LONDON
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFÉ, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950.
EVACUATION
The Army operations room in the heart of London from which the evacuation and search are directed. Seeno from "Seven Daya To Noon."
3,500
MIES F. ALLT
Her task: the Far East
MISS J. ROSSITER Speaks forní Spanish
Strip-teaser Enters A Convent
Airfields
Are
'Filed' Here
(BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
In London I found a group of young ex-Servicemen and women who "know all the answers" about 3,500 of the world's airfields. Theli knowledge is boing used by civil air pilots all over the world.
The group, who have just moved from offices in what used to be
the drawing What She
rooms of a large house inj Hill Street. Mayfair. W.. to a new building near London Airport, are continuing work; for civil aviation which most of them were doing for the RAF during the war.
Disliked
And Liked
FILM
New Production
More Realistic
Than Newsreel
BY PETER LOVEGROVE
Director Alfred Hitchcock used to be labelled the master of film suspense. Last year Carol Reed seemed to go one better with his memorable "Third Man," which picked up a number of British and international awards and gave the zither its brief moment of glory. But I think that both Hitchcock and Reed have been trumped by Roy and Jolin Boul- ting, two young ex-RAF brothers whose "Seven Days to Noon" has been drawing record crowds to the Leicester Theatre, London, and wrung praise from the most carping critics.
tackin
from
2
This fiction thriller, which subject. I trust will never
beenmo technical point of view, nor one more charged with pos-
fact, has a plot as
its
up-to- eible controversy. They have date as tomorrow's news given us a genuine picture of paper. It is more realistic the great metropolis nad
Inhabitat
no other fim than most newsreals,
has ever succeeded in doing, And although the spectator and interspersed the grimpers knows all along that "It will with brief touches of humour all cuine out all right in the and character studies that bear
nd." the tension is bullt up the stamp of truth. so skilfully, the story so sup-
Theirs are people with whom rbly told and acted, that
it fote
rutus dully
shoukiers, retulnu its nightmarish caught in terrifying situa qualifies almost to its navelet-tion and reacting as
they would.
DELICATELY HANDLED
hish climax.
One feels
London Is both its star and ita setting. It is the capítul and her leeming millors that
All the evacuation cernes are at stake when a top atom
Pave been de.lently nndled, scientist disappears - from IL research establishment with the broken only by the tramp
The silence of deserted London, atest type of atom bomb
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of
comme its is really uncanny. his Gladstone bag and threat-Army bouts and pithy Service
to blow it up in West-
And they have been careful minster in a week's time un-
to concentrate on the thriller tes Sho Prime Minister publicly
declares that Britain aspect of their plot and leave The serious implications of the wil make no more such wea-problem to the mood and in-
telligence of the spectator.
pone.
Deadly Interested
AS a South Korean interpreter explains the demonstration in their native tongue, two native recruits watch bazooka experts Sgt. James M. Miller, left, and Capt. Harry P. Carrington operate the anti-tank weapons in South Korea. Miller uses
a 2.3 bazooka, and Carrington a 3.5.
AUSTRALIA'S
(Acmo),
LONELIEST
WOMAN READS THRILLERS
MELBOURNE.
A 68-year-old woman who lives alone in a swamp-bound, dilapidated mansion said that she would defeat the terror of loncliness by reading de- tective thrillers.
Once Scotine Yard inves Sipaturs have established that The film was shot on the this is no crank's fantasy and spot"
Kennington, Lam- that the threat is genuine, the
heilt. Stanmore, Kenton and
The woman, Miss Mar- "The properly bethme story moves swiftly.
Bayswater, AL Waterinu A
and everyone ex- Caring Cross stations. bley and the While City, in surviving member of Piccadilly Creus and Bel-wealthy grazing family at} The Prime Minister explains rave
In were happy Western Tularee, eight miles from Square, The situation in broutcast; Avenue and
il
the Watford by Tarwin Lower, South Gipps-body and nobody bothered us.
bothered no- martial law is declaresh Lon-pass, and, inevitably, at T-
"I am alone now, except for
Wem-garet Clement, is the last wildernes
cept Jennie and myself left
ARMY CO-OPERATED
011
on 1 evacuated; and the falgar Square, Victoria Streetland. Army is called in for a methio-[and Whitehall,
ical come out of the deserted
The
But I on a larger cente Fifteen American travel They are collecting; all the vital agents, including four woarea. Information about nirfields all over the world and interpreting Inen, have just left after a 10-day tour of Britain by it into a guide for pilots,
So far they have "covered" air. rail and road.
into
3,500. Everything a pilot or One of them, Miss II. avigator wants to know about Macheras, 31. of Chicago, each of these details of all the aid before she went: "Eng- Pavigation aids, maps and dia and is OKC, and I am coming Arams-is compressed
back." Then she told in detail what she disliked. and liked, about the country.
CRITICISM,
small loose-leaf folder, care fully indexed.
Leader of the team ex- Flight Lieutenant J.A.A. Fool, hotels Xorner navigator in Bomber particularly
i Commund's Pathänder Force.
ROUTE BOOKS
Font was at the Air Ministry's Directorate of Signals, where he lped in building up airfield and navigational information for the I.A.F.
Afte:
the war
Everyone
"Your should be WOUTHPT-
the bedroents.
en this trip.
of u nught a cold.
"Your beds are uppalling. any of then are lumpy
Service i indifferent many good-class places.
IIL
"Your drink laws and your hotel rules Chuld tre star- lo dardised. Many restauraleurs coffee making lessons,
"There is not enough night
Cerile Sorel, lending strip-th European Airways, pro-should
he weat teaser in Paris 50 years ago, incing the route books for has become a Franciscan EAT
Continental service novice.
pilots.
There are three "Intelligence" girl mount his team. A WIT- ine WAAF signala officer, Miss
take
fr Americans.
"There is
London for
100st
Now 77, Cecile er Her hotel at Biarritz in a motor car dressed la a long black robe torn al the knees on a sign of P.G. Allt, is
rather a depressed In charge of air about many English people ivanility,
Far East information: Min At the Capurbin Convent, Phillips,
alto from WAAF did not sense this when in
| Scotland-but I loved Father Remy tu around her 120
signals, "cover" Europe, and
waist the whity Franciscan corda J Rossiler, who was in quet sense of humour.
of purity and austerity.
the life of the world,"
fluent
the WRNS and speaks
"The old-world
after South is
He enjoined her to "abanden Spanish. looks
Cecile is on ʼn your's proba-
America.
your
atmosphere and wonderful
SO Is the fnod. Fish is delicious, and t have had the best roast beef I have ever tasted
tion. She is still staying at The group are producing the the largest hotel in fashionable guide for International Aeradio, Illarritz
Itte concern in which the three "Sight-seeing is really ex-
air carporntions citing.
because there Bre So
She used to boast that she did | Government enough in one week to keep und several ollier airlines any historical places, six gossip columnists and their throughout the world are share-travel is comfortable. families living for a month.
holders.
Fred, 81, Britain's oldest
miner, talks of retiring
QAUR in 1887 young Pred
B
Ruddock began work as a
miner-and drew 100 for *
Young backbreaking shift. old Fred u will #1 413
Active miner, doing a full shift below on maintenance work Buy Britains, oldest miner is thinking of giving it up 452 life on for with lighting hearia" he, me At his Northamberland home
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at Newbiggin-by-the-Bea owes me nothing I've lived Dui.don't welcome thp kara, Ahought of reliting.”
Your
"Prices ore favourable to
Americans.
"Clothes for men and women are smart.
"Your men are so polite, and your women are so feminine."
THE WORMS KEPT A SEX SECRET
An old lady who wanted a pair of canaries innocent- ly bought two yellow-dyed sparrows from * London costermonger.
"How can you tell which is the male canary and which the female?" she asked the costermonger.
them
д
waive, he said,
plate of **The mate worms," will eat all the female worms
all and the female
the male worms,"
"But how can you tell which
malo worms which are the female?"
aro
the
und
Ere, steady on, I'm a bird fancler, not a worm faneler."
The story is told in the book "Dacolate Antarctic" by Lord 60- Mountevana the tarŢious year-old mandog who brought Scott's Antabus, erpecia
axpedition back, London Eignas USIYID) ---- 10. 19297 ZEMRE KOOWS
EL JE.
"We loneliners. We
In the
OUL
"*1 will way in my house my dog Diago." The troops employed in the 'with my books and my dog for is comb-out
WADES TO SHOPPING came from a Ter the rest of my life," she said. reientist. of course, run to earth at the fifty-ninth riturial Army searchlight unti
Her all the mury equip-
sister Jenale, aged 70, minute of the eleventh hour in and
shabby lounge-zoom Westminster's blitzed
13-roonied Stment was lent by the War died in the
man of the mansion. Its expensive Omiec, Stephen's Church.
whose help and advice, lion recently,
furniture thick with dust, is Tec Bultings could hardly the film company informs me,
library of detective stories. have picked
a more difficult were un: Unting.
Conan Doyle i Margaret's favourite author.
Olive Sloan tries to thumb a lift on a military lorry to get out of atom bomb threatened London in "Seven Days To Nion."
Four men carried her "body Un a stretcher throurth ye miles ut swamps for burial in the family vault at Sale,
Twice a week, to to shop After the funeral Murgaret ping, she pins up her skirt and returned to the isolation of her wades through the swamps to home, from which she has her next-door, neighbour, M banned rudio and even elec Buckley, a few miles away. tricity.
He
contact is her tradespeople.
willi
VICTORIA CROSS TO BE SOLD
The Victoria Cross and
Medul the Mutiny
with three bars, awarded in 1858 to L/Cpl, William Goat, of 9th Lancers, in to be sold at Glendinings this month.
L/Cpl Gont received his VC for gallantry against rebels at Lucknow,
Lancera The. Oth were fighting when Major P, Smyth, of the Dragoon Guards was shot through the body and fell from his horse. Goat lifted him on to his shoulders and rai alongside his own horse to try to catch up with the rest of the brizade.
When set upon by the rebels
A reporter who visited her waded through miles of swamps, with ley, rank water.
The mission's garden, once the best in Gippsland. is buried he placed the wounded man on "My sister and I bought the beneath blackberry scrub, the ground behind him, sprang. 1907," said Mar-which in places is house high, on to his horse and charged into (and has entered through the rebels. -with-his--- sword;
broken windows.
mansion in
aret Clement,
"In those days cattle graz- ed on our 1,800 mures rich pas- Lure, which are now swamp. ter the ground.
Piles of empty food tins lit-
"Handsome buggles brought
Margaret gets water from an parties of fuels song a white old well or from pats placed gravel driveway, which is now, under the broken roof Cutter buried beneath weeds,
Ing.
"Managers worked the pro- "Nothing works any more." perly for us, while we twice he said. visited
Europe and the Far East.
"There was some court litiga 1lon, and We were treated harshly.
Candles Light The
Way
"I am not sorry that I never married.
"I shall carry on until dme comes."
AN estimated 180,000 Catholic mm, each holding a candle, di Forben Field, in Pittsburgh, Penn venerate the Blessed Sacrament. It was the greatest spectacle of Catholic faith in the histor
(Acme).
my
Things were going very badly for him when a handful of his own men found him and turned upon the rebels. Major Smyth, Lowever, was dead. William Goat's.
Cross and Medal were sold in London In May 1982 for £83.
NOT WORTH
THE CASH
George Macllardie was a 45-a-week parcel packer in the British Stationery Office until he found he could write radio scripts.
He left his job, began writ- ing for people like Richard Murdoch. Charlie Chester, Michael Howard, carmed for every minute of broadcast- ang time,
But there were snags to his Independence. He found the Jife unselling, missed regular mouline.
Then he found he was worry- Ink. That scflled it.
Now he 14 back at the Stallonery Offco. Decking Darcels, earning £5 a week..
Praise Old
Iron Pot
Artificial food colourings and cooking in thin pots might be contributory causes of cancer. it was stated at an international cancer congress in Paris.
The congress set up a special commission to osk world. governments to bin A wide range of "cancerogenic"
ducts.
High on the Risi were
pro
ficial materials added to' foods. stuffs.
Hoveral delegates
conference
*Mesirable the
described
tha
"transformation
of edible fata at stront hesiTM
They suggested that old fashioned cooking in thick iron pote, over wood or apal war much
thing