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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1960.

Private Line

THE COLUMN

OF DISCLOSURE

BY CHARMAN PINCHER

That Channel Tunnel-

don't count on it!

THE project to build a Channel tunnel linking Britain with the Continent fell flat when the study-group of experts Issued its report this month, after two years of work costing more than $250,000.

The experts, led by Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, agree that two steel-lined tubes, like a double-barrelled shot-gun, each about 18ft wide and with a single electrified rail track, could and should be built.

more

12161 Bist they reveni

the enmplete the 40-inite tumet and bankers, who have been ap- 54 years to amortise the invest- proached to put up puri of ment and the bankers' heavy the £130 million required, are toll demands become

on understandable. demanding so much return their way that there would be little prot for the British and French railways which would use it.

Slim - hope

Prestige

The money which mised from

tunnel.

גות

the

could be U.S. banky 13 limited to about 25 per cent of the total, because neither the British nor the French

would to agree

U.S. control of

could Any subsidy

be offset on the defence vote, because the tunnel could not be relied on for defence purposes. I would be too vulnerable tu atomle uttack at the ends ani in the middle.

The only hope for "Chunne)" enthusiasts

Mac- is that Mr

Gaulle

A natur-way in the true has been ruled out partly be

of exhaust COURT ventilation gases would almost double the Sa only big-senle financial Post, but mainly brause the help by the British and French British mad French railways, Goverments can

fe which own 60 per cent of the ion and President Nive project from beligt heived, shares of the Tunnel Syndicate might decide subsidise the Probably for ever. Any hope of responsible for the study-group, project for prestige purposes British sidy se linisted on n monopoly. This and the boost it would give to when the railways are already means that tells from motorisis exports and tourism. so deeply in the red with their would be limited to cars carried existing lines

on the railway.

The report also reveals that U British and French railways arc demanding won- siderable compensation for the Inevitable decline in the value of their ferries, ducks, and other cross-Channel Incilities.

trofie

udy

The

experts' has taken necount of all likely increases

trans-Channel

171

Comfort

THE Govornimant is having

atom

freight and passenger travel, second thoughts about Hut the margin of prail left General de Gaulla's after the bankers get their Add to this the facts that it which does not appeal to the bomb, following a change in the defence chiofs' argu- would take about seven years to railways,

mant for persisting with the build-up of an independent

Gas-test convicts of British bombs.

HUN

get giggles

The argument. used to be that, In spite of Anglo-U.S. friendship, Britain might one day have to go 14 alone. Now this has the omelal become unthinkable, #no-as put over to a private audience by the Vice-Chief of

ns

Washington. the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir UNDREDS of burly, aggressive convicts rolled Edmund Huddleston -- is

follows:- and giggled in an open field near Washington -"guinea pigs" in a test of the U.S. army's "help-desert Britain, but the Russians lessness gas.

6ft.--and

The Americans will never

might think they will. So the Iussians must be deterred from altacking Britain in the mis- taken hope that the Americans

York.

Dear Mr. Adenauer.

Jon

since it in how the thing to spojene to you if anything is said that night apsel you, teri toust write an explains à ittle incident what happened when we in- in cremany, Beeensher Ba

One day when the fain was eventug duwa start It was stopping four huches team the ground and we was all very cila uiti brakarít of with one thing and unather, one of your int lobbied & hand ttehade which knicked b Tret over hind kid brought baif the down in our 1911 pall of ten, braving the killing in the mus With a few teeth and une or ma other bite na blecen sulANTIEX.

# ip the best of the 20MENI any observation was made which may have Kundell angracious or upended vot 1 ay ureter you my profomis apologies and assure to f will never ure words like that guin,

Your obedient ete., PLAS

ILOGAN

GOURLAY

WHO KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKABLE WAY:

SABLONA ARMADALEJ MAJ

The clean-shaven sheik with

a simple taste in marriage

The

size-over revealed for their experiments that the gas, only recently native aggressiveness.

would sit back and watch rather SHEIK Najib Alamuddin like any other Middle East sheiks I have met perfected by army scientists. But one spokesman declared:

than risk an attack on New (the total is three) is a shattering disappointment by romanticised Western could completely Incapacitate 'Although this gas (called LSD) humane a city the size of London reduces worfare to n

An Independent stockpile of standards. within a few hours.

business, we anticipate a great However, the gas, delivered deal of opposition to our tests British bombs therefore helps to by missile warheads or a few on convlets, Surveys prove that prevent this kind of miscalcula- squadrons of aircraft, would most people are opposed to gaslon, which is now the likeliest does not thunder across the desert to moonlit, palm-concealed assignations.

be a gentle kind of "knockout": un moral grounds, even though The putation would suffer this gas would cause no injury.

temporary lethargy, or loss of fife."

frosn

cause of a global war.

By this argument, the rare Nate nations which hove

woul: And eating a great effort. United Sintes Intellgence re-dependent supplies of bombs and would be reduced to fit of ports continue to stress Russia's the less the chance should be of Ripples

sounds us top-priority nt such whistling kettles or dripping "sycho-chemical agents." laps.

Crops. Lutidings and water would it be damaged by the

gan.

development

of

+

Alice Sprines. Australia's aboriginal areas are The population would be to be patrolled regularly by back to normal within two three day except that the invaders would be in control of the country.

or special police. Decision follows hereusing violence among aborigines on settlements in the past year, resulting in numerous murders and maimings.

All of the conviels who took volunteers part were

selected

-London Express Serulec).

Just Fancy That!

CHEQUE for 1d. has been sent by the Board 'bf Trade to a Southampton firm of auctioneers an underpayment following bankruptcy proceedings in which the firm soted for the Board. The firm says the cheque will be framed as a souvenir-which will leave the Board of Trade with an unelosed bankrupicy account.

OXES Arc Invading the suburbs of London. Twenty were I hauted down at Sundridge Park and Chislehurst, Kent, In January, the Commons were told. No hounds, no riders in hunting pink-they were SHOT by Ministry of Agriculture pest control

officer's.

MALAYA

INDONESIA

SURMA

PAKISTAN

NEPAL

INDIA

miscalculation" by Russia. So the defence ebiefs are now taking comfort in the prespect uf a French stockplie. No doubt the argument could be extended to excusing a stockpile for our German alles.

Germ-killer

He is not a bronzed equestrian figure in flowing white robes.

He has only one wife.

With a

Lebanese-Irish Emile The sheik, in fact, could easily be mistaken

typlest city the sheik added: "I'm happy for a business man

grey-suited, that my religion allows only one affable, prosperous,

As well wife. One is sometimes more padded as his swivel chair. than enough."

His English is accent-less; his clothen are conservatively Saville Row: his demeanour would please the porter of any St. James's club.

As chairman of Middle East Airlines the shefk is more nt home in the cockpit ut a Comet sddle of a white stallion.

TTARWELL'S *cientists than the H have high hopes for a

new system of storilising hospital equipment, instru- ments, and bodding by means of atomic rays.

A team led by Dr Robert Roberts has been using the.

REBELS...

Pouring tea In the rural oasis of a Berkeley Hotel suite, he told me:-

"I was partly educated in

beam from a cobalt "bomb" to Britain and, of course, I'm fairly

Ing

them radiocative.

First hospital group to instal the new sterilising equipment is likely to be at Swindon, Wilts.

-(London Express Service).

I inquired about the Druses' at:lude to alcohol and tobacco.

He

Wher aro frowned upon. Anyone who indulges, especially in alcohol, Is considered Ignorant and stuplà."

The shelk, a wise Druse, poured himself another cup of Indian tea. But on the side-

board

I noticed, as

I left, liberal array of gin, whisky, and brandy botiles.

For ignorant

sumably

a Sloane Square Invites cus- tomors, in a magazine ad.. try their civilised cooking. It adds:

guests,

to

pre-

IT WAS, I thought, the

"Uncivilised England. We can-

saddest and strangest re- not sell you wine. Please bring mark of the week. Listing your own."

the reasons for his wife's Thank you, but No, I know a dissatisfaction with their restaurant which sells wine. life together after the an-

nouncement of their

separation, Stirling Moss WORDS with which I'en- included this: "She couldn't tirely agree, spoken by ac- keep up her hobbies, like

tor James Robertson clay pigeon shooting."

Justice about the salaries of teenige pop singers: "It's just as absurd to pay ng it thum £1,000 h week

THANK YOU, BUT NO

is to pay actors what we CONTINENTAL coffee get. None of us is worth A bar and restaurant near Res

BOY OR GIRL?

YES, DOCTORS CAN TELL—BUT YOU STILL CAN'T CHOOSE..

FARAH, 21 and Queen of Persia, is expecting a baby. Will it be a boy.

or a girl? It is a question which has tantallsed prospective parents since Adam and Eve. For niöst couples, not knowing is no more irksome that knitting TWO layettes, one pink, one blue.

In the Shah's case, much more The whole futura of his dynasty is affected. Only a boy can succeed to the Pea-

The Shah, cock Throne.

peace of mind doubt, would give much stuge.

kill the lurking germs respon-Westernised. A lot of people say Elule for EU much accidental I look and sound more like an Infection in British hospitals. Irishman than a Lebanese shelk. The rays work without damag- "I tell them that I'm one of the materials or making the Druses, and that we're some- times called the Irish of the Middle East. But that's only is at stake. because we are or were rebels.. a bit belligerent.

"We're a nail religious sect. There are maly about 15,000 of us in the Lebanon.

"In the old days we were all warriors. We had to be to our- vive. We don't do much fighting nowadays," conducting a protracted, though The thelk, however, has been bloodless, battle with red-taped officialom.

CHINA

SPRING, THE 'PICTURE ON THE PACKET,

Ward LogE DO WYCHOQUINE As with the blanchester Quaraben-

He came here several weeks ago to pince a £7,000,000 order for five Comet jetliners

no

at this

for carly

In fact, if he really to know the onriver, have. It. For Д new British

BY PETER FAIRLEY

AT LAST the

Shah of Persia may have a male heir to his throne. But the official

announcement that Queen Farah

is

to

following":

special way of life

ensure the

birth of a son raises the ques tion

uppermost

in the minds of a11 prospective parents.

Around the nucleus of each the father penetrates one egg in

cell a little black blob can be the mother and fortlises it. wants he can Thist scéd entries with It

chroinosomes. There are 48 la every normal cell in the humun body, but only two of them determine sex,

detected-if it is a girl. With a the Y, succeeds at one time and

mystery. simple as that. to tell the cox of a buby several technique now makes it possible certain slender threads, called a blob appears. It is as not another is still a complete months before it is born.

Warning

In a woman this pair shows

Danger

But no doctor wants to carry

with up under The microscope jas out this examination

The technique Is called shaped like an X. In o mon, syringe without vital reason. Se After endless delay and dir-

one is shaped like on X, the until a less risky method cur be cussion the sheik got impatient. Chromatin Determination. But a

be other like a Y. If the father's, discovered, the old wives' tales He isruod an ultimatum that if word of warning should

X chromosome penetrates the of wedding rings twisting differ the order was not officially given at once.

pproved and hccepted within

Your doctor is most unlikely, then a girl results. If the ent ways on pleces of cotton

gets there first, then it will will have to suce. the next few days his airline

be a boy. Would have to consider buying to advise it, for two rebsdlis. French or American jota

ONE, it is not particularly Omcator woke up from its pleasant for the mother to Jellem lethargy. The shell was undergo. told that he could expect delivery

Fleports that Queen Farah Is AND THERE IS NOTHING following a "careful regimeh, THAT CAN BE DONE TODAY believed to give at least 50 per

TO MAKE IT MORE THAN A cent masurance of a boy," can be

of the first Comet In Décher or TWO, doctors are loath to FIFTY-FIFTY GAMBLE.

January.

Jaterfere in any way with the

An odd, disturbing fact about sacred function of child-bearing.

docs the happy

the situation, which may have and they do not bellove a Aust illons for us, in that uncertainty Boan owns 40 por cent of Middle couple any harm. East Airlines.

The shelt's allie has enjoyed the delay which has given her an opportunity for extensive Mopping.

Thoy

Multiply

laughed at.

No pill, no diet, no prayer, code of conduct can change the ser of the child now.

Eating beef or refusing to pass under ladders will have no effect on nature. But experiments have begun with animals to see if natura cannot be helped along a during Ittle more consistently the ргосска of artelat Insemination,

Sume experts belleve it may

be possible to channel off all

by atreurns

administering an electric shock to the test tube,

the Xs and Yya into separato

X-rays

In this way, only helfers, or only bullocks, could be produced But to Bull the farmer's needs. even the most optimistic ro scarch

that workers

admit they are many years off success. Often it is suggested that the

In fact, nothink that she could taken have done, at any ilme, could Onte fertilisation has Chromatin regard

new living cells have played any part. Like every Д gimmick, place, the

Toldó

But X- Determination

multibly

the other. woman, rich or poor, site has XX sex could be told in advance by to but & does work,

Dozens, thien Hundreds, thous- chromosomes. Only her husband X-raying the mother. To explain It one must first annan million at XX (girl) has the physical power of rays besides exposing her

radlution dangers at a crucial moment, Swich-born, doctor Mustrate what this happened or XY (bey) choinosomes grow. choice,

'would reveal no Bho I s

previously 'who no longer 'práctico.

For all the mouleta marvels difference. The "ko boy

ot a 'child

The new mefliod of "neeing Gad the shell:

no one has you

There is no real substi!úle for other husband I have to take my determined at the moment bf hd Involves extracting of science, wife's advies. But not on mediest contepulon. Nothing an alter shples of those new ells, then found a way of making the nattech. It's safer to hire sy it from then on. In a fraction examining them under a power procem of aiyul selection" patience.

feas haplard. Why the X, or --(London Expires Mervice). pt a second, one shall seed from ful miseroscopo, own doctor,"