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THE

TELEGRAPH. HONGKONG

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER

1,

1937.

8-FIRM'RING' DICTATE TERMS TOG.P.O. Force 56% Price Jump For Telephone Equipment:

State Manufacture Threat

Shapely Eleanor Holm, wife of Bandmaster Arthur Jarrett, abandons her mermaid role to fit through a Hollywood forest as the mate of the new Tarzan, Glenn Morris... Above, she meets two important actors in the play. Centre is Mr. Morris and left is Jippps the ape. Miss Holm, former Olympic champlon and winner of many swimming trophies, has recently appeared at the Great Lakes fair at Cleveland.

Danish Journalists' Homage

To Britain's Dead

SUNKEN SHIPS' BELLS AND ANCHORS IN UNIQUE MEMORIAL

FACING England,

on the bleak,joff the Danish coast during a fierce windswept sand-dunes of Jul-storm in 1811. land, there stands a monument Many of the bodies ile buried in erected by the Journalists of Den-the nearby churchyard at Nisson. mark.

The munument is, and for ever It will shall be a part of Brain. stand for ever, too, as a stirring testimony of the Danish people's re- gard for this nation of ours.

the

Recently the bell and anchor from each ship were recovered. One bell hangs in Nisson church. The other bell and the two anchors form part of the morninment which was dedicated recently,

All Denmark is behind this simple- The monument is in memory of little ceremony at Fjand.

A WONDER BRIDGE

IGHT firms who supplied telephone equipment to the G.P.O. formed a ring, then raised prices "very heavily” and dictated their terms, it is re- vealed in à Government Blue-book published recently. Reference is made also to a ring who are concerned in contracts with £1,900,000 a year.

To counter the activities of the rings, the Post Office have threatened to manufacture their own supplies. Another alternative mentioned is the possibility of securing equipment from abroad,

The Blue-book contains the evidence of Sir Henry Bunbury (Accountant-General of the Post Office) given to the Committee of Public Accounts.

He stated that the result of the which has eight contractors forming a ring was that the price of telephone cords was increased by 56 per cent.

In the following year (1933) the Post Office tightened their speci fication. That led to a further 20 per cent, increase in price,

This year they were getting an 11 per cent. reduction on the 1035 price.

Sir Henry said, The department, accepted the price after an investi gation of the books of u representa- Live contractor. They were satialed that the prices were reasonable,

Replying to a member of the com- miller, he agreed that the firm whose costs were investigated selected by the combine.

certain advantages for

them. They know where they are.

Mr. Morran Jones: In it not obvious that. If you are to keep yourselves an independent as pos- lule of the ring, you have to do one of two things-either to help possible competitors, or produce the weapon which is in the back- ground?

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-EX-CHAUFFEUR |Pres. Garfield

George Stanley Ladbrook, ex- chauffeur to the Duke of Wind-

sor,

arrested after who was shouting "Lies" at a sterel-cor- ner orator discussing the Duke, "The Duke will be a bit annoyed with me, I expect,

There Sir Henry:

is a third alternative, not everywhere applic- able, and that is to buy abroad. Sir

Henry

added that the contractual department were always looking for fresh sources of supply,

"The Duke, would have såld 'Keep

Sir Assheton Pownall: Is the sum involved in this a large one out of it. He would have told me

to "Take no notice of what they

In the course of a year?-From

£200,000 to £250,000 a year. Replying to Mr. Benson, who ask-say," was a very large, well-known firm" ed whether the G.P.O. were in touch

in London.

was one The firm

10 P.C. FROM RING Sir Henry explained that in the agreement provision was made for

of G.P.O. re small percentage quirements being met by firms out- alde the ring.

Mr.

Latham (a member of the committee): Are the conditions as to how far you should purchase outside the ring fald down by the ring? They are laid down by the two parties to the agreement, Part of the agreement is that the Post Office will purchase 30 per cent. of its requirements from the ring

firms.

That is effect a condition Im- oard by the ring?--In effect it in.

So, in the matter of the purchase of your suppiles, considerable. te- strictions may easily fall upon you to the detriment of the taxpayer?- Not the taxpayer: the consumer af! Post Office services.

with the telephone services in other countries about the prices they paid, Sir Henry said they were to some extent.

COSTS QUERY "We were able to use this know ledge recently," he said.

to

"We asked manufacturers

Ladbrook-who in eighteen years thousands of drove the Duke's car

chauffeur lo Mrs. miles, and was Wallis Warfeld when she went to Cannes just before the Abdication was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly after a speaker In Charing Cross-rond, London, W.C., had complained to the police of inter- ruptions. At Bow-street was dismissed...

}

the case

justify prices they were asking for certain apparatus. They refused to disclose their costs, but they offered to disclose agreements that they had made in certain foreign countries,

In him were us that they

comfortably furnished and to satisfy

fla in Sancroft-streck, Kenning- charging much higher prices to the

countries than they were tan, S.E.. last night, Ladbrook foreign

to 210 charging

shewed me signed wedding When Sir z

Isidore Salmon asked

photograph from the Duke anıtl about an agreement that was hes

Duchess of Windsor, then said: Ing negotiated for telephone atores.

"I don't regret my action. - Sir Henry said the figure involved under that Jicad was roughly

"I was just walking past this £700,000 or 800,000 a year nor-

I heard the Duke's mally but, because of certain pur-meeting when

about named mentioned. I can't quile re- chases, it was al present

member what the speaker vald, but was the usual stuff about the Duke

£1,900,000. Sir Isidore:

You?

You are not in the

Ir, Benson (another member): Have you contemplated making your own stores? That has been same dimcult position on that, are contemplated.

The position is much the same." Is It still in contemplation?--I think the correct answer is that is Sir Henry replied. "There is quite a weapon a close ring." that as a policy it is

the which lles in

background, Sometimes it comes a Ble to- wards the front. Replying to Si Isidore

Salmon, Sir Henry said that the ring con-1

of all the firms who previous- staled

1,373 British sailors who lost their five when the two-warships-It-contrasts-sharply--with-thely had made cords for the Post Oflee.

"You

pulling him to pieces once more. Soup and shouted that I wasn't going to listen to such lies and non-

sense.

"People both here and abroad seem to have a sincere feeling for the Duke. It is because these at- tacks on him have gone on for so long, and without being answered,

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man, Long and Co., in co-operation, make an agreement with the Danish firm of Messrs. Christiani rand Nielson. It nearly £2,000,000, and is the second longest in the world. It shortens the Copenhagen-Continental rail journey by nearly an hour.

It was opened by King Christian X., Denmark's much-loved ruler, in the presence of over 100,000 people, who included representatives of nearly every country in Europe.

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the train roared along; happy, clicer-

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GREAT DAY FOR DENMARK It was

a great day for Denmark, the nation of smiling faces, the na- tion over which there pervades nn atmosphere of warm content.

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