1950-04-08 — Page 18

BILLY ROSE'S

SATURDAY AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

The lady saw stars

& stripes

B

EFORE the war-World

War I, that is--the cushiest pence-time assign- ment the Army had to offer a West Point graduate was at one of its cavalry posts. Beenuse, * where there's envalry there are boun

be horses, and where there] are horses there is fre- quently polo-the sport of kings and second lieuten- ants.

Which brings me to the alory of Lieutenant Larry Benson's revenge and ; you'll pardon a frightful

11, his mallets afore- thought....

In 1938, while playing No. 2 on his posl's polo team, Larry's right eye gut. ir the way of an opponent'a mallet, and when he came to in the hospital an hour later, he was minus the

eye.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.

"Reckon Buck Peron ain't goin' so forget the holes in his hut when two-gun Webb calls for the meat?""

London Express Bervice

Sefton Delmer's Flying Briefcase

FRIEND was driving

1120 to his club in su-

1. Caleuttii when

The following week, in accordance with standard operating procedure, the Army presented him with a hrundsome glass substitute and reassigned him to' com- |denly a procession of de- manda

battery of mimeo- | monstrators flooded out of graphs in the pest's supply ja side street, and we had to centre.

stop.

They were all dressed in Gandhi -winding- would never surat chase sheets and were half run- a small white ball around aging, taff walking rerewing bir preen

field he became themselves up in a kind of well-nigh inconsolable and, epileptic ecstasy.

many others, hep

As they leaped along the himself began to console.

hot street they waved with battle.

banners and shouted slogans Bul, as hick would have it.

lime with the Colonel in charge of the post was a teetotalley-not the Eve-spectacled cheer bader. and-let-pazzle type, but

WHEN Larry realised he white

like

plier

the

as for the

Blu. And Colonel's lady--well.he was every bit as light-uninded as he

One

when Larry morning. reported for duty after ሰገ of bar-flying, the colond fixed him with a ball-bouring

on," he said in the tone of "Benson Voce pré unually reserves for farantula crawling up one's leg

Zots-are-drunk?"

розора,

Larty, who quite prided Lam-

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sim-

What they wanted was simple and straightforward "Revenge for our murdered brethren," They shoufel, "We want war"

India's lender, Nehru.

I saw the

cheer leader whip up fury

because we had

to return

The WICKSTEED DIAMOND

A rough ono, but some day

a woman

may wear

it proudly

was Wil-

HINYANGA. Tanganyika, By BERNARD their tune, but now it w

have to admit that

He said they could keep their money, he said the same

from a jeweller's point WICKSTEED nn to the bir diamond people

of view it is not in the same clans as the Hope Diamond, the Cullinan, or the Koh-i-

noor.

in

South Africa who offered him £2,000,000 cash for his claim.

So here he is now, 42 years old, unmarried, unworried, with

n

No one quite knows whether the diamondia were formed by the pressure and heat of the ex- Nonaki Coiman moustache, In fact, it la only about losion or by the way it cooled, and the sole rights to a diamood Some geologists even belleve mine that produced £1,700,000 the size of a split pea and in, the dlanionds were deep down worth of stones in 1040 ant the its present uncut state is

Wicksteed Diamond in 1950. worth no more than a mere £10.

But it is a real diamond, even if it's a rough one, and some day, somewhere 1 hope a woman will wear it in a ring on her finger and be mighty proud of it.

in the crust of the earth already and a the explosion did was to pipe them to the surface for people like Wicksteed to find.

Inferior diamond pipes were found in South Africa and cle- where, but the daddy of them

Jolly fine mino

COME men like one thing and

Se another, but be Wil- finanson Bikes his diamond mine and I, for one, don't blame him. lay undiscovered beneath In a fally fine diamond mine, trans and baobab trees of and I wish I had it myself."

Tanganyika until 1940,

Nelther the pipe Nor the So in case it should be Wiehstved Diomond that elt- you, or someone you know, riched it might have ever been who nequires the Wickstead Diamond I will tell you its history.

found if it hadn't been for a Canadian geology lecturer from MacGill.

His name was Dr John Tho- burn Williamson, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., and just when he was

day,

Then I'd do just what he does. Pa give all my sta lovely houses, I' throw wonderful parties for them with a band brought from Kenya by air. I'd build the finest hospital ba Tan- Kanyika, and If the sentry int the entrance to the mine didn't recognise me I'd bash down the gates with my car.

every-

It was found at .10.45 n.m. on March 16, 1950, by Bernard Wicksteed, of getting along fine nt the univer- There are diamondn Hampstead (described as a city and looked like being a where and they all belong to journalist).

hes the little ex-don who cocked his He picked it professor - BOMIC out from a small pile of chucked up his aendemic career shoot at the world.

You walk and went looking for damomis

over diamonds gravel that had been given in Africa.

drive over them, strep on them the mine is and everyone en him to look through during

mad on gardening because... is that Australian sheep farmers professional visit to Dr

well, you never know, are almost all changing over to Williamson's dinmond mine breeding sheep for wool raflier at Shinyanga. than for meat.

Wool has been shooting up to unheard of prices. The result

Having found it Wick- The effects of this, I am told, steed was tempted to put it will make themselves felt soon,

In his pocket and saying nothing about it.

I'

to thr

Double Dose

you suffer from hay fever, as I do, do not lly across world, as I did. For I

Calcutta to fly have only succeeded

in

But first of all he glanced round to see if the guards had notice bir discovery and seeing they had, he hastily dropped t In a elgarette in provided for the purpose.

newspaperman,

Hard work

lots of stories THERE

about how he found the richest ellamond mine in the

You mustn't imagine from this that you can just walk around filing up your pockets.

Getting edler out of hay- stacks is easy. You just use a

world. One is that his dog dug up the first diamond under magnet. But coch diamond.. baobab tree. Another is that

about one to every lon of gravel stor and when he took it off he felt something hurting a kis what should he find bng a da

end.

Warsaw's CONTINUING the General

If Wicksteed had been a pro- Grosz-this notebooks of an

fessional nutive picker-up of little

diamonds he would have been party expert eye on a flying faulty radio, ensuring that I shall get has paid a bonus of one penny for the bush, sifting the gravel by

be declared in fever twice-once in the Aus- his find, but, being only a visit looked

very

tour across the world the best station. Iralian summer and again later much as

commander in the British summer.

he got though it had

nothing except a piercing look "Better style,

from the security police. been laid on by higher nu- to be careful than sorry."

My fellow travellers were all thority.

Indians-many of them women in vells and sarees. Their golden andets made a pretty tinkling wise as they tripped across the tarmac to the aircraft,

**Well,” I said to my friend, as the last of the

out patriots writhed

ol Pandit

sight, "let us be thankful in that for once WE are not

the target.”

+1

Vote Saving

Explosions

the White

picked out by hand as the Wick- has to be spotted by eye and sired Diamond was.

Bottled jewels

ACH day 1,500 tons of gravel is washed and sifted, and an average yield is about half a

bering about 1,500, weighing 244 ounces and worth £4,000,

Charette tin of diamonds, num.

At the end of the day they are al taken up to Williamson's house, where he puts them into jam jars and sweet bottles. For Wicksteed's beneft he emptied out one of these bottles on the desk in his study.

The truth is that he discover- ed the diamond pipe by hard work and good ology. He didn't stumble on it. He lo- eated 11 after camping years in

hand,

He never had enough money. People thought he was mad But stil he worked on with the crudest equipment and a few faithful African "boys." Atter quietly working out the exact dimensions of the pipe he staked his claim and came into town

Then he went out to fetch a with his first bag of diamonds, drink, and Wick

and Wicksteed was left They were worth only

a few alone in a room with a plic of hundred pounds and when he diamonds worth £18,000. They tried to raise money for better spilled over the edges of the biot- equipment the, bank managers ting pad, rolled under the ink merely laughed at him.

stand, and rattled among the So back to the bush he went, papers diamonds, diamonds, and next time he came to town diamonds.

COME eras ago, about One reason why the same time that the Socialists lost in Chias

of Dover were being Australia is that formed in England, there were The Indian Customs Rave them

they

have the several monstrous explosions 60 alf an extremely careful going-

system of preferen-to 100 miles below the ground fiat voting out there, in Africs. over. Every item of jewellery the

With women were taking with them

preferential had to be checked against liste, voting a minority group, like the were forced to the surface in Masses of molten blue rock made out in advance and tane Attice tioned by the Currency Control, would never be able to defeat an comes up in a volcano. Unlike he had £30,000 worth of dis

Britain, much the same way as lava

this blue rock monds in a barley-sugar bottle. anti-Socialist majority of the ordinary lava

just because the was studded with diamonds, That made the banks change electorate imjority voto is split.

no votes are lost.

had arrived town that morning, and these, lads were on their

"Oh, don't you be too way to salute him when

sure of that." he warned he drove in triumph through me, "They are already de- the streets. When we met manding that British com- them they were just getting mercial"

The odd thing was in India Themselves into the right should

officials, all of them Indians, con- be confiscated 30

ducted all their business in Eng- make a fund for the relish. It sounded most intriguing; "One nose ring gold and pear... is fugers."

But, madam, this nose ring has Let us fare it: there The

are

self on being able to drink like gentleman, couldn't brua;ine how the Colour had diagnosed his condition until he groped his www to the men's rout and examined himself in the mirror.

**** moon, And there was the answer- his good eye looked as if it had

The with ketchuZ7, been spattered whule the other, was as clear as mainst

the crystal was made of.

war they want Pakistan, murdered brethren

nothing

assets

like

the

Socialists in

For

is

supplying

diamonds not pearl, Please show count for the final result, a nose ring gold with pearl..."

Meat Famine?

Well, Benson was what you Bengalis, killed by Moslems idealists with a little might call a resourceful niam,|j Pakistan-in

material incentive.

and so he went to a damn-eye artist and

ordere two more for

revenste

Moslems killed

eyes-ne mildly blood hot, the India. Pandit Nehru him-

other the colour of borrelu'

AND

NI) after that, on mornings- after, he saw to it that his

false cye matched the true one.

self is anxions for some "frontier rectifications."

To my eye--experienced

in the technique of “spol-

Nose Ring Check

shift att in easy stares from very fanes démonstrations" as And he blondsting is kardium blastshot | penetised, by Goebbels and when

to clear.

catred no

From then on his drinking)

and the commeat, ex-polo player might have shuttler for years between martinis un mimeographs if bus hankering for horsedesh hart't led him to apply for an assum- ment which would get him back in the sudille.

"Request denied." said the Colonel. "Furthermore, when 1 order a man to do a particular job. I expect him to stick to it. Remember, Lieutenant, we are all in the service of the United States of America."

Al

Supprove there is a three- cornered election with a Social- ist. a Conservative, and

The Hindu pilot of PRICE xing and Government Liberal candidate.

to Government bulk buying the Iulian National is likely to lead to a famine in Airways plane Australian tumb in Bellain, which flew me from Calcutta

Ran 10

ล

The voler puts a one, two, and there against the candidate's

me for his first, cennd, and For, while ex-Food Minister, third choice. Thus n Socialist goon wore a huge Strachey fixed the price of Aust

R.A.F. moustache, tralian mutton with his Augire- Would probably put Socialist 1. spoke B.A.F. English, finn Socialist colleague, they did Liberal 2, Coutervative 3.

Impalence not fix the price of wool,

showed

Fight 'Baby Blackmail'

THE WOMAN de- When nu adored

CANON HUGH WARNER the Church of England's marriage adviser writes his weekly column HUSBANDS and WIVES

liberately had a child in pining. Not only dues

divorced, the child,

If, when the arst preferencca are counted there is no majority for any Cate candidate, they knock out the enuiidate with the Jowest first preference vote, count up the second preferences | of his supporters and add them! to the votes of the first two cun- didates.

In a three-corner election this; would be evrtain to produce an overall majority, and a much father is tarily entered into for life, to fairer one than the majority won of course, the exclusion of all other."

The registrar then witnessed our British "first past the by him before 1 his father (in this case). have your marriage to each other pot" system. talk didn't set well with Larry pined so

Naturally, this kind of talk-divorced him. My little boy regular access to the child under before other witnesses.

but the child In other words, 11 register and determined to

much for his own

his court order,

knows, apart from this, that office wedding is as binding as back he went back to the orb father that I took him lo a

his father is alive, still part of that for a couple married in specialist and

ordered a very doctor, who said he would his world. He can't get adjusted church who say: "I take thee for special kind of eye: smuurit-dab In the venite where the eyeball get over it; it was no te this sort of thing. should have been, his specifica-worse than losing his father

fet

I do?"

tions called for an American in the war, What should fag fluttering

the breeze. The day of vengeance cane a week later, when the Colonci

立

T

better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and to health

until death us to Try not show any resent- part." ment towards your husband in When your wife used the front of your boy, or you will word "spiritually" she gave Hilm unnecessarily herself away. She evidently

He Trusted...

First thing I And ou returning to: England is a letteri from Erwin Muller, of Dort- Germany, mund,

Erwin? Remember and his wife held their annual OU fell into the trap, just at the time when he does not realise that to be He was the German dismantler reception for the Junior officers A like 80 MI?] other n of the post. As

"spiritually nkin" is no excuse who, relying on the protection of Your wives. Ilutenants

kind. husband's mumbling their thanks to their mistress knew she would outgrow this feychological stas for adultery: nor does she apBritish General Bishop and the out. Larry"get her man" by baby emotional development, and ceinte that in a stable mar- British Military Government,|

and

the bored

were

disillusion

Jew

father-attachment of sanse

In

of

hostess and fling

stepped forward, bowed,

andblackmail, for most women

riage friendships with others should can gradually learn the truth.

possible be perfectly Let your son become indepen- without threatening destrue mantle

You will fion to the marriage,

then straightened up, his eyes can be counted on to sym dent, self-reliant. half closed.

"Madam." he said roleronly, pathise with a baby "with then do much

"we must never forget that we out a name,"

are

all in the service of the United States of America." And

If an illegitimate child suffers

with that he popped his right from what is not his fault, then

eye open.

A

tho

took his men fast July to dis- ₤1 parafin works in Dortmund belonging to to right whet Such friendships, however, Hoeselt concern. He was beaten

are only safe when a couple up by an organised mob.

their mar- "MY WIFE says that gree in regarding because we

every way na were only rage vows in narried in

a register lifelong. ofice she is not boun

has already gone wrong.

the remedy is: "Change publis

to me, how that she fects opinion." The remedy Is cor- tuinly not: "Divorce your hus- spiritually nearer

✡

When you talk to another with her, suggest

GOOD 18 minutes later, band." If you do, you strengthen man with whom she is in love, you may be partly to blame.win's fate is just what I expected

when the woman was flanity the hands of women like the one What line should brought to with smelling salts you mention.

Hinglenders of the mob, who a British later appeared before r

Military Government Tribunal,. things over were sentenced to almost nomin- to her that at terms of imprisonment. Er-

her love too

It to be. much for granted? Do you let business occupy too much of "... I am being boycotted by When your time, so that you have all German authorities. I have you and she were married Uttle lekure in which to go been forced to dismiss most of

and much rubbing of the wrists,

she told her husband, na best

*

G

her?"

I take with love you taken

she could, about the fluttering Suffering there will be, but TELL her. the truth.

Bag In Larry's eye....

It is the price of ruding the the registrar said these words about with her? She may be And that's the story

of world of a constant source of to you: "Before you are joined able to tell you of things about my workmen, I shall be forced Lieutenant Benson's revenge.disaster to family life,

in matrimony it la my duty to you that irritate her. What your doctor says is non- remind you of the solemn

For, to hear the cavalry boys

to give notice to the rest of my

I don't There is no reason why this workers any day now. tell it, the Colonel is silil wonder- sense. When a father is killed, character of the vows you are

whole trouble may not be just know what to do after that." ing whether he's married to a the child recognises that it is about to make. Marringe, ac- the incentive you both need to

That is what comes of roly- do-gooder or to a dame whỏ hits Anal, as far as this life la con- cording to

take stock of your relations the laws of this with each other.

ing on British protection In Cer- the boltle on the quiet.

cerned. So the child adjusts country, is the union of one himself to his father's absence, man with one woman, volun-..... --London Express · Service.

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„-London” Express Service.

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What would you do, cḥum?

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