FOOD ATTRACTS MANY
TOURISTS TO EIRE
The attraction of plenty of steaks, eggs, milk, cheese and other foods brought a record-breaking number of tourists to the Eire in 1946. David Barry, general manager of the Irish Tourist Association, reports.
Most of Elro's tourists were vegetables, followed by an ice cream fugitives from the austers food sundne or pastry.
The cost for the dinner la seven rationing still prevailing in the shillings and sixpence. United Kingdom. Visitors came Bars seem to have ample supplies, from England, Wales and Scot-although it is almost impossible to land on their vacations to cat buy a bottle to take home. and drink.
The twenty-second annual report of the association noted that a trickle of tourists arrived from the United States during the year.
Shortage of accommodation * hotels and resorts prevented thou- sands of persons from making a trip to Eire. Barry said many persons have made advance reservations for this year and oven Inter. There is one reservation made for 1951.
wor
Barry raid postwar tourists were spending much more freely than pre- viiltorn. Ho estimated that prices in Dublin hotels and res- taurants were about 20 to 25 per cent above the prewar level.
Typical Dinner Menu
A typical dinner menu in one of Dublin's leading hotels include hors d'oeuvres (potato salad, tomatoes, hardbolled eggs in mayonnaise, cold menu and various vegetables), choice of two kinds of soup, a choice of two frinds of fish, a choice of filet mignon or sweetbreads and a main course of duck with potatoes and
No Books To
Teach Youth
In Bavaria More than a year and a half
after the end of the war, German and
American officials have falled completely to teach Bavarian youth anything about the true history of the past 13 years, says n United Press report.
The education and religious branch of the Bavarian military government reported: "No history now is being taught in Bavarian schools, due main. ly to the complete absence of suitable textbooks."
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, `JANUARY 9, 1947.
Films Show Intimate Life
Of Hitler
NEW SITES
OF ANCIENT
CULTURES
of
Collaboration
Trials In Philippines
Intimate new details of the At least eight layers life of Adolf Hitler and his human culture may be identified sweetheart, Eve Braun, have in newly-found archaeological of a presidential amnesty pro- Faced with the possibility both been uncovered by the United sites in the Viru Valley of clamation and the decision of States Army by the seizure of Northern Peru, according to the Supreme Court that United 31 reels of moving picture films scientists of the Smithsonian States of the couple at play, says Institution.
sovereignty In tho Philippines WRS
suspended during the Japanese occupation, the Philippines Peoples Court fa reported by the Manila Press to be in a state of "suspended to motion."
mer-Associated Press.
Stores aro crammed with chandise. Much of it is "made In Britain" for export and has not yet been made available in the United Kingdon United Presa.
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
OF TEXAS
Having the same name as a world-wide celebrity has its drawbacks. So says Winston Churchill, a. sophomore player on the Texas Tech basketball Leam.
hitherto unrecorded scenes
Showing in glittering technicolour Three thousand years of human 11 are recorded in evidence that parties at Berchtesgaden and bathing has been found, the archaeologists
of gay
In the nude under mountain water- falls, the flims were dug from A secret hiding place in the Bavarian mountains.
estimated.
The Rcientists, according Associated Press, said the Peruvian valley is, in a sense, "an epitome of Taken between 1939 and 1941 while the history of man" where culture the world was at war and long be "advanced from primitive agricul- fore the couple's eleventh-hour mar-tural communities planned cities. ringe in Berlin's ruins, the films were There were times of war and pence, described as the personal property of of prosperlly and depression, of the German Fuehrer and his bride.
democracy and fasciam." Intelligence officers said the films haul been used In the
search for wanted Nazis and the positive iden- fcation of hundreds of members of Tiller's entourage.
ly
The candid shots were taken most- by Hendrich Haffman, Hitler's own photographer, who now faces trial by his own countrymen before u dennzl- firation court.
Intimate Scenes Officers and that the entire collec- Why, It's practically impossible to tin lakes 1014 hours to show. cosh a cheque regardless of the Shots of Hiller show him gazlug lentifications I may produce," said „out over the runt: Bavarian pentr Arien Winston Churchill, who saving at Himmler, Ribbentrop and distant relative-fifth nephew-of Goerlog, dancing a.or angrily England's wartime Prime Minister-waving huge magnifying glass When 1 tell a clerk that I'm Winston while studying a map of the war Churchill, he usually gives me that fronts.
The Alms show frequent Yeah,
I'm Joe Stalin' look". and I'm
scenes of Tikler with Eva Braun. Another jer problem, says the
..
R
In one sequence, she is shown with Texna Winston, Is placing a long the closest members of the Braun Ifer alster, Grete Fegelein,
distance telephone call. "If you don't family.
believe that, commented the Texas in another sequence is shown bathing
student, "Just try somethings to con- in the mide under a mountain water- vince on operator thint you're Winston | fall.
Churchill.
But he usually gets around this
of the
Cases of major government officials accused of collaboration with tha Japanese have been delayed week to week, including those of Puppet Pre- sident Jose P. Laurel, his Ambassador to Jan
"B. Belgno Jorge
S. Aquino, fondorgas, and Kalibapi totalitarian political society, About 300 .nrchaeological sites,
The first cane on the new year such as the former locations of vil- calendar is the trial of Rafen! R. inges, cemeterles and religious; Alunan, occupation Minister of structures, have been located, Dr Agriculture and Commerce. Then Gordon R. Willey of the Institution comes the trial of Dr. Camilo Osias, sald. They were discovered through American-educated puppet Minister aerial mapping by the Peruvian Army Air Forcen,
REACTION IN JAPANESE
CULTURE
Professor Klaus Pringsheim,
of Education,
Carmen Plans, who before the war won Manila's first woman city coun ciller and known as "Queen of Cocheros," will be tried on January 16, together with her mother and two brothers,
all charged with economic collaboration,
Meanwhile, the puppet cabinet minister, Teofilo Sison, who was given n life sentence almost a year ago, in still out on ball pending an appeal to the Supreme court. Associated Press.
for 15 years director of the Plan To Build New
Dam Near Sydney
Tokyo Academy of Music, be- lieves a renewed cultural pro- gramme in Japon is directly de- | perdent upon
the absolute
South
one by sing his first name-George NEWSLETTER ration of all art from poli-Government hopes to quadruple Syd-
-nlthough he actually goes by Wing-
on in everyday life, says Associated Press,
Young Churchill anys his family no left the British stem when Els rent-grandfather went to the United States in 1800,
The received a telegram from the famous Winston when the latter wens a visit to Amerien in 1942. Churchill sald he was honoured at having 1 member of American branch of family named for him.
The U.S. Army's education chief New Experiments
suld a commission of three experts was appointed by the Ravarian edura.. tion ministry to write new history textbooks, but "they eventually lost their nerve and gave up the Job."
He was asked what Bavarian youth: was being taught about the history of the Nazi regime. He answered; "You have asked the mort embercas- sing question you could ask. We are not yet able to teach recent history,"
DUTCH AIRLINE. WANTS PILOTS
To all the great need for pilots, the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) plans to send commissions abroad to select candidates. One such group of officials will go to Canada.
At present
some 200, Royal Air Forces veterans have applied for jobs, and 40 of them have been in- vited to appear before a selection
KLM pilota
Include Americann nine Englismen, four Canadians, Iwo Belgians South Africans, one Norwegian, one)
Dane and one Czech..
board.
now
17
FROM THE MIDLANDS
By Percy Cater
In order to guard against obscurity and loneliness in old age, a unique insurance scheme has been launched by Brierley Hill Consultative Commitice of Social Service.
It is planned to build six new type clubs, with the special object of
With Parachutes ensuring that the oid people renew
their interest in te and people, without the feeling that they are in
The United States Army, continu- other people's way. Regardless
of
a series of experiments with re-age, every man and woman in the till Nazi V-2 rockets, la preparing district is considered
#
potential
Lies, reports Associated Press.
"Art and Leience cannot advanco under the kind of govermncutal in terference exerted by the Japanese militaris during the war," he de clared in an interview.
"Although the controls maintained by the so-entled cultural societies and the police were abolished officially by the occupational government, the remnants of these forces remain," he said.
Pringsheim sald reactionary ele- ments are still particularly evident In the renin of music, which in war time was confined the works of pro- Axis composers.
Irrigation · Project
In Canada
ney's water supply by the erection of a dam, the largest in Australia, at Warragumba Gorge, 70 miles from the capital, says Associated Press.
Work would be completed in seven years, and the dam would bulk up a reserve of 480,000 million gallons of water.
Rupert and Ninky—10
says
The two pals enter the house and call for the conjurer, but there is no
"Never mind," Tigerlily. "Me find the stuffing and give you plenty. Come with. me." She leads the way down to an underground store-room full of the conjurer's things and from a box she lifts an armful of soft cotton wool. Rupert touches it. Then he draws back sharply. "Go,
to try out parachutes as a means of member of the club. Therefore it recovering Instruments fired
to is proposed to raise the £9,000 herto unexplored heights above needed to complete the scheme by the cas
earth, says L-Col Harold E. penny-a-week collection.
Southern Alberta will have a total Turner, the White Sands proving
answer. Birmingham's first postwar night of about 700,000 irrigated land acres, Fround commandant.
club will be opened in
17th cen- and the farming capacity of the Parachutes have not been used in tury
house In Chester Road. entire region will have been greatly previous tests, he said, because Ger- Erdington, the owner of which is increased when the St. Mary-Milk man reports Indicated that parachutes Mrs June Meader, writer of his rivers irrigation project is completed, could not withstand the high tem-torical novels. The IRATIO of the reports Ansociated Press. peratures encountered as they
club will be "Foursquare" and the
Cost of the project is estimated at enter the earth's atmosphere. How facilities Include small dance US$15,000,000 and it is expected that ever, he said, the yield of recovery floor, dining room, a number of bed-Irrigation waters from the St. Mary of scientific instruments sent aloft has
rooms, and a licensed bar.
River dam will be flowing into crop been high following their subsequent
lands by August, 1049. Final com- crash to the ground, according to
pletion is anticipated in seven years. Associated Press.
re-
NEW WYOMING CAVES FOUND two
Locked In Stable With Bull
A divorce on the grounds of cruelty wus granted recently to a
women
a
of
"This is not going to be one thase hectic night clubs-just a social centre where one can have a dance and n drink in comfortable. Furroundings." said Mrs Meader.
New Baptist Church
The new Perry Breches Bautist Church at Great Barr, Birmingham. will be two prefabricated concrete buildings, connected by a permanent brick structure. One building will A cave resembling in dimensions he used exclusively as a church, the and wonders the Carlsbad Caverns in other for women's work and a youth New Mexico has been discovered in centre, and the brick structure con- Mormon Chuyen, south of Glenrock, ists of a committer room and kit- Wyoming.
chen. This may become a pattern for other schemes until normal conditions return. The encouraged by Birming- ham's Baptists, is part of a national alm to enter for the religious needs of new housing centres all over the country.
A group reported after crawling building into the cave that it was made up of several "roons"
resembling In- scheme, size from 25 feet in diameter. dan tepees and ranging upward in
in diameter. "room" was found to be 100 feet
One
in Birminghamn who testifled that her husband, among other things, and Temperatures in underground locked her into a stable stall with a reaches averaged about 40 savage bull, says Associated Press. says United Press,
SIDE GLANCES
CONA, 1944 BY MEA BERYCT, NO TELUR UNE FALL QUE
degrees,
A special meeting of the Guild of Undergraduates of Birmingham Uni- versity has been held to discuss criticisms levelled at their Hospital Week magazine "Carnival". If ist understood that the Birmingham
By Galbraith Christian Social Council and Uni-
"Dear, were you serious Inat sight when you loki«le". Joneses you were going to persuade illo boss that he was plaming to vote for the wrong inan?""""
con-
versity authorliles have had sultations on this matter. Sample descriptions of the magazine pre "revalung." "offence to women," "our pagan magazine" and "lenty drawings of women and risque jokes in the Esquire tradition","
The editor, Mr W. Whelan, admits in his editorial that it does "contain sound of the lowest student thought in the country" but the University Secretary rays that it is the student' affair, and it does raise money for the local hospitals.
Municipal Sports Arena What is at present an old gravel pit-alled with water will, it is hoped, be the site of Birmingham's muni- elpal sportsurena capable of holding -80,000 people. Reaction of the city's Public Works Committee, to the scheme, which will be carried out at a new housing estate at Shard End, about five miles from the 'elly centre, is stated to be favourable. There are two pita on the site, and In a provisional lay-out it has been suggested that ono be" used mas`un ornamental boating pool and the other as a sunken arena with a track, diameter of roughly 350 by 200 yardım
Miss Elleen McKenna, 26-year old member of the Lord Mayor of Bir- mingham's secretarial staff, whố róm presented her elty at the jubilee celebrations in Birmingham, Ale bama, has returned home after "a wonderful time". In America." "The hospitality I received war over- whelming. On two nights I did not sleep at all, in fact I was too blary to eat or sleep properly. I last two inches from my waist line during the visit, Miss McKenna carried back lettera or greeting from many American organisations and estab- lished many important civle
·tacts.
con-
it does feel funny," he chuckles, "It sent queer tingle through my fingers and all the way up my arm! How does it do it?"
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The Tallen Sparrow
WALTER SILLAK - PATRICIA MARISON - MARTHA N'GRISGOLÜ
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Tyre Production ́
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The previous high was 50,905,000 Rn. 1040,Associated Press,
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