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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1955.
'Digger' Para-Dogs RED STATES RETURN TO ILO
In Training
Melbourne, May 1. Para-dogs whose sensitive noses can sniff out mines or reveal enertý ambushes will shortly join Australia's airborne troops.
These dog "Diggers" are now training at a New South Wales School for Army Engineers,
of
are
to
ta
In war or manoeuvres, the gave him "the capacity to think dogs will jump from regular like a child of about four years troop aircraft and float down old. under their own parachutes, "Consider his extraordinary Their handlers will free them sense of smell, his keen eye- and the dogs will go into sight for any differences in the action, alongside the elite surface which may have been Australia's infantry.
disturbed when the mines were laid," the scientist added. "Con- sider also his sense of touch. Dogu are highly sensitive
and hard ground we conclude that they
sensitive too. soft,
It is probable that apart from smell and sight, Tiger could tell that the soil around the mine was not pack- ed as tightly as the surround- ing
A two-year-old scouting Alsatian, is another star in the and dis
class. H
His former master gave Prince to the Army because he feared the big dog might turn out to be a killer. ONE to
made But the army school Prince as gentle as a deer, The clever dog leamed three weeks what it normally takes a patrol dog three months 10 learn
NOT DIFFICULT "Teaching does to Jump out of aircraft is not much more difficult than teaching them to jump out of trucks, Major J. M. Huicheson, the dors' schoolmaster mil. Australia's para-dogs wil not be raw beginners in the art of dog warfare, Major Hutche son says that they will be seasoned veterans of Army mine-detecting and schools, well-trained ciplined.
Australians learned the value of var dogs in Korea when, with British Army assistance
started a school they
to tum out dogs to go on patrol with the Australian troops there.
Now, a
a similar school in New South Wales is a regular estab lishment
the of
Australian armed services.
Star of the Australian schoo Tiger, described as a "scruffy, high- foreheaded. Labrador Alsatian cross.
Pass." Set loose in a minefield. Tiger can read the -ground to
out every mine. 話 demonstration
here,
is
1
iry
PROVED A MASTER
Prince proved to be muster at obeying the com
manda "bee!", "Stay". "walk" and "play". battle, if Prince were order. ed to play, he would first point
int out a lurking ambush
to his master, then turn on Tiger touched the ground with
his trick of performing “like his nose whenever he spotted a
roisterous puppy. mine. His handler, Sapper JH.. Martin of Sydney, gently probed He would slobber, whimper." the ground and at every place
leap
round and scamper
the the dogspotter pointed, že dug "enemy troops without bark- up a sinister box.
ing and stop 'on a command. The object of this trick is to distract the enemy" before they have time to open fire on Prince's masters,
PIECE OF MEAT Although
Sapper Martin gave Tirer a piter of meat. for every mine he found, the wily dog
appeared to enjoy the work for its own sake.
lecturer in veterinary stierce at Sydney University
· said that Tiger was a natural mine-hunter. He enjoyed the search and also appreciated the reward.
The lecturer said that Tiger's Labrador and Alsatian strains
together Tiger and Prince, with 30 other dogs
who will train at the school, have one thing in common large. full foreheads and wide skulls,
Troops clear away the rubble after the recent devastating earthquake at Voies, Thessaly, fu which hundreds of people lost eir homes and many were injured-but only one person died. The King and Queen, of Greece made a tour of the devastated
area.--Express. Photo.
RED CHINA AND THE UN.
Organisation Enters
Most Critical Phase Of Existence
Geneva, May 1. The International Labour Organisation is entering a critical phase of its existence as the result of the return of seven Communist states.
Led by the Soviet Union, the Communist bloc comprises Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czecho slovakia, Bielo-Russia and the Ukraine.
The 1954 General Conference marked the postwar debut of the Communist countries in the International Labour Organisation. The European Regional Con« ference in January this year provided the stage for their second appearance.
The 1955 General: Conference, appointment of high Soviet in June will be the next major officials to the secretariat, which ocension for the confrontation could hardly be refused, would of East and West within the be bound to have some effect Organisation.
on the administration of the
of
BASIS OF CO-OPERATION.
of
The 70-nation Interna- tional Labour Organisation functions on the basis co-operation between three independent groups; Gov- eruments,
and workers. A country's g07-
employers
ernment delegates have two Votes
Organisation
So for,
there is only one im- ajor issue of immediate
tance which has arisen from.
Communist activity in the In- ternational Labour Orgarisa- ternal tion. The presence of the Com- munists has provoked a full scale controversy
the
Cosition in the Ormo
repre-
private employers and sentatives of State-run industry.
while employers and Workers have one each. The Communists have pro- Representatives of private in- posed a change in this system dustry, who have hitherto held. representation. They want almost undisputed sway in the worker delegates to have two eorployers group, declare that votes and
and the Communists are merely employers one each. This pro-appendages of their Govern- posal has not yet been pressed ment delegations. and would almost certainly be defeated in the present circus- stances
Since
governments
Or-
HARDLY DIFFERS
The Communists claim that their position hardly differs from that of heads of nationalised undertakings
Werter conantries-in some of which the State is already the biggest employ- er.
-
Soviet Russia, as one of the ten states of chief industrial im portance, automatically occupies a seat on the Governing Body, the executive organ of the International 'Labour Organisa- Madras, May 1, headed India's delegation to the tion
re-entering the Chances of Communist China's United Nations, said discussions They have
entry into United Nations have at the Asian-African conference ganisation last year, the Soviet
Nationalised industry was a has made no move to become brighter after the Ban- in Bandung last month had Union dung conference, Mr V. K. created an atmosphere
more nominate high officials for the comparatively rare thing when the Organisation was founded in secretariat dog's Krishna Menon, India's delete conducive to a settlement of the permanent
in 1919. Totally socialised
the to Bandung said in a press inter- problem of Peking's representa- Geneva, on which all the other view here tonight.
tion in the world organisation states of chief industrial im
that of the Soviet. Mr Menon, who formerly France-Presse.
portance are represented.
Major Hutcheson says that an "intellectually shaped" head means everything when it comes to absorbing knowledge.
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By Ernie Bushmiller
I MUST HAVE
FAINTED WHEN SHE SAID YES
HER
By Frank Robbins
AMOV SNAP HUNTER | LIVES WHEREVER THESE.
TAKE HIM!
TALK
ABOUT
T
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
GAM
*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA VANDIN"
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
this situation
an
Miguel
economies, with
The
Union or
were even turer.
notable.
The clash between representa- tives" of private and State-run industry actually began
when an
h
Soviet Union ocial of the People's Water Transport Commissariat employer delegate to a. con- ference in 1936. The Organisa tion's secreturlat was asked, to study the matter.
to
The secretariot found nothing
from
prevent the State nominating an employer dele- gate for nationalised
ton's
industry.
No provision of the Organisa- constitution required employer delegates to be private individuals.
The late Sir Harold Butler, British Director of the Inter national Labour Organisation in 1937, pointed out that there were at least eight different kinds of employers, including those who worked for their own. profit,
for company shareholders
or for the State. All employers, he said, had in common the that they gave work in return for money, and the Organisa- tion'a constitution Wha wide enough for all
Continuing controversy wis cut short by World War II. It did not begin again in earnest until last year.
In the 1954 General Con ference,
the employers", group split from the start. The non- the
Communist majority in group excluded the Communist employers from representation In all the technical committees of the conference and challenged their credentials.
COMMUNIST AIM
Non-Communist employ- er delegates, notably from the United States, Britain,
·France and Uruguay, pro- claimed that the Communist alm was fo wreck the Or ganisation.
They received strong support from the United States Govern ment. American Government delegates maintained that the Soviet regime did not allow
free workers and employers'
Soviet
tions to lithic,
were
only
government
The Communist coun tries, therefore, had no right to claim
representation under the Organisation's tripartite system, the American spokesmen de- clared. (E
But the British and French Governments were among those which approved the credentials. of the Communist employers. on constitutional grounds, The conference In
session
the
plenary
upheld the credentials of employera · by
105 Communist
votes to 79.wiik, 28 steptions,
The Commista Were Riso 2Wanded seatä 29 non.
| voting deputy members to the
technical committees..
American
General of the
Labour Organization,
dress that the noct of the did not seem to lie (structural weakness Grot,the or- zardisation. The troubles of the conference, he considered, were of - political "ten-