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Phone Co. Wins China's New Foreign Minister? GOLD BAN CONSIDERED
First Round
The Hong Kong. Telephona Company Limited yet-
terday won the first round of its, contest with. Government in its bid for an increaza in süb- scription ratos.
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|After a whole day legal tussle on Wednesday be- tween Mr. Eldon Potter KC, counsel for the Company, and Mr. A: Lonsdale, Crown Coun- sel, for the Government, before the Arbitro- tion Board on a legal point connected with the Telephone Ordinance, a decision was given yesterday morning in favour of the Telephone Company. The point put to the Board for determination was "do the words existing charges
for subscriptiona" in the second |paragraph of section 40 of the Telephone Ordinancë1 1925 in- clude all the 'rätts, annual rates and charges set forth in the schedule to that ordinance, or which are for the time being in force? If not, which of them, if any, are excluded?"
It was the contention Company that existing charges (for substriptions cover only sub- | Fg #ourned to a date to be fixed!
on
of the
seriptions, payable by a subscriber on installation of a telephone and 15 maintenance bs' an efficient and continuus service,
had in elude no other charge
The Government's 'contention was that subscriptions cover not only such subscription charges but also all other charges specified in the schedule to the brainaner under heads A, B and C.
annouticed yesterday morning The decision of the arbitrators. was as follows:
Unambiguous.
"We are of the opinion that. what may have been the objec- lives in view at the time of the enactment of the Telephone (Amendment) Odinunce No. of 1930 and other relevant amending ordinances, the words 'then exist- ing charges for subscriptions' in the first and second lines of the second paragraph of section 40 of the principal ordinance (in its Present form) are unambiguous ous and refer to the rates of sub- scription set out in section A of the schedule to the principal cr- dinance (in its present forin) and Include no other charges."
The result of this decision is that the arbitrators can next proceed to taking evidence on the two questions put to them for determination, namely)— "Are the now existing charges for subscriptions insufficient to make provision for the main
Government, however, pressing for a full Invectigation of the Company's accounts; and after the decision Win Rn' hounced yesterday, Mis Lan- adale renewed his application. stating, that it
wan
necessary to have Information Indepen dantly:
It was revealed that the Ac- couplant General was already in the Company's office taking ex- trasts of the-neçòunts.
Further hearing was according-
Board of Arbitrators is commend of Mr. John McNeill, bartister-nt-law, appointed by the Telephone
Company, and Mr. P.D.Á. Chidell, Inland Revenue the Government. Department, appointed by
Dr. Foo Ping-cháng, (third from left), who has boun offered the post of Chinean Foreign Minister, arrived horo yesterday on his way to Nanking. Howes mot by his wife, his brother, Mr. Poo Ping Kwan and a large group of officials and Irlonde
China's Relations With USSR Told
Sino-Russion relations have improved in recont months, Dr. Foo Ping-chang, Chinese Am- bassador to Moscow, told the Pross on his arrival here yesterday,
Russlan
m newspapers tunces were ako on hand to greet
The Telephone, Company was
While represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, KC., assisted by Mr. H.G. Shel- freely criticize both British and don KC and Mr. D. A. L Wright, American policies and actions, of Deacons, instructed by Mr. R.A. Wadeson they refrain from any criticism
fo China. In
fact, according to Dr. Foo, they rarely even mention the Chinese civil war.
Crown
Mr. L.K. Andrewes, Solicitor, and Mr. A. Lenscale, Crown Counsel, represented the Government,
REFORM CLUB'S
K'LOON BRANCH
the
The inauguration of Kowloon branch of the Reform Club was marked by a dinner in the Peninsula Hotel last night.
A number of the participants were called on by Colonel Brasier Creagh who acted as Table Topics Master, to give two minute speeches all stressing the
need for TTYL improvement In the Colony's cultural life.
Dr. Foo, who has been offered the post of Foreign Minister In the Chinese Government. snid that he had not yet decided whet ther he would accept the offer. He said that he had been enited to Nanking by Premier Ho Ying- chin to discuss certain matters.
Dr. Foo expected to proceed to Canton yesterday evening. After n day there, he will emplane for Nanking.
ONE STEP TOO, FAR
The Government ban on pöszession of gold is cor- tainly going one step too far whatever one may hold as regards the ban on buying and selling, comments the weekly "Far Eastern Economic Review" in its current› jesus.. The journal added that the reasons given by Gov- ernment in its explanatory note, as regards the local gold market having had the effect on establishing new exchange rates, are fallacious.
Prohibition of gold posse8- slon and of the publication of information on gold dealings has been decreed without the public or the officially appoint- ed Council member ever hav- ing been given a chance to voice opinions, and the "Re- view."
Step by step, added the weekly publication, the Imperial authorl- let have fereed Hong Kong inte
à rield system which may have its merits in a country like Britain
India Wants U.S. Military Equipment
India is interested in Ameri-
but couures only harm to a free | con military methods and port like Hong Kong.
An Entropot
The Colony, said the "Review". is an entrepot and can only sur vive as such-in any other form, its loses its raison d'être.
The "Review" added that with and' without & local gold market's operations the premium paid for Ust. the world over, will com tinge.
from
"There are overywhere quoted two exchange rates, & fact which the International Monetary Fund knows, investigates time to time, publicises in order to impress on its members that a Foreign Affairs in the Chinese | currency devaluation is about
Dr. Foo entered the diplomatic service in 1918, after graduating from the Hong Kong University,
te went to Moscow in 1943. Be-- fore that he was vice-minister of
Government.
Reminders
8.30 p.in.
Today
Asked whether the Russian | Musical Concert, USRC, Kowloon, ware helping the Chinese Com- monlate in the civil war, the amberandor repiled that if they were doing so, they certainly would not tell him,
Ho suit that he had seen British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin at Southampton on April 16.
After dinner speeches
were made by Colonel Brasier Creagh, Dr. Foo came from Europe by Mrs. E.L. Dekker, Mr. Ma Man- BOAC flying-hoat. On his ar tei. Mr. G.S. Kennedy, Mr. F.E.rival at Kal Tak he was met by Cheapside Music Co. tenance of an efficient service and D'Almeda
Remedios, Mr. 1. his wife, his brother, Mr. Foo for the payment for the time out concluding speech was made Chinese officials, including
Ping-kwan and a number D}{ ing of a dividend of eight per cent n year on the paid-up capital for the time being of the Company;
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"In the event of the answer of the Company's question being 'yes', to what cum ot sums should the said rates of subscriptions be ol Increased to be, in the opinion the arbitrators, adequate to pro- vide for an efficient service and n dividend of eight cent a
per year on the pald-up capital for the time being of the Company,"
Existing Charge
The Company's contention is that the existing charges for sub-
Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd scriptions are insufficient, on the
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basis of their argument that sub- scription charges cover subscrip- tions and nothing else, and the paint as to what subscription
charges having been established, it only remains what increases aro- to be permitted, if it is proved that the income from subscription charges is in fact Insufficient.
Theyre CHOICE!
and Mr. R. Russ
Mr.
by Mr. F.E. Skinner and details T.W. Kwok, Chinese Special of their next meeting to be heldCommissioner for Foreign Affairs, next Thursday at the Kowloon the Honourable S. N. Chau of the Cricket Club were given. Ite Legislative Council and Captain strongly urged the public to give A. F. P. Wilson, the Governor's the Reform Club their support. Alde. Many friends and acquain-
India's Air Vice-Marshal
- Air Vice Marshal 8. Mukarjee of the Royal Indian Air Force chate with the Prass between planea at Kál Tak. He fa on his way to Waihhigton 'on, an offici al mission for his Government -
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Women's Section of European YMCA, "Bring your own work" Morning. 10 a.m. Services Dance, European YMCA
8.30 pm. Concert in aid of St. Andrew's Church new Organ Fund. Diocesan Girls' School, 8.30 py.
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equipment and may make purchases there within the next few months, said Air Vica- Marshall, S. Mukerjee of the Royal Indian Air Force.
Mukerjee,
Air Vice-Marshal who passed through Hong Kong yesterday on his way from Dethi to Washington, told the Press that he was a member of an Indians Ministry delegation Defence which is to tour Americon mili- tay bases, inspect equipment and make recommendations to the India Government.
The other members of the de- cgation went by way of Eng- but will arrivo in, the that Jund,
United States at approximately the same time as the Air Vice- Marshall,
overdue, meaning that in terms of UBS and gold such currencies should be pegged on a lower level. "While especially spokesmen of the US Government are at
AR Vice-Marshal Mukerjee last visited the United States in 1046
on a special mission. time emphatic about the Lead He left Hong Kong, yesterday a. Paul-American other countries' currency, afternoon by devaluation, the IMP has the plane for America going by way Tierve to request that the gold of Manila and San Francisco. trade (at prices higher than the artificial parity) be banned. Fiat voluntar” tua, 1.M.F..
Fand
EIGHT CHARGED
WITH ROBBERY
in
if the people lose their shirts!
The effects of the old ban here must be viewed from a tical and psychological angið. Colony's population is more than Magisterial proceedings 08 per cent Chinese and their idea the Diamond Hill Store armed About the intrinsic value of gold robbery of March 24 at Kow- and sliver cannot be altered 57 aloon City, began yesterday doniec.
when eight men were brought Chiang Kai-shek has tried it before Mr. Blair-Kerr. last August, but tochy there are
faced respective Talk on "The Yellow Sell" by fre gold marketa
They all legally.
of arms, Prof. Chao Mel-ps, Cosmo operating all over Chinn and the charges of posression
robbery, wounding with offensive Club, sponsored by the Sino-importation of gold is free, weapons and retriving stolen pro- British Club, 5.30 p.m.
will be, as from the current week, own Land Sales, District Office, even
even no longer subject to duty Kowloon Magistracy, 11 alm. Payment. Garrison Players present "Ten "30 crder the Chinese here to
Little Niggers" of Missions cease buying, selling and posses to Seamen Institute, 8.30 pm.
ing geld is regarded by the peo- Northumberland ariel Durham ple as a serious and unwarranted
Association Dinner
Dance, interference by the authorities Roof Garden, HK
Hotel, their private, lives. The psycholb- 7:30 p.m.
gical.
hat thus done cannot Kwal Cheung, ensily be undone and much of the committed slowly built up good will may undergo a change for the worse
Crown
Coming Events,
TOMORROW
Scottish Dance, European YMCA,
8 pm. to 11 p.m. League soccer matches
SUNDAY
Going Too Far
"Whenever
t1 the past there
perty.
Defendants were Tse Tim-yan. aged 25, Ip Chu-on, aged 25, Cheung Kwal, aged 27. Law Choi, aged. 30, Chung Sum. aged 25, Wons
Yuk-fun, aged 1. Ho Kwal-cheung, aged 28, and Chung
The
aged 33,
seventh defendant, Ho was previously to stand trial on a charge of attempted murder an a young girl weaver, Chu Sap-ying. the hearing of which started en Wednesday: rosecution witnes
Principal
was some discussion about the called by Detectivo-Sub-Inspector possible introduction of a ban on D.H: Taylor, Kowloon City, con- gold tracing-and there were ducting the case for the Police, many rumours circulating at the Was Sin Kang, the_proprietor of gold exchange and in anancial the Diamond Hill Store. circles-the old residents refuse brother were closing the store for Witness stated that he and his to believe in the seriousness of
now
Classical Concert, Toc H Club, Talbot House, 30, Macdonnell Road, 8.30 pin. Talk on "The Hentle Pharoah" | such proposals, · especially
the
night when two men entered. free by Miss M. J. Stuart, Euro- when
they were customers, business is Thinking the gold Pella YMCA, 8.30 p.m. legalised in more and more coun- they approached to attend. The HK Art Club Sketching Parly, tries, bars and non-members men caught hold of them and
membera
kitchen forced them assemble at the ❘ of the IMF.
into the Kowloon Star Ferry, 10.89
warning them to be quiet
Witness then saw, he stated, many other persons in the shop and
realising what was happening shouted. Whereupon
several shots were fired, with witness and his wife sustaining wounds.
D.
to
Y's Men's Club plenic, at Castle Peak, assemble at Jordan Road, Ferry Pler, 10.30 am, Recital of Recorded Music, at St.
Andrew's Church, 9.30 p.m.
Further About News Dispute
Latters in connection with the -alleged discrimination in the cilse semination of news regarding the Singapore Army Soccer XI Were sent yesterday to the Government
"The ban on the possession of gold in certainty "going one step. too far whatever one may hold as regards THỜI BAN on buying whd defiing,
But; from the point of view of the Prest,
serious the most matter in the gold ban of· April·
The men then ran out of the
14. is the prohibition-- pence shop which witness discovered time publishing information money, etc.
had been robbed of cigarettes, regarding gold transactions.
Witness then reported to the order violates the prin- ciple of the freedom of the press tion: The case will continue to- police at the Kowloon City Sta- and constitutes an abridgement of the functions of the press," fald day.
the "Heulów*,, 13, 1
DRIVING, IN, CLOSED ROAD Mrs. K. M. Woodman was fined five dollars by the Justice of ace court at Central yesterday.
CARRYING BODY OF DEAD INFANT
Strolling filong Delcher Street Press Relations Officer, the How in a suspicious manner at about Secretary, Hong Kong Area Sports 8 pam. Inet' night, a man with a for driving a car in a closed Board, the Hon. Secretary, Hong package.containing the body of
April 14, she was seen driv- Football Assertation and new his boy was intercepted by ing a car in Jubileo Street near
Kong of the Hong Kong Football Asso ciation.
Connaught Road, Central," She
the Hon. Mr. A. Morse. Presidona: polis duortlöned, the man pleaded that she did not do it en
Whth
that his wife gave birth to The letters were shows the the afternoon. The body he car by the stated,
purpose. twinki offe' ghri" and, one boy, in
Kung Sheung Daily News,
Wah Yat Po, Wen Wel Fo, To ried was that of the boy who died Hung Peo New Le Evening shortly at cow: brethy
News, Kúng. Sheung Evening: Syrus mân”, wie dólated for in- News, Web Kiu Evening Nows, ¦ vestğATIONE
Sao Tang Pao, Tai Fong Dally: permanen
News, Chung Ying Evening New
ind Bing Pao Daily News.
CHARGED AT KOWLOON
Carlos Henrique Chaves, broker, aged 60, was charged at Kowloon yesterday with obtaining, money. from two tullors by false preteńczu
The Prosecution, conducted by ji Detective, Sub-Inspector K nagh, alleged
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