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Antonio purer of all

been ordered by Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia. The round-up is to make sure that the nid Yugoslavia is receiving from the West does not disappear into the black market.

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GOOD ARE RUSSIA'S JETS?

by JAMES STUART

N. Korea the world's first: R Jet propeited mir war-m

saring up Formations ! fof. Russiad-built - MIOT 16)). have been" in " battle'' with- American Jet Aghters./

Though both the Luftwaffe and the RAPURO/100-fighters in service before the end of World War II thủy neve

lashed:1" is admitted now that the original squadron of RAF- Maleora, our firm- Jets: which were sent to the Western- Front early in 1040.. were- Inrgely a propagatida force.

In the Param, fighting. nothing has emerged yet to suggest that the Ruslan-bullt tet-fithters. for all: their ultra- modern appentance are better tite. North American "Babre. Aghters used by tho'

United States Air Force.

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in

charges of cor Yugoslavia on ruption and black deals. Their sentences radged from death to two years hard report Bre being closely,

Mtudied One of the sentenced labour.

Powers. men was the general manager administrator warehouse.

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a skeleton believed to belong to the famous "missing ink" era hos been found in a derelict north Italian castle has brought fame at last to an archacologist who has spent a small fortune on Roman excavations.

A RUMOUR that

He is Count Ragogna, the last descendant of a noble family

who now preters to live in and room In his crumbling castle than spend money on anything but excavations.

was

The fossilised bones of the sup- posect "missing Ink" were found in miocene formations and have led experts to believe that the

it creature-whatever sluod about 8 ft. 5 inches talt: and walked upright, Compar son between the Roman skeleton and those of the mlocene creature show that the two structures are strange-

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MIKOYAN

Man behind the MIG,

for the Rolls-Royce engines 'were 0: centrifugal dow desyn, and entirely different.

It is believed La tho Russians- have built the MIO 16 around engine designa they seized from the. Qermina at the end of the war.

We

that know

many of the Junkers jet scientists were taken to Rušiln'ın 1948 to work for the Coviel

I MIG 16 is the mystery airplane of the Far East war Little 1s known about it outside the Iron qurtain, and kere can be no doubt that tho America pilots' combat. First reports indicated that

Western

tli by

Since the Arst swept-hack wing MIO 15 ranged itself in combat with the Americans, a number of alarmist reports have appeared about advanced design Russian

airplane.

It has been suggested that the MIC is powered by a jet nxine developed from the small number of British Holis Royce

which engines

wo allowed the Soviet to have a few years ago.

The plain fact is we do not vet know what engine the Russian Aghier han, but all the evidence pointa to it being fitted with an axin) flow* typo of 1ct. If It is true then wo can stop blaming ourselves.

the MIC 10 was faster than anything · the United Nationa hat. This now appears to be inise.

The Sabre, now in quantity production in Amerien, and in Equadron Cervica in Korea holds the world's speed record at 670 m.p.h. It in bellaved that the MIO has no more than about 040 mp.hi otsita command.

There are reliable reports that the Russian fighters can

*The diference between ountyi. tugat now and arias flow fete llor in the way the airits compresor- before entering the bombastian chambers The azial fowl envirid has a shuller diamater than a centrifugal design of the cente power. **The criptnat Whittie design' was a. ovitrifugal, type.

London "Express' Berwice.

Glaciers,

outstrio the United Sintes Navy Panther Jet fighters which are operating from carriers in the Far East. Bul AR<BTC) has been shot down by: w; rather, slower, Bhooting Bear Jer of the USA.P.

are

ON HIS OWN THE MIO's designers

General Artem L. Mikoya: and Mikhail L. Gurevich With General Alexander Yako lev, designer of the Yak Eghters these are flussia's outstanding fighter designer's Mikoyan la an Anggalan, aged about 60.

They haya collaborated in Aghter design since tire earig thirties. but it is now believed that they have separated and that Gurevich is designing on hit own

The appearance of MIO formation means that the fighter must be in quantity production.

Though we have had no chance of assessing the MIC's performance

British against Jota, one thing is certain. We have no swept-wing fighters in production. We have Arst-rate designs like the Hawker 1081 and the Vickers-Supermarine 535, the latest successor to our Battle of Britain Hurri ennes and Spitares. To watch the prototypes fly at Farn borough Lila car sufficient to know that Oil designs are equal to the world's best.. if not better. But only straight wing airplanes are in production. WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED

was

and hero is the MIG 15

HANS CRESCENT, LONDON'S NEW STUDENT CENTRE

B

-By E.B. TIMOTHY

London, Jan. 5. DENEDICE domine, nos et haec" the pre- ciso, quiet academic voice sounded from the High Table, down the long diping. hall filled with university students standing at polished oak tables, and was lost before it reached the lower end.

the walls

My attention wandered from the Latin

grace; the carved oaken panels lining nt the hall reflected the light from. a multitude of electrie

chandeliers, ornale billars reached to an exquisitely de- signed ceiling: highly polished oak tables, lined with students of many nationalities, streich But in front of me....

1

"Tua sumpluri sumus”. became conscious the grace was ending as, with s rustle. the students cat down to dine.

For a brief spell, I thought myself transplanted to Oxford, where in ancient colleges, hua- dreds of students would at that same moment also be dining in Hall, amid oak panelling and preceded by a Latin grace,

It

But this was not Oxford, was Hans Crescent in London. where a good many Oxford such BS High Table, Buttery, etc., are used. Like

names

desert-even

trees-are on the

RITAIN is, in fact, Striking as those

B becoming

1

facts are, shade by put in the warmer they nie

what has taken place in Alaško. place in which to live. There the vast Muir Glacier The change-not only in treated nearly 14 miles between Britain but in the whole of 1902 and 1940, the Northern Hemisphere- Even has been going on century.

for

Africa has felt the

2 change in climate. All the g'a- clers on the three high East African volcanoes-Kilimanjaro, Today, after studying and Mount Kenya, and Ruwenzori analysing the reports of a corps have been diminishing. The lovel of correspondents, I can present of the lakes too has dropped. new and remarkable picture Lake Victoria has fallen 7ft, in of a which glaciers, the Sahara De- is said to have encroached south- changing landscape, in ten years. The Sahara Desert

sert, birds. fish, and even the wards at a mean rute of 1km. forests are on the move.

per year

The evidence of the melting of the sea ice in higher latitudes and of the recession of the

glaciers is startling.

Greenland change

America

move

Moreover, instruments do not support the idea that more heat

have risen Bdeg. F By ALLAN RANDS reaching us from the sun.

of a Cor-

Oxford, the spirit porato Body, berishing hig standards Crescent,

T

Important thing

The most about the British Council's now Hans Crescent Residential Cen- tre is not its luxurious furnish- ings, its ample facilities or even the Introduction of British students, buj, that all residents feel themselves members of a community, clothed with a spirit and dignity of its own, And when students dine in Hall, the High Table (where alt be staff), the Latin grace, the cor pocato act of worship-all syme bolise respect for the commun ity as a whole.........

To call Hons Crescent a hos- tel demonstrates insensibility to its atmosphere. It is not only a centro where Colonial and English students eat, sleep and alt around between loc- tures. To its members, it is a University Hall of Residence, the extension of their Univer- ally life outside the lecture room and laboratory.

Here students studying wide- ly different subjects can gather

Common Room in the Junior' end create that combustion of ideas so essentially a part of learning in university Ho; here too; they have a place to which they can be proud to in- vile the ordinary folk of Bri- tain-for Colonial students do not always want to bo guess- they like to be, hosts as well.

If, hitherto, Colegial students In London have felt uprooted and adrift, Hang Crescent ta based on mutual respoct.

The visitor in early, impreBD- ed with Hans Crescent. Leav ing Kulahtabridge underground station he is shortly confronted with a handsome white portico whose stately "colonnade ileCS to a broad balcony. Through The revolving doorway, past

the

the reception office on right, the visitor ands himself In a foyer above which wide, carved staircase leads to the four floors of bed-study rooms. Left of the doyer is the Junior Com mon Room, a large place with a muscians' balcony and to the right is the library-study room, the Bentor Common Room, the dining-hall, and, in preparation, the music hall.

course of concert and

Adjoining the concert unt music hall will be an art gal- lery where Mr Hugh Paget, Director of the Centre, hopes to hold exhibitions at Colonial arts and crafts, Háns Crescent, he intends, will not only be Professor Gordon Manley centre for overscas and Brish

that sive nagdcultural developments suggests

the warming-students, but will, also project of Britain, and Northern the colonies to men and women ub well inside the Arctic Circle.

No more striking evidence can ment of centres of atmospheric

Europe is due to the displace- in Britain,

On the ground floor of the

In parts of South the average tempera- ture is estimated to

since 1890. The glaciers In the Peruvian Andes have boen melt- ing at an astonishing rate.

Evidence abounds that, with WITH the threat of Western IN 1910 the navigation season

along Western Spitzbergen. the amelioration of the climate be found of the warming up of pressure, resulting in more walm Centre, shaded lights gleam atom bomb superiority her lasted only three months; now in Northern Europe, the florn, northam climes thun in the air spreading northward from softly in dark panelled rooms enly obstacle to world-wide the period extends to at least and with it the fauna, has steadi- changing habits of birds.

the middle of the Atlantic, Why and corridor, but ugstairs the gression, Russia has now launch seven months. The ice in some ly moved to higher lailtudea.

this process started nobody yet bullding takes on a

alfferent ed a new drive to increase the parts of Greenland has fallen Consequent upon the migration Mr James Fisher, the ornitho knows.

hue. From the three-room slek oulpt of her uranium mines, back. to such an extent that the of ooed to more northern waters, logist, tells me that the fieldfare,

bay on the first figar, to the last One result of this campaign whole landscape has changed its the Greenlanders

He will not, however, commit study-bedroom on the Afth, the are turning has been that some 16 new mines character. The northernmost

warming-up is Over 100 of the 170 study-bed- rooms are single rooms, and the

The winter of 1946-47 in Spitzbergen and Greenland was the mildest ever recorded.

In

I student.

have been opened near Carlsbad, gnciers in the world--the Maria on seal hunting to cod Ashing blown from South East Norway himself to any opinion as to woodwork is of virgin white.

the 1912 only an occasional cod to Greenland by a gale in 1937, whether the famous Czech resori. By Sophie and the Academy on the was caught off their west coast; has now established breeding likely to continue. inposing the hardest terms on tip of Peary Land--have shrunk in 1925 the catch reached 1,000 colonies there. Iceland has been Aluding to the bad weather rest accommodate tw, students her satellite, Russia is making the former by 11⁄2 miles in 27 tons; in 1846 it was 13,000 tons. colonised in recent years by the of 1950, he told me: "In a few each. A telephone is available sure that the mines are worked years, the latter by five miles in

Other Bish which have migrat-

each group of bedrooms. exclusively for the Soviet Union. 40 years.

ed farther north are haddock, storing, short-cared owl. shovel. years, time we may be looking to

Includes a. halibut, and herring Supervision of the mines and

tufted duck, and three back to 1950 as the first year of Bedroom furalture fer,

a change back to worsening wardrobe and a desk for each their output is the responsibility

species of gull During the past conditions." of Russian engineers billeted with their families in Carlsbad's

Iceland has a sirailar story. luxury hotels. This exploitation There the shrinkage of the ofcunist mining engineers, have been ico-covered ever since ice has permitted the rear-

Czechoslovakia irks even the glaciers is exposing areas which

who often calculate how much the medieval farmers were their country should earn were forced to leave them 600 years ing of she allowed to sell the uranium | ago. instead of handing it over free to the Russiana.

The mines themselves are worked either by Czech, Bul-

It is the same in Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

In Switzerland 1947 stands out

garlon, Rumanian and Hungarian as a year when the glacier miners who have been attracted shrinkage wos "catastrophic." by the high wages and special But the process had been going rations or by political prisoners on since the last century. who have been sentenced to

Bird pointers

30 years the zone in Finland where both brambling and chof- finch breed has shifted nearly

Y land, the melting of the 150 miles northward.

sheep in

Greenland; There was, however, a set-back

In the bitter winter of 1948-49, when 10,000 of the 25,000 sheep perished.

Expert view

MEN in various branches of In Iceland, more barley in

science including meteoro- being grown, while northern logists, glaciologists, and astrono species of both birds and insects mers-are probing the accumu are being replaced by southern lating data for clues as to the species.

cause of the changes and hints In Northern Scandinavia, the as to what the future may hold.

are spreading rapidly

forced labour. As soon as each Backward march trees

mine is opened the area is sur- rounded by barbed wire und de- clared "forbidden" zone.

Recently 17 Czech policemen and a large group of prisoners escaped across the border into the American zone of Germany Now, however, security raca aures are oven more severe and miners suspected of even trying to escape are ruthlessly shot.

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above their former limits. Areas One theory put forward for of Sweden formerly bare are the earth's warming-up is that the edge of glaciers now low, while in the northern pro radiation. This view is not so OURIST hotels sited then on being invaded by birth and will It may be due to increased solar

often

And themselves a

milo vince of Jamtland the Swedes

away. The Pontresina Glacier, are experimenting with fruit popular as it was, because, to for instance, receded milo in trees apple, pear, plum, and instance one objection, increas 80 years. Some glaciers, include even peach. ing the well-known ones in front of the Berliner Butte, have. The Russians have for going completely disappeared.

timic been claiming exten

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