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"The

Wooden Becomes a

N. October 1943, three incriminating evidence, sca- Royal Air Force officers venged about in the rubbish who had been shot carts, or probed the grounds down over Germany auc- for tunnels. It seemed well

escape-proof, cessfully brought off one of nigh

Sitting On The Fence

By

* •

Nathaniel Gubbins

TWO men in Britain die I was just goin to pull ond

of worry diseases myself.

(heart arterles and

Here are, Right of the pround. Want another?

stomach ulcers) for every What would I do with two

1948

one woman, according to the Registrar - General's aurvey of national health.

rolings?

You can have all the sapiligs you want. How'd ya tike somp'n.

to like a mahogany tree?

Don't go hurtin yourself, blg "There she comes. Roots an all. Now I'll get me a tiger, and you

This may be because most men keep their troubles to boy themselves, wheress mast women park theirs on others.

от

perhaps the Rev. Eric have a fur coat. I'll pet me

St.

two tigers, and you can have Bailey, bachelor vitar of John's Church, Upper Norwood, two fur coats. bas found one of the reasona.

In la church magazine he wrote: "What a frightful sight Ta woman is made to look before retiring for the night. The hair is gathered up into a kind of net strapped under the and the face and neck smeared with cream."

chin are

to

My, my. I shall, get a pent- house on Park Avenoo next

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I could make a clearing in The forest for you.

That' better's any penthouse,

You're a swell guy, ain't you? Care for *

"drink at the

Although this is enough ivony sensitive man heart stre

by

On the level?

Sure I'm on the level. I just wanna a drink.

I always liked drink at the stream.... When the

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disease or stomach ulcers, card? Now the moon's comin no doubt helps to keep the population under control, any husband of the upper income

save his He con PETER LOVEGROVE writes about the now group

#leeping in another room, film based on the sensational escape story

Those in tower Income groups of World War II. On the loft: Leo Gonn can save theirs by gelling free eleeping pills from a sympathetic (right) and Anthony Stoole, playing the parts doctor." of RAF officers who tunnelled their. out.

way

comin up.

OK, then, Let's go.

World strategists

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What about protection for right hand Even the latter, unusually men in their waking hours?

uniforms or smuggled into the Aere joy of baiting their the camp, the escaped keepers. prisoners then travelled to enough in a fim, are human

not monocled During the day, women still Lubeck by rail and there, beings and

are bullying wear grease, though It is covered through the assistane of monsters; some

peaceful with powder and jabs of rouge, genuine

and louts and others are Frenchmen

creatures with an unholy fear making them look like clowns. friendly Danish seamen, of the Russian front. were smuggled aboard ship and taken to neutral shores.

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VE got the idea so far, old Russio 15 a glant with its palm forming the Russian land mass, its thumb on Korea and its four angers threatening points und west south, south-west, What points?

thought it was obvious, old Hier index finger on They also wear clown's hats man, Shot on the spot" at a dis-perched on what often looks falaya, her middle finger is pointing at Persia, her third used German camp, in Lubeck like a purple or violet wig. and in Copenhagen, the produc- tion bears the stamp of authen-

Eric Williams, one of the off-licity from start to finish and you read, they are soon going to finger at us. cers concerned, told the whole is superbly acted.

story of their "The Wooden was

adventures In Harco," which

No Big Names

the of

an immediate best-seller. Adapted as a radio serial, B.B.C. brought this epic resource and Ingenuity

If you can bellevo everything Anger at Greece and her le wear wooden shields to keep their tuinmics flat, black Up- man? stick, and black polls on their Auger nails,

What about

America, old

Her lttle finger's pointing ot America, too, old man,

When this happens women

Are you suggesting, old man, practically thousands of you will find no big names will look so terrifying that the

In the cast. David Tomlinson streets will be like a battlefeld, that Russia is going to fight us And now a Alm version, adapt to perhaps the best known, and with dying men stumbling for- and America with her little ed by the author himself and introduces just the right touch ward, grabbing their hearts and finger? directed by Jack Lee, which of comedy as Phil, the third of stomachs. has just had its premiere in the group, Leo Genn played London and is drawing vast the prudent Peter (in reality, crowds every day, will reach the widest public of all.

It is a relief to find that, but for the concluding sequence,

Horse Film

note

Bishops will pray for peace Eric Williams) with quiet au- and retired generals will write thority, and as John, his dach-in the newspapers asking for ing young companion, Anthony the Home Guard to be called Stect gives a most intelligent out. performance which would, In

him Hollywood, have brought

one of those fabulous contracts. Perhap will yet.

The film ends in Stockholm, with the three escapers bowing mockingly across

As sleeping pills cannot be

a restaurant token during the day without table at the German military wrecking the export drive, dark attache. A pily, because that is glasses should be issued free to

the all British males over 10. The only departure from

de- book, which closed on a lightful incident on

the

se their

This would not only save turn to Britain. Landing, at an thousands of lives, but would Dow British

they cost no more than £50,000,000 picture airfold in the Midlands, this Ane

cold bacon a mere trifle in the total cost follows the book faithfully step were given some

and reproduces by step.

at the airmen's of the National Health Scheme, the and polalocs

corporal in of mess where characteristic Bamo

we charge was worried because understatement. Although and all know how it is going to they had not brought their own

forks, and end, the problems, dangers and lives and difficulties of the extraordinary token before the Intelligence scheme are presented with such staff, composed of a major and skill that suspense le mairtola-captain. ed throughout.

the most ingenious escapes various attempts to dig n of all time from their way to freedom from the prisoner-of-war camp. and huts were frustrated. reached Britain via Sweden.

The camp-the notorious

Stalag Luft III-was set in

Fantastic Idea

stupid, petty restrictions

and they are officers."

D

the

Trunk - love

A survey at the love life of African elephants has cost the

LAS according faxpayer

Gome

that

a 1949-30 report development.

on

for

and

you

"I think we

to

Colonial

TF the Government had asked me first anybody could have cartoon by Olles thrown in. As even animals are now in- is what happens when

a bull

ot,

Not at all, old man. You must remember that Russia is a two- handed plant.

You didn't mention it before, old man. But if she also places her left hand on the map of the the Arctic world her fingers would be pointing towards Circle, wouldn't they?

It depends where the's stand- But coming Ing. old man. you're right where would her left thumb be pointing?

I'll tell you that when you tell me where her left palm would be, old man.

On

Communist China, old Hete man. Let me show you.

my right hand with my

and Angerz thumb on Korea fanding out south and west.

Mind my drink, old man. That's all right, old man. Ana here is my left hand on China with my thumb pointing to wards America.

What are you going to do

old man?

now, meets a cow elephant:- elenare you whistlin

smarty?

You, Sugar.

Didn't know there were any volves around these parts.

There's plenay, But they trunks on em.

When they asked for funds, the major replied

no machinery And, again without unneces- they had

any money, sury emphasis, it portrays defl- giving them

asked: "Do ly the boredom of life among the captain

"kriegsgefangener,“ the have a cheque book?". Even- the clearing of a pine forest. THE successful escapers hit the Inside the wire a strong upon the most fantastic companionship and the lack of tually, the latter turned to the had the story for twopence with and interlaced 12 foot idea of all. They started privacy; the humour, the bic- major, and said:

of bristling their tunnel in the open near kering, and the generosity; the can trust them, sir. After all, juenced by American films this double fence spikes- single storey the wire. Adapting the wooden barracks raised on iden of the classical Trojan piles three feet above the horse, they built a wooden ground huddled together. gymnasium vaulting horse, which was carried out into Are lamps hung above the the compound every day and wire all round the camp, and placed over the opening to at intervals were sentry the hidden shaft. .The boxes on stilts, occupied by tunnellers were concealed In- two camp guards armed side the horse, and dug for with machine guns and con- four months, while their nected by telephone to the

vaulted comrades

away main guard-room. At night, until they could hardly SOVIET RETURNS TO U.N. — 11 YR. OLD BOY MAKES searchlights continually stand, thus merely confirin- COMBAT swept the grounds. Other ing the Germans' convletion BILLIARD BALLS PERFORM MIRACLES

guards carrying tommy SCENES FROM KOREA WAR FRONT — ETC.

guns patrolled the wire be that the mad British would tween the sentry boxes, and go to any lengths in the cause of physical fitness and sport.

JONOWAR BALATONE

CHESTER 1, PRANCE

IN TOKYO

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The Eymnasium vaulting horse bulli from old Red Cross boxes and stolen timber, which was used to camouflage the escape. A scene from the new Brittala film.

By Ernie Bushmiller

No kidd'n?

*

got

Talkin of trunks, you certain

ly have the dundiest little trunk

In all Africa.

You seen em all?

Don't want to see no more, Not now I've even yours.

Bet you shoot that line with all the girls.

And those little tvory tusks. Bon. oh, boy, Mind If I touch

one?

Fresh guy, ain't you?

Think so? I'm strong, too. Care for a sapling?

When I have America, Great Britain, the Dominions, and the Western Allies committed to points threatened by my Augers I bring my hands and thumbs together and crush them. Like this, old man.

There

man.

goes my drink, old

I'm sorry, old man, My sleeve caught the glass,

It always happens when you I'm not accustomed to be ploy the fool in a bar, old man, called a fooi, old man.

Nebody called you a fool, old

man.

In that case I must be getting deaf, old man.

Well, never mind, old man. Perhaps we'd better forget alt

bout it.

Perhaps, we had, old man. Good-night, old man.

Good-night, old man.

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