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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,
Peking Behind Set Targets BANK LIONS STILL GET PATS
FAILURE TO
MAKE Flaps-Up' BIG LEAP FORWARD Landing
By RONALD FARQUHAR
Poking, Aug. 26.
China's loadors today published a final sobor reckoning which showed that thoir country's economy failed to leap as far forward last year, as over-enthusiastic statisticians originally claimed.
At the bamie Sme, they ad- mifted that their alma this year were too high and they sharply sealed down their major indus- trial and agricultural fargets for 1050.
After the proud propagande fanfares with which they halled Last Year's achievements, it must have been a bitter pill for the Chinese leadors Lo admit that much of their success existed on paper only, observers Bald.
The Facts
Lushan in
Klangsi province from August. 2 to 10.
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Party leaders revealed that hetead of being doubled, they claimed at the end of last year, grain output in 1955 went
by only 35 percent, cotion by 28 percent and steel by about 50 percent.
This year's coal target has been reduced by 45 million tons,
Food shortages
in Chinese willen had already rained doubts about the validity of last year's output figures,
So had China's difficulties in mating some of her export commitments.
month
after b Ah
London, Aug 20.
FOR GOOD LUCK IN SHANGHAI
Shanghal," Aug. 26. Two majestic bronze tions still receive friendly pala in the hope they will bring good luck to Shanghai, citizens who scarcely remember the days when the building the Hons guard was a British bank.
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Strauss Resigns
Capetown, Aug. 26,
Mr Johannes Strages, form- or louder of "the South African. Whited // (Oppoel- Hon)
Party today on- nounced his resignation from the pasty.
Mr Strauss succeeded-the-Lato
of the party in 1980,
The beasis elt proudly flank considered It' lucler to pat the, going freighters and harbour A Trana-World Airlines ing the entrance to the City llons a kind of "charm" turn thread their way mods
the avṛarms of woodeti sampang Field-Marshal Emuts as leader 38 Council building on the Bund, seninst runhing out of money, Super-Constellation with
The custom continues today and high-endled junker. persons aboard made a "flaps Shanghai's famous waterfront,
Every day hundreds of under the eyes of two young up" landing without Incident at
Chinese pause on their way past Chinese soldiers in mustard a the modem. white-domed coloured uniforms, standing building to stroke sho Hat guard at the pillared entrance paws and the tails curled round to the building. by their flanks.
London Airport today after hydraulle system failure on
flight from Now York.
The Blogs on the wings are used to help brake the huge four-engined airliners on land- ings.
Emergency
rescue and fire- fighting crews were alerted here when Capt. Bert Buck radiood the report of treable-UFI,
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 20, Hughes B. Kennedy suld to However Sema observers day he is giving up his driver's Grain and collon targeta for this year have been reduced to were surprised by such sweeping licence because “a man 60 years around half the original figures rovision of last year's achieve old had better quit driving."--
willments and this year's
ta.gots UPI. set earlier this year, and not even be as high as the just four bumper figures erroneously were enthusiastically acclaimed claimed for last year.
and approved bald wide pub The 1959 steel target is re-licity at the The Central Committee of the
April messin of party set out the facts today induced by one-third and is only the National Peoples Congress,
than China's parliament. after one million tons higher
0 long communique
tons plenary
of 1 million session held under the guro
Observera anid it looked s debole though the
ση both Mno Tec-tung's leadership at originally claimed last year.
these issues continued through- out the summer with tonight's revisions of targets representing a compromise victory for the moderate "look before you leap" school.
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Wave aloft (8).
8 Ship-shape port? (4).
9 Turned over for cicent
(B). 11 Punishment involving stripes
(B)..
18 The language of Merseysida
(4).
15 Lady Lake! (6).
18 Proclaim with some weight!
(B).
10 Count but Willam, wasn't
(0)
21 Exemplified by Diana (8),
25 Introduce, entertaining items
(B),
30 Flah on the moorst (4),
27 Outgoings hili farmers have
to pay? (8),
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No Reversal
of
The communique admitted there had been "certain de fects in the great leap for- ward"
and development communes, which however following a checkup in the past months were "now Advancing along the path of consolidated and sound development."
But the communique also
| warned against "right oppor- tunist ideas" among some party officials accusing Viem of underestimating the "enp for- ward" ond communes and slandering both these movo- mients an "petty bourgeois" fanatician.
The wardars might be Intended to show that there was to be no reversal or abandon- ment of either these policies, observers sald.
There seemed little prospect of easing of the present tight food situation by its call for skilled housekeeping and "making reful budgets and keeping reserves against wan!” --Reuter,
Prefers Job
In Tail
Merced, Calf, Aug. 20.
A U.S. Air Force sergeant who inherited a mercury mino valued at $40 million salt today ho wants to keep his $400 ☐ month job tail gunner on a | B-52 jet bomber,
|
"But, now I've got enough to buy groceries for a while," said T/Sgt Thomas I. Howlett, who is stationed at Castle Air Force Basc,
The airman inherited the minë from Mrs Cora Dinsmore of Livingston, Calif., the widow of
prospector---UPI.
Celebrating
Taunton, Aug. 26.
One thousand pints of beer will be drunk tomorrow when East Brent, a Somersetshire village, holds one of the biggest harvest home celebrations Ju the country.
The menu for the villagers also includes 30 gallons of clder and hundreds of bottios of lemonade.
On the dry side will be a lou of meat, 70 Christmas pud- dings. an eight-foot-long loaf and 140 pounds of cheese. Chinn Mall Special
Limerick Fire
Limerick, Aug. 20.
Flames were silil faring up
today from the remains of
Lambrick's shopping centre, gut-
1 The smert part of a US. fed yesterday in one of Ireland's
city (4).
2 Musical blemisht (4).
4 Crowd.nols
(4).
biggest fires.
About quarter of a mile of
the main strael was cordoned off
B He takes a small number to dangerously tottering walls,
as troops prepared to gelignito
the Spanish (4).
Hundreds of people had stayed
This man has to be fed (8).up during the night to watch
7 Lay off the boundary (8).
0 Venomous horse-mant *(5),
10 Beam un material (5).
12 Little egg (5). "
1 Gets rid of the bugs (0).
10 Moko oneself Įlable (B).
17 Hidden growths? (5).
10 It implied that I am in
diplomacy (8).
20 Four-legged forest dweller
(5),
21 Divino port of barmaid (4).
23 Not watered down (4).
23 By this, wo leaye (4).
24 Atarter's pudding? (4).
firemen and troops fighting to prevent the blazo from spread-
ing Ching Mail Special,
14 Killed - In Fight
Yaounde, Canicroons, 10 Aug. 20. Fourteen people were filed with hatchet and clube
YESTERDAY 8 CROSSWD HD, *** Antun 1. Dangor. 4 during a fight on Sunday night, Maple, 7 Compiler, inter - Foa-net, 11 Erapuro, 16.Intrude, between soutiniya. and civilien 15 Frieze, 18 Split, 19 Earnings. 20 Tross, 21. Entity. · Dawns 1. local, ditener, mong in the Dunst, 2 Apple 2 Related 4 Marino 6. Proinde, 4 Emerge, 10 Kumar Curveraanje, offlalala malat Ant-clope Itéfordons, Inaisi, 16 Hillers, 10 Julot 17 Hy
NOW MORE
BACK AGAIN
The Hongkong and Shanghel Bank still operates in Shangha), but from different premises,
After the changeover the lions disappeared. The Communiat authorities had removed them. But in a few monthur they were back on their old podestals.
It is a habit which has been going on for many years before and since the Communists came to power in Chins 10 years ago, Then the building housed the
They havo remalne Hongkong and Shanpħal Bank.
since, among the row of (nl), The caresses, of hundreds of modern white trulķžlings over. thousands of hands have worn looking the bustling Bund with the lions paws and talis smooth its clanging red and green fram
cars and tree-lined" promenade Old Shanghal residents say following the curve of the wide and shiny. Chinoso, and many Europeans, ! Whingpor river, where occun→→
One story told in Shanghai is
Mr Sirauns, who up to today that when the Communists took
building the bank was Vice-President of the party's over the
their very Witwatersrand General Council, wanted to sand British and Imperial-looking sald, "It has become quite clear to me that what has happened on to Hongkong.
But the Communists" refused in the United Party is incom-
down the patible with the standard And even turned
of conduct which I have always offer of a substantiat sum
for the animals, the tried to follow in my participá- money
tion in public life. story goes.
Much Regret
of
for
-BRASS PLATE · * A fow other signs of the buildings former owners still remain a small brass plate in "While it is a matter the floor with the name of the much regret to find the once- British makers of the awing great United Party reduced doors, and a marble clock, madu Dumerically It is a matter for in London, keeping immaculate renter regret to find it oven time on a mantelpiece in an more reduced in moral stature.
-Reuter. inner office.Rcater.
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