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Conquest Of The Alps
-THE CHINA – MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1955.
Exhibition Opened In Switzerland
in"
Geneva, May 9.
Nearly 170 years of Alpine history is laid out
a fascinating exhibition, entitled "The
come, khgild be addressed to the Conquest of the Alps," which has opened its doors
in Geneva's Museum of History and Art.
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The exhibition traces the development of mountaineering in the Alps from the first expedition to the top of Mont Blanc (4,810 metres) in the year 1786, as well as the rudimentary equipment used by the early Alpine expeditions.
Early Alpine maps and charts great Geneva alpinist and dating back to the 18th century relentis, Horace Benedict de are also on view.
Saussure.
90TH ANNIVERSARY
UR
The exhibition is put by the Geneva Section of the Swier Alpine Club, celebrating its which is 90th anniversary this year.
An exhibit of major interest is the relies of the ill-fated expedition led by the English- man, Edward Whymper...
ago
and
which
mous
PRIZE OFFERED
the
took de
observations
In 1786, M.de Saussure offered a prize to the first
reach expedition to
Blanc. summit of Mont Europe's highest mountain, and this was achieved the same year by two Chamonix mountaineers, Jacques Bal. mat and Dr Paccard. If not prepaid a booking fee in 1885 successfully conquered In 1787. Balmat
to the "top of the of 50 cents la charged..
the great 4,482-metre peak of Saussure the Matterhorn for the first mountain and he became the ume, but which cost the lives of first scientist to undertake an four of the mountaineers.
organised climb of an Alpine Whymper's party of 30 years peak as well as the first man to
consisted of
roped make two
scientific groups with Whymper and two from its summit. guides,
Taugwalder named father and son), in one and Lord
Francis Douglas, the Reverend Charles Hudson, Mr Robert Hadow Michel Croz, in the other.
a guide,
The two groups had just started
from the their descent summits of the great" pyramid of rock when it was realised that most of the nails had been ripped from. Hadow's boots. on the ascent and that he was slip-
rocks icy ping badly on the FOR SALÉ
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One again Hadow slipped. ILLUSTRATED DILECTIONS for this time falling on top of adjustment of Hong Kong Standard muide, Michel Cros. Their com- Combined weight was too much for the sash line, which parted, plunging Hadow, Croz, Hudson and Lord Douglas to their deaths
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IF MAN WERE LIKE A SPARROW
Greece Again
Accuses Britain Over Cyprus
United Nations, May 9. The Greek delegate to the United Nations, Mr Christian
today in The exhibition show's Horace Ralemas, said de Saussure's "boots." In reality memorandum, handed to the nothing more than heavy-nailed Secretary-General's Office that buckle shoes, and much of his Britain in Cyprus was pursuing equipment including an enor-a policy of colonial domination,
which brought forth violence. brass, megaphone through instructions which he shouted to his guides and porters.
A coloured print shows de Saussure being, lowered down an ley slope on the end of a rope. The worthy gentleman, however, thought this too undignified, and ordered his "oficial artist" to do another. This was done show-
The delegate in his letter to- ing him coming down unaided Both prints hang in the ex-day said these hopes had not been realised for which the re- hibition.
gime exercised by Great Britain was responsible,
The Conquest of the Alps" also shows ancient Alpine charts dating from 1588 as well as carly drawings of the sources of Europe's two major rivers, the Rhine and Rhone, which the
The body of Lord Francis Douglas was never found, though one of his boots, ripped from his foot in the fall, is to be seen in the
Geneva exhibition. The bodies of the other were recovered.
three
In a glass case in this section. of "The Conquest of the Alps,"
the frayed and can be seen broken length of sash line, Lord Francis Douglas' boot, the Rev.
on
Hudson's prayer book, one of Hadew's boots. Aragicsily devoid of nails, and Michel Croz's hat. looks down from the wall A portrait of Edward Whymper-
these
tragic remains, The Geneva Exhibition serves tremendous part played by British moun- taineers in "The Conquest of the
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES to emphasise the
Consigners per
CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES 4.3. "CAMBODGE"
are hereby notified that their cargo wi! be discharged into the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Co., Ltd.'s godown where it will be at consignees risk and subject to storage, and where delivery may be obtammed.
Alps
Just 100 years ago this year, a party of six Britons consist- ing of the brothers Edmund, John and Christopher Smyth, accompanied by J. Birkbeck, C. Hudson and G. Stephenson, con- quered the highest peak in the Swiss Alps, the 4.638-metre
the whart's terms and conditions many of the Morte Rosa
Damaged packages are to be left in the godown for examination by consignees and Veyor's Mears Goddard & Dougina 10a.m. on Saturday, 14th May, 1955.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the godown and
only the last two or three weeks, a description of the climb written by Edmund Smyth in 1855 has been found at Riffelberg, near Zermatt. A photostat copy hangs in the ex- hibition.
After the success of the Smyth
All goods remaining undelivered brothers peak after peak fell to
after the 15th May, 1955, will be
subject to res.
the British Invasion" The
during next few years. In 1881, Castor
All claims against the vessel maat William Matthews and F. W.
be presented in the undersigned on Jacomb climbed the
may not be recomised,
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
or before the 7th June, 1955, or they (4,230 metres), a 7-man British expedition with Aye guides Climbed the Lyskamm (4,538 and Professor John Tyndall conquered the Weiss- horn (4,512 metres).
CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES metres). Hong Kong, 20th May, 1955.
To ADVERTISERS
"
The following year,
Kennedy and Wigram
T. S. climbed
the Dent Blanche (4,364 metres)
and in 1863,
Macdonald, Grove
SUNDAY POST-HERALD and Woodmas reached the sum Space for commercial mit of the. advertising should be
booked not
later
than metres), In
(4,436 Grove and climbed
the
Moore
Stephenson noon on Wednesdays. Rothorn 14,223 metres) and
er, with conquered the metres). This
Edward For the SOUTH CHINA LOW MORNING POST and the and
Walker, a CHINA MAIL, 48 hours Ecrius (4,101
before data of publication, just about accounted for the madeity of Swiss peaks ever Special "Announcements 4,000 metres omit 13.000 feet and Classified Advertles- Another interesting section of ments as usual,
the exhibition is devoted to the
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Mr Palamas said his Govern- ment accepted a postponement of a United Nations debate on Cyrpus last December in the hope that a solution in canfor- mity with justice, liberty and reason might be found.
The Greek Government re serves the right to examine in rise future all measures which might from glaciers within 3 few seem appropriate to the situa- Palomas warned.... miles of each other.-China Mail tien, Mr Special
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TUESDAY, MAY 17 By Alt Philippines, 6 p.m. Korea, p.m. Kawall, USA, 6 pun. Japan. 62. Forman, Okinawa, 6 p.m. Canada, p.223.
A General Would Be Pleased
New York, May 9. General B. W. Chidlaw, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Air Command, suggested that his job would be a lot simpler if man were engineered more like a sparrow.
"For every added mile in air speeds, engineering has to reach back and grab man by the scruff of the neck and pull him along with it," Gen. Chidlaw said at a luncheon.
Gen. Chidlaw said the pre- | aerodynamic sent-day interceptor pilot is | Chidlaw said,-UP. training to shoot at a target he
cannot see.
using gadgets to compensate for his inadequate
reflexes, all the while done up
in oxygen and pressure and a
证
special suit "which literally keeps him from popping open like a dropped watermelon
Nationalisation during some of the great gravity
Of Steel Works
Rejected
Saarbruecken, May 9.
The Saarland. Lantag (parlia ment) today rejected by 28 votes to 18, a Social Democratiz motion to nationalise the biggest
30
the
pulls and straina?”
TWO SCHOOLS DRAN
Gen. Chidlaw described himself as the dean of two schools of “so-called Thun- derbolt Geomoly
which fighter
intercepter squadrons are learning air- to-air rocket-firing, "We no longer swing in
bolt
on
LESS SPECTACULAR
Gez
While the turbojet and turboprop airliners steal, the headlines orders conifiko to flow in to British factories for the slower and less spectacular__piston - engined demand trainers, Thi
transporta, aircraft for special duties .continues unabated, and is
ever expanding."
aircraft.
The
and
and
Talking civil aircraft first;
of there is a wide diversity types, the smallest of which is made by Ausler. During the past Ave months, three Aiglets (two. seat
and two training
dual control aerobatic
tent
steel works in the Saarlandthe our target in line, or with the
aircraft) Roechling Works at Voelkingen. pursuit curve-we come at him
In the debate before the from right angles which is the Autocars (four-seat light trans- vote, Herr Hoffmann
we refer said reason
to it as ports) have been delivered to [ nationalisation
teel geometry Gen. Chidlaw said the Kuwait Aero Club in the works, which are
reason we add thunder- Persian Gulf. A further owned by
to our description is that Autocars have been delivered the Roechling family, would
to Argentine to fulfil the duties frighten" off foreign capital. Our planes have the capability
of ag of coming on the target at
insecticide spray agricultural The Saar, which had just pro- tested against a
ers. solution pt 1,000 feat or mare per second, ambulance and ordinary further aircraft. A Zorge for the
works and that rate of closure is so passenger steet
and fast the plane must be lined up eleven have been ordered. Other agreed upon by France
the objective
countries
which have taken de- and - combat Germany, could not now pro- pose mother solution of force action started as much as 30 livery during the past twelve
miles -nationalisation-Reuter,
*Whis Chee much faster than a pistol
Norway, Fakistan, Spain, Swe den and West Africa, Gen Chidlaw sald air speeds Vientiane, May 9,
between World War I and. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the world War II increased at the British Commissioner-General to pace of 15 miles an hour a year. Southeast Asia, left here today During World War II the in- for a two-day visit to Saigon.
40 miles During his stay in Laos, MrCrease stepped up to
art hour
a year, he said. It's donesia, Australia, New Zealand, & MacDonald saw Crown Prince now running about 140 miles an
Savang Vatthane, Premier Katay hour a year? Sasorith, Defence Minister
"The sparrow
especially Souvanna Phouma and Nhouy engineered, a body with muscles Abhoey, the minister temporarily drive instinct to react quickly in charge of foreign affairs. - to all circumstances, and with France-Presse,
By Surface Macao, 2 p.m.
N. Borneo. 2 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 By Air Thailand, Maliya, N. Bormen, In-
Ceylon, 9 a.m.
Thailand, p.m.
Japan. 6 p.m.
Formosa, 4 1.0.
Traland, India, Pakistan. East Great D.I.
Brink &
Europe,
Testo.Colom, §.p.m.
DROP YOUR GUNS~ AND PUT UP YOUR HANDS **I'VE GOT YOU COVERED!
I WONDER WHAT'S THE
MATTER. WITH HIM-
AMORNING, JOHNNY? YOU'LL FIND RUNNING WATER IN THE FOUNTAIN AND CLEAN SOX IN ANY BAGI ON THE DOUBLE BREAKFASTS
BRET READY IN
Middle
By Lee Falk and Phil Davİ
I CAN'T LOOK I HAD ENOUGH!
LOOK TINY THE
PAINTIN'S - ga CÓMIN” ALIVE--!
By Mik
-By Ernie Bushmiller
TELLER
HSCHOO
By Frank Robbins
YOU KNOW, A GUY COULD GET: USED TO THIS LIFEWAS LONG? AS HE HAD ENAP HUNTER FÜR
A HOSTED
15 that months are Australia, Beiglum,
Ls
a nimble wit enclosed within a
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
TAIMANA FAMOUS".
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
ituation
San Miguel
Two well-established de Havliland feeder line types still 8-11 passenger Dove and the in demand are the twin engined
four engined 14-17 passenger Heron More than five hundred Dover have so far been sold to
countries in all some forty of the world, the most delivery
being to
for the
Darts
to the ch of Fortuguese Timor the internal services Transportes Aeros de
Timor. Also now in process of being fulfiled is the order for seven Heron Series 2's for the Turkish States Air Lines, for service on routes as well as on International
services regular from Istanbul and Ankara Beirut, Cairo and Athens, tar 85 Herons have been livered to
internal
to
So
de.
18 operators in
countries overseas,
Orders for the twin-engined Hunting Percival Pembroke general purpose
aircraft COD-
tinue to grow, the latest nounced earlier this year being the for two for service with. Finnish Ministry of Agriculture; these are to be nezo „KUTVEJ versions and are the first air- craft of this type to be ordered for civil use.
Handley Page state that since the first order was placed by Queensland Airlines-in Octo- ber 1954, for their new four- engined Herald, orders for these 44-seat aircraft, deliveries ọf which are scheduled to begin in 1957, have reached 29.
In the military field recent of. export orders or deliveries
In- piston-engined types have cluded quantities of Fairey Firefly target tugs to the Royal Indian Navy, a second batch of Boulton Paul Balliol two-seat trainers to the Ceylon Air Force, and
Home Hunting Percival Provost two-seat basic trainers to Burma and Iraq. The Provosts will be armed with two fixes 0.303 machine guns in the wings and will have provision. for a variety of rockets and bombs as well.
Of the larger aircraft in the milltary field the Bristol Freighter continues to be in demand as a general purpose 'workhorse" with air forces overseas, Six oversens mir forces. are
FLOW operating Freighters, and that of Pakistan claims to operate more than any other air force or civil operator today, It was to the Royal Pakistan Air Force that a further delivery of Freighters was made recully.
LABOUR FORCE
The labour force of the British
Aircraft Industry continues to rise steadily at rate of about 2,900 month The official total stood at 240,800 in January this year, the latest month for which figures are avali- zbis. This showed, an in- „kresse of 1,600 on - the pres vious month, and an in
· Cresso A, of DB:11,700: "Jakoury'-1954:
About a soventh, of the folai labour force are women, d
These figures cover companies manufacturing airframes, en- gines undercarriages and pro- pellers, and
they do not include employment in other companies
main
and "Bozessories or
outside the
Therefore,
while they cover the main bulk of the Industry, and are a tafr Index of trends, they do not re- you the total mundonger 2