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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18th, 1928.

CHINA MERCHANTS' GREATER SHANGHAI. HONGS AND SHOPS.

WHARVES.

FURTHER DETAILS OF IMPENDING SALE.

NY.K. MENTIONED.

PROFITS FROM WHARVES IN 'EIGHT YEARS.

A few days agħ a message from Shanghai was published annouaring the possibility of the sale of the China Merchants Wharves there. Tho North-China Daily News to hand gives further details of the position.

QUESTIONS OF HEALTH.

AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME OF CHINESE AUTHORITIES.

A TEN YEARS' SCHEME.

NOVEL INSURANCE POINT.

INTERESTING CASE,AT

SHANGHAI

YORKSHIRE INSURANCE CO.

SUED.

A health programme for Greater hat, on April 11th, before Judge Sir In H. Supreme Court, Shang- Shanghai, covering a period of tea Peter Grain, the case was brought years and outlining practicable and in which lying Nyih Kang Sze up-to-date methods, has been pre-claimed T. 17. together, with pared by the Department of Health interest. and costs from the York- Municipality of Greater Shanghai shire Insurice Co., with whom

under the 'direction of Dr. Kon Ki Hu, Commissioner.

For

A large sum of money will be re It is common knowledge, says the quirci to carry out this project, the paper, among those who are inter-report states, and interesting com. ested, that the Hong Kong and Farisons are made with health mea Shanghai Banking Corporation has sures, preventive and curative, in held a lien on the property of the other parts of the world. China Merchants Steam Navigation example, Berlin is listed as using Co. for some considerable time by $2,000,000 a year, at a per capita reason of advances of some millions average tax levy of $2, and New of dollars. It has also been known York has reached to $3 per capita that, although the ships and wharves levy. In Greater Shanghai, the of the Company have been operated statement continues, about $100,000 nt considerable profit, the interest will be spent, which represents on the leans has been in arrears.

sum per capita of 20 cents. The Also, as recently pointed out in present plan aims at attaining the North-China Daily News, the per capita a year so that the neces salaries of those actually operating sary activities can be adequately the company's steamers and wharves" have been allowed to fall disgrace. fully behindhand.

The situation, therefore, in regard to the disposal of the Lower, Central, and Enstera Wharves is becoming increasingly interesting, inasmuch as

rumours

of sale in which the Nationalist Government has taken an active in- terest, are now approaching a stage where they can no longer be regard

ed as rumours.

Earlier Rumours Of Sals. Advertisements have appeared in the press to the effect that the

Nationalist Government would re fuse to recognize any sale of the properties of the company, the Government's contention being apparently that no such sale would be valid without its consent. It would seem, however, that the question of cousent would more particularly he with those whicse money has financed, the company in the past and who, by virtue of mortgages secured on the property of the company, would, have the legal right to foreclose, il circum- stances required.

extended.

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nine house in Nantao were insuri) ed and four of which had been

destroyed or damaged in A fre which took place in January 1927.

Mr. A. Covey appeared for the complainati and Mr. Reader Har- ris for the defendants.

In outlining the case Mr. Covey said that the buildings were origin- aliy insured only with the New insurance. Co. for Tis. Zealand 4,950 but Jain, Koo Tsung Ming, partner and general manager of Hying Nyth Aung Sze, was "ap- proached at this policy was expir ing by an insurance broker who asked him if he wanted to insure with the Yorkshire Insurance Co. This he later did, insuring for the sum of Tia. 4,000, the extra Tis. 50 being for a gate-house which was not previously insured. The policy was taken out on August 9th, 1924, A Wide Programme.

and the pokey with the New Zea

and insurance Co. was also renew- Specifically, the Health Adminised. All weat well until January tration of Greater Shanghai lists 24th, 1997, when a fire took place

on the premises and destroyed-cer-| among the necessary improvements.

tain howet. Reports were made the following:-introduction of port to the insurance companies, one of quarantine; enforcement of regula- | which paid the claim and the other tions government sewage disposal instructed the adjusters and Anally refused to pay." The defence was public latrines, etc. bacteriological based on the assertion that there. examination of city and well water; were two items of misdescription isolation of cases of contagious dis- when the policy, was taken out, case; compulsory small-pox vaccina- tion; prohibition of sale of uncertifi- ed drugs; supervision of foods and beverages; registration of medical practitioners and midwives: ade quate street-cleaning, and a health inspector for every 90,000 of popula

tion.

and due nelice of the fire was not given. This latter, however, after The evidence of Mr. Koo had been heard Mr. Reader Harris said would not be pressed as witness had proved that something had been sent to the office, although there was a record of it at the insurance expany,

Hong: Or Shops?

Mr. Reader Harris contended that Other sections of the programmea wrong description had been given deal with the provision of free in that it was not mentioned to the medical service, and of health edu-insurance company that the houses for which the polley WIS being ration for the masses of the Chinese taken out were being used as shops, people. The yearly budget will be for which there is a much nigher apportioned so that 10 per cent. will premium. The policy used the be spent for health administration, word hongs, which Mr. Harris said was taken lo.anean wholesale busi- That the question of securing the 50 per cent. for public health e-

neas establishments, and not añops. wharves has very seriously occupied tivities, 30 per cent. for the pro-

Mr. Bei, who was called to give) the minds of several wealthy ship vision of medical services, and 10 a definition of the word horg, said ping concerns is undoubtedly trac and at China New Year it was per cent. for preventive inoculations that it mostly meant wholesale

businees but not Decessarily. rumoured that the Canadian Pacific and personal hygiene. Description There was no difference actually Stearnships, Ltd, had been ap of the necessary personnel and of between hong and shop, although proached and that a sale would be

in Chinese all hotels and shops completed. Indeed, the compradares proposed health stations are other and all banks are hangs. When of the latter company and the China points.

asked, he said Messrs. Jardine. Merchants were so confident that

Matheson & Co. was a bong, and could not be called a chop.

Pive. Distinct Periods.

a sale would be effected that a series of diapers was held, which, as all gramme, five distinct periods are As regards the 10 year pro. know, is a necessary accompaniment

to any transaction in which Chinese planned. The first period covers are interested. Nothing, however, two years and provides for mari happened and the rumour was sub-time quarantine stations and regula sequently denied. Then it was

These are to the effect that negotio-

Mr. Koo in his evidence, said that the imurance company offered him Tle. 31 which he refused. He then left the matter in the hands

of Mr. Joseph Tack, his lawyer,

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BETTY BRONSON TO WED ENGLISHMAN:

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The secret engagement of Miss

revealed to me

heard successively that Jardine' tions, municipal slaughter houses

Mr. Covey, who looked at the the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and the and veterinary hospital; establish. r. Loo bad acted as insurance sample plans before Mly. Reader Dollar Line were to take over the

broker and bad. approached the Harris onered them as evidence: wharves. All were rumours which meat of a general municipal hospital Insurance Company after he had The honge look like as many gaois. inevitably follow a financial and for Greater Shanghai, training of secured the plaintiff's consent to His Lordship: Look at. Exhibits

The policy political situation such as obtained health personnel, and health edu- insuring with them.

9 and 10. They resemble Chinese; and still obtains with the Nation-cation and publicity. In the second it was originally taken out. It was had been renewed three times since

houses. alist Government and the China

Pawnshops The Best, Merchants Company.

period of four years are liated written in English and plaintiff

-Witness: They are a type of The latest reports are far too activities pertaining to laboratories alleged that he did not know its definite to be regarded as a rumour. and clinics and travelling dispen- terms, the broker having given the hong, however, they have the four Betty Bronson, the Peter Pan of

original description to the Com-wals, and are insured as sucn. the screen,

Fawnshops are first-class honge, to-day, writes an Evening Standard tions are almost completed whereby saries. During the third period, pany the Nippon Yusen Kaisha are to attention will be given to municipal The defence alleged that the pro- (and to Mr. Covey): A hong, as correspondent, Miss Bronson, who become owners of the China Mer-bath houses, health in schools, perty had been mie-described origin tar; as I know from my eight or 16 on her way to New York, after chants wharves adjoining their own property. The purchase price is re-venereal disease clinics and hospitals, ally by the broker and they, assert mine years of experience, is a Chia abort visit to England, is, I tears,

ed that the broker was the plain nese name, which classifies a parti- to marry an Englishman...

cular type of a building.

He in Mr. Pan Eccleswood, and ported to be $4,000,000. There are and training schools as well as tiff's agent indications at the wharves that health sub-stations: The fourth and

Mr. Reader Harris devoted con- Mr. Covey: Don't you know that he is returning to America with negotiations of a very definite nature are proceeding. For instance, filth perioda will be used for further siderable time in quoting law to a bong, according to a standard Miss Bronson. The wedding will show that the broker was not the English dictionary, is a foreign take place in Hollywood in the

firm doing business in China. early summer.. Although last month was a record development of municipal hospitals insurance Company's agent.

Witness: That is another mean-

Betty Bronson, who is 20 years month in regard to receipts for and public health nursing, the erec

Four Walls For A Hong.

ng of the word. A

old, was a dancer before she was wharfage dues and storage charges, tion of incinerators, the sewage

Mr. H.-W. Allison, manager of According to Mr ML B. Pan, aclected by Sir James Barrie to payments of an urgent nature have system and industrial health. ac

tivities. not been made by the company,

Details are given regard the Iasumuse Company, in giving compradore for the defendant com- play Peter Pan in the film, five including wages to the staff employing purpose, procedure and expen-, evidence, said that, as far as he

pany, who was the next witness, years ago. diture for each health activity pro knew, only the broker had describ- the premium for a shop is double She has since appeared in “A ed at the wharves,

posed,

ed the portion of the property and that for a hong, and in this case, Kiss for Cinderella and Ben Prožits And Taxation,

Same tech- the one is Tis. 24, the other Tis. 48. Hur," where her acting of the The capital expenses for all five what it constituted It is here interesting roughly to

will amount periods

about nical cros-examinaion ezened, dur The broker gave them a description brief part of the Madonna was the record the profits secured on the 98,177,000, averaging 82.70

pering the course of which Mr. Allison of the property, upon which the gem of the film, among other pic- Lower, Central and Eastern Wharves for the past eight years. In 1920 capita. At the completion of the said that they knew that the pro- policy was issued. A broker ueual- tures.

initial activities, the current experty had been insured with any collected what he could from a the profits were slightly over

penditure each year is estimated at other company as well, but which client and then bargained with the $700,000; 1921, almost $800,000; 83,138,000.

company they did not know. They companies as to the premium, keep- 1092-$795,000; 1923, $600,000; 1924,

were not sware that the New Zea ing the balance. Witness had no not the $700,000; $800,000; 1995,

1998, 8800,000 and 1997, $475,000,

property had been described to from plaintiff. During a period of last year, &

them. tax of 20 per cent was levied by the Nationalist Government on eer- tain imports and in view of the fact that Germany does not now enjoy MAN'S HANDS CHOPPED OFF extraterritorial rights, German ship

BY GANG OF LOAFERS. ping firms trading with China found.

to

"

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN

TSHANGHAL

land Co., had insured, or how the idea what the broker Loo collected mium,int of a certain pre-

Mr. Covey: So your company.

he collects more money

In direct examination, he told The compradore's office seldom sanctions robbery by the broker, in-

gave receipts for a single policy, much Mr. Bender Harris that the broker and when Mr. Covey pointed out a than he pays you (referring to the received a commission from the in-slip attached to one of the policies, practice of brokers bringing in sured.

which stated that Tis, 48 had been business) 1--Not, at all. He is not Mr. S. Trevor. fire insurance ad paid as-premium, withres denied employed by us, and the insured, if juster for Mesere. L. Moore & Co., that this money was paid, assert he exercises any care at all, can MOSCOW EYEWASH.

Mx, Alec Geddes, one of the Com-themselves in a somewhat unfortu

Ltd., said that he visited the scene ing that he could not recognie determine from others what the munist speakers, was asked if the nate position. The German firm of At 3.20 p.m. on April 10th, says of the fire, and identified a drawing the chop,

unal procedure.

In redirect examination, Mr. Communista had received money Hugo Stinnes had always berthed the North China Daily News, a of the arts affected.

Reader, Harris elicited from wit- There were spirited exchanges be from Moscow to finance the ele at least two ships a month at the gang of loafers assaulted a Chinese Mr. Header Harris questioned Counsel's Question. tween Socialiste and Communists tion.

China Merchants wharves but dis on the str. Huaguio, which was tied witness upon the difference between Mr. Cover: So you think that mess that the broker Loo had said Athe broker lied when he gave his in the presence of, himself and of when the Communists officially He did not make complets continued the practice after the in- up near the Keechong Road Jetty hongs and houses or shops. opened their campaign in the West denial, but characterised the state stitution of the 20 per cent. tax. Shanghai. They chopped off both hong, witness added, was surround-evidence I am not so sure that Mr. Allison, that he had made extra inoney on the premium he- Lothian by-election at Armadale. Trent SE "eyewash,"

and said he This, to some extent explains the hands at the wrists, and left their ed by four walls, whereas these his memory is good.

Witness then showed from his cause he had insured the premises The Communist speakers were thought there was no harm in decrease in nett. wharf revenue for victim lying on the deck, to be re-buildings were houses, that is, they given a hostile reception, and for ceiving money from the working 1997 which, notwithstanding the moved by others to St. Luke's Hoe were boarded up on one side account books that the broker Loose hongs and not as houses."

The hearing lasted two days and more than an hour had to contend classra, no matter what their state of China trade, reached the pital, where he is in a critical con- There we wooden hufters up at paid odd aums at various times with a running fire of questions.

(Continued on next Column); nationality...

his Lordship reserved judgment. Idition handsome figure of 8175,000.

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