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RN BASE TO BE TRANSFERRED Saigon Woman's

'Little England At

The Tip

For Union Govt

Of Africa'

By HAIG NICHOLSON

Simonstown, Mar. 28.

The Royal Navy base here, a base which Nelson on one occasion urged the British Government to return to the Dutch, will be transferred to the South African Government on April 2.

as

Я

Nelson first came to Simonstown midshipman, and many years later as Admiral Lord Nelson he urged the government of the day to "give it back to the Dutch."

"It is only a revictualling over responsibility station," he said.

fence,

were in

"When the Dutch command, one could buy a cabb age for twopence. Now they are one shilling each."

the

agc of 40, Rear- Ad-

In April, the base, which hos been called "Gibraltar of the South Atlantic." is to pass into the hands of the South African Navy a small but efficient

and growing force to be commanded by Rear-Admiral Hugo Hendrik Hermann, MBF. But ships of the Royal Navy will continue to have facilities at the base and in

of war to the event

operate from there. At the Admiral Biermann is the Arst South African-appointed miral in history, though three other

South Africans have risen

Admiral to the rank of

In the Royal Navy. He is expected to be in residence at Admiralty House, J picturesque former farmhouse.

when the handing over ceremony takes place at the flag-decorated base,

Simonstown

base has been Associated with nearly three centuries

South of

African history.

Safe Anchorage

In 1087, Simon van der Stet arrived at Zelstein Bay as it was then called. The bay, well sheltered by hills rising out of the sea, so impressed him that he renamed after himself— Simonstown.

Less than half a century later, Its Importance as a safe anchor- age was becoming Increasingly recognised and a survey carried out.

Was

Mone and more ships called there. In 1741 The Dutch

East India Company decided STAMP ALBUMS - "Collection that between May and August Bulider" paties. New stock DOW

From South China or cach year is fleete would korning Post Led, Wyndham Street anchor there. Also to be seen std Ballbury Road, KeWIDOG,

rling at anchor were naval ships flying the flags of Britain, France and Portugal.

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NOTICE

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SONG YU (a) of 11A, Cambridge Boad, Ground Floor, Kowloon Tong, Hongkong, is applying to the Home Secretary for maturalisation, and that any

Britain's realt link with base only came towards the end of the 18th century. Realising the threat to the free move- ment of ships of the English East India Company of French war vessels vaned Reunion and Mauritius, the Bri- Ush Government on July 14, 1705, sent a forte under Major- General Craig to occupy Simon- Bfbow.

the

on

Except for a few years the Royal Navy has remained in control ever since.

Napoleonic Wars

the

person who knows any reason The British left the Cape in why naturaliastion should not 1803 under the terms of be granted should send a Treaty of Amiens, but their written and signed statement ships continued to use the base

nt # Simonstown in increasing

of the facts to the Under numbers. When the Napoleonic Secretary of State, Home wars started, however, Britain did not hesitate again to take Once, (Nationality Division), Princeton House, 271, High possession of this key to the

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In January 1800, a fleet of 63 British ships anchored of Blaauburg and the second cupation of the Cape began.

Soon, Simonstown was busy with British warships calling for stores att repairs.

00

Since then, hundreds of war- be ships have been rep

repaired at the base at Simonstown. than mostemm

World War Two along. During

naval Vervols arxi merchantmen called here for re- For the SOUTH CHINA pairs while thousands of officers MORNING POST and the and soomen were nursed back CHINA MAIL, 48 Hours to health in the hospital over- before date of pubilestion. looking the Sunlit Bay.

In 1898, the Cape Partioment Spécial Anhkuhoßmarita ceded Simonstown

to the Ad- mrid Classified Advertles-miralty as a naval base, and in

1921 the Union Government took ments sa unual.

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Simonstown has

for ila de-

contributed

the history Its own chapter to of mutiny in the Royal Navy. In October 1797, there look place one of the biggest mutinies in the senior ser- over known vice. The crews of the Vindle- Im- Live, Tremendous, Trusty,

Brave, Rattlesnake, perlouse, Stan Euphrosyne, Chichester and Suffolk, revolted and placed Admiral Pringle under deten tion.

Cornish Village

The Admiral pacifled the men and ended the mutiny, as well as another smaller

one which occurred less than three weeks

Investigations

Beck

Of Rackets Broadened

ita

A Vietnamese bollo, with a gold-poorafod sword in her hand, rides an elephant to commemorate the legendary Trung princesses, during Women's Day celebrations in Saigon. To the people of South Vietnam the Trung sisters are symbols of the people's fight for independem.co. According the princesty

AWLJ Invaders by each riding an elephant into

enemy cotihtry's

to Vietnamese history,

column while the Independence was at stake.---- Exprem Photo,

Pageant

Historic Bronze Age Bracelet Found In Norway

By ELIZABETH KITSON

Oslo, Mar. 28.

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet, twice buried in Norwegian ground and twice dug up again, will soon be on view to the public | in a museum at Trondheim,

His txhibition-follows a long drawn out legal battle over its ownership.

The bracelet is of solid gold of

a beautiful plain designe

is of the type to be worn, above the elbow and is not a complete circlet of gold, but has a small gap to allow for stretching get it over the elbow.

Museum experia who have studied it say that it dates back to the Bronze Age and is typical of gold jewellery made in the Danish Inlands from metal which originally came from Ireland.

Prehistoric Find

Hagen, asked the Curator of the locai Romsdal Museum whether the bracelet hoct value, that the hit was reported any historic

ally experts from Oslo Univer- went up to investigate.

They soon found that the find was an extremely interest toing on, such bracelets being

very fare. They decided that was probably the bracelet re- terred to under the name of "Molde", which is described in the famous Norwegian Signs by Shore Sturluson. In his Boga about "The Son of Eirik". Snorre tells of a bracelti which was found in the ground in about

It was the year 100, realised, even at that time, that was an extremely ancient and invaluable bracelet. Harald Grafell,

heard

Burma Wants It was in 1930 that two

More Trade With Malaya

Inbourer working on a road on #t the island of Nord Aukera,

the

found

Western Now they were dig- chief.

local viking Bracelet while

of the fix and, ging They probably did not according to Snorre's tale, sut- realise

Its value as a prohistoric ceeded in getting possession of find, but they saw that was of

of it by the simple process of a solid goldi. So they took it to lawsult in which he was both Singapore, Mar. 28.

Molde, the nearest town A thirty-man

ahid the plaintiff and the judge. Singapore Bot it to a goldsmith for. The

BORT Malaya Trade Mission

The Saga has re value turned here from Burma hope-The goldsmith,

was a very Me Herman miserly fellow, and he buried ful that Burma-Malaya

Hager gave them 150 crown will be balanced.

the bracelet to make sure, that (about £7 10%) for it. Since

no one else should get hold of Thew, the bracelet has been his possesion,

Washington, Mar. 28, The Senate Rackets Committeo decided today to broaden Investigation of corruption American trades unions and the administration of union furis.

its The committee reached

after decision questioning Dave

President of the Team Union, for two days.. The committee's chief legal counsellor, L

Robert F Kennedy, number said the

of and agents under the commit- tee's orders had

been tripled, The agents had been sent to all parts of the United States

Dacca, Mor, 28. financial investigate the Lord

A six-man Japanese Economie į out her deftelt dealings of the unions and, in and Technical Survey Mission Burma. the

particular, be

Teamsters arrived here by air from Tokyo Beck's Union, Kennedy said,

tonight. The Secretary of Labour, James P. Mitchell, declared to-

later when Sceptre, Ralsonable and Jupiter arrived at the base. Simonatown has been called "Little England at the tip Africa."

of

20

investigators Japanese Capital

In appearance, it resembles a Cornish fishing village, in hotels with such names us the Nelson,

and the British Prince Alfred, sallora

can Been of an evening quailing their Die while they talk of adven- tures at sea and at home.

Simonstown with long-range uny during press conference

will that his department was guns pointing out to sea

now of remain an element of impor-studying verbatim reports

the Lance, too, for a reason not as-

Rackets Com- Senate's sociated with the Royal Navy mittec's investigation in order Rudyard Kipling to take steps to strengthen of his poems government control of union

funds-France-Presse.

and the sÉR. wrote a mmber there,China Mali Special.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

"IRAN INTO THE LITTLE POS--ON THE) BEACH

FERDINAND

NANCY

THIS IS MY FIRST CAKE

)).

JOHNNY HÁŽARD

TRUSE LEAU MAKHBADO COULD CRLY BE MEANT AÐ A | PROTECTION FOR US AKÄNET)

SARADIOACTIVITY

"I CAME OUT OF THE FOS-HERS THERE WAS A BOY LAUGHING!"

I GUESS IT'S BEEN IN THE OVEN LONG ENOUGH NOW

HOW I'M REALLY PUZZLED, JOHNNY! WE'VE BEEN TESTING THIS BOMBER FOR TÄYS AND WE'VE FLOWN ON GRDINARY „JET FUR:E_THERESA NO

A POWER PLANT ABBARDI

Investment

trodo

Mr Lee Tye-tob, leader of the Mission, sald Burmese business- men had expressed a keen de- sire to do more trado with Malaya.

He said he was condent Malaya would

be able to wipe in trade with

at the gold by weight. Haraki Grafen" on to tell how

init

'Molde'

the

But Norwegian law lays down

The experts believe that it that all objects d'art, goods and

must be this bracelet, "Mölde" chattels of historie

or prehis toric interest, found in the earth, road workers on Nord Aukra in

which was found by the

two are the property of the state.

1930 For, according to the Bags The law speclically mentions

Harald Grafeli spent several jewellery, werpone, tools, houise-

winters on Nord Aukra where hout

other Implements and

his viking ships were usally goods, atud states the compensa-

laid up for the winter in taking steps to lon to be paid to both the Rikstjord. improving port finder ent the owner of the

Whether he died without land on which such articles are telling his heirs where be bad discovered. All finds should be

his treasure bhitien thepartment which has the right to depute a suitable museum to preserve thera

Burma boost trade by facilities.

ww

Mr Lee said the delegation 18 |

They will have talks with leaders of the provincial gov crnment and visit industrial contres in the province.

They are expected to explore confident of increasing Singa-eported at once to the Govern qu

concerned. the possibilities

of capital In-paro's trade in finned foodstuffs, vestment in heavy Industries pineapples, corned beef, sausages in East Pakistan within the and jams, besides primary pro- framework of the Colombo ducts and luxury goods. Plan-Reuter,

Reuter,

THE SAME THING HAPPENED

TO US. WE SAW THE FOO

ON A PASTURE--THEN WHAT DID YOU POT

I WONDER WHAT KIND OF A CAKE

IT'LL BE

CHECKCE BUT WITH THESE TONS OR LBAD BETWEEN THE COCKPIT THE STAR TWIN

OF A CRÓNI

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

"THE FOG WAS STILL THERE, I RAN BACK INTO IT, HOPING TO ESCAPE --AND WAS / SURPRISED!"

CONTINUED

By, Mi

By Ernie Bushmiller

AN ANGEL CAKE

By Frank Robbins

RELAX, KIDSIS WAS GOING

· SCOTTY! | TOTELL YOU TOCKY BUT LOOKS

· LIKE YOU BEAT ME TO IT I

YIP THIS IS THE BIG BABY....

„THÌ PLANH THAT IS ABOUT »

TO BE DUK BAST ATOM- POWERED ARCRAFT Í

the

Molde

There's More than Magic in

fa not

quite clear. But the bracelet lain buried there has certainly for over 1,000

had yeura, and been in the earth for probably another 2.000 It was not until 1938, whenings found it in the year 900. 2,000 years before the Mir goldsmith,

When the

museum experts started irveligating the whole matter in 1938, Goldsmith Hagen claimed ownership of the bances let and said that he intended bequeathing it to the Romadol Museum He pointed to the clause in the low which soys that if the Goverment

deport- ment fails to claim

poarcasion within six months, they low their right to the find, But the department, on their side, claim- ed that the flash had not been reported in the proper manner in the first place.

CADBURY'S

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Process Of Law,

Since then, the matter hús been slowly going through thiế various proCCZBES of the law, processes which are conalter ably! ETING complicated and careful than they wond In

the days of Harold Gradell. Gold- smith Hagen's claim for poocy- ion of the bracelet dalled in the Jower court,

ho but

appealed! dgainst ita declaion Now the Supreme Court has uphold the lower court's judgment, okid ordered that the beaceber shall be the property of and be placed in tho

care

of the Selene Society's Museum at Trondheim,

Mr Hagen had to par 1,500 crown (£76) in court conta for his trouble,

At present, the bracelet, te value of which is now pui at at least 6,000 crowns (£400), 1 in safe keeping in the vaults of a bonic at Mode. But in the Dear future it will be send to Trondheim for exhibition in the Musesam there, -- China Mail Special

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