1950-05-16 — Page 3

TRYING

IT FOR SIZE

PAY Suskind, left, gym supervisor at a New York reducing salon, is trying to all the belt of a vibratory machine around Baby Irene Parry, 31, the fat lady in a circus. Miss Parry is 25 pounds over the weight she's supposed to carry, so she's trying to slim down to her normal 310 pounds, (Aeme)

Communists Turn Eyes On Ceylon

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1950.'

PREWAR MEALS RETURN TO THE WEST END

The abolition on May 2 of the 58 maximum limit on the price of meals in London restaurants has given the flagging industry hopes of a new lease of life. There had been much concern in the West End about declining trade, particularly for dinners.

Some of the more enterprising restaurants were quickly off the mark with a la carte menus of a sumptuousness unknown in London since before

1940.

I lunched at one famous West Introduced its theatre dinner at End restaurant, where the menu 12s 01. The cabaret and danes had doubled in size overnight dinner at 215 is about the rame. and resembled the bill of tare The a la carte meals system is which disconcerts English visi- being re-introduced. tura to Parks for the that time. writes o London reporter,

The Soy's cabaret and dance inner is priced from 25s 6d. An a la carte menu has been intro- duced, and the fixed price lunch

There were 21 fish dishes at prices ranging from 25 td to 10s; nix coasts, Including wisoles 12s fd. chirkens at 189; 11 grills, and an imposing range of cold dishes.

PREWAR MEAL

AI Grosvenor House it was stated: "We love ne n la carte which scener little daf- furent from that of rewar 1 shot eeld rulmen with days" A three course table maymmaire sauce, followed by thote tench is being served for reais, un fentiam prawn deb. ¦ Its Gd, and dinner up to 8 pm. then a joint with new potatoes at 145 6d. The charge for the French beans. The ballenbaret nyd dance dinner is 215. came to a little under £1, but, meal of

The Trocadero has introduced

ind!

in return 1 received the kind obtainable in Britain an extensive a la carte mena

foie gras, Blue trout, pate de only before the war.

and (Trogi tega, wote almo:1

For the

modest perse the Ayleslary duck are among the aurant w werving moth-j dishes being made available. rooms and bacon at 2¢ 6d. Ing of i hicken with usage at 3s 94. anf steek and thorn ple at 3.

Bavies luneticon near me were an American and his wife fron Kansas. Ite sald later that he had been in Britain furt night, but had been so depressed by the foon and the multiplicity for "extras" changed in restate- rants that he had been thinking of cutting short his stay in favour of the Continent.

SUNSHINE

ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE

to

AS part of the shipment of 94 jeeps and station wagons

being sent America by the Latin United Nations Interna- tional Children's Emer- gency Fund, this jeep was given a strenuous send-off at Lake Success, N.Y. AL the wheel is Major- Gen. Lowell W. Rooks.

DOES NOT UNICEF fund-raising co-

CURE TB

Sunshine may be harmful "Today I suddenly find un rather than helpful to a amazing change." he said. "Now | tuberculosis patient, Say's of America's lead- As part of the overall Communist "Offensive" down I am offered the kind of food one

1122" restaurants ut ing authorities on chest sub-continent Communiste and mainly at lower com- Indo-Pakistan through the activities are being intensified in Ceylon, writes a corres-rable prices. I think I shall diseases.

stay here after all." pondont from Colombo.

#

(three seats) i

curved

PRICES VARY LITTLE

Dr S. A. Wickremasinghe, munist partles in its Parliament. a leading Ceylonese Com- They are the pro-Soviet Cestin

In West End hotels new prices Communist party munist, has returned from and two anti-Stalinisa Trotskyite vary little from the old when the visit to Moscow and Proups (15 seats among them).xtra charges, now completely Peking. He is reported to The latter two parties are now abolished.

loving their following. have brought back fresh instructions for Commun- isly here.

.

The British Government, un- der agreement with the Dom- Inion Government, continues to be responsible for the defence. uf this strategically important!

island with its naval and air bases so that the growing Mor- ent-guided activity is a matter of aircet cncern to Britain.

Some obrvem tuere feel that the customary complacency with) which the Government regards i the Communist open to question,

becoming Skilfin pa pagands and persilent ongari sa- Uomodant heariway both in towns and on na the lower-paid Inefory and rlerical worker and in rural area?

AIDED BY INFLATION

Economic hardship caused by inflationary tendencies

and the

high prices of food are aiding the Communists' work, Indian Com munhas me busy among the large Indian coinmunity and cios nks with the organisation on the sulan mainland.

haye

There is evidence of Communist penetration in the ranks of the labour force employ- Trincomale naval base, Ceylan Trade Union Federation -one of several Union bodies in the Island's Immature and, ou the whole, unrepresentative labour sphere-ts Communist-dominat- ed and aiated with the Mos- cow-controlled World Federa- tion of Trade Unions.

few

I was revealed here a days ago that a number of illegal radio transmitters opérate on the Island. Authoritative sources sny it is known that several of these are in contact with the Soviet Union.

Heliance on the Influence of Buddhism, Ceylon's principal religion, to check Communism 1 widespread in Government and commercial circles. It is known, however, that there are u nwn- ber of Buddhists among Ceylon's Communists.

Ceylon unique among the domitions on having three Com-

K. O.

count.

are taken into ac- The Dorchester has re-

NEED SORTING OUT

THERE'S going to be a bit of sorting out to do at this hicycle parking lot in London. Their owners were attending a racing festival in the southeast portion of the city, and a lot of them must have been awfully late in getting home that night. (Acme)

CANNON

NO OKS GAW MG LEAVE..

I AM SURE OF THAT, MSIEU

CANNON..THEN IN THE MORNING & READ THAT ZUCCE COMMITTED SUICIDE..I FAINT..... THEN WHISPAIRS MEET ME..

VOU THINK THAT THE POLICE WERE FOOLED, CARESSE? THAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS?

climate itself is not And particularly important in effect- ing a cure, the doctor. who is of the Callfornia President Tuberculosis and Health Asso- cintion, pointed out.

"Tuberculosis is not cured by

ordinator, and the young- siers are children whose parents work for the UN delegations. (Acme).

Ark Royal A Fighting Airfield

DR GARBETT

CRITICISES

SLOPPY SENTIMENTALITY” OF ENGLISH MAGISTRATES

YORK.

Dr Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, refers in his diocesan letter ' to the harmfulness of "sloppy sentimentality from the Bench" as a sub- stitute for firmness and understanding. He urges the need for more police for the prevention and detection of crime.

com-

finitely

Can

of home life and in "It is morg easy to Bum- Analysing the figures of break-up crime for 1948 and 1949 he the fallure of parents to exer-marise the remedies than to see

they authority

be quickly their how over comments that some of the case

First the children in children.

In inuny cases applied,

dif- and plainly the ference

between right and Wronst. It will mean little to them if they are told theft is an offence against society; they must be taught it is a sin against God.

indecent assaults committed arent were to be pitied for the schools must be taught de- by young people under 17 the shortage of houses are horrible in their brutali-pelled them to live with their fere

children in conditions in which Ly.

home life was almost an im- persibility.

ellmate, or diel, or drugs, or by by the Queen on Mersey- be reduced by corporal punish-

exposure to the Funer rays" said Dr Ettward Hayes.

ment.

The figures, he says, do not Rive any justification for the HMS Ark Royal, launched belief that thee offences would

side on May worthy successor to thei There was considerable, evi- The way to treat the ravaging proud fighter of World War dence to show that probation, also are often inclined to feel

wise as it was in many cases, chest disease is by complete

II. When completed she encouraged crline #out welfare and educational ser- payment of any fine or com- rest, he asserted.

3. will be a

pensation of damage.

Thirdly, the working of the

In othey cases when a mother with a young family was out of work most of the day It was "Secondly, when children are dimeult for the children to have wrought before the juvenile normal home life. "Parents | court the parents should be compelled to attend. And they that the State with its various chould be responsible for the

will be among the most juveniles if it was granted in- vieen has taken from them re-

Excellent 45 :ponsibility for their children. "Rest must be more than powerful sea fighting units discriminately.

were many uf the juvenile service. Best for patient within the world.

courts some were held in deri- "It is important that the tuberculosis means lying in a

Though

before agents appointed by the State Juvenile not so large as the son by those brought Workzontal

mentally position.

or the local authorities for wel-vestigated US, ship, Frankin them. relaxed, 415,900-tu

Hurational work mittee, Police and welfare affleers fore, auck D. Roosevelt, de will be larger

do nothing to detract #hould be than any British carrier now in were largely agreed that these should service and of the sane class counts called for considerable from the responsibility of the "This should

With the right parents. by amendment. Launched to វាព for 2 IIMS Eagle,

of magistrate they many months or years as may Princess Elizabeth af Belfast i Ring

"It must, however, always be They useful work, but be necessary for any particular arch 1940, and now being mest

tint, n: the "Fifthly. more playing fields patient to control his disease." Grted out. Her displacement could be positively harmful to remembered

venite

offender is in a, tiny and cuts for juvenile roeren- will be 36.400 10s

minarity compared with the bon are urgently needed. Un- One psychological condition

The former Ark Royal

nas; of juveniles, so the irre-less Juvenile crime is checked, of patient

BROKEN HOMES extremely im-

of the habitual sponsible parent as the excep» | the ranks portant in treating tuberculosis, placed about 22,000 tons. Like

her sister shin, the new "Ark

There was no doubt that the tion compared with the patcriminal will receive is designed to operate jel, tur-

Chief cause of juvenile dean-

majority of parents who carry future a steady stream of re-

¡cruits." "When the patient is not con-bine propeller oy piston-engined

aircraft of

advanced quency was to be found in the out their duties. of the mat rolled mentally. emotionally

and emotionally

urs a day, seven days a week. 52 weeks a year.

Dr Hayes claimed.

d physically while in bed, hetype. and it will be possible will consum needless energy for her to fly off the largest and at the same time interfere ani!

heaviest aircraft of the

with the dolient, henting pro- Royal Navy,

ces in the lungs.

vino-

in construction the hull of de modera Ark Royal electric welding has been Alex Kit "Any netivity-mental,

lange sale As in the case of Rul ur physical-erenser etivity the hings and of the the Eagle, it can be said that the the ship probably embodies the greatest application of electrie patient approaches the state of welding so far applied in ship- vegetting. the move gratifying the result" he said.

June The

more nearly

building

All the lessons learnt at sea World War II have been elous activity сад undo the embodied in the planning and healing mude possible by construction of this great Aght- muutis of controlled rest, heling airßeld. emphasised.

Five or 10 minutes of injudi-in

The launching weight of this ship is nearly 24,000 tons, When patients receive re making her the heaviest warship tively the same treatment, the launched in the United King results obtained in

different dem, with the exception climates in different parts

which HMS Vanguard. the country arc relatively slightly heavier.

equal..

Active

will not tuberculosin

of was

When

completed the ship will, effect, have the needs of a

be cured by Just by moving to mall town of more than 2.000 A ferced ventila- warm, dry climate, Dr Hayes inhabitants.

Bon dystem will disperse emphasised.

throughout the allp cool or He said it was important that warm air as climatle conditiong diei be regulated according to cach

mny require

fo patlent Individual

Messdecks will be furnished enable underweight patients to with settees, tubular steel tabler gain three to four pounds al and chairs, Offices All the spara month until their weight rises occupied by a miniature town to a little above normal United Press.

the carrice With her radar will be able to steam at high speed through thick fog without danger of collision, Armament

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE will include sixteen 4.5 inch

I DON'T KNOW..) DON'T KNOWI. HE WAS GOING TO KILL HIMSELFT.. WASN'T HR7 THE HOTE HE LEFT PROVED IT! YOU MUST HELP MB, MBIED CANNON. YOU MUST!

I MAY.. DIVE ME TIME TD-THINK IT OVER. IF YOU ARE -NOT LYING, 1 MAY HELP..NOW YOU OO HOME AND

LIE LOW-SAVVY!

guns and 57 other guns. Length of the ship Is 403 ft. 0 Ins, and breadth 132 ft. 9 ins.

ASMARA BOMB

OUTRAGE

Asmara, Eritrea, May 15- The headquarters of the Unionist Party, which favours union with Ethiopia, was shaken by a heavy explosion outside ils two- storey building here today.

The main entrance and alt windows were considerable damaged, but there were ho casualtiesUnlled Prez, “

the child.

courts should be In- by a competent com- Fourthly, every effort made to provide for houses, especially those whose wages are in the lower grades,

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...

TAKING IT EASY

in the

RAJATI ́makes a flying leap over police constable William Roberts as he rides

a bicycle during a police dog demonstration in Thames Ditton, England. Rajah

got his training, at the police training centre which terchés dogs to be able to play important parts in the arrest of criminals. (Acms)