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AFRICA:
In
A
PIONEERS IN A
HURRY
#
for the second" (2.800. nerem just bust-attened at Kongwa).
Cut Out Politics
IN THE FOREST SOMETHING STIRS
Somewhere along the forbid-fed. Its posterior is like the tall
Inaccessible north-eastern of a lizard-magnißed
ding,
take, a
moving
billion
of the Ballpara cumne across this
of began to break down there arose behind the whole nation (sabled by a frantic Indian cor-fact of flesh. wan-·
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Asst. Editor:--Ian Mackenzie. The East African groundnuts scheme is under fire. Yes, the men on the joiz are border of India, in the primeval billion times. It has no tuska (at
The Mail has invited. Alan Wood, Australian tpo busy to bother much about
where three frontiers least it does not show them) and journalist and "reporter at Arnhem," now head die critics and are content to be forrats
judged by final results. But one meet, tribesmen have seen its footprints are not those of an of the information Division of the Overseas thing they ask--that their work monster-which-makes-all albora elephant.
a back seal.
Trual Food Corporation, to explain the progress of
should not be made, a plaything
this Compare of political controversy..
_description Tract Reporters & General Omec 32312
the scheme and reply to some criticisms.
After all,
respondent to his paper advenldre. (four lines)
majestically and happily tropical the '
dering awent
Su cannot we all reach some Calcutta) with any you have rend plucking the tops of huge, ancient Tanganyika, miles from every a shortage of spores.
of the Loch Ness resident or any
It. trees. 'Subscription Rates:
t is said to be very de- where, pioneers have gone out (3) There were inevitable mis-measure of agreement?
sallorman's tale of sea serpents: cent in its dealings as it did not No nold, imagitiative
fative Blanning.. as HK$18.00 to clear vast tracts of the taptep takes and miscalculations.
infested African bush and grow doubt of it. Nobody, denies it in the groundnut scheme, using It is about 90ft. long and 20ft. damage or destroy, the crops or
Tech-high. Its face resembles nothing kill a single mortal." agricultural II.K.$30.00 pennuts in the reclaimed earth. The groundnut pioneers do noí
Why? Because the world is claim,
other nique than
Is the only hope of saying that is known or can be imagin any more H.K.$72.00 Lungry, and its hunger will never pertul men, to be infallible and millions from starvation. Agiged
blessed with perfect foresight. unless be satisfied
land is
must be a new
The scheme type for many.. others to
to follow; opened
up by new methods. Because
auccesses are African
its mistakes anch the
people themselves face future famine so
equally valuable in gaining ex- for the future. Agreed. perlence long, as
as they depend on primitive
The first difficulties and delays
In view of the urgency, the peasant agriculture. Their only
Dre -being overcome. The en-risks involved, and implement
the huge is the hoe. They gineers have tackled the problem scale necessary, only Government know little of fertilisers. They
pt the roots and designed the enterprise could pioneer the way. cannot hope to clear the bush
Agreed by all parties in the on their own, sink the boreholes equipment to deal with them.
House
of Commons debate. for water, make the waste lands
Frank bear fertile crops.
BIRTH
MELLOR-At Queen Mary Hos- pital, on June 12, 1948, to Mauricello (ne'e Jeannercí- Grosjean), wife of B. Meilor,
son, Marc.
THE PROBLEMS OF HONG KONG
In Mr. H. G. W. Wood- head's analysis of the pro- blems of Hong Kong, there was little that was exciting- ly new. Most of its main points have been exhaustive- ly dealt with by Mr. Wood- head in his weekly contribu. tions to the "Sunday Herald," and broadly discussed in the
css and in other circles, They are, however, strong enough to bear constant re-
But why pennuts? Beenuse the
peanut, or ground- nut, Is the quickest crop to meet
shortage of the present world edible oils-in other words, mar- teed garine. You lant the about December and start reap- Ing the harvest next April or May.
Too Long To Wait
Palm trees take from seven to 1en years to come to maturity.
Now The Shervicks
By ALAN WOOD
built up for the American teac
A stock of spare parts has been
tors. To reinforce them, Sher-. man tanks have been pulled to |pieces in England and rebulit in- to tractors the first of these "Shervicks" will be shipped this month.
Agreed Agreed
also by Mr.
Samuel, of the. United Africa
Company, who frei suggested the scheme to the Government- though "I am not a Socialist, and I am a firm believer in the bene Bts of private enterprise."
Agreed Also?
fa
The decision to go ahead was taken by Mr. Strachey as the
who responsible Minister, therefore entitled to credit when things go well, as he will surely Meanwhile, one new railway and properly get the blame when And that is 100 slow in the rice
starvations. The branch line has been built, work things go badly. against world
in goes ahead on the roads and Well, we can' argue about the groundnut ploncers are men
There is no port yet inulitical rights and wrongs of Mr. peria. A hurry,
Strachey
བད the next election. Starting almost from scratch. Southern Tanganyika, but the
the But
meanwhile the groundnut facing incredible dificulties-few answer has been found 'for
one, heavily-laden single-time being in tank landing-craft pioneers have a right to ask that,
TOAUN
We Shall
Absorb Them!
:
Teheran, June 10. How is that this mountain-
As a bundle of negatives this despatch takes some beating, but" local zoological enthusiasis were not at a loss. They.suld it was n Dinotherlumn huge prehistoric manual.
The Assam Government, how- ever, was hot impressed. It re fused to recognise ofcially the existence of the giant. meíal zoologiats
pointed out that Dinotherium trod the earth
the 30
million years ago and existed now only in picture books. • The
But here is
Poinh
Dinotherlum is in the same line ringed desert land-Ve times us or descent as the elephant-and- big as the United Kingdom, but elephants are plentiful and don- with less Than one-third population-should have stood
the gerous in the Ballpern Tract.
Forest villeers acquainted with up to Russin so successfully when this wild part of the world refuse vastly more powerful neighbours to discredit the story. They say
before have fallen
the Soviet nothing is impossible in these steam-roller?
There MFO many reasons, back into history. reaching for
From JOHN ROBERTS
Ittaccessible regions.
area, a Briton and his wife were A year ago, when I was in this administering British rule ns far as it extended then-a six-day march from the nearest railhead. The British woman was known at the White Queen of the Nagas
influence because of her
beyond the warlike
tribes
But north of
with
the-
eastern borders of Assam.
rth of this British out-
Post was mystery....
India
track railway, only one port--|used ns ilghters, running up the simply because they are a Gov-Listen to one of them, as it was petition and further cm- these African adventurers sue- munka
mungrove swamps at Lindi to ernment enterprise, their achieve-
told to me by a Persion general.
And if you know your phasis, and the forthright eceded last year in clearing about unload at improvised piers and ments should not be discredited
"You must imagine Persia," the normal party he said, “as 0 part of D13 exposition at the Rotary 13,000 acres and planting 7,402 of "hards."
Most Important
nut-a nut nx you will not deny the truth of of all: The political game of discredlung the tremely difficult to crack. The anything because it is incredible. Club of the critical Issues them with groundnuts.
Milions of Indians belleve Ceylon That is the achievement. What Brat groundnut harvest is being Government.
only way into it is 10 that are at stake suffered
was once conquered by the through the shell,
Ramin with the asalstance of a nothing in that it was a vari-as been the reward? Criticism. reaped, and clearing goes ahend Sa much criticism that The Dally
"You foreigners are like some vast host of monkeys. At least ant on an old theme.
Mail has asked me to reply
sharp-beaked insects. and bore and bore until you make two towns Trichinopoly | some of it,
to
recurs.
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Could we also agree on this?
Bristol Quads In
Good
Nor is it without signifie-
One point constantly ance that the problem 031-
The original estimate was 150,000 gaging the sharpest allen-
gerea cleared in the first year. tton was precisely that on The pioneers, Instead of being which there is the least like-pealsed for the 13,000 acres they. for not lihood of official action. cleared, are criticised
137,000 acres more. Government
clearing will defend with all its might its privi- this target missed because of un- Naturally, the public asks: Was
wii The lege of applying a vexatious foreseen difficulties which immigration law to a few doom the whole project to fui- foreigners and at-lure? Or is it a matter of tem- times, British nationals, but porary setbacks?
What really happened was that
score
than
A
Shape
Bristol, June 15. quadruplot girls born in Bristol on Saturday to Mrs. Charles Goad oro taking a livelier interest in life. They became in their four small ways the abjects of a little polite betting. Sister Charlotte Radcliffe ture 1947, which was only a year of and her staff of seven nurses cold preparation and,come
experi-
L
boro
You bore
a tiny hole. Once inside the Tanjore ara named after shell. you (ind the nut very mons who were clain there. sweet, the most delicious nut you have"
ever tasted. You gorge and
Then, of course, you want to
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And de
Bunkum, you say? Well, what about the Jalpaiguri Glant, India's King Kong, seen several dimes in. get out.
You make your way Northern Bengal about 12 years Back to the hole through which
ugo? you came in. But now, nlas, you; Its drst victim Win a wood- And that, with all this good cutler who found himself face to
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living you have become too fat lace with the 18-foot high mons- Ito make your way out. And so ter; and fled shrieking in terror you have to starve before can till he fell exhausted and died- emerge aguln.
of fright. But not before he had told his
terrined companions
He something of the horror hid "Even if the Russians do invade seen. us,
"well- my friend hdded,
Villagers and townsmen barri- to what of it? We've had invasions ended their houses at night-but
before and we are still here, herd-bitten, sceptical headquar
to touch upon-the-only-im- it did not prove possible to shart migration problem that need the full-scale schemp at all in cause any real anxiety. for any reason at all induces in
mental clearing: 1948 is, in fact, at the South Ward Hospital kep the hierarchy-nothing-more-the first-full-year-of-the-spheme, were making wagers with: ap-
cold and it is with this year's perform- propriate odds on which would have the pros gald.--Asso- which is more than con,ba saldiers in Calçulla refused to-believe- invigorating I sweat.
that the anca Undoubtedly difficulties are formidable, the expense to the taxpayer would he heavy and the risk of creating another racket- great, but if there is a limit to the Colony's capacity to
camera on Saturday. His was worse today and -hp away from the babies. is very disappointing reports second hand," the 150.000-acres be
ciated Press. oxygen chambers in which they target must.ba.compared.
at
he
the first to leave the
of some of those who iried to conquer us.
Hence The Delay
RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE
mpaths
action is before the (2) New tractors could not be which the father said will be a
avalanche.
wecks hrep
four, was able to take nourish-
today.
the story unill a,rail officer sent looked like tracing of what "There's no danger of our turn-human-shaped footprints but 22- but there is inches long and ing into Russians,
und 11 inches widel Bie danger-perhaps I had better ent! it the possibility—of the Riu- But to get back to the Balipara
furning Perslang. sinn are an easy-going joi, with M in the discovery are Assam's
Monster. interest
our Len-drinking, our oplum tea planters. They have heard pipes, our little twists of corrup of white tion, our general attitude
ton't care.""
Jarty.
Out Persia has an astute av ring class and no Communiet The Persian cares ifttle about polities, and there are no parties
elephants—even „pink. elephants but what is this brew that makes you see the father of all clephants?
.
Windlesham, Surrey,
June 16. One of the last of Britain'?
TAILPIECE: Dr. W. E. chimney sweep boys who, in the
Swinton Dinotherium export act 19th Century clambered nake
the, Natural History MUSCULT un chimneys and swept them
South Kensington, says: "The down with a hand
n this country as we know them only creature I know that was in Britain. There is, it is true a bigger than an elephant was a He is Joseph Lawrence whe tiny trade union movement, but inspur and the last one-dieg
ike almost everything else, It is about sixty ment. She is being fed breast reminiscing today, said he was no
million years ago. arred with milk mixed with water from poor he worked naked winter and
the age-old brush. But I'm not saying anything is
There is, a pipette.
x corruption. summer for seven years to avoid
after In impossible. Not
"the fish DrG-Gibwood, Resident spelling his
sult
act, ac bone for the Communist that was caught alive off the He is still active, in good healif gitator to get his teeth "inte, African coast some time ago. We Obstetrician at Southmead who missed offelating at the birth and wears glasses only for read-ven if there were any sympathy had been saying for years that
which there he was extinct. of the quads because of a slighting Gold, took pictures of the His-recipe-for-
NORMAN-DEVINE- Caesarian operation from a cor-worry and no medicine. -Ass ner of the surgery with a minia- clated Press.
are sleeping and gradually gaining strength.
On the "orm" shown today, according to the staff, the winner These briefly are the main should be Frances, followed In causes of the delay:
ardor by Elizabeth, Bridget Brid (1) The original hope was to Jennifer.
Physicians were satisfied with absorb additional population get enough tractors to start clear- -and that hardly calls foring in February 1947. But this the progress made by the babies The parents argument then the time for could not be done until July-five and their mother.
were arranging A christening, bought from America, where the "mass ceremony in a couple of Dual nationality, remotely home demand exceeded this sup-
of the bables were linked, is a question which one of the typu required
was made in Britain.
put on bottles today and even at the end of a hundred
So the ploneers had to do the
-ilttle Jennifer, wankest of the brates his 103rd bish, cole-1 years of administration Ini best they could with second-hand U.S. Army machines picked up Hong Kong along lines con-
from the Pacific battlefronts. ducing towards the making when (as was nievitable) they of sharp_distinctions between Chinese and non-Chinese, may well seem to be aca- demic rather than confrq:
BIG ONE- versial. A whole host of other factors enter, ancestor
Los Angeles, June 15. The President of the
Infer worship, the person who is
national Longshoremen and. Warp-|- born, lives and dies here, housemen's Union, Harry Bridges, but still goes back, period told a mass meeting of the CIO ically, to the country," to Maritime unions say nothing of simple con-would yet be 100gy that there a maritime strike.. would abide nationality order, but the sitike day be law. An attempt to build order, "ord dinled
GOING TO BE A
venience and the hard fact He said the of the Chinese
the Gods restraining
into this place a native "I'm sure there will be = strike, loyalty, to create a Hong don't know when, but it's gb- Kong citizen owing alleging to be a big one."-United
Press unce only to the Crown, might possibly have succeed.
ed had policy been directed WAGE AGREEMENT towards that specific end
Deroit, Juno 16.
oyer a long period of years. The Hudson Motor Car Com- To make a start now would pany and CIO United Auto Work definitely carry the appearers today reached a third-round ance of offering too little too wage agreement granting 17,000 late.
Hudson employee; a dût pay boost The idea, of course, has its of 13 cents an hour in a two- allures. It tempis specula-year contract.-United Press. tion. And there are in fact
restricted numbers of re- of it and would undoubted- sidents to whom Hong Kongly prefer to avoid any cir and no other place is home, cumstance likely to put their and who, mostly, can claim loyalty to a crucial test. to be good solid citizens of Far safer to seek a more the type envisaged by those limited objective and direct in quest of a New Hong policy towards breaking Hong, something after the down the bartiers between fashion, of the Naw Jeru different sections of the com
must be, and have in view salem. But the proportion munify, slow as the process adequate to provide a sale the creation of an atmosphère factory nucleus. Moreover, of common interest in alt even these groups have de that forms part of the life veloped in spite their one of Hong Kong, on all ley vironment-uthor than be social, com nercial and pal causo of it, from hccidents tical. Then we might, con-
scled delvably,-get somewhere
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