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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1932.
PREPARATION FOR UNITED STATES TRADE
CHENG'S APPEAL.
Despositions Ready
For Privy Council
It is understood that the deposi
DEPRESSION
SITUATION
tions of the Cheng Kwok-yau cas FOREIGNER COMMENTS ON
in preparation for an appeal to
the
Privy Council, will be
despatched to England at once.
Meanwhile, Cheng Kwok-yau, who was sentenced to death last
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Wednesday by the Chief Justice, UNSURPASSED SELF – SUFFICIENCY
for procuring the murder of George Fung, is confined in Victoria Gaol,
It would be impossible to spend of the immense reserves of individ If the Privy Council grant "an three months in touring the United ual wealth in the country. appeal, then the case will be placed States, studying the present econo "The United States has a long road in the hands of Counsel in Eng mic conditions, and discussing them to travel before it experiences the land, and the hearing commenced with many of the leading bankers social distress which is common to- within one or two weeks.
and public men throughout the day in the industrial towns of Ger- Mr. R. C. H. Lim, one of the country, without forming, some many or the coal-mining areas of defence counsel, has been busily broad and general opinions about England and Wales. Yet neither engaged in preparing the neces the nature of the depression, writes | Germany nor England have lost con-- sary papers since last Wednesday. Mr. H. A. McClure Smith in "Bar Adence in themselves or the future- Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and Mr. Fron's," the American, weekly finan-to anything like the extent that C. Jenkin, K.C., leading counsel cial paper. To record them is not America has done. If the primary for Cheng, are at present on vaca-to claim that they have any great object of the Reconstruction tion in Japan.
value. But there is, after all, some Finance Corp. is to restore conf- truth in the old saying that the on-dence to the country, it could scarce-
$27,585,142 FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
Bill For Council Meeting On Thursday.
any
looker sees most of the game, and, ly make a better investment than to in any case, there is usually a cer-send a selected group of employers - tain interest in hearing how one's land employees to the depressed own problems appear to an outsider, centres in Europe, in order that The visitor from overseas has, at they might obtain a better sense of least, the advantage of being' able proportion. in evaluating their own to compare conditions in the various troubles. After the formal business at countries with which he is familiar,
Judye by any economic standard. the Legislative Council Meeting and of realizing the international the inced States is still the richest to be held on Thursday next, the aspects of the present world-wide and best-equipped country in the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. depression perhaps more clearly world. Not only that, but America. E. R. Halifax, C.M.G., C.B.E, than those who are immersed in the has a self-sufficiency, which is un-
local difficulties. will move the first reading of a complexities of
surpassed and an internal market: Bill to apply a sum not exceeding The American public would not re- which is unequalled by any of the $27,685,142 to the Public Service gard its own economic troubles as other Great Powers. Nor is there being so dismally black if it had a of the year 1932.
reason to suppose that the Public Works, Extraordinary better knowledge of the sacrifices American economic, structure has
Jany fundamental or incurable: will absorb $3,667,923, while a and privations which the depression sum of $3,149,131 goes to the has inflicted on other countries. Nor faults in it. Weakness and mal- occupation. The Danish Govern- upkeep of the Police Force. Other would it take so little interest in adjustments certainly exist, but. ment declined, but suggested large expenditures are $2,809,699 questions of tariffs and war debts none that is not susceptible to cor arbitration. Meanwhile Nor- for the P.W.D., $2,042,296 for if it realized more fully the extent rection. The weakness of the bank- the Educational Department to which the economic health of ing system and the short-sighted Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1932. wegian skippers had hoisted $1,892,500 for Public Works re- the United States depends upon that ness of the tariff policy were prob
their country's flag at an inlet current, $1,477,306 for Miscel- of the outside world.
Unreasoning Pessimism. laneous Services, $1,894,0000 for known as Mosquito Fiord and pro- Fensions, $1,592,377 for the claimed the annexation of some Medical Department, $1,114,897 the mental attitude of the American To the outside observer, indeed, 250 miles of coast. Their Go for the Sanitary Department, people towards their present difficul ernment followed up this step by and $1,279,115 for the Harbour les is one of the most vital factors The dispute between Norway & formal occupation of the ter-Department. and Denmark over the ownership ritory, and the Danes filed their
The China Mail.
Rival Claims In
Greenland.
い
News in Brief.
Stock-Market 'Debacle When panic grips a nation, cause
IC
ably primarily responsible for the present depression. The great Stock Exchange boom, and the pu it encouraged, were economic exces blic and private extravagance which ses which had to be paid for sooner or later. But it appears to the on- in the present situation. No Euro- coker very unlikely that conditions pean visitor could fall to be both would be anything like as bad as- surprised and alarmed at the atmos- they are to-day if the country hadi of two large, tracts in Eastern claim to East Greenland before
phere of dejection and fear which not lost its beads The Hague Court. On July '12}
pervades every part of the country Greenland is beginning to arouse
Mr. J. Watson, representing and every section of the community:{ anxiety among Scandinavians of this year Norway enlarged the
Messrs. Arthur & Co., of Glasgow. The phenomenon is the more star- moderate views. It is of long dispute by formally occupying who left the Colony last year, has tling because it is in such complete and effect get hopelessly entangled. standing: in its present form it and annexing another stretch of returned to Hong Kong to take contrast to the optimism and ex-The real weakness which begin the
treme self-confidence which were panic are magnified out of all rea dates from 1814, when the King coast; the Danes contested their charge of the firm's interests.
previously the dominating characlity by it, and a vicious circle is of Denmark surrendered his action, and this case has follow
Two coolies were sentenced to teristics of American economic set up which will lead the country. claims over Norway in favour of ed its predecessor to The Hague. six and seven week terms, with life. It is safe to say that there to complete disaster unless it is Sweden but retained his rights Unfortunately for the prospects hard labour, for trespassing is no country in Europe whose pay.broken down. This, it would seem? over Greenland, Iceland, and the of a final settlement of the pro- aboard M.M.S. Devonshire, when chological reaction to the present has happened to some extent in the Faroe Islands. While Western blem, the whole dispute has been charged in Central Magistracy depression is anything like as dis-United States. The collapse of
to-day.
turbing as that of the United States. American Stock Exchange prices, Greenland is admittedly Danish, cmplicated by the growth of a
And when all allowance is made for for instance, especially that of the the eastern coast of that inhos picturesque but none too prac-
The Sir Walter Scott Centenary the mercurial nature of the past year, has transcended anything it is that has taken place in countries pitable land, with the exception tical nationaliam in Norway. Dinner of the Hong Kong St. American temperament,
somewhat perturbing to where scrap-heap valuations would of Anginagasalik-a little trad- The Danes have been alarmed by Andrew's Society will be held on still
the richest country
in be much more easily justified. unofficial Norwegian claims. Wednesday, 21st fistant in the 'see
world, which should be is, indeed, hard to see how the pre ing station which attained fame
Restaurant of Messrs, Lane, Craw the has the base of the Watkins ex- They ask when and where these ford, Ltd. at 8. p.m.
the rallying point in any world-sent low level of values is any more wide economic disturbances, in the rational than the high level reached during the boom period. Its only pedition and Scoresby Sound, claims will end; and they fear is regarded by Norway as a No that, whatever the verdict of
Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, Com- grip of unreasoning fears.
Just as there can be no real, re- possible justification: can be the Man's Land, never effectively oc- The Hague Court, the Norse mander-in-Chief of the British
covery in the United States with somewhat extravatant assumption naval forces on the China station, out recovery in the outside world, that the whole fabric of American cupied by the Danes and conse- "activists" will continue their is expected to visit Miyajima from quently open to occupation by pressure. There is clearly a October 10 to 18 and Kobe from so there can be no world recovery industry is irretrievably shattered
without a recovery in the United another nation. The Danes, on danger that the dispute may October 14 to 24.
States: This fear complex has; therefore, an international, as well the other hand, maintain that poison the relations between the
The marriage will shortly take as a national, importance, for there their sovereignty extends over two peoples. It might still be
place of Lt. Francia Wynne Webbr|can be little doubt that it is, at pre- the whole of Greenland, not settled out of court by the Royal Artillery, of Government sent, not only preventing any re- merely as a corollary of the Danish offer of a permanent House, Hong Kong, and Miss Enid covery, but is actually intensifying Treaty of Kiel, but by the ex-lease-hold in Eastern Greenland, Ida Ellot-Heywood of 10. Carnar- the depression in America.NE preas recognition of their claim in return for a definite Nor von Buildings, Kowloon by the United States in 1916 and wegian statement that would Fatal injuries were sustained by side observer, at least, there appears Before the Chief Justice, al by Great Britain and other inter-allay all Danish fears.
A Chinesa male coolle, when he fell to be a real danger to-day that the Joseph Kemp, in the Criminal Ses backwards into the hold of a Kow- arteries of American economie life siens this morning, Ip Kau, charg ested. Powers in 1920. It is
loon Godown's lighter. He was will run dry unless greater flowed with wounding on Hau Wong this Danish sovereignty over all
removed to the Kowloon Hospital, of confidence is soon restored to an elderly Kowloon City gardener. Greenland that the Norwegians
at 10.10 o'clock last night and died them. Were they to do so, a form of on the evening of July 10, was within an hour after.
economic gangrene would then ine sentenced to 15 years imprisone have refused to recognise. Their
Among the passengers of the s.s.
vitably set in, and the very life of mental Whalers, sealers, fishermen, and
President Coolidge which arrived in The Central British Association is the nation would be endangered. hunters are excluded by the Hong Kong yesterday was Madame holding its first social function of
A Comparison. Danish trade monopoly from its Wou Sao-long
the season in the Central British
The situation would be almost estern coast, but they have long
School Hall to-morrow night. The
a Flannel Dance, humorous if it were not so tragic, in the habit of visiting the Mra. C. Hergenberg disembarked affe
yesterday from the Dollar Liner,
pm. and since there is no apparent justifica 1921 a Danish President Coolidge, when the boat
tion for the despondency, and closing East arrived Into port
dow which have infected the cour quarry coolie, wi
creeping.ACON reign shipam Included among
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Order Greenland aroused years lat
their
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Personal Pars.
rivale to Hong Kong from the K3. President Coolidge wer
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KNIFE MAN MUST SERVE 15 YEARS.
Brutal Attack Upon Aged Gardener..
axiomatic that confidence is the cas life-blood of industryTo the out
fuse nom
labour by al
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Mr. R. E. Lindsell is conducting the Crown's case.,
Hau Wong was attacked by the accused and another man near the Christian Cemetery at Kowloon City while on his way home from Ta Ku Ling to Mongkok He war stabbed In the stomach and top of the head. Accused was arrested. in one of the outlying hamlets of Kowloon City, and when take the scenes the attackpol
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The Injur
Kowloon
Julips,