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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958.

The beginning of a fascinating adventure

JOHN GORDON

IN

Moscow. HEN the first man

steps from

An

earth rocket on to the moon he will feel, I am sure, very much the same prickly sensation as I feel in Russia today.

much the same way as Wo do at home.

MOSCOW

The journey there by Russian plane .

e First impressions as

they hit you ..

• One building sums up:

the New Age ..

London, and said: “If you can see the colour fin it will toll you better than I can."

she said, with

"Oh,"

some pathos in her voice, "they won't show that in the cinoma here."

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Next morning it was Russian plane. And what a change.

ohn Gordon, Editor-in-Chief of the Sunday Express, London, is the first' front-rank journal-

·ist" to set · faot ́in Russia for many ' years. In this article he sets down his firat impression. Later articles. will appear exclusively in the China Mail.

skyscrapor giving the first dight

No frills, no luxury. An old wartime Dakota type, of Moscow from the air-the spotlessly clean, its walls same look at first sight, as New hare without even a clock York from the son.. on them.

tion.

set

.

As a skyscraper it does not compete with the modern glants of New York, but it covers an

MENACE OF GIRL GANGS

From

Donald Ludlow

Now York. BATON - SWINGING cop on the "Dead End" sidewalks of New York's waterfront at Brooklyn and Manhattan is as. worried today about the female of the (gangster) species as ho is about the male.

For teen-age girls, ready to battle with needle-sharp leeplekts and spring-blade kalves for the unfections of their boy friends, have

mado "their first anşi startling appearance.

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What makes this seem so utterly different? People

And in these crowded sircels, though, of course, shortest walk in Moscow throng the streets just as ours,

where adolescent delinquency Li Western there are far fewer motor shows so that. I may re

now at He pook and where every they do. in any

flats port these things accurately country.

work at cars." Big blocks of

This great white-led bulld-block boasts its ging, the police They

No belts to fasten around you' for the take-off.

on Lenin Hill, the will have a tough time indeed much the same things in into which Moscow's popu- and fairly.

No finshing ing lation is moving rapidly are.

aign to warn you against smok- highest point in Moscow, is the if girls join the ranks of the

intless. just like the human Ani- It took me two days to in No maps to help you with pride of Moscow,

It is nothing new for girls lo hills in London, New York, get a cent of money out of the passing country, and in place

It typlies the new age of carry or conccal weapons for of a trim hostem a somewhat They sit in restaurants or any

other metropolis. the bank, although I had squat and buigy Indy whose unl they hope wis come from educa- it is new for them to organise education-anxi power, which | brother and boy friends. But enjoying their food as What they are like inside, not rouble in my poc form Jacket itted wherO it

themselves on gang lines' and we do, with just this im- how people live in them ket. "You must be patient touched and missed quite a lot.

show willingness to fight. portant difference food in compared with your home till wo learn about you.” their restaurants is infinite- conditions, I cannot tell you

TOP CLASS It took me about the ly more varied and vastly yet. more plentiful than it is For in spite of a fair deal same time to find an inter- Ur the plot was top class. No even in the best of ours.. of trying I haven't so far preter. "Well, you know, I fuss, no frills about his take-

One authority tells me that it off. And no fuss coming down will house been invited to enter one. must see."

40,000 students ct elter. A Minsk. come Russle one time. And I feel, somehow, it is

Another anthority But now I presume I am and the entry into the plane of

that to one side of the Boyn all right

for a rather frighteningly grim-faced, building alone.0,600 students will officially, not an experience likely to

beginning come my way very readily. they are

to uniformed squad of Customs men have residential accommodation. But with all these things smile just so similar to life we know, when I come along.

very slightly what, then, makes life ५० different that a visitor feels like a man on the moon? What, in fact, gives me prickles?

I believe the same con- food trast applies between in their homes and ours. The piled counters in the food. shops provide conclusive evidence of that.

FEWER CARS

WHY do Russians, who in

many respects have a lower standard of living than oure, ent so much

Why?

THE PUCKER

botter than we can? Be-F course, boys and girls cause rationing has been who come on sponsored completely abolished in tours with starlight shin- Russia.

ing in their eyes will no doubt tell me wrathfully that I am talking nonsense, Austerity was a wrong policy that their experience was If people were to work as very different. hard as they must work to conquer her problems.

Because Government decided

its that

I hope one day we see a little of that wisdom in our own Government.

Traffic on the look much, the

you can always

count on

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No doubt it was. I tou, came on a conducted tour more than 20 years ago. I found it extremely agree- uble.

streets I moved from place to as place with ease and comfort. Anything I desired I could have within the limits of the daily programme.

There was always some- one to talk with. Though always, of course, only the same few. They answered questions readily,

But one was conscious that they preferred you to accept their answers with out a pucker of the fore- head.

And whenever a natural- ly inquisitive person like myself expressed a desiro to test and check-well, of- course, there never Wag time.

MY OWN PLANS

My experience on this been

occasion has amusingly different.

I am not in a sponsored and guided party, but alone. 1 make my own plans. I seek to wander at liberty as much as I can.

I do not hide my purpose. And I make it clear that I do not wish to probe into things into which I should not probe.

and soldiers.

chormous acreage

I was the only foreigner. My The Red Dean of Canterbury, passport and currency cheques who is rather a lad in these

A RARE DOCUMENT

-

· THE VISA TO GET TO RUSSIA

Valid for entry into the U.S.S.R. Visa No. 45505. fuued to "John Gordon, subject

of Great Britain, to travel to the City of Moscow, Available until September 24, 1953.**.

In this connection, 42 girl gangsters are having their Brat taste of gaol last week for an all-girl battle with knives and icopicks that fortunately

was stopped before it could start.

SOME ONLY 12

Forty-two girls, some only 12, calling themselven the Cheyenne Debutantes and the Esquire Debutantes, bad been mossed to fight for the affections of anem bers of a hundred-strong boy gong, the Mighty Chaplains, to whom they were allied.

And this is what' magistrato Mrs Hilz Schwartz discovered about these young ladies beforu sending them for trial by a higher court.

One had drifted out of her mother's` ́ control because the family had to give up a TV sot, another longed for pretty tiresses; third wanted a room. and bed of her own. She sold she was fed up with 'always sharing with a sister.

Brisk Mrs Schwartz, - herself a mother, - has no rympathy view: with ging girls. Her "We've got to be as tough with them as with boys,”

But she does not disguise hay alarm, at the new social and psychological problem they pose.

Nor does Mr Sylvan Farman, 凸 spokesman of the Youth Board, which has now nesrly a

score of operatives striving to...

stamp out icon-age gangsterisen.

THEIR ARSENAL

For the question that has to

I have been here only a seemed to demand much atten- quarters, ranking somewhere be answered is: Are girls merely conferences in above the Queen but still well aping boys to win recognition, tion, and many the cockpit cabin.

below the real powers of Britain or

are they developing an Uke Mr Harry Poliitt, is quoted Amazon complex, determined to Then: "Open your bags," On to me as having given the most equal and top of my bag lay some type- effectivo plature of the building's violento? and three paper-covered novels. written paper of no consequence size.

few days, therefore it, would be absurd for me to make judgments. So I shall start this travel story by record. ing as simply as I can my, first impressions.

I sensed the change that

Nothing else in the bag interested them.

fnced me with something of "The plane will stop for 40 a shock at Prague, where minutes," they sold, and off they the ueroplano from happy went to read my books, Brussels put me down be- I suggested to an interpreter hind the Iron Curtain on a that being thirsty I would like sunny afternoon.

The aeroplane was Czech one, as beautifully fitted and as efficiently run as any of our own.

a drink. So off he took me

rather, dubiously I thought, to a

distant

airport building. There, in a well-filled, bom- fortable restaurant, he bought me a drink.

The pilot and crew scem- ed pleased to see us.. The

In due time, while I noticed trim hostess smiled atten with some apprehension tant She talked men were smoking bitholy round tion upon us.

the petrol tank while the plane freely and easily.

was being refuelled, my books and papers were handed back

NO LUXURY

intact.

!

surpass boys in

Says Mrs Schwartz: "True, He said that if a baby were girls can be lose. physically born in one of the rooms, and destructive than boys, but with changed to another every day he weapons like these they can kill would be 60 years old before and maim." ho had been in them all..

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BUT SO UGLY

FOR myself I think it is n very striking. building but a very ugly one.

but to the world.

Says. Mr Furman: “It may be [the boys ́egged them, on. They provided the weapons. But it is

frightening development."

Seventeen major teen-age boy gangs now rule the slums of Brooklyn and Manhattan. They Yet the fact that it now

have always had their "molls," dominates the skyline and mind but if the molls themselves are of Moscow more than the historic

to form their own

gangs then and enchanting Kromlin, which that number may be doubled. has done 80 for 50 many Although one arsenal after an- centuries, le a change of great other has been uncovered, there significance, not only to Russia seems to be an almost Iralásas.

supply of weapons available to In relatively a few yours the young thugs These Russia

emerged: "tror from knives and daggers, to literacy. Now her youth has pistols and even rifles trought More currency documents were an almost fanatical passion for home from Korea at souvenirs, prepared and signed, and off we education. They are determined Bordo are stolen, sore bought rose on the last top of our to be the best educated, best have an opportunity to see

trained, most highly technically how the people live, learn band at the airport, hearing

skilled people in the world. what they think of us and my English voico said, plain we skimmed for an hour

"They have a long way to go the world outside Russia was onco, In London," and or two at a height which yet. But they are going there To study the tremendous asked me, of all things, seemed to me not very much with a rupidity that is inspiring

above tree-top achievementa of Russia about the Coronation.

lovel, then on and rather sloggning. (I have the distant horizon rose a shim rarely som auch determination. since the war-and they are I told her about it moring white cloud which soon tremendous, as even the described the decorations in resolved · Recit, into

.. Vost

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PRETTY

little wife

All I ask is that I may A waiting for her hus-

JOHNNY HAZARD

NOW TO MEET THAT SNOOPING › MR. HAZARY OUTSIDE THE „BUILDING/

CAREFULLY POPS RE- LUCKS THE DOOR TO {THE BOMBED-OUT ROOMAS

journey.

WE GOT HERE AS FAST AS WE COULD, POPS! WHEREV THE GREAT RAGAZZO F

Across the Bat

IN HIS ROOM, 4IB/ Z ́TRIED TO STAY WITH HIM, BUT I COULDN'T SHE THREW

ME OUT/

and empty

By Frank Robbins

HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT HAVING BEEN FOUND OUTLAND THAT NOW HE WAS GOING TO

KILL HIMSELF!

“HURKY, BOYS! WE'VE GOT TO STOP THATMOR,

illegally, some "hired." Other primitive guns, firing (23 bulleda, are home-mado, from anobo (CET radio perials.

́·A· veteran' cop summed it up: "A child can pull a trigger. If giria staxt going in foe this kind of thing it's going to be mere dangerous on my best than it was in Prohibition.**.

situation

for a

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