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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1953.
World Sugar Exports
Washington, June 29,
The Agriculture Depart- ment reported today that world exports of sugar totalled 12,600,000 short tons raw value during 1952.
The total referred only tu saports of "centrifugal" sugar-" that is, excluding the 2,000,000 torm of sugar movod hětween the United States and its territories in
1002 55,000 töiner imoze than
In 1981, the report said.
The centrifugal figure for 1052 compares with 12.400,000 tons in 1031, an average annual Agure
9,400,000 for the 1943-49 period and the average of 11,500- 000 or 1935-30, the Gove:timent publication "Foreign Crops and Ma-keta" raid in'a survey,
The report give the follow- of <xport" ing break-down from producing
areas in 1852 compared with 1951:
A
North and Central Amerlen 7,200,000 tons exported in 1952, decline of 300,000 from 1951. Cuban expo
exports fell by 460,000 tons. Importa were up from 4,200,000 in 1951 to 4,500,000 in
primarily due 1052,
to more buying by the United States and Canada. Net exports thus decreased by about 500,000
tons.
Western
Europe Exports
were about the same 1,500,000 in 1051. Imports declined by reflected chlefly
almost 230,000,,* Kingdom ond
in the United West Germany.
SOVIET SHIPMENTS
Eastern Europe — Exports re- ported to have Increased from 408,000 to 542,000. The Soviet Union 13 reported to have shipped 83,000, or 10,000 less than in 1951.
Acta Exports at 1,400,000 were up 400,000, reflected chiefly in increased exports from Formosa and the Philip- pines, Imports at 2,000,000 were up 300,000 as Japan in- creased imports by almost 000,- 000.
South America - Exports in- creased to 034,000, Imports -were down slightly.
Africa-Exports
were down to 841,000 tons, and imports were up lo almost 900,000. Africa changed once more to the position of a net importer due mainly to increased Egyptian ond French Moroccan imports end decreased exports from Mauritius and the Union of South Africa.
Occania--Not exports were at 250,000 tons compared with 295,000 in 1951 as Australian exports decreased by 65,000 United Press.
The Guards Follow Old
Precedence
-----Why ---- do ---- the Coldstream Guards always forn up at the farthest end of the parade and not behind the Grenadier Guards? Why
the do
East
AUSTRIAN INVENTION MAY MEAN A NEW LEASE OF LIFE TO EX-SERVICEMEN
Kufstein, June 29.
A new lease of life for thousands of limbless ex-servicemen may result from negotiations between British and American surgical experts and an artificial-limb factory in this Alpine resort of the Tyrol.
American experts will be making exhaustive tests as to the value of these "almost-real" limbs by comparison with other types now in use,
British experts, have been making tests for about a year.
Plans to improve and increase production and service aro ́rapidly nearing com- pletion. Already, there are workshops here where 18 exporta turn out wooden ‘arti- ficial limbs of a type gradually being adopted in Austria and other European coun- tries.
The chief purpose of the| Jena, in the German province ! extensions is to provide properly of Saxony. equipped premises, including a Then, in 1920, he started world swltuning bnih, where the in Austria. In headquarters be trained alkhave been here ever since. Bul patients can eared for eficiently.
It was not unt!) 1932 that he The man behind the scheme began to develop the
of type is small, wiry grey-haired Fritz imb ho is now making. The Striede, Modest but tough first patents for it were
taken looking, he would be mistaken cut by hint in 1938. as dest sight by a Londoner for a typical Cockney.
In fact, he was born in the Enst German province of Sitesla
To anyone who has seen the ungainly stride of men wearing other types of limb, these Aus trian artificial legs are a revela-
a little more thari 50 years ago.tion. Watching a man walking! Hilk Brst efforts to manufacture with one of them, only an artificial limba were made at pert could tell that he had
two natural legs.
Blackbeard Leading
“GEORGE"
HAS NEW
FUNCTION
every
London, June 29, "George", the automatic pilot, ex-has for many years been a hard- not working member of the crew of big airliner, flying the main world routes. Now, British engineers have developed 11 the Striede attributes much of the much smaller feeder-line, execu-
lightweight "George" for efficacy of his artificial limbs to
CLOSE IMITATION
Hyroscopic by the
the fact that they imitate closelytive and trainer aircraft. the mechanism and shape of the This lightweight human leg. The thigh and calf autopilot, developed pleces are held together. only British Sperry Company, in by tough flexible bands.
already fitted to a number of An unique feature of the small planes-particularly the Strlede int is that it is held in de Havilland· Dove, one of place only by the muscular
Britain's best dollar-caring air- Diamonds, in-betion of the patient's
slump, craft. inside the hollow signia of the Fleet Air Arm's which fits fustest flyers, is going to be a thigh or calf piece, depending on
The "Aces'
The
Ace of
people all over Britain by the attachment must be
been amputated: Each hollow
end of the summer,
The "Aces," twelve ex-ft. perienced pilots picked to form No. 802 Squadron, are the first nirmen to fly the Royal Navy's latest carrier jet-fighters, Haw- ker Sea Hawks, and they are to show their skill at air shows and displays
week-end every for the next three months.
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When the 'nutopilot drst came familiar wight to thousands of the point at which the leg has into general use in the 1930's, it was never thought that it made in-would be used on anything but dividually to ensure a perfect the very biggest aircraft. The snia]} one-mon crew aircraft There are no belts, shoulder was usually Blown by a pilot straps
bindings. Noris who navigated by may reading vacunam quetion used.
and ficw by "the-stat-of-the- In other types of artificial pants"-that is, without much lamb, the stump muscles, having complicated instrumentation. no positive function in walking, atrophy and become useless. But diring and after the war But in the Striedo Umbs the the picture rapidly changed. through having to Today, the increased pressure They are led by binck-beard-muscles.
work, become healthy and of traille and the development ed Lieutenant-Commander at strong again.
of new radar and radio naviga- Chilton, aged 32, one of the Usually only about two to tion and safety aids has meant Navy's top-flight aviators who, three weeks' training is needed that even the pilot of a small since 1940 has down fifteen before the patient is able to aircraft has to be not only different types of jet planes. use the stump muscles to hold capiain, but- Diso more of a navigator, radio operator and The pilots of his squadron on to the artificial leg..
Bight
than engineer, includo four who have operated
originally thought possible. from carriers off North Korea. Of these, three were shot down
These new high standards by Communist ground-fire
in to hold on to the limb with the meant that it would often be low level attacks, and
is very were stump mascles
slight.
an economy for the small air- rescued, to fight again, by an Yet when the wearer relaxes
liner to have a second pilot in American helicopter and am- his (or her) muscles, he can the shope of
"George" so that phibien search and rescue unit. take the limb off without any the human pilot.could leave the
First big outing for 800 trouble. Squadron was at the Itoyal Flect To show the manoeuvrability alreraft to fly itself. An import- Review Spithead in the fly-of the Striede limb, one patient ant point is that the automatic past, barely a month after re-melt without any support, pilot actually flies more accurate ceiving their complement of the bending both legs one artin-ly thom new alteraft.
Their next trip will be across the Channel to Le Bourget for the Paris Air Show. Chilton L. Car.
says his can undertake show squadron
-NO TROUBLE
Thereafter the effort needed
own-com-
was
comes to course in bad
a human pilot, par-
# ticularly when cial, the other her pletely double. "You never navigating have the impression of having weather. an artificial leg," this woman told me.
"You think it is your own because the muscles nre
The
Designers -- worked-hard--10 simple but emcient develop. a
would which autoplfot,
warms are even cheaper light, and the result is a com Surreys woor blue lanyards dying so soon because his plicts than "incomparably less edoc
are polished and because the
she
be
pact piece of equipment weigh- like the Royal Marines?
in France, ing about 20 lb. without wiring. added.
The light autopilot may also Mr Arthur Kipling, one of the Sea Hawk is a "pliot's alreraftive artificial limbs
It has virtually no vices, and only two honorary members of
The coat of a coinplete Striede be useful on small military air the Society for Army Historical planned that, despite sensitive about 2,000 Austrian schillings
the cockpit has been so carefully leg for a thigh amputation is craft Research, gave the answers to
controls and those and other Army matters
high speed, the men (about 240 sterling). when he addressed the Alder- who fly it say it is like flying in Patients wearing Striede limbs The Sea Hawk, which will can cycle, drive motorcars, run soen become the Fleet's stand and carry out normal
tions. ard carrier-borne fighter, is powered by a singly Rolls-Royce Nene turbo-jet engine.
shot Rotary Club recently,
*The Coldstreamers merely follow the ancient order of pre- cedenco dating back to the time of Charles II, under which the senior Regiment, the Grenadiers, took post on the right of the fine, and the next senior, the Coldstreamers, on the left. Next In precedence fell in beside the Grenadiers and the next beside the Coldstreamers untu the junior regiment Was In the middle.
an armchair.
Liquid Thanks
occupa-
APPROVED BY NAZIS
In his early days, Striede's Not methods were laughed at, until World War II did he receive any official recognition. Then the High Command of the ms German Army tested crificial limbs and gave then its blessing.
Striede
that
the AM.POL. Petroleum com- nego ragging on for about
been
Baby Of The Paratroops
Now there is Baby of the Paratroops Just like the Baby Me- of the Navy, Elizabeth
the Cracken, who was born in
the aircraft-carrier Eagle in middle
Re- of the Spithead vlow.
before dawo It happened
150 Territorial para
Battalion,
A thousand workers at Blyth, The East Surrey Regiment Northumberland, shipyard re- Since then, they have become was raised in 1702 as a regiment cently enjoyed a gift from an widely used in Austria and some of matines for the war of the Australian because they com- other countries. They are now when Fpanish Succession. In 1825 the record time. Each man in the Switzerland and Holland, and
pleted an 18,000-ton tanker in being
Being made under licence in troopers from the 13th (Lanco-
Parachute shire) Marines helped to save men of the Regiment, heel dat staff, received a free bottle of negotiations
1st gard, together with the office Striede hopes for much from his were battling for an American when their vessel; the
with American air base at
at Sculthorpe, Norfolk, sandwich, with the of compliments 'Kent' caught fire in the Bay of beer and a
experts.
in a recent exercise. Some of William G. Blacay. After this, close friend-
disapp Inted were creating a diversion with Walkley, managing director of ship developed botwem the
with Britain have thunderflashes, nares, and blank ammunition. The main body Regiment and the Royal Marines, officers of both regiments became
car. Although tests have been
Was trying to get through to honorary members of each other's cars his namo had earlier been made on behalf of the Ministry the air-base perimeter.. messes,
both regimental
of National Health, he believes. Then, In one sector, a halt were played on cere-iaunched by Mrs Walkley. The that one obstacle to the fact that was called. Peace and quiet marches were monial occasions.
shipyard men worked night on foreign currency would have to ded-for the wife of an In 1939, n
a former Royal Marine weeks to complete the slip on
to be taken used the distinguished Aus- be
purchase of American airman officer was appointed Colonel of time so that dito sa Corus pateral licences.
to hospital in an ambulance the East Surreys, and in 1948 ation could see the launch batore
Striede
believes strongly in 10r her baby to be born. At Fleet Order-not an Army Order returning home,
Mr Walkley getting his patients' psychological which point an American gave officers of the Eastsid that he had never seen men attitude right. His first aim is to officer said: "If you can do it Surreys the permission to wear work better or faster, and that rid them of any inferiority com- at Spithead we can do it here." the Royal Marines' lanyard,
n. tribute to plex and any idea that they are They did and both mother and
invalids.-Reuter.
baby are doing well,
and
nes,pany, of Melbourne.
The 18,000-ton tanker which
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Lleulonant-Colonel F. B, H. Drummond, M, C. retired
M
Army ofleer who lost his right rm In Flanders in 1918) and hind to learn to write and draw all over again, is giving an hibition of his water drawings in London.
colour
Colonel Druttimotid ilves alone
In Devonshire, where he does everything for 3 himself including cooking, bakingz and gardening in spite of dis deability. But mást of his time is spent with his drawing), and his latest/dx- hiḥltión Jurará example: of shatt [can be done by emaŋ of courage
and determination,
the efforts were British craftsmanship.
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