THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950.
EXPANSION OF FAR EAST
OIL PRODUCTION VITAL
POCKET CARTOON
by USBERT LANCASTER
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་་ suppose you radicals selli try to explain this away by saying the fellow had had one tomato fulce too many!"
The Battle Of The Sparrows
Despite protests from the! local RSPCA-"birds have rights and feelings, haven't they?"-medical research workers
at Birmingham
By Ronald Boxall
LONDON, March 1.
Industries in the Far East have been faced with their own peculiar problems since the end of the war. Not only have they been affected by the abnormal economic conditions of the postwar world; they have also had problems of rehabilitation which, in a number of cases, have prevented them from working to capacity while, world prices have risen, partly be cause of the scarcity of their products.
have shown, the
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Hugo unsatisfied markets Before the war, the consump-in Australia await their return to full tion of oil per head of the Far need is for more ond still more Eastern population Was very production from Far East oil-
with! production, and perhaps in
compared
the fields, no other commodity is thinmali
correspondlag consumption
Moreover, as Industrialisation Western countries. The surplua more true than oll,
Australia and Rothers pace in The Far East was once re-production was really taken up the Far East the need for more!
most by Australia and New Zealand, world's
from oll
readily accessible Harded ng the
civilisa olf-bearing important
region. countries whose Western
n far greater Before
markets will be accentuated. Far Eastern 011 Long before the huge resources tlons demanded
able ato
to meet of the United States, Venezuela, amount of oil. The Far Eastern
Unlor, the Soviet
the Middle follfelds, therefore, provided the
this Increasing demand from Carribean were major proportion of their own
their own East and the
and neighbouring Australasia's all require. developed, the Far East was and
countries ways must be found oil
the technical of overcoming Producing
further involved In sumelent
problem satisfy the rather to
development. primitive needs
the local populations and, in later years, even certain of the needs of the outside world. But, today, its output is only a minute fraction of the world's total yield.
on
of
scalements,
NEED FOR MORE
resources
In regions where oll is likely Today, as the recent Anglo- American oll controversy and to be found, the terrain is not difficulties of restoring always hospitable towards those the unrestricted supplies of petrol who
She Has Written
250
Books
In
University are pressing There are few young boys and girls in the world today their appeal to the public who do not delight in the adventures woven around "Mr for 200 or more house Tumpy," "Rubbalong," the "Sauce-Pan Man" and the sparrows for more accurate many other lovable characters created by Enid Blyton. confirmation of the medical book, magazine and newspaper, the stories told by this school's initial evidence
popular British author are road wherever children love that these birds carry
fair tales-and that is everywhere. germa which
cause food- poisoning.
The research workers do not want small boys with airguns
to start a mass slaughter of the birds, but they say that it is essential for them to be sup
lied with the sparrows within the next eight or 12 weeks. On the other hand, the local RSPCA are against the proposal and cundemn the whole idea. Says
spokesman: their
have "WC
to teach spent years trying
tights and feelings."
as "Britain's is this spinner of muke-Ilans Andersen"? How does believe who is fast becom-she manage to write so pro- lifically int, apart from her books-she has written 250-she produces a great number of short stories, fortnightly magazine, film
But what sort of personing known
REARING
religious books for children?
SNAILS FOR scripts, school readers and
COOKING
A wild French snail can, people that these birds have if he is lucky, live until he dies a natural death at the But Medical experts any investiga. ripe old age of seven.
revealed
that at if he is one of the pampered tions have times the birds carry one of kind the boiling pot may get
food the germs which cause 100 him at the age of two. poisoning. Stuce the war there) have been several big outbreaks Three is the perfect edible yin age four the limit for a juicy, of food poisoning, particularly in canteens, where sparrows flew
succulent chew.
in and hopper about the tables
would deprive it of its wealth. No doubt, with,
12nancial backing, these
difficulties could be overcome and some of the strain removed from other oil-producing reglous. to be a but this would seem task
for those
governments which are interested in develop- ing the economie resources of the Far East rather than for com- mercial undertakings which, naturally, reek safeguards be- are investing huge sums capital development.
COMPARISON
In
The following table illustrates how Far Eastern oil output com. pares with the world total all production:
Oil production in metric tons, including natural gasoline:
Far Eastern production 7,870,000 (1948), 10.130,000 (1938).
World
total production 480,000,000 1948), 200,535,000 (1938).
Far Eastern production of oil in 1948 included 4,410,000 tons from the whole of Indonesia and Enle Blyton Is a charming
2,790,000 from British Borneo. brown-eyed Englishwoman who other countries namely, India, lives with
and husband. Mr
Japan, China Pakistan,
the re- Darrell Waters, a distinguished Burma--contributed and two teen-aremainder. surgeon, in a beautiful house daughters
shire. about
her
.
at Beaconsfield, in Buckingham- The postwar drop in produc- with increased 20 mlics fromtion coincided London. To her, writing is not demand from every country in the For East, except Japan, hard work but a pleasure,
where the decline in military FLOW OF IDEAS tiemand more than offset the "Ideas flow into my mind and growing civilian requirements. At the same time, the reduc- take possession of it," she says. "My characters come singing tion in American exports com- and dancing into my imagian-pelled Far Eastern consumers to unmolested. Suspicions even- There are several different tion. Take the Sauce-Pan Man rely on larger supplies from the tually turned to these birds, and kinds of cultivated suails, cachis idiosyncrasy is bursting into Middle East. This means that
excellence insuly songs which alway begin increased production is
more specimens are now wanted from with individual
and taste. Big with the word Two Why than ever a matter of urgency if various parts of the city and, colour, size
White" is the gourmet's choice he always comes on the reene those countries are to maintain suburbs,
though the "Small Grey" is very singing is beyond me--but he healthy economle progress.
veet and tender.
always doest"
Although the proven reserves The French were by no means
Twenty publishers in Britain of oil in the Far East prevent the
The figst snail enters.
and four in the United States estimated at the beginning of sparrows getting near human Bomans laid out snail parks, fed are kept busy issuing the flood 1019 to be 200,000,000 tons--less food or places where It is pre- them flour and special fattening of stories that come from Miss than two percent
of the total pared.
foods and ate them for pleasure Blyton's pen. The first print-world" ngure-only a few areas
medicine. For wheezying of an Entd Blyton book I have
been
developed. fully raw. in bestseller I Meanwhile, the battle of the chests they swallowed then:
advance, for Others, where oll may be found, the cod-liver seldom are sparrows between incdical re-iSmall syrup was
fewer than 50,000 are being developed by British. coples sold in the first edition American and Dutely interests. search and the Association con- off of the Roman young. tinues.
i Cultivation is ensy and cheap. and more usually it is 100.000. Still more awalt exploration.
Tany countries, particularly Two million can be bred in a half-folland, broadcast her tales in nere park (walled to keep them Water-Bus Route at tume), and give an annual regular series.
are con-
if present Andings firmed special precautions will!
he recommended to
To Be Extended
and
were
SOCIAL BENEFITS
Among the Far Eastern oil- harvest of between $60,000 and Mies Blyton claims she 18
producing countries, Indonesia, 1,000.000. Fanciers recogulse among the happiest women in which is by far the
mast im- Not only for her
reason Lo age and quality by size and the world.
portant, has most work and the happiness of her regret the decline In oil pro home, but for the constantly ex-duction. The all industry in pressed affection of her world- Indonesia has brought important wide audience. She has a fan-
benefits to those who are socia mail of 30,000 letters # year.
engaged in it and, in the present FIRST AT 14
circumstances, the new Govern- ment would not wish to see these jeopardised.
are
blue
blooded,
winter
Leofour.
Snails The
water-bus Thames service, which for the past two hungry vegetarians, years or so has become increas, ground and sleep all
It ingly popular with Londonery without food or drink. and visitors to Britain's capital then they are gathered.
They pay no attention to their city, is to be greatly enlarged |
have laid for the Festival of Britain 1951, offspring; once they Work has already started on a their eggs their parental duties new 85-feet river taxi to carry jare over.
250 passengers and other boats'
will be commissioned to aug į
rent the present bus fleet.
The water-bus route at pre-
Flaming Ices
un-
When her youngest daughter, Imogen, now 13, fell ill from In-
and two
fantile paralysis two years ago, Moreover, the country's other main industries-rubber a great spate of letters cables of sympathy arrived, and tin-are encountering their! "So you see", she says, "although own problems, Ilubber is faced I have only two daughters, I with serious competition from have, perhaps the largest family the American synthetic rubber In the world."
and tin production is oping consumption to such
vent extends from Greenwich in Proudly a soda-fountain in the cast to Putney in the west.Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
When Miss Blyton had her an extent that an international Plans are being made to extend veiled the ultimate in ice cream first story published at the age scheme to restrict output is now the routo westwards to Hamsundues-vanilla ice cream of 34, she was so happy that she believed to be the only way to mersmith and to build new doused in hot fudge sauce and decided that henceforth writing prevent disaster.
at London Bridge and then a
For marshmallow topped must be her fo's work.
piera Blackfriars.
08
business
wns
with three drops of alcohol, the children of the world that It is apparent, therefore, that which was
ignited before was a most fortunate decision. expansion of this important in- Landing stages
dustry is a main factor not only on the south serving, banks of the river will lead. But just
Enid Blyton's stories appear in providing employment directly to the Festival's exhibi- tooming. the
in Arc brigade regularly
directly concerned, the Hongkong those
in facilitating economie tion grounds in London, which arrived and banned the Baming Telegraph Boys and Girls' Page also extend along the riverside be-sundaes. Too dangerous for every Saturday. The current progress in the For East, on
fur coats tween Westminster and Water-people wearing
or serial is "Five Foll Into which many vital political issues
depend. loo Bridges.
Adventure."
celluloid collars,
K. O. CANNON
SMALL CELLS, THEY AND,
I'M AFRAID "BUT THEY'LL HAVE TO DO YOU FOR THE
NIGHT. I'LL ĞER YOU GET
A FRECH FOO YACH IN THE MORNING... GETTING NEAR MY DEOTIMI, A-
TOO.
The Riddle of the Red Domino
V-AHNS
I BROUGHT THAT FOR CANNON. NOW WE MUST GET OUT OF HERE QUICKLY, MA ROSEBUD. YOU GET BACK TO THE HIGHWAYMAN'S REST,
PROFILE WILL HAVB-LEFT \UY NOW, I'M DOING BACK
TO LONDON
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