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THE BOOM BEHIND THIS AMAZING FACT:
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1961.
More goldfish go by air than passengers!
by
KEITH THOMPSON
THE
HE air freight business is booming. From elephants to goldfish, orchids and exotic fruits to radioactive materials and pre- cision machinery, the world's air- lines are now tapping a money- spinning pot of gold.
Yet freight operations are still in their infancy. But already the trends are to lower costs, allied to jet-speed door-to-door delivery.
In fact, in September new low air curgo rates for the North Atlantic are being introduced.
For British Overseas Airways the new rates show cuts ranging from 22 per cent for small shipments to 61 per cent for shipments weighing more than a ton.
Competition between The airlines has never been intense, bet even the pussen- Ker stump 1961 is beher offset by the Tremendous increase in the ferrying of freight
af over the wish.
Second-to-none
What, it is often asked, can the air- lines offer in advantage over "conventional" surface travel?
Firstly, SPEED.
Secondly, COSTS, gradually moving
clownwards.
And, Justly, second-to-none
FROM BRITAIN
TO U.S.A. Sports cars
BOEING 707
Twoads and other cloths
Dogs (Pekingeso, Alsatians and poodles) Printing machinery
FROM BRITAIN
TO RUSSIA Machinery, and textiles TO MIDDLE Paint
& FAR EAST Printing machinery
TO AUSTRALIA Radioactivo
DC 7F
BRITANNIA
& INDIA materials ⚫
FROM BRITAIN
COMET
TO CANADA Cigarette making machines
Small airplanes
TO PERU Machine parts
TO BRITAIN
FROM E. AFRICA Tropical fruit and flowers
FROM CEYLON Tea samples
FROM INDIA Lurex thread and & PAKISTAN animals for zoos FROM FAR EAST Tropical fish
What goes where-from poodles to presses
SERVICE for specialised One of the most cbvious bility freights.
Include
of stock depreciation, examples is gold. In spite of plus wuste due to modiftention to carry life its weight gold is better sent or replacement.
by air thun by any other means. This is because inter-
A
the
Arc
These saving verines which may have a limited life, radioactive
So many fine are developing materials, perishable consumer
a pattern of spares supply tuyad e on its value accrues su fast goods-like fruit and Bowers- that must be
to the air services in the areas moved with and even such things as gold- great speci to avoid serious
in which they work. Costs are lish.
Is the shipper.
down, but a better service is DAC
offered to the customer. !คอน carries Akure A rm exporting cars, mac- goldfish yuar than
human littery, or other material for Insurance and packaging are jasonpere
which there is a need for spare Iwn Items every shipper wants Some experts argue that the paris normally has to hott rechend. Air transport often cost of sending freight by air irge and costly store of
makes this poslule. is prohibitive. Certainly, air parts in each of its selling
Insurance rates
lower travel is more costly than sur- areas.
because the exposure of goods face travel but it is the "hidden This involves expensive to deterioration from weather benefits" which matter.
warehouses and staf, the possi- and 10 pilfering is
greatly reduced.
Shorty, packaging can often he of the simplest kind. Gonds for air transport are charged In most cases by their weight rather thn their volume ret all-round ensis can be lowered by simple pucking,
A good example of this is provided by troptent fish.
QUICK CHANGE -AS A FASHION
SHOW FLIES
OUT TO PARIS
Success
Thousands are carried each year. At one time tanks were used which were castly, heavy, and bulky.
Then it was decided to try plas!lc bugs, The fish
are
+
of
Once a shipper asked BOAC
consignment fragile neon light tubes.
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It was thought necessary to pack them heavily for prolec tion until the airline suggested that they could travel just as well merely clipped on to a stir board and placed in a sullable spot in the hold.
The growth of air freight has given a new lease of life to air- finers which nobody wanted when they had outlived their usefulness as passenger enrriers. One airline is now busily engaged converting Amerlenh freight
DC-7C aircraft
work.
for
A cargo expert said: "These eonverts are opening the way to the earringe of balk shipments and large pieces of cargo that could not be accommodated in
the holds of passenger aircraft.
Is this the man who nudged Kruschev's trigger
WHY has Mr Krus-
chev shocked the world by restarting nuclear tests at the critical time when he is urging negotiations over Berlin?
Western Intelligenge author}- tles believe that he wag J4- heimt to make this move bul was pressed into agreeing to it by Russi's military chlets,
The Intelligence men suspect that the prime instigator of this decision was Bot Mr K, the honey father-figure who has always stressed the dangers of nuclear testing to world peace, Marshal Iodien Malinovsky, Impassive, beetle-browed Defence Mulater.
hig
The dique
Muscow has its "Pentagon"— called the Glav-Shtub (General Staff) and this military elique, headed by 62-year-old Ma- linovsky, now witids far more Influence than is possible in Any domnucratie country.
First overt sign of this grow- ing power was the appearance of Malinovsky as chief prompler
side by Kruschev's
at the wreck of the Summit in Paris last year. Since then the bulky,
Ukrainian close-cropped been Kruschey's shadow.
has
As evidence of the conflet between Mr K's post-Stalin policy of liberalisation and the Glay-Shtab's demands for mill- tary might, the Intelligence men 1st these events:--
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Last year Mr K decreed that the Red Army must cut its strength by 1,200,000 теп -
I call
SECRET ARMY
finger?
by
CHAPMAN PINCHER
Rotorred to by Tass, the official Russian news agency, as "the well-informed scientific correspondent.”
And
neeled for his industrial
gricultural programme, Last month the cuts were cancelled.
Cuts in the arms bulld-up needed to free consumer goods so that Russian living standards rauld be raised-were also can-
Malinovsky, who fought the retreat 10 Stalingrad, knowi how near Russia came to defent only 20 years öge,
He knows that in two years time Germany will have a big stockpile of U.S. missiles and planes capable of delivering nuclear explosive,
The military chlefs cannot fiore the immense build-up of Nato nuclear weapons in Europe, General Norsiod, the Nato chief, is still pressing for 600 more nuclear reckon.
believed to be considerably Runsla's nuclear firepower is
smaller than the West's.
Many of the weapons in The scientists involved In the Soviet stockpile, including the project were not named, the super bombs, have not been Now we have the open admis- tested. sion that the big space rockels are really designed to carry - burbs with the power of 100
dllion tons of T.N.T.
culled, and military spending 4 Finally comes was stepped up by a third.
Kruschev announced
these
chunes at the Military Academy in Moscow after a three-day meeting of army and air force marshals-headed by Malinov- sky.
The glory
the resump-
The scientists may be con- dent they would work but no military chief relishes going into action without belog sure,
tion of nuclear tests, which has been chafing at Mr K's For months the Giny-Shtab is a politeal defeat in the eyes much publicised moves to axe of the world for Mr K. who 250,000 omcers, most of whom ago. suspended
three years become industrial workers,
The
them
e pressure
The fear
In addition there may be
These events add up to major growing fear of military pre- policy sacrifices for Mr K. But sure from Red China. he has to make them to ensure that he keeps the power of the The hardening of the Soviet Glav-Shtab behind him at the line under hard-man Malinov- All Party Congress In Moscow sky does not necessarily mean next month when he must rein- that the danger of nuclear war force his position
as Russia's has increased.
Nuclear testa have been staged at Intervals for the last The Glay-Shtab is pulling for more pressure than is need. 15 years and the bigger the ed just to rattle the sabre over leaders of buth sides have de-
blasts the more Joudly
the Berlin. Why?
Last year Mr K retired Mar- shal Konicv, a friend of Malinovsky, on the ground of "ill-health." This month Koniev, aged 64, has been reeniled to "Lille Father" take charge of all Soviet forces in East Germany.
Though Mr K has always stressed the peaceful pur poses of Soviet space research, all the glory was heaped on Majors Gagarin and Titos, the Red Air Force heroes.
on
CHIEF TELLS ME
HOW HE FIGHTS DE GAULLE
of
clared nuclear
A
It has genuine fear Germany rearmed with nuclear possible.
weapons.
the
A SECRET ARMY defica de Goufle in Algeria-an army of Algerian Frenchmen and other white settlers. They have sworn to fight to the death to prevent do Gaulle giving Algeria to the Algerian Arab nationalists. A reporter sought out the secret army's HQ. Hore is his report:-
from ROBIN STAFFORD: Algiers.
a modern flat in uptown Algiers glasses IN
clinked, girls giggled, and the record-player thumped out music for an all-night party.
that victory through
war has become im-
~~~{London Express Service).
terror H.Q.
ل میرا
union non,
No. 3:
we stopped: would be midst where you have
Gaulle's worrante-a
KILLING No. 2: A car passed except to say as 70-year-old Mourtec Schembri, "You realise it mayor of the polished modern unwise to say suburb of Frot-de-l'Eau as he bien?" picked his way down the uleps outside his house. Schembri
Face to face fell, two bullet-holes In his
A Frenchman, Q brood- cheat. Schembri's crime was 10 shouldered he had to make it
liberal
traltor to aideways on several luras,.. led French Algeria."
me through a maze of corzidata KILLING
Albert to a room with four wooden Duclere died by the knife in his chairs. There I came Algiers home a few weeks after face with
taca to сле of the most the police released him from wanted men among the thou- prison. His crime was to be an sand for whom ex-Communisí and an active polies hold arrest
member of the O.AS. Supremu One organisation boasts of all Council. Gavoury turned the key in bls these killings. To meet one of He told me what has hap- its leaders I was driven through pened in the four months since. door, As it opened a knife was
the streets at breakneck speed, de Gaulle broke thrust at him. He screamed,
The killers padded down the doubling back, winding through revolt of the generals in Algiers, Outside, Algiers was the ex-
nameless alleys, to the fringe of
The putsch was a clusive property, for the next stairs. And the party went on
failure," You don't the Casbeh, where Europeans he said. few night hours, of khaki-clad the find above, the
now fear to tread.
"But patrols, furtive wrongdoers, and bother about
I was going to call on the Frenchmen night. Not in Algiers,
and Moslems hera the few with catfew pasEES.
dirended O.AS-Organizations to take the plunge. Up the stairs to bis flot bes Gavoury's crime was zeal. He de l'Armee Secrete the secret have 1,200,000 French suppor neath the revellers climbed oaked too hard to find Generals society whose aim is to keep ters in Algeria, We have and lantern-Jawed Roger Gavoury, Raoul Salan and Edmond Algerin French for ever by this may surprise you-1,000,000 the chief inspector ɛent by Juulaud, the leaders of the re- murder, dynamite, political ess- Arabs with us. General de Gaulle to find the voll against de Gaulle, now in assinaliun, revolution,
"These ard the men who have. Eext- officers whose revolt had falled hiding and under death
My driver was a girl, black fought in the French Army In in April.
tenees for their treachery. haired, pretty. She did not talk, the belief Algeria would always bb French. These Are the F.LN. rebels who have conio reason that over to our side. For the
"Their introduction is an Important one on it has allow ed airlines to go after a whole new range of cargo business,"
Even so the big airlines feel that many manufacturers and other shippers still need to be "educated in considering merits of flying freight, because they rarely look beyond direct costs represented by the rates.
the
They forget that freight offers
IN the heart of London's West End a group of
Britain's top mannequins were giving an placed in the bons with a supply economies that flow from speed after-dinner show of the latest fashions. But the sented and placed in a large, viee, reduction of handling and
of oxygenated air, the baя are of transit, good eustomer ser guests who watched this mink-trimmed parade worm wrapping known as package costs, reduced break- knew nothing of the "quick change" acts that "sh auf. The method has ages and lower insurance pre- were going on behind the scenes.
a
Not only were the manne- quins changing, as they are ac- customer to from one dress to onother within the space of couple of minutes or a
After each dress had been shown it was whisked away for inspection in a nearby dressing- room by a Castoins ofiteert Yes, a Customs officer. For this show had to go on ngnia in the morning 200 miles away Paris.
ACTION
in
The rush developed when the London alow was postponed for a day owing to liness. This deprived the organisern of the 24 hours
they hack allowed
themselves in which to transfer the collection to Paris. They were left with tile more than 10 hours.
been very auccessful.
By Philip As
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Ditton
Alsport, on to the three, and
on board the Viscount airliner due to leave at midnight.
Little over an hour later it landed at Le Bourget. The dresses were collected immedi- ately by the organisers of the Paris show who worked through the small hours making final preparations for their parade which went off satin smooth in the morning.
The whole job of air freight- ing cost about £30.
this
goes:
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miuns.
man
disaster
West
for the
It had to be an all-night party because no one had kone home in time for the midnight curfew.
screams
By PAUL JOHNSON
in the
The climate of confidence he unters we bear in nind the created brought in a flood of capital, which made the state the fastest-expanding area I the entire hemisphere,
FANTASTIC
Because of this achievement
climate ht hysteria which Fidellamo ~ and its opponents have created in the continent. For Quadros wan not enemy of privatė entes prise. Far from it, nu lila record in Sno Paulo shows.
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What he ained to do was to Quadras though he possessed harness foreign capital to the new spirit of national indepen- dence which is sweeping Latin elected president by the biggest America. majority in the country's history. Fidelio by making it un- In short, to defeat He moved to Brasiila determined necessary
HE departure of President Quadros of Brazil party, organisation - Wos THE
is a major disaster for the West-one which are the key to the rapid growth out the hemisphere.
Spred and efficiency these may set off a chain-reaction of calamity throught-
of air freight in Delain.
B.O.A.C, la now the
iler cargo
third
Quadros was — or should
he
to apply similar methods of ulenning up tire fantastic cor- ruption and incompetence of the Federal Government.
Now, a mero 10 monilha inter,
WILD "EN
It was for this
the desperate
it forced doubling
We now
Quadros visited Havana before if Frence leaves-death is err his election. This is why he tain.
recently conferred Brazil'A
"In the army we have 35,600
highest honour an Che Guevar-soldiers ready to help."
ra, Castro's right-hand man. And this is why he sent a powerful trade misslun to Havana last manik.
'Any means'
I naked if it were true that his men planned to asasinate da Gaulic.
Unhappily, his reasoned, cal- culated view of Castro proved
"We are prepared to use nùy fatol. The Latin-American rich,
ho sald mean whatsoever," and their allies among 16.
"We would prefer to impoach businessmen and the armed him when the men we support rervleca, regard Castro with come complex of violent emotions it pack him off home to Cetomboy. to power-or simply do which reason plays no part.
So now Brazil lurches towards of a civil war and we want to Decanation might touch chaos. With its wealth
and avoid that." sheer size Quadron might have made it the first major strCCERA-
business
tho
An
He told me that every single
atory in Latin American history of the three generals and cight colveela Bentenced to - bastion pinkke against death in their absence in Paris Fidelismo and Communism, ils fast July had been in the fall teams to indicate that there is of the police at one ne Ja no middle way between a or another skace them
on dictatorship
Moun of
-time their tight or violent confiscation on disguises and perfectly forged papers got them through,. Even This is tragic. For if it comes when the
guarda picked to a clash between two nuch ex-Colonel Yves Godard forven there is little doubt which hustled him into a
police will win. Indeed, the man who atetion, he got away.. no
will most sejoleo at Qumirova An ex-General. "Balan. Isa eliminations Fidel Castro him- fréquent guest U. Army
mestes in Algwrin.
--¡Landan Express Kevrica):
largent International air freight have been the West's Paulo, the ns governor of Sno At London Airport British carrier in the world. European Airways were alerted.
revenue for – the | unswer
But in order to do this ho to Fidel Castro, Paulo atate, the richest in Brazil. he is cut; and there can be no had to come to terms with the The airline's cargo men ore year 1080-01 wan increased by Almost alone among Latin used to working in a hurry. 20 per cent of £8,000,000.
question that his departure was wild men in Havana. Fidelismo They went into netion.
American
In Sao Paulo, Quadros showed dictated by a group of military has now such a grip on politicos, B.E.A.'s air cargo revenue has And after
by Drasian Big naginations of Lalin Amer- dresses had been building up steadily in the posserned both honesty and up the universal belief of Lain men, aided bren mended by the Customs innt few year and la now run the will to enforce it on his Amerien - that curruption and Business Indood, I suspect that cana, particularly amotig The officers they were rushed away ning at the 23,000,000 your colleagues.
government are synonymous Quadros left as he did merely younger generaliott, that late at night from the London level. Teame increases by at
as a myth. He cleaned up the to forestall, an actual · military pollician can hope to carry hotel where the show was being least 10 per cent every
administration and, for the stret coup,
public opinion, with filmm unlead held Inlon waliing van down months.
This is proved by his unique me in lying memory, balanced
Why was Quadros kated? The his relations with Castro ore -{London Express Service). record rat no major of so the stato budget.
question de Impossible to answer friendly.
the
the Great West-rund to London
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the Left.
sult,
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up'
and