THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1959.
CHINA First Stop The Moon, Then...
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SPACE TRAVEL
IS NO
JOKE ANY MORE
"Having achievod this, it is
now possible to travel to our solar cny planet of system-perhaps even those boyond it.
These may sound like the words of a science fiction writer, a space age crank or a flying saucer addiet. But they come from one of the world's leading astronomers,, Pro- fessor Vorontsov Vergininov, speaking over Moscow Radio about the Russian rocket now in its endless orbit around the sun.
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would have been ridiculed in the West. Verginilov would have become the balt of jokes throughout the free world.
But now not even the most Potmervative Western retenust world have disagred with the Russian retronomer. · Indeed, nos were leanag on the later planetary band "waggon. The Bu dan has proved two vital fæets to the West.
• The Hussians have rocket nature bow.rful enough to take a reeful payload anywhere in The solar system.
They have
Flanders 1917:
Was It
First Explorer POLICE CHIEF LEAD Worth It?
At Soviet popular science view of a moon exploratory tank (showing Earth as in duylight).
remote-controlled tank will first be sent to the moon....
"Now the instruments emerge fro
flexible skeleton curries the transmitting and recely.ng aerials,
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bony wit
**The complicated sensory organs are sized
the tele- eye--the television receiving camera wilt trazionit back to guldunce earth whatever the camera sees, will bo ONA of the tasks of this armoured car to choose the funding site for, the manned rocket....The site will have to be fat with a suficiently hard surface....
system which, if not 300 per rem perfect. is certainly more 59romising than anything the
West can offer.
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Moreover, when installed in ligger rocket vehicles, the guidaner system should prove adequate to point the way to any interplanetary spoi that Khrushchey cares to slipulate,
In other wortis, As soon as the Russians care to put up the NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES| musicy their scientists cun pro-
duce the feet spaceship in the world.
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It may, in fact, already be under construction. Certainly it is on the drawing boards. and its crew is under rigorous training.
Putting men into space now | seems to be mainly a matter of Building reelkets big enough to Leary passengers
thele survival equipermit,
Western scientists admit that there is no real reason why the Remans cannot imply senle up their existing designs to the res qured size,
Flying brain
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And the bigger the rocket and booked not later than
Its potential payload, the better noon on Wednesdays.
chut co there will be of dead ne- For the 8OUTH CHINA cutate navitation through space. MORNING POST and the For instance, there is every
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An electronic before date of publication. brain careled within a rocket ll eventually be used to navigate in space.
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The earthmen cover the floor of the cave with a thin sheet of plastic....On this is placed the Inflatable shelter complete with arlock doors.
"Then the inlet valve in con nected to the oxygen tank, and the shelter inflates like a balloon. It Is circular like an Eskimo's inloo, 241 in diameter and 911 high.
"Then the first transport rockel Arrives, It
carring further oxygen supplies and a small caterpillar trarior with its own air tight cabin and its oven fuck.
"Now the pilotless rockets will arriv. withe interruption.... One carries a hello-electrie plant for generating power from the sun's rays.
"Obviously we have not fure seen everything, and perhaps rome of our quester have been wrong.
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one thing a certain: This reconnaissance night to the mon will take place.
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Moon cities?
Of what use is the moon to
There Drew schools thought over its military value.-
On the one hand some military experts have said $t will be valuable as a military bace tren which sterile missiles night be launched aizst nations on earth.
But there is also a body of opinice which holds that it is easier, cheaper and more ac- curate to launch earth-to-earth intssiks . than inoon-to-earth
variety.
As an observation station the noon will have value only if the
hined to the brain so that errors
launching, such as those which weather is fine over the area to have bedevilled the Americanbe observed. moon probe rockets and which
as the Ruslan reket o {{ག་མ་གན་ལ་ margin, could be cor.ested as the Right progressed.
There are indications that the Lussian scientists are thinking Plong these lines.
Where do the Russians want y to go in their rockets?
There is no doubt that the Brat stop will be the moon, Alrendy the Russian plans for
lunar landing are well ad
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THE VICE RAID
Goaded by Edward R. Murrow's radio expose of call-girl vice in New York, the
local police department has started a frantic and dramatic campaign to cut the business down,
Deputy Pollee Commissioner James Kennedy In worried that [his positam as New Yorld's No. 11 crusader against vice will be usurped by Murrow who, after nil, no the New York wogs are pointing out, is vice-president of Columbia Broadenstlig.
So Mr Kennedy personally led a rald against a nest of call- girls.
Armed with the secret tele- phone password, detectives were way
THIS IS AMERICA
they
will
New York, Monday
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be staging was. And inagistrate James T. Leonard has suggested a practi- cal test.
able to pose as tired business shows to bolster the lagging de- men and walk into a luxurious mand for the vegetable. West End Avenue apartment here, as if on pleasure bent.
They were served drinies by
two ewners of the Bat, Sally Kelly and Faye Bart. is a hi-a in-graniophane played soft music
Those who perceive an dustrial potential in the moon envisage highly developed eities which would become stepping of points for rocket travel to other planets,
Space port
The moon's gravity is only of the about ene-sixth that
Focket
inotors lu earth, escape from the moon, would need only one sixth of the power required to escape from the earth.
There have been serious suggestions that future spaco ships might be manufactured on the moon from metals and olber materiais produced luclly, avoiding the expense of transporting them from the earth
Whether this can ever become a reality will depend on geolo- nical
surveys of the muon by the trst expeditions from earth.
In many circumstances, such a project is many years off, dea- pile the immense strides Russia has been making.
Come
The other members of the are beckoning. alar syston Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
within thu scope of scientifle vision.
As rockets become bigger- as they are doing at this moment there will be less difficulty in fitting, more complicated and
ecurate uldance systerna,
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• BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
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FTER years of trying to go
A its own way the U.S. Army has decided that the way of the British Army is best.
classic.
Then they were asked; "Which The Americans have been do you want? The Hawaiis going it alone with off-beat non- girl or the French girl?" commissioned ranks like "master The detectives made their sergeant," "Úrst sergeant,” and choices and were ushered into "Sergeant first-class.
Now they have reintroduced two bedrooms. There cach paid 50 dollar (217 176.) in marked the
Irreplaceable notes-and suddenly revealed "sergeant major." And he'll be they were police officers.
the senior ranking sergeant 100 Twenty-Feven-year-old Lunno-over all those other oddly-
named characters. Sato, the Hawaiian Hirt, and 40- Simone Victa, the year-old
So French girl, were arrested.
were, the two owners.
Also present in the Bat were Ave focal business mer. But, as la noimat In such cases, they were released with a warning.
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THE CONTEST for sales in U.S. supermarkets la getting so hot that manufacturers arc PAYING owners to place goods la favoured spots. A tabacco
ta Art is offering live
ten dollars (about 359, to £3 10%) a month for eye-level shelves,
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Charles H. Brower, president of one of America's largest ad- vertising agencies
GENE TIERNEY went back today to s mentat ellule for the third time.
Only four months ago she was discharged after an eight- month stay.
She was to have
We are beginning to Jeura how to package 'people. They w shortly be coming bright and Shining froin nur collegiate made a come-back Alm. "Holi-
sembly lines. They will be
day for Lovers," Now she has shamed on one side by taxes and
had to withdraw from it. on the other by bencils. All
Blow after blow has come anpurities, such as ambition,
green-eyed 37-year-old, discontent, euriosity, desire, and
tiene the birth of a retarded pride, will be carefully removed.. child, the fallure of her 12-
and replaced by stcurity and welfare,"
George Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour!
A
то PUBLICISE their large potato crop, Long Island furnera have mounted 3 40 lorry
to
year marriage to dress designer the break-up of Oleg Cassini. romances with Aly Khan and Throne Power.
For four years she has had psychiatrie treatment.
Aay
PUSINESS leaders are plan-
"potatocade" which will travel ning a hero's welcome for
down to a produce market In Atlanta.
01 Georgia,
the
West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt. due here on February 7.
Junketing, handshaking, pub- licity, parades, jovial greetings
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY } ily Air p.4.
Huwol,
Tafland,
tema, India, 6 p.m. Canada, V.3.A.. 6 p.m.
The U.S. State Department is backing a concerted attempt to put on a show that will eclipse the unfortunate Mikoyan elreus that has to captured the world's | Imagination.
JF Mrs Allee Conway can down
a pint of wine in a Garwood, New Jersey, municipal court and remat ober as a judge—she Evez free.
If she gets drunk-and-ipcop.... able she will be declared guilty. This 03-year-old nurse was found behind the wheel of her
Mr Conway's Rech is willing. She just hopes the spirit is
weak.
To this day, the great General Haig of World War I has his supporters and detrac- tors. And his campaign in Flanders will be hotly debated by military his- for years to
torians
come.
Leon Wolff, an American nu- ther, nedz fuel to the smoulder- ing fire with his "In Flanders Fielda" 311 "estry" of 209 page on the congrien,
It is one of the best historict of a compaign I have rend and Alan ranks with
Morchend's ns one of the most |"Gallipoli"
brilliant of the postwar years.
The
question Mr Wol poser "was worth it?”—is strongly answered la the nokative.. But his allitude to Haig, while, frequently caustle. stops far whart of the bitter distriben inflicted on him by his Prime Minister, Llord George.
For here is the heart of the story. its personalities, its dis- selbacks, the heartening blunders, the pigheadedness of the generals, the egregious - lity of the British Press, the
MOTORIST Willie Burt, of Courtland, Alabama, had a neat, logical explanation for causing an accident by turning lett into the path of an on-coming car yesterday: "I have been turning rain, the mud, the poison gas, the
horror, the strategies (or there for a long time and thereck of them) and, strangely, the never has been another car there before,"
I ancient Greece can boast an Intant Hercules, Texas, of course, can boast one better.
A garter snake headed for 15-month-old Timmy Ray as he not on the ground outside his Dallas C.
The infant Hercules, in R similor
situation,
started strangling the creature, if you
rumember
But Timmy, while his father looked on in terror.
Burgled, patted the make, thes bent over and bit It In two,
Timmy was teething, you sec.
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propaganda, 100 best te enliven the fedium sion
maby cricket. If throwing people will not vole at all. So of Teat the ball, or following through the burning question is: if the to talk in such a way as to dainage the Tory speakers were pitch, falls to awaken the Seelallan, and the Socialis spectators or the umpires, there speakers were to push ute Tory are plenty of other tricks, polley, would the highly In!
A bowler can always parten ligent electorale slup chang- to bowl, retaining the balt at ing sides, or would they regard the last minute, and therr Aling the whole thing us rather dull ing It at the confused batsman entertainment, and abstain before he has recovered from from voting? bir surrisc. Or he can
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where we are going.
Press-India Bible Service.
Ine Cincinnati, Ohio.
the
heroism which mere han any jcampaign in modem British his- British tory has portrayed the solter as the toughest, most and determined long-suffering fighter in the world.
No Victory
In terms of the primitive, arithmetical criterions of BUC- cess, the Flanders campaign notable victory for Was not a the British. It was, says Wolf, not a viciory at all.
The fantastle casualties for outweighed the paltry gains in territory which were to be swallowed up xlx months Inter By the German onslaught
Es
In the Spring of 1918. The only Concession the author is prepared' le make that the losses inflicted on the Germans in this dreary frustrat- ing war of attrition, though ap- half proximately
the British losses, hurt the Invaders more and hotelessly weakened them before the crucial 1918 Allied counter attack which broke the German army and brought their country's defeat,
Out of this gripping story come several sharply-stated Anding
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Halg was vain, unimagina- Uve, old-fashioned and oblivious to the science of modern warfare. He relied on artillery which the ted cf Infantry well, massco which he squandered rasti-
ly, and cavalry which he could never use at all.
Sir
William Robertson,
a
Was -
chict of the Imperial Gen- efal Staff, was Ilkewise dullard. Charteris, Hnig's In- telligence Chief, capable of making a single honest appraisal of the enemy's strength, with all Its dirastrous consequences. Lloyd George lacked the Doll- courage to provoke
tical eriala by sacking the ho whose tactics
men
despised.
The Press generally were the loyal lapdogs of Helg. Robertson and Charleris and ey misled the British public shamefully.
this Coming 42 years after terrible and tragle campalen here is in this fresh appraisal a story that will find wide appeal. For li is a story of generals with all their faults, and men with all wholly their amazing valour, dedicated and obsessed by a cause-that of winning the war in the only way they bellever possible.-RH.
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