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Pago 8
CHINA
TWINGHAM VIKITE
HONGKONG
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH' 8, (1956.⠀
ALBANIA THREATENED
WITH WORST ECONOMIC CRISIS
Belgrade, Mar. 7.
The partial abolition of rationing this winter has brought Albania to the verge of her worst economic crisis during the last
Editor business communications and five years, according to reports reaching
advertisements to the Secretary,
Telephone: 26011 (5 Lives).
KOWLOON OFFICE:
Salisbury Road.
Telephone: 04165,
Classified Advertisements
20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID
ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS
$2.00 PER DAY
10 couts PER WORD OVER 20
here from Tirana.
The reports state that the Russians still maintain a stranglehold on the small country's economy but, partly perhaps because of her geographical isolation from the rest of the Soviet bloc, their aid is limited and tending to decrease rather than increase.
rc-
The Albanian Government Many Albanians have rela- chose winter-art, as it turned tions In Western Europe or the out, an abnormally cold winter | United States, who send them -- de-ration clothing and foot-gift parcels. But the reports wear. ou Jamury 3. levnigenid, often the intended Births, Deaths. Marriages, food
and other necessities cipient does not see bila parcel, Personal $5.00 per insertion | rationed.
as he is too poor to pay the At the time, the official nown- not exceeding 25 words, 25
Albanian customs duty on it. Zeri i Popullit, comment- cents each additional word, Ird: "The abolitan of the ration
paper
ALTERNATE INSERTIONS
ing of certain Industrial goods
the superiority 10% EXTRA
of our economie system over the capitalist system,
If not prepaid a booking for of 60 conta is charged.
Aznarica,
MUSICAL
LAROY SELECTION t
popular MA available Eartha Kit.
Estions" serier. Manibogama
Bal Museita. Julk Mule of Latin Brazil Argrolina, Path. quay. Ilok duy Maly, France, Corees. Dreame of Rupallos, Love at First night, The Inimitable Lane in latest wings, from D. Enser, 4A, Des Voeux Bond, room 1, 2nd floor, tel. 30100
SOMETHING
lars pecket
STAMPS
Blows
Joint Decree
71
of
4
state
Instead, the Stoto "Com- mission" (second-hand) shops offer the addressee perhaps 500 leks (about £3 11s or 10 US dollars) or 1,000 leks for the right to receive the parcel. The i shop then
the paya
customs charges, and sells the contents for what they will feich.
soap
In the way, the reports show, bar of ordinary toilet originating in Western Europe | Costa the equivalent Of five
dollars (aboui 368).
Privileged Group
with
Japanese Are Atomic Weapons Politically
·In London
The intest tirp.ce of posting shown below are those für uns- registered correspondence ported at G.P.O. longkong. The tates posting times elrowhere which, In general, aro earlier than the Q.PO. Umes can be ascertained by_enquiry at the local office,
The latest posing times for registered articles áre Fenerally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulara rogard- ing real mails can be aseT- fained by enquiry at any port afire.
The year 1950 began with a great victory
...the partlul whatifort ví rationing. important factor for greater results in the future,"
Prices of textiles and foot- Wear, under a Joint decree the Government and the Central Committee of the Workers' (Communist) party, were to rise cribed as the
The present situation is des- from their pegged level to
worst for several
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 ittle below the existing
yeass, though in a sense Albania
By Alt la permanently in a state "free market"
Pakistan. uf
Middle East, prices. Salaries economic crisis.
Great Britain and Europe, were to be increased to make upward id undeveloped she has. Always back-
Thalland. Burma, India, for this, though the decree did since Yugoslavia's break
By Surface EXCLUSIVE, Core not reveal by how much.
Malayo, Ceylon, India, Adan, ut assorted sikitini
Middle the Cominform
Great Britain & From 20 cents per packet upwarda Later reports reaching
In 1948, been
Europe, Beg. Parcela p.m. here cut off An emirely new series
from Soundreste
her allies. Her Letters & Packets, 9 am. 9/3, weeks 1,100,000 inhabitants had prob Muna Morning Post lid. Wyndham street Hongkang and Halsbury for the new
came ably the lowest slanderd force, its effects were aliving in Europe today. Road. Kowloon
into ready roving disastrous. Work- Collection |ers had received only nominal New stuch Availible
tochulcians. From South just over Morning Post Lid Wyndham Stre
one yard) of cloth engineers and doctors in Albaniu and Salisbury Kuw. Kowloon
had unped in price from, for
are a privileged group example, 000 leks to 4,000 icks | Carpurt. They might almost be #colonial com- compared to munity among a outive people— who.
though admitted Warsaw Pact, have not been allowed, though Communists, to Join the Comiform. China Mil Special.
STAMP ALBUMS Buter
Neties
To ADVERTISERS
thot
several medgure
salary increases, while a metre cording to the reports
ы
BO US dollars
50
ol
were
(from
514 411 10 United Stoles dollars
mulre £20 10x ur BUNDAY POST-HERALD İoMeinl rates; advertising should bo
Beggars, once rare.
In- booked not later than creasing
311 number
the noon on Wednoadaya,
streets of Tirana Many were boys, ragged and barefoot
For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication,
Special
Announcements
Advertise
and Classified monte sa usual.
Gift Parcels
3
Nu white bread was to be had, but only black-brown bread which was stated to rost approximately the equivalent of one dollur and a half fer a kilo gramme Cabent is Def way it.)
diplomats.
Notices
die East, Great Britain 10a.m.
China, A.M.
& Europe. People's Republic, 10,30
Portuguese, East Africa, S. Atries, (N. & S. Rhodosio. Parcels via L. | Marques), 11 am
Macao. 1 p.m. Thailand. 1 p.m. Indonesia, 4′′p.m. Macao, ↑ p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 18 By Air
Peking, Shanghai, Honkow. Kun- ming, 10 s.m
Thailand, Malnya, Indonesia, Aus traite. New Zosland
Ceylon
Africa,
11.
p.m.
Indo-China, Noon
[
p.m.
Philippines. p.m.
Europe, 5 ..
Malaya Indonesia.
Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middia Enst. Africa, Great
Britai K
Australia
New Zealand. 8 p.4n
fawill, U.S.A., Carveda, 0 p.m. Indo-China. p.m.
By Bartaco Formers. a.m.
China, People's A.M.
Republia,
Australia, New Zealand. Reg & Parcels, & p.in.: Letters & Paciorts,
Macao,p.m
the
[1
the
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
By Air
Fortress, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Guam Hawall. U.S.A.. 1 p.m. Philippines. Austraila, New Zea Imd. 2 p.m.
Formus. p.m
US. A. & Canada, 6 p.m. Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle Exist Aflos. Growt Britai Europe. 8 p.m.
Japan. 6 p.m.
By Burface Australia, New Zealand. 9 a.m.. Malaya, Ceylon, India, Aden, Mid.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HERE'S THE MESA! Hmm--
I WONDER IF THE COWBOY
GUS IS CONNECTED WITH THE TWO MEN WHO TRIED TO STOP US.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
announce the opening of their
NORTH POINT OFFICE,
410 King's Road,
on Monday, 12th March 1956.
Current Accounts may be opened now on application to the Queen's Road office.
Other facilities will include
Savings Bank: Fixed Deposits: Safe Deposit.
FERDINAND
མ་ཆན་མི་.
PENINSULAR
NANCY
& ORIENTAL
OQUIS HOS
WE CAN DRIVE HALF- WAY UP, WE'LL HAVE TO FINISH THE CLIMB ON FOOT.
ME KNEW
RIDING
TOO GOOD TO LAST.
Bag, 01. 2. Pas Orian Again mana
Porzosa, Japani. Oklawww, Korea, 0 p.m.
A party of eight Japanese parliamentary delegates, In Britain for a 10-day visit, went last week to London's historic
Manalon House. where they were received by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Cuthbert Ackroyd. Pictured
I contre
the 'delegation's leader, Dr Risujiro Vychara, as he thakes hands with the
and Mrs Mayor.
Ackroyd other members of the delega. tion look on-Express Photo.
Thinning Out NZ
Possible For NeutralSweden?
By Thomas Harris
Stockholm, Mar. 7.
The Swedish Government and Parlia- mentary Defence Committee are jointly busy making up their minds whether Sweden shall be the first neutral state to have tactical atomic weapons.
Such weapons are militarily necessary but are they, the doubters ask, politically possible.
Tho
Commander-in-Chief, in the world, can carry atomic General Nils Swedlund, stated bombs. in a report to the Crown on ways and means of keeping Sweden's defences at maximum emciency during the next ten years that sho needs tactical atomic weapons to repel any Invasion. Ho added this warn- ing:
ENDORSED
All this being so, the ques- tion facing the Government” and the Defence Committee, in which all parties except tho Cominumist represented, is, "from where shall we get our atcmic weapons?"
One or two people have sug- gested that Sweden
might make her own. General Swed- lund oald, however, in his report "If a small state lacks atomic to the Crown that she lacks the weapons and fails to join any men rego wtes alliance
to produce disposing such an adequate supply at least weapons, then this can, under within the next ten years. This certain circumstances, con-view is widely accepted. stituto a temptation Aggressor."
the
The
of
and
in
for
presa
Deer Herds reported in the army periodical
ttia
Wespons
to
GUARANTEES?
Amy-
As an alternative 10 home production, the Army Com- Commander-in-Chiefa |mander-in-Chief, Lieutenant- views have been undorsed by General Carl August Ehrons- other military experts in pub-vaerd, suggested that it might lic statements
be possible
buy tactical interviews.
ntorle weapons from abroad.
Colonel Torsten Schildt of Defence Stuff's Research Institute, said in a lecture
This suggestion raises the Militar Tidskrift" "Ny
that problem of whether Sweden can Sweden could afford buy atomic weapons from abroad tactical atomic Wellington, Mar. 7.
be unconditionally, or whether The herds of wapiti, the deer cause they are "relatively cheap potential suppliers would that roam the mountainous in proportion to their pose political or other condi- region of the South Island, are | efflency.”
tions irreconcilablo with her to be thinned out to keep them
neutrality policy. 10.30 within
the
winter feeding Other experts have disclosed Malayo, West Africa, Parcela via capacity of the range.
in the Swedish press that The answer, apparently, turns Lagos, & Gold
Coast, Parcela via Older and
inferior animals Sweden's latest
tactical Accra, Noon.
atomic warships ато Macao, 1 p.m
will be shot and an attempt being
with equipped
hot weapons are still regarded robot Indo-China, India, Pakistan, (Por-made to balance the number of missiles which could
*** "unusual" weapons, or whether carry tuguese India, Parcels via Karachi), males and remates.
"con- I p.m.
atomic charges. It has also been they are now felt to be disclosed
the new light Venonal" weapons. bomber, "Lance", claimed by If they are "conventions!"* the Swedish Air Force to be weapons, then Sweden should one of the fastest of its type be able to buy them as free of unacceptable political conditions ast she purchases, Centurion tanke, jet fighter aircraft ond other "conventional" weapons from Britain.
Japan, p.in Philippines, 4 p.m. Thailand.p.m.
China, People's Republic, 0 p.m. Macao, G p.m.
THIS IS A SHORT CUT. WE CAN CATCH THEM BEFORE THEY REACH
THE END OF THE ROAD,
THEN WHAT.
BOGGY
Hunting during recent years has depleted the number of "good heads" among the wapiti builu-Chiou Mall Special.
By Lea Falk and Phil Davis
YOU MEAN
SHOVE
THIS ON
PEM?
EXACTLY. GET READY!
WE CAN'T LET THEM
GET TO THE TOP !
WHAT'S AT THE TOP?
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
DON'T TOUCH THINGS
COME HERE, NANCY
NANCY, LEAVE THAT ALONE
ANTIQUE
SHOP
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CANTON"
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS.
BAGGAGE:
Friday, 9th March, at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM, via Singa- pore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kow- loon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, By Noon on Thursday, 8th March.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages
carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co's Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.
EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.30 and 11,00 a.m. on Friday, 9th March, 1950.
Subject to alteration with or without notice
JOHNNY HAZARD
BROOK HAVEN, BOHNNY AND SHAP FOLLOW THE STOLEN CAR TO RECOVER THE SECRET D DOCUMENTS **** |
WHILE MILES AWAY, THE SPY GANG...UNAWARE THAT THE DIPLOMAT IS CARRYING DECOY PAPERS
{ ... START THEIR DARING ATTACK/
NOW!
“KANIA
By Frank Robbins
PULL UP.
ALONGSIDE {
EVEN
that.
MAGICIANS
Can't Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the vine!
Libby's
TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
on
whether
weapons
If tactical atomic are held to be "unusual”, then the Western powers, the only possible suppliers, would prob- ably refuse,
their Own security interests, to sell them to neutral Sweden ог Impose
ת!
guarantees which her Govern- ment might feel unoble to give.
The latest official
this
statement problem, made
In Parliament recently by the Defence Minister, Mr Torsten Nilsson, disclosed only that "there are no possibilities at present for buying these weapons."
TRADITIONAL – POLICY
Conservative and Liberal newspapers, notably Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, bave suggested 羈 formula which may meet any stipula tions by the supplying powers without clashing with the Swedish Government's neutral- ity policy.
It is based on the terms under which Sweden bought "advanced" radar equipment from the United States In 1952.
She signed a declaration that this equipment would be only for the maintenance of internal security, for justted self- defence and for carrying out security measures in accordance
charter of
ROWNTREES Nations Organisation, the United
MILK CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS AND RAISING
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
The equipment, the declara- tion added, will not be used for any attack on any other state but employed only in oc- cordance with Sweden's tradi- tional polley of promoting international ponco and secur
The Government's poolion ko mado more difficult by the fact that there is a minority · In its own Socialist party which strongly opposed to Swedezi having tactical storie wespone at all, elthor by home coRINI- facture or by purchase
frosn abrood. This minority argues that these weapons. are offen- sive and not defonsive and that Sweden can have no we them since she is pledged senge only defensivé wRON
MAKE UP MIND
for to
One member of this minority, Mrs Nancy Eriksson, said Parliament that to acquire atorio espone “would be tha spme thing, as abandoning our mitrality policy?""
In the mosntime, the Oppoel- tion parties are urging... the Government
to malce - up ̄_Ite | rnind quickly so that Sweden shall not delay' in, implement- Ang Genral dwedlund's recOE- azeriikkiota: for