Page
1
Page: 4 }
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25,› 1957.p
Birth pains of the land of
GHANA
'HER MAJESTY'S LOYAL ENEMY'
In the Gold Coast the prin- elpal language is called Twi
It
Like so many African dialects extremely limited hog an
vocabulary.
Fox example the nearest you can get in Twi to a translation of Federation in something that really means "separation." Thus the Idea for "federating s number of communities is re- Harded with suspicion as a sub- them the scheme for splitting
up.
л
And when it comes to giving this new state of Ghana a de mocratic Opposition in Parila- ment, why there just isn't
word to explain what proper much an institution is. The only translation in the Gold
means "enemies."
Const
These two words perhaps sum of the Gold up the problem Conft, due to blossom into full
inside Independence Commonwealth as Ghana month.
the
Twi is the language of the GOLD COAST, and it may be a stumbling block in the progress of the New Dominion....
by
DONALD MCCORMICK
he has done nothing to remove the fears of his opponents, And, worse stil, no effective Oppost- tion party has appeared in the Gold Coast an essential con-
Commonwealth Correspondent
revenue has
A gripping description 'of the journey by our
AIR CORRESPONDENT It's an everyday thing from now on TRANS-POLAR TRAVEL
T
Pack fee in this great white latitude, north of Canada. But capable of great stealth, nd- a freezes from below, heaves he was so pessimistic regarding vancing only a few yards at a nnd then remaining and crack the surface layer, the possibility of conquering it time
Ice that the search was abandoned absolutely still one paw hiding Wind and current shove
the black spot at the tip of his In the neteenth centred by The spot is the only part of foes together. They grind to for 200 years.
ether like millstones, pushing Then
Arctic territory was up ridges 20 feet high, the flocs freeze in place, while Englishmen like John Ross, his body that contrasts with his the eur- Edward Parry and John Franklin. curroundings which will make Franklin came back alive from it almost impossible for passen- face and the process goes on.
two hazardous expeditions over gers to spot him on flights 'over About hours after leaving land. On his final voyage, by the transpolar route,
Crozsci Copenhagen the flight the North Pole, and a time on, he perished with his crow bomb" was dropped-timed for
million years. It cords of the fight and front pages of newspapers, in every major language from every con- tinent.
contained
THE high Arctic is a world of sea ice, vast They say that if Nkrumah gets chary of investment In this
spaces, high-backed full powers, he will not hesitate territory.
arrests of his to order mass
Possibly with independence Nitrumah may gain a greater mountains and deep fjords political opponents.
lit for six months by the They also say that the pronta sense of really. It is to be hoped
Sun, for six for "Opposition" is a word that dilion for a thriving democracy made from Socop crops will be that he will not let dreams of Midnight
into the coffers rapid economic progress and the months by moonlight and new ice forms below In Gold Coast elections there drained away
acquisition of
a Gold Coast the vivid colours of the has been disturbing evidence of, of the Exchequer.
Navy
run away with him, bribery and chicanery, and this.
Cocoa remains the key to the
For, when Britain withdraws, Northern Lights.
£. o. d. he will have to watch
It is the region that Opposition supporters economy of Ghana. Cocoa has together with proof of threats against
Already there ATC
Airlines' by Nkrumah's men, has led to a boomed in these past six years, carefully.
are Scandinavian that vast economies sigute next demand for a "Bill of Rights" and much of its
But while the Global Express DC-7Cs will necessary. to be written into the constitu- been transferred to the Govern
In this way he
way Government has beers cutting been ment's revenue. tion. This demand hus
span on short-cut fights been have services social
on housing hospital building, it is still in-over the North Pole between rejected by the Colonial Office, soc
developed. But if cocoa prices expenditure stumped, it is dimcult to sec
dulging in extravagance in other Europe and the Far East.
aimed at the ambitious how these
social
spheres.
The first commercial route
the pack ice to mark it. It terday, with a stop at Anchorage,
tho rest of loolood Uke the over the Fole was opened yes- Pole, but there was no point on Alaska. It cut East-West travel
Arctic Ocean. time from 52 to 30 hours. Eastbound fights on the from Copenhagen.
Two years ago it looked though Arst-class
AS
4
British statesmanship, combined with
real will to make an dependent democratic
in-
work on the part of would make Chana the ning of a prosperous era in the history of the African peoples.
ARROGANCE
When Dr Nirumah Introduced rather
will be
whether it can
creato
and
stale
schemes could be maintaived. Afrleans,
a Government resolution calling
The real test for the new state A SQUANDER BUG bergin-
Tho for independence,
Thousands of pounds are being ineffective Opposition party, the Convention People's Party, boy-sufficient stability to encourage
Indepen not so sure, cotted the debate. The C.P.P. investment from outside the spent on stands, decorations and
be country. The grandiose Volta plans for celebrating cloudn are claimed that there should 'darkening
But now I am Political slorm ominously
horizon. The
new
Westbound,
The bomb was
of 135 men.
North West
Passage
There are untold numbers of seal the ringed, bearded and fur varieties tix
in the Arctie Ocean. Below the ice in winter-
time, seals keep four or five breathing holes open, in the ice,
mlio apart. spaced about-a mi
In the stomach of seals have been found the bones of fish Science man has never seen. does not know that seals are able to withstand the enormous
which
ticcumulates
It was not until the beginning of this century that the North- west Passage finally was sailed when they dive for deep-sea
all the way to Alaska. In 1993,
his ship "Cloa" from Norway, He reached Nome, Alaska, three years later.
pressure
the federation in the Gold Coast River project to get 210,000 tons dence Day on March 6- most of route headed north to the Polo The Midnight Sun Roald Amundsen started out in flah."
year from this on schemes for boosting the bold experiment without widespread powers for of aluminium
bauxite deposits was
Central Government. Da may Nkrumah retorted that their years ago the
of launching the Gold Coast on the the path to independence not in a few years' Ume
MISGIVINGS
There con, of course, be no completely question-except in
circumstances of unforeseen
this experiment. For holling
must Ghana botter or worse come into existence, otherwise a underwritten by two promise British Government would be dishonoured,
followers
аге
ot
col-
P
a
Alasko.
+21
only
the
Some three and a half million fur pels congregate on Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, off the Alaskan Coast, every summer. The value of the fur talen from these islands over the past 90 years is many times the price paid by the United States to Russia when Alaska was purchased in 1867.
Tundra Harems
oro
sole the DC-İC spanned the north few Nkrumah Party as the
Instrument of securing national Pacifle from Tokyo to Anchorage, over-publicised
For six months of the year—
By that time, the race to reach It was freedem. A statue of Nkrumah, then north over the Arctic.
I is 4,400 statute miles from from March 21 to September 21
the the exact North Pole was on in Pole enjoys as it has costing more than £20,000, is af be conception of "federation" who hope of the Gold Coast.
of Government expense to be set Copenhagen to Anchorage. Three the North heralded as quile such a sue- the Twi meaning of "separation." heralded-foolishly,
turned out as the means
hours after leaving Copenhagen, constant light of the Midnight earnest. up in Accra,
In 1803 the Norwegian Fridtjof A clue to the dictatorial at making Ghana into Utopia.
The Nkrumah Government has the airliner crossed the Arctic Sun. But now, the Polar winter,
be on various Circle, in northern Scandinavia, Polar lee glistens in the moon Nansen allowed his ship to swing vast spent titude of Nkrumah's
etched with light, and catches the colours of fiozan in the pack leo north of It was his theory that is revealed in the arrogant A FADING DREAM forms of propaganda-£900,000 an area deeply
surrounded by moun- the Northern Lights: ares and Siberia. fjords,
a. frans-Polar current would statement of his Cabinet
for a Government luxury hotel tains that rose steeply from the cascades of green, red and blue
£300,000 for a
that band the sky. Is fading at Acera and
carry it straight north to the top league, Mr Krobo Edusei: "We
ly Today the dream
which sea,
of the world. But the ship, shall grant no concessions
cost Government newspaper What was to have
Beyond the Circle the Aretie
tho Pole and the fast
Between the
creaking under the enormous opponents. We
in 1962 £100 million our
is now has not yet storted.
Ocean stretched 2,750 miles that the
"bench The fact remains
The lenst
from Norway's North Cape to Alasican coast, the night covered pressure of the ice, bypassed the
masters" Government. We alone decide.
drifting ice islands manned by role by 250 miles. who opposed us and estimated to require at
£350 million. This figure is canny Ashanti must learn that
always first to arrive at Pribof connected Those
does not mean
American sekentists
About eight times the size of the beyond Ghana's own "ederation"
Geo- With the quite criticise as are our enemies."
one companion. with the International whlic the Bitterest
opponents Nkrumah
Cavernment are the resources, ever with assistan. "separation,"
Britain, USA. and Nkrumah faction must
under Bear Island Banks physical Year. The lee islands Nanses left the ship and set out females, they neither eat, drinit democratic Opposi
blg as a small city break off for the Pole. But the drift of nor sleep for three months while Ashanti tribe, who prefer to be from
over their the moment stand that
from the 7,000-year old shelf ice the ice was too fast, and they they keep watch
a hundred ruled by their chiefs and not by Canada. And at
Canada
of had to turts are tic does not mean "enemies." U.S.A. and Accra, both
back, After six harems" of up to at Ellesmero Island, west a central authority In
months of unbelievablo hardship females and tight off bachelor Solitary, mist-cowled on the Greenland.
the two men reached Franz Josef raiders. right, the flight passed Bear
Then came the northern coast Land, casi of the Spitzbergen Island, and the trawler fleets on of Aleska-dat, bare tundra stonds. The islands
are north the Bear Island Banks.
Most
Alaska's of Norway. country
this half an hour 20,000 Eskimos live in Approximately later, the Spitzbergen Islands, coastal area, fishing, sealing and
lagged cluster of mountains teeth rose from the sco
A major radia
and weather stalicn-one of a chain of such stations flanking the Polar route is situated at Isfjord on Spitze
Yet an Increasing number of Africans in the remoter parts of the Gold Coast are viewing the with prospect of independence
told They have misgivings.
Alan Secretary Colonial Lennox-Boyd that they would prefer Britain to stay on and govern.
What is the reason for all this? These fears of the future are not confined to sel-literate and remote tribesmen but to a powerful minorily of educated Africans in Accra. They
Britain lieve that when Ghana will deteriorate into
dictatorship with all one-party the trappings of the pollec
state,
A
A
DRUG TO CUT HEART RISKS
SEAWEED-EXTRACT which may protect the heart against attacks of coronary thrombosis
is
being tested on patients at the National Heart Ilospital in London.
action lasts for up to six Dr Edwin Besterman hours and Dr John Evans report.
It's safe
10
safely It has been given
patients whose heart arterles Some are already damaget. other drugs are able to clear dat, but only with dangerous effects.
be- goes
A
The extract, called laminarin
the power sulphate, has clear the blood of microscopic be- fat-droplets which are
to
So
responsible
Kwame Nkrumah, the leader
Government | of the Gold Const Prime and
Minister-to-be of became
national Ghana, hero when he won his election campaign from inside a prison cell and was dramatically Governor, leased by the
FC. Str
Charks Arden Clarke, to form
a government.
He
But Nkrumah has shown signs of being a dictator. does not take kindly to criticism,
has the of
far laminarin sulphate had to be injected Into bloodstream but methods
under the skin are lieved to damage the arteries
injecting
Eventually it being tried tur keeping the
may be possible to give such heart beating.
drugs by
mouth. Laminarin sulphate-made from kelp, a brown seaweed com- mon off British coasts-is NOT yet available for general use, the doctors warm in the Bri tish Medical Journal,
Regular doses might be able to which prevent this damage, usually lends to a coronary thrombosis attack.
An infection of the drug begins
from the blood No firm conclusions about It can to clean fot
and its
drawn bo
until
almost immediately
PHILIPS
full-scale
BI-AMPLI
trists Involving many patients have been completed,
It's inhaling
that harms
Tike
80w-Upped
whaling.
white
of
In 1897 the first attempt was made at airbome conquest of the Arctic. The Swedish explorer flat country S. A. Andree took off from Spitz breaks and rises into the 10,000 bergen in an open balloon, but feet peaks of the Brooks Range, crashed on the lee after 05 hours
Circid in the air.
Suddenly, the
and crosses headed south,
Richard E. Byrd took off on his ber line
the Arctic
Tests in which a robot was given his, too, was where Adminl The Brooks Range is the tăm- the expensive
cigars to
on this side of smoke have yielded new information historic flight to the North Pole world-its northern slopes bare,
and about smoking
lung 31 years ago, followed three Its southern slopes green with cancer.
days later by Roald Amundsen fir trees. and Lincoln Ellsworth on the dirigible "Norge
Dr Arthur Lindsey and Dr John
Campbell, experimenting
So
at
Sir John Cass College, in the to find Cily, were surprised
and that smoke from cigars
sub- pipe tobacco contained stantially MORE cancer-
forming chemicals than
Spitzbergen
the last point of land the flight passed over en route to the Pole.
The Arctle Ocean is not unë solid, smooth sheet of fee. Its. they inter that It is surface In constant, slow INHALING that does the motion, criss-crossed by
countable ridges, damage.
Was
un
cigarette smoke.
of the
Ellesmere Island
The females are allowed to return to the sea periodically to spend a few days feeding, andTM then come back to and their own pups among the millions in the huge.rookeries,. Since a female seal will nurse only her own off- spring, the pup dies if the mother is killed at sea.
Walrus move south from the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait in the autumn. Some 15 feet long and weighing more than a ton, they use their big tusks to heave themselves up on
On April 0, 1909, Commodore the ice, and to dig out mussel
the bottom of the sea. The Robert E. Peary of the United The route then sweeps
the States Navy finally reached the tusks make a handy weapon, too. valley The "Norge made the very fertile
Yukon North Pole with dog sleds when the roaring bulls pit their where Arst Polar crossing-all the way River
Athapaskan after 23 years of preparation strength against each other at
mating time. to Alaska.
Indians still hunt the caribou. His dash from Ellesmere Island,
The
tor the together
explanation The Yukon itself stretches 2,200 west of Greenland,
acros Alasica, miles
from with his Negro companion and abundant life of the Arctic Qeam Eskimos took 30 days: is that the polar basin serves as three Canada to the Bering Sea.
They made it back in 16 days a hugh reservoir for nitrogen About an hour after reaching across
Elght and phosphates. Where the lea paper-thin ice. the fight biscuits were all that remained melts as it drifts south, chloro- the Alaskan coast, passed over Fairbanks city of their provisions.
phyli
is formed, transforming the chemicals. into the tiny sub of 30,000, still the heart of Alaskan gold mining. To the The first flight over the Pole stances on which the majority west, the highest peak in the took place on May 9, 1920, of fact the world's largest Alaskan Range and in North when Admiral Richard E. Byrd America-speared the sky to and Floyd Bennett tock off fisheries such as Loloten off
the and feet....Mt. from Splizbergen and returned Norway,
Iceland, height of 20,300 McKinley,
15 hours 30 minutes later ofter Groenland and Newfoundland
banks are located covering 1,300. miles,
where, the poiar currents meet warmer Roald water,
PHILIPS
RADIOS, RADIOGRAMS, RECORDPLAYERS & RECORDS
$1,300
EX 656 A.
BX 755 A
$725
BX 998 A
OTHER MODELS ARE AVAILABLE FROM $89.00 UP
FX 747 A
$1,800
$1,395
NOW AVAILABLE ON MEZZANINE FLOOR
[FX 719:
`WITH BUILT-IN VZ
MEES TAPE RECORDER"
Lane Crawford's
645
FX 557 A
$1,050
THE LATEST RANDE OF RECORDS
Anchorage Alaska
Three
later
days Amundsen and tho American millionaire-explorer Lincoln Ellsworth left Spitzbergen with Sixteen hours from Scandi- the dirigible. "Norge and com- novia, it touched down at pleted the Arst transpolar Anchorage International
port. With more than 30,000 crossing, to Teller, Alaska,
Amundsen's shouted greeting thu people, Anchorage is the big- to an Eskimo village on gest city in the territory, net. was misinterpreted by against some
startled natives,
tains.
coast
biggest the of Ita
They
Some of
Dall Sheep And
The 9 Foot Bear
Tho
teeming
wildlife
and most spectacular moun- thought, is Amundsen later re- Alaska and Arctic Canada has porled, that the end of the specimens as unique as those in An hour's stop for refuelling, world had come, for "whales the ocean, and it was off again on the were flying through the sky. last leg, over the mountainous and God himself had spoken to Alaskan Peninsula and the them from a basket up under Aleutian Islands to Japan. the belly of the whale."
The dream that spariced the search for
legendary
The Alaskan Brown Beat on Kenal Peninsula may attain a height of nine and a half, foot and a weight of 10,000 lbs. Its wrist measures: nome 32 inches and its hide, spread out, "more The Dall Sheep of the Alaska Rango are the only white wild sheep in existence. Weighing The first man to try to reach
well above · 200 lbs, they, aro The Orient by calling North was
Some of the strangest animals reckoned the queststrophy---and John Cabot, A Venellan in known to man live at the top one of the most difficult to get Brush service, he set out in of the world: in the ses, on land,in North America.core 1400-four years after Colum- on the ice and under the snow, Herds of heavy-maned musk
top of the world is nearly five "Northwest Passago" over the High Arctic King than 10 square feet. hundred year old.
bus discovery of America and In the high Arctic which exenas many as 100 at a Ume
6 SOON -roak: an
of
got as for as Labrador.
Scandinavian Airlines will span still roam the frozen Islands After Cabot's pianocring ex on short-cut fight over the north of the Candalan main- pedillon, the Arctia continued to North Pole between Europe and land. Dark against the snow, bo a lodestone drawing" ax- Japan the polar bear is king.
they
CAR
easily be soon, plovers and adventurers,
The great who bear, roams areraft.
But the str One of Queen Elizabeth's alone preferring in his migrating
· Etrangost, animals naval officers, Martin Frobishier, habits to keep to the edge of Aretio,' are pertaps the reached Hudson Strait, north of the pack fee.
mallest the millions of tracks
acks have been, Zemmings, shrews, voles, field Henry Hudson, who dis
mice and older rodents who covered the Strait, and the buy seen as far north as the live on the brink of the Aratte
Labrador.
But bear
that also bears his no, was latitude almost at the North the first to determine that Polo And If he has to the Ooom, Unable to survivor in temperatures lower than 10o Greenland is an fhland, when polar
bear can swim for hun- ahova zero, Taranheit, hey, lieg William Bardy Englatie dreds of miles in operi, water, beneath the now separated hy man, acfusally reached the inlet n Weighing about a ton, the only a few rest of porous mow to the Northwest Passage polar bears, still I supple as a blanket, mom, temperatures that Lancaster. Bound, ink To decrow fleet my stalking (pealey, bu la would kill kivein,
ר.