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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Should War Move To The Far East-

SINGAPORE, June 10 (Renter)-Should the war move to the Far East, the White Ensign will again fill the horizon here, said VICE- ADMIRAL SIR GEOFFREY LAYTON, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, broadcasting to the Navy from the Singapore radio station.

ORDER AGAINST here too. Preparations for its ar-

FASCIST ORGANISATIONS

LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)-A number of Fascist organisations

Adm. Layton added that in that event, the Fleet Air Arm will be

rival have long been in hand and naval aircraft could operate from Singapore tomorrow If necessary,

CONSTANT STREAM

Besides A constant stream of military and semi-military equip- ment and reinforcements of per-

CABLE

RICE MONOPOLY SCHEME Government Should Take Over All Imports But Leave The Selling To Those Who Know The Entire Trade

CO-OPT EXPERT ON BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXCLUSIVE TO HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

ment:

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

"In my opinion, Government should do what its pre- decessors did in 1919," said a well-known businessman, when discussing the proposed Government Rice Monopoly scheme with the Hongkong Daily Press, and that is, to take over all the imports but leave the selling to those who know the trade inside-put.

"In 1919, the rice situation Asked why he recommended that

figure in the list of eight com- sonnel from the United Kingdom. have, the Hongkong Dally Press bad that there were" riots remain in business, or informant The following recommendations here got real bad-in fact, so wholesalers should be permitted to panies In respect of which Mr. Indis, Australla and Malaya are learns, been submitted to Govern-every

said: "The retallers are entirely Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, receiving

"very material assis-

day. People were has made orders applying to the tance" from the American way of

dependent on the wholesalers.. starving and yet Government defence regulations.

CREDIT SYSTEM fighters and medium and heavy

(1) Government should imme-did nothing except to fix the A Home Office announcement bombers and a wide variety of diately conduct a thorough inves- prices at a level beyond the rice business, in Hongkong is car- "You must understand that the regarding each concern says that supplies under the Lease and Lend tigation into the stocks of rice Mr. Morrison la satisfied that per- Act.

being kept in

the godowns as reach of the poorer classes. Fied on entirely on the credit sons in control of the organisation Adm. Layton added that they

RESERVE, as some very interest After a campaign conducted system. Every wholesaler is capi- zamed "have had sympathies with have taken account of every

Ing disclosures might come to by, I think, your newspaper, talised at over one lakh of dollars, the system of government of a possible contingency so far as

light.

Government finally introduc- while the Tetallers have only Power with which Britain..is at local defence is concerned.

(2) Government should imme-ed, on August 28, the Rice dred dollars to five or ten thou- capitals ranging from a few hun- war,and that there is danger of The naval base is ready momen-diately co-opt the services of a Ordinance, 1919, 'which pass- sand. the utilisation of the organisation tarily to cope with any fleet likely RICE EXPERT, or A RECOGNIS-ed its second and third read- for a purpose prejudicial to the to require its hospitality or assis ED SURVEYOR, on its Board of efficient prosecution of the war."

Directors.

Among the organisations pamed are the East London Blackshirt Limited, British Union District Formations Limited and several publishing firms.

INTENSE A.A.TM FIRE

LONDON June 10 (Reuter)--

Aghters

tance.

PREMIER AND HESS

LONDON, June 10 Reuter-Mr Winston Churchill, Prime Minis ter. again refused to be drawn on the subject. of Herr Hess when questioned in the House of Com-

mons,

ings a fortnight later.

GOVERNMENT POWERS

"These retallers buy from the wholesalers on credit and could, therefore, afford to keep a good stock of rice. If they have to buy TO RETAILERS through the "This Ordinance gave Govern-for cash, which they would have ment the necessary powers TOto do when they buy from Gov-

(3)

Government

should

SELL

wholesalers, as was done in 1919.

14) Government should confine TAKE OVER ALL THE RICE ernment, they would only pur the local market to FOUR STOCKS IN THE COLONY, chase just what they could afford GRADES of rice, at prices ranging ELIMINATED ALL THE IMPOR to pay for, which might be only from $15 PER PICUL DOWN TO TERS BUT KEPT THE WHOLE-sufficient for a couple of days'

AND RETAILERS IN sales. $10 PER PICUL, and to prohibit SALERS the sale of, a ffth-quality.

(5) Prices, both wholesale and

"Yes, it is no use saying that

TRADE... Among the numerous "Then there are the grocery clauses in this Ordinance were, I stores, which buy only five to ten retall, to be axed by Government remember, one which stated that bags at a time. These people are Government should not make a small buyers, but even then they In reply to a long question, not- and STRICTLY ENFORCED. Deal-profit on the total proceeds of all only buy on credit.

found selling above these sales of rice. Another provided for prices, or in possession of a Afth standard Government qualities; athe wholesalers deserve no pity- grade, to be liable to a fine not ex-third made it an offence to sell that they have made their pile- ceeding $2,000 AND SIX MONTHS rice purporting to be of standard and that to keep them on would IMPRISONMENT, The licence to Government quality when it was mean the addition of a few cents be cancelled, not merely suspended not, and another, prohibited, the to the price.

461 Wholesalers to be allowed a mixing of different qualities of rice proît of TEN CENTS per picul, and their mixture with any foreign and retallers 55 CENTS.

R. A. F bombers encountered in-ably whether Hess

had brought ers tense anti-aircraft fire and fought any proposals. Mr. Churchill said: several engagements with enemy have no statement to make in daylight yesterday, about this person at presert, but the when they made widespead attacks British Government, of course, has on enemy shipping off the coasts kept the United States Govern- of Norway, Holland and Belgium.ment informed on the subject of

The Air Ministry stated that two his flight to Britain."

R. A. F heavy bombers success- fully beat off an attack by... six enemy ghters.

•

They shot down one fighter and damaged others. one of which caught fire. The R. A. F. lost four bombers In these operations.

CAIRO, June 10 (Reuter)-To- ! 71 All wholesalers to purchase day's military communique states from Government on the CASH that in the Tobruk

area two BASIS, but to sell to retailers on

enemy aircraft were shot down by the existing terms, namely, TEN our ground defences on Saturday DAYS' CREDIT. night and one enemy tank was put

IN.B. This credit to retailers is

substance.

"Provisions were also made for the imposition of heavy » fines on offenders."

DAUGHTER FOR COL. PEAKE

LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)-

(8) All wholesalers to be given

He was the commanding officer the opportunity of accepting Gov-of the Arab Legion and Director of Public Security' in.. Transjordan from its inception in 1822 until

ernment's offer to act as Govern- ment's agents ON GOVERN MENTE TERMS; and

he retired in 1937,

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DEBATE IN COMMONS ON DEFENCE OF CRETE

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"I hold no brief for the wholesalers. But I do think that if the retailers are per- mitted to continue, the whole- . salers should not be eliminat- ed. The recent outcry against profiteering and mixing Was NOT directed against the out of action by British artillery. necessary as the wholesalers claim, A German bomber was shot down; The

wholesalers, who, incidentally, advance of two British into the sea of the West coast of columns on Jimma in Abyssinia is drawal of credits from the retall- and correctly so. that the with-

only acted as middlemen. England this morning.

progressing.

"They purchase their stocks in ers would result in chaos as ALL THE RETAIL STORES are only Lieutenant-Colonel Peake, knoth the original packings and re-sell "able to carry on because of the throughout the Arab world as them, at a small margin of proft. credit facilities granted them.)

Feske Pasha, has announced the in the same packing. If you have

ever been inside a birth of a daughter.

wholesale heavily on the shoulders of Aus-was conceivable that they would hong." you will And that the tralian and New Zealand troops. not have made provision for the bags of rice are pilled right up to The debate was opened by, MR. Įsupport required for their opera- the top and that there is scarcely LEES-SMITH (Labour) who said tons. In construction and repairs any place where the rice could be that he would be surprised if there of aerodromes, the Germans have Was any rancour in the ensuing a more speedy procedure than we. "As to the additional ten cents

discussion.

empicy. well, it Government. could allow

he The evacuation of Crete,

Mr. Hore-Belisha advocated the retailers 57 cents profit on said, has given the enemy con- the

establishment of a well every picul of Burma rice, surely aiderable freedom of action in the organised

corps of the air another ten cents would not make

Aegean and Dardanelles and force for this purpose. In much difference. If it does, why more important-would limit the strategy. he declared, we have not reduce the fetallers' profits by action of the British fleet in pre- not adjusted ourselves to the ter cents?

venting supplies for panzer divi- tempo or resources of the enemy. "Yes, sir.. I can foresee an- sions crossing the Mediterranean The Liberal spokesman, Sir other helluva mass if Govern-..from Bicily.

Percy Harris, saked for closer as ment become wholesalers as

- VITAL INTERVAL.

sociation of Dominion statesmen well as importers and

In the direction of the war. Crete The public are asking why the was not too serious a setback porters."

aerodromes in Crete were not en- GOVERNMENT BLUNDER

Sir Percy remembered some de- Asked as to what he attributed built in the seven months at the defeats and setbacks were ten larged and fortified and new ones bates during the last war when the recent chaotic conditions in Allies disposal. Moreover, there times larger than anything that. the market, our informant replied: was a vital interval of 48 hours has happened in the

Government's

blundering met after the withdrawal of the Bri- months.

last 12:

tish air force before air support

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547 KILLED IN

ALEXANDRIA-

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Hungarian Ship Captured

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CAIRO, June 10 (Reuter)-The number of people killed in the BATAVIA, June 10 (Reuter)- German raid on

Alexandria on The recently instituted N.E.I. Prize Saturday night was 410.

Court will soon deal with the case, Thirty-one persons were injur, of the Hungarian 4,323-ton steam- er Nugyat which was captured in the Timor Sea by the Netherlands In the previous rald on Wednesdestroyer, Kortenacr, and brought day last 147 persons were killed up to Sourabaya. and 92 injured.

As the Netherlands diplomatic Amplifying his statement, he It is estimated that 20,000 people relations with Hungary were said: When the wholesale and cretans had been supplied with pressed by the Conservative, Mr. have been accommodated in severed on June 4 the Nugyat is retail prices were fixed, Govern-arms, they would have been an Rathbone, who declared: "We can' schools in Cairo, which have beep considered an enemy ship and all ment forgot to fix the selling Immense accession to strength. commandeered for them.

the more reason for it is being prices for the importers with the

and must be capable of ruthless Alluding to Marshal Goering's efficiency. This is not the eleventh detained as the pro-Nazi captain result that, while the wholesalers order to the Luftwaffe, after the hour but half past the eleventh did not intend to bring the ship were forced to sell at $14.40 per capture of Crete, that "the cap-hour." to the harbour mentioned in the picul (and the retailers at $15)ture of Crete has shown that ship's papers bat to a neutral or the importers were selling at $18 there are no

The well-known publicist, Mr. unconquerable Is-Beveries Baxter, asked other port contrary to allled in to $20 per picul!!

larda," Mr. Lees Smith said that directorate of Empire

for a terests.

THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE what happened in Crete could suggested Mr.

men and Its load considered of flour from BLACK MARKET" AND MIX have no parallel in an attack on Marshal Smuts, Mr. R. G. Mergies Churchill, Field.... ton yesterday that the United and destined for British firms ING, WHICH WERE 80 PRE-Britain, though the Cretan ex- and General MacNaughton, of the States Government had taken over which, after detention," was sold in VALENT DURING

APRIL, AND perience had demonstrated ten cargo vessels belonging to the Sourabaya in agreement with the MAY,

the Canadians, as a non-Ministerial possibility of the Germans South Pacific

48-directorate to advise on strategy. tablishing forces in southern Ire-

A PROPHECY land

The Conservative, Colonel J. R. J. Macnamara embarked on a pro The former. War Minister, Mr.phecy. He

was sure that Hore-Belisha, was the first tren-Hitler would make a peace chant, critic," says Reuter, Hedrive which would fall and charged Government with imper- he would

liquidate

MORE U.S. SHIPS FOR DEFENCE

It was announceu w w£shing-

Steamship Com-ownera,

pany for defence purposes,

According to a report reaching America, the Mexican Government has ordered the detention of 500 members of the crews of Axis ships which "have been seized by the Mexican Goverament.

RECALL

Continued from Page 1

declared that should negotiations break down completely, "it will mean the first gun has been fired in the war of Japan against the `SIMLA, June 10 (Reuter)-A United States and Britain in the delegation of the Indian Govern Pacific."

ment is proceeding to Burma to-- The paper further stresses that

"Another mistake was the appointment of persons who were unsuited for the job as Rice Controllers. What Gov- ernment should have done was to appoint a qualified surveyor. - man who could, at least, tell the difference between Grade I and Grade II rice and who know something about the market.

ASKING FOR TROUBLE

TRENCHANT CRITIC

try to

fect assessment of probabilities in the second front in the Balkang. the past and effective prepara- "But he does not want to have to tion. The British Fleet relied face the bombing of Germany solely upon Alexandria as a base which he knows is coming next in the Eastern Mediterrabean, and winter, and would attempt an in-

circling movement through

Then there was the haphazard there was lack of a safe alterna-vasion of Britain before then," he day to discuss problems in rela- the Netherlands Government in method in which the different tive harbour near Italian waters. added. then to Indian Immigration into London and the fate of Holland are qualities of rice were classified for Crete, In British hands, was a He would make the invasion by Burma The Indian Government linked inseparably with Britain's the purpose of price control. To great protection to Imperial forces a does not desire to food Burma and declares It is inevitable underJust slam down four or five prices in the Western Desert, but in Spain to Africa and northwards to

circumstances, the NEJ. on to the market was to ask for enemy hands, it offers a serious Greenland, Iceland, the should tie itself with the United trouble--and Government got it by menace to them. States, Australia and Singapore in the carload.

One-hundred more Hurri. the Pacific.

canes would have enabled.

with Indians."

the

"If Government is to continue

Faroes,

Hebrides and Ireland, then direct to Britain with simultaneous blows at every single aerodrome as a preliminary to an attempt to land

orle, sortie.

Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, The MIYAKO SHIMBUN blames with its present policy of muddling to break the enemy's coming- British Ambassador to China, left the United States on the Batavia through, we will just get a repetition in Greece. But no ade-airborne troops perhaps 80,000 at for Hongkong by plane yesterday outcome and advises the Cortion of 1918-only on a much morning. After a brief stay in 'the ernment to deal frst with America larger scale, as we have now over British Colony, he will return to it, she wants to establish a co-one million persons against the Chungking, says Central News. prosperity sphere.

former seven-hundred-thousand:”

quate methods of defending Cretan aerodromes were insti buted."

We should have to think in more modern terms than at present and

If the land and sea commandera Col, Macnamara was absolutely had complete control In Crete, it certain we could do it.