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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1954.

aboard

COMMERCE SECTION

the famous

Accompanied by his wife (left), M. Coly (right), the new President of the French Re- public, maken his first public appearance-attending the premiere of "Oberon," Weber opera-beld in Park in aid of victims of the recent Gresk earthquake, Prince George and Princess Olga of Greece, (centre) were among the notabilities attending-Express Photo,

To Care For The Homeless And Destitute Of Paris:

Abbe Pierre 'Ragpickers

Organised His

Of The

Lord'

Paris, March 1.

More than 1,000 tons of material were collected one day last week when 675 benevolent workers with 80 vehicles carried out "Operation Glory Hole" organised by Abbe Pierre, the "ragpickers' priest," for the benefit of the homeless.

It was estimated the various trucks made about 1,000 trips to collect the material. Old metal objects, recovered to be sold, were estimated at some 25,000,000 francs (about $71,000). The value of the old clothes, furniture, stoves, etc., was probably well over 30,000,000 francs (at ut $85,000),

The three storage centres, including the St Sulpice Church, one of the biggest in Paris, proved insufficient at the end of the morning and more space had to be provided.

Was

Black-bearded 42-year-old de Gaulle. semi-crippled by Abbe Pierre, has emerged from paralysis, in his arms. the recent

Always one step ahead of the unprecedented cold spell in France

the as the raviour Germanis,

Abbe uť thousands of the elty's moved from Grenoble to Lyon homeless and destitule.

lo Paris. and then

He the Gestapo In the To the tramps, beggars and seized by shanty-dwellers

of Paris, this capital, escaped again and

and in a shapeless beret; time crossed the Pyrenees man clad and muddy casseck, is a Saint, Spain to reach Algiers where the "apostle of he set in work for the French They call him

Provisional Government, afforts, his have been rescued

the homeless,'

Thanks

hundreds

to

from death and from the Aretie

bridge raci

Elected MP

Ho served

Lion. Ench month, they sell 00 tons of metal, 25 tons of rags und paper, and 30,000 bottles.

Members of the band, wh Bave to undergo a trial period before acceptance, receive food, lodging and 300 francs (about

But

money Is this/-) a week

always scarce.

When he was a Deputy, the Abbe Plerre used his salary to keep

the community going. After

he often bis rethment, went into the streets to beg for Funds were Once, when us Navy chaplain food. winds which swept their night in North Africa and France, exhausted, he took part in a under the Seine und in 1945 entered the fists for radlo "double or quits" pro- dormitories

among the flimsy the first Constituent Assembly gramme and came away with

nother central Popular Republican candidate 250,000 francs (£250).

time, he for Longwy

won half a nillion He his example, the

was olected

then, and (£500).

Last January

3. the winter in 1940, nation has been caught again

the Arst to Assembly, unprecedented wave National

Through-claimed its first victim-a nine months old baby living in on parliamentary career, of charity and the Government out his has been slitred to emergency he fought for the workers and unheated caravan in one of the That and meet.one of France's the dispossessed, Beliun to

Anally priest's

the most urgent needs-housing for broke

his party

same over French Minister of Reconstruc- stalke breaking Frenc in Brest, He remained tion, M. Mourlee Lemaire, was the nation, is no In the Assembly as an inde-opposing a proposed 1,000 million

when he franc fle has pendent with! evangelist,

resistance decided not to stand for re- wartime

of Parlia-election.

fa-uil buxes markcis, Whole

Thanks

up on on

the cor.

to

vi

The

This man, who has pricked the Conscience of

arinchair

been

worker, a Member

with

1051,

shanty-towha, day, in Parliament,

credit

for

emergency

ment, a leader of the world It was while he was a Deputy Minister to attend the child's

and-outs, now kawown as the self. Driven out of his co-something would be done. Now,

"Ragpickers of the Lord."

housing

settlement, The Abbe Pierre invited the

citizen's movement, and latterly that the Abbe

Lemaire, trudging Pierre became funeral and owner, builder and head of a the

behind the little friend of

cortege over the homeless

that felds, shanty-town for one-time down- | because he was

promised homeless him- muddy

that 12,000 fortable that near the Parliament he has announced buildings by high rent, he emergency housing units will be before the end of the scoured the city for accommoda-bulit

until he carne across Until the cold

a year. struck this

two-floor villa large, delipidated winter and the death roll began to mount, Father

Pierre was surrounded regarded by

metre park some b6 ยก eccentric, by others as a fanalle, Neuilly-Plaisance,

Eccentric, Fanatic

by a 5,000-squero

in the suburb of

"Only Beginning"

When the severast cold in 30 abandoned before years eet in, the Abbo Pierro Today, the photograph of his The house,

World War il, had been pillaged went to the microphone. "Lost leen, ascetic face, bearing a

The rain night," he told rudio is NCIS curious resemblance to that of by passing soldiers.

seeped through its sagging roof all over France, "a woman was Salut Francis of Assini, appears to the cellar. There were no found frozen to death in a door- in every newspaper. His voice

appealed to millions through Windows, no electricity, no heat-way. She was still clutching their radio sets. His name is a Ing and no cellings. No one an eviction order."

household word.

Lyons, the son of merchant who

the rent was wänted it and

The answer to his appeal for The Abbe Pierre was born in negligible.

auch people as this woman was The Abbe Plere moved in, one of the most spontaneous and a rich allk

France has ever sont his son to patched up the building himself generous

named the property known. Hand

"Emmaus",

Millions of franco and auer the biblical

of tons of clothing, village on the road to which hundreds

and

food poured In. Charitable organisations,

study

at a Jesuit college,

name then was Henri Groues,

but

he took the pseudonym Christ appeared to two disciples tents "Abbe Pierre" in the wartime resistance movement and has

piter His Resurrection.

been known by I ever since, Strange Colony Born municipal authorities, the poller

and

INDIA'S HUGE UNEMPLOYMENT

PROBLEM

60 Million Said

To Be

Out of Work

New Delhi, March 1.

With some 60 million people or nearly one- sixth of India's population reported to be idle,

German Fleet's

Foreign Earnings Fall

Hamburk, Mar. 1.0

The West Germán Met- chant Fleet in 1953 earned 404,090,000 Marks worth of foreign currency, about 94,200,000 Marko Tess than in 1952 owing to lawer. freight rates, the West German Transport Minis- fry announced,

aj

The Ministry said today that the decline was spito of higher tonnage available.--Keular,

unemployment is one of India's pressing problems HONGKONG

today.

In Delhi hundreds of job seekers wait at the city's single employment exchange from morning till evening.

Most of them return home dis- appointed. A similar position exists at any of Indla's 139 Government employment exchanges.

Every month an average 125,000 persons register for jobs and the exchanges have the difcult task of sharing among these applicants about 20,000 jobs.

SHARE MARKET

(From Our Correspondent)

Business on the Hongkong

this Stock Exchange morning Amounted to $754,749.80. Noon quotations and the morning's dealings:- AHANKA DUYERS SELLERS SALES

JK Bank XD 1000 10:0 East Asia

Economista say that in India the last 10 years), urbanisation during the past few years thereof her rural areas resulting in has been no expansion of migration

to the BANKS of villagers employment opportunities pro-city in search of work, a general portionate to the increase i trade slump and the consequent The labour force.

closure

scveral industries have all contributed the

present unemployed.

The great increase in India's population (about 42 million is

Congressman

"Japanese Are Sending Cheap

Imitations To Britain"

Japanese manufacturers are sending to Britain cheap imitations of top quality Brilish goods--samples of the goods which they will send this summer under the recent- ly signed Anglo-Japanesc Payments Agreement, according to reports from London.

Thiese samples include

watches, textiles. cigaretle lighters, nylon shirts, fountain

and toys, the reports say. Trade Talks

pens

These reports state the Jap- incse

have sold thousands of

same cut-price imitation To Begin

goods in Columbe and shopa. The Japanese goods are reported to be so cheap in these ports that even with the duty to be paid to British customs they are stili far cheaper thon the British made, purchase- faxed products,

This Month

London, Mar. 1. Secret Western ·negotia – One example la the Geisha tions will open in Paris cigarette lighter which

this month to seek reluxa- identical in design to a British- made lighter which costa 50/- tion of the export embargo in London shops, The. Geisha to Iron Curtain countries.

Ave shillings in official sources said today, lighter costs 1,500 Aden

bring Into Britai coats another seven Representatives of NATO na- shillings

Round the tions, West Germany and Japan duty. baked enamel unseratchable will review the two lists of sides are two colour pictures of articles whose exports to Com- nude geisha girin,

munist countries has been pro- hibited or severcly restricted so Er by ogrcement of the West.

100

INSURANCES

Lombard

135

100 00

to create of number

Union

84%

BLIPPING

Aata Nay.

1.15

DOCKS, ETC.

K. Whart

70

Dock

21.30

Provident

(Old)

Wheelock

13.00

7.00

1,500

LAND, ETC.

HK Hotel..

2.05

This

about year

400,000 Erblinates will come out of the 30 Indian universities to swell further this huge figure.

An estimated five million youths who will complete their thin

Wants Trade secondary school course

Protection

opring will face a much harder Kato-that of competing with graduatee for clericii jobs.

TOO MANY CLERKS

Washington, Mar. 1. Of the half million persons

Ik Land

.. 1815

S'hat Land Humphrey

XD Realty

1.10

17.00

A Washington State He-un the registers of the various publican Congresaman, Mr«Thor employment exchanges, more Tollefson, said today thousands than 83 per cent are young men of America's Pacific northwest under 24 wanting dericol jobs. Inhabitants faced critical times while there

are shortages of unless United States realistically skilled

stenographers, and pounders, electricians and other UTILITIES evised her foreign trade

them tochigiana give t: policies to

the labour exchanges needed protection.

surplus of

+41 sbow a

com-

In a spesch prepared for de-derical applicants, livery

to the House of Repre- Educationaliste and economists sentatives, Mr Tollefson attacks alike: blame the present system ed what he discribed as 'cheap af Indian education for this. imports".

They

India argue that while Borely needs and other technical

doctors, engineers personnel, are merely Indian universities turning out clerks.

portant

"A great number of our im

Industries

and their employeees are dependent on the production of goods and pro- duets which are being driven from the domestic market by cheap imports, possible largely by low wages paid abroad," he shid.

¿

plywood

Mr Tollefson listed the

una and Pacifle groundflah Indus tries, hardboard and producers, tulip, itis and defioull bulb growers as those industries affected by imports. Mr Tollet- son has been eight years in the House of Representatives and is member of the Merchant Com- Marine and Fisheries mittee Router.

Д

The unemployment problem is even more acute in the country- side where there are millions without jobs.

Projects undertaken under the Ave-year plan for developing the country's natural resources have given lobs to thousands of But the rate of in- workers. vestment In the plan has been slow and not sufficient to nicet

the increase in the available labour forer,

FOREIGN CAPITAL NEEDED

If the entire Government budget, were spent on such pro- still be there would millions unemployed.

Singapore Rubber Sta

Market

Buyers

Singapore, Mar. 1. The rubber market was quiet with sagging tendency.

each small decline,

took only small quantities at

Future closings were: No

rubber

Ib. 1 March April May No. 2 rubber per ib. March No 3 rubber per March Spot rubber unbaled .....

per

The decrease of foreign in- vestments in the country has also adversely affected the employment situation.

According to India's Ministry

8888888888

9.03

9.30

70%

ÉÉÉ

2.3715 2.30 2000 1 2.1745

2000 3.17

2.13{|

1000 2.175

10.000

Tram

XD

Stor Ferry 2914

c. Limit (0) 18.40 155 200

1000

C. Light (N) 12,30 124 1000

2000

500

1500 12.30 1240 13.40

Electric

... 3141 3844

190

2015

Telephone STONES, ETC.

Dalry ...... 2720

Watson

XD Xrts .. 18.30

rta

1. Crawford 20.20 20% COTTONS

and co

MOCK ROYAL CREST

It bears no "Made in Japan" lag and corries a mock royal crest with the words "Guaram

teed Qty"-owner,

One

The initiative for a revision- with a view to expanding Enal- MrWest trude-comes from Britain, Percy C. Fish of J. F. and H. following the call last week by Roberts, Manchester, announced the Prime Minister, Sir Winston he would boycott Japanese Churchill, for freer exchanges. cloth Imported into Britala The maximum aim is to limit

under the payments agreement.

in future to arma and such goods which are speci- fically designed for arms pro- duction.

He said men with Lancashire restrictions interests at

airo heart would boycott Japanese cloth.

Mr Fish once demanded that Instead of bringing Japanese cloth to Britain, girls should be brought from Japanese mills to ease the labor shortage. London Express Service.

Opposition In Ceylon To Tea Export Plan

Colombo, Feb. 28. A Government proposal

to relax restrictions placed on the quantity and quality of Cay- onese ten allowed to be sent to the London auctions Was 100 or 11 strongly opposed by the local

tea trade.

1000 312

At present 60,000.000 pounds of quality teas 30,000,000 rach or high growns and mediuma and unlimited amount of com- mon teas are permitted to be Mincing Lane 400 120 shipped to the 200 / 27.20 300 € 27.30

auctions special licences The new move would lacrease the quota and quality which could be shipped.

The Chairman of Country Products Association

32 0.00

145

0.00

200 0 0.90

under

Relaxutions are envianged primarily for trade with Russly and her satellites and not an yet with Red China.

With United States views recently

lenient toward casing East-West trade, British

for hopes and European revival of traditional exporta to the East appeared considerably strengthened. United Press,

ΠΟΤΑ

LONDON TIN MARKET

The

since

London, Mar. 1.

rusz

Un market, was strong when it opened in the morning? sesalon, Spot was the highest June 23, 1963, being marked up 13 sterling to

£0801. Three - meritk 10 sterling to £050%.Turn- over was 105 tons, 35 for cash. In the afternoon unoMelal session, tin was firm with spot rising to

£687 and three- mo month 4% to £603%. Turn- over was 85 tons, nl! for cosh. Prices closed in the afternoon

ot tear

the Low

Tin #pol 3-month

Business

Texules .... 7.65 73% 500 Mr S. Pathanathan said if more

MISCELLANEOUS

Yangiare

Yaumati Allied

132

Inyost

quality teas were shipped to London only the lower mediums owns would be left low-growns in Ceylon, thereby weakening 2000 of the Colombo market,

500

72000 430

4.20

3000 * 4.20

420

400

430

2000 * 4.30

2000 of 4.20 10,000 420

for

of Finance the total disinvest- New York Sugar

Market.

as follows:-

602

E buyers and sellers

ยา

-United Press.

London, Mar. 1.

LEAD AND ·ZINU

Lead

3-month - 240

March June

March ブラキン June

22014

the

-United Press.

A diversion of the market Copper market was steady but toward London, he said, would idle while lead and zinc were mean the loss of opportunities Armer. Prices closed in

Ceylon to trade directly afternoon session as follows (in with other buyers such as the sterling per long ton):-- United States, Canada and the Copper spot 233 buyers 238 sellers Middle East,

and The Minister of Tradie Commerce Mr R. G. SenapaZine yake, speaking at a meeting of the the United Party, urged

pre- Premier's intervention to

of the New York, Mar. 1.

vent any relaxation futures World No. 4 sugar.

prosent restrictions, United New "We recognise Wo

must do today closed to. 6 points Press. everything to encourage Invest lower with sales of 303 con- mant in private enterprise," "tracts. Indila's Financo

Minister, Chintaman Deshmukh, said clowed unchanged to 2 points recently.

lower with sales of 114 con-

ment of foreign capital in India during the period 1947 to March 1933 was £43,031,078, while in- vestments in the country totalled only £6,104,725,

POLITICAL QUESTION

Doinestic. No. 6 sugar futures New York Cotton

tracts,

Liquidation and hedge sell-

Market

York Stock Market

New York, Mar. 1,

Dow Jones closing averages,on Wall Street were as follows:--- || 50 Industriais

102.02

15 uulitics

54.20

40 Bonds

as stocks

113.41

100.41

178.36 Comin, fullero price index Comin. spot price index

104.71 The Market (one was higher, and

Service Index!

United Preu NEW YORK MARKET" AL 18. he distributed

the Government' opened up, his One freezing winter night,|reception contref.

New York, Mar. 1. heritage to the poor and entered

New York, Mar. 1. the priest found a family Police and private cars toured Rubber futures today closed a Capucine monastery,

Cotton futures trading today Eight huddled under the trees of the the city picking up the homeless, 10 to 30 points lower with sales years later, poor health forced Vincennes woods. Two children

India has already said she ing depressed world futures, started mixed with

activity Most of the 2,000 men, women of 24 contracts. him to give up the clolstered had died from the cold, a third and children, ragged and Evening up In the March would welcome foreign invest The world raw market ruled remained on the quiet side later

but qulot. but rigorous life, and he be

ments in the country

in the day, was dying, The priest took famished, who normally spend delivery and Intra-dealer switch.

complain they have The Investors

Closing on a note of Domestic futures ruled 'quiet

strength came a parish priest,

featured He was in Grenoble when the strange colony was born.

them into his house and a their nights sleeping out in the ing operations

from the and steady.

the list showed net gains of 6 to stock sales totalled 2.040.000, Moods pital, have been saved.

general lot yet received with futuro market war broke out and it was while

But the Abbe Pierre says his

Future closings were: The grounds of Emmaus, to

Unliod. Press. 17 points. Opening prices were Investors an assistant priest at Grenoble day crowded with tents, wooden

sentiment being Influenced by Government sufficient assurance

unchanged to off 4 points. Now Junk is only beginning. Cathedral that he joined

the lower London trend and the that their investments will be the

Orleans closed up 2 to 22 points, shacks, old buses and trucks. He estimates that in Paris lack of factory interest in the safe. French underground, in July

Prices of colton futures closec welcomed have

hundreds of alone, there are no less than spot market, 1942.

vagabonds, unemployed, beg-10,000 urgent caacs of distress, Future closings were:

disabled, ex-conviéis, Kars,

who have been driven pop of Seized By Gestapo

March Fromeless and

folk. by poor working

housing old high | 50y Many have gone on He helped to antiggle escaped

rents

July shelter in bary prisoners, foreigners and Jews lives with new trades learnt collars, leaky outhouses, disused September

freezing over the mountain frontiers into from Father Pierre. Some have train Switzerland.

to

new

lo. ncek

conches

The

and

Не transformed found lodging though crude and attics "postle of the homeless," his room into laboratory for pitiful, in me of a dozen shanty- the manufacture of false docu- towns established in and around sleeping fille hurrying from

monta.

Parla under

the priest's one tumble-down shock to the Arrested by the Italians, he guidance.

broadensting, writing, escaped and took to the moun » But about 200 have remained appealing to theatre and cinema tains forming resistance groups to form ** solf - nupporting audiences, interviewing Mayors, In the Chartreuse and the society of builders, odd job man, oficial aid "Cocinety Minifters, Veroors, in south-wastern France, and ragpickets. The builders Ja

publishing a clandestinë | Yearħt up... Next to ma...è: their But he beers that he newspaper

own shanties habitable, and to winning

akened the AN

die helped Jacques de Gaulle, dag are putting up permanent · Ha' has:'awal brother of the General, to evade houses. the clutches of the Gestapo and (The "Regpickers of the Lord" wulded the hunted, men over the go out in three old jorelas auch Alpe Geneva. Park or tha rodenináltamad with" bag and Way, he had

consider it my,

those, pod

any fa

March

today in the New York. Colton | CHICAGO GRAIN

FUTURES

· Contrręs No. 4 (world)",

19.00 1940

March May July Unemployment has become a

Beptember big political question in India. October January Opposition parties, particularly

March 1928 the Communists, have been quick y 1/4 to exploit the present problem. July

expired

$.20

3.29

Exchange wete na follows:

Epat

36.100

March

34.30

May

34.20

1

10,000

Many have come out with quack apol-bents per lb. fob Cuba) 3.30 remedies to cure this, "disasso," me

July

34.23

1. Contract No. V

Oct.

33.79

Chicago, Mar. 1. Prices per bushel in venita?

4.07b

The

Closing

July

0.35

Mar.

37.38

PriceR

5.790

July

33.440

Proa

Wheat, No. 2, red

5.66

Spot

Red:Press,

London Foreign

March

May

Exchange Rates:

Exchange

London. Mat

No

·don In ·

-“15e8] New York

7/18

-United Press. LONDON MARKET

London, Már 1. The rubber market; was very quiet with No. 1 Rhot quoted at 1834 puños. Prices

No. 1 iw spot on 10-36}« Battleman's house terms April,

While the Indian Government September has, so for been imable to solve soot (cante per lb, elf NY

November the unemployment probidin, it is

[m-duty) aware of the fact that Com“ munum most waling recruits 'can be found outside, on employ ment exchange

Efactory

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