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PERU ATTACKS ONASSIS WHALING FLEET
"What buffles me is that someone is after something NOT belonging to US?"
RITCHIE CALDER reports
on
the
unending
Enough To Make Edgar Wallace Turn In His Grave
THEY WANT TO PUT SOHO UNDER GLASS
By FRANK MARGAN
Parr, old Scho, peed cld Edgar Coty, Marcel Cerdan and Georges Carpentier splattered the rhone comes about. It the owner is a gent by the name ail over the walls, and where
T'S enough to make
Edgar Wallace turn Wallace! In his grave. They are alking of putting his fabu- lous Soho under glass.
will be the first material re- volution in the exotic and com- of Mon leur Gaston Bellemont, who throws his customers out pletely un-English heart
at 11
with: London in over a century and Tina,
pm, closing time
gentlemen, please" delivered in French.
inore.
Square
With the Limehouse of pigtailed Chinese, hashish
Sutho and
A lies within opium dens, bawdy
mile-most commonly referred houses, wild Intrigues and
to as "the square mile of my midnight speedboat chases behind Piccadilly Circus, the su on the Thames gone forever called heart of the Empire. vitt
tho Luftwaffe's blitz, Wallace has only Soho left of the mysterious London he painted so vividly in his scores of thrillers.
French Exiles
In years gone by. Frenchmen fleeing from either revolution or religious persecution flocked into London and made Soho And now they want to their home. A French woman
who had a boarding house put it under glass, introduce the area received the exiles and Venetian canals, and alto- used her home us a gother
where the French heart of Lontion into 狼 men And women were set up
In
Even the street comer Indies their clients La will addres French, for the Champs Elysees is becomlug crowded, and Soho is more lucrative.
Even the inain church in Solio Square has its rignboard in French, the language in which
Is delivered, the sermon
And throughout The whole area runs a throbbing. lively stream of life, Noon lights and blaring gai lamps east a yellowish, pinkleh, bluish light on every race in the world, on enfes serving meals of cvery country in the world, on the Ever since then Soho has bat oldest prove sion in the world, a peculiarly French atmosphere on some of the really tough all of its own more French guys of London. even than Montmartre, as some
turn this fabulous house from
clearlig
sketch from a Buck Rogers in lodgings aroun) and about. comic book.
Revolution
Edgar Wallace fans have some
beople aver.
Atomic Power
101 or 50 years, it is true to form a society for the preservation of Subo, but the glass age develop. ment committer hus stolen a Considered both naughty Mant march on them with the slogna, during to be sect around the But the glass age development "You just can't stop the forward.
area at night, and the young committer want to change it all. march of progress,"
buck's of the day leoked on a They want the present müze of Further, the glass age Com- souvenir rosetle
the streels millee, formed by a group of bawdy house of Marlame Itanoul
and alley completely eminent architects, has alrendy in the same way as the young glasse in and air-conditioneil set up a showroom with models men of tintey regned their latest of Lenkle of 2,000 AÐ, glass stalrenses. and puvements that they hope will be the vogue In the future.
When the English dilstoerney
It is not really much different began discovering Soho before today from the way Wallace Queen Victoria's
time, it was painted it,
efforts
of
scientists to bring water to the dry places of Israel
WATER FOR A THIRSTY
LAND
10 see a camel walk- of a quarter of a mile are There is & well
T
and
record
and
at Revivim surtaining itself in the hot bar-
have, therefore, to direcver ways
PUES,
Around it are pisterna, dams and terraces, but also, to me,
BCTCS
sports car.
by atomic power. They wont canals with warm water flowing above the streets and carrying glass-bottomed boat: as a 2,000
AD subaltute for the present flaming-red London bus.
Soho was at a near-standst!! In Victoria's reign, but it re- mained the centre of the good- The district, the place where one could find the unusual in Sunshine, I London CRU night clubs, the exclting in en- expected to have any by then, tertainment and the risk in just will be doled out to the mobs in walking around the gloomy the Klon sirecis through 悲 alleys after dark,
Gay Places
It is not so different there to
except that thus *L
day".
bo
Alter. The people will go about free from rain, an unusual ex-
perience in itself. When they jook up from their baklava, which we hope will sul be served there in 50 years' time,
| exactly nlee" form of enter- good caters will see people or tainment is considered "Just one fb swimming in pools above of those things" In this advanced the glass cafe roofs.
and enlightened world of ours.
The night clubs are still there, but many of the gay places of
Skyscrapers
in
old are now "nent beer" cluba The prosent Georgian man- where the poor patron is taken slons above the brassy and not- for a nuncial ride to the ac- 50-brassy hops will go, and in companiment of tinny music, their place will be alx-faced strideni women and watered skyscraper flats built entirely or down beer at fantastic prices.
#1063, with: gardens, Klara theatres and dance halls The financial These
element
his between, Helicopters will buzz the fun-making, about, landing on the rooftops entered into
done not and fun-making
but they will be noiseless with the same gay abandon as it helicopters.
in the past. These "not very nice things of Victoria's time are too much the everyday thing of the atomic age.
the
ing on its hump is instruments-geophones and drawing water from a depth of bad enough, but to seismometers which pick 300 feet, but it is selty. They see an oil-well per- up the waves
of trapping, stering mod spread- ambulating along the desert them as dingrams. Experts in the waters which come fascinating dew-mounds. horizon at 30 miles an hour can recognise the squiggles Puring down the Wade Aslug are piles of pebbles arranged in
Fpic. geometricul "gave me the willies."
and identify the layers
Landscape, The topsy-turvy came through which the "earth- quake" has passed. They have learned to recognise as
decide Can then
whether mirage, a trick of the atmo- the formations are likely to sphere above the shimmer-
contain of er water. ing heat of the desert sands, inverted which gives un Image of something beyond the horizon.
was
But the serond frenk which 1 have just met
A PARASOL
WOR
is
in sadkiem spate.
When I was there four years
Ard all this glues will not only go tragedy had overtaken the
be soundproof, but bulletproof us tel jemn
The barrage which
well, and in the event of an be a smashed thy harl lab. ured to build had
by bie
H-bomb attack the buildings violonce of the water which came down
will certainly crumble, but they will do so without jagged ends, as a wall of water, is het high.
and to that nobody gels a cut finger had trouble with
favour Then they
remal the while poking about the ruins, their storage reservoir, in which four years ago. In ancient timesniosphere of Soho us
can bo felt in the they diluted them salty well they were lucse pebble: The
The glass cold Itailan and French coffee shop, committee intents hawking its age development English is an
They hope in the process to find oil. But just urgent is the need to find water-good water.
water with which lenked.
In the
flood
waler, but
Their mysteries were first ex- plained to me by Dr Otto G Director of Soil Conservation.
Atmosphere
But
the
same.
one where
alien
dew condensed en their surface in the night ad filtered where
tongue. 171 the restaurants
sa plane throughout the country, Half the State of Israel is They are still struggling with thrush to make a wet sumn of serving Scampi, shush kebab They already have considerable
earth below. In the heat of the
glass manu- for the first time in the for has been until the last the water problems, but he day the incund used as a parase and zabaglione, or in that parti- support for Brita
vivim today is a fruitful pass
Princesa facturers Britain, Negev, south of Beershebn, lew years) desert - The
the moisture which deserima plote
to pretest
fron sular Like those fool-hardy people Negev, that triangle on the f
Margaret often dines on snails the sun.
And in there mounds still gratefully remember, who chase after Flying map between Egypt
they planted their olives, vines cooked in butter, and where after months in the taway
10 live CT the dew Saucers, we sped after that Jerdau. The Northern dort I heard birds sing, heard and fas Walt Disney" ail-well and Negov.
Barsheba, brilliantly
of brea and watched nurture.
coleure t butterflies
GI has reconstructed overtook it not far from the has a reasonable but erratic dieting with vivid flower.
mounds and dismantled them in patriarchal tents of & rainfall, The Southern
the mening 10 and inches of wet mud underneath
Bedouin encampment.
The explanation was perfectly rational. It was
It เยริ
ןןנן
A
A mobile derrick, a vertical boring rig, mounted truck.
one of several
around Israel not only probing for oil but for water for the Thirstlands.
which go
Here was modern science it an Old Testament ting.
GOOD WATER
In
sat-
The Past
For the need thall be pro- sperous; the ring shall give her fruit, and the
Elound shall give her increase, and the heavena shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to posted all these things.
Zechariah, 8, 12,
the hum
CHECK DAMS
Not far away
such
I am
sure that modern in- genuity can adapt this cd idea
is Mashabim, to the needs of the Negov. Per-
Israel
I raw it begin and I saw it again teemly. dew-research in two years ago. Here, today, they suggests that the Old Testament are taking advantage of ex- preoccupation with dew in the perience, learning the lessons of rainless wilderness con bave a thai broken dam at Rovivim weful part to play today. and learning the lessons of the Ancients--the Nabateans of the lime of Jesus and the Byzantines,
the
When we dropped into
of the Dead, Sea, hell-canyon over 1,000 feet below sea-level, And if you fly over the Negev
the temperature was 120 degrees as I have just done you can in the shado except there was Negev is lucky if it gets see those lessons Imprinted on not any shade! And it remained four inches of rain in a year. knew you could not theottie the
the landscape. For the Ancients that high at night.
waters by marive dans
At the potassium works ut And that four inches may mejor wadhis. They bulls chode Sodom I asked for a drink of come down in a single storm. dams en
the tributary wadbis water. They asked me to have intend. It was taone Falling on the bare moun- rd diveerion dams and "kicker beer cen- tains it is shed, like, water dams. The latter are "aifles plentiful.
the off a roof, into the gutters yes which kick the downrush-
on to land already
ing water
Around Mashabin such brakes
SALT WELLS
the of the wadhis, the dry river netpared for them, In- beds. Down these channels use the water floods in a vio- have been put on the tributary and lont and brief onrush to wadhia and outpost felds pre-
dissipate itself over the pared around them. The dam on by pumping it through plastic; desert.
wadhis is
near the
Here they are using a device for talking the salt out of water
In the twentieth tury, to find water scientists sent out by Welzmam Research | stitute, nt Rehovot, man-made earthquake the Laws of Newton.
the main
alters which, electrically charg-| This mobile boring rig
seitiament. But through the cd, yield 12 cubic metres a day. drills a 200-foot-deep hole,At place!, like Revivim and dyke they have made a large. But it was cut of order.
Mashabim, deflant settlements born pipe. into the desert.
This device, or which the this
have, boon catablished in $20
at the holo the scientists put a Bad Land-defying the hazards
What the waters come down initial work was done charge of explosives -- at nature as they defy the they ple
up behind the dyka Weizmann Institute, but which escope through the was developed in America, seems about 50lb. of gelignite. "Intruders" who come
from but also
Dipo, so that the force mid the to have real possibilitier. It wil enable Buttkments to bo tz- When the charge is deto Egypt og Jordan:
spread are regulated.
tablished in parts of the Negev nated It produces the effect Bøvivim SPOON.S *Drops of Farther south is the ruined where there is water but tire
A minor earthquake. Water." That, in terms of rain, evert city of Subotta. To get wells are salted. The shock-waves travel is about all it amounts to lure there meme hard going over through the various layers, vidm was beleaguered and held hertle Arabe still use the old from the North, Water from sand, clay, limestone and cut for months in that scige Bolon Road which led from wells the scientists may find hard rocka at varying the settlers had to "dig ko and, Birpt, through Subette, Inte Water from dew. Wabor from
shelter, they Jorda
wells that can be de-walted. Or, are excavating a speeds, The waves reflected back to the sur, capillared cave which be
uncovered on ready-made - dug-
!maybe, even water. "do-salted This ancient city with its from the sea, Water means food face.
po been a Beyzantinio, watse-tanka, paved streets, imposing villas for Israel, which is hilf desert, Spaced out over the dod struggled with the sake one merely good pull-ups for
50 1,500 yours aço carlier motilera, and temples, shows that it was * TOMORROW! sort landscape at intervals tractable oogleder
od
ing the Arab-leracli war Bangerous
country
because
!
Water! Water by pipeline
The missing desart
"This is a world frend that has already started and which amply cannot be stopped," say
It can be felt in places like The Fitzroy Tavern, decorated in the architects, the style of a typical English pub, but with pictures of such
Frenchmen
дя such great Maurice Chevaller, President Pro.
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