24 AUGUST 1951, page 8

It's Not Cricket

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. T should have been the Oval, or the village green or, best of all, Bramall Lane, for the sky was almost cloudless and the grass was green. Tom......

The Mayor's Conversion

By SYDNEY D. BAILEY T HE Mayor of Pingshan was a ruthlesS old despot with two wives. Old Number One, as he called her, was a tooth- less hag with a pock-marked face. For forty......