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THE CHINA ̈ ¡MAIL," WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1955.
HANGING OF
CHINA Israel Finishing Biggest Water
Pipeline In The Middle East Marlowe's
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Tel-Aviv, July 6, At one end of Israel the Yarkon River lazily flows into the Mediterranean,
At the other end the Negev desert remains ́un- productive because of luck of water.
But this imbalance will not endure much longer. A huge 66-inch pipeline the biggest in the Middle East- is
scheduled to go into operation this month. It will Carry nearly half of the Yarkon's water 60 miles south to the Negev for ir- rigation. Instead of flowing Yarkon into the sea, the will help create farms, fields the plantations in and harren area east and north- east of Egyptian-beld "Gáza
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The network about ready, for use is only the first stage of plans for the Yar- kon: in the secold a pipe- line paralleling the shown on the map will be built. It will carry
both Yarkon water-and-chemical-
sewage 1y purified from Tel-Aviv..
water
The water directed to the south will make ils journey through giant underground manufactured in pipes Israel. Or its way it will be raised 650 to 800 feet to the
By ERIC GOTTGETREU Associated Press Correspondent
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RUTH ELLIS Dollars May Rebuild
Australian Railway System
Creator Disgusted
London, July 5.
Mr Raymond Chandler, Ameri
cam creator of the tough. laccute "private eye" detective Marlowe, character Philip said in a letter to the Evening
and
Standard he was tormented" "disgusted" at the prospect of the execution on July 18 of Ruth Enis, con
victed here recently of shoot- Ing to death a former lover.
Mr Chandler, author of "The Big Sleep," "Lady in the Lake" and other mayhem-and- marder classics, wrote:
"As a part-time
full-time triend
JERUSALEM
JORDAN
BEERSHEBA
Miles
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This last
is, President Eisenhower's elevation of the plateau in Valley of the central Jordan
project and finally
down the weighted
with special envoy, Eric Johnston, the south. Three pumping basin; stations will do the lifting harnessing of the Jordan political complications and with both Israel and the
by Arab states. ALDENS --Collection At intervals, the water will River itself. Builder" Series, -New stock
be distributed through a available.
From South China Mornin Port
Wyndham network of smaller pipelines Lid.. Sweet Hongkong and Sallbury
and channels.
Head, Kowloon.
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About 75.000 acres of and will be irrigated with the Yarkon pipeline when both branches are in opéra- tion. Since about 2 äeres of irrigable land are needed per firming family, this should be sufficient to main- tain 30.000 families. Part of the area served by the pipeline is now under ir- rigation, but only with very water limited local ground
the
resources
which in
future will be used primarily for domestic needs.
INTEGRATION
pro.
The Yarkon pipeline is lo be integrated later into the THE JARDINE ENGINEER-general Israel water ING CORPORATION LTD. gramme devised by Tahal to LAM CONSTRUCTION CO. expand the country's irriga
tion system and increase its Hongkong, 16th June, 1956.
economic capacity, an in- the crease demanded by
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TO CONSIGNEES continuous growth in population. In 1948, when Israel was established, only 57,500 acres were irrigated. By the end of this year, the
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almost 250,000 acres. In the next 10 years, during which]
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE ARRIVED. RENTED A CAR, AND ASKED THE WAY TO BALD MOUNTAIN.
Cou-THERE!
IT IS, GUAN.
LOOKS SCARY--
FERDINAND
volume of water available NANCY will irrigate 750,000 acres, according to a Tahal expert. This will be in addition to covering the industrial and domestic needs of á popula-! tion of about three million,
(Israel's present population is 1,700,000).
Tahal's water programme for the next decade
com-
prises apart from the com. Yarkon pletion of the
system-several projects in apper Galilee; in the Jezreel
COPPER STRIKE
STILL ON
.
Denver, July 5. The United States, copper strike against three of America's four largest copper producers enterid the fifth day today with | an eslimated 22,000 members of the International Union of Mine, Mul and Smelter Workers in-
volved.
The strike is spread over 12 States and has immobilised 44 per cent of the estimated. 50,000 labour force employed by the big four copper producers.
A union spokesman said he expected that talks on new wage and fringe benelts contract. Suspended over the holiday weekend, would be resumed to- day, China Mati Special-
I'M MAD AT YOU
I'M MAD
AT YOU,
TOO
JOHNNY HAZARD
OPENING'S TOO SMALL... CAN'T GET SHAP OUT. NEED A PRY.HE'LL BURN IN A FEW MINUTES...AH! JUST THE
•THING.....!
A CAR. THAT MUST
UP THERE, ALL RIGHT)
BE MANDRAKE'S. HE'S
IT'S SO HIGH. HOW CAN
WE GET TO THE TOP?
JUST BECAUSE
WE'RE MAD
DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T PLAY. GAMES
OKAY
MAY-11
"THAT'S GETTING STA« A LITTLE MORE NOW
Melbourne, July 5,
Australia's politicians are again toying with
a 50-year-old dream of a unified railway system through Australia which American dollars might make a reality.
Mr William Wentworth, a Liberal member of the Federal House of Representatives, has reported on his return from the United States that the Export Import Bank in Washington or the International Bank would certainly" make money available to standardise the chaotic Australian rail gauges.
I
State isclation and indepen~ | Augusta and again at Kalgoorlie |dent_railway building policies in on the Western Australian 3ft
days of Aus- 6in. narrow gauge.
mixture of tral led to a
resident and Pre-Federation and admirer away gauges which for years The proposals for standarist-
of England, I have always, has brought inconvenience andtion envisage, bringing the major until now, respected its legal
expense to travellers and railways on to a 4ft. 814in. system as has most of the
freighters. world. But there is at times a vein of savagery that repels me.
to
system.
On the run between
The first stage would be Mel- boume and Sydney,
join Fremantle, Perth's port and travellers must change
standard at the Sydney, by
gauge border
town of Albury where tracks through Broken Hill, the town Inland from werk at the idea that a highly Victoria's 5ft 3in. tracks meet mining
Adelaide This would mean civilised people should put a New South Wales standard of building
91 have been tormented for a
for &
trains
ft. Bin, railways.
-two 600 mile rope around the neck of Ruth
stretches of line between Ellis and drop her through a
Fremantle Passengers have to walk along
and Kalgoorlie and I trap and break her neck.
what seems to be
the coldest Port Augusta and Broken Hill. could understand perhaps the
and draughtlest station platform hanging of a woman
Next, planners envisage alter- in Australia, carrying their
short bestial crime like a multiple hand luggage, and searching the Adelaide-Port Augusta route to
ing the comparatively poisoning, and axe murder (a line of strange cars for their la Lizzie Borden) or a baby-seats for the rest of the journey farm
operator killing her charges, but this was a crime of passion under considerable No other cORITY= provocation,
try in the world would hang
this woman,
¿
"In France she would get off with a light sentence or none, in America it would be first or second degree, manslaughter and she would be out of prison in anywhere from three and a half to seven years.
INCONVENIENCE Inconvenience to passengers is while the bottleneck, for freight, is also a major difficulty
great,
national" network bring Adelaide en .to the The last part would be to narrow the broad gauges between Adelaide and Milbourne and MelbourN: and Albury which would com- plete the standardisation of rail-
to Australian economy and aways between still-greater drawback in plans State capitals. for defence strategy.
mainland
ROLLING STOCK
means
Freight between "Melbourne
Rail standardisation and Sydney must be man- handled twice at Albury, adding much more than just relaying considerably to the ton costs. tracks. It also means replacing Modern methods have reduced or altering rolling stock and confusion, but the bottle-engines to fit the new lines and "This thing haunts and, so far neck is ever there.
the rebuilding of all platforms now of standard.
פריז
as I may say it, disgusts me
as something obscene, I sun
the
rolling
Adelaide and Melbourne are
Much of Australia's not referring to the trial, of linked by a broad gauge line course, but to the mediaeval but on the long run. between stock is old by world standards savagery of the law," Mr Adelaide and Perth passengers and a modernisation programme Chandler concluded. China must change trains when the would work in well with a Mail Special.
i gauge becomes standard at Port gauge alteration programme.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THERES AN ELEVATOR INSIDE THE CLIFF.. THE BUTTON FOR IT IS BEHIND THIS ROCK I'LL BRING THE ELEVATOR DOWN.
HERE'S THE
ELEVATOR, LET'S
GO DOWN.
GOODBYE, ALEENA.
BOSS
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
#ERNE BUSHMILLER
By Frank Robbins
AND NOW THE FLAMES SHOOT OUT TOAWARD JOHNNYUL DRIVING HI BACK FROM THE HELPLESS SNAP!.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
*THE JAM THAT MADE TAIMANIK FAMOUS"
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
The proposals for standardisa tion of gauges comes at a time when rallways re passing through a minor revolution in this country and many engineers are putting into practice Ideas
have which would
seemed idealistic before the war.
There is a growing tendency lo replace steam equipment with diescis and to secure zere eftcient running of many of the long distance lines.
For instance on the Adelaide to. Perth run, diesels have re- duced the trip to 2 days against the three full days which the journey.. once took. Atr conditioned
hayo carriages brought a new standard of com- fort to the ride.
So successful have the diesels proved that Commonwealth Rallways, which operates the link, varned about £1,000,000 above its
costs last operating year. Most railways Aus-
with
tralia are operating on what seem to be perpetual deficits.
In New South Wales, speedy air-conditioned passenger trains silent coaches are con- peting with airlines by offering standards of cleanliness and comfort which were almost un- heard of in pre-dirtravel days.
Railway men in all States are facing the competition of an
road ever-increasing
haulage business between the State capitals. Heavy trucks can offer speedy
and comparatively
favourable rates partly because they are not troubled by the loading and unloading at slate borders....
DECISION WANTED
Some engineers are pressing for an immediate decision on- the standardisation plan, because one of the major links in the network. the Port August- Broken Hill section, will. Eced reconstructing.
They say that if this line is re-formed on
non standard gauge the capital cost would be wasted or would set back for years the cause of standardisa tion.
Most experts agree that rail, standardisation
bring would snowballing benefits to · Aus-, tralia,
By eliminating delays and encouraging straight-througe traffic, standardised tracks would out transport costs at a time. when Australian producers and manufacturers are looking.. for every possible means of adjust- themselves to stiffer world world competition
It would also bring Western Australie closer to the Eastern ms of time and tates in terms
been
money
The most that has accomplished so far is the accumulation of vast quanties of: official reports from the nummercus governmental investi
bodies set up during the
xating past half
One newspaper
commented: “Australia nover thari
had a better opportunity. nowy to make a bold attempt to unify her rail gauge system. China Mall Special