THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1955.
PENGUIN LAND RACE
LIFTY-THREE years ago—when Scott reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had got there a month earlier—Antarctica stake In the Penguin continent: and three of them are now engaged in further exploration of this great land mats which it almost as large as South America.
Will Britain be the first to opan it up? Or Ameriça? – Or Australia? So far, Britain loada
The British ship John Brisco has in post-war years been floating headquarters for research tesmi,, and British explorers have made Graham Land the only part of the continent of which much de really known.
This month, plzos are even being discussed for a 2,500-mile trak with huskies and sledges across the Pole from cont to conf.
Meanwhile, the Australians have just set up a new base at Mawson -the most southerly permanent disé la the world. From here they, too, se proparing to mate inwards towards the Polo.
They point to the new air-wars flights across the North Pola, and believe in the day when there will be Australian air routes over Antare tic)
The Americans have three-year programme that was put into cperation last week when 35 scientists left Boston in the ice-brezter They can to set up three bases, including one on the Polo
Jarch for gif, coal and uranium.
Atha
Spain Expects U.S. Benefits
Spain
enters 1965 third best of
the centiary szut 1h beginnings of United States
with the uptimistic con- and to Spala helped to viction that collaboratin
tion with the United States is likely to bring her substantial benefits during the year
She was flattered day th to Spain duli 1954
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track
Iwo. members of den! Been hower's cannel
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to the Dated States and
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TRADE AND COMMERCE SECTION
CANADA'S DEBTORS
Five Nations In Default
Ottawa, J、n. 18.
Canada's foreign debtors paid off $92,883,000 on their loans during 1953, the Auditor General, Mr Watson Sellar, reported today, but Greece, Rumania, China and Czechoslovakia defaulted.
Mr Sellar repurtest loans 10 foreign Koveraments totalled
; $1,772,000,000 at the end of the
1953-54 fiscal year.
Humanla herd Refmalted $24,392,000, and Greeer on $0,- $25,000 "for many yearn," Mr Scradled that the Caselio sker mah den 59,000,000 that he caņu j de then Since then a settle- [mnk ke payments in Avant mus
atnal Instalments
been worked at
Bass pad $88,597 89 41 5
leaving
$3.395.000 hulaney owing at Moel; 31, 1954
Tetuan put $63,192,000 n Dowel | 284,623,000 at the end of
It has beny repasig ented he The
ALL
Ty The at delt due
ה
fa:le Pe Netheri med $5.- Priorata 81 545,0BU Unitel
Other payments wer
25 Low $2,307,096,
ann Norwns $2.628 une Fres
World Rubber
Markets
World Cotton
Markets
New, Yark, Jon, 18, Cotton praVVI toy steadied and after
mixed opening closed on higher ground for the Best Une in the past eight
Technen:
NEW YORK HONGKONG
STOCK
MARKET
New York, Jan. 18. Stocks turned up today after a Ave-acssion decline had cut some $5,000,000,000 from market valuations,
rise
The
was accomplished without enthu ak391,
however. und on rein.ively light turnover -3,020,000 hares compared with 3,300,000 shares yester- Liny.
Alterat shares,
steels, rails, some oils and chemicals and a number of speel insues featur- edhe upturn which way best described as "technical "
STOCK EXCHANGE
(From Our Correspondent)
Noon quotations on the Hong- kong Stock Exchange and tha morning's transactions: mares UVERB SELLERS SALES
BANKS
C Bank
2140 2150
€ 2.125
2115 2120
Là và 2120
Kort Asia
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INSURANCES
Lumbard Underw:ters 1040 Indo-China
Dek
Arta Nov
DOCKS, ETC
K, Whart Dock Providem io. Wheelock
Reven Svilog has lowered i prices of many lastay to a level i where some now demand was LAND. ETC replacement buy to be expected With no new ing, plus a subsidence of netive stimulus, however, and with the Fedge ing.
M routine overhanging cloud of the Federal tomestic fextile Reserve move to nighten credit mids and exporters acled 10 working agahast the market, the turn the tiefes
mand was not vigorous,
deral, 113
Liverpaasa! brokers. jeeling selines of the new crop positions
the
when T Limated 5,000 biles were put into the ring, became noticeably legs active alter Bart British market closer!
Find
AVERAGES
fndustrial shares wveraged 2.78 higher; ralis 1 22 higher and utilities three eens higher. ! Out of a Rosul 1,271 issues Trade į |ed, 040 were higher, 371 lower.
Steds as a group were anong |
મ titleen
1 to rulert higher The
market the best performers to off 4! pessed unchanged
Orleans points.
closed; New archanged to up pils.
and Trading volumus Interests in the Exchange today
We
Volume Lipen Intes est 13%.
24.0500 148,300 23,000 1,178,700 10,700 $45.00 1,7300 183,300
11.00
100,000 4.300 01,600
7,900
05,100
Raila ed In the average bąd
to 2 polls
gains renging.
Union Pucitle.
HK Hotel IK LIN Huusphreys
Italty
UTILITIES
Tracks
Star Ferry Yaumatt Fetty
340
00
27.00
v 2150
* 2130
300 30
15 00 733 7.40 500
1000
1315 10.70 300
71 7114 25.60
2 LAG 2 178 2000
22.20 22.40 150 100
130 191 200
100
150
{"
Light (01 18.20 10 30 200
200
2000
1000
500
391% 291⁄2 1000
300
500
C Light (N) 18.20 15.40 1000
Elrottle
INDUSTRIALS
300
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6953583553SESSEE
99463
33336
nis anxi
Some of fr widest Teame in abrerafts where Douglas
elia +1
General open Dynamieri
Lockheed 2%. Glen Martin 2 เกม g 2.
Northang Alrera
LOOVES I
Maynu Bee Katakan
121 13
Tullne
35 30 1000 35
Cement
4243 500
In
IN20
STORES. ETC
Daley? Velvet
245 24.60
100
17
200 G 1793 100 a 11,60
up
to MISCELLANEOUS
I, Crawford Texile Cury Nanyan
4:
Yougtere Allied
2000
440
42 7750 75
A few ulls held the spotlight. Texas Pacine
unki Oll Coal
90 100 2.000,900 halve featured right from the opening
Mini
Ma
M
Judy
4. Del Mar
bets and
tely churches
arm 1. Bames of tomta s prired rutting es empdriely Boboa- ed out by a boy on Sony
Singapore, Jan. 18 Tim
nuket ngaturd | Der STARKA with some frate buyint
with interest Tota sagged ly alba later
pront-
Dek
Mar May
NEW YORK
FILE
N..
Puture closings were
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No 2 rabber per i No 3
29- on-1981 Mor
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97-01
Mar
14--
May
July
NA
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art in Sculloren Italy at the
The Total mest nabil«*
011
No, ale crepe
402-103
Mar
Ma
July
NEW YORK
tiz
ha
rangud ..
neured the ve, v
Bal.... support They declare too, that Spain lowlane Emulad ng is spending too much money ou
The first cry v alarm at the less necessary imports instead of
eaf tas cutes was ones atcalling on urgently need-
machinery,
heard in Hly in 1947, when the offretive ellarte 1 organise en farm tractors
anti-term fo campaign were natafuter
Trasport
22
With most of Spain. affected mathur kas pa
hy electric power cuts of from wrote about their vERS
Th
20heurs a week upwards, erites impressed to dowover how active think that more energette action
15
Cathalu pan LA B Tuttets needed to import the plant to States.
Mest Spomands regend the
Vinted
Protestant,
Stute
Lily
Highly Pleasing
All this coming and going t
highly pleasing to a Spain.
tha Las Venice Out the way. they i have frie.l the Nation Some of Spams leading banks.brary 4 Face the Churd. are consideratg tang
and St Domente fi vf S Pen stion's leading natutunant) at Penug, ent ve of the
work out onumusts
The Galen y
Mekan Art m Plan" for Spam murthing like France's "Mont a the historially inplant th: Minist. y WI and other
of which
HANG Justru 10
worke txard
neי f
13451 the wwwss f 15 test, theat 1 that's cultural cente Manchest for at a recent eager at Crane. in vist contal HK, who can use pets of the night 1. uxtoron
ale temies
Were da shati.
The Habin... Gay mamment Bist tok alarm at the
:T1 nade a deep impression notable bulid ngs
1950, atter much prompting form Spain's erounonic eireles
museuns. hbraries book tulier Termites, whose only relatis nors 2nd owners < v:luable to the rumon, hou chold ants buildings.
which, sure 1939, hus been have General Franco worked.
い mulation The servi 1954
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proud Spaniards Theved the
dyname ways of the Americans They appreciate tlant 4.1 the Restures such Gaal er
Cenetit his
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is their struct division of labour and extremely busy life, were Drift lowe providing the funds thought to thrive by combat the threat we e pre- exclusively in warn climales, pared. But it wIS
friendship with the Arab League cations and his criticism of the French for devtsing Mohammed
heleed along this policy r. CS- W.10 N Abdel Khalek Hassuna, Serre- crew, as she passed through thetary of the Arab League, was Straits
during lavishly of Gibraltar
entertained during Carle mas, femid vp on tek 50] three werks' stay in Spain. srelli Spanish the greeting General Franco seems to have "Feliz Navidad" (Happy Christ- | beena
watching Meijerranean Efut the teel that mas).
affairs particularly closely. other honoured uest to Spainast wws Marshal
These ittle luuchies
thore thin
menn
diplomatic forts.
An-
they
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1032 that they Wera Anally passed by 1:ly's two Hou os af Parliament and 750 000,000 10 (£431,000) set werde for the anti-termite comprign
A
vand-
ivately owned
13 or Bye yus-with Ütle
Papagos, Prime Genea
fairly cult northern cities of paign bed by then been in pro-
US
Italy at have invaded the often
and Venice, Es well elaborate Minister of Greece.
innumerable uld towns betwe General Franco himself
The Tvrihen an ant Adriatic aboard the Coral Sea o was watch exercises by the United Cocais, is shown that they can
also lived ravage-in cold.
1951 note in
opening
Perhaps the most striking laylted internal
of States 8th Fleet and a promise General Franco's
was made that joint naval exer- negotiations with the Pretender, Prince Juan of Bourbon, for the rises shall be held by Spain and la'ter's 16-year-old son, Prince the United States, Juan Carlos,
to
be given an education in Spain Atting him
to succeed, eventually, as head of state.
cnd.
Latin America
General did
Lalin
TE
Luccess.
Futures cred today 26 to 40: 1 ights with sales of 111
steadily on
It
when it appeared on a 40,000- shure block. opened frne-COTTONS puri moved Prices of futures closed today onally lower as fullows:
heavy turnover cos: 4 poin a higher ut $55% les first place on the active list, The New York Stock Ex- change bond volume
NEW ORLEANS
371,000.
was $4,-
20.30
The American Stock Exchange New York Foreign
Exchange
34 95
34.70
34 83
34.73
34.00
34.08
23.13
velumme was 200,000 shares,
23.07
Dogtraris,
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
Dow-Jones closing averages Prices of futures closed today today on Wall Street were as Las fallow:
follows:
New York, Jan. 18.
Chanda
England-oficial
$1.0344
34 10
Emergence 1 21 broader Letay and dealer interest, fol-4 I wong ka the wake
Mar
54,42
30 Indusladı
300.00
Mov
34 33
20 razl
12.06
Unofficial 50-day futures 10-day futurea
July
34.94-95
15 uitlatiea
02.09
Australia
f higher
34.75
43 storks
143,33
New Zealand
prices for Umited Eastern ship- tetit effering, and Singapore! half-cent parity over the mak 1. brught a smart rully a
shaky opening.
Del.
ЗАЛІ
in bunda
100.
South Africa
Mirr
33 13
Comm. future price index 169.34
Others were unchanged.
35.11
-United Press,
MA
the spot
market a
L.
LIVERPOOL
Mar/April
Cotton glosing. American mid- farhat, 15/16 inch, in pencer sizer lonnage was worked to b. were as follows: kartoric, an dealer. Reports sales included March one sheets 33 cents in the foresoon, but unyers were around at y lo cent higher La the afternoon. March the sheets were done at elude 32% and inter at 32% cents a pound delivered, Jandel basis. Spot No. 1 Res were quoted at 3324 cents.
Future closings weret
the
Now, with ampie funds al heir dispari, the cumpa gners redoubled their efforts.
Mar.
Mny
July
Sept
Dec.
Their attacks on the termiles
Mur.
"It is all a matter of appetite,
I think," suld in telian who aim at eliminating the humidity has been studying the problem in nationally for a long time.
within
tro ENLL
32,10
May, June
July/Aug
Det Nay
32 23 31.12-13 31 90
the./Jun
J1.93
Official values for pot cottons in-
American inkidiing 15/10th
Izzel
Amvelean milting S
32.70
20.60 mingit fich、、、、 American middi në 1-1/32nd 4.39 Others were unchanged.
SAO PAULO
Futures closing, in cruzeiros per kilo were as follows:
33.23
33.23
13.00
42.00
March
May
32.10
tely
Oct.
tee.
2.78-7/18
3.07-2.80
2.78-13/32 2.7835-
2,22%
ZITZAL 2.78-13/14
Unlied Press.
G.M. Offer To Buy
'Surplus'
Models
Detroit, Jan. 18. ·
General Motors, America's biggest automobile producer, has offered to buy back any "surplus" cars from its dealers in an attempt to cut down on illegal sales of new cars to used car dealers.
The Corporation
President.
Harlow H. Curtice, an-
nounced
the plan in a policy New York Sugar
Mr
30.55 29.05
30 30
30.00
States, the
Mr Curtice
statement to 18,500 dealers and distributors,
In the Untied
sold General average price of 15/16 middling Motors 18
for prepared
the designated spot markets balance of the 1955 model year
Market
New York, Jan. 18. World No 4 sugar
futures today unchanged to 2 General points higher with sales of 207
areas" contructs.
was 34.00 cents. Sales at these "io repurchase or to arrange for closed centres totalled 29,467 bales,- Unlice Presa.
LONDON
The market was barely steady. No. 1 spot Ras were quoted at pence per lb. Prices:
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April/June
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6.itlement house term:
March
July/September
October/December
General markets, clf baata, ports:
January...
February
March Estate crepe thick Feb. 30
thin
AMSTERDAM
unportant build- Libranes ings, ke big polic end art gidlerits, repairing old Termites eat wood and paper, walls and decayed Lusins which They set up colonies in the may attract colonies of the 28 Prince Juan has still not sold:
Nor
Franco foundations of old building. Insect, and substituting melal "S1" (Yes). He
41 neglect is only
America, whose humidity is ideal for the for wood wherever possible, ex- himself and feels that he should | Generalissimo Trujillo, "strong termite constitution,
foundations of and pecially in the Iram the man of the Dominican Re-systematically wreak havoc on publle buildings. not be "by-passed" crown. But the latest Impres- sion is that he will agree in the cube, was another visitor to paper and wood within striking
the
hand, distance. other Spain. On Argentina showed displessure at
When the supplies se:tlement Gerteral Franco has had sharp the failure to reach exchanges of cpinion with Bri- for the payment by Spain of reach dwindle, the colony moves pesetas to a more prosperous hunting 2.000 million tain and France over Gr.1 ar ver
The best disinfectant is found (£20,000,000) owed to Argen-ground. an: Morccca spectively.
to be Xylamon, a product also Britain regarded the visit to tina for some years now.
The unlimited provisions in widely used abroad against dies- Mr Malenkov changed Stalla-braries and Gibraltar
May of the last
old palaces, with tructive insects.
The market was steady. Prices beautiful young Queen Elizabeth ist policy towards Spain to the their volumes of delicious, time-
Although this campaign has closed today in guilders per as a routine Royal visit to a extent of returning home during ripened DADET,
and soft, started, delegates to the Cesena kilogram, clf February as fol- British colony. General Franca 1954 saw it as a studied humiliation / Division 286 Spanish "Blue mouldering furniture,
held by irresistible lure for the termites, congress stressed that only all-lows
out oforts can counter, a threat they cause was Trials of oppositionists" In-
serkous ԱՖ that of the NO up a series of border controls which test Gloria's econo- cluded he is Prcemasons, vividly illustrated in Roine re-stro
life
rocroational another of 17 Anarchiste, and Acently, when a student browsing and
in a public library oponed a hird
214 Basque Nationalists. activity. As the year ended, the
sentences or acquiitals valuable old edition of Dante's 1952 laws force those engaged issue neemed to have receded Dominated, but a surprise Divine Comedy and found a void in the fight to Ignore private
between the rounding up from their
The two engraved buildings. Termites can there enthusiasm for the homes Inst Juls of
buildings, 30
CO VETE, Barcelona
The pages of the book fere nest in privatd. chusc of Mohammed
out of had boon completely eaten away multiply, train fresh workers and allowed the French, Communists Morocco, deposed
by causal ley relations will prison after sentences of 0 to 1 by the termites, a colony of reinforce their ranks for attreks
which was found nestling in a on the buildings which count, and who wero 1054. M. Mendes years in
gaping crack in the wall behindThe conclusions of the Con rangia the bookshialved. zentonces 30 years
grets, now being studled by the swnment up 1954 na a
tha Students
termite lovemment, were that public.
New York where Spain also has aut predict the need in future Curia got into bed opy night strice wherever the termiten can
foreign and political fields, unnamed Cardinal of the Roman fighters even for hund to Montreal
Amsterdam' tectorate
whether in be found, Economically, 1004 was not for basic economic blanding, some youre CSG-End Wes
Copenhagen. particularly good, although with possibly more austerity minutes lata on
Zurich "or""""ome Fegards bumper wheat crop
imports, China, Mall kicking: wildly. Servants de á Gothic cathedral-China Ma
Otherw covered that termites had Special. 4,000,000 tons, belleved to be the Special.
of Spain by Britain. He has set Russia sinco
mic
somewhat into the background.
Spala's
Franco during
France has smoothed cut
given
of
year.
The ambiguous wording of the
situn'ion somewhat by promising for General Franco in 1 menggo slap, pecpuit that an funds should be increased and
to keep Spain Inforated of any fundamental changes in Morocco, good
No. 1 rubber rubber No. 3 rubber No. 1 crepe
2.70 nom, 2.77 nom: 2.75 nom. *NZ HOIT
United Prem.
London Foreign
the Ferdinzi's bed of Ule, beams of Poria
Exchange
Singapore
Stock Market
Singapore. Jan. 19. Brokers today quoted to following stuck prices:
Jan, 18 Jan, 19 Closing Opening British Borneo Petro-
Icum Syndicats** Consolidated
Smelters, Ordinary 10
Fraser
34
THE 28/ 20/61 Arxi
Nenve Ltd. Ordiory issue. $2,00 Fraser and Reave Ltd..
75% cum. pref ... 16.00 Jongkong & Shanghai Bank Corporation
Colonial Register) $1,330* $1,110* Malayan Breweries"..
$4.00 $4.00
Italien Hotel ·
Singapore Cold
Storage
Booth Brius
オ fastiges
by other |ropurchase
Motors dealers in other
Domestic No 6 sugar futures any new and unused passengers cars that might be considered closed unchanged to 1 point "excess surplus."
bigher with sales of 21 con- Irnels, He said the new plan was aimed
World trade activity featured at enabling a 'dealer who finds
switching of Marchi contrae.s' himself in an oversupply posl-
la later positions, along with tion because of local and · tem-
his trade, adjustments following in porary factors which in
more activity ipi opinion are adversely affecting the wake of
the raw market. his normal busiricas operations"
Dealers understood. Holland to get rid of the supply.
bought 3,000 tons Haytian rowe "Bootlegging" of new cars has April-May shipment at 3.14
for the senis
and a a pound 1.0.b., plagued the industry
cors | cargo past several yours. New
of Cuba's Fob./parch have appeared in used car lots shipment at 3:10 cents, Switzer- a prices below regular prices, land bought 8,000 tone Some dealors, caught with." in Cuba's And Sweden Some the Cuba's both at 3,15 to 8.14
penis,
ventories above normal In $2.00
| "buyers market" in recent years, have wholesaled the new cars to $8.00
used lota and other "un nuthorised” outlets. United Prem
$2.72
$2.00 £2,00
***
$250.25
$25,00
London, Jan. 13.
2.00-16/18-3.09. 10,8812
Stralia Trading.
2.78-7/18-2.78-13/10 | Streita Atamship, .....
unchanged.
United Pros
United Engineer,"
|_ Ordinary · iskun
Wenne BrollLOTH
Hongkong TO Petaling it Betmədiyi Dungapital:
twithdy
Exchange Rates
Domestic futures were quiet
and gengrotty tonturolers,
Future closinga
Contract No. 4 (world),
Mar.
May
July
Bept,
Spot-fcenti per ly, fob
...
Contends No
Mar.
July.
Loente ver
tited
Burner was done in the local unpetal excharge market this .81250, $13.20,
morning at 100 “following · rate: (30K 1200: UB. doline (per-81)
i sterling, nojom (pēc 41) akathang istorieiian rupiikit per 100)
Jalam Libaik, (pať 100) **j*
Bingapore · (Straila) Indo-China plastres: (pre 100)
Miina Mali Special.
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