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Britain's Development Schemes

Impress Argentina Ambassador

London, Aug. 15-The Ar- gonting Ambassador, Don Juan Jose Viataill; who had been touring Britain at the Govern ment's invitation, told United Press in an exclusive Interview today' that he has been study- ing the latest British develop- mont programmes with a view to planning and realisation of similar. projects in Argentine.

Modern town planning, hydro- electric, schemes and industrial, dave- lopment in general, were among the main toples of his study. He would report to the Government in detall

requested to do so and would make available all impressions and suggestions for their possible con- sideration in the forthcoming internal schemes.

Don Vistalli said that he had not como with the intention to place orders with the Bellish Industries or to negotiate contracts, but he had looked round with an open mind to inform himself of facts and trends of British production.

who

IMPRESSIVE SCHEMES Don Vistalli,

technical advisor to the Presidential com- mittee for co-ordination of Argen- to's Ave-year plan, arrived London earlier in July as a guest of

in

*x- ar-

the British Government for a four- week period during which an tensive programme had been ranged for him which took him through

Scotland England.

and Wales. The chief purpose was to

tinder

give him an opportunity to acquaint himself with the broad outlines of industrial development in Britain in view of Argentine's efforts the hve-year plan.

He said that

he was particularly impressed by the hydro-electric schemes and has been strongly in- terested in the Loch Sloy hydro- electric schemes in the north because it was based on elements which might lend themselves to application in principle in Argentine, The use of hydro-electric power stations for relief of peak load requirements was an interesting, - factor" worth while considering at home, he said:

Britain's latest

postwar

lown

plattention for the layout in regard schemes equally attracted highroads and electric

lo

wal

The plan for

re-

of war destroyed Coventry

projects the among

ho

had

ten-

seen though progress appeared slow.

He said he had noticed ปี dency to establish now Industries

populated arcas

in

ar is likely

where

to be

there is

unemployment.

This was on interesting aspect also from the point of ylow of Argen-. ting considerations insofar an

this

of

method taking advantage of the

rolloves the problem

existing dwellings for the worker. The method of building

•Industries in entirely now areas orated, diandvantage because the ayarkers, would to be shifted

to the working place and the dwellings -built would delay

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and

complicates the envisaged indus- Irialization process.

-LONG TERM PROBLEMS ----

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948,

MOUNTBATTEN'S EXHORTATION

London, Aug.15.—Earl Mountbatten of Burma, India's last Viceroy and the Indian Dominion's first Governor General, exhorted Indians today to "march. fearlessly along the path of uprightness."

77.

The former Viceroy was addressing a large gather- ing, including many Indian students in London, at the Albert Hall during celebrations in honour of the young Dominion's first anniversary. He said, "today we can look back on what India has achieved in the first year of her existence and the results are such as we can be proud of."

Lord Mountbatten pointed out that cellor of the Exchequer. Sir Stafford Don Vistall said these are laar in spite of the difficulties, including Cripps and Mr Noel Baker, Secre- term, problems for Argentine in con- communal rioting and mass refugee fory of Commonwealth relations 'nection with her development plans movement, in which the Dominion also spoke-Associated Press.

wherefore 4 study of progress was born, the Government has un- nuroad would prove useful despite dertaken an intensive development certain needs specifle to Argentine. programme being rushed through He also attended the International with the aid of modern appliances congress in Switzerland at a far greater rate than ever be- to his arrival in Britain.

fore."

housing

piior

met

Ho

sald that he had representatives of political life, in- dustries and selence. The tour in cluded a visit to Cambridge Oxford.

departure for Buenos Aires is scheduled for the end of the

week

and

He said food development schemes and desert reclamation will beneat not only India but the whole world. "But

single perhaps the greatest handicap from which india suffer is the appaling rate of literacy".

AIR FERRY

RESUMED

mitice in

Aluye: Louis

Badenz, I former Communist editor, talks with Chaiman Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) of a senate subcom- Washington. D.C., before testifying that “the Com-

of the munist party

United Stiles is a fifth colum! Soviet Russia." Left to right: Budenz, Senators Irvine Ives (R-NY), Edward (R-Minu) and Fezzon. Op

posite: Williain Remington

(left) oficial

Commerce department Accused

of supplying

wariime government informa- tion to the Communists, confers with his accuser, Elizabeth T. Bentley,

*

D.C..

confessed spy. They miel in Washington, renate. committee room where Loule Budenz,

former 'Com. munist editor, was

telling ап investigation committee methods of U.8. Communist party opera- tions--AP Picture.

TROUBLE IN

BARODA

Plans To Cultivate

Egyptian Desert

Cairo, Aug. 15-Men of vision in Egypt are today considering how to make the desert bloom and be- come productive. At present, only about three' por cont of Egypt's estimated 386,110, aquare miles arc under cultivation and the rest, apart from scattered cases, in desort waste. ¦

NOTICE

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

NOTICE Is" heroby, given that. an Extraordinary General Meat-. Tag of the Company will be hold on Thursday, 26th August, 1948, ht the Jacohena Room in the Hongkong Hotels Pedder Street, Victoris. In the Colony of Hong- kong, Immediately following tho

Water is the key to the problem were ready for immediato cultiva- And much of it could be provided tion, conditional upon the construc-Ordinary Yearly Meeting which by the Nile for every year hugotion or, renovation 61.500 wells at will be held at noon on the same quantities, rich 'in the sediment a cost of about £800,000,000 day and at the same place for the which means potential loam, Dro Another Egyptian Immalgration Awent away, unused, out to the sea during floods......

scheme for the renting of the purposes of considering and if Gattara Depression, a natural barrier thought At, passing the following which, with the Eighth Army, turned resolution as an Ordinary Resolu The desert planners, however, are the advance of the Axls tide, attion: Iceking to other means of obtaining.| Alamein during the second World the much neeiled water. Running Wor.. through the' Libyan Desert is a subterranean. Nile which derives Ils aupply from the Sud region of lower Ceypt, and its level is stable all the car round and none of its mineral bearing water goes to 'Uw sea.

INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPLY

This subterranean river was used In the. Pharnonie Era and research has shown that its supply is op parently inexhaustible.

The depression is the greatest in level and it has been suggested that 'Africa. It is 450 foot below 'sea- this dried-up lake, 11,090 miles in extent, should be filled "again, possibly by means of a canal

from the River Nils.

squara

Turning it into a fresh water lako from the Nile and-there is evidence in the past would change the cll- from engravings that this was done mate of Northwestern Egypt. With the expected rainfali, the area would

To exploit it would not require be transformed from a wasteland elaborate irrigation systems con-into rich farming country.-Reuter. trolled by costly dams. It could be done by wells and experts estimate that Inn 'could thus be reclaimed at n cost of between £3 and £5

acre.

an

was

NOTICE

That the Authorised Capi- tal of the Company be increased from its present capital; of *$1,000,000 divided into 100,000 shares of $10 each (of which 75,000 shares have been issued) to $2,500,000 by the creation of 150,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $10 each, and that the 'unissued shares of the Company's capital and such.ad- ditional shares as aforesaid, shall be issued at such time or timos and upon such terms and conditions as the Company's Board of Directors, in their absolute discretibu shall think ft."

NOTICE is also given that if

Until the Christian Era, the cases LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED were thickly populated, agriculture and. wine-making being the chlot occupations. It is

is estimated that at one Ume the population of the ones the 22nd Ordinary Yearly Meeted it is the present intention of

about 2,000,000 but, owing to ing of Shareholders of Lane the Directors to close the Regis civil war, and raids by nomadie Crawford, Limited will be held atter of Members for a period of tribesmen, the fertile pases became the Jacobean Room In the long six days from 18th September to deserted. Wells and cisterns were neglected and by 1937 the popula tion was estimated at 30,000.

showed that at least 150,000 NOTES!

Notice is hereby given that the above Resolution is duly pass-

Government survoya in 1942

keng Hotel, Fedder Street, Hong-18th September, 1948, both days kong, on Thursday 26th August inclusive. The Directors will 1948 at noon. for the purpose of offer the persons appearing in the receiving the Company's Ac- Register of Members on the 18th counts for the year ended 29th September, 1948, 76,000 shares of February 1948, and the Directhe Company of the nominal MORE CANADIAN tors and Auditors' Iteports there value of $10 each, out of the un- on; to sanction the payment of Issued capital of the Company at dividends; to re-elect a Director; par and on the footing that the and to re-appoint Auditors.

full nominal value of 'each sharu taken up shall be paid in full on

NEWSPRINT

Montreal, Aug. 15.-Canadian newsprint shipments last month were 370,005 tons, an increase

at

1,630 tons over the figures for July 1947, the Newsprint Association of Canada announced.

Production for the month พาช | 201;481 tons, “an' increase of *11,750 | tons 'over "the "corresponding month

last year.

Stocks, of all „Norih“ American manufacturers; increased by. 13,581 tons In July and amounted to 155,022 tens at the end of the month. Stocks In July (3047, /were' .103,383) · tons.---

re--Associated Press.

Demonstration By Mill Workers Bombay, Aug. 15.-A port reaching here... „from Baroda today said that the Baroda Police on Saturday Į used tear gas to disperse a crowd of mill; workers” who were demonstrating in front of the Secretariat Building.

the report, the According

to workers attempted to force their en- trance Into the Secretariat where a Government -"appointed; committee was considering the dispute between the workers and employers.in

raid th

were issued banning all public meetings in con- nection with the Indian and Pakistan Independence day colebrations as a precautionary mcasine..

I

that

It pointed out that the demonstra- tion had no connection with the recent Baroda Legislative Assembly resolution calling upon the Gack- war to abdicato · because of nn alleged spending spree.

The Gaekwar of Baroda arrived Berlin, Aug. 15-The Anglo in Bombay from Ports at 10 am. American airbridge flights to today and will remain here two blockaded Berlin soared again today days before Dying to New Delhi. Lord Mountbatten continued de-after having slowed almost to a stop-United Press. scribing educational plans for the Summarising. De fald that 11is opening of 42,000 new schools in the on Friday morning by heavy rain tour was very Instructive and the next ten years. knowledge gained might ultimately. prove advantageous for some of the envisaged projects at home.--United Press,

Gypsy Bride

SUPREMELY FORTUNATE Lord Mountbatten, who said the Indian Constitution is something in

and electric storms.

But 372 sorlics In, the 24-hour perlod up to noon today is still a long way from the 707 record set last week.

The weather began to break about which every Indian can take pride, sundown on Saturday evening and

better all

day told his audience you are supreme-was progressively ly fortunate in the man who are today although there are still plenty directing India in her development of high flying clouds over the city. and guiding her along the path- way of her future

greatness."

- 15.

GAEKWAR RETURNS

Bombay, Aug. 15-On his arrival from Paris tonight, the Maharajah of Baroda made an urgent appeal to his people "not to be emotional in these dificult times and to assist mo and my administration in maintain- ing peace and order in the state."

In an Independence Day message, ho reiterated that the granting of American fights for the period "full responsible Government is the from June 26 to August Of the Indian Premier, he sald, elusive, totalled 12.402 and tonnage goal" and that "steps are being "I have met no greater statesman delivered amounted to 13.603 tons. taken to implement that pledge given and among the many friends that During the same period, the British by me without_delay":

"I have the Interests of my people the Mountbatten family have made, delivered an estimated, 0,022 tons in we made no greater friend

at heart and belleve me I will do than 1,158 flights. Panditji."

During the 24 hours ending noon my best to maintain the traditions Milan, Aug. 15-A belde, duly of the late Mahatma Gandhi, today, American fights totalled 200 of my family end serve my people my and the British 202. American and their cause," the Maharajah purchased and who didn't stay, today "equal friends with my wife, nently caused a war between two young daughter, and myself" said tonnage delivered amounted to 2,400 sold. gypsy tribes until the police stepped Lord Mountbatten, "was always and the British an eclimated" 1,460. In and arrested, four, persons. gentle and considerate on the rare-United Press.

The conflict arose between Occasions we dlengreed-and. I con

Who Didn't Stay

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Spanish tribe-and-a Calabrian group

of gypales. LES V

Lolo Pasquail, 23, a member of

truthfully say that no disagreement

lasted for long, for he either brought

me found to see his point of view Death Of Noted

the Calabrian caravan said that he or was big enough to adjust his

pald Rosa' Kampos,

Chlef of the point of view to mine."

Spanish tribe, 60,000 ire and

20 III

successor

dovernor-

Music Hall Artist

Friends of the Mabarajah were amused at the Paris reports

that he-would-abdicate. They said the reports were started by "extreme Leftwingers-Associated Press.

SQUARE NAMED AFTER GANDHI

Mexican dollars for her 10-year-old General, Mr Rajagopalacharl. was London, August 18-Hal Bryan,|d daughter, Anna, to live with him. one of the great statesmen of India, English musle hall artist who gave

He said Kampos took the money fearless, honcurable and upright" and everything was fine until the Lord Mountbatten said. ordered her daughter to leave Pas-

quall's

arms. Pasquali

demanded

his money back. The two tribos were on a war footing when the police intervened..

up the role of loading comedian' In "Annio Get Your Gun" in London because of health in June, has

Rio de Janeiro, Aug, 15-→→The died in a nursing home at the age naine of Mahatma Gandhil was given today to one of the Brazilian capi-

CREED OF UPRIGHTNESS.

at the of 06.

independence.

Saying he was delighted

Mr Bryan went to the United tal's main squares in a re-naming appointment, Lord Mountbatten con- States in 1929,- He appeared in New ceremony commemorating the first cluded that uprightnera“ "was, the York in The Fortune Tellee, and then anniversary of India's Ducky raven-luired Anna told the creed of Gandhiji-is the creed of toured the United States and Canada. The square - had formerly been Pollco that her mother never colle Rajaji and Panditji, and is the Associated Press.

named after Getulio Vargas, one- ted the money from Pasquall. She creed of every worthwhile leader in

time dictator of Brazil. General shid that she was carried away by Indla.”

Angelo do Mornes," who opened the ceremony, in the presence of Mr J. Masani. India's First Minister to | Brazil, the staff of the Indian Loga- tion and British” and other foreign

violence, but did not want to indi- Calling upon Indland to put; the ente the guilty.. party.

Now Delil, Aug, 18-Me

| representatives, :doscribed", the 100- cosion as Brazil's encore homage.

creed into practice in a positive way. Indian · Finance The Polico took Into custody, he said "much has been achieved in Anna, her alster, Teresa. their one year, much more will be achieved Minister Resigns mother Rosa and Pasquali “until wo in the years to come provided that cloar mailers," they" sald.—United [Tadla has the courage to march fear- Press

lessly along the path of uprightneß*""" | Shanmukham Chetty,” the Indian | to Gandhi's memory ---Hauter.

A message: was read out to the Finance Minister, has tändered (: hi edthering from Pandit Wohnl. In resignation to Handle Marbellabie Budapest, Aug. 15.The anlan Premier

packed

Premier, was Harian Ministry of the Interior ha bright with many coloured saris, sources tonight

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the Company will be closed from 12th to 26th August 1948, both daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board

of Directors,

PEAT MARWICK MITCHELL AND COMPANY, Secretarics and Accountants.

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that group of Hungarian, frontier Governments. The Indian High which have not been disclosed her wurde had crossed Into Austria Commissioner in London, Mr. Ve Knot yet been accepted by the Prus at 1-8 Wyndham Bireet, City) of Wilk thele familles-Reuter

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JACK CARSON: In:

acceptance of the offer and in nny case not later than the 30th No- vember, 1948, and so that cach such person as aforesaid or his approved nominee shall be en titled to apply for and take up one new share for" every ond Issued share which according to the Register of Members as afore said is held by such person on the 13th September, 1948, the shares so offered shall rank for dividend as from the 1st Decem- ber, 1048.

The offer will be made by notice sent by post to each such person as aforesaid signifying the number of shares to which each such person la entitled and such offer if not, nccepted: either on behalf of such person or his approved nominee on or before the 36th November, 1948, will be daemed to be declined.

The Directors will dispose of any shares offered as aforesaid in the event of non acceptance by payment therefor by auch persons ną aforesaid or their approved nomingos on or before 30th No vember, 1948, at such time for times and upon such terms and conditions as they may decide.

It le important that any persons. who have purchased shares in the Company but whose names do not appear in the Register of Mem- bors 28 aforesaid in respect thereof should if they wish to take advantage of the offer, pre- sont their transfore for registra- on accompanied by the requisite share certificates as acon as pos sible and In any event not, later than 11th September, 1948.-

NOTICE is also: hereby given that at the "above" Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company the following resolution", will be considered and if thought fit passed as a special Resolution:

"That Articlo No. 88 of the Company's Articles of Associa tion shall be altered by deleting- the figures "1,000" contained In the fourth line thereof and aubstituting therefor the figurðs *2,400"***

Article No. 88 of the Company's Articles of Association. If the Ro- |solution is passed, will then read

as follows:

→

"Each Director (other than D Managing Director) shall be paid by way of remuneration for his servicon the sum of $2,400 per annum and such further sums (if any)" "de the Company In Gonoral Meeting shail from time to time déter- mine, aku tak vlad

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELJ.

& COMPANY. Secretarie

Hongkong

1948