HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Finance and Commerce
CHINESE BANKERS OPPOSE PRODUCTION OF
NEW ESTATE DUTIES
An attack against the raising of the scale of estate duty to the level of that in England by the Introduction of the War Duties Ordinance" recently was made by the chairman of the Chinese Bankers Trust Company Limited when addressing the shareholders at the third annual general meeting of the com- pany in Singapore,
WAR PLANES
UP
SPEEDING
THE WORK LONDON, May 7 (Reuter) The start of an intensive cam- paign for speeding up the produc
on at warplanes and "the 'train- is signalled by changes how announced in the training of airmen and the ap pointment of a controller of light alloys by the Air Ministry.
"Malaya must face squarely 'ner | A satisfactory year was recorded duty to the Empire and pay her by the company, said the chair proper share for this crusade to man, the nett profit for the yearing of airmen restore Right above Might," said being $5,906.65.
the chairman, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, adding that the rich should also pay more than the poor.
"But, in raising the scale of pstate duty to the level of that in England.
Government has the
considered that in this part of the world, property values fluctuate
more wildly than in England, and
that the property market is ex- tremely limited?
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ACTION FOR LIBEL
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PAPER TO PAY DAMAGES
It is expected men will now be able to pass through the various training stages much more quick ly.
The Empire air training scheme is being pressed forward, and in addition arrangements have now LONDON, May 7 (Reuter) Sl been made for Walter Citrine
training schools not only in France but in "the This will be a the British and
and
slx
other
"It seemed to me that in view/members of the general council of French Empire of local conditions unless it is the Trades Union Congress won & joint effort by Intended in effect that the State libel action in the King's Bench shall beneat more than the law Division against the official com- provides, the present scale should munist organ, the Dally Worker. be modified.".
AN ALTERNATIVE
:
French Empires
One of the difficulties of pro Plaintiffs alleged that the Dally, duction hitherto has
been con- Worker, in articles last December, Dected with light alloys, produc imputed that they had betrayed tion of which has had to be mu The chairman then suggested the interests of the Trades Union tiplied many timès compared to
alternative that 2 provision movement by war-time co-opera- peacetime requirements could perhaps be made for the as- tion with the Government and This has hitherto been in th -acts of an estate to be appropriat- employers, while pretending to hands of volunteer controllers, ed in payment of estate duty at safeguard the Interests of the lacking certain powers. their assessed values.
workers.
and fulltime controller with the neces sary powers pointed.
has now been ap
an
* "I am not sure if the law could The defence was a plea of falt
Walter Citrine £300 damages,
WAS
be so amended, but this seems to comment on matters of public in me the most feasible way of terest. Sir ensuring that there will be..no awarded un-British oppression against even other plaintiffs £200 each and the a minority."
two plaintifs £150 each.
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GOERING DUE IN BUCHAREST? BUCHAREST, May 7
(Reuter) --Field-Marshal Goering, who is a director of the Skoda Works, 's daily expected here.
It is understood the Nazis have been sounding the Rumanian at- thorities on a proposal tha: Goer- Ing be elected to the board of the Sarex Company, a trading branch of the Skoda works in Rumania which owns shares in the princi- £91 pal arms Arms in Rumania and ls represented on their respective boards.
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FINANCE
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S TECHNICAL ADVISER
Part of the Boxer Indemnity Fund is being used for the pur- pose of establishing in China a Hydraulic Research Institute. Mr. N. A. van der Heuvel, technical adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, who arrived in Singapors on his way to Chungking after long leave in Holland, told the Malayz Tribune. Hydraulic expert van der Heuvel who has been with the Central Government since 1935, is a great admirer of the en- durance and stoicism of the Chinese people.
a Prima Bal
CHINA'S OLD SORROW in
which has still to be solved by China's 'old sorrow' is a problem ambitious hydraulic engineers of China as well as the foreign ad- visers.
Mr. van der Heuvel in graphic as capricious. By words, Illustrated how well the lerina." peoples of Chith have withstood the ravages of man and nature:
"Sometimes it is a flood, äften it is "a civil war, then again it is famine brought About by drought--and, not for the
first time now, it is the invasion of foreign power riding rough shod over a nation that had started the ball of civilization rolling."
China is riding the storm bravely, said Mr. van der Heuvel, and she is admittedly deserving of the admiration of the whole world.
The war brought a temporary lull in the work of re-construction which was planned in 1927.
the improvement and extension of The re-construction work covers
irrigation works.
After the withdrawal of the Central Government from Nan-, king to Chungking. the attention of the hydraulic authorities had been drawn to the fertile lands of Szechuan, where even in olden times irrigation formed the means of improving the output of the crops.
Apart from hydraulic works, many highways have been built in recent years.
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THE RIVERS OF CHINA The rivers of China are great, though by no means insurmount- able barriers in the progress of the For instance, from 1032 to 1937, re-constructional work that is 65 thousand miles of roads Mave going on in China.
been newly constructed or made The Yangtse. longest river in suficiently wide for motor trans- the world, discharging in
London, May 6. Shal Waterworks "A" theportation.
The following quotations are the Union Insurance summer months as much as 80 Eygienic measures and modern middle prices at the close of the Gula Kalumpang Rubber. 18/3
291 thousand "cubic meters per second; sanitation have been carried out market in London All quotations Allied Ironfounders..... 14. is one of the many stumbling on a large scale.
are subject to confirmation and no blocks that the engineers had to
Asso. Elec, Industries 40/11 One may And electric light | responsibility is assumed for errors contend with.
Austin Motors, ord........ even in the very small efties in the in transmission.
25/6 Cable & Wireless, New China of today. Although ham-
Form, ord. pered by the war, the re-construc-War Loan, 31% (Red tional programme is. nevertheless. being carried on just the same.
The flood of 1931 which tore down the dykes, drownlar tens of thousands and bringing in Its wake famiñe and disease, is a good example of the tem- perament of a river that will not stay harnessed.
The work of re-constructtion and the daming of the river, which was completed in 1932, was handed over to European "experts, notably Mr. Bourdrez, then in the technical committee of the League of Nationa
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EXCITED LONDON, May 7 (Reuter) - In the Stock Exchange tomorrow's Parliamentary debate is the main That indeed the Yangtse could topic of conversation Business be harnessed was proved to the quiet, most industrials tended to satisfaction of the engineer ex-be lower and Japanese Bonds, Chin. Imperial Rly. 5% perts when in 1935 the new aykes offered at the outset later were Loan held out under the pressure of an better supported unprecedented flood.
A second problem, and one of greater intensity was mel when the engineers had to deal with the "old sorrow of . China" the Yellow River.
This river is not half as long. but it is much more troublesome, as, in summer, the silt content of the discharge comes as high as 40 per cent.
losses
while initial Honan Rly, 5%
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BUCHAREST BUCHAREST, May 7 (Reuter)
Tientsin-Pukow Rly, 5%
(Brit. Stpd.)
Tientsin-Pukow Rly: 5%
(German Stpd.).
The Turkish Economic Delegation Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%-
Sometimes the bed of the river has arrived here to open negotia
(Brit Stpd. Supt. Loan)
is is much a 15 yards. "higher tions with the Rumanian economicTientsin-Pukow Rly. 5% than the surrounding country.authorities. The Turkish Ambas-
without saying," sador will preside at the talks:
WANG SHORT OF FUNDS CHUNGKING, May 7 (Central) The Nanking regime under.
"It goes Wang Ching-wet reported un- said Mr. van der Heuvel, "that der "extreme financial stringency, if this river were to demolish Last April its revenue included the dykes. It would be an ex- only approximately $1,000,000 from tremely difficult job to bring $4.30 consolidated tax and $40,000 from It back into the old bed again."
salt tax, being far short of 'the From time to time this river 818.30 budgetary estimate made by Chow changes its course over a distance 26.80 Fushal, the so-called Minister of of some hundreds of miles, caus- $60 Finance, which sets the monthly ing inundations which take a
revenue at approximately $18- great toll on lives, 20/41000,000 including $8,000,000
Customs duties, consolidated tax. salt tax and $4,000,000 from other sources.
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