THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946.
BIG FLOATING First D.S.O. Awarded
CRANE FOR SHANGHAI
60 Years Ago To-day
By a Special Correspondent
The largest floating crane in China, mounted on a huge - pón- toon large, is now nearing com- pletion at the CNRRA Engineer-THE THIN RED LINE" ing Works shops at the Kiousin Dock, Shanghai.
It is part of the harbour equipment under construction which is urgent ly needed in Shanghal for the load- ing and unloading of heavy Indus trial machinery that UNIRA is nending to China the Rs rehabilita- tion programme.
While CNRRA workers with biow torches and hammera Inbour away on an assembly line building, float- Ing steel pontoons, other employees are puiting the frishing touches on the 150-foot, climbing nimbly up its framework to the Up, which stands 80 feet above the level of the Yang- ize River.
distinguished services under fire or under conditions equivalent to setual combat with the enemy.
made its last appearance) on a battlefield on December 30,
In 1916, a Royal Warrant was 1885, at Ginnis, a Sudanese Issued bying down that a Bar would village where a combined Anglo-be granted to any officer who, having already been awarded the D.5.0. Ryptian force defeated the Dervishes.
The Royal Derkshires, the Queen's Own Royal West Kents and the Green Howards were dressed in the tradi- tional pearlet serge, though the other the new units participating wore felkel it.
A
RESEARCH IN ATOMIC ENERGY
ก
WELSH NEWSLETTER
(By J, O. Grimlih-Jones)
A scientist who had much to
South Wales steel manufac- do with developing the atomic turers have now decided to go bomb, said that the time may ahend with extensive plans for come when
man will not need modernising the industry. The the sun to make his garden recent decision of the Govern
ment that the steel industry grow, reports United' Press.
This scientist-tall, lanky would not be placed under com
told has removed the feeling of un- perforing another net alle 0. Glenn Seaborg. University of plete State control immediately, which he would normally have re- California Physicist
science that man's caused a hold-up of reorganist- ceived the distinction. This is indie-conference on the future of certainty about the future which ateil by the wearing of a small silver nuclear rosette on the ribbon. In both World ability to synthesise food and tion schemes. during the past
fuel, was not out of the ques-year. ›
The programme now contemplat- Wars, a number of officers have re- relved the D.S.O. four times over.
tion.
14 ed is a big and dynamic move. will mean a total expenditure of £41,000,000 over the next five years, very mostly on the erection of the Intest types of steel and tinplate
The biggest part of works. money will be spent on the long- profected strip mill plant at Port Talbot with its complementary cold reduction works at Lanelly Swansen. When completed this "wonder" will modern
Increase Wales's output of steel strip by some steel and inplate industry to chal- 1,000,000 tons a year, and enable our lenge the products of USA and any other country in the markets of the world.
worka
ORIGINALLY the D.S.O. could be
for
"This could rine," he anid, "to a of the sun's literal harnessing enerity."
To perform this trick, scientists will have to do further research with radioactive isotopau, the by-product of the uranium chain-reacting piles In the atomic bomb factories.
with He
experiments told of radioactive carbon on certain types
under Various con urnt plant life
well as in the dark. trolled conditions the light
The results obtained so far have been rather surprising," he said.
By modern landards, Ginnis was minor engagement. British troops
won for an act of great milliary occupied a ridge south of the village, wilch
was strangly held, at first light, merit not necessarily performed in and the enemy made vigorous at the presence of the enemy--it could tempts to dislodge them. They met even be obtained in time of peace. with no success whatever, and by But since 1831, it hur been stipulated 10 o'clock the same morning they service in action--elther under fire.
thut it can only be awarded withdrew, leaving three guns and serv
jor in recognition of dend,
services in many
frst individun Ginnis, however, was the 150,000 to
thed with ale Distinguished
Tolds battle for which the
equivalent to Service Order, the dininmond Jubilee other enemy acilon which at time of which fatis this year, was awarded, produce conditions Twenty-eight British officers obtained service in actual combat, and which the distinction for acts of gallantry demand the same personal elements of command, Inlliative or control on In this engagement, and their names appeared in the London Gazette of the part of the individual and, in a lesser degree only, possibly entail the November 26, 1880.
me risks.
According to Willam F. Oyea, the engineer in charge, the crane is enp- able of lifting heavy industrial equip ment weighing from 200,000 pounds at a time. Two smaller crane barges, with nifting power of 40,000 to 60,000 pounds
been completed have already Klousin and are now at work.
at
"These cranes will help to avold harbour and wharf congestion," said Mr Oyen, "because a great part of the rehabilitation equipment which CNRILA is expecting is too heavy to be moved by hand labour."
Crew Of Seven
Since
that clate. approximately 15,000 officers of the Royal Navy. the Army and the Itoyal Air Force and of the Dominion Armed Forces have wor its red ribbon edged with bluc.
Becnime of its size, the largest of the cranes requires a crew of seven
It can lift small W° men to operate. craft, rallway engines, huge com- pressors farci generators. One of the items on the CNRRA allocation lists, scheduled for shipment tu Shanghai, includes 23,000 KW generator unit which comprises: the entire cargo of a single vessel.
con-
In 1942, the Order was extended to officers of the Merchant Navy, and 14 of these have now camed the dis- tinction.
of the the Companions Among Distinguished Service Order are Field Marshals Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein and Viscount Alexander of Tunis. "Monty" earned it as a captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on October 13, 1914 in France during the attack on Meteren in the Ypres
battle. His Armentieres
and
Lo
Only Surface Scratched
Unified control of all the Senborg said that science, using concerned is the aim. Independent the radioactive elements, had merely firms will now be lined up with the scratched the surface and that "big Welsh steel and tinplate combine
of Richard Thomas Baldwins carry out these schemes of thorough seems realistic and entirely safe to vances and discoveries will be made modernisation throughout the indus- predlet that a large number of urf- In the future, a few of them epoch-try. A new company will be formed to buy the assets of the various firms making."
and will take over responsibility for the whole reorganisation programme.
“It is not at all out of the question that the greatest gains to humanity from the atomie energy development wh result from the widespread use of tracers to solve a multitude
Fald problems rather than from the lint-
Scaborit
Silation nessing of the power itself,"
of
Employment Prospects
It is obvious that this development will open up new prospects of em- ployment in South Wales. Several thousand workers will be nceded for constructional jobs. Employment will alan be extended in other In- large which must supply ject. There will be good prospects for young men with technical, nd- ministrative, and clerical knowledge and ability.
In addition to crane construction Marine and Dominion Naval Officers their trenches with the bayonet-Hements, such as carbon, phosphorous of material for this pro-
work, the dock works are busity engaged in assembling pantoons for barges and lighters. A total of 208 pontoons were used in constructing the 75-ton crane barges.
He added that radio-active cle and radio-active lodine, were alrendy being used in medicine, particularly in the treatment of cancer and over- retive thyroid glands.
WORLD Wir 11, during which the
to the policy in regard
was stricter ferring of distinction than in the past, saw the award at some 2,000 D.S.O.'s and another 300 Bars to Army officers, R.A.F. officers, from September 3, 1939 to December 31, 1945, rereived 1.078 D.S.O's and reads: For conspicuous gallantry 02 Bars, while Royal Navy, Royal when he turned the enemy out of received 098 D.S.O.'s and 128 Bars was severely wounded," "Alex" won bis the Somme on October 20, 1916: during the same period.
The Order, which was created by he was then a captain in ue Irish His citation states: "Ife was immeriately Guards. Queen Victoria, ranks after the Order of the British Empire. the life and soul of the attack and The Klousin assembly line is ex-
Its badge is a gold eross, cnamelled throughout the day he led forward pected to build a total of 15 pon-white, edged with gold, having on not only his own men but men of all
the trenches NO DIVORCE FOR toons day.
one side the Imperia: Crown in gold regiments. He enclosed in a green, cnamelled wreath gained in spite of heavy machine-gun
ITALIANS on the fire. in a red background, and reverse the Royal Cypher with a similar wreath and background. is awarded to officers of the sea, land andal Forces who have been inen- tioned in despatches and who have also been specially recommended for
Britain's National
Trust Faces Financial Difficulty,
(By John Dauphinee).
A "grave, financial crisis" has hit the National Trust, custodian ot many of Britain's statellest homes and most famous beauty spots.
In 50 years It has acquired some 115,000 acres of land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in 900 separate properties. Six years of wartime neglect must be overcome and maintenance costs are steadily Increasing.
Now a drive for £100,000 ($400,- 600) in pubile subscriptions has been Jaunched. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, has promised to match collections, pound for pound, Irura treasury funds.
"
Non-Profit Rody
"The National Trust for places of historic Interest of natural beauty," to give is official title, is a non- profit making organisation incorporat- It has ed by Act of Parliament. never had a state grant and doesn't want one.
Anti-Malaria Drive
In Sardinia
" I
held
Foreign officers are also eligible to be honorary members of the D.S.O. British for service in netion with Forces, and their list is headed by two Egyption oflicers, who showed conspicuous gallantry at Ginnis.
Of course,
when
the vast
new
plants are ready for production some
of the old works will become redun- dant. Such extensive mechanisation of the industry will eventually mean that fewer workers will be needed. The Government as well as the em ployers and trade unions are giving that problem. Thar talion Communist Party's special attention to
that Palmiro Togliatti, in the Hallan, Con- By thorough planning in advance it stitullon Commission, surprisingly will be possible to guarantee came out in favour of the ban on alternative employment will be found when displaced a moral for divorce "nat so much on
is complete, "rationalisation"
In basis but for social order and ad- ed rights
substan of lily." says United plants are in production a
ial number of new industries will However, he thought the article in have been established under the long-term develop- the new Italian constitution on the Government's indissolubility of marriage was point- ment policy for South Wales. less, as existing legislation provided for thin.
any
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Cat Held Captive ministration which are the consecrat- any case, by the time these modern
Turns To Stone
The razing of an old building in Malaria and ifs carrier, the Anopheles mosquito, will be Helena, Arkansas, recently revealed the body of a cat which had ex- victims of an all-out drive to hausted its nine lives during a 60- disease on the year imprisonment and then turned stamp out mountainous island of Sardinia 'to stone, says United Press.
The body, perfectly preserved ex-
UNIRA, which is alding
of the building which had no en- Italian High Commissioner for trance or exit, indicating that the cat Hygiene and Public Health to ware was imprisoned when the building
malaria, con- the battle against siders the campaign one of the most was put up in 1880. important in history...
next year, says United Press. cept for hair, was found in a section
the
in
Press.
The Commission approved the ar- tele by nine voles against two with three abstentions-two Communists and one Socialist-after Togliatti's | 20 motion to withdraw the article had been defeated by seven to six.
French Car Output Increasing
French
The most interesting recent politi- cal newn' for Wales is that the Prime Minister has fixerin date for a special debate on Welsh affairs in Parila- deba ment. Unless something unforeseen tober 30. A Government White happens this will take place on Oc- Paper will be presented to the Ilouse giving details of what has been done to meet Wales's reconstruction needs voied since the Labour Party was inle power in July, 1945.
'been
for
Not Running Smoothly The Government's proposals at Cagliari this 30,000 lire between October, 1947,
Improving and co-ordinating the ad- will At a meeting
ministrative services in Wales minth, health leaders organised and September, 1948. The estimated
also be presented to Parlament. The programme that will extend into cost per capita-based on the popu
that a highly-placed 1948. It will begin with DDT spray-lation of Sordinin-is 982 lire plus
French passenger car pro-intest idea is painting ut all houses and stables on US$0.70.
duction is increasing from officer of the Treasury shall preside at a periodical conference of the However, sanitary specialists be- the entire island between now and March, 1917. Next April an inten- lleve the high cost is fully justified month to month, but the aver-heads of the various Welsh depari- sive attack on mosquito larvae in because the work is a permanent
Wales. This is itself an very slim chance of obtaining blems of
that the trovesti
Government south-west Sardinia will begin. job and costs are returned bage French citizen has only a ments and iron out the pressing pro- October, 1941, anoth r say-paint-creased health of the people.
running Sardinian one of the new automobiles, says numission A precedent for the ing of all houses and stuples
machinery has not Sardinia will be made.
campaign is the health programme United Press.
smoothly in Wales. But the majority on the maininnu,
Welsh MPS of all parties will not In the summer o. 1948, the com- waged recently
A spokesman for the "We simply cannot carry on unless
Ministry, of National Economy said be satisfied with any watering down adequate funds are available," said prehensive anti-larval campaign wil which virtually alterated mularia
to all parts of the in many regions.
the Government hoped of their claim for a Welsh Omce Dr GM. Trevelyan, chairman of these extiended
Although island, and every dry creek will u
spraying stops that
a Welsh Minister in charge to ensure trust's estates committee.
problems receive con stagnant transmission of malaria, it does not double present production figures in
1947, but that it would continue the that urgent
thorough attention. eradicate the mosquito-but it re- water. During the last year nearly 100 searched for pockets properties have come under National
The programme will cost UNRRA duced anopheles mosquitos 99.9 per present policy of allocating 80 per tinuous and
cent of the output for exportation. Unemployment is still more persistent them US$778,000 for the 1948 programme cent, UNRRA explained. A. follow-
Wales Trust control. One of
He said France was greatly in-
than in any other part of demands forelen Britain, and the only for supply of DDT, transport up programme is necessary to pre-
terested in obtaining new and personnel. will cost the vent seeded mosquilas reappearing
markets for its cars in line with the Welsh members reflect the growing least 800,- in another year, Italian Government nt
uf the people. dissatisfaction current Government programme of emphasis on exportation of manu-
Some news "flashes" for you.... faclures in order to
the build-up
donations towards Already needed foreign X-
for, developing St £50,000 Fund change balance.
Castle as an Fagan's (Glamorgan)
nearly total Actually, French automobile pro- duction is still low, although it con£40,000.. There is an outcry tinues to increase steadily. Last £40,000 the proposal to merge the March, only 400 now cars came off against
15
Osterley Park, the Earl of Jersey's sent at Isleworth, Middlesex, one of the finest examples of the work of architect Robert Adam.
"I'm getting rid of some of my property," said the Earl, "because it's too expensive keep up."
Trust officers say heavy wartime taxation and "some nervousness over plans of the Labour Government" are responsible for doubling, since 1939, their real estate hold.
Sometimes the
fr L
hundreds of acres in a single gift. At other times it spends its own money to buy o
a corner of land to preserve.
a' famous view.
It operates a famous London pub- The George, at Southwark, frequent- ed by Dickens and mentioned in
Little Dorrilt.'
EAST INDIES LOOTING BY JAPANESE
Tokyo, Nov. 25. Japan's wartime tooting of its "southern treasure chest in the Dutch East Indies involved "almost all types of property from millions of dollars worl of gold, silver and platinum to complete factories, it was officially disclosed to-day.
lay received the first SCAP to-day official estima.e of the looting from
Ministry. the Japanese Finance Under General MacArthur's orders a complete report is to be furnished by the end of the year.
The preliminary list includes elec- tric motors, enerators, 80 motor- cars, several planes (all from. Bun- deeng), large quantities of platinum for use in electrolytic electrodes from Java, and also oil and sugar rubber plants, millions of of petroleum, tons of quinine, cow hides, raw rubber and cinchona bark-United Press,
It
of
SIDE GLANCES
„ŠONS_1234 BY KEA SENOST, 190, TÂM TROVA
DDT
By Galbraith desperately
"How many birds do you figure you'll have to shoot to cut down household expenses after paying for that
new gun and outfit?","
to
open-air museum
of the
the assembly lines. This figure two counties of Merioneth and Mont- Increased to 1,234 in April and 2,000 gomery into one division for Parlis- In June. By the end of the year, mentary purposes....Two rich now it is hoped to have the output up scams of coal have been struck in to 3,000 monthly and to 4,000 next South Wales, one in Mid-Glamorgun year, These production, schedules and the other in Pembrokeshire. would allow Die French to export 2,000 new automobiles in the inst trimester of 1940 and 3,000 monthly in 1947.
It is expected that production of light trucks will be correspondingly reduced, inasmuch as the scarcity .of materials will .not permit emphasis on both passenger car and truck production at the same tirac
more
than
Remains of Pre-Historic Animal in Texas'
Military College Of
Science Appointment
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
In Teck
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9,30 P.M.
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COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENTS Presents
BLANCHE LITTLER'S COMPANY.
IN
'WORM'S EYE VIEW"
A Comedy In Three Acts By
R. F. DELDERFIELD NIGHTLY AT 7.30 P.M.
BOOKING HOURS
Telephone: 58335.
12 p.m.--2
p.m.
4 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
Seats Booked by Telephone Will Be Kept Up to 6.30 p.m. Only
Concert of 'Recorded Classical Music
A concert of classical records, will
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
The next Council meeting of
be presented at the Kowloon Forces Club to-morrow evening, commencing ut 8 pm. The programme will in- clude Schubert's Symphony No. B-in B Minor (the "Unfinished" and the and Orchestra by Mozart.
The Kowloon Swing Club re- Assoelation will be beld opens on Friday next at 8 pm, with Wednesday, 27th November 1946 a concert of strictly swing records at 5.30 p.m. at the Medical
American played by British and
headquarters, Hongkong Shanghai swing bands,
Bank Building..
Concerto in E Flat Major for Horn the Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis
The War Omeo announces that Professor C. H. Lander, C.B.E, has been appointed Dean of the 'Military College of Science. This is a new post which has been created as part of the reorganisation of the Military
as the leading UNRRA CONFERENCE, College of Selenco military establishment for educating
Shanghai, Nov. 24. omcers in science and engineering.
Mr Li Tso-min, Deputy Director- and for training more senior officers and others in the milllary applica General of, CNRRA and Mr Halang tions of science and technology.
on
All members are kindly request od to attend.
T. P. WU Joint Hon. Secretary
SINO-PHILIPPINES
From bones found during an ex- cavation, Prof J. E. Conner, of the
Professor Lander, after occupying Ching-yun, Head of CNRRA's De *at-
PACT Texas College of Arts and Industries,
various distinguished positions, in partment of Investigation, left here ia plecing together the skeleton, of a
the ongincering world, including this morning for Washington, to that hupe
animal Bross-caling.
Naaking, Nov. 25. certain Government posts, held the tend the UNRRA Sixth Conference to be held on December ramed the Texas pinins thousands
A new Sino-Philippines treaty of chair of Mechanical Engineering at which of years ago.
the Imperial College of Science and 7
The Chinese delegation consists of friendship will be signed shortly after Some of the bones were crushed, Technology from 1931 until his re- but Prof Conner and his fellow cent retirement. He has also been five members. The other three are which negotiations for a trade pact worker, F., W. Youngman, were able Director of Fuel Research and Vice- Mr Cheng Po-nan, CNRRA's repre- between the two countries will be
In ping. Ch
Chinese
Minister to the Philip to determine that the animal welgh-Chairman of the British National sentative in Washington; Mr Wong initiated, according to Mr Chen Chih- ed between
the ween four and five tons and Committee of World Power Feng, CNRRA's representative
Lention and Mr Chien Tel-ni, Coun-
to-day. pines Republic,
.is bacit here to consult Mr Chen Conference. was a grass cater.
Chinese Ambassy in the species of the Conner gold
With the growing application of cillor of the
the Central Government on the matter south Texas mastodon were numerous aelonce to warfare, a considerable Washington.
It is learned that the Chinese de- and this morning expressed the hope at one time and he had found ev increase is considered essential, both dence of the animal at Banquete, in the numbers of students to be legation will bring up the question that complete agreement would be Concepelon.
and
his return to Manila-Central News, trained at the College, and in the regarding UNRRA's relict supplies to reached on a few unsettled points on Patronila. Creck.
number of subjects to be studied.
Beeville
on
ChinaCentral Nowa