Unexpected Tour Of Odessa
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 20. The handful of passengers aboard the British cargo liner Port Napier unexpectedly became tourists at the Russian port of Odessa during the ship’s stay there recently, the “News Chronicle” said today. Before joining the ship at New Zealand they had been. refused visas by the Soviet authorities and were resigned to having to stay aboard while the ship was in Odessa. A Soviet official came aboard ‘one day, however, and took them on a fivehour sightseeing trip and told them: “You are our first tourists since the war.” The passengers’ impressions of what they saw varied. Mr Robert Aitchison, a New Zealander, said: “The Russians’ attempt to impress us rebounded, because I came back aboard thinking the Russians worse off than I had earlier imagined. “Everything was terribly shabby and expensive.” But Mr Julian Holland-Hibbert, an Englishman, said: “The ballet was very good. The only otfier thing worth seeing was the magnificent railway station.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27664, 21 May 1955, Page 7
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