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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1968.

hurts in Spain NEW CUNARDER OFF

RENE MACCOLL

BARCELONA, ople conversation-Gibraltar

I HAVE Just come motoring itself..

hundred miles of

down

ነ

en

As iny plane

[rom

London Britain's Popularity Pathway, came in for a landing few the const rom along the Costo days back the Spanish flag was tow yards from Brava in a north-east corner of dying only a Spain, where to sport a CB the landing strip.

Spanish wear British

police and troops licence plate, to clothes, to address the locals in were staring sourly through the English, means 110,-

wire fence which marks high the border, Until a few years) thuslasin, widespread urīns.

The Union Jacks are displayed back there was a mile or more no-man's-land belween allaringly outside The Ruti- of kripped reaside restaurants: the Gibraltar and the Spanish bor- hotel managers, hurr on thei der town of La Linea. But now best English; the politeness is the Spanish have occupled the yulp End have pushed their exquisite.

guards right up against us.

Plans and

In all of those le holiday apnis Tossa, Lloret de Mar. Calella. Arenys de Marthe welcome is warm and glittering for the 33: !inh.

This year. E am told by London travel agents, Dver 300,000 British tourists are ex- and of pected to visit Spain,

Prosperity

DUT that is only one factor in a deliberate attempt by the these 75 per cent inquire about Spaniards to harus and isolate

the Costa Brava.

After all, 200,000 or on Britens, cach with £40 or £50 to spend, spell out collectively the world's most popular four-letter word:

cash.

And no wonder they are all huny along the Costa Brave girding themselves for the press ing tray ahend. The bookings arc solld. The ingleses re known as free-spenders-unlike The Germans, the Belgions, and the Dutch who also turne herr in fairly large numbers.

Like us

LUNCHED

ht

the 25,000 Gibraltarians and the British garrison on the 21⁄2 square miles of The Rock.

Lan Sunday I set out with Gibraltarian friend to drive to Algectras for lunch. It took us Just one and three-quarter hours.

the mile of the to reguliate former no-man's-land-trapped i in a practically matlonless queue of 1800 curs

Glum-faced officials took ail the time in the world as they addied with Triptyques end special passes,

But Gibraltar is full of con-

and the

on

THE LIST

Everything was ready a

berth

booked at John Browns but the latest ·

British giant won't take to the sea.

Is this the reason Why?

by MONTAGUE LACEY

to

IP "No. 718". will not yet be built. With this announcement, the Cunard Steam. skip Company postpones the building of a £9,000,000 super Atlantic liner challenge the world.

The company has had to change its plans because of last year's financial set- backs, Full plans had already been prepared for building the 30,000-ton now Canar. der.

But in 1957 the company had to meet, it says, high taxes, strikes, an uncer- tain international situation, and strong air competition on the Atlantic routes.

Everything was ready for building, the Exchequer is. the new ner. A berth re- in fact, eating away the very served at the John Brown funds essential to the com- Clyde shipyard--where the pany's existence. Queens were built.

Adent plans for the future. ti "No. 718," now back on is bursting with prosperity audi exuberance,

taxes the shelf, was planned by chuned by Franco's aplie have Cunard's naval architect R. been made up. presently

K. Wood, one of Britain's Now Gibraltar is going 10 Lloret de Mar (Spanish raw

ace ship designers, the hoin, lobster mayonnaise, cheese, have a casino (down irrigated by sherry. half a waterfront on a spot known

It Was to replace the battle

white wine

will of

and Parson's

which Ward). Spanish brandy Costing Just make only the second place in age'ng 27,778-lon Britannic

British under a pound) then sought out the

Commonwealth in the spring of 1961 on the (Natau is the ather where Liverpool-New York run. It the proprietor of the hotel.

gambling will be lawful.

was to have carried 1,500 New luxury hotels, new swim- mang ponis, and all the

trim-passengers, first and tourist. mings

living of Riviera-style que planned.

His eyes gleamed lyrically as he louched on the glories of the sensim about tu start,

Me

"Do we like the English Di yes, yes yes we like them very much, very much indeed." erled. "Si, i-they spend such let. They buy pretents to take bame-they spend a great dent in the bar, 51, the British ke to drink, to enjoy themselves, Germans to we have and Bel-

cre from

ginns but at least 70 per cent of

our foreign Britain."

"What." I Gibraller?"

guests

And the click of the roulette wheel may even attract famous refugees from other and older resorts.

The apple FRANCO's attempt to stare

The extrás

Colonel Bates points out that increased air fares are being subsidised by world and asks: Governments

should not these "Why extra chargee be passed on to the customers?"

[Cummed's bill from har- bour and port authorities last year was £4,500,000.]

And with Canard hard pressed, the shipping com- panies of the world are going akend with their Atlantic challenge.

The Germans are also re- building ships for the Atlah- tlc and the Greek Line has rebuilt one of the Canadian. Empress ships which comes into service soon,

U.S. plan

1954

1955

1956

1957

1,023,000

$45,000

1,036,923 1,022,000

£964,000

BY SEA

652,000

BY AIR

550,000

--

BY AIR

785,000

BY SEA

1st -£155-7-0 1st Q. Elizabeth £136-10-0 Tourist-£122-10-0❘ Tourist Q.E. £64-10-0

Economy £90. 0-0] Non. Q's 1st- £100-0-0 De Luxe £173- 0-0

Tourist £64-0-0·

"

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MORE TRANSATLANTIC TRAvellers are GOING BY AIR INSTEAD OF SEA. TINB CHART BY JOHN BODLE SHOWS JUST HOW THE AIRLINES ARE NARROWING THE GAR. BY LAST YEAR IT HAD NEARLY BEEN CLOSED.

Is this cough catching

just a habit?

LAVE you noticed, at the theatre or during an after.

HA

Mr Fraser had that

sort

All

doctor's

day: by

CEDRIC

CARNE

The whoop is part habit and also an attempt to gain sym- lave pathy and demonstrative from his or her parents." -

The child remembers how it for cuddled il - cared WOL

whooping cough episode, and without thinking starta off again,

during

its

And for the first time in dinner speech, how, if one person coughs, soon other 25 years, an American ship people begin to cough too, as if they'd been given a ping company is opening at signal? Someone starts it in the balcony, then it moves new tourist passenger ser- to the pit, then to the stalls, until there is a chorus of vice to Europe next month free-for-all coughing.

Here it is with liner named The

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Such an epidemic of ignited

for the as if the Lord be worse Atlantic,

coughs -can The American Govern-leading lady than a blunderbuss Chamber- of bad eggs. It causes the most inin hus cen- hus ment also approved dignified after-dinner

It. spenker sorel plans for the United States to grow wild-eyed.

incon it essentially an? Lines to build a £20,000,000

of interrupt- sister ship to run with the anarchist, hand grenade cough. ed. pressed Can the company be Blue Riband liner United He could devastate a perform cough. There helped now?

States.

anco a few minutes just by is a catch in

in and making his the breath Colonel During the thirties the

Batcs, explaining breathing

hand clock with coughs.

through as if

The same principle applies. the cough had forgotten its lines Adults are not immune from Cunard company had to Cunard's drop in revenue of body rock around like a second is a 1f w stop work on building the more than £2,000,000, says:

Mrs Fraser came to see me and the face winces with the wasting sympathy and atten- Queen Mary on the Clyde. "After suffering heavy losEns

beginning of pain.

tion. I had heard Mr Fraser "Warnings have been Work was resumed after a of ships in the war, the group because of It.

eaugh. In fact, he'd developed sound finance time, when the has up-to-date,

"I'm not worried about lead- "Not my Bert,"

Mrs Fraser it to a fine art. given annually ever since long

for new delivered, construction 1947 that the full replace Government stepped into of 463,900 gross tons at a cost of ing indies, doctor," she said, said, "he doesn't try to suppress "but about my husband's it. It's his secret weapon. Ho's cash

Raistalice, iome £00,000,000, besides hav

Surely there must be had it for years." ment of the fleet was being provide

That loan has long since ing fitted out the Queen Eliz-health.

organically something

wrong jeopardised.

beih for her peace-time role and with him? It happens so often." The fact that the, cough had been repaid

reconditioned

Colonel Denis Butcs, Cunard's chairman, in a statement announcing the' postponement of No. 718.

unya:-

Gibraltar out of counten- ance has been area, queried, "about He said not long ago: "Gibral- tar a like a ripe apple just Is expression altered ab- walling to fall into our laps." ruptly. "Here nobody ever Something tells me that this peaks about mollers like that," particular apple is going to he sold, Budrienly unsmiling, swing merrily on the branch for "It is simply not n tople of a long time to come.

Well, have a good time on the "It is very clear that by conversation. It is not in word ever heard here. Come, I will Corta Brava this summer. It is calculating taxation before The French are building you the new Lawimming a long way from Gibraltar and making adequate allowance The France; the Dutch, the

hotel pro- my friend the Right Now let's nip smart- prietor sold: "Gibraltar is not for the replacement of the Rotterdam-two new super ly over to where the word is a word ever heard around here." ships nt the current cost of, Atlantic liners."

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"But what about adults?" Mrs Fraser asked.

A BIT CHESTY

to

He was an ace heckler. At the lusted longer than an Agatha

of his little coughing There are all kinds of coughs, Christie play in the West End and not all of them merely anti-box ladicated that it wasn't the re- scation he seemed to sit back

as it to.. with a sort of pride and sult of an acute infection. afflee. Their very nature

say: "Listeni

that, My quality can sometimes lead a

Nor did it particularly occur cough's terrible. Have you ever doctor through doubt to diagnosia.

In the mornings as it does in heard such a cough as that?" chronic bronchlils and allied

Such people do not develop the habit consciously. Generally There are other causes for they are a bit "chesty" anyway. the cough also which had to be If they feel their wiver and kept in mind, but I knew that children love them, and are Mr Fraser's chest X-ray showed concerned about their health, bis lungs to be clear.

they generally have reason to forget their caughing.

"Like in whooping cough," conditions. sold Mrs Fraser.

EASY TO SPOT

than

Cetainly whooping cough is most wily recognisable Hero Mr Fraser's cough was more the cough controls the patient. like a habit than anything else. rather

tho the patient

"Can coughing then just be. cough. Yes, when the 'well- defined "whoop" is present it's come a habli?" as obvious as an albino in Zulu- Dand.

Other kinds of cough, though, are just as characteristic. Tako the cough associated with pleurisy.

I told her how many children after they've recovered entirely from whoop occasionally.

whooping cough still

Here's one test to know st their cough is "nervous" or not. Do they go off into this mumba of coughing when there's a good TV play on? Or just when they are bored?

"Maybe Bert is a bit nervous," Mrs Fraser said, "but not half so nervous 03 the theatre "Nothing is physically wrong managers when they see him with that child," I explained. coming."

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