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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1955.
British Coal Western Europe Feeling Strain Mau Mau Menon Concerned
Production Down
London, Sept. 6, British coal production to date this year has fallen by almost 3,600,000 tons below that for the same perlod last year, the Ministry of Fuel and Power announced tonight.
According to provisional figures, production of deep mined and open-cast coal for the first 35 weeks of this year totalled 145,302,000 ions →→ 3,590,100 tons less than for the same period last year.
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The Ministry and that the
Just estimated amounts because of labour disputes, re- holidays and similar cognised causes rose by nearly two mil- lion tons since the beginning of the year,
It placed these losses at 13,- €87,500 100, compared with
1,882,300 tons for the Hume
Jant
your.
period
Total Soluble production
last week was 4.277.000 tons 89,200 tons more than the week before but 51,000 tons lower thon for the week ended Sep- tember 4, last year-Rouler,
Who Will Pay For The Robots?
PEOPLE
Itristol, Sept. 6.
that who think automation-robet-run fuc- tries will do their work for them while they sit back are quite mistaken, an economist wamed here today.
Flood Strikes
Italian Village
Home, Sept. 6.
to-
Police and firemen day bogan digging the Italian mountain hamlet of San Sebastiano out of mud and rubble 20 feet deep in parte after swirling flood waters #ituck yès- terday,
Damage do the villago. 30 miles northeast of Rome Was
estimated
1,000 million Eire (about £578,- 000), 8lx hundred villagers lost their homON,
At least four people died In the flood and another four were reported mlading. -Router.
On Economy
NEAR CRISIS IN
GREAT BRITAIN
Balance Of Payments
London, Sept. 6.
Western Europe, whose economy was prospering last year at the time of a United States recession, is beginning to feel the strain of inflation.
Signs of inflation have become marked
Worked Way in the two leading industrial nations of
Through University
Capetown, Sept. 0.
Broke, but determined,
Europe, Britain and West Germany. The situation is the more serious in Britain where a near crisis has been reached in the balance of payments, the vital accounts which show whether the country is paying
young Port Elizabeth man sue her way in world trade.
reeded in taking a doctorate in botany at Cornell University,
Porndoxically France, which has long been regarded as the
New York, after working his way through university for "stek
almost ten years.
man of Europe"- economically speaking and which Is amicted by chronic budget dedella and on over- shows no sign
this valued currents.
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Dr N. Grobbelaar has now returned to South Africa to go back to university-but time as a lecturer under his one- time teacher, Professor M. G. Mes, of Pretoria University.
Dr
mai- Grobbelaar, 26. riculated in Port Elizabeth in 1945 and
£50 sterling bursary
the Port Eliza- beth Municipality.
won from
of these
Britain
for the sake of the present". words that have been taken to mean that sterling will not be devalued.
A further move in the battle for comidence is expected at the gathering of Finance Ministers in Istanbul next week for the In France,
annual session of the World Bank in fact, signs of
and the International Monetary inflation are lower than in any and
are Europe. cther country a
For
Fund. Mr Butler is expected to the first time France last year do his utmost to assure his col- had a surplus with the Euro-leagues there that the British will tackle its pean Payments Union-clearing Government Mr F. H. Eeles, Shemeid
house for European trade--and difficulties with strong domestic not allow Univeralty, told a meeting of
the surplus has been maintained measures and will
starting to depreciate, This and a £20 sterling bur-in the present year. the economics section of the
In Wost Germany the British Assoclution for the sury from Rhodes University
symptoms of inflation appear Advancement of Selence:
enabled him to take a Bachelor
in Britain and Such
would be well of Science degree at Rhodes. But Britain's economy is backed later than
From there advised to recall that the in-
he went to in its famillar post-war pattern are not yet so pronounced. The
There danger signal went up troduction
crises, new and Pretoria to take master's of "odd year"
#
3 when the the AugusT
Bank highly productive equipment degree in science, supporting was a crisis in 1947 when
return to sterling
Deutscher Laender, the bank of has usually been held as himself by becoming
6 part- premature
issue, sed the bank rate from about to usher in a period of time waiter in in open-air cute convertibility hat to be aban-
ene In 1949 three to 3% per cent. doned, another by night, Jors work and more leisure.
Unofficial strikes and whole- "But instead of producing the Through Dr Mes he was able when sterling was devalued by
of cancellations
wage same amount as before in a to get a Rockefeller award to 40 per cent, and yet another in sale
1051. shorter time, the inventions continue, his studies at Cornell.
The year 1953 passed contracts by trade unions have without trouble and # was complicated things and the have eventually been put to China Mail Special.
hoped that the return to ortho- Government is now working tradi- work for about the
dox measures of financial, con-out plans to fight a new wage tlonal number of hours and
trol brought about by the Con- price spiral. thus been used to produce
servative government had ended more goods than before."
the recurrent crises.
A
people
of
ny
more realistic way to automation
face
was to consider
how the immense initial cost or automatie stallations was going to be paid for, Mr Eeles added.-China Mail Special.
Colombo, Sept. 7. Ceylon's Prime Minister. Sir John Koteluwała, now gels o regular fan mail from school children who write to him as "dear uncle.
Bomb Exploded
In Ataturk's
Old Home
Istanbul, Sept.
But 1955 socms to be falling into the old pattern again.
Teething Troubles
on
Marshal'
This is one of the only two photography known to exist of the former dairy clerk who calls himself “Field-Maralal Sir" Dodan Kimathi, "Prime Minister of the Kenya Parliament of the Abedaren" He is the overall commander of the Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya and is reported to be insane. Details of his private papers captured when he fled from A forest hideout last January were released by the Kenya Govern- ment last week. The documents are stated to "emphasise the warned mentality and acute meralomania" of Kimathi This and plature of "Sir Dedan was taken by a fellow terrorist shows that, like many of the Man Mau, he dresses his hair in apikes and ringiots to give the appearance of greater stature. The "Marshal” in about 38 years of age. He has directed several during operations and escaped death or capture a
number of times.-Reuterphoto.
EARTH SPOUTING SULPHUR
Mexico May Have New Volcano
Mexico City, Sept. 6.
A fissure in a cotton field spewed sulphur, hot rocks and boiling mud today, raising conjecture that a new volcano was being born in Mexico near Mexicali,
Mexicali police said 14 fissures split the earth suddenly, starting Saturday, and began
one
The troubles besetting West Germany's economy are diagnos- The signs of the new crisised as the "tecthing troubles" of are the growing import bill, un full employment. The number matched by any equivalent gain of unemployed has now fallen rumbling and throwing debris 70 to 90 feet into the domestic to barely halt a million com-air, 14 miles south of this border town which is prices and wage demand's by pared with a labour force of Salonika today, that bomb labour, and a prolonged weak-over 17 million and for the first 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
forth and steam shot out. The difficulties are not finan
in exports, rising
The Turkish nows Agency Anatolie said in a report from} {***
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time there are beginning to be exploded in the garden of the ess of the pound sterling an home where Mustafa Kemal the world's foreign exchange shortages on the labour markete. Alaturic, first President of the markets, Turkish republic
was bom, It all started when at a re- Ataturk's birth place cent athletic meet for school-located next to the Turkish
Consulate in Salonika.
ris, Sir John told the girls: "Forget that I am your Frime Minister and call me uncle."
In one of the letters that arrived lately there was in ad- dition  tiny present two cadju nule for "unele." -China Mail Special.
Sulphurous
officials
belched | Mexicali to San Felipe on the
Gulf of California. ones in the field of foreign A
of volcanologists group The
Mexicali
reported currency for
Bank
from Mexico City reportedly "no widespread alarm.”—United Deutscher Lacnder has a gold was flying to the scene today to Press. und foreign currency reserve of determine whether this was the 11,000 million marks (almost third volcanic eruption in the £1,000 million),
highest sharp ever and West Germany is stilt past decade' in Mexico.
making a trade surplus every month,
Last month the Prime Minis-
Sir Anthony ter,
Eden, Inter- rupted his summer vacation to the country that it was paying its way. "not then there has been
wcin
Anatolie published an appeal from an "uthoritative source" calling on Turkey to “remain calm."
The agency said
the that Greck Police had arrested several suspects-France-Presse,
the population of break
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Since nco
in the three-year-old "bull market on the Stock Exchange and financial opinion in London is apprehensive over new measures the Government may take to restore the situa- tion.
Its
But labour wants to enjoy the fruits of many years of hard work. Labour is now asking for another round of wage. in creases averaging about ten per Hiterto the
British Govern cent ment has been attacking in- The unions are bucking their flation by orthodox monetary claims with the cost of living The Bank of England's Index which rose recently for discount rale was raised by one the first time in many months half to 3 per cent in January and will rise still higher with
a fow weeks later was
means,
and
per cent.
Race On
increases in milk and coal prlets.
week.
dissatisfac-
Govern-
The Inst volcano discovered in the sparsely populated north- western portion of Mexico was Boqueron (Big Mouth), first noted in September 1952 San Benedicto Island, about 250 miles south
lower
California.
Most Famous
on
Mexico's most famous volcano
first burst forth in farmer's cornfield
Contrai Mexico near Morelos, It put on
two years ago.
raised by a full point to 42 the Increase in reits which took of the 20th Century is Paracutin,
effect this menth and expected which
possibly
It now is clear that these
The unions are also pressing show for several years, tossing measures did not have the de-for
week though out lava and white hot rock. u 40-hour sired effect Money was made lere seems little
In a year it had developed a tion with the present 48-hour cone 1,500 feet high. It died out dear but it was not made scarce. The banking system in Britain contrived
The West German ita maintain
A scattering of local farmers liquidity despite the Government will confer with industry,
and labour Ita trade pressure by selling
In coming reportedly was watching the stocks of Government nds. weeks
bonds.
to bring labour peace. eruptions south of Medcall this Bank advances to Industry con- | 41 |
It wants to lower prices
the by morning on the field near rather than Wisteria Canal, IXTA Unued to rise until the end of concerted action
Irrigation another July by which time the infa- have
wave of wage ditch which goes through some tionary situation had been com- increases which would further remote territory. The location plicated by paralysing strikes Increase inflationary pressuTO. ist several miles west of the Ban a secondary in the clocks and on the fall- The atmosphere has improved Felipe Highway,
leading Prices have stopped road worsened recently. ways which further the balance of OVCTECOS pay rising in many felds and whea
ment's
menta.
the
Frankfurt
Consumex
At the beginning of August Goods Fair opened this wee
the Government ordered the prices were reported staple.
banks to reduce Cho overall level of their advances by 10
per cent. This tightened
'the
Elsewhere
monetary controls making Scandinavian money scarce as well as dear.
Europe countries
the are
south from
MAJESTIC
with rising Commencing To-day
Elsewhere in
baving
trouble labour unrest and à A British Treasury official prices analysed the situation this week caringo of foreign currency, of the the exception by saying that there is a race With on between the restrictive special case of France inflation monetary measures which are seems to be general.
now working, slowly but surely Economists claim that the and the ebbing of foreign con- causes ndence
in
sterling.
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under-developed
Tho
of
Hond
chats
ddenco ovaporates too fast thero the Far East ara prossing on could be a run on sterling with industrialisation which might exhaust Britain's Brammos that in many scanty reserves of gold and are not backed by domestic dollars before the monetary saying, mesures have time to do their The lovel of employment has workc in putting right the under been at record heights in West Lying payments position.
Europe for two
years
and Rumours of further devalue- finally,
tio United Statos tion of the pound-now 2.80 in economy has moved frank-12- terms of dollars have been ccasion to beam. In the 'cir- denlod by the Beitia Chancellor | cumstanem It is not mirgelating of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. that monetary muthorities tho Bullar.
world over are stimenting their Anthony Eden and in Interest rates and lending forma "August" that his Government to counteract the boomin Would inat jeopardise the future | Reuber, WA YOH EN
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GAVE MITEN TYONNE NE CABLE BARRY FITZGERALD
Tonigh the Night
WOW!
Over Far East
Bombay, Sept. 6.
Roving Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon, speaking during a debate in Parlia- ment on foreign affairs, described the Far Eastern
as "causing much concern."
situation
Referring to Indo-China, he said: "South and North Vietnam are one state, not two. So India's responsibility is to find ways and means of helping to obtain elections.”
"Both Russia
"The stronger they bocomo the more afraid of each other they become."
In reference to the Big Four; to inspect their respective coun- conference and Prime Minister | tries, but he addod: Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Russia, Mr Menon said:
and America Both want peace.
countries agreed to hold direct talks, which in itself was a great contribution toward the lawen- ing of tension."
Regarding China, he said;
“A country with such a vast army of population could not be Ignored. So no agreement is complete without China. We have to bring her in whether or not we dislike her."
Sit Together He expressed belief that Rus- slu and Amerles are sitting to- Ho expressed hope that gether to discuss the issue of Nepal, Libya and Ceylon will disarmeront and that they be admitted to the United Na- have agreed to allow each other tions-United Press.
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