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USSR

Soviet Arctic

Shipping Route

MURALANSH

Presumed Courses of Ice Islands an Russian Side

RTH POLE

Lomonosov Underwater

Mountain Range

US Evacuated

T-3 Last Month, Will

Reactivate It When It Swings Away from Alert

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Ocean

Presumed Source of Ice Islands

CANADA

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1954.

EUROPE

SPITSBERGEN

Alert Weather

Station

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AP Newsfactures

American Airmen Converted

An Iceberg Into

Drifting Weather Station

By Herman R. Allen, AP Newsfeatures Writer

New York.

In the summer of 1950 a U.S. Air Force plane was making a weather reconnaissance flight up toward the North Pole. Suddenly, through the heavy cloud cover, its radar picked up a large mass that almost anywhere else in the world would immediately be recognised as an island. On later flights radar picked up other such masses.

But no island had ever been charted in that part of the Arctic Sea. Puzzled, Air Force men returned to the area several times without seeing the mysterious masses. Eventually, the weather cleared and enabled them to take pictures.

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Ther turned out to be long northern winter islands of a sort--floating setting in and nothing could islands of ice, big flat-topped be done immediately. icebergs, The iden

Mareb, April and early May mediately occurred to the pre the tunes of Lest visibility Air Force that they might in the Arethe, and bright and

early in 1931, be used as weather obseV was

the Air Force back, Eventually tion bases, but by then the were

planes kaunted and exploring

I Like British People, Says Nasser:

But Not Their Policies

The Prime Minister, Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, does no more than reflect the feeling of all Egyptians when he says that Egypt's first foreign preoccupation is a friendly settlement with Britain.

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as many

economic co-

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TRADE and

Setback For

Eisenhower

Trade

Plan

Washington, June 8.

President Eisenhower's bold new foreign economic programme with its emphasis on tariff reductions is now a dead issue in the current session of Congress.

He had asked, last March, for a three-year extension of the tariff-cutting Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act and special authority to negotiate additional reductions so that world trade would be stimulated and practical effects given to the "Trade not Aid" concept.

re-convenes in

But faced with a party- | until the next session of Con-

which splitting fight in this elec- KTCSS, tion year and the heavy and party control has been de- January after the membership

pressures of the trade pru-termined In the November tectionists, the President elections,

ACTION NEXT YEAR In the meantime, Congress- be lonal committees are expected

has been forced to modify his stand and to let it be known that he would willing to settle for u simple one-year extension of the trade law without any new tariff-cutting authority this

year.

This retreat came as an un-

help the Congress.

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COMMERCE SECTION

Japanese Plant Being Sent To Yugoslavia

Belgrade, June 8.

The first equipment for a fibre factory aš Lomien, Serbia, whose plant 15 being supplied from Japan. is expected to arrivo In Yugoslavia In Beginumber, the Yugoslar news sethey, Tanjug, mald today.

When

completed, the plank would have a daily production of 53 tomm. Japanese technicians wonid

carly In 1945 install machinery.

The construction

of the factory will Cont about $15,000,000 and will savo Yugoslavia about $24,000,- 000 in texille imports.

to

The contract for the supply of Japanese equly- ment WAS signed last September-Reuter,

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