1954-01-08 — Page 4

Page

What's best in Kowloon?

KONTAKAN TERUELFIENSTENAAR ZONESIA TEMA ESENZAATTEJA LUKSIN

Cog D'or

Under European Management

THE RESTAURANT WITH ROMANTIC ATMOSPHERE

IT'S DIFFERENT

IT'S DELIGHTFUL

Only the Best Wines and Spirits Stocked

EUROPEAN AND CHINESE MEALS DINE AND DANCE

74. Tai Po Rd.

At

THE COQ D'OR

Tel. 54697

PRINCESS GARDEN

:

FAMOUS PEKING FOOD

PRINCESS THEATRE BLOG. KOWLOON 54169.

Mayai & Co.

LADIES & CENTS EXPERT TAILOR

Ready-made Conts. Sults, Evening & Cocktail Dresses, Camel- hoir, Cashmere, Various Qualities of Woollen Materials for Winter Garments. Mail Orders Accepted. Quick & Satisfactory Service, 120 Nathan Rd. (Next to Princess Theatre) Kowloon. Tel: 54708.

SUITS COATS

EVENING DRESSES

FRANCIA FASHIONS

HIGH CLASS LADIES TAILOR

S9A KIMBERLEY ROAD

KOWLOON

Ready-made

Made to measure

MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED INSPECTION WELCOMED

ZORIC DRY CLEANING

CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT. THERE IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY. IT IS USED AT ..

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

Call 58266 For Collection and Deliveries

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Baby Book

Here it is... the book that

gives complete Information on the care of the baby and small child from the prenatal period through to the aixth advice year ..... detalled

on Routines, Manus, Recipes, Training, First Aid

Complete Record Section from Birth to the twelfth Year.

Illustrated by over 200 "how-to" photographs and drawings, sunse

in two colour.

240 pages. Packed in attractive gift box.

$25.00

Obtainable only at Bouth China Morning Post Wyndham Street, Hong Kong & Salisbury Road, Kowloon

THE CHINA MAIĻA FRIDAY, -- JANUARY 1954.

DAILY EXPRESS

'BERIA PULLED CUM ON MALENKOY

"If we can be sure of there being a French Prime Minister we can have a BIG FOUR ranference - if we can be sure no one pulls another gun on Malenkov ....

-(London Express Service)

IRON CURTAIN REPort STUDIED BY WASHINGTON EXPERTS

'Beria pulled gun on Malenkov’

(FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

LAVRENTI BERIA, once

all-powerful head

Secret

the Soviet

ef

TEN MEN ON THE SILENT

By

JACK SENN

IXTEEN

London.

hundred

miles south of tho warm, tuscious,

fruit-growing lands

of Tasmania lies the sixth continent Antarctica.

For long agea only sea birds and seals visited its shores, It was only fifty years ago that the intrepid Sir Georgo Newnes wont there as an explorer, follow- ed by Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen.

But today the great Powers are slowly realising the value of this continent. encircled in winter by six hundred miles of ice,

sonal ico gear.

FRONTIER

At the foot of "Big Ben," Heard Island's 9,000 fact, snow-covered volcano, the Australian Antarctic Expedition will have a forward baso. It may yet become the

driven American sledges This will mean building These shiny, clusive animals стоваголов of new world

have shorp teeth, with caravans attached, two five huts, erecting radio are savage, Powerful ice- air routes.

weigh half a ton, and are al ski-fitted light aircraft, aerials, installing diesel-

most impossible to catch. But breakers may keep the sea radio equipment, and per driven electric power plants, in 1951 one expectant mother Janes clear for ships

and setting up meteor- was caught. traversing the bottom of

She delivered a pup,

and the world.

From there the expedition ological instruments,

one diary of the event summed plans to land un Mc- With the base establish- : "scaled and delivered." Under its ice-cap are be Robertson Land, an Aus- ed. the men will start lieved exist valuable

tralian segment of Antare careful mapping of the area minerala. There

may be

tica, a thousand miles south and make further investiga- big deposits of lead, silver of Heard Island.

tion ef the continent's and atomic ores. For the

geology. of the Antarctic geology rocks tallles exactly with that of New South Wales, where the same ores are from the Danish Govern- 300 miles inland on their being mined.

to

The team will be trans- ported there by the research vessel Kista Dan, chartered

ment.

The

Meanwhile, the field crew of the party will journey

powered sledges.

But fe at the base of Heard Island's 9000-feet "Big Ben" volcano provides few laughs.

The setting is gloomy. The sun appears as a weak, hazy, silver ball for only half an hour every day, end 13 soon enshrouded in snow clouds and clinging mista.

д

Island one

day dug

It is easy to believe in the There is certainly coal-

will two aircraft

Some of the scientists supernatural, good coal-in seven and hated him.

feet guide them through the will stay behind to study Australian maintenance men seams, a sign that ages ago dangerous ice-floes into the sea phenomena, such as the on Heard the South Pole was covered free summer waters which moods of tides and sea ice, up a skull believed to be that ninteenth-century scal by tropical forests,

lash the 60-feet Ice shelf of to ensure the safe landing trapper. the silent continent.

of future parties.

And in these parts, where humour Is precious as packet of cigareties or a pint of beer, the lonely men Jokingly called him Yorlek.

on

Д

New York. others feared

He also knew they had made an uneasy ppet to put him out of the way."

So ho determined supreme gamble; to wipe out his himself. With men aiready in chief opponents at one stroke key positions at very level of government and in the armed belleved he could forces, he

in

Police, was neither arrested, tried, nor executed-he was shot down in a pistol duel the Kremlin when he tried a personal coup to snatch Stalin's throne.

That

now being studied by report Washington experts,

The report came from sources strong- Georgia Berin's held:

Stalin, Was the news Georgian-soon after of his arrest last July

But at the time it could only be regarded as an Interesting possibility.

Then

the Kremlin's announcement that 04-year-old Beria would be brought to trial

Here before a People's Court, was a test.

of a is the substance

he, like

tume

Top three

Beria was produced for trial the report would collapse. But now the test has been applied and the report has pass ed it. Neither Berla, nor any of the top henchmen sentenced

In

to death with him, were pro- duced. Their trial was

their accret

executions Im- mediabe

seize power instantly,

con-

In the middle of the in But whether he missed his first ference he whipped out a pistol.

target, Malenkov, or whether his pistol misfired is not known. It is said that one of Bulganin's aides shot him down and that his own bodyguard surrendered.

Too dramatic

What arc the Washington experts saying now of what at first seemed almost too dramatic ☐ settlement of the differences between Russla's rulers?

Wealth There

build

There, on the true coast- line, the party hopes to And THERE is wealth off the exposed rocks on which to a permanent settle. shores of Antarctica too. Below the drifting icebergs ment. are fish and a super- abundance of plankton, their food.

one

This plankton could day, after chemical treat- ment,

be converted into food for humans and animals.

And these Bame waters produce the world's biggest annual harvest in whales... worth about £30,000,000..

FIRST, of couse, that such a

Now the Australians, clash could happen among men accustomed to achieving political who have already paid parti- ambitions by liquidating opposi-cular attention to Heard tion.

and McQuarie Islands and SECOND, it does provide a their other southern posses plausible answer to why Beria

chormous

power and prisoner so easily,

It has been raid that Beria's downfall was brought about by So now experts are studying Red Army chiefs, the only men with power approaching his

the report again.

only

sance

could have been stripped of hissions, are planning an ex- made a pedition to consolidate their

claim on the continent.

In preparation, reconnais- planes from Mel- bourne are making regular flights to collect material and pictorial information for the venture. This will be early this year.

own.

It says that soon after Stalin's

But Beria had infiltrated the death Malenkov, Molotov, and

Red Army too. His political Berla, and Marshal Bulganin-

were nctive from representing the Red Army commissara met in secret in the Kremlin, company level upwards-and

access to Accompanied

their they had

all orders by closest aides,

issued. Berla-who knew everything So there is one question which going on in Russia and wielded the Georgia report does not more personal power than ail an wer: Who drew first in the others put together-al- Kremlin gun fight? Was it ready know how much the Beria or was it the Red Army?

the

OLD

WITH the advent of a

W New Year, millions of

First, a ten-man expedi- tion will meet, at`a forward base on Heard Island, just outside the pack-ice limit. They will check equipment there → huskies, motor-

MOORE'S 257

By J. W. TAYLOR

the

your.

Ready for anything. This is how a member of the Expedition is fitted out, ice axe, snow-goggles and complete with crampons,

nylon rope.

YEARS

There was the startling Old Moore's horoscope of Princess Elizabeth in the 1930 edition:

Eliz constitutional changes of

the

people the world over will curate, although written ing reading for the many ex- turn to an old favourite for at least a year before their pectant subscribers, especially

when it is considered that all permanent nature will have his forecasts of the future final publication.

la written twelve months before been effected in the country of -Old Mooro's Almanack. The original Doctor Moore the year under review, with a her birth before the Princess attains her 14th year. Princess Down through the ages men was a physician at the court of Fublishing date in the late Elizabeth was only ten when have tried to foresee what ng Charles II and was a spring of the

some preceding King Edward VIII abdicated well-known astrologer in

and she became heir to the future held in store for city of London in the 17th cen them, and for over 250 tury. He caused quite a stir in. For 1984 there is forecast a Throne to which she has now years forecaster

1608 with the publication of his Royal romance, a big, boom in succeeded as Queen. Francis

Old Moore had uncanny prophetic almanack containing gold shares, development of m- ternal problems in Russia, a

the futuro when peep into

of of which

*the to be, as with horoscope of Presidest Eisen he

on and indicatione

upheaval those of the subsequent 19 years hower,

nings of for

Central Europe-it being publication, of

astonishingly the year's big races. acar the mark.

One se in retrospect the from unlikely that Germany will now absorb Austria," Stationers Company astonishing forecasting facility Early in 1938 Germany marched The carried on the almanack after of Old Moore. Although pre- and Austria came under Berlin his death in 1716 until the pared for publicstion 12 months

Moore has gained fame for his prea for the year 1091

his predilections, some them astonishingly

ac

Comfortable, Safe, Invisible

CONTACT LENSES

wroto

SECOND WAR

copyright passed to Foulshams, before, Old Moore wrote of domination, the present Fleet Street pub- lishers. Then early in the 19th century the familiar word "Old" was added to the title so that the now famous almanack be came known under its popular teme of Foulsham's Original Old Moore's Almanack.

ACCURATE FORECASTS

begin- in

for

May 1920; "The month will creato events of historical, in-. Eighteen months befarchand terest.

Mars, to conjunction Old - Moore's predictions 'for with Uranus, now makes for a September, 1938, were prepared crisis in transports, and a great and road: * war in Central strike will occur. It is a mat- Europe will only" "be" sverted ter of history that the Genermi with the greatest dimiculty. Strike began in May 3, 1918. Readers remembered; this when .1931. Old Moore the 1938 Munich cride arose. A

Band at General World War.

ΟΙ

the fall of your later · came the Second

Most up-to-date style. ve Worn without fluid. Whole day wearing tolerance No molding required, For particulars, please contact|-

The almanack... of today re- Election, in which a new kika KOWLOON OPTICAL CO. | mains faithful to the procedure tonal Clovernment will be re- self who said in a speech after 20, Cameron Road, mahatul started by Dr Moore, the new turned in the chief about: in mould; that he was unable to Hèíä: Offer;. 563, Nathan Rd. curacy of the forecasting of that month after the fall of tell the people what was going Brunch" Offor: '71, Til Po Ba major events of the "ruit quilar - Bammy - MioDonald's: Governs to happen 5.in the future," but

of a century making: faminati›ment,

THEE DLA Maure primed to know.

It was Mr Chamberlain him-

Strange Sights

BUT their work will begin

on Heard Island, where they will study marine biology and migratory habits of birds and seals.

DU

#

But the laugh was a poor one.

Real Dilemma

FROM

ROM that day strange and unforeseen things began to

others.

Then the men decided

And in these parts, happen some more serious than thrashed by swirling snow to bury Yorick again, for only and stinging sleet, where he was enjoying the joke. And

have from the moment ho so far cnly 14 men lived a hermit

solemnly reinterred, the ghostly existence,

pranks ceased as mysteriously there are many strange as they had started. creatures few have seen.

was

But when the Kista Dan safis further South this month, For instance, there are Yorick's ghost and even the wingless flies believed

to rigours of Heard Island will

be millions of years old. pale before the ordeal of set- Scientists presume that in ting this unexplored land of

ice and snow. the face of sixty-mile-nn- hour gales they decided it Tapping the minerals wili dilemma, present the first real would be easier

walk, for the

coal and uranium lie and so through the cen- deep under, the ice-cap, turies their wings atrophied

But

to

the risks

are worth and fell off completely. taking. And some day the "message written on a vermillion Island also sees the post in snowbound Heard Island migration of leopard may not sound so fantastic. It They go there to give says: "Wait here 'for trams -

Heard

yearly

scals.

birth to

their young.

signal driver"

Made from only the 4 finest!

obtainable, from

TAIKOO

LICING

SUGAR