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CASEBOOK
General's
Campaign
HE Army
THE
is Arthur's
hobby and principal
interest in life.
This interest he does not in-
dulge by joining the Terri- torials, or by enlisting as A Regular. Perhaps he feels could not do either of
these things, For he Is the sole support of a widowed mother, and her chief company, до doubt. Were he to spend his evenings at a drill hall, she would be left on her own,
So Arthur soldiers at Second-, hand. He rends all the books he can that have to do with Jevours strategy and inetics, regimental histories and the lives the great commanders: clips cultus on military sub- jects from newspapers, mups and battle pictures from moga- zines.
is home
night bo- <nch romes, in his haagbation, bat- the headquarters, from which be wages old, campaigns, being now in Flanders with Mari- borough, now with Montgomery at Alamicin, supreme comman- der of all history's forces, de-
ploying bitalions, divisions, whole ormies, from his chair at the_sifting-room table until his mother suggests it is time to call truce and go, to bed,
BATTLE WITH DULLNESS
ARTHUR'S betul jou is prov
saic. He, who is a proxy Beld-marshal in the evenings, spends his working days at a clerk's desk in East London, doing battle with dull entries in dusty ledgers,
Sometimes, when he has hell days off. Arthur comes up to the West End, to look at those shops that sell military prints, or bookshops that stock works on his pet subject.
He came up so the other day, and found a bookshop where they have a whale department devoted to works on the art of
Wor.
THE TWO VOLUMES
RTHUR browsed contented-
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APPEAL
CONTINUES
Legal Submissions
Further lega! submissions
were presented when hearing
Mr
HERBALIST SUED FOR LIBEL
Advertisement Newspaper
A herbalist dealing with the treatment of cancer brought a suit for libel against another herbalist before Mr Justice C. W. Reece at the Supreme Court this morning in respect of an advertisement published in a Chinese newspaper by the defendant, which, it was alleged, accused the plaintiff of using improper methods in his treatment of patients.
In
Plaintiff is
Sum
PRICE
Sheaffer's M SNORKEL
CUTTING AFFECTS, GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY'S OPERATIONS
Chairman's Statement At
Annual
Meeting
The Green Island Cement Company had had to deal with a period of intense price cutting during the past year it was disclosed by Mr H. R. Cleland, the Chairman, at this morning's annual general meeting of the Company.
This had been brought about by the collapse of the Korean War boom and the partial closure to the Company's principal competitor, either through exchange restrictions or through the general falling off in de- mand, of some markets which had previously absorbed much of their exports.
had fallen from
Mr Cleland reported that the net profit for the year $2,800,000 in 1951 to $1,950,000.
The Chairman's statement | bililles towards the Tai Lam read as follows:
Chung Dam, as well as to our other customers, we have con- ridered It prudent to put our- celves in a position to meet any demanda which may be matle
Since our last Ordinary Year ly Meeting your Board has lest the services of Mr F. C. Barry, who died on the 1st June. Mr Barry had been
Bad
a Director of upon us.'
the Company for nearly even years since the Re-occupation,
STOCKS REDUCTION during
the last two of which be In the current year the necupied the Chair. 1adual reduction of comment and would like to offer our deep clinker stocks will bring the sympathy to
and total stock value, down to about his Widow
$5 million. at Which Agure the Family.
Trading conditions this year safeguard the Company's manu
overall level will be such as to have been the reverse of these facturing operations on full out- experienced in 1951. Last year put 10:
six approximately brought us on months. This should at Mast inventory pront on stocks
of give ปส about $1,400,000: this year we
adequate protection have been selling stocks bought movements of prices and freights, against unfavourable short tenn at higher prices on a falling as well as anything which may
rising prices
war boomi und the
our various
commitments fur
.
proposition of Mr Lee Yat-Ngok, seconded by Mr E. H. P. White,
Mesars, Lowe, Bingham and Matthews
were re-uppolated Auditors, on the proposition of Mr B. Wong Tape, seconded by Mr Fung Kwok-sun.
British Flood Disaster
Fund
Living Language
Why We Say On the
nod.
When you obtain something free or on credit you get. It
"on the nod." The phrase comes from the auction- room where a nod of the head is enough to cause a lot to be knock- ed down to you.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12 By Air Philippines, N. Borneo, 4.30 1.m C.P.A
By Surface Macao, 10.30 am.. § p.m., a Kwang Fook Cheung/Tak Bhing,
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By Air
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The Fund will.clone at NOON, PA March 14, 1953.
.HK$210,994.05
30.00
Formosa, Okinawa, USA (Seattle and Westem States), Canada, 6 p.m.. HKA/N.W.A.L.
N. Borneo, Austraka, New Zealand, p.m. QEA.
Balaya. Indonesia, Ceylon, Middie Eat, p.m., D.O.A.C.
Japan. 6 p.m., B.O.A.C.
100.00 Radio Hongkong
...........HK$217,124.85
market.
arise to interrupt the flow of raw The collapse of the Korean materials from
partial sources of supply. closure to our principal com-
Capital petitor, either through exchange
Previously acknowledged:— ог Chiu Fung-chiu, ¡ paper. He published an adver- restrictions
the 1933 amount to about $900,000,- through of 36 Jordan Road, first flour,tisement accordingly on Decem- general falling off in demand, 00, of which $700,000.00 will be on account of precipitators and
Sterling £332. 2. Od. claiming damages. In the ber 10, 1052.
of some markets which had pro- about $200,000.00 on other Itemme Australian £5. of the bank loan appeal con-
After referring to the plead- viously abs of $5,000, Chiu alleged that
viously abso
absorbed much of their
US$40. tinued before the Full Court,
for the Grinding and comprising the Chief Justice, he litel was contained in anings in the case, Mr Lodge said exports led
to a period of in principally, ease solely on
accordingly, Kay We have, tense price cutting in Hongkong. Sir Gerard Howe.
the article headed "Cancer" in the he rested his and Senior
datcil Justification, and contended that Pulsne Judas.
which was accentuated Chi Yin Daily News
by the recommended the retention
B. D. Tata & Co., the statement his eltent pub-
fall in freight. rutes.
business by Similar the
way of A Justice E. H. Williams, this December 10. last year.
Ltd. lahed was in substance a state-
conditions were experienced in
Transfer to
to General Reserve of morning.
Mr Francis Wong is
repre-
Hent of truth.
our export trade to Borneo,
out of this year's Total at 11 am. The appeal was brought by senting the plaintiff, while Mr
Counsel reiterated that in his Sarawak and Malaya.
which will go some way today Fong
fa Chinese R. W. F. Lodge it appearing for Chaut TAE
defendant,
meeting The net profit for the year Chat- mind, the defendant believed
this expandi- Remitted to London restaurant)
Cheung 480 Hennessy of
the
he was doing a great social
has thus tallen from early | ture. This
bring
ring the
March on Road, and Albert Francis Balley. tin, of 50 Kimberley Road,
and that he honestly
$2,800,000 in 1951 to $1,050,000 General Reserve to $4,750,000.00. £12,000 When the case began this. service, 4 Wing On Bank Building, eye
sincerely believed Mr Lodge
making the
although In
remaining From the this com
Balance told the and third floor, ngalast the judy-morning.
parison It should not be for available for distribution, after
HK$ 22,043,42 C. W. Court that, as his case entirely plaintiff was incapable of curing of Mr Justice
gotten that 1951 was an ex- a small Transfer to the on his
cances. submission our of depended Reece who found in favour
At this stage, Lid of justification, he would open declared the
Fund His Lordship ceptional year. Meanwhile we, Superannuation
Sterling £332. 2. Od. the United
Chinese Bank Lid
question as to
ourselves, as purchasers of raw place
placement of am
Australian £5. amounts pald out of 8-A Des Voeux Road Central
other commodi- dur materials and
US$40, or was not whether he was
during the year, we have Fong Chaul tau and
ties are beginning to feel the commended.
aDividend of full benent of reduced costs, $2.00 per share, tax free, the co that, although dications are that we shall be have present in- emo
as last
year. This faced with even more intense from our Bankers by way
to be borrowed in
full competition in the
of ensuing overdraft, but the reduction of year, we hope to be in a pod stocks already referred to will tion to maintain our share of automatically provide the funds
ly for some time in this
department, and then his
WOS caught by two huge volumes that seemed to him to le: more desirable than alt other rewards life could offer. He glanced at the prices peu-
he
tion of the
what
1
of
ment
by Mr
the case first.
Counsel went on to say that
201
herbalists. know
his
ubout own
one,
was
DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE
of
the market.
to with which advance during months.
eliled inside them: they total in the sum led CG 10s, twice the money Bailey
of $10,150 bath" parties involved were capable-of-curing cancer was He Irrelevant. The issue, he said, he had on him.
and costs, and further against Chinese
the was whether or not the publica Quickly.
made
did
eilent on in question was a libellous soldiers might call an apprecia. Bailey for $35.705.32 and costs.
A counter-claim by Bailey plaintiff, but situation against the Bank was dismissed held, a certificate issued by the thoroughly bad one, as it turn by the Trin! Judge.
Shanghat medical authorities to et out, for sd experienced
show that he was a qualified represented are Appellants commander. He decided to
Brook A.
First witness for the defence Bernacchi, herbalist. steal the books, although they Instructed by Mr Y. H. Chan His client came to the Colony
Dr J. Gray,
I am glad to say that we are surgical
cement for the were so cumbersome as to be
and Mr John McNellt, QC, and in 1949, and went to live ut 50 specialist
to supply the the Hongkong quite impossible to conceal be Mr A. J. Chifford, bolli instruct Kimberley Koud, Kowloon, Government. He testified that
new Tai Lam Chung Dam and abath his coat or anywhere ed
F. D. Hammond, where
he he Inaugurated
we are advised by Mr
had
engaged
that this will been else. He took the two
call for about 23,000 tons of books appear for the respondent bunk, medical institute for the treat- specialised
surgery for up, tucked them under kls
Continu
his submissions
cement years, and had had experience from
spread of cancer, Apart mout arz, and left the shop,
proximately two years. Mr Bernacchi
manu- in the treatment of cancer. consultations, he also The enemy, in the form of a dealing with the deposit and the factured
certain store detective, pounced on him amount debited, said the position
pills and After explaining that cancer
WATER PROBLEM almost as soon as he reached
powders
relation
the is an irregularity in the growth was that if the Bank had
the year failed
of cells in the
Early in body, witness treatment of the disease. the street, and abjeet surrender was the only course open
to comply with the terms of the The pilis, Counsel went credit Elm.
contract it was not rightly or wrongly were said entitled to that money.
That
be effective in treatment, was quite regardless of any question of damages, he said,
NOT ENTITLED
the theft of the books.
10
"He has worked for his pre- sent frm since he was a boy,"
from
л
to
PUBLISHED PAMPHLET Iluving established his
Л
on,
to
ils
in
20
over
Chinese In
TC-
ropay that the coming
We have recognised the good work of the Staff throughout ap- the
year by proposing the usual bonus, which I am sure you will approve, and I would when like to add a speeld word of
thanks to the Staff at
Works for the skill and speed
a person In the early stages of it impossible for us to draw with which they erected cancer to be entirely
of
the
The
Did Illegal Betting
the
enough fresh water from the sured. MORNING AFTER
This, he added, would depend town main there were a number No. 2 Klin at the beginning of on the state of the growth.
serious complaints against the year. NEXT morning, at Great
the steam from our chimney, Provided the patient was
SI Robert Ho Tung and Mr in-treated early, he went on, the the appearance and characteris H. Kadoorie, who retired by Murlborough Street, Ar- In respect of sums already thur, dark,
disease was ucs of which were at that time rotation, and Mr D. Benson and carest-looking paid to the Bank there could be
atitute, the defendant published treatment for the man of 20, tall enough for the no question but that if it wrong- a pamphlet which he called surgical incision of the diseased much
aggravated by the Mr R. P. Moodle, who were ap- King's Company of Uie Grena-ly accepted the documents then
"Ahm Tsing Yun Liu Chluportion, or by means of radiun enforced use of sea water in the pointed after the last Ordinary dier Guards, pleaded guilty be-
1:opment.
process manufacturing the Bank was not entitled on Sue", which purported to give fore Mr Walter Frampton, to those documents to obtain any the reader an explanation of the
Witness said that Western situation worsened when oue Yearly meeting, were re-elected to the Board of Directors, on the Bailey disease of cancer and form by payment from
medicine does not know of any No. 2 Kiln came into operation diagnosis, and also the nature of medicine which will effect a cure whatsoever.
at the beginning at May and of cancer, in its advanced stager, doubled our monthly output. Turning to the question of cancer. raid the officer in charge of the damages, Mr Bernacchi said that Mr Lodge went on to say that Pills or powders, he added, could To deal with this problem we case "except for a period of
took immediate steps to bring in 1951, one of his patients came not cure cancer, this was a case where a bank in
Under cross-examination, Dr back into regular use the wells service in the BAF. His wages breach of its duty wrongly ac- to him and showed him another ore £0 148. a week, and he copied a certain Rives his mother £3 to £4 of Counsel asked the Court to con. / phlet called the "Ahm Lou Gray said he had very little | upon our premises, which so far
document.
Liu Fat" which also Replying to a question, he said water ter Nol Siu
knowledge of Chinese herba. are giving us enough fresh that. There are no previous sider this aspect: what was the dealt with cancer. convictions against him."
make us virtually object of the credit contract in On reading this other that it was only by surgical in independent of the public supply Thank you," said the magie domanding a clean shipped-on-
or by radium that and we are replacing the pre- Convicted of illegal betting trate. He glanced at the stolen board bill of lading? What was let, the defendant found! cision.
of wor 'electrical many of the passages con- person in the early stages
precipitatora and keeping a tommon gaming the object of that phrascoicgy? tained therein has been taken cancer could be cured.
which were destroyed during house in the Public Enclosure are particularly interested in?" In Counsel's submision, on the
Asked whether Or his pamphlet published from
the not K Japanese occupation. The of the Hongkong Jockey Club ha eskid Arıkır,
cases he had lied, the object himscit,
by
word for word,
happen that a cancerous new precipitators will cost about on March 7.4 62-year-old could "Yes, ever since
was 辐 was that the customer should Chiu also found later that the growth could grow small and $700,000 to anal erection and broker, Siu Chi-shing was fined child," Arthur answered.
"What do you want to say to responsibility of the ship. These kinds of pills and powders. On
obtain a document that gave him plaintiff was producing certain become coft by itself, witness we hope that this heavy exa total of $800, or three months said he had never known such penditure will remove both dust and 20 days by Mr Hin-shing me?"
fore, if it appeared probable that making enquiries, he came to the
n thing happen In his 20 years and smell from our steam.
am. Lo at Central this morning. "It was a foolish Impulse. damage had been caused through I'm torry I've thrown away my failure to colain responsibility was laccattle of curing cancer
conclusion that the plaintiff of experience in these matters. I would like to take this oppor-
Hearing is proceeding.
tunity of expressing to
The Prosecution sald our charneler, jeopardised our whole of the ship the previse reason
neighbours our regels for any acting on. information the reclal position....."
why, the chip did not take the by the methods
discomfort we may have caused Pollco kept a watch on the cargo was immaterial, he sub-vertised as he claimed.
defendant Several people wer mitted.
books. "Is that a subject you
AS A GENERAL.
"You
YOU should have
you
from
which he ad-
sufferers,
and asked
Nearly
150
-that
theat CONTACTED PLAINTIFF Reunion Dinner I do not think there is any peen approaching him, and If nothing else was agreed, it known
was at least agreed
seen marking a that this Belleving that there methods
thing in the Balance Sheet re-accused was the only way to get those
He was brought except stocks programme. cargo (of carbon black) went were as a whole detrimental to
the quiring comment attended books was to save
and up for
the Police station on the one hand and overdraft | te come the health of concer to Bremen and did not Mr Lodge stated, his client con British Army Aid Group at the increase in the value of stocks camted his hall of $500, and annual reunion dinner of the at the Bank on the other. The charged, but when the .case them," Mr Frampton said, and
Bremen to Hongkong, tacted the plaintif added gently: "I suppose
in Court, the defendant In were afraid they'd be gone by either ship being liable inen, refrain from publishing his night.
those
circumstances, Jhim to stop his treatment and Kwong Chow Restaurant
last is accounted for entirely, by the forfeited
1 the time you had saved tho
that was a damage that had
Col 1 T. Ride, who organised large volume of manufactured a warrant for his arrest was
cement and slinker en hand it issued against him. money?"
the flawed from the Bank's fallure pamphlet, but he met with
commanded "Y-yes, Elr." Arthur gulped. to obtain a bill of lading that
and unit
It the end of the year, our limg- The defendant gave himself He was fined. £2 and order-
Counsel said Chiu felt he had during World War II, presided, stone stocks being much less up at the Eastern Police
Station Balley gavo
responsibility of a duty towards the public, and and among the quests were than usual. Until precipitators ed to pay £2 28. costs, and
¡yesterday. the court
“his the, ship, in ether words, was a decided that the only remedy many Chinese ho left
American are lostalled we cannot operate In miugation the accused and head hung lov,
great clean shipped-on-board bill, he was to draw the public's atten- friends of the unit who had two kilns together during the that he had. family to support, general might go, from
bald. KOME
tion to the true facts by
and a close wartime associations with humid Spring Summer and asked the Court to takon battlefeld disaster.
Hearing is continuing
publication in a, Chinese news-fit.
months and with our responsi-denient view of the case.
with
05 A
to
success.
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and
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The party paid-at so much head-1801' farthinga.
BUT 1881 is the square of ei (a prime numberi: Le, fi has no other factors save 1881 and 1.
Hence
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