1940-03-28 — Page 20

SOVIET STEAMER DETAINED

steamer Detention of the Soviet "Vladimir Mayakovsky" in the North of the. China Pacific, by a vessel Squadron, has been officially revealed in London, according to a Reuter re- port delayed by the censor this morn- ing.

The vessel is reported to have been carrying a cargo-of nickel and moly- bdenum, shipped in North America and consigned to Vladivostok.

She is being detained in British waters pending examination

ties.

BELLIGERENT RIGHTS

of her

London, To-day.

Commenting on the detention of

Ubery, Saprono

DESTROYER EXPLOSION

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Paris, To-day.

The Navy Ministry-regreta to announce that an explosion

*La curred on board the destroyer Ralliouse" while the vessel was lying in port.

Seven are dead wounded or

for-Havas.-

and several not yet accounted

SHANGHAI'S LOSS OF

POPULATION

Shanghai, To-day.

Owing to the present high cost of

now

NATURAL

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1940

as near to Nature as is desirable are

Sir William Crookes' lenses.

Something to offest the harmful glaro. la necessary but you don't have to have the whole landscape darkened like a rainy day to do that.

Wear Crookes and know what real syd-comfort means.

STOP PRESS

Moving the new Telephone Ordinance In cargo by contraband control authorl-living the population of Shanghai is Legislative Council this afternoon, the Hon. only 3,890,000 compared with Mr. H. R. Butters, Financial Secretary. over 5,500,000 two years ago, accord-said, in part:

The present B gives effect to negotia- ing to the "Sin Wan Pao."

ed and practically brought to conclusion by The reduction is said to have been tions with the Company which were initiat caused by the steady exodus of poorer Mr. Caine, with a view to removing ob nativejectionable features in the Ordinance and classes of Chinese to

of the exorbitant at the same time securing higher royalties villages because

arrangement incorporated in the present prices of daily necessaries in Shang-and other advantages to Government. The

Bill is as follows:-- hai-Reuter,

the Soviet steamer Mayakovsky, which was.

Vladimir seized

by a British warship somewhere while en in the north Pacific

to route from the United. States

Vladivostok with a cargo of cop- per about March 15, W. N. Ewer, writing in the "Daily Herald,"

says:

"The Soviet Ambassador in Lon- don has already protested against of the Russian the detention

Kong steamer Selenga at Hong with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolfram, and he will

doubtless

protest about the Vladimir Maya- kovský, but we are well within our belligerent rights and orders "have been given to the Fleet in stop contraband the Pacific to

traffic from the United States to Germany via Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian railway, and these orders are being carried out.

"It is a symptom of the straits to which Germany is being re- duced that she should be trying

ANNOUNCING

THE

ARRIVAL

OF

NEW SUPPLIES

DAKS

OF

their

BRITISH TEA CONTROL

London, To-day..

The Ministry of Food announces It has completed arrangements for the import of sufficient tea in the " next 12 months for home consump- tion and normal re-export trade..

...Importation of tea concerns is forbidden except un- der licence which is sparingly granted, Government supplies will be drawn only from the Empire. -Reuter.

by private

and to get metals by this long grotesquely expensive route, but it is now going to be stopped.

"The guard on the Pacific route will is being strengthened and very soon be entirely effective.”- Reuter.

THE PRINCE OF SLACKS FOR MEN

The Company provides Government freo for Government purposes up to 500 lines and

branch of charge with a telephone service arranges for the necessary change in a place sufficiently protected from possible air raid damage.

This exchange has been constructed In the basement of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building.

The modernisation

of the

LX.

Government

Lazarus

OPTICIAN

TEL. 20022 or 33993

London, To-day.

"The Times" diplomatic corres- pondent says M. Ivan Malsky, the Soviet Ambassador, called on Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secre- tary, yesterday afternoon for the first time since relations became strained through the Red Army's invasion of Finland.

Immediate occasion of the visit was probably the British deten- tion of the Soviet ships Selenga and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

The Soviet contends that their ships are State ships, to be treat- ed differently from privately own- ed vessels, and that in any case the cargoes would not leave the

Reuter.

system, which is obsolescent, would In Soviet Union. volve considerable expenditure and in tech- nical grounds it is desirable to amalgamate the Government with the Company's “zy“ stem. The provision of this exchange re- presents a capital saving to Government of roughly one-quarter of a million dollars." Also a discount of 25 per cent will be al lowed Government on the standard rate of subscription in respect of any telephones

connections in excess of these 500 lines. Arrangements will be made later for the Company to take over other Government services when it is possible to obtain the necessary equipment, and until this mat- ter has been further discussed from the technical angle it is difficult to estimate the ultimate saving to Government in respect of recurrent expenditure and personal emo- luments, but an appreciable saving, is' an ticipated in respect of both.

Also an additional royalty of one half of the over and above the surplus profits amount required to pay a 12 per cent divi- dend off the paid up capital shall be pay able to Government. In order to avoid double taxation the Company is permitted to deduct any amount payable to Govern- ment by way of taxation on profits from the net annual profits of the Company be

this fore "surplus profits are assessed for purpose. This is based on the Analogy of the treatment of such other utility” came to Government panies as pay a royalty which will be permitted to deduct the roy alty from their profits before such are as-

I..! sessed for purposes of war taxation.

will be observed that the remaining half of the surplus profits remains at the disposal- of the directors who need not necessarily employ it for the purpose of increasing dividends.

will apply retrospec This arrangement lively to the year 1939, so that Government to may anticipate a considerable addition the royalty otherwise payable in respect of that year. It is felt that Government, as representative of the whole community, has aprice claim to a share of the surplus pro- who ats in preference to the subscribers already enjoy a remarkably cheap rate of subscription, an

In perusing the Hansard account of the first reading in this. Council of the Tele phone Ordinance, 1933, one meets frequent tributes to the ability and tact of Mr. Tag gart who conducted the final negotiations

THERE IS NOTHING in connection with the foundation of the moter and is the managing director, and I SO PRACTICAL AND Telephone Company of which he was a pro- IN should like to record that the Government COMFORTABLE

representatives in the prezent negotiations AS with Mr. Taggart have again met the same THE WEARING.

high qualifles of vision and breadth of judg THEY DAKS.

ment, to which testimony a borne by the GIVE THE MAXIMUM OF success of the Company and the service it

has rendered, to the Colony,[{ EASE AS ALSO OF THEIR PRIDE IN POSSESSION. CUT & FROM FASHIONED SUPERB MATERIALS.

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW ABLE TO SUPPLY THESE IN ALL SIZES & IN A VARIETY OF FABRICS IN GREY BROWN, FAWN, AND GREEN FLANNELS, GABARDINE CRASH, COR DUROY AND TROPICAL WORSTEDS.

IN A FULL RANGE OF SIZES, WE ADVISE AN EARLY VISIT

WILLIAM POWELL LTD.

10 ICE HOUSE, STREET

It was revealed in Legislative Comell this afternoon, in n letter from the War Office, that the cost of the Garrison for the Army financial year, April, 1938, to March, 1939, was £1,616,908, ex- ceeding the Colony's contribution by £1,228,890. In the previous year the cost of the Garrison was £1,551,508, exceeding the Colony's contribution by £1,188,628.

Ottawa, To-day.

Mrs. D. W. Neilson, Unity Party candidate and the mother of three children, defeated the veteran Liberal, Mr. C. R. McIntosh, at North Battleford, Saskatchewan, In the General Election. She will be the only woman member of the House, as all other women candidates were defeated: tér.

Reu

London, To-day:

occurred 2. Of Harrison,

The death' has Major-General H. C. who was stationed in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1937 as G.8.0. 1. He was extremely popular In all circles in the Colony,Reuter.

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