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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958.
Our Japanese Newsletter
Recent
Tokyo. (By Airmail). DURING the Occupa
Most now
THE FIRE
Innovation (CAPE) Saves
Many In
Tokyo
Blaze
Former German Reichstag Building To
Be Rebuilt This Year
By ALFRED KLUEHS
Berlin, Föß. 5. Work on
rebuilding the Reichstag, Germany's House of Parliament from 1894 until it was wrecked by fire in 1933, Is to begin this year. But no one knows whether it will ever again be the seat of a Gorman Parliament.
tion of Japan all bruituliigs taken over for the Allied Forces were
Jupan's taxi drivers are in-, ovallakte an the numbers of between the two capitals was a fitted with appropriate describable menaces who thus girls now actually engaged in ande under 30 hours and when throughout Japan egular services are opened In fire escapes-n precau- their noses at the laws such as houses
they
kem almost these ranko from 40,000 to April it is expected that elapsed are-and tion which the Japanese
according to the dif- time for the entire trip--includ- proud of their grim record of 100,000
Instead aani smugglers used its cellars; degrees centigrade. Thousands I may become merely regarded
88 accounting for more than 60 per ferent agencies making guching the ground stop at Anchor-
as hideouls.
of Berliners waited for hours to another indication of the of all traffic fatalities. The counts. But the higher of these age will be even lower. KLM museum, a library, or a court.
down. In 1949, when Wes! Germany nee the Cupola comÀ and ferrles plying | two
The smoke-stained shell of the asses honte would be expects to By the Polar floute small bonts
Was formed, its Parliament Folles from both East and West strange behaviour of the coastal and lake waters are nearer correct it one is to judra to Amsterdam this year while bullding stands today, gaunt, at
West moved to the Rhineland Univer- Berlin cordoned off a safety belt their victors.
never free from trouble-mainly from only castini observations of Sabena, the Belgian airline, is the border of East and
Bonn, while the and the cupola stood in a blaze through gross overloading and Japan's cities, towns and even negotiating, for similar rights Berko. The building itself is Inalty town of
Forllament was | resembling a Arework for of the buildings have utter "Indifference to any safety | villages.
the British sector, but the pave- East German from Brussels to Tokyo. been returned to their precautions.
fr the "free-lancers"
The announcement or a jointment on its costern are
side la in housed in a former, theatre bulla-several minutes. But it stood. ing about half a mile from the At,a. Becond attempt, a few owners who thoroughly renovat. One is rather compelled to added to the "regulars" the P&O Orient passenger-linor Communist East Berlin.
old Relchstag bullding.
months later.. ten times as much ed them to remove all traces of suggest that the best way to gures would soar dizzily while service peress and around the
explosive was needed to bring their former uniformed tenants. Japan is to watch travelo "casuals" also deserve mention. Pacthe, had Japanese shipping
The ruined Reichstag building it down. is not in the circles bitterly The first escapes apparently of gues of it in a
bemoaning the
was the background for several fended the delicate artistic movie theatre
least uncommon fact they had no chance" of senses of the Japanese, to these and
mass meetings of up to 800,000 for girls in the competing, for the valuable trade were sent to the scrap heap Japanese
has made no poorer families ns this country along with other reminders of cliler
-which
cfort whatsoever to rebuild its dominate in passenger Reet lost during the rural
Breas-- spend short period in the oldest pro fession lo
ac-
As
Uno the
un-
the painful period, and not ex-majority is cluding in numerous instances wickedly, Western-style plumbing Axtures | ante.
The political rena saw
If not propald a booking fee ¦ and steam radiators of 60 cents la charged.
DEATHS
PLUMILY-At Queen Mary Hospits) |
I'lшnbly Funeral arrangermenta will be minounced later.
POSITIONS VACANT
COMMERCIAL
Flash Fire
the
Socialists
scoring twa
solid blows at
From
DAVID
to
GORDON
pre-
quire dowry for marriage.
war.
Loudest Voice
An Argument
L
Collapse
Three years
ago, surveyors announced that the 300-ton cop
middle
WDS of the building Per cupola rising above the
ubout to collapse.
Berliners' hopes for Ita.com construction were revived early 1957 when a wooden fence round the ruins,
was set up
Apart from some rubble being cleared, however, all remained
as it was.
In November 1957, omeials of the West German Government stated in Berlin that the Reichstag definitely was going to be rebuilt in 1958. They sald that 2,500,000 West marks (just over £200,000) had been set aside in the 1957 budget to pra- vint further destruction of the building, and more money is lu this year lot the be allotted Reichstag.
The Reichsing was gutted on West Berliners during the anti- Reconstruction February 27, 1993, within one Communist rallies at the time of the Berlin blockade In 1948 and month of Hitler's coming to
1940. Speakers, including the The Nazis blamed the power.
At a late Mayor Ernst Reuter, stood Communists for the fre.
on a platform outside the former trial of several men accused of relling fire to the bullding held main entrance above which was Marinus van der still clearly visible the inscrip- at Leipzig,
Volke" Lubbe, a feeble-minded Dutch tion: "Dem Deutschen For what this is worth, I asked worker, was sentenced to death, (To the German People). the Liberal Democrats when Prostitution, as such, is very the president of one big shipping but many people believed that this morning, after a long saknes, Last. Saturday afternoon the Diet reconvened. Mosaburo lightly regarded in this country company over seven years ago the Nazis themselves staged the Camille, beloved wife of Peter Bush fire in the Takarazuka Suzuki, leader of the Oppool- and virtually no stigma is at-if it would build new passenger Fre to prvide themselves with
Kaiken-a complex of theatres, tion, took Prime Minister Kish inched to any woman who has liners.
He was quite positive an argument for banning all restaurants and shops in to task over hic Jack-lus.re ever innt herself to . Statisties it would be a "waste of money" anti-Nazi parties. Sven-storey building next the policles at home and abroad on one group of 107 girls who as we were (then) "entering the big Imperial Hotel-could have and
The in Air Age prostitution" up was heavily backed in "gave
building was left as it and nobody would
Lo was and Parliament moved of dreadful this pruved a holocaust
by the pailtical com- January, showed that 80 had re-travel by ship." It was he who proportions had it not been formentators
his voter loudest lest the nearby Kroll Opera House
ove leading turned to their family homes, raised
meetings in the the fact that US-Installed fire newspapers and radio stations. 08 had married, 15 became week when P & O's intentions for its rare
following 12 years of Nazl rule, vcopes had been left intact. Particularly irritating
to waitresses in restaurants, three were revealed.
bombs further It was decided to destroy the 1015, with ver 5,000 people in thes
Gov-became housematts, one took up Quaintest tale of the week most Japanese is the
old a housemaid who damaged the uding, the score for dead and
Reichstag cupola by an explosion which ernment
towards dressmaking and one died. The concerned attitude
was to cut the steel girders of tonem ermenial. Previous commer-jured was & fortunate three China, Mr Kishi again reiterated balance of 28 were "not traced" heated her master's bath water building, and then for years
at a heat of 2,300 hilled and cleven injured only is standard answer to inter- according to the Pollee.
with a wallet full of his mancy after World War II, racketeers the cupola It took 48 fire engines to get the pellations on Peking that it is
The mald told the us fuel, Games under control, but the
Nobody really expects much police she had been "looking recommise Chine
when the "change through the dresser to find any ding know to hundreds of ari Japan would not support it difference
over is completed at the end of money that might be lying thousands of Allied :oldiers the for entry to the United Nations.“
March. There is a special around." world over as the "Ernie Pyle" -named after the war corres-
facility in the Japanese mind for When she came across the pondent—was completely gutted.
creating
mod wallet holding a tidy Y560,013 A lone woman employee of
example of which is a Tokyo she was "shocked" and in her the theatre was marooned on the
night club called "The Sky panic burned it. She later enf for early an hour and US
Room." It Is 40-feet under-apologised for the trouble she Kround in a Ginza cellar.
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An Apology
Air Force helicopters were Mr Suzuki extracted called in to lift her off, How- ever, a ladder truck beat them apology to by minutes. The copters Finance Then used their searchlights to nd the firefighters working in the dense clouds of smuke.
Not so fortunate were the 164 passengers and crew of the
an
10 the House from Minister Ichimada during the Budget rending when it was noted by Socialists that the Ministry Ind falled to make in appropriation for compensa ton of the Yen equivalent of
DRESSES! URES819! Prosser for all; Inland Sea ferry Nantai Maru | US$170,000,000 to Japanese firms ocomiorus, greatly redone safe at which sank in a violent storm with whom Indonesia had con- Vogue 216 Gloucester Building. –
in the Nuruto Strails. There tracted debis prior to the slørdag was not a shuple survivor of this tragedy which happened just one hour after the 498-ton vessel had rtcared port.
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BUNDAY. POST-HERALD Урисв
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for
Highlights
of the reparations agreement. Tire Japanese Government had agreed with adunciła to write off this sum in reparations pay- ment.
January 31 saw 400 houses in Tokyo's gay quarters close pr sent operallons permanently," This particular case highlights Among these were 134 from the the hazards of travel in Japan. huge Yoshiwara whose history With the exception of the rall dates back several centuries and rd which rather miraculo styleh has been the theme for There' schedules many a play and novel. run on split-second despite dangerous overcrowding, are still 230 more houses in all other transportation media is the Yorhiwara alone which have
until March 31 lo shockingly unsafe.
"change With monotonous regularity business." fully-laden buses "foll off" the
The contemplated so-called ronds into rice fields er deep ravines, maiming and kill- range ing passengers
from
family
"changes" centres,
by the dozens) private hotels and restaurants, houses ty cach week, These same buses, student boarding
The staff for such It should be noted, are often the tourist Inns. sole means available for tourists will be drawn largely from wishing to visit many of the among present males. There accurate figures
scenie attractions here,
bo booked not later than 6
advertising should
noon on Wednesdays.
are no really
EMILE ZOLA'S CLASSIC
L'ASSOMMOIR
Hollywood
helter-skeller after ERVAISE" which her to play the roles that de- mand the sophisticated art she this brings into this wonderful per- opens
"GERV
up
For the SOUTH CHINA afternoon at the Queen's formance. She breaks beyond the
MORNING POST and the
CHINA MAIL, 48 hours is a film that inust be
before date of publication.
Appolal Announcómonts
monta xa usual.
to
borrlers of the screen and
Into the audience reaches
of seen by every serious snare them into the orgy
emotions she portrays.
Francoise Perler os her hus-
bringing band, who falls into the mad-
pieces, this filim
his
Illusions
had caused" according to the newspaper story which had as Alr France brought in
Its last paragraph: "Police sus- of
and peet technicians
the mold ts mentally group journalists in a test fight from subnormal.” Paris over the North Pole vla A not unjustifed "suspielon" Anchorage, Alaska. Flying time under the circumstances.
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
#
ROXY & BROADWAY: "The March Hare." Peggy British Cummins and Terence Morgan in comedy.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Last Man to Hang." Tom Conway and Elizabeth Sellars in a drama. LEE & ASTOR: "Jamboree." All-star disc-
jockey parude.
QUEEN'S: "Gervaisc."
classic L'Assommoir.
ALHAMBRA:
Maria Schell in Zola's
"Yangtze Bridge." A Chinese pic-
ture. STAR & METROPOLE: "The Buckskin Lady."
Patricia Medina as the gunfighter. HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Cast A Dark Shadow." Dirk Bogarde and Margaret Lockwood in a re- issue.
RITZ: "Men In War." Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray
in a battle drama.
In
ATTEMPTS TO CLEAN UP CONVERSATION
A committee of three archlicels and a Government official, ap- polated to draw up plans. for further work, has now decided that the building is to be rebuilt as an historical monument.
There will be no cupola. Instead, a glass roof is to cover the malo, central part of the building.
Suggestions
The outcome of a competition on the future appearance of central Berlin la to be awaited before final decisions are made on the future use of the build-
a ing. Competing architects are
bound
By BRIAN HORTON
Duisburg, Feb. 5. The League of Catholic Youth here has started
campaign called "Operation Fresh Air" to clean up conversation in schools and places of work in this West German industrial town,
The first step in the campaign was to send out 10.000 copies of a questionnaire to young people between the ages of 12 and 25, moral level enquiring into the
of their environment.
From the 2,000 replies re- ceived, the League learned that 02 per cem of the young men, and 72 per cent of glis heard obscene conversation at work or in school,
Cold Terror
public,
When the results of the poll were known, the Youth League decided to make them ard hired a Duisburg cinema for the purpose: To ensure that the next stage of "Opernilon Fresh Air" went with a swing, the Catholic Youth League's Jazz band from Dusseldorf "was
with
¤
only by the condition
that the Reichstag building, must be rebuilt on its present site and in is former dimensions,
But they are free to make suggestions about its future pur- posU. These suggestions are expected to include the use of the bullding by the Parlament for a re-united Germany, or us museum, a public library, or a federal court,
The competition will be clased at the beginning of this month, and Government officials expect a decision to be reached by May 1050.
Invited, dancers gave a display of square dancing, and a cabaret The evening form performed. Anabod
discussion between the Mayor of Duisburg, a trade instructor, school- mistress, and a mother of nine Until then, work is to he concentrated on reconstructing children,
the facades the building and The Duisburg Youth League its four great towers.
About 160 workers will be employed for about eight weeks on this work.-Chin Mall Special.
Describing the result of the poil, a Church newspaper spoke of the "cold terror of the will continue their efforts to obscene
Wenwaken story-teller.
the public conscience know that many young on this matter, and not only in people at school and at work their own region. They hope Are exposed without defence to that the Federal Catholic Youth a squalld cloud of poison, for League will spread the cam- part of the the existence of which an evil palan to every
Republic, and that legion of abscene joke-tellers, Federal and foul minded-people work Evangelical Youth Organisations with deliberate ardour,"
"their ment It will join in eince
berr have to bear the
declared
Of the boys and girls and burden." young people who replied, half were aged between 14 and 17 yers, and more than half were themselves members of the
Pat
League.
"April Love." MAJESTIC & ORIENTAL:
Boone and Shirley Jones in a musical.
"Gunsmoke." Audie Murphy in a CAPITOL:
Western
Audio And Visual
Entertainment
4.30.
Of those stilist
Disruption
Barne
primary
The people
in Dulburg
to -- youth
to the organisations
action of the young will be welfare the
оп both
schools children in Western welcœna Germany
attend these
age of 14 or 15-91 per cent of federal and the state level.
of the boys and 91 per cent
The disruption of family life admitted to hearing and homes during World War L girls obscene talk.. Ainong older
together with greatly increased children, 83 per cent of those
material prosperity of the last working in industry and 89 per
few years, have "created con- cant of those in secondary ditions favourable to juvenile schools said the same. and Classified Advertis: patron of great cinema.
delinquency. In 1950, 242,000 My reason for
Asked about the attitude of boys and girle under the age of cess of drink, also gives D to the memorable performance. To your attention
teachers and seniors at work. 21 appeared before the courts. eleven per cent said they take Or the 15,000,000 young flim today is that like achieve the high standard
part and 13 per cent sald that people under the age of 20 in performance demanded, he made master- special character studies of most cinema
"they do not object." In reply the Federalton Repubile in 1950. Vocally Yours; 8. Children's to the question: "How do mem-2,500,000 were the children of is those unfortunate creatures who
RADIO HONGKONG have undergone the agony he
Corner: 8.30. Teen Time: 0, Waltz bera of the Catholic Youth refugees from Eastern Germany. portrays.
5.30, Thursday Club introduced by
than 80 per cent came Time: 6.30, Birthday halba 0,30 League react?", 35 per cent cald More Tala film is a masterpiece as Robert Acheson: Time Signal. Tropicana: 8.63 The story of Jane they take part and 65 per cent from homes destroyed or broken à study in terror and plly. It is fortung Hallaribbean: 1:50. Newife, Wouther Forecast, Ansald that "they
Portuguese Bel
Anultage: 7. Time Signal and the
showed reby the war. 7.10. Bistance," As I stated in my column last mature,
and Interlude: nouncements an example of what weather fleport; 7.. Time Signal. The
In July of this year, the Saturday, "Gervaise is the film great cinema, con be. Superbly News: 7.10. Commentary: 7. Souvenir Bongs; 7:50, Interlude For
Federal Parliament passed Music: 7.48, Low-- Isrown... and· ·
Personality
ILDW and much version of Emile Zola's classic, ected, superbly directed, it will Quiet Listening-No. 1 with Hector
extended lew "L'Assommol and as. n. study occasion a visit to the cinema Chauvin at the organ; 7.30, Taixing about Books, "A Winter Away" by
8.10, Capitol Elizabeth Fair; "Bubline Tobacco “
Boston Show; 8.30,
Blackle; by Bir Compton Mackenzie. "The Operation at Choy; la Midnight. At the end of the question-
Circle" by John Van "God Save The Widening
"Queen." Close
there mpire,
#pace Druten Reviewed by Janet Tomb Down.
observa- reserved for personal tion. The Church newspap Children's Hour-"Car- sald that there were many com- „Children's Story Timeplaints that the refusal of
Film: Bin-parents
discuss #oxuni 15
Headaches BAYER
Toothachis
ate
Colds
quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
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scheduled for only limited run.
in the haunting and Intensely you will never forget. moving aspects of decadent art,
it is unsurpassed.
Yet at the
und
NEW
as n and
set In
same time 11 is a lerce pirtless study of human misery. Rarely has so much human de- pravity found its way into the cinoma, it is magnificent study of human emotions frustrated papirations Paris a century ago.
Evil, as we fishtine it, comes cloaked in purple magnificence, bnly the arilat sees it for what It is, and where It Is. Here it lies with all its terrifying horror io a Paris sum, stalking with raithless tyranny over a woman who wifies to rise above her envareriment.
As Gervaise, Maria Schell atves the performance (kat sent
in; 7.45, The Legend of Mariel (Prince di Cendriano). A romantic sketch by
„Tipusa,and ble orchestras Of Das written
Bed of Renown; # Parado-re Boswell:
TELEVISION
5 pm
Observation
AVELI
a
A
for the protection of youth,
Its provisions catablished atrioter control on young people under the age of 18 attending | bars, dance halls, pin-table fun- tairs, and, after much opposition from the film Industry, cinemas. The sale of spirits to young for hiden repertoire of the Boyal "The Baw Recruit"; By, Close
Down 7.30 The Blare-in matters had caused children to people under 18 is
ünder the Ach, and children Opera House, Covent Garden, intro troubled by lambeth Characy: 740, pick up the facts by undesirable under the age of 18 may not be duced by Alec Robertson B. necumition NewsWorld and mean. Weather Raport; «, Time Signal, Fat Cloy 1060 Tingual Disea Dollars Drive, The money
by Godfrey Harrison (BBCTB); 8.30, toons"tarea's
Opera and Ballet, Excerpts from 5.30 the, oper
for
Dr
with dný kind of Colony vene 4, 2176 Unicompacted":
Many children admitted that served
unless in the Plodged #alte of Fuley, Combrity
9.90, "Commonwealth the
the majority alcoholle drink, pressure of
burent of a ves to the less fortunate Lapaliban
· Fontues consed, theni
part in compony Find Bar obscene talk;, or that they no
when The new law reinforced the longer fall, gmbarmored
Playholm:
In Hongkong to make their palabra-
tion of Chinese New Year a happler Wimsattwic
Down:
to Caton
One The Team Chris Harvey, King Hugh Williams, isabell' Alan NICK Kendall, Hay Donatirom bd Vinigte vlag, 1918, sex was lacleod. The news clauses of an earlier one which Brinton, Jana Wallace, Ted Thomas: "Diews, bendined, kwartier ar
announcements. Close paper quoted a ëlhi of 18 paying [piyes, thờ müthorities power, to A make a pledge dial 18211, 11 tod
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