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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950.

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SUMMER DAYDREAM

Common

No!

world. Copyright, Ry atrangement with Dally Kereld.

that

An elephant in ad

remembered

Two stories by the man who knows more about elephants than anyone else

By William Brown

·LEPHANT BILL is back home. He has left the teak forests of Burma and his herd of 800 elephants and returned to farm 120 acres of his native Cornwall.

No elephants now. Just a herd of cows and the peace of St Levan, near Penzance,

Lieut. Colonel James Howard Williants, official Elephant Adviser to the 14th Army in Burma, knows more about elephant than any other man.

He

loves all elephants-and knows

many by their names.

JUST A MYTH

Today he is writing the life story of

Bandoola, his pet elephant, who was with him throughout the war,

But Elephant Bill

has many other

stories to tell: such as the strange tales of Old Mortality and Miss Smooth,

I asked him about the legend of a graveyard of elephants hidden in the jungle, a treamire house of ivory awaiting some lucky explorer.

"Just a myth," said Elephant Bill.

I asked him why dead clephants are an seldom found. And thist 4120M how Elephant Bill came to tell his story. I have called it-

OLD MORTALITY

The story of how an old bult rame in versi sta

TOW take the use of a fine

Now

Wh sve erden

The totse, lovable dephant can be trained to work-unit to perform, as you see here in this

typical circus trick.

only half That's how an elephant dien old balf elephant that has through the second tusk when und -pat an why a dd clephant stopped following the herd at the tour of the rat tearing is so sarely found. about the age of 75, His ch ks thate of the rain drives them

Old age and debility «lowly over- take biza

are sunken. his teeth worn out. off.

I on tire and

the parense, debris

varied diet ke needs,

A ft. wall of water strik

piles up

Fever sets in as the showers obstruction,

of April and Miny chill him. He moves to waimto

where h

knows he can always get a coni drlock.

RAINS BREAK

Hundreds of tons

of water

He spends his time standing drive on to it, logs and boulders

in a spit of sand picking up the bruise and smash up the body.

cool sand and mud

with his shifting. 11 further, and the trunk and spraying it over his ravage water tears it apart. hot, fevered body. One swelter-

ing hot evening in May he hears

a mighty stormn raging ten miles

VANISHED

**

*

the etaphont in th

MISS SMOOTH The story of a lady who remembered a kindness

As she passed

VHA TO EG OMENAG DOAN

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

HERE is little holiday

Iet-up

in diplomatic circles.

i hear:- THAT Mr Charles Spot- ford, dark-horse U.S. chair man of the new Deputy At- antie Council, is making a first-rate impression in Lon- deni.

THAT M. Herve Alphand took on the job of French member of the council with out much initial enthusiasm. "Just another committee," he thought, But now after a few weeks' work, he is en- thusiastic and hopeful.

THAT Washington renctions to cur plans for increased, defence expenditure are lukewarm. A Service chief tok me: The

are given is bound to be in adequate. The Americans know thal, and would have been bet-

ter impressed if we had gone

the whole hog right away","

THAT there, is a strong feel- leg in the. Diplomatic Corps tint the Burslan move in semi- Mr Yakov Malik back tu the Security Council is conuret

cd with Formosa, not with Korea With Malik as president, and using the veto, the U.N. would be bamstrung in any efforts to cenderan

oppose ortively a ted invasion of For-

rosa.

or

THAT Mr Matic himself has

in New York two years ago.

me about 50 yards away with hr rider on foot I called out, more in order! auch since his arrival to greet him that because of Then hir, bluff, healthy looking any Inter.st a the animal: Bialik seemed anxious to please, "How is Ma Kyaw's buck?" joked and laughed as he after- Burgon cigarettes all round, Her rider did not reply as he Today he saws that he is just had not caught what I said, but hollow shell," suffering from a Ma Kyaw swung round at right|weak heart. angles and came towards me. She walked right up to where the transining end of most of Of late Mr Malik has been on

was sitting.

IN PAIN

1

the heart tremors ut Lake Buc- resa. But there is one explana- tion tor his own cardiac troubles: he must wait 20 hours from the time he sends a mes-

I patted her on the trunk node to Muscow to the time he gave her a banan.

and then to answer, without a word of rominand, she

dropped into the altting position

Mrs Eden, artist

and aned right over towards & PLANNING one-wonin art me so as to show me her back. exhibition in

New York this autur is Mrs Beatrice Eden,

I found one litle hole which wife of Tory politicias

Etill suppurated. There Undoubtedly a sus ther. Ma

patent

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Anthony Eden.

taciory, were much affected by his rank and presence as well they might be, for he is an im- pusing ligure of a maO EL **

"Oh, my lord," said one, it is extremely kind of you to take such trouble with us. I suppose if you were not here you would be in your beautiful eastle."

"Well, as a matter of fact," replied Lawn Brabazon, who lives a villa at Sandwich, "I shouldn't, you know; we oru with ving a lot of trouble the drawbridge at the moment."

Taxi to Rome

I BELIEVE that at least onc taxicab hny vintage London

been teen among the many and varled conveyances which have taken people to Rome this year.

Now the Eternal City may have our of there old dichords ar a semi-permanent adornment to its bustling' streets,

For the Hon. Mrs Taffy Rodd set oft from Britain the other! day to drive to her Romau home in a 1034 cab which she has bought for £00. Non-tare-

paylag passengers were daugh

iers Amanda (11), Jinty (10), and Victoria (5): step-sons Saul and Tremayne; and two French Bulldogs.

Waistline

ONE OF the best known and most admired of Parls manne quins is Mme, Sophie Molgat.

And one of the best paid. For during the next few month the beautiful Sophie will be turning dollars at the rate of 25 a working hour,

de- latest Parishowing off the rigners and buyers in the U.S. It seems to me that New Yorkers are going to pay for fourthing they alrendy know. for Sophie will no doubt Blue- waist. trate the new Paris narrow

att Broadway has been this fashion for months. There is a hit tune from "South Pacife." Ita theme, a beautiful girl. Its message:— "Where she's narrow abe's a* narrow as an arrow."

Domestic Dulanty

THENE is one Irishman who has not been overawed by the elevation to ambassadorial rank of Bire's London representative,

John Dulanty That George Ber

Bernard Shaw.

#5

When I

I met Mr Dulanty at a dinner party he appeared tile hot and bothered.

"My deur boy," he said, he mopped his brow and cast cocktail, "Inn on the point of

of expiration." He explained, with charac teristic wit, the diverse nature of his dulles. One of his prob Toms that day had been to deal

around for

For years she has been mak- Kyaw let me on, ofthoughing landscaper

and sul-life my doing so obviously gave her great pain. But she was to rootings, working in oils. Now she hopes to sell many of them. Already Mr Eden has had momise of success. A al with 1 cri de cocar from Ber- American charity exhibition Hard Shaw, who had personally the thawed one picture. It was requested that his Excellency should find him a parlourmaid, "Ambasender exclaimed Mr Dulaniy, who is an old friend of Bernard Shaw. The man's turaing me into a domestle ser- vant agency."

Elephant Bill misses his old sald immediately. friends.

Perhaps he'll go to the Zon some day just elephant.

to look at an

Oh, my lord

1 HEAR a good story which Lord Brabazon of Tara hes, tol

"The most srgaciou: of allaust himself. beast," he calls them. And the must lovable.

---(London Express Service)

It seems that members of an

xian business delegation. whont he was showing round a

He's 100, and gives his profits away

By JOHN MICHEL

in his 121-0ere

now

than four-fills 'of

The boss describes himself :: mild inan. Employees say that

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Song in her heart

THE SINGER Hildegarde ("Darling, je vous aime beau- Coup" has sailed into New York. I am told that as she. wang gaily down the gand- plank she was wearing black ni patterned after a cardinala Cin honour of Holy Year"). daight black dress, pat- termed after her Spurg

Arked wint the had. liked: best in London, Ildegarde re- ried, "Songs written by Not! Coward for th new show.

Next autumn she plans to jexport them-lo America.

First night

ONE OF the last wishes of the corpuser Richard Strauss, who died last year at 85, was that' his opera "Capriccio"

The next has only one rubid complaint ould have its premiere at the

-against stovenliness and slack-

1:251,

..

a

L double Skice thi Mr Taylor hart THERE WAS

£2,240,000 among day's pay and an extra tributed.

the workers C1 to spend on August 3 for Dhakeridge Mills. They too old to po in arch of the while the water furiously under- about

Now what of that other story the 1,600 men

and women awa more nines

outflanks this tires which picked up the min who work for Mr Theodore the firm's cupital.

who once befriend.d him and Cooke Tavior. carried him from the sixpenny At last the

whole mass of rats

The boy was 100. to the

Care:-and-six-day he took the 1,000 to Black- and branches pennies?

1P50 Salzburg Music Festival. arcase, stones.

pool. moves, floats, and then, swirling

That wishs been fulled. Grey-bearded and upright,

It was and tuming over, goes into the

occasion. a creat Elephant B

bad his own non-smoking, non-drinking Mr

Bailey he is a legend. Strauss was recognised DJ B gorge down n 10ft, waterfall

story to tel!——

Taylor is turning the century Workers boast of the years the brilliant und jams among the boulders

young revolutionary with ease and grace, and also spent with him. Engineer when Brahms was still alive. below.

though he says "I must be near Eriram Crewe, with the firm for is "Rosenkavalier" enchanted

40 the end," he still looks ahead, years, mys, simply, that "t"

old man is one

of the finest the glittering audiences of pre- a day at a time.

1914 Europe. people you could wish to meet. This prony obstinate York- Emma Marden, aged 19. hireman gets up at six every nelaity

6d. a bunch described day except when he is specially "twister," has been working tired. Then lp airs

JUST OVER in until with the Brim since she was 13.

a mooth

ago Norfolk hone I DON'T

believe that an 0.30. He is at his office before rays: "I've always hoped he'd Holkham Hail, elephant never forgets, but nine, driving 40 miles from his I know without

his live to be a hundred. Now I'm of the Earl of Leicester, was at Grassington question that home

hoping he'll Live another ters much in the news. It was the As the forest fires are God's an el phant can be grateful for Batley mill.

scene of a royal and splendid Soon the trickle of water wil spring cleaning of the Jungle, so relief given to it from pain and

years.**. People there see him, in his

occasion

a dance altended by become a raging torrent of

KIND WORLD the spatis of the Creat raing sickness.

fur-lined, black water carrying

greatcoat-

the King and Queen and Prin broken brown

the dead.

slightly gone at the elbows MR TAYLOR was openings Margaret. tries and logs and debris in its provide burlol for

That elephant

of I remember Min Kyaw (Miss slipping out of his car too quick-Lik letters congratulation never had to anrush. He takes his last drink. suffer monilis. of

I have homeller news from exhausting Smooth). She had fearful lacera-ly for hiz chauffeur, Alre, when I saw him. "The world okkar. The grows giddy.

pilgrimage to rach u common tons on the barrel of her back Thorpe, to get dround to open is very kind to me," he said

For nome hours the other from tiger claws, and I treated the door.

qulotly, "more kind than I weck the house and grounds He staggers, falls, but the graveyard.

her for th:m every day for

BACK. IN 1866––– Alsserve. Many of these letters were open to groan he gives is drowned by·

all and sundry. By dawn the floods have sub, three weeks.

the sights, peale of thunder,

alded and the porcupines have

ALL his life Mr Taylor has tre from mill has compet! As well as seeing

mill-Hands."

visitors could buy their treen was sufficiently preached and practised pro-

Ono regret: "During my life

Bropories. and he dies without a struggle, of tusk. Other jungle scavengers healed I sent her back to camp. fit-sharing. His interest in the have not learned as much as I

Lord Lelcoiler's, alster share

sold scheme dates from 1860, when should have. The tired old heart Just stops have their

frit and vegeltbies at com- realtered parts, taking their did not ads her sguin for his first savings went into

Pocllapa

bit ficking.

petitivej prices. Lally Leicester turns in thes prdor of jungle two months. Then one day I profit-sharing colllery.

Inhsmuch as I've fearua ya aid at brimi fimile in levander. Two porcupines got the news terrenget was having a cup of bin, in win 1992 he bought out his two my tghorance

de jovely-lavander conte a bunch that night, and in spite of the

camp outside, my lunt while partners from his promeniti bust- lot, that Le unt sethe way ve "And her daughtère Baked:mitar the heavy rain attack 'ons of his But the apate comes amali sevim mlephanta. WEIG being ness because they diskitreed with hulluksi i hapu Mch for ARBN AFFECTtions **"and" tuskus, gawing it as beaver his next night, and week washed in the crock nedrby, but fien of delig "out" prints to and a happy and The Chil gnaw wood they love the big all traces of the old tuskar The lust eirplant to come out workers who helped to earn in faith if my anchor,” he herv, pulp inside hear the Up. Bave disappeared.

nway in the hills, and knows the rains have brokin,

He la down nover to rise agath, to hunt for thele fcond meal. When

of the

she

1 of the creek wa Mu Kyaw

to

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