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Meals and Intoxicating. Liquors Tax Regulations.
The proprietora of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating-housca are hereby informed that the approved standard bill forma are available for inspection at the Meula Tax Office,
Any proprietor who desires to obtain exemption under Regula tion 4 (6) from the obligation of rentering bills is requested to makeuppleation in writing to the Accountant-Generai stating the grounds on which exemption is climed.
The Summarised Daily Sheet now ready Return Forms are for Issue and may be obtained FREE OF CHARGE, on appil ention, at the above office, These forms must be brought into use with effect from the 1st August, 1947.
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NOTICE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN
of
THE * GOODS RUDOLF HOSELITZ inte of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Gentleman, de- ceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 69 Probates Ordinance, 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 6th day of August 1947.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1947.
INDIA INDEPENDENCE BILL PASSED
BY LORDS
London, July 16...
The House of Lords tonight passed the India In- dependence Bill through all its stages. It now only awaits the formal Royal assent Friday to become law.
on
A former Viceroy and two former Secretaries of State for India voiced their approval of the India Independence Bill in the House of Lords today as the measure was rushed through its final stages in order to set up next month the two new Dominions of India and Pakistan,
The withdrawal of A note of warning that In the bill. of the
dia's defence might be "irre- British troops, he said, had al- coverably damaged" if the two rendyed to rioting and famine into and over 2,000,000 people lont defence forces "drafted watertight compartmenta" was their lives through the famine sounded by Lord Templeton, last year.
This would be a very smal who as Sir Samuel Hoare pliot- ed through Parlament the 1935 toas compared with the slaugh- Government of India (0), ter which was to follow. So- Lard Listowel, the present ein! and religious fires had Secretary of State for Indin, never burned more flercely. emphasising that the move to The amount of violence in the give self-government to India Inst two years was something was
achievement which terrible and now the army was might well be the opening of a being divided up rather in the new chapter in the growth of manner that alles were picked freedom ander British rule, de before a football match. clared that Britain's love of
All creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under- signed on or before that date.
Dated the 8th day of July, 1947.
DEACONS.
Prince's Building,
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NOTICE
MOSQUITOES
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NOTICE
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20 and 25 to fill vaenneles for screened.
ambulance dressers in the Medi- eat Department on the salary scale of $900 aomally rising to $11 by Ste plus sibowances subject to possibile revision
Uni- the Salaries Commission. form will be provided on satis. fretory completion
A good knowledge
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of written
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that
Nottee is hereby given the Transfer Books and Htegis. ter of Members of the Company will be closed from 21st July, 1947, to 25th July, 1947, both day inclusive, during which me no transfers will be regis
tered.
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India were stronger than ever. "We only nk the oppor- tunity."
been
Lord Pethick Lawrence, former Secretary of State for Indi, who headed the British Cabinet Mission to India. de- clared that while he believed the Mission's plan had the better one, he gave the new bil his wholehearted support bechuse it had won the approval political groups of the main concerned,
The other recognised au- thority on India, who took part in the debate was Lord Halifax, Viceroy from 1925 to 1931, who paid a tribute to the work" of the Labour Government and emphasised the benefit to India of remaining within the Com- monwealth.
NO PENSIONS INCREASE
'Ottawa," July 16. The House of Commions to- day gave an 84-54 vote of confidence to Prime Minister Mackenzie King's administra tion in its stand against. in creased pensjona for veterans, their widows and dependants. The opposition moved for a non-confidence vote in the cloning hours of the season,
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Mr. King accepted the challenge, saying that th government would be "glad to accept a defeat on the pen- alons inac. Our obligation to balance means with onde and to deal with the affairs of the country in a responsibla fashion."-United Press.
t'ement as a relapse into that internecine warfare from which Britain rescued it and he would be surprised if other countries did not intervene in that war- fare either openly or secretly. that peace could be maintained time, passed through the com- The bill was read a second under such conditions.
-mittee stage without amend He could not but regard thements, rend a third time and futuro of India under this set- passed.Reuter,
It was impossible to believe
UK. Move Fails To
Draw
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Support
Geneva, July 16.
Jap Peace Treaty Talks Postponed
Washington, July 16.
The United States State Department has accepted the British Commonwealth explanation that August 19, the date announced earlier today for the Japanese peace treaty conference, is inconvenient.
The United States is expected to agree to a post- ponement of the negotiations until sometime in September. August 15 was not convenient in the British view because it clashed with the Commonwealth Conference to discuss the Japanese peace treaty, due to meet at Can- berra on August 26.
It is reported from a reliable source that Britain will be re-
This view had already been; ly to agreement as to procedure tendered informally to the State and establishment,
and New Zealand, Department by Australia
as well as by Britain, and India was expected to follow ault.
London
It is reported from that the Foreign Office tonight had described as "Inconvenient"
the date of August 15 proposed by the United States for an 11- power conference on the Japan
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presented by Mr. Hector NeNell, the Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, while the other coun- trica are likely to be represented by similar ranking deputies,
Trench Reaction
It la reported from Paris ese peace treaty. In an official that the United States Govern communique, the Foreign Office ment's invitation to an 11-power} Bald that the date would not be conference to start work on a convenient,
Britain
had peace treaty with Japan has already accepted an Invitation been received by the French from the Australian Govern Government with great satis ment for a preliminary exchange faction, of views among members of the Particularly satisfactory is Commonwealth to take place at the fact that the United States Canberra on August 26.
The alternative, it is stressed, been to hold the
Issued the Invitation directly and on equal terms to the 11- The United Kingdom move at the trade confer-
The Government, the com- powers particularly interested ence here to depart from the "one country one American proposal for an early
munique added, welcomed the in the Pacific. vote" principle in the forthcoming voting of Conference, and hoped it would would have
conferences, and that extra weight be therefore be possible to agree conference within the frame- given to the vote of larger countries, failed to with the other member states work of the Advisory Commia- obtain the support of the Preparatory Con-of the Far Eastern Commission sion for the Far East act up in mittee today.
on a date after the Canberra Moscow in December, 1945, and
on which Russia, meeting.
the United Reporta are current here and States, China and Great Britain in London that Russia has have the right of veto. already registered strong The American invitation 18 objections to the holding of the taken in Parls to mean that all proposed conference on August the eleven nations attending the 15, though this was not men-j conference will have an equal tloned in the State Department voice in preparing the peace
treaty, with no velo right, announcement.
There is speculation in official French circles whether the Soviet Union will accept, and, these in any case, it is expected that may raise objections
The original solution sug- the suggestion of a "prefabri- gested for voting in ITO con- cated majority" because classi ferenets by the New York draft fication of nations according to charter was that each member certain economic idean would pegahou'd have one vote.
divide the world into haves and have-nots.
pro-
Lord Sinha Lord Sinha, the only Indian peer, said that the British ple had amply justified their
The United Kingdom's view world reputation for keeping was that the provision was not Canadá supported the
India had a great antisfactory as far na their word.
actual posal, while the United States spiritual background and this
operation of the ITO was con- reserved Ita decision, which, it "great net of faith" had made cerned, since some of the small- was understood, depended on. such an appen! to the people est
countries with the least the ultimate shape of the Char-
could outvote notified that of India that in the midst of trade
the big ter. new Share Certificates are ready all the riots during the last countries with a great propor- and may be had an application, year or so not a hair of the tion of world trade.
the Company's offices, 3rd head of any British man, wo- floor, Union Ballding.
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY LIMITED.
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The question has been refer- R. W. H. MAYNARD,
Secretary, Urban Council
URBAN COUNCIL.
Hong Kong, 9th July 1947.
and spoken English is essential NOTICE OF CHANGE and a knowledge of first aid will beau avantage.
Applications which should be in applirante' own handwriting, slating age, education, experience in Arst aid and qualifications and previous employment, should be forwarded to the Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, first floor, before 24th July, 1947,
1. NEWTON, Ag. Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong, 15th July, 1947.
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers, Surveyor
and Appraisern,' Podder Building. Telephone No. 20224. „PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 18th July 1947 commencing at 2.30 P.M.
at their Sales
Rooms No.
Hankow Roar! Kowloon,
A FINE COLLECTION OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE comprising:--
.
35
of
SHIP'S NAME
ILM owner,
DODWELL & CO., LTD. General Managers.
Hong Kong, 11th July 1947.
I
NOTICE
at 8.30 p.m.
man
or child or any of their property had been touched or | damaged.
There had never been any queation of rebellion in India. He believed that both domia- ions would elect to stay on the British Commonwealth and fight side by side for libery and freedom as they had done for generations.
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Criticism
Lord Selborne, Conservative, was one of the few critics of
S.S. "CAMPUCHEA" PRIZE-GIVING-Old
Freedom was a great, word boys, 1. TAN PA of Phnom Penh, parents, internees and ather but-equality--impressed them Cambodia. French Indo-Ching, friends will be warmly welcome even more and now both free short PRIZE-GIVING dom and equality had been con- HEREBY
GIVE at
ferred on India. NOTICE that the name of the at ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, Steamship Vessel now lying in Stanley, on Saturday, July 19th the waters of the Colony of Hong Kong hitherto known as the HAWKESBURY" original- ly of British Registry lately of Panamanian Registry, and new transferred to French Registry, has been changed, with due au- thority, and will hereafter be known as the "CAMPUCHEA."
TAN PA
By his Allorney.
TAN CHAI
Hong Kong, 16th July, 1947.
NOTICE
POLITICAL OFFENDERS NOT ELIGIBLE
London. July 16.
The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, told Mr. D. N. Pritt (Independent Labour) in the House of Commons today that in the ab- sence of any specific recommendation from the Governor of Ceylon, he did not propose to take any action to secure that political offenders in Ceylon were eligible for election to the new legislature.
mitted by him some years ago.
The United Kingdom thought weight should be dependent on external trade, national income. population and the percentage of trade to national income."
According to this scheme, the United States, for instance, wou'd have 399 votes, the Unit- ed Kingdom 335,. Russia 199. India 194, Brazil 126 and Cuba and Chile 115 votes.
Opposition Strong opposition to, the United Kingdom's proposal came from most of the smaller countries, the Latin Americans
Moscow Reaction
The reports sald that
red to a sub-committee for fur- objections were registered when Moscow ther consideration. There was Lieutenant General Walter because the conference was not support for a suggestion that Bedell, Smith, the United States called within the Advisory Com the question be left for decision Ambassador In Moscow, dis- mission framework-Reuter,
Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, shortly aftor General Bedell Smith had returned to Moscow after 22 visit to
to the World Trade Conference cussed the matter with M. in November,-United Press.
"DEFENDERS OF
THE ARABS"
Washington recently.
turned to Stinkwood Suite
M. Molotov is sald to have For Royal Couple?
objected promptly and emphati cally, arguing that the Council
of Foreign Ministers should Paris, July 10.
by Mr.
Capetown, July 17. Capalown is to give PrincesA
Press correspondents horo re-handle the Japanese treaty, na Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip selved today undated typed mes-in the case of Europe.
Mountbatten a wedding present, it sages purporting to come from an General Bedell Smith is un- was announced in Cape Town on and others, who were all inaint- dera of the Arabs in Palestine," reiterating the views already berg, is opening a fund of
organisation called "Defenderstood to have replied by Wednesday. the "one
The Mayor, Mr. A. B. Bloom- £ ing on
country one and stating: "Our fighters in vigorously expressed vote" rule being adhered to. Italy have now gone into action Bevin that other countries had shilling and upwards and every
Australla rejected the Unit- for the first time." ed Kingdom suggestion on the
They have attacked our enemy Pacific war and must be represent
taken an important part in the contributor will have his name on a parchment to go with the pre- at the grounds that the obligations
the strongest point of hla
The suggested gift is a stink- imposed on members would be organisation, that is to say, their sented. equally difficult to carry out for ships, used as transport for the The State Department an wood suite but no final decision
invaders of Palestine," the mes participanta and
benefits
nouncement of the Conference has been taken.-Associated Pross said.
wald: sag result of this would proportionately not be
in that a different either.
"In view of the serious com- large number of these invaders mitments of the Foreign Minis- Brazil cautioned that accept will not be carried to the Pre-ters of the ance of the United Kingdom's mined Land."-Reuter.
Governments con- -corned, proposal would
It change the
does not appear practicable to the Government
the
of the United States to propose
FRED DARLING RETIRING
London, July 15. minority into the majority be
Fred Darling, "The Wizard of cause of the privileged vote.
Washington, July 16. France also opposed it on the grounds that it would be the death sentences
that such a Conference be on Beckhampton," is to retire on A resolution protesting against the Foreign Minister level, so grounds of ill-health. contrary to the spirit of
pasnevi
would the three Jewish terrorists in Palus- initially be composed of deputies for many months and it was
on is envisaged that it
Darling has been a sick man Charter, while
Cuba rejected tinc on June 17 as "cruel and un- and experts."
usual punishment
and urging Mr. Marshall, U.S. Secretary of United States has already done for the Derby which kept him It is understood that the get Tudor Minstrel to the post State, to intercado with the Bri-
Caustic
Comment
NOTICE hereby given that Alexander Ivanovitch Efremnoff, Mr. Pritt had asked if the of 27 Kimberley Road, ground Minister had observed that the Mr. Creech Jones replied: floor, Kowloon, is applying to the Ceylon State Council on May 14
"If Mr. Priit la referring to Governor for naturalization, and passed a resolution calling for a telegram which I have re that any person who knows any the amendment of Section 13, ceived from the person in ques- reason why naturalization should 3F, of the Constitution Order Lion requesting the grant of a
London, July 17. not be granted should and a
In an editorial on Wednesday, written and signed statement of of 1946, in order to remove the free pardon, I have not been the facts to the Colonial Secretary, disqualification of political of furnished with any recommen- the "Blanchester Guardian" com
dations from the Governor on monted caustically on the his- fenders. Hong Kong,
He also wanted to know it, his request, and, on the In- torical presentation and buildup to the In view of this now fact and formation before me. I regret of the Egyptian casq
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the general desire in Ceylon for that I am unable to vary the United Nations.
Recalling that 'British troops this amendment, he would now attitude stated. In my reply of were "just in time to save Egypt make the amendment, or take January 22"-Reuter.
other steps to secure that poll-
tical offenders shall be eligible
for election to the now legisla- ture.
..
Mr. Creech Jones, in a writ
ten reply, said:
"The answer to the first part!
Pardon Wanted
Mr. Pritt aino asked if the Minister would give an early
OUTVOTED
Lake Success, July 16. Against determined opposi
from a Mahdist eruption," the paper sald
only his grim determination to
tish Government, was introduced considerable preliminary work in harness for so long. in the Senate today by eight towards drafting tentativo Senators representing
both pact.
partles.Reuter.
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The Washington meet during his career and trained ing is likely to be confined large seven Derby winners-Reuter.
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from Britain museling HAVE YOUR SHOW-WINDOW DESIGNED
in' on an Egyptian administra-
tion in the Sudan, it needed all the skill of Lord Kitchener and ́s contingent of British troops serving with the Egyptian army to get the Egyptian flag back in to the Sudan at all
"It is hot on historical con-
that alderations
the Security Council will judge the issue, the Guardian added. "It will look more to the future.
the curlous and mislead- ing Egyptian statements are not
But
of the question is in the affirmation by India, the Philippines tive. As regards the second and the Soviet Union, the part, in the absence of any Economic Commission for Asia specific recommendation from and the Far East today deeld the Governor, I propose to take ed that colonial powers should no action In the matter." retain the initiative in regard to admission to the Commission as associate members of non put forward for nothing.. It is a selfgoverning territories.
mign. that Nokrashy. Pasha la by: The United States proposal no means confident of the esse and sympathetic consideration, that such territories "may, on he has put before the Security in the light of the desire ox- presentation of its application Connell. pressed by the State Council of to the Commisalon by the memo anchetas
Nokrashy Patha, Guardian.
concluded Ceylon and by Ceylon pubile bor responsible for the futernn the Service Auction Rooms opinion, generally that convictional relations of such terrimust make up for the distressing tions for political offences tory, be admitted by the Cond harmleases of Premier Clement Attics and Foreign, 15-Minister should not be a bar to member, was Hirnait. Bevin by trying to blacks ship of the Ceylon Logislature, was adopted by soven votes to retrospectively altho
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to the petition just made to him three India, the Philippines Glachtone and Lord Kitchenor. It by Dr. Wickramasinghe for a and the Soviet Union; ail, being te nat: promising beginning,*** free pardon for an offence com against.-Router.
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