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CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1955.

ILLICIT DIAMOND MINERS Reward For New Road To The

PAY

TO DIG ILLEGALLY

Blama, Sierra Leone, Nov. 22.

Illicit diamond miners are becoming so numerous in Sierra Leone that they now have their own security force and pay money for the privilege of digging illegally.

In recent months, the number of illicit miners has been growing at an alarming rate. Teachers and clerks are almost as numerous in the diamond fields as farmers and labourers.

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CHINA LIGHT & POWER

COMPANY, LIMITED

Notice to Shareholders

NOTICE

EN HEREBY

on

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Pay between E5 and 410 Nr a parti known

the right testim madly"

Chce the money is pald ret The ticket issued, the would-be He is told umber cat Re wher The uzen of blod which he con work word is not likely to disturbed if he keeps to it.

But if he fails to any his tre to those in charge of the urea lan which lie a working, he is

hot likely to day long. masts en working afte

he wil probably dis- Wagner,

heard pp and not again.

being

most arrest trying to

diggers The

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without

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11 police are few

overed Tout even, quite oflgns, any clearly marked tracks On one Cand recently ban of 30 police teled a Banking attack -- for oner they Set of 41 the Real direction of an it diamond fleidd fast runners from tocul villages, in the pay of the diggers, will go ahead to give the arm.

So the police walked through

TIFT iss reppenste dicevtion, Jay about 30 Małe wnning the rivers and Poing to the knees in nudi

131fs>1 In the SAV TRED PUPON

dis they got within striking Farriers of the mining area, Tow-

1ie the guards Ini

troy Cope listel sven them and every-

des Come disappeared antes the

CYCL

Will Be Attacked

Should be stray from the lanet which has been allocated to him, h neighbours wil; ollack him. Then, at Be

Sometimes. gels away with nevers injuries, he will be con- !luckter

ntered fucky.

Lundownres are often the men in charge of the area and it is

them that corbal upp seadusek

to be made for

the mulier Are They have only to frict DR digging, or bring in an Weit mining in preva possessing one clariond for him be changeth, 17 penalty But for ATLY at these offences

1

derdens

is very high

It the Kun area that fest of this maning takes place.

thot GIVEN that the Phanty-third, Up to now, the only legal du

has been Ordinary Meering of the Com- (allowed has been carried out by pany's Shareholders will be the Sierra Leone Selection Trust held a

who had a monopoly ignement 12 alebock Noon

vermiser with the Government. Saturday,

with Gillett 1965, in the Company's Bong : mining becoming so rampant, Kong Office. SI "Teorge'a ; the government has come to terms with the Selection Trust Building, 2nd Door, hater Terms

201 hopes, early in the new Rond. Victoria. Hong Kong

year, to introduce legal diamond for the purpose of..

mithing for Afriems outside the aren of about 400 square miles 2.ready

worked by the

Į Reprising Fre Statemen

of account and Report st the Directors for the year September endert

Trust.

rust.

Even

ven the

kannouncement

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201

Chinese

Women's

Delegation

In Karachi

Karachi. Nov 22 Madn

LJ Teh-chumt, Minister China'

Health.

•If arrived here tonight at the hood. of an eight-woman delegation representing

organisa- fions in China. They were от offeind three-week vish to Puliston,

an

women

Dr Ines Martiol, an Italian heroine doctor

radium researcher, was presented with the Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Gresi Hall of the Milan Museum of Science and Technique, 'While work- Ank In the

Ancona Public

Health Centre Dr Martini suffered serious Internal in- juries 48 result of radium burtin. Her husband — an Army Lieutenant who bas been released only recently

acu from Soviet captivity—lopes that his wife will be saved Italian specialists but by

ranny of them think that Dr Inta Martini in doomed. Mcture shows: Dr Ines Martiui with her husband

after

the conferring of the Gold Medal in the Great Hall of the Milan Selence Museum -Express Photo.

PRISON RIOT DEATHS 4

Casablanca, Nov. 22.

Heroine

IRAQ ROYAL ROMANCE

DENIED

Rabat, Nov. 22.

Clouds Reveals An African Switzerland

Maseru, Basutoland, Nov. 22.

Southern Africa's "Switzerland” has been opened up to the world with a spectacular new £250,000 "road to the clouds” which is due to reach the heart of Basutoland's 11,000 feet high "Alps" sometime next year.

Engineers working on the road call it the toughest job they have yet handled on the African continent.

Miles of the wood have had | Interior as the rond has moved to be blasted through wild, like a giant sky-racer track up rocky terrain, sometimes along | results and down valleys ni precipitous cliff faces and nt ¦ a rate if something over a mile allitudes where win'er tema month. peratures have frozen fresh

anlid and immobilised transport with frozen batterics.

Wives of some of the white men live on the Job in the mounika wilderness with their

Work on the road, financed husbands. enduring bitter by the Basutoland Government winters when knows three feet

the Britain's deep blankiet

mountain nd sub-zero alopes

and

from Krants Commonwealth

Development

tempera-

Fund for this piece of British-tures sla m.chinery by territory Inside South hardening oils. In the summers, run Africa, began in 1961.

| electric storms flash and crush areund the surrounding peaka and ruins bog down roid transport.

Replace Paths

10

Linking Maseru, the Basulo- a contrai lond capital, with point over 80 miles away Repents that the Sultan of the cast among the peaks Morocca's eldest daughter will | the territory's mountainous in- will replace the road Feisal of terior, marry young King

.

A Veteran

lang are "without foundation," ancient bridle paths for trans-night to keep dry. Two African

n official spokesman of the Imperial Palace said loday.

Reports from Cairo said the 20-year-old king's uncle acted a go-between for a marriage with teenage, French-educated Princess Lalla Alcha when he called on the Sultan last week.

Puluce spokesman said,

Driving snow Inds the of

Raps in living huis, and beds have the Sometimes to be moved in

labourers froze to death night as a result of sleeping in wet blankets in the moun- tains,

of mountain wool and port whent yields as well as pro- vide exciting new scenery for travellers penetrating the Tibe- tan atmosphere of Basutoland's

ustnesses.

to

Originally It was hoped push the new road immediately right over the roof of Basuto

and from west to east to give South Africa a new communi- cation route between The The death toll rose to four lo-

the OT- day in the riot of political pri- "This news Is nevold or all ange Free State and Natal. But Soner's which occurred in a foundation"

that must walt for more funds. civilian prison here last Satur-

The spokesman said Sultan

invitation In eyat

Madaszie Lat was greeted 1 the airport [1] στέγε by Colonel Hamid Nawaz, chief of the foreign

depart- prolocul When legal chamotui mining menf, and leading spirit of the fos Afteru bryome possible. Pakistani Teminist movement Cometal buyers will pay the dig-AOWA

gers far higher prices than they

delegates were day. 4927 hope to

This

Among other get now. shoukt stop most of the iiffeit Madame Chien Shing, a

Earlier, three Moroccan pri Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef get digging and with the Chiefs and pondent

New the

China soners died from injuries inflict- News Agency, and Mudame La by the police who used tear their people co-operating in an all-African venture it is hoped Hsta, a pollicin in the Mos-gas to quell the riot. Another while he was in Paris, but that thurt inw und order will be re- lem province of Sinidang injured prisoner died today. - Da decision had been made Standl. ---Chera Ma. Special

of

France-Presse.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

Corres-

MANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY AND~

The

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IF THE INVENTOR WERE A HYPNOTIST-- HE COULD HAVE MADE YOU IMAGINE ITALL --LIKE THIS.

OLDEAR, I HAVE A PUN IN MY

STOCKING.

the propised afscreen has not

lowed down the rush

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variably vwamp lands In the The Bush or scrub

1966.

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share, and sanctioung the keeping to a well-derissend recommendation

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Chi

1 Directors as to the pay- Final Dividend

RICH

of 80 cents per share me

fully respnet

cut turut

Gang Wars

Laticier

There will be pits, ground tunnels mini quite deep paid, aff dog with spades and shares and a propertiemale ¦ few of them propped up. The

of resalt, quite often, in that tien

tore earth subsidences and men

amoti

it

ruspeer

partly paid whares

are burkerk. Death can Pusily

come by this way,

The Transfer Banks Just Register of Shareholders will be closed

From 3rd

Toth you Fr

December.

3956

Necember. 1005 both day

inclusive

the that

in Vivious gang WHITE break oul. Rival diggers dispute over l particular

land will often ht

fight Jovels ** weapons. These with

Each gang of four or five ten

their employ

watch- man who, at night, guards their

I will

own

Dividend Warrant- will be particular cinim, probably with available for rollection,, a jen

nelent Hunt-Jock enforce his authority.

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During:

will be dealt with in acear the clay ime, there will be men

dance with standing instruc

tions,

December, 1956

after

in the trous round the whole 19th | aren, quch with a gun which they

will fire in warnlig should they sight another gang approaching

Dated at Hong Kong this or, more likely, the police on a

21st day of November, 1956, | rald,

By Order of the Beard

of Directors,

P. W. A. WOOD,

To the lick diamond elds

also the

buying African до agents

and the traders. The ngents wait on the edge of the cliging aren with suitcases stuffed with pound noles. They

diamonds are good Judges of which the literate diggers often are not-and pay on the spot, usually about one tenth of

Secretary & Chief Accountant.un

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST-HERALD the real value of the find: About

Драсо for

60 per cent of the commerolal

advertising should be booked nol Inter than noon on Wednesdays.

from stones.

Sierra Leone

diamonds

are

gem

Difficult Job

For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the

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IT HASN'T ANY LEAVES

By Ernie Bushmiller

TOD

LATT

ERNIE BUSHMILES

By Frank Robbins

WE MADE IT! THANKS TO JOHNNY'S SACRIFICE!

·COME, GABY, KOLN...WE CAN'T

· HELP HIM««NOWI

A handful of white techni- cians and supervisors with an African labour force are now in their Afth year of living "on The road", moving their camp of prefabricated huts ar ients

year further into

cach

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

| AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

*TEK JAM. THAT MADE!

TASMANIA FAMOUS

DAIRY BOX

MILF

CHOCOLATE

this situation

calls

San Miguel

the

The

one

resident engineer charge of the road construc- tion, a veteran of constrąc!!on work all over the world, des cribed the mountain winter of Basutoland as one of the cold- est he knew anywhere.

From the time the new rond

leaves the outskirts of Maseru, In the foothills of Basutoland's it is towering mountain mass, hardly ever level. It crosses half a dozen mountain passes in un

unbroken succession ot ascents and descents.

From the first 2,000 feet rise. out of the foothills to the 7,200. fce high Bushmans Pass, an endless panorama of mountains and valleys unfolda for mort than 50 miles of the casicn horizon.

For years, it has been a re- mote world shared only by the blanket-robed inhabitants of Basulo mountain vilinges, their cattle, sheep. gools soaring birds of prey.

and

Completion of another ten more miles of road to a moun- lon area where it is planned to establish a new Central Dis-

tries for Basutoland will soon give travellers three-hour motor run to a point of the Basutoland interior which was formerly three days' journey by pack pony from Maseru, of a short but hazardous Alght by aircraft

It will open up region9 50 remote that few white people except government officers, missionaries, lonely traders and a few hardy tourists ac- customed to days in the saddic and nights under canvas yet know.

Remote Regions

Tourist agencies anticipate considerable traffic for the road when it is ready. The day it can be carried through to meet tbo Natal border over the tho breadth of the great Drakensberg mountain range, It may be classed as one of the scente highways ACTOSS the "root" of southern Africa.

Touching an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet at ano point, the new road is one of the highost in the world and ready an attraction for many. pioneering drivers, Including American tourists. who have tried the climb, just to. Ko up and come down again.

the

with

the

Apart from scenery, Basutoland mountains, many streams and waterfalls, are said to have some of bent trout fishing In Africa. Whatever size fish may rum there, Basutoland can already claim the highest waterfall in Adrice, the spectacular 680 feet Malotauyane Falls.

Paintings Found

Bushman paintings Cari, froż quently found in Basatbland. mountain caves, relies of in earlier age. More recent coveries are fossilised footprints of the great dinosaurus, which onee-inlabited this continental'

All these 'tinvej nanëtu *** Třky.

↑ become, di, considerable fieinuicial

valië to. Basitoland's e-lizimitedi economy - if the now

tourist himdiskos – then