1947-05-24 — Page 4

Thy lands and all things that thou dost

call- thing,

Worth seizure do we seize into our hands.

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

= ('As You Like It, Act III., Sc, 7).

WHO OWNS

BRITAIN?

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

710 owns Britain?

One

person in ten owns a bit

www.

But many still remain. Among the biggest are:--

The Duke of Devonshire:

owns

H

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.

THE PARKERS

STUPIDID PAINT THE DOOR WISEN,

IT'S SHUT-15HET,

SAY-WHOS DOING THIS

JOB, CH

IT'S

FUN FINDING

AVE you had any of this

whale, ment which those

hardy souls braved the Antarctic to obtain? Nor have of the United Kingdom. 190,000 acres, including the famous. But just so that we

shall The Acreage of England, Chatsworth estate In Derbyshire, know what we're eating if we Scotland and Wales is just over Bolton Abbey, Yorks, and large areas do, Mr Chapman Pincher, who 50,800,000 enough to give in Lomore niid Waterford, Elre. every man, woman and child

writes on Scientific subjects, and one and a quarter acres each.

Approximately 4,000,000 people own their houses and the ground in which the housco stand.

Biggest landowners in the country are not individuals but corporate and similar bodies, They include:-

The Forestry Commis-

siop County Councils (for

small-holdings) The Crown and the Duchies of Lau- caster and Cornwall The Ecclesiastical

Rnd

1,000,000

500.000

The Marquis of Bute: in 19038 sold the greater part of the City of Car-I went along to the newly re- diff, then valued at £20,000,000. Still opened Whale Room at the

was 117,000 neres mainly in South Wales and Scotland.

South Kensington Natural His. tory Museum.

The Duke of Buccleuch: owns 100,- 000 acres, largely in Scotland.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, former Air

Minister, owns 100,000 acres mainly in Caitliness and Sutherland where be lives, and where he will soon be fighting a parliamentary by-election.

THE

Wholes, said Mr. Pincher, begin- ning his lecture, are not only the biggest creatures on earth, but there e good reason to believe they are also the biggest there ever have been.

No

been

fossil remains have found of anything to beat them.

As you know, they're mummols. which means that they suckle their young on milk. No one has ever

by HODGES

OUT ABOUT

WHALES

Now for a word about size. They have a plaster cast of a blue whale at South Kensing- tom that is 91 feet long and In

BERNARD' WICKSTEED

talking to Mr. Pincher

They also have the ability to rendezvous at an agreed spot in the ocean hundreds of mflee from anywhere with an accuracy that tallers can only achileve' by the use of radio

FOREIGN AID NECESSARY FOR GREECE

The International Centre for Rellóf to Civilian Populations, formed following the recent liquidation of the Joint Relief Commission of the International Red Cross and the 'League of Red Cross, has reported that aid to Greece is "indispensable." The relief agency sald; "Only forcim help wil allow Greece to go on existing," and 1sted in a pre- pared report that locomotives, freight cars, motor trucks, and industrial equipment are prime essentials in a relief programme.

"Before the war," sald the report, "Greece could cover its foodstuff Im |ports through exports of tobacco and various foods such as olive oil, fas added, the balance of payments of and dried raisina" However, Greece showed its main revenues to he, first, shipping, and, second, funda furnished by Greeks in foreign

Daily Food Average

or radar.

This was found out on a recent scientific countries. expedition. Two wholes, n mother and a cali, say, would be separated, chased in opposite directions and then followed.

After a while, when it had gone many miles, from the starting point, one of the whales would stop swimming and just hang around, Then, aure enough, a Kttle later the other whale would turn up at the exact lon is up to npot where the first one was waiting.

Sorry, Mr. Disney, but the Whate Who Wanted to Sing at the Opera couldn't have done -whates aro dumb. (From "Make Mine Music.")

prepared uny statistics on whale life would have weighed around When you to about a light milk, but it is generally reckoned 120 tons.

That is the biggest kind being 60 many candlepower the whale-they're called of whale, though there are larger candle you refer to is one made specimens than that swimming of this sperm oil. It's about the around in the sea today.

THE Duke of Westminster: besides 600 acres of most valuable land in London's West End, owns 30,000 500.000 acres in Flint and Cheshire as well

ns estates in Scotland. Commission

#30,000 Service Departments 330.000 the Princess Royal):

The Earl of Harewood (husband of Universities

owns 29,700 acres, some of it in Eire.

that o cow Colleges

330,000 The Marquis of Exeter: owns 27,- | bulls, cows and calves-must pro- These holdings are equal to 100 peres, much of it in the Mid- duce enormous quantities and it the combined areas of Norfolk, lands.

must be very rich, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hluti: Scottish landowner, with: 25,000 acres Lord Rosebery: another great tingdonshire, Essex and part of there os

A baty blue whale at birth weighs well as *1,000 acres in Lincolnshire, To them must Buckinghamshire.

merc five tona (or about dhe The Earl of now be added a million acres

Jersey: his 19,400 weight of an elephant) and when which it is estimated have aeres include Osterley Park on the It's weaned. a year or so. later it outaidris of London, and seats nt passed into the possession of

you'll have to Richmond,

Surrey, Bicester and in the new National Coal Board South

agree that the milk must be pretty' Wntes. following the nationalisation of Lord Brocket: owns 19,000 acres.

sustaining. The the mines.

Dukes of Bedford and Northumberland, in spite of forced sales to meet death duties in recent years, still hold many tens of thou. sands of acres.

MANY of

the biggest private estates have been split and sold in the past 25 years. Such landlords us Lord Derby, Lord Ancaster, Lord Haward de Walden, once London's richest landlord, have sold consider able parts of their properties.

SIDE GLANCES

They will inve to worry about dig acres. The ordinary freehold house owner will be more concerned about the view from his bedroom window, or the front garden which may sud- denly become a main road.

COPA, TINY BY MEA LERVICE, INC. T. MC REG. 1. 1. PAT. OFF.

goes 40 tons.

So

I asked Mr. Pincher how a mam mal like this came to be in the sea. He said that scientists believed that it once had fegs and lived on land, but took to the sea about 50,000,000 years ago,

Now the only signs that it ever might have hind legs are Anger bones in the front Nippers and some tiny useless tte bones at the buck that might once have been

By Galbraith.

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The blue whale has no teeth, Mr. Pincher said, and its pullet is only as wide as a man's wrist. It doesn't need teeth because It lives practically nothing but shrimps. You've probably read about them. They are caled krill and breed in the Antarctic by the million, which is why so many whales go there.

Oil in the head

ANOTHER

type of whale,

of

biggest, does have teeth though only which the sperm whale is the

in the bottom Jaw. Sperm whales eat cuttlefish and have n large gulet.

1

They are found in the Mediter- ranean, among other places, so it

Bones that bounce may have been one of these that

OCIENTISTS who love studying

bones and working out theories from them have also discovered that a whole has as many vertebra:

in its neck as a giraffe, which is

seven.

swallowed Jonah

purest oll known.

Sperm whales are great divers. They can go down half a mile and hold their breath for 70 minutes. Sometimes when they are harpoon- ed they dive so fast they knock themselves out an the bottom.

and at the side of the head, which A whale's eyes are rather small they've got a blind spot right in front of them and another behind.

means.

Another thing about a whale's eyes is that they have no tear ducts, So it can't cry.

As it has no vocal cords either a whale that is unhappy hus to suffer in silence.

Well-turned brain

Now about brains, the whale has N

what Mr Pincher called a well developed brain. That's to say it has plenty of convolutions, or twists and turns, in it. But in size it is smaller than yours of mine.

The daily food average of the Greek adult is estimated at from half of which has been supplied by 1,500 to 1800 calories, enore than UNRRA, which is about to stop its shipments. Although farm produs

about 75

percent

of prewar averages in Greece, there

need there for 30,000 tons each of other. The sperm whale la poly- The relict centro

Whales

are

{","imported cereals, the report said.

very fond of

estimates that gamous, but most of the others mate about 10 percent of Greece's 7,200,- up for le. Humpback whales,000 population of 1930 kus been lost which have extra large flippers, give due to war, famine and disensen, each other playful pats when they Associated Press. are courting.

At least, they are playful to a whale, but the pals they give would kill any other creature. Whalers say the pelting partles can be heard miles

away.

Life Span

Forever Amber"

In 24 Tongues

be

and ta cost more

than Issued in language versions permitting Is exhibition anywhere in the world.

The film will be dubbed or given sub-titles in 24 languages. Dubbing is the recording of a special sound track In a specific language.

THE skin of a whale is an Inch thick and as smooth as a baby's

The picture "Forever Amber" in check, Eskimos cut it off in stripa production for many months and chew it. Sometimes you find a f expected skin where it has had a tight with a sperm whale with great scars on its US$3,000,000, win cuttlefish at the bottom of the ocean. How long does a whale live? About 60 years, Mr Fincher says. A cow will have a cal about once two years and occasionally twins. They reach maturity at two, but canleen Winsor's novel will be released This screen adaptation of Kath- go on growing all their lives.

in November-Associated Press,

every

The worst enemies of whales are not anything that lives in the sea, but men.

In the year

1930-7 the world's whaling feels killed 32,821 of them. A good-sized blue whale produces this fetched £10 10s, a ton. 30 tons of edible oil. Before the war it's worth £99 a ton at controlled Now

price, and

If you go to the museum and look the goodness knows what on

A large bult at the cast of the blue whale you'll speten whale goes about 50 fect

see a tiny hole high up on the side and weighs some 60 tons.

of the head that's just about big enough to stuff a pencil in. That's the whole's ear,

of

They have a mysterious reservoir

oil in their heads

It's full of wax to keep the water and no one quite knows what it is for. One out when it dives. Whnics can hear theory is that it's to help

them very well, and it is believed they re ceive the sound waves through the the valve in their blow water in much the same way as doca

an Asdic submarine detector.

The bones of a whale are spongy-operate and filled with oil, and if you drop hole by hydraulics.

one It bounces.. Eskimos, who

can't gei hold of rubber, carve

bails from the jaw bones for their children,

Being so porous a whale's bones

disintegrale fairly quickly, but there

is one, situated in the ear, that 14,

This

market.

SECRET RADIO ORDERS

Several Inhabitants of Limoges, In centrol France, reported recently having heard an announcement over a secret radio station demanding a egalnut continuation of the purge wartime pro-Nazi collaborationists.

means a big whale is worth nearly £3,000 for its oil alone.

So you can begin to understand why whale lovers like Mr Pineher and me are alarmed, and fear somno species may soon become extinct.

Police ordered an investigation to It seems a whales and a Dy you can't tame find the source of the secret broad

milk them With a herd casts in view of the recent explo→ of a few thousand you could supply sion of several bombs the world with butter, which would Limoges area, one of the centres of in the bo much better than boiling them French resistance during the Ger- down to get oil for margarine.

man occupation-Associated Press.

Germans fight with

much harder than all the rest and MANY of the Germans today

fighting in French Indo-

lasts for thousands of years. Selen China are hard professional Usts who found them lying around on the beach thought for a long time the they were the shells of some unknown species of whelt or something.

soldiers who went into the Wehrmacht when still boys and now know no occupation but

They never connected them with war. Many of these bear the the car of a whole, So the laugh, scars of French, British, Ameri- for once, was on the scientists, I am happy to say.

All mammals have hair on them somewhere, says Mr. Pincher. Even an elephunt has a tuft on its tali And true to form, a whale has hair, bob. It has a moustache. It's a poor one, mind, with only about 40 hairs to it, but It is there.

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nothing.

TN the Skeleton Crossword the

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and ele numbers as well as Shewordi Are lett for the solver" to fill in. Four black unliares and fout numbers have Been Alled in to sire you a start.

The design, le symmetrical, that is the top half and bottom half. of the puzzle correspond, and the two sides are similar. You will thus be able to all in ten mora black squares at open to carre- spond with those given.

A study of the clue numbers will help you. For instance, there must be another word down to balance 19 Down. It cannot bo 14, Down, because you would not then be able to at in the Intervening numbers, an it must- be 18 Down.

Reasoning on these, lines, "sou on complete the design as you sõlva" the clues. "No" worda" of *fewer than three lettern äre used.

· LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION

can or Russian bullets.

correspondent

This

interviewed one German sergeant of the Legion in Saigon who had five wounds from various campaigns in Europe, and a sixth suffered in Indo-China. He was in Saigon on brief leave be- fore going out to, ight Cochin- Chinese guerillas.

THE

HE majority of German Legion- naires in Indo-China joined the Legion as a means of escape from They have French prison camps.

no special liking for the French. In fact, a great many of them seem to be

French

& Japs in Indo-China

It is an ironical fact that most of the soldiers fighting to save the French Empire in Indo-China today are men who fought against France and her Allies in the uniform of the Wehrmacht two years ago.

France is relying heavily on her famous Foreign Legion to defeat the Viet Namhese.

Eighty percent of the Legionnaires in Indo-China now are Germans. This figure is the generally accepted estimate in Saigon and Hanoi, and it has been noted in Singapore, where the French troop transports pause en route to Saigon, that German Legionnaires are still coming.

This article is reproduced from Straits Times, whose special correspondent in Saigon tells of the extra- ordinary situations that have arisen in a country where former enemies fight together.

ambushed turned to the Western Front. His and story epitomised both the, strength

unreconstructed Nazis. They told how his unit was look like Nazis, salute like Nazis, by Cochin-Chinese guerillas and groups of them, when drunk, caught in a cross-fre. From both have been known to march the sides they could hear commands to and the weaknesses of the German streets of Saigon singing the Horst the enemy in Japancso, and Ger- Army. Wessel song.

rest.

U6

for

"They sent to France

There, eventually, we fought against Americans and the F. F. I. in Southern France. Finally there were four of us alive, and the four of us held a hill against a whole company of F. F. I., whom we re- duced to 20. My three friends were killed, and I was captured with a wounded leg."

п

After that it was a succession of Ho prison camps for the German. Indicated that his life was not happy one. Since he could read and write English, he was transferred to an American prison camp. When he was returned to the French, he volunteered for the Logion,

"There was no direct pressure to Join the Legion," he said, "but we had no beds, we got no breakfast, At noon we got a canteen cup of soup. In the afternoon one loaf of bread was issued for every 20 men.. Later it became one loaf for 25 men, Supper was soup again. Well, joined the Legion, so wouldn't starve." Sevastopol," This man waa subsequently whom. This officer heard Germans on the he related, "when we ran out of wounded badly in Andam,

claim guerlilas' aide calling to some of his ammunition. We stayed in the city

men by name, urging them-in because there were 35 German-to desert.

640

German Legionnaires to. this correspondent han talked proudly to be better treated than their French barrackmates because, they say, "we are the

better fighters. The rates of pay are the sume: 180 plastres a month for private, 210 plastres for a corporal, 380 piastres for a sergeant, plastres for a staff sergeant.

Commissioned officers are all non- German. The Legion private's pay would

be the equivalent of $18 (Straits) a month at the black market rate of 11 to. 1-hardly enough for one good day's leave in Inflated Saigon:

man, while they--the boys 'In' the "We were holding

middle were mostly German also.

Legion deserters, it is

believed,

German women there. We feared the Rus-

have joined the Vietnamhese racre- cians would mistrent them, and we HE takes a detached attitude to ly as a means of getting out of the would rather have died than lef He professes to see the Vietnamhese ward the war in Indo-China, country. They try to make their these women fall into their hands. confilet not as a matter of polltler, way into Slam, and from there to We fought three

attacks with but as Australia. There Is an Impression

question of the white race

that Australia is so anxious for white bayonets only; without ammunition, versus the yellow. This, it might immigrants that no embarrassing wo held off four Russian batteries, be noted, in the current French pro- heard questions will be asked.

and our single regiment held three Paganda line-It is to be

everywhere In Saigon. Russian divlafons. We were Anal- ly pulled out when we had only don't think the French are going at "Personally," said the German, “I 20 men left.

this thing in the right way. They Dorgeant of the Legion, whom I mot at side-

0

"Wo 20 went back to Germany, don't treat the Vietnamhese strongly Several hundred Germans have walk cafe in Saigon, sald his his joined another regiment, and went all. Either you hold a colony with enough. They should shoot them deserted from the Legion to tory was typical. He had been as mountain troops to Rumania, everything you have, of you say Join the Vietnamhese, who also have eight years in the Wahrmacht,

Russians good-bye and let it go

GERMAN

a number of Japanese officers in fought nest in Poland, thert in where we fought the

One Legion'. oflcer-- Franco in 1949. . Ho fought for three again, And again,", -who happened to ho a Swiss- and a half yeats in Russia, and re- down to 45 men.

their ranks.

cut

Many qther Germans in the Legion, he said, hold the same view,