 BD Squad- ron is nav 50 Briti officers and men, who are assisted by 100 German prisoners of war.

Rupert and the Young Imp-28

Rupert throws the shuttlecock into the chestnut tree twice and it just ̧ comes down again. The third time git stays up and he watches in excite- ment to see what will happen. Next minute it appearî again, dropping: from another branch, and in it is the young Imp. Rupert sgdin rushes. forward to watch it before it lande. **Thank goodness you're still higre,” Dhe mics, 2771 want to.zell you lomes, - thing-very - important, so don't run away as you did before or you'll be in great trouble J

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hups you would

ey do,

new

myth

The talking warriors barbarism. At the time Shulman land. The author seems more

a

con-

press. And what happens then com- NE

NEXT door is the Peler Cooper pares favourably with what used to Village project of 2495 flats. happen in the wild West when free Six hundred of them will be reser- TN one respect all these exalted saw him the Japanese war was cemed with these events than with

palodins (Shulman interviewed ragng. Meyer offered to recruit the lives of his characters. personnel land was going begging for those who ved for United Nations

20,000 men for an SS División to Dr. Golightly. Sarah Camplon when the building is completed. could get there first.

26 in all) were alike; they were-very 20 But New York, is not doing a talkative. And the wwahot of their Aght the Japanese: We will then (Peter Davies, 95. 8d.). Novel. A

is 7. show you how Germans can

"ean fight.","

once-famous Glasgow

poisoning case There is frantic thumbing well as it ought. Of 18 now no-pre- torrential conversations

n

This one speech of Meyer's, says of the sixties 16 transferred to through the "Flats to Let column mium Council-fist developments pro- panorama complete and fasolner Shutman, reveals how difgult, per Australia. The presentation is old- (which is discouragingly short). Jected for building last year, only of the war as noch from the other

haps even hopeless, is the task of rese Fashioned

and leisurely There is And then the red and yellow taxis ong has been con

completed, while an- sideDefeat in the West"

(Secker

educating this type of young Nazi, more paychology than

than thrills. streak off through the night in a other is partially finished. Six others and Warburg, 16s.).

The Rich mad fush to Get There Fizal.:

construc-Major Shulman has an alert mind It is perhaps just as well that Meyer

Anne Mere still under aro

dth (Faber 18. tlor Work very

Bd.). Novel, rorenining on the

eight and a vigorous style. He lakes full is now serving a dife sentence.

Elizabeth Smith, as a child, is hidden advantage of his good fortune, Decent but stupid hasn't

even been In the suburbs.

oway in Bella Murin's Intamou: happened to me. My husband and completed houses stand forlornly in about the war which is entirely is true that not even the SS orphanage," so that the fact of her

lenders, who awed everything to existence may not interfere with her. I spotted a vacancy in the paper, the fields because building costs have fresh.

Being defeated, those generats are Hiller, are free from disillusionment, mother's prospects of marriage. She We drove there as fast as we could. shot up to such an extent that mort- As we were paying off the takin, gage firms are unwilling to advance full of explanations. Being soldiers, occupational disease of the vanquish escapes. And here is the story of private car wept up and, disgorged the money and builders, facing they are able to blame the civilian ed. Sepp Dietrich,the, ex-butcher her life thereafter, soberly unfolded. its passenger..

who became an army commander against the Victorlan background.. resistance," "buyer

"are reluctant to who interfered,

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