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Two Great Artists At The Mike
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1954.
Dame Syhli Thorndike and Sir Ralph Richardson in the NBC's special production of Shakespeare's "King Henry VIII" broadcast in honour of her theatrical Julier. Most of the Dame great names of the Loudon theatre appeared in this remarkable production, in which Sybil herself played Queen Katharine and Bir Ralph Richardson Cardinal Wolsey.-B.B.C. Photo.
Wave Of Hooliganism
Sweeping
Communist Nations
Vienna, Aug. 25.
TRADE
COMMERCE SECTION
LOWERED
Burma Working Out STERLING RATE
Gigantic
Agricultural Plan
Rangosh, Aug. 25.
The Burmese Government is working out a vast plan for the reorganisation and rehabilitation of the country's agriculture, which has suffered severely as a result of world war two and the insurrections which followed independence.
Though Burma La pursuing | worked out by members of thứ an ambitious Industrial deve- | Agriculture and Land Nation- lopment programino, It is realisation Ministries,
alised that her econotny will This plan will deal with the always remain primarily agri- problems of land pt present curtural with the emphasis on lying fellow and also the re- settlement of cultivators who
rice.
An increase to the level of were displaced by war or
later above the prewar Burrection,
rice yield and an Improvement
schemes,
of
4"
All land is to be remapped In other crops will help to agriculturally under the pintz, raise the standard of living showing armas for crop and throughout The Country and fruit cultivation, grazing and ul:0
finance other development forest reserves. These maps will also be used to determine the The average production barl sites for yilings and ronds buddy for the years 1938 to without disturbing the agricul- 1941 was 7,427,000 tons
whil ture. for the yours 1953454, it was
Planned rural development, 5,527,000 tons. This showed an irrigation, realforestation and increase of urarly 1,000,000 tens the setting up of new agricul- the imin: dute post-tural banks will, it is hoped, independence yeux, but a drop place Burmese agriculture ef 200.000 tons on the 1952-53 a round basis and ensure uutput.
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
A new agricultural research Justful:
1 being bu: neor
ut 1 COL uf
over £1.-
Rangoon 3.300.000 kyas I nearly 000,000). TON Institute will slady and seek solutions to the problems of farmers and
help to introduce
tort up-to-date methods in the
backward arcas
where
more
productivity.China
Special,
rise
World Rubber
Markets
To judge by their newspapers, the Governments of all the Iron Curtain lands, including Soviet Russia itself, are perturbed at the wave of "hooliganism," including drunkenness, rowdy- lunghe cried on find publication of high Malayan ness and crime, which is sweeping their countries.
To some extent, it is blamed on the "relics of the old capitalist class" but, especially in Russia, it is attributed more and more to a newly developed "gilded youth" which, like its counterpart in Western Europe in the early days of the century or in the "naughty nineties" of last century, lets off its surplus energy by drinking, fighting and getting into scrapes.
In
Lonadi, Aug 25, The seasonal demand for dollars lowered the rate for sterling the afternoon lo 2.80-28/32-lowest since the pitällas sénamnél meves ment in Beptember lant year — and automatically lified the market price for gold to à new high at 245 källiga 7 pencë për sunce,
Thi Rank of England
which closes in books for the week this afternoon wijt value ith hillón #oltar (more or less) of gold at today's official price of 249 shillings 5 penet→→ United Press,
HONGKONG
STOCK EXCHANGE
(From Our Correspondent)
Business done on the Hong kong Stock Exchange this morning amounted to $047,080. Noon quotations and the morning's transactions; SHARES BUYERS KELLERS SALES GOVT. LOANS ____(1940) BANKS
HIC Bank East Asi INSURANCES
Union Underwriter"
DOCKS, ETC
K. Whart Dock
Providenc (010) Wheelock
LAND, ETX
1715 1725
$90
103 913
13 20
10
23
20.000 P
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The Hungarian Agreement With Britain
London, Aug. 25. Britait has completed trade agreement with Hungary for the 12 months from September 1, the Treasury has announced.
Quotas for United Kingdom exports to Hungary have been agreed to an approximate value of £5,000,000. They will include wool tops, rayon yarns, pharmaceuticals, machinery, vehicles, tinplate and electrical machinery and equipment.
Quatus for Hungarian exports, to the UK have been agreed to |an approximate value of £34 jmillion. Main exporis will be Tomato muree, rice, eggs, canned Finest, bristles and miscellaneous
manufactured gooda,
resulted
The talks have also is an exchange of notes in which the Hungarian Governinent state that they are not at present in a a position to make any payment the low level of un- nwing to gary's sterling earnings, but re- irm their Intention to settle claims
ms in respect of nationalisa tion and expropriation of British property in Hungary
They
und have greed to begin nogaliations on or before September 1, 1955, for settlements of all classes of
80p at 31 TO UK debts and chilms.
500 21.60
The 1300
.. 12.00 1390 2000
115 1.60 1000 12 2012 ** 1500.
7 55
HK Hotel.. 11 70 2703
tik Land
Hampareys Realty UTILITIES
eenturies,
#ame Jinen
But more important is master plon which 14
for
the
being
Singapore, Aug. 26. Despite lower overseas advices
production figure for July, the market remained study here today with sellers again very reservod.
Star Ferry
t
Future closings were:
World Cotton
Markets
New York, Aug. 25. Cotton futures today turned
These are not und boys and In Poland, 100. the "Gazein | May this year, the first sentence girls, the Sovie! "Komsomolskaya | Bialostocka" reports that the of death, reported in. "Pravda" Pravda" wrote recently. "Ther | kucal gines works had not fulfilled on May 28, was the result of a Irregular after the deferred de- the "frdveries edged to new seasonal but unsatisfied Its plan because "of the habit braw at one of They have nothing to do, and of many workers of staging Corners" where workers and in-highs
false idea
and drunken orgies during working tellectuals drank. The "Litera of valour
blamed these bravely
hours. Thus, for example, the turnaya Gazeta youths
Niewiadomski, "quick drink" shopa for the in- of the many enses, these young Majevski
Watendziul creasing and
drunkenness. amang Burlet writers, brigades on March & this instead of working,
" drunken session in the
The Literary Gazette for April worl:" in the Soviet press itself, the this year attacked "drunken- main stress is on the campaigners and loose living in litmary This must circles," it complained that the gainst inebriation.
Unten hushed up the "unethical be fought not only in the luxury i omelets of the
ohert Mald youth, mainly the idle sons of the And Improper einduct" of many artiste eireles, nanong wum Soviet privigents" drink, but of its members.
people
are femls tat children of high officials of the Communist party, who have be- come, especially in Soviet Russia 119011 R 210w privileged class
with manes und leisuje.
They include plso some of the Tending ligures of Literary and
ba
Hubernion nellyldants and bobob in the "grten sentry boxes
orals pre rondemned in attacks
in the press and over the radio Rivals of the
which
as vices t
capitalist
tenacious."*
Although
axe
are
this hooligansan'
is most widely developed in the Soviet Union It is also wide- the satellite spread throughout
☆ ☆
Drunkenness
Soviet Writers
canon-
the liquor salis set up neat place, It added, that it is not factories, schools und gover-even rebuked. It described and ment oflees where they really named certgin writers, two of terve vodka, wine and beer whom were later expelled from
Unloa
Writers, who "behaved like old spalts used to
in the old
"One well duyg known wriler of belles lettres" Faid "with a swollen, blue ruloured face, always had hangover. But his friends were most sympathetic and would
How he is Ill again." "TIMO"
25. April Komromed officials are often tu blame as sometimes their
attacked the "butterfly girl"- haviour
who pace the dla-good time girls "especially reputable." Part of the blame streets in the hope that a chance
The "Komsomolskaya Pravde," atntes.
Thus,
youth, shares on May
12. In Sea, organ of Soviet Luchezar Avramov, spraking at out the blame fairly widely, a meeting of the Dimitrov Unio said on Aprit 3 this year that
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Prices closed today per lb. as follows
in cents
Spot
15.qu
Gret
34.12
Der
34.49
Mar.
34.63
1
May
34.00
Oel
Dec-
14.30
No! rubber per H
Beplen:ber
October
November
No. rubber per ib. Begi
No. 3 rubber per lb. Sept
0871-651$ CISTS-87
Tram
CG CD14
38 10,50 2.10 2.1715
10 19.30
0500
33 1
Hungarian Government has also undertaken to examine:
NEW YORK
STOCK
MARKET
New York, Aug. 26. Stocks backed down to- day, seemingly for lack of anything better to do.
A brief mid-session shakenur which forced tickers to run Inte for 10 minutes brought
prices
of recent leaders down 2 or 3 pointe.
Overall volume wan
not
all UK claims with a view to heavy, however, and there waa
ne real pressure
j determining the total amount at 13, the earliest possible state. ~China 11,00, Moll Special.
500 at In
"Ferts 197 LG 20-0 INTO) 15,80 18,00 20000 # 10.00
C. Light (N) 12.00 12.00 son 12.0
unquoted Cement
No rubber per lb. Sept. 0413-9434
Spot rubber
Blanket crepe
No. 1 pale crepe
NEW YORK
0558-0492 10-50
Rubber futures today closed
of 141 contracte,
20 to 40 points higher with sales
Dealer
buying
on balance, plus higher primary marketé and signo of a
reviving factory Interest in the spot market, ali combined
16
higher levels.
boost prices to
Dealers reported "quite a little shipment business" was worked Gvernight, 31 50
mainly with Thailand. Part
of the relling in futures Trading volume; and open-ainst the shipment burchases. treats in the Exchange today Dealer short covering also was was supposed to be hetiging
apparent In the local spot market. No. 1 Rss spot was quoted up to 234 cents a pound, Future closings were:
were:
Month
Volume Open Interent
15,300 40,200
60,4DU
LONDON
500
13.80
Electric
Telephone 20 INDUSTRIALS
200
26 00
28,40 2,70 1000
1000 738-28
Hope
STONER, TC7
Dairy
23.20 25.30 1000
WAKO FT.DO 10.10 L "Crawford 2319 CUTTONS
Textiles
↑ 7,05 MISCELLANEOUS
Allied
..... 4.1040215
Norwegian Shipping Laid Up
با
Liverpool Delegation
For Cairo
Liverpool, Aug. 25.
on the Ist Trading in the first three hours Was dull with prices irregular and activity the lightest in two months.
Traders held back in the absence of fresh incentive.
Market commentators Kaid the sciling Burry represented an effort to lower prices to # level where new demand would be generated.
Widest
AIR LOBSES
losse came in the drents, oils, steels, rails--all groups where there
Were
The Liverpool Cotton
Ex-substantial profits to be realised. change has made such good pro- Closings in most instances were gress in working out a futures well above the lows, however,
Egyptian-
en a number of specials had
contract
covering
type long-staple cottons that it
Despite the
now plans to send a delegation good fains. to Cairo in October to discuss the Liverpool contract and the possibility of Alexandrio establishing
old arket on similar lines.
500,000 shares
fourth hour heaviest for that period since September 14, 1053 futuresales totalled 3,280,000 shares, only 200,000 ahead of yesterday.
Of the 28,454 spindles which. Lancashire had in place on
Losses in the aircrafts at the lows ranged to almost 7 points
January 31, this year, 7,023 or in Bendix. This came back to 35 per cent were using Egyptian- ciose 4 lower.
Douglas, Re- type cations
The tong-stople public, Bocing and United Air- cottons tend to live in an econo-craft nt were off mers than a mle world of their own and at point. present the
spinners cannot hedge their purchases and sales Oslo, Aug. 25. According to official statistics very successfully in the existing 65 Norwegian merchant ships (futuris market which is based 23.40 totalling 204,434 gross tons were on merican middling cotton.. 25.70 laid up on August 1. This was
23.00
23.95
23.85
Losses in the oils ranged to 34 points in the high-priced Texas" Pacifie Land Trust, Standard Oil, NJ, fel a point. Standard of Calitomin point. Rails were uniformly lower, the declines ronging to
with
Or 1,200
23.00 ten more ships and 50,395 more Exchange authorities say that Fross tons than on July 1, Orso much progress has been made the laid-up ships, 33 ships tolal-in formulating a contract 2 points in Santa Fe. ling 220,011 gram tons were able for usern of Egyptian-type tankers.
compared with
cottons that it seem quite likely 22 The rubber
that the new market will open market was tankers totalling 162.773 gross quietly steady with No. 1 Rastons a month earlier.
irt carly 1965, but for various spot quoted unchanged at 20
rennons they are unwilling to During pence per lb. Prices:
July, reven shilps Issue formal announcement No. 1 Impot
totalling 38,201 gross tons were just yet.-United Press. re-commissioned, while 17 others; totalling 01,080 gross tons were Jald up.
250,700
Dec
$15 400
Mor.
17,300
400,000
July
May
21.000 15.000
432,000
Boptember
103,300
December
Def Dec
1,200
Mar
0,700
29.700
Mas
Tothi
121.700
2.038,700 bales
NEW ORLEANS
July Beptember
Prieng of cotton futures closed Os fellows
Spot
34,00
24.42
Dec.
11.42
Mer
04.07
10%-20%
also
May
31.80
Settlement house term:
July
31.81
Oct.
1042-20
Oct
34.51
Oct/Dec.
11/34-20
Dee
34.619
Jan/Mar.
1991-20
Apr./June
SAO PAULO
JINY/Aept.
103-107%
199-197- 104-10
24
AMSTERDAM
of the Peoples Youth, claimed that the fight against hooliganism was the most important task of the Unton. "We have good reason to worried," he
he said. is attributed, loo, to squall acquaintance "a youth in gaudy the streets of our cities conditions" under which
In
young people
often
the cluthes or a prosperous old chap behave young
people and workers live. with fur collar and money to wildly violate public order, Even more the paper blanies burn will take them to dance cynically molest young girls, the "gilded youth," the sons of and dine. Indulge in heavy, drinking and the privileged class, "those who waste their thine"
Pick Up
chew straws." It described an evening at No 6 Gorki Street, in the "Cooktail Hall."
Here, it said, boisterous
goes on until late with light Testless lite at night. Trade Union year-old
New Underworld
The Hungarion
Prices of cotión futures were all unquoted because the colton exchange here remained closed
clarification pending
of the political situation,
General markets, eit basis, porta: Sept. Oct. NOV. Estato croPE: Thick thin
The
23-21!1
rubber market WAR Prices closed today in per kilogram, CIF,
In the United States. the average price of 15/10 middling It described how such a girl cotton at 10
designated spot | steady, coat and a red markeis
Wds 34.08 cents aguilders It described how 10-blouse, a string of blue beads, pound. Sales at theæ centres | Šept, as follows: newspaper, "Nepszava," recently Barmov, allt in the 9th class of Tips crimsen brow on her totalled 23,795 bales. sported the trial of members of the 35th school, told his father, drunken man, befuddled with
painted face,"
got off with a
KARACHI a new underworld" which had a high official of of the Ministry wine, whom the had asked for grown up in Budapest,.
Leonid Alexandrovich
of Chemical Industries that he
A gang of young people had was going to the cinema, but
halt long
In with her Boy haunted the places of amusement found victims In
of the city,
drinking dens, got them drunkt
and robbed them."
The Hungariant
☆
Is
*
then
No. 1 rubber
1.93 buyers
No. 2 rubber
1.93 buyers
No. 1 rubbe
No. 1 crepe
ibi puyers 712 buych
-Unlled Press,
owing to some New York Sugar
07
Market
New York, Aug. 23. T$ World No. 4 sugor futures closed today point higher to 751 polit lower with rales of 18 70 tbistracts,
Domestic No. 6 sugar futures
Most of the lald-up ships are old, 38 of them being built be- fore 1934. Nineteen are under 2,000 tons and only seven are between $1,000 and 11,000 tons. -China Mall Special.
New York Foreign Exchange
#
NEW YORK METAL
FUTURES
New York, Aug. 25. Prices of metal futures closed today in cents per ib, as follows:
issues traded. 703
Ex- was
were lower, 263 higher.
The New York Stork change bond volume $3,365,000,
The American Stock Exchange volume was 660,000 shares,
DOW JONES AVERAGES
New York, Aug. 25. Dow Jones closing averages on Wall Street todny were пя follow-
30 Industrials
344.00
61.00
120.04
101.1
170.41
United Press,
Comm. future price index
20
Lead
Aug.
HASH
18 uulitics
15 stocka
Sept.
13.85b
40 bonds
Tin
Aug.
02.07b
Sch
EZ.ITU
Zing
Aug.
10256
England-Unomele
New York Aug 23.
30-day futures 20.day
futures
Sept.
10.200
3.74-2.70
Copper
5.002%
Aug.
30.000
2.802
Sept.
20.00b
2.241
h-bid n-nominal.
United Press.
29.03/10
2.0%
Australia
New Zealand South Afrien
Canadian dollar rale;
Spot: clone.
Buyers
3.03 3/09
1.0333 11.03 1732
high low
Future: 30-day 1,03 1/83
DO-uny -1.00 20/02 a-menth 1.03 17/22
Swiss franc: Spot: clore
1ugh
Future: 3-day
Do-tay
אים1
The Liverpool colton pricde were not received this morning.closet unchanged to 1 point Market, tome: dull
United Press.
The market Béclined. NOW light for her cigarette.
being crop NT toilets hit the idwest at been sentenced for being "work-netually went to the "Cocktail arrested by the militia for being 13 rupees & annas, and
She ended up by shy, drunken and thieves." Hall.
allied a bit Involved in a drunken brawl. There was a girl among them
Herc, it said, tcochers, "who glorified in the fact that
Not only in the Soviet Union buying. Prices closed in rupees her father
clderly officials and but also in all the satellite sistes per-maund as follows: was en
officer of students,
of others met. The older ones there Horthy's army,
Sha
drivo
against wore her
4-F Bind roller-ginned American sisle.pour out more and more wine
drunkenness, In Czechoslovakia,
VR 287-FNT. Bind, friends, she for the young people.".
It was said that the works
roller-ginned asw.tioned bantoens, and ed-operativa - shopš
m 203-FNT, Punjab, fried, to overtuini their norms"
roller-Pinet in the sale of alcohol. This had
saw-ginned had to be stopped as it has such, A later edition of the paper a bad effect on production. Commúnist orgih. "Seabed Rep
reported reported then in June this year, At a recent trial at Ostrava in on May 18 on the "standalous this "Cocktail Hall" was closed July, a group of young people conditions among party officials down and replaced by a Milk were charged with being work- of Veszprém County,
Bisy, Inży, druitkett, the girls "They ar
The Mostow drank enormously, emecially of
newspaper prostitutes, and, the young men untaxed wine the newspaper rüd on April 10, described homosexuali reported, "and
In addition, all were charged solo public how the Moscow #diaintoient fund
There are special with listening to
Free Europe In Rumanin, it is the same. Itations dulled
and
escope
New York, Aug. 25.1- The youth organ, "Beintein roberu
futuros today closed one # would appear that cent higher to 7 conte lower Tineretuluil," on July 3; roporina | druškárdá hrs 1 points,
pay days, to
with sales of four contracts, Hunedoars region where it was bared up. Next day, they are load of the Soviet Union, vm
(Gibking-pribeR WOFOL sisted that in work places, on lectured on the evilsret drink to
the extent t
of copying their ingerpublic and their names went on secrat vices. They are also copying" "Cons establishments, they det drunk | ENDDELE ta Their wifactories, how the puritanical drive #ffinst "hoen or image is hooligandam, zain Ministries, or local police, a drunkenness which has started for ing the beauty of the name of When the death sentence was throughout. Soviet Union Au
reintroduced in Soviet, Russia in China Mall Speciale
Youth
isra" work
mete in [the] just"
after
up
where körbad. Thus,
lexpadilla hint states tollow the
lower with sales of 57 continets. Both markets ruled quiet and Bendy ond without special feature, dealers såld.
NEW YORK SILK aturar les
FUTURES
Contract No. 4 (world).
Bellera
1.03
1.03%
1,031 1.030/31
1.033/20
1.0320/32
2334
123323)
London Foreign
Exchange
New York 233414 Montreal 23345 Blocked Mark
Hamburg Brümels
-United Press.
LONDON METAL
PRICES
London, Aug. 25.
All mistal markets werd steady
CHICAGO GRAIN
PRICES
Chiongo, Aug. 25.
Prices bar blushti in cent?
Wheat, NO. 2, rêđ
Cicing Pricen
Spot
Sept. 2151(1) 213(1) 203-214
Dec.
.:
MAT.
May
€182 21341-2/4
London. Aug. 25.
2.80-11710-32014
Corn, No. 7, Jellow
#pvt
1001/ 101%-%
$2-71 19-0/14
Dee.
·Ziar.
MAY
Rept.
Dec..
Other
were
uncharged pan United
"
Fier.
Dat
Rebl
Beca
Baybians, No. *, yellow.
Spot
Sept.
Nov.
Mar
Copenhagen. Parte Blockholm Zurich
tocisty Pricht clorca lifn, stealing Exchange Rates
par long" tón as follows:
Mitt huginong was done in, the loga),
Exchange
market, this May mbrking at following, raĻERASU
Aterling solih (per, Ai). Indonesian rupiah (per, 100)
1978 Alam tickle (per 100)
Biggspore tatjana) sayi Inda-China - plastres" (Day",
320 | farlay:
*1700.) New York dour