This picture shows part of the Port of London, with barges in the Warehouse in the back- foreground and ships at their berths heilde ground.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1946.
THE POST-WAR
YORKSHIRE
PORT OF LONDON NEWSLETTER
(By L. B. Armstrong)
THE Port of London, battered by German bombs between 1939 and 1945 while it harboured the drab grey ships of war, is rapidly once more becoming the bustling scene of peace- time commerce.
Some of the activities involved in the transition from war to peace are described in this article.
(By B. C. Dunthorne)
One of the most interesting men I have met for a long time was an American, Mr Howard McClain of Lima, Ohio who was visiting Yorkshire this wook for the purpose of buying sheep dogs to take back to America for breeding purposes,
Ho
In a chat I had with Mr. McClain ho told me he considered Yorkshire" The Port of London bears; housing London's homeless cargo, sheepdogs the best in the world. He many scars which are witness to and seventy temporary shed units was at Longshaw Trials, near Shet- under construction will shortly add field, and wanted a dog and severn! the ordeal of the six years of 500,000 square feet to storage find bitches to take to his
farm. war between 1989 and 1940 transit facilities. Storage of to breed dogs which he could
A train
to Work
American farms, They can be seen along its banks, cargo in cleared alleindother and relieve the American farmer of at its docks, throughout its in- short-term expedient being adopted. cattle and stock. But he must have
fabricated steel housing
adopted. much of the work of fetching up dustries, and in the lined faces To all this must be added the of many of its workers. But magnificent cargo
atlon dogs trained to work on their accommodation now that the grim battle for completed at the Royal Victoria Docit Initiative, and he was certain the
on
Own
Nothing Positive Eisenhower Moves existence is over, the Port of during the war, this provides storage Yorkshire, sheep dor could do this,
Achieved In Palestine Talks
Into His New
Scottish Home
London is preparing for another struggle the fight for the res- toration of Britain's oversens trade.
The most cheerful and encouraging sign on the river Thames and in the docks is the increasing number of familiar ships returning to this "the main shopping street of the nations." London. Oct. 1. Nothing Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Oct. The berths monopolised for so long
Liberty skips positive was achieved when the 1 (UP).-Gen Dwight D. Eisen-by
names, ships of war Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest hower fulfilled the dream of the transatlantic names, hity curves now filling up and transports, are schoolboy to-day he with the London ships which for so Bevin, and, the Colonial Secre-overy
ancient castle long have been diverted to other tury, Mr George Hall, received moved into an representatives of the Jewish complete with massive rock vorts and services by the grim Agency here to-day in a last-walls, battlements and bloody dietates of Allied needs. A recent minute attempt to find the terms tradition. on which the Agency would agree to attend the Palestine Conference.
"A communique to-night said that there was a preliminary exchange of views and the meeting was adjourn- ed to that both sides might give further consideration to the opinions expressed,
The Jewish delegate was led by the Agency's President, Dr Welz- mann, and included Dr Geldman and all other members of the Executive now in London. The next Jewish move in key to be departures for Parls of Mr Eliezer Kaplan and
Rabbi Juda Fisman, two members of the Executive, who flew yoster- duy from Palestine to conter with the Executive's chairman, Mr David Den-Gurion.
The Arab-British Committee of the Palestine Conterence concluded lis work to-day by approving its draft report on the implications of the Arab plan to make Palestine an Independent Arub state. The re- port will go to the plenary kensions, which may be called to-morrow.
him with living apartments among
Firth of Clyde.
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approach to the British shipowners who regularly used the Port of Lon
before don
1930-1945 the
war,
intend to return their vessels to Lon-
ARREARS OF GROOMING
of and transit space of about 376,000 square feet.
Another problem to be overcome was the serious shortage of the Port's mechanical appliances; cranes, con- veyors and other cargo handling and warehousing equipment.
and partly by
He, found, the owners were somewhat reluctont to port, even for high prices.
He was surprised the Yorkshire dog owner did not make more of his dogs by breeding from them and ex- porting them, for in his view they were This
valuable form of export similar to sheep and hulls which the Old Country is famous the
for. Sun Mr McClain hoped that these hard headed men of the moors will be hurd
deficiency Was caused partly by enemy action transfer of appliances to the fighting nerable to attack thon London. services and to other ports less vul
Electric Cranes
In
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suaded to "trade" some of their dogs for good dollars, before he re- turns to Ohlo,
Rural Craft Products
is
FIRS
DAY
5.10, 7.15 and 9.15. p.m.
BY POPULAR DEMAND
HELD OVER!
VIVIEN LEIGH
ROBERT TAYLOR
M-G-M'S
"WATERLOO BRIDGE"
WALTER WANGER
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TECHNICOLOR
YVONNE DECARLO
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DAVID BRUCE·
WALTER SLEZAK
ALBERT DEKKER
MARJORIE RAMBEAU
1. EDWARD BROMBERS
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ORIENTAL
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2:30-5.157.30-9.30 p.m.
Betty GRABLE.
IN TICHNICOLOR!
The shortage of port Installations is being met by fifty 3-ton (3 tonnes)
However, while there is reluc electric quay cranes, most of them in course of erection, and thirty-one tance to send the dogs away from the moors there Arc other rural moblie cranes, most of which have
Yorkshiremen not so shy. They me about electric trucks has The Scottish nation, as a gesturevealed that without exception they been delivered. A large fleet of run-
craftsmen whose been or of gratitude for Gen Eisenhower's
goods are being dered and reinforcements in the form sent to Australia and New Zealand. contribution to victory, presented on
don A5 and when circumstances
entative system dock railway
have been
of rural crafts of Eng- articles the high tower overlooking the permit. Increasing members of these of locomotives for the hard-pressed Their products are among represen
ships Are hending into the obtained.
New electric, refrigerat- land being sent by the British Coun river gradually shedding their
ing and other types of mechanical ell. They include a patchwork quilt war paint, plant have been installed, and there made by Studley Women's Institute,
A PICTURE YOU HAVE WAITED FOR MONTHS! The General swept up in a bor- weapons and their grey
the refitting rowed Rolls-Royce, took one took and emerging from
are many other instances which could an article which clearly demonstrates be cited of peace-tline dock activity. Binding favour with
that patchwork, at the grim castle perched on a 200-yards in the normal cheerful hull and
which is
again The Best Super-Technicolor Picture ever produced for the screen foot sheer cliff. aid muttered, "Oh, funnel colours of peaceful traders.
parta 0% Boy!"
not a lost art in the
There are shepherds Yorkshire. crooks, with a particularly fine one und from E. A. Mintoft of Sherburn, another plece from near Malton is a swan necked hoe made by G, & W. Finrding of West Litton, who have also sent a turnip hoe. Examples of basket work have been sent by. G. Jewitt of Rlecall and Taylor of Todcaster. From Ulleskalf, near these old-world places with attractive names come other things, besome from H. Holliday of Stape Fickering, and Mrs C. Thompson of aerick is sending three fishermen's Jerseys as worn by the men who fishi Yorkshire's Inshore waters, Horses are represented by a variety of curt horse equipment which is being sent by A. Coupland of Elvington, Cooper of Helperthorpe and W. E. Naylor. of Drifeld, and there are amall tools from R. S. Webster of Burton Fleming.
Seventy-torn-year-old Lord Allso - descendant of the Kennedy clan which has maistered and died at rulzent (pronounced Cullano), "The Cove of Birds," for a thousand years
-erected a guest.
Gen Eisenhower was keenly in- terested in the Castle. He got down on hands and knees to examine the 17th Century bronze mortars that ance protected the Kennedys from neighbouring clans, he gaped over the wall at six smugglers' caves below and listened wide-eyed, while Lady Allen described how the Kennedy's ohre poured
boiling oil over the walls during an attack, Reuter report from Jerusalem!
As the party crossed the threshold sald that the Jewish Agency spoker-on which was barely visible the man stated there was not the slight Gaelic Inscription, "Three thousand est chance of Jews considering the welcomes" the Generals eye alight Arab plan which, he said, wased upon a collection of Scottish "simply to secure absolute Arab dirks. rule in Palestine for all time." He the scene for watching reporters, he added: "It may, be a dream for was testing the edge of one of the Arabs, but it would be a nightmare dirks with his thumb. for Jews."-Reuter,
ons
near
A.
The final and possibly the most important factor in this brief descrip- The repair yards on the Thames lon of London's bid for world
worken are literally humming in their efforts! prosperity is the port in overtake the arrears of grooming common with the rest of Europe he and maintenance which it was is dazed and suffering from the impossible to carry out under the natural reaction atter
tive dress
Happiest augury of participation in the most fantastic war. ill is the occasional sight of a vessel and ruthless war ever fought. He of post-war construction. Month by grumbles sometimes, as all the world month London, is "at home" to an grumbles; meagre rations and the increasing amount of ocean-going drabness of the post-war world are tonnage, each ship a salesman in the not stimulating to a mun enaged on drive to fill the empty larders of the hard manual labour. But there is a reserve of spirit and effort in the world.
So much for the visitors. What of London tideway worker which should the furnishings in this caravanserai not be under-rated. Given a lead of world trade, the berths, equipment, and a clearly-visioned ideal, he will. Dunkirk, the mountains; and cargo accommodation without move which the argosies might just as well defence of the Port and preparations remain at anchor? All the world for D-Day owed almost as much to knows that the Port of London the worker of London's port as to end endured the
the fighting services engaged. on longest concentrated
His active operations.
native bombardment Inflicted upon Great
was philosophy and inimitable Cockney As the great doors closed Britain. But although the attack was it have many times saved him, and
big, the target was bigger; despite
Loss of Time Pay heavy damage, the Port was never in it would be a great mistake to une
There has been much talk about ringer of collapse. Ita major con- dervalue his contribution
athletes being paid for loss of time tribution to D-Day and to the con- recovery of Britain's world trudé. Gen Eisenhower come to Culzean tinued supply of the Allled Armies of
If I have painted a grim picture of in local Government circles, Dar- from the aerodrome to which he flew veration-astounded the enemy who, a port, tight-lipped-and-frowning, itlington Rurn! Courell is the latest to upon completion of his tour of his plans, had decided that the is yet n pleture full of hope. For discur the matter. It is in favour trict milltary commander to-day Germany. At a press conference, he
Jerusalem, 'Oct. 1 (UP). The dis- American military establishments in Thames could be discounted,
some hundreds of years the Thames of councillors being paid for loss of ume at work, but does not favour clamped a night curfew on Peta reiterated his belief that
Damage to quayage was com- and its port have been a dynamo and
the payment of travelling expenses or no one paratively small; out of a total of 44 supplying power to the markets, Tiqv. 15 miles north-east of Telaviv, wanted war at this time and warned isles (71 kilometres) of quay at the productive efforts of all nations, subsistence allowances.
against defeatism, "The worst thing; cacks, less than 1,500 yards (1,371 During
the present transitional ony man can do is to say there is no metres) were affected. But covered period expert engineers are overhaul chance for penge," he stated... cargo storage accommodation was ing and tuning up the machine, Gen Eisenhower asked reporters much more unfortunate. Practically ready to pulse a current of energy for news of Nuremberg. Informed every warehouse and shed in the Port and service through the cable of A one-storey house in Rehovot, 25 that the former ace Nazi diplomat suffered some degree of damage, and, maritime trade linking the peoples miles south-east of Telaviv, was Franz von Papen had been acquitted, the end of the war found the Port of the world.
substantial part of its blown up believedly by the Stern he grinned and said, "That guy sure short of Gong as reprisal against the owner. is a slicker.""
normal facilities for storing cargo.
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and the surrounding 10 Jewish settle ments where troops and police are operating.
Several persons have been arrested In extensive searches of several Jewish colonies.
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Billy Thompson the boxer, has been training in London for his forthcoming fight with Stan Hawthorpe at Liverpool, which for hopes will lead him to a fight the lightweight championship Great Britain. Part of his training nna beer with the Arsenal team at Highbury, a privilege extended tew outsiders, and he has thorough- ly enjoyed himself with them.
Phillip Mickman, a 15-year-old λ port without ample storage
the accommodation is oven less practical
Ossett Schoolboy, accomplished than a house without cupboards, and
Castle Foot swim while on holiday at This creditable icat, the problem was treated as the first
Scarborough
the North side to the South priority in the
Port of London Immediately the European war came
side, was accomplished in 54 minutes to an end in May, 1945. In May, pliances and radio supplies, with 20 3-5 seconds, which is not bad 1940, despite the shortage of labour 80,000 workers in central, northern time at all, considering the difficulties
a programme of and western Japan, struck to-day of the swim. repairing the less severely damaged when sotations collapsed for the The North Riding is getting con- buildings is nearing completion. One recognition of collective bargaining cerned about the lack of policemen of the silver beams illuminating the rights.
the stimulus dark clouds of war is the
The Union demanded that the com- which is afforded to science, by which inventions are subsequently available pany agree not to dismiss workers for peaceful alms when the struggle and also suggested opening a confer is over. Prefabrication, brought to ence for the revival of normal pro-
duction. perfection in the interests of disorder has been made full use of in re-
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BARBARA STANWYCK → DENNIS MORGAN
INDISCRETION!
Tokyo, Oct. 1 (UP)--The Workers' Union of the Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company, the largest manufacturers in Japan of electric machinery, ap-
was
in its area. It is only 80 per cent of its normal strength, and because of the lack of recruits, nearly £7,000 has bean cut from the amount unticipated would be spent on the It has been decided force this year. that the Home Secretary,should be asked to increase the amount allocut- cd,
Plans to carry electricity to more villages in Yorkshire are announced by Electrical Distribution of York- shire, Ltd. Among the places which they want to give supplies Appletreewick, Barden, Burnsal), Calton, Cracoe, Eshton, Flasby-with- Winterburn, Harlington, Hebden, Hetton, Rlystone, and Thorpe, all in the Skipton area.
All the staff and miners in Wom- bell Main Colliery took the day off on Wombell Feast Monday, Sep- tember 28. Because they gave up August Bank Holiday to help in the coal production drive. they went to Bridlington, and the cost was sub- sidised out of profits from the snack bar at the pithead baths, The result was each person going on the trip had to pay only about 28. 6d.
NICE PERFUME THEFT
Nice. Got 1 (UP) The polico nnounced to-day that five concrete containers of Jasmine perfume, worth more than $1,500,000 were stolen last night from the Labornia plant
ini Vallauris made here..
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may be future grocera or buteliers