THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24,
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EDITORS PRESS SERVICE, INC.-NUEVA YORK
1950.
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Marshall Plan Japanese
Trade Office Extension To In Karachi
Malaya Hinted
Singapore, Nov. 23.
Economic Co-operation Administrator William Foster said on Thursday the Marshall Plan might be extended to Malaya where British soldiers are
FLYING SAUCERS fighting Communist guerillas.
FACTS OR FEAR SYMPTOMS?
By George Godwin
SO-CALLED "Flying Sau-
Mr Foster said: "We wish to States is making large support the British attempt to expenditures. preserve stability and improve pos- living conditions. It is a sibility that ECA may come to Malaya as conditions might develop."
on
dollar
will leave on Mr Foster Thursday for Indonesia to con- duct top-level discussions with Indonesian officials on imple-
the menting
United States- economic agree-
in Djakarta
Press.
in
Karachi, Nov. 23,"
An official of the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday al- though the Pakistan had in- formed the SCAP headquarters that they "welcome" the establishment of the Japanese
trade office in Karachi, they had of opening, Japan and Pakis-
no information about the date
tan trade increased extensively over the past three years.
During the year 1949-50, Japan exported nearly $37,- 000,000 worth of goods to the Pakistan and one year agree- ment signed last September provided an exchange of 60,- 000,000. sterling worth of goods. between the two countries.
Japan recently made an ex- pensive bid
the to capture Pakistan trade at the Pakistan International Industries Fair, maintaining by far the largest exhibition on the fair grounds.
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Mr Foster said he was Indonesian "heartened" by ECA progressment, signed
Formosa but
considered October. Indo-China Korca and
were On his visit to Indonesia, Mr United Press. most urgently in need of aid
al-Foster will be accompanied by Mr R. Allen Griffin, ECA A Welsh revival of 1904 lea at the moment. He said,
States, chief in the Far East.-Unica cers" were first report-by a young miner, Evan Roberts, though Malaya needed no dol- being one of the world's great ed as flying over Sweden. swept through Wales whippinglars from the United
up religious enthusiasm and a The reports were circum-sense of ain to hysterical mani-dollar earners, conditions
have an acute bearing on those
the stantial
areas in which and led to the festations. theory that Russia was ex- perimenting with type of aircraft. That how it began, this story.
marvel
Reports began to circulate of a new mysterious objects in the night is sky. Old women ran to thetr pastors to report the ringing of bells in the night. Many swore to having seen lights and objects sailing in the sky. Some report- ed flights of angelic beings.
Since then reports of Flying Saucers have multiplied, while from illiterate Mexico we have even a story of a crashed inter- stellar contraption manned strange little dwarf beings!
by
Is there any basis of fact for these fantastic stories? Is the theory..that the earth is under observation by beings from an- other planet tenable?
At the moment it is not possi- ble to prove that Flying Saucers do not exist. It is notoriously difficult
In the case these hallucinated beings, lights and sounds, the the emotionally- dynamic of
sense of aroused people was a sin and a desire to secure salva- tion.
was also, in part, Maybe,, it something else.
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HALLUCINATION There may have been some
The to prove a negative. basis for the hallucination, in a But what one may do is to ad- rational source or origin.
in example,
1094, vance a theory which meets all' the known facts, the theory, in 1875, in 1869 and 1870 lights namely, that the Flying Saucers of a reputed supernatural charac- are a Agment of the human ter had been along this part of
an the Welsh coast. They imagination functioning in abnormal way.
subsequently found to be due to marsh gas.
It may come as a surprise to the reader to learn that Flying Saucers are nothing new.
Aerial objects corresponding to the descriptions given of the have been re- Flying Saucers ported on several occasions dur- ing the last century.
For example the master of hte three Brig Victoria reported luminous bodies that rose from the sea and flew away. That was in 1845. In 1836 ships re- ported mysterious flying objects
were
When those Swedes reported the first Flying Saucers theory followed fast on that report: 'the Russians were up to some mis- engendered the chief. Fear theory. Thoughout the world the emotional today fear is
of all denominator common mankind.
And so it is, as the reports of Flying Saucers, seldom of any evidential value whatsoever, but merest hearsay, increase, week
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London Express Service.
OF
ENGLAND
STATEMENT
London, Nov. 23.
The Bank of England state- ment for the week ending No- vember 22, reads as follows:
Notes in circulation .. £1,279,555,000 Public deposits
Private deposits ...... Government securities
Other securities
Receipts
Bank ratio
203,125,000
390,205,000
550,981,000
63,553,000
72,824,000
10.7
United Press.
Singapore Rubber
MARKET
London, Nov. 23.
Tin prices were much casier today at the official morning session. Turnover was 10 tons, Prices closed today at the end of the official morning session
as follows:
Spot tin, buyer
Spot tin, seller Business done
Three-months, tin, buyer Three-months tin, seller Business done
Settlement
1,010
1,040
none''
⚫930:
DGO,
none
1.023**
-United Press.
Bank Of France
Statement
Paris, Nov. 23.
The Bank of France statement for the week ending November. 16, reads as follows:-
Total gold holdings Frs. 102.784,771,248° Total of other, cur-"
rencies
Sight
*5,003,320,903
balances
abroad
140,040,556,900
Advance to curren-
су
as
fund
124,500,000,000
Bills discounted in
France
and
Abroad
Singapore, Nov. 23. Prices in the rubber futures
closed today market here follows:
Number 1 rubber, per lb.
November
December
January (1951)
2
Number rubbe
Nurember
3 rubbe
November Number 4 November
rubber
Spot rubber, unbaled nineket erepe No. 1 pale crepe
1751217612
17112-1721
163-164
1711⁄2-17234
stabilisation
Notes in circulation
Current accounts. &
deposits
376,282,230,559 1,467,529,941,478
158,976,068,749
-United Press.
160-167 London Rubber
161 - 102
183 - 184 152-154 187 - 192 -United Press.
Farming In Japan
Market
London, Nov..23. The rubber futures market opened today flat under the in- fluence of breakdown in talks export regarding the Malayan duty. Prices closed today as follows:
**
Tokyo, Nov. 23. More than 1,300,000 people
No. 1 rubber (in cents in taken up farming
per b.)
in the sky, of unspecified shape by week, so the belief that they and size. But in 1870 the barque are malignant, whether of ter- Lady of the Lake, master Cap-restrial or planetary origin, in- ¦ shall
have the explanation of tain Banner, reported a singular creases.
the Flying Saucers. They will as the fig- cloud, circular in shape in four
The world has succumbed to be revealed either sections; that travelled Into the wind "as no cloud would do." mass hysteria, and the indica-ments of the harassed subcons- have
tions are that the subconscious cious mind of a humanity hag- Japan in the past three years, January
fear of war,
or as according to new census figures Jamkry/March
Apri/June July/September NATURAL EXPLANATION dynamic of this fear is our ever ridden by
present horror of the possibility some form of natural phenome-issued here.
Japanese farm workers now October non well within the framework of a third world war.
total 37,812,267,-Reuter, of scientific explanation,
All of these reports are amenable to a natural explana- tion. A curious cloud flying ap- parently into the eye of the wind
One day, sooner or later, we
is to be explained by a contrary BACKGROUNDS: Douglas MacArthur.
high wind current. The appear- ance of fuminosity rising from the sea may well have been a no more natural phenomenon
wonderful and. awe-inspiring than that mirage which a few years ago astounded Londoners walking along The Mall.
The Flying Saucers of today may have had their origin in an unusual natural celestial pheno- menon not then or now explain- ed. The subsequent spread of such reports may have quite different explanation.
Existence may be subjective or objective. A thing imagined in the mind exists-for, that mind. A thing may exist in the pheno- metal world outside that mind. It then has an objective "exls- tence... It is real.
The new Field Marshal took
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By MELVIN K. WHITELEATHER & NORMAN MYERS
· SKOČEN SYNDICATS►
They! virtually wiped out Jive months before Pearl After the Japanese struck in
President Roosevelt December 1941, he was made a MacArthur's air force and for up residence in a pent house Harbour, In this latter sense I believe atop the Manila Hotel and dug called him back to actiye ser- full General, the only Ameri- four years to come he waged for his task. The Islands vice and named him Comman- can up to. that time, save war in the vast Pacific with; h time will prove the non-exis-} în
be defended, he said, der-in-Chief of all American Pershing, to hold the title in war minimum of men and weapons;' Thus be advanced fur- most of his country's fighting tence of Flying Saucers and the could
went to Europe. little men from Mars and all with the help of God, and the armed forces in the Pacific, time.
United States. He bombarded with rank of Lieutenant Gen ther than his Lieutenant Gen equipment the rest of the tale.,
Washington so persistently for eral. Scheming Japanese tried eral father had gone. Decem But he wrote eple after epic in 8, 1941, the Japs struck the annals of warfare with
brilliant strategy. help that they called him "The to get President Quezon to bor
sond him away.
at Clark and Nichols fields. Napoleon of Luzon,"
Stories of little people of in- explicable origin are us old as history.