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CHINA MAIL BOOK REVIEWS

WHEN IS

Borderline, a novel by

Vercors, (MacMillan & Co. London, 11/6).

MAN NOT A

Templemore to they wern

elf to Dougins

whether human, animal or at the hall-

tlincover

Darwin's

1

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1954.

TRADE and COMMERCE SECTION

CARRIAGE OF GOODS

Limitation On Rights Of Shipowners

MAN? INTERPRETATION OF

هذا

AUSTRALIAN ACT

Límitation of the rights of the carrier of goods by sea is once again demonstrated by a recent decision of the Supreme Court of New wide strike against such action, South Wales concerning an action brought for the or the Union would

recovery of damages in respect of the alleged short Unsic

demand overtime

ktrown us institution

ution. f The Australian trady know no trade unionist m that would tolerate tropis Intermediate country way stuge-kome

would It being, no longer animal yet not

in any factory.

threat to regarded cut off in some quite human.

There Where,

wurkers' ilvellhoml, What is man?

the normali work strange way from

would either be an Australia- Wil for instance, is the dividing

evolution processes of

out of line between man and beast? de men

apes, t subscribe a remarkable thing you 10 11 that at our present stage of theory. intellectual advancement The problem And despite our deep and becomes acute when an Austra- penetrating inquiries intohan corporation, which owns the the laws of nature, there is Tights of the land on which the tropis were discovered, decidei universally ac-to traits and employ them as us yet no

cheap labour in their spinatus repied definition of man.

mills.

This question is the key to a brilliant and wilty! satire by the French author, ; Vercors. Most appropriate. ly, he has called his honk- about the discovery **missing link" being "Borderline".

Te

of

t:

of the status

decals

5

union

full

wages, rates and, of course, compul- delivery of cargo.

membership for the trople or else claim that The texille company was con- travening the provisions of The Wilie Australia Policy

"cheap coloured" introducing labour Into the country.)

The goods, consisting of a consignment of fencing posts, were shipped at Dunkirk for by delivery at Sydney, the bill of lading providing, amongst other things, for the determination of any dispute to be dealt with in the French courts, i.e., in the country of the port of shipment.

Vercors has told his story bril !liantly The neony la magnificent amil jessabulties he explores in such an unlikely situation are boundless and fascinating.

So

Happily Aadonfule. Jame the

Templeme is revolted the decides on a trold plan

He offers hus semen for urli- female nelal semination in

atry Hu | moliser-las-be marad nad sun is very glasses and takes her to England "nising hak"

Anal she gives The Relenlife in an airliner. much alive, too.

it defir. der of which young birth to a expedi on

Douglas Antina, but something, huil frape English Journalist

and half human, wy way Templemore, is a member, dus. almost human-in covers these

registers Templemore fact,

to close uncomfortably

child's birth as that of his own wild and human-tropis" le

son. Ife has christened, Garry remu e range of mountains

Ralph, and early in the morning New Clumsen,

after its birth he plunges a hypodermie of poison into the infant's arm, killing it.

in

The creatures stand ereet, but have four hands (instead of two hans and two fee): they even the semblance of a lan- have guage and smoke their food be fore eating it. They can make flint axe heads. Are and carve They bury their dead and live in Certainly hey are cover-

caves,

ค

not The

n

Cocteau better one) Scal.

the author 15 yel he does absurdities English people. Jean

uld not have invented politician (even a French Vercors Lord Privy Anatole France could not have (yet devised a more ludicrous

plausible) court multe

highly when

reputable I wo anthropologists bicker and argue over what is a man,

Yes, I recORINATE this book

hearty laugh und 14 thought-provoking study

seene

R

into Just what kes distinguish you and me from the ape you saw Immediately he informs heal Whipsnade on your last leave!

-- C. HUTCHEON, police of his action. that he has killed his son and he is put on trial for murder.

He insists

The murder, as such, is not in The perplexing question. problem for the Judge arid jury is to discover whether, in trei,

animal. he has murdered a human or an

His desire is to prove that the ed with a cont of fine hair from trop is n human, so that it is head

to foot, but then the not subjected to the cruel ex- the Australian was supposed ploitation of Neanderthal at to be pretty hairy, tool

textile tycoon. And for this he is willing to risk his neck)

On this particular question, have been) The trupis might

I feel Vercars has left the only Just a very interesting discovery

of an hropologists. flaw ini for a group yet the challenge presented it- tight

France, like Britain, Australia, and many other countries, gave effect to the rules of the Brussels Convention of 1924 concerning the unification of the rules relating to bill of lading contracts for the carriage of goods by sea, and under those rules such a provision as that referred to above is permissible, and it might be said, reasonable.

that this

in

But unlike The French und it was suggested by the Mess-

Marlines British Arts, the Australian Act agerles provides that any stipulation or principle should be applied not- agreement, whether nude in the withstanding the provision Commonwealth or elsewhere. the Australian Act, since the

under purporting to bust or lessen the court was not deprived, Jurisdiction of the courts of the the common law rule, of the Commonwealth or of a State in right to take any case into its respect of any bill of lading or consideration and determine on agreement relating to the carri- the

whether it would merits age of goods from

place | exercise jurisdiction

itself or the outside Australia

leave

Lo to any place

partics

appear in Australin shall be legal, before their own selected forum, null and void, and of no effect." SHIPPING COMPANY'S CASE

Off To Meet proceedings

The Cannibals

London, June 80.

A young adventurer, 24- year-old Tom Stacey, former

Officer and Guards

Old Etonian left London last week-end on the first leg of 1,500-mile journey in search of primitive tribes in French Equatorial Africa.

water- otherwise story. He has furgolten

SCIENCE BEFORE

SENTIMENT

The New Men. A the politicians Novel by C. P. Snow academie aruncat. (MacMillan & Co. Lon- don).

Mr Snow writes dilemma of Britain's atomic scientists

with

Brian

Kironde,

He is to be accompanied by Cambridge graduate and son of a Buganda

chief.

For

any

it was suggested that such an

Interpretation of the provision

West Germany's

Aid

Reduction In

Price Of Raw Cocoa Wanted

London, June 30. The Financial Times suggested today that some reduction from "the pre- sent high price of raw cocoa" would keem pow- sible for next season.

***The risc la prices has been so steep and Ita duration so long that the confectionary trade and Ita consumers cannot escape

the impact.

"If all tho higher raw material prices have to be passed on to the consumer, demand will fall and prea- sure on the supplies could be cased.

Another factor which might tend to reduce prioca La "the tendency of some confectionary concorna to turn towards cocoa sub- stitutes

which replace COCOS butter by other edible oils and fats," the

newspaper said.

"How for .the West African producers respond to the high prices by planting more--the only fundamental remedy for

the cocoa problem--remains uncertain."

To Shipbuilders

Creation Of Strong

Merchant Fleet Acceptable To U.K..

Bonn, July 1. Government financial aid to shipbuilders to further the creation of a strong West German merchant fleet is compatible with Anglo-German agreements not to subsidige exports, a senior Economics Ministry official has stated here. He was commenting on the "Hamburg Plan" proposed by the Hamburg Senator, Herr Ernst Plate, for the future financing of shipbuilding:

West Germany's shipping industry had been trying for some time to find alternative sources of finance now that tax concessions are due to be abolished in the tax reform at present under consideration by Parliament, the source said.

Senator Plate's

plan....which

of

only

present London Rubber

Market

the official described 13 ene of many plans at being mooted provides for building 300,000 tons

DOW shipping at a cost of 400 million marks. One-quarter of the money would come from recon-

London, June 30. struction loans, and one-eighth

The rubber market was quiet each from US aid funds and

with

1 No.

Rss

at quoted from the shipbuilders. The re-

10-18/10 pence per 1. Prices: maining half of the funds would No. Res pot 1234-20 BO

come from the capital market. Settlement house term:

Auglist September

The Financial Timen auf- gested the use of "a greater share of the large cumulated profits of the West African marketing

boards to encourage more and better farming.".... China Mail Special.

NEW YORK

STOCK

MARKET

Senator Plate claims that mortgage bonds should be tax free and that shippers should be allowed to earmark tax-free profits for their reserves to cover depreciation.

ANOTHER SUGGESTION

Another suggestion which has the been put forward is that Federal Government should take over interest rales abovo live

Oct./Dec.

Jan Mar. Apr June August

General markoli,

September

1035-40

1017-201

20-2015

2016-20

20%-2011

elf baris, ports:

1041-191 19-13/16-10-15/10

Erlate crepe thin 2444

-United Fr¢.

NEW YORK MARKET

New York, June 30. Rubber futures today closed

2 to 20 points lower with sales

38 contracts.

dullness prevailed

of

The

in

per cent on loans which the both the futures and spot mar- shipping industry gets on

capital market.

would normally

the kets. Such loans

Traders awaited the re-entry cost eight or of factory interest, Shipment nine per cent at present, bat offering was reported light and shippers

they Cannot high priced.

Bpot rubber Rss were quoted afford more than five.

nominally 234 centa a pound. Future closings were:

claim

The carriers, the Messageries in the Act left the court in full control so far ยง jurisdiction Maritimes, sought to stay the

was concerned, but gave it also the upon ground a discretion to consider in each that there is written

agreea

particular ense whether the ment to submit a dispute to the parties should, be held to their decision of a foreign court UD

от whether the uction the English

Ja

courts agreement

should be allowed to will be stayed in the absence of plainti good reason to the contrary, and proceed with his action.

NO REASON FOR STAY

The court,

that holding in

which there existed no reason

stay would justify a

ΟΙ pro-in suid that stronger ecedings. words than null and vold, and New York, June 30, of no effect (ns used in the Act)tives some time ago.

Leading issues fell a point to Cotton trading continued as could not be found, and that it

But these suggestions did not two-sided affair today, but a stipulation was made a nullity, more than three points in groups seem to conflict with the agree- this time the recently-depressed then it was a nullity in every such as the chemicals, electrical ment between the British July delivery went over to the respect.

equipment, the oils and a host Chancellor of the Exchequer, today. Prices today, closed in upside while new crop months

of special issues, lagged.

New York Cotton

Market

to

Absorption of more than half

With

In

New York,.dune 30. Top grade stocks reacted sharply today when the U.S. Senate voted to halve the

The Economics Ministry double tax relief proposed official said no decisions on any the tax bill as passing, help for shipping had beat the House of Representa-talten so far, since the tax

May form bill was still in committee.

July

Sept.

по

Dec. Mar

Mr Richard Butler and the

the

July

24.00

24.20

74.20

14.45

United Prom, AMSTERDAM MARKET

Amsterdam, June 301. The rubber market. was steady

**** 194 Buyers

-1.83 buyers 1.07 Buyer 3.40_bayern

United Pres The Singapore rubber priens were

own merchant fleet, the offela London Foreign

It is common for the British

Elsewhere in the industriais, West German Economics Minia-guilders per kilogram, CIF, Aug. and shipowner to include in the bill in the ralls, fructional ter, Professor

No. 1 rubber Ludwig Erhard, follows: This No. 1 rubber of the 73 delivery notices issue of lading provisions a clause to

losses wero the rule. Out of not to subsidise exports. four months they will

effect that any claim or

1,102 issues appearing on the agreement, reached during Mr No. 3 rubber

No. 1 rubber crepe Inix with tribeg still practisit the opening brought covering the

spot dispute under the terms of the Into July, along with primitive cannibalism,

vanced.

beginning of hay, covered ex- and the selen-y

house demand against sales of bill of inding shall be decided tape, 601 declined while 391 ad- Butler's visit to Bonn et the mere proples who still bury widows

the at the carriers' option the later positions. tists' objections became

Volume Wi

comparatively port subsidies, whereas Herr unavailable this morning. alive. and desert-dwellers п

United Kingdom

Plate's courts of the

suggestion dealt with position carved down to

light on the downturn, amount. of South-East Legion

Angola round"

30,000 bales, experts or in the courts of the country

Ing to 1,050,000 shares, com- the building of West Germany's Tom says. has never expected the market hereafter of the port of discharge. this, which

pared with 2,800,000 yesterday. war-time been properly explored.

heed to Washington

The Senate more pay

acted to cut said. Weldity

The effect of this decision in

dividend tax relief in favour of developments and crop news, He's hoping to write a hook

to Australian trade is

In the meantime, an official of to the rank How did the scientists and a telling simplicity. He about his adventures to beat Opening prices were up 14 to regard!

Malaya best-seller, off 3 points. New Orleans closed therefore to deprive the carrier small concessions

of taxpayers. Since, the West German Steel Industry feel when they probed the has been content to present the conflicting and unforeseen

5 points higher,

of the right to have any such and fle vast possibilities of nuclear no

open dispute settled in the courts of market men pointed out, much Association has stated that he Trading volumes and responsibilities of

of rebates granted on

M** | Amsterdam Assion? How did they feel today without attempting to ex-

year has been based on tax re reports interests in the Exchange today this country, which, for many of the market riso so far, this could neither confirm nor deny New York them too deeply. The

reasons, may be desirable.

llet, the news served to unsettle steel deliveries to shipbuilders. Blocked Mark ut the prospect of making plore

practices is

Nothing about such the market. con- AA no story an explosion "such

structed and well

The recent strong chemicals was known at present, though copenhages

might have | Paris were hard hit. Du Pont, up 15% Individual firms

knowledge.-China Zurich

the scientia!

con-

add be

one bad realistically ima-struct

tween the often exciting

his even "The Ilostile Sun,

New Books

were: Month

Voluine

Open Interest

July

40,300

80,200

Oct.

33.100

210,000

Asia South East

short

Den.

31,000

445,000

Mar.

400

320,000

May

Det.

fuly

13,000

250,700

9,000 3,200

124,300

100

3,400

157,700

1,549,000 bales --United Press.

at the Barford gined...a great big bang developments like thousands of tons of Atomic Centre, and the relation history by Brian Harrison (Mar- Lewis Eliot (who Millan, London 10/0). This book T.N.T....a bomb that would ship between kill 800,000 people at a go"? tells the story) and his brother, will be reviewed in this column

Martin, where

MI

Snow next week.

shows the hopelessness o!

Cherrill of the Yard,

the

In his latest novel, Mr trying to full one's own private autoblography of Fred Cherrill, Snow examines the emotionsuite by directing other people's ex-Chief Superintendent of the of that strange race of Then there is the counterpoin: Fingerprint Branch

personal relations Scotland Yard (Harrap, London

the scientists —

of tho people

between Martin Ellot and occasion of this, wife, whom on the

he married un- their latest contribution to wisely, the politicians, civil ser this happy, enlightened age vants and the other scientists. of material progress and social advancement.

In this

case, The Now Men were apprehensive and fearful that selence would be misused. This fear came not with the final production of the bomb or Hiroshima Explosion over and Nogasak!, but with the dis- covery of its theoretical feasibi-

some Mr Snow has invented particularly droll characters in his denizens of Whitehall, com- pleto in their black coats and pin stripes. He has captured the Lervent young master- scientist perfectly in Luke, but Martin Ellot is perhaps too old for his yours.

of New

Dec. Total

32,500

NEW YORK PRICES

New York, June 30. Prices of cotton futures today closed as follows

25,10n

33.00-63 33.00 34.02 34.27

34.21

33.0

33.25

United Press. NEW ORLEANS PRICES

New Orleans, June 30. Prices of cotton futures closed today as follows;-

his

15/-).

Spot

July

Oct.

Doc.

UK

TV Films May Help

Exports

MRT

May

July

Oct. Dec.

Spot

#uly

Oct.

London, June 30.

Dec.

Films about British in- dustry may be shown on

May

July:

Det

Dec

ittle

fity and after an examination of deliberate without ever reaching to boost the export drive.

The author's style is plain and foreign TV networks to help

Kreat

iis tremendous possibilities.

heights. The striking The idea has the backing of And If this realisation had

feature of this book, however, is Sir Harry Pilkington, Presi- dawned before tho bomb's

the simple, unpreteritious actual creation, why

dent of the Federation of did the dialogue of the most

academic scientists persist with their

most British Industries. of scientists and the research? Sentiment raroly

Oly garrulous of politicians, Unlike aclen- obstrudes

into

He says that all over the world pure

many authors, Mr Snow does Life Investigation. The over not Impart the gift of convece now television networks whelming desire is to weok, to on rocklessly among his being set up art-in many areas- know and immediate

understand The characters, unele tocanons on for xample, in Latif America dominant

uff the whole are beter and to the the local stations are short of was to solve the apparently point, uncomplicated by any of material. insoluble, that which

Poped

the the devices of expression which

intriguing question marks of

fro

Mar

34.00

33.584

CLOT EG

34.00:

23.02

27.23b 31.bob

United Press. LIVERPOOL MARKET

Liverpool, June 30.

American prices, Closing middling cotton, 10/18 inch, in pence per lb. were as follows: October/November December/January

March/April

סינה

Official prices for spot coltons,

Montreal

Hamburg

Brusel

Exchange

New York Sugar points on Monday and off 6 yes granted rebates without the As- Blockholm terday, erased another 3% sociation's

Market

New York, July 1. World No. 4 sugar futures today closed points higher to 1 point lower with sales of 84 contracts.

Domestic No. 6 sugar closed 1 point higher unchanged to with sales of 108 contracts,

World futures held steady on short covering. The 438 trans- ferrable notices issued against July were promptly taken up trade interests.

Ceylon reportedly bought 10,000 tons of raw sugar, but confiming dealers lacked any

details.

points of the gain to $134,

Lesses in the pilaatonged to 3% 2% in points Try Seaboard,

or more in Amerada, a point Standard Oll (N.J.), Honolulu Oil, Texas Pachie Land Trust,

Steels cased. Industrial stocks were down 3.37 in their average, Irails 60 cents and utilities one

cent..

The New York Stock Ex- change bond volume $4,090,000.

was

The American Stock Exchange volume was 470,000 shares.

Dow Jones closing averages were

335.63

20 industrial -

15 utilities

20 ralle

stocks

10 bonds

100.00

160.37

United Press

Comm, future price index

Domestic futures held steady SMALL COTTON

bel

reflecting the firmer rew hasia and fears that purchases made in Puerto Rico may tied up indefinitely because of the dockworkers, strike on the

Future closings were: feland,

Contract No. 4. (world)

September

October

*.176

3.14

31.28

s

all unchanged United

January(1000)

SAO PAULO PRICES

May.

July

São Paulo, June 30,

Prices of cotton futures closed

Cube)

3.17

Cont

why and how. And beside"" characterise - that minority, of He believes they would be,ayin aruzeiro, der kilo" ea.).

there was the tempting chal

risont and gifted speakers.","

only too glad to accept simi about British industry, pros

lenge of converting the theoreti-The book is the Bring In Mr they mohrbi pamo

cal possibility of nuclear fasion Snowia akpañain Jesus

into practical real

That "the other alo-, might

Once the bomb was created, which People wi

about.

OTC.

PLANTING

Kampala, Buganda, June 30.

Only 942 acres have been planted with cotton so far this,

Mail Special.

PENINSULAR

C

London June 30,

081-13/16-2,011%

21/20-1/

12-5/1

Others were

United

Press.

& ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGÁTION COMPANY

R.M.S. "CORFU”

SAILS:

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

CASON just one twelfth of last BAGGAGE: year's colton acreage, Agricul- tural Department Agures show ed today.

Last year

12,094

with cotton.

acres

Were

Poienivo. Couricil members |

recently denounced a whisper

Friday, the 2nd July, at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM vin Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Adeni and Port Sald.

Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by noon on Thursday 1st July, 1964.

ing, caimpolgsamang Buganda SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages

farmers which allegedly urged

not

baa third

Ginointed, dut

carried by passengers WALL BAGGAGE must:

the Wharf C6.2 God on-board by

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