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JUNE HAVOC HELENA CARTER

1DM TOLLY-MARTIN MELER - DAN SEYHOUR - *es, Pea

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949.

VISITOR", "WHAT'S HAPPENED

ID YOUR FRIEND COLONEL

BEMP OR BLIMP ORMARIT IT WAS. IS HE DEAD? LOW: "PAR FROM 18.”

Cad.sir Prof.LBS.Haldane

is right. The only sound basis

for Science is

political Revelation

Gad, Sir, The Sugar industry chiefs are right. The way to keep sugar out of politics is to pack it in

political propaganda

Bad sir, the American Senators are right. Devaluation or no devaluation, Socialism has made British goods so Expensive, that the U.S. must have

a high Tariff wall

To keep

them out

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BLIMP LIVES

Cad, sir, The Daily Express

is right The Socialists have utterly ruined the country, so Europa only wants to join us because we are better off than they are.

London Star-Gazers See Two Eclipses

LONDON, Oct. 7.

LONDONERS

star-gazing early this morning Haw the soft skies darken and the moon retreat. For seventy minutes it was totally eclipsed.

William Hickey's

NOTEBOOK

Pepper's teachings are more discussed than the lectures of other

professors. But PRO Londoners arriving a little FESSOR HAROLD LASKI still Inter today to start the new bents his drum for Socialism and Christmas term at their all points Left. Overshadowed by School of Economics (where the brilliant Popper, he is virlu- MR DALTON once lectured ally the Inst of the Left. on Economic Theory and MR PIANIST POUISHNOFF SAM BISCHOFF EDWIN 1 MARINATTLEE on Social Science)

is 58 on Tues. find an eclipse of a dif- day. He celebrates his birthday ferent kind. The Left-wing by pinying on the following Sun- day at the CHOPIN memorial theorists are dwarfed by concert. Chopin died in October more practical counsellors 1849. of the Right.

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An envelope was pinned to a third-floor door. On 1 wan written: "It No Answer to your Knuck, write your Business on Paper provided and Push under Door." There was no paper pro- vided. But a knock called forth a hoarse, "Hullo, there."

A fat man

The door opened. In tight trousers, an open waist- cont, no jacket, came out.

with a match. picked hin teeth "Business.

in.

He

ch? Come in, como

"The room was small. On its walls were maps of London's streets, the Underground. A deak stood in the corner. On it was a cup of cold tea. A sausage roll crumbled in the saucer.

More Empire tobacco to go

in cigarettes

-AS SMOKERS GET USED TO IT

ALMOST all the so-called "Virginia" cigarettes smoked In Britain today contain a large proportion of Empire tobacco, and as smokers become accustomed to this the amount is gradually being Increased.

The present proportion is To prevent anyone get- a trade secret, but a clue to ting freo "smokes"

from

it exists in the Royal group the floor, every scrap of to

of docks in London, where, bacco han to be accounted

of the 40,000 tons of tobac- for.

co in bond, less than half

And so, smoke pours all day from the • "King's

[is American, The reason

for this is the need for Pipo."

saving dollars.

The 40,000 tons aro worth, with duty, more than $206,000,000, of the toal, 24 percent is African tobacco

Rhode. (mostly sian). 28 percent Indian. and just under 40 percent American. The balance consists of "other foreign" and "other Empire" leaf.

The man in chargo Mr H.C. Lacey, senior traffic officer and principal warehousekeeper, is It- sponsible for the care of this tobacco.

to

Stocks are expected soon To up to £250,000,000, Earlier in the said.

of proportion tobacco fell to

the

There was a knock at the door, he

thin sprayer In came the

of year wooden chairs. "Woman down-American

stairs wants to see you," he said. 132 percent, but it is expect-

"usiness. Work before played that the average will rise

"Give me a up to 40 percent.

I'll x you Efforte

said the fat nne. ring tomorrow and up."

A book lay on his desk. It was "Crime and Punishment."

That

criminal manual?" asked the departing caller.

"This?" The detective looked down at the book. "Yes, Best one in the business. Gives the

facts, this does. Nothing to beat It."

memory's not what it was:"

'now being made to build up a year': supply of all tobaccos. Be- fore the war, three years* stock was the average.

1000lb. caski

The tobacco under the- care of Mr Lacey and his staff includes 40,000 casks of about 1000lb, each, 17,- 1000 cases of between, 400lb. "You've read it, then?"

and 500lb. each, and 200,- The fat man wavered, but only 1000 bales of between 100lb. for a tiny moment.

land 400lb. Foutshnoff, delleate, white haired, hates being described, as

"Reading it again, you know, Release from bond takes Giants in the new economic the greatest living interpreter

Revision, as it were, The old place at the rate of 600 guard are PROFESSOR LIONEL ROBBINS director of the War of Chopin," He once announced

tons a week. The tobacco "What can we do you for, ch? Cabinet's Economic Section of in a concert hall that people who

trailing, thefts by It can't be. What would novo enters the port in leaf form Offices; FRIEDRICH HAYEK, had come to hear him because of Divorce.

the anti-Communist that phrase In an advertisement trusted friends? I'm a one-man Ust DOSTOJEVSKY think about and unprocessed.

back, police force. I am." He lowered that description of his clas-

The "King's Pipe" is the "Road to Serfdom"; and DR could have their money

Voice -confidentially, "Or alc? ... KARL POPPER, whose latest Nobody took him up on his offer.

name given to an incinera. Ho book went into a third impres-

his maybe indiscretions eh?"

antor

a factory-like avith rubbed his hands.

PAY-OFF: From sion last month.

adver- chimney. In it are burned "What about your fees?" "They vary, you know. It's all sement in the South London all damaged and condemned

Press: We take a guinea according retainer, then expenses. We have aldence; gd. food; every conv.: tobacco, and tobacco floor

bath, etc.; share sweepings. with widow. Box No, bedrm, sep, beds, use sit, zm.

author of

Popper is 47. He first came to England in 1935. Shortish, fuzzy-

University, New Zealand. There

he wrote his book.

Ilves with Poulshnoff young wife in Swiss Cottage. They rent a former stable, have furnished it beautifully. One of

turo

an

"Sult gent; board-re-

haired, Austrian born, he spent the old horse boxes, painted deep the war lecturing at Canterbury brown, is still in their lounge, to entertain, you know." Behind hot water,

whimsically, they eat where the titty, a clotha cap gathered dust next his

grand planos.

the door, opera hat; a manger used to bo, have their on nalls. He gestured towards bedrooms in the old hayloft,

Poulshnoff practises five hours them. "Go anywhere, any time.

A one-man Scotland Yard." most days, fewer during the con- cert season.

"I couldn't come home here because of shipping difficulties. So I wrote this book as a war book, a fighting book. Since 600 BC there has been a conflict

between totalitarian and demo- CAFE

cratic Ideas. I try to explain this by philosophy."

with the biggest crowd in the West End these days is the Ramillies,: Oxford-street's L.C.C. restau Every day he wrote a fow rant. It opens at 8 for breakfasts, pages in his squiggling hand- serves lunch from 11.30 unti writing. His wife typed it in the 2.30. It's teatime there from 3.30 evenings. Ha made 20 rovisions. until 5; dinner and supper-time

from 6 till 9.30.

Popper has a large, impersonal room on the school's fourth floor. A brass ush tray on his desk gleams Hko a Guardee's badge. Dr Popper never uses it. He does

Food is good On the ground floor is a cafeteria, on the first foor waitress service.

Average

The Merry Widow?

-(London Express Sarvical

be burned Nothing may here without the written permission of the Customs and Excise authorities.

A.

GUINO- mckload of damaged. tobacco is carried Into “King's Pipe” to be burned.

-GOING stevelled

incinerator.

GONE

End of the story-in-emo"!

the

-(London Express Keroles)

Mother FHE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

beat the

bombs

lambs-wool

asthmintic attacks, especially near farms whory wheat being threshed.

Surprised?

high-quality Karukul Nothing is

more deceptive THAT has become of such an extent that mental la- like

are being bred in than the weight of a bird. Britain's "blitz jury resulted,

What, for instance, would you wrong "We see it was

In America. babics" the young principle

The

full- to evacuate

Kansas State College guess was the weight, young

birds:

(a) lunch: Tomato soup: Bish or cold city children who stayed children without their scientists, who have established grown, of these

slated not smoka,

DR CHAR" a thriving. herd of the freak sparrow, (b) crow, (e) cuckoo ham: grilled sausages or grilled

and vegetables. Then with their parents through mothers,"

havo CAREY - TREFZER, beasts,

not yet decided (d) heron, (8) barn owl,,:(0) steak, "How will civilisation end? 1

and custard, or currant the years of bombing? Were who prepared the report. The whether to market the fur.

TED, apples

(g): swan. don't know. We can't prophesy pic, and an

no doubt women would

The excellent cup of their minds affected in any mere fact of being separated have But the future is in our DP coffee. Total costi 18, 9d. And no way by those terrifying from their mothers, even to a wear it. hands" He cracks his knobbly

tips. knuckles.

"The Open Society is my ideal society. PLATO had his republic: SIR THOMAS MONE his Utopla, My society tries to get rid of the totalitarian elements, the bul lies."

Dr Popper znuggles down in his red easy chair, idly plucks cotton wool stuffing out of the

cushion.

sort

LOTTE

in many

1

enough to of good billet, was shrub-lined times? What In the smart, entrance hall people sit and wait youngsters are they develop. create a neurosis for friends, Uniformed commising into now? sionaires stand by the doors.

%+

ANSWER

below given come from the best pocket birt book Jet written-Birds of Britain (Bell, Bs. 6d.) by MR J.D. MACDONALD,

the Erl ornithological Museum's

Suicide-fish

suicido.

the

Straw fever child"

Such a mentul disturbanco * HAY-FEVER sufferers my- tish quickly showed up in quirks of atlaod by autumnal attacks expert. A surprise answer to these behaviour like Upstairs, under strip lights,

screaming fils, when there is little pollen to young child- bullying. stammering, exces irritate their super-sensitive wines are served with meals. questions-that

the bombing sive shyneps, sleeplessness, noses should look to the fungi While fishing in Berkshire Everything la gay, modem, spot-ren who endured

healthier mentally than

I booked a. ib. pikoo which less. This restaurant cannot pay re

-the toadstools, puffballs, and

then tried to commit Backed by the Medical Re- moulds. on such low prices. It is intended those who were vacuated-is anxiely, and pilfering.

Carry-

It hurled itmolt.

out pave search Council, Dr. for local workers who cannot given in a medical report, just

Trefzer

Botanists has followed up the

have found that afford West End prices.

published.

water and long-jumped. of minute sporty yards into the lap of 14-y Youngsters But taxis daily drop women

proved remarit medical histories of 213 such the billions

sent set free into the air by fungi old BIDDY MALDEN, "The Communiste think shoppers at the doors. Others ably resilient to bombing, but "war-damaged" children

the Great Ormond-street can produce the same allergie Greenham Common, Newbury, eastly adapt to they've got the answer. But they arrive by car. Obvious comment: they could not

reactions as pollen, sometime who was sitting with her haven't. Their doubts are all re People who can afford taxis can themselves to separation from Hospital, W.C.1.

tho mothers,

report pressed-or suppressed. Mind afford meals that are not subsl- their

The study has revealed that aggravating asthma as well as father in the other end of the evacuation has played a major hay-fever."

Dunit. you, I've no use for Indecision. I dised by London's ratepayers. states.

It gave us sứch a laugh that, HELD

recovered role. In aggravating neurotic Children readily want the open mind. The alti- OVER! ganjarang masihang

Alternaria, although A mould failed deep and creating

it was good eating tude of I-may-be-wrong-you-

detective from the mental shock of being symptoms

on straw, has Intely size, TO-DAY

put it back.

in the under tons of debris disturbances," she writes in common

as a regular cause lake. ONLY

mothers were the Journal of Mental Science, been listed ed. That's the only way to make had only two callers yesterday. provided their

asthmatic attacks In "Same. have improved, but of progress."

His office was on the third floor rescued with them.

America. The of a tenement building.

But in the caso af young many are still persisting."

Now fungus experts report ANSWERS (4) -loz., (b) lib., stairs were bare, uncarpeted. ovacuces, freedom

Fur-coat cow that in Britain's carly autumn Hindliness

foster- of

.{c} 40%. (d) 40 (e) Đ In a room on the first floor a the YUNG HWA • "The Open Society and its

(1) 40 (p) more than 15lb. Enemies," by Dr K. H. Popper, thi man sprayed shoddy wood parents, and the attractions of AFTER the wingless chic air the concentration of Alter high often frequently falled kon

the fur-conted: naria spores is comes in two volumes (Routledge and en chairs with varnish to make country life.

with curly coats, enough to cause catarrhal and' MASTERPIECE Kegan Paul, 428.).

them look "antiquo."

to make up for mother-love to pow, Cattie

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