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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1949.

"Goorge, this presentation of cigarottos the villago made you-is il true you've boon selling them •

at the local for throa shillings a packot?"

JAMES CAMERON, Britain's most travelled reporter (he has a log book showing 100,000 miles)

down to earth

comes

assignment, and he says...

BACK IN GERMANY. THIS is travel now, coop- ed up in one's little rocking, thudding

once.

no

cell, clattering through the darkness eastwards from Brussels, For maiter what goes wrong with this journey, one can- not blame the airways; for we are travelling- how splendid is science-un the surface of the earth, not 8,000ft, above it.

oner.

ness

for

his latest

give me the old-fashioned airplane...

3

Night drags

Nine Out Of 10 Need Glasses

My cues are dim

I cannot ree

I have not brought

Afy ances with me...

THE

Nearly alt the glass for British spectacle lensca comen from one frm at St. Helens, Lancashire.

"Quartermaster's This firm delivera lens Stores" did not become blanks-about the size of a five-

abilling plece the most popular Army and manufacturers.

and frosted-to factory community song of One of them. 33-year-old the war for nothing. It was John Wiseman, director of M. based on a home truth.

Wiseman and Co., la the son of Minx Wiseman, who virtually the British spectacles

Futur people In every ten started

need spectacles brentse their Industry 25 years ago by trans- eyes are dim and they cannct shipping a factory with key men see even reasonably well.

Only enc person in every ten of the thou- sands thronging opliclans par- lours to have their eyes test.

ed under Bri- tain's new Nu- tienal Health Servico 13 found to have perfect unnid- ed vision.

So to Aneurli Bevan's quar- ter marker's stores on the civilian equi va – Jent of Army Form 108, are

year,

from Germany.

How they make specs to meet the 12 million pairs

Now, nged 71. Mux has Just flown to Australia to

· keep an eye on

busl

export demand since

A year Britain's National Health opticians examined the people's

and eyes found that nine out of 10 people cannot ICC reasonably well

even

BY

ness. When he began, Britain ¿mported 95 preent, of her apectacles. Now she makes all her own anct sends

11 per-

cent of her 1ena production oveniens, main- ly to the Do-

ALAN CLARKE minions

The Alperton factory, mana- pouring demands for spectacles ged by John Wiseman, can at the rate of 12 non patru a make 1,500 different lenses, about 05 percent, of all re- quired. They come in a multi- Since the Health Service urie of different sizes, shapes began Jast July. Britain's and optical powers. #isl are optical industry has Increased classified broadly into production by a quarter and is kinds, flat and curved. now making spectacles at a rate of nearly seven million paira n

year.

two

Curved lenses are the best, mod arc prescribed for Health Scheme spectacles. But, they are more difficult to make.

The elfference between de mand and production explains the delay in getting spectacles. About 400 different curved Average delay is now about 12 lenses are in everyday popular werka

demand. Bach type needs its Before the Health Service, own moulds, dies, grinding and atmal production of spectacles polishing tools. dropped considerably below the Changing over the machines' yearly average of 54 million takes time, so production has to be planned on a six-weeks

palra.

Then, on July 5, 1948, the cycle of work. situation changed dramatically overnight. The industry, from helng virtually at a standstill.

MUCH IN DEMAND

mournfully on The deeper into Europe the

was Jerted into very rapid I saw in production a much slower

reluctantly and mara

demandest type of "sphero- goes Nord Express; it is head-ution, 1 has not yet regained

its balance, but the production cylindrical torie" lens-that is, ing now into the gritty nose of the Ruhr, and I cannot blame ears are no longer increasing one shaped like a section of the

The

in our six languages conch gradually die down; all that is left now is a plaintive English voice brooding over dificulties of getting hold of a tow Belgian francs. (in the air one would never have heard

Jin.)

SI

so Inst.

CHIEF FACTOR

Chief Factor

handicapping production is shortage of lenses, This is caused by (n) lack of skilled workers and (b) lack of machinery-but this is now | being overcome.

side of a barrel.

Imagine several

acroplane hangars Joined together filed with rows of clanking, squeak- ing machinery. Each row has a line of rolating spindles so devired that dozens of lenses are ground or polished with a. slow circular sweep, rather as a So along we go, hundreds of Spectacle-makers are divident bald header man wipes round! all round the cleck, hot and say. In a couple of hours. One tons of grating steel moving into two main groups, prescrip- his crown, when hot. Workers,

hundreds tion houses cold, dark and light, well and end of the train Is Dardsh, our simultaneously over

and quantity pro- machines and factory nor are Outside is the tump : I wanted was the eight end is Czech, It resembler of steady miles. The Wright | duction houses. They make red with a coating of liquid

frames and lenses

by rouge. speckled, anonymous black-m. from Victoria, and I missed atmospherically the refrigerating Brothers never thought of that. both

mor- The train

CL wonderful different methods, but using the of Westphalia. No it. I reached the coast behind chamber of a Siberian

The process begins when the tuary, the radiutor Indicator thing, a great Invention. But same principles. They employ bomb pits, no shell scars in schedule and ill at ease.

Klasa blank, weighing about 9 points steadily to the side mark my words children, itabout 8,000 people. There are the night. There might How one hate the rolling

which saya with almost too will never replace the good duzens af prescription houses, drams, is moulded to the rough fo nboard slightly

· "Chladno-— old-fashioned emphasis:

Skymaster air-only about six have been no war, till day mun. 1

large-scale shape of the required lens. numbed by

precautionary

Froid-Kali-Freddo." lights up its ruin again.

breakfast of anti-seasickness

some- I swing it over and tablets and black coffee. I have A little while ago

in been

to four continents, but thing under the seat wheezes Aachen a German official

this Channel packet is the big momentarily, Hike a dying goat. aeriel Vapour rises, plunged his kepi in the door gest ship on which I have ever Some

is not nearly big bleskly. (Had this been a plane for passports with a gruff,” been. It

one could not enough "Guten Abend."

Does one say in a Channel uch fan).

In...a tralu.... In fact, one catu The light is still too dark-for-steamer -or-on. --- For me, it is. rending too bright for sleep. in. as deeply as possible, rather take part in many, activities:

She makes most of her own twelve dises at a time are glued ventilator to nd- Nord Express trundles the smells and the ereaks than Opening the

A month or so from with pitch or to a small cost- E great ambition of lathes. of that mil the product of what seems

iron wheel. Then the wheel is noisily along.

Kirl prospect

English Du way the constant

Mary Uglianitza, # chmates,

to be some nearby polson-gas it seems,

spindles of a from the greyish, turbulent, in-

over to mounted Spennymoor will come factory: hauling up a window typical American working do Mary's work last time I rode on it 13 years hospitable, emelic sea.

the Northamchine. like a dock gate; walking half girl, was to visit Britain. Bergen factory.

11

0.

1/1

Trains haYO that disturbing.

P0110*

Hot

which planes

have

In the past two or three yenes 1 have done a milenge equivalent of some three cir- cuits of the world, but this the first time I have done any part of it by good

old train bout-train.

To the COAST

OP

TOW, Anally, I am il-

NOW

ling like some Erte

TOOSTENDY

THE

peopled with

could they be?

much

have had that

mile up the train to get n preposterously expensive,

The boat degants me wanly Old Bean.

dank an:1 in a on to Ostend

La Heine des I own I would

bitter gale,

Ambler character surrounded Plages Harl

almost certainly by strange have been in Vienna by now

emissaries of who or equally probably still at.. and suspect knows what mysterious inter- Northolt. national interests.

American

some

Frankfurt

To the RUHR

and

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plane.

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manufacturers.

C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS

The American Scene

NEW YORK.

American

now

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12

In

the

from

with A

The disc is heated to 1,775 degrees F. and shaped by a pneumatic plunger and die. The shaped dist is then annealed by cooling for 24 hours to avoid Internal strains which would cause the lens to shatter,

After

testing for finws,

on the

HOURS OF GRINDING

Then follow hours of tedious (with abrusive), and polishing (with and felt). The machines on when

the operators

MERICA'S most persuasive clull The ambition grew out of all

from her A Reman Catholles meal.

nre try Jetters the wartine full-Britian brother 15 The

train

Britalo fast to persunde Earl Browder, rinding E ship is full of mus

David about

wartime boss of the U.S. Com-smoothing grumpily to and his English wife, as usual-what cross officers returning

Zone.

in North Ber- munist Party, to turn Catholte, rouge In the factory in Channel commuters these nuns the

carry re! From

for I botinel

Jersey, carliest youth

Ken, New

where she

LOCAL RAILWAY is going go to lunch. remember

assorted Nuremberg. crossing

works

suggestion- there is a this

experiment business

box. men,

One day she slipped in a Then They sit rimtia!

Broadway Spreint. Suburbanites After examination for tiny who chats per suggestion that for the better- in corners, pale and silent, but elegant Dame

sleeks-the they

sick-how petually in fluent English slang ment of Anglo-American rein- living up to 70 miles from New scratches--called never are

starts all over agali York will be able to buy tickets process of the twenties. For a brief, tions British

for the shows from railway on the reverse, side of the lens. nostartle recend he walls me | working girls should regularly booking offices. The train will

swap jobs.

brint them into town in time After being removed from the Like everyone who

uses for dinner wud

freezing the pitch by show, and pitch suggestion-box, Mary forgot all about it. But then her boss drinks will be

on the return trip supper and contracts more than the glass-- served to com- the lenses are given a naphtha sent for her. Said het "You

hath to remove any pitch and plete the night out. rail in the Queen Mary on

traces of rouge, and are then THREE Englishmen February 11."

the death polished by hand. Now, for the THR

are found in a first

banker Nathan McClure, first ume. "I'm pretty lucky." Mary told crons blame

they appear as The train walla. emiting compartment with second-class

ine,

"If my parents had not

of farrison, New York, upon shining bits of spectacle glass. type of damp, gasping tickets. The German leket decided to come here frum

befall The man in the corner looks that

misadventure likely to remonstrates, 15 Russia I might have been work few in Britain.

Each is tested a C.C.G. ofeial homing slens

He choked on like

for power, from leave in Streatham, the grands express europeens.

thickness, surface a plece of steak.

quality and Londres, Ostende, cowed by a show of aggression, ing beland the Iron Curtain." behind

retires helpless. I chonour waits with

feel mildly

optien concentration. Each leng Jy, who is 22, will wort: as beard claims

a Bruxelles, to bo

Frankfurt, sorry for him, Koeln,

a lesier in a

to one ten- lamp factory at RACK IN NEW YORK for the must be accurate AT 2.30, 5.20, black

Spennymoor, Durham. She will first time since the war, the thousandth of nn Inch, but salesman from Lelge; but I am Koenhagen, Praha written on

Its iron flank. It has a long Shortly afterwards a British

set the local wake

Instead of Queen of Bermudn got the usually the Accuracy in the mood to see intrigue and

inceta almost ten uncas a week.

biggest reception of any British greater. 7.20 & 9.20 P.M. conspiracy in those brief-enses, way to go and a lot of time to frontier official

precisely the same situation She will live off rations ship yet. Apart from the usuni hose folded coples of Le Soir get there.

with

American sergeant Instead of having

Spectacle frames are cut ond us much whistles and sirens In New de Bruxelles.

There is no sily optimism

from sheets of plastic about us being on the point of travelling on inadequate orders, meat, butter, and other things York's bay, there was a crowd pressed

and retires similarly baffled 1 us her family can afford.

of sightseers, most of them in many varying colours; Nesh- departure-had it been a plane feel less sorry for him.

At home Mary gets up at middle-aged, at the pler. The coloured plak and brown are one would be continually en-

5.30 every morning to help get reason: New Yorkers remember the most popular. Metal frames couraged by. "Any minute There I believe you have breakfast, for the family and with nostalgia the Ilauor cruises are made from drawn wire with

one of, air travel's

great nd-wash up. She now.”

kes skating they took in her between here thin skin of gold around it. Here

and second and dancing, and prefers sermoun at Bermuda the train will leave vantages, no Rest

during Probibi-Cases are made by specialist when it is good and ready class stuff:

firms, cost eighteen pençe.

THE LATE GEORGE APLEY

and introducing

PEGGY CUMMINS:

Lucillo BALL

Directed by JOSEPH & MANKTËNICZ

•

Produced by FRED KOHLMAR

Franchot TONE

TO-MORROW. "HER HUSBAND'S AFFAIRS"

MH

the

I feel there should be some thing in this for Alfred Hitch cock. I have, as I say, got out of the way of trains.

It begins in h most munulane and embarrassing fashion. 1 have caught airplanes at hours

NANCY

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