THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NÓVEMBER 80, 1949.
131 Answer Foreign Firms In S'hai Glamorous
Appeal For
ESC Recruits Victimised By Workers
Since recruiting started for the Пезу Essential Services Corps Inst Thursday, 131 applications to join the Corps have been received.
Of this number. 57 are from non-Chinese and 74 from Chinese residents.
Mr K. Ashdowne, Commissioner of the ESC, said this morning that it was a little ton early to expect any sizeable response to the Government'A appeal. Forms had been sent to many of the larger firms in Hongkong und these were only just beginning to come in.
VYSHINSKY REPEATS
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Soviet Union to "eplace sweep.
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standing differences.
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WHEELOCK, MARDEN & CO'S
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Speaking at the Annual General Meeting of Whoolock, Marden and Co., Ltd., in Queen's Building this morning, the chairman, Mr G. E. Marden, said that in common with othor employers of labour in Shanghai, the company had boon victimised by unreasonable demands sinco the Communist occu- pation.
Insurance operateri
Interest satisfactorily,
have
and
"Indeed." Mr Marden said, | In the United Kingdom our **in our case the demands might almost be considered | though fantastic."
The threat 10 the personal safety of the ronny's settor Mal in Sanghel hd resulter
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The minst of the workers' uju triks **
Me Marden said Last year ? gave you a very full acmant of bur Befivities during the years which had elapsed between our 10th and 12th Anti General Meelings, and you will not ex-
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MAY-
the Dominion surance Co., Ltd., shows a loss for the year of nearly £10,000 the result of his is largely increased Provisions rendered teressary by the expansion of ts business,
Our shipyard business in the Kingdom suffered 111 Tatted
others in their Common with Istrict as a result of lncreased profit eusi, although a small
The
to be earned. capital of this subsidiary has re- ently been increased by £20, 800 as a result of a rearrange. meut of our method of financing its aufivitien,
Frin
venient for the time being to for sorry a tentative provision this purpose in the Contingency Reserve. The
Account Appropriation cia out your mirectors' recotu- mendations for the disposal of the balance Available, which i propose to discuss in considering he Balance Sheet itself, but hareholders will r:alise that these most satisfactory figures
tue tu alerge extent
It circumstances, und would be as unwise to antici pate a repetition of such results an it would be prudent for your Board to base upon them a commendation for a large di
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e than chi dieu » mumkan to take up so much of your time 1 am pleased to inform you that wer activities both here and abroad have developed generally on the aggressive nutcipated
And
In the Colony or Interesis defensive then-
dirated to you last year, and will touch upon the more have expanded, and the various which I detalled to activith-s appented to
portant of thes
уелг
pract have operateri vou tast Until the close
year You! of the
Since satisfac' orily. very under review our Seanghai sub-
spoke to you Inst we have re operating sails- He urged diaries were
of Cone- the activities vived
Investment mtein!
Co., Ltd.. Mr Vychinsky to "recognise the factorily, although at the stendity negotiate reducing tempo which economic
SAP!and under
་་་་་
naging diree. common interest and
Ind und
political ronditions
or. Mr P. C, Coleton, it play; adjustment in a spirit of
Chinn made inevitable. or.
important al accommodation" and admit the North
thence the end of March however, a 12 possibility of sincerity
the situation has worsened with Anuncial business. ་་་་་ The effectiveness of the plockade Lotil mur Interests her have some but little better than self-supporting. theve han been some slight - vement we must expect this state of affabs in continue unti blox kade is ne as the tiffent, or further lowes its offee
jart of n dissenter.
"Act in good faith to fulth before akisements existing
Do making Dew promises these things and many doors to pencetul progress will be oven-
"
The record shows the com- vietion of the entire free world that the tears that prevail are excited by the policies and acts of the Soviet Union," Mr Aus- tin declared.
In common
Welt
6.
arnt while shiptune
STAFF HOUSING
the assets side there is An increase in respect of Land
Bulidinga
represen ing book of the ofter deduction value of
property sold, the cost of further staff residences pur- There 13 chased in Hongkong Biercase of 14 lakhs in in- ves ments
in subsidiaries, Investments in our older United. Kingdom subsidiaries. In adili- tion to the forma ton of the two
new London
subsidiaries which I informed you inst year Other Investments are al
re-
part In loral presentinst the
the main further
You will be graffted to learn | that we have recommenced our impor and pre-war business of financing. at there are indications that this branch of our business will expand
Hongkong Realty & Trust Co Lid, together sullacies, continues solisterly
to make use
with Ita Rub
of all
01
up by 1 lakhs, rather more
han half of which represebis an increase of our holdings in
associated companies. aynilable
funds with other em j ployers → or in Shanghin
There has been no change in vietimused by un-nar joint ventures to shipping "Will the Soviel Government we
indeedrunal
Croft The sub of them est West 15
Corvettes | the assurance accept
dark n 145 in our case the demands moght + Ear 10 unemverted which suspicions
which Informed you last year) approach to all the rest of the almost be romsaderes Tarberite
United In the Were world have no foundation”
inasmatch
He told Mr Vyshusky that the tonal never before had the Cominform speed of or sale
isolated completely
FO
from the rest of the world.
Wel
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of the heal Rug | Uself | Conting amely of our
llory, the Shanghai Tug C
Latel three years "toto it only in the hop Fartiter Ca that recognition of the fact will earlier.
Govern the Soviet persuado
meni to seck
to end his Kell- imposed isolation."— Reuter.
TWO AIR
CRASHES
(Continued from Page 1) what happened. The statement was given to the police,
Press.
SUM INVOLVED No considerationa 07 Justice alowed to pre. for equity were
vall, ami the very real threat to the personal safety of ou Shanghai mentor matt caused us eventualy to compound the
*** demands
Dunk unjust involved is fortunately not of i
importance,
There is nothing of importance to add in what I told you last var about the capital and affaire of our two original subsidiaries
Co Shanghau Tug & Liebler 11, is still inoperative, while
GE down business of the Marden & Co.. Lid.. has been the affected by adversely
Inactivity Mocknute and Shanghai
ACCOUNTS
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With regard to the necount
These two items are of stack magnitule that you will expect me to make suge specifr ference to them, and 1 now do So 145 some detail.
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9f the Bure for subsidiaries. spproximately $5 882,700 rezire - sents the actual cost of our holdings in subcharies
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wanted tw operated) in the ited Kingdom, the remaining $1,500,000 being the book value if our holding in subsidiaries in
East. For
thesa 11
which 10- Eastern subsidiaries
ether, have the substantial de- you will posits with us which
side of the other serve on
of and Balance Sheet,
The
use they have other substan-
Bassets.
With red to other invest-
monour themselves 3 regret that it her meats, something under $4,000 have, of course, a claim on our not yet been possible to pre-
friends the
It is fair mathorses
A Consolidated
Balance
Glamorous Grandmother
Grandmother France Charged
With Unleashing "Wave Of Terror"
"I'm the mother of four girls and the grandmother of one"; so said Joan Bennett, at 39 the screen's most glamorous grandmother, who was in London for the Royal Film Show. Miss Bennett wore a guardsman style coat, mink trimmed and decorated with gilt scatter pins.- London Express Bervice.
Israel Urges UN To Abandon Jerusalem Plan
BUT ARABS PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE DECISION
Lake Success, Nov. 29. — Israel today urged the United Nations to abandon the plan for inter- national control over the whole of Jerusalem and to confine itself to agreed measures for the pro- tection of holy places.
Mr Aubrey Eban, the Israeli delegate, told the Special Political Committee that the dilemma which it now faced could be solved only by aban- doning the entire structure of the plan advanced by the Conciliation Commission and "frankly 10 represents holdings in aran
in the En defining the purposes and the obligations of the) dated companies which are quoted on the Hong-
United Nations solely in terms of the protection | cong Stock Exchange. Nearly $1, 100,000 representa general inviat and defence of religious interests."
the entire areu is sit up as nente quoted on other Stock
Earlier, Mr Rouney W.
separɔto body under <lireet Exchange, while the remainder
United Nations control," of holdings in associated Dejany, of Saudi Arabia, consists
Mr Eban, the Israeli delegate, and other companies which are had warned the Committer પણ વuted વા any Stock
Exagainst the postponement before the conclusion of the de- total quoted in of a firm decision on inter-bote, replied The
•hange.
to many of the -rities of the stand of the Israci estments have a book value of
nationalisation. against n 5,380,000,
market
Government on the question of value on the date of the closing four books of some $300,000
United Nations control. directors are
"INSPIRING struggle" less, satified that the total value of fur-all Investments exceeds the book ven-value as given in the Balance
purchasers of the Hoating properly, but
I give Sheet Instance lo indiente The co-pilot finished by asking you this
the difeules under which Taking the P&L Account someutic to phone his wife in
North 15 con- the very large item of over Fort Worth, Texas, and tell her business in the
$8,000,000 includes a substantial okay."-Associated ducted. "Phot Four
that the dividend from the Shanghal Tu represen now to have & Lighter Co., Ltd.,
profil accumulated the situation in hand and would ting
of course not likely prevent this in themsely a prob bly
Его рану мирот to be repeated, nor, milar viltevious demands, but
f the last item of over $2 850.. the regulations which prevent or umpede the discharge of labour 600, can such a large profit on the sale of properly be antlel- themselves
Lyons,
French
X
to
LYONS DISASTER
29 Nov.
Will farmers Armed fought through flames today drag about 30 people alive from the upside-down fuselage of crashed Air France Skylanter in which five persons died.
on of the 32 passen- All bul gers were dragged out alive.
Three of the Bve crew menu bers were killed when the Sky. master, which was on a regular Paris-Lyons-Tunis run, hit the top of a tree in dense fog. crashed and burst into flames of $1. Just-et-Chaleyssin, about 10 miles from Lyons.
easily lend
10
the unjust nutting of the in-pated this year. ployer.
On the other side you notice a substantial provision for doubtful debts and a ther provision for joint
and
but
your
Joint Ventures
bv
Our subsidiary in Jajan cou- tinuen is satisfactory propress and Mr E. G. Smith-Wright, who tures. A small figure has been Sheet.
allowed for depreciation cover- It has been considered prudent has had long experience in the East, is in chargs et our wing only office furniture terests there. He and his staff
ameter rars. Our other normally to reduce have been most
energ.ic on depreciable assets consist of land means of a further provision. behalf and AAA taking and bulldings, but these were
INCREASED ADVANCES written advantage of the Improving con- much
down In the fmyn th resulting
conversion course of our An earlier message from Paris ditions said that all those rescued alivo gradual relaxation of restrictions capital after the war and it has
bren considered moro from the plans were seriously upon trading. injured and were rushed to hos-
pital at Lyons.
It
our
It was learned at Orly Airport SIDE GLANCES
that the plane crashed shortly
after taking off from Lyons for Tunis, having left Paris earlier. Six passengers were duo to leave the plane at Lyons, but it was not known if other people The had taken the'r places, passenger 1st contained only French names-Reuter.
New Atomic
Weapons
(Continned from Page 1) check on the explosion by moanz of submarines Bircraft.
Another possible method af checking is by monitoring in- struments which might detect the explosion at great range. Such Instruments probably were used, by the United States in discovering the Russian atomic blast last knuder,
Today's announcement, taken in the light of previous state- ments, Favo definite informa tion that the, weapons to be tested now may be even-batter than
the improved bombs
three exploded at Eniwetok In 1948.
US, Senster: Edwin C, John- Democrat, Colorado, sald non,
television broadcast earlier this month that United States scientists hove developed a homb with six times the Lectiveness of the bomb we ropped on Nagasaki" More- over, said Sen. Johnson," "con- aiderable progress has been mado
development of a super-bombs with 1,000 times the effect of the Nagasaki bamb. *Associated Press.
10:11
of
con-
By Galbraith
COP9, 1968 IN NEÁ JARVICË, MOJ%, 16, REG, JA, B, BAT, OFF,
*I've saved almost enough to get married, but my girl won beauty contest last summer, and I have to wait 11 her popularity wears off even to get a date!".
Saudi Arabia would support any "genuine" Internationalsa- tion, but she opposed the Con- cillation Commission plan.
Mr Dejany said that a course of "inastion and postponement. though not having been sup- ported openly, is being pushed on from behind the scenes."
નr de- The postponement cision until next year was being that "the weight of proposed so that
take place events which will
period will during the interim
prospects In the Current Assets you will stamp out whatever
increase in Internationalization might still see a considerable
have and thus leave no other our advances to associated com- panies and a substantial reduc- alternative to the delegates hut tlon in Sundry Debtors, in addi- to accept the fait accompli." tion to a provision in respect of the latter of around $1.000 000. This was considered prudent In view, among other things, of the difficulty currently experienced
"SHAKY PLAN"
on:
"The
summer. He said that lost when Jerusalem's fortunes "were point in modern at the lowest times," ternel had rallied it into 1 "slow but inspiring struggle for rescue and rehabilitation,"
In the process "a link of duly and sacrifice, of mutual respon- sibility and common aspiration was established between Israel and Jewish Jerusalem.'
"This ilak hag
been now into
Arm 11
aud Indissoluble union," Mr Eban said,
welded
"Remove the full authority of the Israel Govemment from today and this hard-won equilibrium will in-
Mr Dejany went choice before the Committee the New City between a real plan of interd collapse. A hundred
by mms of our Chinese shipown nationausation and the plan adjutantly ing debtors, but since the closing the Concillation
Commission
thousand embittered and dis- franchised people, stripped of of the books some 18 lakhs has The authonues in control of the been received, and much of this Jerusalem area are opposed to their political freedom and their provision may itimately be both. The element of ac vital defence, will be plunged come an addition to our trea
ceptability to these authorities into confusion, resentment and reserves. As was the case inst having thus been dispored of, it fear.
Their tn
deeply cherished yeur the figure for cash in hand remains for the Committee and at banks is substantial. decide on whether it intends to allegiance will be inevitably driven underground, while a reaffirm its stand in favour
new outside Buthority strives
of
ปี
On the other side, capital now the original and more genuin stands at $10,000,000, 21,505 new plan of internationalisation, shares having been issued during to shift to the defective an the year at par, as approved by shaky plan embodied in the re Recommendations of the Conchin- you last year. Exchange serve is unaltered while subjic: tion Commission.
of course to your approval of It is the conviction of the the appropriate resolution when Goverment of Saudi Arabir
n vain to divert their loyalty
and obedience to itself."
Mr
Eban declared:
ourse of our
The
debates has
· Paris, Nov. 29.—Poland tonight accused France of unleashing a “wave of terror" against Polish citizens in France, in violation of the United Nations' universal declaration of human rights.
The charge was written the present situation can be into a note transmitted to liquidated by stages." the French Foreign Offico He added, however, "If I am today soon after the French mis aken about this, the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Government has the necessary
to safeguard Schuman, had said that the terests of France and the pri 12-day-old quarrel between vate interes's of French citl the two countries could be zens."---United Press. acttled without a break ini diplomatic relations.
The note charged that French Government violated in cynical fashion" the United Nations guarantee of the life, liberty and security of a person by round ing up and expelling from France 27 Polish citizens.
French
mcona
the
-
Radio Hongkong
HX.T.
8.00, "Tongkong Calling""
*Pro- "For St. ramine Summary: 0.02,
Утоктальние от Andrew's Day"-A Songs and Musle of Sesiland. The BBC Scottish Orchestra and Solplete. (DBCTS): 630, New Light
Orchestra; 0,40, 175 Symphony
(Studio):
It charged that the police action was a "campaign 7.00. World News And · News
Terry Lucido Quartet. of anti-Pol'sh hatred, a ways of | Aniyata, (London terror and injustice nennst Po- High citizens in France."
The Polish note was the latest move in the diplomatie war which began on November 15, when the Polish authorities arrested Andre Simon Robineau, of
the French Consulate. on charges of espionage.
Uper
7.15 Relay); "Much Binding in the Marah"*** With Richard Murdoch and Ken- neth Burne. Dance Orchestra un- der Stanley Black. ZAB "Generally" Speaking" of Criticism" by Nigel Balchin.
B.00, "rom the (London Relay);
Relay); 3.10....... Editorials-London Record Round-About-Variety No quen Programme. Presented by Jean Halliday. (Studio): 0.10, "Ber vices Spellgbt" Concert by the Band of ist Argyll and Butherland Highlanders endlay from 9 Dragons Club,
Interlude Kowloon); 0.55, 10.00, Radio News Rool. (Londo the arrest of Joseph Szczer- | Relay): 10.15, Weather Ileports
"French vice-consul
10.10 binski, Polish
Cabarets 10.45% Lille. Poland then announced Beethoven's Sonata in C Minor, Op.
Eileen 12. "Paletiqua"
Po 11.05, Stephane Gruppelhe and a Musicians; 11.15, Weather Report and World and Home Ne from Brilat. God Save the King, | London Relay Recorded); 8號
Close Dow
France replied with the ex- pulsion of 27 Polish citizens and
the arrest of several more French citizens.
Earller Lodny, nt a luncheon of French newspapermen, hd Schuman said: "I am confident
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3 COMMANDO BRIGADE. R.M.
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hown that Moslem opinion Le CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
'n no senso united 'in support
of internationalisation at this
time."
The
Committee then', 'ad-.
it is put to you lat-Contin- that nothing that has happen gency and General Reserves ed or may happen could alter hve been increased by $1,000,- the legitimate rights- „-nne|journed--Reuter. 000 and $4,500.000 respectively, claims of the Arabs to Jeru while a Staff Contingency Re-salem,
serve has been created with an "The Government of Saud MORE ARGONAUTS
initial allocation
Arabia, however,
•
FOR HONGKONG
is conscious of $500.000.
of Dia concern which have This last will provide a nucleus
boon expressed here in the For the payment of retiring United Nations and throughout London. Nov, 20. — Lord allowances. pmatons or gratul- the world since the termina- | Pakenham, the Minister of Civil ties and will. I am sure, heartily tion of the mandate over Falesylation, went today to a lunch commend itself to you.
tine and the events which en The Contingency Recurve issued.
with "It #.
great reluctance now.calculated to provido for any losses which might be that my Government now modi erced upon us by political or des its stand in response to the other changer beyond our con- sincere and noble concern which trol, while the General Reserve has been expressed on behalf has been raised to a figure more of millions of people to commensurate with the scope Jerusalem is also helztong Kong and later on fights of our business and operations. "The Government
Built In Canada by the There is a substantial: Carry Arabla la consequently prepared Forward, while the Current o support the transfer of Arab Canadair Company, they have L'abilliles are more than offect authority in the Jerusalem, an: British Rolls-Royce enginer and by the Current Assets, to the United Nations, provided American bodies-Reuter.
at London Airport to celebrate 'he delivery. of Nest of 22 Canadair Argonaut 2 nir'iners sight months ahead of contract..
The Argonauts, 40-passenger by the aircraft, will be used British Overseas Airways Car- noration on routes to India. of Saudi to South America.
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