THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
GERMAN POLICE FORCE
We've got two divisions out on the Rhine manoeuvres here--and it made me wonder if you've ever guessed-
The Cost of One Tank Division
PADERBORN, Sept. 27.
D
There the
to
little
east nearly as much as the battleship Vanguard, from which Bofors,
the Navy draws lasting benefits, UE to be staged near
Ainst complicated unit
But when the Army creates a here tomorrow as part mobilise and the slowest to new division, precious of the Rhine Army train is probably the divisional attempt is made to interest the public. Even the name of the joint land-air manoeuvres sign is regiment.
are now nearly 2,000 new 11th Armoured only leaked is a "battle" between
radlo pels in an armoured out, almost accidentally, from in Gennany, not 2nd and the 7th Armoured vision. Opportunities for con- source Divisions.
futon on the ar are almost London. Euch will be operating on unlimited. a front two or three times as wide as a commander would ideally wish; war in the poor man's way"- when available strength is far too small.
This needs putting right. Such costa the Jack of imagination
ONCE equipped, a division costs Army goodwil nad recruits.
anollier £10,000,000 a year nantain in equipment and to becoat.date.
Its ofBeers and men, nearly 18,000 of them, must then be juild. That means a yearly allowances bill or wage and you are able to
the £5,000,000 more. Frasp complexities which enormous
out It is only when you are on exercises such as there that
Ofice They must he led, at a cont of just under £2,000 a day,
1150 written off in War statistics as "One Division."
What does
"One Division"
men
term
money for
When a division
is in nction or on
major inanocu-
ΟΙ
example?
It s
By ROBERT JESSEL
vres it can con- ERIC FL2 much
ps 140 tons of
riple ta
petrol in a day.
say
ship enals Бо
least you have
that a battle-
10 It taken (4,000-bon troop
many million. For there it is ships and 30 freighters to move
At an armoured divison by sess
anchored in front of you.
Home idea of The commander of this costly tigating formation-bis what you are getting for your new
been an- yrt me has not money.
has still to with the buttres, probably
be a suajor- Le decided-will general,
A new
goes next
But it's different Army.
division March to join the two British divisions which now for tre British Artny of the Khane.
It will be the 11th Armoured Division, and its equipment will cost £15,000,000,
Let's break that down a little, the Most expensive item tonk.
In wartime it is not unusual 16 d on armmared divisional Commander of 35,
Thousands of work-people in armament factories in the in- dustrial Midlands must now, be they knew #) busy if only producing the tanks and guns
what for
will uc Britain's newest division.
Why not tell them about it?
-{London Express Service.)
Here he is
assiduously
knitting up
YOUN
The
Curre
1950.
"What's happening?"—"Our neighbour called the pollee."
PUBLIC
Addu in the Frame-Tireur,
MAPPING FROM THE SKY
N
By S. Gordon Coller
OTHING is
hidden on maps surveyed by
of
privato
and The mildly
tho
In-
from the air. The im- engineers, plications of this fact reading industrial area call- ed for even larger-scale mapa, became only too well known lence the 23-inch-to-the-millo in the last war, as they are map, on which almost every plotted. today in Korea, where house is individually
By the end of the century, aerial reconnaissance is the maps on all three scales (onis eyes of the United Nations. the 25-inch did not cover Few people, however, whole country) had been pub- reallae the vital part which thed, and they have often been
revised since. this same fact plays in the peaceful development
Technically, these maps nations, where air photo- reduced many of the conven-
which Kons
are familiar of graphy provides much
work today. throughout the the information on which is, at first shaded vertically, the industrial development for instance, were later thown and land utilisation of en- by hnchuring-n system invent tire countries can be based. cil to express gradients by the eloseness of the shading. This Among the pioneers in both developed into the more ac- and Icas laborious defence and peaceful applica- curate tions of this new selence is the methed of contour lines joining Central Photographie Establish points of equal height on Paris)ment of the Royal Air Force at hillsides which
SANDMAN No. 1
He had to happen in a city by EVE
of push-button whimsy..
NEW YORK.
N
B W must YORK This
PERRICK
it kills us" set is relaxercising. device which, attached to the the Silent
can
Renson, in Oxfordshire, the day.
hase from which not so long ago the RAF Photographic Re- connaisance Unit photographed
a great part of Europe for military purposes, The RAF's
we know
Gay Colours
the to-
Largely beenuse of the aprend
cartographers of the sky are of cycling, the mapa appeared participating in a mapping pro- during the "naughty nineties" Krannie which will probably in gay colours, and not until take from 20 to 30 years to 1902 did the age-old custom of complete--if thetr all-seeing colourlog them by hand finally lenses are not diverted
outside cease. Britain In the meantime.
First Task
of this tremendous some of
1745 rebellion in
Important dread
uscra
ol
year these
The new mapping programme which has now been begun with the help of the RAF aims, in the Arst place, at bringing popular of Spratt Blanket (£20), which is The latest darling of the "We snuffler, the most
anti-Anore ball, a
all these maps up-to-date, for warmer along one half.
Sponsor
the be up to date even if which is an
oldest 25-inch Beside radio devoters
Radio, which mapping programane is the or
maps were prepared me than 15 supposed both to back of a pyjamu jacket, stops buy
world 60 years ago, when ars now connecting Magie Enr dance Survey, whose lylo on his hu the wearer from is the exercise and relax you in one
Koe's under
Pub housing great cities were large- the famous mags have been the Tavelled most
buck by gently rolling him on Piece that unre operation.
pillow, and is, therefore, only fished for nearly 200 years. Bernt. Secondly, the RAF is The qualißed masseur who
to his silent side.
notable photographing, for may on bed, tore this, with somo audible to one of two In a sccre of s laxing city totes his infernal machine round
Juch 13 Saxton, Ecale of 50 inches to the mile, Greatest boon of all-a bis exceptions In peacetime, when there are in the most
You can buy (for 14%. Gd.) a unrelaxed to his clients, almps pails round!
called Cheez-It, which Britain had been backward all the more important urban two-stor
battle of bath salts which are cult,
having learned areas of England, Scotland and łew
mup-making, plum jobs for
country in the world. But your stomach, arins and legs,
guaranteed to induce pleasant can't leave crumbs in the bed.
the Wales. isually ten
the Americans never give and then to 'ro gently intoned
There which Lullapine
is retterads, he
A
Robot much from the Flemings, also a
Dutch and the French. years blster, stanetimes more.
"Now this is going to case all dreams,
Cigarette Holder which up the fight against ner-
of your "huns a constant droning tensions out
After the
theso those
plne minimises the risk of the house
of dispels a relaxing The commander of the 11th
tension. How can systern; make you feel nice and and
д comes
little catching fire because of careless Scotland, however, the be Armoured will
Planning pald This is not they? "Relax, relax, relax" cosy." proccess to try to elev fragrance,"
to smoking. Του tired dearer £10,
and Beam Alarm, inspired by the clansmen be- maps will be the Miny £2,100 a year.
screamed at them the trocute you.
Try ล which, when pressed, yells blue came so great that onc Colonel Town and Country Naturally is a great success, count your own sheep?
numbered sheep-rotator far, far whole time.
(£2 murder and "forces an intruder Watson was ordered in 1747 to end the Department of Health Centurion tank costs more unduly generous for a man in is
of something
begin a detailed survey of the for Scotland, and at the begin charze
in panic."
ning of each 15.). Or perhaps you need to to fee than £30,000, And though the
on a scale other users confer to draw No. 1 prize
not forgotten Scottish Highlands Mr Dine has is a secret, bigger than the Brabazon pro- of tanks mimber
be hypnotised before you can presumably there will be four feet.
sleep so there's a gramophone about the morning after. None of one inch to 1,000 yards reghaents, three of them in the It is ariel brigande, amourd
efforts (strangely enough, no
artificial Ralph Slater to send you off merely ring bells at you. One completed in 1768, mainly by work.
wakens you to the music of a Watson's clerk, William Roy. It would work out at between 200 the Navy again..
was he who became one of the tinkling Go to "The (38%).
waltz; another груд When the Admiralty brings a one seems to have thought that all-out effort in and 250 Bichling tanks.
might aircraft- lack of effort
be the relaxation
founders of the Ordnance Sur- Show- Only Sleep World's
noise- special are battleship or
politely but firmly, "Waite UP way when it was established in Add to
this mure than 100 new
and three please."
Vey carrier into service, the thing is easiest way), then it will have
Solves 1,001 Sleep Problems,” absorblag curtains
Thanks to technical advances, to be done by machine, Kuns.
its creator and director, lines
And yet, should all these gad-1701. of patent. car-stops for costs done style, Royalty visit the self-propelled gun
And for the machine-made and stages,
known as
The first task undertaken by the suspicion which for Dine,
Keta ieave you a slave to one at various
those who must have quiet, A dockyard
of air photo- almart as much as a tank.
ef relaxation there is Mr Norman
or another, the Ordnance Survey-the trian clouded the use Beid 12271
ettend the launching. A great variety 25-pounder towerf
More cubtle innovation is an kind of neuroties
you don't have to gnash your gulation of Britain and Ireland graphy for mapping has His two asultants costs
company of dockyard workers niways a ready market among Public Sandman No. 1. take the versal to their hearts. the people who are by now con-
theco is nothing ferred to as Public Sandmen No. illustrated eard which politely teeth. The Americans are sen- took more than 60 years. The been almost dispelled. "Mosaics"
Mir Dorothy Daven- and postically pleads your case, timentalisis. Says
Dine: levelling, that is the determinu. composite pictures built is studiously forged vized that A link unfantry
ay John
Brown's that cannot be done at the flick 2 and No. 3.
another helper, who sings and which is meant to be pre- "We:ping is cogy and restful. Ition of all heights so that ateas from a series of photographs to at 11 Glance Immense Fent-up emotions should
be represented accurately chow brigade are much cheaper, apart between
restless babica che outer cented to noisy neighbours. Four
there the bald-headed from the anti-tank guns, which workers on the Clyde and the of a switch,
or will teach unmusical mothers carnan Headwarmers, for the
found invaluabic, Low So he ponding to mean sea level, look been how to do the job themselves, eeld-fected, electrically heated will offer you his Heart-break more than 60 years. But, thilde marks round
the coasts has no such defined status. She
Pillow, a heart-shaped, water- 1853, the first edition of the can be, and are being, establish- is known simply na the Lullaby
use of infra-red quilted-gatin
map of c by the cushion now famous one-inch Lady.
Britain was completed.
photography from the air.
a mere £3,800, a Bofors anti-aircraft Run £5,000.
Weapons for the
WORDS and MUSIC
word "relaxation" has come to mean the joy of living. Morcover, ![ they cannot
and
up
Or in express it in terms ofchieve this bliss by their own UT the prize for the biggest record made by our old friend of the Sleep Shop's alarm clocks military purposes, and this win the programme for the years
There's
money
in it, too
ן!
"By George, the kid's improving!"
by MARIUS POPE
ASTONISHING story of a concert club the southwest fringe of London will come ray of hope to hundreds of communities programmes
as a
in Britain where
RESE
d
advertising space. And they remain com- heavy- music
pletely immune to the lovers at present feel that handed help of the Arts Coun-
council, they are doomed to receive ell, borought their musical diet exclusive- or any of the other would-be
culture boosters.
ly through a grille.
decorative
Rome
new
county
NO PASSENGERS
129031656149066390631
Club is Wimbledon Club and the man behind it is
This Iden wat to well sup- Kenneth Tucker, who combines
ported that last year the club the functions of conductor of were able to the orchestra, organiser of the
Kenius club and its financial
sale
On the ere! ride, the of programines and advertising brings in £300 for the season.
senson tarly With the fortnight away, the Takings from Birkel sales are already over £1,600
The idea could be multiplied;
Bri n hundredfold throughout 1am with incalculable benefits to our musical culture.
A STUNNING electrify-
Ing performance of Beethoven's Seventh
It
and
musi
ITC re-
There
bed-socks,
be
Mosaics
long
now
up
arc healthfully released. Do not on a horizontal plung corres tracts of the countryside-have
shamedly stitia them."
petty proofed, where In a country
in annoyances like rending in bed 20 cry on, for 28x. constitute mental cruelty some of the divorce courts, Mr dono Dine has
everything to profect modern possible American marriages.
The paradox
THERE'S
Huge Sums
зге DE
The Sleep Shop is really just
Ground surveyors, who check a department of a large iron- munitery store situated in New
the photographic records, York's Avenue of the Americas
saved the tedious business that about the (lutely Sixth Avenue). But, in-
Already at the command of entering private property to ob- Americans. Mr Irving Ber- somnia coming next to ulcers as
Ireland ta detailed information, while a national affiction, the project The Sleep Shop's pride is the lia's heroine can sing about the Parliament, a map of
on a scale of six inches to the air photography actually elimi- has leaped far beyond the Jack Spratt Bed, This one costs bments of "Doing What Comes Mr Dine and the realms of hot-water bottles and 180. It is a double bed design- Naturally."
ed for couples with differing rest of the
Any of gadgeteers kapok pillows,
to take over when Do you suffer from a snoring tastes. One half of the mattress are there spouse? Mr Dine will sell you is firmer than the other side. To that advice no longer works.
(London Ezprem Servic#) it there is a Jack kinds of snore is go with
any
of three
PEN
M
CAR
PALS
ARY Jane Minter
thought herself the loneliest woman
GAVE
le had been published to help nates in the case of the 80-inch disputes maps one of the surveyor's pre- the settlement of between landlords. In Britain, liminary ground tasks for which the railway companies werd a chain was formerly used. spending huge sums of money
HIM HOUSE,
Air photography for this pur-
however, hi Pote,
many special difficulties of s own. The high standard of photo- graphs required means that the ky must be cloudles (to pre- vent shadows) and a ground mist must obscure vision. Over Industrial towris, the additional hazard of man-made bize must of te faced. Or, in the case
inct the low-de murks, the that the sea is often at low ebb Now safely in gnol, James during the night or at times of
the day when the light is
makes latervals good enough sultable for photography rare.
AND BANK ACCOUNT
old established organisation-and
convert it into a vast informa- Robert Worth similarly selected tion centre on potential swindle his victims,
In
By EVELYN
VAUGHAN
correspondance sprung
"until I transferred my father's pen money
212
percent from
slock to property Goverunen! paid earning over 20 percent?"
Miss Minter was Eventually
run
on of
have
other
crimes
Just
12
Correction
not
1
vic potential burglary ffins by correspondence.
stablished contact Symphony was un un-
Kradually Scores of new friendship and with well-to-do men and for the Britain when an advertise- expected treat
societies
women who lived alone, Covent Garden audience ment in a small local news-
up even in Flong method was to suggest a meet her last night.
caught paper
eye.
kong since the war. A sing at a distant rendezvous.... Scheduled for performance by Why be lonely " it in-
number are admittedly genuine
un and singo a burglary
with a
To overcome these obstacles, choir
vited. "Join our select
clubs
ethical lines. reasonable assurance that the the RAF is using alcroft with And it may even pat
have cast was clear. people An examination of the club's La Scala orchestra and
above 1,000 famous names Thousands commercial those heart
Joined дос the organisers of £350. Montevenil's Magnificat, but the pals group!"
Miss Minter readily meert promoters whose activi- Inst season nellvilles, in which were Mozart's Requiem
observation In fact, innumerable. cases of feet Mosquitos, and Spitfires, Hammond prgan could not bel
high profita legitimately reap ties are confined to waiting for they made a profit
their ur should give clue to
10 do tho same. from registration fees, subscrip. fraud, bigany, blackmall, theft below that Anson
year aircraft. Their crews are brief- non-profit-making
No harm could come or writing persuaded
Lons
In and und socials....and mancy-losing organisation to In- method. During the season they used in the second half, so the 5 shillings a year subscription.
Loudon can
In re- Within a week she learned that seldom have to people, she thought.
the featured pen-friend and tonety cu for each triission in exactly were some cases commission on shares property "selected" her vite them to organise a concert, led three series of live concerts, symphony was substituted.
In sub-he same way as poster crews In each series there was a star heard such
turn she received a a performance of
marriages of
organisations club members, heart-
Ts before an attack." Concert box-office attraction.
this work--nor, I should ima-1st of people of her own tastes worthless....and that her pen.
Yet the secretaries are keenly sequent police evidence. pal had vanished. ns and uge. Wu
undercurrent of is sufficient indictment of the
No flying task requires more pine, can Milan.
Can- As she later told
heartless racketeers who prey the police,
The house, she learned, had ware of the
danger,
this, accurate navigation than though conductor Guldo
Toscanini,
on the lonely, telli, a protege of
she was keenly suspicious and been rented furnished. Part of put every- was tietermined to
rent
still unpald,
Closely watched by the polks and the crews of the Ansons on her guard, Gradually, how the
the case, police
arc obscure thing he had into the perfor
crorever, friendship developed with Investigating
radio
using (a) Spent £750 on the ormance to compensate for
system friendship has as magazine runnlag use the Decca Navigator to aid Unscrupulous of correspon- offers proved that every one
"Blonde ex-dancer, them-a 15 a small group
New signal stations. 'coincidences* clubs operate from small back aged 23, invites correspondence chains, of to chestra, engaging professionals
་་་ the work was non-
could have been built up by any
through accommoda- with view to friendship." On chains of these stations are now to cover the soon na ho had tion oddresses, and rehearsed,
serve as the other hand, churchmen have being prepared the
scoundrel- orchestra
discovered Miss Minter's name contact agencies an astounding responded with
unde- found nothing but praise for a whole country, and when they correspondence club are complete pinpoint naviga- The man in particular excited and made skilful inquiries into irables. In one case, a shop reputable orchestral precision and co-operation. The
official The
which tlon will be possible over birth window showcard was couched with 14,000 members with applause lasted for 15 minutes.
her compassion. Though the The team of Danco, Barbieri,
terms that has "admirably served to tower whole of Britain's mainland and sub-standard
in such flagrant was careful to tell him litle of certificate registers,
into the pen plain-clothes detectives Investigations Prandell and Slept Have 0
made the barriers that divide heart surrounding waters. her affairs, she discovered that
revealed inquiries and the investigation from heart." per- competent and confident
his parents and died when he pals club, however, Re-
more startling fact disclosed. a
im network of pol-bollers formance of the Mozart Forget such
was 39, leaving him "oo late the even the although as the Tchaikovsky Plano Con- quien,
for marriage" but with a sizable" that ono niember, in every 15 morality. certo, the Schubert Unfinished seemed to be lost somewhere in fortune. The coincidence seemed and a criminal recorti. few Beethoven's Fifth and ballet the hinterland of the stage.
like cicoliny itself, for all this Brl- musle;
had similarly happened to Mary Jane Minter.
He went to live in Wimbledon
WAS
five years ago and found to play at concerin and also to of the Magnificat. Aents-three women and a man. of the attractive
use his own words town
huil seating 1,400, used twice a lend each weekly year for the local choral society throughout the year. concerts. There was no cham-
(b) Tighten
117
rehearsal
ber music, no orchestrul music, discipline and dispense To recitals.'
parsengers and players;
SEATS -25.
-921117NAHERTZALE
This I should say, is a typi cal musical picture of a
hundred other places in
tala,
(c)
(d) Give concrete encourage-
artists And from such unpromising ment to many, young
Con otherwise dependent on wealthy material the Wimbledon cert Club was created. Today parents or the Arts Council. for charging only two prices
seats at their concerts-1, and
choir
IT 15 possible that some
of the largest provincial cities as well as London
Coincidence
and wills
When at last they
whe
met he
women
Begging Letters
roomis
for
Credit Side
In Britain have
Ly own
the
Maps cannot be dawn direct from aerial photographs, which before
in
One of the most successful begging - letter writers in
On the credit side, a contact need to be "corrected" America Still At Large
operated through azociety found new husband. For this purpos, the exact pen pals club of which his wife for a woman with six children.ngle of tilt of the camera the moment the photograph WID In an attempt to put their bouco taken must first be computed. The man
tricked the was the secretary....
So skilled was he in establish- in order, Cupid agencies This is done Instrumento was charmi personified....and innocent. Miss Minter of over "will be able to hear La
formed a
und called stereo-comparators, the lon arm of coincidence 46,000 is still at large. So are ing confidence Scala next year duringi
Bureau Associa "rectified" prints are then pro- Before sho mwy other rogues who have insinuating his personal unse)- Marriage
Oshness,
with that 73 victims con- tion the Festival of Britain, Stretched farther.
br codeduced. These are checkeď could disclose her own birthday, approached
unwary
to
non-existent of professional rules, Yet few
ground surveyors, vlo All A. Gorlinsky, who nego vary found he had been born through lonely heart clubs and tribuitul
charity for which he purported of the world's pen tiated this year's visit the same month--and in the introduction bureaux.
pal clubs additional detall belero a final voluntocr now discussing
worker. have followel this example.
and recheck, entry of names The police today are selively to In siblity
Scala of La
or-same towL
not necessarily boundaries, etc. Then, from a of Boosting his story with printed "Friendship, (which is well strengthened by
chorus, Arrau, Thi. chestra' and
together When he diffidently invited concerned
annual ru marriage" is their slogan. But zinc plate, the final prints aro professionals paid at the full which. Pouloluot union rate and they have pre bud, and other top-line solo with soloists coming to Britain her home to tea, Miss Minter's adequate supervision over cor- appeals and fake
It was respondence clubs and the risks porty, he had a house, car and it is sufficiently clear to the made. It is a long Hep since that many outwardly maps were engraved on соре sented soloists of the calibre of 1sts and ensembles are engaged, for a ten-day visit in 1831 to last doubts vanished.
furnished, they entail
reality, any surplus cash in a bank account police In Claudio Arrau, Cortot, Myra artists' fees for 15 concerts total appear at the new Festival Hall, beautiful house,
can launch a new before the Fraud Squad eaught respectable people do not stopper by hand in the days of add as well as in Manchester, Leeds with triste and evident care. "I scoundrel·
up with him.
at friendship! Hess. Their solo income is de- 41,124. Other expenses
Queen Elizabeth! and possibly Edinburgh.
|couldn't afford it," he explained, 'pen pals club-or take over an rived from the sale of tickets, about £400.
28. they maintain the Wimble-
lon Symphony
Orchestra
£1000 TAKINGS
KOŠELE KATTOVERSTELOSSYÉRENTSKIRST
For the coming season
the
nt
the
lack
bo