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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950.

GILES back from holiday THIS IS

1

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This is the first of his snapshots from France.

FRANCE

♡

[ABBEVILLI PARIS

Before we start-sumenne cun get it into his head that we are not going to have a running commentary of his adventures in France during World War 1."

AMERICANS REPORT THAT

Perks, fiddles and dodges'

have lowered the standard

A

of British morale

MERICANS are sudden car a department head's

ly waking up to the right to cat in the execu- fact that in Britain, we are live dining room, and the all over-taxed.

like....

Fortune reports that one com- any buys its executives' suits to keep them presentable.

In a land where million- aires

are two a penny, it comes as a staggering sur

Even small companies, it says, prise to them to learn that

employ landscape Kardeners Britain has only 3,500

"who not only look after the people with incomes. after factory rhododendrons, but also tax, of £4,000 a year or the company chairman's farin." more, and only 70 with more It tells of carpenters who will than £6,000.

not work overtime

because of

the a. tax, but who will work: How, the Americans are on Saturdays on the manag ng asking, do British business director's chicken coop for carli

keep going when that goes unreported. Cripps takes away so much of their income?

men

SEEKS AN ANSWER Can Britain ever stage a comeback if initiative and brains are hit so hard?

BUOYED BY HOPE

It alleges that "perks, Addics, and other dodges have brough about a serious deterioration in Britain's once-proud standards of public morals.”

But Fortune concludes that capital, perks, and Riddles are The business magazine not nearly so important as the Fortune has been seeking an other thing that has kept the Coing - answer to these questions. Britch businessman

It arrives at some highly provocative conclusions.

According to this an- thority, the British business man is living today O three things-his capital, his

and expense account, his belief in his own (and Britain's) future.

hope.

Businessmen

Their and salaried employees, it says, nrc buoyed up by hopes of an early change. They just don't believe In present inxes, and their non- belief has kept them going.

BRITAIN'S COMEBACK So, In spite of the burdens which Crippa imposes snezersful business enterprisers, Those who have been ac. these Americnti- observers are customed to large incomes confident that Britain will regain have not correspondingly economic independence by 1952,

when Marshall aid ends. lowered their standard of living.

On

"The comeback of Britain," they say, "will not be a triumph "They either spend capital for Socialism, but for Britis

or enjoy what is now the private business, which alone first thing asked about by can pull it off. any job applicant in Britain. the perks.

BUYS THEM SUITS

"The Socialists, who know they aru licked, are no longer obstructing the busines÷m n' 1ecapture of a large part (not nli

his former power....1

.The original enpitalist;

Is rediscovering

""Perks have taken a country now form: generous CX- capitalism." pense accounts, an' exccu- tive's right to a company

NANCY

Bunk!

I'VE GOTTA HIDE

THESE BASEBALLS TILL TOMORROW'S

GAME

SOCI

THE

STOWAWAY SEASON

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HIS is the stowaway by

season. It is high

hunting time for the WEBSTER Impetuous or impecunious

wanderbugs who like to FAWCETT

odyssey of Patrick Starrs, 17, who tried to fly the At- lantic as a stowaway from Britain to Goose Bay. The plane was well on its way when he emerged from his hiding place, The pilot gave him a startled look, naked A withering ques tion, then turned back to base......

Had young Starrs not

4

DR-

planc was scheduled at 040

travel without formalltion, fares or passports, and who

in an empty cabin, she counced himself he probably are the bane of shipping shared his meals-until he wou'd have perished from lack companies and air lines.

Two adventureus young As the ship put into port stage of its crossing to y

failed to turn up for supper, of oxygen. For on that run the women, Audrey Noble and the skipper signalled for an a height requiring the use of Eleanor Kirk, recently ambulance crew, and great oxygra maske. And on Starr's managed to cross the At was their astonishment on appearance the plane was com- lantic. They were fed and coming aboard to find a sick Pelled to return for the

Andn't a nni sailor being nursed by a Aircraft stowaways, indeed,

with

woman.

at

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enred for by seamen

spare one. eventually sneaked ashore

have struck £1 new nola in borrowed trousera. But

illicit travel. A record they made the mistake of Mary's fiance had been "stowaway staging" of this'

kind was probably getting into an argument stricken with appendicitis. kin

perpetrated Bome U.S. sailors In Venturing from concealment of an English boy who escaped by the super-duper free dying New York and were arrest- she had remained at his from A Borstal school for |ed by police in Central Park bedside and saved his life. Juvenile delinquents, borrowed at a total net debit of For his condition was criti- dungarees from a US. sailor some hundreds of dollars in cal, so critical that when fares to their families.

Astonished

U.S.

and billeted himself at a club in London. Needless to Mary was detained as say, he looked more than his stownway, hospital doctors age. Stealing other little items of equipment and clothing from urgently requested the au-

包 eventually

with the patient colonel and after the opera-

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11 full-fledged

Blew to Edinburgh.

THEN there is the case of thorities to allow her to re- other clubs, he blossomed

Mary McFarlane, who be. main came engaged to a Danish until senman and determined to tion. gall home with him. Duly stowing away inside a locker scale there is the personal

Versatility

At the other end of the TN the end the bay gave himself

FRONT-PAGE HONEYMOONERS

"Tell me' said the bridegroom.

Do we have to wear a dinner jacket,

mister? Bernard Harris

We've had enough of that'

DIS IS A GOOD BUNK

By R. M. MacCOLL

PARIS-While his beautiful Alm-star wife, Elizabeth Taylor, gazed at him with eyes of purest cornflower bluc, Conrad Hillon, handsome young he'r to an American hotel fortune, handed me a glass of pink champagne and said: "Tell me what we ought to see in Paris, mister."

They had just arrived at the Hotel George V. for the start of their European honeymoon.

Ex-British, ex-Miss Taylor had on a white silk blouse with blue revers, a blue and white check skirt and sand-coloured shoes.

Her husband, who could easily get a jab

in films, wore an open-necked taimel shirt, a brown sports cont, and tan sincks.

"Tell merald Mr Hilton "do we have to drers up at night? Formal stuff? We have had enough of that. No black tle, we hope.. Or white, either."

"Oh dear," put in Miss Taylor, her thick black eyebrows contracting momentarily, "this vaccination hurts."

She rolled up a sleeve of her blouse and disclosed a mark,

"I want to scratch so badly," she pouted. "Where do you suggest we should cat?" went on Mr Hilton earnestly. "We thinking of that place which costs a lot."

were

I asked Mr Hilton how he felt about h's wife's Alm career.

"Fine. Fine by me." he said. "But, getting back to the restaurants...."

I supplied some names and then asked what sort of night club entertainment they wanted.

"We want to do all the usual things," sairi Miss Taylor. "And some unusual things as long as they aren't too unusual."

"Yes," said Mr Hilton, "we were thinking of maybe the Folies Bergere. Is that okay?" I asked how they felt about the publicly in which their honeymoon is being conducted. Said Miss Taylor: "That after all is part of my profession."

"Yes," said Mr Hilton "We have had two, no three, photographers since we reached here."

"Four, darling," said Miss Tavlor. "That's right-four," said Mr Hilton. Are they going to England?

"Why, yes," said Miss Taylor, "and I am looking forward to showing my husband my little home town."

"That's right," cald Mr Hilton,

"We were going out on the town tonight," raid Miss Taylor, "We want to see Eiffel Tower.... Oh, I wish this vaccination would stop itching."

(London Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiller

career,

away by ring'ng up Scot- land Yard to Inquire into his Borstal record, adding somo points in his favour, and no was

rabbed by a flying squad while, still in the telephone booth.

nevertheless, arity Illustrates stowaway ver- satility. When Marion Darling hid behind some lustige In transatlantic plane in order to ce her husband in England, he certainly started something There was also, you may recall, Drury,

be amazing Elizabeth

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19 hen:s in the who spent 10sewheel compartment and

Ankles

merged with feet and bad'y swollen to an investiga- ion by the immigration inquiry board, and subsequent head- sehen for offieisdom from White Horse to Victoria, In points cast.

For

stownways by sea

ir are still a problem.

and

Ships

have to be thor:ughly searched n case some desperate bird of

th lurking under passage is tarpaulin of a lifeboat, in ther ventilators, or even in the hol- towel foremast above the row's nest.

Sharp-eyed

S one sharp-eyed ship's officer Asad shortly after a walt- Weary soul Was found in chal locker: "They choose the Harndest places" As the anchor is weighed the giant links rattle

forecastle and shake the

and threaten momentarily to crush such a

a stowaway to pulp.

bwaw

look So officers

In the Bunkers behinet a ship'a boilers, inder the bollers themselves, in "ope leckers, by the propeller shafts. One man wrapped him- elf in newspapers and burrow

coal ed among the boulders of in the bunkers, standing there up to up

his neck, unwittingly ready to be squashed if coal shifted in a storm. Another hide-and-serk traveller was in- jured when the cargo in which he was concealed broke loose. The real gravily of such risks is unsuspected by the adven- turous.

the

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