DID
THIS ONE COME FROM MOSCOW
is strange to find
this portrait alamp-of-Georgi
on
his recent death in Moscow, where experts say the stamp was printed.
Few
commemoratīven are rushed out so quickly. Perhaps this is a tribute to s'man who arted swiftly in a tie full of danger.
As a boy he' was trained to toe guns and bombe, and later he led a revolt and was out- lawed.
Then he was arrested by the Nazis in Berlin and sccused of, setting the Reichstag on fire.
Hie akili in defence won him release. Ho flew to Moscow ""and"returned-to-Bulgaria-after-the-Nasis--were-bezion
Face Value: 20 levs (about 40.);
by 11.
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Perforniion:
-London Express Servics)
FROM HERE AND THERE :
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1949.
A Tour Of London's
Underworld
TH
HE atmosphere in the motor coach was rather like; that in
IL
BY
JOHN
CLARKE
"Wouldn't much like to ave
a punclure hero, Dad," the little girl from Sheffield zald tactlessly.
to
"Now we're really in dock- land." Albert, said, "we've going
call
Fația Very olil fan, but if anyone doesn't want to go there they'll be quite safe to wait in ulie Inn
...
the approaches to
colved; and the slightest action door, Albert said that if there. tell us that' London had 2000 enough
by anyone; the knocking out of a pipe, the blowing of a nose, 'most in- was watched with rest tense interest by the
**Tilers wero 10 of un aboard. in bedrooms. they. 'avo. Into triglit woon," piped up the
from Preston, Lancashire family) were staying
for
up
with ex-
an aircraft about to take off into
thunderstorm--a little apprehensive, bag Dickens's house in Doughty
Wo edged our way between were cluttered People made feeblo Jola Street, and as we peered at it tramcar and the kerb, driving pensive cars which were, uproariously re- and the boarding house next on, and this reminded Albert to. Albert conveyed us into the of us, for no one was were any questions we wanted trams, 2000 trollybuses, 7000
stay behind. answered he would do his best.. motorbuses.
The place was packed, and, "Ah woonder if you know
"And
you're looky if you get pushing our way through the 'ow m
our.. Potel?" the man from man from Preston, " any road, we could feel hungry,
maps of perspiring the we are A sprightly, shrivelled-up little Preston asked naming 11%
nyes
on our pocket-books and Burnsbury hotel where he and
Yorkshiriman by purses. So unnecessarily dan- with an ample wife,.
and two
Put .co to speak, a gerous did our sally into, the inn They've --melits
teen-age daughters a their long way.
Londoner, gave the room, such a needless bit of family of three mother, father got and. redhaired, girl,..... from; numbering suc counted oop "."
to #rpoms," seem start wille
for a drink. Albert led us tớ n All the way along here in the verandah over the lak-binck, Sheffield; and two middle-aged wit 100, Ab women. from Worcester Mas- 404, ED
Albert sachusetts, one an office-worker,.
an we roared down Whitechapel made hot-foot, back, pretending the other a schoolmarm
answer accurately, so I'd better Head, they had their, thieves that what we hadn't liked really leave that in thin air and kitchens and dens, but the was the stufi nema v changed the subject-10-
police ve cleaned it up beyond Ehow, we, thought, as we that London was built on seven recognition. At this, relief and climbed back behind Mick, that marches and had seven hills
disappointment showed in the was something. Then Albert party's faces,
spolled it all. He said: "Prin- cess Margaret came to the inn on Tuesday, week ago. She had dinner on the first floor, took
There's No Harm
Wearing
In
A Rubber Face...
Intest the renate next year.
NEW YORK: Mind doctors announced she would run for called in to explain the American Ind o! rubber maske adults are buying face- atting masks which make them look liko pirates, witches, film stars and so on by the million found dimple explanation. Their theory: many people dissatisfied with themselves, wearing a mask enables them to play at being someone else; it's harmless-much better than he- coming a blind, anonymous fol- lower of some Hitler.
a
1-
The bird
are
....
of
NEW YORK! Instead tomatoes and eggs, New Yorkers tried out a new weapon of dis- approval. They pelied deft- wing Congressman Vito cantónio with melóns.
Outsider
Mar. cantaloupe
With Albert, who was to be our guide rad protector, and Mick, the driver, our number was 12: and such was the slate of our nerves that had one more passenger joined, to bring the total to 13. I think half of us
way: Laing natronising (sort of bravado, that none of us staysu
wald, "yell, ti canteld days" he said a moment later secret river, and then.... we
“There's one hotel in Blooms
Buck bury's got 777 100ms," chipped in. But Albert urmly
would have found some excuse refuted to reopen that subject Wm Hotherhithe Tunnet to 1 hour over it."
to bolt. No good inviting, disaster.
WE were about to leave the quiet, safe, snug, respectable Tax without tears
Bloomsbury square for the un- known, the unimaginable, the VIRGINIA: Tax chief Waiter unmapped region
beyond the Gentry of Richmond, Virginia, law for the East End, I in fact.
homely land- Jadles waddied the local on the Corner, and earest students, their heads full of theses, mingled on the pave. ments will, candals.
and to take our minds of it he said,
"St Paul's Cathedral is shipping down at the rate of it inen a year because of the marshes"
The American, women noted the fact in their little books and the rest of us pondered it in silence.
sent out orders to all his taxHere, in W.C. into and out or E
Kiump
payments
rollectors to with a receipt saying "Thank you." Said he: "Tax collectors should not be cold-blooded."
Choosy husband
DETROIT: "A divorce granted to Mrs Eleanor
WIN
Croat in Detroit after the hnd sald that her husband would not let her kiss him because he afraid of germs, and would not
would spoil the crease panta
WAS
tousled
poela in
bowled along merrily towards the East, Albert talking most of the time, and as we pissed some houses webbed.
he in scaffolding.
said, "You probably know that people in
by WALTER
DAB and FLOUNDER £1 million
station for germ warfare
Ho
By Chapman Pinchor
fort on Salisbury Plain, where Ancient Britons once fought with stono axes, the world's most modern military 'empblishment £1,000,000 resesch station. Yor defence against germ wartaro-is being built by the Government.......
A team of doctors, veterinary surgeons, and 'scientists, under Dr D. W. Henderson, will move in to start full-scale rentmach én | defenec," and on germ bomba ta serve as 'n deterrent to attack.
The products will be listed ou thousands of acres of plain wired
and signposted "Dangerbus." RAF planes will co-operate.
Meteorological itutions with high wind-towers havo-set up to help the scientists ensure that no, poisonous materials: escape.
-~-~{London Express Service);
A "Silver Spoon
Plan
For All
IJE dodged under the river
peex, ot Greenwich. ("It was here the. Duke of Windsor was
旮 studying when he married the, TOW we were whirling back Princess," Albert Bald as we towards civilisation, through passed the ANC, and no one had Southwark and over Waterloo the temerity to correct his slip.) Bridge. We trundled round We crossed the river again by Piccadilly Circus observing The the Blackwall Tunnel, almost Lights, and headed up Shaften- rubbing aides with other touring bury Avenue towards our start-
Ramsgate
ing place. buses
WHY walt until your old-age for each child until he or she It was comforting, and made Margate and Ilford and Forest
to retire? us feel safe to have brightness for life, and never bother to and there
Retire at birth, in turn reached the age of 20, would be sumcient all. Then we were in Chinatown sky signs, street lamps and head-
round un, shop-lights and work at all
left of their own' joint' £14,000 Len we wero out
of it.
This is the object of a pen to take Dghts
As we turned out of sion scheme to end all pension old age. seemed to consist of one street. "Keep your
And Soho
into Bloomsbitry, schemes, propounde try. open for
in rill
from
and
It
her, in E, whatever it wan London bave been told to have chiramen," Albert ordered, as Albert said: "All that behind seriousness by the Mayor of
what might we not find-doped women and knife-fights, soft padding, inscrutable orientals, baby farmers, white slavers?
Albert looked at the clock in
nn
houses their
repaired and palated up before the 1951 ex- hibition."
that the same
they were
autocratic
200
απ
his
care of them in their
Farewell to work
"Nobody
"to
work
Lendon's underworld. And onment for £7000 payable in 20 in Government bonds at three
of
our
to look back' over our shoulders for fear that the underworld which seemed to have followed us from the East End to the West was still on our heela
£14,000 dowry
If he expected to be ambushed us is Soho, where they're always l'ark Ridge, Illinois, Mr Alfred We kept our eyes skinned and murdering each other and very Haoke. Here is how it would
would ever have saw on Chinese youth In
don't they
catch an often
the
worke I glanced at the two Ameri-
agala,
says Mr Hanice. It's London's under- Every: new-born child in the "The
parents, in addition to cans. They looked sharply dis. open-necked shirt and blue blazer murderer.
He looked
world."
USA
would receive a promis- the £4 a week for each child, let her sit on his lap because it the front of the bus, straightened approving at this evidence of (old Tong binzer?).
at us incuriously, as we passed, the doorstep
sory note from the Govern could invest their own £14,000, hishis tle (whose pattim suggested dictatorship in Socialist Britain;
no very noticeable smouldering
50fe, but a moment later enormous looking The belonged to
recluded, Bloomsbury very impressed, for we light of unpiclon in his eyes, no We hurried out of the bus and three percent
at three percent. The sent and have additional in- square, years, number of clubs and found It Low morals
their were passing through the blitzed, chopsticks,, opium pipe or pak back to our hotels not liking the child reached the age of 20.
(£ 4 a week) come of £33, or a total of convenient to wear all
£100 a month.” would go to the parents until MARYLAND: Examination of driver, "All right, Mick." There Paul's and Albert was explain.
colours at once) and sald to the moon-crater country east of Spu papera sticking from
pocket.
"This," comments the Wail 11,000 miles of him convinced was a finality about
Street Journal, "Of course, in the old days it the way ind
"MRY' seem Maryland's censors, according to
comical. But in a day when their report to the
he slammed the Governor made
door which authorities had railed off all the Was all oplum dens and that sort
of thing," Albert said, consoling
the Government propose Each year during those 20 make us all rich by distribu- #1 that the "moral qualities
clear quite of
that bombed basements with a four- . post-war Alms have hit an all-
thenceforward we were all in foot wall.
years tho Government would ting dollar bills, and when a his hands time low."
We spent some time at Bunşili
[pay £330 into oinking fund. labour union At 20 the child would be given have more
cay, we can all "Well, wind, settlig moe without leaving the bus, while BUT now the coach was feel- "WAT Burn I pake 1 the the 1000 paid into his d
nice little admiring the graveyard
impressed you most £7000 dinking
good things by front reat; the American women Albert told us about Wesley Ding its way through tortuous American teacher as we panted
working less, we would not be surprised to see this LOS ANGELES: A campalga
acheme WYOMING: Loud-coloured busily sharpened pencils and Chapel across the street. "I used marrow, ill-lit streets beside the along Southampton Row, "Why, launched immediately to
cars may be the dgn of a cad, | prepared to take per-
Boys notes of all to sing in that chapel," he said, river. Blackfaced
and girls who elected taken up seriously in Washing- sunde more women to go into said Wyoming's traffe experts they saw, heard, imagined.
warehouses she said. "I thought that ift.to
ton. "50 I ought to know something loomed above us, and here and wall round all the bombing wos have a joint capital of £14,000.
marry at 20 would this "The project for
the new politics, got quick resuits. In recently, but tests chow that
about it. That's the minister's there were steps down Los Angeles
to the just wonderful, Can you imagine Work would be unnecessary for less and quit even that earlier era will be to work lens and licten Gehngan they are safer to drive. Reason:
house, there. I've had supper in water which could only Douglas, ex-actress wife of flamboyant colours are
have 4ft, and right round every-over it they under.ook to have more
it many a time." He licked his been but there for sinister thing." Hollywood's Melvyn Douglas, easily seen by other drivers.
and carller.". chops reminiscently.
at least four, childreti, because they would receive £4 a week
SYDNEY: The totalisalor al Gosford races in New South Water paid a winning dividend Banyan, which como in second. Nobody had backed the winner, Le Balkan.
on
Hollywood sideline
Coddish-but safo
we're
up WE pulled
reverently after a few minutes, outside
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"D
purposes.
+
A THAT RED FOUR.
GOES ON THAT BLICK
FIVE AND YOU DIDN'T MOVE THAT QUEEN ON ...**
--{London Express Service)
---(London Express Service)
"Does It Gripe You, Too?"
BY KEMP STARRETT
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE
GOING TO DO...DIO HE
GARDEN FULL OF
HOLES? IF YOU
WANT SOMETHING
TO DO GO PICK UP ALL
THOSE STORES
AND BE SIRE YOU DOUT...
fo
DOES IT GRIPE YOU WIEN YOU TRY TO PUT SOMETHING AWAY IN THE REFRIGER- ATOR TO FIND EVERYTHING SAACK UP
IN THE FRONT AND THE BACK OF IT EMPTYS
#
WAY
DON'T YOU
TEST IT
FIRST..00 BLOW ON IT OR SOMETHING
OR TO HAVE SOUP SERVED AS HOT AS A STOVE LID ... AND
WITHOUT VARNINGS
DOES IT GRIPE YOU TO... HAVE SOMEONE KEEP ON WITH A COXYLESATORE AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN UP STAIRS...OR ARE YOU A AICE, PATIENT SOUL?
• WUBBLE BE OUR GLOM IGLUM ∙BLAA, BRAH BUCH
Ledger Syndicals
DID YOU HURT YOURSELF?
MAYBE YOU LIKE BEING JASKED TOOLISK QUESTIONS.
DOES IT GRIPE YOU TO BE TOLD WHERE YOU OUGHT TO MOVE WHICH CARDS, ESPECIALLY WILL NOT A HALF HOUR AGO, SILE BAWLED YOU OUT FOR DOME, THE SAME THINGS.
OR MAYBE IT DOESN'T BOTHER YOU TO BE POKED IN TIERIUS AND...... YELLED DOWI HA DISCUSSION --
-AND EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO HELP. OUT VITI A JOB TO BE TREATED AC IF YOU HAD THE BRUNS OF A SOFT- SHELL CRAB ?
DOES IT GRIPE YOU... WHEN YOU HNALLY GET AROUND TO READING THOSE MAGA ZINES AND PAPERS YOU'VE CAVED FOR VEEKSULITO "FIND THEY'VE BEEN GIVEN THE OLD HEAVL-KO „JUST YESTERDAY...
„Z DON'T MISS TAIS TERRIFYING, CPINE-CHILLING: MYSTERVASY VRICH FOLLOWO IN ONE MINUTE,
· IN YOU WANT TO FEEL YOUR BLOOD DURING COLD
STUROUGH YOUR VEINS...
BANG BANG
OR DOES IT GRIPE YOU TO GET THE COT OF STUFF JUST WHEN YOU GET. NICELY * SETTLED FOR SOME PEACEFUL MUSIC?"
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