1947-05-24 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.

The Opposition chafes under the postwar controls set by the Socialist Government. Here is a Conservative preview of a brave new Britain when Mr Attlee takes over from Mr Butlin

NO. 35X/14 TAKES A HOLIDAY

DAVID CATTO

shows what it might be like if the Government controlled the 'people's leisure

HAVE often wondered how long our leisure would re- misin our own.

Our working lives are already firmly under Government con- frul, but so far we have been

allowed to do more or less what we please when not on duty.

milo.

nt

You start to read the magazine you brought in the train, but 10

the lights are extinguished at the main. HIS LITTLE JOKE

you are awakened at 7.30 by a

IS

YOUR FACE REVERSIBLE?

Rex Whistler, the artist who was killed in the war, found many faces book, with the reversible title "iOHO!" to be published soon by John Lane.

The

▼ACED already by an un-

precedented wave of drug smuggling and with ad- nutomatically diets spreading from the slum- lands of ports to fashionable hotels, clubs, and restaurants in London and the big cities, Bri- tish preventive officers and police vice squads anticipate this spring and summer a new tirive by some of the keenest- minded crooks in the world, working in a highly-organised network that spreads from the Far East right ncross Europe. and links with enormous drug centres in the United States.

bell which clangs ip every and dormitory. You put on shorts hasten to the parade ground, where the instructor is wolting with n cheery joke for the late arrivals.

Clearly this in slate of affairs which no rolf-respecting Surlalist

It is raining slightly and you do Government could tolerate

not feel very well. After breakfast Anitely.

you feel better and inclined to luze. Plans, it appears, are now under But the camp organisers there are way. The Governinent are taking dozens of them-will have none of The prostramine SYS 0.15 on Interest in the running of holiday

a view to a possible "sture ramble," and rambling you camps with supervision of them by officials, must go. The Government's interest is said to be entirely "beneßcent "

IN TRIPLICATE

WHAT will n State-organised holi- day be lite? Let as take one In imagination.

CI

Britain's post-war experience is a measure of the problem You return to the camp and look now confronting the police in a at the programme. It says 12-12.30 core of countries, fighting a "bathing." but for the first time you menace which has flourished on refuge, as it is now pouring rain. Jones and Brown-or rather two wars and now assumes fan-

both tastic

dangerous propor- and 42Y/9-have

and #3X/14 caught bad colds. They are not tions. secustomed, they explain, to stand-

with

Ing half-naked on a parade-ground It is easy to find drug addicts

at 7.45 an.

First of all you will receive a 'bulky

official envelope. perhaps

Since no one will bathe. there from the Ministry of Health.

is now á run In the programme, perhaps from

new Department created to deal with such matters which worries the commandant.

You do nothing-and enjoy your Ministry of Public Entertainment. The letter self enormously. will read somewhat as follows;

let us call it the

names being

THE SUN SHINES

of

--there are about 5,000 in Bri- tain (compared with an esti mated million in the United States), but the problem is to get at the sources of supply. For long drug addiction WAS found only in London's East End and other dockland areas,

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reversible."

Here is a selection from his NOW TURN THE PICTURES UPSIDE DOWN

Spreads

Drug Menace

The West End

To

FIGHTING a menace

F

which has flourished on two wars and now assumed dangerous pro- portions, police in a score of countries face the problem of increas- ing drug addiction. In Britain the vice has spread from its former dockland home to the

fashionable parts of London and other great cities.

Britain puts the current total of addicts, known and suspected at around 5,000.

Almost daily the London police-courts jail or heavy fine smugglers (often

tures were published of co-ed Queen of the Straits" who from small-time students smoking Marihuann, her white house in Singapore Lascar, Indian, or Chinese sex- then staging stripping com- ran an immense business buying men) and send addicts to homes for treatment. Preventive petitions, nude dancing, and the and selling opium, morphine, inevitable sequel.

cocaine, heroin, girls-and mili. officers know that drugs are parachute. andin finc The battle against drugs really tary secrets. But she died in a flown in by aeroplane, dropped shark-infested bay when a Bri- by began in 1939 when all Europe tish police launch chased her weather-brought in by small already fallen under the evil spell which she tried to escape, only and the United States had new high-speed motor-bont in boats operating from the French

Un-

const.

Young Victims

of drugs. Opium had alrendy

That was in 1937. to overturn.

Typical of the ingenuity dis- been taken by tens of thousands

saw the played by the purveyors was the The following year of young men in all countries

case of a big Paris store where multi-millionaire secking to evade conscription arrest of a during the first world war, and French restaurant proprietor it was found that the "snow" its fatal charms Inter beguiled linked with a dope ring which was being sent out concealed

inside children's wooden toys. hud ramifications literally the war-weary, the frustrated

throughout the world. the homeless,

covered was the secret code

RECENT caso in London In America, above all, the which referred, for instance, to

was that of a young girl menace grew and grew. Cus- a dope factory at Mulhouse in toms officers at New

to another in Yugo. who procured her drugs in tiny York Alsace, seized single consignments of Slavia, to an agent in Prague, quantities sent to her inside the a big buyer in Britain, methods monthly bundles of American opium worth £70,000 and

recorded single of sending dope under diplomatic magazines-bundles which be- biggest-ever

came weekly as her craving haul, in 1938, was. worth protection.

grew. £120,000. It has been reported

By parachute Suddest and most worrying that the authorities have records victims of something like 500,000 known

by PETER O'NEILL

their

with Then,

tones and consisted almost exclusively securely bound to them as the illegal narcotic dealers inside the all nearly 200 agents were feature of the problem is the

in

every kind,

have be-

Siram directed to inform you

disclosed by the code and high percentage-between 20 that hollday facilities will be avail-

and

addicts. 26--of young TTER luncheon the sun able to you at the State camp at

famous politicians and diplomats out. You would quite like

halls and night clubs, Dance Bexinouth from September 15 to 30.

toof opium smoking or indulgence only suppliers of this dendly. States. in You will be accommodated the bathe now, but the programme says

"sight-seeing," and you spend the in Indian hemp-hashish, But happiness," the sellers induce

Experts have said that 98 in half a dozen countries were

involved. It wus calculated cheap flashy restaurants and Clement Attlee Hostel, and Your

in મા couple durknow the habit has spread from number will be 35X/14. This num- afternoon

the opium pipes of the East the girls-and men-to provide per cent. of the women working that in a year this ring handled, amusement arcades ber, which should be worn pro churches and a museum.

fount of vice. Ruthless and minently on the journey, will be

In the evening the Civil Service End to the hypodermic needles information on the location of in the cotton mills of India 31,000,000 worth of drugs of come the centre of the very long continued measures have us to identity you during the Sextet give a concert. Attempts to of the West End, and morphine, valuable gems or even take part administer opium to their babies to keep them quiet while they holidny, the use

follow it up with an

Impromptu cocaine, heroin, and similar deri- in robberies themselves.

In 1939 it was officially stated reduced the opium trade in the avolded as fur 08 possibic for sing-song are not popular.

vatives are being taken administrative reasons,

In London's suburban centres are out at work, while official The programme promises a sing; increasing quantities.

of "night-life" for the factory figures put the opium consump- that there were 246 men, and East End of London to a trickle tion as high as 180 pounds 273 women registered as drug compared with the early days of Altuched to this letter are: (1) song (organised) for Thursday, and

workers and lower middle A list of objects which you should today is Tuesday. Moreover, private which you must tot brist whobjects initiative is generally not encourage 'Small' men caught classes, police are worried by per head of the population of takers in Britain. Of these 134 the war when men were caught

you; ed.

the appearance of Marihuana, Calcutta, which leads all India were members of the medical bringing ashore as much as 70 profession, two were dentists, pounds weight of the drug at a cnnu regulations: And all the time you are surveyed

two veterinary surgeons, five time. As precautions tighten. (4) Five forms which should be for your own benefit, of course. SUCH drugs can be obtained in the "Sex Drug." Smoked in a filled up in triplicate and returned. A group of expert psychologists London today in one or two cigarette, this drug rapidly When the police forces of were chemists. Seventy-eight ed, the price of opium and other

mingle with the party and observe famous restaurants, in some causes

all America, Britain, France, and per cent. took morphine, 6.5 per drugs rose until only the Disclosures of its other European countries start- cent. preferred cocaine; only 0.4 wealthier could afford them hotels, in many night-clubs and restraint. drinking "dives," either in the wide use in American colleges ed a concerted drive about 1929 per cent, were addicted to opium. consistently. Thus the present form of doped cigarettes or caused a nation-wide scandal they uncovered such typical big- A reliable post-war estimate of switch to the West End as a powder to form solutions for just before the war, when pic- scale operatives as "The Opium the growth of drug-taking in trading ground-Reuter. the needle. Scotland Yard are continually rakting in purveyors

(3) A copy of

Yours falthfully,

DO'S AND DON'TS

É objects you should take are fairly straight-forward --"socks three pairs, toothbrush one."

The objects you must not take ace varled. They range from "musical

its renetions.

You are asked what you think of the food, the weather, the State concert party. Above all, you are asked incessantly if you are enjoy ing yourself, and if not, why not. MY ANSWER

of the drugs-invariably the

Instruments (musle will be provided F ever, against my better judg-small men; the astute organisers

go, I shall have my behind it all are still at large. answer ready to that question.

by the Civil Service Sextel) to merit, I "Intoxicating liquor" and "improper Ilferature."

mean D

a1

my

I am not enjoying myself, I shall In some of these London vice The camp regulations, a

50-page say. Because this is not my idea of clubs society girls with money booklet, tastefully produced by the a holiday. By holiday I

to spend are first induced to Central Ofice of Information, is a me to do what I plense rather humourless affair full of do's leisure and in my own way without "try a sniff" as a new means and don'ts.

interference from anybody, however of excitement. Then they come "beneficent."

so that a young girl addict re- cently caught had to have an injection given to her on the

she was so frantic.

It contains such exhortations as And that, I shall add, is why again, unable to live without it,

"Don't come to camp it you suffering. from

discare.

on

are prefer "Senview" to any Slate camp, infectious however efficiently organised.

The landlady's bolled cabbage and

"Don't snore: it keeps

others awake." "Do write home list of "extras" are notorious. But police court premises because

often. Your rolations want to hear at least my programme is my own.

from you."

A GOOD TIME?

FUELING like a boy on his way

back 10. school, you pack your Locks, three pairs, toothbrush one. and feeling like an exhibli in a trial you parade at the station wearing a Jabel marked 30X/14.

The

the

BY THE WAY

by

Beachcomber

ASKED what was the rule reven

abandonment of

in this vice.

LIEUTENANT PHILIP

MOUNTBATTEN

DESPITE official denials

ment

from Buckingham Pa- lace, sections of the British Press continue to insist on the impending engage- Princess between Elizabeth, heiress-appa- rent to the British throne, and recently-naturalised Lieutenant Philip Mount- batten, ex-Prince Philip This article, of Greece. by STANLEY CLARK. describes the schooldays and naval career of the Viceroy of India's 26-year- · old nephew whose name was almost unknown to the general public until his name was linked with that of Princess Elizabeth,

made Lieutenant

During the summers he was at the Ship, HMS Glendower at Pwllheli school, he took long trips in the In North Wales in 1915. Later, he schooner which he and the other boys was transferred to the Naval Gun- hod bullt. In 1035 he shared the nery School at Whale Island, Poris- Const Patrol with the Coast Guard mouth, training Petty Officers in HMS Station at Burghead, and in his last Royal Arthur

at school commanded year

Philip Mountbatten was, however, the school's large sailing dinghy. It was almost unkown to the general publi said

of him that he was a great in Britain until his name was linked with that of Princess Elizabeth in leader, and a strict disciplinarian.

Prince Philip was a great help in the report of an Impending engage- training boys from the district in ment. Since then, however, he hos the summer afternoons in jumping, been almost continually in the public running and Javelin throwing. He eye. himself was An

outstanding,' all- Now almost everyone knows that round athlete; he was elected cap- he is the only son of Prince Andrew tain of cricket and captain of hoc- of Gr key.

SHAKESPEARIAN ACTOR

himself as actor in

plays.

Greece and of Denmark, and that he was born in Corfu on June 10, 1921. It is known that he is second cousin to the present King Paul of to belleve that its medical

the Hellenes a fact which has been But athletics and his love of the advanced in opposition to any sug The nationalised holiday-express reserved for pedestrians in advice is not being followed, an In-

sen did not fill all Philip's time at Is two hours late, and the returning his No-Way Traffic Plan, Dr Spector will be sent to the sick per- son in ortiur to collect data for a re-

school. He rose to be helper (head) gestion of his marriage to Britain's

helress-apparent! party is drawn up on the platform. Strabismus (Whom God Pre- port on the case. The Board will have

of the main house and distinguished And the fact that his three sisters Have you had a good time?" you serve) of Utrecht, said:

Shakespeare all married Germans, and that one, tist of all the known a printed ask them. Of course,” says "the

In December, 1038, he was Princess Sophie, was the wie of "They must -party leuder. firmly.

Each diseases, with the corresponding re- co-operate.

made Guardian (head of the school) Prince Christopher of Hesse, a mem opposita them. pedestrian will carry a card with his medics written

and his end of term report stated You are received in the Clement number on his back, and destinations. This will obviate the personal visit

that he had the greatest sense of in charge of the Reich Air Force ber of Himmler's staff, and Minister Attlee Hostel by the camp com-will be allotted to each man, woman of a qualified doctor. In cases where

service of all the boys in Gordon during the war, has also been cited mandant, who, despite his shorts and child in strict rotation. This an operation is thought necessary, a

This assessment was con and open collar, unmistakably a roster will ensure that only a certain and a permit obtained after the In-

as a reason why he should never licence must be applied for surgeon's

JATURALISATION has not atoun. N

femed, when he entered the Royal occupy the position of Prince Re-. Philip Navy.

recent picture of Philip senior Civil Servant from

gen!. number of pedestrians will be per Ministry of Public Entertainment. mitted to go to a certain destina- spector has visited the patient and Mountbatten, Royal Navy, any. Ife went to sea as a midshipman in He makes a welcoming address. tion during any given hour. Thus applied to the Board for a certificate. more British than was Prince the battleship Hamillies In 1940,

BRITISH-UPBRINGING the Distinguished Visitors Gallery listening to the debates and showing Government, he says, ever Brixton may be allotted to numbers

Philip of Greece. For, although and later served in the cruisers Keni

The advocates of a possible al- that he is studying the British. po- mindful of the people's welfare, 15,947 to 125,981 on Wednesday be- Clearing up the muddle

he was born in Corfu, this 26 and Shropshire. He was in charge have set up a chain of camps in tween 4 and 6 p.m. For Journeys which

Valiant during the battle of and blond naval officer and may working into the heart of London, there I will shortly be decided that years old nephew of Rear- of schist control in the battle- Rance between this tall, handsome litical machinery.

Now he is British in fact, as well Britnin

where satellite training-grounds Admiral fts be a

ballet,

Lord Mountbatten, Matapan, and for his services was heiress to the throne point to his

He has paid hle holidays. People tend to associate lucky numbers will be informed of clash with groen-belt dormitory areas, Viceroy of India, has spent no mentioned in dispatches by. Admiral completely British Upbringing and to as by Inclination. fact that he is a nephew of Lord £10 2. 6d. for the

naturalisation or holidays with enjoyment only, but their destination, route, and hours of the casting vote will rest with more than fifteen months of his Sir Andrew Cunningham.

the courte Mountbatten, probably In his sub-lleutenant's

most nearly 14 days' pay as a naval Houten- in fact they should niso be regarded | circulation, Those who wish to go Commitice of Co-ordinating Plan- as the means of bullding healthier to Kensington, at aro ordered to ning, acting for the Land Develop-life in Greece, and is not able Philip Mountbatten had four firsts popular senior officer of any of the ant-and he has declared, that he

is of good character, has an ade and one second, giving him nino Services in Britain today, citizens, better capable of serving West Ham instead, may be angry at ment Trust, Evicted units will be tem- even to speak the language.. the State,

quate knowledge of the English lan- first. But they will know that they porarily housed in old railway car

great ho Phillip Mountbatten's life has been months seniority out of a possible argue, rlages on land purchased-by

completely British since he was ten. Because of this, at 21 he found grandson of Queen Victoria, and guage, and to the best of his bellef Informed but not inspired by this are cogs in a marvellous machine."

National Society for the Re-Eviction brought to England as a baby, and himself second in command of the second equsin of King George VI, is financially solvent. address, you go to your dormitory National Health Plan of Displaced Householders.

from the earliest days he has grown destroyer Whelp, one of the Royal no ens could be found

Despite the denials He has sold that he intends eltlier which, like all communal sleeping-

up under the influence of his famous, Navy's latest. Few men of his age more eligibic. places, is somewhat bleak.

THE

HE Government is considering Marginal note

anilor uncle,

have ever achieved such rapid re of any engagement which have come to continup In the Services of the Palaco, the Crown, or to reside in Hila Majesty's in the Phillip the abolition of the general modi.

was educated at Gordon cognition the Navy. He was pre- from Buckingham Attempts to brighten with: photographs of Mr Shinwall fudging cal practitioner. The medical services THE other day people complained stoun School, near Elgin, Morayshire, sent as First-Lt in the Whelp at the rumours grow in weight, and it has Dominions,

predicted that Philip will It may be that the near future will coming n nolko

a Scotland, the well-known school Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. been Mr of the entire country will be concen- the beauty competition and

An Indication of the high regard marry Princess Elizabeth before, bring a new meaning to this last Morrison wearing a paper cap hava trated in a Board, sitting in London. house. The police raided it, and ar- which is known as the British Salem,

promise which every allen serving aatbeen entirely successful. Above Casos of Hiness must be reported in rested, oloven, deaf, mutes who were after its principal, Dr Kurt Hahn, senior Naval officers had for the 1947 is out..

He often visita the Houses of Par with the Britisk, foraes must give on. your bed hangs on abridged version writing, The Board will consider playing cards. In not that a perfect who founded the German school on young, lloutenant was given by his ti

the shores of Lake Constance,

appointment to the Naval Training lament and sits for long periods in naturalisation-Router, Tot camp regulations,"·

each case on its merits, and if it has beginning for a. Tchekov nay?

It is hoped all

will eventually take

let, and the drawers

of the

of

from

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that as

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who WILL