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JULY 3, 1954.

Violent Fluctuations Rationing Ende DELUGE STARTS

In Japanese Economy

War Since

Political disturbances,

bank-

are

Tokyo, July 3.

increasing ruptcies, suicide, crime and general unrest partly attributed here to violent fluctuations in the Japanese economy over the last four years.

In the prosperity period of the Korean War, dollar spending pushed the prices of some commodities up to as much as 250 per cent of base figures before June 1950.

Now, with deflationary banking policies operating and foreign markets difficult to find, credit is limited and in June many wholesalers were clearing stocks at less than cost.

the

newspaper

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FIRING DIES

DOWN IN JERUSALEM

Jerusalem, July 2.

in died down Firing divided Jerusniem this afternoon and the agreed censeftre Neemed to be coming into effect-though hours-with the delayd 24 approach of the Jewish Sabbath.

Belia has he a szpurate high-level approach requesting moderation after the diplomatte

the

envoys of America, France und Britain had also called at according to ministry source.

Iarac! Foreign Ministry

today,

Dr Waker Eytan, Director - General of the Foreign Ministry, naked the Western Powers to use their influence will Jordan fur on Immediate ceasefire.

(The Brush Foreign Omec said Britain was asking both

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At Midnight In Britain

London, July 2. Housewives from all over Britain will gather in London's famous Trafsigur Square tomorrow to king "Oh for the roast beef of old England" in celebration of the end of rationing xi midnight.

The meeting has been organised by Mrs Catring- son, Chairman of the Bri- tish Housewives Associa- Hon.

Rationing began on June 1940, and meat is the 8, Jami

be commodity to "freed." The Ministry of Food will, however, oon- tinue to function for some time to wind up markeis and contracts still in force. -France-Presse.

IN WORLD'S WETTEST PLACE

New Delhi, July 3.

The small town of Cherrapunji, in Assam, the "wettest place in the world," has just begun its annual deluge.

With the breaking of the monsoon in June, Cherrapunji faces four months of continual downpour during which 300 inches of rain will fall. This is nearly eight times the amount of rain which falls in Britain or in New York in a whole year.

The average rainfall in Cherrapunji for the entire year is 450 inches.

London gets only about 23 inches; the whole of the British Isles, including Northern Ire- land, about 41 inches; and New York and Washington | about 42 inches, the average world rainfall on land is

DEMOCRATS estimated at 40 inches.

ACCUSED

BY NIXON

Washington, July 2 United States Vice-President Richard Nixon tonight accused the Demoeret administration of under-estimating the Communist

in Asla, America

menuce

According to the Government |ably mens heavily reduced lax Israel and Jordan to "exercise Economic Counsel Boird, the revenue.

restraint"

help United und One economic number of dishonoured bills in

commentator, Nations efforis to end the April 1954, averaged 1,535 a day | writing in the English-language, | shooting). compared with 844 in the pre-Japanese - owned

casualties vious Api Dahonoured bills in Nippon Times", forecast that Wednesday evening to noon to

Government's budgetary day were given by Isrash army

might sources estimate of tax revenuB be too high by nu much as Yen wounded.

In New York the United Europe. 25,000 million.

The effects of deflation on the Nations Secretary-General, Mr fabric, he Dag Hammarskjock, called On Japanese economic muld, were already "severe"- | Israel and Jordan for a "com- plete observance of the cease fire achieved in Jerusalem by Bennike, Major-General Vagn chief of the truce

supervision organisation.-Reuter,

April 1954, totulled Tokyo in 42,000 compared with 28,000 in April 1953

policy has The deflationary struck textile merchants hardest. This April, 89 lextile rms went bankrupt compared with 15 in April 1943.

United States

Meers

Heater con-

cerned with procuring supplies in Japan recently published what

review

is probably the most complete available of Japanese price trends.

economy

Printed for the guidance of purchasing sunft, R summarises the changes of the since the sound of guns រក Korea set Japanese factories on three-year run of unexpected prosperity.

food-

Aust. Paper Wants Strong Japan

the

4

in

a

JUNE 1950 BASE

Sydney, July 2

that Taking June 1950 as base of 11 must be recognised

and 109, combined index

"although it is a risk figures covering wholesale prices of gamble, the rebirth of a strong,

stable Japan

counter- eight commodities-fuels, stuffs, metals, building materials, balance to Chinese power could machinery, chemicals, textiles to more than anything else to the and miscellaneous goods stood keep

peace Lie Sydney Morning at 155 in 1951, and in October Pacific," and December 1953 passed the Herald sald today.

The newspaper was comment- 160 level.

on the creation ing editorially

Japanese Defence of Ministry and National Army.

The editorial said "it must be accepted it is only a matter of line..

Japan is goin a power to be reckoned with in

new

before

Prices of foodstuffs stood at 100 last Getober Building materials went up to 208 in July year and ut the end of the year prives were nearing 250.

Metal prices went as high as 250 in 1951 but since then have steadily declined. Last Decem- Pacifle and Aslan areas," "At Brat thought, that Australian problem 10 Pig iron, from slightly below memories of the Japanese army 30 dollars (about £10) in June In New Guinea, can contemplate 1950 reached a peak in 1952 at with any degree of equanimity.

But the threat from

China slightly above 80 dollars (about

metric ton. But, aiis reul, immediate and no great

bor,

They were sightly below.

220.

is a with

£27) per the end of 1053, this and other effort of imagination is needed prices

started to [ad), leaving to envisage Australia's position manufacturers over-stocked with u

goods produced standard of costs.

at un artificiul bands.

TEXTILES

In textiles, an unexpectedly big demand on the home market kept prices up.

Meanwhile wages had risen. Where

had once

feared

been

costationally for low

ing wages,

costs, includ- induty- In most

Irtes now put Japanese goods above world levels.

Wages of mechanical workers per hour were about 13 cents in

m June 1950. They went to 19 1951, to 23 in 1932, 28, in Jamary 1983, and 29 cents in November.

The American survey estimat

the same period ed that in living costs increased from a buse of 100 in June 1950 to 182

at the end of 1053.

Japan is now widely regarded as being in a state of economic hangover.

Prices and living costs for ordinary Japanese continued to rise through the first half of 1954, while there was apparent prosperity in the cities, but

to

Peking and

"IL muat

Tokyo joined

therefore be the

WILLS HEIRESS TO RE-MARRY

London. July 2. Mrs Hermoine Eva, 28-year- oid widowed great grand daughter of the founder of the Will's Tobacco Factory, is to

Stoner SOLBETY Captain Harry

of the Prince Ball

of Wales Dragoon

Arst Guards. husband, a merchant navy off- rer, died in a Cannes, France, hospital last year following a dive in frogman's outfil 30 feet under

Mediterranean. — the China Mall Special.

Her

Did

In a television interview, Mr Nixon said that the Harry Truman regime left behind it à foreign policy of "weakness" and of "aurrender of principles The at the conference table. Vice

said President

the democrats "failed to recognise and that Communist inspired controlled resolutions like the one on China and the one on Indo-China were really aggres- sion against free nations."

When it rains at Cherrapunji, Apart

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It is nothing like an ordinary rains, The only big source English drizzle or American water supply is the melting of shower. It is like a continuous the Himalayan glacier anows The Hongkong and Shanghai

cloud-burst; the emptying-out of which ferd The Ganges and giant bath tub; the endless other rivers of the nor heru cascading of a waterfall.

Of the 450 inches of annual rin, 300 inches fall between June

September. and

Since every inch of rain means 100 tons of rain per acre, every acre of land in Cherrapun}i will be deluged by 30,000 tons of water by September.

To the Inhabitants, to live in the wettest place in the world means four months of complete boredom. All activity is at o standstil},

plain.

BAKED EARTH

During the April and May, the countryside

of

hot months

WRIIS tor the

of carning the rains which will saturate the baked earth, fill the dry rivers, and enable sowing to start in the felds.

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indica discusses the situated at Beacoustituid Arcade, Hook daily

and

Road temperature

Central, the Queen's chances of the advent of the Kong. rains.

The monsoon breaks first over Ceylon and South India at the contact Leather end of May and comes with a goes green with mildew.

rush up the west coast of India day and 37594 by night. Everywhere, there is the dank to Bombay, while from the other

Subscription End smell of rotting and reburgeon side it crosses the Bay of Bengal should be sent to:-

STAY INDOORS It is too wel to go out. Even inside the house, the alr heavy with moisture.

vegetation. Beetles and to Boak Calcutta, Bengal and other Insects thrive, carpeting Assam.

sprouts

Mr Nixon gald that the Re-

the floor, dropping from the publican administration, on the

ceiling or crawling up the walls. Bombay gets a full dose of "placing pri-

For four months, from inside the monsoon. Overnight, the other hand, was

their bamboo emphasis upon the great

the in- city

like umbrcilas mary mobile retallatory power of the

habitants of nji gaze mushrooms, and citizens splush United States which we will use

gloomily through the door at across streets suddenly con the endless curtain of rain. verted into swift Dowing not exclusively but primarily."

Cherrapunji fies 4,000 feel up, streams, their dhotis or trousers He added the US. would this power against "the major

of the on the edge

Shillong rolled up above their knees. plateau in Assam, overlooking source of aggression and wherever it appears." France-Presse,

usc

whenever

Pakistan 59 For

None In

LATUACION

Second Innings

Nottingham, July 2.

Denis Compton, in a wonderful display of national aim of Australian policy batting, surpassed all his previous best Test scores

help the extent within our

in making 278 in only four hours 50 minutes on the power to foster good relations,"

second day of the second cricket Test between the newspaper sald.--Reuter.

England and Pakistan here.

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As the monsoon raine sweep across the subcontinent in June monsoon clouds roll up and July, the brown parched across the Bay of Bengal, across earth sprouts emerald green the waterlogged sol of the

countryside plains and up a kind of cul-de- comes to life again for another Вас between the hills to

Cherrapunji.

cur-

There, the warm moist renta of air rise and precipitals

tho and

year. Reuter.

whole

their entire load of rain on the SAILOR HAS

small town,

few miles Only a

north of APPENDICITIS Cherrapunj, on the other side

of the plateau, the rainfall drops

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to a moderate 50 inches a year. An attack of uppendicitis an

HEAT WAVE

one engine room hand While Assam and Bengal are he Japanese chartered being soaked by the monsoon, { manlan" freighter Semi Ramis } most of the rest of northern i to return when sho was 100 India is sweltering in a heat miles out of Singapore. wave with temperatures up to The freighter returned here 110 degrees Fahrenheit,

this morning after leaving port for Delhi, lying between the two eight hours earlier bound monsoon Zone from east and Japan with 0,000 tons of iron west, often misses the

She main ore.

here called

last force of the monsoon altogether Thursday for bunkers. and suffers a drought.

The vessel

100 was about

T. Yamashita, |------ Further south, in Rajasthan, miles out when lle miles of desert which get no an engine room crew member, fell Ill. The captain turned thy all. From this arld It was the highest score la particularly outstanding with

rain at post-war Teats throughout the their picking up and throwing.

region, storms of dust and sand ship and headed full speed back to Singapore and radioed the Delhi toch Pakistan were world, the previous best being

sweep over handi-

local agents for medical assis- the 281 by Frank Worrell, the capped by an injury to their during June, making its in-

doctor was rushed West Indies batsmen,

the rain-soaked tance. A against leading he bowlod 47 overs in

bowler, Fazal Mahmood. habitants envy

out to meet the freighter at inhabitants of Cherrapunji. England in 1850 of this

Peak Island of Singapore and The monsoon the

brings floods Yamashita was later rushed to day, Fazal was suffering

and often

disaster to Assam, the General Hospital where he Pakistan elevated to Test from a pulled leg muscle and

but its falluro would status only two years ago, were had to cut down his run and

famine Hassan, at completely outployed but they his pace. Khalki

and death for large being kept under observa- fought back

creas of the country. most creditably 18 the youngest player to ap-

The freighter resumed lis after David Sheppard,

the whole of India depends on journey as soon as Yamashita England captain,

the monsoon for the cultivation was taken of the ship which is of the main wheat and rice now heading for Knokura. crops,

ground, Treatbridge.

same

wicket.

Test

much

101

the pear in

cricket, had a declared at Violent baptism but kept a 658 for six wickels.

croditable length and at least Facing a defeit of 401; the was able to claim Compton's louring team made 60: without

SCOREBOARD loss by the close, so they will resume in the morning needing

Pakistan (Ixt Innings) 157 England (18) Innings) 342 to avoid an Innings defeat,

Imuar Ahmed b Compton hit one six and 33 heppard e fours. It was impossible to set Simpson, b. Khalid Hassan a field to him, so complete was Mayab Khan Monamined BCRAMBLED ADDITION;

1. Compton. b. Khalid Hasan 270 Re. his

mastery.

Graveney, “a. Maqsood Ahmed, economie experts were pessimiste, rein, dran, Liners Hngers.

Compton's innings WE A “b. Kardar

mixture of MATCH EM: 1-G; 2-D; 3-A¡ 4-H: dascinating

the| Bailey, not out Semi-official predictions mugs.: 33: 7-R; 4-C.

orthodox and the improvised Evan, b. Khan Mohammad

J. Wardle, not out! gested that the 1954. foreign

on both

Extran trade deficit would again be MORE AND MODE 8: 1-Small. stroke. His deflections

38011, Starp. "B-sides of the wicket were muster- dollars,mooth. 6-Blog, 7-Stupid. 6-Sorry. decline in domestic Sleep, 10-ink. 18pend, 12.

BUNS IN A SPATE business prosperity would prob Saucy-la-Games 16-Bucosed.. 15

17-lent or Sun. Bane 19-dorrow. 20-Stout. 21- CHURCH TO BE MOVED

tic about future prospects.

about 1,000 million while

...

Total for six wickets

BOWLING

...... 868

OM R 7 148 40 3 23 24 110

ria

in Pakistan (2nd. Innings)

if Mohammad, not out

Atimadders

He reached his first 60' in 100 Fatal Mahmood Is-Start.

Khan Mohammad Shuz 23--Guest 22-Beparate, 4 minutes and his 100 in 24 hours, Kn Euperior.

3-Budden, 24 - After that- the runs camo in a Khaikh Hamkan 7-Bimple, 28-Stubborn. 29-Strict.

spate, He scored his next. 178 Maqsood Ahmed 30-8pticus.

In only 125 minutes, PICTURE WORD SQUARE:

Earlier, Simpson had com- CORE

·OVAL

plated a chanceless 101 in three bours 20 minutes. He who over- shadowed by Compton during their stay together, but not so tox numbers th the Graveney, who indeed, sot the team up like', thier ADO

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