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GOODWINS BEATEN;

On the first time in history

the Goodwin Sands have surrendered some of their swal- booty-1,288 ions of lead, lowed worth more than £100,000, Sal- hove vage contractors and divers retrieved the lead

from

The

wreckage of the American freighter, North Eastern

Victory,

the

which went aground on Inds on Christrans Eve, 1940.

W. Robinson. .Mr

oficer in charge of operations said:

"It

is the first time cargo has been a vessel which salvaged from

104

Bettled below water on the Goodwins"

Salvage work was started in 1047 and the result is a personal umph for three divers

***

Aplin

and J. G. Smith, of Southampton, and D. Youngs, of They

Harwich

Pinmll, near Har worked at a depth of To feet in complete darkness, and some- times were hard at it for eight hours a day. One of their best days was on Whit Monday when

hey ralocd 40 they

of lead. tona

The divers operated from the tug Foremost 18. It was 2 'dif- feuit job. They had to sort 105 pound Ingols of lead from hun dreds of tons of zice, flour and colton which it was impossible to salvage. In addition and Continually piled up in the holds This had to be of the vessel.

cleared before the lead could be (reed.

T

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JUNE

Ри

"I suppose there's still time for them to nationalize sport.".

London Express Service

Wicksteed turns up

ANCHORAGE, Alaska.

aS is an odd place. After a week

here I still don't know if it is

AND SAYS:

RAK HELP HARVEST: THE Royal Air Force is to offer the greatest possible help lo farmers in Britain in harvesting food crops during the next fow Here's the sort of thing that happens. months. A scheme similar to At four o'clock one Saturday afternoon I those oporated in previous years climbed aboard what seemed to be a has been drawn up whereby as many airmen as can be spared perfectly normal airliner, manned by a

Service duties will be Ient crow of ordinary-looking Requests from the agricultural mortals, and left Yokohama, Japan, to fly to the Now authorities for RAF Distanco will be co-ordinated by RAF ro-

World. gional welfare offers, who will also arrange the distribution of

Christmas Day, Midsummer Night' reached Alaska

three hours before

or Friday. Sometimes I'm not even sure what century I'm in.

from

to assist farmers short of labour.

Night fell over the Pacific,

the available airmen. Subject to another day dawned, wo sto the approval of County Agricul- breakfast on an Aleutian island, tural

may

Committees,

In addition to these arrange ments for the loan at alemen to give full-time

I had left Japan...

BERNARD WICKSTEED

A pilot told me that before taking off he once threw some villagers a couple of oranges. They took one look at them as they lay in the snow and fled in terror. Aircraft they under- stood, but not oranges,

Yet, in spite of the aeroplanes, the gold rush days,

A

acre.

little 'under n

penny

An

was con-

At the time this sidered awild extravagance. But now the army alone spends that much money every week making sure the Russians don't take it back, and no one says a thing. In fact, somo. of the business men in Anchorage secretly toast Uncle Joe as the greatest benefactor Alaska has ever had.

In

spite of the roads, rail- ways, pipelines, bulldozers, and alfields, there is still plenty of wild life.

Executive kimmers in

vicinity in the immediate

of Eastern Alaska. Then, at Air Ticket No. 1-supplies of RAF units ma make arrange- ments for short-term help direct pan, we landed at Anchorage an explanation of how a where Captain Cook globe-trotter can got into the commanding officers. with

(close to

stato where ho "doesn't made a landfall once).

what day it is." Now then, what day of the know help on farms, Airmen and airwomen are being week would you say that was? No, sir, t was still encouraged to volunteer for farra Sunday? work in off-duty hours.

Saturday. Farmers may hire RAF vchi- cles for harvest work when their or other local transport own resources are insufficient,

and lunched above the glaciers using Round the World you can still get the feeling of, wild horned sheep in the moun

SHE ENJOYS IT: MRS Liljan Charlton of Upper Tooung, London, is 50, but lu a grey two-plece suit she marched as smartly as any across

During the night Wo had crossed the Internationt date- Inc and put clocks back 24 hours, thus enabling us to per

the astonishing feat of arriving in Alaska three hours before we had left Japan,

form

1

spent a night at a place called Palmer. The frontiersmen had put up a notice calling their three-shop town "The future capital of Alaska,"

At the same time that they

During a 300-mile drive along the famous highway I saw a dozen moose, a herd of caribou, tains, cagies soaring above the beavera In the canyons and lakes.

Tale of a bear

VERY log cabin that we passed had a wolf or a

**************** pointed this out, they told me to look out of my window at -Wages are probably higher alx the next morning because at grizzly bear skin nailed to the Ihan enowhere ele in the world. that hour every day an old cow, wall to dry. The biggest bears and her calf strolled in the world come from Alaska A gamo warden took me In through the only stroet An unskilled labourer gets 9. moose

his plane specially to show mo Even

one.

an hour, a carpenter 12%, a tyolst £20 a week, and a bank

in Anchorage It Im't clerk £25. On the other hand, hard to think yourself back into It costs 10. to get your hair the days of Jack London.

It was eating a bull moose on the Ice of a lake in the moun- cut.

The main street is half a mile talná, Like the Eskimos, the I'm gli trying to work out

long. On one sido I counted 32 bear was so used to planes that the square of Wellington Bar-whether this is the fastest trip

places where you could buy he didn't look up at us, He racks as a Welsh Guards drum-ever made by man (3,500 miles

Ïtquor and on the other side 20. just went on with his dinner. Elght shops had guns on dis- Iner beat time. Out in Birdcage Walk, a crowd peeped curiously in minus three hours), or the

ever heard of play, and there were only 11 sipwest (because when it was HAD you

where through the railings.

Anchorage before? Nor had slores

you could buy "Pick'em up there," roared over we were three hours fur- Regimental Sergeant Major Arther back than when we stari- I, to be honest. Yet it is the food.

·largest - ciy-in-Alaska,-popula- tion 10,000.

dur Rees. Mrs Charlton forgoted).

her grey hairs and did as sho

was commanded. She was one of

300 British Red Cross VADs—

their ages ranged from late teens

It

Air centre

was first laid out by a regiment of army engineers in

Quick change

of the year up 1015

as a railway town, hut

turned into

Law and order

"Watch him now," said the warden, put.ing the nose of the aircraft down and diving. For a moment the great animal's con- fidence left him and-ho-shuffled a few steps away. Then, as we shot over a few feet above his head, he raised himself on his O long as it is not concealed hind lege and struck at us with you can still go about with his paw-a grand act of de- a gun on your hip (though few dance. peoplo do), Every Almgoer

to lato sixties--being trained for THE GERIORS a. London parade on July 3. here are just as puzzling as since then it has Guardsmen

encourage the days of the week. When I one of the great air contres of knows how law and order came We rose and circled again and ruent

from

and door-

arrived Alaska looked as if it the world.. ways as they marched and

Tho was in the grip of winter. counter-marched.

trees were bare, the lakes and Bald Mrs Charlton afterwards: "I enjoyed my hours square

frozen, the land bashlag." And R. S. M. Rees add-covered by snow.

ed: "Not bad for the first time. Not bad at all."

rivers

scents

was

Tho

inhabitants · bonst

But I fear the bear wan

to the West. In the same way the bear went back to his a social conscience is dawning moose, doubtless muttering to himself that it was only one of that in the North. Not long ago a these seroplanes after all. Stupid they are the most air-minded rader was refused a liquor

licence.

And the grounds were people thinking they could alter people in the world, and have that in every block there must the course of nature with their a week later. it one seroplano to every 40 of the. bo at least one store that sells machines. Now, just

Certainly I have something else besides drink. like midsummer. The popula.lon. day temperature is up in the never seen so many planes in 70', the sun shines from three one place, even in Europe dur- Miss Jay in the morning till nearly ten Cowner, local counell clerk, at night, a hundred varieties of ing the war. called on Mr J. C. Bo-Maren, dowers are in bloom, and, if of Burgess Hill, Essex, who has you go for a-walk in the woods. a form of 10 million bees. She you'll meet more mosquitoes in asked him to make a bee sting half an hour than you would us and a fourth is being built. The

He did

BEE STINGS A JOY:

THE

other

day

*08

10 other visits the samu

n week in the tropica

much better. for it. She has been as a boy was.

thing happened-now Joy feels.

airfields

The city has three (one milliary and two civil),

milltary Aeld te crammed with

jet fighters, I counted 30 in the The Alaska that I read about air at once this morning. The full of gold, other two felds are used by the nt littlo Goatplanes,

Theumatism sufferer for years. stampeding sainers, and women warms Lately she had been told that the called Eskimo Neil. You hit the buro le a bee sting. Joy says she trail by acroplane now, and in helleopters, and amphibians hat i feeling the bonent of this and summer the new Alaskan High- servo the isolated trappers and

so are several other local people way through Canada delures the miners. who have since "laken theplace with tourists.

cure."

A Journey that used to take

Soventy four years old Mr Coal is more profilable to die weeks by dog team now takes

an hour

and Beo.Mason says: "I've never had than gold, the miners have only

or two. rhoumatiem in my life, and I put joined

a trade

unlon (wages: Eskimos who have never seen it down to having the bos-polson £37 10. to £60 a week), and a car in their lives know all

In my blood." He has been stung the women have all been to abou. handling aircraft on the és many, as 50 times a day. high school

ground.

State's Rake-in On

On Gamble

FRANCE'S National Lottery

that important financial

asset which provides France'a'

By SAM WHITE

Chancellor of the Exchequer The profit to the French with £10,000,000 a year is 10 Exchequer is 40 percent of the this.month.

tickets bought.

was the week of the Bikini bomb test," or "That's when the Berlin .crisis started." :

·

He also claims that there has been a considerable change in the reactions of, Jottery winners, In the early years of the lottery. winners became publle figurer overnight," and

ugain paupers almost os quickly.

It was started in 1933 as b That is a minimum proff temporary measure to finance which is substantially increased ́ox-Servicemen's pensions. by the State's own winnings in its own lotteries. Major prizes Now the French Parliament are often found among those have passed a law to maintain tickets which are unsold, and Today, lottery winners avold the lottery till 1051, confming the Blate pockets the winnings photographers and the majority the old adage that in France To check public suspicions on prefer to send nominees to nothing is permanent unless it: this amen the lottery has been collect the winnings

is frei declared, temporary. JUN modernised and is now worked

Tyszkowe Lottery winners are the only

"Today" 80 percent adult population of France buy Director Barber my that the anxious to tell the French & weekly lottery ilekat. They bost weeks of the lottery are Inland revenue of their wind- Gong for anything from a top those in which nows is dull.. Falls, Winnings are, tax fren so prize of £15.000 to a 2. com. He points to the many charts they explain their situation to on the walls of his office and avoid later questioning, an Tickets franke, from 178 to a whom there is a advere did in Arka

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RETRONAGENS Electrient Y-SA section of the community

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PINSTRIPE GENERAL

TURNS TOUGH

DUSSELDORF. ▼IFTY – TWO - YEAR - OLD General "Alec" Bishop sat at his dosk Dusseldorf's Military Government headquarters and watched a door close.

in

It slammed behind 20 Gor- mans-the Ruhr's political big business, trade union, and elvic leaders, to whom the thin-faced Ruhr Military Governor had just delivered an ultimatum: "You

and your workers

will

obey my orders."

Ho told them:

A door slams and a f

fuse is

all set for the

APPROACHING SHOWDOWN

in Germany.

by CHARLES WIGHTON

You will So blatant is the propaganda

that one Ruhr

carry out the Brilish Military now Govemment order, which I have

ernor has urged that there was Christian way to solya tho problema of the two peoples, Even now he told the 20 „Ger- mans who appeared before him: "I am more than reluctant to take any drastic steps to carry out my orders."

The General' warned the 20 Germans that he would close the four plants to permit dis- mantling to continuo-but he did not answer the question of the German how to persundo demolition squads to play his orders and machinery.

pull down

tho

So General Bishop, in his tall, red alone Dusseldorf head- news- quarters, once the hood office of and Mr Hitler's ́rical cartel,

received, to dismantle four alt- paper hinted that any German gevin in his acroplano over tha labourer who dared obey Gen

did ther to

have already been defled by eral 'shop's orders-and 'your workers' organised resist start dismantling work—would

ance.

eventually face a German court 1 STAND FIRM-and face the for treachery to the Relch,

consequences of an open "I give you until 23.50 hours

breach with 45 million Germans on Sunday to obey. You have

shortly-to-be-elected But General Bishop gets little and the until then to arrange for the resistance to be stopped. After help in his fight against German West German Government for expensive which the British haro worked that, if you are sti deflant, I shall order all work now taking officially called the Information

"British Council" in Germany to hard; place In the four establishments

propagandn.

The

to stop forthwith, so that dis- Servios Division-suffers from carried out atrophy whenever diamantling mantling can be

is mentioned. without interference."

New Iron Man

on

SURRENDER to the German nationalist clamour, stop dis mantling and so give up what the Allies fought for, and what they have achieved in Germany

in four years.

For months General Bishop- mistakenly taken out of uniform War Office orders last winter

Nineteen thousand uniformed has worked to win over the German policemen, many of.

haa talked to them ex-Wehrmacht soldiers, the polley, flew back from German. He

British off- Blackpool to Paris, the British them, dined with them, played have top-ranking.

Leading. Germans cers, who will instantly order

s Mr Bevin, the man behind

general, who for four years has with them. told bis friends, The Germans have been his constant valiors. the Germans to carry out Gen-

chaps after are not such bad

eral Bishop's instructions... To his Buchmanite German all," had been forced to adopt

"The Iron Con- friends the Ruhr Military Gov- the role of queror."

For the big showdown be- tween an organised and trucu- lent Germany and the British occupation power has come-

German the biggest since a admiral faced Montgomery on Luneberg Heath four years ago.

the

Hundreds of jeering Ruhr tradesmen, who barred gates of the four condemned plants to British-supervised dis- mantling teams, are the spear- head of an organised attack on the rights and powers of the occupation forces in Germany.

Written orders by General Bishop's staff to the dismantling labourers were contemptuously ignored, and the workers in the plants warned the demolition gangs what would happen if they obeyed General Elshop.

High Church dignitaries who ordered a "week of prayer for the British" the widely tipped 73- future German President, year-old Dr Konrad Adenauer: white-haired Dr Hans Boeckler. friend of the British T.U.C. and head of the West German trades

aro unions-all

behind thin glant German conspiracy to save industrial plants.

Major war plants such Krupp's, or half-peace, half-war works such as the four, which

the have stirred up

present crisis-"all must be saved for the Reich"

Four million trade unionisis, by a defant command, of the West German T.U.C. issued a few hours ago, are behind the workers' resistance to General Ellshop's orders,

now- For months German

and paper editors,-politicians, leaders of public life in General Bishop's Ruhr province have carried on A Goobbels-liko anti-dismantling, and often anti-British, campaign.

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GET HIM OUT OF THIS!

A

by ERNEST DUDLEY

(The Armchair Detective)

VALUABLE shipment of sponges bought by the Brm of O. P. Port, Unity & Co. for use as door-knockery has been stolen from Wigan Docks.

Salp Carton, Insurance Agent, ressives the sensational news by carrier-pigeon and proceeds posi-haste by tricycle to the scene of the crime.

Travelling overland via Crewe Junction, Snip reaches bis destination three days and seventeen punctures later. Parking his iron steed with the pier-master, he sela out to cover the waterfront.

The unsuspecting Snip Carton la trapped and tripped by Cap'n Clenchist, tight-fisted boss of Wigan's 'under- world, who has purloined the sponges. The Cap'n and his gang gag Snip Carton and tie his feet.

Using a slip-knot, the Cap'n then is his victim by the ankles, to a crane-hook and has him holsted high above the quayside,

Leaving Salp Carton suspended over the funnels of slow boat to China, the dastirdly Cap'n locks the crane- cabin, throws the key over the quay. As his hideous cackle.

echoes across the dark waters, Cap'n Clench- Est rows to a res dezvous

with the svelte, hypnote Mata Harriet, singer at the notorious promenado night-club.

And so, once again; Snip --Carton,~-Inkine ance Agent, faces oer- Lain death by (a) suffocating from the from the fun- (b) when

when the slipknot roping him to the hook slipa

smoke

p to his doom

the funnel to

the furnace below, or (c) hiccups.

Unless YOU GET HIM OUT OF THIS! All the

clues picture.

are

the

(Solution on Page 17).

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