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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 11, · 1955.

Submarine Safari Is Novel

Holiday Offered

To Millionaires

Rome, July 10.

A submarine safari is the latest holiday offer to millionaires.

A luxury yacht in the Red Sea, its passengers, with aqualungs, gliding under water through the world's most colourful coral reefs and myriads of fish that is the proposal put forward, in the interests of science, by the International Institute for Submarine Research, with its headquarters at Vaduz, in the little principality of Lichtenstein, on the frontier between Austria and Switzerland.

The first sefori, with 12 guests, get a glimpse of the true colours will bo held in November and of the reefs." will last three weeks. Others will low each month during the winter.

Hans Hites, a 30-year-old Austrian, the world's leading underwater fisherman and the founder of the Vaduz Research Institute, is organising there ex- peditions to the fabulous Red Sea submarine gardens.

From Zurich

Mr Hass said that ench safarl will start from Zürich. . From there, the guests will fly to Cairo and join

thener by car to Suez to (Arable for the Xarifa "Beautiful lady").,

"First we stall heat for

place Urghada,

north of Rosoir, at the very outlet of the Gulf of Suez, where the Eøpt- He has already led two of the lian Marine Biological Institute myast extensivu submarine is situated. Here there is n research expeditions ever made wealth of reefs and other marine

one to the Great Barrier Reef

Ufc. of Australia in 1952 and 1953 and the other, lasting ten months, to the Caribbean and the Galapagos Islands, off Ecuador, in the Pacific Ocean, in the following

two years.

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NARDA, YOU

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NO--I DON'T WANT. TO GO INTO THAT CELL/I'LL STAY IN THIS ELEVATOR--

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The riders try to keep clear

33

Hörse Race

Mediaeval RIVER FLOATING STILL CHEAPEST TRANSPORTATION

Radio Hongkong

Oslo, July 10. Norwegian timber owners and buyers are watching with interest a move by some of their colleagues to "modernise" the industry to collect timber from the lumber camps by lorry - instead of floating it down the rivers to the factories.

They do not, however, anticipate that the campaign is likely to lead to the end of the oldest. known method of transportation. Both owners and buyers find that the ancient method of floating the logs down the rivers on the spring spate is still by far the best and the cheapest method.

On Norway's longest river, a good "start" on the logs in the Glomma, which is about 600 order to prevent a slowing up. kilometres (375 miles) long, further down the river." Rud down the many small tributaries which lead to it from the, imountains, about 1,000,000 tons of timber are floated every yeur.

Then the really exciting moment arrives. Two men row

out on the lake, taking good care to steer clear of the dam. saw through the log boom.

the timber back and

In the old days hundreds of men to Arst logs approach were employed on this dangerous work. In the narrow gorges, the falls, drawn by the fremen- down waterfalls and where the dous pressure of water hurtling river bed was studded with down the dam opening.

Suddenly they are all there, rocks, the logs often got stuck,

ono another and piled up in huge Heaps and logs jostling Signal and programun Summary: 6.03, Children's Halt Hour angled together like matches being sucked down by the water Presented by Sally Ann (Studio);

the looming €1.30. Australian

and tossed Trade Catalogus, poured out of a match box.

H.K.T. 0. Time

STRUNG OUT

Sometimes

over

There is a thundering as logs the rocks or are dashed past thrown up against the stony. banks of the falls. Here and there sharp crack is to be heard as

a solid log, caught

of one another

they thunder round the bend of the

· Piazza del "Camp In the madlarval borse isco of Biens, Italy, held in the The Fortnightly Review of Australian The lumber men then had to fails, down the gorge, down the

Industry: An Accent on Rhythm.climb out and try to loosen the river. main square before 120,000 7.16, 216x_200o Dert Giljett at the

Organ (OD): 734, Announcer logs. specisiors, In this race the

Choice presented by Robert Scoli 1Studio); 7.30, Weather Report; D, Jockeys ride bare back, and

Time Signal and The News (London Relay); 8.00, Commentary (London they are allowed, and expect

Relay) or Special Announcementa; 0.15, The Orchestra of the Opera. ed, to do everyting they can

Comique, Paris; 8,30, Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra. A Programe of

they were strung against a rock, snaps like a to impede the other luurses and

Latin American Mudo BBCTS); out on wires over the river try-match stick. Time Signal. Off the Beaten Track and jockeys by bumping boring, send even striking azer riders and sucir horses with their whips. They face round the piazza three times at a mad puve mittnig,

swerving DNA side swiping, bumping each other. The en. trics for this race represent encts of the ten austricia si ine

mediaeval town of Siena, Before the historio race starts there is a parade of captains and of the various, districts which make up Slena, cach group wearing their colours and crests, · The costumes are ́exact coples of those worn 'at the Skena celebrations in 1482, -Express Photo,

OH-I SEE --WHAT YOU MEAN!

move

On the lake, motor beats are

Fiver men with

presented by Timothy Birch (Studioying to untangle the logs with

Elizabethan Theatre Written hooks, and sometimes dynamite used to pull and push at the by I.A. Craig and R.D. Smith had to be used to get the timber back of the mass of logs and No. D "This Killing Spectacle

on the

calvvy them towards the dam. (DUCTS); 10, "International Cabaret"

again. presented

points down the Dentre Brabant by

The floating method is simple. At strategie (Studio); 10.30, Rhapsody in Jazz. A

spiked and during the Concert by Kurt Edelhagen & his The taber felled

hooked poles are on duty to Orch. 10.50 Weather Report 11. winter months is piled on the 100 Time Signal. Radio News Real (Lon

snowy shores of the mountain prevent the logs getting caught dan Relay): 109. Test Cricket. Eng. land v. South Africa, Commentaries lakes as soon as the ice up and to keep them spwing.

smoothly down the river. melts on the 4th day's play of the 3rd

the logs are icated out

Up to 30 or 40 years ago it fest by Rex Alston, John Arlott and Charles Fortuna at Old Trafford, Manchester Recorded London Re lay): God Save The Queen, 1145, Close down.

and and

on the lakes with a boom of logs chained together to prevent was a common thing for the logs them going any further. When to get stuck and the work of the water level is high enough the lumber, men was extremely after the thaw has really started past few decades, however, con

tough and dangerous. and as soon as the water pressklerable sums sure is deemed strong enough,

the dam is opened.

In the

have been de- voted to blasting out narrow passages and removing rocks or For several hours the water islets which might impede the

New York, July 10, Mr Adlai Stevenson, Democrat candidate for President in 1952, has been suffering from preu- monia in the hospital at Lake Forest, Illinois, since last Thurs day, It was disclosed today.

Mr Stevenson's condition is stream. This is done because possible-and-today- the progress --- improving and it is expected once the logs are let loose they of logs down the river is saldom that he will leave the hospital travel faster than the river cur- impeded lat any way,- I tomorrow. France-Presse. reat, so that the water must get

By Lee Fall and Phil Davis

THAT'S ALEENA'S || | WAY OF GETTING

PEOPLE OUT--INTO

THIS CELL.

But AB Johnny SLAMS, HIS DOOR SHUT, THE GROGGY SNAP OPENS HIS DOOR.... (NYS

HEYBNAPI COME BACK {HERE...WHAT IN BLAZES ARE YOU DOING?!

THE ELEVATOR~~GONE?}{ 1 DON'T WE'RE BURIED IN THIS CELL--INSIDE THE

CLIFF. NOW WHAT, GUAN1

KNOW.

THAT

DEPENDS ON ALEENA!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

GRACE

MAY.

By Frank Robbins

CAME TO GET A PICTURE.

| OF THE GENERAL GONNA

| BET IT NOWA WAIT HERE....

„WON'T BE A MINUTES

SNAP,

CORD BACK!

YOU'LL GET US ALL KILLED!

is allowed to flow over the dam timber. The bed of the river to fill the river and speed up the has been

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BULLDOZERS...

Bulldozers have been used too, to even out the river bed in the shallow parts and in timber special tricky apots canals have been built to make a short cut or to carry the logs smoothly past serious obstacles. The Boating of timber, has been going on down the River Glomma för many 'centuries.

Some of the umber may get lost on the way. Logs may get stuck, hung up on the banks, or they may get waterlogged and sink to the bottom

of the river. Some

get broken, though this makes no difference If the timber is destined to the pulp factories. And a few logs are pilfered But the average loss or wastage is put at no higher than one per cent of the total timber-ficated

In the upper reaches of the river and until it has passed all the falls, the timber is floated Icoso, each log being merely marked with Its owner's special brand.

Finally ble

the logs reach the timber booms and me sorted out and guided by skilled tim- ber men into a long series of "compartments," coch according to the owner's brand.

As each log approaches the floating platforms the men crote in a Bash lis marking and give it a prod so that it malla down. into the right section. The men employed on these sorting booms work extremely quickly and can. deal with over 100,000 logs a day in the height of the season.

After sorting, the logs

org

hahed together "in piles and assembled for further transport

down

the river. If the current

is slow, boats are to tow, them in piles down to the factories.

Timber floating on the river Glonima, as on most of the other big rivers in Norway, is UTA ganised on, a co-operative basis. The managing organisation, known as

the Glomma Joint Timber Floating Association, is

run от a: non-profit-making beads, and the board comprises representatives both at the timber buyers - and the forest OWDETS with the timber buy- ers in the majority.

All pergory, and organisations corspered in the timber Bani» them who wIG the river for transport sure automatically members of the amicviation, and floating costs arg shared out propizitomidely.

AVERAGE COST

The average cost of trac« sporting the timber in this way is today put at approximately 4 ore, for about a halfpenny, per ton per half a milag

"As long, we she present: large number of lose (new" fransported from forest to Ematory river the corta can be caps. down to this vessant

or, rail trasmOCES