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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1948.

HOW LONG CAN YOU STAY ON HOLIDAY?

-And how long before you found that Sunshine Island could be-Spy Island?

The hotel's

wall's Light Infantry, const, mostly occupied the 12,000 remaining tainees on the island.

are on the in guarding Jewish de-

For the rest, headquarters, leave compe, hospitate are down to a main atmosphere- demob minimum. Five thousanil is have a good figure for the whole „Army noticeable especially if you

bullets, strength on the island, censorship, movement -restrictions, and decuying law and order of the But the Middle East is peace.

come 'from the buimba.

Forcen broadenst

£1

KYRENIA, Cyprus. [F you have ever indulged

in that well-known day dream, in which you walk out of your job, sell your possessions, seek a remote, Peace and the British flag dap- mitter which has its own program- languid island' paradise, and do ping

a flagpole nothing ever more but eat, Hittle Kyrenia port sleep, swim, sunbathe, drink, aby fish. or just drowse over It hook--you may as well forget

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It is the majority opinion of 140 Britons that it is better to have a job. For the past three months they have been doing what you have been dreaming, They're sick of it.

The place where the experi-

011

Army maintains

station-a trans-

relays the B.B.C.-fair above the mes und

enough evidence that We sholl customs, shed

maintain a bigger Army strength in Cyprus than we did ten years ago. Strength then-one company. The future?

R.A.F. strength is more traa- steni. more variable. Latest Ogures: | Union Jack will Two Spitfire squadrons--some Tem- T'wo jet-planes. Statlon How long the

flap, and whether the peaceful pests. ness of the Dome Hotel, of Kyrenia, Commander--rank Group Captain.

persist, depends on Without sensationalising Cyprus Cyprus, will two factors the world outside, and as "spy Island," put it this why: the Cypriots themselves. There are enough aircraft to look Out... two fronts, external and internal. enough radio sets to listen In.

Where does the future lle?

The oilmen swimming round The island of Cyprus (area 3,000 The Dome know little of these

population 474,000,

in 1878, struggles. As far as they are con ment in all play, no work, is square miles,

Occupied by the British

cerned they are la almost as Idyllic

spot as they can find.

Crown-colonised

iike

in 1914,

ratiter lying

nn

And they would stil sooner be

currently on test is the Dome annexed Hotel, Kyrenia, Cyprus- fine, in 1925), long. low 145-roomed. hotel austerity pork chop 40 miles south

of the Turkish ninland, is today at work. jutting out into the clear blue shaping up as a key-point

clefence Ine in Mediterranean.

Anglo-American

The experimentalists are men and their families from the big oil companies of Palestine, forced into idleness by the de- cision to withdraw from that country pending peace.

They have all the

the Eastern Mediterranean.

is the

It is not that vet. But there are symptoms of growth in that dlcee-

lon.

Cyprus look-out for Britain

pleasures of your Fot. both Britain and day-dreams. They Ambrica... a look-cut have good food,

and a listening-post... any amount Lo drink, mountains to climb, crystal waters to swim in. Their hotel rooms have baths. There is an English coun- trý club. A library. A cinema. There is unlimited sunshine.

Men and women

CYPRUS

MEDITERRANEAN

"SEA"

by

EGYPT

who used to live and PETER DUFFIELD work in Haifa now.

sit for hours along the sea front, eating their meals together, playing tennis in the same fours, drinking at night in the same company. They are burn- ed browner than your boot.

Leisure

husky oil You will see one

company officer returning dust-and-swent-caked from Д mountain hike. Then there is a skilled refinery process-engineer, lying flat on his stomach on the blue sen, a fish harpoon gun in his hand, breathing steadily through an underwater breath- "ing apparatus, gazing hour after hour into the mysterious bed of

the sen.

But....

.

ns a

in in preparation and sastening-post

and America.

I was in the island less than 24 hours befor I heard a dis- between air- cussion

men Baku, one pilot 900 pointed out, is

miles away. Moscow-

1,400, slightly

1058

than the distance

from East Anglia.

IL

ls fair to say that the discussing this 123

ware American.

Ι

The planes

WAS in the Island

less than 36 hours before the first jet plano

like screamed

All-Are over my head.

It is fair to say that the Inan flying this Vampire was British.

Spend another 24 hours in the

learn that the

PARLIAMENTS

ا

"Catch me arguif the tons at Margate during MY recess..."

R. M. MacCOLL sends a holiday heartery

Be

thankful your children aren't roped in

for this!

WASHINGTON.

UST now in the cool New England States, and especial- ly in Massachusetts, Ver-

island and you American "Mats." or Military Airmont, and New Hampshire,

Transport Service men are here thousands of American children weather and fuel experts guiding planes in from the States to Saudi are members of organised holi- Arabia, now that the Calro or day camp. Lydda, routes are shut down,

They are working airfield,

perfect with the R.A.F. unit that the airport. -

Another 12 hours and there is

There

In the mountains or at the on Nicosia Seaside they are swimming and conjunction horseback riding, playing hasE- controls ball and practising archery, getting tanned, heavier, and the story of the erection of Ameri presumably healthier. ca's greatest monitor station abroad-

is only one thing with this otherwise now being constructed with Bei-wrong

young tish permission und American dol- idyllic picture-two

the lars to serve the State Department MacColls with the latest and the best in Slav propaganda translation.

campers. And why should this strike a jarring note? A few hours on the airport to calle that Cyprus has, too, rud- Because it makes Father's denly become the crossroads to the bank account look like a case Middle East-planes flying one of pernicious anaemia.

hour to the Arab States, the next, to Israel.

are

among

'Musts': 36 items

at

Drawing by ROBB

the surrounding woods.

11-

Moppet Number Two is an year-old girl. She is scraping along. in a junior Savoy somewhere in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania.

Her

camp's basle fee. by some strange freak, was a piffling £05. Her list of "accessories" was as long as my arm, but much more expen- sive

than my arm has hitherto

proved to be.

There were 26 Items, including 10s, for a dozen "special" woven name Laps, and a dufle bag with zip fastener only £ï 12s. (Federal tax included),

The whole caboodie set me back a matter of £27 Is Bd.

CAID

'The 'grub'

the prospectus: "Our camp

very

proud of the fine foods we rive

Our

campers

inter

nostalgic

toll

girls. Former

Us that in

life they

04

grow

they fondly ndall the homey'' flavour

of our hot rolls.""

Hot rolls? For £05? What, no sausage and mashed?

Train fares for my son to New Hampshire were five Kuineas. Driving my daughter-to-Pennsylvania- cost £1 10s, in petrol, What did he want with a sleeping So there they are. I hope they bag? Didn't the camp provide beds? are "having a wonderful time" for Those of you now sunning your Oh, yes, but this was for one ONE, the total outlay of £280 11s. 2d. Charter planes from Australia, selves while your offspring remain mark you-"overnight," when the which I have made.

But somehow I'm not sure. They "It was all right for the first Holland, South African, and smaller contented and happy with spade and boys leave camp and have fun in

keep writing to say how nice it will month," say the majority. "It firms like Hornton Airways. Lon-, pall may perhaps got a kick out of

be to come home again. "Only began to pall during the second. don, fly in, stay awhile, refuel and quick glance at my expense account

for the camps, For, believe me, He had to have tetanus "shols."

another 23 days..." You know the What will it be like after six check out.

rather reason- sort of things aggravated assault doctor Was You don't have to stay long to holiday camps are Big Business in The

Now, months? It's demoralising learn of the existence of William J. America today.

able about this-only an extra two

But guineas.

shopping for that on my funds were all it would be Consul enough already."

Porter, the first American ever on the island. Over the past

But it is not. Over list really took mo to the bad enough. comp It is wonderful for the children, years you

cleaners, as they ruefully say in and above this I have had to grap- have met kimi in may palatable for the marrieds: but Damascus, Beirut,

ple with forms, of all things-two Jerusalem. A

Number One is a 12. America.

or three for each child, Huge, great it is, oddly, best' of all for the shrewd mon, with a background of

of MOPPET

year-old boy. He is disporting handful of administrative men 12 years in the Middle East.

himself in a style to which 1 certain- By the time we had got all those things, and no heel-taps permitted. from Consolidated

There was a Refineries, Ltd.,

"personality chart There is nothing sinister in all ly was not accustomed at his age

for my

questions. Haifa, who have set up office in HAZEL BROOKS

this just good politics and good on establishment in New Hampsaire, uniforms and lovely jerseys with camp crest worked in three the hotel and work six or so hours business. Good business like the The basic fee is £100 for two the

heaven's a day.

colours on the chest, those seven What sort of

an 11-year-old rate, for American geo-physicists wandering months.

Har interests. aptitudes, looking for all. The Dome Hotel.

But that was only the start. The pairs of tricky little shorts (week- sake? most round the island

by the Iraq

sent me a slight list of things day and Sunday ones), the electric attitudes towards this and that. Petroleum ollmen

torch, the gym shoes, the mocensing. Her temperament, hobbies, illnesses, camp of the

are congregated employed Company.

which were "musis." It consisted and where the first principles of

the And while

liny American

They ran from polo the drinking cup, the mess kit, the successes and fallures. Her renetton 36 items. of hedonism have been SO rudely

six aucleus on the island grows (there shirts to fishing equipment,

pairs of speelal socks, shattered, is probably the most

island), what of

heavy wool sweater, There were also items not con- knapsack, the peaceful hotel in the Middle East e 125 on the

the British?

strictly sidered

but the "optional" camera, the "optional"

the In the lust war the Royal Air

heavy cin a worthwhile

As far as my son was fancy-dress It is at the moment

Force fell it was one of the

the extra blankets, the hottest but one ∙of the cheapest base. The Army did not. The Air concerned they, too, were "musta," shoes, the baseball "mitt" of calf's House

There was a camp uniform. When leather,

Hunting knife, the two pairs of hotels in the Eastern Mediterranean Force held that it could become a

use the slangular. I mean that there g airport--and built circult, costing about 25s, per day floating island with food, depending on your room.

13 long, heavy-bomber airstrips to is a design for a camp uniform, of rid

whith seven sets must be purchased. paper handkerchiefs, and much else prove it.

weekdays, but besides, I had disbursed, with the It is A strangely shambling The Army held that troops could Not Just for

worst possible grace, the structure which Mr. Calselils, its not be taken to the island quickly different one for Sundays.

sweatsuit £43 10s. 28. Cypriot owner, delights

11, or be with- In re enough to protect building and augmenting each drawn quickly enough in an for a 12-year-old, mind you) such Just the other day I got u letter "Daddee, what shall I do no-o-ow?" a, emergency. The compromise is ap-as Olympic athletes wear to keep from the camp director. Gently he curb that hasty rejoinder; dissolve

them warm before the big race. new bar here, an open-air cinema parent today. there

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today.

where

"klesirable."

There

necessary

was a

snappy

a

costume.

breeches,

three boxes

the

to groups.

dasonality chart does

Her popularity or lack of it. Who The be running this camp?

Un-American Activities Committee?

of

sum of You've

What's free?

next time little Derek or tiny Pamela runs up to you just as embarked on the pleasant snooze in the hired deck chair on the

the old cry of sands, with

all right-they send their

year-a- now ballroom here,

The Army

What for? For him to wear while reminded me that I had overlooked that beetling scowl.

After all, they don't represent so two small items.. he is waiting his turn to "bat" at

much in sunken capital, do they? It is the only hotel I know

baseball (with the other 12-year- Would I kindly remit, £3 10s. for "The land of the free and the where they have forgotten lo put in any bells-0

my son's 'spending money, and a home of the brave," wrote Francis olda), that the

£3 53. for There was a sleeping bag which further

the various Scolt Key In "The Star Spangled system

breakfast or a of getting

THE THERE is a minute force of Bri- clean towel is to go into tie cor- fish troops now on Cyprus had to be the same kind as US. group photographs which would be Banner." This is the Home of the ridor outside your bedroom and fewer than

(Wish I had such a jolly reminder of a happy Brave, brigade. Army officers use. A peacetime

camps. But yell. (A fault, Mr. Catseilla nesures Two hattalions,

the South Wales had as good a one when I went to time for my son down through the children to

FREE? years?

What is7. Borderers me, now being remedied.)

and the Duke of Corn-Albania some years back.)

summer

NANCY

With My Compliments

OH, BOY

By Ernie Bushmiller

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