THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES8, "FRIDAY, DECEMBER 191, 1939.
WORLD
THEATRE
WEDNESDAY to SATURDAY, 27th to 30th Dec.
5.15 and 9.15.
REALART PICTURES
presants
MARY MILES MINTER
in
SWEET LAVENDER
The Story of a Sweet, Old-fashioned Love Affair and a Girl with a Sweet Old-fashioned Name.
3.90 & 7.15 p.m.
'INVISIBLE RAY.”· WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY:-Epis. 7 & 8.
SUNDAY :-Epis FRIDAY to
9 & 10
BOOKING AT THE THEATER.
ISUAL PRICES.
P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, ITD.
(INCORPORATED IN, ENGLAND, 1990.)
with which in vafiksted
THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LID
AUTHORISED CAPITAL...
SUBSCRIBED AND PAID UP
RESERVE FUND
Board of Directors:
£5,000,000; £2,594,160.
'000'063***
The B Hon. Lord Incricire, GCM.G, ROEL, K.C.LE. (Chairman).
Rt Hon the EarkofSELDORNA K.G..0.0.M.G.
Sir FREDEBICKELEY, 'Bart
Bir MONTAGE CORNISH TUBNEL,
FRANCIS ALKLANDER JOHNSTON, Esq. ALEXANDER KEMP WHIS21, Esq. * WALTER ÖSBORN, GRALLBROOK, Esq. The Han Art¡¥DHE SHÃW, MİF.” JAMES MACKENZIE, Esq. (Managing Director). M.M. B. GUBEAT, EST, CEL, CLE (General:Manager).
Sir DUNCAN CARMICHALL.
HEAD OFFICE :—129, Tesdenhall Street, London, E.CS.
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West London Branch-14-16, Cockspur Street, London, S.W.1.
Eastern Branches:
Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Mudran, Colombo, 'Bingapore, Hongtong and Shanghai.
The Corporation nudertakes General Banking and Exchange Business of every description and in addition to its Branches has Agencies all over the world."
De Vanz Road, Central, Hongkong.
C. CHAMPKIN,
Manager.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
COPENHAGEN,
*
The M/S. PANAMA"
will be loading for ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN and other SCANDINAVIAN PORTS.
Further Sailings
M/S. "Astralien"
M/S. "Afrika
MS. "Indien " M/S.
Chile
about 5th January, 1923
404
Will leave for above
ports an or about
Expected on oz:about
20th February, 1928. 18th March, 19th April,
17
8th May,
8th January, 1938. 10th February, 13th March,
... 1st April
Subject to change without notice.
For further particulars please apply to:-
"
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD..
Agents.
THE RED HAND
COMPOSITIONS LIMITED,
LONDON.
Contractors to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office, Crown Agents for, the Colonies, &c. "THE RED HAND BRAND."
Antifouling
Compositions (for Shipa' Bottoms, Anticorosive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposes,
Supplies secilable from:
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SOLEAGENTS/
PHILIPS
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ECONOMY
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Holland China Trading
Hong Kong
NATIONALISATION.
SWISS EXPERIENCE.
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...Friday.
Astanay, 3th Dec 10
29th Dec, 10 2.2
30th Dea. 3 p.
HE SAILINGS, MUBIBOT TO. ALTERATION... SHANGHAI via SWATOW'... "LOKSANG" -EMIPHÒNG V BOLKOW TSINGIAU The SWATOW
SHANGHAI
BANGKOK SWATOW SHANGHAI SWATOW SANDARAN
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STRAITS & GALOUTTA STRAFIS & CALCUTTA
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"LEBRANG"
"YUENBANG.Saturday,
* PÄUSANG"
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"YATSHING
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“NAMBANG
"POOKSANG."
CHIGDAR "HOSANG
... "FOOKSANG"
...Sunday, Sunday, terday
...Tossday:
Tunday
Friday, ...Monday,
31st Dea, 10a.m.
31st Dec 10 Bad, Jan, 10 am. 2nd Jan, Noon. 2nd Jan,
3.p
Soh Jan. Noon
8th Jan, 10.1
Wednesday, 10th Jan 3 par ...Tuesday S0th Jan, Sp
CALUUTTA LINE, -- This Line affords regular sellings be Calosti, Penang and Singaporta returning from Calcutta stomers proceed via Suralta and Hongkong to Japan, samalonally calling siƐhangbai All steamers bave "etoallent pawanger 4000mmodation, allided with Hipoteka Edhi wam man and exery a fully-qualidad
The discovery of the Paps breathsbla treat- mant salves the problem-hitherto only met by GLENKTA CORRESPONDENT.)
costly visit to the Alpine forest resoRDE applying a natural rahtile hosting agent Whatever system of Government they direct to the throat, chest and lungs. have not, that system immediately seemer Peps owe their wonderful potency to the to many people the only desirable one, ingenious ides of condensing healing pine-
lung How else can we explain the outery in forest air into handy tablet form. When some quarters in England for National- of their silver wrappers and slowly estion? Af one time, I beliere, Mdissolved in the mouth, Popa instantly All the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs with powerful Robert Smillie advocated nationalising the
fumes. This volatile germ-killing mines, but he has since changed his mind.
medicina at once Boothing and comfort The last time he was in Geneva, attending ing and it penetrates straight. futo she inner. the International Miners' Conference, he is. Cold and influenas gerus lodged in told me that his idea of nationalization the lining of the throat and breathing passages was that the mines should be madaged are quickly exterminated the same time, by local bodies, is, for instance, the ore infamed membrane is healed and streng
thened; breathing is made
the cough Glasgow tramways and gas works are
BAY, Bari and cheat tightness are quickly relieved. managed by the Glasgow municipality.
The Peps direct method of treating trouble In no circumstances, however, would he in the areataing organs is thus different and BHANGHAI agree to the mines becoming the property insuitely more effective than the old method of the nation and being managed by the of doing the stomach with liquid "cough-oures" State..
and nauseous Similarly, with regard to British railways, fashioned up Moreover, these old-
are usually loaded with MANILA
ILINE there was for a time an outery that they opium, chloral and other dangerous opinter
| HAIPHONG MSI should be nationalised, but here again those
Barcotics. who raised this outery have since learned are the handiest and most successful better; possibly because they have drawn bronchitis, bronchial asthma, night
arer discovered for coughs, colds, BORNEO inferences from the results of State morning coughs, malarial colds, sore throat, lary chilla, early management of railways and industries agitis, cold on the chest,
old
coughs or chil during the war. There may still be some dren's chest and hung weaknesses. Guaranteed people who would argue that, had the railways absolutely free from all dangerous drugs, PCP been under State management at a normal provide pleasant, safe beneficial medicine time, and not during the war, the results of for young and old. Obtainable only in sealed such administration would have been glass bottles of all chemists, and medicine satisfactory. It is difficult, however, to Full directions enclosed with every package.
desler in Hongkong, Shanghai, and The Straits. Fargue thus in view of the results of the working of State-managed lines in neutral, countries.
No country, perhaps, has given nation-" aliantion so thorough a test as Switzerland, and nowhers.now is there a more powerful movement on foot towards denationalisa tion. Most public services in this country are managed by the State, and it cannot be said that, in general, they are badly managed, but they are expensively managed. With a population of only about 8,880,009,| of whom, I should say, some 800,000 sre foreigners, Switzerland, at the beginning of this year, actually had more than 171,629 Federal and Federal Railway officials." In, other words, almost exactly one in every twenty-two of the country's population, in- clading foreignets, was eithor & civil servant or a State Tiilway oficial. Their salaries, of cou®, Lwallowed up heary sums more than 476,000,0002 ! this present year. For next year the Government has contrived to reduce. the number of civil servants and“. State railway officials by 2,690, thereby effecting a reduction of expenditure amoun ting to more than 23,000,000f,, or, at the present rate of exchange, considerábly. more than £1,000,000,
Besides this, the-Federal Railways' total deficit is estimated this present year at some- thing more than 105,000,000. In 1919 it was only a little more shen 17,500,000. so that the war alone is not responsible for all the piling up of debts and deficits. Railways, however, which before the war had no delict, and even paid good dividende, have got into serious financial, straits, and accumulated large deficita after several years of State management.
WAILWAY LONNA.
Thus, the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway (partially State-controlled) at the end of 1920 had a deficit of 600,000,000£. in round figuras, and the Etat line in France at the same period had a deficit
770,000,000£ The Italian-railways, which are mainly State-controlled, had a deficit of 1,050,000,000 lire, always taking the end of 1920; the Belgian State Railways, one of 170,000,000; the German railways, one of 13,000,000,000 marks; and the United States railways, which were also State-controlled during the war, like- wise contrived to pile up a serious deficit during that time. It is, significant, but explicable, that Stinnes and the other German industrial magustes, who are asked. now to help tide their country over ita present crisis should insist as a condition of their doing so upon State-managed.. cox.corna boing so far as possible restored to private management.
COFFEE
Fresh Roasted
Daily.
A Daily treat from our
Royal Roaster
We feel so confident
that the quality and
aroma of our delicious "Coffee will please you that we are giving
away free samples.
Call to-day
at the
I have watched State management for BLUE BIRD GO.
many years, not only in this country but elsewhere, and while the individual officials cannot be held responsible for misman, agement, there is no doubt that the system is bad. Officials tend to get into rata and become Bümbles. They hard little responsibility, and any initiative they may once have possessed in slowly but surely killed. Promotion is by seniority Past merit. Even the general manager of the State railways is helpless, because he is responsible to the Minister of Railways, and the Minister to Parliament. Fort every clerk whom you fill in a private enterprise you flád, taking the amount of work, ipto consideration, quite. three in a State-owned business and finally, if a line does not pay, the man- agement of the milways Mathot unduly distressed, because - the defbit; hani to, he made up by the taxpayers pla
Whatever businema State undertook to
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manage dining the war in fact, at all 67 QUEEN'S-ROAD CENTRAL
events in this country, has proved a costly
failure. Not merely did the State mon-
opolies of the purchase and wholesale sale.
of certain necessaries (cereals, sugar, coal,
Hongkong
and petroleum among other things), result MISS TORA INOKUCHI
in everyone paying more for these articles
than they might otherwise have dogs in a
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corns are being liquidated it appears that the State-Food - Ofice-in • Butisterland, from 1914 to 1920, accumulated a defeit of 221,400,0001, on its commodities del partment and 87,400,0001, on the office for enacting exceptional war measures," "Tank is, on these two Government "departments" about 506 debt per heal of population, ut the present rate of exchange nearly fa" head; haa" been incurred thorofare,Buyale in England “legabl
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prone to toistuation with the notion that nationalisation is a panacea for all ills, let hita reflect upon it. ngulia in a countrỳ wher It has been given a serious and
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Shanghal, sometimes miling as switow, Aurough tickets, caza
Banded and through" Hill of Lading are issued Fortberk and Yangisan Porta via Shangha --A weekly service is maintained with Landis by yesssia with good
ranger accommodation, sailings from both porta svery Eddayd
approximately weakly for passengers and cargo calling at dalhow when Indacement ofera c
Fortnightly walings to and dress Barriekin by two 5,000 bom Framers & 8. – FUNBANG" BOJKA, WIMAJRANG!" bosh stormónu
haring axonemi passenger accommodation. Cargo takes through Bills of Lading: for "Kudat Jomaltata, Labon,
・TEWAD and Takart Datu
LINE-A regular service is ren from March to Movember between
Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Welhaled and Ubeloo. LINE:-Awwinkle ancylos ta provided botysen-Hangings and Bangkok, * via Bwstow, by fire vienmera fisted with lup-to-dain passenger
accommodation.
CALCUTTA LINE
6.5.
· NAMSANG" will be despatched on or about Tuesday, 2nd Jan, at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG
& CALCUTTA.
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON. MADRAS, PORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
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