CHINA MAIL BOOK REVIEWS
WHEN IS
Borderline, a novel by
Vercors, (MacMillan & Co. London, 11/6).
MAN NOT A
Templemore to they wern
elf to Dougins
whether human, animal or at the hall-
tlincover
Darwin's
1
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1954.
TRADE and COMMERCE SECTION
CARRIAGE OF GOODS
Limitation On Rights Of Shipowners
MAN? INTERPRETATION OF
هذا
AUSTRALIAN ACT
Límitation of the rights of the carrier of goods by sea is once again demonstrated by a recent decision of the Supreme Court of New wide strike against such action, South Wales concerning an action brought for the or the Union would
recovery of damages in respect of the alleged short Unsic
demand overtime
ktrown us institution
ution. f The Australian trady know no trade unionist m that would tolerate tropis Intermediate country way stuge-kome
would It being, no longer animal yet not
in any factory.
threat to regarded cut off in some quite human.
There Where,
wurkers' ilvellhoml, What is man?
the normali work strange way from
would either be an Australia- Wil for instance, is the dividing
evolution processes of
out of line between man and beast? de men
apes, t subscribe a remarkable thing you 10 11 that at our present stage of theory. intellectual advancement The problem And despite our deep and becomes acute when an Austra- penetrating inquiries intohan corporation, which owns the the laws of nature, there is Tights of the land on which the tropis were discovered, decidei universally ac-to traits and employ them as us yet no
cheap labour in their spinatus repied definition of man.
mills.
This question is the key to a brilliant and wilty! satire by the French author, ; Vercors. Most appropriate. ly, he has called his honk- about the discovery **missing link" being "Borderline".
Te
of
t:
of the status
decals
5
union
full
wages, rates and, of course, compul- delivery of cargo.
membership for the trople or else claim that The texille company was con- travening the provisions of The Wilie Australia Policy
"cheap coloured" introducing labour Into the country.)
The goods, consisting of a consignment of fencing posts, were shipped at Dunkirk for by delivery at Sydney, the bill of lading providing, amongst other things, for the determination of any dispute to be dealt with in the French courts, i.e., in the country of the port of shipment.
Vercors has told his story bril !liantly The neony la magnificent amil jessabulties he explores in such an unlikely situation are boundless and fascinating.
So
Happily Aadonfule. Jame the
Templeme is revolted the decides on a trold plan
He offers hus semen for urli- female nelal semination in
atry Hu | moliser-las-be marad nad sun is very glasses and takes her to England "nising hak"
Anal she gives The Relenlife in an airliner. much alive, too.
it defir. der of which young birth to a expedi on
Douglas Antina, but something, huil frape English Journalist
and half human, wy way Templemore, is a member, dus. almost human-in covers these
registers Templemore fact,
to close uncomfortably
child's birth as that of his own wild and human-tropis" le
son. Ife has christened, Garry remu e range of mountains
Ralph, and early in the morning New Clumsen,
after its birth he plunges a hypodermie of poison into the infant's arm, killing it.
in
The creatures stand ereet, but have four hands (instead of two hans and two fee): they even the semblance of a lan- have guage and smoke their food be fore eating it. They can make flint axe heads. Are and carve They bury their dead and live in Certainly hey are cover-
caves,
ค
not The
n
Cocteau better one) Scal.
the author 15 yel he does absurdities English people. Jean
uld not have invented politician (even a French Vercors Lord Privy Anatole France could not have (yet devised a more ludicrous
plausible) court multe
highly when
reputable I wo anthropologists bicker and argue over what is a man,
Yes, I recORINATE this book
hearty laugh und 14 thought-provoking study
seene
R
into Just what kes distinguish you and me from the ape you saw Immediately he informs heal Whipsnade on your last leave!
-- C. HUTCHEON, police of his action. that he has killed his son and he is put on trial for murder.
He insists
The murder, as such, is not in The perplexing question. problem for the Judge arid jury is to discover whether, in trei,
animal. he has murdered a human or an
His desire is to prove that the ed with a cont of fine hair from trop is n human, so that it is head
to foot, but then the not subjected to the cruel ex- the Australian was supposed ploitation of Neanderthal at to be pretty hairy, tool
textile tycoon. And for this he is willing to risk his neck)
On this particular question, have been) The trupis might
I feel Vercars has left the only Just a very interesting discovery
of an hropologists. flaw ini for a group yet the challenge presented it- tight
France, like Britain, Australia, and many other countries, gave effect to the rules of the Brussels Convention of 1924 concerning the unification of the rules relating to bill of lading contracts for the carriage of goods by sea, and under those rules such a provision as that referred to above is permissible, and it might be said, reasonable.
that this
in
But unlike The French und it was suggested by the Mess-
Marlines British Arts, the Australian Act agerles provides that any stipulation or principle should be applied not- agreement, whether nude in the withstanding the provision Commonwealth or elsewhere. the Australian Act, since the
under purporting to bust or lessen the court was not deprived, Jurisdiction of the courts of the the common law rule, of the Commonwealth or of a State in right to take any case into its respect of any bill of lading or consideration and determine on agreement relating to the carri- the
whether it would merits age of goods from
place | exercise jurisdiction
itself or the outside Australia
leave
Lo to any place
partics
appear in Australin shall be legal, before their own selected forum, null and void, and of no effect." SHIPPING COMPANY'S CASE
Off To Meet proceedings
The Cannibals
London, June 80.
A young adventurer, 24- year-old Tom Stacey, former
Officer and Guards
Old Etonian left London last week-end on the first leg of 1,500-mile journey in search of primitive tribes in French Equatorial Africa.
water- otherwise story. He has furgolten
SCIENCE BEFORE
SENTIMENT
The New Men. A the politicians Novel by C. P. Snow academie aruncat. (MacMillan & Co. Lon- don).
Mr Snow writes dilemma of Britain's atomic scientists
with
Brian
Kironde,
He is to be accompanied by Cambridge graduate and son of a Buganda
chief.
For
any
it was suggested that such an
Interpretation of the provision
West Germany's
Aid
Reduction In
Price Of Raw Cocoa Wanted
London, June 30. The Financial Times suggested today that some reduction from "the pre- sent high price of raw cocoa" would keem pow- sible for next season.
***The risc la prices has been so steep and Ita duration so long that the confectionary trade and Ita consumers cannot escape
the impact.
"If all tho higher raw material prices have to be passed on to the consumer, demand will fall and prea- sure on the supplies could be cased.
Another factor which might tend to reduce prioca La "the tendency of some confectionary concorna to turn towards cocoa sub- stitutes
which replace COCOS butter by other edible oils and fats," the
newspaper said.
"How for .the West African producers respond to the high prices by planting more--the only fundamental remedy for
the cocoa problem--remains uncertain."
To Shipbuilders
Creation Of Strong
Merchant Fleet Acceptable To U.K..
Bonn, July 1. Government financial aid to shipbuilders to further the creation of a strong West German merchant fleet is compatible with Anglo-German agreements not to subsidige exports, a senior Economics Ministry official has stated here. He was commenting on the "Hamburg Plan" proposed by the Hamburg Senator, Herr Ernst Plate, for the future financing of shipbuilding:
West Germany's shipping industry had been trying for some time to find alternative sources of finance now that tax concessions are due to be abolished in the tax reform at present under consideration by Parliament, the source said.
Senator Plate's
plan....which
of
only
present London Rubber
Market
the official described 13 ene of many plans at being mooted provides for building 300,000 tons
DOW shipping at a cost of 400 million marks. One-quarter of the money would come from recon-
London, June 30. struction loans, and one-eighth
The rubber market was quiet each from US aid funds and
with
1 No.
Rss
at quoted from the shipbuilders. The re-
10-18/10 pence per 1. Prices: maining half of the funds would No. Res pot 1234-20 BO
come from the capital market. Settlement house term:
Auglist September
The Financial Timen auf- gested the use of "a greater share of the large cumulated profits of the West African marketing
boards to encourage more and better farming.".... China Mail Special.
NEW YORK
STOCK
MARKET
Senator Plate claims that mortgage bonds should be tax free and that shippers should be allowed to earmark tax-free profits for their reserves to cover depreciation.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION
Another suggestion which has the been put forward is that Federal Government should take over interest rales abovo live
Oct./Dec.
Jan Mar. Apr June August
General markoli,
September
1035-40
1017-201
20-2015
2016-20
20%-2011
elf baris, ports:
1041-191 19-13/16-10-15/10
Erlate crepe thin 2444
-United Fr¢.
NEW YORK MARKET
New York, June 30. Rubber futures today closed
2 to 20 points lower with sales
38 contracts.
dullness prevailed
of
The
in
per cent on loans which the both the futures and spot mar- shipping industry gets on
capital market.
would normally
the kets. Such loans
Traders awaited the re-entry cost eight or of factory interest, Shipment nine per cent at present, bat offering was reported light and shippers
they Cannot high priced.
Bpot rubber Rss were quoted afford more than five.
nominally 234 centa a pound. Future closings were:
claim
The carriers, the Messageries in the Act left the court in full control so far ยง jurisdiction Maritimes, sought to stay the
was concerned, but gave it also the upon ground a discretion to consider in each that there is written
agreea
particular ense whether the ment to submit a dispute to the parties should, be held to their decision of a foreign court UD
от whether the uction the English
Ja
courts agreement
should be allowed to will be stayed in the absence of plainti good reason to the contrary, and proceed with his action.
NO REASON FOR STAY
The court,
that holding in
which there existed no reason
stay would justify a
ΟΙ pro-in suid that stronger ecedings. words than null and vold, and New York, June 30, of no effect (ns used in the Act)tives some time ago.
Leading issues fell a point to Cotton trading continued as could not be found, and that it
But these suggestions did not two-sided affair today, but a stipulation was made a nullity, more than three points in groups seem to conflict with the agree- this time the recently-depressed then it was a nullity in every such as the chemicals, electrical ment between the British July delivery went over to the respect.
equipment, the oils and a host Chancellor of the Exchequer, today. Prices today, closed in upside while new crop months
of special issues, lagged.
New York Cotton
Market
to
Absorption of more than half
With
In
New York,.dune 30. Top grade stocks reacted sharply today when the U.S. Senate voted to halve the
The Economics Ministry double tax relief proposed official said no decisions on any the tax bill as passing, help for shipping had beat the House of Representa-talten so far, since the tax
May form bill was still in committee.
July
Sept.
по
Dec. Mar
Mr Richard Butler and the
the
July
24.00
24.20
74.20
14.45
United Prom, AMSTERDAM MARKET
Amsterdam, June 301. The rubber market. was steady
**** 194 Buyers
-1.83 buyers 1.07 Buyer 3.40_bayern
United Pres The Singapore rubber priens were
own merchant fleet, the offela London Foreign
It is common for the British
Elsewhere in the industriais, West German Economics Minia-guilders per kilogram, CIF, Aug. and shipowner to include in the bill in the ralls, fructional ter, Professor
No. 1 rubber Ludwig Erhard, follows: This No. 1 rubber of the 73 delivery notices issue of lading provisions a clause to
losses wero the rule. Out of not to subsidise exports. four months they will
effect that any claim or
1,102 issues appearing on the agreement, reached during Mr No. 3 rubber
No. 1 rubber crepe Inix with tribeg still practisit the opening brought covering the
spot dispute under the terms of the Into July, along with primitive cannibalism,
vanced.
beginning of hay, covered ex- and the selen-y
house demand against sales of bill of inding shall be decided tape, 601 declined while 391 ad- Butler's visit to Bonn et the mere proples who still bury widows
the at the carriers' option the later positions. tists' objections became
Volume Wi
comparatively port subsidies, whereas Herr unavailable this morning. alive. and desert-dwellers п
United Kingdom
Plate's courts of the
suggestion dealt with position carved down to
light on the downturn, amount. of South-East Legion
Angola round"
30,000 bales, experts or in the courts of the country
Ing to 1,050,000 shares, com- the building of West Germany's Tom says. has never expected the market hereafter of the port of discharge. this, which
pared with 2,800,000 yesterday. war-time been properly explored.
heed to Washington
The Senate more pay
acted to cut said. Weldity
The effect of this decision in
dividend tax relief in favour of developments and crop news, He's hoping to write a hook
to Australian trade is
In the meantime, an official of to the rank How did the scientists and a telling simplicity. He about his adventures to beat Opening prices were up 14 to regard!
Malaya best-seller, off 3 points. New Orleans closed therefore to deprive the carrier small concessions
of taxpayers. Since, the West German Steel Industry feel when they probed the has been content to present the conflicting and unforeseen
5 points higher,
of the right to have any such and fle vast possibilities of nuclear no
open dispute settled in the courts of market men pointed out, much Association has stated that he Trading volumes and responsibilities of
of rebates granted on
M** | Amsterdam Assion? How did they feel today without attempting to ex-
year has been based on tax re reports interests in the Exchange today this country, which, for many of the market riso so far, this could neither confirm nor deny New York them too deeply. The
reasons, may be desirable.
llet, the news served to unsettle steel deliveries to shipbuilders. Blocked Mark ut the prospect of making plore
practices is
Nothing about such the market. con- AA no story an explosion "such
structed and well
The recent strong chemicals was known at present, though copenhages
might have | Paris were hard hit. Du Pont, up 15% Individual firms
knowledge.-China Zurich
the scientia!
con-
add be
one bad realistically ima-struct
tween the often exciting
his even "The Ilostile Sun,
New Books
were: Month
Voluine
Open Interest
July
40,300
80,200
Oct.
33.100
210,000
Asia South East
short
Den.
31,000
445,000
Mar.
400
320,000
May
Det.
fuly
13,000
250,700
9,000 3,200
124,300
100
3,400
157,700
1,549,000 bales --United Press.
at the Barford gined...a great big bang developments like thousands of tons of Atomic Centre, and the relation history by Brian Harrison (Mar- Lewis Eliot (who Millan, London 10/0). This book T.N.T....a bomb that would ship between kill 800,000 people at a go"? tells the story) and his brother, will be reviewed in this column
Martin, where
MI
Snow next week.
shows the hopelessness o!
Cherrill of the Yard,
the
In his latest novel, Mr trying to full one's own private autoblography of Fred Cherrill, Snow examines the emotionsuite by directing other people's ex-Chief Superintendent of the of that strange race of Then there is the counterpoin: Fingerprint Branch
personal relations Scotland Yard (Harrap, London
the scientists —
of tho people
between Martin Ellot and occasion of this, wife, whom on the
he married un- their latest contribution to wisely, the politicians, civil ser this happy, enlightened age vants and the other scientists. of material progress and social advancement.
In this
case, The Now Men were apprehensive and fearful that selence would be misused. This fear came not with the final production of the bomb or Hiroshima Explosion over and Nogasak!, but with the dis- covery of its theoretical feasibi-
some Mr Snow has invented particularly droll characters in his denizens of Whitehall, com- pleto in their black coats and pin stripes. He has captured the Lervent young master- scientist perfectly in Luke, but Martin Ellot is perhaps too old for his yours.
of New
Dec. Total
32,500
NEW YORK PRICES
New York, June 30. Prices of cotton futures today closed as follows
25,10n
33.00-63 33.00 34.02 34.27
34.21
33.0
33.25
United Press. NEW ORLEANS PRICES
New Orleans, June 30. Prices of cotton futures closed today as follows;-
his
15/-).
Spot
July
Oct.
Doc.
UK
TV Films May Help
Exports
MRT
May
July
Oct. Dec.
Spot
#uly
Oct.
London, June 30.
Dec.
Films about British in- dustry may be shown on
May
July:
Det
Dec
ittle
fity and after an examination of deliberate without ever reaching to boost the export drive.
The author's style is plain and foreign TV networks to help
Kreat
iis tremendous possibilities.
heights. The striking The idea has the backing of And If this realisation had
feature of this book, however, is Sir Harry Pilkington, Presi- dawned before tho bomb's
the simple, unpreteritious actual creation, why
dent of the Federation of did the dialogue of the most
academic scientists persist with their
most British Industries. of scientists and the research? Sentiment raroly
Oly garrulous of politicians, Unlike aclen- obstrudes
into
He says that all over the world pure
many authors, Mr Snow does Life Investigation. The over not Impart the gift of convece now television networks whelming desire is to weok, to on rocklessly among his being set up art-in many areas- know and immediate
understand The characters, unele tocanons on for xample, in Latif America dominant
uff the whole are beter and to the the local stations are short of was to solve the apparently point, uncomplicated by any of material. insoluble, that which
Poped
the the devices of expression which
intriguing question marks of
fro
Mar
34.00
33.584
CLOT EG
34.00:
23.02
27.23b 31.bob
United Press. LIVERPOOL MARKET
Liverpool, June 30.
American prices, Closing middling cotton, 10/18 inch, in pence per lb. were as follows: October/November December/January
March/April
סינה
Official prices for spot coltons,
Montreal
Hamburg
Brusel
Exchange
New York Sugar points on Monday and off 6 yes granted rebates without the As- Blockholm terday, erased another 3% sociation's
Market
New York, July 1. World No. 4 sugar futures today closed points higher to 1 point lower with sales of 84 contracts.
Domestic No. 6 sugar closed 1 point higher unchanged to with sales of 108 contracts,
World futures held steady on short covering. The 438 trans- ferrable notices issued against July were promptly taken up trade interests.
Ceylon reportedly bought 10,000 tons of raw sugar, but confiming dealers lacked any
details.
points of the gain to $134,
Lesses in the pilaatonged to 3% 2% in points Try Seaboard,
or more in Amerada, a point Standard Oll (N.J.), Honolulu Oil, Texas Pachie Land Trust,
Steels cased. Industrial stocks were down 3.37 in their average, Irails 60 cents and utilities one
cent..
The New York Stock Ex- change bond volume $4,090,000.
was
The American Stock Exchange volume was 470,000 shares.
Dow Jones closing averages were
335.63
20 industrial -
15 utilities
20 ralle
stocks
10 bonds
100.00
160.37
United Press
Comm, future price index
Domestic futures held steady SMALL COTTON
bel
reflecting the firmer rew hasia and fears that purchases made in Puerto Rico may tied up indefinitely because of the dockworkers, strike on the
Future closings were: feland,
Contract No. 4. (world)
September
October
*.176
3.14
31.28
s
all unchanged United
January(1000)
SAO PAULO PRICES
May.
July
São Paulo, June 30,
Prices of cotton futures closed
Cube)
3.17
Cont
why and how. And beside"" characterise - that minority, of He believes they would be,ayin aruzeiro, der kilo" ea.).
there was the tempting chal
risont and gifted speakers.","
only too glad to accept simi about British industry, pros
lenge of converting the theoreti-The book is the Bring In Mr they mohrbi pamo
cal possibility of nuclear fasion Snowia akpañain Jesus
into practical real
That "the other alo-, might
Once the bomb was created, which People wi
about.
OTC.
PLANTING
Kampala, Buganda, June 30.
Only 942 acres have been planted with cotton so far this,
Mail Special.
PENINSULAR
C
London June 30,
081-13/16-2,011%
21/20-1/
12-5/1
Others were
United
Press.
& ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGÁTION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CORFU”
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
CASON just one twelfth of last BAGGAGE: year's colton acreage, Agricul- tural Department Agures show ed today.
Last year
12,094
with cotton.
acres
Were
Poienivo. Couricil members |
recently denounced a whisper
Friday, the 2nd July, at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM vin Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Adeni and Port Sald.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by noon on Thursday 1st July, 1964.
ing, caimpolgsamang Buganda SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages
farmers which allegedly urged
not
baa third
Ginointed, dut
carried by passengers WALL BAGGAGE must:
the Wharf C6.2 God on-board by
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