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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL
Zanzibar Grows 80
New French
Per Cent Of World's Cloves
Cloves, and their
Zanzibar, Apr. 3. by-products, are
:
all
per month, UK., British Possessions important to Zanzibar, and its neighbouring
News contritnitions, always wel-island, Pemba,
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المال
These two green islands, which make up the Zanzibar Protectorate constitutionally ruled by
| Sultan Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub and administered by Britain, produce about 80 per cent of the world's cloves.
Their unes are many.
They as Valsa, which seems to ba give the lang and flavour to the closely connected with the Indonesian's cigarettes, for disease, But, says Mr Briant, exampe, the spice to the "Wo cannot say that Valsa India curry, and to Mother's causes suxlden death"," upple
Britain and
elsewhere.
The clove itself, the driexi, 10 cents PER WORD OVER 20 [pungent flower-bud of a tali, tree, leaves these
stark green
Births. Deaths, Marriages, shores in racks to the tune of Personal $5.00 per insertion between 0,000 and 10,000 tons a not exceeding 25 words. 25 year, humped and shovelled by
cents each additional word.ching African
mumtion, sweating.
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MAINSTAY
THIRD ENEMY
Trees planted in areas affected by the disease flourish for 10 to
weaken. 15 years, and then tend to especially chiring drought. If the roots of trees
thus declining are examined,
Valsa is found.
The third enemy of the clave, known as "die-bück" is caused by a fungus which enters trees Cloves are In return, cloves bring the through wounds.
picker! by hand, the plekers £4,000,000 timbing up through the trees, !
Climi and in the past damage to frees through carelessness and tough-
considerable
* Protectorate
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your tipt are the malustav ur Bevoloty
Deloresin frites about 53 per
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VRport To inx touneve
"represent mmporta about 342 per cent of the fotel, ut the United States comes a
Britain Takes only. boor third about 2 per ceal of the total exports, and small quantities jare distributer to
to almost every jesuntry in the world SPACIOUS new flats with big gardeni The story of the clove in quiet and chartsting surroundings in Kowloute,
is not industry with 3 bedrooms,
Zanzibar bathrooms, 1 hyung eman, 1 dining vottely a sucress story, how- room, 1 big servorita rush, and mil
The clove, which was bxstern
Reasonable
intrifuged into Zanzibar at the rent. Teleplute 76300, office hours.
end of the 18th century from testin 31durtius Bourbon-it Fratme originally from the Motuve a hus had is up and dow
convenienKUN
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the
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ARAB OWNERS
Wan
DAVORCE
Ta
flourished
In
certain
|
has been Now, if trees.
ore injured in picking, both the owner at the
picker are liable to heavy fines. According to M. Briant, "dle- buck"
is "present in most trees the Protectorate, varying negligible to the
the
Cruiser
CHILDREN
SAVE TOWN
Tokyo, Apr. 3. The mayor of Idemachi town
1956.
Desire For Change Stirs
A view of the Colbert, an 8,270-ton anti-aircraft cruiser which was launched at Brest recently. It is the largest warship butt for the French Navy since the war, has cruising speed of 32 knots.—
Express Photo.
Fishermen Who
Cannot Swim
A
in Kyoto prefecture credits 27 killing stages
primary school In some areas
students for every tr is infected. The saving the town
from bank- rut is to
Soul insawer
the ruptcy. The only hope
Tromso, Apr. 3. discred Tissue, with die-back
The 1 to treat the
town Incurred debts
13.3 per cent of Nor- Only totalling 57,000,000 yen (£57,000 wegian young trees year by year
fishermen In the stering following a disastrous CLEAR SUCCESS
northern county of Finnmark Blood ins 1953 which caused
can swim, It was reported at damage estimated at 2,800,000,000 the yen (about £2,500,000), killed
recent committee meeting Fishermen's Finnmark of the 108 persons, and washed away 105 houses.
Clove production has risen steadily throughout this century, in spile of son sharp ups and downs.
Suruning up, Mr Williams, speaking for his Association, declared "As long as rotational, antum planting is carried on and the trees are looked after,
will thrive and clove industry
kvelop. The striking charac-
tho
urly teristic of the islands, particul-
Seyyid Sald-basem Sullan, who ruled from 1804 to 1856, who Intd the foundations For this industry Finding that
clove the hese stands, he ordered rain one!
plant a portion of cloves un pain of tr possesion,
Tinley plantations are in the hands of Lus! REASON, for example, the Arab owner of one of the finest plantations sold the jeep on his trees as it flood for
£10,000
Fourst
D{
the
clove
In 1872, a hurricane Bottoned
two-thirds of Zanzibar's clove Land rovunut Trees Replanting increased the output NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES &
a new peak. Then came a
disen ræ strange
nicknamed sudden death," which attacked
old speelaily the trees and and
DATAJYDAN" Arrived 2nd
Apr, 194S
Damaged eargo ex the vessel wil be surveyed by Meire toddard & Douglas at Hong Kong de Kowloon Wharf Godown at 18 am on Thurs.
swept through the Pacers.
"According to the
manager of the Clovp Growers' Association, Mr R. O. Williams,
day, 5th April, and Friday, eth Aurt, former Director of Agriculture 1956, and caliniguera vepresentatives ace requgated to be present during HUEYPY
Agenta.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIBE
Australian-Oriental I.Ine 1.ta The China Navigation Co., Ltd.
To ADVERTISERS
BUNDAY POST-HERALD Брасе for advertising should
in Zanzibar, believes that the clove Industry its largely won the battle against the "sudden death" pest by continuous re | planting since the 1920's.
RESEARCH
Pemba is that healthy trees of all ages abound—a clear demonstration of the success of the planting
programme." China Mall Special.
Reds Return
Fossils To NZ
Wellington, Apr. 3 After more than seven years' vain effort to reclaim a collec- tion of fossils from behind the Iron Curtain, the New Zealand Geological Survey has at Just had its property restored.
Spaniards
Many Would Like To See Future Defined
Madrid, Apr. 3.
Recent events in Spain have shown that a desire for change is stirring the nation.
Growing prosperity, American aid, a minimum of industrial unemployment and expectation that tourists this year will top the million mark, are combining to produce a feeling that the country must now adopt long term political and economic policies.
al
General Francisco Franco, General Franco should deelde to Spain's "caudillo," now in his introduce some modifications in twentieth year of leadership, is the structure of the regime ex poeterd to
to respond
the un carly date. desire for change by introduc- The Falange Party. belleves |ing legislation to take care of that it should remain the only
the situation when he ceases to effective political
in rule.
Today, General Franco 13 Head of State, Prime Minister. head of the Falange party, and head of the armed forces.
Three Forces
Spain.
power
Formed? Cabinot
Catholic circles consider that of the political achievements Dr Adenauer in West Germany and Signor De Gasperi in Italy by be repeated The three operative political could well forces in Spain today, namely, Catholics here in Spain. The collection, a ton in weight, the Falange Party (the
The general impression is that only
already Catholic eireles was retrieved from East Ger-authorised political movement),
have
by
New many
Zealand the Catholics and the Monarformed a "Shadow Cabinet,"
are divided. would like to see the The Monarchista chists, mologist, Dr D. A. Brown,
Some favour Prince Juan Carlos. Dr Brown was visiting West future more clearly defined.
Others insist that his father, In Cammany
the course of 15 General Franco is known to months' overseas leave from his favour
under monarchy university when he began a Prince Juan Carlos, grandson of of negotiations Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII. series Communist
But how officialdom.
would the Prime three months he was Minister be chosen, who would granted a visa.
be head of the Falange Party, how would the Cabinet bo Dr Brown, who has just reformed, to whom would. It turned home, said that the col-responsible these are some The Resturo helped the town
lection could be of no interest the questions which
Spaniards In this obtain a 0,000,000 yen (£6,000)
the Russians, but was of want General Franco to answer. Arctle to part loan from
bank when the Norway, the
is sca
Behind the scenes, there the outstanding importance to New mayor used the story to soften weather
seldom
authorities. wann Zealand
It was much Jockeying for position in German order to be ready to take ad- Jent the hearts of bank offeials, enough
encourage zon originally
of the China Mali Special,
bathing.—China Mall Special. geologists.-China Mail Special. varstage
A group of 8-year-old students wrote a letter of sympathy to the mayor enclosing Y300 (about Gs. sterling) saved from their pocket money.
A
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THEY'RE
UNTIED. KEEP THE GUN ON EM [WHILE I PUSH=/
Kuh--THEIR
EYES ARE OPEN--BUT THEY HAVEN'T SAID A WORD
TIME I DID. THIS HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH
MANDRAKE
GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY--|
the
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Co-operation between Clove Grower's Association and the Department of Agriculture, beaded by Mr Andrew Briant, commercials, shee 1935, led to the dis-
tribution bo
of About 2,000,000 booked not lator than persiljugs.
Many of them were noon on Wednesdays.
Mr Briant wants For the SOUTH CHINA SEC even more Intensive MORNING POST and the planting of clove trees. CHINA MAIL, 48 hours The "sudden death" disease is before date of publication. si puzzling the experts. It Special Announcements seems to be transmitted from and Cinoalfied Advertise. I tree to tree. Much research has
ments as usual.
been done on a fungus known
given away,
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to
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
be
of
situation if
to-
of
By Mik
FRESH
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Can't Carlsberg
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
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| FROZEN FOODS TODAY!
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·YOU CAN
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TASTE FRUIT
this altuation
for
Miguel
GENERAL FRANCO
Don Juan, must be king. Still others demand, the restoration of the Carlist Bourbon line in the person of Princes Xavier, This division of opinion wenkens them as a group.
Political observers Hore hallavo that General Franco will dog 4 new Cabinet within the next few months and that he will try to allay ambitions by making it a Cabinet of "mational concer tration", including Falangists, Catholics and Monarchista
gether with a sprinkling technician.
· More Rosanted
Great interest will centre on
which group gets the Ministry* of Information. This Ministry which operates the censorship, many consider now to be un-
necessary,
Probably no measure of the Franco Government in recent times has caused such deep re- percussions in Spai Å.. tho necent suspension by the Ministry of Information of two cultural reviews, entitled Indies
and Insula respectively. They
to
were apparently suspended be«, cause they published articles favourablo liberal writers such na Ortega Gassot, Baroja and Juan Ramon Jimenez.
Pho
Commentators contrasted this suppression of opinion with the publication, during the same period, of a violent attack upon Ortega Gusnet and Pio Baroja by Bishop Zacarias de Vizcarra In the Catholic review Ecclesia, under the title "The Lay Mentality and the Slink of Freemasonry!!
A loading Falangist figure and ond of Spain's leading con- temporary ports, Senor Dionisio Ridruejo, wrote a letter,, yro- besting ngahut the suspensions to the Minuten of Foreign Affairs While letter www sup
but pressed by the censorship,
it has been distributed clande» stinoly, all over Spain.
Senor Ridruejo, who fought ogodnat Russa in; World War II as a volunteer in the Sparrish Blue Division, wrote: "It should be understood that the siRDOTSAI sion of dive two reviews means that'tholo who work, doe Bar- mony, sinong Spaniards lose all their argumENRE.
Violent Clash”-
“Arry, writers, with digi feel that to exercíeć becomes indruteous right (to - expresa saloers (wowy, Nodro
!
By Ernie Bushmiller