BRITAIN BUILDING MIGHTIEST AIR FLEET
Powerful First Line Of Defence Ready By 1940
London, May 12. Following the Opposition in- dictment of the Government's air armament plans, led by Sir Hugh Seely (Liberal-Berwick- en-Tweed), who moved a reduc- tion in the salary of Viscount Swinton, Secretary of State for Air (salary, £5,000 p.a.), Earl Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster announced to the House of Lords the Government's revised program- me, which will be carried out by March, 1940.
Under the revised programme, the Air Squadrons at Home will reach a planes. first-line strength of 2,370
Overseas squadrons will be Increas
of strength first ino ed to a approximately 490 machines.
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
AIR MAIL HELD INTEGRITY
UP 24 HOURS
'The air mall from London has been
OF CHINESE
delayed and instead of arriving to- CUSTOMS
day about 4.30 p.m. will not get in unili to-morrow afternoon, according to advices received at the local office of Imperial Airways.
No explanation has been received of the 24 hours' delay, but it le nɛ- sumed that there has been a hold-up on the main line and the Bangkok- Hongkong service has had to alter schedule.
The plane will leave on schedule on Sunday for England.
UNCERTAIN
Japan Side-Tracks Definite Promises
London, May 12, During Question time in the House of Commons to-day, the for Foreign that no country discloses its aircraft Under-Secretary
Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, dis- reserve.
"The House must accept my assur-closed that it had been found ance that the Reserves situation 19 impossible during the recent natisfactory and that the numbers of
negotiations with Japan
definite undertaking plantes available in March, 1040, will be on a scale commensuite with our secure a
that no change was contemplated first-line strength," he said.
in the international character of the Chinese Customs.
"Some of our new bombers will be the heaviest machines of their kind
ever seen."-Reuter Special,
Deterrent Against Aggression
London, May 12. At the conclusion of his speech,
and
40 which lasted for an hour minutes, Lord Winterton, gave a assurance that the British air pro- gramme had been framed in the light of the best estimato available of the foreen which could be brought against Great Britain in the event of war.
to
The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, had, however, given an oral assurance that the Japanese Government nad every intention of maintaining the integrity of the Chinese Customs to the fullest extent ab- permitted under the present normal conditions.
was
Mr. Butter declared there nothing in the recent arrangement had with Tokyo to justify the suggestion that the British Government acquiesced in Japanese interference with the Chinese Customs adminis- tration.
"The programme has been design- On the contrary, the British Gov- aircrafted as a formidable deterrent against ernment had repeatedly impressed aggression, and an effective defence upon the Japanese Government their
interest in maintaining in every res in the event of attack," he said,
"The detence of Great Britain must peet the authority and integrity of the Customs service, and a uniform be considered as a whole.
are carrying out, simultane-tariff for all China, applied imparti- ously and on a vast scale, refitments,ally to all nations-Reuter. rebuilding
and re-equipment of the three Services--the Navy, Army and Air Force at a cost approaching astronomical proportions.
Provision will also be made for the completion of the first line strength of the Fleet Air Arm to at least 500
ай sillys planes, earriers became available.
"This aggregate of aircraft therefore represents a first-line strength of something just under 3,500 craft," said Winterton.
These figures, for constitutional Include the large reasons, do not forces being formed in the Dominions. These, the speaker believed, would most to a shortly be brought up efficient stage.
Lord
Expects Dominions' Aid
It ww
however, inconceivable. whether with respect to first-line strength or otherwise, that Dominions ia emergencies should not receive the fullest Co-operation
from
Governments in the Empire.
had
Elven
other
Lord Winterton said the figures he showed that the new pro- gramme entirely overshadowed the years ago, which ont announced
ed three at that time was an unprecedented peace-time programme.
The 1934 programme, which was known as the scheme under which a first line strength of 1,750 aircraft would be reached, is due to be fulfilled on March 31 next year. It
to schedule, and the Air was well up Ministry hoped that it would be achleved considerably before March 31.
The new expansion scheme would require another 40,000 officers and men in the next two years, chiefly within the next 18 months,
"Before the 1034 expansion pro- gramme we had 50,000 officers and men in the Royal Air Force. Now we have 70,000 officers and men," Lord Winterton declared.
"We are
"We are competing under a volum- tary demonstrative" system-and I believe we are competing successfully
with governments which have com plete control of everything their in- dividual citizens do, say or think."- British Wireless,
LABOUR TO DEMAND
R.A.F. PROBE
Rn
Sudeten Leader In London
London, May 12, Herr Konrad. Henlein, leader of the Czecho-Slovakian Sudeten (Ger- man minorities) Party, arrived in London by plane to-night, and will remain here until after the week-end. It is understood that Herr Henlein intends to
British discuss with friends the situation Central
Europe-Reuter, London, May 12. The Labour Opposition has decided early to ask Government for debate on the motion by Mr. Clement Attlee, calling for a complete, search- ing, independent and speedy inquiry Into the state of Great Britain's air defences, and the administration of all departments concerned.-Router.
WIDESPREAD ANXIETY
London, May 12.
in
ARRIVAL CREATES SURPRISE London, May 12. The arrival of Herr Henlein in London has created somewhat of a surprise, and has also evoked a crop of speculation on all sides.
Nothing la known of the visit in official quarters, and apparently even members of the Czecho-Slovakian legation did not know that Herr Heniein intended to visit London.
German quarters have also no
knowledge of the visit-Reuter,
Mr. Clement Attlee declared in the House of Commons that the position Wits grave, and there was widespread anxiety regarding air defences and DISCUSSION IN BERLIN the methods employed by the Air
Berlin, May 12. Ministry.
Ger- The British Ambassador to In urging a complete inquiry, the Labour leader declared that German many, Sir Neville Henderson, called production was double that of Bri- upon the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, on Wednesday, tain's.
according to informed quarters here. Official quarters preserve silence regarding the subjects discussed and
results of the conference.
The Government proposals, he de- clared, would not bring Great Bri- tain, even in 1940, to the position in which Germany is in to-day,
Mr. Atlee alleged that Royal Air
the
THEY
declare that the purpose of
FRIDAY,
MAT
Judgment In Complicated Legal Fight
Chief Justice Finds
For Defendant
the
Written judgment, in connection with the action brought by Mrs. Fong Shiu-king against her son-in-law, Leung Nal-yuen, concerning compradoreship of Messrs, Gilman and Co., Ltd. was delivered by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, in
the Supreme Court this morning. His Lordship gave Jude ment for defendant, with costs.
declaration The action was for a that, under an agreement made in February, 1837, plaintiff was a part- ner with defendant in the Compra- dore Department of Messrs, Giliman and Co., Ltd. Plaintiff also claimed for an Injunction restraining defen- dont from
excluding her from partnership.
the
Mr. Eldon Potter, E. c., Instructed by Mr. E. S. C. Broulta, uppeared for plaintiff, and defendant was repre- Leo sented by the Hon. Mr. D'Almada, Jnr., on the Instructions of Mr. H. L. Kwan.
JUDGMENT
as
nt
DI
1988.
ZINC PLATE IN HIS TROUSERS
As he was lonving Kowloon Docks yesterday, a workman named Ip Chiu, 40, was stopped and scorched at the main gato a zinc plate, valued at $13,50, was found concealed beneath his trousers.
Charged with theft of the plate, before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, Ip ad- mitted the offence and was sentenced 10 six weeks' hard inbour.
Sergeant Stewart prosecuted.
tween the partners after the date of the agreement.
When Sinologue doctors disagree the task of a judge who knows nothing of the Chinese language, its characters, or its idioms is an unenvi- able one, but in this case fortunately, the conclusion to which I have come is based not on the linguistle nieetles of what to me is an unknown tongue but on legal principles on which, I frankly admit, I feel more at home.
PARTNERSHIP AT WILL
the
21
to
In the agreement no term for the duration of the partnership is expres- sed, and the partnership is therefore prima facie a partnership at will, and was determined by the defendant as from January 31, 1938 by virtue of the
of letter
January which
in evidence. for
therefore, plaintiff, satisfy me that, notwithstanding the express terms of the agreement this partnership is determinable only by mutual
by the defendant consent, by ceasin ceasing to
to be compradore to Messrs. Gilman and Co. or by operation of plaintlira be
a
nership is automatically determinedi
His Lordship's judgment was follows:
On January 20, 1937 the defendant,
entered into Leung Nal-yuen
and agreement with Messrs. Gilman Co., Ltd. whereby on the terms and conditions therein stated he agreed to serve the Company as compradore. That agreement contained a provisome statutory disability. Mr. Fat-
ter's contention on the sion for the termination of the agree-half is that this is a partnership for a single adventure, or, in more com- ment by three months notice in writ
He relics in by either 37 the plaintiff and on the admitted fact that the sole
mon parlance, a
a syndleate, In February defendant concluded an agreement in
pssct d the partnership is the com- Leung pradoreship, the following terms: "We,
fact which is clearly Nal-yuen and Feng Shuk-king are evidenced both by the terms of the
Whereas makers of this agreement.
partnership agreement and by the the the Leung Nal-yuen has taken up
of the receipt. If the com-
the compradoreship of Messrs, Gilman &
pradoreship comes to an end Co. of Hongkong and Fong Shuk king agreed to take up a share $10,000 in the coplin it is
is agreed between the said two parties that in the future all profits and losses in the business shall be divided into five of which four parts shall equal parts go to Leung Nai-yuen and one part to Fong Shule-king. Words to the contrary shall not be allowed, This made out in two copies party to keep one copy as On February 10, 1937 the defendant gave the plaintiff a receipt which reads as follows: Received ing payment from Mrs. Fong Shuk-king of the exact sum of $10,000 In
In Flong kong currency being amount money for a share in the compradore department of Messrs, Gilman & Co. This
is proof. That receipt, in nd- dition to the defendant's signature, bears the chop of the compradore department of Messrs. Gilman and Co. for receiving goods.
ogreement
for proof."
TRANSLATIONS DIFFER
of
and if the court holds that this is a partnership at will the sole asset wi vest in the defendant, for the com- and unassignable pradoreship is being so essentially a contract of incapable of valuation. To personal service. reasonably accurate hold that this is partnership at will
be
render would therefore operative the provisions of
Is
of section 39 of the Partnership Ordinance 1807 and to deprive the plaintiff of her statutory rights to her share in the partnership asset. Mr. D'Almada for the defendant relies on section 20 and 32 of the Partnership Ordinance 1897 and on the case of Syers v Syers (1 AC. 174.)
COMPLICATIONS
The point for decision is one which has given me the greatest difficulty. The relation of employer and em- ployee between Messrs. Gilman and Co. and the defendant are in no way affected by the partnership agree- ment. The dissolution of the part- nership by
would consent
leave the out as compradore,
All the relevant facts and material documents have been agreed, and the only oral testimony called at the
and nothing in the agreement can mencan iriat was that of two experts in the
prevent Messrs. Gilman and Co. from Chinese language. These gentlemen,
giving due notice to the defendant. as experts so often do, differed
The argument that in as much as the fundamentally on the meaning which
only partnership asset is unassignable they assigned to isolated parts of
it cannot reasonably be valued is one which would determine my judgment agreement sued on, particularly in regard to the characters trung tot in favour of the plaintiff were it not Big New Schools
which the Court translator interpret- for the statutory provisions in
In section the future." For the 10 of the Partnership Ordinance 1897 ed "in "The great new training schools
133 plaintiff It has been previously planned for Gosport and
con urged that the that the Plaintiff's death or banke characters, standing alone mean "for Stosaph will be opened this summer
rupey would automatically dissolve of views,
ever and a day' and that their use in for 3,600 trainees, and there will beForce machines were, to a large ex-the visit is merely a normat exchange
mutual the partnership, and, as partnership obsolescent. schools at Cadsbyt and tent, obsolete and two
an agreement Indicates a
assets cannot vest in any one partner, cach capable
desire for same
measure of per- Weston-Super-Mare,
"We ought to concent; Leur, in that the Czecho-Slovakian question
manency, was discussed in connection with the
It was, perhaps, irreic-there would, in either of these events, of taking 3,000 trainees.
of machines and
und the most "Thirty new aerodromes, beyond types
Franco-British demarche in Prague
vant for me to recall, as examination have to be a valuation of the partner- powerful of Bghters and long range last Saturday.
The conclusion to which I have those
was succeeded by cross-examination, ship asset. already provided for, will be required under the new expansion bombers, ins
going in for all
According to Berlin politieal quar-
those pledges of undying love and sorts and
declared Mr. Attlee.
rather come, though not without consider- affection which in actions of "Experts have Informed me that ters the German Government holda
different nature are never declared able hesitation, is that this partner- ship is a partnership at will, and the Czecho-Slovakian resta with twelve types are enough, instead of the view that the responsibility now
has been duly determined by the defendant on January 31, 1938. It the 37 types now under production."
Ed
new
proreraft industry hus inform-
"The
the Government that, with the necessary labour avaliable, the out- be put of acroplanes and engines can increased by well over 50 per cent within the next twelve months and by over 150 per cent, in the following year."
Dealing with the Air Mission to the United States and Canada, Lord Winterten said that production of aircraft in the United States was small compared with production in Britain.
"We should only require to buy eerlain machines there, and they will be used mostly for training purposes, if we can get them," he said.
"Of greater importance is the possibility of building up a potential war machine in Canada,"
Denies Inferiority
Lord Winterton categorically deni- ed that Royal Air Force machines now in use were inferior to those In use in other countries.
As far as comparison was possible, RAF.machines compared more than favourably with machines used -in other countries.
"Absolutely
untrue!' Interjected Mr. Winston Churchill who, a moment later explained that he meant Lord Winterton's statement was untrue in sense of inaccuracy (Laughter). Lord Winterton; continuing, puld a tribute to the British aircraft de signers who, he declared, were among the best in the world. He said that all aircraft arms in Britain capable various Lypes of of producing machines cfciently and economical- ly would be given orders enabling them to plon far ahead.
Peak Production Near Lord. Winterton emphasised that there was no ground for apprehion- sion that the services of these firms would not be fully used, or that they would not be given enough ordera, there would be a shortage of
OT
each month,
was rising
Production of aircraft was
and peak production was not far distant
Pressed to give the proportion be twem the 3,000 planes of Brat line defence planned for March, 1040 and the total RAF. Ent Fleet Air - The Ford Winter lon: bald
Churchill: hear!
concen
Instead of
types,
Political however,
Mr. Altice alleged there was lack Government and that everything de- of organisation in "shadow" factories,pends on the Minority Statute now an absence of blind-flying instru-being drafted by the Prague Govern- ments, and inter-departmental fric- tion.
"The real changes are needed at the top of our air organtention," ha declared-Reuter.
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The case of Ambler v. Bolton L.R 14 Equity 427 is in many respects so much in point that I cannot re- frain from adding a few words. Though the consequence of my judg- ment is that the plaintiff is no longer a partner with the defendant the is still entliled to an
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