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UNGINEERING UQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
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Special Assistance
For Colonies Under New Trade Plan
Geneva, Mar. 21.
Britain has won the immediate right to bypass" certain world tariff obligations to aid her colonies. A communique issued tonight after a four- month full-scale review of the General Agreement. on Tariffs and Trade said, the 38 other GATT nations, by a special decision had recognised. Britain's "special responsibilities" towards. her colonies.
Nuclear Retaliation Warning By Russians
to
The GATT signatorics had given Britain, the_right "effective Immediately
give special assistance to her colonial terri- tories largely dependent on the British market, it added.
This could be done through actions which hitherto were "Inconsistent with the provi- sions of the seven-year old agreement.
other country
be
But the communique stressed that these rights would apply London, Mar. 21.
only in cases where the in The chief of the Soviet austry.or agriculture of the Air Force said today that colonial territory would the Red Air. Force has both benefited, not
industry OT H-bombs and A-bombs and agriculture in Britain or any "will be able to use them in
But Britain's GATT partners, the best way for the deit was disclosed, have directed fence of their Motherland." Ker to report annually on any special help of this kind to her Chief- Air Marshal Zhigarev,|40 colonies, in a ordew of the Soviet air. craft industry, broadcast by Moscow Radio and monitored bere, said that the Soviet Union is." mighty air power and warned the "imperialist aggres sors" that they will not succeed in intimidating the Soviet prople with their air force and atomic weapons."
NOT SPECIFIED
did
*
nort
The communique specify the forms of "special assistance included in the con- cession.
The 33 member countries of GATT also announced special
for facilities
aiding under- developed countries another concession which will help Bri- Marshal Zhigorev is the Com-tish colonies. mander-in-Chief of the Soviet Under the
new provisions
Air Force. He was promoted under-developed areas will be from Air Marshal last week by able: Government of Promjer
Nikolai Bulganin.
"It is known that the U.S. imperialists, in their aggressive designs directed against the countries of the Socialist camp. are putting the main emphasis on the air force and thermo- nuclear weapons." Marshal Zhigarev said.
(1) To mainta "sufficient flexibility in their tariff struc tures" for granting tariff pro- Lection
for necessary establishment of home indus- tries.
the
(2) To apply quantitative import restrictions to protect their balance of payments. This would take account of the con- timed high level of demand for imports likely to stem "But the imperialist aggres- from their economic develop- sors will not succeed in in-me
ment programmes. · timidating the Soviet people. The communique said that with the air force and atomic the GATT nations had also
Soviet people weapons. The
adopted a revolution urging ex- have both and if necessary will ternal capital investment in the be able to use them in the best under development countries way for the defence
generally. motherland."
of their
This would stimulate economic. Marshal Zhigarey said that development in those courdries the Soviet Air Force feels that and at the same time make it only the "strict and harmonious less necessary for them to im-
co-ordinate pose import restrictions. development and
use" of thermo-nuclear weapons
Britain and the United States
can secure their success in bal-are the only countries which, .tle...
alene, can block the formation of the proposed "Organisation for co-Trade Co-operation, it was
isi cinted
icnight. yut out
"JAPAN'S POSITION
"Our Air Force, in operation with other mms, fully capable of carrying successfully the most diverse battle tasks in the complex con- ditions of contemporary fight- ing," he said.-Unitted Press.
Russian
Contracts 'Modified'
London, Mar. 21.
Japan is mentioned in the single annexe of the new agree- iment.
Japan is at present only an associate member of the 34- ration General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
The annexe says that if the new agreement is accepted be- fore Japan
accedes to GATT Japan's 2.3 per cent of the total external trade shall not be in-
trade cluded in the
members into
of the 34 GAT Pcentages
needed to bring the OTC being under Article 17..
If Japan has acceded. before
A textile engineering firm the agreement is accepted, then at Oldham, Lanes, Platt her 2.3 per cent of world trade Brothers, announced today will be included, the
that Russia had "modified" contracts placed with the company a year ago.
An offkital of the firm 'said:' "It is not possible at the moment to assess what this means in terms of value or machines.”
Arangements are being made for a director to visit Moscow to clarify the position.
There has been no official can cellation of orders, and the firms
says.-Reuter.
annexe
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T.
CHINA MAIL
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1955.
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
Venice's Gondolas Are Snowbound SURVEYOR GIVES
tanna, Europe's cold spelt-has reached Venice and the. City of Gondolas, and canais presente un- unusual sight. No one wants to ride in a gondola that is covered with now and in this picture they can be seen tied up at the side, of the canal waiting for the aim which will permit fheir '
refùrn, to norizal business-London Express "Photo.
Superspeed' NEW PUBLICATION
Gliders
Now Possible"
Washington, Mar, 21. Piloted rocket-propelled rilders espable of getting to any part of the earth"in two hours are now within the realing of pyasibility. Dr Walter 8. Dornsberger said today
D
Domsberger
specialist ruided missiles at the Bell Aircraft - Avia- Hon. Works, was speaking today at the 20th annual meeting' of the Medical Atronautical Amaciation."
He said thaż such a muS chine would
would be launched by rockets,›
After attaining an altitude - of 40 malles, it would flatten out and fy lowards its destination at the rite of 13,000 miles an hour, in. z
very low-pressure zone, where external"
tempera-
ture would be in the region of 20 degrees.
Under such ruperspeed conditions the pilot's blood would rise to helling point adequate" precaptions were not taken, the doctor added.—France-Presse.
Mail Notices
The latest times of porting shown below ara flipan for m registered correspondance posted it G.P.C. Hongkong.. The latest posting times elsewhere: which, Cabral, are- sarlier than the
Relés Can - karéscertained by enquiry at the local ones.
[ghe "latest" "posting - times *for. registered kriidies are, generally
one hoty warlier: than the times
shown below: “Particulars regarde ing: parcel malls can de Ricurtain- ed by enquiry at any post pišee.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2
BY PAIN
Korea, p.m.
Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, USA.
& Canada, 6 p.m.
By Burface
Macso, p.in....
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21.
By Air
Indo-China, 8 am
Thailand, 10 am,
Forincas, Okinawa,."Japan, Korea,
Canada," 14. WIEL
N... DorneG,
Zealand: a p
Australia.
New
Thadlarich. Muinya. “Indonesia, Ather
Now
Zealand,
Mauritiam,. 8 pm*
Cerion
Switzerland," Denmark, Norway &
Sweden, 6 pas.
Formos, DUIN
By Surface
[China; Feopio's, Remiblic, 8.30 am.
Macro, 9 am,
Indo-Chins, notu
Malaya, Ceylon, at Great Brain & pan, tal-
6 p.m. Tume Signal and Pro- dramme Summary; 6.63,' Coneart by | Burma, India, 11 am, the Band of the Royal Ale Torpe Far East cond. by Fight Lieut. W.G. Newman Rin. (Recorded 6.30. First Hearing" presented by Hugh Sullivan (Studio); 7. Sundown Serenade; -7.30, La -DTL-HEUTS Francaise Presentation de Mme Lava, Presentation. des Chateaux de li
think the modification" mayLoire (Shidio): 7.83, Weather Ba refer to a change of delivery port; & Time Signal World News
clates
The Russian trade delegation (London
For, Korea; 2 Dm.
Thailand, pan. Indonesia, 2 pun
Macao, & p.m. “
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
Japan, s
Thailand. Exirma, India, Pakistan, Middl
Africa, Grent Betali & Durope,
(London Reloy); 209. Commzalary Relay) or Special · Assa nouncement 8.15, “Britain. Blogs“ in Britain testified to the com- Second Serien The Redshi pany on behalf of the Russian singers ((BECTS); 8.30) Forces | Davisgrités (London, Ruday); 8; Time Importing agency
Men | Bignal Record Review presented by Mr S. C. Sewa Sales John IdacLean (Studio); $30 Feature Director of the finn, led a trade programme. Destroyer The Bory Amah Hurt In Fall: delegation to Busda last year of.M.9. Kelly. Written and pro-
by duced
Kenneth Poolman which
secured / 27,000,000 (BBCTS): #10.30, 3 At the Belst
Ho Linga umah "washing (Tchaikovsky); sterling worth of orders for Aurora's Wedding firms in North-west England.phony Orch.; 10.59. Weather Report was badly cut this morning when Leopold Stokowski and his Sym- windows in Gloucester Building He is now on a Far East Time Signal Radio News He she slipped and fell on to the business tour and will visit Mude: God Save The Queen: 1150,
(London Relay); » 11-15. Goodrig
thick coloured.” panes of a sky Chiria.—Router.
Close Down as the light, Sire, was ruisbed, off, by.
ambulance to Queen Mary Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICE CREAM for Hopital where her culs were and on behalf of. South China Morning Post Limiled at 1-3 stitch She is stated to be Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony, of 'Hongkong. **
ON HONGKONG BEING PREPARED
To Be Dedicated To Governor
A Hongkong Business Symposium is in the course of preparation and is being dedicated to His Excellency The Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, who has been largely instrumental in helping local businessmen and industrialists to promote enter prises.
EVIDENCE IN RATING APPEAL
Hearing of an appeal brought by the Hong kong Cold Storage and Food Industries Ltd, of Wharf Road, North Point, against an interim valuation of their cold storage godown space by the Commissioner of Rating and Valuation, con- tinned before Judge A. D. Scholes in the Victoria District Court this morning,
The valuation, dated November 23, 1954, was in respepet of Marine Lot No. 430, section B, sub- section 1, Wharf Road, in which the godown is situated, in the sum of $107,580, effective from September 1, 1964.
she
the
SOVIET
MINISTER
DISMISSED
·Faris,” Mar. 217
The Soviet Minister of Cul- ture, Mr G. F. Alexandrov, DES
been dismissed for “incom- petence" In the latest of a series of cabinet changes in the Soviet Union; Ridio. Moscow, reported. tonight.
The dismissal was decided pon by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on the recom mendation of Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. The Soviet Ambassador, to Poland, N. A
Mikhailov has been appointed Minister of Culture to replace Alexandrov, the Radio added.
Georgi Alexandrov had been Minister of Culture since February 10,
Andrei
af
1954
1024
the
followers. Soviet
culture of the time lashed
Indifferent manner
Mr H., J. Armstrong, of ↑ Mr Hobley: Why is it the
He wrote a book called "The Mestre Deacons, represented the conversion of an alð building is History
European appellants, Mr J. W.-D.-Hobley, completely useless or unrate Philosophy which was severely
Course appeared for able as a cold storage? Crowes
criticised on June 24, 1947, by the Commissioner of
Rating Witness I
Stalin's link not saying one and Valuation. Officials of
Zhdanov, the Rating and Valuation Depert
Fou expect no increase in
Affairs Chief. were also in Court.
rent on account of this particu- The ground of appeal is that far building. being converted out
#t Alexandroy's premises involved were into a cold storage?—In my fessional objectivity and udairly assessed and
the opinion, I do not believe it and valuation was excessive, the would, command a. greater presenting facts.” respondent having calculated the rental than it is at the moment
the tenement as a cold storage. might reasonably
be expected What you are saying is that to be let on the basis of the the cost of conversion in this statutory definition of rateable particular case added nothing to value in the Rating Ordinance, the value of the ground floor? Cap. 118, at a figure higher than A converted cold storage is not
be rates
comparable worth the same. At the time of sepements, which fairly and conversion it was worth while.
represent their
I don't believe the average cold storage would
Appellants
çoldi
Mr Hobley: "I the-present tenant was letting the premises himself, he would let for $1,850?
Witness: I don't think he would get more.
NEW MINISTER
France-Presse.
The new Minister of Culture, 54-year-old Nikolai Mikhailov, was First Secretary of the Cen
Committee for Communist youth from 1938 to 1954,
Mikhailov was elected to the Communist Party Central Com- mittee in 1939 and appointed to one of the 10 secretarial posts It was stated at a previous operator of
of the enlarged Presidium of the hearing that the premises had convert these premises today at
$80,000. been assessed at 49 cents per:
Central Committee to 1952. In reply to the Court, Mir All-
Mishallow set as a member of square foot for the ground floor. exclusive of rates, and 40 cents Part agreed that the improve
ments would add something to the supreme court which con- for the upper floors.
Minister of the case was
the sitting tenant, but he did not dermed the that think the operator of a
Interior, Lavrenti Beria to death these figures were.
in December, 1953. grossly cessive and they alleged that in storage today would want to the case of a comparable build- enter into a converted biziking to Poland last March
He was appointed "Ambassador ing in the same street the pre he would prefer new premises. mises were assessed at 20 cents per square foot Relying on this, Mr K B. Allport qualified chartered
surveyor, had assessed the re
rent per square foot Par month in respect of
appellants the cents for. godown "at 28 The publication, now being business and industrial centre: around and first floors, and 27 compiled by the well-known It will also show what has been and 28 cents for the second and
the matter of third floors respectively. local historian, Mr J. Maccomplished in
social welfare during the past
My Allport was further cross-frigerated space after conver- Braga, is to be printed by few years and in the expansion examined by Mr Hobley this sion is 3,683 square feet? I was the South China Morning of the Colony in many ways.
informed riving evidence at morning
that it was Post, Ltd.
an earlier hearing he had said mately 3.500.
Washington, Mar, 22. The Symposium aims to give he inspected the godown of the
WITH DEPARTMENT It will be an outstanding a clear picture not only of the China Cold Storage and Ent
Did you make any effort to The United States has reference book on Hongkong.
present position, but also of the cheering Company at 143-145 check that figure at all? The begun to sound out a number and its declared purpose is to disseminate accurate information
great possibilities for future King's Road The total area only plans in existence at that of friendly Governments expansion and trade, and will be
time were in the hands of the on the
7,000 square was approximately marry aspects of the
with a new plan for the Rating Department. a permanent record of what ❘ feet, of which, about 5,500 square in-
Hongkong has been in the past leet was estimated to be cold
You had the plans in your solution of the Formosa and administration, Special articles
and what it is today. -
since?-Only for a few problem, it was learned to are
storage space. He further said pared by many of the leading
in respect of this godown we plans in order to check these he had been informed the rent minutes. members of the community, each
Did you ever ask for the day.
Me John Foster Thilles, the of whom is an authority in the
$1,850 inclusive per month and particuler sphere being reviewed
the rateable value was $28,700 figures? I asked the occupier, Secretary of State, already has Mr Braga explains that al-
Did you get them? No, they had a very favourable respouse per annum. The overall rental though
from Mr Rober), Menzies, the Hongkong has.
been
20 cents per square foot were in your hands far as Australian Prime Minister, who
You attempted. known as a commercial entre
per month when it was worked pot, it is not generálly known
aut. that the Colony has developed
dustry,mmerce, finance,
being pre
in recent years into a very "Iza-
The publication is expected to be ready by July or August,
'Relative Values'
Postponed
portant industrial centre, where. The Garrison Players Festival
was
In
*NOT SEEN LEASE
Do you know what the avall. able. retigerating space is in square feet? About 5,500,
Would it surprise you to and yearn
that the area of re-
hands
approxi
Dulles New Plan For Ceasefire
can see, to put a value on left Washington on Sunday to extraordinary square feet without checking report to
of his. full Cabinet on what the available effective session
March 30, In reply to Mr Hobley, wit-area is at all? We have to.
Details of the new plan have" Wibery. Mr. Hobley insisted by employment has been found of Arts production of "Relativeness said he had not seen the
been witness had the plans, Mr
secret closely guarded for the many hundreds of thou-Values" will not be presented at China. Cold Storage's lense sands who have poured in since the Missions to Seamen this dated October 15, one He said, this was absolutely
He Armstrong
objected strongly, evening, as indicated in the accepted from Counsel that one CLEAR PICTURE **
the Hobley - for
plans The book will have a world- 15.C.M. Post this morning. The tenant would pay any increase wide distribution and would play will be staged. on April 22
in rates which might be payable premises and a plan
the war.
Caning Events" column of the of the conditions was that the true. He had
Mr
negotiations now under way and informed sources said the were of an extremely delicate mature and still were in an ex- ploratory stage,
learned
thus bring before.merong and 23. Postponement was dud | in respect of conversion of the duced a few days before the the general outline of the
clear picture of Hongkong as a to unavoidable circumstances:
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
as
of
But from what was learned plan, which amounted to Formosa ceasefire formula, it seemed that the proposal went several steps further than the New Zealand-sponsored cease- fire
in move the United Nations
premises to a cold storage. He proceedings in Court commence agreed that the inclusive rental, but they were not the for the premises, was $1,850 per plane to which Crown Counsel referring They were in month, with the rates paid by the nature of a sketch. He had the landlord. He had worked never
seen
the plas out the rental, exclusive of duced in Court, before, Palang
Crown Counsel then handed last malms et establishing rates, at $1,440 per month,
Winess said he was informed
of a plan and the three weeks ago by the hearing was adjourned, for a
over a copy
the Formose Straits position and tenant that he paid no rates,
short while to enable the apexing the shooting between the Mr Hobley: Do you know
pellants Counsel and the wit Nationalist and Commmmmist re the tenant had spent $80,000 on ness to study it games of China;*** conversion of the premises into a
The hearing is proceeding. cold storage?
some
Witness: I cannot say What he spent
Obviously be spent
Some: INCHET..
Ca this
amount of $80,000:
what rehm : would you expect
as reasonable?--The answer to
The
The New Zealand ceasefire move has been, temporarily sus= pended although setel is on ther Security Council
because of Co
Pacifist Resignsin's request to acknowing
what question is dimicals without The towTH
Mar 21.
the United Nations jurisdiction,
tionalists.
the
might not be entirely execsivel neputy Player today The Bed States had explained the
ospital improvements, but necess
pre
Heater.
Nelson in the quarrel with the No imowledge of all the facts: 1 Lancashire, found steel with It was understood that appears that the improvements new
took over the dudest. Mir- Richard Blind new formula to three friendly sary in order to make the, When Mr Bland, red; be nations in addition to Australia. mises laulable. Agrody Cwo cause 105 Royal Air Force men
ago the
expenditure of will carry loaded firearme wille $80,000 on Improvements might serving a honour gland for the have been worthwhile, whereas April visth of Queery, Elitabeta today they
might not be so re- and the Take of Edinburgh, munerative, Some of the ex- A pacifist Mr Biand oppore penditure might have been spent the practice of receiving Royally
non-cerbis improvemente.
on
क
Mr Allport
termaid the returns was voted down by the same
might be one cipel, Couns and
opinion. and not
tenant, would get more than the ..
Still
rental he was now paying: 10%) an odd
day. He would estimate the
at
mat improvements
-on-capital/
the time they were
Consulo
made.
"cent
NEW FREMISES
cold
Could you
famil
agreed that, during
„had” béen, 10: per premised cold
People's
"that shatter?”
serious about that.
Volcano Erupts Again
Pahou Hawali, Mar. 21. "The polcazar - Klauea erupted again fast night, sending hery Plage and luums, boulders" os high, as 1,000 feet in the air:mot
ze of kooke' and axh
Mount