1947-01-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947.

To 5,000,000 square miles of lifeless waste- NINE NATIONS WILL VOYAGE TO DISCOVER

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SOUTHJEMM AMERICA

By PROFESSOR FRANK DEBENHAM, O.B.E.

This is partly a scientific re- search party and partly a mili- tary operation, which will test troops and planes in the severe conditions of the Antarctic.

Admiral Byrd's main base and ice-nirfield will be on the Ross lee,Shelf near Little America.

.Australia is to send a party of scientists to establish a permanent research station in the vant spaces of the Australian Antarctic territory, and a similar expedition is expected in the Ross Dependency from New Zealand,

South Africa is also waking up to the proximity of the ice-clad regions to the south, of her, and when I left there recently preliminary discus- slons were being held us to future activity.

Russian mission

PHERE have also been rumours

But, while some of his ships two-way are carrying out a cireum-navigation of the icecap, another semi-official expedition of a Russian mission to the An- under Lt-Cdr Finn Ronne will tarctic, but there is no definite news go to. Byrd's old buse at Mar- of a start, No Russian venture has guerite Bay, Graham Land-been to the Antarctic since Delling-

(shausen's lo 1821. Islands, Bear the Debenham which a friend named after my children.

the

Now what urt the immediate benefits

of of holding prons South Polar regions? Now, although the vast tracts

First, it is of value in establishing of James W. Ellsworth Land whaling stations (although since and Marie Byrd Land were dis-floating whale oll factories were covered and claimed by Ameri-opted the need for land basen has

diminished), can citizens, the United States has never made any formal de-i But the Antaretle produced morc claration of sovereignty. Neither has she recognised THE nations of the world Bat the Argentine on the the claims of any other nation Dunes, theme rust,

(Founder and late Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University)

So, the fights of Byrd's airplanes from the adjacent base on the Ross Ice Shelf will be watched with in- allterest.

an enthusiasm for exploration sovereign State-also claims unparalleled since the early this region. years of the century. Eight ex- In fact, she lays claim to peditions to the South Polar iceland between the Argentine and cap have been planned by ninė?

the South Pole, though it is nation--and two of them are difficult lo concede any valid

work in Antarctic basis for this, already at regions.

coun-servatory,

Why this unusual interest in Biggest venture 5,000,000 square miles of life- less, windswept, key waste? BUT the Argentine is now about to send an expedition The popular Answer which to establish a meteorological ob- has been given, and tenanced by some explorers and scientists who should know bet- ter, is that. heneath the icecap are rich deposits of uranium the metal from which atomic energy is derived.

That is nonsense. First, there is no proof that uranium lies beneath the ice.

Secondly, even if it is there and can be located, it certainly could not be worked..

Gold, oil, coal THE average depth of the ice- cap, which is always on the move, is probably about 4,000 feet. And all the atomic energy in the world could not melt it or move it—and keep it melted or

at bay-to enable mining operations for uranium.

It is also claimed that in the South Polar regions there are deposits of copper, gold, oil and

..coal,

It is true that the geological formations in Graham Land-

part of the British Falkland Islands Dependencies might indicate the presence of oil.

And there is coal in Victorin Land, in New Zealand's Rosa Dependency. But it is poor quality coal, and much of it has been coked by the action of java.

Incidentally, the dropping of Bags by aircraft has never been accepted as a valid claim to dominie newly-discovered land.

this in

over

The Germans did

1942. More important, they saw and photographed an ice-free valley to the south of Princess Astrid Land

and Crown Princess Marthe Land.

This valley will be the objective of an expedition headed by the Professor Hans Swedish explorer, Ahlmann, which. It is hoped, will start late this year.

A

Ahlmann's expedition

may be combined Norwegian Swedish-British party. It enn safely be said that it will be purely selen- tide, with meteorology and glaciology as its chief studies.

Chile also claims part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Professor

her claim overlaps the Argen- Line's and the Chileans, too, are organising an expedition.

The biggest expedition is that commanded by the United States explorer, Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, who is taking 19 ships and 4,000 men.

THIS year will be the 30th anniversary of women's suffrage,

our

Many of us young women to-day do not mothers" realise years of, struggle, agita- tion-even martyrdom...... to give us what we take as a matter of course.

We are inclined to ruise

a faintly superior eyebrow and smile tolerantly at the absurdities of the sul- frogetter-in much the same

way as we smile at their fashions.---

And that is a pity, because in some ways I cannot help feeling we've let them down. Oh, I know we've got women in Parliament, and Mias

Wilkinson at the Ministry of Educa-

on.

But now many of us ever bother to exerckse nur prerogative, and chivvy our M.P.s?

We seem to be much too wrapped up in our personal family affairs to see that many of the evils grumble about are put right.

Even if good quality deposits. of these minerals were found A VERY fair example of what I

mean is the present the cost and difficulty of win-about the care of children. ning them would be out of all proportion to their value.

Value of whaling THE only immediate economic prizes to be won from the Antarctic are in the whaling in-, dustry. And these are being scientifically exploited by in- ternational agreement, now that the war has put the Japanese pirate whalers out of business.

So it becomes increasingly clear that the international rivalry underlying the purely scientific nature of the Antare.. tic expeditions is political.

A brief summary of the ob jectives of the expeditions con. with sidered in conjunction ́national claims will indicate the importance of the problem of the Antarctic..

Britain has been operating a research expedition in the Falk- land Islands Dependencies since 1943. Meteorologists, geologists, botanists and biologists nro nt work in five stations strung out through Graham Land and the South Orkney Islands.

These two

nrcas, together with the South Sandwich Lalands. South Georgia and Coats Land, are permanently administered by Britain, and local postage stamps are issued na a sign of British sovereignty.

outery

Now, as long ago on the spring of 1945, i remember reporting trial in Stafford, in which a man called Gough was convicted of manslaughter of a little boy his care.

the

under

All recent exploration between the longitudes 40 deg. E and 20 deg. W has been carried out by Norwegians,

and this sector has been generally recognised as belonging to Norway,

Vivien Batchelor

Asks: Why aren't women using the rights they won?

than £15,000,000 worth of whale nil before the war, and the value of the whaling Industry has since in- creased.

Secondly, it is of great help in)

Antarctic meteorology. The deep

been described as a "Pandora's

box,"

The knowledge of the behaviour of the great Antarctic gales enables the weather of the South Atlantle and South Pacife to be forceust ae-

curately over a wide area.

The establishment of meteorologi- cal stations ties up with the strategie value of the region, and it will be

how interesting to

Admiral Byrd's air base functions.

sec

Harnessing gales

FINALLY mankind may benefit greatly by development of An- tarctic sanatorin.

This is one of the healthiest re- gions in the world, and there have been almost dramatic cures of con- sumption umong men who have Joined South Polar expeditions.

It is unlikely that there will be any development of the economic re- sources of the Antarctic, until have discovered a way of radiating energy by air.

we

If we can do that, we can harnessi the gales that blow all the

year round throughout the area.

WE

E meet our friends and neighbours In the queues and the back garden, and we grumble about this and that, demand to know why some nebulous "aume- body doesn't "do some- thing."

"but seldom think of doing something ourselves,

We helped put those

people In Parliament-we should keep them reminded that we can equally well helped to put them out if they don't do their job.

greatly experienced male politiclin once said to me: "You know, you women are H funny lot. You raised the devil to get

There could not have been your rights, and having got them you woman in England who was not

horrified at the state of affairs

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vealed at the trini, and by the publie

Inquiry, held afterwards,

Yet how many of us wrote to our M.P.s demanding that something should be done, and at once; that they should find out the fate of other children, deprived of the natural care of parents and home?

it was only in the winter of 1946, that the Home Secretary was able to announce the findings of the Care

of Children Committee.

There has been a lug, and many children may have suffered because we women did not do all we could to prevent it.

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Now, I want to see him eat his words--and every other

who says the same.

!TME -men found they could not

win a war without us women- neither can they wie a peace. It's up to us to make Britain the sort of place we want it to be.

Why don't some of our M.Ps get lo understand better, the problems of their women constituents: Why don't they see them in their homes and talk things over with them-at all times, not just when they want our votes?

They will, you know, we make them. At home we may put up with all sorts of slackness from hus- But we bands "for a quiet life." don't have to do so from our M.Ps. Let's make them earn their keep.

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