WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933.
THE CHINA MAIL.
P.&O.-British India THE LAST CHAPTER SHAW'S GOVERNMENT
Apcar and Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
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together in the taxi, and be answered" her, but precisely what the said and what he replied he could never after- ward recall.
ed with a fear that she would con-
COM sald sider his request an impertinence and resent it; but a minute after he was
reproving himself for crediting her
REFORM PLAN.
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#TRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF: Kings he had said to her, and how then, of course, you have been L poor mines, the obsolete machinery which |
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,
He was so tremulously eager, 40 piteously, irrationally in earnest, that Ireton could not bring himself to evade
Their arrival sent a little thrill of the issue with a fat refusal, and, find surprise rippling ahead of them ail with the part of it which they invest | ing his halting attempts at diams-along the west. The thin, sharp rus- in industry. As a rule they try to sion altogether futile, he reluctantly tle of her silka summoned ghostly facer send it abroad, out of the country. yielded, and was gone and speeding up from among white bedclothes to whatever labour is cheapest. 1 a taxi toward Grosvenor Square be- right and left, and classy eyes stared fore be
fairly realised the extremely at them as they passed. But no eyes cannot give you the exact figure unusual and delicate character of his shared so wonderingly as did those of now, I do not remember it, but be miasion.
No. 29; Ireton was conscious that the fore the war we were quite steadily One
minute he was overwhelmed light faded from them suddenly, that with
sense of his folly in thus their questioning glances wavered from sending 200 millions of English humouring the extravagant whim of himself to her, and he evaded them, capital abroad to anywhere on the a man who was too ill to know quite the reflection of his own derangement.
for he could not bear to see in them face of the earth except in England. what he was saying, and he was seix-
Here we were with our cities He escorted her to the bedside, and
rotted out with slums, with the quietly: and
"This is Mr. Marston, Mrs. Ain-most urgent need for capital to do her sleigh"
She clasped the man's lean hand away with those slums, and to im- with so little womanly sympathy. Then, in a flash, his mind was dazzled effusively, and putting up her place-nes prove the condition of our people, with
to give them better food, clothing, a 'vision
of her as he had known graclously inspected him.
"And is it really Mr. Maraton? housing accommodation, for renew- her-gracious and sweet and girlish- ly b is beautiful.
Se recollecting her, he declare, I do not think I should have, ing the machinery in our coal recollected also impotuous, passionate known you. You are so
30 changed-but she had once riven herself to his man, and it is so long ago and illness has done us so much mischief, for arms, and he shrank ashamedly now, must take great care of yourself, date and introducing all the now does make such a difference, doesn't it? | bringing our own machinery up to as at the thought of some indelicacy,
will be better. from the prospect of seeing her again, and do are well looked after?" The things. We wanted it for these and could not have forced himself to go on if he had not been haunted by swept the ward with her glasses, things. those sleepless eyes that were watch- "Beautifully clean and bright
and airy ing for his return.
in not? You are comfortable here? Every nerve in his body was quiver. So glad. It is so long since we last ing with the intensity of his exelte-met. You have had some sad miafor in the way of dividend to be got by ment.
Over and over he was asking tune to bring you to thie-but I must out capitalist class by sending the himself: Would she receive him? not ask you about that now. I can see money to the Argentine or any- Would she recognise him? What you are not strong enough to talk.
Suc Should he say to her? Remembrance a long time you will, no doubt, where else they sent it there. of the charm of her prosence alter-
changes in me, too. Ah, dear!" Consider the danger of that. The nately drew him on and repelled him, she sighed. I have not forgotten the capital went out in heaps; and we
old times. I am sorry you are so poor-began to live more and, still agitated by these bewilderly, but you will have the best of medi-
and more on ing impulses, ho presently found
The money self knocking at the door of her house cal attention here, and you must take foreign investments. in Grosvenor Square.
care of yourself and do all you can to that those people lived on He did not send in his name, bat get better
created in foreign countries by for. Ireton strolled away beyond hearing. that the chaplain of St. Simeon's Hospital urgently desired to ed vivacity of speech and manner ir and spent here. Un what? Well, see her.
ritated him, jarred upon him, less be naturally, on luxuries, on servants, As he mechanically followed the and tones of the girl he had known a rich and extravagant life. It was of their unilkeness to the looks on all sorts of things that belong to man upstairs, after losing his last
because, in some incongruous hope while he waited for his message fashion, they actually were like them, largely subtracted from industry. to be taken in, his bewilderment in yearning to escape from sight and This business of the export of 1st Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, he became aware, with a curious to her, he wandered up and down capital-there is not the slightest{
creased to a sort of suppressed frenzy, sound of
AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
PORTS, EUROPE,
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. · (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
6.8.
Топ
From
About
1939.
Destination.
17,000 25th Feb. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Noon 0,800
16,000 11th Mar.
4th Mar.Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
RAJPUTANA
**SOMALI
CORFU "KIDDERPORE COMORIN
*BANGALORE
6,300 13th Mar.
Straita, Colombo & Bombay.
16,000 25th Mar.
Marseilles & London.
0,100
RANPURA
Marseilles & London,
CHITRAL
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
NALDERA
KAISAR-1-HIND
Rollerdam, Antwerp & Hall.
Marielles & London.
8th Apr. 17,000 15,000 22nd Apr. 17,000 6th May
Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14,000 20th May Bombay, Marseilles & London, 16,000 3rd June | Bombay, Marseilles & London. 32,000 17th June | Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Cargo only. †Calls Casablanca.
-Frequent connection from Port Bald for Passengers and Carge to Con- stantinople, Pireans, Bmyrna and other Levant Porta by steamers of the Khaɖivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SIRDHANA TILAWA TALMA TALAMBA
1933. 8,000 22nd Feb. 7th Mar. 10,000 10,000 19th Mar.
8,000
2nd Apr.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
I
hope you
Living on Foreigners Well, if there was a penny more
WAS
the footman to tell Mra, Ain-free rapid tones and shallow, disjoint.lign labour. It was then sent here |
than
corridor
outside,
revived the sense of having suddenly
peering in
intelligent govern from a swoon, that he was in a spaci. at the door from time to time, until he doubt that an
that, {ous, pleasantly-appointed drawing saw she was abouts depart. Then, hav-ment would put a stop to room, and that a partly lady, who bad ing accompanied her downstairs and would not let a single farthing of risen at his entrance, was cooingly, handed her into the waiting taxi; he capital go out of this country until went irresolutely back, and sat down we were quite saturated with capital gushingly, wishing
by Marston's bed.
somewhat good morning,
She
She
Lion:
he was not
was utterly strange to him.
For several minutes neither of them in it, and we are very far from that
being the case. was stout of figure and plump spoke. of face; an affable, indifference "peer- Marston Iny with his eyes closed, but "Trade Itself an Evil.” ed from her placid eyes; her features Ireton was aware that
Then there comes the question of were rather blunt and coarse and her sleep, and by and by he glanced up foreign trade. I want to point out checks were artistically powdered. and said, as if continuing a converan-
"Mrs. Ainsleigh
to you, as one of the childish sim- "And you never told her who you plicities which I go back to, that were?"
trade is in itself an evil. This pri "No need to." Marston lay still, except for an occa-vate capitalist system that we have got has brought us into such a state sional twitching of his lips.
"Good God!" he ejaculated sudden-jof lunacy that there is an assump- ly. "I made sure you must have made tion in all the City articles in the
It was himself that spoke, yet his voice had an alien sound.
"Ye-es. Won't you sit down?" He being a clergyman from a hos-) pital, she was possibly anticipating an appeal for some kind of patron-
ag
"I have called," he stammered. "Ia mistake it took my breath away at have ventured to call on an errand first But it was her right enough" newspapers, all the speeches and all Irrepressible the debates and underlying our which-which-for which I trust you He broke into low,
usual
with
will forgive me. It is most laughter. Well, perhaps I'm the bet legislature, that the more trade the] Ler off of the two of us, after all, old country has the better; whereas "Oh, not at all!" she interposdd. chap. I've seen her and now I can there was a period in English his-
4 vague politeness.
do my dying comfortably. She promis- "It is, I am afraid, a very unusual cd to come again-but I don't want to tory where in foreign trade they request, but I have called on behalf wait
B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent seeommodation for of a patient at St. Simeon's-a Mefo for her! I say. what damned had the habit of saying that you
1st and 2nd class passengeru.
Richard Marston.”
know that name?”
we have been, Ireton. The Chaplain made as if he would wanted to have the balance of trade "Ye-es? Let me see now; surely I speak, but bad about it No wonder, meant that more things were com
said nothing,
in your favour, and by that they
She smiled vacuously, and paused I don't care so much myself, somehow. ing into the country than went out
But fancy!"the shrunken, bony
of it, which was common sense, but figure was convulsed with silent grown so unlike all he had ever Heaven and me, to Hell for such a wo- a pitch of topsy-turvydom that what To sit there and regard this woman, amusement "fancy you going to nowadays we have arrived at such known or dreamed of her, numbed and Mes stupified him. He had never foreseen man as that!" He laughed, still in we mean is that we are sending
an down his 3rd Mar. Manlia, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney could not early convince himself of checks. "I can't help thinking he wo are getting in.
such a grotesque transformation, and silence, till the tears ran
more goods out of the country than its reality. Yet he knew well enough checked his merriment to add with an it was she and was stung with an unctuous chuckle, "We shan't bath go odd humiliation that this should be to the same place, Ireton-I wonder his saint, his goddess, the woman who which of us'll meet her?" had cast so dark a shadow ever his
THE END. and influenced it so profoundly. "Mr. Richard Maraton," he repeat-
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), for him to proceed.
1983,
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE
7,000
7,000 7,000
1st Apr. 2nd May
Helbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan life and and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydnay—19 daya.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom, via New Eealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal "Mali Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Servics of steamera to Londđơn via Bean. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Bouthampton
London vis Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*MARANOA
*BANGALORE TALMA. COMORIN
NANKIN TALAMBA RANPURA *BHUTAN -CHITRAL RANCHI *NELLORE *SOUDAN CARTHAGE 'NALDERA
*BURDWAN KAISAR-I-HIND MANTUA RAWALPINDI *BANPURA ¡RAJPUTANA
1813.
20th Feb. Shanghai only.
ed absently: then, recovering himself, "Mr. Marsion used to know you- many years ago, before you were married."
⭑
MOLLER BOAT DAMAGED.
The steamer, Hilda Moller, be- longing to Moller and Co.. hay-
But at any rate an active and apable government can regulate trade. It can effectively prohibit the export of capital, and take the accumulation of capital into its own hands; and it can also regulate the question of imports.
The Tariff Question What is all this tariff business? a tariff is to a large
"I have known so many men," the ing buckled her mainmast while of course, laughed self-consciously. "But, yes,
the name is familiar to me-I remem'oading timber at Tawau, went extent simply a disguised method of anding! How sad! Of coursese-Mr. were carried out by the joint inflation of money and the rest is ber it now perfectly. How interest to Jesselton for repairs, which taxation. Just exactly as all this
is he in the hospital? Not very ill, North Borneo Trading Co. Marston; I knew him very well. And efforts of the Slipway and the taxation in disguise. Let us leave
hope 7 Nothing dangerous?
out that part of the tariff business
Ozaka.
0,500 23rd Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 23rd Feb. Amoy, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 24th Feb, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokuham.
7,000 5th Mar. S'hal, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama, 8,000 10th Mar. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kabe 17,050 10th
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 6,000 19th Mar, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 6th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
16,000 23rd Mar, 10.000 17,000
›
|and Tsingtau
As briefly as might be Ireton dia. This vessel, which is of 7,800 which is for revenue purposes, posed of her inquiries, and made her tons d.w. and was built at Fort simply another way of getting the acquainted with the object of his visit Glasgow in 1912, will load tim- money out of your pockets without
. And he wants to see me
ber both at Tawau and Sandakan your knowing it. Let us get to the I dare
say he has told you, we used and that the total amount will question of keeping out the for- to be boy and girl sweethearts-nobe two million super feet, thing serious, he smiled archly from the North Borneo Trading industries
all eigner's goods and protecting native "Oh, yes, I recollect kim
very, very well And he has asked. It in Company. This cargo is destin
I attach great importance to that. very unusual, as you say, and, dear ed for Hong Kong, Shanghaf, I believe that the present movement me, how strange of him!"
throughout the world to make every State self-supporting is not merely
· CONSIGNEES' NOTICES, healthy movement but an absolutely Consignees of cargo ex s.s, Ben-necessary movement. To begin with, sage but he is dying, and he is vorlich are reminded to take de- the old notion that there were cer- friendless almost friendicas. He can livery of their goods which will tain things that one country could not live another day, and is so ter
Enrious to see yen for old be subject to rent after February produce much better than another, all that has gone. It only meant "Conalgnees "of cargo ex m.v. that England could produce a great hew dreadfully, Kad!
ad! | Hilda are reminded" to take de-many things better than other Pour man! I am so sorry. I hard-very of their goods which will people, and we went in for free ly know what to say it seema Bō----- but în such very sad circumstances, If be subject to rent after February trade. you tell me he is so really anxious 18.
"It is alrangé it is unsual--it must seem presumptpous,” faltered Ireton. "I would never have consent-
7,000 4th Apr. S'hal. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhamaed to approach you with such a me
6,800
18th Apr. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. 14.000 20th Apr. Shanghai, Hobe & Yokohama,
16.000
ribly
4th May Shanghai, Mall, Kobe & Yokohama. 6.100
Kobe 4 Yokohama. 12,000 18th May 11,000 1st June Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. 17000 15th June: Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 29th Jane | Shanghai, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 17,000 18th Joly Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama.
11th May Bhoj, Kobs & Yokohama, timon' saka alck man's fancy---but / 17.
* Cargo only. †Calla Nagoya & Yokkaichi.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration witkows notion. All Cabins er Stied with. Mactr'e Yana or Punia. Láryra System. Shesmars, on London and Austinjian Lines “ure Athod with La Paronis inqnsuring not more than 5 ́en. ft. will þá, roonlund at the
Oftes:up:he Moon on the day previous to sailing,
further information. Pasn
CKINNON
#P. & G. Ballding, Connaught Ma, C.,
co,
"How
and
As a matter of fact, they all pow do not see how I can refuse It Consignees of cargo ex 2.8. Ben-produce with the same machinery, in-well, after all these years it most curious that he should want to lawera are reminded to take de- They are able to harness their water ses me. But what shall I do? What livery of their goods which will power and all the rest of it. would you advise? Very well be subject to rent after February Would you like me to come with
qught to 20.
now? впрова vory wall. minates while
not keep you #ady--I shall |
Left alone, freton sat muta
sat mute and numbed, past analysing his smar or Jobling any moral and drug al
she returned to:
manotion" was exhausted ti for the present, excapt, one of. fulness that she had not
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
People who have any power of obs servation are beginning to feel that one of the first pacoteltías is for a nation to become silf supporting, and if you are going to do that you Empress of Anis, ar- must abkolutely put a stop to private thaushal on February 18] trading, absolutely to privata trad- spm, left Shanghal lag; in foreign trade. If you want xim, and it due to project a hatiye" Industry – you bowmorrow at 11 must not put tariff on the foreign must prohibit: the the foreign goods
You
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· TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS -
ANGELES & NEW YORK
via PANAMA.
TO SEATTLE
and VICTORIA.
Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays. Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays
Pree. Coolidge
Pres. Grant
Pres. Hoover Pres. McKinley
Mar. 1 Pren: Jeferson Feb. 15, 1, Mar, 15 Pres. Madison .... .Mar. ¿ .Mar. 19 Free, Cleveland .................Mar. 18 ...Apr. 17 Pres. Taft
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Fortnightly ballingy on Saturdays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alexandris, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
Pres. Adama Prez. Harrison
6 a.mi.
Feb. 16 Pres. Hayes
Mar. Pres. Pierce
TO MANILA
8 a.m.
Mar. 18
.Apr. 1
Next Sailing, Pres. Adams .. Feb. 18, 8 a.m.
*Prez. Coolidge
Pres. Madison
Pres. Harrison
Pres. Grant
Pres. Cleveland
Feb. 21 Pres. Hayes Feb. 25 Pres. Hoover Mur, & Prea. Taft Mar. 7 Pres. Plerce Mar. 11 Pres McKinley
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Apr. 1
Apr. 4
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A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.
George Bernard Shaw, scoffer of conventions, master of literary style and recognised as the world's outstanding critic of the present age, arrived in Hong Kong on February 11, on the Empress of Britain in the course of a world tour with Mrs. Shaw. England's literary giant, who is consider- ed by many persons the world over as the most eminent. living man of letters, is one of 363 tourists on the huge 42,348 ton liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship. Break- ing his resolution not to give a public address while on his present tour, Bernard Shaw spoke to students in the Great Hall of the Hong Kong University on February 13,
A full glory of Mr. Shaw's visit, together with an inter- view, is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
A strong appeal for more Scout Officers to cope with the increase in membership in the movement, was made by His Excellency Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., Chief Scout of the Colony, when he presided over the annual meeting of the Hong Kong Branch of the Boy Scouts Association beld at Sandilands Hut on February 7. His Excellency remark- ed the Scout movement was the finest of the modern day and it was a movement which had contributed enormously to the training of youth, to
The meeting is reported in the OVERLAND CHIN
MAIL.
Taking the chair at the 35th ordinary yearly meeting of the "Star" Ferry Company, Limited, held at the Board .Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd,, on February 9, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson explained that it had been said the Company was not anxious to operate the vehicular ferries.
A report of the meeting, together with reports on the annual meetings of Messrs. Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., and the Hong Kong Land Investment met Agency Co., Ltd., is published in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL,
Two Britons, Mr. Walker and Mr. Foster, of the Asiatic` Petroleum Company, Limited, sustained idlight burns about the face when a dram of keroseus exploded and ignited an oll filter tank at the A.P.C. Installation at North Point on February 11. The injured men were treated at the Govern- ment Giyll Hospital and their condition, happily, is non con- sidared to be serious.
A story is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
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