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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958.
The level of the unburnt oil in the reservoir of this eighteenth-century lamp clock marked the hour. (Reproducét by kind permission of the
Science Museum, London).
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"If wo had man for husbands they'd make their Mr Deakin fit them up with little Eskimo suits to go with his wage-freeze policy."
London Express Service
Measuring
the hours
with an Oil Lamp
For SCOUTS, they say, are taught to find the
Bo
points of the compass with a pocket watch, but the North Germans of the eighteenth century went one better. They told time, by means of an oil lamp and derived a pleasant form of illumination into the bargain i The reservoir of this pewter lamp was graduated to mark the hours from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., the level of the unbumt oil showing the time.
A hit or miss method indeed; men have found same queer ways of telling the time. Incredible, really, that only two hundred years lie between this lamp clock and the magnificent Rolex Oyster; in terms of progress it would seem to be very much more. Hailed at ita birth in 1926 as the first really waterproof wrist watch in the world, the Rolex Oyster.
has proved, as well, to be the best waterproof watch in the world."
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Its secret is to use the self-sealing action of one metallic surface upon another; and even if you never swim, remember that this foolproof method is meant for you, too, For the rent object of the waterproof case is to maintain the splendid Rolex sccuracy by protecting the movement from dust and perspiration as well as from water. This it does to perfection-just one of the things that help to make Rolex ond of the world's finest watches.
AN EX-KING TALKS
ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE
66
A
MONG the compen-
........................... celving a few visitors it would enough, I suppose-most of my
all be gone.
family have been bumped off.
antions for losing a PETER OF YUGOSLAVIA says: You can throne is the right
:
In Madrid Peter is still given. "The Commies tried to get me
to do what one likes. In lift the veil on another royal romance" semi-royal honours. He is too; that was in 1938; at Sarajevo,
+
and duennas press forward to
cluded in such freedom is and, of the future, he adds: "In exile, the ton of every social gathering of att places the tomous the right to end a marriage
hich has not worked out," a royal divorce is quickly forgotten," ourtsy: the State provides him bumping-off ground. In France
So raid King Peter of Yugo-
sinvin a few weeks ago when
we
with a limousine. chauffeur, the cops follow me, But in ****** and two police Inspectors. England they've given it up."
England where live his
were discussing his CHARLES FOLEY talks to a man interview in Biarritz with haunted by his phantom fortunes
mreparations for the nat
his wife, Queen Alexandra.
That wte when
li, began.
One night we; drove out to a Castilian farm força Lenst,
main course was
suck The Queen Marie, and his two brothers England-the land Peter, in shirt-sleeves and at- of his youth and his friendship tended by an obsequious host, with the Royal Family. He a troubles spattered with hidden treasure. larded and turned it on a spit. Queen Victoria's great-great- grandson, and his wife (o The asseta in Yugoslavia of the
a cousin of the We dined at midnight in the sullable") family bank which made great
There were toasts, Mountbattens.. loans to the State-gone, Nearly courtyard.
Songs: £5,000,000 of gold in Brazil the keening of Serbian frozen because Tito claims it. choruses led by the bodyguard.
European capitals,
if I
it was an encounter which sentimental prophets had said would lead to n recon- "I was told by Tho that ciliation, but there was no abdicated and severed all ties sentiment in young Peter's with my country he would pay
me £10 000 a year tax free. 1 Other gold voice when he spoke to me refused."
beautiful young of! the princess whom he made his bride nine years ago.
You can lift the vell on an- ether royal romance," he said, roon cy my lawyers are ready."
have
10
seemed
more
Hoards-blocked in
at
So King Peter's salary stopped
A Rembrandt, valued on August 8, 1945.
£300,000-stolen by the Germans royal collection in What is the
value of these from the lost estates? Poter puts it at Bolgrade. "I am on its track,"
£25,000,000. It includes such he says.""
me es a gold-mine; he recails importing a £70000 dredger Haunted by phantom millions,
In King Peter from England to work it.
soon found the
from
"I have asked no help from anyone," be says. "When I Next morning. a call from saw the reception you arranged Paris, Enother
London: in London for Tito I know just more headlines Royalty on the where I stood. I had a fleeting rocks;" "King Peter is suing Idea of piloting a plane that day for divorce."
to Belgrade, might have been fun to see what happened when I landed In
my capital.
"GOSH, NO!
Another dream, another vision. Yot, if there is a divorce, and if ever Peter goes back to a And indeed nothing could the last year before the war it thousands slipping through his Perrent American argon, Ask- surely have to marry and have DETER slips caslly into the Titless Yugoslavia he WIT fingers. romantic produced 3501b, of pure gold
Yugoslav exiles con- the whirlwind courtship
tinued to regerd him as the ed whether he does not get tired sons" once more. nd the sudden wedding in war- "My gold-mine today is worth "national bank" for loans and of the detectives who crum time Lendon. Mr Churchill £4,000,000-nice thing for Tito." credit.
themselves into the front gent I have the assurance blessed the match. King George
of the car wherever he goes, and authority on such matters, VI was best man; all the exiled To King Peter, in this mood, Each day he got so much from he says: "Gosh, no! I've been "Kings are always eligibic,” she royalties were there,
a pirate's chart the ecuri treasurer after re- Tollowed
lito. all my
Fair saya.
She was three years older than me," King Peter went on,, "and 1 was only 20. We were supposed to be wildly. Infatuated. Nothing of the sort.
"Kings must marry and have sons to sticceed them. Our choice of wives is very limited. It was politically suitable match, But now? royil divorce forgotten."
Is
In exile 'a
quickly
TANTALISED
the world is
The waterproof Rolex Oyster is an impor tant member of the fine family that prove Relax jo be among the world's finest watches
THE ROLEX RED SEAL signifier that the watch to which it is attached has been titled by an Official Testing Station of the Swis Government, has been awarded its on Official Timing Certificate, and the proud title of chronometer, Every Rolex Oyster Perpetual chronometer bears the Rolex Red Seal.
of an
bec
Iron Curtain In The Arctic
Kirkenes, Norway.
RUSSIA is turning her
Arctic Ocean region
By FRED MANOR
police keep order there, Finnish ́shops', cater for the workers' needs, and there is no contact whatever with the few Russians,
The Russians have their own shops, their own canteens, and their own clubs and keep themselves strictly apart,
into a formidable industria: hollow screened by a thick Peshenga, which Was the who are there mostly in & and military base,
forest, are reported to be large Finnish Petsamo, presents A supervisory capacity. barracks for forced labour that similar picture, and also here' New towns and new in- keeps the chimney (the tallest the population, which under the in Northern Europe) belching Finnish regime did not exceed dustries are springing up in dense smoke day and night 2,000, is now at least four to five UNTIL his marriage Peter what used to be empty seven days a week.
times as large... nover Jind to worry about tundra. what anything might cost.
Further south in this rogion In!
tho: Soviet Union has lwo new
the power plants,
Janikoski plant complotąd a year 980, Nikel is laid out on a slope, which produces some 20,000 kw
the last tow years he has had
Whether those feverish
to worry about ttle else. And activities
ho la further tantalised today
merely denote
by visions of fortune after for another phase in Russia's
carea. Nor had he, ...
been a
Soviet frontler,
With one exception.
In this "proletarian" country the Russian engineem, managers and other executives arrived at the site with a 'domelie stalk or tune just outside his grasp. industrial expansion, or and the Russians would have to and the Rajakoski plant which auch proportions as never existed whether they have a more construct a real curtain, iron or will be completed in 1958, and in Britain even in grandmother's Before Yugoslavia Whe sinister purport, remains an otherwise, to hide it from curious which will produce 30,000 kw. time Kitchen, maids, scullery. vaded by Hitler the-country's
the eyes. They succeeded, however,
maids, parlour, malds - nursery gold reserve had been taken to enigma, which even
maids, undresses in
shori, safety. One wagon-load went most daring observers leave in obtaining an assurance from
about a dozen malds for every the Norwegian authorities on the to London, another to Wash unsolved.
other side of the border that no
family of a Communist boss. ington, a third to Istanbul.
The rent purpose of these
The military preparations in plants in a region which, how the region are naturally carried There was £300,000 in Paris, I stood in Vic Norwegian ham- photographing will be allowed of
lot of Svanylk (BO-called any sector of the zo King Peter's exiled Gover-bcccuse it has always
evor vast, before the war sup- ment in England had no money nesting ground for swans) and it a criminal offence not only to people, remains another, mystery. secrecy. But It is known that In fact, the Norwegians make ported hardly more than 7,000 out under a heavy veil of across the border river Pasvik I take pictures, but merely to be Dure thing is certain the Soviet-there at least complete watched, fascinated, fo in the found in the Russian mining town of Nikel'. camera when in
possession of a Union will not sell any of the Soviet division in the Petsamo the border power to Finnish Lapland, where, aroa, and the large power plants clearly indicate other, and in- region.
it would be urgently required. purtant, military installations. But they cannot prevent people The, two power stations have from having a close look at the been constructed by Finns, one nest Russian town, which lies
as "WRT Up to 1946 Nikel was the so close to the river bank that other one under
reparations," and the, Finnish town of Kolgejoki, und
a commercial with the large nickel deposits there "a pair of strong binoculars
plans for this regions, the Soviet actively searching for uranium had been exploited (until 1989) one could almost tell what the lack. In spite of the Russian Soviet geologists have bee
Hussian housewives are cooking authorlins did not weem to have in this district, "Then there was a trust fund by a Canadian company. of 2100,000 fictt me in England Although the mines have, always for dinner.
beon pblestor willing to bring tremely rich in every kind of by my father. I settled what been one of the world's prime
thire their own skilled, labour,
minerals was left óf (bis, £68,000, on my nicket .. prodacore, Kolosjoki - New roads and a new railway pose
the new roode, rail- son; only the life interest is before the tree had no more line bave been built to connect The Finnish workers, who whether the
theso rocently acquired Ruedan have been extremely well paid to ways, the power placita, and the provinces robbed vi from,-- the › make them stay on the job, have unani, incresenza in population Today the visible part of Finna to punish them for have lived in vinages which became means that the groingida hava Nike will House at least 10,000 Ing suffered Soviet angresalón-i, a part) of extro
below it in 4. with, the inferior of Russia. Finland on Soviet nolli
body 4
"During the war," he says. "I must have drawn a quarter of a million pounds in salary and experies. *. I gave my mother £190,000; my brothers £30,000 oach Expenses ran high, but I had £80,000 cash left at the
end of the war."
mize, and even foul of that I than 3,000 inhabitants, v must school 'tny son
¿When. Tito repubile Peter refuse
to ace
And
which Is S
remains my= |
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