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SUNDAY, JULY 20

5.00 FRIENDS TO TEA:

8.30 VEĐA LYNN SINGS,

7.00 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER. -

7.15 VOICE OF THE VIÓLAN.

130 BUNDAY SERVICE

from. I.M.9. Duke of York: Plagship

of

the Home Fleet, conducted by the Rov Alexander Campeio

3.00 THE NEWS,

$.15 NWEET SERENADE.

Poter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra,

0.09 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,

0.19 MERRY MELAND.

with Jimmy O'Dea,

0.45 SERENADE.

featuring

Sweetheart of Song,

Teddy Brooks,

10.08 THE NEWS,

10.15 Sheila Stewart.

THANKS. YOU FOR TERB

10.10 NEW RECORDS.

11.00 VARIETY DAND-HOX,

Rimaky-Korsakov, by

1.20 MILITARY HAND. (gramoptione records),

Arthur

Langford

3.49 ROUTIE APKICA V. SCOTLAND, Cricket: A commentary from Paisley,

8.00 THH NEWS,

BIS JAZZ OCTET.

18.45 Hugh Morion In 'MEET THE REV.

0.30 FROM TODAY'S PAPERÒ, V

10 H.M. THE KING INSTECTS THE HOME FLEET IN THE CLYDE

033 PAUL TEMPLE AND STEVE,

Episode 1 The Suspects.

10,90 THE NEWB.

10,15 THINK OF THESE THINGS.

10.30 LONDON FORUM.

Discussions between well-known people

on important issuer.

11.40 EPIAE","

A 'programme.uf tilt tunes of yesterday,

Australia's 12.00 MIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWSREEL,

YOUR LET-

1200 MIDNKIHI: RADIO NEWSRECÈ.

MONDAY, JULY 21

· 4.09 'CARROLL LEVIS' HITOW.

7.00 TALKING POINT,

1

FORCER''FAVOURITES.

7.18 SOUTH AFRICA v. YORKSHILAT. Cricket: A commentary by Kenneth Wol- stenholme, from Brainal Lane.

field.

1.00 THE NEWS.

*15 BLACK MAGIC,

Shef.

.

THURSDAY, JULY 24

deo RADIO RHYTHM CLUB,

4.30 HCOTTISH HALF-HEQUIL,"

7,00 CHIQRENT EVENTS.

LIS VALDA AVELING.

(Australian pianist),

7.45 HOUTIL AFRICA V. SCOTLAND, Crickel: A commentary from Paisley,

8.00 THE NEWR,

LIS AMERICAN DANCE. BANDH. (kromophoßer records).

13 ACCORDEON CLUB, “

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.

25 UN WITH THE MUHIC. 10.00 THE - NEWS;

10.15 THE KINO'S JUSTICE,

A talk by Franels Cowper.

10.30 SEASIDE CONCERT PARTY. 11.00 HITISH CONCERT HALL,

Conducted and presented by Sir Thomas

The Concert Orchestra, directed by Stan 12.00 BIIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWSREEL ley Black.

Arechom. Hayai Philharmonie Orchestra.

0.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.

9.45, MICHAEL

QUARTET.

KBKIN NAXOPHONE

9.30 SPORTING RECORD,

10,00 THE NEWS.'

14.15 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

10.30 NAVY, MIXTURE.

11.00 METROPOLITAN

TRAI, RAND.

POLICE CEN-

Conductor: Roger Barsotil.

11.10 RUYTHM, ROMANCE AND RUM-

BA.

12.00 MIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWSREEL.

TUESDAY, JULY 22

6.00 OBSERVATION POST.

0.36 WELSH HALF-HOUR.

7.00 BOOK OF VERSE.

FRIDAY, JULY 25

0.00 CALLING all sportsMEN.

6.30 FORCES' FAVOURITES,

7.00 #CIENCE YOTEBOOK.

7.4 IGORANCE IS BLIBH.

145 LOUIS KENTNER, (pizze), 1.00 THE NEWS.

M.13 AT YOUR REQUEST.

7.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,

9.B BRE MIDLAND LIGHT OлCH. 10,00 THE NEWS.

i

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.

DAB & FLOUNDER

YOUR JUAT REBLOCKED WHILE YOU WAIT

by WALTER

Who are the leaders of Communism in Europe and Asia? What is their background and what role do they play in world affairs? The following dis- patch, based on a country-by-country, survey by United Press correspondents, provides a roster of top-Communist leadership.

WORLD'S TOP REDS

HE roster of top Com. munist Party leadership in Europe and Asin today reads like a who's who of the dissolved comintern-the third Communist International.

In

By. Harrison Salisbury

states,

local

Com-

years

at

:.

In

PORTUGUESE SEARCH FOR

WOLFRAM

Coincident with ronowed world tension, the wearch for wolfram has been renewed throughout Portugal, but latest official figuros showed that' amounts so far extracted from the country since conclusion of the Great War. are negligible.

Wolfrom mines now existing- tn. Portugal are

British, owned by American, Portuguese and French concerns or individuals, Govern- ment legislation authorisey export. only to countries whoso nationals own the mines.

Wolfram mines formerly owned by German concerns now are con trolled by the Inter-Allied Commis- sion. Sale and transfer of owner- ship are expected to be announced In the near future.

Exports since the war have not been importexported; in September. In August, 1948,

one ton was none; in October 17 long; in Decem- ber 181.1ons and In Jaintiary 1047, 224 tons. No figures for the months

it

agents

are

Jugoslav,

WORLD'S OIL RESERVES

Shic sper 17 years in Japanese prisons befon: beng liberated by January have been announced. the Americans. A third, Sanzo Wolfram normally is mined as a by- Nozako, spent 10 years in Russin product, not for itself alone. With the legalisation of the Com- leadership is largely from the World and China.

The

price has declined as sharply munist Party in most European War II underground. In the Nether.

us production. During the war countries and its rise to a position lands, for instance, the loadership is der, Almin, spent five and a halfgram.

In Indonesia ane Communist lea was selling for 700 escudos a kilo- With few exceptions, the of great Influence or control In entirely new, the prewar leaders

Now it sells for 30-last year heads of Communist movements many

Communist having all been killed in the under-

the Lenin University, it brought 12. Among the Moscow. The other chief figure dealing in wolfram in Lisbon the throughout Europe and Asianders associated with the theoreti- mound war against

Germans. caily defunct Comintern have However,

Sardjano, was in exile or in Dutch two Rumanians and one have had long and close asso- emerged in key positions.

In Norway,

Peder Furubool.

prisons. Ho Chi-minh, Viet Namh United Press. the Communist Party leader in Indo-China cintion with Moscow. The ex- many other countries the top leader, was Moscow trained at the Michael Borodin's lieutenants in the was one, of ceptions are mostly lenders who Communists have lengthy records Marx-Engle-Lenin Institute

and ill-fated Communist revolution rose to the top through diligent of work or study in Moscow. This member of the Comintern.

is particularly true of the

China. and usually daring underground munist Party leadership

In the Middle East the Com- In central activity during World War II. Europe and the Balkans.

munist movement, generally, is 50 When the Comintern was dis- In Yugoslavia Marshal Tito

and'

far underground that few of lia lead-

According to Charles Rayner, solved officially May 22, 1943, the his chief alde, Mosho Pinde,

both IN the Orient and Far East the ers have been publicly identified. petroleum adviser to the dissolution order was signemitee. Comintern, auspices before retuming ecpt that few of the leaders have Khaled Beldash in Lebanon, spent Netherlands East

a engaged in lengthy training under situation is, much the same ex. However,

the chief known leader, States State Department, the Wyndbam14-member executivo

of those 14 now head various to Yugoslavia and rising to the top held much prominence in Eight

inter- a number of years at the Mirx-world's fourth largest oil through underground and European Communist Parties or

partisan national Communist circles.

Engls-Lenin Institute and his eu-

after the United States, the cu-coming governments. Two others head leadership,

tenant, Musaphu El Arles, also was Caribbean area and the Middle East.. Poland President Boleslaw Soviet Republics, one is a SATURDAY, JULY 26

The chief Chinese Communist Moscow trained. A colourful char- Seventeen thousand million bar- of the Soviet Politburo, one is Beirut divided the 15 years prior to lenders, Mao Tse-Tung. Chu Teh actor known. ns Yusif, Solman reis of the world's total oil reserves

and still in exile from Spain

the 1945 between underground Com- and Id Li-San. however, have pl. Yussif, alias Fahad, the leopard, a are controlled by the United States, Conducior: Sir Adrian Boult. Eda Kersey activity of two others is not known. Poland and training in Moscow. The Two of the Japanese Communist prison was believed to have

munist organisational work Jn sperit considerable pcriods in Russia, Communist leader of Iray now in the same number jointly by British

been and Dutch companies, and 6,000 mil three other top leaders of the Polish leaders, Kyuichi Tokuda and Teshio trained in Moscow.

Hon barrels by Soviet Russin. Communist Party all were trained in Moscow-Stanislaw Radkiewicz, | Interior Minister. Jacob Bern, minister of state, and Wracław Comulka, secretary-general of the Communist Party.

10.15 THE ECONOMIC PROSPECT,

A falk by Graham Huston.

19.30 CALLING ALL SPORTSMEN. 11.00 a Edwardes and

Goldie in "THE PAINTED VEIL"

by W. Somerset Maughans.

Buth Pitter in Shakespeare's As You, 12.08 MIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWSREEL.

Like It."

130 HILLY MAYERI (Pland).

1.45 BOUTH AFRICA v. YORKSITE.

A commentary by Kenneth Wolstenholme,

from Branial Lane, Stickivid.

100 THE NEWS.

8.15 MUCH-DINDING-IN-THE-MANSH.

1.45 FLETCHER HENDERSON.

and His Orchestra (gramophone records).

8.00 FILOM TODAY'S PAPERS,,

P.15 ARTHUR ‘RULAY.

-and his Cameo Orchestra.

9.43 NSVLLE MEALE.

(theatre organ).

10.00 THE NEWS.

10.15 TOPICAL BURVEY,

10.70 HADIO CROSSWORD.

First of the series.

ILI RIAPSODY,

#

Pau Tenoulhet and the

Concert Orchestra.

G.00 BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

(violin): Violin

BBC Treording),

Concorio-Arnold

6.39 AB BEEN FROM SCOTLAND,

64) COLONIAL QUESTIONS.

7,03 REG PURS(LOVE.*

and his Music Makers.

7,45 NOUTH AFRICA 'v, ENGLAND,

Bax

CRICKET TEST Arst

A ball-by-ball description of the

'THE FOUT

MATCH.

day's play.

8.09 THE NEWS,

Skyrockets.

R30 TIP-TOP TUNER.

12.00 MIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWSREEL.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23.

6.00 ILL PLAY TO YOU,

4,30 FLOTSAM'S FOLLIES,

1.00 TALK ON MURIC.

SIDE GLANCES

9.35 JOIN MADIN (theatre organ).

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPER!.

9.35 RADIO NEWBREEL.

9.34 RADIO HUYTUS CLUB. 10.00 THE NEWS,

19,55 BATURDAY SPORT. including commentaries on Cricket: South Africa v. England; Seawan-Baka. Cup Stace, commentator, Peter Scott. 12.00 MIDNIGHT: RADIO NEWBREEL.

By Galbraith

COPE. 1947 WY.NEA SERVICE, INC. T. IL BRO.AL, R. PAT, OFF.

member

THE seven former Comintern committee members now playing leading roles in their own countries fare:

Georg Dimitrov, secretary-general of the Comintern, star defendant at the Reichstag fire trial and one of the leading figures of international

NA Pauker, chief of the Rumani- Communism since 1920. He has been Premier of Bulgaria since

Lan Communist Party and one of shortly after returning to Sofia from the mainsprings of the Rumanian Moscow in 1945. "Klement.

regime, spent the years 1940-45 in Gottwald, premier of Moscow, She was rescued from pri- Czechoslovakcin, Gottwald went to son and Pussian

certain deatli in Moscow in 1038 when the Germans 1040 in a

dent with Ru took over Czechoslovakia, and re- manian authorities

similar to

to that turned after his country's liberation, which obtained the release

Mathias Rakossi,

Jon Rakosal from vice-premier of

Hungarian Hungary and secretary-general

arian prison. the lugarian Communist Porty. Is led by the daughter and son-in- Hakossl returned to Hungary

with law

of Otto Kuusinen, head of the

of

In Finland the Communist Party H

A

United

Indies is tho producer

penny for your thoughts

Д

AVE you ever given any

We searched through our pound's made in 1880, had

lighthouse thought to the common worth of pennies without finding and a ship on them. In 1805 the any of these, so Mr Martin rang up lighthouse and ship came off and British penny-apart from a coin dealer to ask for a couple of Britannia was left with nothing to the Red Army from Moscow where Soviet Karelo-Finish Republic and ways of getting it and spending specimens. he

looic at but open sca.. had been

since 1840 after Soviet one of the signers of the Comintern's it? If not, let's start now. authorities managed to

did to obtain his dissolution. They were Yrjo Leino

not get them because release from prison where he had and Hertta Kuusinen, both with called a copper when it's really you put that in your paper,"

There were In the first place, why is it do you know how much they House about this. People suld

Five shillings each. spent the preceding 15 years.

Piect, leader of Communist Party,

long Moscow

if

questions in the

you could have a lighthouse and a The Albanin

contrast. made of bronze?

said Mr Martin. "you'd better tell ship for your penny before, why not Pleck Enver Hoxha, premier, rose to his returned to Germany with the Red position through the Albanian un-At one time pennies were copper, on it. Otherwise there'll be a run years the Mint hit on a compromise.

That's an easy one to answer, get 6s. for a penny with H. or K.N..

people they needn't think they'll now? Army from Moscow where he spent derground and the years between 1030 and 1943. However, in During the war he headed the Free Zachariades, Communist Germany Committee, organised

in Moscow in 1943.

secretary-general,

isan warfare.

Nicholas

olas but they were changed to bronze in on the banks for coppers. Party 1860 because that metal was found spent the years to make better coins. They were Falmiro Togliatti, who signed the 1020-23 in Moscow and attended the neater looking and didn't avear out

School for Eastern dissolution deeree under his pseu- 1929-31.

in so quickly. Studies there donym of Ercoli, now is the leader Greek Communist who died recently, in a box of curias or a collection of George Santos, No. 2 You may come across a real copper of the Italian

Communist Party. had a similar Moscow background. coins, but you won't find a penny He returned to Italy after 18 years' In Scandinavia

and the Low carller association with the Comintern Countries the

than 1800 in your change. Communist Party Have a look in' your pocket and set.

participation

including Spanish Civil War.

of

In the

Maurice Therez, secretary-general

the French Communist Party and until

The recent

premier of France,

shake-up vice-

Thorez returned

to France in 1945 after fleeing to Moscow in 1040.

Andre Marly, No. 3 man in the French Communist Party and long

a fiery figure in international Com- munism. Returned to

DOG WAS

FAITHFUL.

TO DEATH

Another thing you'll probably never and is a penny with 1004 on It. Why? Well, there's a story that they were all withdrawn because someone discovered they had gold in them.

France

in

years

Но WOR just a little non- put

1043 after spending the war in Moscow.

A man at the Mint was supposed to have had a grievance.

He was under notice or something, and when no one was looking he slipped i couple of gold bars into the

melting The truth is not so widely known. Johann Kopienlig, national chair-descript white dog. He Was It is simply that very few pennies of the Austrian Communist familiar to the people of the were made that year because there Party who fed served in the International Brigade several years. They saw him

Austria In 1943, Arizona town of Wickenburg for were enough in circulation already. and returned to Vienna with

In the years 1923-25 and 1941-43 no pennies at all were i Red Army in 1945.

mudc. Rare dates

DA

The

often-trotting along behind hig master...

town weakly

5-17

ir

"I'm just reading the want-ads, mother-I don't want to spend my vacation sitting here with nothing to do!"

Skeleton

CLUES ACHOSE

1. What the

paper printa

fa quife tlio

thing

4. Nothing

ahors of thorough.

9. They may

είναι είναι το

solid curse.

12. They CDN-

hear you in

the Arsenal

12. thos

mixed fruit,

13. A boy has a row at the pantomima.

10. When they're

plain you'll meet the in lay court.

10.00 agitated

to-pat us.

17. Tila * Imeri ". Am'bot enough,

eccording to Nures Caveli,

20. Need a change in the garden. 22: 13 taken endless manilla tor a

plant.

21. Độ thay nếu có kenntha wcsh of government turning ↑

96. 10 doren't sound as i ̧ you'll hit the target. If you. throw this, 25. You wouldn't expočt a Boot to

be queer in this way.

* CLUES" DOWN

1. When the employees aro nat Bli there, this is to be expected: ...a, Giri in a fair tain, jumper,

It's not far to go for a drink, “After an hour 'I am 4-BYTADI.

The pair went to IT is no coincidence that former from Thompson's lonely cabin in the AL this information comes from

Comintern leaders now stand at desert

a man called Mr R. J. Martin, for provisions which the top of the party hierarchy in carried home in a sack over, his used in Britain today.

he who has made a study of the coins their respective home countries, shoulder.

He'a. In a The Comintern was made up of the lenders of the local Communist Parties of some.06 countries.

Crossword

d. When the lover is his head

It may be a malden,

7. Extended particularly to guests

who are i

3 Oumay Inn a thoughtful: way ↑

V. Fishing boat with no clear

purpose 1

19. The proper times for, children

of the water.

13. Bomething poisonous In

special senso.

16. If you eat thile you dood 'not.

bolt i

15% A tar, in the South-Bess T-

19. det an round the Bauth American city and, you may

··''Bet stars.

21,- Stonstrous-joch;

'20, Bho has a cash value in India.

SOLVERS of the Skeleton Cross-

word are required to fii lạ the black squares and clue numbers pa“ well as the words To give you a start, four black squares and four clus dumbers have been inserted.

Tua pattern of the black squares is symmetricat, so for every black square in the top left-hand quarter

of the puzzle there must be a black square in tile corresptinding post- tlan, each of the other three quarters, so you can at once tilt in, ten more black squares to corre spand with -thona giren.

There is a clue 22 Down as well 01-22 Across, so there must be a black square above, as well as 10 the left of that numbered 28. By deductions of this sort you can complate the puzzle. No words at fewer than three letters are seed.

LAST WEEK'S BULUTION

Continuing IT'S FUN FINDING

OUT

-by

BERNARD WICKSTEED

"Those two coins the dealer offer-

42

for After thinking this over They put the lighthouse back on the penny and a ship on the halfpenny. In case you have never been told,

the half-penny-ship-is-supposed.

be Drake's Golden Hind.

Tricky Business DESIGNING

a now coin is a very`` tricky business, Mr Martin said, It must look well and wear well and the coln mustn't. wobble when ther much .are sincked. If there is too

relief in the design pennies can't be piled up.

With some of the money in Mr. Martin's bank we tried to see just how many pennies you could get in one stack. He said his directors. would not mind, our playing games with their money so long as we put, Il buds.

I'

got my stack up to 6s. iid. before it crashed down and Mr Martin reached 78:-3d. Perhaps you can do better than either of us...

As you probably know, it is ed us were in Mint condition and conventional for the head of each suitable for a collection, you must new king to face the opposite way understand: If you found an old to his predecessor.

:. one in your pocket and took it to The Duke of Windsor when no him he probably wouldn't offer you was Edward VIII. should have faced anything for it." }

Millions lost

right,

os bla father. However, Edward

But he would not have this. Ho Insisted on looking the same way

good position to do this because he

VIII. pennies were never fasued. Then H. C. Nicholls, who knew the manages

Which aged prospector only by sight, re- hands on plenty of specimens.

you suppose there are in exis- way should George VL face? ported he had found Thompson in, a When

tence? By adding up the figures In Opposite to the way Edward should I called fainting spell olong the highway and asked if he could tell me anything since 1860 Mr Martin has worked convention?

ut his bank and all the annual reports of the Mint have looked if he had stuck, to had taken him home,

interesting about pennies, he said: out that there ought to be 2,800,000,- way he would have looked if his Or opposite to the Constable B. E. Fugatt went to the bags of them here."

"Certainly, Come inside. We have 000.

colns had been issued Thompson enbin to see if there was

But about 400,000,000 of them in your pocket you'll sco

If you have a George VI. penny He poured out a pound's worth on anything he could do. He found his desk and said: "Loole "through have been lost-saveral of them by chose the first, alternative and faced that he Thompson dend, and the little white them. See if you can find one dated me. dog on guard, :

The dog would not let Fugaft ap- "Why?"-r

on lost coppers, because a penny proach the body of his master. In it, suid. "Has that got gold The Government makes a prant Fugatt called Justice of the Peace I

"No," he answered. "But

doesn't cost anything like a penny

The next problem was! a banke, ani can lay his Now then, how many pennies do

1022."

there

•

left.

N.

Tarnished

L. Westall. But, with no word from were very few made that year, and to make. At current prices a penny NOW for a word about now his master to restrain him, the dog so the same old story about the gold and a half pennies.

worth of bronzo will make three-pennies. As I said, none were. kept bath at bay..

made between 1941 and 1043. But got around, At one time -people

did you seciny in 1844, 1943 pr were paying Od. Finally at the word from Westall,

each for

Other coppers are not quite, so 1948? They were issued in. 1822 pen-

those Fugait shot and killed the

nics,

profitable. You animal "Now if you were to find a pene bronze, but only £373 worth of out. the spoil sportst

can get £418 years, bût tho avere to find a penny worth of pennies out of a ton of famished them before sending thein Mint deliberately so they could remove Thompson's' with 1033 on it you really would body.

Today the little don with courage something valuable, for there were halfpennies and farthings.

Ono les burled at the feet of his master only six nude that year, in Wickenburg cemetery.

under, the foundations of the new "It

London was the least we could do," Bloomsbury, if second under another University building in Westall said.

London building, and the rest are at the Mint and the British Museum.

P.U.M.C. To

Special marks

There was a shortage of pennies and they were aftenid people would. Nickel threepenny bits (which are hoard new ones. So, they darkened 09 percent. brass) work out at ten make them less noticeable. really only one percent, nickel and then with photographic hypo to

penny for the row, material, and There's not such a shortage · now ·

cupra nickel."silver" in so this year for the first time since the new traduced this year shows the biggest 1940 you can get a bright penny In profit of all. You can make a your change. pound's worth with a pennyworth Finally, there is the

the question -of metal. The Felping Union Medical Col- CIOMETIMES you find pennies with

what you may do with a penny If you've got a pair of scales and bealder spending it. You may keep lege hospital, which was closed by aliny H. or.K.N., just by the the Japanese on February 1, 1942, late, which is likely to be either you lose the weights- you can use it or lose it or play with it without will be reopened next October, 1918 or 1010. There was such a do the pound, or three to the ounce.

ponnies insteați, They run 40 to fear of prosecution, but if you de

face it in any way you are liable to according to Dr. C. U. Lee, the rww.mand for pennies in those years that

ty years in jall director of the Rockefeller-sponsor the Mint could not make enough. So There are three different do-With ed medical college, in an interview contracts were given to two firms signa of Britannia on the backs Martin, counting up la pennigh, to "'"that ""we" will” Jeuve Mr. with Poiping Chinese

in Birmingham. H. and K.N. aro of bronze pennies. Did you see that we didn't pocket any by recently

1

A. PRESENTEN

"their initials.

know. that? The

oncs,mistako,

"