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DAMAGES $10,000-

CLAIM FOLLOWS TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

A claim for $10,000 damages said to have re- sulted from a traffic accident was brought at the Supreme Court this morning by a paper merchant, William Drysdale Brown, of 814 King's Road, against the Hongkong Hotel Garage Ltd, 14 Queen's Road and Cheong Kwong-yau, chauffeur.

The claim was heard before the Chief Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson. The Hon. Leo d'Almada (in- structed by Mr A. S. C. Comber) appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Brook A. Bernacchi (instructed by Mr D. B. Evans) represented the defendants.

According to the statement

of twitching which still continues and

elalm on October 28, 1047 the plain-will continue

until the effects of

PARTICULARS OF LOSS

tiff was driving down King's Road shock have worn off; general shock

diroetion when a and suffering. In a westward pabile ear driven by the second de- fendant dashed out of North Point Road Into King's Road, King's Road towards the continun tion of North Point Road towards Fort Street, and

crossing

The particulars of loss, were:. Loss of business for two weeks October 23, to November 10, from

so come into 1947, $2,000.00; charges of Dr Bunje $150.00; charges of

collision with the rear of the plain- and Hose Specialist, $30.00; loss-

tiff's vehicle,

the

head,

Dr Gurd,

of use of car from October 20 until The

second defendant thereby December 8, 1947 for 40 days, at

the $40 day,

charges of $1,600.00; personal injuries

per caused plaintiff and damage to his ear, Measts Alex Ross & Co. (China)

Lid. $2,417.00: a total of $6.217.00. The injuries were

on the Mr d'Almada kald that causing concussion, cut to forehead

stitching: severe morning of the collision, the plain- which requiredt

to his office. abrasion to right leg and back, tiff was on his way severe sprain to left hand and left He was driving at between 30-35 As he approached wrist of which hand the plaintiff miles per hour.

Rood and still unable to have the full

the junction of King's use; shock in eyes causing severe North View, Road he was keeping the usual lookout, with perhaps a little more attention to the exit thon to the rest of the rond itself as he had heard of accidents occurring there by reason of vehicles coming out of the street into King's Road. He kept fairly well to the left, and his reason for so doing was that there was a tram stop nearby, with a number of people walling

Antarctic Naval Agreement

When the plaintiff saw the de- fendant's car, a Dodge, it was about the middle of King's Rond going arcoss the Road from north to south,

London, Jan. 18.-Britain, and plaintiff estimated the speed of Argentina and Chile will to the car to be about 30-39 miles per night exchange agreed state hour also.

The collision then oc-

SPUN ON ROOF

ments excluding naval demon-curred as set out in the pleadings. strations in the Antarctic summer during the Antarctic 1948-49, it was learned thoritatively today.

Ku-

The agreement, which was nego- tiated in London, will bon demon- strations by warships in the Antarc- tle below

Goth the

Southern Parallel during the current, Antarc- tie summer season. It is believed, however that the agreement will be extended later.

As a result of the collision, odded Counsel. plaintiff's car turned over for some distance and travelled along King's Road on its root, spin- ning at the same time.

When charged with driving with- out due care and caution in the Police Court, the defendant admlt- ted the offence, sati Counsel, but he had learned since from defen- dant's solicitor that the plea was a mistake. Counsel bald he would call evidence to prove that the du- fendant did plead guilty.

Counsel went on to deal with the

The carrying of supplies to existing bases in the Antarctic by law, and submitted that it was his unarmed transports will not be case that the plaintiff did not see the affected by the agreement.

defendant until he had passed the Talks which were initiated, In north-west corner of North View London early in November con-Street, and that the defendant saw. tinued here with Dr Juan Bramug the plaintiff a long away. Plaintif th and an agreement was reached further denied ary contributory

negligence. then in principle

Details were subsequently worked out by the Argentine

Ambasador,

Dr Ricardo de Labougle, and Sl Orino Sargent, Permanent Under-

The case is proceeding.

Secretary of State for Foreign Not-Selling –Out,

Affairs,

Informed quartera expressed the

opinion that the present British

cruise in the

Says Selznick

Alm

Antarctic by British Hollywood, Jan. 18.-The naval units will not contravene the producer, David Selznick, today argcement and will keep to a route denied Warner Brothers' studio re- above the 60th Parallel.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office port that he was zeiling out.

Selznick, 47-year-old Dance of spokesman said today that the netress Jennifer Jones, sald bis Brillah

Government hnd been in- stars to Warners and other studios, formed by Chile that the lafest but pointed out that he had been Chilean Antarctic expedition was doing this for years. now on its way to the Falkland Islands.

Details were not yet known, but the spokesman indicated that ac cording to available Information the expedition parend 10 de

mutine move.

Д

The Warner announcement said Selznick, who headed production al RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before organising his own studio, "has made us an offer of all his properties."

This would include such stara or Jones, Gregory Peck,

The British Admirálly announced | Jennifer last week a visit of naval units to Joseph -Cotten, Shirley Temple, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and a Valli, Louis Jourdan "routine visit to the Falkland Mitchum, Islands."-United Press.

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ĐỘP, 1948 MY MEA SERVICE, 190, T. 34, BIG, U, B. PAT, OPY,

"The youngsters cartainly have changed since our day, Mrs. Pringle-I'm glad they don't know the things wo

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1949.

- Film star Wanda Hendrix smiles at Audio Murphy, America's most decorated soldier of World War II, after they had obtained a wedding licence at Glendale, California. They were married in North Hollywood.

Dalton Surprises European Unity Committee

Paris, Jan. 18.-Mr Hugh Dalton, leader of the British delegation, told the six-power European Unity Committee in Paris today that the British Government proposes that Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, be the seat of the proposed "Council of Europe."

According to a British delegation member, this was one of several surprise proposals Mr Dalton sprang on the Committee.

Britain's -Meat

Cat

London, Jan. 18.-Britain's fresh meat ration is to be cut Jann:ry 23 because of from

in deliveries of meat delay from Argentina, the Ministry of Food announced tonight.

The ration will be reduced from one shilling's worth to

pence worth a. week. canned corned meat ration re- malog the same at two-peuny worth a week.

10

The

The

"ArgentineTM Government his assured Britain that they wil

do their utmost to make good the shortage as soon as possible but it is anticipated that by the end of March de- liveries will still be 60,000 tons In rear.

From January 20. Britain's bacon ration is to be restored to two ounces weekly-Reuter.

HONGKONG SHARES

of the

"No Way," Says Deakin

W Other

Paris, Jan. 18-Mr Arthur Deakin, President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, announced in Paris tonight that union representatives of the Western domocracies had de- cided "there is no other way but to bring our Association with the WFTU to an end."

Ho was speaking at an all-day closed session of the WETU Exceu- tive Burenu, considering п British proposal to suspend the organisa- ton's activilles for a year.

The formal breakaway of British, American and Dutch trade union mavements from the Federation will not take place until tomorrow norning, but Mr Deakin and Mr -Trea- Carey, Secretary-2

James B. surer of the American Congress of Industrial Organisations, separately "Our decision lina fold reporters: been taken."

Mr Carey said he "may or may not attend tomorrow's meeting.

Mr Deakin, on behalf of the non- Communist trade union representa- live will move a recommendation.to; the national centres affiliated to the WFTU to adopt the British proposal for suspension of activities.

He will recommend the appoint- ment of trustees to administer WFTU affairs.

there Observers bolleved

were certain four almost

votes--the Soviet, Italian and Chinese repre- sentatives and the French Secretary General of the WFTU. M. Louis Saillant to defeat the three of the American and Dutch re-

Mr Deakin described M. Salllant's counter-proposal that the Executive consideration Bureau should defer pending meetings of the Executive Committee and Executive Council and finally the General Council "a refusal to face the issue, a device to sidetrack the decision main

proposal."

on

our

Mr Deakin said: "It has been said. we prefer capitalism to socialism. Wo reject such suggestions with the contempt they are worth."

M Saillant said tonight that the proposals are a "clear violation of the democratie and constitutional rules of the WETU. The Dutch, British and American representa- tives showed an "abylous determina- tion to break away from the WFTU, sind M. Sallant, who said he had little hope of the quarrel being

mended.

He added: "The WFTU will carry on anyway." He said he had pre- sented the Executive Bureau with a calling on the other joint resolution No official details

Committee and the Executive proposals were available tonight. I General Council to convene within was learned In delegation circles three months to consider the two that Mr Dalton had received a hard and fast

very proposals-Reuter. brief from Mr Ernest Bevín to press for maximum powers to the Consultative Council

of Ministers, leaving the proposed Mouse In The

than

European Assembly or Parliament with more limited functions the continental partners of Britain originally wanted.

The new British proposals to the

Committee European Unity

today were, according to British delega tion sources, drawn up following Mr Bevin's talks with the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schu- man, in London_last_week.

Chips Cost

Him £10 Fine

London, Jan. 18-A mouse cooked in with the chipped potatoes cost Frederick Pulling, a Croydon res- taurant operator-a-10-fine today. Filling pleaded guilty to a charge of selling food unfit for human consumption, but said he kept a

Suthe

and did not cat in

restaurant w there were any mice around know the place.

Mr Bevin apparently persuaded 11. Schuman to agree that the Con- sultative Assembly proposed by the French and the Belgians

should have severely restricted powers.

As outlined by one of the con- One girl testlied that she found tinental delegations, Mr Dalton's a "plece of string" in her chips but proposal provides that the Consulta-learned a few minutes later that it tive Assembly should discuss only was the "residue of half a mouse subjects submitted to it by the another girl found in her potatoes. Ministers' Counell and should have

Immediately Everyone

stopped the right merely to make recom-cating the prosecutor said. mendations on them..

Pilling's lawyer cald the mouse

Mr Bevin was beileved to have was "a very small one" and that

maybe it hud strayed through a conceived the Idea of Strasbourg being the seat of the proposed Coun- ventilator and fallen into the chip cil of Europe because of the historic without being detected-Associated

Press. on the significance of the University town as a centre of Western European civilisation and a link between France and Germany.

This morning's turnover

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General Ike this. officers against him. Oxford, who will soon graduate at went over to France on the the age of 37, has been chosen u zemei quite mtisfied with his own twentieth: returning, he sald Monty the Labour Party for an all-out It appeared probable tonight that effort to oust Mr Winston Churchill the European Unity Committee from the Kouso of Commons at would not make a unanimous report next year's general election.

to the five-power Foreign Minis- A returned serviceman, Seymour ters' Council, which wellt

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M, Fernand Loesch and M. Michel Insqulu represented Luxembourg-- Reuter.

Fire In Shanghai

Shanghai, Jan,

10-A disastrous fire yesterday wiped out a squatters' colony, in the mouthern suburbs of Shampial. After quelling Ute flames, Bodners was done in the loen! un-) firmert discovered the charred.) official exchange market this morning at corpses of an adult and a chlid." the following rates:uw

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progress, as though it were up to. Bradley to go ahead. Noxt day, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, sent in a letter upbraiding Monty-the tone Indicated Menty actually might be Tedder unsuitable for his job. agreed with Ike the idea of "Hülfeu attacks" was all wrong. A week Inter, the Geseral wrote Monty that he just had to keep going.

Throughout the campaign'. In Western Europe, it socred to me,

that Monty plagued the General with this same sort of worry, the and supplies, cries for mero men the excuses, for not taking bold, Patton-like betion,

On September 11, while I was In London - gotting 'supplies, from Widowing, General Eisenhower wrote in the diary: #Discussions

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8.00, Programme Hummary: 8.01. Chit-covered catiro Deld of 'next month's dren's Hall Hour: "Alice in Wonderland" operations.

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Gas Workers Strike

Rome, Jan.

18,——A="progressivay""

by Lewis Carroll Episode 5: The Trial most co-operative. Palion has Just of the Knave of Hearts" (BBCTS): 0.30, started neross Moselle... Hamay. The Three Subs-instrumental Trig: 6.40 came out in pro. Much worried Terry Lou at the Plano (Studio 7.00, Work! News and News Analysis London because", Relay); 7.15, "Wednesday Night at 7.13 Tatudio): 745, Percy faith and 11s necessity for taking Antwerp orchestra; 8.00, Trom the Edilianej,"

approaches." London Belay21 0.10, interlude; 8.15, it's the next day: After discussing strike among gas workers began in in the AirVariety Request Programme ways and means of supporting left Rome today following the breakdown. presented by Susan Howard Studio; 9.15, fionit, sent Beetle off to seu Monty of the talks between employers and Talk: By Jack Luff (studio) "Cry to find out just what we had to do, union officials for wage increases anther place in Europe No. 1: The Ruhr Industries: 9.30, "Double Indemnity Monty's suggestion is simply give

The city, was without gas for one Pay by Charles Halinn

hm everything. This is crazy, 7"-hour today. Tomorrow, the period Mystery (DUCTAY) 16.00, Radio Newsreel (Lon

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Thursday to three houra anit ro on "Anthology" presented by. Clifford Davies

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ment has been reached, the strike I will become total----Router.