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ARMY DOES ALL IT CAN TO HELP

THE Army is paring no effort in getting officers and men re-

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setled in civilian Ite. The new careers chosen cover amazingly wide field. There in the ease, for example, of the officer, shortly leaving the Army because of redundancy under the new defence polley, who has bought a small general nhap and sub-post office in the Backinghamshire village of Lavendon. To prepare him for his new life the Army Brat sent him on a fortnight's coure to a Birmingham chocolate toctory to learn the know-how of selling sweets and chocolates-with a special eye for the child- ren. His ex! "course" was to serve for two weeks behind the counter of a Cheater grocer's shop. And all this while he was still arving offleur, - A

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1958.

The last of

+

the Hell-Raisers

hits it rich.

SCOTLAND HONOURS HER WAR DEAD Ia jumping bean cailed Toto and an actrras called Juliette Greco. Just out of

Time in the counts Mational War Memorial. Elinburgh Castle, on July 15. The service will be conducted by the Principal Presbyterian Chaplain to the Royal Air Force, the Hey, Mudo Jones, and the address will be given by The Res. Canon A. Giles, Chaplalu-in-Chief, R.A.F. Delachments wil be samt by the Navy, Army, and Air Force, the British Legion Scotland, and the Merchant Navy, whose representatives will lay wrendis. At the conclusion of the servire there will be a march-post hed by the pupers and drummers of the 1st Battalion the Black Watch, whore ilitary band will also be in attendance.

Kahual coinmemoration service to honour Scotland's dead in

MINING COAL BY WATER POWER

COMPLETELY new system of gething coal is to be tried out Amor instalado of Uydrantic minint u Trews Drift mine avar Pohank, Glamorgan, says the National Col Foard. In Uas proves the rond is extracted by the power of Dowerful high velenty weer jet directed at the sean from a hier andled a mentor, which can deal with high water pressures, When the end has been broken down, the water jet is used appera to or the Boor of working place and to drive the coal along to the point of collection. Only four men are needed to work earn monitor one to control the monitor and the others to attend to the pipes and dx saapports,

BRITAIN'S 5,000 MINE SPOTTERS

TOTAL strength of the Royal Naval Minewatching Service his

vestre to inay Man 5,000 men and women--the highest munn- Ferry the Servier was formed in 1932, London alone has more th: 350 members, In any future emergency it would be their job for that, on hippitig surviver an aerial mine attack. Over 1, and women volunteers in the four Naval Commstels - No, Patrmearth, Plymouth and Scotland-are now taking part ater-attard Innewatching competition, Finals take place n Seutinand on October 4th. The Nore Command contest, which took place at Chatham, was wiqi by Hastings-one of the satiest in the South-East. Three women were In their town of 12. Hove were sonner2m (183,

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FISHING PORT PLAN FOR PORTSMOUTH

p 》LANS for making Portmouth one of the principal fishing

contres op die South Cet are to be discussed by the Cor- poration Docks and Development Comunfitees. One suggestion is that part of Portsmouth Dockyard the converted. Trawlers from Partstrirald operate for start in B Chamel and the suth-west approaches. Portsmouth has good read and all con- Camden, and exelem prospects of recruiting nections with forner Royal Navy men to the nahing industry.

THE SUSSEX "LOBSTER CRAWL" BEGINS

THE "Crawing Season" has begun along the South Coast and,

from now until the end of September, from Selsey Bil 16 Dungeneos, it will be every lobeter for himself with the holiday- tushs 12 loking for hem. 11 is the season in which lobsters crawl about the warth peeds and inely ten-beds. Sussex fishermen cal it "Crawl-time." Mr H M, Boniface, chief isbery ofleer for Sirisen, says; It is expected that the fobster fishery season will improve after the thing work in tape when the shell #sh crawl away from their remote meky haunts.

HELPING THE OLD SOLDIER

NCE the Trustees of Luton, Redfordshire, War Memorial Fund

Shind it hard w 1,000 to give away to ioral ex-Serviereen and wozoru neserty 200 applications for grants have beveived. The chairman of the trustees investigating committens says trot, cait of 46 enses considered, assistance has her green to 27. Clothing footwear or coal was provided in most Other instineas of help include The renewal of railo Brences for two old age pensioners, the redemption of a mult from pawn, se a contribution towards funeral expenses,

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Paris. film studio Errol Flynn was playing his big scene opposite

camera range, two anxious men, producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Huston, stood chewing at their cigars.

After the 19th unsuccessful take Flynn called for a glass of brandy and said to me: "There was a time I'd have told them to go to hell. I'd have told them it was 7.30 and I was going home. But now it's different. Now I work."

Zanuck and Huston had more than the usual anxieties of film production to contend with. With another three weeks' work to be done on their film, Roots of Heaven, they are nervously watching the clock and the headlines,

Zanuck said: "1 um In had too much. His fulure was constant touch with the State a long way behind him. Department, who are advising But Flynn, like one of those me on the political situation. If improbable characters he used worse they will tell to play, has survived against all things get us when we ought to get out, odds und in today enjoying a be new spell of success as an actor, It's a race against time. Heve de Goulle is going to come tower in France and duct It wi happen withat think bloodshed.

anyone Els starts revolu tion before we've Anished our ple- ture we're in *trouble. I guess

we'd

have to

move everything over to England,

For fims Bike The Sun Also Rises and Too Much Too Soon he has had the best nollees in hl 20 years us a movie star.

studied my part; usually there

script to study, anyway.

were only about three pages of

Flynn and

Greco : with

Huston and

Zanuck

biting their

"I always felt like an im- cigars in

pester, that I didn't deserve oil the

fame and acclaim and the money I gul. People liked to

think about me es playboy background

actor.

And I didn't disillusion

them. I let them think that.

"But IL Wi

Thomas Wiseman.

but we'll hang on until the last minute."

On the set, Flynn was playing his scene for the twentieth time. This time it was perfect. After wards in his dressing-comm he was able to relax and unwind; and the last of the Hollywood hell-r.users. the untranquillised star, began to talk about him- self, about his remarkable life which he describes as "an open newspaper,"

Moreover,

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mostly bravado;

80 per cent of

the Errol Flynn

the public knows headlines throughout the world pure that in addition to everything

about front.

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Is

"It may come else he does, he also thinks. "It's the skeleton In my cupboard," Q horrible

he said. Binds himself surprise to you, but I'm a pretty erudite fellow: I read. I've read

"I've lived hard" he cald. most of the philosophers, though

"At the moment I must admit I never got all the

I've never way through Karl Marx'd like to meet the man who did."

DRVE mʊc in the agreeable situation of being a millionaire, "Some investments had in Jamaica suddenly paid off," he told me, and I estimate I've But

property there worth £1,000,000.

"1 have no money problemis are at all now. All my deuts paid off."

For Die fest time in his career

acter.

Flynn is when seriously as an After 20 years of riatete live

His next part is in the ing. of having made fortunes, 1m of The Boy Friend. lost them and made them again,

always thought I could Flyan is once more able to supset," he said, "but port himself in the manner be modesty prevented

my innate frum me has been accustomed to.

telling anyone.

41 have been Hving very modestly in Paris," he said, "on 2,000 bucks a week. How du i sprind it? All you need to do is have to ask and you wouldn't

to kraw

The last time I met him, in Hollywood two years ago, իս was broke; he hadn't enough money to buy a car; he was considered a has-been who had

"I

Nights

Women

felt so good in my life. Accord Ing to the way I've lived I should be a decrepit, broken old man. I'm 48 and I've never felt better! I've never had more zest; I've never been more interested

in women,

Love

in

I mentioned that he had been nobody would married three times.

Difference."

notice

the

"Do I not know It," he said, JULIETTE GRECO, the OK.

singer "and I'm not going to answer · Existentialist

turned your next question.” So I didn't sofreas, on the subject of why ask it.

marriages break up: "Man! men like to talk and talk anl talk and most to listen. wives don't like

"My attitude to women," sald Flynn, "has been that there is always another one, and there is always another man for the one you've left. It seems to me an eminently renganable point of view.

"Too many people are afraid of being themselves.

That is what bus- bandh term mental cruelty."

His choice

ZANUCK has been telling me They're why his plans to make a film just plain scared. That's the about the life of Stalin have trouble with Hollywood today. lind to be abandoned. I'd like to see a return to

the

told

Anyone who has talked to Flynn for a reasonable length of

"I think people need to get tune would not be all that sur- prised by his claims he has a back to the basic, primitive ways searching, lively and often acute of living to the business af inlud, lle is lived heetestly, being a man and a woman but has also take time off for the world, and to stop worry old days, resurgence of hell- "Cinema owners have thought. His friends men like Ernest Hemingway.

lng about 16. Include

raising. Hollywood used to make me," he said, "that it would be the world laugh; the world had impossible to show the film. 'Don't get this wrong," said

quite a few giggles on me. If I That the Communist parties all Flynn. First we always talked

hadn't amused the pubille with over the world would smash up about women. Quite a few of

some of my pranks, I wouldn't the cinemas where the film was those long-haired bays are in

"I'm feeling so good now, it be eating today. terested in that subject, too. I felt any better I'd be sick. I When

we had disposed

"Now people seem of don't want to look into it and women, on whom I was con- osk why that might ruin it. I drawn into themselves: that's m."

something skiered

of

an have just got to keep out of the not living-that's just putting authority, I was л

to way of the paychiatristo.

off dying. The way I live I'm They

Considering the change in the listen-in on the higher con- may tell me it's all wrong that ever bored. I may bore others, party line in Moscow. I sald,

but I refuse to bore myself." the Communists would surely ***

fear runs rough Flynn's life-

Only one strange and macabre Stalin. the fear of going insane.

"They used to say, 'Oh, Flynn! Just give him a sword and horse and let the so-and-so do Pomething.'

"Sometimes I'd turn up at the studios in the morning after u very heavy night without having

versations,"

allowed

I'm feeling so good."

Today Flyna feels able to reveal this fast secret of his pri- I asked Flynn whether he had vate life the only one that has ever been in love, and he said: not been blazoned in black "Yen, twice in my life."

THIS NEW THREAT THEY

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TORE than £150 million of the taxpayers' money is to be buried in a series of cylindrical vaults dug at carefully selected rites 011 Britain's East Const.

the

Like the U.S. gold reserves buried In Fort Knox. British capital is to be boltened down in the fervent hope that It wil never have to be used.

But instead of being t Kold bars, the British Investment in scurity will be in the form of |long-tapered steel tubes, one to

eneb vault.

The tubes will be ballistic TOCKE'S cach carrying H-bomb. The vaults will be dung-proof, underground scab- bards for the missiles which will bc the nation's main strategic defence against Com- munisin for the foreseeable Lulure.

Defence Minister Duncan Sandys may sincerely pin his trust in eventual disarmament, but meantime he intends to keep his rockets dry.

ULTIMATE

The precise form of the Drilish Investment in ballistic buillon is

BY

HIDE IN A VAULT

MINUTEMAN

AT THE READY-

IN ITS FIRING PIT.

together will take the explosive pay-load" 1,500 miles, All three sections,

Д making missile. 57ft. long. will carry it more than 5,000 miles.

The outstanding

advantage over existing

now being discussed by defence of Minuteman experts Sir Frederick Brundrett missles like Thor and Atlas is and Sir William Penney, who that it will be powered by a are in Washington.

cate, solid-fuel instead of by corrosive and highly explosivo

Their interest is being sharply liquids.

focussed there on an entirely

new U.S. rocket project which

Minuteman

is called "Minuleman" because disabuse the

Is designed

to

Russians of any

It can be fired within a minute. Temaining bellef that they could

knock out the Western Allica

Minuteman, on which the before they could retaliate,

Americana tra to spend more

than £1,000 million, seems to

be the ultimate in destructivo

ingenuity and simplicity.

THE CHOICE

It consists of three steel It can be fully fuelled and sections which cau be fitted kept in its underground cab- together Oshing-rod fashion, the burd indefaltely. There will top one being tipped with an be no need for any lengthy H-bomb powerful enough to filling up after the warning is destroy any city.

received that a Russian' missile is on the way,

The top section can be fired on its own to take

the bomb The emergence of Minuteman

any distance up to 1,000 has presented the Brush do miles.

Sections

1

and 3 fence chiefs with a difficult

vanced,

IL

CHAPMAN PINCHER

A big Investment in ballistic rockels will pay

dividend

only if they are never used for there is le hope that Britain could survive any

hove

an

playing. They are not prepared to take the risk of having their, to be so cinemas ruined just to show my

"I've always had it and I can't understand why since Chere seems to be no prospeel of it happening,"

Then he dismissed this fear in typical style.

welcome A film expose of

"That's truc," said Zanuck, "but the trouble is you can't expose Stalin without also ex- posing his former henchmen, who are now the powers in Moscow.

"I had a choice between doing a whitewashed version of his Hfe and not making the film. I Anyway," he said, "it's prob- decided not to make the m obly very silly of me to worry For the time being, anyway." about going insane. I'm told

(London Express Service),

'Dr.

NO

Ian Fleming's Savage And

-Scorching New Thriller-

Independent AFTER "Diamonds Are Forever."

angry exchange of nuclear hardware.

chalce, Work

But with Russia strengthen- on Д British liquid-fuel missile

called ing her scientific sinews the Bluestreak is already far ad. Government believes that it

Completing

will must mean producing էի obsolele supply of rockels at the ready. weapon. But Minuteman may rot be ready for copying by eventually chosen, those mon- whalever model Is Britain before 1005.

strous manholes will be dug Only four months ago the de- and loaded. fence chiefs were in no doubt Atomie pruce is sill cheaper

కవి

that they should manufacture than old-fashioned war-but Bluestreak with all hasto.

not much.

After "From

Russia With Love."

Now.. "Dr, NO." Ian Fleming the muster thriller-writer who has sonred to best-seller heights in five years now sets his famous secret agent, James Bond, roaring into action again.

Fleming's newest, rawest, nerve jangler is the swiftest -- Read it FIRST in the China Mail, beginning on Saturday,

thing he has ever done.

JAK GIVES A GOLF LESSON

“How swing the hips, relax a little, band your elbows--NOW TRY USING THE OTHER END I"!

London Express Service