1938-03-08 — Page 13

MSELF

OLICE

$ 19 before Mr. R. Ea

tral Magistracy Colony without a ad with failing to of $7.70. He was with vagrancy.

-was this

1 said defendant port not valid for

travelled from ghai and, when asked if could

was

SOCIALISTS MEETING

VIENNA

Vienna. To-day.

The first public Socialist meet- ing in Vienna for four years was held in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna last night, when 500 factory delegates, many of them just released from concentration camps, demanded freedom - for workers as a condition of sup- porting Chancellor Schuschnigg against the Nazis-Reuter.

told "No", NAHAS PASHA

to Shanghai. He Femainder of his

Hong Kong PELTED WITH

employment there.

f

up to the Police

bat went round, before he reached: thad no money to

LOCAL COMPANY TEST CASE

The China Emporium test action, stated to involve over $10,000, was continued before Mr. Justice R. E Lindsell this morning, when expert evidence was given by the Rev. R. Wells.

The employee, Cheng Pik-sun. is re- presented by Mr. W. A MacKinlay, fand Mr. M. W. Lo appears for defen-

dant company.

The claim is for balance of wages said to be due to plaintiff. It is alleg ed that some time in August, 1934, it was verbally agreed between plaintif Jand defendant that as from August 16. 1934, a sum equivalent to 20 pe cent of plaintiff's wages would be re tained by the company and repaid if land when the company made profits.

PELTED WITH EGGS Plaintiff was dismissed on August

AND TOMATOES

Cairo, To-day.

31, 1936 and -claimed $465.47 as 5a- ance of wages from August 16, 1934 Lo August 31, 1936.

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The Rev. H. R. Wells said he had been a member of the Board of Exam- 401 iners of Translators for the last years, was once instructor of Can- onese at Queen's College and the University of Hong Kong, and was, at present, a joint translator of official, despatches to the Government.

the Seventh Day Nahas Pasha, the leader of the d him in the mat-Wafd party, was pelted with toma rench Mail were toes, eggs, shoes and stones by a

e him back to crowd when he left a Mosque in He testified that the Chinese char- the province of Behara yesterday- acter Po" which had been translat order was made Police had to come to his aid, led by the Court Translator as "res- e first count, on arresting thirty demonstrators, ac- tore" meant literally repay."

he was commit-cording to a report in the news-aess's opinion, after reading the do of Detention. paper "Mudir.”—Trans-Ocean-

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ment, was that it meant that the deducted part of salaries would be re- paid. It would have been pointless to tate in the document that employee would not be entitled to claim the reduced salaries if they were dismiss led or left the Company before busi- Iness improved, unless there was in-

tention by the company to repay.

In answer to the Puisne Judge, wit. Įness said the document was an unquali- fed promise to repay the deduction in salaries..

The case was adjourned to March 15.

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