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"CHIUSAN"
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8th October
1012
November
Bus Hongkong 14th October
6th November 10th November
13 December
"CARTHAGE” 13th October
Via Bouthampton, Pers Wald, Adon, Bombay, Colombo,
Penang & Blagaporn
Homewoda
"GANTON" "It&AN” "CARTHAGE"
Leaves Hongkong Duo London
1901 October
19th November
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J'enang, Culombo, J'ort Bald A London
"CORFU**
VLA
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Qulwards "SHILLONG”
Arriving
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UK
"SUNDA"
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K.
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& Kobe
Jopen
1.Deding
14th Oct.
Homewardi "BURAT*
With burly
Purta
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sails 10th Det "SIR DHANA" Que 23rd Ort
سلام
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Calcutta
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Rangoon Stralis fur Japan
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from Japan
..
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U.S. Plans Grants For Student Diplomats
Washington, Oct. 8.
The State Department are planning new methods, including £800-a-year scholarships, to attract intelligent and capable men into the United States foreign service.
The present total of 1,285
(the lowest in five years..
foreign service career officers is
Government's foreign, servies
Stubborn Peasants
Risk Their Lives For Water
Teheran, Oct. 3.
Flood relief schemes in Iran, where over 2,000 people drowned during August, have struck a stubborn peasantry; In return, the students would up against the will of take courses required by the prepared to risk their lives for water.
Although Iran is a largely desert country, few There are plenty of applicants Institute (but at collcges ever perish from lack of water. But many. for the jobs, but most of them their own choice) and would cannot pass the slit examina-agree to remain in the foreign people drown each year. tions. Those who pass often en- service for at least six years,
When the rains come sometimes surprise storms It is estimated that some 500. counter delays in being placed In foreign ports and frequently to 700 young men would be occur in mid-summer as well as in the spring and accept better-paying jobs outside groomed for the diplomatic sor-autumn-scores of small farmers in the hills are killed the State Department.
vice each year.
in torrents which race through gorges, rising rapidly Added to this are the sharp While not all of these men and sweeping away whole village settlements. drop in State Department press would malce a lo carter of at home, the many Con- diplomacy, the system would General Manager. | gresalonal investigations and the provide a strong base for build- this year, welfare officers and killed
fallure of the Department to bring their officers home between usadgnments, This meant that foreign service often meant exile for life.
By Order of the Board, L. B. STONE,
Hongkong, 23rd Sopt., 1954.
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Notice is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of THREE DOLLARS per sharo Issued the Company's
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MUSICAL
6-YEAR SERVICE
Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of Blate, re- cently took
a step toward remedying some of these defecta by proposing overhaul based on recoFL → mendations from an ad- visory STOOP hended by Henry M. Wriston, prezident of Brown University, and Including former high dipfo- 177318.
up a
a larger staff of "carcer diplomata"
A system of rotation would also be set up, permitting diplo mals to return to the U.S.A. from time to time.-London Express Service.
Patrol Crosses Jordan Border
Amman, Oct. 3. Jordan Home Guards today claimed to have repulsed an Israeli patrol sfter an exchange of fire in the Ramallah aren,
Jordan members of the Mixed re-Armistice Commimion said the patrol crossed the demarcation about 250 line and penetrated yards into no-mania-land before being forced back.
Jordan lodged a complaini with the Commission and asked for an Investigation---Reuter,
that
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LAU TAK PO, Managing Director,
Following the summer floods; break
Government officials are study. | rights." ing plans which aim at ́ending this annual waste of life.
out.
Men have.. been fighting over water
Because the peasant feels that he must sleep besida.... his If they could persunde peomant water supply and because his familles to move their villages plots of land are at water level, from the valley beds up to the he also build his home high ground, above flood level,
and
major progress would have beenhouses his family at water level. achieved. For this would end
the familiar tragedy of lust ¡lves, even though It would not pre- vent inundated croplands The wholesale destruction livestock.
was
and
of
A
mopped programme out and welfare teams set out to help and encourage peasants from the dangerous to move river bank to the mafety of the hills.
But the peasanta refused move.
MEANS 80 MUCH Wearily, one welfare worker explained: "The Lask wo act ourselves has proved Impossible. Water means so much
the
will
night.
"The
to
poor peasant that he not leave it, even at
to
lies
LIVE IN RAVINES
Millions of Iranian farmer families live in rocky ravines on the southern and northern slopes of the high central Iranian plateau, They choose this because here water" ; drains off the mountain tops) them witla and provides ferille land all the year roundi
The two edges of the plateau are the two largest drainage areas in the country.
The valley dweller hacks out at the bottom of the sheer mountain sides small ledges of land, sometimes only throw or four paces broad and 80 yards; long which glitter Jude-green against tho ochro-tinted, barren hillside.
worker country
Often, the slopes ars go sleep down in front of his cottage at that the base is in shadow for night to watch water from the half the day and cool compared running! through his with the blistering heat of the river Irrigation channel and nourish-hilltops.
sailing Nov. 7th sailing Dec. 4th
Ing his plot of land,
"Ho lica there and keeps vigil
These primitive land workers
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"IRAOUADDY” "PEI-HO"
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I'LL WAIT HERE. HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ME-THE FEELING'C MUTIJAL.
HE'S BOARDING
THE PLANE. I'D BETTER
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MOST
INTERESTING
YOUR VISIT HERE YOUR
MAJESTY
15 SKE COMING?
YES.
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NANCY
HURRY.
THAT'S
GO_SIT_IN THE
LONG
CORNER FOR
OH, AUNT FRITZI
ONE HOUR
TIME
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Arrives Oct. 5 from Manila. Sall
Oct. B For Singapore,
Rangeon, Chittagong Calcutta,
"REBEVERETT"
Arrived Oct 18 from Singapore.
Salls
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Oct. 18
Kobe & Yokohama. <Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinaws)
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Arrives Oct 5 from Japan, Salin
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"STAR BETELGEUSE"
Arrives Sails
LAO
Arrives
Salis
Oct 6 from Singapore, Oct. U for Pusan,
Yokohama.
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A SLY GUY, THAT ESCARRE/
EXCEPT FOR ONE MISSTEP ON SOME LOOSE PERELNGHA'S BEEN.
· QUIET AS A CAT/.
.:
Kobe
JOHNNY HAZARD
DON'T GO AWAY, MANDRAKE.
I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
sailing Oct. 8th sailing Nov. 6th
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
·SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT THIS4-
HAPPEN--WITH ALL'
YET WHAT COULD
THESE CROWDS,
IN A PUBLIC
AIRPORT--T I'M JUST IMAGINING THINGS.
By Mik
By Ernie Banhmiller
IS IT OKAY IF I SIT IN TWO CORNERS FOR HALF AN HOUR?
Robbins
to prevent his neighbour block-build themselves homes, analy ing up the channel and stealing cuble mud huts, which crumble the water for the adjoining land. at the first angry stash of food.
"Sometimes two
peasants water. quarrel over water and fights.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you soon
Admiral
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AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FREM IN THE COUNTRY!
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY}O
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
In August this year, rain fell, surprisingly, for three days in a week. Each time, the fall lastod less than one hour.
It came in a series of summer. thunderstorms which in Iran start and stop as if a water tap has been turned on and off.
This amount of water, falling suddenly on the drainage areas north of Teheran, was sufficient to flood several valleys, drown thousands of people and wipe out oven two dozen villages,
Compressed between the sides of the high invinès, food waters rose several metres in half an hour,
AVALANCHES
they
In that half hour, rooted, trees, loosened - rocke, and sens them crashing into the valley, set off avalanches". of loose woll and clay, swept away whole villages of mud- buts and threw thick layer
of mind over once fertile plots of land.
Many villagers were stunned eti when the mid roofs of their l dwellings caved in while they
slopt. Others were crippled by falling rocks or battered into unconsciousness by swirling trea trunks.
Scores of bodies were found mutilarbeci, days aberwards, many miles from their horn
In one area north of Kazyin, "which" la 100 miles:/north-west of Tcheran, 200 people, WETC killed, 400 Injured and thou-" sands, left destitute by sudden foods.
Thousands crawled up the hillalds and shivered for four nights until help reached them from rollet donkey trains gentle in by welfare organisational
Smakes invested the floode valleys. Wolves and, occasion ly, a mouritsin. wildest, reported.
PILGRIMS DROWNED
A few days lat wimming-Shariderstorms sie "off ais levering more; diskSta food: 30 ksilos” móri Teheran whén bet
12,000" pilg
trowned as she