THE CHINA MAIL, friday, AugusT 13, 1948.
US Spy Accusations
Britain's Onslaught On Secrets WOMAN INVOLVES
Of The Antarctic
30-YEAR-OLD EX-OFFICER
DIRECTING SURVEY
London, August 11.
ex-
Britain hopes to have a large part of her Antarctic frontier
plored, mapped and ready for commercial exploitation - if exploitation is found feasible by 1950.
A survey by the United Press of Antarctic circles in London disclosed that deposits of copper, iron ore and coal have been discovered in the region, and oil is believed to exist in at least But the commercial possibilities one sector,
aro
are not yet known. Teams of British scientists and explorers
systematically rolling back the unknown from a crescent-shaped chain of oight bases which stretch through 900 miles of the Polar lands. The most northern base is on lonely Laurio Is- land in the South Orkney Islands, which is a one-mon baso part of the year, and the most southern is at Stonington Island in Marguerita Bay, whore 11 mon are stationed. The bases are manned by a total of 38 Britishors and aro linked by radio.
that rndia-
The onslaught against the In his offer, tucked away on secrets of the Antartic is being the third floor of a Colonial Office directed by Major K. S. Pierce-nex not far from Westminster Butler, 30-year-old Signals Abbey, the strapping, jovial ex- officer who was seconded to the plorer suld in im Interview, that the the region was rich in minerals, Colonial Offier to head
but he emphasised Falkland Islands Dependencies
nctive metals weru: Survey,
them. Mnfor Pierce-Butler recently came huck to London with the reports and Bim record of pro- Kress made by his men during the last two and half years. He will rejoin them. In October..
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Massive Deposits ́ The Scott Expedition years ago
in the Beardmore proved cont Glacier area and Ferguson, 31 prospector working with whale catchers. reported massive posits of pyrites in the South Shetlands.
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Major Pierce-Butler said malninnd and islands in the re- gion are apparently an extension He said the rock of the And atructure on Alexander 1
Lord, frequency of K46 kiloyees from 17.14 which is separated from Gran
ham Land by the King George VI Sound, Indiented
oil might be found there. An X- pedition will set out to map avi the region as soon as the southern summer
summer season arrives this year, he said."
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that he planned to the Briti
British sector of the Antarctic mapped down to 75 degrees southern latitude by 1980. He also expected to some detalled information On the extent and precise location of the mineral wealth locked in that are available for British commercial Interests by then. A base was set up last year on
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The Antarctic leader declined to speculate on the commercial News possibilities of the region, which so far has been principally valu- Underable as a whaling centre.
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He emphasised that not enough was known of the mineral de- posils for anyone to state occur- ately what would be done with them the futuro. He pointed nut, however, that two obstacles would make commercial exploita- fion diMcult transport and weather.
would in the prevailing tempera- tures be enormous, Finally, to attract labour, wages would have to be so handsome even by pre- seni day values that mining Anance would hesitate
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RUSSIAN OFFICIAL
Washington, August 11. Elizabeth Bentley, confessed Communist agent, to- day named Anatoli Gromov, former Fint Secro- tary of the Soviet Embassy hore, as an agent of the Communist spy ring whose tentacles are said to have reached into the White House.
"front line" meteorological posts. It was the first public charge linking the Russian
Balloons are used extensively be- cause the weather is incubated at high nititudes. Thoir weather forecasty are Indispensible for whalers and South Atlantic' ship- ping.
Major Pierce-Butler, who has almost more volunteers for the Antarctic than he can use, said life is not hard and dan gerous, ze popularly supposed. His men were able to work about 10 months out of the the year out of doors and during the summer months (December February) temperatures soared into the forties Fahren. heit.
to
to
There was too much to do to get bored, he said. During the forcest winter months, when howling blizzards snowed the men in, they played cards, read from a well stocked library, and repaired gear. BAC broadcasts Dantre. It said in a recent adi- | and South American radie
The trade magazine "Mine- and Quarry Engineering" has taken a poor view of the An- farctic's future as a mining
torial that the mineral deposits there would not be worked "until the world's other sources have grown, very slend er indead."
re
the
stations were easily tuned in.
**The biggest klek we used to get," he said, "was to see the sun for the first time after the long winter," 'It was a sign that
relief ship be coming.-United
the
The magazine article continu-spring-and ed: "When the Antarctic is con- would soon aidered as possible mining fleld, Press. diMculties
not
found in
MARKOS RUMOUR Northern Hemisphere at once be- came apparent. The whole con
Lake Success, August 11. tinent is smothered by an Ice Rumours that General Markos, tinens
ot the Communist CP nd through this ice sheet the leader exposures of rock are compará- "Provisional Democratie Govern- ively rare, so that prospecting ment of Greece" might appear at and development
methods will the United Nations have to be devised....
"From the technical point view, the cost of closed water circuits for milling circles here.-Reuter.
were not confirmed here tonight, but the of possibility of his doing so is not maintaining ruled out in Greek left
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Government directly with the Communist spy hunt being pressed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Miss Bentley swore Gromov, nequlescence of the FBI, brid paid her for her services. The demanded their Immediate sur- money was turned over to the render so they could be Dent Federal Bureau of Investiga-home by the next boat. tion.
The Soviet En-basey said ita oftache was out of town and no one else could comment on the Bentley charge.
Miss Bentley's evidence came A the Committee announced plans to recess bearings at the erd of this week to permit ques-
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