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Harbour handicaps :
BROTHERHOOD OF THE SEAS
NOT PRACTISED BY RUSSIA
The essence of .. profitable' commercial seafaring is EL quick turn-round and a prompt. driparture with a full curgo.
I reme
comtries,
By David Laidlaw
Mr. Darid Lnidiaw is of Seuttisk extraction, and is still in He has travelted widely in Eastern Europe, his carly fortips, and has made"a special study of conditions impāņu" by Soviet Russia, the has wrliten numerous authoritative ailleles, including "Youth at the Crossroads", "Red Light on the Dore of Peace" hoid "Sarietiaction of the Land in Nutria".
Crew checked
ment for loading
purposes..
Good Morning
Stalin postulates
Workl
though sultablo equipment may language once Communism has be nirendly, un board,
won Its flon) victory.
Desperanto?
Salvaging
salvage arrangements be- necessary in ports ether than Ituspiam, full facilities are
come
น
No, Myrtle, I prefer not
Myrtle's my father says tha Konta war is without parallel.
Well, whall in Seoul win.
Vive la compagnie!
(The Blarine Wemen's Reserve been called up for duty)),
magdas the From
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Factor
"I Max
the indistes of Paree We've foult 4141 faction's
battles
With the exception of Rusat · and her satellites, every nation practises a recognised reciprocky of the waterside (subject robrac 1) certum aceepteri ob-
promptly available. In a Russian pk of Prince Baudouin as the The
port, only the services of Eiflo1.Brusseř: Sprout. pervanees) for
benefi! o trade and the convenience of tho
no matter how inatte.quate, 'can Mach pass is in two parts, one he obtained; salvage is subject to inusters, crews and passengers of liminaries and process of barth-1
Le The guards see that he ac- viting verrels,
to be handed to the sentry before Soviet law, and muy be uniteca- Only such regulations are en- tepts an hospitality--not even a landing, and the other on return-sarily and vexatiously delayed.
The 1 of irritations does not grantial to the rifarette.
ing to the ship. Another sentry 1 is after herthing that they ask at the dock gates to seo and here.in the United Singdoto, mvermention of pribile health, P--
hvenmes the operation
Jonigration contrast in proceduro of the
countries other than Husk, ask notices to primers are obtain- lead the discharge, 1 cus-marked Customs officials abroad All that the police of America, Australls and else here, chdies and port dues. In grant a Hussian vessel pratique. for, if they desire to see it, is the bible free, and official charts an neither medical at place bi bond only quor, tobne Benton ballor's Identity card, be hunght. In Rustin,
en, and freams, and are suppliedTacy can also exercise right of charts nor nosters are available Qumrantine restrictions are more
orous than in other-rees- į with the crew sts and car rearch af smuggling is suspect, to foreign vesels. Stores can be acy it there is in epidemie In the manifest, after which agents and when sailor is scared in a bought only through intot, Trips land whore a ship has come..
tradesinen have free access to the Rurslan
in the ship's beats are forbiddens. part, it is done at the There are also loves in prevent | shiper
point of the bayonet.
The taking of soundings along- de when jourfiış. in order to Malaya is being forced to
For visiting sailors in Russion | ascertain the draught of the viss pend a tremendous amount
noyts, shore leave expires at miles, is not permitted, and sentries of tanney on tackling terror.
foreign tight, mud in gume harbours, such have threatened to shoot officers itul unmediately # nevertheless is
Archangel, unly conducted engaged in this duty, She
vert ths up in a Russian port, mantoming a resolute, con-
a netur entry is placed over parties are allowed to Road. The there is no restriction by other Eructive spirit in political,
The Bangwa the representative only restriction in other countries
is that when the vessel suits, ther Even the preliminates to social, and industrial develop-|
full companied by add ship's company must be ascrr-vessel's departure are complicat tional 'quares, corner aboard, and nent. The final chapters of
attes and tie are mustered tained to be present and correct. ed. Elsewhere than in Russia, the the Five Year Development
and checked. The guards search
Passengers from one foreign mister gives his word to the Cir- nort to another by way of a Rus- toms that the crew is complete Plan have just been issued,
the erive ship, and place under
Writer says road not only quur, tobaces and slab part, even if they are not and with the injection of the The first covered social ser-
must have a visa. seals on the bond rooms, the ship trying to espise the underworld, rearons, but etemeras, bingeniars, | Inteling red elsewhere only, is
The pilot cleared.
ebange a ''t'll vis, the serund the develops | conanisskus près on a repugnbed and ali zato ts
except dne. Tids B
aboard!, and the versel puts to expresin the undle world. ment of national resources, | basis, and differenres of opinions The Thi's whe office is rated if the passenger is landing.
In Russia and the satellite Visiting ship masters in Russian sea. and the third the develop re retted by andrabergoline, up
tion out retarding the Thart-! in minst countries, 1:0 shore ports have bech subjected to such countries, armed guards appear netst of trade and industry,
indre, inspect the seals, ing of raren and the vessel's de- passes need be issued. In Russia, time-wasting embarrassments as
and search the together with, a summary of
martone. It is difficult, however.
the master of a visiting resul] having to listen to long harangues cheek the erow,
name of the men by Intot ofleinls on the virtues vessel for slowaways. some of the financial implica- to avoid the concision that flubmits the
The pilot comes un leck with key note of the fussian system ; for whom passes arg required, of the Soviet system, by being
DF exhis armed guard, and the vessel Inftet, without consulting him refused cominunication and
without alving change of visits with other ships gets under way, followed out of Cometimes
in port, even if the vessels are the harbor by an armed patrol trim a personal pass-indicates on the list the names of those per lying stem to stern; and by being boat, which eventually takes the mitted to Jandi,
compelled to buy Russian equip- pilot and his escort ashore.
1500
tions.
There is planning all along the line-planning in a way Hong Kong cannot but admire but can scarcely emulate on anything like the same scale or with the same sureness of vision. There is, to begin with, the conscious goal of a new Dominion, on which there is virtually no disagreement. Secondly, methods of direct election are to begin from the bottom, with elected majori-
year.
entry of undesirable nmt- grant in the Cultegi States: and Aur trafia, Rusin, howevec, has 1 game yours indopted peneur in marked contrast to that of other nations, and be
titude is shared by countries under Hoylet mantral.
I
Normally, shipowners teams The IE
musiness in turalen porte rough etablished local agents and may also rely on the service
Lloyd' uhkauritons organise -
tion.
Is Frustratio,
charte
Business controlled
Import and export businesa in the Soviet Union is rigorousl
controller! hy agency:
fit.
State
anet the existentes of
topenient shipping arencies salvage enterprises, and similar organisations is not permitted. Inflot is un.ler the direct control of Megroet, to which any matter not in the line of rouline must be referrea for decision.
the
10
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Rediscovering London--No. 1:
countries
once
or a
Is it monster
kindly nurse?
to
see
اد
All the world and his wife there is a grain of truth in all
children aro
coming to these insults and Batteries, and
So let us set out to rediscover London next year we hope Londes as she is today. Let us
the Festival
see whether she is a stony-heart- ed stepmother or a most kindly Britain.
What sort of a elty are they nurse. going to see? Throughout the centuries during which she had old woman spread like a vast whose bulk now has to be cor- seted by Green Belts she has been called everything under the sun.
By
Arthur La Bern
un which
comes
fight for half-crowns. do not They fight over the coloured boys who frequent the locally.
the corner,
on f
On the land as on the sea.
IT WAACS and WHENS rent
happen
To win to heaven's scenes. They'd have to look real nifty To bet us gal raarines!
18:
Hollywo si
የ።
trou
"Arelavologists trailing race of bendits dead 3,000 gears." They went that way!
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to get a
Tibet is going more Yaks, i secins.
•
Ugh for uranium.
fow
A large deposit of 90 per cent pure uranium has been found in Canada,
This certainly is an atomic pile. and according to Moscow, full of reactionary force.
There is some talk about the new mixed divisions being called the Babel Brigade, with a tower as the shoulder flash.
Down In Australia they are rald to be Japuneasy.
•
A wealthy man was showing a friend over his new house.
To see how this works, let us
the case of
of a foreign ties in Municipal Councils for visiting a Russian port-say
ship more than a score of the cities Novorossisk or Archangel-with and larger towns, and Town that of a Soviet vessel pulting Boards for others. Elections at. say, a Western European port.
Procedure
diverges even before will also no doubt follow in
pilot comes aboard. For in
One night recently after the a Husslan vessel bound, the Federal Legislative Coun- stance,
dance halls and the public-houses had closed, I saw a woman with cil. Meanwhile it has one of suy, for London can pick him up
bright blonde hair chasing a "I can have my bath in the the most representative Coun- at Dungeness, on the East coast, by night or day in any weather.
Let us not only go to the show-young coloured lad and a girl bedroom if I choose," he said. cils to be found anywhere, & Foreign vessels visiting Russian
places. We will go, for instance, down the road. She was scream just touch a button, and the "Come hoine! You went bath, ready filled, ruas into the majority of members being ports have to wait outside the
to Bethnal Green, where Samuel Ing: breakwater until Bne weather and
bedroom on those two lines, Let sent to the Council by every bre
Pepys Red with his precious diary out with her last night."
lads in to escape the Great Fire, riding A group of coloured
me show you," broad-brimmed hats and tapering major institution and form of daylight coincide. Elsewhere than in a Soviet port,. the pilot comes
in a nightgown in a cart.
He pressed a button, whereupon trousers stood under the lamp the bath, filled with water, glided activity in the Federation.
nboard, is iven foord unc
Shelley said hell was a city
light, chewing peanuts and
In-but it also contained his The plans call for a capital freshment, and may chat freely
while very much like London,
screaming with laughter at what
wife... expenditure of S$106 mil- with the ship's officers, The Rus-
they thought a very funny spec- Conan Doyle sald London was stan pilot is accompanied by one lions, for projects other than or two armed guards, and con-
Thomas A great cesspool; and
tacle. They rocked with laughter. Yes, Hogarth would have ap- those financed
Hobbes wrote those eruel words, as Colonial ones his conversation to the pre-
preciated that scene. Earlier in London has a great belly but no Development and Welfare
We will go to Hackney, where the evening I had gone into a palate." schemes, and an additional re- | Large sums will be devoted to
apart from Carlyle said It was "the mon- Samuel Pepys, as a boy, played public-house where, current expenditure rising to natural resources and public strous tuberosity of civilised life," with bow and arrows. We will the staff, I was the only while
down the
Walworth-road, man in the place. All the girls. $22.5 millions in 1955. Some utilities. such as roads, and De Quincey said she was a o
two-headed were But where "mermaids,"
white slony-hearted stepmother.
or semi-coloured. of the capital payments are drainage and irrigation, and Edmund Spenser described Lon- sheep and six-legged calves used Recently this public-house had to on fisheries, dan as "my most kindly nurse." to be exhibited in cellars at a telephone for the police four already provided for by the smaller sums
Perhaps price of one penny. loan of $100 millions raised in agriculture,
What is the truth?
times in one week-end. forestry, and
We will go to Hattersen, where But most of the coloured lads London last year. It is pro- veterinary services and the
William Blake went to marry ate well-behaved. At the nearby posed to raise another $91 mli-
Housing Trust. Research FORECASTING that market gardener's daughter dance hall, where hundreds of who could not read or write and coloured lads dance with white- lions by a public loan to be funds will be provided to floated in 1952. Less than develop new techniques and THE WEATHER was such a wonderful wife to him girls, there is rarely any trouble.
that, he sat up on his death-bed- $00 millions will be required improve agricultural produc-
My choice too The most unhappy institu- to paint her portralt.
We will to to Camberwell
Just round for capital expenditure from tivity.
tinn in Switzerland these days revenue. Additional annual The actual development of is the Central Meteorological Green, where a naturalist cap bomb site, there is a Black Marls. tured a rare butterfly and called it is an unusual Black Maria, expenditure will be about $43 Malayan economy, however, Office whose task it is to prosit the "Camberwell Beauty. Did painted cream with blue stripes. you know, for instance, that Every morning at six o'clock millions a year-12 per cent is to be financed not by the vide the country with three of the estimated revenue this State nor from revenue, but weather forecast bulletins daily. Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" was ex-bus driver Fred Hennah un- Correspondent Kuranda says first called "Camberwell Green"? locks the door of the Black by private capital. There is that after a record series of al- Let us go down to Southwark Marin. It is his own Black He bought it at a safe First on the agenda is the much doubt as to whether most conically incorrect fore- and look for Dante's death mask Marin.
and Queen Elizabeth's linen and turned it into a coffee stall satisfaction of the demands of this will be obtainable from casts it has been the laughing-
stuck for one half of the popula- | gloves.
for the bus drivers and condue- We will go to Paddington, re- the people for social services local resources, and the prin- tion while at tife mere mention
tors at the Tottenham Court Road and social justice. Expendi- ciple of non-discrimination in of its name the other halt foams nowned in the song "Little Polly terminus.
Perkins of Puddington Green" -- But he closes promptly at six schools and economic matters is expressly at the mouth.
In keeping with the Swiss na- where Hogarth celebrated his o'clock in the evening. will be heavy, designed to attract capital tonal character the bulletins are runaway marriage, where Sarah "The night fe of Tottenham though only a tithe of the from outside. Success in this, cautiously pessimistic and so at Siddons's cottage was pulled down Court Road doesn't appeal to need estimated at 1,600 however, will be determined the beginning of a heat wave-now to make way for a row of shops. me," he says.
I am inclined to agree with ex- Then and now schools for universal free by the complete restoration of its fourth week-they foretold
bus driver Fred Hennah. education. There will be internal order and stability. short duration only of the ane
Today, let us take a walk down more training colleges. A | The Communists have stopped However, us day after day the Tottenham Court place. Architec→ National Employment Ex- many things: they can stop carly end of the heat was fore-turally. It is as grotesque as the
cust, blazing sunshine from
clothes worn by the young colour- change Service will be created this too unless they are finally cloudless skles continued. Then e hays who have made the Nor- with an office in every large eliminated.
one evening the bulletin tersely en
thern end of it a miniature Har- town. In the rural areas 25 So long as they waste their announced: "Fine and hot to- But the Tatien Manor wu3 health centres will be built, zeal and energy on a mere ple were awakened the following mentioned in Domesday, the site each with an infant welfare change of forms and mechan-morning by the patter of rain
of now occupied by the Adam department and an out-patient ism, and fail to create, while leaning down from grey skies in and Eve public-house on the cor-
ner of Hampstead Road. department. Eleven new preventing others from ereat-autumn-lite temperatures.
As a boy, living in Camden clinics for those suffering from ing, now sources of wealth,
Town and working in the black- tuberculosis, maternity hospi- frustration will continue. No-
Ing factory at Hungerford Stales; Charles Dickens used to buy stale tals, five homes for the old body has yet heard of a single
buns at a pastrycookt's in the people, rehabilitation centres new buliding, let alone a
With Russians living in Lim-Tottenham Court Road, and for the care of women and single new industry, in China burg on the Lahn, Germany. Hogarth's favourite barber was in girls, and aid for youth or since the People's Govern-are publling a weekly news-
A plty Hogarth cannot saunter tanisations are laid down. ment took over. They have paper. "Rossey," which is read down Tottenham Court Hond! Ten more rural welfare cen- a rich inheritance from the by refugees from Russia in 20 these nights. He would find
con- ampio material for his pencil. tres will help train people in "Imperialists, feudalists and different countries and
stitutes an important organ of In the old days Tottenham new industries, and 60 village bureaucratic capitalists," who
Court Fair was a great pince for
vide facilities for adult educa- ledged-built the great indus- dent Willama
well that as
Contestants tlon, youth clubs, women's trial, shipping and commercial "Postoy differs from previous would advertise their challenges working parties, libraries and metropolis of Shanghai. But newspapers brought out by While in the newspapers of the day.
Russians in that it keeps closely We and Hannah Hyfield, of look at the state of that heri- in touch with present-day affairs; Nowgate Market; replying to a Hannah A Rural and Industrial tage today! It is almost un in the Soviet Union. Each Issue Challenge thus: Development Authority has believable that so many could contains cumments on the latest Hydeld, hearing of the resolute- been set up under the out-suffer from so few in so short actions in "Pravda" and "izveness of Elizabeth Wilkinson, of
stla" io contemporary happen- Clerkenwell, will, standing Malay leader, Dato a' time, and there doesn't seem Ings; now Soviel books are can- willing, to give her more blows Onn, as one of the basic much prospect of any early ticies and extracts from books by and from her no favour she may didly reviewed; and there are are than words, desiring home blows, features of the plan. It will release of Shanghal and its Soviet clsizens wilio have taken expect a good thumping!" be directed not only thow army of unemployed,, its idlo refuge abroad.
The women fought with half a development on a large scale industries, and its vanished│· Czechs living in Norway are crown in each hand, tho' first but at ensuring that the rural commerce, from the deep pit bringing out a similar publication woman to drop a coin losing the
for the benefit of the 45,090 Czech | baitlo, ^^. producers get à greater share into which it has been plung refugees in various parts of Today women, who, frequent
Europe. of the proceeds of their labour. ed.
turd on new education
wenther.
morrow again." And the Swiss peo.
A RUSSIAN REFUGEE PAPER
the came roud.
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community centres will pro-as they have just acknow-anti-Stalinist (propaganda,
Welting from Oslo, correspon- pugilistic bouts between women
so on.
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