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In the North Sea "war" between Red' and Blue, which took place recently, Adml. Sir Kelly C-in-C. of the Fleet; served under
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.
WHY THE NATIONS HAVE MET
WORLD ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE
Confidence was shaken all over
London, June 12. United States is not far from being John If we are to understand what self-sucing-as much, according Home the World Economic Conference to some authorities, as 98 per cent. Capt. means, why it has been summoned This vast economic unit shut her. J. C. Tovey, of the Rodney, and what it hopes to do, we must doors against immigration from who for that occasion command-begin by considering a few ele Europe by drastic new laws (in- ed a division of which the Nelson mentary facts.
cidentally striking a heavy blow at
was a unit,
In the first place we must realise the shipping trade) and against "Jacy" Tovey is one of the com-that the War has not left the world the importation of goods. from ing men in the Navy. He won the impoverished, but rather enriched. abroad by the Fordney-McCumber Tarif in 1922 and the Hawley- DS.O. at Jutland for conspicuous
We are short of nothing. gallantry as captain of the destro Not of human beings, for there Smoot Tarif in 1930.
of The rate of business profits rose are at least thirty millions yer Onslow.
In this little ship. he first en-them for whom we are unable to rapidly-by 25 per cent. between 1926 and 1929-and produced the gaged a German light cruiser at find anything to do. point-blank range, peppering her Not of raw materials, for of them New York Stock Exchange boom with 4-inch shell, then went there is a glut, and restriction of which led to the cataclysmic col- straight for the enemy's battle-production (including the destruc-lapse of 1929.
At the same time, the position in cruisers and gave them his torpe-tion of stocks) has been practised:
was complicated by the in several fields and advocated in America does.
Central European situation, the many more.
Not of plant, for we are almost American money which had been "The Wicked Bible"
immeasurably better equipped than lent to Germany and Austria for One of the prizes of the late we were before the War, which in commercial purposes not being re- Lord Rosebery's remarkable library fact led to this result by the stimu- coverable. was his copy of the first issue of las it gave to invention. the first edition of the Authorised Yet the Conference has been the world. Enterprise was stified. a result of what Consumption fell, and prices with Version, 1611. Mistakes in print summoned as ing have always been inevitable, some call the World Depression and jit; and the whole economic systém and the value to collectors of this others the Economic Blizzard. The entered upon that vicious circle of the particular issue lies in the world economic organisation of the world which; under the name "He" printed. for "She" in Ruth is working so badly that its effects, "trade cycle" we have known be-
are those of scarcity instead of fore in a less violent. form. II., 15.
A Tragic Roundelay. of plenty, as they should be. The The outstanding instance
What is meant by the "trade error, however, is in "The Wicked purpose of the Conference is to dis- Bible" of 1631, which has the nega-cover the causes of this and to re-cycle" is that when confidence is diminished, A buys less from Br tive omitted from the Seventh move them.
We set out after the War as who is therefore forced to buy less Commandment. When the mistake was discovered by Archbishop though an unexampled new era of from C, who is therefore forced to Probably its alumni could Laud, the Star Chamber fined the prosperity had begun. There have buy less from A, who is therefore The China Mail vice.
not compete in proficiency with poor printers £300, and ordered the been few episodes in the economic forced to buy still less from B
edition of 1,000 copies to be burnt. bistory of England to parallel the and so on. In the past this pro- the specialists of Harley and About half-a-dozen escaped, to the vicissitudes of the Lancashire cot-cess has gone on until something. ton industry since 1919, and this has given way, and then the trade Macquarie streets; but they are
Lord Macaulay used to deny that may serve as a picture of the rest. cycle has begun anew with a Hong Kong, Saturday, July 8, 1999. qualified to deal with the work joy of collectors.
Boom And Stump, that comes to their hands, and
The World Economic Conference When the War was over the ba- are said to be skilful surgeons. A such a mistake had ever occurred Peoples Of The Pacific. knowledge of anatomy should until a surviving copy (now in the
come easily to races which, until Lenox Library in New York) was zaars of the East were empty, and has been summoned because the It is not a mere coincidence recently, dissected their features shown to him in 1855. Oddly orders flowed in upon the Lancas-responsible rulers of the world are that during the past few days the and limbs for purposes of tatoo-enough, the German printers com-hire mills which for four years and not sure whether we can get out benevolent campaign to promote ing and other modes of adorn-mitted a similar mistake in 1731 more had been unable to supply of the present, spin before we hit ment. These steps having been (a century later), and the single this demand. The ensuing boom the ground. Its business is to get Its difficulty is a lack of agree gures mounted dizzily, and immense the welfare of the peoples of the accomplished, the road is open surviving copy of the offending was tremendous. The export - the machine on an even keel again. Pacific has advanced in two thea- for a further advance. One of work should still be in the old fortunes were made, though a good ment among the experts as to the many of them existed only on pa- causes of distresses which are not denied. No one, of course, doubts per. tres as far apart as Canada and the most tragic episodes of el-library of Wolfenbuttel."
Then came deflation, a castro-that the immediate evil lies in the Fiji In Victoria, British Colum-vilisation has been the effect of
phic fall in purchasing-power and falling.price-level for primary com-
modities. bia, the fifth Pacific Science Con-its impact upon the peoples of the Pacific They had their fer-
a fall in prices. Hurricanes!
This means, to put it briefy, gress is sitting attended by 160 ocious tribal wars.
The orders which had been plac- Idelegates from all over the world. and famines levied a toll. But for Carbon gas black is used instead From Suva a movement has just the depopulation of the Pacific of asbestos in a new. automobile been launched with the object of the white man's diseases, the brake lining that is asserted to be
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TURKISH PRAISE FOR LONDON. Journalist Impressed
By Theatres.
AMAZED BY CITY “RUSH”
Istanbul.
the world were cancelled right and got his stuff to market he cannot ed with Lancashire from all over that by the time the producer has left, and in the majority of cases get as much for it as it cost him it was impossible to insist on the to produce. Quite clearly be can- reducing the mortality among the white man's vices and even his oil, grease and water proof.
virtues-are considered to be
Fulfilment of contractual obliga-not go on in this way for more Little by inhabitants of the South Sea 18-mainly responsible. The Euro
Demountable edless treads can be tions. The boom was ever, the than a limited time.. lands. The significance of the pean is more or less inoculated
substituted for the rear wheels of slump had begun, the fortunes dis- little he collapses, his fields go out double event is explained by Dr. against certain maladies by long
An attack German inventor's motor track to
appeared and poverty took their of cultivation, bis labourers, are unemployed, purchasing power is: place. H. M. Tory's presidential address experience of them.
A year or two ago the conse-by so much diminished and in at Victoria The greatest just of measles causes him no grave convert it into a tractor.
concern, but it can devastate aj
A tool that works on the principle quences of that change were appal-consequence prices fall still fur- fication of the Congress, he said, Pacific island as can an epidemic was the fact that problems, econ- of even a mild form of influenza. of the hydraulic jack has been in-lingly evident in the idle mills. ther.
can To-day they show themselves in But all the experts have each his broken-windowed mills that are own remedy for this fatuously omic, scientific, and social, in the To him a cold is generally nothing vented with which one man
tragic situation. gradually falling into disrepair. Pacific area are being viewed as more than a temporary nuisance. shatter large blocks of concrete.
The words boom and slump, in (Continued on Page 13.) a whole by teams of men who With the native of the Pacific it
A buoy large enough to contain a is liable to develop into tubercu-
up the economic losis. had hitherto viewed them with a
The introduction
has been developed by a that order, sum of man Ircal outlook. A concrete exam-clothing to these unsophisticated Spanish navy officer to enable crews history of the world since the War. have differed, of course, from coun- ple of this international co-opera folk has not been an unmized to escape from sunken submarines. The periods covered by these words
try to country. tion is the peaceful offensive boon, because although their ha-
In Great Britain minece 1921 the which has been undertaken with bits are cleanly by nature these
Mr. 0. de Lara, Cuban Consul at number of unemployed persons in Fiji as a base of operations. The habits do not extend to the garments they wear out of defer. sinews of war have been mainly ence to convention or in gratif Calcutta, arrived in Hong Kong the insured trades has never fallen supplied by the Rockefeller cation of vanity. They have no yesterday en route to India by the below a million. We have suffered have affected the whole world. At Foundation, dedicated to the ser-idea of prophylactic sanitation. s. President Hayes. Mr. de Lara from the adverse conditions which
Pacific health cam-is returning from furlough.
the same time tariff-walls-and-the vice of hygiene irrespective of Thus the
easy task be
Lieut. Colonel J. A. Renshaw, competition of industrial popula
A Turkish Journalist has just re- the race or colour of the bene paign has no
fore it, and there is a con- ficiaries of its bounties. Austre-tributory cause to depopulation R.AM.C., and Mrs. Eenshaw were tions with lower standards of liv
ly diminished our share in the Paris, Berlin and Rome and he lia is by no means the least of the which may not be susceptible to also passengers by the EMS. Eming than our own have progressive turned from a visit to London, states that the British capital de- world's markets. debtors A Rockefeller gift ren- the ministrations of medical press of Canada." dered possible a close study of science. This is the psychologi
Brigadier General W. Allasen and Then, in 1925, we restored the lighted him
One thing he liked about London hookworm, to the inroads of cal factor. The untutored sa-
Miss Allasen were also passengers gold standard at the old parity. which children in sub-tropical age was fully occupied. In pre for the Colony by the H.M.S. Em-The object of this was to recover was the laundries. He declares
paration for his forays he had to
London's position as the financial that they washed and ironed his press of Canada. Australia are exposed. In 1991 build canoes and fashion weap
centre of the world. One of its shirts far more expeditiously and the Foundation made the Univer-ons Victories were celebrated
Mr. J. P. Alcover, Second Secre-Imost important effects was to carefully than elsewhere!
Moreover, he says, prices in Lon- Bity of Sydney a grant of £20, by feasts, which also required 000, the first instalment of £100, elaborate preparation, and were tary to the Spanish Embassy in handicap us still further in the 000 towards the building and accompanied by religious rites Peking, arrived in the Colony export trade.
and ceremonies. Civilisation has yesterday by the sa. President When We Left Gold.
Hayes.
We went some distance in the equipment of a clinical labora- proscribed some of these pur-
other direction in 1981, when
The theatres impressed him, es- tory. The campaign in the suits. It has given him tools Mr. E. W. Norman, Service more than six years of self- South Seas has accomplished (which in a few hours can do the Manager of the Ford Motor Com-injurious efforts, we abandoned Pecially "the comfort, the dignised
work done in as many weeke by three preliminary stages essen-
pany, Shanghai Branch, was among gold, again and secured a certain acting and the number of men and
women who wore evening dress."
But above all the "rush" of Lob~- tial to future progress. The first his primitive implements. It the passengers who disembarked advantage. ⠀⠀*** was a series of medical surveys has, in several groups, by taking from the r. President Hayes But Franco and other countries do amazed him. He says; "After
had returned to the gold standard carried out by Dr. Lambert, over his lands for a capital sum, yesterday.
at a low ratio to their interas standing in the Strand for half an hour in the late afternoon, Paris, representative of the Founds rent, or an agreed royalty, made tion, in conjunction with local him a gentleman of independent Major K. P. Atkinson, M.C., RA, price levels, and Japan, by a de Berlin, And Rome seemed Ülke vil- practitioners. The second was means. Furnished with unima- General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, llberate and systematic, deprecia the inauguration of a child wel- gined luxuries, but deprived of and Mrs. Atkinson were among the tion of her currency, combined fare scheme, in consequence of former incentives to exertion, he passengers who disembarked from with an extremely low standard of which the infantile death-rate loves zest in existence and pines the R.M.S. Empress of Canada living in ber Industrial population, has diminished by over 60 per way, an unconscious victim to yesterday cent, an amazing drop in view of boredom. Many anthropoligiste
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don of hotels, transport, clothes and
other necessaries were about 30 per
to
has placed herself. almost out of reach au « competitor, not merely
throughout the markets of the East but also in the markets of our own African possessions.
the short period during which have drawn attention to this, and Mr. D. J. Lewis, principal of the lessons indoctrinated have have submitted that the remedy Mears. Johnson, Stakes and Master, had a chance, of Denetrating the for depopulation is to be found and a Committee member of native mindThe third stage not only in the amplification of Hong Kong Law Societs; arr was the establishment of a cen medical services, but in a policy back in the Colony yesterday- tral medical school At Suvs which directly designed to stimulate ing by the RMS Express of America
Canada trains, natives for medical, cers the native's interest in lifer
The process of boom and slump orn-followed different course in
The sub-continent covered by the.
cent, cheaper than in any of the three other capitala
lages."Reuter..
DEATHS.
HOLDMAN At the Kowloon Hospital on Saturday July 8, at 2.50 am, Frederick Herbert Holdman, age 48, Funeral will pass the monument 6.30 p.m. to-day. No flowers by request