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THE CHINA MAIL,. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1957.
British Honduras Prepares
For Polls
THREE PARTIES
CONTEST SEATS
Belize, British Honduras, Mar, 12. More than 22,700 persons in the Central American colony of British Honduras will have a chance to go to the polls on March 20 to elect nine members to the Legislative Assembly.
6 wel-
Thla will be the cond 1 geographic factor""; and, the Legislature to be elected under biggest surprise of all, universal adult muffrage.
come to this country for "sult- The voters in six of the able Immigranta under a systém electoral divisions are widely of selection and control." scattered throughout the country. Births, Deaths, Marriages, of them, like the Kekchi FIRST PRONOUNCEMENT Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
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inding in the south, will have to travel by canoe to reach
A
polling statum; others must travel through jungle 10 vill- ares where they can cast their votes,
65 PER CENT
In the 1954 elections, how- ever, Voter turned out in force and when the ballots were vated, it was found that over bà per cent of the electorate hnd veebrded their votes,
This Is the first real pro- nouncement on this subject made by this party since Mr Price gained full control of it. following the party split last year,
From the recently published People's United Party manifesto, it is clear that this party is not in the feast interested in federn- tion. On the contrary, there is that reason to believe UVITY members of it would prefer in- dependence without the Com- Henwealth.
The
mest vulnerable spot in the party's tramework is, per- that Mr Price is support- Juuupatia then Mr Nicholas Pollard,
that he was ste of the fost
there were
This year,
In that election, only two parties. there are three,
The National Parly, headed by
Herbert Fuller, was
Mr
Best lounce that it would
tam
conter at least six of the seats. He programme is the same ከዚ Anal
self-government within The Commonwealth, more envelopes or 10 single sheets and work for British Ilonduras, and
CHIVALRY ANTIENT SCRIPT altructive
stationery of distinction
In boxes contatutoy 35 dy sheela and
15 envelopes,
White of grey, $ per bx. White enyelupen and nutepapes
NO
ale at B. C. M. Post
available boxed separately
On
more buoyant economy
It through development,
not is clear what means they intend to use to achieve that kind of
economy.
Ford
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG
YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY LTD,
&
Notice to Shareholders
Ghana Celebration Dinner In London
Warm Weather
J
A
and guilty by a court of law of having fraudulently convert- ed hurricane relief funds to his own use wille General Secretary at the General Workers' Union. FORMED OWN UNION
On being suspended for his franelal irregularities, Mr Pol- his own unica. formed The Honduran Independence the Christian Democratle Union, Party, under the leadership of and took almost all the General Mr Leigh Richardson
Workers' Union members. followed the Nationalists with
main parties in nouncement they intend contest eight pests and will support the independent candid- ale in the southem district of Stann Credit, Of the eight con- didates whom they are present- In six nic members of the
an an-
to
Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-Ninih Ordinaty | Peont Legislature, Annual Meeting of the Cuan- The Honduran Independence pany wil be held at the Party auns at full internal self- Brillsh Government within the Company's Vilice, Jordan
Commonwealth by 1086; a strong Ruad Ferry Pier, Kowloon, on
cronomy at home through Saturday, the 6th April, 1957 systematic
development ΟΙ at 12.00 noon for the purpose citrus, sugar cane, cocoa and other agricultural products; and of receiving the Report of
good trading and other rela- the Directors and Statement ons
tions abroad, through active Accounts for the year participation with the Common-
wealth
hard countries ended 31st December, 1956, to
and and through declare Dividends, to elect currency areas,
increased economic co-operation Directors and to appoint with the islands of the Federa Auditors,
tion of the British West Indies.
OVER-OPTIMISTIC
of
Notice is also given that the Share Register of the Company will be closed from Monday, the 25th March, 1957 to Saturday, the 6th April, 1957, both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
LAU CHAN KWOK,
Managing Director. Hongkong, 8th March, 1957.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
Notice to Shareholders
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held on Thursday, the 14th day of March, 1957, at
The alm of self-government by 1966 is considered
by most observers here to be OVCT-
optimistic.
country, there is little.
поре
With the present weak economic position of the If any. of its becoining self- supporting by that date.
Immediately after the general election, a full delegation expected to go to Britain to try to persunde the Colonial Omec to provide more money in long term projects.
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The People's United Party were the lost to name their candidates. They will be repre- sented in all nine constituencies. | Among the candidates, two are members of the present Govern- ment. The leader is the anti- British Golden Boy'. Mr George Price. who Incidentally is also the Mayor of Belize,
The main items on its mani- festo are the continuance of their to federation with pposition the British West Indies
for "geographic,
commercial and economic reasons":
acceptance place on of "our matural Central American mainland and 11 a.m. at the Company's of any benefit deriving from this Registered Office, 4th Floor, P. & O. Building, for
the
transaction of the business Ike Postpones
of
an Ordinary General
Meeting including the follow-
ing:-
(1) To receive and consider the Reports of the Direc- tors and of the Auditors, and the Profit and Los Account for the year ended 81at December, 1956, and the Balance Sheet as at that date. (2) To approve the Dividend. (8) To slect Directora, (4) To appoint Auditors.
The Register, of Members will be closed from Friday, the 1st of March, to Thurs- day, the 14th of March, 1957, both days Inclusive,-
By Order of the Board,
F. IL FELL,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th Feb., 1957.
off
Trip To
Florida
Washington, Mar. 12.
President Elsenhower, has put
his departure for Florida until Friday, the White House spokesman. James Hagerty, in- dicated today,
The spokesman said the Pre- sident would preside next Thursday over a meeting of the National Security Council, but he would not my whether this meeting was connected with the worsening of the situation in the Middle East.
Hagerty and the President was still suffering slightly from the cold he contracted last January, although his cough was boller.
Eisenhower is to take a holi- day in Florida in an attempt to shake off his cold before his scheduled mooling with the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan in Bermuda on March i 20 Franco-L TESSO.
The two engaging
A
are
considerable am uni of "mud-slinging" at one another during the election campaign, but both are leaving alone the weak National Party. -China Mail Special
Hits Britain
of of
London, Mor, 12. phenomenal stream
the deserts warm air from North Africa has brought two days of sunshine to the British Isles, and temperatures rose to a 03 degrees fahrenheit. record The
temperature for average mid-March Is around 50 dc- grees.
Only Western Scotland and Northern Ireland were cloudy and early in the day and in
of the parts breezes kept tutes.
cast coast, sca down tempera-
Prominent personallties at. tonded a dinner given in the
Hotel last week Savoy
by Ghana offelals to mark their country acquiring Indepen- dent ntatus,
Among those plotured may be seen Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Britain's Prime Minister, Mra Pandit, India's High Com- missioner to London; Mr John Hay Whitney, new US Am- bassador to London; Countess Mountbatten; the Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Connoll; and Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister.
-Express Photo.
COTTON CHIEF
RETIRING
London, Mar. 12.
SURVIVORS RECALL
RIGOURS OF MAFEKING SIEGE
By HAIG NICHOLSON
Capetown, Mar. 12. While the centenary of the birth_of_ Lord Baden-Powell was being celebrated in February, survivors of the Siege of Mafeking now living here were recalling grim days during the Boër War.
Ono survivor is Mrs A. G. Tier, of Retreat, who remain- bered particularly the rigours of rationing when, almost 57 years ogo, a 10,000-strong force of
Blege.
Christmas party held during the
That
was a special treat," she remarked, "and we were
iven Jelly to cat."
Boors isolated the small Capo Another survivor of the siege town of Mafeking, in the middle ¦ js
M.
66-year-old Mrs H. of bare stony velt and beleagured Thomas, of Somerset West. it for 217 doye.
our
"We used to be served with soup so unaavoury
that retriever dog would not touch It," said Mrs Tier. "We also had pour porridge, akes made from bran bound logo her with straw and, as a special treat, horse meat."
BIRTH OF IDEA
CIVIL ENGINEER
Mrs Thoman and her former husband, a civil ongineer, fled from Kierksdorp to Mufelding when war broke
out, and they got to know Baden-Powell very well during the siego.
One of her treasured posses- sions is a book written and illustrated
Baden-Powell by Mr Tier was Ave-year-old entitled "Sketches in Mafcking Minnie Morillonu at the time of nikl East Africa," Baden-Powell the slege, which mode Baden- himself sent it to her 28 years Powell a hero and gave him the later as "a reminder of our first idea for his worldwide Boyacquiahitance in other circum- Scout movement.
stances."
With her were her 10-year- A drawing of Mrs Thomas ap- In the books under the old sister, Mabel, and her nine pears
Bomb year-old brother, George, They Bille "Americalse" though the to
Alleged Bomb On Plane
the emerged from
town halt starved when the British re- lieving column arrived,
"My father was one of the railway pioneers,
Mrs Tier said, "We had settled in Malcking New York, Mar. 12.
two years before the slege and Trans-World Airline plans my mother died before the out- were searched at American air-break of the Boer War. When ports today after an anonymous other had to join up, we were the Oghting started. and my caller telephoned a TWA office left mostly on our own." here to say “you have a bonb on your plane,"
The three children left their home, which was within range of a big Boer gun on the horizon, The plane, a transport, with and went to the langer where
only the crew of three aboard, all the women and children landed safely and was searched were gathered.
by security police and Federni Bureau of Investigations agents.
All of the airlines' planes in
In London,
the temperature Sir Raymond Streat, 60-the air were wamed by radio rose to 67 degrees, in Glasgow, year-old Chairman of the Bri-that they were to be searched at
05 and at it was
tish Cotton Board, will retire at
their first atops. Scotland,
the 67 degrees the end of this month, it was in Blackpool
here tonight. heat, families thronged the pro-announced menade and bathed in the sea. Raymond has held ĥla post
since 1040-France-Presse. -China Mail Special,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE-- YOU ALL RIGHT? CAN YOU HEAR ME?
HE CAN'T BE MORE THAN TWENTY FEET AWAY IN THAT FOG! HE MUST
HEAR YOU.
FERDINAND
NANCY
R-RING
RING
THERE'S
THE PHONE.
JOHNNY HAZARD
WE DON'T GET PAID FOR CURIOSITY, KITTY || PARWN'....... UNLESS IT [HELPS THE PLANE FLY [BETTERİ NOW, WHAT'S MISSING'S
NO ANSWER! HE SAID~~,
IF HE DIDN'T COME
BACK AT ONCE. TO PULL HIM OUT! DO IT NOW, PULL!/
BLA-BLAH - BLA BLAH-BLA-BLAH- BLA-BLA-BLA- BLAH-BLAH-BLAH- BLA-BLA-BLA- BLAH BLAH-BLAH- BLA-BLA- BLA-
A CRAWLWAY! JOHNNY, IF ANYTHING SHOULD GO WRONG WITH AN ENGINE IN FLIGHT THERE'S NO WAY TO GET TO THE BACK OF THE PLANE
TO REPAIR IT
OKAY, SO MAYBE THAT'S WHERE THE
· AUSSINS, CONTROL PANEL COMES IN? PERHAPS IT'S SOME ROBOT, REMOTE REPAIR SETUP!
I CAN'T--PULL-
IT--WON'T MOVE!
WELL, ANY WOMAN'S INTUITION ISN'T BEATEN YETI THERE IS A MYSTERY ABOUT THIS PLANS AND TILL FIND IT BETTER TURN BACK
NOW I'm not fam
Sir
The hoaxer 10lephoned the TWA reservation office in New York. China Mall Special.
By Lee Faik and Phil Davis
|S-- SOMETHING- HOLDING HIM-- IN THAT FOG-ON MY
PASTURE-7
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
BUSH MIL 4 DEA
By, Frank Robbins
A BHORT, TIME LATER ~~~~~~
BÈRK SHE COMES NOW! TAKE OFF AND YOU BETTER FIGURE OUR RATE OF CLOSURE JUST RIGHT, LACK,OL BOY, OR WE'LL BE [B] TWO EX-SPIES
to
fact English,
She has also kept examples of the £1. 10 und 2s notes issued during the slege, and the con- troversial stamps showing Baden- These stampa Powell's head. were later withdrawn because of criticism and replaced by ones a picture of a engraved with lettem.
a bicycle delivering cadet on
Among items in the rationed food supplies, she recalled, were army biscuits, horse meat and "binne-mange made out of frice-
wother survivor of the siege
is Mr E. F. Dutton, of Antrim sleep on the House, Hill Road. Three Anchor "We had round" Mrs Tler said, "and Bay, who was a traden in Mate- the ants ute my
sister's long king when the Boer War started. hair. We were too far away fox my father to keep an eye on us, PRINCE ALEXANDER so he took us to the railway shed and we spent the rest of the siege After service with the Bechu- in
under a pit
of the enaland Rifles, he transferred to
the engines."
of Mateking. town guard Mrg Tier st has the little For his part in the siege, he was silver brooch given her at a
awarded a silver medal boaring the head of Queen Victoria (ribbon red, blue, and
omne
There's More than Magic CADBURY'S
THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF
OF FULL CREAM IN EVERY IBAR
CUTEX
LIPSTICK
IN THE
LATEST
SHADES
ROWNTREES
AERO
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
specially struck for the defenda of The Place of Stones" a Malcking is
is called by Africans. Mr Dutton recalis talking to a officer in the relict force young which arrived at Mafcking from the Cape in May 1900, and ask- had brought ing him if they plenty of supplies with them.
The young officer was Prince Alexander of Teck, brother of the late Quem Mary who in 1917 became Earl of Athlone and was Governor-General of the Union
Africa from of South 1923-1930.
Students Pull Down
Union Jack
Johannesbury, Mar. 12,
·Studenty pulled down the Union Jack from the old Pro- vincial Council building in Pretoria today, and man up the "Vierkleur" (fing of the farmer Transvaal Republlo), The Untou Jack was shortly replaced how-
ever,
Meanwhile, a group of do- monstratora carrying "Vlerk- leur" flags made speeches in the city square.
Earller the statues of Pre- sident Kruger and Martin Pre- torius, first President of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, were found defaced with blue and black paint
Polico
are investigating the incidents-France-Presse.
CHURCH NOT
SUBSERVIENT
TO NATO
Berlin, Mar, 12. Bishop Oito Dibellus, Chair- man of the All-German · Buthai- golical Church Connell, said in A broadcast tonight that Edet! German allegations that the German Church was subservient to the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation, wieżo "gross nón="
He was refarring tó an Bant Gorman pre campaign bo domning the Evangelical Churcht after a synod meetma had armed by di Ineyd zuidiorikyy wyck to a Church-State treaty on this appointment of chaplains to the West Gek
army
Dr Dibellus said that the Chinch frosty with the West Repubite did not mean that It dupported NATO...
It was not the fault of this
German
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