Part B
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1955.
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FACE-LIFT
Ultra-Modern City
Rising From Sands
Cairo, Dec. 8.
Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, is undergoing the most extensive "face-lift" in its history, according to reports brought here by travellers from the desert Kingdom,
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Not so long ago, this capital, the birthplace of King ibn Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia and the scene of his greatest military triumph, seldom heard any sound more startling than the restless din of its busy, teeming souk (camel market place) and the occasional beep of a horn as a į motor car wormed its way through the milling crowds in the narrow, dusty lanes.
Then, AS ail brought great prusperity and comlaet with the west, bulldozera, steam- shovels,
and chunp trucks eement mixers broke the quiet of the anglent Arab Bedouin community, tearing down nid houses, clearing ground, curling off debris and pouring leas of
fresh concrete
King Saud recently orcicred the transfer of all offeinl bus) – ness from Jedda, the busy part om the Red Sea, to Riyadh.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER
By Air
FOTTICINO, 6 pm,
Korea, d p.m. 1.8.A., Canada, 4 p.m.
Thalland, India, Pakistan, Middle
Japan, a p.m.
in new hotels, Eart, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, all air-conditioned and
with p.. running
hot. cold and
ived water.
From camele to bedouin Arab
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into boulevards Ave times that today
width to cope with the growing motor traffic
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Into
Cadilines, moving JA from camel-hair tenis ultm-modern,
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dwellings.
A truly modern city ringed by waving palm-treGS and
besprinkled with well-watered rose gardens is emerging from the burning desert Any
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I be heart of the Domłot Arabian deserts, Riyadh stands today
ultra-modern, * JACW. entirely air-conditionext city, a stanteeth fov Sao Paulo or of the most modern citus the world.
Paradoxically, it boasts little. if any, Arable or islamic art. Only one large mosque. 1214 "Westminster Abbey"
the Wahhabis, marks a capital Islam.
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Dr Said Karim,
Jamous Cairo architect and graduate of largely Zurich University. responsible for its new archi fecture. which combines func- tion and form. Along Prince Feisal Street, he has built an imposing array of Government buildings.
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The officia Majlis, or Royal Council Chamber, where King Saud traditionally meets his subjects. The new Saud Mil- tary Academy and new Town Hall, as well as several big hotels, are in various stages of completion.
Dr Karim has also disguised a dozen palaces for Emir Mohamed bin Abdel Aziz, Emir Taliul bin Abdel Aziz and other incmbers of the Royal Family.
Stronghold
The new Riyadh is a series of oasis
which Swiss and Spanish-style
with cottages swimming pools and tennis
courts dominate the skyline, with their deep green Wiles and pastel-coloured windows, con- trasting with the brown dieseri sands all round,
Riyadh, traditional stronghold of the Saud family and the Wahhabi ruling dynasty, lies in an open wadi at the bottom of a rockly slope.
Riyadh was bullt near the ancient, defcuted capital of Bereydalı early in the 10th
century.
The warlike Nedjeans sidered it an ill omen to re- bulld and reinhabit a. town fatally overthrown, so they transplanted the seat of gov- ernment and its entire popula- tion to a dezert oasis nearby.
Thanks to the discovery oll in the custom part of the country and the wealth which It has brought, Riyadh today boasta a population of 100,000,
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the trans Arabían berevan, route from Kassa to the holy shrines at Mocca, and in sho, the westem terminus of the first railway scross the Arabian desert since Lawrence Colonel, destroyed the Hedjaz railway in
streamlined tralas not run on this railway, 330, milies across the stoppes from Damman, on the Persian Gulf.
By durface Pakistan. 3 p.m. Indonesia, p.m. Macon. 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 50 By Air Peking. Shanghal, Hankow. mang, 9 a.m.
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France, 10 a.m. Thailand. Malaya. Indonesia, Aus tralia, New Zealand & Ceylon, 11 am
Indo-China. Noon. Philippines. I p.m
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Middle East. Allen, Great Britain & Europe. 6 p.m.
Formos, Japan, Okinawa, Kuroa.
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flawall, U. A., Canada, é p.m. Dy Barthe Formozd, 9am China, People's Republic, 9:30 am, Macao pm. Indo-Chine. Tholland. 3 p.m.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 By Air
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MONDAY, DECEMBER, 12 By Surface Portuguese India, P/P direct,
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Macao, 1 p.m.
Kores, p.m.
Canada, 4 p..
Indo-China, Thailand, 3 p.m. Sixent, & p.m.
Fair In London
Serving
To Have
New
'Gay Life'
Berlin, Dec. 8. East Germany's Communist youth leaders have taken revolutionary measures to give the 2,000,000-strong State Youth Movement a new, "gay life"
Banning almost all deskwork, hitherto a salient feature of the movement, from district and local offices, leaders, according to Jung Welt, the daily youth newspaper, have been forbidden to:
1. Ask for or make written their sceptres over the gay masS reports, except cash statements, of youth until Ash Wednesday monthly statistics and bi-weekly next FebruMTY, accounts of the local group's [political activities;
2. To draf от lastic sny directives and circular letters- known to be the main occupa- tion hitherto of youth officials;
9. To draft or pass any re- solutions except decisions to improve their own group's
Giving Advice
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One such merry-making party demonstratively broke up" youth officials' meeting st Bran- denburg, near Berlin, in quick response to the new orders,
Junge Welt has even boon giving girls advice on the use of cosmetics. 4. To
"Do not put lipstick take any paper to
because you dress official meetings except a docu-on before
it ment on the monthly plan
of your trock way get siminod,”
told them, and added: "You can youth activities.
use more powder in the evening. becmuse a powdered face looks better under illumination."
One sign foreshadowing the new policy has been a gradual The number and duration of deviation from the previous official meetings "is to be Commurdet party line condemn. "decadent."
activition; customers at the annnat Swedish Christmas Fair in London is pretty Kerstin Hewitson, dreased interdis tional costume, The fair was opened by Mature Tubnar Harglot, wife of the Swedish the United Ambassador to Kingdom-Express Photo.
Improve Activities
Bomber Crashes drastically cut and they are not ing Jazz music as
bomber
up
of 19
to serve any other purpose than East German radio stations are Honolulu, Dec. 8. improving the group's activities." now giving regular Jazz legiona accompanied by records reflect- A twin-engined Navy patrol
More than 120 members with n crtw
ofing the entire musical develop- New Orleans crushed at sea last night and the Free German Youth centralment from the three council, or executive, will aban-style to Be-bop. A submarine picked
don their desks in East Berlin Newspapers begun to publish survivors while planes and
and visit district and local large-size photographs of Loule hunted for more. ships
groups throughout the country Armstrong describing him The submarine, USS Bashaw, to establish contacts with the the captions "the King of picked up the survivors
masses" and, at the same time, Jazz," and a noted music critic than two hours after the P2V supervise fullment of the new said: "I have not regretted af- plane crashed 20 miles off the
orders.
tending a recent concert in West Berlin Chore of Kauai Istond.—United
Armstrong. given by Press.
from whom our banda can learn a lot.”
lem
Workmen Buried
Paris, Dec. 0.
to
The orders, issued by the leader of the movement. Herr Kari Namokel, coincided with Country-wide ceremonies open the carnival scason on the
Rhineland
and An almost completed building traditional
"Fools" meet- in Lubourne, southwest France, Bavarian scale.
ings followed by singing collapsed today burying several danding were held in cities and workmen in the debris. First revillages. ports said 14 men were burled in the ruins, The building was to house a
and
Most of the local youth groups multiple store office elected fancy-dress carnival and flatsChina Mail Special. princes and princesses to wield
By Lee Falk und Phụ Davis
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LIKE THE
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THEN THE ROBOT
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By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
MARS DR BUST
By Frank Robbins
VE THAT YOU, MAXIT ONE. MOMENTUSI AM CORING/ COUNTERS STEPHABRE OS
COMING
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
flove you seen
Make Life Easier
in
of The aim of this reversal
policy, East Germany's youth observers here agree, is to make Hío easter and more pleasant so that for the young people (they will not want to flee
the West.
A daily average of 350 young Ehat Germans under 23 years in of age hayo sought baykumm West Berlin-during the o part months, and East German state admitted leaders have frankly that they are worried about such particularly a mass movement, by young skilled workers.
In addition, the mess fight of young people reduces the re- server avaliabiə for the Fast German armed forces-China Mail Special.
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Admiral US Still
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FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
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Philippines For UN Seat
United Nations, Dec. 8, The United States will continue to back the candi». dature of the Philippines for the vacant seat on the United Nationa Security Council, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, chief American UN delegate said here today.
Mr Lodge, who was speaking at a luncheon given by the United Nations Press Corres. pondents Association, said the United States would not mug» get a compromião polution that would involve berging kny government for the Security Council wet.
other
He added the US Cover- considered the Allan-
“Bandung"
African
under-representer!
Comcil ward pointed out
powers
the
that
none of the other Bandung ha- tions hat protested against the Philippines candidature,
Deadlocked
The Philippines and Yugosla vis -- the European condicĩa také have so far donflocked the UN Assembly voting for the vacant Council seat. Nelther country obtained the required
vlection.
He for
Lodge was midcock by a newspaperman ar President Elsenhower had a reply to ble second speiosge to Crenecalismo Chiang Kai-shit, urging The latter not to veto Outne obja 33a's adintinion to the United Nations, how, but e't [tell you”; štetiden. M
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