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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.

"You say Georgie Smith was showing you how to make H-bombs in the tool shed?"

-London Express Service.

crashed. He was plummeted into the His plane

terrifying Malaya jungle. Wild men menaced

him, hid him. But friendly men' aided

him, and finally brought hi mo

STORY of incredible hardship among the wild-tribes of Malaya cane to an end recently when a costing steamier put ashore at Port Darwin, Northern Australia, a

Dan

who is little more than # living skeleton.

His name i Geoffrey Pawson, auriine plot, uf 32-year-646

Spolney,

-

Three mentha age he

OIL it fight Malaya in Sydney CUTES AN freight.

wa innr 1 64 dead by a wife and two MARUT einbiren living at Mount Bay. Sydney.

18.

.

On Sunday, September Pawson left the airtel 7.46 am. with a e-pilot, Willam Moresfield, also of Sydney, in azi ex-US, Air Force Dakota,

Back froDON

the dead

into life

BY

O

B.L. JACOT

that

1

Is Tea

a Toddler's

Tipple

The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

LONDON.

A WORKER DEE devolen the first three weeks of

CIENTISTS have just her summer life to a well- discovered that though ordered Eequence of domestic ten given no calories it duties. First rumen cell-clent- essential ing, then nursing the grubs, and up the Waxwi British Instly building

seems to by un fondl for most children. Without cannot build really teeth.

Experiments have

erinb.

it they Even in the next-and final- healthy fortnight, when

shi

days

forages among the flowers, the worker's Programme seems to be ordained proved with Civil Service precision. that ten is the only itein lit for She must spend severnl diet which can supply enough collecting pollen to make bee- of an ingredient called grine, bread before the ny help her And with a regular supply of eller risters gather dunrine teeth put on a tougher all the honey-çells.

coat of enamel, giving greatly

increased resistance to decay.

nectar to

Scientists have long wondered

Low this ristil rota is organized. The fluorine has to be sup- Do the workers get on orders

the plied during

first eight from the queen? Is there n life to give future hive-bound Paillburo regulating years of

from freedom

the dentist's their activities? Or has ench lehair. Teeth cannot absorb it bee some laterial time-switch after they are fully formed. which automatically makes her

The low Aluorine content of transfer from job to job?

New experiments at the our drinking water seems to be Rothamsted (Herta) research

stented

the main reason why deeny s so widespread here compared with America,

One

cintien

answer

have supplied a hely Scientist CHARLES RID- BANDS anaesthetised workers with a whiff of the

populated

the low heavily Britain in Breas where enough fluorite

bees

out of the tap is near South Beldi gas carbon dioxide as they Shields, Durham. Tests have flew in from pollen-gathering

the A Jeep made a run through [SHOWA

shown that 12-year-old children expeditions When

they Immediately doubtful country and picked me there suffer only half as much woke from

fluorine graduated to gathering nectar. ders in North But when he put them under with non-acid chloroform they

tip.

I had nothing to give Not even a cigarette.

farved

פור

Acal

I wanted to bring the Shieble-just-acruze the Tyne man with toe, but he wouldn't New Zealand nutrition expert just carried on with the all-

MARION HARRISON chore-gathering more pollen- eottir. He was cut up when we DR. parted. So was 1.

fount that three or four good after they came round. theory": Hibbands's cups of tea a day provide just bim enough urine to catisfy the accumulating in the bee's blood dental demands of a rowing e she ates autom'dically alters Jchild. Most

of it washes out of her behaviour, so that she thres eleves within five minutes of of ene task and takes up an

Su there would be other. Any extra acidity.

tu five children from a whiff of carbon dioxide,

argen her prematurely. tringent stewed" tea. Main point mothers Woold

Short-lived cells old have to watch if doctors sane-

ortion tea as a faddler's tipple

to ensure at it does not eat it.

down their children's milk in- hack lake way

Hack at the Army Base I had a job making people believe brewing.

• who I was. I had no papers and was just a few hones and a beard.

The surdens rald the man had made a good jub my t They didn't touch

no

S

need

DOCTORS

e

thought the of pernicious artacka was a gradual low- I think the salt water something to with the

down to the production of red Mmistry of Elication - My clothes were form and my I didn't want anyone

blood-cells to replace thuse lost it headed

Hote are testing the effect of konera raw Jonel informed by the to know they had found me.

Now In Gally wear and tear. 31 fluorine-conylæringa dating

de- When the Security boys took

sebrolehildren's the atom scientists have all, but I could drag my elf didn't want my themet vut set.

of the unive eth. Supplying the missing molishes this theory, up on such I think he understood along in a sitting position.

mes of the villages as I could ngertians in ha would hiĄ* They Kave annemie patients white men were Aghtlon

hadi remember it turned it I

cem to be a simpler and me small doses of radio-active Iron bandik

wandered more than 300 miles.enable method.

solution, then traced the path of Ant meth whose under the fron atoms in the body by That is the end of Pausea's goes aheady demail--and get picking up the penetratiur rays story. He has flown back totale "euppa" would certainly they produced. Sydney to his wife and children,

vec leone a few more weetly London Express Service) spoonfuls for the family caldy,

Shovint

myself stern-first into the bush, I found water.

A pool was picked up from

Then I managed to head; two the machine at 8.17 0. and lengths of wood to make splints after that nothing

I foun was for my leg.

ceronuts. heard. The Dakoda was pres

aumert lost.

Inor

two

What happened to the Australians is told in fenfrey Pawson's own words related in hospital

ran into terrible cond! We tions, he raid, almost as

5007

as we left, and I climbed to get over the rough stuff.

1 knew I murt b 1 Malaya, or on a near-by land. I was nine days on that white-

and beach.

Fat of the land

MEY

" not intere fed in in the village. An old man plastered 11 broken legg here and grund.

There were the high and vir

The community kept me in a and my hands got ent to pieces hat alt up on pilee with moving myself found, tu I took an ef veran abs and stepen

i! enty,

My ankle was hurting. In

:1

They 1 on the fat of the Bard. The Wenzen were

101

My jurt engine packed up ft hot too much. I was glad to be lower in the hut. They ret my

went round. Sown I began 18 tore power on the other engine and we came down,

alive.

11

my

On the tenth day I clin:bes

tre, With paim legs strapped tore together it was unt cher. I saw about two

is away a clearing in bush with native huts.

face down at a distance.

A boy would bring it to me.

The old man who looked after JHY Jeg but been trained by German

DOLLARS IN OAK

By C. V. R. Thompson

of fron Result: The uplake showed that red cells are formed int

numbers by the normal annointe parlent, but they die off long before they complete their usual life-span of 120 days.

Bird cemetery

of

A STRANGE FIND 141 bird skeletons Inside a hollow clm tree near Fleet, NEW YORK, will be healthier and cheaper

Hants, is puzzling ornithologists. DRITAIN'S famous oak than dustbins and dustearts,

They can trace no other record D trees

may become ATEST radio craze is adapted of such a natural bird cemetery.. The skeletons were mainly" the Rame Britain Hollar carners, US botanista from

Stock- those of Jackdaws and AS housey housey, warn that America's oaks knows

Amerien as bingo. First stener loves, with a few starlings and reports woodpeckers, toll up his card from numbers green reast out during H broadcast bone-expert URSULA GRIGG They are being killed off by a telephones the station. If he is in the fourant British Birds.

as the American right, he gets prizes ranging She thinks the bones came

have almost from £250 to a new car. 3 chestnut and ch

missionary. Some of are dying out. Morestiel

We hit the sea with a cofosat smark. I never suv arin 1 think the impact must have killed him.

Feared to sleep

remember wis changing to the theat with the saun setting and realis- ing I had a fractured leg my right lest, just above the ankles, My foot was turned in at degrees.

THE first thing I

gt]

strapped my belt round my ankles and this kept them fight together with

right foot my straighter and less able to get hurt.

the

out

I had been observing the set of the currats along the coast. and the tide. I crawled info the surf, and went along with the fade, paddling with any hands and trailing my legs.

Twinkling lights

JUST as darkness fed the tide wept the past the beach by the settlement. I tried shout- ing, but no one heard.

Inw lights twinkling among the huts, but they got further away, and I realised that I was

ago.

on to the float all right bark where I was ten days night, fearing to go to sleep. The water was warm and I fet drowsy. When the sun came up I began to feel thirsty,

tide

In the early hours the turned. It was too dark to see.

but I could tell by the smeli I saw nothing at all that day that I was washing back to- except water. In the afternoon wards land, Inte some chocolate I had my breast pocket.

112

In the morning I saw settlement and fishing putting out.

the

canoes

I

That night I must have dozed

that float, for lying across woke with a start as it was get ting light.

The rear of surf had wakened me, I saw trees spiking up uver 4the waves.

I paddled with my hands and eventually I was washed up on a sandy beach.

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They took me aboard, and 1 caw at once that they Asherfolk, and not wid from the forests.

One fellow, who had

the young men wanted to haut myn over to the wild men, but the old man talked them out of

11.

blight, just

Que night they put on on # been lost. litur, and before I know what we hoperating a party of them

Whe

Jogging

The disease was first found in the Wiscons

1929. +21

Recent weather changes unve caused it To pread.

or

beach.

We

pared through one

til male, and in ench an argument took place.

Fually, I was part in a

hut

in a tiny clearing by a big cave in the s

The reason for the f found

Berhas was that thre about and the old man thought the younger men might turned me in.

have

from birda which died of cold while sheltering Inside

the

EKYLL AND HYDE is what trunk.

Arthur Gorman, New York #nancial writer, said of America's foreign trade policy. Said he: "On the one hand, re

Even a worm...

AMERICAN FARMERS believe the burrowings

cont

Dr Wendell Camp, president State Department is cruselessly of the American Hurticularal seeking to get foreign nations of earthworms are so beneficial that trees in to lift restrictions on American to soil that they buy specially

the other hand, nettve Council, reports

specimens from Tr.thana and Kentucky are now goods. On

io colonise affected, and that the disease is domestic necessity requires the nitrelal wormeries

Strains with such were spreading southwards and east imposition of quotus to protect their land.

domestic producers."

compelling names as Commando wards to the great oak forests.

Worm and Coolie Worm are on So far, he said, science has

IVING: Slot-machine makers the market.

offering for gale to found no antidote,

railway Eta.ions and hotels a Ook to America's main build- machine which hands you an ing wuur. Itailway sleepers are electrie zor, allows you six 15 it, and then So are mine props, minutes made of it. barrel slaves, floors, and furni- squirts you a shot of offer-

shaving lotion.

In a couple of months I could put my right leg down, but 1 kept the splints on. With crutchi could hobble round.

At times I heard firing in the ugle and hoped some of our ture. own boys might come,

Sometimes, when I heard a For these und burst in the distance, I coo-ced. purposes there can be no sub

and millions ouk, I shouted "Here's an Australian, stikule for

spent chaps! Come and gel me." I would have to be

every never got a reply.

year importing it.

were mon

The parting

only W

THEN the rainy

weather stopped, the old man and one eye, could speak a few I took to the Jungle. words of pidgin.

tu

He told me we were on the It took us fourteen days

ia Malaya. There make a place called Liva, where mainland were bad men about.

1 got a message throug

Celling Zero

FIRST DOORWAY

GOODNESS--- THIS FOG IS AWFUL ---

I CAN'T SEE A THING

IT'S SO ANNOYING WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE

I'LL DUCK INTO THE

I COME TO

many

other

The anagram TOP-LINE CLUE crossword puzzle in the

was

the

to a

Harwell (Berks) atom-station magazine

Anagram "Hannah C. Price, M. P.," which PORT: A proposal will be

on re-arrangement would make made In Congress soon to two Leven-letter words. allow Kentucky to hold 1 I failed to figure it out. Con State-operated lottery on

the you

solve it? The solution-an American Derby (pronounced Durby). Kentucky would spilt from the following issue of the States magazine-is given between the words "The" and "Column" in DUSTMEN are to be sacked in the profits with those

the town of Jasper, Indianu permitting tickets to be sold.

the heading at the top of this On August 1. By

columna. pop, 0,800) that dute every household will QHOPPING: A special appeal to New York's minorities:

Explained by DR COLIN' be equipped with an electrical gadget which chews up all re- Shops are advertising first ship- BUTLER in his excellent book, fuse, except tin cans, and flushes ments of made-in-Israel goods "The Honeybee" (Oxford

In Yklillah, and Irish-made University Press, 10s. 6d.), it down the drain,

This, ordained Jasper's council, tweeds in Garlic,

By Ernie Bushmiller

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