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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31," 1955.)
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SICILY
Messina, Aug. 30.
Surveys have begun for siting a suspension bridge which will link the island of Sicily with the Italian mainland across the tempestuous Straits of Messina.
Four geologists have arrived here to sound the narrow waterway, testing the seabed into which two massive pillars will be driven to support the 1,524-metre (5,000-foot) central span of the planned double-decker bridge.
be
A blueprint of the bridge is Some 23,000 Italian workmen prepared. Finance for thewill be employed full time for building
the six or eight years needed to 18 reported to nvallable, All that remalle is build the bridge. Work will be to select the exact site and under the supervision of Italian decide upon the technical
engineers, the designer says, meliod to be adopted for sinkiny the ventre plies.
For centuries, inhabitants of und Sicily have been Italy plagued by the problem of the turbulent strip of sea dividing the Calabrian ellit cave of the legendary
six-headed Scylla, sallar-eating monster trans formed by the enchantres Circe, and the dreaded whiripod of Charybdis,
Too Costly -
Ulyck while anxiously between the twin navigating perils, was troubled by I.
Legend has It that Saint Francis of Paola, in the 15th century, walked across the
waves from shore to shore. But his miraculous feal gave no heip in solving the problems of transport and communications between Italy and Sicily.
Came
more
When Italy was unified in the last century, the problems be-
pressing
An engineer, commissioned in 1800 to weigh possiblities, reported a bridge would be too
that
costly.
Five more projects emerged between 1870 and World War II, the first of them visualising a railway tunnel 180 metres (508 feet) under the seabed.
h bottleneck which- became worse year by year.
Achievements
Finally in postwar years, replacement of the slow, expen- sive ferryboat link by a bridge across the Straits become argent. The development of the Sicilian NOTICE IS HEREBY oil industry and the expansion of rail and road communications GIVEN that The Congre-
on both sides of the channe! gation of Our Lady of Charity caused of the Good Shepherd of Angers at Hong Kong pro- poses to introduce a Bill In the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong for the purpose of incorporating by Mother the Ordinance Superior of the said Congre- gation as a Corporation Sole with perpetual succession. The text in full of the pro- posed Bill will be published in the Government Gazette on the 2nd day of September 1955 and the 0th day of September 1955.
Dated August, 1955.
A plan for a massive steel suspension bridge to on the three-kilometre (two-me) wide Strait was put forward by 69- year-old bridge engineer, Mr David Steinman, of New York, who planned and built the bridge spanning Golden Gate Bay at San Francisco,
George Washington and Steel Gate bridges of New York, Sydney Harbour suspension bridge. the Michigan bridge, and a host of others.
But
the
the Messinin Straits bridge, he says, will excel them oll and odds that it will te the 27th day of the stromurest, most stable and most beautiful steet suspension bridge the world. has ever
A. EL ARCULLI Solicitor for The Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd of Angers at Hong Kong.
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With clean, symmetrical curves it will be 3,300 metres (10,824 feet) long with Ave bays, the main centre span flanked by two intermediate spans of 723 metres (2,400 feet), and two outer spans of 156 metres (512 gigantic piles, each
Two
seot). about 120 metres (394 feet) deep. will buttress the long middle span. It will be 29 metres (95 feet) wide, The lower lovel of the double- decker bridge will be 00 metres (213 feet) above
level, 13 giving the biggest liners ample
clearance.
Mr Steinman he designed the higher level for road traffic, with two three-track channels, and the lower for trains. The doublo lovel gives greater crosswing rigidity.
In his survey, the American designer provided for protection against earthquakes, cracks in the underwater strata, and the currents of the heavy treacherous channel,
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Not Contractor - While emphasising that he is not the bridge's contractor, Mr Steinman has stated that group of International bankers in the interested in New York project which can be financed by Interest-bearing bond issues
normal way.
the
His estimate of the total cost 150,000,000 dolars (£03,900,- 000 sterling), and he says that after about 30 years the bridge cool be handed over to .the Italian Government.
Siciliar and Italian, business- men believe that the bridge will give an enormous flip to tha Islander impoverished economy, eliminating costly de- lays in exporting fruit, wines, reals and other agrleul- products.
trip from The two-hour Metalna to Villa San Giovanni will, be cut 10 20 minutes, freight trame will cross the waterway in half an hour in- stend of five hours, the railways
miliar will davo ono
Lire (2875,000 #tering: 1,000,000 dollars) a year on the cost of
the ferryboats.
The Sicilian regional govern- ment is financing the present geophysical surveys and the been accepted i project has
No date his yut principle.
set for starting workt, ben however.
One first link between Sielly and Calabria is already on the way. By the new year, over-
power hend
cables carrying the matriland electricity frum mountaing to Stelly's Industries will be slung neross the Stralis,
Chinn Mail Special.
RANK PROFIT
RECORD
• London, Aur. 30. Mr J. Arthur Rank's Odeon Theatres Limited, the biggest alugle unit in the British film industry, today declared record pro- of £8,727,035 for the year ended last June.
Proilts for the previous year was £7.704.084.
The company has been steadily increasing its pro- its since 1949 when they fell to a pesiwat low of
£1,587,306.
After paying tax and other charges the net profit
£1,582,004 WIN
against £1,383,220 the year before. -China Mail: Special.
The head of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, Hazrat Mahmud Ahmad, at the Lon don Grosvenor Hotel reception given in his honour by the
of Ahmadiyya community
Great Britain.-Express Photo.
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South African By-Election
Opposition Party Rift Over Coloured Voters
Johannesburg, Aug. 30.
South Africa's United Party opposition to the Nationalist (apartheid) Government will face a crucial test for its future on Mid September 14 when a by-election is fought here over the party's policy towards coloured voters of mixed blood.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 By Alr Guam, Hawaii, USA. 2 p.m. Philippines, Aushenlin, Zealm), 2 nm.
Pakistan. Middle East,
Eurone, 8 pm.
Great Britad Buttare
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The by-election has been precipitated and Now by a former member of the United Party Afries who has turned independent to challenge China, People's Republic, 0.30am the party's leadership because it failed to MAY, SEPTEMBER 2
give an outright pledge to restore coloured voters to common electoral rolls if they are removed by the present Nationalist Govern- ment.
Mpeso,
5.01.
By Alr
Thailand, Buria, India,
ant.
Farmasa, Japan, Korea, 10 am.
Indo-China, 11.
Philippines, 2 pan.
Formosa, 8 pm.
Burma. India. Pakistan.
Britain
Middle ond
East, Africa, Great
Europe. 6 p.m.
hiiippines, 0 p.m.
Korca, 6 pm.
Japon, p.m.
USA, Canada, 6 pm,
May Free War Criminals
By "packing the Senate with, dissentient party members who "Testoration** pro-Government supporters, the demanded Nationalists hope to have a pledge, it is not easy to see n suflicient two-thirds majority in clear path through the legisla
created by the next year's session of the South tive Jungle African Parliament to pass dis-Government's measures tamper- puted constitutional legislation ing with the Constitution, placing the so-called coloured
"All we can promise is that voters on separate voting rolls.
United Party polley hoa on our return to power we always been to resist this change shall th consultation with the in the franchise rights of the coloured people set right the coloured people who have trave justice done to
voted with white in the best way open to us at ditionally people, since they were hocepted that time and in a form which as part of the early settlement will serve the best interests of saltof Cape Province in the south, South Afrlen as a whole." that Communist China was where about 1,000,000 of them likely "to take measures shortly now live.
Tokyo, Aug.
A Kyodo news agency port from Peking today
31.
re-
for the release of Japanese war criminals."
Restoration
them
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Six of the seven members of Liberal the Party's so-called
had originally who wing Kyodo, Japan's national news'
challenged Mr Strauss's polley on the issue accepted this ex- agency, reported that Madame
blatation. The seventh, 50-year- Li Teh-chun, President of the Moscow, Aug, 30.
But during the lust session of old Dr Bernard Friedman, The first mass group of Communist Chinese Red Cross,
Jacobus not. French tourists to Russin since yesterday told visiting Japanese Parliament, the leader of the surgeon turned politician, would
Diet members
Parly, Mr that she believed United World War II arrived here by there was "good new
Dr Friedman who ahead Strauss, evaded a flat promise news" train from Leningrad today.
for the Japanese war criminals, to restore the coloured voters to Parliament
for the heavily- member Her "good howe" remark common rolls if and when the The 78 tourists were a part followed a silement by Prime Opposition regain power, populated Johannesburg district Nairobi, Aug. 30. Police killed nine out of a of a boatload or 780 French Minister Chau En-lai on Monday arguing that it was premature of
exactly what could OS women. who are to Japanese Dlet members that to say gang of 11 Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya's White Highlands visiting Germany at present. his government was "nnstenting done about it now. last -night,
Government The a
rest remained in preparations" for a decision on
this issue.-Reuter. spokesman said today.-Retter. Leningrad.-United Fress.
9 MAU MAU KILLED
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THERE'S SOMETHING HERE--INVISIBLE-- |I CAN'T TELL WHAT
--METALLIC, HARD-
THEN--THERE WAS A TOURIST --HE DID GIVE. ME A PILL--/
FERDINAND
NANCY
OLIVES
JOHNNY. HAZARD
NO NOI CAN'T JOEY
SHOOTY INTO THE BOAT
A CAN'T RUSK HITTING EMARÍUL
Umm--Å REAL BANANAJ WELL--
A SIGNAL FROM MY WAIST
INDICATOR/
SOMETHING
IS TOUCHING
MY MACHINE!
AT THAT MOMENT, FAR AWAY, THE TOURIST
مایا اور کیا لوٹ کر کے سنہ
BUSHMILLEAS
[HOI JUST THE THING I WITH THE AD OF A BOATHOOK; THEIR POKHOLIE IN THE WATER WILL.
BE ELIMINATED/
men and
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THAT WON'T DO. I'D BETTER MOVE
IT BY REMOTE CONTROL-
TEN FEET UP--
TEN FEET NORTH/
HEY---WHAT
ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?
WHATEVER
IT WAS--IT'S
·GONE--!
1-29.
CONTINUED-
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
I NEVER BUY A JAR OF OLIVES UNTIL I'M SURE
I CAN GET THE LID OFF
GRASPING THE BÁTHDOK; THE GENERAL REACHES OUT TO THE OVERTURKED ROWBOATUE |
By Frank Hobbins
LAS JOHNNY'S HEAD ORZĀKS THE SURFACE BEHIND. HIM!.
be
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sat
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United Party
blocks of
Hats
"At the moment," he said in fr constituency of
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statement issued for
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
scych
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
Couldn't be fresher!
Libby's
try
PTAT
FROZEN PEAS TODAY
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
houses) publicly
declared that he felt the only
possible answer to "such
fundamental question of "prin cipio" was "clear and
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equivocal 'yes'."
Ho
said that, he considered Strauss'e "non- mittal"
statement meant that the United Party, if deemed it expedient, would acquieste in the removal or coloured voters from the com- mon roll.
This delanco of party leader- ship led to De Friedman's ex- pulsion from the United Party. Meanwhile, he had resigned l seat in Parliament to fight the issue as an Independent in his
old constituency.
•
Sides Taken
Hillbrow's by-election is a considerable embarrassinent to the United Party which is thus forced to fight
dig. a party puto in public. The party leaders deplore it because per- prestige is ht stake anti-Government English-language
GO
the
press which believes that an united front. should be maintained at all·
costs as the Best mearis
dislodging tho Afrikaner Nationalists from power, re-
Sides are being taken within
the
Martyr the issue.
United Party sup- porters of liberal tendencies sympathise with Dr Fried man's cause. Some have resign- ed party posts or membership to support it.
This section feeling in
South
an
Opposition,
ful, must really
reflects
...ong
Africa that
oppose htt
to be succESS-
not compromise On the coun
vitat
Ary's colour issues. Others find the attitude
Mr
Strauss reasonable and practical in the circumstances.
Hillbrow votery normally Joyal to the United Party which considers the constituency "safe" seat, are faced now with
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choke between their able member, 1 clever speaker, who has served them successfully for the last 12 years, and the United Party itralt.
Cynicray that the only benent from people who can this political fratricide is the governing Nationalist party who United Party's exploited the discomfort when the Issue arose in Parliament and now contem
forthcomingst plate the
election with comb relish.
No one is certain of the out- como of the voting, but the Nationalists believe
cannot idie,
who
that they
United Party letërs unduly long Anding & cantidalb who had, the prestige.bnd, “win, willing to tight for Dr Friedman, In considered popular in a constituency hotable for its strong
Jewish trensent. Several pomstyle ? Eundidates, were reported = 10. approached unstreiserally the official nomination.
Ther
It was unnounced that, w:58+ year-old Senator for Naing Pros vincy De Ldula Steenkamp, hadi socopted,