1948-10-22 — Page 3

THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22.. 1940.

STI SHOWS CREDIT Film Magnate

OF $40,822,513

nat, credit of HK$40,822,513.20 was shown in

15 Suspenso Accounts of the Hong Kong Government at the end of the, 1946-47 finan- cial your relating to financial transactions of the Department of Supplies, Trade and th dustry.

None of the balances of these accounts was, how- ever, reconciled with the departmental records kept by the S.T. and 1. Deportment of March 31, 1947.

This disclosure is included. The discretionary authority al- the Report of the Director of lowed the Director for recruit Audit, Hong Kong оп theme of, audit of the accounts of Bong temporary staff:

Kong for the financial period · ended March 31, 1947.

and salaries paid to.

Welcomed

No Solution In Taxicab Strike; Both Sides Firm

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Unless either of the parties in the month-old taxi- cab drivers' dispute approaches the Labour Office for intervention, there is no hope of a settlement.

Goth the drivers and the managements are stand- ing firm and are 'refusing to compromise, The managements have flatly refused further negotiations. The drivers are consistent in their demands that the companies, not in- volved in the strike, should put their taxicabs back on the roads:

efther dispute.

A Government spokesman told the "China Mall" yester Without Remuneration

day that the Labour Office will Authority for the employment Throughout the Report, thi

Intervene If approached by at a Ren Controller wihout re- ext Director

Audli rriers toi

muneration

of the partics in the certain and

olher ungutisfactory accounts Rept by officers on a part time basis: different governmental depart-

Motion picture cireles in Hona | Fileder Films are the exclusive Covering authority for the sup-

Current rumours say that Com ments, misallocations, Dubtly

Alex services to be arranged Kong gave Mr. y of

Frieder distributors of Republic films in munists are behind the drivers. funds spent without prior and otherwise than by tender through (left) a cardini welcome yester-the Far East. Their Hong Kong Some omcial circles subscribe to proper approval, and confchels

this view. An absorver of labour the Tender Board;

day on his arrival from Manila gent is Mr. David Odell, Ogreemenik

enteredt

The meteority of the Director by Pan American Airways plune.

in without culling for publte tenders to exchange four and rice, up-

Mr. Frieder, who had been a the Colony, however, discarded Mr. Frieder, who is Presblent frequent visitor to the

the view. Referring to the Suspense Ar-

He said that he has so far not public.

other rice and the U.5.A., and, a member of of the Suspense Accounts operation for antcful lusses on such the Board of Directors of Republie

cadership or directorship in the eschanges to be borne by public Pictures Inc., U.S.A., is on a visit

drivers dispute. by the Department

uf Supplies, funds:

Lo his Far East ofees, and his Trade and industry, had been

The authority for Government stay in the Colony is for only

and

into

counts Section of the Report Thparently obtaked for distribution of Frieder Films of the Philippines since before the war, sold he was observed any signs of Communist

Director of Audit said that one

105

for

approved by the Secretary ATT to undertake the financing of few days,

State.

He added that an examination of the Suspense Accounts operatvil by the 8.T and Department showed

over the that receipts' period under review totaled HK$170,091,395.71 and payments JIK#120,268,882.31.

Exceeded Total

The totul payments made on the authority of the Director of the Department exceeded by more than HK$13,000,000 The total voled

expenditure (including Loan expenditure) of the Cology for the period ended March 31,

1047.

and

trade between Hong Kong Japan through the medium of a

-account with the Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, in Ac- cordance with the terms of the varying arrangements made over the period from December 1946 to date; and

Colony struck by the progress Hong Kong had made since he was last hers. Continuing his tour Mr. Frieder will be next visiting Singapore, Bangkok and Balavia.

I

Alleged Armed Robber Arraigned

The authority for the amount which may be owed to or by the Supreme Commander for the Ng Allied Powers In Japan through the "two-way" account and for the appropriation of public funds involved, in the accumulation of balances owing by the Supreme Comumonder for the Allied Powers In Japan.

Chi-leung alias Ngau Wan alias Li Wan was arraigned before Sir Leslie Gibson (Chlof Justice) and a jury comprising four men and three women at the Criminal Sessions yester- day, charged with two counts of armed rob- bery and demanding money with menaces. The Report said that the view

The Director of Audit added Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr, As- 1GTACT boat came up alongside has been expressed by the than eiled report on the sistant Crown Counsel, assist- Hul'a junk. All the rice on Hull's Audit Department' that It 10

was transferred to this early unsatisfactory that the napełni operations and account- led by Detective Inspector W. Junk ing methods of the Supplies. Wall,

conducted the pro- larger boat.

Hui was forced into the hold his own junk and told to re- moja there all day. When he same on deck again at about 10 p.m. the larger boat had already gono.

expenditure of public funds by Trade und Industry Department the S. T. and Department has been forwarted to the Direc-secution should not be subject to control tor-General of Colunist Audit. A Mr. Blair-Kerr said that the by Leg

Leglatatyre, nor receive the copy was sent to the Colonial complainants were fishermen who approval of the Secretary of Secretory for his information. were sometimes engaged in the Stale.

This report also deals with transport of rice from Chinese The Report sidded that atten- other points affecting the ne-territory to the New Territories. tlob has been drawn to the equal- |counts for the yours 1047-48 and On April 5. Hul Muk-kee ona ly undesirable corollary that as} 1948-49, added Director of Audit. of the complainants, was expenditure is met from surplus

balances and receipts addie:

of

Colony.

the **It of Government

Mr. Powers In Colony

work

On April 8, Hui was on his way of from

Chinese territory to Un Long with 300 catties of rice and me 20 pleuls of unhusked rice belonging to one Tami Yat-kwong who was travelling on the junk

thereto, the extent und nature of the Anancial iransactions of the S.. und J. Department are not detailed in published accounts

the brought to the notire Interesting to the

thus the Acting commerce is the arrival today by Formosa of Mr. Accountant-General has advised NAC from that none of the balances in the William J. Fowers of Frazar & suspense Accounts concerned were Company Inc., New York.

This firm has been interna reconciled with the departmentul record kept by the Sr. and Itional tradera since 1834, and Department at March 31, 1947," before the war has branches in

North China and Japan.

Mr. Powers has been connected with Franzar & Company Inc Commercial Concern ̈·

for the past 20 years and is now The S.T. and I. Department Vier-President, ite to visiting the was authorised by the Governor Far Enst to further business res

ron- |lationship between to be run 28 commercial cern when it was formed on the States and China. handing over of the administra- Fruzar & Company,

added the Report.

the United

Inc., are

The occupants of the amalier proached by uccused, who de- boat, who were still on Hul's manded the sum of $10 from him | Junk, told him to proceed to as "protection

money,"

This Chinese territory and he did sb. amount was paid by Hui, who re- Two of the passengers on Hut's ceived in return, a "protection junk were taken on board tho smaller boat, which proceeded chil"

into Chinese territory.

Hui returned to Un Long, but he did not make any report to the The Eont which accused and lils police at that time. associates are alleged to have used Hui had just reached a apat was owned by another Asherman, about a mile off Chinese territory who was forced to give them the when he was approached by an-use of the boat and to accompany other boat contabing six or seven them, men armed with revolvers and pistols: Hul would say that ac cusco was one of these men

Give Up Rico

Some of the men in this boat

tion by the Military authorities to represented here and m South boarded Hul's junk and demanded the Civil Government on May 1, China and Formosa by George that he and his passenger give up

Lin & Company. 1948.

their rice. Shortly afterwards, a

The Director, said the Report, was given considerable tatitude In the administration of the De- pariment and the normal regulų- tions for financial control were, to all intents and purposes, dispensed with, although the authority of the Secretary of State and the Legislature do not appear to have been sought for these arrange- ments.

In this connection, added the Report, no covering authority ap- pears to have been obtained from the Secretary of State

or the Legislature, where necessary, for effecting the following matters expenditure of public funds by the S.T. and I. Deportment from May 1, 1948 to March 31, 1947;-

BRIDGE HOUSE TRIAL

TO START ON MONDAY

•

Tha Shanghai Bridge House War Crimes Trial will commence on Monday at 10 a.m. at Lyomun Barracks. Lieutenant-General Kinoshita Eiichi and Sergeant Yoshida Bunzo, of the former Imperial Japan- ese Army, will be charged with three specific war crimes.

Overhaul Of Liner

now

Both men will be accused

of having been concerned in

the ill-treatment of John Mar- {

J

---Another-Fishormon

TOL

Mr. Blair-Kurr went on to say that on June 14, another Asher. man, who had just delivered his rice at Un Long and was turning to Chinese territory, was held up in similar circumstances. The proceeds of sale which had been received by this fisherman for the sale of his rice, namely $230, had been

in a bolt. placed in # This belt was stolen by the rob- bers who boarded his junk, 'as also was # sult of clothing.

On August 23.

accused was ur-

rested in the streets of Un Long,

Economic Factors

He added that the demands by the drivers are based on econo mle factors. The drivers, he said, have 'not shown any Indication of I laid down policy--no emplasts- ed policy.

To give an example of this lack of central policy, the observer

tribute rice and other foodstuffs to the families of the

drivers. Each truck carried a largë banner on which was written the name of the organisation distributing the relief goods.

·

On Wednesday, however, one the trucks was approached by the Central police and ordered to Police Station. There the driver was told that regulations govern- ing trucks prohibited the carry- ing of advertisements. warned.

He was

Motorman Summoned For Mishap

A summons against Wong Liu, motorman employed by the Tram. way Company, was heard at Cen-

said · that according to reports tral yesterday by Mr. Hin-shing

which have not been denied, the | La.

drivers' association blamed the Defendant is alleged to have

owners for taking the vehicles off failed to stop when it was necca the roads.

way to do so to avoid an accl- He said that it was obvious that dent. He was defended by Mr. the owners would take the cars Y. K. Kan. Inspeater J. Ferrier off the road in the event of a go- of the trate department pro- slow strike by the drivers, Nosecuted the case.. intelligent Communist would have Inspector Ferrier raid that on blamed the owners as he would July 3 in Des Voeux Road Cen have foreseen the consequences of tral defendant, who was driving a go-slow strike, he added.

from, came behind private car The observer admitted the 900 which was stationary across possibility that some of taxi-the tram lines waiting for other | drivers adhere to Communist traffe to pass, did not stop but Party policy. He, however, could carried, on and bumped into wis not entertain the view that the rear bumper of the car. drivers were being directed by Miss L. M. Kelly driver of car Communists.

No: 009 said that he was driving Seventy-alx drivers of the Star olong Des Voeux Road and want Taxicab Company struck work oned to turn into Wordley Street. September 21 following rejection She was half way adrosz tho of their demand for a wage in- tram lines waiting for a bus and| crease from HK30 to HK$3, and a tram to pass when defondant other privileges.

approached from the West. The f tram and bus passed and as abeja was driving over the lines de- The drivers of the other seven fundant's trom hit her bumper.

evidence Corroborative

was Inxicab companies carried out a

given by Mr. P.. Crabb who said a 40-slow strike which, according that he was behind Miss Kelly. age daily takings in some cases thought Miss Kelly was going to to the owners, reduced the avér- Mr. Ken eald that defendint

warned to drop the go-slow strike. did not stop dead, but by 50 per cent.

The men were drive across the lines and so he On September 22, the owners, down his speed,

slowed withdrew their cars from the

** Mr. Lo said there was a case tá roads.

and answer

the hearing Way The strike and withdrawal of adjourned until October 29, the vehicles from the road affects the livelihood of between 600 and

„Go-Slaw Strika

800 drivers.. Other organisations The ss. Fatsthan brought one of subscribed to a fund to purchano [the biggest, payloads in recent foodstuffs for the drivers. Tram-months from Canton yesterday, way employees, also organised a The China Navigation Steam- Dollar Fund in aid of the men. ship Company's river-stenmer's

Sinbo the strika, & month ago, manifest showed 200-tons of cargo. trucks have been used to dis-land 588 passengers.

Hearing Tenancy

Before Tribunal

on information given to the police. Hearing was resumed before Mr. Percy Chen at the

Three identification parades ware held and accused was identified ns one of the robbers who had bourded the two junks.

After corroborative, evidence was given by several witnesses for the prosecution, the ease was adjourned: until today.

Supreme Court Tenancy Tribunal yesterday of the application for an eviction order against the occupants of 404, Des Voeux Road, West, upon which site an eight-storey building pro- ject is planned by the applicant.

Barquentine Returns

F

The Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada represented the applicant. Llu. Po-shan of 138 Wing Lok Street.

The opponent, Choung Hing-

Charles Losoby.

Cross-examined by Mr. A.H. Basto, architect in charge of the building project, disclosed that applicant had the intention of constructing a 15-storey building et Causeway Bay in addition to a theatin and a few, shops.

As regards the alte at 404: Der Voeux Road, West, Mr. Loschy sold that: Mr. Basto had no right"

tin Watson, William Hutton. Leaving Hong Kong on Octo-gine trouble at Swatow while on and Hens Rechilin, causing her 10 for Vladivostok, the 41-her return to Vladivostok. Bo-wo, was represented by Mr. them physical suffering and ton Soviet barquentine, Sek-pairs could not be made at the The 8,869-ton Dutch liner,, Boissevain accomodation

Chinese coastal port, -Torcing the for 60 resulting in the death of Wil-stan, got only as for na 53 Boissevain, is

under second-class

The liam Hutton passengers.

master of the, craft to return to Swatow,. going a complete overhaul at equipment and fixtures is second-

She returned to Hong Kong on

Tong Kong nh the Kowloon Docks. She is class cabins will also be improv

Kinoshita will be further seTuuesday night for engine re-

The local agents for the craft, expected to sail for

Wallem South ed.

cused of having been concerned pairs.

and. Company, told the “Cliina®_Mail” America in the middle of next Under the command of Mr. A. in the treatment of Mr. Vong,

yesterday that they Commanded by Mr. G. Rochen. month."

V. Luin, the Boissevain arrived at a Chinese civilian resident ef ko, the craft belongs to the do not know how long it will

Fisheries, Ministry of the Soviet. take to complete the repairs... While in dry dock, the vessel Hong Kong on October 16 from Shanghal who has since died.

The ship has 4.220-horse-power: will have her accomodation in- Japan. After disembarking pas-

codeta A third charge against Kino-It is being used for training

Anginc. creased and re-adjusted. Nine-sengers and discharging cargo she shits concerns the ill-treatment of The Sekatan first reached Hona

for the Fisheries Ministry,“ more first-class berths will went into dock for the overhaul the Roverend WH. Hudspeth, Kong about two months ago on a alge still in Hong Kong. On her site in question. Mri Basto replied The luxury yacht, Lanikai 11, is to construet -a-building von the be installed, giving the vessel an- which includes the engines. Henry Forsythe Pringle, Edwin comodation for 104 Arst-class The ship will call it mid-en. Torrent will "breakingin voyages from voyage to Yokohama, the yacht hat he had amply followed in Pliszchgers.

November for South Amerion via liam Johnstone, James

Vladivostok. The all-Soviet crow was forced back once by engine structions. These he received in Robert

trouble, numbera 31. V second class berths Singapore, Maurillas, and South Canning, William Blade Binger,

and twice by bad December, 1947. *** added to give the Africa.

Arthur Vincent Roovey Dean, C.

The barquortina developed on«"""wanther. T

The place at

Bay was Samuel D. Komarell, Patrick Gibbens, Alexander Høindrava,

poses, continued Mr. Basto. An Marria Joseph Boulavitch, Evana

inspection of the site had shown Daw, Boris 6. Frank, Boris Topas,

thai: it was still occupied by an: Erie Davies, J.A: Cook and B.P.

amusement park and some other! Young

people, and that this site was covered by walls, make

toch

Ten new will also bo

BOISSEVAIN

The two accused will be defend-) ed by Mr, Kakehi Masho, barris- ter-at-law of Tokyo. He will be Dexisted

Defence: Advisory Officer, Captain W.ILL Herries of The Royal Sussex Regiment y

by Major D, Clague at the Royal "Artillery #11, prosecute. Witnesses

„prokecullon' Linclude 10.

from

for Shanghal and between one and four from Hong Kong

The War Crimes Court will compris deutiza -Colonel LA Massie, of the Royal ---Scoți Fusillers" (Prakident), "ana Major. B.I. Crâig-lot The Biaffici and Captain HTM McLeod Marijne the Middlesex. Rogiment (ÜLETE-

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The completion of the buildings at Causeway Bay would cost about IX$1,000.000.000.

he

Asked by Mr. Loseby thought the present building at 404° Dés “Voeux"Rosd;: West, war shrafe Mr. Basto, stated that he could not say it was absolutely [uhense a but” that, thereUWAKILAN possibility of the cracks widening on the wall and the trusser holde the root caving in us a result effa typhoon be continuoua, ruina-

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