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ferring to the expense incurred by the British "Shaforce". Expedi- tion of two years ago, which, during the serious crisis in China, | undoubtedly maintained the in- tegrity of Shanghai, and other parts of China, in which foreign-| ers resided and had considerable property. Miss Wilkinson's con- tention is that, with this in mind, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. A Henderson) might take into consideration; the advisability. of inviting Shanghai's International Muni- cipal Council to contribute: £3,000,000 towards the expendi- ture incurred on the Expedition.
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929.
ONDENCE MELANIE FLOWERS AND FUNERALS
Wilkinson-(printed in our tele- COR graphic news columns elsewhere in this issue) is clearly under- stood. If therefore, such a sum
ཨ་ ༡ཟླ་
resistance that has led in this case
to a divergence, temporary we hope, from a strictly silver standard there may at least be two opinionă.
Vis inertia is not usually counted
or any portion of it is paid by the Shanghai International Muni- Sir, Your correspondent's pro- cipal Council, it must, of course, posal under the above heading in banks that serve the needs of finance come from them acting on behalf your issue of July 16, scema to in-to attempt to stem its currents or volve two (perhaps more) quite to assume the guidance of the public in the ebb and flow of currency and of a wish expressed by the rate-distinct propositions. Bren
exchange. As a P PANG payers and determined in public Mr. Baylis makes out a total ex-
If we have in fact unwisely raised meeting. At the present moment penditure on wreaths, etc; for are
funeral as averaging about $585. up in this premium an Old Man of the Council in question is, as cus-Admit this, and calculate the num-the Sea we must porforce share the tomarily, almost wholly British ber of funerals of this type. Quite burden on our shoulders equally and under the Chairmanship of a fair sum of money in all, you with the banks until means of re- Briton, Mr. H. E. Arnold. Should probably say. Then there are the lief without undue disturbance to funerals where half this amount is our markets are devised by those they, therefore, deem it expedient spent. The whole must total up to who are constantly working to this to take the hint thus made-(and quite a considerable sum. At pre-end. presumably it is no more than a sent this money supports the flower hint) by Miss Wilkinson, and hawkers, flower growers, and the make the suggestion to their rate-makers of wreaths. It must support a good many men, their wives, and payers, and should it subsequent, their families. The occupation of ly be approved by the latter, then these men is honest and worthy: all will be well. But will they do take it away by diverting this so? All Shanghailanders vere money, and you put them on she [To the Editor of the "China Mail."]' charlty list. A charity organisation, certainly very grateful to will then have to be started for the British for the prompt them!. manner in which they sent out so
[To the Editor of the "China Mail."1 for righteousness in banking and it is neither politie nor profitable for
altruism of a contribution of £3,000,000? We very much doubt it.
DON'T WASTE WATER
Yours, etc.,
Z.
Hong Kong, July 18.
THE SHANGHAI SIGN
Sir.-In spite of Mr. M. F Key's repudiation and supporting
sion. I was in company with a
This would be very deleterious in official evidence to the contrary, two ways: First, most economists I regret to be obliged to write comprehensive and so splendid an think (and that rightly, we believe again to repeat that I saw the expedition, which they readily ad- that money expended for goods re-notice "Chinese and dogs are not mit probably saved Shanghai from ceived or labour performed is more admitted" at the garden entrance in Shanghai sometime in Decem- destruction. But is their grati- wisely expended than money given ber, 1916, when I visited that port where no labour is performed.! tude likely to reach the exalted Secondly, these men thrown out of, for the first time. On that occa- work by this diversion of money Commissioner of the Shanghai- would have to go on to a charity or Nanking Railway, the son of a dole system, and would thus be
well-known Chinese gentleman of come temporally demoralised.
Hong Kong, now deceased, and I If Mr. Baylis only means that a remember that my companion, at few less wreaths be sent, then the tired in a costly fur robe, declin- proposition need hardly be seriously ed to join me for a stroll through considered. If the idea is that all the said gardens, and drew my at the money at present spent exclu- tention to the offending sign- sively on wreaths be diverted to board. I mentioned the notice to other useful and charitable objects, the late Dr. Wa Ting-fang who I then the first object of charity visited later in the day and he should be to find work for the hun vouchsafed the opinion that "the dreds put out of honest work by this law-abiding citizen must suffer for. wholesale dislocation.
the faults of his ignorant But Mr. Baylis has another string, brethren" or words to that effect. to his bow. The flowers, wreaths, There must- be hundreds of etc., are a waste of money. Mr. people who have seen the sign- Baylis does not actually say this, board prior to 1916, for I had but he seems to imply it and others heard of it long before I visited have put this meaning on his letter. Shanghai and saw it with my Probably, however, there would be own eyes. As it only affected the` difference of opinion on this part of Chinese it is only natural that
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3RD HINT ON DRINKING-WATER
Dip a kettle in the sea:
Place it on the hob,
Fix the spout (so long and thin) In an empty biscuit tin
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To those who live on Kowloon side; They-with water unrestricted Do not need the plan depicted! - Acwo.
ANANIAS ABROAD AMERICAN'S FAIRY TALE OF
we
A "TIGER"
AT REPULSE BAY HOTEL!
find the following fairy tale In an American paper just to hand
in
The shooting of a man-eating tiger
the idea. What kind of expenditure foreigners would not have notic- of money may reasonably be called ed it much, but it was known to "waste of money" is a very difficult exist amongst most English speak- economic problem. But money given ing Chinese at that time. in charity does not receive much
I would like to say that I am economic support. And most cernot anti-British, rather the con- tainly to divert money given for trary, and I'm not at all surpris hobest labour to charitable objects ed that the truth of my assertion and thereby throw honest labourers is challenged by such high au- on to the charity list would be quite thority. However, we know that unjustifiable and indeed quite there is always a foreign element iniquitous..
in China who make it their policy
I suggest, therefore, that Mr. to wilfully, misrepresent the Chin- Baylis gets a charity organisation ese, but the truth's the truth for (or organisations) to make
the all that. wreaths and grow the flowers, and
Yours, etc.,
TRUTH-SEEKER.
the fashionable Repulse Bay to sell them under the same con- Hotel at Hong Kong was related by ditions and at the same price as Robert Madsen, passenger on the the flower-sellers do, and let those "President Jefferson," which arrived who wish buy from them. They in Seattle from Japan yesterday.
The tiger, he said, swam across the will gradually elicit the sympathy And bay, and erossed the verandah pre- and custom of the buyers.
time they will get all the menade and entered the hotel, snarlin
deak.
Hong Kong, July 18.
OFFICIAL “DAYS.”
LIST PREPARED BY CHINA'S LEADERS
ат
ing, its tawny skin dripping water. money which at present goes tò
Servants and guests fed in terror, the flower-sellers. The suggestion is undoubtedly antil the-fortunate arrival of an arm-
The advantages which would ed military policeman aaved the result are:-(a) It would give a eminently reasonable and it would
situation. He shot the animal as it long enough time for the present
SIX NATIONAL HOLIDAYS indeed be an admirable "gesture"
majestically strode up to the lobby flower-sellers and flower growers on the part of the Council were
to be absorbed in remunerative oc-
The Kuo Min news agency, a It may have been the common they to acquiesce gracefully in or garden variety of "Hong Kong cupation elsewhere, and not
to semi-officia!
organisation, regard to it. Besides, there can Tiger heard at usledictory gatheringe have to depend on charity. (b) ounces the following list of Re- at the Naval Dockyard and elsewhere It would ensure that some of the volutionary Memorial Days listed. be no doubt that the splendid this Colony!! Mr. Madsen is cer- recipients of charity organisations by the Standing Committee of the Hong Kong, Thursday, July 18, 1929. deal made was very largely owingtainly well named!!
were returning from the charity Central Executive Committee of the to the fact that the Electricity
system to the labour market. (c) concern was practically British, HEAVY CASUALTIES It would enable those who feel a established as it had been by a Council that was almost entirely
WANTED: A GRACEFUL GESTURE
the vast
EXPLOSION IN YUNNANFU ARSENAL
Peking, Yesterday. Details from Yunnanfu are coming through slowly
five thousand injured.
Americans.--Reater,
sympathetic appropriateness in the fading flower and the depart ed friend the opportunity of still expressing this sentiment..
Yours, etc.,
C
CURRENCY PROBLEMS.
A [To the Editor of the "China Mail"]
Sir-Your correspondent "Inter
Nationalist Party:-
January 1--Establishment of the Republic of China (National Holiday). March 9-Anniversary of the Inter- national Feminist Movement.
March 12-Death of Dr. Sun Yat- sen (National Holiday). 18-Punitive March
against
Yuan
Expedition
Shi-kat by the Navy: led by the gunboat
boat "Shaoho.
March 29-Death of the 72 martyrs
at Canton (Nations) Holiday),
April 19 Party Purgation Move- ment. ment
April 18-Removal of the national capital to Nanking
May 1-Labour Day.
May 3-Tainan Incident Humilia-
tlon Day.
May 4-Anniversary of the Student movement
May 5-Inauguration of Dr. Sun as President of the Republic of China. May 9 Twenty-one (Japanese) De- manda Humiliation Day.
May 18 Anniversary of the death of Martyr Chen Chi-mel.
May 30-Nanking-road (Shanghai
Day) Dr. Sun's евсара
Chen Ching-ming's
Shakee Incident
rebellion.
16-Dr.
Mias Wilkinson, M.P., has raised quite an interesting point British, from funds supplied by in the House of Commons, in her British ratepayers, statement regarding the sale of majority of whom paid the bulk
It appears that the explosion occur Shanghai's Electricity undertak of the money required for a very
red at the arsenal, which is inside the ing which until its recent disposal long period and helped consider walled city. A thousand people were was conducted as a department of ably towards its maintenance. To killed and Shanghai's International Settle- this must be added the fact that huge number of buildings was destroy- ment Municipality. It will be re- from its inception not only the So far as is known, Mr. C. A. Kirke,sted" is quite right in stating that called that the concern, which had Electricity Department but the C.EE, (H.R.M. Consul-General) was an increase in the Note Issie is not the only British casualty. There were the remedy for the is occasioned by developed during the past few actual executive work were in the no casualties among the French colony. the present premium on banknotes decades from a small affair into hands of Britons. For years Mr. No news is to hand concerning the over the legal tender of the Colony
It is quite possible that a redundant one of the most gigantic and suc-T. H. U. Aldridge was (and per-
Trouble Explained
currency induced by over-issuing cessful electricity undertakingshape still is) the head of the con-
Shanghai, Yesterday. notes would tend in time to depress The elements in Yunnan opposing the extant, was sold to American cern, and owing to his work and National Government, led by Hu Yok exchange, but such a remedy would financiers operating in conjunc that of his British staff Shang-yu and Chang Yie-chi, bave succeeded be worse than the present evil. Humiliation tion with British concerns for the hai's Electricity plant at River-in driving out the pro-Government Apart from its economic unsound- June leader, General Lung Yum. The insurness there is the almost Insuperable Canton
This, the highest bid offered, was and more valuable as time passed. the capital of the province, o note issues on an easy money mar Humiliation Day
But the International Settle retreat to the outside of the province. The simple solution' advanced by regarded by the Municipal Coun
July 1 Establishment of the National Government cil as being entirely satisfactory, ment of Shanghai (the "Model Nan Chung, Kuo News Service "Interested is not so easy, as it Punitive Expedition (National Holl- Inly Launching of the Northern and their acquiescence with refer Settlement) though virtually
The many friends of the late Mr, seems. What it gains in Hta logic it day) ence to it was subsequently con British, in origin and in many and Mr. W. Dawson wäl be loses in its simplicity.
August 29-Death of Martyr Liao He tells us in affect that the firmed by the ratepayers in public other respects, to-day as in the praed to know that their son
thung kai
August 29-Treaty to
Nanking, meeting.
The deal was finally past, is nevertheless what its Aubrey has recently been awarded Government should laste an 1842 Humiliation Day.
a Holroyd Musical Scholarship at ultimatums to the Banks to forth settled and the general view in name plainly states Inter-
Keble College, Oxford Aubrey with derate the dollar to 1/81⁄2er Shanghai and elsewhere appeared national," and that being so, its Dawson was educated at the Dioce under the threat of losing their note to be that the Shanghailanders duty to pass over $8,000,000 or any Boys' School, Hong Kong, and issuing facilities! had done wel by the“ ction any other sum to the British Gov at the Grammar Schoo, Wakefield. "Interested" may, I think, safely assume that the banks view the pre- According to Misse
nent as part of the expense in
The next launch pienie of S sent state of affairs with us thuch Peter's Church Young Men's Club concern as the public The difficult hable. The will be held on Monday, Augus: B problem of aligning our currency ght leaving Blake Fier, at 2.30 pm and with silver and keeping it there is
Kowloon at 2.45 pm and returning Burely more fittingly a about 7.30 pam Tickets (one dollar the banks than of the Government. each) can be obtained and paid for As
enormous sum of Tis. $1,000,000 side, Yangtazepoo, became more gerts are now controlling Yunnanfu, difficulty of materially expanding Jun
(who is a Labour MP.) at £10,000,000 paid for the concert $6,000,000
and was penditure borne
ult of ex
British Thi
Henderso
whol
General Lung Yen has made a hasty ket
on board
ncern of
September 7Treaty of 1901, (Box-
Rebellion), Humiliation Day. September 9-Dr. Sun's first re- volutionary.
ry attempt. September 21 Death of Martyr Chu Chichsin
October 10—Independence (National Holiday).
Day
October 11-Dr Sun's escape from the Chinese Legation in London.
November 12 Birthday of Dr. S. (National Holiday) De
December Peking a revolt against Yuan Shih-kal 3 December Anniversary of the the wisdom of allowing our Yunnan revolt against Emperor Ynan
to follow the path of least Shifi-kai,