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BILLY ROSE'S

SATURDAY AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

The lady saw stars

& stripes

EFORE the war-World

B War II, that is the

cushiest peace-time assign- ment the Army had to offer a West Point graduate was at one of its cavalry posts. Because, where there' cavalry there are boun

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

Which brings me to the slory of Lieutenant Larry Benson's revenge and, i you'll pardon a frightful his mallets afore- pun, thought....

In 1938, while playing No. 2 on his post's polo team, Larry's right eye gut in the way of an opponent'a,

mallet, and when he came to in the later, he

hospital an hour

eye.

was minus the

The following week, in

accordance with standard

operating procedure,

the

Army presented him with a

handsome glass substitute!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950, t...

"Reckon Buck Peron ain't goin' to forget the holes in his hat when two-gun Webb culls for the meat,"

Loudon Express Borvion

Sefton Delmer's Flying Briefcase

FRIEND was driving his club in when sud-

.the

to Calcutta

and reassigned him to com- denly procession of de- nunda battery of mimco-[monstrators flooded out of graphs in the post's supply a side street, and we had to centre.

stop.

WHEN Larry realised he would never again chase

white

They were all dressed in Gandhi winding- sheets and were half run-

A small white ball around nning, half walking, screwing

big green feld he became well-nigh inconsolable and, many others, he himself began to console with a bottle,

like

KO

themselves up in a kind of epileptic ecstasy.

hot

As they leaped along the street they waved lanners and shouted slogans But, no luck would have it,

in time with 11 S the Colonel in charge of the post was n tectotaller-not the live-spectacled cheer leader. and-let-guzzle

the type, but ather kind. And as for the Colonel's lady-well...he was every bit as tight-minded as he.

One morning. W1471 Larry reported for duty after a night of bar-flying, the colonel fixed him with ball-bearing cye. "Benson," he said in the tone of voice one usually reserves for Nehru. tarantula crawling up one's leg.

"You-are-drunk!"

Larry, who quile prided him- self on being able to drink like a xentleman, couldn't ingine

What they wanted wALI simple and straightforward "Revenge for our murdered brethren." They shouted,

We want war."

India's lender,

had

I saw the

cheer leader whip up fury

Wool has been shooting up to unheard of prices. The result is that Australian sheep farmers are almost all changing over to breeding sheep for wool rather than for ment.

The effects of this, I am told,

will make themselves felt coon.

Double Dose

IF you suffer from hay fever,

to

1hw

because we had 10 return Calcutta to fix have

na I do, do not fly across

world, as I did. For

only

succeeded

I

in

The WICKSTEED DIAMOND

SHINYANGA, Tanganyika.

VE found a diamond. By BERNARD

have to admit that

from a jeweller's point

of view it is not in the same class as the Hopo Diamond; the Cullinan, or the Koh-i- noor.

In fact, it is only about the size of a split pen and in its present uncut state is worth no more than a mere £10.

But it is a real diamond, even if it's a rough one, and day, somewhere 1 hope a woman will wear it

some

A rough one, but some day

a "woman

may, wear it proudly

their tune, but now it was Wil- liamson's turn to laugh.

Ho said they could keep their money, und he sald the samo

WICKSTEED thing to the big diamond people

No one quite knows whether the diamonda were formed by the pressure and heat of the ex- lesion or by the way it cooled, Some geologists even believe the diamonds were deep down in the crust of the earth already and all the explosion did was to pipe them to the surface for people like Wicksteed to find.

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

So here he is ΠΟΥ, 12 year old, unmarried, unworried, with a Ronald Colman moustache, and the sole rights to a diamond mine that produced £1,700,000 worth of stones in 1849 and the Wicksteed Diamond in 1950.

Jolly fine mino

COME men like one thing and Inferior dinmond pipes were SOME me like our fun on found in South Africa and cleliamson likes his diamond mine where, bug the daddy of them and I, for one, don't blame him. all lay undiscovered beneath It's a jolly fine diamond mine, in a ring on her finger and ass and bashab trees of and I wish I had it myself."

Tanganyika until 1940, be mighty proud of it.

Then I'd do just what he does. Neither the pipe nor the I'd give all my staff lovely en houses. I'd throw wonderful parties for them with a bond brought from Kenya by nir. I'd build the finest hospital in Tan-

MacGill

ganyika, and If the sentry at the entrance to the mine didn't recognise me I'd bash down the gates with my car.

So in case it should be Wicksteed Diamond that you, or someone you know, riched it right have ever been who acquires the Wicksteed found if it hadn't been for a Diamond I will tell you its lan geology lecturer from history.

Ils name was Dr John Tho It was found at 10.45

turn Williamson, B.A., M.Sc.. a.m. on March 16, 1950, by Ph.D., and Just

when he was Bernard Wicksteed,

There are diamonds every- of getting along fine at the univer- Hampstead (described as a slty and looked like being a where and they all bolong to sonie day, he the little ex-don who cocked his journalist). He picked it professor

snook at the world. out from a small pile of chucked up his academic career

You and went looking for diamonds

Walk over diamonds, gravel that had been given in Africa.

drive over them, sleep on them and him to look through during a professional visit to Dr Williamson's diamond mine at Shinyanga.

Having found it Wick steed was tempted to put it in his pocket and saying nothing about it.

THERE

Hard work

are

Iols of stories about how he found the richest diamond mine in the world. One is that his dog dug up the first diamond under it baobab tree. Another is that

But first of all he glanced felt something hurting in his round to see if the guards had shoe and when he took it off noticed his discovery and seeing what should he and but a dia they had, he hastily dropped it and in a

a cigarette tin provided for the purpose.

of

If Wicksteed had been a pro- fessional

native picker-up diamonds he would have been a faulty radio, ensuring that I chali get hay paid a bonus of one penny for he declared in fever twice-once in the Aushi And, but, being only a visit the best station. tralina summer and again latering newspaperman.

nothing except a piercing look from the security police."

Warsaw's CONTINUING the General Grosz this notebooks of an little

party expert eye on a flying looked

very

tour across the world much ax though it had been laid on by higher au- to be careful than sorry." thority.

"Well," said to my friend, as the last of the writhed patriots

of out Pandit sight, let us be thankful arrived in that for once WE are not town that morning, and the target." these ads

were on their way to salute him when

too

"Oh. don't you be sure of that," he warned

commander In the British summer, style, **Better

My fellow travellers were all Indians many of them women in veils and sarees. Their golden ankleis made a pretty, tinkling noise as they tripped across the turmae to the aircraft.

The Indian Customs gave them all an extremely careful going-

over. Every item of jewellery the women were taking with them

'Vote Saving

he

COME cras

about the One reason why the same time that the White Socilisis lost in cunts of Dover were being Australt is that formed in England, there were

The truth is that he discover- ed the diamond pine by harl work and good

Ecology. He 10- didn't stumble on it. He eated it after camping years in the bush, sifting the gravel by hand.

everyone on the mine is ined on gardening because... well, you never know,

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

Getting needles out of hay- stacks is easy. You just use a magnet. But cach diamond- about one to every ton of gravel -ins to be spotted by eye and picked out by hand as the Wick- seed Diamond was.

Bottled jewels

PACH day 1,500 tons of gravel

is washed and sifted, and an average yield is about half a cigarette in of diamonds, num- bering about 1,500, weighing 24 ounces and worth £4,000.

He never had enough money.

At the end of the day they are People thought he was mad. all taken up to Williamson's But 11 he worked on with the house, where he puts them into crudest equipment and a few jam inrs and sweet boitles. For Explosions faithful African "boys." After Wiekateed's beneût he emptied quietly working out the exact out ang of these bottles on the dimensions of the pipe he staked deel in his study. ago,

town his claim and came into

Then he went out to felch n with his first bag of diamonds. drink, and Wicksteed was lett They were worth only a few

diamonds worth £10,000. They tried to raise money for better spilled over the edges of the blok- equipment the bank managers tint pad, rolled under the ink merely laughed at him.

stand, and rattled among the papers diamonds, diamonds, diamonds,

they have the ceveral monstrous explosions 60 hundred pounds and when alone in a room with a pile of

system of preferon-10 100 miles below the ground tial voting out there. in Africa. With preferential had to be checked against lists, voling a minority group, like the were forced to the surface in Masses of molten blue rock he drove in triumph through me. They are already de- made out in advance and sane- Attlee

So back to the bush he went, Socialists Britain, anuch the same way as lava and next time he came to town how the Colonel hand dingnosed the streets. When we met manding that British com- tioned by the Currency Control. would never be able to defeat an comes up in a volcano, Unlike he had £30,000 worth of dia-

he groped its them they were just getting mercial" his condition until

The odd thing was that the anti-Socialist majority of the ordinary lava this blue India

rock monds in a barley-sugar bottle. hem Indiens, con- to the men's room and themselves into the right should

officials, all of them way

in ducted all their business in Eng- electorate

Thni made the banks examined himself in the mirror.

Thirror mood. And there was the answer- had his good eye looked as if it been spattered with ketchup, while the other was as clear na against the crystal it was made of

Well, Benon was what you

might call a resourceful na

and so he went to a glass-eye artist and

assets in be confiscated make a fund for the The war they want is fugees."

Pakistan. The murdered brethren иго

Just

because

the

was studded with diamonds.

change

no voles are lost.

All

re- Jsh. It sounded most majority vote is split.

"One nose ring gold and

For But, mundam, this nose ring has Let us face it: there is monits not prurl, Flense show count for the final result. nothing

supplying me nose ring gold with pearl..."

little

like with material incentive.

Bengalis, killed by Moslems idealists

in

revenire

killed in Nose

Pakistan-in

Moslems ordered two more for eyes our mildly blendshot, the Iiin. Panlit Nehru him- other the colour of horseh.

AND after that, on mornings.

after, he saw to it that is

false eye matched the true one.

self is anxionts for some

"frontier rectifications," -

To my eye-experienced the technique of "spot-

Ring Check

Meat Famine?

Suppose there is three~! cornered election with a Social- Int. a Conservativr and 1

The linda pilot of PRICE Axing and Government Liberal candidate.

to Government bulk buying the, Indian National is likely to lead to a famine in

The voler puts a one, two, and Airways pinne Australian lamb in Britain, three agrust the candidate's which flew me from

Calcutta 12 Run- For, while ex-Food Minister goon wore a huge Strachey fixed the price of Aus R.A.F.

moustache. tralian mutton with his Austre-

showed impatience not fix the price of wool.

shifting in casy stages from very faneous demonstrations" And he spoke R.A.F. English. Ian Secialist colleague, they did bloodshot to medium bloodshot | practised by Goebbels and When

to clear.

From then on bis drinking caused no comment, and the

player

have ex-polo

might for. shuttled

between years martinis and mimeographs if hus lankering for horsedesh hara't led him to apply for an assign- ment which would get him back in the saddic.

"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."

Lalic

didn't set well with Larry,

1

Fight 'Baby Blackmail'

"THE WOMAN de-

When an adored

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

name for his first, second, and third choice, Thus Socialist would probably put Socialist 1. Liberal 2, Conservative 3.

If, when the first preferences | are counted there is no majority; for any one candidate, they knock out the candidate with the lowest firsi preference vote, count up the second preferences of his supporters and add them) to the voles of the first two can- didates.

In a three-corner election this) would be certain to produce an: overall majority, and a much falter one than the majority won by our British "first past the

He Trusted...

father is tarily entered into for life, to liberately had a child divorced, the child, of course, the exclusion of all other."

goes on pining. Not only does The registrar then witnessed by him before I his father (in this case) have your marriage to each other post" system. 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, a register and determined to get his own pined

much for hisa court order,

knows, apart from this, that office wedding is as binding as back he went back to the oru father that I took him to a his father is alive, still part of that for a couple married in specialist und ordered a very doctor, who said he would his world. He can't get adjusted church who say: "1 take thee for

for special kind of smuck-dal

better, for worse;

ticher, eye; In the centre where the eyeballoon get over it; it was no te this sort of thing

for poorer: in sickness and in health

until death us do should have been, his speelfies-worse than losing his father

used the she gave

tions' callest

an American in the war. for

dag fluttering in the breeze,

I do?"

The day of vengeance carne a

week intor, when the Colonel

of

What should

な

father-ntiachment of come

DC

First thing I And

on returning to England · is a' löfter]

Erwin

from

Muller,

mund,

of Dori-

Germany. Remember Erwin?

Try not to show any resent part." ment towards your husband In When your wife front of your boy, or you will word "spiritunily" disillusion hlm unnecessarily herself away. She evidently and his wife held their annual OU fell into the trap, just at the time when he needs does not realise that to be He was the German diamontier reception for the junior officers like но mily other a

"spiritually akin" is no excuse who, relying on the protection of the post. As the bored

wives,

Your husband's kind. In a few years he will for adultery; nor does she ap. British General Bishop and the Tutenants and captains were

stable mar-1 Brlilsh Military 'Government, mumbling their thanks to their mistress knew she would outgrow this psychological stage preciate that in a

of emotional development, and rinse friendships out, Larry "get her man" by baby can gradually learn the truth. should

with others took his men last July to dla- hostess and filing

be perfectly possible stepped forward, bowed, and blackmail, for most women

Dismantle a Let your son become indepen- without threatening

paraffin works in destruc- then alraightened up,

Dortmund belonging to the half closed.

"we must never forgot that we out a name."

arc

"AFY

You will tlon to the marriage, his eyes can be counted on to gym- dent, self-reliant.

to right what Such friendship5, however, Hoesch concern. He was beaten "Maciam," he said solemnly, pathise with a baby "with. then do much

has already gone wrong.

are only sate when a couple up by an organised mob. WIFE soys that agree in regarding

riage vows in because we were only lifelong. married In a register office she is not bound

that she fects When you talk

all in the service. of the

United States of America." And

an illegitimate child suffers

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

eye open.

A GOOD

the remedy la: "Change publie opinion." The remedy is cer- to

?

me, now

tainly not: "Divorce your hus- spiritually nearer

their mar- every way as

Ringleaders of the mob, who later appeared before a British Military Government Tribuna), things over were sentenced to almost nomin

to her thatal terms of imprisonment. Er-

18 minutes later, band." If you do, you strengthen man with whom she is in love, you may be partly to blome. win's fate is just what I expected when the woman was finally the hands of women like the one Whint line should

brought to with smelling salts you mention.

and much rubbing of the wrists,

she told her husband, as best

she could, about the fluttering flag in Larry's eye.

儆

her?"

to another with her. suggest

Itake with Have you taken

her love too it to be- much for granted? Do you lot business occupy

foo much of "..I'am being boycotted by so that When your time,

you have all German authorities. I have Suffering there will be, but TELL her the truth.

you and she were married about with her?

ittle lolsure In which to go been forced to dismiss most of

Sho may

be

to give notice to the rest of my Lieutenant Benson's

disaster to family life.

in matrimony it is any duty to you that irritate her. For, to hear the cavalry boys

There is no reason why this workers any day now. I don't What your doctor says is non remind you tall it, the Colonel is still wonder-sense. When a fother is killed, character of the vows you are whole trouble may not be just know what to do after that.""

the Incentive you both need to ing, whether he's married to a the child recognises that it is about to make. Marriage, ne-

of your * tako stock the laws do-gooder, or to a dame who hits | fnal, dz far as this ilfe is con- cording to the boille on the quiet,

union of one with each other. cerned. So the child adjusta country, lathe himselt to his father's absence, man with one woman, volun- dela-Contos Express Service.

It is the price of ridding the the registrar sald these words able to tell you of things about my workmen. I shall be forced that's the story of world of a constant source of to you: "Before you are joined

And

revenge,

J

of the

solemn

of this

That is what comes of ruly- relations ing on British protection in Ger

many. -London Express Service.

—London Baprès Bernios.

What would you do, chum?

-(London Express Service)

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