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IT'S NOT SO Different excEPT FOR THE NAME ON THE SEED-PACKETS

World Copport. Ds arrangemens with Evening Standora

Happy land where people don't care whether it is

by

RONALD W. BAXTER

T

HE prisoners were enjoying their plenic until the two warders began quarrelling and bran- dishing their rifles.

5021.

The convicta disarmed them stid marched them back to pri-

So

tho when

prisonera Inter went on a hunding expedi tion the warders were the only ones without shotgunf

This happened in Sarawak, Britain's newest colony, and 3 country unique on earth.

Without

lawyers soldiers. Communists, trains, or time, it has a Lewis Carroll touch which the population are Aghting to keep.

Fabulous days

Lands of White

than 100

Rajnhs for until years more cession to the Empire in 1040, Sarawak still dreams of tho fabulous days of those bene- volent aristocrats, the Brookes.

rickshaw- Then the poorest puller could visit the rajah's chal palace, and in a personal complain to the ruler of any in- Justice or grievance.

Now the rickshaw man must selldaletter-to-a-Government. department and hope for the best.

Most of the people realise the economic necessity for being at What with the Empire. one they object to is the threat that the personal touch may vanish.

"In the old days," said one

resident, "the Government called

Monday or Friday

In traditional drew, Dyaks mount hewn stepladder to a Sarawak house.

"I buy them because it shows them Dyaks who used to hunt I'm prosperous," he said, "but trends but are now turning out a cowshed a cowshed. Now it time means nothing in Saru to be model Empire citizens.

an 'animal husbandry centra." wak." We are not used to that sort of thing."

violent pro-British sympathies by bringing out their old head- bunting knives and decapitating hundreds of the invaders.

Some s talk about it..

"Remember that Jap who hit me with a rifle butt because didn't how?" one will chuckle, "His head came off as easily as a banana stem."

A first the British were wor- rled that head-hunting, extinct for years before the occupation, might revive.

But

knives have been

sheathed. Men are cutting their

hair, which once grew long in order to blunt any cut from be- hind.

from

William Hickey

TRUE

to the Tradi- LEY, n London distillery direc- GEORGINA

was accused of being an acces-

tional colours tor, whore wife of Easter, Victoria sory. Station was all green and gold. The green was Con THERE was one of those tributed, in painted sign- lord of the manor being unubla boards and indicators, by to afford the upkeep of his state- British Railways. A timely by home. Man was COUNT sun poured on the gold.

JEREMIE ABS- BUNG-LOTHRINGEN, of Bar-

FRANCIS

stories about the

The DUKE OF WINDSOR sham Manor, Norfolk, but the waited for his Duchess-but villain of the piece tien was most people were too concerned Hitler (who was hanging on to the Count's moncy) and not with their own cemings and SR STAFFORD,

goings to stand and atare. Ex- cited children clutched the first tin buckets and spades of the

season.

There were two strikes-one starting when elnema projec- lonists in 500 cineman walked out one ending as 1,750 che- mical workers weht back to

Said the Man at the Barrier, work. punching orie ticket

He had the wrong year.

in three,

O'BRIEN

"Why, It's just like Easter 39." PRODUCER BARRY pulled that eliche about going to The last of the really prewar New York in search of plays for Easters was 1930. On Good West End production. The week-end's outspoken-vient was Friday a year later MUSSOLINI the Rov. RALPHI ALLPORT, chose to invade Albania, a week Weymouth Methodist who was or two after his mentor HITLER indignant over the cells of tor- had walked Into Memel and loise-racing.

Prague.

n

West End stage

the ON LESLIE HENSON,

The Cabinet

recalled was from holiday; the seasonal ple- YVONNE ARNAUD, ARTHUR ture of NEVILLE CHAMBER RISCOE, NERVO and KNOX could be seen-they still can. LAIN swathed in net, salmon- On the screens, the old familiar fishing, was not taken that year; faces of BETTE DAVIS, RO-

St. BERT TAYLOR, trenches in there

VIVIEN James's Park, and the Con- LEIGH, FRED ASTAIRE, JOAN at FONTAINE, (HEDY LAMARR tinental departure platform

was reserved for "Adults Victoria Station had few pan-

Only.") sengers.

were

Over the Eastertide ether

camo "In Town Tonight," In short, we were having one paince of Varieties," the voices

of those .crises, and. the shadow of VERA LYNN, LEON of things to come was clearly CORTEZ. marked "Danger Aḥead.”

the streets the women.

Flashback to Easter 38: The IN looked little different trom chocolate firms promised two today's lady of fashion. Skirts. twopenny were this year's length, hair- extra bites in every bar; the stores were advertising styles were similar. The men coats at paraded in grey, chalk-stripes- women's drasses and

meny of them probably the £1 for the two garments.

same suits they are wearing this year.

And yet, how litle changed.

we've

AND there was the head-

line:

"THE

ONE of those film fights RALS ARE OPTIMISTIC,"

about distribution ar- ELLIOTT

LIBE

DODDS, presiding. the runguments was going on.

over the youngsters of

told them that the coun party, Alexander Korda (not then y was ready for a complete Sir) won this one, against MARY political inndslide which might

GOLD-

Recently ап expert Malaya was rent up-river in FICKFORD and SAM

goodwill Put the Liberals back in power Sarawak. He returned soaking WYN. There was

Even the date was the same wet with the story that Dynks pact signed between our Am- "for a generation."

LORD PERTI und

as this year. April 17, 1038, had sunk his launch and stolen bassador

COUNT CIANO in Rome. all his equipment.

The murder

of the moment was Easter Sunday. was that of PERCY CASSER- .

Ran on to rock

This was so unlike the Dyaks

were that Inquiries

made.

A

Dyak headman told what hap- pened.

was

ค

"The man

interfering with women," he said. "So the men piloting his launch ran it on to a rock. I had posted Dyak on a nearby rock to"save" the expert, for we didn't want to kill him.

"We saved all his equipment, and It's stored in my house Please come to fetch it."

-London Expreza ServiCÉ).

C. V. R. THOMPSON'S

NEW YORK LETTER..

men

New York.

treacherous. Why not try show-

clothes, the Congressmen asked, HE famous nine old ing them for once in business

of America's highest court are in-IN-NEW-YORK the company for a treat.

which makes all the Stors.

Instead of giving learned and Stripes flown from Ameri- opinions on such dry things as can ang poles was accused of an. the US. Constitution, they are unpatriotic sct-defrauding the Government on £6,000. worth soon to sit in judgment on battle between a pretty girl and of bunting bought from it for her father,

New

Hogy

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S SU-

Four hundred and fifty miles away, in Singapore, lives An- What le more, the girl, dazz-

clulised medicine programine thony Brooke, Urectly in line of ling platinum blonde ex-model, succession to the Rajahship of will argue her own case.

Mrs Incz Gay, of Newark, ran into opposition from a fresh Sarawak.

-and strong quarter, the n lawyer. Jersey, is not

Science Church. He is banned from his former What tow she knows she picked Christian

Speaking for the Church, James country because Whitehail fears up from the public library.

But she did well enough in the Wutt said Christian Scientists, is presence there might lead to

win

her case, who, rely wholly on prayer for trouble from Brooke supporters lower courts to

consider of Sarawak say which concerns the handling of treatment of their ailments, compulsory medical The people

nonsense and merely her mother's estate,

An appeal court reversed the services "very objectionable." d

The administrators love them For amusements. Kuching has and prophesy a great future.

a pollee band And then there are colonial a claema and

Dal Morgan, na young district development planners who des- concert every Wednesday after.

The cinema, built by the officer who "rules" 46,000 people, cend on the country. They call noon.

to last Rance, was showing "Lives told me: "They've got every out from Britain first

prospects of a Bengal Lancer."

loyal this is Investigate, say, the

thing intelligence, for growing cocoa.

him martyr.

I sat in a wicker armchair, ty, honesty, and the will to helps Brooke's cause by making and the walter brought me make good."- Wined and dined Scotch and sodas every half

hour.

women to

all that cocon would be a hope- Then Sarawak gets them. less proposition.

when the ship Rajah Brooke

died down

the river

decision, and when she lodged

od like

called

on appeal against that reversai DESIGNERS working out the

putumn fashions for Ameri Mrs Gay is fighting that deck can women promise to abandon I was told about the time Union Jack flies she was told she was too late.

sion in the Supreme Court, She "the plunging neckline," some- the Pneumonia They are wined and dined in Sarawak, spend

The days of the White Rajahs has led a petition full of such time

Necklines will go up fow

At first the arrivals from Bri- made a maiden voyage to Ku- very pleasant weeks travelling about tain-especially

miles round are over. The Union Jack now appropriate phrases as "extant Look.

and substantive again, and as for the debatable crazy after nearly

with boredom. ching. Dynks for

of Brooke's own petitioner" the country-and decide

hemline, most dresses will be thought the Rajah himself had flies instead

standard. But many people questions."

that kind of cut with full hems so the buyer She will drop

old can make

casy adjustments Alan Dant, a young trader come back and thousands pad- British. Dyak, Malay, and Chi-

to meet nese-still wistfully recall the language before the nine

Said she: "I want to tell according to her wish. Everyone in Sarawak know from London, told me: "I'm in

him,

old days which made Sarawak men.

them that the appeal court acl-

BUSINESS: Johnny my

HOW that from the beginning.

love with the place, and

unique.

circus manager chang Welsmulier, whose waistline wife is, too."

To offset their disappoint-

The sort of country where ing an acrobat's act while the ment, they were invited to tour

vessel Thousands toured even today a box on wheels that star is in midair between

and lounges calls itself a bus will completely trapezes. the decks, cabina,

n halfpennyworth a change its route and stick up a "A change of that type is not his new Jungle Jim series-he und not In Kuching, the country's tiny

damage was done nor a single new destination card depending enly unfair, it is usually fatal to forfeits £1,250 for every lb., he

outs on over 13st. 81b.. cepital, I was in an argument:

"I had to wait forty-five ashtray stolen.

on where you want to go. The the victim of the change."

Twenty-one. Shirler Temple What day la. 1? It ended by

ellier passengers don't mind. everyone agreeing that it didn't minutes for a train at Reading,"

he said. "People were cursing The Dyaks are so honest that all around, but I was

Oklahoma arrived in Holly as a child star...Kirk Douglas, quite the residents (administrators) FOOTNOTE: Sarawak (Bor- THREE CONGRESSMEN from takes over the fortune she rando mixing ico-erenm don't bother to neo) One old Dyak-member of the happy. Why, I've walled days of large areas

when 14 for boats in Sarawak and or lock their houses principal native tribe-has

they aquare miles, became a British Wood with a request that there who

now Hollywood's most sought- colony under an Act of Cession shall be no more villainous sodas just three years ago, is

Redskins in the films.. clocks (and five pletures of

Bald, aro after stor. Red Indians, they in May 1946.

-London: Exprues Services ---(London Express Service) too often portrayed as mean and

If you are tired of looking at your watch you might like to try a spell in Sarawak.

matter.

A Government official said he listiked going home on leave because everyone was so im patient.

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Jane WYMAN wins The Academy Award, 1948.

For her performance in this picture.

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