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Eviction Application And "Shoe-Money"

THAT THE TENANCY TRIBUNAL HAD BEEN MIS- USED, AS A MEANS FOR EXACTING "SHOE MONEY" FROM TENANTS, WAS REMARKED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TRIBUNAL, MR W. N THOMAS TAM YESTERDAY WHEN HE REFUS- ED AN APPLICATION FOR EVICTION BROUGHT BY A LANDLORD.

THE APPLICATION IS FILED BY LI TAI, LAND- LORD OF THE FIRST FLOOR OF NU. 197 THOM1- SON ROAD, SEEKING POSSESSION OF THE PRE- MUISES FROM THE OCCUPIERS, TSE TUNG MUL AND WONG TIKIAN, ON THE GROUND THAT THEY WERE UNRECOGNISED

AND HAD FAILED TO PAY RENT.

Atomic Secrets FAMINE

Nothing could have revealed THREAT

more early the menace that lies

IN CHINA

in atomic oich opery than the revelatus of the Canadian tiny

Chungking, Feb. 20. crament espionage investigation.

Famine, which is already pre- As M Davis, ex American An

sent in parts of China, may be bassador in Alcow, points out,

Complain and¦ Worsine unless special stops are tak a lo control the release of tmo,000 to #1,000,000 Caninese

it

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stupid to be a truck t

The ellents

TENINTS

Hearing of the application was before Tribunal composed of Mr. Tan, Mr. Ngan Shing kwan and Mr. Lak Öl-wan,

The

resisted the oppancuta application, claiming that "appll- cant had refused to accept rent from them and that they entered Into ocupation of the premises in

They further

February, 1945. claimed that applicant bad de-

man led shoe money of $300 as a condition for accepting them tenallis,

Hong Kong Represented

London, Feb. 28.

The food delegations from India. Ceylon, South Africa, Malaya, Hong Kong, Buraco, New Zealand and Austrelia, nae in London, are to meet to-morrow morning "Cereals Committee".

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This was announced tasay by the British Minister of Food, Sir Ben Smith, after ko had met the ludian food delo- gation.

"He added that the demands of the Committee would have to go before the Combined Food Heard in Washingtant Renter.

Man Forced To Strip

Three Chinore, nrmed with revolver, an automatic pistol and a hand wreunde, entered No. 638

Chi Shanghai Street, the Barber Shop, at about 730 p.m.

net night, and got away

of 3600.

of the Soviet Government to all model..., where demobiliation is to Wong, probrietor of the money and jewellery to the valur tain induration, by ai: meat expled within

or trul

Kane

In ad

The next

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matter as months, the Communist new this, etines never were part of the paper "New Chma Daily News"

and honesty mompel, de, declared here today. admission that were roles revers [ "If demubilised soldiers enter ed, both Batish and America the rupal areas, where peasants their lands through thave lost agents wild have been is active

excessive exorbitant taxus, as it is possible to be in Soviet rents, heary debts and demands Rusia.

There is.

in Giet, no of feudalistic landlords, the pre- justit. then f+H revrnulation, valling famine will be nggra Rather ident should pro- vated," the paper said, nute earnest thought on all the implications, with attention seti ously directed towards the wis dom of either sharing the know leder mediately

had

Evidence in port was given

Chenr If Company, tenant of the ground floor for over 10 years, Ins testified that the landlord

alue asked from him $400 for nionev which Was eventually agreed at $260. chairman said that the Tribuna

of

The men gained entrance

The

Decupants

by

cua. were

Readers' Letters Dr. Sun Fo

RUSSIA'S PRESSURE Sir-The collapse of the most powerful war organisations creat- ed by Germany and Japan has failed to bring forth the fruit of national security to its full bloon ink

Today a cloud of another worldly conflagration is gather. Unless it is dispersed or halted in time by the concentrated efforts of all pence-loving nations.

flaming sparks of new negrer ho lon extinguished by the bluntly strong stand of the inojern Turkish lower, may Ignite the

combination foosely-tiet

of the Allied Powers through the mure. paredness of China.

As far as China in concerned. the billions of the peace-loving industrious

common People of China, except a very small per- centare of selfish scholars and politicians and

and stumbles with the heaviness of a pedantry aged.

at least middle- |

Arrives

"Cribbed age and youth can- DR. SUN FO, PRESIDENT not live together," and I doubt OF THE LEGISLATIVE whether your correspondent will YUAN, ARRIVED IN THE ever achieve the new altitude.

COLONY SHORTLY AFTER an amazed to find I am unfor- Lunate chough

RH LBK 11 A.M. YESTERDAY BY "poetic appreciation going no SPECIAL PLANE FROM further than the pre-war Anden."|CANTON, ACCOMPANIED It would be intriguing if BY HIS SON, MR. SUN CHI- sophia" were to tell us who has succeeded in

PING. removing Auden

DR. WAN YUEN- from his present position as len-NING, DR. CHUNG KAL der and progeniter. All present FAI AND HIS SECRETARY, ney writing of

ans worth is in-MR. TSANG. #pired by the vivid, reality of

His Excellency the Comman Image, the strong emphatic rhy- thmic basis which Auden per-der-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, was at the air- fected in the 1030's.

And could "Philosophia" be a field to meet the distinguished fitule more explicit If Auden visitor, and a host of friends,

soldier heartily support the will be A renciionary of toganisations gathered at Queen's

l

which concerns China,

in satisfied is a "revolutionary

nary of to-day who and representatives of local or nmorrow" is it not the same with Pier to extend him a warta wel-

of all revolutionaries....

And come.

The nation that indulges in the

Crabbe

rst. Tomorrow morning

the

10

policy of our Pacific Nationa Governm to build a wall

in China with the sincere

RI volutions

revolutionaries, he Last night Dr. Sun Po stayed and generous co-operation of all must agree are necessary for at Government House Allied Powers that believe the Im- development. The Lake Pocts portance

maintaining the and Shelley and Keats were alluent of His Excellency.

baro revolutionaries (and nil

He is expected to have a busy sncered independence of China s

by

the

Philosophias, the round of social calls and func- meter of pence in Far East, Anyt Lo individual nation, no matter how

followers of their day).tions during his four-day visit powerful it may be, must not be They were the firebrands, the here.

of iconoclasts of the Romantic Re with allowed to commit any arts

To-day he will visit "Duke of violation of the security law colution.

York" in response to an invita- Day Auden, Spender,

Lowstion from Admiral Lord Fraser, Maeneise. (call them the "Pylon and this evening at 7 pm, ne violation of the security of China School" After Spender's well-i

will be the guest of honour at pretending that they were

by its own aggressive note or by known

the completed poem) tomers.

a large dinner party

nt the its forced into the kitchen. A woutan. punnet Fifth Column Forces

present day poetical revolution friend of 1 proprietor, who was commanded by selfish Chinese began by Eliot and Ezra Pound Hong Kong Hotel given by the not aware of the robbers pre-soldiers supported

The Georgian School (Brooke, sence, was robbed of her leveliery students and now unir-sighted and to a lesser extent by Yeats. Chiltese community,

is really undermining and moner when she entered that witower-hunting para-

foundation of its own well-being. Masefield and the other vicarage a.m., he will receive friends and and visitors at the Peninsula Hotel, ridiculed octa) have been on It is indeed deplorable that the

and the next day, he will take Philosophia" suggests I

am eff for Macno, where he is ex- the staircase of No. 450. Reclama- down fall of the military-prepared how with every reason.

and Japan should have norant tion Street, when a tea shop foki. led to act as a mirror of re-the. Georgians and their

Germany

of the manner In which pected to stay for couple of Lo Lee, was strived off his suit floction which clearly demonstrates day imitatore (the

person days before proceeding to his disease and a wrist watch, by four un.

to all mer armed men about 2.16 m. Yeageression by military

men af ra terday.

Lo was grammed by the neck by only digging the grave the not diffent.

.. On the subject of one of the men and taken into the areof. The new agressor themes let's compile a clean, res staircase of the above address, and has evidently overlooked the new en

pectable list. Take any of the trained strength of China and the following: England. the Empire combined new scientific strength and

for it with noble xes- KUK and dying of China's supporters: If that now ture. Preen and sylvan beauty.

un enim, proSDEFOUR living continues to adopt un enim

with no friendly, acts against Ching I can inancial worries

the vicar and

General Morris Cohen was an foretell that it will suffer the fats t ten on

lawn. the vicaruce

Every arrival yesterday with Dr. Sun faster thing deliciously bourgeois and Fa's party from Canton. In Hong Unprepared as China is to-day. ald maidish

absolutely

Keng at the tima of the com.

Dimissing the application, the

The found that the reasons

polient for seeking possessionat. were falee, and had been Made with the object of exacting shor money from the tenants,

ANOTHER APPLICATION Mr. Chung-ling. National

An application for eviction was Government envoy on his return

brought before the same Tribunal from provincial tour recently, by the Shiu Hing Company against stated that Homan Province in Mak Che-kam, in respect of No. Central China was threatened | 137, Des Voeux Road Central. with starvation.

A UN.R.R.A. report from Human last month sald 2,000,000 or one-sixto of the civilians. total populaton of the province, threatened with death has were

Trom famine.-Reuter,

Sheung Shui

Rice Bribe

A Government rice retail shop faki, Cheng Kawong, was summon

17.

third floor.

Mr. M. A. da Silva, for appli- canta, suld that on the pleadings Tribunal opponent before the showed no ground to oppure the making of an order for eviction.

The premises were lot to the On Lok Company and, during the occupation, opponent moved into Possresion. Ouvonent, Mr. Silva Bail, claimed to be a member of the On Lok and that the company was still in possession.

Mr. Silva said that link

to longer made any claim preanises as his tenaney was ter-

Another robbery occurred

forced to strio.

Wo Ping Boarding House Incident

ggressor

the

La

manufacture native village.

commonsense that quickly dying out)

force is their sugar cakes.

kes The recipe is

twice

of Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, by

af

*

General Cohen Here On Visit

Further details of the attesopted the well-trained Chinese forces by now the themes but what encement of the Pacific War in

suicide of Pang Chau-kin at the Wo Ping Boarding House on Tues day was revealed by the police yesterday.

no

the

from the Chinese Army.

two Chinese in military uniforms

American milltary experts, which

and Kwelin strongly defen ell

and

trious

תק

Are

So

there's nothing funny about the | Sort Davison and Opl. Prangle and Hing Company, hearing was ad-lees and was in a very serious nation that can he cally intimid-such. The context, surely, made

atomic boml

Poetic Form

Praya Arrest

JOCKEY'S CASE

Before a Tribunal comprising

| Mesars. Y. K. Kan, Kwok Chan

and Chow Is-ain, an application CN ACTIVITY ON

for eviction was brought by Ll Po-chun against Ng Cheong-dal,

amateur jockey, of No. 23 MARKET

Say Street. second floor.

There wis a fair volume

Tatent

too

December, 1941, he was internod at Stanley for 21 months am was

Stanle

then repatriated to Canada.

Since his return to General Cohen has visited the

Canada,

Ho

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Hite over a week ago and has spent four days in Chungking and three in Canton. He is here for here rain cook.

abort visit, but expecta te be

bastening the work at the Cantritree w kuch is to seek, as a preliminary, safe guards against the use of atomic energy for aggressive ends. That suspicion bereds suspicion never been more painfully demon-

ancestine vulgarity. strated. Anglo-American refusal to share the secret has converted

had already shown their fighting of the treatment, Well, use so Russia to a belligerently suspi-1

power in the recovery of Barn thing pretty or pleasant or well bred, something that will not jar cious neighbour, trusting an-one.

the crack divisions of Japan, nos those old maida' ears. Pang is believed to be a deserter fully supported by the overwhelmus lambics. preferably in penta- United States and England. The Seadow of the bound hung over ever international con

On Tuesday, be was arrested bying maiority of the ever-indus, meters with a nice simple rhyme returned to China via India Ru

onl intelligent common pattern. ference since Hiroshima.

J before Mr. W. II. Immer yes-minated by his election. during

I only wish I had some Geor Dia's security neurosis which is

verday for giving a bribe of $1,000 the occupation. by a notorious nid to be Chinese soldiers, who people of China, in addition to the

rian verse to hand at the mo- causing much alarm through to Sgt. 1. S. Daywon. No. Japanese employed detective, Lai took him to the We Fing Hoarding moral and material support of nil

on Yatrai, Mr. Silva said that Mak House and tied him an in Room wil he definitely too much power mutilata rather than scratch that

Powers that love pence, ment

It would be a pleasure to out the world is its direct pro- Qommando, at Sheung Shul

had left a coolie on the premises No. 405 on the third floor. Fanful for that now actressor to copa glossy surface. Feb. duct. General Eisenhower sug-

Accused pleaded guilty and was in order to force the applicant to managed to break lease. freed

with sinely by its already weuken-

"Death Water" is, of course. the gests that the malaise can be car

Bed $290. Inspeeter White statome to Court and fight the case. himself and jumped over

ed war strength. Following evidence bv ed by patience and humeur. But |ed that the defendant approachod

Koo verandah.

not a "supreme" example of new Chinn to-day is no longer

writing and was not, intended as Shui-ting, proprietor of the Shiu He suffered the fracture of both

wrien

MERC. BANK DIVIDEND offered them $1.000. The inten Lion was to atop the two from con- fourned to Friday afternoon. condition when admitted to theated to vield itself to the show of that sufficiently obvious. It was

major force. What the combin simply a specimen of

The local branch of the Mercan- into tinuing their investigations

Kwong "Wah Hospital,

tile Bank of India, Limited.TM has a both derinany and trouvent and mer thematic ma black, market rice in Sheung Shui,

Japan had failed to overcome the tri

terial employed, An ratified been advised telegraphically by The bribe of $1,000 was ordered

power of reaction that that "Philosophia"

London appreciatexN

Once that a second to be returned to the accused.

brought their ultimate destruction the assonantal rhymes. But what interim dividend of 8%, less tax, and instead of establishing their does he mean by "the words are acain been declared and that po further dividend will be paid whereas New Order dreame to control hold themselves make, the muste for the year 1945.

subservient

they other nations under.

their trip. It is something to be dvwkful

of bringing out unceasing days of of the modern poem. This is A Chinese claiming to be 籍 for that in a period that utiers

W. C. Rung appeared for business done in Chinese national disg

their Swaww.

nonsensical. Surely the statement disgrace and suffering to a formidable choice of pressing travelling trader from

was arrested in Connaught Run Sppiicant. while Mr. E. S. C. currency yesterday. Futures open-own

own innocent common own could a

peoples, applies to all end not only mo- Brooks for opponent.

**A7 topics, supe, of our readers are

ed at IK$3.17 to CN$1,000 and

a new negresalve nationdern poetry. And, In any case. how Castral near the 0.5.K. Wharf Applicant claimed that oppon after dropping to $3.07, buyers dare singly committing acts fin Death Water, too emphatic sparing a moment to discuss peat about 9.30 pm. last night, in ent had taken possession after the cante in with the result that the violation against the security of word music could not be well try. Not that there is any pros passession of a 32 Smith und! pect that the advocates of the dif. Wesson revolver and eight rounds previous tenant. Tane Siu-woon rate at one time touched $3.32. China. now the Barometer of reconciled with the theme. Per-

had vacated the premises, and receiving to $3.20 at the close, Pence in Far East? I ferent schools will succeed in get-

without his consent.

an lambic pentameter.... Opponent's case was, that ting anywhere. The cleavage searched by a Chinese Revenue took over the house together with

he and closed at $3.60.

of that leaders

Bow aggressly Finally, I I am fully aware that Gold dropsed 10 points as com- nation which engenders evil dethe main question today is the outinok is too sharp for any re- Officer. A fully loaded five Tang, a fellow jockev. al thepared with grevious day, signa against the security af next development of the "Pylon sult other than, perhaps, agres chambered revolver was concealed same time and had been in occupa- Opening at 3657 per toel it fell China will quickly realizu it School" It was disgust at that

his girdle. Three additional tion since. Tang, opponent claim to $528 at the close. te disagree, and outside

blunder of aggression, which, in nostalgic Cambridge Dastoral rounds were found in his pocket.

ed, was still in occupation. judgment on the merits of the

US dollars have buyers at the long run, will simnly, repeat which moved me to an attack on Hearing was adjourned to Tues- $5.00, and English Sterling and the mistakes of the greedy ant the Georgian old maids. I will argument will almost certainly be

day, in order that Tang may be Australian nounds at $18.30 anú Aggressive Javanese militarists, not retract. equally divided in opinion. Some

called to give evidence.

$12.80 respectively.

who have brought shame and

What does "Philosophia" think will deliantly uphold the lyric in

Trace to their Emperor and their will come next?

Mean- spired by the beauty of tint and

innocent common peonie,

The answer lies in a modifica- while I sincerely hope that all the tion of Auden's, at times, rather texture in a landscape, taking its session.

peace-loving, nations would halt

lyricism of their narrow-eninded moliticians forced obscurity. with, in its

place. the Intense and economists from

wast Alun Lewis. furth y in the work of thair

Secretary. This will be the now poetry, discrimination between well-known the result of a revolution as im- nations. A discrimin- portant and as far reaching us peace-loving ating policy as preferred by some that which came at the beginningi Abort-sighted politicians is not of the last century.

ing ite only undermining

K. S.. HOPKINS. own security as a veace-loving nation, but also is sowing seeds of discord between. peace-loving nations, which will ultimately cause itself to be the lamb of the blood-thirsting Mon-- Three ster on the look-out for agree

ment

of ammunition. The man

in

was

stopped and

He told the police that the gun

was given to him by a man named Chung, who paid him to deliver the weapon in Hong Kong.

A wallet containing ON$6.000

and ITK$20 was found in his pos-

tradition from Wordsworth, He was detained for further

·Tennyson, Shelley or Brooke, and enquiries. **

CARGO PROBLEM

The master of the motor Junk "Fat Jin", Mak Kwan, was charg ed before Mr. W. H. Latimer

others will not have their taste for the stronger pungencies of the "modern" pect challenged in any Surely the truth is that way. there is still a place for both, that yesterday with carrying 46 pas-A the poet will respond to what sengers without a permit, A fine stimulus is present according to of $100

wns Imposed. the range, and richness of his own Inspector Forster, who prosecut- bold the Court that A/B.

Spot transactions opened at $3.55] hope that the wise and thoselyhaps "Philosophia" would prefer

the

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U.S. Army Medal For British Officer

BRITISH ARMY OFFICER ATTACHED TO H.Q. LAND FORCES, HONG KONG, WHO SAVED THE LIVES OF TWÒ AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO : WERE IN DANGER OF DROWNING AT BANGA-

LORE LAST JUNE, YESTERDAY MORNING WAS DECORATED. WITH THE SOLDIER'S MEDAL, AN AMERICAN ARMY AWARD.

4

ing!

107.

energy

dis-

DUD REVOLVER

sensibility, and that if there are Whitehead. of the Water Police aty depths of feeling to vibrate patrol, stamped defendent's junk the finer strings of consciousness, on Tuesday and found 46 persons the patters is of no more than of on board. Accused enid that they secondary interest. Can it be were the owners of the cargo Hodgman, G.3,0, 2 (Sig.); and entered the water and brought theisturb the peace and recurity of Johnson. F

board. asserted that the discovery of Mr. Labimer suggested that the significance *is bounded by any matter of carrying owners with shire or any theme? Surely not carre be taken with the

Licensing Board. then by theory of construc- tion.

28 Ivor

months' imprisonment with hard labour was Ipposed on Wong Loi, found guilty be Mr. W. However, there will be Httle. II. Latimer yesterday of the un- chance for any new aggreanor to lawful possession of a The officer is Major II. M. R. choppy waters and high winds,

.revolver. all all -peace-loving nations.

Wang was searched by Chinese the investiture was carried out. by nearest man. an American soldier, America. Britain and Chins can detectives in Temple Street and Col. G. R. Hayman, U.S. Army at to the bank. Once again he ensincerely work together to an unloaded revolver was found Flagstaff House in the presence tered the water and reached Dartners as they were when the on him. As the weapon was not of tha G.O.C. (Major-General F. second American enlisted man juat peace and security of the world in a serviceable condition and not W. Festing. C.B.E. D.5:0.) as to was going down, and in face was at the mercy of the world's loaded, the malice told the Court RAF DEMOB, BROADCAST detachments of the No. 1 Com- of the choppy water and high strongest team of military aggres that they did not take

a serious mandos and Royal Signals, and a wind, brought him successful to sors. Let all the intelligent com- view of the offence. Du Munday, Feb. 4, Z.B.W. representative of officers of shore. The horelam' displayed by mon peoples of the thren nations Detective-Inspector. Drury pro-

Major Hedman, reflects

creat Hong Kong will be rolaying from H.

The award was made by the credit upon himself and the arm Pull together as pala of distrena secuted. London a talk by the Under Secretary of State for Air. Mr States Forces, Indi-Burma Thea

Valtoded forces of the Allied Nations." John Strachey. from 9.05

to 9.15 A benmoh sßlos of the

tre, and the citation socompany”. mainly on talic Commaa Cantone bas been

And will contains it roud: established in Hong Kong to exer- detailed answers to R.A.F. quo- | "Major Herbert Malcolm Robert Wong Yan, 30, unemployed, or, not the Atomic cisa cover Chinese troops ons shout release speed the re Hodgman, Royal Bignals, British was sentenced to four months titke shameh, and also to act lame pabes for different trade Army. For berol near Belan hard labour by Mr. G. Y. Kwan malainen olon voth the local and socwloon, shipping, GA brides, dur Tank, Bangalore, India on at the Summary Military Court and want, maiton of particular June 24, 1945. Obrarying sink, yesterday, for stealing $8.50 from

BRANCH OF CHINA ARMY COMMAND"

Army Mention

Land

Commanding General,

PICKPOCKET GAOLED

Real Ho Sbal-Tai has | Interest, kde sormlarmen all over || ing boat about 50 yards: from the a Chitose in Des Voeux Road'

been apposed head of the branch the world. The relay will be on dans Major Hedeman, despite his Central outside the Wing On actice, a Colonel Lok Lol-tim as 648 kilowyeles and 9.62 magacycles, poor aw gaming ablid and Company, Inspector: H. Bell prose

the risk of his own life in the cuted aga

OF

In war, and stop ali acts of die- crimination, * qumaerelally socially between themselves. That is the riche policy to stop the birth

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CLUBJAN-UP FÁB RASIHAN BHIPPING AGENCIES

The fast day of business of Far Eastern thipping" Agencies (except for accounting) wid be There Saturday, 2nd March. after all snipe' business will be transached by the respective in- |dividual Gwnam' Agants. S

`TALLY MAN CHARGED

35-year-old tallymas, Liu Sia-kl. Was charged with Dosse sion of two rifles on board a motor: Junk at Connaught Road Central

The Accounting Department near the Chuen On Wharf on Feb. 17. before, Mr. C. Y. Kwan at tho will remain to the penent Summary Military Court yester Accounts Office on the first vor, Sirf I Maped into print day an

Union Building,, to deal with with breathtakine imbetuosity" Defemiant was arrested on in PORRENTOERciare the the bawa the was because of my youth. The formation and was commanded anonymous "Philosophia" lipe | three days for further enquiries.

MODERN POETRY

arisan prior to 2nd Marol.