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6th June, 1933.
Britain's Financial
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Englishman Buys A-Port
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933.
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING
UNUSUAL ASPECTS OF
LONDON LIFE
THE UNSEEN TOILERS
Santiago, Chile-An Englishman [named Robert Bell' has bought - a port on the west coast of South America for $25,000. It is Caleta Colosa, Chile, with a population of, |5,000, and only 10 years ago its value was assessed at $25,000,000.
The port was one of the most) famous and flourishing in the
admired, with his curious peaked-" nirate trade, possessing up-to-date At dawn, in Covent Garden, Inat and the bag slung decoratively, port equipment. a network of rail-realised that only to very few Lon-from his shoulder--a character in roads linking it with the rich doners could London be more than costume.
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(By Horace Thorogood.)
Landon
pampas, prosperous residential half known. London by day is one The Post Office is awake. At 3 and shopping districts, two hotels,thing: it is the half we all know a.m. London and work are far from schools, post and telegraph offices, something about-though how little! your dreams; but thereabouts : `we` piers and wharves and freight and and London by night. is another saw a train nearly a quarter of a passenger stations. Principally it thing altogether, of which the vast mile long draw up to * strictly- was the base of the Agua Santa majority of us are entirely ignor guarded, platform at Easton. It Nirate Company, and before Gerant. What happens to it, what was the "T.P.O." or Travelling man researches" produced artificial goes on there, between the hour we Post Office. It brings the maila fertilizers it exported thousands of leave the theatre for home and the from Scotland and collects. others tons of nitrate of soda to every hour we arrive in town, bathed and on the way down. part of the world.
shaved and breakfasted, next It carries no "passengers," but a Mr. Bell has decreed that Caleta Įmorning?
Istaff of P.O. Borters stands all Colosa must disappear from the I could answer the question night before the heaps of letters face of the desert. Town and port partially, because at that moment in which have been emptied from the will be sold for old fron. Gangs Covent Garden I had just finished mail bags into troughs along each of labourers are already at work, one of the London night tourn or-side of the train, and shuffles them stripping everything, pulling up ganised by the Selborne Society. 1into pigeon-holes bearing names rails, disinterring piping and had been shown an astonishing that cover the geography of the breaking down homes. The entire quantity and variety of work being world. Within five minutes of the population was evacuated by the done. The city by night, I had dis-train's arrival the waiting P.O. vans [Government because it jaw
no covered, was full of urgent labours, are rushing the sorted letters away hope of their further employment without which the daytime activities to Mount Pleasant. in the depressed nitrate industry. of London-would be impossible.
50 mp.h. Mil Special.
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The arm
Time again!-the essence of jevery contract. We entered an all- Inight restaurant in Oxford-street.
Even there the customers watched...
an
I fancied I knew my London fair- At points along the line a steel Duke of Gloucester's "Venna."ly well. Yet, truth to tell, when Iarm with a net attached shoots out Pertaps the President of the stood at midnight on Ludgate Hill from the T.P.O. as it roars by at Royal Academy may remind the waiting for the tour to start, gazing 50 miles an hour and snatches Duke of Gloucester that George at streets that lay in empty silence mail bag from a hook on a sort of States expects to be made, and the title, presented in 1780 a very holder within me, and not the ro hurled on to the floor of the car,
L's younger brother, who held under the men, it, was the house-gallows beside the track.
lis drawn back and the netted bag is by suspending payments towards debt redemption. Very little re-the Venus de Medici.
fine cast of the famous statue of manticist, who came on duty. I lief in the way of taxation is pro what prudish ancestors, however,
Our some thought:
"What a waste of light!"- posed, except as regards the thought that it was too much of a To me, whose careful habit it is beer duty, whose penny a gallon display of the nude in art when towards midnight to go round and the clock: they were there in reduction costs the Exchequer shown in the old rooms at Somer. see that the doors are bolted and the interval of work or a prelude to it. £14,000,000. What increased set Rouse.
lights out, London appeared as taxation is proposed is through
A thousand clocks boomed to the as house where the thriftless occupier. the Customs House, and has nothing compared with the uproar had gone to bed leaving a shockingly/Dightworkers a reminder of it, and The China Mail
largely a protective incidence. when the American artist, Robert unnecessary number of lamps burn born-a ghostly relic of olden days night watchman of Ely-place, Hol- With no further efforts at econ-Pine, took another cast of the Venus ing. Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 7, 1933.omy-the Government considers back to New York in 1782
and customs-called the hour with that for the present it has done
Activity Undreamed of
an ancient phrase in that echoing all that is expedient in that direc- case, an American writers com- Garden, I knew why all that light
He had to keep it shut up in a But this morning, in Covent solitude.' tion and with so little relief in ment being, The manners of our flooded London in the small hours; The steam-carriers were racing
The Fith Race. taxation that matters so much country would not then tolerate It fell on an activity undreamed of up the Thames with fish from the to industry the description of "a the public exhibition of such A No more eloquent testimony to grim budget" is well earned. It the recovery of Great Britain is present taxation which is such
by the casual late home-goer. figure,"
North Sea. We were in time to see" First, there was the Press. We and her resumption of financial burden on industry and is leadership could be afforded than such a deterrent to new industry.
Your Daily Smile
had started our tour in Fleet-street, the Billingsgate porters hoisting edging, our way through the final it on their crusty, hats of wood and the announcement that a group Mr. Chamberlain, though know-
processes of the production of a From Smithfield tons of meat were leather down by the Monument. of British banks is negotiatingling from personal experience in
TOUGH LUCK.
daily newspaper. A population of with the French Treasury for business how sorely taxation
People who sing a lot, says a skilled workers that would fill don's morning shopping."
being sent away ready for Mrs. Lon- Vans of making a loan of £30,000,000 to presses, has kept to the othodox Physician, are rarely troubled with considerable town was at work France. It is not two years path of making a balanced bud-
tonsilitia. It seems a pity. since France and the United get the first aim of his budgeting. States made large loans to Great fe has not permitted himself If You Dare——— Britain for the purpose of main-the experiments Influentially We are told that the world is dependent upon and essential to the glimmer of daylight, crowds of taining the gold standard, but suggested to him. Mr. Cham-full of change just now. Perhaps first the business of a great news-portera, hotel buyers, merchants and cobbled in vain. Britain was forced off berlain in truth preferred the you would like to point this out to paper diatributing agency.
salesmen populated the gold. Now Great Britain, though conservative and orthodox po- the next taxi-driver you meet. Now our coach furned eastwards square more thickly than the day-
time traffic. off gold, makes a loan to France liey, limiting expenditure to the
At Upton Park it unloaded us at a big London General Omnibus garing for yawning. Covent Garden But it was morning now-morn-
Leadership.
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behind the walls of newspaper-land; vegetables and flowers from the and later, a few streets off, we were Covent Garden, where, in the early country rolled up the Strand to sconducted through another industry
partly for the purpose of keep-visible supply of revenue, rather THE PERFECT TAILOR ing France on gold. "The franc than to follow the adventurous "Is it true that my son has owed $84. It was the deadest hour of is the place where the conducted the night, yet here, too, though no night tours of London invariably prevailed-no extraordinary activity had seen being printed, packed and
is in the hands of the English," and heterodox proposals pressed you for a suit for four years?" writes "Figaro.". Yet it is more upon him by Mr. J. M. Keynes, "Yes. Do you want to pay for bus travelled the streets, activity faith. The newspapers that we than a loan to support the franc. and the more sober though alsoju?" It is a loan to support the needs more indefinite suggestions of a "No, I would like you to make either, but the regular business of despatched were selling in the
'AGREED,
every night.
Washing The Buses.
system and emptied into an "in- CAPT. W. H. C. GOATER
FAREWELLED, “
of the French Treasury pending number of other economists. The me a suit.” the receipt of taxation. For that aim in each case was a raising
street. The postmen" were deliver- |ing the letters we had watched un- purpose a loan should have been of price levels through Govern-
I TINK YES. -- subscribed in France by Frenchment action, and the Government Greta Garbo har just had her washed, cleaned, disinfected, and which had foundered before us on The fleet of 200 buses was being loading from the T.P.O. ⠀ Fish investors. And the paradox is was to take action by making salary increased by £1,000 a week filled up with petrol for the next Billingsgate quays an hour or two that French investors are throng-use, in the way of capital con- That makes the paltry little £100 day's journeys. Each bus was since was on the early breakfast ing the English banks to deposit struction, of the idle money so and £200 a week increases I get driven up to the bose-pipes and tables of the hotels. The buses we their francs and the English abundant in Great Britain. With look silly. banks are lending those francs this money put into circulation
sprayed clean in three minutes, had seen being washed and filled Ito the French Government. it was considered, that a demand,
What becomes of London's used were rolling down the Strand. Da bus tickets? I can tell you French depositors would rather would be raised for commodities,
Sleepily we bade each other good- trust English banks than their followed by a resuscitation of in-dct on one like a tonic," says
"Some of our music-hall jokes for we saw millions of them day and tottered homewarda. To that had been cleared from the bed! For Morning in the Bowl of own Government. No other industry which would gather mo- critic. Many of them certainly bus floors swept towards the open-Night has flung the Stone that puts. terpretation can be given to the mentum as the money announcement than that, more turned over. It was further sug-
was leave a nasty taste in the month, ings in the side of the kerb, where the Stars to fight!
they were sucked in by a 'vacuumi especially as French peasants, gested that not only the
new Relief in the Offing. who have been the most consis- capital expenditure so proposed tent supporters of Government should come out of loan money Bill in Parliament demanding A woman member is to present
{cinerator. - loans, have taken to burying but that the capital expenditure that husbands and wives share the
The gossip of a garage is very interesting. We learned that the their cash in their orchards, to which the Government was work of the home equally. Marri-average petrol consumption of where the money is utterly uncommitted and which would ored men all over the country are four and a half miles. The total fruitful. Whatever the difficul-dinarily be financed by taxation asking their local M.P.3 to support daily store of petrol at that garage London bus was a gallon to every
Volunteers' Adjutant ties of Great Britain her people should also be charged to loan her.
Leaves To-day. have always had that faith in and thus give relief to the tax- the Government of their choice payers for the present in that
was 18,000 gallons, The 200 buses Captain WI C. Goster, Ad- which has enabled the Govern- amount. Mr Keynes' scheme
took £150 worth of coppers daily. Jutant to the Hong Kong Yolun ment to finance all internal needs. was much on these lines also. It
-"Now, please!" said our guide, teer Headquarters last night to a The National Government, was, however, more definitely
"We must get on-there are so large number of fellow officers. through its general administra-conceived, and was elaborated in
many things to see "
Captain Goater has, just completed, tive and financial policies, has some detail, but he rather gave Siam has received the highest of to stay and see the garage doors leaving for Home to-day.
The display of sound pictures in So, though we would have liked three years as Adjutant and is gained again for Great Britain his case away in declaring that ficial indorsement and patronage flung open at 4 am, and the 200 Colonel Bird, to bidding fare world leadership. Mr. Neville to be completely successful it and a modern auditorium will be buses, smart as new pins, launchwell to Captain Goster on behair Chamberlain, in his budget speech, would have to be carried out erected in Bangkok. recited the progress which had simultaneously in the principal
themselves like frigates on the of the member of the Corps, re stream of London traffic, we board-marked that of the many adjutants been made and the measures countries. If these proposals have More than 1,900,000 acres of ed our coach again and returned who had served with the Corps which had brought them to that merit, Mr. Chamberlain preferr-land in the United States have westward, firm foundation Last year the ed to await the results of the been planted with trees by the
since its begining none had enter Who would imagine, travelling ed into the spirit of voluntecering accounts were not balanced. The World Economic Conference A government, lumber, mining and the deserted streets under the moon, as Capt Goster,A great part of the deficit was due pooling of knowledge, Tree from other industrial interests.
to payment by Britain on account the preconceived determination
of war debt to the United States, of any one nation, might
and non-receipt of amounts, ow the formulation of
Ing to her by her debtors. For which all could, sub
Facts You Did Not Know,
· Coin-in-
what vast preparations were being Captain Goater in reply said it hurried along to forestall
he was returning to join his re- -hard-giment, "the Queen's- Royal West Kent Regiment. He was very "B01- 17 to leave. He refered to the the good followship which had alway the ma
the existed and wished the Corps ever street, and he becomes a figure to be sucties In the future-
machines have been There goes a postman.
ondon underground ly notices London post that deliver tebe is lost in the crowd.
this year a surplus is expected by which, because of unanimity, kets, test coins, sivo changy, stamp him at night, separater not taking account of ward debt would have Sements in it of tickets and register the prices confusion payments which the United success.