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Malta Dockyard Conversion

VICE Admiral. Sir A. Gordon

1

Vic, Hubback, 56, who was rppointed Fourth Sea Lord

the Ad- Juntary and whom miralty has agreed to release in

few months' time to become managing director of the new company which is to convert Malta dockyard into a commer= | clal yard is no stranger to .Malta. For nearly three years, from October 1947, he was, Commodore-Superintendent dockyard He served as Ad- Ports- mira-Supernendent at

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mouth Dockyard for three years until Octobre, 1954, when he became Director of Dockyards, remaining in the position untij The Arsi the end of last year. Admiral Superintendent Malta Dockyard was appointed In 1832 and it was just 100 years ro, u 1858, that the Best docks Y: opened with further docks being added during a gradual programune nj moderation! before the First World War.

47 Years In The Army

DETIRING after 17 years in

THIS

YEAR'S

MODEL

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1958.

NEXT

YEARS

MODEL

THIS is the

Cummings

Why the desert kings cannot afford to stop

their oil flowing to the West

JUST HOW SAFE

the Army is Major William AS you fill up your car today you George Shaw, 82, Royal En- may watch the slowly moving veyor of the Home Counties Dispointer on the dial of the petrol -triet at Folkestone. He belleves pump with mild foreboding.

Risus, Serior Quantity Sur

he is the longest serving R.E. officer. He joined up as a buglei aged 15, following his father, who was years in the Corps Two brothers were 141 other corps. When in Egypt he created a ricord for the country by liv Ing nine and a half years in the some Army quarter, He has been with the Home Chunt:les Dis-

You may remember that it is only

15 months since you needed more than money to hear the music of petrol pouring into the tank. You needed coupons as well.

And you may ask yourself whether there

is a real risk that the flare-up in the Midle East will mean a relura to petrul rationing-

trict for nine years and wasnt even wore, a shortage of fuel oli which awarded the M.BE. in the last birthday honours.

Admiralty has

"Homecoming"

will slow our factories and put many people out of work.

IS YOUR PETROL?

Of course it is me that post could not be setting ant, today on a plente or a jaunt to scaside without the help

the of

BERNARD

HARRIS

time for three many thousands hf Arabă 3,000 years he istorie, oak-miles away:

the

AOR the first

In Red board

•1X1 00

hist floor of the old Adminuity ¦

For this is the fact four building in Whitehall has been out of every

So the conclusion is inescap→ able.

It is helping to pay for youds, rchcols, houses, and hospitals.

It is financing welfare services If the all-rich Arab countries exceeding anything known in were to lose their markets 1 Brian “A Kuwalli boy now has Britain and Western Europe spent more on his education than They would sink back into the an English boy who goes to poverly from which oli alone Elon. Jusa rescued them

the up which is

No begging

Win Iroq give five gallons of For there are two sides to £70,000,000 W ycar brought into us for a Board of petrol being burned up on the every commercial transaction enabling it to build dams and Admiralty meeting. The rom, roads of Britala today originated While It Is

true that we are barrages to solve the age-ald" unce described as "the central

of the enormously dependent cri The and unchanging symbol of Au- in the huge reservoirs

"Persian Gulf geosyncline" five Middle East it is no less true that problem of controlling the food- Kuwaiti people. It virtually killed

East is enormously in of the Tigris and Euphrates mirally," is the first part

and reclaim vust areas of innd the building to come back into to ten thousand feet beneath the dependent on us.

for agriculture?

use since modernisation work hot sonds of the Middle East,

ktii

NIET-

In

every

began in

The April, 1055.

One carvings

two gallons pearwood

mouest the fireplace and the will have come from a single wind dial and portraits of iny aren the pocket-sized,

Sheikdom Willium IV and Nelson are re-sun-parched lained on

walls. Only Kewalt, which lies at the head twice before this century has of the Persian Gulf.

the

the room been vacated In

1041 whon it was damaged in

an air raid and in the period 1946-40 when repairs wore being carried out.

A surplus

ne

the Middle

Benefits

Oil Is everything to the what was previously their only Industry-pear! fishing.

And it has completely killed a subeldiary activity previous ly widely practised in every Arab country--begging.

Win it abandon its ambitious plans for new-ronds and bridges, new schools and factorles, new *rallways and airports? All these

I suggest it is significant timt depend on a continued Row of In spite of the revolt in Bagdad and the arrival of U.S. and British troops in the Lebanon money from vil.

end Jordan every oil company operating in the Middle East re-

We have been hearing Iremendous Boul these Just few days about Arab nationalism. But the most rabid nationalisis know well enough what the co-operation of the Western nations in producing and selling their "quid gold" means to them.

Opulence

moon rocket

THE THREE-DECKER U., MISSILE TO THE MOON

THE

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

three-horse race to put a rocket on the moon between the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and the Russians may be decided soon,

The US Air Force and Army have separate rocket projects scheduled to fire in mid-August, but it has now been alerted to launch as soon as possible to forestall the Russians. The giant radio-telescupe at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire is being turned up to track the missile during its 210,000-mile journey.

Recently, U.S. Ecientists After the boosier has dropped and technicians were linking away, the middle section con-

radar equipment sisting of a cluster of sold up special with the giant British-sky-fuelled. Sergeant rockets will

take over. scanning machine.

and When these are spent They refuse to comment on

So did Professor fall away the missile will be their project. Bernard Lovell, scientist in

speeded to 25,000 miles an hour by a single Sergeant carrying a charge of the telescope, unul he had phoned the U.S. author small pay-load of instruments

ties in Los Angeles.

Then he revealed that the Jordrell Bank telescope has been praclling for its moon-rocket watch by tracking U.S. rockets fired 4,000 miles away.

How it's done

into space.

and radio equipment to help the carth-bound trackers, plus some type of dye maricer or ash powder-lo announce prrival.

It may also carry instruments for

measuring whether the exerts a magnetic field around itself as the earth' does.

תפתח

It

Four to one

the rockel manages to escape from the earth, scien- tists rate the odds at four to one against it hitting the moon because the rockel must ha aimed with great accuracy to achieve a crash-landing.

in its none. At this speed the missile will break the bonds of the earth's gravity and escape It will be himed to intercept the moon,

which is revolving round the cattl at 2,000 miles an hour, in abuut two and half days.

The rocket will slow down when its fuel is burned out

It is more likely to gruzo on the lost tenth of the round the moon und return for unli Detailed orrengements

the journey the moon's gravity will earthwards in

clight A figure tracking of

path or rush out into space to U.S. moon missiles have been, begin to drag it in.

It should then strike the be lost for ever So it is impossible to exag

discussed at a private meeting

the cratered crust of the moon with dependence

100 It is significant

that in of radar experts held at

an impact speed of about 7,000 The Middle East for the uil which

Junior partner in Royal Society in London,

miles an hour. Is the eblood of cur industry nad transport.

They know that formerly im- upserver has sald, this small Syrlu,

Officials of the International no attempt to Geophysical Year organization MAN who can

poverished peoples who have State, the size of Yorkshire, has Nasser's United Arab Republie, Tupair

the repeat that costly episode at the are treating the meeting as cycle penny-farthing

Crtably there is this insted the benets of £50,000,000 bum brought in a day from a there has been

011

tume of Suez-the blowing-up of top secret." of oli revenue resourceless wilderness to Brently required at Canvey eat a surplus of oll in the in £100,000,000

the pipelines from Iraq. island, Essex, to mend a machine Western Hemisphere-especially every year will not lightly forgo height of opulence," mode in 1884 by an Essex black- In the U.S. and Venezuela. smith. I belongs to Mr James Taylor, 43, a lecak garage pro-

"Penny-Farthing"

Repairer

Our

a

gerate

out

But that

On

Consider,

too, what means for Kuwait, As

all

one

With oil revenues of more than £100 million a year, income per head of the population now exceeds £500 gure equalled

them.

would disappear And. if they were mad enough almost overnight If suppiles to cut off supplies to Britain and from countries like Kuwait Western Europe where else could only by the U.S. cue-man

and Iraq and Saudi Arabia they sell their oil? were cul,

has ridden it all

in

into it.

Could

1

porls "operations absolutoly the British

normal."

Unwilling

·

prietor, who

Essex crusade against the state of pre- sent day roads. The cycle was a motor- badly damaged when

While these fuels must be Not u hope. Says Mr cyclist ran Taylor, hope that I can find sumeone to mend it as I have be wrong if you were to allow of all a year. That is more than Hollywood-even though there up than the off-producing coun be toid It is the oldest them to take the edge off your ez.cugh for her own needs, and

machine in the country,"

njoyment of today's outing. she has a surplus to sell to are only 120 miles of road on tries are to give up their own

which to drive them.

So long as the pipes are in- In D years the people have fact Syria coms £6,000,000 they sell to Russia?

from esmeis to year of budly-needed foreign ex- Russia is already graduated

They

have change in transit dues. And she

now

borne in mind I suggest it would producing about 100 mililon tons Cadillacs. per head than in is no more willing to give that

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China.

Few tankers

Even If Russia agreed to help out by buying cheap Middle Bust oll slie would all face the problem of how to collect it.

She has only 63 oll tankers, mostly small stuff and totalling only half a million tons (Britain has a tanker Roet of 1,000,000 lona).

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So if Russia wanted to take reasonable quantilles of oil she would have to engage in the hazardous, costly, and dow business building pipelines Into Iraq and neighbouring countries.

Could they sell to the Fat Edet? This area has its own scurces of supply, in Borneo and elsewhere. And it is not yel zumelently industriailsed to need a lot of all,

a

If every Chinese had motor-cycle there might be some hope of big and expanding markets for Middle East off but Just now it is a poor prospect,

Could they sell to Africa? Here, too, consumption is much too small. If the entire con thent bought all its oil from the Middle East it would need only (one ion in every seven now being

produceti by those gustiers

And you can rule out Ameries. With oil production in Taxos cul back to the equivalent of:10 or 11 days output every month you can imagine the uproar from domestic producers it. Middle East oll were imported da á blg' scita.

more cars

revenues.

Main purpose of the meeting seems to be an attempt to keep the ring dates secret; to fore- stall any bath publicity which would arise if the rockets were khown to have falled.

most

Uso

Dye marker

Later probes to be fired after the first successful moon-fal! will carry cameras capable of transmitting shots of the moon's They surface back to earth. may also carry TV equipment for scanning the deep eratera will and high mountain podka.

The Air Force rocket

Thor, the bomb-carrying

Eventually the space vehicles missile to be supplied to Bri- will be fitted with forward- tain, as the main booster with firing rockets which will slow solid Able rockets as the later down the last phases of flight so stages.

that the missile can make a soft All the US rockets are landing on the moon's critsh', Each moon shot is expected

scheduled to be fired from to cost £3,000,000.

All this should be actor- Florida. The Cape Canaveral, The missile" "mount" favoured to win the historie Russians are belleved to be plished within two years.

More ambillous space flights race through space the readying their rackets at a site

Caspian Sea. They in which miniature robot lanks near the 100ft.-long three-decker rocket

will use the rocket hardware will be landed on the moon wit pictured above.

The main booster which will which has been so well proved swiftly follow.

of the earth's tending up their heavy Sput In my thrust it out

atmosphere is a modified Jupi- niks. leru rocket origually de- The first moon rocket is.eg-

pected to signed to carry the Il-bomb up

carry a pay-load of to 1,000 miles.

about 25lb. containing radar

The deluge of wealth which So petrol rationing? foods from the oil wells has view not the least likelihood of transformed the town of Kuwait 1 unless the situation in the "from mud and clay to concrete Middle East deteriorates enorm-

Cusly. and imitation marble."

£5

Only two years ago the detalls in this report could safely have been dismissed as science fletion. But soon the first moon land- ing may well be historie fact.

"How come this Earth Man bears no resemblance to the Moon. Interplanetary Research Department's description of an Earth Man ?