"FENGTIEN"
"FUKIEN"
BUTTERFIELD
and SWIRE.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
"HUNAN"
"SHENCKING"
"YUNNAN"
SAILINGS TO
Semering, Djakarta, Sostrabaya & Macassar Kaohsiung, Keorung, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagoya & Qnisa ....
ARRIVALS FROM
Tienta
. Foxlung
Bangkok
8 am, 20th May
8. 24th May
23/28th May 1a.m. 20th May 28th May
A.Q. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE SAILINGS TO
"CHANGTE"
"CHANGTE"
Sydney Melbourne
4 p.m.
ARRIVALS FROM
Kube
2nd June
31st May
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
Keheduled Sallings to Europe via Aden & Port Sald
Join & Hamburg
به نام
All
Gath Jaime Glasgow
13 June Scheduled Sallings from Europo
Hall
24th May
25th May
4th June
140 June
"ANCHISES"
Doblin
Genua,
"CLYTONEUS"
Amsterdam,
Liverpool
ido, Hutter-
Londa
AB
Flavte,
Laverpol
"YREBES"
"ALNEAS
} Glasgow
Laver pood &
Ball Llyesteel Salleri
du
Sulled
12th June 22nd June
24th May
3 Jun 1.11a Fene
S. AENEAS”
6. "EUMALUS”
8. "ASCANIUS"
G. "PELERS"
NAGAPENOR G. "CALCHAS”
S. "ADRUSTUS"
G. “PATROCLUS”
Balla Rotterdam
12th June
Arrives Hons fon 27th Muy 29th May 8th June
30th June
Bih July
13th July
Loading Silasgow before Liverpool 5. Loading Swansea before Liverbumi,
Carrera aption to prerred via other porta to load and discharge cargo. Net Pulls 2 Japan and Indonesia at shije's nption.
EDE
LA RAMA LINES
ARRIVING FROM US. ATLANTIC &
PACIFIC COAST PORTS,
7th June 17th June 28th June
"AGAMEMNON"
Sail N.V.
Sailed
Sajla K.F.
Arr. 11.K.
"DONA AURORA”
Railed -du-
"DONA ALICIA
- do --
1st May
"BATAAN"
20th May
18th June
15th July
"MUNCASTER CASTLE"
11th Jusc
3rd July
21 Aus.
SAILINGS for SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, CRISTOBAL, KINGSTON and NEW YORK
*"AJAX"
"HAINAN"
"MYRMIDON'
•
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1984.
CHINA Indonesia's Foreign Exchange
JUHAN (7MLUI
HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONS)
Princ, 20 gente per copy, Saturdays 30 cents.
Subscription: $0.00 per month.
Postage
Supply Drifts
Lower
Djakarta, May 23.
Indonesia's supply of foreign exchange has dwindled to dangerously near the legal minimum,`
At Its worst the situation could bring Inflation and topple the pre- China and Marao 1200 sent administration. On the other hand the crisis could dissolve virtually
per month, UK, Delilah Possessiona and ther countries $7.00 per month.
Itap rattibutions, always web. come, should be acidressed to the Editor, bu em conaninicaliona and advertisements to the Secretary, Teleptuntas: 28tht (3 1.imes). ROWLOON OFFICE: Balisbury Road, Trichone: 32018
unnoticed.
The Indonesian
Government,
The Bank of Indonesia stato- can undor Indonesian law ko ment for May I showed that to
request aware for months of its rapidly Parliament and guld and other convertible legislation covering the Tegal dwindling supply of foreign ex- been guarding it foreign exchange covered only minimum of foreign exchange chango, hns 20,36 per cent of the money in { coverage. cirouistion. The previous Woolt the foreign exchange coverage
20180402|EJAN|12|261|13|ALOCIRAQITILADECİA was 20.0 per eval.
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CARS FOR SALE
:
1967 ruevroder de Lause mean to
owner leaving Color
perfont
J
dad
Cum
$200 in loves offer
12206 1- +12 bola di Pingba
OUT-
TW
1 it! *
FOR SALE
YE OLDE MILL, A dutinctive hand- maile ulatunery In buxca. 30 shenta notepaper, N envelopes, Post Bvo 11y. $9.00 pei bux, Duke ny. $11.00 per box frum "S. C. M. Post,"
!
It seams almost certain to drop below the 20 per cent mark within two wooks,
k
The lywe governing the Bank
Indonesia, the nation' national bank, way the foreign exchange coverage cannot drop But that below 30 per çoni, minimum can be set aside for three months by a degree of the
Monotary Board. That is what will probably tako place in Djakarta soOT).
bron
closely intely.
Foreign
have become
permits exchange INFLATION PREDICTED
Increasingly dif Government opponents have cul to get. A tux of 60-2/3rds.
predicting that Inflation
cent han been levied on would result from the foreign some transfers of money abroad. oxchange situation.
In general it is only the Govern-
which
per
Indonesia'a shortage of foreign exchange, observers say, can be traced to three factors:
can still But the coverage hovered ment agencies near the 20 per cent mark no Get foreign exchange for their detected ruplaha without too much dif uneasiness could be amang the public. Banking Beulty. circies, particularly the easer- vative Dutch, wore resiivo bizi consumers seemed unconcerned, The Moslem holiday Lebaran at the end comes up
and workers, month pockets Biled with traditional bonuseR and enjoying tradi- tional vacations, will as in the After The three-
month past flock to
for the stores “emergency" period the Bourd heavy buying of personal goods,
The Monetary Board is com- posed of the Finance Minister, The Economic Minister and the Governor of the Bank af Indonesia.
DON'T
WASTE
WATER
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
P.O. Box 53
Queen's Building
Tel: 26651
HONGKONG to MARSEILLES in 24 days. "LA MARSEILLAISE”
saling June 19th “VIỆT-NAM
salling July 10th
via JAPAN.
Louis
Halle
4th June
5th June
19th Jun
20th June
HONGKONG to CASABLANCA in 30 days.
4th July Muriaventura & La Guaica
though buils of busting
5th July
"BIR HAKEIM”
sailing June 5th salling June 23rd
Anugdag carafe toy danical & South American poris.
Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Route
JK/Nagon/Stugapore
111. Bongkok, Singapore
Bepari Hongkong
04 m.
10 10 A L
7.00
Monday
Tuesday Mun. & Fri.
FDC-4) 1131-4)
1 May 211 N Borneo
+1)
HK Mano: Hajahjortsat
12 Au The sta
15th kok ap
1-4)
00
(DC)
p.m.
Fru»
1 tangkok/langoon/
Calcutta
All the above subject to Alteration
Weinesday *Thursday
without Dalion,
for particulars please apply to:
Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd.
1 Conn,ught Rd. Tat. 30331/8
Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. West.
Tel: 25875.32144.24878
"INDUS"
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST BEAM'S POWER, I MUST PUT YOU TO SLEEP
AGAIN,CHAMB
OKAY--MAN,IS THIS CRAZY!
YOU ARE ASLEER AFTER YOU WAKE UP, BEAM WILL HAVE NO MORE POWER OVER YOU -- HE WILL TRY--
of this their
Therefor: An upswing In consumer sales will not meant public mistrust of the currency. Actually the value of the ruplah has strengthened a little
the
foreign exchango coverage dropped the past few wocks.
Three works agʊ une Amerj- cm dollar was worth more than 30 rupiahs in New York. Today It is worth only 26. i Dinkarta, an American dollar three weeks ago brought 20 r 27 ruplahs on the open market Today I brings only 23 or at the ngst 24. The legal rate is 11.4 rupiahs to the dollar.
HITLER'S COFFEUS EMPTY
Although mest nations prefer to operate with a foreign ex change coverago of well above 20 per cent, most of them at & minimum of 40 per cent. It is not always true that financial ruin follows a crucial shortage of gold dollars and other foreige exchange.
1. The drop in rubber pur- chases by the United States:
2. Her desire for a national ceonomy:
9. The great need of a "raw materials" country for Anished products.--United Press.
of
Plea For Warning
On Smoking
London, May 23. A suggestion that the Ministry
Health should launch
to tution-wide campaign
from young suade
people starting to smoke is advanced by "Medient World" today.
It is The family doctor, too, suggested. should take positivo steps to the same end.
of
Acting on the hypothesis that prolonged smoking is a major cause
lung cancer, th.8 medical journal, which clrcul- alca among thousands of general practitioners,
says that the individual doctor bar clear duty to point out young patients and their parents that 10 acquire the habli of smoking over 25 cigarettes a Hiller's
of for day is to shorten the odds example, operated successfully dying from lung cancer before for years with a foreign X- the age of 56 from one in 1,000 change supply of almost nothing. to one in 50.
Ritheat,
- BUT YOU WILLRESIST. JUS HYPNOTISM WILL NOT AFFECT YOU--BECAUSE YOU WILL BE STRONGER--NOW
--WAKE UP! --
By Lee Falk and Phil Davla
NOW FIND BEAM, DON'T WORRY, HE CAN'T HYPNOTIZE YOU.
GOSH, HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
TOMORROW = MR. BEAM
8-42
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THE WAY
By Mik
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--- I DECIDED I'D JUST
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Japan. Koren. 6. PAD. Thailand. Maya, Indonesia, Auj- trailk, New Zealand, 6 pm,
By Busface
Macao, 5 pm.
"TUESDAY, MAX 25
By Ale
Philippines, am.
Burma, Pakistan, Middle
East.
| Africa, Grest Britain & Rurope, 19
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Formosa, Japan, Korea, OkirmWN, VSA, and Capada, 4 pm.
Indo-China, O
By Buriaes
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Rains Come
To Save Crops
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"BRADEVERETT"
Arrives
Sally
June 6 from Manila,
June
G for Kobe & Yokohama,
"LENEVERETT"
Arrives Salls
June 19 from Singapore. June 20 for Kobe & Yokohama,
(Accepting cargo for transhipmeni Kobe/fusan and Kobe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STAR LINE
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May 24 for Singapore, Port Ewetten- ham, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr, Basrah, Kuwait & Bahrein,
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May 30 (com Singapore, May 31 for Pusan,
Koba
Yokohama.
(Acceping cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa)
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JOHNNY HAZARD
HOWDY, TRECHAT.....
THOUGHT AH'D KELP
WHY...ER...A
GRECIAN STATUE
I'VE JUST PURCHASE I/ ||
THESE HOMBRES CARRY . | PERHAPS I'LL SHOW ÎIN YORE CRATE! WHAT'S IT TO YOU....... SOME
IN HERE, ANYHOW I -
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BIR CAREFUL, WITH THAT.
GRATE?
IN HER...
The rains of the past two days
this situations
calls for a
Sau Miguel
come as "n" gift from beaver" to tha· Now; Territories farmers, said, an Agricultural Department official this morning.
If the drolight, had constieliind, tre said, there was a potabilly that the current season's crops would have been lost, Sedariquiquare) Degarspent work ars have been belping to feric wate berohet fede by. manning
tá
"In early Wusly.