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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949,

HOW TO SAW A WOMAN IN HALF

by JOHN SHAW

PRITISHI maglelane are angry with American writer and conjurer Sir Walter B. Gibson, who exposes in his book. "Pro- fensional Manic for Amateurs,” the padlocker secrets of: corno, of the world's greatest illusionista.

5

Mr Douglas Craggs, vice-president of the Magic Circle, salled for New York with protes!

to the Society of American Magi- cinn

Magic Circle secretary Mr Francis White raid: "We do not mbi him writing for con- jurers. We shall take vigorous netlon to stop the publle learning these tricks."

This is Walter Gibson's iden of the best way to saw a woman in two-

"Hypnotise" your lady and lower her elgid body into a box. When the doorn are shut, the girl doubles herself up in one end, with her head protecting through a hole. An

extra girl is bidden in a platform beneath the box. She pushes, her feet through a trap- door, aut extends them through a hole the end of the empty half of the hax.

nt

hp The performer, having relished in gruesome sawings, alides the halves of the box apart. Read and hands still protrude from one half, feet from the other. Reverso the process, and the girl pops out,

There is this sketch to show how easy i Ja:--

SIR CHARLES REID,

London Express Service

16,000 SAY:

Be firm with Russia

were Cabinet.

READERS of the London people's

Ехргена challenged to declare their beliefs on the future of Bri- tain und the world.

A series of questions was [designed lo test the attitude of men and women to the problems most of us prefer to brush aside.

guidance

to tha

It contains many almost un- where

animous decisions, but opinton divites, the analysis has been made for men and women in three aga groups, 10 to 25, 26 to 39, and 40 to 35 years.

Four questions tested the at-

to keep the peace

The older

men ara almost titude of people to the chanco equally divided; those under 40

with a slightly of a lasting prace. They were answer would

asked to Agree or Disagree with emphatic No. these statements:-

But the questions gave no chance for hedging, no chance. for the faint-hearted to vaell- late. Sixteen thousand people provided in their swerk

Britain's outstanding.

coal production expert, tells

How coal nationalisation

could be made

to work

UST back from a visit if the Industry was to be re-

to South Africa is Sir

with full silored

competitive power. Charles Reid, one of "But there is a grave danger Britain's outstanding coal that what you gain technically experts, whose resignation by State ownership inny be

production member of more than lost by shuck aw

inefcient management That the National Coul Board is the problem we face today. caused so great a stir Inst Too Cumbersome

ay

year.

the

Sir Charles found that cost of coal at the pithend is about 55. a ten in the Transvani

and 10% in Natal.

The cost of producing coal in Britain is 465. 2d, a ten.

Industries in South Africa

getting their cost at prac

arc

he went on, "BELIEVE,"

"that the Coal Board is constituted for Its wrongly enormous task.

"It ought to be composett for the most part of leaders of

industry, not ruling out men #pecially

labour

tiently prewar price. Wages problems.

skilled in

"They would work on a part and costs have risen, but the time busts and would be pre- companies are relying largely

pared

to give their knowledge

course.

on the extra prier from export an experience without stint, to keep point.

The

price of Deltish cool Can continue al nything like the present figure to the face work competition

1

of

This was one of the questions discutsed with Sir Charles Reld in a sunny hotel lounge en the South Coast. And we went over some of the other problems

of the incestry as well

Chief Criticisms

WHAT are the chief criticisms

sent coal set-up?

W being adde tout the pre

1.

coal

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would, of

chairman necessary to have a And a certain number of vice. chairmen who would havn

duties supervisory

They would be working full time.

"I would divisions Into which the cool in- abolish the eight lustry is split as ton cumbrous

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and unnecessary.

There is

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cos!

satte:

IN SPITE of all our efforis for peace, nations Just can't Ive together peacefully, 50 ไบล might as well expect a war every few years.

Rejected, almost unanimous- Ly, by young nien and women.

Thrown out by seven out of ton older people. This philosophy

THE

WHY TRY?

moro

WORLD is in sticla

muddle that no ono

knows what people

really showtit

do-so why (ry?

This Idea was rejected with

of disillusion fourt some favour the most unanimous vote of all.

among less than a third of the Among the 20 to 30-year-olds.

youngest women there was barely a vote In favour of it.

| SINCE LIFE is so short, WO might as well cat, drink, and

Solidly the ranks are closed: be merry, and not worry too n way can be found, it must be much about what kappens to found. Frustration, irritation, all are deemed excusable in the

lasting pence.'

parting mes-

the world.

This was his

There is Just

conducted on Bound

What of the The public view was

no hope for Rejected even more vigorous interest of nationalisation unless it can bely by the majority of men and There is no doubt about tho

business women of all ages. Not more determination. Ines, free from politics, and than n handful of readers method? with personal responsibility at thought this was the right ap sampled with this question:

proach to the problems of 1048. The every level.

nex! proposition was that:-

HUMAN LIVES are too impor- tant to be sacrificed for the preservation of any form of government.

"The opportunities for reduction without reducing wages would be fully explored, and the corporations would be en- couraged to stand on their own

"I know that the members of feet and carry out Coal Board the Coni Board are trying their policy with the greatest po level best to make n success of sible economy of

and the organisation. materials."

specially instance the un- as ring devotion which Lord

Hyndley, the chairman and Sir "Yes," say most women, Arthur Street, the vice-chair-particularly the younger ones, man, have put into their work To them a baby is always more 10s. Fince the Inception of the Important than principle.

Sir Charles recalled that recently as

1834 the Fife Coal Company. of which he was general manager, was produc- ing coal at the plthend at Ad. a ton. And he added:

"Competition between proposed

board.

Men think

10

SHOULD steps be taken.

form a World Government? This makes a talking point which splits the nation almost In two. Men are more In favour of it than women.

moro

Even so, the votes of both sexes show that burely than half are in favour of mak- Ing Britain a member State in a World Government. differently; they

Thoughts turn quickly from bring in reason to grapple with emotions. They are

so World Government to tho: decision nature of the threat it enger to give a knap

might which puts so high a value on have to meet. How do people

feel about Russia? Which these

statements do the 10,000 agree with?

my to

"But they are working with. an organisation which will not deliver the goods."

the

B.H.

(London Express Serviter life.

corporations which could procure nt lowest cost might lead to re- markable results."

Is

he the terror

of Ravensbrück"?

by JERRARD TICKELL

A the

MAN believed to

be At that time Ravensbruck, 50 miles from Berlin, was long-sought ex-

Designed modest undertaking. o f the to hold 6,000 women, it was

one with real personal authority commandant in them who can galvanise the notorious Nazi Ravensbruck eventually to house 40,080.

general managers.

into something lite

would spilt the country

concentration camp for women has been arrested, by the German police nt

Grafenau (Bavaria). 11 was thought that when entire by the Coat Dourd

was

MARY

verse has been the case.

2. The industry lost

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He has been working in a brewery for two years and denies that, he is the wanted

20 autono- mous corporations, owned of

nationalised there behalf of the nation, but each cuki Be

reduction in with full powers of manage- management and administrative nent, working to the pulicy laid charges and

The re- expenses.

down from time to time by the Cont

rd. £23

man. "That is the kind of thing we million 1917. The situation visualised in the Red report, Just year was better. The ac the only difference being that counts will at least be squared now all the capital is owned by sons, seven of we are promised,, and there may the State. even be a slight proft, but this has been achieved by the extra price we are getting for our ex- hort coal--not by Teduced pro- duction costs.

On December 5, 1946, 16 per-

them

jointly were

women,

tli-treatment

98,000 VANISH

Its main function was to con- tribute a

constantly changing the supply of slave labour to war effort and to exterminate by shrer exhaustion.

Its secondary function was to provide female guinea-pigs for medical research.

entled.

Of the total of 110,000 women who passed into it fewer charged with thin 12,000 couki be accounted "Each managing directa: committing a war crime "In for, in May 1945 when the war would have full executive that they, at Ravensbruck, were powers, and be assisted in his concerned in the work by part-time directors drawn from men with Indus on killing of Allied nationals Output per man-shift has trial experience in his recovered to the prewar gure. thus giving a broader basis of

area, interned therein."

but output per man-year is be interest to the whole low the prewar gure because nity. of absenteeism.

cominu-

Fully Secured

4. There are signs that many miners are not happy with the "INDER,

a scheme like this Interest of the men the and the management would be fully secured. Plans for recon-

present organisation. And many of those concerned with management feel they are not

the

The six-weeks-long trini,

at

which some of the mucabre evidence of all war trials was put before court,

most the

the

Punishment for the most -trivial-injādemeanour-was-awlit... and terrible. The victim of the staff's displeasure was ordered to the Bunker, a Warren of dark cells, a prison within prison.

death resulted in the

By tronic twist, it sentence for 12 of the accused from the darkest cell in and heavy terms of imprison- Bunker that Suhren started of his journey

as fully in command of their struction would be discussed ment for four. jobs as they were under private enterprise.

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asked Sir Charles what he thought of these criticisms and remedles he would pro-

what

post.

between them..

"The feeling that mer

and management are serving » greal Impersonal monster would dis- apjwar. And as the managing director would have the last "Nationalisation is here to ward, there would be beiter stay," he sald. "From the chance of contentment and less technical angle It was necessary feeling of frustration,

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ANTON WALEBOOK

By Frederick Cook

ILLIONAIRE American He is looking for a combina- band-leader Gity Lam- tion of shelter from wind, depth, dangerous bardo is planning an attack this and freedom from

14-Anhalt very

feitz Buhren'

Benz - Behllimftr. 53)

The tag taken from Sühren's -belef case by Odeție Churchil

when she arrested him.

first slogC captivity.

J

Phili,

Fri Sühren.

not

She came back Britain to

I

FIGHT, OR.

of

RUSSIA has to be stopped, and

the best

fight t

stronger.

way to do it is lo before it rets any

Nonsense. The idea is thrown

out. A sprinkling of supporters.

is found in

every age group, shows any

but no one section

conviction,

What about this

THE most Important thing for Iritain I not to get Into another war, regardless of what happens in the rest of the world.

t

Again rejected, with dven Iess support than the first sug- gestion.

What, then, la the

to way deal with Russia? Is the no Chat--

WHILE Russia must be stopped,

we have a good chance of avolding war by keeping pre-

pared and showing it mean business,

WE-

Yes, yes, yea, Nearly nine out of ich people.agree that. this must be Britain's attitude.

But is the threat of Com- munist domination to be togarded as important only

receive the George side Britain? was Cross and other high honours

the from the King. the

Suhrin esenped from his first 10 imprisonment by the simple ex-|

pedient of walking away and

of hiding in a hayloft.

In June 1944, a convoy Ukrainian women shuffed into

the camp. With them, limping He was recaptured almost at

the loc-

again--no matter in those days

on feet from nails had been

which

once and escaped

Gestapo,

came

វា

drawn by the difficult

captured when

the

British

Lise was

lodged in n dark less wanderers.

agent, Lise.

Reich crumbiing teemed with bewildered, home-

cell in the Bunker and beenuse He made his way to

the south, where, some weeks later, importance, he was recognised by a woman

she was considered to be D hostage of future was kept alive.

From first to last, both nc- cusers and secured were sharp- Ty

absence conscious of the

1912 to 1045.

4

A few days before the open-

SUHREN FLED

who had once been a Ravens- bruck prisoner,

re-

out-

de-

for-

D

The same readers who manded Inst-ditch defence Freedom of Speech in Britalo were Asked to ponder problem which strikes at the fundamentals of political and personal liberty. It was this.

OUTLAWS?

Do YOU think steps should be taken to outlaw the Com- munist Party In Britain? Right away? More slowly? Not at all?

He admitted his identily, but

If you put this question 10. etalmed to have run the camp any woman over 40 the chanees will

with variectness and humanity are four in Ave that the

He had, he said, protested say "Yes-right away." against the carrying out of ex-, But she certainly is not pecu-- periments in bone-grafting and Bar in her. views. More than of sterilisation, but had been over-half the men and

women-

By April 28, 1945, the can- summer on the late Sir Male flotsam. The North Shrewsbury from the dock of Sturmbann- non of the advancing Russians colm Campbell's' water speed River, his first choice, will fuhrer Fritz Suhren, S.S., com- rumbled in the distance an record, 141.74 miles an hour; set probably be rejected because he mandant of the camp from Suhren decided to make n get up on Coniston Water on the considers it too shallow.

away. eve of the outbreak of war in

He took wih him seven His new bont's power unit, a 1939.

slightly more women of all: His new boat, a three-point Raiser from

monster twin-V bought by Mring of the trial he had escaped those still alive Its the Bunker, ruled;

the Army Air

Lise. The group suspension Arno Apel hydro Force, uses up to 600 gallons of

among them

He was transferred to Neuen-ves think that Communists in

Britain second comp, shed

should be a frustrated Suhren, plane equipped with a 3,000 aviation petrol an hour at top avid for power and

man reached a

gamme, near Hamburg, to swalt

right away. horse-power Allison aircraft en-

authority, one or two, moved on.

From R third camp, Suhren trial, but a few days before the gine, is nearing completion In speed.

was among the first to put his pri-energies

disposal nt the

three of took only

passengers court sat, in company with his

works two Polish women and the in- Ravensbruck

manager, Hans PЛaum, he cut his way domitable Lise.

drove Lite to

ngain Suhren

the through the wire and Ines-where

this escaped.

New Jersey. It is being financed muril to represent the U.S.A. ter

The bont is intended

that

by Mr Henry J. Kaiser and is in the Harmsworth Trophy raco expected to cost him £15,000.

ot Detroit in July against" chal-. 1le joined the SS, in 1930-31, Lombardo is confideni

lengers from Italy, Canada and and achieved two of his ambi- American he can better Campbell's time, probably elsewhere. The world Lions-power and an impressive frall woman seized his revolver He hopes to do at least 100 record bid may come enter if uniform. He took m.p.h. Just where the attempt the boat is ready...

the aur made him her prisoner. over cominand of Ravensbruck in will be made has not yet been

Her name, now world up and down the Relch, decided.

the autumn of 1942,

famous, is Mrs Odette

NANCY

-(London Express Services

Uucking the Brezo

IT'S AWFUL WARM

IN. DIS

BUNTINOVIALERI

Chur-

By Ernie Bushmiller

Since then ne has been sought

(London Express Service)

outlawed:

Of those who believe that the - Communist Party should stay free, the keenest supporters are young men under 26. Exactly one-third of them would leave the Communists alone alto- gather,

--(London Express Service),

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