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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955.

Russians Trying To Cancel Or

Reduce Orders

London, Mar. 24.

Russian trade officials today pursued their

Editor, business communications and efforts to cancel or modify contracts worth several million pounds sterling placed last year with British firms..

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WANTED KNOWN

vice. Telephone House (Mezzanines)

A delegation from Moscow is believed to have visited a North of England textile machinery firm which is making worsted and woollen carding machines for Russia.

Early last year the firm's, sterling contract for his own sales director came back from organisator and other North of Moscow 'with seven million England factories.

Ike's Budget

May Be

Balanced

Washingon, Mar. 24. The Secretary of the Trea- sury, Mr George M. Hum phrey, said yesterday that

DEL SCHOLL'S Foot Comfort Ser- there is a "very good oppor Hon/your feet deserve by London Administration will have its Hongkong provides the expert aten-tunity that the Eisenhower guilted Chiropodist.

first balanced budget in the: 12 months starting on July 1, 1956.

POSITIONS WANTED

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RUROPEAN, trustworthy and able, secks employment - pa super visor, caretaker or any other pos- tion of this, salary $800, Box 107 "China Mall."

PREMISES TO LET

CUEVA FLEET CLUB, Three excel- jent sites are availibin on the roof to be hired for the erection of Cominertial Advertising Neon Sizza The sites are 85 feet above ground level and 160 Leet, 135 feet and 124 feet in length. Interested Sims may inspect the Sites and

obtain parciowana by Arangement with the Manager, Telephone No. 71020. Offers should be forwarded in Writing to reach the Manager, China Fleet Chub. Hong XODE. by 1st

April 1905.

MUSICAL

have

NO COMMENT

The firm declined today

to confirm or deny that the Russian had visited the works.

The contracts the Russians are attempting to cut in Britain

Aextile affect

machinery. furniture moking machinery. television equipment, rayon yar and daffy machinery.

They are trying to reduce the amounts of the contracts by a total of about four million sterling.

recent

Britanula In Harbour WOMEN WITH FLATS AT

With Combined Fleet

CANADA

BUILDING

A-STATION

British business, circles believe change of regime in the Kremlin this springs from the

Ottawa, Mar, 24. The Canadian Trade Minister, instead of light industry.

the

new accent on heavy MC. D. Howe, announced to- They said it is significant that day that Canada's first alomic station to produce electricity the contracts being cut are all

the associated with the production would be built jointly by

Government and in Russia of consumer goods.

the Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commis sion, at a cost of about 15 million dollars (£5,400,000).

There are no reports of trouble with the substantial orders the Russions placed for industrial

is chine tools,

His statement was the Orst the such clear prediction that

Administration Republican might have a balanced budget to offer the voters in the 1956

He told the Other West European coun

House presidential campaign..

Here-

Commons that the experimental Administration

oficials tries, according to reports, are tofore

also

would te built experiencing difficulty with station

La spoken of the "Ropes" Soviet contracts from consumer Ontario on a site to be chosen for a balanced budget.

Ontario

Hydro and Mr Humphrey, who appeared goods. It is now impossible to by the

Energy gell goods of this kind to Soviet Atomic

M Canada before a Senate Appropriations

kuyers.

Limited which runs the Chalk Sub-Committee, said he hopes this year's Federal deficit can

River. Ontario, atomis project. be partyl down somewhat below the $4,500,000,000 estimated in January,

In

Businessmen here emphasise that the Russians are not de faulting on their contracts. some cases the contracts allow He said he believes the deficited loopholes which enable, the in the fecal car starting next Soviets to reduce them legiti- July 1 will be about $2,500,000,- mately. In others, the Russians are apparently willing to pay 000. That is about the same as

penalties.-Reuter, the estimate by President Eisen- hower in his January budget message.

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The agreement inercasts the Iraq Government reyallies by

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Bare Midriff

A PREMIUM

IN ITALY No Love Required In

Marriage Market

Rome, Mar. 24.

The Italian woman who is plain, over forty and unmarried or a widow does not sadly resign herself to lonely old age.

She advertises for a husband-and stands a good chance of getting one if she can offer a dowry, extraordinary cooking skill or, preferably, a flat.

Advertising for a husband or a wife has become a widespread practice among middle-aged Italians, who find its anonymity preferable to Marriage Bureaus and Lonely Hearts Clubs.

income."

Every day, particularly on most 15, serious, cultured, good Sundays, newspapers carry columns of advertisements under The

RED SAILORS the titles: "Marriages,"

""

HELD

IN FORMOSA. Washington, Mar. 24.

The

fate of 21 Soviet sailors, at present held in Formosa by the Chinese Na- tionalist Government, is still

Controversy uncertain, the US State De-

partment announced here to-

The sailors, from the Soviet oil-tanker, Tuapse, captured by the Chinese Nationalist Navy last June off Formosa, have-re quested political asylum in the United States.

The US Department of Justice now accepts the view of Seere tary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, that these men should be allowed entry to the US.

word "love" never appears in these columns.

The advertisements are brisk ly business-like.

ONE ADVERTISEMENT.

"Tall,

13-year-old

ftat.

married lady, owns would many distinguished, serious young man of good position,"

sertion in a Sunday news- paper.

to

This advertisement W39 anonymous, like all the others. Nothing would be more de grading to Italians than allow friends or relations to know that they were forced to advertise for a mate.

of

TERRIFIED Seriousness and a solid income are what most the women, demand.

They seem terrified of falling Into We hands

of handsome, penniless rogues

On the other hand, the women who advertise know that they must, to put it bluntly, pay for husband. The higher the price they can offer, the er the chances of

a

the great- getting one. A recent advertisement in the Rome

id:paper Il Messaggers,

38, attractive, job

as clerk, owner of flat with three rooms in central part of Rome, would marry civil ser vant, even widower without children, maximum seriousness." (Flats in the centre of Rome are far more valuable than those in the suburbs.)

Another recent advertisement by # "pretty. was placed virtuous, unmarried woman of car, would excellent family." She had two

flats to offer.

Flats are of major importance

Another advertisement

Singapore, Mar. 21. INGAPORE Moslems mayday. view the bare midrif of pretty Alm star Salmah Binte Malayan Ibrahim but Moslems must not look, the Film Censor ruled here. The sensor said that Singapore

audiences were more "cosmo-

"Distinguished, chaste, of

politan," and not likely to be shocked by the scene, in the Malayan Film Production, "The Magic Fan" with its

However, it is thought prob- setting in ancient Egypt-and its costumes to match.

able here that the American Moslems in the Federation of authorities are unwilling to per- Malaya at once objected. mit these sailors to enter the US, "What is bad for Moslems in if there is any question that

territory is bad

in later, some of them may demand another." religions. leaders repatriation. maintained- and they are Conversations continue between asking that bare midriffs be the US and Nationalist China banned in Singapore.-France-representatives at Taipei. Presse.

Mr Howe said the contract for construction of the reactor awarded to the would be

General Electric Canadian Company. It was expected that construction would be completed by mid 1958-Reter.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

INSIDE THE SPACE SHIP-- AT THE

OCEAN BOTTOM...

WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO BREAK THROUGH THIS METAL WALL, MANDRAKE.

I DON'T THINK]. WE'LL HAVE TO. NARDA. THEY HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO--|

FERDINAND

NANCY

AUNT FRITZI---

I MADE A SNOWMAN IN THE LIVING*

ROOM

--AND I DON'T THINK

THEY'LL TAKE A CHANCE OF HAVING

THEIR SHIP DAMAGED.

JOHNNY HAZARD

HITWITCH! "SAY, I DIDN'T · KHOW THIS MONKEY WAS IBRINGING WE TO YOU!, HE

COULD HAVE SAVED HIMSELF

A LOT OF TROUBLE!

OTLE

France-Presse.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

LOOK--THE

WALL IS OPENING!

HERE WE

GO! FREE, AT LAST!

LET'S NOT COUNT OUR CHICKENS,YET. WE'RE STILL UNDER A MILE CF OCEAN!

On

IT'LL MELT

NO, IT WON'T

WHAT? ALL OVER

PERHAPS HE HAS BROUGHT YOU INTO”, \TROUBLE! WHO ARE ||'YOU AKWHERE DID - YOU GET THAT!

PARAKEET 7:

DON'T, YOU KNOW. ABOUT, ME 7. I'M A NEW (GUY IN, YOUR, OUTFIT {GUS BROUGHT ME OND THE HOP FROM VENICE!

THE FLOOR

"NO, I DID NOT. KNOW ABOUT YOU MBUT I DID SER

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiler

ERNIE BUS ZENEM

By Frank Robbing

AND UNLESS YOU CAN- EXPLAIN YOUR ACTIONS THERE, YOU WILL NEVER..

YOU TODAY IN BOX | LEAVE THIS ROOM AUVEĒ

∙CANYON...

JO

in a notion which still has

says: pretty woman, dowry 5,000,000 Lire was (£2,875 sterling), owns furn shed home and mary doctor or member another profession aged 40-45." Still another Serious, 45. fairly good job, would marry housing shortage. Women with- elderly member of one of the out flats are at a disadvantage

In the marriage market professions,

or pensioner, even

shopowners, dress and invalid." A widow, "aged 35, distin-makers, teachers, midwives and guished, alone, attractive, most

secretaries fréquently advertise, chaste,

of luxuriously probably with success, for the furnished apartment,” adver-usual serious men with com- tised for a husband, "oged at fortable incomes.

War

owner

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS ·

AND REFRIGERATORS

*TER JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA 'FAMOUS".

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

Bat hat

Bargaining over dowries and Lacomes is probably shrewd and lively when advertiser and aspiring husband eventually meet

Masculine advertisers are also exacting in their demands,

WARM-HEARTED

cently

A tall, warm-hearted, high-grade bank clerk”, re-

advertised for "suitably well-built, 1250 phisticated, property-owning young woman with dowry,” A distinguished, 41-year-old merchant" wanted: "an honest, 29-33-year-old woman tall.

handsome, strong physique, pre-

with dowry."

Families often advertise for husbands for their unmarried daughters. This

happens with

parents who conforming to the highest Italian tradition, force their daughters to live cloistered lives until they suddenly dis- cover, that they have reached difficult.

age

when marriage is

Luckily, for 100 Lire (40) word, the

they can put an anony

mous advertisement in the

Zewspapers. And no one need know that the shy girl did not meet her elderly but distin.. guished husband....... at a romantic Riviera resort the previous sum- mner.

One such couple announced:

"Parents, upper class, would marry only daughter, 31, dis- tinguished, university degree, etty irreproachable conduct, 10,000.000 Lire (£5,- as well AS future in

heritance, with high-ranking civil servant, maximum age these

42,"

the butt of music-hall

Comenta like..

The marriage rate in Italy fluctuates between 20,000 and 50,000 a month,”. with jewe during the summer and more in autumn and winter.

LAST-HOPE

Though

the newspaper marriarts” columus provide only a minute proporilon of those radiant couples, they serve a purpose of the high- est importance. For are the last hope” of lonely people. Despite the

they mans

unblushing re- ferences to property, dowries, · ·· and incomes, there is a curious pathos about many of the ade vertisements.

This one, for instance: 45- year-old, widow of aristocratic birth, attractive appearance, re- ligious, kindly, heiress, would marry man of property, even crippled "advertisement

One

which

of the

shocked regular readers." marrings columns appeared re- cently in Rome paper,

A 34-year-old

woman

wanted

wealthy husband, even, an

But instead of a dowry

legs and ex

she offered "m celient culin

#prett culinary Furthermore, she hinted that would have to be

dest

braveur, because she de bloed herself

as a "disillusioned "antirupogeniziar Angela

In other words, the Do longer believed, that Man was the be glaming and end of all things. China Mali Special