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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1950.

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"She Wore a Yellow

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ZAME GREY'S THUNDER MOUNTAIN

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STEVE BRUGTE

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YOUNG-HALE And Baby Makes Three

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That's VANSITTART, ace spy-catcher (his real name is Dick Barlon), discovering the plans of the new Hydrogen Bomb traced on the back of the Dean of Crankybury

HOW OUR GREAT INSTITUTIONS ARE CONDUCTED:

U

World Cupright. Dy brrangement with Dalis ferald.

Sitting

recent

TOO

MANY IFS

III

MIS

on the

Fence....by

NATHANIEL

very times the Chukchi (a tribe in the far north of Siberia) served the primordial custom of killing off their old and sick people at the request of the IL doomed themselves. would be a matter of re- verence and duty for a son his father or to strangle

"The mother."

From - Road to Oblivion," by enfled it off. It the undating 13." Vladimir Zentenon.

JA

ilush, Little Father, do not

ery.

Ivan will thuttle you by

and by.

When mother complained of

a nasty cough,

Ivanovitch her off.

Ivan

When grandmother

butriye

moaned

with an ache in her head, Old Uncle Peterkin shot her

dead.

When Brandfather roared with

the pain of the gout, Nicholas Nicular jaid him

out,

So hush, Little Father, do

cry

not

Ivan will throttle you by

and by.

The four golden rules

A Rock on the jaw in the

morning.

A Rock on the Jaw at

night.

And as you come in give her two on the chin, Whether strc'a wrong or

right.

Adventures of Harriet the Hiker

TIS is to introduce you 10 Harriet the Hiker, passionate lover of poetry and nature, and typical open-air English girl.

→

GUBBINS

T

By J.W. BROWN

once A

LONDON. First, if you

one of are

have been HERE was

those people who waiting for some years for a hungry man who said car, you can reconcito yourself wistfully to his wife; to walling come more. For the "If we had eggs, we could number of cars for the homo be reduced by have bacon and eggs, if we market in to

about 40,000. had some bacon." I recito the story because I can think of no better way of thong people beginning this article.

Next, If you are one of who have been walking all more years for a

home, you can reconcile your-

For this article is about the self to n still more protracted

Government's

Intest literary stay with your in-laws.

effort The Economic Survey.

1950. And all that it has to leli

For the rate of building,

us could be summed up in that, which was 200,000 this year, is little story.

te bo cut to 185,000 next year. old days beforo

Indeed this survey might well In the bad have been entitled "It." What it the war, the bullders somehow

that in

"I" managod to crect houses at says, in effect,

nt half the everything goes well, we shall twice this rate,

not be much worse off this price, and with a labour force coming year than we are now, not much Inve today. And isn't that comforting?

But Lord, what a number of "Is there are.

IF Amerlenn help continues.

bigger than Wo

The reason for cutting down? To reduce capital expenditure, Why? Because Ulie Gover- ment can't eat your cake and let you have it too

IF we can increase personni savings by another 200 millions can maintain a year. IF we

How many people are wait- ho wage-freeze. If we can sub. init for houres? Me Bevan

alantially increase our penetra-

tion of tho dollar market.

says at the total number on

avall-

IF the cost of Imports clays at the waiting lists Is only 13 points higher than able." But one political party

before devaluation and doesn't headquarters to higher. If we can prevent any rise in the exports, then

chys

that the is now bigger than it was four years to or, in price of other words, that the building such and such results will follow.

On the other hand, if the

programme pace with

19 not keeping current needs and

1945 Mr Ernest Bevin in

a Socialist Govern

treat housing Would

ifa don't come off, they won't til less overtaking arrears.

that the knaging of all thests sold that a

Now

A

prospect

coming off la ng could "well be.

hysterical Him with a churt, laugh. "Only ... only Chinaman. A Chinaman In the ceiling to be exact."

a good one. Chinamen Geope?"

1

near ni as ment

The American help

the

"lice art military oper-

In

ntion," I should have remem- bered that military operations right. But probably

Five milon sometimes cover retreats, "A Chinaman in the celling,"

ward-frecze

take Still, the homeless may reated Mir Yomoplegion. "That's workers have tabled clating for

contemplating the Are there any increases,

Trades comfort In and the

the celling Union Cortina can do nothing vast building operations going

preparation for to stop thera.

Festival of Britain south of the see no reasons to hope that es. If they have to stay "No, sir," said George, cooth-the sea that the cost of in- The "As I was anying," continued

the streets, at least the rise further is th

will Be improved. A that indiment a great Sir William Bumperley, What ingly. There are no Chinen ports will not

thon was the skyline any more right Aisutkan Spring at her and do the Sõelalists know About the celling, sir."

ownet money? They've Rever

"Thank you,

George, thank gues of Sir Stafford Cripps But not a little further West, that devaluation would only St. Thomas's Hospital is still you," said Sir Willian, rising increase the cost of living by a ruin. Harriet, bleding from dozen wounds, limped toway shout-

"Quite right. Sir William," and leaving his drink untouched one and a half points. in-

Brughed Mr Yumpington. "And "Good night, Yumpington." what you've never had you never mist, as the saying goes. Tak you, George."

until Savaged her

Its

You are nearer your grave in a

garden

D

Than anywhere else on earth?

The dowager and

dachshund

ISCUSSING atavism in man, a clergyman relates how a fbic acquaintance, shepherdi through our association with Eneep, became "so much like lits

churges about the lips and chin that his appearance was often the subject of ridicuts,"

bod

Sir William leared back in bla

Confidence corner

MY father had

ny

As for increasing savings, people are drawing on saving NEXT, provided nobody gets

going trom werk to to keep

wars> increases, you week. If large-scale

may expect that the further advances are givea The price rise in the price level "will be

bound to

rise. mental of exports i

small." To the. housewife,

chair, delighted at his wit, and V breakdown a few years they will rise anyway.

pazed blandly at the celling. As

ton.

иге

For who has seen the purchasing

he stared, his purple face paled, ago, and my mother has never big hercase in railway fare power of the pound decline hy He passed his hands across his been right is the head. Two of is expected, and ess and stared again. Then he my aunts are what you might cal! W looked wildly at Mr Yumping irresponsible, and I have three will

uncles in the madhouse. Do you shillings a lon

wants to "Nothing wrong, 1 hope, Sir think the boy who William?" asked Mr Yumping- marry me ought to know this, bet to me. ton in gentle, sycophantic tones, drar editress?-Anxious Argic. le hoped to call Sir William "Bill" before the end of

VOYUES.

If it comes, four

shillings in as many warned that coal

announcement will Seary, khi further by some come with stunning effects. Kip

Still, it's being cheerful na The its don't look very good keeps me going, so let us look There on the bright side. will be xnough

to tobacco enable us to amoke as much as and at the sama last year

And if you reply that price.

be-

the

--(London Express Service}

I am not your clear editress, Aggie, but I think if he marries OWEVER, assuming

may we expect?

cause

you can't afford it, well, it'# £1 bad habit nnyway.

Nothing much, Yumpington, you he will know soon enough. Hau the ifs aue off, what you've had to give it up Similar cases have been ob- nothing much," replied Sir Wil-

among

or served

membera English society. There is the pase of a huntin woman who] became so much like a horse that she was entered for the Grand National, and was only rescued in the nick of time by her her mother, who found locked in

stable.

There is also the curious story of the dowager and the dacli

C.V.R. THOMPSON

REPORTS

AMERICA:

New York's Most Popular Man

shund who grew so like each E most popular man in will be taught

ITH

tho night, other that, dowager's maid put the dach- shund 10 bed and put the dowager und in the garden.

While Harriet was lumbering laughingly down a Surrey lane, listening enraptured to the silly cronking of that rare visitor to English shores, the Greater Nit C

flowers,

BUY BRITISH SNOW AND SKI FOR YOURSELF. EVERY LITTLE ALPS.

sale.

P

Next, most of the shortages of household goods have dis-

пош

From the shops, appeared." possibly. But not from most of the households I have anything to do with.

Cloth supplies will bo But "bigger than last year."

as we have abolished clothes rationing precisely because

an air-people could not use the coupons they were entitled, Every employce, be promised, invention, mounted on NEW YORK.

will cause this to say "Thank ship which will cruise above the to which

Announcemest travelling on

It Is all only qualified enthusiasm.

more his magic carpet.

Then

there will be New York is Mr Wilbur you." every time he makes a city, is Ali Baba

bulbs-12,000 done by electric

fat and

ana Unknown until England.

meat." I am "possibly more this month, he has become

delighted about the mille,

and eggs, the hero of the hundreds of DOLLAR TOURISTS to Britain of then, And it will advertise milic,

thousands who travel

way.

a new TV set.

be en- will this summer

but dubious fats on couraged to take out a Lloyd's

under bulk 17%. D Senator

Smith, For, Margaret

buying, New York's notorious sub- Insurance against wet weatlier. PECAUSE a woman politician, about the meat.

Typical policy, costing £2 17%.

politicianu talk too meat supplies are no longer a EL week. An American will get thinks men

Republicans have commercial matter but a politi

And Feron appears £22 if there is more than an much, the That is because Mr England Inch-and-a-half of rain while brought out their election procal one:

Wild with Webb, 50 for the has promised to do something

wild that negotiations to relieve the drawness of that he is in England. Lloyd's have gramme for the year in postcard to be

confidence sufficient

new meat eqntract, are sus part of their lives they spend British weather to believe it will

while aur Their platform is cul down to pended indefinitely under groundi.

make dollars on the policies.

99 words. I can cut it down again trade delegation kicks its heels Under a deal with the city's

to 13 words-lower taxes, less in the Argentine. oficials who run the subway; DRITISH manufacturers have spending, less waste, no Com- enterprise, peace, the International Monetary no Socialism.

the size. In

that they

Face

You can

Strange tale of the sea

who HINESE stowaways,

were concealed in the walls Mr England will take over all got a pat on the back from munisin, free

the bookstalls. Wit, she turned with a squeak of and celling of the smoke-roem He announced at once that his Fund. Fund officials have been delight through a little wicket in an Atlantic. Iner, were dis-

Only objection came from Re-T HAVE no space to tell you te and found herself in a envered during a voyage because Arst step will be what he calls looking into reports

nd raised their prices so much publican Senator Robert Taft, more about the Future that pacious garden full of early they were obliged, owing to "dolling-up campaign.”

The bookstalls, now as drab since the £ was devalued, that who wanted "No Socialism" ex-we have to

for yourselves in hunger and thirst, to reveal

itself will be British goods could no longer panded into several thousand read it all

this publication. pastel shades. compete in price with American. words, themselves by making noises as the subway

a little thrilled But I am and showing their faces through painled in gay

There will be lots of chromium The result of their inquiry:

I am going back and bright lights.

Prices have risen scarcely at all.

JOMEN behaved themselves by it that Taking a deep breath and the panels."

to fiction and leaving Stationery who serve Ja And the men

better than men last year, Office

severely publications standing, with her feet wide the tn-

them will no longer work in apart, according to

'N THE FIRST clear night to according to a crime report from

alone,

That may be escapism. But structions of a correspondence

come New Yorkers will see the Federal Bureau of Investiga- stacks and shirt-sleeves, but in. smart uniforms.

ultimate

the art in

of tion.

escape There was an increase of what a prospect to There was one part of Mr the

a young man 4.5 percent in the number of that the Douglas Leigh, England's programme

only 2.1 percent "Yes," replied Mr Henry most trusting subway traveller who has made a fortune design men arrested,

Ing fabulous sky-signs. His new in the number of women. could not bellove. Yumpingion. "Two."

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✡

"Anything

more before we course on health and hygiene, clone the bar, sir?" said George, the began to reclio:-

the smoke-room steward.

The kiss of the sun for pardon The song of the birds for

mirth...."

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Dol's All!

JUST SIT THERE

AND REST

AWHILE

1. FEEL AWFUL TODAY-- I HAVE SPOTS BEFORE

MY EYES

By Ernte Bushmiller

SLUGGO--- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I'M TRYING THIS

SPOT REMOVER

Stop that cold fast

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