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"FENGNING"

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

(Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong)

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"FUNING"

"BĤENGKING"

"YOCHOW"

"PAKHOJ"

"FUKIEN"

"HUFEN" "SHENGKING"

"POYANG"

"FENGTIEN"

"PAKHOTM"

"YUNNAN"

"FUKIEN"

SAILINGS TO Djakarta, Semarang, Sourabaya & Macksvar Kaohsiung, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobo

Ost len

Nagoya,

OsL kI & Kobe Singapore, Belawan & Penong

Ba.m. 27: June

8 bm. 27th June

5 p.m. 27th Juno" 10 m, 28th June

10 a.m. 29th June

8 m. 30 June

Tsingtao & Tientsin Keelunk Bangkoit

10 nm. 30th June

5 p.m. 4th July

8 b.m. 11 July

Djukaria, Semarang, Saurabaya & Mocnsmar

10 am. 9th July

• Balls from Custodian Wharf

7 m, 28th June

7 am. 26th Juno

- 27 June

ARRIVALS FROM

Bangkok

Shanghai

Moji

Tientsin

"SHENGRING"

"POYANG"

"FENGTIEN"

"HUFEN".

Keelul

Kobe

Kove

27th June

7 LIT.

2nd July

7th July 8th July

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

"TAIYUAN"

"SOOCHOW”

"CHANGTE"

SAILINGS TO Sydney & Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samurai Loo, Madang, Kavieng & Rabaul

Sydney & Melbourne ARRIVALS- FROM

Kube

"TAIYUAN" "CHANGTE"

Kube

"CHANOSILA"

....Australia

Japan

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Noon 20th June

Noon 20 June 6th July

In Port 3rd July 8th July

Scheduled Ballings. to Europe via Aden à Port Bald.

"PELEUS"

"MENTOR"

"BELLEROPHON" 'Liverpool M' Gilusgow

"ALCINOUS"

"PATROČLUS"

G. "MENTOR"

9. "ALCINOUS"

↑ THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1953,

CHINA

MAIL

ZZJEJEWYNDHAM:STILES

HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONG)

Price, 20 cents per copy.

Saturdays 30 cents Subscription: $0.00 per month.

He Beats

Russian Sailors"

Mechanical Buying Spree In

Brain

Calculating machines now in

South

USD can work out in a few or core wi minutes complented arithme- tical sums it would take most

men days to solve. But a forty-

Postage: China and Macao $3.00 per math, UK, Drush Possessions and ollier countries $7.00 per month. year-old Dulch prodigy, ` Wim Nowa contributions, always wel-Kieth, has proved that his brain

come, ploud be addressed to the

worke nine times as fast as the

antur, taneas contumunications and advertisements to Ulio Secretary, best machine Britain can pro-

Telephone: 26411 (5 CineR). -

KOWLOON OFFICE: Ballbury Load, Telephone 82038. +

duce,

f.

In a demonstration at Moston,

Africa

has

Capetown, June 24. The new Russia Malenkov's Russia made a big impression in this city with prodigal buying sprees.

Capetown is used to the annual visit of Russians going to and fro on Antarctic whaling expeditions, But nothing like this has happened before,,

Usually it in a march through extracts the price of the goods a group of solemn, and then hands the wallet back. the town of Lancashire, where calculating silent,

staring Russians in With sille, the whalemen pass machines are made, Klein chal-groups of six or seven, headed it from hand to hand, fingering lenged the machine and won by a commissar whu does all the cloth and tearing off bits hands down, and proved himself the talking, and moving at the until it is taken from them... as fast or faster than any ent- pace of Volga boatmen. culating prodigy of whom there Is historic record,

Classified Advertisements 20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID

INSERTIONS ADDITIONAL

Klein, who was seized by a $1.50 PER DAY 16 cents PER WORD OVER 20 | passion for figures when he was

Births, Deaths, Marriages, the multipikcation table

seven years old, knows by heart up to Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word.

ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

100 times, "squares" up 10 1,000, the first 20 powers of 3 as well as the logarithms to five decimal places up to 130. He told his fascinated audience that if not prepaid a booking fee he was calculating for his own of 50 cents in charged.

pleasure up to 20 decimal points at sixteen years of age.

BIRTHS

WELLER --TO Juan Nee Bradbury) wife of t. A. Welker at Queen -Mary Hospital on June 21, 1953,

daughter, both well.

Marseilles,

Liverpool

Glasgow

6th July 14th July

.Liverpool, Dublin &

Avonmouth

24th July

25th July

银

Genoa, London, Rolzer-

dam, Ainsterdam

Hamburg

...Marseilles, Liverpool &

Glasgow

་

Scheduled Sailings from Europe

G. "PATROCLUS"

"CYCLOPS"

G. "AUTOLYCUS"

5. "LAUMEDON"

G. "PERSEUS"

S. "CLYTONEUS“

Gli Aug.

Arrives

Jiont Hou

Balla Liverpool

Baile Rotterdam

Sailed do

30th June

8th July

Sailed

13 July

23rd July

24th June

2001 July

3rd July

7th Aug.

7: July

13th July

15th Aug.

.. 18th July

22nd Aug.

G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool, 8. Loading swadısa, before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via other polis to load & discharge cRICO

FOR SALE

OLDE MILL'A disfisetive hand- In boxes, 30 abrets Platībatery

They

trafic

WELL-BEHAVED

vel ignored lights, plodding grimly through the speeding wheels at peak policemen, and stopping in the bound hours, stolidly by-passing traffic dozens for hOUTH aa shop middle of the street to store at the Dash of nylon stockings on

pretty girl."

New Russia's manners are no

Mechanical toys have kept of Krown men spell salatents demonstrate walking doils, moving tanks, guns which tire corks and hundreds of these are on their way to presumably

And all day long a procession

longer those of the steppe. No enlivened homes in Russia. ono knows what instructions The row Russians are apt to have been passed from Moscow stop girls, shake hands and move Kather to the dirty, all-meared whalo off shyly. They will factory ship now in port and round blind man in the street give him banknotes. A her whale gunners before they ari

coloured man playing a banjo) sighted Table Bay.

But the Russians are different will eat thern Jigging on the In many ways, although they pavement. are the same stocky, blue-serged In the course of his demon-seamen, stration he multipiled 10 digits by ten

It is smiles all the way. The dock to the big Rustan ship

Slava, weighed down with more in his head

par- in most astonished section are the

ccls. They are well-behaved, less than a minute. He divided | shop girls who have in the past|

enen, apparently and- few days served the Malenkoy sanding a row of figures on

large Russling with luxury articles mated with disciplined goodwill, binckboard by 2,071,723 and for their

The few people who can talk gave 45,005 as the answer

their language

quote them "We are all frienda ni amazing speed.

saying He gave the

last." square root of 150 as 12.2474

In home.

notepaper, by envelopes. Post SvD ity..te per box, Luke fly. $11.50 and, on being prodded, prompt-

per bux frằm “8, 2. M. Post."

1/4 "BELLEROPION"

womenfolk

back

ON THEIR OWN

The ship's master, 40-year-old

ly added 407 to the decimal. Alexel Solynik, distributed

Leen

spent

of Ruslans makes its way to the

Ar

GIANT STARTING

HANDLE

London, June 24..

A 42-ton "starting handle"

Britain's commercial jet

He also dcalt with the

£54,000 among his expedillon in South African notes on arrival, PRICE O CONSIGNEES logarithm of the fifth root of and it is estimated that most of

083, and then

multiplled this hag 35,712 by 42,791 and divided Whalemen, in the

here. same parties the product by 19,321.

of six or seven, have dropped for the commissars, and they have fleet has been demonstrated on Damaged cargo ex thì vessel will Klein, not surprisingly, is been on their own gigantic be surveyed by Messrs. Goddard & employed

alica Comet at London Airport, calculator at spending spree. Silks,

satins, The giant mobile ground Gouglas at Holt's Wharf from 10 #351.

baby the

silver, tapestry, linen, on June 26 and 27, 1953 and cun-

Centre,

power unit, 13 ft long and 6 layouts and blankets have been ft. high, answers the air Lino signees are requested to have thele | Amsterdam, and is visiting carted to the dock, bound representatives present during the Britain to lecture at grammar Russia.

for operators' problem of starting

·SLITVEY.

the most powerful jet engine schools at the invitation of the. The Russians speake no devised. Ая well as providing London University Institute of English. If they like a roll of the enormous power necessary to Education. He has also given blue serge, they beam at the start the jet engines the new an audition in London organised shop assistant and Alve her the unit gives current for ground by the Magic Circle.

wallet, from which the girl tests and servicing purposes.

BUTTERFIELD, & SWIRE, Agent.

PRE DE LA RAMA LINES

LINES Hong Kong, June 21, 1963.

ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC &

"AJAX" "HAINAN"

PACIFIC COAST PORTS.

30th Juno 16th July

5th July 20th July

SAILING for NEW YORK, via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.

"DONA NATI"

"BENARES"

Accept cargo for Kingston and to Central & South American ports on

through bills of lading.

Fathay Paci

Wathayfkacific hirways Ltda

Roule

Departs Hongkong

UK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 1.00 am, Tue. Fri.

HK/Hangt/Haiphong HK/Salon/Singapore UK/Mania/8.N. Borneo

HK/Bangkok/Rangoon/

Calcutta

Connects at Bangkok with

DC-3 11.00 am. Tue. DC-41 11.30 ant. Wea. (DC-3) 7.00 am. Tua, Sri.

(DC-4) 13.00 p.m. Ent.

Arrives ..

fan return)

7.3 mm, Wed. Sat. UBA. to Tangoon)

3.30 p.m. Wed, 04 D. 1. 4.43 pm. Wed. Sat.

600 p.m. Sun.

All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage. and Freight Particulars please apply to

ICONNAUGHT RD (C. Tel 30331/87 BRANCH OFFICE 50 Connaught Rd West; 2587532144, 24878

as a

Mathematics

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN,|| YOU ARE MY DIRECT

DESCENDANT?

FERDINAND

CAMPING

IN THE YEAR 5,000

WHAT DOES IT USUALLY MEANT YOU ARE MY ANCESTRA.Oh,DON'T DOUBT ME. I LOOKED IT ALLUP IN

THE ARCHIVES,

Breakdown Problem

By Leo Falk and Phil Davis

I AM YOUR GRAND-DAUGHTER, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY TIMES REMOVED. THAT'S WHY I KNEW YOU'D BE STUBBORN.

THE FAMIL

ALWAYS BEEN,

EVER SINCE.

9-20

BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN | MARRIED, AND HAVE

NO CHILDREN.

YOU WILL. HISTORY NEVER LIES!

CONTINUED-

By Mik

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Da Hongkong 2012 June

27th July

24th August

Outwards "CARTHAGE" "CORFU" "CANTON"

Leaves London

30th May

25th June

23rd July

20th August

"CARTHAGE"

21st September

Via Southampton, Port Bald, Aden, Dombay, Colombo,

· Penang & Singapore

Homewards "CARTHAGE”

"CORFU"

"CANTON"

"CARTHAGE"

Leaves Hongkong. Dite London

3rd July

21st July

20th. August

4th August

1st Sept.

24th Sept.

26th September 20th October

Accepting cargo for Bingapore, Fenang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Fort Bald & London

Outwarda "SURAT

Homewards "BUNDA"

FREIGHT SERVICE

Due

151 July

Baile

10th July

"BHILLONG"

20.71 July

For

Japan

For

Singapore, Penang. Port Swittenhain, Colombo. Aden, Fort Baid, Genoå, **** Marseille, Havre, London, Antwerp. Rotterdam & Hainburg

With liberty to call at Relawan before or after Stralia ...

Ports and at Bombay if inducement offers. Tanks available for carriage of Oil In Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo, Limited Passenger accommodation.

BRITISH INDIA S.N, CO., LTD.

"SANTHIA”

"WARORA”

"ÖRDIA"

due 1st July satis 3rd July

duc 5th July Balis 7th July

from 'Japan for Singapore, Penang, tangana de Calcutta from Japan for Bingapore, Ran- goon & Calcutts

P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE dua 26th Juna ails 17th June

"OLINDA"

Jue 2nd July saila

3rd July

for. Bingapore, Calensbu, Bombay, Karuch!.

Kuwait Khorramshahr,

atrect

&

poris

knarán other P.G. via Bombay from Japan for Singapore, Colombo, ambay

Karachi

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.

"EASTERN" "NANKIN"

"EASTERN"

walls 21st July duo 27th July amila 29th July

mails 14th Aug.

4.

for Japan

For Bydney Adelaide bourne

Mai-

for Lac, Sydney, Newenstie, Adelaide & MelbouING

":

All vessels have liberty to call at any porta un or off the route & the route & sailing are subject: to change or amendment with or without notice.

78 449

BEN LINE

"BENLEDI”

"BENALDER" "BENCLEUCHI”

U.K.

SAILING S

28th July 18th Aug.

Loading on or abt,

COLLAPSIBLE FURNLYUBK

NANCY

WHERE'S

YOUR DOG?

HE'S OVER THERE BURYING A BONE

ARRIVAL B

Doe

on or abt. Etli July

From

"BENATTOW"

U.E..

U.K

U.K.

"BENATTOW"

"DENCRUACHAN"

"BENLEDI"

{"BIENALDER"

"BENLEDI”

+8'DENCLEUCH"

+8"BENLAWERB"

Liverpool, Dublin, Rosserdam and Hamburg.

Direct to Singapore, thence AVTO. London, Rotterdam and Antwerp, Kuro, Kobe and Yokoliams. Genoa, Liverpool, Rotterdam and Hull.

Direct to Singapore, thence London, Antwerp. Rotterdam and Hamburg. Havre, London, Rotterdam sud lluik, Genoa, Liverpool, Rotterdam and Hamburg.

9 Calls Manila,

*

† Calls Djibouti instead of Aden.

18th July

10th July

18th July

22nd July

Slat July

10 AUT.

20th Aug.

29th Aur.

All vessels accept cargo for Buen und Port Bald.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.

York Building.

Agente

Tel. 34165 & 38710.

Dog-gone

Almost

-ERNIE BUSHMILLER,

JOHNNY HAZARD

· ACCORDING TO THE SENTRY'D LOGBOOK, A TELEPHONE REPAIR PAAN GAINED ADMITTANCE TO THE

TOWER EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING!

FROM THE SENTRY'S DESCRIPTION, THE MAN HAD BUSHY HAIR, A SCAR ON RIS CHEEK ANDA PRONOUNCED.

LIMP!

LOOK--- WHAT THAT SILLY POOCH DID.

HE PRESENTED TH PASS FROM SCOTLAND - YARD? THE SENTRY CALLED TO CHECK... AND CLAIMS THAT INSPECTOR ARNOLD

› VERIFIED IT!

PREPOSTEROUS!

I'ISSUED NO PASS. SPOKE TO NO SENTRY!

By Ernie Bushmiller

By Frank Robbins

EXACTLY/THIS "UNESMAN” WAS FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH THE TOWER TO KNOW WYERB THE ALARM WASILAND TO

DISCONNECT IT!

*. Dine

At the

porliculars apply t

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD.

Telephone Nos 27721-4

P.G

For

Reservations, Tel: 27880

NOVO

Delicious

extra strong

peppermint flavour

FAMED V.C.

DEAD

London, Juno 24.

First Territorial ranker: to win the Victoria Cross during World War One, Captain Douglas Belcher has died at Claygate, Surrey,

Captain Belcher's long mill- tary career was marked by or unusual achievement, twice ho calisted in the ranks and twice he was commissioned, rising, to captain on both occasions,

It was as a boy of 10 that ho first put on uniform, joining 'thờ” Volunteer Free in 1908. --In · 1912 he joined the Rife Brigide," and it was in 1910 that he won his V. C. during the second battle of Ypres. He was lance sergeant in charge of on advanced breast worke south of the Wieltje-91. Jullen mad and organised its defence.....by, men under heavy enemy bon

bardment.

oight

Tho parapet was continually shattered by shellfire, but by *kili and gallantry ho malt- tained his position for 13 hours, aring on the enemy at short rango as they gathered for an attack

"There is little doubt that the bold front held by him provent- ed the enemy breaking through and averteti on attack on the

Made by ROWNTREE'S Bank of one of our divisims"

...this situation · calls for a

San Miguel

stated the official citation, ***

During the last two years of the war Captain Belcher was commissioned and served with the Queen Victoria Rudes. From 1910 to 1922 ho served with the Gurkha Rifles, Indian

Cuplal

6th.

wo

Army, retiring, as a captal Shortly before World War be joined a national

defence company and in August 1930 enlisted in the London Rifles as a private. Later he was com- missioned in the Royal Army Pay Corps and was Invalided out: of tho Ariny In 1943.

On the morning after his death 4 Coronation Medal, u sent by post, was received at his hörde: It would have been hit, second Coronation móðål. One of Copaz” tain Belcher's - two sota la i quartermaster-airgeant.serving with REME. in Singapore.