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IF YOU
ARE HOPING
TO DO
A LITTLE SMUGGLING
by Peter Chambers THE Customs officer
at London Airport was reasonably efficient. He found everything I was carrying except the opium.
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"Anything to declare?" 01
hol. A carlon Amenean cigareties, a half- huttle of brantly, Kurdish bracelet, AIG Two junk ins from the Istanbul huzpar. Valie of the jewellery: out £4 108. All right," he said, chalk-
I up my bus. So I walked London Airport with
it of
four seed-packs of the oplum poppy rating like inataris in ay traveling gr
picked the opioins In a Geld
in South Turkey a low weeks
ago, where
Goverancent Beenet.
rown unser
the
A eticheta Is it easy Costona Not as easy as you think, though thousands of British Travellers returning from Continentai duys are
ying
at this time 0
3.
My opium pads, as it hap kens, were fed ar valdeles, as a succe of the drug. But with Swie watches (1 stoppeni Geneva) I could have
UVI
mude kil
I
FAVOURITE
Bro
Watches
the favourite contraband of both thr pro- fessional at pelty Staugter, British Customs officers puttige £100,000 worth on more than
of smuggled goods every year and nearly half the stuff is in the form of highly duti able, highly purchinse-taxed watches.
Let's see how the out-and-oul it on. He wears amateur tries the watch, But somehow he thinks he is deceiving the Customs ofleer by fixing an old wristband on to a glittering new Swiss-made job,
Laugh? Customs officers are crying into their duty-id beer
at your simplicity.
1145
Where did
"Nothing in declare says impassively. you buy that watch, plonse
What's amazing the way they inanage to keep their faces straight as they hear the same old tales trotted at.
"It was a prémii from ruy
sunt.
pub.
ught it off a chap in
FIVE- YEAR
PLAN
THE CHINA“ MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1961.
TWENTY- YEAR
PLAN
"...I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST PLANNING-I ONCE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT IT.;.”
---MR, MACMILLAN
London Exprase Service,
HONGKONG
MOVIELAND
BY DAVID LAN
Bound for the Venice film festival
AST Saturday after-
noon in the Miramar Hotel lounge, Jeanette Lin-tsui, star of "Education of Love,"
15
A film that means
"Another point. This is the
felt like "an egg on a Best that in years to have dealt frying pan,' worrying with a heavy subject-education - about how the film was when comedies, farce, light- hearted romance Bnd actiun doing at box offices on have been the vegu. of the both sides of the har- day," she salti, bour.
"Few producers would have dared pouch such a story....for fear of losing their shirts!"
But soon she was put at Casa and relaxed in her Listen. smugglers. these chair when phone calls to stories us will not wash. The cinemes revealed that the sion to the way of her father, a
law says plainly that the i on the importer (that's
chate tax but been paid.
onus
The story of "Education of Love" tells of a girl's conver- whose primary sembol teacher philosophy-education is life -- Jeunning, was packing thom took up all his waking days on
in despite heavy downpours, warth,
you) film, for the
to prove that daty and pur
SURRENDER
Patien! interrogation Wil 500 Avar you down, and b fore you know it you will be gellini yay Aunt Eden inte trouble.
n
second
day
The rain was nói her only
eathe for concert though.
And such was her conviction after acting for her bed-ridden father, and so much wa her
* me, I is like a battle for absession with his devotion to
la come-back." she said, " the calling, that upon his death
cause this is my first petite
| marriage."
after almost
Fear
yuara ot
secret
"Do you know which shop your sunt bought the watch int No Can she prodice receipt? What Is your unt's full name with address?..
To further clarify the point. A1 This
the point
Delis
she disclosed "thal her smutier usually gives In
fear, based on a poputar vi . The professional smuggler is
was that local audiences would quite a different Reitle of fishy Business
i not go for a girl star once she He is
was married, He is experienced, ingenious. He may smiggle in jewellery intim of italian tomatoes,
4,000 watches Into the country wild- ed up under the wings of his
cor.
UF.
carry
Traveller. If you are rorrying contrabani you may have you problems. But behind his non- commeklul face, だか hug the Customs officer.
I know, I worked for the Customs and Excise for nine mouth in 1043.
-Landon Express Service).
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Qaflant ifile Belatum 1
Gallant lute
Czechoslovakia ?! Gallane little Poland 1}) Gallant little Barkia 2**
Loudon Express Berrios,
Miss Helen Li Mel, that versatile
actreRA zuzei dancing star of MP &-GI, has gone into real estate aliteline.
The other day, she sold a luxury flat of her own in Kowlook for na nilsged kum of $90,000.
Helen bought two more Ants In North Point — not for herself. but for tenants and rent. Thore- by Helen has two more trees from which she can collect golden apples,
So Helen has become one of the many stars who knya combined neilng willl the real evinto bukinen.
she temporarily gave up the pursuit of musical studies abro and her dance's company in preference for tenching.
Debut
Jeanette went on to yet an other enuse for her worry. "I was awfully dineuli to make my role in the Ohn outstandiku4% for, i was portraying an ordinary girl who was far from berisig ti strong character and who had no outstanding idiosyncracies."
Such being the odds, when the film was first presented to the palle, h.ld lu suspense not only Jeanette but Flobert Chung, the head of MP & Gt who makes his debait in the thin as a movie director,
"50 when Bob ដបវ learned the first day's takings yesterday, he sighed with relief. The next noment he threw up his is and said, 'I'm afraid now all my girl stars will get married, lughed Jennette.
Peronally, Jeanly hopes the sweess of the film will set a new trend in local fira production se that the public enn see "more dius of significance."
The next touchstone is the Venice Film Festival in which "Ecutention of Love" has been entered the first-ever Hong- kong-made Chinese Bln entry.
The festival, to be held from August 20 to September 5, la of sch high artistic standards that Jeminkte though! *the mere nomination of thế Aim is honour in itself."
a come-back
for Jeanette
High festival hopes
every street is a canal. Yet noi a single star has made a slugte "splash" either in 11. Lida ur in the caush.
He stands only five feet Jour. "So when he first went on set to direct a Aim, they called him *Kid," said Jeanette.
A
"The festival provides 'Golden They have 10-month-old Lion and Silver Llon awards boy, Caesar, who smiles when- for the best pictures and ever anyone aims a comers at Awards for ent actor and him, and likes to lay his hands
on any sort of machine.
actress.
"But sometimes when no Alms measure up to a certain state- dard, the Festival authorities just withhold the award.”
Mention
Jennette sul, if 'Education of Love' should bring back any award or even a mere mention
That signes he is growing
up to be either an actor or, an engineer," said Jeanette.
Mak-
At present, Jeanette in ing "Till the End of Time." At home? I'm busy with two kils--one big and one small."
in despatches, 11 would be con- that is the question that has sidered a great encouragement thrown the muscle mon of to our movie Industry.
the screen, Roy Chao Hung, Now u
star of International into a quandory, magalude, Jeanette
Was born of Cantonese parents in Shang-
al in 1930.
role in "Fortitude of Life," the Roy is wanted for a leading
Arst film to be made by the
I GO IN SEARCH
THE
OF HERR ULBRICHT
From MARK WILSON: Berlin'
HE surprise invitation by the soft-voiced German girl calling me on the hotel telephone was too intriguing to refuse: “Would you come to the Eastern sector at 4.30?" she asked.
I told her
flown I had Into Western Berlin just an
hour before and had been in the Hotel Kempinski long enough to unpack two ties and a handkerchief.
"What took you so long to make contact?"" 1 asked. But the joke was wasted. She gave the address of an East German Ministry and a name to ask for, then soraptly ended the con- versation,
the
Henring about
strange call a West German showed no surprise. "I expect they know what you had for lunch by now," was all he said.
Galle
most
... pan!
Ulricht
lo
to
say anything concernilig Berlin. 'The worl shorthand writer nodded ДВ ver strained Keep pace, So did the escort who sat silently beside me. Nazis.....the 'market"
Blecha cooled ond quoried: "Are you for peace." I said I was and he immediately RN- nouneed us to the two anlookers ns friends.
Then he really set to work. Had I any children? I couldn't gulle sue where this pattern was lending so I countered:
Yes,
the When can I see Ulbricht?"
It bounced off.
“Then you will know how serious it is when I tell you that there is a pollo epidemic in West Germany. For their good we have offered to sup- ply them with Russian vac- elne,
but they have bothered to reply. West Ger runn milliarists are spending the lives of the children as pari
of the cost of the cold
war."
not
For 90 minutes the ques- tions came.
What doeя Britain think about German troops training in Wales" Do the people of Britain know that Nazis sillt command the German Army? What about the Common Market?
Do the British pro- ple want to he economically
Does the West know the full extent of nuclear stockpiling going on across the border?
By this time I was beginning to feel that I should reply with only tank, nome and number. But I stuck to: "When can 1 921 Ulbricht?" Finally
we
The green uniformed people's very good"-led me to Herr involved with West Germany 7 policeman at the Brandenberg Blecha.
checkpoint becilme
A thick set man in his early attentive when it was explained forties, Blecha sat at the head that I was entering East Berlin of a huge table and behind a to keep an appointment with battery of telephones that would Herr Blecha,
desk put any Whitehall He volunteered directions... shame. down Stalln Avenue
"What brings you to Berlin. Stalin's monument... The Mister Wison?" he asked by called it checkinate.
uf introduction. Yul Ministry stand opposite a way
I re- Come again small open park with a grass. mean you don't know?"
plied but It was another joke Blecha ended It all with: covered mound in the middle.
wasted,
"Remember and understand In "That," said my driver with He wountered with the offer East Germany everything is obvious disinterest, "is the of a Russian type cigarette and done for the good of the bomb shelter where Hitler put his question again. sant people." I multered o faint, died."
other Among
things Am I going to see Ulbricht?"
Said Blocha: "Perhaps, par- Prompt on 4.30 i checked in, wanted to see Walter Ulbricht,
you may have to Two large-framed photographs Communist head of East Ger- haps. But of the East German Communist many, about his refugee prob- come here for another interview
And the other things? first.... suld I intended talking to Herr and Brandt, the Wüst Berlin
my
that
leader decorated the walls of Tem. the reception room where passport was scrutinised used for filing in a special fun, Mayor.
What brings you?
He said he didn't think he
would have any difficulty in Anding me again. I'm sure ho The reaction to this could not won't, not with that soft voice have been more explosive if I doing the searching, but I will I won me An escort who had said: "DownL with Krus want to know the rules of the after politely but firmly robbing chev." For five minutes I was game before I keep another me of the Interpreter I had treated to an angry lecture on date in East Berlin. brought "We have
our own, why Brandt had no right
Lalent Express Service).
THE PICK-A-BACK ROCKET
to
Latest idea being considered by American scientists
transport the hoary booster rockets, such as Dr Werner von Braun's Saturn, needed to launch manned spacecraft of the futuro-carry thom pick-a-bock on a sturdy sirplano, At present the only practical way is to take them from factory, draund
the coast, to launching pads situated in remote parfi.
The picture shows a U.S. Air Forco C-133A Cargomaster in flight with an artist's impression of a Saturn racket on its back.
Robot detective
makes 'arrest'
IBM 1401 IS NEW CRIME FIGHTER
the lightning-quick SCIENTISTS have turned
electronic computer into a powerful, weapon to fight crime.
The "robot detective" has al- ready male its first "arrest"--n Rang specialising in streei, hold- upin.
Incat stack resembling grame-
A similar machine has
new
gong
The World
of Science
by Peter
"Time is important in these days of speedy travel when a
country in a matter of hours."
con
criminal reach another
Q
28
"
'WOMEN BEST
The robot pinpointed one par▲ ASTRONAUTS' ticular neighbourhood 盐用 the next likely farget. * Police
UOTE from the journal "Officially known as TIM 1401, reinforcements were drafted inlo it can carry detalls of the hablis,, the oren. When the
of the Chest and Heart "Board or no Beard", Angerprints and methods of pounced they were arrested.
15680ciation: "For physiolo thousands of criminals in
Price: £60,000 Kical. reasons,
under, con- ***memory"--a metal discs
Just ditions of extreme accelern- phone records.
been ordered 1or Chicago,, tion and decoleration All this happens in seconds traditional hunting ground for would be experienced on compared with the hours needed gangsters and racketeers. It rocket light to the moon, a to Bort through poller dies in a harkite Information from the criminal record office.
city's daily crime sheets, arrest woman stands up to con- reporte, trame violations, and ditions better than a man. store, pawnshop, gun and bleyele
"She is less liable to "black- Britain's rst fum 140t has records a well as a "rogues out so quickly. Furthermore, if now been installed in a special gallery" of American crooks, she is past the child-bearing sgo, To buy the "robot detective" the hazards of radiation would centre at Newman-street, Mary- | Jobone - less than two miles costs £00,099. A spokesman, for not be so serious for her.
from Beutland Yard. I under- International Busines Machines "On a purely
medical basla stand it can be used by Yard told me: "No human brain can it wouki agen that detectives on request.
storo more than a fraction of the would be a more nullable candi- frat "robol delective" tutorination locked away inakdo dale
for being an astronaus bad a dramatic success in the 1401's memory. New informe than a man. It is only a ques~ the American cily of St Louis, ation about a drinio is checked ilon of anort time before both The police department there was againn very known criminal, arziya in spnow. If both arrived, baffer! by a series of daring and the compiler obnes up with at the ashie tine, then. Indeed robberies, Bo detectives fed into three be four stocks who might there would be equality: DË the computer overy relevant have done the job, in a maiter sexes,” detail about the orlines.
of three or four seconds,
mtLandon Express Meretes),
She attended Ling Nan Mid- Tungman Motion Picture and And doubt about the fent- die School in Bhanghai and 6t Guneral Development Co. and
val's highbrow standard can Stephen's Girls' Collegu
in starring the Pagadlena-Playhouse be dispelled by what Mr Chen
trained Agnes Wong. Jungkong.
IJ, MP & GI public rela- Bank officer, han to say!
A
And in the 0lm he is required In seven-yants, che ha ap to look clean-shaven and hand- *The Cannes Film Festival to peared in 28 dims of which the some.
"Our Blster But on the other hand, MP more of a commercial nature, moal papular are
for & 11, Itoy's employer under "Welding Bells As you may have seen, many ledy,"
naked him to International *tate
Hedy," "Too Young to Love," contract, tran make
grow a beard to phoney of themaciven in and "Spring Long"
ituf?"") for another flim. Cannes
Water Just
She married Mr Charn Kim, If the two fime should atnes publicity putytes.
84, a movie writer, director and shooting at the same time, hoy **There in just as mucle or even now manager of a movie com- will certainly have a serious
mord' water in Venice where pany, in 1959.
Problem on his hands,
for
In Marylebone
The
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