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[THE "CHINA_MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1967.

CHINA Panamanians Lose Privileges 15th Century Prague

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At Canal

REPUBLIC FORBIDS

USE OF

US COMMISSARY

By P. R. MORTIMER

Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, Feb. 5.

Something like 16,000 persons in this area have recently abruptly ceased to enjoy the privileges which the United States has been in the habit of extending to all its employees here, even if they were not American nationals,

Mon and women who had stores and post offices, and not grown to took on the United even allowed to gather in the States Clovernment as an em- | commlasaries to chat with their ployer and provider, to be fellow old-timers, and friends relied upon for years to come, who are still working. have suddenly felt the grounds for this faith slip from under them.

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Mostly descendants the workers imported from the British West Indies to help build the Panama Canal in the curly years of this century, they are dismayed and disillusioned.

so long

foot in To sci

the com- missaries, which for have been a feature of their life, will render the old-timers subject to arrest for trespassing.

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It was suggested that perhaps would be more humane leave such old-timers Rs were enjoying commissary privileges Ironically, the United States, to carry on us before, but to against whom their reproaches grant such privileges to no one are largely directed, played only in future. The sum involved a pastive part in these develop-In this arrangement was not

The active ments

role was large. played by the Government of the Republie of Panama, during which protracted negotiations led up to the signature of a treaty between the two

New countries,

INSISTENCE

AL Panama's insistence, written into this treaty was a provision denying non-United Staley citizen employees in the Panama Canal Zone the right to buy at the low price Panama Canal Company commissaries in the Canal Zone.

Instead, their annust spend- ing power, estimated at present at some 13,000,000 dollars, wað to be diverted to the stores and merchants of the Republie of Panema, contiguous to the Canal Zone, but distinct from It in financial practice.

The

favourable calculations put the cost foodstuffs and other household goods in Panama City about 30 знот cent above the prices prevailing in the Canal Zone.

must

of

Those losing their right purchase in the commissaries Also slate darkly that Panamanian products, protected by prohibitive turiffa ngainst imported competitive lines, are nofry substilules for the United States name brand products

featured by the commissarles,

The United States nakca great efforts to accede to Panama's requests and avold any appearance of bullying the small Republic.

for

the

are

Spokesmen Panamanian eltizens who employees of the Canai who are losing Company and commercial

their commissary privileges (and, in the case of 900 of them, their jobs) suggest that the United States should pay more attention to the mally In- dividuals whose cost of living is now suffering 卦 sharp upswing, and less attention to the tow merchants whose atores will handle the 13.000.000 dollars' worth of extra trade,

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EMBITTERED

The Panama Canal Company has slightly raised the wages of is locally-engaged employees to provide some compensation for the change. But many workers still feel that "Great White Father" Washington has delivered them either willingly or_by_trickery into the hands of Panama's merchants.

While Panamanian ment spokesmen make persuasive

for

the in

Govern- out a thels Country's right to diminish commercial competition from Zone, the non-profit Canal whose purpose is really only to put ships through the Panama Canal

expeditiously B posalble,

greater

REFUSED CONCESSION

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concession.

A-Shelters Proposed In America

Washington, Feb. 5. Navy atomic experts today construction proposed

of a nationwide underground atomic shelter system. They estimated the cost might be 20,000 milion

bul dollars.

aald the system would offer survival for, a high perceninge of

the people in event of muclear attack.

The

De George Ham, German- born physicist, at Fort Belvoir, USA, makes a final inspection of the vacuum tank which the first earth satellite will receive a special test coating to protect its delicate instru- ments from extreme tempera- turen sad provide a reflective surface, which will enable the satellite to be observed clearly. --Express Photo

Refugee Debate Postponed

ggested shelters, of bate three types, would range from structures designed to protect only agamist radioactive fallout 30

thickly walled affairs designed

New York, Feb. 5. The scheduled opening of de- on the Palestine refuge question by the Special Poll- lend Committee of the United Nations General Assembly

at the request postponed today of Egypt, it was officially

both against fa-out and heavy The latier type of

nounced. shelters would be designed for bedensely populated areas.

But, according

United States sources, Panana refused blast.

grant tile Whether or not this once again legalistic rigidity won over kin

kindness of heart.

Now, those 16,000 workers or old-timers are wondering what happened 10 Uncle Sam's avowed preoccupation with the lot of the little fellow. China Mail Special.

was

an-

Mr Henri Labouisse, director of the United Nations Rellet and Shelters would be designed Works Agency for Palestine re

equipped so that people fugees had been due to present could stay inside them for a his report to the Committee and period of two weeks until the to review the condition of the immediate radioactive con-refugees, tamination of the area hod A new date for the debate subsided.-China Mail, Special. was not announced-Heuter.

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A MOUNTAIN-- RIGHT IN FRONT OF US--WHERE DID. THAT COME FROM--?.

LOOK OUT!

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47 REBELS

KILLED

IN ALGERIA

Algiers, Feb, 5.

کافر

Inn To Put On Floor Show

Prague, Feb. 5.

A 15th century inn here, which Czechs claim is the oldest inn in the world, is to put on a floor show.

The inn, called "U Flek"?, has | pumped through the floor in a its own brewery on tho pro- maze of rubber hose mises and has been serving its The whole of U Flek's pro- own brew of black beer ever duction of 2,040 gallons a week since 1409.

பீச drunk by the soldiers, Extended and modernised at students, workers, policemen, various times through the ages, housewives and other Czechs it is

at present undergoing its who pack the inn each night. biggest renovation yet.

The Introduction of the floor show

MEETING PLACE in which dancers and singers will perform regularly before the beer-drinkers, is part of this renovation.

U Flek was nationalised six years ago, Thirty-one private owners, seven of them women,

preceded the Lake-over, All have their names written In golden letters In the inn.

On an oak door The street outside is named after the first owner, Vitz Kremenc.

Before World War II, U Flek was Prague's favourite meeting place for artists, poeta and writem, who gathered in ✡ special back room called the "Akademie." Here, each had his seal, with his name and portrait

จะ

above 11. Now the. Akademie is often hired by government ministries for conferences at which elvil servants

ponder policy over huge mugs of black

beer,

The brewery has not changed Its recipe since 1489. The pre- sent manager of the brewery, One former frequenter of the Jaroslav Pacina.

says that he Akademie

is still a legendary refused to disclose it several | Baure in Prague today an old weeks ago to a delegation of begitar who died in 1989. Each Weat German brewers who night, the beggar usod to aing

fremst

arxl sell matches in the smoke- beer-drinking Bavaria to usk for H.

to the roars nilet room, drunken artists. When beggar died, 00,000 crowns,

In those days, large fortune were found beneath the match- boxes on his tray.

came

13 DECREES

A total uf 47 rebels were killed in two operullons in the] At 13 degrees alcoholle con- Alglers district

Centrullent, the beer 1s one degree Algerio, It was disclosed here stronger than the world-famous

Pilsener

another Czechoslovak tonight.

brew. Its strength. It is sald, comes from mixing, 111 Air-supported French Foreign proportions, four kinds of malt, secret Legionnaires

rebel caramel cream, il

masted

sugar chieftain anu 35 of his men and 250 grammes of white hops during unt operation

for each hectolitre, เค Uha

Pacina,

Jovial. a tall. Djebel Tsegna mountain region year-old grandfather,

employs One prisoner was taken and three brewers rebels were killed in an opera- tion near Tablal.

killed

50-

U Flek cannot sell its beer outside the in, or export it, because it is not pasteurised and will not keep in tempera- Eurtier tonight, IL WIS Ntures of over 18,2 degrees ported from Constantine that 30 Fahrenheit. rebels had been killed, nine put

Alter seven

brewing out of action aud one taken and fermenting, the barrels are prisoner in several operations rolled into giant underground In the Constantine Department, cellars below the inn's 'four -France-Presse,

drinking halls. The beer

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THEY'LL REMAIN UNTIL THE POLICE COME--WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END OF OUR MISSION -MAYBE WE CAN STILL

CATCH MISS XI

BONG

BONG VOLUNTEER FIRE BONG

BONG

EVERY CHANNEL

HAS A PUNK SHOW --- PHOOEY

FRNIE BUSHMILLRIKL

an

JOHNNY HAZARD

on the

still emotional issig turna commissary privileges of about 4,000 retired Canal Zone Cm- ployees, including some 300 United States citizens, who now live in the Republic of Panama. The great majority of these 4,000 live on marginal pensions, Arid undoubtedly counted shipping at commissary prices for the rest of their days.

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Particularly, embittered ilo United States citizen penalonors who, having spent their working years in govern- mont strviet, now suddenly find themselvom · azaludod, from United States Government

JOHNNY AND THE UN, DELEGATE, MR, JARAK, TELL THEIR STORY TO THE POLICE - FI

AND IF WE'RE OKAY TWO OF THE BOYS GOING TO SAVE WILL GIVE MR.JARAK SAFE SNAPS LIFE WED) ESCORT TO THE UN. WHILE

BETTER MOVE WE ALERT THE RADIO SQUAD

CARSI YOU'LL SHOW US THE

FAST!

**** HOUSE, HAZARDI

WHOLE AT THE HOUSE..

NO GOOD AT ALL

WHY NOT

TURN

IT OFF

HOT WITH RAẢIL. BUT HOW CAN WE STOP ERSMAS PLAKI ZVÉ JARAK ON THE FLOOR OF THE | DEEN SAVING THIS FUN. # THEY'LL MON US DOWN FRIAL ALTERNATIVE...

BEFORE WE CAN TRIGOERA JA DEVICE WHICH WILL

OUN!

SILENCE JARAKSI VOICE FOREVERÍ

TOMORROW: END OF MISSION

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

I CAN'T WHERE STAYS' WARM

--- THAT'S MY CAT

ttr · 11 -

By Frank Robbins

THIS MIKE IS DENTICAL TO THOSE:

| IN THE UN. EXCEPTA. THE ON-OFF BUTTON

HAS A POISONED NEEDLE IN ITZ WHÊN

IT IS PRESSED TO TALK...INSTANT

DEATH!

weeks

There's More than Magic in

CADBURY'S

Cicturf

DAIRY MISSE

THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF

OF FULL CREAM IN EVERYЯIьBAR

FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!

TRY

Libby's

FROZEN FOODS

TODAY!

ROWNTREES

AER

...this situation calls for a

San Miguel

Is

the

a

One hall, the Melnie, where ops, and barley used to be stored in the early years of the inn, is decorated with paintings room is called of Bohemian castles. Another "The Saurago" because of its long and naITOW shape,

the

In the Knights' Hall, largest drinking room, revellers alt round u 230-year-old grand- father clock on chairs which

a bear the arms of the 82 leading breweries of Bohemia and Slovakia-the two states which made up modern Czechoslovakia - the turn of the century. This hall was used for con- ferences of brewery OWIECTW. Each brewer sat on the chatr which bore his arms,

ORIENTAL AIR

are

As part of the latest removile. Mon, most of the floors being relaid, three of the halls are to be linked by new pass- and many of the walls Ages, will bo repainted, In

the

cess too, several cartelabras, which bear a

a fommer and sickle design. аге to be removed. These were put up in 1950 by

Arst manager of the im

the

ihe

after nationalisation, a fervent Communist removal of these

Parado

the

was ordered by the Communist Party

itself on the ground it

was inappropriate that the party emblem should look down nightly on often wild drinking

secher.

The exterior of the Inn has a strange Oriental air, with red and green tiled sloping roofs and A small minaret Over looking the courtyard.

In ornate cloisters, old stone sculptures deplet customers. of former times, Including monks,

of drunken stages

in various

ness. Ono shows an irate woman

trying to prevent her drunipen

husband from

entering her

bedroom through the windows

Another shows a smiling St

Peter welcoming a brower with extended arms to illustrate the

old Czech saying that those who make good beer must go to heaven

U Flek claims that it has never closed in the dive.com- turice of ita existence, not even in the noisiest moments of the various wars which it has survived.-

The inn was also the scene of an all-time Czech drinking re- cord. In 1908, a Progue butch- er, in a marathon bout, swallow- eet 127 half-Hire (Just less than one pint) mugfulls of beer 24 hours for a bet.

50 MUGS DAILY

in

M. Pacina says some of his gucats can still easily drink : 50 muge

day, though, he lamenta, more and more Crechs are turn- ing away from Beer to drink wine or hard liquor. One womati customer regularly drinks soven litres of beer, he

ndids.

The Inn's golden bodié bekes the signature of famous people of many nationalities. One re cent guest, if reveals, was the Mayor of Peking. Poems in German, Spanish, English, Rus alan, Serbo-Croat, and oven Japanese testify the approval of many a foreign guest after evening's scalon it the fnni- China Mali Spectat,

an

Nuremberg, Fob. Di The number of unemployed in West Germany jumped by about 388,000 to, a total of 470.410 in January, the Labour Office announced here today,

This was 229,100 more than

at the same time last year ahd the highest level of unemploy ment since the winter of 1908 1054, when the total fosched 1,624,000. The Labour Office sold the nuetudUGI, WIE A MAS gonal one,China Mail Special,

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