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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957.
高
Shoots The Maranders
PROBLEM IS-HOW TO
STOP SEALS FISHING
London, March 20.
Almost 3,000 seals have made their homes on Scotland's Farne Islands, 20 miles south of the mouth of the River Tweed.
New Giant Tankers Too
Big For The Canal
Paris, Mur, 20, Virtually all tankers now being ball in French ship- yards are heavy tonnaga Versein, designed for the long haul around the Cape,
They are of such
naire
furthermore, that they de liberately exclude passage through the Buez Canal, a survey showed today. Dunkerque shipyards have confirmed onders for eight new super-lankers,
kome
of them for American firms.
had two
One of 68,300 tons is for the Hemisphere Transportation Corporation, which previously ordered others In French shipyands, AR will fly the 'Panama flag. British Petroleum has order- 47,850-tonners, ed
thres with a fourth
Local fisherman are convinced that the Farmo Islands seals are the marauders which are killing end mutilating Tweed salmon by the score.
The problem is now, being probed extensively, for it is one which threatens the livelihood of
on salmon fisher every
the river.
It is estimated that one out of every 10 salmon which enters the river from the North Sea is attacked and injured by sents. This does not take into account the number of fish which never reach the estuary.
certain
Voteran shers are that scals Already being
both breed on the istands and swim to the Tweed to kill salmon.
built at Dunkerque,
The
Niarchos group han ordered a 46.800-ton tanker. The Tidewater Oil Associated
Company Launched
third
the
of its four ordered B1.850-tom fankets lsst month.--Franice-PresA.
Cyril Stapleton
And Show
Sacked By
Band
BBC
London, March 20.
The BBC has told Cyril Stapleton that it is not going to renew his contract. This means that from July there will be no Stapleton SHOW BAND.
AND NO
wanted to
For under Stapleton's con- Another reason, he said, may be traet he supplies the band. That ¦ that
BBC the means he recruits the musicians, i economise.
Mall
correspondent,
Dally. Phillp Purser, said BBC execu- lives feel this arrangement gave Stapleton too much power,
West Germany Offers
To Mediate
Melbourne, Mar. 20. Herr Heinrich von Bren-. tano, West German Foreign Minister. today that West Germany would be prepared to offer her good offices as s mediator in the Middle East crisis whenever they might be useful, Speaking
at the airport Arrival from
on
his
von
Canberra
Herr Brentano said West Ger- many would like to see the United Nations con- trol the
airip Gaza pending a settlement of the crisis. Hold the present Mid- dle East situation was "Intolerable to lovers of
peace."-Reuter.
SHIP PASSES TIRAN STRAITS
Tel Aviv, Mar. 20. The Israeli-chartered freighter
RAIDED NET
One states he has seen a Beal dive into a bulging net and emerge with a prime salmon be- tween its fore flippers.
Injuries can knock as much as two shillings a pound off the value of a salmon. The Ayet- age Tweed salmon weighs rdne pounds.
One expert has said; "Some control is obviously necessary, This does not mean extermina- tion-publle
American Businessmen Coming To Colony
San Francisco,
Mar. 20.
The President of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Mr E. D.
Maloney, opinion is against that but the number of seals must be cut down in the com- mercial interests of the salmon. Industry.
But the seals on the Farnes show on uncanny intelligence. No one can gol within 50 miles them.-London Express Ser-
vice,
Pictures show: (left)
Prosz cameraman Peter Macvean
managed to photograph the. cals, using a 20-inch lens gun camera; and (right) some of the seals of the fame islands,
Tornado Havoc
Wellington, Mar. 20.
of
of
A tornado which struck New (Cyril Stapleton and bla Band | Plymouth, principal town are beard over Radio Hongkong Taranaki Province, early today
Occasionally.
swathe His records are cut a long narrow in the station's Ubrary.
damage from the seo and up the
through Listeners heard him last night | valle
the western 8.30 playing a half-hour soution of the alty for threo selection of muslo called “Paris
miles.
Many buildings were severely After Dark.")
damaged. China Mall. Special.
WORK HORSES
The 43-year-old bandleader and his 17 hand-picked musicians have been BBC's "work-horse" for nearly five years doing threa shows a week, 48 weeks a year.
The band which has became a household
name
will play for the last time on Juno 20– unless Stapleton decides to, keep it going na a private venture.
today an- nounced that 40 San Francisco businessmen would leave on May 3 for a goodwill tour of Japan. Hongkong and the Philippines.
The group arriving in Tokyo on May 5 would spend five days at the Tokyo Trade Fair, and visit Nagoya and Shimizu.
From Nagoya, the party would visit Osaka-Kobe area, re- turning to Tokyo to fly to Hongkong.
. After two days' stay in Hongkong, the party would By to the Philippines, leaving Manila for San Fran- cisco on May 26, after four-day stay. Reuter.
W. Germany Gets Top
Armed Forces Chief
Bonn, Mar. 20. Lieutenant-General Adolf Heusinger was appointed Chairman of the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff of the West German Armed Forces today.
Govermient spokesman
He said: "I just haven't had Ilmo to think about that yot.
A "It's not so bad for the boys. told Д They
all free-lanca decision musicians, and play in other | Cabinet this morning. bands from time to time,
are
"It's hardest on me, really. Show Bind has occupled all my Ume. Now I have to begin all over again."
NO SUCCESSOR
7
news conference WDE takon by
the the
Dr Konrad Adenauer, who returned from his holiday in Italy yesterday, presided.
Genern! Houanger thus bo- came the highest West GermaIN officer. He is expected to be given the rank of a four-star general later this year, informed sources said.
Why has the BBC made this decision?
The chiefs of the army, navy An official statement
and air force will be sub- sald only: "We now feel that ordinate to General Heusinger It is time to make a change. For China Mail Epecial.
the present there will be so successor,**
Stapleton said: "I don't know
Born, Mor, 20. The West German Cabinet
Pandora passed through the any more than that. Michael today decided to recommend Tim Straite without interfer- Standing, controller of enter September 15 as the date for ence, it was officially announced. tainment, called me to his office. the Text Konstal olbetion. -United Press.
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PRECIOUS · **DROPS
FOR PRECIOUS. MOMENTS
CHERRY
CHEERING
HUNGER STRIKE OVER
Amman, Mar. 20.
A group of: 700 Yetugees from the Gasa Birly today ended their two-day hunger strike after tha personal intervizioki of King
Hussein.
The refugees who flod from to Jordan when the GAZ feruelis occupied Gaza, were protesting naainst the Jordan Government's failure to acad them home.
In addition to King Hussein's Intervention, the Exyptian Em | bobsy `military attache promised
poon as (conditions in the
· Gaza' strip' refurried to normal,
Frarico Pros.
to allow the refugees to" koturn
A
London Mar. 20.
The British Admiralty is con- siddring....dimensing with four, 34,000-ton befi
of the rally Under- her Soames,
Today,
Beserve Fleet
Secretary Feed in Parliam
Anton, the How
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the
the Duke of
Dicotie V
AUSTRALIA ADOPTING U.S. WEAPONS
Canberra,· Mar, 20. The Australian Govern `mmit' is" planying to stan
dardier lim, millary, ngulp- ment on the Amerioan pát- -form-with- the " purchines "of Amertoen, Gold, guna", to replace those prameiskas manufacture, infort
Defence Minister, Sir Phillp Mepride, told "A NOCTUS inceling of the Pärlianden. lary parties that the government planned the purchase of the America 105-millimetre field sun' to replace the British 26- pound gun now in 10 In Australia, the sources sală.
This proposal, together with plans to pirohanó tho
F104 and the troop carrier 010, mean that 'Austraila was sitempting to
American Star fighter
stan dardian Its equipment on the American pattern, the sourotų mald.---Ünited Prom.
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