British atom ship dream is fading

By Chapman Pincher BRITAIN'S hopes of

launching @传

atom-

driven tanker or passenger ship in the next five years pre fading fast.

There are three reasons:--

The atom experts have warried the Government that giant diesel engines with greatly improved efficiency have almost certainly, set back the date when commercial afgre propulsion could be economic

The shipowners' interest D

atomic vessels has waned because of the world oll-glut and the laying up of many tunkers,

» Only BIG atomic ships.

--85,000 tons or more- could be economie in the fore seeable future, And the trend is now towards smaller vessels.

Ready-made

If the Government decides to build an atom tanker to gain experience, the odds are that a U.S. uranium ready-made engine will be bought,

These are the facts behind

the evasive answers given by Mr Ernest Marples, the Trans- port Minister, in Parliament the other day.

Though precise tenders from five British firms for building

a 65,000-ton tanker have still to be studied, the panel of experts advising

the Government already seems convinced that. economic atom propulsion is at least 10 years away,

for

The Russians have built an atom-driven ice-breaker, which economic running is not so important. The experts can see no comparable civil applica tion for a British vessel.

The Goverment is firmly op- posed lo the building of any atam-driven shio for prestige purposes as the Americans are doing,

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1960.

TACKY'S DIARY

Last Sunday fell DOWN on a Week-End, So Daddy & Me Went PLAYED Golf

an other objeck of The GAME

is To Hit The Ball in ON

One Shot

WAM!

i forget what

it's called if You Do iT, ONLY NOBody

Ever does it so it don't matter.

22

actually Didn't really PLAY, BUT ONLY CARRIED his Golf Sticks for Him,

Golf SA Same Which GroN-UPS PLAY The OBJEC

life ball of THEN TRY & find where it went.

Pretty Soon Daddy's ball went into

a Big Pile of SAnd They got there, f he couldn't gerir out

(GRR

5-1

© 1950 Kin Peaked Studicato inc, World rights reserved;

Bang

But tively He said some magic WORDS So it Jumped Out.

MASIC Words

ONLY FIRST YOU Salta find some Grass ! Flags growing ourofit TO PAY IT ON.

Lookits Here's Some GROW

After that there wasn't ANYMORE HOLES FOR THE Ball To go in, So We Went THOME, a

RS. MY Daddy

got The Highest SCORE of aNYBODY There 147/

IN A GESTAPO FILE I FOUND

"HE

E told me he would leap into his grave laughing because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

Such were the words of Dieter Wieliceny, a mass murderer who was later executed in Czecho- slovakia,

Wisdiceny was telling the Nuremburg tribunal in October

chief.

THE TRUTH

ABOUT EICHMANN

For all these reasons it is 1945 about his elusive and - Eichmann had been born in

Adolf likely to restrict commercialmost unknown atom-ship activities to land-Eichman, one time head of the based experiments for at least Jewish section of the Gestapo, the next two years.

and now arrested and facing trial for his life in Israel. ---(London Express Service).

FLY

Canadian Pacific's

Jet-prop

BRITANNIAS

Flamboyant

1906 at Solingen in Germany,

While he was a child, his father moved to Linz in As- tria, where he became head of an electrical construction com- pany.

By GERALD REITLINGER

Author of The. Final, Bolution: the definitive study

Hitler's extermination policy,

preparing the lists of Jews who were to be arrested when Hitler at marched in.

The SS Ale gives Eichmann's Naturally a man who could civil occupation as "mechaniet threaten suicide in such fem-ngineer," but in fact he gave boyant language is bound to be up his engineering studies alive somewhere. During the the age of 19, past 15 years rumours have kept occurring

Eichmann's of survival.

He was in Egypt. He was in. Saudi Arabia. He was in Kuwait, Sometimes it was even said that

For a time young Eichmann was a salesman for the firm Vacuum Oll AG and then he became an Austrian Nazi. was forced to leave the country at the time of the Dolfuss

he was hiding in Israel, and murder and began to train with that was

not so improbable Himmler's, SS in Bavaria. either.

The greatest mass murderer

of all history looked the very

Not long

Discredited

to

I

Good! Leftice PLAY SOME GOLT

AN Other PS:

i think for Fathers Day I'm JONNA GET Dappy a PAIR of Pants To Play Golf M...On A Count of he was Still Wearing His NickeRS, FROM When he was LITTLE!

Bur Friend,

Jacky

Know Your

Your Dog

By IM. HOWELL

IRISH SETTER

` is the oldest of the Setter family, and easily the most widely known in the British Isles and in the USA, where it is used extensively in the field and on the exhibition bench. Elegant and gentle, it is generally like its English cousin in appearance, though differing slightly d'Hiver, a Paris sports stadium. in head formation and temperament,

16, 1942. The place Velodrome.

Some seven thousand people were in this stadium, mostly women and small children who has been unable to escape a mass round-up of Jews.

They were kept there for five permits in 1938-39 to the forced days without food. There was the Polish one water hydrant and two deportation to ghettoes in 1939-41 and Apally, doctors. A dozen people went the meat round-upe insene, several women gave birth throughout Europe which ended to children and thirty, died. only in gas chambers and.

The purpose of this delay murder camps.

before entraining for the gas. The staff of Eichmann's office chambers was to find cut from Elchmann what was to be done with the children. And it took grew bigger and bigger.

all that time for Eichmann tơ cover himself up.

He It is probable that Eichma

made the acquaintance of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem when

Eventually the organisation that discredited character had been set up by Ribbentrop in Berlin as a bogus representa- filled a complete office block at No. 118, Kurfürstenstrasse, but tive of the Arab world.

Eichmann himself only... spried On the fifth day the ruling From time to time the the modest insignia of a lieut arrived. The children were to be German Foreign Office had to colonel. It was a mistake to separated from their parents reverse of a blonde, swaggering Eichmann did not train for handle requests from neutral attract too much attention to kept at Drancy till trains were ready to take them to the gas 88 man, He had a most uncanny very long. In the form that he countries that a few Jewish oneself.

chamber some 800 miles away. knowledge of the Jewish re- fled in when he applied for

children should be spared the gas ligion and of Jewish Institutions, commission he accounted for the chamber and allowed safe con=

Ebsence of any of the athletic duct to Palestine, This knowledge, which got awards that were essential for Elchanarin his first post in the promotion in the $5 by declar- Gestapo in 1934, made him a bit, ing that he had sustained an suspect among his colleagues. injury to his hand.

So he invented the story that he had been born in a German Protestant colony on Mount Carmel, where he had made study of these things as a boy.

Early in 1940 I became very interested in Her Eichmann when I began to collect material for a book.

Very soon I stumbled across a copy of his personal, file which had been kept at the SS head office.

Painstaking

In one of the box cars return- Ing empty through Belgium it Elemann was always able to The not-so-faithful, henchman that the bodies at 25 callores was reported a few weeks later friend the Mufti cite his

Wislicery put it nicely had been found eged from two crder to show how disastrous

Nuremburg Elchrmann was Dis would be the effects of such a

to-four. -every respect a painstaking Sergeant Eichmann had in proposal on the Arab people.

bureaucrat. He at once recorded

At Auschwitz it. had not even fact been very quickly removed

Eichmann's real career began in the file every discussion he from the training camp to the Berlin head office of the Security. In 1938 when he was put in ever had with any of his been thought worthwhile Service.

charge of the Jewish emigration superiors. He always told me removing them from the train. that the most important thing. At that im Eichmann office in Vienna.

was to be covered at all times himself, the model bremerat At this point the SS file dispels

From here he moved to by one's superiors:"

had three little girls of his own: another legend, namely that in 1937 Hiffer sent Eichmann to Prague and from Prague to

Here is an example of Eich- The eldest of them was five make contact with the Mufti of Berlin. He directed the same Jerusalem who was leading an office through all its phases. mann covering himself behind years old.

-(London Express Service), of emigration his superiors. The date is July Arab

against the from the szle

nebellion British mandate in Palestine.

This seems most improbable. Elchmann's rank in 1937 was no

It turned out that the story higher than that of Set-major. of the German colony on Mount His post was in Vienna, where Carmel was a complete myth, as a civilian spy he was already

This Better, with its glorious golden-chestnut coat, kas become a great favourite outside sporting circles, 'and la "now a popular how dog. The head should be long and lean, but it is not quite so long or an aquarë în muzzle as that of the English Variety, K fis rich hazel or brown, Neck moderately long, very muscular, slightly arched and free from throatiness. Body longi chest, as dispan pets and rather narrow in front. Ribs well sprung. Forslagu Feet small and firm. Tall of moderate length, set on rather low, straight and sinewy; hind legs long and muscular from hip to heck. carried as nearly as possible on a level with or below the back. Coat of moderate length, flat and free from curl.or. wave,. except on head, front of legs and tips of cars, where it is short, Feather- Ing on upper parts of ears, back of the legs, and under. Sally where it decreases in length as it approachon the tip. No trace of black in the coat.

Height 24-26 In bitches 20-24 in. Weight about 65 lb, bitches

about 55 lb.

Four D. Jones GONE! TAKE TO CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

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Just Fancy That

N elderly woman walked quietly into Romford, Essex, court the other day and sat in the dock. "I thought it was the public gallery," she apologised when the magistrates ordered her out.

THE policemen studied the evidence. And decided it

was a case for Scotland Yard.

For there, in the middle of the royal crown over the blue lamp outside their station in Hertford Road, Enfield Highway, Middlesex, was—a sparrows' nest,

The Yard was asked: Should the birds be moved ont. No, said the Yard, Let them stay.

FERDINAND

209

ALL GONE.

"NOT ONE 4*

BOMB LEFT IN

THE WORLD-

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