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INTERESTS DISPUTE
River Utilisation
By John Bird
Ottawa, Jan, 17. Utilisation of the Columbia river water, flowing through British Columbia into the State of Washington, is becoming an increasingly serious subject of dispute between Canadian and American interests.
It was already the subject of sharp differences between the Federal Government in Ottawa and the provincial government of British Columbia last spring.
from the
American
At that lime, Die provincia? countered with an Interesting government under its Social Interpretatum of the Boundary Credit Premier, Mr W A C Waters tresty He insists that Bennett, agreed to proposal | a distinction should be drawn Kaiser between linary injured parties Aluulnum intercle to impound (spelt with a small in the Columbia water by storage treaty) turn on Cannellan soll. in the
Lower Arrow Lakes, for ku the State of Washington USA.
The Ottawa
Government promptly velord This project and put through an Act during The Inst session of Parliament strengthening its hand against developments.
and High Contracting JAP
Attention Aroused
USU
A
Parties rspelt with a capital belwern power companies and the United StateN Government self.
Thus, while Amorlean power companies.
1911 the Columbi ought be Janted to seeking vedrem, befor The Exchequer Court of Curado,
(fuiter! The State: Goverty: ept would t
think
proper do
Extryt out a tus time, declared Mi Jordan," "that the injuries down steam pecasioned by the diver - sion of 15,000,000 acre feet of Coltitolate waler
another bazin wil Sovereign-on of
be suffered by a the Hich
Lo
PRINCE
TO WATCH
OLYMPICS
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Basic, Jon 17 Puther Pakeda, of Japan. cotusan of the Emperor, arrived at Days Today recompanied by
li suite of some six percoRIS,
The Prince is in Switzerland of the 11x an oftent, delegate. Japanese Winter Olympies testa and will stay here until the end
Now, however, the Canadbre Goverment fuck itas!! toding with an opinion pot for wart by Mr Len Jordan, chaje ma of the United States section of the International Joint Cette | Contracting Partjes namely the of the week. mission, which has jurisdiction; United States of America QUOT International boundary
waters
Recrulls of the new Germani Army carry out saluting and
marching delf in the snow at Andernach garrison, where four
20 other officers and ranks of the US armed forres bave arrived to train cadres of the new army. Most of the JA being Army's equipment supplled by the United States, will and the US servisemen give technical instruction.— -Exprem Photo,
NEW NERVE
TECHNIQUE
17:0
elinzige of postita involving abandonment
ef on
The valled forth
Obviously.
Therefore,
the States, as a Sovereign, the lanated pedress, provided for on Injured histerical American attitude by party by Article 2
Uuted would
l ty
ruces
During 115 y
in Davos. he will watch Japan's Dye-man teen. Olympic speed skating which is competing in the in-
International
pro partant Olympic
from here Jatmáry 18 to 21-Router.
of
British
하
American representative
The a series of articles |
by Mr Ciran: Dexter, clitor
around national
Philadelphia. Jan 17.
An American nerve specialist, Dr Thomes Hoen, has develop- ed
method of stretching nerves to combat difficult
paralysis and deformation.
fold lic
medico-dental symposium in Philadelphia that his technique enabled damaged nerve sections to be bridgest Land severod
be re- nerves to
people Ottawa Columbia, the Canadians most influuial ¦ "ffected by this issue, are some- the
Lisbon, Jan. 17. Winnipeg Free Press, which has ! what divided in the opinions.
Senhora Joaquina Falcata,Joined, While the Seat Credit govern-oldest inhabitant of Borba, cele- tention
approve a brated her 104th birthday by tent was willing to
dam within Canada for singing songs popular when she storage use by the American Kasser in- was a child just to prove the latesta in Washington. many could remember them. British Columbia residents wont
Her audience included some the water diverte for use it of her six children, 13 grand- |
Chinchildren and province
eigh1
great- grandsons, -China Mall Speclat.
Canacthagy
As Mi Dexter shows, domestic derived from the Brylsh, has long been in conflict with domeslic American law. derived from the Roman, on the
of water utisa
sation. English
the owners on a river are: Mount Specki
Unh
subject
prian
law.
entidest to have the river come from above substantially in J0 sture of nature, undiminished and uncontaminated, and they must pass the flow along in the same condition to nwners dawnstream,
luw
The
Under Amer lean owner is not obliged to pilks the flow
downsteum. He
truy unlike it subject to one comh- tion:
power plant storage clam fuis en bullt,
recomes 10 vested interest and owners are entitled to the water this "dedicatedf “
ONCE
Constant Disputes
This differe 11 JAW occasioned constant disputes be- tween Canada and the United States unti the Interntalonal 10401 Houndary Waters treaty was signed in 1000. In negotiating the Canadians con- this treaty, tendex for English law but were defeated by the Americans with the result that United States principles of water utilisation were written into Article 2. Since
then,
the United States has invoked this article mort than once to its own advantage, notably hi the case of the St Mary
river
diversion in Montana
Under the treaty, any injured person or concern in the United Stater may claim damages from the Exchequer Court of Canadu while Canadians have similar retirees before the American courts,
Flows Unused Now, however, the Canadiun authorities are proposing to Invoke the American principle embodied in Article 2, in favour of utilising the Columbia within Canada The stakes involved are very high-something like 4,000,000 horsepower
a year. Every spring, at run-off time, water sufficient to generate 8,000,000 bp of electricity flown unused down the Columbia for inck of storage dams to hold it back.
ton.
There are no suitable storage dam siter on the American side of the line though there are eight United States power dame the Columbia, the most famous of which are at Grand Coulco and Bonneville, Washing-
the waste water is cated." unusable on tho American side unless stored in Canada for American usage—a, proposition, which the Ottawa Government vetoed when put forward by British Columbia and the Kaiser interests.
Matter Of Letters Meanwhile, Canadian foderal authorities are exploring a plun to divert the "undodicated” spring surplus water of the Columbia into the Freser River, there to be used to generato
4,000,000 within British T level of the Columbia whatrected would be maintained, except for the spring, wastego.
Speaking" for "", law 19 United Mr Xaa. Jordan Bar
The
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE CLAY CAMEL MUS? BE GONE BY NOW--WITH MY REAL JEWELS!
I'M HOPING HE HAD A HARD TIME FINDING THE SAFE -- SPOILING HIS
TIMING
FERDINAND
NANCY
EAT
AT
AT LAST I FOUND THE SAFE,
OPENING IT WAS EASY.
AN--THE CROWN JEWELS,
I WANT THAT
EAT
SIGN TO BE
SEEN BY
AT
JOE'S
JOE'S EVERYBODY
JOE'S
JOHNNY HAZARD
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THE REFUELING PLANS, BOTH
| PLANES WILL EXPLODE / AND
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H THEMA-
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MYNKEER HUNTER
It had been used successfully in 16 cases which could not he treated by any other method of operation.
Dr Hoen is chairman of the Department of Neuro-surgery at New York University,China Mail Special..
Oh-Oh! HERE.
HEY--- WHAT
HE COMES!
ARE YOU
DOING 2.
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THERE HE IS THE
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By Mik
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DIDN'T YOU SAY
EVERYBODY ?
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VI COULD PARACHUTE TO SAFETY SECONDS BEFORE! AND THIS CAMERA [OF YOURS HAS A SELF-TIMER THAT DELAYS SHUTTER KELEASE FOR......
THIRTEEN SECONDS!
IN 8TH YEAR
By David Sells,
Rome, Jan. 17.
A desert plague of locusts which in 1948 attacked a 7,000-mile belt of territory stretching from India to the Atlantic coast of Africa is still raging unconquered.
A campaign waged by the combined anti- locust units of 14 nations has struck hard at the winged hordes, but so far has failed to eradicate them.
Basted exports aro still seek areas, would provent their ing the clue to the unpredictable awarming to plague dimensions. habits of the desert locust But the breeding habits of the which enable great swarms of desert locust are still a mystery. this crop-stripping pest to elude Unlike its cousins, the brood- control.
ing
the desert locust is "Although this is the eighth erratle and "outbreak" LONGJ year of the present plague, there appear to change so that pro- are no signs of ony general ventive action is decrease
Ineffective. in desert locust
International locust exparis, activity." the United Nations particularly at London's Anti- Food and Agricultural Organisa- Locust Research Centre, directed tien reported at its November by Dr Boris Uvarov, have for conference in Rome.
Hampered
nre
مورد
years been studying the desert bewust in an effort to discover the secret of the eccentric habits which enable it to swarm even Into the south of the Soviet
Great Rate
7210 Organisation did not mention that anti-locust opera-Union. tions in the Arablan Peninsula, int present the desert locust'a maln breeding ground, are severely hampered
The locust is a solitary-living suspicions of Arab sheikhs that grasshopper which
suddenly all foreigners prospecting develops the desire for company for oil.
and A wanderlust. Between wariness of islam's plagues, the desert variety ilves fabulously wealthy of kings has in harmless existence scattered beers
sharpened by the recent over wide areas of Africa and discovery, by one Arab antion, that a harmless looking band of Foreign archaeologists was much more interested in oll soutelings thun In unearthing rulns.
The
L
ancient
the Middle East.
Then, suddenly, usually when heavy roins have nourished luxuriant vegetation, the lonely locusts breed at a great rute and swarm.
A plague has broken out. If the climate is favourable, the locust, ofter sprouting wings. Its migrates in search of food.
pink colour changes from
to brown and then to yellow. Tha plague swarts breed an they move from deserts to pillage the suceulent follage of cultivated
Arabia
the battle-ground against the desert locust, the most destructive of the species, the Scourgo which ham plagued the area over since the Time of the Egyptian Pharaohs
Plagues of the red torust of Southern Africa, of the African migratory locust
Central Africa und of the Moroccan migrating from country
of
beust which ranges east to the mountains of Afghanistan, are rere nowadays.
130
Erratic
Thu science of combating them
known. even though preventive measures are sumo- tintes incficient. Constant vigil
their
breeding grounds,
"outbreak"
оп
EVEN
primary called
MAGICIANS
Canter Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher wed still be on the vine!
Libby's
TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
I'M OFF TO A PARTY
AND I'M TAKING
ROWNTREES MILK CHOCOLATES AS-A PRESENT
this situation
calls for
San Miguel
to country.
Fields of locust eggs, laid in bananas, pode like bunches of
may cover several square miles, with about 70,000 egs to the
square yard.
more.
may
A
A locust swarm, which migrate 2,000 miles, flying at 10 miles an hour, can blanket 100-square-mile area and some
When a times descends
to strip bushes and trees, locusta cluster 10,000 to the square yard, or about 800 tons of living locust to the acre.
In Arabia
swarm
International campaigns were launched during World War II to combat these greedy battalions. Thousands of tons of poison balt and insecticide were used cach year.
The most recent desert locust plagues took place from 1926 to 1935
and from 1940 to 1947, The current plugue began "some- where in Arabia" in 1948.
Eleven nations Britain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the Yemen-have promised to supply anti-locust teans for the 1935-50 operations In the Arabian Peninsula, strategic brea from which swarms
east to invade India, west to tho Canary Islands and from the southern Soviet Union to East Africa.
France, the Lebanon and the Sudan are expected to
contri- bute anti-locust equipment.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation's
Desert
Locust
move
Control committee has prepared a detailed operational plan for the 1855-50 campaign. "But," it explained recently, "In spite of the urgenty of puting the plan into operation, few.governments have yet commented upon tho committee's recommendations."
More Efficient
The suppression of swarms becomes more efficient overy year. Expert advice makes the life of the locust ever less enviable. But the experts eme phasise that the key to desert locust, control will only be dis. covered when the scoreis ́ of its migratory and breeding · höbits ard bared.
Then, locust' fighters may be ablo to prevent plaguo "out- breaks, instead of trying to sup- pross the locust armies over hugo areas-China Mail Special,
Anti-Submarine Planes For Japanese
Burbank, Calif., Jan, 17: The asignment of Six F2V7 Neptune plants to Japaheja do- febeo forces was announced here today by US Navy oficials.
The plants which are being handed over, under the mutual defence andstanou programme, will be used for anti-submarine, påtrol and, recordialmance over Japanoso waters.
The craft i will be equipped with the intest detection deviant and armament for use against porsible" "submarine, maraudino PriThe first will be deliver data shia, month at the naval slay Vid tion CatExpAlameda, CRIESSERTS Capapana Bynes will dan Unli
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