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THE CHINA-MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL
21, 1955.
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Restrictions Relaxed
Under
40m Rupee Plan
Bombay, Apr. 20.
The Indian Government is making an all-out effort to attract more tourists.
Under a 40,000,000-rupee (about £3,077,000) plan for promoting tourism. 40 places of interest to the tourist, ranging from the 2,000-year-old richly carved caves of Ajanta and Ellora and Ellora in Hyderabad to the picturesque hill station of Darjeeling in West Bengal, within sight of the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas, are to be developed..
As hunting is still one of the tourists major attractions for coming to India, the Govern-
ment has appointed recognise shikar" agents at places faracus for big game hunting
offices
GOVERNMENT GUIDES
Tourist
already exist in most of the major cities to give information 10 the foreign traveller. Guides appointed
by the Govern-
COUTSC
put through ment are rigorous 2-month training
history, In
ari, archtecture and rules and regulations affecting the
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foreign tourist.
musi
In addition, the gukles a150 know all about local customs anal festivals.
Five new tourist fees are to bu opened in the country- three of them being in the hill stations Darjeeling (West
Bengal) Simla (near Delhi) and Dotacamund (Madras). The ether two are at Bangalore ||biysore) Al Aurangabad
Hyderabad).
Tourist Information offices are already fusetioning at Srinagar Kashmir); Agra, the city of the
chimes, unde publications, Fazer ne tik and repairing.Tajmahal; and the 3.000-year-old
Stayfair Mmale, Company, Lung Street, telephone 2731E,
aa, chai city of Benares, sprawling on the
of bank of the river Ganges.
Regional tourist offers are functioning al Bornbay, Calculte, Madras and Delhi, while India also has a tourist bureau in New York
MISCELLANEOUS
COCKTAN, PARTIES. Novel Invia sion cards on sale S. C. M. Post," Hongkong and Kowler
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shoot bears or to Assam track down the rhinoceros..
Under the plan La promotel tourism, roads linking tourist centres are to be improved and mads opened where no communications at present exist. This work is estimated to cost 32,500,000 rupees
£2,- (about 4 246,000)
+0,00 out of the total grant
new
-of-10,000,000 0_rupees..
New rest houses are to
built and existing ones improved
at an estimated cost of 2,300- £ 176.900). 000 rupees
(about Two new landing grounds are also to be improved at. Cost of 900,000 rupees (about £68,330). Some of the States which to the have palaces belonging farmer
have. princely states been asked by the Indian Gov ernment la study the possibility of converting the palaces into guest houses for tourists
CONCESSIONS
A number of concessions have been made to tourists
as
recently.. Relaxation of barzage restrictions have" also come into force. Tour- Ista are now allowed to bring in articles, such cameras and cigarettes. while the value of duty free
which can souvenirs
be carried by laurisis has been raised to 2,000, rupees (about £154).
Egyptian strong man-Abdullah-seen as he takes the weight of a car containing six people.total weight two tona-during a display, of his feats. in Copenhagen, where, at present he is' ziying charity performances for the benefit of a Danish infants' home,Express Photo..
BRONZE BUST OF FIRST
CANADIAN WOMAN MP
Ottawa, Apr. 20.
:
A bronze bust has been unveiled in the House of Commons at Ottawa in memory of Miss Agnes Macphail, Canada's first woman Member of Parliament.
women
The
Elizabeth Ery
Miss Macphail, who died last Canada's pioneer woman par-, Canada, year, stood first as a United liamentarian was long a lonely Society of Canada, named after Farmers' candidale and later figure in the green chamber of the British Quaker prison
the House of Commons. ss a Socialist, after the
Even former, is carrying on Miss Co-
there today.
four Macphails work. are only operative Commonwealth
Members at Ottawa, Federalign (Socialist) party was founded. She was re-elected
There are, four times for the constituency of Grey-Bruce, Ontario, she was defeated in 1940. Later, she served in the Ontario legis- figures are available, Ja 1963, lature as a member for about 28,000 tourists visited | Co - operative Commonwealth India.-China Mall Spécial. Federation.
Some 32,000 tourists visited India in the first ten months of Among the tourist centres ❘ 1954, a total which is expected; which the Indian Government o reach 37,000 when anal I proposes to develop are Auranga
bod, a few hours' journey from Bombay. where some of the
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India, eludire the "Apath" "and" Ellora coves, are to be seer, and Udaipur and Chitor in sandy Rajasthan
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Udaipur. situated hanles of a large lake and often described as the "Venice of the
white
the
East" is famous for its marble painces, especially palace of the Maharana which has pancocks in mosaic on the walls.
Chilor is known for its fort where once Rajput warriors preferred death to surrender to the encoy.
RICH IN HISTORY Two other pluets rich history to be developed are Junagath and Somnath, In Saurashtra, in Western
India, and the magnificent Kulu valley in East Punjab. There is also Santiniketan. "the abode of peace"! about 100) miles from Calcutta, where the Doct, Rabindranath Tagore. founded Visvabharali
Univer sity, new experiment in education and a rentre of Indian; culture.
The well-known temple cities of South India such as Ramesh- waram, Conjeevaram and Mahabalipuram in Madras are to have better rest houses and the roads to these places are 10 be improved.
A Mabhabalipuram, or the | Seven Pagodas as the Europeats have named it, 50 miles from Madras there is on the seashore, collection of ancient rock- bewn monuments which aru same of the niost important 3Tchitectural remains in South India, They include monolithiu temples, cave temples, monolit hic figures, carvings and sculp- Luys
dating back to the nth and sixth centuries AD.
Conjeevaram. known as the "Golden City", 45 miles from Madras,
richly
carved temples.
At Rameshwaram, there is a species fre included; temple renowned for its greul plumages are clearly and pillared corridors nearly 4,000 concisely described, and feet long. The temple a short account is given built round a quadrangle, is 850 of acid characters, fect by 1,000 feet. voice, habits, status, The game sanctuaries in
illustrations, elc: The
Mysore
Perlyar except for three plates sanctuary in the southern state of photographs, are all of Travancore-Cochin are also by Car. A. M. Hughes, to be made mors accessible and indude four attrue-.) the tourist.
.. a most welcome handbook for ornitholo gists resident or station- ed in Hong Kong. All the hithertö recorded
tive plates of the heads
of 42 species and many useful drawings in the tent. The writes of this review!
would have benefied greatly from this book when station- ed in Hong Kong some „years ago,
Byer, now,
and
the
itself,
to
'SHOOT WILD LIFE Touristy who
come tá India like to "shoot wild fe In the sanctuarits with their cameras, Some of thele main targets are the bison, sambar spelled deer, Indlan walf and hyena which Foam In
Periyar the
lake Banctuary. 40 feming species The favourite haunts of
on referring to it, some
"on" "which" notes `werd
are the sow-clad
mado at the thre have Himalayas, the fertile India-
almost all proved easily
Identifiable, D. V. S.
(Extract from The Tola offels! erger of the British Ornithologiata Union, Britian Museum).
Gangelic Plains and the rugged
Deccan Plateau, The Western Himalayas present the best op portunities for sport.
"In the dense Tiger shooting
of Madhya Pradesh, jungles Rajasthan and West Bengal s still the major sport of big KOWLOON game hunters, but sportsmen
also like to go to Kasimir.
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Great Plains May
Suffer Worst Storms In History
Washington, Apr. 20.
Farmers in the Great Plains of the United States have been warned that their area may suffer the worst dust storms in history in the next few months.
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Mr Tom Dale of the United States Soil and Conservation Service, has collected data which indicates that the 26,000,000 acres of the Great Plains an area almost equal to the size of England-are in condition to "blow."
it
Already in 1954, dust storms this year promise to be worge fore the. surface adit. from than the famous "Black Blizz 12,000,000 acres of grass and erds of the 1930s. The worst croplands, leaving behind the of these struck on May 10, beginnings of a desert.
1934, Borne on westerly winds, picked up topsell dried to
years powder by four
similar to conditions drought, prevalling today, from bare field on a path stretching nearly 1,200 miles wide New Mexico in the south Montana, in the north,
In the past 12 months, 43 dust sternS, each at least 100 miles in diameter, with visibili by ranging from one mile down to a few foot and driven by winds
of up to 100 miles per hour, have blanketed the Great Plains
Was
In these storms, street lights had to be turned en at noon in scores of towns, a train deralice by senior dust, roads disappeared under sight feet of
The dust fall-out from
every
from
to
that
day's blow powdered extern seaboard cities like New York, 1,800 miles away. Even some
ships, sailing across the north. dira woman was lost ILT
Atlantic Ocean 5,000 miles away anthered to death und drift- indust
in New were covered by this dust some at Clavis Mexics, and Bights of ducks weeks later as it dropped from and gee cama tumbling to the stratosphere. earth choked by dust which Larned to mud in their gullets.
THREE STATES SOIL
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The land stringed by the winds waL
formerly rich beer grazing country, cot- ton plantations and wheat
·One farmer in the Culorado. at Ears described in a Press report
ضاعة
area
how, he had seen top seil from three states fly. past his farm, windows,
dirt
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The Baltimore Sun, in a lead ing article published in Janu- ary this year, summed up the attitude of the Soil Conserva- tion staf towards the causes of the dust-bowl storms.
"This is all man's work," it. said. "He ploughed the land that should not have been ploughed. On the plains, he pressed too hard to nature.
by whose courtesy he exists at 'all, always, when nature is pressed has too hard, the retribution been terrible and long."
"First, I saw a big red cloud," he said, "and I knew that was bean-growing from the country around Ordway,
There was, indeed, a rush by three of them Conservatives' The Macphail Memorial Fund miles from my farm. A few farmers after World War II to and one Liberal.
fortunes has been organised to establish days later, I saw, tan dirt and make
by growing however, five women Senators. scholarships for students in knew that must have come from wheat for which the Govern
terested in the probation and re- Nebraska. Then came black ment was guaranteeing high Miss Macphail was particular- habilitation of women prisoners dirt, and from the direction, 1 prices. They fanned out on ly interested in prison reform
After
a life spent in the pub was obviously from Kansas".
plains of Kansas and and succeeded in doing much lic service, Agnes Macphail died to raise the standard of candi- in poverty involving real dis-
According to the Soil Con-Colorado, tearing off the natur
al cover of grass which had tions for women prisoners in tress-China Mail Special. servation Service, dust storms
held down the soll.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
HYPNOTIZING THEM, MANDRAKE'S FIGURE-IMAGE SEEMS TO STROLL AWAY-AS HE REMAINS WITH THEM, INVISIBLEJ
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Ignoring scientific ing practices necessary for tillage of drier earth, they sowed whent wherever they could in their hunger for quick, and big, profits.
When the droughts came in 1951, the wheat died and there was na vegetation to hold down. the top of The winds earns and blew the top soil away, watched by the helpless formers,
Once the dust starts blowing On the Great Plains, history has shown that a dust-bow! starts unless rain follows and the dust-bow! spreads with cancer-like rapidity.
The good soll on which vegetation could flourish and knit the surface is carried away and some of the eroded soft la deposited од Dearby wheat, grass, cotton, or other vegeta-; tien, smothering it, and so ex- posing, more and more growing arte, to attacle by the wind
A large part of the organis matter and fine particles of soil are blown hundreds or thou- sands of miles away, and the granular structure of the soil. -breaks down. Years of good tarring are necessary to re- | store the safļ, siniciare::
According to Mr Dale, land in condition to blow" this year covers large areas of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma Texas. Montana, Nebraska,
South
Dakota
North
and
The months of September, October and November, were completely dry or below aver¬ age in rainfall in those, drought- ravaged areas. A late fall of snow in December in some areas of the Great Plains could alleviate the situlition, but enly if good spring, rains follow.
The Sell Conservation Ser vice has drawri up plans for emergency and long-term "at- tacks dry the spread of the dust-
"The main weapon is water conservation. When a'deld starts to blow away the emergency nensure taken is "deep listing.” This entails ploughing-deep furrows across the field, several yards apart
VARIOUS FACTORS
Such Hated furrows ktop soit blowing: for period" ranking, from, a few homes to a wock, depending on various fheters, especia”. ly@wind velocity.
Long term measures aro based on planting grasses, trees - and” sorghum, avoiding tillage of poor land, and retrafping from (över-stocking
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