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Expedition To Antarctic Actress And Marquess In London
Mrs James van Fleet, wife of the former U.N. Commander Korca. arrived in England recently on the "Queen Elizabeth" and later travelled back with her husband in the same shilp. The General had flown in from Athens to meet
his wife-Express Photo..
Reduction In Price Of Raw Silk
To Be Demanded
From Australia
Next Year
BEST-EVER EQUIPPED
IN POLAR HISTORY
Melbourne, Sept. 21.
The Australian expedition which early next year will establish the world's southernmost per- manent Antarctic hase, will probably be the best- ever equipped in Polar history.
Half a century's experience by many nations, years of research at Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard and Macquarie Islands, and a carefully chosen list of gear from Europe, America and Australia will play an important part in the fitting out.
The biggest problem at the Radio transmitters for con- nament is calculating just how thet with the outside world win to fill every cuble Inch aboard be the type developed by the the 1.200-ton motorship Kista
Royal Australian Air Force Dan without wasting any space. during World War II, a type One thing is certain, how-which has proved itrelt on Heard ever, even at this stage. High and Macquarie Islands. Field slowoge priority aboard thecommunication will ship will go to an Australian-A American transceivers using designed, and bulli, but to either b
houre the operational section of the 10-man camp.
Aurteila's Antartic expert, Mr Philip Law, director of the Antarctic Division of the External Affairs Department, will perren-
alty supervise the erection of the
Funerators,
by
dvou.
Astress Eva Bartok and the Marques of Killfort whided American wife exter Him for "reparation or divazge” arrive at Kønden Aff part from Nice, The Marquess, a cousin of the late King George VI, kan filed a reply denty- ing his wife's allega tians...----Reutarpļoša.
Expert
Ridicules
Red China's Claim Of Rice Surplus
Ceylon, Sept. 21. Communist China has no real capacity for supply- batteries or hand-turned ing Ceylon with rice, said a member of a Japanese With Held work an important trade and goodwill mission on a visit here.
A member of the five-man Kogane mission said he section of the hand's activities,
been in- had been in Peking as diplomatic representative for seven mechanisation
Tracked troduced extensively. snow vehicles the wartime years and he was certain that China could not have in- American Weasel with a cabin creased her rice production to such a degree to enable her
the to export it. have been bought from hu. He
barboard the Kist Dan as she cruises along French Antaretle Expedition
He added that China's claim,
Was the MacRobertson Land coastline and will haul "caravans secking the base site. But this which the hinterland travellers of having surplus rice
"mère propaganda" and he felt me he will return with the ship. Can work, slcep and ect.
The new hut. 8 ft. by 12 . Norwegian-built hickory sledges that Ceylon's needs were being met with the under-feeding of will house the radio, meteorolo- | will carry fuel and
ather
Chinese nationals, gleel and survey workrooms, supplies. Norway is also build- surgery sad photographic darking the dog sleds, which will racm. Its cost-nearly £2,000
sterling-means that there will be hauled by huskies bred
Heard Island.. be only one this time.
It has many advantages over the more orthodox wooden or galvanised tron structures.
arc
The eight-man Indian delegation, led by Mr D. N. Shroff, President of the Silk and Art Silk Mills Asso-rubber ciation, leaves today to attend the session, which may prove crucial for the Indian silk industry.
PLASTIC WALLS
on
PROSPECTS
NOT GOOD
With Japanese methods and
Berne, Sept, 21. implements, he said, Ceylon Thie Swiss Federal Council should be able to produce her stated today that there appeared of any pre- own rice needs in a very short Utție Ukelihood
liminary
the talkan
near time.
future or any commercial treaty with Communist China.
Replying to a written question from a member of the lawer chamber On Switzerland's economic relations with China,
whole question re- to give Ceylon that the
open but that the do present timo did not appear to`
provide any great prospects for such a treaty.
China
RAW MATERIALS
TWO AIRCRAFT Experiments will also be made into the suitability of a smal
The misalon has offered Cay- |English tractor for survey trips,
Japanese ald for agricul Among
items of specialsed lon Walls are basically foured clothing, New Zealand is making tural development in the form plastic, four inches thick, made elderdown jackets and sleeping pert advice.
of improved fertilisers and ex- by a process developed in Bri- bags, Norway
polar ski boots tain. Bombay, Sept. 21.
On elther side, is Ave. and Australian windproofs, win- Japan, the spokesman said, is the Federal Council declared
ter boats and woollens. Polar also prepared India is expected to join America, Holland, ply waterproof bondwood and the whote is sheathed in Britain, Switzerland and France in demanding antuminium and made up in slabs little different from those firmncial aid through her Impcat malced
this century, are coming from strings attached.” rods linked by reduction in the prices of raw silk exported by six feet by eight feet. The slabs this escott expeditions carlier and Export Bank with
running
England.
Two Auster aircraft will he- Japan and Italy at the forthcoming session of the through their cores from end to
building. There is company the expedition. Sulled end of the International Silk Congress at Milan, Italy.
no framework.
Joints are waterproofed by
gaskets, which clamped light in the assembly.
The same pattern applies to man walls, floor and roof, the root Force team. being flat so that wind will keep The equipment list for next These purchases, the spokes- it clear
Is now from snow A hatch year's trip
virtually man sald, would prevent an will be
door when complete. Experience in its use adverse trade balance in Japan- the winter
over the first year will govern Ceylon trade, snow blocks the wall exit,
The windows, too, are some-the development of the Antare-
tle station in the second year, The mission, which had visit- thing new.
to cd Formosa, Hongkong, Indone- Those used in many Antarctic-when it will be expanded
cope with an elaborately-sia and Singapore. left for India, type buildings in the past, to
planned selenifestation Pakistan and Burma. - United keep out the cold, were doublo
China Mail Special.
Pres or treble glazed. Holes
were the drilled through
wooden fame to allow any trapped mo.sture to escape, in a bid to avoid fogging. In fact, these windows did fog-end stayed fcgged until the next summer.
provided most of for either floats or skis, the He said that Japan is looking, Switzerland's Imports but the same pair have already proved forward to buy salt, graphite, bulk of her exports went to are them cleves. They will be scr- flimenite and monazite trum Hongkong, from where it in viced and flown by a three-Ceylon, among other raw mata- thought only a small parcentage
Royal
Australian Air rials.
actually reached the Chicese mainland.—Reuter,
Indian interests expect that Japan, which supplies about 70 per cent of world requirements of raw silk, will logicially op- puse any price cut.
10-
stand However, India's flects her position in regard to raw silk.
India's
indigenous industry has been projected for more than 20 years 'unt latest esli- mates place annual production at 1,700,000 lb. against a con- sumption level of 3,800,000 lbs.
A large poft of Indian raw ilk is hand-reeled and the rest, though machine-reeled, is come-
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Prince Charles To Get Yacht
Auckland, Sept. 9L
The Auckland Harbour Board has decided to pre- sent a seven-foot yacht to the queen during her visit to New Zealand as a pre- sent for Prince Charles.
simple type The craft, of the kind used to teach
the prt youngsters
of Fachting, has a single sail, is unsinkable and is easily righted if espaizod.
The Baard fixed on this present when it learned that the Queen did not wish a formal reception on her arrival in December. will make the presentation later on her Ber-China Malt Speefal
Missionaries Praised
It
Calcutta, Sept. 21.
the local weaving industry— India's Health Minister, most of it confined to hand- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, said that loams has cut
PERSPEX WINDOWS
But the new "prefab" But has windows of perspex, banded into a triple-layer box through which desiccated air was blown before sealing.
can be The whole structure erected by six men in two days. The other three huts of the 10 1954 expedition are similar those used in the past. One, the
Avist hut, is wooden and similar
to that used by the Norwegian- Ex- British-Swedish (N.B.S.) pedition to Queen Maud Land in 1950. It was built in Norway.
The second is a pre-cut tim- ber building which will contain the engine room and workshop
The third is a Nissan hut of
strvo down produc- the greatly appreciated the work galvanised Iron, to tion or resorted to weaving in- done for education and health storeroom. ferior qualities OF synthetic by foreign maissimaries. fibres which are now quoted at. Missionaries were held about $1.6 per lb.
Indian slik interests believe that if the industry is to con- tinue, lower international prices are the only solution.
Indian interests admit that part of the trouble is high Indian duties on silk.
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The huts will be well fitted in out.
power dieacI-
high esteem because they were The personnel units will be Inspired with a spirit of service, warmed by electric space she added.
heaters drawing their "I would like to the from the camp's two. students of educational institu- ricetrie 15-KVA generators.
X-RAY PLANT tions started by them imbibe the same spirit and bold aloft The surgery includes trans- the torch of knowledge handed fusion equipment and an X-ray down throughout the year."
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There
were
plint. foreign The workshop, along with work hand tools for all kinds of wood
India hopes that Japan will missionaries doing social
end of last year, and metal working, has welding
Common- The largest
gear and inthet
The kitchen has
|pressure gas 'unit
B
slow-
co-operate in the matter of
apart from those of lowering International prices wealth countries, when the meeting begins on muumber-332-were Americans, burning anthracite stovo and a September 20.-United. PrOK. |--China Mail Special.
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