1954-02-11 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,

1954.

Baccha Takes A Quiet Siesta

Page

This is Baccha, the Indian tiger, at the London Zoo. There is no warm hearth, in fact his cage is pretty chilly. But when a tiger has had a big meal he

gets sleepy in any weather.--Reuterphoto.

A New Job

For La Brigitte, The

Petite

Parachuting War Reporter

Hanoi, Feb. 10.

"Madame Parachute," a slim French girl reporter who has parachuted down on battlefields all over Indo-China in the past two years, is leaving the war here this spring to fight another battle-in the United States.

She wants to collect enough ammunition there to combat what she calls “uninformed" criticism in France of Americans-caused, she says, by French pride and obstinacy.

"Madame Parachute" is not a Madame at all. She is 29-year-old Mademoiselle Brigitte Frinng who carries with her, even on the battle- field, the chic of a fashionable Paris couturier.

stubbed She was

Madame

She had no to get in touch | fight for something worthwhile," Parachute" by the tough reite with agents who parachuted she explained. "In France, they were only willing to fight for beret paratroops here, many into France, and maintain con-

the beefsteaks," almost stopped tact with London.

this

whom have being amazed

P910, live-fu t float down inter them.

at seeing tw-arch petton

But not all of that. When she dropped mountain bowl af

Thu on the northern

KI

But Brigitte was eventually with caught by the Gestapo, the Ger- man political police. A fellow- worker in the resistance inove ment had given them her des- into the cription under 1er latre, in

tu Dien Bien March 1944, she

1540t borders rendezvous in the garden of the

Paris

of Loot in November 1953, her | Pulula de Chaillt, now the parachute caught in a tree, and

home of the

she was left swaying in mid-air Nations. The

20 feet from the ground.

Arvid comrades

United were

|

Brigitte had done a prelimia- ary course of controlled para- chuta jumps from lowers at a training school in Algeria in 1946.

Indo-

reached

When she Ching, she askext permission "as trained parachutist" to go on prations. In May 1952, made her Arst real Jump on a military

sho

on the borders of Cochin China

After

that, the and AnnRM, But a military authorities decided she right ought to be trained as a para- the chutist before she leapt from

any more aircraft,

The following year, Brigitte Friang jumpet with most major parachute operations in Indo- China

Gestapo there waiting for her. who She ran for her life. A French paratrooper,

Lore was so surprised well-aimed bullet spotted her,

from her body that he ran away as though he through had seen a ghost, yelling "A small of her back to the front French girl'

of her abdomen. She was taken There's a French

to hospital. expecter to die. gel up that free!”

Nor did he returni

But Brigitte Fring lived, to hne found two

of interrogation and to fare weeks of accompany him,

threats, But she kept silence,

Her most thrilling jump, she Indo-China. Brigitte When arrested, she was carry-rays, was her last in 1993, when Friang bus come into the public ing no criminating documents she pluminetted down on Muong Laotian village uye because of her spectacular She admitted she knew the un- Khouat, feats a

a_reporter-parachutist derground cell lender, bat only stronghold on

"Opium tha for offlela! French war publien- as a friend,

Road to China, Bod luck left At that time, the Gestapo her hauging helpless in a trea tions. But her history as a heroine dates

buck

Puris 12 years, hut an officer in

over a 100-foot precipico. When when, es a mi o 18, she began

Wis

accepting bribes against a group of Laotian villagers her own war against the Ger- the day of defeat which he found her half an hour later, mans occupying her country. knew was coming.

they told her she was alsʊ là His price for Brigitte wow the middle of a dangerous Dull Lectures

high. She

be sayy

accepted | minefloid.

General sha 1,000,000 francs from Guerre (French Military Cross) and

Chevalier Di the Legion of Honour. She has won

second Croix de Guerre ini Indo-China.

For

Won

became

her bravery then the Croix

J

who

Why does sho Jump?

"Be-

de Gaulle, and 1.500,000 francs cause, jumping gives you an from the British Government | extraordinary (collig. It is the

with together

# valuable only time I Jeel completely For this ran- free. It makes me feel I have Murillo painting. som, "Madamu Parachute's" life superhuman faculties. The first was spared. She was sent to time I jumped I shouted

Ger- concentration camps in

sheer joy, she said. China Mail Special.

matty.

Born with a zest for adven- 10 she hopes to return ture, Indo-China ir the war here in 1954.

Jags that long.

But

she wants to full on old am-

bition to get

United States,

Cross Of Lorraine

She

for

Ravens MP's Question

went first to know the bruck, then to Czechoslovakia,

She broke racks

and cleaned and mode secret Once she has learnt enough factories, about the Americans, "Madame p. sor V-2 rockets, Parachuto" Intends

to launch

an attack on a section of

French population, which,

soys.

without

crifices the

knowing

about either of them,

In 1942,

Brigitte

When work,

so shoddy that the it was obviously sabotaged, be

on the delivery shegan to appear United Ines, the factory authorities

way П But medical student in Paris.

dissecting not corpsea

of

do

French

On Korean

War Criminals

A

Indonesia BIG

Must

Import More

Rice

Washington, Feb, 10. Current estimates place the Indonesian 1954

rice acreage at about 17.3 mil- Hon acres, or 4 per cent above that of last year, according to the bulletin "Foreign Crops and

ture here.

Harvesting

and COMMERCE SECTION

SLUMP IN BRITAIN'S DOLLAR SURPLUS

From

To

$120m. In December

$14m.

In January

By Sydnoy S, Gampoll, Reutor's Financial Editor

London, Feb, 10.

The sterling area's gold and dollar surplus with the world outside Markets," published by the the EPU grep slumped from about $120 million in December to only $14 US Department of Agricul- million in January. The official estimate is a surplus of £4.7 million ($13 million) in January with the EPU, but only because Holland made an next May. I the resulting advance payment of £12.6 million to Britain during the month. production

Without this special receipt, Britain would have had an EPU dericit | over 7 million metric tons, rice of $22 million in January. equivalent, the bulletin

is due to bagin

ylalds are equal to those of 1953,

will be Elightly

While it

It appears

quito H

Ostensibly, these are serious worsenings in the trend,

that some increase in production particularly as this should be high season for dollar and will cecur over that of 1953 this other foreign exchange eamings of sterling area com- estimate must be considered modities-wool, cocoa and the rest.

tentative pending more definite information on acreage and weather conditions between now and harvesting.

In the 1953 calendar year pre- duction amounted to 6,793,750 metric tons (rice equivalent) which was

nearly per cent Should the

over that of 1052.

1954 estimate prove correct, it will be the third year that Indonesian production

Cansecutive

has exceeded the 1937 Proji, which established

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET

(From Our Correspondent)

The

have figures

aroused same for that the US reccssion may now be affecting Britain's dollar receipts, and that this may continuo in coming months, Many people, Including some British officinis, think That US recession is bound

to reduce Britain's dollar receipts, as 11 Bo strikingly' dick in .1948.

·

Chicago Grain Markets

Unsettled

UK Railway Charges Up

Landap, Feb. 10. Britlah" "rallway freight and dock charges are to go up by 19 per cent fram March 1. Mr Alan Janinax- Sore: Minister of Kyani- port announced today.

The increase is due to recent pay, riso gratifod⋅ 10 the railwaymen. The la- creased charges would raise the price of steel by about Aino shillings a ton, B spokesman of the British Iron and Steel Federation Bald.--Tenter.

NEW YORK

STOCK MARKET

New York, Feb. 10.

The stock markel saw a rather quiet session today with only a few issues featuring

from the standpoint of price and a single stock--RKO plctures-standing

out on volume,”

Chicago, Feb. 10. Grain markets wero rather

Foter changes Wenerally were unsettled today with prices very small and activity fight as A few other

out fer con- traders took time observers, in- about steady to enster.

The futures opened fully sideration after the recent shotp cluding the present writer, have 14 pre-wo record of 6,220.720 metrle sons.

balieved for some time that the steady to firm but around mid-rise and in the absence of any

taking began fresh incentive, morning pront When the 1937 crep was pro-

analogy with 1949 is false.

and

A few stocks responded to dured, however, the population

Business done on the Stock that n U.S. recession in present cutting into early advances and was about 65 million as com amounted to $1,231,805.

Exchange this morņinif, { conditions night eventually most futures dropped back to

corporate developments. Noon benent the reserves

closing ! around of Britain

yesterday's

RKO Pictures continued to pared with 78 million in 1953.

levels. and of rice Imports

dominate trading in the wake of quotations during Ulex

the morning's and the non-dollar world, per-

On the early rally new sea- Howard Hights offer to pur- haps greatly. But even these January-September 1953 period dealings:

BHARES BUYERS FELLERS BALES optimists

son's highs were set for July, chase the corporation at a prite canvassed that 300.000 metrie

tans, of GOVT. LOANS were

and September

December totalling $6 a share. The stock might do unpleasant things which approximately 51.000 camo |

(25) 0121

wheat along with May and them first.

to $54 from the United States. It is

July soybeans contracts. (1035 & 1040) 911⁄2 estimated that the total for the BANKS year will

HK Bank be between 350,000 and 100,000 metric tons.

II

POPULATION INCREASING

with

tons,

In 1951 the total imports were 457.771 tons, with 50,000 from the United States, and in 1952 they were 759.000 tons. 40,000 from the United States.

During 1962 the exceptionally heavy rice Imports, together with

crop

millon of 8.4 resulted in a large carry-over

12 Al}}}

end of the year. addition, there wns still un- delivered a considerable tonnage remaining from 1852 purchases. This

is one of the principal reasons for imports, failing foff from the preceding year.

Assuming that the word!

has

at

despite prospects

ΣΙ

Eart Asia INSURANCES

Lombard

1000 1070

103

DO EL BOTO 20 88

30 N

10 B573

20 er 660

0571

7.20

Union Underwriters SHIPPING

Axia Nov, DOCKS, ETC. A. Whost Provident (OM) Wheelock LAND, ETC. HK Hotel HK Land

Humphrey's Realty

UTILITIES

IL to

came

On the whole, however, one

Support in the bread cereal as

record holding un the ventures to suggest that sees under the government loan and trend is better than the figures

This show.

may not be the me southwest

the

continued dry weather over

winter US "Impact" period of the

belt. that impact recession, because may already have occurred-and been well

on

volum: of shares, including blocks arge is 25,000 shares. Turnover for the day amounted to 1,700,000 shares, wheat compared with 1,880,000 yester

day, and the lightest in a week.

Or

472 1,174 tsuts trades, Late yesterday it was reported taken around last that a record 470,037,325 bushels were higher, 400 lower, 302 un-

chunged. There of 1954 crop whent were under 1953-54 highs set, only 2 new price mupport as of January 18-laws. IGWS.

1.15 3000 1.15 September and October,

76

wers 73. new

It was in that period that the This is 100,207,326 bushels mare Industrials averaged 84 cents ilde of U.S. reserves wavered. thon at the same time a year

mid-❘ngo.

8.10 Of the to "Weeks "to

November, flye weeks had in- flows of reserves to the US and five had outflows,

13.70, 030 0.20 6,000 * 074 8.83 1615 77 000 I .10 40 10.00

2.20 8.28 2,000 m 3.2311⁄2

20.60 300 g 20,40 | Star Ferry 141 143 C. Light 10; 15.00 10.00 1300 16.00 1000 15.70 C. Light (N) 12,00 DOU 131

500 1250 1900 pr 33. 231 40 39. 402 ( 34.

Tront............

Electrie

Macao

Dairy

31

Elec. 10.00

transition

PREVIOUS RECORD The previous record set in NOT UNPLEASANT

1952 was 400,650,000 bushels. Th: January 13 gure does not the If that

represent the total since C. C. C. not particularly accepted price support loans on phase, I was

tide unpleasant. decisively reversed into en in-

of reserves to

the US. from that period

flow

was

The

never

wheat until January 91.

Some

later selling in the liest plt came on the postpone

of wheat purchases by excluding the huge British debt ment

Apart

108 31.

200 g 31.

payments on

December

(and

31 of

ม

Holland overnight. That country

dute.

lewer. Ralls gained. 47 utilities six cents.

cents,

Olls and aircrafts continued us strong spots. Gains in the alle ranged to nearly two points nock. Motors used. In Deep Chemicals moved lower,

The NY Stock Exchange bond volume was $4,760,000.

Stock Ex- The American

volume WOJ 430,000 change

shares.

Dow Jones

were:

30 Industrials

20 rails

is utilision

closing averages

Feb. 10

241.14

103.00

21.20 600 21.20content 1,100 ir 21.10 from the

1000 27,70

Most

of the pressure soybeans appeared to be pro- in the fit taking, particularly 27.19 27,50 5000 e 27. spring of 1902.

which 2000 2180 Mere absence of an inflow to more nearby dellvorles

in

54.47

111.03

40 bande Сольн future

price indes 1713

-United Press.

undergone some readjustment in 1953, is likely that at least 200,000 tops, anci will be required possibly more ny imports in 1954 to maintain INDUSTRIALS

ENDUR 29.00 29.00 500 29.80 cách year) there has been a postponed the sale until a 'loter

outflow of reserves last year's rate. demant consumption

the US ever since for a larger STORES, ETC . che bulletin continues. ld be noted also that if the should per-capita consumption were to be restored to the 1037 level, more than double this amount of imports would be required.

This, together with the fact COTTONS that the population is increasing at the rate of 1.2 per cent a year, would scam to indicate that con- tinued imports of rice will be necessary for some time.China Mail Special.

"Malayans Not Inclined To

Welcome Japs"

65 stocks-

500 at 27.00 the US would mean that the have been on the advance for 500 a 27.70 non-dollar countries were gel the past several days. Two US Companies 3500 2180 ting oil the newly mined and Wheat closed up to off 4

1090 27.80

1. Crawford 25.30

Textiles Corp 7.10 7.15 500

r1

2.10

MISCELLANEOUS

Yangice Youmoti

1000

1500

0.00 0.70

14) 143 370 1,300

3.14

to off But the actual cents, soybeans up 1% Russian gold. situation is better than that. 1174.

1.10 is the hard-currency countries. At Winnipeg, wheat was 3.05 the US and Belgium, that, some 3.10 responsible people

Stopping

seem to be priced at 178 per bushel for No.

and for No. 5. it Rayon Production 3 Northern, getting worried about the trend was at 105 cents. United

141 of reserves. 14a

The realistic xplanation of the recont British figures may simply that, because of the

be

New York Sugar Russian gold, the

Futures

New York, Feb. 10.

large surpluses in

December

Jer and

from subsequent

some-

thing from Jannenths. Novem

and perhaps World No. 4 sugar futures 10-ber's surplus of $32 million with day closed 2 points lower to 1 point higher with sales of 302 sizable

contracts,

the non-EPU world included at

December's

Press.

New York, Feb. 10. Two US companies have an- nounced that they are halling rayon

Singapore Rubber production of certain

Market

reccipt of Russlan goldly with little factory buying

products.

Du Pont is to stop making textile rayon yarn at its plant at Richmond, Virginia, for the and concentrate -on Singapore, Feb. 10. The market fluctuated narrow. of "super Cordura"

"Cordura" high tenacity Dr according to Roilin rayon yarn,

F. Connway, manager of the plant. The high tenacity vera is used in the automobile and industrial fields.

Dr decision,

spectacular gure of support. It closed slightly below $120 million included a very big the day's best levels. Fulure

Now closings were:- receipt of Russian gold. C-Britain does not get Ruselan gold No. 1 rubber per ib. Feb. 4-8

and dollars (nor, for that matter,

Domestic No. & sugar futures closed unchanged to 1 point higher with sales

of 102 tracts.

Future closings:-

Contract No, « (world)

Singapore, Feb..10. The people of Malaya are not Inclined to welcome the return of Japanese traders but it they succeed in making their way in March local businessmen might have to May take os a inatter of course, July

September said the Chairman of the Chi-

October neso Chamber of Commeres, Mr March

Spot-cents per 1b. Toh Cu Tan Plak-kew, on Monday.

Contract Na, s March Mr Tan was commenting on a

Mey report that some leading Japan-July

November ese trading firms were planning September

a South-East Asil Spot-(cents to form

with

ex-dock) Development Corporation quarters in Singapore. The pro- moters are said to bo planning to develop iron ore nad other minerals in Malaya and coal in

war

per

March

April.

54-56

6614-58

any other gold and No. 2 rubber por, lb. Teu, 844.64 09 a gift or a tribute: No. 3 rubber per ib. Feb. 331-33 has to buy them with No. 4 rubber per ib. Feb. 611-03

3.416 dollars)

3.40

Tinh Sterling.

3,280 3.301

When

Russia

the spends sterling, the credit from the Russian gold is offset by a debit For obvious 547 to something else.

TCOLONY, the credit may come before the dobit: she may spend 8.706

and later months En in January

some of the sterling that she received for her gold in Novem- ber and Docember;" i

3b.. elf NY

1.30 United Press.

CHICAGO GRAIN FUTURES

Sinter and American policy orderert every worker to mark

London, Feb. 10, anything her pieces with her own sign.

Lieutenand Brigitto marked hers with the

Conservative, Cross of Lorraine, the sign of Colonel Merr gemery Hyde, puited General

Gaulle's

in the House of Commons Today Free

how many Korean nationals who she found lectures on chemistry

Early in 1945,

the Germans were sentenced by Dritish and and work at the dissection, table

train Alled tribunals as Japanese W3. too tamo, She wanted to be put Brigitte aboard a

criminals

Bornep. were still impelscord but tho with 1,500 other women bound

Chicago. Fab. 10. in

Prices per bushel in cents: Garman Nazis who occupied her for the gas-chambers at Dachau.

Mr Tan said the Japanese Ho ho ciked to what extent But American bombera blow up

Closing Prices advanced In were technically country.

Feb. 10 the track and the trin

cases are subject to period

work and before the wheat, No. 2, reß, Before the year was out, ho arrived. Instead,

never their

review by the Ailled military mining Shubblori

210 € they seemed to have anot nudzomitios. became a full-time member

the advancing

Biarch 216)žiais the underground resistance. She about between

She Russian and Allied armies.

Mr A. D. Dodds-Parker, Joint monopolised the field.

May 10 a cell

Brigitte escaperi

Under-Socretary, re- to spend Foreign

For

Kime thers had July some whose Northwest of job was Lo

September cight doya with the Russian plied: "No Korean nationals of Sight

feelers been

to re-establish November Imm-were sentenced by British mill- Britanny, Army, but was not very

business contacts in Malaya by Corn, No. 2, yallow

*** | Spot "Some of the Russian tary tribunale as war criminals. France-Norman-for the pressed.

Japanese traders,

Starch soldiers were all right," sho The British Government has no

"Whether or not they ......aro Mar whether Korean: nice Information that the Allies were later to

Rectumbir form their Arromanches bridge at all

here to start business remains November tribunals.

of other To avold, the advancos of one head and the American arin-

to bo loạn" đến Tan said. oured columns were carve ugly Communist, she leapt out

"Eleven Japanese nationals, Thors were many diffleuition: their giant corridor round Hit-of an upstairs window into the ler's German armies,

street. The Americans shipped who are natives of Horea, who he said, and added, ""On her back to Franco.in a entile- were convicted by British mill these is foreign Exchang

they tribunals, are still serving added that people "After

thell sentences in Sumo prie

worked as secretary leader, "Hoften up" the Anjou anxi

1

Allled invasion. It was herold. "But others were not nationals were sentenced by the ablo, to form joint * companios } Cuts *)

Resistance Worker

cases of

Inclined

Truck.

working for five years 8till posing as a medical studiont, who mada occasional with General de Gaille Bally. telpa to visit her ratativer in of the French People "Makisano

these: 11 ard Normandy, Mgdomme Parachute" Parachute tire of partial subject to review on the same, znako, the hunded Harwell-organising the aquaboles and asked to go to terms as those of other Japanese They delivery of arms dropped by Indo-China. "I thought the chas 4Ba

From ke band.

Franch - there were preparedi, to i cviralfatty Reuter

them

United

New York Cotton Prices

July

212

215%

Exchange Rates

New York, Fo. jo.

Plogihg Prices

M3.001

{34.37-39.

34.10.

Spot rubber unbaled,

Blanket crepe No. 1 pala èrepa

64-05 United Prosa.

neces-

of about was the

Conaway said that this

which would sitate the laying-off 300 rayon employees, result of the instability of the textile rayon yarn market. It would become effective in the NEW YORK MARKET

middle of February and would New York, Feb. 10..

for an

Indefinite Rubber futures today closed continue

not specify period. He did unchanged to 6 points higher whether there would be any in- in production of high with sales of 25

yarnat the

Evening-up made between interests

பற்

creare

tenacity rayon 儿

plant.

of the activity in futures.

Spot Interests reported Ught

shipment offerings, but that domerlle factory Interest was

sub-routine level. Spot No. 1 sheets held around 2014 cents a pound, nominal

closings-

Futuro March MAY July

September

33.40-47

December

March

ずい

23.36 33.20b

Bünted Freak,

London Foreign

l༔ut ་་

The American Viscoss Cor-

poration is to discontinue pro- duction of high tenacity rayon lyre cont fabric at its plant at Roanoke, Virginia, according to Mr Leikry manager, The Roanoke' factory. H. Smith, plant ma began producing this fabric 20.23 first 20.00b2

Fireston 20.046

the

Tyro and

2000 Rubber Co. In 1948 in order to 20.034 meet war-time demand, and the 200g plant produced more United Premion The of the material

annually for

for use in

milltary

LONDON MARKE....

than

edge London, Tab 10 Syros The operation continued

Truck

The rubber market was quit after the

end of the war because

remained urgent,"de

but steady with No. 1 spot Her the demand for car, and.

quoted at 18-7/18 ponco per 16 W SERWith mich, uso.0

Firds

No. 1 Rai kpot and 10%-1819fabric had doo lied, Betiament house. tertujuan kisi stone's own plants: wchild now 16:10 mest requirements, Curtallment would be gradual in an exam για

200

flo absorb s

$10,1097/18.

have chased: comp Juna schiŠKOT

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