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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951.

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IN

THE LAND

OF STEAKS

Buenos Aires.

The party then swallows a AWN streamed over glass or two of local spirits, and the Rio de la Plata, incessant clanging of the stock- fortunately is broken up by the

River of Silver, which is the to begin,

the broad, rolling yard bell. The market is about colour of mud, as I crossed the great city and made my way to the West Side stock yards of Mataderos.

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At the gateway is a strik- bearded gaucho, with bare feet, long stirrup leathers, and a loose rein, riding дегова, the pатраз,

and the miles of its lanes echo to the bell, the bellowing of the

Now the acres of Mataderos

beasts and the bawling of the buyers.

and others of the biggest meat merchants In the world are here. moving in cavalcade from corral Their buyers, also mounted, are to corral as the slout 1,000lb. steers are sold, 20 to 40 at a time, at a price. that ranges around £10 per head.

On the wing

Messrs. Vestey, Swift, Armour

Prosperous citizens up town, driving in their shin- ing American motor-cara

boulevarda along the

ES DIDDING against merchants beautiful as in Paris, should (lest the several individual bear buyers should agree to carve up the the market and cut the price) are the agents of the Argentine and Meat Producers Corporation.

This is

Government- controlled organisation to protect the poar Argentine rancher against the rich foreign merchants,

brave the muck and the sour stench

of stockyards to come take a good look at him and his horse.

Together, they made one- third of this country's pros- perity and coming power.

The beasts inside the gate of Mataderos made another third. Heaven, which gave the sun, the soil, and the winds and rain, provided the rest.

Stop lively

THILE I was still a mile away I could hear the moos of the second section of the partners. Nearer, there blended with their bellowing salute to the sun the snarts and grunts and squeals of the pig pubile.

The taily on the wail outside the market manager's office an- nounced the state of trade at the turnstiles: cattle, 10,800: pigs, 777, Time: 0.45 am,

In the stockyard, which was etill not yet half-Alled, it was like

getting mixed up in a Korean cavalry charge.

You need to step ilvely to miss the motor-cars in the streets of Buenos Aires, where there are no traffic lights and few traffic cops. In Mataderos you jump for your life to avoid the horse- men.

They came cantering down the tree-lined lanes, lolling on the broad, barrel-like saddles of wool and hide, cracking their whips like pistol shots.

Their horses are as sturdy as bullocks, sure-footed as goats. They turn when a rein is laid on their neck, and they turn on

silver dollar.

The gauchos themselves are a tough and wiry as their steeds. Man and horse are almost a single plece, physically ahd mentally, too. Off his horse, trany a gaucho is a fool.

8 a.m. steak'

2

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WORRYING ABOUT THE AFFRAY..

The sort of question that cropped up as one anxiously waited for the news

Why did the much-boosted giper-

and olher radio-plotting. devices fall to locate the Affray?

THE problem has been greatly. THE

confused, say the experts, by the number of aunken objects, all of which are recorded by the probing rays. Many of the wrecks in the search area are charted. If the Affray-off its planned wreck free course fouled one of these,

M

WOMAN of the WEEK

By HUGH DUNDAS and now lies alongside or on top of It, the searchers would ignore the echo, supposing it to come from the original object shown on their

maps.

The Affray's course lay close to the war-time convoy route between Portsmouth and the South West ports. This was a favourite hunt-

ing_ground-for-German bombers. Many ships went down in these waterm

Many warplanes, too. For long weeks in the autumn of 1940 the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought it out over the sea between Portland Bill and Start Point.

There must be many, maný bombers and fighters sharing that dark gráva with the Aftray. And each one had helped to confuse the searchers,

—¿London Éxpress-Strolća.)

FLAGSTAD sails through the storm

critics were sharply split into Flagstad fors and againsty tore her againsts, the

to pieces.

Flagsted faced

the 10

Tode # out, re- Turning America in suc-

storm and

cessive years. In

by

Evelyn

Isolde, Then he met her. "She' was very jovial," he reported, surprised and ́_slightly" dis- appointed,

I have seen her, after going through harrowing moments of immola- Brunnhilde's last

in the Twilight of

tion

the

IRONS Gods, laughing inexhaustibly

1949 the trustees of the San Francisco Opera banned her be- cause of protests against her re- cord by the Amerkan Legion,

“Provocative'

time), and setting out to enjoy (she

is ready for a joke at any

hearty champagne supper. She arrives punctually to the minute, throws at rehearsals

no temperaments, tans on her Niagara of a voice like a tap as required.

£1,200 for a single evening's AJESTIC as

the appearance in a skeletly, time- Queen

tabled round of singing in New Mary, York, London, Paris, Barcelona, blonde, Junoesque Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Kirsten Flagstad, reputedly Milan, Saltung. the Anest Wagnerlan Drama and controversy lay. soprano of all time, sailed behind her recent return through a 24-song recital at New York's Metropolitan Opera. the Albert Hall recently, there against bitter opposition She had to fight her way back welcomed back to London from Americans who alleged by wildly enthusiastic that she collaborated with the Naris in Norway during the war. audience.

It started in 1942 when she This month at Covent Garden left the Metropolitan, where she she begins the last Wagner had been a member of the com- season of her career. Fifty-six pany for sbc and a half years,

Most singers spend

many next July 12, Flagstad has de- to go to her timber-merchant

hours dressing for a conceri, cided to take no chances with German-occupied Oslo,

husband, Henry Johansen, Ill in

but not so Flagstad. She gets In an hour or so it is all time's ravages. She means

BUT a few weeks later they ready as quickly as a man and the mirror Last year, never prinks in over. The buyers are back at relinquish her mighty Wagnerian She stayed with him through when the British impresario afterwards, he could afford to the bar, and the heaving, steam-roles while she is stil at the the rest of the war. In 1945 he Rudolf Bing, now general mana dress lavishly. But she is not ing, slithering beasts are being spex of her fame and form. was arrested on a charge of ger of the New

collaboration and the following politan

York Metro- much interested in fashion, al herded off

by the yellk and

Орега, signed "on though the diamonds she wears lashes of the

It was announced a few weeks year he died before he could Flagstad for gauchos to their

the 1991

are by no means unassuming, last round-up.

back that she was retiring from be brought to trial. Mataderos has done its business for the day.

altogether.

that has just ended, his opera

But she

decision was called changed her mind. She will

"provocative." But no antagonism in -At-noon-other-visitors arrive. after alt be heard again at the

stink Very Important personages, New York" "Met," next year Arst come-bacte after the war these, at any rate in the steerage not in Isolde and her other

with an Albert Hall concert of the Argentine.

brates Wagner parts, but in the early in 1947, less exacting Alceste of Gluck. They have

There will be fewer operatie roles, and she will become a mezzo-soprano giving lieder conceris.

come by special Pan-Air plane, flying some 10,000 miles from Toronto, in Canada

splendid

black-and-white Holstein bulls.

10

All of these handsome gentle- men are descended from famous fathers and are themselves each worth about £1,000.

to

She met

A

lifted the ban.

סת

scanon

4

The throat

occupation, there was a terrific the word the critics has entered into a

and

London, where she made her bombs this

there were 10 pickets,

time. Nevertheless, she has not sung HER personal preferences are in Norway since before the war 1 for good food, oatmeal stout, and it is unlikely that she ever

Jenilting and conversation. But although she had a docto win although she returns there ment signed by the Norwegian for a short summer holiday at Bernard Miles, Chief Justice stating that she her house in sea-girt Kristian-

Among her closest friends are

the actor

and had

his wife maintained

"steadfast sand.

producer and patriotic attitude" during the

three children. With them she contract to for her DT- Aise to-do when she went on a nine-formances, and everything about toner as Dido (an: Purcell's

give

20 performances next Sep- city tour of the United States Flagstad is on the granil scule. opera, Dido and Aeneas) in the the same year.

But there never was a prima Mermaid. Theatre which the Plakets outside New York's donna who behaved less like one Miles family are Installing in an en voice is still as fresh Carnegie Hall bawled "Boycott than this buxom roillaking old school hall at the back of as a summer morning.

the Quisling!" while she sang Nordic.

their house in St. John's: Wood; Golden voice it is. Flagstad is there. At Philadelphia, fighting A colleague confessed that he Her only fee-free lodging and one of the world's wealthiest broke out and stink-bombs flew had wept only twice in 10 two pints of stout daily, musicians paid anything up to inside the concert hall. The years, both times at Flogstad's

She is rich

lars apiece (340), to fly them

It has coat at least 1,000 dol-YET the quality of that gold-

here over America, the Indies and the Andes,

Their fight took them close on three days, due to fog over the Amazon jungle.

"What happens if they get restive at 12,000ft.7" I asked the gental Canadian erew master.,

"Oh, easy," he said. "We just go up another few thousand feel, and then the young fellers sorta got short of breath and want to lie down in the hay."

Millions of 'em

LIVERY other week such

The

another "bull flight" lands on this giant airfield, probably the largest in the world. ranchers reckon that it is no dearer and much safer than shipping the animals by month-long sea voyage.

No doubt they know their own business best. And cattle, with corn, is the Argentine's own, and best, business.

a

IF I HAVE

TO BUILD

AN

ARK

Taking the British weather as the theme this week for his PRIVATE FESTIVAL, BERNARD WICKSTEED reports

N view of the fact that it of Weights and Measures after Inspectors, and inspectors look. ing for rables, anthrax, łowi is going to go on raining us. 10,000,000

ilcences,

There urc only people in this rich, vast land,

It seemed a jolly good idea at first, but when we looked into it there were a number of dim- culties about ark building today

YES, madam, the gaucho which is five times the size of

wears # wide, black France, and as fertile. It raisesing an ark. sombrero, a bright-coloured 40,000,000 head of cattle, and cleak (poncho), which is really grows 6,000,000 tons of wheat a a blanket with a hole in the year, middle for the head to go through, big plus-four trousers

Perhaps we must add another, stuffed into high leather boots; partner to the man-made clement of the Agrentine's story so far, on his and beside that statue

of the cowboy at the gate of Mataderos But they don't look a bit like set up another of the sower. the American flm stars. These are Gurkhas on horseback.

and a lasso is colled saddle.

At eight o'clock I am eating breakfast with them: a pound of steak and a pint of beer, total price-1s. 3d. oplece,

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Gorgonzola.. Cheddar D.CL. Yeast

[IRO129_EN'T

$2.10 per tb.

(818. Lancer) 10 per 1263 tím, 84.00 per ib. $3.00 per lk.

Strawberries 4184 whale, per cli

peřetn.

that Noah didn't encounter.

I

the

.?

One of the conditions is that she will "let the manage- ment, or any part thereof, look down her throat with a laryngo- scope whenever they need en- couragement."

I is quite a the

throat, Sir Misom Rees, veteran Covent Garden laryn- gologist, said he had seen only one like K. That was Caruso's,

(World Copyright Reserved.-London Express Service.)

Dr. PETERSON finds a case of PERSECUTION

·MANIA·

HY do some cows look

Wround with the evil

for ever, the Wicksteed As a matter of fact, there are pest, Colorado beetles, and dog glint in their eyes just as the milk reaches the top of family are thinking of bulld. three kinds of cubit There's

the pail and send the whole tabit, and the legat cubit Noah's creepies thing flying with one kick? Because, say American scien- tifte rescutchers, they mere collection of the psychologically maladjusted.

Bre

animals is going to be a

Two American universities jask. There are have been trying to determine about 80,000 insects and 20,000 if cow psychology affects milk

Hom My sons a little worms alone.

output. Philip and Japhet John hava volunteered for this part of it. Veterinary surgeons at Ohio school of agriculture They reckon they can soon say that every herd has a

creeping thing queen capture "every

cow" and that keen that creepeth on the earth" and competition for higher social they've already started build-standing causes the unsuccess ing up a supply of match-boxes ful ones to become thoroughly with breathing holes in the top. embiltered,

maladjusted and We'll lot the 15,000 different obsessed with persecution fishes look after themselves, but mania. A serious loss of milk there are still 4,000 assorted follows. mammals, 4,000 reptiles, and 15,000 birds,

think we'd better stick to the legal one, don't you? We'll have

THE enough vulgarity when monkeys are aboard without monumental any more from the cublis.

The legal cubit is First of all, 1 suppose we under 22lns, so the size of shall have to go to the Hamp- Noah's Brk was about soft, by alcad Borough Council and get soft, by 56ft. That's enormous, At midnight, while the lights still blazed and the crowds still

the plans passeci, and as they isn't it? It's half the length of milled in the streets

regard it as a dwell the Queen Mary and twice the of the are" sure sprawling capital, I took the road ing within the meaning of the size of Nelson's Victory, to the pampas.

Act, we shall have to get bullding Hence,

Do you think, with a vessel of these dimensions, we'll get ná Al certificate of food worthiness

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Noah's cubits

HIS is going to be discult,

because it

is a private enterprise ark

We have mensured our

Noah's wood

We'll have to got Mr-Moiri-

son to deal with the Belgian At

aloner for Australia),

There is a 20

tree in

Oregon

gopher, The wood is yellow and hard. I bought a brooch mado

MY authorities

lot of correspondence before the that the Americans - call hlatter is soitled,

rio ilic

Minnesota University,

says:

know, they may be built only wood, But where are we they are a prohibited export to a friendly voice and a caress.. NOAH built his ark of gopher. Congo over the gorilla, beruse studies show that cows respond In the proportion of one to every going to go for that? And any lob

Dr William Peterson council ark.

way, what is gopher wood? f's the same with the tor-"Maladjusted coves will sock garden and it isn't big enough cedar or pine. If so, we are in for a permill) and the duck-bul-If they are addressed sofily or Some people think it was tos from the Seychelles (ring the attention of humans to the Colonial Office, Whi, 2800, meet their need for sympathy. for an ark-yard, so wo aball have to get permission to work are soft woods and you have to ment to see the High Commis often

for more trouble, because they ed platypus (make an appoint their noses are stroked they on Primrose Hill or the top of have a licence to import them.

produce satisfactory Hampstead Heath: In either

supplies of milk when other caco I, Imagine there will bo

wise the pail would be almost

Some empty.

cows become through Bad treat- As we have never bulit an of it once for my wife. It costs Mstill be the Board of Trade types which continually kick ferds of cowa tiave criminal MY Job is endless. There will ark before, we'll stick to Noah's dollars, so the Treasury, will be (enfety regulations at sea), the other blueprints. According to these tiresome,

cows because of some the ark was 300 cubita long, 60

Port of London. Authority, the thher emotional conflict or just 'cubits wide, and 80 cubits high. ... And what a' time wo are Ministry of Agriculture (food for theer delight because they

the Ministry were born naturally obstrepercus was wa might get down to the, ofce, wo start getting the of Health

Minnesota

University Danis cosung

animale in Boy! Oh boy! It Import of parrots), the c will be an You do know? It is the dis- come true,

Inspector's dream clesiastical Commissioners, and producing enough lik

The Brethren of Trinity- Hotino which they would be divided tance from the elbow to the Up 20

fighting arrangements

Into, classes corflating of edwa of different Prychologists would then, ry, to rehabilitate the maindjustét,

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It we only knew, what a cubit going to have with the fspectors for the torohibition of the to form schools for cowl nót

Ask for Reddi-wip Today of the fingers. That's fine, but They Will pour out to Hamp- Mount Araret).

AL THE DAIRY FARM STORES WINDSOR HOUBA LINATI

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whose elbow and whose fingerst istead in bus-louds, sanitary, In- Whey, Chat? The rain has Yourz mine, or those of hy den fréectors, livestock, inspectors, stopped? Well, thend goodnem Japhet John). If we dabil det it fillery. Inspectors, tight wel ieve the infpecten tilary. Lhapertory

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