1940-12-05 — Page 24

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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 5, 1940.

Rice Prices

Soaring

LIVS

Control Plan Considered

The steadily increasing cost of rico, which in the staple, food for 97: per cent. of the Colony's population)" has been brought to Government's notice, and steps are now being taken to wards the control of retail prices.

It was officially stated yesterday that the Food Controller. Is consider- ing a scheme which will be submitted. to the Government. The details are, now being worked out, and an, an-' nouncement will be minde as soon as possible.

Further Increases in the wholesale prices of rice yesterday amounted to about $3.50 to $4 per picul compared with prices live days ago: · First grade Fice is being retalled "at"four. to five calties for a dollar; · 'second' grade ut five to six cattles; and third grade seven cattles a dollar, san-

Questioned about the inercaso in the price, retallers reply that there is no rice coming into the Colony, and buyers are told to buy.now, as fur ther increases may be expected."-

A wholesale rice hong sald yester- day that information had been recelv. ed from Saigon stating that the ex- port of rice was prohibited.

According to local rice, merchants, the present price of rice is still for from the Denk which was reached

| during the Great War, 1914-18. Duc- ing that verlod, Annum rice was sold fur $24 a nicul, und Thailand (Slam) rice at $20 a picul. No rice is coming from Annam ut present owing to the banning of British and Allied ships from using Indo-China ports,

Hongkong's rice supply is now mostly from Bangkok, and the rates! yesterday were $16.20 a picul for first grade, and $15 for the cheapest quality, of this rice. The average price a pleut for first grade Bangkok ice on Tuesday was $17.00, and only cbout $15 on Monday.

Important Moves To Secure U.S. Aid

FROM PAGE ONE

of H. M. Treasury, was arriving to meet Treasury officials.

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THREATENS F.-D.R.—Willard Whiting, right, 33, Crockett, Cal., sugar worker, faken into San Francisco court on charge of threatening to kill President Roosevelt, if re-elected. Federal Deputy Marshal Kennedy at loft.

Owner Of Cocos Isles Disclaims "Kingship"

ARRIVING in Singapore on his way back to Cocos Island, Simultaneously, Mr. Cordell Hull, Mr. John Sydney Clunies Ross, owner of the Cocos-Keeling group Secretary of State, told a press con- of islands, smilingly remarked that black cats which crossed his ference that government was giving path repeatedly preserved him from harm in wartime England, consideration to all phases of the shipping question in connection with from where he is now returning after a holiday.

ald for Britain.

Mr. Clunies Ross owns 26 little islands situated off the beaten track in the Indian ocean. He has just spent a year's holiday in Devon with his wife and four children, who have remained behind for the time being.

Fourth Generation.

Observers had secuted something in yesterday's special conference which brought nine of the most im -portant

t government officials together.

Speaking to a reporter, Mr. Three similar extraordinary meetings have been called of recent months Clunies Ross protested at the and it is notable that a

He belongs to the fourth generation major step to aid Britain followed each one.

epithet "King of Cocos Island" of a family that settled in the Cocos The Orst meet

ded the inceling preceded by which he has been widely Islands in 1926. sale of destroyers, the second pre- ceded facilities for Britain to increase described.

her air force orders by 12,000 planes, and the third preceded the release of

"I am not king of the islands

Flying Fortresses for sale to Britain.merely the owner," he said.

Financing of Britain

The financing of Britain oppeared to be the dominant subject at the latest conference und Sir Frederick's visit here is expected, to help clarify the situation. There has been some demund for Information on Britain's exact status.

The history of the "monarchy" of the islands, however, goes back to 1825, when Mr. Clunies-Ross's great grandfather, John Clunies Ross, who was sailing in those latitudes, sighted the islands. Despite the lawless na- The Cocos-Kecilag lands figureuves, he made a landing and liked the preminently in the last war as the look of the place. waterloo of the German raider Em- den. They were given to the Cluntes- Two years later he went back with his wife and family and set up a Ross family by Royal grant.

kingdom. On arriving at Cocos, Mr.

Mr. Clunies-Ross said the islands John Clunles-Ross found another og- Manufacturers for instance, want ere greatly affected by the drop in venturer in possession. John Hare, to know whether it is financially safe the price of copra, their chief pro- who lived with about 200 slaves. The to accept further orders and it the duce. Some 1,400 people live in these two rivals did not agree very well and millions

they have spent to handle possessions.-which-cover about 8,000 oventually John Hare departed when British orders will be repaid.

acres with an annual output of 600 his slaves deserted him, thus leaving John Clunies Ross in undisputed Another source of concern has been tons of copru.

possession. The Clunies Ross family has reigned there ever since.

the future of American export trade Most of his subjects are Muluss if British resources are allowed to his wife was the only white woman become exhausted. The British Ein- on the Bland, though there are nine The present owner's successor will pire now takes 68 per cent. of United white men in the employ of the cable be his 12-year-old son, John Cecil, States exports and the sudden and station which was erected there In who with his sisters and brother, is complete collapse of the Empire 1901.

now setinoling In Devon. would be a heavy blow to Americon national economy.

SUMMARY OF

WAR IN AIR

>> FROM PAGE ONE

Nuvy ond the Fleet Air Arm around our coasts,

British losets over Britain totul 850 planes or more than a 3-to-1 ̧ victory, Better stili, 415 pilots were saved to Ay again, a victory of 7-to-1.

Hitler's worst months were August when 1,00G enemy planes were brought down, and September when 1,071 German planes were shot out of the sky.

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