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country puba.
particular,
Westminster Cathedral:
service In
could whereby
are brought to Britain by THAT valid the Beefeatera, churches, and ever be adduced
Is the living room of a powerful The danger
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by Cordinni Godfrey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of West-
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1959.
ANNE SHARPLEY reporting..374 steps high over Big Ben gets ready
[ATIONS wishing to get ahead need a symbol. Something tall
and distinctive so that patriots can feel proud, impressed and pleased with themselves as they stare up at it.
n
The French produced graceful but useless hieroglyph called the Eiffel Tower. The Americans contribuled the Em- pire State Building.
But the British, with an un- consciousness no often mistaken for craftiness, had already pro- duzed the winner of the inter- natlonoi symbol-contest, Big
Beni.
For Big Ben had something the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building or even the Parthenon, did not have, A
voice.
A voter so resonant and deep that Use British fell all their best qualities were expressed in it reverend thunderings A voice, which by the time it had renched maturity as a national symbol, was ready to dictate the hours of the day to the rest of the world in a superior and commanding style by the means of radio.
The full amount of feeling stirred up by Big Ben ought to remain a shy national mystery, But the next few months when Big Den becomes 100 years old will probably put an end to mil restraint.
ure
Members of Parlament giving national feelings a cue by holding a "ceremony" in New Palace Yard (details nal yet disclosed but involving the un- velling of a plaque) on June 3.
An exhibition honauring Big Ben will be held in the West- minster Jewel Tower,
to strike 100
nily betting a man who measures oft. fin., and whose full
13 noms Henry Briton Kerby,
Those who are influenced by the shaggy Gothic aspect of Big Ben Into supposing the stairense inside must be dusty and gloomy are romantically indulging them- selves. It is as trim as a herpl- tal all the way up.
The slow, perpetual clamber is, to the Grat-timer, one of these glimpses into the meaning of the word eternity. But lo our guide it happens at least four times a day and sometimes six.
Unhurried .....
He
is Mr Arthur Lovering, whose guze puts an end forever to any weight-reducing claims that might be made for climb- ing Big Ben four times a day for 39 years,
The giant hammer which strikes the bell.
siarts to reel off the facts about Bi- Ben's four greal moon-farcs,
"Twenty-thige feet across ... numerals twofeti in length ... minute hand is 14% feet long
and travels 100 miles a year ... 312 pieces of glass averaging a foot squars",
His cosy sandals pad philo- sophically up the stairs ahead
still of us. Breathing
Intact And Thirty-nine years this month sincs I irst climbed up and unhurried when we reach dial-height, ho Immediately here. It was gas light then and
we used to have to come up to light up the dials in the evening and again in the morning to pul them out."
Now the clockroom. Thére
are the guts, the working organs and to tightly tied to its beam with surprising honesty and of our national symbol. They that Big Ben's true volcs free recklessness the BBC takes its
the bellyard' cource,
after the
when it was recust dist bell had cracked.
are about the arme size and at blurr has never been heard, time, direct and fresh from have rather the same appearanes exert once in as an early locomotive with the Lollers stripped away. The innumerable elegant Victorian cogwheels have a blick, oll- zoaked air of duty.
Through the parapet the view nwalts. The scumbled silver of the liver. The patches of vivid ron. The boneyard of West- minster, below with its teeth, ribs and pinnacles gleaming.
And there is the pendulum. the pulse of Big Ben, with its ny load of pennies and half pennies that are shifted on and off according to citbatle changes. And the anter circle of power
to keep Big Ben accurate *olations. like busineSSINCA within, a Bith of a second every armchairs smoking efguis. 24 hours.
great view. And me that ought "I think I can claim I have to be shared by everyvfz, had the pleasure of 'showing you
Mr Lovering new warns
Sound blast
:
The hammer at Big Ben's side gives a mammoth nudge and
the blast of sound that breaks loote is like a wall of icy water.
The whole clock-tower is massive anvil for this reitera- tiny explosion of noise.
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By the stroke of six it scarha impossible that one's bones havo not powdered. It is impossible to count the rest of the strokes. Like 11 beton pügülist ona
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magnificent piece of k clock-work," said Mr Lovering, to keep quiet. Twelve o'clock simply waits for it to be over. who has clearly never had this is approaching assertion refuted.
the
If
Mr. Lavering stands. there smiling cheerfully, relishing our vanquishment. He has his little
"We never know when Up a few more stairs and BBC is going to take us in pay-off line all bright and ready. there are the bells. Big Ben in we have to keep quiet.". the centre. Fourtera tons of points out the two microphones, baritone bronzz Fez hinckened the nation's ents, through which
WITH THE CHURCHILL AND DOCKER GRABS IN
When a man
TNLESS he is betrayed,
UNL
or makes a foolish alip, the man who robbed Lady probably
Films are to be made on Big Ben and distributed by the Churchill
will
Central Office of Information in never be caught by the
a number of languages.
police.
And someone is sure to revive For the same reasons. It the Iden that Big Ben should is unlikely that Lady have 11ft installed rat Docker will ever again see FYERested by Sir Wavell Wake-
£150,000-worth of feld on November 18, 1958, and the rejected by the Minister of jowels stolen from her car Works because I would costinst month.
£20,000.
This does not imply Lance on the part of the criminals
some Bctional "master mind" but emphasises tremendous odds against catching a jewel thief.
Trivial sum
100
п
the
or
Small-time
bril-
gems to
By SIR RONALD HOWE
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH CYRIL KERSH
There now, I hope everybody heard that," he booms.
-London Express Errolex).
MIND.
has 'hot'
unload
with other
skins, into a new,
"I'm wearing the emeralds.
coal, and it is hurdly worth the' must fat, than from the bank.". baliter,
Or "Charles is bringing the diamonds from the safe deposit on his way homa,"
The vogue for fur theft was Immediately after the war when fur coats were in great demand but sebree.
Arthur was a psychologist. Ho had already studied the homes of his more wealthy clients. Now he asked himself one vital question;
Which is the one most likoly
. The smartest jewel thief I Once he had the Jewels, he of his haul-by burying i would get rid of them within 24 under a tree or in a river bed.
ever met was a man I shall call Arthur. He could climb like hours. No professional keeps Irrespective of what you may
the proverbial monkey. He had stolen goods for longer.
have heard, crooks do not use rate deposit for a reason I do the patience to watch a place to return the jewels to the safe for weeks on end, observing who not propose to disclose.)
lived there, the hours they kept, deront, or the night safe of the The advantage to a crook of the regular callers, hiding his ST Is that if he
bank, after the party? Which is ** Most important, he had con- walty until the "host" hos tests. Ife had them because the one wito will leave them for enoled, he will be able to do- he was a hairdresser in one of mund a boiler price from the the more expensive and ex- fence. Jewels always keep elusive London salons. their value.
One course would be to go straight to n receiver, with whom the thier is in nu pozition to argue If he is very lucky he will get a quarter of the jewellery's uctunt worth.
The figure of £20,000 is going to be made to seem rather trivial sum as the lump in the from nation's threat gathers
31 Muy
the (when
clock mechanism started in 1859) and
The annual recovery of jewels July 11 (when Big Ben, the bell, begon
years of steady by the police is only some 10 chiming).
total stolen. pir cent of
Within a few hours the fenon Climbing Big Ben is one of It is possible that the man
will have broken up the pleces the exclusive but less utilised who Look Lady Docker's into individual stones and it is privileges of Members of Purila- valuables
small-time then almost impossible ment. In fact without the pre-crook-a. petty breaker-open of identify them. sence of an MP members of the car doors. public may not climb Big Ben If this was s, unless he at all.
knew a fence able to handle No close inquiry has been that quality and quantity of
Was
·
Hide them
to
one
held, however, into the number loat (which would be unilkely), The fence will hide the stones of Members who, having or the size of the haul probably until the fuss has died down ranged for parties to climb the frightened him so much that he the police cannot chuse tower, then make the ascent threw it away!
person's gems for ever-or he themselves, as they properly
will remount them, with other should.
stones, Into new settings.
Captain Henry Kerby, Tory | MP for Arundel and Shoreham,
hna no time for such evasions.
Professional
It was perhaps with this
Alternatively, he might use as Dgent to smuggle the larger stones to the Continent, prob ebly to Holland,
If the crook can afford not to
He sel his foot on the bottom thought in mind that the South stair of Big Ben's spiral stair,umpton police had frogien. "Case" or the "full" and unfaltering search the River Itchen Tight away. Tall1-gets-ri
knowledge that there were 374 Because of the nerve required, more to follow.
and the careful watching of the
„fect," said our Minisity of over a long period, it is probable"
Works Kuldc.
that the man who robbed Lady "My foot are fat already," Churchill, on the other hand, replied Captain Kerby with dige' was a professional jewel thief,
Psychologist.
the night on top of the dress- ing table?
Against these daris, it is small,
Arthur was caught when he wonder that the police seldem
fell from a drainpipe, and was arrest jewel thilevés unless they
found, catch them in the net, or' get.
pockets stuffed with When there was a major social jewels, by a patrolling police- information from one of the event, was certain that some crook's associates. (There is no
nion. Five years in Dartmoor of the guests would go to thly had a chastening effect, honour among thieves, and one ralon for a hair-do before the would betray his grandmother if party or banquet.
He now confines his talents to Inevitably admiring the int blue in his he felt he had not received his the told me later) they would customers' hair-instead of the fair share from a crime.)
tulk about their clothes-and tint of blue their diamonds. Jowels.
-(London Express Service).
An odd aspers of the Lada Churchill robbery WES the taking of her furs.
★ ami
Professionals seldom seem to bother with furs these days. The SIR RONALD HOWE is a former head of Scotland Yard's better quality ebats have their
CID and for 10 years was individual belts marked.
Britain's reprosentative fucers to remake them. Interpol, the international police force
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MOTHER'S PILGRIMAGE
MOTHER who lost her only son in the war has com pleted nine-week "pilgrim age." seeing the places he visit
of Harrow Road, Sudbury, when he went to practice at Horsenden Hill, Greenford. At- tracted by the bulging, four youths on bicycles asked if they could have a blow." When ed before he was killed. She is David demurred the youths be. Mrs Janet Layton, now back at enme aggressive, "One of them her home in Beckenham, Kent, pulled me down," Bald David. after a round-Africa voyage in "They kicked my bugle around the iner Rhodesia Castle. Her and rode away with it." Bugia son, Sydnay, an Indian Army No. 2 was presented by Lieu- paratroop Houtenant, was 23 ienant-Colonel F. Walford, when he was killed in Burma chairman of the Parents and in 1944. "Ever alace I received Friends and Civilian Com his papers in which he described mittees, who promised a bugle for me the places he went to as a gift if the band gained a after leaving England, I have place in the first three in the wanted to go and see them for contest for, Sea Cadet bands of myself," salā 65-year-old Mrs the London area, Wembley Layton. “By going without little came fourth, but the colonel extras I saved 2400 for the decided they hnd done well trip." She went sahure at Port enough to deserve a bugla.
·Elizabelių Capetown, and Dur-
han, and stood on top of Table THIRSTY WORK Mountała to see the view as her CJEVEN THOUSAND Kent woll mom, www 1. Man Lasion, hapos kƆ cube will present a pageant to go to India next to see her at Tonbridge on June 27. The son's burial place,
organisers are ordering 28,000 baltics of "pop" and' £100 · of BUGLE LOST |-
los cream for thum... Episodes W7EMINLEY Sea Cadete band from Kent history. will be have lost-end gained deploted. Moacy raised froma bugle." Buglo No. 1' was stolen the pageant'. ‚will go to the from 18-year-old David Collias, Zuden-Powell' Memorial Fund,
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