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THE CHINA MAIL · MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1980.

Tourist class stern gallery

Tourist class lower swimming pool

Cinema First class ballroom First class cabins First class library

Crew

Tourist class

Tourist class cabins Tourist class restaurant First class swimming pool First class restaurant First class juniors club

Revealed: Luxurious attractions for the Oriana's passengers.

QAILING down Southampton Water last month went 42,500 tons

London Express Service.

The ship has as many comforts as an hotel ashore. And it anchors alongside søme of the world's most exotic scenery

of

superb naval architecture and unequaled reagoing luxury. She is the by MONTAGUE LACEY Full speed-sideways

Oriana, the largest liner built in Britain for 20 years. From her mainmast flies the house flag of the P. & O. Orient Line-a company which had enough faith in the future of passenger ships to spend HK$224 million on her.

significantly, are Quents

based on the changing improving living standards people throughout

during the last quarter of

And among her passengers, the Suez Canal and back home make her maiden voyage early century.

400 travel through the Pannau Cauni. who will be holding à nonvention on board the maiden vægage.

ego.

next summer.

during The Oriente

This year the two cumpantes began a

Next Pacific service only six years merged.

year their wo A year later the company big liners will be fominaling the seant ships round the world on world's travel routes, the route through both canals. The ships are built from the They soun on to ad

found they were products of nearly every thing, so plans industry in the world, and pro- were mude to build the Oriana. vide a range of hotel services equal to, or even better than, those chore,

A good talking point for their convention is the courage of the MAHOTA Wito have spent a total of HK$480 million on the Oriana and her sister ship The Com-* berra when

th they know more people are, crossing the Aflentle by ade these days,

But P. &O.-Orient have spent the money-and they gol- no Giovémoment subsidy on the theory that while airliners pro- vide speed, ships such as The Orlana provide comfort, leisure, und pleasure,

She

THE CREW

Meanwhile the Orient Line's parent company, the P. & O., decided to join in the Pacife service. They, too, had started on a super liner the Pocille ports, going out through 15.000-ton Canberra, which will

will trude

with the work

OPERATION SEA LION

The Oriana ig the result of many minds. the cave in eo- operation of a legion of crafts. men and women, who between them all have achieved a beauty amounting lo, magic,

Some of the influences which moulded and shaped the design of this ship are interesting and

BY JAK

SOVER (A20

'Y'KNOW, HEINRICH, JUST FOR A MOMENT BACK IN 1941 1

DIDN'T : THINK WE'D MAKE IT.”

Landpa geprani Karpion,

the

and teenagers can have full scope of for their exuberance." It has world indestructible walls and floors, It has a juke-box. And, merci- fully, it is soundproof.

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The 900 crew will have the Another Innovation: -The heat conditions ever provided in Oriana is the first British liner They will live in with round-the-world television. any whip.

than first-class The passengers will be able to greater luxury misgengers did in bygone days. wzich local television pro- They

oven have their

where own grammes in any part swimming pool.

there is a service.

дя A start some 00 sets have been put in the public rooms and the top-price fry-class cabins and suites, Provision has been made to fecrease the number to nearly 400 later.

THE IDEAS

There are also many innova- tions which would horelly marry {1}) old-time

passenger ship common sense today. master but which are sound

Yes, the Oriona is a remark- able ship. Foreign shipowners sill look to Britain for ideas For example: The Rumpus and they take it for granted that Roum is designed, say the we will provide them. All I can thoughtful owners, "so that the add is we do.

ORIANA

Wistar is sucked at my sad of the inpeler de ani bir set of the other side. “Tên pubes the the sideways lovada jde guy. Fere is a sendar and att

London Express Bervice.

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And this is how it's done

THE Oriano, like a crais, can move sidoways—the first THE

big ship lo be able to do so. What is the advantage? It means that it can get away from a berth without The

help of half a dozen tugs.

It mers too that it doesn't have to worry about the cross winds and currents that can be damaging and sometimes dangerous when a big ship berths alongside an expensive dock with assistance.

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Yet another advantage is the time saved. For there ore inevitable delays when instructions have to be passed from the bridge of the ship to operators ashore, or to .tugs.

And how does it work? Rather like a jet plane 'does. But while a jet sucks in air and blows it out thu rear, the Oriann draws water through an opening in one ilde and forces it out the opposite side,

It's all done by remote control too. You just press a button. And away goes the crub.

(London Express Service),

If this man is freed-then

THERE is no nastier

word in the whole vocabulary of politics than expediency.

has.

The British electorate been told that Mr Mucleod, the Colonial Sucretary, has become convinced of the expediency of releasing Jomo Kenyatta, the African Nationalist leader and convicted. head of the Mau Mau terrorist organisation, from the. exile in a remote northern, pro-

as a Tory I can't take any more

vince of Kenya, which was Im- enough, in their proclamation of

posed on him in April 1959.

All that matters, now is 15 Ulming.

Their Intentions towards the European minority.

One of them (I has been fashionable hitherto to describe Are we expected to take this him as a "moderate"), spoke last decision serenely for granted? month of the happy future In

By JOHN CONNELL

Are we to be told, with a glib which "the Europeans will kneel it will retain any responsibility depraved.. corrupt and effeto, mixture, of cynicism and prig- to us,” gishness, that, of course, it is

our curious British custom tu This was not just a bigh-flown put nationalist leaders in prison, piece of metaphor. This is what then in due course release them he wants to happen. It happen- and fete them, let them become ed to Belgium in the Congo in Prime Ministers and Privy July and onwards. Councillors, and that Jóna

But I want to fight this dishonourable polley on the part of the Government, which I helped to put in omes, I must be free.

I resign

and any power, the British This is a direct moral challenge

For years I have sat on one Government will give way to to all of us,

majer National Advisory Com- any and every pressure,

I know well enough that by mittee in the Conservatiye Cen- And what about the new mill- my writing I cannot change the tra Office. Recently,. I › nave tory base, on which for the policy of the Government. In rerigned from it, and I trave time being our propasterous an earlier abuse of our Imperial written to explain the reasonNA strategy is founded (as it once liquidation -- the massacre of for my sellon, to the Chairman Kenyatta merely follows in the It has now happened to UN was founded on Suez; as it once mullions in India, the squalor or of the Party, Mr B. A. Butiár. noble tradition ol Gandhi, offelals in that nightmare of

was founded: on a few Equare the pull-out from Palestine-I Nehru,

My action will probably be Azikiwe, Archbishop city. Leopoldville,

As soon 23 kilometres of Cyprus)? Oh, well, hed, es a political writer, Makarios, and dear, kindly old the Kenya

Union can arrange it, they will it will be expedient for it to be was done by the Socialists,

African National let's just negotiate about when rueful consolation of knowing it like a pebble dropped into n doep President de Valera?

11 happen in abondoned.

try to make Are we expected to go all Nairobi, mug about the generosity of our statesmanship?

Doomed

Thank you very much, no. This is a caper in which, tor one, shall not join. Not for all the expediency in the world. Do we not realise that this action

poel. If it raises the smallest ripple of response- 1' shali bo That consolation does not now asinished, Pack up your kitbag. you exist. I am a Tory, and that to But on the issue of the pros. I am, of course, a dyed-in-the- British soldier, you'll soon be me is not just a theory, It is a perity and lives of my brothers wool reactionary, imperialist, but off to Blighty. And you British way of life, which I cannot and 'friends. I really can

stomach no more 'expediency.

the

oppor-

I am sickened with horror, pelleeman, and you. Brilish elvit change. anger and anguish, at

administrator. And the moment thought of this happening to my you go, those who have neither own friends, my instalk, men your means nor your with whom I was at school, men tunity, those who merely settled with whom I soldiered, to their and made their homes and their wives and to their children, Ilves In Kenya, will be at the

I simply don't wish them to be mercy of those

seals the doom of thousands of bullied, hurt.. humbled, to see them none.

Our

fellow

countryment,

and

clears the road for their enemies their homes and Innd config-

to persecule them to the limit cated wile they flee peanticRA and beyond?

into exilo..

who will sho

Contempt

Bre

people

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in this

Just Fancy That! ___

COMETHING hit the front of a Liverpool. Biznet-Narwich, frain

́as it sped' tiirough Norfolk. At the next stop, Spooner Row, - fireman Jolin Spring, of Brentwood, Essex, found a desa phoxERNÍ on the engine. He had it for dinner. “It was excellent," he said.

MRS ANNIEMARIE PARSONS, Aned £2 ut. Bristol for ignor

ing a traffic policeman's afgiat while running to the shops before closing time, said she could not help it, "f con't satop running once starts she explained. "I'm afraid that if I pult up suddenty i falt, over." She welgha 15, stones.

Their enemies don't let us These things. won't happen? There kid ourselves that Kenyatta, Oh, no, they weren't going to country, whe hold-wickedly un- who "anaged" the vile mix-boppen in the Belgian Congo, just as their view seems to mo ture of sexual perversion, after beration. Anyone who that the settlors have deserved witchcraft and cruelty

they did happen the fate that awaits them, which doubts that

the report of the May Matt was, is anything but should read their bitter and

commission · which vindictive juridical

It is a proposition which investigated the July and reject with contempt, but even enemy.

August atrocities.

If every outrageous allegation Don't let us kid ourselves that

against

hrnour and M-Tom Mboya and the alber It is hardly less pretty a docu- humanity- of every British leading members of the Kenya ment than the confidential settler in Kenya is true, we here African National Union, who report on Mau Mau, which for in Britain will still be commit- have come here to London and reasons which I now begin to ting an evil erimo, it wo, desert | Tücy searched for two hours, then told the potion. * aðdressed Chatham: House arid comprehend, una ever them and betray them.

other respectable institutions published, with 'six and tiprsible #räsen

YOUNG. Michael Warman and his two pala, up in London for (he evening, could not remember where they parked. felé est,

And not long, afterwards' MOXats was "gonzed" to a stop in They are pur. brothers, and | Streatham. Three murpletoun charsoters In 1s wors arrested, ment, are not their premies.. To the African mind, the aur asters and we owe them

"Unfortunatki) the 'suspects` "wero' "un" mála. 19-réat-old decision to relcose Hangalia ean #impla: family: fojati; IC"wo | Michael at his flanderstead, Surrey, ⋅ lome the other night, "Ve The African politicians are sle, only bear one interpretation: in izbory ill or ter 10 shrafito cui found the car as: wolwers willing to Vistoria Blades, and drore, | ready opari. enough, find arrogant the faw triat inunīdas in which of thi ye show pucpërpë lobe 3 straight off."