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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1948. Saturday, 17th January, Monday, 19th January, Tuesday, 20th January & Saturday, 24th January. The First Bell will be rung at 11.30 a.m. and the first race will be run at 12.00 noon, each day. The diffin interval is after the fourtia raes (1.30 p.m.).
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THE CHINA MAIL, MON DAY, JANUARY 12, 1948, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery recently flew to Kenya to Inspect the new British base there. Tremendous developments are taking place in Rhodesia. Will this be the new supply base?
New Empire Supply Base In Land Of Opportunity
Southern Rhodesia means blg) business industrially. Into the vast and as yet little developed i territory between the Limpopo, and the Zambesi Rivers is pour) ing an ever-increasing,siream
By Geoff Jenkins
of British capital, British in-water supply for the growing dustry, and British actifera. of tobacco, sugar, maize and
It is a stream which, it is other food crops.
Britalo, realised here inken at the flond will lead on to fortune.
The fortune will be Rhodesia's of her In the transformation
Naturally, railway will have to be built to the dam since there is none near there now.
Kariba is not the only dam the Southern Rhodeain has in view.
vast mineral and agricultural resources into wealth for
Empire and into valuable dollar in the Sabi River Valley, lying
under the country's mountain
currency.
You must think of Rhodoain upon in terms of hundreds hundreds of aquare miles of open country and bush and two large towns.
MELI
Jies
About halfway between Que Que, a tiny, hot, dusty town whose significance is that CDA) It is in the heart of rich and iron ore deposits and the site of the country's first ateel works,
Young Industries
The steel works is scheduled to start production next month. having a target of some 30.000, tons a year. This is only a quarter of the country's annual requirement.
The picture is of young and vital industries, equipped with the mast modern plant from Britain, springing up round Sallabury, Bulawayo and in the Midlanda, and which are, it is confidently hoped the forerun- ners of much greater things,
Mainspring of Rhodesia's in- dustrial development is a huge dam which is planned at Kariba Gorge, on the Zambesi, some dlatance below the Victoria Falla.
Estimated to cost £23,000.- 000, Kariba will be as big as America's Boulder, Shaster. Friant and Grand Coulee dams
put together.
escarpment,
KENYA
TANGANYIKA
N. RHODE
KARIBANGORGE
Salisbury Bulawayo
S RHODESIA
"WALVIS BAY
IQUE
eastern another
Rhodesia, the new abushworks, is a distes to Kanya, the new military base.
ever, and the wild grandeur of the nearby Chimanimani moun tains is unforgettable.
Bound
up with Southern Rhodesia's plans for industry is) her want of a new
port, for Beirn is. Inadequate. The plan is to carry a railway through to Walvis Bay, on the Atlantic.
Next Moves
Recently the Southern Rhode- alan Government floated a loanį of £32,000,000, of which £10,- 000,000 was earmarked for de- velopment, most of the remain= | der being used to cover the coar of nationalising the railways,! which had been privately own-{ ed. No less than £5,500,000 has been sunk in Rhodesia in the past year by immigrants | and industrialists.
Next month Sir Miles Thomas will go to Rhodesia from · Bri- | tain to advise on a time-table for the country's Industrial de- velopment for, with such a huge programme, care must be taken that the country does not get Industrial indigestion,
The picture in Southern Rhodesia in the next few years will be one of construction-of dams, railways, roads, new towns, factories, mines and canals being cut.
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French Station Under Water
After four days of heavy rain and spring-like warmth that melted the snows in the foothills of the Aips and the Feiges Mountains, many parts of France are inundated by flood waters, Bath the Mazelle and Loire valleys are flooded. This aerial picture, made on Dec. 30, shows the railway station of Nancy under flood renters from the Moselle River. (APhoto.)
HIROSHIMA - RETURN
The first enemy city to lick
TO LIFE
4
to cry for the first time; and
Girls, many of them camely, that ceremony Tops were seen clean its war wounds and to re- with their checks flushed We of Rhodenia are rolling build itself will probably be healthy glow in the autumn air, girls came out in all their pre- up
alecven and getting Hiroshima-the first city in the parade the streets in flowered war finery for the first time. down to the job with a will. world to be struck by an atomkimonos apparently quite care. Of the town's 60,000 destroy. We are looking to Britain for bomb. It suffered the greatest free. Smill children in great ed homes nearly 80,000 have heavy machinery and advanced damage and highest casualties profusion, with engaging tile already been rebuilt, The technical advice in several fields of any among the enemies of
We are a young country and the Allies in the late war, We have some big ideas-and I made a pilgrimage to Hiro. we intend to make those ideas ahima the other day-two years reality and develop this country after my last visit-and some of such enormous mineral and 30 months after the blow fell agricultural possibilities into a at 8,14 am, on the morning of yer more vital and valuable unit] August 6, 1945. of the Commonwealth.
Where now the only activity big irrigation scheme is planned Admiral
u series of
be the crocodiles sliding alugactually more gishly from the steaming mud- dams than one big dam such as banks, there will spring up, by 1925 or 1953, a gigantic stretch of water generating 750.000 kilowatts of electric power.
Good Prospects This power will be turned to use mainly in developing the high-grade deposits of iron ore
Kariba-which would serve 600,000 acres of fertile land for groundnut production,
Warns Of Shortage
AD.
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theatre is functioning again; cinemas are open, showing. per. haps flekeringly, old films→
Japanese Ideo- graphs on the sides for Inter- pretation of dialogue,
By William talkies-with Courtenay
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Trade Returns
!
I called on the editor of the principal local paper, the Chu- *Hiroshima is already envering
goku Times, printed like other up its gaplog wounds, and to
local papers in blitzed, half-ex- an Australian town planner has faces, fly kites or play sand- posed premises. With a gleam of been given the task of prepar pies
the many rivered pride he gave me a copy of the ing plans for the new city. beaches, innocent of the history day's lasue.
Hiroshima is recovering which blew the world to bits Lead story was the wedding quickly principally because the that August morning,
of Princess Elizabeth; and Japanese are being left alone to
Prince Philip; there on page do the job by private enterpriac.
one were thele pictures with one The municipality has simply
of Buckingham Palace and a Again, investigations are not]
fixed the price at which build-
Trade has returned to Hiro. crowd outside; not perhaps the expected to be completed in less:
WASHINGTON, JAN. 11.
ing plota may be purchased, ihan a year, but the Prime
shima, and although most of it crowd of November 20, but w THE UNITED STATES NAVY
tourist trade selling Minister, Sir Godfrey Huggins: IS TOO SHORT OF MEN
gew-ttle Hicence may be allowed an AND
Value Of Land is hopeful that a pilot scheme SHIPS
gawa, cameras and knick-knacks enterprising editor anxious to TO WIN A WAR, may be started soon.
to British and Australian forces feature what all Japan has been It is a low figure of only one MIRAL LOUIS DENFIELD, NEW In the souther portion of The Sabi Valley is rich in CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, thousand to four thousand yen stationed hereabouts, yet it is excliedly discussing. Northern Rhodeals,
mineral deposits and millions of SAID IN A BROADCAST TODAY. (from £1 to £4) for a plot 6ft. business. And every street has
of high-grade
it would "make a good showing square just large enough fo aputite These deposits are still undertons
Its home-made garages, where if trouble were to break out," investigation, but the indications (phosphates) have been dis-hough to prevail is an all-out coners of blitzed sites think it is lying under all sorts of motor a small kiosk-type shop. Own Japanese mechanics can be scen are very favourable.
covered, which
For Japan's constitution is flict, it would have an expand ten- on into fertilisers.
too low, Power will be gridded
Bo there is little in. contraptions bringing them back modelled more on that of Eng- fold and in A hurry," he declared,
land or of the Dominions than huge pylons and will cost
clination to sell. All feel that to life. "Fortunately we have
Everyone seems to work on America's, and the presence little as a farthing a unit. There
Hiroshima "and effective naval
AS reserve,
grows it wil
about 16 hours a day, seven must be large-scale fron
his of the Emperer still on whom are war-trained thrive and land values will riac nost u! steel production to absorb
a week no trade union throne and his travels nowadays Whore once Tuy desolation for days The significance of these fer-veterane." 118
Admiral much as 260,000 kilowatts, andtilisers to
Denfield said: "We will 12 miles in every direction from rules are apparent It is, in the country's own a yearly output of 500,000 tons food production and to
need planes as much as we will need the City Hall, wooden structures fact, a free-for-all race; the of plg-iron and 50,000 tons countries to which she will be men and the speed with which planes have arisen, so that Hiroshima only way a nation ever recovers can be placed on board our rezerve
its wounds. is like a boom town of the "car. from of ferrochrome would be neces-able to export is easy to see.
Hiro carriers depends on how fast Am- Only a short railway needs to erican industry and labour can build pet bagger" era which followed shima will probably recover be Should a decision be taken, be
miles-which them..
the close of the American Civli fore Hamburg. built-40 the Governmentą of Northern would lead to the second phos- "It slow process that might War in 1865 or a boom Western and Southern Rhodesla will phate mine which the Empire tako two years."--Reuter.
„town of the Zelghties, cach contributo £9,000,000 and possCIBCS, the remaining £5.000.000 be raised from British Indus- triallats and financiers,
sary.
'Great Hopes
no
and
will
From a food production point
can be turned
Railway Link
those
The deposits are aited in wild, hot, luxuriant tropical country, inhabitable in some parts only by notives. Lions, buck, croco. dules, hippopotami and cle- phants abound.
Towards its confluence with
of view, Kariba's possibilites the Limpopo the area is alive are enormous, since by Irriga-| with the deadly tseiso fly and dion it will guarantee" to hun-malaria la KONG
a constant danger. dreds of thousands of acres a It is picturesque country, how,
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through the Secretary on the written or personal Introduction of a Blember, auch Member to be responsible for all obits etc. Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE,
The Treasurers' Compradore Office and the Secretary's Office will close at 10.00 am, each day. Both Offices at 1st Floor, Exchange Buliding.
A
limited number, of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House, provided they are order in advance from the No. 1 Doy (Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL
BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S
PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
· PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
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BY ORDER
No Uranium For U.S. In Return For Aid
Washington, Jan. 11. The State Department, in a special report sub- mitted today to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States may gain millions of tons of vital minerals under the Marshall Plan but no uranium.
In response to the question Michigan, who 'recently, naked, what raw materials, the country the Department to explore the can expect in retard for aiding possibility of obtalaing uranium Europe, the Department listed from the Belgian Congo, one of many⠀⠀ minerals scarce In this, the few known sources... • country but which could
stored up against the possibility
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The Commfitco also recalled
of a future United States Mr. Lewis Douglas, United States rearmament programme. These Ambassador to Britain, for for. would be drawn mainly, from the ther questioning. He faced a colonial: possessions of the 16 barrage of questions on spécifle Western Europe nations schedul- commodities from grain to gen. ed to recolya Marshall Plan alderators to be shipped to Europe. Notably absent from the, list: The Secretary, of Commerco, was uranium, ty atomic energy Mr. Averoll Harriman, is schedul source, I was explained the ed to testify an Monday.ee State Department has no juris. The list srticipated obtaining diction, over the acquisition of cadmium, cobalt," copper," uranfum, which la handled, dirop dustrial diamonds and sine from tly by the Federal Atomio Engr. the Belgian Congo, thus speciing By Commissione" That "explana: the possibility, of the Almanlo Hon, apparent als aaliated, the Commission Roquiring “utantüm
Committ
Voláirman, Arthur from the same region.—United
blion of Prowada
The New Commons
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Symbolic Tree
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England The Model
among his people are making
the Japs more royalty-minded
than ever, and, therefore, more intereated in what England thinks, says and does.
Hirohito
is to pay, his first visit to Hiroshima carly in De comber. He will spend 15 dnya in the Australian, New Zealand On gaunt electric grid towers and British zonea. There will near the burnt-out Observatory be emotional scenes at' Hiro- appears. in bad English, the shima that day, for his viste legend "center of impact"; near-will be treated like a religious by is a bookstall marked "Book-pilgrimage to a Shinto shrine. stail atom"; and in a clearing is Hiroshima will be a baro- an ares dubbed "Peace Square" meter for what will happen in where the Mayor of Hiroshima other Jap cities. Those who brain, on August 6 last planted a cam will use their brawn, phor free to commemorate the|wite, energy, courage, initiative, beginning of reconstruction. and resourcefulness will-win It is enclosed in a small fence the fruit of their labourn. The and is covered with straw to lazy will go to the wall and keep it warm through the in- there will be none to suport fancy of its first winters. At them.
France Worried By
Anglo-U.S.
Move
London, Jan. 11.5.
The Foreign Office sald today that France has ex- pressed concern that she was not consulted before the United States and Britain decided to strengthen the Germans power of self- administration In the Anglo-American- oc- cupation zone.
A spokesman told newa, British press that the conference that the French any much mertips Goverment's views were ex majoris revision pressed by Ambassador Rene iilated at the origin Massigli to Foreign Secretary Paris-Associated Bevin. He said they were based eng
solely upon lack of consultation
and did not constitute a protest: HEINKEL TO FACE
Hi Hà. would not comment on its
impact upon) amOVEDAD merge
the French and, Anglo-American and va
The
apokeanasi, wald that
Mellain" and "France," contemplate
other
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