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QUESTIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT LICENCES
A number of Interesting questions in connexion with Import and Export Licences were raised by a correspondent who signed himself as Easy Money," in a letter to this newspaper yesterday.
The correspondent wanted to know:
a) Why is it that some Export whether intentional of not, I do Licences are held back for over a not know), period of sometimes a week, when others, which are for the same destination, are signed on the same day? Maybe the staff could en- lighten us.
d Why do they insist on exact date of departure of the steamers when they know that it is against the Regulations for any shipping company to impart such informa-
tion? (b) Why is it that they refuse to give an explanation why some Licences are refused? Haven't we got a right to know? Aren't we tax-paying citizens?
(e) Why do they insist on any applications for alteration in the Licence Form to be made within 7 days from the date of applications when they do not return same till
THE REPLIES
(c) Why don't they employ, com-10 or 12 days later? petent men who know right away the nature of the application with- out inquiring from the Exporters (after a delay of five or six days.
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Interviewed by a Hongkong Daily Press reporter on the above, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Superintendent of Imports and Exports, repiled as Follows:
(a) Some export licences are cleared Some have to be detained for further investigation.
(b) No explanations are given in ilme for the refusal of licences. We are working under The Prime Minister then des-instructions from the Secretary of
on a severe but not very large scale."
cribed how resolute counter- attack by the Germans with 40 tanks had led to the recapture of Fort Capuzza. by, the enemy. The Germans claimed they took 900 prisoners. The British declared they had taken 500 prisoners and that the enemy's losses in tanks and equipment were as heavy, ir not heavier, than those sustained by the British.
Mr. Churchill then réferred to propaganda by the enemy which had loudly been proclaiming that the Germans would shortly be in
Suez.
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war
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(e) No reply.
CABLE
"Boarding Houses" And Ticket Racket
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Straits Settlements. OTHER, Office, who was the European who WORDS, HE AND HIS WIFE accompanied our informant on his WOULD BE ALLOWED TO RE-wo trips to the shipping office). TURN TO PENANG AS NON- QUOTA PASSENGERS!
Inquiries by a Hongkong Daily Press reporter revealed that this The couple arrived in Hongkong shipping racket had been in exls- in the early part of April. Having tence since the introduction of the completed what he had come to quota system in the Straits Settle- Hongkong and China to do, he ments. Formerly, when there was wanted to return to Penang, and no limit to the number of Chinese accordingly Went to a certain entering. passage tickets were sold shipping company to book passages at only about $10 above the re- for his wife and himself,
gular charges.
Imagine his consternation when he heard that he could not go to the Straits Settle- ments as a non-quota passen-
but must return ger,
there -the land of his birth- AS A NEW IMMIGRANT! He was advised to buy his tickets from one of the boarding houses!!
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PRICE OF QUOTA TICKETS "I went to five boarding houses," said the informant, "and in every one of them was told that I must Being obtain QUOTA TICKETS. anxious to return, I asked for the price of these tickets and quoted. $400 ODD, by two three, and "2300 ODD' by the re- naluder. per ticket. THE RE (d) The matter is under con- GULAR FARE IS $95 PER HEAD! sideration but, the question of "Not being able to raise so much checking manifests is involved. money. I went to the Protector of (e) If there has been an "altera- Chinese (Secretary for Chinese I saw a European tlon in the applications the whole Affairs) here.
the Emigration omec (szt. Procedure has been thrown out of in gear and inevitably causes later Mcss) who brought me to see the Lady Assistant to the 5.0.A. These delig
two Europeans examined my birth certificate very carefully, compar- ed the photograph affixed on it with myself, looked at the seal and signature of the Penang official, and finally decided that I was the¦ bona fide owner of the birth cert-
ISSUED DAILY
"Asked if he could say how many licences are issued dally, Mr. Hamilton stated that between 2,000 and 3.000 export licences are dealt with every day and that, therefore. the congestion must be heavy. Deate. :
Our reporter was also informed: The Lady Assistant to the
With the introduction of quota, and the farming out of quota-passenger tickets to pas- sage brukers and boarding house keepers. the rates have risen to a MINIMUM OF $250 AND A MAXIMUM OF $500 PER HEAD!
MODUS OPERANDI
It appears that touts are sent out by boarding houses to villages in the hinterland with definite offers of passages to Singapore. On their arrival in Hongkong. they are Introduced to the boarding
houses where the freecing opera- tions begir. The visitors, whose wealth would be sized-up"" by the boarding house owner immediately on their arrival, would be told that there were only so many tickets the quantity depending on the number of persons in that party) available for so many intending To make it fair, he passengers. would say, he would put the tickets up for auction.
On the day fixed for the bid- ding. a number of "intending emigrants" (friends of the owner) would turn Up *and start to bid against the genuine applicants until the limit of the latter's financial resources have been reached. when the "competitors" would fall out. No quota tickets are sold by the
intending emigrants have to apply
for their tickets through the
"It is. therefore. satisfactory to by the Controller of Trade that he S.C.A. avery' kindly then endorsed shipping companies. As stated, all i us. that we have regained strong belieyed, although he was nos ab- on my birth certificate that she offensive power and that the fight-solutely certain, that the delay in thought that I was the man re- ing is being maintained. at any the United Kingdom for issuing ferred to in the certificate, and rate, on even terms, in the advance export permits may be very much sent me with the other European areas of the approaches to Egypt. more than that which occurs in to the shipping company.
Except for roving patrols, there Hongkong. Sometimes, it took as thought everything was now all
are no enemy troops on Egyptian long as two to three weeks before right. soll."
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"When we arrived there, the European gentleman with me showed the certificate to the man in the passenger depart- ment who, after some time, re- turned the document and said that HE COULD NOT ACCEPT THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE LADY ASSISTANT TO THE S.C.A.!
CONTINUED REFUSAL
boarding houses which are, "ap- Parently, given a free hand in the matter of charges. While non-i quota tickets are being sold by the shipping concerns at $85 each, quota ones are seldom, if ever, sold at their face value, $95. Further- more, although children under three years of age are permitted to travel free, yet the decision as
to what a child's age might be is left to the boarding-house keepers, with the result that children over two years are usually made to pay a quarter-fare!
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Commendable Action By The Police
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Apparently encouraged by the the Hongkong" Dally Fress reporter leniency, the women began to shout saw a few of the Indian constables abuse at the Police officers and minus their turbans; some Chinese "Human beings ca. escape dis-working themselves into a frenzy. constables had the shirts torn, appointment and disillusion by giv-started to manhandle those con- and Mr. Thompson and Mr. Lus- their hearts to God and hap-stables who were sent in to keep combe were perspiring, with their piness can only be acquired by lov-
faces set and grim, and their hats ing Our Eternal Father with all our
in their hands. heart, soul, mind and strength,” de- clared Dr. John C. H. Wu, noted
them in control.
FINGER BITTEN Mr. Luscombe had his neck
WHISTLES BLOWN S.C.A. SUGGESTION
The demonstration turned, a1 "As all emigrants have to be jurist, in the sesond of a series of scratched and a finger bitten by "We went back to the Secre- passed by the S.C.A.", said MISS lectures, entitled "Religion and some of the women, while many of this point, to a riot when the tariat for Chinese Affairs (as it is PHYLLIS HARROP, when asked if Life," delivered before the La Salle the Chinese and Indian constables women began to create a terrific. called here), and while I waited in she had any suggestions as to how College. Old Boys' Association last had their shirts torn by the angry noise by shouting, screaming and the Emigration Office the Euro- this racket could be stopped. "I evening.
crowd.
blowing pollee whistles (the latter pez official went upstairs. He WOULD SUGGEST THAT ALL Earthly love, continued Dr. Wu, Finding that they were making to summon the police to stop the QUOTA TICKETS BE SOLD BY could only bring disappointment no headway by 5.45 p.m., Mr. police from ejecting them) and at- THIS DEPARTMENT. UNDER THE and disillusion. A man might have Thompson decided it was time to tacking those constables sent in to DIRECT CONTROL OF A EURO- & very brief happiness with the take stronger action.
get them out of the ballding. FEAN OFFICER.
one he loved but until he came to The police were asked to turn in Five minutes after Messrs. the realisation that she was not so their revolvers and truncheons, and Thompson and Luscombe had re- angelic after more intimate rela-given strict instructions not to entered the building. four creat- tion then the happiness would roughly handle the demonstrators fallen women made their appear- cease. Also a man might be dis-as they came out through the doortance and ran to the waterfront. appointed in his love. But with The police vans were then driven They were the first to take the God love was different.
up the lane to the doors to receive (option` given by the Police officers any of the women who might like to "either go away or be arrested." Dr. Wu said that there was a
"a ride." Two constables were The din inside the building be- most profound philosophy in the posted under the arches of the Post came worse, and shouts of "save relation between religion and life. Office and three at the entrance to life" was continuously heard. "Officials of the S.C.A.. I may He who believed in God could enjoy the P. & O. building, in order to add, are prepared to take on the the world with greater intensity make certain that the demonstra- had to be used, the Police at last Deciding that some little force extra work gratis, just to see, that Life would be full of meaning when
came down soon after and told me that "everything would be all right as the Lady Assistant had télet phoned to the shipping company and had also written a note to them. We went there again,, but I could not get my tickets as the shipping people refused to re- cognise elther the signatures of the Assistant Protector of Chinese or the seal of that Department or the endorsement of the Lady Assistant: here."
Asked what he intended to do, he replied that he was leaving the
whole matter in the hands of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as that official is the counter-part of the Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements.
"The quota perimits of 500 Chinese males and 500 Chinese -females and their children. monthly. Tickets for these could be sent to this Depart- ment and sold by us as agents of the shipping,companies at 595 per adult. Children under three years of age would be allowed free.
: God:
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over the building...
the people are being charged the man had given his true love to tors did not begin to reassemble all resorted to dragging the women out". right fare."
of the building and bundling them It might be of interest to note In conclusion. Dr. Wu asserted When all was ready, Mr. Thomp-jinto the waiting vans. The kicking REPORT CONFIRMED that, in 1938. 42.753 women and that religion should be the essence son went in to where the women and yelling of these women deflec Interviewed on the subject, MISS children emigrated from Hong and sole activity of life.
were yelling and screarning abuses description: PHYLLIS HARROP the Lady kong. Of this total, 30.773 were Rev. Brother Cassian, Pro-Direc-jat the Chairman of the Urban
HARD KICKS Assistant to the S.C.A., admitted booked for the Straits Settlements, tox of La Salle College, introduced Council, the Hongkong Government that she had such a case before, with Batavia claiming 3,302. In the speaker who was a well-known the Folice and everybody in au- When the door reopened, her and that the facts given in the 1939, out of 28,374. Chinese women jurist, lawyer, and remarkable poet.thority. complaint were substantially cor- and children, who left Hongkong, Mr. Lewis Allaye, President of the rect (This was later corroborated 12,544 were destined for the Etrafts Association, thanked the speaker. by Sgt. Moss of the Emigration Settlements and 3,862 for Saigon.
One Of Greatest Feats
In Military
History
Referring to the British success in the Abyssinian campaign, in the course of a B.B.C. news commentary from London yesterday, MAJOR ALLEN-MURRAY declared that it would rank as one of the greatest feats in military history.
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Attack On Crete
In spite of several members of kicks in the the Force receiving some hard middle of their stomachs and scratches on their faces, with an occasional spit, those
done, he is doing against the who undertook the unpleasant work wishes of the French people. of handling the women behaved in The vast majority of the French a most commendable manner. Not people still have our sympathy, ope of the women could honestl: We have given Vichy fair trial claim to have been roughly handled and they have abused our sym-barring the fact that they were pathy at every turn.",
ufted up the steps of the van and put into the "Black Maria.”.
The first carload went off at 6:20 SYDNEY, MAY 20 (Router)-p.m., and the second at 6.35. Whilst The whole situation in Syria i Commenting on the statement in being carried into the vans the influenced by the behaviour of the which the French Consul, M. Lan women could be heard challenging
Government. General
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SĦZER - EVASION.
Abyssinia they ready. Let us say that the Duke Dentz looks as if he is quite readyfcial deprecated the "Savage attacks the Police's right to arrest them as
to give any assistance the Germans upon Vichy" in connexion with
the
He pointed out that when the day) and may have done so al- French Italians Invaded took SEVEN MONTHS to reach of Aosta has proved himself a
By 645, the fourth, and final, Addis Ababa,
When the British brave soldier and one of capable want. In the meantime there is Syria, Bir Frederick Stewart, Minis- they were not criminalst forces took on the job pt attack-leadership. He had instructions an announcement from Vichy that ter of External Affairs. said it was carload of screaming women and ing the Italians they took, 94 from Herr Hitler and I Dace to 100,000 prisoners of war have been a sheer evasion to pretend that children were on their way to the Syria was powerless to prevent cooler" where they will have, antil DAYS to cover a distance of 1,500 keep our forces engaged as long released by the Germans.
"It all looks like a second capi-German planes using
aero- this morning. to think over the miles right up to Amba Alagi. as he could. The position of his
dromes.
folly of their latest act which has, "Our army in Abyssinia added troops has now become impossible tulation of France.
ROAD TO DISORDER ·
It is clear that the French in incidentally, lessened the sympathy Italian Somaliland and Eritrea to and the campaign is all over bar
"Germany is using the question Syria have acted under Vichy of the majority of the thinking their conquest," said Maj. Murray. the shouting, the shouting being
They were opposed by an enemy the remaining Italian resistance at of these prisoners of war to force atractions to place Syria at the public towards their claim.
the Vichy Government forward and disposal of the enemy, he added. Among the Police officers "on the who greatly outnumbered them, Jummah and Gondar,
"Our "stock has gone up as backward on the road to disorder. "Vichy's treacherous complicity (scene of action" yesterday were Mr. who had the latest modern wea- pons of war and who had years to result of the campaign and the We can be pretty sure that the with Germany's is so manifest that w. R. Chester-Woods A.B.P., Ine- prepare their offensive.
correspondingly Germans will release these prison- the French Consular representa-pector J. R. McWalter, Inspector Axis stock has alumped, but much depends oners in small quantities whenever tives in British countries would be Chiang Jen-yu, Detective-Sergeants BRAVE SOLDIER
the attitude of Syria and Iraq and they want to get something out beat advised to exercise the great- w. Summers and J. Headridge. The "The Thake of Aosta and his developments there in the next of Vichy.
est caution in their utterances and Deputy Commissioner, Mr. C. G.. Staff are surrendering today (Tues-few months.""
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