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Canadians look forward to a good Christmas
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Ottawa, December 18. ·
If glitter and variety of goods in the shops count for anything, this Christmas is going to be one of the best over for Canadians.
Last Christmas was the biggest ever for Canadian retailers...By Christmas Day, nothing remotely resembling a gift was left on the shelves.
This year, retails sales have been running seven per cent higher than last year.
Storks of both domestic and im- ported goods are higher than last year, and Ins nome lines it is doubl- ful whether even high-spending Canadians will be able to exhaust supplies this year. Even the fact that most rents will go up about 20 per cent In January is not ex- preted to dampen the buying
apree,
Prices of inost gooda in the shopa are about the same as last year. A festure of thle in the fal- lure of must British gunds to come down in price as a result of deva- luation. Such things as Meccano seis, Hornby trains, and high-qua- lity textiles are of anything, night-
CHURCHILLS TO VISIT MADEIRA
London, December 17 Mike Mira Winston Churchill will call from England on Decem ber 29 for a stay of about twe werks to Madeira M. 12 S Chuchif and their party will be the American papers
York Times **
Kanata
ly more expensive than just year The most popular Hornby
set, that retailed for
train
$1175
Jasi
year, is $1250 (just over £3) thin year.
The reason IN that
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believe that they can sell their entire stuck without trouble, and are charging what they think Le true will dear
come
Most of the goods in the shops are, Of course, Canadian-runciar. British goods
next, then Amerirao, and then gouds from the Europem countries German and Japanese toys are bark the Germans sending clever clockwork cars, tralas and other unvelties, and the Japanese De-appening with cheap atak posily - made tov cars, traits wed lolls
Scotch whisky
German cameras are back on
the market. and there abundance of plover from Franca and Belptum, lingeria and leather goods from Italy, blouses from France and Swit zerland, pertemes, wines and liquors from France
Baalisin goods are mans? autre. able in the bus depanalizactifs, tex Wes, Chion, electrical appliances
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Madeira.
A leatuse of this youn's Chest - Mas "rush is the elaborate pm - kaging of gifts without charge th the purebaser Thousands of mutes!
COW ON RAMPAGE ribbon, tinical and guy papers will be used by overchants in this resumption of another
pre-wir
Berin, December 18.
A cow which bruke loose fron Bethe raflebar yerdi kauckel celowa bowers people. Including two
Blearn, lay two-hou through the city
The only stratages here are in some loes of banys elecfriend at:
chaspitances, notably electric refrige
Fatons There is also a shuntage of
The animal was caught when greeting carts, cruised by a lengthy she seltiel down to Rise in af Hthographers strike in Toronto patie
Router.
park
Heuler
THE CHINA MAIL, ‘MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949.
TOPPLING
PARIS PROTEST
Pls. December 17 The pulice outauunterest two In
aftertout
une less than a 100 Communist- ted demonstrators who marched It the Hotel Pember Georges The tal residenter to protest agost
12 Ludo fie wi
China
WH Nation Balanchis
The decesorant Patons, ancluding same solders on leave from Indo- China, were disperseri, without in- An omelet received a dera Cent
Route. putations
ONE CURRENCY
Ostaad, December 18, Common currency and nation- for Europe were recom- allty mended by the European Parlia mentary Union here today,
The Union also urged a unided defence aystern, a fedétal meny unile:
supremu $1
conmand. Intronal armenta production European military budget.
Iteuler.
Russian attack on U.S. policy towards Japan
London, Docombor. 17.
The American militarists make no secret of their dream of turning the Japanese into connon fod- dor for American "imperialism".
The Soviet daily "Izvestia" sald so' in an article
quoted today by the Moscow radio.
The article, signed
"Kudryavisey," said:
"Under the guise of a polico
force, the Japanese army is being revived, and its strength is con- stantly growing. The police are supplied with ASTRA,
including machine-guns. Big military manocúvres of police forces are now being held in a number of prefectures."
Russian atom claim ridiculed
Washington, December 18.
Russian claims to have per- lected the synochrotron sur- prised scientists here today.
"Izvestia" said that such man- euvres were held in the first half because the synochrotron is no of November in the districts of longer considered news in this Nagano, Pufuola, Sago and Osaka, į country,
The radiation laboratory of the "For the sake of their plans of University of California has one gaining world domination, the which generates 300 million elec- American Imperialists are doom-tran volta of energy, and it in ing the Japanese people to politi-building another atom smasher -- cal slavery and the economy of the "proton synchrotron bevniron" Japan to disaster," the puper says. which will generate 0000-7000
million electron volts.
The paper safe that the Ameri- The Russians, according to a can occupation authorities "seek despatch from Beriln, claim that artificially to isolate Japan from their utom smasher is better that the Asiatic continent, and to con- anybody else's, speeding electrons vert her into an American barrier fuЯler than the U. S. models can. at the Eastern coast of Asia."
"Gambling policy"
1/ the Russian electrons go much faster than those belig pro- pelled by the California synchro- tron, they must travel faster thun The United States itself "pro.light, and selence says nothing can
do that.
fers to use Japan for the sale of good that And no customers in
The 300 million volt machine at America," "svosti" alloged. Berkeley already has accelerated
electrons to withle one/ten mit- "The United States does not in-flonth of the speed of light. When tend to open its markets to Japa- the big bevatron is completed in nese goods, but plans to use cheap 1952-3. it is expected to create Japanese exports as a sort of bat- energy on an even more spectacu- tering rum against the sterting lar scale. All this was reported by the Atomic Energy Commission last July--Uniter Press,
bloc.
"As a result, the economie crisis now threatening the United States, as well as Angio-American com- petition for Asiatic and Pucifte markets, will tell first and fore- of Japan most on the cennomy which is already undermined.
ECA ALLOTMENT
Washington, December 18. The Economie Co-operation Ad- allotted $5,- "Thus, in the economie field, the ministration Today
for petroleum American imperialists are likewise 023,000 to Koren trying to pursue their gambling products and raw cotton pur- policy in the Far East, at the ex- chases in the United States, bring. pense of the Japanese people," ng Korean allotments to a total
of $71,218,000.—Associated Press, "Izvestia said.-United Press.
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