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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950,

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TOMMY-GUN LED AGAINST THE JAPS

Ursula of the head-hunters

Then the colonel

kissed her

SLIM, dark girl of 23, Ursula Graham Bower-brought up in the quiet home of a middle-class family--was sent to visit friends in India before going up to Oxford.

That was in the undisturbed days of 1937. She had few ideau about her future, beyoul an Inclination towards archaeology,

Then an incident

on a track high in the

Naga hills, on the India-Burma frontier, alter- ed the whole course of her life.

A group of hillmen scattered before her car. Bead necklaces covered their bare, brown chests. Tail, solid, muscular, they stood at the roadalle staring at her as she passed.

The

curiosity that these tribesmen-Nega head-bunters-- aroused in Ursula Graham Bower was to bring her famo throughout India and Burma.

It was to give her the tame, "White Queen of the

Nagas

leading

result in her and to head-hunters, tommy-go11 hand, against the Japanese.

'To go back'

FOR A GIRL of her age life in India wns Iclsurely; there wai golf. tennis,

und

duck

shooting. Womenfolk idled away the hours shopping, visiting, and looking after their husbands.

A Naga girl

Her greatest drawback was

Twice a week they watched her sex. polu.

►

These things no longer interes.

ted Miss Graham Bower. De. scribing her life there she wiltea

f her book, "Naga Path," just published:

But she overcame the native

Prejudices alded by her shot-

un and medicine thesi

Soon legends of the "White Queen" got back to the towns

"I wanted nothing now but on the plains.

the lovely, wild reality OL

mountain nod jungle. I had She WEA the She-Sahib-

sister of

slic

his

own

the Magaz

Namicia,

WHATS

GOING ON.

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

THOSE London muck- The other day she gave a rakers who picked up chiefs at her Hyde Park home, Luftet lunch to delegation with evident delight when the dignitaries

T

had

the scurrilous and libellous- natahed eating, Mrs Roosevelt ly inaccurate attack on the invited all the waiting chaur- Duke of Windsor printed in feurs into the house and per-

ronally served New York periodicals lunch. must now be feeling a little hot

A

thein

and bothered about 80, at least their enterprise.

with

I

con-

AROM SWITZERLAND They described the writer "Jolan Mariot Graham" as "an cerns traffic cops, strict about

hear a story which historian of repute." They de-

speeding, and a famous lady Pcribed the periodical Park

of the variety stage. strict Enst or "one of New York's

about discussing her age. most reputable magazines."

When, the other day, a Buick But, ut fact, there is no ich ned along main road

Mariat person as John

Grn- Geneva It was stopped by The author was a Hun- patrol car. fam. garian cafe gossip Journalist "Eighty, at least," said the used the harne John MarlotYou are a Har, and you are Graham "just because it sound- certainly no

named Hes Brody. He

ed English.'

says he

Far from belugan historian

of repute," his entire contribu- tion to literature has been two books of chle tittle-tattle.

As for Park East, commend- et to Innocent British readers "one of New Yorke'a most reputable magaziner," it was, until recently, n "give-away sheet.

the

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to

A

gentleman," Look at my passport." pilect

Indignant driver,

The policeman looked. The driver was Mistinguett

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another business woman whose brains and ability in commercial affairs bave led to Then its owner decided to a half-share in a large fortune. Rinke a commercial mags-

She is Mrs Hector Mackenzie zine. Te sought something zen- Frazer, Twenty years ano she rational to give its sale a start and her husband Jointly bought ing boost.

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These behind The magazine how confess that they hoped Misa Graham Bower, a tommy the Duke would at hand, organised the sue and enable nalf-naked fiftive warriors into them to cash a fighting force.

In on the pub- Hielty.

Brody, damp rits

But the

and

But their fighting ability was never tested. The White Queen squibber,

her blanket-clad scouts at home in an became instructors al a 14th arty brocade Army Jungle training school. smoking jac-

'In a panic'

IN MAY 1915 Colonel "Tim"

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very worried, indeed,

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blood,

his

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committee

room, There

1

he found Lloyd George with the

chief constable.

"You will change clothes with

Mr Lloyd George,." Stonier ordered the chief. obeyed.

And so disguised, Bri- tain's future Prime Minis ter marched away with the regular police.

over the pos- sibility of a libel suit.

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Mrs

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continues pour

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Latent.

to

out her and

With her husband the

Betis came to the Naga Hits hunling butterflies. He returned He admits that he has never modestly

in Leeds, owns

lives

to his unit without them. Buthern in Britain and has never small form outside. Sold Mr he brought mother prize: the met the Duke. But he claims Frazer: "I don't think much of wilc binks Nag Queen was to be his wife, that his information came from money, and my

"two friends who lived at less."

day:

Their courtship-starting four Belvedere during the Abdten- For men only

afler his Tival......was tine

week in As the Duke was there alone FOR THE second subdued. Mirs Graham Bower during that period, it in

October The King has not writes: "....then he kissed me. surprising that Brody,

bachelor entertaining a "the been I was in a panic lest Narmila historian of repute.“ declines Party at Sandringham. It is pecepted came in.

the one occasion in the year

be Eleanor serves

tradition, when,

the "My staff he'd

from

Queen separated AIRY GODMOTHER to the and the Princesses. Japanese on that surt the

of thing. Should A

and abigh he draw the wrong conclusion workers

general or the border, were

King Edward VII, started it ranking British officer came up

Nations yd both his non and grandson

Ursula Groham Bower

Miss

Graham Bower

Then, when

the invitation.

to name these friends.

strom views

secretaries

at United

to the hills. The War Office and be certainly would--the headquarters is Mrs Eleanor have always had an all men wanted to organise a "watch co onel was in for mass assault.", Roosevelt, who was 66 a fort party for the opening pertridge and ward" system.

shoot.

deht aro. They were married six month! She takes many of her menis

With the King this year are Once

ngain the English later. The tribesmen cricu in the conleen, lining up with th Duke of Gloucester, the wa's help was asked and when their White Queen came

he rest at the self-service Duke of Beaufort, the Hon. given.

counter and frequently paus- David Bowes-Lyon (the Queen's to say reedbye.

, tray, in hand, to chat with brother) and Major Michael the girls.

Adesne. It would be hard to And she ranks number one gather five better shots

popularity with U.N. chau?

gether.

For two years tribesmen watched

the nad

her and waitru

for the 3'mannse. Wearing the Insignia

of an

Army contain

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Black Max is so dated now

PARIS

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to go back."

That decision led to the fan-native who boasted of cation

children durLog tosilc and romantic fo describes so vividly in her book famine, became her booʻguara. a book which is also an absor, She Rved in a roughly thrched bing study of an unspoilt land basha or hut,

eating rice and and its people.

wild trulis with her tigers, hunting for catable birds and beasts in the undergrowth.

And all the time sho FOR IN 1939 she returned to photographing Дли regarding Todia, to be met by a letter from the habits and ceremonies the Political Agent, "resetting her hests, something that it would be impossible for her to tour the bills."

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She saw officials, argued and cajoled and finally got her own →way; +

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A 'Queen'

PARIS.

-A column to bring you the capital news... by

R.M.MacCOLL

But the trial all seemed a

HEN Max Intrator, hade unreal.

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IN 1013 war reached towards of 1h0 escort for part

the Naga Hilta. The JapaneGO then, regretfully, Journey and he left the pretty young English were rolling through Burma. woman, clad in altered bush nothing but the Naga countr

for lay between them and India,

horts to fend

shirt and herrelt

A deputation of hendises was alone in a tiger walled on the White Queen" mated the mergy of nativos: 4 conferencs i had been held

Leartafla of human batiky na dhe, triber Weald

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When she catches sight of a bare, she clamps the jaws shut, i thus concealing herself.

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homes above are duplicated on I met one of them. His silk to

the same blue and white signs Intrator is kept company by was a little bedraggled. When know. People are so dishonest," below. "Ilus de Rivoli" it says about 101 fellow defendants. I asked him what he wan doing. He in married to an English above, the glistening stream.

There were до twanging apart from his brother, Erwin these days he scowled. I am

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PARIS Hideaway walters, pogo-boys, barmien and car salesman-It's chastly."

PARIS Tact And on, who are said to have

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MAJOR ULICK BUCEONORE FINI is beautiful Mho hat just left the Paris design is available acted as "Dincis Atax's contact tons of how well-manicured and young. She is also one Embassy for a tour of duty in advertisers in the acted

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noted for his an eccentris of tham a beautiful Túri named back in the middle 1940's right

most acten- Not long ago, during

diplomatiq tact.

spell Heldo Comona.

have been some tale of almost eccentric because

trics are raddled and elderly of ane suturan weather, he was She designed the ballet cos introduced to an Oriental visitor witnesses winnowed dosta trom

baileh her 1940. He has been out on the acous "a ballat e tek party

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Here Estest extravagande is a dNAR

pilated

Then there are the 140 Edwardim Vested in Decchi,

an original 500. There lawyers and great documents--the

French

call it standjr

on counsel's desk

veral hundred chec

become their Jou hart & marizes", "hounos

Was

necused of making £171,000 prout on bis transpótionis, m

Hesus it with not as much at ilon a les that the - told, me indignantly. Jos

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