THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JULY 13, 1959.
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"You see, it makes us more independent of America ...'
Condun zyrais SerLEN.
NEW ATLANTIC AIRMEN TRAIN
ON
THE GROUND
London.
THE pilots who are to fly Boac's new Anglo-American jet airliners, which next year will cross the Atlantic eastbound in about five hours,
are going into training.
Nex! north they will Jenn at London Align is dy the Band Intercontinental Horing 707%, with British Rais-Rayo ongirts. without ground.
tava the
Th
707% 1*W
are blger for is Caploin William Houston, and much more powerful than
Northwood. · Middlesex. ut
the Berings at present used by Bear's Training manager, Be's rival, Poa - Amerieur Always.
Baz officials say
A "flight simulated" custing simulate will newly £500,000 is being amount of money.
Inst: Bud
More powerful
On this the Boeing cap-
selected tahus,
from
the
Save 1
Sald Captain Stoney today "Quite
number of plats the Aure been emarked for the
At present they vast Boeing fleet.
are flying Comets, Britannins and DC.70's."
crew
# means nol yg down
feel of 15 virlloves the
on Tong
First of Boar's training
during aircraft is now undergoing its programmes which they would be earning tests in America.
nothing.
On July 20 the first five Corporatim's Come. Britannia captains are going to the and DC.7C trans-aflantic fleets, Rolls-Royce works for a week's will become 30 famillar with conse to learn all about the everything about the new a- now Conway bypas jest
liner that they should be almost engines. fully qualified before their short period of in-the-air Wrxining
begins.
Against
skin disease
and itching
Miligal
AGENUINE BAYERN PRODUCT. BATER
MANUFACTURED IN
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These live Tent Sides
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In spring
"We expect to take delivery of the No. 1 aircraft in Decem- ber. Services will start in the spring of next year." said on
Include Captain official Sunbury- Boar's flight
will have J
- Th:me
The Boeing manager of the Boeing feet, comfortable cruising speed of End Captain
Philip Breathall, 540 m.ph. With the lait winds
of Gerrard's Crees, Bucks, who of 100 m.p.h. will be in charge of flying train- quent high ing on the new air giants.
that are re- above the Atlantic Now it may often fly frem York to London at 840 mph. Captain Stoney, An Irish- men who was Dublin civil Going the other way it will fly against the herd- engineer before
he joined the non-stop
winds in about seven hours.
RÄF and look lo flying, won
The DFC during the war. AL
"We have not yet decided on I WGS
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Reporter Sefton Delmer tours the gayest country in the Red Bloc
say: Britain must be friendly with Poles
Warsow.
FOR a fortnight I have
been, travelling up and down the new Poland, gayest, freest, and most friendly coun- try in the Soviet bloc.. Friendly to the West and Western ideas and particularly friendly to Britain.
SEFTON DELMER, OUR CHIEF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPON- DENT TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT POLAND TODAY.
bridgehead of good will, more The young people have had Important, to my mind, than, drilled into them the idea that the over-led and over-praised they must one day retake their West Berlin.
⚫ heritage.
Propaganda
These people are the freest In the Soviet bloo-and they won their freedom by acllons like there: Stalin'■ stafute is pulled down.
for a peace made,
settlement to be rebuilt from the wreek It be- came under our bombs In 1944 and le a repair shop for lorrien and tractors, Another
Let us see how the Poles are managing the former territories.
Take Szczech-the
German
former Stettina bustling, thrusting and thriving port town.
Fourteen years ago, when the Palen first took it over, it was n hopeless derelict, buttered and burned into non-existence.
The Poles are skilfully ux- ploiting the position given them by the relaxation policy of
German travellers visiting Communist Party chief Gomulka Poland have bee spreading I have talked to both to gain greater freedom for co-
propaganda by asking the Poles Communists and anti- operation with the West under who are now occupying their the cover of their ordinary fonner farms and homesteads Communists. I have Communist system.
"take good care to
ut them Germ heard the views of or-
It could be developed to vital against the hour of our return," temmering,
for us all. But I The Germans have been dinary men and women importance
all could be wrecked through backing their claim to these doing their shopping or tear that we British and our now Pullsh territories with
stream of propaganda, sitting in the cafes or Noto allies are supporting the
matrous elabru put forward ing that the Poles are neglest- milking cows on the
by Adinger Germany for the ing and mismanaging the great farm. And I have talk- return of the former German heritage of German civilisation ed long and frankly with territories handed by us to Po- In the territories reded to Po-
land at the Potsdam conference land. top officials and makers in 1945. of polley.
Wrecked?
declar-
I can appreciate this Polish Now Thriving
fear of the Germans, and its effect on the Western Powers, only too well.
In Germany for the lust five I carry owny two conclusions years agencies supported by of vital importance to the West secret Govemment, funds have when the conewed ambition of been busy organising the re- Germany's Adenauer threatens fugees from the former Ger- us all with new dangers,
provinces of Poland in first that in Poland especiations elakning the return West
valuable of these provinces.
The
the
a
Krupp Arms
the synthetic petrol plant bull by the men and women of the camp for the German L.G. Dies trust. It also has been rebuilt from its ruine and
now
making plastic ineulators.
Rebuilt,
repaired and put to use. That is how I have been finding things all up the Jine during this trip.
Ships from all over the
Very different from my last world now unload and reload
visit here just after the Awar at rebuilt quays. Steamers
when the Helds were iett and motor ships are being re derelict and untilled, when the Faired and bull in the rebutit
towns from which Germons had and reopened yards.
been deported were largely Across the fields from the old empty and what was left in the German
horror camp of way of machinery was being Auschwitz I noticed factory dismantled and carried off by chimneys smoking. What are reparations-hungry Russions.
Industrial production in this One is the former Krupp area is higher than it ever was. munitions AL orks where
Ukse factorles?
My second conclusion is therefore that it is of vital
that Mr urgency
Macmillan shu make a public statement killing this fear of the Poles by making it quite clear that Bri- lain stands for the main- tenance of the present frontlers Aurchwitz slaves were worked TOMORROW: and will act in accordance with
Lo death putting fuses into Ger- this policy when the time comes man shells.
WHEN A NATION FINDS
A LONG-HAILED HERO
MIGHT BE A VILLAIN
by RONALD SINGLETON
New York.
KTERO or villain? Rescuer or monster? Which was he? These are H
questions asked now from coast to coust by readers who are realising, with a slow, fascinated horror, that a great American national hero of 1934, feted and honoured for bravery, might have tricked the country with a gigantic, diabolic, private smirk.
They read a book which was published recently called "Fire at Sea," It is a graphic written by Thomas Gallagher, a Manhattan novelist. account of the burning of the passenger liner Morro Castle a few miles off the New Jersey coast. The ship ended her life scarred on the Blackpool- like sands, a ghoulish attraction that was Asbury Park's biggest sideshow in history.
"
But it is more than a story of He went into vaceevlile. He bravery and burgling in U Kave lectures in his white unl storm whim 134 died. It is form and had his hands clasped
whodunit"
with gathering, by admiring men and tearful lements of psychologiedl terror, women and he became a boys hero in the American maritime world.
Arson?
saviour.
turbo-eletrie cruise ship sulled from Hevana to New York.
Now it has been THIS IS THE NEW POLAND
GEORGE
W. ROGERS
The bu'sun was drunk in his He joined the police force room and there was no one to and was accused of trying to ad the Breighters, the chict blow up his chief officer with engineer lost his nerve, and an intricate bomb. ordered Thr nearest
lowered, less
full.
than a
Honours
Efeboat He was sentenced to life im- quarter prisonment for battering to death an elderly couple after withdrawing thele savings. He dod ka geol last year.
The sordid wrangle over res. ponsibility tralled on for many a month. But the nation seized ca ceo hero-George Nogers-ho had at with wet towels round his head to scad an SOS under ger, and was then taken away terrible conditions of fiery dun-
on a stretcher,
sun- his
hometown
Aboard her were more than 200 officers and crew, and Rogers was paraded through more than 300 wealthy.
streets, grew. drenched and happy passengers, bloated off lavish dinniers of modals Caribbean tunes lifted in the honour, weighted with little dance hall, drinkers and went on coast-to-coast chatted round cocktails, and the stage-show tours. Morro Castle plunged into heavy north-east wind.
Crimes
No one thought for a moment that before death his lips could have told another story.
They were sympathetic-tho tragedy had ruined him.
Novel-writer Gallagher ("The Gathering
The Darkness," Monogamiet")
set out to decoribe the death throes of a ship. Fascinated, he realised that his
hero might have been the arsonist;
Rogers was a criminal at the age of 12; he had several theft followed by
criminal charges issau Ho who kuspectoi. of zetting fire to a radio factory and of stealing 2,000 dollars worth of instruments from laboratory.
Even when he made mistakes before he never seemed to lose the Nobody hind ever
People
Before the Morro Castle's last thought of the questions-Was nimbus of a
Within an hour the captain it an accident, tote, or destiny? were sympathelle. The tragedy
voyage Rogers had plotted to of the Morro Castle had torn
wan found dead (u heart attack Or was it murder and arson?
steal the chief radio operator's into his soul.
or polsoning?) in his bunk and Then his character changed. post. And was the villain the man Now they might well replise before the officers had time to The year after the disaster he is friends always knew him who became the hero, pudgy that George Rogers's soul was
collect themselves al this shock repair shop burred, and he as a man with a boy's fascino- our traffic experience this sun-32-year-old ship's radio epera- opli erg before the night of the ship was a sudden couldran, packeted large insurance cums tion for chemicals and explo
| for George W. Rogers?
September 7, 1034, when the There was chaos as heart later the police decided he sives. He once casually remarked mer," said an omelat.
He was feled everywhere. RBstening modern twin-screw rending as that of the Titanic, had laid the fire himself.
the end of this month he and the passenger layout," the hor four are to go to 1old. Seattle for a three weeks
technical course about the 707.
Alan in charge Hying training
to learn all
of the pre- on the simula-
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"That will depend largely on
-(London Express Service),
"The local paper's missed samo gooduns of your missus because, of the strike, your lordship,”
-[London Express Service),
that the ship's Dre was started by a delayed-action bomb. No une took him seriously.
His blographer now Infors that it was the hero who burn- ed the. ship-there was ♫ mysterious trail of fuel found In one compartment.
Worse still, ho-infers-that-he- poisoned the captain, who had threatened to fire him,
اله
It' is
circumstantial leyldence, of course, but so‘con-
vincing.
A company official of tho Ward Line,
Owners of the ΜΕΤΡΟ Castit, said: "None of us bus had time to read this book and I doubt whether it will alter our recorde which are locked up somewhere."
No proof
No one had known of Roger's 20-year-old crime record before he sailed in his ship. If they did, they did not associate the tragedy with him. Nor did they Inter. when his crime record continued.
No one can prove that Rogers was the villain. But this in a horrifyingly strong case
which makes the faming terror more Intense than it was in the head- Hen 30 year. BEO..
The man who could prove it
died without telling.
-Landon Express Service),
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