THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1961.
"And all applications from Privates Jonos. Evans, Thomas and Morgan for transfer to a Panzer Regiment in Wales have boon turned down."
SOLDIER ambled down
main
the
street of Pembroke the other day wearing the neat grey uniform and peaked cap of a German infantry corporal.
It was the first time the locals hud ever seen a
Ger- man uniform panded in their home town. They thought the wearer was a soft-drinks salesman or # lift operator.
Photographs
London Express Bervice
After the news that German
tank crews will train in Wales
An extraordinary experiment in
Panzerland
A strange sight, perhaps, in a hands town where diery Welsh princes was valiantly held these castle walls out against all Invaders.
He smiled and shook with everybody who around, busy housewives shopping, soldiers, children. posed for photographs, chatting in the street with a policeman and British soldiers.
Be The warrant officer was chubby Arnald Hope, of New- enstle-upon-Tyne, a veteran of Dunkirk and North Africa.
A warrant officer of the Royal
Engineers exchanged his black beret for the German's peaked cap with the silver Crossi swords on the badge
In the shaciów of Perstroke Castle they posed nem In arm for a photographer. A German photographer.
WHH
The people who asked him to do it a man and a woman-re- presented a German Alustrated nagazine.
taxi-driver
But what he dida't know atl the 21-year-ol youth wearing the uniform was a Welsh taxi driver. Be They took the was asked in wear it as an along to see the deputy-mayor, Alderman Russell Wood, in his The experiment to study Fraction of Pembroke's 4,000 fee in the main street. inhabitants to the coming invasion" of GOD Germish Inak troops this hutumn,
Alderman Wood said: "My pleture was taken with this mon in uniform. He was not intro-
Space watch from UK
radar post?
A 'GRAPEFRUIT CAN BE TRACKED AT 1,000 MILES
By PETER FAIRLEY
Thule, Greenland.
The cost of modifications
Lo
all three Bmews sites is esti mated at a more une and a half millions.
by
JOHN
CHRISTOPHER
dticed and
I assumed
that he was in fort a Gernian soldier, "1 om very shocked that was deceived in this way.
an insult to the town and 1 will report to the mayor and |bring the malfer up at the next
etmell meeting."
Bomber pilot
Alderman
For this price America can save herself countless millions which would otherwise have to be spent to provide an accurate watch on a mooncraft from network of specially built truck-There ing sisions.
shop In the town.
war.
Almost apologetically he ed: "But I only speak as a
eigner."
Sleepy
Such a discreet sale for Hitler's favourite sculptor
PARIS
Brecker now lives in Dusseldorf and has turned towards abstrae- tion. I have begun again," be told me,
.
THE week's art.sensa- All ready for
tion was the auction
of 34 works by Hitler's the castle favourite sculptor Arno Brecker.
title before the war of the
MRS
A parcel is laid on the pae- ment and the first person to pick it up in a good came is blown out of his wits by on explosiun louder than two`rifle shota,
It is all quite harmless except for the effect on the nervous byblem, And viewers leaning like a Daumier painling from office windows above howl with lauskier.
French and upper classes” who
TRS MONTGOMERY DE VI BRABANT, a 50-year- ENGLISH IS CREEPING Into Brecker assumed the dubious old widow from the cocktail the French language. The Third Reich. It is not surprising buzz of Rhode island, is in will be giving snooty little that the Parls' sale was held Paris getting in trim for her cocktail partes this weekend, with extreme discretion.
invasion of Scotland whore may use words like "Ghastly," This was one of the last of a she is to rent for three Up to the Minute" "Standing" series of sales of conflocated
in their conversation.
Aport from this they will drink gallons of whisky and discuss English" spöffs Never has an English pasport il been regarded with such awe.
enemy property and I feel, months the Duke of Argyll's baving seen these vast works, Inverardy Castle for £180 g
that the French State must have week. breathed a sigh of relief in having disposed of them.
TOP PRICE
The buyers' names were not disclosed but one of the top
prices (about £5,000) was paid by the Swiss Baroness Boutemy
who is a friend of Brecker's.
According to a rule after the war Germans were forbidden lo buy any of the sculpture.
Brecker was at the auction signing autographs and clasping bidders affectionately round the shoulders. There was something sinister about the whole opera- Lion,
QUOTE: 'I am 26,
I feel 26'
She is descended from Flemish duke, so she will go to Inveraray with the right sort of background,
In Parls she has been taking things easy after an cyo opération in Barcelonu.
Tier guests in Scotland wit Counts, a Count and Countess include "a couple of Spanish from Palm Beach and the Duke
cars.
Cocteau sued for £7,500 JEAN COCTEAU is being
sued for £7,500 American damages by the
playwright Jorame
of Mullie de la Tour Landry.
This International group will actor have the benefit of 30 miles of Kilty. Ashit country.
"I hope I don't calch those horrible Mrs de Brabant, she does she will be in training for combat.
1
Killy's complaint centres on une of Cocteau's comments about the monsters. and success in Paris of Dear Liar, But even if which has been running since good October und is based on letters between George Bernard Shaw was brought up on game," and Mrs Patrick Campbell, she told me. "It is in my blood
The play was adapted in Eng- I would much sonner Ash and sh by Kily and ran for seven shoot than lic on a beach at weeks in London last year Antibes":
Later Cocteau adapted directed it in French.
(Francoise Sapan) | Bastille Day
Omcials staggered us thoy.
carried the huge bronzes--one
Banger
ordered by Hitler for the Berlin DASTILLE DAY. Chancellory, More interesting wore all-night
ASTILL
and a worker
There partic
or
Q non-
celebra- either
QUOTE: 'I detest felevision'
k
and
(Albart Finney)
It is fashionable for a man to in St Germain-des-Pres on Sun- drive past ibe Cafe Deux Magots
days with a bewitching girl. Who was the man' with no égo people Last Sunday who drove past in a covered car with a
were 13 busts of the painter Vlaminck. add-
Brecker lived in Paris before dancer during the for-the war, and during the Occupa- tions was considered tion his works were exhibited eccentric or an idiot. under the patronage of Premier Pierre Laval.
I hope not too many After the war the French with hangovers will be subjected four-sealer Government confiscated his to a practical Joke I saw demon- works as enemy possessions. strated the other day.
The tank range is at Castle- martin, a tiny windswepl village near Pembroke. It is a sleepy little place surrounded by green helds on three sides and the packmarked
luntar
landscape of the tank range on the other.
Него the Germans will be allowed to store their all and ammunition.
If the experiment works,
further German units will come lo Britoll
dpakey.
London Express Service).
TOUCHDOWN WITH
The heroine MORT SAHL
There
the
MORT SAHL a savage voice from America, change the world but she doesn't
+
Wood was not the
to anly person be deceived. was the Cx-Pullst
IN onc fómew bomber pilot with three awards
Weishwoman who for bravery-the Pollsh
DFC Aghting Britain, investing eight and a and two bark.
would turn i her grave al half millions in a Bmews chuin
the sight of Germans in
known to his friends as "the next President +Thik Al Fylingdales Moor,
His mother was in a concen- streets of Pembroke last week. Yorkshire. could also find her- trailors cump during the
Ifer nane Jenkina Nicholas of the United States," has flown into London from self blessed with first-class She Is at in Poland. He keeps She wan the heroine who California. Tracking facilities for British ar
singlehanded captured drunken satellites heavy
French invaders at Fishguard He is a night-club and cabaret launched in the Northern heml- He WAM one man who in 1797 by brandishing the performer with a line of satirle sphere.
watched the Joviality of the business end of a pitchfork. talk which has made him the "German" reception with
She rallied the red-cloaked niost controversial entertainer
and in America today. on the cups frown. He knew the uniform, wonen
rest And
of tho
He is feared and detested by It brought back the frightened the Radar experts here, including
many politicians because of the Invaders into surrender. one Brlton, Derek Harris, n wrong kind of memories.
sharpness of his attack-parti- heze who have made this sur-out-pulsing tastar "bleeps" they physicist from Merthyr Tydfyl,
any If she and still been cularly on
President tf pikang discovery After Itine
"I never thought I would Hve can reach the moon and get un
have become tremendously months operating the frst of
the masquerading America, present or past. ceho bark.
excited since locating and Ident see this." he said. "I have around, these mammoth radar posta.
With only minor modification lying a four-inch diameter lump nothing against the young Ger- taxi-driver would have fell They now know they can to aerials it has auddenly become off on American navigational But rearing them as her obfection in the Anme Identify an object no bigger than possible to track ony croft, satellile nearly 1.100 miles qut in loaded gun to a convicted mur- his breeches.
we are today is like hending a place the business end -Losion Express Service). Įderer."
THE £350 million ballistic missile early warning urgen
system which guards the West against sur- prise rocket attack may be given a second task soon-tracking moonships and space craft.
This is the belief of scientists
a grapefruit 1,000 miles away. manned or unmanned. They have
Α
found
overy space. that by inch of the two-way moon trip.
Excited
of
London Express Service).
MR ALI TOOK 100-TO-1 CHANCE
100-to-1 chance. That is all the surgeons could give Djemal Ali, 48-year-old Hamp-
stead shopkeeper, when he arrived at Hammer- smith Hospital to have his young brother's kidney
FOR LIFE
M
Ile Is known in England through his long-playing recorda and he is here to get still more dynamite into his act and give himself greater stimalus.
Problems
grafted into him. But he took it eagerly-for he Experiment that came off. It worked. The foreign and the 11-bomb and a lot of
was dying.
By DAVID LEWIN
want to get a sore throat." an open-necked shirt
On stage he wears slacks and and a puilover. In his hand is a copy of the morning newspaper. In is briefcase when he arm rived in London was a file of English newspapers which ho had bought in New York to help him get a feel of London.
He has no preconceived idea of England except "perhaps you can be more irreverent about politicians over a wider area than wo can back home. I want to roam around in London ... I am
a great roamer. "I relax a while in capsulos and just short spolis, but I don't and unwind easily.
He refers to his fans friends as "m
people" they in turn refer to him AR "the youngest elder statesm
and to them Sahl territory is clearly marked and defined.
Lullaby
"I am a humarist," he fold [nie. "I am not a comedian. I "I have a sort of free-wheel- "I like playing old Blan nake people laugh and wank ing set without a delinite fonn Kenton records before I go to grafted Shinnge's healthy kidney to make people face their prob- so that If there were a Russian sleep. Stan Kenton says I'm the beside Dienal's Two, which
Iems like I do with two fata, raid in the middle at it I could only one of lila farin who has were falling fast,
"When I can't face up to my work that in too. Which might amounted to anything." They used a mothod
of problems any longer I talks be bad for the nation 'but isot X-radiating the patient before about Eisenhower and Kennedy disastrous for the show."
The importance in American humour of Mort Sahil fr that Ho^ did not c
unrest things that.
Apart from poilies ho can had lea the way for a whole' "Anyway," "It we didn't laugh also deal with sex and women, new group of saliriè cómodisha Mr All recovered in a rpreini- the hospital to request an op-
might "I cried, thinking of my three by built germ-free room where about then we
May ani Mike. get He put in a two-year spell as a like Elaine ntound to doing
anething husband but now prefers paying Nichols, Bob Newhart and his pointment.
sons, but I took P. gladly. They the air was purified by ultra- is going home to a new life of team
mind" and Mr Ali, Turkish - Cypriot saved my life," Mr All sold.
alimony and typical of his ap-buston down, of 30 doctors, selentials
violet light, Nurse had to about them, Right? Right"
Mori Sahl in 34, a lean, sharp proach to women-whom Alness -- walking proof of a
ke "%" conle Lenny 'Bruce, and nurses watching day and
owner of a babywear shop, had
Mrs All cabled his only change into alerite clothes be
|featured man with, blue Way breakthrough by British sur-
eyes sometimes
chicks - la Between theời Diby have made fore entering. All food since geons in the science of "Apateright to make it possible.
ile contracted
a completo break-away, from the a kidney Finas
All In Angolem,
oid-alyly' entezlather who has part" mirgery.
For it was a report in lisense last Christmas.
tainty and the Army Air Corpe FILA
"This chick. smokes a lot," he tone clap to broller's Joey in newspaper of a previnis kidney
Cyprus. Its red he savings to Harwell shit sealed until he ate background la jazz and incor- "They ali mald the Barro fundilonlog' perfectly. It is the graft" between noh-identical thing-It's hopeless. They couldy to Britain at once,
"This weekejki Mr. All return and the American G. Bill of 7 in his act. "Which is a material (Uts new group writes first successful operation of ile brothers at Hammersmith-un- do nothing. But when the out-
The brothers enteret hospital his Idmite one aved Rights and face Integration, en that she is very advanced. Its own) And so eranda. Đối fortunately
fwhat I dò on alugs in, really Bha mokės Alter lip menthol into like a yound-up doll and <Qthat geon her looked
ho together. During on eight-hour three tiúd and one at Haman extension of that. I attack cigarettes through holder with deliver"} at mo You have a 100 to operation the Post-Graduate
a filter in It." She Wants” 19 things, but I am positive,!
(Londan Baptisi Farules), "--(London Exprge formley). Medical Beltooi surgical tear
Now, 17 weeks later, Mr All
been from one doelor to another hotnes, 24-year-old farmer sterilis by alonly radiation at and striking' whlig teeth. Els U
"It was truly a miracle," sajd find Mr Atl'a 81-Year-old wife, Wald,
ALL But It 100k a ŝtomaña, running 'lo telephone chatice,"
enli
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