1956-11-03 — Page 13

THE CHINA --MAIL,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1956.

COMMUNISM

CONFICIAL!

TITO WAYET

TRAFFIC SITUATION IN EASTERN EUROPE

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

By FREDERICK ELLIS

THE MOST ALARMING MAN ALIVE.....he's two-headed

I

AM no terrified of one man. I am terrified of

50,000,000 Germans.

and there are 138

even I the

carried 14

um terrified of 88,500,. rollet! umbrella); "We ship- 000 Japanese. And I am pel over 200,000 enrs from terrified of the American the port last year." succour that has been lavisherl [X our former

enemies,

Last week the "last of the Lunes," the war-winning bomber, took off from an R.A.F. airfield for the scrip- yard the last of the

WALA

11

No wonder he proud man for was it not the British Royal Engineers who rolled the first "Volk" off the production lines bhe war ended?

BS

Across the water we stood

was

Lancasters that reduced high on the gantry of the German industry to a Deutsche nation-wide scrapyard; the world's Lancasters thut delivered it 600,000 tons of high explo. sives on the factories in Germany. It all ended only 11 years ago,

Werft the busiest shipyard. 1945. gutted in Quietly, the squat director in the leather coat said: "We had no orders in 1948. Now we are booked up 1962 and we turn orders

a

When The Germans wway." squealed for peace from the carnage they had started, German industry lay smoul- dering and mouldering.

WILS

And anything that left the victorious Allies carted off as war booty.

German industry was flot mut--for the count.

For the Japanese the carnage was perhaps swifter the world's first atom bomb at Hiroshima horrified the world — and extracted a death roll of 200,000 in a single flash.

PHOENIX

THUS in 1946 our enemies had been crushed. Their industry lay impotent, it lay in ashes.

A BREATHER

to

T? works round the clock. 11 takes on women welders at equal pay all to speed the ships.

Cummings

THE

William Hickey

COLUMN

The Man Who Worries About Matchboxes

D

to

P.O

ROUND TRIPS TO JAPAN

R. M. S.

January 1957

Dep: Honkong Arr: Yokohama |Dop: Yokohama

Arr: Kobe Dep: Kobe

London, seven of the loading French |AIT: couturiers to send models display their winter collections.

O you, when you light a cigarette, particu- larly notice the mntchbox? Does it bother you that it is not a thing of beauty?

Well, it bothera Mr John Ford. He is secretary of the British Matchbox Label and Booklet Society (sub- scription: 12s. 6d. a year).

He told me this over lunch: "British matchboxeTI are the chillest in the world. They lack imagination, colour, and pre- sentation,

of

Until some designers give us something more worthy Britals, makers

So far, Pierre Balmain, Jean Deason, Jacques Griffo, Jacques Heim, Lanvin-Castille and Jean Patou have agreed.

"There's condition. They have promised to dealgn their

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REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES

First Class £76.0.0: Tourist Class £47,0,0.

For further particulars apply to:-

gowns from all-British materi- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONGKONG LTD. als."

P. & O. Building,

Why French

couturiern

and not British? She eald-

"Well... Cr

France DOES lead the fashion trends, yes?"

I conceded a point.

Instead of fireworks at tho party there will be West Indian dancers, drunk, And voodoo

music.

I have accepted. expect seaman Can

DARING

overscos cules to drop..

"It's time our matchbox firms look a leat from the Austrians,

Thoy have

CUNDAY afternoon visitors to London's Zoo blinked when produced SUITV they saw a woman- qulto rema

remarkable matchboxes, Go into the cage Blustrating the Briti Royal the world's inrgest Family not theirs, mark you- Bumble;

since Quech Victoria.

containing

RODENT,

Hold in her arms Alexander, BORANG-UTAN:

Piace a 128, PYTHON round

"Some of them are charm. ing, in demand by collectors; they sell In their tons of her neck;

thousands.

Tickle the tongue ni HIPPOPOTAMUS;

Put her hands near two baby TIGERS.

"The Japanese And Tron Curtain countries #re alto gradually winning our trade.“

Guest of the Zou was ballerina Doey Mr Ford who has A Galina Kuznetsova, who de- collection of 25,000 matchboxes putises for that other Galinn- Wink it worth while tu press Ulanova-during the Bolshoi sta- for portraits

the Royal son of ballet al Covent Garden. Family on some of our match- She was there with members of

the company.

boxes? million of him

Drily the German says: "We have no arguments here among the men as to who should bore holes." A sly reminder that such A dispute on the Mersey lost Britain follow-up orders ~~ to Germany. "Our people So wealthy are the Germans get on with the job," were that they are being urged to the chilling words of the lend money abroad. Has Bri. shipyard bosA.

inin got her cap ready?

Near

dangerously low-the Germans build theirs up to overtake us.

Thus stands the German in- Hanover is the dustrial

machine-already Hermann1 Goering steel- menace to Britain's standard of works, now suitably robed living. Salzgitter Works.

And Britain 7 Had we It was "gutted" by

· even

But it does not stand lit

up for an gears itself the mightier

Industrial offensive.

whom work is

to the mans

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Now the Japs have 3,000,000 Lone jotted down in their order books. They undercut the world's yards in prices, offer zhip owners an even richer prize-quick delivery.

ORDERS

THEY deliver in

40 months from the day the order is pincod--ncurly two years foster than the rest of the world, No wonder the world shipowners rush to book Japanesel And

not emerged victorious? R.A.F. Now a mighty new Behind it stand 50,000,000 Ger- With our industry intact, plant has arisen, with although ita machines, Its most modern machinery in national discare-after making this is np mushroom, boom. For

men, were war weary.

Europę.

wow.

of

}

....

"I have talked to our leading

The intreple Kuznetsova makers. Their comment 1s; hesitated once-when someone 'It's not

might suggested she should go into the Possible; it upset the Royal Family."

pli containing Nikki, the bear Marshal Bulganin RAVE Princess Anne.

NOT FOR SALE

THE

WE world's No. 1 Jascha Heifetz,

violinist, wants

10

buy it. So does Isaac Stern. So doca Yehudi Menuhin. AND Russia's David Oistralth.

to

Reason: No one is allowed In the bearpits. Only bears.

CROWDED

RY from the heart by artist Sir Gerald Kelly at a meet-

ing In London: "There are far Each has played it. But It's not for sale. And £20,000 has They eat too much

the world. too many people

and they bten, offered and rejected.

take up too* mucir room. I' can- IT is a Stradivarius viollo, not take a quiet holiday any- declared by the top violinists as wirere. Something ought to be the finest of its kind in the done about it."

world

0

(COPYRIGHT)

And I leaned it is kept

in

I

the New Bond Street shop

William Hill and Co.

1 went along to see it. didn't. It was under lock and key in a secret pince,

Sald

Desmond Hill,

relative

of the founder of the firm, und a friend of the world's greatest violinists: "How did you know about it?

"You see, when news like thin içaks out people from all over the country start to write in to us. It gives us a lot of extra work.

not

"Anyway, the violin ts for sale,"

Who offered £20,000 for it? Heifetz, who already owns Stradivarius and a Guarnerius, both insured for £50,000,

how

Д

I asked Mr H Just many Stradivarius violins were ati in circulation, learned that Antonio S. mnde 500, and, with his two sons, completed 2,000,

And in Britain alone there are 100 of them.

THE LITTLE MAN ¿TRUBE'S Little Mun went on view this week for tha first time since his creator, Dally Express cartoonist, Sidney Strube, died seven months ago. artist's An exhibition of the drawings Wus held at the School of Art, Ashton-under-

bowity,

Lyne, Lanas. And there was tho beloved character with

high Exmp.

white collar, and polka-dot tie, tufty moustache, and

end-of-nose

pinco-nez.

Art school principal Kenneth Gribbla says his favourite car- toon shows the Little Man atop an Anderson shelter looking_at a large matroW,

"All right, Henry?" his wife usks,

yes, doar," he replies, "not theven suratched."

they are booked ahead for many True the workers call for a years and the orders still flock Yet 11 years afterwards But stay, it is working 40-hour week. But a 48-hour in. out of the rubble and ashes below capacity. There German week is 45 hours of Germany and Japan has stands in dust sheets nearly earnest endeavour, arisen a terrifying, two- £2,000,000 of the labest That is why I am terrified of headed phoenix.

American plant idle for 50,000,000 Germans. Victory of arms may have indeed been the want of steel.

ours, Bui victory of trade is a Idle now,

more certain Germon bet. breather.

Germany is flat out again -in a roaring boom.

It gives us a But wait until Walking around Humburg the steel is available. And last week there were no let us remember that from

week Germans..

UNDERCUTTING

I

In texities Japanese victory over Lancashire is almost* com- picts, in the Empire markets, traditionally Lancashire's yellow men of the mills corner the constructs.

Sure, sure the standard. of HA living is lower in Japan,

Let's switch on the telly.... let's fill in the pools....lol's signs of the havoc that in a the ashes of 1945 until last ND what of the 65,500,000 enjoy oursives while we can.

slaughtered 48,000 week the terrifying Ger- Adapa? Take a deep breath:

mans had raised their steel they have just overtaken the Let us forget the 50,000,000

They terrifying Germans, the terrify production from nothing to Germans at shipbuilding. 24,000,000 tons a year over come second only to the Bring 85,500,000 Uttle yellow mon.

Lich! taking British output!

We beat them in the battle A few days ago there sailed of quick death, But they will symbolically from the port of boat the living daylights out of Singapore the world's largest in the coming trade war un- face that battle with tabker, Universe Loader (84,000 "jors we toni), on its maiden voyage showed in the shooting war.

the same resolution that we THE Cernans still practies from its cradle at Kuro, Japan.

Around the docks the biggest and swiftest in Europe gleaming new cranes whirred Made-In- Germany goods into the holds of the world's ships.. The raw new warehouses

IT'S A BET

DOG BITES

for LAPPY ・ ・ nows

postmen from America comes where, it seems, they take a serious view of the peril of dogs,

De Jack Knowica, a Miami, Florida, veterinary BURKTON, reports he has been using ftan- Bad-tempered quillity pllis on dogs, finds they work quite Well,

not on cats, his says. But not Cats are unpredictable.

Sull

whoever frtuid of a cat, bling a postmati?

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1,900, mistida on: Tapani

trucks a rainbow of Volks

wagons awaited shipment.

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