THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1959.
MALTA George Cross island of war-time glory. Its name synony- mous with British sea power.” But the picture changes. Today the people of Malta are reluctant to get down to the work that could bring them' prosperity. The youngsters lounge at stront
corners.
AM standing on a promontory overlooking Grand Harbour here, watch- ing ships of the Royal Navy put to sea, as they have done so often In the last 145 years.
But this time it is different.
Grantham rules the leland with naval precision in a no-NONKENE C manner.
•
The flotilla leaving the once-great naval base of Malta will not be replaced. The process of cunning down Terlay Admiral Sir Guy by the Navy la now well unser way,
Empty dars with nomes like Sonny Boy, The Aussie, and Friend For All testify to the. So do the thumbed menus offering almost anything with chips--which today He unrend. And scares of empty flats and houses as the Navy moves out
its familles.
di
A weekly Press conference at House. a pale Government
President Elsen- Imitation hower's get-together with news- men, substitutes for parliament- ary debate.
wide baronial hall In the where once the Grand Knights of St John had their head- quarters a handful of nominated the Executive of here members This my Orst visit since the Constitution was Council have put the clock back. revoked, Parlament dissolved, running the Island as it was last and the Government was taken rum i 1936.
measure," and over by the Governor in Al
What is Malta's future with out the British Navy? In sise a future of all?
1958.
one
"We deplore this sald
prominent
hits
Italian TV the island that was so British
from KENNETH AMES
training.
and
NOW SCIENCE IS TO PROBE DOWN, DOWN
MAN
TAN is about to reverse the Sputnik-trend and go DOWN into the Earth. And once again, "Another Whitehall bubblr it looks like being a race between Russia and the they will be going there for all has burst" the Mallee Press United States, with Britain taking no part. The future jobs," said company complains,
The land's Inading pornn-U.S. scientists call their plan Project Mohole.
"And that probably means
- ofetal dismally.
which
that be
The World
of Science
By Peter Fairley
That prompeel does not seem mit, Dr V. E., Rogones!, sald: to trouble the Maltese.
"Details of the Ave-year plan Iden is to bore a hole
people the under the sea island
to reach the this stage For t
of the gave the
had Moho-the mysterious layer Malia Story, one
up greatest shock they have comes against a Fundamental hazard since the end of the war. The
which
Earth's separates plen Is known locally as "the world moral of this
crust from its mantic-and venture in
con never His latest
the
owen us a living" attitude.... British policy political neid was to form #
bring out samples of rock, local youth brigade resplendent "Britain brought us into the trustel"
war. So Bratiin must feed and
Saye Mintoff: "We shall fight unin the in khaki uniforms, red
for independence clothe us for overmore."
From these, man hopes to white forage caps and pro-
Especially is that view held by British re. When they leave solve somo of the un. gramme of queat military generation of angry youth we shall seek economie ald
unawered questions about lounges against the from friendly neighboista.“ Nearly 1,000 of these youths yellow sandstone walls, kicking
The George Cross island may the origin of our planet. Puerto Rico. "But on the other hard
These are be benefiting from ane-10th of How old is it? Where does
our total Colonial Development the source of its heat lie in under the sen is reckoned to be fact welcome the
that in
of police first years of their lives in caves and
all Welfare Fund for
the liquid core? Was it much thinner. Maltese Britain has taken a firm line in were called in to disperse then and hotes dug in the ground territories.
bombarded
by at birth, Sir Guy Grantham was not against enemy air attacks: They refusing to be blackmailed any
But an unhappy Island longer.
slow to act. The movement has knew hunger and privation at whose troubles may well burst meteors as the pock marked
into the world news before very moon seems to have been? been banned.
Its woral.
long.
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we are all basically pro-British marched to a national memorial ite feet in the dust.
Valletta recently to lay the young men who spent the
Blackmail?
That wis reference to the resignation 17 months ago of Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff when he found he could not bludgeon Britain into than giving the Island more
£22,000,000 support.
BANNED
Since he got out of offee Britain has raised its backing to £29,000,000 for the next ve years thus disproving Mintoff election-platform thesis that he was the only man who knew how to get blood out of the British Treasury stone.
Mintoff, Now
the sformy petrel of this country smaller than the Isle of Wight, has nothing new to say-except to threaten to remove the British as soon as posible.
The Oxford-educated Britain- hater is 34 the moment busy Įworking as an architect on blue
prints for a new luxury
wreaths.
Hundreds
FIGHT
1
Mintoff has told his ment "No moro demonstrations, but
To add to Britain's troubice in herp.closely in touch. Keep the uniforms at home for later Malta, comes a new factor-TV.
It is diMcult to imagine this don date."
Dowli
In the all-important an important political event
terms of the island's future. But firm of British duckyard it
are being beared contrueling engineers in trying programmes to cope with the difficult legacy in from Italy, and one home in inherited from the every eight how has a TV rel.
A transmitter in Sicily, recently: they Admiralty less than a year ago.
In the fat years, with the boosted in power, gives perfect A member of the Governor's tulerant old Admiralty paying reception in the British Island.
tho nose willy-nilly,
told staff
me: "People through
dock workers jogged Malta's happily along: putting in two or beginning to use Italian gestures three hours or even less-work which they have picked up from TV. Children are asking why they
can't learn Italian school instead of English, that they can understand the programmes better.
daily.
ANGER
Suddenly 6.000 of them are confronted by a new employer demanding a fair day's work for a fate day's pay.
Oddly, every time things are in the clear down in the hotel dockyard and heading for ค to uttract more tourists, period of calm, something new date. German capital is Invested in the hotel
arc
at
.90
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
Nothing almister politically, perhaps. But it is seen as sufi- clently worrying to cause hasty plans for £250,000 to be sunk into Malta's own TV at on carly
being turns up to
Blan Ave - year
just project. sloppage.
announced, provides for develop- Seventeen Important repair ing Malta's economy,
mores. But even that causes further Jobs, mostly, to all tankers, were lost in the last week or two rancour. For some of the money form of long- when
Instead of the out-
JACOBY on BRIDGE
THERE
ΣΟ
is nothing remark- able about South's six now trump contract and he has problems in the play. No opening lead can bother bin. After shocking out the ace of diamonds he has seven club tricks, three diamond tricks and two aces for a total of 12.
Six clubs also makes but club lead will defeat six diamonds and if the diamonds were divided four-one diamond opening would also beat six clubs so-no-trump the superior contract.
WEST AK001
K 10 82
A02
G5
NORTH
26
•OJOS AKJ1832
BAST
J 10932
WJ7543
#7 10
SOUTH (D)
♣ AQ1
VAQO
◆ K 1043
Both vulnerable
4974
South
West North East
1 N.T.
Par
24
Pas
3
Past
3+
Pass
4.
Pass 4 N.T.
Pass
5 W
Pass 5
Fazz
4 N.T.
Pass Pas
Pass
Opening lead in t
a
2
to
lots of ways There are reach that spot but the Jacoby transfer Ders to work out best.
North's
a
two spada response to the opening no-trung is the club transfer and demands that North's South bld three clubs, three diamond bid forces to game and shows a two suiter of; some sort and South's raise to four diamonds shows both good no-trump and four dia- monde shows both a good no- trump and four diamonds.
North's four no-trump
fa Blackwood and his six club bld normal. At this point South bids six no-trmpp. Obviously North is very short the major suits; but South can handle either a spade or heart opening omach Żo has the Alters for North's minor suits.
♥4CARD Senica�
Ean?
14
The bidding has been:
·South" · "West
You, South, hold
North
MAKS VEIT OG 194 DAJ72
What do you do?
A-Bid ane na-trimp. This bid shows the full equivalent of an opening no-trump'.with strength In club
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids two spades. What do you do now?
Answer Monday
A cause
further
A
the union introduced a will be in the ban on all overtime. The ships term loons
were diverted to yards in Sicily, right gift the Maltese expected.
FOUR D. JONES
GIVE ME THE LETTER
OF INTRODUCTION AND THE BOCH CASE, THEN
THIS 1050T CAN
BETON HIS
WAY
BUT...WHERE DO I HAVE TO GO WITH
*THIS...JUNK
POP-Pawn in the game
ÍVE GOT MEDOLS AND CUPS FOR BOXING SWIMMING, FOOTBALL
ETC
BRICK BRADFORD
(No 5791)
Here is a problem by A. Eller- man (Good Companions, 1921). While to play and mate in two
Solution No. 5713: IK-K7, QXR Z RixB. Q-81; 31 RXP ch, ExR: 4 Q-R5 ch, and tothis.
London Expiary Service,
JUNKY DON'T YOU BE 50 FUNNY, MATEL JUST YOU KEEP GOING UNTIL YOU ARE STOPPED AND INFORMED
OF THEIR WHERE ABOUT 1) +
AND YET YOU DON'T LOOK VERY
ATHLETIC
UNDER GENERAL FLARENS SUPERVISION, PAM AND BRICK ARE HURRIED INTO AN INTERMEDIATE SPACESHIP WHICH BLASTS OFF FOR A SPACE PLATFORM...
FERDINAND
PEUT WHO THEIR ARE THEY? HOW DO I KNOW WHO TO GIVE IT TOP
ME-ATHLETIC !?
TRIS 13 MY S. SHOP
០៥
HOURS LATER, THỂ SHIP APPRICIACHES
ITS DESTINATION....
THERE'S WHERE
WE CHANGE TO THE LONG-RANGE ISHIP,
Getting at them'is no easy job. The Moho lies 30 miles balow most land areas, but loes under some oceans. Hence the idea 10 drill at sea.
'Scratching'
Even so, it will mean drop- ping a colosm) drill about two miles under the accon, through the sediment, through four more Įmiles of rock crust, and then
into the Moho.
America s to spend about £1,000,000. on the first stage- Just "scratching the crust." But even this will bring rich rewards. A study of the ocean sediment-
for millions of undisturbed years--should provide a com- plete fossil history of life on Earth's surface since It was formed.
Most likely spot for drilling is an orca north of the island of
by MADDOCKS
YOULL KNOWN ASATE) NOW SEAT IT~~AND YOU MY CAPITALISTIC BUDDY.CAN GIVE US A HAND TO PUT OUR ROCKET BACK INTO.
PORITION-RIGHT!
AS A HOSTINGË 1 HINGE NO CHOICE BOT FIL, HAVE YOU
KNOW DOIT UNDER PROTRET:
By Gog
By Paul Norris
A FEW MINUTES LATER... YOU'LL HAVE TIME
TO GET SOME FOOD HERE CHELLO, COLONELT
GENERAL, THE
CAPSULE 16
LOADED AND BE TURNED THE PLATFORM
INTO POSITION *YOU HAVE TEN
MINUTES!
There the crust
Russia is known to be working
on the same ider. But where and, when is, so far, secret. In
that sense, it 13 na different
from the Sputniks.
New hammering
Earth is likely to take another kind ot hammering #oon... this time near Cape Thompson, Alaska. American atom scientists plan to blast out a harbour there, by exploding five hydro- gen bombs underground. Tenta- alvo date for the bang-1001.
Soviet scientists say it is nothing but a camoufléged lest of H-weapons. No wonder they are a little angry. The spot..." although uninhabited-is only 175 miles from Russian territory.
Calm-by rocket
Lalest idea for a peaceful use for rockets one that carries oli, calme seas and helps ship rescue operations. Two small holes in the "warhead" open on launch- Ing, and the spirining rocket
oll over sprays
about 00,000 square feet of rough water.
London Express Service),
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