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THE CHINA TAIL FRIDAY, UNOVEMBER
NILE FELUCCAS WILL SOON DISAPPEAR
Cairo, Nov. 24.
Nile feluccas, the flat-bottomed boats whose great pointed lateen sails have since the time of
scenic beauty as the tall, slender palm trees with the Pharaohs been as much a part of Egypt's their lofty bushy crowns fluttering in the wintry brecze, will soon disappear.
They are being replaced by fast modern motor barges, which, heavily laden with cotton bales, cereals, coal or iron-ore, now dominate inland water transport.
course
This is cheaper than having to pay a crew.
Some 15,000 feluccas still ply up and down the long winding moving of the Nile,
But many of the younger ones majestically downstream from today are turning to the speedy, Aswan to Alexandria against the powerful tugs and motor barges. background of the Pyramids and In these, they know. lies their Luther relies of antiquity. of future, Many are being hired Births, Deaths, Marriages,ellaheen (peasants) at work in as
deck
hands, some 戳界 Personal $5.00 per insertion green pastures and cotton mechanics in the engine rooms. of children at the Industrialisation is fast spread- not exceeding 25 words, 25 plantations,
time-honoured sakkyn (water- ing In Egypt, and the NUO cents each additional word. wheel) and village girls on the panorama Is changing equally
Today, into the age-old background are coming chimney stacks of cement fac fortes, cotton mills or bluet furnaces.
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FOR SALE
1.AMPS WROUGHTIKON American thinks plain and writed 80.00.50 a yard Duval. Lut, 3. Saroen Road,
J
TUITION GIVEN
river bank, Alling their water-fast. jars at sunset.
Days Numbered
tho
Throughout
ሰኑ many
feluccas handie | value
for they are quicker pounds.
and than transport by camel much cheaper than transport by rail or motor lorry.
But the sturdy.
these the year.
to the goods
millions
of
sun-tanned.
Large fleets of motor barges are already plodding their way up and down the river, carrying coltun and cereal crops
from the interior to terminal porta up- for export and returning stream from Alexandria and
laden
with Port Sald henvily
machinery and
general coal.
Improvements
The inland
BALLROOM PANCING--"Wonderful galabich-clad Saidi boatman who
Method"
starts you dancing "rat Bedsont variationi, Ca contidonorumprove "style" Tony Wong, N, Wolganinham Road.
WANTED KNOWN
DIETINGT You can enjoy and wazi enjoy Hustley & Palmers Breakfasi Blacuits, Also recommended Diabetice. Available at
тосель
KOMETHING
for
all leading
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE,
of Borted
sail these craft know that their cargo. days are numbered,
With national reconstruction moving at a tremendous
pace,
the impending construction of a giant new high
dam
оп
the
Water Transport
the
Underw
Intourist
Negotiating
With West
Muscow, Nov. 24. Intourist, the Soviet tourist agency, is at present negotiating with the American Express, Thomas Cook of England, as the CTT Company of Italy for new arrangements for tourists wishing
to visit the Soviet Union.
"Next
ID-re
Bad Year
For
A picture taken during the first press visit to the rew underwater hydrodynami laboratories, completed. st the end of last year, at the Admiralty Research Labora- tory, Toddington. It houses certain Hema of unique equip- maut existing nowhere else to the world. and most
is spectaplar
* 60-tom rotsting beam with an overall apan of 122 feet and annuaİ channel designed to investigate behaviour of bodies moving at high speed under water. This picture shows #olentifie assistant standing gh the beam with below, a 10 inch model torpedo for an under water test. Central Press Photo.
the
*
FANS AT HOME
spring, the USSR is
to receive Nile at Aswan and an iron and Chamber of Commerce has
meny Holwan
tourists then in 01
neur | ten-year programme for the im- steel plant
1985," said Mr V. Ankoudinov, are provement Cairo, riverside workshops
of waterways in
the Director of Intourist, in an mass-producing motor barges to Egypt.
interview describing these cope with the over growing in-
It includes a project which
arrangements, land water goods traffic.
to given
the would permit a lengthening of Looking at the Nile on a map. present motor craft and
Soviet paper New Times alt that one sees is that it is a doubling of their carrying cap allowed 625 miles of free travel Tourists to Russia will be
Ottawa, Nov. 24. But it is also big, city. This will eventually reduce Collee-long river.
Cinema audiences are becom- stamps. brood
two towns within the Soviet and deep, the longes froight rates and make naviga- { to two
Canada for the From 20 cents per packet upwards. river in Africa, and the secondtion on the Nile the
Union
balance to
the smaller in quickest
first time in 20 years, statistics | AD entirely
erica Bouth
differences and cheapest
ces in exchange between disclosed. of tran- means China Morning Pos Ltd., Wyndham (longest in the world.
The feluccas which have not sport, with accruing benefits
the USSR and the rest of the varied really, if at all, in type the national economy.
world,
ho eild Up to the The industry ainco the Pharaohs reigned Soon, the last of the feluccas present 15 tours through the
their lateen
Soviet safls
Union have been NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES 5,000 years ago are all about and
the same size and rigged alike. |vanish-China Mail Speclai. They are made water-worthy by the simple process of filling up the gaps between the wood-
tors packets
new
Street, Hongkong Road, Kowloon.
Salisbury Ailt
TELEMACHUR"
Danged cargo ся Urin Vespel will
ed beams and planks with flax and then caulking
be surveyed by Mears Goddard & and Abre
Douglas
ле
Hull's Whart from
them.
Like Noah's
Ark, they are requested to have "pitched within and without."
down Going
stream and allowing for stops on the way. one of the Nile feluccas will lake perhaps 15 or 18 days to travel from Aswan to Cairo, a distance of 780 miles, And even this calls for good waterman- ship, for the prevailing wind in Egypt is from the north,
10 am on November 28, 1933, and consignees are
their representatives present during the survey
BUTTERFIELD & SWIR) Agenda
Hongkong, November, 223, 043.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"AGAPEN OR"
Damaged cargo xx
thin versci will
Passing Cairo
Yet without this prevalent wind, It would be hard indeed to get the boats upstream again,
he surveyed by Mears Goddard & particularly in the flood sensori Dougla д Ruit's Wharf from when the current runs fast and
10 on November 29 and 30, 1933, there is an emormous volume of and cotlegstee BN requested
have their
to
water in the river.
Το
representatives present
during the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & KIVINE, Agents. Hongkong, November, 25, 1953.
Oriente Comercial
Importers, Exporters and General Merchanta
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Distributors of
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When in Macau
stay at the
POUSADA INN,
Praia Grande,
Cable: Pousada.
its three
pass Calro and big bridges takes the best part of a day, since the bridges are open for boats only at certain times of the day. To those who live in Calro, it is familiar sight to sec Cla many as hundred of these boats lying up the at the bridges waiting for time when they con slip through, holst their great
safis and embark on the next stage of their long, dreary journeys.
Smartest Graduate
leave
The river men seldom their calling for any other. It is hereditary and the small boy is taken into the family crew al jaa early age. At first, he works
for his keep, and then for small wage, until he grows up. By the time he
he is 18, there is very Itle about this ancient river that he does not know.
The smartest of them gradu- ate from this hard school and become "rayiss" (masters) thelt own right. Sometimes the
takes his whic master
and
Ichildren on the boat with him.
HONG KONG-MACAU LINE
M.V. TAI LOY
AIR-CONDITIONED
DEPARTURE
HONG KONG MACAU
DAILY SAILING
ΤΙΜΕ
to
will
arranged.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
Hmm--BOTH MEN SWEAR THESE DUMMIES WERE ALMOST HUMAN --TYPING-WALKING,
TALKING--
FERDINAND
NANCY
up
BOTH TIMES, THEY WERE LOCKED IN OFFICES "THAT COULD ONLY BS UNLOCKED FROM THE INSIDE --BY THE AGBOT**
blames telen vision for the change, which has cut fim-going by eight per 'cent.-China Mail Special.
BOTH MEN ARE POSITIVE THE REAL ROBOTS WERE STOLEN AND THEIR FAKES LEFT BEHIND.
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Korea, è pima.
Canada, 6 p.m.
Japan, 6 gim.
By Eurface
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Mació, é p.m.
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Rhine Wines Big Exporters Hard Hit By Frosts
The
By IAN FRASER
Ruedesheim, West Germany, Nov. 24.
All through November the rocky vineyards on the banks of the Rhine and Moselle rivers resound with the detonations of mechanical scarecrows, firing off a shot every few minutes to | frighten starlings from the forbidden fruit.
wine-growers, however, have long realised that the 1955 wine which they have so carefully cultivated through the cold spring and hot summer is going to be indifferent, if not bad. The sharp frosts of early October did serious damage to the grapes.
The season begun late. By year the ripening process stopped Whitsun, the vines were three in October and there was no weeks behind their moral point in delaying the harvest. All development. The scorching mim- the wint-growers on Germany's mer, one of the hottest which 100,000 vineyards are rushing Germany has had this century, their tabs of grapes into their did much to help the Riesling collare as fast as they can. vines make up lost time, but the At Schloss Johannlsberg, ono steamy boat August and of Germany's most famous, ving- September brought plagues of yards, the vintage bogan in the last week of October and will These had to be fought with last until the end of November. chemical sprays, which set back on a one day up to 60 pickers,
mainly the growth once more. October, allA
the waist-high
insects.
of
wamen
can be
on which the success or failure) Dending over
on which the grapes thom- of a vintage depends, came in selves provide the only remain- with brilliant sunshine and warm
of
tubs
winds. But a few frosty nights greenery. They nip off the bunches with scentours, and caused the loaves to turn brown P
them into drop
small This meant that and drop of. the
little green clusters
depend grupes, which
on the leaves
carbon dioxide to owner of the vineyard. mature them, atopped developing.
Latest Machinery
for
ATG
от
painted in the gold and black colours of Prince Metternich,
Selected Bunches · A carrier, with a gold and black hopper strapped on to his The big produce of Rheingau back, walks up and down the and Middle Moselle, who nor rows and the pickers empty
their tuba mally carry the bulk of the
his hopper. When inte export grade, are hard hit. Their it is full, the carrier goes out Peking, Shanghal, Hankow. Kun best wire
from of the vineyard at the head of made ming.=9′′m..
selected bunches (Auslese wines), the row, climbs up a ladder on third harvests to the deck of a trailer and tips from Tom second
from in- his load into a huge vat. This Indonesia (Spaticoe wines), or Australia, New Zealand & Ceylon, dividual grupes picked at great year, the specia tubs reserved expense when they have almost for "Auslese" bunches are not Thailand India, Pakistan Middle shrivelled into raisins from the being used.
(Becrenauslese Brripest bunches
Wines).
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December. Some of the noblest
In thousands of. German vine- vintages have been picked with yards, but it is giving way lar snow on the ground.. But this
the hydrmulle prem.
At Johannisberg, tim` grupes
In are pressed
A horizontal rotating cylinder 10 feet long, the pressure being applied from the inside outwards by monna of a rubber sleeve which is in- flated by plamping water into It. The grupo fulco squirts out through 'alifs in the cylinder wall
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By Lee Faĺk and Phil' Davis
ONLY
ONE CLUE
-THE
IS THAT A CLUB
OUMMIES
IDENTICAL-
SAME FEATURES, COLOR OF HAIR AND EYES-DON'T KNOW WHY--IT MAY BE A
CLUB***
By MIK
9.22
By Ernie Bushmiller
ECHO
VALLEY
ha ha fooled yo
By Frank Robbins
JOHNNY HAZARD
I TIME TO STOP THREE FOUL
3.00 p.m. 3.00 am.
THE HOUR BE LATE,"
good years,
Princo Mettorních hás installed the latest machinery for pressing. the winte
the fruit. The screw-type, press, in this area iasts into operated by hand, is still in use
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral AND REFRIGERATOR
| AIR CONDITIONERS
UGADOL
*TEK JAM THAT MADE TASKANIA FAMOUS=2,
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
From the press the cloudy brown "must" is pumped into a settling vat, where the solids fall to the bottom. Then it lạ, piped into a tormenting barrel huge vaulted collars under the castle, which were fald down by Benedictine monies in the 12th century.
In the
Furry Fungus
There the must comer under the authority of Herr, Heinrich. Allinger, descendent of a Jone
line of Johannisberg master- celltrers. Herr
Allinge thủn
| bachelor of 60, can full
eeria rumbling made by
proceding
wine" whether tha
ртосем
it ahould .or
- it should be accelerated by head and pressure or sloząd down by being cooled.
After fermentation the must, now wine, la transferred for maturing into one
..
hegkanda in a long subierranean avenue of hogshands, the cellar walls are lined with a dark furry fungus, which Her Alller says: is important for maturing the wind.
Markotable wines are bottled and the most on the premises promising bottles are kept for improve will
of the Metternich wines date back to the last century and when the Shah of. Persia came to dinner a row, months ago, Prince Matternich was able,
từ tin : hted a wing of 1840
|vintage, made. In the lifetime of his ancestor, the great. Alistriani Chancellor.
Other Names
This year,:"many leading pro- ducers: will sell much of their wind to chamba-he
gitanabe another rare, i father thân merket 11 mvder their own name and risk spolling their reputation with # #40ond, siasa wine. - C Mall
Troops To Lo
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