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ABOVE: Some of the 34 Japanese seamen who wore their survey
vassal
grounded on a North
Borneo reof, seen discm- barking at Kowloon Pier yesterday:
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RIGHT: At yesterday's meeting of the Council of Social Service (l-r): Rov, K. L. Stumpf, Miss C. M. Newcombo. Mrs Ruth Kirby, Mr Y. C. Tso
and Mr W. }. Howard,
rescued by the British ship. Empire Kittiwako, after
LEFT: Mrs Alice Chon showing hor Chineso painting technique at the American Women's Asso. ciation meeting.
RIGHT: Mits C, C. Ho presenting a cortificato to Miss Poon Yip-chu (left) at the True Light (Hongkong) Middle
School prize-giving core- mony.
LEFT: Metropolitan opera star Blanche Thebom speaking at a gathering of the Musical Training Centre. Kowloon, during the signing of an agree. ment between the Contro and the Far East Broad-. casting Company to re- cord
works by the Centre's students. Behind her aro somo of the Contre's blind students.
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ABOVE: This robot,
show at the annual Exhibition of Economic Achieve- monts in Moscow, is the brain-child of Eugene Tfanov, 16. With friends in his secondary school, he made it from scraps and plecos of tin. The robot has a radio- controlled voico, walks and move ite arm.
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ABOVE LEFT: Princess Margaret walks into the University Colloga of North Staffordshire to preside at ceremony conforsing degrees on graduates.
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LEFT: It wasn't only film-seeing and meating fans at the Berlin Film Festival, There was also the serious business of wine tasting when international · stars lined up to try more than 20 Corman' wines. David Niven is seen here helped by Sweden's Ulla Jacobson.
From the Files
25
years -AGO.
THE
HE American Olympic Committee have again deferred action оп ассер tance of the German in- vitation to the Olympic Games in Berlin.
The President of the Associa- tion, Mr Avery Brundage was empowered to accept if he should find, on a visit to Ger- many, That Nazi pledges of non- discrimination against Jewish athletes were being observed.
This action clears the way for u denite decision on American participation.
the
Leaving the Colony on Empress of Russia on Friday are Mr and Mra Pindaen, Mr R. V. Frost who is a member of the staff of the Asiatic Potroleum Company in Can- ton. and his wife: Mine H. D. Sawyer, headmistress of the Diocesan Girls' School and Mias E. S. Atkins, head- miatrens of St Stephen's Girls' Coliepe,
SIR: A lot la heard about the
decline in Peak Tramway traffic receipts. Nobody seems to worry about the loss in re- ѵенце coused by European passengers, mostly women folk, Travelling in the ten-cent section of the cars, If, for the sake of ten or twenty cents, Peak Indie
are prepared to pocket their pride to the extent o' sitting check by fowl with houseboys, coolies and amals, amidst the day's marketing, that's their busines They've
n perfect right to sit where they like. But I't it going a bit ico ་
when they claim the right o use the first-class walt- ing accommodation, electric fany end all, and then, when the car ecmen in, calmly to walk into the ten-cent section?
The practice, which is on the increase, can be easily stopped, All that's necessary is to reque patrons to pay as they enter the iram station, instead of after they board the cars.
They would then have to pay according to the section they catered. 1. they wanted aten-cont ride, they would have to
Ush the servants entrance and be forced to remain behind the grille mtl the car came in. And quite right, tool
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Letters To The Editor
Traffic Signs
Sir Your Editorial in tho issue of July 3 en Traffle. Signs
adorning the Colony ronds I any not a sign maker, so have no axe to grind.
PLAIN BUSINESSMAN.
ANTHONY FULLER
REPLIES:
words; "The llons shall lack ang suffer hunger.” All this I say was symbolic, it was a messago containing Hemingway's creed,
The clue was in the dialogue as the Old Man sails back with only the Yeleton the great fish he has fought for three Aliss Ho and her friend days and nights. "Man to not have set me a poser when made for defeat. A man can be they ask which is the destroyed but not defeated." better picture, Gigi, or to be the deciding factor, and if
So if we accopt creative The Old Man and the Sca.
art
we treat films as we treat litera- lure, there is no comparison.
and the The Old Man
Sea, emerges as a masterpiece; Gle a frivolous plece ment.
of entertain-
was timely and to the point Since then I have been waiting ie see it there would be any reaction from your renders. It that Would
appear, however, the motoring public are very A mozzanine measuring 100 apathetic. Yet it is to their better, more icer long and 25 feet advantage that
durable, and more easily seen wide is being built in the
signs should be on nir roads. east section of the main What we see now are a positive banking hall of the Hong-disgrace!
No two films could be so dit- kong and Shanghai Bank- There does not appear to beterent, and it depends entirely
or attempt st in any uniformity
which sense "beller' 15 ing Corporation,
standardisation Paintwork is an used. This mezzanine will
eyesore. What was once red is If we have
His View conumadate one Outward Luis Department, but muddy brown, whilst other signs Gigi wins hands down-
now, in most cases, a dirty public acclaim in mind, then
Slr-Nobody asks for my there will be no counters for
are just a hotch-polch of colours the other hand, we use "beller"
If on view, but "Gigt", which was which rausente one to look at.
awarded the best picture Oscar, Counter space the argued The--elightest-breach-of-trafle
In the sense of being in the was to my mind very teme-and- floor will later bo Enlarged."
of s presence regulations gets the motorist into presents
work that re-foolishly saccharified, and the The work will be completed trouble. He is always to blame. philosophy.
Bman's belict, his unimaginative, platitudinous
and his message, about two months' time, Yet the authorilles give him
"The Old Man & The Sca” was an official of the Bank said this
dirty dent through dirty, un-
little better. readable trafe, signs! I am not kong follows the free rate. Bút morning.
week ago. a motorist, but I pity those when musical, superbly Work began a this seems unlikely."
Referring to the saving the Timbers, steel bars and cement cre.
on the were stored in to be able to
enquiry, western side Wardley Street understand there is a locally outside the Bank, with special owned factory who have turned permission of the authorities.
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER The move by the Malayan and Singapore Governments to allow direct imports of dollar goods will definitely hit Hong- kong's re-export of dollar goods to these two countries.
move
Mr G. O. W. Stewart, Acting Chief Manager of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banjting
Is Gald Corporation said this today.
of realis, of five to Our trade in re-export dollar goods to the two countries cent in the cost of dollar goods
considerable for has been of
I doubled if the percentage was volume, he said."As far as cun recall it ran into millions of that high. U.S. dollars in 1952-1953."
Penang's Position
keenya,
ihe two
БСУСП per
he
countries,
No Effect
customers there.
In
third of
space
the
Sheung Shui Fire
After
careful
finished
I
box office. and
then The Old Man and the Sco, Is miles away above Gigi,
Too bad that I have no in- For Gigi, is a slight thing, a fluence at all on the Oscar selec-
cast, tions. Maurice
(Lcolle Coron,
Chevaller, Louis Jourdan) yet it a plot made fresh, original, and wonderfully entertaining. was booked solid in London and New York, for months.
Nevertheless, The Old Man
N. T. CHÓW.
Typhoon Moving Towards Taiwan
Manila, July 14.
A. typhoon with winds of 00 hour note tho per was located early today
centro
out quite a considerable num- ber of metal and other signs in the Colony which are said to be as good at least as any produced In America the home of sighs, and the Sea, with Spencer Tracy The local signs are silk screen acting solo, found critical ne- (baked) slain in some places, but little Printed and stoved
their public recognition, yet it must mlios and,
be reckoned the greater im by colour durability is guaranteed
That for four to Ove years under all far.
at about 360 miles southeast, of the public did not local weather conditions. Could in-
honour it, I do not doubt. In
Basco
Batangs, northernmost anyone 'ask · more?
Philippines, It would appear that govern-fact, I think fow understood It ment do not purchase signs ---
The storm, dubbed "Be for it is really an allegory, the traffic signs from this fac-Old Mon representing Mankind, intensified into a typhoon on from January to May this year
tory, yet my enquiries point to the Fish, Man's struggle against Monday. HK$88,082,429, which Thieves broke into a shop at
The Manila Weather Bureau the fact that only one factory adversity, explained, "But if the rates foreshadows an annual total of 64; First Street, Western District does this work in Hongkong, zo The interpolated shots of the reported that. Billte was moving. (free
omcial) widered HK$165,857,000. Theso org early yesterday morning and Printed and published by Terence Gordon NɛWLANDS PEARCE] they would benefit from the re-exports of goods from all stole
why do not government give young llons found no under northwest toward the general" i sum of money, nome Lierna chance? Heaven alone standing among the critics of direction of Formosa, it was› for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited of 1-3 zituation as they will follow countries, and not only the clothing and tinned goods valued knows that no one could turn oven the higher class papers, 1 reported to, be travellingʻat: the Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, the official ralo while Hoog- 'dollar arca, however,
et a total of $204.
out worse algu than those` now yet the Bible) contains the rate of 14 miles an hour, -UPL
A wooden hut, in Kai Ling. The Malayan move would not Sheung Shul, the New Terri affect the expurt and marketing tories, was destroyed by a fire Asked it Penang
out at o'clock enamel would of Hongkong products in Mala- which broke henceforth constitute
this morning. The fire was put competitor with Hongkong as a
Hongkong products were al-out by the Fire Brigade in 15
minules. There were no major entropot pert In South-| ways cheaper than dollar goods.
Azla for re-export of The nearest Agure obtɔlnablo Juries, tiollar goods, Mr. Slewart said for the volume of re-exports of this may not be necessarily 0.
"Penang may not do it any cheaper than Hongkong," he
and
east
Hongkong to the two countries Theft From Shop
wa