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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1956.
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CAFASPIN
CEYLON
WARNS INDIA
Colombo, July 25. Ceylon Premier Solomon Bandaranaike today warn. ed that good relations be. tween India and Ceylon might be affected if India of encouraged the moves the Ceylon Tamil Federal Party against the
Student Exchange
The
Tokyo, July 25
Legation
Austrian
11
u вчен Tokyo has announced
for The exchange of and students beiwen Austria
gunge policy of the Ceylon Japan starting this year, | Government.
1
Austrian
Austrian
Governmen
Government T will
Schillings offer 14,000 The Premier was referring at
public(254 sterling) to each of three, conferzwe to 4 1
students yearly to monstrations Japanese
sist them to study at an Aus- metings
try onveraity hell i Madras and affended by Mir
Vanalasingham, Presi
'The dent of the Tunal Federni Party,
also offered to extend scholar- made protests ww.y in which agant the decision of the Cey-ships of 1,500 Schillings (£21
month to one Jon Government to make Sister Hing) per
two Japanese students to study fucteses the ouly offefol language
at the Academy of Music and In 'ey fo
Dramatic Art In Vienna,China Mail Spretul
"No Hapalaranake suidh, doubt neither the Goverrunen! of Inna for the Modras
Gov. tennant will are expected
huset of Jend
matters co- Pietarsgeinent m
of cerning the internal affairs
through {(
sutne Скукий
the should misunderstandings happam, it would be very IV. It might affect good Inila Janci The sevend formal event will relations between
Ceylon."-France-Presse. brocktail
the
for party than 1,000 newspaper. radio, and television correSPON- dents who will
"envering"
the presidential nominating activities. The party will be
and Union held at the 'ress League Club building and about 3.000 are expected to attend,
ON THE HOUSE The party, where the "drinks will be on the house", will cust the Republican National Com- Antler 3 dollars per guest
From the plans being 1717cde to handle the reporting of the Iepublican convention, the nomination of The Repubilean cunditate- will lat the "covered" In the history of United States polities.
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A meeting which may have world-reaching
Look place in the Kremlin recently between Soviet lenders and East German delegation led by East German Premier Grote- Herr Grotwohl in plc- wohl. tured during the conference with Herr Ulbricht, East Ger. man Communist Party leader, seated on right, while on left are the Soviet leaders includ-
Bulganin, Khrushchev, Ing Molotoy, Saburov, Malenkov and Sheptlov.-Express Photo.
Munitions Dump Found
Suigon, July 25.
Conference
Commando
Corps For Indonesia
Diakira, July 25. Indonesia's *Commnado
Compas Is training
receiving special amphibious landings.
Announcing this,
mankan
centre,
that
Wic
Britain's Titanic Fund Still Worth £124,262
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London, July 25.
Although it is over 44 years since the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean, there is still a fund in London worth £124,262 for the surviving depen- dants of the 1,500 who lost their lives in the disaster,
EO
one of
Thu Lant several funds
WDO Mayor which come under the aegis of affected that he not only hand- the National
but Disasters Rellef ed the visitor £400, Fund.
invited They all stem from op-
him to
Mansion peals made by the Lord Mayor House banquời.
London at times When disaster and distress have :hocked the British publie, and made them reach generously into their pockets.
ot
The first of the long series of London fande was opened 85 years ago when London's Lord Maybe toleted thousands of pounds for the starving citizens of Paris, besieged by the Prussian armies in 1871.
Empire Almoner
Caught
It was some time before the swindler, whose
Wis name
Hurry Benson, was caught, and then it was when he attempted to engineer another fraud, He 'dled while serving a sentence
of 18 years imprisonment,
When the reputedly "unsink- able Titanic, with her luxury cabins carrying wealthy truck an iceberg passengers. on her maiden voyage to New 10, 1012, the York on April Lord Mayor within a few days had collected £88,031 for the dependanto of the victims,
Since then, the Lord Mayor Chief has been called "The Almbner of the Empire, and his official residence and head- quarters,
Mansion House, has been described 08 Lie When the Empress of Ireland, world's greatest philanthropic bound for Liverpool with 1,307 Institution
the
people aboard, was rammed to a fog in the St Lawrence River All Mansion House fund re- cords
were broken during in Canada on May 29, 1014, and World War II when the Lord sank within ten minutes with similar appeal Mayor's Air Raid Distross Fund 994 people a
National and Empire) raised nearly £5,500,000,
Also during the
alone raised £46.304.
7. May
1916, the Cunard
and sunk by a German sub-
com-en was started by the Lord murine off Cork with the los
under
01
Ilves
1,198
More than wis raised for that £25,000 Fund.
Another it
fund, the General Relief Fund, is used for making
and
to Krants
allowances members of the merchant navy deceased dependants of members of the merchant navy who have sufferou
06 a result of disasters at sen.
Four tumes A Registrar-General
or
wor another liner Lusitania was torpedoed the Red Cross Fund, of the Corps' training
later taken over All Captain
1170 Sadikin, Mayor
the leadership of the Indonesia's
Duke of Gloucester had raised graphical situation demander
£93,000,000 sterling when that special attention be given closed in November 1945.
The biggest individual con- to Dunphibious warfare,
tribution to any Lord Mayor's Lord Nuffield's Government forces had made Fund
donation amphibious landings Red Cross.
of £100,000 for the ficcessful to suppres rebellions in
Only once in the long history Celebes and In the
the year, Funds has any grant of the sul back- veen but
of Shipping Indonesia was
oblained by fraud, and
and Seamen gives the Fund the with regard to the or- that was the first of them all.
for this
the of typu
1871 In
members English crook,
navy who have lost dressed exquisitely, wept as he merchant
their lives through disaster at Mayor the forwa
with particulars of the
sea, together of of of their next of kin.
the
Moluccus,
Wis
An official announcement in Large Saigon today said that a Vietminh munitions dump las been discoverod by 14 South Vietnamese patrol in the region of Phanthiet, 150 miles east of Capetown, July 25. ****** Town Council of The here Stand, in the Cape Peninsula, 1 has applied for
The permission to
hoard included artillery
30 shells,
told the ruise a loan of £900 to defray
quantities
"As of de-
long mines, and
15 we bavo no hardships the cost of a commission to de termine the exact position of tonators, cartridges, gunpowder | well-orgaalsed amphibious unit Chateaudun, near Chartres,
hdwater mark-China and arms accessories.—France- we will remain a weak nulion," which he claimed to be Mayor, Mail Special.
Fressa
he said. -China Mail Special. at the hands of the Prussians.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HOW DO I LOOK DASHING?
OK.
SIRE!
HE LOOKS LIKE A BLOOMING
10
FERDINAND
'The major communkenthara
tre. companies
planning handle at least 8,000,000 words which will be written during the convention week to form the people of Just what going on. One of The major communication companies has leased an entire hotel tu house
its operating stuff.
The greatest emphasis is being
places on providing the
for complete television
uge,
means
cover-
From the Cow Padurt, where Wie forma convention activities
will be staged, 40 television! channels will send
and pictures to the nation.
Found
SPECIAL LINES
In addition to this more than 300 radio circuits have been Installed at the convention site to handle the verbal descriptions of the events,
Twenty special telephone line circuits have been installed to provide for transmission of
10 plcture's
and newspapers magazines,
Despite all this preparation and attention to detall, the Re- publicans have failed to match its A least one respect the activities of the Democrats who held their convention here In 1920 and nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt for vice- presidential office.
'PHANTOM BAR'
the
Those were the years of pro- hibition in the United States and offlally_ the convention was "dry." But the delegates dia not tack for drink ol something stronger than water,
The Inte James Rolph, San Francisco's mayor at time, provided an unlimited supply of good Bourbon whisky for the delegates In a “phantom bar" in, the basement of the auditorium, Its resources have become a legend in the history of presidential nominating activities in the United States -Ching Mall Special.
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New Delhi, July 25, India's National Academy of to publish a 36,000 word Himil-Russian dictionary, --Ching Mall Special..
NANCY
IDIOT!
NARDA WANTS ROMANCE. IF THIS DOESN'T SWEEP HEH
OFF HER FEET. NOTHING WILL! I'LL DISGUISE
MY VOICE
TOO --
I'LL TRY AGAIN
BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS TODAY
WEIGHT
JOHNNY HAZARD
THE FAST JET SETS DOWN ON THE OASIS CLUB STRIP
THE NOISE OF THESE
CHUTE BRAKES SHOULD LET
EM KNOW WE'VE ARRIVED IN
STYLE!
AND
(FORTUNE
IT EES GUET-RE! BUT HE HAS FRIENDS
WEETH 10M+
ANOTHER WEEK
--AND I'LL BE HOME
WITH YOU-AWAY
FROM ALL THIS --
DON'T TAKE
ANY CHANCES
TODAY
WE CARRY ON AS USUAL, CHA-CHA! YOU HANDLE GUSTY, I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS
ERENDS!
ward
ganisation
300 worfare. anti-tank
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
Shh -- NOT A SOUND!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
BALL
PARK
Met 24-
BUTHMNADENIA
·GUS-TEE. BAR-EEE! WHERE JAVE YOU BEENT
0
By Frank Robbins
IT SHOULDN'T BE "WORK? GIRLS/THEY'RE NICE-LOOKING
An
Land
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
of
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
If we were
any fresher we'd still be
on the vine!
TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
ROWNTREES
KitKat
this situation
calle för
San Miguel
LETIDO
of
Invested
of
Money collected for all the Lord Mayor's Funds is invested and, after a careful sifting of claimants relief is distributed.
A report of the committee
the of Disasters Relier Fund
executive
National which
just been submitted to the
House
Mansion
Council, revealed that dependant widows Stato who are not eligible for a
pension are receiving
of £3 75 from the Titanic
widow's
minimum
Fund,
or
Empress of Special
Easter
weekly allowances
£3 6 from Ireland Fund,
the
gants are made at at holiday me in the
summer, and at Christmas at the discretion of the com- mittee of the fund.
In addition, compassionate grants totalling £1,004 from the Tliante Fund, and £204 from the Empress of Ireland Fund were mado last year.
26 Dependants
The Empress of Ireland Fund was worth £41,227 at the end of last year. It has 20 de- pendants.
The Latania, Fund is being wound up, and annuities have been bought for the remaining eight dependants.
The Titanic Fund was worth
£124,202 at the end of inst
wear and pendants.
It still has 83 de
The General Reller Fund for merchant semen was started on August 17, 1917, when £2,000 won given by the Dominion of Canada.
It was still worth £2,006 at the end of last year, after having paid out grante ❘ totalling £391,100 during last
year alone.
Capital Spent
It la the aim of the ad- ministrators of the various funds to pay out at such a rate that the last surviving de.. pendant will receive the last of the money.
So that no money shall re main after the death of the list recipient, a percentage of the capital as well as the interest is spent.China Mail Special.
Ambassador Appointed
Tho
Washington, July 25. United
States Senate. Foreign Relations Committee to- day "gpprovakt the nomination of Mr George› Allen ns. new United States Ambeændor to Greece.
The Committee also confirmedi the nomination of Mr William Roundtres to micceed «Allen, -as head of the Middla · East (arak African. section of the State Department
Allen replaces ét Athens Am- basador Cavendish Cannon, co- [poltsteri: first Amerfost : Arības" Fincher la · Morocco, «l. Frison-
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