1947-01-17 — Page 1

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1947.

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TO THE HEROES WHO WEMBLEY AS

WORE THIS BADGE

Field-Marshal Montgomery said:

"in the annals of the British Army there are many... glorious deeds. But there can be few episodes moro glorious than the epic of Arnhem, and those who follow after will find it hard to live up to the standards that you have sot.

"In years to come it will bo a great thing for a man to be able to say-'I fought at Arnham.'

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Theirs is

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CENTRE FOR

OLYMPICS

When the Olympic games are held in Britain in 1948 for the first time for 40 years the great sports centre at Wembley, a suburb in the northwest of London, is likely to be the scene of many of the contests.

Puritan

ACTION AGAINST HENRY

MILLER'S NOVELS.

Chastened by the war, the traditionally morally care- free French are at present subjecting themselves to a stir -dose of Puritan austerity, says Router. One the heels of the closing of French houses of ill fame, it is learned that a court action has been started to ban the publication and sale of such epic sex novels as "Tropic of Capricorn," "Tro- ple of Cancer" and "Black Spring” by the American novelist Henry Miller.

The new moral uplift drive 18 apearheaded by the French Cartel for Moral and Social Action-a cartel which,

made up of various religious and youth societies, has been stubbornly agitating for the elevation of French morals since 1883.

Only since the war however, it began to make any rent headway: It takes the lion's share of the credit for the recent Closing

of French houses of prostKution.

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expected to come to friol for several weeks. Meanwhile, municipal judges and lawyers assigned to the case re- fuse to make any predictions an to its outcome.

DUMBBELLS

/REGISTERZO US... =) POINT OFFICE THE WATER CANT

BE VERY DEEP IT ONLY COMES HALF WAY UP

ON THAT

Duck!

LOWLAND SCOTS NEWSLETTER

BY F. CROWLEY

Parker admits that sales of "naughty" books fave

Scots Canadians, members of high in the last few weeks the Natives of Glasgow Reunion,

owing to the publicity given the mult. But are already sending round the this does not bother him. "I give Fiery Cross for their biggest- When the police start burning their them freely their ill-gotten gains. ever invasion of Scotland in 16 books they will need the money,"

years.

he says.

The Carte! has recently been savagely attacked in the Paris press on the grounds that it is attempting to life freedom of thought and ex- pression.

Its sult against the publishern of Henry Miller merely the opening aliot in n long-range campaign to purify through government censor- Parker shrugs off such criticism ship all modes of publle information Impatiently. There is no question and entertainment-fllins, " radio, of freedom of thought or the newspapers and magazines well as books, according to Danle suppression of art involved," he says, Parker. Secretary General of the Cartel.

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"Something Is Wrong"

In addition, it is fighting for the gradual introduction of prohibition, and for government control measures to provent adult workers from Teal-psycho-analyst but they are not art, Ing younger workers astray in French factories.

The Cartel hopes to succeed through untiring legislative lobbying and crushing barrages of propaganda, both written and radio.

"That is how we rooted out prostitution," Parker explains. "It we could do that, we can do any thing with little patience.”

Legal Precedent

Parker, a lean, thin-lipped. greying man, view the Cartel's suit against Miller's publishers as something of a military expedient.

"In general," he declared, "we don't bother with direct legal action. We prefer to work on a high tegislative level. Miller's books, how ever, are so grossly obscene that we felt honour pound to descend into the legal arena.

"When

books

thie

we Ke Miller's banned, perhaps the rest of the con mergial vendors of filth will think twice before corrupting the public.”

The Cartel also hopes, by Miller Case, to establish Jegal precedent for thu banning of "obscene" against

literature, French laws public

obscenity which Parker asserts the Cartel pushed

The Stadium at Wembley is famous in Britain's sporting calendar because here is played the final match for the Football Cup, the chief fixture through the National Assembly just of the football season.

* before the wor-state that a book The great track and jumping events will pro-

can only be banned for obscenity bably be held in the Stadium, which

after it has been judged obscene by committee. government nccommodation for

a special 100,000.

This book-banning committee was only formed last

March under

has

spectators.

The Wembley centre includes a

"It is obvious that art cannot be created out of excrement. Miller's vile psychological excretions, for example, may be of interest to the

and

to public do great damage morality. If a book, or a film, or n good taste, it cannot be artistic, and magazine is vulgar and offensive to in the interests of the nation it should be banned."

Regarding the dangers of abuse of censorship, he says: "It is better to risk the destruction of a little genuine art than 10 allow our children to be morally warped by perverse ideas which should never be expressed in public, let alone in which are appropriate to the bath print.

There are physiological acts room, but out of place in the Place de l'Opera."

Parker is optimistic about the moral future of France. "The Frence people are ripe for a moral revulu- tion," he asserts, "After the war, we turned a lot of corrupt politicians into the street.. Now we can get to un corruption in the French work

public Cartel's meetings are at- tracting larger crowds every day. The time will soon be over when foreigners can come to France for the pleasures that are outlawed at home. France must no longer be the

moral cesspool of the world. We

must clean up our ridio, our fins, publications, and cut down que drinking."

concern

the

New

Wave of

French Concerned

Moal average Frenchmen View with Puritankin in France, but they are too occupied with problems of keep- ing alive to do anything about it.

Or 20 Parisians... Interviewed, at outlawing of prostitution.

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ever

of

When they made their last visit lo Scotland Is 1032, the heaviest-

tourist train pulled out Winnipeg to join the Duchess of Bedford and give her her greatest passenger list out of Montreal,

Next June the Runion members hope to sail in a Clyde-built liner to arrive here simultaneously with partien from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Over 200 have signed up for the trip in Toronto, while Fort Willam, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Moose Jaw. and Port Arthur are making Anal details.

It is probable that the Fort (Ontario) Ladies' Pipe while the Singing Stars, entertainers William Band will travel with the pariy, famous throughout musical festivala In Canada, an all-female choir, wil greet the homeland in Gaelte as they sweep up the Firth of Clyde in the summer..

Ne'erday-New Style

What with talk of the Rangers- Celtic supporters banning the annual of whisky to celebrate, it is perhaps meeting of the clubs, and the lack

as well that the Lanarkshire miners celebrated the nationalisation of the coal industry on January 1.

To maric the taking over ǝt trusteeship by the National Coal Board, Union officials arranged for Bags to be flown from every pithead in the County. The flags bore the lettera NBC, and where possible, Bocini functions were held mining communities to mark occasion.

In the

In Glenoch Cottage, Edinburgh Road, Stranraer, Mr J. M'He has a bottle of whiskey which is over 100 years old, together with a bottle of champagne which has also passed the century.

Sad to say, Mr M'Haffe does not Intend to open

the whisky yet, despite the fact this is The Real Mackay, bottled by William Wallace & Co, Kilmarnock, in 1760, as the faded label shows. This is the Orm taken over by Johnny Walker in 1912:

Mr M'Haffle says he doesn't in- ' dulge in whisky and he le taking the

Sports fall designed for Indoor track pressure-from-the-Cartel according random. 18 were opposed to the bottle back to Queensland with him,

competitions. It can also be used to Parker-so the Miller case will be the first literary obscenity case

as a swimming pool and for the moment is

is frozen over to provide for ice hockey.

authorities took dhe view

to be tried under the new laws.

Art And Freedom

but drouthy Scots will agree with Of the two who favoured the experts who claim that whisky do

not improve In bottle-in fact, there's prostitution ban, one, a young Com- munist

said: "We have likely to be a slow, almost imper- typesetter,

on our ceptible, deterioration. A bottle of always prided ourselves, moral reasonableness, and freedom. whisky kept for 20 years, they point out, or the classical American bottle We used to say that a man's vices

of brandy handed down were his own business. But we lost

unbroken over 150 years, is of no is wrong.

greater war. Something

intrinsic value than when irst bottled. Perhaps a little morality will do us

the

Only the shortage of soft woods from which to make a track has

The committee composed of tree prevented the British indoor champ- legal men, a representative of the ionships being held there. The Ministry of Education, a representa- that it tive of a moral reform society, and would be wrong to use so much representative of the Union of the timber for a sporting event when French

Family, has unanimously wood is in so great demand for house condemned Miller's book us

"the good." building.

lowest and most offensive porane graphy

Other Events

To expressed in wilfully by terviewed, an elderly lady, was all

Only the twentieth Parisian in-

for austerity "France is poft," she Not all the Olympic events will be On the basis of the committee's said, "we should be forced to sleep at Wembley. Rowing will probably judgment, Parker la convinced the In our own beds, drink water instead be contested down the river at Cartel will get a judgment agains of wine, and go to early Muss. That's Henley, where of the most | Miller's publishers. The case is still the only way we'll ever be a great

onc

famous regnttas is held. Stands to in the preparatory stage, and is not nation again." accommodate 20,000 people can be bulit at Henley. Bisley, centre of Britain's greatest shooting matches, the marksmanship contests. The modern pentathion will probably be decided at Aldershot, the military centre to the west of London.

will

sec

An outdoor swimming pool is being constructed at Wembley for The preliminaries and heals of the swimming and diving contests. The finals will be held in a fine covered

pool.

Because of the large contingent Irotn South America, including swimmers and divers, Spanish has been added to English and French as one of the three official languages of the 1940 games.

Safety Glass Now Safer

A new and Improyed form of safe-

commencing to Ipad in Australia ty glass is now being manufactured

; on and after the 15th January

1947.

NOTICE

· FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE

In Britain. Instead of *cellulose acelate between the two covering ahools of glass the new form has 蒜 layer of polyvinyl butyral. This new plastle material, it is claimed, has an elasticity of

of eight

or nine times that of celluloso acetate and an ultimate tensile stress of 4,000 lbs. Der square inch as against 2,500 18s. This a greatly increased resistance to Impact is given, so much so that

The Public are horoby notifled the new glass can now be uesd under that all Receiving, Storing and conditions in which it may be ex-

posed to bullets.

Delivery charges which havo The interlayer has a very low hitherto been paid by Steamship capacity for absorbing moisture, and Companies will be for Consignees for this reason the sheets do not account in respect of all vessels need sealing on to the cut edge. It can be cut to any desired shopo by commencing to load in Europe on

an ordinary diamond and requires and after the 15th January 1947. no varnishing or other sealing treat-

ment at the edges.

SIDE GLANCES

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'COPA. SME BY HEA BERVICE.

New Key Industry

What might well be termed a new key industry is likely to be set up in Glasgow neighbourhood-the manufacture of typewriters.

Italy, the largest typewriter factory The Olivetti Company of Ivrea,

in Europe, is setting up a branch factory here and the hope is CI- pressed that this may be tho

By Galbraith forerunner of adding machines and

"I don't see why you make such a fuss about me backing. Inla your cur a little bit-they're bull; old cars und „lu?

not complaining about the damage to mine!A

teleprinters.

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The Olivetti machines are expected to be on the market in about year's time and should do much to relieve the present situation with many Arms who are working with worn-out machines owing to the long waiting lists for supplies.

"Printer in Edinburgh"

By the assumption of control of R. & R. Clark, Ltd., by

the University of Edinburgh, one of the best-known printers in Britain has been handed over in the form of a unique gift. This followe the announcement of the establishment of Edinburgh University Press, but the deed of gift Involving Clark's was a close secret until now,

The late Edward Clark, who died in 1920, known by his own request as. "Printer in Edinburgh," left the residue of his estate to such charif- able bodies of purposes in the city of Edinburgh, or the city or county of London, and for this the Univer- nity of Edinburgh was to be deemed a charitable purpose.

Founded by the son of a Montrose solicitor, the firm has produced works of the finest quality for British publishers, including the Nonesuch Press and Macmillan's, turning out books by auch authors as Shaw, Hardy, and Yeats,

Shaw's exacting typographical ro- quirements exerclied the firm. Once he wanted absolutely even 'spacing, which was found impossible, and after many efforts the firm tried him out by literally giving him even spacing-even ta tho extent of splitting the definito article, puiting It at the end of the line phd he in the next!

The comment of GBS was charac- teristic.

"Excellent," he said, “But don't go so far as to prove the author to 'be a damned fool"

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