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The RAF Regiment (Malaya) march past during the Battle of Britain. Day parade at Ka! Tak yesterday. At extreme left Group Captain Wortal, OC Kal Tak ("China Mali" Photo).
Corresponden
Laking the #auto.
KAI TAK ce CEREMONY
The Editor takes no responsibility for views expressed in letters by correspondents, and by no means necessarily agrees with them.
Blockade Running Questionable Tasto Sir-May I congratulate you Sir, I refer to an item on the and Mr. Quentin Pope, the fat-front page of your issue to today ter for writing And you for hendel "Hong Kong's Trade with publishing the letter appearing Red China,”
in your correspondence "columns
today.
The good taste of yourself and Mr. Pope in publishing such letter this particular day, is questionable, to say the least.
Relative of one who died in the
Bottle of Britain.
Sorry For Mr. Pope
Sir-Let us hope that the ing- will not jority of your readers allow themselves to be drawn by Mr. Quentin Pope inla a public argument as to who won the war. These wrangles arise from time to time and they are invariably fruitless in so far
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Director
J.
at
BARRISTER
GIVES
EXPERT EVIDENCE
Expert evidence on Chinese Law in relation to business partnerships was yesterday given at the Supreme Court þy, Mr. Jámäs Man Lés, Shanghai barrister and former Professor of Chikese and Anglo-American law at the Shanghai College, ón behalf of "the "plaintiff in the $900,000 claim. The case for the defence-which denies conten- tions of plaintiff that a partnership dealing with foreign exchange existed between de fendant, F. C. Roberts, and a Mr. Baeten- will start this morning.
Plaintiff, A. V. White, had been done in the normal way. Shanghai businessman, claims there would
es a consequence
Economic Polico
New Spitfires For Hong Kong
Three Bplifires Berived from Bingapore on Tuanday
the air evening to replace craft damaged during the Royal Air Force's "Jinx waak” between August 18-20 when the RAF suffered five alr mishape.
The Spithras were flown direct from Singapore, escort. ed by Bunderland flying
boat which
to will return Malaye with the three ferry- ing plots today.
Personalia
the amount in question from have been records kept, defendant, A relative of his by marriage, by virtue of al- leged breaches of contract. In the course of economie police investigations, witness unid. While is represented by Mr these "unscrupulous gentlemen"
Arrivals by the E, Wingsang Leo d'Almada, KC, and Mr. would make seizures of every from Keelung who disembarkod D.A.L. Wright, instructed by Mr thing and make proposals to the at West Point yesterday were M.A. da Silva, Mr. H.G. Sheldon, person concerned to the effect Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edgar, Mr. KC, and Mr. A.J. Clifford, ar that they would keep chout 80 Jen L Edgar, Mr. Anthony T for the defence on the instruc- per cent of the seizure and re- Edgar, Miss Heather Edgar, Mr.
lease, the remaining Battle of Britain Day was tons of Sir Man-kam Lo,
20 per cent Tommy, Edgar, Mr. Nieh Teng- O.T. Edwards, former Shang- to him. If the
the person involved kuo, Mrs. Nich Chien Pal-tan, conmemorated yesterday by hai exchange broker, continued to did not lo
Agree this "proposal" Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Dr. J. C. the Royal Air Force in a sim-bo cross-examined from the day he would be regarded as having Carter, Dr. R. B. Watson, Mr. ple morning ceremony. More before by Mr. Sheldon as to re-
a capital crime, W. G. Johns and Mrs. Wang Woo committed a
Sho Kung. than 300 men took part in an levant events and the contracts would get into
Mi. James carly morning parado at Kal he had with the parties concerned
in Shanghai.
for Sydney, and Man L
Depatures barrister- Tak, under a drizzling sky.
On one occasion, Mr. Sheldon at-law who has had experience at Melbourne by the ss. Changsha
The officers and men of the RAF assambled,
#
The naxt with
Leo,
on the parade
IV themory as he
could High Court, and the
Mr.
Nanking, then testified as to relationship between part- ners in Sheldon then referred to a
Corint
of
Supreme
In the course
"
to witness that he had the Shanghai District Court, the included. Dr. and Mrs, G. Grae- metzer, Mrs. Laihovetaky, Mrs. V. Prihla, Messrs. W. D. Liddle, A.
Price, F. W. Simpson, E. D. Wise, Miss A. M. Willams- Gomes, Mrs. E. D. Gibert, Mr. of expert evi- und Mrs. A. J. R. Moss, Miss E. Pendergast, Mrs. E. J, Butcher, Mrs... Inglis and two children.
past Group Captain J, Worrall statement in evidence previously ese La partnership under Chin-Simpson, A. M. Lemercier, Mias
defendant's 01
And
In this article Mr. F. W.
ground with Squadron Leader a
every detail of events Skutil, Assimant
Reverend R.C.I. Swain conduct- Hong Kong Port Control, is n-ing a short open-air service with that occurred, to which witness leged to
agreed. made certain
prayer. staimnents regarding blockade- The assembly then marched running from Hong Kong.
Mir. Skutil dil hot make any of who took the salute. The planned ch frore his wife in which she dence, witness-who was at one statements credited to him in By-pass by Spitfire and Sunder-suid she could not recall anything time professor of Chinese Law
Anglo-
o-American law at the your article under refererice, or land squadrons of the RAF was that happened in 1948 except that
The Inclement
birthday, defen- Shanghai College told the Court did he grant an interview to cancelled due to
Arrivals at the Peninsula Hotel representative of the Press on weather. Three veteran Battle of dant was drunk, Counsel that the definition of a partner on Wednesday Included Mr. J. F. ite subject of shipments to China Britain pilots were present at the referred to witness allidagit re-ship according to the law in China Inglis and two sons, Mrs. 11, V. from Hong Kong.
parade. They were Group Captain garding the sarge matter. Witness W. GORDON HARMON. J. Worral, Squadron Leader R. D. denied having any knowledge as was a ecntract whereby two or Hopkins, Dr. E. K. Tong (Miss), Public Relations Offeer. Yule and Flight Lieutenant G. to whe defendant's birthday fell. more persons agreed to put con- Miss G. Staub, Miss M. Reardon, tributiens In common for a col- Miss N. Thongtham and Mr. and Mitchell.
lective enterprise. He quoted e Mr. A. P. Austin. passage from the Chinese Civil
Among the departures from Code book in support of his con- the Peninsula Hotel on Wednes Edwards explained that he had tention.
McDonough, day were Miss F. expressed himself very badly at
It was not necessary for the Miss P. Rockwell, Miss M. Fulcs, the time he made the atidavit partnership to be writing, he said. Mr. and Mrs. R. Klean, Mr. H. M. What he had meant to say was An
obligations and debts Binits and Mr. M. J. Stuymer. on he did not question,
know for ly and unlimitedly liable to debls. what occasion it had been thrown. of the
partnership. The next day, however, he was
that it had been informed
party. birthday
Counsel then suggested to wit nces that he was merely endea-
*
(Eiliter's note) Our reporter in jazzled by the above statement. The bulk of the story--the facts of which are not denied as ob- fained from his own research. He as neither claims, however, that he did speak party to the argument is ever to Mr. Skutil, and obtained from
convinced by him a description of cargoes car-! prepared to anything that the opposing party ried to Communisl-held ports. No writes. No one is ever the bet-uther remarks in the article were ter of these arguments and cer- attributed to Mr. Skutily tainly in this case only ill-efferi .could result.
*
Disappearing Funds
KING'S ROAD SPEEDING CASE
Yuen Ho-ming, aged 27, odd job coolle, was charged before Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central yesterday with driving over the speed limit and failing to produce a licence.
Not Falschood
that while he was at the party in the hip, a partner is joint-
I think one should feel sorry for, rather than angry with Mr. Sir Tom Conally has been a Quentin Pope for being so de- eased by friends of Generalissimo It was alleged that on Septem-vouring to substantiate the evi- void of good taste and human Chiang Kai-shek of making un- ber 14, defendant drove a truck dience given by his wife about the decency is to mar the day which true statements that Chiang along King's Road at a speed of party in order to make his own has been set aside for honouring, absconded" $138,000,000 in gold more than 15 an.p.b. Defendant evidence look true, which witness
denied. the memory of the gallant illerato Taiwan. Professor Rostoc Pound was driving at
at that time between
He further denied that what he of Fighter Command by on - insisted that "Chiang Kai-shek is 23 to 25 miles per
had said about being present at tempt to diminish the signifie- the only person with qualities of
the Lirthday party was all a de- ance of their sacriice.
leadarship, strength and resolu-
liberate falsehood, A. TODD.
tion necessary to head the Chinese Government."
*
Battle Of Britain Sir,-A number of us
Britons
Of course Conally did not make a trus statement on the Chinese our fuchrer has Generalissimo:
grossly underestimated by the been were glad to hear trom Mr. United States Senator. Since 1926 Quentin Pope (ho couldn't be
and
when our grent
Shanghai-ing and
d
And in
hour.
Constable Complainant,
2014 cycle following drove n motor Yuen. Having caught up with the defendant's truck, Lau falled to produce his licence.
He was fined $150 or 40 days.
TO BE WED
overthrowing The forthcoming wedding of
* Л
Further questioned, Edwards disclosed that builness was not only transacted in cash cheques,
matter of trust between brokers in Shanghal but alto from fear
Economic of the Police. He denied a suggestion that the only reason why, this was done was for the trans- actions to be kept secret. He
If one partner in a foreign ex- change transaction made a repre- sentation, the other partner was also able to the representation
question.
In
After witness had been crosS- examined, the conclusion of the
was an case for the plaintiff nounced. Hearing was then ad- journed until 10 a.m. today, when the defence will open.
Cheung Chau
Nationalists Plan Counter-Offensive
(Continued from Page 1)
An Air Force bulletin sald bombers attacked South Kiangzi und North Kwangtung.
General Pal Chung-hal, Na- ttonalist Central China command- admitted today that hugo er, Communist forces Are
massing against his armies. but is con- Adent the Nationalists can hol
aut
School To Be General Pai has been in Canton
Reorganised
for several days conferring with other Nationalists. He is bellev- ed to be awalting the arrival in the Chinese capital of General the an American, I suppose?) the truth invincible leader
In furtherance of the Gov- Sun Li-Jea, commander of
fortress island of Taiwan before about the Battle of Britain. As
ernment policy of securing a
returning to his Hengyang head- we suspected all the thine, those of us who were
explained further that under better and a cheaper education quarters. in London in all of his superiors and patrons George Albert Kemp, accountant, obscurity of 183 The Peak, Flat 3, and Miss
The military situation. In the 1940, it never happened at nil, who raised him from
if it did, it had no effect and poverty, he and his favoured Margaret Jessie Hume, accounts the circumstances existing there for the children of fishermen,
Children School will shortly to be stalemated although today's whatsoever on the course of the families and "loyal" satellites, by msistant, of Woodside, Quarry was no other course but is trust the Cheung Chau Fishermen's encircled port of Amoy continues
resetting to inflation, zoquisitions, Bay, Hong Kong, has been an- trlonds and transic business
The way it was dose. If business be re-organised and Improved Nationalist communique claims
along the Ilnes "liberty bonds"nounced. As anyone who sees U.S.'films. I commandeering off-sliver star-{
recently ap- that a number of troop-laden plied to the Fishermen's Chil-Junks have been sunk by air-at- dren School at Aberdeen.
tack near the island city.
The Military News Service adid Until a more suitable building can be obtained; the 'school will a Red attack on the Amoy sub- continue to be accommodated in urb of Changtal Had been beaten its present premises. Every effort back by the defending forces, will, however, be made to add to the school foellities.
war,
to celebrato
offerings to
magazines and newspapers knows, "axes in the first world war did not start dard." until 1917, or the second until aged mo) and to buy the end of 1941. There were, aeroplanes" and many other in- Bdmittedly rumours about pre- liminary skirmishes by European nutions, but they only provided venues half a century ahead and
wherein invested them under a few years' space America could develop her in aliases in places from pole to pole
rc devices and "50 year}
dustries and swell her bank aC counts until she was even greater than her previous greatness a the world's greatest nation.
have collected China's ro
various
and from continent to continent
The sum is hundred thousand A
times $138,000,000 and the terri
As they are so acutely cansei-tary of investment is certainly
might
Plan For Exchange Of World Labour
Q
schome whereby the exchange and international movement of labour will be put into practice the world over is being worked upon by section of the International Labour Organisa- tion headed by Mr. Chester W. Hepler, former Chief of the Labour Division on Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur's staff.
It is proposed to form a new Committee of Management coti❤
ALMOST RESIGNED. per cent military expenses wont fob as Chief of the Manpower every canese occupation during the Director of Eduéation; ; Af1]
Police. Make Appeal To Public
rlissimo
is
Drive Against Underground
A Red advance from Changteh
"but
latbed "The People's Republic of time. Mc. Hepler said. His work!
gards such places]
given to the children of Doza män in the rear of Camipühist =
to
the Most Democratie Dictatorship now. is to set the machinery in lion, and under Comrades Stalin and Mao
operation.
South
the
B
slating of the Headmaster of the the second in a month was school, one representative each reported today. The Reds reach- from the Education Department, ed Siahws, 30 miles North West retreated not confined to Taiwan.
and the Fisheries Department of Hengyong, but they ous of this undoubled fact, one
China's national in- In 1934 ding to Chiang Kai- |
and three members nominated by to their base without attempting that he!! might have imagined
the present Committee.
an attack on the Nationalist city. allow
othe comes,
A Government Education Of The immediate. objective of to nationals countries just a teeny plece of shek's pronounced budget, were
be Yuan- $680,415,680.00 In hard silver
ficer of considerable experiends day's attack
amck appeared to eredit, at least prior to the time
170 mües North West of will be appointed as headmaster, ing. whee Congress
the war currency whose purchasing power made
the military and it will be his duty to not | Hongyang, offeinl. But no! Even the Battle was and is as good as the bank- of Britain was only
Mr. Kepler, who relinquish-, tralian people to accept Japanese that the instruction, given in the spokesman said there are ludica- a minor, note of similar denomination from, incaningless incident, I know it's the United States treasury. Eighty ed his post as chief adviser inmigrants on even a temporary school is based on tottern tea- tions that the Reds hope even
of these monies havs
West of 70 miles far from original, but I still keep per cent wondering how the supermen and gone to Chiang's military regime on. Inbour matters" to SCAP, duration of stay which the labour thing thethods and free from any tually to thrust through to Shao-
All teachers on the staff of the Nationalist base. Inst Wednesday, passed through exchange scheme will entail, Mr. form of political bias. a real naver fought glamour-pals would have react- which has
present school will be retained it Hong Kong yesterday on his Hepler said that the problem was
in Shanghal. it was emblaily not a new one. ed had it been the Battle of New battle.
that Communist And 80 per cent of these 80 way to Geneva to take up the "It is realised," he said, "that they are considered filtable by
announced York.
which has suffered the reconstituted Committee of
forces have started an all-out Management, and approved by
· campaign against the National- 17 the pocketbooks and money and Migration Section of ILO. under
Ist underground forces and bags of the big families and sever- Research work on the scheme the war is bitter against any plan
quariifar in Eastern Chidal: cf other "loyalists" of the Gener- of international exchange of la- to import Japanese labour." He is children ist present enrolled will
Calling the Nationalist, warfare that with retain their pieces, and priority who have voluntarily bour has been going on for some confident,
will be future" admissions for a solu-
"death" stand, the announcerfient Chen Y, Commulst America as an example cal flahermen.
The Government subsidy to the signed by
Mold Man- Regional Offèes of the "There are many problems su
bb. solved." declared a power and Immigration Section school will be increased in order commander in Eastern Chines tourage have actually "absconded"
Hepler as be explained his new of the ILO will be established all to allow the payment of the stak the people to nasist in crushing id in accordance with the salaries the "remnants" of the Nailonallat therefore some $420,000,000 in gold to invest abroad and squafi, assiement as an ID chief Jover the World, Mr. Hepler said. I wegle of the Saidy Code, and forces by organising milita
The essence of the scheme, he At present there is one in Indiout the same time, to permit help the Red soldiers.
Branch in Bouth school fees $2.00 per month, The 'announcement Indirectly them in wiping out opium divans,} Chiang Dynasty lasted some 22 sales to countries in demand
Appealing to the public to aid derings at home annually. The
was to allot labour of vary. A
will soon be opened.
the same as those charged in the admitted the gravity of the [ing] of the
Chester W. Hepler has been Workers Schools which have on and said the main purpose dto around!
In re-establishing been transfered to. Government. of the campaign was to "termin= numerous police stations on the od" hus amounted
from: countries with al instrumetum with ILO. Last Į
The changes referred to above ate banditry, consolidate revolu... - Reitzerland, labour. surpiu. «inis will entall a Japanese mainland have installed private $8,000,000,000 Ietter boxes in front of the ata Argentine, the United States of certain amount of migratory flow, June, he accompanied a Japanese will come into dect November tionary order and
Geneva for 1. to Gener labour delegation tion to collect any information America, the British Empire and
constituting mafor problem
ILO the public would like to give.
the manifold racial and the annual
of a recipient busin recious this."
210 was the terenca would schema not to
special meritorious commendation by General MacArthur for station
European-Aslatie Listed tion, the letter boxes have a
explaining the intest attached
the international reputation like Pro-inter-change of notice
fessor Pound should defond dan miration plan, Mr Hepler sald forms, his part in the organien- purpose of is presence.
One poller officer said that the like Chiang Kai-shek, hose, out that he doubts if such is feasible. tion of trade unions in Japan the More likely, he said, immista strengthening of the rights of the been fusd-
of labour police welcomes any information look and reco
and agailist) si which the public can offer in a- mentally
tion and intersexchange of decency
having" "marte" postible the sisting them to keep peace and
and humanity, and
European, and Aaftile mattoned to trvá implementations una dos -revosled in order.
his "China's Destiny" Promady to stabmic reasons differe give their names and addresses Roscoe Cannob become the Chinasa
Teng Kai-shek and his en to
to
drawn
Commonwealth and other plate view of fudice
batalled neck Into a police lika fo
for those who where
fancy on..
•could
Think
It
of of
In
Ivalhood of the
It so appealed to elements to desert to the
LIQUOR CASE. lines. It is generally
the
Red
here that Nationalist guerillas are
prefer a given their inforian- took is a pity that a scholar of moth a girer labour and fire his work in Japanedis labour re- For possession · of one. tin, i most active in
have
My believed
North Anhwal,
and two bolties of Chinese East Cheklang and in the Tullo liquor, Lul Puli, aged 29, senares, 60 falles west of Shangha man, residing at an unnum-Reuter and Udlled Prisk.)
heller, was chargedy before
Informants may or may not way of life, pâri tillglo-American!/B only practical separately-murai Phinese workers and lastly, for bered junk. -- Causeway Bay
to the police but if they dó. so á richter's Paúl Fósét."acebben oren 131200 Sweethe?: cont
mmall reward will be adven to if he wishes to vad hims them if the information bape the the opportunit
police.
54 D.DI
Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central found defendant at Connaight Pan yesterday, with possession of Houd, near Centre
which no,dufy.
“Defendant the tor