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FRANCE'S WAR DEBTS,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A TYPHOON..
It is not often that one comes across a typhoon story with
That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend on as true; but all the colouring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture." To which Boswell added: "Then, sir, you would reduce all history to ne better than an almanack, a mare chronological, series of remark- able events."
The terms of settlement of Francels war debt to Great Britain, which were,
the result of negotiations, offered to the Franch Minister of Finance (M. Cailloux) by the Baldwin Government in mai week, have not had what can be called by any means a good Press, a Hongkong flavour. Here is at any rate net in London, Even one by the Chief of the Capella as journals which are usually most told in "The Sea and the Jungle friendly to the present Administra- a book the Shreds man hearti- "This typhoon tion wither frankly deplore the pro-ly recommends. posed settlement, or they damn it-I had four others--but this one with faint praise. From few quar made me think it was good-bye.
Among the listeners there was ters in the Kingdom, so far, has it She was a small steamer, that been received with unqualified "Samuel Plimsoll," and old, but a plump little gentleman in his acclamation and Mr. Winston well-behaved. But her light late thirties, an ex-officer of Churchill, on whom mainly rest nearly went out in that blow. It Militia, and now a silent Member ed the responsibility of the was that dark you could find no- of Parliament, who was under- negotiations on the British aide, thing but the noise, and we were, stood to have some historical will, possibly, and it anything but just the same as a chunk of wood work on hand. He had a lodging, an easy task to justify the proposed under a waterfall, because the crammed with books, in Bentinck debt composition to Parliament. Lord knows how many feet of, Street, Manchester Square, and a There can be no denying that water were in the engine-room, sword and some fine suits of France, if ahe accepts the British for she was rolling so. Her fires flowered velvet that only set off, offer, will have greatly the better were out. She had a list of 22 in absurd relief, his 'round of the deal but that has been in: degrees to port. She simply lay features and baby button-mouth. evitable all along. France would
in it, and it went over her. Every His name was Edward Gibbon. have made an excellent bargain it time she rolled over on the deep A few months later there appear- she had endorsed the Balfour Note, wherein Britain offered to reduce side, thinks I, this is the last of ed the first volume, a quarto, of all war debt claims, that she might her. All this, mind you, went on the Decline and Fall of the Roman legitimately make against her for two days, and the skipper was Empire. It was as they say European Allies to
in the chart-room, waiting. I've the book of the season, to be found an amount necessary only to cover her own'
found that when the danger is "on every table and almost on war debt payments to the United not much you get excited, but every toilet," despite the fact that States. That offer at the time when there seems no chance you the last two chapters in the seemed the very acme of generosity, get cool and cunning and try to volume showed the "cloven hoof seeing that Britain's European make one. One time I thought of infidelity." Volume after debtors owed her roughly £2,017, she seemed easier, and I was able volume followed, the great page- 000,000 while her indebtedness to to get the donkey engine going. I ant marched steadily onward, America was a little less than half felt better as soon as I heard the marshalling the centuries and all that amourt. But in February steam, even though it was only in their great figures and events last Mr. Churchill, who had then the donkey. Think I there's with an unfailing sure touch, just succeeded to the Chancellor-power, and it's mine—a canful of ) until just before the stroke of ship of the Exchequer, improved on steam into a typhoon. It was a midnight, on June 27, 1787, its Mr. Baliour's offer. In addition chance to laugh at. Then I took author completed his last sen- to undertaking to forego all claims the other engineers with me and tence, and looked out over the on account of Britain's war debta
we went below. The water there, I moonlit Lake of Geneva. "The in Europe over and above an full of cinders and trash, pouring air was temperate, the sky was amount sufficient to liquidate. her through the gear as she turned serene, the silver orb of the moon obligations to America, he further from side to side, made it look a was reflected from the waters," undertook to apply the whole of the petty poor show. You see, the and all was silent.” * United Kingdom's share of German donkey wouldn't work the pumps We know, from Gibbon's own reparations, under the Dawes for the coal and muck was sucked., account of the matter, a justly scheme, to allied debt redemptions, in. So I took a basket and got famous account, now he felt, how This offer, although nothing had
into the tank, holding the basket his joy and pride gave place to a come of it in: the meantime owing to
The
a pulitical crisis in France, was under the pump. The water was sober melancholy when he realised presumably the basis of the Lon to my neck, and every time she that he had taken everlasing don negotiations which have reach-rolled I was ducked. But the leave of an old and agreeable ed a stage promising a settlement dodge worked, and that list of companion." His work was done. favourable to that country. The hers to port was a bit of luck in But the Decline and Fall remains British Press and public were pre-its way, for it helped to get the one of our great English institu
When I tions. Like any massive monu- pared for some further concessions starboard boiler going. being made to the French Minister saw the throws moving, and the meat, it invites comment from fof the dope traffic probably class the price of getting a vexed wash angry when it, splashed on every passer-by, but like the the not metal I said, "So much for monument it is, it remains, four- great people in general. In question out of the way, but it was
never unicipated that these conces your old typhoon." We were not square to the winds, when its Britain' a considerable number of sions would be so material as now counted out then. We crawled critics have passed away. We Chinese are to be found in colleges, appears.
under the lee of an island, and lay have all read it once, solidly, book iversities and hospitals. During The French war debt amounts in for four days repairing her. The by book, and we have all given it the war Chinese doctors did noble round figures to £600,000,000, and, funny thing was when we got to, an honourde place on our shelves,
either in charge of hos subject to a partial moratorium. Hongkong the papers were full of intending to read it again.
which it is understood relates to a our loss. "Samuel Frimsoll" years go by. it may be, without pitals, or working ju them in series of small graduated ammnities lost with all hands." It was our ever turning its pages, but secondary enpricities. English starting at £2,000,000 or £3,000,000 | funny to see a bill like that. I there it is, waiting for us, a kind houses have been opened to these and subject also to certain con- met the placard as it came run of literary endowment policy, a ringencies, France, under the prof-ning round a corner, and it made solid bulwark against the possible Chinese and they have fered terms, will be able to liqui me stand and shuffle my feet on tedium of our last lonely years. welcomed in true British. fashion. date that debt by 62 annual pay the ground to see if the earth was Each big sen port has ite Chinese ments of £12,500,000. As no in- all right. I knew the editor of
Whatever may Colony, thunks to the periodic formation beyond this has been off that paper, and I was then going SHANDYGAFF, have been the cially announced, nothing is de- up to give him something good. visits of the Chinese seunan, whilst finitely known as to the course the And here he was making money the advent of cooler weather, the ease before, with the 'hinese jaundrymun is not negotiations book, It is under out of us like that. He stood at Repulse Bay girl does care d unknown. It is not overstating the Mood, however, that at the ontset the door of his office and saw me wrap. case, or being guilty of malice, annuities of £20,000,000, while M waving a paper in my hand. He Mr. Churchill's proposals were for coming. I went up laughing, tas say that these colonies are a Caillanx insisted that these should looked quite surprised. continual
municipal not exceed £10,000,000, and that mouth was wide open. You're a
the figure of £12,500,000 which nice sort of chap," I said." authorities. Further #field the
was ultimately embodied was the pertinueity of the Chinese has been highest which the French Minister demonstrated. The South Seas are felt he could with any hope of practically in the hands of the acceptance submit to his colleagues, ABOUT THE Chinese trader. Quietly he has ar and the highest which in his judg- "DECLINE." rived, settled down, and the in-economic conditions, could pledge Cambridge, "at his beautiful villa ment, France, under present lubitants have found themselves herself. From the British point of on the banks of the Thames near ousted from their own vantago, view, the proposed settlement, Twickenham." There was some wife of L. G. S. Dodwell, and. The simple illustration can while much may yet be said for it good talk in the library. Someone a medical authority. The Educa-
be duplicated. Nearer home-in) political grounds," carcely ventured a remark on the utility tion Board should see about it.
fail to involve the nation in per- of reading history, and Johnson the Philippine Islands the natives manent economic disabilities. pounced upon it af once. CAMIDGE-On October 6, atare waking up to the fact that the Italy's war debt to Britain amounts
A Salvation Army officer anYS Peak Hospital, to Audrey, South Seu example is being copied, to £41,000,000, but na "how very little history there is; Hongkong brokers should be glad "We must consider," he said, he finds cheques in dustbins. wife of R. A. Camidge, a
Certainly the natives in the islands financially, is by no means as strong I mean daughter.
ns France, that is to say. her tax-
real authentic history. of this information. are alive to the fact that unless able capacity is appreciably lower, they do something, the trade which it will be impossible for Great Bri- in by natural right theirs, will be tain to exact from that country ever, that it will never be the policy desinatory of the present arrange It may be hoped, how the American Press is equally, con- The better terms than, or ne favourable of a British Government to attempt ment. It is in the last degree de- entirely out of their hands. method employed by Chinees is terms as, from the French.
to escape its own obligations bo- plorable that Britain's considera- prospect, therefore, of her receiving cause some other nation is unable; tion for France should create evan
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our Compradore's "fresh
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On September 12, at the operative, the co-operation being from her European Allies, who are or unwilling, to meet its debts. An the least, ill-will in America.
Registrar's Office, Singapore, Claude G. Lloyd to Magdalena Van Der Meulen.
amongst themselves.
THEY SAY THAT
i
in America her debtors, annuities approaching unfortainate aspect of the negotin- Tong wars have exercised the minds in the aggregate the amount which tions is that Britain's goneronty to of the authorities and caused them she is obliged to pay to America France will not improve her rela to take drastic steps to prevent furremote indeed, unless, of course, lions with America. French, and
Russia, which owes her £563,000, Italin statesmen will naturally use but never hatchee.-D. Lloyd ther bloodshed. The Chinese abroad, 000, adjures her Soviet faith of that leniency as a lever to secure,
This Government always site. -Hongkong, Tuesday, October 6, 1925-turally takes with him his in- repudiation and agrees ultimately if they can, equal or better terme
George, M.P. gmined habits, and his mode of to a reasonable composition, of with their trans-Atlantic creditor, Agriculture is to-day more pros- thought. The Commarilla of Italy which there can exist at the moment and the odium which will attach in perous than most of our manufac
no reasonable hope. I probably nothing to learn from Possibly, though there is nothing leverage will in most. American Englend should be judged an ber
the United States to a resort to this turing industries.-Lord Erule, certain classes of Chinese in what in the present situation to warrant minds extend to Great Britain. It story rather than by her express- Chinese speak of the incursion of
y be termed the
vendetta. auch an expectation, an Anglo- will be remembered how antavaard estimation of herself-Colonel the foreigner into their
O The Tong wars are simply French settlement, supposing it to ably the Balfour Note was received House. country. They
silent ON vendettas
CHINESE ABROAD,
awn
be consummated on the terme row in the United States. It was des- The Food Council will always re- the incursion
. between of their
respective offered, may lead to a rovision of ribed at the time as seeking to gard themselves as representing the tongs the object being to inflict as the Anglo-American settlement un-place Americans in the situation of man in the street.-Lord Bradbury. countrynien into other coun- tries, unless it be in opposition
much bloodshed as possible. Poking der which Great Britain paye her being the stumbling block to the Imagination fa the thing we most to exclusion
is silent on such things. Slunghi indebtedness to the United States economic stabilisation of the world, need at the present moment in all- and taxation Indopted by certain governments and Canton are dumb also. Some-the uttermont farthing.. A ocn- the sinister contrast to the gen branches of our national life.
siderable body of British opinion erosity of Great Britain. One Lord Eustace Percy M.P. The stay-ut-home person reads of thing perhaps might be said if haa bold all along that Mr. Bonar American journal of wide circula- An educated race beats an un- Ohines and their characteristics steps were taken to deprive Chin Law's Government should have tion and influence said of it: It educated ce aut curely se steel through the safe channels of the C in distant countries of their delayed entering into specific, en is designed to serve as a warning beats stone and guapowder. beate missionary books, or the travel ex- what it is. But they are left in arrangement upon all inter-Allied eminent exmonists of Great Bri- education, the clerkly and the
extra-territoriality for that
gagements with the United States to France, Belgium, and Italy that stool-A-Dalf-Cooper, MP- Government, pending a general the obligations termed worthless by The two forms of medieval periences of those who have boán mamolested rather probably speace util they break the peace obligations. Those who argued turn were to be collected if the nightly are amarguanted to our pitably helped. A groster number The comparison between the lot of thus, will doubtless be confirmed in payment of the debts of the polvent public school system Principal read the gympathetic renderings of the foreignor in China and the Chin- opinion by recent evonte, Great Britain were enforced Ernest Barker
which show clearly that other war Either, it continued, the What seemly in the early writers like Thomme Burks and 26 abroad may not be convincing debtor countries are exceedingly United States was the club to ages or tað
and indee H. M. Tomlinson, and ohtain a Bus it is singular that whilst much loth to follow Great Britain's lead, I strike the Allies, or the Allies were neopean picture which suggests rohunce. A has been said of the former, very and that the British taxpayer is to the club to strike the United Abat a lower strata, reading lurid counts little has been said of the latter pay even more dearly than be of States. The cable messages: pabeto day pected for the honesty of his Golished this morning indieste, that Tidget!