THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948.
Refuses To BRITAIN MAPPING ANTARCTIC
Discuss
Abdication
London, Aug. 11.-Tho Maharaja of Baroda refused today to say whether he would accede to the de- mands of his legislature to abdicate as ruler of one of India's richest princely states.
Reached on board the liner Queen Elizabeth by radio telephone, his high- nass scoffed at charges that he had "misused and misappropriated" £2,500,- 000 from Baroda's public treasury.
"Someone must have.put that rumour out about me," he said in reply to question. ing.
The Maharaja said he planned to fly to India very shortly. Associated Press.
Writ Served On Soviet Consul
Sequel To "Rescue" Of School Teacher
Preparing For Commercial Exploitation
London, Aug: 11.—Britain hopes to have a large- slice of her Antarctic frontier explored, mapped and ready for commercial exploitation-if exploitation is found feasible-by 1950.
A survey by the United Press of. Antarctic circles in London disclosed that deposits of copper, iron ore and coal have been discovered in the region, and oil is believed to exist in at least one sector. But the commercial possibilities are not yet known. Teams of British scientists and exposures of rock are coinparatively i explorers are systematically rolling į rare, 50 that prospecting anit back the Unknown from a crescent development methods will have to shaped chain of eight bases which be devised ..... From the technical stretch through 000 miles of the point of view the cost of nininiain- Polar lands. The most northern ing closed water circuits for milling bage ik on lonely Laurie Island in would in the prevailing tempera- The South Orkney Islands. which tures be enormous. Finally, to at- is a one-man base part of the year,
tract labour, wages would have, to and the most southern is at Stoning-
be so handsome even by present ton Island ♬ Marguerite Bay, where day values that mining: finance 11 men are stationed.
The unges would hesitate to speculate." manned by
Britain's network total of 38
of bases are Britishers and are iluited by radio.
"front loc" meteorological posts. The onslaught against
Balloons are used extensively be- the secrets of the Antarctic is
belug
cause the weather is incubated at directed by Major K S. Pierce high altitudes. Their weather fore- Butler, a 30-year-old Signals officer costs are Indispensible for whalors who was seconded to the Colonial and South Atlantic shipping. Ofee to bend the Falkland Islands
are
11
New York. Aug. 11.—The | Dependencies Survey. Soviet
General Consul Jacob
(Mr
Lomakin) was Acrved
RICH IN MINERALS Moj-Pierce-Buller recently ente
years. He will rejoin them in Octo-
with a writ today, directing back to Landon with the reports and on film record of progress made by his him to produce in Court Tuesday the Russian school en during the last two and half teacher whom he "rescued" on Saturday from an anti-Com- munist Russian haven.
In his office, tucked away on the third floor of a Colonial Ofee an- лех not far froin
NO BOREDOM Maj, Pierce-Butler, who has almost Antarctic mora volunteers for the than he can use, süld l'le is not hard and dangerous, os popularly sup- posed. He said his men were able year out of doors and during the
to work about 10 months out of the
summer
months
(December to February} temperatures Boored into the forties Fahrenheit.
read
There was too much to do to get Westminster bored, he said. During the fiercest Abbey, the strapping, jovial explorer winter months. when howling An attorney served the writ on Mir Lamakin as the Consul stepped said in an interview that the region blizzards mowed the men in, they from a well from his black timousine at the Con-
metals stocked sulato. Bir Lemakin took the docu-phasised that radio-active
BBC broadcasts and South American ment, glanced at it, smiled and hur- were not among them. ried inside.
The Scott Expedition years ago radio stations were easily tuned in. proved coal in the Beardmore
The biggest kick we used to get," The writ was issued by the Glacier arca and Ferguson, a pros he said, "was to see the sun for the Supreme Court Justice, Mr Samuel portor working with whale catchers, first time after the long winter." Dickstein. It ordered Mr Lomakin reported massive deposits of pyrites | It was a sign that Spring--and the refter ship--would soon be coming......
was rich in minerals but he employed ry, and repaired gear.
to produce Mra Okasana Stepanovna in the South Sheti said the main- United Press.
Kosenkina, former teacher at the Maj. Plereo-Butler
now defunct Soviet school for the land and islands in the region op- chlidren of Russian diplomats.
Mr
of
by The writ was obtained
chairman Christopher Emmett, the Board of Common Cause, Inc., objective is an organisation whose "to promote American resistance to
the extension of parently are an Andes. He said the rock structure
I
which la Land, on. Alexander separated from Granham Land by the King George VI Sound, Indien ted oil might be found there. An expedition will set out to map and Communist aggression and the
explore the region as soon as the in operation
inex of all free
peoples defending and extendinters
the area of southern summer season arrives this
Include year, he said.
Maj. Pierce-Butler said he planned Wilbur Forrest, editor of the Now
sector of the Yurk Herakl Tribune: Malcolm to have the British
down
to 75 of publisher
Newsweois; Antarctic Muir,
lolitude by 1950. columnist Dorothy Thompson; degrees southern
Prize- He also expected to have some de- Holdin Carler, Pulitzer winning Mississippi editor.-United failed information on the extent and
freedom.'
Pressi
St.......
Troops To Climb
Alps For Bodies
mapped
precise toration of the mineral wealth locked in that area available, for British commercial interests by then.
SEA ELEPHANT CENSUS
031
A base was set up last year Signy Island, in the South Orknies, to take a corpus of the sea clephant population, the British Antarctic ex- An average of 400 was pert sald. Alpine recorded and that information has Milaa, Aug 11.-Italian troops will attempt. to ascend the been forwarded to seal hunters in
Alps Britain. heights of the French-Italian tomorrow to recover the bodies of, The Antarctic leader declined to the victims of an eight months old
the speculate on
commercial pos- plane crash.
sibilities of the region, which so far has been principally valuable as n whaling centre.
on a
The plane, an American Air Force C-47 Dakota, crashed with 22 or 3 persons aboard on Novermber 20,1047
He emphasised that not enough fight from Pisa to Frankfurt, was known of the mineral deposits The wreckage was found more for anyone to accurately state what than 9,000 feet high In the Alps to would be done with them in the the south of Cuneo, near the French- | future. He pointed out, however, Italian border a few days ago. It that two obatacles would make com is buried under nearly 23 feet of mercial exploitation difficult-trans- snow. Associated Press.
ion and the weather.
trade magazine "Mine and Quarry Engineering" has
takon
a
Rangoon Curfew dim view of the Antarctic & futura
It said in as a mining centre. recent editorial that the mineral de- Rangoon, Aug. 11-The district posits there would
not be worked Magistrate today ordered a curfew "until the world's other resources In Rangoon, Syriam and Insein from have grown very slender indeed." ICE CAPPED CONTINENT
10 p.m. local time nightly.
The reason for this step was said
Inflation Oddity
Shanghai, Aug. 12.-The Chinese inflation has made it possible for a lucky few to eat their cake and havo it too.
3
A man contracted to buy suit for 80,000,000 Chinese dollars and paid the tallor 30,000,000 dollars. deposit. He changed the remaining 50,000,000 dot- lars into $30 U.S.
Two weeks later the tailor delivered the suit, the customar changed his U.S. $.30 back to Chinese, getting 130.000.000 dollars because of the increased exchange rate.
Paying the tailor the 50,000,000 dollars due, he now has his new sult and the $80,000,000 he set out with. Associated Press.
WAITING FOR
Mascots
Ku Klux Klan | Ban On
Goods To Russia
Two little mascots, equipped with their own robes and hoods. flank, Dr Samuel Green, grand dragon, at initiallon ceremonies held near Atlanta, Ga., in which some 700 were admitted to the hooded order and a huge cross burned.AP Picture,
British Protest Against Air Regulations Infringement
Berlin, Aug. 11—British air officials today handed a routine protest to the Russians about a flight by 13 Yak fighter planes over the Western' sectors of Berlin last night. The flight was not regarded as a very serious infringe- ment of the four-power safety regulations and would not be followed by a high. level protest, it was learned.
American air officials were today studying the report of an American Skymaster pilot on the air lift into the capital who said he saw anti-aircraft shells burst well inside the American corridor at between 8,000 and 10,000 feet.
The
The plot, who saw several Rus-and strengthened through the winter sian planes towing targets in the months if necessary, he added. same area, said the shells -exploded
reinforcements which had "at a "bomfortabit distance" from arrived yesterday meant that there his plane.
wtre now over 100 giant four- engined Skymasters
the on
alr
about the
"There are stilt more to come." he said,
Mr V. Stewart Symington, the United States Secretary of Air, who flew Into Berlin tonight with
Plans for setting up a separate General Hoyt Vandenberg, the
Western sector food administration United States Air Chief of Staff.
were speeded up today when the said he knew nothing
Russians gave permission for files ack-rck fire report,
dealing with Western Zone food ad- ral Curtis Lenny, in General Major Commander
rainistration to be moved from the of the Americşani Air Forces
In Europe, General Willam central office in the Soviet Zong to three-sector headquarters Tunner, Commander of the Ameri- cun air lift operations, and Brigadier in the British part of the city.
Whether the air lift would be General Lean. Johnson, accompanied M. Stewart Symington, whits the suspended during any possible.ro- party arrived at Tempelhof airport laxation of the blockada was not today,
BIG AIR BRIDGE
¿
the now
a matter for the Air Force to de-
cido, r
Mr Symington said, "If the Goverment wants
and do
us to go on the air lift, we can go "We were abt bothered by any on and it ho declared. thing like that today," Mr Stewart the Government wants us to fly the
bud weather Symington said.
was air lift through the becoming a bigger job an the periods, we will do it and in the wartine "ump" operations into quantities desired,”
added. China but Would be maintained | Reuter.
The
airlift
to
"NO AGREEMENTS FOR
AGREEMENT'S SAKE”
Washington, Aug. 11.-Mr George Marshall, the Secretary of Stale, said today that the United States would "persist in its efforts to negotiate a settlement of its differences" with the Soviet Union, but declared flatly
INSTRUCTIONS that there was no intention to get "agreements for agree-
Aug.
11.-The Soviet
ment's sake."
London, Ambassador to Britain, M. George Mr Marshall declined to make any atmosphere of pessimism pervaded
оп the Berlin all quarters.: Zarubin, n deputy to the Big Four specifle comment
He Mr Marshall likewise declined to Conference on the former Italian crisis and: the. Moscow talks.
at a say when he would be ready to an colonies, was believed today to be coupled the statement-made waiting for instructions from Mos-press conference here-with an at-nounce any detalls of the discussions. cew on whether or not to agreo tack ba Soviet policy of the current now being conducted by the three!
Western envoys in Moscow-Reuter. "When the Antarctic is considered the British proposal for a continued Danube Conference in Belgrade.
"I sceans clear that the Soviet as a possible mining feld, dificulter news blackout while the recommen- proposal is calculated to tle up of not found in the Northern Hemis-dations for the future of the colonies commercial navigation en
are being discussed.. plere at once become apparent. The whole continent' is smothered by an Ico cáp, and through this ice sheet
to be the activities of insurgents in! the Ransoon trea.
the Rangoon Syrlain lies across river Ave miles south-east Rangoon and 25 miles off Thongwa, Inseln is n surburban town 0 miles north of Rangoon,--Associated Press,
continued: The magazitie artiele
the
Danube by making it subject to the control of the Russian Govern- ment and its satellites at the ex- pense of the general prosperity of
The Conference refused again day to disclose the content of is continued discussion on the future of Eritren. The British proposal, Europe
Earth Tremors
Recorded
NIZAM TO CUT RAILWAY supported by Frames and the United which radu, be utilised to obstruct in early Joria: The Mohn Carroll
COMMUNICATIONS
Madras, Aug. 11~Indian officials in Madras said. indicating tonight that they had received messages that the Nizam of Hyderabad planned, to cut off' rail- WAY communication with North through Alumpur and Kurnool,
Western Madras
Both towns are on the Hyderabad- Telephone equipment was removed
In just from these three stations Madros border. Alumpur
by
Inside Hyderabad territory and Hyderabad railway authorities on Kurnool is just within Madras ter- this morning's "goods-train-but, ne- ritory. From Kurnool, the railway cording to the collector, was sech and runs south westerly to Bellary in seized by Indian Union police. North Western Madras.
Con Indian officials said that it was The Madras reports were firmed by the District Collector at possible that the Government of Kurnool: He also reported that Indin Intended to seize and occupy, direct telephonic communication be the raliwas fine from Kurnool sight tween Secunderabad-which is
centre, of Hyderabad territory up to Secunderabad... and in the central control point bf the Nizam's slate railway-and three intermediate stations on this Tino vas cut off this morning by the Nizam's Electrical Depart
the
near
Зуда reported today that "the" railway station nt Alumpur had been the scene of fighting between Indian Union and Hyderabad torres on August 7 and 0.)Associated Press,
ap.
New York, Aug. 11,—Earthquake chocks were recorded""on two "We Chanol agree to seismographs in the United States, is designed to prevent un many ways free commerce on this University at Cleveland, Ohio, re- desirable local repercussions.
According to
well in-trent international watdrway"
ported "strong" shocks which Mr. Marshall - gald the Danube peared to be near Mexico City, or formed sourcement on the
Conference WILL "An excellent on the Mexican coast of the Cult of future of Eritrea--the first of the example at the dunculties woen Mexico. The seismograph continued. three former Italian African terri- tet les to be discussed at the present counter if our settlement of war to record, the tremors for more than
abnormalities in Eljrope."
an hour. scrsion of the deputies, has not yet been reached Reuter.
Protest Against
High Prices
READY TO DISCUSS
lle sided: "We entered this con- ference because wó feel that should be ready to discuss these matters-and listen to the arguments of othersWe feel that we should not assume in advance that no agree- | : inents can be reached.
"There
York,
Fordham University, New. recorded "fairly sharp" shocks ut about the same time. saying they appeared to be about 2,050 miles southwest of New York Reuter.
<
Palestine Polico
Muenster, Aug. 11-Housewives
"We feel wo should be careful to
For Malaya in Muduster and other towns staged persist in our efforts to negotiate demonstrations today in protest settlements. But there can be no
London, Aug. 11-The first 40 of against the high prices of fruit, and agreements just for an agreement's
300 former Palestine · police and vegetables. For the most part they sake.
aro deep fundamental colonial police officers with Falestine took the form of banner morches
duty in Malaya, will leave London through the streets, but at Bayreuth, differences that must be taken into service who have been chosen for
consideration.".". they led to a minor riot in which conside Secretary of State resolutely Airport tomorrow by special aircraft.
Colonel William Grey, tho come dealers were beaten.
refused to say anything on the Ber- Dortmund greengrocers decided to altuation or to comment on the 'alice Commissioner for the Federa crass buying home grown fruit for London and Paris reports in the tion of Malaya and former Inspector the remainder of the week as a United States press today that the Chemeral of the Palestine police, will protest against the high prices Moscow; talks were making little, dy to Malaya with the tomorrow's charged by wholesalers-Reuter
any, plocreea and that a goneral party-Reutor.
now.
TO-DAY
ONLY
Anglo-US Discussions
"On "High Level":
London, Aug. 11—1) i
is re- ported reliably, today that high level negotiations aro now in progress, between Bri- tain and the United States to determine the scope of goods to be banned in future exports to Russia and her satellites for security reasons,
There Is agreement in a wide range of the Governments and the commodities which both, Britain and the United Stater consider fould be excluded from the past list to the Еигорели Soviet and Eastors CNC They include bállí, manu- goods and raw. Imaterials could be used by Russla to strengthen her war potential
which
But
on a number of unspecified goods,. Britnin and the United States disagree with the British · favouring their inclusion in future exports and the United States opposing.
NO RISK ARGUMENT The British argue that the goods
from
it question involve, nó · risk the point of Mekibi, security), and thel export would help develop tinde with Eastern Europe,
Beifahi is seemingly alixious to intensify her trade relations with both the Russian and Eastern. Euro- pean countries. British officials completed preparations for age- sumption of talks with Russia and is ready for what is termed 'in official 'quarters ns the "first store of negotiations with the Soviet."
The talks will open in London this month immediately upon arrival of Soviet experts. A previous meeting took place earlier last month between Mr Harold Wilson and the Soviet Ambassador in London, M. Georgi Farubin.United Press.
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