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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1653.

East Anglians Facing Age-Old Problem Of Space Suit Too Much Salt

At Last?

Washington, Feb. 19.

The United States Navy announced today that It had developed a combina-

for airmen gy Son salt

ing at very high altitudes which would even pro- Leef planetary space.

them in Inter-

A

The suit 1128 hend piece in plexiglass attach- ed to suit of special rub- ber containing compressed

The

Ault

air.

Covers the whole hody Including hands and feet,

The Navy claimed that this is the first suit la give over 20.- total protection

It even

the

000 metres

pressurisation and oxygen

Bystein arc cul

France-PressO.

TOURIST

BOOM EXPECTED

London, Feb. 19. Boom business in American tourists for the Coronation was foreenst by 14 top United States travel agents who flew into London Airport today.

The party arrived for a two- lay stop before flying to New Delhi to examine tourist pos- saltics in Initia.

"Bulld seven more 1,000 bed- roomest hotels in London and We could still them all through Summer," sald Paul G. Ford, of Los Angeles.

SEQUEL TO FLOODS

London, Feb. 19.

One of the biggest problems caused by the recent floods on England's East Coast is the lost fertility of thousands of acres of rich land.

For the floodwater destroyed not only crops and livestock, but it also took its toll of nature's "ploughmen" -the millions of earthworms whose ceaseless tunnelling activities keep, the soil sweet and clean.

An even more nerious problem | In the fenlands, when they deposit recovered these areas from the I has been created by the for

salt left by the receding seas. kenwater, for apart from its poisoning effect, the salt changes the very nature of the soil,

It is heavy suit into sodium elay, which becomes a glutinous mass when it is moist, and hard a lumpy when dry.

The time required to restore the soil to its former felility is hard to estimate, but some Cx- perts suggest that it may take quite a few years.

The problem of cleaning salt inpregnated land, as to make it fertile, is no new one. It was and overcome by encountered the ancestors of those now living

Lady Marye

Did It The

Hard Way

Darwin, Feb. 19. Lady Marye Rous, attractive The leader of the party, 22-year-old daughter of the Earl Llewellyn G. Ron of New and Countess of Stradbroke, is Canaan, Connecticut, said, "We

on her way to Singapore after lave fixed accommodations all aver Southern England and in seeing Australia the hard way

Ens a cattle station Paris and Le Touquet, France, housemaid, children's governess

cook, hotel Our clients in these places will and private cook.

London day trips to turing the Coronation period." Lady Marye said today: "The

Some of the

the travel agents.Australions have been very ore offering an all-in 11-day kind, but they must be very pl tour to Bellain for £300 tough. I will never know how I called "Coronation Skyway failed to kill off a few with my

cooking,

nake

Tours."

They estimate that #early million visilors will gather in Landon for the Coronation Associated Press.

King Hussein In Nursing Home

A similar victory was won by the people of the Netherlands who, like the British, have now seen much of their land tem-. porurily wrenched from their grasp. But such operations, took many years,

ABADAN EXAMPLE

In recent times, however, im-

proved engineering skill, wedded

greater selentific knowledge, has enabled near-miracles to be performed in this as in other felds,

An example of this is to be found in the story of Persia's Abdan island in the war years.

For It then became an urgent problem to build up local sup piles of foodstuffs in order to feed the many thousands of re- Intry employees and their families who lived on the island. To this end the oil company decided to operating there bring under cultivation hundreds at acres which at the ime were completely infertile because of their salt conlent,

So, with the war at j

Agricultural

major

height. F project was undertaken. An integral part of this was the washing out of the salt by means of "leaching"-Le. Buth- ing the soil with water.

In some places this leaching out every process was carried in this way up to 100 tons of day for two years or more, and

salt were removed from a singlo acre.