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The Treasure in the Thames

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

TREASURES worth

thou-

sands of pounds-among them medieval rings, bracelets and money, Roman beads and | pottery and a Stone Age neck- Inco-have been picked out of the Thames mud by Mr Robin Green, a London antiquarian.

I joined him and his band of | women helpers in a search of the mud left by the tide near Blackfriars, E.C. [Mr__Green spends most of his Sundays this way.]

In five minutes we found a

I have caught up

with Otto

--he's home

again, and

HAMBURG. TTO BERTRAM, 81-year-

old

former Luftwaffe colonel,

has just turned from a six-week trip to England, and is going to prison. He was in a hurry to get to his

re-

in jail

Nice

The man who is most Interested in what happens to familles the Lipkes is 00-year-old Max Brauer,

Hamburg's burgomunter.

and most remarkable citizen. When no to power he God" and ten years in the United States and became an Amorlean citizen.

I talked to him in his office in the Rathaus, where the old clock

Ilko chimod

something from Gothic fairy story. White-haired,

a

renounced upright Brauer has American citizenship and become a German again.

He said: "No one likes to bo oc* cupied-make no mistake, they do not love you but matters often made worse by stupid unnecessary

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requisitioning by the Army. Every major who comes to Germany has a house like Bucking- ham Palace, while Germans live six in a room-that is no way to get liked."

To run the British zone of Ger="

many costs the British tax- payer £80,000,000 a year.

silver bracelet, a Bow porcelain office and the tram was full. by JOHN DEANE POTTER ya Max Brauer,

figure, a halfpenny dated 1669 and glass bends made in Aleppo 2,000 years ago.

When Mr Green read in Pepyw' dairy that boats landed with house- hold goods in the Great Fire of 1080

so he rode on the buffer.

name

When Anna started to sing

leave.

the

This is verboten. and a Ger- man policeman took his and he

marks fined 10 was (68.) or two days in jail., Herst Wessel Song, Otto decided to prefers jall because, he says wryly, it does not make much difference if you are in jail or not, the way things are in Ger- many today.

Otto has been back from England more than a month, living in his small room furnished with heavy German

of furniture near the centre Hamburg. He had a flat once, but this was requisitioned by the British.

at once, says

if the Germans were given more responsibility.

Hope needed

Send this report my mind goes Yet there is no real charm in breit to the Lipke family. Anna, She is just a typical dumb While I talked to them there Was girl of any nation. When the war the eldest son, Enno, aged 21, who broke out she was 14, and alt she served two years in the German knows about arc uniforms and Army. Nazism. And there tre millions like her in Germany.

The police

German around

down Every few minutes he put his book and gazed at the dripping celling

Enno is symbolic of

Just lying youth today, HERE can be doubt, that do thinking, thinking. If they are not mocracy here is creaking. One offered some sort of hope they may reason is that British omcials start acting. The consequences for Generally are men who have little the rest of the world could be un- interest in their Job because they pleasant. know it is only temporary, with little future prospects.

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Otto in 1 reporter of the German Nows Services, That is why he was chosen to go to Britain for six weeks to learn A simple example shows how our us how to be a good we have abolished the eccret police,

approach from

has been misunderstood:

European.

and now the white-capped German When he came back from Eng- policeman walking down the streets land he was tanned and had put on, of Hamburg models himself on the two stone in weight. Now he is London bobby. white-faced and

Uke thin again,

But the postwar gentility of the most of his countrymen.

German police does not suit

the His salary is just over 400 marks, German mentality: It will take them

the or £10 at fixed rate of ox- many years to get used to it. Now THE Strabismus rocket, in tell the cod by its tail." Her mother change. On the black market his they regard the police as having no

which that indefatigable said: "I do so think It's good pro- money for a month is worth 50 authority because they do not push savant will make his

for both of them. I second copanda had overturned near Southwark cigarettes, or about three-quarters them around. That is one

always say." Bridge he searched the spot.

of a pound of coffee,

why crime is so prevalent in Ger-attempt on the moon, is almost bone He found

and powier

the Olto counts himself one of

many today. dwellers

this In

Financial note spoons, Ivory-handled knives, pots, more fortunate

If a citizen reparts a policeman ready for a test. wreck of Germany's second biggest for jewellery and toys.

rudeness,

1s the policeman Later he found a medieval wed-city. And whether you like it or forced to write an essay in his spare ding ring which could only have not, Hamburg, as the biggest city time or politeness. Atted the hand of a child wife and in the in ring set with many pearls.

from the mud is button A Hold stamped with the mystic'sign of 1+

-In the background St.

Paul's.

and the Tudor Solomon an probably belonged

rose.

British

zone, is

responsibility.

Puzzled

been

Britain's

reason

This time Mimsle Slopcorner and the Siamese will not make the trip. MANY people ask me what will happen when sterling earned Out of Hamburg's population of as their foolishness and uselessness abrand starts being converted. It million and a half 80,000 live among were the chief lessons learned from dopenda. If⚫luah-credits lying in the ruins in shacks or air-raid shel-

clearing houses hre unblocked at ters. I went into one at random the first attempt. To counter wind- OR the past two weeks I have it was an air-raid shelter about the whorls in the upper. stratosphere, once there will be a spate of cheap

Germans, size of suburban drawing room. the rocket Has beer covered with a money.

But if the Internal accounts studying the and a disquieting and disappointing Sitting at a table made of pack-thin layer of oxolite, a heavier-than- are left, unbalanced owing to forward

It is. The most study

puzzled ing cases was 46-year-old steel-

the worker Rudolf Lipke and his family Ash substante compounded of zeolite buying, then further bills will have people about their plight are century Germans themselves. They feel of 11, including nine-year-old win and felspar B. The nozzle of the to be drawn on the open market, Jews' harps and a clay pipe with the that no one seems to like them or bose talked for hours, and

rocket is protected by woven screw before the short-term loans can be royal sign of Charles II. on it.

they thread cased in phoolum and stagger met from the various International. wants to help them. These puzzled him until he learn-

They are unconscious of the way explained quietly and without re-ed against the draw-curtain by rein- funds. ed that in 1877 a ship with a cargo the rest of the world regards them. ticence how they lived. Even with forced poople-pins. The under-car- of Jews harps and clay pipes left

Anna doing a bit of that spot to trade with the Indians in Virginia.

a member of F the notorious Hell-Fire Club which used to practife witchcraft,

In another stretch of Mr Green fuund five 17th

City

mud

We

10-year-old

The other day I went to a party die-work, the total family incomerlage is of grease-proof Iron, with a

(Copyright in international Anan-

Stocking-conscious

a with Otto, for which I provided bottle of

of schnapps, and there I met for one week is only 167 marks, and four-inch drop from the climberbolt ctal circles.)

onc the snub-catch-pinion, as Mr Green got his first clue to the a girl whom I will call Anna Schulz. a black market loaf costs 25 marks. to

At school

bool the

twins are learning would expect. Thames treasures quite accidentally. She was aged 22, blonde, and un- While firefighting on the river inmistakably German.

and 1941 he slipped in the mud

After two glasses.of

new Mimsie Slopcorner found he was clutching-a-James I.Anna said: "You know clay pipe.

is the sort of man

nothing because the old books are

there there are no schnapps forbidden and Otto? He ones yet. And there..no...paper.

most to write their exercises, on, It is

wc art

up

new nylon plant READING of a

"which" will produce 375 mlics of“ the exquisite In the some place he showed me proud of in Germany-a Bler.

Frau Lipke told me this, and said MEANWHILE,

Slopeorner girl, caring less for yam a minute ("faster, than sound," hundreds of pipes left by the tide a pity you are not an RAF man, she thought It was a terrible thing

I like all fliers, dating from Elizabethan days to the because

they are for children to grow

without Science than for an old button on a commented a well-known spokesman her in touch with stockings) for 24 hours education. great heroca," time of Queen Anne,

dunghong, is concentrating on film career, and is still clumbering a day, two things occurred to me. through her documentary film about (1) They have discovered, to no the secret of per- frozen Iceland cod. Her mother and small purpose, father came to see her on the set the petual motion. (2) if all the stock- other day, and watched her handing ings made in a year were laid end to a frozen cod to a demobilised sailor. end, all the female centipedes in Alter the scene had been shot England could have little nylon socks. but eighteen times, her father said: "It's See my

obvious which is Mimale. You can Times, October 15, 1048.

of

The Gaudiest, Riproaringest

Town in America

the

UT in the middle of the Nevada gumbling should be confined to Wall desert, surrounded by thousands Street, Las Vegas's gaming dens are

advertised along acres of blistering sagebrush innocently country, where shade temperatures highways as "dine-and-dance halls," Just now run more than 100 and "restaurants" and "hotel where thermometers pop like corks, But the moment the road to Las is the gaudlest, riproaringest town Vegas crosses into Nevada the 50ft. in America-Las Vegas, the city that slaps throw off all pretence makes a living-and a good one gaily begin to plant in the mind of out of human trallty.

the traveller the thought that it might be fun to try his luck at the tables.

Las Vegas prides itself on the fact that you can get married quicker, get divorced caster and lose your money faster thero than any- where else in the country,

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and

RIPE FOR THE LURE By sheer repetition, for there are hundreds of them, they break down This is holly disputed on all whatever resistance the traveller counts by Reno, and as to the first may have been putting up, and us two, I cannot say, but I can testify he finally pulls up in the centre of that it is surprisingly easy to lose the town he is ripe for the lure of gambling halls that line the streets the Frontier Clab," the Old

West, of Las Vegas,

the Ploncer Club," "Cactus Gambling Hall" and the

others

Line the route scores of

money. In any of the scores of the "El Rancho Gambling Pild

the

should disgorge occasionally which far more often do not.

Garages have gambling machines

so that you may have a quick Butter while your car's tank is being filled.

The restaurants have them. The barber shops have them and no magazines to read while walling. thus distracting you from the joys of gambling.

Even the grocer's son has them. of the hotels they In the lobbies stand in long lines and in the bars they compete for attention with the drinks,

If bellfruit machines are a too plebelan way of losing money for you, you may lose. It faster and in larger quantities at fare. Or rou- lette, or several games in which dice apparently not equipped with double sixes figure prominently.

There are also card tricks of every known type and many unknown to any but the indomitable Las Vegans

Across the

street

Mexican, work- man Wos repairing a big, electric One begins to suspect that there

sign that read Gretna Greent Mar is something different about this from one end of Las Vegas to the ringes arranged. while you

town, where, not so long other.

Chapel provided! Licences lilcludedi ago, it was a disgrace to die with Wide open to the street, they aro Low all-in rates!" one's boots off, while still hundreds jam-packed with serious-inced Divorces? Oh, they are a littic crowds industriously feeding coins of miles distant in the desert.

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