1955-10-01 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.

Interestag News Stories From All Parts Of The World

Really Soll Citizens I Cape Tow

Cape Town Town has me

Capo "Holid citizens" than other pince In Africa,

Two Ameriran scientists, lett Cape Town by alr Johannesburg Ahis week he proved IL

They are Dr J. C. Rose

Mr Ken Koenen, geophysic who are travelling

world

checking

urth's gravity.

woord

up on

Cape Town, they sabi, has ghest gravity value in Sou rn Africa. This means tha person in Cape Town wei about 1 b. more than he wo at Nairobi.

But Me Kornen and Dr B are not primarily intereztesé how much people weigh,

The measurements they t in places around the globe be used to calculate more curately the shape of the cas

the To do

Job they 15,000 sterling worth of equ meni, packed in 17 erutes."

it all travels everywhere by

at a cost equnt to reven class passenger furen,

The survey is beln nan by the American Air Force & the information will cuble tha to make more accurate map Ching Mall Special,

HIS WHISKERS GAVE 'HER' AWA

Elisabethville, Belgian Cong

Whiskers brought about fe recapture of a dangerous crimal in Elisabethville.

The criminal escaped fin ' demir, then dressed up fu

woman.

An observant policeman, v- of the ever,

suspicious was whiskery "woman," and arred bim.-China Mail Special.

SIDE GLANCS

T. M. Reg. U. 6. Pat Of. 7.3

Cepr. 1998 by MEA Bacic, in

From Saigon:

From Bukavu:

Scientists On The

Bukavu, Belgian Congo.j

No insect in the world has

stood up to a more con- centrated attack by the human race than Africa's tsetse fly. And so far, the tsetse fly has won.

AND

The Government From Rome: Doclares War On Opium Addicts.

Scientists Plan A Now Attack Against Tho Trotro Fly..

A Hugo Statue Of Christ Is To Bo Built South Of Rome.

From Cape Town: Where The Citi-

zens Are Really Solid People.

Plan A New Attack

Dreaded Tsetse Fly

THIS IS WHAT

IT LOOKS LIKE

But scientists have report- Dr Said Kinany of the Cairo) They've tried breading sterile

A

ed to the Lederle-Sikorsky medical expedition cross- ing the dark continent by helicopter that A new drug is going to be used in am effort to get the upper hand over the in- sect that has made an area of Afrien as big as Europe unsafe for human colonisation.

vast part of Africa is almost desolate except for wild

and the game- tsotso fly, which carrier of the parasite trypanosome. This para- sito causes sleeping sick- ness, which is fatal to do- mestic cattle and tremely dangerous

man.

to

expedition said he hoped arrange tests of the new antibiotic, slylomy- cin us a weapon against the tsetse's bite. In pre- liminary experiments the

new

males so no offspring would follow ↓

They've moting. tried killing some females ko the

more

males numerous would harass the rest of the females Lo death. They've bombed Loclse with THECC- tleides,

drug has shown hopeful results in clear-They've tried using parasites ing trypanosomes from the blood.

The tsetse fly itself has sur- vived the most ingenious

of man's weapons.

is the "The astonishing thing," said Dr Kinany, "is that the female tsetse lays less than two eggs a year----- not hundreds of thousands as other insects do. Yet it resists all efforts to exterminate it.

By Galbraith

ex- to

"Mom, if your feet he how about sitting on the marry- go-round and sting for half an hour?"

to kill the tsetse's parasites, and they've even tried chang- ing its surroundings by re- moving certain vegetation. But the

keeps tscisc Hiving," wald Dr Kinany.

on

The sleeping sickness carried by the tsetse la believed to be a comparatively new disease for domestic cattle and human beings, It tends to kill them. But zebras, actelopes and other game native to Africa don't die from it, probably because their species have been exposed to it for hun- dreds of thousands of years.

of

Doctors believe any amount

effort to eradicato the tsetse ity is worthwhile for ecotromic and himmaniterlan CAS0715. A victory in the fight would open a now-impoverished area to economic development,

Africa remains hostile terri- tory; as far as health is con- cerned for the foreign traveller.

He

a

inust take anti-malaria shots, boil his drinking water,

watch his food enrofully, sleep under mesquito nets and wear boots.

Even malaria is getting resistant to drugs in some places, but medical science has managed to keep one jump ahead of the discuse. Some West Africans have a form of im- munity to malaria.

VIETNAM DECLARES WAR ON OPIUM ADDICTS

By A Special Correspondent

Saigon,

The South Vietnam Gov- ernment has declared war on opium addicts.

Every day the newspapers denounce the evils of opium as "a new and roal national peril which must be stamped out. by all means,"*

Groups of special police make nightly raids on secret dens, seize the pipes, lamps and oplum and arrest the "Dat cars" the smokers.

A ban was imposed on oplum several

South months ago in Vietnam Erid the

still dans onen enter only to the most

discreet clientele.

One of my Saigon acquaint- unres revently took me to several of these dens.

The frot oplum den my guide took me to was down a winding narrow stairway.

In Semi-Darkness

Groping in semi-darkness, we found compartments whose inglining Boors, covered by new mats, permitted one 10 Ho down comfortably,

The alience and the strange odour in the chamber oppressive.

E

wero

Chinese

One tropical disease expert told

In one partition, the expedition he understood

sal, reading quietly a news that West Africans were re-

paper by the light of a coppen luctant to go along

At with jamp covered by a shade, schemes to eradicate the

his side all the necessary incoace of malaria.

Malaria does not bother them, and if the threat of the disease were wiped out it would just open their homeland to pene- tration by foreigners. They ke things the way they are, -United Press,

HUGE STATUE OF CHRIST

TO BE

BE BUILT IN

THE HILLS SOUTH OF ROME

Rome.

As a dedication to world peace, a huge bronze statue of Jesus Christ will soon be erected on top of Monte Cavo, an extinct crater of a volcano towering above the distant city of Rome.

The statue will be so big a monument to such a worthy cause that the right arm, raised in a blessing to the whole world, will contain a chapel for several hundred faithful to worship within sight of Rome.

The monument will measure who spend the sweltering sum- observatice galleries from which 328 feet in height and is claim- mer months at the Barberita visitors will be able to see the ed to be the biggest in the Villa there on the banks of Mediterranean on a clear day. world. It will be twice as high | Lako Albano,

as the Statue of Liberty and

will minimise the famous Christ

of the Andes which stands close

No Party Ties

to the border between Chila and Argentina.

The projectors of the religious monument belong to

a union

be

то

Pooples" of

the

boxes

materials were laid carefully on a chased tray: a long pipe in rare wood; needles, a bowl, containing opium, selavors, pincers, -a scraper.

robust Beside him sat two coolles, preparing and smoking the same pipe by turns. sinlled at me as

They passed them. One offered me his pipe.

The proprietor of the den conducted us into a compart- ment. We lay down on a fine mal, our heads resting on porcelain pillow, from which comes tha expression "flat- ents" for dope addicts:**

Preparing A Pipe

a

I remember the details of preparing a pipe. The smoker, lying on his left side, picks up with his right hand at the fino point of a needle pinch of the dope, brings it over the rotating tha needto

lampously

between the thumb and index finger. This prevents the semi-liquid extract from falling and evaporating

The ball of opium puffs up, becomes

shrivels yellow and and gives of 凸 penetrating porfume. When the paste sufficiently thick, the smoker takes another pinch of trons the box and superimposes it on top of the first. He goes through the same operation several times until the ball at the end of the needle becomes the size of a nut.

糖

A number of powerful lifts will run visitors from the pedestal to the top of the statue, a total of 405 feet. The pedesta

The kneaded paste in then of the monument will contain rolled into a ball in the bow) reception halls, administration of

the pipe.

smoker offices,

a motion picture theatre; brings it from time to time The site of the statue will called "Association for Pros

a department for the main over the flames to keep the the spot where

the perity and Peace among tainance of the statue. shops, ball soft and give it the form Carthagenian general, Hannibal Peoples" who point out that stores and a museum which will of a small cone. pitched his camp after routing they are absolutely non-political bo called "Museum ct the This preparation finished, tho the Roman legions during the and are linked with no party Civilisation

and smoker crushes it, drives second Punic War more than whatsoever.

will contato complete histories needle into the ball and leaves 2,000 years ago.

of all nations. Rizzo said that the pierced and glucy, ball in The association, which in

attention will be paid

paid the bowl. special Monte Cavo is 2,400 feet high cludes leading Italian professors, to those nations which have The smoker then lights his and 20 miles south of Rome, doctors, lawyers and architects,

flame of the pipe with tho contributed to greatly to colleagues and It is close to Castel Gandolfo, will appeal

his It to civilisation ahid

of small lamp, takes progress to

and with ono deep summer residence of the Popes, faithful around the world

mankind

of mouth collect the funds for the

monu-

breath puffs until the pipe. pence." ment which will cost several

finished. This process takes million dollars. Rich Catholics

not more than a minute for will be called upon to aid in

tho experiencect sinoker. United Press. the erection of this monument dedicated to peace,

FILMS CURRENT & COMING

t

with "methods

Large Mosaic

The spacious salon of recep- The president of the associations In the pedestal of

the

(Continued from Pa)... an introduction that she is sure rather than by the visual "My Sister Eileen has is going to lead her to becoming effects produced by the tion is a well-known Roman statue will be decorated with a the advantaged dis- a famous writer overnight, and screen, it's well worth the younger, with nothing but

that way

has

throughout

of the

eight-foot

a lawyer, Giuseppe Rizzo, who large mosaic depleting the Last advantage if you locht it good looks and an ability to visit.

has never mixed with polities. Supper taken by Jesus with his Ho hopes the Pope will in-claciples on the evening of his of havi been dance, thinks she is going to

I would go to the hottest, most mugurate the statue which will betrayal. made from a 1942ovie, take the New York stage by uncomfortable theatre anywhere take several years to build. A

Onco this statue is erected, which in turn camem a' storm.

to see Pedro Armendariz. His small model of the project 1940 Broadway playthich Money is tight, and they move looks may be unprepossessing, already been approved by the Italy will have the tallest and. was based on some ories into a Greenwich Village base but the power of his personally association and another larger the deepest statues of Christ in the New Yorker Ruth ment that is alternately shaken and his understanding of human i test model will be made balore | áccpest one is that of "Christ

by dunnelling for a new under- nature in lls best and worst work actually begins. All thrives ground railway, Invaded by well forms come across the McKenney.

screen 80 moaning neighbours, and looked with much force that his physical a familiarity

is entirely appearance many people seem find into by passers-by. Much of the

humour that might have been Important. comfortable.

evoked by these situatiben has I have never seen apf its been lost, I regret to say, and It's not necessary. to be un- stand on o pedestal 137 feet high. It was dedicated to all those predecessors, but I that oven Betty Garrett's more clover, comfortable to see him this

tho Statue of lost at sea. Wonderful Town", which remarks don't come

Over as' week-end ́however—"Rebellion' Rosalind Rusec!! was

sister

smartly so they should.

of the Hanged", to their credit, Liberty is 161 feet high on a Une attractive El, was

104-foot podestal. extremely successful, such What is good, however, is the is being shown at the New York

and Great World' cinemas,

The immense head will be lit

it

then, that Sister dancing of two

I

Ellen has

newcomers.

Like A Beacon

un-

The 328-foot statue

In comparison,

1

world, The

Abyss", an bronze statue

70-ton on a cement base which was dropped 30 fathoms into the bay of San Fruttuoso, near Camogů, on the wItalian Riviera, last September..

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