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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1960.
TRIME
MINISTER
FOREIGN SECRETARY
MINISTER
ARMY
FINANCE MINISTER
"Alors, I think I can depend on everyone of you
EDUCATION
London Aromie Sarvioa
Wool-it's on the crest of
BRADFORD.
ONCE upon a time, so it
was sald, a clairvoyant with special powore had thriving business hero,
ם
Stolid Yorkshire businessmen pak her discreet visits to learn from her crystal ball whether the price of wool was Iẞtely to go up or down.
a prosperity wave
Company,
"Until Insi Boys:
Whatever
Blum Маррсия, а March trade won depressed, like lilingworth Morris, one of
They are also proud of a fino modern factory they have built (on a 60-here site on the outskirts
""Then, studdenly, the whale the biggest in Yorkshire wool, world recmed to get busy. Mer- has enough work on hand to of Bradford. chants nil emptied their keep it going flat out' until its
Wool is the lifeblood of the shelves. Thoy all started to buy financial year ends on September demonstrated in the amount of
Yorkshire city.
It frisks about in the markets
of the world like a new-barn lamb in spring.
And there is nothing a York- shiremon likes more
than to have a flutter in this unprediet able commodity.
Visionary
at once."
In must mills order books for
worsted yarns cover the next 30 months and more. For cloth, they extend even further ahead.
Even so, Reghinid Pitcher, as shrewd a judge of the market as uny In Bradford, looks ahead
with a degree of caution.
"I have a feeling," he Rays.
30.
Their hopes for the future are
spare land available for expan-
Its profits will almost cer- sion. lnly be shown to have climbed
The rising curve of AW's high up in the sky,
But only do so the retail carpot sales is flattening out con- clothing trade continues in its siderably now that present com- parisons are with a period a year recent bouncing mood.
One of the personalities of ago when the boom in consumer this wool city in 68-year-old Mr goods was well in its stride. Maurice Abrahams,
Example: Sales in the aix months to October 4, showed n For the period, to January 7, the increase had been trlanned to 22 p.s.
Short and dapper, Mr Abra-
The other day against a back- "that the edge will be uff this hans started on his own at 19 as 45 pc. rise.
ground of clattering combing and top-making machines, they told about This remarkable visionary of years ago.
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Had he s been around; a good few folk would undoubtedly be asking her now how long their present bom was going to
Hist.
Everywhere in Bradford you get the same buoyant story at present.
boom by the end of Murch if retail buying by the pithtip shows any sign of wavering,"
Comments Jackson Sweeling back in Bradford: "We are beglaning in scuse that the pipe lines to the public are getting rather full of stock again."
"If there is
the slightest
a inoqueite ond velvet merchant. Unusual
the
(Becuriles)
ne~
At 29, he set up a business of Securities) are going to have a However, it is clear that AW upholstery fabric manufacturers which lins since become the further good increase in carn lugs for its present trading year. Associated Weavers combine. Today, his 1irn 13
For inst year, Maurico Abra- ncurly £3,300,000
hains paid 30 p.c. from AW. dropping off 1: consumer Ltd., with more than one-third 90 p.e. earned. He gave n
for-one share bonus as well. demand, trade could dry up of its trade in carpet making.
He feels his company's 2. tomorrow."
Abrahams runs the business
shares should move up to a 4 p.c. with Ove brothers. They have
What yield basis. They show Be. an unusual agreement, ever their responsibilities and just how.
Whether they hitain the higher position in the firm, they all have identical pay packets. ranking depends, I would say, on
from hire. Very naturally, they are proud continued freedom
11 tho that in
months to purchase controls. November 30, while sales of the Unfortunately, I cannot claim whole carpet industry Increased to be a clairvoyant, 6 p.c., theirs went up 24 p.e.
-London Express Service.
Undoubtedly, Bradford is on the crest of a high prosperity wave at this monent.
Trade is nothing short of excellent," reporta Mr Jackson Sweeting of the £7,000,BON Illingworth. Morris combine.
Dat whether it is now at the "Order books are packed out, top, and ready to slide down' on Our only problem is getting the other side,
ut in a matter Jabour enough
neel opinion. ta
The rise in Bank rate to 5 p.c. customers' demands quickly."
importance
In nearby Shipley, Mr Re- is a matter of some ginald Pitcher, of the Aire Wool in this respect.
SAM WHITE'S Newsletter from Alglers
So these were the
ALGIERS. MOMING to Algiere from
Paris is like walking through a mirror. On the Paris side the figure of do Gaulle looms to 2 sixo almost too big for it; on the Algiers side it shrinks to almost that
stamp.
of a postage
men who made France tremble!
When
the
surrender came opposes any form of loose asso- In Paris one sees only the they insisted as part of the clation with France which the triumphant assertion of presiden- terms that they should be given army believes can only lead to
lal authority.
a chance of Joining the army to independence. Bght for French, Algeria, happened?
Here one realises with sicken. big despair that de Gaulle's will counts for little with the only force that matters-the numy
Humiliating
Of the
What
the
The
with
army
to the army.
Indeed, the moment
ССАБС-
117
Let no one be deceived by the
believes that humiliating collapse of the sus
de Gaulle's policy has produced tire talks are open with the re- called insurrection recently.
128 wavering and uncertainty among bels the balloon will so remainder anty that t What it proved was
which took out short-term enlistments the Moslems before Aigle oh,
whose support is successive French Governments at from one to six months. The essential in a guerilla war such here. had trembled, was vonai, vain rest went back to mum,
as this.. glorious and cowardly.
citizen.
魚魚
drinks
No worries
to
The L.R.C. ladies were
IN 1883
1 band of women in this Colony decided that they had to have a club of their very
own.
By February 1884 "a resort where ladies could indulge in games of a healthful kind" was opened just below May Road.
Lady Bowen performed the official opening cere- mony by delivering a few tennis balls into one of the courts, while a pleasant selection of music WAS
good shots in those days...
By JILL
DOGGETT
SUCCESS
17
played by a regimental were actively pursued by u sub band.
sequent generation of members, Mrs It is recorded that their successors will think exactly as they did in six monthis time. If they do not do
A Mrs March had been Armstrung was croquet cham-not
pion in 1010, but other informa- 50 already?
one of the prime movers of tion is scanty because during the the club, first consisting Japanese Ocupation all early re The army considers that only
Furthermore, de Gaulle's belief
Frencht ond
of four tennis courts and cords of the club's origins were Integration
North uprising whose wife would be complete
of that after a negotiated
cease splendid
for Of the, 000 armed and mostly Algeria
rest destroyed. #matshed France wil! are free elections can be
held African cooking and local wines happy to give you the latest and able-bodied young
and shade. incu who Rustify its bitter five-year-old with former rebels as candidates so heady that they would make news concerning his health.
Croquet was. surrendered, 140 jumped from war and provide a sufficiently or actively participating in the plotter out of the most timid A beefy leader of the revolt another natural choice of the army trucks which were clear politient objective for the campaign is totally unacceptable
who was promising to die on recreation,
but-most un- taking them to barracks imme- war Itself,
Plotting is almost a full-time the barricades last week is expectedly-the ladies de dilately they were out of the
standing contre of the City.
occupation here and any self- proudly
cided to have a rifle group respecting platter makes himselt friends today.
also.
At the request of the pho- available for interview with
sent presideni, Mrs R. W. H. attendant police
Guies at least
On the site of the present Maynard, the history of tho twice a day either at the Aletti
filter beds below the present giub is being summarised by Mr Hotel Bar or the St George Holel.
The very best restaurant clubhouse, the rifle ranges were J, Hobbs. He would be grateful called in Arable The Old Camel in constant use with LRC mem- for any Arst-hand or written Saddle" is as quiet as ever with bers practising regularly at the reminiscenses of the club's pre- the Algiers rich. They have butts.
war activities. their little to worry about as
is being repatriated to money France just as quickly as France is pouring money into Algeria. There is only one note of com-
Before the turn of the Cen- American plaint: au It is because virtually
engineer tury the use of revolvers had here for few days from been entire officer curps has been won
explained by Colonel ever to the view that uncertainty
complains bitterly the Sahara
O'Gorman at regular meetings regarding Algeria's Inture
golf
course was nnd many
feminine charmers At either you can find the that the local
closed during the Insurrection had become proficient marks Thos. Jackson, Mr C.. D. Bot hampering them in their opera- To return to more serious tons that a thorough purge of
young, man who was behind the
all
South men. Over serving "I worked yesterday It may look with a number of barricades Ls eating the the army seems
an impossible army? Simply this: the army is undertaking.
troops in it like Southampton on behind the bar today. A short America and no Latin American accept
the eve of D-Day but it is a walk will bring you to the come- revolution ever to prepared to
will involve settlement which
What is the use of sacking Southampton on the southern what fly-blown care of M. Joseph its departure from Algeria now some generals and colonels if shores of the Mediterranean with Ortiz, one of the leaders of the or in the foreseeable future,
This was
the force which The rising came as the result made the majority of the French of prior assurances of Army cabinet quail as though it was benevolence and lusted only as facing a 1940 onslaught of 120 long as the army was prepared panzer divisions.
to protect.
This was the force which army I could have been ended fleers assured Paris would easier much earlier by a two- make a new Budapest of Algiers day blockade.
if it were attacked.
Budapest. Poor
No!
matters whunt
even
To give
one an idea of the Moscow radlo has insulted it so of the men behind the woundingly. quality barricade is only necessary to recount the sequel.
Only a week cartier they had been screaming at the riof squad police before pening a murder ous re at them. "Why don't you go und fight the FLN?" That
any
is to say the Moslem querilla The army will mutiny against
army which launched the war
wo of the three cholers de against the French five years Gaulle has left open to Algeria
ago.
in a future free referendum. It
THE MEN FROM
IT
SPACE AND LOT'S WIFE
Moscow.
was an atomic explosion that killed Let's wife,
a Russian scientist suggests,
She was not turned into a tom rock slabs on the Baalbek piilor of salt (Genesia xix) Verandah in the Lebanon na.
as she fled from the desiructiois nunching platforms for their of Sodom.
spaceships.
When she looked round, saya If they were not launching Comrade Agrest, n master of
platforma, they were monuments
physico-mathematics, she was to the spacemen's play on earth.
killed by a nuclear explosion out off by men from outer space.
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The return ̧
Explosion,
An atomic explosion, he says, could Diro secount for the glasslike formations in the sur- rounding desert,
Agrest Before they left the space- theurises in the Soviet Literary mon warned the people of Gazette, was caused by surplus Sodom and Gomorron not to nuclear so being destroyed by which the explotion. Those who the spacemen before they took cld perished.
off in their boeket ships.
● Mr Agrest suggests (10S-
Ho says the Dead Sea Scrolls ed on Einstein) that the space-.
support his theory,
Totoro they took
men may not have got home
off the yet,
vidiore possibly built the 2,000-
Chandon Regrow Herates),
Unacceptable
The present situation is that the army has temporarily rallied to de Gaulle but only in order to enforce its terms later. Its great. fear is a possible split in the has army. It is now planning to can avert any possibility of a split. to a
They sum up their predica ment with a query that become a slogan: *How you rally the Moslems - question mark?"
LIVING
LADS DEMAND MORE
PAY
the
is
NOW
War or no war Algiers is an extraordinarily pleasant cily, specially when as is happening now the sun beats down with a ferocity Londoners only know in
particularly lucky August,
APPRENTICE HOSTEL
Sleazy
a
sleazy The Aletti is rather and thuggish; you cel higher-clase type of plotter and police say at the St George--0 rambling country house type of hotel on a hill overlooking the
city.
We got a blackluġ,"
a
SKILL
succeeded in Skill at tennis with the ham- closing the golf course." he said. pering handicap of a bustle and
-London Express Service. Julever
in wristwork croquet
londoni Saprum larvion.
There is a note that gentle. men members of the LRC put Including up a cricket team Lord Hawke on March 4, 1804 to play against the Hongkong Cricket Club. The Intter team, won by 20 runs.
The original trustees were Sir
tomley and Mr F. D. Sassoon. Col. Owen-Hughes was one of the pre-war trustees when Mrs Mary Isabelle Hancocit vaš the president.
-She was successful in securing o Government loan of $4,400 in 1024 which was repaid in five years' time.
During the Occupation the LRC vile was cleared for ube as a shrine but by the time of the Liberation it was partly a car park and partly a sing heap.
In
SQUASH?
December 1916 the re-
habilitation
Ja
the club · WA 9 compenced. Mrs D. L. Prophet became president in 1940 "and" the schemes for expansion were spowied up resulting in the opening of the present premises - In August 1900 by Lady Gran thar
Farlier plans including the orection of squash court aro jat present under' discusion,
Comments on the IRC were recorded in one of Runkyard Kipling's works. In his "From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches,” be rays that in one point and ladies of Honglong are superior in the Imitation of on· Indinn. ›› up-country station: sljez
The lodion in Hongwong)..... have a child of their very DVIL to which, believe, men late only didwed to cote en suffer » ence. At a dopćo, (presuźnikky: Ţin. The Colony "generally) · thứce. jare about 20 min, to, che lady and there are practically no pinatern in the land, "Th 10- Habiterste domplain of heini cooped in 633ch, Muut / kapi Phwor look at Ule ha betone thatis visā "
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