THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1957,
CHINA Automation In West Germany Some Heligolanders
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NOTICE
THE HONGKONG & YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY LTD.
Economic Experts Predict
Advances As Only Way To
Ensure Economic Expansion
By PETER JOHNSON
Bonn, Apr. 3.
West German industry, which, since World War II, has relied on overtime and conventional techniques to increase production will in the next few years, turn increasingly to automation according to economic experts here.
One compelling season for this, they explain, is the increasing scarcity and cost of labour, factors which led the United States and Britain to take up automation earlier.
1932
Industrialists believe, 100, 1955 compared with 4.4 that automation will help to ensure that economle expansion, which has shown signs of levelling off Jately, continues and that West Germany will remain competitive in the ex- port field.
Inan
controls
An
in years to pay for itself by savings in wages, whereas in the United has Automation
probal y States it would take only two nade most progress
West years. Germany in the chomical
Beckman, of the Dr H.
in recent mdustry?
outstanding Huels firm, sald
that be belleved that example is the Chemische Werke speech Huels in the Rhineland which shortage of capital would effec-
the 190 Hurdly
of tively stop a headlong rush into a day passes with has developed
devices to control
automation and so remove the out public discussion ut meet-electronte ings or in the press of the best automatic processes. Today, me danger of unemployment,
in the Automation
office, Germany to
# complicated for West way develop automation.
production process which where seme experts forecast its
needed Coves Both employers and workers Northerly
of biggest application, is in its th
West Its
The workers to check gauges and fancy here.
Germany hina introduction, lavour
half
dozen trade unions, however, say that operate valves by hand
only about
mostly of "electronic brains," The firm is Workers
be consulted
now building a new automatic plant for the pro-American design, compared with ul synthetic rubber, about 500 in the United States, duction Due to be completed early next year, this plant will be able to produce 45.000 tons of rubber a year at a price below that of natural rubber
before it is introduced, receive assistance during any automa- Don unemployment and shares the ccutiomie benents derived from it.
Union's Demand
this
Huels produces At present,
synthetic rubber 8,000 tons of Both sides of industry sve automation ง
year in its pre-war plant, but order un
it is dearer than natura)`rub- ber,
means
eventual
trade of meeting the union federation's demand for 40-hour week, At present, the average working week, includ- ing overtime. is more than 48 hours
The general trend of Invest ment in industry indicates that, an
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An idea that Scotland Yard is supposed to have under consideration is now part and parcel of the mobile polloo who patrol the national highways and the main roads around the French capital. Plotured here is one of the patrol cars that is fitted with an electronto Spak-gun coupled up with the cameras shown suspended from the roof of the car.- Central Press Photo,
PICASSO EXHIBITION
Object To Compulsory Modern Luxuries
BY PETER JOHNSON
Hellgoland, West Germany, Apr. 3. Some of the people on the island of Heligoland have decided to fight for the right not to have tiled bathrooms, electric kitchens and other modern luxuries.
They are making plans to hold a "plebiscite" aimed at stopping reconstruction plans under which super. modern boarding houses are springing up to replace the quaint, if a little unhygienic, fishermen's village destroyed during and after World War II.
t.
Dr Eduned Uterharck, elderly | authorities, said: "They might president of the Islanders as well brick up the entrance Association, told reporters re- from the start, In our eyes, cently: 'Whether we can afford that kind of thing is no House it or not, we are forced to have of God, No Heligolander will tlied bathrooms, electric kitchons go into the place." and other luxuries built into the new houses,"
Reconstruction on Heligoland, a red-stone island about 40 miles off the mainland, in the North Sca, measuring about one mile by 650 yards, began in 1932.
Replanning
Plebiscite
Other islanders criticise the pastel shades of the new houses which, they say, give a falety Mediterranean air to the land.
scape.
The
Islanders' Association, (Heligo The authorities on the main- the "Halluner Monts" land thought that they were
land Mates) has so far fixed no ilate for the, plebiscite, Inde- acting for the best when thay gave a panel of architects the pendent observers are scoptical task of replanning the island, about its effect on reconstrue- whose 2,500 inhabitants were tion plans, since an official poll evacuated during and immed conducted amonz islanders who
So have ately after World War II.
returned Indicates that far, about 120 houses have been the majority built and about 800 Istanders the "new look." have returned.
in
the
an
are in favour of
The team of planners led by Dr Uterharek, who lived at
West Germany's Hamburg for many years, said Professor Otto Bartning, one of jeading interview: "Da people architects, take the view that really want to return at all to most of the objectors will prob this experimental
fox place
return to Heligolored ably not architects who have gone wild, anyway. They explain that the where the roofs reach down to long roofs of the new houses,
windows are fixed earth. slanting in the walls and the which slope in some cases from the third storey at the front is described by future church
down to the first at the back, all sensible poople as an eskimo igloo, a pithead, a bird trap or are designed to give more sun- ht to the rows of houses be the
Govermenta komr krnal?”
hind.
The wife of one of the authorities.
Herr Hans Helsike, who re- hotel-owners who has returned exhibition of The
Madrid
has no sympathy with the ob- Hellgoland and presents be larger Picasso's will
"Make said: jectors. Council which also the Municipal than important
Hellgoland like it was before, arcas on the commenting on the that mixture of pointed roads, ir the mainland, in
Paris Rome от
little electronic spring, if Spanish painters and exhibitions of his work shown includes some
towers, variegated lean be overcame-plan for the modem church, ap-
contatto.. 300 orders intellectuals succeed in getting difficulties can
ani abortive average
proved by the Lutheran Church to's France-PressC.
tions?.... the necessary permission from takes four a day-China Mail special.
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Nevertheless, there in growing awareness of the possibilities in sphere. One big mail firm. Die Quelle, OL has introduced a Nuremberg, semi-automatic system for deal- This pro- ing with is onders. duced adıniring comments from Capital Shortage
J. van Dormavel, Mr Armand European director of one of the world's biggest mall order, firms, Introducing automation, how-
Roebuck and Company, Scars ever, is not always feasible or
gconomically sound pro-Chicago.
Ата conid ald his up to the end of 1955, maney position. Among the obstacles
not compete with the technical on "conven-in West Germany is shortage of was being tional" ways of increasing pro- capital. duction
It takes longer here, too, to capacity. Since then, industrialists have been con recoup the costs of introducing
and automation, cerned to reduce economise on
They automatic machine Inbour. have done this by rationalising processes, introducing labour- saving devices and automation, An exact comparison between the progress of automation here and abroad is not possible. One British expert, however, sald: "The United States is far ahead of Britain in automation, and we are about as far head of West
Germany.
prices
In the motor car industry, Daimler-Benz of Stuttgart, makers of Mercedes cars, clalımı to have been the first firm in West Germany to introduce
Notice to Shareholders Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Com- pany will be held at the Company's Office, Jordan Road Ferry Pier, Kowloon, un Saturday, the 6th April, 1957 at 12.00 noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement devices check the work per of Accounts for the year formed by the machines,
ended 31st December, 1966, to declare Dividenda, to elect Directora and to appoint Auditors.
unsfer machines which curry
out operations of parts and pass them on automatically to the next machine.
Electronic
Control Lamps
Daimler-Benz, which intro- duced 114 first 12 transfer machines in 1851, now have six production Inc of transfer machines for different parts.
The workers in charge of the machines merely watch con- troi lamps which tell them when tools need replacement or some- thing else needs attention. days a serious fault arises, the
Notice is also given that the Shure Register of the Company will be closed from Monday, the 26th March, 1957 to Saturday, the 6th April, 1957, both inclusive.
By Order of the Board, LAU CHAN KWOK,
Managing Director. Hongkong, 8th March, 1957.
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machines stop automatically.
Opel company, General Motors subsidiary, also has several automatic sections equipped with American and German machinery. Thanks to thest, and other improved methods, each man in the Opel works produced 7.1 vehicles in
Frenchmen Want To Honour Robespierre
Paris, Apr. 3. Leaders of all partles in the French National Assembly, ex- cept the Communists and Poujadists, have proposed п resolution, urging the govern- ment 10 celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of French revolutionist, Maximilien Robespierre.
The
resolution defended
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Robespierre, ព controversinl Arure in some history books, against attacks as "bloody fanatic," and cited Anatole Franco's view that he was "the greatest man of the revolution," Robespierro (1758-1794) known as the Incorruptible? was, halled in the resolution by Socialists, Radicals, indepen- dents, the mainly Catholic Popu Iar Republican movement and the middio-of-the-road; ROR. Fremler
Guy
Socialist, Mollot, a
Mayor. Deputy and
'of communicate sorry.
city of Arras, birthplace of The most controversial--and most successful-play on the Paris stage this wormory, "Patyre Bitor, by Joan Anouilh, is a devastating antire,' attackifor Robop
tions: Secretary, Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children. P.O. Box 250
Hongkong, '; Piesse·mend van 'your unwanted toys. Collection, Centre at Rediffusion.
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The
Famous Pablo
Madrid, Apr. 3. modern painter. his Picasso, will hold
of the Nuremberg first exhibition in Madrid this more equipment Arm, whose 1,20′′ e Joyees and their mechanica devices deal with
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"What a terrible thought. True, people have experimented here and some things have güne wrong, but no one can say that Heligoland has not got back its old charm. Or does chans... consist only of wooden houses with wash-stands, without baths and running water? Is it only quaint when one freezes in the winter?
"Now, we have all got: dis- trict heating and Con take wister guests. We have telephones in each room and large windows of the latest cine. struction, which padvent draughts even tturing stonins."
To all this, a spokesanan of the Site Owners' Association retorted: "Wait and see when they have to start repaying the lants for their houses in a year or two."
Whatever the result of the plebiscite, the Heligolanders are unanimous in hoping for an in- crease this year on the 175,000 visitors, including day trippers, who visited them last year.
Tourists
Holiday-makers come to 'Hat- galand to eat lobsters entgist duty-free off the cliffs, enjoy privileges resulting in chicap Liquor and cigarettes, and go swimming off a sundy dume ng mile away from the main island. The climate is mild, for Hellgr land, like Britain, fools the effect of the Gulf Stream,
The island was given back to West Germany in 1953 when the, Royal Air Force, which had sed ́it as à bombing range rinco 1945, found another site. That was the second time that Heligoland had passed from
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German hands. This island was a British oolong between 1807 · and 1890, when it was ceded to Germapy in exchange Zanzibar.
The Royal Air Force bombing. and, the demolition of sortidens tions and underground sub- marine peas Jald, Hellgbland waste. Only a concrete aft defence tower wasi denk alaridieng, Sorties of a red sandstone cliff, about 160 feet high, at the morth and of the island, were shattered. Bomb craters on this higher, ground, zire (hows being. cleared of rubble and linked in form an unimial Midturo Dark.” ake now hoses soltar, built arou on the lower sandy wolitlerrn end of the island-China Maji ||Special.
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