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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1956.
BREMEN CITY INN Radio Helps Search For Oil
HAS 521
DIFFERENT WINES
Bremen, Nov. 21.
The City of Bremen's carly 15th century Ratskeller claims to offer today the longest list of German white wines in the world.
Altogether the Ist contains 521 different wines, including 430 German white winen,
ין
anyone
The Bremen Ratskeller, wine inn, as it exists today, win founded in 1405, but historians have found records of a wine Irading monopoly held by the City Council os für back as 1330. In that year, indeed, the City Fathere
decreed that rought selling Rhine wines, then The common name for all Ger- man while wines. would tx Anest Ave marks. Five west inurks are worth rather less than 10 shilings sterling today. but in those days the sun repre- sented henvy ine
A
FEATURE
Later, the wine monopoly lapsed but the Raiske)|er
Burd
EXİ (OTICE, Today, Ratskeller are a feature of inst German towns.
In
"Why is it that the rose, flower of Venus, is depicted in this cave of Bacchus?
Because without wine, Venus herself would be cold."
winc The cheapest
on this year's list sells for 2.15 Marks a bottle (about 3s Od sterling) and the most expensive at 128 Marks (£10 15 sterling). These - pensive wines belong to such vintages ar 1911 and 1937.
flotskeller for inn has such a long list of 1933 whics, a particularly good year. Probably nowhere cisc can one still buy a 1911 wine, described by experts the
year of the century."
No other German
as
CASKS FOR APOSTLES
One of the Ratskeller storage
{1-
Tooma
cellar. each Judas,
The one at Bremen has seri many wars since its foundation. but mesi parte of IL AT ON beautiful as ever und tholands
ough
of foreign visitors coNE requires permi with 1. Se degree my inextumjoal or
yene to enjoy a drink and take electrical engineering for foreign post. Age bekow 30
home a rupy of the wine st. Home apply in selling giving
"Klfory. | printed on parchment. UNISONAL) documenta and salary quired Unя 137, Chin Mail
Travel
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refrigesti, phone.
Modern VORLIEGŪT Telephone 184137
PACKING
FOR SALE
CART-
Numeri
tradition have grown up around the Ratskeller Through the ages. Many wedding parties, for example, Jor refreshments
Ro there between
civil and church marriage cere rrsatuit, and ever #ince Guilds assembled there for re gular meetings, men who Mizure the same profession or hobby! meet at the Ratskeller for their social recANTICTIM,
to
When, formerly, the Bremen Senators, As the City proudly eally Its Councillors, got heated over a problem, they went the Ratskeller through a secret stalrense and there, surrounded by
cuska. KOOP MOLIS
quietly found that they were of ដ}} ឯង
opinion after all 021 se legend
has it.
Profils from the Cly's wine wading have always gone into public funde. Once, they were spent almost entirely upon the wally and of upkeep of the City approximately 100 lbs Apply "s. Csoldiers to man them.
Pust
Now, they are put tu more ures, such as homes praceful for the people and schools for the children.
PAPER In bales
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Proposal to change
a Ship's name
1, JOHN LOUIS MARDEN of 701 Edinburgh House, Hong Kong hereby give notice that in consequence of Change of Ownership and Transfer of Port of Registry of the vessel, I have applled to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation under Section
NO MONOPOLY
The post of a Ratskellermets- ter, or captain of the City's whie
old
cellars. has always been ♫ coveled position. In the Jaya, It carried with it many privileges, such as taxing other Innkeepers, when the absolute
was no longer monopoly
1- Today. the man who forced. rubes
this connoisseurs over paradise a civil servant.
IS gels a salary and commission on males which may well make the City Senators envious.
He
of the called nathe which,
47 of the Merchant Shipping Today, too, there is no longer monopoly. But, In accordance Act, 1894, in respect of the
with tradition, the Ratskeller steamship "MAHARAJA" of does not stock imported wines. HONG KONG REGISTRY The inner sanctum Official Number 149884, Gross Bremen Ratskeller tonnage 2896 tons, Register historiats believe, probably ori tonnage 1710 tons, heretofore ginated in the days when the owned by Asiatic Steam City Hall was also the seat of The rose Navigation Company Limited
The Rose"--
The Court of Justice.
is found as a symbol of the law
for permission to change hern many historic buildings when name to "JENNIFER" and to courts were wont to be held. have her registered in the new Another meaning. however. name at the Port of HONG was given it by those who in- KONG UN owned by Ebony cribed this quotation under the
picture
of the rose in the cellar: Steamship Company Limited,
"Cur Rosa. Flos Veneris, Bacchi depingitur antro?
Any objection to the pro- | Causa, quod absque mero posed change of name must be frigeat ipsa Venus."
sent to the REGISTRAR OF be translated:
SHIPPING at HONG KONG
which may
within SEVEN days from the NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES appearance of this advertise- ment.
Dated at HONG KONG the seventeenth day of November,
1950.
EBONY STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
J. L. MARDEN,
Director.
"PATROCLUS"
Damaged cargo ex this veel with be surveyed by Messrs Poutron Bayes-Davy at Hoit's What from 10 um, en November 23 and 24, 1956, and consigno oze, requested to have their representativen pekwon during the wurvey.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agent. Hongkong, November 21, 1956.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
Consignees per Lloyd Triestino
m.v. "VICTORIA"
Are hereby notified, with reference to our previous announcement, that Lloyd Triestino are prepared to resárve space required for cargo ex m.v. "VICTORIA" by m.v. "ADIGE", PROVIDED that each individual shipper makes application to Lloyd Triestino and complies with their requirements regarding charges and bills of lading ex "VICTORIA":
Consignees are therefore requested to pass Immediate. Instructions accordingly to shippers, noting that the "ADIGE" is' expected to sail from Naples on November 50, from Genoa on December 8, and to arrive in Hongkong on or soon after January 20, 1987.
DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD,
Ápanti.
· HONGKONG, 17th November, 1956, 57.
IM called the Apostle
It contains a cask for
f the Apostler. even
One cask, in the Rose cellar. bears the ingeription 1853.
The de- manager of the Ratskeller clares that it contains some wine of that year, although later vint- How- ages have been addest over that may be, 1 bas a wo11- derful bouquet But even wine
This one tastes. can be too old. Father sour -China Mail Special.
MRS LUCE'S SUCCESSOR
Rome, Nyv. 21.
The Italian Government ли- nounced Tonight that t 1341 accepted the nomination of Me James D. Zellerbach as United States Ambassador to ftaly in jyuce th Mrx Clare Boothe Luce, who has resigned.
New
U
the
US Research
Upper Atmosphere
One of the preliminaries to the forthcoming International Geophysical Year (July be 1987-December 1958) will
Aring of "rockooTIA" balloon-supported rockets-
the US Naval Research Laboratory. This will
precede the more
extensive research
of the upper atmosphere which will take place during the Geophysten! Year. The rockoons consist of plastic
balloons 48 feet in diameter, supporting 12-foot long Instrument-carrying rocktta. The scientide data obtained by the Instruments will be radlord or telemetered back to the
Plo- Jaunching bast. turo left shows a rockoon starting its fight to the upper atmosphere. Through them solentist hope to fearn more Rbout the eftrata of solar "storms"*
radio fadcoste.
Picture right shown a rockoon arveending after being launch- ed by radio signal from ship-
Within about board,
two minutes the rocket la ox~ „pected to reach an altitude
70
the of 60 to miles above earth and to radio back to the the observing station' data on strength of X-ray and ultra- violet radiation from the solar flare it has been aimed toward.--Express Photo,
SPANIARDS CONDEMN RUSSIA
Madrid, Nov. 21. Egypt They commented that Spanish opinion, with they liked to see Britain and France Beling without Amerlean the exception of the Com- tutorship. munists and their friends, has been unanimous
in
on
has
For these people, it seemed that the hand of history had moved back to days which they regarded as happier ones.
Seems Clear
United States Spend
£16 Million On Short Wave Network
New York, Nov. 21.
The American oil industry has invested £16,000,000 to develop the use of radio as a means of saving millions of dollars in speeding up the industry.
Fer
most people, radlo Rader does the "locking." provides music, nows, ces while two-way radio provides criptions of sports events, and the "tal 'ng" link to check- other forms of entertainment points ana boat crowE. and diversion at the twist of adal. But for the petroleum
industry's vnst
an
The petroleum industry's first and complex juse of radio began in the early operations, it is a versatile tool 1930's. Right from the stari, which dears weather, isolation, it proved invaluable as and distanco-three factors emergency
device in Gulf of which have much to do with Mexico hurricanes. Since it the Industry's business affairs takes a minimum of 24 hours to on land and water,
down
offshore
batten
Installation
an
and evacuate tho Radio saves time, labour, and personnel, the significance of Money by making possible radio for its "ntert and essential communications over follow-throughs on weather and
open spaces continuous characteristically involved in obvious.
the wido
exploration, drilling, production, reining, and transportation.
With Radar
Hurricanes
communication was *
car affect the lives of more than 3,000 men
Gulf along the
Coast,
than half of whom may be on offshore platforms or anchored
10 addition it hus
been arges at any one time, and a investment of more drilling coupled with
other radar ond
328,000,000 dollurs radio-location techniques in the than Gulf of
Mexico, enabling o£100,000,000 sterling). searchers to pinpoint drilling Bites in vast expanses of water devoid of the normal marking points which would be avail- able on land or closer to shore,
Kindred Operations
of
Kindred petroleum operations In the Inland
the waters of These radio
Involve combinations Gulf
another 10,000 gridient of Russia, Britain and have enabled the searchers to persons and corresponding more than penetrate fogs and low-visibility investment France.
In spite of the difficulty al on vcensions DIKI carry out 200,000,000 delters. High winds assessing public
feeling in offshore surveying
operations and waves preceding nation without a free press, it which might
abandonment otherwise have hurricane nece seems clear that the majority of been subjected to costly delays. hazardous, but radlo provides public opinion has been opposed
the invisible link which helps to to bolh the Hungarian TE
safe and the operation pression and to the invasion of Egyp!.
The shadow of the civil
war
Mrs Luer was expected to condemning the Soviet ac- leave her post in Rome at the tion in Hungary. But
Year.
the Suez issue there Mr Zellerbuch, rich: In-
been some discrepancy. dustrialist from California, was
The press has not reflected still hangs over Spain and there It postwar chief of the American Some people, particularly of any of the aner shades of public, is a strong desire for internal
Under economie aid mission to Italy. the older age groups, approved | opinion.
government and international peace-China Reuter.
of the Anglo-French action
indirectives, it has been solidly Mall Special.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WAIT-WHAT WILL.
LEAVE
YOU DO AFTER YOU Y THIS HOUSE. FINISH WITH US? BE SEATED
PLEASE.
FERDINAND
NANCY
YOU WILL
WILL YOU RETURN
TO MARS?
NOT YET. WE'LL FIND ANOTHER HOUSE SOME- WHERE AND FINISH OUR
RESEARCH. OTHERS ARE
HERE-
BECOME A JOCKEY
THAT'S SILLY---
I'LL TRY IT AGAIN
YOU WILL TAKE UP
MUSIC
WEIGHT AND FORTUNE
JOHNNY HAZARD....
THAT'S #7 COFFER SHOULD
BE AS GOOD AS PLAIN WATER-TOI SOAK THE TIMING MECHANISM AND
STOP IT!
YOU MEAN- OTHER PEOPLE FROM MARS, ARE ON EARTH, DISGUISED AS EARTH PEOPLE?,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
QUITE A
FEW--IN
ALMOST EVERY
COUNTRY-
OTHER MARS PEOPLE ON EARTH-I WHAT 19 THIS *PROCESSING...... HE'S DOING TO US--UK-UH-n
AND MANDRAKE IS 'PROCESSED WHATEVER
THAT IS!
By Mik
BUSMMARDA
MAYBE
I'LL BECOME
A DISC JOCKEY
By Ernie Bushmiller
คล
NOW--WE CAN JUSTILA
WAITE
By Frank Robbins
is possible.
This technique, known more make formally as "triangulation," the procedure by which olimen
con return time and time again to a designated spot in a waimy usually to an wilderness, necuracy of 20 feet or so.
No Magic about
CADBURY'S....
CHUSOLATS
IN GLASSES OF FULL CREAM IN EVERY A 1b
FROZEN FRESH `IN THE COUNTRY!.
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
AIRO
San
Miguel
Still other
can
aspects of radio's life-saving versatility, on both land and sen, is the way help be summoned rapidly for the alling or the infirred, Offshore, seaplanes and speed- boats can
out brought quickly, while in swempa and isolated fields camp helicopters and small planes can be called alr- for rescue duty via the wovts.
be
Radio's day-to-dny usage is more prosnie than dramatic. But it has entblad oilmen generally to keep up the fast- moving pace that is mandatory in these days of spiralling con- sumption ind utilisation of ducts,
even greater petrolcum pro-
It has enabled orthodox eld operations to accomplish pro- Jeets which otherwise might have been Impossible, or at loast so stop that they might never have been undertaken, at
wer the all. Ali over
world, wherever American olimen have extended their far-flung empire, the radio techniques are being ured with even more effective-
ness than in the United States, because bome of these aroda sté so primitive that their radio is the only means of communica-- tion.
Principal Use
Radio's principal use, there. fore, is as a high-speed form of communication which would not normally be affected by weather, wire-laying problems, or relative distance.
'It is tired heavily by drillers and producers, particularly to apoed instructions from head- quarters to a drilling-rig" to
time,
where reduco standby operating costs in excess or 1,000 dollars day are common,
Crevis involved
other
Field
pographie
ex-
operations are in ready touch with their base comps, whether
they are in mountains, or extrai reduces the involved in a filing of reports and information, end also simplifies the question of supplies,
desorts, swamps, countryside. timo
Radio has become such a key “ adjunct to the transportation, of petroleum that the Americas Petroleum Institaito's - Division. of Transportation some time ngo set up a central committee, "on radio facilities.
Importance
Emphasising radloʻsani ime. Portance to transportation. L the fact that they already hulve Invested more than 50,000,000 dollars (£16,000,000 sterling) in thousands of miles of microwave (ultra short wavO ESTUDIITIK TALE
Statistics show that petroleum
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