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EDITORIAL
TUESDAY, AUGUST
12, 1941.
BURMA'S AIR STRENGTH Two Weddings SUBSIDIES BY GOVERNMENT At Registry NECESSARY TO KEEP PRICES
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Miran Merchant and Commission
The Royal Air Force in Burma has now been strengthened by the arrival of American-built Brewster Buffalo multi-gan fighters, it is officially announced. Burma, therefore, is equipped for both offensive and defensive air action,
now
During the past few months thousands of men and women from the mountains of the Shan States have been constructing between the out of the Jungle a chain of aerodromes midway Wanchal Other):
coast and the frontiers of China and Thailand.
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HONGKONG, August 12, 1941.
364 WHIL
THE STAR FERRY COMPANY LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders
DOWN, SAYS ECONOMIST
The following marriages took place at the Registry, Supreme
SUBSIDIES BY THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP PRICES Court, before Mr. J. Reynolds, Re-DOWN and to bridge the gap between the two functions of gistrar of Marriages, yesterday control-the encouragement of production and the en- Mr. Ng Fan-mee, merchant, re-couragement of buying-were advocated by MR. DONALD siding at No. 379, Queen's Road, TYERMANN, the well-known economist, when he broad- Central, and Miss Ma Kam-yin of cast from London yesterday and discussed price control No. 162, Queen's Road West.
from the point of view of its being an essential part of wartime distribution.
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They stretch from Lashio to United States in Increasing num-
Mr Chen Kwok-kuɛn, teacher Mergul. The last of these nero. bers during the past few months of the Chung Wah Middle School, dromes has now been completed. thus enabling fighter squadrons to and Miss Lau York-ching also
All of them are equipped with be speedily formed. The pilots teaching in the same school. all-weather runways suitable for speak highly of their potential the take-off of heavy bombers fighting powers. fully loaded. Plant fur the main- tenance and repair of aircraft has
saya:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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SAME PROCESS
the price level that decided what the farmer should grow and what the merchants should import.
“In wartime
you get con- trolled prices", went on Mr. Tyermann, "But only to make it possible for people to get food, but to make it remunera- tive for the sellers, shippers, oto.
"It is not any coincidence market is controlled by the Gov that both the British and crnment to get what it wants." United States
PRICE CONTROL Governments should have turned their at- Mr. Tyermann said that it was The following forthcoming mar-tention to this question of the same thing where food was TUG-OF-WAR AT
One fighter pilot who fought inrlages were announced yesterday: price control",
began Mr. concerned. In peace time it was a famous Spitfire squadron Mr. Lau Yuk-tin, merchant, of VICHY
been provided, while pilots and throughout the Battle of Britain, No. 21. Fuk Lo Tsun Road, Kow- Tyermann,
"In this country live in comfortable
loon City, and Mise Lily Lee of the we have already had a White WHILE the tension in the ground crews
quarters. Far East continued to
"The Buffalo has amazing qua- same address.
Paper on this question and in and Fuel, bombs
ammunition
lities of manoeuvrability a very
the United States there has dangerously smoulder
over have been stored to meet all pos
great asset in any fighter Com- Mr. George Allister Souza, clerk, been a message to Congress the week-end, the signif-sible needs.
bined with its high speed, fast of No. 33A, Wong-nel-chong Road, These aerodromes have been 01 Cance
the political de-
rate of climb and multiple large-and Miss Irene Emily Pereira, of on the same subject so located that they will pro-
calibre machine guns. It is velopments which are taking
a No. 130, Austin Road. vide the maximum protection
aircraft to be feared by any un- place in Vichy has not escap-
for Burma against air and
fortunate pilot who has the 11- Mr. Alexander William Sum- ed world attention. Like a
land attack from any quarter
luck to find himself in front of mers, merchant, residing at Ngau- snarling beast of prey driven and at the same time give the
these guns when the Buffalo pliotchi-wan, and Miss Marcelle Vener R.A.F. advance bases from to bay, Herr Hitler is now
presses the firing button."
of the French Convent Hostel. which to hit back with bomber NOTICI is hereby given that looking east, west, north and
squadrons. an Interim Dividend of $1.00 south for some avenue of per Share has been declared for escape from the disaster that the holf year ended 30th June,, is threatening him. In this East
The MONDAY,mood the Nazi fanatic is, payable 250 AUGUST, 1941, on which perhaps, most dangerous as date Dividend Warrants may be he will be prepared to take ontained on application at the any risk and adopt the most Office of the Company, Kowloon ruthless methods to gain his
The Register of Shores of the ends and it is in such Company will be closed from mood, too, that he is likely to SATURDAY, 16TH AUGUST, make bigger blunders than! 1941.
MONDAY. to
25TH he has already
AUGUST. 1941, both inclusive.
1941.
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
The other plots, who have come
and Spitfire
They also give greater mobility from
the Air Force based in the Far
Commander-in-Chief.
Hurricane
squadrons in England to form the nucleus of the Far East fighter Air squadrons, share this view.
In a Singapore broadcast last Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke- Popham, in the event of active night Lt.-Comm. war spreading to Malaya will be the system
Proud said that of Burma's defence in a position if he wishes to move were so carefully planned that the squadrons to
Burma in IA few country would be a very difficult a beurs and so have 1139 forces aut for any aggressor to crack. where they will serve the best ad- The authorities have concentrated on selective troops suited to the SPEEDILY FORMED
type of warfare and these were Buffalo fighters have been ar- being constantly augmented by days Once again, therefore. Vichy riving across the Pacific from the more troops.
has become bis
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager., Hong Kong, 11th August, 1941.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
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committed
objective.
The "collaboration" he nas
vantage.
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Mr. Ip Ching-san, architect, re-
siding at No. 42. Jordan Road, and Miss Lam Shu of the same address.
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Mr. Wan Hing. Chinese Sapper of 40th Coy.. R.E.. residing at No, 40, Takuling Road, Kowloon City, and Miss Cheung Yuk-fung of the same address.
**The last time I spoke to you I said that the great difficut- ty was rationing. 1 said then that rationing and price con- tro] go together, They are of part of the same procces making the best use of avail- able resources.
scarce.
Bome
"That is all very straight-for- ward. In wartime you have price- fixing instead of free price move- ments. The Government has to do the job and make 'decisions that in peace-time are done and made by the shifting up and down. of "It is not just that the prices of prie by what is called the inter- rationed goods have to be kept play of supply and demand. down. It is greater than that--it "But things are means that the economie life of are not enough to go round in the country is ruled by prices sufficient quantities, If this happens mean that the decisions as to in wartime, then people with the what should be produced, and how most money would get most of the Mr. Low Bor, merchant, residing much of it, depends in peace time goods, which is not fair. So you
things will at No. 121. Cheung-sha-wan Road, on the prives that
have to keep prices down. and and Miss Fong Mee-kwan of No. fetch. Prices decide
prices
FIRST COME 16. Nga tsin-long Road, Kowloon are determined by demand and by City.
what people are prepared to pay. "That leads to what the Minis- There will be remunerative prices try of Food called the 'disappearing for this, but not for that.
trick. This has led people to ask.
Mr. Francis Marion Smith, clerk, of No. 17, Homuntin Street, and
"In wartime, the working of this with understandable exasperation, Miss Cynthia d'Almada Remedios price mechanism is suspended to a why it is that as soon as the price
so far been able to get from MACAO MERCHANT SUMMARY COURT of No. 5, Belfran Road, Kowloon great extent
the Vichy Government has proved unsatisfying and in- sufficient
OD
MURDERED
оп
He succumbed later.
The police have arrested three
suspects
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Tong.
227, Wing Lok Street, and Miss
ALLEGATION
Certain things have of a commodity is controlled, it
disappears from the shop. to be produced, market or no mar-
"It is unnecessary to say that ket, such
aeroplanes, tanks,
buyers the
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Mr. Wong Yuen-chong,. of No. guns and ammunition. Thie onty controlled prices does not increase It merely bring the Quan Pul-har of No. 11. Hing Hon decides the programme itself and commodity
Government and it supplies.
within control. For Road.
aero example, few people can afford to fixes the prices not only of
If planes, but of all the material buy tomatoes at 5/6 per lb. P. E. F. Cressall in the Summary FORGED MARRIAGE components that go into its mak- the supply is increased, the de- Court yesterday in the case in
Ing. In order to ensure sufficient mand grows and the share-out is which Ip Yan-yuen alias Ip Chok
supplies of aeroplanes and to give spaller. Man Tong, spinister, of No. 303. A girl, Leung Shuct-ying. 25. the producers distributors and "What happens is this. The
life by manufacturers Lalchikox Road, first floor, claimed attempted to take her
price is low
for enough from Ng Yung possession of the swallowing Jeyes fluid at her remuneration.
almost everybody te buy, above-named premises and mesne sidence in Shek Kip Mi Road,
but the goods are enough for profits at the rate of $30 per month Shamshulpo, at 7 am, yesterday.
a very few and who gets these from June 20 to date of posses-
It was alleged that the girl was
goods is decided by chance-
sjon,
forced by her step-mother to marry!
first come, first served. a man, very much older than her- self, and as her resistance was in vain, she had decided to commit
Mr. C. A. Butherton Russ appear ed for the plaintiff, while the
defendant appeared in person.
The facts of the case, as related suicide,
by She was removed to hospital and of Wong Yall was aher condition was said to be not
at serious the tenant of plaintiff's premises
No. 303, Lalchikok Road, first floor, since 1937.
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reasonable re- In other words the
A.R.P. INQUIRY
"These are the sort of things that have to be accounted and
First Sitting May changed. We have prices of goods
Be In Camera
here that have been extended to Axed prices and this affects not only retall prices, but wholesale merchants as well.
for his growing Ho Sap, well-known transporta
JUDGMENT GIVEN needs and the pressure on tion merchant in Macao, was as-
FOR PLAINTIFF that puppet body has grownjsassinated by three Chinese gun
men in front of his house in more menacing than ever.
Judgment for plaintiff, with Macac at R o'clock Sunday No longer is there any al-
given by Mr. Justice morning, according to 2
Chinese costs, was tempt to soft-peddle his will
report on Marshal Petain's Govern-
Aroused by commotion in Che ment. The threat is clear-street, his servants rushed out, "Come in completely on the and. finding Ho seriously German side--or else?” wounded, took him into the house
IN VICHY itself a tug-of- HEREBY NOTICE IS
war is taking place on this GIVEN that an Interim Dividend vital issue for the future of, of 5.60 per share has been declar. France. Admiral Darlan, in ed in respect of the half year order to retrieve his near fall¦ ended 30th June, 1941, from grace in German eyes, Nazi behests under the illu- 900,000 OLD SHARES and will is the strongest proponent of ston also that they are cer- be payable on and after Thursa whole-hog policy in favour tain to do well for themselves by Mr. Russ, were that a man day, tith September 1941 of the Nazis. He is support- by indulging in act after act the name
It is learned from reliable Dividend Warrants may beed by M. Bonnet and a few of aggression and at.
sources that the Arst two or three
DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM obtained on application at the others. General Weygand is same time pretending that
sittings of the Commission of In-
"There is still the difficulty of Company's Registered Office, P. the only stout opponent to such steps are being taken Wong Yau did not pay his rent
quiry, appointed by His Excellency & 0. Building.
such a wholesale sell-out to to help their Axis partners. of 330 per month and, in June
the Governor to investigate the distribution-the difficulty of giving The European Y.M.C.A. Amateur disclosure made at a recent de-everyone an even break in buying THE REGISTER OF MEM-the Germans, while the old The ease with which Indo- 1941. he was owing two months
into these controlled goods. It would warrant was Dramatic Club held a play reading partmental investigation
В Government, be by unrationed goods that the BERS of the Company will be Marshal wavers in his weak-China fell into their lap has rent.
The Government. The decision which evidently emboldened them taken out against him but this was in the West Lounge Theatre last charges against CLOSED from MONDAY, IST ness.
paid. Wong Yau, however, aban-night in preparation for casting officer (since dismissed concern-trouble arises. SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY, will ultimately be taken can- to a reckless desire. for more
season, the Emlyn Williams' tran- $500 for work done for the Gov-to deal with them and to share 11TH SEPTEMBER 1941 (both not but have serious reper- conquests and the sabre is doned the tenancy and had not of their first production of the new ing the payment of a cheque for has to take on increased powers NOTICE SERVED
slation from the French play. "The ernment coming, under the super-out goods as equally as possible. If Vichy consents being now rattled in the face
vision of the architectural branch "It is true that in general, the days inclusive) during which cussions.
At the end of June, the agent of Late Christopher Bean." period no transfer of shares can to the German demands for of Thailand.
Mr. Cecil Houghton, who is proof the A.R.P., will, in all likelihood, wartime problem is to keep prices AS EVENTS have turned plaintiff went to take over posses- in the whole be registered.
de-ducing, took the chair. and among be heard in camera.
down. This policy was expressed. now ston of premises and found
statement French Colonial Empire, out, however, Japan
After the preliminary hearings clearly enough by a those taking part in the reading was unknown to with, perhaps, the handing knows that the conquest of fendant, who
Dalziel Winnie Cox, Day Sage, public, should the Commissioners ing the vicious circles of inflation. over of the French Fleet, it Thailand is not going to be both plaintiff and the agent, there were Leonard Starbuck, Winifred the inquiry might be opened to the issued by the Government regard-
Notice to quit was served on her victory.
David Ingleby, David Kossick, so decide.
forces. It has gone beyond a cer- will definitely debar them another
July 3, which notice on
Willie Robertson, Freddie Clemo No date has, so far, been fixed tain stage. It la, therefore, Im- from uny sympathy. from Whether Thailand resists or
Ignored,
and other YMCA players.
for the first hearing. and
is immaterial at Britain
the United not
Defendant stated that she for Britain has a joint principal tenant with Wong States. The men of Vichy moment, and Herr Hitler should also warned the Japanese that Yau but could not produce any not forget that the people of any attempt to encroach on rent receipts made out in her name, France--the men and women Thailand's integrity and in- in their joint names. who are praying for libera- dependence will be opposed
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 5th August, 1941.
381
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
concessions
bloodless
the
A distress
been seen since.
she
was
tion from the Nazi yoke, by Britain even at the risk of CORRESPONDENCE |
the Pacific into may still have something to plunging
This is no empty say about it and that they war. may say it in terms and in a threat. Britain means bus- AN INTERIM DIVIDEND manner that might frustrateness this time and the only of ONE DOLLAR per share for the very advantages that the regret is that she was not; the six months ended 30th June, Nazis hope to secure.
1941, will be payable on TUES. FOR JAPAN TO
DAY, 26th AUGUST, 1941, on
which date Dividend Warrants
may be obtained at the Com›
pany's office, 3 Chater Road.
DECIDE
DETERIORATION OF RICE SITUATION
Y.M.C.A. PLAY READING
Chinese Co-operatives For Singapore
(TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER)
the
Negotiations are afoot between the technical adviser to the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, Mr. Rewi Alley, and Colonial Secretary, in connexion with the establishment in Singapore of a branch of the co-operatives. It is learnt...
The authorities, the Tribune is reliably informed, have agreed on principle to the inauguration of a branch. No far. ther details are available yet.
Mr. Alley arrived in Singapore
MADE FEASIBLE
It is believed that by the esta-
portant to check it at the begin- ning. If not it gives an oppor- tunity to the profiteer.wik
"That is plain enough, but 1 is another matter entirely to keep prices down. Prices have got to be remunerative, so the Government has to give subsidies to keep these prices down-subsidies of millions of pounds. to bridge the gap be tween two functions of control first to encourage production and second, to encourage buying.” con- cluded Mr. Tyermann.
NEWSETTES
Office of the supervisor of the
The Editor, B.K. Daily Press able to adopt the same stand Sir-Since the appearance of the earlier. The British attitude so-called "special" or "tsin tang" | to resist any Japanese in-grade of rice on the market, what vasion of Thailand is sup-is described as "A" grade rice has WHILE Herr Hitler is seek-ported by the United States been adulterated by the addition last week from Hongkong, and in
of a small quantity of broken rice. an interview given to Central bishment of the bruneti in Binga- Burma Railway will shortly be ing to create these diversions and China. It is now up to) If this practice is allowed to de-News, revealed that the China pore, purchase of war materials established in Kunming with seven in the West to compensate Japan to decide whether she velop, it won't be long before the Relief Fund Commission might from the money of loen Chinese departments, according to the NOTICE IS HEREBY
through the movement will be Chinese Presa. for his growing list of blund- should call a halt to her farce of grading will have to find start an office in Singapore.
Primarly, it is stated, he is on made teäelble. GIVEN that the REGISTER ers, he has not ceased en-aggression plans or engage in a new grade, named such us "extra
"super-fine," "extra his way to Rangoon to arrange
Mr. Alley has been connected OF SHARES of the Company couraging the Japanese to a conflict with the Democra-special,"
A scavenger found on Bunday will be CLOSED from THURS carry out their own aspiratie ABCD front. There Is super-fine," ete, until grade "A" the transportation of a number of
American-made trucks from Las- with the Indusco ever since the morning in Rue Wants in the will in reality be grade "D".
the French Concession, Shanghai, an wooden box in which Has
the Rice Monopoly the hid to Chungking over the Burma movement was launched on MONDAY, 25th AUGUST, Pacific. The Nazi Fifth Japanese may favour the courage to tell the public that the Road, and also to inspect the Co- suggestion and with the support abandoned
of the British Ambassador to vere, 600 rounds of rifle ammuni-
· 1941, (both days Inclusive) Column in Japan has seen to former alternative. It may price of rice has further advanced operatives work in Yunnan,
According to Mr. Alley, many China, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. tion. It was taken to the Police during which ported no transfer it that the picture of huge be that her war-blinded mill-instead of resorting to this crea-
Singapore people, including the und Madame, Chiang Kai-shek in station, of shares can be registered.'
advantages accruing to Japan tarists feel they cannot with- tion of new grades?
Shenton Thomas, 1938. By the way, the "special grade"Governor Sir of reasona If she pursues this policy of draw now for
rice is sold at $20 per plcul have shown keen interest in the In the past three years or so. expansion has been enlarged prestige. Prestige will, how-nearly 3 more than the price of development of the Chinese in Mr. Alley has been busy organis the Hongkong Rotary Club today and magnified to dazzle the ever, count but little when grads "A" Thus, by the magic dustrial Co-operatives, although ing new units in Klangal, Cheon "Wanderings of an Engineer."", deluded militarists in that the future of the nation is of a new grade game, the price of in view of foreign exchange ress klang, Tukien, Kwangtung and At the following meeting of the triotfons and insufficient organisnother provinces. Before his pre- Chib, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, Mr J country. Blind to the con- considered in the clear pera-rice has been raised 18 per cent,
tion, the Bingapore Chinese have sent work he was connected with P. Ponnefather-Evans, Commis Yours, etc., sequences of their folly, the pective of the present post-
not as yet given any Onancial help the Shanghai Municipality Coum atoner of Police, will speak on "Ar
Policeman Looks Chungktrip.** ell. to the Indusoo movements Japanese have responded to tion,
DAY, 14th AUGUST, 1941, to tions and ambitions in the still no indication that the
By Order of the Board of Directors,
0. EAGER,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 7th August, 1941,
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A CONSUMER
Mr. D. W. Munton will address.