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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1049.

Life At 4,500 Feet Below The Ocean:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Weird Sights Of Elongated

Jelly Fish, Venus Girdles

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(Editor's note: Following is an interview by radio telephone with Dr. Olin Barton, who on Turaday dropped 4,600 fret into the Pacific Ocean in his bruthoscope for a new world diving record. The following was told by Dr. Barton to the United Prein) Aboard Velero IY off Santa Cruz Island, California,

August 17.

I did not have a bad time on Tuesday on my benthoscope dive. I suffered from cold and glowing organisms flickering up and down outside in the dark made me dizzy for a time. But I did not suffer from lack of oxygen as I did on Monday.

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Phosphorescent animals were most numerous abouf

2,000 or 2,500 feet. I would describe them as like fireflies on a mid-summer's night. could not identify all of them but many of them were jellyfish. Saw some lantern fishes, I am sure. I made about 25 little sketches of the arrangements of lights I sow. Some of the lights were so bright that they were reflected inside the benthoscope.

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While the lights were on I let the benthoscope down slowly could see as far as 20 or 30 feet. Into onrrow ocean canyons, Pat after the Jights failed the I would like to go down with glow from the organisms them an expert on the subject of drep

That selves was not visible more than java ennyons.

would be

10 feet in the inky dark-fuseful to scirner, I am not parti-

cularly disappointed because

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amazing

Draft Of New! Hungarian Constitution

Budapest, August 17.

The Hungarian Vice-Premior, Matyán Itskovi, presented the draft of the new Hungarian Con stitution to the National Assembly today.

to

He said it was designed give legal sanction to the political and social conquests made by the People's Democracy and to give legal basis to all the changes which have taken place since the Hiberation.

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I think the weirdest sight wite was unable to go lower than 4.-ports per T.T, "Gieorgie" will be closed 1+y

some elangated Jelly fish pointed 500 feet. There will be other op- Mine Lee Wat hen and at both ends Kattest T

with logitudinalportunities. It was on tr

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ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES,

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How

Rediffusion

Miserably Cold

When I reached 4,500 fent I had to decide whether to go farther. I was miserably cold and the swinging of the hall made me slightly seasick. But the main factor In deciding to come back up was my feeting that I had done my best at des. cribing organisms I could see I felt it would bu better

JAPAN TO ENCOURAGE TOURISM

Friday, August 25 GPO)—(Parcele 12 Noon, ¡Ber 1.30

... d. 2 p.m. Kowloon (20)=(['arre}} 11.10 ...

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other wir stated, Registered Article Arch Parcel Puls

M minutes eneller than the undinacy mall In ctum hefure 10a.m., Reglaterr mul Parcel Ponts ejuse a p., un previous day

Tokyo, August 18, Japan, with energetic proddins de

of the occupation, is going after the tourist trade in order to buiki up its dollar income,

Your kinds of lours Twelve different wad cntil the lights wer fixed lave

authorised by General bern could deserthe things better. Douglas MacArthur's

Headquar We wise not able to get power fers to entice travellers to tarry to the ball, I was not able to in picturesque Nippon and spend turn on the big light or see any some of the foreign exchange of the wonderful creatures nutupan needs to pay for importest side. On Monday, I had almost food and raw materiais. famted at 2,300 feet and 1 hart The tours range from a two- the feeling that the bull was the staut, But on Tuesday I hatt a small fan pinch-hitting for regular fum. The for and I could

of

day stop-over from ships duck- og at Kobe and Yokohama, to

31-day do luxe itinerary scenic high spots. There is also six-day tour economy-sized hear noises from costing US.355 plus railroad fare throughout which tourists must

made a high

sound

above coming down the cable as

I swung at 4.500 feet. But I don't stay at Japanese hotels and inns think there were any noises out and eschow the plusher hotels

in the sea and I could not have boasting heard them anyway. There is a comforts.

very little stretch in cable and when barge roiled, the motion

the was transmitted to the benthos-

cope.

But it was far worse in

air

conditioning and

executive of General MacArthur's

Mr. M. H. Halff. officer Economic and Scientifle Section predicted that between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 will be spent by travellers in Japan in the next four

Right now, however, Japan has But it was barely enough accommodation to calm day and there was little

the needs out meet jerking. As I

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Thwarth Dus king

Programine for Wormen. Cod Morning.

when

I made a dive on a rough filmA | rlay, I did worry somewhat about:

the cable breaking.

1932

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years.

on

of the

3.000

I came back up out tourists who are expected to vis!! of the darkness I was able

Nippo rul

Last year count my Angers at 1,000 feet. Water in the

'spont $28,500 in Pacific is colder wear to 1049.

In Bermuda tours.

extremely and cleaner

Japan thun

limited During

the Arst

five but not as transparent,

months of 1049 half that number Lack Of Oxygen has already spent close to $60.- felt surprisingly better as 000 for food and lodging. not for the dive neared complation, including what they spent think it was due to lack of souvenirs. oxygen. I think it would Bo best in future diven to delay turning on oxygen and get alight oxygen jag. It

would make me bolder

and moro cheerful, I definitely do not plan to go down on Wednes day. We wil have to Instell new cable for our electric lights and cameraa,

Lack Facilitios

the

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PRIDAY, AUGUST 19 Closing Tifhem by Atr

Геог Acuity And Tal; Airmail for Chanocking and Chengtu

Repm, (Ord.) 3.30 .. Airmat for Manila, Guam, Toralulra, URA and Canada, (Rex.) 4,30 p.m..

Cheil & p.m.

Al Paresi Post for Manlis, Hpoolulu and USA, (Kowloom CPD) 450 p.m..

PO&p.m.

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p.n Airu!! for Halphone and Hanol,

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(Ord. Now,

Closing Time by Sea pihow and Pakhod vín Hollow, 10a.m. Strai, Aden, Egypt and Europe y

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Airmail

Clean Time by Alt

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Noon,

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1.30 p.m., (Ord.) 2 pm.

Airmal for Swatow and Amby: Airmail for Chungking and Chenatu, (Reg.),

p.m., 10ml.) 3.40 p.m.

Airmail for Bangkuk, (Deg.) 4.30 p.m..

(Ord. p.m.

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BUNDAY, AUGUST 25

Closing Times by Air

Airmail for lungkuk, Singapere, Hata- via and Colombo, (Hex.) p.m. 20/K, (Oril 10 m. 21/8,

Alemal for Saigon and Purly, (Rag.).)

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*.m. 21/8.

Cloring Times by Ben

Manila, .. Swatow, 10 M.

MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Closing Timer by Air Airmail for Manila, USA and Canada,

(Reg.) 1.19 p.m., (Ord.) 20.m. Airmali far. tangkok, Rangimon Cale

rutta, Katach), (Bears,

Nairobi, Mombasa, Dares Ralaam, Mauritiu Johannesburg and Cairo via Karachi) Alexandria, Rome and London, Kow- Jon CPO (Reg.) p.m., (On) 4.36 p.: Gro: (Reg.) 4.30 p.m., (Or.) &p.m. Airmal for Singapore, (Reg.)

p.m. (Ord.) Bp.m.

The main trouble with Ja pancso tourlat hotels, asserts Mr. Halff, is that they are de flelent in sanitary facilities. "Foreign travellers do not

ob- ject to Japanese style fans," he sold. "In fact many prefer them. But they do insist on adequate sanitary facilities -and in

this was unable to take

any respect Japanese inns are woeful- will

certainly ly movies. Repairs

ly lacking" of take

a few weeks

be or may

As a result, Allied Headquar- more. I would like to go deeper!

ters is needling Japanese hotel but I am more interested in keepers to modernise already following the bottom and making existing better class hotels and 1--Retal Gra D'Agnitus. -Honk contour dives. At the present Inns. Mr. Half,

Kung' Popular Tenur O'Neill o

who takes time I have given up the idea businessman's view, points out of wh

wheels on the benthoscope but that the nice thing about 'Jn- think we can swim along the panese scenery is that it never

wears out, There are comparatively flat "A hundred thousand people bottoms DIT Californin and I can look and look at Mt. Fuji," think we can start at several he said, "without depreciating it hundred feet depth and skim out in value in any way. Scenery is to several thousand feet. I don't the one natural Japanese resource hold any great belief for thus that is practically inexhaustible." type of dive in helping academic Controls are being relaxed Japan-which the Japan Travel all along the line to permit Bureau Insists is a year-round visitors to come to what is stil resort-are the hot springs, the an occupied country." Friends winter skiing, the summer cor

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