1949-03-12 — Page 4

ARCTIC

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1949.

DIARY

Six waves a minute

for the blue-nose boys

from FRANK GOLDSWORTHY

Only London newspaper reporter sailing with the "Doffin ships." In HMS Loch Arkaig

FEB. 1.6

THIS frigate, proud of be-

hauled over 50 yards of angry

with merciful

HCA

OFFICERS, ⋅ ob- FEB. 20 servers, seamen, were detailed speed. Only a day excur for pulley bout teams on the slon was intended, but flight deck to bring 100 loads of heavy swell defeated the re- stores across from refilling tan- turn attempt and so I had ker Wave Premier, but galos

and opérations, the doubtful distinction of balled

were sent off to re- appearing among dinner- watchers

leather time bow-ties

battle turn to rug-making, dress, submariner's jersey work, or Bielr Sunday deep. and sca-boots.

The weather is cold by

In

•In dormitory tonight English standard, but is ing the smallest surface ship friends of popular young what we need.

In the

the

nol

}

force, crossed the

Lieutenant Donald Elliott, This anti-climax to the Arelle Arctic Circle after three killed when a Sen Otter adventurers is making us feel days of falling sideways crashed over the ship's side more red-faced than bluc-nosed, down rollers-racing like a were quietly packing his so we console ourselves watch-

gear: "off."

rush-hour crowd, from Greenland to Norway. The waves, counted by stop- watch

stomach. and averaged six S minute- 8,640 a day.

Like Itma's Sophie Tuck- shop, we are "all right how."

conversation was ing

Guinea-pigs

FEB. 19

WATCHED cine -camera

n Ginger Rogers film in dume conts and sea boots.

Beard value

MORE gales and FEB. 21 frustration. ite- fuelling again making time and motion abandoned. The most quizzed block- A south wind belies our study of guinea-pig gun- man in the ship is

Lieutenant but crew to establish efficiency bearded Instructor

John Booth from Bedhampton, spray is beginning to freeze decline under prolonged ex- Hampshire, the meteorological

officer.

blue-nose certificates,

on the stanchions.

WISECRACK OF THE DAY: From the bridge to Frank Evans, recently- seasick Admiralty civilian

observer,

after an excep tionally heavy roll: "Compli ments of the officer of the watch and regrets he was unable to dodge that one.”

the To

northward. destroyers Gabbard and St Kitts were in a quiz match by radio-telephone.

20,000 ft. up.

posure.

On the signal deck Mr Harry Kay, Cam- bridge psychologist. was checking strength

w

dexterity with grip-meter and nuts and bolts as the inen's hamis got colder.

His records show cale winds at maximum of 70 miles an hour, averag-

The ind 12 hours daily.

Inoks graph barometric

the New as craggy as York skyline.

Tea-time discussion to-

they

was between three

research TOUR On the The ship's cham-

Aretie value of their ex- pion guinea-pigs are

perimental -day beards. the repudtale Ordinary Seaman Lewis,

18, theory that these will be uncorn- aged John

Cleck fortable in freezing spray, and Mount Street, of

claim a suitable tee-coating on heaton, Yorks, and Able the outer beard will sol on in- Hathaway, sulating layer of worm air round Seaman Tony aged 20, of Lion Land, the face. Haslemere, Surrey. geance off the snow-covered 7,000-foot-high They spend three hours Jan Mayen Island, Norwe-daily on the flight deck in ten winds, ginn meteorological outpost. gale-strength

[ FEB. 17 | MET.

Ven-

First day of Arctic flying, skin-heat measuring leads

They

declined the challenge that in the interests of science only they shave half the face to test the relative warmth of each half in ley conditions

wives

To all

THE only fee in sight is selling the briskly in

Lieutenant (A) Keith Shep- attached to their arms, legs. bodies. To simulate hard observes a super blue and

FEB. 22 waiting and working nose certificate for taking the

deck ship's canteen. flight

a Sea Vampire jet to 20,000 periods of

ft., where the temperature parties, they sit still was below the recorders hour. (estimated at 90 degrees of frost) and remarking

one

on

South African Dr E.

A.

is

his return: "The heater was not working. It was pretty nippy.".

Rope journey

of Wyndham,

Here is a meme to the wives, mothers, and sweethearts of the 2,000 men of the Arclic Force. The ships have not despatched since sailing, but if any mail

Oxford weather permits 4 transfer of

University climatic unit,

mails to the Wave Premier and making these tests of dif- the Loch Arkaig letters may be ferent types of protective expected soon. clothing.

So far the Vengeance cham- plon letter-writer,

19-year-old

Filt

"Mum! I heard Dad tell the man next door that if Gaitskell lets us have petrol for Easter he's going to break the back axle rather than take us to the seaside"

AFTER

HOW WILL ISRAEL LIVE? A now Stato, at peace from today, sots out to balance its budget at a time when an orango pickor sponds £10 a wook-out of a £12 pay packet-on food:

ORANGES-WHAT?

EVERY DAY

thousands more Israelis-n typical into Palestine. group is pictured above-stream Their task: to build an economical and political life for their young country.

Egypt, first of the warring Arab States to negotiate, has signed

When armistice with Israel. on

the remaling Arab States make settlements the countries of the Near East will once more be at peace.

After nine months of strife comes this assessment of Israel's task

BY ERIC GREY

TEL-AVIV.

commer-

and £135 million in

cial credits such as the first loan of the Export-Import Bank for 100 million dollars (£25 mil- lion), all of which is to be the spent in capital goods in United States.

The solution to Israel's therefore, les in the

we get

Pinued flow of manpower and

capitul

"50

the lone as both smoothly for the next five to ten years, and put them to productive use, we can live,"

say the Israel leaders.

They have no illusions about "soft" living on borrowed capitol. Rigorous taxation They got no Imperial Pre- luxury goods has already been

Palestine ference when

was imposed. A national housing coloured red

the Britain paid the same rates for housing units

map company is putting up

20,000 Jaffa orange as for Spanish.

this year at cost of £20 million-but it

SK an Israeli if his new State can survive and he will look at you in shocked amazement., Hasn't Two more attempts to re- Marine Dennis Wilde, of Greet-i he just benten four Arab will continue to buy because she a halt persons per room. | FEB. 18 ¦

Vengeance, turn me to Loch Arkaig fail- and, Yorks, has written 64 let- armies and Mr Bevin? standing in a rope stirrup ed.

1 CROSSED to

SHUTTERED VILLAS, 5/- BETS, POINT

TO THE CRISIS ON THE RIVIERA.

For the Casino-

by Sam

WHITE

PRINCE

LOUIS

OF MONACO 10-

The gambling

slump

upsets

his budget

ters with

an

pages each.

average of six

one slot machine

CANNES.

Ask him how Israel, is go- ing to live. "That's a good question," he says. “You tell me."

But they are confident Britain needs oranges and Israel needs sterling-which she spends_en- tirely on food within the Em- pire.

DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES

MELES

LEBANON..

sztroth

PALESTINE

FALEMAN

JERUSALEM

FIELD.

A SEAL

cas

Vula

Luscat

"Aaj

EGYPT

NECEV ARKA

SINAI

DESERT

of

PROMISED LAND The borders are one step nearer settlement.

1

Andings: Israel is planning-

resources to the utmost. Potash will no longer be exported raw from Dead Seu deposits. A £500,000 company founded re- --cently-in-Tel-Aviv will process

Now In terms of food imports M to develop her few naturn!

the Empire pool. But they are

C.V.R. Thompson

A to Z in one shot

NEW YORK. GANGSTER'S accidon-

Atal death broke up plans for an all-out gang war in New York's suburbs.

at

Stanley Fox, a leader Brooklyn's Black Hat gang, had reuson to believe that the rival Muskeleers gang was after him. Tie decided to buy a new gun. A salesman brought him - a trick one. Ils holster was hollowed out dictionary, which could be carried under the arm without arousing suspicions.

a

Fox was trying it out when the gun went off and killed him. That brought the police. And allar questioning Fox's' com- rades the police made a series of raids.

They captured the arsenals of both gangs. Their loot: eight rifles, six revolvers, and one pistol, a number of home-made guns, a dozen knives, including a curved Jungle knife, and am- munition.

The police also arrested seven members of the rival gang

being

whom they suspect of ringleaders.

When they appeared in court these suspected gangsters were accompanied by their parents.

The reason: They are all teen- agers, the average ngó being 17. Stanley Fox was 15.

PRIL is the month which is A expected to show if the present American buying slump is here to stay. So an Illinois Br gave its 1,000 workers £12 each and asked them to wait until May before asking for n 'rise. DABIES should be fed a

dicl meat after including

six weeks, says n medical report Amorca's meat Aponsored by Industry. Doctors tested two sets of babies, one fed on meat, the other on a normal diet.

Their

findings: The meat- fed babies slept better, showed less tendency toward annemis, and were generally belier physi cally."

UE sandwich, typical lunch

THE

for the typical New Yorker, has become almost a rarily. And thousands of New Yorkers have (biscuits) crackers to cat instead of bread. Reason: A strike af the city's six biggest bakeries,

AN Englishman, and a Socialist A M.P. at that, is writing to

are

IL

planning on housing three and anxious to stabilise the Israell American newspapers, and anti- pound at par with sterling in British newspapers at that, to to say that Britain's good old days terms of dollars, and rendy

Kone for ever. Mr R. W. allow private Investors to collect

(Soc., Kingston- G. Mackay thele income in Israel and ex-upon-Hull) gels a whole column port it in hard currency, ' In the New York Dally News.

The Nows summarises A Tourist boom is antici-

and Americans are memoranduin it received from pated,

him thus: "Mackay

says the already in the field planning

Kritish Government still ኮሮ chain of luxury hotels,

first-class gards Britain

It thinks that within Labour is willing to freeze Power. wages if the Government will a few years Britain will be impose rigorous price controls. back in trade and power where was before World War II.

calls Industrial development will

this utter non- a Mackay Most important of all in be based on raw materials which

of Grall

weight, e.g., country where trades unions are sense. Britain will be a second- Power as long is it the primary political force, class diamonds, or which are only a

the hope of recovering the labour is willing to forgo some nurses of fraction of the value

to co-operate its former glories. finished product, such as optical privileges and

with capital in tightening

OLLOW instruments.

alone that still leaves a gup of 15 million odd, a vast sum for Nine out of ten people do not tiny Isruel. How will the Jews know the answer yet (though All it? Half Israel's territory is none doubts that an answer,_still_barren_desert. and a good one, can be found). In Haifa port any day of theirs. The tent is Mr Cuben, who week you will see the new keeps the cafe round the corner Israelis coming in by the thou- from the Press oflice where we sand. Since British rule endea British and American corres- 130,000 have landed-more than

seven times the annual

quota pondents work in Tel-Avir.

allowed in the old days,, .

FIRST SOURCE OF STRENGTH

Mrs Cohen is famous for her borsch, which her mother taught her to make in their native Russia. On fine days Mr Coben

s

year alone more than lays a table for you on the ter- 200,000 Immigrants are ex- race and you con lunch with jected, which means the populo- blue tion will increase by 20 per- glittering postcard for sale since the customers

elaborate that has been by pay

them the end of the war is Lord Mediterranean

spread before cent, ystems-bui yun Fre

the rooms.

SOCIAL change is hitting teave the tables after winning Derby's, with 20 servants" bed-

the Riviera. or lusing £5. Many of To allay fears and holster famous panelled salles privres

now shut-those salles are pulling into their advertise-

characters walked out into the

you.

More mouths to feed? Yes. but more hands, skill, and more brains to work.

Reluctantly.. estate agoula

"Have some cream In your borsch?" he said to me. Then:

In continued their own hopes, the pub. are

Immigration Israel sees the first source of licity agents are claiming privers from which Oppenheim, ments the sentence, "This pro- "Go on, have some. You won't

perty

is suitable for institu- get it much longer."

strength and ability to live. So that it has been the best shrubbery to blow their brains tional purposes."

That had a familiar ring. No when a senior member of the have been which winter season since the out.

Hotels

its the of cream

soup. no CS Government tells you, "We are generations

and bacon for breakfast, meat once a week. dark bread instead going to build 70 factor

*WAT.

10

known Gamblers economise British visitors are being con- The biggest verted into flats, They have captioned it The Season of the ex-Kings, Eum in

VEN more murked than the single blow to the Riviera was tho the British Government's Im- suicides is in recognition of the simul lump in casino takings. Like position of currency restrictions taneous presence of the almost all the Riviera casinos, on Britons going abroad. Their Duke of Windsor, ex-King Monte Carlo casino has been place as residents and visitors

ever since the has never been Alled. Leopold of Belgium and ex- losing money

Monaco statesmen, King Michael of Rumania. headed

war. Now

by Prince Louis I Steaks, champagne But m

the ure faced with the problem of deducing that

that was Riviera will revive as a fashion- balancing: a budget,

the paradise

publicity almost wholly financed by casino NEVERTHELESS, the Riviera agents are misreading the signs. takings. They

able

who

were

a highly polished

of white, your clothes ralloned: in one. word, musterity,

Israel is going to get a double dose of it on the British pat- tern-and it may last as long as Britain's.

BRITISH CUSTOM FOR ORANGES

year," or

this; 1,000, square miles of lessert land un- der cultivation, we shall dam the River fordan and divert its course and irrigate the Negev." you know he is not just talling Middle East hot air,

A least 20 percent et im- migrants will be directed to the land.

are

Industrialists are thinking in terms of Mediterranean and European markets, not just of Middle East markets.

Bankers are loth to return to area if it means the sterling turning Israel's dollars over to

The Omanhene

law of UT for an unusual

smiling Gold succession a

Ekow

Budu-Arthur, Coast African, who was baptised Samuel

£1-a-week my," would be a and is known to me as "Sam- clerk in a Customs office.

Instead he has become

British paramount chief of

uncle. Sekondi, succeeding an His title is. Omanhene, meaning grandfather of the people.

the

Its

as a

BUSINESS: Harold

belt and accepling austerity for Lloyd, funny man of the

the next five to ten years.

seven

silent days, Is reissuing Thus, given ten years of of his masterpieces, with sound prave, the Jews can and will tracks added to them....It will Mitchum all this make a going concern of their take Robert

file State. They like cream in year and next to earn enough their borsch, but they are will to pay the lawyers who defend- ing to vo without Il for a while. ed lita on those dope charges.

Sammy the clerk

is now king

He must observe the code of mudpinster slums; shiny Euro- ancestor-reverence, which lays pean cars, and bawdy houses. down that places must be kept

the dead

festive ot all for tables.

He will

be called upon to

Sammy's "palace" is a long, rambling structure where goats, sheep, and diseased poultry wander in and out of the rooms,

There are

no entie in the

smeat sacrificial animal blood on the ancient stuol which is the symbol of his office. But Sammy territory because it is within sleeps with a photograph of the Isetse-fly belt, Einstein above his pillow,

Nana Kobina, whom Sammy He has a private army, which has succeeded, was illiterate.

And so are, more than 00 ond carries flintlocks. parades in papier-macho shirts

percent

Coast 'pat ie of Gold Sammy can now afford to mount chiefs, which is why the marry. Polygamy is dying out hew Omanhene thinks one of

worst blunders Britain' rapidly in his country because the the price of a wife has trebled made was the setting up of the council of colony's provincial since the war..

chiefs.

It turned venerated upholders of law and order, who were once kept aloof from politics, inte politicians..

The second expected source of No one will tell me what is

capital have even in social as well as seente jewel. : months of war against the strength is the flow of The, people

the stalled an American-made slot It still looks beautiful, the sun who made

Arabs has cust this little coun- Ternel will attract as a country Riviera

still shines. no longer have the machine in one of the casino's

secret. But of development. That will upset So for this social beachhead try.. It is a State money: most of those who now gilded foyers,

inve it do not spend it freely. Of the fabulous past only the of the Western world has been the result is written large, in the trade balance even further, all the cost-of-living index. Since because capital will come in the against Tsarist held tenaciously beautifully mannered

I first came here, just before form of goods-tractors and Enter the workers General Polovisait, the casino's the forces urrayed against it,

master of ceremonies, and the though few of the fashionable the fighting began, it has more combines, power plants, Irriga

Graces Threo ITUIE now rich have made the Thi

remain. The throng doubt the Inevitability than doubled. And that is only tion pipes, and machinery,

what the official figures tell you. But Riverless fashionable, Three Graces were three Ed- of ultimate defeat.

every country went winter season, beauties

The present

Food prices have almost through that stage in its period and much more difficult to main wardton

development. In their day. limited though it was, still pro-

The tain in its old luxury condition. noted gamblers And paid holidays, specially in They still visit the casino and vided a fascinating glimpse of trebled. No family man know of early

less than £12 United States had an unfavour- the world where steaks, scuffies here earns France, bring tens of thousands still gomble. of working-class families to the

As for the General, one feels and champagne are staple diet, week. The new immigrants, who able trade balance for years. that he must have pat up a where nobody goes to bed be- are picking jaffas in the orange

MONEY GIFTS FROM const every summer.

action fore four, от lunches before belt Just now, get that much, rearguard The result is to be seen in tremendous

ABROAD three. A world of dukes-and And they spend at least ten of it the low stake gambling at the against that slot-machine.

princes.. maharajaks and mil on food. villas along casinos, shattered

Prices drop ilonaries. Here gossip is a full- the coast and

season

Israel: plans to import about AS a borrowing country Israel boredom time occupation,

Ais in a singularly fortunate that la a mockery of the past,

money gifts

None of his sons, would offer their blood for a transfusion. A lasting barely two weeks DECAY, loo, in the dominant constant care, and not to be half the food she needs this position: she gets

D

from a recognized, the deadlest of in-year-£20 million worth. How from Jews all over the world. Impression gained Monte Carlo's casino-the

is she going to pay for it? The At sulis.

The Government's estimate is nephew dit. The chief recover garlah, wedding-cake structure drive along the const road.

Current favourlies at Riviera orange crop is worth £0 mil which is the fancial mainstay least half the sizable villas be- of Monaco-now seems more tween Cannes and Monte Carlo cocktail parties are two wealthy lion to £8 million and it is that Israel will need. £025 mill-ed and, in gratitude, decreed

to Sammy, the new ruler, is a shermen. that amount Israel expects lice a mausoleum than an inter- are shuttered and for sale, Many Californian twin brothers. One the only cash crop in the coun- llon in the next seven years, Or him, hiä heir.

slaunch Methodist. national centre of fashion and are British-owned. Their owners in writing a book, the other is try.

The growers at least are mure get £250 million in gifts.

About 23,000 people, live in are unable to maintain them indexing it. "We've got the

not

of Sekondi, 'part of spending.

For the last two years gift caroloss

of sciling it. They explained,

United States In his new role he has to the town hush Tho cathedral

still or sell them owing to currency psychology,"

of the which comes within his domain. "Pray for your friend Sammy." "and we are just over hore to worried by the fact that they dollars from the

been running at worship at the shrines

It has modern villas and hangs over the gambling tables, restrictions:

£260 | spirits that inhabit the sacrod annually; Prices are often absurdly low: find the characters to at it rely on Britain to buy the bulk alone have

stores, but now It provides the incon

The pick of They have come to the right of it, although Israel, remains £25 million

million from private Investors rivers and groves. gruous accompaniment to 08. £10,000 will buy

outside the sterling area. bola Crim and intent, the them. Ona famous properly place.

A

winter

they

а

Bre

Legend has li that the system

of nephew-Inheritance originot ed centuries ago when a great chief lay dying.

A few years ago a bride could be bought for £7 10s., and some

Now, even illiterate girl costs about £25, educated ones £70 or more. phim-wine.

in

an

Bro

In order of social precedence

kingdom Sammy's

engine- teachers, drivers, money-lenders, atters, formers, and market-sellers, notaries,

corrugated iron

and

Their ignorance has been used by subversive lawyers and students to foster anti-British propaganda,

Sammy bellover in the Com monwealth.

He hopes to go to Britain un a student this year.

In a

letter to me he anke:

Gerald Scheff