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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1956..

CONGO LIFTS SECRECY CURTAIN AROUND

URANIUM MINE

Jubilee Guests

Allowed

To

Visit It

By SERGE NABOKOFF

Elisabethville, Belgian Congo, Oct. 1.

The curtain of secrecy which normally surrounds the Shinkolobwe mine, the world's prime source of uranium ore, was lifted partially and momentarily in August în connection with the 50th birthday celebration of the Union Miniere du Haut- Katanga, the company which owns the mine.

As a "birthday surprise" for a manber of guests, including six newspapermen,

A small troup toured the rupte und ile mineral- concentrating plant

was the first

policemen, marka

the

entrance to the "A 7000," the outer belt of the mirung area.

A K hundred yards along The rexxi, all cars are stopped at time since a gate which marks the entrance

Worki Wor 11. when skriet to the top-secret "23 zone"

ceurity precautions WETT Im- where the Inme and the com- pend on this wild billy savanna, centrating plant fle. There plain That ordinary visitors had been clothes Belgian security officers alkowed to go round one of the collect the white-and-blue pus HIGHL heavily guarded tuning with the signature of the head

tes in the workf

of the Surely which must bear the current date and is nevessary to gain admittance und issue in

vium a numbered bodge. This, the visor must

in his Wens tapel, or place where it is easily visible, during the visit

The Discovery

WHGA

i

The discovery at Afries's trat urankam deposity in the Katanga province, about 8 ms north of the Rhodesian fremtter, made thong World War 1 by 44 13316274.

R. Sharp. Alagon R. Newuste-beam project ar

The mujr, this living m Teem at Bulawayo, un Southern hanured guest

the Uk Manderer's Kuboth here Now 74 years of white-baarsed but fufined maki alert, he was presented with artistically worked evgiper cosket containing one of the Two Arst samples of

uranium ore which round for the Union Half at Shin-

he

Miniere

koldbwe, in 1918

The "Sharp bile". VIS pincer described

It

Open-Face

'

Anglo-French Suez Talks

Indian Express Closing Down

New Delhi, Oct. 1. The

moming independent newspaper, Indian Express, 10-

clay

to its gave notice ployees that it will close down Ha New Delhi edition from De- cember 81.

GT

Sir Anthony Eden and Mr Selwyn Lloyd hold Sues meet- ing in Paris with M. Mollet and M. Fuseau, (left to right) M. Pinosu; Bir Anthony Eden: M. Mollet and Mr Selwyn Lloyd, during their meeting at Matignon for further dla- cision

the Bues criada. Express Photo.

on

Protection Demand

Djakarta, Oct. 1. The Minister of Economic Alfoårs, Mr Burhanuddin,

has cald that he will study a demand

protection against Chinese busi- ness competitors.

Married For by indonesian businessmen for

70 Years

One of five English language newspapers published here, the

Ehrenfeld, Oct. 1. Express was started in New

Juhana and Christine Mattes Delhi three year

sen have ago. It

celebrated their 10th circulation in New Delhi is about wedding anniversary hire with antion of a movement in

special church service.

An wy stoned at the edge of the which deep, open-face quOTTY band supplied furl for the first atom temis ever to be used in ww, those cropped on Hiroshima and Nagarks, in free of 1} Union Miniere sud: "This mine is a milestone in world history,

for a starting pot nuclear search

ONE WAS a decisive factor in shortening World War

E. And it almost certainly pre-incurred.

15,000.

A notice said the proprieters were closing. down the paper because of "heavy losses" il had

Germany,

Japan May Rome

Romanise Her Language

COMPLICATED`` SYMBOLS ` MAKE

LIFE DIFFICULT

Tokyo, Oct. 1.

to

The Japanese authorities are trying simplify their complicated language which is hindering communication among their own people and, what is more serious, between Japan and the outside world.

China, It is known, is working If he goes back in literature hard to simplify the use and or history as little as 40 your usages of Chinese and ut the his studies become even more same time is developing now in- |dimcult.

dustrial strength and claiming diplomatic and political initia- tives which challenge Japan's

| claims to Asian leadership.

Japon may be left behind, und the language problems could be lorgoly responsible.

The Ministry of Education is studying a report on the problem submitted by a group of cultural and educational exports, They have considered the possibility of using an alphabet, probably version of the Roman alphabet, instead of the thousands characters now required for even the commonest purposes.

3,000 CHARACTERS

OTHER MEANINGS

Echolars estimate that the 49,700 characters can have an

additional 026,000 mennings and it special classical quotations are included the total becomes 378,200.

A Japanese scholar now com- piling what he hopes will be a complete dictionary has given most of his life to the task and

expects to produce 12 volumes with 15,000 pages.

aro as

With this handicap, Japanese studenta Year: longer education thom colleges using

For general reading, popular |latıguage. publications such as newspapers and magazines try to limit them- selves to about 2,000 characters.

That makes a minimum 3,000 complicated symbols which must

learned before

of

the

much as tr completing their students in 42 European

Japanese children are two to four years later than European children im their reading of the Japanese equivalenta of Hans Andersen or Robinson Crusoe.

Studicer of foreign languages are made

For more difficult. the average Japanese, the but- side world is hidden behind a many language curtain. Only the most

expert translators can draw

any person can keep him- gelf reasonably informed,

For the purpoSOS of higher education and culture more characters ar combinations must be mastered,

It

faside, Translation is so difficult

that enemings and emphasis are

The demand was made al Natioumi Economie Congress of The Japanese written language businessmen following the in- a total of 49,700 different obscured or, often, distorted,

this characters. Many of ttrcso have

SPECIAL SCHOOLS differem shades of meaning of direction by an Indonesian different usages or can be com

Some

Gre belloved to be the Member of Parlament, Dr As- |bined in different ways.

In an early postwar effort to longest-married couple in West sunt, who has re-

even meas also proposed of them

examething meet the situation the Ministry different. now from what they of Education ordered schools to meant in the last century, teach Romanised Japanese but

the classroom time given to The average Japanese must

conted World War 111, 1950- 不 51. when

the United It gave

chiring States

the atomic supremacy

the teay of the nine, o kənger | which kept war ni bay."-China

xists in its pince is the huge, Mail Specia

283-fon deep excavation of the

pon must mine. On the morning of the visit, it looked deserted

But the engineer said that the open mine is not exhausted al- though

the main work is now done underground, Iturough a nearby

shaft, about 574 fret

deep.

After World War 15, the great demand for uranium led to the

the mine of <rection ncor

#

frtant,

available. That From South Cause mineral concentrating Morning Post Fad, Wyndham Street | which helped to reduce transport Ad Sabatury a, Kowloon

costs and, incidentally, to kvep the quantity produced top

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST HERALD Buroo For commercial advertising should bo

booked

later not

than

noon on We nesday

For the BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours

Bpocial

US Agreement

Ninely per cent of the Conge ratur Crater is shipped to the United States under a Belgo- American agreement concluded in London during the war, in 1943, and renewed last умездя incher the agreement, the United States, where the Congo uranium is enriched to become 41 Essilo material (U 235), will have the

before date of publication.right to purchase only 75 per Announcementa cent of the Congu production as and Classified Advertise - menta as usual.

Hong Kong Birds

Harklots, G. A. C. 1953 Hong Kong Birds, Py. 233, 11 pis., 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings in text. Hong Kong: South China

Morning Port, Ltd., HIC$35.00.

a most welcome handbook for ornitholo gists resident or station ed in Hong Kong, the

recorded

hitherto

arc

An

species

included; plumages are clearly and concisely described, and

DI

a short accoun) la giym field character voice. habits, atatan The Illustrations

for

plated

VOICE,

three

of photographs, are

تلم

by Cdr, A, M, Hughes,

And include four attrac

tive plates of the heade

from 1958.

At the far end of the Shin- kolobwe concentrating plant, under a roomy shed, filg metal barrels wait is rows. Some are painted yellow, others, ven. The only

inscription n thean reads in English: troduce of the Belgian Congo finndle with a

care,

A placid native in a blue over- all pushes empty yellow barrets under the opening of a large pipe

from the coming down plant. The barrel

Is rapidly filled with

a golden yellow powder-urandum in its finished form. It has reached this stage after a succession of operations in which the initial raw ore. with its jet-black, emerald- green and bright yellow veins has been crushed, exporated from radium, treated chemically with

washed, sulphuric acid, cessed, and, finally, dried.

+

Every Precaution

pro.

The green berels are Alled with the "semi-finished" product. į black pitchblend, hand-picked Heavy granules of uranium-rich

halfway through the concentra- an endless process from belt by sharp-eyed natives.

Every posible precaution taken at Shinkolobwe to protect Its

techniciana 100 Europtan

Ja

and 2,500 native workers against

of 42 species and many the dangerous PARENTLE saya

given off by tantum,

useful drawings in the text, The writer of this

Everyone at the mine wOETA Z would review

have

metal badge, which bunckens beneßled

from this book wy

Immediately if its bcover comes station within reach of a

harmful de- ed in Hong Kong some gree

ree of radiation. Even now, Fears ago,

The miners are only allowed en referring to it, some

10

flaska into 40 unfamilar species mine with them, so that food is

COSTY

The

washed hands.

the

Herr Matiessen, aged 91, sullestrictions on Chinese in works es storekeeper for anfield of education. Ehrenfeld building firm, and hila

The Mimater aid that a long consult his dictionary constantly was adequate and the teachers

de-if

he wishes to get full value themselves disagreed about the house in which they have lived and caretut skuly" of the

Trast way to use the Romara work of for 45 years. China Mail mard was needed.--Chinu Mail |even from a modem

letters in anything like a serious nature. Special.

Spectat

sounds of Japanese,

wife, 88, stin

The Bombay and

looks Madras etitions of the Express will continue to be published. China Mail Special.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THE JONESES

HOUSE, YOU

WAIT HERE

FERD'NAND

NANCY

BLAST THESE

JONESES-

EVERY DAY--THEY GET A TON OF

MAIL--MAGAZINES-- BOOKS, PAPERS--AND I HAVE TO CARRY IT! THEY READ EVERYTHING

THAT'S PRINTED!

WHAT CONCEIT

WHAT VANITY

JOHNNY HAZARD

GOOD GIRLİ LOOK. STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER-IF YOU'RE

IN CONDITION TO FLY

ONE

they tako n

on which notes were not contaminated during work made at the time have with thair almost all proved early When work overy Identilable, D. W, 8, shower immediately and change

their clothon, deck-éfocs/

(Raitant from "Tha・ Ibis" omolat The Shingolobwe, ou, cover- Broan cul megtipliish_Ornithologista ing & low.nquare-milos, saur- Unione Writion Museum)2

^2* | rouzicled by two rows of berbed wirb. A number of watch

· permanently occupied by troopel, overlook the ' ravinno outside.

-M. POST

HONG KONGO

KOWLOONA fest "Hod Harrier guarded - by a few blúguinitoned native

אות

DEPORE

RACE T'LL STEP

DOWNL

I-I BELIEVE YOU MEAN 1T7 MIR. HAZARD, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION ON MENA YOU'RE BUY SUCCEEDINGI

CALL ME JOHNNY. KITTYZ

after the

HMM-- ANOTHER CLUE TO THE STRANGE JONES FAMILY--BUT

WHAT DOES

IT MEAN?

CH-HO! LET'S NOT. GILD THE IMPRESSION-

JOHNNYZ -

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

CRAB SAYS HE SAW A MAN 'SHOOT' INTO THE SKY FROM THAT CHIMNEY--SOUNDS SILLY BUT I MUST GET INSIDE FOR ANOTHER

LOOK! HOW?

By Ernie Bushmiller

*TRNIG QUEMMILA BE

WHAT A

BALL

GAME

By Mik

By, Frank Robbins

BUT YOU DIDN'T COME HERE JUST TO MAKE A {KIND OFFER...WHAT'S UP?

I NEED YOUR HOLD : KITTY! I'VE JUST CÓMÉ, FROM THE WRECKAGE OF YOUR PLANILLWE;

HAVE PROOF OF

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen.

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

TRY

If we were

any fresher we'd still be on the vine!

Libby's

FROZEN STRAWBERRIES

TODAY

ROWNTREES

...this situation calls for a

San Miguel

representing

the

Originally about 700 special schools were established to teach Romanised Japanese. This year, the number wits down to 100 and in ordinary school scant atten- tion was given to the shortened alphabet,

So Japanese business has to be conducted without such aids as the simple typewriter. Com plicated machines are used for lyping Japanese but the forma- Lion of just one letter is 0 laborious business.

Newspapers are unable to ure ordinary mechanical typewriters. Publications, for the most part, are set into print matrily by hand, piece by piece.

Japan has been unable to use The ample Morse Code, and in modern fast loternational com- munications cannot Uso the radio teletype, without convert- ing the Japanese characters into English or a Romanised version of Japanese.

URGENT ATTENTION

A combination of cultural and educational sociatios fram asked the Ministry of Education to make Romanisod Japanese full part of school language coursee and teaching methods a required subject in teachers" training colleges.

"Urgent attention" has been promised.--China Mail, Special.

Tin Soldiers On Parade

In Germany

Bonn, Oct, 1,

Elderly enthusiasts brought whole armies of tin soldiers to Celle in West Germany for the annual meeting of tive 4. sociation of Friends RE:Cól- lectors of Historieni Tin Figures which was marked by an ex- hibition of battle reconstruc» tions in miniature.

The Battle of Waterloo Was

a favourite subject..

It has become à rule that the model soldiers, although only two inches high in sorte chats, mus! be exnel copies, of the Their un- troops. original forms have to be historienly accurate downs to the tunda but- tons, which are analler than pinheade

scomadies

*The 1:160 › collectors includāki some whose model

mbi dicaster in Hve war year-old hospital omeist Minnheim reported tow, that ive lost 20,000 men fri no, TP reld In 19;h now khi Le

“Belion of 12,900 17 14

Another member had to lenye 15,000 model

when he left East Charnadyjow ** China: Mail Momini,

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