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at 5.15pm. & 9.15 p.m. Only,
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IN
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A Brilliant Romance of Woman's Love A Play that Knows and Tells of Men us Powerfully as it tells of Women,
. ALSO
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IN
DAY DREAMS
An Hilarious Comedy in Three Parts.
At 2.30 p.m. & 7:15 p.m.
"REWARD OF DEVOTION'
A New Chinese Drama in 11 Parts.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL TYM, 1925
WORLD THEATRE.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ONLY, 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m. AN EXQUISITELY HUMAN STORY TEEMING WITH AN APPEAL THAT WILL HOLD THE SPECTATOR SPELLBOUND FROM START TO FINISH
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WHAT ALLIED DERTS MEAN.
2. d. JN £ OF 'BRITISH INCOME' TAX.
A DAWES. PLAN PROPOSED FOR: FRANCE
The Foderation of British Industries has sent a memorandum to the Chancellor of the Exchequer outlining the views of industry in Great Britain with regard to the question of Inter-Allied debts.
The federation states. that Great Bri tain's share of the Enancial burdens arising from the war is so henry in pro- portion to that of other countries as to form a serious handicap to British in- dustry in competition with other coua- tries.
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Other points in the memorandum are:
The principal difficulties of a settle ment seem to be. firstly, the attitude of the largest creditor, the United States. The Government of the United States have adopted a strictly commercial atti tude towards the debts, and do not ap pear to be open to any suggestions to on broad lines such as compromise
involved by any general. would
of war costs or other simitar pooling methods which have from time to time been suggested.
This attitude must in its turn govern | ឆ certain extent the attitude of Great.
to Britalb.
SUBSIDISING FRANCE.
In terms of taxation we are paying in income tax the equivalent of 7. in the in respect of the French debt; 6d. in the in respect of the Italian debt; and id in the E in respect of the dehts of other Allied Governments, including Russia; .while our payments to America represent approximately Bid. in the £a total of 28. Tld another to the
£, of which is id
represents
In
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COMMERCIAL WIRELESS.
EXPERIMENTS BY TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
SOUTH-EAST?
unpaid Allied debts, e, taxation which NEW RECEIVING STATION IN THE is paid by the British taxpayer to re- hieve taxpayers in the debtor countries. In terms of international competition
During the past nine months tests have for trade (assuming we are entitled to been carried out, by the Telegraph De- 5 per cent. interest and sinking fund on these debts), we are subsidising France partment, on wireless reception in var tous purte of the island with a view to to the extent of £1,000,000 a year accumulating data which would indicate Italy
£27,000,000 a year; not the re
the most suitable situation for a wire- maining debtor countries to the extent as station in Ceylon capable of satis of £41,000,000 annually.
These sum's represcut not only a additional tax burden on British indus- try but also a corresponding lightening of the burden on the industries of the debtor countries which are, in many cases, in keen competition with our own for the markets of the world.
operation to the South and East factor opere the West. Since the in-
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auguration of the Colombo Wireless Sta- tion in 1912 difficulty has been "experi-Į chesel in communicating with ships to the South and East Wireless waves travel much greater distances for a given power The surplus of exports, visible and over sea than over land and the extent invisible, ever imports for 1074, accord- of the obstruction of screening effect ing to the Board of Trade estimate, was varies considerably according to the phy only $29,000,000 as compared to a pre-eical, contour of the land and the exis war normal of nearly £500,000,000, which ease of minerals such as ironstones. Id affords an eloquent testimony to the the case of Ceylon these screening effects strain which this accumulation of are very pronounced, and in order to burdens is placing on our economic overcome these difficulties as far as poss- strength.
ible Govorameut during the past three years authorised the expenditure of rou- siderable sus for the provision of the most modern equipment at the Colombo Wireless Station. This equipment has now bert in operation for nearly twelve
In these circumstances it does not appear possible that Great Britain can contribute much to the solution of the problem in the form of any substantial reduction of British claims. Any such concession would impose for several generations an onormous burden on the nths and the improvement which has resulted has been very marked, Communi- Britiab taxpayer,, with its inevitable cation has been kept up regularly_with consequences on employment, on the modern, equipment, at distances of five standard of living, and on the ability to six thousand miles from Colombo in of British industry to compete with every direction, and so far as trans- foreign industry
No British Government would be justified jo incurring such a risk to the Future wifare of the country.
PRUSPERITY INDEX.*
Referring to the British Note to France on the subject of the French. debt, the memorauduin says:
...
mission of signals is concerned the dif Sculty may be regarded as having been surmounted.
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TO-DAY, at 230 p.m., 5 pm. sharp, 7.15 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.
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in
ORPHANS OF THE STORM
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Unfortunately, however, a very large MONUMENTAL DEPARTMENT.
98., WANGHAI ROAD, number of ships, which use the port of Colombe, are equipped with very inferior
HONGKONG. The federation regrets that His and ineficient apparatus, which, while Majesty's Government has cot seen its meeting with the requirements of the the annual payments to Board of Trade, does not transmit signals way to basing be found from French national resources of sufficient strength to overcome the on some form of prosperity" index, screening difficulties in communicating either following the exact Dawes play with Colombo Wireless Station when ap of a fixed minimun payment, coupled preaching from the South-East. These with farther payments when a certain weak signals could, in the ordinary
the
course, be amplified by modern wireless measure of prosperity is shown by index, or basing the whole annual pay apparatus to make the readable in ments on such an index.
Colombo, but for the prevalence of severe or selected design. The British offer pushes concession in electrical disturbances which are common regard to the total obligations to the in tropical countries. The wireless re- extreme limits of prudence, and involves permanent sacrifoes by this country of giving apparatus, unfortunately, ampli- application at the above-er at
Scs these disturbaners simultaneously men in so serious a character that they can only with the amplification of the ships' be justined if they create withio a short period the stability of general conditions goals, with the result that the niguals necessary to an expansion of British are still over-powered by the extraneous There are only two ways of overcoming The great sacrifices which are being made by Great Britain justify her in de- the difficulty. One is to increase the power of all ships' transmitting Bets manding adequate safeguards against which are a present too weak, and the her generosity being abused.
trade.
aoises.
Such safeguards can only be provided other is to increase the strength of the The first alter- by a definite undertaking on the part of signals, received relative to the atmos the debtors that they will take immedi-pheric disturbances.
ate steps to balance their Budgets by native is impracticable, so far as imated. imposing the necessary taxation, aadiate application is concerned, and could that they will in future abstain from only be adopted by degrees as obsolete obtaining an unfair advantage in the ships sets are replaced: world's markets by the depreciation of their currencies,
THE PROBABLE SOLUTION.""
In order, therefore, to ascertain to what extent the second alternative could HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.be applied, these tests have been carried
ULOSING QUOTATIONS,
Hongkong
APRIL Bri, 1925. and Shanghai Banks .... Canton InvTIFRACOM Hongkong Fire Insurances Union Iarnrannen särasi Douglas Steamships.. ELK, C. & M. Beam
Chias Logars
81,230 88.
$855 b. 272 b.
...154 zom.
157 nom.
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cut by the Telegraph Department. The principal object of the tests has been ta ascertain in what part of the island signals from ships to the South and the Fast could be received at the greatest strength. The tests are not yet complet ed, but, so far, the portion of the island between Nuwara Eliye and Galle has been The South-Eastern section explored. from Hambantota to Batticaloa is to be investigated at an early date.
large
tests bave number of been carried out, and although » definite conclusion has not yet been 182 nom. $122.b
arrived at," the evidence tends to confirm the view of the Telegraph Tla. 125 nom.
3161/18 Department that the installation of receiving apparatus somewhere in the South-Eastern section, in conjunction with the service from the Colonibo Eta- tion, will provide the solution to the dificity and enable ships to get in touch with Colombo when approaching from any direction, even though they be fitted with inefficient sets-Times of Ceylon.
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Shane Bocks...
Docke HE.& S. Hotels.
Hongkong Humphreys
Lands
Estates Ewo Mi Shanghai Cottons..
Orizztals
Cements (combined).
Chins Lights (combined)
B 201 Ta.11b.
a60b. Tis. 3.70 b.
31f_b. $32
Providents (combined)........ $58 b
Dairy Farm....
Electricas
H.K. Hopar (combined)
Tramways....
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