Page
USSR
Soviet Arctic
Shipping Route
MURALANSH
Presumed Courses of Ice Islands an Russian Side
RTH POLE
Lomonosov Underwater
Mountain Range
US Evacuated
T-3 Last Month, Will
Reactivate It When It Swings Away from Alert
fic
Ocean
Presumed Source of Ice Islands
CANADA
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1954.
EUROPE
SPITSBERGEN
Alert Weather
Station
MERE
THULE
GREENLAND
Davis Strat
Hudson Bes
AP Newsfactures
American Airmen Converted
An Iceberg Into
Drifting Weather Station
By Herman R. Allen, AP Newsfeatures Writer
New York.
In the summer of 1950 a U.S. Air Force plane was making a weather reconnaissance flight up toward the North Pole. Suddenly, through the heavy cloud cover, its radar picked up a large mass that almost anywhere else in the world would immediately be recognised as an island. On later flights radar picked up other such masses.
But no island had ever been charted in that part of the Arctic Sea. Puzzled, Air Force men returned to the area several times without seeing the mysterious masses. Eventually, the weather cleared and enabled them to take pictures.
1
VAN
Ther turned out to be long northern winter islands of a sort--floating setting in and nothing could islands of ice, big flat-topped be done immediately. icebergs, The iden
Mareb, April and early May mediately occurred to the pre the tunes of Lest visibility Air Force that they might in the Arethe, and bright and
early in 1931, be used as weather obseV was
the Air Force back, Eventually tion bases, but by then the were
planes kaunted and exploring
I Like British People, Says Nasser:
But Not Their Policies
The Prime Minister, Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, does no more than reflect the feeling of all Egyptians when he says that Egypt's first foreign preoccupation is a friendly settlement with Britain.
In
as many
economic co-
-
TRADE and
Setback For
Eisenhower
Trade
Plan
Washington, June 8.
President Eisenhower's bold new foreign economic programme with its emphasis on tariff reductions is now a dead issue in the current session of Congress.
He had asked, last March, for a three-year extension of the tariff-cutting Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act and special authority to negotiate additional reductions so that world trade would be stimulated and practical effects given to the "Trade not Aid" concept.
re-convenes in
But faced with a party- | until the next session of Con-
which splitting fight in this elec- KTCSS, tion year and the heavy and party control has been de- January after the membership
pressures of the trade pru-termined In the November tectionists, the President elections,
ACTION NEXT YEAR In the meantime, Congress- be lonal committees are expected
has been forced to modify his stand and to let it be known that he would willing to settle for u simple one-year extension of the trade law without any new tariff-cutting authority this
year.
This retreat came as an un-
help the Congress.
พแร
through
Low-tart!!
the
cuta
en-
COMMERCE SECTION
Japanese Plant Being Sent To Yugoslavia
Belgrade, June 8.
The first equipment for a fibre factory aš Lomien, Serbia, whose plant 15 being supplied from Japan. is expected to arrivo In Yugoslavia In Beginumber, the Yugoslar news sethey, Tanjug, mald today.
When
completed, the plank would have a daily production of 53 tomm. Japanese technicians wonid
carly In 1945 install machinery.
The construction
of the factory will Cont about $15,000,000 and will savo Yugoslavia about $24,000,- 000 in texille imports.
to
The contract for the supply of Japanese equly- ment WAS signed last September-Reuter,
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE
¡From Our Correspondent)
Oil