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The China Mail
Knog Kong, Saturday, Sept. 12. 1931.
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Japan in Clover.
Few Eastern nations dead few of the nations of the world have made such rapid strides forward as Japan has done in the last fifty or sixty Realising that a world Power must be an industrid
years.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931.
The lowest open nir. temperature The yesterday was 79 degrees. humidity was 85 at 10 a.m. and 82
to-morrow, it is certain to-day, in the light of facts disclosed in the review under consideration. -47 p. that Japin, on the whole, is in elover.
to bo
Mail Commentary.
War Gult-Britain Vindicated.
For generations, to come the ori gins of the Great War are likely subject of frequent discus- sion. and perhaps of vehement controversy. says Sir
Herbert Samuel. The War stands out sp definitely as the greatest single.j
A verdict of Beeldental death was returned by the jury which Was empanelled to inquire into the el- cumstances of the shunting "in Connaught Rood" on August 14, when Chinese revenue olleer fatally wounded a Chinese who was concerned in opium amoggling.
Personal Pars.
Mr. A. E. Wood has been ap
évent in the modern history of painted to act as Secretary for mankind, and its. consequences Chinese Affairs. have been, still are, and promise to remain. so momentous
to the
fortunes of the human race, that its causes must ever be a matter of the beenest interest.
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Mr. F. £.4. G. Jenkin, C.B.E., has been appointed one of His Majesty's Counsel in Hong Kong.
DOMINIES'
PARADE
SALARY CUTS PROCESSION.
3,000 IN MARCH-
UNUSUAL LONDON
PROCESSION.
London, Yesterday. London witnessed its most un- usual procession to-night when 3,000 well-dressed school masters
A notable contribution to the Discussion has just been made by La distinguished-German professm -Professor Herimaan Kantorowicz, Professor of Law at the Univer-
We regret to learn that Dr. Ar- sity of Kiel. It is of special in-
thur Weerekoon of Singapore, whe terest to English people, for it consists of a close examination of recently arrived here from Java on to his British pre-War polley in relation health trip," is confined
a serious i to Germany, of German policy in rous suffering from
Dr. Weerekoon relation to Britain, and of the re- chest complaint. nctions of the public opinions of the has a large circle of friends and two countries upon one another.
patients in Singapore, and they will Professor Kantorowicz, after a no doubt be much concerned about thurough examination of all the his present Blness. On the advice documents," has come to the clear of his physicians, he expeets to conclusion that the convictions ast enter sanitarium as early as to Britain's share in the respons--passibile. aibility for the War, which hid been almost universal in Germany, and which hà himself had stored at one time, were fundamentally wrong. He very courageously sora, "In the greatest and most nugust hour of its history, the German nation was driven to the field of battle by'a lie."
Mr. L. A. da Costa, of the Stas-marched four abreast in the tard Oil Co. of New York, retura most orderly fashion to Kingsway ed to the Colony from Japan by Hall to protest against cuts. the ss. President Taft.
Reuter.
lent shape. Unemployment is Sir Samuel, says of the author low The country as a whole of this book, that he, who is brave
enough to proclaim à plain authen-) is making money at lower tie statement
such as this, de prices. Rationalisation is in serves the thanks of all friends of all countries of the Reforms are being peace, In progress.
world. made..
Japan expects to have fairly good business | Limericks. long before the rest of the world is able to say that the depression has ended."
No wonder it is possible to Bay, in respoet of Japan, that the clouds across the horizon of the future, from deepest black, have faded to a rather attractive gay, shot through, here and there, with beams of sunlight.
It is true that 1930 brought to Japan, in common with the other nations of the world, sharp de- lines in the earnings of tha country's leading companies, but those leading "practically all companies continued to make money."
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NEWS IN ADVTS.
The as. President Taft leaves for Manila at 6 pm to-day.
AUGUST WEATHER.
The Effects of Two
Typhoons.
The rainfall for the month of August at the Botanical Gardens was 13.64 inches on 21 days, at the Matika Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was 13.64 inches on 17 days. at We read somewhere, some little Fanling, 12.84 inches on 15 days, while ago, that the limerick was and at the Police Station, Taipo. about to return to fashion. We 11.58 inches on 23 days. have not particularly noticed its return yet. but no doubt it is on its way back.
Limericks are not infrequently the form in which University humour is embodied. The follow- ing makes genial fun of Professor Einstein's Theory of Relativity:
There was a young lady called
Bright,
Who travelled more quickly
than light..
She left home one day In a relative way,
And came home the previous
night!
Hong Kong University students sonie of them, at any rate) might, with profit to themselves, take to crystallising in limericks their "keen sense of humour" which now goes to waste as "rags."
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MORE RAIN LATER.
The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory at 10.48 a.m. to-day states!
The typhoon is ventral to the South-West of Vladivostock, moving E.N.E.
An anti-cyclone is forming over N.E. China and possibly a typhoon to the East of the Visutis
Forecast: Westerly or vari 'able winds, moderate; fair at
first, some rain later.
20.190
JAPAN TO CHINA.
Lindbergh's Next Flight.
Osaka. Yesterday. Interviewed, to-day Col. Lidl- bergh confirmed that he plans to Fukuoka to Nan- fly direct Praias king not touching at Shanghai,
He said definitely that he intend- ed to return to America by air- Reuter,
AMBULANCE FEES.
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It is notified. In the Government: Gazette that the following charges' are payable for the removal of patient in an ambulance to or from any private husspítaïor private resi- dence-
.
1. By motor ambulance:-
(n) Inside the boun-
daries of Victoria,
Kowloon, and New Kowloon
(b) Elsewhere
2. By hand ambulance:
(a) Victoria (lower levels); Old Kowloon, Kowloon City, and Sham Shul Po (67 Elsewhere In New
Kowloon
(0) Victoria above Bowen Road. level; other parts of Hong Kong Island, and New Territories
Ten Years Ago.
Irum the "China Mail" of
September, 12, 1921.1
$ 5
$ 10
$ 3
$ 4
$ 6
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8 6/8..
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The lowest reading of the barometer (M.S.L.) was
Magistrates Orme and Lindsell. inches on the 16th.
sat in a large Court this morning The maximum gust velocity us to hear the evidence in the case in recorded by the Dines-Baxendell which an Indian watchman employ- A Professor of the Practice of anemograph, was at the rate of 136 ed by the Garrison School la burgh University was an imposing 1st. Medicine of a past day at Edin-miles per hour at 11.47 a.m. on the charged with having in his posses- sion two automatic pistols, one figure, as befitted the dignity of his Owing to the passage of two revolver, and a quantity of ammuni-” position. One morning, instead of typhoons during the month the tion without a permit. beginning his lecture, he announced mean barometric pressure for to his class in his most impressive August, 29.61
Mr. Burlingham, D.S.P., said that, inches was the the Crown's case was very short, manner that, as the Queen (Vic lowest, and the mean wind velocity, and he was prepared to proceed toria) bad graciously intimated she
18.4 Inches per hour, was the with the evidence. He would like vices, he would require to leave for had need of his professional ser-highest on record.
to get rid of the matter as soon as The maximum temperature for possible as he had other things to Balmoral at once.
the month, 94.0 degrees which oe-attend to. curred on August 25, has only been Magistrate Orme said that he exceeded once, 97.0 degrees having would rather have the case heard been recorded on August 19, 1900. right through in one sitting, and The mean daily temperature for gave a romand until Weducadny August 25, 88.6 degrees, was the afternoon.. Rail in the sum of highest on record.
$1,000 was extended.
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There was a respectful silence; and then from the back of the class room came in a clear voice-
"God Save the Queen!"
Power, she set herself to the task of becoming one so that she might also become the other. And to-day the eyes of the world are upon her, not merely because, of her naval and militury
And the small industries of strength, which are such as to Japan, what have they been do elevate her to the position of ang? "They have been expand-God Save the Queen! first-rate Power, but eyes are ing their export business in the upon her because of her almost face of world-wide depression." phenomenal progress in the In spite of lower prices, "many fields of industry, commerce, have increased the value as well shipping and banking.
as the volume of their overseas A parusal of the annual review,
shipments." These small but 1930-1931, of Japan's business growing industries constitute the (finance, industry and
com-hope of Japan. They represent merce), recently issued by the the many other baskets in which Japan Advertiser,
will repay Japan has decided to carry her careful study by all whose inter- eggs. She realised, long ago, Fests are in thesis directions. that it was not at all safe to rely They will be astounded at the on one or two industries, such as splendid achievements recorded textiles, which are said to be in almost every direction, The "carrying" the nation, and pro- review contains a great deal of viding an immense excess of ex- food for intensive, thought.
ports. What has the "Slump" or, if you prefer, the "Depression of Trade" done to Japan? How has it affected her? We shall quote from the introductory paragraph to answer these ques -tions. And, by the way, let it be. emphasised, that this annual re- view, from which we quote, contains no 'boost' articles or write-ups." It is "an indepen dent and impartial review.”
This is what is stated:-
News in Brief.
The next Assizes will be held on Monday, September 21.
At the Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday Mr. J. D. Bush will spent on "Democracy and State Capital-
That she was wise is obvious, especially since there is the very grave possibility, nay certainty,ism." that her two largest customers, China and India, may cease, at no very distant date in the future, from patronising her to the enor mous extent they have done in
the past. Already a decline has been noticed in the trade of Japanese cotton goods with China and India. Whereas, formerly China used to take on an average the depression in 50 per cent. of Japan's exports, Japan is a comparatively, tri- she is now taking about 80 per vial thing when compared to cent. only. India's purchases of the slumps existing in the Japanese cotton cloth în 1930 United States and most of the countries of Europe, Japan, relatively speaking, is in excel-
The Merchant Shipping Amend- ment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1931, came into force yesterday.
The President of the League of
Nations Assembly at Geneva an nounced yesterday that Mexico would enter the League of Nations to-day, says a British Wireless
messiga.
A now Italian, seaplane has at tained a speed of 688 kilometres an hour on Lake Garda, cables Reuter from De Senzano. This speed in miles is about 997 m.p.h.. an un- official record, though British ma». chines bufft for the Schneider race (and to be flown to-day) have at tained over 400 mp.h. in practice
dropped almost 80 per cent from the 1028 level.
Whatever may be the position nights
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