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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, | | 1957. · ̄

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GERMANY

Working Group To Combat

Rising Danger

By EDO KOENIG

Bonn, Apr. 16.

The West German Government, under the pressure of rising public indignation, is investigating the danger to public health from smog-a suffocating mixture of fog and smoke.

The investigation was requested by the Lower House of Parliament which also asked for suggestions on measures to fight the danger.

Wo4 German newpapers, talking of an "air plague" and of "unacceptable annoyance and daninge," have stressed that the need for clean air is as impor- tant as the necti for clean water. The area most affected by la the densely-populated Amog industrial Ruhr, centre of Ger- many's rich coal and geel In- dustries.

DENSE SCREEN

Scientists

have established that some 800,000 tons of dust, soot, ushes and poisonous gases fall every year on the Ruhr. Inhabited by nearly one quarter of West Germany's population. A dense smog screen over the entire area preventa 50 per cent of the sun's rays from reaching the ground at all.

Motorists who travel through the Ruhr notice the effects of the amog

without dificulty

hands,

is always overcast; sky breathing becomes more dim- cult; cows in the fields

look grey instead of white;

shirt cuffs and collars get grubby; and on rainy days wind-

pile screen wipers

Up black streaks of

dint on either side. The poisonous dirt also forms a dangerously slippery layer on the roads and this causes numerous accidents,

Doctors blame smog for an increasing prevalence of rickets, jung and allergic diseases, nuse and eye trattations, and circula- tory troubles.

The situation in the Ruhr is compared with that etc.

of smog. ridden London er Los Angeles,

yda' London SEMA' kas palchord Wures, Bach's Wel Tick Clavichord Bow & Cù. 76, Alyxandra House,; telephones 30186, 36037.

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COMPLAINTS

Complaints about polson in the air have also been registered in many other West German towna, mainly from people living In the Vicinity of In- dustrial and chemical works.

In Hamburg, a ernull, dynamie businessman, 42-year-old Karl- Heinz Glehren, has founded an "Emergency Association against Contamination" to fight

With the

of backing The Exchange Banks will be 200,000 supporters, and their closed for the transaction of } signatures, he travels round the country and in personal conver-

Air

smog.

and smail, trieg to convince them of the urgency of keeping

the air clean, "Do not walt un-

public business on Friday,zations with industrialists, large Saturday and Monday, the 19th, 20th and 22nd April, 1957. (Easter Holidays). Hongkong, 17th April, 1967.

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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Agente.

Hongkong, Aprŭ 17, 1967.

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Orders Accepted Deliveries Undertaken,

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l you are forced to act by law. Show your goodwill and do something now," he tells them.

If anyone doubts him. Pulle from his brief case bottled collection of poisonous gases which he picked up near industrial planta and invites his critics to "zy a nose-full"

BAD SMELLS

Hear Gichren bases his argu- ment on the conviction that bad amelle can cause bodily harm and that, therefore, industrial plants which tmlt poisonous gasen, are crimes against the population. He has appealed to member of Parliament to give his cause effocilve

support

and to remember that many of his nearly 200,000 followers may give their vote in the forth- coming elections to the candi- afe who has done most to keep the air clean.

Industrial plants RTC not blamed for all the polsonous gases in the air. Sizong critic-' Jim has also beew voiced against, the age number of heavy lorrico with their diesel motors, whose exhaust gases contain up

BANQUET FOR

VOROSHILOV

Paria, Apr. 16. Communist Chinese Premier, Chou En-inl today gave a recep- tion, attended by over one thou mand guests, in honour of visit- ing Soviet President; Klementi Voroshilov, the Now China News Agency reported.

Chou proposed a combined tomst to the solidarity of Social 1st camp countries led by the Soviet Union, world peace, and President Voroshtiov, chief of stäte of bur great ally and friend of the Chinese people,"

Vorobilov in his reply: urged his hosts to think of peace and' not of war.

to 15 per cent of deadly carbon monoxide.

In Frankfurt, the police have been Instructed to selft for polsonous fumes since local in- habitants complained about

end musca

perious headaches caused by fumes from plastics factories,

'CLEAN AIR ACT'

ot

to

West German legislation present provides no means enforce anti-contamination myća- sures and Members of Parlia ment are urging the Govern ment to bring in a bill similar to Britain's "clean air act.”

Various suggestions have been made to improve the situation including the creation of green belts round industrial areas, the construction of new plants at a reasonable distance From

po- pulated

ard moke cleaning by factories.

The West German Engineers Association has set up a special committee to study wŁYB undi the smoke means of reducing monace, while ten towns in the Ruhr have formed a working group to organise joint measures against air-contamination China Mall Special.

Brens,

NEW EQUIPMENT FOR PARIS POLICE

USIA PROGRAMMI

like

IN TRINIDAD

Washington, Apr. 18. Representative. Frank Bow expressod doubt recently that the British Government would the plan of the United Information Agency States (USIA) to encourage responsible government Commonwealth.

within the British

A demonstration was re- cently held, in the courtyard of the Paris Ministry of the Interior, of new road control methods, including the adapta tion of twin cameras to patrol motorcycles, Floture left shows

road patrol policeman's motorvycia equipped with a telephone; picture right shown a twin camors fixed to a motorcycle and allowing the policeman to take accident pictures, — Express Photo,

gramme in Trinidad were "to promote democracy within the British Caribbean Federation....... to encourage responsible self- government within the British Commonwealth and a rejection NEW 'DOCTRINE of extremist policies."

The USIA is a government operated information service, described by some persons as

agency, United

to

Bow made his comment in recent House of Representatives propaganda

Sub-committee Press. Appropriations hearings and it was confirmed today by an aide in his office.

bamascus, Apr. 10. Bow spoke along this line to

Saudi Arabia has agreed Arthur Larvon, Director of the

the frozen USIA who was testifying at the telcase

assets Syrian merchants, Syrian Minis- time before the committee.

His comment followed a USIA ter of Economy Khalil Kallas press release

announced October 11,

here today on his 1958, which stated that among return from a five-day trip to the objects of the USIA pro= Saudi Arabia United Press,

of

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

HOW CAN THIS BE OUR PLANET EARTH? EVERY- THINGS DIFFERENT--NO TREES OR BUSHES-PEOPLE THAT APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR IN

SMOKE

FERDINAND

J

NANCY

I CLEANED

THESE OLD MAGAZINES OUT OF THE

ATTIC

CLOS

"CITIES LIKE GIANT BUBBLES THAT FLOAT INTO THE AIR WHEN STRANDERS APPROACH-"}

ARE YOU TAKING THEM TO

THE DUMP

JOHNNY HAZARD

YOU DIĚTY SWINKL YOU STOLE MY RING?

MERELY BORROWED IT. IN YOUR BLEIS PRAN MISS ELLENZ IP, YOU WRITE THE LETTER Z ASK, WE CAN....... HOW YOU SAY KEEP IT IN

„THE FAMILY?.

NO--- THEY'RE ONLY

5 YEARS

OLD

IT WILL BE GENT TO. ĮYOUR BROTHER IN THE

STATES WITH THE WRITING OF COURENZ- THE WILL THEIN KNOW YOU

ARE EN SAFE KEEPING AV IF HE DOGS AS WE BAY ¿

YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY HUMAN-BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

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MISUSE TRADE

UNION

FUNDS

Reykjavik, Apr. 16. One of the biggest scandals ever known in the public life of Iceland has followed the Communists' loss of control of their second largest trade union stronghold, the 1,500-member Union of Factory Workers.

Leadership of this union was won recently by a group of Independence party men supported by some Social Democrats. The new chairman is an Independence party member named Gudjon Sigurdsson.

Unill the recent switch of munist, was lent 20,000 kroņur control, tho Factory Workers', (about £440) as mortgago on a Union had been controlled by hut which had beca deemed Communists for 20 years.

worthless as security for a mÖÇİ- After his election, Mr gage. Sigfurdsson told the general meeting of the Union that re- year old a sun of 3,000 4. The Chairman was last

ports by the Stale-authorised revisors reveal that during those trenur

(about £80) a month

years, Union funds have, bean for his work on a committee used for the reception of Soviet | dealing with

unemployment delegations of friendship in insurance. The committeo beld Iceland and for visits by the only one meeting and achieved Communist leader of the Union | nothing. to meetings in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of East Europe.

Revisors' Report

Although detailed records, except for the past year, had been destroyed, Mr Sigurdsson

said that allows that:

to

Unaccounted For

5. A sum of 60,000 kronur (about £1,300) withdrawn from the funds at one time last year is unaccounted for in the accounts,

At the aid of the financial year, the Union funds amounted the revisors' report to 304,000 KTOILET (about £0,750), but only about 40,000 kronur (nearly £800) were 1. The Communist chair available in cash or at the bank. man of the Union travelled About 100,000

the

kronur (about Soviet Union almost

£2.200) in all had been lent to every year at the Univer's ex-members of the executive com- that he obtained mittee, and 60,000 kromer (about Jon of £1,100) had been inverted in 33,000 kronur (about 2730) Communist co-operative trød- with which to buy a motorcar ing society,

pensa

and Union

funds

Moscow, Apr. 10. Soviet Defence Minister Mar- used for personal purposes. sbal Geord Zhukov arrived

The Communist ac- back here from Rumania to 2.

couniant, he added, had been night after enunciating a new

that

granted a loan of 40,000 kronur "doctrine"

alty attack against a member of the Rug (nearly £900) to enable her to slan camp would be considered buy a house on fifth mortgage an act of war against the Soviet (that Is to say, there were Union.

four other mortgages which had Zhukov was in Bucharest to proference), which is not re- sign a new agreement on

the ganded as a security zlife. "temporary" stationing of So-

Vice-Chairman of viet troops on Rumanian soil

3. The United Press,

the union, niso, a Com-

By Lee Fak and Phil Davla

NATURALLY MANKIND THAS CHANGED ALITTLE IN FIFTY THOUSAND

YEARS-

I'D JUDGE YOU COME FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE TWENTIETH OR THIRTIETH CENTURIES-

FORGET MY HISTORY--

By Ernie Bushmiller

FORT THEY CAN

DOCTORS' BUILDING

DR. NO

NEVERLYOU CAN KILL MEBUTZI WILL. NOT BETRAY

MY BROTHER

TREVORY

USE THEM IN THEIR WAITING

ROOMS

FIFTY-- THOUSAND YEARS-IN

THE FUTURE-

By Mik

() By Frank Robbins

GVEN IF TELL YOU THAT WE ARE IN · POSITION TO KILL YOUR BROTHER IF YOU DO NOT CO-OPERATES HOWEVER, IF YOU TELL HIM YOU ARE A HOSTAGE WAYOU BOTH LIVEZ PLEASE REGÓNIDERLAS

There's More than Magic in CADBURY'S

Chap

DANCY MILK

CHOCHEI

THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF OF FULL CREAM IN EVERY1⁄4IL BAR

Democratic newspapers Havie been describing this as one of the the biggest scandals in history of Iceland. A typical comment, from one of the big gest newspapers, the Indepen dence party's "Morgunbladlá,"

was;

Power Curtailed

The Communist misuse of trade unions is twofold:

"First, there is the political misuse. Comtuaniste do not con- sider first and foremost tha good of the workers. Their main consideration is to use the unions as a hars to draw their. cartload of unrest.

"Second, there is the financial minice,

which has now been

clearly seen in the rubble of the factory workers union. Com mmunists have done just as they like with the finances of that union because they thought that they were so strong that they would never lose control of it.

"But they did lose it, and it le very Important for the workers to understand that the sume things are being done in other unions which the Com munists have controlled for Jong time. Their power in these should also be curtailed." -China Mail Special.

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