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THE German timber vessel Erich Haslinger ran out of drinking water in the North Sea. When she docked at Berwick recently the crew explained they did not mind: it meant 24 hours on beer instead.
ANGLER Bernard Moores made a cast in Portsmouth
harbour and sent his wallet with £4 108. into the water. Last week the wallet was returned to Mr Moores. who lives at Bridgemary, Gosport, Another ungler, Mr Noel Pullen, of Festing Grove, Southsea, hooked it. GOLFER W. J. A. Smith sliced his drive off the first tee
at the Royal Cinque Ports course last week. ball flew into the clubhouse 100 yards away, just missed the steward's ear, hit the back of the bar, bounced about like a ping-pong ball-and broke nothing.
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958.
NOW RUSSIANS WALK IN SINGLE FILE ON THE STREETS OF NASSER'S CAPITAL
Cairo is that
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GO HOME
EARTHMEN
N
sorry
so we
left
What is Cairo like today? Do the Egyptians hato
us as much as Nasser's radio propaganda would have us believe?
Ever since British paratroops landed in Port Said two years ago this month, Nasser's Egypt has been hidden behind a curtain of sand. Fow Britons have been allowed in to see life there today.
This survoy was written by a man who broke through the official barrior."
TASSER'S Cairo is a big city, a great city, a city of con- cealed contrasts; new buildings abound, others are soaring up, but they change nothing. The age-old dhows with their tall, spreading sails still make their slow way up the Nile past the Semirumis Hotel.
At night the bustle and strip lighting would put Piccadilly Cireus to shume --and this is not artificial dazzle, for there is something solid and per- manent about Cairo.
mere
Yet in the outskirts your car pushes its way through wandering oxen, flocks of sheep and goats,
Cairo la glering, luxurious, palatial and exciting.
unc
Nusser triumphant, Nikrum pensive, aze down from avery wall. It is the home
of the new cause, of the rebe with or withoul n cause, from all over the Middle East,
All Nork to Nasser's Court-- but not all get what they want. They drive around conniving and plotung in their new Mer-
codes cars.
Your taxi-man, with both hands on the horn and the devil at his elbow, desperately proud ut a few words of English,
Juriously drives an old Mercedes, I sat one evening in one of the houseboals that used to belong to the royal household moored on the Nile. It is now a fashion- able restaurant. It is packed nightly by a anart cosmopolitan crowd of political go-getters and international business meo,
Anxious hour
The women were brilliantly dressed and bejewelled, the band
was excellent_
This, I refocted. had been a day of contrast,
at I had arrived in Cairo
couldn't 4.m without a vise
get one; consequently only one atrine would fy me in) and had spent an anxious hour at the airport in a solitary room, star- Ing out at a Russian jet airliner 05
the the tarmuc, fearing worst,
RUSH. 4.32.
ANNOUNCE
CSABE VERE ORDERED 111 PORT BASDALE
ALL IN NINE HOURS
Port Said offer "We surrender" PARATROOPS SEIZE
3 KEY POINTS
TJÓRI SAID, she hero to that Sans Canal viferou
Franch poles had landed and as al
1000 measle
bý MICHAEL KETTLE
"Where have you SOTO Trom?"
"Geneva." "And where are you going to?"
"Rome," I replied.
"Oh," he said, appearing to sec De logic in that, which I did not, "But why have you come here?"
We were clearly at an im- passe. The pir company ге presentative coughed helpfully in the background, My pass pert and ticket were closely examined again.
'Such a fuss'
Eventually, at about 6.30 a.m., 1 was allowed, minus my pass port, to stay for 24 hours at a transli hotel, under nominal guard.
An
West Me $10, non avvalda
BULGANIN TALKS (3
ROCKET WAR
·OF BUDARESI
Two years ago-British paratroops were landing in Egypt.
people, like cofe proprietors or foreign exchange clerks. They turn out to be United Nations officers in from the Gaza Stily.
The small night clubs with their belly-dancers are full. The girl twists and writhes to the
"He gave you 15 plastres," my dragoman shouted, "so soy thunk you," He duly did.
"All will be better in a Jetp months," said this philosophical old gentleman as I bado hin goodbye. "Inch allah."
BOVINS
Standing us we were in the official Government polley more walling Arab music and rhythmic
of Amin- belled the real feelings of the clapping. Every Ave minutes she spiritual dominion people.
Ra, any difficulty less temporary, slamps her foot on the floor.
then a thousand years stops the music, wipes the weat bosom, and on she goes again.
her forehead, arms, and temporary Indeed, "Inch allah,"
I replied. La Nascer el popular? On
off
"But the propaganda?" I said exasperated, to the charm Ing Egyptian girl beside me,
"Oh, you make such a false
the whole the general Impression about it," she smiled, ag We drank gin and tonics before has done something for the Is "yes." Many will admit he dinuer. "We all want good people. He has redistributed a lations again. My father for his lot of land and thereby presum- business (I gathered he was ably gained more in thanks from large Importer) and i want to
the many then hatred from the go to France."
few rich landowners, who have An American bank manager lost out told me: "Well, have been Calro may be living en credit, here three and half years but it gives no impression of now, and at first I got very imminent bankruptcy. Many worried about this propagando exiled with Farouk are Dow Now I don't pay much attention back.
י
to it. I just read it and saу: In old Cairn I had dinner in a 'Well, who getting it in the narrow,
earthen street outside
neck today?'
the
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Neon light
El Feshalway's. We drunk fiery "I think in the West we pay Egyption vodka and smoked the far too much attention to " hubble-bubble. I walked round But as soon as I got on
he said. to
amid booths, junk shops, and "I have been in Brazil and fruit stalls. the only Government ancial whose name I
in the Middle East, and I have had been given
but nothing London,
praise things changed
for rapidly. I got a visa in
people in my bank here. Mind you, they are picked. But they matter of minutes, my passport
quick work hard, have very back and an official welcome.
SAW poverly, with boys brains, and are very loyal. I then had some tenderly
scavenging endlessly for cigarette "Business 14 done 4 Hittle ends, but I have seen much worse nursed illusions swiftly shat differently sometimes, but what in other parts of North Africa. tered.
the hell. I think a lot of them. "Yes, things are bad," said my And never have I had a rudo elderly diagoman as he walked word spoken
me in three with dificulty beside my rkinny years."
Arab pony towards the Sphinx. The beggars, the touts,
We turned and walked up the men with fly swats and whips rock-hewn path towards the to sell, the men with monkeys pyramids, the path along which on a lead whining for bacle- so many slaves had staggered. sheesh, they are still there. But groaned and died
After if they are caught pestering
climbing tortuously peration. And this and the foreigner too much they are now down from The king's burial genuine friendliness of all usually sharply rebuked by a chamber, it by neon lighting, classes of people was what astonished me.
For everyone 1 met was pleased to see me; and they all had one and only one
theme: "When are these ridiculous re- strictions between London and Cairo going to stop? No one wants them continue: 1 L too stupid
to
It was said in amused exas-
But
Had this been the attitude of one dutifully polle oncini I would have dismissed L
"And why have you
come It was not. Never, in fact, has here?" asked an immigration officer, eventually and suspi- clously.
I gave the name of the per- zon I had come to Ree and told him I had not had time to get a visa: It was urgent.
Lo
the
passer-by and sent away. right in the heart of the great Preposterously dressed pyrunid, my dragoman turned on soldiers in pale-pink
misfortunes bereta the Kuldc (the and vivid emerald tunles are of whose apparently numerous heard mauch in intermittently Geen arguing tendly I had earnestly with the most unlikely these few minutes).
Clockwork men
Back in Cairo I sat on the Semiramis verandah sipping lemon tea. The setting, sun lit up the palm trees on the other side of the brown and turbulent waters of the Nile, the masts of the dhows reflected against the evening sky. The hideous now Hilton Hotel stood uncompleted near by.
Tince Russians walked in, in single e, like clockwork toys, allke from their all dressed black hats to their black shots. An elderly American lady said: "Well, sunset over the Nile. What a picture, and my camera upstairs
But the frankest comment of on Egyptian all come from women who was a director in a business hould. "Oh, I hope the English will come back," sho Baid in flawless English, "It is all such a pity. We cannot understand why "IT" happened. How is dear old London?
"It la nice to hear #real English voleo, We feel nothing against the English, you know.
And then smiling broadly, she said: "And why if you started IT did you stop half- way? It was very unlike yout Look what IT has led to, Two years now and everything still held up. If you had done IT"
all this properly
would have been over in two months! But it is nice to see on English per- son; and do come ‘again."
IT Succ, 1955.
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CHRISTMAS "GLOW"
ONDON'S Regent Street is to have its gayest ever Christmas decorations this year. Main features will be seven feet high lanterns surrounded by swivelling plastic stars in brilliant colours. Fairy lights will connect the lanterns.,.Some 6,500 feet of continuous cable, carrying lamps at one-foot intervals, will be used. The Mayor of Westminster will "switch on" the lights on November 27, SHEEP PRODUCTION
PRITAIN eats more mutton and lamb per head of population than any other nation in the Northern Hemisphere and yet home production is only about a third of He requirements, says a report by the Natural Resources (Technical) Committee on the Sheep Industry in Britain. The report anys that if the exprelation of à gradual rise in the standard of living turns out to be correct, Bri- Lain will in future cut more meat including more multon and lamb. The domestic sheep Industry will maintain, or expand, its sharo of this market, but only if it can afford to sell meat which is in quality and price, competitive with imported mution and lamb as well as with beef and pig meat.
BIGGER FAMILIES
THE larger the family, the lower the parents blood pressur
Iether as well as mother-eccording to researches which are the subject of an article in this week's British Medical Journal. It might have been expected that women with many children had higher blood pressures than others. However, on the contrary, the reverse had been found to be true. "Even more surprising was the finding in a South Wales survey that family alze influenced blood presaurs in a similar way in the male," the article goes on. "Single men had higher pressures than the inarried, and the fathers of small familles higher than those of large families. The in- Buence of family size eventually became less obvious in the elderly."
"HAT TRICK” WEATHER
RUSH of orders for winter hats come to Luton hat manu- facturers as they were bury with models women will be weat- ing in the spring. Firms hnd Rut their travellers ready to tour the country with samples of Easter hats when the rush began. Mild weather is blamed for bringing a later demand than usual for winter headwear.
FORTUNE FOR CHARITY
A LONDON Jewish charity-Rellet of the Jewish Poor, of MIL- Adlesex Street, Distiopagate has been left nhout £714,000 in the will of Liverpool-born lawyer, Mr Maltland Joseph, Me Joseph, who died in Monte Carlo in 1960, bequathed his residuary estate of 1,081,001 dollars to the Board of Guards and Trustees of the charity. His American estale, probated in New York State, totalled somit £1,071,000 ron (2009,000 net). Mr. Joseph directed that his tegney be applied exclusively for the establish- ment and endowment of a "Ronoita Murlon Joseph: home for the aged" and for the provision of comforts for its residents.
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