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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1952.
"Drunk in charge of a Zobra Crossing-that's what I am.'
London Express Servico
As you read this, the last of a strange race
are vanishing-killed by 'civilisation'
S
THE DEATH OF A NATION
OMETIMES modern
commercialism stretches out, slim
tentacles to unspoilt, ulmust unknown lands, then draws them back for busi- ness reasons to leave behind only tragedy.
So it is that today the few survivors of one strange tribe of inland Eskimos of the north-west territories of Canada--the People of the Deer-are playing out the last scenes of a tragedy set amid the pure whiteness of their snow-covered land.
Ironically the people's lost sctilement is where legɛryl says their first one was-by the Little Hills and the 'River of Men on
the Vast barren plains near
the Arctic Circle.
The Barrens cover 50,000 un mapped square miles, of which a hunter once said: "That space.
makes you want to cry or scream -ar cut your own throat."
by BERNARD EATON
But,
In the last few weeks a fabulous tale has been coming from Canada. The wheels of progress have ground almost into the Arctic Circle to build a now prosperity on the recently-discovered deposits of uranium and oil. unknown to most of the new settlers around Uranium City, the curtain is being rung down on an ancient, race
there. Even roamed who once read
last of the this, the you People of the Dear may be dying.
as
there were no shells to feed to their hungry güns.
So the People starved and coukl build up no immunity to civilisation had the diseases brought. The Great Palo-tuber- culosis and poliomyelitis helped to decimate those who did not die from
from hunger. The ancient laws of the People Supplies of meat were eached their way south tens of thousands ruled that when starvation came the least Important of the living for the winter months, and the of tongueless carcasses rotted on
nnast go first. So the aged walked people ate their all of the only the Barrens. food which enabled them to
Not even the immense herds out into the night to die in the
eternal shows. survive temperatures of 10 below could
Civilisation mode abortive criminate slaughter, and soon efforts to prolong the life of the race. During the famine-of 1947 a plane dropped sacks of white beans to them--but there were no fires to cook them.
Then nets
were sent out so that the People could live by. fishing-but it was not explained how to fish through ten feet of winter ice.
zero.
withstand
the indis-
It just goes on and on until 14 Then solitary outposts of one there were great gaps where once or two trading concerns were deer blanketed the earth as far established in the fand and as the eye could sec. Now, for the first time. A traders made contact with the young Canadian, Farley Mewat, inland rece. tells the story of that terriblo
emptiness. He travelled far into I seeking the story of the caribou the reindeer-and to And the People of the Deer.
He watched the mysterious migrations of the deer, and learned that the life of the
ancient Barrens rice was inextricably bound up with them.
They showed the People that the pursuit of fox pelts was more desirable than the pursuit of meat, for could they, not ex- change them for flour, ammunt- tion and guns?
And "within a few decades,
50, the Eskimos neglected the caches of meat they used to make each Dulúmn. Great hunters of the deer become great hunters of the 10x.
Britain's Defence Of The Air
By HARRY C. DRAKE-
London. ñghters, and a 11⁄2 ton; ship-
In Britain the tempo
s polint
THE most important and board-fired misalle.
least publicised de- stepped up. Six of the biggest fonce research in Bri- aircraft companies are work- tain today is that on rocket- ing on the programme. Ameri- propelled guided missiles: can sources state that more than
half, the design staffs British
It
in the
Industry are now work- on guided mimiles.
in important because the ideal defence against the Associated with the effort are enemy bomber flying at 600
over 100 dims in the engineer- miles per hour, in the sub- ing. rador
and
electronics,
stratosphere will be a screen plosive fields.
plastics, chemistry and
EX-
of guided missiles, some. When the first operational fired from the ground and models go *Into productión, some from jot-fighters arm- which is promised shortly, the ed with smaller air-to-air sale of effort will merit the missiles.
designation of a new industry.
This type of battle of tha future has been named wrongly ""press button war
fare."
veals the huge extent to which Study of the USA. effort re- all three Services foresce guided missiles taking.over convention-
It is very far from that. One of the biggest problema 012 both sides of the Atlantic 'is to simplify the extremely com- plicated ground firing procedure development;
Theseuler,
are the types under
of a missile, which in terms of Air-to-air (jet fighter arma- man-hours demands the equi- ment). valent of a full-scale artillery, bombs guided from
Alr - to surface (powered the bom-
barrage.
Rocket propulsion -needed for 2,000 mph. light reached the
practical stage years ago.
The essential thing to bring the defence ideal to the early stages of reality was the do velopment of 4 satisfactory "homing
device, which could
be fitted to each missile to en- able it to sleer itself towards its emery aircraft target, de spito evasivo turns and twists.
that vital
Britain now possesses secret. That is the most new fact emerging from the recent heartening statements by Mr Churchill and Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply.
It is contained in Mr Sandys' statement: "These rockets can be steered or can steer them selves with
great accuracy.
taking
to
the
ber).
Afr to underwater (anti- submarine bombs, similarly powered and guided).
Ground-to-air (AA, pro- jecllics).
Ground-to-ground (Antillery projectiles).
Surface-to-underwater (depth "homing" on to targets). by
-to-air (fred
aircraft).
submarine against
Underwater-to-surface (mub- marine-fired torpedoes).
Each adds rocket propulsion and the ability to guide itself to its target as "extras" to the
scope of present-day weapons.
How do guided missiles operate?
Typical of present-day missiles is the Fairchild Lark,
the 16- feet long "advanced trainer," in limited production for exercis ing the first specialised group to be formed in the United States Forces as a "Guided Missile Unit."
It is brought to its launching site minus ita rocket fuel, First, extra booster rockets to help ils Initial acceleration are attached.
Then the two components
of alcohol-
intercept aircraft evasive action."
Mr Churchill has added: “Ro- markable progress has been. made.
America
has already do monstrated in public against "guinea-pig" bombers - ad- mittedly of the slower 250-300 its rocket fucl-the m.ph. wartime typo that aniline mixture and the oxygen- success has been achieved there, supplying agent, in this case In fact, America leads Britain nitric acid-are separately and in guided missile research by a carefully pumped into its cham- bes by specially-clad operators, margin, comfortable
The only information released in Brkain so dar is about early Fairey missile of 1947,
Two seconds after leaving the the abortive series of Supersonic experiments with the Vickers Launching ramp the expended ploilers planes in the same booster rockets fall away leaving year and the two unidentified the missile to shoot onward, experimental missiles referred reaching 1.200-2,000 m.p.h.ch to by Mr Sandys, which have route to its target. been fired in considerable. num Meanwhile the special control- bers from the Aberperth staff have taken over. Watching pust its image on radarscopes the (Wales) range over the
controllers guide 美 two years.
in the gen One of these slim, 17 feet eral direction of its target.
When sufficiently close, the long, 2,000 mp.h. missiles publicly exhibited at last year's missile
and steers it- Farnborough Alrcraft Show.
America is working on 44 self on to the target. 30 earlier types are known projects, while a further The same principles of regarded booster rockets to ald initiai
10
Over
year on this research.. Incidentally, the
Was
ycare
to self-comically switches
日本
So by 1950 the People of the as obsolete. The effort there is acceleration, and aiming in the
gigantic.
general direction of the target Deer were, in effect, a dead race,
leaving the missile to the past dour Today they move along only numbering little over 30 where one migratory route where once only a a few decades ago their America has been spending when close enough, aro
more than 100,000,000 dollars a types now in production.
followed in the operational they used many mighty roads. numbers totalled thousands. And When trading in fox pelts of these only two women were
Further refinement on the ceased to pay high profits, the capable of child-bearing.
fabulous air-to-air "Firebird"
missile is traders went away
and the And the deer? The Govern-earth satellite vehicle being.a type of proximity fuse Get Then one trading concern en- doors of the deserted outposts mest of Canada tacitly admits taken very seriously in the so that the missile automatically couraged the sale of ammunition swung open and only drifting that the deer are close to ex- USA-igures in that
pro- explodes near enough to an by offering to buy all the deer snow filled the rooms.
tinction.
enemy plans to ensure damage. tongues that were brought in. The new way of life that had Eventually there will be no America has now ordered in- This sort of fusing, as opposed So every autumn the hunters been taught to the People then decr-and no People of the Deor. to quantity production one type to an impact tuse suited to with a case of became death. They had forgot Ard an ancient race which we of anti-aircraft ground-launched gulded bombs and artillery-type went out, each
and
after
the ten how to make bows of musk- have never really known will be missile, two types of the small- missiles, will distinguish nil the ammunition, migrating deer had passed on ex torn and spears of copper, and löst for ever.
er missiles carried by piloted anti-aircraft missiles,
gramme.
YOU WANT A SERGEANT-MAJOR
-NOT A DOCTOR
In his book he tells the story of both--and of what occurred when trading posts of his own countrymen sprang up on. the edge of the Barrens to bargain for pelts of the white Arelle fox. Every spring the deer used to
HAVE often regretted migrato en masse 500 miles north across the Arctic plains, drawn that I never had the by an inexorable urgo which
nerve to get my revenge- no man has ever been able to on the small boy who chall fathom.
They followed the same trails year after year. Once the ed Bedside Manor on my herd was so vast: It was known garage gates.
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A doctor speaks to
those who secretly fear a pain in the back. Consultation reported by GEORGE SCOTT
ARE YOU SCARED TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR?
IF IE...
comes!—
And then-here exercises. Try these:-
(A) Lie fat on your back-on the floor or an a table with chin in and hands clasped behind
stances. So their first job is to neck. Breathe deeply and slowly get a support, or a diet.'
without letting the lower part of Doctors do not all agree on the your back lift off the floor or the effects of high heels-but I know. stomach bulge, that the Service women I once (3) Lie on your back, hands at treated by the nissen-hutful sides. Bend one knee up over didn't get the backaches my the chest, straighten out the leg, super-high-heel patients can- then lower it slowly, keeping plain about today.
your back flattened against the Maybe that had something to floor and the stomach. £ucked in. do with their sergeant-major's Do the same with the other leg shouts of "Krop your head up, and repeat ten times. Builder on the door of his There was for instance, a For years he had sat in his car ghand your tummy-in.".
(C) Blond with heels tous do modem house in the cul-de-sac patient of mine, George J Then, suddenly, thone slack,
a commercial traveller, who had fabby back-muscles of his had if you wear low heel all day: the lower part of the back againge The trouble, of course, comes six lochide from a well Flatten For many modem homes-and driven his small car round the to do the work of a navy told at home, and then suddenly in the wall keeping the head and Last season he went a football him to ease im to tako, things the evening export your body to a whh chin' in, hands on hips,
Result: they rebelled. I garden of any ege--are perfectly country for years.
shoulders touching I designed to encourage backacho.
Have you ever thought just pool and, at 50, he retired at more gently. He did so, and his welcome high heels.
backache went, how much your back has to put least 20 years too soon.
But he had longed always to
Similar come from up with during every day?. Next to your feet, it works harder than have his own garden, so he taking up
In later life, or
The majority of pain-in-the wall any other part of your body. At bought a house and a pif-acre evon from wielding a distemper bacic cases are classed by doctors Putting your posture right can brush above your head while as "mechanical backbche.five rapidly improve your mental oute In October back they would go the sink, at the ironing board, on fir winnings.
decorating a room to the south by the saine tralls, oven of the always-too-low
It is not verlousput it should look and strengthen your rest- endless rows passing without dressing-bable, life for women is "I can hardly sit down, and Now most of what I have sald not be neglected. It can often snoe to inoss
then 1 and # hard to get up. If boils down to faulty posture or be helped by 'pushing 'a sheet of It really does help, to keep you hurry, but without pause, back-breaking.
The People of the Deer Wallet ink yet, with so many simple I band my back then-oh-the the strain put upon the body by plywood, between the mattress alert, producing an invigorating with their copper-head spears explanations, patienty dream up pain. I'm sure it's something unusual posture so let's look and the springs of the bod.: This sense of well-being
more closely at the business ofar a hard mattress--takes you for serious, docter."
"I" sins equally sure it
how to alt and how to stand. at the were out at the backbone, sake,' never, lift anything horwy the autumn migration was a limit is absurd, I assure you, to be. He bad Just piched into this Over-fat people are in more Five torten, cofnutes in a hot off the floor without beriding of groat slaughter.
scared to go to a doctor with a gardening, digging hooing, woed trouble them most of us. Their bath before bedtime-collowed, you knees w pain in your back. wajority ing, far too many housand 400 supion weight which their if possible, by, some locale, baai TE (MINENT DEE cure than in a wimple, suddenly--for a man of his ago fromo lan't dermed to stutris and mossage in offen « répong
urtalarming explana llore.
med whyte of MIG,
#pulled them
and horn bows by the trails, and themselves,
emics delghtening Hiagnoses
broathe deeply ralting the chest, holding
In the stomach and keeping the back pressed to the
-Andi,...,plenue, for your back's