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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1945,
RUSSIANS CO-OPERATE IN THIS INTER-ZONE PATROL
By ANTONY TERRY
slates the message to the Russian, and sometimes to the Frenchman. If a dranken Russian has shot an Austrian coffee house keeper in
Good Morning
Four rnen. R Russian, a Frenchman, an American and an Englishman sit down to- gether to a British Army tea every afternoon in a NAAFI the idea of letting their MP3 patrolmens meals in their sector, the Soviet sector, the report sends really good business might be sit down to a meal with "fascist to be taken in one of the leading the patrol speeding to the scene, canteen in Vienna' at four
restaurants where the Russian patrolman of Vienna
takes charge and tries to arrest the culprit
Wait For Crime.
When
S
A correspondent suggests that
done by holding a flag day at Shataukok
According
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after a drive along the Danube.from Yorkshire, Idaho and luxury blackmarket The Englishman acts as host
Then after a few months they with the teapot.
suddenly called it off again last
explanation. Jaly without
Sometimes, but not often, he A They are members of the only fortnight later they restarted,
has to call on the help of the other East-West ́organisation which Fithoot
saying why. Mean- does
not end in a veto Vienna's | while the Russian patrolmen were of the" aut eating the members three. On one occasion, a drunk- wamed Britons that the Socialist
travelling circus" (43) en, gua-happy Russian who had All
radio-equipped Interns not allowed to have tea with the Viennese call it) are constantly been molesting Austrians, killed news contributions to be unique
tional Military Police Patrol others, but had to sit outside in on the air, as they cruise around addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
patrolman, wounded its Americanate
cars. They wait
for crime Frenchman and jumping on to the power city. In equipped radio trucks it has Having once agreed to the idea, reports fashed from headquarters | truck ordered the British MP to almost succeeded in stamping out the Russians were then deter to the American driver and radio « drive to America."
The altern- crime by allied troops.
mined to outdo the "Western operator.
ative was a bullet through the In a "pidgin German he tran- head. acitalists". They arranged for
the
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OBITUARY
MUCKLE, JAMES-beloved
Vienn's "Four Power has another distination. It is the only organisation in which the Russi and allow the British, French and American members to enter their hus-ocengation zones on patrol
band of Lydia, passed away in his sleep of a heart at- 1949. tack, on October · 17, Aged 56 years. Service at St. John's Cathedral at noon, October 18, 1949. No flowers by request.
GUNS AND BUTTERTM
The patrollers', four-power ten party was an idea of the Assis that British Provost Marshal in Vienna, Major B. White. It took the Russians six months to agree
AN ART CRITIC'S HOLIDAY
By PIERRE "JEANNERAT
The Band Plays
But
Nobody Dances
By ALAN HUMPHREYS
At nine o'clock every evening the concealed lights are switched on round the dance floor of Athens' glossiest open-air restaur- ant and the eight-piece band plays its first number.
The
the
Englishman. drove Russian to the nearest Military Police headquarters, which hap pened to be in the American sector Brannte Roarkjenntunarkeren the Russian gave himself up quite meekly. He pever knew that the Englishman had never driven a car before.
to yesterday's 18- ports, Mr. Berbert Morrison has
government must take further measures if the country is not to drift into complete economic
tells An underground source me that the projected three-day, 20-hour week, will almost cer- tainly have to be postponed for the time being, also, the project to give double pay as pensions to all trade unionists at the age of 35 will be temporarily shelved.
Friend of mine with a very ancient laurich had to ask for help last Sunday to beach the craft, which was submerged.
"Too bad she had to sink," IE- marked one of the rescuers.
"She didn't sink," rejoined the
Most serious ertme is still com mitted by Russians, many minor incidents caused by Americans, British and French troops are Men's shirts cost £3 10s, a right down at the bottom of the OR tartly. "She just didn't
crime lists. In any case the radio rise up with the tide.” patrol's ability to be in any part of the city in a few moments has are slashed crime incidence to a point where even the Russians agree A that it was a good idea.
£2. An ordinary 5-Valve radio set sells for 40 guineas.
kiosks The pavement stacked high with chocolate 1. 9d for a two-ounce bar. tablet of soap costs the same.
Very High Tea
How time drags.
"She came up on deck when she heard a noise as of a heavy For the next four hours, with
body like an anchor or a chain plays brief intervals, the band
Two years ago ther refused to fairly new French, not-so-nex
admit that a-med holdups, then being dragged along the deck. It American, tunes, from swing to
lat a peak, were sver caused by was the mate's watch." samba, bebop to rumba.
Prices scarcely encourage tem- Sariet troops the culprits, they were Displaced Persons
Major Permanent waves can be made But though the tables are full perance. Tea, weak and scented, dressed up as Russians.
made by dropping a sachet into that an art critic's holidays must nobody gets up to dance, nobody hot water, is 2s. 6d. a pot, local white started an anti-crime drive with a home per but what
even claps. This voluntary ab- brandy 15, a glass, orange juice Soviet soldiers
succeeded in catching 20 makes permanent wives? be something of a bustan's.
Who in his senses would keep stention from public dancing is so (the aniseed drink) 94 armed holdups in the centre of red-handed 12 his eyes shut white motoring the rich Athenians' way of shar- through the Dordogne district afing the privations of the Arg. Central France?
Unless he keeps his eyes tirkily
Vienna
British cigarettes are harder to
Myrtle says gold diggers may be gimme-pigs, but it would be The Russians kent quiet after cruel to use them in medical re-
But they introduced such "search that strict anti-crime measures among their troops, including banning
Hong Kong has taken the arrival of Communist troops on the border with com- mendable calm. This is partly due to long drawn out anticipation of the event, partly to our high level of military preparedness, and partly to the fact that no sen- sational incidents have taken place. On the whole, the public is confident that no- thing serious is likely to bep- pen, and over the week-end the New Territories had the usual quota of touring cars and picnic partics.
Admittedly the roads rum- ble with the constant passing
were deliberately of the busman's.
were leading of military traffic, tented en-
Fascist rulers” I chose the Dordogne sybaritic life in Athens. variety. campments dot one pillside because I wanted to see the oldest after another, and bronzed paintings on earth-or rather, I Those broadcasts changed the young men in khaki are seen should say, and to curdy niemra taste in dats sought by well-de everywhere. But there is no earth wanted to study pictures Greeks. That reads like a non apparent tension. The rural pyramids of Egypt to the status sequitur, but it isn't, life continues as usual
The village of Shataukok is
Wear And Tear an epitome of the situation which has, of course, potential dangers. Half the population Some of the Dordogne cave live on one side of the front-paintings are 30,000 years old. Their creators hunted the mam ler, and half on the other. To- moth and the woolly rhinoceros day regular Red army forces Most of those paintings show cularly
their are expected to take over from the temporary Com- Guides who lead you into the rooms, munist administration, and it Game and La Mouthe carry little These provide will require considerable tact sticks. They point as they intone space to hold small dances in pri- and willingness to co-operate Here is the head, here the back, vate at which the Army's su2- to prevent trouble. It could here the tail and perseveringferings can be forgotten.
concentration enables you to dis be another example of the tinguish the shape of the animal days a week are also intended to cold war, another Berlin on a depicted. small scale, but every effort will be made on this side to see that it is not.
Rivers meander between high It was introduced as a counter find than in London, and when rocks on which medieval and Re- to the propaganda broadcast to brought cut from under the naissance castles
are perched; the Greek troops by the rebel counter cost 4s. 63. for 20. thick woods endrame plantations radio
Yugoslavia - since A luxury tax makes cinemas them from cafes in Vienna's cen- "Mrs.--who gave birth to a 19- where the vine rubs leaves with transferred to Rumania that expensive. Nevertheless, the tobacco plant
the tre, that holdups became a rarity-year-old daughter, is reported to
But my holidays just ended while they were fighting in the opening of indoor cinemas atten mountains their "monarcho-the first heavy autumn fall of rain
The situation is very differ- ent from that existing in Europe. Here British forces, highly trained and mechanis ed, have to defend a very limi- ted area, having the important advantages of command of the air and sea. The Communist armies, though large, are more mediaeval than modern, and many of the men will hope now to be able to return
that by comparison reduce the
of modernities.
age.
tortuous darkness of Font-de-
Clear To See
In Private
Narrow apartments consisting of rooms one behind the other are What are right out of favour. wanted are those constructed on the square principle, and parti-
wide with
connecting doors between the two largest
enough 100:
The curfew and four meatless
remind Athenians that the coum-] try isn't really at peace yel.
Exact Rules
has drawn crowds to see "Good- bye, Mr. Chips."
Exact rules govern the rela Because modern Greek has nother. Each carries a book of tions of the patrolmen to one an- letters for the scund of our rules, and a "Patrol Orders and "d," and these are represent-printed in English, French and ed by "mp" and "at" it's at first Russian and signed by, the four somewhat puzzling to see the allied provost marshals. star of that film billed in Greek characters as "Rompert Ntonat." And even now it's still a mpit ntisconcerting.
He Rocks Them At Brighton
By CECIL WILSON
be making good progress, Mr. who suffered a broken leg in the same accident, is recovering."
What about the reporter?
Truth will out.
"My father was born in poor circumstances, but he did a rich man.**
The first patrol order is All patrol members will work in har- "Gladys Colthorpe, whose work mony and co-operation and res-on the stage was interrupted by pect each other at all times." the arrival of a baby, is to return This did not prevent a squabble in a manless play." over who should sit hert to the American driver.
The Russians insisted that they should be in the
said Myrtle's front seat. Bickering lasted for newest boy friend. Why, when some months, but in the end the I'm in danger, I keep so cool my Russians agreed to take the front teeth chatter. reat in turn with the other two
members of the patrol.
quest
*
*
Me
afraid?
Household god, more likely.
Some disagreements between "The tenants had to be re- Russians and the Western powers scued by a fire-escape, and re- are too fundamental to be adjus-markable scenes were witnessed ted. One of these is over the
The as they descended, accompanied question of photographs. Russians try to arrest anyone who by cats, dogs and other household An invalid old lady was takes a photograph of
Russian Pets. soldier. The British, Americans among them" End and French refused to agree to
this notion, which would ban any "The speaker said colour- tourist with a box camera from blindness occurs taking a snap of the four-power people of high intelligence. Only patrol.
But the masochistic fervour Alfred Marks, the comedian The latest discovery in this with which these limitations to a most managers are after, has de
West to keep the of prehistorie life leisured ease zre famous habitat
and fishless,
•
men-sided
He has made such a hit in
"Panama,"
week
The Americans have conceded
to
•
most often 1
one per cent of the women ex-
BY SEA- BY AIR-
nan, however, calls for no little tioned becomes much less im waiting a little longer.
for sticks. The paintings it Eolds are pressive when you realise, startlingly clear as obvious as instance, that not one per cent of Brighton's master show, Mont- the monuments in Westminster the capital's 1,500,000 people is Abbey.
ever made aware of the curfew. martre" that he is being kept on
for а winter edition called The Russian patrolmen still try amined were found to be colour- On September 12, 1940, four
which will run until to It doesn't begin until 2 a. December.
prevent photographs being
blind" boys from the neighbouring taxa
taken of them, though they are There's probably a subtle im- of Montignac found a cave near and is off at 5 am.
This time he will play for 10 powerless in the British sectors of plication there, if only I could the manor house of Lascaux AC-
get it. Monday, Wednesday, and Fri- per cent. of the receipts, which the city. counts published so far declare that they slipped down hole today are meatless, but fish can be will about double his salary and rescue their dog Robot, which had had. Saturday is both meatless me him well into three figures to the Russians so far as to agree camera of a French tourist and vanished in pursuit of a rabbit
Alfred Marks belongs to the that permission photograph had to be forcibly prevented by to their native villages. M. Blanc, Curator of the Fre: Neither side has the atom historic Antiquities of the Dor- In the better eating places, how group of ex-Service comedians must first be obtained from Mili- his British, American and Fresco dogue, told me the true facts. The ever, you can have, on any day, plan some day to unite in a crazy mission is never granted as the trouble, the Bassian patrolman who call themselves "goons and tary Policy H.Q. In practice per-colleagues Nowaday, to avoid bomb, or is likely to boys were searching for treasures chicken, turkey, quail, and show of their own.
Russians never answer the ap- rather angrily looks the other way threaten the other with bac Gold in the skin of an ox, hid-pigeon.
when a tourist with a camera ap- In the simpler tavernus They have all done pretty well plications. teriological warfare.
den, according to local lore, in an you can have lamb. "Meatless," it to date. Michael Bentine, who
Then they can say they pears passage" In London and New York it underground
They seems, is synonymous with "beer- can get fun
On one occasion the Soviet never saw that they were being even out of a found the most grandiose temple less."
patrolman tried to seize
the photographed. is being suggested that such of the Aurignacian and Proto-
pump, goes straight from Pal- fearsome instruments may Magdalenian periods.
ladfur veri
variety into the Folies The vast majority of Atherans, Bergere show at the Hippodrome: not be used, by mutual agree- Lascaux tave, Like
all the pain- once again, are not made aware Peter Sellers, the Impressionist, ment, in the next war, as the ted caves of our prehistoric snces of these regulations. They are joins the Gracie Fields Palladium results would be too appallets, was a sample where misal tucky, anyway, if they can afford bill. Harry Secombe and Spike ing to both sides. It will not drew animals and magic signs for the cost of living in Greece is
sorcerers, the
Carliest artists, meat of any kind once a week a
28-year-old ex-RAF are also climbing high. do, however, to depend on with a view to ensuring good han among the highest in the world. sergeant, is in no hurry for any such argument. It is un- ting. The perennial wonder is
West End fame. When he does! likely that Russia has any accomplished and lifelike.
that their paintings ske
The currency not only followed get there he means to stay. Until- thing like an adequate quarie The boys' bole has been replaced 3, 1'er. When the E was at four comedy, and await the real
sterling down but eat one step then he prefers to go on grooming by ity of the
while by Blight steps. Beyond America has a large stockpile, double set of steel coors ouitars it bought 32.000 drachmas. chanec.
Today it bugs 42,000.
Before the war, this big, boom- This fact is Western Europe's yourself in a cavers about 90ft-
ing, boyish-faced lad from Hol- sole immediate protection long by 20ft wide, whose
calcars-
This is the sixth devaluation of born was an auctioneer in Petti- ceiling and walls are snow the Greek against the otherwise over-white and covered from end to end Liberation, Pre-war the drachma veller, earning a few extra shil- currency since the coat lane and a commercial tra- whelming Soviet armies. with-igures OT WETLG
If it were really decided to and horses in deep black and Now there are 175 to a penny years in the RAF and transferred
castle was worth about a halfpenny. lings as a semi-pro.
During the war he spent Ave ban the atom bomb, the re-bright ochre, Four of the cattle you can be a millionaire for £24. sult might well be to make the are hage. The largest bull is
from engineering to entertain- third world war more certain,
And because the highest dement to tour desert outposts be nomination note is 20,000 drach-und ENSA's reach. as well as rendering inevit-
After the war no one seemed mas, in order to have
en very interested in him. One agent able, the devastating initial
cash you carry around a wad of told him plainly. "If you've been defeat of the free countries. Under the glare of electricity notes, mostly dirty and tattered, in the Forces five It could, in fact, take the the entire paised surface 100k about as thick as a pack of cards. nothing I can do years there's muzzle off Soviet aggression. superbly balanced and breath-
Down to the last few pounds The question of such terri- taking both as regards scale and
vividness
his gratuity, he went to the I can think of few ble weapons is unlikely to living artists able to equal so im
and there in Windmill Theatre's Vivian Van Semeral CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD. arise here, but the develop-pressive general
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Then the West End offers began masterpieces: a magnificent frieze But in the main the working
but he turned them M rolling deer heads, herds of tubby of ponies, a strange seme of a biror unit is now 1,000 drachmas (Ed.). down for a Brighton offer. It came from Danny O'Neil who had headed man facing a wounded the price of one czę surch Archaeologists will soon
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be had no comedian. Then he trouble, and it is fervently the major monuments of art. Its
thought of Alfred Marks. Since Many price tags omit the last that June day the black-haired hoped that the Communists near-perfection is inexplicable.
Painting, barring schnicalities, three noughts, but whether the afterthought has become the will have sufficient wisdom to does not seem to have progressed pait of women's shoes is marked white-headed boy of Brighton adopt the same attitude.
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