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Maybe that schoolboy had something when he said the trouble with Dick Barton is that he gets cut of his scrapes too easily....Today GILES spot- lights the father of his famous family in an all-time high for tight corners-and says: Get Him Out of This! Dont's take it as more than a curtain- raiser for TOMORROW

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ERNEST DUDLEY

by

(the Armchair Detectival

It is a new-style brain-teaser-which challenges all those who like to say "Nothing is impossible."

HONGKONG FACING

O it begins all over BY

again. On Hongkong's Peak, in town, or over

EMILY

HAHN

IT

In

PEOPLE AGAIN

the war. But Hongkong is not the vicinity, and because their

There

aro

prae-

mado un exclusively of these money is worth more in the clans. She Is a great mass of city. in Kowloon, people listen to

poorer people, mixed in blood There are refugees who fled the radio and read about

and tradition, and consequently to Hongkong before the war hit themselves in the paper.

confused in motive.

the East. There are other recent Like all Eastern seaports, she refugees, who are slipping In Then they go about their

has д Iarge daily business, which is q

population of now in spite of all the govern- Eurasians, or mixed-bloods. ment can do to avoid over- combination of work and That is the sort of thing we have been brought up according

These people, play. To the observer, em- used

though they crowding to admire

the Commun- phasis seems to be on the Asiatics, without thinking any true natives of the colony. After before, and now there are many the to

pattern, are

there were Communists play.

European could share capacity to endure and recover. Chinese

their Hongkong became British, more, making ready for what- Hongkong has changed Especially, we would have said settle there, but their full-blood time comes, when they get their came in thousands, to ever they have to do when the since 1941. Some offices these Belush could not do it, descendants still consider them- orders. have been moved; some they had lived in softening ni China.

because

for years before that selves first and foremost natives Generally speaking, Chin- houses have been repaired luxur They were too easy- and refurnished. At the going, too conscious of their parties a few faces are power and as wo bave been missing. But life isn't very corrupts

fold ad nauseam, power always different.

But those years bo- THE Eurasians are not the tween 1041 and 1945 worked

same, though most of them Now it begins all over cave back to them something lands; it is this very duality-

the mental fat off them and

Have a choice of ancestral again. Maybe it makes you more important than the old which makes them cling to the angry, maybe you want to inheritance of prestige, stand. Though they can claim give them a good shake; but

Today Hongkong Is the only kinship with near

or distant you'll have to admit one community in China, where law Chinese, or British, or Portu-

and order, thing. Whatever else one still prevail, and where indation home. This was evident during as we know them, guese. Hongkong Is their true may think of the British in has not got the bit between its the hostilities, when the mixed- the Far East, they're tough. teeth. Hongkong is still, as she blood soldiers fought magnifi- The Japs, when they was before the war, the goal of cently, with tremendous courage

refugees of every class from all swarmed into Hongkong, over China.

-the courage д man shows only when his homeland is in- followed a carefully planned

vaded. Great numbers of these

programme to destroy Bri- Anybody's Guess

this position?

long-suffer-

their attention

Great Courage

ese are Intensely tical and sentiment as we know It is not part of their philo- sophy, Whatever seems best for his family in the immediato

PARIS REGAINS

HER YOUTH

By SAM WHITE

PARIS. The French sum it up in one

PARIS these days is like mercat est com-

mercial smile

a still beautiful woman merclat est revenu"-The com-

suddenly and again.

has come back

who has

miraculously shed 10 years of her age. The city hna France is now Intrigued by the All this le tough on the spiva.

now almost completely re- mystery of what happens 10 captured its prewar glamour. black marketeers when tho bottom dropa out of the Black

Everyone сап fcol it and Market. sense it, from the most casual tourists to the hard-bitten and What happens to the currency cynical under-privileged mem- touts who once Infested the bera of French society.

boulevards and are now getting a terrible hiding from And It has all happened vitalised frane which is shaping suddenly and as inexplicably as up to the dollar and the pound the early arrival of glorious like a new Carpentier? spring weather.

a TC-

.Some of the widest of wide Conversation everywhere has boys are forced back to humblo taken a reminiscent turn.

paid-by-the-week Jobs.

People will recall that only three months ago the coffee in the bistro next door was ersatz, the beer watery, the shopkeepers unbearable with their arrogance. formation been achieved? Porily

How has

this great trans-

the

There was по milk. no croissants-which the French the result of two bumper had not seen anyway since the harvests, partly because early days of the war-and bound sooner or later to beat Its natural richness of France war there were recurring shortages hinsic market bounds, but main- of butter and ment.

ly because of U.S. dellar ald.

eNow.

по

self-respecting

grocer's shop is without 16 huge mound of butter in the prosperity strictly on tick.

This is prosperity-But it is

window, now croissants can be caten in any cafe, now coffee When Marshall All ends int Is 'real coffee, and the beer 1052 France will be forced to tastes as though it had come stand on its own feet. from a prewar north country French are working

But the brew.

on the principle that nothing succeeda like success.

:

To get milk in your coffee all you have to do is ask for it.

If you aro furry and want cream, then there are Increasing number of cafes which will serve you with that;

too.

ARE

-American novelist Emily Hahn, now living in England with her husband, Major Charles Boxer, former Hongkong staff officer; saw the Japanese invasion. How will Hongkong's Britons and other elements measure up to the new situation resulting from developments in China? She gives her answers in this article

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boys were wiped out. these future governs-a- Chinese decl--Jack-of-a-nationalistic spirit

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particular success is a night club in the Rose Rouge which has a floor show per- formed by four men.

"Les Freres Jacques" which is the Tage of Paris.

A success, too, is the French film "Manon". It is an adapta- Uon of "Romeo and Julie!" to- the period of the Occupation.

The Alm has brought great misery to a respectable French family occupying an Imposing house on the outskirts of Paris, which is, depicted in the Alm as a Parisian palace of vice.

Shows you may cheerfully skin. The new Folics Bergeres with an overdressed Josophing Baker and an excruciatingly vulgar seeno in which the theaire is converted Into the Notre Dame cathedral,

~(London Ezyram Sarules)

Poor old Orion

[M.S. ORION, the cruiser

H

the Germans could not. sink in scores of Malta con- voy fights, a dozen bom. bardments and landings and two major invasions, is in the wars again.

The Admiralty has announced that Orion suffered hull damage and flooding of compartments while acting as torget ship. for underwater explosion testi Loch Striven.

in.

She has been, docked for. In- spection and repairs.

An

Admiralty spokesman. said: "It was a very big ex-` plosion.".

"

tish prestige, or, as the

In dealing with these people have been inoculated with

sion. In the West,

most of us may help the British to prevail and active a lady to finish her Poor old Orfon! Too gallant- Chinese call it, "face" How long will she maintain the government departments, pirit of nationalism.

Between Britain and CommU — They herded the whites into body's guess, but there can bo

have followed a polley which Chinese were Just beginning to Britain.

but the nism, some of them will chouse she is ending her days usefully Tt la any the natives

carcer rusting in retirement, Althy little waterfront hotels no doubt that another test is and which was certainly, to say aggravated

consider unjust, be nationalistic when the war will have

Whether their choice as a target ship before going to and told the Chinese to look coming. When it arrives, what I do not mention the social affect the British in Hongkong? the Japanese attacks the Hong- any influence ro- the least, tactless.

China's chronic mains to be ECOM.

the shipbreakers, at their former rulers and will happen to the

troubles. How will this fact

Before Pearl Harbour and laugh.

of the colour-bar; in honects

"Razor Ship" Then they put the British inhabitants?

offic'al circles it is not supposed The Chinese Communists will to exist, though of course it where he is driven. He may not of seeing themselves described "razor ship" because of one of British into concentration certainly turn

the Usually

goca kong Delish got awfully tired She became known as the camps and forgot them, or sooner or later to his little out- docs. It is the unequal salary put up much of a struggio as "dancing half-starved them, for four post of the Empire they hate. More than the matter of dis- struggle against the years.

volcano." the strangest adventures in the. which enragon the Eurasians against the Communists. He did They are no doubt getting tired Mediterranean war... Even non-Communist Chinese According to the bave often declared that they crimination in a social sense.

Japanese, of it again, Yes, they go to When the Germans launched Colonel Blimps at home. want Hongkong back. What is

but he considered the Japs partics; yes, they live well; yes,

their mixed-blood elerk, for foreigners. On the other hand, they are behaving much as they Orion was the first targets. As radio-controlled bomb, British "face" suffered a going to happen?

example, or a hospital official, he may still feel that his best did in pre-Pearl Harbour days, the fearsome death-blow at that time and There

is paid a small salary; usually bet is the British Government. It is once agala the custom to shadowed

new weapon aro many

The non-whites

possible there is a top limit beyond The fact that many

the will never be resuscitated, answers,

twisting and Chinese wear evening dress for a Satur turning cruiser, Orion's officers But I wonder.

Hongkong may play a

which he can never go. When workers are running to Hong day night's dinner and dancing switched large

their part in the next upset. What is to Hongkong and starting in at th's attitude exists in strength..

he sees Englishmen coming out kong

electric for safety indicates that at The Gripps." their state of mind?

the hope that the In this really to ridiculous? bomb's delicate radio, equip- There have been many errors

three times his in the policy of past

highery INCE the Japanese surren-

possible pay he natur-

Isn't it a good sign? On a Volcano ·

Most ofment would jam. govern ally feels resentful. To be told

these people have been through Later the

produced: Admiralty der, Hongkong has made dealings with the local people, cheaper than an Englishman Hongkong more than a cen- They

ments of Hongkong in their that this is fair as he can live THE British have been

the mill, and they ought to counter to the bomb. Broad- a miraculous recovery. The and the present government is because he is used to living tury. On the whole they have always did hang on, and until

in know what they are doing, it incorporated the principle

are hanging on. British awarmed out of pri- the heir to some of these mis- cheaper. does not allay his done well by the people, even they

They of the buzzing electric razor.

Sister ship to the famous Bon camp, and many of takes.

pushed off by Ajax, built at Devonport in wrath. them, after years of suffer- sistently honoured

True, the British have con-

As for the Chinese it is im te people's point of view, stronger force then they have 1932, Orion taught at Taranto,

which is grimly critical. ing and malnutrition, went wealthy Chinese families of the whole, they are not a homo- complained and before the

big. possible to discuss them as

yet encountered, they always Matapan, and Crete. She bom Tho Chincid have always will.

barded Pantellaria, was flagship straight back to work, to the colony. They have treated them geneous body in Hongkong. Japanese interim they longest

for the landings at Anzio, the enormous task of rebuilding, exceptions there taipans showed cal workers who are there sim- many of them have now chang-

Besides, if you live on a vol- liberation of Greece, the in- with, respect, and with few There are ordinary non-politi- to be rid of the British, but no what in there to do, but vasion of Southern France the colony..

staunch loyally to Britain during ply because they were born in ed their minds. Thus their very -(London Express Service),

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