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STILL FOGGY "Confusion in French-politic has certainly not been eliminated by the result of the elections, though it may not have been worse confounded. The first other than provisional Assembly of the Fourth Republic is not materially different from its predecessor. Á Left-wing combination of Com munists and Socialists would not former nosed out the M.R.P. in command a majority; though the

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946,

How Rent Control Has Worked In

Hong Kong

Following is the text of Mr. come into operation on the 22nd (a) the applicant and/cs M. W. Lo's report to the Rents [October, 1946, .

Topp:nent appeared “: în pay we Committee on the practical The following is a summary(and, : working of the Landlord and of the Proclamation and its | Tenant Proclamation as amend- l effect:

(b) where they were repre sented by solicitors lans ed by the Landlord and Tenant Article 1: The definition of follows: (Amendment) Proclamation "premises being deliberately (a) Applicant and/or and the Law Amendment wide, business premises as well ponent appeared in persoa |~{(Transitional Provisions)....0% as residential premises were

Kowloon " Hong Kong dinance, 1946, and the Regula-included. Tenants of business 404

50% tions made thereunder.. premises were not protected by

(b) Applicant and/or up- For

a proper consideration pre-war legislation, The Pro- ponent represented by solicitors of the practical working of the clamation has thus conferred on Hong Kunr.

*Kawlcon Proclamation, it is desirable to them a great benefit.AZ

60%

50% landlord and tenant: (1) pre- have in mind the position of

Article 8. This article is war (1) during the Japanese occupation and (3), after the

did not recommend. rent

this is that until rent is varied Article 2. (a). The effect of

under Article 4, a landlord com- mits, an offence under Article 8, if he demands or receives more than the rent allowed un- der this article. But very few cases of variation of rent have came before the Tenancy Trl

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lony's liberation. - Due to the influx of refugeas to the Colony from China, there was a continuous rise in renta and a popular putery ensued. In 1938, a commission was ap-bunals, while it is notorious pointed by Government to on that large numbers of tenants striction. In spite of quire into the matter. but it have paid and are paying rent in excess of the rent payable thia, in December, 1941 the race to be the largest single however, the Prevention of Article 2 (b) and Article party. Any combination of other Eviction Ordinance 1938 Was This is an attempt to deal with parties would also have the passed, followed by the Fro- the problem of the "Principal greatest difficulty in command- clamation of Eviction Consoli-tenant" and was intended to ing a stable majority: If there is dation and Amendment. Or benefit the poor class of tenants 10 be any division between Left finance 1959 which was extend- occupying cubicles. But from and Right, the balance will bend to the 1st June, 1942, by an all reports, the principal ten- held by M. Herriot and his Radi der these Ordinances (which sub-tenants are paying more Ordinance passed in 1941, Unants have ignored Article 3, and cals, who have made the largest did not apply to business pre than their proportion of the proportional gains of any party, mises), the right of a landlord legal rent. though, curiously enough, their of a dwelling house to recover

Article 4. Up to the 8th total vote has declined. The chief possession was restricted in October, 1946, the total number edly the rather heavy losses sus given to the Supreme Court ta 56, 37 of which were granted, ained by the Socialists. In the decide whether any proposed and 19 refused. The number of former three-party Goverment increase of rent was fair and applications to apportion rents they held the centre position, and reasonable and to decide what was 3, 2 of which were grant- have suffered the usual fate of was fair and reasonabio, rented ation for variation of rent centres in anxious times. But March, 1941, by

According to a census taken in plication for variation of rent the Hong deserves some consideration. A France will still have to have a Kong Air Raid Wardens, the business man wished to rent a coalition Government, whether in the Colony's population was as godown for a year and wax the form of another three-party follows:-

prepared to pay double the pre Government; or of that Govern-

war rent. An application was ment with the addition of the Radicals: or of a Popular Front Government-the latter on the unlikely assumption that the Radicals are more likely to co- the Socialists than_with operate with the Communists and other

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

By Proclamation 26 made on the 1st March, 1046, a landlord is entitled to recover possessinu for his own occupation or where the tenant has assigned, trank ferred or sub-let the premises without his consent subject to the limitations, therein provid- ca. Many applications have been made by landlords under this Proclamation.

From the point of view of landlords, the Landlord and Tenant Prociamations (a) hav; restricted their rights to re-d trolled rent. It may be said the benefit of the controlled cover possession and (b) con-t that the Proclamationi has been rent to sub-tenants.. effective in regard to (n) but lerds have evaded the provisions in practice unscrapulous land-

of (b).

From the point of view of tenants, the Proclamations have conferred on them two benefits: (a) security of tenure (b) con trolled rent (in some measute). As regards (a) there is no doubt that but for the Procla- mation, there would have been a wholesale eviction of tenaats. As regards (b), it would ap-

"Business must be looking up—he isa't sleeping as rest

lessly as he used to!”:

In conclusion it may be stated that Froclamation No. 16, ad- mittedly, a piece of experimen tal legislation, has been succeн- ful in conferring security. tenure an tenants, and in pre- venting landlords from over

of

"TROPICAL SOIL

By H. W BLAKESLEE

charging their tentints in occu- pation at the date of the Pen clamation, but persons not ten. A report that in north of ants at the date of the Procla- Stockholm the Swedish Govern mation have not been able to ment has created some tropical obtain a tenancy at the pre-soil that doubles the size of form of key money.

709,29% made to sanction this, but it pear that principal tenants, gen war rent without paying some tomatoes and prag was made in..

581,043 was refused and on appeal, the 154,000 declaion was upheld. 110,000 Article 5. This article has 85,000 enabled a landlord to get rid of occupiers who have no claim as tenants. Up to the 8th Octo- ber, 1946, the total number of applications for eviction

1,639.337

Total:

During the first sight or nine

rent, but in most cases they

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crally speaking, have not passed.

New Forces At Work In Portugal

country's major factions ex-

KAMA MTselves.

The so-called "Republican".

Salazar would reinstate the

Monarchy.

Chicago recently by Dr.Gustav Egloff, world famous petroleum chemist...

The tropical aoll is a by-pro- - duet of a commercial plant, getting oil from shale, and Dr. Egloff described it in an inter view at the American Chemical Society meeting,

furnacesThe Government thereupon set up the shale Voll

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE nist forces of the country. The fahrenheit.

By Shepard Barclay

مالي

thrown up in M. Bidault the one months of the Japanese occu- 494. 272 of which were granted} new outstanding figure in French pation, the majority of tenants

and 222 were refused. politics, have suffered from the did no pay any rent. By about October, 1946, the number of Salazar Government in Fortu- Democrats, Socjalistą, Command was forced to burn wood, Article 6. Up to the 8th Trouble for the Carmona, opposition comes from Liberal Sweden had neither coal nor-vib He said that during the war competition of the Right-wing September 1948sone sort of group known as PR. and also compromise arrangement seems appeals was 31 of which 15 from the cold sneers of Gen, de to have been adopted. Rents were allowed and 16 dismissed. gal is not yet over. The regime nists, the Navy, and the Army and that over great piles of Article 7. By virtue of this now seems to be almost sus minority, all demanding "lber straw were fed to Industrial Gaulle. Many will think both were reduced to from 40 to 50 article, five Tenancy Tribunals pended in mid-air, without the lism" these causes of

the diminution o per cent of the pre-war level were constituted, each consist majority support of any of the Monarchist propaganda has their strength to be a pity. In and conferid into Ying of a Chairman and two cept, possibly the Army. And been directed lead against Pre-project, with results that

official rate of 4 to Houses, all the circumstances, their loss fats and business premises other members, three for Hong RENTRAL AIR TRANSPORT CORP of only two seats and of half a

interest to Americans looking were occupied by Japanese, Kong and two for Kowloon one section of the Army, an mier Salazar than for them- Egloff said would be of great million votes is remarkably small. Formosans or their Chinese Special rules of procedure were

By J. M. ROBERTS As a matter of fact, Don forward to a time when shale Even more serious, however, than friends and collaboraters with- made with the objects of en

Duarte Nuno, one of the Bra-will be used for oil. the fogginess of the election re-out the consent of the landlords with applications without being officer group which originally ganza Princes and Pretender to abling the Tribunals to deal

* Four methods were used by sults is the continued, persistence Vacant premises were occupied if abstentions from the polls The without the knowledge or con bound by legal technicalities and installed Carmona as President the throne, has been protected the Swedes to get oil from absentees were not indeed one-sent of the landlords. In most of enabling the parties to appear in 1926, has been reported dis- by Salazar.

The Monarchists have be- shale, three by ordinary mining. third of the electorate as in "the of these cases, no rent

without legal aid, and without affected for some time... WAJ

The dictatorship has been lieved that, in the event of the and the fourth by this system, holes about two inches in removal by referendum on the Constitution, paid, or if it was, the landlord having to pay legal costs at the

diameter were drilled througling caught between Republican aged Carmona's had to accept what was offered. hearing before the Tribunal. but they were not far short of ;

death or other circumstances, Suitable persons from all forces, which refer to it as quarter, in spite of the most fer- Due to the inflation of the Yen.sections of the community were Fascist, and the Monarchists;

25 feet of ordinary soll dow into and through 50 feet of vent appeals, notably from M. landlords tried to increase their chosen to form a Tenancy Tri- which the Government has

Since the present Portuguese underlying shale.de Milk and pre Bidault himself, to vote and failed to obtain a rent in keep bunal Panel. Altogether 62 par- sought for years to hold in

The holes were set in con? : reserve for the time, when it Government was modelled after ceaseless reiterations in the Pressing with the rate of inflation sons have been appointed as that abstention would be a crime. On the other hand, tenants members.

might be forced to fall back the corporate state founded by centric circles. Electrical hea

Mussolini in Italy, the stage ters then began warming up the If this proportion reflects, as it took full advantage of the The percentage of applica- upon them.-

would be all set for such a ahale. This continued for may, a recurrence of the disgust situation. They sold their tions were: -

move, by which Salazar could months until the rock was bentë: with politics which was the real tenancies to the highest bidder

hope to rally the anti-Commu-ed to nearly a thousand degrees cause of the undermining of the and fiats changed hands ut. Third Republic, the situation fabulous sums. Advertisements may prove graver than any Par- in the Chinese press for "sale of Flata” by tenants became a liamentary stalemate. All must hope that whatever Government tablishment of the Civil Court common feature. After the es- be formed, it will possess the ad- in 1943, disputes between land- vantage over its predecessor of lords and tenants could be heard being able to concentrate more before a Civil Court, but owing

Salazar has been known as a upon the needs of the nation than to the very heavy legal costs Some pretty big hands get pass-Sitting in the West, Mr. Colyer

realized there was no occasion "benevolent dictator", despite upon considerations of impending and the general reluctance fed by their holders, with aary for hurry after Soulb made his his repression of Leftist acti- elections. The first problems the public to have anything to a bid out at them. In rare in- 2-No Trumps response to North's vities and observers have credit which any French Government do with the Japanese Authori-stances, holdings powerful enough forcing bid. There was no earthed him with doing, Portugal nust. tackle are food for the ties, legal proceedings were to produce a game, without any ly chance that North would pass, more good than any leader of

support at all from the partner and so Mr, Colyer did. Then, modern times. winter and the stability, of the rare.

After the liberation, landlords go totally unmentioned during when the 3-No Trumps reached The Army called him from a frane. These are tasks which it

the auction, until maybe at the him, he doubled just on the hope, military professorship to join pressing problems. All rents very end a double is made by the that some such filly redouble, or the Carmas regimo, in 1926, should be discharged by the or being payable in the depre owner. Funny results come from a pass, might be made by North, and it was the Army which dinary working of the democratic clated Yen, which was declared those cases. That is, funny to the He didn't expect any such thing. supported his assumption of Meanwhile the ground bad system. The success of that sys illegal by the Currency Pro-side that profits from the de-In fact, he expected North to bid dictatorial powers in 1933. been warmed by the artificial tem in providing an effective ad- clamation, most tenanta adopted velopments, but not funny at all ever the double, as, his own hand. But whero Mussolini's cor- heat, Swedish Government ministration is a matter which the attitude of waiting for, o the pair that takes the rap.

told him what type of holding porate state was founded upon cials calculate that this, heat ranscend local interest and Government ruling and refused

North had. He himself was ready the military, Portugal's has al- | will last about thirty years bes to cut in at spades over what ways been civilian. Salazar's fore final cooling. And on the boundaries, particularly when It to pay any rent in Hong Kong

ever North did, and perhaps lure concept of the State as the con- s-lls so heated in the last three is on trial in a country whose dollars in the meantime. In

a double of his own positive tra-national force, rather than years, there has been a sur recovery means so much to Europe the absence of a Civil Court,

game. North at the moment ap the people themselves, does not prising increase in sizes of the the landlords had no effective S. A K ́QJ a whole. It would not be legal means of recovering pre

parently forgot he had forces exland to the personification of vegetableregly, tina far digleleeni plines satisfactory if resort had to be mises

20 8.7.67

South's No Trump bids occupied by "nun H. None.

the state in the leader which are d nade to the experiment of 1926, tenanta. On the other hand, D. None

Mir, Colyer was of course de has characterized other dicta- Careful Swedish surveys, Dr. namely, the calling up of an elder tenants were in a precarious C-AK 432:

lighted by North's redouble, then torships.

Egloff said, showed the pre- statesman from retirement to save position, The Prevention of

ren 10, tricks, and East took the... His idca, Is maximum effec- sence of uranium in the shale the franc even if there were Eviction Consolidation and

11th. You figure out how many tiveness. With the minimum of and a slight amount of radis- points that produced.

political fireworks and no mili- activity. He declared the, today a Poincare in the offing. Amendment Ordinance 1933 |*;..

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for such a part. His recent inter form of tenancy in the Colony) nerable.) ventions in politics and his pre by a month's notice and could North at all until the Constitution is eviction order on the sent attitude of refusing to play have proceeded to ahtain an 2H

amended do not seem very happily establishment of the Civil Rdbl conceived. It is probable that if Court. Although the population he had thrown the great weight had been reduced to below half ported by a trustworthy player. of his influence into some more million, it was apparent that you could hardly believe that constructive scale the results of with the anticipated return of anybody in the world would reCAA03 the elections would have been less the former Inhabitants to the double in North's position with indecisive. Possibly the results Colony the demand for accom- his kind of hand, after the bis- themselves by their very uncer modation would be great.ding that had been done, t

• It was therefore E matter of Julian 8. Colyer, of Larchmont, fe tainty, may give in second urgent necessity that come N.Y. recounting the story, ex-GR thoughts. Meanwhile, France emergency lexislation should be plained that it was very late in must do her best to extract passed Immediately to clarify the session, and that North, while stability from uncertainty, and and regulata 2119, i position of ordinarily, e quite brilliant play. all must, hope that it will be a landlord -- and --4

impetuous type who What opening bid would you good best

Procismation

cted on tsnap judgment breter on South's hand! Why

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South. Neither

Monarchists have been free to

At that stage the Swedes be spread their propaganda in Fortugal, whereas the Socialists gan drawing vapour from the and other Leftist groups have heated shale rocks. The vapours been forced to operate under- were brought up from the ruck ground.

by small pipes set in the Cen- tres of the concentric heating circles

p

These vapours, piped to collector and treated, yielde gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil and pure sulphur and some valuable by-products

The yields of gasoline vapour continued for about two month and then the area was finished.

| He got into trouble. In 1986 though they have not obtained

and there almost was a revolt any thus far. They also calcu=> then, when his Government ap-lated; he said, "that the mudið. peared to be leaning toward activity in some way combined the Fascist forces in the Span with the heat to enhance the fali civil war, He was under production of the olf vapours. widespread attack Inst year Mining methods crush, the when he ordered "Free" elec- shalu, and cook out the oil, Dri tions which, however, came of„Egloff reported... Ture sulphur. so quickly that the Opponitión is made as one by-product. That groups were unable to organise residue eft after the oll, la) their forces and refused to extracted le being considered participato, k

*(for making bricks, - fockwool- Now he is caught between like Insulation, and for other forces which have been, whiring | purposes NCHE about Portugal all during the Dr. Egiott said that at pres war when the country became seat oll prices,

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