1951-07-14 — Page 5

AFRICA POSES A CHALLENGE

By Donald McCormick

SOUTHERN Rhodesian Juin the Union of South Afeten. Premier Sir Godfrey Any such step would streng Huggins is a happy man. The plan that he has urged for the past 15 years-the creation of a new, powerful the British dominion in heart of Afrien-has been unanimously recommended in a report presented to the British Parliament.

came

has U now Sir Godfrey met with frustrations, Oppu-l- tion

faint from the hearts

that id who cuuldn't

territories unite diffrent as Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa land.

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Or, if you end, they said it would be "Dangerous thing." Even the British Government has been chary of supporting a about which so many profeet jople wire dubious.

Why has there been a change of view on the subject of the federatiun of the three ler- ritories, which fogether urr times the size of England and have a population of six million natives and 103,000

Europeans?

Fibཇུt 4:fa!!, at

contarence

in London,

renialives of the three

tories with officials from Commonwealth Relation Colenial- Onters

ameed

recent

repre

terri-

and That

the

then the hands of thore in the Union

who want to make break from the British elcan

That would Commonwealth.

That instead of having menn

dominions as at present, 13ri- we should only have six. dish influence south of Limpopo River would cense. *** There is eppestion among the native: o! Northern Rhodesia and Nyasuerte the scheme.

They repletons that if they were murag d with Southern Ritudesin they would much wore off Gran they be are under en enlightened Bri- tish Colonial Office.

DR. WILLIAMSON

'I don't wear 'em, I sell 'em."

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1951.

Found Fortune Under a Tree

by JOSEPH GARNITY

:

mude

fortune Williamson's

Hitle impact on

hus

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most eligible Buche lor? Thousands of women of all nations have is ugnedly handsome. no doubt that their ideal cal

the world's offer their hands in marriage.

What is there about this for ka Conc diun lumber-man?

a way of life. He still pre- Physically

"Dog" Williamson fers to be known as a geologist.

His In-

All financial and administrs, Include-

he tive responsibilities

bas

attributes

mate is Dr John Thorburn degrees of .B.A.. B.Sc., and delegated

Ph.D.. with fondness for

Williamson, 44 year old music and truture.

geologist, who hails from Montfort, Quelioc, Canada.

Richest man

BY nature, he is said to be To his address at Mwadul, in

madest, and shy. Also, D: Williamson is potentially Tanganyika, equatorial write 500 letters a week to ex richest man in the world. press their admiration and

Lord Nelson-who has left England because

of high taxes-talks about his new life

to hig legal adviser and pariner Mir I. C. Chopra, c friend who financed him in the early difficult days.

Cind th

the ther the

I AM GLAD I HAVE

MOVED TO DUBLIN

Fo

DUBLIN.

011

EVAN STEELE

TOR the last

143 years. the first Lord Nelson his the has stood firmly

"I'm a Colonial," he ex- celebrated pillar, Jooking down O'Connell Street with plains in his slightly Aus the salt whit of the Lifes tralian accent, although I on the

was born in Wiltshire."" in his nostrils.

there was at urgent need for

a union of the territories,

Secondly, cronume

shong there are

that the arguments

Sob. three should become one.

Said the policeman on the for Southern stitute

England

corner, "We'll not be blow. (a Junior dominion

in domesticing him up until we get the Governing affairs), and for Nyasaland ond Six Counties."

Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia read Wales Just over three months

have

ago, on April 12, the sixth rea-Lord Nelson breezed in here as a refugee from British He too scenis income-tax. settled in Dublin.

the t

the

and Scotland, and you some idea of the problem.

All three countries ar sonably

prosperou L momen, but a slump in price of tobacco, sex and cotton, falling-off in the demand could for copper and chrome have a disastrous effect on any one of them. But if they were united. mically stable.

or a

tle is the first Leid Nelson to cut off from the annuity of £5.000 granted to the Admiral's news after Trafalgar.

Income Tax

a

10

12

Clad in untky sbirt and -placks.

the docter spends hems every day at the mine.

The African employees gal wages then elsewhere. Food,

clothing are blankels, Since that day in March 1940 free, There is a free cinema, when the young prospector £30,000 hospital, a cost-price stumbled across the greatest store, with football and dances diamond mine in the world his at week-ends.

Mwadui claim has produced up

10

£3 to £4 million worth gems annually.

of

This wealth -one tenth of the world's total diamond re- venue-has come fran merely bull-dozing the black soll and gravel surface ut his 2,500-

acre e-iate.

Net fer anather 18 years will the 6,000 workers in the area sirike the actual mine—o elgar- shaped "pipc" of diamonds stretching four miles beneath the Shinyanga valley.

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}

Ridiculed

As

Williamson youth, entered McGill University, Montreal, to study law, but n switched holiday in Labrador

his interest to colony.

a safe prospecting.

In old bottles

THE doctor spends four hours cach evening sorting his diamonds which he keeps in old pickle bottles and: Jam jars on the shelves of his office.

The gems to be marketed are kept in an old-fash

old-fashioned wall safe and are flown out of the country in Лat. cigarette lins.

the

Occasionally the doctor goes down to the mhreworkers club to drink and smoke with boys and to lead a sing-song with his favourite number, 1 Had My Way, Dear."

Soute

T

week-ends he Ales to his more comfortable home at Bukoba, 100 miles away, on Lake Victoria.

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When

in month

Eumeone pointed

out

tax is straightened out, but

that I they say

shail et E relund of British intine-tax und jay the Irish rate as a Bur- niment it,ident Lere."

Another sum still being argued of death duties is the amour.

of the Nelion, the

Here he entertains employees present unele, who died in

He became an assistant with

neighbours, black; and Now he thinks of reing inte September 1947, and the estate

stole the Quebee Geological Survey, white, sharing good food cook. the present bums in E. Meanwhile hot the fifth earl,

bein driving hundreds of Lord Nelson's filther, who died thing the exciting explored by his European chef.

tion of South Africa's gold- Williamson loves Africa. Only! three and Fas

years Belds. bnit

rarely does he leave the coun- for a book about R. later. The material

mu..1

conservative

He joined the de Beers dia- Try

his mother and visit his 10 lever the country getting culy

combine as a geologist, brother in ("I om never happy without estimate of the probabile total is

On his Afth 1150,000, and it is expected to holding the theory that the trip

last

he Was ne thing: to do.")

be considerably more than that

already

honoured by McGill University. At Nommunswood, his 18-bed-many. diamond mines

being worked were Only

Asked why he liked Africa five-reception-room house at Tisford, Sunity, Lord Nelson branches of a colossal "mother the doctor said: "I like Africa because it has shown me that and his wife (they have no chil-pipe so far undiscovered. The experts laughed,

bul the

cinema isn't necessary to dren) lived at the rate of about Williamson decided to throw up one's well-being." £4,000 a year'

for carcer

free-lance They had 80 acres, three gar How does the cost of Blving deness, three indoor servants. work out

"I could not afford it," Lord for the emigre Lord Nelson now that he has stipped Nelsen drelined roundly, "with ellth of 1:0 Intend taxation and death duties as from the Revenue?

they are. It was nothing but a

'Hold on' Ulere in Eire the lacome-tax breadtehe, But here in Irelona

cl Tanganyika. rate is és 6d. in the £ compared the headache has disappeared." er fever exploring the bush

Until

evening. while HIS only comment on the with 9 Cel.-In England. After

future of the diamond mar- 21,500 it rises in Eira by

resting beneath a huge brobab

to your irec the

w:ary Canadian ket was on ading sente of surtax to 'n pesic-

Lord Nelson sold Normans kicked total of 15s. for income: over

out

of the sull the almond-they are better than Africa, should have a strong.

£20,000, (At home, anyone wood, sold the family funiture, diamond which ended his gold. central government.

Dr Williamson does not And Southern Rhodesis has been In fact he has been a rub- passing the £15,000 mark pays roll for £2.000 (to Mis Francis, quest.

the new tenant of Normans-

It so easy to follow his He has been kicking dla in dilemma. A rapidly deve

The diamond necklace monds cut of the ground ever advice. For he loses £1,000,000 Lord Nelson expeels to better wood) loping country, she needs more ber planter in Malaya, a gol! 19. 6. in the £.)

to the lune of LO

worth of gems a year. industries. prospector ("Quite lucky himself considerably by quitting when the flet Lord Nelson gave since

to

ninute. She cantol develop any fur-too") in Australia, a pearl. Britain.

Lady Humilton.

Opite the barbed wire, the:

200 uniformed "There was no law to stop my Now he and

AL Lady Nelson tre

Kimberley miners ther unless the

fisher in the South Seas, a

transferring

my capilul instal

uled. at Ballsbridge, live down 70011, and shift tons of poller it is estimated that one- territories are also

his middle-weight boxer, ama here." he said. Afrien

the output of minute drive from the centre & elny Central

for If British

diamond. At third of single

stolen and at I decided not to disturb Dublin, in

two-bedroons Mwadui, Williamson's workers Mwadui mine is a the nome proposed for the new teur and professional, in

can stand in the shallow sur- smuggled out by dishonest em- dominion is not created, Sir many parts of the world, my British investments, and the ground floor fat. Rent is £5 a

Huggins might be Godfrey

bulk of my money is still i and an Anzac sergeant at

It will be some tin. week, garage included. "We Bve face pits and see the diamonds ployees.

Why has this highly eligible Englund party succeeded by a political urging

Rhodesia te Gallipoli. Southern

before the question of income- a year for the two of us," said studding the gravel culable bachelor not found a wife?

| they could be con-

Sixty-one next September, Albert Francis Joseph Hora tio Nelson is the picture of retired admiral, with his bright red cheeks, blazing problems make it blue eyes, and bluff, hearty

Strategic

ritories, lying, close to

atoiale ore production areas

Mighty desirable that these ter

the ut

space for her new

manner.

A Colonial

800 men will talk about the

TOOTHACHE

Bre parti

ATEST weapons in the been experimenting with drugs cakes and bread!

war against toothache think terramycin and penicillin cularly bad. Sugar, 100, is de will be reviewed by 800 ay go into the new toothpastes structive.

and mouth

dentists from all over Bri- with vitamin K. tain when they meet in London this month.

dis

New wonder toothpastes and mouth washes will be cussed. Arguments will rago over the need to eat food, con taining vitamin K.

Demands are going to made to coat children's with fluorides.

bo

teeth

But with all this display of selence,

dentists will have to admit that they are not how decay storts, nor how to stop it.

And

sure

some, like Professor J. Boyes in his opening address, will pin their faith to the old- fushioned toothbrush "pro-

Com

washes together

Fluorine is an element ap parently necessary for producing the resistant hardness, of enamel. ir it is to be used to Cont teeth and protect them from decay,

dentists reconimend treating children at the ages of three,

seven, ten and 13 to catch

the new teeth as they op- put this method has been dis-

in any appointing, and fluorides are of no use once a cavity has started.

In America they are vocating the addition of glycerot aldehyde to all sweets to check the destructive action.

A

Saving Petrol

Fow at something under £1,000

Larry Nelson.

Today he drove into town from his flat in his 1960 10 h.p. British car. Price nut of covenant in London-£1,400. "In Dublin I paid £500 for it," suld Lord Nelson,

"I rave on petrol, Ico." (Price in Dublin 3s. 04d. a gallon, gainst 3. Bled, in London.) Cigarettes cost him 1s. Bd, for 20: Irish whiskey 258. d. a

bottle.

sugar are sup-

nd- Butter and

posedly rationed. But the Nel- sont, or anybody bise, can get plenty if they can afford to pay extra, Butter costs 2s, 8d. alb.- for the ion of lb. a head a week. Off-ration butter is 35, Bd. a ib.

Ferrets suffer Experiments in Britain have been carried out on ferrets and bursters by Dr J, D. King, of Council. the Medical Research Eoth animals suffer from some- thing like human tooth decay."

No Politics

Bread is dearer, too. "I paid 10. for two small loaves the

dny." the earl said. He will tell the dentists that other case

"But there food prices affect food and oral hygiene proper

very little. I don't eat- ore the best methods of stop-me

didn't come here to much: ping tooth rot.

While silver nitrate and cop- Per cement are either failures or doubtful as protectors, am- monia is in favour because Himits the activity of bueterin

substances.

#t

No toothpaste is considered gorge on steaks." 100 percent effective..

The important thing

is to

Lord Nelson says he is not greatly interested in polllles. But he is downrightly against use it at the right time. Brushing the Socialists and their taxes. your teeth with any dentifrice And he thinks they were wrong

vided all five sides of each tooth um acid-forming ate will ad (or even with tap water) within to deprive the Nelsons of their |

are brushed."

New weapon

too

All that the dentists

compensation. Duke of Wellington's

a year was cut off, but he got

£210,000.")

mit this year (there have been ten minutes of cating, say most annulty by Act of Parliament ("The many false hopes in the experts, should cut your tooth without

£10,000 past) is that decay is primarily decay rate in two.

food caused by bacteria from

ncids In the average mouth, Advocates of vitamin K, one cause of the most recently discovered particles. Some bacteria, create associated with tooth decay are chemicals called enzy-ut peak concentration" 20 weapons against decay, uro special

dlet of kaic, mes, which destroy the enamel minutes after the meat, Tooth- suggesting

pleks, however anti-social, are spinach, carrot tops, tomatoes, within.

Others and liver

produce acids which effective up to the point whero to ensure that you

teeth dissolve the calcium salts in the acids cause erosion. have for botter

enamel from without. Diets of thun your neighbour.

Dental experts who havo refined carbohydrates (such as

can

NANCY

Sweet Nerve!

SLUGGO AND I AGREED TO SHARE EVERYTHING WITH

EACH OTHER

CANDY

OH, SLUGGO

John Pomfret

Of Ireland he says: "This is lovely country. It will be the last pince in the world to be- come Communist. Or Socialist either."

(World Copyright Reserved.-London Express Service.)

OH, SLUGGO

OH, SLUGGO

Quest ends

IN six years be experien- ced malaria

black- and

21

For his mine of

the doctor has refused worth allurs up to £20 million, say Ing "I wouldn't know what to do with all that money."

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"Doc" Williamson winced at this question"ve-no-time-for that sort of thing," he said,

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