1950-04-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1950.

TRADITION – BROKEN

British Communists Make Active Move In Malaya Campaign

By Our Own Correspondent

London, Mar. 28.

uenced this opinion by bring-1 which they have magnified out ing time to the less politically- of proportion to reality. But be minded the fact that the British hind them all has Inid the communist Party and the ter- broader nima of work rorists operating in Malaya are working for the same end,

munism.

Com-

Although the Communist request to dockers to refuse to load arms and equipment for Malaya is seen here as another propaganda move, the position is being closely watched in government circles. But there are many people who believe that this attempt to ban arms shipments to the Far East has served a purpose quite unsuspected by those who inspired it.

Coming at a time when public opinion is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of events in the Far East it has helped materially in changing the

The London docks are poll

long

nic Communists have always widely-held view that the cat dynamite and have

used by በ small-Com-known that they could not hope war against the bandits in been Malaya is a series of remote munist minorily to paralyse the to provoke strike action

or their policy alone-hence national economy. They

for constant agitailon disturbances with little organised strikes in 1948 and 1949, need

wider and

plan- among deckera until an oppor- on the

now appear to be no bearing

more tunity presents itself. When

for such an opportunity and more spectacular issues ning another and even

occurs potentially dangerous one of the Cold War.

very In previous usually inter this year.

potty ruch their case has always grievance it is fostered in By

Com-strikes their action, the

to enturo a large munists have unwittingly In rested upon a flimsy grievance a way as

inensure of popular support for strike action.

OUTDOOR READING ROOM

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Carol Cole relaxes with a magazine as she rides an inner tube around a pool at College Park, Georgia, where she was elected “Miss College Park." (AP Picture).

Dose Is Now 160th

PETTY GRIEVANCE

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the

The Malayan arms question Is obviously not a valid reason for calling a strike, since

majority of dockers Breat

the ro

to political strikes and But any

appunim as such,

strike that could be organised

would have the same effect of bringing supplies to Malaya to a standstill and giving the Come

munist bandits Д valuable breathing space.

Members of Parliament who have been in the forefront of the Parliamentary movement to Increase the pressure on the the Government to stamp out

Malaya rec in terrorist menace

move primarily the Communist

Com as a propaganda stunt. If their aim were merely to raico

in Parliament this would storm be a heaven-sent opportunity, but they realise that by taking this course they would be ploy. ing into the hands of the Com- munists,

What is important, in their view, is to maintain the steady flow of arms and equipment to thnt and so long as Malaya. flow is not being placed in Jeopardy their pulley is to re- innin allent-at least about In the Communist agitation docks.

UNREALISTIC

means

While they have no intention of "playing politics" over situation that has deteriorated! to an alarming degree in recent weeks, they are by no silent in their criticism of the Government's attitude towards It. They are particularly critical of the assertion that recently- despatched reinforcements Malaya

require ments. Even the generally-

appointment applauded Leutenant-General Sir Harold Brigs to the newly-created Operations When your doctor orders medicine three times a day, rest of Director of the actual dose of the bottled stuff will officially be 160th in Malaya has been

Of Imperial Pint

were "Anal

privately

of an Imperial pint. This is the standard measure of a criticised by some MP's bs be- teaspoon decided upon by the British Standards Instituteing "unrealistic,”. after consultations with nine other bodies. A tablespoon is four times as large.

can

be

fl

One MP told Inc that the Malayan bandits had been "enormous failures," lacking leadership In their Cooks, doctors and inagnum or Jeraboam; its biggers and

coun- chemists will particularly brother is a thoboam. A barrel campaign to wreck the gollens

sub-fry's economy. This lack of or- of 36 welcome this officially divided into four farktins bodganisation, he said, forced them support from 15-barrels to depend on on two kilderkins, standardised measure,

Chinese squatters, who either which the size of future comprise a hogshead, two

ave it willingly or were rarized into giving it. The cam- teaspoons will be based.

nign lo stamp out the Com- munist mennee should be con- centrated in these campa

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puncheon and three a butt.

Quite a task is working out Britain is the only country in the price of a dicker of gloves,

by the to measure the world teaspoon, but the question of its last of wool, a team of gloss,

or a yard of butter. size or capacity has long been a

Fish are bought by the ironks. matter for argument and doubt. So many

old spoons differed quintals and kits, with herrings widely in bowl size and so many usually sold by the cran and

are designed for sometimes by the cade. American food recipes in which the newsboy has

new

anca

When sold a dozen

The

In the wholesale handling of and vegetables

said.

Shocking Ties Safeguard

Hundreds of

AT WINDSOR CASTLE

AMERICAN MANNERS ARE

TERRIBLE, SAYS

DOYEN

OF PARTY ETIQUETTE

By GERALDINE HILL

Britain's doyen of party etiquette says he never Emily Post, but considers American manners are "terrible."

"Emily Pont?

heard of

announcing the

He said at an American ban- who's

But a guest reveals too much she?" asked John Milla, quet he would make quite sure pleasure in his triple-barrelled that guesty did not shout and surname andi several Christian 49-year-old British toast talk across each other. Smoke names, Mills gets a great kick master, who has nursed Bri- before the toast to the President from merely

and speak without last part of his name. tish banquets and social or get up

Mil naid his favourite events along a smooth path the chairman's permission. for more than 20 years. "They do all those things in American Is Rita Hayworth.

America," he said. "I have seen American

"Such a nice lady, easy to talk committing Cuesta those social errors even at the to and easy on the eye," he sold

with a grin. Savoy Hotel in London,"

Mills has more to say in how a British banquet is directed than the man who pays the bill. Ho has quailed aged dukes and

look from fil peers with one

for whispering steel-grey eyes during an after-dinner speech,

"Americans don't understand the meaning of "manners

maketh man,

he said, "What they need is a breath of Bri- tish etiquette and tradition."

NO SMOKING

"When a guest at one of Mills dinners recently smoked beforu the Loyal Toast was drunk, Mills rapped the table with als ebony gavel and said: "I feel sure it is unnecessary to ask you to retrain from smoking until after the Loyal Toast' The embarrassed

guest quickly put out vigarette.

PET PEEVE

in Windsor SHEEP Great Park, replacing the traditional herd of deer kept there for 300 years, following a deci sion by King George VI to continue his war- timo farming. (AP Picture).

Rickshaws A British Export

the

EMPIRE WILL GET U.S. SECRETS

British

and American staff chiefs have signed a long-term security agree-. ment on weapons research which will strengthen Em- pire defence,

The Americans have agreed to let Britain pass on U. S. defence-- research results to the Dominions provided full precautions (aro taken ngainst Communist splez. The U S. authorities had

***oned to withhold informa

ота gulded misalics and other weapons if it was to bo passed to Australia, where they ballovo Communist' influence is strong.

So a Defence Ministry five- man mission, led by 51-year-old Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Templer.. was

was sent to Washing ton in January.

S. made the new con The U ccasion a few days before Dr Klaus Fuchs confessed to being an atom spy for Russin.

Government experts think that if Fuchs had confessed a week carlier the Americans would have broken off the talks,

WHEN LAUDER SANG TO HIS SOLDIER SON

Many stories hayo been related about the lato Sir Harry Lauder, famous Scotch comedian whose ro- cent death has denuded the British stage of one of its finest performers, but none

Britain may soon bo ex-is more pathetic than the one from Bradford, York- porting rickshaws to

shire, where Sir Harry was East and Mainya. At the frequent performer at the moment Japan is in sole con- Alhambra Theatre.

trol of the market. Board

Mills' pet peeve Is Danny of Trade advisers have told apple of his eye British motor

Kaye,

"Ilis manners are awful. Never

The light of his heart and was his only manufac-son, whose death la action in the 1014-18 war when a captain in

inew what he is going to do turers that there would be next, and no sliplomacy on my n ready market for any part will keep him in line with British etiquette," Mills com- motorised rickshaws, his plained.

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The toastmaster said he will Mills sometimes announces not rotire until he has been to

than 900 guests at one America. more luncheon,

"I never use initials, always give them their full titles," he

25 GUINEA FEE

Whenever an important dinner or social function is held in Bel- tain, Ms. dressed in his tradi- tional hunting-pink coat, black trousers and high-white starched sald. collar and tie, goes along at a

25 minimum fee of guineas. Te announce the guests, Coes to prompt the speakery if they are 1 a loss for word and yell Sir in a shocked voice if a guest commits a breach of etiquette.

"My chief ambition is to pre- side na dinner at the Waldorf- Astoria and show the Americans how to do things in a proper way," Mills said.

BARBER'S

"EMPIRE”

"And, incidentally. It's another way of carning dollars," he said. -United Press.

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ם

one of the Highland regiments was a terrible blow from which Ilarry never fully recovered.

Captain Lauder had been in- vallded home from the war and Lauder was stationed at Ripon. was appearing at the Bradford Alhambra, and one night ho Kave the performance of his life, |sweeping his audience into en- rarely scen ut this "Whistoric emporium

af slago

They soy there is a good chance of Britain securing the manufacturers market. It the show

a little Ingenuity. One

experimenting

with Arm motor rickshaws. They have already produced a rickshaw which has made a run from entertainment, Land's End to John o'Groats. They

now putting the The reason was not for to Buishing touches to their prolo- seck, for there in one of the

his boxes were

and a son type.

brother officer, and it was not sce that it was to We are hoping to finish ex- difficult to periments completely and to go these two boys he was singing

Stage that night.

hands Bakk ahead with production and ex-

never forget the port in about six weeks' time," they would

official of the firm sald. look in Ilarry's eyes as he sang Secrets of the Navy's drive to find new "There is a ready maritet for to his soldier son, who rocked the song. Ta 1a, My Bonnie weapons, ships, and planes to kill the 25-knot sub-them. In Mainya the familiar with laughter as Dad presented in which Ko ap- marine of the future were disclosed recently. danger, and in some parts it is Darling,"

peared on the stage -as ---B- being banned.

killed recruit-it reminded the They are :—

captain of a particular chapple in his company.

NEW TORPEDO TRACKS SUBS

pedal rickshaw

"A

1st

thought

rickshaw

It

A little later the captain re-

motorised THE HOMING TORPEDO-which noses out an enemy submarine, sets its own course, and then would solve the problem.

Is fitted with an engine which holds on to its target. It is dropped by aircraft turns the back wheels. The rmbarked for the front and was Grief-stricken though driver sits in front on a seat killed.

he was, Lauder threw himself and travels in narrowing circles.

similar to that of a motorcycle.

steering similar to a into his work of entertaining the The torpedo, still under Neither the original designer. He has TO GO

How ear. The great advantage of troops at home and abroad, for which he steadfastly refused to Heeret experiment, is de-Dr Rudolf Walther, who

works in Britain, nor any other the motor driven rickshaw is

came take one penny in payment. The last act at the Em-veloped from the homing German U-hout scientist, is yet that it travels at the

have by known to controlled torpedoes

produced on speed as other trame and docs This also applied to his great ler-pire Theatre, Birmingham, acoustic and electronic de operational 26-knot submarine not clow it down to the speed work for the troops in the last

of a pedal rickshaw." is about

to be enacted. vices invented by Germany driven on hydrogen peroxide.

Friends close to him say that, Workmen are preparing ton 1043.

The Board of Trade cugnest to the end, his thoughts were remove the walls and other

that manufacturers should send of his soldier son and his be remains of this 88-year-old FINDS .

their models to Penang

Icved wife, both of whom had home of Midlands variety,

Kuala Lumpur for testing. gone before him long since. blitzed during the war.

he

KILLS

double-power, The GR17-0 single-engine Fairey-Blackburn equipped with new devices to destroy submerged detect and submarines. It is the first plane the start as a designed from submarine killer. Performance te secret.

It is known that the US. which share anti- submarine secrets with Britain,

This is being done for safety reasons Did because there is 60 prospect of rebuilding the a teaspoon contains 100 minims, papers he has got rid of

hall in the near future. that bottles of medicines are baker's dozen of thirteen.

thousands of In consumed

Britain being

Round about 1862, "Jemmy" faster than is good for either the

the special men's gilt tokens are

barber in Smallbrook patients' health or the nation's fruit

little complex. being distributed to most of Dri- Day, a measures are a

tain's outfitters this week, Ob- Street, Birmingham, had noted Navy, pocket.

Celery Koes by the roll, the Maybe this will be followed number for the heads In it de-Ject is to avoid those "dazzle" | the popularity of the smokinBihas produced a radar set that

women choose for men's by an inquiry into other British pending on whether it is clean is and wrong-sized shirts that concerts he organised and paw

of a successful, can pick up the air-mast of a pre- the prospects Ratishica sell at 60 nis.

Snort submarlac, of which are or dirty.

music hall. He equipped 1:is measures, some

could so that patrons Early in the much a hand, which may mean rather curious.

Carriers: Four of the 23,000- The scheme has been launched place war the Government required a dozen or thirty. Sack is the

From Day's Music Hall war and now in reserve, are to butchers to work in stones of mensure for apples weighing 2 by the National Association of drink while they watched the ton Victorious orpe, built in tho

Outfitters. The tokens can be ex-show. 14lb instead of the 81b measures ewt; half as much is a bag.

changed for gifts of the men's became known as the Crystall be modernised for 000-mile-an-

Palace of Varletics.

hour jet fighters and heavy they had been using for clase on

Then there is a sleve, which is own cholce.

bombers a century,

usually a basket. It is an old

"The plan will save women It was a success, and in 1893) for measure for bath apples and

Flight deckt are being re- There's the hogshead,

tuccessful instance. For claret this means potatoes. It varies widely, con- spending hours in a shop wond- Day's Music Hall was

in the north ofering what to buy for a present, structed and became the Empiro, designed following 46 gallons, for tobacco 150 to talning 50lb,

less in the and will save men from filling up in 1940, enemy alrcraft destroyed trials of a "Leather bed" deck. 1,200 iba. A

of England and 4lbs

But no carrier today is armed with shocking the building in the ralds which champagne sounds a lot, but it couth, but in other parts of the their wardrobes

SAYS the Association's deprived. Birmingham of two of with jets. equals two bottles. Eight "re-country the weights are different ties"

general secretary,

Its theatres. puted plats" constitute à double again.

magnum

K. O. CANNON

TRY A DOGPADDLE, STIRRUPS, I'll

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IN A JIFFY')

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The Middle of the Red Domino

HOLD ON, YOU TWO!

3'LL BE RIGHT BATH VOLL.

LUCKY FOR YOU THE FISH. WERUN'A BITING AND L.WAS OFE HOM#!/

MARSH FOLLY":

•**• NOTHING YOU CAN'T

TELL ME ABOUT THE PLACE,

- BUILT ON DUNGEONS -AND)

· I KNOW A WAY IN ALL

·SECRET LIKE."

recon-

Six now carriers join thei Feet by 1954. 7310 Eagle, 36,000-ton Jet-craft carrier, de layed by developments in air- craft design, will be delivered Ark next year. Her sister, Royal, will be launched in May. The other four are modifica- lons of 10,000-ton ships ordered during the war. They will dɗ 30. knots..

WE'RE READY

---Frigates are to be miss produced in the event of war or a big submarine building programme" by a potential enemy? They are simplified devlopments of a prototype to be ordered naxt month Estimated speed in 80 knots, 25

The fastest known norimast battery-driven submarines-today Kam Exilen, estimated max

paed 1933, tootam

run.

One unsolved snag is that It would cost £15,000 an hour to

-(London Express Service)

MICKEY'S

and

war.

READY TO

ROLL

PEN-MONTH-OLD Mike Gallucci, Jr., of

stride (left) and doesn't

mothe

.