1941-03-14 — Page 9

Friday,

WINGED MESSENGERS OF THE ARMY

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Non-Military Steel Orders for U.S.

steel for

Orders for non-military use in the British Empire have been placed in the United States, reports Associated Press,

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

It was believed in sleet circles that as soon us details of plans could be worked out, considerable additional business for steel destined for other than milltary use would be booked by | United States companies.

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

March 14, 1941.

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Wounded, War Pigeon Large Oil | Got Through

Reservoir

In

BY A FLEET STREET REPORTER

Alberta B, aged 3, a perky little pigeon.

has lost a leg in the service of his

One of the world's large oil King and country, but his heroism has

reservoirs is located in northern Alberta, some 300 miles north of 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 #gured that only ane per cent of the all reserves of this aren can be exploited at present. The Beld is roughly located along the Athabasen River, and the present in- dustry to extract oils from the sands in at McMurray, at the end of the railway.

Complicated Process

A number of companies have tried to extract the alt from the sands along the shares of the Athabasen River, where stripping has shown the all sands close to the surface. One of these companies, has been building a plant near MeMurray since 1936, using new processes and enachinery devised in the United States. This

expects to start commercial production early in 1941.

Known For Long Time The deposits have been known 1788 when the fest explorers since to the region found Indians using the all with pitch to caulk their canoes. There-vil-satmated-und-range in. thickness from a few feet up to 225 fect, and boll content up to 25 per cent by weight.

freen

They cover aft aren estimated variously

10,000 to 59,090 square miles of northern Alberta.

U.S. Helium Production

gained the respect of hardened soldiers,

to

Pigrans Are Conscripted by his owner, as t

used. York fancler, from his cosy under erriain civilian loft, Bert lost his conditions, anonymity months ago when rrymessages In war time. he became a numbered unit of Wost" + [lir a vast silent army with wings.

On the lines that the malls been mt go through," Bert set about tent by tan- lila new job from his Army loft ciers. These hhfden away in a secret part of pictures, lakets the countryside.

at a Northern

Birds have given or

A dozen times-vitul messuges -C om mund tucked in the stat on his lot-Bert tralalog New over #1 course mort du centre, guit even for a rncing pigeon.

Torn and Bleeding

On the twelfth trip a pellet from a sporting gun shot off our of his legs. Torn and bleeding, Bert arrived home at his loft on Lur, his message safe and intact

People may laugh at the idea of a inere bird having courage, but this is an example of what three birds achieve," said Srcond. Larutenant J. A. Hollingworth. oliver la charge of the Army Carrier Pigeon Bervice.

He then showed me the workings of this unique Army service,

Reliable an "teleptiones," the 2,600 pigeons, worth about £10,000 are helping to take the place of the wireless. telephone and dispatch riders in the Northern Command.

On Secret Service

They keep up a daily service by al between battalions And brigades. In active warfare they become invaluable on secret ser vice..

One of the birds here flow an important message 30 miles in 23 minutes. They learn new routes quickly and

moved Are about by mobile units,

Their_perezpuon_is_acute; their endurance, berole.

Paced by a tog they will y Found it. Against a gate they will climb until they get above lin eaim they will find a wind in their favour to give them added speed,

When the enemy has smashed l communications and the last resort' Alage has been reached the pigeon comes into his owa and the Army 'knows his worth.

Now

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hove the winged messenger uncil. Pigrons are taken by mej at advanced posts (tup) to send messages back to headquarters. The Birds on arrival at a mobile loft, are landed to a dispateli rider for the journey to head- quarters. Below, a pigeon reads

for active servies,

Norway Controls Vast

The No

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

Network of Ships

Flying Boat Bases In East Indies

Improved flying-bout faellities in Netherlands Indies are being sought for the Empire service by the Australian Civil Aviation Department, but the Dutch authorities are concentrating on land planes and are developing landing fields.

The Australian Civil Aviation Department's. Controller of Ground Organisation, Mr A. R. McComb, has returned to Aug- 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 quandary. While the Em- nire service is using flying-bonts, 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 Indies authorities have embarked on a scheme for en- larging aerodromes to a size capable of nccommodating four-engined landl planes such Douglas D.C. 4's. Lockheed Excaliburs, and a new Curtiss type, and are spending targe sums of money,

The Norwegian Government-in-exile is directing the affairsdelivery of their first four-engined

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 sun, hellum Anally) The backbone of this high-sens regime. is the fourth largest was found on the earth, but only as merchant marine in the world, in which 25,000 sailors and 900 a chemical curiosity se mure it was vessels are operating despite German raids. valued at £70 a cubic foot.

Besides its unique property as a buoyant, non-explosive gas for air-fleet controlled by the Norwe ships, bellum 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.

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.

War Graves Will Be Restored

Together they constitute

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WAR FUND

Raffle Draw At Peninsula Hotel

The K.N.I.L.M. (Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) and K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) will probably take

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

The Dutch, naturally, do not want to spend large sums on flying-boat bases when their own servires will use aerodromes.

When the Dutch take delivery of their new four-engined commerela! alr-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

ment 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 taille organised by the Hong government is Norway's merchant kong War Effort Committee in ald marine, welded, together by wireless of the Bomber Fund will take plate messages crackling from offices in at the Peninsula Hotel on Friday, London, New York, Montreal, Halifax April 11. The draw will be con Damage In France

and San Francisco. German forces ducted by His Honour Sir A. D. A. in occupying Norway were able to MacGregor, KT, in conjunction with Major-Gen. Sir Fabion Ware, per-seize only 600,000 tons of shipping. longkong Jockey Club.

Messrs

& Davis and The Linstend manent vice-chairman, Imperial War for 4,000,000 tons of this modern

to A STORM of indignation has Graves Commission, staled in

As it will take many hours merchant marine were out of reach. broadcast recently that the Commis-

emplete the drawing owing to the blown up in Switzerland, follow- Tankers And Whalers

hundreds of prizes, I has been ten- ing publication of an article by sion possessed accurate surveys of war cemeteries in

in France and Flanders Norway has since then lost tallvely arranged to commence at the Swiss author, Jakob Schaff- which had been partially obliterated vessels through enemy action, but the pm. and to carry on until the even-

remainder, including the world's ing,

It is expected that the Instner, in the German weekly "Das present The surveys marked the position of largest Independent tanker fleet of number will, be recorded between Reich," each individual grave and would from 220 to 240 vessels and an An- and 10

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structed in detail.

Tickets will be withdrawn from taretle whaling fleet, Ales the Nor-

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In it the author recommends

enable the cemeteries to be recon-wegian flag in every ocean, about aale at all centres at noon on Thurs-/ the abandonment by Switzerland

one-half of all the vessels plying to day, April 10, British ports.

Recent information was that the

Menin Gate, bearing 54,000 names of missing men, was badly battered, but standing: the Ca

the Canadian Memorial at

Vimy

Blank Day Saved

the

of her neutrality and her attach- ment to the German Reich. A solitary donation of fifty cents from Operating With British ·

Schaffner lives in Germany, while an Anonymous donor anved yesterday The Norwegian Navy, which in the from being a blank day, for the Bomber retaining his Swiss nationally.

M. Feldmann, a member of the apparently tdamaged; the La brief engagements of the Invasion Fund. Thin brings the total collected by

by the National Council, writing in Fund, Inaugurated thes War Ferte-nous-Jouarre Memorial, com- was reported to have sunk more. C. M. Pest, Lid, 1.805.057.79. "Neue Berner Zeitung

condemns HI.Y.R.D.C. memorating the Mons Retreat and tonnage than it possessed, has since

in openly The Board of Administrators of the Schaffner's "arrogance" return in 1941, untouched; and the heen operating with the British. It Australian Memorial at Villors-assisted in the evacuation of Dunkirk British Fund for the Relief of Dairese in discussing in a foreign publication

and Bouth "Generally, no damage in France bonts, newly delivered by Britain, the donation to the Fund of 18,002.03 and Belgium is at present beyond re-nlo the Channel patrol servico. A from the Hangkong Jockey Club, this sum it has never known ao incomprehen- pair," he added. That repair will be patrol of re-equipped whaling vessels at the pecial, Sweep on the Rooty trailty as that Schaffner outlines.

representing ba per cent. of the Plus sible an interpretation of Swiss nou- carried out."

is now on duty in the West Indies. Derby 1941.

Bretonneux damaged but erect.. and is now sending Ha mosquito ranch, acknowledges with grateful thanks! questions of Swiss policy.

The Swiss National Zeitung" says

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