THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1949.
Britain To Discontinue
Bulk Buying Of Tin
DOLLAR PRICE
REDUCED
London, Sept. 25. The British Ministry of Supply announced today that it intends to discon
Harewood Wedding On Thursday
Biggest Artistic Event
Since War
London, Sept. 25,--Miss Marta
Donata Nanetta Paulina Gus-
tinue the bulk purchase of tin "as soon as alterna-tava Erwina Wilhelmina Stein. tive arrangements can be made.”
Discussions are in progress between the Government and the Committee of the London Metal Exchange with a view to the reopening of the Exchange for dealings in tin "at the carliest practicable date," the announcement said.
"It is expected that the Singapore market will. also reopen".
22-year-old raven-haired pianist from Vienna, becomes tho
Countess of Harewood, a niece by marriage" of the King, next Thursday,
Miss Stein--fialf Jewish by race, a Protestant by faith--wil marry fair-haired music critic George, the Earl of Harewood, 20-year-old older con of the Princess Royal, at the fashion- able St Mark's Anglican Church the Mayfair district of Lon-
Sales of tlo, which were of Supply is splitting with the suspended after the devaluation American consumers the price
week aro. difference arting from devalua-don.
announcement
will be resumed by the Ministry | tion, tomorrow, Monday.
tin for
B PER CENT CUT The price of Straits
The dollar price is being re- sale in the United States will educed by just under eight per- reduced from $1.03 to 05 cents per pound cif New York. Tho price to other customers will be
the equivalent price in Sterling. namely £739 per ion **- smelter.
Reuter's
Sydney Campell, financial editor, writes:
Tonight's announcement means that to come extent the Ministry
No Danger Of War
In Europe
DR STIKKER'S CONFIDENCE
cent.
King George, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Mary and other members of the the Queen Mother
Royal Family will be among the 900 guests who will watch Erwin Stein, music publishers, re- presentative, lead his daughter
That means that the price in Sterling for the Mainyan and Nigerian producer and the price in gullders for the Indonesini fup the aisle. producers goes up by 32 percent,
The prices in Belgian francs, for producers in the Belgian Congo, go up by about six per- cent.
This concession in the dollar price runs counter to the prin- ciple of maintaining dollar prices for Sterling Area goods where- ver possible.
come
An all-white wedding, it pro- mises to be the biggest artistic and iterary gathering since the war. The romance between the pair, who have a mutual in- terest in music, has caught the imagination of the public, al most as much as did the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and, the Duke of Edinburgh.
BRITTEN'S ANTHEM
Mr Benjamin Britten, the from non-dollar composer, who introduced
the
BETTER MINING METHODS
With scores of specially designed machines such as this big, mobile drill, the United States Bureau of Mines belleves it has defeated the cost problem which has hitherto pre- vented effective conversion of oil shale rock into sable oll. Improved min- ing methods and better extraction processes re. cently developed arc thought to have ensured America's petrol supply for centuries to come. This machine is in opera tion at Rifle, Colorado. -AP Picture.
British Delegate Denounced At
Czech Congress
FUNCTION OF LAWYERS
IN NEW DEMOCRACIES
Prague, Sept. 25,-Arguments advanced by Mr Harvey Moore, British guest at the Czechoslovalc Lawyers' Congress here today, that lawyers and judges should remain independent, were denounced Dressler, as "old-fashioned, bourgeois, and tionary,"
couple to each other a UN Kashmir by the Deputy Czech Minister of Justice; Dr A.
your
Prices of copper, lead and zinc, which
ich come partly from dollar areas, have had to be raised by the full amount of the devalua- tion even for those supplies which countries.
In the case of tin, the only ago, has written wedding metal which earns dollars for Anthem entitled "Amo Ergo the European countries, while Sum" ("I
Therefore I other metals cost them dollars, Am") in five sections on the some concession was unavold-lines of a Bach wedding canta- able. American consumers
fa, but shorter. would have insisted on it.
RISE UNPOPULAR
Love
Commissions
Explains
reac-
The Premier, M. Antonin Zapotocky, seconded this view with the statement that a judge must be more than a judge-he muit "defend the interests of the national life”.
New York, Sept. 25-The Netherlands Foreign Minister. Dr Dirk Blikker, leaving for Amsterdam aboard
KLM A
Even plane, told the press at Idle-
so, the sharp tise in wild airport today that he dis- Sterling prices to the
British counted the possibility of war consumer, which was given to- in Europe despite the revalua day as £750, against £500 be- tion of the Russian atom bomb. fore devaluation, will be dis- die said: "I do not think there liked by the Manufacturing Is any danger of a Communist users. Maintaining the dollar movement in Europe. I am not price would have meant raising afraid of any war in Europe in the Sterling price sill higher. the near future. The most dan-to £824 a ton. gerous Communist alluation is The small drop in the dollar in China."
price may be offset by bigger Dr Sukker declined to com-imports of tin into the United States. It was in the fore Far East and China might be knowledge of the devaluation, and of its prospective effect on
the Commission maintained that class." contained. He said, have some ideas but would prices, that the United States removed some of the restric- rather not speak about them."
He said the control of atomletions on consumption of tin and
undertook to look into
ment on how Communism in the
best
the
energy should be placed under question of buying more of it International control འག refor the stockpile.
commendod by the United
Slater
The US plan for atomic
Perhaps even more important on Metal Exchange is to be in the long run is that the Lon-
ment of the
fashioned
WES
Present at the wedding and the reception antlerwards in the
New Delhi, Sept. State rooms
25.-The will be famous United Nalons Kashmir
Com- conductors, opera stars, muste mission today expained that its Imperialist" speeches, told the Congress,
Mr Moore, replying to "anti- Premier Zapotocky told the riles, pianists, Instrumen- talists and many leading per-ment that there would be large enough to state that in his bo-
assurance to the Indian Govern- Congress
"We must be on that he
bold guard commitles of the Edinburgh scale disbanding and 'disarmingler the Independence of law-slavia. It is dangerous to for Festival and the Amsterdam of Azad Kashmir forces was yere and Judges
"A warning example is Yugo- Musical Festival.
given "in relation to the final important thing in every civi-ples which were the flag under
was a very get and be faithless to princi Mingling with them will be disposition of all forces", which ilsed community," 200 tenants from the 2,000-acre would take place when establish Harewood Estate in Yorkshirt, plebiscite in Jammu and Kash-executive and justice was old- of the new Socialist society and
which Dr Dressler answered 'hat
we fought. A lawyer of conditions for the partition of power between the new times who wants to of which Miss Stein will one mir would be discussed.
partielpato in the construction duy be mistress,
in a statement on the eve of that in
and bourgeois and
its laws la not allowed to think A London baker's roundsman, lis departure for Geneva to pre- this was replaced by "the unl-legally in the old manner."
people's democracies Harry Honeybun, and his wife, pare its rport to the Security form have been invited to the wed- Council on the Kashmir dispute, people, led
power of the working ding. He was Lord Harewood's
by the working in the Grenadier
Its assurance given In December last year did not affect the truce period when, as envisaged by its BRIDE'S DRESS
resolution of August 13 last year, Pakistan forces and the bulk of The bride's dress is of white the Indian forces would begin
pattern of brocade,
with an all-over to be withdrawn.
tiny.
The Commission's statement
batman.
Guards.
sprays
reopened for free dealings in silver. It is simply cut with followed the relense two days
energy control is the only solu- tion. There must be free access to all countries where alomic]; research is in progress,**
prices there to any extent.
Tin thus
follows rubber
ת!
# fitted bodice and long 20 of its correspondence with sleeves. The skirt is full pleated India and
Pakistan on its re- at the waist with a long train cent abortive proposal suggest- cut in one with the skirt.
ing arbitration to resolve Indo-Pakistan differences
the Implementation of truce,
•
at her.
-India's
Wage Reform
Essential Says Horner
Whitehaven
Dr Sukker said the recent being released, from bulk pur- returns to a free
tho monetary devaluation in Hol- chase and
Cumberland over land had not yet affected the market-a таге action by
A long tulle vell which the Britain's Socialist Government. Princess Royal were
the Sept, 25.-Mr Arthur Horner,
the Communist General Secre "It may take quite some Repercussions of the higher wedding will fall from a time before devaluation shows Sterling price of Lin on the diamond diadem reset-specially clear-
This correspondence made tary of the National Union of
view
Mineworkers, claimed hero to- effect on prices; In the mean- prices of manufactured goods are for the bride from the fine col- Commission's assurance did not day that in spite of the Labour
that the wages of the present level."
to be widespread but lection time the Government will keep likely
of Harewood Jewels.ndmit of
Government's postponement of the in wages and conditions of the polley "reforms United Press.
Repatriates Reunited
Four Years Apart In Soviet Camps
Maizura, (Japan) Sept, 25- A man and wife and a father and son, who had given cach other up for dead after four of separate internment in
-0.1
following
vict work camps, wore united here, today their arrival from Siberia and. Manchuria aboard different re- patriation ships,
Hidenori Ikegami, 32, whe was repatriated from Nabudka Siberia, as a prisoner of war, mot his wife, Yoshimi, 29, who, after her husband was drafted in 1945 in Manchuria, worked as a nurse at a Chinese Com- munist hospital She was re- patriated
Friday from Dairen
Yoshiro Olzumi,
33,
who was drafted in Manchuria only four days before · Japan's zurrender and returned to his native land last Friday, recognised bis eight-year-old son, Yoshio, after finding the boy's name in the list of repatriales' from
Man churia United. Press.
Racing Cars Plunge Into Crowds
Brno, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 25.- Unomeini :puports' said to- -day' that at least seven persons were killed and 25-injured: to- } day when three racing › cars competing for the Grand Prix of Czechoslovakia, plunged si af different times into groups, of tightly packed spectatore on e sharp curve-United Preserje
of
to the
rally small-probably smal-The bride is expected to wear, disbanding and disarming of the mineworkers and their families ter than for the other metals. pearls, also a present from the Azad Kashmir forces until the are an esential prerequisite to
Tin is very widely used, but Princess Royal. the cost of iin is only a small
bulk of the Indian forces were traction of the total cost even of #tin can (most of which is steel Gerald Lascelles, brother of the over 32 battalions
The best man will be the Hon. withdrawn for others with the production of coal, which Is
Azad stential pinte and labour) and a still bridegroom, who flew to Enforces intact, "the security of
economy." smaller fraction of the cost of a gland this wock from
the State would be in great tin of canned goods or of, for family estales in Barbados, Jeopardy" and the holding of example, a motor car-Reuter. Reuter,
a free and impartial plebiselte would be impossible.--Reuter,
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the
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The Congress called on "ali Czech men of law" to drive out capitalist clements and to fight mercilessly against the misuse of religious feeling "for plats against the People's Democracy and our economy and for anti- State actions directed by the Vatican whose demeanour.s like that of a foreign power hostile to our State."-Reuter.
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nation's on a tray with the oysters, the nails, the coins and the pottery. Mr Horner had been asked at This tray was carried into n minera meeting about the
small room above a garage. Prime Minister, Mr Clement which has been lent to the Attlee's, statement yesterday on archaeologists. There Skeenn
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Jet Airliners For Australia By. 1952
Mr Horner said that coal was centuries came off the objects, Sydney, Sept, 25-Jot air more precious to Britain then revealing them in their original liners will be flying on Austra dellars and Argentine wheat. xtoto. Han air routes by 1952, the If we do not get our target this
Sho showed
me glittering Chatman of the National Air-year of 220,000,000 tons, we bronza coins with portraits of lines Commission, Mr A. W.shall
shall be compelled to draw Roman emperors, bone pins, a Coles, sald tonight.
heavily upon stocks to honour beautiful bronze ring decorated Mr Colos, who returned from our commitments entered into with a glass bead. Then visit to England this week, with foreign countries and this produced
her
greatest ad that the Vickers Viscount would mean a travo risk." Trensure—a bôna kaife handle
4o-prop airliner was the typa|Reuter.
with an intricately carved lon's head. Every little tooth of the lon was intact. ·
of aircraft the Australian Com- missiin would consider buying.
Reuter.
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