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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Wise Investment

E continued buoyancy

cotton mills is heartoning news. By far the biggest single item of our exports fabrica are textilo

yarn, and made-up articles. Last your the value of these exceeded $834 militon

which

represented

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increasu

about $227 million

the on

previous year; and ย 24 cotton authority pointed out in yesterday's China Mall in the earlier part of last year

the industry was "driven to

find orders. The pick-up in activity, came with the announcement of a now. American sales policy

and must of the Colony's mills have enjoyed sustain- ed business since then. In the first four months of this year the value of exports of textile yari, fabrics and made-up articles slightly lower than in the corresponding period 1950 $275 million against | 8821 million but later months should see the gap marrowed and last year's figure execcded if business activity continues at its present rate.

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ANOTHER BRITISH COLONY MYSTERY GETTING SELF-GOVERNMENT A LITTLE

Eastern & Western

Nigeria

Accord

London, June 14,

Britain today agreed formally to grant self-government this year to Eastern and Western Nigeria, two of the three regions of the Federation of Nigeria, Bri- tain's biggest colony.

Former PoW

Expected

Here Today

Andrew Fortuna, a former

Tais tierisk was

Lancungest

of the

in a conmunique after lolay'a twelfth plenary session Nigeria Constitutional Confertive here.

the

It said the Colon. Secretary Mr Alun Leox-Boyd, Jormally told

ecnfernce that steps to implement a British governmen! undertaking un regional self-govenment, given

1953, "would be taken forth- with in respect of the Eastern and Western regions of Nigeria."

EXCEPTIONAL

DEATH OF MR W. A. GRINHAM

General Manager Of S. C. M. Post Ltd

We

It is with deep regret

have to record the- death this morning of Mr Witam Anck Grinhum, General Manager of the South China Morning

Pust, Ltd., which occur- red at St Paul's Hospital after a long illness, borne with patience und forti-

ude.

Mr Grinham died a few days

before his 48th Birthday. He was afflict- fed with serious it health shortly after returning

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from leave last autumn.

He joined the South China Morning Post, Ltd., in Murch 1948, BUT optimism must be tem- American PoW in Koren is

Secretary of the Com- pered by sobering dis-expected to cross the border In a statement on Government closures not by any means from Canton today or to. polley on Nigeria last January.

pany. Upon the retire- new-that other countries

ment in March, 1955, of ld he return to the the Colonial Secretary morrow to

had proposed that an an

the exccp- United States.

lonal measure and subjcel to some safeguards for the Nigerian Federation as a whole, "steps should be taken to give effect by

anxious to foster young industries

Bro crecting

barriers ogalasi-cheap im- porta. The South African

Finance Minister Mr Naude

Formerly a corporal of the US Cavalry Divisiot Furtun

makes no secret of the Ini was captured during the Koreana date not later than one month

that only international agreements prevent that country from raising duties on Hongkong-made goods

fighting

and at the end of from the conclusion of the forth- hotlines he elected to remain

conference, coming

to all in China.

arrangements for the introduc-

Subsequently.

tion of regional self-government which may be finally agreed at

虹心 however, but in the case of raincoats changed his mind and asked to have found to be repatriated to the United

States.

he appears

the conference,"

The Fastern

region premiur,

The Norther region, the Federation's largest with a pre- Hominently-Moslem populaticu,

this around wuy

Dr Nnumdi Azikiwe ond thu difficulty.

Aged 81, Fortuna was made a Western region premier, Chief Raincoats are not a big ex- PoW on November 25, 1951. Obafemi Awolowo, made, imme- port item-but the danger Apart from this For East cani- Jitate regional self-government o signs should be apparent.paign, he su strvce in the specifle demand at the confer- In addition to the trond to autojuan incoure of operations once which began here on ward higher tariff barriers, in World War it having calist May 23. foreign exchange difficulties in the Untied States Army in 1044, shortly after his 18th birth- experienced overseas often result In further day. obstacles to the Hongkong exporter. Increasing population creates its own demand but it would be un- wise of manufacturers to accept this as security for the future. Be prepared" should be their motto. There Is the danger that a temporary boom will lead men with much money but

did not seek immediate self- While fighting in the Kercun govenment but joined with the front, he gained the Bronze Star East and West In urging all-

in January, 1951, and the Dok Nigeria independence in 1959.--- Leaf Cluster in May the same Reuter. year for bravery.

was

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ot

late Mr F. P. Franklin, who was then Managing Director, Mr Grinham pointed General Manager.

Mr. Grinhani, a many outstanding qualities, Look a lively interest in thé activities the Morning Post Staff Club and the Morning Post Sports Association, and always had the welfare of his staff at heart. He particularly Identitled himself with the annual Boxing Day outing of the Chinese staff to Cheung Chau and was responsible for organising the cvent

the past four years.

during

Не

of the patron wad Morning Post Staff Club,

Mr Grinham also did a con- siderable amount of quiet, unostentatious work on behalf of social and charitable organ- isations. He was prominently associated with the Society for the Protection of Children, and up to the time of his death was joint Hon. Treasurer,

Me Grinham was a founder member of the Newspaper Society of Hongkong and "ils Arst Hon. Secretary.

As a young man Mr Grin~ ham was a proßleleni amateur when he first boxer, and came to Hongkong shortly after Liberation he frequently acted anreterco ut Services boxing tournaments" In the China Ficet Club.

Mr Grinham was a great lover of music and himself talented .organist. Before

Melbourne, June 14 A diary found on a South Pacific atoll by Royal en- gineers preparing for Bri- lain's recent nuclear tests was identified here today as belonging to a 19th century phosphate mine

manager Abraham AlcCul-

named

Jough.

Reports of the Лnd spoke of the diarist as a "voluntary Robinson Crusoe" but his daugh- ter, Mr Anne Horn, 79, said hero today her father Jed SL

far from Hobinson Crusos-like exis- tence on Mulden Island,

coming to Hongkong he was organist of All Saints Churen,

Greenfield, Comptan Bristol, and ulso at George's Church, Clifton,

near

He was a member of the Hongkong Club, the Hong- kung Jockey Club, the Hong- kong Football Club, the Sports Club and the Y's Men Club.

Ho was

ciso a Freemason, being a member of St Stephen Lodge, 3145, Bristol Province, Born la Bristol, Gloucester~. shure, Mr Grindami was educat- ed at Bristol Cathedral School, He joined the family busi- ness of W. Grinham & Sons, printers Gad stationera, at Bristol. The premises were Destroyed by Gerini bombs during World War II.

He always had a love of the sea and joined the permanent Royal Naval Volunteer Re- serve (Bristol Division) in) 1928. He was mobilised when the Europeany war broke out in 1930 and served throughout | World War II with distinctions,

He commanded H. M. Ships Newport, Rochester and Nith. His ship was attached to the Beltish Pacific Flict in 1945 und he came to Hongkong al the end of that year.

Mr Grinham unished his | war service with the rank of Lacut-Commander.

Mr Grinḥam was himselt bereaved in Friday

when bin mother passed peacefully away at her home in Bristol, Ho leaves three sisters to mourn their dquilo loss3.

The funeral will be held tomorrow `at St John's Cathedral at 4.30 pm. The cortege will pass the Monu ment at 6 pm.

GREEKS CHARGE: 9-Year-Old's

'SHUDDERING'

Infiltrator Killed BUT SMOKING CYPRUS

Gaza, June 14.

A United Nations patrol today Ittle foresight to jump on shot and killed an unidentified the bandwagon of a thriving khaki-elad Arab as he tried to industry, Indiscriminate exeras the demarcation line into pansion is, however, danger- Israel north of Gaza, OUN and obviously invest- ment in existing concerna for plant

A United Na ions Emergency Force communique said that the improvement patrol, comprising Dunish and would pay investors and Norwegian soldiers, fired when the Colony-higher the nun, instead of haling at dividends. Lower coats and is command, prepared to inrow higher quality should be the hand grenade, aim of Hongkong's cotton industry.

Belgu news agency's correspon- dent reported.-France-Presse,

Lights dim? Fuses blow frequently?

DOES HELP

TORTURE

Athens, June 14.

The Greek Government tonight accused the British authorities in Cyprus of using "methods of torture

TO KEEP DOWN altogether shuddering."

WEIGHT

Motorbike Exploit

Paris, June 14. Daniel Leskovac, nine-year-

old French boy, today won the plaudits of a throng of tourizia by riding down, the 50 steps of the grand stairway of the famous

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In a communique fte Foreign continue being perpetrated in Basilos of the Sacre Coeur slop Ministry denied accusations con-, Cyprus,"

Montmartre, on a motorcycle, sained in a Cyprus Government

The communique added: “The Leskovac thus duplicated the white paper and in a statement Greek Foreign Ministry draws feat of older man, Pierre by the Governor, Sir John Hard- attention to the fact that Greece Labric, now, Mayor of Montmar- ing claiming Greek torture has always demanded that the tre, performed in 1922 on a charges were "an organised de- case be investigated on the spot bicycle. famation conspiracy."

by a neural international com- mission."-Reuter,

New York, June 14. Whatever the Belgian

damage cigarette smoking does to lungs and hearts, It plays

The communique added that! some role in keeping down

the Greck Government was the weight of aging men, "in possession of handwritten according to scientific and க

signed accusations of study into why many men victims which it reserves the who give up smoking imme- right to present diately start to gain weight.

Appliances slow heating up? Then may we suggest that the fault is perhaps in your wiring? We would also like to suggest that to ensure a complete absence of such faulte we be allowed to do your next wiring installation!

Dru Ancel Keys

and Josef

Brozek of the University of Minnesota could not explain what this role could be unless- es some scientific evidence. hos indicated-moking slows down the "hurger contractions" of the

stomach and so "tends to depress the felt need for food."-United Press.

deems it,"

wherever £1

'THEY CONTINUE'

Townsend In Canada

Vancouver, Jure 14. Group Capt. Peter Townsend

Daniel said he had been riding

a motorcycle since he was Ave years old. It is specially bullt to his small size, and he knows how to repair and maintain it.

Daniel said he realised he had set no speed records in perform- ing the exploit, but added to re- portere, "I hope to do better next ime."France-Presse,

arrived last night aboard the Farouk Ring Sold

Orlent liner Orsova from Hono- The communique Buld the lulu on his trip around the Groek Government was com-world pelled to reiterate the charges "in view of the fact

He declined to answer that is porters' questions and fellow

Cairo, Jung 14. An Egyptian industrialist to- 30-day paid £1,790 for a ring with challenged and that, despite the passengers sald they had hardly a diamond the size of a thumb- United Nations

nail, set in platinum and once resolution and seen him during the voyage-owned by King Farouk-Unlied·· the Eoka truce, such tortures United Press.

Press.

See the New '57 PLYMOUTH

She said her father died on the island, which is 400 miles south of Christmas Island, centre of Britain's H-bomb tests.

"My mother, three brothers and I spent long periods on the Island," Mrs Horn maid,

"1 was very

young then -

in fact I was the first white baby girl, seen by the native warkers there. The last time 1 saw the island was when I was seven years old,"

G KOWLOON.

QUICK PACT TO HALT A-TESTS?

Washington, June 24. The United Blales is co11- sidering the possibility of working out a quick agreement

with Russia tunt would bult ali atomic Weapons LeBla for year, og so on 4 irlal basis.

While raising Rome quea- tiens, oficials did mot reject the ban va nuclear Lesta proposed by Russia today al the Loudon disarmament illis. Moscow suggested that où-

servers be placed in both Iussia and tha United States forcement, Press,

to CILLEC CH- United

Freight Surcharge

Dropped

In Sydney, Mr Kenneth Mc- Cullough, u grandson of the diarist, sald his grandfather came to Austraila about 1800 from Northern Ireland unl them went to Maiden Island to mine phosphates for a Mol- bourne dim-China Mail Spe-Kingdom and continental freight cial.

Inland Sea For Sahara?

Tho

London, June 14. Port Sudan, Unlled

DON【ETENCO

annouced today the withdrawal of a five per ocut not

al

zurcharge weblola has recently appiled to base rates of freight from British, Scandinaylan and North Continental ports.

The change affects all cargo, whother already on board or not, by all vessels loading Paris, June 14, Port Sudan from today, The revival of a 19th century The lines represented at the plan to create an Inland sea in conterence retain the right to the Sahars region in a 5,000 reintroduce a surcharge in the square mile depression in Algeria event of any unfavourable and Tunis was anounced to-velopments affecting the Sucz day with the creation of a new route-Reuter,

study organisation known [U

"Artemis."

Tho organisation, whose

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initials French Stand for St. Laurent To

Association for Technical Research for the Study of an Inland Sahara Sea, Is planting the building of maritime canal 30 miles long to conneet the Gulf

оп of Gabes

the Mediterranean with the Chott Djorld,

which La below Бед Juvel

In this manner the entire net- wark of Chotts (Brackish inland Lakes) could be inundated so far as southern Algeria.

Resign Next Week?

Oltawa, June 14. The Canadian Prine Muister, M. Louis St, Laureni said today his Cabinet would remain i offtec un Monday or Tuesday, It was learned on high aú- thority that the Cabinet would The plan was first studied in then resign, ut a time con- 1577 by an associate of Ferdinana ventent to Constavative leader de Lesseps, builder of the Suez | John Canal-Franco-Presse,

Press.

Delfenbaker. - United

RECORD PRICE FOR GAUGUIN PAINTING

Parks June 14

A 1801 painting by French artis!

Paul Gaunin, a mill lifa apples, Was gold for 104 million franes (£104,000 ster. ling) at ni auction here today to Mr Ball Peter Gluedris, a Grock New York shipowner. The

sale, crowded with ari dealers and collectors from the United States and all over

X X X

Air

Europe,cluded 15. plcres from the election of the late American lionaires Margaret Thompson-Biddle. The palco was the highest ever

paid for a painting.

Gauguin lived and died almost penniless in a hut in the South Sea islands, China Mail Special.

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