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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1956.
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COLOGNE CATHEDRAL 60 Mile An Hour HOW IT IS DONE IN SOFIA
To Be Fully Reopened
To General
Public This Year
Cologna, Jan. 25. Cologne cathedral, the biggest and one of the best-known of Germany's Gothic monuments will be fully re-opened to the public during this year.
This 13th century Cathedral was badly damaged by Allied bombs and gunfire during World War II. Only part of it is at
present in use for services.
For the propuletion of Cologne (confiscate the land againal, often the re-opening will be one of small, compensation and to build the mist import: nt milestones it up themselves in accordance in the efforts to rebuild the city with a central plan. since the wat. Most of them re-
the
This is why visitors have often
behind that in other big towns of West Germany.
K the Cathedral, situcted thought that rebuilding in near the bank of the Rhine and Cologne rupeared to be lagging towreing WITH
"Altstad cuid city), as the heart and soul of the lown. They have private- ly contributed much to the near-
5.000.000 West marks than £400,000 sterling) so spent on repair work."
But at least as much again
on
New Settlements
Planning hos
AUDOSDEFN—96ents, suddenly ad Callodies, which is to be held
There visitors mostly did not visit the suburbs and fringes of the city, where the acers of war will have to be spent before all have heated almost completely the damage repaired, perhaps and where new settlements have
15 or 20 years. "The
sprung up in the last few years. 121
the entire interior af
Lick of opening of
central church, visible de, this great
provoked
The shout NA Funeral
nway. bus prople of Cologne complained A pass the Moment 21 20 clear days 20 miles
20 y 100 been fixed for
the city August to July that
NO papore japers please copy
Incite with the "Krtholikentog".
og". have allowed an insurance an annual gathering of Germa pany lo build a tall, modern office building right next to one at the
olden
churches,
St Gereon, a Bomenerque structure superimple d on Roman ruins. which is being repaired at pre- sent.
Jus residence
Fung 2011
Mrest
I st
1J34
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Telor
TROMETARAK
Funeral
-20th Janu
11434 at the 13-Ebest 1's meters, Play Valles
PREMISES WANTED
WANTED
4 Touse
IMMEDIATELY—Furn
flats the Faak with
Cologne this year
Bitter Fighting
Hervation luz e mold, only, Plonkoops captured truprine 72211, ex 28.
WANTED KNOWN
gas, water
com-
posting The latest times' of shown below are thote for up- registered correspondence posted a1 G.P.O. Hongkong, The latest posting Gres elsewhere which, In general, ate earlier than the 0.1.0. times can be ascertained by enquiry at the local office,
The Latest posting times for registered krillas at generally one hour yarlier than the times shown below. Particolar garding parcti matha Ascerned by enquiry at any post office.
-
can be
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 By Alt Pakistan, Middie East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, 8 p.m.
Thailand, Burma Initia, & p.m.
By Surface
al-
Japan. 3 p.m. Pakistan (Portuguese India, eels via Karachi), S p.m
Korea. 4 p.m.
Par-
D
Cologne, the gay and vicucious "empitel" of the Rhineland, was
They further criticise the new one of the
big theatre being built near the city worst hit of Gean cities during the war centre, which they have
when 1945.
Ameriem ready nick-named the "air-cald The s.de walls of the it after monthsneiter of bitter Bghting. I was concrete structure, As yet (desertvil rubble-heap without Anished, slope inwards towards
or electricity.
[the wide, Hat vol, cealing The pulation of 770,000 had gulireless section at either and only side of the stage and auditorium. lo 40,000 You can enjoy and will dwindled by Huntley & Painers breakfast 83,1100
Tradition-loving homes were
cillzena (1 252 000 Sivuta Aise recntended for Usa still trading, and most of these
say that this modernistic building deks not it in with the general were damaged.
charseter of Cologne and mny ancient buildings.
Yet Cologne has remained one of the biggest attractions in the whole of Germany for foreign tourists-China Mall Special.
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Today, the population is back to 80,000 and Cologne is the fourth biggest city in the West German Federal Republic, of the most important trafle hubs of the
country and bundling. thriving industrial
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ANNOUNCEMENT
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Write for explanatory brochure sent you in plain sealed envelope giving details of a free course of leaflets for non-Catholica. Catholic Enquiry Centre, The Jesuit Fathers, P.O. Box 5812, Kowloon.
centre.
nue
of
More than 100,000 homes have been rebuilt and thousands offices, many of them housing important banks, insurance com- and wholesale trade been construel-diia Among the thuishing Cologne Industries me the Ford
Motor
"
inters.
a bumuss aleg
of
the
| Company, the German brunch of umbol -Deutz, makers of bla Forda
Detroit, Kloeckner-
achinery and lorries, and Mielten, company, manufactur.
* 4711" Eau de Cologne. Bu in sple of all the building, there are still rly ples of overgrown and empty spaces whers rubble has been gleaned away
Dark Waste
many
the
Especially in the centre the town, not far from the
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Cathedral and The railwar
"LAOMEDUN"
<x tili Vessel Will
be surveyed by Mesu, Goddard &
Damaged cack"
IXugian at Bul's Winef from
conalgnee: are
the ourvey.
2
terminal. the passer-by may And himself plunging from Brightly neon-li: chopping street inta
vf bombed altes.
dark waste
City authorities con do little speed up building at these am, on January 27 and 25. 1956, and | altes, since the ground is elinost exclusively in private hands and
build.
equated
4 havo
thew representatives prement dương ls up to private owners to re-
BUTTERFIELD & SWINE,
Agents.
Hongkort. 23. Jowary 164341
PENINSULAR
The
State of North Rhine- Westphafla has no laws
like Herge and ther states which
the city
authorities to
permit
its
Macao M
FRIDAY, JANUARY N
By Air Formosa, Japan, Korea. Okinawa, ii .m.
Guam, Hawaii, U.S.A.. Pulippe, Australia, land. 1 p.m.
*New Zea
Formor, 8 p.m.
Kucp.m.
U.S.A.. Canada, 8 p.m. Thailand. India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Grest Britain Europe, 0 p.m.
Japan, & Pip
Surface
&
China, People's Republic, 10.30 a.m. Macso. 1 p.m.
Japan. Ú Á‚A., C. & S. America.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
OFFICER - YOU
DON'T UNDERSTAND.
THAT'S THE
CLAY CAMEL!
· FERD'NAND
QUIET
DOWN, OR I'LL COOL: YOU OFF
CORNIES
√ SPACE GONNE
& ORIENTAL
NANCY
WHAT DOES YOUR FATHER DO FOR A LIVING, ALVIN ?
at
12.00
HOND
WITH AN ICE-
CREAM CONE?
CAN YOU
KEEP A SECRET?
Over The
Notices
$ P..
Macao. 3 p.m.
SATURDAY JANUARY A
By Air
Peking. Shanghai, Hankow. Ku.. ming, to 4.m.
France, 10 ..
Thelland, Malays. Indonesia, Aue. tralia,
Zeeland & Cerlos.
Now
Indo China, Noon.
Pulppine làm
Malava, Indonesia, New Zealand. p.m..
Australia
Britain
&
Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle Thurt, Africa. Great
Formosa, Japin, Okinawa, Korea, 6 p.m.
Havalt. U.S.A.. Canada, 4 p.m.
By Kartice
China, People's Republic, 1030. belian. Ez East Africa, N. Ba 3. Rhodesia de Mozambique, Parcels vto Beira, 11.m.
Maco, 1.m.
Indo-Chine, 3 p.m.
Korea. 4 p.m.
indonetia, p.m. Formos
B
Japan & P...
Austraila, Now Zealand, Parcels & Reg. p.m.; Letters & Packets. 9am 30/1
Malaye, Ceylon, India. Agen, Middle Fret France, Grost Britain & Europe, Porcula & Reg. p.m.; Letters & Packeta, & a.m., 30/1
Macao.pm.
China. People's Republic, 0 p.m.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 By Surface
Macao. p.m.
Ice
At 60 miles g.t hour, American adagio skaters Placa Dru and Allen di Jon zyrate in The Ice pantomime "Babes in the Wood" as the Empire Wool.
Wembley, London, And
for Pam:ta, that takes sheer, ice-cold
beryn for her left arm has to be encased in a steel bracket for
four
hours
day, to strengthen the nerve muscles after A revent break
Routerphoto.
IMMIGRANT
CHARGED
A 23-year-old merchant, Lau Kong-chu, alia; Lau Keng-choo, allas Lau Kong - keung, was charged before Mr Hin-shing Lo at Centrul this morning with being in possession of a forged immigration band,
Citizen Has Trouble
Over Installation Of Electric Meter
Vienna, Jan. 25. ·
Copies of the Sofia newspaper Otetschestven Front reaching here publish the following account, by a citizen, of what happened when he wanted an electric meter for his home.
Ume
a restaurant! One of the late third time."
"Two hundred an fifty leva everything is fine,' he said, and (£12 sterling) for electric went away. current
for one monthl The "This
The boss Was meter
was for three flats, 1 furious. I can't read this either," have only one reom and cat in,ho said. "I shall send him for a
"At last everything was pro- perly listed. When we had paid, the boss
pays only Lour
מוחי
leva
per month.
(four
They
Sed a' cur protests with
promised I will send
ue us in court. When we got you technician tomorrow. tired of it all, we decided
buy a
"After a further month. the to
technician came and said: "The metor for each of We collected the
box ought to be twice as larga. money, bought
That is what happens if they the meters, lock them to the send people who have no idea. Electricity Supply organization
And this equipment? Where are to be tested and put in thee Insulators, the boards, the necessary applications After ols and another three metres about two months a technician of electricity wiring?"
cttme.
will
...
"We will go and get them,"
""This installation is no good. We cried, terrified, where shal
wo buy it?" Everything must be altered. It
ccst 1,000 lova (about Wrung His Hands £50 sterling),' and went away. We needed four months to get the 1,000 Joya took them along.
wo
are
00
"Nowhere. The rolls and the
need Insulators together
Honger being, produced and are
unobtainable.
and
"What this money we were asked.
for?'
Everything Fine
"The Electricity Supply genisation wanted it.
-
Aren came,
"What do we do now?' "The technician shrugged his shoulders, packed his tools and went.
"When the boss heard of this, he wrung
his hands In fury. These technicians knew nothing.
The Electricity Supply or- We did not need any roll in ganisation no longer exists, any case, he would send us an
Jicial Submit new applications. "The official of the Electricity
S ructure examined the installation declared it to be perfect. that was needed was a box, and a te material, few
things.
Ho
wrote things down for
for us. We only
"When he came, he declared that the rolls and Insulators and were in fact necessary. After a
tele All urther month, the boss
phoned us. I have managed, to find the rolla I shall send you cur best technician.'
techalelan came and shook his head have never
new
11
the
"The
The defendant, residing ate to go to h's bots and pay for seen such bad work. Off you go
was
the materials listed.
lemorrow to the Znepole In the With the best will in the Energy Consumer Department and apply to be linked to the ass electric grid."
his
463 King's Road, Arst floor, is from Singapore. No plea
sken and be was remanded I world, I cannot decypher until Saturday for further
1 shall send this en-scrawl.
back. He must write it again. quiries.
That will teach him, the boss
"Three January
wecks later, the official came again. But now
/
It is alleged that Lau com-sald. mitted the offence on
24.
By Lee Fakk and Phil Davis
STOP!
IF I'M WRONG, IM IN
TROUBLE.
NARDA'S JEWELS!
YOU ARS--THE
CLAY CAMELS
WILL YOU
SURE
SAILS:
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CHUSAN"
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
Monday, 30th January,
noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port Sald and Marseilles.
Passengers are requested to send ALL JOHNNY HAZARD
BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kow-
loon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Sunday, 29th January.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading" on board by ship's slings only.
A EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 8.80 and 10.00 a.m. on Monday, 80th January, 1956.
Subject to alteration with or without notice
T-THAT PRONE! CORD COMES' [DOWN LET'S SEENIGHT NEAR MY FINGERS NOW, IF ONLYMM,
16 SLOWLY A PAINFULLY CAS
CONTINUED-
Ry. Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
PROMISE SURE
NOT TO TELL A SOUL ?
-HE MAKES ANTIQUE FURNITURE
STRETCHING, HIS FANGERS TO THEIR UTMOST ENAR MANAGES A FINGER-TIP #KIPW HE PILLS:
HHHH
H
ANIB BUSHMILL LORAM
By Frank Robbins
TOO LATEL
THE PHONE CRASHES DOWNGSNAP AVERTS HIS HEAD
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
IFE THE FALL
BREAM MILK THAT MARES DOWNTREE'S
CHOWATE
MILK
this situatio
calls for
San Miguel
Misunderstanding
"We spent the evening by candle-light. We will come at once,' the Enary Consumers d Department told us. After we had spent a week without elece tricity, we lost patience and protested: 'Bureaucrats! We shall
"That is an insult. Wo shall
too,' complain
the officials screamed back. Wo telephoned the manager. When he had listened to us, he exclaimed: : What bureaucrata!"
complain?
"Three
minules Later, two managers from
Energy
the
Consumer's Department ceme running to us, breathless. It had been a misunderstanding. they said. ...When they saw the moters, they raised their hands and said: And this is sup- posed to be an installation?"
"They telephoned and quar relled for a quarter of an hour with the manager of the Area: Electricity Structure. We could only hear tho words: 'Crime."
CarelessnesA
Un- they
| scrupulousness.” Finally,
went away, saying: "You cannot talk to these proble. We shall
see to IL' They changed every- thing. They changed every wire. us much Finally, they wished happiness,
Do It Again "When, a fortnight later, the
mor came to read the meters, we were speechless. One meler showed a consumption costing 400 lova (about £20 sterling), while the other two' showed NIL. turned out that all the wires had been connected to one meler. The technicians came at once and muddled the wires even more...
The flats of the top storey 'word connected to one meter, Įtwo flats on our floor connected to the second and one single man, who had no meter at all. was connected to the third. In addition, they found that my mater, was damaged and
the current passed, through, wit
without registering, t
"It is now two pairs since we acquired. the
The metara. officials of the mumerada fu- alitutions and offers who have como during thom two years have given up all hope of ever putting, the maiter, right. They advise us to install the whole
China
thing afrosh.
"Comrades, help!
Mail Special.
Auriol Going To Moscow
Förmar par Frünanji prodidint Auriol will be the w ruzatof Klimenti Voroshllow, President of the Presidium of the Bugrana Boylef,, when he ylin. Im Bovlet. Union. prxi month, the Soviet news agency, Top ukisounced tongatustepa
Tams said that hier Auriol, with
|| visites liwy sovini, union:lothes come ** acquainted with Sovi
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