1950-02-25 — Page 9

WHAT'S THAT FOR?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1950.

'Always mon,' complained somoono: 'Ara thoro no wise or witty, WOMEN to put in your FIVE-MINUTES-EACH-WEEK-END sorios?.

So this

time

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GEORGE ELIOT Was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, who was born In. 1819. Her most famous Dorein áre Amon Barton." Adam Bede," "The The Ines.' * Hilas Marner." and "Midlemarch."

A woman of powerful lutetiret and independent opinions, she lived for 20 years with George Henry Lewes. On his death in 1870 she was married to a man 20 years her junior, John Walter Crow. But within right months she was dead,

The following selection of fre wit and wisdom has been made. from her tovch

it's a womNDMIN

RIVAL RIDERS OF THE WHIRLWIND

tened Sogonight. My arrangement ut. Dati fold

SIX MEN CHANGED THE FACE OF A WAR IN ONE NIGHT

I warn you

ship will blow

T was about three o'clock

the morning. Italiana-Lieutenant

in

your up!

On the night of December 18 19, 1941, three Two Italian human torpedoes penetrated Alexandria bar- de bour, crippled the battleship Queen Elizabeth for ship Valiant for five la Tenue and Petty Officer fifteen months, her sister Biandi-were Seent swim months, and blew off the stern of a big naval tanker. ming alongside the Valiant Overnight the balance of naval power in the in Alexandria harbour. Eastern Mediterranean was turned against the Allies.

They

httsbtl on It is doubtful whether ever in naval history six men would have been able to carry out such significant destruc. board, hut neither

tion. Here is the story. answer any questions,

Were

Cuntain Montan (ater Vice- Alaura! Sir Charler Morgan untered the tentat in the bottom of the chip at the mont wege the thurt the workend bark been attached,

Italian walking

out

the port wearing overadis atel

rynnt a rulhenat

The gard wallet him over.

h: trouer

leg. anit lifted Enorkel him down.

Pavons It w

For eight swinning banaye had been with ten buky titans in tow. Too exhau feel to carry the hitting: He had bulky bags to abandoned Macist in hallow

by FRANK GOLDSWORTHY ****

formerly a

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LOVE

HOW is it that the pzets have aid to many the things about jour first love, so few about our Huter love?

A PASSIONATE woman's love is always overshadowed by |fear.

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JOY is the best of wine, NOTHING i so

reras beforehand,

THOSE who trust us educales

THE VAINEST Woman is daylight. Thoroughly ent city of her

MUCH of our walkin ex- perience is but a den

IT'S EASY finding reDRANS Hould be

FUDIFFUSIÓNÝ

Down beauty till he is loved by the man who sela her own pas- why other people Irion vibrating in return.

a:ks

THE HOMAGE of a man mag be delightful until Straight for love, by wegnah render: home.

which o

A WOMAN'S lot is made for her by the love the accepts.

Tad

WOMEN

tetlent.

MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE hust In lation either of sympathy D conquest,

A MAN with nu affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to Comely with his fundamental of life, wily comes to I'M NOT denying that women Rea

foolisher Groi Almighty Persade hinwelf that to other Weinan would have ruited him Immae 'em to match the mn. so well, and doen n little daily HALL the sorrows of women tapping and quarrelling with- would be averted If they could out any sence of alienation, [reprus the perch they know to

10

0, I KNOW useless--nay,

the WIŁY ot speech

They' set one they have resolved not to utter. Wives;

abuse their husbands, 21c —A ̄WOMAN dietates before then they turn once tutarriage in order that she may and praias term us if They Have an appetite for submission wanted to set tein.

afterwards.

1 DARE SAY ahes like the west of women-thinks two and |two'll come từ tive, if the cries

and bothers enough about it.

IN MARRIAGE, the certainly, "She will never love me much," is easier to bear tum the fear, "I shall love her no more,”

MARRIAGE 4s a taming thing

TRUTH

IT MAYNT be pood luck to to a woman, But one begins with it from a baby one gets

VERACITY is a plant of par- word to it. And shouldn't like to be a man

to cough dis, and the seeds have never Ipo load, and tami straddling tourished beyond the walls.

about on a wet day, anel de to

MAN cannot be defined as an wodeful with meat and drink, evidence-giving animal, Theyke a voare lot. I think.

MEN

isn't a

I TELL.

you there thing under the sum that needs to be done at all but what a man cm du better than WOMAN, But it was a bold plan, and

unless it's Learing childivi, and they do that in a pong makeshift kind of way; it had better have been left to the

British Naval Intelligence Officer !! have at Gibraltar and in Italy

For two and a half hours tim Ital: ins mt uit-lipped and

Lieutenant de la Pent sepe fent, toring every question.

de la p forward to merive the Cok! a A: 5.43 Leutenant

Alon V.C) to the Medal (the to speak Penne ked

1 with to 11 captain. warn you that year up will Valord

low up soon."

Plens fo turned]

The they would swim half the ไป reile

discharging for tot, fasten Brie ante, to the Lherty shape and return to the

clothing but.

of th wired 10t fler manked port area they

male mi Stomm" ke sid, me to swim

half "tai:

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Tak tot hi movies.

Captain Mot i ordered he dick art 30er mi

ched the watertoe drams

NONE ESCAPE

'Miracle' capture

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other

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A MAN'S MIND-what there falled of met

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kas noranc is of www Hut rant interno Woll. He

cat tramunt

sounder qually, and glamsh

THE MEN are moedly

•perations.

Walk was an canal.

ma, ll, one If tire

were pentru they penetrating Mic

almost the cold swam urater water, trong direct

wach

n the nun who has he mut his own chin the you.

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Breathing

indu aphy,

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naive, challenged

a

With thems they would tow

1 minerded by in revolution. the bag, trimmer newn

Fa fu* i Bal Firth that it fairly broke to sit ther

endet. Wired youd the pont Bath Merchant Navy Jelly

they wattle bury thr rubber and when his family led in ervilan 11 Bur fowita jarrabent quan- just

Italian Royal in the walk 11t

ti Atort est kal. Longhena

Hotel My ana benvy exple 1913 thi

aut Haidong from al TUNAS 2 Mije

for North-WOTN

A pat

of

the Valian!

Theme

were

nction. casualties,

Almost immull scourly Queen E.Lethe

1 pot

In

statione i

darket perked

A leakwater 1ft

we wrecked and tended. maval tanker let ler stern and propellers.

Muita

town.

Brit; h

:1

a optie an

to

throw a tall ende ve chair-se into the harbour stres

A be hit the fuse he has a None of the elk Italian. t

Twa, who had dippet smothered "Coudm the drk #way.

I threw a clenge and Piter nest at their rubber * inding their honen topdoes, turned hard into the but with- were caught at 5 am. by an out a work Keyption policemen,

(Azinien Moron's COMETE

PAVONE CAUGHT

8 hours in water

December

11 Tout mant

1:41 53

ANN

Att the war he tell me "1 never like Die Gommar, bad

At the entir Wish Die

new they wort defeated.

"But I WIL A professional A Pavone would att,ve off Her nov. trer and I do pot think things me pon with ten spelt, cich pon- that just beesdie Lung a complex set of lin- your banly an Boromable map pedal clothing and equipstent can charts sudes in the middle sund two Bimpe (-borales

ot a war." There he woke his two com-

the protank we fler went out with smugle tieneiver to the When the Alli.. we sweep- "That an rifles and fed nls the darke punt area and then the better tag over the northern plume of i ne pa this wit

it from the beach at intervals. Bly Wolk hard that the Ger Egypti policeman was awale nema

La ribbon suits, When Payone Dance he mag plated to blow at 5 am. was a miracle, but be Three men

with erodengue swimming five would be met with a civilian dock at Vince was.")

fed camouflage suit and us bage would be With thra. pelty cheer he

thany fees zor hidden amen the port's bomb- stoff to walk ther

chatterest warehousem their hom t

As opportunity offered, the four comparators would draw from their secret equipament

bte, freden bombs below the Altad

ships, and

return to their ludags.

The third paù got out of the on their farbour when a cafe proprietor netting over

thy mak became suspicious and wrned from

They, too above hole holy

the military, police,

were toun pirnuers,

So nabody went back to tell

after he

of the triple sRGB

72 1941, Armistice, de

Italian

la Penne returnel to Italy from Internment

called on Captain India, and Morgan, then parted to rear- admiral commnooding Taranto an the Adridie,

BOMB

PLAN

Underwater escape

He told the admiral that he history. had been unable to attach the

To make the mystery

as the

ODD LOGIC

up the

"To resist both'

IIS plan was to dive in the F1 doctis ant cut the demoli-

charge cables.

even 1103

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ONE WAY of getting nu blew ut our fellow countrymen's atteries is to per and look at their pleasures.

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A GOD OF LOVE

ETERNALLY

"

TORMENT THE

LOST?

Where did the teaching of eternal torment originate? Do the wicked doad go to

at death? punishment Immediately

What and where is HELL? Amazing Bible answers to these questions!

Feb. 26 Sun.

AMONG the various excenes Hongkong, 17 Ventris Rd. 6:30 p.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m. Thur. to which human nature is sub- jert, moralists have never num-

bered that of being too fond of Kowloon, Chatham & Mody Rds. 8:00 p.m. Sun., Fri., Sat. the people who resile us.

THE HUMAN rout is hospit- able, and will entertain conflict- is sentiments and contradictory opinous with much impartiality. BLESSED is the nam who, having nothing to say, abstains from the ing us wordy evidence of

| fungite-tied--you're funced part- in fact.

ly to guess what they mean, as

you do with dual creatures.

-Landon Express Service)

C. V. R. Thompson

Truman tells

1

'Be

whites

good mixers'

do

NEW YORK. CICIENCE: After two days' dis

heseta NXIETY

the on With The Wind" ountry. The reason is that Jim Crow is to be put on

chairman

cussion, nearly 200 scientists

that decided

con They absolutely nothing to prevent a man going ball. Sald De James Hamiton,

of their w York meeting: "Everyone. New including scientists who should know better, has his favourite President Truman's

way of preserving his own hair. Government has decided to but the process of losing li intervene in three test cases irreversible."

| trial.

to be argued next month hefore the U. S. Supreme Foo

Court-highest in the land.

A

tiovernment victory

(Cantonese Translation)

BIBLE AUDITORIUM

PANILEN

ROCHE

THE FIRST

VITAMINIZED HAIR TONIC

STOPS LOSS HAIR WITHIN

A FEW WEEKS

is

ROCILE ******* ROCHE ——

FOOD; Protests poured Inta humane societies after a Boston fishafonger announced he

In was prepared to sell live lobsters Atlantic unaed in "synthetic

protests died

these ences would bring an vad

to the so-called Jim Crow laws Ocean." But the

line.

which

of the land south of the Mason- down when the socleties replied enfurca that, once caught, a fobster i Dixon "separate but equal" rights for probably happier in a tin thon

on a counter. Negroes.

And then any railway or bus The

company which maintained SECURITY:

for

TN Navy House 20 minutes later

we did not ok ther names. more balling to the Altics, the saved the decks he would re- clock could be fixed to main in Venice to attack Allied Instead.

Peter firing Lieutenoot

only after the water Tips using the port,

General Leslie ship

thus: McDonald, R.N.V.H., the naval start

reasoned a vine lart before turned security officer,

Groves, wartime boss of the port is Italian. Germans have och his own photograph and read mut to rea

And if divorn tried to ten-

separate compartments

utoin bomb, advised Washington no right to destroy it and the want i

whites and Nefrots would be that this is the way to plek meu spring Allies have no right to use it. It was McDonald's reward clamp the

would explode button

it In A an italian

subiret to danage cults. al war I must warhead to the ship. He had for weeks of patient work

carefully as a bachelor Schools would have to teach for top-recret work-"Look over

them D5 left on the harbour bottom. Building a card index of me ry

thair hands.

resit both." From the stronge

whites and Negroes side by side, looking over a prospective life and if he had given its location anwalt group man on the Ger-

McDonald and I had fovely logic of his view he would not

Cinemas and restaurants would partner. He takes a good look the ship could have been moved man, sidle.

visions of being on the beach be perauded.

have to cater to both races with at every trait he does not like to haul ahore the bags with He never reached Venice in do safety.

out prejudice.

and if there are too many had They 11:14 been brought the clas

"Mr time, lead, he and his com greetings Lleutenant de in Penne ten

At present these customs have traits he would think himself o down by notor-bant front Pavone, I presume?"

panions fell into the hands of Joined the Italian assault units

the sanction of the High Court fool If he did not shy away." But ally we decided that a Communist pantican-band. on the Allled side, and took Spezia and began their swim

three

flash signals

under a ruling 54 years old. in his Wolk t Leghorn nay attempt th

captor's

Southerners are "afraid that from the beach might ro con face, and when a Russian Com-

tosty's furger most of them decided to give up necusing ALL BUT DIENARDS have fan, the normal defences that munist linton offlcer from us Each man towed two 20-10, it would be safer to let things native Ukraine visited the bund

appointed by President Truman bombs of a new type, supported take their course. in the water by an inflated Jacket.

part, with conspicuous galian- harbour. try, in a combined British and Italian attack on German-con- trolled shipping at Spezia.

A cruiser and a Lubinarine were sunk.

HEARD COUGH The men in fins

ADMIRAL Morgun tried to get

him a Brillch decoration, for this feat, but Italy was still tech- nically at war with Britain, and the decoration was refused.

mil. from

HERO WOLK

The planner

or his predecessor, may reverse President Truman of Socialis that ruling. It will produir Their new name for his welfare choos, they warned DRITAIN

he was ret free.

When The war ended,

cald Wolk,

obligations Were cnded; he could follow his own withis.

BRIT

One of them, Malacarne by name, towed a kitbag with an

So he

surrendered to the infinted double skin containing

LL patrol skippers and guards British and Soon was

leading four sets of civilian clothing.

were given his. tip: "A many of his former unit Malacarne had torn his man can cover his rubber suit searching the harbour bed for rubber suit. The cold water with overalls but he must ex- German-lald mines.

through sceping

his woollen pose his boots.

holes,

the

underwear caused the nt of "If you see boots with three NEXT WEEK:

Ince coughing which caught the sea- big

will soon nɛe if he is a lim-

In March 1945 the Crown man's ear.

Prince of Italy went to Tarunto

to Inspect Italian naval units They had planned

wearer's trouser lex and you Two Navios Try To

Sink The Roma

to cross peteer.**

serving the Allles, and to pre- the breakwater and moor the One morning an American clothing bag to its inner side. guard became suspicious of

pent decorations.

-(London Expresa Serolce) ̧.

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soon

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