THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1954.
Wartime Heroes
Recount
Their Adventures
Today,
urc
For the next year, he was all of hands ten be incorporated in the Cleshire
Foundation"
nearly years after the end of World War II, some of
As for Cheshire, today "his only possessions
his tape the most popular books voorders, his tev religious books, a sports jacket and slacka published are those writ-k
trul Sister Theophila's ten by wartime heroes, jacket. He is not even remotely Or chattels or recounting the adven-interested in wealth
and If ever be earns or
car is given any money he at once hands
tures of wartime heroes.
A
An
51
the re-
needed for p
brings 10,000
134
ovader in enemy territory, hydro-electric project, Unlucky in his attempts to get 10,000 charges, passes back to England, he become an sentences and mobilings Active member of the French crammed prison trains to take resistance and won
the needed labour to the chosen pulation of niways stepping out site." of the backdoor As his German pursuers hammered upon the front.
Twelve
He returned to Poland and now, in "Vanish without Truce" (published by Max Parrish & Co., Ltd., 10s), he has told the
of those story
seven years of horror as
"one of those ragged beings of
whom crowds wero driven through Russian towne at
not night at a
to offend the thegyes of Soviet citizens already
hardened to so many horrors,”
months to the very day on which he had been shot troops furm down, liberaling rived But not before he bad seea harmless old men mown by
in Nazi machinegunS series of last ghastly. wanton
пл
of
vengeance pop population whom They bad already subjected to so much misery
and who watching their victors flee.
were
now
A book mainly on an enemy's
ES who expics "Cuando Exka-
ordineey"
over to his Trustees or spends Among those offered recently it on a 90-year-old lady on the principle that their need is for whiling away dark winter hours in an armchair beside the greater than mine." A5
tho Southern
**50 there is
most Hemisphere, perhaps, for read-
your decorated hero of the war to- sun-drenched beuch-- ing on
Brudkon concludes. blography of "Cheshire day," Mr
ordinary V.C" by Russell Braddon (pub- | "An
TILI In A]- with Ished by Evans Brothers, Lon- pearances
extra- don-12 (d).
ordinarily fertile brain. An in Lensely religiou man with great power to attract towards good things
thone
"The truth about Russia as Irreligious, Intensely
Charles Foley exposed by Kravchenko (in his devout
Cublished by Lantmus Green book 1 Chose Freedom') is in- relatas RUBL who
and Co., Fald, Lemon, 158). The complete," he earthy sense of honor and
here is Otto Skorzony. whose delightful-even, occasionally
scribes conditions in a privileged MNG-SEIBE of fun.
inolocted snatching Aal exploits A
world, а world in which people invalid for two years who, in Mussolla from prison after his
tre comparatively free. He de- the Allies.
The T та that two yours, has done muro capture by
the work than any slozen of us less moval of Admiral Horthy,
from tho Hungarian Regent, fortunate healthy people
fastness of Budapest Castle and together."
the netivities of the "disguised brigade" behind the American itnes
When Cheshire, or to give him tis full Aitle. Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration, his entation stated:" "He has a re- pala tien
Ac Bomber Command "
ita
in
Here is the story of ann who led some of the most daring bombing ruids
Europe Over during World War II-and who not only dropped his bombs accurately but remained over
The target until he could report the damage in detail,
on
This was a man who flow no Inw
territory over сизу necasions that the enemy guns actually fred down un film,
This man, too, with Dr Iww Sir William Penny, witnessed the bombing of Nagasaki wh the first alom to be used in war- fare-and in that split second Cheshire, nuclear ission. the supremely efficient an of war, the much decorated her of
hundred mortal
أمرا
are
Aimither biography. autobiography.
even
A
44
21
put
atstuning
or this Ume, rather
warÛmne
In the In The Spirit hero Cage, the third instalment of Peter Churchill's own renunt of hu odyssey as a wartime agent in veeupled France,
in
For long months. Churchi!!. akted by Odette carried out his
often successfully. danger but always cheaping his raids
pursuers in the nei became
DINE
gomet the enemy. Cheshire, crusader for peace.”
Group Caplin Cheshire's life began when, 1時 peace really aller a breakdown In health and
a period roughing it in a Cana- dian lumber camp, he received hio his home, Le Court, unte Arthur Dykes, on old man suffering from incurable cancer, He nursed hirn and Looked after him, seeking to make the old man's last days as comfint- intele ard happy as possible. Presently, the old man Wa joined by an old woman, and inter alili by many others.
In the meanume, Arthur died, leaving behind him a book by a
well-known former
Anglican clergyman, now a Cartholle priest: by Faith' "One Lord. One
Che- Further Verum Johnson, shire, knowing that Arthur had read and re-read it, picked it up after his death and started read himself.
to
That book changed his whole life.
In due course, he was received into the Catholic Church him- self, and devoted his life from then on to sprending his faith or well as to working for the sick and lonely.
Work
wir
line.
سورج
adds. "He de
Russia No. Those
1. noribes who do not know Russia No. 2, the slave state numbering do not know 30,000,000 people, the USSR stand what happens there, hind sa mang iron curtains."
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TRADE AND COMMERCE SECTION
AMERICAN
INDUSTRY Unsatisfactory
Year But Should Pick Up
ANNUAL REVIEW
By Harry W. Frantz
Washington, Dec. 27.
The United States textile industry had a generally unsatisfactory year in 1954, but signs of a pick-up in the fourth quarter stirred hopes of better conditions in 1955.
TEXTILE
British Markets HONGKONG
#
Closed
London, Deo. 27.
All British securities and commodity markets are closed today. They
will reopen for trading 10- morrow--United Press.
World Cotton Markets
New York, Dec, 27. Pust-holiday trading in cotton brought higher prices for the third session in a row.
All new crop deliveries edged into now seasonal highs, scoring going up to arotmd $1 a bale,
in The rise, accomplished relatively
quiet dealings, reflected abaled hedge selling, plus a continued demand from Wall Street commission houses, texille mills, exporters and spot house buying on balance.
for
Preference deliveries again associated with Ught supply fur situation on commercial colton
B
STOCK EXCHANGE
(From Our Correspondent);
Business done on the Hong- kong Stock Exchsage this morn- ning mounted to $351,227.00. Noon quotations and the moni- ing's transactkısı
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BANKS
HK Donk East Asta... INSURANCES
Unde Lombard
100%
210
BIO ITAL
$1
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SHIPPING
DOCKS, ETC.
Dock
Provident
(014)
Waterbout 20.30
20.50 20
19.70 6,90
7 3300 $7 7
10,0010.70 2500 * 15.60
Wheelock
LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel
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HH Land
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Humpty* Realtica
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The entire industry needs a stimulus to pro-prospects duction volume, which in turn, awaits general before the next harvest, alors UTILITIES and not under-economic prosperity and maximum employment, with 1 smalier acreage next United States wool consumption was at a low year and the practical assurance level during much of the year,
rigid indices for
high supporta total
another year. textile-mill production were below 1953, and total im- ports of fibres and textile products were smaller,
Mr Foley also reveals much
It is to lift a corner of those known that is not generally
Mr thai
Ekart has about the British SAS (Special curtama Air Services) which put into written of his experiences. He action the unorthodox ideas of does it without passion, with little bitterness. their commander, Colonel remarkably
This is,
indeed. David Surting.
口 factual
And at the
end of 4 book
packed with thrills as no detton thriller would be, Mr Foley puts forward a surring pleu for the dew::lopment of training in such artivites, training under a with foresight ond
man
account, for the information of the Western, and free, world of
what actually becomes of those
who "disappear" In the Soviet Union today,
"What I know and what I have secil is today
the
Imagination who would "ave greatest importance for the
soldiers
the last world War Instead ofanivation," be
not know for higher
it has
1
from rebeursing for Then came the day, in April
Christian world and for our do 1043, which brought us foarth
writes, "E the not." For, the
(15 rulssion to France in the for
If it has a meant author says." who could be sure, Resistance to an end. Betrayed,
politics Or for by the Geri Hussin struck, that he was captured
the strategy, but I am certain that włuch we Fresnes battle,
contrive mans and
taken to
meaning for every prison where the Nazis kept always to lose, would not also
normed person in the free world, be the last?” such captives.
the language Irrespective which he speaks, of his religious beliefs, or of his social class. The Soviot system of Com- mumism, a mixture of Asiatic barbarzy and
Utopia, DOW threatens all classes, even the majority at Communists them- salves.
This third volume of his ru- miniscences
the opens with door of the prison cell slamming behind him "and the grating screech of A rusty bolt put a full stop to my activities as a saboteur."
he
anct
in the cast
ля
War from the enemy's point of view is the subjem of "The Other Side Up." the story of Leo Dalderup, 10 ambitious 18- I paints a moving picture of
year-old Dutchman who joined the author's life from that up as a Nazi soldier, fought the
rement
being Russians until, after
and the moved to Sachsenhausen Can British and Americans in the
Camp and Flossen west centration
Anally taken Camp, burg Concentration
prisoner. was finally rescued from a cump in the Italian Tyrol by a small
He escaped from his prison Kroup of Americans who camp in northern Engħand after Ilberated him and the other the German surrender, reached members of u convoy of 132 Ireland, worked on farm for "prominent" men of 22 almost a year and finally joined nationalities. In that convoy the Royal Air Force to escape
fellow prisoners Included
Arrest and deportation to Papagos, now Prime Holland. Minister uf Greece, Pastor
his
Marshal
well-
Martin Niemoller, the known anti-Nazl German pas for; M. Leon Blum, the French lender and former Socialist Prime Minister, armi Garibaldi' grandson.
His work at Le Court pro-almost gressed. Presently, it became a home for the young chronic sick suffering from various 1ms of paralysis.
"To young men and women ... doomed to lifelong inac- tivity in sterile hospital wards Le Court suddenly offered what had never boen possible before--the combination DI medical treatment, a home of their own and the possibility of helping in the running. maintenance of that home," writes Mr Bruddba.
and
en-
The story of Leo Dalderup is told by John Murdoch and the book is published by Hodder & Stoughton (12 Oct).
A real life, post-war spy story with all the thrills
Anyone could hope for is the subject of
TOP
Mission" Secret
by Madelaine Duke (published by Evans Brothers, London,
6d).
129
At 28, Madelaine Duka gava up her job as an atom physicist in Britain and went the Con- tinent to seek her brother who had disappeared in Germany at the outbreak of war.
Sho
found
him-and was
given the task of tracing a German atom scientist, Huns Hassler, whose knowledge would prove Invaluable to the Russians accomplished that mission is told by Madelaine
In 1953, the Russians sudden-How she ly released Private Frank Kelly and handed him over to the herself. British military authorities in East Berlin.
Like the fairy tale that it is not, this account of suffering
human beyond durance, has a happy ending - a double hoppy ending for He had been their prisoner for Odette, who is now Mrs Peter nearly eight yours and had been Churchill, also betrayed and in the notorious Vladimir Pri- Imprisoned and condemned to son, called the prison of Lost death by the Germans, lived, Men, for six of them. too, to tell the story and to re-
מ
the
*
cotton
of
United States total exports of period of previous year. Exports week, fibres plus marrafactured textiles of
semi-manufactures | alone gadood, chiefly because of Gov-were $34,000,000 against $36,- ward emment credit assistance in the 300,000.
exportation of raw cotton.
Exports of synthetle Abres and The steady encroachment of manufactures in eight months of man-made syntbatic textiles 1954 were $140,000,000 against gainst products mado from $143,600,000 in same period of natural fibres continued to pre- | 1953. occupy the entire industry.
Sulk continued an uphill post- wem fight for a better position in textiles proituction, but
was handicapped by low prices of competitive products.
A political event during 1954 of extraordinary importance to textile industry was the new law permitting direct subsidy pay- ments to domestic wool-growers intended to
expand United
without States Industry posing higher protective tariffs. Effects on International wool
BASIC STATISTICS
Some of the basic statistics of the United States textile indus-trade will not be immediate as try and commence as last reported shoop population in this country
will grow slowly. are as follows,
OTHER NEW LAWB The index for United States production of all textile mill
Other new laws aimed at the products in October was 95 per encouragement of United States cent of the average 1947-48 pro-agricultural exports, and duation base of 100 per cent. estabished
This was a recovery from low of flexible price-support 62 per cent in June, 1954, but for basic commodities. was stil below the index of 100 in October, 1953.
+
The October, 1954 index for cottom sd synthetic fabrics production was 96 compared to a low of 85 in July and an October, 1053 index of 101.
In 1955 United States textile manufacturing industries be watching without enthusiasm the progress of President Elsen- hower's proposed Liberalisation of Imports trade. Steps are ex- of pected to improve United States- United States total production Japan trade, and there will be a conference of countries parti- of cotton broad-roven goods in
cipating in the General ARTee- Lire QUIET July-September, 1054,
2,304,482,000 linear ment on Trade and Tariffs, yards compared to 2,453,358,000 (GATT). in the previous qurostar, and 2,424,129,000 in the third quarter of 1953.
פגוש
The United States production of broad-woven fabrics from DAJE gynthetic figures and silk in July-September, 1854, totaled 339,678,000 yards compared to 62,372.000 80.802,000 in the the previous
third quarter of 1953.
quartor,
in
the
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3000.
40 4034 1000 @ 40
Dairy X Rta, 24.00 24.50 1000 24.00
Revived netivity in the Worth Street 'cotton goods trade last when print cloth sales were estimated at up- at 50,000,000 yards, in- fluenced buying sentiment.
The New York-
Cotton Exchange Service Bureau, in o resume of Government selling prices for cotton, figured that during January, sot-aside cotton can be sold domestically at 105
COTTONS cent of parity, or about 38.11 cents a pound at the cur- rent parity rate.
рег
Truding volumes and open Interests in the Exchange Were;
Month Mor.
Volume Open interests
May
10,000
$18,000 1,120,000
July
3.700
639.200
Oct.
1,000
140,000
Doc
6,700
29,000
Mar
2,500
43,000
Mar
1,000
49,000
Total
100
47.100 2,964,400 bales
NEW YORK
Prices of futures closed today
35.21 34,87
30.11
33.26
Warto
3500 24.70
... 15.70 10.00 23 s 16.70
(N) 10.80 Crawford
000 15.00
1000 JB
27 300 € 20.50
0.30 0.90
Textiles
MISCELLANEOUS
Yangtao.... 5.90
New York Sugar Market
New York, Dec. 27. World No. 4 sugar futures closed today 2 points higher to 1 point lower with sales of only one contract,
Dullnces in work futures re- flected a similar situation in the raw market.
Activity in domestic futures was centred mostly in thơ: near-. 3332-36 by March contract with trade sides of the 33.36-37 houses on both 35.5172
market.
Future closings:
Contract No. 4 (world)
somewhat
mory
as follows: system
Spot
May
will
July
Oct.
Dec.
Mar
May
NEW ORLEANS
Prices of futures closexi today as follows:
Jan.
MAT.
May
Spot
Mar.
34.30 34.09
July
Bopt.
May
July
14.29
उस
Doc.
30.40
Mar.
35.71
Jan.
May
36.02
Mar
United Prem,
MUY
July
5.00
SAO PAULO
Sept.
Spot-(cents per lb. cit NY
duty-paid)
United FreOK.
East-West trade" developments are also to be extremely im- portant to the principal lextiles- producing countries, United Press.
Chicago Grain Prices
Chicago, Dec. 27. Prices per bushel in cents:
Closing prices Wheat, No. 2, red Spot
July
Bepit.
Spot
May
July
These total impenta included Sept. the following:
Finally, there is a well-nigh incredible story of to as 易 prisoner of war in North Korea.
Production of fabrics from Starting with a vivid personal all and synthetic fibres other Decount by the sole military than rayon, acetate and nylon Chaplain to survive captivity in was 49,789,000 in the second North Korea, "In Spite of quarter of 1954 and 34,838,000 in celve Briain's highest civilian His adventures began Dungeons" describes all kinds the third quarter of 1953. decoration, the George Cross, September 1944 when, a mem-of treatment meted out to the
United States Imports of Dec. 222(11) 230 (L) from the hands of King George bar of the Royal Army Medical Reverend J. Davies, Chaplain textile fibres and manufactures Mar Vi who instituted it.
Corps, he was dropped by to
the 1st Battalion,
January-August period of May parachute nt Arnhem.
Gloucestershire Regiment, by 1954 totalled $524,200,000 com- **The Spirit in the Cage" spent the
rest of the war in his Communist Chinese captors. pared to $854,400,000 in Corn, No. 2, yellow In published by Hodder & Stalag 43 until his liberation
period of the previous year, Stoughton Ltd., London (12s by the Russians in April 1945,
IMPORTS (d).
From the same publishing two other books house come dealing with the resistanco
His experiences ranged from the occupied territories.
ning of the main part of his the so-called "Lenient Policy" book, published by Evans to solitary confinement in A months of 1953; unmanufactured, latv Alrey Brothers, "Little Cyclone" Neave (12.00) is the story of an under the dile of
London (12 Od)
amalt, nity cell for slandering cotton, $21,600,000 against $32,- Boybeans, No. 2, yellow "Private Chinees religiour policy" and for 300,000, unmanufactured wool, Spot
what his captors called "Illegal $155,400,000 against #221,500,000; Comet Line which led British Kelly" by himself.
religio
activities and a hostile wool semi-manufactures, 24,100. May and American airmen
000 egninst $30,000,000; wool Fur From his hospital bed, down over occupied
manufactures, 57,100,000 agains) Sept from Brussels right for Cheshire began a crunde
Spot Christianity With the help of France to Bilbao in Spain.
$97,100,000 against
Now York flour
200 lb.-ack Jute 100708, 14171001
$53,100,000; 000,000 against $17,700,000; manufactures, $17,200,000 against $21,700,000; and synthetic libres and mamutsoures, $10,300,000
down
struck Cheshire himself was
tuberculosis and with during two years in hospital had four operations from which he still has not recovered,
But his work went on. More homes were opened there are four now--and Trust funds were formed to run them.
by
escape routɑ known ma
He left the camp and was living in Leipzig until one day he was arrested as a spy by the In Russians. That was the begin-
the
shot
territory NETOSS
May
Ryo Cotton mamalactures, $45,500,- Mar. 600 in eight months of 1954 Oaty against $44,400,000
in eight car.
The author himself strikes 963,000,000; - wool Pazure, Barley,
By all the laws of cirance, tho Polish engineer Antoni Bicart, aljould be dood. For seven years, he starved in Soviet pri- | the
keynote in a pretatory the note "to the reader in which He travelled in crowded, un-he mys "It is a fantastic story, bented cattle trucks and in open not without is humourous side, lorries through blizzards, where I have tried to write it dis- men froze and died beside him. pensionately, without exaggera In three years, over 800 air- He worked in eight concentra- tion .... I wish to write the Crib, a representation of Christ and soldiers escaped from ska camps including Kotias, in truth, but without rancour, and againet' $28,500,000
a non-Catholic who was well and non-Catholic who shared with him the doubtful honour of being the sanatorium's oldest inbabitant, he organised a bus Atted with tableaux of Gospel
story-the Christmas
the
prison) campe
allk
Ummbad. Stites corponts at all textilos, naki, mamusooturan · · in January-August 1954 - were
In a Foreward, Colonel J. P.valued at $922,500,000 against
233n
230-¶
231T
210-
217%
150
187-150T
159-1881) 100-100
15576
1191
08
20
33,10 10 Spot-(cents per 1. fob Cubn)
Contract No. 6
Futures closings, in cruzeiros per kilo was as follows:
Дес
Mar.
May July
Oct.
12.00
(In the United States, the average price of 15/16 middling at 10 designated spot markets Sales at these centres totalled 8,773 bales).
was 34.30 cents.
United Press,
World Rubber
Markets
Rubber
New York, Dec. 27.
futures today closed
30 to 40 points higher with bales
New York Foreign
Exchange
Canada England..omelad
New York. Dec.
1037/38 2.70 21/13
unofficial 30-day futures.. 90-day sutures ▼ • 2.78 20/33 Australia
2.23% 2.79 1/30 South Africa... pi........ Belgium
Holand
India ... Hongkong
United
Dow-Jones Closing Averages
New York, Dec. 27. In the spot market, a good- Dow-Jones slosing overages done with on Wall Street today were na sized business' Was 27-0 the cical ord estimating the followE:
281%
2015
of 205 contrvets.
285-203-4 282
2314-15
2509-237
1530-192
closings:
volume around 1,000 tons. Future so industrinia
20 b
13 utilities
Mar.
$14.00
-United Pr
May
July
Sept,
Mar.
NEW YORK COFFEE FUTURES
A
toll
of
thoso
As one of that lábʊur, force of | Carne, who wan! #warded: Brt.. #759,800,000 in the same period tlosod 65 to 81 poinie ilgher
or, Miot down, the lay fundras inside the Arctic wethout vindictiveness or hatred in the Tomb,
passed sofely over this route Circle, in the north-western towards the Chinese people." and returned to England corner of Europe, le In the last eighteen montha | though not without alomo, still from his bod, he has lyts and liberty thing to send 28,000,000 whore Ive comt for tain's highest military decora organised three much buses, * who risked everything course in theology, a new Home then back home to light anothing in the Soviet economiction, the Victoria Cross, for his for the dying (another Home others day, "Little Cyclone" was planning, be studied the ruth, time Mr Bredon was writing) led the band of helpers who talked to his follow prisoners of book as an unique experience was being negotiated for at the the pendanym of the girl who bass ways of Communism. He part in the battle in which he Looy was captured, dawaribe, the and an, sie life of the sick 10 | comprised the Comet Lalou, thoir liver, by their so-called it in a work of aldeance, Lourdes...
"Evidor" by T. D. Gr Toure brim, her hoper and fears at aboubing, humana An win the next 'eighteen months," | Tiza
· Me.” Bruddon,” adds, “doubtles biographical Mr Teare landed. "there will 'be even more, And I in pocupled France by parachula in the next elatinen years, the just before his' crippled" bomber
·whole of Britain will probably crabed, into a hilinde, ‹ ̈
Miramitously, is survived,
After anvan rèsies, hò wIH. PO Jamadi・ from, that he RuBBERIE moching whika, VII 10,000 pairs
́ ́AMSTERDAM-
„No. 1 rubber
Les payers 388 buyers 201-buyers
The market was very firm, Priets closed. today in guilders Now York, Dec, 27.
Cif Jas. as per kilogram, Santos
futures today follow #gu
of 1953.
with males of 70 contracts. The largest exporta *in the
No. = rubber Douler and category were: cew cotitors ·°(dix=-
ronster · buyling | No. 2 rubber
of some of these traditions to 4s held unchtunged of
Linders), which amountede, orders predominated in a small. No trops 30: 130,000,000 2 kinst $320,400,«: merkat. In the epot market
zduvalt at from a conta a b Future close Poor Reception
$173,000,0
2.12 buỡetu
Owing to poor radio: rocepha tion" this morning many of our viatant cornrnstein - Items; wero
03 stocks
40 bonda 1*1
Comm. future price index
United
|LABOUR INDEX
New York, Dec. 27, The Bureau of Labour wholesale price index: 1004, United Press,
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