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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955,

URANIUM RUSH POSSIBLE War Victims Scientists Hope

IF NORWAY CHANGES LAW

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Oslo, Aug. 14,

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Prospecting for uranium may become popular sport in Norway if the Government changes the present law and allows private concerns to work their own claims and reap the benefits of their finds,

Hitherto uraniunr prospecting by other than State bodies in the mineral rich mountains of Norway has been discouraged by the fact that only the State can own production rights on uranium deposits.

This has meant that mining skenal smali nugget, and a very

not taken

by the concerns have

any few break about even steps to investigate the posal-end of the year, bility of uranium deposits in A really productive uranium 10 cents FER WORD OVER 20 their ore mines. For any dis-nnd would, in these days, be than all the of uranion, they argued, worth far more

$2.00 PER DAY

interference in the working the mine.

of Norway.

Births, Deaths, Marriages.dly mean Government gold there is to be found Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words. 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

If not prepalda booking fea of 50 cents is charged.

DEATHS

HOLM-Me Jubus Holny parsed away on August 15, 1035, at 12.40., L St. Paul's Hospitul. Now reposing the Internation Fineral

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Parlour. Funeral at 5 20 p.m. on August 16. (Tuesday), parning the Valley Memurent af 30 pin.

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of

In

The Geological Investigation It was the Atomic Research Insitute has had one or two Institute at

out Kjeller. foether men

with big Geiger- with Norway's semi-official Muller emplers on the search Geological

In for uranium. Offeists say that Investigation stitute.

which made the fist The Norwegian mountains move towards a change in thede big slepcals of uraninm, law.

but the Institute's small furis research limit the amount of

be undertaken. But, which can they stress, it is in the nation's that the investigation interests work be intensited. Instrument Prices

Royal Decrees

in 1940,

In addition, passed to the okt Norwegian mining law ct 1842, gave the State a

de-

complete monopoly in the pro- speeting and working, of. posits of what

With a large were described

Geiger-Mulier counter it is possible to make as "nationally important" metals

Investigations from a car or jeep or minerals,

which can be driven round the hills, But these large jastru- ments cost from 0,000 to 14,000

By two later Royal decrees, uranium, thorium, niubium and tantal were listed as "nationally important.

RN Squadron

Visits Switzerland

to

Bonn, Aug. 14. The Royal Navy has paid n visit to landlocked Switzerland.

unit The

that salied

Rhine the Switzerland was Squadron, based at Rheinhafen, near Krefeld. It has a strength of 12 officers and 70 ratings,.18 marine emcers and 170 marines.

kroner (£300 to £700) each

The squadron, possesses 30 German who

former For private prospectors

craft, mainly

British At a joint meeling carly this

in their naval motorboats and are not too scientifle year, the atomic scientists and search, smaller instruments are landing craft, but also a float the geologists agreed that navailable at prices ranging troming deck and a crane capable of

300 to 700 kroner (£15 to lifting 10 tons.

prospector would be interested in searching for the valuable C35). and much-needed uranium when he was prevented from owning the production rights of what he found. A small change the low, they said, would per- mit the Ander to reap the bene- its. of his find, which may have involved him 121 much hard work and expense.

It war clearly acknowledged. however, that in the case of such important duds as uranium deposits. the State

be musi

the given priority to purchase

This sub- uranium production,

be stance could not

freely offered on the open markel..

The Ministry of Industry has now investigated the matter und

that the should end the state monopoly now the sphere of

BOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collect is thought likely that it will Lore

assorted Dackels

stamps propose this autumn From 20 cents per packat upwards.

South Government An entirely new series. China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndjiam virtual

Salsbury Existing in Hongkong and Street,

uranium prospecting.

Road, Kowloon.

To ADVERTISERS

SUNDAY, POST HERALD Врасо for commerolal advertising should be

booked

not Inter than noon on Wednesdays. For the 8OUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication.

If the law is changed, It may be expected that many mining companies already engaged

which mining the various ores

will invest abound in Norway. in the modern instruments 'now available for detecting uranium. and search the rocks around their mines for traces of this valuable metal,

Alum-Shale

Special Announcements alum-shalo, and Classified Advertise. clay mante se usual.

Hong Kong

Birds

Herklots, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birds, Fp, vil233, it pls, 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings in text. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., HK$35.00.

Urunlum is often found In in which a slate Rmx iron pyrites DTC found. There are a number of arens in Norway's rocky moun- tains,

and even in the

Oslo basin. where alum-shak Is abundant and It is thought possible that these hitherto un- investigated rocks may also con- talà uranium.

WIH

the

The problem, of course, be lo find out whether metal is present, in sufficient quantity to make working worth while. So fur, there has been encouragement that unly a few places have been properly gons over with the Geiger-Müller counter, the in- strument which registers presence of uranium,

the

JA . a most welcome handbook for ornitholo

But it is not only the big gista resident or stallon

which may ed in Hong Kong. All mining companies

be expected to undertake large the hitherio recorded

urantum investigations *If specles

guale included;

the law is changed, Private plumages are clearly and

prospectors, of whom there have concisely described, and

been a certain number La given always **** of enthusiasts in Norway, will

field

ars

a short notes, certainly be anxious to try their voice, habito, alatus cle, The Illustrations suck at a game in which

winnings could be so high.

cept for three plates

the

of photographs, are al To this day, there are still

hardy prospectors

and include four

who devote

by Car. A. M. Futcall their energies to gold wash- tive plates of the heads ing in the rivers f northern Norway. Some of t n find a

of 42 species and many little gold dust and

useful drawings in the text. The writer of this review would wowa

havo

benented greatly from this book when station- ed in Hong Kong some Even now, years ago.

af occn-

Narrow Escape

Wellington, Aug. 14. Traffic Inspector L. C. Mc-

on referring to it, some Lauchlan was just in time to

40. infamiliar species on which notes were top made at the time have almost all proved easily

a truck, and a car, woman wheeling a perambulutor from erbasing a Dennevirke, North

against

railway

Identifiable, ~D. W, 5, he held them up:

(Extract from "The Ibir" attiolat proan of the Bellish Ornithologists Union, British Museum).

.S..C. M. POST

HONG KONG.

KOWLOON

shunting engine passed.

E

Inquiries showed that people normally crossed against the Ughts because they were, not always switched off when shunting was not going on-- China Mail Special.

it

The squadron has operational Is changed, control over the law Once

river a Belglan therefore, many a hardy Nor-

patrol unit based at Cologne. wegian rambler may ind worth his while to include Geiger counter in his pack when he goes wandering in the moun- tains-China Mail Special.

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There is also a United States Navy Rhine, Patrol at Scriers- lein-China Mall Special.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MAGGY, THAT TOURIST WASN'T A WITCH!.

NO? CLIMBING. OUT OF NOWHERE!

GIVING YOU A PILL THAT MAKES

YOU TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER--

FERDINAND

เฟ

NANCY

OH, OH--- AUNT FRITZI BAKED

A PIE --- SHE

MAKES AWFUL CRUST

YOU STAY RIGHT THEAE,ED. I'M GOING TO GET THE SHERIFF!

رداد

War invalids recently de- clared a faminė strike in Athens, in prolest against the cutting of their salary by the Government Photo Shows: A group of war invalids lying down in the midulle of Cen- Athens stitution Square,

started where

their they famine atrikes On right police officers try to urge them to go home--Express Photo.

Keep Your City Clean

some

On Strike

Tudeh Party Warned

of

London, Aug. 14. The Military Governor Teheran warned Iran's Com- munist-line Tudeh Party today that his men were well equipped to night its "treacherous activi

broadcast A Teheran radio heard here quoted an order of

Paris. Aug. 14. Edouard Torcinet, a Paris city

has

urged

fellow councillor,

themselves councillors to arm with brooms and sweep up the capital's streets because Parls pavements were still t- tered with rubbish late in the afternoon. Joseph

Zell, Strasbourg's deputy mayor, last month chat- lenged three local sweepers to race in clearing the city's market square..

The result was a draw.-China from the law will be punished Mall Special.

too."--United Press,

"The Army authorities are in the best position to fight against these people and frustrate their activities," sald the order. "Those who help to propagate

the anti-national doctrine of this Party and those who help their leaders to take refuge

To Trap Giant Squid

Wellington, Aug. 14.

of Victoria

The Zoology Department University College, Wellington, is hoping to catch alive one of the giant squids which infest Cook Straits. These fearsome creatures have plate-size eyes, bodies 10 feet long and eleven feet in circumference and tentacles up to 25 feet long.

To catch one alive the department considered at first setting an enormous mousetrap--suggested. by marine scientists of the Danish ocean research ship Galathea.

Cook Strait, which separates | sphere, lying, as it does; to close the North and South Islands of to shore and observation.

Kirk New Zealand, has a remarkable

found a leng Moorl record of strandings of these tradition c

marine animals såld Professor

i weird sea creatures which battle) in the Strahen its reputa-

with the mighty sperm whale In Richardson. the depths.

tlon Was

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put beyond doubt in the 1870's

and

when 1880's Ranging from glant squid to series of these glani squid was Juminous fish found nowhere cist, washed ashore. One which was they have given the Strait stranded alive in Island Bay. fascination for marine scientists Wellington, in 1880 had a 10ft all over the world,

long body, was 11 ft in circum- ference round the

the middle, and had tentacles 25t

25ft long." In 1937 a battered squid or cuttlefish was washed ashore in The majority of the creditures | Wellington Harbour, Its soft from New Zealand's rubbery flesh was damaged by unique underwater entyth, con-heavy seas, or perhaps in battle necting the Palliser Bay (hear with whales or sharks. Wellington) und of the Strait with the Pacific.

come

From Canyon

ccho

Molluse Family

COTTY

Brought by uncharted move- the day signed by Brigadier ments from the Pacific's depths

Professor Richardson said that Military Governor of into the canyon, they are swirled Bakhtiar,

in Teheran, which he said upwards Into the shallow water the squid, related to the octopus, were members of the molluse security forces were maintaining of the Strait. Here they are

family. The remnants of their "ceaseless vigilance" against the sometimes cost ashore,

were carried inside their Tudeh Party. The Party has been "From the 1880's, when Mr T. shell outlawed for some years but still W. Kirk

elongated body. discovered sequence

of their 10 "In the centre carries oh its activities elenden of giant squid on its beaches, the tinely.

peculiar nature

of the Strait has tentacles is their mouth, equip

TC- a sharp beak, been known to scientists," sold ped with the professor of zoology at Vie-markably similar to that of a "Each of the toria University

suckers their tentacles sar L. R. city College Profes-parrot," he said.

"But it was not until modern reds has a bony skeleton which projects into the flesh of soundings were taken 6

thet few years ago by the Navy survey "sity-foot sperm whales, and

prey. ship Lachlan that their source large proposes, wear for years was charted. This 6.000 ft deep the scars of these huge circular canyon is, so far as we

of their unique in the southern bom suckers in the flesh

head and throat, Catching them is not expected to be easy,”

Fast-movers, the squida suck water into the hollow inantle surrounding the circular body, and let the water out from siphon under their heads, pro- pelling themselves backward through the water at high speed, svid Professor Richard- son,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER! WOW!

THE FELLA SAID IT'D ONLY LAST A WEEK.

STAY HERE, NOTHING! I'M GOING TO ! THE CITY AND HAVE MYSELF A TIME?

NANCY---TRY MY CHOCOLATE. PIE

WELL, JUST EAT PART

·ER --- I'M NOT VERY HUNGRY

OF

IT

O.K.

JOHNNY HAZARD

NOW THEN, I REMEMBER CATCHING SIGHT OF THEM ALONG HERRI THEY WENT AROUND THE CURVE, AND WE

FOLLOWED CLOSELY

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

WELL, I ATE PART

OF IT AND IT WAS

DELICIOUS

By Frank Robbins

BUT SOMEWHERE' BETWEEN THIS POINT AND THE CRASH WE LOST THEM!

BIT OF

THEY MUST, BE HIRING OUT......IN /

WE WOULDN'T THINK TO LO

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen,

know,

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

If we were

any fresher wed still be

on the vine!

Libby's

FROŽEN STRAWBERRIES

TODAY

DAIRY BOX

MILK

CHOCOLATE

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

Conventional

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Various types of under consideration. The giant thousetrad has mafty therits. But the dunculties of working it under water at great pressure- at 1,000 fathoms the ocean exerts a pressure of nearly a ton and a half on every #quare inch of exposed surface-have kept in the planning stage.

At present, éčlenüße mitacis în the department are discussing ather methods.

One

the conventional basket-type trap. Left baited on the fringes of the canyon, this could be sprung by a watcher above.

"No one knows what we may

down there," erten

Bald Pro- fessor Richardson. "Sworn statements by experienced mariners indicate there are at

least four types of giant ocean · creatures still unknown to man.

Some people call thern sea ser- pents."-China Mail Special.

CATHOLICS

TOLD NOT TO WORK

/read

to

Buenos Aires, Aug. 14. Argentine Catholics werd

At offteially instructed Mast today not to work tomorrow, the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, although the bad Government

Balinted offelen holiday

A statement Argentine Churchis said that Catholics werd not to work tomorrow. It followed an in- nbuncement by the Ministry of Extication yesterday that children not attending school tomorrow would be punished by if being considered a two-day abethco

The Catholle ·Church sald. that only persons, "with serious,

would be ex- inconvenience!

bused from not complying with, it instruction. It sald ́ ́ un- successful attempts were made, to have the chly reinstated as an official holiday,, United

Preds

London, Aug. 1

The borou Ongiber

of

West London, diätrict of "Chelsen" (whát killed today - at his suburban home ville, dainit a

engineer,

*15, had rigged lamp in the FeupPORTS

Special