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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955.
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NATO PLANS
IN NORWAY
Paris. May 17.
The availability of the baby atom bomb is rapidly revising the defence plans of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for its extreme northern flank in Norway, one of the two member nations which have a common border with Russia.
Planners at Supreme Headquarters of the North Atlantic Powers in Europe, engaged with the "new look" in military strategy and tactics for the whole of the Western Front, are acutely aware of two recent and important events which are bringing about the changes in the north..
One is the availability of the ance of some 1200 air miles. tactical, atom bomb on a call To the north are the Arctic and deliver" basis from the 49th Decan and the Russian border, Air Division in England, equip with the Soviet ports of Petsamo ped with Republic F-84F and Murihansk Just round the Thunderstreaks, charged with cornut...
carrying "the weapon."
DESTRUCTIVE PUNCH
Brigadier-General John D. Stevenson. Commanding General of the 49th Air 'Division, recently described these new aircraft as de- Hvering "more destructive
single punch on à than all the operational aircraft based in Britain in World War II."
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hundreds
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BUTTERFIELD
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Hongkong, May 18, 1955
SWHE
are
of Major-only three and a half per cent of the country is under cultiva- tion and that there
only three and a half million people to defend a. add up to a con- siderable defence problem.
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121 Oslo. quarters General Homer L. Saunders.,
General Sounders is not only on expert in aerial fighter tactics and doctrine. He was the first man to realise the potency
tactical air the baby bomb as a weapon, the first to fight for its possession by the United States Air Force, and he was in strumental in organising what is
Division now the 49th Air carry it.
'Several months ago. he
commander of assigned Headquarters Allied Air Forces Northern Europe in Oslo, and since his arrival the role of the Righter-bomber is increasing in importance in the general plans for the defence of Norway.
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The concentration, it is under- stood, is on the best possible use the baby bomb carried by the Thunderstreaks. Command- ers, given on
en alloaming of the weapons, must plan their proper usage to obtain the
maximum effect. Questions being answered by large scale SHAPE exercises such as
as Blue Tricent. Skyblazer and others. planned by Supreme Headquarters in Europe, are whether this tremendous force
on
best loosed on a beachhead which threatens to spread and overrun the countryside, or the behind-the-lines point which supplies it.
Norway has never permitted. foreign troops to be based on her soil. In fact she has assured Soviet Russia that she will not cio
unless her is threatened. This when
security
assurance Wus
given
Soviet Russia protested against
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Norway
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EFFECTIVE FORCE Norway herself, however, developed what is prob- ably the
effective most Amal air force, man for man, aircraft for aircraft, in Europe. Her eight squadrons are fighter-bombers and re- connaissance planes, largely F-84
Thunderjels.
They
are scattered on a perma Beni or rotational basis over some ten operational fields from Bardufoss 300 miles Inside the Arctic Circle, to Rygge, in the South.
Her senior officers were all combat trained with the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, or the United States Air Force
the last war.
They are experienced 'and cap- able. The
younger fliers are
The
United
States or Canadian trained, sharp and eager. Royal Norwegian Air Force set up on American lines and all forms, procedures and opera- tions are carried out via the English language.
Norwegian bases are being equipped, as far as is possible, 10 permit staging for other unity might be employed on
which any type of mission. This would permit other units to land on these felds for fuel or mainten ance, either going to or coming from
mission រំដ the northern direction.
any
One of the changes this "new look" has brought about is. the increased probability of holding
Norway, particularlyNorth Norway, in the event of a sudden attack in the far north.
Norway has its own peculiar shape. It stretches from latitud 58 in the south to approximately latitude 72 in the north, a dis-
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And this is the problem which the military planners, both Supreme Headquarters and in Norway hope and believe can be to some extent solved by the potential of the tactical atomic bomb carried by 600-mile fighter planes. China Mail Special.
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TO CHINESE
MOSLEMS
London, May 17.
The Egyptian Minister for Religious Foundations, Sheikh Ahmed Hassan el Bakhoury, has presented £1,000 in the
name
of his Ministry for needy Chinese Moslem Believers" and a similar sum for other needy persons," the New China News Agency reported today.
The Agency said he made the Jomation to the Chinese Prew mier, Mr Chou En-lai, yester- day. Mr Chou thanked him aying he would turn over the China Islamic Association
and the People's Relief Association of China,
Private Could
Write His Name To £30,000
Brisbane, May 17.
Rookie John Walton, bashing the square at- Queensland's Wacol military camp with a platoon of other young national servicemen, could sign a cheque for £30,000 if he wanted to.
Military training has interrupted his success- ful prospecting career when, as a member of the eight-man Walton-McConachy syndicate, he helped to discover the fabulous Mary Kathleen uranium lode near Mount Isa, Queensland.
Now the big British Rio Tinto The following week, John mining group is interested in Walton, and his father. Clem the field, these eight Australlans and MeConachy returned to the might become mining magnates. spot and discovered that the The syndicate sold the lease for radioactivity came from rounded an initial £250,000 and retained | black stones in the creek bed.
10 per cent interest
its Reasoning that these future development.
SUCCESS STORY.
in
The Mary Kathleen STC- cess is the story of two enterprising Queensland families who pooled their resources, tried their luck- and found a hill of good- quality uranium ore.
Clem Walton, his three sons John. Henry and Mick, Norman McConachy and three members of his family had jobs in Mt Isa, a mining town, 1,200 miles nortswest of Brisbane. At the week-ends, they used to take to the bills in battered jeeps and
thetr take
gelger counters among the dry rock outcrops.
their -They decided to pool
form a combine resources and syndicate which gave them three geiger counters and chance to co-ordinate their prospecting.
a
stones
must have broken off the mother lode, the trio criss- crossed the creek, working up- stream and testing all outcrops with their counters.
In this way, they followed the creek back to its source, in a hill ct uranium ore. Their in- dicators showed that it gave il count of 15,000 against the normal background of 1.000.
They named the hill after McConachy's wife, Mary Kath- leen, who had died only three MTS MC- weeks previously. Conachy had kept encouraging when their efforts the men seemed in vain and only a short time before her death, told them: "Keep going, you'll strike it rich some day."
LOCAL BOOM
News of the Mary Kath- leen and brought, a uranium boom to Mount Isa and as local residents put it; "You couldn't see the town for zeiger counters."
be
On a Saturday afternoon in Mc- July, last year, Normar
and John Walton Copachy
Overnight, Clem Walton were testing a tip that there might be some uranium in the come a big business tycoon and
for hills south of the main
the road openco negotiations linking Mount Isa with Clon-
with Australian syndicate mining companies. Before he They found that their geiger broke down from the Sheikh Bakhoury was invited
the claim to Australian to tour China by Mr Chou at counter clicked in a most en- soid
£250,000. and couraging fashion in a dry crees interests for the Bandung conference
disappeared..n could find no the eight men arrived in. Pekng on Sunday. bed. But they
sign of the major uranium Iode. "went into smoke in the local Reuter.
too slang. The publicity Was much for them,
of natural oak and the fittingsey to the include a miniature writing desk, wardrobe, bookshelf and bureau china cabidet. Beneath the twin beds are lockers and there is a detachable between them for
-Express Photo
I DON'T KNOW. JUST
HAD A SUDDEN
IMPULSE TO LOOK
AT IT. BUT I'M· REALLY NOT JEALOUS.
O.K."---BUT
WHAT'S
THE IDEA?
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Now the big mining com- panies have moved into Mount Isa. Their teams of trained geologists, working systematical- 14. through the surrounding country, are replacing the more haphazard prospectors.
The latest announcement was that the Rio Tinto group had a 51 per cent holding in the lease, Australian Oil Explora- tion 39 per cent and the vendors 10 per cent. The management deciding whether it is now would be, worth while estab-
treatment lishing a uranium plant on the field.
MORE PROSPERITY
This would bring moru prosperity to Mt Isa, the mining town already rich from its silver-lead lodes.
The spectacular success of the Walions and the McConachys has made little difference to their styles of living. They still make their homes in Mount Isa. But there are some changes. John Walton is in the Army and Clem Walton
bas stopped driving a taxi to take care of the syndicate's business negotia-
tions.
Mick Walton is still prospect- ing, but he has swapped his dusty jeep for an American
The luxury car.
CIT, parked outside, his small Mount Isa home, is almost as long as the frontage of the house.
The finders of the Mary Kathleen deposits are not the only successful prospectors in Mount Isa. Thirty- -year-old Sam Grant, who came to Mount Isa from Sydney in late 1953, sold a claim recently for £10,- COD and has interests in a number of others. He stands. to get another £90,000 if the claim he
sold proves
ves a commercial
success,
Grant got a job with Mount Isa Mines on shift work, then dashed off to spend his days in the hills prospecting. He claims "sixth-sense" for to have a uranium. "Icela
When the country right" he says, he goes in with his geiger counter-and his finds prove the success of this method.
Once his counter starts click-" iny. Grant systematically mapa out the extent of the deposits. He works over the radioactive arca and looks for rock outcrops to test. Even a couple of feet of soil, he says, are enough to blanket some of the 1273.
gamma
DESERT PROSPECTING
in
Uranium prospectors are gathering Mount I again now because the ap-. southern winter proaching will bring cool enough weather to make desert Prospecting comfortable.
But Mount Isa old-timers mon that the glorious days aft the uranium musky when proSPEK- tury streaked out of town in the
hope the next hill would bring. them fortune, are prchably gone for -ever/China: Mail Special