1941-03-14 — Page 19

Friday,

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Non-Military Steel Orders for U.S.

Orders for hon-military, steel for use In the British Empire huve been placed in the United States, reports Associated Press.

They include a substantial contract for rails for Indin, Australia and Hongkong.

It was belleyed in steel circles that as.Boun nu detalls of plans could be worked at, considerable additional business for steel destined for other

than military twe would be booked by United States companies.

The British Iron & Steel Corp., has handled the negotiations rather than the British Purchasing Com- mission, it was sold, the latter con- Aning its activities in the steel market entirely to metal for military use.

March 14, 1941.

Yes, it is true

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never vary in quality or

in freshness

Wounded, War Pigeon

Large Oil Reservoir In Alberta

One of the world's large oil reservoirs is located in northern | Alberta, some 300 miles north of j Edmonton. Because of trans- portation and mining difficulties. commercial production of the oil sands has not been feasible till recent year, but this year the first commercial extraction plant is expected to be in full opera- tion.

The Alberta oil sands, accord- ing to Canadian Government geological estimates, contains at least 100,000,000,000 barrels of oil. The United States Bureau of Mines estimates the field con-) tains 250,000,000,000 barrels. | Other estimates place the gaso- line supply of this field at 35,- 000,000,000 barrels.

Economically It is figured that only ohe per cent of the all reserves of this area can be exploitert at present, The Beld is roughly located along the Athabasca River, and the present in- dustry to extract oils from the sands is at McMurray, at the end of the railway.

Complicated Process

A number of companies have tried to extract the oil from the sands along the shores of the Athabasen, River, where ctripping has shown the oil sands close to the surface. One of these companies, has been building a plant near McMurray since 1934, sing new processes and machinery devised in the United States. This company expects to start commercial production early in 1941.

Known For Long Time The deposits have been known since 1788 when the first explorers to the region found Indians using the oil with pitch to caulk their canoes, These all saturated sands range in thickness from a few feet up to 225 feet, and in oil content up to 25 per cent by weight.

They cover an area estimated variously from 10,000" 0 33,008 quare miles of northern Alberta..

U.S. Helium Production

PRODUCTION of helium from natural gas at the world's only operating plant, run by the; U.S. Bureau of Mines at Amaril lo, Texas, las reached an 11- year total of 100,000,000 cubie feet,

Production from other Gov- ernment plants, not operating, at present makes the all-time total nearly 150,000,000 cubic feet.

For 27 years known to exist as an element on the sam, hellum finally was found on the earth, but only as chemical curiosity so rure it was ented at £78 cubic foot.

Besides its unique property as a

Got Through

BY A FLEET STREET REPORTER

BERT, aged 3, a perky little pigeon.

has lost a leg in the service of his King and country, but his beroism has gained the respect

of fardened soldiers.

Pigeons Arr

it used under certah conditions, In carry turssages war time. Most of Fac

Conscripted by his owner, York fancler, from his cosy civilian loft. Bert lost his anonymity months ago. when he became a numbered unit off #vast silent army with wings. Bleds lave On the lines that the mails been given or must go through." Bert set whout ent by fan. his new job from his Artay loft eiers. These hidden away in a secret part of pictures, takro the countryside.

AL A Northern

A doren times-vital messages wetted in the slot on his leg--Bert -t é a dudar flew over n Course most dith denire, xbow cule even for a racing pigeon.

Torn and Bleeding

O

the twelfth trip n

from

ou 10 wingerd messenge

ved. Pigeons are taken by men

at advanced posts 'tup) to send messages back to headquarters, pellet Tur birds en arrival at a nubite flateb

a sporting gun shot off one loft, are landed to

A

of us fets. Torn and bleeding, rider for the Journey to head- Bort arrived home at his loft an arters, felow, a pigeon ready Lune, his message safe and intact.

for active servjes

People may taugh at the stea mere bird having courage.

but this is an example of what these birds achieve," rald Second- Lieutenant J. A. Hollingworth, oleer in charge of the Army Carrier Pigeon Service.

He then showed me the workings of this

this unique Army servicr

Reliable na "telepbancs." the 2.600 pigeons, worth about £10,000 are helping to take the place of the wireless, telephone and dispatch riders in the Northern Cominand.

On Secret Service

They keep up n datly service by uir between battnilons and brigudes. In active warfore they become invaluable on secret ser- vice

One of the birds here flew an important message 30 miles in 25 minutes. They learn new routes quickly and are moved about by mobile units.

Their perception is acute; their endurance herole.

Paced by a fog they will fly ound it. Against gale they will

climb until they get above R. In -a-calm-they-will-find-a-wind-in-

Their favour to give them "added ཙ,།ཀཾསཱ॰སཾཎྷཱཊྛོ

When the henly has smushed ali comiuamentions and the hast atuer has been reached

the pigeon comes into his own and the Arni nows lus Buth.

Norway Controls Vast

Network

of Ships

The Norwegian Government-in-exile is directing the affairs of what amounts to a nation on the high seas from terminals in New York and London. It is a vast network of ships and men knit together by radio, newspapers and the bonds of a common battle for freedom.

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Raffle Draw At Peninsula Hotel

The backbone of this high-sens regime is the fourth largest merchant marine in the world, in which 25,000 sailors and 900 vessels are operating despite German raids.

Together they constitute buoyant, non-explosive as for air-fleet controlled by the Norwe ships, hellun makes deep-sea divers gian Shipping and Trade Mis- and asthma sufferers breathe more sion, which was established by freely, and helps weather forecasters the Royal Norwegian Govern in their predictions.

ruent to manage Norway's most It is announced that the public valuable asset,

drawing for the prizes in the Mon- Source of revenue for the highsens ster Itamle organised by the Hong- In nid government is Norway's merchant song War Effort Committee marine, welded together by wireless of the Bomber Fund will take place on Friday, messages crackling from offices in at the Peninsula Hote!

11. The draw will be con- London, New

New York, Montreal, Halifax April and San Francisco. Cerman forces ducted by His Honour Sir A.-D. A.. in occupying. Norway were able to McGregor, KT, In conjunction with Major-Cien, Sir Fabian Ware, per-seize only 500,000 tons or shipping. Messrs Linstead & Davis and The manent vice-chairman, Imperial War for 4,000,000 tons of this modern Hongkong Jockey Club.

As Graves Commission, stated In

merebant marine were out of reach. broadcast recently that the Commis- sion possessed accurate surveys of war

War Graves Will Be Restored

Damage In France

to

Flying Boat Bases In East Indies

Improved flying-boat facilities In Netherlands Indies are being sought for the Empire service by the Australian Civil Aviation Department, but the Dutch authorities are concentrating ón land planes and are developing landing fields.

The Australian Civil Aviation Department's. Controller of Ground Organisation, Mr A, R. McComb, has returned to Aus- tralia after talks with

the Netherlands Indies authorities in Java,

The Empire service requires, among other things, better surface craft for the loading and unloading of passengers and freight, and for refuelling purposes.

The Dutch authorities, however, are in a quandary. While the Ein- pire service is using lying-boats; they have put their faith in the fu- ture development of land planes, which, they say, will always be faster and will be used to a very great extent.

Bigger Aerodromes

The Netherlands Iulies authorities have embarked on a scheme for en- orging aerodromes to a size capable of accommodating four-engined land planes such as Douglas D.C. 4's, Lockheed Excaliburs, and a new Curtiss type, and are spending large sums of money.

The K.N.ILM. (Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) and K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) will probably take delivery of their first four-engined

and planes in a year. These chines require runways of about 1,500 yards.

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The Dutch, naturally, do not want to spend large sins on flying-boat bases when their own services will

acrodrones.

When the Dutch take delivery of their new four-engined commercial air-liners they will fly to Sydney in two stages. The machines will pro- bably be flown across the Pacific from America to Java.

Join Nazis Plea Angers Switzerland

A STORM of indignation has it wil inke many hours ecmplete the drawing owing to the blown up in Switzerland, follow- Tankers And Whalers hundreds of prizes, it has been ten ing publication of an article by cemeteries in

in France and Flanders Norway has since then lost 90 latively arranged to commence at 2 which had bee

had bren

partially obliterated vessels through enemy action, but the pen. and to carry on until the even- the Swiss author, Jakob Schaff-

remainder, including the world's g It is expected in the present war.

that the last her, In the German weekly "Das The surveys marked the position of largest independent innker fleet of number will be recorded between 9 Reich." ench individual rave and would from 220 to 240 vessels and an An-ond 10 p.m.

taretle whaling feel, flies the Nor- Tickets will be withdrawn from

Ing.

In it the author recommends

enable the cemeteries to bo recon-lan fat in every ocean, about anle at all centres at noon on Thurs- the abandonment by Switzerland ·

Blank Day Saved

structed in detail.

of hor neutrality and her attach- Recent Information was that the one-half of all the vessels plying to day, April 10.

ment to the German Reich. Menin Gate, bearing 54,000 names of British ports,

Operating With British A salitary donation of Afly coale from

Schaffner Blves in Germany, while missing men, was badly battered, but

yesterday standing: the Canadian Memorint at The Norwegian Navy, which in the mono danes saved

Fund. This bringe the total collected by

M. Feldmann, a member of the Viny apparently undamaged: the La brief engagements of the invasion from being a blank day for the timber retaining his Swiss nationally.

Fund, Inaugurated by is National Council, avriting in the Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, com- was reported to have sunk more this War

"Neue Berner nemorating the Mons Retreat and tonnage than it possessed, has since. C. f. Pest, 1,009,652.70.

In openly return in 1041, untouched; and the been operating with the British, 11 Australian Memorial nt Villers-assisted in the evacuation of Dunkirk British Fund for the Belle of Distress in discussinit in n

Hongkong and South Chinn Bretonneux damaged bui erect. and is now Brading ita mosquito Ch

Branch, acknowledges with grateful thanks questions of Swian policy, "Generally, no damage in France boats, newly delivered by Britain, the donation to this Fund of g88,602.01 The Swing "National Zeilting" anys and Belgium is at present beyond re- Info the Channel patrol service, A from the fongkong Jockey Club, this sum it has never known so incomprehen- pair," he added. That repair will be patrol of re-equipped whaling vessels of rectal weapon the Booty Busible an interpretation of Swiss neu-

the Special carried out.**

la now on duty in the West Indies. Derby 1041.

Itrality on that Schaffner outlines.

The Board of Administrators of the Schaffner's "rong" cundemna |

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