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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10,
What you should know about Christmas
HE original Christmas
tree was a date palo. Egyptians were the first to uso such trees as symbols. The palm puts forth a shoot cách month; a palm with 12 shoots signi- fied a year completed. The Germans, with whom the Christmas tree came to this country, originally used. Egyptian pyramids in place of palm troos, which did not grow in Germany.
Copyright, 1949, King, Features: Syndicate, Ind
Britain May Take Tobacco From
From India
London, December 8.
Britain in the coming years may well figure os a big buyer of Indian tobacco, subject to prica and quality, British officials indicated today. However, they refused to the year and which represents 19 AND ACCESSORIES disclose Britain's buying promote supply at the current rate of smoking, although they would gramme for Indian tobacco prefer to hold a still larger stock, for fear that: when manufac- -Reuter. turers enter the market, sel lers would drive up the price
with stepped-up postwar pro- duction, are now reaching the market in increasing quantity
Meet the Lolea now at your against them, regardless of OPIUM MONOPOLY
earest franchised dealer.
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LOW PRICE! '
Calculators, Typewriters Carbons & Ribbons
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quality.
Dollars are allocated to British manufacturers for purchases dollar tobacco and
this puts
มิ
f
rlaid limit on what they can buy British America. North
mo-
to
Ankara, December 8,
oplum An International nopoly limiting production
for
medi- world requirements
and purposes, WEA Danounced here today by Mr. Lea Steining. manufacturers. therefore, are representative of the U. N. Se turning more and more to Ster-cretary-General. ling supplies of tobacco and In-
is an dian tobacco
fram
oth
from
The announcement was made increasingly on completion of the committee useful supplement.
meeting of representatives from oplum-producing principal year Britain has the So far this received
twice more than
as countries, India, Iran, Turkey, much of it as last year-enough Yugoslavia, and observers for about a seventh of Britain's China, Egypt, France, the U. S., total consumption. Quality of the and the Netherlands.
to have
production sha- Allocations of Indien tobacco is sald Improved
res are to be announced later, greatly. otherwise,
about manufacturers sald today, they but it is understood that
60 per cent will be allowed t
' would not have bought it.
140 Devaluation gives
Turkey and the remaining India and nan-dollar suppliers a great per cent among Yugoslavia, Iran, of amali opportunity in the British market. India, and a number Since the price of dollar tobacco producers-United Press. has remained Arm, Britain afford to pay up to 44 per cent more than the pre-devaluation Sterling equivalent of the dollar price, to enable them to maintain the same fixed prices for the manufacturers: rera. Rhodesia remains the biggest non-dollar suppiter anst stili increasing one. But as her in- create this year has been much less than India's her lead India in the British market has narrowed sharply,
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con
over
Manufacturers are said to hold ubout 358,000,000 lbs. of tobacc which In stock from all sources
is about normal for this time of
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TEL AVIV DEADLOCK BROKEN
Tel-Aviv, December 8, The deadlock in the finan- cial talks between Britain and Israel, which has persisted for several months; was broken today when both delegations met at Kakirya, the Govern ment compound in Tel-Aviv.
Shortly before the meeting be- gan an Israel Foreign Office senior offcial said that Britain had al- ready handed over her teply to an Ifraeil request to resume talks for a new agreement on Israel's outstanding Sterling balances.
Ho said that the British roply
ISRAEL WARNING
CON
HOLY CITY SCHEME
Flushing, Docombor 8.
will not bring
The Israell Government said, today that the manship to abandon the paper
proposal which proposed internationalisation of the holy credit to the UN itself for it
"Marcover it must be stressed that the Arab authority in control
places, approved by the temporary Political foredoomed to futility. Committee, is a plain violation of United Nations principles and can only lead to con- of almost all holy places refuses tinued bloodshed in the Holy Land. Israel's appeal was made in a Press statement re-
to concede any title or functibri to the UN whatsoever. These who support this resolution. Ingur of two
leased as the United Nations Budget Com-heavy responsibility
kounia: they - undermine the mittee met in an attempt to decide where the authority of the UN and they holy places withiou money would come from to implement the leave the
·| adequate protection." Committee recommendation.
The General Assembly la ex
"The Israeli statement-con- precedented in history for an pected to take up the contro- consists in principle in an agre"-tended that the present in-greement extending UN super-versial Jerusalem question on
ments to resume talks.
the
ternationalisation plan would This morning's meeting of the plunge the United Nations two delegations, headed by British Minister to Israel, Sir into a sterile conflict with Alexander Knox Helm, and the the peoples whose rights and Director of the Israel Finance aspirations it denies," Ministry, Mr. David Horowitz,
It served notice that its ap- was intended to deal with claims and counter-claims arising from proval "can lead only to negation the ending of Britain's Palestine of the essential objective-pro- mandate.
tection of holy places."
But informed sources here be- lieve that the question of Incil's | estimated £25,000,000 wil also be raised.
israel asked once ngain that balance the world organisation accept ita proposal-which it sald is un-
na
Israal virciça declare that the main difficulty so far has been a British attempt to hold the re- Icase of Sterling balances bargaining counter to speed the overall financial talks.
They hoped that the present two-folded development the affirmative reply on the resump-|-Reuter.
POP
tion of talks on Sterling balances ond the actual resumption of general financial talks--will load to on improvement in Anglo- isrnal relations, especialy trade celations which have been hom- pered by Israel's lack of Sterling,
vision to holy places.
The statement guld the present†
"Ignores experience and plan reality. Failuro to implement n imitar proposal in 1947 is tragi- cally marked in Jerusalan by the graves of 1,430 Jews--men and women and children--who in Jerusalem's defence.
"Foredoomed"
foll
"The plan violates a funda- montal principle, for the Unit-, od Nation was established to defend the right of all people
to govern themselvak."
Friday moming as, the last iten on its agenda before adjournment
United Press.
SYRIAN MISSION IN PERSIA
A
Teheran, December 8. Byrlan Military Mission boaded by Colonel Mohumines Hasjon is now in Pèrsin, it -wal officially disclosed here today. Th Mission consists of 11 officers o the Syrian Army representing di storent branches,
The Mission's aim is to becom The Inrocli statement continued, familiar with Persian milltary et "Proud of its membership in the tablishments and the organisation UN and hopeful that the inter- of the Peralan Army, the Syria national organisation's puthority Charge d'Affaires in Persia, D and effectiveness will grow, Israel Farid El Khani, told Rueter appeals to international states- Reuter.
Height of absurdity
OH WEL
AS THE
SAYING GOE S
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SHORT MAN? THAN NEVER TO
MAUS LOUBO
A TALL!
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
SUPPOSE WE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE CHARITY BALL;
NARDA
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HOME TONIGHT.
RIP, KIRBY -
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I HAVEN'T
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YET!
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LATER, THAT NIGHT /
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