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AS THE SMOKE CLEARS AWAY

THE CHINA 'MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17,`` 1954

HILLARYS'

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Red Army Influences

H-Bomb

Outlook

pectedly powerful H By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P. hints in herlin that the Chinees

EFORE the

B

bomb exploded on

to

now had stockpile. Since there is nothing to suggest that this is of Chinese manufacture,

it Implies that China is also an atomic power 日语 Britain was

tests.

Diplomatically this is a claim that if Britain, Етолсо and Canada, before any of them had A-bombs of their own making, were rightly recognised at the

Nations 48 atomic United powers, then it is equally right for China to be 50 recognised today.

March 1, the Russian Prime dent Eisenhower's proposal assurance of further study for It must be a Soviet stock; but Minister, M. Malenkov, had for an atom bomb bank and the American programme. given his people their first co-operative measures. to The Red Army's influence is already before the Montebello inkling about its dangers. harness atomle energy for all that can be discerned in on- context. The army He said his Government developing backward terri- other

journal Red Star has now were opposed to the cold tories,

followed M. Malenkov's warn war because it was a pre-

For, when M. Malenkey spoke ing with an illustration of what paration for "a new world on March 12, he had two days the bomb could do even in the Slaughter which, with the earlier approved & message

It mighty wastes of Siberia. existence of modern means the United States, carried by suggested that the effect of the The bomb could be likened to Zarubin which of destruction, would mean Ambassador

effect of the meteor which the Russlar the destruction of world itemised

Pro plunged to earth in Sibots in

thu of for abolition gramine civilisation."

1908 and devastated hundreds of weapon. This programme fell

of anything

the acres of forest. thut Never had the Soviet United States would consider, in Government warned their that it on the one hand treated people that the modern the President's programme with bomb could destroy their the deepest suspicion and,

the other, propounded no sub- country as

stitute suggestions about great cities of Capitalism. trol. Up till that point, à critical

well

£13

the

short

on

con-

In Diplomacy

The Soviet Government has the war, hardly censed, since

for to campaign

a 5-Power Peace Pact. II Canada be Included no doubt the number would now be six.

that It is evident

Russia,

OF THE CRAGS PREPARE

By J. W. Taylor

NOW

London.

TOW that the days

lengthen and the ap prouch of Easter gives promise of summer, hun- tireds of rock climbers' all over Britain are assembling at their respective head- quarters to plan the sea- son's campaigns amid rock, crag and fells sport that jo growing in popu- larity all over the country at a surprising rate.

Thoir early attention is focussed

checking over equipment, renailing boots and consulting once ngain well- thumbed and battered guido books, besides Indulging in such ernest discourses as the rela- ive merits of clinker edge and Tricount nails and nailed and rubber footwear.

Experta say it is essential that beginners should start their rock climbing in nailed boots and not rubber footgear, and in the company of an experienced Jender. They should avoid the mistake of having too many naile in their boots, but have them placed sparsely round the edges, so that the climber can use individual nails and not a solkl cluster of them.

stat

They're

Troubled

Climbers of the old school, whilst welcoming the growing interest in the sport, are rather troubled by what has come along

with It-a dedine standards both of safety and behaviour shown by a minority decline of young climbers. This can be measured by the number of accidents that have occurred and by the poor opinion some responsible people have climbers in general, because of

the untoward few.

conduct

of the

Says expert Northern crags- man A. H. Griffin, who has been climbing regularly in all seasons In the Lake District, Scotland, North Wales and sixroad, for 25 years. "The men who pioneer- od the sport of rock climbing THE Red Army evidently

and carried on the early tradi- T

tions sympathises at least with

were mon of

of courage, but the education of Soviet public opinion against the use, and in under growing Red Army in-y were not foolhardy. They were men of dash má daring, Mr favour was not long before

of abolition, of the fluence, seeks to ensure that in but they were also intelligent, moment in postwar Soviet Zarubin was told plainly at the

деу I appreciates that in any weapon.

Young established responsible and farseeing. may be Russians State propaganda. the

Department that tho a world without the bomb, the which

to start climbing about people about negotiationS note was inadequato. Red Army would enjoy the through

can do no better had been led to assume that Russlun

than model

won beavy

of conven- atomic weapons, the Eurasian their standards on those of the superiority in another world

it And war

on hearing this ho

tional armaments,

Alliance of Moscow and Peking old pioneers, both on and off quick to reply, it is learned, that would be Capitalist coun-

is marshalled to balance up the

the Crag

For instance, this It is apparent that Russia is NATO group, perhaps with the modern parading of unnecessary resulting pro equipment and foolish, boastfu! already using the bomb as a object of a

That is the ponderance in conventional

#hatter in the valloys, make the diplomatic weapon.

armaments,

climbers of even a generation context of M. Molotov's brond

ago shudder when they see ond Lear

tries, not the USSR, which no doubt the Russian proposal

susceptible lo somo

would suffer.

Change Of Front WHAT

this occasions important change of

front?

were

modification, He, suggested tho USSR might be willing to con- sider control again, and gave an

A

NEA

balanco of power

On April 29 the Queen will inaugurate The Owen Falls hydro-electric scheme in Uganda and she will make

FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DREAM COME TRUE

By YORKE HENDERSON

mid

It is becoming plainer month that the dom- ch itant

within power

the the USSR is the Red Army. AL the Berlin Conference M. Molotov gave the strong impression that the Red Army dictated Russin's con- tinued control of East Ger-

The total cost of the scheme many; indeed on one occa- TEARLY 45 years ago a used a ferry near the site of sion he let this drop in the young ex-army officer the new dom on their way to will be nearly £23 millions,

will provide neighbouring tribes. The turbines privacy of au indiscretion stood on a rocky spur near Around that historic ferry grew 200 million units of electricity

Jinja, in Uganda, and the town of Jinja, which will a year,

Ten 15,000 kw,

generators watched the waters of the enjoy the immediate benefits of

will provide power equivalent to 400,000 tons of coal a year. Nile rush past from Lake, the new power scheme. Radio Radio Volgn) utter- Victoria. Being a young And in that fact lies the

An International company of the Army's mounting in- man of vision he saw more realisation of another 45-year- British, Danish and Dulch Arms rocks and the old Churchillian dream. For at has 2,000 men working on the than the fluence. Last week it car-

the same time as he foresaw project. That number Includes sun- flecked water. Soon

whole ried a report on

what was to be 1954's Owen 1,300 Africans, whose B party

Falls scheme, be wrote this: future can be changed for the conference of the Soviet afterwards he wrote:

botter by the job they are doing. Army Group in Germany "It would be perfectly "Jinja is destined to become

TOTAL LENGTH which included these easy to harness the whole a very important place in the

at dinner.

Mura recently, the Forces

ed direct confirmation of

future

and

economy

of Central

the

The total length of the dam.

words: "Our Party and river and let the Nile begin Africa.... In years to com Government have placed its long and beneficent the shores of this splendid bay including the intake dam behind the Communists of the journey to the sen by leap- may be crowned with long rows the power house and the two Army Group and of

of comfortable tropical villas head-race dams, is 2,725 feat. the ing through a turbine. Soviet Fighters in respon-

imposing offices, and sible posts to protect the

"It is possible that nowhere gorge of the Nile crowded with The world has more impressive cise in tho world could so factories and warehouses; There looking dams. But the water stared in America's famous peace and security of our enormous a mass of water bo is power enough to gin all the Boulder Dain is only one-fifth of Motherland".

held up by so little masonry," cotton and saw all the wood in that to be stored in the ten-fest

was Uganda, and it is here that one operating writer's The Winston Churchill.

of the principal emporla of Victoria.. But forty years had to pass tropical produce will certainly before the first move was made be created."

Significant

to

name

THIS WAS a significant to translalo Sir Winston's dream claim which underlines into reality. For it was not the growing number of Red until 1947 that a report on

project to bring hydro-electric Army officers who receive wealth to East Africa from the appointments

respon

Nile was produced by a British sible poultions throughout engineer, Mr C. R. Westlake,

who was inter to become chair tho USSR. There is a man of the Uganda Electricity formidable number who are Board. Members 'and 'Alternates of of the tho Praesidium

JAGGED SPUR

SECOND BIGGEST

cotton

A Tendency

"There is a tendency, town days, for rack climbers to be gymnasta and not mountaineers. and this is to be deplored. The

tales genuine climber challenge met by proper techni

a standard code

on a

que and conduct made to overcome Hfficulties and reduce dangers, and out of it all emerges the qulet joy of achievement. A would-be climber should, first of all, be a mountain lover and walker under a practised fell

ons and first all weather conditions get to know about difficulties to be faced, the provision and proper use of the right sort of equipment, and a host of other things that can only be learned by experience in the company of leaders who know and yat are still finding things out..

may

"People climb because they want to share adventure with congenial 6ompanions. This 19 the principal difference between fell walking and rock climbing -tho adventure or the risk

One attached to the latter.

fell walking alone, whereas there are always at

it least two or a rope, mael this very comradeship under adventitious circumstances which provides the particular attrac tion of climbing"

loy

of Láko range Not only British, territories will benedt from Owen Fails. For apart from providing them with power, the increased stor age of Lake Victoria waters, Airconditioning and their regulated discharge, will mean much-needed water for irrigation in Egypt and the Sudan. The Egypilan Govern-

How right was Sir Winston? Well, Jinja Is the - country's

cigarette factory,

cond biggest town. It has a ginnery and a grain condition ment will pay for dam-work ing plant. Hour the Calico cessitated by water storage

·Printers · Association of Man demands and will selectricity. chester is to erect a big texuletion to the Uganda

Board for consequential lows of mill, and a brewery is at the

power and to linkeside interes pianaing page. Hydro-electric affected by the raising of Lake As a die for the dam and the power will attract other fac Victoria's levelitungga forces had no fewer than turbines, he chose the identical tories, are large Bixty.

representatives stretch of river which had, The Owen Tails chemo is mainly army men in caught Bir Winston's imaging historic. For when it gets still to be faced before are enlis

it will generale. April 28, when the Queens the Supreme Soviet which tona point where agged under way

(tinpreced Was chosen on March 14. a manageable width of foto hydro-electro

Before the white that bimb poutí DE L Those

facta

cati be falsted (to: Uganda, the warrfork List ARMG BRA to Soviet roaction to Prošli Kabakus, the Bugandia z

Party. And the armed

Several years of work have

scheme la completed. But on

on

My bd putting its jomicin

the:: firal – tarbine,

need not be

expensi

is

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