1950-10-18 — Page 3

Water Carnival

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1950.

THE

Venice

Biggest Motor Show

Ever

For

London

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTI

London, Oct. 10.

The greatest international annual event in the motoring world is scheduled to commence on October 18 the Motor Show at Earl's Court. London. The exhibition, organised and presented by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, is the 35th since its initial appearance in 1903, and will for 10 days be a major attraction for hundreds of thousands of visitors from home and abroad.

The Society anticipates of motor boats te

well as

a whisky, cotten geene and manusi that the attendance will ex- composite drplay of small sail- factures

polterg-uthrie: maximnura | major industria exporting tu

those markets,"

average daily

craft up to

ceed even that of last year.length of 18 feet. when the

In the Caravan and Light figie for the geural, Trailer Section the display will públic amounted tex 35,000, į sonst:1 of the late t in themel and rome - 2,000 foreign

wheel" m many equipped in the nost

luxurious fashion, and buyers visited the slaw,

all box type special purpuse For this event. 16,000 man-jind uality trailers, all

which

Tom have been Kent trs 451- are designed to be towed by car,

divaloof overseas

All sections

represented at

L'an podacima adräft !

The most exciting set of

MORE than 500,000 tour- ists and natives of the water-city line the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, as hundreds of

WAS KIDNAPPED

BY TERRORISTS

JUDGE WINDHAM GOES TO KENYA NEXT MONTH (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)

London, Oct. 10,

Mr

Announcement of the appointment of Ralph Windham as Puisne Judge, Kenya, recalls his sensational Kidnapping by Jewish terrorists while President of the Tel-Aviv Court District in Palestine in January 1947.

He Was sented in his courtroom that morning of January 27 when two arni. ed terrorista burst In through a door immediately

Patients

behind his chair, dragged Can Be Told

him through the court pas- sages and pushed him into a saloon car waiting at a back door.

Too Much

For 30 hours, the British police how much a patient should The surgeon must decide and Army secured in vain know about his condition, districts surrounding Tel-Aviv.]

the Jewish capital. Search was said Sir Cecil Wakeley, Pre- carried cin also for another sident of the Royal College British victim of the terrorists of Surgeons, recently, Major Harry Culling, kidnappedf the some day as Judge' Wind-i bam.

Then came the dramatie teie phone message from Judge Windham to the police: "I am free, Come and pick me up."

orange grove.

11e was deliyeting the augural address of the West- minster 110spital Medical School at Church House, Westminster. His subject was "The changing face of surgery."

He sait that

Instruction in

He telephoned from a factory gondolasat lamat Gan, suburb of Tel the early signs of cancer might make a magnificent pro

Aviv. He hand been hidden in be justinoble, "but it would be a 12-foot square cellar near anja tragedy if we were responsible cession during the world's

for creating a national cancer biggest water carnival.

phobia among the population." The costumes Are [U› thentic replicas of the mediaeval

more

years reign

ones

worn

than six hundred ago, during the of The Doges.

(Acme).

Culture Vultures Crowd Out Artists

SHEET ANCHOR

Describing at his home fu Saron later how he had been freut, Judge Windlanı said: "The terrorists took me blind- "When the mystery goes out fulled out of the cellar, walked of surgery,

the patient oflen me around for an hour-and-a-oses a great deal of his co quarter and Bald I would go.operative power and confidence They left me banatos, Granges his ful troovery," he said. and cigarettes b they would' Some individuals would benefit not have the cigarette packel frem a description of the opera- for fear of fingerprints

tion performed or tiein, while Suele owledge would transform personal offers into nervous wrecks,

the sheel-

There Wak 20 vendetta against Judge Wind-| Jam, He was being held us a "Confident hostage in connection with the anchor as far as the patient is death sentence passed (not by concerned. Oner cundente Is Windham) on a Jewish youth, cri

established the patient will Dov Gruner.

Gruner was cele to worry and the surgeon eventually executed,

have little culty In getting co-operation throughout During his captivity, the any form of treatment that may Judge said, be WES well-be necessary." treated by his guards, who discussed art and religion with It might well be that future him. He had one annoyance research would eliminate some with them-they kept his wiz forme of surgical operations

#souvenir.

and that some diseases which quit for ticket, hvo for the show will contribute many stamps you can buy today The Via Margutte. "It was the only une I had."had been treated by surgical rived from some 50 countries, new product te to revented to tells the story of mutiny in Rome's Greenwich Village, Windham said,

Intervention would be cured by Cau.. motor beats. caravans the public for the first time, in the Bounty, a British arm-is suffering the same

Intravenous drugs от other the traiters and-or an adition to which

fale

The kidnapping" provided an forms of treatment, ed ship commanded by Cap-Jas ling craft working exhibits and

the Little Bohemian anxious time for the Judge's) will be on view, tagether with items of outstanding Interest tain William Bligh.

section of New York's young wife. She was then 24.-

DOCTORS' TRAINING the supporting exhibits ofi Telegraphie

Bligh was bad-tempered, Manhattan- the "culture Judge Windham, who is now in facitille to all

with no

on leave, has been Sir Cecil hoped that components,

when talent parts of the world will be him adrift

officers seized the ship and Get vultures"

Puisne Judge in Ceylon. He the new Medical Act come into sand Transport service available. The station will be

an open boat, but plenty of money are expects to By to in

Kenya soon force, making a year's post- linked with the Central Tele-hen the mutineers

ailed to squeezing out the real after November 10,

graduate experience compulsory graph Station of GPO Cable and Tahiti, a Pacific paradise klund, artists, Wireless Services,

musicians and

before registration, the qualified student would be able to take part of his year's post-graduate training with a geitoral pract!. Honer.

dist in smal

buyers, and

play of mine crugine, and will be on view.

lynny #quipement

in the Car Section the curtain will be raised a number of brand new moxtele to be shown to the publie for the first time. many of the details are

ש

special

other

from which

radiates 150,000 miles of sub- marine cable, 50 wirelers routes and 19 raó picture services,

A corps of interpreters will be service of overstas

being kept Fecret untal i ip:1- mediately before the show upens Other automobiles, though entirely novel, wit be found to visitors. embody improvements and re-

the

Mr W. Lyons, President of the

hisements in cugine and body Socie

Society of Motor manufacturers

PICA

2.

philosophers.

An "emergency committer" met a! the crumb-covered, wine-stained table at the Taverna Murgutta recently to face the challenge and try to forcel "enllous, coulless landlords i keep rents down,

design upon their prestocesors and Traders, commenting on got married and went to live on of a year ago. In all, the 32 the

the forthcoming Motor Show. Pitenim Island, where pineapples the problem Botisli 12 American and raid that:-

ami oranges grow.

For high rents are the hub of in this cobble- Canadian, eight French 144101 "In its export trade the car ich reached safety, He ishemitiful Pincio Hill which has stoned street on the slopes ot three Italian car exhibiters will industry is able to claim dest buried in Lambeth churchyard. have come the models on their pince among Great Britain's)

attracted slands.

This adventure happened 161

painters, poets and eller earning enterprises. From years ago.

authors for thres Frem the sleck fines of the January

Pictured

centuries to August car ship-

оп the They have had latest and best in British and ments to the USA and Candace Bligh, the mutineers, course, little money,

Pitcairn land anel a map show.

foreign

to the Jikewise bolt of which continued on an ing how to get there. graceful ymmetry of the marine upward trend) brought in over| craft rection exhibit:..

Face values: range from 10!

visitors 554,500,000, nearly as much as to 3d.; perforation: 11 by 1116) to the Show will ve before the combined dollar equivalent priet: a set of five, is. 36. uu- Them A wide and varied gange, recor:ied against exports of used.

All

Out

For

Fm

WORKMEN are getting ready for the traditional October Festival in Munich, Ger

the U.K.

Aged 15, he is heir-presump live to Sir Philip Bowyer-Smyth,

Weyland

"Apprenticeship Bula the student on his mettle. He must rely on

his clinical acumen rather than on all the anellary are ready at hand

PLAIN ENGLISH IS alds which

BETTER

London Transport has talent but, of opened a campaign for the eradication of obsolescent sesquipedalianismg and moribund or archaic syntax from its signs.

RICH TAKE OVER

Italian painter Gino Zuschl put it in a nutshell:

In other words, they will be written in plain English from

How on.

"This has always been the

For several weeks London haven of the poor artists of all Transport has had its staff re- nationalities. Now, the snobbish writing the underground bus rich are moving in, paying and tram signs that guide more exorbitant rents, just to have passengers than дру other a Via Margutta address. They transport system in the world. want to live with the artists

but if this keeps up there wonk be any artisis around to live

with."

They have orders to ar "more friendly."

"Simple and homely language is not only more easily under-

The artists have flocked here stood but it 16 frequently because, under an old law, rents shorter," said

are controlled at low rates, Burent.

now, once a tenunt dles o moves, the dat is de-controllce and any rent can be charged,

NOISY, TOO

announce.

SHORT AND BRISK

Bryce Beaumont, who is charge of the rewriting, pinyed these examples;

In

dis-

Old style: "Small dogs may,

As a result rents have goneja! the discretion of the conduc- sky high.

for and at owner's risk, be carried without charge." "That's ridiculous," a French New style: "You cant take Aculptor all. "Even American your dog with you. It travels GI students with their $75 free but at your risk." month can't make IL"

1101

In hospitals,

There is a tendency today to overlook clinical observation and to rely too much on X-mya and pathological or biochemical tests in making a diagnosis."

Old style: "The London Pas- Peruvian poet Don

Carique senger: Transport Board endnot Barbosa momed that not only be held responsible for fallure the rich but the commercial to adhere to the scheduled me were invading the street thuit of the buses; nor con they was once a quiet place "to think guarantee the running of the find work and dream." The charm services to be as litated ing ground floor studios, though every effort wilt | be resound with Karage and made to maintain them. In ip-

shop, noises,

clement weather, on Sundays, certain buses are liable to be can write or paint in cancelled without notice.” that aunpsphere?" said Barbosa, New style: You cannot hold

The old-timers

London Transport responsjuic In the Vip your bus is lote, or does not Morgulta don't know exacus run: London Transport does. what they can do. Their hope not guarantee that is services

machine

"Who

many, by setting up merry-go-rounds, flying cars and beer tenta, For the first to dw the attention she will keep to the timetable or time since the end of World War II, huge oxen will be roasted on an open fire.

At the right is a beer tent." (Acme).

flome city government to the will run at all, although it does plight of their community-its best to see that they do," United Press.

-United Press.

Bombed

Dutz

A WEB of scaffolding surrounds the shell of the Church of St. John the Divino in London. Bopiled during the blitz of World War II,,work is now being dime to restore it to be the Church of the Festival of Britain during

the planned celebration of 1951. (Acmq).....

Sticking Them Up

HANDS 'up high, North Korean soldiers, are shown on Wolmi Island surrendering to UN troops. Although obviously unarmed, they are told to hold their hands above their heads because of their cleverness at con cealing hand grenades in their clothing. "In some cases, they were forced to strip entirely to forestall their efforts to blow our troops 16 pieces after capture. (Acme).

Prisoners

Of Vietminh

under Communtat fæder Ho Chi Minh KING 1946, TAIV = [ "HIMI" SUMEE27, they ranch hostages, who have been held by the "ribd

China, after being filed. Fifty-two of the 1,500 hostages held

exchange for 59 rebels met fine by the French.