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The Lost People

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"It used to be the glory of the game that counted-not fancy pants."

FROM ALBUHERA

OYAL Fusilier uniforms belonging to the late King George

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V. hundred-year-old Rus- sian drums, Colours carried the Peninsula War, Napoleonic Eagle standard, soiled tablecloth which marks the fall of Monte Cassino, and the

mounted

DONALD

By

PETER

London Express Bervios

TO

May

'CRAZY-CASH' LANDS OF EUROPE

By JOHN GODLEY

heir of Lord Kilbracken, who is travelling 12,000 mites from England by car and shiji to attend the centenary In November of the province of Canterbury, New Zealand. One of his ancestors, John Godley the first, founded Christchurch,

H

ATHENS. ERE I becamo a millionaire. I walked into the Bank of Athens and

cashed travellers' cheques

worth just £25.

In exchange I received more than 1,000,000 drachma. It takes 44 drachma to make a farthing.

This was the elfmax to a month of crazy currencies. We have made our way mouth by car from Britain through France, Italy, and Yugoslavia,

In Yugoslavia I cashed my money into dinars. The official rate is 140 to the £. But outside Belgrade there are hardly any shopp I had 3,000 dinars and just could not spend them.

£20 a pair

T last I found a store in the town of Skoplje. Everything was bad and expen- sive.

17/10, 1944 to prevent any Germana escaping in the stage of that stupendous

DUCK ES

LOVEGROVE

wero

to the Germans-much

em-

11

A rough pair of trousers cost £25. Il-mado shoes £20 pair. A chicken costs £2 10s.. and eggs are Is. Ad, each.

Almost everything is strictly rationed. Petrol is 0s, a gallon. In the town's one restaurant was impossible to buy even a small meal for less than £1.

As I neared the frontier I sill had 1,500 dinars left and could not get rid of theu. If I

took them into Greece they

would become valueless.

or nylofts.

'

The white road FT look a week to cross Yugo- I took a wreck the c

Marshal Tito said ho would bahns of Hitler and Mussolini, a road to rival the auto- initing the cities of Zagreb and Belgrade,

build

From Zagreb the great white

Early the following morning, So I stopped at a farmhouse Major Thomas set off with his and persuaded n farmer to kill orderly to climb up to the me a chicken and sell me eggs. monastery, and after various I sull hird GOO diars left enemy paratroopers had elven when I crossed the frontier. themselves up on his route, the used them to light my pipe. tablecloth appeared on the end

The trip

from London to of a pole from a mouth of a caveAthens took 20 days. We lived head of "Donald Duck" are wars, a hundred battles and hus become the rock "There is no beating these 100 yards from the historic rough, cooked our own meals among the many interesting the unconquerable spirit of upon which the fighting troops. I stormed their abbey, followed by a stream of and slept in a tent or in barns relics to be found in the

generations of British traditions of this dis right; pierced their centre, barrassment of the two Fusillers! Royal Fusiliers' fine new

soldiers, was open to ex- tinguished regiment are they were everywhere Regimental Museum, which members of the famous founded, there remains the beaten, the day was mine has just been established at City of London regiment at tattered King's and regi- and yet they did not know the Tower of London.

the Reunion Day celebra- mental colours of the 1st it and would not run."

MIDST this galaxy of histori- tions held to commemorate Battalion, which

cal relics and treasured em- In the museum, too, is the The Fusiliers returned to the 139th anniversary of hoisted on its heights after field officers' gold medal blems is the mounted head of the historic fortress, which the battle of Albuhera, the Fusilier Brigade had awarded to Major J. M. a great favourite with the 9th duck. This was "Donald Duck" saw their birth 265 years

counter attacked

vastly Nooth, who commanded the Bn. In World War Two. He fell ago, in May 1949, and Re-

superior French forces and 1st Battalion after Lt-Col. into their hands in Iraq, escaped gimental Depot Headquar-

put them to flight.

Sir William Myers had been the cooking pot to become the ters is in Waterloo Block.

OF that proud day in The bewildered French killed in action.

Bre 200 miles of the most ap- The Museum, a fascinat- the small insignificant Marshal Soult remarked

The seizure of Martinique in the Italian campaign and paling road surface in Europe.

Those 200 miles take a good ing window into a dozen Spanish village, which when it was all over: in 1809 is recalled by the beyond,

20 hours.

The road is a cow- Eagle of the French 82nd The weather did its utmost to -Regiment; the Crimea, by ruin Reunion Day, but even a As we drove gingerly the

the drums of the Kazan freak thunderstorm

of not length

the country-sur- Regiment and

rounded by Iron of

Curtoins Fusilier spectators from witnessing the peasanie saw our car and were cap, stained and discoloured. ceremonial parade of past and amazed. The Kazan Regiment was present Fusiliers of the 15 Old No one In Yugoslavia has a. By C. V. R. THOMPSON

the eruck Fusilier unit of Comrades Association branches car except senler officials of the the Grand Duke

and Cadets. In the afternoon. Communist Party. They all be- Michael the Band of the 1st Battalion, Ind

In loved we were party men"

greeted us ictly, to me TV, and for the crowds which which the Fusiliers routed full dress and wearing swords, Flim men udmilled

at the Alm; the cap, that made a most colourful picture Once we established we were TUMPHREY Bogart was that box-office receipts in Holly- will follow after TV has pop of Capt, the Hon. W. Monet as they played on the parade British and American no people

wood itself for the past quarter rised them. telling a friend of what are down by more than 45 per

While could have been more friendly. ho called 'n swell iden" for cent.

They were hungry and in rags. wherever we went they

H

✩

HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.

cause.

TV

BOOM

a modern Western film. They confessed that TV is the First, he explained, there is a band of pioneers from the East.

Commencing To-morrow: "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" call Mr Television Milton Berle.

TO-DAY

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Cathay

Their leader is the mon they

And all day long Berle al his

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FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKONG PEARL HARBOUR WILL BE AVENGED!

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DONALD M. BARRY

ALAN CURTIS

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DO HUMAN · LAM NIEM

IT'S SWILLIAMS - DIANA Biz Pio

But

of

Cable,

Aur TV is booming in Holly woul as nowhere else in Anic- rica. They have roll more than 300,000 sets.

trailers and

regimental mascot and accom- panied them on their adventures

Prevent

did

several hundreds

Kround between the who after being surrounded Tower and Waterloo Block. Some of the men of Holly-and disarmed, laid out six wood have benefited from the Russians with his bare fists Great TV bcom that they tried before he was killed.

to stop. They are the stars of Elms which Hollywood has per- mitted TV to show.

garavans bearers. chure they cannot afford Gals or houses have bought them. They bave opened nine stations, three more than New York has,

Even

the most

fervent

TY

back

road, extends for 50 miles, and from Belgrade for almost 100 miles. But, in between, there

track

but

scabbards,

The swords, with their brass were hospitable and kind.

The

a custom in-

Pro-Tito man

pro-Tilo man

are of 0 special and some are pattern

the originals given by HRH the Duke of Kent when he com-

NE evening we spent with a manded the battalion a cent Stevan Savic,

young lorry driver named And as Hollywood insists the HERE are drums of the 4th, to wear them was

and a quarter ago.

He was the only we met, ruch Alms must be 20 years old.] Į

vas challenged, on men are working in the broiling TAVEN the people who live in they are necessarily the middle-drums of the 2nd. En. brough: specting officer during the rea month. But £25 a month In in the Boer War, and at least one occasion by an in- He works eight hours a day. six days a week, and is paid from the benches or of Queen Victoria, The matter Dunkirk. Colours of days one question of

was, however, dropped when the

is the equivalent of less than Their task is to lay the co-

Charles Chaplin, probably the by, of early militia unity, and twe

an appeal to Her £3 a week in Britain. axial cable-the lifeline

embroidered by Majesty was raisedt was He seemed contented. All the modern civilisation which makes

most unpopular man in Holly-personally wood because of his left-wing banne: presented by the women have sanctioned

Queen Charlotte, as well as TV shows possible from coast to

a obvious that the Queen would others we spoke to longed for a return to freedom from Com- coast-until it straddles tho The programmes are not so politics, is the most successful for England at the Albert Hall in troduced by her father.

munism. Wild West.

good. The co-axial cable has So much so that he reissued his 1917.

Documents signed by

A farmer complained that a not yet renched further went famous "City Lights." and it James II' and George

1110 V;

the of all he produced went to the dawn, and then Chicago, and the best pro has run for weeks everywhere. come

massive silver cup presented by

the State. I said, "At least Tito Berle's heroes in their work gramines New York produces

William EV, which ways

has united the country undone. The wild men from are not available here.

placed on the dinner table in the

NE custom the Royal Fusiliers

"He has united it Hollywood, under the ruthless.

irougl NOTHER 1 one of Holly- Mess on guest nights-an omcers do not observe in their hunger," A wood's most

he replied. generalship of Clark

popular men, irreplaceable piece of exquisite own Mess is that of drinking Christinally flourishes despite have cut the cable again.

Addict hns to go out for the Harold Lloyd. He has become workmanship: crests of HMS the Sovereign's health, which Communism-especially in the evening sometimes; and Holly-

"Implacable", which landed the had its origin in the uncertain north

where such a favourite with a genera 2nd

there are many Of course, Mr Bogart was woodites are no exception.

Bn ot Gallipoli, and HMS times of the Jacobite rebellion, wayside crucifixes and never heard ofnsion,

whole Joking. But, as the Americans

with whom the when, it was advisable But they do not necessarily go him, that he is risking part of

10 that villages go say, he was really kidding on

church. Fusiliers have had friendly officers should give proof of Soon after we crossed into the level. For that the attitude the films. The biggest money his fortune to make a come.

Associations: chocolates sent out their loyally to the House of] Greece, we found the men

a man with have is being made by the promoters of Hollywood

of something they call wrest- back next year in two comedies to the South African War troops Hanover.

selling urunges. taken to TV.

which will feature him and his by Queen Victoria; the first twe

Threepence each-he wns V.C.'s issued In World War One: According to tradition, ren) symbol of freedom. acared of its competition,

swords, weapons, and uniforms William IV was dining with the We have Tac top stars are a

officers

a special military they have tried to hold it

of the Regiment when, permit to In view of all this, can you of a score of campaigns. named Gorgeous George, who

through The back, with the result that New wears

Monte Cassino tablecloth. as customary, the Royal Toast Turkey. But we must not stop long blond hair and wonder Unt the master minds

marking York,

Hollywood, sprays the ring with perfume, of the movies are a little put fierce resistance on marked that as the loyalty of the

the Next Change—"THE FARMER'S SON" A Chinese Picture now dominates it. Instead of

end of the German was proposed. The King re- until we reach Istanbul And Holly and

with their Miss an Italian "baron," who nut

We must follow wood rather than TV is suffer- spits on his opponents because Turner,

Monastery H was presented officers of the Royal Fusillers route. We mu

must keep to the by Major W. O. Thomas. ing.

must always be beyond question, main road. We must make no they are "just" peasants."

She explained in public the officer was commanding a com- it was quite unnecessary to give notes of anything we see.

We But worse than that has hap-

other day why she no longer poslte company of the 2nd Bn any such proof, and since that must not use a camera. pened. Hollywood blushes when WHY in wrestling so popular? goes to night clubs: "We have which was set to guard the occasion it has been regarded as Turkey is the first country we admiting it, but fia dwn people

Because they featured it three TV sets in our house, and tracks along tho Tower and the Royal Fusiliers' privilege to have visited to Impose such ro are no longer going to the an TV. Now the Smart Alecks I spend all my spare time look-lenst precipitous slopes

of omit any such, outward token strictions. movics.

are busy inventing sports for Ing at them.”

Monastery Hill on the night of of loyalty.

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