The
NEW
star in THE
STARS and STRIPES
WASHINGTON.
A NEW star blazed its way into the United States flag recently-and with its arrival America pushed her frontiers nearer Russia until the two are only 55 miles apart across the Bering Strait.
Name of the star-Alaska. The Senate in Washington voted 64 to 20 to make this American territory the 49th State in the Union.
In mountain settlements, Ash- lag and lumber cumps, and the
felds in which the wealthi
of Alaska throbs, there rollick- ed parades and bondres, jutler galore, and in every hotel the About
"Dris W0.3
the house."
OTI
For Alaska and her 213,000 brash and evuttdent people the great Ambition hod beeti achieved--STATEHOOD.
One-fifth
The legal formalities will be completed before the end of this year nexd then the U.S. will be bigger by more than une-fifth.
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Alaska vast nearly
is times the size of England, mure than twice as blgan Texas, the next biggest State. (And Texas, where everything ranks bigger. than life-size, will have to think up some new jokes.),
Amerien bought Alaska 'from the Rusions in 1807 for 7,200,- 000 dollars (about
LUSSRI
"Bering Stran
ANCHORAGE
Acclic Ocean
FAIRSANS3
BALAŠKA AND THE ALEUTIANS
Pacific Ocean
: STATTLE)
USA
ALASKA-AND ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT. 55 MILES AWAY, LIES RUSSIA,
Street heré money for deve lopme lies, Alaska's Governor, Mr Michael Stepovich, made Arst appeal for help from the big Bunniclers,
Pioneers
Alasks, said Governor Stepo- vich, needs spiders to put is
wealth to woLJE.
by...........
HENRY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1958.
LOWRIE
Ib. for tomatoes, 45, n quart for milk and Bs, for a smalt can of beor,
Fishing is the biggest in- dustry, bringing in about 70,000,000 dollars A year. But. fortunes are waiting to be made in mining, timber and tourism,
Glance brick and no how Aluska hay moved
up the long. hord, and icy path of
program
It was discovered in 1741 by Vitus Bering and the first tus
Kiun selilement went up
STILL GRIPPING..... THE LAST-BUT-ONE DAY!
THE TUNNEL
OF DEATH
Kodiak Island in 1794. Alaska Now James Bond is on the was known as Russian America
with its capital af Sitka,
Then came #ho American
purchase, at bargain price, and "district" governed by the laws
in 1884 Alaska became a
of the north-wos! U.S. State of Oregon.
Mex: bound forward was in 1812 when Alaska was made an Incorporated territory. Its frst legislature in 1913 granted votes to women. The fight forward to
flendiah obstacle ráce designed by Doctor No lo end in death....
THE guard pushed
Bond into a grey painted stone cell about fifteen feet square.
There was nothing in Statehoor! Was on the fight it except a wooden chair
Wa- that ended in victory In shington's Senate oase last
weck.
The ol boom is centred om the Kenai Peninsula. U.S. con-
on which lay, laundered and neatly folded. Bond's black
canvas
pantes have lod for teases on jeans and his blue shirt, 27,000,000 acres,
Glittering
and some
North America's only major 1in deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula,
of the biggest fron ore deposits in the worki are
uround lutel Klukwan,
Alaskans will tell
Coal, the
you without meaning to boast, is all over the place.
Sign of the money around: One-bedroomed reu for 100 dollars a
that is houses month
The door shut with a solid elk. Bond gave the door a mary glance. It was made metal and, there Wos no handle on the inside. Bond didn't waste his shoulder en it. He looked round the cell. The walls were entirely naked except for a ventilation grille of thick wire In one corner just below the celling. I was wider than his shoulders. It was obviously the way
out into the Assault course.
Outside somewhere, on the
(04) In the "big" cities.
Anchorage, with a popula-stone of the mountain, the gri of 94 500, is the biggest of them would already be lying, waiting boom town #lied with for the ralle of claws on the Bond clenched his grey cornt. tell at the thought of the pale body spreadeagled out there under the stars.
To these new pioneers, the nt today's exchange). That land offers not only the econo- purchase price was less thun mic rewards which come with two cents (about 1d.) an gere. Industrial and business expan- Since then, Americans have sien. “But jt promises settlers a dug up more than 1,000 million good plued, in which to live," dollars-worth of gold, silver, he said, copper, and other minerals. Of Alaska's 213,000 present And there is more, fats more, inhabitants, 34.000 ore Eskimos,
Red Indians and Aleuts. Ameri wall rul
ean Servicemen and their fami- les necount for 45,000.
elogiats and olt bosses. £2,770,000
Aluska is rich in motapped Fesources and now the sparks will My as the country is open- Everybody pays a stiff price ed up.
for living in Alaska. Super- They are calling It America's markels have supplies flown in frontier. And in Walt at the equivalent of 3s. . a
"It's so refined"
BROWN & POLSON
PATENT CORNFLOUR
Every hotel is crammed and 50 helicopters are needed to matriain their supplies. ~
Anchorage" is a tough town. The pubs are built in clusters so that no one goes thirsty.
Among the favourite drinks is rum said to paca the wallop of
polar bear.
Över the drinks, one tople above all is argued and pressed; the future of Alaska and its mineral wealth.
Nobody can seb anything but litlering mes ahend.
Solc Agent:
JOHN D.. HUTCHISON & CO., LTD. Union Building Tel: 31254
Abruptly he stood up, What- ever lay on the other side of the wire grilie, it was time to ga.
Bond took out his knife and the lighter and threw off the kimono. He dressed in the trousers and shift and stowed the lighter in his hip pocket. He tried the edge of the knife with his thumb It was very sharp. I would be better stiil if he could get a point on it."
The shock
He knelt on the floor and be-
Bond's body fell
through the air
to the sea waiting
DRAWING
BY ROBB
wrapping roset
the parts
Above the quiet thumping of his heart there was a soft, dell- enterualling. Bond reached-for his lighter. He held his breath na ho lit the 11to yellow dams, The red pin-points went out. Instead, a yard ahead of him, very narrow mesh wine, almost... as fine as muslin, blocloid the shaft,
Bond inched forward, tho lighter held before him. It was samo mrt of a cage, with small things living in 1,
They we.no apkiem, giant tarantulas, three or four inches Jong. There were 20 of tiem in the cage. And somehow he
had to get past them.
and
Bond lay and rested thought while the rod cyoa gathered again in front of hla taco. All ho needed nerve, and Infinite, Infinita precision.
The drop
was the
wira
Ho ploreel the thin meah with his knife, seized the.
flap of wire and wrenched it out. of the frame. He put the unifo
hts body that would have leaked through use opening. The of buck between his teeth and bear the brunthis hands and spiders cowered before his foot,
the
the
fame of the lighter and crowded Keep your naked stomach off back on top of each other.
Contract Your
ground!
the
shoulders! Handa, knees, tocs; Bond slid the wire spear out Fonds. kaces.. Loca Faster, of his trousers and jabbed the Zuster!
blunt, doubled wire into Now the Padded hands were middle of them. He Jabbed beginning to smoulder. There again and again fiercely pulping was a spark, and another onc. self and shot his body over the the bodies, Bond gathered him- The moke from the tuft snorted in Bond's sweating Linody pile of corpses
and
eyes. God, ho couldn't do any through the jagged frame, Ilo more! There was no air. His heaved himself yards on along lungs were bursting.
the shaft and stopped to gather hip breath and his nerve,
His scream
Above him a dim light.came on. Bond squinted side- waya and upwards knowing what he would see. The slant- a yellow eyes behind the thick gloss looked keenly down at The eyelids dropped in Bond's right and hit some moak pity. A closed Ast, ia
Bond lurched and his bruised Ife
shoulder hit the metal.
screamed.
him.
thing that gave before it. There thumb pointing downwards in
was a stream of lee-cold air, farewell and
dismissal, sald
100ft. below His other hand but, then his that he was corning into the Inst
octor
By
Ian Fleming
dead. There was a tinny noise. lap. Bond fell the lower edge of an The shaft was beginning to
asbestus
baffle scrape slope gently downwards. Soon, down his back. He was the slope grew steeper. Sud- through.
denly Bond realised that he Years later Bond WEB slipping down the shaft, awoke. He stirred. As He opened his shoulders and his eyes opened and met spread his feet to slow him- the other puig, inches self. It hurt and the braking away behind the glass, pain effect was small, Now the shaft took him and shook him like a was widening. He coul rat. He waited for the shock to longer get a grip! He was going."
faster and faster. How much more could, he out of the shaft and feil through
Head first Bond's body shot tuke now? Bond's lipu drew the sir, slowly, slowly, down back from his teeth and he
dlc.
snarled into the darkness. was an animal sound.
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towards the gunmetal sea that waited for um 100ft, below.
Ahead in the darkness the,
So he was supposed to clitab somehow gather enough strenge ting red pin-points might have The end is
straight up this shining tube of to heave himself in. Then he metal without a foothold! Was would be able to lie down. it possible? Bond expanded his
Later-ow much Inter? shoulders. Yes, they gripped the Bond's
opened and his eyeg body stirred. He lifted his head
sides,
Six inches at a lime Bond's and looked back at the porthole san whittling the rounded body began to worm up the above the yawning lube out of end on the stone. It was no shart-expand shoulders to grip which he had comic. stiletlo, but it would serve the sides, lift feet, lock knees, stab as well as cut, Bond put force the feet outwards agelet w movement. As he watch
Suddenly, behind the glass, the knife between his teeth and the melal and, as the teet
set the chair below the grille sipped downwards with his ed, a pair of eyes materialised
and climbed on to it.
weight, contract shoulders and from behind the electric light The next thing he knew was raise them a few inches higher. bulb. They gazed incuriously at a searing pain up his arm and it again, and again, and film and then they were soc. the crack of ng head hitting ngain.
the stone floor. He lay, stunned,
with only the memory of a blue He saw himself as a wound- flash and the hiss and crackle ed caterpillar, crawling up of electricity to tell, bim what waste pipe towards the plus had hit him.
hole of a bath,
The eyes
Bond's lips snarled back from his teeth. So his progress was going to be observed.
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He raised his head and look- ed forward. The tunnel shim- mered away into blackness. He picked up his knife and put it back between his teet winced his way forward.
Soon there was no more light, Bond's head bumped against The air began to get warmer something. The plug was in the
the heft," and perhaps Bity He plug-hole! The shock of dis- yande further, definitely picked up his knife and cut a appointment made him stP The next
hazard was to he strip off the discarded kimono yurd before his shoulders got a
Bond got to his kr.ees and stayed there. He fled his right hand up to his eyes. There was the red smear of an open but across the inside of his Angers,
Slowly be got to his feet.
-
heati
been an hallucination, speck before tho oye as a result of exhaustion. He shook his head. No, they were still there..
tomorrow..
ROUND-UP
ARMY ORDERS SERGEANT TO GROW
MOUSTACHE
TWICE Army Sergeant Toni Mailett, 27, has had to grow.
moustache to order. And twice he has falled to be satisfied with the result. The first order came in February. For the annual celebration of his unit's victory over the French when he was chosen to carry a captured battle axe as the tallest man in the 74th. Medium Regiment R.A., at Carlisle, as part of his unit's celebra- ilons to commemorate a victory over Napoleon. Order number two game two months ago in preparation for the axe to be parade? before the Queen on her recent visit to Carliste. Sergeant Mallett "Because it was the sald at his homo in Dalston, near Carlisle: hot
to make the Queen, I grew an extra twe inches at each side, moustache more twirly. But om still not satisfied. Moustache growing should be a full time job. A man needs a year's growth to make a job of it. So I think one goldier on our unli should become the permanent Carrier of the Axe-and keep his moustache so that he is ready for all'eventualities."
in
and lied It firmly across his frost gilp. Then he realised, Bond groaned aloud. How Jingers. Then he ciknbed
up He was at the top! Now he again on to the chair
and noticed the bright light and the could his bruised flesh stand up looked at the grille.
The wind was to that? How could ha protect He was strong wind,
his skin from the metal? There tocant to get through It. The coming into his left ear.
was che, and only one grain of shock hud been to coflen bim Cautiously. he turned his consolation. This would not be up taste of pain to come, head, it
only was another lateral heat
would Ills angers went through the shaft. Above him light was inaim. wire rim and gripped.
shining through a thick port- Bond took his knife and cut Nothing Nothing at all hole. All he had to do was inch of the whole front of his shirt Just wire. It gave inch. He himself round and grip the and sileed it into strips. The tugged again and came away edge of the new shaft
and only hope was to put some
in his hand and dangled own
from two strands of copper flex that disappeared into the wall. Bond pulled the grille loose from the flex. II. set to work unravelling the mesh, Then using the chair as a hammer, he Atenightened the heavy wire,
The climb
After 10 minutes, Bond had a crooked spear about 4 ft. long. He bent it double and slipped the spear down a trouser leg. 11 hung from his waistband to just above the knee.
He went back and reached, nervousy, for the edge of the ventator shaft. There was no shock.
The 'chaft Was about 4in.. wider than Bond's shoulders, Bond 'reaches for his Ighter, blessing the inspiration that had made him take it, and flicked it on. The shaft stretched straight ahead, featureless except for the ridges where the sections pipe joined. Bond put the lighter back in his pocket and snaked forward.
of
There was a faint luminosity nload, Bond approached it care- fully, his senses questing in front of him like antennão, It was the glint of light against the end of the lateral-shaft. He went on until his head touched the metal. le twisted over on his back,
Straight above him," at the top of 50 yards or so of vertical shaft, was a stendy glimmer: It was looking up a long gun batai,
that
kill,
GLADIAtorial comBATS RECALLED
a 48-page souvenir guide to the Sixth Empire and Common- wealth Games at Cardiff this month, visitors are taken back to the first "games" in Wales, held in the second century A.D. Included in those raclent games were beast nights, combats between gindia- tors and all the other featu, is of a typical Roman holiday. Remai of the amphitheatre are still at Cacricon, Monmouthshire, which is regarded by some as the ancient capital of King Arthur,
AND I'M FRED BISHOP, MILE END ROAD!",
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