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New Type Of
Zoo Exhibit
Berlin. Aug. 20. Thousands of West Ber- liners forgot the Ilons and tigers in their roo when they saw a cage holding a new type of animal- young mas in swimming trunks.
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A poster described, himm as "homo sapiens Ber- Unensis". It asked roo visitors not to tease or feed him and warned: "He does nol laugh."
The "animal", a local newspaper reporter who spent three hours in a care next door to the lions, wrote to the paper the next day:
hal amazed mo mosi was that no one even tried to make me laugh."—Reu- Ler.
Barter Pact
With Chinese Communists
Paris, Aug, 20. Franch Foreign Ministry officials said today that the $2.- 800,000 barier trade agreement signed in Berlin on Aug. be tween French traders and Red China did not officially involve
France.
' THE CHINA MÄIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1052.
Naguib's Land Reform "Canberra In Atlantic Pact
New Guise
Plans Meeting Opposition
LANDLORDS UP IN ARMS
Cairo, Aug. 20.
Ten big Egyptian landlords are doggedly resisting the introduction of land reform in Egypt, according to official Egyptian circles.
They have mobilised all their forces to sabo- tage the Army's proposed reforms limiting owner- ship of land to 200 feddans or acres, these circles said.
Behind the scenes the big landlords are exerting pressure of every description, using delaying tactics and even engineering labour riots to embarrass the new regime.
The second dratt calls for Jan ownership limitation to 200 or 500 acres,
COMPENSATION
General Mohammed Naguib, at the limitation of land owner- the Commander-in-Chief, in ship not by expropriation, but various statements has in effect by Levying progressive taxes, denounced manoeuv:es by the calculated to force à Igndlord to men of the "old regime and well excess land. their lackeys to opposé-land re- form.
Striking at the roots of one of Egypt's gravest social problems, Naguib has been General
the Government to pressing
The State would take over Limit land property and create a
surplus land, pay compensation class of small holders.
A committee
is in instalments over 30 years with of experts due to report tomorrow on land interest at 334 per cent and then General Com-sell it to landless fellsheen or reform to the mittee. This committee is com- peasants on easy terms over 30|
of Regents Bahieddin posed
According to official statistics, Colonel Rachad Barakat and
if the
the maximum holdings are as Mohanna, Premier Aly Maher,
Abd Razak limited to 200 acres, this would Interogra with headquarters in General Nagulat of the State ficave 750,000 acres for distribu- or Suprem? Court, on, plus 30,000 acres of State Interagro is said to have close Finance Minister Abdel Guelli owned land, associations with the Soviet-el Emary and Social Minister But if the maximum is fixed controlled Eastern Zone of Ger-Z:heir Garana.
et 600 acres, this would leave con- cply 500,000 acres for distribu- Two plans are under mony.
alderation. The first draft aims tion.
The agreement was signed, they say, by a private group of Communist-sympathising French businessmen who operate under
organisation
an
Berlin.
known
Conclusion of the barter by agreement was announcell Peking Radio yesterday as part of an $11,200,000 trade contract concluded at the Moscow inter- national trade conference last April be
between visiting Freach businessmen and Chinese repre- sentatives,
French offelal sources painted out there would be a double control of any exports intended for China at the French fron- tier.
"No strategic materials could
San resi
Australia's
Biggest Deficit
a
Canberra, AUK. 20. be sent, nor could certain other Australia had defcil of products which are reserved for A £576,000,000-the biggest in shipping to countries with which her history-in her balance of France has special trade agree-payments during 1951-52. ments.
This was disclosed in the latest figures released today by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician, Mr S. R. Carver.
Figures published earlier had shown record delicit
France at present has lite trale with Communist China, Main import from China is green tea, several thousands of tons which are needed annually for the Moorish cafea Morocco, Associated Press.
Quake Recorded
д
of
15-Hour Day In Bulgarian
A Canberra twin-jet-light bomber wears the unfamiliar markings of the U.S. Air Force na it dies over the Chemspeako Bay bridge. The plane. originally an B.AF. Cruit, in now being tested by the Glenn Martin Company which is bullding Canberras for
U.S.A.F.-Express Photo.
the
Education Camps' MONTREAL'S
Vienna, Aug. 20.
The concentration camps in Bulgaria have, if possible, become an even more important part of that country's economy than of any other State of the Eastern bloc.
Dr Hassan Hodelby, Murshid, or Supreme Guide, of the power- ful Moslem Brotherhood Associo- tion today said: "I think that wards. 400 feddans should be the maximum limit, whether the lond is fertile or not.
SYSTEM MUST GO
of
the
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"I think also that the price of expropriated land to be pald by the State should be interest- free.
We must quidate the feudal
system
past centuries."
Only four per cent of the population own about 94 per cent, six million acres, of the arable land that makes up the narrow fertile strip of the Nile Valley.
The number of inmates in this year. There are some 00,000 these camps has remained con- Bulgarians imprisoned in the stant ever since the beginning of forced labour camps for so-called
RUSSIANS
Page
Countries'
Goal Expected To Be Realised
Paris, Aug. 20.
The Atlantic Pact nations will realise their Lishon goal of 50 divisions by the end of 1952 with perhaps a few minor adjustments, authoritative NATO sources said here today..
Speaking after today's meeting of the NATO Counell which discussed the targets, the sources said: "There was no suggestion whatsoever that the 1952 targets be revised either collectively or unilaterally by member governments,
"The discussion made it clear that with perhaps a fow minor adjustments the 1952 goals will be realised,” they added.
The sources said that today's meeting was mainly concerned with Press reports that NATO targets were being revised pr might not be attained.
The targets wore sel by Foreign and Defence Ministers of the Atlantic Pact countries meeting in Lisbon in February
"If a member country finds itself in difficulties and unable to meet fully its Lisbon com- mitments for 1952, that country would advise the Council," the Sources
member country Jus 20 far advised the council that it will not meet its Lisbon com. mitments,
"On the contrary, the repres sentatives today assured the Council that though in many cases they were encountering difficulties, it was the carnest
to fulfil their commitments."
UNINVITED intention of their governments
GUESTS
Montreal, Aug. 20. Two unexpected guests Civil Aviation Organisation's meeting here yesterday and
NO BLACKENING
The Council also agreed that there could be no sinckening of the defence effort of the 14 powers and that the reason, for the defence progmimme remained unchanged, the source added.
Work on the NATO annual review which will £X NATO
Byron Letter
Discovered
Colombo, Apr, 29. A letter of protest to a publisher signed by the poct Lord Byron på April was found here volume of Baron's works bought from
• focal scoond-hand book- shop about 28 yeSTI REP.
29, 1810438
The book was bought for 1/6d by Dr G. Mahabudhi,
Sinhalese Lecturer o
medicine
the Government Ayurveda Colicco, who.. has been translating the works of Wordsworth and other English poets (pto Blakatosé,
Router.
Manstein To Have Operation
Boom, Aug. 29,
Only a handful of Bulgarians have managed arrived for the International to survive their term in one of the "Work Education" camps and escape to the West after-introduced themselves as M. S. targot for 1953 has already bar
Reports brought to Vienna by some of Saveliev and O. C. Sapunov, started by member govenmetis "oficial: observers representing and is expected to be come those who have done so, build up the following the Government of the USSR." pleted by November.
Russia is not a member of the NATO Headquarter? 15 picture of the Bulgarian concentration camps:
Organisation. but is per-anxious that the review bc a firm pro- manently represented in it by completed with
gramme by the end of this year,
The British authorition an Czechoslovakia,
that
which inced today that former Ger- govertiments The object of the present 80 administrative prisoners who meeting is to speed up world budgeted on the calendar year man Field Marshal Erich von Jave not received
court wide distribution of informa- could co-pringle their defence Manteip has been granted leave from the Werl war crimes prison efforts with their budgets. sentences.
tion on air navigation facilities,
The French member, M.to undergo an operation in a Another nearly 12,000 Bul-services and procedures to alt gorians are living in separate crFV
Herve Alphand, said that his private clinic at Kịch, camps in even worse conditions
Canadian Press News Goverment was confident of
The nature of the operation flotting its than
Lisbon "administrative" pri- Agency said it was "unofficially
commit
was not disclosed. It willˇbi soners,
belloyed" in ICAO circles that menta
performed by von Manstein'e These bave
been
tried and the Russians had come in the
BELGIAN VLEDGE
own doctor. sentenced to terms of forced
M.
do of obtaining information
Streache hope labour. The fact that they are on the latest Western devices on Cound that despite his Gov-Field Marshal will be permitted
Belgian representative, told the While in the hospital the ex in prison and their number is aircraft control without being Con about all that people in the free obliged to report on their
resent decision to visits by his family. own ment's world have about their fate. achievements in
in this field. release men from military ser
Just a month ago one of von The 60,000 "administrative"
months London, Aug, 20.
instead officiels said only advice after 21
mates at prison Belgium destroyer in-prisoners are housed In 20 dif
would Manstein's
Werl, former Fleld Marshal the largest coln, lent to Russia by Britain terent work education camps. be exchanged at the present also meet its programmes. single land-owner in Egypt, in 1944, is expected to reach They were sent to the camps by sessions-Reuter,
The United States representa- Albert Kemelring, piso merived possesses about 200,000 acres, Rosyth,
Draper, leave for an operation at a tive, Mr William H. this week their local authorities without
said that NATO countries had private clinic. niready made real strides to- Kesselring la serving a lite
the Lisbon sentence and von Manstein, 12.
years.--Associated Press.
RETURN RN
Two million persons own 788,- DESTROYER
804 acres,
an average of two- afths of an acre each.
Most of Egypt's 20,000,000 are landless fellaheen.
of A £383,700,000, but today's re- populatio Farouk
port revealed for the first time that Australia lost A£192,000,- 000 "invisible rade items,
on compared with A £193,000,000 in the previous financial year.
Falling New York, Aug.-20.-
· off- of wool exports and University an increase in the value of im- The Columbia
were given as the main seismograph station recorded a ports moderately
earthquake reasons for the fall in the bal- about 2,800 miles from New once of payments.
Australia's overseas the west York, probably of coast of Canada, at 15.32 GMT also fell heavily during the
A£464,000,000 on Wednesday (00.32 H.K.T. period-by Thursday).-Associated Press.
gevere
A £362,000,000.—Reuter.
reserves
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Actor; i Poplar, 6. Stoop, 8 Nent, Seidem, 11 Rotor, 14 Senora, 14 Hite, 18 Gaspe, 16 Agile, 10 Dent, 20 Parolo, 24 Ghoul, 20 Emerge, 20 Else, 27 Rests, 28 Snacks. Down: 1. Poze, 2 Palz, 3 Anon, a Remote, Strange, Outcast 7 Persist, 10 Devil, 13 Manager, 1t Biolona, 10:Temp 40, 41-Angle, 19 Durery, 21 Omm, 22 Eric, 23 Less,
The British
Scotland,
the
but his property is how under end, the Admiralty announced any right of appeal against the Government custody.-Reuter.
decision.
30-Storey Skyscraper
For S'pore
Singapore, Aug. 21.
A S$15,000,000 30-storey sky scraper, the tallest to be built
If plans are passed, the new building, which towers 400 feet, will be 140 Let taller than an
18-storey building being put us on another site by the same. firm, and 180 feet higher than the
Colony's prosent tallest skyscraper, the Cathay Building. A five-storey underground car installed. park will be
today.
Of those 60,000 prisonera, ...The announcement said Lin-
coln left Murmansk last wook about 25 per cent are women towed by the Admiralty tug who are working under slightly Worden.
better. conditions than their The tow
was subsequently male counterparts. Usually thei transferred to another Admiralty women do not work more than tug, and the Warden is standing 12 hours a day-after which
to Murmansk to they by to return
are "re-educated" for at fetch H.M.S. Georgetown, another least another hour every day, destroyer lenf to Russia during It appears that the Commun
the war,
An Odd
Trade
Problem
?
Andro
ative Information would of two years,
Explorers Planning
Unique Trip
Paris, Aug. 20. Two French explorers plan- ned today to attempt the first complete recorded trip down the entire length of the Nile
to
La
Words
military
The Indications of the In- creasing political and economie strength and integration of Wes- tern Europe were particularly striking,
An authoritative
source said
the number of new airfelds in Western Europe had increased. from 10 to 45 between the end of 1851 and the end of June this year,
It is thought probable that the next ministerial meeting of of the 14 nations will take place In December, though some coun- tries favour an earlier meeting. -Reuter,
Japan Fails In GATT Application
London, Aug. 20. Japan's application for membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
of time. There is no account of tried once before to make the BONN LOWERS has been rejected by a postal
Food
The explorers, M. Jean
M. Jacques Blein,! Porte and descent in 1950 and 1951, but they were unable to make their of way through three sections
totalling 240 the upper river miles of wild African mountain country.
BANK RATE
Kiel, Aug. 21.
ballot among the 20 mem- ber Goverments, authoritative sources said today.
that and
ist regime in Bulgaria is assum- The two destroyers were lenting them to be "less hard- to
Russia
under the 1943 bolled saboteurs and agente" Teheran agreement. They were than the men. due to be returned last August.
MANY PENISH Russia agreed to return the in Singapore, is Laking shape ships
The men work a minimum of River from Lake Victoria last year, but said that on the drawing board of a local because of the condition of their 12 and a maximum of 15 hours the Mediterranean, Architect for the Asla Union ongines and bulls, she could not a day. The period they have to Life and Accident Assurance | guarantee safe delivery-Neu- | serve is usually
one year but Society Ltd.
ter.
many do not survive that length the dead and they are replacd immediately to keep the work going
Issued to the prison-
The Financial Times said it ers only twice a day. Since the
A lowered bank rate, four and was understood that Britain and beginning of this year the daily rations have consisied of 400
a half per cent, comes into effect two other Commonwealth coun- The pair, sponsored by the
in West Germany today.
tries voted agginst Japan's grammes (about 14 ounces) of London, Aug. 20.
Society of French explorers, plan
three The reduction-from Ava per membership Japan is selling more Union bread and two litzze (about two to leave Paris toward the end cent was announced by the negative returns constituted a Jacks In the British Empire quarts) of a thin cabbage soup. of August to travel clown 60
West German Central Banking | veto.. Britain cannot Once in a while, there is a litle miles of the Victorian Nile until Council yesterday. than Britain. offer them as cheaply as Japan. fish.
they reach the now unexplored
Britain's action in rejecting The President of the Banking This odd trade problem
few months ago there were territory, along the Somerset Nile ་ཐ་ The area will hold about 100 carp being investigated by the British meetings called in all the camps and finally along the 120-mile of Council, Herr Karl Bernard, said the Japanese application to join and it will be air-conditioned Toy Manufacturers Association, during which the commandants the high Bahr el Jbel in the the rate could, at the present GATT appears to be aired at throughout," sald Ng Keng
bo time.
lowered
without retaining the right of discrimi The specific case that caused informed the prisoners that their Sudan. Slang, the architect.
nation against Japanese goods the probe
The French Touring Club and jeopardising the currency. was the cancellation output had been at least 20 per
weapon beld Mr Ng is to bring out 12 of an order from Ceylon for
for cent short.
the French Federation for Canoe The measure however, should to be used as American engineers and riveters 1053 Coronation decorations. A They were seriously warned and Kayak are joining the Ex- not be interpreted as indicating in reserve during the proba by plane to assemble the steel Ceylon firm ordered
Union not to keep up their "stubborn plorers Society to underwrite the that West Germany was "swim-tionary period to test Japanese work-Associated Press.
trading methods-United Press. ming in money."--Reuter. Jacks
from a British firm but hostile attitude. If they did, the expedition, United Fress, before the samples were sent camp cammandant told them,
punishment would was cancelled. The the
bo the order Ceylon agent LONDON-BUSES the Union Jack market was gone.
that deportation to the Soviet Union. cabled
THE INCENTIVE BACK HOME mining every effort of Britis!)
Although these people, haye actually nothing to fear after what they have gone through Washington, Aug. 20.
US. Justice Department Already, deportation to Russla would definitely kill their officials today made ม inces of ever returning to eccond arrest in an alleged
"Cars are to be taken down in lift and transferred on to revolving tumtable which will then have the vehicler parked.
London, Aug. 20.
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Ai a welcome home ceremony
on the Horse Guards Parade
today to three London buses, which for five months toured
,
Japanese competition was under-
exporters to get orders for the Coronation-United Press.
:
Invitation By
their homes.
CANADIAN VISA SCANDAL
Ho asserted that he had, more Windsor, who was charged with
a year ago, asked the entering this country on a visa thon
American Consale at Wind- obtained through fraud.
MacKinnon worke In Detroit Bor, to tako strong measures' and commutes to his home agalast the use of his name 12
connection with visa applica and Across thus border.
America in a "Come to Britnin"/" "Vew Zealand that if they accomplished more said that the sister of one McGranery said in a statement)
campaign, the Transport Minis
13
Lour."
Wellington, Aug, 20,
The prisonert were promised Canadian visa fraud
Thoir nams, on the other
than
.:
He
.....
commented:
Attorney General James P. tions.
"At any rate, I feel that I ter, Mr Lennox Boyd; announced The Prime Mininer, Sidney G, hand, the life would be made of the Dominion's top off "The Mackinnon case involves
Mrg Steigerwald."
have done my best to prevent that memorial plaques are to Holland, has renewed his invita- more agreeable and they would clala is involved.
Department officials prserted this situation from arising." be placed on each of the bures tion to President Truman to get more rations, cigantior, and
The Justice Department said, She was named as Mrs Aline she has been a visa adviser at a record of the "historie visit New Zealand when he would be allowed to Stelgerwald, sald by the depart Windsor. Such advisers make in response to an inquiry, that
leaves the White House...
maik And yalls and eventually
ment to be known also so Mre regular business of counselling it had no jurisdiction over any Mr Holland issued his original be relegod,
Wald of Windsor. Her persona scoping border-crossing activity in whigh May Steiger The tour, he said, had done
when invitation
visited No fecent deportations.
may. have
engaged inside more for, goodwill between Br- Washington Last year.
Russia hayo boys reported from brother, Foul Marin, is Canada's papers uid in expediting such wald tain, the United States and
Today he said "The President theo campo but several people Minister of Public Health and perroils. The business lioelf is her own country, in Canndo In the shortest time would be given a great reception in the Janko Sabunoff and Pirin Welfare.
wholly legal.
There is no gyllence, it was Health Minister Marin said added, that she was ever in by the people of New Zealand (carpe, have bood infpemed that Man Steigerwald's involvement Each of the 13 þus, menu was who have come
for was disclosed with the arrest at that he was "deeply distressed this country, in connection with to regard him they had been selected given a memento of the tour with over herposing...admiraretur de Boviet Unions Detroit, Mich., this morning of about the Washington announces the handling of viền maltéra, ****
Mackinnon pt. ment concerning his sister, pos LAWEEDED
Associated Pres.
ever.
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