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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY; AUGUST 22, 1958.

"Sorry: Our path to the Summit's boon closed-by a road block, ar, which doesa't exist..."

LINKING

THE OLD

AND THE NEW

A Century Of Telecommunications "EUROPE and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in

the highest, on earth peace, goodwill to all men." Handicapped-by-a-perspiring-operator over the first Atlantic cable on August 16, 1858, that message began an era in telecommunications.

The dimelors of the Alian'ic Telegraph Company in England, who sent It to the colleagues

In Amerien, were jubilan'.

So was the rest of the world.

The skill of enginees and the pray for

By.

BILL RAVENSCROFT

NOW

STIRLING MOSS

says: Yes, I felt like giving it all

up...but I'm not

AT 28 Stirling Moss is probably the most brilliant driver in motor racing today. At 28 he, in aso the husband of a beautiful girl. and facing the ordent of Uving in the immediate shadow of the death of his friend and rival Peter Collins, who was also married, and who was killed in Ger- many recently. For Moss It is a critical moment in his career. How does he feel now?

The other night BASIL CARDEW asked MOS9 these questions to find the thoughts behind his future, decisions:— CARDEW: After the Collina eranh-end Peler was one of your dearest and oldest friend you go on raelig?

ATOSS: Truthfully Basil, l'in dazed at This moment. All the drivers who knew

him so well are feeling the Our Best reaction is that we want to give it up

satte.

train

take

When you lose friend in n crash you don't feel you want to a train again. That's how we feel. Perhaps It's a silly analogy. But, despite it all, 1 shall go on racing.

--this

CARDEW: Why will you go on? MONS: Because it in in iny blood-

motor-racing game, 1 expect all The leading drivers, or successful drivers, if you like, who raced with Peter will do the same.

CARDEW: Is it because motor-racing with He big rewards is now a business with you, as with other star men?

MONS: I would not say that. Peter Calling least of all had no reason to race for gain. He and bas father had a profit- able business. But I admit that we all have to do a Job of work and motor- racing is my living.

Though the fun or the excitement or the glamour of car racing, call it what you will, has been wiped away by Pele s death, motor racing is still part of me. 18 the biggest part of the moment, and I shall go on giving my best to it.

CARDEW: Does your wife Kalle (alar is 23) want you to give it up?

MOSS: I suspect that she does but she loyal girl and wife and she does not say so, She accepts the dangerous sport-and, let's face it, it is part of my life.

It is me.

CARDEW: WH the Collins tragedy knock motor racing for six?

MOSS: I don't know. None of the drivers know. But I am sure that Peter would not have wanted any recriminations to be levelled at the sport for a single in- stant.

that all the drivers And I know feel that way too. We race because we like it, because It is a great sport and not for the rewards or even for the spectators' benefit. We go into it of our own accord. And Peler, a magnificent sportsman, -and-a-wonderful-driver-would-have-been more jealous than any of us to keep its name clean,

*

CARDEW: Do you think these fright- ful accidents, robbing us of young and brillant lives, will ga on?

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MOBS: Again I don't know. But I suppose It Is Inevitable In such on vionsty hazardous sport that tragedies will happen. There are tragedies in all things. And they are very diflcult to get

the biggel

over, For me, Peter's death I have known. We first met more than 10 years ago in hill climbs and we went through the 500ce. racing dice together. And we often shared a car. So you can Imagine how his loss has hit me,

discard the g

CARDEW: So you risks of your calling together with the fact that Kalle your wife obviously would like you to give it up?

ROUND

UP

Clocks Of The Ages

BEING

shown nt

The

Pendulum to Atem Exhibi-

Hon" being held in the Gold- anitha' Hall, London, 'in October, will be the world's most extra- ordinary clock, the Caesium atom elock, which has an accuracy of one second In 300 years. It de carly being placed next to en pendulum clock....a piece ot mplex apparatus not easily! recognised

clock. The exhibition will mark tho centenary of the British Horological Insiliute. Among uther ways of timekeeping to be shown will be that of a quartz crystal clock (forerunner of tho atomic clock), the G.P.O. speak- ing clock, and a chronological re- cord of British achievements in the last timekeeping during century,

Boswell His Ancestor DESCENDANT Boswell's Life of

of

Samuel Johnson" has died, zged 80 at Shefeld. He was Albert John Boswell, head of A. J. Bos- well and Company, steel manu- facturers, whose family line can be traced back to 1054. The first Boswell was treasurer to William the Conqueror's Army, according a private publication, "A Yerkshire Family," written by Lady MacDonald of the Isles. Old Timers

Lo

OL

of Sir Robert Among those bouts will pugilist

LD-TIME boxers are going next into the ring again MORS: Kotle has not asked me to de 30. Remember it is my livlig. Perhaps month at the second annual fete Asso- one day may get the world drivers' of the Uld Time Boxers championship if my luck turns or holds ciation being held in the grounds of Coughton Court, Alcester, good. Then it might be a fair guess that

I will switch to a more sedentary und Warwickshire, Throckmorten. sofer way of life.

CARDEW: Finally, if it were not forgiving exhibition people like you who have the nerve to be former professional risk your neck every ilme you start off in "Artful" Swingler, 72, of Smeth- a big race, would not be a loss to the wick, with his old friend Tom

Tommy designers and manufacturers in learning Smith. Bert Taylor,

Pardee and Teamy Fitzpatrick how to improve a car for the average

are among the others who. TADORENT?

will appear.

Stirling relaxed for the first time with wry smile. Then he said: "Don't give me that boloney, I suppose it is true that driving cars fast la tough. competition does telescope a lot of experience for the designer and car manufacturer. It raid that it gathers national prestige too,

which is right.

"But we race and make no mistake about it--because it is in our blood and because it is part of our life. And 1 for one will go on racing, come what may There is nothing more to I than that.""

What his mother and sister

•

are thinking about it.

APART from his wife, the two women closest to Stirling Moss

out.

their hearts

FOR HIM

"And if he won the world Cotton, the Wakey-Wokey band- hated-being cooped up in an and his life on the fastest racing Championship I do not think, who also was a famous flee and eating elreults of the world are his he would need much per mother, Mrs Alleen Moss, and sunding to retire. Especially Master Pat, also racing after this Peter Collins's driver. Here, talklag to DONALD GOMERY, they give death.

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driver.

"But speeds were not se great then," said Mrs Mox. In furt Mr Moss gave up racing driving just before he married Suriing's

Wils he mother. But it not by

Alleen Moss's persuasion.

MOSS put her

"I wish, though, he would personally feelings very simply give it up, even if I meant giv- Cable deparure of two regiments due guaranteed a quare of a mil- in this sentence: "I wish ing up the world champlonship

and Wireless Ltd, the melon to embork for Britain,

£9

Interest

Bi-west

circuits laid in

lion Pounds for Lonel templ.

Stirling would give it up," and he has set his heart on

in the project ma It was successful. After nine she said. "I wish he would that" 1 1452 and

ure was of

endeavour. the for fartie link was intact. than 1250,000 was raised another si era to tink Britain and Am ries by esble,

The

thai lament pas WORSENT

28,008 eable in the world. The

five-funnelled paddle steamer Cat Endern was char øred to carry the great bulk of the new cable.

strees ons of the oriitinal cable company, plan to lay a single telephone cable between 12in x Canada capable carrying 60 two-way circuits.

It will cost £7 million, com-

with the pared double tres-Atlantic carrying 37 1056:

The task of laying more than 2,000 miles of cable between Valentin Island, County Kerry, and Trinity Bay, Newfound land. in 1056, was shoted be- bween H.M.S. Agamemnon and the U.S. frigate Niagara. First at emots were ill-fated In a heavy sea, the brake of Narara's paying-out gear was applied foo fiercely. The cable parted, and 334 miles of I were Just In 2,000 fathoms,

The

A secol attempt in summer of 1858 was wreekeni by Atlantic gales. The cable broke and was repaired twice, and each time the ships had to begin the work again. When 200 miles were lald, the cuble ported ΤΟΠΙ Qie Stern of Agamemnon, and both vessels had to return to Iland.

But a month later. They pat to sen and. In spite of the hazaris. comple'ed the task on Augut 5.

One week later, Queen Vic- forla sent a preelings, mesage over the cable to the Tailed State:

Prest:ient, James" Buchanan.

For his bellant planning, Mr Charla Bright, the company's chief engineer, was keighted. He was only 20-the youngest man to receive that honour for Crnerations.

over-

A great banquet was gylan Si Charles in Dublin. In New York, they celcurated more hilariously. The Town Hall was set on fire by exuberant merrymakers in thigh precebalon.

The Orsa public targnitio across the told the world of the ecllision between two liners. The

nies age

ocean

Atlant's Cunard news reached Erland within hours of the mishop.

But insunione faults made transmeton Intermittent and reception was unreliabla.

Cable and

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WORRIES

"Would I have asked my bus band to give up racing?" saki Mrs Moas. "I don't know. A man terribly must do what he feels best,

have "Of course I worry. I always worried when Stirling or Pat are driving.

"But even

course I am old. proud of him...

"It is in the

blood, a thing Musy

Cheating Monkeys THREE - THOUSAND motor I cycle spokes are being word

in

the construction of u new Bonkey house af Belle Vac Zoo, Manchester. They will replace wire netting normally used. Mr William Wilson, Zoological Superintendent, says that various new methods of caging monkeys had been under experiment, In- cluding a Swedish idea of using plano wires, but use of motor cycle spokes originated from Sir Leslie Joseph, managing director. As a result, monkeys will be un- able to ratlle them because of the tension and will havu difficulty in climbing them they are too thin to grip. Pink Gulls

ав

THE mystery of pink sea gulls scen on the Island of Stornoway, West Coast of Scot- Innd, has been solved. They be- longed to a number which were dyed pink for the new m "Rockets Gofore" when it was being shat on the Island of Barra. The Alm

adapted frem the book written by, Compton Mackenzie,

Was

I asked Pai Mose too whether Defied Romans she thinks her brother Stirling should give up driving. for him alone to sald. "He is a man. Ho his own mind."

And 23-year-old Pat herself, whal of her?

Moss

1

"It is TORT believed to have been decide," she

used during the invasion of knowsBritain by the Romans, above Tunbridge High Rocks, near Wells, Kent, is to be investigated by a team of 20 archaeologists, The site was discovered last year by Mr J. H. Money, a London civil servant, who was spending his holidays in the district. This showing the Er year

13 archacologists where to dig. A preliminary Investigation last year led him to conclude that the fort wha first constructed towards the end of the first

She goes in for rally driving, which she admits herself is as dangerous as car racing.

"No. I'll not give up.." she said, "One has to do what feels one must do."

Agive it up now."

She is 58 Wireless Today,

years handle nearly one billion words White shirt, striped tie, drill eneh youe, bearing out the com- trousers. Pleasant of face. meat of The Times which sald 100 years ago: Since the dis- A face made to smile and like racing ears. In the

does not have to family one nothing laugh. But now clouded. covery of Columbus,

Been done in any degree "We all wanted him 10 the urge stems. Stirting Moss's would rather have my son and go on." comparable to the vasi enlarge- win the world championship father was a racing driver too. daughter doing what they want ment which has thus been

then retire," - and

she He used to race nt Brooklands, to do, dangerous though It is, given to the sphere of human

they &ne thing und one of his rivals was Billy than doing said. storma, Belvity."

The Great Easern': f tempt was abandoned when the rable, battered by

has

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think now I

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"I feel I must drive. 1

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