Queen Ingrid Attends First Night
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A happy picture of Queen Ingrid of Denmark when attending the first night formance at the Norrebros Theatre, Copenhagen, of the Henrik Ibsen play "A Doll's House". with an English cast from the Lyric Theatro. Hammersmith, -Express Photo.
News from one of Australia's northern outposter
Colonial Officers Tame New Britain's
Savage Jungle Tribesmen
Melbourne, Dec. 27.
THE CHINA -MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1953.
A handful of Australian colonial administration officials have succeeded in taming one of the world's wildest tribes of savages, who are now learning the ways and habits of white men. News of the transformation of the formerly ferocious natives in the Mokolkol area of New Britain has been brought out of the jungles by Patrol Officer John Norton who has just returned from a patrol of the area; where he was greeted without any sign of hostility.
arca
lonely
No cooking vessels are usedi, food being baked either in a fire or in pits with heated stones.
No wooden
spears
there
were werc
noticed lthough several iron
iron pig spears set in wooden handles.
Norton read his report at a time when Australians have just heen shocked by the recent murder of two patrol officers at the hands of fierce pigmy tribesmen in the wild highland country of New Guinea.
Patrol officer Geoffrey Harris, bushland Into which no other; and Gerald Szarkas were toma-natives would enter.
Yet, after hawked to death in a
the war, patrols that the from deflately established to prevent them ning about ancient tribal numerien; strength of the tribe
dirty. was less than initiation rites, They were on a similar mission to that of Patrol The first contact between the
and the Mokolkois Ofleer Norton.
RAZOR BHARP AXES whutes is
The Mokolkols will had their The Australian Administra-believed to have been in 1950 tion had scarcely settled in New when Ansistunt District Omeer axes, the heads sharpened and Britain under Use League of D.M. Fienbert led a patrol into polished to razor edge sharpness Nations mandate in 1922 when the territory of the flerce tribes and mounted of pain handles
from four to five feet in length stories of the nomadte
believed The party managed to bring but they are now on neighbouring
10 be 1's ruids villages were relayed to officials back to the constal settlement of
used only as tools,
No improbable Rabaul a small group who wer
mor
raids
other heir taught elementary of
hygiene and native groups have been fe their and in to speak pidgin English. They ported and generally they are
ere also told thing the Adminf- were re-
officials und their more raids on
other tribes and coastal neighbours,
were ex-
Fantastically
w
stories
told agility, tribal folk are they
མས་ nited to have had
WCTC ferocity and
Tribes 100.
were
on
relations stration would not tolerate any | sitation with the Admini-
with forest demons following a
down in
quarrel which caused them to that the Mokolkols
setllo their former
lo outlying peeled leuve island home of Lolobau for New village and stay there. Briluin,
The Mokolkole have learned peaceful ways and it is expected that their condition will con- tinue to improve.
It is with
TRADE
COMMERCE SECTION
RECORD OUTPUT
U.S. Senator Sees Danger Of A
Slump
Washington, Dec. 27. Senator Paul H., Douglas recommended today that excire
tax cuts scheduled for April 1 be allowed to come into effect im- modiately
bolster the to help country against a depression.
While
emphasising that
he
was net predicting a depression, Senator Douglas told reporters he rees some "danger of an
that plans bo developed right
IN 1953 UK Production Up 5 p.c.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
There is good end-of-the-year news this week from the industrial front. Production has broken all records with the total industrial output this year five per cent higher than in 1952 and between one and two per cent above the previous highest level of 1951.
In the steel industry production continues cronomic stump. He proposed to expand month by month. In the first eleven away so the government would months of this year crude steel was being turned be prepared to combat ade-out at an annual rate of 17,600,000 tons compared with the previous best figure of 16,400,000 tons in 1950.
pression in cuso оло should
<ievelop.
Senator Douglas was a pro- fessor of economies at the Uni- versity
- Page 9
New Uses For Jap Marine
Butter
Washington. Dec. 27. The United States Arri- culture Department sausous- ced a new “experimental" programme to sell GoveRTI- ment-owned butter for use As a cocoa butter subsiltäte,
The Department sald li would soon offer some of its surplus butter on a bid basis but did not announce details of its pro- operating
posed programune. The idea was to develop new usta for surplus butter stocks:
The Department sald It thought butter could be substituted part for cocoa butter by converting butter Into oil and blending it with the cocos, -China Mai! Special.
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET
Tonnage
Increasing
Tokyo, Dec. 21.
Japan's ·war-crippled 'mer- chant fleet has recovered con- siderably during the last eight years but there is still a wide | gap between Japan and other
countries.
revent Transportation Ministry check showed Japan- eso merchant marino tonnage as 1,300,000 gross tons at the time of the surrender in August 15, 1945. It had risen to 3,030,000 gross tons by Octo- ber, 1859.
This figure is 78 per cent of the 3,900,000 STOSS tons possessed by Japan In 1934-30
1040 and 54 por cont of the peak of 8,000,000 tons.
However the total marino tonnage held by the United States' tons
increased to 25,040,000 last year from 0,340,000 tons in 1939 and Panarnanları registered ships showed a rise to 3,610,000 tons from 720,000 over the same period.
Japanese vessels, including tonkers, carried to and from Japan in 1952 a total of 12,400,- 000 tons of which imports
As a result deliveries of finished steel have been (From Our Correspondent) of Chicago before his running at about seven per cent above last year and the
Business dono on the Stock election to the Senate.
Treasury has just announced: "No serious shortages,”
Exchange this morning amount-totalled 10,800,000. Production, records have been, millions of pounds to transport tions and the morning's trans- od to $271.980. Noon quota- very hard," reflecting a drop inbroken in the eval mines.
thut farm income,
The latest weekly figures show
He said he hat fund implement factories
fram
Jill very.
and
understood the
automobile in-
too.
dustry beginning to feel the output has at last topped peak levels achieved 151 the dark But factors, he said, post-Dunkirk days of 1940.
the result 113
cutback n dumared for steci.
said that
as it
Actiona:-
This is only 40 per cent (36 costa next year.
per cent for imports and 20 per Nor is this the only threat
cent for exports) of the averige nation's exporting SHARES BUVERS SELLERS SALES 25,400,000 tons (imports 17,200,- facing the industries,
|000 and exports 8,200,000' tons) 101010 Carried
the during
1934-36 period.
year,
BANKS
HK Bank
of this
Waterboat
on
DOCKS, ETC.
K. Wha
Lyari 14
**
+
UTILITIES
Tram
1895 1015
6015
030
19.80
100 105
Last year's figure is also far less than the 32,100,000 tons
21,000,000 tons (Imports
and exports 10,500,000 tons) trans- ported in 1940,
Japanese ships last year car= 0.05 8.10 3.2008.06 ricch.43 per cent (45 per cent for reports and 32 per cent for ex- parts) of this amount as against 50 per cent (57 per cent for im-
in 1934-48.
0.70
75 @ 18.20 Ports and 03 per cent dor exports) In respect to the speed of the ships, the average for Japanese of February this year was 20.50 as 20.40 13.1 knots and that of forelim
Engineers are also claiming a 15 per cent
wage increase. The total coal production in
They have already staged a 24- INSURANCES
Logibard His nervoushu Sh about the the first 50 weeks of this year hour tolcen stroke in protest
Lort possibility of a depression was was 210,016,000 tons or 1,700,- 1 aza
against the rejretion hased on his fear that such 000 tons less than in the same claim and are now
considering 8IPPING fuctors could set off n chat period last year. But this year, whether to impose reaction to cause un economic for the first time, intners took overtime and plece-work next slump. He said, however, that two weeks holidays instend of
Provident (0) 12.80 he sees no danger of a depres-
there
Was another
The outlook for 1954 is there- 9 Dock 3,03 of thes and rious as thal 1
day's production lost because of
unsettled. Any fore
Wheelock further early 1930's.
Coronation-day holiday.
rise in Industrial production will | LANG, ETC.
HK Hotel Senator Douglas
Extra holidays cost 8,400,000 opchd, upon the success of the
HR Land
16 771 100 17 excise tax reduction would re-tons of coal, so comparison with nation's new export drive. And
3.40 S'hal Land.. sult in lower prices of the pro-last year is not as unfavourable that, in tum,
depend Humphreys 14.20 Really ducts affected with a resulting
Arst appears.
1.90 1.0335 14,000 @ 1.9015 the ability of primarily upon
900 Unfortunately, increase in demand for them.
the Treasury British industries to keep down He was asked specially about says, most of this year's rise in thoir
production costs, the excise tax cuts, provided in production has stemmed from
In an end-of-the-year message present law for
demand next April 1. the increase in home
la British exporters, the Minister at a cost to the Treasury of including some restocking-par-
of State at the Board of Trade, of goods most affected Mr Heathenat Amory Licularly about $1,000,000,000
summed yeen President Eisenhower has asked by last year's regesalon-und not
up: "There is no cause for alarm Lo
the from the export drive, Congress
postpone
and despondency but there scheduled cuts indefinitely.
Recently however
ver there has Senator
sald Douglas
been some improvement in a cause for anxiety--and for still
enorts ..
everything greater favoured allowing the
reduc- tain's external trade position. In
on our depends
com- being tions to take effect on schedule. the first half of 1933, a gap of petitive". He added that a $1,000,000,000 £380 millon between imports cut might not be enough."
The excise cuts scheduled for April would affect auto- mobiles and auto parts, gaso line, quor, sporting goods and cigarettes," he added.-United Press,
Japan Biggest Exporter Of
SETTLED DOWN Norton's latest patrol found
sillar aims of Cotton Textiles that tho formerly wild tribe converling savages who still in- apparently given up habit inland Breas of New
BERSERK METHODS Superb bushcraft and berserk have mythions
slashing Indiscriminately, result about, but the
And from the Far South:
are pre-
Ice Peak Defies The Climbers
Melbourne, Dec. 27.
Three members of the 1953 Australian Antarctic Research Expedition to Heard Island have returned to the weather base at the foot of Big Ben, the 9,000 feet high icy peak dominating the island with a graphic story of the hardships they suffered trying to climb the mountain earlier this month.
The
and exports was more then offret by "invisible" Income -*** from such services as shipping, insurance, overseas Investments, etc.
TRADE SURPLUS
As a result, the Unlied King- Įdom catned a modest surplus of £20 million in the first half of the year. Sinco then importa have been maintained around their previous level while ex- ports have improved slightly— in fact, in November, they were the highest since March Just усаг
In
year.
SHARES FIRM
IN LONDON
(By C. T. Hallimars) ·
Ex-
London, Dec. 27. The London Stock
should end the year chango with industrial shares almost the at their highest levels of year.
Star Ferry 140 140 I. Lich o h C. Light (N) 10.70
Bioctric
..... 20.30 20.50 100 1000 10001380 ships 14.3 mots, while in 1937 It was 12.7 knots for Japanese 500 425.00 | vessela and 12.6 knots for
foreign ships.United Press.
Macno Elec » Telephone INDUSTRIALS
Cement Поре
STORES, ETC.
Dairy
Watson
1. Crawford lncorr
COTTONS
Ewo
20
...10.70.
1.900
21.40 200 @ at30
18.00 19.10 16.00
20 23.20 500 G 23
1,000 # 25.10
Texille Orp, 17.05
MISCELLANEOUS
Yonetize
2
1,700 21.80
500 a
New York Stock Market
By Elmer Walzer.
US TEXTILE 20 stock market turned
MARKET
New York, Dec., 27.
down in the Christmas holl- day week.
Trodiag active
Was moderately when the list was tend Ing lower but lightened or a
| Iste recovery, even AKA MIN
The rally came too late to do
market observers see no reason 11 executives believed / Wednesday ended in
strong
In
da' much as
The trade gap during this bi attack in which, their nomadic way of life, built Guinea that patrol pilcers liko
New York, Dec. 27.
has been at the The Journal of Commerce to-perly early rate of about £285 gardens and Norton and Szarkas wh light, long-handi:d excs in huts, established
The Financial Times [Index
: New York, Dec. 27. ouch hand, they raced through collected reserves
food,pared to of
devoto their lives to day predicted that Japan will
con- of leading industrials reached Christmas holiday influence much good and it met oppo- wery yolling and There surprisexi villages
no dogs or fowls | bring
be ence and prosperity to
this year's leading cotton million so that with its
the usual week. year's peak of 131.5 on held trading to a minimum in vitiore from .the Mokoikols are the tropical jungles of
tinuing and probably growing the textiles exporter with 力
net
on
Later it fell to all busic
evening up operations. "Invisible" November 4, income
textile-fibro markets end ed in their undisputed control believed to train their pigs to second largest island in the estimated 000,000,000 yard ex-
The United Kingdom 120.7 and closed on Christmas this wock,
market had a holiday from account, the of about 500 square miles of follow them like dogs,
world.--China Mail Special,
ports of cotton Foods alone.
close should end the year comfortably | eve at 130.0.
to Monday's Thursday's A good many cotton mill and Runner-up probably will be the United Kingdom, with India in
its balance of surplus on
converter firms suspended bust-opening. There are only four move
ness on Wednesday night til Prices slipped off in Monday third
place, the United States in payments.
A recovery from 1952 has also trading days left this year and
Monday morning for fourth
the and broke off sharply on Tuck- Another decline on by an Improve- The United Kingdom estimat-been marked
4 rally gold and dollar why the firm trend should not ed totals for 1953
were put atment in the
continue. to position. In the 11 months
the full would extend for an- from the lows. Thursday's day 800 million yards, that off India
the leading blue chips other week or more. the end of November, reserves at about 700 million yards.
Reasoning market brought a small recovery sovcral are at their high cut was that distributors now will on light volume. The United States, the Journal rase by 683 millon dollars com-
levels of the your or so near be pre-occupied with inventory-
The decline more than wiped said, will be lucky if final 1933 pared with a loss of 175 million
suggest a
out last week's rise, mostly be- whole of last to them as
taking. exports total $25 million yards dollars for the
underlying bullishness, of goods.
While business in cotton grey cause of further weakness
Industrials were lower US meports of cotton goods in But despite these achieve- There has been a similar trend goods proved strictly of a band-Talls.
totalled 760 million yards. ments the United Kingdom is in British Government, stocks, to-mouth basis, some quarters but were not down expected drop this year losing ground in world markets. led by banks and other insoit that it cloth buyers can be they gained in the previous
weak.
Utilities lost the least. was attributed by the Journal increasing competition-especial-stitutional investors. The index convinced that raw cotton prices
bottom" scraping
Tuesday's selling reflected they of Commerce to increased com-ly from Western Germany and of government securities started "are
sharp de- petition Icom overseas, prin-Japan-has caused its share of the year at its low of 94.30 and would modity present close uncertainty over a
cline In cipally by the Japanese and to world trade to decline.
steel operations. The rose steadily to its peak of 101.44 buying policies.
steel bills scheduled nation's Increased
the impert restrictions
Converters, looking at Cailing attention to this, the on November 12, a rise of 7
at 80.0 per #gafret American goods
percent; it is still bobbing cheerier alde, thought foventories their operations Venezuzio, Peru, Cuba and other Treatury rocently pointed out round just under it, at 100.00. in the connuner pipelino have (cent of rated capacity, lowest
that while the volume of world Latin American countries.
Woolworths gained 1/D to beam whittled down to a very since the strike-ridden July 28, experts rose seven per cent be-
New 199
week... American exporters are tween 1950 and 1953, British 3nch a new peak for the year low point and that the
However, Wall Street hears aptimistic for 1934, the Journal sald. Many complain exports fell in volume by five
Ofile appear strong but they amount ansious buyin
that the steel mills are prepar that while the US has been offer was cule to strengthen her. ex-
cent. per
Tho that Britain
fact
are all under their recent peaks. in cotton yarns, it was the ing for a good first quarter in ing tarif concessions abroad, Wa
Japanese bonds have im-sama story-hand-to-mesh buy 1954. Fisher Body has asked ternal trado position in 1953
1963 proved other countries have been per was largely because of the Potash 7% have risen 22-10-0 looking for price concessions, deliveries and was
fractionally.
German ing with consumers constantly it bie
steel producers to step up seen as in- Since 1947, when the me- At that holght, reported the struck. Their tent was buried mitted 10 rals their duties on improvement in her terms of
Hard fibres featured con dicating a big ditarter teorologicni station was set up on leader of the party,
to £150 (peak wen £155-15-0)
for the MP John for five days by snow fifteen Americtin imports. Hoard Leland, Big Ben has been Berchervalse, the peak looked inches above the ridge pole.
Des that basis, the Journal trade. Thus in the nest half of while the 81% were up 21 to tinuod Arthiness in burlap prices
automobile companies us added, US Lexile men bellove the Vest, it would have meded £137% Relch Loans were up while buyers became moria
Business a frantalising challenge to the "completely attainable." He said
nows restivo because of the continued greatest difficulties were.) members of the weather parties the
They built an igloo bealde the it will be dificult to American only the same volume of exports tractionally.
from the holiday. the beginning then who go there
́aktrés, "favo Incessantent. But after five days under-exporters to equal 1953 ship os in the first half of 1951 to buy
have firmness in raw jute price and suffered fro behind them.
out the tent | mênis."
about one-quarter more imports Gold-uranium of each year to spend a twelve blizzards, lack of visibility and neath it they dus
boon strong with gains of one the overhanging threat for a lasses were larger than is usual US exports for the first nina UNSETTLED OUTLOOK months lonely vigil at ita foot, short rations, however, defeated and in the blizzard re-pliched it
or more shillings but the buying new break-out in the longshore for a holiday in that Christmas above the igloo.
Can Britain meet the challenge of Batfirs is stiocive. Cappers men's strike my good market Many plants shut down for
foll: at the end of the wesk months of this year totalled Through the cruel Antarette them.
477,780,054 yanir. compared with of increasing compalilida
1952, 19347
with raill several days and AAM United Press.
There can be no assurance on
closing down from three days to Despite the
cies in the murket as a whole, this point. Wages, which 20-
a wookie the holidays. present a Intge proportion
Woollen and worsted fabirlo there was still a great deal of production costs, continued
Paris, Des. 27. distributors were counting on a selective buying here and there
throughout the list. The French and Japanapokupin activity about the risa
Big Ben is vulnerable for only about four weeks every year, in November and December, when the Antarctic summer is setting in but before the ice starts to melt and giant blocks break away and crash down the mountainside.
Members of previous expeditions have made three attempts to scale Big Bon but each time the climbers have been forced to abandon their attempt below 5,000 feet.
+
than
winter, when the men are con- Mr Bechorvaise, an experiented When lack of food forced the 604,420,687 yards in fined to their quarters for all
is officer in party to abandon the assault, but
few hours of the day Bla mountaineer, who
charge of the 1959, Antarelle they began the descent through covered with Ice,
and Research Expedition, had made heavy aloud. At 4,000 feet, bad- Ranked with forbidding glaciers, elaborate preparations for the weather and the crevasses of
assault on Ben. With the the Abbotsmith Glacier again de dominates their outlook.
The urge to conquer this remainder of his party, two layed them Mr Bechorvalso and mount, higher than any on meteorologista Mir Fred Elliott Mr Shaw fell trough a mów the Australian mainland. be- and Mr Peter Shaw, he made Deli
brkigo over..a crevasse and, as
descont
%.
comes irresistible to any moun- several preparatory" "excursions the former anid, “Inspected the laineer included in the parties upon the lower slopes, and con- depths together
#tructed four stationed on the island.
keichves at — At the first break in the In 1982, an attempt to scale strategle points which were woo
weather, the party Anished the was abandoned stocked with food. v, the mountain boonusa the-doath of twoʻma- The party, roped together, Back at bang.
Bechorvalan teorologists of the weather pressed as up the mountain to a reported that the man ware uti station short-staffed,
[point"}
teimmediately below the well, but somewhat reduser Tins year's party climbed is summit slopes, overlooking, they la edded that any future, elm 5,000 feet, the highest yet, before Colley Clealer. Skagen kampigahould be, backed by
Mr
It was driven back by biliarda Hope rose with wywry foot of reulong for a knots, Ca sid Macan eation), artee 18 days, progress until, another Blizzard Specs?
U.K. Notes In Circulation
In
London; Dec. 27 The Bank of England stale ment for the wack ended Dec.
NOTE: UT tune
of
to
of 00-1.
and other base metals have been uninteresting-United Proms.
4
Year could usher a
The rayon grey continued quiet
The
Bome tax
this | year, though at a, some-
slower rate than in pre-governments will requer the middle of January, United selling appeared, Unkod Prem,-) wikkt;
Be advice of Mr-ivade Rooth, Pre- Pross. vious years.
At the end of September
RELEVANCE shions, of the International weekly wage rates) were per cont higher that in Alllibugh the cost of iving? bilidad more or less stable set
te încruabe - Ind
three 1932)
Vi furthse. Althou
Monetary Fund, in their contist regarding ...; the sollement lat
Now York, Déck17, il Beel mill operations. In the
Japan's pre-war
ar debt Korance Exchange Rates United States during the coming
Accordkg /to," usually
fit informed quarters, dicas
Govermen
Busine
wook are scheduled, at 60,6 cent*?*of valed cát production::at-1,500,000. ton®