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THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958.

PETER FINCH-film ster, writer, painter and

a man with a talent for enjoying

himself-gives his advice on where to go for your summer holiday..

For night-life

AM, you might say, an island type. A bit of a nomad. And the one place

I know that suits the many moods of nomads such as myself

refugees from the

splattered

Ischia.

neon-

promenades--is

Ischia is an island in the Gulf of Naples, one of a group made up of Procida, Ischia, and Gracie Fields (sometimes called Capri).

How do you get there? Easy.

You

ny to Naples or Rome. From Rome there 19 a wonderful morning rain which gets you to Nupies in time to catch the boat to Ischia.

The little boats are

a lot more fun

If you miss the Naples boat you must go to Pozzuoli, a few miles north. The lille boats from Pozzuoli are not so Juxurious but they're a lot more fun. They are the boats which carry back the empty barrels, the fisher folk, and the beats" like myself.

"dead

Whether you leave from Naples Pozzuoli, you can look back and see the curving magnificent sweep of the bay

от

behind you. And thore, at the foot of great, Arey Vanuvius, les Napica, her barefoot child.

I don't pretend to un-

derstand Naples; faw but Neopolitans do. Naples in

an enigmatic city com- bining grandeur squaior,

bustle

and

and

lethargy, Moorish fatal- ism and progressiveness,

And then the poor, al- ways the poor. Not just the poor who beg, or the poor who laugh,

or the

poor who sing; but also the poor who just stand and stere,

And you're a pretty

tough customer if you

just stare back.

WHERE

SHALL

WE GO?

From the top Epomeo YOU LUFI 362. the Boy of Napica Vesuvius,

and Capri.

try a cave on Ischia

They can, I assure you,

Partia

and pastel-pink houses and pri son. I walked past the prison once, on a visit, and saw the "lifers" working. They wore brown-striped suits, reminiscent of Sid Field as Slasher Green.

you

Don't get off, at Prockin by mistake. Unless you inquire very carefully nobody will tell that this is not Ischla. Why should they? Their brothers may gain by your mistake.

His cousin may benefit...

If a sailor can unload you ut

ACHIEVEMENT

冊

SCIENTIFIC

ZETA MAN-MADE SUN

BRITISH

NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MADE GLORIOUS SUMMER

King Richard III, Act 1, Scone i

London Explain Zerelca

by Dr

Procida his brother may bene-J. Gordon Cook

At by carrying your bagr and his cousin may benefit by the sale of drinks. His cousin's cou- sin, of course, will tell you where the hotel is, his aunt's husband will tell you there are no beds left, and his brother's brother will put you up at twice the price.

At Ischla you will be met by the inevitable hotel representa- tives. My advice is Never be rtida to them. A smile does a lot more than a tira in Ischla.

It's a What of the island?

do not paradise for those who seok the chi-chi of islands such as Capri.

There are the bobbing boats to watch; there is the castle on the isthmus to explore; there is the windswep! Renaissance

Forlo, where the artists meel.

SMOG BOUND BRITAIN IS SAYING

Zeta could change

our climate...

VAST new pro-

A ject, aimed at

see which of the many nationalities house of Michelangelo: there is climate of Siberia and Sometimes I decide they are there-like the travel agency right through your tweed suit he liked the best. "None" here you can eat at Filllpo's and other northern ter-

os the pockets, anyway, sak, "unless they are simpatico, make Naples as far uldes only to look more foreign and romantic. They can also see through your and then, of course, they have tilk American. (He

hut-into your funny no nationality," Perhaps they store only be funny

First Island to be reached cause you have a new tweed head

As for being a foreigner, I the way from Naples is Procida, Bult or a funny hat or because

port asked a Neopolitan to tell me with its Moorish-looking

you are a foreigner.

NOW

PROCEEDING

Was American actor who runs A on restaurant).

The waters are

'miraculous'

DEPARTMENTS

IN ALL

PRE-STOCKTAKING

FROM FEB., 10TH TO 15TH

UNPRECEDENTED REDUCTIONS

WOOLLENS

AND

CASHMERES

GLASS AND CHINAWARE IN WIDE VARIETY

DRESSES GOWNS AND COSTUMES

HOUSE FURNISHINGS AT A SAVING

A THOUSAND

ITEMS

OF KITCHEN, PANTRY AND HOUSEHOLD WARE All of Original Stock !

BARGAINS GALORE IN THE MEN'S DEPT.

SUITS SHIRTS

SOCKS

TIES

At WRITE-DOWN

PRICES

Lane Crawford's

and

anritories by flooding the Arctic Ocean with water pumped from the warm Pacific basin, is stirring the imagination of Rus- sian scientists.

If you are fond of boats you

The first hint

of this

can walk around the wharves thermonuclear age project sce brown-skinned boys was given by a Russian en- with baskets full of bricks from Naples; Ischlans londing barrels gineer a few days ago. full of the gentle wine of Ischia,

We know from this that the ILs Russians have grasped the vital the Epomeo, which takes name from the mountain which fact that atomic and thermonu

will one clear power-which dominates the island

day include power of the kind produced by Harwell's

AE A

·ARCITO

FRICA

MOTIC

ATLANTI

How the Russian plan would toork: The waters from the Pacifle told Acio tujo the Arotic, carrying warmth

would be a staggering techno- bicak logical achievement.

FAR-FETCHED? NOT IN THIS AGE OF

NEW SCIENTIFIC

FRONTIERS

would be grown, sa they are in the Scilly Islands today.

In Devon and Cornwall we might are orange, groves where there are now apple orchards, and vineyards. would appear in the fields of the Home Counties,

Ridiculed d

decade ago

PUT to bring tide, about the-- wilderness. Dow of water in the artif and barren Our porta, and those of other cial current would have to be.

European countries on a massive scale. The Bering Strait is compass Western

The Gulf Stream Carrics more tively shallow,

reaching only would be ice-bound throughout

than 500 mes as much water as the mighty Amazon. Every The Russian plan would pro- 180tt, at its deepest point. But the winter months. the length of the dam would be three times that of a elmilar vide the northern territories of hour of the day 100,000 million America with an lons of warm water flows from dam thrown across the Strait Asia and

artificial Gulf Stream, Vast the Gult of Mexico inlo, the As it moves towards of Dover.

areas of ice-bound territory Atlantic, Even so, it

would thaw, providing new and Europe, the strearh reaches 300 flowe at lands for human miles in width, and pleasant possible task in an age when we

It carries to provide

three miles an hour, are planning

more heat every minute then we should get by burning 2,000,000

is not an

im-

our-

selves with unlimited power by development. You can, if you are rheumatic, to be

harnessing the energy Intent Fuchsias in than machine--are more

the hydrogen of sea water itself. take the waters. The radioactive Zeta baths in Ischia are supposed to mere substitutes for coal and Once the dam had been

the valleys tons of cook

And this is the sort of water- ND the influence of the flow that: would be needed to

be miraculous. Need I add that ofl. They are also sources of erected, say the Russians, warm A warm Arctic current could ve useful influence on the

the most expensive hotels are power so vast that they will water would be pumped across Invariably situated near miraculous waters?

the enable us to change the face of it from

not Restaurants are

cheap. You won't get out much under 12s., but the famous Ischia wine Is only 13. a bottle,

Whether you live expensively or cheaply in Ischin, you have le climb to the top of Epomoo. Yes ., climb it! Or, if you're not so ambitious, you can hire a mule.

Pacific the the earth in ways undreamed of Arelle Octan in pre-atomle days.

Link between

Im-

Stupendous

into the extend far beyond the northern Arelle lands.

of the Asian and The scheme for the Bering • shores

continents, reaching Dam is an atom-pge project The current of warm water American

and to the which Groenlund

would

been have male to flow along the northern to

competent shores of Asia and America countries of North-West Europe, ridiculed by any

A rise in sea temperature of scientist Hille more than a would have ◊ tremendous

few degrees could decade ago. The power needed oceans

influence on the climate of these only &

bring Immense changes to the to pump water in the amounts stark inhospitable lands.

Britain and the required is fantastic, RKADY BORISOVICH

Compare the effect of a warm climate of MARKIN, speaking on

current of this sort with our Scandinavian countries.

We might find Scotland, for own Gulf Stream. This Moscow radio, revealed that

enjoying the warm,

energy source. mc:30 Russian scientists are contem-

river of warm water example,

moist climate that we get in plating the

exection of a Rows for 4,000 alles eerous the South-West ireland today. The BUT nowadays we have at our mammoth dam spanning the Atlantic bringing heat absorbed,

command the energy that is Bering Strait.

by disrupting atoms. from the tropical sunshine of weather would retreat towards

the mountain tops. and we released

We

an even ave in prospect This strait, 30 miles wide at the Gulf of Mexico.

source stupendous arparates narrowest port

As it bathes the shores of would see fuchsia hedges flower- below, the clusters of fishing the continenta of Asla and Britain and Western Europe, ing in the frost-free valleys of more

Gulf Stream releases the the Highlands, just as they do in the fusion by Zela of

hydrogen atoms boats, pale-blue with a cross sail America. It is a link between the

which are our mild, in Co. Kerry today,

available in Hmitless quantity and an

eye painted on their the Pacific and the Arelle Ocean heat that gives us

Southern England would

in sea water.. bows. They haven't changed and a dam built across it would equable climate.

Without dow

water

from Stream, swelter in a moist, sub-tropical of

these oner Ky their shape since the Phoenicians control the

Britain's climate would be as climate, Winters would be inllt sources could well provide u traded thero,

between the two occans,

Palms and with bitter. ta that of and free of frost. most cold and havo Building the dam, the

vast quantities From all this you may

Our

green succulent plants would flourish, power needed to drive the gathered that I love the island. immense civil engineering pro- Labrador,

would

revert to a and early flowers and vegetables pumps on the Boring Damn. You will have gathered right....ject over to be tackled by man, countryside

From the top you can see the and Bay of Naples, Vesuvius. Capri in the distance. And, farts

the Glut

Just

EMCELPU TELPONTIOMETEUNOISTLING ELZÉS BEESENTERED COTAL ONE GENOMARELLEUR DING SUPS COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIGURI

The

the

A bold bird is Teddy

THREW

out a huge marrow-bone still contain- Almost ing plenty of fat. before it had stopped rolling Teddy Tit dived into the holo~~ and there was nothing to bo seca but a little tall wagging · up and down in ecstasy.

His two companions hesitated as though wondering what had happened to thoir leader; then, furiously, they attacked the outalde, on which there were good pickings.

Bitter envy Sitting on the-window-all and forbidden to go out uzitil the isst bird had been satisfod "Wha Nelson the cat, erning the sight with bitter envy, He wouldn't think of cat-food or hot milk he Just as thoro growling, guaLLION his tooth and lashing, his tail

The sky was the colóng • of / lead and lead-coloured was the swollen river, but all else, was

white, for the snow was deep and prospecta grima.

And how the poor birds hats it! First arrival that morning had been a great tit so cold that probably ho had spent hours outaide to make sure of being first in the queua. He hopped stifly to the nearest IRED OF brend med broke off a orumb, Des he couldn't even www.llow-klub

TEen it was that the three Dian Lite we call the Teddy Giang flew down fu tiets formation an

FOTO De Deavier bird back I opened" the window, and lobbed

a bit of soft fat out. The great tit bent to it, got several beakfuls down and immediately perked up, unnoticed by the thres who were wrenching great lumps off the bread.

We believe that the leader of the Teddy Uang is the bird which, one day last spring when barely able to sy, endeared himself to my younger son Philip. He has never shown the same respect for us sa the others. and CAFTON a distinctive mark on one xide.

Now he has developed into the tough leader of a tougti gang. nad when I threw out the marrow-bone be begged the beas plog is it an bofile a lender,

he went into his marrow-mine and I retreated to the house, for Chery were nearly 20 degrees of frost.

Buddenly out of the lenden-, sky swooped a great buzzard. Ianding in R Burry of powdered snow right in the middle of our birds, it was the Arst time that we had ayér men, che of these Berce things so close, and the small birdssparrows inches, ropins. blackbirds

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thrust-all scattered hysterically, most of them, diving inia the thick evergreen bedke.

300

• Beak watering

But as the minutes drakRod DLL. With only the warging all to tell us Teddy Tiz was atli inside the bana. we began to gos, anxious, kind he perhaps swelled up bigger than the oxit I went outside and picked up the bone, to be rewarded with a plast of invective Cast: Donald Duck him, sult could not have bestaand, 2 cars. tudy replhoed tan bone.

Teddy truculentis: emaxed. Istled to the ty thŁOWE, KIKI, BIOod defying with his pont stuck auf-for Lite

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dwindled expilly sway, yo

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