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SECRET AUSTRALIAN ROCKET RANGE SITE

Adelaide-A new, secret site has been chosen for Australia's rocket range town, in the northwest of South Australia's “dead heart”. country.

Geologists In

Originally it was intended that the town should be at fly- infested, drought-ridden Mt. Eba, 210-miles-northwest of

Mineral Hunt Port Augusta,

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But the difficulties of transporting materials, providing water and sani tation, and building a rallway and read have proved too great.

Almost every country which has sizable lots of radioactive minernis has imposed restrictions on their export and mado plans for state development. Norway ordered geological investigation and compilaf ilon of "uranium mapy," and pronounced state ownership of all 'deposits.

other

by

Comparable steps were taken nations Canada, 'under National Research Council, gathered

worker's

some 350 research

with approval of Britain and United States,

took

over

Eldorado Mining and Reflaing

and, the tho

pany at Great Bear Lake, C-

ments were made with the provinces that further uranium deposits found would become the property of the national government. Sweden op- polnited an Atomic Commission and formed a company in which m Rovernment would have a dominant

interest.

No work has been done on the site yet except on airstrips, nor has any unkilled staff been engaged, but many technical men have been asked

their services are available. Biggest problem of the lown Is water.

on the west coast.

Two hundred miles of pipeline will have to be lald and pumping stations built.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1947.

John Pudney

GUEST\BOOK CRITIC

"The Slaves of Solitude," by

Patrick Hamilton (Constable, 9s. 6d.) HIS book is about Britain: it evokes lonely aunts- and what are more Bri-

one which lies upon the fringes of the experience of all of us, shadow- ed by an aspidistra or two.

"The Chequer Board," by Nevil Shute. (Heinemann, 9s. 6d.)

house

The only way to get a supply will tish, more solitary and more be by tapping the pipe-line now running from the River Murray to formally intimate with your

town of Whyalla, | conscience than lonely aunts7 the shipbuilding

What a nagger, though, is this Patrick Hamilton, with his wincing portraits of the drab, the unsuccessful, the half hearted, the dis-spirited, the mediocre, all those literary bruises which linger in the mirror. reader's memory!

Little Rainfall

only four inches a year,

The area has an average rainful of

The country is half gibber, half red Four-year droughts are common, sand and stunted mulga.

South Pastoralists regard it at Australia's "thinnest" cattle country. has SOIEC low-grade Uniers rond uronlum ores in the southern

and allway of the country, but depends

part struction and house building were most of her material upon Madagas be more than a year before a town fordone on a wartime scale, it would

Finnce

car

Russia remalna dhe enigma. Since the atom bomb Brat rocked the world, she has engaged in the most widespread and thorough mineral hunt in recorded times, What has she discovered? Only Iron, coal, rold, copper, according to Radio Moscow.

with

SOVIET EXPERIMENTS

medical

have

there could be used.

con-

Location of the now site is being kept a close secret, but it is believed to be nearer the East-West rail- way, and about 120, miles west of Port Augusta.

Five hundred people are to be a commodated in the town to be built there.

All Facilities

But there are other reports that!

This work alone wild cost £2,000,- Soviet scientists are experimenting 900. With the work done at normal applications of Government project rate, it would Uranium, Vast appropriations were take two years to complete. listed for science in each budget. Russian nuclear scientists dropped out of the

public's notice. Cosmic ray research is being carried A railway spur from, the East- on with a new intensity in the West fine Is expected to USSR. And no one doubis that one £1,000,000. of the world's mightiest nations will not rest until it has a weapon equal at

least to the weapons other nations possess or could manufacture.

Prof.

audience: "Practically any

an over-

The talent of which he is master presents an image in a cracked mirror, a back view of

tering profile after ourselves in a queue, an unflat enthusiastic encounter with too- weak beer or with over-starched food.. Do we want to see this portrait of ourselves, this scummy side of a civilisation which we already find seamy?

in

too

With a less skilful writer, the falling of ladium in a tedious board. house in a riverside resort in the winter, at a sufficiently drab period of our history when we were engaged

noble battles, shrouded by binck-out and wel- Americans,

invite would be to

the render to share a

experience sorry

of. which altogether too much is known at first hand.

coming

cost

·

The township itself will have all facilities and family. amenities.

provide

for

zin

The plans echoed Oliphant

many of of bis colicagues when he told a radio independent electrical supply, a cen- Indus-tral cold-storage depot to provide trial nation the size

or against the Intense summer hent, bigger could learn how to make an refrigerators is all homes, hotels, atomic bomb in a comparatively recreational areas, picture theatres,

of Belglym

and

as imancase schools, as well workshops and laboratories.

As soon as work on the lown is started the area will be placed under milltary guard.

short time, if they

to are willing devate the effort to it."

Prof. Albert Einstein. has repeat- edly warned: "It is useless to attempt to prepare for protection against atomic war. There is 10

defence now and we can expect none."

The background of every workman Most people hope that the United and intending resident will be in- Nations Atomic Energy Commission vestigated by the Security Depart- will arrive at workable plan internationalise raw materials be- fore.

nations, fearing atomic oblitern- tion, seek to assure by. violent means their own supplies of the world's most violent substance.

by

to

ment.

Russia

Fortunately, the three Great Powers-the United States, and Britain--each have enough

Health Problem

In Singapore

uranium and thorium for the fore- seeable future: Until the world's

Dr Mary Ko, Director of the entire mineral resources are found, acolonial -grab" to Lake over a Singapore Public Health Ser- uranium-rich territory and so to vice, told the United Press in eliminate the possibility of another an interview that her tour of state getting it seems unlikely.-

United Press.

United States public health centres had impressed her with the need for a more vigorous approach to the public health- CROSSWORD SOLUTION' Solution of yesterday's puzzle-problem in Singapore. Across: 1 and 10 Down, Hamp- Dr Ka pointed out that the U.S. stead Heath: 8, Ample; 9, Arch; 11, infant mortality rate was 21per 1,000 Ritual: 13, Cue; 15, Kit; 10, Oyster; whereas in Singapore I was 100. 17, Net: 19, Natter; 22, Gnome: 24, She said she visited Honolulu, Zero; 25, Stars; 26, Eastwards.

the West Const, major cities on Down 1, Harmonize; 2, Amity; 3, Chicago and New York before going Plum; 4, Sen; 5, Talk; 0, Acute; 10, to

where she and her Sce

to Washington. 1 Across: 12, Tasters; 13, husband are guests, with Misa Mabel 30, Wong: (also from Singapore) pr

Cinema; 14, Teens; 10, Area; Rota; 21, Herd; 22, Gol; 23, Assi

CHESS PROBLEM

By J. PILNACEK Black. G pieses.

White, ploces White to play and innte in three, Solution to yesterday's Problem:

1,31, any; 2, H, B (die^ch, or, dbl rh), Kt, or HQ, or Kt) måtes.

Frank Hewlett, former correspon-

dent

in Far East.

the

Asited what additional services were needed in Singapore for a first-

health lass public

programme, Dr Ko said more and cheaper hospitals, doctors, trained nurses and public education. She said that with three doctors and 50 nurses, her programme now was unable to meet all the demands on I-United Press.

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

Adoption by Congress of the Declaration of Independence. 2, Rivers. Potamology is the scientific Salvation Army. study of rivera. Boy Scouts Church Army. 4. An- dorra. 5. Four feet in front wicket. 6. Australian const), 7. Rowland Hill. 8. None has a volte 9. Only the mole. 10, Smoke it. Calumet is a cere- monial plpe.

Rupert and the Young Imp-52

The story of Rupert's adventure soon gets around the village, and one by one 'his pals come along to lear about it, so that he gers almos; tired of repeating. it. Pong-Ping and Lily Duckling, and the Rabbit win at very envious of Bill and Pedgy with shared part of the adventure. Rupert takes them into the orchard where they all play with Uncle Bruno's rickets, but though the shuttlecock often goes into a tree is never again comes down with a yourig Imp inside it.

THE END ALL MOUTS-REBäuveu).

(south Yes.

Follow Rupert's new adventure, beginning on

"Monday in the "Telegraph'

Fagin, without the skill of Dickens, could

be equally sorry and drab.

of

These scenes solitude and of timid

and spiteful encoun- ters among' spinsters of both sexes, how-

glow with ever, bizarre lustre.

Here,

THIS book is about Brill, to

but another fringe, that faml- liar but always partly mysterious life of the small detached villa

(15, Hyacinth-avenue), which Shute dea- cribes as "a

"n fairy pleasant te garden with a cyanolis tree and a front small with larger, back one with a lawn and a laburnum tree, and rose bushes."

The hero is a season-ticket holder: and Mr Shute exhibits kim in a turntched, rather inn a cracked,

The fellow most painfully

man, ex- Captain John

who works for

Lid., a rather shabby, slightly underhand Indivi dual, who has his normality sudden. ly undermined by the doctors giving him a short time to live.

Cereal Pro

an

The threat of death causes Turner shake off his normality, the gar- ments of the average, the clothes of self-interest. Ho employs the wretched span allotted to him with a handful of companions who were with him in an air crash in 1943.

Some of them like himself, were from making the journey back Africa to face court-martial charges. The plot of the crashed Hudson is Turner's main object of inquiry, which takes him off on a Journey to post-war Burma, full of realism and

oblcality

a disinterested mission, a search for

JOHN PUDNEY

makes his first

book sofection

for example, is a a parirali of the described as pub in the plece

Well known to those who knew the river well, and, owing to its position or some obscure tradition, of

singled out as the rendezvous the

undertones

F

EDITURE PRESS UKRVICE, INC, se

CARTOČE BY BOTNET BE BAB

"Tell me more about this bogey man that'll get me, Is he capable of interstellar flight, or is he earthbound?"

Priestley breaks the rules

BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

OD

THE THEATRE

JESTS AND JEERS

in so cold in Russia that ti

only thing that enjoys good circuls tion is propaganda.

rood line. is the shortest di tance between two dates.

A clever man tells a woman understands her; a stupid one trid to prove it.

Neatly engraved card displayed li a Hollywood jewellery store bok this inscription: "Wedding Ringi For Hire."

Overheard at the cocktail part "He hasn't proposed yet, but hi voice has an engagement ring 19 Bit."

Then there was the clever that ate cheese and breathed dow the rat hole with balted breath,

Wives should remember that wheệ a husband's words appear sharp. may be because it's from trying t got them in edgowise. ...

She was an innocent appearing wide-eyed girl as she, ant" in 'thi charactere than two, Mr witness stand explaining, it was al Livesey obligingly. and wrong that she had been drivin hilariously plays the part without a licence, disobeying traffi of Rosemary's father, Rose signals and speeding. mary's elderly admirer, and Paul's Even the bearded judgo took shady City friend. Likewise, Ursula fatherly interest in fyer and decided Jeann plays Poul's mother, Rose to be lenient. mary's spiritualist friend, and Paul's rich seductress.

"Now, my dear," he said, "I'm in- clined to believe you, but I wan

THE London Theatre is having a great game of musical chairs. Old fav- Mr Shute's writing, when you get over the ourites are disappearing and

If it's laughter you're after, as Mr. to make sure. Do you know wha first rush of it, is very new managements are rushing Trinder would say, I commend the happens to people who tell lies in easy on the eye, as it in like angels where wise men seduction scene between Hosemary

"Yes, your worship. My lawyer follows the technique

que refuse to stay. Every night's, and her ungalloping major, and the told me all about it," a competent flim.

heart-to-heart inlik between "What did he tell you would hap marches first night in the West End.. story

Rosemary's father and. fance aspen if you told a Ito?" forward through the hidden fringes of the I hope that J. B. Priestley's about the funniest things in town, "Well, he said we might win the

ok

The

court?"

normal, and out of the "Ever Since Paradise” will. This plece breaks all the rules-case." suburbs to Burma and prosper at the New. Here at and about time! it has wit, audn back in

dur last is a witty, unusual souffle city and beauty as well as some masterly dissolves, but

up. For the adventurous

l of realism in place of the heavy Yorkshirely longueurs which ought to be every detail and actuality is at- Pudding of the author's Left theatre-goer I heartily commend tended to, and it must Wing ponderosities.. Here is Grandfather Priestley,

come as a shock to Priestley the artist instead of

M

mc,

Shute, ns

ns it did to

tp discover, on

en Priestley the reformer, even if

I

page 45, the baste he is still anxious to show us rank of the RAF that he is a bit of a lad.

aircraftsmen (well-

war-

Obedient wife

SAW "Life With Father" in New York six years ago and liked it.

The play has been running there ever since and will proliably, if it has not already done no, break the record of "Able's Irish Rose."

TRAINING

""

IN ATOMIC ENERGY

menning printers do it to all of us It was announced from the sooner or later).

had The American armed forces enter stage that Mr Priestley

become # grandfather, into this story with a good deal of just

A training school for boys It has come to the Savoy. It is still and girls of 16 years and over well-to-do in the town itselt, piasis on the problem of black which may account for the re-

versus while.

Indeed the reader juvenation that we saw on the enjoyable, although lacking, perhaps, is to be opened this month by

essentials for completo it had a style of its own, and to will recognise many

familiar

stage. Compared to some of the three be heard of drinking in there was time scenes, which intelligently point his recent efforts, this new pro- success here an American cast, an the Ministry of Supply at the not altogether the same thing as to some of the subtle and varying duction shows our author like

Energy American audience and the American Government Atomic heard of

"of drinking elsewhere. to be

language. of the. British character

Factory at Springfields, near In almost every country town in war and in peace which are so the lively old gentleman in the

Miss Sophie Stewart is quite Preston, England. Gmitted by the glamour liver snits advertisement who frresistible as the obedient wife who The training nowadays there is a house, Q" more than one house, of

thisis of the subscription libra- was always jumping over a stile. always, has her own way, but Mr. boys and girls, who have

school Will give sort,"

Leslie Banks lacks the wooden-

studied Shall we wince a little and go a ̧ A happy knack endows the story

headedness of the husband who insists chemistry at school, a three months He objects. with a character which is slightly pages on:-

on everything being done to suit course in the chemical: methods to This, about five years ago, had greater than life-size. It proves DRIESTLEY does not like dramatic imself.

be used at-the - fectory.--On-the been redecorated by a new pro-

successful completion of the course, prietor,, and in such a startling average, the season-cket holder critics, regarding them as curn- The correct thing is that Mr. students will be given appointments

-fram averso Bourbons manner as to give the impression

on the factory staff. part-100 sensitive and too of having been redecorated only

change or novelty. Therefore when Banks le too good an actor for the the curtain goes up for the last part telligent. yesterday--in fact, I would prob-

of the play one of the characters says ably, as numerous saloon lounges all ov

over the country do, bear per- manently the stamp of redecora- tion.

few

"The house being Elizabethon in origin, a curious aim at an Eliza bethan manner had been made in the way of black beams, wooden panelling, uncomfortable black chairs and

tables, odd picoca of armour, suspended swords, and most indecipherable Gothic letter Ing over the doors. But upon

this

a Scottish atmosphere had been imposed..

ties.

once again how the ordinary, the

stting next to you, can still, in the hands of an expert. furnish the very stuff of literature.

THE HUCKSTERS, by Frederic Wakeman. (The Falcon Press, 12s, Gd.)

which is American com-

brzome

What's now in records

Mr. Crosby and Mr. Jolson

L JOLSON, that remarkable A

enjustainer, comes up again this month with ·Calí fornia, here I como," (which he does as if he meant it), and *Neck-n-bye baby, with a Dixo melody." Mr. Jolson allli singa with the guste that made him popular in the, darly days of talking Aims: lip does not try to re-dress his style to suit the foibles of 1947. (Brunswick DJ710.)

to another: "I don't see how we con commentioned malte a third net out of this. At anv rate the critics will say that it is not a play at all or words to that

effect. But

refuse to be put off by THIS book is about America, and this old device. "Ever Since Parn- It alko *portrays one of the diso" is a very good play indeed, even curious fringes of the scene. Not at the second net becomes so non- chalant that'll seems little more than physically scamy side this, but

u charade chromium-plated, air-conditioned, dressed-to-kill slicked-up, groomed The curtain rises on two planes at But let me explain the technique, down fringe

either side of the stage, with the mercial radlo.

The story threads its way through httractive Jane Carr playing one and that almost Incredible back stage the amusing Dennis Arundell plaving To add to the confusion, which te hidden from so many of the

other. And there they sit in

destruction

of the other us by the Great American Smile. Methrough the evening making up in- Illusions, there were two electrie Fredeule Wakeman leaves the reader

cidental music, quarrelling with each ball-machines (one representing, in no doubt about the setting of the other, and even taking part in the when lit end clicking, an imitatory-

general discussions. tion of the sport of racing-

Then we have Roger Livesey in New York, ...and

more motoring, and the other

his best form, which rooms from than any other place

on earth, sport of ski-ing); a glass-enclosed

chimed him. This morning there Donald. Wolfit to Sid Field, and his machine with a chromium-plated

was a tense but good feeling of stage wife (who is also his real one). which was by crane,

natural

being home again, and he savoured one. They uro

Ursula Jeans, who is all worhen in capable of extracting

those luxurious signs

divorced couple o of home

of-amicable relations. They basis of which, even in warlime, had not lis

20 a. the disappeared from Unla part of the talk about marriage:

talics Everybody

- about city; his part of the city, the high pianists. rent, expensive, snobbish, hust-marriage, for this is what the play is about. Now and then they stop ling, gossiping, drinking, connivinding to each other and talks to the

show-olly: East Side,

watches

of the

Jaw

cameras,

and wallets, but which practice brought forth

in historica!

nothing save

one or two hard. console the "Derfor several green-leather,

pea-like sweets to

chromium-plated hight

Th

ave bar, and

along

women

audience.

the

a moder green carpet with whorls which put one

doormen Kiill looked de-. Behind a curtain -up-stage there →→ and tip-hungry, the selling which becomes a laboratory In mind of sen-sickness Memoria Just up

still the road from tids

analysing

marringo walked little de nylons, and for My Oxford dictionary telli mo that dry and Paul,” two

young scene dwells the soliede and meanness created by a buckster daya pedin, Zawicer; Shelton and Hugh Kelly.

excellently played by Joy Patrick Hamilton with all the mercenary person, and of course weapons of sensibility, humour and, the background at this story is the story from their first meeting to the We see the pitiful, episodio - llitte frony. It is a British under-world,, mighty hawking of American com- tangled end at the divorce lawyer's. not, I hasten to add, criminal, but merce upon the American ale.. But since the episodes need more

NANCY Heartburn

THAT, NEW GIRL INVITED SLUGGO.

TO' HER HOUSE

FOR LUNCH

I HEAR YOUY HAD LUNCH, WITH THAT

BRAINY.

GIRLATEN TODAY

SHE MADE *PANCAKES

SHE'S NOT YOUR TYPE, SLUGGD- WHAT DO YOU

HAVE, IN

COMMON WITH HER 7

Bing Crosby also produces a good new record with Version of "A gal in calico," THO and "Oh but I up." orchestra Decompanying him is directed very well by John Scott Trotters and the first number introduces SOMO Balanced close harmony and unison singing from the Calico Kids.

Mr. Crosby can still sing. . It is one of the most plansing record, inga swe isave liad from hips for some lime and fireminds me of his; work some years before the wear.

Brunswick 03775.)

in-

Experience on the wax does -'coumi.with the enormous record buying public. Ma Jalaun ta salling in his tens of thousands and Ms Croaby ..well, he IE schling just as much. DE ever.

Robert Tradionick.

By Ernie Bushmiller

INDIGESTION

..

Springfields will be used for the manufacture of uranium metal. The processes to be carried out there will consist of the refining of pitchblende concentrates, reduction to metal and the machining

and finishing of uranium metal roda which will be rent elsewhere fo Insertion in a chain-reacting plle.

Boys and girls who are taking

chemistry as one of their subjects In their school leaving examinations will be invited to take part in the work at Springfields.

Analytical Work It is pointed out that

tha pro- gramme for the production of ntomic energy involves a great deal of chemical analytical work, especial ly in connection with the chemical examination of raw materials and finished products to be used in the energy

unlts. Although,

the anoducing thods are numer

ous, complicated and often novel, K great deal of valuable

assistance can

be given by young persons if they.. nre properly trained and work: under expert supervision.

Both in the factory operations and in chemical analytical works, the most stringent medical precautions will be taken to avoid any hazard to the health of the workers:

The young assistants will be en- couraged to take courses in funda- mental selence and. subjects de signed to qualify them for the more- responsible duties of the nasistant class or for promotion to the ex- perimental officer class. Permanent appointments will eventually filled by open competition. It anticipated that about, 40 students will attend each of the two courses to be held this year..

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