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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY,' - JANUARY - 18, 1956.
CHINA THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT Eightieth Birthday Glft
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THE
NOTICE
HONGKONG
AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
Ordinary Yearly General Meeting
that
OF COFFEE
IN BRAZIL
And A Racket
1
By Haig Nicholson
Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 12.
Years ago, in the welter of popular songs which appeared at the time, was one with a theme which emphasised that there is "an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.”
That is as true today as the day the song was written. The Brazilian coffee trade, which helps to provide for the world the
beverage which has been variously described
"celestial ambrosia," and "the symbol of human brotherhood" is still the main prop of the country's economy.
It has known better times and there was a period bo- tween the two World Wars when, to keep prices up, coffee wila foxt Into furnaces in Brazil. Today, however, one of the trade's main features is a wholesale form of racketearing which everyone knows about.
What happens can be simply explained The tollars, pounds, and funds in other hard cur- rencies eurned by the sale of Drozllian coffer Is earmarked by the Government mainly pay for essential Imporis.
LOWER GRADE
to
The Governant componsales the coffee exporters in cruzeiros (a cruzeiro is worth little more than a penny at present) at a rate far below that ob tainable on the free market,
Now, by series of anand- pulations. the exporters Ara invaleing the coffee they send abrond as being of lower grade than it really is. Then, by ar- rangement with the importers
110 to
in foreign countries the differ- ence between the real and fictitious price is placed their credit abroad.
They
can
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by Brazil. whose biggest mar- ket is the United States.
by
Computing on the basin of one pound of coffee being alle · to provide forty cups. this means that about 180,000,000,- 000 cups
of coffer ero drunk
ĐỈ the peoples practically all countries each year.
Brazilians themselves good customers for their OWI coffee. They minber about 80,000,000 according to the lat- est population figures, and
Arc
11
is estimated that they consume about 4,000,000 bags a year, or about one lonth of the world's production.
The Intext dman of posting shown below are those för nu- regltered correspondence posled at 6.2.0), Hongkong. The latest posting timer shewbery which, In general, are earlier than the G.P.0. timien can be ascertained by enquiry at Chr local offer,
tlines for The latest posting registered articles are generally nr hour earlier than the time shown: below. Particulars ro- FATOINE parcel
Can be ascertained by enquiry at any post office.
FRIDAY, JANUARY
By Air
Formosa, 6 p.in.
to
Korea, p.m.
USA, Canada, 6 p.m.
of
or
the
The
Then accepted methot preparing the beverage is the required amount P!! coffee into a muslin bog strainer
which through bolling water is poured, coffee should preferably bo served in heated cups.
SWEET AS LOVE
the
Many of them accept lertura of Talleyrand, French diplomat and wit, thet The Rical cup of coffee should be "black as the devil, hot as helt,
pure as an Angel
For Chancellor Adenauer
Notices
1 v.m.
itawall, U.S.A... Canada, 6 p.m
By Burtacs China, People's Republic. 10:30 a m Macao, p.m.
Formosa, 4 p.m.
Japan Canada. 4 p.m
Tallond 4 p.m.
Malaya, Interticala. 3. p.m. Chine. People's Republic, 6 p.m. Macon, p.m.
SUNDAY JANUARY IS By Air
13
East, Africa,
Formosa, P. Burma,
India,
Europe, 6 pin
Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, 0 p.m.
Japan, & D.M
By Surface Br. East Aff Rhodesia,
P.E. Afcles, B. Africa, (N.
and L. Marques), Mozambique. P/P via
414
Maco, pm.
AT JANUARY 14
AN
Peking. Shaugti. Hankow, Kun- inx. 20 m. Pune, 10 135.
Thailand. Malaya, indonesia, Aus- New Zorland & Ceylon, 14
10.
Indo-China, Neon.
and
Philippines. i p.m.
sweet as love."
Malnya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand. p.in
they
Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle
of
drink on owful lot of coffee in Brazil. China Mail Special.
East Africa, Great Britain rope, 5 pm,
Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, Korea,
then dispose
fuade these "ghost"
us they jiko. If they turn them late cruzeiros they can obtain much higher rate than they would have received from the Government had they declared the real price on the Invoice.
How much money the Gov- emment is losing In this way brit impossible to say. Anancial
oxperts hove cal. culated that millions of dollars are involved in these margine! trading transactions.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the Qruary Yourly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Cor poration will be held at the Head Office of the Corpora- tion, 1 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 16th day of March, 1956, at Noon for the
of purpose receiving and considering the reports of the Directors and of the Auditors and The Profit and Luss Account And Balance Sheet for the year ended 81x1 December, 1966, and for the
Those intimately engaged in election of Directors and fix- Brazil's coffee trade say
that
ing their
the practice remuneration and
We started by "mushroom" firms who saw That they could increase their returns by exchange manipula- tions.
the appointment of Aadltura,
THE
REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday, the 2nd of March to Friday, the 16th ví March, 1956, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered,
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W, TURNER,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 10th Jan., 1966.
OPEN TALK
The practice has spread 10 such an extent that even old- established farms are involved
They talk quite openly about this form of rackelesring im the coffee centres hora and in Santos
and São
in
the the
principle having apparently
been established that if every- one or almost everyone is doing the 4omething that outside law, I cannot be so very wrong. But by one meana or another, great
quantities
of
coffee leave Brazil each year, despite
Increasing competition from the
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Central American countries and
ma, “ANKING"
ared, 9th January 1858.
Damaged cargo ex thìm vekawi will he surveyed by Moure Goulard & Couple Mortgage Godown, West at The Chine Provident Peint at 10a.m. on Friday, Танцагу and Saturday, 18th January, 1836, and consignees geprosentatives are requested to be prement during survey.
BUTTERFIELD * 8WIRE. Agents, The China Navigation Co, Ltd.
La
from the African continent where the biggest producer French West Africa, followed by Brilish East Africa.
INCOMPLETE
aro
Those who compile the annual International coffec statistics admit that they far from complete. It la asti- mated that world consumption of coffee is running at the ralo (132
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES of about 34,000,000 bags
"BENARRA”/MANGALORE--
↑ Damaged ongo
ared, by "Mangalore" will be mar- vayed by Mextra. Goddard Douglas at Holl's
Wharf from
'10 am, on January 14, 1954, and sconsignees are requested to have their reprosesibativer present during Ana survey
BUTTERFIELD A SWIRK, Agents.
Hong Hong, January 18, 3006.
pounds to a bag) a year and about half of that is supplied
Exhibition Of Japanese Prints
NOTICE TO CONSIGNDES 180
"ANTILOCHUN
| Damarid" cargo me tide veiet will 158 surveyed. Br Moments Goddard de Douglas OR FORM Wharf·
- 29.03.00) Fáššáry 10 mèt ̈£7, -1064, (and. "conalinens, mes recubeled " to pressist
Moscow, Jan, 12.
'An exhibition of over Ex hundred Japanese prints of the and 19th centuries bas opened in the hell of Moscow artista union, Tars, the Soviet news agency, reported today.
The artists represented • in- studea
Horus, Ulamaro
Fede, Hiroshige, Hosunobu Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Toyokuta
and Ogata
'exhibits are from the pil-, vate collection of Yuri Vasilyev, ¤ MOWOW artist 'who has beeni collecting Japanese prints for "over ten ¦ (years)
the agency
They should know, for
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE MAN WHO HIRED THIS MESSENGER IS THE CLAY CAMEL / THEY'RE TO MEET IN --
FERDINAND
NANCY
--FIFTEEN
MINUTES, AT TENTH
AND FINE.
-BANKE
BUSHMILLER
SEE THE
ESKIMO VILLAGE IN THIS PARK
JOHNNY HAZARD
NOW THAT YOU KNOW ME BETTER, SNAP........YOU CAN CALL |ME,"STEPSIAN"! AND NOW YOU KNOW WHY NOTHING CAN |STÓP ME FROM REACHING, JAN MEER!
PLEASE LET ME GO. I'M OYING TO SEE WHAT HE REALLY
LOOKS LIKE.
E-
Great
Middle
Britain
De
Philippines, N. Borneo, 0 p.m. Japan, pm.
By Batface
Macao, H.J.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10 By Burfaco
China, People's Republic, 10.30 a.m. Philippines, Noon
Macau, 19.m.
Japan, 1 p.m.
Malaya, India, a p.m.
Sarawak, N. Bornéo, 3 n.m. Macao. p.m.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
By Burface
China, People's Republic, 10.30 am. Japan, Noon.
Macao. 1 p.m. Canada, 2 p.m.
Kores. p.m.
Macap, p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
By Borinco
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauet, why celcb- rated his 80th birthday on January 5. WZIN guest of honour at a reception at Bonn where he was presented with painting by Vise-Chancellor
behalf Bluecher on
of the Cabint. Picture showa Chan- celtor Adenauer receiving lif
gif---Express Photo.
Postmaster Sweeps The Streets
Whakalene, NZ, Jan, 12 The local postmaster and bank manager turned out at six o'clock in the morning to elean up the streets of Whaka. tene for the holiday season.
Other businessmen with brooms joined them in response to an appeal from the Chamber of Commerce.
Whakaleno
s
WORKERS TAKE
4 BATHS A DAY
-To Fulfil Bath Plan'
Vienna, Jan. 12.
A Sofla newspaper has published a reader's letter showing the plight of Bulgarian workers having to bath four times a day to fulfil the "production target” of their works bath.
This is the letter published by the newspaper, Strachel, of December 16, which reached here recently. It is signed "H. Tschelebonov":
"In our works we have a bath, The
repaired, bath is being which we so cach Friday.... Have little patience, com-
but one day the bath installa-rado....More than five months tion broko down....the drst wont by in this way. Friday without 勘 bath Was difficult.
WW
The following Friday
got excllod and Kwore ot the administration Weeks
Then,
A Surprise
one day, we had
4
went by and we were still told surprise. The foreman ran into
CRIME TO BE A US COMMUNIST
Chicago, Jan. 12. A Federal Court today confirmed a decision that
Jur
the workshops and called mui: Comrades, comrades hurry up... Finish your work....In live minutes, you must be ready,
"What for....* one of us ask- છે.
For hygiene, contrades, the bath! The bath is repaired. The water is warm, Hurry up!' And with a loud 'Hurrah' wn went to bath.
morning. when
we came to work, the workshop was closed. The foramen stood in front of the door, saying 'Com- Arst the bath and then
xtטאיי
it is a crime to belong to rades. the Communist Party.
The seventh Circuft Curt
Is Cleanliness
,
work
11
of right, although
It was only
byglene.
the bath, all
we had bathed
Appeals upheld the conviction the previous evening.
"At about 10 Light-
am, sucklehly
of 48-year-old Claude fool, executive secretary of the the fire siren sounded. We ran Communist Party in Illinois.
Lightfoot
WAN conyleted a year ago under a section of the
Smith Act which made bership in the party a crime,
mem-
out. The manager stood smiling at the window of his rotin
Hurry up, comrades,' he called, the bath is waiting for you!'
*But
a bath last we hud right and this morning....
** That does not matter, com- sald that Scores of other Communist radar. The Greeks loaders previously had been cleanliness was half of health."
"What were we to do? We found guilty of conspiring organise
to esch, bathed again. We spent the mid- advocate
groups
of
lo
break in the bath, fu the day or encourage
the After we finished work, we went violent overthrow government" but Lightfoot was the bath again. We were al the first convicted of being very astonished,
of an organisation the violent over- throw of the government,
a member advocating
popular
China, People's Repubile, 10.30 am. resort on the Bay of Plenty and the businessmen decided that a Malaya, Burma, 1 p.m.
splek-and-span appearance good for bustness, China Mull Special
Macao, I p.m.
Indo-China, 2 p.m.
Japan. 2 p.m.
Micno. 4 p.m.
HIM BY
NO. THIS MAY GET
I WAS
AOUGH. GO HOME
TO MEET
AND WAIT,NARDA.
THAT LAMP-
POST.
WHAT'S WRONG, SONNY?
MOTHINS! YOU UNDERSTAND ARCHUNTERY NOW......WHERE 15 JAN MEER HIDIOT · E
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
STAND THERE. I'LL
BE WATCHING, BE
CAREFUL. HE IS
WANTED
BY THE POLICE
CAN MANDRAKE CATCH THE MASTER
OF DISGUISE ?
AT LAST A REAL CHANCE TO NAB
THE CLAY CAMEL!.
By Ernie Bushmiller
MY UNCLE IS DEVELOPING
A CAVITY
By Mik
By Frank Robbins
I-I'LL TELL YOU, STEPHAN ... BUT KNOWING WILL BRING YOU NO CLOSER TO YOUR VICTIM HE'S UP IN A PLANE THAT WON'T COME DOWN TILL YOU'RE CAUGHT... OR
PEAD?
A Plan
it
"The foreman explained Lightfont had argued that like this 'You know, comrades, the membership clause in the that we have a plan which lays Smith Act was unconstitutional.down how often per half year
bath. Now you shall
the six -United Press.
months are almost up and we are behind schedule because of the damage to the bath installa
EVEN
MAGICIANS
Can't Carlsberg
Bent
Couldn't be fresher!
PRAI
try Libby My
FROZEN PEAS TODAY
I'M OFF TO A PARTY AND I'M TAKING. ROWNTREES MILK CHOCOLATES AS A PRESENT
this situation's
calls for a
San Miguel
a
tion. But do
do not worry, We
shali catch up.'
NOW
with
by comparison the bath plan, the fulfilment et the production plan seems to a smell matter Indeed."— China Mail Special.
us
Hot Atomic Chore Offered
one
Washington, Jan. 12. The Government wants private industry to take on the of
meanest, nastiest, toughest, and cost- liest chores in the whole |atomie energy business.
It hopes private companies will do the fob better than it does. The future of economic atomic power for peace is at stake.
This choro is the chemical
of. processing
nucisar fuel elements that have been used h rezearch or power reactors. In- volved in it is the still unsolved problem of safe disposal of radioactive wastes.
Dr Frink Pittman, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Civilian Applica tion Division, told the United Press "It is extremely in- portant" that private industry get into the chemical processing feld,"
In
Overshadowed
an announcement over- shsklowed in the news last week by the President'a. Sinte of Union message, thờ... AEC Esked private industry 10 submit proposals some 18 months from now for buliding and operating its own chemical processing pints.
But ometals have stated often that atomic power cannot be
other come competitive with kinds of energy in any generai - Kense
until chemical processing betonies cheaper and more eff cient, .... It is one of the big cost factors delaying the day of eco- nomio,stomle.)
After atomie fuel, has been uned for a while it must be r
recover unspont
| procemed producida tuo,
fuel,
newly
"fortio materials which can be changet into fuel, and various radioactive malarlate which may
be useful in industry or reacarch,
The
hot" materials remaining must be stowed w somallow for as long years in a fashion guaraníodin that they will not damage plant and animal Jite, including secolo be contaminata, woll, water, mifier PosourbesiiUn(led-Pr