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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER › 13, 1956.
DRIVE TO STOP CATTLE SMUGGLING COMMUNISTS TRY
GUARDS FACE
LONG AND
ARDUOUS TASK
Montevideo, Nov. 12. The
has Uruguayan Government started a campaign to end the smuggling of cattle across the Brazilian border which last year cost the country an estimated 120,000,000 Uruguayan pesos (£10,000,000 sterling).
Anything between BOO and 1,000 head of cattle Cross the frontier vich day which represents a thriving business sine? the ans
steers walea fetch 100 pesos in Uruguay ure thin thre times worth more thut amount when sold in the mest-hungry Brazilian market.
Contral of legal trade is be
means
however. 4'76993
it not prepaid a booking fee Runches of up to 125,000 acres of 50 cent is charged,
Ime the Bizilian border and in many cases the property of u landowner extends 021 both sides of the frontier.
TAYLOR. **
BIRTHS
Margaret,
watu
1 Taylor on Novembre 11. 1936,
at Kowloon Hompaltad
Both well.
IN MEMORIAM
te
CASTRO, JA ever loving factory of Carlon Maria, sur decks beloved father who fell sleep than das
1926.
"Anu wilde de them in
pancetul sleep His memory
SUMU KİWays keep
KAC.
AGENCIES
|
EVERY SUPPORT The Uruguayan Minister of the Interior, Dr Albert, Abdala, recently tri velled to the frontier town of Rivern and met Brazillan officials to
discus
A third possible way out, niso under consideration by the authorities, is the Installation of bigment-backing plant to the Brazilian frontter close
The farmer la strong faci
in the north, have
On the
the
north argument based that the nearest meat-packing plant where they can profitably sell their caitle is about 240 miles away and involves them
and heavy
uneconomie transport costs. The Installa- tion of a plant in the north,
believe, Expert:
would the exodus of reduce across the border, now estimated at some 300,000 head
a your and become a major soures of foreign
earnings. Supporters of this plat argue that it is transport quarters cheaper to of beef than cattle on foot,
ARMY HELP
Meanwhile the
both cattle
was ways and means of suppressing smuggling. Back in Montevideo,
with sunny, he reported to the Government that the
the avowed aim of Brazilian ruthorities
opening up strategic frontier roads, has sent considerable forces to the constantly along ared to move the zone nad help the police in their task.
were willing to give every sup- port to Uruguayan measures to end It. Al the same tune, how- ever, he recommended a policy GOLD COAST SALES. Sustable of help yourself." Dr Abdaja lines for national distribution worst-
Delaia Proposed
od by progressive agency
112 Jacen & Varie, P. x 2. Cison L'OGEL,
PREMISES TO LET ISLAND
the
-
Lo incre: se frontier guard defence force to target total of 600 men and 40 machineguns, 137" proximately double spent
trength. TE
project was approved 12v The Uruguay.n Government
+£1
HE MACDONNELL QUAD, i miting rous, large verandan wish beauti- Even so, the task will not be ful sea view. 1 dining room, 3 bed-easy. On the othe hanced, the Com, 2 bathroon vania' room 000 lateine, gan installation
poliovnen will complete.
have Passengers lift and service lift. Coa, patrul no làm thu) 300 miles tact (livong Lee Construction Co. of
border,
con kerable Tel. 770477,
stretches of
which
no roma pxist
Many of these patrols, too, will have to rely on the goodwill of big landowners in carry out their work.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
sunsigners per floyd Triralino
m.y. "VICTORIA”
Are perely modified that Voyage of
"VILTÓRIA". scheduled from Genoa on October 30th and raples on etuber 11x1, 136, has been ter minated Naples an at November
1st, 1936.
AR cargo. including Transisipnweit at Hongkong, is
One
eint
government summed up the position duct "Even with 800 mer available, the frontier ⠀
force will be far shor of the strength required. However, as soon as they heard that untional empaign to lagin, some big ranchers of the one played at the disposal Fof the ruthorities plots of land
for Paro
Dow
being nored at the risk and exDENSE
WOR
The services whleb they have renderrit so fue include the dis- covery of } chain uf wool dealers wixe were turning fleece into gold.
Wool, which sells 22 pe per 221bs In Uruguay. fetches no less than 50 pesos in Brazil. Ranches m the zone shenred hair the sheep's für4:xc and
to Hold it smugglers, retaining the rest to sell locally and evade inspector's control
ནབ་ ན་གསྟནས་མས ་་་ཆ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ཤན། ད
Hungarians Wreck - Stalin Statue
MISPLACED
CRIME
BLAME
often crimes, Burenu
Sydney, Nov. 12. New Australians were unfairly blamed for Criminal Investigator chief, Superintendent Mr Calman sald when releasing statistle, for New South Wales
K
As the world revolls from the news that the Hungarian rebellion has been ruthlessly crushed by Soviet forocs, here In a Budapest scene from the time when It appeared thai the rebels held victory their bands. It shows a huge xiatue of the late Joser Stalln being broken op near the Na- Ilona! Thraire. Express Photo.
Helicopter Record
was clear, he said, tha op a per capita "basis, "ww"
Stratford, Nov. 12 Australians committed is more
A twin-engine Sikorsky S-50 crimes Usan "old" Australians.
helieupter set a now record un For soine groups, particularly Saturday and Sunday by reach-
ነከር Italian,
figure.s showed in a speed of 142,7 miles per they
committed fewer crlines hour with a five-ion lond, thin dild Austrailan nationals. was announced today.
MANDRAKE THE
IT SEEMS I CAN'T TAKE YOU TO THE POLICE, BECAUSE YOU'VE BROKEN NO LAWS.,
NOW
FREE
UST
With a six-ton load, the S-56 r another record by climbing to 7,000 feet.—Frunce-Presse.
MAGICIAN
WAIT! YOU HELD LOTHAR AND ME PRISONERS HERE! THAT'S ILLEGAL
NO, YOU TRESPASSED ON OUR PROPERTY! YOU WERE ILLEGAL!
For the nine months of 1956, The helicopter attained an al- serious crimes showed a 20 per i llude of 12,000 tevi with cent increase over the saine five-ton load. Nether Dr Abdalu
period in 1955. nor the
The total ol! chiefs of Security In
murders was 40 against 35. — Uruguay expect anything like immediate Chum Mall Special success in their drive. Smugglers protected by the big ranchers. landed millionaires who belong to
best Uruguayan soclety and
enjoy the benefit of g000 connections ip Government House. Some of them exercise patriarchal in- fluence uver Thousands of people. રામ politicians know that their goodwill means votes, RETURNED UNINJURED
wind be a risky bushes. Only Armed action In The 20110
few weeks ago.
group of Uruguayan policemen entered Brazilian territory to ask for Brazilian cooperation
in the arrest of a group of smugglers. Before they reached the nearest Brazilian village, their car was y # Brazilian patrol. attacked
surprise, they Taken by rendered unscathed only one the Brazilian police of the car's lights was hit-but took them into custody and uctivity retum
they had to home without
their
on which to build police pols and money to provide comforts for the policemen who man them.
NOT
would
FIRST TIME "It is not the first time this sor: of thing has happened. The guards become the best friends
of cargo owners, but as an excep. fional case, freight paid will befor the cattlebreeders and. in
refundable after deductkm of loading, the
Italy.
their long run,
stoutest
discharging and storage expenses in allies in the smuggling business. After all, smuggling has never been at
DODWELL 4 COMPANY, LTD.
Agatela,
Hong Kong, 9th November, 100.
dishonourable
for hordermen
A possible way
the problem Wha
weapons.
sur-
of meeting On their was back, the suggested policemen met the snugglera.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | some years ago by the When they tried to enforce the
SA. “CHANGTE“
arrd. 11th November, 1956
Uruguayan Minister of Defence, | law, they found that the Senor Florenth Gulmataons, smugglers had all the odds
on who proposed to expropriate their side, since they carried the police hod property and establish a 9 miles Distels
nono. They returned home
and
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will wide "no mans land" one along uninjured, with the smugglers' be surveyed by Mera. Goddard & the. Brazilan border 10 be
Douglas at Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf Godown at 10 am on Thurs day, 15th and Priday, 16th November, 1956 and consigues representatives are requested to be present during Survey.
HUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agonia, Australian-Oriental Line Ltd.. China Navigation Co. Ltd.
policed by Uruguayau Brazilian patrols.
And
The project, which was at the time rejected as "impractic- ablo", has now been revived by the press and it understood to
I be under study by the Govern-
ment.
P&O
R.M.S. "CANTON"
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
gibes ringing in their cars,— China Mall Specta),
SNAPPER FISHING CONTEST
Auckland, Nov. 12. Anglers in Australia and New Zealand this summer will be contesting for the honour, and trophy, of biggest snapper of the season.
The contestants have from
p.m. December 1 to May 31 to lure vinthe biggest member of the hump- backed snapper family from It
Friday, 16th November, at 6.00 for the UNITED KINGDOM, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, thence ocean hauris. via the Cape of Good Hope.
According to a circular sent to members of angling clubs, Passengers are requested to send ALL hook and bait." Poimed exclu
angling In defined as fishing with BAGGAGE to he Hongkong & stor is made of "underwater Kowloon Wharf 's Godown No. 2 fishermen with spears and spear- GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, gung" In all but two of ten by Noon on Thursday, 15th November, sections of the content. 30 PRIZES
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages Championship, trophies and 30 carried by passengers themselves, prizes will be provided by the
Auckland Ben Anglers' Club, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only;
EMBARKATION: Passongars should embark between 2.30 and 4.00 p.m. on 10th November, 1958.
bject to Alteration with or without notión,
Women anglers, have special mention in the circular and there are scations for juniors- under, 17 years, and
Among the classes are prizes. for the heaviest snapper taken under varying conditions are
for the most meritorious cap
the
iWinner of the conteus will, be
tour" which meine -painta, regra the fan, may
unel
FERDINAND
NANCY
NANCY --- I.
MR.
WHY,
WISH YOU'D KEEP YOUR DOG AWAY FROM HERE
ADAMS?
JOHNNY HAZARD
MEMORIAL
TO PET DOLPHIN
Residents
Welington, Nov. 12.
of Opontal, near the top of the North Island, are planning to erect a memorial in honour of their dolphin pet QPO which was the subject of worldwide publicity friendly attitude toward humans in the quiet litle harbour.
TO REVIVE SORB
CULTURE
Berlin, Nov. 124 Eleven years of campaigning by the Russians to revive the ancient culture of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority living in Eastern Saxony; has not yet met with complete success.
The Borbs came from the East They issue a daily newspaper in the eighth and ninth cen in Sarbiah, Nowa Doba
(New turies and concentrated: In Ago) which salls only 2,400 Lumtin, the Lausitz distriot of copies. Saxony, over an area about the aixo of Luxembourg-
A weekly newspaper, Casnic They (Time), claims a readership of gradually became assimilated 2,000, and by the dermans, but to a certain Katolski Posse, is intended for another weekly, axtont they preserved their the Cathollo Borba, wha language and customs.
stitute about one tenth of the otherwise
Evangelical cum-
Soviet Ariny munity.
CUR-
When tho arrived in 1948 they hailed the Sorbs as brother Blava and set There are four schools where about awakening their "national only Sorbish is spoken, in the consciousness, in line with Kamenin district, in addition Stalin's policy of creating "auto-
there are 202 schools where in- struction in Borbish is optional. nomous nationalities."
LARGE FUNDS
the
Large funds were alloted for the resurrection of Sorb culture, newspapers were issued in Sorbish language and Sorbish schools and other Institutions founded, all under the direction of the Domowina
or Sorbish homeland federation,
Only a small proportion of the Sorhs, however, use their DWG language, even
them- among
speak
selves, and they can all German.
Adults who wish or are ox- pected to learn Sorbish, accord- ing to their ambitions or duties, can attend one of two schools for a
a four-month period. The communist alm is that eventual- ly all officials in the Borbish dis trict shall be bi-lingual. Over 800 officials take the course every year, and when they have completed 1 they display notice in their offices saying "Vorbish spoken here.”
After The recent
Sorbish
Sorbish People's Rally" ettrative
TIME-TABLES
Railway time-tables for the "Second Cottbus and Dresden adminis-
distrigla have Bnutzen, the
con- cultural centre in Saxony, the Investiga- of well as German, and the Ens! sequently been issued in Sorbish tion Committee of Free Jurists German master time-table has a in West Berlin Issued a report action in Sorbish this year for on the progress of the Sorbish the first time. movement following detalls:
the
and
names
which gave
Signposts and street Only about 3,000 of the Sorba appear in both languages, shop. keepers ara told to advertise belong to the Domowina, fortnly a few of them have master-
thefr Waren in Sorbish, and ખો
children must wear the language. They
their greet each other in Sorbish and then schools-China Mail Special.
hational costume in the Sorbish conduct their business in the Saxon dialect of German,
The dolphin, which met on untimely end when the itde left it stranded among rocks on the shore, will be sculplored in stono and mounted where the tide wik wush aroundi tho base of the memorial.
It is planned later to encircle the memorin] with a children's paddling pool. China Special
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GOVERNMENT GRANT
Bonn, Nov, 12.
My Ketsumi Ohno, Japanese
10
They receive government Minister in Vienna, is expected
named Ambassador grant of 2,000,000 marks (about to be
£250,000 sterling) a year for West Germany, usually well- furthering Sorbish culture, but informed rources said here to- do not know how to spend all day. the money. The chief secretaries He will succeed the late Mr all run cars
and allow them-Shunichi Kanc. - China Mail selves generous expeTLSES,
Special
By Lee Fulk and Phil Davis
I CAN'T LEAVE-- THEY'LL ESCAPE -- WE MUST QUESTION
THEM ABOUT MARS --ABOUT-
THE STARTING FLAG COMES DOWN..THE CROSS-COUNTRY TROPHY RACH BEGINS!
KITTY ARKIVES ON THE FIELD JUST AS JOHNNY ). Þýskum RECHIVES MIS TAKEDER SIGNA), wis
WAIT! YOU'RE FROM MARS! DID YOU ENTER THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY?
There's no Magic
about CADBURY'S
By Mik
TRY
If we were any fresher
wad still be on the vine!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
9.25
By Ernie Bushmiller.
HE KEEPS STEALING MY
DOORKNOBS,
THINKING THEY'RE BONES
ROWNTREES
1/
By Frank Robbins
- YOU'VE GOT GOOD REASOHAN POR TEARD, KITTY SALI YOU'RE LATINALAND WE'RE, NEXT IN^2
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