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NOW SHOWING
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6TH BIG WEEK!
THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY
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At 2.30, 6.00
& 9.15 p.m.
The greatest fligh adventure ever filmed!,
COUSIN PETALS POSNE
GREGORY PECK
DAVID NIVEN
ANTHONY QUINN
THE GUNS OF NAVARONEĽ
Admission: $2.00 to $4.70
CHINESE OPERA IN ENGLISH
SEX IT FROM
THE DEGINNING.
WAH YAN DRAMATIC SOCIETY
in honour of
Hong Kong University Golden Jubilee Celebration
presents
A LIZARD IS NO DRAGON
鴉雀如何作鳳凰
A CHINESE OPERA IN ENGLISH
29th & 30th September et 8.30 p.m.
WAH YAN COLLEGE THEATRE
Waterloo Road, Kowloon.
TICKETS: $10 & $5
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1961.
'Britain has
A SERIOUS PROBLEM
the best Insects becoming
climate'
London, Sept. 25.
The Impression that Britain
was a land of smog and blizzard was "a gross libel", Lord Mùncroft said horo,
"We no a nation are doing great harm by giving voice to this legend about the British weather," Lord Mancroft, chair- nun of a travel firm, told mem-
bers of the Institute of Market Ing and Sales Management.
it dkt great harm to Britain's tourist trade, he said.
"If you look at the statistics, the tourist has his plans inter- fered with by the weather, less than in any other
country In the world," he claimed.
"We have far and away the best climate all the year round, and it is time we said so loudly and clearly," Lord Maneroft declared. Chinn Mall Sprcial.
Biggest car park
Claimed
resistant to insecticides
London, Sept. 25.
More Russian
visitors to
Britain
London, Sept. 25. The number
of Russian visitors to Britain rose by 551 por cont during tho holiday month of July,
but United States tourists were fower than usual, the British Travel and Holidays Association an- nounced horo.
The month's 365,000 overseas
pinc per
cent over last July's record.
Numbers of European arrivals
Increasing resistance among insects to modern insecticides was causing serious practical problems, the annual con ference of British public health inspec-visitors showed an increase of tors was told at Bournemouth. James Busvine of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said first cases of resistance were found among house- flies in 1947. Instances have since piled all over
Dr
muiti- the world until
by 1980 there were reports of reststanes by some 50 spectes of public health importance and about the same number of agricultural pests.
Heavily used
Dr Busvine sald realalant strains were most likely to arise where insecticide had been heavily and extensively used
wide over
arca. Resistance was not acquired by Individual
Painter, who
increased but the total of 73,050 per cent less than last year's
United States visitors was four
figure.
The 1,200 Russian visitors were mainly accounted for by
The Soviet trade exhibition In London,
PERCENTAGE
Largest percentage increases i
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3 Theatres Showing Simultaneously TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A Hilarious Comedy Woll-Spiced With Romance
DEAN
SHIRLEY
MARTIN MALAINE
ALL IN A NIGHTS WORK
It's nice work- and you can get it!
CEFF RIEBUT SON-CHARLIE ROGGLES - MOPALA COME ON TECHNICOLOR"
ROXY & MAJESTIC
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ✯
from European countries were Owing to longth of picture please noto change of times:
Spain (51), Norway (20), Finland (20), Sweden (17), and
uses hammer, (20)
Birmingham, Sept. 25.
to be the biggest of its kind in the world, a nine-floor multistorey insects but only by races of in- cor park.capable of hour-seets which arose as a result of ing 3,300 cars was open-the selective mortality of an in.. ed today
at the Austinsecticide tending to kill off the An factory hero.
normal Insects, leaving the ex- Cars will be stacked in the ceptional resistant forms to re-
produce. park after being completed and will nwalt collection. The factory, owned by the British Motor Corporation, turns out cars represents only about two. We days production.
BOOKINGS: Moutric's, Alexandra House, Miramar Arcado 8,000 vehicles a week and 3,300
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THE LAST SUNSET
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COMMENCING THURSDAY, 28th SEPT. Rock HUDSON • Kirk DOUGLAS "THE LAST SUNSET” In Eastman Colour!
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What did Annie Laurio sve
The car park is part of a £49 million expansion plan olmed at increasing production capacity to one million vehicles a year-China Mail Special.
exhibits
in London
London, Sept. 25,
Central and South American visitors totalled 4,250, e rise of 20 per cent.
Already 1,112,130 people have visited Britain during the first
seven
months of this year-12 per cent more than last year.
Ten thousand Britons have crossed the English Channel on no-passport day trips to the
exhibition of the works cost, a 30 per cent in- creago on last year-Ching of an Austrian-born wo- Mail Special.
man artist who "paints" her pictures with a ham- mer, a chitol and a steel drill has opened here.
Although the situation may not be so bad as it sounds, the trouble Wis
по by
means stationary.
cannot be sure of
It is the first time the artist, using any Insecticide without Miss Anna Meyrson, has exhi- developing resistance," he said.bited in London for 12 years.
"In Britain, the only species so far known to have shown resistance were the housefly
the and
cockroach-China Mall Special.
Panzer men eat
four times as many_potatoes
Miss Meyrson, who has lived in Sicily for the last 10 years, claims to have started a new movement in modern art.
Chicken-wire
She makes her pictures out of an assortment of chicken wire, biscuit lins, copper and iron sheeting. She
her acquired technical skill with drills and hammers in Skelly, where, with a team A workmen. the hos been bullding,houses for rich visitors,
Trophy for
RAF walker
London, Sept. 25. Flight Sergeant P. Malonoy, 34, Royal Air Force, who with Staff Sergeant In-} structor M. Evans of the) Parachute Regiment broke the trans-United States walking record in 1960, boon awarded Royal Air Force Escaping Society Trophy.
has
the
The trophy is presented an- nually for the best individual feat of corabat survival by a Miss Meyrson, who studied RAF member during operations painting at the Museum Artor training. School in Zurich and the Flight Sergeant Maloney, Vienna Academy, sald she had whose home is a Klimallock, decided to settle in London County Limerick, Irish Repub- permanently.
lic, and his companion, walked from San Francisco to New York in 60 days compared with the previous record of 79 days. The route took them across descris, mountains, salt flats and vast plains, and through whirl- winds, snow, dust and electric storms.-China Mail Special.
Her unusual choter of materials has helped her to "solve the problem of using the effects of tension, animation and to create a coherent anxiety image," she said.-China
London, Sept. 25. German Panzer troops at Castlemartin ranges, Pembrokeshire, are eating four times the potatoes consumed by British soldiers. A German spokesman sald | Panzer Battalion, commented: Guring press visit to the "Our troops are always hungry, camp: "the British quarter They work hard and perhaps master here states that the the fresh air of the ranges and amount of potatoes consumed the sea help their appetite," Special Ly 500 German soldiers would Captein Horst Naumean, the sufficient to fued 2,000 German Quartermaster, said: British soldiers,"
"We cat a tremendous lot of Lt. Col. Karl Von Kicist: potatoes back home. Since we cenunanding officer of the 84th ne here our troops have eaten more than they usually do because we Forve
up two hot meals-a-day compared with one hat meal in Germany.
be
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"We buy the potatoes local- ly and most of our supplies come fram Pembrokeshire farmers, We have had to get extra supplies of potatoes meet the demand."
to
The German troops have found a now beverage as far they are concerned. They are drinking tea at an increasing rate more ten than ori-
WAYginally contracted for has had
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"The MILL of the STONE WOMEN'
Admissions: $1.00 to $3.00
to be obtained to meel the demand.
A spokestaan sold: "We wonder what will happen to this habit back home in Lune- berg barracks."
Discipline among the German troops is reported to be good.
A German spokesman said: "No soldier has had to be punished yet."
A total of 823 letters from British familles inviting more than 400 mldiers to workend visits have been received by the commanding, officer.
In addition there have been More verbal Invitations for officers, non-commissioned om-
cers and men.
The German soldiers have also taken to a new.game-plich ond | 1063.
Their day at the Castlemartin camp is a long une, revetlle is n1,5 am and training starts at Bam it ends at 5 pm-Chinn Mail Special.
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