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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1953.

POLICE G

强

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For time

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BESIDE THE SEASIDE, NOT FAR FROM NEW YORK, BUT

NO HAMBURGERS,

NO HOT DOGS,

NOT HERE!

DON

IDDON'S DIARY

little shacks cost £40 to £50 a week.

the

The hotels, too, are expen- sive, and a spacious cottage in grounds of the Irving

week. Hedy Lamarr stays here.

Southampton, Long Island, ton. We don't do things parties often has a slightly House comes to about £150 a

Tuesday. like that you must get a synthetic English ring. HIS is the showplace doctor. It would be against,

T

of

the legendary the law for me to do it.” The shops are impressive So this is not like Blackpool, Long Island - the

and expensive and feature mother. Trippers are not wel- summer home of the Several things which a lot of British goods. They come and motor-coaches would American rich. I did not seemi normal enough in are branches of the best be abhorred. need much persuading to inore plebelan places are New York stores, and the

What are the people of talking about spend a couple of days here. against the law in South- manners of the shop assist. Southampton

Just now? First of all, they are It has been 95 and more in ampton. The town is de- ants are impeccable.

talking about their own probe the shade in New York, and termined to be exclusive

Jems, and their big problem is 100,000 Shriners (members and very special and has of the Ancient Arabic Order apparently succeeded in its

the drought.

of Nobles of the Mystic ambitions, although I no- Shrine Convention) and ticed that the motels for

their families and friends the modest motorist have been disturbing the creeping nearer and hot city air and people with chainstores are, ut cowbells, shrill whistles, gates. much larking, and monkey. tricks.

They have been followed by tens of thousands of Jehovah's Witnessca, also

are the the

The days when South- dozen maids' rooms and the ampton hud houses with a

social arbitrators could issue

.

The clubs here--the Beach for tennis, and the Shinne- Club, the Meadow Club

It hasn't rained in Southamp-

FIDA

London Express Service

Persia isn't

going BROKE,

just BACK

By Kenneth Macaulay

THEY said Persia would end of the Caspion Sca anything

shit really woad, can be grown,

Pasture here is lush for cattle. financially broke, and econo- mically washed up three The climate is suitable for any

g from tea to rice. months after the closing

It is no trouble at all to barter down of the Anglo-Iranian local producte with Russin for Oil Company's refinery at cotton goods, Abadan.

None of these dire fore

cock Hills Club for golf ton or in all Long Island for six casts has come about, which is a mystery that is baffling are among the best in the weeks. New World, or the Old

the Western economists. World for that matter, and mere money will not you in them.

It has character

Southampton, a resort which has the tile of "Queen of the get American Watering Places," asking and praying for rain.

tragi-comic transportation sys-

And there is a fine trade in with a string of countries from oplum for medicinal purposes Turkey to Belgium which bringa in foreign exchange.

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This does not meet all Perala's noeds fur foreign money to pay There is really no mystery for such hardware as machinery at all. The answer is that and car spares, but there Persia is back where she enough to keep an 1853 economy started, when oil was firat going in a 1003 world found on her soil at the be ginning of the century.

от The millions that are

In decay

on parade, and New York edicts on who could live in WHAT I like about South- worse than, anything the Bri pouring into Iraq from Bri- interest in the yearly export of

has not been the same.

But too grand

So when a friend suggest-

ed I get away from it all in Southampton, I ac- cepted with alacrity. South- ampton is everything you have read about, plus some. thing the others haven't got. It is an elegant re- sort, perhaps the last re- sort of the social and the

ELEKTROIMPEX ELECTRICAL

HUNGARIAN TRADING COMPANY FOR opulent.

INSTRUMENTS.

GOODS AND PRECISION

Telegram: ELEKTRO DUDAPEST, Budapest, Hungary —'Lettera: Dudapest $1, P.O.D. 4

After the weather the recur- rent talking point here is the Long Island railroad. This is a

tem which is a bad a5,

and around the town are resort for the idle rich but

ampton is that it is not a fish or anyone else has got

over; but Southampton's

I've not heard a great deal of leaders insist "This is the for the industrious rich. It politics discussed during my

is only 90 miles from New two days here, York, a "commuter's" dis- tance, and while the wife and family stay all summer, lolling on the beaches, en- livening the canasta ses- sions, father merely comes for the week-end.

are

last stronghold of true society," and they probably right. They mean, of course, in the U.S.

This constantly mention- ed "society" is based on the British model. It is one of the worries of the old guard that Southampton is losing its British flavour.

British stamp

straw

Adlai's return

of McCarthy,

of

THE name

course. has cropped up at the cocktail parties and the bar- becues, and Southampton seems about evenly divided as regards

Persia in the old days had,na tish oil interests in Kirkuk, 32,000,000 tors of oli Mosul, and Basra only go to Since the Anglo-Iranian Oll show what a wonderful har- Company was kicked out two vest Persia is missing. years ago not more than 50,000 to 70,000 tons of crude oil has The millions of dollars gone abroad-chiefly to Italy. that clink into the tres- and Japan. suries of the Sheikh of This oil has come from the Kuwait and King Ibn Saud stocks of 10,000,000 tons of of Saudi Arabia only go to "farms" left behind by the crude remaining in the tank show how stupid the lachry- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. mose Dr Mossadeg of Teho- ran is in thinking that his

Self-supporting

Why is Southampton one of the earth's

most glamorous the Senator. spots, high on the Martini clr- cuit, a delectable dateline? Biggest political interest here- men could exploit his coun-

-tha_abouts is in the return of Adlai | try's oil resources, Because of les selting on-t

and

general the blue Atlantic, its bland and Stevenson, beautiful beaches,

its lovely forecast is that Stevenson will In fact, it is rather boo

fino stump the country on the sub- lakes and

its ponds, grand for my taste. I got I THINK Southampton still wooden houses, its follage, and Ject of McCarthyism. South- ampton thinks Adiai has been something in my eye and has a distinctly British most important, fis character.

away too long,

Foolish he may be but he is wont into one of the drug- stamp. The men wear old It has stood fast against the

by no means bankrupt. He has Supplied by: CHINA MUTUAL DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. | stores, or chemists' shops, school ties and striped intrusion of the juko-box, the Actually, no man has been merely put the clocit back 100

words in years. Coney Island merry-go-round, able to get many to have the druggist take bands around their

the hamburger and the hot-dog during the past day or two. out the offending particle.

They have adopted mand, hats.

the "more vulgar neon One hundred and thirty-five The economists forgot that He raised his hands in the long Bermuda shorts glare,

editors arrived at the same time Persia with 18,000,000 inhabi- that I did. Their sojourn 'horror. "Not in Southamp- which used to raise hoots Almost

at tants is completely self-support all the Bummer Southampton shook tho old ing Apart trom sugar and of laughter among Ameri- residents are bankerS and town.

textiles, cans, and the police wear brokers from Wall Street, in-

You can add cement, if you pith helmets like the police dustrialists, lawyers, big busi- If you know anything about in Bermuda or Jamaica. new men from Now York, women editors you will appre-like, but the Persians have only clate that 135 of them are more got to stop building to abolish To live well here you have formidable than 100,000 Shrin- all worries about that. There are many British to have plenty of money, unlesa, ers or 100,000 of Jehovah's

aro a guest. Witnesses. cars parked on the main of course, you street,, and the accent one bedroom rent for the

"Cottages" with six or

Benson Perhaps I should have stayed | hears at the perpetual at about £2,000. Even modest in New York after all.

Room 308, Telephone House,

14 Des Voeux Road Central HONG KONG.

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FURNISHINGS

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Lane, Crawford's

MYSTERY

W

X7OMEN have more

strength in their little

Sover

Abadan

Is today in

decay. Every so often, say cables from correspondants, they start up one distilling unit which supplies enough" petrol to keep the coun- try going for a few months.

The miniature refinery ot Kermanshah, whose wells are on the Iraq border, is maintaining. its output of 450,000 tons of petrol a year.

The one lono unit at Abadan makes up the needed total of 1,000,000 tons.

Abatan never producot - a single quart of lubricating oil, and supplice have to come from America.

In all other respects, how- reduced to a trickle. ever, foreign trade has been

firm which is building a water Akxander Gibb, engineering supply for Teheran and for Shiraz in the south, is fulfilling So they have stopped building. Its contracts and is being bald

In the wonderfully rich fertile at the stipulated times strip that borders the southernBut foreign trade is a shadow

sterling

OF WOMAN IS

WOMAN IS FACTOR X

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

fingers than men have in A man who crushed his little results of an official house-to- all their bodies when it finger at the same time took house inquiry disclosed. comes to putting up a fight the injury so badly that he was against illness, doctors were away from work for a year. told.

Dr. W. S. MacDonald, a Leeds family doctor, said al the British Medical Associa- tion meeting at Cardiff that the human body contains some mysterious factor X

itself which shows strength of character and courage in adversity.

in

SMOTHERLOVE

*

likely to conirnet than town dwellers.

rheumatizm

IF YOU SMOKE ̈·

A

or its old sell. The £, officially worth 80. rials, is now threo times that rate and no wonder merchants, are idle and the number af unemployed has inm creased.j

Don't matter

[

So long

DOO core, is unaffected

as the peosunt has A SIMPLE and reliable way of bread, sugar, and tea ho larrea- Rheumaticky twinges amict deciding whether people with sonably happy. The price of these commodities has hardly "The X factor may be mainly nearly three times as many weak hearts can safely smoke rizen by five percent since the or entirely spiritual, but ́it de women as men.

has been devised by Dr.C.3. nationalisation of dil, finitely exists," Dr MacDonald

Henderson, of the General Hor

The bulk of the", Pérsian pital, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He cald,

Nearly 100,000 people were

la patients to smoke by

suicidal econo quizzed in the inquiry, which

while cigarotic

their heart mic JAN now been analysed by reactions are recorded by

Those who feel the plach are Dr Eileen Brooke,

called Instrument sensitive

the "two Hundred, families'.. medical ballisto-cardiograph.

the aristocrats who want Euro- statistician,

Tests show that a few people pean case, refrigerators, Scot are so scritive to nicotine that fish cloth, and

nylons. they should be advised to give But the "families" do'

tobacco. In most healthy matter; and Massaker knows. It

the people smoking quickens

America has been allocating pulse alghty but does not some

$25,000.000

dollard train the heart, Dr Henderson ($8,900,000) annually in ald to reports.

Persia. This s

ith what Persia have been receiving from Anglo-Iranian royalties, but It has been a lifebuoy to a coun--

in

BEVÉTE

arthritis

WOMEN came in for much criticism from the doctors for mollycoddling their children. They were accused by Dr V.

Women suffer much more from Dicks for indulging, too

and much "anotherlove?

chronic rheumatism. Only in Many mothers were so over the case of muscular rheuma-

about their children that they made them feel in-brositis and lumbago

are the men worso off,

Brocious

Thin

Insecurity, Dr Dicks

WHEN TO PARLEZ

migħed

bagudell

And he added: "Women'ney much more richly endowed with this X factor than men, and so secure.

themselves are able to adapt more cardly to the stresses of claimed, can cause the children.

to develop nervous troubles and that the worst time for CHILDREN should not be try short of foreign exchange.*** Boo

such as stomach upset, näihina,' arthritics are early spring and taught anything but forelen These dollars, bought tyres, Dr. MacDonald quoted the and minor mental disorders. summer, "freedom #rqm pain languages until they are ten lubricating oil," and i paid for

tase of a young woman who had to have two fingers of her

right hand amputated., She

copod so cheerfully with the disability that she was back at work.

6:43

THOSE TWINGES

Dr Brooke, was astonished to

belog .common.ont... The mid-years old, says Professor Wilder Irrigation schemes under Ferala's

winter.

Pendeld, the brilliant Canadian seven your development plan, brain

surged

"They human But now in President: ELEP brain-can ̈plik”up Innigungeshower has told Mossadeg? that ing housewife in every four More surprising still is the almost without effort until it is this dollar and is to end, ping suiters from some form of finding that people who live in ten, but then rapidly loses this What Happens next?

• socording to the the country are much moro, mysterious, ports, 17.

nothing.