1954-12-20 — Page 8

Page

P&O B.I. E&A

• COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwards

"CANTON"

Fou

Duo Hongkong

10th Jan., 1055 "CBUSAN"

10th Ziet December

Jac " "CARTHAGE" 6th Jan., 1998

6th Feb.,

*CORFU"

1th Mur

Leaves London

+1

لوريث

Via Southampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,

Tenang & Singapore

Homewarda

"CANTON"

Leaves Hongkong 14th Jan, 1930

Bus London

14th Feb., 196♫

**CHUSAN” "CARTHAGE"

2nd Feb..

14th March

"CORFU"

11th Feb.

11th Mar..

2nd March +

11 Apr, +

Vie singapore, Penang, Colombo, Hombay, Aden,

Port Bald & London

Also calls Marselljes.

FREIGHT SERVICE

"SOUDAN"

she 22nd Dee.

Leads 4/5 Jums.

"BOMALI"

from UK, Continent via Strait

tor S'pore. P. Swetten- ham, Penang, Colombo, Adeň, Port Blid, Genoa, Marociles, Havro, Lon- don. Antwerp, Rotter- dan de Hamburg

londa 9/10 Jan. fur

Kube.

Yokohama

With liberty to call at Belawan before or after Straits Por and at Bombay if inducement offers.

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

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

from Calculla, Bangoon & Stratto for Japon

"SANGOLA"

duo 2d Dec

sails 240 Dec.

"WARORA"

do t att sak 115 Jan

From Japan

for Singapore, Rangoon, Vulovikle de Chillagong

P. O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

"ORNA"

dhe 2nd Der

sas 2901 Dee. “OZARDA“ dur 4th Jan

Sti Jau

from PQ Karachu Bombay & Singapure for Jopen

frotu Japa FOT

Skigapore,

Port sweltenham, Colombo, Karachi. Basrah, Char- Pastatatir

Kuwait

"OKDIA”

1125

710 Jatt

Mh Jan

from Japan

Jur Singapoer Penan Colombo, Karachi, 1107- rah, Khorramshahr Kuwel

A

"EASTERN”

6th Jan. 4:10 TAUS 7th Jan,

from Australia tor Japan

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, DECEMBER

CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG PUBLISHED "DAILY (AFTERNOONS)

Price, 20 canta per oopy, Saturdays 80 canta, Bubkoription: $6.00 per month. Postage; China and Maso $3.00 par month, UK. British Pomenico and other countries $700 per month,

always wel compg. should be addressed to the Editor, business communications and advertisements to the BeczWIRTY.

Telophone: 26611 (5 Linas), KOWLOON OFFICE; Ballbury Road. Telephone: 62618.

New contributions,

JEDNOZLATKALOUERZEKERİNE

Classified Advertisements 20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS $3.00 PER DAY

10 conts PER WORD OVER 20

Births, Deaths, Marrlages, Personal $5.00 por insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

If not prepaid a booking fee of 50 cents in charged.

FOR SALE

BRITISH MADE children's shows up to $10.00 pair. Also men's shock Hongkong

Shanghai Bay (uppoad to Capitol

COVERY

Theatre),

MUSICAL

LF RECORDINGS maka excellent Christinas Gina ch

HMV Coronation Set, Canto Flamence An- Biology, Bach's Masa, Matthew Pre- son, Christmas Oratorio and Caniata. targe selection Christmas

Caroli available D. Hoca (A. Des Voeux Boad, room ). 2nd floor, telephone

30160

WANTED KNOWN

MORFAT WHIPPING for all party Occasiona, is is an excellent Whip- plag Cream al a most reasonable prica, 11 oz. tin 61.30, 815 oz, 95 cta. Also Moriat 20 a îne table Cream- 11.

Obtainable at all grocers.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY", LIMITED

Notice To Shareholders

NOTICE

"THE FAMILY PLANNING -ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG

For the benefit of married woften wishing advice on family planning a clinic for English speaking women will

1954.

Hollywood Antwerp Diamond Depraved Says Russian

said: "In glaring

cinemato

a

London, Dec 10. An. attack on Hollywood's be held at Red-Cross Blood."depravity" was made at the Notice Is hereby given that

Donors Contro In Statue second congrena of Soviet .00 Extraordinary General

Square (opposite the Hong Moscow, Tase, the official Soviet writers," now in weselon in Meeting of the Members of

Kong & Shanghai Bank nowa agency, said today, the. Company will be held at Building,. Des Voeux Road, Mr Sergel Gerasimov, a film the Registered Office of the Central) on the 1st and 3rd director and "Peoples Artist of of

the USSR Company, 4th floor, F. &. Ở THURSDAY DI anch month contrast to Soviet Building, on Thursday, the from 10 a.m, to 12 Noon com-graphy, which brings to the 28rd day of December, 1954 mencing on THURSDAY, 6th masses the ideas of human

and friendship of the peoples, at 11 am. for the purpose of JANUARY, 1955. considering and I thought

and has rendered great services in the development of pro fit paaring the following

gressive culture, stands Holly- "There history and world classics are perverted, stories are written according to the canons of falsehood and vulgarisation and from there issues a flood of pictures glorifying murder, depravity and crime."Reuter.

Resolution 48 an Ordinary NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES wood. | Resolution:-

BATAAN"

"That it is desirable that the agency agreement} Damaged cargo me this vessel wilt entered into with Messrs.veyed by Messrs. Goddard & Dougby at Holt' Whert from Gibb, Livingston & Com-10 am, on December 22, 1954 pany, Limited dated 18th and consignées are requested to have their representatives present during November, 1047 bo ter-

the survey. minated and the Board of Directors of The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited

BUTTERFIELD & IWME, Agenta.

be and are hereby authorised Hong Kong. December 20, 1984. to offer the sum of $3,000,-

tho

"PERSEU!"

Black Marketeers Sentenced

Frankfurt, Dec. 10, A German court at Hanau, near here, sentenced a nes- hus- and tro taurant owner band to 10 months and seven months' imprisonment гепрес- tively for having sold 85,000 American cigarettes, 118 lbs of coffoc, and 64 bottica of whisky without hoving paid

000.00 as compensation to NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

Bald Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Company, Limited in consideration of the total abandonment of all the contractual rights under the agreement dated 18th November, 1947, and that if the offer be accepted, the Board of Directors of The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited bo authorised to enter into a Deed of Cessation with Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Company, Limited giving effect to the said arrange- ments for the termination of the Agenay,"

Damaged cargo ex this vogel will a surveyed by Mesars Palen e Bays-Davy at Holt's Wharf from 10 m, on December 23 and 24, 1954, i duty. and consignees are requested to have their representatives present during the survey,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

DR. SCHOLL'S Foot Comfort Ber vice, Telephone House (McHong Kong,

Happy Hongkong offore your feet Christmas. Look In today wille

Tuesday, 23rd Novembor, 1954. shopping.

BUTTERFIELD A SWINE,

Agents.

Hong Kong, December 20, 1994.

also

Aned and

Industry Faces Crisis

Antwerp, Dec. 18.

The Antwerp diamond industry, formerly one Belgium's main sources of prosperity, is facing serious crisis.

The famous Antwerp diamond houses, known the world over for the quality of their cutting and polishing, are operating on slender profit margins and troubled by frequent strikes.

Today, nearly, one of the city's 12,000′ diamond workers are unemployed, while the wages of those at work have dropped considerably from the immediate postwar period when they were considered "the aristocrats of European Labour.”

the

"Diamond

the Diamond

Imports of polished diamonds Oppenheimer, uro also rising year by year to King"

The Trust, give increased competition to the national industry, which ranks Trading Company, has a virtual strend only to London in monopoly of distributing rough

to diamonds

manufacturing Europa,

centres

and buys the entire. Congo output. By keeping the prices for rough diamonds firm, it aims at maintaining a stable market for polished gems on the world market.

PRICE INCREASE

Tho Antwerp Industry which paid, with its exports of out goms, for nearly three-quarters of Belgium's war, has Imporia after the

been hit by an increase in the price of rough diamonds.

Pelican Street Antwerp's equivalent of London's .Eotton Garden- says that the Trust must supply it with more good

'QUALITY OF WORK

These dull, lustre-less pebbles, quality rough diamonds if the which are transformed by An-industry is to survive, The woman was

twerp's highly skilled cutters and 1,000 marks (about £83)

polishers into valuable long her husband 500 marks (£42).

"baguettes", "squares"; "pears" Both were ordered to pay 10, and other forms,

are the in- 352 marks (about £863) comdustry's raw material.

to the finance pensation thorities-Reuter.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

P.O. Box 53 Queen's Building Tel: 2665)

FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

“VIETNAM” "CAMBODGE"

au-

salling Dec. 31st -sailing Feb. 26th

sailing Dec. 21st salling Jan. 9th

W. STOKER, General Manager.

FAST FREIGHT SERVICE

"BIR HAKEIM” "MEKONG" (1)

(1) will call at London

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THINK NOT, YOU LITTLE EXCUSE

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

All vessels have liberty to call at any ports un off the route & the route & sailing are subject

to change or amendment with or without notice.

YOU--HIT-- MY ROYAL JAW? YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THIS PALACE ALIVE!

FOR A KING--

For full particulars apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

passenger

service

to Korea,

Japan,

FERDINAND

MANDRAKE GESTURES

HYPNOTICALLY AND--

&

Yokohama.

NANCY

Doubling (?) Up

NOW ORDER YOUR SOLDIERS TO ESCORT US TO THE AIRPORT. WE ARE LEAVING.

THIS--THIS CAN'T--BE!

EVERETT

LINES

EVERETT ORIENT LINE

Fast regular freight refrigerator

Philippines, Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.

"LENEVERETT“

Arrives

Salle

Dec, 21 from Singapore, Dec, 21 for Kabe

"BRADEVERETT”

Arrives Sally

Jan. 1 trom Manila.

** Jan. 2 for Singapore, Penang.

Rangoon & Calcutta,

(Avotping cargo for transhipment, Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/OkinawH)

EVERETT STAR LINE

Fast regular freight refrigerator

servico

to Korea, Japan,

passenger Philippines. Indo-China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf,

"THAI"

In Port Loading Sails

Doc. 20 for Kobe & Yokohama, “STAR · ALCYONE” Arrives : Dec. 20 from Bingapore.. Sails

Dec. 30 for Robe & Yokohama.

(Accepiing `cargo for transhipmeni Kobe/Puzan and Kobo/Okinawa).

EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

Į (Žueorporated in the 'Republia of PanAMA A with Limited Liability) -AM

Chinese Department: elephone 28293.

Queen's Building,

WHATCHA

GOT: THERE, NANCY 2

IT'S A LIST OF WHAT' I- WANT FROM

SANTA

JOHNNY HAZARD

SERING THE CAN POINTER AT HIM, JOHNNY FLINGE HIS ONLY:"WRAPONS EAT, DOOLEYUMA HANDFUL OF.COM

HOW COME YOU MADE" SO MANY COPIES 7

THE PISSONS SWOOP DOWN'}} FOR THER FOODMA

W

I WANT TO BE SURE I. STRIKE THE RIGHT ONE

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

By

out

The Belgian Industry haa always based ita prosperity on the quality of its crafts- men's work, a claim re- cognised, moreover, by the trade which allots the title "Antwerp qualities" to the precious gepas polished here. Diamond merchants state that they are at present obliged to Import a large quantity of 80 called "marginal stone which fail between thu category o! Industrial and the gem dia-

But Antwerp's diamond mer- chants, whose afrual turnover is about £20,000,000, claim that prices for polished stonca have not kept pace with rough din- mond prices in recent years.

They say that the 8,500,000 carats of rough diamonds in ported on an average each your than £20,000,000, cost more while the 500,000 carats polished atones exported now fetch just over £19,000,000.

Although the Belgian Congo produces about two-thirds of the world's output of rough dia mands the Antwerp industry depends for its supplies on hugo Trust, headed by Sir Ernest

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS-

AND REFRIGERATORS

the flavor last from grove

to glass! Libby's

FROZEN ORANGE JUICE

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

日

The

mond.

consista

These marginal stones are turned into gems, because. the market for industrial dis- monds has fallen considerably. Bal they fetch littlo as jewels because of their inferior quality.

The Congo output

of "sunds the small mainly stones used for industrial pur poses and does not interest the cutters majority of Antwerp's who handle only the larger stones used for Jewellery..

But Antwerp, diamond mer- chants consider that the Im

Congo's pro-. portance of the duction justifies their claims to receive more good quality stones from the Diamond Trad→ ing Company.

CONTRACT EXPIRING

· The contract between Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's oùm- pany and the "Forminiere Company mining diamonds In the Congo expires next year and negotiations for Its rezował have already berun

visited

After Sir Ernest had Belgium recently for talks with the Government, It wil unofficially announced that the Diamond Trading Company was ready to make, concessions

to

Antwerp's demanda. Tho Belgian industry's comi plaints have also recently turned Ho tariff barriers' abroad, which, it says, are stifling the Antwerp trade.

Negotiations with the United States to reduce the, presurst -10 per cent American import duty on polished stones have failed, while, South Africa, one of the world's main suppliers of rough diamonds, does not grant lleences for import of polished diam

These restrictions have led to large scale smuggling which is causing much concern to reput» able diamond houses here. One: recent case, which is still 'awaft-. ing trial involves more than of polished £80,000 worth diamonds taken into the United Starten.

NO RESTRICTIONS. Belgtam,

however,

poses no restrictions on the import of polished diamonds. Nearly 3,600 more carats of polished stones have been imported into Belgium In the first seven months of this year tha

than in the whole -which

the

of 1951

largest post-war year will

28,459 CHERIA

The Antwerp manufacturers also claim that Holland and Germany are able to undereut the Belgian Industry because of lower wages and social charges, and because they do not work five-day 40-hour Neweek. Ret ter.

Fewer Accidents On Safety Day.