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1774 Biere great Empire builder who

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Uritish suicide, founded the Empire in India, finally took his own fe?

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3. If you wanted to see the Gresi Bell you would

Look at the stars, attend

big fight, go to Denmark, rialt Ashdown Forest?

4. These pictures concern—

Diplomatie orders, atom CI- periment, the Crown

the wrather?

Jeuris,

after whom the 5. Fabius. Fabian Society was named was

English prander. Sortaker martyr, Roman dietater, teller of legendary tales?

6. Jirny Francis Lyte wrote all these hymns hut one-

Abide with me. Loud, Findly tight. Pleasant are Thy emmets abour, Praise,

King of ferren)

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soul.

Bradman has wored his who hunderi century, burl holds the record for centuries-

Sydney Redwood

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.

ARMY EDUCATION MOVES Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

discusses the WITH THE TIMES

new educational

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Considerable modifications to the At the end of the year's service, or in called up. It will be voluntary

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whose

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on

for Jo

training scheme for instruction supplied during the Re- the National Serviceman leaves the and carried out in his own time.

Tease Period are beling introduced to Army, but the regular soldiers will This Individual education will be meet changed conditions. At continue to receive training for four an can be arranged in units; at Army provided by such classes and courses the British soldier.

end of hostilities, the educational

hours a week during a further

24 Education tho to enver

Centres arrangeinen's cheme was framed

months' service, after which only needs of

women and

of

are being made for the progressive inen

current affairs and citizenship will establishment of such Centres maturity

experience

bo compulsory, though here again he garrisons of not less than 1,500 military service was drawing to

muy continue his educniton work-

Commands at home and abroad close, and whose eyes were fixed

desires. Cources nt Army Colleges; at civilian eduren- the problems of their resettlement in Ing time if he su

three standards, tional institutions (technical schools. Now the Army is in that will be graded in civil life.

be variations transitional store between the Re- and there will

and evening institutes, art schools lease Period and normal peacetime exemptions for men above average, the like), which are within rensOR-

forgets peopled

mill- conditions, and is

Men of an exceptionally low stan- iury station; and through the dard will, immediately after. enlist Oflice correspondence

War with very young soldiers and auxi-

schieme, An Hartes whose educational needs

ment, be given a special six weeks' important aspect of this type of vastly different.

course at a Preliminary education will be the resettlement Education Centre to fit them to loln training of the regular soldier and the main stream of general education the development of a Resettlement

Advice Burcau.

RITISH troops will devote nt least 150 working hours a

year to educa- tional training under the com- prehensive postwar scheme which is being progressively in troduced throughout the Army,

service necessarily in terrupts normal education. under the new plan the Army, which tan rightfully claim to be one of the

rent

educational forces pioneering:

National

are

full-time

at a later date.

EDUCATION FOR ALL

Fundamental training begins 013

Soldiers of each la addition, there will be every in Britala-150 years ago the Ser- enlistment.

will study reasonable facility for the individual tem- General Service intake vice was alrendy making a systema-

for needs of soldiers who want to con- widespread citizenship and current affairs the cheek on the then

they Hileracy of

of troopala doing every two hours a week during their six tinue further studies which

new There would have done under the this! Jamible to mitigate this, The weeks of primary training scheme

teaching after, the time will be increased to Education Act, for those who wish to from Panges

English, recure some training or qualifica literates to read and write, to the three kaurs weekly, with

when they return to civil life.

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able distance of the coldier's

and

ARMY COLLEGES There are at present four Army Colleges, situated at Welbeck Abbey, near Warkop: Chistedon Camp, Win- shire; Gottingen (B.A.O.R.). and Cencita (M.E.L.F.). They form the

pek apex

A properly exposed negative means good prints. Exposure's easy if you

know the fundamentale.

EXPOSURE'S NOT SO DIFFICULT

provision of facilities and assistaner mathematics, history and geography. tions which may be of value to them of the Army educational sys-ONE of my good friends stop. fall on your film when you take

or

for taking inversity degrees, there and general science being added to by ferint not only the broad the curriculum, except for those who who acquire new interests in art and

the music, literature or handicrafts. groundwork of knowledge, but at the have reached the standard of

Preliminary Examination.* me the opportunities to men and Forces

This women to follow them vulturat may their educa- terests in any directieets.

tem, and enable men and women, in

spend a month on

Full-The later in ur work in curs in whole higher training, covering the on such subjects as pure and applied something I want to ask you," on a sunny day requires subject

at something of use and value for the form best suited to their parti- and totalling over 100

OverVnne.

cular circumstaners.

subjects..

is

available from the time a man joins

I CALL THIS THE TERROR

VOU don't have to put both

You tel in any

By JAN

wenn

part of England today to mar a of Erugland today 14 har a

Plymouth which

standing strange and persistent noise. It

when thes Armata was wrecked, #sounds rather like a manine they have not been

spared so lang much as their own grinding his tooth or a dyspep by anything so tie motor-bike. It is the noise of toughness. England being altered.

11

Hamanond it Mend, H. Satelite, J . Holta, E. Helen F E. Woolley?

P

zi

trim suverclens

Can you name the count-

European s these of

Guesternes Y Frederit: IX:

!

Bunker 17.

suveessful tra- The first ports of frozen meat from Miss tralia reached Britain -

1880, 1910 1913, 19:37

Par-

10. The first pubile railway goods for sanctoned by Haient was from--

Stark tom

Daraton. Wandanorth fronton, Can- Lerbury to Wustable"

How even four centuries of tough timber are as canly

In

Theut

County Mistre

oth of this terrible and in- Hearts ..f the Plano

atzuble fistle kandget which, with a Afforestation plant, ami dezena

And mut of potent in its belly, can drive tausin

it: handeraw through five oaks Cortetles Tonk to

tir preserve

11 hour, national landscape i though at seme tune they remove the

"nevertheless, it is the pm- str. yet.

Hachet Shawn inventor of a small Who is charging the leak of Eng- far whilst everybody else is volition about it.

who contributed so much wad

And, as always, the very temper of this portable, mechanical beaver Pontunicates its hunger to anybody

who buys BHC.

with the ease of a havon sitcer, her

yes lit with greed.

At Ind she could do a man's Job quicker than a rtan. Whereas she had been what one might call spescent spinster, now she was

the closing stages of their service, to ped in the other day on a picture. For instance, with

full-thne studies his way to the beach. There's most roll film a normal

and mathematics: music and runa; trades and crafts,

domestic science, and commerce; instructor training. There 15 a

arts

he told me. "Something about posure of f/11 at 1/50 of a second. That is, such a picture taking pictures."

I told him to fire away and he requires as much light as can spreial department of agriculture at fished from his pocket a fokling enter the camera through the

A

| Chisledon 13 Geneifa, and

separate School of Agriculture in camera sent to him by a rela- opening f/11 in 1/50 of

tive. "Look at this," he said, second, "I've never used anything save

"So if you want to use a fun- Now I want to go to the beach, some action, say a simple box camera in my life. ter shutter speed to arrest 1. 100 of a fow snapshots, and I kecond. you've got to use 11

B.A.O.R.

The Army Connell intends that the Army Colleges will ultimately be situated in large centres of military population and will then be run on "Polytechnie" lines, providing a wide take a range of facilities for troops in the don't know what exposure to larger aperture, say f/8. It's a

which use. aloeality, while the Centres.

What do these gadgets

case of having a larger lens as will number over a 100,, will become

which light opening through closely related to them as satellite institutions.

The galgets he referred to passes for a shorter time. Just were the lever by which the remember that the largest is selected-- apertures have the smallest "I" aperture

essive as the saw itself. Aut the very next moching, } beard a crack as though doom itself had broken; and, looking over the hede. I saw to my horror that my Brent ash tree was falling into

fe.

THE INSTRUCTORS

1

mean?"

Jens

one.

that on most The now scheme is being staffed f/5.6, 1/8, 1/11, and so forth-- numbers and theby full-time instructors, of the Royal ami a second lever controlling cameras each aperture lets twice rins of an eln. I rushed out ince- Army Eduational Corps on an overall

as much light into your camera shutter speed setting. herent with anger. For, though reale of one

per 240 men, assisted had heen often tempted to cut the bay part-time Instructors provided by I tried to explain it simply, as the next higher numbered second Thus, 1/100 of a free for its timber, something or units. The

instructors, "Look," I told him, "stop worry- work of denkt. other. Yes, 10

it was laziness

although controlled by unit educa- had always prevented

Andtion officers, will also be superviseding. Exposure's pretty simple, at 8 lets in the same amount **

at f 16. nothing is so annoying as the sight by Supervising Omeers, RAEC, of Your first lever, the f8, 11 of light as 1 50 at f/11 or 1/25

aper- succumb to the whom one will be allotted to everyone, controls your lens of seeing somebody temptations you have yourself resist- 2,400 troops.

ture. That's just another way My friend said he understood : especially when they stand lick-

In order that progress

be of saying it controls the size of and thanked me. He got in his And that when Misa in their lips is pleasure. 1 gode pare

carefully

he'd bring watched,

the arrangements the hole, through which light car. told me Nettledend purchased her mobile top.of that, whose tree was it?

have also been made with the Minis-

prints around when he had band-saw, she had no worse inten-

He was tion than to enable her gardener to E hedge divities our territory: try of Education for their inspectors can enter your camera.

Copa- to co-operate in an advisory

"The shutter speed setting is them, and left. the free grows, ur grew, on

This sw up an old apple tree in her or-

cu-operative- branches offendre enough from a distance hard for her

shinded her city. Christinus firewood. top. Some

150 denly remembered I'd failed to mine. Now we

both should go far to ensure that full op equally simple. Set it on 150 way to the corner before I sud- 60 side. That yight mistake it for a doll's

"citizens your shatter is open vicious as a serpent and for the is a docile spuster of

who hasn't even a bad word to say stare at the stump and the horri portunity is given for uur

uniform" TA

"m-of a second when you take your Warn him that pictures at the become better ruthless as ten dzelf,

of a neighbour.

gadget is licking its chops formed, more responsible and more picture. Set it on 1.100 and beach are rarely normal scenes. So much light is rellected by Good intrations ami aesthetic -

I put it to capmble members of the community the shutter's open only half as

that for sand and water

best But s treetaten have never preserved wit

long." done started up by the gardener than her the trunk: still only curious. It goes when the time comes for them

for

results it's usually wise to use That, if it has been

battledress. In striving sloth. yes lit up with envy of the feeling through as easily as it in cuttingsheil

rather than at at alt, has been achieved by

the hotter.

I turn upon Miss Nettleford; this am, the Army scheme is, mak-

150 at f'16 Por & pequires a great deal of energy of power this gadget gives to

She snatched the muna.

ing an important Contribution to the

11. to remove whole words and fell the jerson who hokis H.

Then my eyes alight on my old welfare of the British nation as

-John van Guilder, last slump of wainuts in a county, the handle from the mai; and, Vid though there are great naka mie

For anybujy now can go and buy which, though it looks

Ma

900, 5 %

roger.

sooner was The

Terror

more.

I pick up: curious.

fla ta;zU:E༥】 through the trunk len.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THE CAR'S A LITTLE MESSY..WE LLED

A NEW CHE BUT THE NEW OVES ARE

"AND NICKE YOU YOUT MIND:CHES A

NEIGHBOR, AND WE COULDUT VERY WELL AVOND COD

ACKING WAIT? HER

SUCH JUNK WE THOUGHT

EXC

SUL'SA

BIT CRIDE

BUT

AS

the

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whole

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JOY IGHT WELL KNOWN;

to

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op-

to

My friend nodded knowingly. "Let's say," I went on, "that a given quantity of light must

"Apologists

Bu KEMP STARRETT

I'A SORRY OUR GUEST ROOM, LOOKS SO AVFUL...VE PLANNED TO DO IT OVER COMPLETELY BUT FURNITURE IS SO HIGH.... AND THE PAINTERS

AND PAPER MANGER ARE SCARCE AC HEN'S TEEM

half

RO PACKING

-HE JUCT SPENT HOURS CLEARING THE

SOME FOLKS START APOLOGIZING FOR MER POSSESSIONS EVEN BEFORE YOU GET NEAR ENOUGH TO SEE TOR YOURSELF: ANY EXCUSE WILL DO,

* IT HAS A PRETTY FAIR,

TONE AN'ALL... BUT ITS

A TERRIBLE LOOKING

THING, LIKE MOST

RADIOS: I'D LIKE TO

DESIGN MY OWN..."

f

'OLI THINK

IT'S VERY HAND- SOME

APOLOGIZING FOR THE OTHER GUESTS.. WHICH MAKES US WONDER

IF THEY APOLOGIZE FOR US TOO,

"

SCHLE FOLKS APOLOGIZE FTHEIR. PICTURES ARE READILY RECOGNIZED SUBJECTS...AND NO DOUBLE TALK

SRIOURED TO "EXOLÁIN" "THEA.

I HOPE THIS DINNER WON'T BE

TOO AWFUL...I COULDN'T GET PARTRIDGE SO I HAD TO TAKE

"'M AFRAID CHICKEN... AND THE STORES WERE

THE POTATOES

ÅRE 4

BIT LUMPY

ALL OUT OF CAVIAR........"

...AND..IR Lic.

THE PERFECT HOUSEKEEPER WHO APOLOGIZES FOR EVERYTHING FROM THE GUEST ROOAL. TO THE OIL SPOTS ON THE GARAGE FLOOR OR THE COAL DIST IN THE CELLAR.

HOPE YOU DONT AUND

THE WAY I

LOOK....

1AD TO

DRESS. IN

NOTHING FLAT

AND THIS

RAG WAS

THE CULY THING!.. COULD FAID..7. EVERYTHINGT AT THE CLEANERS

VIEN THEY TELL YOU NOW AWFUL COME OF THEIR THINGS ARE YOU HAVE TO ARGUE THAT THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL EVEN WHEN YOU AGREE WITH THEM THAT THE STIFT'S AWFUL..

WITH A REALLY GRADE-A APOLOGIST NOTHING IS EVER. RIGHT... UNTIL THE GUESTS LEAVE ...THEN THEY WANT TO BE PRAISED FOR EVERYTHING.

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THE TVO-HUNDRED DOLLAR. RAG... AND SHE TOOK TWO HOURS

TO PUT IT ON...