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wood's Girl of
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ALAN MOWBRAY “ALAN HALE
BILLY GILBERT.
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A VALIANT THREE..........IN A LAND AFLAME!
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ́S
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FREDDIE
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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1989.
YANGTSE BLOCKADE ECHO: CHARTER PARTY LOSES SHIPPING APPEAL CASE
London, To-day. The effects of the China conflict on shipping con- tracts occupied the attention of the King's Bench Division yesterday..
Mr. Justice Blanson, on appeal, held up the arbitra- tion decision that the charter party on the steamship "Errington Court" had been in-. validated.
The Court Line, owners of the "Errington Court," had chartered her in 1937 to Dant Russell, Incor- porated, to take wheat to Shanghai and Wuhu.
She arrived at Wuhu on August' 7, and when hostilities broke out the Chinese placed a boom across the Yangtse.
CHARTER PARTY FRUSTRATED
PENSIONS
ORDINANCE
AMENDMENT
An Ordinance to amend the Pensions Ordinance of 1932 is con- The "Errington Court" was un-tained in the Hong Kong Govern- able to reach Shanghai, and the charterers claimed that the charter ment Gazette this morning. party had been frustrated.
Section 2 of the Pensions Ordin- Mr. Justice Branson, upholding ance, 1932, is amended in the de- the decision of the arbitration um-finition of "Pensionable emolu- pire, said there was no doubt that ments" in paragraph (c) thereof, events on the Yangtse prevented by the repeal of sub-paragraph free movement of the vessel.
(i) and by the substitution of the The charter party was therefore following sub-paragraph there- frustrated and the contract
dis- for:- solved. Reuter.
FOREIGN ENVOYS
DISCUSS NORTH CHINA SITUATION
Chungking, To-day.
In respect of service in this Colony the salary attached to the pensionable office together with personal allowance and house al- lowance, but does not include duty Jallowance or any other emolu-
ments whatever.
Section 2 of the Pensions Ordin- ance, 1932, is further amended by the insertion of the following new paragraphs after the end of paragraph (c) thereof:-
"Personal allowance" means a special addition to salary granted... personally to the holder for the time being of an office, but does not include such addition if it is that it shall not be pensionable. granted subject to the condition
Two foreign Ambassadors, M. Henri Cosme (France) and Mr, Nelson T. Johnson (America), who arrived here from Shanghai on Wednesday, conferred with the "House allowance" means a sum Foreign Minister. Dr. Wang Chung-to be added to the salary of an officer who retires from a pension- hui, yesterday.
able office in this Colony, the emo- It is learned that the principal luments of which include either subjects discussed at the meeting free quarters or the privilege of concerned the foreign Concessions occupying quarters at a rent not and Settlements in China and the greater than seven per cent, of economic campaign of the Japanese his salary, or an allowance in lieu: in North and Central China. Our such addition shall be, in the case Own Correspondent.
U.S. COURT AWARD ANNOYS THE NAZIS
Berlin, To-day
The German Government does not recognise the validity of this arbitration, says semi-official statement referring to $50. 000,000 United States award against Germany for wartime dam
A dollar salary-$2,000, or a sum equal to one-sixth of the officer's salary, whichever is the less;
A sterling salary, if the officer was first appointed to the service of this Colony before 1st April, 1987 £200, or a sum equal to one- sixth of his salary, whichever is the less;
A sterling salary, if the officer was first appointed to the service of this Colony on or after 1st April 1987-8150, or a sum equal to one- sixth of his salary, whichever is the Tess;
an
Gov-
An European matron of, or European nursing sister in, a ernment hospital $50, or a sum equal to one-sixth of her salary,
wh
is the
reater: But no officer, liable to pay, rent to ters shall be deeme house allowance
tion is expressed in Ger political circles, which declare fori qi the mixed commission had no dra erman representative, and that the award was contrary to the commis
procedure of showing no anti- German prejudice.—Reu
of his being
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