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KING'S

At 2.30, 5:10,

AIR-CONDITIONED

Destroying his enemics

...one by orief

Winning a woman

...kiss by kiss!

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

The Return of Monte Cristo

Lang

LOUIS HAYWARD BARBARA BRITTON

GEORGE MACREADY

UPLA O DENVER "HORRY STEFTERSON - STEVEN GERRY-BAY COLLIDES Screenplay by George Bruce and Rifred Neumana Ducted by HENRY LEVIEC Produced By GRANT WHYTDOR

AN EDWARD SMALL PADUCTION

ALSO LATEST CAUMONT BRITISH NEWS SUNDAY MORNING AT 11.30 ̧A.M. ONLY MARIA MONTEZ

in

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947.

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NO GREETINGS

HROUGH the open window Lante-Corporal G.. Turbutt "watches the sentry at the barrier below. The afterhoon -sun-catches the miniature bugle in the man's cap badgo and throws his shadow across the dusty rond from which the heat rises in shimmering Waves, Sometimes, when it gets too hot, the sentry moves back into the shade of the sentry-box, but at all times he can see the little stone bridge to his right and the alarm going to his front.

ACROSS

One day is much the same as the next for these men of the Somer- sot Light Infantry guarding the hilly Austro-Yugoslav frontier.

TITO'S BORDER

The patrol takes with it Johnny, From Bleiburg the dusly rend leads: Morshal Tite can put that although they do not speak each part of Austria into darkness other's tongue they get on well to "A" Company's interpreter, and he to Kestunk, where the Somersets and in roturn Austria can cut gether. They express with their asks to see the passes of the people have another frontier post Face

In the countryside. For in the fron- oil the water for Yugoslavia. hands what they cannot convey with ter zone, a six-mile deep belt on the this is rot on official croes'ng-point Neither side ever does, but their lips na men of all nationalities Austrian ulde of the border, entry the barrier is 'nover razed, and the stretch of rond to the Licut Wills takes no chances. do on such occasions, and when he and exit for civilians is forbidden, 300-yard

mual have a

Yugoslav frontier post is already' Jis men have paraffin lamps understands the young Austrian's and every realdent

The Yugoslav grown with words. handy.

faco breaks. into a smile and he nods pass. The next day the conference vigorously. They exchango cigarettes, took place OR the bridge, and when they are not talking they

entry is a minute figure among a Tito's soldier stood stening at watch the children from the nearby one end, and our own Field houses piny in the road, or the old Security, men at the other. dog roll in the dust.

By PETER LAWRENCE

The people of the villages stand The aside as the patrol goes by and the children come out to wave.

ploughland, countryside is mostly and here and there are crude graves of Cierman soldiers who died at the hands of Yugoslav partisans in the Anal stages of the war.

Rough woodon crosses, some leaning at acute angles, and rusty pilled Ger- man helmets are all that mark the

Miss Nunn :

cluster of houses. He stands beneath h flag post from which flies a fadert flag, and half way between him and the Somerset sentry is a brook which marks the boundary.

The lance-corporal walks out on to the little balcony of his wood- bullt guard-room. The hilly country-

The British troops have a lone - side in peaceful except for the sing-

houro in which to live and a wooden Ing of the birds in the woods, the

guard hut on which someone has. rush of water below the bridge and

Turbutt would like to tell him graves.

nailed a horseshoe and painted the the stendy tramp of Marshal Tid's Agreement was reached, the parties grey-clad soldier at the fur barrier. went their ways and the stone bridge about his home at Stoke Newington

worda "Good Luck". The nearest and the factory where he made

building on the Austrian side is one It was like this yesterday, the day again became no-man's-land.

The Somerset sentry rarely optical lenses before, his call-up, but I n side street of Bielburg is a and a half miles away. In this before and it will be the same to-

up and down, and the they are difficult subjects to convey. I double-fronted house, and in lonely pot, Sgt. J. Garrott is in morrow, Nothing very much hap- patrols

Misa Marguerite Nunn, charge. Today he is out along the pens at the Lavamund frontier post, Jugoslav sentinel rarely stands still with your hands alone. Never mind, the porch the official control point for trame He walks from his green sentry-box says Turbutt, we get along very well. age 71 sita running herself before frontier with six men, on the look-

she goes in to tea. Miss Nunn of passing between Austria and with its blue, white and red striper

. Bock nt battalion headquarters Hertfordshire has lived in Austria cut for smugglers.

She came to there Is Yugoslavia. Years ago much trafe and scarlet star to the guard house

activity, The Field for 35 years.. While our

English to the must have passed over the bridge. and back, his rifle slun

with Security men have brought in a

Thur who lives In battledress men wear Today the barrier is seldom raised own

"catch"-five people whom they

Schloss on Below and the petrol pump

the balanced belts and gaiters, their men guard hut is going rusty with disuse, wear a variety of dream, with grey caught crossing Into Austria during the war she had

sentinel the night. They are five rather pathe-, ber of pupils from the village, predominating. Today the

the local chemist came to her and down tle individualsa snd-freed German In the months that the 2nd Bat-

has a khaki alde hat and brown belt.

said, "Miss Nunn, technically we are his

enemies but don't let that worry their improvised pits Away to tallon Somerset Light Infantry have Sometimes he wears a fur collar to welder, a mid Jugoslav and

Germon-born wife and manned the post they have seen one his cool.

their two you. If you want any help come to their right is n wooded hill, and on

me." children. The woman wears an ill-

the far side stands another Somerset British officer cross into Yugoslavia.

rest a Ruunink. In summer-time it Atting black coat and a hat made He was from War Crimes Investiga- tion and carried

International

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pass. A few days later he was followed by a lorry carrying war criminals. The British escort jump- ed off at the bridge and a Yugoslav escort mounted on the other side: The barrier was lowered and the A Universal Picture countryside was peaceful again,

SOUTH OF TAHITI ” with Brian CONLEVY

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Nothing Happens PART from that, nothing happens to unite the soldiers of two nations carrying out their police dutles. Not a word of greeting la exchanged, and to cross the bridge means, inviting detention for hours,

maybe weeks.

Fatigues

Cpl. Turbutt is 20, and most of the men with him are about that age. They joined the battalion in Greece and find it all very different from their 1TC days at Colchester: guard duties for 24 hours, a day off. and then a 12-hour guard. On their free days there are the usual fatigues like chopping wood, and there is the next cleaning-up process for the guard mounting.

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After the warr the chemist came

the show from sans himself Orr with the me to congratulate her on winning, and over up to be frontier a mile and

much and drags himself along with the sld, with the arrival of British troops her a hall away. In winter

Belivity. Behind puplis jumped to 48, all young girls, prevents

Them the gunt Peizen, the highest of a heavy stick.

"So you want to cam English Point in the mountain range, stands

to them, and as an atter supper with snow. thought added, "I suppose you want she said

to soy. chocolate, in English."

head-

They are taken inside the quarters and their guard, u soldier armed with Sten, gives a helping to know hand with the battered multcase fled with cord,Ted, the interpreter, asks them a few questions. Actually the

he

an

men walk in the wooded hills up to interpreter's name is Edward Bezdek

is an Austrian. But a distance of three miles, careful not and he

go over the frontier, which in spent 16 years in. Lendon as many places is an imaginary line. electrician, and he speaks with a In the lonely farmsteads they are

To the whole welcomed, and return with gifts of sight Cockney necent eggs which they hand in to the battalion, he is Ted: platoon's cook who, with the help of an Austrian woman, produces the daily menu.

On Fridays a truck comes from battalion headquarters at Volker markt, nearly 20 miles away, with

and

and cigarettes, car from company

The German teils Ted that he wants to get back to his birthplace, Emden. He did not like it in Yugu- slavin, where food was short and their main ration was 12 pounds of a type of Indian corn per month. Outside the truck is waiting, and

The Browery

Once, it is said, à British coldler from a previous unit went walking in his sleep. He got to the end of the bridge and the grey-clad rations soldiers woke him up and returned periodicolly him five hours later. But on another headquarters at the village of off they go to a camp. occasion Ave British, soldiers Who Bielburg brings mall, Letters from accidentally strayed over the border spent five months imprisoned in Yugoslavia. When arrested they were wearing khaki drill, and they were still wearing it when they were re- leased. During their arrest questions were asked in the British Parliament and two notes were Bent Yugoslavia.

home take six days, and the men see few newspapers.

L/Cpl. Turbutt re-enters the hut and sits at the table. He looks at

to out

AT Bleiburg, where the streets are the list of men who will go out on

narrow and each house has an tonight's patrol. They will go for a individual look of its own, and the way along the frontier on the look old Schloss on the hill has remained for smugglers, who choose unchanged for centuries, the troops Isolated spots of these Karawanken live in a brewery. They liko to Mountain foothills to bring con- climb to the top gallery and watch traband goods from Of the Somerset platoon only the These goods are usually cigarettes the Austrians work the machinery Yugoslavia. the yeast slide down the chutes and bought for about threepence for 20, on the ground floor. and sold in Austria for ten chillings,

a profit of about 4,000 percent. Some-

Commander, Lieut. L. A. Wills, can claim to have visited the other PROJECTION EQUIPMENT side, and then only his toes were

in Yugoslavia.

But this afternoon there are not One morning the "Yugoslav Bentry "was "seen waving"a" times they come across patrola of the many troops about. A patrol under letter, Mr Wills went over to re- Field Security Service who keep a Llout. A. Butler is in the outlying ceive it. It was from the manage- day and night watch, and often they villages, tramping in the sunlight. the The troops call it the Flag Patrol ment of the electrical power station see Jugoslav patrols

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across

meeting with offlctals on the Lava- They Get On

mund dam in Austria. The flooded

because

Somersets

shows the people that the ure about. Its real pur- is to smell out activities of the Osvobodlina Fronta, an Illegal po- which is believed to

river Drau, which runs from Austrin THERE is a footstep now on the litical party

to Belgrade, was proving trouble- steps leading to the hut, Per- have membership among ten per- some. Curiously enough,

Austria haps it is L/Cpl. Roberts back from cent of the inhabitants. They hold controls the water supply for the dinner. No, it is the gendarme, one meetings at St. Stefan, St. Michael, power station in Yugoslavia, and the of the Austrian policemen who lesenkappel and other hamlels when power station suppites the electric patrol the frontier villages. He they can, which is not very often be- power in Lavamund.

often comes in to sea Turbutt, for cause, the Somersets are alert.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

CUTTING before me describes

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I HAVE before mo & delightful "Marine Glue Quent we decided The conductor sneezed

picture of a machine which At our last meeting It was measures "spoilage in fish." It that "Miss Marine Glue 1947 was A how the conductor of an orches the correct title. There is also a is called a Stinkometer (sic) Miss Frozen Cod. 1947, and we hope tra in America had to blow his nose and "evaluates quantitatively that she will be installed in a cere. "during the playing of a long work." losses and gains of odour."

mony at the Ministry of Food, before The account goes on: "Stealthily he

out pulled the official banquet to be given by for two violent

handkerchiet, waited chords, and then the Government in her honour.

blew his nose twice in time with the music." O Infinito tack! O consum- mate delicacy! Yet, had he blown the two blasts during a quiet pas- sage, the audience would only have thought it was one of the new in- struments.

at

a putrid turbot I presume that would smosh the machine. Next time you are in a restaurant and have reason to believe that your cheese- Essence is not what it should be "Waiter, call the swatter and say: evaluate quantitatively, if you please, the losses and gains of odour in this marsel."

"If it stinks, we smell it," should be the slogan of the Inventors.

Miss Frozen Cod 1947

DEAR Beachcomber.

Please

MESSRS. LOWE, bingham & MATTHEWS,

Hon. Treasurers, Mercantile Bank Building Cheques should be payable to

The Hong Kong War Memorial Fund" and should be crossed.

For the purpose of acknowledgment, all subscribers who

· have Chinese names are requested to give these names in

Chinese characters as well as in English.,

PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY.

Yra, faithfully,

ARTHUR POODELL Secretary, Trade Industry, and

Commerce Queens Lid.)

Once when I was conducting the Pennsylvania Railroad Concert Meanwhile arrangements are al- Hall I sneezed three times very vio- roady being made to hire the Albert Iently during the "Serenade" df Hall, as soon as Transport has been Mouche, The piece is old-fashioned, nationalised, for the judging of the und, was boring the audience, but Analists of the National Haulage my sneezes were mistaken for Board's Glamour Ambassadresses. dnsh of modernity, and were greet

The title you mentioned; each representing a 'haulage area. ed with cheers and applause.

NANCY

That Is, Less to Wash

On Sundays, the Somerset officers call on Miss Nunn for tea. They have all signed the autograph ibuin which lies on the table below the picture of the King. It containa the signatures of all the British oilleurs who have visited her since the war, including the reconnaissance Leutenant who was the first man to enter the village.

Soon it will be supper trie and al Lavamund L/Cpl. Turbut walks down into the dusty road. The sun

has as dropped and the entry already put on his overcoat. In n house away to the left Pie, W. Emery

Before. cleans his rifle for guard. long darkness will be on

them, and centres will be doubled. The chorus of, the birds will die down and the only noise will be the rushing of the water under the bridge and the steady tramp of Tito's. sentinel.

KONTORA PENÍ VZáviću, VÍC,

"All I meant to do was to give them a real good look at it!!!.

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