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YOUNG JAMES GREW UP TO FIND A CONTINENT WHEN young James Cook ran off to sea from the village

draper's in which he was apprenticed at Blaithen, on- the Yorkshire coast. he did not dream that oud day hé would claim Australia for Britain.

His learned to steer a ship

by the stars and compose, and when war came with the French he folued the Navy to fight,

But it was as a caplain navigator that he gained fame, and the Government wont him to search for a Vast continent believed to stretch down the Paciflo to

the Antarctic Ocean.

Cook proved this was a myil. He landed in Australia in 1770 and took possession, Thra le salled on and discovered the lovely Islands, now named after him, where oranges and bananas grow wild.

The Cook Islands recently issued a fine new set of stamps. This one shows a native spearing fish in a palm- fringed lagoon.

Perforation: 134 by 1334.-J.A.A.

--{London Express Service)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

200 Teen-Agers Start A Camera Clean-Up

NEW YORK: Teen-ngers, birthdny-and the cooked the menrly 200 of them, recently an- midday meal for her parly Bounced a campaign io make cuesta Williamsburgh, ព New York She was born in Surrey and suburb, a better place.

lived in London for 48 years they before emigrating to New Zen-

Armed with cameras.

will make up an nibum of slum- inn 42 years ago. She has 7 spots, littered streets, unsafe chieren, 11 grandchildren and 4 crossings, and everything they great-grandchildren.

think the city authorities ought

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improve.

And then

they will present

their albuma to the authorities involved-nud 10 the Hewa-

papers,

Said Joan Kozak, a 17-year- oki clvle Jender-"We knew Williamsburgh was in A very low socio-economie bracket, but our pictures put it more blunt ly."

Victory For "Drys"

OKLAHOMA: The 'wels' re- cently lost their

Alxth try to kit prohibition in Oklahomo, one of the two American states which still ban liquor.

"It is a victory God."

for proclained the dryn. Said the wets: "It is really a victory for the bootleggers, who financed the 'drys' campaign." First Timo Unfucky

FOOTNOTE: Oklahomana org WELLINGTON: An ex-Ben

now flocking to luggage sales George for cuplain, 08-year-old

which, a folding suitcase Knowles, in making his frst according to the advertisements, court appearance on a summons is "perfect to take along when for "diogonalling" a street to you're planning to return with catch a tram, heatedly told the more than you started with," magistrato that he would not be bawled at by anyone, not even a traffic Inspector.

The magistrato warned him of the dangers of jaywalking.

Knowles left the court-room

dead on -and dropped footpath.

the

Still Going Strong WELLINGTON: Mr F.

Holselden of Lower Hutt, 10 rniles from Wellington, an in- veterate racegoer, was dis- appointed because her daughter was not well enough to drive her 40 miles to a race meeting. But the disappointment did not stop hier enjoying her 80th

Behind the times LONG ISLAND: Halled na the sensation of the day is an automatic ticket machine short- at the Now York terminus of the Lou Island Railway. It is Just like the one the London tubes have used for years.

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949.

Leisure For Pleasure,

Passion And Murder

DINNER AT ANTOINE'S.

By Frances Parkinson Keyes. Eyre and Spottis woode 12s. 6d, pages.

416

ERE is a story with a grip of a bulldog. A straightforward firmly- built melodrama, its scenes well contrived, its curtains beautifully timed. although unusual, product of today's foremost best-selling novelist.

-By-

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

it that Sobla

Vance Perraul, has just confti- And how chane ed as an incurable form of Duplessis was lurking in the paralysis.

Carden of Mrs Lalande's house Before another day 13 uver so that he saw the shadow of a Odile is released from all her man in Odile's room and a troubles. She is found dead in chadow-play which might inve her bedroom, a revolver near been a struggler.

and A fine, I have tried to be a good daughter and a good wife, but I can't take this any longer. The. note mysteriously disappears soon afterwards.

It has sold over a million copies in the United States.

no

With Frances Parkinson Keyes (pronounced "Kyos") we know Just where we are. No unhealthy questionings

pocint sirnificance.

We move in well-bred society, in lavishly appointed settings Money

in not a problem here, Neither work nor unemployment weighs unduly on the spirits of Mr Keyes's prople.

There is Inisure for everything or at

her

La note in her handwrit-

It is a case of suicide? It is until Captain Murphy of the New Orleans police, in his crisp way, points out that the gun that Jlled Odile must have been held * lepat eight feet from her body. Who fired and why?

Several people have colourahie motives and some have shaky alibts.

Odile's devoted negro maid, Tosale in wildly jealous because a trained nurse in being brought least for the best restaurants, In to look after her darling the choicest wines and frocks, Leonce, Odlic's husband and for pleasure, passion-and obviously displeased at the pros

pect of life with a progressively helpless wife. Caresse is strongly attracted to Leance and whence come those bloodstaing on her dress?

murder?

Sudden death

Business deal

What is to be done with a precious cargot By herole efforts Anderida drinks it, and a alory which opened as promising comedy comes to a hurried, farcical end.

questions, c.c.: What offence is The reader is left with some committed it, by act of God, a consignment of excinable liquor to prevent the owners paying is brought ashore? And what is

duty on it?

THERE IS NO NEED TO SHOUT. By Frances Warfield. Gollancz. 83. Gd. 152 pages.

One after another the suspicis are clearedi, Foxworth's alb was contrived as part of a com- plicated business deal he is put Nittle Frances Warfeld's life tag through. Coresse's blood-the seven deadly words were: stain is the outcome of a

car "What's the matter-collon In accident. And so on.

your cara?” She was a little teft. The doctor! Yes, the death suspected it. In any case, it was Until only Vance Perrault 1 hard of hearing-but nobody

of Odile St Amant wns both only because she had so many suicide and murder. Permult head colds. blamed himself for telling the girl her cafe

There are countless ways in was incurable. blamed himself more for putting which the secret con be kept the means of mutelde, a mortal from the world, Such as pro- in in Cebolle eves, within her tending to be day-dreaming. reach. sin on his shoulders. And there news

He resolved to take the faking ilincs, absent-minded- An upset stomach or a we the revolver,

phony headache is an excellent In Dinner. At Antoine's the alibi for not hearing. publie is presented with a detec live story which is also a

Later comes the college era-- brilliantly

at dances,

to be you pretend developed novel, peopied by powerful, pinusible cagy: you won't answer human beings, drawn with skill question--or you insist on read- Orson Foxworth and Mrs and in intricate detail. Its main- fng your

At partner's palm. Lalande have Just decided to springs are conscience, folth, football games, you

are chilly marty and pette In Central America.

passion, greed and renore and muffle your cars comically. Odlle's tices makes. And with what riches of affec that

The long battle with doctors, cherished scheme more tion and knowledge is the New chiropractors, quacks the sur dificult to rentire. Orson Orleans scene painted!

render at last to a hearing-ald notoriously a ruthless man. And Mrs Lalande's porrow over her

The happy ending.

Dinner ni Antoine's ip П briller, a story of midden denth and complex mystery. It la right rit of the detective story class because the deenest mystery of all relates to motive and not to act. For this reason alone, Dinner at

Antoine's

achleves the dignity of a novel.

The tale

is strung tallly between high points of tension. Just consider as you read (if you can spare the attention, but you will find it hard) the last cen- tence or two In each chapter. Those final tantalising words Then there is Sabin Duples

daughter's death has a theatrical appearance.

Unbalanced

that

Magnificent reading is here. GREEN GROW THE

Have I made it plain that this RUSHES. By Howard is a charming end amusing little C. Clawes. The Bodley book? That is what I have been Head. 91. 6d. 262 pages, tying to say.

which throw up a new and sta, who loves Odile and bitterly Portenoy WRE

exciting window and tempt thy reseuls

reader ont

To New Orleans, in time for the Twelfth Night Revels, comes Ruth Avery with her uncle Orson Foxworth, & chipping tycoon with vant, but not always repur- able, julerests in the Caribbean Arci.

你

2

the time IN

of Edward IV, a seaport. her marriage

St to

storm, altering the red Came He is an unbalanced Amant.

Partenoy Harbour is character who spent the night coastline. of the tragedy in getting wildly now half a mile from the rea. and publicly drunk. It might be one way of side-stepping sus- picton. And there is no doubt at all that revolver.

Finally Vance Perrault, As an honourable auctor he has no con- ceivable motive for murdering & Yet it is he

Sabin gave Odile tho

favourite patient. J to be installed

Lying down to it SEATTLE: Mrs Mary Buck- ley won a divorce here when she testified that her husband did not get out of bed during the first four months after be was discharged from the Army -except to go to a liquor store.

in Antoine's famous restaurant they meet Amelle Lalande lovely widow whom Orson has long besieged and to whom he is now renay to grant honour- able terma of capitulation-w marriage.

Caresse Lalande is also there, flirting scandalously with Leonce St Amant, a smooth type who is husband of her sister Odils. Odile In a beautiful but tragle young woman. She suffers from an un- controllable trembling of the hands which her physician, Dr

Portenoy is the capital of the ancient and privileged Liberty of Anderida, which means to assert its rights of self-government in the teeth of a sub-commission from Whitehall.

Anderida's resolution is not based simply on the eternal - who last saw the dead girl-to-principles of freedom. The far as can be discovered.

sub-commission, may stumble on

engaged,

If it is murder, why Odile's the profitable smuggling business letter the farewell of a suicidor: In which the local population is If that letter is a forgery, Tossie certainly could not forge it, and One last cargo of brandy in is therefore innocent. But who being run when comes another has stolen the letter?

storm, carrying the smugglers' boat over the seawall, and depositing it in the old, dried- up harbour of Portenoy.

Why was Orson Foxworth of such pains to create an alibi for himself during the critical hours?

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

IF YOU RETURA

HIS MOWER AND RAKES AND STUFF

HOW DO YOU

THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET-TI'

GARDEN READY..

FOR

SPRING?"

LOOK! BACK OF YOU... THEY'VE LEFT ONE OF THEIR. BAGS/QUICK! GET THE CAR. OUT AND

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@ FOCUS. By Arther (Collane de 50f 217 and trightening novel about the vicious. ness of anti-Semitism in America Con come a man who isn't a few, but looks like one and leamy muchs at frat hand ut the secret witch-hunt and warlare that he com over **

NO LONGER WINGS TO FLY. BY James Kinross (Hemich Hamitan 9. 04. 251 pp. Hestrained un- niting (and thereines often moving) account of the two years' figit? again? tuberculosis made by .

young sokker who had contracted it In a Corman prison camp

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Evalym Chemman George Harrap, 121, 64.1 Dreadfu File, enchanting book #tran promologut collecting specimens for The Gallias Museum, travels alone mhrough the Malayon hangle and tells her adventures with

charming stence of fur

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Stamps At

The Palace

ONE of the most famous stamp collections in the world is. that belonging to Ila Majesty the King.

"Begun by his father, the late King George V, when he was a midshipman, It now occupies 347. albums on shelves in a pair of cream-painted rooms in Buck- Ingham Palace, and i ́estimated : to be worth £1,000,000,

Strictly limited to British Em- plzo issues with ́a Turkish sot of 1917, overprinted Ungdad in British Occupation" as the only. foreign element--it-includes the, only perfect specimati, in the world of the famous 2d. Blue Mauritius, which is valued at C10,000; Another most valuable", stmap is the 1d. Orange-Red Mauritius

+

The collection has been bought from the King's own purso and. This personal property. "Keeper of the King's Philatelie 'Collec- tion" is Sir John Wilson, former President of the Royal Philatelie Society. He in'n bar- tho rister who onco served in Coldstream Guarda

To The Windmill

RITAIN'S first glant and on the northern Islands can

of

windmill, designed to be harnessed by a network

windmillo on a ocalo which produce electric power, would save the country two on a commercial scale, is million tons of coal and oil fuel now being built in a Clydo- annually. tank shipyard,

A sixth sense

The winds

of the

western

It will be erected on a hill in the north-west corner of islands and the north are, legen- Pomona, Orkney, whero dary. stendy gales hlow for most of the year.

A propeller-shaped like an aircrew, its blades extending 30 feet from tip to tip-ls to take the place of the old-time salls.

Mounted on 'n 100-foot-nylon,

to

laed the people develop a alxth In many parts of North Scol-

senge which enables them judge from the noise of the wind when a violent gust is about to reach them and they le flat to avoid being knocked down.

But the folk stories were not

it will face into the wind 600 enough for celentists to work on.

feel above sea level.

A team of ""wind · prospectora" Tower lines from Kirkwall was sent out by the British are now being Electrical Research Association, power station extended around the const of headed by 40-year-old Mr E. W. Pomona to link up with the Golding, to and the windmill.

Will save fuel

most suit- able spot for the now wind- mill

They chose the bleak hills,

During continuous periods of Costa Head and Vestra Field high wind it is expected that Although gusts of 90 to 100 the grid boost from the windmill mp.h. were recorded, they were will enable the North of Scol- mog

interested in prolonged

land Hydro-Electricity Board to periods of lower-velocity winds. rest some of the diesel generator

that Kirkwall,

fuck.

After eight months they said: think the achemo will

thus saving "We

It is thought that winds beat- ing on Britain's western seaboard

work."

-London Express Service)

"End of Summer"

BY KEMP STARKETT

*MAYBE I COULD CAVE ON HAIR-

CUTS

HOW COME YOU TORGOT YOU HAD TAXES AND INSURANCE TO PAY? YOU TOSSED ENOUGA AWAY ON TIPS TO FEED USFOR A MONTH... WELL, HOW WEVE GOT THE MEMORIES YOU SAID

WED NEVER

FORET

I'LL BET WE WON'T!

AUD

ROLL

AY

CMU

AID.

COMMER MAY BE OVER, OFFICIALLY, BUT FOR THE CARDENERS THERE'S STILL GRACE TO CUT, WEEDS TO PULL UP, BUGS TO BE TOUGHT, LEAVES TO BE RAVED

TO DON'T RETURN THE TOOLS YOU

BORROVED...YET.

NIX! IF THEY DON'T COME BACK

FOR IT I'LL SEND IT TO 'EM...BY CARRIER PIGEON...COLLECT.

Ledger Syndicale

THE BRIGHT AND SHINING TACES

OF THE YOUNGER CET GONG

-BACK TO SCHOOL...

AND DID THAT FISH FIGHT IT WAS THAT LONG IF IT

WAS ANTINCHL Z

[YOU DON'T

WE TO HOLD THE LADDER

THE LAST EXPECTED QUESTS LEAVE....... LEAVE YOU EXHAUSTED............AND LEAVE HALF A DOZEN OF THEIR PERSONAL BELONGINGS WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO WRAP AND ANL ... UNSURED.

YET.

GO

ADGON

IN ZAD

AUMBERS

ON TA

WINDOWS

IN AND

EVERYONE WILL. HAVE TO BE TOLD OF

IKT EA

[SUMMERS TRIUMPKC.

LOOK!

THE ONES WHO WENT WHOLE HOG ON A VACATION TRIP..."HẲNG THE EXPENSE,“ THEY SAID, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE "THE MEMOR-" JES OF ONE WONDERFUL THE !*

THE OFFICE LADS WILL SOON BE RESTING IP FROM THEIR REST.

BY THE WAY, FRANK,

HAVE YOU ORDERED OUR COAL YET. VINTER (SHT. TOO FAR OFF AND THERE'S CHRIS

AND SOON IT'LL BE TIME FOR THE SEMI-. "ANNUAL BATTLE WITH THOSE D STORAL WILDOVELLE

JUST WHEN YOU'RE BEGINNING TO BILJOY SOME RELIEF FROM THE COMMER HEAT COREONE W HACTO STACIT DUITING ON THE BEAT OF ANOTHER KIND

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