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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
1955.
THE LAW BEATS THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS
...
By Vanghan Jones
London. the police havo closed on the [N the unceasing, hidden tramičkern,
war against the dope dealers, Britain's victions,
Last year there were 217 con- against 172 the previous year. But police
police and undercover men officers point out that this does
This means that once the drug has reached the inland towns, the police tank is infinitely com- pilcated.
When suspects are caught and examined, most are unwilling to reveal their sources lest they
Only implicato
friends,
OC-
are relentlessly beating the not show that dope peddling is
It
that increasing.
cans drug traffic.
suspects are being more easily
handle the casionally do they break down tell. Furthermore, the and Interpol-the picked up as they Alded by
haunted by shady night dives International Police und a drugs.
arkilets Aro used
for more worldwide network of under-
not only negotiating purchases than 05 places where the recters aro ground tipsters, their drive neamen. They
the immigrants from Africa and the delivered. forcing is Loday smugglers to quit old. hide. Ean, bringing dope whose sale
outs and move to new.
NOMIC
In the past. dope was times Accreted in the great air- Ilners touching down along the route from the East.
But the murer, though slower, method of transport was will by of ship. little ship-any kind trampe or ocean liners, sailing the Middle
East sen
lanes.
The
carriers are
have
Included
would have **set them up" while seeking regular employ- ment
I
weed in making "reefers." accounted for 141 of last year's 217 conviction,
On The Run
The favourite in Indian hemp, THE police do not pretend that they can quickly stamp out the traffic.
An ounce of Indian hemp will reefers, and make a hundred each coats anything between 2 0 and 108, according to the size consignment and of the latest
It arrives in lots weighing anything up to 100 pounds. On shore it is split up into smaller parcels und passed through two the addict'a demund. Far or
or three middlemen, who each make a big profit.
of
Liverpool, with its web docks, ita multi-raced scarnén, ita vast warehouser and murky back alleys, was the main ter minal for the traffic. Before that it was London, with the miles of dockland, often blanked with
mlat
BIC
Now the dope dealers being forced to move to Bristol,
ohu Cardiff,
Swansea and
West Country ports,
Tipped Off
BUT so good was the watch on
them, that the Liverpool police have forewarned these centres whom to expect.
of
consignments. drug
So
reception com-
The big dope dealers are un- their trade likely to abandon The middlemen find
new readily. include young customers--they
through But the police plan to krep girls-by introduction
From the them on the run, making it in- their current addicts. small packets, the addiets them creasingly difficult for them to clear their consignments from melves usually make their own reefers.
the ships.
B
£250 MILLION SWEET TOOTH
By J. W. TAYLOR
Europe.
tho
Not only that The Liverpool DRITAIN has become the dustrial workers in jobs where
of smoking is prohibited. police, lipped off in advance by
largest consumer their undercover men in the
sweets in the world. Latest It was the apothecary of old East, have helped in passing on Information detailing the arrival statistics show a jump of who gave the real impetus to
confectioneTY trade
in more than 50 percent be the After
Introduc- customs men and police have
avetween the two World Wars, tion of cane sugar to Europe formed a hidden
11th century, confec- mittee as vessels drew alongside.and it has gone on increas in the
a row, cru
crude The snuggie's first suspicioning until today the trade tonery was in came when he was asked to open enjoys an annual turnover state, and so expensive that the
populace looked upon it as [23 Innocent-looking
of £250 millions.
great luxury but possessing Im- police when customs men and
portant healing properties. probed a consignment of legiti- mate imports or when they dis- mantled a plece of ship's equip |
ment.
Sequel has been an increns- of prosecutions os ing number
Harry
Odell
tays
a
There is no slackening in the despite high prices,
Later the old-time chemists demand, Mushroom factories, back-room started a confectionery trade by Laffec bollers
potions and increasing preparing sweetened foreign competitors are cushing and sugar-coated pills to make In on this tremendous boom,
palat- prescriptions the more
until not wae
the abic. It which has overy Brilish man, woman and child averaging. Th sugar refining process came in of confectionery each per In the 18th century that large- and half scale production became poss- week, half sweels chocolate.
ible.
023
This is half an ounce more than they chewed before the last war, ne compared with the
5 or 4
Di Ots.
the weekly Americans,
4 OZA, of the Canadians, and the 2 DZS, the French, who дго at
bottom of the world scale.
COSTS MORE
For many, the opportunity of a lifetime to hear these great English artists-DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE and SIR LEWIS CASSON — in a recital of
Although they Shakespeare and poetry at the three and four
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on Wednesday, 16th Fob. at 9.30 p.m.
Please reserve your seats at International Films, Ltd., 107, Holland House,
} Telephone 21832.
prices, sweets
now times
of the
CANDY BORN
better
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"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones,"
-LUKE, Ch. 17, Verse 2. London Express Service
DON
SOVIET AUTHORS STILL CHAINED
T
By Elisabeth Hunkin
THE year 1954 ended recent years, had in fact been
with a long-awaited fis: bugbear, event in the USSR at the Congress-it cropped up particularly favourite word the Congress of the Union again
Lagairs,
A
of Soviet Writers. It was an porcstrakhovka, "playing safe." occasion of special interest, It was alleged that publishers, literary critics, and writers had not only because 20 years all played safe for years, thus had passed since the pre- impoverishing Sovies literature vious Congress, but also tremendously. because of the conflict of
Many young writers did not ideas
been bother to acquire artistic skill
which has
scothing beneath the surface for fear of being accused of of Soviet literature since looked forward to a time when "formalism." One speaker Stalin. died.
there would be no more "hypo- Nevertheless, when the critical renunciation of one's Congress opened on Decem- own opinions," a fault he classed "survival of capitalism." ber 15, it looked as if it would bo a disappoiit- Another speaker, Olga Borg- ing affair, The tone colts, illustrated this point very She described a graphically. Was set by 4 message reception given in 1949 to mark from the Party Central the play "Green Street," by Committee, making it clear Surov,
writers that Soviet literature was Writers Union in 1854. Every- expelled from the Soviet boat play. one knew it wag n
still not a field of activity win
one
of
the
in its own right but only an but everyone praised
adjunct of the Party.
NO HINTS
Konstantin Simonov, key figure in the Writers' Union, wrote in the Literary Gazette that Surov had "blazed a new trail for iterature" A leading Moscow 'The main task of the Writers' brought a "fresh breeze" into the actress declared that it had Union, sold the message, was
Moscow Art Thestre. Soviet to train
writers An "correct ideology" and to keep Ulterature to the current themes of official policy. The
The
union must continue to fight against throwbacks of "bourgeols ideo- against all
all evidences
logy"
and
REASON CLEAR,
Olga Borggolts did not say why there
been had
such insincerity, but the reason is clear,' WDB
Surov's play dealt with
which
of lack of Party feeling.
Such After
a start, It obvious that the delegates must "homeless cosmopolitaniam," the be cautious. Thero was much deviation
was 'n main talk of the superiority of Soviet target of Party invective at the literature, and many protesta time, Because it was idrologi- tions of
of devotion to the Party cally appropriate and had been Naturally, no one even hinted approved by the Party's supreme that
Party control was irksome. arbiters no one dared say aby- Nevertheless, some of the more thing against it.. sprightly contributors succeeded in making it plain that Party far from being the directives,
making of Soviet erature in
IDDON CONTINUES ON THE SUNSHINE
TRAIL
The Keys Are Playing
A Song Of The Shirt
TH
the women.
booze
The ex-President's visits brought the tourists.
In fact, it was implied by many speakers at the Congress that literary worka had como to depend for success or failure on factors remote from literary merit. This came out particul- arly clearly In connection with the Stalin prizes, founded in 1939 under the angle of Stalin himself.
While these prizes were still an annual event, they were loudly acclaimed....... in. Soviet literary circles. But evidently that, too, was just hypocrisy for at the Congress, writers took the view that the Stalin prizes had been a wretched Institution along, dividing literature into first, second and third-class categories,
manufactured
all
goods.
ot
One speaker, Valentin Ovich- kin, went so far as to say that the
prizes had sometimes been awarded frequent
on the basis of personal tastes," instead taking into account the opinion even of the of readers, or Writers' Union. This can only have been a reference, thinly. veiled, to Stalin's interference.
Key West, Florida. clubs, the saloons, the tat-
Only the southern- toeing parlours, and swung 133,000 moter-care THIS is
made the In 1704, a barley, Gugar was
most point in the down Duval looking for trip across the Florida Keys in under the refining prepared
almost 1948. The figure was In
United States process by steeping barley
doubled in 1953, Mr Truman's Apparently all the town of last term of office, and last year water and straining and boiling and of the road. Half an
in the water until sugar
it
cars rolled caramelised. The concoctions hour's flight away, or eight Key West provides on pay more than 300,000 of the chemists went down with hours by motor-ferry, lie night for bs sailors are into Key West. patients much
when Cuba. «
I rate the drive from Miami and bromo-seltzer, cast given in such appetising forms,
But Cuba and the Cubans and, of course, films. Even to Key West as the most specta- prewar so they started to make sugar
go to sea in your car. and chocolate preparatione purely as luxuries are also here in Key West the solitary drug-store had cular in the world. You literally I drove along the Overseas are still one of the cheapest and not remedies for ailments Itself. I have seen hun- only about 20 mysteries and
which is 122 miles kinds of treat and of food. Thus was candy born and dreds of dark-skinned, dark- paper-backed novele on dis- Highway
long and leads trom Key to They contain in good measure
eyed people and heard the play. There were no con- Key, in blazing sunshine. There that Important source of
century, sugar gabble of Spanish along the certs, no forum discussions, was ocean on each side of the energy and heat-sugar,
becime cheap and plentiful streets and in the shops and and no dances taking place narrow road.
enabled sweet man- cafes. Tastes are pretty much the which
Cuban boys race the first night I arrived, according to locality, ufacturers to launch
the avenues on although Key Westers teli Mint flavours remain singularly grand scale, to satisfy a steadily along
bicycles.
me that they take wonderful popular in the North, where rising pubile demand.
Key West reminds me of care of the sailors.
town it has
sarno,
Admission:—Students $4.70. | there is a concentration of in-
Gift Suggestions
came to stay.
By the 19th
out on a
H
A dream
of sweet- The full history
a Bahamian or West Indian They should do. Without THE Islands, which include Boca Chica, Summerland, meats,
righ! however, goes
a foreign the Navy Key West, which Saddle Bunch, Blg Pine, Fat back into legend, for the art of making candy began when look and feel to it and it is. is mainly fishing boats and Ram, one hd Sugarlock, No Vaca and aro honey the nectar of the gods not as clean as most Ameri- clapboard houses, some of
was first used as a sweeten-
coat of a long anger thrusting through A cities. Only by the them needing can
the Straits of Florida towards ing agent.
the Ingredients of
the
with first awects comprised drug store, hot-dog paint,
second-storey Cuba,
The Keys aré a fisherman's honey mixed with nuts, fruits stand, and the fresh-juice balconies, porches, and tin
form
from one island to another tasty morsel verj popular with the ancients,
Very
Is this highway which pumped new blood and money into Key West before the second world war, when the town was suffer
in the ing from malnutrition depression.
Once you hit Key West you are on Truman Avenue, To de- monstrate its gratitude to the ex-President, Key West has
squares,
houses after the named streets, Missouri.
man from
There is talk even today of giving the ex-President a house here.
BITTER TOUCH
There was an element of bitterness in several Congress speeches, particularly in one or two very personal attacks on Konstantin Simonov, and in counter-attacks on his behalf. This in itself seemed to
of the
vem, but thorachinapee
akiong
stayed at one of were not fore
the hotel writers of rival
have
ong Soviet cilques
Since I was last here there have been several changes. The the references of many che Casa Marina is still, the most. to a par scusantly impressive hotel. It fronts, the
Writers ocean, sits in a tropical garden, or "splitting into factions and it cost $2,000,000.
Details of this pos But
again the fine motels, which offer you been agus
value. excellent
ot half price: Unfortunately there was manoeuvring for position. No of the bigger trailer-camp nearby this the Key West does not look down welters dificult position vis a on trailers as some Florida re-vis the Party. But the paradox sorts do--and the camp was in that, by being thus divided,
writers hil only
to
par petuate the bondage of Soviet Literature,
and eggs, which were heated to counter can you tell that the roofs, and surrounded by heaven, and the bridges which noisy and smalled..
3
Sweets similar to these are today being made, although under more scientific conditions - kind of nougat studded with nuts, as well as n very popular Turkish and Egyptias candy called "Halya,”””
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Today the British
manume-
A walk
A writer
about the
called operation
at the Congress who
a new spirit of co-
may have felt that
there is a better chance of
most far-flung of the flowers, would not be pros are lined with men and women Florida Keys is a United perous. Without the Air- fishing in the deep, bright-blue States town. And the U.S. Naval base which you swing waters
One bridge is seven miles Navy le here in force to through on Route 1 at the long and rather like a roller-
still talis wreating more concessions' froņi emphasise the fact. end of the dramatic drive conster railway, I put the top of KEY WESTERS
days when the Party if the writers then over the Keys, Key West my car down and roared across would be a fishing village, at about 85 m.p.it. There are no Ernest Hemingway lived here. I selves present a united front. radar speed traps on the Ocean was given a guide book showing an obscure port, and a hang- overres Highway.
points of interest are among out for tourists.
The There used to be a railway then wore Hated:
Deep-ses "Fishing" it was built by H.M. Flagler, of Docks, Turtle Standard Oil, the man who fishing Boota Municipal County Courthouse, Aquarium, made Palm Beach,
Flagler ruthless, exacting US Navy Base, Sponge Dock, man, pushed his railway at a and Hemingway Home,"
Mr Hemingway, whose book of "To Have and Have Not WAR West, Engineers said it about Key West, has moved on could not be done and workers to Cuba, where the taxes are
THE first night I was here I walked slowly down.
tures are turning their atten- the main street, Duval, tion particularly to those well- which actually runs from remembered sweeta of our
A debt
Olá
linking Miami to Key West and Folks Home, murs, Shrimp.
me:
wives and widows cursed Fing- maller, but the man who acted Jer: and insisted that, building as my gulde here told the railway-moant men dying "Wa with Erno VOLELE COLLE
back. He drew a lot of people or maimed for life,
to Key West; not, as many sa Harry Truman even Herbert Hoover, bet plenty. I think you are the first: British › we'vo.erse had he, columnist Key West how Title in Com the Keys' mon with Palm Beach ori
ed:"off": apart from climate... It has no
stilps. - social, swank or
wonder
childhood old favourites likes the Atlantic to the Gulf of KEY WEST owes a lot to the cost of $50,000,000 and 700
་
Navy and it owes a lot to workmen's liver to the tip beans, dolly mixture, and Mexico; about half pant moltons which disappeared nine, and got the strong ox-President Harry Truman. A during the war because many impression that this is a West Citizm fold mo of them had to be made by hand. The industry has bonky-tonk Baghdad bazaar Trimman; was the best President
the Keys ever hadde mechanised, type of town.", become largely with mass-production methods
It was Truman, holiday- There are three or four in at Key West and wearing In the bigger factories. Machines now wrap over 600 and sometimes six barn, to its rising shlets, with the trbside the Presidental minute.
every block. The swinging fall doors had been fastened trousers who put Key West ön
the part
herever Mr back and I saw noisy crowds of sailors, some in white, some in blue, Lapping up
sky, with boor · chasers. sometimes Jigging to
has an
Y
Boots, however, the youngsters are to be allowed as much fun in the sweet shop as their elders had in their young days. New mechanical techniques. been developed · "to bring bach many old but wariline nugiécie 'favouritei
· stopperis!
chocolata
whon night, pubility mo
tem
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