1958-07-12 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1958.

The smart week-ender now has a new destination where it's an insult to tip a tour driver-unless the State Gulde is looking the other way

I HAVE just returned from a preview of the long week-

end of the future. Not at a country house party in Britain. Nor in a Parisian 'hotel. Nor on a South of France beach.

I mean the really fashionable long week-end-in

Moscow.

When can you put into practice thin new idea of "getting away from it all?" The answer is NOW.

For, by an unexpected exchange of signatures, the inex- plicable Russians have opened the gates of Moscow to Western trippers vin the Belgian

Airline's Brussels airport-

a more 70 minutes' flight

from London,

From- Brussels the long week- erder will have the added thell of a three-hour flight in. Ruesit's flashy Tul04 800-mile-an-hour twin jet airliner-an experience rater even than attendance at the first night of My Fair Lady:

Don't be put off by the tradi ilonal deulty of getting Rusalon visa.

The magle word against "you for, vixit” your application form will

on.

Re:

you your visa in hours instead of the weeks it normally takes a business man or offelal vist- tor,

HOARD THEM

Tity

For the long week-end-Fri- day lo Tuesday—you can for your hotel and meals StL sterling before you leave and so Joard your roubles for

seeing trips,

sight- theatre tickets,, and presents when you arrive.

Here ta my report with do'a and don'ts for the Moscow trippers--

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Customs and passport trots at Moscow airport are far 1053 stringent than Western poris. The smarily un- dormod officials bolt on arrival and departure barely glance at your baggage and papers before smilingly waving you on.

The hotel? Moscow hrs Soveral newly bulit giant hotels closely indeled on the Western pattern, They are spacious. comfortable, and because of the Russian temperament, extreme- ly trusting, for hardly any o the services work without argu- ment.

In

a

by

I

I asked by sign-language for a phone and called up a British friend.

Moscow I find secret hide-out

ARTHUR BRENARD

are an insult in a hob÷capitalist country like Russia.

You will see the driver again on the alightseeing tours, no offer him a tip again when the Intourist guide is not looking and he will accept it with embarrassing

gestures and smiles.

san

for

It i the

your. chambermain, She tou win scorn your up as the Intourist guide is showing you your room.

my

My chambermaid look Ave-rouble tip and then placca with deliberate gestures on my bedside table to the chorus of g, complaining Russian which my guide translated on *Save it for your pour peasants in Britain,"

FABULOUS

phone, large wardrobes, and, a fabulous view of gold-covered domas and the bleak well of the Kremlin Beross the packs and apartment houses of the elly.

Next there was a lefty sitting- dining-table. room with desk,

psy chairs, and on enormous couch.

ONLY WAY

Of this was a reception hall, tables and chairs. Aged with And off this was the most im- probable carly Victorian bath- room with pedestal bath, ante. diluvian toilet, scratchy towels and soap which just refused to produce a letter although the soft Moscow water conjured masses of bubbles tom my British soap in seconds..

But the water was always piping hot.

All the same, she lock the 10 roubles 1 offered her and a In your sling-room will be a packet of English cigarettes plaque with symbols for hall when next she came into my porter, chambermaid, and room

, service,

room.

Don't up your airline bus driver. He will band it back to you with a stream of Russian For British tourists the

bell-pushes which your guide will primly commodation is regal. I had DeRide

symbols can be translate as meaning that tips twin-brd:ted recun with tele- mashed for hours without any

ecoult,

ROUND-UP

FAKE UNIForms waRNING

Ignore it. The cc-

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INVESTIGATING uniforms on behalf of the Society for Army Historical Research Major N.P. Dawnay has found su "alarming number" of uniforms in regimental museums which should not be there. Some are "Deliberate fakes and hopeless misdintings." Others are fancy dress, Major Dawnny, giving a word of advice to curators, says: "Sewing machines were not Invented until 1775 and did not come into general use until the middle of the nineteenth century."

LOG BOOK MAKES HISTORY ·

CAPTAIN John Charles Ablewhite, who Best went to sea in a four-masted burque, has now retired, But he has one log book still to complete the record of every, shly in one of Britain's biggest shipping lines. As nautical Inspector for the Pacife and Orient Line, Captain Ablewhite had to keep a historical and current record of Its ships. He become fascinaled by his research and will spend his retirement at Whilstable bringing the history up to dale.

FLEET COMMODORE RETIRÈS

If you want anything in your coom the only way

Is to memorise the extension number of the intourist service bureau, dii 1, demand in English or |French speaker, and ask them

streak on the bonnet and they ere stopped by a policeman, made to leave the car and watch It being driven off to a pound,

"We don't allow a dirly car to spoil the Inok of our beautiful elly," an official told

*ald

the

A British resident I met fold ne he had recently passed very strict Russian driving test ufler a year of being driven by

Russian chauffeur.

Be still keeps the Russian Just to keep the car clean. This resident at the end of his test was presented with a drive Lg licence which looks like ours but with one difference.

Inside it was a card with 0 over Ristor big "1" printed instructions.

Here you will eat like a Czas

.or a CommISAOT. Dishes of succulent black caviar, butter by the kilo; rare trout with flaky, tasty flesh and delicious Din-long salmon

filet steaks which mell like butter in your mouth; and allcky Russlin pustries and rare cheeres,

And the sports stadium where the Russians play football,

.BY. THE. WAY.

by Beachcomber

SHY woodland violet has Smithfield men *cturned to confessed that sho tus work ucsteruny. A further

been married three or four 3,720, are still out, tance." June Mcnocn once sold, "What is one more or

| everything?“

(Nows of the World.)

Iess? Can a dame remember The Lambeth magistrate, Mr "Tosenbot, looks in the files in custody for a week, on a Geoffroy Roac....remanded. hím |M for marriages.” There is an charge of stealing an English- jold song which mys—

I've got a sizing-door in my

heart;

There'lloon be another

along.

A confusion of ideas

mak.

(Evening Standard:j

A new angle

A matt Arenian was resched from a tree by a cat yesterday,

THE Youth who got himmett The cas arched its back beneath fattooed because he thought the tree, and the fireman was It would make him safe frein able to lower himself and sit astride the cat. He danounted been and walked away.

influenz had evidently reading about vaccination or something. He should inest the charwoman who said: "There's dipdrtherin in the village, but wer | shan't get IN My husband's

tattooed all over the chest- flags of all the antions in lovely colours."

Don't be surprised at any. thing you find in Moscow. The Heads they win, most unexpected can happen and usually does

tails we lose

For instance. Exasperated by WHAT we lose on the swinga what seemed like a strike of

the lift operators in my

we lese on the roundabouts.

hotel, 11 has been announced that it

I decided to walk down the 11 coal-rationing hac floors to the ground.

I WAS LOST

continued

the price of coal would have! gone up by a shilling or so a ton, whereas when a rationing ends next month the price of coal will go up by a shilling or

a ton,

Accidents will happen

(Beachcomber News Service.)

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I lost myself. But at the end Inbyrinth af corridors found an arrow pointing to what was unmistakably. even I the presentation of a com- Russian characters, an Ameri-

ber of bits of opera and can bar.

bollet д Covent Garden 10. ADIMA. (3) 13. Deceived, 17)

buxom Russian

should

12. Childhood aliment, (7) There was no one in I but a becomes a habit, there

12. For some speed logs, 14-31 wownan and I be fun. One trifling erros 17. Boy's mume or girls. 14) managed to

by agree

in stage sign

_management "might| 18. Another animal. 14) “

19. Near the bull. (B) result Ja Lohengrin and his language that I could pay for

21. Doctor of music, (6) and have a bottle of Russian wan bulling_info O excerpt 1 22. Artieris equipment. (8)

23. Imir-do, (3) or the pl-24, Army routmo. (8) champagne in solitary splendour, from "Swan Lake," Drink plenty. It will dull

As I sat on a stool at the bar, grins in Thanhauser" in an the shock when the bill comes asked by sign-language for a angry queue, getting held up by Ib mat leaping about In 'a' telephone, got it and called round.

the acrobat at Brush friend who had lived leopard-skin.

the top of the lumen pyramid Moscow for nearly two years.

taxi and meet (with a billiards cue balanced on "Jump into me in the American bar of the his rose) sald (kan aside) to

the lady who had begun to bawl! Senta's Ballad, "Yeule In the Hotel Peking." I told him, "An American bbr Moscow?" he scoffed. "You Printers Frolics

wrong uct, sister."

And if you are a tourist and want to see Lenin and Stalin their Lomb in the Red Square, Intourist will see that you get to the head of the per- manent, one-and-three-quarter- mile-long queue of pilgrims.

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must be out of your mund!"

Ton minutes Inter he joined

Let the Intouris commissurs me in the bar which he swore] Lake you to see the Moscow ne!ther the British nor Ameri- Each trame violation and the University-it's quite fabulos. can colony knew existed. tusalan traffic" con reaches ime his pocket, produces a hand-w operated ticket punch identical Railways to the ones British ticket collectors use, and makes: a hole in your No. "" Heket.

Three holes and you art an identical Mcket with

" Imprinted on it. There inore holes and Hcket No. "3" comes along.

LIKE A CZAR

cor

At the third hole on this one your licence to drive is taken. away for lite....and your ts confiscated,

Then there Is the Bolshor Theatre, fargor and more ina- pressive than you imagined G the Comedy Theatre, nearly as

abulous and sleazy cinemas major corners,

Feel like some caviar? Ana

to relay your wants to the pro- tired of the food at your hotet?

per hotel department.

Find out at once where you should leave your key when you leave your room in the morning. The first day I was there I tonk my kry with me all day and my complaint that my bed had not been made earned a scolding from the Intourist guide.

me

She said: "You are on the 14h floor but you must leave your key with the chamber woman on the eighth floor. That is the rule. Otherwise your room will not be serviced."

She was not al all put out when I told her my ultra- modern presture shaving, crean had been tampered with and my papers examined and put back Info unusual pockets in my spare suil. And that my camera no

"I do not know that you are talking about,” she said,

A MILLION miles ufler he first went to sea as a 10-year-old.

apprentice Captain. Edward Syvrel, now 23, hus retired as longer had a film in it. commodore of the Port Line--the "Meat and Butter fleet. Since 3837 Captain Syvrel has commanded many of the ships which bring much of New Zealand's lamb, dairy produce and wool to Britain-excepting during the two World Wars when his ships carried war supplies. In 1944 he won the King's Commendation for a fierce action in the Mediterranean while Lanmanding the Port Alma. In 1945 Captain Syvret's ship, the Port Wyndham, was torpedoed in the Channel. But he got her into Deal Roads and she was towed stern first to Southampton.

DARTWORDS START

HERE are 50 words HERE Tin the cirola, on

will lobe

drst one, marked for you, te DISCIPLE, and The trail you follow it correct BABELL the you to word in tia midale. To do this you BH rearrange all the other words such a way shat the relationazio between any word and die one next to it- ja

overned by one of six rulosi

RULEB : (1) The word may be an, anagramm of

the word that precedes

(1 maybe.

that p

of the word

(0)" It may, be found

by widing one letter

the word.

OLIVE

ROP:10

JUNK

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FOLL

KING VISCIPLE

JETTY ITRADE

SHIRK

TEIBA

jetter

to, or subtracting one frons, or changing one letter 10 be sociated with the precedite, word in a anying. sunils, metaphor, or association of ideas.

(5):13 many fork with the pre- coding-word a name of a well-・ known person, place, or shing in tect or fiction,

WEASEL

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(d)' it may be associated with the brew in a titin or in the

of a book, DIBY, OK, ather composition.

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(Satútion on 'Pago-20)

J BELIEVE...

On the ground floor of the hotel the main dining-room was full of young Russians and their girl friends.

I, with my fellow tourists. was put into a private room for

the

reala... "so that we translate

your wants to Wafters," blandly explained Intourist.

The food you will get is inde- scribeblo, But not uneniable ...if you are really hungry.

If you want a drink, plump for Czteroslovakian beer or Kussian vodka or champagne.

All drinks are expensive, but be sure to wave your roubles in front of the walter (early Victorian and very argumenta- tevo) as your sterling payments in Britain do not includo this.

„Forget (any_túeas you may have about exploring the clly by puuracij, I bellove the Intourlit quido now whoni tho sud that It was permitted but that with out a command, of Ruselan was impossible.

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When you see the Moscow motorists flashing by at 60 miles an hour on the road streets don't envy them: “A slight mud-

Assemble your rouble and go but difcult off by taxl-cheap to direct without the Intourist Kulde to one of the two majo Government - sponsored "black market" restaurants.

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