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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER

1937.

8-FIRM ‘RING' DICTATE TERMS TO G.P.O.

Jump For Telephone Equipment:

Force 56% Price Jump

Shapely Eleanor Holm, wife of Bandmaster Arthur Jarrett, abandons her mermaid role to fit through a Hollywood forest as Above, she meets the mate of the new Tarzan, Glenn Morris.

two important actors in the play. Centre is Mr. Morris and left is Jiggs the ape. Miss Holm, former Olymple champion and winner of many swimming trophies, has recently appeared nt the Great Lakes fair at Cleveland.

Danish Journalists' Homage

To Britain's Dead

SUNKEN SHIPS' BELLS AND ANCHORS IN UNIQUE MEMORIAL.

FACING

ACING England, on the blenk, off the Danish const during a fierce windswept Band-dunes of Jut-storm in 1011.

Many of the bodies le burked in and there stands a monument

erected by the Journalists of Dien- the nearby churchyard at Nisson.

Recently the bell and anchor mark.

fron rack ship were recovered. One bell hangs in Nisson church. The other bell and the two anchorn form part of the morunment whleh was dedicated recently.

The montiment is, and for ever shall be, a part of Britain. It will stand for ever, 100. As a stirring testimony of the Danish people's re- gard for this notion of ours.

"The monument is in memory - bf

the 1,373 British sailors who lost their Ilves when the two warships,

NO MORE SCRUBBING

All Denmark is behind this simple little eeremony-at-Fjand..

A WONDER BRIDGE

It contrasts sharply with

State Manufacture Threat

FIGHT 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 a 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 THE DUKE

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 elght contractors forming a ring was that the price of telephone cords was increased by 56 per cont.

In the following year (1935) 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 1935 price.

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

Replying to a member of the com- mittee, he agreed that the firm whose costy were investigated was one selected by the combine. The firm was a very large, well-known firm" in London.

90 P.C. FROM RING Sir Henry explained that in the agreement provision was made for small percentage of G.P.O. re- quirements being met by firms out- side the ring.

Mr. Latham

(a member of the commlitce): Are the conditions as to how far you should purchase outside the ring laid 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 00 per cent. of its requirements from the ring

Arms.

That is in effect a condition In- posed by the ring?--It effect it is.

So, in the matter of the-purchase of your supplies, considerable re- strictions may easily fall upon you to the detriment of the taxpayer? Not the taxpayer: the consumer of Post Omec services.

which has certain advantages for them. They know where they are,

Mr. Morgan Jones: Is It not obvious that, if you are lo keep yourselves as independent as pos- sible of the ring, you have to do one of two things either to help possible competitors. or produce this weapon which is in the back- ground?

Sir Henry: There is a hird alternative, not everywhere applic- able, and that is to buy abroad. Sir Henry added that the contract department were niways looking for fresh sources of supply.

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Assheton Pownal: Is the

WILL BE

ANNOYED WITH ME'

-EX-CHAUFFEUR

George Slanicy Ladbrook, ex- chauffeur to the Duke of Wind- nor. who was arrested after shouting "Lies" at a street-cor- ner orator discussing the Duke. Bald "The Duke will be

a bit annoyed will me, I expeet. "The Duke would have said 'Keep

sum involved in this a large one out of it. He would have told me in the course of a year?-Frpm to Take no notice of what they £200,000 to £250,000 year.

Ladbrook-wis in eighteen years.

Replying to Mr. Denson, who ask- say." ed whether the G.P.O. were in touch with the telephone services in other countries about the prices they paid, drove the Duke's car thousands of Mrs. chauffeur to Sir Henry said they were to some miles, and was

Wallis Warfield when she went to extent.

Cannes just before the Abdication- was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly after a speaker in Charing Cross-road, London, W.C., had complained to the police of inter- ruptions. At Bow-street was dismissed.

were

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

"We asked manufacturers to 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,

us that they and to satisfy charging much higher prices to the than they were foreign countries

charging to us."

When Sie Isidore Sainton ashted About

an agreement that was he Ing negotiated for telephone stores, Sir Henry said the figure involved under that head was roughly £700,000 or £800.000 a year nor- mally but, because of certain pur- meeting when chases, it was at present £1,000,000.

the case

furnished

In his comfortably flat In Sancroft-street, Kenning- ton, S.E., last night, Ladbrook showed Inc signed wedding photograph from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, then Balet: "I don't regret my action

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"1 was just walking past this I heard the Duke's about named mentionel. I can't quite re- member what the speaker said, bui You are nol in the it was the usual stuff about the Duke your own stores? That has been some dificult position on that, are pulling him to pieces once more.

Mr. Beason (another member): Have you contemplated making

contemplated.

Sir Isidore:

you?

"The position is much the same," So I up and shouted that I wasn't Is It in contemplation?—I think the correct answer to that Is Sir Henry replied. "There is quite going to listen to such lies and non- that as a policy is a weapon a close ring."

lles in which Sometimes

the background. comes litle to-

wards the front. Replying to Sir Isidore

Salmon,

Sir Henry said that the ring con- led f all the firms who previous- sisted the ly had made cords for the Post Office. Later, Mr. Morgan Jones (chair-

Whist Drive Surprise

London, Oct. 5. Four players gasped with sur prise during a whist drive at Gateshead. Each had 13 cards of

The

St. George and Defence, foundered | greater ceremony earlier in the week

of the opening of the two-mile long man) said:

"You are so completely in the Storstrom Bridge connecting the two

hands of this ring, gather, that it islands of Zealand and Falster.

But both are alike in one Impor-is a matter for the ring to determine one suit. The pack had been tant aspect.

will enter into an shuffled and cut twice. Each illustrates the whether they

odds against such a deal has been close unity and mutual regard be agreement with you or not?"

'ADVANTAGES'

estimated as 2,235,197,406. tween, both nations.

Sir Henry: Yes: they could refuse Storston Bridge was bullt by the

In fact, they asked us to 895,366, 368, 301, 559, 999 to famous British firm of Messrs. Dor- to do so. man, Long and Co, in co-operation, make on agreement of this sort, 11.

A regular sprinkle of HARPIC

cleans and disinfects the

lavatory-pan

in one operation

with the Danish firm of Messrs. Christiani and Nielson. It cost nearly £2,000,000, and is the second longest f the world. It shortets the Copenhagen-Continental rail journey by nearly an hour.

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

The opening colncided with the King's 07th birthday.

of

When the train sped over the bridge for the first time, breaking

en roule the tapes bearing the naši

GO

HOUSEWIVES

VEGETARIAN

New York, Oct. 4.

The droughts of last year and 1935 have

tional colours, the King travelled caused a great shortage of cattle throughout the

In

a new coach which had been

presented to him as a birthday gif United States and a soaring of the price of meat,

by the Danish State Raliways.

Flower decked cars enced by as particularly beef, in the last few weeks.

the train roared along; happy, cherr-

ing crowds lined the cycle track and consequence: footpaths, while from the blue, placidi

waters below, befingged ferry boats

shrieked loyal salutes,

GREAT DAY FOR DENMARK

It was

was a great day for Denmark,

the nation of smiling faces, the na-

America's housewives are turning vegetarian; Meat for dinner has become almost a luxury;

In

Restaurants can no longer sell steaks and make a profil. Nearly 5,000 New York butchers are threatening to close down

tion- over which there pervades on because they are losing money. atmosphere of warm content.

Small wonder that British tour-

ista visit her shores in ever-increas- ing numbers year by year. Danish people like the Britlali, and nearly all speak Englishs."

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STEAK COSTS 61⁄2d. lb. MORE

The The housewife now has to pay the following prices for meat pert

pound:-

And British people will not forget -even in the moment of the proud Fachievement of Storstrom Bridge HARPIC thoroughly clases day on the bleak, windswept dunes the simple Httle ceremony this Fri-

"the favatory-pan, qad nho the bead in the pipe where a bruals tannot reach. It thus rema

| adoun. Harpic dos-

the came

troysgermin,alocais disjalectxaz powie la greater even than that of carbolle.

In 50cts.. 90 ola, and 1:31.50 fins at all

and

local Grocers. Chemlata Blores

RAPPED MPO, ON ́ETDI MOLL AKO LONDON-

of Jutland and all that it implies,

Leg of lamb........

Beof-stenk. 2a, 2d. upwards (61⁄2d, more than last year's price). Sirloin of beef.....

.26. 1d. upwards (60. more). .Ie. 4. upwards (21⁄2d. more).

IB. 4d., leg of lamb 18. 4d,

Average Londen prices yesterday were: Beef steak 28. 2d., sirloin

ADD TO YOUR SPIRITS

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"People both here and abroad seem to bove a sincere feeling for the Duke. It is because these at- tacks on him have gone on for su long, and--without-being-answered,- that I, spoke up as I did."

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