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1. Colonel loud, whu siulo

the Crown Jewels fram

Tower of London, Was

the

Hanged, shot, imprisoned for fe, baniilid, pensioned?

One of these bombers was know "The Flying Suit- Case"

Wellington, Hampden, Whit- ley, Lancaster, Halifar?

3. Founder of the oldest boat race. the Doggett's Cuat and Badge, wanne

Sailor,

Lord actor, watermian, tailor?

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4. Who

LA

she 7

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Mayor,

Anything described as lim- ld would be-

Clear, watery, cool, terak, calm?

a British 6. Can you name Prime Minister who was call- edi

"Our wandering boy," "The Boneless Wonder*'?

7. What kind of bulls and cows supplies us with---

Ambergris, spermaceti, straka.

8. Which generals bure Gese uleknames in the last war--

Strafer, Blood unct Guts, Tiger, Jumbo?

9. What is a botas-

Wonda's jacket, South American laszó, u dance?

10. Copra is traded Is the South Sea Islands. Is it—.

Shark situ, dried coconut, mother-of-pearl?

From Acting To

Directing

An increasing number of Holly- wood cinema stars are turning from acting to directing, and there are many observers Who regard this trend as healthy,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1947. -

NORTH SEA

RUNNING

OUT OF FISH

by BERNARD

LONDON. TN the intervals of discussing cuts in our rations the Ministry of Food is busy spending £50,000 of the tax-

payers money on a campaign to persuade us all to cat more

fish.

But experts are a little scop- |tical about this campaign.

The reason for this is that the North Sea, home of the prime varieties, such as lemon soles, plaice, turbot, and brill, is becoming less and less produc-

tive.

Colonel Walter Elliot recently de- clared in Parliament that the near banks of the North Sea are beginning to be shed out.

He described the danger of " Girat diminution of Ash stucks" owing not only to the netivities Four Boots but every other fleet

Western Europe coming now to fish

those banks.

FIRM IS WORTH

£4,500,000 NOW

of in

His warning is borne out by Mr William Alfred Bennett, who came back from the Best World War take over his father's small fish distributing business and han bullt

o

is up into the biggest fishing enter neise in Europe, valued in the City at around £1,500,000.

Me Bennett recalls how the North Sea yielded prolific catches up to 1922 as a result of the respite from fishing

in 1914-18. Thre deeline started which gradually became so serious that by 1936 shing had become almost un-

geonomie,

a

The boots bad to scrape and reratch about to get any sh at all," Mr Bennett told me.

"We were saved by the war. The North Sea had six years of almost complete rest. Because of the in- crease in stocks bumper catches were made

last year, "But within 18 months of the end At the moment. Robert Mastgomery of the war the decline again set in, is the outstanding example. A star "The falling-off in catches has for 18 years, Montgeenery is making astonished

everyone in the trade, the transition to directing gradually, My own guess is that the North Sea while functioning in both capacities, boats will entch this year little more -Associated Press,

than half what they did in 1946,"

HARRIS

No one in the trade can say de- initely what are the causes of this startling fall in productivity. are theories that shoals of Ash may There have engaged in unusual migratory movements.

They have had only austerity re- conditioning once then, and break- downs are frequent,

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Performance, too, has deteriorated because of the poor coal they having to burn.

ti

But there is a bright spot on the

"love fillets" front--the

which increasing quantities.

⚫ in the Norweglans are sending us

"Love" combines the first two let ters of the Lofoten Islands and Ves- teraglen and is the national mark of

Melbo, in the Vesteraalen group of the Lofotens.

FACTORY BUILT

North Sea in suffering from over- colossal fresh fish fillet factory at

But the general belief is that the shing by the various countries whose shores border it.

Representatives of these countries London this have been meeting in year to discuss the problem,

and they have set up a sub-committee which is now in session considering means of checking the decline.

by the sub-committee butik gwalts One proposal that has been agreed ratification by some of the Govern- ments concerned is that the mesh of the fishing nets should be increased 4:1 width by one-seventh. This would enable more of the fish to escape.

FERTILISERS

BEING USED

smaller

top Another proposal is to fix a limit on the amount of tonnage showed to fish in the North Sen.

Successful experiments to increase fish stocks have been carried out in sheltered waters by the use of fer- tilisers, such as phosphates and

nitrates.

These encourage the growth of the minute organisms which are essen- tint to the existence of tish.

It has been suggested that some thing similar could be done in the North Sea, but estimates made

by official bodies show

that.

the cost would be prohibitive.

Me Bennett thinks that only humble cod and herring will available in abundance to feed community.

"LOVE FILLETS'

BY GERMANS

The factory was bullt by the Ger mans in 1942 to feed their armies of i switching its turnover to feeding the occupation. Now it is gradually people of Britain.

About 20,000 fishermen, manning 3,800 boats, take part in the Lofoten fisherles each year.

They use only simple tackle, but | Norway's progress report to the United Nations estimates that they land between 900,000 and 1,000,000 tons of fish next year.

Before the war the result of their calches was usually about 15,000 tons

famous comPOSER IN LONDON

Sir Thomas Beacham (standing) photographod in London with the famous Vionnero composer, Dr Richard Strauss, who is on his first visit to London in 11 years. Strauss, who i 83 years old, wrote "The Merry Widow" and other well- known operettas.

FROM HERE AND THERE:

RASPBERRY TO COME?

New York-Henry Wallace who,

FASHION UPSET

of split sulted cod. 10,000 tons of air-when he is not speaking on interna- dried end, 35,000 barrels of cox fiver tonal politics, announced he is cras- tnerica. For a year women have

is conducting farm ex-te back by

New York-Queties for nylons will Christmas ume Jay oil and 30,000 barrels of me.

periments, has From 28.000 tons in 1942 the quan-sing the Americean strawberry with been able to buy all the nylons they thy of fresh #th delivered has soared the Russian strawberry and expects to wanted. Then fashion degreed that to nearly 1,000,000 tons,

send some of the plants which re-

only black nylons would do. The sult back to Russlá to demonstrate change-over has caused such disloen- the effect of Russo-American

lion that the knitting mills are afraid operation.

they cannot catch up with demand.

As soon as the catch is landed workers at the Melbo fast-freezing. factory sont il according to quality and size and wash it. Then it is skilfully filleted and again washed. GIRLS WORKING

ALIRI

MAPPING THE UPPER

AMAZON

are

A land where women slaves and law is enforced by the blow-gun and poisoned dart is soon to be charted accurately for the first time: It is tho upper Amazon Valley in Ecun- dor and Columbia,

Aeroplanes will be used by mar- ping expeditions under plans 70 by the United

Selentine

ported

Nations Education, Cultural Organisation.

and

Exports on UNESCO's Commission for the International Hylean Amazon Institute said that although the vast area could be mapped from the air with

sprod, it would be a long time before the

comparative caso. and

natives could be civilised.

Commandante Marco Bustamante of Ecuador, a member of the Cam- mission, said that plans for train- ing tribal medicina

Jomontary hygiene and

would

hard to carry out.

con

bo

"The tribes aro large family Kroups

and women occupy the posi tion of property, the number being a measure of a man's wealth,

"Anyway, the first thing they do is hide their women when strangers approach. It will ba many years before this kind of tribo

bo taught anything through Ita

women," A study of the Amazon region was one of UNESCO's first undertakings after its formation in Faris last year. The International Commis- sion for the International Hylean Amazon Institute, which met August, disclosed Its findings in a report to UNESCO world headquar ters in Paris,-Associated Press.

last

Colonel Was A Jump Ahead

A lieutenant-colonel 10 years older than the age limit for parachute troops, Johannesburg-Since the postare first jump from an aeroplane at made his

PARCELS FOR BRITAIN

Johannesburg-The Mayor of Pre-. toria, Mr D. 1, van Heerden, who was interned during the war, has refused IN FUR COATS

to sponsor a fund for a wedding gitt ente en food parcels for overseas was to Princess Elizabeth, The man reduced by twopence a pound post Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, If the fish is coming

deluged. More recently because he does not to Britain reason, he says, is beenuse the offices have been be the skin, the thickness of

tissue municipality is so understaffed that an 5,000 parcels a day are being want to leave his men. the paper, is removed.

even essential work cannot be carried sent to Britain

He is Lieut.-Col. J. E. Slight, out expeditiously.

alone. Those without relatives in D.S.O., a Territorial officer in the Britain are now subscribing towards Durham Light Infantry before-the has mass parcel scheme for distribution i war, who won his decoration

the

FROM NORWAY

Cod forms about 80 per cent of the catches of the long-distance trawlers which sail far beyond the limits of the North Sea to the fishing grounds off Hear Island and in the White Sea and Darents Sea.

If its destination is Russia, the skin

is left 1.

LABOUR RELATIONS Washington.-Washington

from Johannesburg

MAGIC

The fish is then thrown on to a bult and receives another washing, ruled that under the terms of the new through the Victoria League.

From the belt it is weighed into | Labour law no unions cari lodve 10 h. trays, wrapped in greaseproof complaints against employers until paper and passed into a fast-freezing every member of their execuilve room, where it remains for 90 boards has sworn that he is not minutes at a temperature of minus Communist. 40 deg.. Centigrade,

New

It emerges from the freezers into They

also bring home a small pro- a cold room, and girls working in portion of haddock and plaice. fur coats and gloves pack into care But here, too, there is a snag. Most, tons labelled "Love" Fillets from of these long-distance trawlers were Melbo." severely treated during the war,

The cartons are wheeled into cold when under Government requisition, storage rooms and remain there until they were used in anti-submarine shipped to Britain' to help us "Eat patrols and convoy work.

More Fish."

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

LOOK THERES THE SHOOTIN'

GALLERY!

• FIRST I WANT SOMETHING TO

EAT... M "STARVIN'!

MY MOM

LOSTED/

"YOU WAIT RIGHT HERE WHILE I FIND YOUR MAMA A

MAYBE York, Lewis Weiner,

at

Tabruk:

He rejoined his unit when the Rome-After Rita Pugliese, i

Territorials were reconstituted and young Neapolitan giri, had coughed up was made C.O., but they then

be- a fistful of iron nails, three to soven came the 17th Battn. Parachute Re- inches long. pieces of barbed wire, glment. hair curlers and

forks, and a bent

and To retain his appointment, Lieut.- determined manufacturer of American "Scotch said she could not remember swallow-Col. Slight, who is 42,

ing hem, Achille d'Angelo, the mes- to qualify as a parachutist. whisky, told a convention of liquor merist and medium, declared that Going up with three other Ter- salesmen that there is now no way for they had been put there by witch.ritorial trainees, he jumped from the Scottish version to be any better For months Rita had complained of 900 feet, and made a perfect landing. then the American version. That is nightmares and stomach pains. But He is with some 200 members of because he has found a way of doctors and X-rays failed to find any the new Territorial 10th Airborne duplicating Scottish methods thing wrong. Finally brought to Division at the RAF's Parachute chemically,

Achille, his mugle passes cured her. training School.

"The Carnival”

B KEMP STARRETT

"JUST BLIND

LUCK

"VIBAT'LL WE DO FIRST ?'AND TIERES ́ WHERE THE TROUBLE BEGIC: WE'LL GET POP NEVER GESS TO THAT POP QUI EMPORIUM..

"HOW YOU'VE WON

EA WHAT RE Y'GOIN' T

DO WITH

THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WHICH WILL GET LOST FIRST, YOU OR THE SPROUTS

OIL YEARS

-C

JA IN BETTER

SHAPE TRA

! RESULT OF THE AMALGAMATION OF ROOT- BEER, LEMONADE, HOTDOGS, ICE CREML, PICKLES, COTTON CANDY, PEANUTS SALT- WATER TAFFY POPCORN AND A MERRY..

GO-ROWD.

TEL SHOW YA!

10" STEP RIGHT.

UP, BOYS!"

YOU COULD WRECK THE SHOOTING GALLERY BUT YOU'D NEVER CONVINCE THE LITTLE WOMAN

| YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BUFFALO BILL OR'ANNE OAKLEY

ADVICE by YOURI [FUTURE

Å MAN SPENDS & BICKS TO’WIN' A MOMER-O'PEARL LETTER- OPENER, A TEDDY BEAR,A CANE, SIX CIGARS", A "GEN-U-WIIJE“

BALONE-SIELL LAMP, ALL WORTH ABOUT TWO DOLLARS AND HE THINKS HE'S MADE A GREAT INVESTMENT... UNTIL

THE OLD BOYS FLY OFF THE HANDLE LIKE A TEN-CENT· HAMMER. WHEN "ANYONE INTIMATES THAT THEIR SKILL AND STRENGTH ARE ON THE WANIE:

Ledger Syndicala,

THE FORTUNE TELLER GETS SIX BITS FOR ADVICE GAL COULD GET FOR WONING FROMAER HUSBAND:

IF HE REMINDS HER OF THAT FACT SHE'LL BE ASFULL SQUAWKS AS A TRUCK FULLOF DICKS.

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