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Cummings

M

PERU ATTACKS ONASSIS WHALING FLEET

"What buffles me is that someone is after something NOT belonging to US?"

RITCHIE CALDER reports

on

the

unending

Enough To Make Edgar Wallace Turn In His Grave

THEY WANT TO PUT SOHO UNDER GLASS

By FRANK MARGAN

Parr, old Scho, peed cld Edgar Coty, Marcel Cerdan and Georges Carpentier splattered the rhone comes about. It the owner is a gent by the name ail over the walls, and where

T'S enough to make

Edgar Wallace turn Wallace! In his grave. They are alking of putting his fabu- lous Soho under glass.

will be the first material re- volution in the exotic and com- of Mon leur Gaston Bellemont, who throws his customers out pletely un-English heart

at 11

with: London in over a century and Tina,

pm, closing time

gentlemen, please" delivered in French.

inore.

Square

With the Limehouse of pigtailed Chinese, hashish

Sutho and

A lies within opium dens, bawdy

mile-most commonly referred houses, wild Intrigues and

to as "the square mile of my midnight speedboat chases behind Piccadilly Circus, the su on the Thames gone forever called heart of the Empire. vitt

tho Luftwaffe's blitz, Wallace has only Soho left of the mysterious London he painted so vividly in his scores of thrillers.

French Exiles

In years gone by. Frenchmen fleeing from either revolution or religious persecution flocked into London and made Soho And now they want to their home. A French woman

who had a boarding house put it under glass, introduce the area received the exiles and Venetian canals, and alto- used her home us a gother

where the French heart of Lontion into 狼 men And women were set up

In

Even the street comer Indies their clients La will addres French, for the Champs Elysees is becomlug crowded, and Soho is more lucrative.

Even the inain church in Solio Square has its rignboard in French, the language in which

Is delivered, the sermon

And throughout The whole area runs a throbbing. lively stream of life, Noon lights and blaring gai lamps east a yellowish, pinkleh, bluish light on every race in the world, on enfes serving meals of cvery country in the world, on the Ever since then Soho has bat oldest prove sion in the world, a peculiarly French atmosphere on some of the really tough all of its own more French guys of London. even than Montmartre, as some

turn this fabulous house from

clearlig

sketch from a Buck Rogers in lodgings aroun) and about. comic book.

Revolution

Edgar Wallace fans have some

beople aver.

Atomic Power

101 or 50 years, it is true to form a society for the preservation of Subo, but the glass age develop. ment committer hus stolen a Considered both naughty Mant march on them with the slogna, during to be sect around the But the glass age development "You just can't stop the forward.

area at night, and the young committer want to change it all. march of progress,"

buck's of the day leoked on a They want the present müze of Further, the glass age Com- souvenir rosetle

the streels millee, formed by a group of bawdy house of Marlame Itanoul

and alley completely eminent architects, has alrendy in the same way as the young glasse in and air-conditioneil set up a showroom with models men of tintey regned their latest of Lenkle of 2,000 AÐ, glass stalrenses. and puvements that they hope will be the vogue In the future.

When the English dilstoerney

It is not really much different began discovering Soho before today from the way Wallace Queen Victoria's

time, it was painted it,

efforts

of

scientists to bring water to the dry places of Israel

WATER FOR A THIRSTY

LAND

10 see a camel walk- of a quarter of a mile are There is & well

T

and

record

and

at Revivim surtaining itself in the hot bar-

have, therefore, to direcver ways

PUES,

Around it are pisterna, dams and terraces, but also, to me,

BCTCS

sports car.

by atomic power. They wont canals with warm water flowing above the streets and carrying glass-bottomed boat: as a 2,000

AD subaltute for the present flaming-red London bus.

Soho was at a near-standst!! In Victoria's reign, but it re- mained the centre of the good- The district, the place where one could find the unusual in Sunshine, I London CRU night clubs, the exclting in en- expected to have any by then, tertainment and the risk in just will be doled out to the mobs in walking around the gloomy the Klon sirecis through 悲 alleys after dark,

Gay Places

It is not so different there to

except that thus *L

day".

bo

Alter. The people will go about free from rain, an unusual ex-

perience in itself. When they jook up from their baklava, which we hope will sul be served there in 50 years' time,

| exactly nlee" form of enter- good caters will see people or tainment is considered "Just one fb swimming in pools above of those things" In this advanced the glass cafe roofs.

and enlightened world of ours.

The night clubs are still there, but many of the gay places of

Skyscrapers

in

old are now "nent beer" cluba The prosent Georgian man- where the poor patron is taken slons above the brassy and not- for a nuncial ride to the ac- 50-brassy hops will go, and in companiment of tinny music, their place will be alx-faced strideni women and watered skyscraper flats built entirely or down beer at fantastic prices.

#1063, with: gardens, Klara theatres and dance halls The financial These

element

his between, Helicopters will buzz the fun-making, about, landing on the rooftops entered into

done not and fun-making

but they will be noiseless with the same gay abandon as it helicopters.

in the past. These "not very nice things of Victoria's time are too much the everyday thing of the atomic age.

the

ing on its hump is instruments-geophones and drawing water from a depth of bad enough, but to seismometers which pick 300 feet, but it is selty. They see an oil-well per- up the waves

of trapping, stering mod spread- ambulating along the desert them as dingrams. Experts in the waters which come fascinating dew-mounds. horizon at 30 miles an hour can recognise the squiggles Puring down the Wade Aslug are piles of pebbles arranged in

Fpic. geometricul "gave me the willies."

and identify the layers

Landscape, The topsy-turvy came through which the "earth- quake" has passed. They have learned to recognise as

decide Can then

whether mirage, a trick of the atmo- the formations are likely to sphere above the shimmer-

contain of er water. ing heat of the desert sands, inverted which gives un Image of something beyond the horizon.

was

But the serond frenk which 1 have just met

A PARASOL

WOR

is

in sadkiem spate.

When I was there four years

Ard all this glues will not only go tragedy had overtaken the

be soundproof, but bulletproof us tel jemn

The barrage which

well, and in the event of an be a smashed thy harl lab. ured to build had

by bie

H-bomb attack the buildings violonce of the water which came down

will certainly crumble, but they will do so without jagged ends, as a wall of water, is het high.

and to that nobody gels a cut finger had trouble with

favour Then they

remal the while poking about the ruins, their storage reservoir, in which four years ago. In ancient timesniosphere of Soho us

can bo felt in the they diluted them salty well they were lucse pebble: The

The glass cold Itailan and French coffee shop, committee intents hawking its age development English is an

They hope in the process to find oil. But just urgent is the need to find water-good water.

water with which lenked.

In the

flood

waler, but

Their mysteries were first ex- plained to me by Dr Otto G Director of Soil Conservation.

Atmosphere

But

the

same.

one where

alien

dew condensed en their surface in the night ad filtered where

tongue. 171 the restaurants

sa plane throughout the country, Half the State of Israel is They are still struggling with thrush to make a wet sumn of serving Scampi, shush kebab They already have considerable

earth below. In the heat of the

glass manu- for the first time in the for has been until the last the water problems, but he day the incund used as a parase and zabaglione, or in that parti- support for Brita

vivim today is a fruitful pass

Princesa facturers Britain, Negev, south of Beershebn, lew years) desert - The

the moisture which deserima plote

to pretest

fron sular Like those fool-hardy people Negev, that triangle on the f

Margaret often dines on snails the sun.

And in there mounds still gratefully remember, who chase after Flying map between Egypt

they planted their olives, vines cooked in butter, and where after months in the taway

10 live CT the dew Saucers, we sped after that Jerdau. The Northern dort I heard birds sing, heard and fas Walt Disney" ail-well and Negov.

Barsheba, brilliantly

of brea and watched nurture.

coleure t butterflies

GI has reconstructed overtook it not far from the has a reasonable but erratic dieting with vivid flower.

mounds and dismantled them in patriarchal tents of & rainfall, The Southern

the mening 10 and inches of wet mud underneath

Bedouin encampment.

The explanation was perfectly rational. It was

It เยริ

ןןנן

A

A mobile derrick, a vertical boring rig, mounted truck.

one of several

around Israel not only probing for oil but for water for the Thirstlands.

which go

Here was modern science it an Old Testament ting.

GOOD WATER

In

sat-

The Past

For the need thall be pro- sperous; the ring shall give her fruit, and the

Elound shall give her increase, and the heavena shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to posted all these things.

Zechariah, 8, 12,

the hum

CHECK DAMS

Not far away

such

I am

sure that modern in- genuity can adapt this cd idea

is Mashabim, to the needs of the Negov. Per-

Israel

I raw it begin and I saw it again teemly. dew-research in two years ago. Here, today, they suggests that the Old Testament are taking advantage of ex- preoccupation with dew in the perience, learning the lessons of rainless wilderness con bave a thai broken dam at Rovivim weful part to play today. and learning the lessons of the Ancients--the Nabateans of the lime of Jesus and the Byzantines,

the

When we dropped into

of the Dead, Sea, hell-canyon over 1,000 feet below sea-level, And if you fly over the Negev

the temperature was 120 degrees as I have just done you can in the shado except there was Negev is lucky if it gets see those lessons Imprinted on not any shade! And it remained four inches of rain in a year. knew you could not theottie the

the landscape. For the Ancients that high at night.

waters by marive dans

At the potassium works ut And that four inches may mejor wadhis. They bulls chode Sodom I asked for a drink of come down in a single storm. dams en

the tributary wadbis water. They asked me to have intend. It was taone Falling on the bare moun- rd diveerion dams and "kicker beer cen- tains it is shed, like, water dams. The latter are "aifles plentiful.

the off a roof, into the gutters yes which kick the downrush-

on to land already

ing water

Around Mashabin such brakes

SALT WELLS

the of the wadhis, the dry river netpared for them, In- beds. Down these channels use the water floods in a vio- have been put on the tributary and lont and brief onrush to wadhia and outpost felds pre-

dissipate itself over the pared around them. The dam on by pumping it through plastic; desert.

wadhis is

near the

Here they are using a device for talking the salt out of water

In the twentieth tury, to find water scientists sent out by Welzmam Research | stitute, nt Rehovot, man-made earthquake the Laws of Newton.

the main

alters which, electrically charg-| This mobile boring rig

seitiament. But through the cd, yield 12 cubic metres a day. drills a 200-foot-deep hole,At place!, like Revivim and dyke they have made a large. But it was cut of order.

Mashabim, deflant settlements born pipe. into the desert.

This device, or which the this

have, boon catablished in $20

at the holo the scientists put a Bad Land-defying the hazards

What the waters come down initial work was done charge of explosives -- at nature as they defy the they ple

up behind the dyka Weizmann Institute, but which escope through the was developed in America, seems about 50lb. of gelignite. "Intruders" who come

from but also

Dipo, so that the force mid the to have real possibilitier. It wil enable Buttkments to bo tz- When the charge is deto Egypt og Jordan:

spread are regulated.

tablished in parts of the Negev nated It produces the effect Bøvivim SPOON.S *Drops of Farther south is the ruined where there is water but tire

A minor earthquake. Water." That, in terms of rain, evert city of Subotta. To get wells are salted. The shock-waves travel is about all it amounts to lure there meme hard going over through the various layers, vidm was beleaguered and held hertle Arabe still use the old from the North, Water from sand, clay, limestone and cut for months in that scige Bolon Road which led from wells the scientists may find hard rocka at varying the settlers had to "dig ko and, Birpt, through Subette, Inte Water from dew. Wabor from

shelter, they Jorda

wells that can be de-walted. Or, are excavating a speeds, The waves reflected back to the sur, capillared cave which be

uncovered on ready-made - dug-

!maybe, even water. "do-salted This ancient city with its from the sea, Water means food face.

po been a Beyzantinio, watse-tanka, paved streets, imposing villas for Israel, which is hilf desert, Spaced out over the dod struggled with the sake one merely good pull-ups for

50 1,500 yours aço carlier motilera, and temples, shows that it was * TOMORROW! sort landscape at intervals tractable oogleder

od

ing the Arab-leracli war Bangerous

country

because

!

Water! Water by pipeline

The missing desart

"This is a world frend that has already started and which amply cannot be stopped," say

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Frenchmen

дя such great Maurice Chevaller, President Pro.

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