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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1955.
WESTERN THRILLER COMICS PART OF THE COLD WAR
Berlin, July 3.
The East German Communist Government other has declared war on Superman and American-style "killer-thrillers" which, it claims, are being smuggled into East Germany as part of Editor, burne communications and Western psychological warfare.
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The Education Minister, Herr Fritz Lange, launched the campaign in a 3,000-word article in Taegliche Rundschau, the Soviet High Commission newspaper.
It was followed by a widely sion and distribution ot comies publicised mock trial of "tm- and trash Literature 3 crime perialist trash literature." at subject to heavy punishment. which its authors, publishera ́and According to incenfirmed re- distributors were convicted of de- parts, the draft law
also liberately poisoning East German threatens severe penalties for yout
parents whose children are found Her Lange
spoke
ajto read and possess trash litera-| deliberate cold war campaign turc.
demoralise
"and weaken
South the readiness of cur Republic for defence" and called upon parents, teachers, and the state organs to mobilise
The
a" joint defence against the into 1946 flux of comics and trash.
M
Unscrupulous
Old Laws
law would bring up to
date provincial laws dating back and 1947 against dangerous literature, which did not specifically mention comics and thrillers.
a
The East Berlin mock trial. Government- with the
staged by
and
jurists,
It is time for us to seck out sponsored committee and relentlessly take to task all co-operation of leading educa
experts unscrupulous hawkers of in-tional
the publishers and he condemned perialist trash literature," 120
distributors of trash as instru- declared.
im-s "It has been possible to stop all channelsments of the cold war."
The Chief Prosecuter of East through which the trash enters,
Herr Martin Berlin
Teubner, Teachers have discovered, for instance, secret distribution Save evidence that the infiltration of horror and alme comics had system at the 30th
elementary
undoubtedly promoted the school at Karkhorst
(an East
formation
crime of youthful Berlin suburb). ·
tangs. "Many
He cited the example of a dangerously careless in tolerat children's gang, led by a 10-year- ing suck books in the hands of nid, which had plagued an East their children. Particularly Berlin suburb for some time fathers often argue that they with burglaries and torturing read killer-thrillers themselves
cats. Only children when they were young, yet stolen
possessing more than 50 crime thrillers
admitted were
100% parents,
LE COLLISON by D Essa, IA. Des (have become decent men,
phone 3018s.
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MONDAY, JULY 4 By Air Formost. Okinawa, U.5.A., §_pzm Buzma, India- Pastan, Great Betain & Europe, 8 p.m.
Japan, 6 9.0.
By Surface Japan, 4 p.m. Macho.
Voeux Rd, Roam 1. 2nd Bone, fele. This is a dangerous fallacy membership of that gang, he
For the imperialist trash litera-added. ture wilfully co: ditions
youthi
NOTICE
to
become murderers
<riminals."
The East German Press has and developed its own comic strips,
mostly in serial form. They de
In support of the statement pict historie adventures with Herr Lange cited the following moral usually a political moral
concept of
TUESDAY, JULY 3 By Air Indo-China, 11 am..
N. Borneo, Australia, New Zea- land. 2 p.m.
Philipphes. 2 p.m.
Thalland. India, Pakistan. Middle
Members of a gang of children (tung into the Marxist-Leninistas Great Britain. Europe. p.m.
THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP | cases:
COMPANY, LIMITED
history, stories plug- between 10 and 12 year of the ging German-Soviet friendship Notice To Shareholders al Karl-Marx Stadt (former för plain adventure yarns with- Chemnitz) openly declared after out" bloodshed. China Mail Notice is hereby given that ther arrest for theft and robbery Special. the Ordinary Yearly Meeting that they had constantly im of Shareholders will be held in the Registered Office of
A 15-year-old boy of Zeitz, the Company, 6th floor, "P. &
Saxe-Anhalt, murdered his play- aged 10. under the in- O. Building, Hongkong, onfluence of horror books; Saturday, 30th July, 1955; at
proved their methods through reading crime books;
male.
12 Noon, for the following Battered Aunt
purposes:
1. To receive and consider Rudolf Scheffler, 13. of East- the Statement of Ac- Berlin, who possessed a large
counts and Balance Sheet and the Report of the General Managers and Auditors thereon.
2. To declare a dividend.
3. To elect Members of the
4.
5.
stock of comic strips, battered his aunt to death with an iron bar, when she surprised him breaking into her flat.
"These horrible deeds." Her: Lange
continued. "must become
the sigrials. for extreme alarm and determined counter-me- sures on the part of parents,
Consulting Committee. teachers and all responsible
To appoint Auditors and people.
"Some unscrupulous pastors
fix their remuneration. and teachers of religion" have
other
To transact any ordinary business of the Company.
NOTICE IS also hereby given that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 16th July.. to Saturday, 30th July. 1955, both days inclusive,
1
By Order of the Members of the Consulting Committee DOUGLAS LAPRAIK AND COMPANY
General Managers -
HONG KONG, 4th July, 1955.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
The practice now carried en by the undersigned registered medical practitioner at 1. Salisbury Road, will, as from the 1st July 1955, be carried on at
1-1
7, Ice House Si. (Fu House) Room 804
Consulting hours: From 10a.m. to 12 Noon From 5 to 6 p.m. Telephone: No. 22511.
Dr. D. ENGEL F.R.CS. (Edin.), M.D. (Bpest.), L.R.C.P.S. (Edin.)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
*"DONA AURORA"
|
recently supported the "can- paign for the demoralisation of
our youth," he claimed.
"Under the pretext of sexual pastor in the
ellevent, a
arta (Saxony) Sastribut
Philippines, 8 .m.
Korea, 8 p.m.
Hawall, U.S.A.. 6. pm Japan. 6 p.m.
Formosa, Okinawa, 8 p.m. Canada, 0 p.m.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHEN ALEENA 'GESTURES. CREATING A WALL OF FLAME--
STAY!
NOW,REALLY
ALEENA--
FERDINAND
ed among his candidates for GAMES confirmation tracts which depict. sexual relations with brutal frankness and cynicism.
"We must strongly protest against the fact that unscrupul ous people in clergymen's robes abuse their position to under- mine the morals of our youth.
N
matter what they art called. whether comics, crime novels or sexual enlightenment tracts from clerical sources, they all have the same aim to upset our youth, endanger order and reconstruction Cin East Ger: many) and weaken youth's readiness for defence,"
The Lane of Her Lange's - article, re prominence it has been given and his references to demands for counter-measures tend to confm molficial reports that a special law is under con sideration to make the posses-
International A-Radiation Commission
Washington, July 3.
The Senate will shortly vote on a resonition urging President inita- Eisenhower to take the tive in getting an international commission: established to
study radiations of atomic weapons,
Senato: John Sparkman (Democrat, Alabama) told the press here today that this pro- ject, which has been tabled for discussion for some weeks, will soon come up for discussion by Damaged carga, ex this vansel will the Senate Foreign Relations be saveyed by Mess. Goddard & Commitee, of which he is a Douglas
Holt' Wharton member. 10:am. 'on July 6, 1954, "and", con-
The Senator said that if this signees are requested to have their
the repressatalives present during the resolutiva goes through
Senate it will be a psychological weapon in the hands of the President when he meets the lenders of the Soviet Union, France and Britain at Geneva on July 18-France-Presse:
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ROULETTE
NANCY
LOOK AT THE BEARDED
LADY
CIRCUS
AW--- THAT'S A FAKE
MANDRAKE GESTURES- A WATERFALL SEEMS TO
APPEAR PUTTING OUT
THE FIRE!
JOHNNY HAZARD
COYNE ON, GHARIJ DON'T STAND | THERE GAWKING AT THE FIRE!
WE'VE GOT TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT! THE GENERAL'S AROUND
SOMEWH
IT'S JUST A MAN DRESSED
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STOP! YOU'VE GOT TO STORM
STOP FOR WHAT?/ ARE YOU NUTSEN
QUCH?
This French 73 gun mount- ef on a Secoder is the latest schievement of French Army- technicians. The mobile gun can be moved from one place to another easily at 40 mph.
followed by other scontres carrying smunaltion. It is claimed to be the most mobile
mobile heavy weapons.—Express Photo,
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Long Headache
Rome, July 3. Farmer Andrea Galt- berti has solved the my stery of his 38 years of headaches and face pains.
The answer a piece of knife blade nearly two Inches long and a halt inch wide which broke off when
stabbed youth Gallmberil in the temple in
X-My
1917.
An
ปี
examination
discovered the metal and An operation today 50031 remove, I
The first to congratulate the 54-year-old father after the operation was his former assallant, China Mail Spremi,
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EEK
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TOKYO BAY
Yokohama, July 4. Lured by a legend of for gotten
treasure
Japanese divers аге salvaging « US Navy gunboat which carried' 117
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Multi-Millionaire Leaves Fortune To Greek State
Athens, July 3.
A 68-year-old Greek businessman who started life by selling his father's vegetables in Turkey, has told the King of Greece that he intends leaving all his money to the country. His fortune is believed to be tens of millions of pounds.
In his letter to King, Paul, Mr Bodossakis Athanassiadis wrote:
"In full agreement with my wife, I announce to your Majesty that all my business shall be bequeathed to the State to be devoted to social purposes."
Mr
Athanassiadis
controls! His parents were too poor to about 40 per cent of Greece's send young Bodosh to school, industrial potential, and he has but today he speaks fluently no children.
Crtek, Turkish and Armenian, and
some French Geaman English and Russian.
His decision came less than week after he had received from the king the insignia of Grand Commander of the Royal Order et the Phoenix, for his savices to the country.
During World War I, he sold goods to the Middle East armies of the Ottoman Empire. After the War he was the proprietor Dark-faced and slim "Bodes of the largest hotel in Istanbul, sakis, as he is always known in legend. It is said
His history is interwoven with
that
that he Greece, is, in the eyes of his
because onе fellow-citizens the
personifica- bought the hotel
No night the hall-porter prevented
tion of a muti-millionaire. ore has ever estimated his him from entering the luxurious wealth. not even himself, but lounge and playing cards with The folow- its
Įsome friends of his, some indication of
size is shown by the fact that every buy the hotel completed, he with the contracs to ing day. year his businesses contribute about 2,000,000 dollars (£660,000red the hall-porter. sterling) in taxation to the Greek budget.
Fairy Tale
Pioneer
Since his arrival in Greece he has been a ploncer of the country's modern industrial de- He created. the Hollenic Powder Cartridge Co.,
The life of this man who rules the main industries of Greece is velopment. very much like a fairy tale.
Américans to the bottom Tokyo Bay 85 years ago.
A 20anan crew, including reven divers, on Sunday started clearing away the sand from
At the age of 12, in a remote which was recently awarded im- the seaweed-caked decks of the
village of Asia Minor, in the portant United States off-shore wooden warship Oneida, 19th district of Mersing, where he century relic lying in 35 feet was born, the
which for Bodosh Orders young water about 15 miles from
the Armenian translation of the factorius have been specially berc,
name of St John
This the Baptist, built to produce bazookas. 150-foot gunboat sank was helping his father, a Greek yielded mere
that 30 million on January, 24, 1870, after a small
farmer, to sell his dollars (about £10,000,000 colliston with the British vegetables to nearby villages.
sterling) in foreign exchange Steamer Bombay.
The
Now Mr Athanassiadis is the
and
"In less than 15 minutes, the partner of Herr Krupp, the Ger- for Greece. Oneida sank beneath the waveman Industrial magnate, in all
two
The industries which he con- and of her 24 officers and 152his postwar operations in Greece. trois cover a wide range. With
Co
mor all but two of the former These include exploitation of
some 11,400 werkers and and 57 cd the latter escaped a the Lazymna nickle mines and ployees on thair pay-rell they watery grave" says the official the processing of this strategle produce arms, fertilisers, mineral
ore, textiles, wines and spirits
report of George M. Robeson, mineral, as well as the lignite Secretary of the Navy in 1870. deposits in Ptolemais (Mace-and
donia). -Associated Press,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
| MANDRAKE GESTURES"-PUTTING
A BRIDGE OVER IT!
SORRY, WE MUST.
By Mik
By Erale Bushmiller
I GUESS
I WAS WRONG
DERNIE BUTHA
By Frank Robbins
YOUR FRIEND'SHAP HUNTER †IS STILL TRAPPED IN THE BOWB
BAY OF THAT PLANE AROMA,
ALIVE!
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
GARD
"THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUST
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
this situation
calls for
San Miguel
are very interested in research for oil in Greece.
All are doing well especially the Hellenic Co. of Chemical Products and Fertilisers, which has begun sending exports to the Middle Eas mainly window- panes and glassware.
To Me Athanassiadis work is 4fun in itself." He does not tie himself to a desk. At daybreak he heaves his villa in Psychico, Athens smartest borough, and In one of his black Cadillacs is soon calling on his best friends-financiers, bank gover- nors, cabinet ministers
etc--at their homes whers they are just out of bed and still in their pyjamas.
His brain is said to be like a. non-stop mechanism. He "eels" immediately whether or not a deal will pay a good dividend sooner or later. He has proved to have an
extraordinary flair for business. Ea often buys the shares of a small enterprise
on
the
verge of
ou try
which bankruptcy and tumst into a prosperous dustry..
time
He drinks very little but when he entertains friends and officials there is always plenty of black caviar and hundreds of bottles of the best French cham- pagne....
Simple Manners
Simple in his manners, dressed without ostentation, he was once an babitus of the exclusive Athens Club. He likes to bridge and he loses he THE
Play
ways
in gold sovereigns which seem to be easier to carry around. Since last year, his time involved. more and more with business developments, he has ceased his appearances at the club. He has also giver up smoking on his dector's advice.
not.
Mr. Athanasiadis has kimited his activities to Greece. He also controls enterprises in Cyrus such as the "Hellenic Miney Co. Ltd, the Cyprus Wines and Spirits Co., Ltd., the Gypsum and Plasterboard Co, and the Cyprus Textiles Ltd employing. some 4,000 people
His spécial envoys out have: recently been surveying Ethiopia where the Greek industrial magnate is already planning the setting up of important Industries which will take advantage of the raw material, found
there.
When he is tired of the intri- cacles of his multiple affairs he relaxes on his beautiful yacht with its yellow and black furinel, anchored at the small bay of Tourkolimano, near Pireus China Mail Special.
Damascus, July 3. The Syrian parliament today formed a delegation to visit Russia on July 10 at the invita tos of the praesidium of the Supreme Soviet.
The delegation is made up of 16: members' representing
Reuter,
part