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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1947.

A DISPATCH FROM STALINGRAD

Out of a desert of rubble

STALINGRAD, April 18, ante-room where von

Paulus's

AT the end of the narrow signallers and adjutants had

Yigoricy wRS

basement room under the snt. obligatory portrait of Stalin stood 11 youngish man in ₤1 cheap-looking blue suit. He was writing at a desk when we came in. "That," said our inter preter and guide, is Comrade Yigoriev, Director of the Cen- tral Universal Stores."

interested in

one thing only, getting his stores rebuilt and going again for prosperity and peace. And in that Yigoriev was, typient of everyone I met in Stalingrad.

grab-as-grab-can, which

Yes, it is a good thing to get Con- away from the Moscow Well, what is remarkable in ference, with its constant re- that, you ask. Nothing more criminations, its stubborn game than this: the room was in, of Stalingrad. It was the room from which Field-marshal von Paulus had directed the last stand of the German army sur- rounded in the city which Hitler had pledged all to recapture.

The desk was the desk from which von Paulus had stood up to surrender.

make you wonder whether the world will even work out of its system the poison of German materialism.

Signal of hope STALINGRAD,

it

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VMDANIELANYANSERITUMSTÄNDLICH DALA But, even in the south, where the Outside the great steel mill of the Almost as badly as these machines snow had already been gone for some Red October factory there lies one they need consumer goods to pro- time, most of the land remed to be

of the most vast scrap dumps I have vido for the Russian workers. These, Jying fallow, and the ploughing saw was being done by old-fashioned ever seen. War materini all of it, too, they want from Germany as ox and horse drawn ploughshares. It will all be turned into steel. reparations and at once. 7 Not once did I see tractors at work.

The tractor plant had been com-

Grea

I

of

Already in Come -branches war. Yet Stalingrad's Industries thoro is a As we flew over the old fighting plolely destroyed by the

round the Don, I found not now it produces 35 vehicles a day flagging of endeavour duc, the au- the slightest sign of an attempt at ngainst 50 prewar. Today the steel thorities belleve, to insufficient in- cultivation among the bomb craters. mill employs 10,0000 men, produces centives In the form of consumer

500,000 tons of atcel a year, 70 per goods. Tanks instead of tractors, guns cent of its prewar output.

Jeft Instead of ploughalinres, have their murka nurk which the But here in the tractor factory and destruction of the Soviet Union's the steel mill you can ace the Soviet all Union's reparations problem at its biggest tructor plant has made the more difficult to eradicate.

nakedest.

Sefton DELMER,

on holiday from the 'grab-as- grab-can' game in Moscow, flies to Stalingrad to see the changes since 1943

Manpower 10 another urgent problem both in the tractor plant and at the steel mill.

Convict Inbour, escorted by silt- eyed Mongol soldiers with tommy- guns, met part of this deficiency. German, Hungarian and Rumanian prisoners of war are supplying the rest,

But there were also German skilled worker prisoners in the machine shops who had been made prisoners in Germany and in Szecho-Slovakia when Germany capitulated, and brought from Gor- many to Russla about u your or 18 months ago.

One thing Stalingrad does not lack -entertainment. There is n beau- tiful new theatre, seven cinemas and A whole row of workers' clubs. For,

Then we came to Stalingrad, First A new workshop has just been I saw nothing but the same skeletons opened up in the tractor plant. as the town architect put it, "one

German prisoners of war under the musi look ufter command of armleted, German morale."

of

bodiless buildings, the some desert of rubble and twisted, metal which I had been seeing again and again in the bombed towns of Ger many, Austria and Poland.

But as I entered the town Stalin. Russian Grad come

to life. The genlus for improvisation I saw was winning everywhere.

which

was

officers were busy Installing machinery,

of part of German origin,

They were

the

workers'

Building again

What is there

have devasta-

WELL, you say, Stalingrad seems

pretty dreary, machines which the Sovlet troops had dismantled in to Inspire you with hope? Well, I Germany and brought to Stalingrad see hope because here is a commu- Out of flattened petrol canisters, to replace those destroyed there by nity of 300,000 people who

Germans. bodies of shot-down Junkera

529, the

But they will need created something out of tion. these many more of

at these machines salvaged bricks and timber,

had im- once if the tractor plant is to meet. And they are building things that

in the needs of the farmers.

are going to set communities and ultimately other countries on the They want special steel mill machinery

road to prosperity. from the Ат of Schlomann in Dusseldorf, They want it as reparations and they want it, too, at once.

which, with El Alamein, gave the world its first great signal of hope And now, while the shattered during the war, has done building above was being re- again as far as I am concerned. built by a regiment of men and It has, at the same time, pro- workers, Comrade vided me with a far better un- Yigoriev was using the room-derstanding of the Soviet case some of the most, incredible places. intact because of the sandbags for currem reparations from The State authorities, instend of and the concrete

pro- Germany than I have yet got shouting "Thou shalt from any of Mr Molotov's de couraged them to go on. nunciatory phrases or the dis- torted agitation of the Moscow newspapers,

women

which

tected von Paulus-to super vise the rebuilding of Stalin- grad's municipally owned de- partment store, and manage from here the stores, temporari- ly established in another build- ing.

Paulus and all that Von meant nothing to Yigoriev or to the buxom secretary in the

As we flew to Stalingrad from Moscow, I looked down on the coun- try which, according to a geographi- cal survey I have been studying, is among the richest agricultural land In the Soviet Union. It produces whent, rye, sunflower seed, malze and sugar beet.

In the last 26 years, 5,000 celebrities have been filmed in a London studio that has become a

Russian men and women provised homes fur themselves.

not,"

cn-

Shops had sprung up in the ruins, murkel stalls had opened up among the rubble.

Apartment houses, which, like the one known today os Sergeant Pav- with lov's house because Pavlov,

the Ger- five men, held it against mans for 50 days, are in business once again, battered, shell-torn, but providing shelter for hundreds.

MUSEUM OF MOVING

PICTURE

MEMORIES

studio,

war

Who knows, if the wheat comes in time, it may settle the reparationis problem yet?-

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

ing potato

HE continuing rumpus about

Cocklecarrot: Don't keep on'say-

Mr Iloneyweather how wrong it is to neglect the

Gooseboote (for the prosecution): M'lud Mr opinions of 37,000,000 people in Potato is my ellent. My learned Britain who, every few years, friend was addressing Mr Poteto by suddenly become passionately mistake. interested in sculpture.

Most of the indinant writers of leiters have not seen even a picture of the working model which they аге cursing so loudly, My own view is that the Government should at once make it a penal offence for

Cocklecarrot

ito Mr Potato):

Then you name is Poteto.

Mr Potato: Potato, m'lud.

Mir Polcto; I am Mr Polets m'lud.. Cocklecarrot: Very good. Let's keep that clear. Proceed Mr Snap- driver.

iny artist to produce a bit of sculp. Legal digression

thre until he can show a certificate Mr Snapdriver: Mr Poleto-that ot approval, bucked by the majoris, Potetuno, Poteto-would-you- ties in at least twelve nation-wide agree that your name is a peculiar Gallup polls and signed by at least one? six prominent monentities who con swear that they had no previous knowledge of sculpture, and are

therefore unpret-diped Potato v. Poteto

T the top of a tall building She had been visiting the building workshops, and not in the A in Wardour Street, London, is see a alm, and they invited her to Many noted men and women in the heart of Britain's filmland, there so upstairs to the studio and be film- sports world have paid a visit to the ed. At the end of 20 minutes slie studio. So have some of London's is a small studio-only 44 feet was shown the results and com- best mannequins, Miss Anne Cum- ming-Bell, known as "the girl with by 30 feet. It contains, never- mented on the high speed process,

figure," was filmed as a Alus! Many of these carly records the perfect theless, everything that is to be are no longer in existence, for they fashion model before she married the found in a full-sized studio have deteriorated in the course of Duke of Rutland last year.

At the end of the Japanese sound-boom, film cameras, arc time, and it is only in recent years A

famous men appeared in the the recording lights and other ac- that a method has been found

the studio Viscount Mountbatten preserving the celluloid. But cessories. Once, the signatures Arst celebrity spotted by the Pathe Burma (now Viceroy of India) and was the famous Sarah General Slim of the 14th Army. That of many well-known men and Pictorial

the most historical women

were to be read on the Bernhardt, the great French actress. was one of

The search for talent has gone on records made. General De Gaulle walls, and then some unsuspect- continually through the years, and was another warme visitor. ing workmen eliminated them with whitewash....

01

By Kathleen Courlander

of

This tiny studio is one of the most

among A more recent visitor to the studio famous of its kind in the world. many men and women now

the world's famous stars have been has been the flm actress who has During the last 20 years since it be- came the

centre of recording for rst introduced to the public after achieved also success as a novelist, Pathe Pictorial, it has nimed 5,000 their filming at the studio. Charles Rene Ray. She was filmed present- celebrities. There are few notable Laughton, Madeleine Carroll, Carl ing a copy of her novel "Wraxton men and women connected with Brisson, Tallulah Bankhead, Gladys Marne" to Joan Dowling. Her last public life in Britain who have not made their first films at this War- she was nine years old and she saw Cooper and the late George Arliss visit to the Pathe theatre was when visited the studio for a recording dour Street studio. There was also herself on the screen in the newsreel Recently, Mr Attlee, the Primo

a dear little curly-haired boy who Pathe News. She had entered into Minister, pald it a visit as he has later became the darling of all film local competition held to

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decide done many times in the pant.

going mothers-Freddie Bartholo which child most closely resembled Jackie Coogan in The Kid" and The studio was built originally by mew. Mr Charles Pathe, the flim ploneer

she won, After that she did crowd who has long retired and lives at duced to the films by this method, years was on

Tauber the singer was first intro work at a guinea a day, and in a few

established star Monte Carlo. He opened it as and not long ago the gifted Austra stage and screen, trade show centre in, 1912 and it was called "Pathe Garden Theatre." lan pianist Elleen Joyce gave a per-

The studio's cameramen have film- formance in the studio. Then after the first World War, it

ed so many celebrities that they can became a film studio which talented . Hundreds of people In Britain who hardly remember their nomes. Ken men a women in all ranks of life are doing. odd jobs write to Patho Gordon has aimed well over 1,000 were encouraged to visit. Queen Pictorial and tell the directors about celebrities and Tony Ashwood has Mary' was one of the earlier guests, them. They, are filmed in their 100 to his credit.

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[Before Mr Justice Cocklecarrot Air Tinklebury Snapdriver (or

defence):

Now, Mr Paleto Mr Potato: Potato, Cockiccarrol (sharply): What? Mr Potato: Potato.

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Dir Gooseboote: M'lud, I object. Potato is just as queer a name,

Cucklecarrot; Objection sustained. Let the question b. struck off the rolls, or rather record.

Mr Potato: Potato an intelligiblo name. Poteto is pure affectation,

Cocklecarrot: Silence! We are not ere to-not here to go on like this. There

names are queercr

than Poleto.

here

Mr Gooseboote: For instance? Cocklecarrot: Wobbleforth. Dir Snapdriver:. Or› Toothperson.

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