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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 21,
1956.
FROM UNDER THE S SAHARA—OIL! ESKIMO'S MEAT
It May Be A Miracle
Of The Desert
EXCITING NEWS FOR FRANCE
Paris.
FRANCE has struck oil beneath the barren sands of the Sahara desert. It was discovered by engineers of the Company For The Research and Exploitation of Oil In The Sahara (CREPS) at Edjele, in the Algerian zone of the vast desert.
Edjele, which is not marked on any official maps, is just a group of wooden huts built. to house the oil-men in a rocky ravine about 124 miles east of Fort Flatters, a military outpost, and about 24 miles west of the Algeria-Libya frontier.
Hundreds of miles from the nearest oasis, it is probably the most inaccessible "village" of oil prospectors in the world,
the
The spokesman said that three distance look like bathing choles port terminals would be con- at a sea-side resort. Each hut is sidered. The first Is Tripoli, Assed with rollers so they can be about 372 miles away, and the pulled by lorry from place to
Gabes. Agivement place. A team of 00 French engineers second is
have to be would, however,
The huts
are air-conditioned and geologists are at work there drawn up with the Libyan and at a fixed temperature, for the
In the new all-bores sinking hope that the first strike justifies Tunisian governments, respec-temperatures outside rise to 118 choil-tively, before the line could be degrees F. for three months of their belief that a
beneath the built over their territory. if not prepaid booking for bearing basin tes
The third
year. possibility Is From the air, the huts and oil of B0 cents is charged.
The first strike, at the COOL-
and the most distant on the side of a ravine, sur-
ports.
Founder by desert which feet, was made on January 5.
Water is the most acute prob- stretches, flat as a billiard table, Two months later, the engineers
far as the eye can see. carried out a "production testem facing the men working, in as
to the bruling heat, at Edjele. Every allowing the all to rise surface under I own pressure drop used for washing, eatingt
AND HOME LEAVE and the engineering york has to be carried 124 miles from Fort Flatter where there are wells,
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FLASH TO PARIS
The results
were promising. according to the rompany
The
light and good quailty oll flow- ed at 103 cubic feet an hour.
The exciting news--for it was
Arst the history of the hike in the
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From there. It was sent by teleprint
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NOTICE TO
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Research the French
had any company has, so far,
Apart from promising results. the Edjele strike, the company's engineers have found outlets of natural gas at In Saiah, a palm- Ir koged katy of 2,000 nomad tribesmen, about 380 miles south
CONSIGNEES Algiers.
“HENAREN
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Damaged euro ex be surveyed by Douglas at Roll's Wharf from 10 am on June 23, 1958, and cresignees are requested to inve tele representar | oil there too.
A Hing of wells have be Bus voci will
in the hope sunk Alexis Godched &
In the arra that the gas, ilseif useful for in- dustry, may mean that there is
Liven présent during the marvey,
BUTTERFIELD A AWIRK
Apenta,
Hongkong. June 21, 1954.
To ADVERTISERS
BUNDAY POST-HERALD
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The Compagnie de Recherche et Exploitation du Petrole in Sahara, was formed March, 1953. If work co11- tinues on schedule, the compony will have spent 10,000,000,000 franes tabout £10,000,000) In its search for all by the end of this year.
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THEIR VILLAGE
are no
conditions Working strenuous that the engineers are flown home to France in relays every three months to rest.
If large oll deposits are found The heavy American water-
the desert the lurries have to
270 and exploited In follow
the French beginning of what miles long twisting track through shifting and dunes to reach the Premier, M. Guy Mollet, called
olt-men.
a regular
Food, drink, and supply of mechanical spare parts are Town from Aistiers to lawding strip which the company has built 16 miles from the "oll vlitage"
alr- A chartered transport craft, sometimes carrying ten tons of equipment, makes the Journey every week.
The engineers work and sleep
huts, which from
In melal
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The Sohara Miracle" may be in sight
Until now, the Sahara's sands have been barren. Ownership of them has produced for France virtually no economic retum.
One of the most valuable fruits for France would be vil. The country produced about 1,000,000 tons of crude oil last year, five per cent of her annual The rest had to consumption.
China be Imported.
Mall Special
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
PRINCE MICHAEL'S COMING TODAY? DISTANT COUSIN
OF OURS. WHAT'S HE LIKE
I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM SINCE WE WERE CHILDREN,
of
stone
FERDINAND
und Junes, rock, Fund where
the engineers would prospect. No mapa of the desert xisted, so the comparty osked the French National Geographical Institute to draw up charts 59,000 square miles of the ter- ritory This was done with the
help of acrisi photographs.
It has still to be established if the Edjele strike is a minor une, or a rich and wide stretch of oil-bearkye stuta has been Icca Hood,
"Edjele may mark un Im- portant date in the history of cll", sald n company spokesman. "On the other hand we may have discovered only a shallow busin of oil, Time will tell."
THEN A PIPELINE
If the
prospectors' dreams come true, and the strike is an important one, pipe-line will
have to be built to carry the crude oil to the coast for trans- port to Fronce.
WALNUTS FOR THE BISHOP
Auckland, Jeno 20. Parishioners of St Martin's Church, Mount Rosk!ll have been naked to look for a source of green. walnuts for the bishop.
The request da made in their. parish magazine.
"The vicar has discovered that the bishop aid he store a weaknew a grant weakness for pickled walnuts," the request read
"Unfortunately His Lordstup cannot discover a suitable rource of walnuts for this do- Heney Can any parishioner help and find where It le pos- sible to buy, bog, borrow" or otherwise procurd some lovely green walls? It you can help the Bishop. woull be most grateful;" And added in brackets (The Vicer would like Bow too). China Mail Speatl
NANCY
HEY, NANCY--- HOW
ABOUT OUR LUNCH ?
OH, DEAR
JOHNNY HAZARD
NO NIGHT LIFE |FOR ME, GUSTY! GOT PLENTY OF BONING UP FOR TOMORROWS METEOR" FLIGHT!)
"QUITE A LADIES" MAN. THEY SAY -- THAT HE HAS A MAGIC KIBS'-- 50 POTENT--ONE KISS-- THEY FAINT-all
THE STOVE
IS OUT OF ORDER
THAT'S WHY YOU'RE 50° JUMPY, JESS. NO TIME OUT
· FOR KICKS Į "FIGURE YOU'LL
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- DESIGN PLANES THAT'LL. KILL OTHER TEST PILOTSI
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TRUMAN MEETS SHAPE CHIEF
car- Former US. President Harry Truman,
visited the rently on a tour of Europe, last week
SHAPE (Supreme French-based
Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe), and he is pictured shaking hands with General Alfred Gruenther of the U.S.
Commander Army, Supreme Allied
London Express Photo.
THEY SAY--ORHE SAYS --THAT
Broth
HE ONCE KISSED
TWELVE GIRLS
Europe.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
IN A LINE --
AND THEY
ALL
FAINTED!
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SILLY.
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HE SAYS IT.
By Mik
YOU'RE A PAL,
MISTER
By Ernie Bushmiller
BUNS
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DO, THE DIAGNERS. WILL BE THREB JUMPS AMENDJÉ UNTIL THAT
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MEN
WORK
By Franks Robbins
WHEN THEY STRAP US TO A ROMAN CANILE, PONT OUR NOSE - TO OUTER SPACE AND GIVE US A HOT FOOT HALLELINAHI TOMORROW THE
MOONS BIS
DIET SAVED
Caribou Herds Returning
To Arctic Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska.
Herds of wild caribou, which roam the barren tundralands of Arctic. Alaska and play⠀⠀ an important part in the Eskimo economy, are reported to be on the increase once again,
Mr Clarence Rhode, Director of the Wild Life Division of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska, reports that the latest annual caribou survey showed the herds to be thriving and in recent months the Eskimos have enjoyed one of the best caribou kills in the memory of many of the natives.
As
Some herds arult they are welt
hundreds supplied with mant.
would travel of miles to new and all them were In spite of the inroads of the ranges
An the move On the constantly white mom's civilisation, wild caribou remains the basic search of the low-growing "reindeer moggi item of diet for Alaska's inland lichens Eskimo population in the for which la their principal winter
food supply.
north
While the coastal natives de One large herd was watched pend on the food to be gathered of it moved from the Fortymile from the Arctic seas, the inland area of costern Alasion to the Eskimos are more or less de- Kotzebue region on the Arctle pendent on the caribou, supple-coast, a trek of about 600 miles. mented by fish from nearby rivers.
A good or a bad year for caribou hunting can make all the difference between feast or a famine for these Eskimos.
WOLVES TAKE TOLL
The herds still follow their their migrating Instincts but size and their range have been cut down by the axivanes of evlisation into the northlands
Unlike the moose, which often in late winter seems to wint to take up city residence, the curibou
has suffered from the white man's gradual move into the northlands.
Throughout their range these
BIG DECREASE While the caribou is still
big Alaska's most abundant
wandering Katre animal, the herds have shown a great do
In days crease in recent years.
literally gonC by there were millions of caribou ranging over antiered nomads are nowadays. for both meat and the high plateaus and mountain hunted
This extensive hunt- trophies slopes of Alaska.
late as
the 1920's the ing. forest and tundra fires and wolves have annual migrations of herds of predation by hundreds of thousands of caribou itduced their numbers.
The
caribou's migratory of northern were a spectacle
instincts atih tell of herding Alaska. Old-timers
to the decline. The the herds filling the wide Yukon to bank and river from back holding up paddle-wheel steam ers for hours while they crossed
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huge, tightly-packed migrating herde allowed hunters, native and white, to slaughter them by the hundreds in the days of un- controlled humung caribou cows hunting. In May or June
birth to a single russat- Coloured calf
At the age when other young game animals will be hiding from
danger, the caribou calf will be following its mother 09 the herd con- tinues its never-ending search'
for new raNTOS.
HUNTING CONTROL
Man has been a big factor in Killing off the huge caribour herda
hunting
Now
through the unicoritrolled however, caribou hunting has put under both season, and limit controls.
In
of Alaska the inter
most of
restricted 16 one or two. caribou a year, of o
* either sex, de pending on the local area. But the nonde of the
Arctic's
residents for a larger kill for use as food has been recognised North of the Yukon river the
ta hunder may legally take up five caribou a year.
The campaign of the Fish and Wildlife Service against wolves
is
also helping the caribou make a comeback. The wolf is out lawed in Alaska and is fill is unrestricted. In addition there Is a $50 (£16 sterling) bounty paid for each animal killed.
This bounty, Together
the price paid commercially for the wolf pell, has made wolf hunting a prontable sideline for many residents of Afasita. Much of this hunting is done from small planes by leans of two men, & pilot and a bunter,
AIR-STRIKES
The plane akims low over the
tracks snow following. wolf When the wolf is sighted the plot holds the plane low over the animal while the hunter fires through on open window. Then the ski-equipped plane is landed | to pick up the pelt.
Two
of the Service's neid' parties, using small plants have been working on the wolt con tral programme for the past winter, in the Nontak-Kobuk ares of Alaska, Anka
A recent tally showed that in | this, one, area .alone bounty. hunters and Federal, agente háva Halted: more than 600 wolves. ini the net two years.China Mail Spockit,
Negro Condemns Citizen Councils
Cincinnall, June 201
A Nemo physician from Mississippi told the United, Packing House Workers Con- Smile white vention today "citizens councils In the werd
#the greatest single threat 16 Democrony even greator Than World Communism.
Dr TR Howard, of Mount Flayou. Mis, & director of the National Association': for Advancement "of the Coloured: People, said the citizens
clia that have spring up to me. Zorós, FREM "mékrogation's ware has
znindritis: and labour