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"THE". CHINA" MAIL FRIDAY,^"^ "NOVEMBER 223, 1956.
US 12TH AIR
IN EUROPE Tactical Missile
Units Are
Being Expanded
Ramstein Air Base, West Germany,
Nov. 22,
The United States 12th Air Force, the strongest and most vital link in the air defence of Western Europe, is steadily building up its power.
Within the next few monaffes,; Entred
it will expemidd only ones of their
katie
*Fund
Lie
and reorgane 2 nh-dealing "brew": the TM Malachors, 12:0 pilotless
t. Saebcol Mille unia, the U
kirict unti¢i¢® the Urdd States, and equash
seanmal vf its nine wings with The readly P-100 Super sabre
latnieci
the operational Bighter aircraft Jey The work.
6
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Ju
Already, the 1201 Air Force, which recently celebented JIN 15th nnniversary, ។ the strongest oversens
tif Ne United States
ורות nir
JOINING HANDS
{ d stations nud #r
Penund-the-clock
watch nlong West Germany Beastern frontlers, joining bariety tur Beatish-comanaderi Pret Allied
Thetic Air Force. which t
cling the
same job oling the East-West Gerinta
border order worth.
It now hay 2 complement of about 30,000 military and 8,000
and
personnel,
Į Jake care ol
servier
A M
bombers
-controlled which can carry o conventiona or atomle warhead far ny 400 milles into enemy territory
So far, the 12th Air Force heer three Matador squadrons vach with about 000 onfleers These are now o 19-en Rorial4) into a full- Bealed WIDR to
Hiv
then exibi
and
A100 et orgonational nags which have vecurvei during the tunts' fundi - a-half - SANES Fuld-up in Germany.
travel
FORCE BUILDING UP Italian Farmers
Heart Throb Of The 20's Mail
Notices
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Latest posting dates for sur- fæes Chrlitmas "malls to: Burma, Eastern India, Ceylon, November 23, 1960.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Bir Air Formona, USA, 0 p,m,
Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middia Enat, Atrics, Great Britain, Europe,
Canada, a p.m. Japan, p.3
16 p.m.
By BurtwoÓ Indonesia, 4 p.m. Macao, p.m.
Fight Losing
In Libya
Battle
BY ALEXANDER VALENTINE
Tripoli, Libya, Nov, 22.
Italian settlers here, deprived of the heavy subsidies and state-aid of Fascist days, are today fighting a losing battle against the encroaching desert sands.
Most of them face the pro-, had it not been for the war. spect of having to give up their But this set bock the progress of uneconomic forms within the farming hữŋo so much that tho and credit-fpeillen became almost as necessary us they were in the early days.
next few years and return to subaldies their homeland.
Just before World War II broke out, Mussolini seemed well on his way to realising his dream of making his Libyan
вл outlet colony
for Italy's millions of
unemployed and under-employed people.
MILLIONS OF LIRA
"It is a heartbreaking prospect has become our home and wo for most of us because
Libya are emotionally attached to the fertile land which we virtusily 'created' with our own hands out of what was oner desert.
"But we have little cholca,
"Many of us have been draw- ing on our savings to keep go- vide seeds, machinery, fechnical ing in the hope that we could ald and the price subsidies carry on til batler kines necessary to turn the arid desert came. Bui it seems hopeless Inte blossoming farmland.
He poured in millions of firs BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 lly Air
to bulid formhouses, roads and Peking, Shanghai, Hankow. Kun-Irrigation channels, and to pro- mung, 74.201
Remember him? It's. Rarnon Navarro, one of the great
Thailand, Malaya, N. Borneo, In- IIo's till getting fan mail, and lover of the silent screen.
dezonia, Austruiła, New Zealand & Savoy Hotel in Ceylon. 10 .m. he's shown here reading some of it at the
Philippines, p.m. Navarro is now 57,-Central Loudon on a visit to England.
Press Photo,
The Gamble
Of Death
Madrid, Nov. 22.
'Th
..
0 p.m.
Indin, Middle East
Drit Ateca. Ureat
Europe. &
Malaya, Indonesią. Australia, Now Zeuland, 0 p.m.
Formosa, Japan. Okinawa, Korea,
ludo-Ching, France, 6 p.m. Hawell, U.S.A.. Canada, e p.m. By Surface China, People's Republic, 7. Formosa, 9am. Pallipptries, Great Britatis. Europe. 11 a.m.
Macao, p.m. Thailand, p.m.
Malaya (Netherland & Germany,
The quoting on the Stock Exchange of the shares of undertakers' firms is the subject of Parcel direct! 21.01 The 48 critical comment by the Madrid Monarchist daily
The secrand ubit after the Bitburg padron to
get the PEDO
the #irst
aircraft supersofie : perd 1༩-༥ | Meght, will a Fight: Homber Wing, stationed
Chaumont,
Nancy Neur
F-B
Fair.
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Cole be
15#
Fur
M
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tanging
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wives and childe en Il cupien Niter in West Frather,
Belgium, Africa, North
hugo such
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asking.
11 -
PREMISES TO LET
KOWLOON
NASIZION BACHELOR FLAT, new
TALLION. irut Bad Bond arra
KOMETHING
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE, Cvilee
ATT
ted
100,000,000-dollar
newspaper ABC.
The paper said: "It seems in- ironved, such credible that in connection with | For
suggestions
780 another
RA pesetas
on
wo
"The activity of these under- takers agents should be cut off at its root.
the day when we turn to nisties. (47 10%), which is nothing at n series of pompous ustentations il,
(Vir
on a much prut
such The 48th stilj has to put up are organised which yleid hand- | beiter funeral. In cases will tumber of diftolars some profits and give rise to : this one does not consider a heating the Latilding of
speculation
the few pesetar more or less.. Its profitable be has progressed much more Stark Exchanges. slowly than that of the 120's
"Nothing is more upselting or es in Germany. The man who commands the more degrading to the intimate
religious Air Force is youngish and
D{ BUITOW
The 1216
Major-Gent thim unctuous and in-
Services should "The burist pertinent commercial interven-
and to State be turned over with
spend pressure to
authorities. Generous more and more on this or that local
compensation should be paid to exira.
the private concerns at present engaged In this activity."—China Mall Special.
Lambtuhl or Bitburg down teneral
Cada stations
De conimUDKU
Tema centres morated by three
hawk-eyed
John K. Gerhart who wears several rows of ribbons, most of which he urned in the almen. 1 exer
The total nonetary resources.
Voiled States Lumber command World War II. the 12. Au Force, including Britain in
ahul real estate, adů [Chu Mail Special. 1050
abotu 1,000,000,000 to Jul sbotlang anak its mon)hly operat- xclusive of mill- wagen +21 simde
#1342
tary
South
oneketa με FM 20 Anata per packet upward An entirely new raries China Morning Poos Ltd., Wyndham Saret.
and Sa Lubury
Bond. Kowloos.
Hongkong
NOTICE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
the
14,000,000 collars.
W
to 242211
Most of the 12 Air Force 1]។ now stationed newly-built bases west of the thune, whither they moved in 1942 se! 1953 front Quir previous locations tur her musi
few to
flying mor! indnutes way from the com- most airfields in the East
STANDING BY
سودا
Ou These sprawlings, ultra- Notice To Shareholders
modern base F-80 Sabre jets and F-100's arc standing NOTICE 13 HEREBY
sky ch night ready 10 take ol willin minutes GIVEN that the Thirty-fourth
It ally Ordinary Meeting of
widentified aircraft rhows up in the 30-mille-wide centinted- Company's Shareholders will
Tion zle" wiơng the border. be held at 12 o'clock noon on
On the average, it takes from Saturday, 15th December,
to thave alar!
hait minutes from the moment 1956 in the Company's long
when, in the alert hangars, red Kong Office, St George's lights flash on and shrif bells Building, 2nd floor, Chater | start
writi the
clanging
Road, Victoria, Hong Kong machines are nirborne.
for the purpose of :-
1. Receiving the Statement
ان
With their F-100s, the Orst of which arciyed In Europo last spring. the pilots of the
30th Day Fighter Squaricon al
of Accounts and Report | Bitburg get off the ground and
of the Directors for the year ended 30th Septem- ber, 1956.
2. Electing three Directors,
up to bomber altitude of bract 40.000 reel in roughly live minutes which would be just enough to entch an enemy air- craft
the cast a coming from couple of minutes flying time out from Bitburg baer,
Other "alert CIPWN
who earned their
8. Appointing Auditors and
fixing their remuneration. F-80D's,
nickname
"killer
birds" in standing ready al the 80th Fighter-Interceptor
4. Confirming the Interim Koren, are
at
barey
Landatuli, west of the Rhine, and Erding. near Monleh In Bavaria,
Midden away In secluded forest areas in West Germany's
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
Dividend of 30 cents per Wing's share, and Manetiuning the recommendation of the Directors as to the payment of
Final 24 Dividend of 80 cents per share, in respect of fully paid shares and a propor- | tionate amount in respect of partly paid shares.
The Transfer Books and Register of Shareholders will
Consignees per
MARITIMES
CIE DEB MESBAGERIES
are, heroby, notified that their cargo
be closed as from 1st Decem-will be discharged into the Hong-
bor, 1956 to 14th December, 1960, both days Inclusive.
Dividend Warrants will be available for collection, or will be dealt with in accord- ance with standing tione, ол
after December, 1956. '
or
kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd.'s godown where it will be at consigneer' risk and, subject to the whail, terms and conditions of storage, and whore delivery may be obtained,
· Damaged packages are to be left in the "godown, for examination by consignees and the company's ar instruc-veror Messen Goddard & Douglas at 10 a.hi. on Monday, 29th Novem- 17th, 1958.
Dated at Hong Kong this 23rd day of November, 1956.
By Order of the Board
Director
of
P. W. A. WOOD, 24
Secretary &
Chiof Accountant,
No claims will be admitted aflor the goods have left the godown nad all goods remaining undelivered after the 10th December, 1016, wil bo syljest to rent..
All chaine against the vessel must be presorted to the undersigned on or before the gird Dtermber, 1888, or they may not be recognised.
No The Insurance will be effected.
ŽAN CIE DES MESSAGERIES
· MARITIMES:
iTongJoong, : 22nd, Nóvember;* 1960.
Int
"It 15 nauseating to hear, above the prayers of the
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
NO WORD FROM"
t
MANDRAKE AND
LOTHAR--THEY'VE
BEEN GONE 50 LONG) --I'M WORRIED -- ON--HERE THEY COME!
420
FERDINAND
Q
WHIAI PID YOU
WHO?)
FIND OUT ABOUT
THOSE NEW
NEIGHBORS
WHAT?
OF MR.CRAB'S?
THE MAN SHOOTING OUT OF THE CHIMNEY- THE GREEN BLOODSTAIN--
China, People's Republic, a p.m. Macau, p.m.
BUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 By Air Philippines, 2 p.m.
Burma, ludia, Pakistan, Middle
Africa Great Easi, Europe, 0 p.m. Japan, ..
Formosa, p. itawali, U.S.A.. Canada, 6 p.m. By Burlaco
Blacao, 1 Hàn
Britain
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 By Burtere Quina, People's Republic, 7 am. Mueno, 1 p.. Philippines, Italy, a p.m. N. Borneo, 3 p.m. Macro, 6 p.m.
am
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 By Surface China, People's Repubile, 7 New Zealand. I a.m. Macro, 1 p.m. Macao, G p.m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 By Surface China, People's Repubile, 7 em Mano, p.m. Horea. p.m. Mack, 0 p.m.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
NARDA, I DON'T
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, DO YOU, LOTHAR?
[NO.
WHAT'S-- HAPPENED
TO YOU?*
NOTHING. WE'VE JUST BEEN FOR
A WALK.
* THEY'VE BEEN "PROCESSED": --TO FOROBY!
By Mik
oul.
now."
as
State credit Institutes helped the struggling farmers and the There is a feeling among some 30 years of Investment seemed of the Italian farmers here that of success the Italian Government should to be on the point when war broke
still give them Anancial help. More than half of the 120,000 They argue that the presence of Italian settlers returned to Italy on Italian colony here could bo Bhen. Their farms were abon- a useful force, not only for Haly doned and the remainder were but for the West generally poorly cultivated during the war the trend towards Arab nation- years.
aliam develope. They also stress After the war sumo of the that the Italians are virtually farmers cumu buck,
of the only many
minority community them arriving in fishing boots left here, all but a few thousand from Steily us illegal immigrants of the 38,000-strong Jowish But they found their farms and colony having gone to Israel. buildings in ruins. In cases they were covered again by the yellow desert sands.
The absence
of government aid mado the struggle Im- possible for most of them and. in the years since the end of the war, the Italian colony in Libya has dwindled only about 40,000 people.
Now, even these are focing the possibility of having to give up. Ono Italian settler who has been in the country for 36 years told me:
HARD
to
BLOW
many
"Withdrawal of much of our aid, though lỵ would have been a hard blow, would not necessarily have been fatal to most of us
No magic
about
FRY'S
∙AY'S
Cokernut
TRY'S COKERNUT BA
BIG,"CHEWY
{(AND SATISFYING!
If we were any fresher
we'd still be on the ving!
Lilly's
TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
NANCY
By Ernie Bushmiller
DAIRY BOY
JOHNNY HAZARD
LAST CHANGE, KITTY/ JOHNNY BABY WHAT'S (JUST POURED THE COFFES HAPPENING WITH THAT'A INTO THE WORKS/MIGHT- THERMOS BOMET CAN I GUM UP THE TIMING BOUTYOU DISARM:ITZ SZAL MECHANISM AND STOP
IT / NOW WE JUST WAIT..
AND PRAY
PRECIOUS MINUTES OF LIFE TICK AWAY IN- THE DEADLY TIMB-BQUE-WHEN SUDDENLY
SILENCE,
HIT'S STOPPER! NOW IT EITHER STAYS STOPPEDMOR GOES."
THIS IS IT!
BYE, KITTY: DARLIN!!
By Frank Robbins
with the wonderful centres
this situation
an
Miguel
MOST CORDIAL
L
The Italian
here, Embassy
stating that however, while- official relations with the Libyan Government are "most cordial”, Is unwilling to support such a move on the grounds that
contrary might be regarde to Libya's independence.
here The Italian authorities are still trying to negotiate with the Libyans a sellement of such outstanding problema
of former Italian ownership Government buildings. The o include a number of schools. It
ban
already been agreed in principle that the Italians shall bo allowed to retain those schools necessary for the needs of the Italian community. But the definition of what number would meet these needs is prov ing difficult.
though.
At a personal lavel, some Italings complain of "dis orimination" against thom, rela- tions between Libyans
Italians
abry adw though
and
oppear to bo good. Government officials, mladtu! ot what they regard as the excesses of stro Fascist regime here, aro willing to recognise the deve lopment work done by tho Italians.
AGRICULTURE
In terms of agriculture, this amounted to the cultivation of scam 400,000 acres of land and the planting of about 3,000,000 olive trees, Even if the sur- rounding farmland is abandoned, the olive troes should give d ateadily increasing yield for the next century, enabling Libya to increase substantially her pre- sent annual exporis of £250,000 sterling worth of olive oil,
Most Libyens are also ready to recognise the urban develop- ment of the Fascist regime, par- Elcularly the new elty of Tripall
imposing
with
buildings and spacious boule- vards. But they are also fiercely proud of the new-found inde- pendence and want to show that they are able to carry on where the Malins left off. Already, some of the Italian fares hayo been taken over by Libyans.
In Tripoli'itrolf, where most of the Italian urban community lives, Libyanmaro beginning niso to take over many of tho specialised and artisan | Joba which were previously virtually an Italian monopoly,
On the Hallan"side, there'la 'a' certain amount of reluctance to admit that the Libyans can un-. dertake these, jobs, though they ara showing themselves quick to Learn, A
Some Libyana (argup, however, that if the country'n agriculture. is to be restored to prpwar efficiency and * expanded more, the Lábyan, guvernIỆU will have to graph to, its farmers tid on a scale app “ing that of the. Fasolat-
*MUST BE INCREASED
I la estimated, that In tho period 1918-1942,* Italy spent noorty: £60,000,000 on; develo ment in Libya, half of it on.
"The present sum
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