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Convoy

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between

Exports in 1946 from now Experts here say that until there exhausted wartime stockpiles is some colution of the virtually

stalemated conflict totalled 120,000 tons.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948.

JOHN PUDNEY ON THE NEW BOOKS

Two ordinary men

follow the V.I.P.s

PRISONER AT LARGE,

by Ian Reld (Gollancz, 12a. 6d.)

S the war played out as a theme7 Certain gods of entertainment have assured me that it in, Undoubtedly the propagandists are buried, the generals have unsealed their lips, the war correspondenta have exhausted their ego, and the public has yawned.

Captain Reid's book Intercala me more than the works of the V.I.P.A because of the fantastic adventures It records and because of the lively Impression it achieves so effortlessly.

the

COTHOK

LAN REID, in his early thirties tall, thin,

dark, bachelor, Writer quickly, speaks slowly. Special In tercats: Beelboren, toks, French flims.

Works in 4.3.C monitoring service, Sives in West End mowa Gal. Ambitions: to write novel, to revilt Italy-on holiday.

By eutling out pollues however, and the customary moral generali- sations, he serves his readers well with a plain account of ordinary things, written without great dis- tinction (all those sentences that begin with "I" and go on with "ono").

Parta of the book were published in Serial form in the "Telegraph" a .few months ago.

A BEAR COUGHS AT THE NORTH POLE,.

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by Robert Payne. (Heinemann, Sa. Gd.)

I do not deny that this is a uso- ful book. I would prefer simply to secalx times the number of it sold ot 18-and perhaps a little sacrifice by Mr McColvin hot of his excellent instruction but of the number of his words of prose.

quotes

DINNER WITH THE DEAD, by Moray McLaren (Serif Books,

Tales with

"All the characters somie

have

relation Io persona

is not about the North Pole, but Edinburgh. 78.

Od.): about modern China, about how strong Highland flavour. "bear coughing at the North Pole stirs the sands of the Sahara," about

quote how every little thing may have living and dead. significance.

"If 1 breathe...." philosophising Chinese

Flesh and blood rearranged

says a transported coagulated, made com- character, posite, split up, or what you tolli,

"I so displace the air that perhaps but real flesh and blood, must, i

In a thousand years time, a man

at war.

theme of

the

Rovel

V

0

DUMBBELLS

REGISTERED Uri

PATENT OFFICE

WHO

TOLD

YOU

MORE PAYMENTS)

ABOUT us ?

YOU PAY. A... SMALL DEPOSIT THEN YOU MAKE NO

FOR SIX MONTHS

MCKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

With Nine Trumps, Use Safety Play.

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

may be killed." This thought con- believe, be the basis of the fiction tained in the rather misleading title writer's craft.” is the underlying book though it is well burled in BLUE TALLY HO! (Rich and the noisy vehemence of Chungking Cowan, D. ed.) Romance-adventure with factual naval back- ground by Vice-Admiral C, Usborne wartime U-bont adviser.

"The verb to close has quota

special nautical significance. E safety play has been written It does not mean to shut.

up in this column so often in.. It means the past, that I feel that every officer signals a certain ship to close he knows that the king should be bridge player imows, it as well og it means to come near the senior led officer." of

the from

"THE ROOSEVELT intimately

KNEW," de- by Frances Perkins (Hammond,

Hammond, 15s.) chiefly

carries Arst publication In Britain of Roosevelt family crest. Latin in- scription translates: "He who bag for South to show the heart suit. As is planted will tend."

a matter of fact, it might prevent a heart lead.

Captain Reid, was taken prisoner In Tunisia In 1043 while serving with the 51st Highland Division. The book opens Just before Itallan nrmistice, with his arrival

You need a strong stomach to be In a prison camp in Italy which was an upper storey you might see a able to take this beautifully written immediately taken

over

the face bob up at your window. Mr but by Germans and then describes the Lawrence was told that this story philosophy, vice, murder, ale raids pungent offering of Chinese five escapes, he made.

reappeared.. whenever people's and love. Killing love and philose- nerves were on edge; and it is one

are explored with nuthor's hunted freedom. In the that he jots it down.

candour

and Italian countryside, his removal to

ever. ever. A minister, a prostitute, Germany and his Anal Journey of

oplum tramcker a whole Here in fact is much social and liberation are episodes which give domestic detall: that there is

shady Individuals and one of two the story its humour, Its pity (not State-operated tote at horse races; Involved in a situation which

Innocent souls become self-pity) and an almost genial that Russtans seldom simper; that bumanity.

fles summary,

but which still use the they

samovar and And so you have a true tale sometimes lake jam or chocolate concerns the smuggling of oplum In

the Inside of which could make many

Instead of sugar with their tea; that a chair borne novelist Httle

3

the ordinary man sees very litlo wistful. Caplain Reld Lu

purpose in thrift and likes to enjoy evidently quite something of a born writer with an himself while the going is good. unlucky but courageous acquired talent for eneapology.

While escape forms a focus, tho of the better qualities of his book whical ideas th no reticence equal to come near. Thus, if the renfor

LIFE IN RUSSIA, by John Lawrence.

(Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.)

70

Lawrence WOK sent Rs Press Attache to Russia from the Ministry of Information in' 1942, and his story opens with u sea adventure when his ship was sunk by enemy nction on the way ouL

Having had CO people in Moscow in that grim running newspapers.

experience in winter

characteris- (1042-43) belleved in tically one of his first duties was to spring-heeled Jackst They

were become editor-in-chief of the Bri- said to be "mysterious figures with tich Ally, a newspaper published by springs on their bools who would the British in Russia, with the leap with one bound right across object of telling the Russians the street and rob you." Even in our war effort.

The Poets Weren't

All Quite So Mad

'By DAN L. THRAPP

Famous writers and poets were "seldom quite so mad as they believe, or as they seem," Harold Nicholson, famed British educator, told the Royal College of Physicians in a lecture recently.

dead child,

Mr Payne's Chungking suelently remote that the horrors and beauties of it arc almost glamorous: and not real enough to cause nausea. But I don't think I could stand his talent for bold and lurid candour if he was writing of nir raids in London.

HOW TO USE BOOKS

by Lionel McColvin. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 6s.)

Is booklet (written by the chief librarian of the City of West- minster, and published, on behalf of. of the National Book Lengue) seems to me to fall between the stools of Eager Public and its Mengre,

Nicholson, who has made an should we forget that many of them the exhaustive study of the lives of did not take that care of their health

poets of the period from the is 32 of the most famous British which their medical advisers would

recommend. 14th to the 19th centuries, anid it was a popular fallacy "that all mighty poeta must be of an ailing constitution and doomed

In addition to new rubber pro- MAN SEEN AS

duction, which goes almost in its entirely to France and French possessions, Indochina in 1017 was exporting about 10,000 tons of old or low grade rubber to Hongkong and Singapore for reprocessing.

French experts report that the economic picture for Indochina's rubber industry is bleak. Because

CREATURE

OF DESPAIR

to an untimely death."

"The theery that there exista some special connection between literary Genius and mental derangement is one which has been seriously ex- aggerated," Nicholson sald. "It is true that few creative writers have become demonstrably insane. It is He sold, however, that poets, also true that almost all creative "the most creative of all writers," writers have at some moments of were usually capable of receiving their lives been panic-stricken by "Intimation, or Inspiration," and the conviction their imagination was many of them were convinced that getting the better of their reason. they were failing in either mental

But it is not in the least true that all or physical health, or both.

creative writers have been mad oli

"Of the 32. famous poets whose the time."

of Inflation and the necessity .of A distinguished scientist has lives I have studied, 10 lived beyond

arments to the depicted

modern' men

and the age of 70, nine died between 00 Poets have added to the public's

convoying rubber ports under

guard, the French say

cannot compete in women as empty creatures of ond 70, seven between 50 and 60, conviction of their mental instability open world markets and production despair who are beginning to two between 40 and 50, and only by writing the results of detailed must be absorbed almost entirely realise that they do not know four under 40," hc said. Nor probing of their own minds, Nichol- within the French Union, which can what life is all about.

cald. Similar probing of any. pay higher frane and piastre prices

one's mind would reveal liko to conserve foreign exchange.

symptoms, he thought.

Effect Of War

to

now

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

son

Only two of his list of 32 famous poets "become demonstrably insane," ho said--Swift and William Cowper. Some, like Dr. Johnson and Southey, were "borderline cases."

He could convince himself that ho find contracted, almost any un-

"Their hours are filled with radios, cars, machines, and equipment of all kinds, and their lives are almost devoid of deep and quiet satisfactions The Indo-Chinn Office of Rubber and inner richness," according to Dr. Purchase and Sales, operating in Merle A. Tuve, manner roughly similar

"They have time 10 ther

1. Inner Hebrides-Rum, Eig Netherlands East Indies Rubber ww to realise that they don't know

what life all about, and

and every- and Coll. Fund,

2. Because it often hovers pays 3.10 plastres (approxi-where one sees the

Shelley, Nicholson belleved, was mately 44 cents U.S.) for cash expression of their mostless just above the surface, as if walk-

emptiness." kilogram of rubber delivered

ing on the water. 3. River of Asia wholly sane and himself was fully Salgon. Another lump in the rubber ment of Terrestrial Magnetism of Shorthand.

Tuve, at 46 director of the Depart- Minor, now called Mendere. 4. responsible for spreading the bellef 5. "Her market would make

Cardboard that he was mentally deranged. the Industry's the Carnegie Institution of Washing- Lover." 6. Boar, rabbit, foxhound, position serious, the French feel.

ton, recently received the Research roc. 7. (a) Oxford; (b) Cambridge. Because of the revolution, only Corporation's US$2,500 award. about half of the prewar labour

8. Lacrosse. 9. (e) None; (b) two: desirable disease imaginable, and he internationally Is back on

famous (e) no such creature, the plantations.

would write upon, a reception room Most of the estates are located in among physicists for his work in Pride.

nuclear reactions, studies

floor

soid to prove his illness, Cochin-China, with

Jew D

in

fonosphere,

Nicholson. His hallucinations, how- and wartime develop- Cambodia.

ment of the radio proximity fuse.

ever, were more interesting. Indo-China just before the war

In accepting the award of the averaged 80,000 tons of rubber pro Research Corporation, a private or- duction annually, The French hadganisation which annually recognises hoped to increase this to 120,000 tons outstanding scientists, Tuve pro annually, but the war upset their seated his "highly personal" view of plane. Thus 1947 production was only half the normal prewar figure and one-third of what France's original goal was.

force is

Thinks Man Can Put

Rats To Work

a Russian scichtist

-

Ho

research:

of

Research In Humanities

the

"The whole, universe is changed when a stumbling individual, a hum

ble man, perceives a new thing, dis-

covers a new fact and beauty in

10. London

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Once, Hear Pien, he saw himself walking toward himself, wrapped in Solution of Wednesday's puzzle. In long, black cloak. Ho even heard Across: 1, Storybook; 8, Feature; himself talk to himself. Onco he 11, Faculty; 13, Tic; 14. Sock; 16, saw babies rising out of the sea. Ivy: 18, Lips; 17, Qaf; 10, Mont; 20, And yet Shelley, I repeat, cor- Nuts; 21, Ate; 22, Rein; 23, Tent.

tainly was not mad," insisted Down: 1, Sandstone; 2. Tricolour Nicholsoni Ho attributed Shelley's

3, Offietate; 4, Rear; 5; Yachtsman; hallucinations to "the tricks which

Ultimate: 13, Eye-pit; 10, Ten. 0, Ortive; 7, Key: 0, Turncoat; 10, a strong imagination is all too apt

nature, or puts separate things to NANCY gether to form a new idea."

Asserting that the mat motiva-

at tions of a

of a scientist are "nesthetic

or

on

F. Zorin the experimental station of sub and ethical, not rational matori- tropical cultures at Sochi, on the alistic or practical," Tuve said tou Black Sea, thinks men might give much emphasis is being put consideration to the possibilities of "better tractors, casler. housekeep- pulling rata to work.

ing guided missiles, or cures for Beginning with

accidental hardened arteries and old ago." an discovery when rats got into the The result is that non, wo attic of his laboratory, he conducted and children in our society are con- experiments which, he said, proved stantly occupied with things, things beyond all doubt that rats, merely to own or things to work and play by taking a look dr a sniff, chwith," while students concern them- select the oillest and hence most valuable nuts without even breaking with "actions and wars in-

of ideas and people." What the world needs, Tuve sald,

tho shells.

women

He noted that been have a similars more research in the humanities faculty. By watching where they with a low to giving the individual landed you could tell which fruit fe richness and meaning and a on a treo was the syerfès),, he said, senso of direction."--

You Can't Win!

YUMMY

I'LL HAVE ANOTHER

CANDY,

AUNT FRITZI

to play." United Freas

WHERE ARE YOUR ⠀

MANNERS, NANCY ?--

SAY \*PLEASE'

Purse.

Mr McColvin is doing an ad- mirable but rather cumbersome bit of spoon-feeding. He is encourag- ing the vast new reading public which has grown up wl' the good of education and the evli of war in the last two or Uitec generations. He tells us everything we should do about buying, borrowing And All this would be of using books. much, servico the community ir it were cut down by a third and put on the bookstalls In a paper cover at a price in small silver.

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CHESS PROBLEM

By F. DUBBE Black, & pleces.

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1

White, 8 pieces. White to play and mate in three.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1. Kt--B5, eau; 2. Ki (ch, or di clntes.

Rupert and the Big Bang--7

Rupert has a half holiday that day. so after dinner his father lets him have the broom so that he can finish the pile of rubbish. Then he takes paper and matches and tries to stari... the bonfire, but he is disappointed. The pile is 100 wet to catch light. He fetches more paper to try again when a low voice comes from nearby.

"Pan. Rupert, are you

busy Can I come in?" Turning in surpriss he sees that Bingo him- self in standing and peeting at him from the gate.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

king-queen-Jack. However, avery time E hand of this type comes up in a tournament, there are many who miss the

Just a word of comment on the bidding of this hand. When North bid two spades, there was no need

The defence captured the first two. diamond tricks, then West shifted to

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the queen of clubs which declarer won. Now a surprising number of good players laid down the king, of. trumps, only to lose the whole hand because they could not then pick up. the spade suit,

When you hold nine trumps, with one top honour in one hand and two top honours in the other, you must play to the band with the single top honour. If West hold four spades to the jack-ten, there would be no way to pick up the suit, but declarer should give him- self the one chanco that all four are in the East hand.

The.

correct play is to lead to

dummy's

finessere, and then East can be out of his spade.After. wing with the ace, a small spade is played train dummy

up to the nine-spot If East puts up the ten, which is the correct play, declarer covers, goes back to dummy with a. club, and leads another trump.

Note that declarer must be 'core- ful to win the first club trick with the king, not the ace, in order to have the needed entry in 'dummy.

Skeleton Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

2. Potal

transport- of medi eval armour ed unit.

A Good by t and thank agalo

9. You'll and the crowd in the other direction.

10. To be do

prived nothing in- fusbor

Vague.

11. Dry point. quit in. clouded.

12. Abstracted.

14. It's connite ly Indiatin-

guishable in patra.

18. Other provisions have to be disposed of before one can get down to the (two words). 17. The black half of a plaid.

maybe.

got broken

AL

in

10. Lancm

battle. 21. Mat music? 23. Rungwood 7 It might ba, we

up. 24. Naturally the chief should be 28. Aline

ou

my dalight 26. Uw toy may be in the garden,

CLUES - DOWN..

1. is would seem that the renow could do with are pain ince

9. Liar at times ? Possibly..

ho takes a low view of life. The unele part of a grid-lest.

MAY 1 HAVE

| ANOTHER

CANDY,

NO

GET YOU ?

AUNT

FRITZI,

PLEASE

酒

4. Buggcative of combined ops...

starting with Gary or Gladys. -- A. Only partly a true description.

It is regrettod.

oil.

6. Bounds as if female

carrier is our fast reftige, 7. Put a ponny on liquor and then a penny on the result 11. It takes all these for variab 19. Give in or out, as you prefer,, 14. Take a bit of buster: turn it arer, tum again and you

hould get some water i

14. In the payroll in Scolland. 33. Alles Ri

If you lùm up an article on Patricks you'd get the right name,

21. Dotton on to it.7. Quite ilkely. 21. 87811 & decapitated bear can

Cairo darastation.

black

the crossword the mystares and clue numbers, as well as Lite words, are left for stim solver to plin Four black squarer and four, clue number have been laserted to give you start.

The pattern tornied black squares is symmetrical; the by the lop half of the pattern matches CHO bortom kalf and the two widen COSTENDURE. No you can 80 in 1 more black squares al unce in correspond with those given.

As there is no Aerous the square to the right of that num bered 1 can be blacked in, and the three correspondlax Ques 41 well. As to two-letter words are used. except in phrases, the fourth stop In each corner group can be bincked in. As the clue for Down taludes an anagram it will be seen that this word cons the full depth of the puzzic. This will be balanced by a word of similar length on the other side.

From deductions of this sort the pastle can be built up.

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