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hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. III NO. 146

Wartime Tenancy Bill Explained

ACTG. ATTORNEY GENERAL·

SAYS

MAIN

PURPOSE

IS TO HELP THE TENANT

"If Government does nothing, the tenants will have to pay. Whatever is done will be to help the tenant-not the landlord--in spite of what the newspapers seem to imagine,” said the Hon. G. E. Strickland, Acting Attorney General, when discussing "Wartime Tenancy" with the Pross this morning.

Chief points of interest emerging from the discussion were:

Subject to certain exceptions, persons who did not give requisite notice to the landlord terminating their tenancy agreement are liable in law to pay rent for the whole of the occupation period;

Landlords cannot distrain for rent owing or get execution if the debtor has not the means to pay;

Decision has not yet been reached regarding cases where the landlord, content with having a tenant to protect his premises from looting, mado no attempt to collect rontj

Government has no intention of collecting Crown rents or rates during the occupation period;

Mr Strickland: The tenants. The Attorney General went

оп

to say he believed most landlords had accepted the position that they. could not collect rents, although em powered to do so by law.

The bill provided that a landlord entitled to rent could not destrain for it or get execution unless hu salised the Court that the debtor

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1948.

CN$15 Million

For Rico

Shangtual, Jun 25-The re- tail price of rice went up tó as high as CN$15,000,000 yesters evening following the day abolition of the ceiling by the authorities, it was learned.

The news spurt occurred in spite of the official dumping of more than 60,000 pieals on the market to force the price down. Meanwhile according to the Ta Kung Pao, leading

Indepen- dent Chinese newspaper, bank- notes equivalent to $280,000 will soon be put into circula-. tion, Highest denomination notes at present in elreulation are $100,000.

added that The paper $500,000 notes will shortly be that 30. madera printed, and

machines priating American

arrived here. had already Reuter.

Plan For Colony To Possess A Modern Trawler Fleet

If plans materialise, Hongkong will have its first modern trawler flect within 18 months, probably comprising 30 vessels.

Dina

At the

For

P.G

Reservations

The Telegraph learns that there This, and the mechanisation of the are about a dozen trawlers pro-Hongkong fishing fleet are not the sent in the Colony which could put only contemplated developments In to sea within a few weeks, How- the fishing Industry. ever, it will take some time to bring

the feet up to the proportions that SECONDARY INDUSTRY will enable Hongkong's present fish catches to be doubled,

CS-

Already at Aberdeen and Tai O the Government Fisherion Depart-

net-making ment has set up tablishments and samples of these nota have been sent to the United States.

The trawling fleet when 11 comes into operation, will be operated by local private companies and owners, and it is hoped that the trawlers mod will fish as for south as the Gulf of

Tonkin.

The hope is that subsionilal orders The trawlers will be registered in for Hongkong-made nets will come Hongkong and will be skippered by from America which will enable the specially qualified trawling fisher-Fisheries Department to find full-

Irgunists Fight Haganah

Clash At Tel-Aviv London, June 22-Fighting | had the means to pay. Payment mont be made by instalmenta in broke out in Palestine again

--but this time among

some cases.

черен

of

the

un-

mnen.

Tel: 27880

Price 20 Cents

Gives Away

7 Children

lam), Florida, June 22, William Harvey, US$75-a-worki

given to

radio

announcer, has

Way his

seven obliären seven different Florida families

through * want ad. O

Harvey said he could not make enough money to support them.

Ile offered his family for adoption in a ofusalfled adver- tirement in a Milami nowspaper on June 15. It took only six days to find takers among 21 answers, he said.

Harvey sald the money he was able to make was Hot care of his enough to tako children ranging from Elzbi years to nine months in age. and lifa sick wile,

I got tired of dodging bill collectors," he explained. “Bo- sides my wife and I felt l wasn't good for the children to have to move around and not know where their home was.” -Unlied Press.

Itim that for hundreds, and mcm SAMARALI KO MACEDONIA PRASANAETTY CORETUM RECINTIA

SYDNEY WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER

It is understood an Australian even

of fishermen who, trawler-owner is Interested in the for a great part of the year, are out Hongkong scheme and is considering of work bringing his trawler to the Colony. It is understood that one ble It is possible that other trawlers American fishing-net dealer has ex- may be obtained from Japan and pressed considerable interest in the Korca.

ability of the Hongkong fishermen to MECHANISATION OF FLEET manufacture first-class nets at prices

the American that the much below

level, The Telegraph fearns Government Fisheries Department and the Fisheries Department are is taking a keen and sympathetic optimistic that this secondary fishing Interest

in the trawling scheme, Industry will in due course develop bearing in mind, at the same time, to the advantage of local fishermen. the interests of the huge local ash- ing fleet which now numbers 5,000

Vessels.

Thames Boatmen Join Dockers' Strike

0

One important plan is for the In Malaya the Government. had Jews as steel-helmeted Com mechanisation of this fleet, but it is passed two ordinances of a soine-mandos from the extremist not yet known when that important can be effected, One what complicated character. One

development them dealt with In the Attorney General's opinion, 4!!! have to go on paying rent for been interned, imprisoned, or were to storm ashore near Tel-Aviv

tenants who had Irgun Zvai Leumi attempted difficult obstacle is the cost.

The intention of the trawler fleet most landlords have accepted. the the whole of the occupation period. absent from the country, position that, although legally en-This was subject to the assumption other with tenants whosed the and began engaging Haganah would be, not to compete in local" waters. with the existing Hongkong titled to do so, they will be unable that the landlord did not move into had been war damaged or who had

premises forces.

fishing feet, but to trawl in the to collect.wartling rents.

the premises himself or introduce

been thrown out by the Japs. In

United Nations truce observers deeper waters south. Mr Strickland sald that many another tenant, in which case the

immediately started an on-the-spol| The eventual plan envisages the Hongkong bill an attempt had investigation into the clash between conning

ipdustry, eive the cutes of the proposed on a tenant would not, of course,

and smoking been made to put the two together. objects have to

During

Israeli- regulars and dedant irgus whereby all surplus Ash not:no- bill, which

Introduce. La

["the-first" "two Or threo Tenghis War Cause Hellet

Stated very shorty, the principle) months of the occupation, no Hong.errorista, which resulted in several

Jewish quired for the local market could or of the bill was. Whenever

casualties last night when

be canned and exported overseas, dinance. The reason why the bill benefits of occupation have thekong landlords had collected rents, troops intercepted Irgun men been had not been published in the Press

affected by

the being uncertain of the Japanese loading an arms ship from Europo 2 war cause, then the intentions. generally was that as yet it was only tenancy 19 deemed to have come to

If they started to col in defiance of the United Nations in draft form, and he had been iry an end from that time, or, if the ex-lect in, say, March, without de-

truce. rent for ing to get outside views before

tent to which they have been manding

December, The Irgun men landed at noon taking it to the Executive Council.

the today from an LST which beached The draft had been circulated to affected is not substantiated, then January and February, then

be itself last night on the Tel-Aviv there is a provision for reduction of rent for those months would entral Chamber of the Hongkong General

of rent.

cancelled.

waterfront, and set up a beachhead Commerce, the Chinese

Chamber of

with- Israel Government troops YEN EQUIVALENT War cause included Interment or

were Commerce, the Law Society, the

imprisonment. absence from the If landlords had accepted pay-drew, but four Irgun men

forces tha Israel Kowloon Hesidents Association and

wounded when the Hongkong Volunteers Associa-Colony, war damage, eviellon by the ment or rent in yen, then Mr Strick-

Japanese authorities, or evacuation and thought it clear

that they opened fire on the beachhead.

Aro The crackle of machinegun tion.

under duress, having been declared would be deemed to have received

rolled along the water-front as they by the occupation authorities to be the equivalent of Hongkong dollars.

sprayed the surf around the IST If they had fixed the exchange rate

and the 1,020-ton Altalena-ammu- the tenant,

then the the with a large number of tenants and took Colony, if a person was able to gai would be considered to have been nition ship from Europe which the a keen interest in questions relating a relation or friend to take over the paid in full. When no agreement had Irgun tried to unload,

the to tenancy. As far as the Chambers premises, he would not receive the been made regarding the rate

SHIP SHELLED rate would be that laid down by of

concerned, Commerce wero

he benefit of not having to pay rent. thought they represented the

the occupation authorities, Le. four opinions of both landlords and heard yet from

Me Strickland said he had HK dollars to one yen, os in Clause dicated here lato today that Haga Clement Attice, had told Parliament

all parties on the sub-

nah forces were shelling the Aita- ject of the draft bill, but the Law of the Debtor-Creditor Bill. ORDINARY LAW

Society, had replied and accepted it Questioned regarding landords lena. The ship was reported on fire, with her ammunition bursting In Under ordinary law, said the with certain comments. The Generali who had

content to allow her holds and on her deck. Attorney General, if a man leased a Chamber of Commerce, he was told, tenants to remain in possession, The extremist Irgun men who

He gave a warning that a house and a bomb dropped on it,

so still further without paying rent, in view of the were prepared to

waded sabort, succeeded under tinuation of the strike, which has or he was kicked out by the Japs. than he had.

protection afforded against looting, pleas of "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" Imunobliised 145 ships, would have a or interned, or had to leave tho

Mr Strickland anid no decision had in

a bridgehead for the serious effect on Britain's national establishing a country in fear of his life, he would

yet been reached. lie admitted that unloading of about 800 volunteers economy. It might be difficult to prove that the and ammunitions cargo, landlord, in such cases, intention of waiving rent.

In case it appeared arbitrary to choose these bodies, he wished to point out that the KBA represented

tenants.

EDITORIAL

THE

an enemy.

As regards absence

from

not

A Pressman: On behalf of the tenants or the landlords?

A Herculean Task

world is anxiously won- dering what hopes there are that the truce agreed to between the Arabs and Jews, on the basis of the British resolution `adopted by the United Nations Security Council, will lead to a final settlement of

Palestine the problem. It babes of a sotilement are based on the statements which continue to be issued by both sides there can be littla optimism. Arab Iraders

insist that there can be no peace in Palestine while the Jews Cou tinue to claim a Zionist state in a land where the majority of the population is Arab; the Zionista Insist that there

already

B

optalou. In Rhodes, Count Ber- nadotte has a herculean task before him. He has shown him- nelf A wise, patient negotiator already, and if he can bring the two sides to a settlement he will carn the grailtude of the world as well as save the good name of

United Nations. the

He has

to

to

try and persuade the Arabs and Jews to forget the complicated promises and argumente of the past and to face the future; some time these two peoples of Semitic ráce will have to sctile down torether

as good neighbours In their small, rather desert country. He has to persuade them It is in the Interests of both sides to stop fighting. It is trup

that responsible Arab leaders believe that any Arab government which negotiates on the basis of sccept-. Inga Zionist State. however small, world, at once, be over- thrown, which would lead chaos and revolt:

Yet it

equally Lar true that the Palestine battle cannot be fought out as

an isolated incident, for too many mations are interested · in this area because of its strategio Im- portance and because It ta potentially the of.

world's greatest

Wherefore, all-producing area Palestine la not to develop into a cockpit that may well mean the start at an International

wate Count Bernadotte has got to per-: suade the Arabe that they mount lead their people to a better un- derstanding of the situation, A prolonged war, possibly with the majority of the United Nations ranged against the Arabs," might result in that very chaos, which they wish to avoid.

such » State and that it has, come to stay. The hard facts of the alination, however, may, force a nompromise. Having fought

sides battle for Palestine both may come to feel that hotrour is vindiented and that their claims.

mediRed. Unless some can be auch progress, IN

is made in the `discrisalons - with the mediator. Count Bernadotte, on the island of Rhodes, It is useless for Britain, America or anyone else to pat forward a new plan. Much

going on behind the Course Is acches. Britain is continuing to use her influence with the Arab governments to come to a settic: mont and the United States is expected to exert similar pressure on the Zionists. The Island of Rhodos is certainly a better place to discuss the future of Palestine that the resounding balls of tho United Nations, where every word -in-recorded' and many apeskerm play to the gallery of world

the

been

rent

had' the

The Attorney General wound up

Messages from Radio Israel

Haganah resisted, warning

{11-

London, June 22.-Many Thames boatmen decided tonight to join the London dock workers in their eight- day old atriko-shortly after unlon

leaders had said they were confident the 19,000 dockers would go back to work tomorrow.

Mr Earlier, the Prime Minister,

that the Government expected the dockers to carry out a decision made this morning to resume work to-

morrow.

con-

All provisions had been made, the howevCT,

Lo make certain that

Jcws irgun that the landing was a perishable goods were not lost, he

Mr William Gallagher,

discussion with declaring that violation

violation of the United Nations truce added.

Commu- the Government had no intention, now in its 11th day

The leraeli Governinent learned Innist, said there were only 1,800 men whatever Its rights might be. of

when rents or rates advance of tic Irgun plot to beach at the trade union meeting collecting Crown

arms "somewhere on the Palestino the decision to resume. work Was during the occupation period.

coast,"

and threw a cordon round taken by a great majority, whereas the landing area.

over 8,000 at an unofficial meeting had taken the opposite decision.

Mr. Attlee replied: "Your Ogures

quito wrong."

ROUND UP

OF

CHINESE

Bangkok, June 22.-Fifty "ring leaders in Chinese secret Bociclies" were rounded up in ́surprise ralds conducted by the Siamese police recently On 10 organisational headquarters.

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Sydney, June 22-The Govern- ment has ordered all industrial electrical power cut off from mid- night tonight for 24 hours.

The action followed an acute coal shortage resulting from strikes in the past week.-United Prosz.

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A Jewish Navy corvette met the gun-runner, whose captain refused Dre

Vast quantities of food held up in allow his ship to be boarded though told that an attempt to land the docks by the strike include over of thousands arms would be n breach of the 4,000,000 eggs, tens

high-voltage batteries, of tons of potatoes, 136,000 stems Palestine truce.

Tol-Aviv's garrison stood-to after of bananas, and £30,000,000 'worth the night-first serious clash between of tobacco.

consi- The situation, which was Israel troops and dissident gunmen.

The Government announced it was dered by the Cabinet today, is made no casler by a sympathy strike of determined to quell immediately any

cold storage men, but the food ra- attempt to

to counter its authority.

King Abdul- tion for the current week is thought Cairo

settled down to be secure-Reuter.

Arab peace l' Land, due to be

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lah from Means of Egypt

into ous- Most of those taken tody will be deporied, officials sald today, The raids were directed by Police to talks with King Colonel Banchagsak Chippens, on the fallsing

hief of the C.I.D., and Police Lt-Col plans for the Holy Chamras Mandukanond, his deputy, sent to the United Nations Mediator,

Most of the society leaders are Count Folke Bernadotte. charged with soliciting funds to be From Cairo he will y to Ryad, used for political purposes and for capital of Saudi Arabia, to meet King the financing of Chinese schools. Ibn Saud for the first time

Public subscriptious of this sort are yearn-Reuter.

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Berlin, June 22-Financial ex- perts from each of the four powers governing Germany discussed cur- rency reform behind closed doors- for live and a half hours in Berlin any tonight, without reaching

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st, CID officers said. Boms of had connections with the fire- arms plant which was raided by the

Belfast, Northern Ireland, June polleo last month, they added.

Bir Cecil Weir, leader of the Bri- Identities of the men arrested were 22-The 18,000-ton aircraft carrier, tlah delegation, said, when they had not given.

Bulwark, launched here today, is to anded: "We could find no basis for Me Jack Bennett, Some of the organisations raided be completed as a firstline unit of the

an agreement." were the Chinese Education Asso- Royal Navy

who headed the American negotia

any The 30.000-ton carrier Eaglo and tore, said: "We could not get ciation, the Chinese Union Workers Association, the Hailam Aszociation, the 18,000-ton carrier Centaur are

agreement"

None of the financial officials the Nanyang and Khiluang schools also completing at Belfast, but are and the Chinese Youth Association, not expected One newspaper was raided and a for several years. Chinese editor.

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