1947-07-12 — Page 6

'Drinks are on me' banned

By WILLIAM HICKEY

TUNIOR officers in R.A.F. messes have been ordered by the Air Ministry to curb the amount of money they spend on drinite, No officer below the rank of squadron leader will be allowed to spend more than £7 10s. n month on beers, wines and 'spirits.

little higher than the prewar limit.

Tals is n

The prewar regulation which prohibited officers from treating each other in the mess is to be reintroduced and rigidly enforced.

Officers will sign for drinks

sale days are over.

the cash-

TWO EXCEPTIONS: If officers are aged 40, or if they are married, and want drinks to

take home, there is no limit.

COAL: One more official magazine is out

the National Coal Board's- monthly journal for miners, "Coal."

Is it too solid for its re:iders? "1 don't think so.

They are a most voluble, expressive lot," says its editor W. H. ROBERTSON,

He says he has never seen such a spate of poetry: is shaken by a Yorkshire miner, taking up short-story writing at 60, whosh style is moulded by Flaubert and the Bible."..

"Coal's"

columnist revives

B.D.C. wartime pseudonym, "The Man in the Street," In those days NOEL NEWSOME was Director of European Broadcasts. Today he is. Director of Mines' Recruiting. No change?

UNIFORMS: The sergeant-major wilo became a cinema commis- slonaire is out of date. There is a new twist to the story now. Usherottes, at the. Clasale Cinema, Fastbourne are wearing the dis- carded uniforms of WAAF. off-

cers. (Airmen used to call them "Queen Boo" oults), R. DAVIES- BEYNON, the cinema manager, says that he got them from marplus bek, just changed the buttons. They are silver-coloured now. The girls feel at home in the uniform. Most of them were demobbed lost

your.

SOAP: Snog about

sonpless pow-

ders came from the British Laun-

Files

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947.

EXIT

'Ration what they like, but ration Frankie Sinatra and they'll have ME to reckon with."

STANLEY MATTHEWS, wizard of dribble,

continues the interesting story of his life

The unknown man I could never beat

IKE all footballers I have

I had my bad games.

Perhaps the three worst.

derers' Research Association. BLRA were played a couple of seasons entertained scientist Sir EDWARD

on

He was the most difficult back I over opposed.

before the war against a Leices APELETON to lunch. Used alone,

Forter Cily left back named Mau- these soap substitutes after several washings tend to make shee's grey. rice Reeday. British laundries, cut down their soap supplies, still mix one parts syn- part soap with three thetic so that the sheets stay white.

No cracks, please.

It began when Stoke City MY MISTAKE!

were drawn to meet Leicester dience of brewers, licensing justices. City in the Cup, and by chance and munivipal officers, the Minister

Country Planning, we were due to play. the same for Town and Mr

SILKIN, opened club in a League match at Stolic London exhibition which demon- the Saturday before the Cup strates how future 'pubs should hetla. planned.

LEWIS

сп Beforo

AU-

A

to

Mr Silkin, who confessed

Quite honestly, I had not even having already had tawe Food

this heard of Reeday up to that with lunches in connection

said he saw no reason League game. project, why we should not go back to the

Inns

As he is now-Maurice Reeday, who thrice thwarted Matthews,

were

to give the Nazi salute during the playing of the German nailonal an- them."

In 80.000 miles I have

seen nothing so cheering

as

this

7

by JAMES

CAMERON

KLADNO, Czechoslovakia. have thought so at the repetitive

T was an odd company to find introduations, the wordy diplomatic in grimy darkness 1.300 ponderous protocol of Prague.

preambles And all the railer feet below the Bohemian.

of

meadows. The carbide lamps of You would not think so right now President Benes's Mino

here in Kindno. Not here in this at place that might be another Cow- Kladno showed one face after denbeath or Barnsley, except that another labelled with jaw-break the dour and practical Bohe:nions ing names: Vrbsky, Tjstner, yet manage to keep green grass and

tall trees Svjekt,

growing round

thelt mining towns. Not in the And then another, indis- little Town Meeting House or in the queer tinguishably black, but the voice great cable works or in the stift was the voice. of Abe Moffal, cobbled streets, where it seems all president of the Scottish Union den as though there is after.

all a face of folk who take inter- of Mineworkers, and behind him rational friendship and the solidarity All Davies, president of the of honest men seriously. There have South Wales Miners' Federation, been more than the handshakes and both of them as nimbly at home have been urgent, and even violent Inarticulate backslappings; thero in the low roadways as though demands for detail, for assurance, for Lochgelly or Tonypandy were conviction that all this talk of two 400 yards overhead instead of peoples werking together really, for Enst Czechoslovakia.

onec, means something.

They gave us a concert at the Kladno Hall.

They had along the Miners' Brass und of Lidice and its young con- ductor-that same young man whose father Vejtech Hurik had also been

Pits are always pits.' "Zdar Buh," called the Czechs pushing the clattering trams to the coalface. "Zdar Buh," sald a young half-naked soldier, one of the volun- Everyone of tis was troubled. feer coal-getters, with a luminous What would all our friends backgrin. That is a miner's greeting ex- bandmuster till that day ave years think? Nazism was some-clusively as between miners; it has and eight days ago when he, too,

an especially professional warmth. Wa have heard it a lot these past was shot and pitched into the ashes

of his own street, few days.

home

thing that every decent persons rebelled against, yet here we were being ordered to hido our true feelings and endorse a political doc- Back in 1942 trine we detested...

In Lidlee before 1842 lived many

Coventry, too

TERE was some mistake about minutes late.

the time; we turned

50

The audience sat

Then,

patiently waiting.

British minelenders

Up

S the and the rest

of its workers. The fall cross with hurried into their seats they rose the barbed wire circlet, which is now together and clapped for five the conventionaliset! symbol for minutes. Lidicism, stand here, too.

I wonder how many of the boysLADNO is only a few miles from the place particularly hallowed were tossing up with the idea of: rebelling agains! this F.A. order. around here: Lidice. But the official pointed out that the International situation was, so sen- altive at this time that only needed a spark to set Europe nlight. It was pointed out that when the British athletic team had given the "eyes right" salule at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1938 many Ger- mann took it as a deliberate snub.

So as much as the boys hated tills gesture towards Hitler, Wo

Because of Lidice these people have been visiting here-Abe Moffat and Alf Davies und Joo Hall from Yorkshire and George Jones

the monumental the Aldonds and Will Lawther himself, and many

from

The. band played "English Melodier' and five encorts of "In- vassion Polka" (which is the Czecha' quain name for their own tung wo call "Roll Out the Barrel"). They inade spreches of gratitude, which were sincere, and embarrassing be- cause they were sincere.

To Councillor Briggs, Mayer of Coventry, they offered sympaty that they said had also suffered.

agreed to abide by the decision but will be the new Lidice, of "In the name of Lidice" as a place

the F.A.

shot with my left foot.

Strangely, all three goals

But even to this day I still feel shame whenever I Alt by the Are Today nobody could call me a, and glance through my

scrapbook goal-scoring winger.

at work in his cobbler's shop at Darwen, Lancashire, fast week. of Elizabethan days when In fact, I did not know his the customers could see plays acted, name until after the

game,

Although Hall and I were room- and indulge in traditional dancing.

programme mates, we did not discuss one single At the end I thought the chair- When I grabbed a man, Mr M. V.. COURAGE, of the anxious to find the name of my move or tactic London Brewers Council, said he tormentor. hoped all present would not leave without having a glass to educate themselves about the trade. I was What he really said disappointed. was without having a glance,.......

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

TINE hundred thousand seven N

and hundred

eighty-two people wrote to tell me that I had misquoted something the other day.

Let me tell them this. Any fool can quote accurately, after consul ling anthologies and books of re- ference. But accurate quotation is not as important as they imagine. The man who misquotes probably

I had begun by playing him in the same fashion that had taken me along nicely against defenders with big reputations.

Blotted out

Yet as the game worked out it onlookers must have appeared to that Bill and I had sat up half tha night planning the downfall of Ire land and the beating of Billy Cook, the Irish and Everton lets back.

Uncanny

I DID not get hot under the THE dapper Cook did everything collar when I found my early and I recall him remarking to me he knew to stop us, but failed; attempts to run round him halfway through the second half failed, but I did get concerned. "Stan, if you bring that ball near when I discovered that the me once more I'll wring your neck, longer the game lasted the so help me I will." easier he found it to rob me of the bull.

Change of tactics on my part was obviously required, moved to inside right.

80

I can understand how Billy Cook must have felt because the under- standing between Hall and myself in the first half had been un I conny.

Willie know just when to

In fact, if ever I get a goal now it becomes news.

to

others, too.

There has been a line or two at on the flat home to tell of how, barren spot that was onco Lidice they laid the foundation stone of what how they handed over £32,000, glad ly given in bobs and bawbcos from the pay packets of countless British working men. That was

barest part of it. Somehow the thing has developed into mare, quite a lot more, than a romantic gesture.

the

Why? For once a delegation hos

801. down to detalls.

and gaze on that infamous picture of an England football team lining up and giving the dreaded salute.

When I ran three-quarters of the

A# we followed Hapgood on length of the field at Manchester to the field the 110,000 Germans gave score England's eighth goal against us generous

The other day I sat in on a meeting Scotland on October 10, 1043, it was like a whisper compared with the Prague and heard experts and off- applause, but it was in the Ministry of the Interior at the first goal I had scored in in- ternationals for five years.

mad roar that went up when the | cials, both Czech and British, dia- German team appeared.

No hostility VICTORY is always sweet, but the IT

was most impressive sight with the huge stadium with thousands of blazing red swas- likas.

They gave us flowers and, at the end, they crowded round and sald ...“Hallo” and "Zdor Buh" and

Tzeerion" and "Goot-Pye."

Two or three who knew our troublesome tongue sold, again and

This ngahi,

goes ont This is polities, yes?"

A touch of reason...

which we were once wo know

little."

cussing the International Mining Re-AT this distance I do not know it scaren institute that is to be the per- it all orems rather jejune and manent munen memorial to Lidice, the simple. This is, of course, the land told in "a disasters and mining diseases, sup mall country of which world organisation to prevent mining dotted ported-let us hope by every n

tion that sends men down to get its coal. Britain is supporting it, any way. Sweden

is supporting it. dozen Czechoslovak miners are giving one Jacks appeared as they percent of their gross woges.

There should be about £20,000 in waved deflantly in the breeze.

the kitty. Goebbels, Hess and Goering must have enjoyed the scene, carefully should planned so that Germany),

How brave the half .4

sweetest victory I ever loated was when we licked the Nazis 0-3 in Berlin on May 14, 1938.

The memory I shall always carry is of a distinguished-looking gentle-

stepping into the

England Unlon dressing-room after the game and saying almost casually: "Well play- ed! You have done a good job for England this afternoon."

man

allp

Yet I lost the ball the first side or to run forward or when to stand still. He never put a foot time it came to me,

I went inside left. has

wrong,

MisterBesides claiming

far more active appreciation of the Reeday was there again to take

or verse in

in question than the

the ball off me. Eventually fed gets every word right. who

line

pedant

It

is always better to misquote then up with my failure I sald

to refrain, from fear of getting the

thing wrong. Also, misquotation

"Haven't you a home to

rouses the fury of the people who to?" write to the papers which is always fun.

Night thought

T

is written of the dwarf buffalo which recently died in the Zoo that "He used to keep the walls of his den clean by licking them." How Bloc Mathe novelist.

Mimsic Slopcorner

SKED how sho Uked her part in

go

He grinned. and replied: "Yes, but it won't blow away until the game's finished."

I.

scoring record Willte also registered

I felt proud, as did the rest of outshing Britain, and I must con- England' the team, for the bearer of Buch

must have praise was Sir Nevile Henderson, feas that up to now England was the fastest hat-

who was at that time British Am- made to look the underdog. trick, in international football. He bassador to Berlin, Reored three goals in three and half minutes.

of

a

- Throughout my stay In Germany

I did not sense the tiniest piece of

↑

On our toes

hostility. In fact, everybody went, BUT not for long, and even that NE of the finest inside rights of out of their way to be nice to us. thunderous roir from the-Ger-

of Germans

style of play was so unassuming thousands

all time was Willie Hall. His - I honestly believe there were man crowd.did not prevent Iny Just liko Willie himself that his

genuinely liked us. greatness was not always appreciat

I know some, of my

who hearing a few pipey voices. from

behind the goal: "Let 'em have it,' England." -

And so to the Cup tie. ed,

When we arrived at the stadium could do nothing. Reeday

we discovered the England dress- completely blotted me out of the

supporters

Ing-room was at the top of n hugo. against stand. game, although Stoke managed wil regard my hat-trick

Czechoslováklá as my best to draw 2-2.

formance.

per-

the documentary fim "Miss The replay went the same After we had gained a 3-2-hall- Frozen Cod," Mimsle said: "So far, way.

trident.

I fater learned the encourage- ment came from a small band of Englishmen, holiday-making in

steps, Germany.

There were hundreds of and it took us several minutes get ting to our room.

I dreaded a third meeting. The Czechs were Д Ano side.

time lend they fought back so well This may have been all part of that they were level at 4-4, with the German plan to get us rattled, only few minutes remaining, but once we put our feet on

wonderful turf wo know nothing

all I have had to do is to pass slowly across a quay carrying a

I have often wondered why We have been rehearsing this for three weeks." Her mother said; more was not heard of him.. do so think peoplo ought to bo The last I heard of him he frozen-cod-conscious, then they was playing in a works team. in would eat more of it, and friendly Lancashire, relations with Iceland would be. established, as I always say. Mr Slopcorner sald: "All this seems to me to be not much dafter than everything else.".

17.

We were on our toes from the

kick-off,, and there just was not any stopping England.': the CUE

Bastin, Jackto

Robinson,

The game was finished almost in the Germans, could do could worry Frankie Broome and 1 each scored darkness.

We had taken it for granted the match would, now end in a draw when I came into possession of the.. ball near the half-way line.

WHAT was my greatest game? I

I

15.

A shock

ONLY

a goal to wreck the extensive plans the Germans had made for a Nazi victory celebration after the match.

one thing shook us and As we walked off a dozen Nazi youths ran towards us with warm shook us badly..

blankets to wrap round us on

our. an long trek up the staircase, F.A. official came in to wish us the we appreciated this thought, but 'best of luck..

took It town, zig-zaggad have never made up my mind through the darkness into the goal Shortly before the kick-off whether It was against Ireland at area. Then I fired. Old Trafford Manchester; on No- wor 10, 1038, when England

won 7-9, or when we beat: Czecho

Further simplifications

THERE comes a moment in the working of four-way registration, slovakia 5-4 at Tottenham on Do- PLANICKA, wonderful Czech god tion that caused everyone, to stop Germany in the second half when It was then he gave an instruc- not numciently to case up against neither the applicant nor the Dember 1, 1937. ANY

Against

scored keeper, probably would not what they were doing and look up we continued to give the Nazis a

have seen the shot, anyway, in the with some alarm. hit-tricks the

back and forth, up and down, when

partment can be quite sure where

any of the registration forms has

bad light, but when the ball glanced Rap ASUTAT

football lesson..

3.

Against Ireland claimed only off the shoulder of right bocie "It has been decided that both With Robinson and Goulden add- got to To counter this Suct has one goal myself, but had the Rostnick, he did not have the teams will line up in front of the ing goals we finished very easy 6-3 devised system of interim registra pleasure of helping that great little slightest chance tion, a purely formal duplication of inside right, Willie Hall of the

A distinguished visitors

the existing machinery "haying re- Spurs, to score Ave times-in suc- The "gbal gave, me my first and gard to existing conditions ad asco cession, too--and so, set up a record only hat-trik in international foot tained through the normal channels. for England in a full international ballesterDEAS,

call he winners, said, "when our National Anthem is played the German feam' will salute, so, in order to get the crowd friendly towarda: you we want you

Next week "Raugh hous" in "Milan"-

It seems so real

ot

I only know that for some reason seemed the most wholly warming thing I have seen since last year in 00,000 miles of shuffling round this fretful planet. It healed.

least something of the bitterness of 1038. This is not offered as any sort of contribution to anyone's political knowledge. I merely suggest that this day's work was one internation- al development that was not entire-

TOW, let us face it, this might be ly negative. It has been, in its way,

No

the customary plous thought, just certain privilege to watch, for one more sirlicing attitude of once, the human race behaving like picturesque, altruism. You might huren beings.

DAVID

LANGDON CARTOON

MUNER SPR

HARL

·COURTS

on Centre Court stuff, oh