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Tenancy Dispute Before Tribunal

The proposed eraction of on office building at the present site of 18 and 18A Ice House Street, which would include 35 rooms, at an estimat- ed cost of HK$200,000, was brought before Mr. C. Loseby at the Tenancy Tribunal yestar- day. The Local Printing Press, owners of the premises, was applying for an exemption from the Landlord and Tenants Ordinance and for the eviction of Mr. L. E. Basto, proprietor of the Lebost Construction Company, one of the tenants of the premises, in order to construct the new building.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., In- structed by Me. H. J. Armstrong of Beacons, is representing the applicants. The opponent is

Mr. represented

13. by

A Bernaerbi instructed by MA D'Almada Remclio

The grenands of the application se that the applicante www the owners of EB and 18A blouse Street.

Showman Leaves For U.S.

Aid To China

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1949.

Sirt was expected that-when Mr. H.G.W. Woodhead returned to Hong Kong after his tour abroad, he would entertain your rendera

The Editor takes no responsibility for vision expressed in with Interesting articles about

no means necessarily“ agrees conditions in the countries which latters by correspondents, and by

with them. han is reported to have visited.

Instead of tuiting a most logicol | time violently anti-American course, he has again resorted to himself. Does recollect in ne- ferocious anti-Chines propa- } cusation gurida

CORRESPONDENCE

against the Americans that they were "parasites" who Mr. Woodhead states En his followed in the wake of Brilish latest article, "China Cannot be armies and set themselves up in Helped," that the action of 5 business in places won at the American Senators in supporting | sacrifice of British blood? what he describes Ds "Senator McCarroni's hore-brators propos- ul" can only be regarded as vid ence of the appalling ignorance of U.S. Jegislators regarding con- titions in Chinn,

Before concluding this letter, I would like to take this opportunity of making reference to a recent comment by Mr. Woodhead on the, “San Mla

Chu-1" (Three Principles of Dr. Sun Yat-gen). I must say that I must emphu- Mr. Woodhead said that Dr. Sun's coloured by it. tically disagree with Mr. Wood-mities with the population ques- head on this polat. The Senators thun would malte the angels werp. | It. In question would seem to br It might Interest Mr. Woodhead me of greater vision than Mr. to know that in a recent news re- Wouthend--men who are think-port from Tokyo, Major General Ing of the future, not the present W.F. Marquat. Chief of General or of the unclent post.

MacArthur's Economle and Scien-

The people suffer by reason of

It Is 100

Old China Hond Sir,China Cannot be Help- cd," says Mr. GW. Woothead, C.B.E. A disappointed interven- tionist in Chinese affairs, Mr. Woodhendes now that bia ropyrights have been infringed upon by Moscow so much that whatever Old China Hands, ad- beneẞt only

and

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oul

The 'result' matters very much. The Government and Legisla-vocated since 1842 ture dominated by a handful of Unclo Josef Stalin.

The Chinn that Q.M. Green, financial and business houres re-

1.O.P. Blund, 11.G. Woodheud and main (naturally and us might have been anticipated) blind to Company saw the China of Yunn Shin-kula. Wu Pel-AB, and other interests, some of them in Chiang Kul-shek who would sell my view influitely more import-but their nation's birthrights, for

Loan ant

The position is reflected in the the Reorganisation

UNRRA or 39 Divisions' Arma- administrative nets of the govern-

ments-s gone and cannot be ment and its legislation, th its

the China, helped. It was sins of commission on omission.

broken China, of the good The life of Hong Kong China Hards uke Mr. Woodhead who lived on talking on Chinese úbians whose language and There is not a person to longterature they did not quite un

derstand. Kong, reasonably astute and dis- Interested, who does

not both know It and deplore L

Why then do these people not Although Chinn is in H

contine Section, said that in a year, speak out more openly and more paratively weak state today, the the population of Japan had in- pininty? The answer is that sold Senators have apparently ereused by 2,000.00, Major Gen-they are afraid to do so. not overlooked the importance of erul Marquat further said that expensive to đo ko. the China market and the fact

the population of Japan wus now I find it hard to blame them that China is still are of the 80,007,401 and that by 1968 telthough en no great admirer richest countries in the world.

would be 100,000,00.

of either sycophaney or cowardien, If Mr. Woodhend bas studied

The Government must them- Since Mr. Woodhead professes European history, he will readily to know so much about the San selves know and appreciate that appreciate that England was not | Min Chu-1,” he will no doubt the machine created by itself

hways the great

and strong agree that Major General Mar-, not only unworkable but cannot country that she is today. Fagunt's figures as to the popula- be tinkered into workability.. land was at one time torn asunder | Bon of Hopan within a given num- Individual enembers must ap- by civil strife. Corruption was ber of years exceed by approxi-preciate that at ti moment they mandant, highwaymen router the mately 2,000,000 the figures given are in a false position for which The man who mak These

Whn, Mr. Woodhend, ↑ they, are hardly to blame.

This ruling also applies to words famous was Me, Long Tacknyside, the people were per u

secuted, wars

ofis quilty of anties which would They will be to bitne if they the hieroglyphic signatured Sam, one of the world's best

all kinds, hindered farming and make the angels weet?”

allow the present condition of writer with no noted address showinen, who left by the sa

manufacturing, interferell with

SIMPLE SIMON. Things to continue. They have who commented on

Britain's trade and made life and property

the power to end it. They world unsafe. AN with England. ко

end it by passing without delay food supplies. His letter will with other grent countries of to- Editor's Note: If the corTER-

Self-denying. Ordinner and he used, water a pseudonym if slay.

pondent who signed himself "Fair thereafter buikt aright. There is necessary, provided the required There is such a

other way.

details are supplied. thing as the Play" will forward his name and inw of averagen No uniey can address not for publication-- Min renain great and strung or wenketter will be printed. Anomamily forever, There is an end to all uill always be preserved if res

ngs The

Empires

writer's waİTE which quented, it the flourished before Englund became must also be given

(By Our Harbour Reporter)

Back in the days when vaudeville was in vogue, you

of the tenanny, nevoeding thrould hear the phrase ". applicants, tha

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ptirely temporary on 14 mally bau is and her opponent agreed to vacute the jaempes whenever at male:t be egiazel.

Notice To quit

Clever, these Chinese," echoed

in 10 different languages.

The appli safarni katen bare? | Generál Gordon yesterday with on the genus that the applicants | Mis, Lang to visit their daughter patrebased. The property in Sep-in New York. teambre 1987, and that am Defe las. 27, the oppingteals apponents notice to quit The op- pleaf with ot do the

A The Chinese magician ve ac ant vandeville Roadliner for more than 25 years, Mr. Long retired tz 1993 ze has been living a The applicants had made ar- quiet life hi contrast to his earlier rangements for the the reelion

days when he used to perform of a new office building the

four Eve shows clatly. kile. Arrangements wew uim,

Amen

whe thronged munde for the demolition of the Kowloon Whorf to send him o existing building late twn paris | yesterday afternoon were 10 enable le tests to be nee

eldest daug.der, Ms To, wife of mummmodated Cork the 14:00- De. Fitned and his only son.

ONE

Ma. Frank, 1998.

struction. All the tenants, with The exceptimn it the opponent. Mt. Long returned to Shanghai to the arrangement. in 1917 Fratti America' and ne- The existing building on this site izved here to jot his children in was partly damagert doring the December, 1948. He has been Copanese occupation, un a smalt

ventioning since then. portion was temporarily recon- structed by the opponent during his fomney. The pinsent bubling consist of an old familtinami Build ing, uneconomic and expensive to

run.

The occupant decuples a small reom on the Bund floor of 18) Ice House Sheet which he uses platly an offer and partly as a domestle house. The opponent is The tenant of a fully furnished

Aut at three-coomed

Shan Kwong Rond, Happy Valley, ap- pifcants claim.

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The refusal of the opponent to vncate the one tom neetipled by bim i preventing the rúnstrues tion of the new bullding and the development of the site.

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wasted

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a great power are DOW NO #Nore. Inexorality the wheel of Inte keeps in turning and some day In the future, China wit also by

Council Ordinance

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Are the members of the Gay- crament and the Legislature the only people in all Hong Kong unable to see both the problema nd the solution? I believe that Bhey do see It.

They have a plain duty which cannot be avoided, believe they I will not wish to avoki il.

cone great. We may not live to Sir. The period of time be see the day, but nevertheless it tween the publication of the draft! will cons

ut the Municipal Counil „Ordin» The 50 American Senatorsance and its discussion in the whom Mr. Woodhead condemna Legislature wilt give the Govern- 1-321 visualize the future andment and the Legislature the to therefore wish to retain "China's | think

4178 Important times. goodwill by helping her today discussion will provide when she is most in need. They portunity for statesmanship in the realise, as Mr. Woodbeat does matter of alternative scheines, not, that when China settles down The discussion will raise inevi- to a peaceful era, any nld that tably the question of the require- America can give Chinn now will ments of Hong Kout in the mat-

ter of government.

| A native of Shantung Province, the 08-year-old muticion is me of row Oriental entertainers who made good abroad and succeeded in beniging to the West a form of vaudeville, complete with Chinese

aerobatics, be returned a thousandfald, nuric and Det lock his audience by storm. Mr. Woodheart is afraid that The Government it is true are

le begon his career early in

any material aid given to China tentatively putting forward by the century and achieved fame in by Americu willfull into the way of solution a glorified Urban 1914, hølging on to it fill his re- hands of the Communists and District Council with no real or tirement.

thus result in the abandonment of vital powers of any kind.

will be His three-word fabulous phrase | an important bargaining facto

For all I know it clever, these Chinese" for when the mon

'arrives tu timidly backed by the English some time cutrivaller! even the

explicit ruling from Colonial Office, I neither know well-known "Confucius suys... than og to their future attitude, nor care who backs it. I suy

popularity.

towords foreign trade and indus-only of it that it is valueless and try.

useless.

Ran Away He ran away from home and Jened an aerobatic troupe in the late nineties when vaudeville was the talk of the town.

Excessive Rent Claim The grounds of opposition is that the applicant is vindictive

Mr. Lang achieved his greatest aguiost opponent by renson of hir success Bry America, where he refusal to pay excessive rent. The foured for years,

rs, breaking box- opponent had always been condy, offee, records on several occu and willing to agree in any

He made good in England. sions. reasonable terms offered him by Australia, France and other Con- the applicant.

Unental cities, even Germany for some time before the advent of

Further grounds are that the

applicants would rant have diler. cided to rebuilt the site had the

At 60, Mr. Long still looks re- opponent puid the executive rent markably

often young and LG of $5,000 a month asked by the taken to be in his late thirties. applicant.

Iis hair is still devoid of grey Opponent inftied that he had streaks, and he is still able to do a small residence in Happy Valley the handstand like a youngster or but that was not suitable for sing the water bowls that earn- omer purposes.

The opponent further ciali that more than $50,000 was spent by him on the rehabilitation of the premises.

ed him fame.

Apart from his own fame, Mr. tong made the headlines when he married Austrian-born Mrs. whom he met in 1907 in

Long,

The site in question was then Linz. visited by Mr. C. Loseby after)

"If conditions permit, we may

which Mr. G.G. Wood architect, go to Austria and see our old of Leigh and Orange, came for friends again," Mr. Long ward to give evidence as to the marked. plans of the construction of the proposed new bullklug

Hearing will continue on April 14 at 10a.m.

CASE DROPPED Private Henderson, aged 24, of the Fhat Imiskillings, was dis charged from Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday when the pro- secuilon withdrew their ense against him.

He was formerly charged with being drunk in a publle place.

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New Chipu appears beyond the upprehension and appreciation the Old China Ilands. New Chiso talks the language of Karl Marx. coined in the British Museum, to the disgust of Mr. Woodhead, s defender of British Imperialism Concepts he whose fundamental does not; appear to have studied very much

Let us mourn for the funeral service of Old China Hunds whose only survivor, Mr. Woodhend, has to give up their thesis because it has been stolen and practised by the Kromlin.

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Robber Sentenced To Five Years

Five years' hard labour and oight strokes of the cone was the sentence meted out to Lau Kou-kei by Mr. Justice Williams, Puisno Judge, at the Criminal Sessions 'yosterday.

Lou was found guilty by a jury comprising two men

and five women of robbery by two or more. Crown Counsel, Mr. A. Iloo-while the boat was taken to Tai There the cargo was re- ton, conducted the prosecution Miu. assisted by Detective Inspec-oved, and the complainant and tor C. Askew. Lau was hots crew were tied up and placed in A cave nearby. There they legally represented.

spend the night of the 28th.

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The

This is a somewhat strange re- Whe incidentally supplied the Lau, it was alleged, together

The next day, Counsel went on, mark for Mr. Woodhead to make, information on which the Colonial with others on or about October and serves

26 last year robbed Lau Shul-yin the complainant then managed to to prove something Office neted?

free himself. and reported the which he has always refused to The people of Hong Kong-an of 50 lins of peanut oil.

According to Crown Counsel, robbery to the police. The ac- admit, the importance with which important place-want something

cused was arrested three week trade with China is regarded by that is real and quite different. the complainant owned a sampun

Juter near the place where the foreigners.

They want n Government and und earned his living by carrying Since Mr. Woodhead is no Legislature, without plain and goods from Chinese territory in alleged robbery was alleged to

have been commi

committed. anxious that the Americans re- pulpable blemish, that is strong his boat to Hong Kong. train from alding Chino, might I and, (being an English Colony)

Lau later volunteered to make On October 24 last year, he was suggest to him that he can also try ropresentative of the spirit of engaged by a firm at San Mee In a statement to the police. to persundo the

however was not territory -to to England. They want an Execu Chinese

carry to complainant quit China and not have any tive and Legislauire determined Hong Kong 59 tins of peanut oil, able to identify any of the men. trade relations with the Chinese. only to do its duty by the people, Complainant left the place with The case for the prosecution, The latter, who are not accustom-determined to be fair and just, his cargo about midday on Octo- Counsel concluded, was that the ed to such a high standard of determined always discover the ber 25.

accused was one of the men who living us Europeans, can always needs of the people and supply

When he was approaching Tai took part in the robbery. go back to the land and live in them where they can.

Miu, Mr. Hooton continued, off Having

plended previously mud flats. It would be interest- They want an Executive and the

the coast of Hong Kong about 7 guilty of possession of two sticks ing, however, to see what would Legislature that is free and with- p.m. on October 28, he observed of dynamite, Lau was given one happen to the Americans.

out blas, not

опе coloured in

u boat approaching. There men year on the charge. What would they do with all trection or another, concerned were on board. Two had handker- When the Court assembled the foodstuff, chemicals, motor only with the public erest, chiefs over their faces, and the earlier yesterday,

Mr. Justice tars, machinery, radios and thou- palanced in the matter of private third wore sun glasses. The two Williams announced to the jurors sands of other items which they interests.

who Ware

handkerchiefs were that all Jurors should have re- now export in unlimited quanti- This is what they want and all armed, one with a pistol and the gistered at the beginning of the tles to China? Perhaps Mr. Wood- that they want. They have not, other with a chopper. These two current year, meaning that those head, in his wisdom, will be able however, got it. They can hope men boarded the vampon of the put yet registered on or to suggest another outlet for these in my view for no change for the complainant, while, the other re- December 1, 1948, should de so American goods which now flood better until they do get i

mained behind.

immediately. the China market and which re- present so much more wealth and employment for America and be solved in no other way. Americans.

I could name off hand not one but many vital problems that can A

balanced legislature would solve them. An ill balanced legislature does not even look in the right

Mr. Woodhead seeks to accuse Hil Chinese of ingratitudė just because certain students of direction. Shanghai University have acted in a manner contrary to his con- rention of gratitude,

What went wrong?

It is not, difficult to expînin. The Government crected, and If we are to take his line of created. Incidentally when times reasoning as the basis for arriv-were abnormal, its own Executive | ing at a conclusion, then the Chi-and Legislature. They appear to nese would be perfectly justined have been under the Impression in serusing all Englishmen of he- that the only interests in, Hong. Ing crooks and confidence men. Kang that mattered and required just because a few of them have representation were those of ble been guilty of dishonesty in their business, the big business and dealings, with Chinese merchanta.inancial houses and those, depen-

As to the "ferocious anti-Aine-dent upon thein. rlean propagonda" to which Mr. Their motive noed not be Im- Woodhead makes reference, may | pugned, " I remind him that he was at one It does not even mötter,

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