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small extent, in Australia. The
threat, small at that time, has grown rapidly; and, in the last Hong Kong. Thursday, July 27, 1993. last year or two there has been a
Japanese Trade Competition.
very serious increase in the capacity of Japanese textile manufacturers to undersell the products of the West. There is
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The Prime Minister's Portrait
Sir John Lavery has now almost completed an "intimate" picture of the Prime Minister seated in the kitchen of his cottage at Lossie-! mouth.
The idea came to Sir John, wher he was staying with Mr. Mac- Donald at his Scottish home re- cently. The kitchen was painted|
Jon the spot and the figure roughed
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933
MIGHTIER THAN THE
PEN
FLEET STREET'S BATTLE
FOR CIRCULATION
FREE GIFT SCHEME WAR
(By An Unregistered Reader.)
War is raging in Flect-street, instead armies of canvassers der
in. Mr. MacDonald, snatched half Hurling their shareholdiny infantry bouching into the valleys. They an hour from his attendance at the ruthlessly into the fray, the war-carried samples of boots and coats World Conference buildings to give lords of the Press fight out their and pants.
A whole Welsh family could be Sir John a short altting to finish Armageddon. the head.
Hear General Esmond Harms-clothed from head to foot at the |worta exhorting his troops. before price of eight weeks reading of the A Delegate's Art Exhibition action: "We ask our shareholders to "Daily Express." A Welshman with The exhibition of paintings by be patient and loyal. They can rest sufficient enthusiasm for the "Daily Edward Bruce which Mr. Cordell assured that so soon as peace is once Express" might even, I believe, Hull opened at the Leicester Gal-more restored their interest will be aspire some day to wear a little leries recently, has an unusual in- first in the thoughts of the present black hat just like Lord Beaver- terest. The artist is also a mem-board of directors, and they will, I brook's. But the "Daily Mail” and ber of the American delegation at trust, be eventually fully rewarded the "Daily Herald" bad by this time turned clothers, too, and the pace the World Economic Conference. for unavoidable sacrifices."
Returning 10,000 pairs of silk
Mr. Bruce has not previously It is like old times. Some day was growing hotter. shown his work in this country, there will be a land fit for heroes to His first exhibition was held in live in. Meanwhile, what is wanted stockings to the shelf, the "Daily Express" doubled back to literature New York in 1925. It was follow-is cannon-fodder.
The first shot in this war of once more. Twelve classic volumes ed by a second in 1927. On each occasion every canvas was sold. attrition was fired by the "Daily for ten bob.". The noon-day of cul- England. He is highly critical of his own Herald." They announced to their ture was glowing over work and did not scruple after a readers that they were prepared to The "Daily Express" took advertis a sell to each of them a set of works ing, space in various newspapers to long period of effort to make bonfire of everything he had paint- of Dickens, in 16 volumes worth four proclaim the good news. led.
guineas, for the paltry sum of Surely the "Daily Herald" must fall before this surprise attack. But eleven shillings.
Now this was very kind. But war breeds espionage. Somebody there happened to be an agreement blundered. The plan of campaign between the newspaper proprietors leaked out. It came to the ears of to refrain from advertising their "John Bull." "John Bull" remem- wares by the offer of free gifts. So bered how it had been cradled with and come they met together, more in anger the "Daily Herald," than in sorrow, and addressed the charging to the rescue with an offer "Daily Herald" in terms of reproof. of twelve yet more classical classics, a By a simple subtraction sum, they all for 88. 9d.
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had taken eleven shilings from four Space was taken by "John Bull" guineas, and concluded that the in the same numbers of the same Herald" was offering its journals that were to contain the "Daily readers a free gift of £3 136. each announcement of the "Daily Ex- all round.
press" ten-ahllling series. The "Daily Herald" was bland. Ita Mr. Elias pointed out that in not. Espionage is met by counter- this case the offer of a four-guineas espionage. There was another leak- set of Dickens for 11s. did not ac-age on the eve of action. And lo, tually involve a gift of £3. 13. The The Day came, and the "Daily Ex- bad been four guineas, Mr. Elias explained, press" announcement
read Twelve was just a figure of speech. The changed. It now hard fact was that the "Daily classics for seven-and-six." Herald" could supply the 16 volumes The victory cost the "Daily Ex- Realism is the romance of trying for 11s. and still make a profit.
press" another £12,000 on the
nothing particularly new in this up the aisle at ours. development of industrial capa or Course Try I.
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The newspaper proprietors gazed 115,000 sets of masterpieces sold. at Mr. Elias in silence. Then Lord Still, honour was redeemed, and Beaverbrook broke the silence. He "John Bull" was left echoing the clapped on his little black hat and famous heart-cry of its sometime stamped out of the room. The editor, Mr. Bottomley, "I have paid.
but. meeting dispersed,
The end is not yet. The "Daily Herald" has returned to its old
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The seriousness of Japan's city among people who formerly
scarcely taken into trade competition has long been were apparent, and as that competi- count in any calculation of the tion becomes intensified through nature of the competition likely neutral Government sub-to be encountered in dumping and sidising of shipping the position, markets; but it is none the less Definition. particularly as it affects Britain embarrassing. It is a common- and her textile trade, becomes place that in the last half-cen- to be miserable.
world has become a more acute. Negotiations be-tury the tween the British and Japanese much smaller place, and to-day But Who's Whose? Governments have been proceed-knowledge is flashed to ing for some weeks, and, accord-quarter of the globe with the ing to an official Board of Trade greatest, speed. It is no longer statement in the House of Com-necessary for industrially back- mons on Tuesday, the proposal ward nations to send advance
If this story were made into formula, and now offers a whole under consideration is that there scouts to such displays as the Motte For The Big Conference. should be a tripartite discussion Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
After all, to confer is humap. film, as it richly deserves to be, the encyclopædia for 118. Needless to in India in the near future, be-in order to discover the secrets!
next scene would take you to the,
say, this, too, is worth four guiness. exchange. Central telephone
It Facts You Did Not
But you could not bury the "Daily tween representatives of the in-of Western manufacturing skill;
would show you harassed operators Express". under a whole mountain dustries
Lan-to-day the agent' of the modern concerned, of
Know.
trying to deal with the demands of of reprinted encyclopædias. That cashire, India and Japan, cover-machinery makers visit the most
newspaper managers, all of whom indomitable newspaper is going to ing the whole field of all classes remote factories in every land
Great Britain has attained third were trying to get through to the have a slap-up nere encyclopedia of of textiles in which these coun-and explain the merits of the tries are interested. These dis-latest inventions. When all place in world production of elec- same cheap publisher at the same its very own to cram the brains of "
its readers. It will be so up to date cussions will relate to the Indian have the seed all can grow the tricity. market
For, on the day after the pro- that it will record the proceedings and to the British flowers; and there is no reason
force prietors meeting, Dickens was of the World Conference. For that Colonial markets in which India why factories in any part of the
be less well the bullets out of a new noiseless fairly booming. Whether you read reason it is not ready yet; and its is interested. It is difficult to world should
Eastern
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the "Daily Mall," or the "Daily value cannot be announced, because see how a compromise can be ef-equipped than the factories of machine gan.
Express," or the "News-Chronicle," we do not yet know what the total fected. The simple faith of an their British, German, or Ameri-
Pigmy monkeys that weigh less you could have his entire works for wisdom of the Conference, will be older generation that the can rivals. So too with direc superior qualities of Western tion and experience; the service than a pound have been discovered 108. And at this news the readers worth. What we do know is that the of the Daily Herald," who had encyclopedia will cost the "Daily. labour would always be sufficient of highly trained men can be in South America.
wasted an unnecessary shilling in Express" a packet? ad-obtained if salaries are offered to counterbalance and vantage
na-big that
enough to
a the yen stood far higher than to theirs impatience for culture, gnash THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. tions might possess in
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in remote lands, it seems probable that conditions So. opened. the first general en- lower cost of labour clearly manently stands in need of revision. There is indeed no longer any will not always be as favourable gagement on the Dickens front,
of Statistics on the industrial: commonopoly manufacturing to Japanese-export trade as they Before it ended the "Daily Express" DEAD MAN REVIVED:
even so, in had sold 124,000 sets and the “Dally FOR TWO DAYS, petition of the Japanese reveal ability, and, given. reasonable are today. But,
the present Mail" probably 120,000. The remarkable figures to show at facilities on the part of the Gov-some industries how great a disadvantage British ernment, no longer any place margin is so wide that it is dif-"News-Chronicle," sadly out-dis WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECOMMEND
manufacturers stand in this where industry may not be pur-ficult to see how British manu-tanced in the race to spread the Surgeons Triumph After
Patient's Appeal. respect. The figures are the sued, provided that local labour facturers can hope to compete glory of its first editor, had dis- more disquieting because it has capable of being, trained to the successfully. Tariffs, it may be posed of a paltry 65,000.
But perhaps the shade of Dickens
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. to be admitted, that at least in standard of modern require pointed out, are no sufficient]
The strange story of man such occupations as the textile ments is available and can be remedy, particularly in the case, watched over his own, for this ven- trades the quality of Japanese employed at a price and under of textile trades. If all foreign ture was less lucrative than the literally "raised from the dead" labour is comparable with that conditions which make competicompetition were eliminated Heraldic, optimists seemed to fore and kept alive 48 hours after his of Western Europe. There is tive enterprise possible. The from the British Isles the Bri-tell. There was an average loss on heart had failed so he might tell really no reason why it should standard of intelligence among tish textile manufacturer could every 10,000 copies of £1,200 and his son a confidential matter of not be so, for in the handling of the Japanese is high, their find in the domestic market no be who sold fewest lost least. That great importance was told at a re- silk the Japanesee have all the capacity for industrial pursuits adequate compensation for the portans, mattered little in compar cent meeting of The American advantages that hereditary is long-established, and the cost loss of the neutral markets in son with the greatness of the cause;
His heart was kept beating arti- aptitude can bestow. The Japan- of living in the country is very which so large a proportion of but casualties were beginning to Medical Association here. ese export trade in cotton plece low. On these bases Japanese textile products is sold. The mount up,
maintaining the By this time the cornucopia officially for two days by a machine goods, which was increasing industry has been founded, and, problem of rapidly before the War, received, encouraged by the Government standard of living in Great Bri-Fleet-street was fairly opened. It known as the "artificial pace an immense impetus, from the and fostered by the need of the tain is not a question of insisting seemed as if all the editors had maker developed last year for re- inability of many countries to people to find employment out upon a fixed scale of remunera abdicated in favour of a bevy of starting heart beats stopped by obtain European goods while thejade agriculture in a country-al-tion for labour, for the country competitive fairy godmothers. Pens, shock or other means des
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