Courtesy Wikimedia Ceylon was strategically important as it had a command and control of the Indian Ocean and was a “mere stepping stone” to India. Shortly after the Pearl Harbour attack, the East ...

MR. JAMES HORNELL, who is still in Ceylon carrying on the investigation of the pearl-oyster fisheries which I started in 1902, tells me in a letter just received that he has now succeeded in ...

THE administrative report for 1934 of the marine biologist of Ceylon, Mr. A. H. Malpas, shows that as the results of restricted inspections by dredging of the pearl banks there were no spatfalls ...

furnishas the finest pearls as well as mo-ther-ot-pearl: it is found round the coasts of Ceylon, near Ormus, in the Persian Gulf, at Cape Comorin, and in some of the Australian seas. The dealers ...

Records indicate that the British earned considerable revenue from Ceylon pearls; for instance, from March 1828 to May 1837 alone, Sterling Pounds 227,131 were credited as revenue into the Ceylon ...

Ootacamund, April 22: It is understood that the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries this year were a failure on the whole by reason of the fact that the great majority of oysters dived and brought out were ...

Later on, Captain Nemo invites him and Professor Aronnax to visit the Ceylon fishery. Willy Fog, in his diving suit, observes the difficulties of the pearl divers. Donald Trump's Approval Rating ...

In the seaport of Jaffna, an angry mob of 3,000 Tamils, a linguistic and religious minority, battled police in protest against the substitution of Singhalese for English as Ceylon’s official ...

It was early dawn, April 4, 1942, that RCAF Squadron Leader Len Birchall of RCAF 413 Tusker Squadron, and his 8 crewmen took off from their base in Ceylon searching for a suspected Japanese fleet.

“The Times of Ceylon” has the following under date April ... Several cloth merchants are leaving camp. The pearl market is very dull.