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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, ""NOVEMBER (5, 1956.
CATERING FOR THE
OLYMPIC
APPETITE
In magnitude, if not in mystery, it is like
the miracle of the loaves and fishes
HE army of Olympic By T. A. G. HUNGERFORD few fest to pick up a well cook-
and
telephone
culls
tt
n
ext meal.
in
Everything possible, apart descend
Mei- on
providing Seeing Eye from the food To preparo bourne will march, troops
its which chop your discourse into national dishes, 192 cobics have dogs, his been done to simplify like all armies, on
and Atle pieces
stew been assembled from different service for them. Soup toureens stomach. The task of
around in your mind to be parts of the world-120 from will be placed opposite the for those 6,000
the countries of Europe, 30 from entrance to each dining room. assembled
some catering
Inter (JFF
where the bu kwater
Malaya, In a and China, and Guests will help themselves 11 healthy appetites-und no quiet
it to their tables. frems within Austenila. Such roup, lake comparatively 42 standa hard tack, either-is one world
a large and varied staff breeds and while engulfing it dealde which in magnitude If not
commensurate on the next course. There will Mr Morrell, in between in problems on in mystery closely p-
produced
and the organisa- be a central buffet set with hors terruptionis,
some magnitude,
meats and cold For instance, tion to handle it has entailed d'oeuvres. proaches the miracle of the
startling gure.
salads. If they wish, guests will loaves and fishes.
85 lens of rice is a lot of rice, endles, research and ingenuity,
serve themselves from this, or and to satisfy everybody it bad
And paper work-Mr Morrell's will be served from the servery br procured from
the and fler walls leave barely enough between kitchen and the indlin, Stan
with any one of entries,
landing space for a small fly in dining room f Auttrulle Sixty-five
which the three hot ments on the menu between the lists from
ever problem assails him at the moment.
three
At least, on that ecle- brated occasion, only one nationality was assembled Autti on the chow-line: the in- ler, 17,500 lbs. of cheese he eulks the solution tu what- of the day.
117 variety,
500,000 mates of the Village will be assorted
and meals drawn from all over the pieces of fruit-lu name only a world, and the most stren- few items on a staggering Okl Hous efforts have been made quantity buying an a
to ensure that every taste, whether for amorgasbord, roust beef or nasai gering. }} 1he salised,
Tons Of Food THE
Julle
the nost
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scale beyond thr
aghtmare of the normal house wife.
D
But supply, one feels, is one
the of
least of Mr Murrell's
Foodstuffs worries purchased, stored and used as needed; his responsibilities 20 far beyond the mere provision of the fuel which will proper his clients in droves around the track, through the swimming the hurdles
over
soon to begin in Melbourne,
H
Long Spread
wene
To assist them in this choice, above each serving point there will be displayed the name of the dish in the languages cur- rent in the
dieing particular room. Sweets will be sot out on racks, to be chosen by sight or scent by the diners,
Having
laston
assembled the teams
The
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MR A. Morrell, in charge of feeding the athletes, discussing a menu with one of the chefs at the
like
like olive and mution
Olympic Village,
STC
Every Means
for the cooks?
Across A Sizzling Sub-Continent LEAVE TRAIN TO KARACHI
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
"G Ꮐ
...
ET to Karachium widly. ** perhaps expecting
by 4 pm, in Jome help to materialise,
did. And from a most unex- two days, peciod quarter, An Arroy time," the or- brigadier had joined us, with a
dor Baid. "And you will bulldog,
M
¤ve-rupee
And note
leave at once by plane "Open the door,” he shouted. to be in Britain within, “I want to talk to you."
be rustled seventy-two hours. If you before the train official's goze. miss that plane, you may
Either his volce or the nblo have to travel by sea-and did it! The door was opened, the Immediately two to cautiously. that will take you
brigadier's bulldog was through three weeks."
the gap and at the attendant's throat!
We were in the jungle in
Bengal. The order meant Thore was much scuding, bustle for the prize was much shouting, and a terrified rolling of the train official's leave in the United King- dom.
Three of us DID leave al- We started on
most at once.
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eyes.
nake.
No mark did the bulldog But he snarled. And the brigadier sold: "Are you sure there is no room?"
There was a berth vacant, it hot, trusty afternoon;
acemed. We could have it- walted
hours at a small Ar- yes, yes, the bulldog too. smitten station with a tumble-
Luggage, bulldog, brigadier and cate all, down building housing
we were hustled into 藕 which supplied pale fried, 888 berth in cool, awest air- and yellow, greasy chipped conditioned comfort.
potatoes
One Berth
Outside way hot, sweating
India. cooler...
We quile
WETO
Inside,
cold, in fact.
wo After
The one birth?
Of course, didn't draw lots for it.
TE has bused his gustronomic
whether their cordials well know
the roster for
It was called Tori, campaign on the unit. In
at all meals, they don't "B" Dining Room is rendy, and
We knew what to expect, of oil in the cooking, can he have a look at it? Dray
A train would chug feet, he will administer not 23 dining rooms but the same dining in national groups, Mr Morrell
not loads of tell and pepper shakers, course, rabbit room 23 times, not 12 different has taken the
Organization
of pots and pans, alongside the platform some kitchens, bait the same routine
It would usually prized as a dish, yoghurt hundreds little further. From
length will be required, mostly a sugar bowls, milk jugs (12,000 time after midnight, applied to 12 different klichens, cor
correspondence und question breakfast, and the consumption pints of wink a day) and some be crowded to the doors and to Inwitho or of the various staffs aires with oversens points, he of potatoes will be Members
unusually one walks in distractedly and the steps and roofs.
matter to et
badges *111
plastic
now sels out to meet the indiy-
the third-class Indian traveller distinguish duni
of countries high. So far, nobody seems to asks where are the pall brushes outside that didn't varying colours to
have asked for koumios, them
their categories- compostag each group.
all we had a brigadier present. It досв
Three tons of Western Aus-It didn't matter to the three of
us either. We HAD to get on He
slept in it. We slept on puntry without saying, of course, that waitresses, hostesses,
tralian crayfish tails, three tons that train.
the floor. The under, during the great spots-feast maids, kitchen hands
scallops, 27,000 national or religious trudl-
bulldog kept uny
of Tamanian
we had watch in the corridor. Wo Jbs. of turkey, 00,000 lbs, of
Long after mid- were not disturbed that night. Routines have been Inid down to concerning the slaughte
and preparation of beasts
45,000 Intimate sugar
of ice predicted. quaria each group.
with sleep craving our The Army brigadier and his the table
will be
rigidly nd- ARMED what
will
before,
train appeared bulldog do
hered to. Thus, meat wrd insight into the gustatory pre- en
had certainly won a all Juring and afte cich meal.
Ave tons of pens, farences of his charges, nny confec the Moslem
tons of beans, livo tons of cauli- /owly-oh, so slowly! Mooning toetical battle with Indian zoŃ.
whistles, great blasts of sicum, way officialdom. how かいいよう table will be act
* will be killed, under Mosiem manager worth his salt should
flowers--and someone pokes his and the constant clanging of the how and when the dining room
Melbourne have litle difficulty in wreek.
head in at the door and reminds atation bell.... the noise training schiedules; is to be prepared and cleared supervision, by
Ing 10 years' ex-
least, he should be able to send Mr Morrell that three Malayan In this way, any staff bucher with
his athletes home a few pounds athletes, the first to arrive at will, an emergency, be able perience in the Middle East.
heavier than they were on their the Village, are expected on the to perform its duties in another
following evening, and can he arrival. kitchen is though operating on
jate suppers for arrange three Every
them?
Tower of Babel for the duties of
man on whom most of the organisation has devolved is Mr A. Morrell, a pools dark, slight and standably intense young have who seents to ITULN grown onto the end of a telephone connection in an the office at the Village.
to this spot from nearly ten
11 vers Government caterer, and has worked in many instances in the hostes through which have passed the million or more migrants who have entered Australia since the end of the war.
comes
20
Spend half an ham with Mr Morrell and you will get some
his present jo idea of what entails not from what he tually tells you, then from the steady stream of visiloes, sup- plicants,
Informants,
that
20
WILS THE Best
PUCEMENTE THE
the Tower of Babel had to
Meals at de sorted out
taken will Village
14 nationni groups-Latin Ames, North on,
European, Amerlent,
Semutnavi31,
Mickle
Jooks
GWY
earl
its own home base.
Since
language
difficulties
poultry for
14
Preferences
Kroup
will be make table Fervice impractic- IN the matter of national pre
ervice will operate Lerences, each manager of a
walking a
hot
with such
at
cream.
night,
WAR Just asi
000 lbs, of Braz/dig,
A
Conceit
་
bedlam!
好
Desperate Men
stored at the course he con-lhero are | coaches.
10 cooks, 35 waitresses and up to 350 diners in each dining room, and all that food just waiting for some starters. What is a little thing like three late
Was
But we reached Delhi during the daytime with maging colds. The eir-conditioning back proved too much for inen Wo straight out of the jungle, sneezed and coughed our way across the Sind desert, in high
The
Bald summer.
mercury more than 110 degrees (it had been about 65 degrees in the sleeper).
wo with colds, Complete made Karachi in ume for that plane.
spent three nights days in the
Yes, there
WETC... they hanging on to every door and every handle-dozens of dou- clad figures, unable to get into the train We looked at the
Cremmed, Vendors yelled wares (yes, even
2 nt
a.m.), friends
cur. We ran sleeping
You would screeched at friends, relatives and wept over relatives.
think
that could happen only one
way...
then the other. The outlook was not hopeful on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the days when travelers And then we saw it,
I once
two
Kamo
Beat Of Wheels
kitchen of the 12 Asian 2 No 9999.
apuri from the Aslan kitchen Fach duin P
which required certain modi. a unit manager, able, buffet serv
neations is similarly equipped, supervised by and staffed by 28 hostemes- the in the dining rooms. The long dining room will be guided by
As lolier being ehoren as much for
t meul hours for his personal bible typewrit that relief cooks will be quite proud
ut home in any of them. their
for instance, plissant manner as
dinner will
the mountains extend ten sheet setting out a distilia-
of Ingredients of all over three hours will do away tion
the knowledge **** pleasing their
airehdy benatiful ornament who might with any congestion.
through In any gathered by Mr Morrell in his
pass gradually spill smp down the swimming ease, it is reasonable to assume correspondence course,
they will be speeded on their
eclars, champton's back has no place that Iron men who run miles a
The manages of Dining Room way by electric potato in the Olympic Village dining day to keep it will experience A, for instance, knows that he automatic mixers, steam
in shock rooms.
Utile hardship.
and electric ovens, sala suppers? athletes from 1 has in his care
balp manders
'maries'
and Mr Morrell's reaction JB Holland, an Denmark. Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
every possible means of making automatic things have to be IT was a sleek, silver-painted moved leisurely across Russia's He knows also that bread will the traditionally harassed life done, and one gets the feeling alt-conditioned conch with the Aslan territory in the Far East. that it will take something more
on its words "Sleeping Car demand of the cook a little less trying. bo In very heavy dem Now, before the big influx, they than a minor earthquake to pre- | sides. To us, straight from tho among
this group, but
that he
gleam and
glitter in pristine vent them from being done. discomforts of jungle life, this be expected 10 supply idicness
it
But like the gun deck of &
There is a popular
was lugh conceit
living indocti, white, brown, rye, and black.
new destroyer; what they'll look
time and the the sleeping car was shuttered given the Twenty-fiva
percent
the of
and barred against the right bread rolls will have to be like at the height of the invasion Ingredients, it is no more dit- ficult to prepare a banquet for
for and any visitors. garuished with poppyseeds, and is anybody's guess.
We hammered on Back to Mr Merrell's office, 100 plates than 10 whip up tea glars door at the coach's end, to his lists and charts and for two. The kitchens at the
Wo really beat at that glaas. layouts, shaded and flagged and Olympic Villoge between
official appeated in the from Calcutta to the very gates I experienced it on a journey An the studded with coloured pins like October 22 (D-day for the carpeted corridor of, the conch. the plana
a battlefield catering staff) and December 8,
of the Khyber Paws on "India's He motioned us away with a which in fact they are. Nobody when they will settle back, take jordly wave, We didn't move.
fumed Northwest Frontier. appreciates that more keenly off their shoes and relax, will Then he shouted at us,
That time, I rode in one of "No provide
the excellent
older-fashioned than Mr Morrell,
sleeping oppor room here-packed." Scores of thousands of pietes tunity to settle that canard,
CLTX, we were desperate four berths, all occupied,
The compartment- "had By now of cullery, scores of thousands once and for all.
men. We saw in our minds had two fans (they worked). All his nationals prefer ther of cups, plates and saucers--and
eyes a plane leaving Karuchi It huch 4 little room exijoëning coffee served with light cream; Lomeone rings up and wants to
without us.
We looked around with a shower-bath which
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Mr Morrell is non-committal when he has the time.
ANNE SHARPLEY goes to see the wife of
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THE SILENT HERO WHO
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BEAT
THE MAU
"Ho never spoke about his work.
I had to read
MAU
terrorist was another
He
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of white
But I experienced it on the wide plains of India as a huge Engine dragized Ita thousand- ton lond of carriages perong a sub-continent,
spluyed us several times a day. with tepid water,
The windows had three "layers." We had blue glass to protect us from glare. We had gaur to profect us from files and mosquitoes; - we had 12 Wooden
shutter to protect us from heat and from the hands and voices which offenced fea, fly whiska, goat's milk end
magazines at 3 Lim. when we lay sweating on mur bunici, longing for sleep.
men over slender wooden bridges.
through a tunnel was
It was a noisy carriage, It had none of that sleeping-car and THILE all Kenya was
Kikuyu, peace, with carpeting persuaded captured Mau sound deadening, which one drawing corks, or
about it in the newspapers. But now that Kimathi is Mau to lead his men back to has come to expect. elsewhere. at least breaths of
the hideouts where the gang Every clank of wheel over of joint-very staccato best of relief, over the capture of
were lying. And his teams caught he may talk at last," says Mrs Henderson,
"Kentucky Minstrels or wheels drumming on the lines. Dedan Kimathi, the quietest
Proudo gangs house of all was the home husband is alone in forests All- very centre of murder-land, daubed with black make-up every row of the train as it of the man who did more ́ed as they were only a year ago often, unarmed, to talk sur worlding in with reformed dashed than any other to capture with hundreds, even thousands, render terms with terrorists. Mau Mau, became the means magnified.
And if we tumed off the fing him -
She, discovered that it was, he to the end of Mau Mau. Superintendent Ian of armed Mau Mau.
ourscives the case against
speak, we Talking to
For the past, three months to hear your neighbour who built up Henderson.
Jomo
Kenyatta, and that the he has conducted ang open- His extremely pretty young can be a strain when you mus
pect your husband is talking Mau Mau courts had sent tion to get Kimathi who, with wite
was sitting by herself surrender terms with fanatic, threatening letters to him and one other leader stiil ur.cap= "Just
hugging myself with
so-called generals in mountain put a high price on his head, tured, marks the end of Mau delight." Her husband was
hideouts with gun-happy ter-
MAU hundred miles away and prob- rorists bunched around, ready BRILLIANT STRATEGIST ably ten thousand feet up in to shoot at a word, and perhaps
dank, darkc Aberdare without word.
the
strategiat.
!
.
Unchanging Scene
It was a curious coincidence that in the brier two days the
'On, on we thunderod, ·, Past ·
Puist Two things he couldn't con- Superintendent took off to be Benares, the holy city.
on to Lacknow Mountains, camping out for the Now it is nearly all over at ceal were when he was wound- introduced to Princess Margaret Allahabad,
Boreilly, Delhi, Saharanpur, niglit before starting more last. For Her husband, at least, ed in an ambush, and when he at a Saturday garden party
Ambala Amritsar, Lahore one patrols to wipe up any possible the capture of Kimathi tho won the George Medal and the operation should succeed. followers of Dedan Kimathi,
by one they were left behind.. roon he was most dedicated to Bar. "Apart from those facts
Then the scenery chan reached
· THAT WAS ALL. Marie Henderson, blonde and achievement of the emergency
catch marks the greatest single I have learned nothing from him." Altogether The quiet
By the time we had. in her bright colton that started just four years ago. young policeman fresh
"The telephone aho married
#rang ni 9.30 | Warienbad and Jholum wo were housecoat, sat in a soft-toned-
seven years ago has turned Into Sunday morning. My husband in fresh, wild, rocky country modern room with contempor
Stained with the dust of a THE SILENT SORT quite a hero and brilliant just sald very quietly that they
had rung to fall him that Dedan | thousand and and red drum ary furniture
more miles, the Kimathi had been caught at long line of coaches was finally lampshades, calling "Go to sleep At least, that is what Mrs Brought up. nmong the dawn. And
supposes, now", occasionally to a restless Henderson
for her
no in the frowning shadow of the small daughter. She is the hero is strictly the allent sort. Kikigu, of his parente coffee equivalent to
the last doza miles, anything
During the for Women
about his work." Englishmen able to speak their But as she settled down said Mrs Henderson. He has lengungo, "It may seem dificult the evening, knowing that is the sun sot and the wind A. RAW BATTLE always made it a rule over to the Kikuyu,
to be
belleva but my husband loven would probably be the work-rote from behind the rocks discus It not simply because...
Our houseboy end before she saw her husband were struck by the solitude, of remendously Mugwe was brought up with again, Mrs Henderson was hap mdla A station master and his Not covered wagons, wooden it has
all be
one of the waysido stations of because ho him
They werd childern pler than on any of the long for her, but a clean, routine wanted to
* we pulled away they were suburbia while her man fights a All I know about his schlove- Nairobi sald, we
were mad to
four silll on the platform, Líffleck up raw and terrifying battle. ment, I have learned from the
Gur Kikuyu sorvants' when:
was getting rid of
[sparkling/
the frontiers-" "Ian` hag, neverisance told me farm, he is one of the BEWAFURE, sa má down to haulett» fruto' Peshawar: station,
i alockendes, or mud-walled forts anti-dot away from Ti-nil, together, and when people in lonely nights that have been my staff greeted, the train,g
for the
Dart
When
#major 250 MEPOTEA AVERAGE Like land, soldiers," their flatforms
w
*** newspapers in and he doesn't everyone dismutyand kwould.: riot start ö talking about yo
But It probably take
to even care to see me reading them my much courge not to be able to Load your husband's rife ana thower Midget
evan
good frontier woman should: Trom newspapers, then, Mre Bitting alone in a pretty room, Hendeson has learned suck, the Kikuyu remind made him another can be an ironical parlime facts as her husband's or drives: ruallow that the only when you knowing that your, 60 times in two years into Lie WMD
tear a word arrainat àm, been domnito tow in” What has
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