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RechTha Republica o

LAOKAY

UMANOI

LUANG

PRABANG SAMNEUSI

Thailand alerts troops XENGKHOWAN

for border patrol

HAILAND

French in American-made planes harass Vietminh supply lines.

||AP Newsiraturas:

BANGKOK

FRENCH CONTROLLED AREAS

JUHERN COMMUNIST CONTROLLED AREAS

AAIJAN

Vietminh slash cut Indochina in two.

IND

HINA

Cambodia

THE CHINA · MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1954.

TRADE

COMMERCE SECTION

UK SENDS NEW CARS

Pago

ABROAD

Australia's Big Drive To Capture

£10m. Plan For Sulphur Production

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Sydney, Jan. 13. Australia has begun a £10,000,000 programme to step

her output of sulphur in a bid to Increase the production of food from the nation's hoge tracts of under-developed land.

with

Sulphur.

phosphate rocks, is one of the main in gredients of alperphosphate-- already in extensive use to los crease fertility of roll. Aantra-

lia's supply of phophate ock

from the Pacific Island of Nauru, is nesured.

Sulphur proviously had been imported from the United Stater native where, experts believe, deposits may be exhausted in 20 to 30 years.

PHNOMPENH

SAIGON

South Chino Sea

demand in

Increasing

200

your by year.

MILES

AFTER THE MEKONG RIVER, WHERE?

THAILAND

AND BURMA

ARE WORRIED BY

VIETMINH SUCCESSES

By Warren

Bennett

of Associated Press

New York, Jan. 13.

South-east Asia's little nations are keeping their fingers crossed while watching French efforts to contain the Communist Vietminh slash across Laos to the border of Thailand, which cut Indo-China in two at its narrow waist.

The little Asian monarchy of Thailand is jittery. So is Burma. What they fear is expansion of the "Thai Nationality Autonomous People's Republic" set up in southern corner of Yunnan province of China last January.

The Thai tribes originally lived in China until the terror "reign of Kublai Khan in the 13th century started an exodus into what is now Burma, Thailand and the three associated states of Indo-China: Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

In

them

It is estimated that about 7; completely populated by Thai this wiki Inaccessible country, as million of Thailand's 18 million who insisted on autonomy within well as the only road link be- people are of Chinese or That the Union of Burma when tween Saigon and northern Laos origin. The Thais in northern | Brituin granted

inde- All other routes are blocked by Vietnam and Lees already are|pendence, The Thals, whereverhills and Jungle. under Communist control through they 1lve.

French leaders say this new speak similar the Vietminh.

languages

and have comman Laos thrust is part of Moscow- Chi-minh's winter western Burma.

trained Ho for tribal customa, lastaner, the Shan Rates are

campaign. They believe it is a When Red China created the drawing action designed Thai puppet repubile it spoke spread the French Union forces fest only of plans for the com- thinly over a wide territory. paratively small aren inside The French ray they are con~ The new dent the Vietminh winter cam- state covers about 8,000 square paign will be concentrated on miles with its capital at Chell, three main fronts: L303.

in northwestern on the Mekong River near the That cruntry borders of Burma and Thailand. | Indo-China, and the Red River

Delta chout Hanoi.

Anglo-Japanese Debt Talks

Yunnan

province.

But more recent announce- London, Jan. 13. ments from Peking Radio have dringates to Fenlied for uniting of all the Thai the sterling payerents triks, here peoples. What Burma and

Anglo-Japuves?

port targets for 1054 for stme corremos vės, according 40 authoritative source.

The

bavd

couros declined to

the sterling area of which Bri-

TO MAINTAIN PAYMENTS

may take

認

the French do not defeat his thrust across Indo-China,

Prompt Reaction

The Vielminh

Coveting

to

the

This year, Australian farmera Castl rzed mat chon 2,000,000 Jons of ruperphosphate, and the stendily

found

as

Popular Price

Market This Year

By A Special Correspondent

British car manufacturers are making an all-out bid to recap- ture and enlarge overseas markets this year with the new "average income group" cars. They are slightly cheaper, and more comfortable are designed for faster, economical and motoring.

The British industry is being strongly challenged by Continental manufacturers such as Germany, France, and Italy, but it is confident it can meet the challenge.

Prominent in this low-priced group of cars will be the Standard 8, the Ford "Popular" and the two-door Austin A-30, production of which began late last year.

Standard Mctors met away

03

perfor- vehicles cate-

Sp

In US Shipyards

་་།

New York, Jail, 13. Private shipyards · In the. US face

a dreary 1934, according to Mr LR. Standford, President of the Shipbuilders' Council. of America. Few noy contracte afc in prospect,.

01

ATTNETt reils at vessel

repair yarde

Are still shrinking and there are no concrete Government plans for

relief, Any As the new year boxins, Mr Sandford pointed out, the only new business i aight consisted of orders for 11 combat ships, four- Auxiliaries and 180 landing craft, which the Navy had decided to place with, private yards.

samo

Unless there was radical Improvement in the near future. US shipyards, generally speaking. would be elmest ecmpletely fate by the end of 1854. They would then be forced either to liquidate or to try to lide themselves over on a stand-

he warned.-- by basis, China Mall Special.

which 1 saw in Paris recently, NEW YORK

GREEN-

heed which

to the rear

markots this your, are the in- 75 miles a gallon. It is priced

Con- at about £300 stg. to a good start in October with dustry's answer to the

**B"

Volks- pre during

By virtue of their tinentals- the German the new the rave of 500 a week.

mance alone, theso Now wagen, the mildget two-cylinder they are rolling off the produc- Citroen,

Renault scrape

the midget French the

into Sulphur deposits,

tlen line at about a 1,000

And

the hallan Flat which gory of "cara". Midget Citroens sulphide ct iron,

will soon

mudo their impact or prritos, are week and this rate

havo spread all over the Australian be stepped up to 2,000 weekly.

consist of just the bare some markets at the expense cent of which are continent. From Norseman in 60 por

for of the British popular-pries tials with a canvas Western Australia, Mount export.

rolls right back Ford end Morgen In

Queensland and

British Motor

bumper bat, The advent of there the island of Corporation were quick to fol- Mount Lyell cu

Standard feat Tarmants off the south coast, low the

and erre importan becaus

mentirs and the "A.30" | recom1 mining companies are spending the "Popular***

from 0 to 70 off the

**~ hundreds of thousands of pounds me raw being rushed

per cent of Ittain's let:3 for the home ports of cart brve been mali, to boost output and make Aus- production lines trala independent of imperied rude and export markets. low-priced models. sulphur.

cara, which should Britain's

CHRONIC SHORTAGE The Federal Government has set the deadline for coversion 10

local ul

in

ure

supplies

February. A chronic shortage

of superphosphate would bo

dirastrous

production.

to Australian food

In the

State of New South Wales alone, during the ast seven years The Grea of land pasture bes in-

by about

under sown

creased

acres. There

2,000,000 arc

about now 5,000,000

of acres

improved pastures in the state, and ex- can increase perts believe they

are sixfold, given proper supplies of superphosphate.

The

meaning to Australia's output of beef and mutton is

thal

enormous.

Last year, farmers were rationed to three quarters of their needs. This year, thanks to the stop-up in local pro- duction, suppiles are cheaper and more

more abundant

Tari The Federal already has moved to security against Imports local sulphur producers. It suggested that when protection becomes recessary, a bounty of not more than A£600,000 year should be paid to local producers-United Press.

These

rench

the

OVETICAS

HONGKONG

SHARE MARKET

From

new FIGUE parent

new

In

recant a number of

the dels coming off

turers were

ממ

Ures, it was nt British

manufac concentrating designing a ferily car for four preple, about the size of a pro- w 10-h.p. car Atled

with an 8 h.p. enging with a fuel com

about 30 to 40 sumption of miles a gallon.

(From Our Correspondant) enlarge lis

SLEEK SPORTS CARS

Bleck now sports cara hending Brain's attempt

market in conscious America. Since

British car sales

The M.G. Britain's

the Stockwercased in the United

Business done on Exchange this moming amount- ed to $682.888. Noon quotations States.

has been

two-seater best-seller,

Seats are not upholstered but have a washable plastic cover- Ing. There has been nɔ attempt

> retain, convention

prarance in them. There ar ugly joints in the metal frams- work of the car. The slightest bump makes it appear as though the car has been in u major collision.

STOCK

MARKET

New York, Jan. 15 Gains of a point or moreizin olls and a long list of rails,

ifted stocks ib special issues their best levels of the year on

sitri-

Since these cars appeared increased trading today.

The advance, added to a there has been less talk in Bri-

far rise yesterday, just about of really cheap cars".

Iain

pbjection

which

Wall Street saw the advance as a normal turn of events after

at

One British motoring author-crused the losses suffered in the ity

told

A 200 previous four days of decline. me recently:

As Important ns the actual stg car would have to be a tin

rise, market observers said, was box, perhaps with some funny

substantial increant in little engine in the backs; or it the

1,420,000 Acilvity-to to bare trading would be so cut down

shares from 1,230,000 yester would not де essentials that it

day. 10 serve the purpose of the modern

саг. car- the

Another hava

authorities raised was that such the four sessions of selling hid failed to generate any sellvily. a venture would be a tremen-

The general market, as mea- dous gamble for any manufac-

sured by the Dow Jones turer. The pre-war cost of tool-

average, was up 50 cents,

since Dec. 18. ah.p. motor car was about one of 1,104 Issues in which there US militan pounds and this figure were dealings, 020 wor high- would certainly be far greater er, only 223 lower and 255 un- today.

changed. There were 24 now Manufacturers remind the ad-highs set, four new lows.

a group Best performers as vocates of a £200 cor of an ex-

Wern the ella where Standart periment in the 1920's when one

California Anderson- for Oil a car

of pany produced

Oil Continental £100 stg It was not a success | Pilchard, because it was found motorists Heston Oil, Texas Pacific Land preferred a far more comfort Trust, Texas Gulf Producing. able second-hand car for

ame price.

and the morning's transactions: and the latest design-the T.F. | ing up for production of a 10 its bost, lovel

#RARES BUYERS SELLERS BALES was remodelled largely as BANKS

of the result of survey markot.

HK Bank .. 1000

INSURANCES

Lombard.... Union Underwriters

10 2000

TA

850 800 7:5

.. 10.00

1000 20

.1.15

1,500 #

1.15

83

20.00

Boarch

SJUPPING

Waterboal ensure

Asla Nav. for

DOCKS, ETC. K. Wharf Dock Provident

(Old) Provident (New) Wheelock

Singapore Rubber LAND, ETC.

Market

Singapore, Jan. 13. After a lower epong the market steadied on demand lower-grades with stime factory enquiry. Prices

Mar.

**

1+

HK Land

an

en-

'

It and other sports cars, like the more expenɛlve Jaguar XK 120 and recently, the Triumph TR 2 have introduced tirely now Geld of motoring to reared public. the American

limou- bulbous for years on sines

There are also five now cars TIF 20.70 in

category rame the 100 m.p.h.

production They are:

13.40 131⁄2 1.250 13.40 coming off British

Lines. 13.00

The Bristol 404 coupe, with

the

So, it seems, there will be no 200 car frem Britains, p And, by

an aerodynamic body, develop come good 19.00

8.05 GOO

4.000 0

6.90 0.05 1,500 22 8.90

76

300 2.03 210 2,503

Humphreys. 10.70 Really

the way, thero's

Richfield Oil, Sinclair added af to 14 points.

Motors did well.

patred fractionally.

Steels in-

The NY Stock Exchange bond

news for the man volume was $4,310,000.

ed after intensive tests in a so heartily fed up with repair- wind tunnel.

The American Stock Exchang 350,000 shares. closing averages

The Daimler Conquest road-In his own punctures. Dunlop volume w

are making a tubeless tyre, the 7014 ztor with fluid flywheel trans result of years of experiment were: 268 misalon and a pre-selected gear and hard testing.

The company claims the new The Sunbeam Alpine, basic-tyre retains air better than the two-seater Sunbeam orthodox type. It has a special leyer which will allow a long

a

Taibo!.

A sports Riley called the nail to pierce Il without causing

a "dat." Pathfinder.

Powerful British luxury cars

Bentley parameter like the Rolls Royce, and Jaguar have lately found favour among large sections of

American public,

Auto-

.... 19.30 19% 1,800 ₫ 10.50 | the

500 18.40 matic gear changes popular 10.00

box.

UTILITIES

for

Tram

Star Ferry

27.80

Kielio

Telophone... 27.80

INDUSTRIALS

Cement

Rope

26 500 €27.00 500 0% 27.00 340 34148 2. Ligm (0) 2435 14.00 1,000 14.40

14,500 1415

1.000 30% 3,400

ally

STORES, ETC.

Daley ...... 26.50 38.30 1,200 § 26-30 1,700 € 24.10 Watron 2740 02.00

200 @ 2516

COTTONS

4.10

800

In most now British cars now ccming from the industry, the frend is towards higher speeds. Brakes and steering have been improved Ini Independent front wheel suspension feature of almost every

No. 1 rubber per lb. Jan. 36°6-503%

Feb.

Bats 97% No. 2 rubber par th. Jas, 06-50% No. 3 No, A

A1-8144 Spot rubber unbaled. 50-60 United_Press. LONDON MARKET

London, Jan. 13. The rubber market was quiet with No. 1 Rss spot quoted at↑ 17% pence per lb, Prices: No. 1 pot Ita.......

17-171

17-1714 176-1734

Hatiment hauro term:

con-

L. Crawford 20.40

Textile Corp. 810 825 1000 2.500

MISCELLANEDUS

Yamali... 141-146

New York Sugar

لام

Innovation in America-is being Incorporated in many big Bri-PENINSULAR tish cars now.

сат.

HIGHER SPEEDS

13

Is a new

"Iron Division”

today examined export and Thailand fear now are the next French supply

push did cut lines along the steps that Ito Chi-minh, the Mekong to Vientiane, seat of the Vietminh leader,

March government, and to Luang- April/June Laos

the prabang,

ancient royal

313-177/ July/September General markets, cit. basin, Dorie: These and other key capital the commodities concerned, but

January

101-17 added that

are being February towns in the north the examination

26-17 March

10-16/10-17-1/10 supplied by the French by alr would continue at further mani-

-United. Press. ings.

The

The prompt action of the The Red attack came while NEW YORK MARKET talks are two-month

Several British manufacturers government to the Red the French

New York, Jam; 13. were expecting a now axported to continue into Thi

Rubber futures today closed

New York. Jon. 13. are negotiating with two com~ next week and not conclude to threat last week was hearteamy, drive on the fortified plain of wards the end of this week ni

Bangkok, From

World No. 4 sugar futures to- panses prochaing dieiet angines. Fremier Dienblenphu, 180 miles west of 10-18 points higher with sales

of 14 contracts.

day closed unchanged to 1 point When these cars come out earer thought. The negotiators Pibulsonggram ordered a state of Hanoi, in the heart of the Thai

reported to be The French still are Most of the

in higher with sales of 141 con- Standard aro business what emergency in the rins nerthem Вост

estimating

designing ons—they

shoult bo provinces bordering Laos and

futures a major attack there. Japan's experts and ingots with Burma. The commander of the The Vietminh's 310th

wort ripresented Intracte. "Tron exchanges of the March.

Domestle No. O sugar futures bosular anywhere because a trent is the banker, would be 40,000-man That national polier Division"

closed unchanged to 2 points gallon of petrol costs about is reported close to tract for physical rubber.

con- 1,57 times that of diesel

fuel durkit this year.

force, Gentral Phao, Instituted the city.

Spot No 1 Hrs were quoted higher with sales of 160

all. And experts say that where a border patrol.,

Meanwhile French pilots, fly at 204 cents a pound. Future tracts,

engine power

comparable, ing American-made B26 bombers closings:-

diesel oil will give | at least They are trying to ensure that Last week was the first time and fighter-bombers, have been

March trade is sufficient

Vietminh maintain that the

actually

fled May plastering the extended

July the post reached the Thailand frontier on supply lines. Ho Chi-minh has Sept.

had the Mekong River. The Rods has

1200. a vast army of depend on 30 miles cf the sterling payments difficulties i came, within because her imports from the Mekong last April, i their frat coolice to supply his forces and heavy air strafing being sterling arca have greatly

invasion of Ltos,

counted on to disrupt that. oceded her exports to various The second, Vietminh invasión Authoritative *** obeyrvers

the invasion is Commonwealth countries.

began on Dec. 27 from the Red Salgen believe Japanese delegation has guerilia hald coastal areas only the beginning of Ho Chi

for Incrossing around Haime and Rom. In four mini's.offensive on a number of put properats Japanme exports to markets of days, they penetrated to Thak-fronts, with political as well as the sterling area. The private hek on the Mekotug. Tydo-China

Military, objectives. talks which

out that General began on Decem at this point is only about 100

Hoeportedly has broadcasti bar are mainly aimed at re-miles wide.

isting the 1951 Anglo-Japanese The French and otomanis or peace feelers which the Francis May

July 1 payments agreement which attor two Ites divisione, about 20,000 have disregarded because they ent three extensions expires at the troops, too part in the drive. A did not come through official trend of the month, eigen was

Dr. Koichiro Asakai, retiring uwn of Thalkbank, before

KRWhat both Minister in London, loding) trusted.

Cha Chi-mink want matkaalipanema, delegation slo) the Thakchen" f strategically im-sucou to pisow them m

meetings at the Treasury-Res-portant because it commande the more "favourable "Bargaining Mekong a big trafic artery. In position for possible pešos laiks,

payments, During

Japan

to

10 months,

The

tor.

EX

to

mail" French" "Bärrison' fired' the diplomatie bd Ho

March

80.430

| twice the mileage.

Dow Jon23

30 industrinia

20 rails

is utilities

05 stocks

40 bands

Comm. futures

Index

AQUEROS SEPARABIT

prices

283,00

171.94 up United ProsE

& ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

R.M.S. "CORFU"

SAILS:

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE:

Future closinga?----

20.39-40 20,00 20.41b

Contract No. 4 (world)

Merah May

30b

70.43h

Geptoutbur

2300

20,436

United Pro21.

March (189) #pol-fcente par ib. job Cub.

31.30

That is vise quertion How- Ver that is causing wide in-. but more tafekt. 'In

1

BA?

CHICAGO GRAIN March

FUTURES

Chisago, Jan. 13. Prieci pér bualiel in centri

Closing Priess Wheat No. 2, red

Spal

amoni indiet.'t motorista

than the manufacturers... That

Friday the 15th January, at 12.00) noon for the UNITED KINGDOM vla Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Bald.

Passengers are requested to send ALL, baggage to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2. Gate, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, Hy NOON on Thursday, 14th January, 1984.

is the development of a 2200 SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand package 8.01g car to comple

the with 150 French and fallko "bebics"

July

beşli per in cit

6.60

which are finding their way in- to many overseas markata,

There is the Citroen - two- cylinder midget with a speed of 30 mp.f., and ER patrol con

galloe:) and än Hallar chry nicknamed Ethe "tear drop this which" looks lize, Bus, e

Squidwal

Exchange Rates sumption of mething like

Business Imper, done, in the Det ak - they? following

local

TO

Fearrying dashboard, and, stVUTIKK whostkopans out. It ddon 45-10- Platirci (per 100) 8060 Iiles an hour and travels af

extried by passengers themselvey, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Cón: Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only. BAGGAGE COOLIES WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. TOENTER WHARF. EUBARKATION: Pamenrers

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