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CHINA MAIL

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MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1959.

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ANN ZUMEHIGIMIN

EXPORT FROM CHINA HALVED IN PAST MONTHS Hongkong Boy Wins

Of The HK

Day

Boosting Food Production

FRIE Governor's advice to

local farmers on mell- sures to reduce costs and increase production under lines the seriousness with which all munt regard the recent alarming ductuations

Expected To Ease

Before Chinese

New Year'

More chickens are expected

to reach the Colony in New time for Chinese Year (February 8), to rase the present shortage which has sent prices soaring.

In local food prices and the By CHINA MAIL REPORTER Irregularity of imports from China. For wille our farms supply a small and growing proportion of local needs the greater part has to be Imported. Hongkong will probably never be entirely self-sufficient though it can be hoped that new seientific methods

intense and development will greatly relieve our present depen dence on imported foods.

For there is A story of pleasing achievement to re- cord about the growth of Hongkong depends on farm produce and fish in Mainland for the bulk of her recent years which our Un poultry, and over the past few Long exhibition does not months, the regular tell. Few for example realise poultry from China to Hongkong has been halved. Approximate-

The poultry will be coming from the Mainland, but it is not known in what quant les, ne- cording to Mr Yip Yeuk-lain, of the Chinese General Chomber of Commerec.

The

llow of i

that after feeding them-1 6-7,000 pieces of poultry are selves the New Territories Being imported daily. people produce GO

per cent

of the vegetables we con- sume, 29 per cent of the pork, 12 to 16 per cent of the eggs and poultry and About

eight per cent of the rice. As for fish, but for recent. restrictions, the local fleet would be supply- ing all our needs. And the chanees Arc thut with vegetables, pigs and poul- try, significant increases in production can be expect ed.

In the last five years we have already more than doubled pig production.

Protection

TT is to be hoped that more

I development

companies

The Trouble

But according to Mr Yip, we He are not desperately short." expects that as Chinese New Year approaches, there should be risc in the amount

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'ng from the Mainland. He believes that the fall in the amount of poultry coming in hed comething to do with transporta- en troubles. He said that almost all the poultry being brought to was coming from Hongkong

Kwangtung through Canton.

Mr Yip said the higher

season

Poultry

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I don't know whether it's Just my imagination, but there seems to be a very changed atmosphere in the

club just recently."

London Express Bervice.

CHURCH MAKES

£350,000 PROFIT

Shortage

'CHEATING IN AUSTRALIAN

TESTS WARDLE SAYS

Melbourne, Jan. 18.

JOHNNY Wardle, the former

He

England

and

Yorkshire

both

of

accused apin bowler, England and Austral "cheating"

the in

present Teal series when he appeared on Melbourne commercial television programme tonight.

naid he had a "passing fancy" that Australia could have Woll the Third Test and the ashes but the "powers that be" were out out of the to make money

""Make this a four and said' draw."

Wardle, whose lavitation 10

play

Was with- for MCC drawn before the tour start- c. alleged that Australian fast bowler. Jan Mecklff,

Johnny Wordle

UK Prostitution

Bill Termed Very Dangerous

London, Jan, 18.

views were corro-

London, Jan. 18.

The British National Council for Civil Liberties of poultry The Church of England

has written to the Home Secretary, Mr. E. A. sold its 260,000 shares in British Aluminium Lo

Butler, protesting at the terms of a bill which Tube Investments for provides for stiffer penalties for prostitution. around £1,105,000.

Both the National Council and to arrest on suspicion was dra- This became known after i

that Tube Church of England Moral, gerous, its had been conceded Investments had won the battle Weltore Couneli, which today borated by the Church of Eng- a pamphlet on the land Moral Welfare Council's for control of Britain's sole published

subject, see in the proposed bill pamphlet. aluminium producer.

The bill was published Insti The Church is made a profit danger to personal fiberty.

In letter to Mr Butler, the

month.-Ecuter. of at least

pointed out which stood shares.

at 5BS.National Counci

that while the solicling of men when the row siaried.

The Tube Investments' bld is by women in Britain will be an offence, there will be no pro- 855. a share.

solicit of men who Women for prostitution. SAFEGUARD

prices for poultry during this were usual, but he's never been quite so high as it is at present. Dealers usually ndd 20-30 per cent on to the New price during Chinese Year, but never 50 per cent.

Price Increase

follow the lead of a local cattle importing concern

One big Chinese restaurant which has established itself on Lantao. Projects like manager said this morning be these backed by the know-was not feeling the plach of the shortage, but he was feeling the

ledge of overscan breeder Increase in price. He had a con- could make significant tract with a farm in the New contributions to the locally- Territories to buy chickens produced food supply. In the restaurant. But now sud- expanding production denly Hongkong must think of doubled. primary products, because Once a month a consignment the satisfaction of local of chickens arrives

needs should be as important

the Arice had

won. This amounts

been

from Tol- to about 10,000 pieces, ond is only

a part of overall development enough for about four days at plans as the building up of the present time, according 10 our export trade.

But

Mr Yip.

Turko-Greek Meeting

until the Colony is producing much more than today, not only have vedl farmers to be protected, but consumers. The short- age of chickens is a case in

Paris, Jan. 18. point: the price has more

Evangelos Averoff and Fatim than doubled in less than a

Rustu Zorlu, Foreign Ministers month because imports have or

Greces and Turkey, con- slumped. Taiwan chickens ferred here today for two-and- are being imported to re- a-half hours, reportedly over lleve the shortage but at the Cyprus question.

Sources within the Turkish prices that will be pro- hibitive

Party said the two Pork,

Minister's to many.

luncheon men, who also had eggs and fish have also been

together, discussed Issues under dearer and though increases

"friendly" conditions, and both have been much less nevere,

appeared to have been satisfied the danger is that with ex- with the meeting. They may ports from China subject to meet again tomorrow.-France-

fluctuation and possibly Presse. manipulation the Colony

could be woriously incon- ventenced.

It is prematuro to remind Government of the powers it possesses for declaring cer- tain goods "reserved" com- modities"-but here is a measure which may have to be used widely one day un- less ofther Chinese imports

£350,000 on its

The Church has investments seculion worth £221 million. The income from these goes towards paying parsons. London Ex- press Service.

(5ce P. 9, C. 7)

Tried To Pass

A "Mickey"

Manila, Jan. 18. TOTHING could convince

Padilla that Japanese war notes were no longer legal tendar when he ineleted on paying his bua fare with the "Mickey Mouse" monoy ta the notes are known hera), according to a report from Cebu southern City In the Philippians. Mr Padilla told police that he had worked for the money during the Japan. Occupation of the country and if it was good anough for him to accept then it must be good enough for the bus com- pany to accept a fare now-14 years after the WACK

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Somebody pald

the fare with good Philippine cur. rancy and the police told the old man to go home. -China Mail Opecial.

The previous safeguard for innocent women will be re- moved by the climination of the requirement to establish annoyance and by the provision that loitering without soliciting will be an offence, it maintain- ed,

The National Council, which is calling for

of the bill in its present form, also said that the additional power to be given to the police

broke the laws of cricket by throwing.

Ho also claimed that England.) splaner Tony Lock threw the ball and Was not a "brainy bowler."

Wardle said he had a slow mɑ-

Honours In Painting Contest

London, Jan. 19. Lee-Man-sung, a 10-year-old -boy from Hongkong, has tied with an English girl aged 13 in

inter- national painting contest for deaf children. He sent in a Chinoso sceno while Lilian Walth entered portrait of a girl holding a bunch of spring flowers. They topped the prize list in

contest which attracted

nearly 1,000 paintings from deaf childran tho world over aged between four and 16.

Eminent members of the Royal Academy of Arts judged the ontrías. The competition was arranged by the magazino "Modern Hearing" and the National Deaf Children's Society.— Reutor.

tion picture of Meckift which MIKOYAN HOLDS:

proved

action.

be used a throwing

He also accused West Indies

and Pakistan of "cheàling,” saying each country had at: least one bowler who threw. Wardle clalined that the MCC ordered umpires in England to ignore throwing by visiting bowlers "Lo zvold inter- national incidents."

He

added: "Umpires all over the world are shirking their Job." -Chios Mall Special.

Husband Beater

Divorced

SOVIET POSITION

ON BERLIN 'SOLID & CORRECT'

Washington, Jan. 18.

Mr Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet Deputy Premier, said tonight that in his talks with President Eisenhower and Mr Dulles he had not received any convincing counter-proposals on Berlin.

one is surprised at the pallenco they have?"

He suld the Soviet Union's position on Berlin-the Russian

The Communist Chinese were "tolerating" the presence ni American troops on Fonnosa, he added.

proposal is to turn West Berlin into a demilitarised free elty- was "solid and correct."

Answering questions on the TV programme "Meet the Press, Mr Mikoyan said his "true purpose" for visiting the view. U

US. was "o find out what has

Chicago, Jan. 17. Superior Court Judge Frank M. Padden yesterday granted six-footer John K. Lawrence, 48. divorce on testimony that his wife, beat him up three times. Lawrence described his 'wife, Annabelle, 39, five feet two inches tall and weigh- ing 98 pounds. He also said she was "ferocious"-U.P.I.

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He was in a Jovial mood as

he began the hour-long Inter-

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Mr Mikoyan sidestepped been happening in this country" acestion as to why Tass, since his first Visit 22 years oficial Soviet News Agency ac-

or

Chína

the

count of his visit had not re- ported some of his "most in- and most candid statements," such as his admis- sion of mistakes made under

le Stalin era.

One questioner asked if the teresting Savirt Union had the "desire the capacity to restrain China's belligerence.

The Soviet leader replied:

Ho said: "First of all I must. "We have no Tenson to restrain say I have not had a chance to the Chiners because we regard read all the Tass reports.

But them AS A

very restrained the things I have Said here I a matter of fact, would people. As

readily ropcat back

America Now Has Ideal

Moon Rocket Motor

China Lake, Cal., Jan. 18.

the withdrawal The chief of the U.S. Navy Missile Propulsion Section `at China Lake Proving Grounds disclosed today that a rocket motor had been developed that will permit. rockets to land on the moon or other planets and bring manned satellites back from orbit under complete con- trol.

Round-The-World In A 25-Ft Sloop

Nowcastic, Jan. 18.. A Royal Naval officer who three years JEO sailed a sloop single-handed to New Zealand was planning a said today he round-the-world trip

similar vessel.

The ofleer

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Lloul-Com

Small Fire At Windsor Castle

Windsor, Jan, 18.

fre in Windsor fire engines 700-year-old the Royal

A small Castle brought

to the 35- racing mander Michael Bailess,

home of year-old bachelor-relites from ancestral

family tonight. the Navy in May and expects to be away five years in a 25- trot Swedish-designed aloop the flames snuffed out by the now being built.

rime the Bremen arrived, Dam- auge was minor.

On this trip he will take

of three crew

un said: the right girl comes along have no objection to having woman aboard."-Reuter.

"I

But the household staff had

The flames were confined to I one room of Burford House, a where members of the Royal

staff Live.-U.P.I.

Brinks Robbery Man Spirited

Out Of Gaol And Back Again

ate satisfactorily stabilised TOSEPH

or noty sources of supply at

Douging D. Ordhal said the new motor provided controls needed to make "Leather soft" iundings on the moon or other planets, and. he added, al- though the motor has only been

thus ground tested

for "we hope we can make 'ʼn test vehicle within the next six months."

Ordahl said the engine did not have to burn all is fuel at once. "It can save the remain- der for tater spurts," ho asserted.

The new motor opened the way to the cosmos, he said and it was now possible to go any place in space,

New Control

He noted that the United States already possessed engines "that could go to the moon if we had proper control over them. This new control gives us that control," he said.

Eoka Men

Captured

home."

Stalin Speech

Asked why the famous speech

of Mr Nikita Khrushchev de- acuncing Marshal Stalin อเ secret Party Congress had never been published in the Soviet Union, Mr Mikoyan repiled "............. we would have published it Im- mediately but we know we havo many enemies who would like to use these things against us." He was presumably referring to the charges against Stalin.

He flatly denied that the fact that there was no criticism of Mr Khrushchev in the Soviet press meant that a new "personality cult" was emerging in the Soviet Union. Mr concern

Mikoyan professed no at the possible danger that the Chinese would spill over into Soviet territory their

population topped

once tho

1,000-million mark, as is ex- pected by 1980.

Science would be able to pro- vide the meats to feed every- one, Mr Mikoyan sald. In addt- tion, Chinese agriculture and in- dustry was making giant steps forward. He said agricultural production' this past year had in... in- creased 60 per cent and

With Arms dustrial production had doubled.

Nicosia, Jan. 18. British sacurity forces arrest- ed three Greek-Cypriots and soixed, a large quan.

-Reuter and U.P.I,

RELIGIOUS

tity of arms, ammunition, CONDUCT FOR

and equipment which they found in #

hidcout

southwest Cyprus today.

an official communique suid.

It Was the first arrest of members of Eokn (the Greek- Cypriot underground organisa- tion), sineo Edita made its truce offer inst December 24.

The

A

MOON JEWS

Jerusalem, Jan. 19. group of prominent Jewith legal experts and religiou leaders met in Holla today to discuss the cođe of re

be ligious conduct - to observed by the first Jaw to land on the moon. They decided that since a to u Lanar day corresponds

the Sabbeth

"It means we can change

communique asid the

was discovered direction and speed in fight, that hideout

by we can slow down and make a police during "normal patrol Boston and Cambridge police, talked in low tones with his Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 18. years ago last night, had

feather-soft landing on the moon activities" in open country near and FDI ogents | relatives for about 10 minutes.

or any of the planets and take Kato Zodia Village not far from ferrestrial fortnight, he would J. (Spees) told officials at East Cam-gool guards,

motorcade formed a three-car

Exactly one hour after ho

off again. It also means we can 'a zone in which wide anu- itave to celebrate O'Keefe; a Brinks rob-bridge gael earlier ho would to escort O'Keefe to the funeral left the gaol, ho was back in bring marmed satellites back Ede operations were being con- twice a day, but he would not reasonable prices secured. bery informant who is to not attend the wake for his home in the Boston suburb of the cell that has been his home from orbit without damage by ducted. It said the men offered be obliged to bless the moon at

Mrs Catherine Dorchester.

since January 1900

controlling direction and epeed no resistance and no shots the beginning of each month in So far Hongkong has in be a prime target of under-mother,

O'Keefe and a small army of

as they re-enter the atmosphere." were exchanged.

accordance with the Jewish recent years "reserved" fire world revenge, was spirited O'Keefe (85) who died on polico went

customs on earth. Into the funeral O'Kesto has pleaded guilty to wood, coal and rice for vary out of his gaol call under Friday.

A Recurlly forces spokesman home by a alde door after a participating In the robbery Meanwhile it was announced

No, decision was taken on the in Doltas, a new, secret tele said that the three men caught colour of prayor shawls, which ing perioda and while the very heavy guard today to Early this morning, however, | whirlwind trip to Dorchester,} and he testified against

guided ground to air missile in the hideout were not on the normally. correspond to the artificial monopolies

'ke changod his mind and They were met by members of other robbers at the trial. Hie

hold up bu'll by the Chance-Vought Hat of wanted Eoka mén, but colour of the sky, because, of this procedure creates run go to his mother's wake.

preparations wero his family and police were į socrtending has bren O'Keefe, who is awaiting elaborate

Aircraft Company, was tested he added but "the circum the Esence of information on counter to our system of

seure h'a safety. It stationed at the doors, to the] pinding the outcome

peek by the convicted bandite today at the Redstone, Alabama, stances of their arrest obviously the motund colour, of the AKY. HE was O'Kerie's tormation that funeral home," free competition, the safe sentence for his part in the made to

robbery of alded in sending, eight of the

grounds. ** France make them wanted.", man."--- egun, from the mang==@TENCE- -Massachusetts proving Oficials mid O'Keefe knelt before the

Presse

Trance-Presse. guarding of the local market $1,210,000 is of paramount concera, Brinks, Inc., in Boston nine Brinks bandila to prison, at his mother's bier and then Buprenu Court-UPI.

that

the