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THE CHINA. MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1037,

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Southern Question

Still Exists

In Unified Italy

By DAVID WILLEY

Rome, May 22.

Nearly 100 years after the unification of

come should be addressed to the Italy, traditional barriers still separate the poor,

Editor, business communications and

advertisements to the Becretary.

Telephone: 28612, (5'lime98).

KOWLOON OFFICE:

MAYFAIR

Salisbury Hou,

Talaphone: 44145,

MUSICAL

agricultural south from the prosperous, industrial north.

Some indication of the differences between the two regions may be obtained from a survey conducted by a Rome weekly newspaper.

Over 6,000 replies sent by readers considered of above- average education, showed that southerners are eager to share in the north's superlör standard of living, while the northemers, suspicious of southern inflica- tion, feel closer bonds with northern Europeans rather than with their own countrymen from

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TUITION GIVEN

DRESSMAKING LESSONS: Cutting drafting, sewinst. Tailoring. Completa training. Expertenord,

Bouthern Italians resout the fact that when Italy, formerly patchwork of independent sistes, became an united nation in 1800, the politimi, Bscal and adminis trative structure of a small slate the north, Piedmont, bould have Бечет tmposed

teacher. Interesting a whole country.

, Wongneichung Road, Happy Valley.

NOTICE

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)

Notice to Bhareholders

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at the Head Office of the Society,

House, › Alexandra

Kong, at 11.30 am, on Friday the 24th day of May 1987 for the following purposes namely:-

on

the

Neapolitans, Calabrians, and Sicilians all consider that the progress of the north has been achieved at the expense of their poor pessant economy, while the'] toxes which they have paid to the central government for the the past 07 years have gone in- to the pockets of the successful Industrialets of the north, in- stead of being used to develop the depressed areas of the south. Questionnaire

A greater proportion of southerners voted in favour of divorce than northerners.

are known

in the

Milanese south as "paghetti sucker' and "Boe Sir".

Neapolitans are known in the north as "soap-caters", after a famous crate of soap sent by the great Italian patriot, Garibaldi. to Naples. The Neapolitana ale Its contents, mistaking them for cheese.

Cohesive

"The southern question" is one which has occupied Italian politicians over since 1860. At the beginning of the Fascist regime, Benito Mussolini, In # determine attempt to weldi Italy into a cohesive nation, forbade the words "the southern question" ever to be FLORE officially,

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS WON'T HARM

V-Bomber In Civilian Dress

kabusukaraba

RESOLUTION TO SUSPEND TESTS

New Delhi, May 22. Since 1950 a special Southern The Lower House of the Development fund has been set. Indian Parliament today up by the Government, and passed a resolution appeal administered by a committee of Minister. This

used ia

toing to the big powers to build roads, atart realforestation suspend nuclear explosions, and Irrigation projects, pecerally

the local all colours agree is as much as economy, which "politicians of 80 years behind the social and industrial development of the

north.

ing

And

Romans, apparently not wish- identify themselves

call

a big power meeting discuss the matter

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"Who will come if I called

such a conference?" he asked,

At the same time the Premiler rejected on amendment to the resolution calling for India to The resolution expressed con- | quit the Commonwealth be cem over the development of cause Britain had exploded the nuclear

weapons

miss H-bomb. destruction which if employed will destroy mankind,

of

In answer to the question: "Do you think that southerners have contributed by their work mod spirit of Initiative to the pros- perity of the north?", 78 per Hong cent of southerners who answer- ed the questionnaire replied: "Yes"

More than two-thirds of the northemers who answered the questionnaire, however, thought that the north had "suffered economically from political union is a question of north against the

As one contributor said: "It' Winding up the debate before vole, however, Premier with the southern regions."

Nehru rejected an Preoccupied the 20,000, and Rome against them Jawarahini

both."--China Mall Special. opposition party suggestion people who emigrate each year to the city of Turin alone from the poverty-strickon areas of the south, and the fact that entire lowns on the sunny Ligurian Riviera are now inhabited by Italians from the "too" of Italy, northerners nearly all said: "I feel nearer to u Frenchman than

Sielllon

eller with the Millance or great powers had not abandon

It deplored the fact that the with the Sicilians, sent in fewed the tests despite their deviar- donnaire, although it le pub-ed opposition to them, replies to the newspaper's que»- listed in Rome.

1. The receive and consider the Annual Statement of Accounts and Balance Shest and the Reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon and to déclare a dividend.

2. To elect Directors,

3. To appoint auditors and Ax their remuneration.

4. To consider and if thought fit, to pass the following Resolution as an Ordinary Resolution

"That with effect from and including the 29th day of May 1967 each of the 200,000 shares of £10 each in the Capital of the Society aball be divided into 10 shares of 81. each."

6. To

transact any

other ordinary business of the Society.

their

OWNL

But the southerners, asked if They felt netrer to a Spaniard than to an Italian from Milan,

10 prefer tanded countrymen.

Sixty per cent of northerners found it annoying to hear a Sicilian accent, but more than 70 per cont of southemers who answered the questionnaire did ot find dialects or regional accents distasteful.

Social behaviour brought some surprise. Both halves of Italy voted overwhelmingly in favour of pardoning dri "who had had premarital experiences" and of allowing

An timmarried daughter to go out at night un- chaperoned.

RECORD

The Transfer Books and LONDON-PARIS Register of Members of the Society will be closed from Thursday the 9th day of May 1967 to Tuesday the 28th day of

May 1957

both days

inclusive.

Parts, May 22. A Могали Boulder 700 "Paris" plane today bent ali established commercial planc records, for the London-Paris run, making, the fight from London airport to Villacoublay Dated this 18th day of in 30 minutes. April, 1967.

BL URDER OF THE BOARD,

**

L. B. STONE, General Manager.

NOTE:

(1) A Member entitled to attend and vote at the

The plane, piloted by Jenn Cliquet and emrying two passengers, yesterday flew from Ports to London in 40 minutes. The win-jet Balson plane is driven by

**Merbarce" two engines developing 1,780 pounds of thrust-Franco-Presc

'above meeting may NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

appoint

Proxy &

bo

altend and vote on his behalf and such Proxy need not also be a Member of the Society.

(2) Proxy forms should be

"AGAPENOR"

Dundred cargo ex this vessel will

be surveyed by Messrs. Paulien & Baya-Davy at Holt's What from. 10 am on May 25 and 27, 1937, and

returned to the register-igners are requested to have their representatives present during

ed office of the Society, the marver.

Alexandra House, Hong BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Kong not not later that

Agents,

11.80 a.m. on the 22nd on Kong. May 23, 1957

May, 1957.

For the convenience of NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES shareholders resident in the United Kingdom the arranged Bootéty

hán

that preten máy bộ đội Hvered not later than 18th May 1967 to the

"ATKBUƑ

Data po sx tile vennel will be surveyed by Memes, Goddard & Douxias at holl's Whart num 12 am. on 1843 55 and 37, 1837, mud com

London Manager, -78-80 quaded to have their

Cornhill, London. B.C.8, for transmission by him to the Society's Register 4d' Offfon:

representatives pendent "during tha

AY

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Armia

Hoon Kan. Mer 25, ARON

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

HE WON'T MAKE A TIME MACHINE, WHAY CAN WE OFFER HIMY LIKE EVERYONE, HE CAN MAKE ANYTHING IN HIS OWN ATOMIC

MIXER!

FERDINAND

NANCY

HERE'S SOMETHING YOU CAN'T DO WITH YOUR ATOMIC MIKER.

OH, MISTER--- THERE'S SOMETHING YOU

OUGHT TO

KNOW

JOHNNY HAZARD

T109 IN FLIGHT COMMANDER BULDOV |~6%OUR MNEMON NI

TRIUMPHANTE WE SUNG BACK,LIKE A |TAMED ELEPHANT,

THE US-ATOM

BOMBERI

GOODI SUT NOV IT HAS ABOWNED AN UNCOOPERATIVE

CREW! THEY MAY TRY SOMETHING DESPERATILI E MUOT DISCOURAIN THEM

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He said the resolution pur- posely avoided condemnation of the big powem. He said India that it could have weight, he has simply made an appeal so said.

The resolution expressed as approval of suggestions on test limitations or the registration of tests which, it said, would mean that the regulating of war is legitimate.--Ünited Press.

YOU--TOOK

A COIN FROM.

HIG EAR EHOW

麵

NO ONE LIVING ON EARTH NOW

KNOWS HOW TO

PO THAT-

Jet

pom-

The Civli Victor, long-range airliner developed from Handley Pages Victor bomb- er, which will carry a payload of nearly 18 tong and cruiss a1 over 000 miles an tour. The new alrfiner is designed primarily for Commonwealth service and on thoro paratively short stages will carry 172 passengers." On the Allantie routs between London and New York, passenger kaprolly drops to 122, but tho Clyll Victor will make the crossing to just over six hours at a direct operating cost of Miste more than one penny per passenger mile. The civil version has two deck 'double- bubble' fuselago with decks benfested spiral staircases

and a servios 11ft from the ralley. The Civil Victor could enter service by 1961. → Kenterphoto.

HUMANS YET

Swedish Report Gives Findings

By THOMAS HARRIS

Stockholm, May 22.

"Swedish scientists investigating radio- activity in this strategic corner of north Europe are playing a big part in solving the international worry whether bomb tests will eventually

humanity.

hydrogen

destroy

Like their colleagues in other countries, the Swedish scientists are following two lines of investigation:

cati

1. How much radioactivity, Professor Roll Slevert of the the average human Institute of Radiophysics. This being tolerate without contract= is part of the Caroline Medical ing a disease himself or passing | Institute, which awards the on disease to his children: and Nobel Prizes enen year on be-

Foundation 2. How much radioactivity half of the Nobal fallout (the slow-dying Professor Slevert's findings have strontium 90) is accumulating as been widely published in Juartet a result of nuclear-explosions.

Fix Limits

on

journals both here and abrond. Researches by him and his assistanta bave shown that over a period of 30 years a dose of The answer to the first ques-between two and four rontgens la tion, insofar as one is possible, emitted by granite, which forms depinds

(ho amount of a large part of Sweden's moun natural radioactivity which tainous terrain. human beings, without apparent From alum shale, the does is effect, have been absorbing 21 rontgens. From a brick tieuse, since the creation.

it is two tonigans, end from the Rocks, water, brick houses and human body," from 0.7 to 0.8 human bodies themselves, all rontgen, emit radioactivity.

It is, therefore, as natural as dirt or dust.

Variations

Variations in natural radioac

For everywhere. ivity exist example, Professor Slevert found that one Swedish city, which be calls "A" the radlum content of the water

As with dirt and dust, It is the scientist's task to fix the Umita beyond which adioactivity becomes dangerous. They must also probe is effect on health whether absorbed in small times treater

Stockholm. large doses.

A

was at least five than that of Nevertheless, the human body

the history of medicine shows, "natural" substances can come to have some means of Peking. May 22. in "unnatural" circumstances bo "evening out" these differences. For testa made on citizens from The former French Radical | fotni, Premier Mr Edgar Faure, ar- Dirt is harmiese enough in the town "A" showed that the dif- rived in Peking today on a gardener's

their personal nolle, but may kill ference between private visit as the guest of the film if it gets into his cut finger, radiation and that of people Chinese Instituto for Foreign

Sweden's leading investigator from Stockholm was only 10

Affairs, Reuter,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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WELL --- I TRIED TO WARN

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TRIVE THEY, DEAREST,

By Frank Robbins

IT'S ELLEN.

ALIVEL

[TREY WANT ME TO TALK TO [AY SISTER) ONES.

YOU BUT WHATEVER YOU

PLAN TO DOTA 201T

of Indioactive

There's Mora than Magic in CADBURY'S

THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF OF FULL CREAM IN EVERYXIьBAR

CUTEX

LIPSTICK

IN THE

LATEST:

SHADES,

ROWNTREES

ATRE

----

...this situation

calls for

San Miguel

is per cent.

Personal radioactivity 15, however, influenced by the sub- ject's rex,

age and weight, as icsla made on 600 volunteers here have shown.

the

more

Men, it was found, are there radioactive than women,

Young

OFF people mdioactive than old persons and athletes more radioactive than fabby "lazybones." This is because

radioactivity emanales from the potassium in the human

and tho body potassium Hes in the muscŮes.

The more muscle, the greater the radiation. Also, layers of fat can absorb radiation.

Radioactive Beef

Human beings are not only bombarded with natural · and man-made radiation. They can also acquire radioactive sub- stances with their food. A cow grazing on radioactive, pastures enn produce radioactive beef. The samo pasture con diouz dif- ferent degrees of radioactivity. nt different times, Experiments have shown that snow and rein can increase ground radiation, for example,

To follow the progress of radioactive substances from the pasture, through the animal's digestive system. and into the joint of meat on the family table, Professor Slevert and Mis aquistants are experimenting with elks. Unilko the cow, the elk grazes in the open all the year round and is, tas, in constant contact willi radioactive ground substances.

In view of the importance of the experiments, the Swedish Crown Forestry Board has elles specially shot out of season for the scientist's

Strontium 90

6ix

For this work, as well as for measuring natural

radiation, there

BIO

observation stations stretching down epst Sweden from Lapland in the north to Scania in the south.

They watch for Strontium 90 Strontiurth failing on Sweden, $0,

released by nuclear ex- posions, can be absorbed by plant and animal life, and it is a persistent phenomenon, taking 28 years to " bulve its radioac- tivity.

A recently published report from the Swedish Delenco Statt's Research Instituto mid that tho total amount of Strontiuni 20 radiation descending on Sweden from all mielcer explosions made up to last September was the equivalent of 9.5 rontgen ki 30 years,

As this is only a small prae» tion of the two to dour soulgens of the natural radiation from granite, or the 21- rontgeny of the Alim Shale, there is a long "Tuky to go Dadors stop-d radiation roaches the level ož | natural rudiatfors.

Nevertheless, succeeding, RE płowiona will nitrowy kiber gið bor kwen the natural and, the DWA- mado: radiation, "a"bat” ta kazky: Bweden: 1. rundy......to" muppart schemes for controlling, muGLORI explosions, provided that much, schemes", saɗi te and impariaky. Special.