1950-08-19 — Page 5

Frank Owen, famous Fleet Street journalist, sees the THIRD Far Eastern war

STALIN TIES UP 150,000 FRENCHMEN

3

This is the vast, muddy plain which surrounds Baigon.

Life in the pleasant shaded

avenues

of

and

the

"Paris of the East" can be agreeable enough; it can also be brief enough. Every few блуд

somebody hraves a bomb through the open windows of an hotel or restaurant.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST /19, #1950,

Last week they raided the great lighthouse at the mouth the of the river and put out light, so that sallors' lives ware placed in sudden unknown, be cause unsuspected, peril. dirty dogs.

COUNTRY FUREL

The

*Bead Karidener

fair!

DANGER MILITARY

FIRMO

·RANGE:

For journalists it in SAIGON. enough, They have killed one executives, missed and editor, two

two more, had a go nt tho Minister of Education and the chief censor.

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ESIDES Korea

Malaya, there is third rent, big battle going on in the Far Eastern war. It is the one in Indo- China,

Don't put your son on the Worthington-any- Press, Mrs way in Saigon.

Of course, besides truckloads | of troops, jeeps, armoured cars, usual vast and mad- and the dening and mostly useless para- phernalia, form-filling has a curfew.

Saigen

This battle is nearly as large in numbers as that in Korea, larger in area, and senior in age. It has been going on for a couple of years. Few folk in Europe scem to have noticed it hands you a permil, to stay out

which no doubt suits Stalin.

He swallowed China while we were cheering the Berlin

air-lift.

But if you go to the Florence- the receptionist

night-club

till closing time.

Girls said Yos.

Third als facade, the British realise the grim facts be-

Consul-General взун that if invited to drive as far as Sal- airport aller dusk he kon's would simply say "No."

Two girl secretaries from the Embassy sold "Yes"

General Marcel Carpentier has under command 150,000

in regulur troopa

Indo- Chinn. That in one-third of American the entire regular army of the other night. Both are dead, France. No wonder, Stalin shot.

wants them tied down in the

And you have only to drive)

a few men along the main Far East-it means that highways

and Bre the tall they cannot be available in watch-towers with machine the Near West.

In the bin ? MEET the general. He is

Aparc,

burned brown, sinewy he was a first-rate Rugby footballer and still is

guns mounted in their nests and i always manned, and the Jungle cut back on either side of the голя beyond "ambush range," to frasp why these sentinelni

are needed.

The land all around is enemy. "Can't you roll them up?"

asked General Carpentier.

I

He Elves me the old-fashioned

a frst-rate tennis player look and says: "I could do that

and

perhaps more if only 1

with a shrewd, appraising had more men to do it" brown eye.

And he does not need to add:

liis desk Is absolutely "But then, what about France clear, which means that herself?"

either he deals promptly

with business as it arrives

or clue (as I Auspect) n

promptly throws most

of

the mass of paper where it belongs, in the bin.

Carpentier fought alongside our Eighth Army in Tunis and personal at Cassino; he is

friend of Fick-Marshat Alcxan- der and his old Chief of Staff, General Sir John Harding, now Commander-in-Chief in the Far

East

So Carpentier knew our people in war, and what he saw he likel. You would like him, too he is almost na good-looking! as that other Carpentier, and those who serve with him any he is is fine a fighter.

A Big Job

ERTAINLY ho has just done a big job. In a campaign of many

months hard fighting her has cleared the whole of the Red River della, the flat, fertile of Northern Indo-China, which i One of the ricebowls of the world.

area

I

nchievement that jo ot compares In magnitude with Kilchener's pacification of the Sudan and the freeing of the Nile della, source of Egypt's wealth and whole existence,

If the Communists In Indo- Chlea could deny this precious food to the rest of the country (and to other Asian lands be yond), then they could literally bring all life there to a stand- stin

Well, now, thanks to General Morcel

Carpentler

soldiers, they cannot.

his and

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most

wonderful Hall

Built like an egg in an egg-box

ALAN

BROCKBANK

HAVE just visited the most fantastic modern building in the world.

It is the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the Thames, designed to be part of the 1951 Exhibition. When scientists, mathe. maticians, and sound ex- perta joined the team of 15 L.C.C. architects to design

concert the perfect

hall, they decided to build it in the shape of an egg in an egg-box.

And they have done it. This £2,000,000 structura has been built

SOUND.

Two skins

around

ROYAL BOX

COLUMNS SUPPORT

ORCHESTRA

175 ft. BLOCK) OF SLATE

THE EGG

Where the

Once bitten-

it's the end!

by BERNARD WicksteeD

-T'S my

TROON.

Both balls were lying on the players

belief that green, and the two golfers are mind, and came up and looked at them. for

Being so ignorant, I thought that reason I've the ста werz nover willingly sought their them again. But oh, no, there going to hit

company for fear of being was a long ceremony before bitten. You cannot be vac- they go round to that.

Each mun walked round the cinated against golf-bite. ball several times looking at it And there fsn't a serum as it wondering what on earth known to science that can it was Then they got down

save you fected.

once you are in- on their knees and looked from another angle. After this they seemed to forget about the ball

A doctor who deliberately attogether, and walked about goes to work in a leper looking at the ground. colony is taking no greater something, but the man next 10 I thought they must have lost

risk than a healthy non- me said they were studying tho golfer going to the Open way the blades of grass werg,

Ivinst. championship.

All this time, a crowd around Even in your hotel at night me was whispering: "He fluffed his third. It hung on the lip using the carpets in the lounges at the fourth.... The rough was

Hace-deep.... Speen, as putting greens,

brassic. Three-putted twles. The course itself is like He got on caple.... Bogey, pat,

you are not rafe, because all the other guests are golfers,

Bedlom. Ten thousand afflicted

eleek,

Eritons, most of them with moshe, iron, driver, albidross,

caddie

Suddenly all

the whispering and steppet, and there was a dead bush. One of the players was

Scals accents, Surge round, muttering meaningless phrases ubout

bunkers, birdles, bogeys.

Picture the reene. On ono side, rising from the sea, are

og to hit the ball again, and 4,009 fanatles held their breath.

the mountains of Arrau, and It trickied right up to the island of Ailsa edge of the hole. Would it go Craig, and on the other is the от wouldn't 117

the sugar-loaf

fair lowlanki

to

country mads The ball stopped half an inch

famous by that comparative thort, and, there were 4.000 Robert Poised "Ohs," I have to con- paragon

fess that one of them was mine, Lurris.

of sanity,

Wild stampede

Between the two and within a radius of 17 miles, there are 15 golf Links, laid out on the sand dunes. Some of them are

THE moment both players had so close together that

THE a strange

Binkhed on this green, there Rolfer needs a map or a guide was a wild stampede over the to keep him on the right course. dunes. Up sandhills and down (By strango I mean strange to slopes of slippery grass, men, the neighbourhood. All golfers women, and children scrambled are strange to me)

in a panic that they were going

In the crowd

THE championshilp was held on one of these 15 courses, called the links of Old Troon.

In the hope of winning it, competitors came from Egypt, South Africa, Australia, Bel-

the Argentine gium, and well as all parts of the British Isles

to miss something.

This went on for more than three hours. Sometimes tvo other's path, and the maddenal golling stampedes crossed each

fons became inextricably inlxed.

Durlag

one of these clashes I golf an Into Desmond Hackett, reporter, who was talking to chap with them, and surg

he called Henry. I tagged

if he played

much

golf

Mingling with the crowd, just lull i asked as if I was one of them I fol. lowed two of the competitors me a look as if round.

0

Elo (urned round, and gave

I was sane.

Hackett interposed and salt; One wis ያነ apparently

"Sorry! Didn't I introduce you? healthy looking South African This is Henry Colton."

In blue plus fours and a white his name cup. Someone ald was Locke and that he won the championship last year.

-

Something awful always hap- pens to me when I come to this corner of Scotland, Last time The other was an American was here I got mumps, and in Ayr Iso- called Stranahan, who is said pent six weeks

lation Hospital. to be so mad en golf that he is

Who won the championship? never seen without a club In hla

I haven't the faintest idea..

• THE hall is suspended out by two skins of concrete,

the hund.

After the Cotton like an egg with flat 10 ins. thick, separated by touches supports, brick and maximum

Incident I "After hitting the ball several was to terriflect that someone sides in a box. Noise is kept a 12 in. air space.

concrete is separated by sound; there will be no mes, they came to a green-word terriemy

you know, one of those places widow

with a golf glass fibre matting to give carpet.

and my children Kolt ike a well-kept lawn with a orphans by

forcibly teaching more insulation.

hole in the middle and a flag in me to play the game that I got

RSESHOEP

The Professor &

his Christmas

GOT the story, of the man who brought the Christmas tree.

to

America the other afternoon from my friend, the watch-

It has not been a war in the maker down in Greenwich

shadows, like the one in Malaya, Village. As I've mentioned

Here, there before, whenever I

where the chief trouble is

And your enemy.

to

come

Tree

by Billy Rose

are 100,000 of him in the field, down with a case of brain- In the South were

in

battalions,

regiments, blank, I break the

divlions, and with artillery crystal on a $2 wrist-watch at Harvard were streel when they

engincers, signallers, and all the

use

sent for

BAW

"Well, everybody came. Even those who had condemned the Professor as an agitator. Around right o'clock,

the Professor sneaked into the parlour and

the tapers.

"Then Mes Falles pulled back the sliding doors and unveiled the first Christmaş seen in America,

l

outer skin polished

to give

reflection

of

Percussion instruments (drums, etc.), will have a con-

The crowd was so frenzied it into my car and fed, crete platform of their own to had to be kept back with ropes.

reduce resonance.

This is a "tuned" concert hall,

This battle against noise is carried to such an extent that, not even heating and ventilation pipes pierce the skin. Only openings are the the only one in the world. double doors of the hall, which are surrounded by soundproof "baffles."

Floor-strip

was

Tuned? Yes, just like a violin ог plano. For scientists and mathematicians themselves can- not guarantee perfection. Musi- clans will eventually, "tune" it

tained.

Resonanco

Fine tuning will be accom- plished by taking out hundreds of six-inch plugs in the ceiling and substituting milk-bottle- shaped bomes."

Even the air in the audi- by car. torium will be "cleared" of

The walls are of removable noise before it is pumped in panels of plywood, to be taken from the ceiling and ex- out, bored and fretted until al- exact balance is ob- tracted at floor level. This most an will be done by a 60 ft. baffle system operating on the principle of a car exhaust. free ever

The

shape egg.

• ORCHESTRAS will play pretty un-

"For long moment the chosen

after consultation

Jo the ball for three 25-cent popular. Soon the other teachers guests stored. Profesxr Follen's with musicians and scien- months next year while musi-

crossing the

Follen heart was somewhere up around tists; mathematicians work clans listen and suggest altera-

hig sinuses. Suddenly one of the

ed out tho size and ens or modifications. rest of the apparutus of a re- I own and hot-foot it down coming.

"One day the president of the Elds let out a whoop and dashed gular war. Here, you can really to his shop on 11th Street.

University

A moment later, shape. the tile for the tree. your bomber and fighter force to strike at concentrations While the old gent is fusing fellow. He told him there had everybody was gohing and anh- ing and nibbling on the sweels. of 1,000, mon-and they do. with my watch, I talk to him been a lot of complaints,

Bit quarter of France's air about these and tatta. As n "The Board of Trustees was Someone ran his fingers over the force is tied down here, too, rule, when I leave, my watch going to meet right after Chris clavichord and a faculty mem- which does not break Stalin's has a new crystal and I have mas, and if the Professor didn't ber started singing a Christmas

"We adopted rather the cut out this Abolition nonsense the malcin) or a column.

Harvard would probably cut out

style of the Greek that the empty hall will have the same properties of sound as to his basement the Professor. When I got

theatre with a raked audl if it wero full. Well, it didn't look like much shop I noticed a geranium-sized

of a Christmas to

Professor (ELL,

how torium and a stepped plat-

The audience may think that THESE troops are a pretty hard-Christmas tree in the window. 1.

with toy time Follen as he walked home that

interlocking parties are once they get form for the artists," said the

wood-facing bitten lot, all veteran and was trimmed

Icbs, and a afternoon. He got to thinking pigs watch battle-tested. Half are colour-

constituting the lower walls of of the Christmases he

When it broke up inte had going. ed, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunt-sprinkle of silver rain.

"You're rushing the season," known as a kid in Germany that night, the President of the one of the architects. "and, the hall is for decoration,

the Follen itlike the Greeks, we have alan, anti Senegalese. Of the

the toys, the painted eggs, the University told other, the white half, many are

This is designed to absorb the a sound reflector

be lower frequencles, "Christmas, the old man said, red-and-white candy, and, hest had been the nicest party Boston Foreign Legion, and, as usuni,

',had seen since

n coriain other mos of these soldiers of for- "and Professor Charles Follen, of all, the Christmas trees.

party where tea was the main tween the audience and the the man who trimmed the first fune

are German.

attraction. "And as Christmas tree in America."

artists. usul," says the General, frank-

I handed bim my "they are ly.

not the worst Take plenty of time."

"A few days later the Board of Trustees met and reviewed soldiers."

"with the watch and the facts. Y not have one here?" the Fallen care. It was a brief (Before Harry Polliti explodes

'WHY

he asked himself. Ils

session. The Trustees unani- about "these Fascist beasts,"

two-year-old son had never seen pletro nak him about the

one. The people in Cambridge mously agreed there inillarised police of the East

thought he was an

recentric barm

heart elther."

and

Battle-tested

those

1

I raid pointing to the tree.

watch.

I said,

"A

carol,

tent"

you know

Seating will

be designed so

•

fa the liberty-loving quencies which have a ten- echo.

dency to be absorbed before

Even the attractive, ceiling they reach the back of the design is a mathematician's an- hall.

ewer to the demands of spuad reflection.

The echo. "The

Greeks used an ornamental pool. The water⚫ LEATHER panels at the no reflected the higher fre- hot for beauty

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German People's Democracy. 667 was in 1024" the some- anyhow,

former, but

Ingenarian began The next morning the Pro: The watchmaker handed me apparently redeemed. "Fascist political refugee named Charles fessor cut down a small fir tree back my watch. repilles" from ex-enemy Hun-Follen came to this country frer and planted it in a tub. His gary, Bulgaria, and Rumania). Germany. Like a lot

other mieste coloured a lot of egg- "The next dime you got it These French troops have idealists of his time, this little shells and filled them with com- fixed,” he said, “Til tell you why "Instead of water, wo poulbiy done some rough work: Professor couldn't stomach the Bts, lozenges and barley sugar, Banta Claus stopped shaving.” are using u alab of Whon Signor Toscanini taps but not rougher than the Com-strong-arm methods of Bls- When she and the Professor had I dropped the watch on the Merioneth slate 76ft. long the rostrum with his baten and mourists, who may take prison-marck. He got a job at Harvard finished decorating the tree, floor.

"Oopal" I said, "That ers but certainly, do not keep University—the first Professor, almost every twig was loaded does it

by 15ft, as a strip, of floor. 9500 people listen to the first them.

of German In this country, cat will a goodle to eat or a prolly

between the frat row of concert next year, they will find "I'm afraid not smiled my "A few months later Proferens that sparkied.

that Beltain has given a great} rollen got maled up with the Professor invited everybody he friend. picking it up

seats and the platform.

new home to music and a great Abolitionista.

knew. In Cambridge to bring time I put in an unbreakable

The platforin and aids #healtectural lead to the world *Wei, back in the 1820s, the their kids to hir, little boy's crystal,! thoroughly swept ft. folks who were against slavery party,

walls-will be highly--wax (London" Express · Service)

There

Is another: defla in

- Indo-Ching: that Carpentier has tidied up, though I won't yes 287-and he won't 'claim ha

And then the

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