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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1958.
H. KING WOOD REPORTS IN OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER:
GAMBLING FEVER IN NSW SPARKS OFF
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Sydnoy (By Airmail).
ASTROLOGER PREDICTS
Lebon, Jan. 16. No World War In 1958
ALTHOUGH
there
will be no world war
în 1958, there will be
bitions this month as well as in, the news spotlight will be on the Democratic party mainly cruptions in some March, June and August.
frouble spots, particular-
ly in the Middle East
and the Far East.
TE
March
the Middle East generally. There due to the commercial altuation will be almost permanent "len-|of the country.
sion between Israel and Egypt,
as well as among the Arab Soviet infiltration in the Mid- States and this aliuntion
will die East and in India will in- force the United Nations to increase, and so will disputes be tervene, oven OA a military tween India and Pakistan. basis.
dis That at least is the forecast UIERE will be serious for 1958 made by the astrologer, agreements between Indin Haul Lopa. who calls himself and Pakistan, ond world atten- Professor Horus, in an article ton will again be occupied by The situation in the Far East, published in the Lisbon even much talked-of wedding of a will be affected by disputes be
member ing newspaper Diario Popular.
of the Brilsh Royal |tween Japan and China. Other predictions made by Family.
for 1958 in- clude:
January
An outbreak of gambling that is sweeping NSW has not only Professor Horua
sparked off a vigorous campaign against it by its natural enemy-the Church-but has caused misgivings among usually tolerant organisations and has been the subject of some plain-speaking editorials by newspapers who do not, as a rule, use gambling as an editorial subject.
down, but and because of it Australia was The lain of the piece" in tickels-5/6-were the new jackpot tote Bystem sales of all the higher-priced | able to sign a £40,000,000 con- now operating on Sydney race tickets well up.
tract for the supply of uranium curses.
to the British Alómic Energy Authority,
with
5-
The 100,000 26 tickets on the Arat Opera House lottery sold in estimated Elme far less than and tickets in No 2 Opera House lottery are now under way.
an
You can add to all this เปิ
estimated £70,000,000
Worked on the normal tote principle, the idea is that punters must pick the winners of five races nominated by the PIALTY club beginning double in the first two races. If the money is not won at one meeting it jackpots to the next, with the result that at Conte: Wrought-trenbury last Saturday a 5/- leket could have Won
FOR SALE
SIPMENT
Table and floor lamps just unpacked. Duvat 1.1d Home Acerstory and £80,000. GIN Shop, 20 Garden İload
STAMPS
SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Colleo-
Hund, Kowloom.
ALITUM-Balmor-12. ATAME Wyndham Street and Salisbury Road,
From Bouth China Morning Post Lii,,
Kowloon.
+
D
to
Mary Kathleen is 500 miles from the Pacific Ocean, in region not famed for Ils com- which munitions or is transport, so of it would be reasonable goes into the hungry mawg
and assume that the cost of living poker machines each year you can see that if we haven't would be high. money to burn, we really have thun got it more
play with. Gambling is one of our ir- dustries which seema to make out quite nicely however tight!
But T-bone steak sells mones, and while we accept 2/11 lb and fillet for 4/-, much, in general, there are worries in
than Sydney, many quarters al present about For £2.10, 0. a week the what is described as "this casino married Mary Kathleen worker of NSW.”
SHARED POT
10 kola of aorted KAT Eighty-nine people shared the From 20 cents per packet upward put and rs collected just short An entirely new partes. South
of £1,000 for each ticket, but China Morning Post Ltd.. Wyndbarn Street. Hongkong and Sarpury one man had enough tickets to
collect £8,700.
If you have the idea that it only necessary to back every horse in a race to collect you're 4uite right, but you really need some spending money to do so. To cover every possibility a punter would have had to have taken out 1,080,000 5/- tickets last Saturday-nd would have had to have laid £270,000 to be sure of winning the pool or a ingre of it.
would
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Cablo: Pounde
This huge investiment
have been accessary because there were 15
A mounted policeman who does trafic duty at one busy point in the suburbs was on his way back to barracks last week. when he came upon a speelal traffle problem,
T-BONE STEAK
much
cheaper
Particularly serious incidents will take place between Israel and Egypt, causing the United Nations to Intervene, and there Com- will be revolts in some
August
Professur Horus' predictions are read by the Portuguese In much the same way as Britons rend Old Moore's Almanack (which also forecasts what the
your holds in store.
Among the successful predic- tions etulmed by Professor Horus for the past two years
of the Soviet are:
munist countries, even Inside THE attitude
1 Union towards the West the Soviet Union sell.
will undergo A considerable Colonel Nusser will have an
CONSIDERABLE increate ulverse month in Morch as change and there will be also
among
the
of agitation in the Soviet well as in April, July, October radical changes Union aimed at greater freedom and December. His position wi Soviet leaders. (The prediction of expression. Mr will be in an unfavourable post-will suffer attempts on his life. he Krushchev decline during March and
In Britain, very popular
on la this month as well as
in February, June and Septem-gures will disappear, causing ber,
widespread sorrow.
April
There will also be serious International tension this month. United States views will con- flict with those of other nations
serious cls- and President Eisenhower's al-THERE will be
and putes between whites llude to world problems will be
rest of the world.
January will be an adverse month for President Eisenhower
In
By LUIS TEIVES
Egypt will
Impose new
condition for passage through the Bues Canal which will cause great dissatisfao- tion and Increase the possi bility of a conflict. This pre- diction
was published 03 December 24. 1835. Colonel
Nasser announced the nation- alleation of the Burs Canal Company In July 1956 and the confflet broke following October,
out in the
★ A revolt against the op- The pressors In Poland. revolution which brought Mr Gomulka to power took place In October 1958. This pre-
diotlon also was made On December 24, 1055.
n source of dissatisfaction to the | negroes the United States
which will force far-reaching does not expinin the nature of decisions.
the changes towards the Western Monarchist demonstrations in Powers or among Sovet leaders,> so will March, June, July, Italy will aim at the restoration and in West
be In Hungary, there will
But the Professor was wrong of the monarchy, October, November Germany, the for September,
Wost German action almed at the final bera jabout President Elsenhower. He and December. While he willArmy will be formed. Dr Aden- tion of the country from thetold a great crowd gathered attempt to carry on his work, uer's health will bad health will be a handicap.
Live In # furnished, two-
bedroom house complete with electric stove and refrigerator- a house especially designed for the 110 degree hent and which keeps remarkably cool.
M03
February
concern.
June
October
also cause Communist regime. (The pre- around its stand at the Feira (Lisbon's diction does not say whether the Popular in Lisbon
of action will be successful or not). Luna Park) in the summer
1950 that "President Eisenhower only will serve for four years at the Walle House." But at the election in the following Noven- ber, President Eisenhower
VI
in the re-elected Aut has nlready
d year
will be important QOVIET penetration intHERE
news about Presklent Elsen- [THE Republican party will be more pro- Arabla The weter сетев num
United States United States will suffer a served
of the second AL one busy corner three artificial lake constructed eight
nounced and there will be a re- hover from the
not say considerable loss of prestige, four-year term of office-China shoeless youngsters a girl and ralles from the town, so built quest for armed forces to pass (the prediction does
what sort of news) and the with a corresponding gain for Mail Special. through Arabian territory. two boys-were trying to gel that a 10-hour rainfall gives a across with a billy cart londed three years supply
United States will impose fur- of water. with "empties":
Japan will enter a phase ofther restrictions on Immigra Even when the ore-processing great prosperity, increasing her tion. plant comes into operation later production and exports of near- The television Industry will this year and Uses a million ly all products and becoming a make further gallons of water a day the power to be reckoned with In will make it cheaper. nuthorities are convinced that commerce and industry. water will not be one of their worries
DEMOCRACY
The cars showed no signs of in the stopping. horses
Severni
the times ventured out the youngsters
but quickly reversed back into the gutter with their billy cart.
first fnckpot race, 20 in second, nine in the third, and 28 in the fourth and the ofth.
To be sure of having a ticket lor each of the 20 horses in the Just race he would have had to have 20 tickets an each of the 20 horses in the previous race.
He could only have hid these by having 400 tekets on each of the nine horses in the third race. This meant that he would have held 3,000 tickets on each of the 20 horses in the scend rare and so would have had to lave started with 72,000 tickets on each of the 15 horses in the Arst race.
FASCINATED
It is hd to quers at world record betting Agures, but race oficials watched the totalisator indicators fascinated, on Satur- day, as the public got rid of its loose change at £510 a route. A party of clergymen visited
The races and said later
that
they were "amazed at what
they saw.
advances which
July
There will be fairly serious With
average wages about | disturbances in South Africa be- £30 a week and a model village tween whites and negroes, Ger- in which to spend or save 11, man commerce will reach very HE economic position of the there is no shortage of labour | high levels, expanding in all United States, both internal- und recently there were 494 | directions, and India will In ly nad internationally, will be
dulge largely in imperfallstic|bad.
applications for 30 jobs.
Is designs. Bliter disillusionmen! The Suez Canal will gain
Then cue the mounted cop
the situation moved He saw
road, Although the population into the centre of the solcnnly stopped all traffic, just mainly Australian, it is entura) as solemnly waved the billy cart that may of the workers should thebe migrants, and Primo Ghailer. across, grinded and waved
from Italy, probably summed motorists on.
up the feeling about Mary Kathleen to the best way there is "She's not Venice," he said, "but she's O.K."
This, as one of thin marked, was democracy at work.
Te
Toally
Looks ES !! the -agust amateur tennis groups of Aus- Tralla are finally beginning to realise that there is money tenis that should be going into; their bank,
DRINKERS
The Hotel-Koopers Association of Sydney the ULVA—has never done very much to endear its customers, und
The Queensland Lawn Tennis self-to Association will sponsor a pro-every now and then I gives fessional lour later this year another Alck of the whip. A and plans to use four of Aus number of hotel keepers have tralia's top. coel pros-Ken protested this week that the Rosewall, Frank Sedman, Ken ULVA has instructed McGregor, and Rex Hertwig.
drinkers,
them to
President of QUTA, "Big Bill cut out entertainment for night was 100 There have been mutterings Edwards, said there much money in the professional | about this before, ULVA ap- gome to let it go begging".
purenily having the idea that He said it was proposed to drinkers don't drink as much take the professionel troupe to while watching entertainment.
While the majority of hotel Acekeepers will chey the instruction
the 81 centres uffitated with the Association and let
them
These jackpot toles have sent race attendances sky-high, but almost without exception racing writers have recorded that, in their opinion, the tote will not be good for ucing the long tais as it should be played. of their Association, there are The American promoter Jack enough "rebels" who feel that | run.
entertainment is slowly everyday Kmmer doesn't seem too happy night
customers back gbling, Held. lottery sales for about any one else getting into getting their
cord his big money market, and an- from the licensed clubs, and who £13,404,800 kept the each renounced in Sydney that Rose are prepared to tell the ULVA pisters ringing morrily through- wall might not be able to play to go jump in the inke. out the year. More than ene in the lour. lottery was drawn every work-
In
The more
the year were
"The guy's under contract to
ing day and a significant feature me," he said, "and it could be
Is that sales of
the
cheepest
R.M.S. "CARTHAGE"
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
that I won't let him take part in a tour that might eventually embrace the whole of Australia."
WILD WEST
Out in the wild west" cf Queensland, in an area where you could rightly expert durt, ilics, sand and considerable dis- confort, is a litle oasis of lush green lawns, unlimited water, uir-conditioned stores, gian1 water melons, peaches pal mangoes, with sprinklers turn- ing and hoses watering in a way that would make a Sydney- feel considerably off- colour.
The place is Mary Kathleen, Austraila's model uranium boom
blob town-£18-million comfort nestling in barren red hills between Mount Isa und Cloncurry.
Friday, 17th January, 1958 at 12 Noonsider for the UNITED KINGDOM, via Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
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Notices
- The latest times of poeding abown below are those fir ung registered correspondence posted st Gro., Mongkong. The Ixiest porting Umte Elpawbørn, which, in general, are surlier than the G.P.V. times can be ascertained by enquiry at the local amen.
awaite
Mr Nehru In la am- 'come Inic world headlines
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
and
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Plunder Road." Gene
Raymond and Jeanne Cooper in a daring rob- bery.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "How To Murder A Rich Uncle." Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, and Wendy Hiller in a comedy.
LEE & ASTON: "Hell Drivers." Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom and Peggy Cummins in the lorry racket.
A
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Wages Of Fear."
Cannes Film Festival winner. A drama. STAR & METROPOLE: "Night Passage." James
Stewart and Audie Murphy in a Western. HOOVER & LIBERTY: "House Of Numbers." Jack
Palance and Barbara Lang in a drama. RITZ: "War And Peace." Audrey Hepburn, Henry
Fonda and Mel Ferrer. CAPITOL: "The Price Of Fear." Merle Oberon
and Lex Barker in a gangster film. ORIENTAL: "Kiss Them For Me." Cary Grant
and Jayne Mansfield in a romantic comedy. MAJESTIC: "Modern Times." Charlie Chaplin.
Audio And Visu
Entertain
THE LORRY RACKET
WETTS
Stanley Baker and Red McGoohan in one of their ferocious clashes in a scene from "Hell Drivers,” which opens today at Lee and Astor,
A mentioned
SHORT time ago, I The head of the racket is that the William Hartnell who is that thin type of creeping racketeer Bank Organisation was en- who could get a snake to get up tering into the rough and and bow to him Wilfred LaW- tumble market. "Hellron, the test driver without # Drivers" which opens up at cence turns in a good small the Lee and Astor this who is secretary to the whole part, as does Peggy Cummins afternoon is the film I had outfit, and fixes all the forged
papers. in mind.
ជន
comes
The best performance from Herbert Lom, the one_de- cent man left alive. He Ands himself involved in this racket
because as an alien, he cannot
Of course, anyone with their eyes open Knows that a racket can Rourish in England as cusily anywhere else, especially when you are dealing with the wide boys who have just come be too choosy. As a man who out of Wormwood Scrubs and Borstal, and olher training colleges of that type.
The racket in this case hap- pens to be a contract which pro- vides for a stated quantity of work and the angle is to get the work done by a crowd of des- perate men, far below the re- quired number, who edged on Story of Jane Armilage 7. Time by a bonus break every law in Signal and the Now; ob, Weather the Highway Code.
The film stands out on account 5.30, Thursday Club Introduced by recast, Announcements and Inter- Jude; 7.15, Bouvenir Sonex 130, Robert Acheson; 6. Time Signal Interlude For
The Harold of its excellent characterisation, Half Hour: 5.30, Record Equistet: 145, Les Brown and and the camera Round Booul; C58, Weather Report.
work which
7.30,
RADIO HONGKONG
NEW FILMS
by ANTHONY FULLER
The latest parting times for registered articles šte jenerally one hour wariler than the times shown below. Particulate-regard- 7. Time Signal. Now; 710, Comble Band of fenown; 8. Personality picks up the desperate driving. Ing parcel mails can be ancoz- tained by enquiry at Any
Those who have a TV set will montre in Show, th post
Lectures Russia, the Capitol Show 0.30, Boston Blacicis
Mmier Sieuth; D., Gould and recall that o shot at "Hell oice.
Atom and the West-Spasker: George Kennan. No, -The Non-Slano at the Harmond Organ and Drivers" was included in the European World: 8, A Life of Blag: Piano: 9.10, Mule Time Clerical Pinewood Anniversary Fum.
Musicfesturing planias Concerts 0,30,
L'Orchestre des
Czerdy-Stefanska. Presented by You saw the newcomer, Stanicy Lamoureux; 058. Whether Report;
Charles Harvey 10, Late Night Boker fall foul of Patrick yet forced in to it by the fact 9 Time Signal, News and Home
Thentro - "Forbidden News from Britain; 9.15. "Fed-
Episode 47; 10.30, Mule of Fester McCochon in a small roadside that he has to live, He enhances man ut gauntlet" Part The
a question of who his role with the remarkable dry and Today: 11, Date with cafe over Peace"
At the le
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 By Alf UB.A. 6 p.m. Thailand, Burma, India, 6 pm. Cambodia, Ceylon, 6 pun,
By Burthes
D
town's
Magwa, d. p.m.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong &
While Sydney aweltered last Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown No. 2 week in nerve wracking
Kath- GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, the "pioneers" of Mary
shopped in cool comfort, By Noon on Thursday, 16th January, leen
sipped long cold drinks on lush
lawns areen
under swaying SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packager palms, and youngsters mado
hideous nalse carried by passengers themselves. ALL BAGGAGE must pass throughlymple-alted swimming pool.
Eighteen months ago Mary the Wharf Company's Godown for Kathleen was a waste lump of loading on board by ship's slings only. country, so useless that not even the hardy North Queens- landers would try to do any- thing with it.
Today 1,000 people live there in so much comfort that no one leaves, but many want to come.
EMHARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.80 and 11 a.m. on 17th January, 1958.
SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE
It owes its existence to the Mary Kathleen "uranium ming,
a £50-million mountain of solid ore discovered three yeaIN RED,
Melays, Ceylon, India, Adeo, Mid-
East Orest Brilain, Europs,
eg
& Parcels, 6 pām; Letters de Packet, → a.m. 17/isko.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11
By Al
Indo-China, Piance, 9 m,m3> Formosa, Japan, Onawa, Korea. 11a.m.
Guam, Hawall, U.B.A., 1 Philippines, Australlä.
land, p.m.
im.
New Zea
Vermona, Japan, 8p.m.
Thailand, India, Paktian, Middla
U.B.A., Canada, 8 p.m.
East, Africs, Gresl Britain di Kuropa, 09.m.
Hawal. p.m.
Helina
Xiamenco Ballet-Pilar Lopez and Dreamland 1130, Prelude To Mid- should sit where. fter Spanien Hallet with Orquesta, night; 12 Midnight. God Save The Buronic panele 1 Duxi 10 33. Magazine: 16:50, Juke
Australian
Weather Itepori: 11, Time Bignal. Radio Newsreel; 11.5, son Lights and sweet MELKIC: 11.20, Down,
REDIFFUSION
Queen.
Close DowTS
TELEVISION
| is prepared to live and let live, aware of the evil around Him,
command.
It is dimcult to award places acting ability he has at his of merit in this film because the characters are so contrasted. So this film goes lis way, hair- McGoohan makes himself into a raising and evil, as tough a rean slugging sub-human fure-only remorseless cowards can man without a trace of human be as the lanes and by ways of déconcy loft. In his body. You England are, marred by beca sit watching the film longing | hell drivers who toul everything for some strong type to come they touch.
Following in line with such 730 pm, Studio Variety or Short along and give him the beating * Tradme lenderrous: 3.30. Vocally. Film: 740 Newcel 0 The Un- of his life, but there is no one filma as the American "On the Yours la Fitzgerald and Bay xpected The Perfectionate The tough enough to do it. It has Waterfront" It is not weakened Davis Jr 6. Chlidren's Comer - The 7th Bengal Presented by Austle. Bay: 30, Horinga“: P. Evening Posture Film: to be left to poole justice that by becoming an expose.
Fortune" Tec Time - Presented by Belty "Boidlare
Blogging Boure: 0 Waite Time: BR Buth-Anton Willbrook: 11 Late a causes your heart to leap out of an uncritical comment on life as we have permitted it to become. your body, day Mabat: 9.30, Troplonoa: 948, Winn, Close DOWL
B. p.m., Ehlidren's HouD-CRISOODI $20, Children's Story Tima. Story Tollernthia Loung; 6.30, Child- pen' FinTik-Tin-in Outlaw"; 3 p.m. Homanus Cycles Selections. Close Down, from "After the llall" (Noel Coward) starring Mary Elile; 5.4, Novalima;
It la