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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949.

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BUTCHER

"It's like this, lady-the French are sending us

a certain quantity of meat providing we buy some of their luxury goods."

So much

sweat

-so little marge!

HE world hungers for fats. The East African bush has a great ap- petite, too. It has gnawed away many high hopes, and chewed up quantities of costly equipment. And it is making a meal of some of the juicy promises made when the Pea- nut Project was launched by the jubilant waving of a White- paper nearly two years ago.

Grand work has been done by the 1,700 Europeans and 22,000 Africans who are wearing the hide off Africa to plant margarine.

But how mean and menacing at the statistics. How puny the pro- gress reports.

the

In Kongwa, the only area where more than experimental planting is being done, they are sowing seeds now, working night and day on a brick-red plateau nearly 4,000 feet above sea level.

Sunflowers, too

neres, nearly half of it peanuts, the rest with

MILES,

KENYA

MOMBASA

MKALAMA

TANGANY

KOKBOA

(ONGWA

GROUND NUT AREA

OROGORO

TERRITORY

OCEAN

¿PAR ES SALAAM

JOHN REDFERN meets the tough mon who can't fight jungles with a trumpet

against the Kongwa soil, which for most of the year is like brick. The first root-cutters wero ruined in seven hours' working,

or-

C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN. SCENE

JUST TONS TO EAT

NEW YORK.

MEAL so big that the chef gave orders

A through a public address system was served

recently in this land of so much plenty.

The occasion was the Governor's annuni banquet at Tallahassee, capital of the playground. State of Florida.

The menu included 71 whole cattle, 100 whole hogs, or 13 tons of meat. Chef Lloyd Rhoden began his vaat cooking operation at dawn the day before.

Forty conviels from a 'prison camp arst dug 40 pits and then lit a fire in each of them. All day they chopped firewood from a nearby forest.

At nightfall Rhoden decided he had enough ombers to begin his barbecue, as such fensta are called In America. The meat was thrown on in great chunks.

"The secret is to cook 'em ulow," chef Rhoden told me by telephone. It'll take a good 20 hours to do 'em to a turn. It ain't like scrambling eggs, you know,"

Cuests at the banquet formed 48 queues to get their porilons.

AL

LL LIFT BOYS in the U.S. will soon gel a manual on good manners from an assocfution of skyscraper owners,

COME WHAT MAY, the unions are to hold out for

still more money. At the same time the American Federation of Labour, the American equivalent of the TU.C., announces that It is getting ready for a

drop In employment. Its remedya 30-hour working week. for everyone.

and found themselves tent-bound in front of an office tray.

BILL has been introduced in New York to ban television In cars. Said the Bill: "It would pro- duco more smash-ups and kill and mnim more people than bad brakes, drunken driving, and ley roads."

DESSEMER CITY, North Carolina; all Seven prisoners were freed "on their honour" when Are destroyed the loun hall in which is the focal gant. Sald tho authorities: "We can pick them up. Inter."

MRE. WHITTINGIHLL, aged 100,

A died in Lebanon, Indiana, fény- ing only one other American Civil War. veteran alive in the Stnie, out of the thousands who fought the Union armies.

A

NEW YORKER'S HOME is his The lessons should be heeded castle only if he well-off. in London. The selection of recruits What he has long suspected, he was should be tightened

today by no less up. There is told bluntly

Special no lack of candidates, and there authority must be less shilly-shallying about Judge Frank Oliver. Said Oliver, when wives go out.

testifying before a committee inquir- ing into unlawful search:-

T

The cost

than

ELTR Sessions

"New York has at least 200 secret policemen trained to invade homes"

to day or night without warrants,

to

THE project Is "vest" all right.earch people without warrants, and

It is well to take a deep breath warrants."

Belze anything they want without before

counting the cost. The But what worries the judge' more call on the Treasury, said the than the absence of warrants is that. initial White-papez, is not

kely the police do not go Into the .to exceed £23 million.

taking homes of "the better people-only

into account the sale of the the under-crust." Americans boast of erops. But Mr Strachey, at Nairobi their Bill of Rights, but New lust summer, hinted at £50 Even water is n problem. Ai millon-and even this he describe York's Bill of Rights, said the judge.

is a "tragle farce." Nachingwe, in

southern as "arbitrary." the

Here is a sample WOMEN are advised to give up province, the ration for all pur- of how figures can go adrift: the W their seats in buses and trains poses is two gallons per person

estimate --of £1,750,000

capital to men. Dr George, Lawton, daily. After personal washing!,

expenditure the water is used for the laundry,

specialist in geriatrics (a study of £4,200,000 before the end of 1947. the health of the aged), recommends

For

concessions to help the pennutters In

Already Africa,

the charges for equip- this and other #2 there Is a bleak

Mr ment echo to

demands men to live longer. That is the only rising, and. bre

At this minute, in Manchester and other Industrial centres, hak В itozen companies and research ganisations are pinned down by single directive: and something that will stand up to Kengwa sell. Thirly to 40 different types of equipment

test. Now! Bre under

Two years after the Government decided to Go

THEY are planting about 50,000 To It in the bush!

with sunflowers, The three-man mission which first the seed of which yields two-thirds surveyed the territory dismissed the oil produced by groundnuts. The existing dala on land use because of peanut acreage is 22,500-less than the gulf between local peanut 4 percent of the 600,000--neres-methods-and-mass--mechanisation. acre have been scheduled in the plan for this sca- But could not one

bashed, flattened, and de-rooted_be- fore the Grand Allack in which Africa made a meat of a mountain of equipment?

son.

Perhaps that will give us 2,500 tons of oil. Turned into margarine that is not going to make much dif- ference. We alrendy consume 36,000 tons a year, and grumble about the shortage.

chief plate yet. The far fr the bashed-down bush

Road convoys

WHAT about the communications, Even that 2.500 tons is on nobody's WH

and the port situation? Convoys exports so have to so by road from the vital port of Dar-es-Salaam, 200 miles seem to be Memoranda and Moans away, to relieve the pressure on the Memos, mounting daily as efforts single railway: It sometimes takes are made to overcome a succession

Moans from misiils and five days because of boggy roads.

of mags.

project."

for

1917-8

became

our

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Strachey's battle-crles from London are increasing. Until ՀՄԸ know way, he says, to solve for women about "this vast and unprecedented where they will stop it is no use one of the great problems of old telling us that the fantastic world age at Jeast eight years of widow-

hood. price of Froundnuts (more roW BUSINESS: After

£80 of men

a ton) is running After talking to scores

years' absence in France, Sessuo out there, working for both the favour.

Hayakawa, Hollywood's most sinis- Overseas Food Corporation and

There I 19. A thrilling vision, ter villain of the silent days, in back the contracting firms, I know.

creaking, trouble-plagued actuali- to play the part of a more modern that in places morate is suffering. ty.

called So much sweat, 50 little Japanese villain in a m

"Tokyo Joe". The great Garbo is for to show for it. At Kongwahendquarters,

almost ready to give up her-come- instance,

а I met number of But we are committed, and no back...."Frank Sinatra is making I-want-to-go-home types. Some just one who has seen our tough a fortune from an oil well called cannot take the bush, more were adventurers al work

doubt "Crooner Number One" which he feeling strangled by red tape; the that some day the trumpets that bought as n speculation....Holly majority were misfits who had blew top soon may blow again wood fat mall has dropped off 50. dreamed romantically of ploneering to some purpose.

percent.

can

CAPTAIN FOX'S ATOMIC SPACESHIP

66W/HAT are you and the

W wife doing this week-

end? Nothing in particular?

*

from better men who are bafiled At Dar, peanutters, sweltering in 97 Oh, good, well how about a trip By PETER DITTON

& cigarette.

and

Icss

scientists Like all fanious professors who are reputed to be abrent-minded, Captain Fox has his.

According to his wife he never remembers to bring goloshes hong from the office. So just to and bedevilled by setbacks. paper percent humidity and practically to the moon?"

10,000 tons could be built to

rise make sure he doesn't forget to bring work, and shortage of supplies. breathing invisible rain, strive to Such a conversation may sound through the air at eight miles per them home from the moon she funnel material for The Project fantastic to you, but to Captain Ed- hour and then coast past the muon What are the chief causes of the

is planning to make the trip with through a hterage port. They ward Ceell Evans Fox of the Royal and on to Mars and Venus. voor progress made? My on-the-juve 38 lighters

him. All the other explorers in the now and dre Canadian Engineers' Reserve, former To reduce the friction of the air spot examination suggests two.

champing Impatiently

party will take their wives as well. for more. president

the Aeronautical before getting beyond the pull of Just where the money to finance- MUCH TIME was lost in the Another 20 are on the "Prime Mints Institute of Canada, and ex-editor the earth's gravity, Captain Fox this expedition is coming from is a 1.

which is high priority.of the Canadian Air Force Review. plans to have his spaceship launched little hazy at the moment. On top Brst year because east-off fer's List." equipment was used, and later be. But it is at Dar that they are want it is no more unusual than lighting from the top of a mountain. It will of the amount needed to construct

have hydraulic electronically- enuse of the shortage of spares. New ed.

the spaceship, nuclear fuel to toke For Captain Fox, lanky, balding, controlled tripod legs to enable it to it to its destination will be another bulldozers and vehicles were just Some time this summer tenders

40-year-old engineer, has got his land on the pinnets, but for the first big item, and it is doubtiul if the not available for the 1946 ploncers, will be taken for the construction

plans all worked out for an atonic trip the Captain is not planning on frip could be undertaken at But delays continued when new of a deepwater berth--there Isn't

spaceship which he expects will landing. Instead he will use the thin £2,500,000. material arrived because the supply

one at present,

take him with other engineers and whole of the time studying ihr of spares iingered behind. Jeeps

and tabulating data for are still stuck because of a missing

Certainly Captain Fox cannot lay Port ofeints

there look their wives on a three-month trip planets down

round the planeta in 1950.

future visits.

his hands on such a large amount, spare wheel. But spares ure at last a shade wistful when one man-

Two hundred foot long, fly feet

well. but as he said recently "It is Improving-after much damage has. tions the edict of the Overseas

wide, with one bull inside the other,-

within the means of Canadian In- been done,

Food Corporation in London that

the spaceship will cost one and a The spaceship will be fitted with dustry with United States and the port's capacity must be increased quarter million pounds, not counting an ordinary radio on the off-chance British co-operation. It could easily THE RUSH to get down to 50 percent. this year, and doubled food and stores. Refrigeration will that the occupants will be able to be saved, simply by not spending. 2. peeling away the bush did not by next year.

make it possible to cruise round the pick up programmes from the earth, money on preparing for wars."\ rive time for our men to learn what a terrific resistance Africa puts up They are working nt top pres-planets despite the terrine heat and but it this is not possible they will

If spaceships are the alternatives when attacked.

#uru now-and no roundnuts are a regenerative engine will be cool not be worried. Records and books

ed by its own fuel. Captain Fox in plenty will be one of the major to wars then Captain Fox and men going home yet.

has great faith in his spaceship and stora liems, and any time the octu- of his calibre should be encouraged. Inland the troubles are no less now that the United States Navy is pants tire of looking out the window. It is difficult to imagine what harm The badly frayed no of com-oxperimenting with Atomic drives of the spaceship they can always could be done by, a trip to the munications in being strengthened for its ships, he hopes to have a return to reality by listening to the moon-If it la possible-unless, of by a system which links 30,000-acre model ready this spring. If it rises voice of Bing Crosby, or rending one course, it opens up the way for an The peanutters were sent in to field units. But this is only just to a height of 3,000 feet he feels of the lighter works of G. K. Chee Invasion of the earth from ́another."

planet! batter their heads and "pleks" starting.

sure that a full-sized spaceship of terlen

of

True, the soil was investigated Arst, but in part on the basis small-scale cultivation where no bush problem was involved.

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