1951-05-12 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1951.

88-ROOM LUXURY HAREM WILL

HAREM

PALACE

BE BUILT BY BRITISH FIRM

By MONTAQUE LACEY

N 88-room harem and a Moder reinforced

Adoro paties are to will be used in the

concrete bulldings, be built by a British firm for These will cover 78,000 sq. ft. the Emir Abdullah, brother on two floors. For centuries of King Ibn Saud, of Saudi only mud brick or local stone Arabia.

has been used.

The contract to build the

THE LAYOUT and THE PLAN workers in Britain will go to by Braithwaite and Co.. Engl

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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Use of different camera angles fends variation to photo of similar

subjects in similar curroundings. VARY YOUR POINT OF VIEW

sf inte

Foremen and specialist

Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, soon to take charge of the work. This will cost £400,000 and inke two years.

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All materials--steel. emment. and rich furnishings-for the palace and the quarters of the Em's guarded and veiled womenfulk will be exported from Britain.

Palace and harem, planned by British architects, will be built within a walled-in garden dolled with palm trees. There will be fountains in

the grounds.

In the

palace.

palace and harem was obtained

of Regent Street, neers Ltd., London. Work the firm is doing for the King of Saudi Arabia, his family, and the Saudi Ara- blan Government totals about

£3,000,000,

With Thomas Word, Ltd, of Sheffield, the firm is building a new £2,000,000 mad, and petrol and fuel o Installations in Mecca.

Britons working on the road, from Jedda to Medina, will never see the end of ji, The last 20 miles, the distance from London to Staines, runs Into the area around Medina, burial Moham- place of the Prophet med. Non-Moslems are for. bidden to enter.

The road, 30ft. wide, will be a lille longer than the 240

forbidden to all women, the Emir will have a private suite. n large resting- room, and an ornate recrption- miles from London to Black- room. 60ft, by 30ft.

Shared garden paths win Brimi

lend through the grounds to the walled - in harem. separately .This will have 40 bedrooms, arranged in eight sultes.

pool. It follows the main pil- road to Meɛca, and it will be four years before it is Inished. The British builderS will maintain it for ten years.

-Landon Express Service.)

£1 SNOW-TRICK MAY

BEAT THE FOG

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY for had completely cleared, li

research seientist thinks he of beating has fond a way acroplane pilots' No 1 eneniy- For.

Schulman, Dr Jack Henry who was awarded the O.B.E. for

anti-tank designing an

gun

during the war, has just gone buck to England after making mising successful experiments Merltz, Switzerland.

- This is how he described -them:---

"I reasoned that If a cloud, is only water-vapour, NOT ha in acquaint nee Sume people, understandably, which

with a will prefer one of the two pie- could be made to fall in snow, then so eculd a fog, which is Others with like the Bapshots lures. which he had made last summer, nther. The point is that no one only a cloud at ground level, Most of them were individually can Batly declare that the high

larke

collection

excellent. Yet as a group they bodemos spent Railing-at-we so similar in treatment is to be

come mondenens.

successful Having foind technique for handling evrtain subjects my friend had followed

it

camera angle is better. Or that the low nucle is. Bath pictures have their ow charm-seen together, more charm than they would have if made in ilke man-

ner.

So vory your viewpoint when you malie pietures of similar types of subjects. Try not one

"I chose St Moritz because in clear weather a controlled fog invariably forms every eyeing at about 0.15 and stays until cleared by the morning sun,

500 feel

"On January 5 a fog, about thick and covering about 250 neres, duly formed over St. Moritz Lake:

lime after time, rarely if Itseveral shots. Not only "Into this i released from an "ever-clianging-his-point-of-view. Will this prevent your pictures improvised paint-gun-five groms This isn't an uncommon falling. from becoming monotonously of a solution of 10 per cent sll- For when a snapshot turns out similar but it will help you to ver lodide in acetone, burned

number of differem with sodium and hydrogen. master 'well there is a strong tempta-

techniques for pleasing results. tlon to picture similar subjects

"After half an hour snów in the same manner to insure

John van Gullder | started to fall. In an hour the pleasing results.

But part of photography's fascination lies in the fact that there is no single way of mak- ing a picture which can be call- ed the right way, excluding all- others. Each canicra-user, es- pert or amateur, reacts to ench picture situation in his own per- sunal terms. Beranise of ilus, countless ways exist of trans- lating each situation to film.

Thus while certain general rules holl good for making la- teresting, bleusing pictures, the point of view of the individuut) makes for variation within their framework, us in the snaps re- produced here. Similar though

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these may be in subject there is little sameness to them.

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Both, to be sure, are well- composed shots, correctly.

there the one

posed. sharply focused. But similarity ends. For in picture a low camera angle was used while in, the uther a high camera angle was chosen.

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was most impressive,

"I repeated the experiment day with the same the next result."

The total cost man: £1-

changes, was

said-

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...

-THIS DREAM

YOU WERE RIDING IN A CARRIAGE BUT IT WAS FULL OF WATER AND MASH WERE NIBBLING AWAY YOUR

CLOTHES

AND THAT YOU WERE IN YOUR BATH FULLY DRESSED AND MICE WERE COMING. LOUT OF THE FLUG HOLE?

MEANS:

In this escapist dream, you ara torn between the demands of convention and your own desire

to enjoy and indulge yourself...

Your desire to meot the demands of society is symbolised by your romaining dressed in the water and by your riding in a public carriage. The fish and the mice in the water represent your escapist desiros and subconscious fantasios. In the first part of the dream, the fish ara nibbling away the clothes which represent the

personality you present to the public: they are trying to uncover the roal, primitiva, selfish you.

In the second part, the subconscious wins as represented by the mice which koop coming out of the plug hole into the water. Your boing fully dressed in the bath indicates that you still feel the pull of society, though 'you are dis- inclined to do anything about it,

Your dilemma is whether you should bother about what people think or just onjoy yourself.

I leave you to sort out for yourself how to strike that balanco.

THE MAN WHO SAYS THERE WILL BE NO WAR

How strong is the Russian Army? Does Stalin really have 10 million slaves? An answer to these questions is given in a new book* by EDWARD CRANKSHAW, who served with the Military Mission to Moscow, 1941-1943.

THANK GOODNESS, STALIN HAS MUDDLERS, TOO

says

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USSIA,

Crank- led on the military problems shaw, has always been of a part of the country

Then he was flown a disturbing influence knew well.

back to Taskent. Is he a slave? in the world. Communism

If he is, he is one of millions of exiled "slaves" who by their strong Independent spirit make Siberian society more than that of Moscow.

te Dr Schul- is also formidable. Separate- ly neither can conquer the world. Taken together,

"If he dispersed fog, It must have been a super-cooled, unt. In London, fees are warm, and we haven't yet dis- covered how to dispose of them. Tire temperature must be super- cooled."

lively

Just 'mistakes'

They are rather able to die. In Russia, every economic ad- Sometimos their guards die vance costs too much, in life or with them: a 1tle after them. liberty. Somebody in Moscow has for-

And now,

when this people gotten to send

the winter of such strength, courago and rotlens to camp in the Arctic patience might have looked for Circle. In a bureaucracy, mis- some slackening of speed, the takes can be made. Nobody is wheels must turn faster, ever really to blame.

faster.

war

Mr. Berzin's empire must be paid by somebody.

The price of the eld

Outside, the countless legions of IF Russia had more bulldozers, Wall Street muster, the myriad

she might not need so many armles slaves. If Russia

of the American had fewer periallets and their Jackeys to subdue Whitehall.

treaclter-

foreign conquests (Latvia) or lower

OUG populations to disperse (Crimean Tor-

tars), she would certainly

have 40

slaves.

dozers

many

in

Russions must work harder

GEORGE

SHALCOLM THOMSON

all the time to counter this

fearful threat. Muel

supply

die 175 divi-

slon's — which Mr Shinwell

Having conquered populations has Jus promo'ed to 200, afford to be extravagant in her duces to at her disposal, Russia could and which Mr Crankshow re- an equivalent of 90 use of labour. Having no bull- British divisions.

she had to be extrava- gant.

Most of these are needed In- And so there hus deve-side Russia one way and an- Joped this slave cecnomy of ten ether and arc split into six million (or so) Fires of MVD officials like Mr Crankshaw points out, no Soviet

Inemelentu

army commands, dependent on workers and privale em local industries, In the last war. Rheingold Berzin,

general would attack unless he to one.

superiority of six

the

He was the governor of a far eastern province called Magadan where the Kolyma goldheids the Kremlin wants a doctor are all Writicle on his "Ons in Kamchatka, it may bring World" our. Mr Wilke did

Wendell

had a local

Conscious of weakness, the

delusion of a menace from the West always kept before them, the Russians, slave or free. must strain and sweat. the

Not

In New York: Dr Vincent J. Schaeffer, of the General Elec-they are terrible indeed.

Russia, under the Tsars, research in- tric Company's altute, who gave Dr Schulman was sufficiently frightening information on doubtfule-it kept 30,000 people in penal servitude. The Kremlin, though it probably some petty political charge does not know it, has a slave against some unfortunate with not suspect the real nature of

his employment. a medical degree, le is exiled

host's

for a moment can they relax. which usually population

Later, Mr Berzin made a trip may to Kamchatka, continues with

And in the end, what hap amount to 10 millions. It his life-work, but never sees his the high decoration he so richly Cranleshaw thinks there will be back to the Kremlin to receive pens? If it is any comfort, may even amount to vastly family again.

meriled. That_proved to be a He would be one of the lucky mistake.

no war with Russia this genera- Mr Berzin had not tion. "slaves." Most of them have suspected the

of real nature FOOTNOTE: FIDO, the war-

It depends on what you not been so lucky-the millens his host's intentions, time apparatus for moving for call a slave.

of kulaks, the hundreds of thou- by burning petrol, cost £150,-

The old Tswiat general win "anda of "intellectuals" of the.

Faster, faster C00 to instal at Blackbushe was exiled for 20 years in Tas- Baltic states for instance. They AT the root

entice of this (Hands) Airport And I! cost kent. When the Stalingrad and they like achieve with crazy structure of MDSS- £3,500 a year to operate, Its battle wes being fought, the their spades and nxes the im- rervitudé is not so much deli- installation at Londen Airport Kremlia sert an aeroplane has been postponed Indeanticly. Thim, so that he could be con- modern Russia.

for mense development projects of birate wickedness, as excessive pace, improvisation and muddle.

By Frank Robbins

JOHNNY HAZARD

AFTER INSPECTOR

FERRET CUTAINS A PASS KEY FROM THE CLEZK...

more.

THIS LOOKS LIKE EET? FORAIN, STAND GUARD AT THE DOOR. AFTER YOU, M'GIEU HATARP!

- PLEASE; MSIEUL. 1– CAUTION YOU FROM BEING TOO EAGER... | PARTICULARLY NEAR

THE WINDOW,

“JUST WANT TO BE CERTAIN THAT WE DON'T

MICC ANY CLUE THAT

MIGHT CLEAR ME, INSPECTOR/

AFTER A DILIGENT CEARCH.....

CLEAN, NO

NOTHEENG!

YEAH...CLEAN/ONLY MAYBE A LITTLE TOO CLEAN!

He puts before his readers on informed, balanced and, above all an intelligible picture of the ulina giant wituse shadow fatts so deep and so far across our lives.

Deliu

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12 Part of egg (4).

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