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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932.
the large increase in the floating debt is in reality a very small increase when account has been taken of factors which did not appear last year, such as issues for the Exchange Equalisation Account and for the payment of the Conversion bonus. Again, the yield of the new duties, ac- cording to an answer given in the House of Commons, Was about £7,000,000 for the first quarter, and therefore at a rate considerably under the estimate for the year. But, when account is taken of the facts that large stocks were imported in anti- cipation of tariffs and that the first quarter of the year is usual- ly the least. fiscally productive,
has a history of its own. It is only there is no reason to believe that the estimates will not ultimate Even in the heat wave there is since the war ly be realised. As for the yield enough ice and snow in this city to really begun to eat this delicacy, of other taxes, no definite as satisfy any Polar explorer; and which Marco Polo is said to have sertions can ever safely be made while you mop your forehead there introduced to Europe from Asta in 15th contúry, and which upon the results of the first are Londoners in frost-encrusted, the
de? Medici certainly months of the year, though the caverns who have to stamp to keep Catharine revenue appears to be coming in their circulation going," writes lan brought into France in 1560. Ap propriately enough, the Italians laid much as usual. But the public; Coster.
Under and around, Smithfield the foundations for its present will.scan the returns not for Market there are acres and acres of popularity in England. proof of the habitual courage of
for space where the temperature is al Refugees from Italy's struggle
The Frozen Wastes Of London
Four Ton Wall Of Ice Rises By Magic
the taxpayer so much as
UNDER SMITHFIELD MARKET
"
"I have just emerged, shivering, Ice's edible relation,, ice-cream; from London's Ice World.
that London bas
In for Hberty hawked statuettes and some sign that it will be possible ways below freezing point.
these halls and caverns are the played hurdy-gurdies in London to reduce the national burdens; and it can only be said at this reserves of chilled and frozen meat streets until the late '509, when one moment that there is nothing from overseas and from the British of them produced a recipe for ice-
Isles.
cream and a barrow. Immediately whatever in the returns to excuse
"Eggs, fish, milk, beer, poultry, a new street trade was born. Soon any relaxation in the efforts fruit, nuts, vegetables and even furs scores of barrows, flamboyantly de- made to secure further retrench-
and tobacco are also held in the 'corated with portraits of Garibaldi ment. It is understood that the
stores scattered about and Victor Emmanuel, were peram- many cold Treasury has recently addressed London.
bulating about... another general appeal to Gov- One store specialises in flowers. London's appetite for ice-créam la ernment Departments to re- Roses and lilles cut in the "height of how enormous. At Lyons' head- trench; and the appeal responds summer, are kept there in frozen quarters they have discovered that to an urgent necessity. Many state until hotels and restaurants the sales vary directly in proportion factors which may influence the call for their fragile beauty. When to the temperature, thus 70 degs. F., final balance of the Budget are November for hangs over London one million portions; 74 dega. F., still uncertain; some of them do they may be taken out and arranged one and a half millions: 78 degs. F not depend for decision upon thei British Government alone; and on a banqueting table for a brief, two millions: 30 degs, F. (and resuscitation. Bulbs, tulips upwards), over two and a half there is therefore all the more and hyacinths are also kept sleeping million portions a day. Each year challenge the investing public to
resaon that the most unremit find a better security than a
"In a Paddington factory I saw a Now the ice-cream producers have LO CHUNG KUE At his re- British Government loan at 3 ting scrutiny should be devoted in the cold until they are marketed. the demand gets bigger.
to all expenditure the scale of sidence, 97 Caine Road this per cent. The first substantial which does depend upon central strange sight the raising of a taken to making synthetic "anow," morning after a brief illness. fact is a remarkable improve-
a mould. It rose until it divided At a factory in Acton I was shown Compradore of the Hong Kong meht in the balance of trade or local policy and administra-reat limpid blue sheet of ice from which is really soild carbon dioxide. the place in two,, a glittering wall over an involved plant of towering and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. an improvement not in total!
18 feet long, 9 feet high and a foot cylinders and compressors and turn- figures only but in the character ELEVEN CASES FOR thick. An overhead crane swung it ing wheels. They were feeding of trade on both sides of the ac- count. The Import Duties Ad- visory Committee seem to have been able to devise a system of
OBITUARY.
The China Mail.
Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1932 tariffs which has decreased im-
Britain's Recovery.
ports without affecting exports; nor can they be deprived of the credit which is their due by the
tion.
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slowly down the length of the fac-leoke in at one end and, at the other, tory and laid it flat.
blocks of fuming white solid were A workman leapt upon that four-being mechanically sawn up into ton slab, gouged its surface into neat lengths. I put my finger squares with a hand-pushed plough, gingerly on one of them. and broke the squares apart with a "Don't keep your hand there," Eleven cases have been set down crowbar. So the miraculous wall of someone said. "The temperature is at the September ice, which had taken a week to make, minus 114 degrees about 60 fact that the departure from the for hearing The great improvement in the gold standard has to some extent Sessions of the Criminal Court, was broken for the fishmongers, the degrees less than the South Pole! economic and financial condition helped to check imports and ex- commencing next Monday. The list butchers and the housewives.--
The endless chain of ice-making!
These blocks of solidified gas- for is as follows: of Great Britain affords the ports. The trade returns
the same, that puts the fizz in Before the Chief Justice (Sir was explained to me. greatest satisfaction and the re-the first quarter of the current
I was told how, in a massive soda-water and champagne-are covery, is all the more remark-financial year show that, as com-Joseph Kemp):
Lau Tak-tai, breach of deporta-piping system on the roof, ammonia rationed out to an army of sellers able in view of the gravitypared with the same period last: of the crisis of last year. year, imports declined in value tion order; Yeung Chu, breach of is turned from gas to cool liquid; who patrol London on carrier tricy-
how the liquid ammonia, at about cles loaded with ice-cream."
two On July 31, 1931, a danger by £42,000,000, whereas exports deportation order.
degrees Fahrenheit, The ice-cream itself is made in Wong Shun, alias Wong Wan, (1) minus signal was dashed to the nation, declined by only about £1,100,000, not, as is so often stated, by and actually increased during burglary and larceny; (2) shop-flows alongside tanks of brine, churns, long lines of them, attended conspirators desiring to profit May and June, 1932, as compar-breaking and larceny; (3) breach of which it reduces to a temperature by white-clothed men and girls.
of eight degrees.
Twenty minutes inside the brine- and the already from a financial panit, but by a ed "with May and June, 1931. deportation order.
Ng Nam, unlawful possession of The ammonia at this stage has chilled churn responsible Committee appoint- Re-exporta, it is true, show a ed by the Labour Government to considerable decline of over arms and ammunition; Li Yau, un done its work, and in the course of pasteurised and standardised mix- review national expenditure: £5,000,000; but the trade figures lawful possession of arms; Yip Kau, it has been changed back, by heat ture has become a jelly to be mould Their report estimated that the as a whole are encouraging. The (3) wounding with intent; (2) absorbed from the brine, to a warmed and sent to "hardening cham- gus. Off it goes to the piping ayshers"-long ice-coated vaults stored deficit on the Budget for 1932-83 favourable impression is increas-wounding.
Before the Puisne Judge (Mr. tem on the roof to be cooled and with gallons of ice-cream.
J would be £120,000,000a figure ed by further examination of the
liquefied again.
know why they call them afterwards shown to be unduly details. According to the re-Justice Wood)!
Kwong Cheung, alias Kwong
the brine, with its "hardening" rooms: the atmosphere Meanwhile optimistic. On August 3. the view of the Midland Bank, the Bank of England announced course of trade as measured by Cheong, alias Kwong Chong, alias temperature of eight degrees, flows is arctic and the thermometer has that it had been granted credits volume during the same period Kwong Sui-chuen, breach of de- through containers which are set in to be scraped free of ice before one in francs by the Bank of France shows that the decline in imports portation order: Cheung Yiu, rob a huge tank of fresh water. With-can read that the mercury is below I watched trays or moulds of Ice- and in dollars by the Federal is almost wholly accounted for bery by two or more; Hasa Ije Tani in a week the fresh water has be zero.
cream taken into a room-filled with Reserve Bank of New York to a by lower imports of manufac-(1) falsification of accounts, (2) come a wall of ice ready to be lifted total value of £50,000,000 in an tured goods. The imports of and (8)uttering forged dies, (8) out of the tank. ⠀⠀
The whole floor of the building is quick-Angered girls in white caps attempt to check a flight from raw materials show a small in- embezzlement; Leung Chau-hang,
taken up by tanks, each producing and overalls and carried along by an the pound which had required crease. As regards exports, juttering a threatening letter.
about endless band through all the stages simultaneously six slabs the export of nearly £17,000,000 taking the year 1924 as 100, the
twenty-four tons of ice. They are which transform a solid slab Into: alled and emptied in rotation, and the complete "bricks."
My exploration of London's Ice re-the machinery works all the time. as to the financial consequences from 63.7 to 67.7. Any increase ported to the authorities within the The ticklish business of ice em-World ended at a skating rink. balming often falls to this factory. There I saw men and women danc of this country's policy and an in British exports is remarkable last 24 hours.
"It's a delicate job," the engineering on a floor of ice. Behind the accumulating mass of evidence during a period when so many
told me "You've got to wait until scenes sweating engineers drove the that these misgivings were well other countries have been-mak-
When he fell between two junks the ice forms a bit and then, with machinery that keeps that same ke, founded. The simultaneous oc ing determined efforts to reduce currence of difficulties in other their imports, and when inter- lying in harbour, a Chinese male fine fuse wire, fix the flowers or the which is only 4-inch thick, from embedded in concrete, are 9 miles financial centres and all too ob- national trade is so heavily sustained a crushed leg and was relobster in place in the remaining melting away. vious proofs of an increasing handicapped by widespread ex-moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital water, which eventually freezes.
Under the factory they showed me of piping, through which freezing adverse balance of trade were change restrictions, political un-
A Chinese who jumped for the the "walls," gloomy vaults filled brine is kept running. Between further factors in inducing certainties, prohibitive foreign
floor beauty treatment. They shave foreigners to withdraw balances tariffs or quotas, and financial wharf before the Yaumati ferry had with polar air and piled with blocks skating sessions they give the foo-
was crushed like tombstones.
it with a motor-driven"knife, and from London; and the general instabilities; and these figures moored, slipped and disintegration of confidence was show what may be hoped for against the piles yesterday. He is London's Ice World, now then spray a film of water on.
frigidly impressive, started in a too profound to be corrected even when and if these obstructions reported in a grave condition.
small way. One hundred and thirty by the formation of the first can be diminished or removed. National Government and by the But the figures give no cause for The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, M.A, years ago several Industrious people beginning of drastic corrective boundless optimism. They show was the speaker at the meeting of were collecting ice from the marshes action. The gold standard had an improvement on 1931, but the Y's Men's Club held in Lane, and lakes in North London during to be abandoned; but enough had they also show a still alarming Crawford's to-day. He will deliver the Winter and storing it in wells, already been done to ensure that decline on 1924, and reinforce an address on The Boy Scouts of as a future protection against the
Hong Kong
hest of Summer, for Billingsgate the abandonment of the gold the necessity of achieving that Hong
fish and other edibles. ́ ́ standard could be made the be expansion of trade within the
ferry ginning of a new stability in Empire, and indeed throughout The total output of the Kailan About the 408 a merchant of River, near the scene of the recent
lon's mines for Boston, America, sent a ship loaded disaster to the stead of the beginning of a pro the world, which was the object Mining Admi
Septembe 1982, with natural ice the Thames, gressively increasing instability of the Ottawa Conference. The the week ending
tons, and continued this tri ra while, Au lesson of the trade figures" The first contrast betw
Soon, howey
the
GRAYS
Alexandra Bldg.
and
YELLOW
in gold in the preceding week. exports of manufactured goods
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In short a year ago there was bave increased from 61.7 to 68.4 every sign of profound misgivings and all exports have increased
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News in Brief.
One case of diphtheria was
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Under
the Ice,
DEATH LIST STILL CLIMBING,
New York, Yesterday. Eighteen bodies have floated to the surface at the mouth of East
Observation.
The number known dead in 64, but it la still uncerta
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