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ITALY FINDS

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955.

Hydrogen

WEALTH IN AN Churchill et Cie.

OLIVE GROVE

From

Conrad Allen

Alano, who discovered the Ajanno

I may soon transform field,

Othe

strategic and economic position of Italy, till now short of industrial power.

Oil was the wealth Mus80- lini sought so hard. But, even with dictatorial force, ho failed: and Italians al- most gave up hope of being

rich.

Now il to ghing at the rate of 400 long a clay fres well drilled in an elive give I Alunno, a anal, eey village overbaking the Adria- he harbour at Pescara

vale is staying by any statutard Ju Wars fabulous. Middle East held, a well tis day. produced 700 even Dere that as exceptional.

At Atunites, 31 IS CUMAR fata depth of 2,190 feet under strong, stendy pressum which makes pumping unnecessary 11 4 high grade 39 API der alter experts

Airt

The Alan The hat 11 toeel the whuje of Haby needs SIX milli lang of petrol a

This is

art ly

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Reologist

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Landovas

With Hatschiller beside me, I watched ihe toiling peasants

ccasionally to stare at the shiny American

heivy af e lucks lecherc£ with machinery, at the huge derrick rearing up against the classically beatitiful Jandscupe

who for

A people

centuries have tended olive groves, They sarrels groped the signifleance

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and who ure how In- vestigating dozens of other sites along the Adrialle.

They Chat Italy Armly believe

be ranked пя son country,"

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Alano follows the discuVETY 47 after the war of great qualities of methane (natural K) in the Po Valley by AGIP, as the state-controlled Azianda Generale Italianu Petroli com

joy s kruwn,

The sources were rapidly de- veloped, and the gas now map- of les power for 15 percent the country's Industries.

That was airendy a big ad- VEICO

First Strike

Then, same muha ngo, the Amerie REA Te strike in Sletly.

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their

#rst wells Turee DET Ragusa by the Half Company, a subsidiary of the Standur Oil Company, arsy

about 100 now yielding stally.

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by piso

The British, represented

Company. D'Arey for oil u Stely. But it was JXHA Dude much pumping to be brought to ther surface So the well was

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closed and the company.

elwhore,

And now the AlaringE

Lo

Fict

strike

-confirming the rostent dreunits

of the geologists.

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Aut th resale the off rush ka

AGIP 1 Italiaz:

Company the whole Po moregoli Valley which, according to ex- ports, contatos not only gas bat als at quantities of oil.

But the rest of the country is still open to the world's big Concestis. Britt American well as Fernch, Dutch and Berman Pables are

Italy

its

tesling experts

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Signor Kalschille autod. Was 2031 oven flowing

On the Roane stock exchange ll "Within Ave years, Italy the shares of vald gedneries ar will be alde te export oil. The ning The Communists are This ey blare as fall of the stuff

100. Chaeteristiendly, woll will tremebered In they Imunched

rampaign history," he said,

urging Catholle Premier Mario Follow Mossadegh's

Signor

lu known Sccup

what he is talking till, Hexample in Persiu: to nation-

Ratschiller

Is

ofte of the

team of

American and Italian

seientists

X alise the country's oil, starting

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the Sunshine Trail, DON IDDON finds

FAMILY OF MILLIONAIRES

Big changes on the beach where Campbell made news......10 mph was my Daytona speed limit

T

Daytona Beach, Florida. Girls in many instances came for beauty competi- E sign said: "Drive here on the beach where long or perhaps in hope of bag- ging 30 millionaire, and men Sir Malcolm Campbell were drawn to the get-rich- broke the world's speed quick State and often they end up slinging hash or jerking recard" and I pased πιν

Buick through the tunnel

Issenay

Hotel right on

sodas

IL

under the big Princess Florida today describes itself

who playboy

13 ΠΟΥ to us

been told mature. I've

over and over again: "Tourists aren't the

and beginning

end of

the bench.

Another sign said: "Speed Florida's economy. limit ten miles per hour." So

"We need them, We want on this magnificent stretch them, we will take more.

of hard white sand where we earn a lot of our money Sir Malcolm Campbell drove other ways."

close to 300 m.p.h. I had to crawl. Beach police on motor-cycles saw to that.

Citrus kings

In

1933, at

Remember? Daytons, Campbell In Bipebird did

Str Malcolm

272 m.p.h

People

park

their But where

in yachts or cabin cruisers in their

back gardens.

NEW crop of million- atres has sprouted

tena

Fort Lauderdale publicity drummers say: "Do you know another town where 5,000 citi zens park boats in their back- yards?"

town

For Lauderdale has five miles of of public beaches and almost as many miles of canals, all man-

I've never seen such a broad dead-straight ribbon of sand as

I don't know another and Daytona's, which is 23 miles they

are not the gamblera which bas 5,000 people who own long and court, wide at low tide. in property who made boats,

paper profits in the roaring real Sir Malcolm is well remem- estate boom in the twenties that bered here and so are motor- blew up and

ruined ing reporters who used to come

thousands of people. from England to all the way cover the speed attempts

Florida's new millionaires are citrus men-frozen orange juice the juice are and grapefruit most blessed discovery that ever happened here.

At the Princess Hotel the bar man sald "Yes. Sir Malcolm was very popular. He used to drink champagne, but not, of course, on the nights before he drove. Reporters weren't quite 50 popular "

A bargain

THEY still have racing

83

New-old fight on the world enigms.

The 'Napoleon'

Who Waits

In

T

Moscow

-By, PETER KIRK

HERE la pattern in revolutions which should not be overlooked. Consider this:

A popular rising takes place against an auto- cratic government. A liberal lender emerges, but he does not have the ruthlessness to rule a country in chaos,

A more extreme party takes over and for a time an extremist dictator (but yet a man of some humanity and brilliance) becomes the leader. Soon, however, he gives way to a harder man, a man cold as ice, and the revolution devours its children.

way.

All those capable of opposition are put out of the

His rule is long but inevitably it must end, and the men who succeed him are like pygmies compared with him.

They decide to end personal rule;' there must be government by committee, but the people are not accur- tomed to this. They know only personal rule and the government soon gets into difficulties.

•

•

The one stable force in the country the Army takes over power.

Yet through it all there is one man who is constant the Foreign Minister.

Do you recognise the pattern? Isn't it what has been happening in Russia sinco 19177

And yet it is not Russia, or what has happened there The events I since 1917, that I have been describing. have in mind took place in France between 1789 and 1797, and the result was Napoleoni.

The parallel le astonishing.

Kerensky,

There are, of course, minor deviations. the liberal Russian, is still alive, while Mirabeau, his French counterpart, died of a broken heart.

Lenin and Stalin died in their beds, while Danton and Robespierre, the French equivalents, went to the guillo- tine.

the

Bame.

But despite these differences, the formula

The Army is taking over Russia. Under our eyes, the Revolution of 1917 is reaching its ultimate fulfil- ment

The heroes of the "great fatherland war." as the Russians call their struggle against the Nazis from 1941- 1945, are trooping to the seats of power.

•

Brought back into prominence from which he has been ex- cluded since the end of the war, la Marshal Koniev.

We have Nikolal Bulganin, the master planner and brilliant administrator, as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.

And hard on his heels came the great commander in the Deld Gregory Konstantinovitch Zhukov, the conqueror of Berlin and the only man whose popularity once rivalled that of Stalin. He is now Minister of Defence,

Who, then, is the "Napoleon"?

I belleve it is likely to be Zhukov, the key figure in the astonishing events which have taken place in Moscow so recently.

SANDY THE BOY FRIEND TINKLES INTO HISTORY

London,

SLIM, darkly hand- some man of 80 in a scarlet pullover sita made, with trim green banks, over a midget piano in a Swiss Cottage basement. He plam trees, and orange groves,

talks gravely and tidily, Its beauty is breath-taking, like a classics schoolmaster.

stores of New and the luxury York, just as they moved into

I perch on a divan bed and Worth Palm Beach's

Avenue branch shops in he sings, through a cold, A aong about Sweet Jane (who

It is a mixed blessing as far have set up as the visitor is concerned, and Fort Lauderdale. canned orange juice served to

orange groves where I could which is growing bigger and have reached out and pulled an richer. orange off the tree.

me in restaurants right besido It is a very rich little town hasn't got a lot of brain),

Ten years ago its popu-Jane Seymour,

Jane, I gather, le history's and the Today lation was only 18,000.

Core

One ot

it is 58,000. There are perhaps young man has just spent eltrus - processing plant more millionaires to the square 10 weeks writing a musical

out foot in Fort Lauderdale than

Dade City can turn here, and Daytona Beach's enough fruit producta

in 24 any place outside of Texas You Comedy about her husband, "Speed Werk" has started. I shall hours to fill three 60-car goods do not have to own a yacht, but Henry VIII. "It will cost not be here to see the racing, as trains. It is the biggest in the It helps socially.

about £25,000 to stage," ho says calmly. "I think of call-

I'v received a "hurry-up" call to world. Florida's famous Lyken return to New York,

family headed by John Lykes, are the owners.

Wall

It has been orna Interesting 2,500-mile trip, and if I want to The Lykos Steamship Com- fly or go back on "The Orange pany is also the biggest under Blossom Special"-streamliner the Stars and Stripes. similar to the Twentieth Con-

Pleasant change ing it 'Oh, Henry."""

HIS wonderful town of water

ways doesn't want any part of Jacksonville's industries or even

at

The idea is to put it on Drury Lane, the first English show there fer ekht years.

soulds a crazy pipe-dream tury Limited—which takes 24 I was told at the Chamber of Daytona Beach's motor races. In this frugal fint. A shopping- hours to New York, garage men Commerce office: "If you want It is quite content with its bag hangs near the

paraffin here will drive my car back for

satistics we can give them to yachts.

stove. But the little card Inked 75 dollars.

the members of the

up by

doorbell you. The 83

outside St Augustine has a different reads: WILSON-Please press Lykos family are each worth more than £2,000,000,

enchantment. It is not merely hard. the oldest elly in Florida but it is the oldest city in the entire United States, and it la un- spolied.

This aceme to me quite a

the bargain,

drive down coat 40 dollars in petrol and oll alone, apart from my expenses staying at motels and for meals.

I've found that people in Florida are very hard to please --nore so than New Yorkers,

Breath-taking

CHECKED on his figure and

.

It seemed to me

its people

Unchanged

By JOHN BARBER

He kicked so hard they shut enough, a limousine, a Mayfair

him out of rehearsals, He is flat, and 15 Savile Row sults.

still unhappy about the New Sandy tas no car. He belongs York production. He regrota

to no art clube. On his few bitterly that he will never know nights out, he eats in Soho. "If Broadway would have liked am not acquisitivo-I don't care the show as he wrote it. for antiques and things."

In

all

He likes reading novels, but

things Alexander he borrows them from a circu- Galbraith Wilson is a Scot, His He is vaguely dourness, his caution, and his lating library. thinking of getting a house in charm are almost Highland Ho Hampstead, but is leaving the is arrogantly sure of what ho wants. Which is not to say bo choice to his business manager.

is concedted,

How did he celebrate the succes of his lovely show? He redecorated the kitchen.

Unhappy

لمراد

Ha won' a scholarship to Harrow, another to Oxford, tried acting, then decided to write.

At the Old Vic school he learned

stage technique. His songs were first heard in Jack

2 "Oh, Henry will have a full Waller show, "Caprice." .It orchestin and chorus," he died before reaching London, murmurs. "A cast of about 40. but not before teaching Bondy

It about notons" Oh, mode,

temperaments, won't be an operetta, or 'Merrie midnight rehearsals, and all tho England'-Ish. Neither will be foam and fury of putting on a a hotting-up of the Tudors-you show. know, with a hoy-nonny-no and a boop-a-doop-boop," hate that.”

The style?

I'd

A few days ago Sandy! packed his papers into the synthetic leather briefcase he bought in New York Alexander Kortia's mansion in and went to Sir

Kensington Park Gardens.

"Bang!

Black Crows

All ho can think of now is. watches for it none too kindly. Show' business "Oh, Henry,"

He knows everybody will ba sitting like binck crows waiting He took a lift to the first door for him to put both feet wrong. and there, wurrounded by Renol and Modigliani paintings, in a "Out goes, the joint!!, cries chaste, elegant, ambasadorial Justy Henry VIII in his new The dreamer at the plane is room, he drunk coffee and sang show, after beheading w wife. found that at least 40 members were · also ancient. When 1 Sandy Wilson, nuthor-composer and played all afternoon.

In comes the sweet who are independent and some of the Lykes family are worth passed through the old city gates of the current smash-hit of times ill-mannered. There is over $5,000,000 apiece. Eighty- round the square of the walled London and New York, "The "MaggerNELficent", pusted" as ho groots her successor,

millorarbe *Can't the three

and moated city I saw hundreds Boy Friend." "Hola", earning the 61-year-old · alm · magmate.. Will the competition for

"My film lested 20 years. Now royally, or be of old men and womnes aunming round £1,000 a wock,

now musical rolgn tourista'' dollar and many wrong.

beheaded at themselves.

I know your muscal version.

Calmly, Bantly' – straps wash your car garages even

Bandy's enormous mucous (he will live as long!! Toc"Oh, sight? without charge if you buy tenMy two favourite towns in

Later I learned that the ladies sold the him rights the other Henry is based on the famous his briefcase, Florida after Palm Beach and gallons of gangline.

:.. Miami, which

and gentlemen of St Augustino are phenomenu,

"I know It is right for me,”” Their service is excellent not just cities, are Fort Lauder still wear on special becoming day) has lers him unchanged 1983 film, The Private Life of

and untouched. He lives just a Hary VIILN

"I don't know if ho antics. farthingales and knee-breeches, he did when he wives his hit an tyres checked, windshield and dale and St Augustine.

as they do in Willfonisburg/

this sume basement, a nobody, Bandy writes as he lives, not anyone will like it.”, windows cleaned, battery topped

to impross but to satiaty hla up, water and oil checked.

fierco

be

Fort Lauderdale, which is

They make a pleasant change has written the biggest midway between Miami, and from blue jeans," shorts, and Is a State of hand-" Palm Beach, and where I stayed sweaters.

Autoshow success since "French Florida

Without (Tomeu ? which proce some men and lovely women, overnight on the retten. Journey often working in lowly jobe. In north, de the Venice of the Unlled For me Florida has made amint this wig, 15. Tubembles Californias. Hinked. There is waing, womy» pleasant change all round, S

own quiet test And when WAN (The Boy" Friend?” a anybody tries to ramp-up his dash in the par or the world-was the "American – propisode of a glorious cars ducars Englated on vamping up This autumnis, with “OH, HIEN **The Bay Triand""meke: kloksgewe skulli” know......