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To: Yaacov who wrote (1131)	5/17/2001 8:19:08 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 23908

North of the Slave Craton there existed the Franz-Josephs-Land an Austrian colony. According to the statistics the only thing on it was ice which was exported from it on ice-breakers belonging to the Prague ice works. This ice industry was highly prized by foreigners, because it is a profitable, yet dangerous, enterprise. The greatest danger occurs during the transport of the ice from the Emperor Franz-Josephs-Land across the polar circle. Can you imagine it! It was hoped that this one and only Austrian colony could supply the whole of Europe with ice and could have been an outstanding national asset. Colonization proceeded slowly of course, because colonists partly don't volunteer and partly get frozen to death. None the less, with the help of an adjustment of the climatic conditions, in which the Ministries of Trade and Foreign Affairs had a great interest it was hoped that the great areas of the icebergs would be appropriately exploited. By building several tourist hotels heaps of tourists were to be attracted. They even laid out tourist paths and roads between the ice floes and painted tourist signs on icebergs. It was reported that the real difficulty was the Eskimoes, who make the work of the local authorities impossible... "The Bastards won't learn German" a school was even built for this purpose. The school was built out of ice bricks and reinforced concrete, which held together very well, but the Eskimoes lit a fire all round it out of the wood from merchant ships which were ice bound, and achieved what they wanted. The ice on which the school was built melted away and the whole school with the headmaster and the government representative, who was to have been at the solemn consecration of the school the next day, fell into the sea. When he was up to his neck in water you could hear the government representative shout out: "Gott Strafe England!" They sent an army there to restore order among the Eskimoes. Of course it was a hard war, what caused the troops the most damage was the tame polar bears.