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ALLOWANCES K.R.A. HOUSING SCHEME
Reported Recommendations Of Salaries Commission
25 To 75 Percent
Increases
A detailed list of living allowances for govern- ment employees reportedly suggested by the Government-appointed Salaries Commission, was published yesterday in the Sing Tao Jih Pao, which at the same time said the proposals had been accefited by the Hong Kong Govern- ment.
The allowances published in the Chinese news- pfängt range from 20 per cenį to 75 per cent of salafies, with some allowances fixed on certain -bevels. The report added that should the exist- ing 1941 living allowance plus the rehabilita- tion allowance exceed the newly proposed 75 per cent mixinıtım the employees involved will be allowed to draw the higher allowance.,
The repost added that the propped allowames beconte effective as from Apri last.
Pallow me the detailed list of golaris wille propnord allow curces as publishes in the Chin- tre newspaper posterdiy :
Married Employees
AL
(Sterling Salaries) Vender 1 120 prussia Jowange 75 not speeding $200
Under 1880 per nanum: Jowner 6 no excreding £70
£1,000 and under pra attum: Allowance 285.
AL
Japanese Currency Appeal
Tokyo, July R. The Carney Stabilisation today
SINO-BRITISH AGREEMENT
Nunking, Juty B.
The Foreign Minister, De. Wang Shih-chielt, was today upported by the Excentivë Fion, plenipotentiary to re- present China in the xlguing of the Sino-British air irana- purt hgreement.
Foreign Office anureen stal- ed that no definite date' han bern art for the ceremony but
expected to dome woon. Mennwhile, Chineke__ungatin- fora today presented counter- proposals to the Dutch draft at the Sino-Dutch air pact.- Reuter.
Tokunaga Sentence Surprise
Reparations To Be Scaled Down?
Tokyo, July 8.
The coming second visit to Japan of the Clifford Strike economic survey committee was regard- ed by both American and Japanese observers as indicating another scaling down of repara- tions payments in favour of the Japanesc.
A SCAP official sald, how- ever, that certain reparations payinents would not be telayed by the Committee's projected survey of the Japanese economy, It Was significantly noted that each Industria! survey of Japan has recommended more liberal reparations terma for the Japanese,
Whisky Or The Heat?
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London, July 8, The Times today advanced its theory of the flying saucers in n brief dispatch, from New
The first in October, 1945 by | York,
too harsh and unrealistic.
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ONTARIO'S GIFT
TO BRITAIN
Reading, July T. Hundreds of victims of Britain's springtime floods stood in line at a temporary Red Cross office today, to get four ting of food for each member of their family, and for each child a lín of milk, nent by the people of Ontario. Most of the 10,000 tine bore the label, "There'll ai- se be an England."
Major S. P. Armstrong, Dutario's Agent General in London, said the people of the provinces Aud given $6,400.000 worth of clothing, $2,108,000 worth of food, and $50,000 in cash for Britain. Some
3,000,000 individual gifts were made.~Heuter.
No China
Collapse.. Bank Head
Co-op Society
Plan
A housing scheme similar in many respects to the "Pay as you Live" plan of the Cooperative Home Construction Association now being or- ganised by Mr. U Tat Chee and other Chinese businessmen, was considered three weeks ago by the General Committee of Kowloon Re- sidents' Association, the “China Mail” was in- formed yesterday.
A memorandum, submitted to the KRA by Mr.
Hugh Braga for the formation of a Cooperative / Home-building Society, was unánimously ap- proved by the General Committee who pointed out that such an organisation would possibly do more than anything else for the well-being of the community today.
The General Committee has de-, Oerative Home-Building Society cided that before proceeding with venld be as follows:- the project it would be necessary a. Approximately half the rent to ascertain the number of resi. I would be saving. dents genuinely interested. I sufficient response is forthcoming. a public meeting will be called to discuss the matter.
b. Utinate ownership.
c. Security of occupancy.
Security against cent in.
creates."
e. Loans on easy terms.
1. Government protection and supervision.
K. Low management expenses. h. All profits go to the com.
The President of the HRA #sid that unlike similar societies in other parts of the world, the Home-Building Society would build homes on a large scale and Salt Lake City, July 8. sell the houses. A person wishing|munity. "very bad" but
Inflation in China is to participate in the scheme there would take up a number of shures
shares would be of a
a No. I
the strategie bombing survey "In weather as hot as this | did not concern itself with re-imagination tends to become) parations.
fevered." i said.
The Daily Telegraph offered The second, by Edwin C. the Air Ministry theory that
Only Hope Patey during November, 1945, the guncers are the "indirect re-
Throughout the world, Govern- The commuted death recommended reparations pay-sulf of the recent large exports will be no financial col- in the Building Society. Theses are doing everything pos sentences of two locally ments which SCAP and other of Scotch whisky."
nominal athle to encourage people to pur. lapse, Liu Feng-huang, value of any $1,000 cach. Achase thoir Own homes and convicted Japanese war! quarters regarded unofficially as
The Daily Herald cracked "It Manager of the Central person ucquiring property worth housing is regarded as criminals, Colonel To-
must be a Russian athlete prac- kunaga Isao and Dr. The third survey, at the endtising discus throwing for the Bank of China, said to- $50,000 from the Building Society priority. There is no reason why would take up 50 shares, and pay the Hong Kong Government Olympic Games-and he doesn't day. know his own strength."
ment for them would be made in should not do likewise. It was Saito Shunkichi, report-
In this country for a four monthly instalments covering in- recognised by the Committee that The News Chronicle front-month tour, Mr. Liu said cur-terest, amortisation, taxes, crown the only hope for the average Committer of the Diet led exclusively by the
paged a cartoon of a henpecked rency would be deflated when rent and management. After any man to obtain satisfactory ac €1.400 per Amoms Allowaned notified Genera! Douglas Mne-China Mail" on June 28
und reading Arthur, Supreme Commander of last, was promulgated to
reports of the newspaper the civil war ends.
25 years, the shares would by commodation would be through Allied Forees
fully paid up and the home would Government assistance to the in- Japan world not
in Japan, that the two prisoners yester
was without foreign aid day, it
officially by an early fixing of the ex-learned last night. Under $1,550 per hum: Afchange rate between the Ameri
The two Japanese were con- can dulla andi Japanese yen. victer and sentenced to death lowaner £150. List per
on February 13 last, fallowing Reliable 125.
Japanese Bourens trial fasting three months, by $1,600 por abnere; AllowATHE
here explained this move as fol-the No. 6 War Crimes Court. £100.
wing unconfirmed stories that Tokunaga's sentence has been
£21, plus. 45 Tor ogey annund increase of sin,
Unire $1250 per annuin: Al Jowance £245,
$1.250
Kate: Allowance
£187.10.
ama Allowange
€3,000 pe atum: Allowance £75,
£50,
$1,700 per mun; Allowance
Over 1,700 por ROOM: Allowa
stabilise her i
Japan.
wa.
Profit-Making Out
The scheme would not be 11
long period.
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A wuk tidge of high pressure extends
showers,
Maxlevam: 81.3, der, Yah, Minimum: 70. des. F.
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of 1916--conducted by SCAP's and Scientific own Economic section, resulted in a milder interim reparations programme being recommended by Gen
phenomenon | "Chinn should have had Douglas MacArthur.
while the wife tosses flying sau-¡ period of deflation in 1940 but then be the sole property of the dividual, on easy terms, over a
because of the war with the purchaser. During February, 1947, the cers at him.-United Press.
Chinese Mexicans Seeing
Communists we were Strike Committee; at the in-
forced to issue currency with vitation of the War Department,
Things
the result that we have now a made an "independent" survey
Chicago, July 8.
THE WEATHER serious inflation," said Liu. of the Japanese economy and Although "flying saucers". recommended even loss repara-reportedly are stil fitting about goods, collige and inancial aid ate speculators, outright purches, lippisy kunsti
China's need at present are pretti-making one and, to elimin-from the Pacific anticyclong 10 the tione to be evacuated from the nation-and even invaded particularly do
Thiaro covers! Inbil "China" in email Mexico City-there were
need would not be permitted. | General MacArthur might soon commuter to Bfe and Saito's to
| truplest depression centred Tuet E al nathancial help from the Amer would The fact that the War Dee'aimonta for the rewards of cans to combat
ensure that none but okinawa motor NNW fix the dollar-yen rate at some 20 years' imprisonment,
authorised $1.000 each offered in Chicago, begin. reconstruction partment has now
Inflation and genuine home-owners, with Bmit
to Today's Forecast-Light SE 陇 thing under 500 ven to the
morning of theed funds and desperately in need|winde, Partly cloudy after under-the. Strike Committee to revisit Los Angeles and Spokane for a nation," he added. The "China Mall" dollar.
of accommodation, would be in. # "final" genuine specimen. standa, that the commutation of Japan to undertake,
Yesterday's Weather zum With his wife and their 14- terested. A further deterent to the death sentences has been survey of Japanese economy Several persony received with great surprise by was interpreted as meaning the the Mexican National Defence for San Francisco-Associated tlon with regard to resale, which telephoned year-o'd son Clarence. Liu left speculators would be the restric the Canadian War Crimes au- Department may want to goMinistry to report
disca over Press. thorities to Hong Kong.
would be permissible only to the who even further than Gen. Mac-Mexico but the Ministry spokes- have informally, written to the Arthur in maintaining u strongman said he did not believe in. He said: "Russin respects terms. Strict control would also Building Society on prearranged Canadian Government.
on the Industrial Japan,
them.
the sovereignty of all Govern-be necessary to prevent un. subject.
Japanese financial circles were In Los Angeles the Russian ments and by no stretch of the authorised subletting. „Tokunaga who was Comman- openly optimistic at the pros- Vice-Consu!. Eugene Tanan- Imagination would it URG dant of a POW-Campa in Hongpect of reestablishing the coun-toevi scoffed-at suggestions that another country for a proving ages from the point of view of Later a military currency was] Kong during the Japanese occu- try's economic strength by the the saucers might be from Run- ground."--United Press.
the genuine hom purchaser a introduced by both the British potion. was found guilty on Strike Committee whose first
quiring property, Through a Co ard American forces in apeight out of 10 charges, includ- report, they learned, favoured effort to curb black market ac fug that of being concerned in amali reparations paymenta. tivities and at the same time the killing of recaptured Cana-
At the same time, representa- the yen rute for the troops was dan and British POWs who tives of foreign reparations fixed at 50 to the do'lur.
kad attemnted to escape.
issions in Tokyo were awalt- Saito, Medical Officer in ing the Strike Committer's ar- charge of POW Camps in Hong rival with concern. They feel Kong, was found guilty on four the best they can hope from of five surges,
survey of Japanese economy is another delay in al-
Immediately before the war, Married Employees
The value of the yen was four to the dollar. With the arrival (HK. Currency) of the occupation forces, the Under $6,720 per antrim: Al- Jowance 75 exceeding $1,000yen was fixed at 16 to the dol- Under $12.9 pramuni: Allar but this was unofficial and lowing if not weding $1,920, for the troops only.
Under $10 per oute: A- Jowance $1,000,
Unmarried On Sterling Basis Under 200 per annum: Allow- Miro CO
nd exceeding (200.
£5 per AIRE Allowance
fixed at $200 20140 Pen
11: Allowance Sxed at 144, phis 14 for every
annual ineroase of H
Under 700 per annum: Al- Inwance 20 not exceeding £148.
2900 Per annath :- Allowance
Cato per ammuni Allowance
£14.
£140
L920 per ann
Allowance
$147
930 Per mom: Allowance
£140.
94 92 Allowance
£150,10%.
...
The block market rate ranged from 100 to 160 yen to the dol- lar.--Reuter.
Isogai On Trial: Opium In H.K.
Nanking, July 8.
Under £1010 per annum; Al-Major-General Rensuke Isogai, former governor
Jowance £12.
1,018 per amen: Allowance £144.
1,020 per annum: Allowance £1,030 per annum: Allowance dressed in
£136. $128.
£100.
£80.
£60.
240.
another
location of the 30 per cent in
terima reparatione.
One foreign reparations ob. server sald: "This puts 'two strike on before we start."_____ United Press.
Trading With Japan
Tokyo, July 8.
Skirmishing In Sinkiang
Shanghai, July 8.
China is continuing negotiations with outer Mon- golla over the recent Peitashan incident, Sun Fo. president of the Executive Yuan, told a news conference in Shanghai today. Sun Fo made the statement as the official Central News Agency reported that skirmishes be- tween Chinese Nationalists and Outer Mongo- lia were still in progress" in the vicinity of Peitashan (White. Pagoda Mountain),
..:
Central News gave us ita Hource a report received by President Chiang Kai-shek's brauch headquarters at Lan- chow, capital of Kansu, but gave no indication when it was dated.
Sun Fo said he had no know-
Dancing Hostess Tragedy
of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, went on trial for war crimes today before a military tribunal of the National Defence Ministry. The 65-year old general, denied all charges. As a mili- a plain uniform, | inry man he maintained it was stood solemnly in the dock as necessary for him to follow or- Under 11.500 per annum: Al- the Chief Justice, Mr. Shih dera, although he personally fu
No noticeable entry of foreign lowance. £130,
£1,550 per amum: Allowance Mel-yu, charged him with re-voured pence over war.
shipping into Japanese porta is sponsibility for the invasion of Ile stated he did not condong expected immediately following £1,600 per annum: Allowance China, violation of international atrocities. During his governor the resumption of Japan's trade ledge of an alleged Soviet at- law and disturbance of world ship of Hong Kong, Isogai de- with other natione, according tack on Tacheng, Sinkiang (on
Shanghat; July 8. 1,650 per annum: Allowance peace.
clared that he issued proclama- to a spokesman of the foreign which both the Chinese For-
When Fang Taeng, 26-year- The court declared that as tions forbidding the general use trude division of General Mac- elgn Office and the Nationallet old ex-dancing bostons, died in £1,700 per annum: Allowance leader of Japan's Kwantung of oplum and inspected opium Arthur's headquarters.
military authorities in Nanking hospital of an overdose of Army, Inogal led his troops In¦ houses.
The standard procedure of had also previously denied any sleeping tablete the police in the landing at Taku Bar near Because this vice was wide shipping followed during the information).
vestigating, ant apparent suicide Tientsin immediately after the spread in the coliny, he stated occupation will continue to Ile declared Nanking's gen- found she had elaborate funeral (H.K. Currency) Marco Polo Bridge incident on that he was unable to stamp it operate until sufficient exports oral mobilisation order was de-arrangements all mapped out by Under $8.000 per annum: Al. July 7, 1937,
out completely. He c'aimed that and sales have accumulated to signed to "wipe out the civil herself. lowance not exceeding $3.200.
$8,000 per annum: Allowance attacked
Justiça Shih stated that he he ha.i ordered the arrest of warrant, regular berthing nor strife at the earliest possible
As early na Juho 26 Miss along the Tientsin two Japanese peddling opium in vices by foreign ships. In moat time."
Fang ordered and paid for a 83.200, plus $40 for evory nnnual Pukow. Railway in an attempt Hong Kong and that he allowed cases it will be "several months" incres of $160.
high grade coffin and shroud for 81440, per unum Allowance.
to capture Nanking and that as the sale of the drug only for before delivery on contracts will
delivery to an appointed funeral $2,304 plus $81 for every $160 soldiers to rape and murder. He firms.
he advanced, he permitted his medical purposes and to licensed | bonade by Japanese manufac-
parlour on July 6 where she Annual Increase,
turers, the spokesman said. Any political party opposing reserved a hall. She engaged an $11,200 per annum; Allowance carried out a policy of terror- Approximately 300 spectators $304.
When finished goods are made the order should be considered architect to design and order a lam in Shantung and Hopei witnessed the opening session ready for transport, the buyer na opposing the government gravestono, paying all the bills: 14.400 per annum Allowance from December, 1986 to Feb of-the-trial Routor.
uations will bring in their own which could not tolerate such 20% not exceeding $2,308.
Then she swallowed an over- ruary, 19859.
Toreign shipping.
situation and might resort to dose of nleeping tablots lato on JAP ARRESTED Meanwhile, It is learned that drastic measures,” he said. July 6 after mailing a suicide
the farmer Japanese naval baso -The statement Wis clearly note to the police,
Unmarried, '
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P.M.G, Replies to Critice. Page-Five
Houting Motion Amended. Papa Nine
U.S. and China.
Pots Ten
The Test Match. Indononis Tension.
Isogai served in military governor of Hong Kong from
February, 1942 to Decembor, IN WANGHAI 1944. During this period, "he A Japanese gendarme, for poisoned the people by the morly attached to Shek Lung, la public, sale of oplum," Justieg, reporter to have been arrested Shih said.
by the Hong Kong Police on in- ** The discussion this morning formation in a house in Stone was principate on this point-Nullah Street shortly before whether Isogai dhi or did not noon yesterdays allow the distribution of oplum.. He is alleged to have been The Japanese general, sponk concerned in the comihitting of
| ing rapidly in hla own defenço, | atrocities in Shek Lung,
Threat
at Yokosuka, near Yokohama,, aimed at the Democratie Len- The only hitch in her plan demilitarised since the surron- gue, which is not participating was that death occurred same der, is likely, to become one of in the present "coalition" gov- 48 hours late for the July di the major
porta
for foreign ernment and which consistont-funeral parlour reservation, trade after," August" 15.
ly, has been demanding a settle- Tho note said she committed The Mayor of Yokosuka and ment of differences between-the suicida due to lingering tuber- the local chamber of commerce Kuomlatang and the Commun- culoria.-United Fress. have approached the Governinta by negotiation.
ment with a request that Yoko- Sun Fo said Moscow's decl; might have boon dictated by the suka harbour bo specified as a sion to allow 8,000 Soviet fami- goed of manpower-Asociated peace-time port:—Router. -** llen in China to return home / Pross,
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