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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958.

H. KING WOOD REPORTS IN OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER Macmillan Started Off Badly But Is Now Standing Up Well

Sydney (By Airmail).

It is less than three weeks ago that a VIP plane touched down briefly at Richmond Air Force Station on its way to New

Zealand.

A minor official from it told a waiting minister and a group of top service chief that the British Prime Minister, Mr Har- old Macmillan, was sleeping and could not be wakened.

The minister and service chiefs

If not prepaid booking fee strugged and, being human, no of 50 cents is charged.

duubt muttered some unkind words, stopped into their cars and went about their business.

That incident seemed to malce

like impossible anything

Portable

FOR SALE

the British

MOTORISTS. Your car ballary will les longer, and will not fat you, it you keep it fully charged with #ccessful and popular tour of

battay charger. Two this country by moopia avaliable, 6/22 voll amps.. Pr, mo Minister. Newspaper at 2125.00; 5/12 volta $193.00. Spalinger & Co. Ltd. | posters that day read: “Minister Innored" and "Service Chiefs Airkandra House Arcade.

anubbed" ond they seaned to aurn up the feeling.

ampe.. st

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WANTED KNOWN

But as though aware, of the handicap, the British PM has set himself out to prove the erities, wrong.

He has completely cut perop and as much ceremony as usaible during his tour so far and managed to make himself) very popular indeed.

of

has only managed to gandwich, mander-in-Chiet in four hours of talks with Air Menzies and his ministers.

Forces, Burma during World

GAMBLING INCREASING

Melbourne, Feb. 11. AMBLING. is in- creasing in Aus-

tralia.

AUSTRALIA

IN

in 1986/87.accounted for, rather toss than one per cent of total personal consumption · expendi- ture. This représents about DELO- lanth Of gross・・ gambling expenditure.

Most widespread pubile Buth Walce-are expected to The chief economic algnificance But it does not at present interest in gambling in Australla yield £A800,000 to the general of Pambling it, according to the stato revenue In the current report, "the redistribution of constitute a serious econo- is in State-wide lotteries,

year.

But the revenue ratu something in the vicinity of 10 mic or social threat to the Lottery-takings and the num provides no basis for estimating per cont of total personal in- country, according to a bera of people who buy tickets possible gambling expenditura comes, according to the hazards survey recently completed has risen steadily since World fed into the rapacious slot," said of a marble in a barrel or judg

ment of an animal's form." by the Bank of New South War II. Wales.

The murvey found that:

Biale governments have

the report.

In eight years ticket sales in

Racing and lottery revenicz the New South Wales State

in 1938/67 WOR lottery Inercased from 9,000,000 for all States nillion to more than 34,000,000) animated at about RA16,000,000

Kimulated the gambling | -** habit by approving revenue- raising lotteries; and

Racecourse betting has in- creased by 50 per cent.

Reputation

By RONALD FORD

Moral Problems

„Moral problems are just as tauch personal and individual responsibilities as other forms of expenditure on drink, dress, food and entertainment, slate" says the report, "cannot to ensure individual a year. An average of seven, out of a total State tax revenue legislate

( about £A90,000,000.

virtue." lotterien are crown each week,

The growth of modern "Taxation of gambling is a But weekly investments in lol- terics do not exceed four shiftings comparatively painless form of gambling is not unrelated to extraction of Government re-the growth of the Welfare State, But, sald the survey, the per person.

verues,

"It is not "But Allied "somewhat dubioua” reputation

surprising, then," the report said. Betting to alco increasing one, bensing Bttle political according to the report.

financial said the report, "that many Aus perrenial Australians being a nut on cf

"one armed bandits" in other in their War II.

born gamblers needs "more

stringencies the States have be-j tralians took to a lottery ticket The turning professional by On the other side of the aisle than a cursary investigation be- waris, slot machines.

"Finances of many sporting come more involved in direct us a long shot for a small butiny top brass from the fore acceplance." Probably our and social clubs cepend heavily operation of lotteries and de- to provide tax free means to the Lew Hood acenis to be one big were the

out of Ave of the adult popula~ time deal that is going to live up Japanese Embassy.

The

legal betting turnovers."

cannot now be obtained by the Managing Director of then has a "flutter occasionally on this noisy mechanical device," pendent on the maintenance of luxuries of life which they feel to premise.

of thrift and trivial the report sald, of Airlines Ltd, Mr R. to Ted Schroeder, Southern According

Licence ice; on slot machines Not takings by lotteries, totall-old recipe Hond will undoubtcaly | Barnewell, decinred this week gumbling, but the scale of these Lew

In New saters and registered bookmakers' diligence."-China Mail Special. make a quarter million dollars that the Managing Director of operations and the economic recently legalised (about LA120,000) by the time Ansett-ANA, Mr Reg Ansett. consequences are negligible. bis two-year contract with Jake had declared war on his com-

"In A different class," said the report, "is the hard core of rac- Kramer ends. In the first six pany.

To this declaration, Mr Ansetting devotees and lottery inves months, up to last week, it is

"Rubbish," He was lors. Often the patron of the Saturday not interested in Southern Air-sport of kings on timated that he has made more later sald

liner Ltd. and certainly didn't | afternoon i also the trotting! want to buy 11.

e.thusiast on Saturday night. At the moment Mr Anggit 13 "La 1935/55 punters invested believed to have suffelent in £A32,000,000 එස totalisatora Australia and with licensed

than half that amount

LITTLE SUCCESS

on

JOMC form

The £2,500 he took from an ing to get hold of Buller Air throughout oll company tournament in Mel-Transport, and in spite of his £230,000,000 boune is not counted. That nighty Ansett-ANA fleet, it does bookmakers on racecourses in ali Got seem on the surface that he States except Queensland (for just sort of pla money.

which atollatics are bot is being very successful.

There is no doubt, however, available)."

In addition, large amounts that the battle of the skies is

tough in this were placed in "starting pricu" sountry and must be providing wagers, really getting world al craft manufacture: with a happy hunting ground.

On the other hand, Mr Kramer is having very little success with his current professional tournu- ment at Sydney's White City e confessca that he is por lexed by its finopcial failure.

SHIPMENT Just arrived Sheets, Pillow.cles Sheeting. Duval

On a Queensland station al the

Up to the middir of this week Ltd. Home Accessory and Gift Shop, 20 Garden Road. Telephone 35661, weekend he appointed himeslí My Kramer said that so far he ESKAMEL official walter at a burbecue a bad greased only £3,450 from BPOTAT J'IMPLES?

sirnice Get handy eficiently served

the luurnament. concells is AL hvala, tube today! Two sites available policemen, chauffeus, stockmen 1com leading Dispensaries

and all sorts of other cown-tu- earth types who wanted them.

SLIKE

STAMP'S

and

Callao stamps.

IMPRESSION

Prize money is'£7,250 and ke time promised the NSW Lave Teunis Association £4,000 renial. General expenses could thousand here Sop up another and there.

SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE,

He says that although he is no tors packets of assorted From 20 cents per packet upward.

After being made en honorary more happy about losing money An entirely new aurios. Bruth China Morning Post Lid., Wyndium Doctor of Laws at the Australian than anyone else. what is con- Hongkong and Salisbury Natiorul University in Canberra coining him more is why the stoad, Kawicon.

he admitted with quite an un-onument has failed, Macmillan-like grin that he had "found the dril of donning and dofing his academic bonnet and shaking hands extremely hard to

NOTICE

& follow.

AJAX ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. When he arrived at Mascot be throw a small spunner into the New Address from Wednesofficial works when he ignored day, February 12th, 1958, he upen door of his official ca and walking across to speak t will be

airport employees. 735, MAN YEE BUILDING,

Telephone Numbers 37558 and 37531

"AGAPENCE”

He and Lady Dorothy strolled down a long line of people and exchanged arcetings.

If the airport incident on the NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES way to New Zealand had creat

id any bad impressions, the British Prime Minister las bent over backwards to correct them. It must also be admitted that so far he is slanding up well Damaged vargo ex thie veusi will be surveyed by Mess Goddard &

to the metal strain, in the two Douglas at Holt's Whori from 10 auth

weeks that he will be here he is on February 14 and 15, 1958, mid

stated to travel 2,630 miles, at- the requated consisteos their representatives present during lend 10 receptions, six official dinners, five official luncheons 25 on the record and make speeches.

the survey..

to have

BUTTERFIELD & SWINE,

Agenta, Hongkong, February 12, 1958.

AT

It is not to be considered that in the first week of his visit me

T 7.25 p.m. on May 6, 1937, the giant airship Hindenburg was poised for a routine landing at its mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-four seconds Inter the alrship was a white-hot skeleton on the ground... and 36 of her passengers and crew had dled.

Those 34 seconds put an end to an era of aviation,

o 50-year era of brilliant and dangerous experiments, an cra of high drama in which it seemed that the silver monsters which floated over the great cities of the world. were to establish a new age of air travel.;

Now comes the full exciting story of man's struggle to conquer the problems of flight by the use of lighter- than-air gases,

Its author has re-created, minute by minute, second by second, the great dramas that stirred the world during the era of airship travel. He has pieced together a fantastic document from hundreds of first-hand accounts given to him by survivors.

The story of the great flights and death flights that made airships admired and feared beyond all other means of transportation.

SHIPS IN THE SKY

starts

by

John Toland

on February

the

L HINA SINO VY

16th

POST-HERALD

He had in action what must surely be the world's best temts stars but they have not got the drawing power that he expected. We can only go back to the piece we wrote a few weeks ago in which we said that there was

AIRLINE BATTLE

of-the-course betting figures are not available,

A census in 1854 showed that full-time employees engaged in racing, professional sport, fot- teries, and art unions totalląd Arucit-ANA has atrendy about 10,000. Meny incecourse only part-time pileed oversons orders for new personnel are planes.

cn.ployees and many administra- Quntas. TEAL, and Trans Aus-tive positions are honorary. tralian Airways are expected to place largo orders later this year.

British, United States ond French manufacturera aro re- be Aghting a fairly ported to strong batte among themselves for this business.

Out of this one thing is almost certain-for the first time in the history of Australian civli avlu- tion-we will soon have on our Internal airlines French planes

TAA is reported to be parti- not the slightest doubt that his cularly interested in the French time tennis did not have any- Caravelle jet. The company is where near the appeal for Aus- anid to be impressed by what the short range twin when good class Caravelle-a tralians as amateus are battling for a title, jet-can do. It is reported to Cruise at 40,000 feet and would cover the distance from Sydney to Adelaide 1,200 miles in four hours three minutes com- As the Queen Mother's visit to pared with something like ave New Zealand draws to a close and a half hours of present day Australia la preparing to weln,

QUEEN MOTHER

come

her Sirangely enough there has been no talk yet of any public hullday for the arrival and It is certain that there will be n outstanding decrations as thus that welcomed the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1953.

however, Down at Canberra, workmen pre busy giving our Parliament House a makeshift racelift for the visit which beging on February 14.

The white exterior, which is to be floodlit when the Queen: Mather arrives for the Parlia ment Royal Ball, is being re- painted; the driveway outside the front entrance has been scrubbed On our opinion a triflo carly). and the front steps have been roughened so there will be no danger of slipplus.

Inside Kings Hall, where the ball will be held, the floor is being repaired and some of he Public Service top officials have ordered a check on the flat roof of the building. This roof is pobably one of the leakiest m Australia, It has defled the efforts of many people to seal it. As one official sold, "It would

be a tragedy it we were forced to use buckets and other recap- tacles to catch the drips on thu night of the ball,"

OIL DRILLERS

The fact that various oil com- ponies live drilled Australia full of holes over the last few years looking for all, and spent more tinn a few million in the process has not dauated others.

The Government has received 22 applications from óli explora. Lion comprater to quality for the Pottoloum Commonwealth Search, Subaldy, which this year amounts to £300,000, for each aspllëálem ápproved.

Kwal

At Canberra this week a new | Sim--"Bridge

the River on 14 bad

Australian premtore in the presence of some very distinctive viewers.

50 Per Cent

TO

SET UP

AND

IRAN HOME GUARD

GUERILLA UNITS

By ALI MEHRAWARI

Teheran, Feb. 11. For the first time in its history, Iran has drawn up plans for the establishment of a "National Resistance Organisation” and a ́ "Civil Defence Organisation” (Home Guard) whose tasks would be to protect the lives of the people, safeguard the national wealth, and prevent disturbances and chaos in the country in the time of amergency.

camels, borges Attached to the Ministry of, wide-scale intelligence service, sheep, goals, War and Ministry of Interior, demonstrate civil defence, and asses and mules.

The idea of establishing the National Resistance Organisation Racecourse betting in 1935/50 the two organisations will have carry out botage against the

and a consultative aggressors. Training wili was 50 per cent more than in a council

honorary ciude a course in underground was suggested as long ago as of Dr Mohammed 1949/50, but not so great as in committee under the

chairmanship of the Shah, operations for sabotage and the tall

in August 1953, the boom year of 1052.

Reza Pahlevi. psychological warfare and other Mossadegh Saturday attendances at race Mohammed

Members will represent the lootles likely to demoralise the when Royalista, consisting of

Army retired

officers Jolni remy.

rising meetings in the Melbourne area Council of Ministers, the

Civilians, succeeded in Chiefs of Staff, the Police and range between 30,000 and 40,000.

The Army authorities have against the Mosadegh regime in This compares with total at-

other outdoor the Gendermorlo.

favour of the Sheh, overthrew alm

these already started training mem- of The main tendances at

nd defeated his spectator sports of up to 200,000, ergenlactions is to prepare theers of the familles of the army Mossadegh

Actual participants in Beld

woman in cers, mainly young boys and Tudeh Communist supporters. ordinary man and

Loyal tribes have co many and other sports on an averaza fran to defend and protect him-gris, in shooting and handling

light weapons like rides and occasions in the past helped the Army Saturday in Melbourne would bo zelf or herself, and other en revolvers. The Shah personally Government and the

patriots. against attacks about 105,000.

against attends some of these courses,

internal and disasters.

Steps are soon to be taken to troubles. start training nomadle tribesmen in welfare and warfare in the tribal preza

No estimate la possible, how ever, of the considerable number to radio of people listening broadcasts of the races in homes and hotels, or their traffle with: the ubiquitous "starting-price

bookle."

China Mail · Entertainment “Guide

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT

ROXY & BROADWAY: "Blue Murder At St

Trinian's." A British comedy, KING'S & PRINCESS:

"Denver & Rio Grande." Edmond O'Brien and Sterling Hayden in an out- door picture.

LEE & ASTOR: "All Mine To Give." Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell in a heart warming story. ALHAMBRA: "Yangtze Bridge." A Chinese plc-

ture.

QUEEN'S: "The Quatermass Xperiment."

Donlevy in some science-fiction.

Brian

HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Lone Star." Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Broderick Crawford in the battle of Texas,

RITZ: "Men In War." Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray

in a battle drama,

ORIENTAL: "Bath In The Barn,". A German pic-

ture.

STAR: "Bagdad."

Christian. METROPOLE:

Maureen O'Hara and Paul

"Tap Roots."

Van Heflin and

"Jumping Jacks." Dean Martin-Jerry

Susan Hayward.

CAPITOL:

Lowla comedy.

MAJESTIC: "Loser Takes All." Glynis Johns and

Rossano Brazzi in a romantic comedy.

MAIL NOTICES

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13

RE: Air, H Hawaii, USA, Canada, 0 .. Torrnosa Kore. © p、in,

$9,0 p.m. TRUBEDAT, FERRUANT, 13 Thailand, a.m.

Peking, Stanghal, Hankow, Kun-

The story, is about the Thailand-Burma Rallway in World War Z and revolves around the personallies of two

characters-British ming Hothow, 30, an [strong

- Japan, K.MUNI colonel and ■ Japanese colonal,

Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Pakkelen, Among those who saw the pre- zooland, Cylon, India, miere was our Governor-General Africa. Grant A Bettina's zarepe,

"Nonny NAS KAN

Field - Marshal Bir Tulippines, Noon. William Silm, who was Comm. 1.3.A., * p.m.

The land. Burna, India, 6 g. Cambodia, Caylan, p.m.

china, People's Republic, 9 a.20. Meso, 1 p.m. Macro, 5. p.m. · ·

FRIDAY, FEBRUÁNY 14 Indo-China, France, ga.31, Formosa, apan, Okinawa, Korea, 114.m.

QUA. JARH, U,B,A., 1. p.m. Philippines Augtrain,

Jana, .m

The Motto.

and

to the Shah

and the

central

external

Communists

In 1945, the Zulfagbari

"Everyone should defend the

Iran has somewhere between homeland." Is the molto of the 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 nomad organisations, and every male or tribesmen, mostly warriors well tribesmen from Zanjan, led by female over 18 years of age can used to riding heroes and loyal their "Khane (chieftains), the Zulfaghar! brothers. formed voluntarily joint them.

The organisation will be government. They live mostly guerilla forces with the help of En army captain, Теутвоит countrywide and branches will in the hills and plains on the Bakhtar, and, co-operating with be established in the provinces frontiers, and can become a

Army units defeated the Soviet under the leadership of senior strong guerilla wespon against supported

IDOVBTM Communist retired army

azd cflcers

Invaders they ard armed by

ment in Azerbaijan in northern Branches will be the Army and well trained and generals.

Iran

Soviet bordering on the extended to remote parts of the organised into disciplined units.

Union, which had broken away country including villages

from Teheran and established ደጋ autonomous Commundat rural and tribal areas,

Republic of Azerbaijan.

and

Tribesmen

In

Iran

have

and

The Civil Defence Organisa- tion will train its members for

One ot the Zulfaghari such

protection

Tribesmen operations

brothers, Nasser Zukfastrati, is during air raids, fro-ighting always been ormed in the past. | Assistant Prime Minister, cad ir and first cid and relief opera- Traditionally, a tribesman would Governor General of Isfahan. tlong in the event of floods, nover separate from his rifle and

two ero Members of earthquakes, or other disaster, horse.

Parliament (Mojiis). The National Resistance But, since 1954, on the in- Captain Toyinour Bakhtiar of

will

its structions of the Shah, the 1949 is now give Organisation

Major-General the help of Assistant Prime Minister, and members military training and Government, with will teach them how to

Army, has disarmed the head of the Public Security light acme so that they car fight tribes, and a Tribal Council has Organization →→ China and co-operate with the Army boen set up to help transition Special, In the event of aggression. from nomadic to settled living. Special courses are to be They are now gradually starting started to train youth in to look after their herd and In-

warfare, guerilla

establish crease the size of their flocks of

Xudio

use the

Visual

And Entertainment

RADIO HONGKONG

Mall

VANGUARD

TESTED

Cape Canaveral, Feb. 11. The Yangurrd rocket, which the Navy still hopes will put a second United States satellite into orbit, undarwent à ground test of its engines today.

Mallbag:- 6.30, Dick Jurgens Bhow 1., Story Of Jane Armitage, 1. The Navy described the statio Time Signs and the News; 2.09. Weather Forecast, Announcement firing as "routine." It was the and Embertude; 7.16, The Ghap Fields first noticeable setivity around Bhow: 730, "Boven Thunders the site of the Vanguard Preview of the Bank Organisation's Latest Release Starring Stephen Bord launching platform since and Tony Wrung 145, Diy Mar Wednesday, when another Van- And Tile Orchestra; D. Personality

8.30 pm Evening Bermande. "In Bore & Time Bignal, Lucky Dip Listeners Requesta presented By Weather porti Bignal, The Commentary: 2.15,- Arian Pines (Barso) with The Besorolten Open House Orchestre conducted by Bruno Waline: 7.30, Robert Farnol and his Orchestra (LiNCTS); 4, Nelson Ruddin and his orchestra (wih voor Kroup), “Patchwork”. pieved. other by Gillian Durling, Norman Colling: 10, Men Bad testing will be fred in a dow now undergoing Weather Reports Nowa Tom Britate: 9, Time Signal, The News and

9:15, Wedne day Theatre (Dac2a). The News and Home News, Fr-3. James McKechinle and Urwa Howelin

Parede Sarah Vasahang 8.15. The guard broke in halves and wis Tops In Popular Muric presented by destroyed seconds after it was. Nick Rendri: 8.30, Diemerki Show; fred. Deidre With The Lyons2; 130, Lon-

don Belongs To Mo-Pact --31 Melody--Blary

BODER

味味

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mund Hombergs 1950, VOne Night weeks in a third effort to put a Bland: 11, Dete with Dreamland «Baby Moon" into arbit 11.30, Préfude To Midnighty 2 |

Blant God Bave This Queen: Close | United Fress, age, by Anthony

In Man we toed by Mich

Bikewal: 104, Wayne King acd his Cephestra: 10.58, ytbar Reparti 11. Time Sline). Radio News Real: 1036, Wilhelm. Kemupii plays Dekima; '1130, close Dewa

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Dowth

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B. p.m., Children's Hour-Cartoons:

3.12, Uncle David Promania. 2779

Traventi: New Zon-

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missie-Prevented. by. 1.8.A, Canada, d.

Auntia : Ray: 136, AT7-a-

Pineau's Visit

Story of Twirlynose Mouse 0.30,

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