"Perhaps I'm hard to please
When I was younger
I didn't much care what I ate or drank or
smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you
would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter, what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.
..
You see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft
and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be put off with anything less
than White Horse?
admit that perhaps I am ́ ́hard to please - bur' take
it from me, it pays.”
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WHITE HORSE
WHISKY
You can tell it blindfold!
Sole Agents for South China: Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.
Here's Luck!
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EAT AT
BEER
Jemmy's Kitchen
INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVE
EXPLOITATION
Japanese To Establish Monopoly In Canton Area
ting off the maja
It now becomes obvious that the Japanese have in- vaded South China not only with a view to cut- line of supplies of the Nation- al Government of China, or for other military
purposes.
:
That the Japanese intend to stay in and to exploit Kwangtung systematically, after the North and Central China pattern, is indicated by plans which at present are being mapped out in Tokyo for the Japanese economic domina- tion of South China.
These plans have already ad-execution of the Japanese Five-Year vanced far, according to somewhat Plan for the development of Taiwan indiscreet communications in vari-, Island itself. This plan "includes cus Japanese papers.
many ambitious schemes for whose realisation large amounts of capital are required.
It has apparently been resolved in Tokyo to extend to South China the same regime of Japanese mono- polisation of ports, railways and road communications, mining, and key industries which is” to be ̋ín- augurated within a few days in the remaining of the Japanese-occupied areas of China under the ill-famed Development Companies.
· FÓRMOSA STEPS IN
The plan, in particular, proposes the esablishment of a large water power station on the eastern coast of Formosa, the construction of a large cement plant capable of pro-{ ducing annually 100,000 tons, of cement, the exection of a dye and paint plant at Kagi; and the exten- sion of the salt mining industry.
In order to enable the company The creation of a Japanese South China Development Company to be to start upon new economic enter- constructed after the pattern of the prises in Kwangtung Province its North China Development Company capital, it is rumoured, after having and the Central China, Promotion been fully paid up, is to be in- Company is being forecasted in the creased to Y100,000,000
more. Part of the additional capital Japanese capital.
to be provided would be subscribed
or even
FOREIGNERS MENACED
The planned South China De-by the Japanese Government. velopment Company, however, is in- tended to be independent of the two other Japanese development com-
These plans confirm, the repeated panies. In its creation and direc- tion, the South Manchuria Railway prediction that the Japanese, once Company and its subsidiary, the they are allowed to establish them- Kochu Koshi, are not to participate. selves firmly in South China, will
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Instead, the organisation of the subject the Chinese and - foreign South China Development Company economic interests there to the same is to be placed into the hands of highhanded treatment to which they the Formosa Development Com- have been subject to in North and pany which for this purpose will be Central China, considerably enlarged.
Under the regime of Japanese] The Formosa Development Com-economic monopolisation and ex- pany is to Taiwan Island what the clusiveness, all-non-Japanese econ- are condemned. to
South Manchuria Railway Company omic interest and at last to die.
is to Manchuria, or the Bank of suffer, to lose, Chosen to Korea. The company is This regime introduced into South capitalised at Y30,000,000, whereof China, obviously means a most dan- Y18,750,000 has been actually paid gerous blow to British and Hong
Kong interests in particular.
up.
TO INCREASE CAPITAL
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providing C With the port of Canton and the ing area wi railways of Kwangtung. Province vention in f under the Formosa · Development
Of the paid-up capital, Y16,000,- Company or a Its projected sub- The "ape 000 has been contributed by the Ja-sidiary, a "Japanese-sponsored boy, which the panese · Government and only cott against Hong Kong la cer- South Chine $3,750,000 by Japanese private in- taín. In comparision with it, the made their terests. It is now reported that anti-Hong Kong boycott of 1926-27 and accepta those private interests in the near will be but a child's play. future will be called upon to pay up the remainder of their share in the
capita the company
capitalisation
will
hard-
allow
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currency th Japanese tr bayonet.
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China Dere soon follow the "China