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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1954.
Queon Likes Taking
To Climb On The Roof Of The World:
JAPAN'S DEFENCE PLANS Pictures Too
Pennies From Heaven
Brisbane, Mar. 1,
St John's Anglican Cathedral. Brisbane, one-eighth- neater comple- tion because of the weather.
An anonymous Queens- Band graxler sent the Dean A cheque for LA50,000 (£40,000 sterling) A12 clabil of the sum needed to complete the cathedral- and promise of more later if rain broke the drought on his
property,
The rains came, and with them A telegram to the Dean: "Two
batr and a Jochen of rain cheque £ A20,000" (£16,000 steri- Ing).—China Mall Special.
Hospital
ANNOUNCED
To Have US Jet
Fighters
And Submarines
Tokyo, Mar. 7.
Japan is planning tentatively to have a quarter of a million men under arms within five She should also have about 155,000 tons of years. warships including submarines and some 1,200 planes, including latest American jet fighters.
These figures were given in a public state- of the National ment by the Director General Safety Agency, Mr Tokutaro Kimura, who is more commonly referred to as "Minister for Defence."
Mr Kimura based his estimate on the expectancy of American arms and money. It also depended on the
United States-Japan
Of Unusual United States relieving Japan of part of her financial
Cases
Toronto, Mur. 7. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children said the Institution receives more
ammual
sick cases of children than any ther pince in North America.
obligation under the Security Pact.
In
Mutual
and
Japan is vixler contruct
Japat: had about 3,000,000
vrasels of fighting pay about 62,000,000,000 Yen Lond (about £02,000,000 sierung) ninecraft when the started of the cust of her southward Invasion in 1941. as her share
Amerleun garrisoning
troops Thi
about figure was cut to here this year.
1.500.000 t offer two years! tehling.
When World War 11 ended, Allied
oneraft ank! warships ind reduce i th Japanese firet tu little more than a handful of Ixiltered patrol vessels and un- reaworthy destroyers,
But she hopes to get this fire reduced on the promise that the money saved will be used for national defenes
her
programine,
Sometimes the fertile minels
If projected austerity measures of doctors have to devise special | lenvé the defence budget un Mr Kimura said though Japan technique to deal 110 rare touched, Jupno will us year w. cuniident of adding sub- problems
spend 81,000,000,000 Yen about marines during the 5-year plan
£81,000,000 sterling) ор her there appeared little chance of own national defence puns estting nireraft-carriers,
The baby of Japanese rearma- alone,
But This would be an increase of ment was the air force.
plan envisaged a 20,000,000 Yen (about £20,000] the 5-year stad sterling) on last year's spending, force of 30,000 men, including Mr Kimura hoped the ground radar personnel, and from 1,200
One 22-month – old known as Lurry, has in be stood
He opera-
on his head in order to ent. recently wulerwent
tlon for hernia,
which some dilkfren with.
nit
it
are born
It is painful to smik or yawn little 22-month-old for another boy. Lloyd, who was scalded,
Doctors said the treatment of burns anel sealds had improved Imunemely over the last few years, and many would huve alted saved.
an
The Queen, watelied by the Duke of Edinburgh, herself taken a picture of Habari na the "Gothle" enters Hobart harbour-Express Photo.
They've Named A Crater On The Moon After
The Garden Astronomer
For 29 years Mr Roland Clarkson, of Trimley, near Ipswich, has been going into his garden at night to study the moon through a portable telescope. Now he has been told that one of the moon's craters is to be given his name, according to latest reports from London.
The British Association
will
orces would totul 180,000 men to 1,400 planes. Some of these ROOSEVELT Clarkson Crater.
by the end of 1950. After this, would be latest-model American recruiting
and-lighters. work slacken more attention would be paid to improvements in equipment and advanced training.
TEN DIVISIONS
children who being were more comfortable by the end of the live years, white convalescing. have Japan would have an army of te divisions, or about the size fewer permanent scurs,
A polley of the
The United hospital is, or
Nations CX- bluntly. there are to be no peditionary force in Korea, sourpusses on the staff." Nurses Naval deve.opment would go
hand with and attendants have bech train-hand in
American ed to be reassuring to children. casing of warships and Japan's
When
Kenneth, own boy.
wars building
arrived thought
onc
at the hospital he gramme.
he would
never ser
Well-in.crmed
his mother again, for she was manufacturers
living in Larder Lake and eigh; 300-ton anti submarine
Konneth, who suffered
pro
sources Hay hope to build
could get to see him only on
three 00-ton partol boats bouts, rare occasions.
and three 30-ton minesweepers from this year. nephritis, n kidney ailment, Scheduled American lend- ultimately was sorry to leave lense,
ense, according to this source, the hospital, the cheerful
two 2,425-ton destroyers, nurses, and the many children three 1,630-ton
destroyers, two be played with
1.300-ton patrol boats and two 1,000-ton sulanarines,
These would supplement the 18 frigates and 50 patrol boats already leased to Japan now in commission in the Japan Japan's Peille
When liis Dret birthday arrived the hospital staff baked him a cake with canoles.
The hospital's
occupational therapy staff, which specialises
was
ha what one nurse described as Sea and along "a sort of highly organised const.
play,"
him thught
such
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things Enited PreSL
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and
ไป make Mr Kimura has set as his goul necklaces. a navy of 40,000 men and 155,-
600 tons of war vessels.
A British Crossword Puzzle
13 4
15 6
10
Ki-
NOMINATED
Astronomical {
The Call It
The crater, which is On the lower Jeft hand part of tho Moon us scen by Earth ob- servers, is 20 miles neross and ringed by a mountain range.
FIVE GROUPS
Japanese aircraft man- Iacturing companies tuve ready stated that, if given the
Los Angeles, Mar, 7. could produce
James Roosevelt, his political It has previously been known go-ahead, they
future within the Democratie to astronomers as Crater 2412. jet-fighters within nine months.
13 Party of readiness
stake, tonight was due to extensive repair
26th District the
Clarkson, secretary and tamed
of maintenance work undertaken Nominating Committee to be iis ipswich and District Astro-
Society, for the United States air forces candidate for Congress desplicnomical
started his in Korea,
charges of misconduct brought hobby as a boy with a 12-in.
telescope. by his wife,
Their state
Mr Kimura spid he hoped Japan would have dive air force groups operating within Ave years. He thought the first jet- ghters will be leased from the United States late next year.
at
Frankly declaring that he had to offer himself as a candidate or let the charges stand against him
Ds a sign of gullt," Mr Roosevelt pleaded with the 100 delegates to endorse him as the Party's candidates.
Mr
REALLY IMPORTANT"
Today he usta o glunt 01- Inch instrument which he puts up on the lawn of his bungalow.
He said: "I am very pleased. It took two ballots for Mr The crater which now beare my Roosevelt to get the requireu | nempe is a really important one majority. On the first ballot he much smaller Moon features polled 72 voles to 60 for lawyer bear the names of far better- Jerry Pacht.
known astronomara,"
A spokesman of the associa- commented: "For many been sanding us sketchen
years Mr Clarkson has
and notes.
It was high time his work was officially recognised.”
Japanese urms manufacturers, wartled by the sealing down of American ammunition contracts since the end of the shooting in Korea, And now encouragement in Mr Kimurn's
announcement. The
On the second ballot he re- Japanese news agency, Kyodo, reported in a survey ceived 91 votes to 77 for his
manufacturers that arms
ex-chief opponent and was declared tion pected to produce
nearly ometally the choice of the Party 100,000,000 dollars' (about for the race.
€34,000,000 sterling) worth of
A broad smile light
and ammunition weapons
crossed the face of the late Presiden 's son during the year.
was announced Much of this, the survey said, as his election
for and other prospective candidates would be American orders
around him to ammunition for the French-led trooped Vietnamese force in Indo-China. ratulate him. Newspaper public opinion polls "Well," said Mr Roosevel! show that between 40 and 50 as he accepted the congratula- cent of the Japanese public tons, "It looks like we have got
to opposed
rearmament. to go to work now to pu, over But election
resulta do not our programme. These ard support this assessment. The loyal friends, not only to Prime Minister, Mr Shigeru but to what they believe in,
PUT
arc
Con+
me
Mr Truman's
Reticence
Now York, Mor. 7. Former President Mr Harry
Yoshida, Indisputably the and I will not let them down." Trumans said today he would not Architect of postwar rearma-United Pross. ment, has won five elections to remain in power for five yeniɛ. -China Mall Special.
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ACROSS
1 Rash person (0).
4 Army renk (8).
8 He looks after horses (5),
D. Sweetmeat (6).
10 Tond (5).
11 Evil spirit (6).
12 Chain of rocks (4),
13 Concise (8).
10 Distant (0),
10 Merchant (0).
20 Fails to win (8).
22 Wan (4)
23 Sparse (8)
DOWN
1 Important (0).
2 Turns aside (8).
3 Old (4).
4 Arranged as feathers (7).
Prefect (7).
Charm. (8).
7 Ejects (B).
14 Kept (8).
15 Bring about (8),
16 Rogues (7)X
17 Wind about (7)..
19 Opposa (8).
21 Musical work (5). 24 Capture (4).
Army Bored Him
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make any comment on private fights in the Republican Party." When reporters asked Mr Truman
about
differences between the Army and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, head of
Senate Permanent Sub-| committee on Investigations, he mid: "No, I don't want to muke any comments"
Picked Up 300-Year Old
Anchor
Ostend, Belgium, Mar. 7.
An Ostend fishing tray- ler hauled up in its nets off the coast a 300-year-old Buckar weighing nearly two tons.
The auchor, believed to come from Spanish gal- leon of Arranda days, is over 12 feet long. It is to he placed In + Incal museum. - China Mail Special.
French Party Backs M. Bidault
Paris, Mar. 7. The Popular Republican "National Party's
Com- mittee tonight expressed "profound satisfaction" at the calling of the Geneva conference on the Far East and called for an early de- bate in the French Parlin- ment on ratification of the European Army Treaty.
After hearing a report from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault on the Berlin Big Four conference, the Committee con- gratulated him on arranging the Geneva talks which it sald:
"By associating the Peking Govemment with all states In- erested in the cessation of the conalet in Indo-China, pt last gives birth to a serious hope of seeing the independence of the | Asolated States of Indo-Chinn
Lonfirmed in peace."
Lendon, Mar. 7. An 18-year-old soldier who the went to France "In a spirit of adventure" will have to serve a sentence of 28 days' detention, it was confirmed here today. Popular Indian "saints" (holy
A court mirtis) Jast month
Mr Truman was also asked to men) will shortly emerge from found Driver Dertic. Relt of the comment on Mr Adlai Stoven their isolated mountain caves Royal Army Servies Corps son's Maimi Beach speech yer mee
"Babrams" (re-Training Battalion, and secluded
Aldershot, day An which the 1952 treats) to meet at New
Delhi
culty of bring absent without Democratic Presidential nominee of leave
10 from Sp.ember possibility
to said that President Elpenhower the Government in November
The Committee "again in- had accepted McCarthyiarn, as Sur A national reconstruction work. 1ts told thr ecur! that
the be the Republican Party's best slate that the debate on eam bad white on kava formula for political success."" European Defence Community dent, Dr Rajendra Prasad, that end went to France with
be engaged without delay in Mr Truman siid he had not | Parliament for it is they can arouse the interest of fing to break the monotony.
equally Indian masses in various Their money ran out in Cannes read Mr Stevenson's speech and urgent to Ox Franco's external development programmes and he was arrested in Avignon would comment on it later. polley clearly and to free her
policy
tho from 39-China Mail Then he added: "He always internal through their "alvine influence.” on -China Mall Special.
makes a good speech."--Reuter, mortgage which is paralysing the workings of Government.""
NO LONGER. EXIST
Becretary of State for Foreign Affairs Maurice. Schumann had told
the
Committee: "After Berlin, no doubt can any longer exist about the profound in tention of the USSR in Europe, and nothing can any longer put off the hour when Parlia ment will have to take its row sponsibilities about the EDC.
Oc.cher
Special,
More Women Buying Shares In USA
A new
Women are taking a greater interest than ever in Wall Street. survey discloses that 52 per cent of the stockholders in America's top 1,000 cor. porations listed on the New York Stock Exchange are women. So are 4 40 per cent of the customers of financial houses which specialize in bond investments. In the American Telophone; · "Women dro how such of Wall Strees are more astule and Telegrapă Co., one of the dominant factor in buying that than men.
Meanwhile, Gaullist spoko- arrest corporations in the I am waging a campaign for
ebme and tell "Men Valally United Stater, the ratio of them to be permitted to exercise us what stock they have decided man Gasten Palewale wae da«. nouncing M. Bidault for refusing stockholders is two to one in more control over their hold- to buy
they plebed a bad to barter the European Army favour of women.
ings, through
the appointment stock we try to fall them out plan" in Indo-China,, of more women executives." Mrs Wilma Boss, president of
of it, unindly with little success. They buy it anyway the US, Fodoration of. Wamen Mex Dorothy Phillips, extectia quently, take a lowe A SATURDAY'S / CROSSWORD, "Acrow! | Behest, & Cupid, Shareholders, said today: "I tive manager of a £3,000,000- 9 Till, 9 Orator, 11 Agree, 12 Départ, 14, Bide, 16: Trdne, 18 believe that more and more a year firm of broken, jaid: M. suggestion, Abode, 19 Pray, 20 Elidi, 24 Amber, 25 Seante 28 Trod "27, women will take their savings am convinced, art Drem, 30 Nerilo. Downi 1 Boon, 2 Hend, 3∙Btop; 4 Tirade, à out of bankinig kepaunte, out of the accounts of 2,000 souk Claiter, & Portray, Dreaded, 10 Tepid, 19' Daatad 1 Rothble, kitoben 2300): to invest in the and 1,000 mon that women fine uks ye 16 Deserts, 17 Rabid, 19 Price; 21 Cale, a Zwat ná diera, markets,
25 Pigment (5).
20 Monded (8).
27 Smooth (5).
28 Endures (5),
29 Molt down '(0);
Ingat on
Two Expeditions
Leaveme
For Himalayas
London, Mar. 7. Members of two mountaineering expeditions -one British and the other New Zealand-left Southampton today, for India to climb uncon- quered peaks in the Himalayas.
The aim of the small privately financed Bri- tish party will be to explore climbing routes on the treacherous south-west face of the 28,146-foot Kangchenjunga-the world's third highest moun-
tain.
The two members of this toom walled on the Corlu with two who called today in the 14,280- New Zealand climbers who have ton liner Corfu for Bumboy, been working in Londen, were 31-year-old Gilmour Lewis, They are Mr Narman I rd › Welsh mining engineer, and 21-year-old civil engineer whose school teacher Jnch Tucker, alsu home is at Timaru South is 91. They are to join the other and Willam B. Beaven. 2: five members of their band in Straven Road, Christchurch, Darjeeling. Their reconnaissance
Mr Hardie eald today: "Our will be led by Mr John Kompe, base will be in the Barun Val- 31, British Headmaster of
is about 20 miles ley, which Hyderabad publle school.
from Evereat.”—Reuter,
Q
Mr Gilmour Lewis and today he and Mr Kempe had spied i possible route up Kangchen- junga while sealing the 24,000- foot Kabru in the same range lust year.
"Our expedition is to explore
the that roue for
benefit of any future party, not necessarily British, who attempt to reach the top. We shall be without oxygen or radio be it is not a fullscale assauit," he rald.
MOST BEAUTIFUL
་
Erosion Threat To This
Malayan Town
Johore Bahru, Malaya,
Mar. 7.
The town of Pontian
The icefields and steep Kotchil, in Johore, may be slopes of Kangchenjunga, swallowed by the sea in a
been described
09 few beautiful mountain
which has the "most in the world,”
time unless years'
Is taken to have repulsed urgent action all expeditions in the past. stop coastal erosion in the
The last three attempts ended area. in disaster.
its
The en is eating Into The lend at the rate of 80 fe year and all because of the re- moval of a belt of api api to im- prove the view.
The Ughtly equipped British expedition plans to set out in May and complote reconnuissance before the mon soons break in July.
The api api, species of man- Alo sailing in the Corfu today grove, used to fringe the const- Following his removal & were three mountaineers of the line,
swirl developed which New Zealand Alpine Club's 1954 tidal expedition the Himalayas, began eating into the land at an which
be held by the alarming rate. Ja to
The "Government has Everest conqueror, Sir Edmund Hillary, at present lecturing in decided to tackle this serious problem in an effort to stop the the United States.
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The New Zealanders will splat menace.
Forest Department, in into three parties to assai confimetion with the *Public several unclaimed murtumita of
Works Department, up to 25,000 feet to the south and
present engaged in an interest- southeast of Mount Everest.
to check the ing experiment
TAKING OXYGEN
erosion.
arc
api api, The peaks include Chamlang behey plan to re-estabilth the (24,012 feet), Baruntse (23,000 First of all a long line of feef) and Ama Dablan (22,500 stakes are to be planted in the feet) as well as severat which | sea, close to one another to form are unnamed,
wall The purpose of the wall will Gear for the expedition In- cludes oxygen for oxperimental be to check the swirl and if purposes and radio equipment this is successful the spi apl sent from America by Sir will be introduced once again, Edmund Hillary, who expects to Ching. Mall Special, join the rest of his party on the Nepalese border at the end of March,
Food supplies, similar to those used by the victorious British Everest expedition Last year, will be sent from New Zealand.
and
Frankfurt, Mar. 7. Professor Ludwig Erhard, West German Economic Minis- ter, said today he did not think Increased West German exporta would endanger the stabilliy of
world market. Professor Erhard, speaking at
the
Eight New Zealanders two British doctors comprise the One expedition's striking force. British member will be Dr the opening of tho Frankfurt Charles Evans, who was on the International Spring Fair, sald 1953 Evercat climb, and is at we only wish to measure our present the United States achievements with those of other nations. We see in com- with Sir Edmund Hillary.
other British member, petition on expression of frees 29-year-old De Michaci Ball, dom."
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