1954-05-24 — Page 8

"FENGTIEN"

"FUKIEN"

BUTTERFIELD

and SWIRE.

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"HUNAN"

"SHENCKING"

"YUNNAN"

SAILINGS TO

Semering, Djakarta, Sostrabaya & Macassar Kaohsiung, Keorung, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagoya & Qnisa ....

ARRIVALS FROM

Tienta

. Foxlung

Bangkok

8 am, 20th May

8. 24th May

23/28th May 1a.m. 20th May 28th May

A.Q. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE SAILINGS TO

"CHANGTE"

"CHANGTE"

Sydney Melbourne

4 p.m.

ARRIVALS FROM

Kube

2nd June

31st May

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Keheduled Sallings to Europe via Aden & Port Sald

Join & Hamburg

به نام

All

Gath Jaime Glasgow

13 June Scheduled Sallings from Europo

Hall

24th May

25th May

4th June

140 June

"ANCHISES"

Doblin

Genua,

"CLYTONEUS"

Amsterdam,

Liverpool

ido, Hutter-

Londa

AB

Flavte,

Laverpol

"YREBES"

"ALNEAS

} Glasgow

Laver pood &

Ball Llyesteel Salleri

du

Sulled

12th June 22nd June

24th May

3 Jun 1.11a Fene

S. AENEAS”

6. "EUMALUS”

8. "ASCANIUS"

G. "PELERS"

NAGAPENOR G. "CALCHAS”

S. "ADRUSTUS"

G. “PATROCLUS”

Balla Rotterdam

12th June

Arrives Hons fon 27th Muy 29th May 8th June

30th June

Bih July

13th July

Loading Silasgow before Liverpool 5. Loading Swansea before Liverbumi,

Carrera aption to prerred via other porta to load and discharge cargo. Net Pulls 2 Japan and Indonesia at shije's nption.

EDE

LA RAMA LINES

ARRIVING FROM US. ATLANTIC &

PACIFIC COAST PORTS,

7th June 17th June 28th June

"AGAMEMNON"

Sail N.V.

Sailed

Sajla K.F.

Arr. 11.K.

"DONA AURORA”

Railed -du-

"DONA ALICIA

- do --

1st May

"BATAAN"

20th May

18th June

15th July

"MUNCASTER CASTLE"

11th Jusc

3rd July

21 Aus.

SAILINGS for SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, CRISTOBAL, KINGSTON and NEW YORK

*"AJAX"

"HAINAN"

"MYRMIDON'

•

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1984.

CHINA Indonesia's Foreign Exchange

MAIL

JUHAN (7MLUI

HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONS)

Princ, 20 gente per copy, Saturdays 30 cents.

Subscription: $0.00 per month.

Postage

Supply Drifts

Lower

Djakarta, May 23.

Indonesia's supply of foreign exchange has dwindled to dangerously near the legal minimum,`

At Its worst the situation could bring Inflation and topple the pre- China and Marao 1200 sent administration. On the other hand the crisis could dissolve virtually

per month, UK, Delilah Possessiona and ther countries $7.00 per month.

Itap rattibutions, always web. come, should be acidressed to the Editor, bu em conaninicaliona and advertisements to the Secretary, Teleptuntas: 28tht (3 1.imes). ROWLOON OFFICE: Balisbury Road, Trichone: 32018

unnoticed.

The Indonesian

Government,

The Bank of Indonesia stato- can undor Indonesian law ko ment for May I showed that to

request aware for months of its rapidly Parliament and guld and other convertible legislation covering the Tegal dwindling supply of foreign ex- been guarding it foreign exchange covered only minimum of foreign exchange chango, hns 20,36 per cent of the money in { coverage. cirouistion. The previous Woolt the foreign exchange coverage

20180402|EJAN|12|261|13|ALOCIRAQITILADECİA was 20.0 per eval.

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$1.50 PER DAY

10 cents EK WORD OVER 20

Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $500 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10 EXTRA

If not prepaid a booking fee of 50 centa is charged.

CARS FOR SALE

:

1967 ruevroder de Lause mean to

owner leaving Color

perfont

J

dad

Cum

$200 in loves offer

12206 1- +12 bola di Pingba

OUT-

TW

1 it! *

FOR SALE

YE OLDE MILL, A dutinctive hand- maile ulatunery In buxca. 30 shenta notepaper, N envelopes, Post Bvo 11y. $9.00 pei bux, Duke ny. $11.00 per box frum "S. C. M. Post,"

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It seams almost certain to drop below the 20 per cent mark within two wooks,

k

The lywe governing the Bank

Indonesia, the nation' national bank, way the foreign exchange coverage cannot drop But that below 30 per çoni, minimum can be set aside for three months by a degree of the

Monotary Board. That is what will probably tako place in Djakarta soOT).

bron

closely intely.

Foreign

have become

permits exchange INFLATION PREDICTED

Increasingly dif Government opponents have cul to get. A tux of 60-2/3rds.

predicting that Inflation

cent han been levied on would result from the foreign some transfers of money abroad. oxchange situation.

In general it is only the Govern-

which

per

Indonesia'a shortage of foreign exchange, observers say, can be traced to three factors:

can still But the coverage hovered ment agencies near the 20 per cent mark no Get foreign exchange for their detected ruplaha without too much dif uneasiness could be amang the public. Banking Beulty. circies, particularly the easer- vative Dutch, wore resiivo bizi consumers seemed unconcerned, The Moslem holiday Lebaran at the end comes up

and workers, month pockets Biled with traditional bonuseR and enjoying tradi- tional vacations, will as in the After The three-

month past flock to

for the stores “emergency" period the Bourd heavy buying of personal goods,

The Monetary Board is com- posed of the Finance Minister, The Economic Minister and the Governor of the Bank af Indonesia.

DON'T

WASTE

WATER

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

P.O. Box 53

Queen's Building

Tel: 26651

HONGKONG to MARSEILLES in 24 days. "LA MARSEILLAISE”

saling June 19th “VIỆT-NAM

salling July 10th

via JAPAN.

Louis

Halle

4th June

5th June

19th Jun

20th June

HONGKONG to CASABLANCA in 30 days.

4th July Muriaventura & La Guaica

though buils of busting

5th July

"BIR HAKEIM”

sailing June 5th salling June 23rd

Anugdag carafe toy danical & South American poris.

Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Route

JK/Nagon/Stugapore

111. Bongkok, Singapore

Bepari Hongkong

04 m.

10 10 A L

7.00

Monday

Tuesday Mun. & Fri.

FDC-4) 1131-4)

1 May 211 N Borneo

+1)

HK Mano: Hajahjortsat

12 Au The sta

15th kok ap

1-4)

00

(DC)

p.m.

Fru»

1 tangkok/langoon/

Calcutta

All the above subject to Alteration

Weinesday *Thursday

without Dalion,

for particulars please apply to:

Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd.

1 Conn,ught Rd. Tat. 30331/8

Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. West.

Tel: 25875.32144.24878

"INDUS"

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST BEAM'S POWER, I MUST PUT YOU TO SLEEP

AGAIN,CHAMB

OKAY--MAN,IS THIS CRAZY!

YOU ARE ASLEER AFTER YOU WAKE UP, BEAM WILL HAVE NO MORE POWER OVER YOU -- HE WILL TRY--

of this their

Therefor: An upswing In consumer sales will not meant public mistrust of the currency. Actually the value of the ruplah has strengthened a little

the

foreign exchango coverage dropped the past few wocks.

Three works agʊ une Amerj- cm dollar was worth more than 30 rupiahs in New York. Today It is worth only 26. i Dinkarta, an American dollar three weeks ago brought 20 r 27 ruplahs on the open market Today I brings only 23 or at the ngst 24. The legal rate is 11.4 rupiahs to the dollar.

HITLER'S COFFEUS EMPTY

Although mest nations prefer to operate with a foreign ex change coverago of well above 20 per cent, most of them at & minimum of 40 per cent. It is not always true that financial ruin follows a crucial shortage of gold dollars and other foreige exchange.

1. The drop in rubber pur- chases by the United States:

2. Her desire for a national ceonomy:

9. The great need of a "raw materials" country for Anished products.--United Press.

of

Plea For Warning

On Smoking

London, May 23. A suggestion that the Ministry

Health should launch

to tution-wide campaign

from young suade

people starting to smoke is advanced by "Medient World" today.

It is The family doctor, too, suggested. should take positivo steps to the same end.

of

Acting on the hypothesis that prolonged smoking is a major cause

lung cancer, th.8 medical journal, which clrcul- alca among thousands of general practitioners,

says that the individual doctor bar clear duty to point out young patients and their parents that 10 acquire the habli of smoking over 25 cigarettes a Hiller's

of for day is to shorten the odds example, operated successfully dying from lung cancer before for years with a foreign X- the age of 56 from one in 1,000 change supply of almost nothing. to one in 50.

Ritheat,

- BUT YOU WILLRESIST. JUS HYPNOTISM WILL NOT AFFECT YOU--BECAUSE YOU WILL BE STRONGER--NOW

--WAKE UP! --

By Lee Falk and Phil Davla

NOW FIND BEAM, DON'T WORRY, HE CAN'T HYPNOTIZE YOU.

GOSH, HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

TOMORROW = MR. BEAM

8-42

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P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwarde

Leaves London "CARTHAGE" 20th April

"CONFU" "CANTON"

27th May

10th Juna

Duo Hongkong

Biet May

20th Juna

24th July

Via Houthampion, Port Batd, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Penang & Singapore

Leaves Hongkong Due London

Homewards

"DARTHAGE”

June

"CORFU" "CANTON"

2nd July

Jial July

5th July

2nd August

sl August

Accepting cargo for singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay,

Aden, Port Bald London

FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwkida

Arriving "COROMANDEL" BI July "TRESILLIAN" 7th: July "SOUDAN"

From

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

Homewards "SHILLONG"

10th July

Loading

41 June

"COROMANDEL"49th July

For

Port Singapore, Swettenham, Penang. Catoinbe Aden. Port Bald, Genos, Marseilles, Науго. Casablanca. London, Hull, Antwerp, Rutledam & Hamburg

U.K. & Continent

With liberty to call at Delawan before or after Strafta Peris and at Bombay if inducement offers,

Tanks available for carriage of Oll in Bulk Space for refrigorated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation

BRITISH INDIA 5.N. CO., LTD.

due ath June from Japan BAILE 8th June for Singapore, Penang,

Kangoo & Calcutta

"SIRDHANAD

"OBRA"

P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

"UMARIA"

due th May valle 28th May

dus 28th May sails 29th May

from Persian Gulf for Japan

from Japan

for Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr, Bastag, Kuwait, direct, Other P. Gult ports via Bomber

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN 5.S, CO., LTD.

"EASTERN"

due 12th June from Australia anila 13th June for JapED

All vessels have liberty to call at any porta on or off the route & the route à sailing are subjeos to change or amendment with or without notice.

YOU ON THE

TRUCK ?

THE WAY

By Mik

KIDDIE POOL

By Ernie Bushmliler

OH, IT'S SUCH A NICE DAY--|

--- I DECIDED I'D JUST

WALK TO THE FIRE

By Frank Robbins

Dine

At the

For full particulars apply lo MACKINNON. MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

P.G.

For

Reservations Tel: 27880

BLACK MAGIC

PLAIN

CHOCOLATES

Mail Notices

The intest Limes of pronting shown below are those for un- registered correspondence posted at G.P.O. Fogkong. The latest porting times elsewhere which, in general, are earlier than the GP.O. Umoj' can be ascertained by enquiry at the local office.

The latest posting times by registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulara zogazd- ing pateri malte can be ascertată ed by enquiry at any post once.

MONDAY, MAY 24 By Air

Japan. Koren. 6. PAD. Thailand. Maya, Indonesia, Auj- trailk, New Zealand, 6 pm,

By Busface

Macao, 5 pm.

"TUESDAY, MAX 25

By Ale

Philippines, am.

Burma, Pakistan, Middle

East.

| Africa, Grest Britain & Rurope, 19

„Zipen, Fores, Hewall, UBA. and Canada, 6 pm.

Formosa, Japan, Korea, OkirmWN, VSA, and Capada, 4 pm.

Indo-China, O

By Buriaes

China, People's Republic, 13 X

Macron.

Polippines. Orylon, Adan, Middle Park, Italy, Noon,

Indonesia, 2 p.m.

*ard:

Rains Come

To Save Crops

EVERETT

LINES

EVERETT ORIENT LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.

"BRADEVERETT"

Arrives

Sally

June 6 from Manila,

June

G for Kobe & Yokohama,

"LENEVERETT"

Arrives Salls

June 19 from Singapore. June 20 for Kobe & Yokohama,

(Accepting cargo for transhipmeni Kobe/fusan and Kobe/Okinawa)

EVERETT STAR LINE

Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger servico to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf Ports.

"STAR ALCYONE”

in Port Salls

Loading

May 24 for Singapore, Port Ewetten- ham, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr, Basrah, Kuwait & Bahrein,

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LIFE GUARD WANTED

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CLANG CLANG

Arrives Sallo

May 30 (com Singapore, May 31 for Pusan,

Koba

Yokohama.

(Acceping cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa)

EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A

(Incorporated to the fepublic of Panama

With Limited "klability)

Chinese Department: Telephone 28293. Queen's Building, Telephone 31206.

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HOWDY, TRECHAT.....

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WHY...ER...A

GRECIAN STATUE

I'VE JUST PURCHASE I/ ||

THESE HOMBRES CARRY . | PERHAPS I'LL SHOW ÎIN YORE CRATE! WHAT'S IT TO YOU....... SOME

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BIR CAREFUL, WITH THAT.

GRATE?

IN HER...

The rains of the past two days

this situations

calls for a

Sau Miguel

come as "n" gift from beaver" to tha· Now; Territories farmers, said, an Agricultural Department official this morning.

If the drolight, had constieliind, tre said, there was a potabilly that the current season's crops would have been lost, Sedariquiquare) Degarspent work ars have been belping to feric wate berohet fede by. manning

tá

"In early Wusly.