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Evelyn Irons on THE FABULOUS RIVIERA
FAROUK & CO. HELF TOWARDS THE 'HOUSE FULL SIGN
CANNES. Princess
FAWZIA,
OMPLET is the word already installed'
has
Latest
about stories and BURGESS being seen on the Rivlern we.b
herself MACLEAN
at Cannes as "fantastle."
I checked on one of
them
ncar
on the Riviera: : It there with her second hus- described to me by the Burete means. FULL. Hum band. ISMAIL CHERIMEX bler hotels have notices BEY, whom she married bearing this discouraging after her divorce from the at a curious little bar
Cannes Harbour. There I found news on their doors so that Shah of Persia. Farouk as gentleman called NANA .of they will not be harassed by spent his first evening at Montparnasse, a female imper- Cannes at Palm Bench sonator known In Lett Bank streams of applicants for Casino, returning to his Paris boites. He claims to have rooms. Grander establish-
seen the two men in the bar hotel at Game next day. ten days, before. "I know them ments regretfully suggest Narriman stayed in the very well, he said with as- that one moves on else.
surance. They are hotel, where,
Big American and British diplomats." Congestion at Cannes has cara, crawl nose to tail been increased by the arrival, through the town. Bathing of King FAROUK, Queen' benches are a solid masa of NARRIMAN and their suite busking bodies. The of 82, for a five-day visit. Croisette, that famous sen- His sister, the beautiful side parade, is crowded.
Rifle
Is Best Yet Devised
303
Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifle, which has remained virtually un-. altered since the Boer War,
is on its way out of the British Armed Forces. Its revolutionary successor, the' E.M.2
("E for Enfield) with a .280 calibre is the best infantryman's weapon that has ever been devised by any of the Western Powers. Experts consider, too, that it is very much better than the Russians* .296 rifle.
by
By PETER LOVEGROVE
The now .280 'rifle, which is half a pound lighter and six inches shorter then the .303.
American
Infiltration
American influened On the Riviera expresses itself in the crap game at casinos,
At Monte Carlo's .dignified Victorian gaming rooms, the
the Jean croupier at
crap table erooned encouragement to the
Sald genial M. MERO, manager of the Carl- ton Hotel where Farouk is staying, "This is the best season since prewar."
dice in purest East Side New Yorkese, "I am a Frenchman," said he, "I went to the States
to learn the language."
A distracted Frenchman im« Bed on the beach
plored the shouting players, to keep quiet "as people at other Austerity Britain contri- tables are trying to conecti- butes handsomely to M. trate, Monsieur.
lear. An American white haric- Mero'a wellbeing. He has a black and
that quin beneli shirt replied weapons which are already in 106 Britons staying there he was not going to be shush full production acrogs the
now against 67 at the same ed
anyone. Somehow, Atlantic.
They out bloodshed was avoided, time last year. number all other nationals. except Americans who total 157 (78. last year).
At a meeting in Washington at the beginning of August, Mr Shinwell, the Defence Minister, was unable to get agreement for calbre ammunition to be dhe standard. The
03
topic has now been referred
to
the
for
Pavement artist
Aru
her
A smart hairdresser at Can- nos has chairs and drier's in- At nearby Juan-les-Pins, stalled
the pavement so that where the wild night clubs are cilen's miss none of the
fresh N.AT.O. Standing Group, there is not a room to be had air and sunshine. Passers-by and this body will alco consider either. But. Bohemian visitors The production
and
economic fra
details of feminine tallet from that easy-going artists take no notice as the intimate caused by the change and writers quarter in Paris, exposed to their view. Ona calibre. A further meeting St. Germain des Pres. και
woman I saw there had her of Defence Ministers will be around the dificulty by sleep hair tied up in tufts for held in October,
when a dual ing on the beach. And very porm, while two manicurists decision will be taken.
comfortably, too. They "bor
were busy - one on her But the United Kingdom row" the thick sunbathing mat-
hands.
another lacquering Government have not changed tresses and camp chates which toenalis. their view that this calibre a proprietors of the various bath- the most suitable to meet British Ing stations leave out on the requirements and that the new share these summer nights. rifle is the best weapon
of its kind in existence. They will naturally walt for the meeting of Defence Ministers before laking final decision, but in the mean- Hime will continue their pre- production plans for the In
of the riflo
a
and
from Existentialists
Peris feel at home here: one of their Club du Vieux haunts, the Colombier has transferred it self to Juan-les-Pins, a faende decorated with realis- the scenes in St. Germain des. Pres.
Unrecognised
behind
Those of us who had any doubts about that saw then convincingly dispelled by a very thorough demonstration given on special ranges in a small Valley of the Wiltshire Downs at the back of the School of Infantry, Warminster. This was attende
representatives of General Elsenhower's SH.A.P.E., Var
Atlanuc North
Fact rounds; the recoll Is slight and four men each advancing on an froduction organisations, Home Com-
there is no "kick up." There objective, giving mutual support, ammunition, mands, the Royal Navy and is no need to take the hand off The contrast, in fliepower was Royal Air Force, and foreign the trigger to change to fully quite staggering-as- though a milltary attaches, including those automatic Are, which is done sertion was being supported by a of Yugoslavia, Spain, Greece he
by pressing
Harold LLOYD, off to Rome a stud with the platoon. and Turkey.
knuckle. The same remark ap-
Sinco
Brigadier D. S. we have here a round
Gordon, the on the next stage of his Euro- This important gathering was plies to the safety
that has a good range and pene-
pean, holiday has been, sight Deputy-Director
Infantry, of addressed by Lt-Gen, Sir Richard
The
sight Isch
unit-trative power, and a rifle that who accompanied Mr Shinwell seeing, unrecognised, Gale, the Director-General of powered telescope which needs is simple to manipulate and aim, to Washington, told the Preas at
Grasse, St. Paul and other in- Milliary Training, Brigadier J. A. no focusing and is so accom- simple to teach and accurate in Warminster that Britain would land beauty spots Barlow, the famous Bisley shot midating that it will work even Bre, and able to stand up to the reserve hot right to continue hotel at Cunnes where he had been staying with his wife and and small-arms expert, and Mr if a raw recruit puts his eye to roughest use, why is there this with the 280 (which is to be bis 22year-old daughter Gloria E. A Kent-Lemon, the
as the In future assistant it sideways—and it is at the same controversy about their general chief engineer in the "Armament time a handle for carrying at adoption among
Bevor-millimetre)-whatever the (Mts_GUASTI).. Design Department, who was the trail.
Atlantic Treaty Powers, especial decision on standardisation. He
"I hardly ever wear my 'chiefly responsible for the new
believed that the The rifle strips most easily; by ly as standardisation is all-ver
son US horn-rimmed glasses," he says, weapon, before being shown just small, quick alterations it can important.
military experts were all in explaining the lack of recogni- what the rifle can do.
favour of the new calibre, and tion. added that certain Dominions had already said that they would follow us.
*
I learned that it was decided
Д
become a sniper's rifle; it will
Are
grenades; with a special: trigger guard li can be fred
by
Though no oficial information
known
at
from the
STO having Many women their hair parti-coloured, Flat-
num curls are
with .mixed brown
a honey
shading to darker brown at the back, Thu mixture is worn short or jong. Horse nonsense
the Prevalling fashion for beach for women, “with long hair Is ihe Arab horse-tall style, tied up with velvet string handkerchief nbright chiffon or anything you like..
where
even
I thought it must be nice to live in Monte Carlo, there is no income tax, the post office is a sumptuous marble hall newly and luxuriously equipped with club armchairs, and there is an out- door cinema claiming to have cancelled ----only--- two -- pér- formances because of rain 'in ail its four years existence.
"Ah, but," sighed, the guld woman clerk #t Lloyd is an artist, specialises bank, "we have our hardships, In abstract painting, admires too. Look at the price of but- PICASSO, but left Cannos ter-7s. 6d. a pound." without visiting the village of. Valiurls to see the master,
Picasso has announced
that
he intends to return, to puint-
lan- the
FOOTNOTE; Poster on Juan- sajjs:
a man wearing Arctic gloves; has been released, it is believed in 1845 that excellent as the old and it takes the No. 7 bayonet that production problems are Conversion to the new calibre 303 rifle had been in the hands It has been described as one of the reasons. Critics say need not mean any delays in of the most efficiently-trained the parachutist's dream, and you that in any future war Britain production, as the switch-over Infantry-and they showed In con take it wherever you can might be subjected to such would anyway, have to be World
• War One when they take the Sten gun. But its severe bombing that much of our gradual, and production of the
Ing. after Ave years spent les-Pins railway station caused the Germans to imagine length and balance are all wrong equipment would have to come present tyne of ammunition chiefly in designing pottery, COME TO ILFRACOMBE, ON That we possessed Innumerable for the present ceremonial arms from the U.S., and that, therefore would have to continue for The French have a word for THE GLORIOUS DEVON machine guns when
fact
fication and a new manual.
there were only two per badril, which will require modi- it should be based on arms and some time to come.
tallon-it suffered from
number of defects when handled
by hastily-trained conscript Its performance on the ranges armies under modern conditions. was
most impressive. Expert
It is too heavy; its bolt riflemen. Including the long- operated action requires much service QMSI Thwaites, the best obtain a reasonable shot in the Army, fired 28 rounds
is com-
these dishes-Picassiettes,
COAST.
THE KING WHO HAS 150 SONS
TALL, hook-nosed Arab
training to his magazine is 100 solute with the 303 rifle (an A prince brought an air of small; the sighting plicated; and
ime exceptionally fine achievement), the
43 with the United States the desert to the Sussex ammunition is more liable to Garand 30, and the remarkable Downs when he visited stoppages in automatic firing, total of 84-all on the target-Lewes races.
What the War Office wanted with the E. M. 2.
1
By Gerald SCHEFF
on
sonal treasure, or in "subsidies to shelke owing him allegiance. The other half is being spent on public works, including 000-mile railway; a £2,000,000 road to Medina being bullt by a
for
desert
corridors,
with a host of people phd (200 tenis with milk-lined
A reference book, credits the king with 32 sons, but official registers in foreign missions at Jeddah record about 150′′ sons, according to a Cairo report.
No mention is made of a was a light rifle, accurate, effec- The latter also made a sorry The 44-year-old Emir. Feisal,
Wounded 60 times in his fight-
large number of, daughters, an tive up to at least 600 yards, mess of sicet helmets strung up Viceroy of the Hedjaz, Foreign Ing days, the king now devoles British firm; new harbour bulid- He
He has probably 'bad' 200 and capable of firing rimless am- on a target 600 yards away, but Minister of Saudi-Arabia, emis- his life to fostering the prosperi Ings, hospitals and schools, and wives, but many of the mar munition. - An Ideal Calibre in the wood penetration
test
father, ty of Saudi-Arabla-one of the a new British-built, water pipe- ringes have been politient. At Panel,
composed of selentists, although it came well above the Sary of his powerful
"one, 40 sheiks zaid "I do" for technicians and experts, studied minimum standards laid down, King Iba Saud, is neclaimed the richest oil empires and his line.
dream of am Arab Federation."-",
him by proxy the whole range of calibres from it was slightly inferior to the handsomest Arab of all.
Hair-apparent and Primo 25
to 33 for
1wo years, and other two. This has not been He has a pale bronze, com- Koran. His subjects are the Saud, who once saved his father gazelle-hunting in the
His rule is based the Minister is 40-year-old" Emir.. Each spring the king eventually agreed
on the 280 the case, however, in previous plexion, grave mien and bald, most religious of all Moslems, from an assassin's dagger. rimless round. This is much tests.
Then come a demonstration dark eyes. He wears flowing There is no smoking, drinking, shorter and 18 percent lighter than the 303, resulting in a big which really amazed this expert robes with white and gold head- or dancing, and only: merilal Another son, the Emir Michel, mobile electricity generators, and reduction in bulk and weight gathering of big shots. Two dresses.
music,
is now. Defence Minister follow copper cooking-pola big enough when lange quantities of am- E. M. 2 rifles were placed in
in the death of his brother, to hold a baby camel. munition, are being handled. wooden box for five minutes and A Nubian bodyguard, armed Penalty for theft is mutilation Mansour, Yet other; sons, held
subjected to the most stringent
with bejewelled. dagger and the loft hand cut off for the Government posis at Mecca, the artificial sandstorms
ever EVIDENCE OF THE rife had begun.
By mid-1947, designing of the devised, far worse any Mauser pistol, accompanies him, firal offence, the right for the holy city.
than any
second..
When In 1945 Ibn Saud Ibn Saud's whitewashed coral presented Mr Churchill with "khamseen"
Felsal's day at the races was Murderers, are stii publicly palaces have lifts. ADVANTAGES WHICH|end of 1949, a small number of
Towards Mistern
produce. When they were
gold and jewel-encrusted. COME FROM EXPERIENCE. Ties and two models of medium taken out thickly coated with day off during his ten-day, beheaded in the capital city of ramps which enable the king dagger, he received In return
machino guns had
to drive his car into the palace six bottles of perfume. LINKED WITH Apleted, and were
been com- fine sand, they fired perfectly visit to Britain as guest of the Riyadh,
both single shote and automatic. Government. subjected 10
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It was a wise choice, The PROGRESSIVE OUTLOOK.
new pays the Saudi-Arabian The king" is Gft. 4ins, Ho king. (has sald "that, like the and Sons) half is profits for four hours a night, and drinks in life Women, perfume, and
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There are a
V to
pepiember will not fire at all under these Feisal today mostly journeys the concession employs as Jewa cup, after? cup of scented: bitter; prayer," "Sony BMI AMIN
carbine, and most unorthodox in „What is more, any ourron'sy plane, and cat -
·18. barrel' is small”: arms,con, bo vr convertedi viising E
for fene of allending Moslemis. coffee. Soldiers in picturesque He prays five times daily, Hộ robes line the palące corridors. Bodyguards squat with golden swords across their knee
the most star technical-fests The U.S, rifle was not put to A dashing rider himself Government largely Ibn Saud starts work, before dawn,, sleeps Prophet, he has three solares.
The rom 22.
freely admit that the Garand father owns 10,000 Arab horses reault is the roughly similar
to a machine conditions. lay-out Though
Abdul Aux Ibn Saud, precisely the samo lengil as the to 280 calibre ammunition. This now; over 70, has been called 303, it is a much shorter weapon was proved at Warminster when the Cromwell, of the Desert."! sa the wooden bult tias disap- a converled /* Garand, the He is King of the Nold and the The 3,000 Americans In the Dover, D fit through the cloisters,, * British economie infidence is peared. \ This has reduced its American BAR Igal machine Hedjar, Iman of the Wahable, oll centre of Dhahran havo no length by The toit, too, has own Vickers? €19 # #howtry Rocca; and Medium ; and; Lord of books are banned-sag
a ath, and its weight gun, the US Browning and our Guardian of the Holy Cities of church, and Christian prayer by 12 ounces gond and is replaced by car action, as well as the now and Arabia.r?? **** (*) operated self-loading action still sperimental 280 iwustained
The, leikger i mochanlem is firet machine-gun?, which will selle kan autocr placed in front of the pisgreine, eventually at place; (her vickerus puriorjata
for the ladies of his harem, fur once spent £1,800 on perfume
a special occasion.dk A
{Middle;
spun robes and likes grey Bri- FOOTNOTE: Feier's visit
The king wears only home Towing in Saudi Arabia, tish Army soCKÁ, ALER
was concerned with Ibn Saud 18 said: now to have He has an axterslys harem. East an oll income of more than Ohe: of la Polisi Taisakhamani soud) Z king wine L£50,000 à car: Ilett the money mitted that he is does cột kugh