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** [THE, CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1955.

BRITAIN HITS THE BULLSEYE

WITH THE NEW

London.

(575 ROUNDS A MINUTE)

STERLING GUN

Convincing Proof

Page..

H.K. Bank Chairman's

Annual Statement

(Conttuned from Paga 8)

no further

to be

of the

on

the

was

com-

чо this

recovery

of South

state our

WO

capital

which 900,000 tons has been sold | nohievements of the past few rities about French Industrial We are glad

on'a Government to Govern- Įyears as giving grounds for interests In Tonkin,

the pro- able to

ment basis: the remainder has hope that the clouds ahead of spects of a satisfactory arrange record that on May 22 the Governor of North Borne chants for

last been put at the disposal of mer-India will disperse before they ment are obscure. Owing to the Mr R. E. Turnbull,

private salo under are reached.

precarious outlook wo decided WEA kind certain conditions So far as

CEYLON enough to open our new Bank figures are avaliable it appears

to close down our Halphong The outstanding event of the Office, but we have obtained the promises at Jesselton and that that exports of the leading pro- year in Ceylon was during the year our now build- duc

the visit Cambodian Government's per- ings at Kuala Belaft and Tawau duct of the country were lower of H.M. The Queen in April. mission to open a branch In

1004 than in 1953 and that I was on were also opened for business.

unqualified success

Phnom Penh and our arrange- the enthusiasm. of The Budget debate of the Imports were higher. As a re- and

thements there are well under way. Colony Legislative Council in Kyats 400 millions in the year he

must external assets felt some crowds was unmistakable. By Cambodia, like the whole aren November brought the

grace дов chart Нет good ended

Indo-China, produces October 1884. The Majesty endeared herself to large quantities of rice and a news that at last agreement in Finance Minister proposes to all who met or saw her. principle

considerable amount of rubber. had been reached make Government

determined drive to In- On July 17 the inaugura- with the

Phnom Penh, its capital, is of the Brei it is crease intoral savings this year tion

Ceylonese Philippines, which will,

pivot point through which much Sir the, in- and he has said that if there is Governor-General,

Oilver hoped, make possible

of the trade of Laos must pass, then still need of capital he Goonetilleke, took place and a as well as that of Cambodia It- troduction of Filipino labour to hopes to obtain a loan from the work and settle in Bortico. A International Bank.

further event of Importanco asdf. When the latter

geta, her during the year was the Can-own port she will no longer be any rate a partial solution of During the the labour shortage there seems

year other Imference of five Astou Prime dependent on Vietnam for at likely

portant in the

matters which took Ministerø,

autlet for her foreign trade. course of this

pince la

Ceylon In the country, but with

has Indeed year.

The above notes on the various It was not so welcome which we cannot here deal in Perienced a remarkable to hear that income tax on com detail, were the establishment

which not least in that she staged

year, countries in

we operate panies was to be increased from

a have taken shareholders rapidly economie of the Senate Commercial Bank notable 30% to 40%.

recovery. round But still mOTO UN-

the Eastern CELS, Whereas fortunate does it seem

*** on August 11 which 1 fear

at the end of 1953 might have been more compre that H.M. Government are to make the detriment of private

deliberately being favoured to

there was an adverse trode have but we would then have m-balance of Rs.40 millions, et the risked being tedious. direct grants AN

We have the picture was tried to to the Colony, after this year the implementation of the Land completely

mercial Banks; the first steps in end of 1984

reversed,

view-point as distinct from grants under

the pre categorically and yet to ooo the Nationalisation Act;

Hminary figures being exports picture from the Colonial and Development ion of its formal duties by the about Rs.1,830 mullons and im-

asaump-

tho other side. Welfare Fund. Borneo suffered

Without blanding our eyes to greater devastation than any Karen State Government in dis- ports Rs.1,400 millions, giving a

the trend of events in the East, tricts where law and order have record favourable balance of

we foc other area as a result of the war been reared; and the Inillation /about Rs.400 millions, The main

conadent that British Teen delivered Lo the kill at greater ranges, al-ing fired ir the Kun is and has, I believe, only received.

bankers still Tadopted by

an important HOUGHT ther HOW FN authorities in South Africa, though no clan for complete dropped or shaken violently.

about £1 million for direct war of a local administrative system contributions

villages, towns and dis

districts.

were first the high tea prices part to play in Asia as elsewhere. the the Rhodesias,

Various changes reconstruction. Nyasaland, accuracy is made beyond 200 †

Finally there

which average Rs.2.66 per 1b. in Now measures are being adopted in Town Planning arrangements British Army is still under- Tanganyika, Uganda, the yards.

the

1054 compared with fts,1.92 in November 5 of

for the mabilisation of have retarded

signature rebuilding in the Burma-Japan Reparations rubber contract made with China in the free countrice of the East going troop trials and is not Sudan. Libya, Singapore,

1953 and secondly the favourable to assist industrial development some towns but we are production, good Hongkong, Kuwait, Brunei,

are glad to note that a definite scheme for Agreement by which Japan is to

under which some 86,000 tone

and particularly in the area of progress is being made in Bermuda and Sweden. Much safety devices

The breech-block hox four the rebuilding of shops has re- give to Burma as reparations "the were shipped to Chiu in the and the self-spiral ribs machined out of its

the "Colombo supplying the troops

Plan countries. cently been put into effect and services of the Japanese people year out of the total exports of with interest in the weapon has cleaning breech-block.

arud the products of Japan" about 00,200 tons. The rice part sides.

In test areas the expansion at The

These ribs have sharp the Sterling

we are assisting the work by sub-machine-been shown by the United, gun is so perfectly balanced sixes and is the block moves providing building loans on easy squivalent in value to US$200 of the contract with Chim his

trade is growing rapidly

and the

efficient States, Japan, Iraq

millions and that when in the firing post- the casing. they cut away any guarantee.

backwards and forwards inside terms

ten equal annual not proved so successful owing W

will continue under Government

to grow as the Some instalments. successor to the rather un- Egypt.

replanting Rubber

(ear has to the fo in rice a full magazine, foling, such us sind,

prices and countries increase their develop- predictable Sten.

been been expressed lest the effect Ceylon appars to be trying to legislation has even when heid by the pistol mud, and gradually drive it out

ment and raise their standartist recently adopted and

have do- of this and other clauses of the dispose of some of the Chinese at ving

We are well aware krip with une hand only, through *5

might specially-designed operated in the establishment of Agreement

rice to other markets, The Gov- that we must continually adapt Two hundred arici fifty

there is little tendency for slot below the "barrel face and a fund for financing this project. Nipponification of Burma,

meantime been ourselves, as we have dono in are being turned out every

the gun to tilt backwards or other apertures In the

A rubber cess will be imposed the Prime Minister has ridiculed

good times and in bad through- week

This action at the Sterling En-

that (formerly forwards, and when firing a

ensures

the

the suggestion, The

which will be refundable to pro- Sterling

out the past ninely years of the breech-block way is kept clear ducers burst this even balance

INDIA fac-known as the Patchett gun gineering Company's

replanting afber

Bank's existence and you may and that the gun will continue carried out.

be confident that we will do so.” tory at Dagenham, Essex, is ideal for close-range work, maintained,

to function efficiently under the where the weapon has just for every kind of user,

worst active service conditions. kind of country, been given its first public every

the case of timber and coprn ex- years, been steadily increasing with this matter. Convincing proof of this was every kind of conditions. demonstration, and it

The financial position of the ports in 1854 as compared with her influence of Kiven

the demonstration 1953. in lighter, safer for the user,

International affairs. There has Government has also improved planned to step up pro-

the round from the magazine,

when guns were subjected to and more reliable than ang the firing pin on the breech. duction to 1,000 a week. The

the most stringent tests. One State is shown in the Budget tion

The happy position of Brunel even been talk of the germina-in line with trade, and external Cu assets are reported to have risen of sub-machinegun

Monroe previously

was sprayed with fine sand in

future

from Rs.007 millions in Decem- gun is also to be manufac

estimates for the current year of Doctrine for manufactured. It weighs only block cannot come into line

tank,

by Mr ber 1963 to Rs.883 millions at tured at the Royal Ordnance six lbs and is 28 inches long the cartridge until the round with lee all round

with the percussion cap

taken M.$100 millions for revenue and Nehru and of from a refrigerator

the Asian power the end of last October, and fired

The **** | M.$43 millions for expenditure. Factory at Faznekerly, and with the butt extended.

attended the Colombo Minister of Finance announced which the barrel

THAILAND

Kandy Conference Inst under Beence in Canada for

Laert July a small, defcit in the can be fired

in the chamber, and action, and a third

April WBS from the hip, is actually

possible step towards the Budget which he proposed to A recent article on Thailand | A the Canadian Army.

shoulder, or, in an emergency

Lhus eliminating all possibili-dipped into glutinous mud. All ty of a breech explosion. And without any trouble at all. And

three were fred immediately in, a prominent British news integration of Adan countries meet by now taxation or bor with butt folded) with one

paper was headed "Cautious was БЕСП when, ne a con rowing Ho stated that the In addition to the British band, in pistol fashion, at a the change lever has a "safe" to indicate the case with which pessimism" Such also seems to sequence of Mr Chou En-lal's Government

did not propose position, 675 rounds

which locks the

be the general can be used, the Sterling was

feeling of the visit to Delhi in June, a declara- to adopt any form of Army, which in making rate

trigger and

mercantile community in Bang- tion of five Principles was pro-financing. The crying need for scar, irrespec- also fired by two factory girls mer very good use of it in opera-

53 live of the position of the and a 12-year old boy. None of

kok who fear that wide-spread claime to govern relations capital for development purposES tions against the Mau Mau It is accurate and will hill | breech-block. This eliminates the three had had more than corruption will bring about an between India and China. These is to be met by raising loogis in Kenya, the gun has also at 200 yards, and will also the possibility of rounds be- an hour's training with

upeet such as

authorised took place the

in principles re-stated some funda-

by

Ceylon weapon, and all performed very

China not to many years ago. mental conditions

Development Loans upon which

Act which creditably.

Others consider that this is not international relations are based www enacted early last year.

fair comparison. that

authority Lor but they did not indicate any This provided The Sterling costs about £25

raising loans internally. In the and fres D m.m. ammunition. dangers and have laid their

United Kingdom, or from the economic policy International Bank. Soon after- The magazine bolds 34 rounds plans to cope with any internal Mr Nehru is reported to have words a loan of £5 and hus & roller type platform. от external dangers.

These

millions It operates on the double-speculations indicate that the said that he wants a "pruce was successfully floated on their was just a year ago

yet

very

19

Weighs Only 6 lbs.

tip

minute.

It

It

features are its balance, its Perhaps The outstanding

tion

with

J

The design incorporates two safety devices. During

forward the

movement

Hussein's Bride-To-Be

Taken By Surprise

From DAVID BURK

Cairo, Mar. 10.

Twenty-five-year-old Princess Dina Abdel Hamid, the future queen of Jordan, revealed to me at her suburban Cairo tome yesterday that her engagement to King Hussein had been arranged two years ago. "But the official announcement took ma completely by surprise," she added.

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nd

we

in

ניאון

the

buternment

personal Minister recent

Thanks

We were glad to see satisfac- prestige tory Increases of about 50% in Nehru,

to the ut Prime India bas, in

and standing in

Q

Asia lod

Thailand's leaders maliso the special change in

in policy.

haa

pressing forward with attempts

to improve and expand local rice production and a Joint United Kingdom and Australian Bloe Mission has recently visited Ceylon and issued a report deul-

the

doncit

Women Won Coffee Price War

Washington, Mar. 10. Using the simplest weapon

at their command, America's housewives beat back the rising price of coffee. Coffee was going up....up....up ....when the housewives suddenly had enough of it. They stopped buying.

Now the price is back to

shillings a pound. In the column feed principle and political outlook is by no means It

London market and the Inter-

meantime It has rounds are fed and fred from stable.

been up to Naturally many oyea Minister

national Bank granted a loans 40. each column alternatively,

That was the critical thus are turned to the Laos frontier ou

mikes Communism equivalent to about US$19 mil-point of "buyer resirano eliminating the bottleneck of about which much nervousness capitalism. On the other hand he of the Laxapana Hydro-electric wives thought out ways of malt- llans to finance a second stage Tea sales jumped, and house-

the single column food.

Troops Suggested

cxists. economic situation is also

AB

regards

social and industrial revolution” la clear that the Prime

distikes

oven more

has claimed that there is plenty scheme. When moving the ing coffee go further by adding.

of room rather a difficult one,

for private enterprise sec Cur-

second which must be given "acope. Act rency controls are strict and treedom a encouragement

to then constantly changing: the official develop. Mr Nehru's right hand reiterated

of

tho

Finance Coffee sales

reading of the

above more milk and brewing it longer. Sir Oliver Goonetilleke,

Minister

slumped. At the same time, the US. Government that

Govern ordered an investigation into the

What caused coffee to soar? It started in aunty Brazil. In December 1953, Brazil

The Sterling is a development/rate of exchange has remained man is Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, ment's policy was to welcome j unhealthy boom.

of the Lanchester machine car- bine produced by the same firm in large numbers for the Royal Navy in World War II, and is descended

frum originally

the German Son 1920

Schmeisser. It

foreign

unchanged but an active open the able Finance Minister, whore market is

capital.

that there permitted by the policy gives ample evidence of exchange

would be no nationalisation er control

Anuchul buthorities, the practical

mind A rice suplus of 400,000 tone which has maintained firm con- priation of any enterprise

and that no

special fields of Last trot of India's financial economy development would be reserved from accumulated scason owing

to the Govern-in dhe last few years

nationals of Ceylon. This The problem of looping a grip "As long as possible, unless it has been under development for reduced world prices but the on economic development and

mont's refusal to sell at the

was a very encouraging state becomes too difficult.

twelve years, and emerge now

whe

for

Would she go to Paris for her successfully from & ensure cop la epäller owing to planning in a country Mice India ment coming from so authorita- bought future coffee crops at low

trousseau ?

"I haven't

It followed King Hus, where the West has had so little sein's visit to her family's impact despite the years of spacious, new villa in the friendship. Nileside garden village of We talked about her engage- Mandi at the weekend. At ment. Had Hussein actually

started thinking that time he did not men-proposed, or had the engagement

But I yet. contracts about a troussERU style, Moslem tion the announcement, she been

between the suitor and he certainly won't go abroad for it. said.

I am sure I can buy what I bride's father?

need right here,"

The beautiful Princess Dina-

small, slim, with brown hair and

Said Princess

Dina; "No, he

weeks

big brown eyes-is a girl of the actually proposed. And not once,

to

How long had ezch other?

ways. Far enough adopted Western dross and hair styles, to drive her car-"bo cause it's convenient"—and 1nke a batch of men and girl students of the Cairo University

In English literature.

When she becomes Queen of

was

"Since we were children. We are the came family after all."

Dina may

palace

and

have been

unfavorable weather, so the is immense.

in

BURMA

exports

ard

of

The

spokesman in Amman has just front of the weapon to prevent) Kingdom Industrial Delegations/Credit and Investment Corpora- and

Does sho plon to go on lectur→ said

Jordan, she will be stepping ing at Calro University?

nerosa again into the Orient.

So for the moment she admits

to being a bit mixed up.

Vietnam.

The

at

raised the export price in a bid to gain more dollars. Speculators in both Brazil and the U.S. with advance, knowldege had alrendy

prices, and helped to force, up the selling rules, too,

Then reports wero spread that the crops would be poor reports which proved false. But blg American, firms, fearing they would be caught short of

bought coffee,

wildly find the prices up eyen further

It Won when restaurants were charging over a shilling a cup that housewives rebelled.

By August. the big break

Brazil

admitted de- feat and cut export prices. Its warehouses were spilling ́over with green coffee beans. Ant a political crisis broke out at the same time. President Var- gas committed suicide. Prices alumped and have been Zailing ever since. The battle of the coleo amp was over, ' In America they

recalled: "Nevor power of a' woman."

caine.

.

under-estimate the

unemployed ive an official. competitive Ministry of triala between 30 different con- tota

total available for export in and under-employed run into

INDO-CHINA tending weapons. Later it had 1955 is estimated to be about millions and the annual income

Our Offico in Saigon is now million trials in 14

in baraly £20 per head. But the large-scale troop

tope, As trom

in the situated

Independent being faced with facts Korea, Malaya, Germany and Jamry 1st of this year trading

State

Vietnam. ok

more realiam

The Finance Minister Kenya lasting three years in rice once again reverted to has claimed with Justice that the enerally known as South Viet-

private Sunds ending in August 1953.

and inter

*** | Increase in food production is ram, which is, of course, dia- governamental contracta

Une: from the Democratic Re- forced have substantial, that industrial pro- Although War Ofied experts consod, Rubber

of Vietnam

(Viet induction is steadily rising, that public Would the wedding be after had studied the weapons from creased some 17,000 tons over indation has been wiped out and minh), which controls the are

or months?" "I've not all angles, troops on active acr- 1053 and totalled about 114,000 that the balance of somente has called North Orient who had stepped halfway but twice. The Arst tanie

were able to suggest tons, but tin and teak exports improved. Moreover private name "Indo-China" appears to across the border into Western two years ago in England and been told any date. It will be vi

but

have become an antichronism, Important were reduced, by arranged King Hussein's several small

capital has been encouraged to have again here.' 10

family and I will be informed in modifications which

go ahead without hindrance in though it is still useful in ro- the present

to the combined aren We ferning It will, I think, be incorporated in

The British they known due course.

have a spon- certain dolds of operation design.

Governments taneous liking for the Burmcoe saw last year the establishment of the four several months at least."

The men in the field asked which is I think reciprocated of an Industrial Development present holding authority there. The Agreements signed at But Princess

bo for a guard to be fited near the So it was not merprising to read Corporation (a Government con-

the Industrind the Genova Conference in June surprised again. A

the report of the United cera)

July last year' have been any possibility of the Arer she will be arriving in placing his finger too far for to Buma how much they op-ready been made above. Now couting to the

tion to which reference has criticised from many angles ac

particular bias Jordan's capital on March 15,

wand. They suggested an altera-preciated their warm reception

Individual. They tion in the sight-lever to

The Delegation an extensive steel industry seems of each en in Rangoon

to be well on the way to estab- brought the cessation of hostili. sura that the

not paid tribute to vlow ta

is and deep sincerity" which e lishment with now units which lies, yet they portponed many hindered when the weapon

until the used at very close range.

The behind the Government's will probably be set up with the docisions butt has also been strengthened development policy and their Rusion capital

help o British, Gemman and elections in 1956. Much may

happen before and the silng-hook has been destro to improve the economy There are of course fears and.) wotik be modified.

of the country and the conditions uncertainties which are widely about the future. under which the poople

livo

and held by merchants of many nn- enough to work." They felt bound to ache oustin, maybe there apply events and policies of those in

mild word of

against not so much to the present as positions of authority. The three the HUNTERS ARE

Burmeto

to the future. Indianisation is States of Vietnam, Laos and much in too short a space of not being pressed unduly but Cambodia have recently been A book sent by London umo. We ourselves hinted at it remains a threat of uncertain granted complete independence bookshop to Hollywood book- HUNTED

this

iry monaries, cogency. The revision of Article by the signature of a - quad- soller Harry Levinson has been Labruscangur.

this time

last year. 31 of the Constitution may not: ripartite agreement in Paris on acized by the U.S. Fostmasters So they got their way, But

Dar Es Salaam, However, ft

be harmful at the present dime, December 29, 1954. The Pau General, who says it is "plainly, also the Qireen's they

received

10 all stem

Count

"haa........., thus ...¿boon.

lascivious, Asian com

but there are fears, as to what Convention rangers return from to No one must spend do a thing warning;

development much more of her than Hussein diplomats "can't

Tomby happen when new poople abrogated. Each country now character." about it..

more than 10 minutes in the Southam Tanganyika's Jungles did.

canteen: hoads of departments with reports that long and tarded to feel they must hasten come into power. Similarly the has full control over its own t

Hava currency to make up fost ground: and Managing Agency firms

and there are three "Lysistrata, a comedy written kling more | to: In the British Embassy at must stagger tea breaks so that parda The princess said she had not

some of them are indeed been told that they are unduly autonomous Exchange Controls. by Aristophanes 20 ti 2Ashaus boer In Amman for ten years. Bonn there was a crackdown visitors will not see rows of Arloans than ever before,

succeeding in their

yot their fears | An Agreement has been reached more than 2,300 years ago. #11 exorts apprehensive, And she was interested to learn on tea breaks. At once, the empty desks and unmanned In the Mehaza district lately Thero signs that the for the future pre not sasuaged, regarding shipping in the records, the first

man and telephones when they come in. nine natives have been mauled Burmese Government are aware Fmally the nationaleation of Mekong and the use of the port | paclist / whether there had been many staff rose as one

movement - Athenian that no Engishman

to death. changes in this desert town protested

of their the imparfai Bank of India, of Salon by the three Blátop, wives shut themselviel "Laga\Lay-kha" 20,000), with only one had never been known to work Most important of all, it will fnop.

--Deprived. their natural food ambitious plan and the newly was done with worthy motives but Cambodia.in contemplating Acropolis away from those cinema. only

Tinie TTY 37 sonsumed a bid Impression the establishment of her own hubsed unti pason wantmedie trong 2 till 5.30 pan. without à go hard with anybody who Bochuma të Adrienne have malno pne

begi | appoin wandles an extra cup with killing so much wild game, Development probe pro-ell was to destrable to PDRANCH AT PHNOM TINH Legg Union Mining cup of tea în between.

not thought to post on the Gulf of Blamire a Now the American, f. Cie restaurant and one hotel

The officials used a com desk-side

kettles or bungry Tona and leopards have coding with some caution, pr work ilegal, and forbidden turped rom

mimoult to sum up the by Altboom the Fruch Was Found On Me my w Pug which we likely to And the hambar are now the mated to "norma EN

old

We were skiing on

brocade furniture

gilt and

the

broendo hid Westerri air

cushions--in che

three salons.

Princess,

afood

On

of the villa's Behind

a small

tho table,

a silver framed photograph

THEY GOT THEIR

POT OF TEA

of 1mq's King Faisal. Liko

Bonn at' that, too. "Too much noise, Hussein, he was educated in

Wherever there's an English Not British. England at The same time us Dina was taking an arts degree man, there's a pot of tea-and at Cambridge; he is also a third all the Queen's efficiency, ex- cousin of the Princess, but saw perts

and

To her, brought up in Cairo | promise, a ten "wipon would and educated a in dritain, sit obuve round in the middia of pemota haud, to imagine a place | the afternoon. The slidt bANG

Game

קרט

attempting too

proposed

then but it foolish to speculate It is duicult follow the present

"LYSISTRATA” SAID LEWD

and obscene în

rare: