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RECEPTION AREAS ARE 15 TIMES SAFER

LANDLORD CLAIMS POSSESSION

A claim for possession of No. |297, 'Queen's Road West, was heard by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Macgregor, in the Supreme Court this morning when Cheung Yue-dai, administrator of the estate of Chung, Man-kim sued Lugn Fong-tim, tobacco mer- chants, for recovery of the pre- mises and mesue profits..

Plaintiff was represented by the Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada, instruct- ed by the. Hon. Mr. M. K. Ló, while defendant was represented by Mr. Eldon Pottter, K. C., In- structed by Mr., B, C. Hobbs.

Plaintiff claiming, recovery of the premises, contended that de- fendant held the premises on lunar monthly tenancy at a rent of $230 a month, and that the tenancy was determined on Febr- uary 29, 1940.

Defendants deny that they hold the premises on a lunar monthly has tenancy and that. tenancy been determined as alleged. They declare that on or about March 17 plaintiff, in consideration of pay- ment of a monthly rent of $230, and in consideration of a loan of $430 made by defendant to plain- tift, leased the premises for two

years,

Alternatively, defendants claim NAZI RAIDS OVER Britain show that the re- that the premises are used as a dwelling-house within the mean- ception areas are 15 times safer than the evacuation ing of the Prevention of Eviction areas, according to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Min-Ordinance, and crave the Court to exercise its discretion in favour of ister of Health.

defendant' by refusing to make an for possession on the grounds that such an order would

"In the boroughs every enemy bomb has, on the order average, killed or injured three people," he said. "In be a great hardship on defendant. the rural districts it has taken 15 bombs to kill or injure three people.

"It is actually 15. times safer to be in a reception area than in an evacuation area though I have to admit in all honesty that every bomb which has fallen in the countryside has also killed 1 of a hen and of a pig, .01 of a sheep, .006 of a cow, and .0007 recurring of a rabbit."

Mr. MacDonald, who was speak- ing at a luncheon of the National

IN GAOL,

WANT TO

JOIN UP

Notice To Quit Bad

Mr. d'Almada said that plaintiff,

had. who owned, the premises; made, arrangments to lease, them to another party and had written several times to defendant asking for possession, but received no answer.

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In July, defendant requested further time to enable him to and suitable premisas to which plaintiff agreed and accepted one the

Convicts and prison-month's rent, which made

to quit bad. Defence Public Interest Comers in British gaols who

Later, defendant was informed mittee in London, said no part of want to join up in the that circumstances entitled him to the country was absolutely safe, Services, for the duration the protection of the Eviction of the war and then go

but there were degrees of safety.

Ordinance.

"It is still possible to state with absolute confidence," he said, back to prison, have tried Recently, there "that people in certain parts of petitioning

the country are much safer than

people in other places and, gen- Secretary. erally speaking, it is still desirable

the Home

was another meeting at which defendant re- quested further time. Plaintiff knew that the new leasee would be able to wait and granted till

to shift considerable parts of the It has been stopped now, but the Chinese New Year. population who are not associated there were many prisoners who with essential work

to join the Army from two wanted

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'Enormous' Evacuation

The first type consisted of those areas most likely to be the scenei of an attempted invasion.

Regarding the loan of $430, or that had been repaid and there All promised to return at the was no agreement for a two year and of the war to complete their lease, interrupted sentences.. Some even offered to find surety on

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A number of fokis were. living

bail to guarantee their return. on the ground and first floors of the premises. while. the other The answer to their petitions floors were sublet and used as a Steadily that movement of was "No," and the Home Office dwelling. A partner of defendant lived on the premises at evacuation had been going on.makes it clear that a convicted firm He could not reveal the figures of prisoner çarı, do nothing about times. those moved, but they had reached military or national service un- "enormous dimensions."

til he is released from gaol..

Secondly there were the great - Can't Be Called Up

industrial centres where the pro-!

duction of implements of war was Hundreds, of men in prisons proceeding night and day and have registered with their age which were most likely to be the groups; they filled in forms of targets for vicious and sustained registration at the prisons; but air onslaughts.

cannot be called up under the Act until they are freed.

During the last six weeks the Ministry had taken from London and from a cluster of towns on; the North-East Coast and from certain":"other

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In prison the men are doing war work as they did in the I last war.

areas 220,000 A former prison Governor told

schoolchildren and had scattered a reporter: "There has been no

Mr. d'Almada pointed out the provision in the Ordinance that it a tenant sublets his premises, the

part used by him as a shop and not a residence, is not protected.

Case is proceeding.

BOATMAN FOUND WITH MAUSER

them through the rural counties compulsion in prisons about re-] A boatman, Lam Ching, from Northumberland to Corn-gistration, but in my old prison, was charged before Mr. H. G. wall.

I am told, every man, registered Sheldon, K,C., this morning, with with his own age group.

unlawful possession of a Mauser "There must be many who pistol and seven rounds of am- would be willing to answer the munition at Hennessy Rodd yes- call just now, when every man terday lis wanted, and the mon may feel Detective Sub-Inspector W. N. Dakin asked for a 48, hours? re- "out of it all."

mand for further enquiries.

FAILED TO NOTIFY POLICE

EXTENSION OF SPITE LAW

NEW R.A.F. TARGETS Germany Is buying vast quan-

the

Mr. Richard S. T. Pigatt, of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, North Point, was summoned be- fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon, R.C., this morning, for failing to notify his (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") tities of cement from Switzerland departure from the Colony with The French Council of Ministors and other places to build In- in the prescribed period, on June in Vichy yesterday announced the numerable slipways along

extension of the law of July 23,Atlantic coast from Narvik to Det.-Sogt. J. Headridge said providing for the denationalisation France because of the damage defendant left the Colony some of Frenchmen who left Branco done to airfields by the incessant time in June, and did not report without permission during the hammering of the R.A.F., accord- his departure.

parlod May 10 to June *3,' ing to reliabló cómmercial sources Havas. Defendant was fined $10.

in Zurich.