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Tokyo, Aug. 14. Pearls are so plentiful in Japan today that lucky restaurant diners occasionally find them in their soup.

Stunt advertising men can afford to give away a few to boost both the pearl and restaurant business.

Japan is aiming at rebuilding her war-shattered cultured pearl industry into a 20,000,000 dollars a year export business.

Along Japan's Packfle sca- bathis, make deals deciding the board, 500 poari cultivating drms fate of the entire national erop. are busity rolsing "mother" In recent years, a menace

Shipbuilding oysters which they "seed" with has crept into the pearl busi-

Industry

Attacks

Government

Steel Allocation Insufficient

London, Aug. 14. Now that the shipbuild- ing industry has had time to digest the promise of a five-per cent increase in the steel allocation from Octo- ber 1, the consensus of opinion is that it is too meagre to be of use.

The chairman and managing director of Harland

irritating "nudle to force the nem. growth of the Japanese-invented cultured pearl.

Japan was exporting 10,000,000 daliars' (about £5,000,000) worth of cultured pearls a year in the middie 30's.

But during the war, the food shortage wrecked the cultured pearl business.

Bo-called "pearl pirates" make ♫ Itrative diving by ralding pearl, furts along the Pacific Coast. Under cover of darkness, the raiders slip into the unguarded pearl beds and carry off valuable amounts.

The growers say that there

Je is

they can do now to Government, prevent this The Japanese

but they hope utilising every avaliable

food that

future sirong Coast source, ordered all oysters to be

Guard

curb the holp may calen.

"pirates."

Meanwhile, with assistance from Government experts, pearl growers are looking to a five- your development plan to put the pearl Industry back on a higher level than ever before-Reuter,

So the Japanese "ate the golden gouse" which provided them with one of their biggest emiscellaneous Industries.

Since the war, they have been struggling to replace the millions of "mother" oysters cobbled up out of wartime ex- pediency,

HOW IT BEGAN ·

Pearl culture dates back to 1890 when a humble peddler of abalone, lobster and dried tea slugs,

Mikimoto, Kokichi thought of artificially "seoding" oysters to make every one a

and Wolff board weriments

has gone so far, as to say that the Government would receive no thanks for the increas?.

His

were im-

Argentine Trade Pact

With Czechs

Buenos Aires, Aug. 14.

A Little Too,

Realistic

BAKS!

Bpata, Aug. 14. Youngsters performing their own l'assion Play after watching a professloti- Interpretation treated

al

the seven-year-old "Chris-

tus" loa realistically.

of

The bay, Emilio Tapia.. www scourged and then tied to a vertical cross which he lost consciétianešš. Fire sid men and doctors masenged the badly-bruised Emilio for half an hour be- fore he recoverod.---Reuter,

Spare Parts Supplies For Red China

Washington. Takos New Action

Washington, Aug. 14. The United States Gov- ernment took action today to

stop the continuing trickle of American truck and jeep spare parts into Communist China.

It ordered a cloor screening of exports of such parts to the Philippines, Malays, Burma, Indonesia, Indo-China, Thailand and Ceylon to make sure that the

to be re- parts were not

Chinese Com-. to the shipped munists.

Officials said they received that some new firms are

Chemped in such re-shipment.

An official said, "It is not

mediately successful and within two decades he had hundredt A now trade pact between large in scale but neither is it Argentina and Czechoslovakia | peddling. would say It 16 will be signed within the next medium-sized." few day

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"World Peari

Chiness Rids, ho sald, Argentina will

American replacement supply hides notd and manufactured goods, casein, parts badly for American-made

and le:ps which wool, oil cakes, vegetable oils trucks and fresh, dried and conserved make up the

automotive

In a speech at the launching of imitators and competitors.

Mikimoto. now hinle and of an 8,000-ton cargo vessel at hearty at 94, is known to the Belfast, he sald that he could not believe the Government Japanese

King." were taking a realistic view of what they ought to be

He is one of the most colour- doing

ful and most respected bushest- for the shipbuilding industry as regards steel. Declaring that an in Japan and receives visits fruits.

| the industry needed no less than to his extensive oyster beds from 50 per cent, he said "We don't say thank you for a thing like that and we are not going to Say it."

were the

still

bulk of China's

got those She will receive iron and basic

Commun

they got Chino, his guest book are the names of pine many foreign

materials for the steel industry, vehicles when dignitaries. In

and oak woods, diesel he added, and have been using many Ambassadors, Since the inators and opares for farm and then for civilian and Industrial war, the then Supreme Com- industrial machinery and indus-transport and for moving troops

to and in Korta. mander, General Matthew Ridg- trial acids. way, and the Emperor of Japan

Replacement parle for trucks will apply himself have visited "Prince" until the end of 1954, after are worth their weight in gold Mikimote,

which it may be renewed an- in the Communict domain, the

official continued. nually.

shipyarde The Belfast particularly hard hit by steel allocation because Ulster

To cultivate pearls "nustel" was suffering from a consider- able amount of unemployment. It are inserted directly into the flesh of three-year-old pearl simply because was increasing they did not have the steel or stems which are sheltered from materials with which to employ natural hazards in wire cage

suspended from floating rafts. the men for whom there were plant and places, machinery, transport in Harland and Wolff's.

The

announcement has also

had a rather hard reception from Wearside shipbuilders.

They.contend that it is com-

FROM MISSISSIPPI Safe from hungry cels and

devilfish, the "mother" shells can food and be hauled to safety

oyster finds

when threatened by plankion or unfavourable currents.

The "mother" pletely inadequate for their pur- the nucle" Irritating to is poses. One shipyard spokesman soft flesh. It secretes sub- declared that the present alloca-stance

the 'around

"nuciel" 60 per cent of which hardens into pearl. tion was only their actual needs.

After three or four years, a peart will not get much larger, By then, it may be nine millimetres or more in diameter

ora

The

agreement

Neither the volume nor the value of the trade which will pass between the two countries is indientes.

Argentina's trade with Cezcho- Elovakia will be handled clusively by the monopoly IAPI-Reuter.

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SLIP IN

Sometimes they are smuggled but more often they go from hand to hand, from one **Asian port to another and finally Stalo trade over the land border or by aca

they slip into China, Beginning October Licences for replacement parts

MORE JOINING

THE

to

FORCES

London, Aug. 14.

W Tecruits

and

the

13, export

The Japanese once used tiny period inle in the same use in the American Govern-l

known as

going to new customers in the Far East will be issued only if those customers Identify them. selves to the nearest United

Legation. States Embassy or Voluntary

The customer, if he has not past British armed forces, increased done so already during the from 22,234 men women rear, must submit to United recruits In the second quarter States officials information for of 1991

the Ministryment document year,

"World Trade Directory Re- shells from the Yangtse River of Defence announced today.

But after

Men recruits to the arnty be- pot report contains brief de in China as irritants. the wat, they found even tween April and June this year

ative numbered 13,294, to the Royal scriptions of businesses, appro- Air Force 9,803, and to the ximate capital strength, sales smaller

Royal Navy 2,017.

area and general reliability of A total of 1,782 women joined foreign arms.

branches of the The Omlet of International Services

compared Trade wilt act on the Boenco (about with 2,079 in the second quarter applications only after receiving a repart from the United States of 1051-Reuter.

Embassy or Legation

MAXIMUM RATE Tyne-chipbuilders-say-the shortage of steel will continue to be felt in the yards and the increase is criticised by all local builders and repairers. They put the increase needed in the smile the Mississippi and order of 30 to 50 per

cent

now use these exclusively. at the an- Disappointment

Japan's pearl production last nouncement has also been ex-. pressed by Clyde yards, who year was more than four tons. the women's say in addition that the quan- Most went for export and netted three uties of steel supplies have, of nearly 5,000,000 dollars

£1,700,000). late been far from adequate.

Japanese Government, export Building generally continues at the maximum rate permitted officials have In recent years raw material supply issued warnings to pearl growers

market.

by

the

situation.. Sunderland's largest against "forcing" the

£7 TO £500

A

1,000-Year-Old Skeletons

in

If no report received with1- 90 days after the licence application is filed with the OIT, the application will be re- turned without action

berth has been taken a stago nearer completion. When com-

Growers, cager to rebuild the were harvesting

Toronto, Aug. 14.

Until the new procedure be- pleted, the 620-foot construction pearl market,

of University Toronto comes effective, the Ort will were fully

.on unearthed make thorough inquiries will be capable of accommodat pearls before they Ing vessels Ing

1,000-year-old of over 20,000 tons grown. As a result, pearl neck-anthropologist hos

American each transaction with now Far laces were averaging about half seven dw.

their pre-war weight.

Indian skeletons in a common Eastern customers. United

Press.

The first vessel built in the new berth will be an 10,000-fon dw motor tanker for the Alva Steamship Company Ltd. Then will come the largest ship ever built on the Wear, a motor tank- er of 20,400-lon dw for Arendal ir-Reuter,

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New York, Aug. 14.

An

A cultured pearl necklace in grave here. Japan today may be obtained for as little as £7 sterling. High quality necklaces run to £500 or

morc.

Professor J. N. Emerson found the skeletons in the course of his professional work. They were buried, he said, bofore most other known Indian burials in Canada. Growers claim that cultured The teeth were well-preserved pearls are more likely to have but showed pigns that the In- the required qualities of weight, dians suffered many of the tooth roundncas, lack of blemish, and ailments common todayAso-| radiarit lustre than natural ciated Press,

pearls harvested from various

Pacific Ocean beds by Japatieso CEYLON RUBBER divers primarily in search of pearl shell,

FOR RED CHINA

Want Reporters Protected

Tokyo, Aug. 14,

The Japan Newspaper Editors

and Publishers Association may

soon, press for legislation to pro- tect newspaper reporters from their being ordered to reveal Japan's annual Aprli pearl

Colombo, Aug. 14. sales are highly dignified and

sources to a court, little

The publicised affairs. Leading

Polish freighter Hugo An official of the association King Feisal of Iraq and his

that MPs w ba growers, processers and dealers Koilata) salled from here last raid today parly today visited the Rocke meet at the famous senelde town night with 240 tons of Ceylon asked to sponsor a bill for the feller Centre-a city of sky-

Diet, The move follows the scrapers within a city and a top of Atami, 60 miles southwest of rubber for China.

This was Ceylon's eighth confining of a Japanese reporter attraction for all sightseers in Tokyo.

Asahi Shimbun last PIRATE MENACE

signment of rubber to China from the There, the cultured pearl mil- since May, 1951, when the United month for refusing to reveal how lionaires, perhaps over cups of Nations banned the supply of he learned certain information The gulde, Mies Lola Barton, ceremonial green tea, or perhaps strategic materials to that coun-in a tax bribery scandal.- Enid: "I was terrifed at first. But | lying in communal halsprings) try-Reuter,

Reuter.

New York.

King Feisal teek enapshots during the tour,

I relaxed when I found the King

so nice and charting."

The King was most impressed

by whit,he saw,-Heutor."

Japan To Buy Comet Jets

Tokyo, Aug. 14. Jupan "Ablindu ahnounced tom! day that two company reproa sentatives would thorli, leavu 'for Loridoti · to arrango” details for the purchase of two Comet Jet airlinergi

In addition, Japan Airlines would buy three De Havilland Heron

passenger Undr Reuter.

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