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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1954.
Paris Newsletter From Sam White
RIVIERA IS NOW CRAMMED
Paris.
FIFTY cars a minute are
flitting along the wind- ing Riviera road between Cannes and Monte Carlo. The Riviera has never been so crammed as it is now.
Visitors who have not made an earlier booking urg paying as much as £4 a night for # room without running water in a modest boarding-house.
Villa-owners on the coust have firmly retreated to the confines of their private grounds to escape from the invasion. Author Jean
Cocteau, who
has a villa at Cap Farrat, has taken refuge on his sloop because the place is overrun with holidaymakers.
are
There J: 14 contherable In- vasion of Germans win serudniicing the count by wear- Ing bothing costumes ut Jenst four
your out of date. women almost invariably
3
Th Weau
tu
Bu briefest of bikinda while hi 12. French
The lighteri bole, are now so much out of fashion
to constitute
worst possible tunte
Puria,
contract. Jins
village somnolence about It and here are few tentar ands Ipin, more than two milion Parkcan, who are on holiday
In fact, the worst suum - HEY! SON that Paris hotela Experience mince the war
attribute the Jack
frit'
The
tort
TLES
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
"But Martha-you don't think I'm going to spond the whole damn week listening to quartets, do you?”
IAN COLVIN
goes to Aberdeen to
·
bring
three factors (2) Paris pulation for high prices, when 1243 tempted Tourists 10 Lut plus the raty. (3) memories of Just year's chaotic August rail- way strikes.
QUOTES
FORMER Foreign Marist
Hidault; "It remains to b
whether M. Mendes - France is a Dbract or a Keren. sky."
An MP on hearing the news that Mackel Paris police chief M. Baylet it been offered the post of Ambasador in Copen» Jagne #There must be
thu
State roliven up the
Denmark
Sinne
کرد؟
The London Correspondent of
n Park newspaper writes ་་་tu
England.
.
the Englishmon
welcumin gay, always
rendy
b show kinderen to. foreigne
201
In
fter stumul-
offch as either keeps his dise
1
tu a
way
manifests his pro DOLNY or diarifesty
WOOLLEY WEEPS
I MET actor Monty Woolley
Но
nd fenend him almost webn
champagne, into his Orrived in Paris three days ago
Ing:
to light a story
hidden for fifteen years
London Express Bervice
A
THE MOST STARTLING
LETTER EVER
POSTED
#
Aberdeen. ROM quiet Bro- fessor who works in the University here ! have just heard the amazing story of the most mysterious
valuable und letter ever posted.
At the cost of a 4. stamp worth it gave information
gence.
aret visit here for 10 millions to British Inteill on his peut-
He now Brids he knoW F
And it has remained notoxly here.
the unsolved mystery of Ал
trient whom he mico particularly is the late the war. Lord Norwich, with whom he used to
the play chest. Now
Irmous role man whole most was the film and stage suc- Who Came to ss, "The Man Dinner," fundo that he has dined alone every night einer he has been here.
SPECIFICATION
ADVERTISEMENT in
a l'aris Wanted.
"Fiat newspaper: Must be big enough so that my wife does not fel obliged to live with her mother, and gmai enough so that my mother-In-
tempted law does not feel
live with her daughter."
FAME
LETTER nddressed, M. George Bidault. Qual d'Orsay (French Foreign Offee) bas been returned marked "Unknown. Return to sender."
BRI
What gave me the first clue?
I discovered a reference to this letter in a lecture given to the Royal United Service 121- stitution und printed in
of name journal. The lecturer-R. V. Jones.
193D
munde was not just a huge de- "First-class men like him aro coy duminy. Jones stuck to his views and won.
war Jones
wasted here in peacetime. They
will come back to us when wor starts."
û
The raid took place. Major General Walther Dornberger, Commandant of Peenemunde, But in the last war there was hay written the story of that a God-sent eight-month period in October
the damage devastating raid from the res of phoney wår, time in which done to Britain by Hitler's born- celving
end. It killed his the wartime intake of univer- bers, dying bombs, and rockets chief
designer,
destroyed his city professors could elbow the would have been doubled or blueprints, delayed his V-bombs incompetents aside.
trell.
timetable by months,
Time in which the Friendly For
the "Oslo Report," as it In his book "V.2" he also German could write hla Oslo came to be known to the British mentions curtly the "anonymous Report. Secret Service, gave us an exact but detailed" Oslo Report.
The Cabinet realises that in of
different description
two
Last week General Dornberger any future war there will be no systems of German radar at
A too was
wondering who wrote phoney full. So there is a move time when it Wis Armly it.
Jones now to bring Professor beloved in Whitehall that the
During the
went back the Germany possessed no radar at
to grapple with these up to Aberdeen to look at a tremendous problems. But it captured night-fighter, Abet will hardly succeed unless Sir deen marked him then as a man Winston Churchill intervenes in a a million and snapped him personally. up after the war. Of all the
made bargains ever
by Aber- deca, Jones was the best,
But there is a dismaying ondt story. I have not heard to his the appallingdacte from on Deeside. Friends in Lon- don have told me how the Government has wasted the talents of
brilliant our most Scientifle Intelligence man.
Jones ventured to evolve the
after the theory
war that Scientific Intelligence would in the future be just as important
for night
It gave us the data on which Hitlers Y-apparatus bombing would operate two years later.
Then 1 found Professor Jones lecturing
at physics 013 Aberdeen University. He told more about this me
It named an entirely unknown traordinary story of chance and
station called research that did so much to experimental win the war,
and Poenemunde
described lurge rockets (V-2) and rocket- driven gilder bombs being built
he
-
But for the fact that gruntled German scientist was Histening to B.B.C, broadcasts in German; but for the fact that nak painstakingly typed The man who talked to me about it was Professor R. V. everything that he knew or had
who Jones,
the
Hitler's secret turing
ጋር
about
fact that Intelli- weapons; but for the headed our Scientific
Service gence
and
lopmost secret briefed he posted this Churchill
Hitler's
the Sectat
British Information to Assistant Naval Attache in Oslo weapons,
on
wir
JOURNAL
Royal United Service Institution
BRITONS
WHITEHALL, S.W.1
PUBLISHËD BY AUTHORITY OF THE COUNCIL
WHAT FIRST GAVE ME THE CLUE A lecture delivered and reported in
the Royal United Service Journal..
SHOCKED
BY ATTLEE TRIP
By VAUGHAN JONES
allics.
London: should drop rearmament plans from the two great Western QRITONS, -rich and poor, for Germany and Japan.
Britons remember ancther But they feel that Cóm- recognise the worthi- dictator. They recail Hitler's munism's continued expansion of Labour leader, prewar peace nesurances to the and the vast growth of the Clement Attlee, But the big Western nations, which he Red echoes of his China pilgrim coupled with "warnings" to the all forces is not reasonable at
before he
ness
little neighbours age have shocked them. engulfed them one by one..
Britons accept the "Anglo 'American brotherhood "an
Ailled
there.
FIRST CLUE
And thus gave us the Arst clue which led to the massive on Peenemunde just 11 raid years ago last week.
It gavo besides BO much technical information that the older men in the British Secret Service were inclined to dismiss it as an ingenious "plant."
of this Who was the author
We million-dollar document? never paid a penny for it, be cause we never found him.
This narrelcas pen friend who got in touch with Rear-Admiral
then H. Boyes,
Assistant naval attache in Oslo, was care- ful to cover his tracks,
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To test whether his first letter got there sat
nicly
Jones ploaded for a fourth he asked for a slight alternation to be made in an of Intelligence to deal with A cautious, stort was the B.B.C. German programme science. call sign on certain date. The made by the Socialist Covert- call sign was
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