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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Monday,

EUROPEAN

ARCHITECT

IS SUED Recovory Of Part Foos Sought

Mr. J. S. Gibson, architect, ΥΠΗ defendant in an action brought by Kwong Yiu-wah and Kwong Foe-chuen before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsoll in the Summary Court this morning for the recovery of part of the fees allegedly paid to Mr. Gibson in connection with the prepara- tion of plans for the building of a feather factory in Kowloon.

Plaints were represented by Ma. F. Zimmern, and Mr. H. L. Kwon appeared for defendant.

Mr. Zimmern said his clients were the registered owners of Section A, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 658, which they bought in March last for the purpose of creclinu a factory. Short- ly after the purchase,

their agent,

Kwong Shak-ming was approached

January 8, 1940.

Conscription In Hospital

India Mooted ·· Compulsory Servico

For Europeans

NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (Reuter)-It is understoorl that compulsory national service for male European British subjects in Indin is under consideration by the Government of India.

All Britons between the ages of 16 and 50 are now registered under an ordin- ance issued by the Viceroy on August 30.

Smyrna Swept By Floods

Ship Hotel Comforts

AT A CHANNEL PORT. COMFORTS provided for the wounded were shown me when 1. inspected a British hospital ship and a train-one of a fleet-in which the men will be taken to distant hospitals.

The ship, offelnily A hospital carrier, as formerly on a passenger service. Now her stateroorns, are wards, sick beds Hue the promenade deck, and where old soldiers карред yarns in the last war is now the dressing room for walking casualties.

Large red

red crosses, including one

On

the funnel. show her mission to uny Juriding undersen menace.

Wooden ramps enable stretchiera tò be carried aboard and taken to the wards with the minimum of discom- fort to the patients of the ship.

Speed With Comfort

by Chau Pak-yuen, who apparently Two Thousand People the stretchers are carried to a larg:

was connected with defendant's firm, of the factory. for the designing Negotiations took place and it was

the plaintiff case that in June a

Are Marooned

SMYRNA, Jan. 7 (Reuter).

On arrival at port from France,

shed, where refreshments are pro- by the vided from a canteen run

whose work for Lon- "Sliver Lady who don down-and-outs is well known.

Then the wounded are taken to an

verbal agreement was reached Following violent rainstorms, tween Kwong and Chau that architect was to be paid $200 plus one and a half per cent. of cost ef Smyrna the building contract, which $27,500.

the floods have swept through ambulance train-nine coaches of

and tho suburbs, almost unbelievable eficiency. In Ge to 10 minutes the ship can be cleared was paralysing transport and cutting and the trains, two to each ship. sant

Plan Approved Three' copies of a plan were duly submitted and approved, after some the Work on alterations. minor building was commenced, but September the plaintiffs were founded to receive two bills from de- fendant, one for $200 and the other

off/electric current.

Flood waters Inundated the lower/h their we

The coaches, which are actually on tlers quarters of the city, causing heures wards, hold 30 wounded 10 collapse and other extensive three high, or can be converted to damage, but hitherto no loss of fe hold between 40 and 50 sitting cases. is reported.

Three-Course Lunch Three villages in the plain of More meals on the train-cggs and Brussa, with a total population of 2,000, are completely marooned, and bacon, if it is a breakfast-time start, perroops manning improvised rafia are and a three-course lunch later. for $956.50, being half of seven per trying to rescue the villagers. whose there have, as yet, been no wounded.

final word, despite rent. of the contract price. ceiving these bills, he (Mr. Zimmern) position is perilous

On re-

was consulted and a letter written to defendant, gesting that there had been

number

mistaite. 1

meetings with a view to settlement Survivors From Nazi

Ship Due Shortly

then followed, and eventually deler- dant rote to him, pointing out that no person on his staff had agreed to the fee being one and halt per cent. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY of the contract price.

VERA CRUZ, Mex., Janı, 7 (UP).— It was significant,

Mr. Seventeen Chinese crewmen

who Zimmern, that the authority of Chau were aboard the Liner Columbus was never dealed: what was disputed when she was settled bi inid-Allan- was the amount of the fer, low-tie, lett for Mexico City to-dny, en- ever, in view of what defendant had route to San Francisco, where they saic regarding certain members of will embark for China.

went

מט

his staff, plaintifs decided to ter minate his services as architect, and this was done on October 5.

Independent Assessment

was

Crow To Return Home Via Japan

ramours

These hospital carriers and trains have been used for nccident eases and other sickness,

LATE NEWS

BIG THEFT SEQUEL

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Jan. 8 (Domel).--Five! hundred and seventy-nine members An Indepudent architect, Mr. of the crew of the German steamer

The police version of a daring M. Hazeland, was asked to nusers the Columbus, which was scuttled off the robbery in Wellington Street last amount of work completed up to Atlantic coast of the United States, mcnt, in which an aged visitor from the Federated Malay Slates was that ante, as at was the contention of

are planning to return home #l the

defenuant paths that

Japan and

Sberia, the "Asahi Shim-robbed of $15,000 in Hongkong bank- only for what bun" reports,

notes, $1,100 in Chinese currency, $33 entitled to receive

diamond he hand done. Mr. Hazeland estimat-

Forty members of the crew, includin Singapore currency, a ed that 65 per cent. of the work had ng the captain, were to leave Los ring, and one hundred 2-mace lubes been completed, but defendant in-Angeles on Saturday aboard the of Government oplum, was told at the sisted it was 70 per cent.

N.Y.K, Iner Asama Maru for Japan.

Magistracy this afternoon. Central Defendant demanded full payment Another 200 are leaving Los Angeles

A 20-year-old man, Ho Kim, was of seven per cent, on $27,500 and by the N.Y.K. liner Tatsuta Mara charged with the rebbery in company this, amounting to $2,135, was subse: and 20 are sailing from the same with others not in custody. quently paid by plaits under port by the OSK. liner La Plata

The police alleged in Court that protest. On October 23, the sum of Maru on Monday.

Ho and his companions forced their $022.50 was returned. In

other

way into the premises by smashing a delendant wards,

kept $1,512.50,

cheap padlock which held the giles at the rear entrance. which represented five and half per cent. of the contract price, and Which he maintained he was entitled to receive.

Mr. Zimmern concluded by asking His Lordship to determine, should he find that no fers had been agreea upon, what was the most reasonable amount un urchitect was entitled to receive.

Mr. E. M. Hazeland, who said he had 35 years' experience in Hongkong as on architet, told the Court'that on Instructions from plaintiffs he inspect ed the factory in October and found that 65 per cent. of the work had been completed.

CHINESE FLEE

TO INDO-CHINA

The occupant-Fing-Kwang-sbing, aged 70, his wife, his nephew and another school-boy were bound and were gagged with small oranges, which were kept 'into position inside SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

their mouths by wire tied around CHUNGKING, Jan..7 (UP)-Well- their heads.

Inspector A. Hopkins prosecuted, informed quarters state that as a result of the Japanese occupation of and committal proceedings were Nanning and the Japanese expansion heard by Mr. R. Edwards.

"Four days after the crime was re- towards the French border, over 30,-

to the police," Inspector 900 Chinese refugees have crossed the ported border near the railway station at Hopkins said, "defendant was arrest- Langsan during the past month, seek-ed in the central district by a Chinese detective, who was acting on in- ing safely in French lerritory.

The Chinest

Government is formalion received.

"Following information volunteer- Questioned by Mr. Kwan, Mr. anxious to afford these people relief Hazeland agreed that after prepara-and the Kwangel Provincial Governed by defendant, police recovered mont has remitted 20,000 yuan to the S000 from his brother's house in Wing tions of the plans and calculations,

Chinese Consulate at Hanol and Lok Street. the work of an architect

prac-

district magis- "Defendant was charged with the Keally completed. He alto agreed 10.000 yuan to the

оп routes from robbery

December 20. Sub- that in the R.I.B.A. Chlendar it was trates along the two

sequently, at an identifcution parade, stipulated that if contract was Nanning to the sea.

neither the old man nor his wife between

identified the mon. But the small school-bay picked him out as the man who, hnd gagged him with an orange.

a

WIG

£100 and £2,000, the

architect should be paid a percentage

of from six to ten per cent, on 4

DIA sliding scale.

Usual H.K. Charges

15

1,500,000 Reside In Tientsin

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH.

"The police are sill making exten- sive investigations, but so für have been unable to arrest, the other fob-

(Proceeding).

TIENTSIN, Jan. 8 (Domel), Thebers." population of the city of Tientsin, including Japanese and other foreign residents, has reached 1,408,246, nc- cording to the census taken on De- cember 20, last year, it was an- nounced by the Special Municipality.

The

population of the city Is In- creasing at the rate of 4,500 per

Mr. Kwan: In the present case, the contract price is $27,500 which is less than £2,000, would you agree with me that the reasonable charge would be about eight per cent.-In Hongkong there no architects assoetation and no fixed charges are laid down. It all depends on what the archited likes to charge. Five or six per cent, is the normal rate to be charged for a job of this kind.

Do you agree that if no fees were agreed upon, one can charge about month. eight per cent. according to the Calendar? Yes,

And it the architect has done everything to enable. the tender to be obtained, and in spite of the fact that the work has not yet been rom- pleted. ho la entitled to two-thirds or ne pertentage set out in tho Calendar? Yes,

Hore,

according to you, 05 per cent of the work has been done, what would be the percentage in Hongkong?-According to the rulea he is entitled to his full fees.

Mr.Zimmern: What would be the percentage if the architect hos been fullfably dismissed before

the work is completed?

"A Reflection On Ma" Mr. Gibson then stood up and sald: That is reflection on me, I'won't stand for it.

His Lordship: You must tell your client he must keep quiet, Mr. Kwon, The question was repeated, and Mr. Hazeland replied that if the architect was lustinbly dizmlared before, the completion of the building, then he would not be entitled to his full fees.

Following evidenen by first plinth and his father, Kwong Shek-ming, who acted as bis agent, the case was adjourned

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