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SECRET CITIES
By
L. W. PHELPS-ORION journalist-diplomat and author of "The Third Mrs Stalia"
since the
war. Sup-
towering
Toon
21
PERFECT HOSTESS DISGUISES HERSELF AS HER OWN GUEST
She turned a haunted house into hotel
By RONALD GARTH
F you happen to be tak home. While three rooms were
ing your vacation in occupied by four paying guests. the herself WIN Ilving and year. Britain this
If
aleeping in the kitchen. you happen to be staying in
Soon she took a house In the any small hotel in Black-
neighbourhood and asked her Bournemouth, borders if they would mind Brighton. Skegness Clee- moving into this "private therpes, Scarborough, Brid- hotel." They found themselves more com- lington or Whitby be care in quartern still
fortable and the house WILK ful in cracking jokes about full to capneity within two
pool,
the landlady. She may be inthis! altting next to you dis-
Mrs Mears paid guised as a fellow guest! refurnishing and
you
the complaints and leased
her bills for
redecoration, house next
If
have about the service, just men door. Presently she bought it
became new and her hotel
large tion it casually to some. found friend during a walk along enough to justify her comploy the cliffs. The friend, too, may be ing a staff of six.
the landlady in disguise - and
you'll be surprised how swiftly
affairs will improve.
Four Years
no
chain or matt hotels for tour years the worked
of Britain with around the coasts
no outings, movies, today is rum by one of the pleasures of any kind. Then women he took a trip to Scarborough.
She
most
remarkable koteliers In the world. became a landindy against her where the reason was just be-
One Banning
or two hotels will and has risen to be the were offered for sale, and the very queen of the hotel
pro couldn't resist the opportunity. fession. She began by letting One had stood empty for two a single room. Now she owns vents and had a local reputa
She ixly private hotels.
In Hon as a haunted house. Even uccessful because she is n!-
the estate agent advised л never aquest nnel Wayn
palist 12. manageressi
Started With £10
Her
nathr
Mrs
זיין
ever refused
her
No
the hr
No wonder that Mrs Mears comes refused seven offers of mar-
her
meni other riage from
early miserable orders.
Luxury Linos
"If it's not worth having. I be cheap," said Mrs Mears. She took it on a mortgage, and Irene once more redecorated and her refurnished. Then she left her New camouflaged roads were Mears. At least, that is
be London manageress in charge hacked into the
barrea real name. But the may
or with specifle instructions. wilderness. At a bend of the Miss Jones or Mrs Brown
be in her guest could Mrs Smith In any River the fast-flowing Angarn
what her wrong or hotels. So suverssful are
he wanted. Angers on scientists set their
methods of disgulse that the site for a beavy water
£200.000 In development.
the
Great mover amounts to Phin of 17 cities,
rome have year. Much of this from houses' which, in allocated to uranian pro-hands.
proved make believe paste bourd
duction, Sonie to supplying fallures. towns and villages to help
ung lures with pike at the hydro-electric power, athers to
Yet she began after World impress her with the size like 1,000,003 prople shipped in-
chimneys and blast atomic industries, and all have magnifleence of her to Asia
geared to strictly War I, with only £10 In war
To this day her hotels though. bonds and an Army persion. realm. Today, in the vast plementing an earlier 3,000,000 furmaer of Kuznetsk, itself a been
'mameless city" of barely 15 scientific plan.
A young war bride, life seem- all are run on luxury lines. and unknown hinterland of "pioneers' between the wars.
Stars ago. Comen-1950-and-still-
ed to end for her when her Every room has hot and cold cities Soviet Russin, new
They have travelled by train
townships straddle the With its arsenals and great husband
was killed in action, ing water and a "fred clee- have sprung up with equal and truth, by riverboat to the wer
line: Sevouraisk, planned to be- tractor and motorcar plants, its Ste little realised life was only trie fire if there is no central This breaks the gen- and prefab
heating. motor-way come the largest steel producing shipyards
house just beginning. speed, tangible construc- and especially
eral rule in every other small from the
centre of all Europe or Asin; factories, Irkutsk is known to
give up the hotel in Britain that guests tions of steel and concrete Caucasus - by
mile-long Kuibyshev IV,
Unwilling to designed to have doubled Its population horse-drawn group
little home she had made for screw pennies into a meter and devoted to Stalin's challeng- cavalcades
precision since the war to a new pitch wagons that sometimes trans- hustrumien! plants,
1,000,000. It is now the military herself in a suburban Landon way for their own heating.
the bg race for atomic power.
looked apartment block,
Acals are available at
any plant, complete villages.
headquarters of all Siberia and around for a lodger. So du- time. Breakfast Funs on (11 the capital of an atomic indus-
in undertaking blous was she
aking lunch to nearly ready. trial region as large as France, this step that her first adver, is available till
tealime, Yet in 1920 It was a minor tisement was merely D card tions permitting. And township producing only leather tacked up in a showcase
out- burn ou те
the stairways all goods, timber and perhaps a few side a newspaper shop. All night. Yet in its class of hotel thousand tons of flour,
promised was a "comfortable or boarding-house. an estab- home for business person."
lishment owned by Mrs Mears cheaper in slightly
thar: its rentest competitor-and twice ns good.
they
In
Urals and on
by
of
Simultaneously, technicians and
armies
uf
口袋 thousands
have been
toma of equipment stown across the
un
Concealed slacked with Manchurian Jout, an Part-powered by British tur. Crapophone bined and part-equipped with through American machinery, these new speakers. 'Atomgrads'
shroud
the
forests, broad cust
een records the corridor loud-
Kremlin's most closely-guarded SIGNIFICANCE
steret.
But come
with me
to the
enormous
BOOMERANG
the nearest
STRONGHOLD
The ጸር ና towns arc no
worlds
First Boarder
Arst boarder-n
that le
Lunch ra- lights
ns
already Though
shrewdly known to the British and Ameri- can war departments, their sites
The essential atomic region at are shown on no published map.
bleak steppes the end of our journey, how Within the Politburo itself them
10 In a spectacular high-speed ever, is grouped around the very existence--still deemed of operation akin to the Berlin a Crozen shores of Lake Baikal,
*;- top hush-hush quality-is men lit.
Iturria
this itself la an inland sea nearly as large as tened only In numbers and astonishing mass migration has Denmark. Glance at an atlas symbols. To well-informed diplomatic oficials in Moscow en arquately emitaged as and you may find the lake, like a fervour of colonial opportuny blue boomerang. north at
Iler
City
for on advert., the "bezirnyankan, Care
towards the new worlds in the northernmost Mongolle, Rugged
This isn't FO Com. erally nameless cities.
cast. A
train nives and remote, edged with moun- makeshifts. Though many of man-found himself
told hx Mrs Mears won't even reveal fortable
of the new workers are housed in anonymity, through the interminable birch talns of granite and marble, it
His room friends.
was cosily for publication the names
such runs in the hotels she represents the Soviet notion of mites of squalid hutments, the warmed without extra
charge
she Long ago biernost security.
original style, ameless cities are being built to and he could have breakfast discovered that people distrust
enormous factories, heil if he wished on Sundays. American military strategists Hovide estimate that it lies sume 3,000 mining plants, railway junc- So impressed was an acqualy large hotels. They prefer
Places. Extending her res-tance that he offered to take hotels by two or three houses tions, outsize communal flylo miles from
taurants
and even theatres. in hother room at a higher seat along the block, she discover- U.S. bases in Alaska. It IN LOLL
the largest public than his friend was paying. each town reported that Russia expid tuliding is generally the post-
Soon Mrs Mears found she they did not do so well hur Arst atom-bomb on an
Ivan
her the original houses. So the sold Mee. When emigrates to could let every room in "Forward to new lands we do on Lake Balkat, deepest
and began. up the extensions new
be Sverdni railway station in brothers
of the future..
water lake in the world. Sigut this stringe
again! Yet of the six-day sings the choir. Moscow, start
the ficantly, British and American leaves no address, His the Urals Into skilled international
merely to a number, forwarded Journey across
necurately Din Jor
Outer Siberian explosion to this y, No. 45078
Republies, which in theory at feast duly retches Ivan in care of an unnamed post-restante.
Which city of all the Becret reventeen focusses the actual uf atom bombs? antucture The United Nations has been given news of a township that Dr-strown stands alone on a plateau, guarded by ure
fenced watch towers,
a special road, pelleed by a wire, accessible by
Its population of troops. known to have suddenly risen to 12,000. It is belleved to have absorbed
many young physicists and technicians who have been Euro- suddenly whisked from pean Russin.
onc
to observer,
instruments
a.ca.
the former Siberiam wastelands. the trek in deep signilleance. You're watching not the official- The massed
st disues of the Pointed the only Soviet Union contain packed Trans-Siberian Express Sov
Clustered in a great are just of the Emigrant
references to the seanty Specials, a scene reminiscent of publics of outer Siberia. Econo- west of Lake Baikal, in short, the sagas of the covered wagon inie Bgures nevertheless indicate are no fewer than 17 unnaraca in cities and townships represent nancial investiment that
and the Harwell eastern Siberia since the war's ing
days.
e
PREMIUMS
Onk
end has been from six to 18 Ridge the atomic centres of
the U.S.S.R.
Due north of the in great synthetic al centre
tanes above normal.
vin
the
trucissi flowers of.
Σ
the
future
UNEXPLOITED
granic by heavy only one force
iN
Far beyond the smoky into dustrial ampire of the Urals, kutak, snuggled into the pro- familles deploy Whole
tecting
mountains, there re established with where Russla blue compartments
great deserts for test purposes from bunks. munitions production far wooden hard their
of furniture
the Soviet's ute einan reach, the train jolts on and deep clefts and canyons to Kousefuls
Occasionally, slacked in the goods wagons. Ocea
when it stops for conceal
stockpile of bombs. Cheering onlookers throng the priority expresses, passengers 10 collect fresh plank platforms: there are Party climb down
and cheerful bands, water peeches Colonisers who quit European Streams or to pick
eff aromatic branches Russia and set up housekeeping break
the floors.
Like America's Oak Ridge in for Asia receive premiums of to
one generally pictures Siberia research development, the entire up to £200 per family and ure
The accumulation of detail picture. granted lifelong tax exemptions as a blizzard-swept waste, there project has been rushed through
are shocks in store.
at breathless speed. In August. amounts to a graphic
from plus guaranteed
Is the stronghold Much
of this sub-continent 1946, the first conference of top This health services,
recks 10 Politburo lles in normal North European Soviet scientists and economists which the Incessant propaganda paints latitudes and shares a temperate was called to Irkutsk for survey distract attention with carefully mountains and nearly 400
planted stories of Yet for 4,000 miles work, Ꭺ. Siberla
wonderland R
blasted from their rock-bed and development,
wholesale the eastward the conversion of the ploratory expedlions made re- stupendous
by greatest boom land in the world., badlands is a solid achievement, ports on the unexploited mineral rivers diverled
atomie explosions. The result has seen something On the fourth train day every resources.
housing and
sweep
of climate.
NANCY
How 'Spout That!
I LOST MY BALL IN THIS TALL GRASS
THERE AIN'T ONE CHANCE IN
A MILLION OF FINDING IT
-FANIE
CX-
By Ernie Bushmiller
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
ALL NOW
OHN MBAY
"I dessay me subject-matter Is Imited, but wat d'yer do-draw tu expect 'Erbert Morrison and get meself banned fer traving out the 'alo or exprese me moods and be denounced by Sir Alfred Munninge?"
Hidden Hostoss
were
Ex
her
Her manageresses every case appointed by criginal Scarborough associate. They did not even know what Mrs Mears looked like.
not
they
do
To this day understand why the slightest fault is detreled "higher up" and why the smallest avoidable-
In Imperfection
dally menu inuy result in a telegram from: headquarters. Mrs Mears stays In all her hotels as an ordinary fellow- with Mixing guest. boarders, she learns what they have to say about the house,
und the meals.PL". the service Then she secretly wires her Scarborough hend office
Scarborough
ordern
ments to be made,
and
adjust-
casc be
the You may even consult hotel guides of sixty scaside lowns and discover no mention of Mrs Mears. In every The manageress appears to the actual
owner-for Mrs Mears thinks the appearance of a personal touch essential.
the Slic's the Kuest. behind scenes-a hidden hostesa.
DON'T FICH IT,
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