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Latest Changes In Personnel
Captain J. M. Byrne, C.N. Co., is on Home leave.
Captain W. J. Larter, C.N. Co., is on Home leave.
Mr. W. P. Bruce, from special duty, has gone chief officer, Wan- tung.
Mr. F. A. White, second officer, Sulyang, is on reserve.
(Continued from Page 1.)
sufficiently appreciated by those who bore them. World expondi- ture on arniaments, he said, is nine hundred million pounds, of which 60 per cont. Is expended by European countries, 20 per cent. by the United States and 20 per cent. by the rest of the world.
PRAPS
P'RAPS NOT!
Hore, 'neath this mound of sand,
Lies Herbert William Dunn. He held four aces in his hand-
His opponent held a gun!
Loving letters, Cupid's fetters, Foolish youth-the tale is old. Jilted! Fury! Judge and Jury! worth their weight in gold.
The annual cost of armaments, however, was but a small part of the burden which nations have to Mr. T. E. Rees. gocond officer, bear as a result of this policy of Wachang, has gone second slicer, relying upon force for national Sulyang.
security. Armaments were a pro-Letters Mr. L. K. Berenevitch, from revocation to war and maintained! serve, has gone second offleor, Wu- chang.
Mr. R. Bird from reserve, has Kone second officer. Changchow.
Mr. J. R. G. Gow, second officer, Changchow, has gone second officer, Yunnan.
·
1 war mind. Yet war never Tho vagrant was up before the settled anything. It was only a magistrate again, and, as usual, game from which both sides rose told his hard-luck story. Ha ex- аз losers. Instancing the late plained at great length how he had war Mr. Snowden cited war bur- tried to get work, and the story was dens' in which were Involved so overdrawn that it soon lost its
Captain T. G. Beer, of the Yun-Great Britain, and also in a con-ring of truth.
nan, has gone master, Shansi.
siderable measure ather parti- "It would seem you are a very
Mr. A. Wodley chief officer, Pingcipants. The war had left Great unlucky man," remarked the magis-
wo, has gone master, same ship.
Captain S. J. Rarden, of the Ping- wo, is on reserve.
Captain P. J. Jordan, of the Kia- WO, has коле master, Kingwo.
Britain with a debt of over seven trate. thousand million pounds.
Colossal Figures
"Unlucky?" echoed the other. "Why, your honour, if I was starv. We had to raise each year from ing in a sandy desert and there taxation three hundred and fifty came a sudden shower of soup, I'd
Captain R. Hughes, of the King-million pounds for the service of be standing in the middle of it with
this debt without making any ap-only a fork in my hand." preciable impression on the
wo, is on reserve.
Mr. J. M. Bain, chief officer, Sulwo, is on reserve.
Mr. J. W. Stoneham, from reserve, has gone chief officer, Suiwo.
Capt. W. Sudbury, of the Shu Kwang, has Kwang.
gone master, Tien
Mr. R. Serjeant, chief officer, Hal Kwang, has gone chief officer, Tien Kwang.
Mr. D. B. Smith, second oficer, Kungwo, is on reserve,
WO.
Mr. P. II. Todd, accend engineer officer, Wenchow, has gone second engineer officer, Sulyang.
amount of the debt, At the pre- He was a little man, and his The cares and sent rate of repayment. It will family was large.
take one hundred and forty years frets of a thousand years seemed
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1930.
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Opening Daily Officia! Quotations 11th February, 1930,
Buy-Sell Sales Nom. year
STOCK
Br1
Barka,
had to pay on our debt services he came out of the chemist's shop Hong Kong Bank 5 1350 to liquidate it. British tax-payers (engraved across his pensive face as one million pounds a day, or forty with another tin of "Bildup's Baby' Chartered Bank .....Ĺ thousand pounds an hour or over Food."
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"Hello, Payshunt!" greeted a man took the whole time labour of two who had not seen him for a long Bank of Asia. 99 million workers year in and year out time, "you're quite a stranger; Been The little man hugged the tin of
Insurances.
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to produce the means to pay the for your holiday yet TM" Mr. J. Shiel, second officer, Fuh-annual cost of the British debt. wo, has gone second officer, Kung-service. Add to this one hundred Baby Food to his breast with his Casca Ins,.....$
and fifteen million pounds an left hand, then stoeped painfully Union In................... nually spent on the fighting ser-and turned back the turn-ups of his China Underwriter.. 1.70 China Fire Ins. $540 vices and fifty-six million pounds worn trousera.
"See that?" he asked. paid yearly for war pensions and
"Why! That's sand! Sea sand!" H. K. Fire Ta.......$810 a total has reached the equivalent
exclaimed the other delightedly, of five hundred and twenty mil-Jolly glad to
see the evidence! Shipping. Hon pounds every year, or one Where did you go? Cocklepool?" Douglases Mr. R. Barclay, chief engineer thousand pounds a minute, which
The little man smiled sadly. H. K. Steamboats ...$ officer, Kingyuan, has gone chief en-people of Great Britain had to
"That's certainly Cocklepool gineer officer, Anhui,
provide for war purposes.
sand," he replied, but it's been there Indo-China (Pref.)....$ Mr. D. S. Whyte, chief engineer Three-quarters
(Def....$... Britain's of
since 1921" officer, Shu Kwang, has gone chief taxes were spent on paying for
And, sighing, he hastond home. Shell Transports.$/^.{ m engineer officer, Tien Kwang.
past wars and preparing for
Union Waterboats ....$292
Mr. R. D. Davle, from reserve, has gone second engineer officer, Wenchow.
Mr. A. Robertson, from reserve, has gone third engineer officer, Wanliu.
wards.
EXCHANGES
Mr. J. C. Baker, from reserve, future wars. The British were has gone third engineer officer, the most heavily taxed people in Whnhsien.
the world. The average amounti of national and local taxation) works out at about one hundred pounds per family. It said much for the financial and industrial powers of Great Britain that she' row had a larger number of Hank, wire people in employment than before Bank, on demand... 1/6 5/16 the war. It passed the power of Bank, 30 days' night
Mr. A. Duggan, from reserve, has gone acting chief engineer officer, Kiukiang.
Mr. W. P. Barciny, chief engineer officer, Kiukiang, has resigned.
DRAMATIC CRITICS
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In order to give the Viennament of human welfare.British Credits, newspaper critica the oppor- Wireless Service. tunity to see Д new play or production, most
before opera theatres have been accustomed to Invite them to dress rehearsals. It was considered absurd that a critic should be asked to write a serious review and rush it into print Immediately after a performance.
Unfortunately the invitations to the rehearsals were not limited to At certain theatres the Press. many others were admitted, so that
THE "SLAZENGERS" TENNIS BALL the rehearsals, especially when
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Tokyo, Yesterday. While the bellef exists in some quarters that the American pro-On demand posals at the Naval Conference Credits, received the tacit approval of sight Britain prior to their presentation
to Japan, the Foreign Office em-Wire phaalses that it is convinced that On demand there is absolutely no connivance between the two countries.
On Calcutta Wire...
The Foreign Office, on the con-On demand trary, intimates that it has reason to declare that both Senator Reed'a On demand
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On Manila
as much surprise as was experienced by the Japanese,
On Shanghai On demand it was felt that the visitors did not receive a correct impression of the
A Starting Point
80'day'a aight (private play. Moreover, the rehearsals
At the same time,. Japan is satis- paper) fied that have been held in the morning,
the American proposals On Yokohama.. are not intended as a hard and On demand which can never be the same as a
fast offer, but merely as a starting Gold Leaf, 100 fire production in the evening.
point for bargaining.
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first public performance, and that their articles, in consequence, give
a quite misleading impression.
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statement, though a reply will be Copper Cash sont to the proposals which Senator Copper Cents the critica from dress rehearsals. Reed presented to Mr. Wakatsuki Rate of Native Inter- This has provoked lively con- on February 5.
troversy, which is still going on. Some hold that it would be better to publish at first merely a short report on the reception of the play, and a considered criticism a few daya after.
As the reply requires careful consideration both in Tokyo and London, several days are likely to elapse before It is submitted to the American delegation, and it is not likely to be made public,
A Critical Week
London, Yesterday. The Naval Conference has enter British warships in part this morned a critical week, after three weeks of preliminary surveys, which ze- Ing, were:
Dockyard: aulted in a virtual compromise de "Heraldi tween the two systems, global and
category, tonnage.
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not to be supposed, said
The experts to-day considered "special ships which, it is sug gested, should not be included in any scheme to tonnage limitation. The Communique, says that the heads of delegations met and sur- veyed the present state of work for the future order of business, which include a Public Plenary Session to-morrow to discuss submarines Reuter.
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