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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1956..
‘DRINK MORE WINE' Presentations To British
CAMPAIGN Greeks Worried About Their
Large Surplus
Athens, Dec,' 14.
Greeks are being urged to "drink more wine." Although wine in Greece is cheap-ordinary resinated wine costs only one shilling and the best dry white wine just over 4 shillings a bottle- modern Greeks consume an average of only 49 kilogrammes each a year, compared with the Frenchman's 110 kilogrammes.
Many Greek
Nor is the quality at fault. wines, such as the sweet wines of the island of Samos, the dry white wines of Patros and the red wines of Naoussa, in Macedonia, are comparable in quality with the most famous French, German or Italian wines.
A
JAIZST
ATTLEE FUND
special publicity FOR STUDENTS
result of the low con- ! 2. To Increase local wine con- Sunsation, Greree. with ansruption, a Jatiwal production u! somebureau should be set up for the 120,000 tons, has it annual wine
bringing to the urplus of between 35.000 tons knowledge of the public the an 40,800 ton
"nutritive tonic and refreshing properties of wine and the food 1 value of wine products.”
Experts blame The inck of adequate industelut equipment, Citeece's Callure, ༥『ཏྠ (DF, 147 tandardise the quality of her wines, and a growing domesti preference for beer
Total Capacity
Star Tennis Players
were
Presentations were made in London last Thursday to ace British tennis players Geoff Palsh and Tony Mottram I recognition of their services to British tennis, The awarde
(gold elgapeite cases) given by Britain's Lawn Tennis Asmiclation On the
occasion of its Lost
annual meet- ing. Picture shows Viscount Templewood, President of the LTA. presenting the cases to Botirani, left, and Patch... Express Photo,
London, Dev. 16. Mr Morgan Phillips, General Secretary of the British Labour
announced
here
Party, night The
vrvation 3 Consumption of wine should!
"Attlee Commonwealth Fund" be made compulsory
for in Arst
students fron India, Pakistan. Ceylon and Burna.
clitz
and luxury restaurants and wine should be arilexi to the daily rattons at the Girock and forces,
4 Grape Junce should be in troduced in ho pitals, ellates and Existing industrial equipment, children's soup kitchens breause for wine-taking epresents an of ita Krest rrative and fotal empacity of
some 135,000 nutritive properties fous mad is totally inadequate to
Once standardisation of Greek handle the Greek production and
wines has been achieved, Mr
The Fund, created in menury of the former Prime Minister's work in grunting these tries their independence, help students To Come
Britain
CHAIN- will
It is suppos teri ry the Labour Parly and the rate union and
movements. comperative France-Presse
New Appointment For Red Envoy
14
French Elections May Prove Turning Point
By Harold King
Paris, Dec. 14.
The general election for the third postwar National Assembly on January 2 is taking place in some unusual circumstances which may prove to be a significant turning point in France's search for stronger and healthier political institutions.
Judging by what Frenchman.
every Left versus Right, of Progress of whatever walk versus Reaction. But he of life, says to a foreign ob- said nothing about the role server, Parliamentary Institu- which the big French Commun- tluns enjoy a very low reputa- 1st party is to tion among the French people division of forces.
play in at the presont time. For the ten M. Edgar Faure, on the other postwar years, since General do hand, has kept away from such Gaulle left the direction of the abilract eluss.fleations and stato
after being
practically
ally asked the voters to consider the forced out by the leaders of the main problem: 10 strengthen
country and stabilise the country's
hay
han
p0-
big political parties, the has seen a gigantic inflation, a itical Institutions, and seek to
I military defeat in Indo-China, establish a reasonably strong
21 series of scandals In high nad stable State.
places which have never been cleared up in the courts, blood- ahed and civil war in French
Houses Built North Africa, and a succession
On Ball Bearings
Athens, Dec. 14.
Absolute Fidelity
of 21 Governments making the persistent pursuit of any portant long-term policy abroad There is no longer clear-cut or at home next to impossible, distinction between Left
Right, except in the vocabulary of politicians.
In this, he may have chosen Im-better than M. Mendes-France.
Keen Instinct
has
and
M. Mendes-France
Socialists want French industry productivity leading to
I!
and the modernised and increased a semi-
ten.
Wil
with
With keen instinct, the Prime Houses built en ball-bizarings Minister, M. Edgar Faure, are to go up in several areas of responded Greece because
to a public demand American standard of life. M. IJs eluned for a change in political habits
Faure says that his policy since that they are earthquake-proof. by making the guarantee of the first becaine Finance Mini-
A contructor from Lakonia, in
in government stability the first ster three years ago has already the Peloponese, has patented ᎥᏞ
point in his election programme. Increased production by 25 per 51stem of laying ferro-concrete in his opening speech foundations on
in the sent and will double the French cast-iron balls election campaign, on December standard of living in the
next about eight Inches in diameter, 4. he said that the first thing permitting suficient lateral which the new Assembly
In foreign policy.
M. Faure movement to absorb any earth
M. have to do is to make dissolund
Antoine Pinay,
his tremor.
tion automatic if any Govern-Foreign Minister, insist on ab- Allantle The Government has authorised |ment is defeated before it has solute delity to the construction of the bull-bearing completed two years of office.
Pact combined
persistent Parls, Dec
houses 171 earthquake - pronu As happens, dissolution of efforts To continue to talk to the The former Soviet Ambass4-areas. One tried out in western the Assembly, if it defeats
Russians in the Geneva spirit. In Australia and
survived New Greece
shocks which Government Most
of less than two M. Mendes-France has always Zealand, Mr Nicolas Ivanovitehld other bulidings that--China Years' duration, Is likewise
insisted 13
on the
inviolablity made
Guenerolov, has been appointed
Mail Special.
plank in the programme of M. the Atlantic Treaty and who press the grapes with their "As The
recent discovery af
Faure's Soviet Ambassador in Libya by
chief rival and feet advertise it, untouched by
all for improv- un- supporters are wine jury
dating back to 460!
crowned leader
ing the East-West atmosphere. of the opposi- hant, Hul
Lahore. Des
the Praesidium of the Supreme 14 this pieccament
Budesheim, in Ger B.C. at
It was M. Mendes-France who tion, M. Pierre Mendes-France. Kleven meltext of South
mistukes were found | Soviet, Tass making the wine muny, gɔroven,"
Dewa agency Mr Georgako-
Alicante, Dec. 13, Wyndha
Villor of the
By an accident of fate, Korunannounced tonight,
two broke with tradition in French results in very little Greek wine poulos
Two Salisbury
toid me, "Greek wines published in Lahore.
teams of 80-year-olds men both just under 50 years policy towards North Africa by Berl
fanfarrived for qually,
played a football match at Sun of age, and both trained in the granting home rule to were known in other countries The Government while
Tunisia Mr Gueneralow was ambassa-Miguel de Salinas, near here. A arts of politica exibility
asked the centuries Huarazilers,
us,, We only need
dor to Australa when
the ani But
1 was M. Faure and M. ipblishers to put a list of cor- whether to local of foreign con-
How to be able to offer our wines rections in each unsold copy and
the re- 13-year-old woman kleked off. doctrinal Radical party, velations
have Pinay who completed the home stances, must also be of lower in standard qualities, and we are send the list to everyone who caused the closing of the Soviet neighbouring village of Monte-sides in the election battle.
San Miguel won against the become the symbols of the two rule treaty, and afterwards re- grade.
sure to be able to sell them." had already bought one.-China Embassy a Canberra-France- Fims, in a free-scoring game.~
volutionised France's relations China Mull Special
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NOTICE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, LIMITED,
Nolice to Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-third Ordinary Meeting of the Com. pany's Shareholders will be held at 12 o'clock Nom ou Baturday, 17ch December 1966, in the Company's Hong Kung flere. SI George'n Building. 2nd floor, Chaler Rond, Victoria, Hong Kong for the purpose of--
1
Receiving
The Statement of Accnunts and Report of the Directors for the year ended 30th September. 1955.
2. Electing three Directora.
3. Appointing Auditors and fxing their remuneration,
to meet the up-k-date require-Georgakopoulos believe, that a ants of the wine industry,
large scale advertising campaign should be launchest" abrond to boost exports.
Greek wine is home-
HELE the vide-growers
מילון
Another
important factor in Lin
luation is the growing consumption of beer in Greece. Beer drinking has. in Recent years, become ruch a fashion throughout Grove that even at welding purtles in villages in wine-producing areas, beer is preferred to wine. Ai twerking celebrated recently in Corinth, one of the most Tamous what-producing centres! दर्भ
Grever,
fot example, hutaire of littles of beer were consumed compared with only a few barrels of wine
When in 1884. Bavariant brewer, Batre f Kand Fix established the first Sinal brewery in this country, pro- ducing o few barrels of beer, mostly for Court officials, no one would have believed that the beer industry could ever have uitaines its present magnitude.
Beer Monopoly
Today, the great-great grand- children of this same Fix, still holing the monopoly of beer production in Greece, own huge breweries in the largest towns,
Salonika and Patri
4. Confirming The Interim
Dividend of 30 cents per Athena
share, and sanctioning the These produce uniform light, recommendation of the pale beer similar to
મ Darilsh Directors as to the pay-ger, the annual consumption ment of a Final Dividend of which has risen from 100,000 tons before World War 11 to
Is nowadays
of 80 cents per share in 230,000 tons in 1954. respect of fully paid Beer drinking shares and a proportionate widely encouraged under such Amount In respect of slogans as "Beer is good for you" partly pald shares,
and, during Greece's hot sum- mers, "Beer is the best thirst quencher."
In
The Transfer Booka and Register of Shareholders will be closed
from ጸ።
3rd December, 1956 to 16th December, 1966, hoth days £nclusive.
effort
to popularise wine-drinking, revivals of the ancient "wine feasts" hayo been
aged in
Athens, in the past two years.
This year's "wine feast" which Jasted for 20 days from Septem- ber 23 to October Dividend Warrants will be
10, gave Athenians the opportunity to available for collection, or sample 15 Louis each of 80 will be dealt with in accor qualities of Greek wine. dance with standing instruc-miles west of Athens and mid-
It took place at Daphni, tions, on or after 19th way between the capital and the
December, 1955.
site of the ancient Greek feasts and mysteries at Elesis, Dated at Hong Kong this For an entrance fos of 2s 6d, 21st day of November, 1066. Atheniens, in addition
copious wine-tasting, danced, apecialities of Greek cook-
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
P. W. A. WOOD, Secretary & Chiof Accountant.
nte
to
ing at a special restaurant and tavern, and attended theatrical performances and folk dances.
the
They wont to the feast in their thousands and, in words of one of the
organisers, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES "at the end, there was not a
"CALCILAN"
Damaged carro ex this vemol will
be surveyed by Mowers Goddard &
drop of wine luft the barrels."
Me George Georgak Director of the Greek
of Wine, in a och proposing ways of
the sale of urged that:
Grock winning
Douglas at, Holl's Wharf from. 18, s.nz. 1. Largo credits should be
to private firma and co-
(on December 18 and 17, 1055, operatives for improvements in
[oobaigneus 'are requested to have
their representatives prosit duruw qualfty of the wine, its storage
the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agent?
Hongkong.. December 16., 1988.
and the provision of
tallations for mellowed In
Up-
to-date wine plants should be installed and existing one
· Mouna modernise their facilities,
Errors In Koran
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
A REAL GIRI - ·AND
A DUMMY IN THAT
BOX. I'LL WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE INVENTUR DOES NEXT,
FERD'NAND
NANCY
WEIGHT
AND.
Ha-- ANOTHER TWO MILLION
IN CASH OUR LAST JOB/
NOW RUTH AND I CAN ALTIRE I'D BETTER
COUNT IT AGAIN.
MEANWHILE THE INVENTOR
HA WHAT'S
SO
HA FUNNY FORTUNE HA SPIKE?
JOHNNY HAZARD
HA HO HAR HA
НО НА
HA
ERNIE
BUSHMI2. ARTICA
I'M TELLING YA, CHUGŠY........ IT'S UNCANNY! THIS TORPEDO WIRE HUNTIN' JUST AIN'T HUMAN?
dor
Presse.
at the Petrov case
I'LL GET RUTH OUT OF ROCK'S OFFICE TONIGHT AND THEN-- Huh THE MONEY BRIEF
TURNING INTO SMOKE
CASE
IT SAYS I'M HONEST AND TRUSTWORTHY---
HO
HA
YOU MBAN YOU. DIDN'T SPOT HIM, EITHER, BOYSYT ABAN HARTER WILL. - HAVE CONKIPTIONS)|
HA
HA
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
AND SUDDENLY THE BRIEF
CASE AND THE MONEY SEEM TO VANISH!
GONE~~!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
AND I PUT A
SLUG
IN
WEIGHT AND FORTUNE
By Frank Robbins
OKAY, CHUGGY, THIS BALLS | LUKE NEWS....GPILL ITEMHIDAS
YAN MEEK?..WHO'S AFTER KIMG]
AND HOW COME YOU'RE.
GUARDING HIM?
YOU'RE A SHAPPY. PHOTOS, SHAR.BUT YOU'RE NOT SO HOT AS A DALÍ NEXT-
QUESTIONĮ,
EVEN
by
MAGICIANS
cant Carlsberg
Couldn't be fresher!
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try
Lo
FROZEN PEAS TODAY
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
„this situation”
calls for a
San Miguel
of
his
exile the Nationalist.. Sultan Ben Youssef.
Another new, and possibly hopeful. feature of these elec- tlons is the emergence of some- hing like a valted and KIT ganised Conservative party to soms extent comparable with those in the United States
and In Great Britain.
May Be Surprises
un-
The right wing parties have, In the past, always been mmerubic io party discipline and have gone to the polls in dispersed order. This time the most important conservative groups have joined forces under A body known as the National Centre of the Independents led by M. Pinay, The groups adher ing to the Centre represented 130 Deputies in the old As- They have pledged
Chemsolves to present candidates
Jointly and in the name of the Centre. This fact, together with the dispersal of the former Gaulilats, may bring the
Con-
servative faction another million votes and perhaps the largest number of seats of any single party next
time.
But there may be surprises. The voting system makes it aimoat inevitable that the bla majority of the outgoing De puties will be re-elected people vote for the same parties as in 1931.
st
Hot
finer
Irritation and disgust at the state of publle affairs, may, however, persuade many voters that there must be new men, and that the only way to new men is to more the party distinctions of French po- litical life, and to vote bluntly for men pledged to support M. Mendes-France, Many women and
many of the youngest voters may do this, the Mendes-France campaign managers claim.
The deulty for the success of a new-wing victory Is how to achieve it without accepting help from the Communtats. Open alliance with the Com munists before the cleations weld no doubt lose more votos than it woula gain. But once the new Assembly is in being, the question will arise on the Parliamentary plane. This possi bility is already being used in the élection campaign. to frighten voters away from sup- porting M. Mendes-France.
Communist Vote
In 1051 elections, the specially Invented alliance system" achieved its object.. It prevented General de Gaulle's party from winnlig #sweeping victory. This ime it may prevent M. Mendes-France from succeeding
Wirst will be watched special interest is the
| muhlat vote. ing |0,086,608 out of 18. east. The Comshithiks |iña “lections in tāvour
Pogum Tront Gor