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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1955.

HAROLD GUARD continues his series: Middle East in Ferment

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Photos By CHARLES

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A general view of the British Petroloum Company's refinery at Aden.

THE FROU-FROU REVOLT

By SYDNEY SMITH

Paris. We are going to see and hear

GRANCES frou frou nothing but corsets, girdles and Frade is in revolt. Yes, brassieres everywhere-under-

Telephono 52278 the ten thousand men and women - that is the exact figure who make their living in France designing corsets and underwear are fed up.

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Delightful Atmosphere

Phone for reservation & catering

They feel that Messieurs Dior and Fath and the rest

wear mannequins ure too shy,

Premier Mossadegh was godfather to the Aden refinery; when he closed the world's largest at Abadan, Aden was built as a substitute. But no one worries about Abadan resuming production because Aden is outstripping Abadan in importance. For one thing, it's "safer" by hundreds of miles than any other Middle East refinery in distance from Soviet Russia,

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Aden from Britain, France, Italy refineries in Europe, and orna and, the United States.. All of of, the research paraphernalla it had to bro moved by lighter will not be found anywhere ciso six miles across the bay to Little In the world. As a consumer, Aden, hauled to the refinery the apparatus which interested alte by a desort track 20 mitas ms most was gadzet' which de- long.

termines the amount of "knock" in every grado of gasoline re- fined.

Aden la diso proud of its pipo.

Drinking water. is pumped from fival wells 230 feet deep about eight miles distant from the refinery. It comes out of No one knows the total length the ground at nearly 180 degrees of the great pipelines connect- F, which is sterilisation tem- ing the juttles to the refinery. perature, It is put through But there are a six-inch and a coolers and is ready for drinking 16-inch pipo both 10 miles long from the refinery to a tank farm without further treatment.

near Uro port'a bunkering facilities.

Little Aden, when tho first rumblings of HEN the Duke of nationalism in Iran threatened AIOC's installations at Abacon. Edinburgh wAS From a geographical point of

"There must be some volcanic here earlier this view, Western officials have action near the wells to keep

never bulan happy about the the water at that temperature, year, he posed

a refinery official said, "That's 2101 for from boiling point"

-rather embarrassing ques proximity of Abadan to Russia. tion to his hosts. Visiting Aden, on the other hand, wos Aden with Queen Elizabeth a traditional coaling station on on her tour of the Common. Commonwealth shipping routes, and noor the centre of the area wealth, he was shown the where u prospectors are mott British Petroleum Com- active today. puny's vast new refinery.

to

of

TWO UNITS

dislilintion

Work stal continues on the The building of Lille Aden, map of southern Arabia is being altered minutely almost daily as dredged sand and blasted rock are poured lesbo the gulf to make breakwaters, quays and founda➡ tkoms for moro buildings.

A

bridge

18

to

The refinery iteit is made up

two crude oil

going up Aden W09 built to handle units-cach capable of handling shorten the route from the no- tons of crude oil a nery to the Port of Aden, and

ainall

whore in-

The "Little Aden" site, Persian Gulf oil from Kuwait 3,000,000

to a network of distributing year-a platforming unit, and here an old Industry may have next door to Aden Town, is operations extending from Eng- four "treatment" plants. The to givo way to the new. In the machine-made triumph and through Pakistan and India low number of employees re- path of the projected bridge lies

The fact Australia.

village wilderness.

that quired is partly due to the use of a over the rocky

habitants make salt by solar Premier Zahed! has given the an electronic control board, the The £45,000,000 project covers 600 acres, of which order for resumption of refining only one of its kind in the world, condensation, is an old and

operations et Abadan will not which regulates many processes a big industry; there is a com 270 acres are reclaimed land make Adan less important. It in installations miles away by a tract to supply Japore with 2%

another event has hand switch.

million tons, The problem bos created by pushing the anything.

not yet been setled, but salt mountains into the Indian made it more important than it

The was on

The entire Installation is more probably will defer to all, for day ground was Ocean with bulldozers,

broken.

complete and modern than many oil is black gold.

"But why?" asked the Duke "Isn't Arabia big enough in build a refinery without filing up the so, for a silo""

**I was u hurd question And-you have guessed it answer." Aluxander Trantor told leader of the frill and flounce. Trantor is general manager of the refinery, which BPC bullt campaign to a burly. middle-

here after Premter Muhammed gl far-from-corscled MAN,

Mossadegh had closed down M. Lucien Libreu, president of

Abadan, the world's larges re- the corset industry.

finery.

"My family have been making coris and things for 150 years

Qti

of the sacred salon divini- xl I know that the High Com- ties of fashion are getting mand of fashion cannot go

messing around with a woman's too much credit for dictat- silhouette, certainly without us. ing women's lines.

So the French Federation of Corset

turers that is the frou frou

trade has

called "The

Line."

National Manufac-

opened It drive

Fortnight of

the

"And I know one other thing, the line a woman likes best is the real shape

woman's of B body, Yes, it alters a little."

GREW LYRICAL

And here M. Libron grew slightly lyrical and his hands expressive over his last waistcoat "Now

made round,

generous gestures

striped

This event was the Britisn decisim to evacuate the Suez Canal Zone. Aden emerged as one of the leading substitute bases in an area where the West still depends on the British for maintaining a large part of de- fenstve might.

FAR FRINGE

came, Soviet

If world war Thesia could be expected to make the Middle East olifields priority tangot for their long- range bombers.

The main reason we levelled and filled the area was to push out further into the Gulf of Aden to get

deeper draft for

Without Middle the docks," he explained. "We East supplies, the West would rubble to build an have to bring its oll across the artificial harbour with three

Atlantic in vulnerable tankers. jetties which can handle four 38.000 ton

t super tankers once."

Lsed the

ONE YEAR

The choice of Adva looks Increasingly well-advised to Western sleategists, since it is on the far ingy of the danger urea-several hours flying time "urther than Abadan ог

Ras Tanura. the principal Saudi. Acabin refinery on the Persian Gulf,

And Adon has become the hub

I had visited Little Aden in March of 1953 when the landscape was nothing but beky heights and

undulating dunes. The bulldozers and graders of a vast network of Royal Air year the fashion was-er-they already were working 24-hou Force routes, spreading from were, well, pear-shaped. The shifts and the vanguard of 2,500 East Africa to Southeast Asia. effect of the A-line this year European

American In one important sense, this means they are pulled up technicians, with 10,000 Arab network serves as a connecting

a little to the ond higher, pushed

Indian Labourers, were link between NATO and SEATÓ. side and are moro-let's say arriving to construct the refinery.

But flattened?

Back at apple-shaped.

Extinguished? Suppressed?"

A temporary township was thrown up to house the army

M. Libron lifted his hands in of workmen and on April 17,

devout horror.

1953, the Orst pile was driven Into the ocean bed Tor the Jettles.

"Mon Dieu," he cried, "Never, you will never get women to go back to 1926 when they

Exactly one year later, the first bound their chests fiat with furnace was fed in the power bandages This year waists are | station. Another three months not pinched so much.

"We are making our corsets and girdles just a leetle, leetle Jooser and higher so that waists will be longer and straighter."

and the Aden refinery, designed to procesa 5,000,000 tons of crude all a year, was in business.

the refinery today, there are only 1,750 British, Arabs and Indians left to run the project. The American effort is recalled solely by the wide boulevards named after American engineers who bullt the township, a power station putting out 22,500 kilowatts and pumping 4,000,000 gallons of water every hour to service the refinery.

Trantor told me nearly 180,000 tons of materials, equipment and The decision to build the re- stores--including 100,000 tons finery here was taken in 1859, of steel-had been shipped to

The electronic control board, the only one of its kind in the world, at the British Petrofeum Company's refinery at Adon. It automatically records and gives at a glance thousands of production figures.

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HE

BUILD NEW EMPIRE

From RENE MacCOLL

big

Kingston, Jamaica. It ds the story—the rich and that's the thing that interestä LTE is a strikingly hand- prospering colonies are name too him Federation is

some fellow, this 62- keen to have a slap-happy Asbulous,"

of Queen's Counsel horde penniless people Manicy didn't my

year-old

so, but

federation luriding around now - is the attitude of the Iridian community in Trinidad.

who became Jamaica's Chief Touring in from the poverty just about the biggest throat | d

and forlorn little to Minister after beating his tricken cousin, the great Busta "pocks on the thap.. mante, at the polls the other

day.

Handsome, shrewd,

Someone has got to iron that out (a quota system, perhaps?).

The Indians could win the next-Trinidad election. They Fiscal problems, too.

You could decide not to play ball all

on federation), the tremendously charming ls might suppose dint

banks on those neighbouring Norman Washington Man- extinct volcanoes, which poko ley.

their aanmits so spectacularly out of dhe erstwhile Spanish Main, would accept the same currency. Wrong.

But apart from all that he is likely to play a big part in the tedoration of the West Indian Colonies, which he confidently

prodicts as happening ~; In 1937

at the latest

Ho' is likely to play an even bigges part in the life of the streat now Caribbean nation that will follow. federation,

DIFFICULTIES

at repute. You could

enti

Jamaica has its own, which is not honoured in any other island. How about that?

CLOSE-KNIT

walth

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They are close-knit, and they bavo. boon. reminded increasing drequency arrency in the past few your by volcom - from, abroad, that Mother ·India • own theli first allegiangë. Well, says Manley, there sny

wi Manley: bo a transition period just Boys.

There Is betone doderation when a sort never any, real intergration in of dual nate da in circulation--- a community until there t with a pound appearing on one inter-marriage. side of it and several West Indian dollars on, the other.

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The West Indian federation will winy within the British there is plenty of Commonwealth. No questio hositancy oncedo ·Manley, about that, (In' hand, at the

His wife, Edna, is à sculptross Manley a sculptor, too for be in "but* @vary: federation, that our flamed abonat ·ibero · the

passionate advocate of world h federation, and as he talks of attended by hoallasey,

Ha coffee-coloured, delicúbóky.

selled face lights up.

w. This business of

'destreita to ne break

Jamalian But there is great strabuty cigarette and anochs: "The man of local feeding, rand pride,

ally in may [him that

The British Adventure (left) and the Norwegian tanker Ontos discharging fuel oll·at· Aden refinery.

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