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THEY DUG FORTUNES OUT OF THE GROUND
OUTH Africa's gift to Prin-
Elizabeth of £10,000 21st birthday pre- sent of matched blue and white diamonds called attention to South Africa's best known pro- duct.
By ROBERT FAMS
Rhodes Immediately obtained, a Probably the finest and most valit- ed the 500 miles from Durban in his
to come from pumping contract to deal collectively able stone
the sea-togs and suited his first claim Kimberley area is a diamond weigh- with flood waters in the workings. ing 442 enrats which was found in with a broken glass bottle stopper, or This was one of the first steps which, the Dutoitspan mine in September, Barney Barnato, a penniless English in the end, swept all the individual 1917. It does not compare, how Jew who established himself by fortune-hunters into Rhodes'
with the "Cullinan." the mond's largest white"
peddling a fistful of eigars to ster company, a concern that even- which was found
diamond.
"koppic-walloping" - tramping in the Premier gelds and buying rough diamonds. fully established a complete mono- Mine. Transvaal, and weighed poly control over the exploitation 3,024 carats (ubout one pound, 12 and development of the whole coun- ounces),
try.
many
stort
the
And the farmer. Mynheer de Beer, who sold the site of the Arst diamond pipe, becaine bitter, according to John Angove in his book, "In the Early Days." Angove met de Beer
1872.
The jewels were cut by ex- pert diamond-cutters in Johan nesburg and were presented to the Heiress Presumptive during gala festivities on her birthday on April 21 in Cape Town, three days before the Royal tour of alter the original owner of the farm. and the spot where dinmond mining usked why he inquired about
southern Africa was completed.
South Africa's diamond rush started 80 years ago and, like many similar discoveries, its inception vas Inconspicuous. A farmer named Schalk van Niekirk Was visiting some neighbours named Jacobs when He noticed that one of the stones the children were playing with was bright and pretty. The mother, see- ing him admire the "plaything." gave it to van Nickirk.
The amalgamation of the conflicting Interests was effected in 1088 under the banner of De Beers named Consolidated Mines, Lidl,
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TODAY, the output of the diamond industry is strictly controlled in relation to the capacity of world's markets. During the
wat the South African diamond mines were the main source of supply of, the Allies. Industrial diamonds for
and Production of both industrial
tremendously Lem types increased and exceeded all records.
cope
uf
Sir Ernest Oppenhelmer, chairman of De Beers, said the mines now are working at full pressure to with the great demand. Sales raugh diamonds in 1945 amounted to more than £24,500,000, an all-time record in the history of the diamond the industry. However, this figure was
Some time later, a trader visiting the Orange River region saw the stone and advised Niekirk to send it to Cape Town for an
expert opinion. It proved to be a diamond, then worth about $2,000. The Jacobs family received half money when the stone was sold.
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CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle- Across:-1, Footbolls: 9, Rarer; 1, Reap: 12, Implicate:, 13, Cuhler; 15. Ecru 17, Seneschal; 10, Unlo: 21, Tola; 22, Era: 23, Hope: 24, Eva- porate.
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(Questions on Page 91
I. Arch. 2. London-Belfast, 350 miles (Amsterdam 222 miles; Brus- 4. Two
Down-1, Fricassee; 2, Orphan; 3,sels 228). 3. Welsh onion Telle: 4 Brief; 0, Are; 6, Lead; 7. signs of the Zodiac (a) Taurus Lateral; 8, Speculate; 10, Amateur; 14, Rector; 18, Chop, 18, Soho; 20, (bull): (b) Leo (lion). 6. Shake- speare's "Merry Wives of Windsor" (Act III, scene 2). 0.; Spitzbergen. At King's Bay track is only 750 miles from N. Polc. 7. Bat. 0. Mercury. 9. "The Fair Maid of Perth, by Bizet." 10. The Bulls are Each had 01 animals-Pat: 13 speculators who try to force prices
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horses 26 cows, 62: shoop;
Mike
Soren horses, 21 cosa, 83 sheep.
up: Bears are those who try to force them down.
TWO years later, Nickirk heard
nchieved only by drawing on sect- for mutated stocks. The gures 1946 have not been announced.
It is estimated that South African diamond mines are capable now of diamonds to tho producing gem value of £16,000,000 a year at cur- with an rent prices. This compares wit output valued at £3,500,000 in 1938.
When the Royal family visited! Kimberley, there were traces of the romantic, boisterous days. The streets are still winding and crooked. **big The blueground dumps, the holes," some, of the old, tin shanties that were used as offices and houses, began, remain, tourist attractions.
Gone Are The Days
vanished. There is no
name,
Jests And Jeers
It's going to be quite a tax to have any, Income left for income tax.
In this weather, many a returnco who's got a house and home begins to sigh for a camp
cot.
Nature Note:-In Hongkong now, the bulls are dally taking the bears for a ride.
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Foreman: What are your qualifen- tions for the job of nightwatch- man?
Applicant: Well, for one, thing, the least noise wakes me up.
"Can't you do anything
else?"
A wolf is one who tries to keep her out all the out hours of the morn- Ing..
Gossip and radio both travel fast, he but radio has done away with much
"After Inquiring my asked whether I was a verdomde distortion. Engelsman. When, on my return, I
A writer wants to know what pre- nationality in that manner, he rehistoric man did in the evenings. piled, "Because was an English-Well, he had his clubs., man who, over-renched me when
in my
my
farm Vooruitzigt on "When I marry, I want a wife who which diamonds were found. I have is an understanding companion, a since been informed that the farm is good housekeeper, a good cook and a longer worth more millions than the thou-devoted mother," people sands of pounds. I received for it."
BUT the colourful days of old have
y place at Kimberley for like Champagne Charlie, who cover-
-United Pruss.
"Man, let me warn you polygamy is a crime."
A trip round
the dens
of London
By George Malcolm Thomson
After further adventures, mainly
TN Forlorn Sunset, by Michael
Sadleir (Constable, 12s. 6d.), disagreeable, Lottle is responsible for When Belgium was liberated in I have supped full with horrors. bringing about the downfall of the 1944 and Holland early in 1945, stops This squalid melodrama is laid abominable Slode.
to rehabil were taken immediately"
those in the London of the 'seventies. tate the cutting industry in
in And what a London!' two countries. Cutting centres other parts of the world-notably the
New York-were operating success- all fully.
that a witch doctor had a large, shiny charm.
traded The farmer cattle worth about £200 for the charm, which was a diamond and later sold for almost £12,500. That diamond-83 carats uncut weight--is the famous "Star of South Africa."
This second lind started avalanche of adventurers from over the world, secking a fortune in diamonds.
Demand For Stones
After diamonds were found in 1870 E diamond industry is near the present site of Kimberley, Tperiencing an unprecedented
The scenery is composed almost entirely of white slave dens and pawnshops, horrible houses kept for horrible purposes, nay, whole streets
given over to such branches of com- merce, to the enrichment of sedun-***
dedrelly landlords and with the conni-
the real trensure-trove was found mand for stones both for
vance of corrupt local authorities.
Over this open sewer, Mr Sadleir holds the reader's nose relentlessly. He spares no refinement of effluvium. The personages of the piece are in kecuing with its back cloth. The In-wicked are very wicked. The good are very few-and, for the most part lamentably lacking in gumption,
on Mynheer de Beer's farm, Vooruit- ornamentation and industry. There diamonds, zigt ("Looking Forward," or "Ex- are also indications that
particularly in the cut form, are pectation"). De Beer, having paid becoming increasingly regarded
£50 for his farm, sold out for more long-term investments as easily than $25,000. Now the site of Kim- portable property to serve as
surance against Inflation. berley, the farm contained an amaz- most Ing "pipe" of diamonds, the
The South valuable in the world. African diamond mining industry had arrived.
In
exceeded
Total production of diamonds
Africa has South £333,000,000, making it the second most important factor in the coun- try's mineral production, Guid is
The aftermath of the discovery Brst.
of diamonds was as colourful as the
California gold rish days portrayed by Bret Harte or the Klondike rush of Jack London's novels. There were roaring camps, gamblers, tender-hearted desperadoes and a. few romantic hussles.
CITI-
There are only 15,000 persons ployed in diamond mining compared with more than 400,000 in gold and 37,000 in coal and 30,000 in metallurgical pursuits,
other
OTTIE HEAPE, the young woman round whom this grimy and horrific story revolves was at a tẹn- der age, rescued from the clutches of the vice traße (bargain basement) and sent off to decent home in the
country provided by a Mr Crocker, who is rich, keenly interested in mis- slons, and the unsuspecting owner of a large block of shafes in a highly organised racket pleasantly named "Homes from Home, Ltd."
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Until his death In consequence of
a malady to which Hilton makes the obscurest of allusions, Livia gives him her flerce, protective and passes. sive love.
BUT this is something she cannot give to nor impose upon that re- sistant block of Lancashire granite, George Boswell George is editor of the local paper and a self-educated self-assertive, tactless, cariest de- cent chap. None of his interests makes the smallest.appeal to his wife. as Livia becomes.
In due course she runs away with young diplomat, Jeffrey Winslow, whom she marries. She gives Jeffrey the same kind of love that she had given her father and brings ruin to his career.
When a telegram from London bids her husband undertake. n dangerous mission in the Asiatic dependency where he is British agent, Liviu takes care that it never reaches his eyes, British lives are lost as a result-and. so also, in disgrace is Jeffrey Win- slow's job.
NOMES World War H. Livia and her husband are taken by the Japanese. Their son Charles is ter- ribly wounded while serving with Bomber Command. George Boswell, its crudeness of characterisation and boy. And those two strangely dif This unglamorous story with all now Mayor of Browdicy, meets the Modern industrial South Africa
dialogue has the virtues of a sustained ferent was born with the discovery of the
characters become close narrative energy. diamond mines. First of all, it led
We Journey friends. to a revolution in methods of Trans-
Lottle, growing up to be beautiful, through the underworld at a brisk portation by spurring the develop- Kocso town and finds her way pace. ment of railways. Today, Kimberley unerringly to the classier levels of
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The last portion of the story is taken up with
the struggle be-
a chance
Cecil Rhodes
is a modern town), and diamond the world from which she had been TN James Hilton's new novel, So boy Charles shall have
tween George, resolved that the of working the THE method
mining is a well-organised business saved. Behold her dwelling in shame- IN
Well Remembered (Macmillan to make his own life, and Livia re- claims
individualism using the latest equipment. showed
ful ease In a little
house in St John's Bs. Bid), there is much that is good, leased from Internment, and deter- Wood of which Mr Cornellus Fleisch- there is also one serious defect. gone mad. Thousands of miners worked claims only 31 fect square, out the blue clny. In the mills, the
Natives use machine drills to dig marin pays the rent.
inined to dominate her son, To make a litle pln money, and The motive power of the story is The story then, is simple. Its digging straight down into the ground. The long, narrow footpaths natives who pick out waste rock be- one of Fleischmann's business secrets cularly the mladeings, of a woman.
ore is carried on conveyer belts past meaning no harm the girl betrays supplied by the doings, and port- strength lies in the satisfying and
sympathetic portrait of between the workings collapsed, em- fore the blue ground is crushed. to a, Mr. Slode who has, if anyone And this woman does not become a. She is a liar, selfish, morally under-
But Livia is u diferente.
matter, phasising the need for establishing
has the primacy in this reptilian convincing, coherent individual, order out of chaos.
world. In
endowed. But the central are which Mr Fleisch- consequence,
Livia Channing monn is muriered and to make it the family which had owned one of the ward promptings, is absent.
belongs to 4..could fuse and vitalise her cold
way- more tragie, just when he is about cotton mills in Browdley, Lancs, Her 7IMBERLEY has produced gems to pull off a fine coup in "Homes father serves a 12 years sentence odd being through one window after Hilton takes us to peep at this for royal crowns and has fur-from Home Ld." in which he has for à fraud in which many of the another. But he never naks us to name for himself. He was, earning nished the stone, that kindles the bought Mr Crocker's shares, £100 a week on a claim when the joyful sparkle in the eyes of many cheap. As for Mr Crocker poor fellow, arrives home on the day Livia decs that he has never been inside him
dirt townspeople lost their savings, He step inside. And the suspicion is restrictions.o amalgamation were newly-engaged couples.. removed,
from school, suspected of theft. self.
'Ceell Rhodes, as a youth of 18, started inauspiciously in the diamond fields, where he made
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