TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
THE
20
1932.
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PENINSULA HOTEL;
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AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL,
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking:
MARBLE HALL
11, Nathan Ed, Kovicon.
Tel. 57089.
A Select Private Hotel furnished with an eye to the comfort of Its Tenants. Single, and double saltes of rooms with private bathrooms attached.
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SOLD BY ALL COMPRADORES
AWARDED IO GOLD MEDALS
FOR FURITY, STRENGTH
AND FLAVOUR.
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DAVIE, BOAG & Co. Ltd.
THE FAR EASTERN COMMERCIAL AGENCY. Shipping, Forwarding, Insurance, Storage, Clearance of Goods.
General. "Commission Transactions.
39, Hankow Road, 1st floor. Kowloon. Tel. 28377.
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THE CHINA
PEA SHELLERS
British Planes Set New ON STRIKE OUT Robot Can Read Or Tell Time
Records
Giant Ships Fly On Iraq
Egypt Run
RAPID
ENGINE CHANGE
Cairo, Sept. 16. did not prave so difficult. As the With the safe landing at Ismailia return of the troops was spread of the last batch of troops from over four weeks it was possible to keep the aircraft well within their maximum loads.
On the outward trip 18 Vickers Victorias were employed, nine be- ing from No. 70 Squadron, Hinaldi, and nine from No. 216 Squadron, Heliopolis.
Irak, the Royal Air Force have carried out with complete success the transport of 14 officers and 534 men of the 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment from Ismailia to Iraq and back. This is a distance of 1728 miles over near ly waterless desert.
There is no precedent for this operation and it gave valuable ex- perience both to the staffs con- cerned and to the crews of the units in their role of transport squadrons
aircraft were used, four from Hin- For the return trip nine similar
aidt and five from Heliopolls.
Engines In Slings.
In addition to the aircraft for troop-carrying, one was used as a breakdown plane and two as re- serve. The breakdown 'plane and one spare plane were located at Amman, whence the former Was The whole move was carried out able to reach any plane that land- to programme, except that a dusted in the desert and needed a new
engine." storm on June 26 caused nine air- craft of No. 70 (bomber transport)
These squadron to be delayed. aircraft spent the night in the de- sert west of Ramadi.
The weather was extremely hot and as the aircraft were all loaded to Iraq as quickly as possible, the get the total number of troops over to Irak as quickly as possible, the a considerable operation involved strain on both pilots and aircraft.
13 In Each Plane, The average number in each air craft was 18, plus a crew of five.
On the return journey conditions
INDUSTRY TAXES` MUST DECLINE.
Burden Too Heavy. To Be Borne.
CAPITAL GOES "SHY."
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This aircraft, which carried two Napier Lion engines in clings, a breakdown party and a supply, of spares, did excellent work in changing engines rapid= ly in the desert. Then
medical. aircraft located at Rutbah. It carried a medical officer and a me- dical orderly and would have been available, if required, either to the east or the west of Rutbah. `
Fortunately its services were not needed.
Suitable provision was also 'made for reserve rations and water in Ithe event of forced landings in the
desert.-Reuter.
Covent Garden Trade Is Paralyzed.
London, Sept. 16.
The prevalence of small peas at this season of the year has led to a strike among pea-sheliers in Covent
Marvel Of Electrical
Engineering.
ANSWERS QUESTION “
London
A two-ton robot" of chromium-
for instance were pronounced like
rough, but apart from that the ar- ticle was read perfectly.
Telling The Weather. "Then I asked the robot what sort of weather we were having. I was dumb-founded, when it replied Darned cloudy.
The entrails of the machine con-
My laat experiment was to ask Garden. Between 60 and 70 women plated steel which can read any it the time. The voice replied, I looked at my employed by Mr. William Bailey thing put before it in European 129 whose family have supplied shelled language except Russian, answer a watch, and found it was 11.29.
"A minute or so later I repeated peas to restaurants and caterers simple question, and tell the time, for more than 100 years decided was exhibited to the public for the the question. The robot replied, that the present rate of 2d. a quart first time at the Radio Exhibition 1--1-3-4. Again it was right" may be adequate pay for large peas
at Olympia. but not for small. "It takes long-
It was tested by an official of the sist of scores of photo-electrię cells,- er to fill a quart pot with small exhibition before it left in a lorry condensers, moving coils, micro- peaa than large ones," the strike for the Mullard stand at Olympia. phones, transformers, and loud leaders said, and demanded another "I put a paper before its eyes," speakers. There is no gramophone penny a quart. Mr. Balley replied: he said. "The current was turned record, alm, or similar mechanism. The monster was brought "into "My customers won't pay me more on, and Immediately a booming per quart because the peas are voice began to read the words over being by Mr. N. May after ten [years' work, as a scientific" did for small, and in these hard times I to me. It was like a nightmare.
"The words were pronounced | disabled soldiers at the Star and Thus a cannot. pay you more."
phonetically. "Through' and 'bough,' Garter Home at Richmond. deadlock has been reached.
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
Beef Sirloin
APPROXIMATE
Sept 16, June, June,
RETAIL PRICES
Poultry.
Butcher Meat.
1982. 1918 1914.
Ole. Ots. Ots.
4 lb.
84
24
*19
Chicken
Prima Gut
80
28 11
Capons, Small
Corned
40
28
18.
tr
Capons, Large
Roast
34 24. 22
Duck
Breast
82 20 18
Doves
Soup
Steak
17
Steak Sirloin
"Seusages Bullock's Braina
Tongue, fresh Tongue, cornÓ Head
|NOVEL MOTOR PARK Mutton Chap
MACHINE.
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11
"
28 20 18
84 24-29 46
per set 17
80 88
36.... 25..20
sach 80
10 12 50:60
1.00
n
1.60
$1.80
Ib. 24
18 14
20
18.
#
each 11 10~13
15- 10
12
27 20
22
"b 26
18 16
8
60
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Eris, Hen (cooking)
Eggy Hen (fresh)
'Fowls, "Canton
Fowls, Hainan
Geass
Pigeons, Canton
Holbow
Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen
Snipe Pheasant
Quali
Partridges
set $1.50 $1.00 $1,00
· Armanda
Apples (California)
Bananas (bride's).
Carambola
Coconuts
白海火火沙山精
無糖
口味症
Fruits.
Sept. 16, June, June,
1932. 1918, 1914.
Cta. Cia. Ct.
*28*80
anch 1:4520 22
per dos. 86
20
3624
82
75
61.18
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Kidneys
Tall
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Liver
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60. 26
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60
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鞍肉
1260
Pig's Chitings
80
19
27
Brains
*Per set 4
Fest
:lb.
·18
15
Fry
28 15
11
Lemona, Chins
A vertical motor-car parking machine has recently been put into service at Monroe Street,
Head
n
18 20
Heart
each. 15
10.
10
Lemons" (American).
Kidneys
15
30
3
Lichees, Dried
*Ib. 1.00
Liver
lb. 50 80
Oranges (Canton)
n
38 25 23
Oranges
40
70
24 21
Sheep's Head & Fest
Per set 20
60
Heart
each 19
"
Kidneys
1512
Liver
45
25
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·25 21
Walnuta
Installed In Busy Chicago's Centre.
Leg
Loin
Fat or
Industralista for many a long day have advocated the imperative Chicago. Built by Messrs." need of reducing the tax burden im-Westinghouse Electric and Manu Pork Chop
facturing Company, East Pitta posed upon them by sucessive Governments since the war, and burgh, Pennsylvania, the ma even politicians are now beginning chine consists of two units, each to recognise the necessity of this accommodating 24 motor-cars,"
The structure is 105 ft. high course. The National Councils of Industry and Commerce, in a recent and occupies a ground area mea address, complain for different res-suring 82 ft. by 24 ft. It will be sons, the first holding the view recalled that the machine oper- Sucking Pig, that the present abnormal unemates on a continuous chain prin- Suet, Best ployment is primarily due to cer- ciple and that a separate cradle tain forma of direct taxation and is provided for each car, A Veal that for the same reason £140,000, 75-h.p., direct-current, elevator- 000 of capital has been lost to in type motor, brake and rheostatic dustry during the past twelve years, control are installed in each unit The other feels that the limits of of the machine We understand ⠀⠀⠀ taxation are being approached for that a machine capable of ac- the reason that the revenue from commodating 144 cars has been direct taxation in 1931-32 was in operation at East Pittsburgh £32,500,000 below the estimates, for upwards of a year.-En- though they are nevertheless, cergineering.
tain that after all, "not much harm
has been done because national ex-
|penditure (and practically all the (Continued from previous column).
money collected in taxes is apety
118 largely a transfer of income from fact that in 1927 the Labour
one pocket to another
FRAKKAS
The logical deduction from such
promised an annu
229,074,000 for this pur beginning and Mr Lloyd Geor
an opinion as the address rightly bid was only slightly points out, is that to stimulate the The fallacy that staple industries of the country, a rich will augment the incomea we all wish to do, the best way is the poor is also ext
to increase the amount spent on fact that It Is widely social services. As this is plainly aulted in an einvestmen absurd, it remains to discover the of £50,000 being mulo fallacy in the argument. This lies of no less than 497,987 in in the assumption that spending
dole drawn from capital-
taxation and spending
ed by an active worker are equ
beneficial to indust
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This
Bream
Mutton
Fish
60 16 24
20 10.
Canton Fresh Wate
28
Carp
Catfish
CTADE
30
18 18
Pears (Canton).
Peanuts
Persimmona”. Large
Plaintain
Pumalo, Sham
Grapes
Artichokes Beans, Sprout
Boot Roos
Long
Bitter Squ
Brinjals,
80
16 37.
Cabbage,
Cane Bhoota,
Canil
each
Vegetables, Etc.
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