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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1954,

The B-0-0-M Trail

starts with a goat,.. and ends with sweater for a girl with dollars

a

By TREVOR EVANS

NEVER expected to Me Oliver is too busy being Condomn them not for this to bother about sturdy pride. They do more become fascinated by properous

than their shore to build up the peculiarities of the why this should be so.

Britain's independence, And Mongolian goat.

envy them their honesty.

So is Hawick.

Where the Mongolian goot I went to Hawick (pro-

leaves off, tho Charles Oliver spends many nounced Hoyk) in the Scots #rudgingly

Howick folk take over, with months a year Anding out what quality, his customers want all over the

Border country, because it their veneration for

Is Britain's boom town. It earns more dollars per head the picud, nimble fingers, and world. He employs 880 of the their unbelievably Intricate 8,500 men and women, in knit- than any town in these

machinery.

wear in Hawick. There are 470 Islanda. The secret

women on Charles Oliver's pay- roll. Ho won't have ono Cashmere.

security guard

от поорег in his factories. Not one garment has been pilfered since the war.

"The customer рауб

for all this, and Hawick people think That is where the Mongo- the price reasonable. They do llan geat came in.

well out of IL Their averago £10 a 'week. So Mr Charles Oliver, the earnings are hend of Lyle and Scott, one many

THE POLICE week, understand and help

a Hawick horne has on of the big three knitwear intake of £30 to £40 a

producing firms in the town. why cash- was explaining mere twin sets sell at £15 to £18 in the fashion stores of America.

They will cost more when Dior-designed, Hawick-pro- duced jumpers get there in

the autumn.

FINGERS proud and nimble

BUT

UT let M. Djor await the praise his name may bring to Inwick. The Mongolian goat should

in the centre-piece

Hawick's coat-of-arms.

he

of

He dwells in the Chinese Tribesmen And Himalayas

him deult to coh.

Each at yields only three Dunees your of the hair which becomes cashmere. S. x gouts have to be caught and plucked

sweater. for one

And the stuff has to be carried and other de- across the Gom serts to Tientan, shipped down the cost to Shanghai, enported to this country by a Yorkshir Arm which has a near-monopoly, and when it reaches Hawick ཆུརླIU Kཏྤ ༥ 3.

Mr Oliver then made a pawky disclosure about the Mongolian Bat There are tws of Wim.

for everybody works here.

There la not an unemployed mon or woman in the town

of un- except for the handful employables.

VEN the pollee in Howick

The policeman explained: "'1 was told

your Furts wero buyers. A11 that is good for Hawick."

are on the side of pros- perity. Mr Oilver waA enter- taining a group of Dominion They all think this boom is buyers. They stayed well into going to tast! The boom

the dusk at their conference, in a year

gives cacha that

and as Mr Oliver emerged he pentive an average output of found a policeman switching on £1,400, and that brings in the car lights. £870 in foreign currency for rach worker.. The boom that hins earned £10,000,000 worth of dollars in the last five years.

cuulious am about

permanence of boom which resta on luxury

Such դ 10wn deserves such und on fashion. Not so those policemen. and realiste burgesses of Hawick. "Aye, mon, fashion They say:

but our bread and Is dickie, butter comes from the simple, Howick. Those Mongolian goats. classic lines of the jumper. You canna confuse nature all that much."

Personally, I

the

CENTRE

of world

A prosperity

D

ND

what has this bursting made of the townsfolk of Hawick? Tears come into their

the eyes 3 sprightly weaver. Bobbie Wai- lace, sings so beautifully ot local dinners

that Hawick 13 centre of the world. They be live it, too.

And the Provost, Mr George Fraser.

who apologises for having been, born near Edin- burgh, now feels sorry for the unlucky ones who do not ve in Hawick

beautiful

One lives in Chinese territory. 1 asked my driver, a Howick the other on Soviet soil. The man, as I passed through lovely hair from the Chinese Mongol Melrose: "What is the name of emerges in a "natural" colour that

river?" He when Washed. The viet snorted contemptuously, "Och, Mongo!

is perverse. His hair that's only the Tweed.""" Thore

colours. Is no river out in many cures

10 Howick man Sometimes It has to be dyed like the Silirig or Teviot,

back to "natural."

SOUTH

on

which Howick deigns to flourish.

Headache

Do not wait patiently for your suffering to end Take for 2 tablets of CAFASPIN dissolved in half a glass of water, and headache will soon vanish

GFASPIN

„ORNING

sh the big act

1.ỐNG & KDON

But I fascinating

go back to my recollection

most

of

"NATIONALISED FILM STAR SIR RALPH R MARGARET LEIGHTOfe KENNETH MORE MAGRA SHEARER

SEKET MODOL

LAIRE BLOOM

ANLEY BAKER

*NNY JONES

HARI RUPENÍ

STATE C

"Remember, they're ours now I want Margaret Leighton and you want Claire Bloom.""

SPRING

RENE

MacCOLL lifts

the

SUNSHINE

I LEARN TO SAY

M

curtain

London Express Bervice

'MIMOSA' IN RUSSIAN

Moscow.

Women are working hard OSCOW in spring, and filling in the potholes Spring, the time of left by the winter frosts and travel. So let's resurfacing the roadways to a railway with blocks of stone.

over

station.

Above the windows of the ticket offices

appear such far-off names as Tashkent and Alma Ata, Bokhara, and Novosalbírak.

The ice-cream sellers (women again) are doing well.

Speaking of doing well, a

named 43-year-old

Ivan Potapov greets the spring For this in Moscow's with a broad smile. He is Kazan railway station and the author of "selling about the only things it has without salesmen" Idea. too novel in common with Paddington doesn't seem and Victorin are that trains us, but to the Russian house. leave it and you can get a wives it has come As beer at the buffet.

tremendous boon.

Bary.

Let's look at the street

It

to

breath and try to write you an article about the prices here,

A Picture Story Captures History

By Leonard Mosley

VERY frightened lying beside the wife in thin little man in an over- quiet of the night, instead of the gritfy sund under shoulder 3ized parachute jacket traps, the taste of salt water in crouched behind a hedge in the mouth and the terrible a Normandy meadow just role. Yet those are the peoplo before dawn

on June 6, who won the war," 1944.

I doubt If any words (or any ploture before It) describe - tə A hundred yards away, vividly what the D Day invasion nosing through the under was like as a picture this book growth like an angry rhino- spreads across almost two pages. ceros P and searching, the It is titled "Asmult." frightened man thought, ca. pecially for him was Nazi tank.

In the foreground are two dirty-faced,¡ heavily laden seT-

D

geants. Behind them stretches

The frightened man looked the Arromanches beach, littered down to the Normandy beaches with an untidy line of all kinds and watched the Allled invasion of soldiers.

fleet coming in. He saw the

guns of the Royal Navy's escart

ships open up.

Ho watched

the barrage of

beach (and only the sight though!

Heavy Shadows

the

protective fire from the rocket There are wounded soldiers ships Ughting up the murky and dying soldiers (and you afterward will notice that here is always

with

wounded, was like a someone scorching belch from a friendly lifting them up, giving them

is a an arm). There

soldier who has lost his helmet, his Through his field-glasses he gun, and all his pack, could pick out soldiers wading through the choppy beach-water

dragon).

One of the sergeanta is Took- the camera. and some of them never mak-n straight at

There are heavy shadows undor ing it as far as the dry sands. his eyes, It would be nice to be able to mouth, but there is

a grim line to his no doubt Bay

frightened map"

which way he is going-inland, was full of larger and towards the enemy. heart more patriotie emotions a ho looked down on that Normandy shore 10 years ago.

that the

The other sergeant is turning And 1 round and shouting. will wager my life that he was But I have to confess that the not making à patriotic speech reller he felt was purely selfish or crying "Forward into battle,

that Nazi And, hearing

tank men!? I'll wager he was saying: coming

his first "Come on, now, don't take all words to these D Day heroes ruddy day!" were: "Come

on, you fools, hurry up!" II is just 2 well they were too far away to hear hlm...

ever nenter,

Little Man

That picture was taken, under heavy enemy. Are, m. Beu) minutes after the D Day in- vision began.

For those of uf who, weit into France on D Day and ac- companied the Allied armies to The best tribute I can pay to victory" in Germany, this book "INVASION," the Illustrated is a mixed experience. It is the both like looking through' a memory of D Day and

is that family photograph album and vietny it brought us,

the pleasant plctures

things, and like turning Dvor

stones

and seeing

Ita and

mosphere

so graphic remembering Cre authentic

they

trat

thy

bring old

more

June 6, 1844, back into my room nauseating memories creeping on this peaceful morning of out.

June 1854 and I am a frighten-

ed little man all over again.

But, this time, one, too.

a very proud

I don't normally like reading hooks about the last war.

"Invasion"

manages, how

N

Wounded Dog

There is a picture, for in- stance, that reminds me of the hectic galety of the liberation of Brussels, remembered by all connoisseurs of these occasioná ever, to worm its way past my es the liberation of the last defences, because ita pictures war. show so clearly what it was like on the Day-and the mo- mentous weeks that followed.

If I had a son, and he asked me about the Normandy land- ings, I should give him this book and say: "Don't take too much notice of the words that go with

for they

are a bit high-down. But look ab the pictures.

woman who gave the number of the pattern (for you can't You buy any of these dressca. can only buy the pattern, for them, son, half a crown).

Models used a technique much the more restrained than we are

used to in the West.

As things are, I find myself paying the equivalent of £1 155. for a bar of chocolate, 4s. Od. for a shoeshine (quite a few

shoeshiners In women streets by the way).

Moscow in the spring JA

They simply walked forward, getting pretty cosmopolitan lurned, looked out

over the **British, Argentine. Danish, audience, and then raised the

business men, right hand and Japanese

In t somewhat Chinese and North Korean dele- wooden gesture. None of that gations, and the East Geaman twisting and twirling and Longue of Anti-Fascists, and a snaking around that the French

models are wont to indulge in. group of Italian Communists,

But this is Moscow in '84 and But although the sight of an

Is different. These elm Uzbek, a Tajik, or a Kazak in the

costume causes no dresses are for the mony, not regional heads to turn In Moscow, a little the few, and that is why there crowd formed to store de is a distinct touch of utility lightedly at a group o! Hindu about most of them--a square- women in gay saria,

ness of cut in the coats reminis cent of army greatcoats, a liking The people grinned and

for primary colours, whispered. and the Indians emerald greens and electric obligingly held out their pretty blues predominating, rather clothes for closer inspection.

than for subtle gradations of combinations of colour.

with

"Look of the faces of the as they strap on their

men,

parachutes, as they climb aboard the landing craft, as they come up the beaches under Are.

*They look like ordinary people rather than heroes, don't they? And most of them look unhappy, uncomfortable or frightenest.

"That's what they

were. People dreaming of a warm bed,

But there is also a picture of a wounded dog being bound up that reminds me of the time when we found a dog to whom someone had tied a booby-trap.

As it should do, "Invasion" ads with a picture of the scene in the tent on Luneburg Heath as the Gerṇarm signed the sur- render under the stern,

cold inflexible

gezo of General Montgomery.

was

that there is not a photograph For personal reasons, 1 regret showing that there was a girl present on that historic ocer slon. The only woman to see it.

she Just for the record, there by Montgomery's special permission, and I brought her. She is now my wife,

(Orders for "Intation" may placed with the Bouth China Morning Post, Ltd)

EXIT THE MALE

SQUIRM,

By LES ARMOUR

sion call

be

Imagine a very big, high- Until now you have had the ceilinged hall densely packed to elbow your way to with human beings. But they counter to look at the mer- are not rushing for the 7.15 chandise, then wait for the and they certainly are not salesgirl to make out a slip,

Let's look at wearing bowlers. They are then queue at the cashier's sitting or lying around window to pay, then queue the models waiting-patiently waiting. again at the wrapping coun

LOOKED in at a Moscow But ter for your parcel There seems

tho fashion show, to be no Potapov has fixed it so that sense of urgency. You get you make your eclection three Umes

o'clock one, for they hold them an afternoon-nt the impression that some of from a number of items two, four, and six. Anyone can these people have been here displayed in special show- walk in e payment of Ava for days and are prepared cases, take an already com- but at this

roubles (about eight shillings), to wait another 24 hours

pleted slip from 4 handy house wasn't full. without complaint if neces- rack, pay, and pick up

There were four rows of 18 white. your parcel already

wrap Inen-covered seats on each side ped,

of a raised runway. One alde We were shown only one was empty and

an the other evening dress in the collection, About 800 items are sat u group of women who, it a black salin - Job worn once available in this way from must be admitted, were sorely again by the stylish stout, linens to razor blades, and in need of fashion hints.

This it secined to me was cut NOW let's leave the waiting Potapov is doing nicely, Just before the start a band in a way which said "Yos this crowd in the Kazan what with royalties on his of schoolgirls fled in and joined is for special occasions all right women, a circumstance--but dignity In the elm not station to take the road to book "Salesmanless Solling" the

which was explained when it frivolity," д a bonus of half Samarkand and have a look and

turned out that one of the four

You scomed month's salary each from models was herself a teeneger at the streets.

to Imagine the his shop management, his with two huge plaits of hair wearer making a speech in it Ah-now the pavement trade union, and the Minis. hanging down to the back of her rather than dancing in it. cafes have started to appear. try of Trade. But oh do you know what

Let's look at the Russians do? „Instead of leaving the cafes open to the the crowds street they awathe them In

old British have great lengths of canvas to VIERE is a girl selling memosa, while leag portly was all on Who I NOW have two passports Montagu warne us that women come resemble a tent, so that they wonder what the Ruslan for plump side, and a very slender workaday ol signed by Mr almost million years. He wine That's

mimosa is? Turns out to be... pale young woman, her jet-Black Eden,, and the Russian passport says it on page:37.5% are (a) stiflinglyschot, and mimoss How MacColl Wister hair brushed back, who showed which foreign there husband: The readable me too inteligent to bother with

that, De (b) you cannot watch the there were made words ee the razali-dazzle stuff which has signed by someone whose signs Add up the Agures, torny had proved 1997 passers-by which for me is that, dining a

breng won a prizes at Prague and so tire I can't, quite make out, j

Wife: -- "Besson! Pand Thating Husband in stampe forth,

gentlemen. "Men are specialists in repres The flapper came out in a

squirm.

of their feelings...they nifty little number which is to

You won't win any more women are) more

it control, Of ogise be worn on high school prize.

emotional giving day and the watching arguments with a woman. than men. And in this, too, four schoolgirls took some notes, Just let a woman get hold, they show their superiority to

of anthropologist Ashley men?” t Next, the stylish stout in a mustard-coloured belted cost.

Montagu's new book "The Husband: "All right, if you're Natural Superiority of, so smart, you go out and ear The slender girl camo on In Women", (George Allen and the living. Go ahead! See It performance the a series of silk dresses when Unwin,, 16 shillings and you can buy the mink coat...

thought were the best thing in the show, simply cut in black or she can take us on 20 at a Wife: "Of course I can't earn the living. That's your job. time.

But that only shows how in Maybe you've heard about Dr ferior you are. In chapter 3 Dr Montagu's book. Maybe you Montagu explains that it's bew think: It's a lot of to cause you're biologically wait minute. Come along to ferior that you've had a typical English phburb master the art of earning once happy under benevolent living?" male rule.

Husband: "But I just can't Stop at a trim-looking houre, understand it, dour. I told you Inside an argument is in what would happen if wa progress - under

Wife: "That's rules. Listen:

you aren't Intelligent enough to Husband: "But, dear, you sec. Dr Montagu, has - proved know you can't have 'a' mink that

knces.

Sho modelled schoolgirl fashions.

The other three models were

stout, the flapper,

Let's look at my passports

"

Food

the

now bought that contente becatin

be in the bankruptcy court.".

every intelligence bast

lo show that wORDWES ATO

cost. I've figured it out. We'll enhed, wer made can be intitl

Wife: "There you go again, brighter. It's in chante

Just acting superior.

been dominated

Husband (neering):

there are no

for Einsteinspr

the chief fun of sitting in, a; Oss of these days I suppose the show was introduced by This alien volunie is immenses just a sign of your inferiority bajille, appeary with e [café:

I shall have to take - my deep a pleasant-faced, middle-aged (ly useful, I can assure yourselfe Montagu saya on DRAW 83; Kurni