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LIFTED Production Of
Salk Vaccine
New Delhi, May 22.
India has quietly lifted the ban on export of monkeys to help American production of anti-poliomyelitis
Salk vaccine. No public
ORRIAKouncement has been made for fear of offending
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public susceptibilities since many Indians hold monkeys as sacred. But the Indian Government is allowing the export of 30,000 monkeys up to the end of June to three reputable American research organisations which are manufacturing
the vaccine from monkeys' kidneys.
The monkeys are being exported on condition that they are humanely treated in transit and that they will only be used for medical research.
The British Medical Research Council is also expected to ask India for a supply of monkeys for the manufacture vaccine in Britala.
SUFFOCATED
of
the
The laan, ora monkeys, which threatened to hold up vaccine production. W25 announced in March after 340. monkeys in transit to the United States had died of suffocation at London Airport.
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A monkey can eat almost as much grain in a day as a human. being that the 50 million monkeys of Uttar Pradesh prob- ably cat chough grain and fruit to feed almost the entire populaŭ lion of the state.
To keep the monkey popula tion down, many Indians feel that they may as well be de- ported for medical research. provided that they are humanely transported
and
painlessly
treated.
But there would
be strong
Representatives of British opposition from every section of to the Indian public if they were
Arimal
Societies protested.
from
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Ike Presents India High Award
of
General Eisenhower, President of the USA is pictured here presenting the Legion Merit to Marshal' P. Pibul Songgram, The Prime Minister and his wife, seen here in the picture, stayed with him at the White Houtan as guests of the President. American Secretary of Stale, Mr John Dulles, can be seen watching the occasion in the background.
The Thailand Prime Minister is making an official tour of 19 countries. After visiting Geneva, Rome, Europe, where he will stay at Madrid, Paris, Bromels, The Hague, Bana,
Government unil Copenhagen, he will come to London on June 7 as guest of the British June 13 when he will depart for Cairo, Karachi and Colombo before returning to Bangkok. Express Exclusive Picture,
Australian Mail Study
System
Canberra, May 22.
Narrowing
Gap
Taxation
New Delhi, May 22,
India has begun a levelling up process through taxation to narrow the gap in this country between the very rich and very poor.
The Finance Minister, Mr C. D. Deskmukh, claims that under his latest Budget, which has come into force, only 100 people in the country will in future enjoy net incomes of over £7,500 a year. This figure presumably excludes the Princes, of whom 102 still get tax-free privy purses exceeding this figure.
Viewed as the first step in the world though they are towards the Government's de-still not as heavily taxed as the clared goal of a "socialistic British. pattern of society," the Budget In addition
to direct taxes. raises the level at which no Indians pay sales tax on almost income tax at all will be levied, everything they buy except increases Income tax all round basic necessities. These sules for the higher and lowers the taxes vary from state to state level at which super tax mustand are collected by the be paid.
governments. T The great
still
state
majority of the BRITISH PATTERN
too Following to some extent the people, however, are British tax pattern, the Finance poor to pay anything in taxes at all. A recent survey by the Minister hopes gradually to raise the standard of living of United Nations Economie Com- the masses and at the same time mission for Asia and the Far to cut back excessively high East put the national income in incomes withou: eliminating all India at only 280 rupees (£21 Incentive.
popula- In future, those earning up to £150 sterling a year will pay
Estimating that roughly one- income tax at all. From third of the population is gain- £156
upwards, tax starts at the fully employed, this gives an rate of about one shilling in the annual incorne for the average pound running up to about five working man of only £63 ster- the scale at shillings in the pound for those ling-far below with incomes of £1,500 sterling which income дж becomes
DO
terling) per head of the
tion.
a year. Super tax comes in at operative. the level on rising scale, so that
The next five year plan, con--
the
man with an income of centrating on Industrial develop-
at raising £40,000 sterling a year pays £0 ment, aima
standard
the of living and national income. only £8,000 net.
By 1961, when the second five Mr Deskmukh has also taken year plan ende, India hopes to the precaution of taxing "per-year in-quisites" such as free
A revolutionary new study plan now offers Asian students per cent of it in taxes, and get free education by mail from Australia.
the Indian High Commission into be used for atomic bomb ex- rocket research. and Indian animal periments or London lovers also wrote to the news-in this, they are joined by the
here papers
This complaining of Buddhists of Ceylon who
of Cruelty
and tently objected to the export to the animals
tralia's to re-monkeys
Ceylon use In
America objecting to their
since it was alleged gramme under search experiments.
that
they would be used for other The Indian Prime Minister, atom research. Mr Jewaharlal Nehru, himself Mr H. W. Amarasiriya, Prcsi-help took a hand in the decision to dent of the Ceylon section of the countries.
unless World Fellowship of Buddhists, exports stop monkey special government was obtained.
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in line with Aus-laya, North Borneo, Brunei and Students receive airmailed
stalments of the lessons. After Sarawak. Colombo plan "pro-
completing the assigned lessons which she and
Applicants will need ap- Commonwealth countries proval from government au- they return the material to the as well as the
United States thorities in their own countries school which sent it for mark- Asia's under-developed before the applications go to ing.
Australia. Under the plan students successful
can
ENICË
earn
are
increased
the national houses, have cars and entertainment allow income by 27 per cert, China ances to clase all loopholes for Mall Special. Company executives.
This will do away with anomalles such as that of one business executive who was re- ported to be getting a salary of Opportunity also exists for £200 a year and an entertain-
RISING RATE ships which make it possible for students to study at 'Australian universities and colleges-United
The income
steadily rising rate of Indian tax puts the upper and middle classes among people the most heavily taxed
permission said that Buddhists everywhere The new study plan provides certificates, diplomas and de-fulltime Colombo plan scholarment allowance of £2,000,
would be shocked by any such for correspondence courses in grees. Since then, however, Americans. To use monkeys in atem, trades, professions, rural
tests would be as bad as using clerical occupations. It is open! The courses themselves
Ceylon, conducted by technical colleges research representatives in
of long talks with the human beings," he said. China to students in Burma.
India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ma- from Mail Special series Indian Government have man- aged to gain a partial lifting of the ban to enable their work on the Salk, vaccine to continue.
India's co-operation in this is vital. since she is the only coun- try in the world with sufficiently large numbers of the Rhesus monkey, the species needed for the anti-polio vaccine.
The export will help India too. For, although Indians have. a religious feeling for monkeys as descendants of their ape god Hanuman, many of them would see the country's be glad to monkey population reduced. The state of Uttar Pradesh alone is
have
50.000 000 estimated monkeys-one for nearly every member of 60,000,000 popula-
big tion. Even in the
citles, mor.keys have become a daily nuisance.
They swing in
through
the -trab
of houses, windows spectacles, fountain pens and even under-garments, and vanish chattering into trees with then. At one. Delhi hospital, a gang of monkeys
used to raid the dis- smash bottles and pensary and surgical equipment.. Once a monkey cut its arm and a nurse and bandaged it up, it caught every day to have
Thereafter the monkey appeared
wound dressed. But the day it was healed, the monkey ungratefully bit the nurse on the arm and vanish, returning later with the rest of the gang to wreck the dispensary again.
ROUNDED UF
In Calcutta, police round-
ed up and deported from the city 500 "undesirable" monkeys who regularly raided larders and kitchens.
In some states, the authorities ofer rewards for every monkey killed.
Local authorities In
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ed in Hong Kong, All Pradesh offer eight annas (eight the hitherto recorded pence) for every monkey's tail or included; monkey's ear brought to them as species Bre plumages are clearly and proof that a monkey has
conciacly described, and
a short account is given
killed,
other In
been
states, where of field characters, monkey-killing is frowned on, voice, habits, status, farmers scare them away with In the cities, etc. The illustrations, dummy guns. except for three plates trappers catch the monkeys, load of photographs, are all them into vans and deport them by Car. A M Hughes, to the countryside, where they and include four attrae continue their depredations by tive plates of the beads eating the ripening grain,
of 42 species and many useful drawings in the text. The writer of this Teview would have benedied greatly from this book when stadion- ed in Hong Kong some years ago.
Even now,
Fires Started
By Terrorists
Batra, Algeria, May 23.
on referring to it, some The end of the Moslem reli-
40 unfamiliar species gous feast of Ramadan, which
on which notes were laste about à month, was marked made at the time have last night by two
almost all proved easily
identifiable,D,W_S
(Extract from The Ibi
ciclat organ of the British Ornithologista
Union. British Musum),
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HONG KONG KON
KOWLOON
fres started by terrorists in Batra.
Reges placed a can of petro letra under the door of a shop here and get fire to it..
A 5000 as firemen put out is fire, terrorists set are to another house in another district
of the towIL
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NARDA.
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French Party
Calls For
Free Germany
Marseille, May 22, The French Popular Republican Party (MRP). warned day that neutralism constitutes a danger for free Europe and called for a reunited and free. Germany as a means of end- ing tensions on the continent, The eleventh Congress of the important überal French Christian Party adopted # foreign policy statement at the wind-up of its three-day session here in which it warĖ– ed that a Germany forced into neutrality would become nothing but a pawn which the would gravely menace security of Europe.
NO BONDAGE
"In no case," said the Con- gress, "should the solving of the German problém lead to the bondage of the people on the other side of the Iron Cur- tain.'
The foreign policy statement
said it was the firmness of the West which had con- tributed to the resumption of East-West talks and it voiced the hope that the forthcoming talks might result in the unification of Germany in freedom, to put an end to tension in Europe.
But the statement continued: "A neutraliam imposed on Germany, which would reduce her to the position of a pawn, would gravely menace the security of Europe."-United
Press
Shakespeare Company For Berlin
Berlin, May 22. The touring company of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre of Stratford-on-Avon, led by SirTM
and Jobb Géilgud
Fozzy Ashcroft, is to give four per- formances each here this aularan of "King Lear" and "Much Ado About. Nothing."-
This will be the main British contribution to the 1955 West Berila cultural show being eld here from September 17 to October 4,
France will send a company: from the Parts Theatre de Atelier, with Jean Anch's La Rendez-Vous, da Senlia," and the Farrenin Quarteite,
The United States is to be represented by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, :ICON- ducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, and the Juillard Quartette, V
Other foreign contributors will include a company from the Milan Scala Opera House, who will piny Donizetti's "Lucia di Lanmermoor Antonio and: his Spanish ballet trops Madrid and A group of Singhalese temple dancers.
Premters of German plays will Include three one-act plays, depleting the fate of Fist Gér- man refugees In the West, China Mali Speclat