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NOTICE
B
H.M. THE KING'S BIRTHDAY REVIEW.
It is noted for information that the following trallic arrange. ments will be enforced on the occasion of the King's Birthday Review on June 8th, 1939.
1. All vehicles' going to the Review at Wong Nei Chong will proceed clockwise round Happy Valley via Wong Nei Chong Road to the entrance gates.
2. Gloucester Road will be closed to vehicular traffic from
6.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
PARKING OF CARS.
1. Vehicles will be parked in the vicinity of the Race Course as directed by the Police on duty.
2. The stand at the public en. trance is reserved for official cars only.
3. Morrison Hill parking ground (opposite "Civil Service Club) and Village Road are re served for private cars.
4. Ventris Road is reserved for public cars.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE The traffic arrangements for the Reception at Government House on the afternoon of June
8th, will be as follows:-
1. OWNER
DRIVEN cars will park in KENNEDY ROAD or the LARGE PARK opposite the Helena May Institute. The wicket gate in Government House grounds near this park will be open for use as an EXIT ONLY
2. CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN Cars will park on MURRAY PARADE GROUND where a special telephone to Government House will be installed. Guests requiring their cars should give the numbers of their cars to the Police Officer on duty at Govern- ment House steps.
3.
BANK HOLIDAY.
la Accordance with Govern. ment Ordinance, THE EX- CHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED. for the Transaction
BUSINESS of PUBLIC THURSDAY, THE 8TH JUNE, (THE BIRTHDAY OF 1939. HIS MAJESTY THE KING).
Hong Kong, 5th June, 1939,
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BRITISH MUNICIPAL" COUNCIL. TIENTSIN.
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION
No. 15/39.
VACANCIES FOR DEPUTY
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER & ASSISTANT ENGINEER.
The British Municipal Council, Tlentsin, is prepared to receive applications for appointments to the positions of Deputy Municipal Engineer and Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department.
Candidates must be British
Subjects between 25 and 35 years of age, who hold degrees in Civil Engineering from recognised Uni- versities, and who have had several years experience in Muni cipal Engineering work.
Preference will be given to those having had experience in highway construction, drainage work and building construction,
DEATH PAYNE-OL/Junė 5, 1939, at the
Mathilda Hospital, Florency May Payne, wife of George Albert Payne, aged 62 years, Funeral will pass the Monu- ment at 5 pm," to-day...
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TAXATION PROPOSALS
IN
whatever
EDITORIAL
JUDGMENT FOR POSSESSION OF PREMISES Summary Court Claim
Sung
Judgment was given for Fat, who brought a claim in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice B. E Lindsell, for possession of No. 60 Lalchikok Road, ground floor.
Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for plaintiff and Mr. A. el Arculli was for defendant, Yam Sam-chum
Defendant stated that he had occupied the premises since 1932. The floor was used for domestic purposes, and the front part was used as a Chinese medicine shop. Since receiving notice to quit, he had been looking everywhere for suitable premises but was successful.
un-
Yam also stated that he had had several interviews with the
plaintim, and was willing to pay a rent of $50 instead of the pre- | sent $45. The last
occasion he
TAXATION,
form it is introduced, is rarely, if ever, welcomed by the public. Whenever a pro- за plaintiff, witness said, he posal is made by the govern-handed plaintif his rent and was ment of a country demanding given a temporary receipt, but from the people a contribu- the next day plaintif returned tion for the support of the the money and asked for the re- administration, it is invari- turn of the document, saying that ably met with adverse, if not the co-owners of the house were hostile, criticism. The re- unwilling to agree to the continua- commendations made by the tion of the tenancy. Taxation Committee, which was appointed by: HE the Governor to consider ways and means of increasing the Government revenue in this Colony are no exception to
this rule and all wage-earners
SUB-LET PART OF FLOOR
·Cross-examined, defendant ad
front to a
watch-
mitted that he had sub-let part of the floor maker, who had moved out. denied that he had gone upstairs
He
see plaintif one morning and
fust left the rent there.
Plaintiff, in the witness-box,
in Hongkong, human nature being what it is, immediately denied that he had given and regarded these proposals as asked back for a temporary rent yet another attempt to im receipt. He stated that be" want- pose further burdens upon ed the premises for a rice business them. The whole significance which he desired to start.
of taxation in a country boils Holding that the premises were down to the question of used primarily for trade and only dwelling house. whether the government of secondarily as a
an
H
WHAT ON EARTH
FOR?
a country is urgently in need His Lordship granted possession to or "before July 1, of additional revenue for its plaintif on support. It is an accepted mesne profits at $45 a month up truism that no Government to date of possession, and costs. can be conducted without taxation, but it would be in-"
make this vidious to excuse for placing additional hardships од the public. For stealing cat; Li Chong, 32, unless it can be indisputably unemployed, was fined $6, or in proved that "the country's default three weeks imprison- revenue is really in a parlous ment, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, at state and that, therefore, the the Central Court yesterday.
Inspector Baker, who prosecuted, administration has no alter- told the Court that the defendant native but to dig further into went up the staircase of No. 124. the pockets of the taxpayer. Wanchal Road, saw the door to DOES THE POSITION of the first floor open, grabbed the
COMING EVENTS
JUNE
རྟ
APR Lectures: St Andrew's Hail, Kowloom 5 pm; "BL John's Cath... Hall. 6.30 pm; USRC am; Lustiano Club 5.30
p.m.; Diocesani Jnr. Giris School
Maryknoll Convent School Queen's College (Chinese) 7. p.m.; Tal Tung School (Chi-.. nese) 7 p.m.; Chinese YMCA. (Chinese) 4,30 pm.
3
Rotary Club Mtg., H.K, Hotel 1
p.m. 8: Andrew; Mother's Union
P.
Brownie Pack 8.30 p.m.; Boys Choir Practice 6 p.m Chinese Chamber of Com. Mig....
1.30 p.m.
King's Birthday Parade Rehear-
sal. Happy Valley.
Kowloon Chess Olub, Pen, Hotel
5.30 p.z.
St Patrick's Cath. Club, Jumble
Sale..10.30 ajan.
YM.C.A.: Women's Sec. Bridge Y.M.C.A.; First Aid Class (Men)
YMCA: Badminton and Mæð.
Swimming Craigengewer Club-Tombola s
p.m.
League Tennis B Division Lawn Bowls Championship. Cheera Club Whist Drive 8.45
p.m.
ASSI
EK Women's Hockey
Presentation of Trophies and Tea Party, Gloucester Hotel. 8 and S Home Prayer Mtg.
8.30 p.m.
Urban Council Mtg. 4.15 p.m. Tides: High 1.16 a.m. and 11.05 B Low 144 am, and 6.61 p.m.
BITL
Bunrise 5.30 m Sunset 7.05
p.m.
7-Y.M.C.A.: Military Whist Drive
and Mahjongg 10 am. Bale of Work, Deaf School-3,30
p.m. St. Andrew's: Med. Wrkg. Pty 10 am; Welf Cub's 5.30 pm; Rover Scouts 845 p.m.
Beach Picnic Bus Y.M.C.A.:
Heaves 2.30 p.m. Kowloon Union Church: Wo-
men's Guild Mtg. 10 am.
Cathedral: Women's Fellowship Wrkg. Pty. 10 to 12.30 p.m.; Choir Practice 4 p.m.; Sunday School Teachers Prep. Class 8.30 p.m.
League Tennis C Division. Lawn Bowls Championship. Cheero Club Dance 8.30 pm 8-HM. King's Birthday. Parade &
HE the Governor Receives Can- sular Body at Govt. House 11 Reception at Chevt. House 4 p.m. St. Andrew's: Scouts 6 p.m.; Club
"Open" Night 8.30 p.m. Cathedral: Women's Fellowship
Wrks. Pty. 3.30 pm. Cathedral Scout Mtg. 5.30 p.m. T's Men's Club Mgt. St. Francis
Hotel
p.m.
Speaker: MȚ, A. Hansen "Wuhan-Before and After the Occupation.'
League Tennis D Division.
Lawn Bowls Championship. Cheero Club Bridge
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939.
TRAVEL IN INTERIOR OF CHINA SET BACK
50 YEARS BY WAR
Fascinating Lorry Journey From Ichang To Siangyang
By
Renter's
Special
Correspondent with The Chinese Forges Somewhere in Central China REUTER (By Mail):-The speed of travel in the interior of China has been set back 50 years, for the time being, by the war.
Natable work has been done by air, shipping and transport companies in maintaining their services, but when travel beyond the terminal points of those services is attempted, one journeys in the spirit of the pilgrims of olden days: one hopes to arrive, but no one knows when or how,
Such pilgrimages have all the fascination of the unexpected. One rubs shoulders with a variety of com- panions and has the feeling that anything may happen round" the next bend in the road,
From Ichang to Slangyarig. thei Chinese military authorities gave: Line permission to travel in an Army] | lorry, handing me a special permit
for that purpose-
It is interesting to note the increasingly strict supervision of motor transport which is now in force in areas near the Chinese front
Permits Necessary
More than a hundred of the population of 3,000, he said had been killed when the Japanese first raided the town some months previously. Since then, he continued, everything possi- ble had been' moved out of the town. For instance, only one telephone remained-his own= for air raid warnings.
The second rald by the Japanese, he declared; had almost completed the ruin of the town, but had killed only a few people.
The district busy supervising the organisation of the people on a political basis,
authorities were
Drivers of vehicles must produce teaching them the "necessity of resisting the Japanese and co- permits for all passen- gers aboard
operating with the Chinese Army.” at every traffic Inspection point these being
Encouraging "Results". located about every 50 miles along This work was having encourag- the road. Besides affording a checking results, asserted the Magistrate, ou travellers, this system has put who mentioned that later that a stop to many abuses formerly morning he intended to visit the
especially rampant
of drivers corps of political workers who were
carrying all kinds of passengers operating in his district, Aand cargo for their own private
proat
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Every lorry now, hiss a military guard, armed with ride, whose duty is to protect the load and, more important, to prevent soldiers or other' would- be passengers going aboard by force.
Returning to the transport depot, I found my driver had gone, so L.. boarded the next convog, which left half an hour later.
"We must all be careful as this lorry is loaded with hand- granades," I was told as "I clambered aboard.. In the circumstances, the fajunction was hardly necessary.
The convoy started, and along
One chilly morning found us groping in the half-darkness round a convoy of lorries which way to take us to Stangyang, lined up, we bumped and skidded over the with roaring engines, in Ichang's half-dry road. In spite of the driver's care, the small, fat, boxes with which the lorry was alled were
main street":
Convoy Starts « With gratifying promptness, the occasionally thrown completely into convoy started out. The guard, on the air, falling back on the floor BAR.P. Lecture, St. Andrew's Hall,other Chinese passenger, and of the vehicle with a resounding crash and causing even my Chinese
Kowloon.
BUGZZES close,
for Macao
Race
The successful candidate for the position of Deputy Municipal Engineer will receive an initial salary of from $1,050 per month to $1,500 per month according to qualifications. experience and ability. In addition he will fe ceive a temporary allowance, to meet present increased cost of
6.30 p.m.: Toc H 7 pm, No car will be permitted to living, equal to 20% (twenty per cent) of his net salary. This allowance may be stopped or altered by the Council at any time, the employes being inform ed to that effect.
park in Government House Garage or grounds. "
4. In order to avoid delay guests arriving by taxi or public „car are requested to pay the fare
as quickly as possible.
5. Sedan chairs and rickshas will set down their passengers at the main entrance to Government House in Upper Albert Road. Those vehicles will not be allow
ment House except in the event of heavy rain.
The successful candidate for the position of Assistant Engineer will receive an initial salary of from $600 to $1,050 per month according to qualifications, ex perience and ability. In addition he will receive a temporary allow
شرة
needed, it must be obtained
this Colony's finances war-animal and ran, He was chased rant such action? The public and arrested of Hongkong as a whole, with the betterment of social con- ditions in the Colony' heart, have always been pre- by strict economy by the pared to make sacrifices, if Government and by imposing such sacrifices
the levies on that part of the in-
which leaves raising of the standard of the come
these amenities of life and making shores.
mean
ed inside the grounds of Govern‹ | ance, to meet present increased Provision for the welfare of
C. G. PERDUE,
453
ON HIS MAJESTY'S
SERVICE.
Tenders are invited for the
of
affect the higher-"
Mtg.
St. Andrew's: Med Wrkg. Pty. 10 a.m.; Full Choir Practice
uneasy...
myself made ourselves" as ·com- fortable as possible on the colls of fellow-passenger to look somewhat wire with which our lorry was loaded.
After this had happened several Cathedral: Choir Practice 5.30 rain steadily. and
Boon after daybreak, it began to times, we concluded that the bombs we crawled must be good ones, and settled down to enjoy the morning
P.za
aircraft.
and Exec. Council Mig. Chinese-beneath a frayed" tarpaulin in an
American Inst. Nat. City Bank,
effort to keep dry, but in va sunshine and watch for raiding 5.30 p
Trick'es of water begas to pour on University Council at Govt.
House 5.30 p.m.
our heads, and we grew steadily. wetter and more uncomfortable.
A.R.P. Lecture-St. John's 5.30
p.m.
TM.CA. Keep Pit" Class 10.30
&.TIL
'YM.CA.: Badminton and Mxd.
Swimming
Gradiophone Recital at Y.M.C.A.
@p.m.
Tennis League Mixed Doubles. Lawn Bowls Championship. Cheero Club Darts.
billiards.
Ping-pong
10--Jockey Club's Sixth Extra Meet
ing. Happy Valley. Wedding: Balley-Fratt.
Wedding at St. Andrew's God-
frey-Mellor 10 am.
Bt. Andrew's Club Launch Firnic. Launch Leaves Police, Pier
3.30
p.m.
T.M.C.A.
Chau. Launch leaves K.F. Pier 2.30 p.m. Lawn Bowls League Methodist Church,
Outing to Cheung
Launch Picnic to Tung Chung --Launch leaves 2 p.m. K.P.
11-8.CAA Gala.
N
Lawn Bowls Championship.
H.K. Telephone Co., Ltd.
-
terim Division Payable. 13-Entries close for HK Water
Polo League 8 pim. Sampan Race, North Point Lawn Bowls Championship. Tennis League A Division
13-A.R.F. Lecture, Bt. Andrew's Hall,
Kowloon 6 p.m.
*prd
Rotary Club Mtg, HK Hotel 1 ARP
RP. Lecture, St. John's 5.30 Water Polo League
que Com. Mtz.
p.m.
ONE OF THE recommenda- the people who live here. tiohs of the Taxation.Com- cost of living, equal to 20%
if But
the Government mittee relates to an increase (twenty per cent) of his net demands such sacrifices in the assessment rate, salary. This allowance may be merely to pay for its own bringing it to 25 per cent. Commissioner of Police.stopped or altered by the Council high
costs, the proposals The present rate is already at any time, the employee being immediately become an too high at 17 per cent. and Hong Kong, 5th June, 1939. **
informed to that effect.
economic, handicap to the this increase must, with the Salaries of Candidates will people and must, therefore, present high cost of living i
be looked upon with natural Hongkong in the matter Qi commence from the date upon
antipathy.
rents, bear heavily on the which they take up their duties in
A CAREFUL" STUDY of the working classes, as it will Tientsin and they will be upon Government's revenue makes undoubtedly tend to cause a probation for a period of six it clear that, despite the further" soaring
house months from that date.
adverse effects which the rents. The social conditions The Candidates will receive hostilities being conducted in in the Colony are of para- China have had on the mount interest at the pre- supply of Caulkers and for caulk half salary only for the period Colony's trade, the financial sent moment and in this re- ing work,
spent in travelling to Tientsin, position of Hongkong has not gard the Income Tax proposa Forms of tender can be obtain- | culated from the date of their | striking contrast to the un- for the reason that it will":"
and payment of this will be cal.
materially deteriorated a might meet public sentiment St Andrew's Club Whist Drive ed at the Office of the Chief Con- embarkation. The Council will happy position of most of the only structor, H.M. Dockyard, Hong pay for their passage (first class) business houses who have salaried workers. If revenue
· Kong, and should be completed
a must be increased, we con- to Tientsin, and in case a Can suffered considerably as and returned' `as indicated in
didate is not offered a contract at result of the war in China. sider that a dividends tax on Tender Form not later than 14th the end of his period of probation. It is the distribution of this the net profits of companies June, 1939.
has raised is the most equitable and cer- a return passage, of similar class, public clamour against any tainly it would also be McCAMMON, }.will be given him.“
further levies. According to extremely simple to collect. Chief Constructor.
Applications containing re published figures, nearly 50 THE QUESTION is one that! ference, credentials, copies of per cent. of the Colony's the Government should study Diplomas and "curriculum vitae': revenue is swallowed up by carefully before deciding to the Government Service, In | embark on any methods which of each. Candidate should be
addition to 20 per cent. which will fall heavily on the aver- addressed to "The Secretary and is expended yearly as a con- age wage-earners, who are Engineer, British Municipal tribution for the upkeep of already passing through try- Council, Tientsin” and should be military establishments, and ing times in their struggle forwarded so as to reach him not further in the payment of r for existence. When the later than Tuesday, 11th July, huge pensions account. Only matter is brought before the 1939.
25 per cent. of the revenue Legislative Council, the un- after therefore, is left for the pur- official members, who pose of improving living con- all represent the people, ditions in Hongkong!
The should see to it that every obvious conclusion from aspect of the question is these figures is that the placed before the Government Colony's Government Service in order that any misappre-om 18 much too expensive and hensions - may be removed 442 that, if additional revenue is from the official mind.
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you
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for 3 insertions. /
By Order,
H. F. BARNES, Secretary & Engineer. Council Room, Tientsio, May 23, 1939.
revenue that
14-Lawn Bowls Championship.
Lawn Bowls Championship Tennis LeagTIO B Division,
„Tennis League C Division. 15-Annual Mig. of REO.CA, Wel-
lington Barracks 8' p.m. ar Dress Rehearsal for Calidren's
Charity Fair
T's Men's Club
Hotel
I
St. Francis
Dpionship
Lawn Bowls
Tennis League D Division. 16-AR.P. Lectures: St. Andrew's Hall Kowloon 8 p.m. St. John's 15.30 pm
Bowls Championship. Lawn Tennis-League Mixed Doubles. 17--Children's
Charity Fair. 254, The, Prak Lawn Bowls League 18-Macao Race Mtg.
De Lawn Bowls Championship: 19-Cheern Club Women's Adv Com
Gala Dance 8.30 pm. Lawn Bowls Championship, HK Loan Redemption,
The road itself, fair in dry "weather, became a morass In
roses
A. Glorious Morning Wid white climbing bloomed gloriously along the roadside, fling the air with their which we skidded alarmingly. fragrance: the marshy hollows Soon we were unable to proceed were studded with brillant further, "and stopped outside
kingcups, and where the highway the little town of Tanyang for wound sinuously over the chalky the right.
uplands the -clear *blue of The next morning, the driver campanulas matched the sky in Aaving stated that he intended to colour as they nodded in the wind walt three hours for the arrival of over the close-cropped turf. another convoy. I set out to ex-
It was the height of spring, and plore Tanyang.
we were going to war.
It presented # monotonousry
Nightfall found us at Shihaipu, a familiar sight. Within its walls all dirty little village at the Junction was in ruins, and the few people to of the roads to Blangyang and be seen hurried through the town shast apprehensively.
Trick of Fate
"We start at five o'clock sharp to-morrow morning,”-shouted the
By some curious trick of fate, energetic lleutenant commanding the Magistrate's yamen was com-the convoy, as he passed down the
and paratively unharmed,
the line of trucks." Magistrate himself was there. He Finding lodging in a tiny Chinese was a quiet, scholarly man, who inn, through whose murky atmos- greeted me with apologies for the phere, thick with the fumes of state of his yamen and town, and cooking and rape-oil lamps, came proceeded to tell me something of the click of man-Jongg tiles, "I local conditions.
Continued on Back Page
Hall, Kowicon 8 pm. St. John's REFUGEES IN THE
$30
Lawn Bowia Championshió, 21-Lawn Bowls Championship, 22--Longest Day (1929),
Y's Men's Club Mt. St. Francis
Hotel 1 pm.
COLONY
There were 9,841 refugees and destitutes accommodated in Gov
Lawn Bowls Championship ernment Camps, etc., in urban 23-ARP
Lectures: Bt. Andrew's and rural areas in the Colony for Hall, Kowloon 6 p.m. St. John's the week ending June 3, compared with 9,835 on May 27 an increase
5.30 Powis Championship
Lawn
d-suminex Day, vi. Lawn Bowls League. 25-Lawn Bowls Championsh 26-Lawn Bowls Championship 27-Rotary Club Mtg, HK Hotel
p.m.
ARP. Lecture, St. Andrew's Hall,
Kowloon
28-Lawn Bowls Championship. 29-Y's Men's Club.
Mig, St. Francis Hotel Ip.msm Lawn Bowls Championship, 30-AR.P. Lecture, St. Andrew's Hall
Lawn" Bowls Championship.
Urban Areas (Civiliang) King's Park 1440 compared with 1,457 on May 27.
Ma Tau Chung 1,065, compared with 1,088 on May 2
North Point 1,840, compared with 1,644 on May 27.
Urban Areas (Soldiers}' Lai Chi Kok Hospital (Upper Wards) 14 compared with 18 on May 27:
Ma Tau Chung 758. compared
King Victor Emanuel has with 759 on May 27 given consent to the marriage of
Rural Areas
the Duke of Spoleto and Princess Kam Tin 4119, compared with St Andrew's Cinb Treasure Frene of Greece, slater of King 4,091 on May 27,
Hunt and Social Evening 9 George II Greece The Duke of Spoleto la the brother of the 20--Rotary Club Mig HK Hotel 1 Governor General of Abyssinia, the
Duke of AoDB.
ARP
Man Kam To 841, compared. with 780 on May 27,
Total 1,841, compared with 235 on May 27