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Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 17,
1985
New Hope For Iron And Steel
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
HE CUT THEIR SALARIES
There was an old tradition · Iu Slami that the Chakri dynasty would last only a century and a half.
King Prajadhipak, belongs to the Chakri dynasty, His house's cen tury and a half ended last year.
There is economic as well as political reason for the change of Government in Slam.
During the world-wide economic depression King Prajadhipok re- duced the number of officials, cut their salaries, and fatroduced an in-
come-tax.
WESTERNISED OFFICIALS
ARMAMENTS
RACE
BEGINS AGAIN
DEADLY POKER GAME
OF THE NATIONS
HOW LONG CAN EUROPE STAND
THE STRAIN?
THE
game.
come
Ward Price)
THE peace of Europe has be-jtion that the strength would be
a desperate poker hers while the weakness of defeat.
continued to eripple Germany. France Germany, and Britain The international position of make up the present pool, but France was built up on this idea. almost every other European Her auxiliaries of the Little En State is at the table. If the tente Czecho-Slovakia, Jugosla aupreme "ace-pot" of War comes via, and Rumania-fell in be- The official class was responsible to be played, all will be in it. alde her because they believed that for the revolutions and counters National armaments are the France was, and would remain, revolutions which have led to King faster than ever before in this Europe.
stakes. They are piling up the greatest military Power in Prajadhipok's abdication."-
By Marshal Petain's admission, that position is already lost
Patriotic Frenchmen do not deny
Britain In The Game
It is only three per cent of the world-old, deadly gamble. total population of Slam. But it holds most of the Government and Service posts. For the most part: Government proclaimed that it most dificult. National unity has By its White Paper the British that their country's situation is It is Western-educated..
was still in the game. General been split by internal disorder and
Its ideas are of no influence among Goering's interview with myself widespread financial scandals. The the Siamese peasantry. They are of
Iraised the German stake a little army is half untrained,"
Much of
great potential influence among Slam's foreign population.
by announcing that Germany its materiel is old. There are in Siam half a million Air Force.
would henceforth have a fighting No one need think of France sei Chinese, who keep closely, in touch'
an aggressive Power to-day. The Then the betting quickened. French would Aght with desperate- with the revolutionary politics of Four days later France voted two courage if attacked, but they them-- their own country, and over 380,000 years' military service for her selves will never be the attackers Immigrants from British India.
"
young men. The next day Herr Cross the frontier Into Germany, Hitler restored conscription to and you enter a national atmos- Your Daily Smile! Germany and created a German phere completely different.
Army of 86 divisions, instead of Mussolini prefers male stenogra- the 10 laid down in the Treaty many has plans for aggression:
I do not mean by this that Ger--` terms with the Continental Steel phers. Obviously, Italians, who cap of Versailles... Cartel for overseas markets. To take dictation
What next? Will France im-I know that Germany is determin
against any of her neighbours. But exclude foreign steel altogether
pose three year's service, as she ed to be the strongest Power on:
Job for the Translator.
The Will To Power With a crusading zeal she... is" building up, or has already built up, this position. No sacrifice and: effort are too great for the“.
is not part of their purpose, but one of the best stories I have re-did a month before the Great the Continent of Europe. the regulation of British com-cently heard is that told by Mr. H. A. War began? petition with foreign steel Fisher, warden of New College, abroad as well as at home Oxford, and former secretary of educa-the strain of this grim contest? How long can Europe stand may bring about a "atabilisa-ence at the Guildhall, London," the tion, speaking at a Teacher's Confer- tion of prices, and rationalise other day. He said that a friend of
A Fait Accompli If the new range of home the steel industry of the world his, a great Greek scholar, when visit The climax of the world's long no Import Duties upon various by the same methods which have ing women's college in the United post-war fever is approaching three or four men who lead Ger types of structural iron and stopped the cut-throat competi-States, was asked whether he would yet a climax may bring reller many, or for the many millions of steel does not imply the raising tion
of British firms with one transisting their college motto into
the institution the compliment of instead of ruine
German youth who serve her. Her of the Tariff from 38.1/3 to 50 another.
Greek.
There are some diseases in magnificent Industrial plant is He most courteously agreed per cent.. it is because duties
and then asked what the motto was, which the turning-point is only pouring out munitions, night and" upon the more expensive grades
It was placed before him and he read reached when the rash breaks day........ FOOD, wop hout purpose out visibly and the patient looks The risk to European peace. Is W. Peet in "The Church worse than ever before, that, in this position, her sansitive- Stone-Breaker Not
Considered aright, what hapness to affront, or her misgivings. pened in Germany was not a new about, the grouping of other Pow "The young man calling on Jane is fact-only a new statement.
[ers, may provoke her to use this [certainly a loud dresser."
And it was a statement of some strength. Nerves rather than In-- al" mult!"
"Yes, she has turned a deaf ear to thing already known. M. Laval tentions are the danger.
or
Paid Wages
tion
TL"
Load Suit
Misand'rstood
Guest: “That's strange. All -my friends said you would get me com Herr Hitler, at
and going."
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
are governed by Trade Agree STOLE TO BUY ments. "On the lower-priced ranges of elementary products the new Tariff will reach, even exceed, 60 per cent. of the value. When it is recalled that as recently as January last year
A very unusual case was brought the President of the Board of before Mr. E, I. Wynna Jones at the
six weeks before in London gave "Discrimination against Ger Trade was hinting that even the Kowloon Magistracy this morning
me the figures of the German 33.1/3 per cent. tariff might not when Li Yiu, an unemployed stone- Guest: "Do you operate a bas be Reichswehr, according to the many is dead and done with" "is what 66,000,000 Germans, with be continued, it is natural to ask breaker, appeared on a charge of tween the hotel and the railroad sta-French official estimate. Very passionate enthusiasm, were say what important changes have stealing e quantity of bolts, valued Manager of Ritzy Hotel: "No, sir." The 36 divisions announced by They are convinced that Ger--
nearly 400,000 men," he said
ing on that Saturday night." modified Government opinion. at $1 from the site of the new,
:: The answer is two-fold: first, Central British School
the usual strength of 12,000 men, make up what she has done. They are fer-
many. is completely justified In that imports of iron and steel Inspector Whelan, of the Hunging rose in 1934 by 41 per cent. over Hom Police Station, stated that the
432.000 men..
vently grateful to their Leader for. the Imports of 1933; secondly. Eastern Mercantile and Construc
But whereas until that day doing it. that the iron and steel industry tion Company; for whom the defen-
the size of Germany's army was There could be nothing more- has been making rapid advances dant worked, and which is now in
a matter of estimate and rumour useless than to try to break down upon the road of reorganisation the hands of Messrs. Boyd and Com-
it has now been officially at this conviction. To reproach the im-nounced. The last three years have in this pany, Liquidators had failed to pay posed against arrivals from Holhowclamation has at least put the German people with lawyer-like-
Herr Hitler's pro- respect certainly seen a great the men their wages, and most of on account of small pox, have been facts frankly before the world arguments about solemn covenants turn of the tide, springing from them were laying their hands on removed. the imposition of the 33.1/8 per anything they could get, in order to
Other facts, however, are and juridical pledges would only cent, tariff in April, 1932. Enor-buy food.
needed to fill in the picture.goad them to fury. He said that a few days mous new works, such as the ago about 200 or 300 men came
A Chinese widow, Chu Ho, was During the preceding fort-
(Continued on: Page 10), £3,000,000 centre of production the station complaining that they the Central Police Court this and Germany and had many to fined $20 by Mr. W. Schofield at night I had been in both France at Corby and the almost equally had not been paid, and the matter morning for failing to register a conversations with highly placed vast reconstruction at Dowlats, is now in the bands of the S.C.A. mui teat, Mak Siu. Inspector and completely informed people have been started: older plants It is understood that a sum of near-Fraser, of the Secretariat for have been modernised and millsly $5,418 is owed to the workmen as Chinese Affairs, appeared for the reopened. Great mergers have wages. taken place, and the 14 separate
The essence of them repre- sections into which the Iron and things to get some food.
Defendant stated that he stole the
sents the real position as regards Steel Industry was divided are, that the company owed him wages | Mahoritigue, a Frenchman, was cal moment.
He added Albert Marig Joseph Charles those two countries at this criti now united into a single Federa- tion under a Central Council, with Sir Andrew Duncan as its active chairman,
Expanded hurriedly under the emergencies of the Great War,
to the sum of $11.
.
The quarantine restrictions
prosecution.
this morning fined $80 for com
Positions Reverted
Grim anxiety is the dominant
EUROPEAN LADY IN CAR MISHAP
CHINESE CHILD INJURED
Mrs. R. J. Stevens, of No. 17.
A fine of $5, in default seven days' mitting a breach of the Registra feeling in France. Marshal Pe- Gramplau Road, has reported to the Imprisonment, was imposed. tion of Persons Ordinance, by Mr. tain's plea for two years military Police that while she was driving Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central service, published in the Revue along Prince Edward Road yester
an unknown Chinese Police Court. T
des Deur Mondes on March 1, was day evening, an a document without precedent la child accidentally knocked down by
her cur. Sentelice of six months' hard French history,
the Iron and Steel Industry had BHILS TRIBE FIRES to absorb the waste plant and,
multiplied financial units which ARROWS AT CIRCUS
survived to find a diminished de- mand.
was ckened both in efficiency Difficulty Of Changing
India
of production and in demand. Unemployment, which embraced
32 per cent of the industry at
the beginning of 1934, had fallen
to 25 per cent, twelve months!
later. Larger domestic require
VERY LIGHT FRIGHTENS
ATTACKERS
New Delhi, India.
labour was imposed on Keung Kau, Here in a former Commander-in-
It appears that the child, while
a licensed cigarette dealer, who ap- Chief of the Former Armies in the crossing the road, did not looke peared before Mr. E. 1, Wynne Jones field, a former Minister of War, ahead, and collided into the rear off at the Kowloon Magistracy this who says sheet and the the car. The child was sent to the morning on a charge of stealing $5"In these last two years the Kowloon Hospital. from the person of Yeung Yee, a woman.
A total of 12,456 cases were treat ed by the St. John Ambulance New
situation has changed with such
rapidity that the respective post- CHINESE “HOUDINI”
DETAINED.
tions of France and Germany have been reversed; to-day it is France' who has to make an ef-
Territories Branch during last fort to recover equality in mill-22 Disturbers of Peace
tary strength." "And hisgrow comment on this
"With France weak, war would
condition is: ***
ments have combined with a bet-Occurrences attending a travelling month." ter export trade to lift the indus
air circus in western. India have try out of its worst depression. SUITABLE PRESENTS What now handicaps it is large lately served to Blustrate the Pun San, a widow, was this
fly the Continental competition tribe of Bhils and to draw attention months imprisonment, by Mr. Q.be but a question of time."
primitive character of the ancient morning fined $150, in default of 8 which the revised Tariffs are iri- tended to remove much of it to the difficulties likely to be on A. A. Macfadyen at the Central consisting of foreign steel im countered among backward peoples, Magistracy for being in posses- ported below cost price over by those who are now embarking alon of 1869 po pui lottery tickets. the double barriers of cus on changing the whole political con toms and currency. The dis- stitution of India
EVERY OCCASION
Allowed Bail
Twenty-two Chinese, who creat ed a disturbance outside the Wan- chal Police Station yesterday at Man-Power And Wealth p.m. when a Chinese Houding That is the most authoritative who claimed to be able to pers possible revelation of the feelings form fantastic feats, was detained of the French astion at this mo- by the police, were remanded in ent. As Clemenceau said, there police custody for 24 hours by Mr. * ara 20,000,000. Garmans too many W. Schofield at the Central Police policy will be only one function stration flights with different sorts was attacked with bows and arrows for France
Court this morning for disorderly of the new Import Duties. They of aeroplanes and the people are will also give the now reorganis encouraged to go up for joy rides.
However, the Fathan driver of,, a Germany -la strong but poor conduct,
drawing part of the para- France is weak sad rich, for Defendants pleaded not guilty
Since 1918 French national po and were each allowed": be licy has been based on the Assamp: $25 which was reduced.
couragement of this dumping This travelling circus gives demon-
ed and united Steel Industry a But in the land of the Bhile, the phernalia fired off a Very light and chance of bargaining on better circus came under suspicion