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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
Stori:: Vrou AU Parts Of The
A Trant-Antarctica Morch.
GERMAN WOMEN
From Löndón: Explorers Propare For
SEEKING "MATES"
Frankfurt.
Muny lonely German wo- men are advertising in news- | papers for husbands.
"Maics Wanied," sald
beading In
Abendpast.
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the Frankfurter
Below it are more!
than 100 advertisements.
The West German Govern ment has estimated there are more than two million women between 21 and 45 in Germany who have never married and more than 500,000 widows. This is because so many Ger-
From - Frankfurt: advertise in
German Women
Newspapers For Husbands.
World
From Montreal: For Now Mining And
Canada Looks North
Development Pro- Jects.
From New York-Now They Can Dis-
tinguish Botwaen Poisonous And Non-poisonoui Mushrooms.
They Plan To March 2,000 Miles
Across Antarctic Ice And Snow
.London. George Lowe, a New Zea
mun nen and boys were killed and school teacher who In World War Two.
likes to climb mountains
Advertisements seeking bus-and explore new country, bands fill portes of weekend newspapers, Special sections of pointed at a map of Antare- some glossy magazines are rettica and sald, in a matter-of- aside for them. "Lontly, hearts" fact voice: "That's where agencies are boomlag. on both we plan to land."
sides of the Iron Curtain.
"Farmer's
widow.
blonde, His Anger rested on an area
good-looking. healthy seeks marked "Vaheel Водово about
quickest
connectious with 1,000 miles from the Sout, farmer. Widower with children Pole,
not excluded,” says an i in
an East German newspaper,
HWC don' know yet how
A woman In another paper) bard it will be to set up gives her age as 39 and says camp at Vahsel Bảy," Lowe bluntly: "I am very lonesome, said and added "as far as we I am always alone."
Many a fraulin lays it on the line that she is looking for
know, nobody has ever it before,"
Соло
a man with bank account. The Vabal Bay camp is to Some use their own bank ac- be the counts
main base for the British with
team crossing the as a lure, along
Antarctic continent sometime beauty and breeding.
1958. From this buse, One woman says
carly she comes Dr Vivain Emest Fuchs, the from a
a "good official's family" expedition leader will set off A 32-year-old secretary says
to try something that has she comte from "a good home."
accomplished-a A "charming" woman of 36 has over
2.000-mile crossing of the Antarctic
nothing more than a driver's licence,
Not all the women are out to lead men to the altar. A 19- factory year-old
owner's daughter asks simply for a
own
beer
Meeting Hillary
A
"discreet" contact with the About half way between the right man. She says shio Is Pole and McMurdo Sound on cherming, "sport loving" and the other side, his party will has her
car. Another be met by New Zealand woman, 35,, advertises for a group led by Sir Edmund "weekend partner."
Hillary, of Everest, fame,, Then Men avail themselves of the they will all go on together to the New Zealanders' base, columns, too, and
their mates board chip, and sail for home. divide papers wanted" columns into two sections she looks for hum" and he looks for her so no one will waste time reading the wrong section,
ad
some
Canada Looks To The North
Montreal. Members of McGill Unlyere slly's
geographical suminer school, are seeking ways of ex- plolting potential iron ore de- posits in both the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
That is, if their plans work" out. Delay of even. ♫ few weeks could keep them fee- locked at McMurdo Sound until late 1958 or early 1950.
Dr Fuchs, the man who planned this adventure, is 47-year-old scientist and
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THIS IS ANTARCTICA
VAHSEL BAY
SOUTH POLE
MCMURDO
SOUND)
MoMurdo Bound is the bay directly above the name li the map. About 3,500 miles to the north (or, directly to the right) is New Zealand. The long peninsula sweeping north from Vahsel Bay ends at the South Shetland Islands which are about 1,000 miles south of South Ameriċa.
In Lewis's planes to see why--- plorer who draws his salary as and when they might go to director of the Falkland Island pieces. Dependencies Sclentine Bureau. He has been actively working Coub plan for at least two years, although there have been
The
Now They Can Distinguish Between Poisonous And