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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1958.

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REPORTING AROUND LONDON ONCE AGAIN

RLAY

I've a reputation

for not liking too many

people too much,

BUT..

I

WANT to make a small effort on behalf of improved inter national relations (why shouldn't I try anyway?)

I want to be known that Horst Buchholz, who is here to film "Tiger Bay," is as intelligent, as bright, as likable a young actor as I've met in many a long day.

one

I hase my opinion of him on He happens to be German. meeting. I could be wrong. I've been wrong on first impressions about British and American actors.

first

If

Buchholz tends to be a bit argumentative and dogmatic (“Let me

But then he's only 24. tell you what I think about Dulles"). difficult to cope with success at that age.

lop herently he breume the He's a top stor earning hey-after only 12 Alms. Per PR.O. Tay call him the Dirk Bogarde He may have been preceded but he's of Germany "I wish they'r by some mirar peers,

velainly The fest earl Jut cul for Buchholz”).

to become ፡፡ professional public which is the relations afferr. Upper Chamber word for pab icity man.

I also want it to be known that he is the Arst German 1 have met who wims he was anember of the Hitler muise- He wore o unitarm and 21214

utted about like a soldier. He handre't much chee He was

are oll (1925

wint { lo Pusally

tr- known that I served in the last W... And say father did in Up

varsish

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Ha Tu ready for the fente, schovnulsite. pati German

Wetters

The first

'Peer-R-O'

cun

these carls

1 must take some of blame for creditor earl's new job.

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of the As carls go he is one tenst snobbish and pompous. He wanted to learn the hard way. He did. He even ran crrands though he never, I believe, made the office ten.

allermon

he bumped Into Lady Docker, when he was carrying an annful of women's dresses and hat boxes back to i the fashion house client.

the

A few months ago he asked

"Cut you help indi

jud” I'm unemployed."

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He had just sold his Statuly home une larming estates

Norfolk and he could have lived 14. the

£250,0001, but he wanted to do Comething.

Said Lady Docker: "Ah you. A range of underwear, parli~; have a new girl friend, Johnny." cularly briefs, for men. Without (The earl, who likes to be called ermine trimming. Johnny by peers and com-

moners, is now, I should point AN ODD TROPHY

out, separated from his third wife.)

He replied: "No, I'm Ing."

Lindy Docker was And disappointed.

I had to ask

Joha Loder a charity work when I met him at

bail abouri hla odd-looking puzzled, elgarette-bolder.

Now, with his apprenticeship finished, the earl is (carning his own company and he hus opened his own offices. In May- Lair, of course; Ile has one ex- pert and experienced Indy assistant (untilled).

He said "It's a gold-mounted thigh-bone of a hare. Mude from the thigh-bone of a hare, you understand?"

1

I didn't.

Lo went on: "Lord Scarsdale had one when "We were out shooling together. admired it. He said he would get one for me, and he did."

The are was shot that day.

He has bought a new house. Also in MayInır, of course. By Lord Saarsdale. Opponite that socially-pomizent The holder. I should add, is house in South Audley Street not meant to help you stop where Alm agent Johnny smoking.

Shepridge has entertained

Princess Margaret and Frankie SAD TO REMEMBER

Sinatra.

half-furnished

Sharply, Poignant

In the large, lounge prospects.

I'm not going to specialise LE publicity for socialites or anything like that. Ten willing to try anything."

he talked about le 14 Late-night restaurant

Piccadilly.

I told him to expect a proces- son of Hollywood stars who would love to be publicised by

a prer.

Even a down-to-earth demo- cratic peer who will also te publicising the following two

ems:-

• A hair restorer. (The earl himself at 34 is greying but not going bald.)

ROUND-UP

Deeds Carly NEW TYPE CHART

just

Something Interesting. Something that's not routine all desk work."

After I reported the facts in offered he was column

to

tio

This

What In our cockeyed, elam-conscious We fure Slate? We give them Terpect but no real power and leave them to benches of the House of Lords

#nooze on

everything from agriculture ari deuling.

He decided to the

try publicity and he joined a well-known

The Earl of Kimberley has Mayfair in to learn somethi Gund a new pusscer,

DELICIOUS

ebout the business.

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DEXTROSOL • KINGSFORD'S CORNSTARCH

ARGO LAUNDRY STARCH

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SEAMEN in the North Atlantic can now steer courres according

to the weather with the help of a new klad of chart produced by the Marine Division of the Meteorologica) Office. The now charts one for each month-————-show winds, ocean currents, Ice simits, air and sea temperatures, frequencies of gales and hurri- canes, and main shipping tracks. They have been complied from a study of North Atlantic weather conditions going back many years. Į DUSTMAN'S DREAM

ASTHAMPSTEAD Rural Council, Berkshire, has just bought the latest thing in dustearts. Styled a "double-tipping refuse collection vehicle" this dustmun's dream can carry 25 cuble yards of compressed rubbish at one go. It costs £3,000. The council now has a ficct of six dustearts with one in reserve, and the public health inspector says that the way the area is expanding the coun- ell will have to buy a new one every 18 months.

SURGEON AT ARMS

A

Ike's grin Annexed

All calls to be censored

by Democratic

Party

SHOOT

for

NEW

ones

Democratic

Keys with Democratic Party

MOMENT

131

Bint

Democratic

only

Support

courtesy

About 1.30 am, a Laxi drew

attractive up with on

young! lady. She was wearing dark glasses, She was alone.

The doermen Bald: "I'm straid you won't see much the show now."

The lady said (in an Ameri- can pocent):-

"It's all right. I just want to listen to the band. I couldn't

the 500

I'm show anyway. blind.”

She was taken to a table neat the band.

EDWARD

Cummings

"At least, I'm still in the President's chair!"*

WESTROPP

From NEW YORK, to TORONTO, to CALGARY and up to the FROZEN NORTH Edward Westropp moves through a thriving, bustling land on a journey that matters to everyone interested in MONEY,

This is where Canada keeps her treasure

BRITISH Army doctor who established his hospital in a Na- man's Land between the lines at Arnhem, and came under control of first one side and then the other, has told his story in his book "Surgeon at Arms." Daniel Paul, a surgeon in the First Airborne Division, was paruchuted lato Arnhem and took over a Dutch hospital. This was captured by the Germans and Paul was placed under the jurisdiction. While the baille raged round the Lospital he worked for ten days trying to keep pace with the cusoni - tles. Paul also organised an escape route to get the lightly wound- ed back to the Allied fines. He was taken to an S.S, hospital where The doctors told him they did not bother to save the badly wounded men ze they would be of no further use to the war effort. Paul was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp But managed to escape. "Surgeon in Canada's sub-Arctic. at Arms" is published by William Heinemann (15/-).

"But

Friell

MINISTRY

thought O.H.M.S. meant

Macmillan's Service

OTNEIRAKS LAND

SLIDE

"

On Harold

"It's a pity, the was dead keen on that rocket to tho moon now that there doesn't seem to be anything on on earth he can do."

"Why you challenge Signor Montgomery to a dus!? You know he always makes sure he has a massive superiority in cimument before he attacks!"

HAY RIVER.

THIS THIS is the first city column ever written from the saloon of an hotel on the shores of the Great Slave Lake

On the other side of the table as I scribble in my notebook sits a very

old and very drunk Indian, who has mistakenly turned his glass upside down

and is trying to pour beer lato

LL

When ងឋ the boer has cascaded

W ayed brave oska In muffled tones: "You come here catchm fish?"

The 1.oor the

"No, I come here atory," I replied.

Further

GAS-that is the new

way to big money

in Canada

"I come here catchum story."

catchum that the Canadian Government your home. and Loeds the If the exploration is successful is thinking of building a single furnaces of great factories Belley Sciburn geta fis. cut. Une track at a cost of £25,000,-

And it it falls the company The figures are quite fabulous, loses nothing. conversation in 000 from the nearest rollbead fortunately defcated by the 500 miles away to enable the ore It is reckened that exploited resources of gae in Alberta entry of prospectors, Mounties to be taken to the smelters.

It is a typical growth concerti. amount Lo 30 trillion cuble Last year Balley-Selburn'a cow Lumbermen, squawo, and ali

feet enough gos. in fact,

to sales amounted to only £10,000. provide 4 highly explosive This year

to they are up £70,000, and by 1059 they are expected to top the £300,000

the other colourful (canlilar

characters

to che and all who have seen filmas depicting life on the wild frontier.

Outside the hotel the settle ment of Hay River is getting ready for the winter.

Already there is a

The makings

And everywhere the oil cm= panies like Shell and tmperial are busy with their drilling rigs, boring down into the perma-

atmosphere 30,000t, deep over the whole of the Greater London

ROCO.

mark.

And that is only a beginning.

Where does the British inviator came in? Quite simply. In addition, this concero has oil

frost the earth underneath the

If he choosen with care and reserves estimated at 30,000,000 overlay of summer mud which trood of milleniums of cruel winters have backs the right companies he barrels. A very sound bet. I snow on the ground. Soon the frozen solid to a depth of p will make money and share in chould say, et 29 53, a share. long Arctic night will

close thousand feet. down with temperature so low that when there is only degrees of frost it is generally considered to be a spring-live

day.

30

The

the

This place in a tiny centre in

for

avery

Alberta's greatest period of prosperity, which I am certain Northwest Territories will start within the next two

outermost borders of years, development, but further back In the heart of Alberta the

a bleak wilderness a wilderness are already there. at larch forcat siyetching hundreds of miles in direction, inhabited for the most part by moose and bears and a Tow trappers.

Unsurpassed

Here are my recommendations, FIRST I would buy Alberta makings of a great share boom Gas Trunk Lines, a concern formed on the recommendation of the Alberta Government. When I was in Wall Street two weeks ago the brokers

Its job is to construct a net- could talk of Ättle else except work et pipes to gather the gas the fortunes that were going to from the wells and deliver it to be made by bold speculators the provincial borders. who bought the right shares la Alberta's natural gas companies,

Venture out

NEXT I would suggest theso stocks for your notebooks all reasonably priced in relation to future prospects, alt interested In both oil and gas in various proportions, and ull commanding a high Integrity rating..

Home Ol shares at £7 come first. This is a Ble company and a fine company, with 400 producing oll wells and 31 g

Then, in order of precedenco,

Threo hundred miles of the 2.000 miles of lines which will wells. Why then should a London

This is not an oli boom but a ultimately carry 1,000 million Anancial editor travel all this gas boom. Oil In Western cuble feet of gis a day have

drug on #

the already been built.

I suggest Western Decslia way? Because I believe that Canada in this land which

at 123. 3d., Central Del Rio, at aturte in po market at the present tine.

The present share price is 00s., Medallion Petroleum, ut civilized a way In Alberta and

It cannot reaches 1,200 miles north to the United States with crude compete in

the around 1300 and the dividend- 10a. Od., and General Petroleum, Great Slave Lake in the North from Venezuela and the Middle about three years. I think theso

oll paying stage la expected in at 21s. west Territories is one of the East and it is too far fan shares could prove witinera great treasure workl

houses

of th

Hiddon deep under its not is * mineral wealth only parily axplored and exploited, which will one day bring fortunes to tho investors Who boldly venture their money.

those

Montreal and Toronto to bo taken economically thriving industriel centres.

"Free rider'.

But gas is a different proposi- THEN I would pick an oil on. It is the cheapest, moat and gas concern red Bailey convenient form of power on selburn. This businces is what they call in Canada free rider."

earth.

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Their directors are full of life and optimism, and the shares, although speculative, java

plenty of promise.

On

So venture out. Into Canada's Wild West." You may live iti Streatham er Edinburgh logner but, If you have oven a small stake in the prairies, you will get some of the thrill that

At Pine Point, only 20 malies An it pour out of the binck from where I ocs writing Con- · Alberian soil it can be piyed at At this moment @2,000,000 t faced your countrymen when solidated Mining Pine a jou voet to homes and factories being spent on developing its they came out here in a spirit of property on zich in zine and at sny distance.-) It cooks the properties by much glants of the high adventure long ago, to copper that it is belloved to be family joint, heege the ferocious oil business, as Shell, Impariat make their homes and thele unsurpassed, so rich Indood cold of a northern winter out of -Oll, and the Texas Company. fortunes,

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