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THE CHINA MAIL;, FRIDAY, MARCH 0, 1956.
BRAZILIAN MILLIONAIRE'S PIGS
GET CAVIARE
AND CHAMPAGNE
By Haig Nicholson
Sao Paulo, Mar. 8.
mil-
was
Bald, bespectacled Brazilian lionaire Nelson Palma Travassos almost indignant when stories that his pigs sometimes eat caviare and lobster washed down by champagne, were doubted.
"It is perfectly true," he said. "My pigs are fed from the best restaurants in Sao Paulo-the sort of places where the Aga Khan might eat-but what they get, of course, is the left-overs. They get a varied diet. Sometimes there is caviare, more often lobster, and the dregs of champagne bottles are often added to the SWill."
Then his
and hate work.
bat clean-shaven | and comfort. face broke into tanile as he They are lazybonts and cynies. added: "My pigs may be fed "Like Frenchmen, from the best restaurants, bui draughts, there are some boltes (night- Cubs) that i would not allow HOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collec tora packets of
thean ating
to frequent.” From 20 cents per jmekes upwarda Ap vntirely Dew series South China Morning Post Lid Wyndhau Street Hongkong Arid Sallebury flond, Kowloon
Jasorted
Feudal Baron
Pigs are the main concern of Senhor Travancos, the man who played a plano in a cinema lo
his
BTAMI ALBUMS - "Collection the days of stient films to car Builder" series New stock nuw aveštāble 6" From South Chinn money
legal to pay for Morning Post Lid, Wyndham Street studies. He
la writing a book and Salisbury Hoar, Kowloon
about them to be called **The Unknown
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THE
NOTICE
HONGKONG
MTC-
AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
Ordinary Yearly General
Meeting
NOTICE
IS HEREBY
His large estate where he admits that he Ilves like "feudal buron, is not far from the centre of
throbbing San Paulo. There is much to
011
extensive
the estate, but a notice inside
the
grounds quickly reveals that his absorb- ing interest is pig-breeding
[1 says: "Here you learn to venerate and love the real spirit of the plg."
He started keeping plgs some years ago on his estate, Chacaru dos Coqueiros (Gorden of Pulm
Trees).
only after settling a difficult problem --what kind of stock ta rajsec," he said. "Cows are too big and trample over everything Rabbils presented feeding problems and when I sold them people might mistake them for cats
Hens and turkeys are stupid and though the goat is sympathetic, it smells.
made that decision
Bought Two
GIVEN that the Ordinary "By a process of elimination Yearly General Meeting of ¦ I decided To breed the Shareholders of the Cor. human of animals--the pig poration will be held at the read all the
pigs
the must
literature about could get my hands and
Head Office of the Corpora-cyes on pigs in the United tion, I Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 18th day of March, 1956, at
of
the the
States, in France. In Germany and in Madagüiscar
"I bought two pigs which i
named Marieta and Ze Brazil, Nuon for the purpose
of and
from them has grown # receiving and considering the big family of Duroc Jersey pigs reports
Directors which brings me in 8,000,000 and of
cruzeiros (about Auditors Cruzun
£30,000) & and the Proflt and Lous year." Account and Balance Sheet prisis for the
year ended 31st December, 1955, and for the
of course, is not sur- jn man who has a re- putation for turning everything he touches into gold. He has election of Directors and fix-"All is not Gold That Glitters." in fact, written a book called ing their remuneration and
Senbor Travassos claims to be the appointment of Auditors, Į an expert on the physiology and
psychology of pigs."
THE REGISTER OF House Habits SHARES of the Corporation
"Figs, like human beings, like will be closed from Friday, shade and fresh water," he said. the 2nd of March to Friday, | "When exposed to the sun, the 18th of March, 1950, they should be rubbed with of (both days inclusive) during bathe on the beach at fashion- just like the women who sun- which period no transfer of able Copacabana
known of Rio beaches).
shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,
(the best de Janeiro's
"The house habits of pigs are those of aristocrats and they are the only animals who are They like luxury
Chief Manager. I sybarites.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
announce the opening of their 1
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.
pigs hate They must be treat- ed gently and they only rebel when they are treated bally Their dignity is easily offended und they suffer a lot
They
like order and organisation.
"There is little essential dif- ference between pigs and human beings
They love onder and discipline and have a horror of lth and stupidity People say that they are dirty and Inzy If they are, it is the result of their having been badly treated by human belugs for centuries,"
Parting Shot
As a parting shot, further to
the strengthen
case he had made out for the inhabitants of the sty, Senhor Travusos de- clared: "Pigs are always worth their weight-which is tnore than can be said for most men."
-China Mail Special.
Nepalese Envoy To Britain
Plotured aboard the as Chusan when it docksā at Tilbury' Is Nepal's now Ambassador to the UK. Sri Ram Prasad Mamandahar, with his wife and seven of his eight children. The girls are named Rama, Subha, Prava, Gavri, and Lalita, the boys, Gavilan Prasad and Utan Prasad.-Express Photo.
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TALL GIRLS GET
Children To Learn History Of Fascist Regime
Rome, Mar. 8.
The Italian Government has gingerly begun to attack the task of teaching the nation's children the truth about the Fascist regime and its downfall, and the birth of Italy's new Republic.
a
More than ten years after the end of World War II and of the civil war which rent Italy for two years before the death of Mussolini, commission of Members of Parliament has been nominated to supervise the writing of a series of theses on the history of the last 36 years.
some
The children who, will learners hayo taught recent history from these texta will be too over the past ten years may young to remember the bitter perhaps to gauged to passions, terror, triumphs and small extent by elections to humitations of the break-up of University student associations, the flamboyant Fascist regime fought on political party lines. and the victory of the demo-
cratic partisans.
But most
of dived through these cnces
in
Five years ago, the Com- their teachers | munist candidates for offices in exper- these associations could count, in nomo universities On the support of as many as 60 per cent of voting students,
Some of them are still amart- from the total destruction of a political system in which they believed and from the demonstration of hollowness and corruption,
even more
its
obeyed
was
Then, three years ago. there a sudden resurgence of Fasciat feeling-among young people who
barcly adolescents when the Duce tell,
VETE
No Guidance
who from the age of six 210d Others disliked but
Boen marshalled dr. Fascist the rigid directives which they
party organisations, but who received from Fascist Ministers were too young to be touched of Education
on how to teach by the flery ideals history. They may dislike almost ment of the as much any directives they get ment. from the present democratic Ministers.
and excite- Resistance move-
Up to 80 per cent of votes in some universities went to neo- Contemporary history is al-Fascist youths, burning with the
ready
a subject taught
In desire to recreate a purer Fas-
Ceylon THEIR WAY middle and high schools, cism, fcrcer, more nationalistic
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MANDRAKE THE MACICIAN
WHAT YOU THINK IS
GN TOP OF THIS PLACE
FROM THE ATTEMPTS MADE
TO STOP US. SOMETHING
MPORTANT, LOTHAR.
FERDINAND
NANCY
JOHNNY HAZARD
QUICKLY!
HAND OVER THE
PAPERS &
WHY WASTE TIME
FLIKE THIS? WE
| MIGHT MISS. LET'S
USE OUR GUNS.
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READY-- ONE--TWO--
AW---I'M TIRED
OF DRAWING
"MAKE A BRIEF SHOW OF
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| RELUCTANCE:=THÉN GOR THEM YOUR DIPLOMANG FOUCHE IT IS | INDEEP FORTUNATE THAT MISS |HAVEN HAS THE RIAL: PAPERS!
?
Copenhage, Mar. 8. A Tall Girls Club, founded hero a year ago by a long eggod young woman who could not find the right sized stock- ings, claims great success promoting the Interests of the fall girl.
But the writing and publishing and more xenophobic than of text books is left entirely to Mussolini's. the publishing business and polical guidance is given by the Government.
Supervise Task
The publishers, interested in
rather that in sales
problem. The text books avail- candidates believing
have side-stepped works,
The club says that it has now persuaded manufacturera to produce suitable sized stockings and shots for its members, but there is
still
of # shortage
made skirts, appropriate ready underclothes and rain-coats.
"You have to choose a rain- coat s big as a tent if you want one which 15 Jong enough," the girls complain. - China Mall Special.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
--THREE!
CONTINUED
By Erale Bushmiller
By Mik
I DON'T BELIEVE IT
BERNIE, BUSHMILLEPŃ.
By Frank Robbins
GOTITË TAKE OFF, BRINKWA
| THAT CYCLE ESCORT WILL BE BACK -
INSTANTLY!
able give only a dates and facts of recent history, leaving it to the individual teacher to ill in
flesh of
reality.
in demo-
But in the last three years missionary there has been a steady growth
the in
support for the student- skeleton cratic Ideas despite the
and particularly, suong anti-clerical tradition
In many Italian Uni- veraities. the
for
young Christian Democrats. These young people are now entering the ranks Italy's teachers and are likely to welcome a version of history
Resurgence
of
The political parties have far made little cflom to invade the field, obviously fearing that The big problem. In the re- teachers would react againstcent aftermath of civil war, re- them. The way in which teach-mains, however, how to write
50 which upholds democratic ideas.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FRESH
IN THE COUNTRY]
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
IVY THE FULL
GREAN MILK THAT
MARES ROWBEERZÉS
CHOCOLATE SO
MAURIT GOOD!
MILK
CHOCOLATE
It. The eleven Members of Par- liament designated to superviso the task do not include a neo- Fascist, But a representative of the Monarchist party, allied to the neo-Fascist party, is likely to fght hard against the pre- sentation of Fascism in too hard a light,
At the other extreme, Com- munists and Socialists have al-' ready demanded a version which shows no mercy to Fascism, movement in which the great majority of Italiana now aged 30 or over actively collaborated at Fone time or another.
Narrow Majority
A Senate debate which PTO- ceded the first meeting of the commission carly in February showed the violence of the passions through which the his- torians must pick their way.
The voiced of successive speakers
drowned by from the two while 11
howls of rage wings of the Chamber, stalwart ushers had to form barricade to prevent the Sena-.
tors rushing at each other,
Although It has not yet drawn
up its programme, the commis- alon is expected to agree by á narrow majority on a number
of basic themes and then to offer prizes to Italian historians for the best work on these themes. Both in selecting the themes and choosing the prize- winning works, the commission is likely to have great difficulty- in achieving majority.
Same Aim
The centre democralle parties - which slightly outweigh other parties in the composition
the
of the Commission havo, during eight years of rule In Italy, sought to avold opening up the wounds of the civil war.
Their
representatives Gre likely to be guided by the same alm in the. Commission's work. But these representatives men und Wom
of
are
widely
| differing character, ranging from
ifo-long anu-Fasoista, Awith sharply defined political views, to people who at least at cor- tain time regarded Fascism with complacency,China Mali
Special.
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
TUNISIAN NEGOTIATIONS
Paris, Mar. 8. Tho Tunisian delegations to the Franco-Tunisian talks in Paris met in
in special somaton, this evening to study, a new French propost
for
a. Joint agreement on Independence the North African proiectorie
Well-informed afreles mid carlier that the talks were proceeding in a spirit of còn- fdenco and that the delemtions. might. broki further folat