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AS THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957.

JAMBOREE

Solo

GILES

'Nativos of Birmingham TO ARMS! And drive the invadors from our fair plains of Sutton Coldfiold."

YWORLD SCOOT JUBILAG

MBOREE

The Union Jack is

a fine

salesman

as says

VICTOR Ellison swings round in his office chair as he puts down one of a with a smile that shows he is enjoying himself hugely.

"If I can get some shipping space quickly enough, I can send some cement to Florida." He buzzes on the intercon and asks: "Have we heard any more about that ship yet?" In a year, Ellison sells about £45 million worth, of cement more than anyone else in the world.

The Florida order runs into only £8,000 or to. "But it is the first time we have got in there. So we must have a go, mustn't we?" I agree that "we must," and Ellison Tooks happier than ever,

He is a cheerful 19-year-old with a who bosses the slimness horseman's Cement Marketing Co., selling end of the big Blue' Circle group. You can see his 1,000 yellow and blue lorries trundling about the roads from Dundee to St Austell, Je has a navy," too of 1 lugs, 140 lighters, two elay-carrying ships and a coaster.

2010

For 30 years Ellison has been in rement starting right at the bottom leking stamps, he says. He works in a all room in a big building in Tothill Streel. Many much smaller bossos sur- round themselves in A more imposing

But

work- style.

his only a-day finery

four are

fine you It goes Monahans of wild duck und Singapore and as far West geese in flight to adorn his dove the British West Indies.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO grey offee walls.

The ideal Gift for friends ·

CHINESE

CREEDS

博爾克德

HONGKONG

AND

CUSTOMS

VOLUME

by

V. R. BURKHARDT

Illustrated by the Author

Five Colour Platos

- THIRD IMPRESSION

$18,00

俗

S. C. M. POST OFFICES

KOWLOON

39

far East

by

ALEXANDER THOMSON

29

—says VICTOR ELLISON, the

man who sells more cement

than anyone else in the world

as stige," he adds, "sales of British

good's very soon suffer.“ A family man

I ask about salesmanship 1 ask if shooting is a favourile this highly competitive world. "The Union Jack is one of the sport. No, It's hunting. "A won-

we have," derful way of preventing best salesman middle-age spread and keeping replies. ft," he says.

Ellison was a

"a

iv

He should have a talk about At one time

Chat,

Lori 1 thought, with dashing footballer and cricketer Douglas of Kirtleside who has

Jack had the Union

removed from DEA timetables and Hickets.

in works teams, but he is bit past it now."

Last, and first

costs

Ellison With evident pride that cites the example of Singapore. it was a love of horses

East The Japanese have a 40s. a ton led him into joining the

In shipping Riding Yeomanry in 1938. As n advantage subaltern he got away From there. "But we can still send in Dunkirk in 1940 on the last 1,000 tons of cement a week, and de. He landed in France again sell it for higher prices than the as a major with the first tide on Japs, because of Brush the "D" Day beaches. He ended stige," he says. the war as a lieutenant-colonel.

pre-

From his small room in Tothill

Street Victor Ellison

has 11

Most of Victor Ellison's seli- ing is in the home market. But pretty good bird's-eye view

about £6,000,000 many export he also sends

Ellison is a family man-with #young man's family. He has two small daughters who sweep big business right out of bla

weekends thoughts at during the holidays.

WAS GIVEN 600 ELECTRIC SHOCKS

A Volunteer Brainwashed

TREVELYAN

OATES,

18-year-old, sturdily built Scottish aircraftman, allowed a doctor to give him more than 600 severe cloc tric shocks, Until ha

became so confused that he could no longer distinguish what was true from what ho imagined.

Dr Jan Oswald adminis- fered the 290-volt shocks at the RAF hospital at Halton Buckinghamshire, in experiments which probe Communist "brain-washing" methods.

The "exceptionally brave volunteer." as the doctor cals him, took the shocks on the legs at the rato of 50 an hour.

He was also subjected to binding flashes from

L. A. C. Oates exceptionally brave

powerful electric lamp held only six inches from his 0 eyes. At the same time

made warning sound was through earphones.

With each shock he convulsed and was almos; thrown off the on which he was lying couch

und fear while Dr Oswald recorded his "brain-waves" sponses.

→

that is used all over Victor Ellison's desk. He glances apparently,

at it and looks as if he is en- the world. Same colour

Joying himself more than ever, to do with I wonder if at last he has found "It has nothing Portinnd-or its Bill. It got the a fast bost to Florida for those name in the early days," Elison bags of cemeat.

and out A quick goodbye. explains, "because it was the

A man who sells the original into a taxi. same colour na Portland stone."

£45 millon worth of anythingfold Alterafiman Oates he was One of the office staff comes a year mustn't be kept gossip in and puts a piece of paper on ing for long.

FACTONIO LILATATUAREN AURKAS DE PARASTUNED

Saving money and steel

DEINFORCED concrets saves Britain many thousands of ment offices in Whitehall Gardens, structural stool was used for the first half of the building.

The rest

saving WAS £150,000.

Cor a lot of money, too. In new Govern

bad

The reinforced concrete.

Too Brutal Afler 300 shocks the

doctor

to get further shocks and light flashes, but did not give them. Instead, only the warning note was given.

Oates nevertheless went into convulsions as though severely chocked and was convinced that the light had flashed in his eyes, At this a age he could not dis- tirguish between really and The shocks what he was told. were later resumed.

Dr Oswald now considers that too there experiments were

does not intend to brutal and

At such strength

RAF re-

CEMENT OUTPUT IS DOUBLED IN 11 YEARS repent them

NEW other Industries

Dr

Oates, Reguler cruit, has gone

18 days normal leave-he gels no extra for

his ordealo vlei! his mother a Editrion, a village

en anyone che.

and

FEW

can equal the expansion record of the cement makers. In 11 years they have nearly doubled their output.

#

缸

1946

1948.

Tone 0.593,000 2,538,000

1050

9,746,000

1962 1964 1965

11,295,000

11,700,000

While he sells cement in big way his wife farms in small way round their country home. Does it make a profit? I enquire a lite hesitatingly, "That is a question only for the tax man," he jokes.

We switch to cater toples. Why is the best cement always called Portland cement? It is a word

12,713,000

At today's prices they are now turning out more than $70 million worth of cement a year,

FOR OUR DAILY BREAD

THE cement

makers sell to almost every industry in the land. They even

the ingredients in our daily bread. Each year 10,000 tons of finaly washed and purified chalk are sent to the flour millers. of Chalk, a raw material for cement, is a form of calcium. It helps build good

teeth and strong bones,

助ける markets.

pre-

worth of cement overseas each countries where we lose

MISS LILLY (

by SARAH ROTHSCHILD

who wrote a book

on how to marry one

IS BORED

WITH MILLIONAIRES

LILLY, whose novel How to Marry a

Sho was invitud to Europe,

Honduras.

MISS DORIS La 100,000 copies in five languages, does Mexico and British e

not practise what she preaches. For at the age of 32 she is sta spinster.

ex-

pensive presents. "But I travel light. Only a few old diamond plus," she said. I afternoon

went

In her One

tlfly globetrotting 1000-ton

has met in luxury suite

the big enough to hold a

Miss Lily says to her

10 yacht, Except, It seems, the port several "beaux." millonaires' favourite holel

find out why she has not hooked of London.

an oll king, a film tycoon or at least a well-endowed European nobleman.

a

cho

to have Q

Mi53

definition Lilly's

of

writing is Therefore she millionaire: "a man who's another book called How To got it and spends it."-

Make Love in Five Languages, Miss Lilly is lucky to have "The tile," says Miss Lally,

genuine million- sems

slightly Miss Lilly, dressed in a dimsy met so many

curlers, was aires.

sinister connotation in English." nightdress and

a travel phrase In fact it is sprawled on

USEFUL PHRASES

book. Inatcad of giving auch phrases as "When is the next train?" or "Where is the nearest post office?" it gives the phrases essential for social Intercouree,

darkened room.

she added,

in her bed

a

says,

DORIS LILLY.

"A man who's got t

and spends It," "I have very low blood pres- "It's a good idea for a girl sure," a volce croaked from the to know the value of money."

"You see," Gold Mine Lilly bed. Also, Miss Lilly told me, she

Miss Lilly clarted

"I've got a waking up a bit, she had been drinking magnums young. Her parents were medi- of champagne till three that ne manufacturers, She became For instance, "I think you are two-week round trip air ticket to the most beautiful girl I have New York, and I've also got a morning.

then a a beauty consultant,

seen since I loft America" or friend in the Isle of Wight. If I "I'm bored with millionaires," press agent and finally a starlet. Certainly I'd love to go out to break the trip I'll lose 100

Suddenly she found herself in

Junch,"

I am quite sure that Miss In my best bedside manner I the International set.

The assured her that was probably a

transitional period

Lilly will be catching her plane normal reaction for somebody vague. "But I never had time

back to New York-unless, Her main problem at the course, there are much unlikely with a hangover-and without a for men who weren't famous.”

Luckily the millionaires didn't moment is whether millionaire. I thought,

the Isle of things in the Isle of Wight as

hundred. millionaires. a the some

way about Wight is worth But I was wrong. Miss Lilly foel

dollars. bas a millionaire in every port unknown Miss Lilly.

DILEMMA

dollars."

London Express' Hervice),

of

in north Scotland,

Dr Grey Walter, the Bristol

expert, said

brain

mentr

ok

this.

"Exper)~ shcd 'kind light CI1 the more brutal

methods of brain-washing."

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

Keep your sugar dry!

EVEN IN THE

DAMPEST WEATHER

Fine granulated sugar is now

"available in new 5 lb. plastic bags

TAIKOO SUGAR

REFINED SINCE 1884