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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1951.
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ware I paid a visit
to Moscow. It was just after the trial of the British engineers from the Metropolitan- Vickers works, who had been accused of sabotaging the Five Year Plan, After several months in detention they had appeared in court and some of them, at least. had made astonishing con- fessions.
and
MONTGOMERY HYDE, MP, says: opt on his part
up
stated what is required of him he is then put on a better diet deliberately fattened
Any at for the public
to deviate from his story
in court is countered by the prosecutor. reminding him sharply of the details of his confession.
:"
Wha 5 going
O M
In Paris everyone
By
knows how to live!
EPHRAIM
HARDCASTLE ·
F you want to see a city temporary measure. Eisenhower which is alive, rúmbus er fram all over the world borrowed experienced U.S. stad
tious, and prosperous-- go to Faris.
and told them: "You are here to get this thing started, But when the other countries
It may be partly the con- nominate their men, many of trast with wet, dejected, you will have to go." vegetarian London, but the strongest impression I brought back from five days over there was of cheerful activity.
The situation was summed up for me by tall, genial Colonel
Anthony "Biddle, who Elsenhower in, the position
SHAEF How these Parisians do which he held in
diplomatic adviser and Halson live! Right now they are officer. Said ho
living better than at time since the war.
any
"Don't get the idea this is a Yankee band-wagon. It's an in- hand-wagon, but ternational
I saw life on the grand and humble-scale, in the right now there's a Yonker truck Ritz and in the bistro, in diving it a tow to get it started." the private houses, and inked all over Europe. His "Tony" Biddle is known and the night clubs. The dead amiable qualities, to which are! scason, this; yet I found foined sharp practical ability, everyone, everything, doing are needed in building up, the fine.
most complicated international headquarters in military history.
There are more private cars in Paris than ever before, racing, manoeuvring, honking, all in a hurry. The Parisian drives with purpose and zest and enthusiasm; ho actually enjoys the cut and thrust of a traffic Jam.
Night lights? No power shortage here.
Surprise
- LUNCHING WITH the Eart of Granard, I met Eisen- hower's military assistant.
An American? No. He is Colonel James Galt, of the Scots Guards. Like Biddle, he is back at the job he was doing six years ago.
He retired from the Army after the war. But Elsenhower, The long avenue of the with
Forces to all the US. Champs Elysees sparkles and choose from, was determined to twinkles. At one end the tall get the man with whom he In the needle in the Place de la Con- worked so successfully corde, stands up like a strip of past. fluorescent lighting, at the other Said Gault: "I am the most the triumphal srch is bright surprised man in Europe!" against the dark sky behind.
Teddor's future ?
the
And under
the trees is alive with people venue coming and going till long after midnight.
The fun is not for the rich plane. In one night club there hundred were three or four people drinking champagne, and watching the brilliant, colourful
revue..
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NOTICE TO MEMBERS
FOURTH RACE MEETING
Saturday 7th & Saturday 14th April, 1951
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m. cach day.
There are ten races each day (20 in all).
Through Tickets at $40.00 each may be obtained at the Compradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep on the last rice of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep on the "Hong Kong Derby" scheduled to be run on Saturday, 12th May.
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for by 10.00 am on Friday, 6th April, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future meetings.
or
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, THERE is much disappoint-nen-membora are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at
the the Club's Branch Offices at:- ment in France over
5, D'Agullar Street, Hong Kong absence of Lord Todder from
command. Eisenhower's
a lasting Impression as made Deputy.
Supreme In SHAEF. His popularity is wide- spread.
182, Nathon
Rodd, Kowloon, MEMBERS' BABCES AND ENCLOSURE.
MEMBERS ARE INFORMED THE 1951' BETS OF MEMBERS. AND LADIES BADGES NOW SUPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS ISBU
Members and guests are reminded that they and their indies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the
Meeting.
'Here is the most convincing explanation of what happens
Mr Stypulkowsky was lucky. at Communist treason trials True, he was convicted, but je
When naked about the extremely light received
Frost You may eat what you it I could only say what sentence of four months, mos! ...I believe it to be the true one.” of which he had already spent ilice, where you like at Maxims is general knowledge, that Teda in gaol, so that he was released for a few pounds, or in a little der refuses emphatically to seri:
close by where
sider further Service appofila P|++++++÷÷÷÷++++++++E+++++++almost immediately. While the restaurant
NO ONE-WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED-TO- Soviet authorities were anxious oysters are 2. 6. a dozen and ments when his job with the to discredit the Polish
of Robeef steaks with a bottle of wine Joint Chiefs Staff I remember being taken past unlike his companions, refused reasoning powers corupted. He
IN THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE."-- that it the grim looking Lublanka to
On the confuses frie facts with those
Badges admitting ladies not in occasion of Biboched, or confess in prison.
movement
a few shillings more.
Washington ends next month, they also desired to keep
But I hear a different story. Season tickets and gentlemen, són indiberi dà thỏ Cluce; fő te priron, or rather hurried past contrary, he insisted on plead stiggested to him by his interro- time
Yes, left bank, right bank, What gator. st
obviously ing Not Guilty in court. my guide
the appearance of harmony
Tedder, not a Members Enclosure, and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including It is that Lord With afteen Montmartre the West.
Montparnasse, thought it was not a place to is even more surprising he has
rich Finally, in his determination with
man, must look to industry tex, for ladies or gentlemen pre objainable through the Secretary linger, near. I wondered, as I survived to tell the remarkable to confesa, everything, he talks pleas of all they could suburbs or centre take your for a salary which will support on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member
of his experiences in the about things which have never afford a few acquittals to choice. at its grey walls, what tale
For they know how to gazed
to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for pay- processes went on behind them Lubianka prison.
happened. Ho tries to remem- please their allieя.
live in Paris, and everyone is the Tedders in the future.
ment of all chits etc. to obtain such object admis-
He is almost the only living ber something he never did, he
having a good time. sions of guilt.
witness who, although publicly tries to remember some action Other trinis took place on a
before accused
the Supremo he never committed Just to larger senle after left Rus-
Court of the
U.S.S.R.. has prove conclusively that he docs been able to put on record the pot intend to conceal anything. truth about the Soviet methods
sia.
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LIQUIDATED
Theso
trials
followed
DD
of breaking down their victims
both physically and morally.
A barrister and former
A WRECK
up
*x-
or
Hustle hotel
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What a tragedy it is that we did not sufficiently reward our great wartime comfinders, and BO continue to enjoy the benefit of their services and experience. The last act
officer identical pattern, The defen- in the Polish army, Mr Stypul- After the fortieth interroga-planation of just why political dants vied with each other in kowsky was taken prisoner i tion or so the prisoner's de- prisoners under the Soviet con- their efforts at self-accusation. 1930, first by the Reds and later position usually begins: 'Yes, I fess to crimes they have never Men who had filled high and by the Germans. He later
Positions in the State found his way back to Waraw didn't state the truth until now. committed. I believe it to be SHAPE was an idea, Now it is descendants will be up for sale.
r Now
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on músa at the RACE COURSE.
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The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00, and the Secretary's Omer at 11.45 am, each day. Both offices at 1st floor, Telephone House.
A limited number of-tilna will be obtainable at the club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Bay (Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The story which Mr Slypul- kowsky has to tell makes fat cinating reading. It is the most
of Com convincing
account
THE MOST important treason munist technique in t
---building-In Paris at the I have read. trials which
for this is
clear. moment is the Hotel Astoria, reason
where General Elsenhower, ts
IN a short time mbet of the affords the most likely
Nelson relics which remain laying the foundation of SHAPE.
three months age in the hands of the admiral's Only
The death at two carls in at least a building full of busy
three years, and the 1947 repeal men and women..
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 par At the moment American of the Nelson pension (£6,000 a Rsterved.--
toppled the family day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable uniforms predominate, for as a year),
fortune
at the Gate.. Trafalgar House had to go. BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE PRE- Now the sixth earl, who suc- MITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE conded last January, hak sold his HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING. horne near Farnham, in Surrey, . MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN hid, there fronten will be a sale of the THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE:
SERVANTS: PASSES Some may think the family
Servants passes will be lasted to private box holders only, decided that without including
Under the terms the two vital words they would has been hit too hard.
of the who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to not be able to recruit the special original grant, the Trafalgar endorse their names on the passes. Holders of such passes are isel scientists they need.
will tell everything the true one. to the most heinous where he started underground
und openly...
Copyright (World the Soviet activities and became against
one of By this time the prisoner is In spite of their the lenders of the Resistance
wreck. Having London Express Survtór.) pleas for mercy they were con- movement, and in 1944 took victed and subsequently part in the abortive Warsaw "Liquidated."
rising.
Wester observers were Early in the following year, { bowildered by these extra- ordinary confessions and sought together with 15 other Polish underground leaders, he was vain to explain them.
invited to Moscow to meet parliamentary colleague,
Zhukov, Commander- Marshal wha at the trial of in-Chiet of the Soviet Forces, ed to discuss outstanding problems Occupied concerning
In
Kadier
Was
Fitzroy present
My Bri-
Maclean,
Bukharin and others, supposed
Soviet
nervous F
IT'S THE MEN SLIMMING.......... WHO START BEST
that torture had been employed. Polish territory. Instead of OVERWEIGHT women
By
as
some it was believed that
a delegate, The being received But the drugs had been used.
she was kidnapped and thrown in prisoners always peomed
into the Lublanka, good-hea
and, although in -health; many instances they repeated their stories We actors playing their parts, on the whole they appeared self-possessed.
could one account
for
it?
How
THE PRICE
are far more seriously handicapped by surplus fat than corpulent men of the same size, and must suffer. greater heart-strain as a
CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN There the NKVD, the dread-result.
A fat 14-stone woman is In 1940 Mr Arthur Koestler ed accret police, did their best.
famous published
his
book, to make him confess to having as badly burdened as hor The fattest men in the tests
against the
slim sister would be if sen had roughly one pound of muscle But the Darkness At
Union. hypo-
stoutest women had only half tenced to carry two fully for every pound of fat. thetical explanation. His view Ho Wed not subjected to packed suitcases around for this amount.
Communist on trial torture, but he was the victim Was that
IS IT 'SENSE ? would costaner because
to any crime
he of the most intensive third the rest of her life.
These starting facts have against the would realise that his confes degree methods, in which it was
down his re-emerged from genious Medical slon, even though substantially sought to wear false, was the only way left to sistance by regulated discom-Research Council experiments on
fort Ho was dragged from obosity,
tained
a WOOD, Wilier, con- plotted
him in which ho could advance
the cause of Communism.
In other words, to
belief in Communism. ofter rogations.
D
ilietimo as a revolutionary was
broken
men of the
Suviet
experiences
psychologicaly Impossible. Thus he dominated his interrogator.
harrowing opposition recantation had be- embled him
come
a kind and accepted routine.
to explain
In
of
This was a damaging decision. estate was subject to a reduced not permitted
in the Members' Enclosure except for passing remain in their employers duties and must stands. my, view the security authori-scale of duties.
When the pension was re- through on their ties are taking the lazy way out
then Chan- pealed, Mr. Dalton,
Owing to the present congestion in the Members' Hetting to ensure that difficulties.. their
are requested week, in technical cellor of the Exchequer, said in Every
Parliament that the same re- Hall, Box-holders and Members Jours which are sent abroad. duced scale would apply if the their servants make use only of the Public Belting Hall Military Police will be posted at various entrances to the Members' Hall to and the Government advertisements
pro- estate were sold giving maite disclosures
Government ensure that this regulation is adhered to. invested in
BY ORDER, friendly countries, most valuable ceeds inver
securities.
The estate was sold. The pro- plans.
coeds were so invested. But the information about our defence
They give the exact locations new Lord Nelson, faced of private firms working on doubled death duties, is now told
must pay guided missiles and radar. By that ho
at the full revealing the tops of techni
What of Mr. Dalton's nasalt~ clame nendect at secret resarch stations they disclose the kind of ance? Worthless-the terms of a work going on there.
*From
rate.
with
subsequent Finance Act saw to
----(Landon." "Ezprise" Barvice)
POLKET CARTOON by OSDURT: LANCASTER
the frequency with that. which have revealed
which Eertain advertisements ap pear foreign agents can gues KEREK SPARE whore desence work, in hold up bed on 70 nights out of 71, and that all stout people are carrying MOTO deadweight fat than protracted inter- far
advertisement gives by staff shortages. TELES to abandon suffered 141
doctors thought possibly.
at Cambridge Ual-★ Working at Camework
away one of the"-Gioveta- By sheer force of will power versity, Prof the Widdowson atomiq secrets-the prociso pur
Robert Mc. mont's most closely guarded Cance and Dr Eule
What could they do? Most of have devised a simple mathod pos of the £10,000.000 factory the of measuring the exact amount being built at Capenburst, near the jobs could be, advertised of ritual habit submission of his 15 colleagues, of fat in any person's body. This Chester,
who were in reality equally
The two words "orme through private box numbers, This would at least hide, the has not been possible before. multiens.
The person under test drinks chords make it clear to any
locations of important targets.
When highly specialised mom cell under constant survelliance inter gels an injection. By blood US, soport on atomie enti
the harsh tests
the privately For can then that tranfum 28 the explosive are needed they could be ap- But this explanation seems to of a guard, under
the to weight of fat in mod in the Hirochina Combis proached glare of a strong electric light, assess the total
Jobe, for instance, Capentamet bo but partially true.
of ceasales anxiety the body. to the the pray
to be made at the factory.
there are so Low Duorine.. Cha It cannot have appiled
Liam doing no posible harm parts In Britain that they could Metropolitan Vickers engineers, and fears In the surround-
to Individual nor to
Other non-Communiste, ings and after nights of repeat-
By polating this out The scum have been w of such as Cardinal Mindzenty or ed questioning his sense
Post-war advertisements have the 16 Polish leaders who were values becomes blurred and he
A corpulent 10-stone man was ity authorities scrutinised the I off by Moscow in 1945 le inclined to accept the iden and charged the sabotaging pur fato his mind by the interfund to be carrying, shout, ale Advertisment, bedase, it was pub
stones of fat. But an 18 the Soviet war effort rogator. This that
GUILTY PLEAS The prisoner is confined in a tumblorful of bitter liquid, and one who has rend the publish
carried
Jand
Fifteen of thoro
2) key mount" duty is to recover his woman of similar brillet white bles plead froedion. The price does not saddled with mong - than nine
od. gulky, at their sixteenly. Mr Z. Sigpulkowiby
seon unduly hith-juss his stones.
signature, on a deposition, so
Itary
AAK-BORled the exact location of
every important cnfance and factory. Now they giving away. Eur / too mudf Dout the work goldg omthere,
Dan makeïn.Christ-
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB FOURTH RACE MEETING 18T DAY, SATURDAY,
2. 7TH APRIL, 1951, The "MOUNT NICHOLSON HANDICAP will be run. in three sections, the third section will be Race No. 11a at 7,00 p.m.
8. A. Bioap,
Secretary.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Notice to Members- Australian Subscription Ponies 1952
The Stowards have ordered batch of 100 Australian Subscription Podles to raco in 1982 and they now invite cash
Members to subscribe for them.
There will be no sweep on the third section (Race No. 11).
2ND DAY, SATURDAY,
14TH APRIL, 1951.
An application form bus
posted to
been
GVDTY
The "MOUNT CAMERON Member. In the event of non- in delivery further forms may
run
HANDICAP" will
the third be obtained at the Club's three sections, section will be Race No. 9 at Omoe, 1st Floor, Telephone
Houso.
5.80 p.m..
THE "MOUNT PARKER HANDICAP" will rün
in
The Subscription List wlli close with SATURDAY, BIST MARC
wo sections ONLY, Ricos 3
By Order,
SLEAP
Secretary.