Frank Owen, famous Fleet Street journalist, sees the THIRD Far Eastern war
STALIN TIES UP 150,000 FRENCHMEN
3
This is the vast, muddy plain which surrounds Baigon.
Life in the pleasant shaded
avenues
of
and
the
"Paris of the East" can be agreeable enough; it can also be brief enough. Every few блуд
somebody hraves a bomb through the open windows of an hotel or restaurant.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST /19, #1950,
Last week they raided the great lighthouse at the mouth the of the river and put out light, so that sallors' lives ware placed in sudden unknown, be cause unsuspected, peril. dirty dogs.
COUNTRY FUREL
The
*Bead Karidener
fair!
DANGER MILITARY
FIRMO
·RANGE:
For journalists it in SAIGON. enough, They have killed one executives, missed and editor, two
two more, had a go nt tho Minister of Education and the chief censor.
a
ESIDES Korea
Malaya, there is third rent, big battle going on in the Far Eastern war. It is the one in Indo- China,
Don't put your son on the Worthington-any- Press, Mrs way in Saigon.
Of course, besides truckloads | of troops, jeeps, armoured cars, usual vast and mad- and the dening and mostly useless para- phernalia, form-filling has a curfew.
Saigen
This battle is nearly as large in numbers as that in Korea, larger in area, and senior in age. It has been going on for a couple of years. Few folk in Europe scem to have noticed it hands you a permil, to stay out
which no doubt suits Stalin.
He swallowed China while we were cheering the Berlin
air-lift.
But if you go to the Florence- the receptionist
night-club
till closing time.
Girls said Yos.
Third als facade, the British realise the grim facts be-
Consul-General взун that if invited to drive as far as Sal- airport aller dusk he kon's would simply say "No."
Two girl secretaries from the Embassy sold "Yes"
General Marcel Carpentier has under command 150,000
in regulur troopa
Indo- Chinn. That in one-third of American the entire regular army of the other night. Both are dead, France. No wonder, Stalin shot.
wants them tied down in the
And you have only to drive)
a few men along the main Far East-it means that highways
and Bre the tall they cannot be available in watch-towers with machine the Near West.
In the bin ? MEET the general. He is
Aparc,
burned brown, sinewy he was a first-rate Rugby footballer and still is
guns mounted in their nests and i always manned, and the Jungle cut back on either side of the голя beyond "ambush range," to frasp why these sentinelni
are needed.
The land all around is enemy. "Can't you roll them up?"
asked General Carpentier.
I
He Elves me the old-fashioned
a frst-rate tennis player look and says: "I could do that
and
perhaps more if only 1
with a shrewd, appraising had more men to do it" brown eye.
And he does not need to add:
liis desk Is absolutely "But then, what about France clear, which means that herself?"
either he deals promptly
with business as it arrives
or clue (as I Auspect) n
promptly throws most
of
the mass of paper where it belongs, in the bin.
Carpentier fought alongside our Eighth Army in Tunis and personal at Cassino; he is
friend of Fick-Marshat Alcxan- der and his old Chief of Staff, General Sir John Harding, now Commander-in-Chief in the Far
East
So Carpentier knew our people in war, and what he saw he likel. You would like him, too he is almost na good-looking! as that other Carpentier, and those who serve with him any he is is fine a fighter.
A Big Job
ERTAINLY ho has just done a big job. In a campaign of many
months hard fighting her has cleared the whole of the Red River della, the flat, fertile of Northern Indo-China, which i One of the ricebowls of the world.
area
I
nchievement that jo ot compares In magnitude with Kilchener's pacification of the Sudan and the freeing of the Nile della, source of Egypt's wealth and whole existence,
If the Communists In Indo- Chlea could deny this precious food to the rest of the country (and to other Asian lands be yond), then they could literally bring all life there to a stand- stin
Well, now, thanks to General Morcel
Carpentler
soldiers, they cannot.
his and
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The
world's
London Express ServicO
most
wonderful Hall
Built like an egg in an egg-box
ALAN
BROCKBANK
HAVE just visited the most fantastic modern building in the world.
It is the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the Thames, designed to be part of the 1951 Exhibition. When scientists, mathe. maticians, and sound ex- perta joined the team of 15 L.C.C. architects to design
concert the perfect
hall, they decided to build it in the shape of an egg in an egg-box.
And they have done it. This £2,000,000 structura has been built
SOUND.
Two skins
around
ROYAL BOX
COLUMNS SUPPORT
ORCHESTRA
175 ft. BLOCK) OF SLATE
THE EGG
Where the
Once bitten-
it's the end!
by BERNARD WicksteeD
-T'S my
TROON.
Both balls were lying on the players
belief that green, and the two golfers are mind, and came up and looked at them. for
Being so ignorant, I thought that reason I've the ста werz nover willingly sought their them again. But oh, no, there going to hit
company for fear of being was a long ceremony before bitten. You cannot be vac- they go round to that.
Each mun walked round the cinated against golf-bite. ball several times looking at it And there fsn't a serum as it wondering what on earth known to science that can it was Then they got down
save you fected.
once you are in- on their knees and looked from another angle. After this they seemed to forget about the ball
A doctor who deliberately attogether, and walked about goes to work in a leper looking at the ground. colony is taking no greater something, but the man next 10 I thought they must have lost
risk than a healthy non- me said they were studying tho golfer going to the Open way the blades of grass werg,
Ivinst. championship.
All this time, a crowd around Even in your hotel at night me was whispering: "He fluffed his third. It hung on the lip using the carpets in the lounges at the fourth.... The rough was
Hace-deep.... Speen, as putting greens,
brassic. Three-putted twles. The course itself is like He got on caple.... Bogey, pat,
you are not rafe, because all the other guests are golfers,
Bedlom. Ten thousand afflicted
eleek,
Eritons, most of them with moshe, iron, driver, albidross,
caddie
Suddenly all
the whispering and steppet, and there was a dead bush. One of the players was
Scals accents, Surge round, muttering meaningless phrases ubout
bunkers, birdles, bogeys.
Picture the reene. On ono side, rising from the sea, are
og to hit the ball again, and 4,009 fanatles held their breath.
the mountains of Arrau, and It trickied right up to the island of Ailsa edge of the hole. Would it go Craig, and on the other is the от wouldn't 117
the sugar-loaf
fair lowlanki
to
country mads The ball stopped half an inch
famous by that comparative thort, and, there were 4.000 Robert Poised "Ohs," I have to con- paragon
fess that one of them was mine, Lurris.
of sanity,
Wild stampede
Between the two and within a radius of 17 miles, there are 15 golf Links, laid out on the sand dunes. Some of them are
THE moment both players had so close together that
THE a strange
Binkhed on this green, there Rolfer needs a map or a guide was a wild stampede over the to keep him on the right course. dunes. Up sandhills and down (By strango I mean strange to slopes of slippery grass, men, the neighbourhood. All golfers women, and children scrambled are strange to me)
in a panic that they were going
In the crowd
THE championshilp was held on one of these 15 courses, called the links of Old Troon.
In the hope of winning it, competitors came from Egypt, South Africa, Australia, Bel-
the Argentine gium, and well as all parts of the British Isles
to miss something.
This went on for more than three hours. Sometimes tvo other's path, and the maddenal golling stampedes crossed each
fons became inextricably inlxed.
Durlag
one of these clashes I golf an Into Desmond Hackett, reporter, who was talking to chap with them, and surg
he called Henry. I tagged
if he played
much
golf
Mingling with the crowd, just lull i asked as if I was one of them I fol. lowed two of the competitors me a look as if round.
0
Elo (urned round, and gave
I was sane.
Hackett interposed and salt; One wis ያነ apparently
"Sorry! Didn't I introduce you? healthy looking South African This is Henry Colton."
In blue plus fours and a white his name cup. Someone ald was Locke and that he won the championship last year.
-
Something awful always hap- pens to me when I come to this corner of Scotland, Last time The other was an American was here I got mumps, and in Ayr Iso- called Stranahan, who is said pent six weeks
lation Hospital. to be so mad en golf that he is
Who won the championship? never seen without a club In hla
I haven't the faintest idea..
• THE hall is suspended out by two skins of concrete,
the hund.
After the Cotton like an egg with flat 10 ins. thick, separated by touches supports, brick and maximum
Incident I "After hitting the ball several was to terriflect that someone sides in a box. Noise is kept a 12 in. air space.
concrete is separated by sound; there will be no mes, they came to a green-word terriemy
you know, one of those places widow
with a golf glass fibre matting to give carpet.
and my children Kolt ike a well-kept lawn with a orphans by
forcibly teaching more insulation.
hole in the middle and a flag in me to play the game that I got
RSESHOEP
The Professor &
his Christmas
GOT the story, of the man who brought the Christmas tree.
to
America the other afternoon from my friend, the watch-
It has not been a war in the maker down in Greenwich
shadows, like the one in Malaya, Village. As I've mentioned
Here, there before, whenever I
where the chief trouble is
And your enemy.
to
come
Tree
by Billy Rose
are 100,000 of him in the field, down with a case of brain- In the South were
in
battalions,
regiments, blank, I break the
divlions, and with artillery crystal on a $2 wrist-watch at Harvard were streel when they
engincers, signallers, and all the
use
sent for
BAW
"Well, everybody came. Even those who had condemned the Professor as an agitator. Around right o'clock,
the Professor sneaked into the parlour and
the tapers.
"Then Mes Falles pulled back the sliding doors and unveiled the first Christmaş seen in America,
l
outer skin polished
to give
reflection
of
Percussion instruments (drums, etc.), will have a con-
The crowd was so frenzied it into my car and fed, crete platform of their own to had to be kept back with ropes.
reduce resonance.
This is a "tuned" concert hall,
This battle against noise is carried to such an extent that, not even heating and ventilation pipes pierce the skin. Only openings are the the only one in the world. double doors of the hall, which are surrounded by soundproof "baffles."
Floor-strip
was
Tuned? Yes, just like a violin ог plano. For scientists and mathematicians themselves can- not guarantee perfection. Musi- clans will eventually, "tune" it
tained.
Resonanco
Fine tuning will be accom- plished by taking out hundreds of six-inch plugs in the ceiling and substituting milk-bottle- shaped bomes."
Even the air in the audi- by car. torium will be "cleared" of
The walls are of removable noise before it is pumped in panels of plywood, to be taken from the ceiling and ex- out, bored and fretted until al- exact balance is ob- tracted at floor level. This most an will be done by a 60 ft. baffle system operating on the principle of a car exhaust. free ever
The
shape egg.
• ORCHESTRAS will play pretty un-
"For long moment the chosen
after consultation
Jo the ball for three 25-cent popular. Soon the other teachers guests stored. Profesxr Follen's with musicians and scien- months next year while musi-
crossing the
Follen heart was somewhere up around tists; mathematicians work clans listen and suggest altera-
hig sinuses. Suddenly one of the
ed out tho size and ens or modifications. rest of the apparutus of a re- I own and hot-foot it down coming.
"One day the president of the Elds let out a whoop and dashed gular war. Here, you can really to his shop on 11th Street.
University
A moment later, shape. the tile for the tree. your bomber and fighter force to strike at concentrations While the old gent is fusing fellow. He told him there had everybody was gohing and anh- ing and nibbling on the sweels. of 1,000, mon-and they do. with my watch, I talk to him been a lot of complaints,
Bit quarter of France's air about these and tatta. As n "The Board of Trustees was Someone ran his fingers over the force is tied down here, too, rule, when I leave, my watch going to meet right after Chris clavichord and a faculty mem- which does not break Stalin's has a new crystal and I have mas, and if the Professor didn't ber started singing a Christmas
"We adopted rather the cut out this Abolition nonsense the malcin) or a column.
Harvard would probably cut out
style of the Greek that the empty hall will have the same properties of sound as to his basement the Professor. When I got
theatre with a raked audl if it wero full. Well, it didn't look like much shop I noticed a geranium-sized
of a Christmas to
Professor (ELL,
how torium and a stepped plat-
The audience may think that THESE troops are a pretty hard-Christmas tree in the window. 1.
with toy time Follen as he walked home that
interlocking parties are once they get form for the artists," said the
wood-facing bitten lot, all veteran and was trimmed
Icbs, and a afternoon. He got to thinking pigs watch battle-tested. Half are colour-
constituting the lower walls of of the Christmases he
When it broke up inte had going. ed, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunt-sprinkle of silver rain.
"You're rushing the season," known as a kid in Germany that night, the President of the one of the architects. "and, the hall is for decoration,
the Follen itlike the Greeks, we have alan, anti Senegalese. Of the
the toys, the painted eggs, the University told other, the white half, many are
This is designed to absorb the a sound reflector
be lower frequencles, "Christmas, the old man said, red-and-white candy, and, hest had been the nicest party Boston Foreign Legion, and, as usuni,
',had seen since
n coriain other mos of these soldiers of for- "and Professor Charles Follen, of all, the Christmas trees.
party where tea was the main tween the audience and the the man who trimmed the first fune
are German.
attraction. "And as Christmas tree in America."
artists. usul," says the General, frank-
I handed bim my "they are ly.
not the worst Take plenty of time."
"A few days later the Board of Trustees met and reviewed soldiers."
"with the watch and the facts. Y not have one here?" the Fallen care. It was a brief (Before Harry Polliti explodes
'WHY
he asked himself. Ils
session. The Trustees unani- about "these Fascist beasts,"
two-year-old son had never seen pletro nak him about the
one. The people in Cambridge mously agreed there inillarised police of the East
thought he was an
recentric barm
heart elther."
and
Battle-tested
those
1
I raid pointing to the tree.
watch.
I said,
"A
carol,
tent"
you know
Seating will
be designed so
•
fa the liberty-loving quencies which have a ten- echo.
dency to be absorbed before
Even the attractive, ceiling they reach the back of the design is a mathematician's an- hall.
ewer to the demands of spuad reflection.
The echo. "The
Greeks used an ornamental pool. The water⚫ LEATHER panels at the no reflected the higher fre- hot for beauty
but to absorb
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German People's Democracy. 667 was in 1024" the some- anyhow,
former, but
Ingenarian began The next morning the Pro: The watchmaker handed me apparently redeemed. "Fascist political refugee named Charles fessor cut down a small fir tree back my watch. repilles" from ex-enemy Hun-Follen came to this country frer and planted it in a tub. His gary, Bulgaria, and Rumania). Germany. Like a lot
other mieste coloured a lot of egg- "The next dime you got it These French troops have idealists of his time, this little shells and filled them with com- fixed,” he said, “Til tell you why "Instead of water, wo poulbiy done some rough work: Professor couldn't stomach the Bts, lozenges and barley sugar, Banta Claus stopped shaving.” are using u alab of Whon Signor Toscanini taps but not rougher than the Com-strong-arm methods of Bls- When she and the Professor had I dropped the watch on the Merioneth slate 76ft. long the rostrum with his baten and mourists, who may take prison-marck. He got a job at Harvard finished decorating the tree, floor.
"Oopal" I said, "That ers but certainly, do not keep University—the first Professor, almost every twig was loaded does it
by 15ft, as a strip, of floor. 9500 people listen to the first them.
of German In this country, cat will a goodle to eat or a prolly
between the frat row of concert next year, they will find "I'm afraid not smiled my "A few months later Proferens that sparkied.
that Beltain has given a great} rollen got maled up with the Professor invited everybody he friend. picking it up
seats and the platform.
new home to music and a great Abolitionista.
knew. In Cambridge to bring time I put in an unbreakable
The platforin and aids #healtectural lead to the world *Wei, back in the 1820s, the their kids to hir, little boy's crystal,! thoroughly swept ft. folks who were against slavery party,
walls-will be highly--wax (London" Express · Service)
There
Is another: defla in
- Indo-Ching: that Carpentier has tidied up, though I won't yes 287-and he won't 'claim ha
And then the
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