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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

"Overloading" Arrangement With Police Alleged

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have been affected on the cost of only company in Hongkong exp

Undoubtedly The job?

able of doing is work”

I du soi The Chalimian referred to a list say that bai they were very elli of general disbursements for period December 1 to 15, 1940

ENCOURAGING

STORY

Continued from Page 1

"SECONDLY

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thejelent and satisfied requirements' shipping.

from that stand-point,

The Chairman The first three

temas say Hongkong Government, $4,867 72 att $4.092, and dico. $1.536 What are those?

They MI Carinan ments for dynamite

If

and

improvement

an extraordinary rise during

three lust

months in the destruction of German and Italian This was achieved very largely by the development of the new brilliant tactics by the Cons tal Command and RAF bombing To the explotis of the Air Force must be added those o¦

Jur submarines

If there were other firms which are as efficient, would it not be more prudent to call for tenders? squadrons.

It would have been better to have pay done it on that basis it

We han the time to work out a system of The next three items say C Treviewing tenders and checking the Yuan, $0.448.97. $1.420 and $8,178 37. reilability of these firms

You had uver These are all

a yiat What are they for?

D6W 1 Lime to lime If pay rolls for the week endung De-date? From cember 10 and December 17

question af transport came up and Hi in the Mr Campbell Who is C

de Mr

Brockert agreed to the arrange Day-master

And he signs the receipt Jur meat these?What actually happens is My point is that no allempt was that the money is turned over in Diade Curing the last 12 months CT Yaan's custody for placing by either Marsman or the PWD into envelopes in the office before by the way of calling public ten- they are sent out to the sites iders to see whether the transport

could this work stranger looking at

done list of disbursements would think cheaper We were working under the money was made out to CTnstructions to do the job in the Yuan and met as pay rolls at all? Fastest lime

But

R

Yuan? T

GENERAL

EUROPEAN SERGEANT CHARGED

ALLEGED DEMAND FOR MONEY

Evidence was heard by Mr. G I Lowry, at the Central Magistracy yesterday, in the case POLICE SERGEANT EDWIN MC-

in which

1

or

MEETING WITH

ROOSEVELT

Continued from Page 1 profound vital character of the solemp agreement into which we jointly entered.

A WISE RULE

WEDNESDAY.

SEPTEMBER 10. 1941. -PAGE

"Questions have been asked as

exactly what is unplled by this

that point and explanations It is a wise CON- rule that when two parties have

have been invited.

A statement. one of CHU agreed on

them shall not thereafter be with- out consultation with the other to proceed to put special or strange Interpretations upon this or that sentence.

POLICE BERMOTT and

and LEE HOI STABLES "His ships make short voyages.

PING were charged with demand- darting across the narrow strip al water or sinking along the constsins with menaces, $100 from Lo from one defended port to another Klu woman, of No. 196, Queco's Road West, second floor, on Aug. 2. air prolection

WE while under

Mr F ኒዲ Shaftain. Assistant gigantic world-wide curry

Director of Criminal Investigation trade with never less than 2,000

Crime). prosecuted Mr. C.

A and never less than ships at sea

Sutherton Russ appeared for Sg: 400 in the danger zone"

McDermott and PC. Lee Hol. and "I would ilke the House pay attention to this statement be. Mr. M A. da Stiva represented P.C cause it is really an enraordinary one for anyone to be able to make British and Allied --sinking ol ships by enemy action . July and added together August amount to much nicre than one- The initiative should trd of the German and Italian

tonnage which we have sunk by! they had asked us to Issue tenders our aircraft and submarines, we would have done so.

have

been

Each nan has a card and nun bave come from the P.W.D. If ber and when he return this to the offer. 11 used as a basis to calculate the various workmen's salaries.

PUT INTO ENVELOPES

1 si du. I am whe 11 has be put down in the Yuan I

Quite, but the fact remains that Ine tenders were called either by you or the PW.D.? That is rot reet.

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How remarkable this state- ment is may be judged when we remember we present 10 or 20 times the target to a hostile

Blai 18 attack upon the seas presented Lo US hy enentr

The Corman bext referred

shipping. name of C. T disbursement from December 16 to cash rbeque and, 31, 1:44 He asked There is ali

when money is brought back witem, "South China Morning Post.

ffice. Is furled over to him to pu. Into envelopes It is a matt

of other record

1

What was that for

Mr Carman:

WANTED TO BUY

An advertisemen

It is wiki happens every week. was run in the "South China Morn-

I presume a hand roughing Ist under the "Wanted t CT YuaO

Why are Some items marked "Pay-rull Se-and S7" Why don't you do this with every pay rulle

Buy column for a compressor

for the compressor" There were

Paying tribute Lo British submarines, Mr. Churchill said: "THERE IS NO BRANCH OF DIS MAJESTY'S FORCES WHICH IN THIS WAR SUP- FERED THE SAME PROPOR TION OF FATAL LOSS AS OUR SUBMARINE SERVICE. IT IS THE MOST DAN- GEROUS OF ALL SERVICES "During 1941, British submarine. Dr seriously damayed

Yo inserted the advertisement

In the Culony we knew of sunk Rem

we ran that adveritsemani

17

Chu Ping.

After evidence had been given by Lo Kiu and Kwong Chi-hune the occupant of the first cubicle. hearing was adjourned to today.

FORCE WITH FORCE

Continued from Page 1 was regalred to accept that day

Acceptance of the Japanese de- the *;<ul

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The

of

snie

mands

Cik

and INEL

4 Japan stial materials going di ree Exer

It is well known, suys the Expert. that the negotiations were atter many months broken off

"I propose, therefore, to speak only in an exclusive sense

war

"Firstly, the Joint Declaration does not try to explain now the broad principles proclaimed by are to be applied to each and every case which will have to be dealt with when the

It ends. would not be wise for us, at this mument, to be drawn into a la - borious discussion of how it is to ft all the manifold problems with which we shall be faced after thr

WBJ.

Wi

NATIONAL LIFE "At the Atlantic meeting. had in mind the primary exten sion of

sovereignty self- the government and national life oi the States and nations of Europe now under the Nazi yoke, and the principie which would govern: ; any alterations in the territoria boundaries of countries which ma have to be made

"This is a quite separate problem from the progressive evolution al

URBAN COUNCIL self-government institutions in re

MEETING

Mr. GS. Kennedy-Skipton. Act,

ports and tuikers, most of which bake house cence, two cating

gions whose peoples owe allegiance Lo the British crown

See

OUR SELECTION

of

KAYWOODIE

PIPES

in a pleasing variety

of shapes

The WING ON

PROMINENT MANILA ROTARIAN IN H.K.

territories M Newspapers of Manila. and well-known Rotarian

"They will be found to be en-! Dr. Remule was chosen to be tirely in harmony with the eon-the President of Rotary Interna

Thu

What about the nex: en, Leigh were passing across the Mediter house licences and one restaurant reption of freedom and justice lonal in 1948, but owing to health Land Orange. $157

of architects" They are

Are they a Armiranoun to keep alive the enemy's licence were granted by the Urban Which inspired the Joint Declara reasons he could not accupi

We ap arinies in Libya.

offer.

"We have made declarations 1

Among the passengers who ar I; Is inst the way the clerk has and we wanted knowledge of al enemy shilpa some Of which ing Secretary for Chinese Affairs these matters which are compleE, rived in a President Unet from typ 11.

It is supported by you the available equipment Bert $0 were V-boate One hundred-and wal wekomed 15 temporery in themselves, free from ambiguity Manila was Dr Carlos Ronule chers signed by Mr Loya or some

five supply ships hav Tallen tr. member of the Council at the and related to the conditions and General Manager of the D-M-H- other member of t frai MIT

You appr club the value a an their torpetines This averake

The 15 tortnightly meeting cl the Urban circumstances of Campbell and Messrs. Lowe Big deertisement? Yes

ships monthly or wine ship every Council yesterday

and peopics affected ham and Matthews Each cher

Apparently the PW1 did to two days. Try Lcluded a COP

LICENCES GRANTED is checked by three people

appreciate the val of publicly siderable number of troop trans One food factory licence, one You said previously that you had for temiers several firmus doing your transport. work to cart away the rubble I see from a real threk of all your disbursements that the Oriental plied to them on behalf of the "Submurines 1 Transportation Compally seems 10 have got most of the work. Taki one of the Items for $4,432.05 you go through the weekly dis bursements, you will see that the Oriental Transportation Company

You say the PWD. Instructed has been paid thousands of dollars you to make yourself avaliable of each week. No other company the services of these architects? seems to appear except for sually forget the circumstances at the amounts At the start of the Job, we had some difculty with trans portation and I myself was Can- cerned abonn

tion

the Royal

Counch between Aug. 26 and Sept 8. Inclusive

INFANT LAID TO REST

!

pW D. to estimate damage done to Netherlands Navy and Free French a godown roof.

naval forces, operating in com- bination with our submarines, have contributed in a most gallant manner to these results."

The position then was that the damage to the gudown was caused by Maraman? By blasting

time but

the question of repair

came 40 In order to have an outside opinion as to the caus" 1

JUMP ALLEGED

The funeral of Audrey, the in fant daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry, de 8a. took place yesterday evening at the Roman Cathallg The child had passed Cemetery. away at the Queen Mary Hospital Sunday morning, aker 04

A 53-year-old woman.

by name of Yue, was alleged to have Jump- ed from the first not of No 477 Reclamation Street. Yaumat. an months.

I

it and check back presume that was what they re attempt to commit suicide at which resulted in any finding it wasquested. Impossible for some of the trucks

You don't know which particular.. yesterday.

She was admitted to Kowloon

Lion

to make tripa. 1 put checkers gentleman in the PW.D. instruct- sites to check up the number of ed you to engage their services?-Hospital in an unconscious condi actual loads made and the Orien tal Transportation Company WIN the most efficient one

We had

less trouble getting the muck out of the tune! faces and I presume i they were carried on with "ecause

of their efficiency on the job

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Who approved of this Com pany being approved by you? Mr. de Brockert checked the figures because we were cerned in keeping the cost down

Did Mr. Campbell approve of 'he employment of the Oriental Trans portation Company?--Yes.

Mr Campbell was the executive jengineer and approved of all these

nens.

I take it they have architects in the P.WD...-Yes.

They are as capable as Leigh and Orange in estimating the damage?-The damage done to the building and the question of responsibility entered into It, so it was better to have an outside person make the sur- vey rather than ourselves or they did it. There Is nothing in writing about engaging their services?—a will have to look that up.

Am I correct in saying that they got more than three-quarters of I there is another in writing the work?-Al that stage, yes. 1 would like to have it. Mr. Carnian. don't know if the figure holds true-Very well.

for most of the work.

STILL EMPI OYED

COST OF COOLIE HIRE

and suffering from serious arm and head injuries

LEFT FOUR LETTERS Chung Su-ha. 2&-your-old nar ried woman was discovered in Room 515 Tai Chung Ah Boarding House at U o'clock last night in agony, suffering from the effects of prison, allegedly seif adminis tered

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OUTSTANDING POINTS

Continued from Page 1. the major part of the year escepi between June and September and when winter sets in there is per- petual darkness.

CANADIANS AT HOME Sume of the Canadian troops, said Major Murray, must have felt at home in the Arctic and they must have been glad to have been

It was learned that she left four called upon to do the job after

letlers behind.

HOOLIGANS RUSH

AT WOMAN

months of inactivity in Britain.

Turning to RUSSIA. Major Mur- ray said that 11 the German claim to have encircled Leningrad was true then it meant that the main A woman. Lau Kit-fong. 21, re- une from Leningrad to Moscow siding at No. 41. Matauwel Road, had been cut. Odessa was stand- Hunghom, whilst on her way to a ing firmly after close on a month bus stop in Waterloo Road, was of persistent attack. The Russian : rushed at by four Chinese defence was not passive.

Here is an item for $1.50 for a hooligans, one of whom knocked person called Chang What was her handbag to the road. Another

LONDON. Sept 9 (Reuter

A German Hak ship was destroy-

ed off Ostend yesterday by 2

In April 1941, I see they were that for? The cost of coelle hire picked it up and ran, pald $7,698, and the figures go and terry fare for the delivery of right up to July 31, 1841.Yes, we one case of machinery parts from SINGAPORE, Sept. 9 (Reuter)- Spitfire of the Fighter Command MR. A. DUFT COUPER, British armed with cannon and machine- Cabinet representative in the Far guns. states the Air Ministry. East, arrived today and was met

SHIP TO MALAYA

still employ thein.

the steamer Torrens at Kowloon Godowns to the A.R.P. tunnel site No. 1.

at the aerodrome by Air Chief!

You will agree with ne that from these disbursements that the particular company got more than Who is Chang?-He is our chle three-quarters of your Company's fle clerk. He was sent specially Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Pop- A Japanese ship will be sent to business? Yes.

because the machinery parts were ham, C.-in-C. Far East, and A Malaya to evacuate Japanese na- No other estimates were called urgently required. Rather than miral A. J. Spooner, Rear-Admiral ionals. says 12 Tokyo Foreign for trom other transportation trust a coolie, we charged him within Malaya. companies to quote prices?--We the responsibility.

received some from time to time. The Chairman referred to fur- but it was difficult to secure ather disbursements from January company with a sufficient number 1 to 15, 1941. He used Here is of trucks who could remove the wo Utem, Pang Chick and Tam, muck from the tunnel faces fast $18,750. What was that for?-Five onough. The Oriental Transporta thousand pieces of sleepers at tion Company certainly were very $3,35. efficient. I have watched them at work.

Were tenders called tor?—No, we had no time to advertise for

tenders. We started the job over-

Office announcement.

ALLIED FORCE LANDS

What kind of sleepers?--New bergen. South Wales hardwood.

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night and found difficulty in get- SPINE BROKEN

ting transport at that time.

Did you subsequently advertise

AT SPITZBERGEN

LONDON, Sept. 9 (Iteater)-An Alfled force has landed at Spitz- The landing was effected without enemy interference. The main purpose of the landing was to prevent the enemy us- ing the rich coal-mines. This source of fuel has now been denied to the Germans,

As

The fores constated of Canadians, British and Norwegians. the result of the landing, a considerable number of Norwegia inners have arrived in Reltain to help the Allled war effort. A 21-year-old servant girl, Wong

Spitzbergen is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean lying be- employed at No. 148, tween .Franz-Josef Land and Greenland. tendora? We wanted from the Queen's Road East, second floor. The principal islands are West Spitsbergen, on the edge of the company working for us value for fell from the verandah while hang- Osland, North-East Land, Bear Iland. Barents Islands and Prinev the money and service necessary ng out somo washing, sustaining Charles Foreland,

to ace If you could get cheaper Chi-m,

due to the speed required. '.'

a broken spine. She was sent to All the islande are mountainous, the highest peak being altunt- Do you suggest that the Oriental Queen Mary Hospital in a serious ed nonr, Treurenberg Bay. Transportation Company to the condition.

The islands belong to Norway,

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DEFENDANTS SENT

TO SESSIONS

Hearing

case of the

against CHAN LEUNG, 22, odd jab coolie. YUNG HON-CHI. 23. earth coolie. and YUNG SZE-KIT. 25, conlle. charged with the murder of YUNG

WING-PAN on the hillside in the Colonial Cemetery, was concluded

before Mr. H. G. Sheldon at the

Central Magistracy yesterday.

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