1958-03-07 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958.

CHAPTER 4 OF HIS WORLD TOUR

LEGO LAY now in India LESONLAY Bootleggers,

lush life, and

an eerie touch

New Delhi.

HOT, sticky night in Bombay. The taxi was driving me away from the centre of the city where the homeless sleep on hard, springless pavements, up to Milabar Hill, where the rich live in air-cooled, silk-draped mansions.

The taxi-driver told me that behind the high gloomy wall on the left were the Towers of Silence where the followers of the Parece religion perform their funeral rites.

"When a Parsee dies," said my Hindu driver. "his body is put up on the lower and birds to eat the flesh. pwoop down Sometimes a finger drops....

cut him off before he could offer any more ghoulish detalls.

I was going to dinner in Hindu not a Parsi home. But I had been told to expect a ful traditional Indian dinner with

all the trimmings,

My host wILY

Ramnarain Rule. While ilverled servants led me up a flight of white marble stairs leading from the front door to the entrance all and reception rooms of the Rula home,

My host

care displayed a beautiful Ivory The chess set.

white walls were bare except for two mural panels of Indian dancers.

I would not have been sur prised if n troop of temple dancers had gilded in.

He apologised about the dim- culties of offering me a drink, even in his home. In Bombay sirlet prohibition applies.

As a realdent he had a supply of whisky which the law

says should only be granted on medical grounds and should only, be drunk by himself.

As a foreign visitor 1: should enly have drunk from my own bottle obtained on an ofalal permit form. I had the permit and which cost me five rupees several hours of form-illing and queueing. But no bottle,

to

Foriimately Mr Rula said: "I will apply the spirit, not the felter of the law." If he

willing prosecuted I am Mr Ruin appeared and came swear before Pandit Nehru that marble I was drinking amber-coloured chequered flour to greet me like a chess- water,

across the

THINK YOU LEAVE IT AS TIP. BOSS,

.

"My family started in cotton, who has just been forced- but I am in chemicals, all kinds resign. ut texilles ond Insurance and banking But

to

yet), the

felt stills are work- ing, and the mousea ard will not BOBET.

Tankers of Wine

CONNOISSEURS were delight- At midnight on the Bombayed at the supero quality of front I was accosted by a the wines which came out of boy carrying a huge basket of Valentin Kora's collers at coconuta, 1 told him I hated Gelegenheim. His Niersteiner coconuts and coconut milk. He Domthal '53 sent wine lovers aald: "No milk. In nuts good into raptures., houch. Tasty Brewaler."

His second-grade wines, which AUTHOR Hilton Brown has want out under the ordinary been explaining in Local Rhein-Hesse label, were Biao newspaper why he has chosen something to be sipped, drunk to live in India, not Britain. and drained, according to the "India is irresistible. But Bri- connoisseurs“ goda.

tain? Overcrowded. Overgovern- ed. One has to stand in a long quens before one can even buy vintner

oncself a stamp,"

This week, 43-year-old

Kora astonished the connoiscurs. He was sentenced

Where do I read this? Into two and a half years' band overcrowded Labour by a Wiesbaden court. Ho had been found guilty of Indi using falso inbela,

A suffocatingly Bombay post office standing

In a long queue to buy myself edulterung wines

a stamp.

Collection

Kora's story amazed wine- growers all over Germany. For, in evidence, he admitted that his "vintage" wines were not the product of Geissenheim,

HAVE started a collection

Kora told how he got around as I go round the world of

expensive and laborious the strange things I see. Not the the

planting vines and celebrated

of the process. wonders

He explained But tending them. world like the Taj Mahal,

dki away with the the sights that are unexpected low he unusual, previously unrecorded, strenuous back-breaking task of Ho de- tourist piciting and pressing. by and unscheduled

scribed how he bought hie mixed grapefulce from abroad,

Hitle sugar,

Like

the

water, o dark-skinned it with

the maximum "But eventually Industrialisis quides.

bo practically personal income I am allowed to like me may

about forced out of existence. I may Pakistan military band outside potash and glycerine, and care- take after taxation

be the last of the line, My sans the barracks on the way to fully watched Over tho £5,000 per year,"

will certainly not be able to live Karachi airport wearing turbans, fermentation. like mo and maintain this kind kills of establishment."

man advancing over the board, Apart from prohibition,

He spoke English with the Rula Indicated that life in the

India I wolfed in the cool spacious- typleal sing-song high-pitched new Independent

of the reception intonation of the Indians, which becoming increasingly difficult. one of India's ness of one

rooms. Deep cushioned couches makes them sound like Welsh Particularly

A glass choristers. Ramniwas ran along cach wall.

Mr

was

for a rich Indus-

trialist.

most powerful and richest in dustrialists,

Mr

The AIR-BIKE

It's on the way...will Britain be first?

A simple-to-run hólicopter can be made for £250 says WILLIAM COURTENAY, O.B.E. Mo 8005 in this a now are of travel... and a big chance for Britain,

OW often, after the limpness of a hot summer

H day's work, have you stood in your garden and sighed for an evening bathe? How often have you reflected grimly on the traffle-congested

But what

His income

in what jooked like

tartans, authentic Scola

and playing the bagpipes. A camel

ly.

Mr Rula helped himself to Tooked on aloofty and sceptical-luding 100,000 bottles labelled,

of handful Indigestion pills I said It must be impossible from a bottle brought by 2 Betel nuts and pan servant. to run a marision like his and live in his riccustomed style on

to- in silver served £5,000 a year. The house has 20 caves, which are chewed

gether, were a staff of 40 caskets. A silver spittoon bedrooms and servants,

catch the red betel julce was

Mr

Ruta smiled ruefully, strategically placed. "Yes, impossible, The house Mr Ruta served inore colour- costa £20,000 a year to run, ed water. It was thicker and but, of course, the businessED

are family affairs. And so is the sweeter, and It house. My two younger brothers

are allowed the same income,

and so is my old mother.

"Then I have indirect sources a delight to take off from the back garden and of income, dividends, and

to 500ft over the on." By at 250ft.

visit friends; or hnuselops the golf course,

PO

of

vehicle not only with military possibilities, but with an im mense commercial future.

For here is a great chance to

1 accepted another glass wipe that depressing word re-

For the business man it would coloured water, and he led the dundancy out of the aircraft

the dining hall. I would way into Industry vocabulary, and use nican that "commuting"

from a home far followed boldly. A large, solid the skill of its workers to Iny be possible

silver salver called a thall was et before me holding more than à dozen Hindu delicacies. Man- goes. Spiced potatoes. Curries.

the foundations of a prosperity buyond the present dormitory based on firm and sure demand.

suburbs.

D'

FOLLOW ROADS

Small silver dishes surround- ing the thall held the chutneys,

and the ex- weet and sour, plosive sauces All strictly vegetarian, according to Hindu law.

We have sold 40,000,000 British cycles roun the worth in the last 60 year and there

is no doubt we 't sell 1,000,000

Speeds will rise doubiless to a seil 1,00 flying moter-cles a year once 80 miles an hour, with a range

twa hours

No flying production begins to flow.

navigation wil be required; the driver will simply "pilot" or

road map and follow use a the contours of the countryside Bradshaw," as "ying by Lllots use to say when following railway lines in the twentica and thirties.

finly has solved her balance of payments problem with her new small cars and motor-scouters, For Britain the flying motor- cycle offers a comparable oppor. tunity.

A TIE-UP

חח

In fingers

HAZ

Wash cold'

was

Koca sold three million bottles of his delectable product, in-

It "Champagne-typo". delicious," exports told the court. Kora did not use ordinary top water to his "vintage" wines. Ho sent rond tankers into the atraggling

Taunus hille

near Frankfurt to collect water from

life. the famous springs.

AT

the

FAZARDS of hotel

Mainly plumbing. In hotel which calls itselt Regent Palaco in Bagdad an tasted like Arab boy brought me morning

tea and exited with 20 dinar notes, about £20, which had been lying on the dressing- tabic.

*WHEN I CAME BACK THE CATS WERE FINISHING THE STEÄÏ‚Ï

krambuie. He also insisted that I tried the betel nut before I left. That did it.

Hauled back, he said bilthely: "I think you leave it as tip, bosa,"

His wincs receive

Class A German

certificates from government analyzers.

The Kora trial may lead to a which change in German law. Bays wine is a drink made from the fermentation from the julco of grapes.

After a bad harvest, vintners may legally use a little artificial aid to nature, but no one know how for the law allows them to go,

came out

In the same hotel water in Kora said he would grow my bathroom came from the mushrooms when he top marked cold and cold water of gaol. from the red top clearly marked

hot.

In the Metropole Hotel, Karachi, both bathroom taps were marked hot and both spouted cold. In the. Ambas- sador Hotel in Bombay hot water came from a tempera- mental geyser which spluttered and smoked above the bath. The electrician I sent

"Wash cold. It is safer. said: Suretimes geyser blow up like bomb. Guests damaged," washed cold.

for

He was a charming, courteous host and I might have felt a I left my table in the I was given a knife and fork. pang of sympathy for him, as deported hotel

dining room Hud one of the last of the big to answer the telephone. When Sporting flying will return. Mr Rula ate in noisy

of us fashion with his fingers. The Bombay millionaires.

I came back two scrawny mem- Or even for the deformed hers of the local battalion of the Prewar more than 700

is served In owned light planes; today there meal was as different from what

the Indian pitiful beggars in the streets who starving cat brigade were up on restaurants of Soho As cod haven't yet benefited from the the table finishing my sleak, are hardly n dezen private owners in Britain who can fly for the fun of it.

from caviar.

redistribution of Indian wealth.

As I move on this series will

It was a novel experience for But I felt only sorry for myself be continued, I'm afraid. my taste buds. Sometimes they as I went off spitting red lato were ravished. Sometimes they the black night. were shocked

Prohibition

PRICE INDEX."

Listing sentials and non-essentials round the world. One LF re- cord of the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" in Rardid; £5.

U.S. Brms both in California and in New York State told me they hoped to market their little

£400 once vehicles for rssembly line was laid down.

Indeed, the whole freedom of This means we could sell the "hoppicopter" at £250 or less. the heavens will be opened in a The right approach might be way beyond the capability of all

the lordly, plushy airliners.

Licking his fingers, Mr Rula a tie-up between one of the big

But all this depends on one restarted his exposition of the cycle manufacturers in Britalo

thing. Have we the drive and rich man's plight in India. build the light Imagination to tackle this idea "My family has always given who could

I offer a footnote to prohibi- One bar of soap in Karachi: Bs. the aircraft Arms now facing flying bike!

charity. Now we have to give tion. In Bombay, It Was One bottle of whisky bought redundancy problems,

Which among

sighing much more to the Goverment, advocated by Gandhi and it was legally on permit in dry Bom Such 11 combination would manufacturers will be first to "Personally I don't mind, legalised by Morarji Desal, bay: £5 fs. One bottle of beer: and see all this and the money is helping to build former Chief Minister of Bom- 10%. One packet of wine runna taunch a new era of air travel sense

this land on era which launch this new venture? Who- the new India. I used to be a bay, to curb alcoholism among In Bombay: 38. would bring joy to the millions ever does get in first and pro- whole-hearted supporter

Also to be continued, of the macson who were spending who will never be able to afford elde the people with cheap and Nehru and his Government, all their annas on a local hooch afraid. airline fares, and who in any reliable transport of this kind Now I have some criticisms to disilled from palm leaves Much depends upon whether cuse get no pleasure from flying will reap a rich reward, The make.

But of course the bootleggers in a pressurised vacuum in the market is crying] aircraft industry at 40,000ft.

"I was one

(none of the first to here are in operation out to be filled.

criticise the Finance Minister imported from America 25

miles that separate you from the beach, and aban- engine and frame and one of and develop a British one-man 25 per cent of all our profits to

doned the whole idea?

Well soon there should be no sighing, no yearning.

All you will have to do is to

go into the back garden, climb

aboard your personal helicopter,

British Forces, and in the Com- monwealth and Empire Armies, Eut

they be British will "hoppicopters" or American?

and nt 80 miles hour cruise the British

In

10 the blue sca just over the grasps the fact that this is a cabin.

top of the traffic jams,

This may sound the pursuit

to match a millionaire'a bank

balanco. It is not.

The type of dying motorcycle

I have in mind would cost only

about £250.

IN 20 MINUTES

It would take you only 20 minutes to learn to handle It with safely.

There

nothing of the Jules Verne in this idea.

at

I have seen several of these types under experimental production in the U.S. the National Aircraft Show (America's "Farnborough") nt| Ohla 1904 and at Oklahoma 1950.

Some use fuel stored in 0 bottle almost attached to the pilot's back, and operate through jela at the rotor ilps.

Others use 44h.p. outboard motors, but all types have only one instrumentan airspeed indicator.

They fly at about 50 miles on hour.

Thoy aro still experimental: but the U.S. Army bas ordered a batch of 100 of one type to Goo

what they can do.

In the British Army there is

a definite interest in this claps

of aerial vehicle; and top think- Ing is that it will have a role at battalion and company level as a unit vehicla 'and as sh`aerial reconnaissarico' platform for a commander to "sen, the other side of the hill, ww

This assure a future for the ying motorbike in the

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