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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1958.

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK: ONE FOR 20

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OFFER FOR MERCANTILE SHARES Creating

THE editor and NOAH WAS Ike's Xmas

staff of the China Mail wish

Christmas.

How Alternative Of Strong 44 Shillings Per all readors a happy Is The Share Payment Church Of

Rome?

How

Could

powerful are tho Roman Catholica becoming Britain 1

arrive the day

IM

when

Mass will again be kald in

Westminster Abbey?

THESE are questions

THE

brought sharply

A new step in the proposed merger of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Mercantile Bank was announced in Hongkong and London today. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank issued the

following statement:

Mrs Roosevelt

Denies She

into focus as a new Pope Practises Yoga

takes over the spiritual leadership of 450 million Christians.

Today one person in ten

Britain is a Roman Catholic.

It

WHAT Impact have they an the rest of the nation?

• WHAT In Ruener does Catholic KOTHAN

The

community exert a business, polllles, the arts, and entertainment?

O WHAT b the truth about

converts a

New York, Dec. 23.

to- Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt

day denied a report that the practised yoga when she lived in the White She admitted that she used

House.

however,

to be able to stand on her head,

the thir

celebrities

WHO are whe have found in the Roman Catholic the answer to their f'hurch Probletas?

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Mrs Roosevelt, in her McCall's muqazim columb, " you a sit te," replier to a letter asking if $1

true, Wus

novelist As

in Fanni Hurat sald

her per autoblography, that forted a yoga exercise that in-

she

A China Mail writer has been volved sunding on her head

while the war First Lady. investigating

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be |

The Homun

Kolug life of Britain and

chosen

*m afraid that Miss Hurst bus Catholles as the subject of his exagerated slightly." Mrs his first article in a fascinating = koos velt replied ") lid, and new series, THE FAITHS BY ! bat du, exercises every mort-

For the 2. fatet

I did not know they WHICH WE LIVE will rramine the beliefs, were called yoga exerciws. practiers fiances, and per- | Bonalities of the great religiosa ¦ Cammunities

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Certainly nol for ope have I attempted to stand

by on my head, though there was Bernard Marria beglas in a me in my life when I could Saturday's Chion Mail.

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The Boards of The Hongkong and Shanbal Banking Cor- poration and Mercantile Bank imited monounce that agree- ment has now been reached in principle, subject to format

which contract, under

The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank will make дл ofter to the shareholders of Mercanule Bank Ltd to Acquire their shares in exchange for new shares of The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to be issued, credited as fully paid on the basis of one

of now share The Hongkong sad Shanghai Bank for

every 20 shares of Mercantile

(ex-divi? :nd) Bank Ltd.

Not Rank

The new shares of The long- kong and Shanghai Bank whit nol rank for the final dividend thereafter will for 1958, but

the with rank pari existing shares.

will be re- Such new shares

London re- gistered

rinter.

The

рац

on the

of

directors

Mercantile Bank Lid have agreed to re-

this offer commend

replance.

for ac-

There will be пр Chino Mail tomorrow or on Boxing Day but the weekend China Mall

with packed

factures and pictures and roundup of the holiday news will appear at the vaual time on Saturday morning.

The SCM Post will be published tomorrow but not on Boxing Day or Saturday. The Sunday Post-Herald will be pub- lished as usual,

Inside on page 2 to- day, film critic Anthony Fuller has reviewed the films being shown in Hongkong over the holidays. There is also a special notice about television programmes.

DISPUTE

OVER HOW LONG IS AN INCH

A

NEAR END

AN ALBINO

DOCTOR SAYS

London, Dec. 24.

Noah, who built the ark during the biblical flood was an albino with white hair, pink eyes and skin like snow, a British doctor suggested to- day.

Dr Arnold Sorsby, research professor in Opthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Eye Hospital, quoted from the little known books of the Apocrypha,

Writing in the British Medical Journal, Dr Sorsby and it could be that Noah's father ลง mother were either brother and sister or cousins.

Giving a detailed account of Noah's birth from the book of Enoch, Dr Sorsby, described how Lamech-Enoch's grand- son--was the father of a child- "the flesh of which was white as snow and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool and long, and whose eyes were beautiful. When he opened them he illuminated all the house like the surfs the house abounded with light,"

Married Sister

Dr Sorsby quoted from cac of the Dead Sea scrolls which seemed he said, to tell the London, Dec. 23.

Lamech's doubts as factual story of long-standing

the child was his difference of opinion be to whether tween the United States of his reassurances by his "In the light of this wite, and Britain, all over five tragment the account of Noah's millionths of an inch, is appearatice at birth as given оп its way

towards a in the book of Enoch is clearly I not that of a miraculous child settlemeni

an ohim," Dr Sonsby bul Buld,

In addition. for the benefit of those who might feel unable to become

shareholders of

One possible result

of that The Hongkong and Shanghai settlement is that the British Bank shareholders of Mer-inch may become ve millionths cantile Bank Ltd are to be longer. civen the right to take cash

at the rate of 44 shillings per share (ex-dividend) of Mer- cantile Bank Ltd.

The Offer

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He also quoted Interpretera of the scroll by saying that Lumech married his sister. They based this conclusion un the fact that Lamech was called "brother by his wife.

"If this were so and such

relationship was not particularly

Christmas Water Supply Bonus

The

Water Authority today announced a Christ- Haя bonus supply.

Tomorrow the Colouy wilt have water con- tinuously

C am to midalsht.

from

The Colony will also gri

full supply

the over New Year holiday.

A

The water will be turned on at 4.30 pm on Decem- ber 31 and will confikuo antil midnight the follow- ing day, January 1.

Queen Joins

In Carols With Villagers

New

Message Type Of

Army

To World

Washington, Dec. 23. President Eisenhower in his annual Christmas message Lo the world Save his "solemn word" today that the United States would never

use

its strength to break the peace.

Bonn, Dec. 23. A Soviet helmet made of

quarter-inch lend had been discovered on the Turkish border, and it is said it might be to protect Russian soldiers In nuclear warfare.

The President deliverud his Quoting a correspondent in

Christmas message of peace from a football field, opposite the White House, shortly be- tore

1 nation's lighting Christmas tree at dusk.

The President said that the ople of the United States and their Government did not want war and did not wish to enslave ur control any other nation or any other people,

PEACE

They seek only to enjoy with Their fellow men peace — a prace of honour and justice....

"The Unlied States is strong -and will remain strong-be- Cause that is the only way in today's world that the peace can bo

the United protected--bul States will

Its never use 51ength to break the peace."

'The President salû that

although

the

United States

Ankara, Dor Deutsche West German Soldat, A

to publication devuteri military matters, said the helmet had apparently rolled down a slope from the trans Caucasian border into Turkish terri- tory where it was found. Tho Ankura correspondent sold Russian officer who deserted and crossed into Turkey told him that Soviet tactical and strategical training had ond been recently

changed officers were again being instructed in the art of static

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warfare.

According

military Warfare

to the experts, in

there

successful

Soviet

atomic

could be no

defento

based on

would never retreat in the fact STOP PRESS

of force or the threat of force, fi would always welcome and accept serious and honest pro- posals to negotiate International differences.

has

States "The United pledged its national honour to work for pence," he declared. Sandringham, Dec. 23.

"For us, this pledge is no less Queen Elizabeth and other than a sacred obligation. It is

mombers of the British freely-but not lightly—given Royal family tonight join- to the nations of the world, ed a party of villagers Reuter. from nearby Dersingham the Royal

in carols ut home here.

The carollers, 22

of them,

singing

A MERRY XMAS FOR

British unusual it. primilive societies had been outside Sandringham BIG POOL WINNER

Noah becomes the offspring of house

Royal

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and

20-year-old question raised before the war when it was officially recommended that something should be done make American and luches the same length. More recently the The offer will be conditional Society, the Board of Trade

(intor alia) upon acceptance Commonwealth officials have albinism In respect of 90% (or such taken the problem up. lesser percentage

The

DISPARITY Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

may decide) of the shares of Mercantile Bank Limited other than those already held

by The Hongkong and Shang-

The disparity

"Christmas

extrems type of con- Awake" when they were invited sanguineaous marriage, and his kn by Captain the Lord Plunket, would Hustrute not the Queen's Equerry, only the antiquity of the affec-

They tion but also that the first re-drawing

rorded ensc showed parental

added.

he arises because | runsanguinity," Ute Americun inch is led to Teuter.

the metric system, while the

and Shanghai Bank referred Imperial Yard.

Iral Bank, the creation of the the British inch, by Act new shares of The Hongkong Parile meni,

of

based

on

the

D Today

spokesman at physical Isboratory

the

Lo above, and permission to deat in and quotation for national

such shares being granted by said: "While the matter is still the council of the Stock Ex-under

change, London.

If the offer is successful, with-

is

<Liscussion, there towards move

relating the British and American inches, but the final detalls out committing the board of

are not The Hongkong and Shanghal settled." Bank with regard to Its future Some reports from the United policy, it is the intention to States suggest this Anglo- retain the Identity of Americon difference will be Mercantile Bank Ltd with its cettled by an announcement to Head Office and board be made on New Year's Day.

London.

Reuter.

The Choice

TWO. thousand

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Yours ago, the mighty Roman, Empire stretched from Ayrla to Britain. Nover had the ancient world known so much invested in a single power siste.

o! The proud laglone Rome marched upon well laid roads that stretched across continents. Everywhere mur bowed bofore the Eagles of Rome. All submitted to har; all acknowledged her might; the Triumphe of Rome saw all the treasures of the world hauled through Roman Btrasts while barbarlan stavos stared In at her

majoetio wondor buildings. Her civil law was the law

of the world; bloodstained. Circus

fear of all Wonder and the

men,

her the

At that moment, at the zenith

of Roman might, a child wa

born at Bethlehem. It seemed

of no consequence, The earth.

did not move in Ita orbit. We

Comment Of The

Day

SHIP'S ENGINE

ROOM GUTTED

Tokyo. Dec. 23. A 7,275-ton British freighter, English Prince, with 36 crew- men on board en route for Købe from Shanghai, was on fire this afternoon, the Japanese coast- puord reported.

The Are was brought under

П

shown into were

seated room, where In semi-circle, were the Wales, Queen, the Prince of Princess Anne, Queen Elizabethi the

Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent the Queen's aunt and rin- coss Alexandra, the Duchess of Kent's daughter.

There they sang three more carols, with the Royal family joining

in. Then the Queen asked The First Noel."-Reuter,

DRIZZLE &

control after It had gutted the COOL WEATHER

engine room-Reuter,

came down at Christmas.

FOR XMAS

Now the world is at the cross

efther Christmas holiday weather

roads again. It lo

Bethlehem or materialism. It cannot be both. And which- aver #la, mon will have to face the issue boldly.

I

Wo

the 1-

is expected to be dull, drizzly and cool.

The Royal Observatory report- that between ed this morning are merely

3 m. and 10 a.m. today, 12 of an habitants of a cooling dying inch of rain was recorded. planet, and if

smear сл the

observing

aro but a

slide of some Forecasting the holiday wea“ scientist, then let ther, they do not expect much that be our faith, and let us improvement. The weather will take on the nature of a tiger tend to be slightly cooler over and fight within this sphere of the next few days. hatred, Dut-If we believe God

Christmas morning should be came to Bethlehem for our cloudy and drizzly, with a pos- sake, as the carols we shall sibility of the dull weather stay- power

began 10 sing this Christmas claim, ing Oround in the afternoon. With the geollne.

then passing

Um adjust YOATS, there came the timo tives according to our belief. when oven the proud Gresar bowed before. Christ the Lord We do not exaggerate. Within

of Rome

who was born in Bethlehem. Now the chalos is before the world again. A greator ampire than Gasser over knew dismisses Bethlehem

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myth, and the God child as a fabrication.

are told that to certain' Byrian·"]}¤ real tragedy is that those shepherds, angels appeared, who There in talk niso of certain

wise

who vlulted movi

the new-born child. But from that moment, the material

claim to adhere to Bethlehem have surrendered part time, the shepharda" brooke, the manger; the Angel Choir the beller that Love

fot

our

Christmas Tussle

Dallas, Doc, 23:

the fast decade, five hundred millione have boon brought under the influence of a cread that Boon progrees through haired,

while every code of

Mr Troy Hiil has a Yuletide honour we cherish, every on

problém, lightening Inw We posSSES, avery

Helo, expecting 30 guests for Institution whether voluntary or state Christmas dinner andt fas endowed, began at Bethlehem, 30 pound turkey in his TO- Lat us then at this time adjast frigerator, but the handle broke our lives and arrange our oft the door, two days ago—and thoughts to be conulstent with he is still tugging to get at the our faith in Bethlehem.

charitabia

[bird--Rouler.

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Liverpool, Dec. 23.

A 25-year-old 14verpool van driver, Mr Ronald Smith,

Christmas

assured of a merry

with a £200,037 10s. win in a national football pool an- nounced hero today.

He will share his prize with four

other members of his

familly-China Mail Special.

Hi-Fi

independent, highly technical mobile units such as the West employed, the magazine said.

They were therefore creating a "lead-armoured army which would be equipped to survive an atomic attack by sheltering

and foxholes, and then resumo

with Aghtlog

conventional

under lead cupolas in trenches

weapons.

The magazine said special units were already

equipped with asbestos uniforms and lead cupolus.

The lead helmet found by a Turkish patrol near the border covered the

face and head rested on the

completely, and shoulders, the magazine said. It had two sliding lead shutters to cover the eye openings.

Its weight made the wearer feet his knees sogging-Reuter,

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