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GWYN · LEWES
NCE invalids flocked to pany-or Wismut AG,
the Erz Gebirge enterprise for the "exploita- of coloured mountains
the tion and sale ยา border to metals." Czech-Germ
Once inside only seek health from the heal marely is anyone allowed to
wave. ing springs.
Since 1916 300,000 Ger-
24:1 mans, netl
Women, have gone there. But not for clif. their health. For a
Not kept
ferent, more sinister reason WHEN work first
of rock who refured to renew his con- age, and subsidences thigh technical Incompetence. tract was put ander pressure Those Sheosis and tuberculosis are until he signed again.
who souphil escape were hunted
ad trought back.
using many more deaths,
Next-of-kin of there killed in
the mines are mostly told that zone for the British or American the victims have quil the Soviet zones of Germany.
Dire necessity
YUTPUT Agures are kept a cing serrel But it ig bown that 200 shafts have been ul. Of these about 90 anc workian. Other shafts have
General Malzer saw, after a timur, that his early harsh method: would not du for the
of long terTT) production Granium.
been abandoned.
So improvements were intra-
10 thred
check falling fall.
began, people
tempted were there by offers of wages eight times higher than those paid elsewhere.
the
Werkend Inve outstrin anines arra was given to a fow most trusted workers.
-16 dig uranium, urgently needed for the atom bomb, their out of the earth for Russian slave masters,
But reports filtered out of of the Intelligence ollicers in
the mountains that these Pumps reduced the Recklents in the tooded mine tunnel. Mech- Herlin revented a part of
wages were not being paid; eat
WAN Increased (but what is happening there-be-
"nor" apparently "WERE "Pro="" medical services are reported to hind the thickest of all
mises
increased "I
food be still far from adequate). parts of the Iron Curtain.
rations being kept.
The inducement of high wages, From further reports 1
which now were paul, began to tell more of the story.
were only for increase the flow of workers. Rewards
Miners were put on contracts. Across 600 square miles those who could do a daily
mines that But the shortest contract was of those mountains--which "stint" in the even before the coming of Was beyond human capacity, for six months and the miner
the Russians were
Then the Russians senty
times called the Siberia of to the mines those German
priemers of war who could!
preve, on
repatriation Britain
Saxony has grown up a State within a State. Its not ruler is the Russian General that they had juls to go to. Mikhail Mitrofanovich Mid- They saw to it that
jobs became increasingly difficult to get.
Zev.
Over his subjects he holds the power of life and death. Under his command he has lens
guns ring the pitheads an the miners' camps.
Only those sent to work
other
To solve billeting prob-
families were
barracks.
-
resing it carried out in Ger- www. the
bright sent to Russia for all other treatment. Top quality oren are sent away by plane or special train.
GLION
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
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enemy camp.
T is not fashionable to I saw no signs of an inferiority Paris complex. Rather the reverse; Reen in during August. The the directors of Le Touquel high. the war into the smart set has moved off to life carried the South Coast, to Biarritz, to Denuville, to Le Touquet. And here is how they did I
But that does not mean Casing of Le Touquet is a young One of the three partners in the that the city is dull. August man of great energy and robust is the month of tourism, ideas. He is In his Jale twenties and, sooner or later, every and his name is Louis Wiel, tourist spends a night or For n charity dance held at two in Paris.
Le Touquet in aid of the British In the cafes, in the Hertford Hospital in Paris, Wiel cabarets, the high spots and Lanvin should put on a fashion the low dives, I found life show,
arranged that the couturier
Casino-kin. Francols Andre,
and entertainment going on Four beautiful Mannequins int a robust and furions were detailed to appear, but all
pace.
"were holidaying at Deauville in And when I woni, next an hotel belonging to that town's day, to the most fashion- able bar In the world, I Wiel arranged to go down realised that it was in no himself and pick them up. But nat in his car. He took lila own way affected by the "dead hotel bus. season."
Anti zu
it was that, at At lunch time, and again height of Deauville's festival fat the hour before dinner, week, four of Monsleur Andre's it was packed with the am- most decorative guests drove off from one of Monsieur Andre's bulatory rich of
mapy smartest
hotels In a bus nations.
binzoned with the name of the 1 rival resort-Le Touquet.
While in Paris noticed:-
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132 NATHAN ROAD
the
THAT the latest thing in Duke profers polo smart evening bags as its mirror built in on the out- sidle.
THAT many pretty, well- dressed girls ride around on bicycles with tiny motors
FOR TWO generations, shoot- ing has been the favourite recreation of the men In Br- tain's Royal Family. But the Duke of Edinburgh prefers more active sports, and he hns oc- driving the front wheel. salten the grouse neers of THAT heavy. chunky Jewel- Balmoral in favour of the polo Bery, in which the setting is as ground at Cowdray Park, in ornamental as the stones, is still Sussex. On his way South by the Pals fashion. It is easily air. he broke the journey to see copied, and one may see what is another sport in which he shows apparently, the same object in nervo and judgment. For be two different shop windows spent the afternoon watching one collint a few pounds, the motor racing at the Dally Ex- other a hundred times as nuwch. press Internniionnt Trophy
Silverstone reeting.
Patron Perons
EVA PERON, wile of the | President of the Argentine, will be ratkiled with a work of arl which is being prepared to her order at Pietresante, Northern Italy.
k consists of a group of statues, 18-feel high, chiselled from the most expensive marble. It motif is an allegorical scene depicting the general and of the mothers Eva as patronis and children of the Argentine peuple. Its destination is the great hall of the Perons presl
liat palace.
While the Perens await their
People who have played polo with the Duke tell me that he shows great promise, though he has taken it up seriously only within the past few months.
The Duke of Edinburgh has the right physique for poto. He in wing and extremely tough,
Opera guider
WHEN THE D'Oyly Carte Company Arrives iti cra America In October there will be a dark. petite, and extreme. ly distinguished-looking woman guiding its activities.
It is also known that only the statues a Stale paper awalts
She will not be much in preliminary mechanica!
ha horror the President's signature. My evidence, for she
tues is that it will linger on the of the limelight. But she will pending tray until the statues be the most Important person are installed.
behind the scenes.
For she
chairman and managing director of the com- Ms Bridget pany, Her name:
D'Oyly Carte, grand-daughter of the company's founder, diughter of its late proprietor.
For the State paper is a Bill which, when sittned, will impose Long ago scientists reporteri at 50 pererat tax on all works that only by cularral expenditure | of art entering, the Argenline. of money and labour would Le possible to win worthwhile antilles of uranium anywhere at Germany.
Yet still the Russians maintain tri z Gebirge Alam State Die nevesily drives them on.
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She is the last of the D'Oyly WHILE
Cartes. And though, of her own THE spotlight publicity was
turned on the chaice, she is little known to the ings and princes at Denvile, I public, she has her thare of the went see the risal resort-Le family talent, Touquet.
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Output falling so a young officer be- toter with efficient numbers hunter and
Map
Yet the popularity
of the Ordnance Survey is essentially modern. At one time the maps were housed in the Tower of London, As recently as 1905 anyone who wanted to see an
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UST over 200 years ago a) English army marched to Scotland eval lot its way. After the a security forer of regular coated. Dance halls, schools, feat of the Young P'relen- Russian troops and armed churches, and public build-der at Culloden the troops
Ordnance Survey map had to converted into had to have maps at all for the fet time have an ade- he had to spend three days in nuke special appllcallous at German police believed to be Ings were
costs before they could te working ground plun. 30,000 to 10,000 strong.
surveyor re post office, corded the extent of a Dartmoor Today the 0.5. produces mapa pacify the Highlands.... House names are being shown, bog only after nearly drowning showing coal workings, electri- Barbed wire and machine
swallowing quarts city supply areas, farming soils yan mapping the mountains to indicate the run, To expert ..slime!
eye the house hape will in-
with the soils graded by ferti- and glens at 1,000 yards to dicate weial stalus and even Every new
revision is twice ty, and the finest soll coloured ሮ. The new maps also show checked. Britain's Ordnance purple even maps showing
the drift of population, accurate detail every small Survey maps set an example in 1 Alushouse ntid lean-to, each thoroughness and perfection of are soon to be maps thowingg tool shed and even the back- detall. Village
coastal antiquarians
crosion and comparison yard chicken runs,
sometimes query the name of a maps of the forest lands of to- hamlet or l declaring the day and 30 years ago. Teal maps are in error, but Some people are never satis- the Ordnance Survey is invari- ned! There's already a scheme Street-steps, sand-bins, mall ably tight. The 0.5, name books for a colossal six inches to the boxes, telephone boxer and
provida three authorities for mile relief map of England and traffic kindly all become dis- every name and change that may Wales. Housed has thetive map
large features at this have occurred.
building its London it would scnle.
enable everyone to take a bird's eye view of the country. With
lakes, woods When
and boundaries are
all roads, dis parks, even streains and foot- puted, the Survey can show
in the mines are allowed in-
SINCE
the work began it is the inch. believed that 1,000 have
side this State, still innocent- been killed in cekients due to When he had mapped the ly styled the Bismuth Com- as explosions, inadequate drain-hands be systematically
EDITORS PREIS SERVICE, INC-NUEVA YORK
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charted the whole Scottish main- Innd. Then he hauled his t- struments to the top of å scaffold- ļing around the dome of St Paul's Cathedral and began mapping England and Wales.
Even today no country been mapped so thoroughly, on on so large seale, as Britain. Britain' afletal map-making organisation has been keeping the maps up to date, Through the years the whole of Britain was mapped at an inch to the mile and later ut 8-Inch and "25-inch scales. Now, 5,000 sur- voyers and cartographers have begun the world's biggest task.
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The old seate of 23 inches to
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In addition, the Ordnance Survey has had Royal Air Force en-neration In photographing
all Britain from the air for a
The 60-inch map
In in
There
new six-inch aerial photo map. where a stream or fence ran in paths clearly marked, tourists will take 1815, 1880 and 1912 In the past, could plan itineraries and sam- 30 year to finish. In 1980, how disputes cometimes occurred be pie the scenery beforehand. ever, the map-ranking squoda will have to begin the job all over utlu, for every map needs constani revision.
Backbone of the Survey are
cause the original drawing paper had changed its shape with the pasange of The huge living map would time. All the new maps are be divided into 50-mlla squares drawn Ол enamelled metal
daninged sur-
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People to inove around the the mile is nut big enough for who undertake the actual field solvents anet the modern need of Eland's work. They pace the grounds of face can be restored with freshestions. A viitor starting near
Southampton
could wander town planners and muntelpal Justle asylums and measure enaml."
through England past authorities. An a result, Loine the walls of prisons. They have With Its popular maps for chester, Oxford, through Lanca-
been st on by dogs And be- faboury by angry householders. walkers and motorista, air photo shire or Yorkshire to Carliste. archaeologists" and Little relief models would show maps for Not everyone is aware that a surveyer has the legal right to population charts for plannery, cathedrals and castles and even Survey prints cottages, for the nvenge house the Orduan.co
this senio over two million maps a year, on
can be clearly and is admittedly one of the scen
Government departments. The total map-wil -
Occupy to make a profit.
about 60 squaro yards,
15,000 square miles of urban Greas የፓሮ b. ne སཉྩཏན ཀཱདམཱ ཏྭཱ ྂ nt the glenntle seale of 50 inchies to the mile.
On this senke, the complete map Londen will be over 100 fest wide. Street Names with Irok Barger than town names, Etce
leity and water wiglecro will
aux a boundary mark to any wall or house if he wishes.
A corporal taking observations was chased by, a swarm of angry bees and stung so badly that
few
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