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GIGANTIC SCHEME FOR New Rules For
HARNESSING THE
MONSTER SEEN IN
NILE
London, February 10.
Mr. Hector McNeil, Minister of Státo, announced tonight thot Britain and Egypt have agreed to launch in the Nile Valley one of the world's. biggest irrigation schemes.
HARBOUR The scheme will aid the development of North, East,
Mombasa, February 10. The "Kilindini Monster," which a police inspector claim- ed he shut six weeks ago, was seen yesterday by a large crowd at ferry-boat passengers in Mombasa Harbour a few yards from the spot where it was first Departed
and Central Africa and may take 20 years to complete.
quarters
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Canal System
. This will be linked with a big project to generate hydro- electric power, and will chil for other regulating works on
the White Nil
swamps
Japan Entry ›
· Tokyo, "February 11. General MacArthur's Hund-i quarters today announced new regulations permitting the entry into Japan of those having Immediate relatives, Japanese and, forsigners, whe were permanent residents In, Japan before December, 1941. Their stay in Japan is
· limited to 60 days.
The Occupation authorities will not be responsible their housing and food,
Reuter.
Piccard To Try It Again
Amplifying Mr. McNell's on- torla by regulating the discharge nouncement, made at a dinner of of its waters into the Nile. the Anglo-Egyptian Society in London, authoritative disclose that other Governments. berdering on the Nile Valley will be approached shortly to parti- Mr. BA: Hynes, a-Rom Reeper ipate in the scheme if they way
Experts have also recommend- sold: "We first saw patches of
The total cost and methods of bubbles
water, then on the
have noted the buliding of a great canni Anancing the scheme large form rose above the aur-yet been decided, but irrigation system bypassing the face. We could not see clearly experts have made extensive in-region in Southern Sudan known because of the sun, but there is vestigations, and prepared detail as the Sudd. This will conserve no doubt it was the monster."
ed blueprints for all items in the water now dissipated in the Including volved.
White Nile's course through the Sixteen witnesses,
Sudan. Ave Europeans, who claimed last
stated, will The project it in The scheme covers the con- year to have seen the monster.
a new era in the Sudd, known to generations of Afri-struction of dams and hydro-lead to
now mainly uncultivated swamp. Black Thing electric works on the Nile and cans As "The
A vast reservoir is also plan- describe it as greyish brown in the creation of a great canal sys-
ned for the Blue Nile to store the waters of Lake Trono in Ethiopla,
which, it
theand-a-half is expected, on
Government will Ethiopian shortly be consulted.
Crop Expansion
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colour, about six feet across, tem in the Southern Sudan. covered with scales, und with
British and Egyptian experts héad like a bul).
Assistant Inspector J.T. Bran- have planned extensive works on upper reaches of the Blue non, in charge of the Port po- the lice, claimed on New Year's Eve and White Niles. Another ma- that the monster was tree root jur Hem will be the building of a dora across the Victoria Nile rout 12 feet long on which n
marooned, and in Uganda, near Lake Victoria, puf der was
that he huch shot it.-Reuter.
to' control the level of Lake Vic-
Karen Stronghold Reported Taken
Rangoon, February 10.
An official spokesman said today that Burmese Goy- ernment forces this morning entered Kaweg- yan, a Karan stronghold near Thamaing, 'on the Rangoon-Insein road, after heavily shelling it throughout the night. Armoured cars led the way into the town. The Karens are maintaing stiff resistence in the area and heavy fighting is
the
continuing,
spokesman added.
Air Force Low-flying Burma planes strafed Karen positions at Daiku, on the Rangoon-Manda- 90 miles North of lay railway, the capital, according to tonight's military communique.
At Nyaunglebin, further North, a section of No, 2 Company, the
Burma Rifles,
was disarmed for the Karens, the join
said.
Panemunique"
to
Another part scheme will be a hydro-electric
for
Brussels, February 10. Professor Auguste Plecard has reported that his unsuccess- nt- ful October deep-son dive tempt in the six-foot metal "bathysphere" was not in vain. should be able to make a two- Slightly modified, the sphere
mile descent fully manned. The Belgian National Fund for Scientifle Research, which financed the Professor'a Cape Verde expedition, has studi- of the overall ed the report, according to which £12,000,000 the metal sphere worked perfect; project at Owen ly and still habitable. Falls, in Ugandu. The whole Professor Piccord abandoned scheme, when
completed, will the attempt after unmanned trial enable the area of Egypt under dives had revealed technical dif cultivation to be
in expanded by | fcultles
controlling and another 2,000,000 to 7,000,000 Launching the Tenton "under- acres, It is estimated.
water halloon," This will
mean that, with crop rotation, 10,000,000 acres of, crops will possibly be han vested annually.
The report asid that the ballast-releasing device worked without hitch, but the main problem was the methods of launching,.
In the October attempt the
The irrigable area of the Sudan will be at least two and a half million acres, half of which will be under crop each year. Uganda will benefit by the provision of system of using a winch on the deck of the parent. vessel had hydro-electric great
power, which will aid the coal and inproved Gnsatisfactory, and
vessel, the dustrial development now plan-parent
3,000-ton ned, including the crushing of Scaldis, was too small and had
the
cotton seed and copper smelting. Histed heavily during touching
Construction will start when operation by high seas,
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In the Myingyan district Central Burma, heavy fighting is
Govern taking place between
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chamber, agreements have been concluded bathysphere's flotation with the other interested Gov-containing 7,000 gallons of avia- ernments. No plan yet exists for tlon fuel, was damaged and the
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Russian Attack On Union Man
Moscow, February 10.
The Soviet trade union news paper "Trud" today attacked į the Norweglan editor, Mr. Trond Hegnea, a member of a trade union delegation which visited Russia last summer, for "slun- derous misrepresentation."
It said: "In a series of articles.
Mr. Hegnes set out to darken, in the eyes of Norwegian workers, Soviet trade union demderacy and Soviet reality.
All airways companies opera- ting in Burme, except the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Have suspended their fights.
Reuter,
ticipate-Reuter.:
Ulster Votes On
Vital Issue
Bolfast, February 10.
The people of Northern Ireland recorded their yotes for "King or Republic" today in a generally.. quict poll after their most bitter general elec- tion campaign-in 28-years,
Only a few isolated encounters between Nationalist and anti-partition partisans were reported as
long queues formed outside the polling places, and Nationalists returned from England, Scot- land and Wales to record, their votes.
The election is regarded as a remain a part of the United plebiscite on whether the six Kingdom or merga with the Northern "Countries should re-Eireann Republic.
Pakistan Concern Over Middle East
London, February 10.
Pakistan feels herself part of the Moslem Middle East and is more concerned with events in Arabia than in the Doccan,
#
Fifty-seven candidates are con- teating 28 of the 52 seats in the House of Commons. Sir Basil Brooke's Unionist Party is ex- pected to be returned with 36 seats out of the 62,,
Counting will begin tomorrow and the results, except for four scats at Queen's University. whose alectors vole by post. should be known late in the afternoon.
forte
Both sides made supreme ef
to win endorsement of their Cause. Unlonists' contested every one of the 28 scata, while anti- partition candidates were aided by funds collected at Church doors South of the border.
Londonderry Unionista alleged today that "anti-partitionist ob- struction" caused a serious hold- Mr. up and reduced the number of
....
/
The Labour Member of Par- Congress leaders 'cannot guarantee "Helles, cants, betrays and lament, Mr. M.P. Price, sald an inter-communal state and feel slanders in his every step,” ̧,
this in a speech to a joint meet they must have guarantees for "Trud" said that he is an able ing of the Overseas League and the survival of their culture and
way of
of life." pupil of Goebbels and a candidate East India Association today.
Regarding for the role of Quisling,
Mr. Price, who recently re-
Price said: There can be No His later articles contradicted turned from a tour of Pakistan, Moscow said: "Pakistan prefers, to be part
atticment If the Indian Union voters in that clly division. his broadcast over the
Inalate, on jannexing West Kash-
Stretcher Votes Radio lost summer, and some of of the brotherhood of the Moe-
mir where
population in bis (vlows were redected in the lem Middle East stretching Im
Coildly pro-Pakistan, which enigial report of the trade union North Africa to the Indian Ocean.
will be shown in an impartial delegation, “Trud" said Reuter. She is interested in the fate of
plebiscite. the Arabs
in the in Palestine.
"What Pakistan fears most Is between the British and plions over the Sudan and plebiscito infuenced by, the} over the future of Tripoll. She occupying troops. The task of the United Nations Commission) actually
abte concerned about
to see that the forth-
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VAMPIRE JETS
FOR SWISS:
London, February 10.
És mère
Unioniste sald soma entl. at the palik partition agents
Unionist votore challenged all And had them sworn aven when, their Identlty cards were In order. This tactle clubed "quoues of me, many as 100 pea- ple and, according to Union-
voters who got tired of wilt. Ing
fet events in Arabia than in the Dec-coming plebiscite is fair-Unit- late, sent home many would-be The firit of 75 Vampire fighters being built for Bwitzer can." ...
-Pakistan - there Innd has been completed and dight-tested, the De Havilland an undercurrent of belief in the
of the
sub-can- Indian Aircraft Company announced to- unity day,
| tinent, he said, planes will leave for Mr. Price added: "Most of the Switzerland in a few days time. public men in Pakistan have in :: This order for Jets involves a the past worked with Hindus in deal of $2,500,000 Swiss francsthe coalition government. But Moslems today fear that Indian Reuter.
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