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CON DAT

"HUPEN"

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"SHENGHING?"

"PAKHOP

SAILINGS TO

Saigon

Tientsin

Keelung

Djakarta, Sibu

10 a.m. 23rd May

10 om. 23rd May

5 p.m. 24th May*

5 pm. 24th May

"BINKIANG" SILHYANGH

"RZECHUEN"

5 pm. 26th May

Hirohata,

Kobe

Penang

J

10 a.m. 28th May

10 a.m. 30th May

Nagoya, Kobo

HENGKING" "gpobow"

“HUNAN" "FENGTIEN"

"FUNING"

Keelung

Yokohama, Osaica Tientsif

Djakarta, Semarang, Sourabaya & Mucasr .Singapore, Penang &

Belawan

* Sails from

ARRIVALS FROM

"BINKIANG"

.Koba

"JIANYANG”

*SZECHUEN” "'YOCHOW"

"SHENGKING'

***SOOCHOWIC

"FENGTIEN"

"FUNING"

Singapore.

6 pm, 31st May*

10 a.m.

1st Juno 10 am. 5th June

10 am. 10th June.

10 am. 13th June Custodian Wharf

24th May 25th May 20th May.

Singapore

Promper & Quigon

20/27th May

7 am, 20th May

Keolung

..Bangkok

Kobe

Japan

29th May,

7th June 11th June

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE.

BAILINGS TO

Sydney & Melbourne

“TAIYUAN

Noon 24th May

*TAIPING”

Kure & Kobe

"CHANGSHA”

,Japan

"TAIPING"

Bydney & Melbourne

30th May 5th June 16th June

ARRIVALS FROM

"TAIYUAN”

Moji

In Port

"TAIPING"

Australia & Mobila

27th May

"CHANGSHA"

..Australia

Manila

*TAIPING" -

„Kober

1st Juno 19th June

BLUE FUNNEL" LINE

Scheduled Sailings to Europe vis Aden & Port Bald i

"AUTOMEDON"

"CALOHAS"

PYRRHUS"

"CYCLOPS"

"BELLEROPTION"

Genoa, London, Rotter-

*dom

Hamburg

Liverpool & Dublin

Marsellies,

& Glasgow

Liverpool

Jeddah, London

Rotterdam

Dublin & Liverpool

Bobeduled Baijings from Europe

-8. ""ATREUS”

G. "BELLEROPHON"

8. "CYCLOPS"

G. "PELEUS"

8. "ANTILOCHUS"

Balls.

Liverpool

Sailed

Galls

Rotterdam

27th.May 20th May

8th June

24th Juno 20th June

Arrives Bong Kong -In-Port 31st May 10th June 17th June

do

do

do

Salled

do

23rd June

G. "AUTOLYCUS“,

25th May

1st July

B. "ANCHISES"

11th July

G. "PATROCLUS"

16th Junio

18th July

StifJune 12th June

8, "CLYTONEUS" . 18th Jane

G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool. 8. Londing Swansea, before Liverpool. Carriers' option fà proceed via other ports to load & discharge cargo.

24th July

DE LA RAMA LINES

SAILING for KINGSTON & NEW YORK via JAPAN SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL

“AGAMEMNON”

·ARRIVING via MANILA FROM

2nd June.

14th June

28th Juno

U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS

"DONA ALICIA"

"MANGALORE”

Lathan Pacifi

Houte

Density Hongkong

HK/Bangkok/Bingapore_ {DC-4) 30 a.m. Thurs.

Arrives B.E. -(on return) 6.4. a.m. Fri,

(Connects at Dangkok with U.B.A. to Bangoon)

HIC/TAIL hond (DC-3) 11.00 a.m. Tues. HK/Salgon/Bingapore. (DC-4) 10/40 a.m. Tues., HIC/MADHUA/B.N. Borneo (DC-4) 14Q a.m. Pr.

3.30 p.m. Wed. .6.15 p.m. Wed."

4:43 p.m. Sat.

All the above zabject to - Alteration without notice. For passenger and Freight Paříleniors please apply to

1 CONNAUGHT RD C Tel 30 BRANCH OFFICE SO Connaught Ad, 14

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1952.

CHINA

MAIL

VTNBHAM-STREE

HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONBY

Price, 20 conte per copy. -Baturdays 30 centa Subscription: $0.00 per month.

Portage: Chins and Macao #1.00 per month, UK Deilish, Pomersions and other countries $3.00 per month,

News Contribution way we Editor. business communication

come, should be addressed to the

French Operations In Hanoi Area A Complete Success

Hanoi, May 22,

Trach Niet, a tiny village 30 miles north-east of Hanoi, is today a scorched and deserted ruin --- scorched by French Union high explosive and napalm bombs, deserted by its rebel Vietminh defenders, who died or surrendered on the spot.

Trich

Not is but

one of a It was the first occasion ra- | the paddy harvest at the end of number of villages blasted out of membered on which Vietminh May, And at this stage, the existence in the series of opera-soldiers had surrendered, during, battle looked like succeeding---- tions in which the Vietminh's a battle without the element of Reuter.

and advertisments to the Bocrotary. | 08th Regiment was wiped out. surprise,

I is bounded by the thiele mud

Telephone: 26511 (5 Lines),

KOWLOON OFFICE: Salisbury Road. Telephone: 2638,

Classified Advertisements.

20 WORDS $4,00 for 1 DAY PREPAID ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS $1.80 PER DAY

10. conta PER WORD OVER 20 Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

if not prepaid a booking teo of 50 cents is charged.

MUSICAL

Bristy planos, FOR" "Well known musical instruments,accessories, ale publications, expert plano tuning and repairing, call at King's Music Company, 6, Chiu Lung Street, Tele- phone 30430.

TO ADVERTISERS

There was another now fea

of the ricefields in the area of ture about these three operations the fabulously rich shu densely-for the first time, there har populated Tonkin Delta.

been wholehearted co-operation

which

rung

castwards

from

Election

Fever Grips Italy

It was here, between, 20 and from the people of the villages, 30 miles from Hanoi, on either who had come forward in con- side of the Canal of Rapids, siderable numbers with informa-

tion

about Vietminh

tronp Hanoi, capital of North Viet-movements. nom, that the French Union Roads in the battle area were forces of General Gonzales tie badly damaged. All that was Linares; commanding this region. | loft of one was a foot-widy set out to smash the remnants of path, with deep water-nic Division 316, which the Vietminh holes dug on citier side by the had infiltrated early this year. Vietminh

Virulent to make the road

are help-

Rome, May 21., election posters. had It had been, a question' of unusable for vehicles, Troops plastered thlaker every day smashing the 08th and 174th had to "march" knee-deep in the around Italian cities. Regiments of the 316th Division, clay mud of the flooded paddying to build up tension for the the only regiments of that re-felds. bel division still in the Delta

First, there had been "Opera- tion, Porto", south of the Canal

DEEP TUNNELS

May 25 poll, when 12,000,000 Italians choose

new Provincial and Municipal Councils,

of Rapids, & Umited success,

Twisted shella of Bagalm. Each thrust, and parry in the Then à Vietnamese stelll-bombs, scorched patches of election skish is followed Kence agent reported that the ground, battle helmets and with avid interest by the man- D8th Regiment had crossed the other vestiges of combat still in-une-street, who sees a new Canal to the north. Immediately littered the approaches to the "Operation Polo" was launched, battle village of Trach Niet.

Trach Niet is typical of the fortified villages e

the rebels defend-

In heavy fighting, the Vietminh lost several hundreds killed,

MASTER STROKE

crop of posters spring up every night. Every emotion, every event in the national life is being translated into electioneering.

The two main rival parties, ing in the Tonkin Delta. Only 50 the 2,000,000-strong Italian

it was Communist

have been stubbornly

I was then that General de yards by 100 in area, Linares

his master honeycombed with deep under- Christian-Democrats, are engag played stroke,

1

· Deciding not to rest ground tunnels, where the de- ed in a specially battle-weary troops who had fenders had held out to the stinging form dt

allast.

war.

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COMPANIES

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PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwarda "CORFU", "CANTON"

"CARTHAGE”.

Lesvos London

it May 20111 May

20th June

Arrives Noackovą:

2nd June.

30th June

28th July

Via Southampton, Port Bald, Adan, Bombay, Colombo,

Komdwards

"CORÈU?

"CANTON"

“CARTBAGE"

Penang Blagapore.

.Leaves Hongkang, Dua London --

6th June

4th July

繩

August

0th July

4th August

1st September..

Accepting cargo for Singaporo, Penang, Colombe, Dom

* Outwarda

"BOMALI"

Homewards "SINGAPORE"

Accepting

› Penang,

L

bay, Aden à Leadon,

FREIGHT SERVICE

Arrives Hongkong due 29th Alay UK. & Continent

Falling

May

+

From

For

Straits, Colombo::

Aden, Genoa,

Marseilles, London

Continent

Sweltenham, cargo for. Blagapore,, Port Colombo, Aden, Genoa, Marseilles, London, Hamburg, Antwerp & Hotterdam, with liberty to call

at Dombly in inducement offers. avaliable for carriage of all in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited passenger_

accommodation.

Tank

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

dua 20th May salis 31st May

1st June. due palla 2nd June Cup 3rd June sajla Bih June

Party and the

subtle and propaganda

"WARLA"

"WARORA"

"SIRDHANA"

far

"SANTHIA"

due

*8th. June

.

only just finished a large-scale

A few shells of huts remain- SUNDAY, POST-HERALD operation in the southern area of

the Delta, he had driven themed, and the ruin of a brick ob- An Space for

effective Christian- commercial northwards, and sent them east servation tower. The trees were Democrat

poster so advertising

be of the scene of Operation Polo, blackened skeletons. Lengths of without reply is one showing to cut off the escape route jelectrical wire and gadgets pro- photos of seven self-exiled East

of a radio post.

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For the SOUTH'’· CHINA MORNING POST and tha

CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication.

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Special Announcements and Classifion Advertise- ments as usual.

of the Bering remnants of the claimed the existence, at one European tennis champions 08th Regiment.

limetre a dozen. Japanese-type | Branovic. Mitic, and E. and M.

This

was "Operation Turco, two days before the end of battle helmets lay on the Matous..

a halt. Operation Polo The result was ground, and there was

the total annihilation of the filled pan of rice. Deep craters The poster said: "It all 98th. Two days later 150 error- had been left by 250-15. bombs eltizens from behind the Iron stricken, helplessly weary rebels which had made the place un-Curtain, Instead of only a few emerged from their fox-holes intenable for the enemy,

sport champions, could breathe one of the devastated villages The aim of the French Union. the air of freedom for just one and surrendered to the French Forces is to clear the Vietminh minute, how fnany of them Union Command.

from the Tonkin Delia before would return home?"-Reuter.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WATCH HORSEFACE, YOU'LL SEE HOW.I MAKE A MASK.

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SAILINGS

DUE

In Port

26th May 6th June '13th June

*“BENDORAN”

"BENMACDBUT"

"BENVORLICI"

"RENWXVIS"

London, Rotterdam and Kinil ¿Dirsel to Singapore, thencë......Havre,

London Lantwerp.

Loading on for abk,

-K/Wharf

and

27th May

Kure, Yokohama

and Hobe,

[Havre, Liverpool,

(Glasgow

Antwerp.

10th Juns

and

16th June

| Calia Manliu, Coku, Tawan di, Sandakas,

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All Vessels bccept Cargo for Aden, Exes and Port Bald.

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FIRSTI PUT PLASTER ON HIS FACE --TO GET AMOLD. AS SOUNAS IT HARDENS--

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GREASE THE MOLD, THEN POUR PLASTER INTO IT. AFTER IT HARDENS,I BREAK OFF THE MOLD.

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THE MASTER, MASK IS COMPLETE ~~AND NOW I'M READY TO MAKE PLASTIC COPIES OF IT. ISN'T THAT PERFECT

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from Japan

for Singapore

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for Japan

- from Japan 1

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sails -9th Juna

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sails 11th June

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Higher Price Ceilings On Copper Goods

Washington, May 21.

The OMey of Defence Mobilisa- tion today authorised higher price, cellings effectiyo on June. 18 for copper products made · from imported copper.

The action was taken to per- mit manufacturers of coppor products to buy foreign

eopper

at higher world price' and thus overcome the shortage of im ports.

It clears the way for the re- sumption of copper imports from Chilo which Two weeks, -ago- abrogatóż an agreement to sell. to this country at 275 cents per pound.

Prico stabilisation: officials, do not expect the action lo" result in any significant increase in the prices of Antshed goods made

соррет,

'of

The world prices for copper recently have been about 30 cents a pound,

The

Omeo of Defence Mobilisation is not permitting any increase in the 2416 cents a pound ceiling on domestic

The

In cellings for

copper products, therefore, will be based on the amount...

foreign copper uued compared- with domestic. To ease the

impact, the National Produc

Authority will allocate foreign and

domestle copper supplies as equitably as prac ticable among United States users.United/Press..

NEW ATTEMPT ON EVEREST

Buenos Aires, May (2059 The Andean Association, today sclecicd 16 young Argentine mountaineers, to train for next year's attempt to male Mount Everest The e world's highest

mountain.

The team includes Lieutenant Francisco Ibanez, conqueror of Mount Aconcagua, the "highest- peal in the western hemisphere

-23,081 feet-United Press