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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1959.

Scientists To

Probe

Greenland's Ice Cap

By JOHN CHADWICK Special To The China Mail

Copenhagen, March 19. THE white, windswept 1 icefields and glaciers of Greenland will be the target for scientists and explorers from five mutions this aUM- mer.

Greenland, the world's biggest

BIG VENTURE

PLANNED

FOR SUMMER

istansi, although only 25,000 the veteran French polar cx- people, including Eskimoj

Dunes and

American service-plorer

He will have under

men, live clustered in smail set-him 70 experie from France,

lements round its fecity costs,

Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1g the centre of

and Denmark. The expedition increasing sclentile interest.

has been arranged by the inter-

At this moment, American national Committee for Snow

und Ice. englarera are hollowing out town in miniature deep below

the surface of the Greenland

ice,

LIMITED

At the same time, in Europe, scientists and explorers of live countries are making final pre- parations for

12-month expedition over the lechelds and

บ

The

area,

into two columns, one moving The expedition wilt spilt up

about 310 miles from south to north, the other traversing the inland lee eastwards, Both will take minute measurements as they go.

east of Burvey monak and Diskobuglen, has been chosen because It contains Man's knowledge of this re- 20 of Greenland's 40 glaciers.

"The Ice Is most dynamic mole, barren land near the roof

here. It aiters shape more of the world, where tur-clad

und to quickly

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The Swiss will measure the thickness of the ice.

newspapers and other smdil fence and storage halls and The French and Germans "uxuries during their arduous passages.

estimate how much it Arctic journey.

The subterranean system, melts, and how this compares The main work of the relatively impervious to ar with new owfalls.

expedition this year must be attack, provides excellent The Austrians will measure completed by September, when storage room. When It is 40

absorbed by the hard winter sets in. new the solar energy

degrees Centigrade below the ice, and seek

But six explorers will be left freezing point outside, the tem- lee itself out in the middle of the ice-perature does not drop below

But during the last few years selehtists have wanted to find out more about the huge ice-cap which covers Greenland, They example, know, for want to whether the northern Hemis- phere's Improved ellmate of re- cent years will continue, so that the lee-cap will continue to melt, or whether the weather will change, bringing Д thickening of the ice,

The question

is of intense Interest to the world. If Green- land's huge mes of ice melted, the level of the oceans would rike by about 23 to 33feet..

UPHEAVAL?

And if the rocky buse of Greenland, crushed beneath

to discover

what generates.

energy the

cap, to take further measurḥ- six degrees of frost in this new' The 20-man team from the ments. They will remain ice-town, nor does metal rust Danish Geodetic Institute will through the long, dark winter, there put whole glaciers, ag Driving in a tiny plastic house Fristrup Say "under the almost birled in the snow.

microscope.'

In this new style, two-storeyed

Seven For One

Washington, March 18.

In addition to ground work, "gloo," the six Swiss scientists they wili use two of the will live and werk. Their expedition's Fix aircraft snug workshop and living the weight of hundreda of converted Mosquito light quarters will be heated by millions of tons of lee, were to bomber and an Americon-built electricity from windmill. be relieved of its burden, it Flying Fortress to By Jow Supplies will be dropped from could heave itself up .with over the glaciers,

and to Laite the air.

Mr Neil McElroy, the Secret- tremendous force.

thousands of feet of film from

BIG TEAM

ary of Defence, said today that Such movements of the a height of over 6 miles,

States llies had spent earth's surface are, of course,

Meanwhile, a The glaciers spread over centuries.

will be photo- team prepares to launch its seven dollars on defence last

the European United But the graphed every eight days or relentine assault on the ice-cap, selenists

year for every single dollar they are determined 1090, 10.Jetsire changes in know in advance just what is their course and structure,

a big team of engineers at the received in American military

uld. kely to happen,

American afr base at Thule, on Hellcapters and Leader of the European ex-aircraft will keep the scientists probing into

transport the north-west cous, is also He told the House of Repre pedition is Dr Paul-Emil Victor, supplied

the mysterious septallye foreign affairs com- with Fresh

food, world

beneath Greenland's mittco: "It is hard to see how hard-frozen surface.

we can possibly get better volue Tunnels, some of which are for our dollar than by helping already over 1,200 feet long, are these nations sland on their own being bored through the ice, infect and carry their part of the a network of underground de- 'load.”—Reuter,

ISRAEL'S WARNING

ITALIAN TO BE

སྟ་

TO EGYPT DEPORTED RETIRED MAJOR-CENTRE

Tel Aviv, March 18,

London, March 18.

Mesatria, an Italian Balt to have run Vice racket bete with his four brothers, will be deported to

OF MALDIVES STORM

London, March 18,

Italy on March 20, the Home The centre of a storm in the Maldives a tiny group of

Offee announced today,

islands south of Ceylon is a retired British malor whose hobby is bird-watching.

The Israeli Premier, Mr Carniello

David Ben Gurion, tonight warned that his country might be forced to fight again for freedom of navi- gation in the Red Sea if o

Messina finished a six-month 'neighbouring ruler" con- Britain a week ago and has since sentence for legal entry Into tinued to put obstacles in teen detained pending deporta the way of free passage of tion. Irracli vessels and cargo.

| his brothers had held the leases poisonous political activities in revolt, to the United Nations Security dun's West End, mostly used for responsible for

Israel carlier today profested.est 38 properties in Lathe undeng He added, Council against the confiscation prostitution; find that Carmelle in the three southern atolls. by the United Arab Republle still held leases ured

have the opportunity, of clearing* authorities at Port Said of depositfees-wide RAF provinci by con- Major W. W. A. Philips is the reputation of Bound Zer Southern Asta on two non-israell by air, the Home Office said. one of the Maldive Islands,

He will be deported to Rome who have an air base on Gan, great cost to himself, and in the www! ChinawMail-Special amaze

| ship-France-Presse

Maldive Government offeints Mr Alport denied categorical- have accused him of havingly that the bird-loving major At his trial, police said he and [ Undertaken "undesirablo and had anything to do with the

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these duties Cuthbert Alport, when there was no call to do so

high sense tury, sald Major Philips fre- daty."-Reuter, quently visited the island from Ceylon to study bird life.

He had learned the language end hablis of the people and on friendly terms witn them. His knowledge Was unique because no European normally lived on the Islands.

When the RAF established a staging post on Gan, Major Phillips was asked to be alson offeer and advise the RAF on local affairs.

Was

Mr Alport said Major Phillips took the appointment reluctant- ly and because of his ago →→→→ 67- asked that it should be for only a

But short. terin. because the RAF had not been able to find a successor, he hnd been asked to continue,

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