Queen Sees A Maori "Hot Pot"
THE CHINÀ MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1954.
Mauri guide Rangi describing one of the native hot-pola-perpetually hot water holes used for cooking food-when the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, and their party visited the Maori village of Whakarewarewa during the tour of New Zealand.— Express Photo.
Spotlight On The "Back Room Boys"
At The Big-Four Talks
Berlin, Jan. 25.
In the shadows beyond the limelight shining on the Foreign Ministers of the four great powers who meet here today move the figures of younger and lesser known men.
TRADE comal COMMERCE SECTION
MERCHSECTIONN
Fall In Orders For Britain Hopes To
New
Ships
U.K. BUILDERS
WORRIED
London, Jan. 25.
Despite a continued shortage of steel plate, which was, however, less acute than
in 1952, total output of ships from British yards in 1953 was 1,344.115 tons gross, an increase of 13,000 tons over 1952,
This increase was largely due to better steel supplies which reached the yards in the second half of the year when UK steel output reached record levels.
Although the output picture is bright, the
Break-Down Brought Luck
Ballakaş, Violetiz,
Jan. 28. Apprentice electrician Ken Adam thought his fuck was out when his motor érge broko dawn,
But he won a £A1,000' (£800 sterling) nar welth 14 Lottery ticket bought from a stall where he stopped. - China Mall Special.
Replace Coal By Nuclear Fuel
Few people realise that within the past seven years an entirely new industry-for the produc- tion of atomic energy materials—has arisen in Britain,
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It is an industry upon which many millions of pounds have been spent, which employs thousands of workers, and to which all branches of the engineering and chemical industries have contributed.
Large quantities of atomic fuel are now being
NEW YORK produced, and developments promise abundant power for
STOCK MARKET
the country's future needs.
Little has been said cbout these achievements for reasons of security; but in a book Britain's Atomic Factories, un oficial account given of the imroject "that has involved the design
construction of
for
complexity,
sharp decline in incoming orders is worrying stocks Just before the close novel fight," says Mr Sundys,
builders.
For 12 months to September 1953
However, this trend is not confined to the UK. All major shipbuilding countries have recorded declines in new orders i move booked, as the following' table, complled by the Shipbuilders' Counch of America, shows ——
TONNAGE ON ORDER BOOKS (Ships of 1.000 tons and over)
"It is
in a fore-
Aerial Railway
To Carry
Manganese Ore
New York, Jan. 26. engineering works unequalled in Strengthening in industrial this country
and size. lifted the average for that
Its best level since Minister of Supply, group to only 510,000 gross tona
last March 17. and capped a word, "that the world should be
London, Jan, 25, for new shipping was ordered compared tb 1,856,000 gross tons in
told how fissile material is today Aircraft day of narrow irregularity. the preceding 12-month period.
flying over Blue
featured chips"
the being produced in Beltain, and Africa's equatorial foresta In industrials issues of the remarkable factories and are selecting a route for the such as
up plant which have been designed world's longest aerial General Electric,
rait- 1 points: Bethelehem Steel, 4 and erected 10
10 cotry out these higher:
Du Pont, higher; strange processes,
way. John-Manville, up a point; A description. "In such detail This 250-mile ropeway is in- Standard Oil (N. J.)% higher, as occurity permits," is given of tended to carry manganese ore Rails and utflitics, leaders the works nt Springfields from the interior of Gabon In carly in the session, fell back a
Windscale (Cum-]F:0 (Lancashire),
cnch Equatorial Afee, ta an bit.
berland), rad Capenhurst Atlantic scapert. The terrain is Trading continued brisk, with (Cheshire), which are controlled considered too difficult for 3 sales totalling 1,800,000 shares, from the headquarters of the land bed railway. compared with 1,800,000 on production organisallon at The air survey is the 'Arst Friday.
in Lancashire. At the step in the five-year Ristey New York Central was the Winscale works plutonikum, project to reduce the high over- retive lender with a total volume fissile material, is produced from Innd transportation costa of el 37,700 shares.
uranlum in two nuclear reactors Gabon's rich manganeso de-
Composits. Aircraft shares continued to and afterwards soparated from fenture in the industrlats as the uranium by chemicul Contractors Wall Street anticipated encreased process.
even firms will take over when Boven
'is established. One of the greatest problems the air survey appropriations for air power.
Douglas,
up 8% coms last was the design of the separation They represent French, Italian, week on good earnings and plant, "The chemistry of
German and British companies dividend news; continued to lead plutonium was almost unknown which supplying various
of the the group rising 32 points, and only 20 milligrams of the
conveying Bendix, Northrop were metol enough to cover 凸
machinery.
And the man they have up around a point. Moters stocks pinkicad-were available for ex-
chosen
osen as technical leader periment." lagged.
O 1,171 Issues traded, 533 The account records Chat Mr "from were higher, 353 lower.
this minuto
Windscale the great
January, 1953
Tona gross
Great Britain
6.181.000
Germany
1.791,000
Sweden
1,606,000
July, 1953 Tons press 5,779,000 1,600,000 1,565,000
United States
1.310,000
972,000
Holland
France
1.170.00V
1,152,000
154.009
824,000
Norway
627,000
619,000
Japan
651,000
487,000
Italy
355.000
377,000
Beiglum Denmark Others
284,000
312,000
372,000
$20.000
297,000 443,000
on
Total
16,030,000
14,427,000
Many of them witty and colourful personalities in their own right, they are "back room boys," who will provide the facts and the sug. gestions for their leaders at the Big Four conference.
They have one thing in common; each is an expert on the affairs of either of the other countries represented at the conference or those of Central Europe and the East, which are thought likely to form main subjects of discussion.
Behind the short
plump Sir William Hayter. Ambassa;
has met both dior to Moscow, figure of the powerful Rustan
Russiun Foreign Minister, Mr Vyacheslav Mr Molotov at tho
Me Georg Malenkov. team slands
of Ruder, Molotov, Ambassadors and former An- Like Sir Frank, ugain, he speaks bassadors to Britain. Amerien, Russian, French and German.
Mr Charles Banten,
the France and Tokyo, und Russia' chief expert on the Fat Eas. American Ambassador to Mos Mr N.T. Fedorenko.
cow, speaks fluent Russian and he is regarded as the State De-
His pre-altairs."
that
Fedorenko is head
05
1
Russian Foreign Ministry's partinent's top expert on Soviot
Far Eastern section.
sence is taken 39 a sign
the
Russians will
China question
Mr Bohlen has something in
with the team's the common treat
Dr Gorman affairs, as the major port In
James Consul, American High Commissioner in Germany,
Issue at the conference.
Another Far East expert
the smiling.
clark.
Is
an answer
three learned works on many.
Frince's urbane Ambassador to Morcow, M. Louis Joxe, said to have been at a loss for
only
in his once curcer-when Stalin rusked him
of General about the health Charles De Gaulle,
Ger-
ja
er
In Moscow, this former teach-
journalist and
sil!1 pursues
Mr Jacob Both have been severely cri- ticised by the Communist-hunt- Malik, who was Ambassador in
ing Republican Senator Joseph affable. when the atom bornly was Tokyo droppert on Hiroshima,
McCarthy.
Dr Conant. who was Prusi- At dent of Harvard University
of 30, was the ye
President Roosevelt's adviser on scientific developments during the second world war.
rare
move-
his hobby of collecting China and carpets.
By contrast ex-
with these two colourful members of the team
the
witted nimble - behind
M. French Foreign Minister. Grorges Bidault, M. Alexandre timid, though stems Parodi
But the Secretary-General of Ministry the French Foreign had a brilliant record with the
แล war-time underground ment and his long thin face and massive forehead became fami- lur at the United Nations and the
at the Jong conference Palais Rose in Paris two years ago.
There is a contrast, too, be tween the other two members
French of the
team. The Balkan expert, Baron Guy Le Rey de la Tournelle la myster
M. fous and imperturbable. Roland de Margerie, who heads the international and the Middle East sections of the French Foreign Ministry, is a brilliant take-costo MSX Speel.
Regarded as one of the mast Russia's younger brilliant of diplomats, 46-year-old Malik is also an expert on atomic energy. He was Soviet representative on
United
Nations Security the
Am- Urbane Diplomat Council before becoming bassador to London.
A powerful influence will be One of Mr Molotov's principal
exercised behind the scenes by Deputy, is his First advisers
Amerien's "roving Ambassador." the former Ambassador to
Bruce. Millionaire, Mr David Mr and Washington. London
politician.
solder, diplomat, Andrei Gromyko.
Gromyko is 45-eight lawyer and industrialist, Mr Mr years younger than the present Bruce was head of all America's
and sabotage agents Ambassador to America, Mr sples
Hitler's Europe in the world Georgi Zarubin, who is also at Berlin.
Mr Dulles principal assistant the State Department, ¡ from
Livingstone Merchant, is n although formor banker who,
In Troubled Waters
wari
Mr
10
0X-
the
RSPCA Protest
Mr Zarubin, a former Am- he is at present Assistant Secre- bassador to London, has recent-
of State for European Lary President Affairs, has considerable ly been discussing Eisenhower's atom bank pro
perience in Far Eastern matters. posal with the American Secro- Sir William Hayter is tary of State, Mr John Foster only Western diplomat to have Duiles.
in person. met Mr Malenkov With him at that interview was the chief Russlun expert at Bri
Mr Moscow Embassy,
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Against Bird Catching
He is a keen Asherman. When he was asked about it on one occasion, he admitted "Yes, tain's like fishing," but added with a Thomas Brimelow. quiet smile "In troubled Mr Brimelow,
fluent
Nicosia, Cyprus, Jom 25. linguist, is also in Ber- Russian
Protests against the Cypriot Jin.
practice of catching beccaticos Another British expert who (vine birds) on limesticks have Mr has met Mr Molotov before is
sent to the Colonial Oliver Lyltel-
H
waters,
of
The other two chief members
the Russian team
are the
Ambassador lo France,
Sergel
ocen
where
The activity of the UK ship-] bulleting Industry, relative to the declined, rest of the world, has while the British proportion of world tonnago under construction hus increased.
Export work in the UK yards was 27 per cent of the tonnage under con truclian, while in Holland it was 10 per cent; Ger- many, 30 per cent: Sweden 43
it per cent; France 20 per cent, is, of course, passible to regard the large proportion
of UK tonnage for home scenunt
with some satifaction, as it indicates that the British fleets are being modernised, and that they con- tribute to the invisible experts of the country.
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET
(From Our Correspondent)
Dusiness done
on the Stock Exchange this morning amount- cd to $749,282.30. Noon quota- tions and the morning's transre- tions:-
10 10 1645
SHARER DÜYENK GELLERS GALER
BANKS
• IK. Bank. INSURANCES
Lamunt..
Liniom
SIPPING
Asia Nav... DOCKS, ETC.
IC, Wharf. Dock
47
840
In the meantime the courts of Minister el up by the enquiry of Labour to examine the wage dispute in the shipbuilding and engineering industries are con- tinuing their work. Neither side has shown any signs of yielding from its position so fur.
The shipbullders' chairman of the widens' confederation, walls not agreeing that orders were
Proviilente (0) 13.84 coming in as quickly ns in the immediato past
Providends (N) 12,10 that freight
S'had Dock. 1.10 rates had fallen and that some
Wheelock former competitors back into operation, said that all this did not add
to up recession.
Ite pointed out that the 23 whaso shipbuilding compantes
were published in 1933 reports had combined reserves totalling £51 million or about six 'per eent higher than in the previous year and 2 times the combined sha:c capital of the companies involved.
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were
now
0.20
J
quantity
The NY Stock Exchange bond fundamental processes on which volume was $4,011,000.
The American Stock Exchange į operates were worked out." volume was 500,000 shares.
Dow Jones closing averages
wero;
23 rails
30
Ulica
30 industrials
10 stocks
40 bond1
Comm. future price Index
Jan, 25
plant
sections
arc
ropeway
from at lenst
Herbert Shields, 64-year-old managing director of a London engineering firm. Mr Shields has had to use an iron leg sup. port since 1891. He was crippled by infantile
paralysis the 93?
et the
of two. MIGHT REPLACE COAL
Scientiste
convinced
His Arms will be responsible and engineers are for overali co-ordination on the thet nuclear spot. The unskilled labour is to
provided
from
200.40 DOW 100.41 energy should be able to make a be
63.00 substantial contribution 110.37 90,50
United Press.
mainly
to the Gabon's 409,000 people...
electricity supply of the country It is believed that the entiro 100.01 at a cost comparable with the project is being financed on a cost of coal-generated electri-lifty-fifty basis by a joint dr- city. If certain assumptions turn ganisation of the U.S. Bicel out to be
the French it might ultimately Corporation and valid
to replace Government Overseas Depart- be possible coal by nuclear
meni, The
Singapore Rubber be
Market
| Authority
next 15
Complete
Electricity their.
Isbrandtsen's New Freight Rates
British
estimate thor total requirements for coals are to an annual likely to increase Singapote, Jan. 25. The market insed in the rate of 83 million tons in the of this "a saving years; morning because of lack of sub-
would transform the 600 4 1.19 part. It closed stealer in the magnitude would
Even if It aftercon with sellers reserved, nation's economy."
line were physically possible, many Company, ren-conference Price
on the New York service, bas years must elapse before such , goal could be reached, it is ter 23 items of between 30 pl aamoussed a cut in freight rates
cent. bringing them
Tokyo, Jan. 26. The Irarradiseni Shipping
Ne, i vulber per 1b. Feb. 546-8434
May. 542-04
jectivo, one that might possibly 10 季
No. 2 rubber per 16, Poll: stated: No.
Spot rubber, unbated. ",
31
491%-80 84-84 United Press. LONDON MARKET
1.500 1.20
01.30 21,00
120
1000 211
14
No.
B 4000 8.20
1000 8.20
2000
820
4
LAND, ETC. K. Ho! 1.K. Land..
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No.
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Humphreys 1020 10.40 Really .....
1014-10 Ram spot ..** Settlement hours tram:
Tob.
1812-169%
2.30
Mar.
3044-10
1000
Apt./June
2013-18
15000
July/Sept.
10%-1022
2000 2.278
Oct/Deo.
1834-101
UTILITIES
Tram
Star Ferry
C. Light (0) 14.70 14.30 800 14.80
London, Jan. 25.
more immediato. oh-
CAT
bo realized within 20 years, oughly into line with conference would be to
set up a reactor
The announcement was mado
system
which
would generate
enough electricity to produce a through the company's general The rubber market was quiet saving of 20 million tons of coal agat in Japan, the Hother with No. 1 Rrs spot quoted at in year, the amount by which
The now rates, the ecmpany's estimated production will fall police said, would apply from lis 105/10 pence per b. Prices:
short
of estimated 'co years." Jegular scheduled porti in Jayan
during the next 18 to 20
It is
to its direct ports of call on the Is emphasised that this sug US Alantic Coast. geation, which would require The free tales of the Confer "a tremendous capital expendiente en certain carmodities are
it were lure if
into 70 to 00 per cunt lower than 105/16-16 5/10 operation," is based on a number those it fixed in November 1082.
General markets, elf besls, parts
302-10 104-1012 -United Press.
New York, Jur, 25.
NEW YORK MARKET
Feb.
MAP.
14.00
1000
14.80
100 14.00
3500 of 19.00
Light (N) 11.70
30 31
200 1600
cm-
Telegbone- 24.00 INDUSTRIALS
Cement.... 18,00
to 50 points lower with sales of to the
60 contracts.
*
Dut
of assumptions that have yet to The freight rates of the company be proved experimentally. Bxed last July for all cargo ftoms the experimentally determined wer facts differ from those sumper 50 per cent lower than the previous rates of the Conference. Rubber futures today clored 45 tions, then a different approach The Conference thet added problem of
power, items for which free rates could become be applied. may
Rates of major itėms, ∙aroos the story of atomie follows (delia:s pe: ten)-- Dat However, with traders being bearishly energy production
Co. Co... Proient in Britain
Bal 1333 22 991 impressed by, the lower trend at fends with
expression of
Now Previous of Con- 2000 a 3315 | Landon.
belier that whatever the exact
Rate Tinto forecas Spot No. 1 Ras were quoted at form of future
projects, "Mor Artificial.
10.00 10,00 9,00=10,00 15.00 199 cents per pound, nominal.
Js there Risley
even mord Canned Food 10.00 19.85 0.30-10.00 1950 | Future closings:
adventure to come thon has) Glass Word 10.00 10.50. 10.00
Machinery.andoja, boen encountered in the past,"
20 300
10.00
2000 @ 19.09
Itope STORES, NTG.
Datry 90.00
Waien Textile Corp. (X.D.
X. His MISCELLANEOUS Yaumeu .....
500 730
This was a very large differ- ence indeed, he said, adding that it gave a clear picture of the financial strength of the indus- try. Dividends had risen by 21 per cent between the two yars, he cald.
Sir John Boyd, for the ployers, pointed out that in the Additional case of exports, Vonogradov, and the Mr Geoffrey Harrison. A form- Scoretay Mr
costs could be borne. Britain chief Soviet experi on Germany,
er British Minister in Moscow, ton, by the Cyprus branch of
was working essentially on a Mr Georgi Pushkin.
this urbane diplomat took part the Royal Society for the Pre- Mr
one-shift basis, while competing Vonogradov is a former with Sir Frank Roberts in talks vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Catching of theso Ambassador to Turkey, one of at the Kremlin on the lifting of
tiny Continental countries were moit- {" on sticky twigs 1y working two shifts, and tho the only two Middle Eastern the Russian blockade of Berlin migrant birds
which are countries
Atlantic in 1940,
in certain is an annual event
normal working week for each Pact members. Mr Pushkin, 週 Chief assistant to Mr Anthony districts of the Island,
employee was 40 hours,h Deputy Foreign Minister and Eden is his young: Parliament the birds arrive in milllons at
The
not tonnage. of "total member of the Soviet Foreign ary Under-Secretary, 34-year- the end of September each
versole entering UK ports with Ministry's policy-making "collo old Mr Anthony Nutting, odu- year.
foreign trado cargo in the con- a former leader of cated at Eton and Cambridge. gium," is
The inflex of the birds the Rupian,
diplomatie mission He has served in Rome, Paris tinues for about six weeks and during November was 5.8 million tons, 190,000 tons lower than in in Berlin.
and Madrid, and is regarded as Cyprus villagers set to work as October, according to the Board Molotov speaks
only on expert on West European roon as the fist group arrives. Russian, but members of his affairs.
Their bird hunt provides them of Trado. The daily average tearh speak English, French
with considerable food suppiles was 17 per cent higher than in and Cerrian.
"How's De Gaulle??? na well as remunerative addition November, 1982. The total of
million tons clearances-4.2 to their normal' wnges, ber of the British topin,
Hunters choose their twigs was on a daily average basis, 8 already had more than a dozen the British team is the High from pomegranate busies and per cent lower than in October conferences with Mr. Molotov Commissioner to West Germany, smoar them with a home-made but 18 per cent higher than in conferred twice with Stalin. Sir Frederick Hoyer-Millar. He sugary "glue Then the put the preceding November--Chinx,
from
In As Minister in Moscow
the foreign service them among the branches of | Mall Special.. has been 1940 to 1947, he earned a re for 30 years of 63 years.
trees which are known to bepakaran in the Jovial M. Andre Francals binds Poncat, 67-year-old' High Com«. Once it alights upon
the pilaky branches, the
Me
- Bir Frank_Roberts,
and
a mom-
has
Another German expert
in
COTTONE
Manila Railway Bonds
Paines thawed softening ten- denales right from the opening
March May
19,87b
19.35
19.83
10.50h
10.mah
19.00b
United Press. ·
Brazilian Coffee
Rio De Janeiro, Jon, 25.
New York Sugar Futures
Now York, Jan. 25,! The Brazilian: Coffes, Institute World No. 4 sugar futures sáld today that Brazil had only closed today 1 paint lower più 0,552,383, bags of coffée left for palet of 300 contractat de axport Dec.
1959
and will be
Domustle No. 4 muger futurés "hard-pressed to most US and closed unchanged 11 to, at points foreign market demand until lower with sales of 40 contracts. harvest of its now, drop. Futuro closings:"
Brazil's
ORG Cantráot Na,"4 (world)'
crop March 2.
in mid-TON Elatos London, Jan. 25.
British holders of Manila is now calculated at no more | MAY 944 Railway-bonds proposed to than 1130,000 langa exoept for "take up kaath with the Philip | export by the Brazilian Coses
company at the, Firepayinent), of }Cr
pulation as a "hed haler" be- Franco's expert an Germany favourite night-hounts of the Exchange Rates no overament and railway Inelule seco
Eating of his habit of working for up to 20 hours a day."
Speaks. Russian
missioner in Bomoustache, caught. There **His military Heilande may his knowledge monould and bowler hat suggest coape. Next of the Russian mind; hai orion his Brius, counterpart, tak wit villagers fooloot.
him to predict wuchsene) and asporto hawak Amburr- and endle TOUGAROSWAY Rallies will not dor in Berlin, between the
Horacio
flowers
parts Paper cloth,
11.00 19.50 8.00-10.00 manufactures 11.00 26.03 10.00 Porcelain ware 15,00 11:25 9.50-10,00 Rowalk (per
2.00
100 (b)
Toys
Plywood Wood
10.00 15.00 9.00410. 11.00 16.30 të 10.00 -
manufacturva 10.00 19.23** 10.00
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