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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1957, AT

GERMANY NOT American Vice Preila

MAKING WAR TOYS

Bonn, Jan. 2.

West German toy firms, though working hard to win more export markets, are leaving one field almost entirely to their competitors: war

and other countries $7.00 a month. toys.

Nawa pontributions, alwKJH WOI- come. should be addressed to the ditor, business, communications and advertisements to the Secretary.

Telephone: ROW11 (5 išmes).

KOWLOON OFFICE:

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if not prepaid a booking fee of 50 cents is charged,

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STAMP

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available

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The industry expects to set up an export record of about £13,000,000 this year, about ten per cent above last year's record.

But among the′′ 70,000 "toys"in (" New Gorman "free" bidding FOT its selection, there are only

attention Include a child's very small mumber of warilko | camera, complete with flasi articles-mainly tanke with | pggpaystu selling for about foreign markings, soldiers in foreign uniforma, aeroplanes and the occasional pistol, usually of police or cowboy type.

Even though West Germany la now building

up her manufacturers army, the

the

Own

ure

abono caracas 10 ender wer toy market. No tin soldiers modelled on the new forces are yet avaliable, only have Indians and frontier policemen," one dealer sald.

Great Feeling

is a

"We

1276d, which takes real pictures, and a luminous badminton kit for use in tho dark. Bolb

and shuttlecock rackota coated paint,

with phosphorescent

Railways sola are still prob- ably the most popular toy in this country, fur both father and

BOT).

Some firma have dropped their prices of these this year.

For the child of the

there is a radio-controlled

very

rice, ates of the touch of a transmitter button. The operator can be 100 yards away.

recent

There has been much There

educational general feeling discussion in

and about within the trade that war toys toy trade journals here should not be encouraged. Two the educational value of differ- leading dealers chosen "at emt toys, Frau Johanım Zahn, a random anid that they stock war

Munich nursery school expert, toys, but do not put them on writing in "Das Spielzeug" said, display. They are rarely

often asked that worthiess objects

make fine play things. But she recognised the interest of pre- day children in highly developed

modern techniques and praised the West German industry for its wide selection of technical toys.

for.

"The great part of our public has had enough of war," one of them told me. They might ob- Jeel if I put war toys in

my Fun window. I do not want to any

way. It is not that I am against us having an army to defend ourselves, but it is not necessary for children to be brought with war toys.”

Collection New sien.

NOW $3. From Youth Chu Morning Post Lid, Wyndhain Street and beijabury Road, Kowloon.

SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE,

Colfer- packe Lore

of buried stampa. Froth 20 cents per packel upward. An entirely new

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Werner Herr

Wiedling, member of the staff of a Munich toy him, in a recent speech at a trade meeting. emphatically opposed the manufacture of war toys, which he called "mwder apparatus in miniature."

Tho West German toy Indus- try, which exports to more than 100 couriries, hau as i mola

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | competitors Japan-probably the

"HECTOR"

Damaged cargo eex illis vessel will be surveyed by Means Paulsen Bayes-Davy at Holl's Wharf from 18

A on Jaunry 7 MÊ 8, 1937, and consignees are requested W have their representatives present during the survey.

BUTTERFIELD & KWILE,

Agents.

Hongkong, January 3, 1907.

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST-HERALD

Space for commercial advertising should be booked not Fatur than noon on Wednesdays.

For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication.

Special

Announcementa and Cisselfied Advertise • menta de usual.

H. K. S. P. C.

Neada financial support for the make of poor children

Please

address tions:--Secretary, Society for the

world's largest try exporter and, in recent years, Italy.

Britain's toy industry, which exported about £6,000,000 worth of toys last year is also being taken very seriously West Germana,

Exports

by

A recest article in the trade magazine, "Das Splotzeug" (The Toy), recorded the British toy Industry's decision to start own annual toy fair and praised a number of British Ines, pan- ticularly fetike dolls made from vinyl plastic, books, con- structional kits and tool icits.

The West German industry's exporla amount to about 50 per cent of its total production, Its main customers are the United States, where competition with Japan Ня particularly force, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Britain, Bel- gium, Austria, Australia Canadu.

and

Electrification Scheme

In Philippines

Manila, Jan, 3. President Magsaysay'a -ural electrificatiora programme Anal- ly got off the blueprint stage yesterday as the Cabinet sp proved à bond issue of US$3,- 200,000. with which to start the programINE.

One of the base objectives of the

13 the programme construction of the Binga hydroelectric project in Ben guel, capital mountain province in Northern Luzon, whose esti- mated total cost is US$52.5

communica-million.

Hongkong Protection

of Children, P.O. Box 250 Hongkong,

Please send us your unwanted toys Deflection Centre at Rediffusion.

When completed the Binga recently project would complement the

Anished Ambukino hydroelectric plant in Benguet, Both ploma ako calculated to meet the needs of Northern and Central Luzon.-France-Presso.

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William A. Carr, Resident Secretary for the Orient announces the appointment of

Mr. JEROME T. LIEU

MANAGER OF THE HONG KONG SERVICE OFFICE ·

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THURSDAY, JANUARY a

By Air Pakistan. Middle East, Alries. Great Britain & Europe, pm.

Korea, dp.m. Thailand. Coylon, Burma, India, 5

pa, o pm

By Surface Thailand, 4 p.m. Макво, в ра

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 By Air

Germany, 0.70,

Cambodia. Malaya.

11

Formoka, Japan,

a.m.

bućomesta.

Korea, Okinawa,

Indo-China. Neange, Noon, Ballppoa, Australia, New Zea hand. 1 p.m.

She made a clear distinction, however, between the "mechani- cal" toy with which a child has merely to pross a tortion to make something happen without understanding what is going on. and the "technical" toy, which the child operates purposefully and which is built in such

ap.m. that the child can see how way and why it works.

Japan. 6 2.m

a

She said that the former kind of toy is not likely to maintain interent and the child may be tempted to break it to and out what is going on inside.--China Mall Special.

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

NO THIS CONTAINS TRASH. THE REAL PLANS WILL BE DELIVERED BY OUR OWN AGENT, BUT THE ENEMY MUST

THE STORY, SO FAR:

THESE ARE TRE

PLANS?

IS REAL--

PLANS FOR A SECRET OBJECT MUST BE TAKEN TO A NIPPEN, DESERT PLANT---

5-20

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I'LL HANG. THIS SIGN HERE SO I WON'T BE BOTHERED WHILE I

TAKE A

BELL OUT OF ORDER

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SATURDAY, JANUARY S By Air Peking, Bhoogbat, Bonkerw, Kit- ming.atura. N, Borneo, In-

Zealand,

Australia, New dondo, Dnylon, 10 a.m.

Philippines, 1 pm,

inde hisedto Great Britam & Europe,

AITION,

Exat

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Malaya, Indonesia, Austenila, New Zealand, 0 p.m.

Flawat, U.B.A., Canada, 0 p.m. lado-China, France, 0 p.m. Formosa, Japan, Okinawn, Korea, 6 ม.เท.

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Burma. India, 15 a.m. Macoo, 1 p..

Pakistan (P. India,

Karachij, à p.m.

N. Borneo," 4 p.m.

VILADI

Mr Nixon, the Anserima Vice-President recently, ar- rived in Austria for a survey of help for Hungarian refugees.

Plotern shows: Mr Nixon (centre), sees moon after his arrival in Vienna -- with the

Ambistador Americas

10 A ustria Mr Llewelyn Thompson, and Herr Julhas Raab, Austrian Chancellor. --- Express Photo.

Peace Pleas

Ignored In Algeria

Algiers, Jan. 2. Pleas for New Year peace by Parcels via the Ramon Catholic Archbishop of Algiers were ignored, with 19 persons today reported killed in this French Colony, torn by rebellion eined 1984.

China, People's Republlo, & pan, Macsó, 0 p.m.

BUNDAY, JANUARY -

By Barfoe

Macao, 1 p.in.

MONDAY, JANUARY 1 By Burince China, People's Republic, 7 a.m. Malaya, Portuguces, et Africa,

Rhoda, da Ny Brazil, IN. & B land, Parcels via Ass, Margitos) fondine, Parcels direct, South Africa,

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Brith, East Africa, Noon. Macke, 1 p.m.

Japan, U.S.AN C. & 8. Arion, 4 pЛA.

Indonesia, 4 p.m.

Formona, Korea, 2 p.m. Maco, é p.m.

ENEMY AGENTS WILL FOLLOW YOU-YOUR LIFE'LL BE IN DANGER

“DON'T LET THEM. GET THAT PACKAGEI

RING

SEE. I'M THE DECOY

Gomulka's Poland

Offers Freer Life For Actors

BY THOMAS HARRIS-

Stockholm, Jan. 2.

M. Gomulka's Poland öffers a freer life: for stage folk, according to Mr Jerzy Kawka, a former professional "actor and member of the Polish Communist Party's Creative · Arts Committee.

"Neverthekas, the freer He| permitted. Poland has évèn la not free enough for Mrbegun 10 Import American Kavka. He has given up Alme

a successful career in

Warsaw

and i now settling down in Rehearsal, in the Communist Sweden,

way, was the most irritating restriction, Mr Kawka con- now select tinued. Leaming the ints and

"Actors Western plays,

can

Вотта

rehearse them

gestures of the play was the by Westest methods and per- least important part. The all then with Western important thing was the study techniques," He

This

of the inner ideological mean- licensed

said.

freedom is, however, and not

absolute. Polishing of the play. actors and producers have the "We had to

each analyse same degree of freedoms as a sentence in the play and

a loose noose round man with

oil the Communist his neck, Moscow has allowed explain

principles it Involved, Wa them, Ilke the rest of Poland, atudied those dry,

materialist more rupe. But if they stray texts with the concentration of too far over to the West, the theologians men in the Brumlin will pull Bibles. the noose tight and them."

FOUR TYPES

strangle

Selection of plays WHA hitherto made in accordance with directives issued by the Comminist

through party the Creative Arts Commitice. These directives permitted four types of plays:

I. Production plays urging workers to Increase output,

conning their To increase the religious awo which we werd

to

expected

show for communism, we were sent on what I can only call ideologieni pilgrimages.

COAL MINE

"We were forced to spend two days in a coal mine when the Warsaw National Theatre ployed Lutowski'w "Mole," This play showed how Communist

thetrayed a coal mine from being sabotaged by deviationists. Our time in the mine was intended to drive home to us not the mülleu which the characters in the play worked, but the

them.

2. Political plays preach- ing communism,

3. Soviet

wus

of any type, 4. Wester

plays

While Monsignor Leon Duval, Archbishop of Algiers, asking "an initiative of brother-

by those in Algeria". hood French forces were reported to e "succesfully dealing with a rebel outbreak 30 miles west of

OMD.

"such

bearing on

forces Russian plays ideological

The result of this ideological to delay prom duction For example the by Holul, given

as do not have reactionary rehearsing was themes."

This last proviso was applied Dry Country so narrowly that even some of at the Warsaw Popular Theatre earlier this year, took eight Shakespeare's historical drames

months to produce. I have Now, plays by Informed sources zuid soma 45 were banned.

other playa Lake French

Jean known author,

months to produce. of the rebels were trapped while the

and other

"Con- attacking French infantrymen Anouilh,

writera United ProES.

By, Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THE FIRST ATTEMPT JO GET THE PACKAGE FAILS! NOW THE DESPERATE ENEMY AGENTS PLOT TO WRECK THE TRAIN!

TOMORROW: DYNAMITE!

By, Mik

By Erale Bushmiller

WILL YOU TELL ME

WHAT THAT SIGN

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FAVOURITES

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FROZEN FRESH, IN THE COUNTRY

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FROZEN FOODS

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Miquel

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"Another result was a falling off In the standard of acting. Ideology killed Our artistic

enthusiasm.

This again led" to mary" fattures, The 'Dry Country", after its eight montha in production, only

ran for about ten nights, Sometimes the audience was only about 40 persons.

"No wonder the staic aubsidy was 22 zloty (nearly £2 sterling at official exchange rates) per ticket,"

Performance techniques were Diso compressed In ideological strait-jacket, Mr Kawka continuod

"The best example I can recall is from Stalin times, although conditions remainedi bad until about one year ago when the slow improvement

began.

IDEOLOGY

"In the play, 'Happiness,' played the part of an adjutant who burst in on a group of people discussing Communist

brou a private home. I

threats on

them not terror but 蠱 plate of enkes from Start. Each member of

the group had to register his in different ways, some by andling, others by cheering and others by

rapt

milence.

we

The whole performance, knew, would be judged by the the exasperated, but

experienced, staff reacted to a biscult from Stalin.

"Arsothor

which

actors

Poland escape

of poiltion

drudgery

from

Gomialka

the two hours

instruction each

sic which, was compulsory

recently. This was

until very additional to

the

texcla and the

pilgrimages

TO

By Kawks said that these rostrictions

have din juraged men and wolnen from entering the theatrical profession so that there is now a shortage of trained actors in Poland Yo trained actor, novices had to study four years

school

quality as a

10

do

overcome

of dramillo det.

the abortat the State has given professicani mintthe to- the, serbour, who used to set at the amateur theatres studded About the country. Those amateur thouiter Have been, nationalised. §

The

TWO MEASURES

result d

two

-medsores is that Polar Hos

about 9,000, neform about 100 national thi Mr Kawka's opinions, about 1,000 of

the

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