1954-11-15 — Page 8

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Outwards "CARTHAGE"

"CORFU"

"CANTON"

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Leaves Londen Das Hongkong

-

12th

November

DIM December

23

I: Port

14th December 10th Jan. 1950

10tl Jan

"

Via Houthampton, Part Ball, Aden, Boradny, Colombo, Frank & Singapore

Leaves thongkong Blue London

Blomewards

"CARTHAGE"

1 November

"CORFU"

17th December

19th Jan. 10SS

2011 Feb

22nd December

17111 Jan. 1905

19th Feb.. 1954

2nd March

Bombay, Ades,

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Via

Colombo, singapore, Pesang,

Held

Also calls Marselles,

FREIGHT SERVICE

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For

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flutterdam

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With ilberty to call at Belawan before or after Birmita átoria and at Bombay if Inducement offers

Tanks avaliable for carriage of Dù in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation.

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

"SIK DILANA" İ

Pool

IN 1894 Nut

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ford Japa

C

for Singapore, Penas. Ratigoon & Calcutta

Itu Calculla, 1..40 MON

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"Thar She Blows -Some Whalers Are Still Old Fashioned

Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Nov. 14.

For Walter Cook and his family in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, whaling is still the thrilling, hazardous operation it was in the 18th century,

Cook's father before him was a whaler, from Wellington, New Zealand, who married a Tongan and settled in Nuku'alofa. Walter Cook's sons,

was

Walter Cook approaches the whale from the rear. The sail is taken in, so that the whole re- mains undisturbed. The boat closes Ih, with the boys at the

Wuller Cook follows the tradi- tion of the 18th and 19th century whalers, except for one modern' innovation-he attichis

one a plug gelignite, with minute fuse, near the head of cars. his harpoon to ensure # quick ant certain kill.

The 60-mile long Brigiston road | the century with their high in turn, will succeed their father when his hand was jum packed with more wooden spoked wheels

and loses its skill with the harpoon. That day appears trufflo today than on a hot primBivo

springs gally summer's day and the chugging finished in brillant redis, blues, to be still a long way off. veterans -- all more than 50 gremis—and ono in vivid violet, Before commercial whaling became years old-weaved a perilous

A highly POLICE ESCORTS mechanised enterprise, equipped with harpoon guns, way through.

Police Jined the road all fast whale chasers and cavernous factory ships, there the way to hold back the

a flavour of and oglangia crowds

super-mariner about whaling Mastors and their crews. marled up traffic. Motor- ovele police.escorted the chursing veterans through red lights arid round slic wrong side of traffic islands, The crew of the Danish Hom- mcl

were confident of ending The oldes car on the road,

60-mile journey

inaide and believed to be the oldest

their

cwn time Hmit of 14 Curios, Porcelain, Refri petrol engined vehicle in the hours. Mr Vagn Lofts, Assistant

worki still working. was the

Secretary

of the Royal Danish gerator & a large quantity of 1886 Hammel, brought over Automobile Club, was sleering : Household Furniture & Mis- from a Copenhagen museum by and Finn Julieen, the mechanic cellaneous Articlos, com- the Royal Danish Auto Club.

who rebuilt the animel, work- The Hammel, driven by two Ing the clutch gas pedal and Suites,

Danes, averaged a

the primitive steady four

011 rim brakers Electric

and a na

half miles an hour, in the narrow tran-bound wheels. cluding stops, and was expected | Every two hours they stopped

p.m. tonight. to drain of the 12 Kallons of Brighton at

water, which cool the two cylin- er englace and replace it with cold water,

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MALS CHEUNG LOY And fairly

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Two modern Danish Embassy cars followed the Hanunel-both holling furiously in low gear- carrying heavily built young men to push on all the hills.

Mr J. D. Scheel, Secretary of the Danish Embassy in London, was ready with a large fire ex- tinguisher "just in case.

10 MILES AWAY At 8.30 p.m. tonight, it was reported only 10 miles from Brighton and st31 making a steady four and a half miles an hour, tnclud- ing stops.

Genevieve, the 1004 Darracq which starred in the British film of the same name about veteranı cars, made a successful run 10- film star day. quite free from

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By Lee Falk, and Phil Davis

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SUDDENLY MANDRAKE

SEEMS TO SHOOT INTO

THE AIR ---

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

HERE'S THAT LIGHT BULB

I OWE YOU

ERNIE

BUSHMIL LANGUA

By Frank Robbins

ÂND, IN ANGELA'S HOUSE, NOT FAR AWAY.........

BREAD AND CHEESE, FOR * BREAKFAST...NOT BÅD AT ALLS WONDER IF I ATE SHIO WAY OFTEN...! I COULD,

ONLY REMEMBER 16,

ปี

ORDINARY WHALEBOAT

Hifa catches Are made from an ordinary whaleboat. Each catch represents combination of great skil and daring, expert seaman- ship and team work.

Each man in the crew has a Job to perform, and it must be done with clockwork precision. A tangled line or a fumbled oar could lose the catch or Wreck the boat,

When Walter Cook puts out

from Nuku'alofa, the main items

This is where the first piece of precise timing is necessary, for with the gelignite attached to the harpoon and its fuse and detonator firmly secured, Cook cannot afford to miss his mark

FUSE LIT

the

The fuse is lit In the moment before he drives the harpoon Into the whale's great bulk behind the head.

Simultaneously, the oarsmen back away to escupe ugonized thrash of the massive tall, for one blow could smash the boat to match-wood, leav. ing the Tongung helpless in sea which would soon be alive with sharks attracted by smear of blood obbing the stricken w whale.

of his equipment are a long seu hand harpoon, the explosive! Wi charge.

and up to 200 fathoms of line colled in a tub In the bottom of the boat.

mer.

of

the

from

Walter Cook and his suns have never failed to evade this The migrating whales are aç-

dänger. Their expert technique

minimise customed at this time

the the and teamwork year to travel south

disaster. Into risk of

They are Antarctic waters for the sum always masters of the situation, Meanwhile, in Tongu's clear, of coral waters, the direction Those which Walter Cook has the whale's sounding has been Lakers of Tongu had lottered to | indlenied by the harpoon line, busk in the warm tropical and when the dead whale ap sels and enjoy the feast of pears ugain on the surface, minute mariae life which

Cook and his sons abounds there.

far off.

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The kill, has been made, Now comes the equally hazardous task of securing, the prize,

Before the whale becomes

Cook waterlogged and sinkя, brings the boat alongside.

SEWS UP MOUTH

One of the boys, carrying a heavy needle and a length of twine, leapa from the boat on to the whale's back. Kneeling astrido the head, he jews up the soft fleshy tissue of the mouth to main- tain the whale's buoyancy,

A strong line is passed from the boat. Then, with jib urd mainsail set, and the blue and whito flag raised to the masthead, Walter Cook and his song return to Nuku'alofa, towing their prize.

All day long, a procession of Tongans,

knowing the flag's

significance, are out on the

edge of the coral shelf Oll Nuku'alofa, where the whale is "beached.""

Many people have no fancy for whale-meat. But Tongans relish it, and the sale of the mest is Walter Cook's sole in- terest in his catch. Nuku'alofa has no facilities for recovering whate oll from the blubber.... the cubstance which has brought whaling ships into the Pacific since the voyage of the "Amelia" from England in 1787.

PROFIT UN MEAT

is content Walter Cook

the with his profit from ment alone, and Tongan everywher In Nuku'alofa feast on whale steaks when ho has made a kill,

of into

Next day, the remainder the carcase is towed out deep water, where it is useful as shark bait. Walter Cook and his sons describe themselves da fishermen, which includes shark fishing in these seas-until distant spout of water is greeted by the Tongan equivalent of the blows!! -- China Mail Special

Thor

Assistant

For Dulles?

Washington, Nov. 14. Senator Alexafider Wiley, Chakman of the Foreign Rela- tione Critiap” of the United States Senata,, suggested today that the Democratic Party, vic torious in the recent Congrel- sional election, should nominate ari agent who would collabor who with the State Department in making American foreign policy. ENE

The Senator explained that, what he had in mind' was some-.

A

along the line of a Deputy

of State,

few days ago the Secretary

of State, Mr John Foster Dulles,

himself wald the FA WAT

ing about inylling

Moor At 110 become ma, saviser to the #tate Depe