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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950,

Whatever became of

*WRONG-WAY" CORRIGAN

dis plane'a in the parage.

THEL LE NEVE-the

MAUD MASON now wife and mother.

A couple of years Inter, when

girl who dressed as a 1 was out in Iraq, I was told boy and

the same thing. The Arab the boy showmest

get hold of some

"who lived like un animal" tong-haired Bedouin boy, teach the two unfinished him to eat grass, and then ex- hibit him as a chlid brought up stories which

by Earles,

arc

have

trigued mont readers.

fr

So it was all hoax? Thai's

Three weeks ago the

First, The Gazelle Boy. what thought, Bat You

remember he was laten.

running found in Arabia wild with the gazelles, and the people who caught him by car put his speed ut 60 miles an hour,

ROW

Ingl

of —

BERNARD WICK STEED

has Fun Finding" Oi che lacest⋅ news, of THE STORIES `WITHOUT AN END'

HIPPISLEY

GAZELLE BOY

ETHEL LE NEVE

in hospital.

her husband knows

GALLACHER factory machinist-still rugged.

BETTY NUTHALL 'no time for marriage?

so nora mértes,

Crippen's friend

is a grandmother now

Some sequels are too and to

in detail and in ather

wha sent the story of the gazelle buy to Europe turned up tell

His name cases it would be unfair to in Londng himself. is Abdul Karim, and he swore the people concerned to reveal whereabouts and current

their -affairu

the story was true. "That was four years ago,

Under cross-examluation and I was all set to fly out admitted that perhaps 50 miles There is, for instance, the time an hour was a slight exaggera- woman who was accused and with a slop-watch to

boy acquitted of a polson murder him. I didn't go, because tion, and perhaps the

hadn't lived with gazelles All wh is now rumming a boarding cabled inquiries brought his life, but he was found living house. And there is Ethel Le

could Neve. answers that in the Middle like a wild animal, he

cat East gazele boys are As run very fast, and he did

Suc common at fairground side- Crass, shows 15 are women in Britain,

He is still in hospital, said away bearded Karim, slowly learning to

WAR the girl who ran with Crippen, the mur- She is 50 Britai he derir.

and till alive.

human.

Bewitched,

Bewildered,

Be-Barkleyed

and

LONDON,

ments does not operate untli

IFTEEN HUNDRED ratified

That chat took place in 1941. "Nine years pas fakes you But meanwhite all its evil back to 1932, the Ottawa Agree- trade delegates of 39

for Britain consequentes

are ments. nations-10 if you in- cperated by the Interim Com We cannot blame the Ameri-

which proceeds (ot

(o cans for their irade push, We clude Korea-assemble at mission, Torquay on September 28 Curse, by agreement) as if the can only blame our own side for harter were in force. At Tor being bind and put-smarted. waking up inte, quny, the most menacing pro- The Torles, real is that G.A.T.T. shall con- have now warned that if they At pre- become the Government they use for three years. sem any anilum can drop it on will not ratify a charter or ac

for tariff talks,

Torquay is keeping her £60,000 lights up all winter. She is getting out the flags, One flag in pricked out in flowers, including echireria and offeruouthern, not to mention sugina pilifera

nerea,

GO days' notice,

G.A.TT. not only aims AL

cept an agreement which ham-

ers Empire trade,

At the present time it forbids eliminating Empire Preference, THE HARVEST

ny new Preference or any ex- TORQUAY otellers are de- lighted. Extensions to hotels

terisions,

But strike me heliotrope

For example: When Tories, are being rushed. Shops are to goods evergreen (which is one en the Budget In June, moved to display mouth-watering. fantastic effect of the flood. Inwer the tax on South African "export only." lighting of flowers and wine, the Treasury did not reply Forward Torks! (As a native plants) This is the UN, at Cripps needed the revenue, er Turkey is a Turk, I suppose a

No

rative of Torquay to be a Tork.)-- flag. A notice says: "Wel-

The answer was: "This is for Or should It be: Advance. Tor. to the United. Na bidden by G.AT.T." Such is the queens, and Torkings: Flourish come tions."

nose Into which the British your pilifera

its trade your golden harvest! This sort of thing just Empire has thrust

neek. leaves me bewitched, be-

wildered, and bebarkleyed. AT OTTAWA For the Eyeties are in the

attrra!

Reap

You beat Cannes and Monte Carlo to the plucking- ber pardon-the enlertalning of these 1,500 visitors. Tourist

conference. The Austrians MR ATTLEE'S Government in trade is all we shall get out of are invited. The Germans 1945 agreed to work for G.A.T.T., so make the most of

blackballed the Japs.

The only people not here are the Russians,

The invitation to tortured Koren shows the mush in which this sort of world trade talk is embedded.

M

trading system at

1932.

מ1 Ottawt

way.

Haiti's

are to become a full mem- the elimination of Empire Pre- it.

ference my return for the Ameri- ber.

There will be Egyptians. Spoil eth Loan. This was his quld the Egyptians! The Yanks are The Japs would be here dollars.

coming. Get the dollars off if the Americans had their Further back, Britain. with them for the gap. Take the way. But the British who her Dominions and Colonies laid drachmas off The Greeks. We them, ony- swallowed the German entry the foundation of a preferential probably provided

Touch the untouchables from What can Haiti be in- It was a trifle compared with India. the complete Customs Union duced to part with? For--- which the U.S.A, has established higiny-tidle-y-ighty among dependencies. Small-town coming to Blighty.

What a killing These trade stuff compared with the trading blow of Russia's republies, delestates are grand spenders by Even our British dele- But it was a start of mutual mature, British trade, and the American nation aims at spending £5,000 I bet the secretariat of State Department set out to a month at Torquay, the Interim Commission smash it

It is estimated that the dele Charter gates will unpark £250,000 in who summoned this Tor-

When the Atlantic

Tork, sin't months. knew was drafted Churchill said he quay Talkie never

enough, a mere 10 a week a 1 proposal that Korea had a north or could not accept

Raise your sights. Strip a 38th which would destroy the Ottaws heart.

the visitors of half a million-a a south let alone

anreements, Parallel. It was just a nice,

"But this is the core of the small fee for the ruin of an Em- fat bit of map.

matter," exclaimed Sumner Pre's trade. Welles, American Under-Secre-

The Liberians will betary of State. "This paragraph most distinguished dele embodies the Ideal for which the gates. They alone have State Department has striven for ratified the Havana Chur- the past nine years."

ter.

NOT YET

THE charter lays down that

ratifying

countries must consult the Secretary-General on means of enforcing it before September 30 last year.

Another pløn gone wrong. This interesting meeting has not

·Decurred,, Trygve Lie has not. yet summoned the Liberian Pre- and the sident to tell Britain U.S.A, how to run their.cont merce.

It's about

Agree-

What's it about? G.A.T.T-the General ment on Tariffs and Trade,

The Havana Charter signed two year ago by 63. nations, Ins cluding us, promised to reduce tariffs and eliminate Empire Preference.

to

up

a upranational body the International Trade Örgani- 'the world's sation, to run trade over the heads of Govern

William

Barkley

London Express Servier

ENITORI PUETE SERVICE, INC.-Kužva veui.

"Hello, Jim; hello, Bill; hello, Greg, hello Pete

1792

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one else

ter it.

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I CLAIM IT'S TOO EASY TO GET NEAR OUR ATOM-BOMBERS

The story of an experiment by Wing-Commander PAUL RICHEY

HEY were telling me more British paratroops were in London the other standing, looking at me curious- ly I asked a second corporal day that anyone could the time. "A quarter to live.

wander round our bomber stations.

atom- he said cheerfully.

R.A.F. Station

'Security-minded"

Suddenly I saw a hut door So I went to see if it was open 'a hundred · yards away. all that enay. This is what From it came some civilians and half a dozen Americans. They [ happened:

stood looking in my direction. You may have stood in a C. V. R. Thompson got hold apology. Her name was Moud I selected

"Time to move off," I thought, queue with her yourself, for of him on the phone In New Mason and for a week she was | Lakenheath, 7504th United and I strolled towards my car. she is on inconspicuous tule York, and he replied cheerily the most famous author in States Air Force Group base grey-haired grandmother of that he wasn't doing anything Britain.

and since 1043 the home of a 05. who goes out with her in particular.

Now she is Mrs Maud Moor-1:50 Superfort group of the shopping hasket and dotes on.

Croft, atid-lives- in a small ter{UE-Strategic Air Command- her grandchildren just like any of that night and be looked attice house at Dukinfield Che

He made a lot of money out

[VIREE-QUARTERS" of the selected Lakenficath

way there I heard à motor When reporter called thire. He married a girl from the was painting the kitchen sause, outwardly,

me. I turned arid it apprared behind Her husband is a goo man Texas, bought a tle house, Fu

the least resistance to stopped CL2 4 Joep marked who knows and keeps 1er hus three sons aged ten, oor-hindered by her daughter to offer

tho claual visitor. To start "U.S. Air Police" bumped up. of three who kept grabbing the with, the main road runs slap but secret,

her one fear Is sevelt, and six months, that the elildren will And out.

paint brush and climbing on the through it.

"What are you doing here?" In 1040 ho ran for the U.S. chairs with 1

asked an American sergeant. 'So we'll leave out that type Senate s Prohibition can- Her husband is a sheet metal There is

difficulty in

"Just having a look," I said. of sequel, and look at a Lew didate, and was beaten but not worker who served in the Fleelfinding Lakenheath. It is con-

This is a prolecled area," ho others that people have asked discouraged. Ilin old aircraft is Air Arm. He earns £7 a week venlently sign - posted

from said. "You'll have to como In two bit--half in his own and gives her £5.

Newmarket onwards, and soon alonit. Security," What next? In order of Barage and bilf in his sister's.

found the tree-lined road In the guardroom a collectiun "general interest It seems to be

Now one of the sporting boys,

fanked with huts, Jeeps, and of American G.I. and N.C.O. "Our House," The Daily Ex- What about Hugble Gallagher-

An enormous red-and- eyed me casually, Ono buckled press adopted it in 1947 while the greatest little character who

bomb standing ut on n pistol and took my namo it was being built, and for 14

wealthy New main entrance proclaimed the and address. Then I was ever put on football boots? 110 moulits published bulletins

London could identity of the place.

handed over was a rugged his fans said he answer the question:

to an R.A.F. about how the work was going wasn't born; he was quarried.

flying officer of il: Provost ever became of Betty Nuthall?" From there the road skirted Marshal's Department. "We're lekets. She probably fixed their travel; the airdek, The country was rather security-minded round

Flat, open, and unobstructed.

here," he explained. Parking my car on the road, I wos pelltely questlohed.

I noted

the Finally, learning thut I was in airfeld had anti-aircraft guns the Auxiliary Air Force, the

I could ses nome 20 olleer rang up a number dispersed on the peri- gave him and asked one of my One of them was tox officers to describe me and my car. Satisfied, he handed me over to an American captain.

"You were teen taking notes,” said the captain.

fur.

---or wasn't going—and left it with the builders putting OIL the ruof,

He's still around, as rugged as ever, but a bit thinner on top.

Well, it has been finished and He has three sons aged 14, 12 occupied for two years.

You and seven, and during One week can see it from the platform of he's a machinist at a factory in Otford Railway Station In Gateshead, Kent, and it is easy to pick out because of the distinctive roof copied fruin an old collage In Surrey.

Three sons

'I meant it'

in the

Plays for fun

MANY (very)

Yorkers in

"What-

G... white

to America with the 1939 Wight-y looked around.

For the tennis star who went man Cup team and made her home there, is now a workan

vice-president of a luxury travet round it. agency in Madison Avenue. One

of her customers is Billy Butlin, meter. Betty, now 30 and still blangee.

I

At 4.40

focused on

B-50s parked

[x

I

"Notes?" I sold blankly. "Oh.

1

ma

nyo

AND that girl who was repris hired, saki: "I'm thinner than manded by a school in when I played tennis...now spector in 139 because the play only for fun at week-ends." started an essay with England In her bachelor-girl dat, Betts MY interest

expect they saw WHATEVER happened to that is the

300 yards does a 1tle painting-"not very finest country Amusing fellow, "Wrong world. It is only small but it "arriage?

Biween us good" and explains to friends, away.

lay a lot setting my watch when I had As a matter Way" Corrigan, who flew the better than any other."

soul asked the time." Not a I've no iline for plece of bracken Atinatic by mistake in 19387

was in sight. I walked towards of fact I had taken notes--of He took off from New York for

Questions were asked in the

the number of each airerafl. Will she

turn professional?m.

The California and landed in Ireland House about it and the Minister Not 20 long as I can make a

captain questioned Instead.

Arrived a public living any other way."

at the first bomber, politely. I was driven down to I noted its open bomb-doors, the bombers I had inspected, Belty Nuthall poes to Britain word rount it, patted a pro and the Dritish paratroops were cnce a year--to keep her British peller up, a wheel.

asked what I had said to them. Then I was taken

to iny car, Suddenly a truck drew up. shown a

"Air notice saying: Out of it Jumped dozen Ministry Property-Keep Out" British paratroops in camouflage and reitased with a courteous sults and arm:d with rifles handshake. The of them approached inel

of

Ettention made

THE HOUSE THAT WAS NEWS Nationality "for

ed.

Adopted 1947; bulletins (ssued for 14 months, occupied for `two yeaṛ, kas, living-room, kitchen and three bedrooms

sons."*

business re-

Shock cure

HERE'S noter

nopti one.

That boy whe couldn't "Do you know the tim:7" ↓ stop sneezing last year. Michnet salt to a corporal. "Twenty to Ippinley is his name, and they five." he answered promptly. tried everything they could think Hands in my pockets, I strolled of to cure him, including put- | off. thug him in a refrigerator.

He didn't sneeze In the deep Neeze, but I started again as soon as he came out and went on For 37 days. He was finally cured by a form of shock treatment.

-(London Express Service)

round

more

Why? Why?

AS I drove towards London I asked myself some quite

serious questions,

• WHY, in the first place, is 1 walked

second this air base virtually open to the public? Why is the road ember. I was on my way to a

11 Jesp rushed to. not saled off or diverted? Why third when

scntries wards me with two American are there no fences or oilers in it. I glared at them round the airfield?

WAR and they rushed on.

IL that O NOW

1. п

I walked

civilian, round two

was able to walls bombers. At the sixth some over to and Inspect aix bumbers

without molestation? Had ben an agent I could easily have slipped plastic sabotage bomb, no bigger than a small fach undercarriago pencil, into -and the destruction of six bembers in a few minutes

certainly

bren

ZOOMING TO PROSPERITY

ON THE WIND.

Da

By ROGER BUNYAN

coal in inland

another enthusiast bought second pair.

Its

a worth my life.

μονα

basca In

Then the old mill WITY, when I was eventually was found to be damaged at picked up, was I not searched its base and in danger of he- before being put behind my lug blown down. Once again two captors In their Jeep? I ETTING an example to knowledge has even been

The windmill society stepped in could easily have shot them Hongkong and, per- won at the summit of some

and paid for repairs.

both and taken their Jerp into haps, the world, wind- of England's existing 200

Built Ja 1665-Its

title deeds the bargain.

• WHY was mills 120 feet high muy soon old-style

a telephone call windmills. New

existence another 171

to a number furnished by me famous post mill is still busliy spring up at vantage points efficient forms of vanes and

grinding grain at Outwood, in considered a satisfactory identity around the coasts of Bri- blading have been tested in

Surrey. and both the Are of check? could have been im-

I tain. From rocky Land's the air draught wind in tons of

1431don

and the modern fire-personating someone and, with End

onels of the National Phy: declares refentist T.G. Haldane, upper platform.

areas, blz were watched from to rugged John

its an accomplice en that number,

would have Grouts, Britain has some of sical Laboratory.

got clean away In the a foremost consulting engineer,

Only a few years its Junior, with it. I has no documents the windiest coastlines on Orkneys, a survey party has wind towers could electrically Drinkstone Mill in Suffolk is at all. earth. Galen.

old sometimes spent several months carry heat farming land and raise four still tolling b its

nge, WHY, In short, Is this vital crop a year. rising to 110 miles per hour, ing out exhaustive wind

for poultry. grinding grist

air station-one of the only Though 7,000 towers would be

During buffet in from the Atlantic. velocity trials.

a recent windmill ex-three atom-bomber needed to equal the present hléition' in London, Drinkstone Western Europe-no! properly Seventy miles per hour wind Until recently, one of the electric output of Britain, the

accelved stardom among the guarded? velocities are often record- foremost difficulties in makro-generator advocates claim pin-up

I photographs, and fans

last do not address this discussed ing the most of Britain's that a few hundred could form expertly

Bre question to myself, but to the Hitherto this intensive wind assets lay in the lack of power. Nor is this a mere worked 'tail-pele fer turning Itibility it is.

Important auxiliary source cloth

Bails and quaint hand- | Air Ministry, whose respon- wind power has largely run of data indicating which pipe-decam, Siter have bcen into the wind. to waste. The cost of har types of generators might surveyed, and a government nessing seemed prohibitive, hest be used and probable report is being prepared by u fact-finding commitice under As in the Middle West, capital costs. Gradually the Ministry of Fuel.

Though only 200 serve their wind-vanes have been used this gap in knowledge is Says Frank Partett, President Criginal purpose, or still help to

power, Britain to generate

At of the Engincers' Society; "Wind Generato electric power being shrewdly filled. cnly by a few comparatively one

2,000 windmills, end of the scale, dynamos of 1,000 horsepower tually

with 1,200 in Bol- isolated farms.

engineers are discussing and unattended, in all weathers, and.

can operate quite automatically compared Το prevent mill- Suddenly, however, the gigantic conception of wind- wind velocilies and

ellmatic wrighting, dying out as a craft, wind scene in changing. towers of steel girder con- changes. Power drawn from air n fund has been launched to The need for economy

country Youngsters in struction rising to 600 feet, is the cleanest available, and we apprentice coal, new advances in on which will be mounted was only when the steam-engine repairs, and this will x tra- can create a cleaner country, i to milwrights undertaking m}! nerodynamics and the ex-wheel-like wind turbines arrived as a power unit that we ditional knowledge of milllag istence of a nation-wide with a:diameter of 500 feet, looked away from the wind lore at lengt till the year 2,000. electrical supply gril, have Revolving smoothly

Many other and wheels that served our ancestors.

milis, however,

useful. Con all served to diminish the rapidly in even a light 10, Why not turn back? The winds are still proving

verted into cosy homes, some technical difficulties in Bri- m.p.h. breeze, meeting any will still serve us."

Man's

old Industrial and have helped to solve the hotts- change in wind direction, agricultural friend, the windmill, ing shortage. Both Benjamin tic composer, and Now, backed by the In- the estimated output per a in fact on the rebound. While Britten,

flm director Laurence

tain.

stitute of Electrical tower mounts Engineers, experiments in kilowatts. Cornwall and

Wales show

that the cost of modern

to

grand-scale harnessing of Wind-towers of similar

more

to

har

-London

Express Servic)

POCKET CARTOON

ac-

by OSBERT LANCASTER

Irv

evolving Arc 60,000 selentisis

fine windmill re- modern forms, Engilah history- ing cheriah

1 lavers, Jealous of tradition, are sidences ELIS. actually doing all they can Another old mil has beconta preserve old windmills, Banded on exceptionally gay head- together in A

for crippled children, protection quarters but society, their is no arid senti, and at least one windmill-at Reigate Heath-has become, a

Beneath the or the church

huge which

once supported to Its the grindstones is now built an At Whitstable another

the wind could be more than smaller pattern have already metal interest. recovered by tho' saving of been used in Denmark, Holland ¦ When the existerico

and Germany. On the other pia malit 'at Terling, Essex, was beoma coal and other fuels.

Research has been carried hand, British scientists are aims threatened by damage out on cliff-tops and at coast 1g at 2,000 kilowatt generators, falls, the windmill men launch allar

unite a ed a public rubscription to buy converted mill has become Supplying six million guard stations. Fresh year, oach would wave. 4,000, a new pair. Three years later lighthouse.

A

“Oh, darling, just for ome wonderful wiowent i thought they must have conscripted the whole House of Commona andthaforeign bepershada's bothered to mention It!