MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930.
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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and eliko,)
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20
21
122
23
24
25
20
229
35
38
148 149
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53
58
159
63
71
HORIZONTAL
1-Saltor (alass}"
Ę-Go upward
16-Implares
14-A melody
15-Knobs
16-A land measure
17-Head of military
post
19-A continent
20-Trea
21-Expert
23-Parent
124-Edged tool '
26-Musica! term, “Ax"
it'standa"
27-Greeting
28-Circulating
32-Puffed up
34-A.star in the can-
tallation Cotus
35-Roughen 37-Profix-upan,
38-Flyers 39-Musical composer
(Norwegian) 41-One who applies
loing to take
44-Sengült (European) 46-Covet
47-Arm of national
defensa
13
57
60
6$
65 66
67
69
TO
72
73
HORIZONTAL (Cont.){ 48-Fictitious narra
tives
51-Palace of Turkish
Sultan
53-The whole
54-High priest
58-Boy
67–Delirjum tremens
(sbr.)
50-Slid
60-Annoy
83-Air
51-Depressed
68-Unit of work (pl.)
69-Pluckier
7-Fresh-water fish.
71-Quist
72-Requiem
73-Vehicle on runners VERTICAL
1-Pouch 2-Fragrant 3-Variety of bean 4-Ram down 5-Subjoining
& Wand
7-Feminino name
8-Dispatches
D-Property 10-Sheep orles
VERTICAL (Cont.) 14-Ripturous
12-Afflict mentally
13-CautaNzed
18-Wing-shaped 22-Bundla
23-Mountain lion 26-Have offact 29-Quiveringa 30-Frame for support.
Ing a picture 31-Smile broadly 33-Imitating 35-Even
40-Revolving in a
Circle
42-Proof 43-Indias peasant 45-8hed tense 48-More speedy 49-Entise
550-Heavy hammer
62-Arabian export
55-Perfect
59-Nuisance 61-Suma up
62-Ratify 65-Holy Mother
Church (Latinma Abbr.) 88-Pin 167-Boy'snickname
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue, along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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Prospects for British Trade
AN OFFICIAL REPORT
of
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MAIL.
in which the price factor carries the greatest weight. The United States has an additional advan- tage in her geographical position: An incentive to further effort on the part of British engineering firma is found in the reminder that at present a country of over A report on economic conditions 400,000,000 inhabitants is import- In China to September 1, 1929, Ing annually machinery and in- has just been issued by the Dedustrial plant to the value of only partment
Overseas Trade. £1,000,000. It is said that while some rathar China may within the next decade severe criticisms of British com- go far towards making herself in- mercial methods in China, for Sir dependant of foreign supplies in H. Fox, the Commercial Counsel the matter of clothing and food. lor at Peking. states that, after stuffs, it will be many years be making overy allowance for fac-fore she can attempt to make for tors which handicap British herself the various forms of de- trade and over which the British licate and complicated machinery manufacturer has little or no con- which her industries will require. trol, the home manufacturer, In this connection an examina. speaking generally, does not pay tion might asofully be made of sufficient attention to the China the direction of the expansion of market, does not exert himself China's manufacturing Industries, enough to And out what the of which the report gives a short Chinese really want, does not ad-description. vertise his goods sumcleatly or Improvement in Railways. present them in a sufficiently at- The marked improvement which tractive manner,
and does not has taken place in the railways, give the financial assistance to his which are once more running with: agents which they can fairly fair regularity; is ascribed to the claim, especially when introducing staff of the new Ministry of Rall. now goods to the market.
ways, who have worked hard to
He is aware of at least two rescue them from the military. Americh firms in the motor trade The great problem now to be fac- each of which spends over ed is their rehabilitation and re- $100,000 a year in advertising, conditioning, the cost of which is while on the other hand, he has estimated at £6,000,000 at least. If been told by the agent of a Briand when the necessary funds can tish firm in the same trade that be raised, the administrations may his principals last year, for the see their way to settling their long- first time since he took up Its lover-due accounts, and British firms agency five years ago, allowed may look forward to a fair share of him a sum of $1,000 for advertis, the orders for material. ing.
It should perhaps be added that since the report was written the
to the
fall in the price of silver has in- troduced another obstacle import trade of China.
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"Big Bill" Tilden, in a happy mood, faces the camera on the courts at Monte Carlo with a tennis colleague, K. Kazebuk. The American ace recently filled a theatrical engagement in London, where he has a large following.
GIB." TUNNEL
Activity of Spanish Engineers
Increased Import Duties Although it is too early to judge with any degree of ac- curacy of the effect which the in creased import duties Introduced
The resignation of Sir H. Fox is last year will have on Chinese now announced and the Department purchases of foreign goods, it is of Overseas Trade records ita ap- encouraging to find that, taking preciation of his valuable services. the Customs returns
The headquarters of the Commercial criterion, they have so far not Diplomatic Services in China are
The attention of the French prejudicially affected the volume being moved from Peking to Shang-public has been recently diverted of Imports. At the same time it hai. Mr. H. J. Brett is being pro-from the perennial discussion of is stated that the fears generally moted to be commercial secretary. the proposed Channel vehicular expressed that likin and similar first grade, with the local rank of tunnel by the activity of Spanish Internal lovies would continue to commercial counsellor.
AS
A
be enforced have been fully realis-!
ed. Surtaxes on imported goods
that have already paid a tariff DOCTOR AS DENTIST rate of duty are in fact now levi-
ed to a lessor or
army engineers seeking to burrow under the Straits of Gibraltar to the North African Coast.
near Tarifa to determine the path of the tunnel plarned.
Still a third plan has been put forward by a Spanish engineer M. Gallego Herrera; that of a double tube submerged only a short die- tance beneath the surface of the sea. This plan, according to M. Herrera, will enable the tunnel to he laid across the narrowest part of the straits, measuring only nine miles. The engineer-inventor de- clares that separate tubes 15 kilo metres can be utilized, and that the rigidity of the entire structure can be effected by the same prin- ciple that obtains in the suspen
M. Carlos Ibanes de Ibers, Secretary General of the Spanish Department of the University of Paris, has just advocated in the sion bridge. Journee Industrielle. the newest plan to link the European and' African continents. He proposes
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A total expenditure of $100,000,-
greater extent Veteran Physician Wants in every single province of China. Such burdens include the trans
to Aid Eskimos portation surcharges on the Gov-
A loss ambitious man probably would ernment railways, these being feel that his life had been full if he a three-tubed tunnel from the Bay 000 will be required to carry out the usually far higher than the actual had been a Lincoln booster in 1860 of Vaqueros straight to Tangiers, housing project planned by the cost. of transport warrants.
Fat the age of 11'; travelled across the Such taxation, however, carries platas, the Rocky and Cascade moun.
at a maximum approximately a
Roumanian Government for its offi with it no discrimination as betains with a prairie schöner train in quarter of a mile. The cost of this clais and civil servko workers. tween the goods of one country 1882, after studying medicine in enterprise the most ambitious thus and another, and it is thereforo Chicago; homesteaded a farm in the far advanced, would be enormous; useful to examine Sir H. Fox's richly timbered area of Port Angeles, as the two termini envisaged are analysis of the progress of import Wash., starting in 1888, at the same more than twice the distance apart trade in certain leading lines. time acting as physician, surgeon and than the narrowest part of the On the subject of the cotton general counsellor for other home Straits. plece goods trade, which it may doctor from 1801 to 1909; travelled the Pedro Jenevois has drawn up a steaders of the district; been a country A Spanish colonel of artillery incidentally be remarked
expanses of Alaska as a physician and
has
a
Alaska, and then stayed three years on and Siberis, to return to the United Little Dfonide Island, between Seward States in December, 1929.
But not
Independence Hall at PhBadelphia was on several occasions used as a prison in Revolutionary times by the British troops, captured American officers being detained there.
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GOOD PRESS" DAY.
Celebrations in Catholic. Cathedral
:
PORTRAIT OF A PATRON
Yesterday was the Catholic "Good Press" Day Celebrations at the Cathe dral of the Ipimaculate Conception Glencaly, started at 8 a.m., with Hig Maze, and in the afternoon there Sermon and Benediction of the Blaas Sacrament at 4 o'clock, after. which int "At Home," which was largely attend el, was held at the Mission Hose, Caine Road.
The "At Home" opened with a y enjoyable musical programme, aftor which addresses on the Catholic Press were given in both English and Portu guese. The Rev. Fr. Gallagher, B.J... was amongst the speakers, and in an appeal for support for The Rock, drew. attention to the fact the nearly a muffe lion and a quarter magazines of al sorts were sold in the Colony during the past year, and suggested that much of that support could be diverted to the Catholic Fress.
During the evening a portrait was unveiled of the late Mr. Jose Pereira patron of the Catholic Press, whilst á portrait of the RL Rev. Bishop Valtorte, D.D., was presented to the Catholic Union Club;
MR. C. E. HOLMES. Returns Home Upon Retirement.
Amongst the passengers leaving for Home on Saturday by the as. Rawal. pindi were Mr. C. E. Holmes, Super Intendent Engineer of the Indo-China Steant Navigation Company, Kr. Holmes is returning Horna on retire ment
Mr. Holmes first came to China in Messza. 9. C. Farnham Co., Limited, 1896, serving his apprenticeship with of Shanghai. The firm is now known as the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Works.
Later, in 1001, Mr. Holmes joined the Indo-China Company as fourth engineer on the Kam Sang, and had romained with them ever since.
Mr. Holmes's family are well-known died in 1901, after serving Meser in the Far East. Mr. Holmes, sanior, Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd, fox many years on the Company's steam. orn. Mr. C. E. Holmes's elder brother, Captain H. W. Holmes, is reca ed as the only foreigner to lose his life when
the .5. Hong Moh, of which he was, in command, foundered on the Boat. Rocks after leaving Swatow in the height of a gale on March 3, 1921.
is still in the employment of the Indo- A younger brother, Mr. L. S. Holmeg China Navigation Co., Ltd., being Chief Engineer of cue of the Yangtzo steam
ora..
Small, high-pressure tyres are responsible for the corrugated sur face of some highways, while balloon tyres produce no noticeable rough- ness of the surface. This conclusion has been reached following two years of road tests carried out at the State College in Washington.
and Refreshing
Tasmanía leads the world in the suffered from great fluctuations school teacher for the Federal Board of project for a tunnel between Tarifa per capita consumption of electrical since the report was written, it Education; served four years as ':
and a point slightly to the east of power, although the main is significant to read that com-lieutenant in the Canadian medical Tanglere. Sounding wells have development began only about 1-1 plaint is heard on all sides in corps in Palestine during and after already been drilled off the coast years ago. Canada comes next. China that the steady increase in the world war; Isolated himself in 1921 taxation is restricting the con. at Shishmareff, near Kotzebue Bay, sumption of everything beyond the about 250 miles north of Saward, absolute necesaarles of life, and that the purchasing power of the people has been greatly reduced. The cumulative effect of all sorts
no Dr. A. Thompson of intermediate charges has been when the tall, lanky physician, who to raise the price of many the acts as if he might be 40 instead of 80. better class goods beyond the landed in Seattle early in December on means of the impoverished in the Bureau of Education supply ship, habitants of the interior districts. The Boxer; it was not with the idea Interior Taxes Hamper Trade. of settling down and spending the re- With regard to wool textiles, almainder of his years in idleness. though the higher scale of duties
Returning to ‘Alaska has had a temporary effect in re "I expect to go back to Alaaka next ducing business, there is no doubt August," Dr. Thompson said, as he was that the demand for such goods fore then I am going to take a shört leaving Seattle for California, "but be- is now frmly established, and it course in filling teeth and fitting glasses. is not therefore expected that "The natives of the Aretic circle trade will be crippled. Yet the need glasses, but so far they have been Increasing taxes in the interior getting nothing but the cheap lenacs are a serious matter, and it is brought by small traders and they are estimated that the effect of such worse than none at all." levios has been to reduce clear. "Before the white man invaded the ances and distribution of wool Eskimos' homes they hail the most won- textiles from Shanghai by one-third.derful teeth in the world. But they The slight increase in the imfood and that means trouble with their have learned to eat the white man's port duty has had no effect on teeth. the rayon trada generally, which "Every government post is supplied
The following unclaimed tele is steadily increasing, and the low with forcops and whenever an acho ap- grams are lying at the E level of prices bas encouraged the pears or a small cavity is noticed, out Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong-development of various new chan-that tooth comes. That's making the Captain Altkos, General Postinels of consumption. It is added cure worse than the malady. It's go Office, from Sydney, Sub.
that for ladies wear in parti-ing to be different in the district 3 go cular there should be an increas. into. I'm going to fill those teeth,”- Antonio Poli, 22, Ashley Road, ing demand for artificial allk Kowloon, from Baigon.
-Bas, from Singapore.
stackings and dress fabrics, a CANED BOY FAINTS
Christopher Robin, Hotel, from the modern Chinese girl yields Kuala Pilah.
Samurai, from Talhoku.
BLACK,
not an inch to her Western sister
head master
in the matter of the shortness of Angry Mother Summons her skirts or the skimpiness of
Head Master Superintendent. Her frocks. It is disappointing to Hong Kong, March 27, 1930. And that British yarna have not yet aucceeded in mining aby noteworthy proportion of the trade, chiefly on account, afi great disparity in prices,
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