Epic Work To Give Displaced Persons Hope For
Future
As soon as World War II ended in Europe, Britain's voluntary societies, all under the protection of UNRILA their own members, but each of them responsible for began to vend volunteers over to the Continent to work these in the British zone. To-day there are. 800, of
voluntary societies people belonging to 17 different doing relief work, as well as many other workers from all the Allied nations in other parts of Europe. Among these 800 there are made life for the imprisoned people 450 British subjects and of these the majority are women At the time these women under- their pilgrimage to Look Holland, Belgium and Germany, there were very few men avail- able although there were certain units consisting of conscien- tious objectors (who have done some truly remarkable work) and Quakers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946.
HELICOPTER'S MILITARY POSSIBILITIES
Before the war the Services, particularly the Army, had began to take an interest in the military possibilities of the helicopter. By the end of the war its development. had reached a stage where its use in the Services became a prac- tical proposition.
:
.
During the war, owing to Britain's agreement with the USA that she copter knowledge and experts while should lend the Americans her hell- the concentrated her resources in other directions, there are now no production, British helicopters in though number of firms are pro-
ducing prototypes.
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WELSH NEWSLETTER
By J. C. Griffith Jones,
INCREASE OF
Four
Shows
To-day
AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS
Walen has long been called a "land
The United States Census That reputation has been of song".
Burenu says that when the gained largely because of the Welsh people's zest for choral singing.decades ends in 1950, these two Before the war most Welsh towns things will have happened to of any size find their own choral societies, many villagea yere also proud of their singing "schools,""
Most chapels and churches have choirs, not forgetting their
com-
singing festivals cymunfu The Welsh sing--all outamin at football matches and
funerala, too! In the Industrial areas, especially in South Wales, the choral tendition was kept alive all through the war by civil defence and flee services organisations and by factory choirs.
Now the big choral societies are being revived all over Wales. There will be more and better chara!
American householders:- 15,- 000,000 new ones will be formed, and 9,000,000 of the old ones will be broken up.
Thus there will bo n net gain of 4,000,000 households.
In Census Burenu parlance, a relatives, lodgern and others living household is a head of a family plus under the same roof and sharing commen household arrangements, anys United Press. The thinl num-
In 1950 ber of U.S. families
Ja 41,000,000. estimated at
The reason for the big increase in
smallctions at sex! year's National the number of familles is the re-
to
cord marriage rate in the past few years-2,000,000 a year. This is, 50 per cent higher than in the Inte 1930's. Many of the newly-married now households until more housing couples have postponed establishing in available and their economic și- tuation is better.
The reasons for breaking up of 8,000,000 households are death and divorce.
chiefly
unbearable and in many cases had led to suleide or at least to complete mistrust of the world-hod to be handled with the utmost delicacy. To help in this situation the workers or- auired all kinds of training schools;
There are, however, there were classes for technical sub- jects, for trades, for agriculture and
at Colwyn Bay, than we ishlag; for higher education and pre-number of American Sikorsky hell-
copters in Britain, and a decision has have listened to since the late 1930's. paration for the universities,
been taken to made some of them for Some of the big-scale song festivals To-day In each university on the training purposes.
reserved for choire are also likely to Continent re-opened by the Allied It is necessary for the pilots and be revived next year The Three Control Commission 10 percent of ali
adequate Valleys Festival at Mountain Ash, ground crews to receive places are kept for displaced persons. Instruction in this type of machine, for instance.
The most interesting thing that in many respects is com- In groups of 10 and 12 the women Reports on some of these aludents which
different from orthodox happened to, Wales, musically, du- started their tremendous work. Each have already come in and it has been plotely group took complete charge of found that in most cases these young nircraft and requires expert know-ring the war, however, was that it camp or group of camps, assembly people fit into the communal life re- ledge to fly and service. Training is developed a greater interest than
where the dismarkably well.
expected be completed in three ever before in orchestral music. centres, or villages
to four months.
Until recently the Welsh people placed persons had been left in the
time every The epic work of these Societies. When pilots become proficient, preferred
cholru most humiliating and shocking con- dition The first job was to make the among which are the Salvation Army, tactical trials with Sikorsky Hover- orchestras. But the black-out and
habitable, lo im- the Red Cross, the Society of Catholic ya will be held under the direction the bombs altered that, camp or centre
New Musical Tradition
of Britain's prove the Banitary and health con-Rellet and the Jewish Committee of of the Air Ministry and War Office.
For the first time some four-bas Twe other Hoverflys will be issued
visited Wrics, ditions, to provide doctors and nurses, Relief-to mention only
not hese to the Air-Sen Warfare Department orchestras
The clinics, sick bays, schools and had to be seen to be believed. These
but regularly. w
nl centres.
men and wonen, with their colleagues Unil for investigation into their occasionally even now is not com- from the other United Nations, have possibility for rescue work. All the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Boult,
Adrian This tric
nrosaved the lives of many thousands pilots this Bight will be Royal ducted picted, because the conditions
At the half-yearly meeting continually being unproved, but after from disaster, not only in the physical Artillery oflcers, while the ground came to the Valleys, played
short time the comps and settle but in the spiritual sense. It is one of crew will be provided by the RAF. Cardin, Swansen, Newport, Aber-
the of the Council of NAAFI held ments were in sufficiently good order the greatest human atories of the post- The results of these trails will dare, drawing large audiences. Dr
came with not only for Malcolm Sargent
Orchestra, in November, the balance sheet to enable the workers to begin to war period and as such will go down provide information the Services, but
also for
Philharmonie the London prepare the unfortunate people living in history.
an at September 1, 1945, and Ministry of Supply, in deciding performed great music even during
account for the there for a new life, for repatriation
the revenue future types of helicopter.
the blitzes.
CEM.A. or resettlement.
and E.N.S.A. everywhere included orchestral pro-year ended on that date
Wales tuned in oftener approved. grammes.
The turnover for the year on the radio to good orchestran. A
approximately £162,000,000, a peak figure for the war period and the highest trading return in the his tory of NAAF1. Subsequently the turnover has gradually declined and # is at the
rate of to-day
£110,000,000 per annum.
The revenue account showed that
To begin with, there men, women and children had to be led back to family life and to some semblance of normal conditions. Here the admirable spirit of these tormented folk helped the workers to an almost incredible extent. The Instine! to survive band been demonstrated throughout the long years of their captivi.y: now the workers saw the deep-rated belief dness and truth of mankind in kindness slowly but surely reviving.
After they had made some slight physical recovery, Same of victims of what has been probably the world's most horrible tyranny offered to undertake the education children.
day
DRIED
FRUIT
EXPERIMENTS
FAIR WILL SHOW WIDE RANGE OF EXPORT TRADE
by
concerts
new musle taste and tradition were being formed.
What was started during the wor has caught on, and there are Indica- tions that Wales is becoming as keen now on orchestral us it has always
NAAFI'S PEAK TURNOVER
were
was
The technique of fruit drying recently carried out by the Food Beard of Britain's Investigation Department of Scientific
and Industrial Research has increased the these range of possible dried fruit products. will be held next year from May 5 calling for the best orchestral music after payment of rebate and discount
the
The British Industries Fair, which Not only can high quality dried fruit 16 in London and Birminghun, normal uses but will be a national display of the be produced for
in of the delicious new sweetments
quality and range of a large number form of
fruit powders and fruit of British products which enter into nuggets are now possible by a Britain's export trade, Indeed, all method
of drying to low waler- the goods to be shown at the Fair
in particular, content,
vnally will be available for export. improved fruit but suitable for use
rations in dry emergency
can be. made.
These
a
In the process, ordinary dried fruit of 15 to 20 percent water is further dehydrated after mincing to a lower moisture content of five to eight per-
Schoolrooms Crowded Again the workers saw something which uplifted their hearts. children, who had been without any schoots and any knowledge--except of the most distressing kind-for most of their remembered years, crowd engerly into the tiny rooms which had been prepared as schoolrooms. Every
vent. surrounded you could see teachers by groups of listening children. A first they were taught without out books, paper, pencils and without even a blackboard. But the children as- simitaled the knowledge eagerly.
Later the workers provided the schools and camps with as much in the way of books and writing material as they could get although these were not easy to procure at first. Yet, Hle by little, the contingents from Britain with he help of the people at home, bullt to the equipment in their "other zenes similar zone, while in work continued.
The most remarkable fact in this big crusade for the rehabilitation and re-education of so many thousands of of women the ability people was workers to improvise in any creum- stances. They were faced with the strangest and most unusual situations arising from the unnatural herdh of people in camps and settlements. No theoretical training in social work could anticipate the Inbuman reality. Delicate Handling
There was much to be considered. Not only the ordinary camp work had to be done and the care of children and adults carried on-and this was schloved admirably as the results proved-but much more was needed. The incredible problems which had
SIDE GLANCES
Before the
first Dr
final
dehydration the fruit is treated with a mixture of glycerol and sugar with the result that it can be mixed with dry powdered fruits, yielding bars of low water-content with a variety of
textures.
The flavour and colour of the
even after વ maintained lengthy storage in tropical climates.
fruit
choral music. Scores of been on music clubs have sprung up and their thousands of supporters are and more of it.
war
of
This movement will be further B.B.C.'s the encouraged by several recent deve lopments. Recently Welsh Light Orchestra was revived, It was wound up at the outbreak
Now its strength has been the increased to 31 players under conductorship of Mansel Thomas who, as an Army sergeant, created during the war and provided music for 500,000 Forces funs during the
It
war.
Garrison Orchestra at Brussels
radio
The Fair is perhaps unique in two major aspects. In the first place, it Is entirely national in character, and only goods produced in the United Kingdom or in any other part of the British Commonwealth
be may
This new band of Welsh In the second shown.
place, music-makers will broadcast daily participation in It, with the single
from
a chapel vestry in Cardin. exception of one trade group, is Soon they will give lunch-hour confined to the actual manufacturers concerts, probably from the National of the articles exhibited.
Museum of Wales. And later, I am
The one exception
the Textile told, they will visit various halls in Wales, to share different parts of section, where, owing to the many
out the melody. stages of manufacture which are
Welsh National Orchestra carried out independently, in the
An even bigger musical event for bound to
music be industry, there was
Wales is the appointment of difficulty
confining in obvious participation to
manufacturers. expert by the Arts Council of Great to tour the country to in- Britain Merchant firms #re, therefore,
vestigate the possibilities of forming permitted to exhibit in
a Welsh national orchestra. This idea of a full orchestra of 60 or more players of national standing is not new. It has been talked of for years but nobody got down to organising such a body of musicians on a sound business basin.
Transmitters Fortion of the Fair.
South Africa.
Six new transmitters are required by the South African Broadcasting Corporation for the expansion of Its broadcasting service. Despite strong American competition the contract) was placed with Marconl's Wireless Telegraph Company of £10
300 supplied company has now transmitters
20 more than countries.
British receiving sels are also in great demand throughout the world. 35,000 radio sets were exported from Britain during the month of July alone-five times the pre-war num- ber over a corresponding period.
By Galbraith
The only thing the mailinan brought was the paper,
ll says here the atom will open up a new world
of modern comfort and convenience 17.
this ane
Low-Temperature Technology
arc
and expenditure on special amenities for the Forces (£340,047) there was a net revenue for the year of £8,045,833 which in agreement with disposed of as VIS the Services follows:
entertainment NAAFI/ENSA
Army £4.004,734; Grants to Navy, and RAF, welfare and benevolent funds £2.742.000; Combined Ser- vices Entertainment £400,000, with £39,099 carried forward.
NO SWEETS OR CAKES FOR THIS
4-YEAR-OLD
Sweets, cakes and all things that matier most to children, are barred to four-year-old Palsy Dodien. Her meals consist of strained fruit and vegetable juice day after day.
Two years ago Patay developed the mysterious coeliac disease, the treat- ment for which is this rigid diet, and returned She has just left a London hospital after many months
to
and
the
home. The Arts Council evidently means
Her mother spent several days at business. It has given Mr J. H. O.
the hospital studying the special dict Jones, F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the job of
Now she cannot feed the going round Wales for six months to
little invalid properly because it is find out whether Weish people really impossible to buy a fruit Juice ex feld of low- Research into the
want a symphony orchestra of their trueting machine to pulp and strain technology at temperature
the own, and If so whether they
the fruit and vegetables. Imperial College of Science and prepared to find the money (or some
Seafa
(Soldiers, Sallors'
Association) Families Technology in London was revealed of it) to maintain a permanent com>
Airmen's
to come was Asked recently at a meeting of the Low bination of expert musiclans.
This
Investigator will special Temperature Group.
Patsy's father, an since
who interview representatives of local rescue,
ភាព ex-Sergeant served
with
the Royal Artillery authorities and national bodies, for electrican, is
for 6 years during the war; and without
it the machine
im without their financial support no
possible to maintain Patsy's special diet and keep up the improvement In hospital. she has made Ssafa Issued a press appeal for the which
machine.
2
into
n
orchestra
After tackling and solving 4 variety of problems during World
of this kind will be War II, the Department extended its
also ascertain scope with the end of hostilities.
Among the many activities of the possible. He must
18 the how many halls there are available present Department at
method of in Wales, and how many are sultable investigation yurifying gases from small quantities for first-class orchestral and choral
by concerts, condensable constituents
Mr Jones is well-fitted for this an Expert musicion injecting a stream of cold pure gas, while the factors influencing the job. He is adhesion of frozen particles to tube himself, an organist and planist who the subject of has performed all over the world. walls ure experiment.
Captain
in the R.A.F. During the The properties of lubricants at low
war he organised orchestral concerts emperatures is being investigated by for large R.A.F audiences. the technical staff, and apparatus has been designed and built which will of the intent heat determine
and
also
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is
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WANG HAO
IN ..
HONG KHA
2.30, 5.10, 7.10
& 1.15 pm,
"DARING GARRISON"
(A CHINESE PICTURE)
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
Robert
ana
TAYLOR-TURNER
JOHNNY EAGER
A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture
ORIENTAL
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.15-7.30-9.30 P.M. SEE THE FAMOUS COMEDY TEAM HÁVE AMUSING SEQUENCE IN NEW FILM.
Dead
of
Vright
До
MICHAIL RIDGRÅTE
AERYYN JOONS
BASIE RADFORD
GOOGLE WITHERS
HAUNTON WATHE
SALLY AND DOWES
S STAR S
THEATRE
COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT Presents
BLANCHE LITTLER'S
IN
COMPANY
WORM'S EYE VIEW
A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
By
R. F. DELDERFIELD NIGHTLY AT 7.30 P.M. BOOKING HOURS: 12 p.m.-2 p.m.
Telephone: 58335.
4.p.2-6.30 p.m.
Soats booked by Telephone will be kept up to 6.30 p.m. only.
4 SHOWS DAILY
GATHAY
WANCHAI ROAD WANCHAIR, EAGLE LION PRESENT
At 2.30, 5.15,
7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
Phyllis CALVERT • James MASON in “THEY WERE SISTERS”
COMMENCING FRIDAY
THE BEST OF "BEST. TEN" IN 1945 * DARRYL
“WILSON"
F. ZANUCK'S
DEATH RAILWAY
MEMORIAL
London, Dec. 19.
IN
TECHNICOLOR
POSITIONS VACANT
APPLICATIONS are invited from certi Acated or qualified navigating or diesel engineer officers for employment as Const, Staff, Officers on the ships of the Customa Service. Maritime Chiness Employment is also offered, to experienced in, navigating email Applicants are interviewed at the Office of the Chinese Mariume Customs, 4th
men craft.
floor. Marina House, Queen's Road,
A ceremony to commemorate the men who died during the construc-Central, tion of the Burma-Siam railway will be held on December 18 at Than- byuzayat-the beginning of the rail- way on the Burma side, 45 miles
Until recently he was Group London Telephone south of Moulmein..
Cricket In 1937′′
Services
Altogether over 13,500 Britlah, Austrailan and Dutch subjecta lost their lives. The estimates of Burm- ese labourers who died is around 80,000.--Reuter.
With winter setting in, cricket seems a remote delight. But overy
London's telephone services, severo- vaporization of binary mixtures at morning brings news of Hammond
pressures and
ly restricted during World War II. in Austrails, and already Glamorgan are preparing are undergoing a new process of de for next summer. After a record "clopment. For this purpose equ600
temperatures low above atmospheric.
Canberra, Dec. 10. France is trying to get a loan from Australia, otherwise she cannot maintain her place as Australia's third best customer, M. Pierre Auge,
his теп
Land Com exchanges.
Chinese Coming From Canada
SYRIAN REBEL SENTENCED
Beirut, Dec. 10. Salman el Mourchid, who is look- ed upon a god by 300,000 Syrin Alouites, was condemned to death by acourt at Lattakia to-day, and be naked at once that his execution be hurried--he no longer wanted to itve.
were
season financially and in the county ment is being concentrated in Faraday championship the Welsh club hopes House in London.
Housed here
ura, the London trunk
Accused of conspiring with foreig France Wants Loan to maintain progress in 1947.
J. C. Clay and Wilfred Wooler exchange, the overseas exchange which countries non-European Kerves
Powers against the State, Mourchid are busy organising a drive for more
was expected to be hanged for From Australia
members they want 1,000 more through various radio links, the toll
San Francisco, Dec. 10..
taking up arms with his own privato and tracking down promising local exchange serving a wide area around
the
and the automatie City
The steamship General. W. H. army to fight the Government. talent. A useful Glamorgan capture
Corsion of the American President
His two sons he is the father of is L. Muncer, Middlesex all-rounder, who scored the fastest century in Over half of the 4,000 personnel Line, sailed to-day with nearly 600 18 legitimate children by 15 wives county cricket last summer.
are women and about 000 are en Chinese from Canada. bound for named Fatih and Mouiceb
fanatic gineers working on maintenance and Hongitong, Ghanghai, and Singapore. sentenced to life imprisonment in the
case, and 17 other supervision of equipment. Each week The Chinese are: the fifth such same. over 2,000,000 calls are dealt with.
group returning to their homeland followers got penalties of from four since the war's end. Over 800 others to 15 years hard labour. Thirty-
awaiting arc
transportation and one were acquitted.
No nooner had the court pro- hundreds of others await reopening of the closed reservation lists, nounced sentence than the onetime shepherd boy, called common Associated Press.
buccaneer by the prosecution, alt nounced he now preferred death to life and wanted to die quickly United Press.
the French Minister to the Common Protection Against
wealth, said here to-day.
unsatis-
He added there was an factory discrepancy in the balance
of trade between the two countries. France's purchasing power was in her economie recovery
Radioactivity
and
Counterfeit Notes In Paris
CAMBODIA GOVERNMENT
Parla, Dec. 8.
Д
bound
up
The American Armoured Cavalry and this was largely dependent on Journal, in a copyright article, said material and financial assistance that armoured columns of the future from her principal suppliers, he would go into combat protected
Paris, Dec. 10. from atom asserted..
against radioactivity
The American Army authorities
San Paolo, Dec. 10, The United States, in granting a bombs and would carry their own
minesweepers,
in Paris have called in a Treasury
acting against Prince Monireth, Prime Minister The prosceuter further largo loan, had lifted the bridges
terrorista naked that. expert to try to check the flood of
French of Cambodia, to-day handed his Japanese restrictions (which might have im- United Presz.
forged dollar bills In the The article said blown
Government's resignation to King hundreds of them be expelled from peded the sale of French goods and Canada and the Argentine had also might be contaminated with per capital, it was disclosed, to-day,
A gang is said to have inflated the Slanouk, who asked him to form a Brazil immediately. Those who are granted credit facilities, but the slatent chemicals, virus or bacteria.
black market to the extent of one new government, according to a naturalised Brazilian citizens
dollars, mostly position retained acute in the steri- It also said mines would have pre-
well French Press Agency despatch have their naturalisation annuiled,
prosecutor said United Press. ximity fuses and would send out million
Reuter. ing urea, despite British assistance.---
counterfeited $800 notes.--Reuler. radioactive, debris. Reuter..
даул bridges
In
the
must