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CANTON TRADE.
(Continued from Page 9.)
Miscellaneous--Much has been done during the year in the develop- kone industries. New factories have sprung up like mush- roonis, and many more are in course
meat
of
OLDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Backing the Princa
THE CHINA MAIL.
imported a ticle has proved very of erection. At Honam an up-to-date! The backing of jockeys' mounts is has become a favourite pastime with a factory satisfactory. The conclusion of the cotton-yarn-spinning Great War was a hand clow to maining nearing completion. Machinery of great many punters during the last ente pise in Kwangtung province, the very latest pattern is to be install-few years, and many prominent A few mines have therefore closed er, and when completed and in full horse men in Australia, a well as in down, and antimony ore, which gave working order suficient yarn, it is England, always receive a "blind" 3,500 pienks in 1918. has fallen to anticipated, will be produced to meet following from the man who prefers to 683 picuts only for 1920. The pro-local demands and requirements, back the jockey rather than the horse. duction of native coal also shows The company has been promotedAn Irish, punter, however, who arked shrinkage. The moderate locally, with a capital of 3 million evidently has a high opinion of the A foundry, supplied with capabilities of the Prince of Wales cost of Japan coal and transport; dollars difficulties in the interior causing up-to-date machinery, for the manu as a jockey, gave his bookmaker- disproportionate expenditure. to-facture of copper sheathing from who is one of the leading pencillers gether with an advance of 100 per ore mined in the province, is in fell in the Emerald Isle, and who Pent. in the importations of Kaiping working order, with satisfactory, has a good connection for "jockeys coal. are the reasons asigned.results. Boat-building
Native
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HARBOUR DETARTMENT.
In a report on the principal events connected with the harbour depart. tent during 1920, the Harbour
Master, Mr. A. H. Hotson, says:-
The Kwangtung Electric Supply
How We Have Grows,
It is estimated that at the time of the Norman Conquest England had a population of about 1,500,000, In the days of Queen Elizabeth the total number of inhabitants was pro- bably about 4,000,000. In the first forty years of my lifetime the popula tion of England incressed from 21.000.000 to 33,000,000. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was only 3,000,000.
We were able to support this immense population because we led
GENERAL ITEMS.
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Miss Srivia Pankhurst has been released from Holloway Gaol
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It is 40 years since there was such glut of salmon in the lower parts of
Severn.
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The Middland Railway Company's works at Derby are busily converting engines for use with oil.
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Built in 1812, the Nab Lightship, of the Isle of Wight, is to be replaced by a light and submarine belibuoy,
work.
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Isadora Duncan, the dancer, at the request of the Soviet Government, is to visit Russia to teach the children dancing.
The Soviet Russian railways and telegraph services are threatened with a stoppage on account of the lack of pencils, pena, and paper.
A motor-car which was stolen from Manchester and abandoned at She field after koncking down a man has
been restored to its owner.
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PLANES V. BATTLESHIPS.
A VERY LARGE - IF,"
The
Having thus made it clear that he did not want to commit himsel, he went on to speak of the various opinions which have been expressed about naval warfare of the future. controversy you have, had in this country-and it has been repeated in other countries as to the relative merits of battleships and their natural opponents, the submarine, the des troyer, and the aeroplane." he said, "all depends upon the facts of the case, and they are the ones that are
WEDNESDAY, JULY 37, 19
HONGKONG.
MARKET PRODUCE IN
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
July 20th, 1921.
Cuc
Svet Silota. ---BIal Lang Pa ... lb $1.
Prime Cat..
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Gorned,—flam Ngao Yuk .. Rest-Shlu
Poultry.
Chickso,—Kal Tak Capone, Sasil-In Kai
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| Eggs, Hen, -Kal Tan (cooking) per don. 18
Eggs, Hoo-Ed Tin (fresh).......par den. 18
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dispute. The people who advocate battleships naturally deny the claims' Chillers-Cha Chong of the people who advocate submarines and acroplanes.
THREE PROBLEMS.
"The controversy is centred prin- cipally around the aeroplane and what it is going to be able to do in the future in launching torpedoes by means of what they call torpedo planes. Three points arise-
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ADMIRAL SINS'S VIEWS.
While in Britain, Admiral Sims gave an interview to the Western Morning Noes and Mercury on the future of the battleship. The distinguished American officer said:
is big The question," one, and it is under discussion on It is one of both sides of the ocean. those things that in all probability will not be settled until all the experts have had their say, and I would not! like to express any definite opinion In less than a week five girls under about it, because it depends upoa & 15. have committed suicide in New certain number of facts that have not also mounts "--somewhat of a shock when York City from worry about school-yet been established." Canton has now five large factories received an impetus by the ormation (says the "Sporting Life") be re- and several hundred workshops for of a company with modera plant.ceived the instructions to "put me a podaring sock and underwear. the It is estimated that 100 boats of teaner on all the Prince of Wales's; trade in which is flourishing, owing various sizes can and will be turned, moents this year." to the high price of the foreign-made out in a year. article. An innovation worthy off note as a sign of the times is the en- labour in female ployment of other lines than as teachers and factory hands. The position at clerk a the railway administrations is one form of advancement for them, an several sr employed as secretaries! in the House of Parliament and the Senate. A further opening for girl graduates is the telephone exetanga station, where plans are being made'
On being bound over a defendant at to introduce female employment. Company have not yet completed the Customs. Lasit. The pan intake they are erecting on the
river bed 40 feet from the face of the the world in what is called the in-North Loadon Police Court fainted, general conditions of the trade for bun wall fronting their property dustrial revolution, but our com- and when he recovered said he thought 1920 showed a marked improvement The delay has been due to the di-petitors have caught us up and we he had been sentenced to 12 months. un its predecessor. Unfortunately.
ficulty experienced in erecting a have lost some of our best markets faction the Kwangtung Kwangsi trembles developed, and these had cofferdam which would exclude the for manufactured goods" says Mr. the effect of paralysing the junk waters of the river. Otehrs contem-Lovat Fraser in the Daily Mail, plating similar work would do well to Lady Astor Loses Her Way. rad daring Octuber. There was!
The House of Commons occupied at this time a brisk demand in the inquire into the difficulties the Straits Settlements and days for Electric Supply Company have had itself on May 27 with much talk of ito overcame. In this connection it maternity and babies. It all arose Canton produce, and merchants should be borne in mind that work on the question of the International were compelled to resort to steamer of this kind should be commenced Labour Conference held at Washing shipmees during the temporary
-location of the jurk traffic. The fallingest Biver, e, in October ton towards the end of 1919 under the event of Japanese goods referred November. not in February or League of Nations. Lady Astor, as March, when a rising West River babies were concerned. planged into to in the preceding year's repart,
be expected in the near future. the fray with characteristic verve,
For hitting the referee and reader- These are the three points that are although at an end. Stimulated home In taking the latter course four or She quoted from a ap ech made by industries to a considerable extent five valuable months of low water are by Dr. Addison, and wished to finding hin unconscious at a football in dispute, and they will not be settled further experimentation. That the start now made will expand thrown away.
the exact passage.
I have it here match at Motherwell, near Glasgow, without a years progress goes without saying.
pressing any dogmatic opinion until The outlook. therefore, is hopeful, ¦
Work is progressing on the property. in Hansard," she said, and feverishly which ended in great disorder, William Therefore it is no use anybody ex- we have the results of more experi- owned by the Chica Merchants ran through the official report to find Potts. of Renfrew, was fined £10. as tending to oust the importation
Her mother had had twins thrice,ments: the battleship exponents be- Baxbel-a Yem Steam Navigation Company, situated what she wanted, but in her agita- of the much vaunted low-grade immediately to the southward of the tico it eluded her. She suddenly
Asiatic Petroleum Company's pro-pitched the book or the lap of Lord three of her sisters had twins twice, lieve one theory and the opponents Brzam,-Pia YR. Revenue. The total collection for perty in the Back Reach of the bar-Robert Cecil, who sat below her, and and she herself has had twins three believe another. Of course," he if the aeroplane people are correct in the rear under review was Hk. Thbour. A bund wall on the normal ejaculated, “Here, you find it, Bob" times," writes Dr. C. A. Ensor in the added, "it goes without saying that aton Fresh Water Find.-
what they claim they can do they 261.176, or a decrease of Hk. The line, some 458 feet in length, is nearing The House greeted this breach of British Medical Journal of a patient. 9.274 when compared with that of completion, and a reinforced concrete convention and procedure with a
The terrible and shocking lang-would actually destroy, the greatest 1919. The stoppage of the junk wharf. 400 feet in length, extending shriek of laughter. "Bob" blasted, aage used by certain women," said battleship in the world, because they trade during October (referred to 60 feet into the river, is being erected and his Cecilian pride seemed slightly fr. Luke, the magistrate at Willes say they can successfully drop bombs to contain three-quarters of a ton of above) cast the revenue some Two large godowns, each 200 feet ruffled at this feminine manner of
by 100 feet, have been erected on the getting out of a dificulty. But he den, is to my mind one of the most
perplexing problems of civilisation." high explosive, and that they can't found the passage.
be shot down by the anti-aircraft guns Imports-Substantial increases are
Black-Coated Workers.
from vessels. All that is quite in- dependent of the question as to whe- ther they will be able successfully to use gas bombs which would explode on dropping on the water and send aarop,Shpk PAD.~ cloud of gas floating down a column of battleships, to be sucked in by their ventilating systems."
gonds.”
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Devonshire House. Piccadilly, is being sought as a clubhouse by an over-seassociation, and Legotia- tions for its sale have reached an ad. vancer stage.
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While motoring to his sick wife in Vienna, Herr Egon Breuer, engineer and mine-owner had his head cat off by a wire which had been stretched scross a country road.
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French surgeons have discovered means to remedy the ampatstion of the thumb, one of the canmorest of factory accidents. The big toe is grafted from the patient's foot on to his hand.
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Cholera has broken out among 40,000 coolies, who left the Assam tea gardens following the advice of political agitators not to work for Europeans, and are now stranded at Chandpur. Bengal.
1. Whether scroplaney can suc- ceed in hitting ships with bombs drop- ped from a considerable height.
Whether battleships with their anti-aircraft guns will be able to pre- vent aeroplanes from getting into position to drop bombs, and
3. Whether bombs would put a battleship out of action if they hit
ber.
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The attention of Admiral Sims was drawn to an interview which Admiral Sir Percy Scott gave to the Western Morning News and Mercury three Monk Fish, -Mong Yu months ago, in the course of which he spoke of the possibilities of aero-stars-Shauz H... planes in naval warfare, and expressed Parrot Fish-Kil Kong T't .....
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observable in ecal. Japanese fish It is of interest to note that two products, hides, leather. hard-wood.
In his presidential address to the and kerosene oil. The best-named of the bridges of the Canton hund, commodity is importer by junksmediately to the eastward of the annual conference of the National owing to the very much lower tariff electric light works, have been re- Union of Clerks, which opened at ja force as compared with the Retiseded by the Canton municipal Scarborough Mr. J. Henry Lloyd said Import Tari. Rice and bran show authorities during the year, and the that among the so-called middle virile a decline, due to the favourable waterways which existed under them class of black-couted workers there
Elled in to bund level. Preparation had been growing a harvests. Cement also shows a
is now being made by the same policy and wide social vision. The Fallag of in importation. in con- Sequence of the local cement workstones, and the work is well clerk occupied an intermediate psi- producing a better quality article, advanced to do away with the bridge tion in industry which was of particu- which is being more extensively mediately to the eastward of the lar importance to-day. He was in Hongkong steamer wharves. There contact with the fireman and mechanic putronised. German-inade cutten
was much opposition on the part of on one hand and the professional and socks, unce a staple article of import the merchants and boat people to technical man on the other. These Two tortoises, reputed to be 200 disappear from our
return owing the closing of these waterways, for. two classes had far from realised their years old and weighing 3 cwt..and to local competition.
though advantageous from the point common interest, and the clerk, if he 21ewt, respectively, were landed at Exports-wing to the fall of view of providing wide thorough would rise to the occasion, night the London Docks having been sent not be safe unless we constructed a Pomfret, Blank,-Hak Chong exchange and lower freights, bamboo fares for land traffic, its disadvantage prove the link to bring these two by Sir Eustace Fiennes, governor of harbour to contain them in Iceland. Patet. Whi "In the first few hours of the next RayPal Pa cases, feathers, and rattai, principally lies in the fact that it deprives the classes together. The day had gone the Seychelles Islands, to Lady Astor
war," said Sir Percy Scott, "Ply-Rock Fish-Shek Keu Kung- for England and American markets, merchants of a means of transport by when the salaried classes could re-at Cliveden, Taplow, Bucks.
mouth, Dover, and even London may Roach-The Ya show decided augmentation. Native ation for water-borne merchandise gard themselves as immune. They
Sam, F Each of the 2,000 chemists in be reduced to ashes unless we are preshark. --Sha T¤ *** cotton cloth, once the pursuit of a and the boat people of a havea during must fight to return and improve few country-women. has grown into times of storm. In the past, so soon their standard of life as hard as the Chicago has been authorised to with-pared with an adequate counter to the babe-Fe Ya... a promising industry, mills being as sturm siguals were hoisted on the mechanic and the labourer. Through draw 200 gallons of whisky and 200 feets of seroplanes that would attack Shrimps-
It seems to me, therefore, nothing Cat She Is
Snapper.-Lap To scattered over the whole province. Customs signal tower, small craft their trade unions they must pursue gallons of wine every three months.us. employing tens of thousands of work of all kinds went to these creeks for a bold and far-seeing policy. The This works out at one bottle of whisky but plain common sense that we reach Was fa erk. For the moment the cloth is refuge. Now that they are closed it clerk to be would have a clearer con- and one bottle of wine per month should spend what money we can Trbo-To Bu
remains to be seen what means of sciousness of the part his work played for every average drinker in the city.spare not on battleships but in provid- Tarties, al
ing the very best we can buy of the obtaining shelter they will adopt. in the service of the community. He Substitutional provision has not been would not be content to be a mere. Escaping from an sylum while in newer weapons that will count in the
could do when attacked by a 'plane follows again, that if the seroplane made for them.
writing-machine employed for a his pyjamas a lunatic jumped on to war of the future." salary, but would demand a share in an unattended milk float in an Ux- Admiral Sims's comment on this except to try to reach it with her can do what is claimed no fleet is the management of the office and in-bridge, Middlesex, side strect, drove statement was that "Sir Percy Scott anti-aircraft guns. If the aeroplane going to approach a coast within reach dustry of which, he formed part, so furiously through the town, shouted to takes the extreme view that all these can do what is claimed," he observed, of 'planes, because each ship can carry DISTRESS in the stomach after eat that he might contribute not merely a passer-by: "I'll give you a quart inventions will do what is claimed for it means that any nation which only one or two planes on its carrier, ing is relieved by taking one of hired service but his fall inteiligence of milk for your hat!" and was them." If the three points he had builds acroplane-carriers to a greater and the enemy can have thousands on Chamberlin's Tablets. Try it the text- tise you eat more than you sh uld. For and goodwill to the success of his caught in a wayside inn at Denham, referred to earlier were true, he added, extent than any other country will be shore. Therefore everything depends
Bucks, 2 miles away. industry. sale by all Chemisis sad Scorekeepers.
then there was nothing a battleship able to defeat an enemy. It also on a very large “if."
exported free of duty, as an encourage ment and to foster the trade, and its exportation has grown appreciably. Softwood has fallen off owing to the West River districts being disturbed by fighting.
MIND THE PPIRTI
WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH.
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