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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
(Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong)
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
"FUNING"
"BĤENGKING"
"YOCHOW"
"PAKHOJ"
"FUKIEN"
"HUFEN" "SHENGKING"
"POYANG"
"FENGTIEN"
"PAKHOTM"
"YUNNAN"
"FUKIEN"
SAILINGS TO Djakarta, Semarang, Sourabaya & Macksvar Kaohsiung, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobo
Ost len
Nagoya,
OsL kI & Kobe Singapore, Belawan & Penong
Ba.m. 27: June
8 bm. 27th June
5 p.m. 27th Juno" 10 m, 28th June
10 a.m. 29th June
8 m. 30 June
Tsingtao & Tientsin Keelunk Bangkoit
10 nm. 30th June
5 p.m. 4th July
8 b.m. 11 July
Djukaria, Semarang, Saurabaya & Mocnsmar
10 am. 9th July
• Balls from Custodian Wharf
7 m, 28th June
7 am. 26th Juno
- 27 June
ARRIVALS FROM
Bangkok
Shanghai
Moji
Tientsin
"SHENGRING"
"POYANG"
"FENGTIEN"
"HUFEN".
Keelul
Kobe
Kove
27th June
7 LIT.
2nd July
7th July 8th July
A.O. LINE LTD./C.N, CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
"TAIYUAN"
"SOOCHOW”
"CHANGTE"
SAILINGS TO Sydney & Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samurai Loo, Madang, Kavieng & Rabaul
Sydney & Melbourne ARRIVALS- FROM
Kube
"TAIYUAN" "CHANGTE"
Kube
"CHANOSILA"
....Australia
Japan
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
Noon 20th June
Noon 20 June 6th July
In Port 3rd July 8th July
Scheduled Ballings. to Europe via Aden à Port Bald.
"PELEUS"
"MENTOR"
"BELLEROPHON" 'Liverpool M' Gilusgow
"ALCINOUS"
"PATROČLUS"
G. "MENTOR"
9. "ALCINOUS"
↑ THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1953,
CHINA
ZZJEJEWYNDHAM:STILES
HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONG)
Price, 20 cents per copy.
Saturdays 30 cents Subscription: $0.00 per month.
He Beats
Russian Sailors"
Mechanical Buying Spree In
Brain
Calculating machines now in
South
USD can work out in a few or core wi minutes complented arithme- tical sums it would take most
men days to solve. But a forty-
Postage: China and Macao $3.00 per math, UK, Drush Possessions and ollier countries $7.00 per month. year-old Dulch prodigy, ` Wim Nowa contributions, always wel-Kieth, has proved that his brain
come, ploud be addressed to the
worke nine times as fast as the
antur, taneas contumunications and advertisements to Ulio Secretary, best machine Britain can pro-
Telephone: 26411 (5 CineR). -
KOWLOON OFFICE: Ballbury Load, Telephone 82038. +
duce,
f.
In a demonstration at Moston,
Africa
has
Capetown, June 24. The new Russia Malenkov's Russia made a big impression in this city with prodigal buying sprees.
Capetown is used to the annual visit of Russians going to and fro on Antarctic whaling expeditions, But nothing like this has happened before,,
Usually it in a march through extracts the price of the goods a group of solemn, and then hands the wallet back. the town of Lancashire, where calculating silent,
staring Russians in With sille, the whalemen pass machines are made, Klein chal-groups of six or seven, headed it from hand to hand, fingering lenged the machine and won by a commissar whu does all the cloth and tearing off bits hands down, and proved himself the talking, and moving at the until it is taken from them... as fast or faster than any ent- pace of Volga boatmen. culating prodigy of whom there Is historic record,
Classified Advertisements 20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID
INSERTIONS ADDITIONAL
Klein, who was seized by a $1.50 PER DAY 16 cents PER WORD OVER 20 | passion for figures when he was
Births, Deaths, Marriages, the multipikcation table
seven years old, knows by heart up to Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word.
ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
100 times, "squares" up 10 1,000, the first 20 powers of 3 as well as the logarithms to five decimal places up to 130. He told his fascinated audience that if not prepaid a booking fee he was calculating for his own of 50 cents in charged.
pleasure up to 20 decimal points at sixteen years of age.
BIRTHS
WELLER --TO Juan Nee Bradbury) wife of t. A. Welker at Queen -Mary Hospital on June 21, 1953,
daughter, both well.
Marseilles,
Liverpool
Glasgow
6th July 14th July
.Liverpool, Dublin &
Avonmouth
24th July
25th July
银
Genoa, London, Rolzer-
dam, Ainsterdam
Hamburg
...Marseilles, Liverpool &
Glasgow
་
Scheduled Sailings from Europe
G. "PATROCLUS"
"CYCLOPS"
G. "AUTOLYCUS"
5. "LAUMEDON"
G. "PERSEUS"
S. "CLYTONEUS“
Gli Aug.
Arrives
Jiont Hou
Balla Liverpool
Baile Rotterdam
Sailed do
30th June
8th July
Sailed
13 July
23rd July
24th June
2001 July
3rd July
7th Aug.
7: July
13th July
15th Aug.
.. 18th July
22nd Aug.
G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool, 8. Loading swadısa, before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via other polis to load & discharge cRICO
FOR SALE
OLDE MILL'A disfisetive hand- In boxes, 30 abrets Platībatery
They
trafic
WELL-BEHAVED
vel ignored lights, plodding grimly through the speeding wheels at peak policemen, and stopping in the bound hours, stolidly by-passing traffic dozens for hOUTH aa shop middle of the street to store at the Dash of nylon stockings on
pretty girl."
New Russia's manners are no
Mechanical toys have kept of Krown men spell salatents demonstrate walking doils, moving tanks, guns which tire corks and hundreds of these are on their way to presumably
And all day long a procession
longer those of the steppe. No enlivened homes in Russia. ono knows what instructions The row Russians are apt to have been passed from Moscow stop girls, shake hands and move Kather to the dirty, all-meared whalo off shyly. They will factory ship now in port and round blind man in the street give him banknotes. A her whale gunners before they ari
coloured man playing a banjo) sighted Table Bay.
But the Russians are different will eat thern Jigging on the In many ways, although they pavement. are the same stocky, blue-serged In the course of his demon-seamen, stration he multipiled 10 digits by ten
It is smiles all the way. The dock to the big Rustan ship
Slava, weighed down with more in his head
par- in most astonished section are the
ccls. They are well-behaved, less than a minute. He divided | shop girls who have in the past|
enen, apparently and- few days served the Malenkoy sanding a row of figures on
large Russling with luxury articles mated with disciplined goodwill, binckboard by 2,071,723 and for their
The few people who can talk gave 45,005 as the answer
their language
quote them "We are all frienda ni amazing speed.
saying He gave the
last." square root of 150 as 12.2474
In home.
notepaper, by envelopes. Post SvD ity..te per box, Luke fly. $11.50 and, on being prodded, prompt-
per bux frằm “8, 2. M. Post."
1/4 "BELLEROPION"
womenfolk
back
ON THEIR OWN
The ship's master, 40-year-old
ly added 407 to the decimal. Alexel Solynik, distributed
Leen
spent
of Ruslans makes its way to the
Ar
GIANT STARTING
HANDLE
London, June 24..
A 42-ton "starting handle"
Britain's commercial jet
He also dcalt with the
£54,000 among his expedillon in South African notes on arrival, PRICE O CONSIGNEES logarithm of the fifth root of and it is estimated that most of
083, and then
multiplled this hag 35,712 by 42,791 and divided Whalemen, in the
here. same parties the product by 19,321.
of six or seven, have dropped for the commissars, and they have fleet has been demonstrated on Damaged cargo ex thì vessel will Klein, not surprisingly, is been on their own gigantic be surveyed by Messrs. Goddard & employed
alica Comet at London Airport, calculator at spending spree. Silks,
satins, The giant mobile ground Gouglas at Holt's Wharf from 10 #351.
baby the
silver, tapestry, linen, on June 26 and 27, 1953 and cun-
Centre,
power unit, 13 ft long and 6 layouts and blankets have been ft. high, answers the air Lino signees are requested to have thele | Amsterdam, and is visiting carted to the dock, bound representatives present during the Britain to lecture at grammar Russia.
for operators' problem of starting
·SLITVEY.
the most powerful jet engine schools at the invitation of the. The Russians speake no devised. Ая well as providing London University Institute of English. If they like a roll of the enormous power necessary to Education. He has also given blue serge, they beam at the start the jet engines the new an audition in London organised shop assistant and Alve her the unit gives current for ground by the Magic Circle.
wallet, from which the girl tests and servicing purposes.
BUTTERFIELD, & SWIRE, Agent.
PRE DE LA RAMA LINES
LINES Hong Kong, June 21, 1963.
ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC &
"AJAX" "HAINAN"
PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
30th Juno 16th July
5th July 20th July
SAILING for NEW YORK, via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.
"DONA NATI"
"BENARES"
Accept cargo for Kingston and to Central & South American ports on
through bills of lading.
Fathay Paci
Wathayfkacific hirways Ltda
Roule
Departs Hongkong
UK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 1.00 am, Tue. Fri.
HK/Hangt/Haiphong HK/Salon/Singapore UK/Mania/8.N. Borneo
HK/Bangkok/Rangoon/
Calcutta
Connects at Bangkok with
DC-3 11.00 am. Tue. DC-41 11.30 ant. Wea. (DC-3) 7.00 am. Tua, Sri.
(DC-4) 13.00 p.m. Ent.
Arrives ..
fan return)
7.3 mm, Wed. Sat. UBA. to Tangoon)
3.30 p.m. Wed, 04 D. 1. 4.43 pm. Wed. Sat.
600 p.m. Sun.
All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage. and Freight Particulars please apply to
ICONNAUGHT RD (C. Tel 30331/87 BRANCH OFFICE 50 Connaught Rd West; 2587532144, 24878
as a
Mathematics
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT DO YOU MEAN,|| YOU ARE MY DIRECT
DESCENDANT?
FERDINAND
CAMPING
IN THE YEAR 5,000
WHAT DOES IT USUALLY MEANT YOU ARE MY ANCESTRA.Oh,DON'T DOUBT ME. I LOOKED IT ALLUP IN
THE ARCHIVES,
Breakdown Problem
By Leo Falk and Phil Davis
I AM YOUR GRAND-DAUGHTER, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY TIMES REMOVED. THAT'S WHY I KNEW YOU'D BE STUBBORN.
THE FAMIL
ALWAYS BEEN,
EVER SINCE.
9-20
BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN | MARRIED, AND HAVE
NO CHILDREN.
YOU WILL. HISTORY NEVER LIES!
CONTINUED-
By Mik
P&O B.I. E&A
COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Da Hongkong 2012 June
27th July
24th August
Outwards "CARTHAGE" "CORFU" "CANTON"
Leaves London
30th May
25th June
23rd July
20th August
"CARTHAGE"
21st September
Via Southampton, Port Bald, Aden, Dombay, Colombo,
· Penang & Singapore
Homewards "CARTHAGE”
"CORFU"
"CANTON"
"CARTHAGE"
Leaves Hongkong. Dite London
3rd July
21st July
20th. August
4th August
1st Sept.
24th Sept.
26th September 20th October
Accepting cargo for Bingapore, Fenang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Fort Bald & London
Outwarda "SURAT
Homewards "BUNDA"
FREIGHT SERVICE
Due
151 July
Baile
10th July
"BHILLONG"
20.71 July
For
Japan
For
Singapore, Penang. Port Swittenhain, Colombo. Aden, Fort Baid, Genoå, **** Marseille, Havre, London, Antwerp. Rotterdam & Hainburg
With liberty to call at Relawan before or after Stralia ...
Ports and at Bombay if inducement offers. Tanks available for carriage of Oil In Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo, Limited Passenger accommodation.
BRITISH INDIA S.N, CO., LTD.
"SANTHIA”
"WARORA”
"ÖRDIA"
due 1st July satis 3rd July
duc 5th July Balis 7th July
from 'Japan for Singapore, Penang, tangana de Calcutta from Japan for Bingapore, Ran- goon & Calcutts
P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE dua 26th Juna ails 17th June
"OLINDA"
Jue 2nd July saila
3rd July
for. Bingapore, Calensbu, Bombay, Karuch!.
Kuwait Khorramshahr,
atrect
&
poris
knarán other P.G. via Bombay from Japan for Singapore, Colombo, ambay
Karachi
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"EASTERN" "NANKIN"
"EASTERN"
walls 21st July duo 27th July amila 29th July
mails 14th Aug.
4.
for Japan
For Bydney Adelaide bourne
Mai-
for Lac, Sydney, Newenstie, Adelaide & MelbouING
":
All vessels have liberty to call at any porta un or off the route & the route & sailing are subject: to change or amendment with or without notice.
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BEN LINE
"BENLEDI”
"BENALDER" "BENCLEUCHI”
U.K.
SAILING S
28th July 18th Aug.
Loading on or abt,
COLLAPSIBLE FURNLYUBK
NANCY
WHERE'S
YOUR DOG?
HE'S OVER THERE BURYING A BONE
ARRIVAL B
Doe
on or abt. Etli July
From
"BENATTOW"
U.E..
U.K
U.K.
"BENATTOW"
"DENCRUACHAN"
"BENLEDI"
{"BIENALDER"
"BENLEDI”
+8'DENCLEUCH"
+8"BENLAWERB"
Liverpool, Dublin, Rosserdam and Hamburg.
Direct to Singapore, thence AVTO. London, Rotterdam and Antwerp, Kuro, Kobe and Yokoliams. Genoa, Liverpool, Rotterdam and Hull.
Direct to Singapore, thence London, Antwerp. Rotterdam and Hamburg. Havre, London, Rotterdam sud lluik, Genoa, Liverpool, Rotterdam and Hamburg.
9 Calls Manila,
*
† Calls Djibouti instead of Aden.
18th July
10th July
18th July
22nd July
Slat July
10 AUT.
20th Aug.
29th Aur.
All vessels accept cargo for Buen und Port Bald.
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.
York Building.
Agente
Tel. 34165 & 38710.
Dog-gone
Almost
-ERNIE BUSHMILLER,
JOHNNY HAZARD
· ACCORDING TO THE SENTRY'D LOGBOOK, A TELEPHONE REPAIR PAAN GAINED ADMITTANCE TO THE
TOWER EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING!
FROM THE SENTRY'S DESCRIPTION, THE MAN HAD BUSHY HAIR, A SCAR ON RIS CHEEK ANDA PRONOUNCED.
LIMP!
LOOK--- WHAT THAT SILLY POOCH DID.
HE PRESENTED TH PASS FROM SCOTLAND - YARD? THE SENTRY CALLED TO CHECK... AND CLAIMS THAT INSPECTOR ARNOLD
› VERIFIED IT!
PREPOSTEROUS!
I'ISSUED NO PASS. SPOKE TO NO SENTRY!
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
EXACTLY/THIS "UNESMAN” WAS FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH THE TOWER TO KNOW WYERB THE ALARM WASILAND TO
DISCONNECT IT!
*. Dine
At the
porliculars apply t
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD.
Telephone Nos 27721-4
P.G
For
Reservations, Tel: 27880
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Delicious
extra strong
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FAMED V.C.
DEAD
London, Juno 24.
First Territorial ranker: to win the Victoria Cross during World War One, Captain Douglas Belcher has died at Claygate, Surrey,
Captain Belcher's long mill- tary career was marked by or unusual achievement, twice ho calisted in the ranks and twice he was commissioned, rising, to captain on both occasions,
It was as a boy of 10 that ho first put on uniform, joining 'thờ” Volunteer Free in 1908. --In · 1912 he joined the Rife Brigide," and it was in 1910 that he won his V. C. during the second battle of Ypres. He was lance sergeant in charge of on advanced breast worke south of the Wieltje-91. Jullen mad and organised its defence.....by, men under heavy enemy bon
bardment.
oight
Tho parapet was continually shattered by shellfire, but by *kili and gallantry ho malt- tained his position for 13 hours, aring on the enemy at short rango as they gathered for an attack
"There is little doubt that the bold front held by him provent- ed the enemy breaking through and averteti on attack on the
Made by ROWNTREE'S Bank of one of our divisims"
...this situation · calls for a
San Miguel
stated the official citation, ***
During the last two years of the war Captain Belcher was commissioned and served with the Queen Victoria Rudes. From 1910 to 1922 ho served with the Gurkha Rifles, Indian
Cuplal
6th.
wo
Army, retiring, as a captal Shortly before World War be joined a national
defence company and in August 1930 enlisted in the London Rifles as a private. Later he was com- missioned in the Royal Army Pay Corps and was Invalided out: of tho Ariny In 1943.
On the morning after his death 4 Coronation Medal, u sent by post, was received at his hörde: It would have been hit, second Coronation móðål. One of Copaz” tain Belcher's - two sota la i quartermaster-airgeant.serving with REME. in Singapore.