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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1930. ·

Water consumption of HK shipping sharply reduced

(By Our Harbour Reporter)

Water consumption of Hong Kong shipping has boon reduced to as much as one-third of the normal supply of 600,000 gallons a day-a direct result of the response, by local ship- ping firms to a “Savo Water" appeal by the Marine Department.

Ships have been advised by their respective prin- cipals in the Colony to fill up at the last port before calling here. Most American-flagged ocean-going vessels are making Manila their water base. Many ships limit their supply to the nearest port of call from here.

If the rainfall is low during the following months the situation will become serious, It added.

"State within a state" in Eastern Germany

Berlin, April 2.

Two Russian_mystery men are uncrowned kings of "a state within

state." Thoy mine uranium in East Germany for Soviet atomic weap-

ons.

Surrounded by Kremlin-like secrecy, Nikolai Mik- hailovich Essakia and Mikhail Mitrofanovich Maltsev have lived in the Saxony mountains since 1947.

From their fortress · head-1 quarters at Aue, they rule a barriended Industrial principality about 10 miles long and 20 miles wide adjacent to Czechoslovakia. Seventy .thousand German miners are estimated payroll of their

Soviet stock company "Wismut Aktien- Gesellschaft."

сп the

But operations, after more than three years, are reported to bo stabilised for long-term produc tion. Imported Russian engineers Although the Soviet Union claim that working conditions in

bellaved to have hupe the Saxony mines

compare uranium deposits within

favourably with them in their

Spood-up

qwn, frontiers, exploitation of native land, the ore in Baxony could not have been more hectia If the life of Stalin had depended on it.

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Another sub sighted off California

San Diego, California,

April 2 The U.S. Navy said it has re- ceived a report from the Coast Guard lifeboat station at Point Arguello, North of Santa Barbara, that a submarine was sighted at 8.20 a.m. today at a distance eight miles off shore.

The report was announced here by a pubile Information officer of the Eleventh Naval District.

The Coast Guard men reported that the sub was travelling at had its running lights on and that about 18 miles per hour, that it

There is still a speed-up. Minors got only two free days month. But the hardiest among them can make as much an 2,- 000 East marks a month through, sald thero ara no United States no guns were evident. The Navy premiums and bonuses, four submarines in that area, times

more than they would The Navy said it does not con- receive elsewhere in East Garsider this a confirmed report and many. Vodka

that Navy planes have been sent

ty

The largest organisation serving army of workers have ever seen that had been famous for their continual watch in gun towers.

orders from Moscow, Additional thousands of Ger- Esrakia and Maltsev suddenly mans work for Wimat, building mobilised a German labour force dams, spur rallways, houses and in mid-1947, put it behind bar- roads in its uranium concession. bed wire, and started digging.

Soviet troops guarding and The conscripts included re- policing for Wismut are nearly turned war prisoners, white col- equal in numbers to two divisions, lar workers, factory hands and ly am Schnapps flow free to investigate.

and its territory is exempt from the Just a sprinkling of experienced elty prostitutes have flocked there Arguello reported there was some mining villages, Coast Guardsmen at Point East German miners. authority of the

Old mountain shafts which once brawls are commonplace.

for easy money, and barroom overcast in that area but visibill- republic.

Wismut never

publishes a supplied medieval Europe with

was 20 miles-Asseclated stockholders' report or publicly silver were re-opened. New ones serious. Searchlights play on the

But in the mines, all is grimly Press. declares a dividend. Few of the were begun, picturesque springs entrances at night. Guards are on Essakla or Maitsev face to face. curative mineral waters equivalent to US$12,500,000, Wis- hotels were taken over for com- for special permission. It is like

With a

a rouble capitalisation ruined by dynamiting, Resort visits home, workers must

To leave the uranium area for mut is owned down to its last

pany offices and billets. the USSR's non-ferrous metal in- Guare of German pitchblende by Maay

applying for foreign country.

Nobody enters dustry trust.

Maitsev's litle kingdom

The reduction has been maintained for a satisfactory length of time so that no res- trictions on the supply of In Hong Kong today, there are water to ocean-going shipping waterboats supplying fresh water four companies which operate have been found necessary.

obtained from two reservoirs on A number of shipping organise the Island, at the Talkoo Re- tions operating a large feet of servoir and the Jubilee Reservoir acean-going vessels have co-In the New Territories. operated in helping, to save the Colony's water supply by reduce ing their requirements only to necessity.

Many firms have diverted their ships to other ports for refil be- fore they call at Hong Kong.

ships Most

have American schedules to All up elther at Manila

Or Japanese ports en route to Hong Kong. This has consider ably decreased consumption.

The Dutch shipping firm, Royal Interocean Line, which has more than 15 ships calling here in a month, has advised their agents abroad to do the needful at Straits and Indonesian ports.

Official appeal

The Marine Department clr- cularised the "Save Water" appeal to all shipping firms in the Colony requesing that they exercise the greatest enre in supplying fresh water to their ships calling here.

local shipping with fresh water is the Union Waterboat Company, which has feet of six modern steel-hull waterboats. This com- pany provides fresh water supply to the ocean-going fleet.

The others are Chinese-owned- Tai Kee, Hung Lee and Sze Woo, each having one steel water lighter. They cater mainly to river shipping and smaller harbour craft.

is of 300 tons and

Each boat of the "Union" fleet with up-to-date facilities for de- Is equipped

livery to a ship anchored in mid- stream. Water is pumped by electric power through a four- inch diameter hose-pipe.

The Port Health Office conducts a regular Inspection of the water- boat fleet in port. Conditions of storage, delivery and the potabi- lity of the water are carefully checked.

The "Unlan" feet has its base near the Taikoo Sugar Refinery where fresh water is siphoned from the Taikoo Reservoir through the PWD meter main

It was disclosed that the nr. maidally supply to ocean-going in port la 800,000 gallons. The appeal pointed out that the water supplied in Hong Kong through the PWD meters is only The Chinese-operated feet fill about one-third of the cost of the up at a base off Laichikok, tak- lowest chorge in any other porting water from the Jubilee Re- In Far East.

servoir. They "roost" for the "We are

anxious to keep our night at the Yaumati Typhoon port facilities as cheap as possi- Sheller. Each ship has a total ble" it further stated.

capacity of 105 tons.

Declaring that it is not the in- tention of Government to force shipping agents or ownerd to ap- ply for supply and have applica- tions scrutinised, the circular pro- claimed that the Colony's water resources are now quite insum- cient for present day needs.

Each company has its own call sign. Eeginning at dawn, the waterboals rendezvous at their respective water base to All up before they visit "clients" in answer to demands.

Generally, each boat fills up only once a day.

All of its ore is shipped to Rus- sia, the highest grade by air or rall express, the remainder by slow freight.

POP

BAH!

were

inexperienced miners were killed or hurt in under- ground disasters. Thousands ran away from what they charged were slave labour camps and at- tempted to reach West Berlin or West Germany,

IN THE OLD

DAYS THEY WOULD

HAVE THROWN:

OVER OPE

TOMATORS AT

AN ACT LIKE

THIS

!

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MY ENLARGER BAY SHOULD MAKE YOU GROW FAST AS FAST AS Ar BULLET MOVES! WE'LL SEE

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ask

much chance of touring Wismut territory as if it were Shangri-la,

uranium has played in Soviet de- How great the role that Saxony visa to go

to a velopment of the atomic bomb is

anybody's guess. But there is no. Essakia's and slackening in the production drive. by clearance from the command undertaken large-scale explora-

excopt The Wismut

company han of the Soviet occupation army. tions recently In the Harz moun- The ordinary German citizen of loins Thuringia-Associated nearby Leipzig or Dresden has as Press.

COULD ONLY STOP

OH--WE'RE GROWING?

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