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CATHLEEN NESHITT • JEAN GADELL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1948.

-NOW I CAN SEE YOU MORE CLEARLY, YOU REMIND ME OF A THUG I KNOCKED OUT ABOUT SEVEN YEARS

AGO!

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the newspaper January 3 it merely said:

BY SIDNEY RODIN

7.15 & 9.15 p.m. porals were shot dead by Arabs killed 111 276 injured by

in Palestine."

three Jewish murderers, Today homes or more--mourn them.

The graves of those three On November 29, UNO de British corporals will have been cided to partition Palestine. dug by their

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comrades-with-

out Jewish or Arab aid-but as far as you and i are concerned they will remitin nameless, and soon forgotten.

There is, indeed, little time to think about three men when every day brings news of more of our soldiers murdered be cause they tried to prevent Jew or H other.

SO

far another 21

British

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

HERE was a Sultan whoso

Tmme forget, in the grent

days of the Ottoman Empire, who used to supervise the bathing of his wives, and insist on the attendant hag scrubbing their faces and necka.

This was probably the origin of the uhrase "Washing his diriy women in public."

Old days in Ahahaland

HE Ahahan build their mud kraals

THE

in this way. The top part 18 held up in the air by chieftains while the bottom part is put into place. If the one does not it neatly to the other, they begin again. Only wel mud is useil, na being more malicable, and the kraal subsides before it is dried by the sun, so that when it is.. dry, nobody can get inside 11. and another is maite at once. The witch doctors supervise the construction of the kraals, shouting prophecies aboul the imminent collapse of the wel mud. And when newly built krual has subsided, they stand on the site, howling imprecations at the moon. For all building is done by night, to prevent the mud drying ton eulekly. Lullaby for a

snoring cabman

Tread softly, honest burghers.

A round his bed you po.

In the gulles of his nostrils.

The winds of slumber blow.

Refrain:

Hushaby luta-lay, oid cabman. Hushaby tuin-lay.

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The Plothwich election

AR. IVAN RUSHER (P.T.U.) and

his election

Joseph agent, Mr. Cremlin. have been knocked all of a Authortly says until May. It has heap by the re-emergence of the mover a little by promising that the Comintern. It is feared that the evacuation date might be advanced. electors of Flothwick may not belleve Union Public opinion in Britain reaches that the Progressive Trade such a height of passion that our Party is "only a Liberal form of the Government-and all the other Balkan Christian Social Democratic Governments Involved

this People's Party." Some

think Bat tragedy of procrastination and delay Suct could have the seat for the moves with some of the swiftness asking if he could make up his mind of the hallets of death,

to stand. But he is so wrapped up, In his Society for General Purposes We should get our troops out of that he says he has no time for the hell of Polestine with the same polities. speed as we got them out of the hell Bravo, Mr. Norple

of Dunkirk.

in

He had been on guard pro feeting the lives and property of Tel-Aviv citizens when an assasin squeezed the trigger.

That same night Private Unholy war flamed at once Daniel Guilacher, of the between Arabs and Jews. In R.A.O.C.. just 21, and the only the 35 days that have elapsed son of Mrs Gallacher, of Pollok- shows-road. Glasgow, was shot dend when the Stern Gang thugs raided a Tel-Aviv enfe.

Is it stores and equipment that Neuts, claims to be the first man

MR. ARTHUR NORPLE He had been In Palestine two re delaying us? Are these more to have stood inside a forge spop-

valuable in oficial eyes than years.

hite bubble. blown by two men from a itself?

bid clay pipe. Mr. Norple had to crouch and when

he moved, his heap them and make

arm touched the side of the bubble, bonfire of them than that one oore which burst at once. Asked to was turned to grief. Her son, Con- for their preservation. stable Frederick Thomas Newton,

said modestly: "There was nothing to 21-year-old Palestine policeman,

But what a victory for private enterprise! was killed by a Jewish bomb, New one life. ton hud just passed his Arabic test

soldiers have been killed and 63 wounded.

This systematic murdering. a the British

Government

has

Mrs H. J. Newton. of Sprucehills- Is another

Beber

of St.

rond; Walthamstow, Arab killing euch decreed, must go on until well British mother whose Christmns do British boy should go to his death describe his experiencee. Mr. Norple

into May.

on

At least 100 more Britsih mothers may expect to be be reaved by then, and another as an interpreter after two years';

service in Palestine.

But if you forget, reflect the fact that the next of kin of these three corporals will have opened the customary War Office telegram announcing the 300 will be saddened by the death of a son or a young hus- news of their sons lying wound- band.

ed in hospital.

Almost boys

That estimate of casualties is based on the present rate nt

There may be a sweetheart which the fanatics' bombs

vast bulk of bullets fizaci

to be told. The

our 65,000 troops in Palestine British bodies. are little more than boys, sent there after less than a year in the Army.

or

their mark

in

Heavier toll

But all the indications are There may even be little children to mourn a father, for that the toll of British lives will -we-are-wasting veteransus mount faster than ever. The well as boy soldiers in Pales- crisis is "hotting up with tine.

every passing day.

What were these men like who die so tragically?

Some weeks ago 20-year-old

Can you feel the shame and burning indignation of those who loved them when all the time they

knew, and the soldiers knew, that they were Private Kenneth Eric Wilkins, not going to die to sve Britain, of Marshbrook-road, Pypehays, or to save anything cherished Birmingham, was fit and well in their hearts?

with the 2nd Battalion War- If death was to be their re- wickshire Regiment in Jerusa ward for duty it was to come lem. through being caught in a clash between racial fanatics, with which Britain is not concerned and in which Britain should long since have ceased to be in-

volved.

These corporals were really the victims of A politicians' wrangle haggled over in safe und comfortable New York.

Their deaths merely brought three spasms of joy to Ben

Hecht's heart.

Due to delay

Newton had been a Boy Scout, a kenn A.T.C. cadet. and an aircraft } worker with a local firm before he was called up.

His father is a porter at Waltham- stow Town Hall.

the Private Anthony Kenyon, of South Lancashire Regiment, was only 19. He was the only son of Mr and Mrs John Kenyon, of Snow- den-avenue, Flixton, Manchester.

He ran out with a Bren gun to

defend an officers' club from a fer-

rorist attack when he was mortally

wounded.

Blown up

William Murray, 21-year-old pri- vate of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. had only 15 weeks of his. three years' service to complete i

when he was blown up by a and mine.

j

The whole lot of them isn't worth it."

Sky's the limit

at UNESCO!

by

MICHAEL

PARIS. UNESCO's 150-strong de- THE Jast members of

WILSON

allocated

the UNESCO delegates their 1948 funds.

Cheapest of all was probably the musi essential-a legation to the Mexico

City ment

copyright agree- which is to cost mere conference...have returned to £7,000, and could-be settled by any Paris and their headquarters newspaper publisher.

Most in the Hotel Majestic. They are.

expensive was Muss Com- in their own words: "tired but which £0,053 is for the

muntentions, costing £236,400, of *Removal successful.”

Free Flow of

of Obstacles to the Information." They have voted themselves

Not wa

only is the 1948

programme some 12.000.000 pocket money the most expensive ever, but the -about £250,000

than "junket" of the UNESCO delegates they had to spend last year. to Mexico City proved their most uuting. In 1946 it cost

miore

Five days carler his brother

· expense account they have de-

Year's

Thomas died at their Glasgow home And to celebrate this additional expensive

£37,500 10 hold the meeting In cided to give themselves a New approximately six percent of

leaf year if cost £107,500-or

In Stamford-street.

Just before he was killed by

Jew, Private John Kane, of

Porl

Gluszow. wrote to his father: Oring. all jobs to get, this is the worst.".

Sergeant Reginald Hummond, the the Palestine Police C.1.D., whose

On November 15, terrorists shot him. Mortally wounded, he lay in hospital while War Office rushed his mother out to Palestine by air.

He was dead when she reach ed his bedside.

some

eve of

the

Parts:

present-a face lift- totni budget (1,920,000). This yeur's estimate is · £78,400 for the

UNESCO is not only expensive to heavy. According to the the world's taxpayers, but it is top- official Ogures, projects in 1948 are to cost £807,240, but the administration of these projects is to cost marc-

51,240,000.

魏

In other words, the head- conference in Beirut. quarters building, an hotel of which the French Government found a white elephant for home is at Navarino-rout, Dalston. E., was on the

returning many prewar years, is to be re- home to be married for Christmas painted and decorated to the when he was fatally wounded out- tune of £20,000, side a Jerusalem, cafe-shot in the

Mexico City was the scene of

Ideas costs back by un unknown murderer.

the "tiring but successful," Death Burks on any road in Pales-budget labours of these

Approval hus 150

been gven for New Ideas Bureau, which is to cont delegates and secretaries. £90,000. This will pay for articles, Champagne cost them £6 59. a books, films Army October an

(etc.) and this word truck was driving down a road in bottle; whisky only £2; but "etcetera" is an important part Jerusalem. Terrorists had mind the brandy 24, in the leading night- every UNESCO programme.

In UNESCO

language clubs. Josephine Baker could

Director-General authorised to The truck was blown up, killing be heard and seen at the E held a conference on the Free Flow Lance-Corporal Dennis Higginbot- | Patio. The Intime and Minuits of Ideas." ton, Reyal Ulster Rifles, of Queen's were slightly cheaper.

A panel of experts to study fun- roud, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanes.

damental education will cost only £4,000, but the administration of this will cost £45,000.

Whether the

Tomorrow

other British wife or mother may be tine. flying out to keep another tryst

with death.

On November 14, 12 parents were flown out to British soldiers tying dangerously ill in Jerusalem from Wounds ceived in Stern Gang attacks,

Man on guard

re-

Up to November 29 the three corporals and their comrades in Palestine, some of whom will die in their turn, were there because neither the British

At 11 o'clock on Christmas Government nor the United night a shot rang out in Tel- Nations could make up their Aviv, and Craftsman Dennis H. minds what to do about Pales-Pickering, tine.

One day ins

road.

He was only 20, and leaves A widowed mother.

How long?

Allowances

of

"the

The delegates were allowed be-

altitude of Mexico tween £3 and £3 15 per day fly- City (7,200 feet above sea level) ing allowance. Nevertheless some went to the heads of the delegate or delegates spent more than £200 on not can be Judged by an iem How long are the people

of entertaining "important guèsis.” adopted by the conference on the 20-year-old Britain to tolerate this cruel and In between these periods of en- suggestion of the Peruvian delegate: R.E.M.E.

slaughter man, of Wattville- unnecessary

their tortalment of Government oflekis High altitude stations will be deve- From January 1, 1947, to road, Handsworth, Birmingham, we as n.nution bear this

Young men? For how long must (who were to agree to the budget loped to study the biological effect

terrible increases) November 29, 78 of them were fell dead.

und journalists (who of height on the emotional burden?

were to write favourably of them), haviour of man!

NANCY

Still a Mystery

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