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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 13 1954
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The Duke
Establishes
Interesting News Stories
Fron AL Parts of The
A Museum Expedition To
Victoria, BC
Sailors at nearby Eijktoali
noval bor
i
museum today, thurks 10 the Duke of Edinburgh,
During ls 1051 visit to the island, Prince Philip over- heard a remark that Regularulta Railors were interested in establishing 11 place where reiles of the navy's early years could be kept.
On returning เก England the Duke visited the English National Maritime Museum at
Greenwich. A few weeks later a shipment of valuable naval lies arrived at HMCS Dock yard. Esquimalt. The sailor's
muum was made,
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An old brick building, having almost as much historical value of the relles, was neritised.
d. Commander McCully was appointed curator and now has a tine beginning for the naval museum),
Among the
articles sent
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the Duke Edinburgh was an offletal three-volume record of Captab George Van ouverts Journeys in the British Calum
a coastal area between 1700
Seek
Mystery Ship
Pond Inlet, N.W. Territories.
Peter Murdock, manager of the trading_post at Pond Inlet, is planning an expedition to Pulat Island, 300 miles North of the Magnetic Pole, to investigate stories of a deserted sailing vessel believed to be more than a century old.
white man
was
The only time the vessel has been seen by a when the crew of an American battleship spotted the wreck during a patrol in 1945.
annual
Eskimos from this region who make an pilgrimage to Pylat island to bring back driftwood re- ported to Murdock that the ancient vessel, now covered with arctic moss, stands about 15 feet above the ground.
1795 14. erators of the the ship Hes about half a mile Greenwich Museum abọ threw. East of a big glacier and about in an octagonal telescope paralam 400 miles Inland Murdock ably 300 years old nu a bust, beileved the ship moved far of the fame Rah mindral, inland because the land at that
pot is slowing rising Hora N92.
Itens donated locally include exa
tair
The Eskimos lold Murdock White men have altempted in vain to reach the loention for a have number of years. They failed because of poor anchorage along the Pylat Island coast und which the danger of icebergs drift down through Lancaster Sound.
The Eskimos sutel only Freur half of the ship und Admiral skeleton structure are left
a full thes managem konging
to the Nelles, the Hayal Canadian Navy's only full-dress aondent. and a 7-inch key from the tlour of on old
building United Press,
the the
Several persons have come to within 30 mules of the ship, but in every instance the Eskimos who have guided expeditions have falled to go further. White men belleve that some
super-
ckyard Does What Hellous bellet stops them at this
Waited
For
They Will Have Their Others To Do
Memories
A colourful
Toronto,
part
Johannesburg. South African and world literary critics are hatting the first novel written in Afrikaans by a man who says he wrote it after waiting in vain for
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point. At any rate, nothing car persuade them to go on, except once a year when they go for wood and they have always refused to take a white man with them.
TURNED SAVAGE
Several years ago a band of normally friendly Eskimos turn- ed into savages when a white trader attempted to follow their pilgrimage to the ship. The man was badly beaten and al- most died of exposure before he could trek back to the post,
! of: "better educated African to do sheer cliff. In
The coast of Pyla! Island is winter when Lancaster Sound freezes
up. travel by dog team becomea very difficult, due to the large
of
Toronto's past is vanishing H. with the tearing down the Yonge Street arcade.
Arthur Fuin, 1 court inter- pecker, hurt written a rich and
To the 100-old tenants stil powerful slory uf native ite doing bustness in the 71-year-in South Africa today. "John- old building. It holds a rerton, ie Casta The Immage" has been magic of yesterday.
American Alan "It's the sentiment here," one Paton's "Cry the Beloved Coun- tenant said.
Comparet
ter
Persons
mass of frozen ice. travelling in small boats in that area are in danger of drowning should the sea becomes rough.
Four
"All the money I try" for its dramatic and sym- | died persons are known to have
the World wouldn't buy thepithelle approach to the Atri- meineries we have here
Harry Smith, proprietor
catis problems in a European- TE dominated society.
the 50-year-old Arente Magle
and Novelts Shop, remembers
Arthor Pula says of his book:
when Houdini used to come Into | "Johannie is Johannesburg, the
the shop to buy greasep36421
he
Those were the days when
played in
vaudeville In Shea's Theatre," Smith ***
plained.
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mould from which the natives who are drawn by its glitter emerge men ur are broken,
To my are broken.
Kel "He also used to buy locks of people must
back to
Lombard
Inand."
locksmith's Street. And then there WIN The book Harry Lauder, He used to iny greasepaint in here too"
Mext of Shulth's memories
are of people who used his shop before they hit the big time. He mentioned Milton Berlo particular.
in
bis
"Milton Berle bought first trick in here. It was a hand- Siberian chain set with
into Zulu langbailes,
My the
is being translated
und other African
as well as English and probably other European languages.
Fula said he wrote the book because
the "if
Afrikaans- #peaking people are to leam to know and to understand us--WC
cuffs. Berie was in vaudeville black people-then our writers
in those days but he used to fool around with magte
he wasn't on stage,"
Smith sald Berle used
to
ship.
in attempts to reach the
However, Murdock, a stout- hearted Scot, said he is going to attempt it
He believes the ship was either an old whaling vessel or one of the ships in the 11-fated Franklin expedition which was in quest of the North Wes! passage.-United Press.
Leave Those
Nylons Behind
Stay
off there
About 100 Indies took a short cruise on HMCS Ontario on the
Decoration For General Franco
This Time It's Lost
For Good
Stoughton, Saskatchewan. Garageman Marcel Angey does not throw his money around, but he has a habit of dropping it here and there.
Augey has lost his wallet four times in the last few years. It has been returned to him three times, but this time Augey fears it is gone for good.
Ho Loss ft. of Estevan.
ft first in 1940 in the south Saskatchewan town van. It was returned to him a year later. In 1949 at the northern Kenosce Lake resort he lost it again and ti was returned a year later.
Came 1981 and Aurey lost it while trap shooting near Froude. Baskatchewan. This time it lay in an open field for two years until another trap-shooter picked it up in 1953 and
returned it,
But the pay-off came when Aurdy was on his honey- moon in San Francisco last month. He dropped it off the Golden Gate Bridge.
On Valentine's Day, United Press.
Stamps Make
Philatelic
History
his wife gave him a new one.
Port Maitland, Ontario. Three people whose grand- mother used to be mistress of this Lake Erle town, have each
cash received $2,500 in stamps believed non-existent.
for
Yet Another Calendar
A new National
calendar, Calendar.
Christ
Mons Hildebrando An- tonlutti, Papal Nuncio to Spain, showe General Franco the Grand Collar of the Jesus Equestrian Supreme Or- der, highest décoration of the Vatican, before pre- senting the decoration to the general on behalf of the Pope. The ceremony took place at the El Pardo Palace, Madrid.
London Express.
The Big Round-Up Under Way
Cranbrook, British
Columbia.
The ninth annual Wild
horse roundup is under way here and is expected to
World
People"
"Save Crusade By Traffic
Authorities
Stockholm.
Swedish traffic authorities will start a "save people" crusade in order to decrease the traffic casualties, Director-General of the Board of Road-Building, K.G. Hjort, said.
In wintertime Sweden and other northern countries have unprecedented traffic problems in Europe, Mr Hjort said. Last winter icy highways cost the lives of an alarming number of persons, depending on hard climate, snow gales and icy highways.
The
Sweden has about 13,000 kilometres of highways. number of
caro has increased quickly in the postwar years and 1952 this country bad 454,054 motor vehicles,
350,740 of which were passenger cars, 8,380 buses and $4,007 trucks. Additionally there were 290,908 motorcycles.
Today every 13th Swede is a car owner.
Sweden is divided into 201 highway districts, each of them is equipped with a shortwave radio centre. In every district there are four or five trucks also equipped with short wave.
The district chief from his
in
Questionnaires Produce Some
Laughs
Ottawa.
People looking for jobs on the federal payroll sometimes put the darnedest thirigs · D7% their applications.
A culling of past answers to
service civil
questionnaires
produce these:
Marital status"
Ono girl Bald "single" and asked in turn "What do 'you
in expect Ottawa?** A man said" "single" income tax but "married for
Place of birth? "Hospfla].” Number of dependents? "Ono
radio centro can direct the purposes." trucks giving them information of which highways are greatest need of being gravelled, and a half."
Natural born or naturalised The highway districts are co-
"Born natural.” Canadian? operating with the meteorolo-
of residence Length
in gical service of the Swedish Air
Canada? "23 feet by 40 teet. Force, which gives the district
Have you ever been rejected chiefs frequent weather for by an insurance company? casts. This, of course, adds to
***No Am continually the preparedness so that trucks
elted can stand ready in due time.
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Experience? One man who wanted a job as "cleaner and "Last winter we poured 810-helper" said: "Been married for 1000 cubic metres of gravel on 30 years and have had to do our highways," Mr Hjort said.plenty of clearing and helping "It is our duty to prevent the around the house." Another cars from getting damaged and candidate said: "I'm going" to the drivers injured or killed be get that job or bust. I wish chase of the dangerous state of you'd pull some red tapes or highways in winter time." something" United Press),
Sece? Nover.United Press.
continue for nearly two CHARRINGTON'S
months.
New Delhi. The roundup is sponsored by British Columbia · Foresh called the the
has been Service to protect crown ranges prepared by the Calendar Re- from hundreds of wild horses form Committee and will be which roam the Kootenay and presented to the Indian Council Columbia River Valleys.
of Scientific Research at its
areas Two
are designated next session early in 1954,
cafety zones-The Island" in which The committee,
was the Columbia River near Brisco,
Meadows" appointed by the government of and "Police of India, said that the National Edgewater...
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near
In the past eight years some 4,000 horses were rounded up
...
or destroyed in the "unnual drives,
were taken from the
Many of the wild ones are useless even for stampede pur- poses. However, -・ some are
with 10 reinoyed, made phila- various regions for Tounded up and put into reserve
The stamps, three sheets 1008 King Edward VII, were Calendar should have to New saved by Mrs Rosy Moss, Grand-Year on the first day after the mother of Maxwell Moss, bla vernal equinox on March 22. sister Mrg Rosemary Goff, both local residents and their brother, Ottawa.
It said that days must be
from
midnight to Glen Moss who lives in Call-reckoned navy bouts,
for civil purposeİ, Nearly 2,000 of the total fornia. A Toronto stamp dealer, midnight girls, If you don't want runs in your stockinga.
J. N. Sissons, paid $7,500 for while calculation of days from roundup the stamps.
sunrise to sunrise. may be Cranbrook range in the Nelson followed for religious purposes. Forest District. inuat write เท Afrikaans,"
Three sheets, two sheets of
India has
bewildering Afrikaans is the language of the West coast recently as guests of
100 fly-cent stamps, and one variety the Navy. It was a breezy day
of calendars used when Boers and the national language in the Strait of Juan De Fuca.
of the Union of South Africi.
Gussy
funnel smoke
telic history. swirled
Some of the tive and religious "For years I have been about the silk-sheathed legs of world's leading stamp books will sor
some lunar, some solar and waiting for the big ones of my the ladies,
have to be revised, including others Juni solar. At the
there propic-those with titles, who Then the fun-or trouble-
that Toronto expert Fred Jarrett present time Other long established shops are educated and better sulted started. Lacquered toenails and
who was known to have 20 of than 30 different calendars, than myself—to do this, I have | pink-tipped tootsies began show- looking for new quarters in-
the purple stamps, the largest In the holy elty of Benares, walled in vain," he said. clude à florist, a tobacco shop,
ing
the gap-front-shoe number known in existence. there are four and it is common A great number are corralled a sports and pet store, and "I saw that I must start the wearers. Long runs and ladders
to find
Hindu festivals and shipped to slaughter houses rolling myself."United zig-zagged in neveral clothing stores. United bali
Nylons distintegrated right and Press
The latest "Crowsnest", official RCN publication, claimed this is what happened: Sulphur diozide in the funnel fumes mixed with moisture in the air to form sulphurous acid-H2S03, if you want to get technical.
nuisance
sit on the edge of the counter and make a perfect of himself."
SIDE GLANCES
Press.
By Galbraith
at you going to get married, Miss regarded you as one of our big
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all directions.
The thing is, acid and nylon just don't mix. As the Navy put it, they're not "compatible."
you must go abroad; giris, maybe it would be wise to stay below decks on windy days. Or take the nylons off-United Press,
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herds for district stampedes while others are trained as pack more horses and for Forest Service
work.
The total face value of the being on different | for dog and mink feed.
stamps is only $190 (two 60 days in different parts of the rents' are missing) but the
country.
Calcutta this year. In Mosses lost $500 by just tearing it even
There is a certain amount of that one opposition to the yearly under-
(FOUNDED 1757)
TOBY BEER & ALE
from
FAMOUS LONDON TOWN
to the
PEARL OF THE ORIENT
of 10 from the loose stamp Hindu festival was celebrated on telding, but the Forest Service GANDE,
sheet to show other
dealers.
has remained firm in ita stand
specially brought TO YOU
by
PRICE
Co.,
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The three perfect sheets would different days in the same city,
To do away with such con- since 1946 that Ivestock opera- ST. GEORGE'S BLDG., HONGKONG, TELS. 20136, 36361. have brought them $8,000.
fusion, the committee has rotors, who pasture in the neigh- bourhood of 105,000 caitics a commended that a bill for a
year, hove
rights first uniform calendar be brought year,
where conservation is concerned. before the Indian Parliament
They have coincided the drives Political chain the country
that have sugge
the new with such work as range-bending hamed
wood-control aftor and
and the
The Edward VII issue was the recalled to Ottalva when king died in 1912 to be replaced by stamps of George V.
Maxwell Moss operates a boat livery here. Ho, his slater and calendar brother had originally tried to Mahatma Gandil, the Father of building offences, corrals, sell the stamps in Califomia the Indian Republic, United cattle guards and stock bridges.
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