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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY

EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT THE

WEATHER

But Australia Means

To Do

Something About It

Melbourne, Feb. 14.

Everyone talks about the weather, but Australia means to do something about it.

Research on the weather is one of the major items on Australia's ambitious pro- gramme of Antarctic exploration for 1956. Australian explorers will this year continue. to plough through blizzards and face many other dangers to learn more about Antarctica's frozen hinterland. As they do this, scientists, geologists and other specialists will study ice shrinkage, in- vestigate cosmic rays and make other observations.

Austratiu claims 2,472,000 square miles of Antorelico, an area almost as big as the Com- monwealth herself, as her terri- tory.

Daily Rain

Weather research in the Antarcile became front

pago JEWS in recent

when weeks Antarctic winds were blamed for the worst summer in the southern hemisphere over res corded in South Eastern Aus- train.

Wintry conditions, with ral falling almost daily, spoiled the Christmas and New Year holl- day period for nearly 4,009,000 reason, suld the scientists, was ice. According to reports from shipping, the Antarctic was much further pack ice

South winds North hon usual. blowing over Australia had டி shorter distance to travel. Their unusual force, and cold, stopped movement of fine the normal weather across the from the west.

The scientists went to find out what makes the ice move, why its rovements chung cách ord what effect these changes have on the weather.

rontinent

Meteorological Information gained from this research could bring the Commonwealth nearer to accurate weather forecăisio a month ahead, und predictions of droughts and floods more than a year ahead.

Lard Mines

It has also occome important to Australia's defences to know more about Antarctica.

raiders

Sca

the'

operating from Antarctic could be a serious menace to the Commonwealth's trade in time, of war.

עפץ

In World War II, D small German raider. the Kornet, worked her

into the She captured Southern Ocean. a Norwegian whaling feet, re- fuelled from it, commandecret one of ils chasers, which she manned and armed as another raider and the two ships then lald mines along the Australian and New Zealand coasts.

A big ship operating from there unknown waters could have caused considerable damage.

•

Australia has had a perma- nent station at Mawson, on tho MacRobertson Coast, since 1954. To support her claims to the vast, ley hinterland

southpr Mawson, Australian reconnais- Ance parties go out every summer, probing ever deeper into the frozen heart of the Antarctic Conument.

Far Limits

In 1954, a recozkalsance party. -working from Mawson, found Its way blocked by a majestie mountaku

12:00 range

miles iniand. Seven men of the 1855 party picked their way over a barrier of crevices to the great and the loader; John range Bachervalsë, radfood back that:

that

they

belloved they found a pass through the moun- tains to the southern ine plateau, This year, mother party will explore the far limits of

a 1,000-mile sortie ranges in from MawsĢIL

pre-

the

Also, this year, 09 liminary to the work of the 1057-88 Geophysical. Year, dri Australian party in the polar. research vessel Kista Dans la cot« ploring the coast of Wilkes Lund,

Blizmrd-wept ce sheathed regions, which has been photographed from the air in recent serial etikcommadsanices, but -on-which no men has ever set

foct.

a

Keypoint

Most Important of all, this expedition will choose a site for an Australian base in the Westfold Inila of Princuss Elizabeth Land a sterile but Ice free region 380 miles nust of Mawson, where ships can find. good anchorage close to the

const

during the sunimer monthis...tiant beto

will be key point

This base during the Geophysical fear, providing an Intermediate

sladdört between: Mawson and. the fuselan náð. American blues

STINGING

NETTLE COCKTAIL

Berlin, Feb. 14. A "Juice bar", offering "cock- pressed plants, fruit

Leading this Australian pioneer party Is the Add- ministrator of Australia's polar territories, alim dark-headed Mr Philip Garth Law, 43-year-old director of the Antarctic divi-

Atalis" of slon of the External Affairs and vegetables, has attracted a Department, The Sydney Dally large clientele in Berlin. Telegraph recently described

Singing-nettle juice is recom- him as "one of the most bril-mended to recondition the blood, Ilont scientists Australia has carrol-and-white-cabbage cock produced, cast in the mould oftail for slimming, and pressed history's greatest explorers,"

parsley for over-worked managers.

:

Secrets

Other beverages, guaranteed full of nourishment, are con- The Antarctic is niwaye call-cocled from cucumbers, radishes, and hawthorn.-China Since 1947, birch ng Philip Law.

Mail Special, he has made eight voyages south, including the one he led to Mac. Robertson Land to establish the Mawson base in 1954.

The secrets locked 'behind the ice mountains and cliffs of the CONSTA of Antarctica challenge him as the sea challenged the famous English explorer, Cook.

Mr Law believes that there is wealth in Australia's Ice empire. Surveys have shown, he says, that uranium and gold to be neath the ice. And he believes that the Southern Ocean can be made to yield important supplies of food and fertiliser,China Mall Special. ·

Strikers Return To Work

+

British Prime Minister Bir Anthony Eden, delivered A 18-minute apetch to the UB House of Representatives during his recent· tour and was warmly applaudod. In speech he said that Britain's contributions

to Western de- fexico

larger "are definitely than those of any other coun- try" except the US and, in

proportion,

cven

with those.

bomparable Referring

to "the spirit that animates.

friendship”, ha

One

stated: "It is something which only the free woria enjoys and as long as we hold it and trea- sure it, your nation and ours, there will be pesco In this world"-Express Photo,

Shah

Visiting India

Teheran, Feb. 14.

The Shah of Persia and Queen Soraya.are due to leave here tomorrow night for a 20-day visit to India. They will travel in a chartered Dutch airliner.

WATER-JET SPEEDBOAT

Christchurch, Feb. 14. A speedboat of revolutionary design, developed by a wealthy

Security Net Awaits Locusts Invading French Morocco

·Rabat, Feb. 14.

A tightly woven French "security net” aimed at destroying locusts before they have had time to do any damage faces swarms of locusts as soon as they cross the border into French Morocco,

Mobile columns of the Agricultural Depart- ment of the French Residency, totalling 320 trucks and jeeps equipped with radio sets, are stationed in likely locust "target areas" throughout South Morocco ready to shower the locusts with a deadly chlorine powder as soon as they alight..

In Constant Touch

Tairtoon Piper Cub spotter French army's teleprinter net- aircraft, four biplanes ant one work is used to flash reporta vintage Junkers 52 telce, it in of the arrival of locusis from turns to attack the locusts from outlying districts to n. large the air with, chemical spray, operations room, where the walls are covered with large maps of south Morocco.

Multi-coloured: flags mark the The French have bullt 23-insects progress on tho maps. emergency bending strips to The main regional centres chable the aircraft to operate | are at Marrakesh, Agadir and as close as possible to "locust target orcas."

the Alt Melloul, The Marrakesh

ccntre is in charge of a young - French-trained Moroccan gineer, Mr Ahmed Guessous,

Three mobile radio stations with a central transmitter wing very high frequency are la con- stant touch with the columns and their air support. night.

radio

the

Day and network

sheep station owner, Mr C.-W. F. truss swarms of locusts.

Hamilton of Christchurch, has ¤ speed of more than 25 knots, and can turn in its own length at top speed.

Its mahoeuvrability is obtain ed from a jet unit designed by which draws Mr Hamilton, mone than 1,000 gallons (4,500 litres) of water a minuto through

grille forward.

A pump forces a jet through a nozzle at the stern, and the nozzle can be swung through 180 degrees to turn the empft, China Mall Special

Troops Ambushed

Tizi-Ouzou, Feb. 14. Two French soldiers were Idiled and four wounded when two army lorries were ambush- ed this morning in the

Melbourne, Feb. 15. Most of Australia's 27,000 dockers were back at work today after a three-week wage

The Invitation to the Shah strike which crippled the coun-

and Queen Soraya was extended the only one Idie was the by the Indian President Dr Ouzou area of Algeria. Victorian wool-shipping port of Rajendra Prasad, before Persia

Western backed A military action, is under- Geelong here today reserved for joined the

for Middle East way in this tho dockerr annual picnic.-Bagdad Pact Reuter.

defence last October-Reuter. Presst,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

|MANDRAKE AND THE CLAY CAMEL-

EACH DISGUISED-THINKS THE OTHER'S THE REAL AMBASSADOR!

WHAT IS THIS?

FERDINAND

NANCY

TROUBLE ON THE CABLE

JOHNNY HAZARD

FOLLOW HIM OUT...HAVE ONLY- SECONDS BEFOREW WHERES

MYKIFCORP

MEANWHILE, UPSTAIRS - THE REAL AMBASSADOR /

THERE HE DIDN'T TIE

ME AS TIGHTLY AS HE THOUGHT--/ I'VE GOT TO GET DOWNSTAIRS!

17-14

THAT MAN'S AN IMPOSTOR--HE'S -THE CLAY CAMELS I MEAN--THAY

ONE 15--I DON'T KNOW WHICH

IS WHICH!

TROUBLE ON THE CABLE

TROUBLE

ON THE TABLE

[BUT STEPHAN'S RIPCORD WENT OUT WITH THI

TECHNICIAN...NOW FLOATING SAFELY, DOWIŁA

'WELLPL; MEER...LDOKS LIKE EN WE DIENSTOGETNEEL A PITY,. "E SHOULD'VE LIKED TO SEE IT

region.-France-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

By Ernie Bushmiller

By Mik

BUSHMILLER

By Frank Robbins

12-19

WITH FIVE SECONDS TO GO BEFORE THE TIMEĎ FLASH CAMBRA BLOWS UP BOTH PLANES 1.

SNAP IT'S NOW

ORMNEVER!

The

Bush insects t

reports

usually

of

land at

dusk and will not begin to do

their

damago

until morning,

nearby talding off

when they vegetation hage all again on their flight north.

If warned in time, a mobito column can speed to the "target area" overnight and attack the locusts at dawn,

Headquarters

While locusts are about, Mr Guessous and his assistanta. stay up all night in the Mar- rakesh operations room, gulding columns landing sites.

SL

to newly-reported

Services Unpaid

Largo, new warehouses south built in have been. Morocco since the beginning of 1946

to house 18,600 tons of to chemical powder, stored combat the "winter. offensive of the locusts.

To set up a satisfactory warn ing system, however, has proved | 7,000 difficult.

ها

Other storehouses have been hired from business men. These have a Búrface area of square metres. Nearly 1,000 French and German Notification of locust landings powdering machines are being

compulsory by law In usod,

Morocco.

the

On the sites themselves, the But with telephones rare in Residency's columns enlist the some of the sparsely populated

equipment. The labour is sexthern regions, & tribesman help of local tribesmen to man may often waste precious time recruited by the local Calds by riding to a local French post (chieftains), there is a on mule or camel-back to on- nounce that the locusts have long tradition in the Bled (the

that: Moroccan countryside) ^arrived.

anti-locust service should be unpaid.

The headquarters of the anti- locust wor is Rabat, Hore, the

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

Couldn't be fresher!

Libby's

FROZEN PEAS TODAY.

ROWNTREES

KitKat

this situation

calls for a

San

Miguel

and

Dense Swarm

The recruiting system gives rise to abuses, and tribesmen have

French complained to' officials that they bribed a Caid's representative to be let off "Locust duty" and were then forced by him to do it all the

A dense swarm of 'locusta・・ may have as many, 23 900 in. secta per square yard. ' Şoma z swarms are over 60 miles long.

the

winter of 1854/55, 3,750,000 acres of land had to be treated in south Мотоссо. Seven thousand tons of anti- locust powder were used ok a cost of £2,700,000.

Locusts are a favourite ' dish the mora primitive Berber tribes in the south. Under an old tradition, they are also served as a delicacy at Jawish wedding foasts,

At the height of the 1954 plague, the then French

M. Resident-General,

Francis on Lacoste, called

the then Sultan, Sidi Mohammed' ben Moulay Arafa, to inform him of the steps being taken by the Residency to destroy the Insteta. The ageing Sultan is reported to have replied: “Please do not kili them aH. My people will eat them."

Fatalistic View

So many locusts. uerò killed. at that time that business men set up several compāniés ́ ́ to |exiznot oil from the dead, Ingerts, Tribesmen were paid id per 2th for the dead Ipcurta,

As a whole, Mproceans take, a fatalistic view of the locust threat. But onch year. French settlers angrily demand etili more drastic measures to fight. the invaders, The Loctists not only wreck chops but also kil off cattle by depriving them of their food.

being

·Methode · now

Morocco are largely based on British. methods China Mail Special

-CARNEGIE GRANT FOR EDUCATION

New York, Tebu 14.5 The Carnegie Corporation, to- day announced a grant of 1,500,000, dollars to

of Internationa Klondon

leading private axchange of maitis has prepare

Slary and

on the desolate, Klock Closet