Brlilsh Exports Booming. Imports Costing less

By DONALD M. McNlC0!.L

LONDON (AP)-British traders 3nd government officials are wear- jng beaming smiles today. Official figures show exports are booming. and lhll time been able to import more goods at less cost.

The figures reveal that Ameri- can business dips have hit Britain much less severaly than the Brit- ish e ected. In fact. exports to the U ted States in May and June recovered to about the level of the average for the first -quarter of last year. The British trade def- icit is steadily growing smaller.

The picture isn't all rosy. how- ever. Britain although still the world's largest exporter (almost 30 per cent) of wool fabrics, is get- ting practically no share of the in- crease in world wool trade, whereas Italy's exports of wool fabrics have jumped by 80 per cent, and those of France. Belgium and The Netherlands together are up by 10 per cent.

SYNTIIETICS WEAK

. And British rayon and other syn- thetic fibers exports have merely doubled since before the war, com- pared with the tenfold increase in United States exports and the sevenfold l-crease by Germany.

An important feature of the world trade scene as viewed from London is the increase in intra- Eumpean trade. At the same time. lightened business conditions in the United States and Canada have led to a reduction of trade between North America and the rest of the world.

On the other hand. Europe has ncreased its imports from the primary producing countries. In :his connection. Latin America has benefited especially through higher prices for coffee and other ex- oorted products.

SPURS TRADE

The buoyancy thus given to the economic situation of the primary producing countries has enabled

Britain has at the same u-u

lndla Eager To Start On Indo- Chlna Truce

Nlw Dl.'Ll-II.i (Reuters)-India. Sunday invited Canada and Poland tosiart meetings here immediately to map out a program for the supervision of the Indo-China ce. v

The meetings are expected to start wldsin a week.

India was asked by the Geneva conference t4o.be chairman of the Indo-China truce supervisory com- mission with Canada and Poland as the other two members. Poland has accepted the invitation and Canada has said it would serve if assured that the commission could be made to work effectively.

Prime Minister Nehru said Bun- day India's appointment to the chairmanship meant that India had to shoulder a "terrific re- sponslbiiity." "The whole good name of India is at stake." he said. "it shows that the world has great confidence in India's impar- tiallty."

The Times India reported Sunday that the first meeting of the commission is likely to take place Aug. l but there was no of- ficial confirmation.

these countries to buy more from the rest of the world. with corres- ponding benefit to Britain. To Ar- gentina alone, British exports have more than doubled.

Latin America. as a whole in- creased imports by eight per cent. and sterling area imports increased by four per cent.

notable advance has been made in British exports of engi- neering products. For the first six months of this year they averaged 286,500,000. That was i',ii,000.000 higher than the corresponding half year monthly average.

What pleases the British most about this increase is that it was achieved in face of tougher Ger- man competition and the difficul- ties of the shrunken American

market.

CHILDREN struggling with this electronic brain, but unfortunately for them it is

it will lighten the burden of designers and technicians. Mathematical

sums would find life much easier if schools could be equipped with to be installed in a British aircraft plant where

problems it will automatically

tackle will deal with such matters as vibration, wings and stability.

LAKE VERDE W. 1.

Ten members of Lake Verde Wo- men's Institute met at the home of Mrs. John Boylan on July 21, for their monthly meeting. Three visitors were present.

The meeting was opened by Mrs. Michael Dalton, President. The

N. B. Aihleles To Attend Training-

F'R.l!2DERC'I'0N (CF) Five New Brunswick athletes have been selected to attend the Canadian Olympic training plan in Toronto August 29 to September 6. Munzer, Fredericton.

They are Margery Squires, Fred- The names were announced at s erlctoni Walter Peters. Saint John: recent meeting of the New Bruns- Dianne Matheaon, Moncton; Wll- wick track and field selection com- liam Ruuell, Saint John: and Ron mittee in Fredercton.

delegates gave a report on the An- nual Convention. sick committee reported two sick lls. Mrs. Ivan Redmond invited the members to her home for the August meeting. Roll call is to be answered by drawing for a gift donated by Mrs. Michael Dalton.

A social hour was spent during which the hostess served a delic- ious lunch assisted by Miss Agnes Boylan, R.N. Miss Marina Boylan and Mrs. Joseph Shea.

-persecutlng Roman Catholics in i aspect of a-big propaganda battle

Claim Catholics ' In North Viel Nam Persecuted

By FOBBIIT IDWAIDS

HANOI, Indo-Ohlna (AP)-Vlet Names officials claim'-and the Communist-led Vietminh deny - that Red sympathizcrs are already

the Red river delta. It is only one

being waged for more than 1,000.- 000 Catholics in north Viet Nam. Catholic leaders themselves are saying little until they can deter- mine exactly the extent of any anti-Catholic movement in the southern delta region which the French evacuated in the last stages of the Indo-china war.

The Catholics apparently fear any blast against. the Viotmlnh now might touch off a wave of persecution. Actually reports from the region have been fragmentary and often highly contradictory. However. representatives of the Viet Nssneae three-man governing committee for north Viet Nam are telling Catholics here and in other areas the French and Vlet Narnese still hold north of here that the Vletminh are persecuting Catholics in the southern delta.

Thue spokesmen claim the Catholics must pay 50 plasti-es (31.43) each to attend mass and 20 plastres (57 cents) each to wear a cross or other religious emblems. The Vlet Namese informants say all southern delta ruidents-psr- tlcularly Catholics - must attend Communist indoctrination classes.

Thnndly. July 1!. 1954

i Wren Appointed

Staff Dffioer

OTTAWA. (GP)- Clndr. Isabel Janet Macneill, 03!, of Gait. 0nt., and Halifax. who commanded the wartime Wren training utabllsh- ment and was to be decorated. has been appointed a staff officer to the chief of naval personnel, the navy announced yesterday.

Commissioned in 1942, Cmdr.

Macneill was appointed to HMCS Conestoga at Gait, where she ser- ved aa training officer, executive officer and then as commanding officer until March 31, 1946. some 6,000 Wrens were trained there during the war. Educated at Halifax and at the Unierslty of London, she worked as a scenic designer in Britain be- fore returning to Halifax as a ll- bra.rian at Dalhousle Unierslty. before joining the Wrens, she pai- ticipatcd in voluntary war work.

the Canadian Navy to command a shore establishment, was awarded the OBI: in 1944.

tween Vlet Namese officials and Vletrninh agents has political frec-l dam more than religious freedom for its background. The Vlet Nam- eso hope to persuade Catholics ml the delta to leave their villages- and rice paddles and migrate south. There they prwumabiy would be a. solid bloc of votes in the elec- tions provided for in the cease-fire agreement.

The Vletminh want to keep the Catholics in the delta for the same reason.

STORIES DENIED But Vletmlnh agents, infiltrating Hanoi by the thousands, are tell- ing the Catholics such stories are untrue. The agents claim the Catholics are unmolested and al- lowed to practice their religion

FIND CHILD'S BODY OTTAWA (CP) - The body of

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Karam, was found floating in Pat- terson's creek in Ottawa's Glebe district Wednesday. The child dis-

without pressure or taxation.

This propaganda struggle he-

appeared from her home near the creek Tuesday afternoon.

Raydene Karam, five-year - old I1

The Guardian rage 7 Polio Vaccine ff Doses Completed

EDMONTON. (CP)-Health of- ficera throughout Alberta have al- most completed giving the third and final doses of Salk polio vaccine and control placebo, the provincial health department said Monday. Almost 20,000 Alberta school child- rcn are taking part in the con- tinent-wide tests of the vaccine.

Reports of health units and civic health departments will be scruti- nized by Dr. E. B. Orford Smith. co-ordlnatory of the anti-polio pro- gram in Alberta. They then will be sent for analysis to the Univer- sity of Michigan. where a polio vaccine evaluation centre has been utabllshed.

Children will not know until early next year whether they re- ceived the vaccine or the ineffec- tive placebo. it is expected that those who participated in the tests but received only the placebo will

cmdr. Macneill, only women in be the first to receive the vaccine

next year if the current tests prove it is effective against polio.

Baseball league Planning To Fold

MIAMI. F'la.. (AP)-The troubled Florida International League will continue as a two-team baseball circuit through Aug. 6 and then fold up, Dale Miller, League pres- ident, said Tuesday.

George Trautman, minor league commissioner, gave the class B league permiglon to continue through Aug. 6 in order to permit the only remaining clubs, Miami and St. Petersburg. in play 10 more games. West Palm Beach and Tallahassee withdrew Monday

ht.

The league had six teams this spring when it got off to a shaky start, Attendance was slim at all points and in May the Tampa and Miami teams folded. The Miami Beach team then moved to Miami.

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