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NOTHE hereby given that The Ordinary

Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders of The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be held at the Registered Office of the

Company (Second Floor, Telephone flonse, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong), onl Friday, 23rd March, 1956 at 12 Now, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with the Statement of

THE CHINA: MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH

1966

W. GERMANY'S SCHOOL FOR Conference

DIPLOMATS Hard Work Is The Order

Of The Day

Bonn, Mar. 19.

A new batch of 20 students, including two women, destined for the diplomatic service of the West German Federal Republic, are soon to enter what is believed here to be a unique Diplomatic School.

All twenty have completed academic courses in either law, economics or history, and speak at least three languages fluently. None is over 30 years of age.

They are the eleventh batch costume"-Homburg and

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The

of about 20 students each to be brella-are politely advised groomed for future diplomatic leave these at home when going posts at the school, started in out. "We want our students to 1030, at Speyer, an ancient town dreas properly, but not Ite on the Rhine. and moved In caricatures of a diplomat." Apeit 1953 to Bonn. There it Sigrist says. >couples a Vilja and a small

During their training. dormitory building on the students receive monthly grants Koblenzerstrasse, often called from the Foreign Office: £25 for "Don's Whitehall,"

married men and about £20 for unchelors.

as well as special allowances totalling about £10 month In Germany and higher allowances abroad.

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Out of these grants, students have so far had to pay £2 10s for board and lodging. This is soon to be raised, how- ever, to £5.

Within Germany Each student haa a single ruum. sparsely furnished with a bed, a wardrobe, a wrking desk und a chair. There are two lecture rooms. a 3,000-volume library, a dining room lounge.

For the first six and the last four months (f their training the diplomat trainees, officially the lister!

"temporary

civil servants" and called "attaches." live and study at this school.

After the Arst half year. they are employer! for 12 months within Germany, usually at the Foreign Office. then for iwo

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months attached

Economics Ministry

Foreign Trade

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diplomatic missions

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ther year.

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Few Fail

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At the end of their course. student- fake another examination, which Includes ouch tasks as translating Eng- Bish or French diplomatie notes without the aid of dicltonaries. reading difficult speeches, in | Toreign language, receiving

"foreign delegation" at Ave minutes notice, or "opening a German art exhibition abroad" also at a few minutes' notice,

Few of the students full Cxuanination, In the last batch, alt passed, and in previous batches never more than about test pet cent failed.--China Mali Special.

carefully arc

Foreign Office officials on the strength

of

examination, which includes personal inter- views,

"round-table talk. whiten theses on various sub- jects and tests in English and French.

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There are hundreds of appl:- cants fur admission to this school. The Foreign Office chooser about 40 of the most likely candidates for the en- trance examinations, held twice a year in Bonil,

and finally relerts about 20 of these.

Accounts for the year ended Work, Work, Work

31st December, 1968, to rt- elect H Director and fo appoint Auditors,

The Transfer Hunks of the Company with be closed from the 19th March, 1956 to the 23rd March, 1956, both days .nclusive.

By Order of the Board,

A. SOMMERFELT.

Secretary,

Hongkong, 28th Feb., 1956.

NOTICE

HONG KONG CLUB

Notice is hereby given that the

Yearly General 108th Meeting of the Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held at the Club House on Tuesday, 27th March, 1950, ut 6.30 p.m.

By Order of the Committee, K. W. KIRBY,

Secretary.

March 19th, 1956.

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explained,

Personality and character os well as knowledge count for

Dr SUCCESS.

Helmut

Sigrist, former Second Secretary at the Washington Embassy who head of the school, for example,

that

a "generally unclean appearance" or

Q "re- for rejection, pulsive deformity”

unless the de- formity is the result of a wor wound.

tre reasona

During the initial six months"

at the Course

school, the students follow

a curriculum more demandin” than that

any university.

of

It is work, work and work again." Dr Sigrist says, "and Il leaves the students almost free time."

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In addition

to Language courses in English and French, stressing the "diplomatic use of the language," there are lectures in law, history, economics, the and information policy, protocol, liberal arts, administration, press and the "art and history of diplomacy."

Various Subjects

The lectures are given by University Professors, 60me times from foreign universities, or officials of the Foreign Office, or other Government offices,

In law alorie, there eleven different series tures. inclucking international law, criminal law, civil law. commercial law, maritime con-

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES ventions and the like,

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BUTTERFIELD 4 BWRE, Agents.

Hong Kong, March 19, 1966,

To ADVERTISERS

are

of lec-

The whole organisation of the school stresses the principle of "golf-rule" and "self-organisa- tion

Lecturers are welcomed by a spokesman of the students, guests are entertained by them, and students presido over dia-

cussions,

Two to three evenings each week, the students invite members of Parliament,

per- sonalities of public life Government officials for "dis cussions" or "round-table talka” on various subjects.

or

in

They also sometimes invite artists writer or philosophers for lectures от their special

ng Ethics -SUNDAY POST-HERALD subjects, much

Space

the importance of commerolal Arts"

be "Nihilism" in modem thought, should booked

and so on. not lator than noon on Wednesdays,

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But young, mon arriving at tho school

to

the

SLIMMING CRAZE IN

S. AFRICA

Johannesburg, Mar, '19,

A slimming traže sweeping South Africa has caused 监 shortage of bathroom scales.

Manufacturers have

been unable to meet the demand from women who want to know how inuch weight they are losing.

Chemists report that the de- mand for scales comes mainly from middle-aged women, who

to have

become more the-selous" iltan in the

past.

Sales of slimming tablets are booming, with younger women us the main customers. -Ching Mall Special.

Mosenw, Mar, 19. Marshal Chu Teh, Chinese Communist Vice-Chairman, to day called on Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minis ter, and discussed international topics, the Soviet news agency Tass reported.-Reuter.

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Egypt's 'Fremder

Nasser,

King Band ... of Saudi Arabia and Syrians President Choukry

airo

al Konfly have been holding Canada Keeps

a tripartite meeting in the Egyptian capital.

Issued a declaration

"Ther

stating

they had dgriep in a

ba a plus lo safeguard Arab soucity sid defend the Arab world against the danger of Zionist aggres sion and foreign domination. They plotren support for Jordan In the event at "for- Monish Regresion." King Hussein of Jordan bad been invited to the conference but refused, He also famed a statement, mying he wished to stand by Fontan's treaty obligations to- warda

"our" Bily Britain." Plotore

shown,

from left, Premier Nder, King Saud, President Kouatly--Express

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Ike Returns To White House

Watch On Floating Russians

The

Circus Aerobats

Must Have Safety Nets

French

Paris Mar. 19. police have reminded çircus proprietors that they are liable to prosecution if they allow their acrobats to perform without safety apparatus.

The warning followed the death of two of Western Europe's leading trapeze artists, one in Rome last September, the other in Paris on January 14, and serious injuries to an acrobat in Amsterdam.

The 20-year-old law, ordering circus proprietors to Install safely apparatus whenever. în acrobat risked injury, has never been rigidly enforced here, but the Prefect of Police in Paris aays that he intende to apply it in future.

SOLO DIVE

World War II, knew the risks and accepted them, like most other acrobate

Two weeks earlier, in Amster- dam, Leon Dinst, one of three French Berobats In a dizzy trapeze not, fell into a safety net, bounced twice and suffered spinal injur!és,

The not saved his life, but his

An amateur photographer last January 14 captured the moment | injúriés put an end to his circus which thousands of circus carter. spectatora, had, feared, but never expected to happen: the anguish

One of Dinat's partners in the

Jo Clavel, BaW act,

Fritz of a young wife as she bent over

Hebbeman fail to his death. With her husband's bruken, body, and

him in the audience were Willy the horror of the spectators who had just ecen Fritz Henneman

Hadnagy and his son, Willy was the husband of Jacqueline fall to his death.

Kainat

France's "perial ballerina", who died of injuries. sustained in a fall at a circus in Hom last September.

The young wife was 26-year- old Christie Henneman, Frite's

partner in the act billed as “Les Hezzadas," The climax to the art was

n solo dive by Fritz through a burning hoop about 32 feet above the circus ring. Once through the hoop, he had to catch a cord held deady by Christle.

Circua

MUZZLING

Ottawa, Mar. 19. Royal Canadian Air Force is keeping watch on the activities of Soviet

acrobats. scientists working on floating ice lands in the Arctic Ocean, according to the Canadian press

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A report said the Air Force did not make special flights to the vicinity of the North Pole

to check

movements of the drift stations manned by the Soviets, but had looked closely when carrying out missions in the high

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them

Washington, Mar, 19. President Dwight Eisenhower training arrived today from Gettsburg in Pennsylvania ofter a 150-minute Arctic. ride over icy ronds.

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secret

Soviets have made no of of their occupation

are

Mr Eisenhower, who had been spending the week-end at his farm near Gettsburg, was accom- panied by General Alfred the ice islands and are perfect- Cruenther,

that the islanda Supremely aware Commander in Europe-France- kept under surveillance. Presse.

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HAS BOUND UNI

That night, he missed. There was no

safety net. He crashed

proprietors and reacted in various ways. M. Joseph Bouglione, director of the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris; said that he was consider-

to the ground. The drums suting setting up a special safety deny stopped

committee through which circus rolling, and the bond launched into a frenzied managers could decide

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precautions hurried suitable

against body behind accidents in new and dangerous

acts.

Dz attendants Fritz's crumpled

the accucă.

SAVED

BY NET

But "The Great Lothar, one of France's leading trapeze per- His death stirred the con- formers, said that he spoke for science of French circus fats, many terobots when he com They asked the old unanswered pared the use of safety nets to question: Why do people watch | muzzling the animals in a lion- the man or the woman on the faming nef, fying trapèzh? Because he or she is an artist, or because of the risk involved?

Fritz;

31-year-old West Gernut who passed out of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots School just before the end at

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His view

that circuses might just as well close down if they were to do away with danger.

Risk was the acrobat's capital.

Less danger mutant less money for the performer and smaller box oilca returns for the circus owner.

He did not favour the safety - hamess uned in: Busslan circuses. "For years on end we work to perfect a member,” he said. "We do not expect to show it to the pubile wearing harness, like a beginner,”

Anyone could be an acrobat if he wore harnces."

Commenting on the death of Fritz Henneman, the evening newspaper Le Moride said that safety nets were in any case not always safe,

The actobat through the audience,

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often soárs

above the for practical reasons the net could not be installed to cover the whole area of the circus tent.

LOGICAL RESULT

Some cireus proprietors use á kind of canvas sheet, which at- tendants hold berseath the trapeze artist, but this, "Le Monde declared, is far from being a foolproof method..

This newspaper sald that the logical result of banishing risk the circus would be to do away with elreuses altogether. Barc-back

tumbling riding,

from

tight-rope walking and muny other dangerous futures of the Circus would have to go.-China Mail Special,

FROGMAN FIGHTS SHARK

Perth, Mar. 19, A fight with ́à shark ended in 21-year-old Aisi tralian policeman Theo Brown being hauled ``un conscious out of the water during his second attempt on the world · underwater endurance record this weekend?"

Brown submerged, of South Fremantle hoping to báát the 23. hours novan seconds, racord sat by a Chradlan, Gity. Dadieux, Blit a shark bit: a hole in his frog- maafa sult › and her collapsed.

DROPPED GUN.

The shark had made repeated attacks or Brown, analy knock- ing him off him underwoche #milors welgised oil drink

Brown fired at the shark a compressed air spear-gain, but dropped

during tha

fight.

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