LONDON DIARY cellen
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1950.
if they have in pictures
the And exhibits DECAUSE of the knee injury; cupations, and
neldresses. But year roun which prevents Miss Martha changed their
Ten museums recelve grants- Ciraham from dancing, her Lon- this is no prelude to a call-up.
The War Omen tell me Wil In-aid
for purchases. But the don ballet senton has been can-
rouline check. Most war-amoont allowed each year in celled. The Piccadilly Theatre, is a
conscripta be time
still stand It is intended to be used which she had booked, will
acquisitions. Big emply for three weeks.
nominally in the Army as part for normal
Only iter reserve.
like the Constable corn- of the Clans Z
released because of picture, need special grants. wounds were totally discharged.
nre
Total: a million The British Museum has the for purchases— biggest grant
£30,000 this year, out of their total budget of £300,000. But
they nreded
especial Government strani for a big pur- chase like the Codex Sinaiticus, which cost £100,000 in 1933.
Mks Graham and her Dy of ten girls and six men those are going home to America. But
This does not apply to peace- there in deulty in Beding ship! pursaries for all of them at short time National Servicemen. They the notice; some of them may have serve for 10 months in
Army, then for four years with 10 fly homo
сусп box the Territorial Army: after that Hundreds of pounds in
returned they pro free. None will reach fier recripts will be
this shige before 1954. By then to people who had booked!,
conditions may be different, Hardwoods move in LORD and Lady Harewood are
moving. They are personally
The Doan is silent
The National Gallery and the Tate are 410,200 this year
Total of Treasury money spent
supervising the transfer of fur-E Very Rev. Richard Henry for the purchase of pictures. -
illure to their new home in Orme Square, Bayswater,
But for the next few days,
Malden, since 1933 Dean of Welles, Somerset, han just retired after almost half a century to the Church, He is 70, has written chaplain to the King from 1020-
On
the maintenance of the national museums this year is around £1 million.
O the first time Tories in Banetta, Nottingham, have
until the rooms at Omme Square many books on religion. He was Encouraged by son are in order, they are expected to remain in their old fat at 33.
"it has been auxreated to me Friary Court, St James's Palace.
The operation began recently. that Mr Malden in the clergy-chosen a woman candidate. She Vans brought some of the fur-man who, for
than 25 Mes Ellen Longbottom, 46- niture from Harewood House, years, has been writing anony-year-old wiciow, who has lived: the Princess Royal's Yorkshire mously the long, and often con- in the division 27 years. home.
moro
working housewives.
In
The countess's grand piano arrived from St James's Palace with music stools and stands. Lady Inrewood watched, business-like coloured print dress. Her husband was lo dark grey lounge suit. Debutantes from U.S. TALEVEN American debutiutes EL
on a six weeks' European coming-out tour ore finding London a shock to their purses.
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thic
troversial, prefaces
"My 20-year-old son, Charles, editions of Crockford's Clerlent is chairman of the local Young Intest attacks Conservatives: hc encouraged Directory. The
me to stand as a enndidate," says I asked Mr Mulden, at his new his mother.
Sunningdale, near
Mrx
silm, home at
he had writen | fair-haired, with blue eyes; sho Ascot, whether the prefaces.
wears tallered clothes, and pre- Hin reply: "I have nothing firs to go hatless wntever to say."
Russia for schools
Lenstbottom
is
Socialist MP for Basseinwi
has been Mr F. J. since 1935
Mini- Bilenter, who was War
Ex years a school text-ster from 1946-47. s majority POR
book called Life in the in February: 13,987. -
A
Their pocket money show's C4U. S. 5. R. has been chculating Flying to London for
a day for their five days here.
in British schools. It is published:
TWO GIRLS FROM OHIO
Soeing Dritel Lob Mueller (18) and Cay Bahl (17), both from
operation A N Itallar tailor, 23-year-old
Dominic
be Ilario, will
from carried on
stretcher [ an neropiane and taken to Gordon Hospital, Victoria. There an attempt will be made to restore his ability to end.
This is Ilario's story reported from Romet Mr R. W. Itaven, London surgeon, visited a hos- pital there and saw Hario. An operation had been performed on him, but it closed his gullet. He was being fed by luso.
Mr Raven offered to operate
in London in an effort to recon- struct the rnan's rulfet
Mario
was
has no money. But it arranged to bring him to Eng- land.
One who helped to arrange it 10 Mr P. A. I. Tahourin, a British science officer in Rome. Al Italia airline offered trans- port free. The Italian Consulate- General in London will meet
and lake the aeroplane patient to hospital,
Missing in Korca
ONE
the
Commis-
NE Briton missing in Korca
G1-year-old Herbert Lord, sioner Salvation Army, who
HELPING HERSELF-Longshoreman Eddie Stasiak, of Staten Island; N.Y., holds a piece of bread in his mouth as Queenie, a young clephant from Bangkok, tries to get it for herself. The animal was sent to the Denver, Colo., Zoo, after a short rest in New York. Queenie and many other specimens of the animal kingdom were being distributed to zoos all over the country.
the Three
men lift brick from history
BUT IT'S A VERY SLOW JOB
Thon wall, O wall! O sweet and lovely wall!
-A Midsummer Night's Dream.
at
which rernela jo be treated still support a cat's cradle of tubular scaffolding. When that comes down, the full extent of the old wall will be revealed.
Man in charge of the
Work
on the wall is the 65-year-ol
foreman who for 35 years har toked after London's ancient runs monuments. One of his greatest tasks-the House of Commons. He showed me how the wall the
WO years' work on a 40 ft. wall will finish TWO
the end of this year-maybe. The wall, built of flint, Kentish rag and Chilmark stone, white and clean, as if it has been built yesterday, northwards from the soot-blackened Wakefield Tower, built in the Tower of London in 1221.
Yel It is one of the
the ancient parts of
workmen bulli London
i years ago.
most Until a bomb fell in the greal of December 1940 Tower. City ralds
700 nobody knew that the wall existed. The bomb demolished an ugly Victorian barrack of red brick and stone, known as the Main Guard.
ANCIENT RAMPART
had been "consolidated" by old method of grouting by pour ing in the mortar, instead of by the pressure process.
EVA BOOTH LED "ARMY' REVOLT AGAINST HER OWN BROTHER They talked of a vendetta
E
VANGELINE BOOTH, who headed a revolt against her brother Bramwell when he was general of the Salvation Army, and ended her own `· family's autocratic sway over the worldwide or- ganisation, died in New York's Hartsdale suburb recently at the age of 84.
Her life's great year of message for her brother was one storm was 1920, when she of undying love.
She was born in London tho most discussed Christrans Day, 1805, the
was
woman in the world.
on
seventh child of General Booth
The flower girl
The head of the "Army" then had the power to nominate his successor. He held the "Army's"
Altogether she was unsociated properly on its behalf at the with the "Army" for about 60 ime estimated at £30,000,000. years. At 16 she went Into the Secret lottor East End disguised as a flower Evangeline, "Army" leader lain to see how the poor lived. She became a Salvation Army te U.S. challenged the powers captain when still in her teens, held by her brother-son of the Gangs tried to wreck her meet- founder and a secret meeting of inga But she kept ол
"Army** chlets was held
preaching her cermons standing under police guard in a mansion on a chair.
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at Sunbury-on-Thames,
Controversy
people talked
over these dis-
cussions split the country. Many
Soon, the toughs rallied round her. They called her "Sister Eva.”
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of a personal vendetta against the general,
she had charge of ali who was 72 and in poor health. the "Army's" work in London. And during the great Gold Rush Some people held that of '08 sho organized missionaries Evangeline wanted the leader-
an: ·
and led nurser
them ahlp for herself.
herself. about raged Discussion
When she went to America sealed leller in which General
a mob jeered her in a New Bramwell Booth had named his
York lum. She waved a silver successor. It was believed that
Stare and Stripes flag and hie hnd named his wife or his
dared the people to hiss it.... eldest daughter, Catherine,
They stayed on to cheer.
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After many days' decussion the old general was deposed on
GENERAL EVA BOOTH
...... love is all,
second vole
by 52 votes
Ave, with four abstentions.
Crowd-appoal
Eva Booth stayed in America for 25 years and become a naturalised American citizen.
In World War I she placed the whole of her organisation at 'he disposal of the American Government. She was awarded The Distinguished Service Medol.
On the outbreak of Worfil War IL. sha returned to America. Before she left she had
three-quarter-of-an- hour interview with the Queen.
Once the fall and stately Eva was asked if she had considered marrings. She replied: "Yes That is why I am not married,"
The
"Army's" present in-
ternational
head, General Albert Ortborn, said: "She was to not
But Evangelino dia pot succeed to the leadership. The High Council elected Edward Higgins, chief of staff, to be
'NO IMITATION' "We never add, never take away, never try any tricks of "We simply restoring," he said. remeve all the extraneous stuff Before the war, soldiers of the and leave the old building as 11
general. the Towers. If a piece of stone has falle slits,regiment jarding
we replace it. But we would inside. medieval bowmen, drank tea, played darts
than put o yap their rather leave strong Tourists hurried past on
way from the Bloody Tower back rome Imitation of the real without a glance.
of the
I four-fout thickness is
artow was in pierced by cight
British
Seoul when it was overrun. No news has coine through about him. Iis colleagues in London are hoping he is one of the four Brilons now with the Minister in North Korea.
stayed The Commissioner bellad and was captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell
His first appointment was to of Says
their two by Themaa Nelson Sons; Korea. And it was there he met
Mrs. J.authors Beatrice King.
2015 Margaret organker chaperons,
Salvationist The Baker: "The girls were shocker i
book, Major Tufton Newnham,
Inter to become his
five West Beamish, Tory MP for Lewes, wife, to And that dinner in a
sons, two
une
Ohio.
London Expres Serrin,
En Astaurant cost them
and
where
under
The
rouching round arches which stifl curve roudly over them could ram rrows un their enemies when 1 formed the west side of the taner Bailey of the fortress,
The general's
an evangelist
WHAT
do
Ind.an
is per of the the war, another Weerala do when
Peoplc
than £2 each. Not that that is must propagandin." 1, too, have is a servings offleer in the RAF. much more expensive than in fread it, found it a complacent New York-it is just that girls have never paid their own bills before."
the eulogy of Soviet Russia.
SON
in Major Tufton Beamish is to
has been born maria A Toronto. produce the book
Canada, to MTs Five are blonde, MX are ment, will ask Education Mini-Melodie Massey, wife of Hart of the ufster George Tomlinson "whether Vuoni Massey, som brunette, only two are out
the is Dwire That Communistformer tirth Commissioner for their teens.
Crop-haired Nancy Lee Cluck, proporonda is being taught in Comade in London. Hart Bassey
the war, Iram Cleveland,
10-any shonis,"
was, dur 30.
New Jersey, are shopping here for cashmeres.
ame! china were foll cheeses are good here," they explain.
and
£100 a week
the
"The
In
in the
year-old Mary Alice Miller, of Communist teachers Royal Canadian Air Ferce, and assembled in 1930, as cax of the Oxford Beamish, 33, has
was mallest enx in the (muez, erklence that Communist! Crew,
State University's records. temebers are active
Benjamb Bellien will con- schools.
per- "No Yowed atheist or Com-duct the Best European
be allowed to formance of Frederick Ashton's mmunist should
thinks ballet. Illuminations at Covent schools,
Communist Garden. The ballet is to his!
George At 72, General Sir
Peters- travellers, the Jeffreys, Tory MP for
field, ants, has decided not to stand ogni at the next election. He has been Member since 194 1. He and Jeffreys live at Alton, Hants.
Cost of the tour for each girl teach in
Beamish. a week. They
is about 100
can go anywhere in town each Party themselves say there are own music. evenng, but if they have 2,000 Communist teachers. If you "dak" they must go in pairs, include fellow The "date" must be introduced number is much greater."
to the tour organisers. And the
man of the escort must
down in a tour log-book.
Second chaperon with
Ko £10,000 for
the
Rembrandt
giris la Miss Mary K. Browne,] Prune unknown Rembrandt! who in 1926 won the Wimbledon doubles championship.
there Lady
thing."
the But besides destroying
Main
all
General Booth died within
And five years live months. later, after General Higgins re- tired, Evangeline becaine head of the "Army."
When Evangelino returned to
the America
Sunbury after
sald her last she mectings -Longus' Express Service}
The top of the exposed wall Guard, the bombs tore has been treated with a special preparation to prevent weeds facing from part of the brick
which had been incor- sprouting on it. porated in the fabric.
apults of Ministry of Works recognised the inner wali the ancient Fas being
part of
there in rampart which stood
Armythe days of King Henry III. And
they they put their expert masons
is that or the job.
Cat
travelling
FEW YARDS LEFT
Three of these men, specialists
al
etire? Popular legend
country. they live in the
(hot curry), and; buna ghoult
side at pelty sessions. Not so
Brigadier-general D. Frost. He left the Army in the craft of "uncient monu- 1930.
have been became
mini palating" ♫ vangelist.
work there (intermittently, for For the past five years people they have had to attend to other in town and villages all over lubs as well) for the past twe
religious the country have seen a caravan years, painstakingly picking of texts she Victorian crust of ugly brick covered with
sirert, and modern stone, to reveal the driving into their main Out of it has stepped the Briga-noble old wall beneath.
to conduct dier-general
im- Now, only the last few yards promptu services.
He has been SO successful
the Walker that
Memorial at Chelten- Methodist Church hain have invited hirn to be
minister. their resident
The will go General has nccepted;
there later this summer.
MAN and beust Golf escorts
50 years ago From the Evening Standard, July 19, 1900.
large In centres are prestrated by landscape, The Flight Into Egypt, among players in the women's the high temperature, which is One girl who is looking for, while was found To Lournament at Went likely to last some days longer. City that day had a ward to the end of the holiday by Lord Clinton from his homeworth-Viscountess Mount- (The is 20-year-old Belly Lou Baker, at Bięku, Devon, was sold ut starret, of Royal Mid-Surrey, temperature of 91 in the shade.) Parisians appear to be very daughier of the tour
or Sotheby's for £10,000. I was and Mrs Tobolski, of Berk- Kaniser. She is collecting bought by a dealer.
shire-played together and took badly off because they have not had the slightest cooling storm their dogs with them. One was
in married the day after she lands The Treasury pays miniature poodle,
revive
nature. exhausted the other
Every summer, it may be noted, by Sir a dachshund.
the microbe danger fucking in ice la pointed out. But Parisians are so accustomed to using ice In what they drink that not all the the merobo theories in work would Induce them to abandon the habit
Continental troussent, will be
will be August 18-her birthday,
1st
precedent
in New York. Her wedding day N Staford Cripps's payment
They sat suk under the care of £7,500, half the cost, towards of the enddies while the shots buying Constable's painting were twingt played. After Lady laring Parade und Old Chain Muntiarret bud struck the ANY ex-Servics'men in the Pier, Brighton,
Taleball, the poodle would yelp arid last few months have been | Gallery.
Leap into her arms alarmed to receive letters from
MANY
No call-up
for the
is, used Treasury money
by
the War Office asking their oc- the national museums for buy-
0. CANNON
K.
3 D'CLOCK..... MUGHT ON
THE DOT, WHISPER:
CARAMELLA?..D...SHE'S JUST
A CLIENT, HER FATHER, THE
COUNT DEL FALDO, CALLED ME IN, SOMEONE'S TRYING TO MURORA HIM AND THIS DAUGHTER...
LET'S GET A TABLE....
London Express Service)
London Express Service)
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
OʻYOU KNOWY WE'VE BIGN HIRO HALF-AN-KOUA,,4 WONDER WHAT'È HAPPÉNDO) TO PETEM HOLLIS?...
WHISPER WHO DROPPED THIS CARD ON THE TABLE?. DID YOU SEE HIM:
What do you want
caption for?
New Drive For
New Dominion
S
OIL-FROM-COAL PLAN
From CHARLES WIGHTON: Salisbury, S. Rhodesia.
only one of our greatest leaders but a poet who under- slood the qualities that give a song crowd-appeal."
-London Express Service)
General liked the
cartoon
London, July 20,
N original cartoon by Giles,
cartoonist, showing War Mini- ter John Strachey on a patrol Malayan jungle through the
beers during his recent visit, has
presented to Major General IL E. Urquhart, General Ofcer Commanding Malaya District.
the General Unquhari maw cartoon in a recent lesue of the Sunday Express and wrote to signed the editor requesting a copy. The newspaper replied original sending him the work, which has been specially
by
IR GODFREY HUGGINS, Prime Minister of coloured by Giles
announced that he Strachey Southern Rhodesia,
is to make an all-out effort to form the Empire's eighth Dominion-the Central African British Federation.
states-
The 67-year-old man told me that he is pre- paring a Note to the British Government urging adop- tion of this plan:---
Immediate conferences Whitehall of Colonial Oce Rhodesian officials and South experts to draw up a provisional Pian for 1 self-governing Dominion.
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Negollations between mem- bers of the British Cabinet,
Tahi
RHODESIA
PROPOSED NEW DOMINION
AHODESIA
He Rdded that Southern
himself, and representatives of Rhodesia's policy is much more
nolonial territories concerned, as liberal than is appreciated.
toon as the experts complete a draft plan.
I Sir Godfrey succeeds, with proper electoral qualifen- three Empire territorisertions, has a vote on the surne fabulous minem! and other basis as white voters. resources,
And he emphasised that the
in Southern Rhodesian native,
will be combined
In a new African Dominion as big as the Union of South Africa. They are:--
LANDS OF RICHES
SOUTHERN RHODESIA;} Self-governing Colony, as big s with la pre-war Germany,
COAL TO BURN
The cartoon
leading
shows
+
Mr
patrol lo
through dense jungle. He A
carrying a child's pop-gun, ment mincer is hanging from the haversack on his back
He glancer back apprehen- sively as robust sergeant instructo his grinning troops to "Quit telling Mr Strachey to mind his nut. Mr Strachey is very touchy about nuts,"
General Urquhart organised Mr Strachey's recent visit to accom- Malaya and personally panted him on. his historic patrol.
LONDON WILL
GET 250-MILE
SKY TUNNEL'
NGLAND is to have a new and invisible highway- Green One. It will extend for
He revealed that Southern 250 miles from the Irish Set 10
London. Rhodesia is about to Inunch
which major oil-from-con projet
One, Green
wih
at the vast Wankis Colliery officially come into operation on deposits 50 miles east of the August 1, is the first of a series Victoria Falls.
of, nirways that will eventually cover the British Idles.
Within a few years this con w make the country self- supporting in oll.
These airways, thọ Ministry. ol Civil Aviation. said today.
population of 2,000,000, includ-
Says Sir Godfrey: "There is will, in effect, be "ky-tunnels, Ing 180,000 white people:
NORTHEEN HODEBIA: O much coal lying under almost 10 miles wide. Green One will
In
R
we are
the transatlantic route.
The airways system alms = at
A Whitehall-governed Colony, the whole of Southern Rhodesia be the highway for airliners On
major strategie with an even smaller population that la
# bigger area than its mergenev, such as the low of
Middle East oll. we could be increasing flying safety .by southern neighbour.
The Colony has a rich copper comic a major Empire cupplier, cutting out the risk of collisions But that will need long-term in the air. Rigld ground cone and. suspected uranium
plarining, and much more capital trol v
will regulate the air trafe. deposits.
The second stage of the plan allowed to raise than
win
extend Groen - One to NOW."
Mr Robert Foot, joint maung Brussels, and bring into service ing director of the Powell Amber One and Amber Two (to Duffryn coal concern, is staying Paris), Red One (to Amsterdam) the Prime Minister's and another section leading to residence"),GEDS attended the Channel Jiles. Other ex- Cabinet meeting recently... tenalone" will follow Jaler,
NYASALAND:
London- governed ten-growing Prote forate between the Rhodealas and Portuguese East Africa.
Sir Godfrey Bald
deadlock has been caused by
dimculty In Foconelling native polleles of Britain and Southern Rhode
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