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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1955.

PRAGUE'S WENCESLAS SQUARE Marilyn-Shaped

GIVEN A 'NEW LOOK'

Prague, Oct. 13.

Three big, modern buildings going up on

Nowe contributions, always wel- War-damaged sites in Prague's Wenceslas Square Editor, business communicaitons and Will give a "new look" to this 600-year-old advertisements to the Secretary. thoroughfare of the Czechoslovak capital.

Telephone: 20911 (3 Lines),

KOWLOON OFFICE: Balisbury toad.

Telephone: 64145

KÜÜSLAUGURISTJÁNITEGA LAPORIZATORI KAPIJELJINAMARJOLICAENGAKULARAZITEZA

Classified Advertisements

20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID

ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS

$2.00 PER DAY

ID cents PER WORD OVER 20)

Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word.

ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

booking foo

if not prepaid a of 50 cenia is charged.

FOR SALE

USUSUAL, allraetxe

Labte

whee and Swerish pottery

weding parenta Dayak 1.10 001

otter gali

Read

STABI

STAMPS

very Mtuk

ALBUMS -- "Collection

Block

www

New avaliable $3. From South China Morning Post, 1.14 Wyndham Street, 1king and Salisbury Rond, Kowloon,

SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Cubec- tom packels of awiled stampa. Frout 20 cents per packet upwards. An entirely

Suului CLICK. China Morning Post Liu, Wynanám

new

Street. Hongkong Hond, Kowloon,

and

Salisbury

WANTED KNOWN

THOSE MAGAZINES

you wish to keep will look better and lost wunger

We

Noally bead

bookbinding. 8. C. M Prst."

XOTICE

BANK HOLIDAY

The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of public business on Monday,

October, 17th

1965. Third Monday in Detober).

Hongkong, 14th Oct., 1955.

Building gangs working day and night this summer have completed the ferro-concrete shell of a seven-storey department store at the upper end of the square, which is actually a long, sloping, tree-lined boulevard, nearly half a mile long and about 195 feet wide.

The

chusters

aroma

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Behind u reen of wooden scurge between fencing and scaffoldlag they are street lamps, but they were now installing electricity, moved to the pavements to make water, gas, central heating and way for tramway tracks mone nther interior #tungs.

than 30 years ago. The store, abord 100 feet high and situated on the corner of sizzling meat rises from sausage

AL night,

aside street. is expected to stalls Hit by hurricane Jarpe open next spring.

and the blare of a dance band

ik on or

crooner's

drifts SDOR through the open window of a cafe.

Dingonally oppostle to it, another corner at the top of the square, builders are laying the foundations WI få four-storey Tood and provision store. pected to be completext muat kuasure.

cx-

LOOKS DINGY

dull street Lighting

next Rather

tends to tuake

the square look

In the middle of the road-dingy after dark, but this t way, between the sites, stands partially offset by splashes

of a statue of Good King Wenecs-red, green blue and yellow las of the Christmas caroj loost- neon signs along its lower half. ing out on horse back over the A red star shines on the roof of busy, noisy thoroughfure which a newspaper office. Across the

bears his nume.

NEW

HOTEL

street a golden coronet glibbers outside a sinck bar. Another snack bar's sign is a giant glass of beer with a creamy white lips. The names of state fudd- ing corporations shine from building walls and sometimes atruss an ilturnin-

About 200 yards further down, on the same side as the the food store, the biggest of stew buildings, an eight-storey slogans hole! scheduled to be finished next autumn, taking shape.

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screen.

Composer Earl

The

London, Oct. 13.

Earl of Harewood, cousin of the Queen, will this month Join the ranks of composers when he in- troduces

a new

series of for

mysical programinea

the British Corporation,

Broadcasting

An opera enthusiast, he will present the first six of a series of weekly conceria known as "Musie to Re- member”—and they will be mainly about opera.----China Mail Special.

Persia Welcomed To Pact

Britain

Is gradually The square was built GS

horse market in 1348 by one of

Czech

kings, Krentest All three buildings are being the

Charles IV, who became furmer

Holy sites creeted

of

Roman Emperor, It relained shops. blocks

offlers and

the name of Horse Market for and the Bats destroyed by bombs

500

it censed although years, when the citizens shell

of

Teheran, Oct. 13. to be used

as such in the 17th against ee Prague rose in revolt

officially welcomed and its surroundings century German occupying troops

Persia's docislon

the to join were gradually built up. the closing days of World War

Turvo-Iraq defence pact in a I was re-named Wenceslan 11, May 1945.

Czech.

massage delivered to the Persian Square in

Vaclavske

Minister, Mr Hussein Namesti-In 1948. Wenceslas, Primo

Ala,

the British by

Charge tenth d'Affaires, Mr John Kitchener."

The message said the decision

"most

welcome" to ine British Government.-Heuter,

any

some

the L

In addition to Alling gaps in the rows of tall. grey, brown, whose Czech name was Vaclay, Kreen and

-coloured ruled Bohemia biscuit buildings,

cupped by contury and is the patron Saint domes and small spires, stretch-of Czechoslovakia.-China Mall

the whole length of the Special. square the new structure will add a fresh tone to its char- acteristic blend of ancient and modern.

This is typified by an 18th century building, with delicate. its paintings On These-tinted

walls, rubbing shoulders with a modern office block, and an- other old, narrow-fronted three- slorey house huddled next to a department store.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

In the roadway, sleek, modem. foreign cars, shining now Skoda taxts, black Tatraplans with "sharks' Ans" un their rear engine COVERS and powerful diesel trucks hustle alongside Damaged curgo ex this vessel will 1930 vintage Czechoslovak, Ger-

"CLYTONEUR"

De surveyed by Messrs. Goddard A Dongius at Holt » Whart From Kt am. on Uctober 13 and 18, 1955, and signers are requested in have their representative

de the

Survey.

BUTTERFIELD & WIRE, Agenix

ilmaking. Ocfutier 13, 1955.

Oriente Comercial

Importers, Exportars and General Merchanta

22/23, Avenida Amedia Ribeiro. MACAU Telephone: 3487.

Authorised Distributors of

South China Morning Post South China Sunday Post-Herald Cliina Mal}

When in Macan

atay at the POUSADA INN, Praia Grande,

Cable: Pousada.

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and en-

anet French cars, some with gas cylinders still strapped on the back. former German army Volkswagens, sionally a clip-elopping home- drawn ent, called a drozka,

BOTH SIDES

Laty. single-deck. ned and while tamcars crawl, grinding and clanging. all day up and dows and петокз the square. Planners hope in the future to replace

them completely by buses. But no date has been

xed yet for this.

Hotels, cafes. Brack bars, bookshops, offices and cinemas line both sides of the square "with Labyrinthe of winding passages and arcade leading off between them to neighbouring streets.

the

Newspaper and cigarette kiosks, Blower sellers and boot- blacka are dolted along! pavemente in the shade of the scores of leafy me trees lining ite edge. Street cameramen take "walking snaps" among the slow-moving

crowds which

throng the square from morning until early evening.

Was

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

TOURIST, IN THE YEAR SOSS DO PEOPLE REMAIN. YOUNG ALWAYST

YOU'RE REFERRING TO THOSE PILLS? OH,NO, THEY ONLY LAST A WEEK.

FERDINAND

NANCY

WE ONLY TAKE THEM ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS--LIKE WHEN WE'RE

GOING ON A

VACATION.

THEY'VE NO PERMANENT

EFFECT.

The Marilyn Monroe look pays off in supersonic atroraft design as well as in Holly- wood, US plane manufacturers are discovering. By giving air- crafts a "wasp waist" en- gineers have succeeded in in- crcasing the speed of planes and of making them slip mere smoothly past the tricky sound barrier. Prototypes pictured above show what a design looks like after the new walst has been added. Left is the straight fuselage style Convair YF-102, right, the nipped- waist productioa design F- 102A all-weather jet inter- ceptor. Engineers found that by pinching In the fuselage where the wings are attached they reduced drag causext by body area and souped-up the speed of the craft. The F- 102A, now in general produc- tion at San Diego, California. in the US Air Forces' first all- weather interceptor. and 19 designed to intercept enemy bombers at strateepherio al- - titudes, day or night—Ex- press I'hoto

I NEEDED MONEY TO BUY A REAL STEAK, BUT I HAD NONE OF YOUR MONEY. SO I SOLD THE PILLS. IN DOING THAT---

Aircraft

Mail Notices

The Intert times of posting shown below are those for an ** registered correspondance posted 41 G.P.0. Houghòng. The "Istest posting times olcowhere which, in general, are earlier than the O.P.0. mies can be ascertained by enquiry at the focal once.

The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars regard. ing parcel malb can be sacor- tained by enquiry at any post omea.

HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTA On Monday, October 17, 1955 be public counters at G.P.0. aad C... Kowloon will open for public business from m. to noun.

The Shoungwan Post Office will open from am, to Noan for sale of postage stamps only and all other Brasch Umers will be closed.

The private box lobbies at GP.O & C.P.O. Howloon wil open from 9 am to 7 pm and Sheungwan from Bam. to noon and Wanchai from 10 am to noon only.

There will be one delivery coramenting at 10 am, and one collection from all pilar boxes

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 By Alr

Forniosa. p.m.

Burma, India, Pakistan,

Midde

East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, 0 p.m.

Korea, p.m.

Japan. G .m.

Canada, d p.m.

ty Burface

Thaliano, 4 p.m. Macro, 3 p.m.

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

--1 BROKE THE BÜLES. WE'RE ONLY SUPPOSED

TO OBSERVE WHEN WE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME.

ALL I CAN SAY

IS--GOSH?

· TOMORROW=THE'MIX-UP.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

I WISH I

all

The trees were originally planted in the middle of

the

I'VE GOT SPOTS BEFORE MY

EYES TODAY

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Egypt Abolishes Religious Courts

REVOLUTIONARY STEP

Cairo, Oct. 13. Egypt's Revolution Government led by Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser has abolished the whole system of Shari'a and non-Moslem religious courts in Egypt, and ordered the transfer of all cases of personal status, including marriage, divorce, caré of children and inheritance as well as Waqfs or charitable foundations, to the national civil courts.

As from next January, all religious courts will be closed, and Egypt will be- come the first Arab country without Shari'a courts, once the supreme legal bodies of all Moslem states.

with

The new law also orders the allegiance to the Mostem state, the "zacal" abolition of the Copile and other together Christian courts as well as the (tribute). Rabbinical courts which were minintained by non-Moslem minorities in Egypt.

The Egyptian Government has thus, at one sweeping stroke, ended the existence as an in- dependent body of a Judicial institution which has funelioned

in its antiquated, often chaotle, way since the Arab conquest in the seventh century.

In early times, Shari'a qadi

with all kinds (lude) dealt of cases, both civil and criminal. The Shari'a, which is technically the canen law of Islam, has been a predominant influence Moslem history, for in the

thinkers

law among Islamic and religion have alwyas been inextricably linked. Before the rise of the Ottoman empire. there

sta:៥ nimost no Was

Community Regime legislation in Moslem countries,

and Islamic scholarship, soctai affairs and. eyen iiterature were profoundly affected by the ideals of the Shari'a.

The commucitý regiipa has existed in the Middle East since the beginning of the Christian ero, when the various seats had their own laws for dealing with the lives and property of their the practical

members, regardless of the State

foreign

Throughout Islam, however, power of the Shari'a courts has bean.

laws. It survived through een-gradually whittled away,

Occupation, Limited Competence

Ruinans, Mamelukes, from

of

the

Perslaus,

wurles from Arabs,

Turks, French and

In Egypt, their

competence had become limited Mark

to cases of personal status and for some time now, there have been com- plaints that there was no clear

between i demarcation

the

British, Alexander the Great Antory, Napoleon and Kitche nor, down to the present day.

Islam Inherited this system) and allowed the various Gen

and Jewish com- munities to conduct their

Christian

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own

courts and courts of.

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affairs and deal with their own other denominations. There

their

members according to lown laws as long as they paid

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Admiral

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AND REFRIGERATORS

FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!

TRY

Libby's

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TODAY!

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this situation

calls for a

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have been frequent cases of

Islam sudden varsions" to because the judicial procedure of this authority, particularly in the case of divorce, was cosy.'

Supremo

authority, it was telt in Egypt, was long over- due to end the chaotle Illigation of the many different religious courts; the umbiguilles

which were misleading even to the experts, and which, because of political influences, were al- ways Hable to misinterpreta- tion to the detriment of an in- nocent party.

Many of these courts lacked. There archives of precedent. have been contradictory Judg. monts and people went "from one court to another when the findings of the first were not favourable. The execution of justice was often thus fore- stalled indefaltoly.

Non-Moslems themselves had: as many as fourteen different courts, some of which met only dis- very occasionally and in

tant places. Their judgments varied according to their read- ing of the holy books in Latin, Ar- Greek, Hebrew, Assyrian, menian and Coptic languages.

It is not the intention of the Egyptian Government at present to abandon Islamic laws or the laws of the various non-Moslem.

communities as authorities in cases of personal status? In future, though such cases will be heard in the ordinary civil courts, Shari'a dadis, or appropriate non-Mostem jurists, will sit with the civil Judges' to hear the cases, and Shari'a lawyers will be authorised to plead at such hearings.

Law Unchanged

For the various' Coptic sects, Homen Catholics, Greek Ortho- Box, Protestants including An- glicons, Jewa and every other.

religion, the law

also stand

But,

in the case of the Mosioms, the nuthority

of the Gove

will be the suprema On January 1, 1956, justice be rengierent in civil courts in the name of "God the all merel- ful" for Moslems, Christians and Jews alike.

The more modern legislators want as unified civil code for cll. But in a country still pro foundly Islamic, that is still n long way

off. —China' Mall Special.

MORE PRISONERS

RELEASED

Bonn, Op. 13,

A group of 500 former Gor Man

prisoners of war today arrived at the Friedland recep tion camp. The released pri- SOPOTE

camo fromN The Savict prison camp st Sverdlovsk The Soviet authorities.

werd reported by the roturning prl-. montera" to have gathered

mo 7,000 Chazzard war prisoners in tha Sverdiaville region who w expected to be repatriateck bes fore!