1948-12-16

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948.

POCKET CARTOON

5-POINT US DEFENCE

DEFENCE Fire Follows

PLAN

SCIENTISTS

TO ASSIST

Washington, Dec. 15.-The Defence Secretary, Mr James Forrestal, today unveiled five-point programme to bol- ster national defence, amid hints that row atomic bomb tests were planned at the supersecret Eniwetok atoll proving grounds.

Mr Forrestal niso disclosed that General Eisenhower, former Chief of Staff and now President of Columbia University, had served · u3 hig personal adviser on general matters concerning military eslab- 11shments..

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Summing up recent and proposed defence moves, Mr Forrestal told a news conference that he had:

1. Appointed a group of top scientists and military tenders to study all types of weapons, including the atomic bonib, and to recommend which would be best in the event of war.

ONE COMMAND

3. Ordered

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all military transport, including 280 Anuy vassels, consolidated into one forca under Navy command.

2. Draw up plan to place all military shipments by land under control of the Atiny.

4. Arranged for joint use by the Army, Navy and, Ale Force of re- cruiting facilities and services many places across the country,

5. Recommended to President Truman federalisation of the Air National Guard and consolidation with the Air Force Reserve.

The prospect of new A-bomb tests in the Western Paclic was raised by the Atomic Energy Com- mission which sald that the area surrounding Eniwetok would tinue to be a "danger area" "until further notice.” [22

con.

CLOSED TO OUTSIDERS -

are

Enlwetek atoll and lagoon permanently closed to outsidere. An crvan area roughly 200

miles square was declared a danger area for the calendar year 1948 and all sinauthorized

persons, foreign American, warned to keep out. Today's order extends the ban In- definitely.

bombs

New Theory On The "Missing Link"

MAY NEVER HAVE EXISTED

Berkeley, California, Dec. 15.-The famous "missing link" of man's prehistoric climb towards civilisation may be missing simply because it never existed.

Dr. Richard Goldschmidt of the University of California, unveiling new evidence to support his radical theory of evolution, says the classic Darwin theory may be all wrong.

He thinks modern man may have descended from a "monster" instead of slowly evolving by a succession of minor changes.

U.S. Note On

Indonesia

Indonesia crisia.

Spokesmen for the agency would

The Hague, Dec. 15-Dutch not say that now bomb tests would be held, but the order reminded newspapers sald on Wednesday that Eniwetol was the site of the that the Netherlands Govern- Commission's proving grounds forment has received a new noto routine experiments and tests of from the United States on the atomic weapons."

Three "Improved" tested there last spring. Little In formation Was released, but scientists here have voiced the belief that the new weapons, because of more offelent design, get more blast power-out-of-a-given-amunt of atomic explosive than the 1945 models, dropped on Jupan.

one of

the

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This is a general view of the pend, Oregon, river- frontares fire that followed

a blast which shattered' Portland poet, enters and blewite, pur! commission -ongintar:200 feet... Be.sur- vived" "with" "only minor ins juries. Famage was esti mated at $75,000.

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S'hai Workers To Co-operate

Shanghai, Dec. 16.-A num- Dr Goldschmidt, world's eminent authorities -- on ber of Shanghai's small fac- heredity and geneties, is studying lory owners are quietly work- laboratory experiments. which" In-

dicate that most new species of life ing on a plan to provide pro- come into existence by sudden tection for plant and equip- "cataclysmle" changes rather than ment against mob action by developing over thousands of the egent of a possible break-

years.

an-

The suddenly-born, mutations are monsters" compared to their ccators, which eventually they may supplant.

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Lacking the resources of the larger Arms some of who are moving Until recently, Goldschmidt had to South Ching, these small factory little laboratory evidence to explain owners are said to be approaching plan personnel with skop The note made clear that the U.S. how this sudden-evolution process were

State Department belloves it is might work. Then he began ex- to create, factory defence groups for possible for the Dutch Government perimenting with # mysteriousound-the-clock guard duty in the to continue negotiations with the particle in living cells, called hetero- plants should disorders occur.' Indonesian Republic through the chromatin. Good Offices Commission of the

For their part the workers

respond favourably, "Now it appears that hetero-expected to United Nations-in-Balavia,the chromatin may be responsible for since their future livelihood depende newspapers said.

these cataciyamic changes in life upon machinery and equipment "And being kept intact and they possess species," Goldschmidt said.; there is some hint that it also may neither the inclination nor means to but be concerned with the determina- evacuate. It could not be learned tion of sex. But it is very inconclu- what measures, if any, were being taken to equip these plant guards But of defence. with weapons

is "EDGE whether armed or not, that their presence Ini the plants away would enable them to turn would-be vandals by pointing out that their "rico bowls would be broken" If machinery was damaged or removed.

Mr. Forrestal said that, in announc- a scientist- ing the formation of military group on wartime weapons he considered the problem a "matter of high importance act in

He said the group, which advisory capacity, was chosen care- fully so that neither the military nor the scientists would have a stronger vloce In the selection of weapons-- United Press.

U.S. Tobacco For Germans

Dec 15-A cargo Bremen, 0,000 barrels of American tobacco

There was no confirmation at the U.S. Embassy. The Dutch cabinet discussed for the third straight day its next step In Indonesia made no announcement..

On Saturday the Dutch, kald they sive so far." would no longer negotiate with the Indonesian Republic.

The

NATURE'S EXPERIMENTS Dutch said they would issue a decree for formal establishment of an Interim

Poining out that "monsters" are Government In Indonesia without created by almost every species, in- the Indonesian Republic.

cluding mankind, Goldschmidt saved On Tuesday, the Dutch received a he thinks they may be "hopeful. note from Premier Mohamed Hatta experiments” by nature rather than of the Indonesian Republie suggest-her mistakes.'

resumed. Mr Hatta ing talks be

1 such monsters survive and was said to have expressed the Re-

thrive, he theorised, they may Dutch sovereignly in the meantime, become the fathers of now species.

This development was believed to

publican willingness to recognise the

NOT PULLING OUT

have forestalled Issuance of the many "missing links" in evolution king and other points in the Interior

decrec

Interim on forming the Government the forerunner to A first Marshall Plan shipment United States of Indonesia with equal reach Germany, arrived at Bremen representation in the Dutch Empire. today In the American freighter,-Associated Press. Flying Independence. -

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Mr Norman II. Collisson, head of MORE PAY. FOR the Economic Co-operation ministration anid that this was the. Arst shipment of over $10 million worth of tobacco to be imported Into Western Ger many under contracts already signed

to Germany. WOMEN IN FORCES

For being negotiated....

London, Dec. 15-Women. In the British armed forces ato, to receive an increase in pay totalling £1,000,- 000.

While hellovers in the

The factory owners are described ns representing many of the small manufacturers who dismantled their That explains why there are so

plants and shipped them to Chung-

which never have been found.

the of daya Curing the early Japanese Invasion. In the face of tokcover Communist Darwin the possible theory of gradual evolution scoff they are unable and unwilling to at Goldschmidt's ideas, he challenges pull out of Shanghai and are con- ta explain how hairless fident that if their factory, guard animals developed hair, how plan can be worked out they stand spineless creatures camo to have

a better than even chance of coming backbones and how some organisms through unscathed. uppeared with the skeletons of their bodies on the outside rather than. inside their bodies.

them

Goldschmidt's laboratory

The worker-guard plan is thought to be a direct outgrowth of measures adopted in transporting rice and experi- flour during the period of critical The Minister of Defence, Mr Aments with hetero-chromatin and food shortage in early November. He added that the United States V. Alexander, fald Parliament today fruit files, produced similar monsters At that time, many Orbis purchased would provide the bulk of the that in future they will get about in one generation, "Indicating this rice for their staffs, and staff mem- the trucks to shipments, but some tobacco would three-quarters of the rate of pay cellular substance is in charge of bers willingly rods: the

development and growth prevent

rent hijabling by roving groups come from Greece and Turkey.for man, instead of about two-thirds early

process."

citizenry. These staff

with cred- and foodstuffs were

Reuter.

as at present-Reuter,

He emphasiseil that, no have been performed on the action:

of hetero-cbromalia

of hungry

bearing

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Atudies that, the 1000

beings or any large animal...

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"But our work is only beginning" tion and not. Jør. Dideported to

he added-United Press.

World Meeting

Of Pacifists

London, Dec. 18.-Arrangements

aro "well in hand for a world

meeting of paciflats at Shantinike tan, near Calcutta, next December, Mir Holace Alexander, chief adviser to the Qubker Movement In New Delhi, said here tonight

These measures were repor have been highly successful.

The factory owners plan would also include stockpiling of limited. quantities of rice and other food- stuffs to carry theft workers through the period of anticipated dimculty Associated

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