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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947.

Golden Drop

INDING life a little cramp- ed, Mr Pinaher and I thought how much more pleasant it would be to work on a farm with acres an acres to express ourselves. So we be- came sons of the soil in Somer- set.

The first day we had to get up at five o'clock in the morning and they gave us a pedigree Guernsey cow to milk called Cherkley Golden Drop V. I took the first shift while Mr Pincher -- went to the other end and be gan smelling the animal's broath.

Exhaustion sign "JUST checking for milk

fever," he said, "If the breath smells of nail polish re- mover-acetone, you know- that's sign there's something wrong. You have to watch these pedigree cows carefully because they can easily exhaust themselves by giving too much milk."

There was no real danger on this occasion because I hadn't milked a cow at five o'clock in the morning for 26 years and was in much greater danger of exhaustion than Cherkley Golden Drop V.

While I was struggling man. fully on, Mr Pincher, up in front, launched into a disserta- tion on milk fever.

In the natural wild state, he said, a cow gives only about four pints of milk a day, and ducan't do that for a dairy cow. will very long. But sumetimes produce, more than 10 gallons a day, and lep it up for the best port of a year.

Just before the war there was a Shorthorn cow in Buckinghamshire called Cherry that gave 4,164 gallons of milk in 305 days.

Turning out milk like this uses up more lime than there is in the na- tural diet of the cow, so she must make up the deficiency by extract- ing lime from her own bones.

Loss of lime

was O.K.

BERNARD' WICKSTEED

milks a cow and has Fun Finding Out what CHAPMAN PINCHER knows about farming

for sweetness

No one is quite certain whether or not cows are colour blind. but it is known that bulls don't really mind red. To prove this someone once Atted out a whole herd with red velia and none of them was in the least

infuriated.

''hadn't done it for 25 years'

Nowadays dairymen see that en- ough extra minerals are Included In the cow's food to prevent milk fever. if she should have an attack it can be cured by injections.

Having decided that Cherkley Golden Drop V. was O.K. for sweet- ness of breath, Mr Pincher turned to

her eyes.

Cows, Mr Pincher said, have three eyelids. The third one is inside the other two, and is supposed to pro- tect the eye when the cow foods in long grass.

Another thing about cows eyes is that they are nearly as offective at night as they are in the day. Sclen- Lists all them 24-hour eyes and they are common to most mammals, with the exception of monkeys, squirrels and beavers.

Most animals with 24-hour eyes sleep in short naps instead of in one long spoll.

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Sometimes fowls chango their sex without any assistance from selentlats. In the 15th century à cockerel laid |--" an egg at Basle, In Switzerland, and www put on trial for witchcraft, The court found the bird guilty and he or she was publicly burned at the

After breakfast we ennobled the soll and ourselves by planting cabbages. Mr Pincher, who talks just to well bending down as he does standing up, said that cabbages were descended from halophytes,

stake, If a cow looks at you out of the corner of her. eye she can't judge how für away you are, She can do this only when she looks at you with both суся. That's why cows durn their heads and stare when you wallc past them. They don't mean to be rude. All they are doing is to keep you in sight with both eyes so the they will know how far off. you are..

During the war a group of Ger- man scientists set themselves the singularly unwarlike task of finding out whether cows had astigmatisma. They discovered that 7 percent of them had.

They also found that 32 percent of those they tested were shortsighted and another 25 percent slightly so.

What was the use of this Informas-

tion to the selentists once they'd got it? Well, sald Mr Pincher, it indicated that defective vision was more likely to be inherited

Descended from what? Halophytes, be repented. A-halophyte is a plant that Ives by the cen and takes Me

with a grain of salt.

The modern 20th-century ·cubbage doesn't look much like its ancestor, but it still kes a lttlo salt with its food. At least, that in what many gardeners think,

Two other vegetables with halo- phytes in their family tree are carrots md beetroots.

Millions of weeds

ABBAGES, itke sugar beet, are

a good crop for cleaning the soil! because, to do well they need a lot

of weeding.

year.

By

Weeds cost the farmers of Britain

" than acquired by millions of pounds overstraining the eyes, because cows robbing crops of air, light and water never read smail print in a bad light they can reduce the value of land nor sit in the front row at the ple-

by 50 percent. tures.

Incidentally, everything Mr Pin- cher said about cows' aves is equally true of bulls eyes, and another item of Intelligence ho gave me before breakfast was that a horse has n larger eye than an elephant.

S

DAB

AND FLOUNDER.

by Walter

WATCHES

KEPAIRED

Why the thugs get

away

with it

JERUSALEM. EVENTY-FIVE THOU- SAND British troops and

police are in conflict with some 3,000 Jewish terrorist thugs in Palestine today. And the British are losing. Why?

PETER

DUFFIELD

reports from PALESTINE

Irgun: About 1,500 operatives with large numbers of sympathisers, reconnaissance and

contributors,

aims to end British rule and to get Palestine and Transjordan as Jewish States.

(2) THE OPERATION of the thus are planned by trained and intelligent men, and carried nut for them with complete ruthlessness.

THE terrorists fall roughly into twe Totteries, the proudly into operator, the brain-boy and the muscle-min. Some are highly in- telligent students-men without personal ambition, but driven by distorted tuition

and violent na- tionalism into thuggery. Others, the majority, arc rough-neck bullies from-the dregs of Europe land Pales- tine.

The majority of terrorist opera- tlons are easy-and proportionately dimcult to stop.

Alfred E. Conquest, chief of the Hau. C.I.D., was killed by two mon in a taxi which speeded past him as he stood alone. That required no great skil, little planning.

The King David Hotel, Goldsmith Club and Acre Prison attacks, how- ever, were planned commando at- tacks against statle positions. They

were

daring, woll-conceived, not holdup men besides,

Tel in the first four months of over-dimcult to British Army-trained 1947 alone, casualty figures read:

Killed

On one side there is a pro- KWed perly constituted British Army

And there is no end

to them who helped win the recent war. Tests made at Rethamsted Agri-

are R.A.F. cultural Station have shown that on Supporting them badly Infested land there can be and Royal Navy units, and a to 300,000,000 weed highly organised police force anything up seeds per acre. A single poppy plant numbering nearly 4,000 Britons. will spread 50,000,

On the other side is u variety of We worked like this for two days. Mr Pincher and I, and then returned young Jews ranging from political

fanatles to sium thugs. There were eggs for breakfast, and to London with our minds made up OCIENTISTS did some tests with a

they reminded Mr Pincher that you that, after all, we were not cut out well developed tear can turn

There are gaps in British Army miker once, and found OWS have heavy

cockerel into a hen by for the soil,

and Police Intelligence on the Stern they can cry. Piga giving it injections, that every day she gave out 2ozs. glands, so

Scientists at

Gang and Irgun, but the latest es- of lime with her milk and took in can cry, too, for thai matter, but Edinburgh are now trying to go one Both of us decided that we'd

timates of their strengths are us instead of being watery their tears better than this by giving injections rather fill our tew inches with

follows: are as thick as treacle (The things to eggs so that all the chicks will be words than undless acres

with we find out in this column!)

females when they hatch.

only one with her food. At the end

of 100 days she had lost 25 percent of the lime In her body.

SIDE GLANCES

Treacly tears

1

By Galbraith

C099, 1947 BY NYA SERVICE, INO, T. M. REG. V. I. PAT, OFF,

"This wasn't just an ordinary quarrel, mother-ho wants

to buy a lot for our dream home right next to a golf aotīrso!"

+

cabbages.

BRITISH

33 Injured

JEWS

16

men.

117

28

Injured

There That is the black record.

account for it.

2

(3) FINANCIAL BACKING, They are subsidised, by dollars from America, by sympathisers in Palestine, by criminal rob- beries,

THE 400,000,000 dollars contribut- THE

ed by Zionist, sympathisers in

(1) ORGANIZATION. The terrorist "armies" are among the the USA, to Palentino Jewry over best organised secret societies in the mandatory years and heavily for the Improvement responsible history.

Jews have made in the country--- into the right THE Stern Gang and Irgun Zvat has not a gono

Leumi (the National Military hands,

the two main The police here allege that ex- Organisation) are operating Jewish "Resistance" units tremists in the US, are subaldising in Palestine. Both have declared extremism in Palestine, not only war on the British mandate in Pates- in illegal immigration, but in actual

terrorism. tine.

The Stem Gang, working in ones A typical trick was the robbery, or twos, is usually responsible. for of £26,000 worth of diamonds from undisguised assassinations; the Irgun, a Jewish diamond merchant. Irgun from which the Stern broke away, offered to return the diamonds in .Stern Gang: About 1,500 members. for sabotage. Both have the same exchange for £6,000 contribution" to their cause, The offer was.at gunpoint: the merchant paid.

Thinking

Oh, how I despise

those astral spivs!

A

FTER three years and

more of quiet the world

has broken out once more

in a rash of stories about pol- tergeists..

At Kongorong, in Australia, "a church disappeared in April and a barn vanished in May." Sixteen miles away, at Mount Gumbler, an hotel balcony sud- denly rose in the air. sailed over rooftops. then fell in pieces.

Aloud

They do not make me think that. if I had ever had them taken before.

ones, after all we have been thru

together?

I am roing aboard this morning and I have worked out a system to

I think these Ministers are pretty Is this the act of an ally, I oak sinart. First they say something you? Can't we let by-gones be by daft, like "two hoots" or eating better now than ever before Then they wait until a surface riffle of Indignation has had time to show, Then they make straight Teresty Mount hall is fed hard by their political hawl their fury.

by PAUL HOLT

Even at dear old Borley Rec- tory,

the

the customs from looking too

то

(4) LOCAL SYMPATHY, The Jewish population of Påles- tine, regarding Britain to the common enemy, will not co- operate with us against the local terrorists,

10 succeed in keeping law and order any police force in the world must have the support and consideriée of the local population.

The Palesine Police Force; for political reasons, has not,

Terrorists in Palestine look, like ordinary members of the population. They may alt-next in you in a. cafe.

or a cinema.

Few inhabitants will inform on opponents who I have been able to save from last | a' terrorist when he is glimpsed night's slight walto at the Ear o' during a hold-up or other operations. Cripps. Shall I send you a crate And the British are rarely warned of dried expr or “Memoirs of Hecate in advance, County''?

10

A

When they are exhausted these on the Essex-Suffolk deft idiots give them a strong shot

and of Socialist propaganda border, for countless years the home. It is a technique so sweaty happiest hunting ground of simple I marvel spook investigators, the ghost thought of before. has started up again.

it ws never

In Their Cups

Yra efctully..

HARRY THE MOLE

Revised Version

(5) OPPOSITION. The Briikh

are not fighting back

with guns and bombs.

THIS is the most important reason

TELEGRAM: "Yes Meet me why terrorists flourish and con-

Paris Friday." When the world finually outwit the British. THE

BRITISH DO NOT FIGHT BACIC was a gentle place that meant one thing only. But now we have no Terrorism has some parallels with time for living. The telegram was the lights of European partisans a recent headline for an evening during the war. Those partisans

of the over-

No, I should not say ghost. Ghosts are respectable crea- tures, given to the miseries and MRS KENT. PARSONS, a member paper. The recipient was Mr Bevin, wen, and were never stamped out,

of the National Baby Welfare the sender Moloiov.

despite the brutality Is there no romance left in this lords. apt to repeat themselves no Council says: "Baby shows? Ught

Big flabby babies, world? #doubt, but still deserving our hate them.

respect and sympathy. Polter- Jealousy among mothers, and heart-

breaks when their babies geists are noisy, destructive, s

Agreed. All babies look like stupid, lazy, malevolent. They

Harry The Mole

don't

Agreed

JAMES JOSEPH DONOVAN wrote J to his wife Ella: "You brood like a scheming which

The German tactics, the taking of hostages, the burning of villages those methods are unthinkable.

What methods, then, to the Briush employ?

of The feeding strength

the la to- 1 am determined to be rid of you." British Army in Falestine To which she replied: "I will drag day 70,000 men, of whom 40 per-. you to the gutter. I hate you." gent. -are fighting troops heavily

All this caused Divorce Commisarmed and with armoured car. And nano of these men sioner Temple Morris. KC., to grant

a decree nisl, saying that it was in machines shoots except in the last

the public interest that this dis-extremity of self-defence. astrous marriage should be dissolved.

Clearly the efforts of singularly muscular poltergeist. In Cape Town, where 8,000 people are on the waiting list for a home, one desirable de- are the Dead End Kids of the ageing drunks at closing time.

For better to have husband shows, tached bungalow (all mod. spirit world.

They lack the intelligence arki with the prize going to the man conv.) stands empty because a

the energy to go about their busi- with a carefree air.

spheres poltergeist raps on walls, bangs ness of inhabiting other

and doors, mutters

throws Some say they are elementals; that glasses.

is, spirits which have nover yet suc ceeded in finding a home In the MY spiv friend Harry the Mole sailed for New York the other

This is most startling. If marriage THE ANSWER? That is

day. He left me this note: ----

are breakable because husband and respecting body would give them DEAR FRIEND,

A REMEDY? There house room. So they go around, Getting out of the dear old coun wife are agreed in hating each other, TS. THERE

frank prospects in try these days is worse than going then the whole affair of matrimony are fussing and roystering.

First they is changed.

country of a further ID, 15 or 20 They make noises in studio seance on a commando course.

years of gang warfare. The two trumpets They organice messages inoculate you against mallpox,

remedies usually discussed are. (a) from the dead. They scare the lives which is a decease. I red about in

political apposrement and (b) of le children asleep in their "Forever Amber" (I like reading)..

military operations. rots ad 'night and pull the hair of old Then you go along to Grosvenor Sq.

ruthless get The or Chicken Colonel Platz, to

Neither is a guaranteed cure. Kentlamen sodding ov

visted.

Telte (a) first. If the British, or Golden Bough."

the United Nations, permitted fur- ther immigration of Jews (many

modernta, Palestinians argue),

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been inserted to .give you a

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d. Blatue in the robo-garden,

7. When ho's clean everything

different,

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naretlak, wo lear.

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16. Not all the rage in this nga, 1..1 am confused with Rona in

the wood.

21. dig him # piece of bread and

nothing more.

22. Depleted ameta.

23. Cry for a colourful start, -

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Now study the clue numbers," There is a clue, 22 Down as well as 23 ACTOR, in there will be a black quare above that numbered 22, The word in the corresponding poaltion or the other side of the puzzle must be 22 Down, since that

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pretend to be a dear one WWD, "oncers and several sicals of happicked upstairs. They are docile Jow would turn against the lerroristsť.

cabbage. But no good. Even after

HE editor of Debrett Mr C. F. J. Hanidason, gives the opinion that the Government', so hates the Worst of all, they both clate andh Up I I turned so early in the morn

idea of hereditary titles, that it will depreis old ladies who are lonely, ing with a small sultene full of create no new baronela

Barons, yes. They may still be has passed over. They pose as Sir Oliver Lodge. This proof of their I had given a fairish impression of fellows and will do as they are told. imposture is the nonsense they talk, stage show a-fluttering down with They may survive, therefore, if they They talk through the voices of all that sweet lettuce they still put onnue to bohave themselves. Indian guides or infartis, because me at the end of the queue to wait Baronets, no. They are bold and with it a proportion of extremists. such characters are apt to be simple my turn. Me, who haven't been In bad. They chuck dalrymaids under minded. Which suits the design of a

a queue eince got me, to volun- these astral spive.

LOCT BUT Omdurman!

on

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and stamp them out.

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a' dubious argument, because batch of immigrants bringe Now (b). During the period of

the chin and gamble away their so-called martial law the British They put Tel-Aviv behind wire and under at Monte Carlo. patronuge

curfew. It stopped the large-scale I despise them. But, alas, I be-

fidgetting WOTC

must die.

Terrorists:

not the that operations by chatre, for nine hours, me and

Government #lieve in them. I have to. If there whool ch

forgets of the suavest brides that ever, baronets were originally ennobled small. were not much ghostles and things

If it would have that go bump in the night, I'd be price up a Fink's family life, while by kings as a reward for faith and old, modis, he booked on the by kings, as a reward for faith and Nothing is the really frighteningest thing of all.

they could split the atom on their be rewards for these commodities in thumbnaka were given a priority pubilo life, may they not became in

scared,

.

Such Technique-1

cute

rubdown.

Tochnique-2

Finally a solemn puss in glasses short supply? MS JEAN MANN, M.P. (Cout naked me what I did for a living Bald bridge, Lanaricshira) says that (which made her blush);

If she did not know the truth, news did I belleve in the overthrow of A FRIEND gave his wife £10 for

a birthday present. The fool.

Ho aiuld have given her a flower.

paper reports would make her think the US. Gov. by force and would the Labour Party, was composed of I give her love to Jack Dempsey. a lot of dattilots and ..., picited They then took my fingerprints. She would have loved him for

When I came to they naked me She would get the £10 anyway

brought Complete Gronomic disaster

to

Palestine.

To my mind there is only one possible remedyo dispense with

as much of the Army as possible, and to fight the undoubted terrorist

There

n mave now big will brains to increase the C.LD. strength of the Pelcaline Police

be the Force. That will' remedy against terrorian. Cunning can only be met with cunning