1950-07-29 — Page 2

Frank Owen

-AS INTEREST IN THE EAST SWITCHES FROM TROUBLED LANDS TO DANGEROUS WATERS-JOINS A SMUGGLING CHECK OFF JUNGLE SHORES...

We go hunting guns in

Kuaka

The Malacca Stratt

tricky waters

HER PRESENT VOY- AGE: A 500-mile patrol of the const from Singapore to North Malaya.

HER TASK: To halt and search all ships within the "three-mile limit, and see that no man or gun or bomb in run ashore to the bandit forces in the jungle.

Since the tradition and proc- tice of smuggling in these parts are as old as Cornwall's, li xe- quires respectful study,

Towing the other seven sam- pans is a battered antique ditto decorated with fearsome Asia- head paintings, and Altted with an outboard engine.

To her Mounts Bay' loud- baller brusquely calls Across the water in Malay: "Berhenti, berhenti (Stop,

top)!" The Caravan cotues uniidily to

rest,

Down porn the Mounts Day whaler, even oarsmen and a coxswals in lifebels, and An ofleer with revolver ut belt.

The admiral'

UICKLY we are alongside and aboard the "flagship"

MALACCA STRAIT. of the minipan fleet. The "ad- HE eight sumpang miral wears a seanty loincloth look like a caravan of and a large conical hat, and camels on JA desert smokes a cheroot, the last two of which he politely removes as skyline as they move in file he produces his own and the across the sunset.

ships' papers.

OUR OWN COURSE is

set Nor' west.

OUR SHIP: 11.M. Frigate Mounts Bay (Captain J. H. Unwin, D.S.C.).

CANON WARNER DEFINES

A VAIN HUSBAND

**My

husband hd s always carned good Toages, bul

have

been given only suff- cleat to lire on. To aure i have had to give up all enfou- ment such as going to the pictures. I hardly ever go out, do not smoke, and have never touched strong drink. Am wrong in thinking that my husband should allow me more?"

Twentions of a stand's

All okay. So is the identity eard of every occupant of every other sampai in his fleet

So the whaler is noen home. As many of our 100 en as can sleep in hammock slung on

the the open deck, or lie on deck itself. The night is clear, but the stars seem infultely ar off.

At two am, the engine-room bells awaken me. On the bridge

Caplain Unwin, watching through binoculars Iwo tall, chostlike red sails, swaying Ja the beam of his searchlight.

Whaler

AT the size

stands a

Led Bren gun.

again

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.

"Suppose we ALL said wo woren't going to do any more wooding until wo saw who won the war-what thon?”

London Express Service

5

BROADENING THE PROGRAMME OF THE WORLD BANK

By T. W. KIENLEN

many

THE lending programnie dollars for most of the

of the World Bank, things they needed. which already has played a Now producers in other coun- major role in the postwar tries are able to offer

heretofore scarto items, Borrow- economic revival of the CTO often ask that. loans be Western world, Is being made in Swiss francs, Dulch broadened under the direc- guilders or nome currency other tion of Eugene R. Black, the than dollard, bank's President.

Demand Met

In respons to the growing Since starting operations on demand, Mr Black has recom- June 25, 1946, the bank has mer.ded to member countries - made 20 loans to member that they authorize the Bank to..

for Ioan purpos cur- countrics totalling US$803,- 645,000 and ranging from US$2,300,000 to Finland to Under the article of agro- US$250,000,000 to France.

encies, other than dollars, now deposited with the bank.

was in the

ment of the World Bank, signed Until recently, World at Bretton Wooda in July 1044, Bank Jonas predominantly each participating country con- have been in dollars simply tributed a designated sum, of

which 18

percent because borrowers had to currency of the participant. rely on US. manufacturers Two percent was in got or -who had to be paid in U. S. dollars. The remaining 80 percent of each subscription 13 subject to all by the bank "only when required to meet.,' obligations of the bank,"

SIR EDMUND GIVES THE GIRLS 'GLOSS'

By EVE

PERRICK

ROM one of the state-

ly homes of England --one which is unfor- tunately in a rather in-

accessible spot in Norfolk

of the bridge and therefore not a paying fer with mount-proposition as an open-to- He watches, too. the-public at 2s. 6d. a head

Two decks below, the whaler venture-a dignified cream crew stand by again.

"Herhenti. berhenti!"

mands the tom-bailer. layat (Haul down sall)."

gum-and gold brochure is being

"Jatoksent out.

The home is Oxburgh Halt, Down come their sails. And built as a manor house in Nor- down Rock nur whaler again,

times by OGERUS mam

de

our searchlights planing the PUGETS and then In 1482

junks on the

Their beams.

spcarpoint of

turned into a 100-roomed castle- type of residence by an early

In our boat toes Leading SeaBEDENGFELD with a tale for mon J. Winter, 23, born al St

Panerns in London, but duken

at an early ate by bis mother

larite living.

The brochure announces-

"SIR EDMUND and LADY

10 her rubber plantation in PASTON BEDINGFELD the Sarawak,

two

uf

So

and his wife ----

selected

Elizabeth, Nicole, and Lady Bedingfeld watch Sir Edmund glee Margaret a lesson in bow-and-arrow target shooting.

and

Thirteen countries now have authorised the bank to use their 16 percent in the making of loans, subject to approval by the country whose currency is to be used.

Saving Dollars

These countries include the United States, which authorised, the bank to 1

its entire subscription of US$3,175,000,- 000, and the United Kingdom Others are Belgium, Costa Rica. Canada, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Honduras, Italy, Mexi co, the Netherlands, and Para-

may,

dollors

The ablly of bank member countries to borrow currenties other than dollars and to buy the goods they need with cur rencies other than makes pasible the saving of ccarce U. S. dollars. It has been the world-wide scarcity of collars in the postwar period that has made it so diment to make the necery economie Indjustmenta

This shortage, plus vrelyn exchange restrictions in vir-

the tually every country, and development of the cold war has kept the World Bank from realising the actual goats set

Woods. for it at Brellon

Big Lender

Instead of being a guarantor of loans by private agencies, such as banks, the World Bank has become itself one of the biggest lenders

the world, since it is able and willing in

a time of uncertainty to "face risly avoided by private · len- der

This change in the Bank's role was clled by the National Advisory Council in a recent report to President Truman and to Congress.

John is the chip's invaluable Present owner Malay lingoist. But he is no take into their home a limited Roud tonight, for neither of the number of carefully

boy in the young ladies from forcips coun- men nor the hist sampan we board under-tries, whose parents wish them stands on worth, beint Chinese to learn English and the ways of English country life in the TIERE are few surer in- from far Hainan Island,

They grin, produce no papers genuite atmosphere of an old

Noting the provision -of the Thoroughly we English country house." kind. nny

In other words,

articles of agreement that au- the nth character than the way he search, pulling up deck boards,

and bis

thorises the Bank to guarantee deals with the financial side perring in binges.

Pretty wife But we fedaroniet

Jou are irying out a new den

loans made Uưrough private in- nu bandits and no contrabant.

vestment channels, the NAC of his home life. There are

"Search number two. Tellin solving the old problem of some husbands who have both to wait while you return." how

to maintain the family finish as sort of super-shine Cuthbert are free. Archery.

Lady Bedingfeld takes the into an art studio-not beesuse cald:

Its illustrious associations,

Tho

original in homestead. Oxburgh Hall has on top of that.

expectation blank of inferiority

under the personal Instruction lower-arrangement class, and of we draw deep sense

When

because it has "Juxury" the fri-becorne a

finishing

of Sir Edmund, is also

a north that n considerable part of the on the the normal working staff at but

The secret when they get married. This number two, we go to

Initial trio theshol

This

of house. это.

euphoards Bank's butlices would take the Oxburgh have proved willing light and pick up

other hidey-holes heve form of guarantees of privately may be due to many causes Kate's side

Extra for, just

course, the guinea pigs. Pupils captain's Chinese steward, anti-

three young "Well,

curriculum excursiona teachers in other subjects.

come In useful for keeping noated really. they're more to see what is going on in the

loans has not been of which the husband

ini: Mr Leung.

ladies are being finished there like house-guests," explains her world outside are arranged.

For instance mechanic-handy- tennis toga, NICOLE HANSOM,

realised in practice, under the totally ignorant.

The elaborately carved and conditions prevalling in the man WILFRID ANDERSON of Paris, ladyship-pay £40 a month for MARGARET SCHNEEBURGER, board and fulton in one langu

teaching Elizabeth to drive Sir droped four-poster beds, one of world." Switzerland, and ELIZA DO.

Every Wednesday and Friday Edmund's car in any spare time which boasts a spread embroid- HERON,

age: English for the foreigners of Malion.

have a choice the Bedingfelds have the place he gets from gun-spraying the ered and the natives

by MARY QUEEN OF Major Role

maybe a little awe- 10 themselves while the girls antique woodwork of the house SCOT, are

But, nevertheles, the Bank's inspiring, but they

are cosic loans school is go, alternately, to Cambridge with linseed oil. From then on the

have played a major than the dormitory cots found)

asserted, run on a cafeteria system. Pick for the Shaw playa and Norwich

role, NAC postwar the Against oli this academio in most schools.

because they Ananced im- and Margaret what you like and pay for what for the current offering at

reconstruction countries which you pick, Chargeable "extras" local rep.

torical atmosphere of the house the breended salon, where An English mistress, soon to itself. Binishing schnols offered Include sailing, fencing,

Oxburgh Hall has all play ping-pong

under the with a resident on the deck by the and Elizabeth has already been riding, hunting, painting, flower be reinforced

the things Ah Englishman's approving look of QUEEN light of a lamp, Mr Leung con given the prescribed treatment decorallon, and secretarial teacher, who will also act да

ANNE, JAMES II. and the ment. By thus making his wife com-

from his country-for Juren forth

turning schoolgirls into courTG,

chaperon, comes in to look after Castle-home should have. ha Naturally, there

room Bedingfeld who was killed at pletely dependent on him Onan men dealty cards, ship's re-debs in a Swiss establishment, Swimming and fishing-in the the foreign girls. For the rest,

QUEEN ELIZABETH the Battle of Worcester frown- her in dutiful gistration and fishing licence. clally he keeps

what the girls are getting at moat which has to be shared special tutors are on tap in the where

That

them from the With smiles, Jokes (stili unio- Oxburgh

is not so

has been turned ing down on subjection. This gives him the

slept. much A by

trout an ancient

named near-by university town.

walls. and sense of power which basically telligblo),

salutes

When he gets married he hus come kind of picture of

place he should have in

the

the

All found

of

BETH

hame as head of the househola NOW Mr Leung is a main- Essex-all 10 years old.

innd

of himself he affinity

If he is unsure will often show it by holding all ninun

Chinese, and hus

no with whatever

tho mariners' Chinese,

the money-strings in his own Sul, all Chinese people under- band.

*

Guinea-pigs

Nicole

Since stand certain things, like the came from British abroad. squatting

And very soon, specialise in

his nature Iacks It pleases his round, our crew pulls back.

all

vanity when his wife comen to At 3.10, as lightning warns of a coming storm, our radar picks

ask for money.

A husband who feels no need

to bolster his manhood by much crude methods will differently.

the home and money which

he likes: third,

which his wife she likes.

behave

up a large tongkan, or motor- driven bout, lying inshore.

tobacco,

of three.

Chaperon

18

activity there is the heavily his- The girls' rumpus-room imediate

financing economic

Sex test'100% certain

TT is now possible to pre- Idict the sex of an un-

in touch with born baby with 100 percent

the right to such suns, however bricks, cement, rope, pineapples,

mill they may be

Your wages. His behaviour chowa

husband carnis good Like Howe

that ho lacks confidence in him-

certainty.

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

been

Lp,

I

present this chart of Арствие annual Lemperatures recorded at Oxford during the Inst 00 years.

*430-

1405

4400

Ancestral gazo

ey

the war ended

Wha

and are NOW develop-

US$28,000,- As an example, 000 In bank funds has been Belgium, and used in France, Luxembourg to rejuvenate and broaden the production of stock

While steel still must be Im- the

In the dining-room it's the ported into Europe from stare of the Arat SU HENRY United States, nevertheless the B. which dominates the teene. investment of US$28,000,000 in steelmaking facilities has had Somehow he seems have

beneficial effects on employ- more benign ex

expression.

income in "After all," says the presentment and national Lady Bedingfeld, he should be those countries,

Similarly, India

is using used to young girls. He was Governor of the Tower of Lon- US$72,000,000 for the develop don when Elizabeth was imment of electric power, a rail prisoned there,"

system and the improvement of Sul, in spite of about 2,000 her agriculture-United Press. family portraits looking down their aristocratic noses, the new girls at Oxburgh Holl are winning through,

Now there is a drenching wind and a frain. n driving

swelling cca. It is not easy to He realises that There are came alongside our Jutesl three directions in which all client, or keep

into the home her when there.

sclerosis has

There has been nothing like money coming

selentile report to the medical seminated should go: first, housekeeping, Yet she has got to be "gone Doctora at Brussels' famed profession. The test has caused tracked down by Oxford Uni- the current upward surge since rent, and all thit is needed for over"-and thoroughly, to St Pierre Hospital claim no mishaps at Brussels. But it versity scientists.

family: second, For while her

They papers are far

be an believe it may her "mixed to have discovered an in- involves a clight risk which the

form of poisoning ho can spend as from satisfactory,

by eating vegetables admilar sum cargo" is extraordinarily mixed, fallible teat for determining doctors do not consider justified. Insidious

And as Rosa maya: "Most caused Strait after the sex of a child as carly as parents are only mildly curious grown

soil excessively rich in can spend as even for Malacca

midnight: It is fish, bananas,

four months before its birth. about the

sex of their future lead,

The Bedingfeld ancestors who cloth. kerosene, ice,

While Investigating six conos

He under the chapel'are prob Both husband and wife have beer,

which occurred within 500 yards

doing enough grave After a critical inquiry at children."

ably. their magnificently equipped

COPY-CAT

of each other in a Berkshire

to make the burial- laboratories I am convinced FURTHER proof that the village, Dr ARCHIBALD CAMP.

turning 30 1909 190 1920 1930 1940 1950.

ground into a ploughed field but copy-cat BELL found that the gardens that their claim is fully sheep the prize

there has been only one sign of the animal world justified.

comes there coniuloed abnormally high 10t0, says Meteorolonicul Ulice that anyone is worlding against from Scottish scientists who quantities of lead. And so,

The crown . sur- takes time to cort

The test, which they stumbled have been studying its cating according to his colleague, Dr scientist is LILIAN LEWIS, the scheme,

mounting the Bedingfeld coat; Lieutenant Claude on while doing other research, hits.

R. HERDAN, do the teeth and who complied the figures.

of arms on the headboard in: to me by 32- it as methodically was explained

A cheep resting contentedly tissues of people suffering from Howe of Scotland year-old I OLIVER HUBÍNOT,

will im disseminated sclerosis.

the Parton Room has suddenly after a good feed Yard.

A SURPRISING method of and inexplicably disappeared. As we walked round the hos mediately. Jump up and start Above. there i a curious pital's huge fifth-Boor maternity eating again If a hungry flock

HAT CRITICS

protecting animals, and possibly i Fino training tho half-circle fringe between

against the effects of is startlingly simple. wing. It

mate happens to begin grazing WOMEN'S hats came up for humans

Sir Edmund shrugs his shoul- vast blackness, light and the

A sample of special

Ecrum

near I, they report,

bitter criticism at a recent inter. atomic rays has been discovered i

Dia plan to make Ox- Take your problem to come like a rainbow of mist in

Belgian national meeting of bird-experts, hy from the expectant mother in

LIFE-SPAN

scientists-giving ders. counsellor whom

seat of learning wiso

your

And then cavern.

this

treated with dyes, then examined

continues. husband might be willing to se smugglers' scene there gildes

under the microscope, If cer-

DOES the age of your parents 1 hebr. Why? Because feathers weak Injections of prussic acid burgh Hali a

UNLUCKY 17

Lady B. says there is no other and who would put before him

merchantman,

Cer- long, low

tain cells in the serum show up when you are born have any from rare birds-of-paradise are poeltion. the unfairness of your

I COULD hardly believe it place like it in England. passer slowly, silently by

But womanly whims have red then the child will be a boy. Influence on how long you live? coming back into fashion.

when I heard a tainly it should soon be recog- could be true also yourself watch can

"She was a Japanese,"

The age of the father has no

When life-span, uses for ornithologists. effect on a child's for opportunities of congratuin- Lieut-Commander Sangster, our they are blue it will be a

who might girl.

Young ladies medicine refuse to sleep in Room for ting and

Ciolinguished Italian professor of nised as the best training ground into other over-taxed got back

at last, having taken

young mother delicato marsh-tit without in at my Belgian hotel because marry tongkan friend in low and FIERRE ROSA. the 33-year-old study of this question. But, they SOUTHERN wanted to catch

that was his unlucky number. stately homes. he has. If he comes to feel that our

who

first di Bay, having

it he trapped it—in a

Where else could ope get the His superstition was so strong you see in him things to admire, into custody,

to hand over to Rynaecologist

to show so covered the tert, has tried it on substantially increases a baby's juring

woman's hair-net

that when the manager told him necessary experience and that you

are not one who the polico. "But she came

LEAD TROUBLE-

HOTTING UP

customers round the Incertly carpe and criticises, near and seemed so inquisitive, 30 expectant mothers attending expectation of life.

FOR those hard-headed perse atler, leks sinister, number cash come back to I thought the must be a Rus- the hospital. Hia prediction

proved tight every time." A CLUE to the cause of a

The doctors adviso sanat crippling and so far baffling mists who still doubt that Bri. Was available, he left the hotel place? routine use of the test in their nervous, complaint called, die tain's climate is steadily hotting

self and in his position in the ALL this home. Yours is a dimcult prob- out, and lem to solve because the causes Upton does for this inferiority complex may 03 Ronnle lla so deep.

You

*

Into

And

shyt

and praising him for the frigate's Number One, when we Stocky, bushy-moustached Dr Finnish doctors report, after a Oxford University's Dr II. N. good qualities which Do doubt

he might well better frame of mind,

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