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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY ́0, 1957.

ELECTRONIC SORTERS STALIN'S PEDESTAL STILL EMPTY

MAY REPLACE UK BANK CLERKS

London, May 8, Automation in the banks may eventually replace girl sorting clerks, who handle thousands of cheques daily.

An investigating committee representing the eleven major clearing banks in London has recently been studying the possibilities offered by the introduction of machines to perform banking tasks.

be

As G figt step towards to be estimated, and it is onc entrusting the processes of of the big questions to banking and high Anance to settled before the banks reach electronfe brains, they have any final decision. given manufacturers of auch equipment details of what they would want done.

the

for their use.

Problems

be

Problems which must evercome, too, before automation enters the bonking world, fall into two main categories:

and

1. The banks would want

It will be at least two years before automation makes its bow

in the white collor atmosphero ouths banking house. For it will take many X months to make, teet and instalan electronle sorter which elaborate equipment even would pick. at the magnetle cheques jf bizute dirtelors finally ink codes printed on

to according sort them approve the apparatus proposed banks and branches.

Five code markings, peluted Tht clearing banks represent-in Arable numbers less than ed on the investigating com- one eighth of an inch high, mlitee are: Lloyds, Barclays, would be: n, the aerial number Midland, Westminster, National of

code cheque; b, the Provincial, Martins, the District, number of the branch; e, a William Deacons, Coutts, Glyn symbol Indicating debit; d. the Mills and the National. Between customer's

number; account them, they have 10,000 branches

and e, the amount of the cheque In England and Wales,

for Us0 by the electronic the cheque la computer when being listed and cleared.

computer, Unlike private, merchant, 2. A.

electronic brain, which Dominion and Scottish banks, they clear all their cheques could be use in bigger banks Jarge store a to digest and Clearing through the London

amount of mathematical data, Houst

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banks are reported and, in co-operation with other for example, pro- equipment, duce information such до statements of customers bankt

accounts,

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In this

way, the "brain" would

customer's keep recount up-to-date and by addition or subtraction would be able to tell him at any given moment the amount of money standing to his credit.

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Banking circles estimate that United States banks are about aix months ahead of Britain in the study of automatic banking on a large scale, but Britain has an unique problem because of the large number of branches Damaged cargo vx this vessel will maintained by each bank. be surveyed by Messrs. l'aulsen Sc

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automation eventually In- troduced,

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BUNDAY POST-HERALD "Much of the work is being Opace

commercial done by women clerks, who are advertising should be not generally long-term labour. booked not fator than The turnover averages

about noon on Wednesdays. five years. So, a automation is introduced, recruitment wit be crack."

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But Hungarians

Repair Other War Memorials

By RONALD FARQUHAR

Budapest, May 8. While, all over Hungary today, work goes on to restore and repair scores of Soviet war memorials destroyed in the revolt last autumn, visitors to the capital flock to look at the empty pedestal on which once stood the figure of Stalin,

An

So far, no move has been made to replace on the tiered, red limestone base the 26-foot high bronze statue which was hauled down last October by demonstrators using ropes attached to lorries. smouldering discontent The first damaged Soviet suddenly flared Into open morument to be repaired in

tho rebellion,

demonstrators Budapest was a war memorial dragged the statue away and in Gellert Square in Buda-the broke it into pieces.

part of this twin-city which lies on the west bank of the river Danube. Masons worked under Brmed police guard to oreet a new golden five-pointed star on top of this memorial, a slim,

obelisk tapering, white stogo

Soviet They also replaced a hammer and sickle emblem and defaced Russian restored inscriptions.

Nothing now remains of if but the twisted fragment of metal support on top of the 83-foot high pedestal, standing in a large square in the heart Budapest, with sculptured relief showing Soviet soldiers, workers and peasants damaged and dofared,

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During the five years of this It was ready just in time for status's existence, Hungarian Hungarian Communist leaders, Communist

government headed by the first deputy Iraders used to review

Dr Minister,

Fereno parades Primo and demonstrations in the Muenalch, to lay wreaths there

It. But on February

23 during four election agente who was fortunately in the interval bequare surrounding

this year they decided not to ceremony commemorating the really active in the matter of tween that interview and the hold the usual military march 88th anniversary of the founda-

campaign

from time the affidavit was drafted, past

4. tion of the Soviet Red Army. April about August last your until this was very regrettably

for anniversary of the liberation of the election and after, and that gotten. He was further in Hungary from German

Scorca the other three election agents that if need be, his instructing by the Soviet Rod Army, near

to Mr Ausaltcitor could testify to this. had taelily agreed

the end of World War II. receiving

whole of the

If the Court came to the cons $4,000.

A double statue of Stalin and clusion that by virtue of the

Szeged, the largest Counsel said that he was in- way the $3,000 out of the $4,000 Lenin at structed to my tint this matter was treated, that was something town in south Hungary has, Was discussed between Mrns to which an ilegal practice however, been restored. It was Bemacchi and Sir Mon-kam Lo had been indulged in, the relfer officially reported to have been qulle early on, either on the sought would be in

respect of moved from its site during the But rising for "protection". Occasion when they first mot and that sum of $3,000 also, Counsel

it

wag nevertheless damaged Mr Bernacchi sought advice of said.

"coupler - revolutionary clements,"

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on the day efter. In any event

it would be about Merhi 22.

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of Ichaki - clad militiamen and blue uniformed police, armed with sub-machine gung kept a crowd of about Jards 800 spectators about 30 away. Some onlookers jammed their hats on their heads and walked away when a Hungarian

playing my band struck up the Soviet the Hungarian hymn, national anthem after

round Scaffolding went up other

disfigured Soviet 110-foot memorials, including high Liberation Monument on top of Gellert Ні, п rocky height rising sheer from the Danube and towering 770 feet above the city.

This

the commemorates Sovlet victory in the siege of

A Budapest in 1943. Bronze statue of a young Wom, representing · Liberty, with flowing hair and robes, holds a palm branch high above her head,

Photograph

Hungarian

nationalists left this figure intact but blew up another large statue of Russian soldier below it and the obliterated inscripilons on plinth,

Months after Soviet troops crushed the rising, Hungarians used Lo photograph thelr children standing in front of the fallen remains of the mangled soldier statue while fur-hatted Rusalan acptrics watched from the wall of nearby guarxi-post,

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It was at the statue of Jozet Bem, a Polish general who fought for Hungary in her 1848 revolution against the Austrian Hapsburg monarchy, that the first sparks of insurrection word ignited on October 23 last year. students, About 10,000

Boldiers workers,

and others swarmed round the statue, in a

riverside aquaro beside the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in Buda, listening to sporches demanding concessions from the Government,

Then they marchod across the river to Hungary's pseudo- Gothic

building. Parliament chanling slogans, Others went to Stalin Square, about a mile and a half away and sierted the work of overturning the Stalin status.

10 marchers left behind them on the Bem statue a red, white and KTECH Hungarian flag, stuck through the general's sword Hill. It stayed there for after more than four months the rising had been crushed but vanished" on the evo di this years anniversary of the out- break of the 1848 revolution, on March 16.

Another demonstration began at the statue of a second. 1848 · revolutionary.

hern,

Sandor Peioen, across the river in Fest. Crowd went from there to the Budapest radio station building where the first 'shots of the rising were heard as Hungarian security police clashed with demonstrators.

Nationalists daubed the date, "29.X.1850, in red paint, on the base of the Petoon status, where it stayed until a few days before March 10, Polleo and millamon hid it washed off at night so that today only:d's faint red stain remains,,

But the pedestal where Stalin wood to

stand

retrains

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