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THE CHINA MAIL, FRÍDAY, OCTOBER
Worried About
Libyans
Succession
KING IDRIS
HAS NO HEIR
Tripoli, Libya, Oct. 11.
Libyans are worried lest the unity between the monarchy and the federal Government which has set Libya on the road to constitutional, democratic govern- ment, be broken by dissension over the succession to the throne if King Idris should die.
Punhờ t-year-old Kong, wan
Deported for
provinces, rạch of which in re- A fados, prescisted by eight members. Its ife has the Lower House #f Parlia- MAN by either of his two wasex, ment representation is propor- Fatin tundi Aleyn. and
not exceeding 25 worch, 25 health, has no her cents each additional word.
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SOMETHING
STAMPS
born packe
nately
EXCLUSIVE,
بان
SHANJINN
Crider.
From curta pie trucket ages 771 AA
South
ther, En Mohanimed
Mandi Sentuel, wh
Jem, divel fast year
have a ty
granted a Regency Council Take office when he dies
anton). 35 members for Tripoli, tide, 15 for Cyrenaten and five for the
Fezzon.
however.
there to be anyone,
At present, does not appear
they
inside }" crutide 111 Semua seet. who commands sufficient respeel throughout the
name of tls rembes, containeree provinces to become King
Try
in
the ovent of the tenth King Idris.
Lumours
th
10
in xesdex felters deposited the King with Parlament Government, are secret Hut is
Prim Chian Morning Post for. Wyrobiony thought that the present
Minister and Puncisan
Minis Mustapha Ben Hate
Street. Hongkong
Hond. Kom lekasi.
STAMI
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194. Wyndhan Street
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NOTICE
BANK HOLIDAY
kely to be one of them
Senussi See!
1 Dy
which Adri duet, are pre lik is to be sell
entertame Cobeervers here sy, Devause they walled ofruest certainly result a Jubernat discusion The Serusso,
| stmuch opponents of Muslim's
colonial regime here,
are part
And repeated
heir in ght soon be horn
or other of The King's wives have hitherlo proved groundless, If their is bort, before the King dies, some observers here think that the Regency Council might decube' to recommend to Parhainent that the Constitution
and Lilyn be amendeci chained a Republic
Pave Way
pro
Some Labyans. 10. belleve that the renetton In an unpo-
of the Sept Sect of Islam, wf cpular monarchy might well pave chief centre has Crea
VIKT
|
always
Layn' ..
the way for comununiam Jund that it would be better to have a Republie which could transform the nation into a socul demo- undercracy. These argue that such Halians transilkın
Two Premiers At No 10
Prince Sorvating Photma, Prime Minister of Laon, who arrived in Britain last week for a two-day private visit, is pictured shaking hands with the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony F.den. at 10 Downing Street, where the two premiers conferred.-Express Photo,
NO NEW STATUS FOR ALGERIA
a new
AT PRESENT
FREE HAND
Informed
sources
Paris, Oct. 11. publish a "now deal" statute for M. Robert
Lacoste, Algeria now or lutor. French Resident Minister in Algeria, told a Socialist
saki M Party brains-trust meeting Lacoste naisted that the French today that offering Algeria ¦ would not have a free hand in as the Suez status now would Algeria as long
Cunal crisis continued. merely be giving in to the
Fellow party members argued rebels there.
on the contrary that with the United Nations General Assem- bly about to meet France musi either come up with a detailed plan for Algeria or risk facing another UN attempt to debate Algeria
of France walked General Assembly a year ago when it voted to debate Algeria. M. Mollet does not want France to be forced into this corner otam-United Press.
M Lacusko and his chieu.
Pirmaer Cu Mollel. were among the 45 members of the pruly exvcutive comunstiteo-in- cluding 2 Deputies--meeting a Socalist hendquarters.
The Exchange Hanks will be vised for the transnetion of publie business on Monday, October, 1956. The The Madas in Ortober│.
Because of the Semu1:81.
M. Moiler would fortity demo- tpr Hongkong, 12th Detoder, 1956. | Idrus' leadership,
muncracy in the young nation and always tound Cyrenica.
than better enable her to remain in more dilleult to colonke the other two proviners, Tru- dependent-- China Mall Species,
NOTICE
THE
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE
that
hereby given Ordinary Yearly Merting of Shareholders will be bell in the Registered Oflee of the Company, 5th flour, P. & O. Building, Hong Koog,
Saturday, 27th October, 1956, at 12 Noun,
1.
(1
for the following purposes?
To receive and consider the Statement of Ac- Balance Counts
Sheet and the Report of
Il tank and the Fezzon, war, indeed, finally forevet to go where he into exile in Egypt. remained until, durex World War 11. he (estrædeed. Gn Arah
thr! Force which Tought with Brih Eighth Army thurraghast. The desert campaign.
Idris resumed madural leader- sh of the Libyan prople wilin the condry's three provinces were under provisional All.ed administration after the wit the British being in Tripolitania and Cyrenaico and the French
the Pezzan
When Libya
an independen United Nations
was procaaned
stale by !
Christmas
012
Eve, 1951, Idret was proclamed! rule of the United Kingdom
The Libyan nation, welay Federad Government and two
an Benghazi | ital, Tripoli
the Gencrui Managers | King Idris and the Government
move periodically from one The other
and Auditors thereon.
2. To declare a dividend.
To elect Members of the Consulting Committee.
4. To appoint Auditors and
fix their remuneration.
b. To transact any other ordinary business of the Company
NOTICE is
hereby given that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closerl from Friday, 12th October to Saturday, 27th October, 1958, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Members of the Consulting Conumite Per Pro DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 12th October, 1956,
To ADVERTISERS
BUNDAY POST-HERALD Busos for commerofal advertising should
booked not Inter than
noon on Wednesdayı.
Proud
しい
bataş tutus, in spite et sambal att Jere proud provincia! rivalries. of their sovereign because of his comprising Aght throughout the years of Hallan colonialism. i When be returned recently after a state visit to Turkey and the Lebane, mining throngs greet-
him both at Tubrak, WİTCRA, the myal yachi Arst called, and later in Tripoll.
The King has been careful not to offend provincial Jealousies. and the Governors of each t the three provinces have a large
antememy. Membership of the Seite is confulty designed to fter this feeling of equality among
the
BOAC Major: Airline Shareholder
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 11. The British Overseas Air- ways Corporation is to be a
For the BOUTH CHINA | major shareholder in a new
CHINA MAIL, 48 hours
MORNING POST and the Malayan airways company before data of publication, to be formed next year, the Minister for Transport, Mr
Spcoin! Announcements |Ong Yoke Lin, said today,
and OlazelRad Advertion – mento an amunt
»Bayer's « TONIC
Be said the company, would be a public company.
At present Malayan Airways Ltd is a private company.
The Strails Steamship Com-/
1.500.000 Lui hoid
dollars of the Issure of 2,000,000 Malayan
pany
Malayan
capital dollare.
Mr Ong eald a Malayan Gov- zment representative would sit on the board of directors of the new company which would be formed early next year,
Me: Ong said that the advin. Lages of having. BOAC
major: parUsipont were that Je, hnd facilites for training and therefore could absorb Malayam,
1
habitually centers with this group before taking any major decision. This time was whether to the question
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I CAN SEE HEAR--THINK --BUT I CAN'T
MOVE--OR SPEAK
YES
HIM TO MASTER.
TAKE
THE
NEXT
ROOM
FERD'NAND
NANCY
JOHNNY
WHY DOES THE FATHER
CALL HIS SON MASTER?
-HE CARRIES ME ~~AS IF I WEIGHED NOTHING-
PEE WEE --- LOOK HOW
CLOSE
THE
STARS ARE
AT THE
SEASHORE
BUSHMILLER.
HAZARD
**AND STAY AWAY! TELL FALCON AIRCRAFT THAT KITTY HAWKES FLIES SECOND
STRING TO NO ONE
HEY--- WHY
ARE
YOU RUNNING ?
out
MANDRAKE WAS RIGHT, THE JONES FAMILY 15 A BIT OOD
PUT HIM
ON THE
COUCH.
?
YES. MASTER.
THERE'S YOUR STORY, Z BUY. IT GINGERI HARRYJ"KITTY BREAKS AND SO WILL THE (WITH BOSS A FLY-BOY } PUBLICĮ THEY JUST
·TAKES FLIER!” A LOVE KITTYĮ SP
the
Quake Recorded
U.S. OWNS LARGEST AMOUNT OF GOLD IN WORLD
Washington, Oct. 11.
A warning that although the United States holds the largest amount of gold of anyone in the world, it actually owns some four billion dollars' worth too little to back its currenty and bank deposits, is given by Walter Trohan, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Chicago Tribune.
In a recent article issued by the Chicago Tribune Press Ser- vice, Mr Trohan wrote:
"For many years Americans have taken much comfort from the greatest Trenure-trove in the world the gold buried at For
Knox, Kentucky, Most Americans fed that the gold is a reserve for our money. They feel our money is safe because of all the gold reserve in the fort.
site of the 'Undled Stules mill- tary academy."
"It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a visitor to get to see this +
Hold,
gold
If one could get in, would take two or three years to make an accurate count OT the gold. There is enough there to build a house rooms, each mensuring by 20 feat and having high ceilings.
of ten 10 foot
30 feet
Q
EUROPEAN OWNED
GLOOMY FOREST
"Actually, must of the gold in "The repository is act in European owned. Others Fations gloomy forest. high above the hold claims against the bulk of Ohio River in Kentucky's hills, our gold Foreigners and foreign | It is an easy mark for a bomber, governments are not prohibited | but experts hold that the re from asking for, receiving and pository
that is bombproof; owning our gold instead of our
even atomic bombu could hardly currency.
disturb the gold mass. "Americans eleme cannot own American goldi. This one of
"The gold is also prood against theft. Even if a thiet could cir- the biggest nows stories of our
and We are not conscious
the of cumvent the guards The story because It has been i mechanical devices and reach the be up against developing front of our eyes gold, he would without any drumatic climax, the problem of carting the
that away and disposing of it
day.
even
che Fees
though we know ercoping innation has been deve luping for many years.
"The greater part of the gold old is hidden from view. from the Pasadena, Oct. 11. California institule of outside is the smaller part Technology reismograph today the structure, Far beneath the surface, guurded by many de- recorded an earth tremor, which It located at about 4.500 miles tection devices as well as northwen of Pasadena.---France-men, is the massive gold vault. 84 feet long, 40 feet wide, and two stories high,
The
Prusso.
U
Nu.
by
"At this moment, the vault contains 12 billion, 843 million Paris. Oct. 11.
dolltus is gold. The total Chairman
the of
American gold holdings are 21 Burmese
Anti-Fascist People's billion, 8291⁄2
milion dollars. Madame Some billion dollars Dro Freedan Longue and U Nu will visit China on Octo- | scattered at various banks und ber 22 ut the invitation of mints. In addition, the United Chin Proznia Chou En-lal, States Governmen has billions Rallo Peking reported tonight.of deliars of silver. much of it France-Presse.
nored in vautis at West Point,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
WATCH
AT THE WINDOW
FOR THE OTHER
ONE.
By Ernie Bushmiller
THEY'RE SO CLOSE THEY'RE STARTING TO FALL
ITILL MAKE |HEADLINES; KIT. 1BUT HOW DORS IT
HELF! YOU FIND OUT. IF AVIATECH CORP. Í 19.BEHIND THAT
BABOTAGET
YES,
MASTER
By Mik
By Frank Robbins
MY NAME IS GOOD PUBLICITY FOR ANYONE.. WHO HURES MBL I EXPECT AVIATECH ITO CONTACT ME! AND THEN I'M INFIDEL
EVEN
MAGICIANS
Cante arlsberg
TRY
If we were
any fresher we'd still be
on the vine!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
he got it. At 35 dollate an ounce, 100 lb of gold would be worth 60,000 dollars and a man would have diffexity in running away with auch » burden,
But our concern in with the ownership of the gold, the 21 billion, 800 od milion dollars worth in the United States, Foreigners and foreign nations hol
cinitas against the gold totaling 13.8 billion dollars. That caves about 8 billion dollars available for American needs as a gold reserve.
To back its currency and bunk deposits, the United States would have to have Q gold reserve of 12 billion dollars. | The total foreign assets in the 24 United States are between and 26 billion dollars. This does not include any real estate that foreign people may own here.
ABOUT HALF
"Not all of this could be ro- deemed in gold. Only about half of it could be demanded in gold payment. There is some 5 to 10 billion dolare in American our- rency owned abroad. Foreigners
have and foreign government's credit balanons dn American banks of about 12 billion dollars 4 bilion and they own about dollars in American securities.
"Foreigners or foreign ROV- crnments can ask for and ecive payment in gold for #t Lenst 13 billon 800 million dollare of their total, invest- ments. American eltizens aro not legnily abla to make the same demand).
to
coina,
"On March 9, 1933, President Roosevelt andered the seizure of all gold and ordered citizens surrerater thekr gold. bullion, and notes to the tron- SUNZA, The government declared it no longer had to redeem ita debts in gold. It was made a penitentiary offense to own golá coin, except in coin collections. It still today..
to 59
"President Roosevelt arbitrarily devalued the American dollar
conta. It has droppe steadily in purchasing power so that today the dollar is regard. ed as having half of its 59 cente purchasing power.
PROTEST
"Tho treasury has exercise absolute and arbitrary power over the production, disposition; and holding of American _gold for more than 23 years. Some BIGUO that this control is ព direct violation of personal owtri
ROWNTREES ership of private property. Thous
CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS
21. AND RAISINS
.this situation
calls
* for
San Miguel
who defend the fall into two compt
"Some approve restoration of the gold standard, but profest It cannot be dono now. Others contend that a return to the gold standard can only seeTVO gold mining interests and Infla- tonists."China Mall Special.
GERMAN STEEL FOR JAPAN
Dusseldorf, Oct. 11. West Germany is to export atcel to Japan, fo view of tha growing demand for steel which cannot be met by Japanoes home the Durscidolf production, newspaper Handelsblat statki
tonight.
The Schlecker steel moi has concluded as agizemeist für the delivery of 20,000) toti laminated, steal in: sheet, motal, steel strips and cons
(stoel-worki
market price
will bo delivered Japers before the end of 1936,
Germany