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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts

From The Battlefields

Of Korea To

The Bullrings Of Spain

Madrid.

AD Harry Whitney needs is to kill 20 or 30 more bulks. Then may- be the fastidious Spanish bullfighting fans won't hoot him out of the

arena.

That's how Whitney, a lithe, baby-faced Californian, looks at his troubled career as a bullfighter. He has no intention of giving up his dream of being an American matador.

and

Whitney, 1 Korcan war tainly he will now think it is an American-owned restaurant veteran who saw his first bull-ensier to fight the Chinese that specialises in steaks fight in Spain in 1951, made his Communists than to pit himself barbecued spare ribs, Arsi appearance En Madrid's against a bull without making Vista Alegre bullring last week.

himself look ridiculous," It was just short of a disaster,

HE MANAGES A RESTAURANT

killed two bulls, but neither with a clean thrust of the sword. In one case, he "had to be warned twice by officials to Hurry up and dis. patch the bull. If three warn

are given a bull is taken out and shot and the matador la disgraced.

'EASIER TO FIGHT

THE REDS'

The critics took a dim view of the performance, "He en- tered the ring looking as though he had just come out of a Bread. way revue," one wrote. "The boy doesn't lack

Whitney had been counting or a successful showing in the Madrid ring to gain him a following among aficionados" in Spain, It was his first meet- ing with three-year-old bulls, and his first venture into a cor- rida with Picadors.

A

tall. well-proportioned fellow who played fadtball and basketball at his home town, California, Rancho Santa Fe, Whitney did not serve the usual apprenticeship in Mexican bull-

before courage, but rings.

coming to this country where the bullight was boru, He got his training in small towns around Spain.

he still doesn't know how to kill a brave bulf with art."'

Another critic noted that the 29-year-old American had been

j

When he is not off practising,

in Korea, and said "almost cer. Whitney works as manager of

Housewife's Desperate. S.O.S. For AÁ Naval Pancake Recipe

International recognition 143 come to a cook of the Royal Canadian Navy on the eve of his retirement after 20 years' service,

Victoria, B.C. They enjoyed almost everything he served, but one and all agreed that his

pancakes. served with maple syrup or a sauce of his own invention, were out of this world. At various stages of his career, aboard such warships as the Skeena. Vancouver, Fraser, Nootka Prince David and Prince Rupert and latterly at the cookery school at HMCS Naden at Esquimalt, Stockley's pancakes were in demand. But the supreme accolade for

his

masterpiece has just come from a housewife in Rugby, England.

Sailors ashore and afloat have been singing the praises of Chief Petty Officer William A. Stockley of Esquimalt, B.C.. ever since he started his long

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Despite suggestions by Madrid bullfight experts that he retire gracefully from the zing. Whitney intends to keep trying. There is

Do reason, he said, and Spaniards

Latin why Americans should have a mono- poly on the "national fiesta” în Spain.

"I need to kill 20 or 30 more bulls," he said. "My next fight will be a local affair in Merida."

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"I'm losing money on this job-my girlfriends expect to come in here and eat free!"

Changes Colour Parched Yellow To Lush

Green

Cairo,

The face of the Western Desert is changing colour from pale yellow

to emerald green as Egypt's revolutionary government grows "grass on dry sands.

Over a rolling desert stretch of 25,000 acres, knee-high forage has grown in a successful experiment that envisages the transformation of six million acres of desert into rangeland.

This desert revolution, second only to the gushing of oil from beneath Arabian sands, does not require one drop of extra ware, It is only a matter of control— the control of rain water and the control of grazing.

Under Román rule, this desert was a lush granary for the Mediterranean empire, It is still strowa with the remains of

in summer the desert is bare, One of the aims of the project is to grow perennial forage that stores the winter rainfall in its deep roots until next year's season.

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Another messure was to build makeshift sand-and-rock, banks to prevent the rain water from flowing in flash floods into the sen. The banks are set to meet the water full face and let it spread out on the desert.

in

luxury baths and noble temples to Jupiter and Venus. The

woman wrole to Naval Down through the centuries, Headquarters in Ottawa beg- the desert felt gradually into dis- ging for Stockley's secret re-use. The weils dried up. Over cipe. She explained that her the face of the desert moved the

former Royal shifting sands. husharad

root culinary

Marine, had tasted Stockley's

pancakes when he was serving Today, Egypt's revolutionary aboard the RCN auxiliary cru- government is trying to bring ser, Prince David in 1944, and the desert back to life."

that he had never forgotten them. Her letter implied that the whole fabric of her mar- riage depended on getting the recipe.

The Navy got busy, searched its

missed.

MAN BEHIND

THE PLAN

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The third measure

was to control grazing. Five thousand. acres have already been fenced The sheep and goats are plants from nearly 50 countries,

Over 300 species of forage allowed to graze the grass "down

including the United States, "The most important thing we Australia and South Africa, have to about one foot "above the been tested, and 12 have been ground, then herded out before selected for all-year grazing. they pluck the forage by the The "queen" of them all is should bear in mind," said Col. alfalfa..

Diraz, "is that we must live with the desert as part of its scheme of things, not as foreign invaders or parasites. When we treat the desert as a friend it will bless our life with bounties. It we disrupt it as prowling enemies, it will withhold its blessings."

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THE BEDOUINS

records, passed the frantic SOS Behind the ambitious plan is along to Stockley who prompt- | one man-Colonel Omar Diraz—| ly mailed the recipe to Eng. | who first went to the desert as land.

The sheep grazing in the ex- a young veterinary doctor 10 "Pancake" Stockley is now on take care of the Egyptian army

perimental plot have each gained retirement leave prior to his horses in the Western Command, The Navy is to put a about six pounds in weight discharge from the Navy in The horses' lot was meagre, and novel three-in-one boat on within two weeks. August. He'll be sorely Diraz went out to End grass for trial in the anti-atom test Among the shepherd bedouins his animals, There were only cruiser Cumberland. Fibre with flowing-robes move two small, scattered clumps. With the years he became an ardent ex-glass tanks will make the American cowboys with bread-

rimmed hats.

They are C: new boat practically unsink- Kenneth Plerse, of Arizona, who able.

is the chief of-the Point Four For years he pleaded with

In modern warships,, heavily operations team, and Bradford government authorities to save burdened with scientific appara- Knapp, a liverstock specialist the desert, but no one listened tus as well as armaments, pull from Montana, to him seriously-until the army ing and sailing beats have had! revolution came. The United to go to make way for molar

£17 To Cross pert on desert plants.

Atlantic

States' Point Four mission also

New York. America may shortly start joined in, and Col. Diraz was given command of the "Joint building two £50,000,000 Desert Range Development Pro- super-liners to launch a ject." four-day trans Atlantic

sex boats.

The answer Now the Navy think it has found the answer in a 2911, long The site is a dreamland. It boas which cat!

"ferry service. One-way had been chosen by ex-King, tickets would cost only £17. Farouk as a playground, On a Carry out sea rescuts 45 3 sharp, rocky care piercing into diesel-engined craft capable of

Mr Hyman B. Canter, boss of the blue, sliken waters of the six knots. six United States, hotels, who

is prometing the plan, said: Mediterranean, Farouk built an

Race in sailing regattas with

new raft,

"Why make people pay up for arabesque chalet and a mga crew of five and a Gunter caviare and pheasants Most little beach as a desert retreat. sloop type rig. follos just want to get where The area is a coastal tract at

Mersa Matruh, about 200 miles Be used by a crew of mine" they're going--and cheap."

Orders for the 100,000-tón by road west of Alexandria, atin pulling races. twin liners bigger than any the foot of the sheer walls of salps afloat will be given to the Libyan plateau, American shipyards as soon as the Federal Government ap- prove their ball-promised jour

The super-liners are blue printed to carry 10,000 passen ders and crew,"

They will be 1260ft, long, have flat tops and refractable smoke-stacks for immediate con- version-into-aircraft-carriers,

Lincoln Degrees

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Winter rains fall throughout the length of Egypt's coastal strip to a depth of 30 miles. For the rest of the year there are no rains Winter grasses grow to

feed some sheep and goats, but

An Unfair Cop

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converted from its normal motor sea boat role, will enable the Navy to reintroduce some of its tradi donal recreation

For sailing a large centre plate is atted, id strong wind, the crew will have to sit out

on the side of the beat,

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The new boat will be a side- live for the Curnberland, which Chicago, is the Navy's top-secret trials Gamblers here say the Police ship. Three tundred tons aren't playing fair. They're water an hour WOE... using too many disguises. "wash her clean of imaginary

radio-active particles.

She is Atbed with acti-roll- devices Automatic guns,

One horse player climbed into for each of He decades, will be a cab and sped to a handbook presented by Lincoln College,, to place bet, The bookic and Each degrees will represent the player went arrested one facet of the character of its promptly by the cabble, who namesake, Abraham Lincoln turned out to be a plain-clothes. United Fros

man - United Press,

calded missiles and the latest under water weapons have al been tested thom the Cumber-

Laureus Service)

that what has been accomplished Both Pierse and Knapp reckon in the 25,000-acre experimental plot can be applied to 4,000,000 seres in the Western Desert and another 2,000,000 in the Eastern Desert and the Sinai Peninsula.

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