1953-11-11 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY,

BIG NEWS FOR

THE RUSSIANS

By JAMES GARDINER

THERE'S big news for

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Russians. At long last there will be more food, more clothing, more sumer goods to buy.

For years Russians have listened to reports of per. centages, norms and indivi-

Meat 2,180,000 tons; just over 7 ozy a week per head.

Butter 467,000 tons, just 11⁄2 ozs per week.

Sugar 4,300,000 tons, 1414 eza'n week.

Cheese 97,000 tons, 1/3rd oz. a week.

dual factory records.

Now, for the first time, Moscow has revealed the Next year's figures for are not dis. actual quantities to be pro- canned foods duced next year. And the closed but in 1966, if every- whole blast of the gigantic thing goes well, 4,150 million. Soviet propaganda machine tins will be produced. This la being used day after day will entitle every Russian to to conjure up the life of twenty tins a year, or less plenty which Russians will than one a fortnight. And enjoy if they work hard. that, according to the official returns, will be three times The quantities officially promised for next year and as much as they had in 1950, the amounts each person

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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT İLANCASTER

FESTIVAL GARDE

ARK:

"You mark my words, the next thing we'll hear is that the L.C.C. ta reviving the groundnuts · schame,”

MONKEY

GLAND WIDOW

From SYDNEY SMITH

As there is no rationing in Russia some citizens will inevitably get more than others. Furthermore, the

PARIS. calculation of weekly, shares THE beautiful widow of Dr Serge "Monkey production, not on consump-| Gland" Voronoff, w.ho tion. It therefore does not married him when she was take into account stockpiling 21 and, he was 70, was the and quantities reserved for French Riviera's moat processing, which will glamorous bride last week. reduce still further the weekly figures. But the effect of this will be slightly offset by the smaller consumption of infants and by some im- ports.

is based on total estimated THE

Vodka And Wine

woman

Thirty-eight-year-old Gertrude Emilie Voronoff, Austrian-born first cousin of King Carol's Megda Lapsen, was morried at Monte Carlo to wealthy 47-year- old Portuguese landowner Count Gil da Foz.

Jife.

year,

Was

Ten Guests

THE TEST

of a WIFE

Continuing

the story of

the film called 'Personal

Affair'

THE STORY is told by the father of Barbara, a 17-pear-old girl in love with her schoolteacher, a married man

named Stephen Barlow. And then Barbara vanishes,

H

GENE TIERNEY

s the večje

How will she act

when her husband

is suspected?

What would you do, in her First

school.

тап

found

And afterwards, os she left for an Itallon-Swiss honeymoon, the former Madame Voronoff said that her life's great work is As regards drink, Russia completing the Voronoff memoirs

TAVE you ever watched will produce 8,675,000,000 on his experiments to prolong the wife of an accused

bear next

man at a murder trial? pints of

I have. enough for every man, The blue-eyed bride, whose

or child to have fair hair

streaked with It always makes me won. lace der how far a woman is pre-

If he had telephoned the girl 18-1/3 pints over the 52 copper, wore a sky-blue

on the night in question, might weeks. But as beer is not dress with diamond slips and pared to go in defence of case?

four rows of pearls. She arrived

of all, her husband, he not have. telephoned her on popular in

Barlow-a Russia, in an American limousine that her husband-how much, Stephen very

old other occasions too? Was it truc than matched, her hair and eyes. some will get more

even though she loves him, enough to know better becomes that he had never had a meet- she is prepared to take. moonsick ever my 17-year-old ing alone with her before? their share. Other will stick

In fiction, of course, it is daughter Barbara, the procal herself facing a problem that

Kay Barlow suddenly to the more favoured vodka!

at the and kvas (a sort of cider).

an easy problem for a wife. girl in his class

has confronted plenty of other For the ceremony, conducted The moment her husband is

That's bad enough. What's wives too. Do you really know There will be enough wine by the Bishop of Monaco, she proved to be a bad lot, she worse, Barbara makes it obvious everything about the husband

falls out of love with him that she thinks Barlow is the with whom you are Hving? * .• for every second person to took off her superb mink capo,

and goes off for a happier one man in her life. It is quite drink two litre bottles ✡ Only ten guests were present year, and enough cham-at the wedding and the recep- life with a more worthy ob- a situation for a small English town--and Kay Barlow doesn't át terwards in the ject of her affections.

make it easier by having a row pagne for ten people to tlon held

Voronoff home.

In real life the emotions don't with her husband about it. share one bottle.

wither БО quickly and the

But what a fool the man is You may have been married Madame Lupescu did not come | loyalties are slower in dying to rush out of the house in the side of him that not even a wife for years. But there la a because, it was said, she is still Thank goodness for that, say I. middle of the night to share sees. Few wives know what

I don't mean that I am glad after Barbara and bo nice to in mourning.

their husbands some women go on loving a man her.

are like when nocused of murder.

10 when But what a

Barlow

They leave back, they get to work. opme world it would be if, every time but

people to think? After three the morning, and the wives look days

and nights of police after them and say: "There inquiries, of dragging operations goes a man I know."

Do you really think 107 on the river, of desperate fears

Russians, both men and women, usually are given to smoking. And there will be enough cigarettes to provide

TWO LIVES

one-third of the population has not been previously married, a husband got into a jam, het Barbara didn't, what were for the office and the factory in

with eight smokes a day.

The new Countess Gil da Foz met her second husband, who just before Dr Voronoff's death two years ago at King Carol's home near Lisbon,

heard the door slamming on departing wife

A FOOL

CARE

C

at

in our household, you couldn't Then why do workmates, visit- blame

the people of our town in you and your husband for

home, always look so surprised for getting nasty ideas,

They had found Barbara's as if to say: "Well, I never ND yet, in the Personal beret in the river. Was Barbarn realised old Bl French Riviera border, a for- Affair about which I am there too? And it so, bad she when he was home."

These figures may not seem large in comparison with

Dr Voronoff is reputed to have Western standards-but-Moscow left her, in addition to his 30- claims they represent a con-roomed chateau, three-quarters siderable increase over the proof a mile across the Italian- duction of previous years, rang- ing from 60 to 200 percent. tune that matches that of her And the Communist press con- second. In the chateau's huge tras this vision of the Soviet park overlooking the sea, there paradise with the "growing are still the monkey cages, now misery and starvation" prevail- | empty and silent where he ing in capitalist countries.

carried out is experiments.

I

talking, there must have been jumped in desperation --or had plenty of moments when Kay someone pushed her? Barlow felt like,going-even Ji she never actually got to the door.

MR RHEE WANTS A IN SEOUL

EVEN

Suits

men

across

their

By

}

TUBE

1

MURDER?

THE search

for my daughter

was like this

A man who goes out to work lives two 'lives, and one of them is a closed book to his wife..

And when the crisis corries, can she really be sure-oven when he assures her hels innocent?

The

THE

went on, and each day suspi. husband be able to, trust the she knows. But what clon (and anger) ogainst Barlow about the husband she doesn't?" increased, The anonymous-tela- So, for Kay Barlow too, this phone calls began to come in, was the testing time. Barlow's headmaster asked blm anonymous telephone calls, full to resign. A policeman stationed of filthy accusations, were com himself outside the Barlow front ing in more frequently now." muster might decide that now alde the bouse night and day. was a convenient time for take- Every pond an

Russell Spurt door, just in case the school- The policeman was on duty out-

The Americans are alreadying a trip. worried.

£300,000,000 into Korea over the small town

They expect to pour If you have moved about a scorched for a body.

Was

and ditch in the

was neighbourhood

being

where there has One night for Key Barlow, next five years. The United (been a murder of a young girl anyway-the climax Nations Korean Rehabilitation but where the killer has not reached, and she really had to make up her mind amout her has its own yet been arrested - you can Agency (UNKRA)

husband. -- plan to spend nearly imagine the atmosphere. Fear. American hostility, resentment, and 'every- next nine one furtively gossiping.

does

wife do in such

SEOUL, Korea. ́ ordinary assortment of un-

in shabby necessary purchases design sit planning a ed to glorify the Rheo re- Tube for Seoul. They sit gime. hunched

Ambitious Mr Rheo has smaller scratched and peeling desks, shivering alightly in the demanded: a merchant fleet, £500,000 mostly chilly draughts that whistle a super-highway the length money-over the through the cracked. and of the country, a chain of months.

modern tourist hotels for boarded windows.

Wha

Other agencies crowdown wit is the test of

the test of a

American troops and their schemes of their own-"KACAC: [marriage towerlow it was not

All that is left of South familles. Koren's capital lies scattered around their shell-scarred

Ho wants the Capitol build- down and office. A jungle of smashed Ing in Seoul torn

replaced because it was put up and gutted buildings, acres during the Japanese occupation. of heaped-up brick and The interior has been burned crumpled concrete.

out, it is true, but the fabric is still in perfect condition."

But the seven planners press grimly on with resplendent schemes to out- shine the London Under- ground.

It is happening, unfortu- nately, all over South Korea.

He wants to start an airline to by-pass Japan. He accuses the Japanese, with some truth, of making too much out of Korea bound traffic which passes through "Japtin."

For Kay

UNGA, UNKROK, UNCORK, heck, have a drink," grumbled difcult at first. General Mark Clark.

>

FEAR!

A the house.

DETECTIVE was shown into

"Good evening, Mr Barlow," Wero For at first he said, "The suit you

her faith in her husband was wearing on Saturday night was understand? completo. Stephen Barlow ad- a grey tweed, I mitted to her that, in a way, Is it th The had fallen in love with mý

daughter-but insisted

that it

"Yes, herop

The inspector would like to But instead of getting to work had been no more than the flis exe.. And the shoes. And they have been forced to waste tant, nostalgic affection of a your overeen time stopping the money getting middle-aging man for a fresh. Stephen Barlow grimly Into South Korean pockels; to

and lovely young girl.

DOUBTS

handed them over while his wife watched, full of fear, In the background as the de leotive hung them over his

"And

said,

fight off greedy, politielans and "I never touched her. I never corrupt officials; to see that ship: told her about it," he insisted. ments ronch their destinations without too much pilferage; and

Mr Barlow, he to damp down the incredible

gravely, the Inspector spate of schemes pouring out of

would be grateful if you would station. the presidential maniston,

accompany me to this He is making his report and bo The result is chaos-an ever BBarbara's disappearance they are eccumte.

UT on the third night of has to be sure that the times familiar Korean, deadlock.

No

President Syngman Rhee; havo his own

straight from Beoul to the American plans to bring in con- out in a

possibly pay.

So President Rhee intends to one can or will agree to any were talking about it again, and

Stephen Barlow put his arm planes flying thing, Carefully prepared Kay Barlow caught her husband around his wife for a moment,, offered a windfall in Ameri- United States. And no one can sumer goods, fight. Inflation and

He had told her that the and then turned to go.

And as he walked out Kay can aid, is off on a fantastic persuade him that it cannot restore industrial and hydro- meeting with Barbara, on the Barlow, watched him-wonder- buying 'spree, vaja

electric.capacity, are consistently night, she vanished, had been, ing whather, next time, she met. blocked by tho, South Korean

accidental. Now he admitted, he hutand, she would meat he had telephoned her and made him 090 mm accused of Not food and clothing for A South Korean mission is Government,

date by the river. his war-weary people. Not already in Americo negotiating |factories,・・・ homes, and for £1,000,000 airliner Who

schools. Odly an extra

President Rhee goes bilbaly will fly and operate it is not yet, ahead: with his own plans, and

as usual; is getting his way,"

- And then the doubts, and, .

rests began to catch fire in his wife's!-tone

#TOMORROW;

she did it-