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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1960.

MARINE STORES

CLEW

"I want a tall, handsome häarine!"

"If Lefly don't stop bleeding soon, we'll have to rob a blood bank,"

"Well, I really must ring off now.”

ANY TIME NOW THE BIG ROW

WILL BE

BREAKING AGAIN

Piccadilly: leave

as it is-

it as

vital and vulgar!

BY FRANK. HOAR

THE wrangle Piccadilly

future of has died

of

an

tho over Circus-which down pending the preparation advisory scheme by our foremost town planner is about to start again.

It is brash, vulgar and exuberantly alive, and it oc- cupies a place in the life of London that could never be adequately replaced.

Encouraged by the LCC or that

his original design the foreds of planning have now against him veered completely

None can deny that the appal- ling trafic situation there could be greatly improved, pedestrian, conditions 'could be made tar juter, more convenient or more Attractive.

The lease for the London Pavilion expires in a few years and the site will be thrown into a new open space which will be extended considerably

the

"Better face up to it. Mr Frisby, your parents don't infend fetching you!”

KROS.

Frank th

Plonnors' dream, citizen's nightmare: how Piccadilly could look.

the

and he is faced by a threat of life that it is to millions of always a mailer for the indi

viditel and is always open lo compulsory purchase should he Londoners and Englishmen.

salvage the remains.

question, whether the orbiters of attempt to

They can never, by the cold taste ure the minions of his venture.

and bloodless application of town Ministry Housing and - Local On the face of it, his case planning sets and precepts, Government or the prosperous deserves a certain sympathy, hope to recapture, once lost, the and potent gentlemen who but this is no argument for or spontaneous Halety and the comprise the Royal Fine Art against this particular and indi- natural, pulsating vitality of Commission.

this bawdy and Brillant archi- tectural bauble,

Threats and counter threats have flown between the owner As the amusement centre of south and cast. A great central of the Monico site and the LCC, London and, indeed, of the roundabout and widened car and renewed combat is likely in Commonwealth, it occupies ariageways will case the traffic the near future.

position that is, to say the least pressure and quieken its flow

Ou vidual problem. All this is urgently necessary of it, unique, and to which no

vital, other centre

and every of entertainment and, indeed,

effort should be made to expe- van adequately compare,

dite the new layout of the Circus and the surrounding roads.

scen

One of the leading architects in Britain has

fit to defend

Monico Mr Colton's schemo above the shrill yelping of the critics and the geep baying of the Royal Fine Art Commis- sion--but in the quiet between the storms it may well be asked: should the appearance of Piccs- dilly Circus as an architectural entity be planned at all?

There are many good and serious reasons why it should not,

BOEING 707

Jer

INTERCONTINENTAL

As from

Up

The lights

It is almost exclusively made

of theatres, cinemas restaurants and places of entertainment that are almost completely covered by scint lating spangle of neon lights and advertisements.

there will

January be

new

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A threat

Meanwhile, Mr Jacic Cotton complains of heavy losses due to the sterilisation of the Monico site.

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Clear case

The fact remains that, should the planners have their way, and if every building and advertisement is mado to con- and form to a preconceived rigid design, the only possible One may as well Imagine Eng- satisfaction will be shared by lish art without its Hogartha Its Rowlandsons, Shake- speare without Fristaff or Lan- don self without the Cockneys. Opinion on what is good or I had in design what

a low officials whose interest and In the appearance of the Cir- cus is purely academic.

It is not, for them, the five d gloring centre of London

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Morcover, once the buldings are covered with the inevitable advertisements it may be dim- cult to decide whether the architecture is early Christian, or late Corbusier,

Subject to the necessary bulld- Ing laws and the structural controls of the London Building Acts with limitations on the height and bulk of the buildings hery is a clear case where the future appearance of Piccadilly Circus should and could be left to the architects and designers of each individual site.

And apart from the dietales of decency and clean food the entertainers and restaurateurs can be relied upon to provide what they know the publie will enjoy and pay for.

-London Express Service).

U.S. PLANS A PILOTLESS GERM-WAR PLANE

|By PETER WOON

A

MERICA is working on a

pilotless plano for uso in gorm and chemical war- fare. The plane, a new version of the Army's SD-2, is being developed to carry 233 lb. of gorm agents over ranges of up to 115 miles.

The plane will have doorS In the bottom of the fuselage "to enable it to perform chemi- | cul or biological agent dissverslas – tion missions for the U.S. Armo Chemical Corpo," says the latest edition on “Janes Aircraft.”*

The manufacturer. Aerojet- General of California, have already rouched an agreement with the Bristol Aeroplane Cam- pany for joint development of products. Tils

Is the first indication that laboratory, experiments with

warfare have barn extended to the development of vehicles to carry gain.

The SD-3 is powered by # single conventional ongins

and

for

was originally designed resonnalasance. Ils fra version-

is raady for satylde,