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The
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EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933.
"BIG BEN" LOSING CANTON FAVOURS RESISTANCE MR. JOHN SWIRE'S
MELLOW NOTE?
Famous Clock Centre Of Controversy.
ENGINEER'S REPORT
London.
Continued from Page 1.)
DEATH
"Wheat was influenced by in Senior Member Of Firm
flation talk. This market was somewhat nervous and susceptible to swings in sympathy with ching- ing sentiment.
"Cotton prices advanced early in The famous bell in the clock tower the day, but later, when the weekly of the Houses of Parliament which
weather report was issued, offerings chimes out the bours from Big Ben increased greatly and prices yielded —a bell whose sound is known, under-pressure... through the wireless, in every part of the Empire is now the centre of a controversy.
Of B. & S.
The death occured at Home to- day, of Mr. John Swire, senior mem- ber of the firm of Butterfield and Swire, and director of John Swire and Sons, Ltd., London.
Born in 1861, Mr. Swire entered business in 1887, and was a well- Industrial, rall, utility and bending M.F.H. of the Essex Hounds known, follower of the hounds, be average showed further advance, from 1906 to 1910 and joint Master | industrials rising 1.23 - to 84.29 from 1922 to 1926. He was re- Big Ben is accused of singing while rails
40.28, cipent of the Hon. LL.D. of the'Uni- rose 105 to out of tunc, of losing that mellow Utilities and bonds advanced 48 versity of Hong Kong. note which has made it the most and 89 respectively to 28.70 noted and.. familiar clock in the 82.39.-Reuter. world.
"The tone seems harsher than Bome years ago," says Mr. A. Russell Smith of Coleman's Hatch, Sussex. "Surely the bell which is waited for and listened to all over the English-thinking, world should no longer be allowed to belle the proverb, sound as a bell.'!!..
and
of the familiar sound of that, bell
"For to change the tone it would have to be recast. Then you would get an altered note and would recognise it.
划
по оде
tion Company are to-day flying flags
All, vessels of the China Naviga-]
at half-mast. ·
SILVER STRONG ON WALL ST.
(Continued from Page 1.) "China has been given the moral support of the world,
"Big Ben is not out of tune, and through the League of Nations,
it has not changed for years. From and she must uphold the prestige
►
But when a reporter consulted all over the world we get lettera of the country, though that may Mr. D. E. Buckney, managing direc saying how the well-remembered necessitate the sacrifice of many tor of E. Dent and Company who sound of its note, borne perhaps lives, and though she is facing a looks after the inner mysteries of across thousands of miles of land nation well-versed in the art of Big Ben a different story was told. and sea, brings back memories of modern warfare.
"don't think anyone will agree home.
"Not only do we want peace with that criticism,” he said. “And "It would be a thousand pities to in the Far East, but peace think what a shame it would be to after a note that is known so far." throughout the world," Mr. Lin deprive listeners all over the world-Reuter,
stated.
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