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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 1926
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LONDON, January 15th
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
There has been a good deal of very interesting gossip during the last few fow days about the abschce from town of the Prince of Wales. He bar heen spending his time bunting, and that was to be ex pected. The gossips are commenting upon the fact that he has been almost cery day in company with ons or other of bis brothers, and particularly with the Duke of York. He appears to have latbly chosen the company of his brother to the exclusion of some of his own ates, and naturally, there is a good deaf of interested comment upon it
In this connection it may be stated that
But it was
and by country visitors. really decaying before the ars. The realism of the cinema was the last blow. Who wanted to soe kings and queens and statesmen and jockeys standing stiff and still when they could see them on the films walking about or riding winners! 1. CONFIDENT NOTE.
The croakers have had a nasty knock this week, delivered by an eminent. airman of Barclay's, who is always a banker, Mr. F. C. Goodenough, the
pautious speaker. He made the confident statement at the annast meeting that wo are pulling through our present dificul ties with efficiency and success, and that the future is by no means so dismal as it has been decided that when the tenancyIt is often painted. Barclay's "have had
of Lord Howe's' house in Curzon Street during the past year the biggest turnover has to be relinquished by the Duke and in their history, and of course that gives Duchess of York next month, they will! Mr. Goodenough encouragement.
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at once go into residence at White Lodge, But there is the further fact that in Richmond, and remain there, for some Mr. Goodenough's opinion our policy has time, the length of their stay depending, been sound, and that the return to the of course, upon the fulfilment of the ex gold standard and the lifting of the em PRESSINGpectations of a happy event some time bargo on foreign issues are indicative of
May.
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We have paid off AFTER DRY-
£700,000,000 of
in five years.
We saved enough last year to invest CLEANING
£50,000,000 abroad. The adverse statis- tical balance on the foreign trade account THE
of nearly £100,000,000 is more than wiped out, in Mr. Goodenough's opinion, by the "insiaible exports."
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The Prince of Wales was himself at White Lodge, and it is interesting to recall the fact that the latest Royal baby to come into the world there was the son of Prince and Princess Faul of Serbia, who was born in August, 1921, in precisely the same room as that in which our own Prince of Wales saw the light. QUITE HIDERNIAN!
After the avalanche of pessimism we have had to put up with during the past: few months this is good reading. The pessimists can put it in their pipe and
smoke it
LA BAD CLERICAL JOKE.
Everybody expected that when the Irish Free State set out to manage its ows affairs efforts would be made to make- it as Irish as possible But some things which are being done are not likely to do the new Commonwealth any good. As an illustration I need only mention the action of the Lord Chief Justice of the Free State in conducting a vigorous cam paign to make the Irish language com pulsory for call to the Bar. The trouble is that the attempt to make Gaelic whichtherblowing up of St. Paul's Cathedral, is generally supposed to be the Irish Tan the destruction of the Houses of Parlia guage at all compulsory in business his
learned a lesson which will not be for
The British Broadcasting Company have
gotten in the future. The other night Rather Ronald Knox, the Roman Catholic cleric, gave a lecture on the wireless and tried to be funny.. He set out to describe what the news would sound ake on the wireless if there was a Revolution, and he proceeded give graphic details of
been a dead failure. It is a most dificultent, and a great deal more to the same effect. An enormous number of listenora- language to learn, and of no earthly use in throughout Great Britain thought it to anybody when it is acquired. In many was a sober narration of facts, and there respects a knowledge of Chinese would was something like panic in various parte be more useful!
of the country. The telephone system was over texed by people frantically making inquiries as to the truth of the * dis- asters" they had just heard about. THE LISTENING IN PUBLIC
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knew it was meant to be a burlesque'; but what Father Knox did not realise and what the B.B.C..will never forget-is thint the listening-in public is quite different from the theatrical public and the cinema public; it is the public in the widest sense. It is the man of the street, of the village, of the tavern, and especially-the man of the hospital, and also the woman of all those places, and it is ako everyone at home.
Meantime, while the Lord Chief Justice is having his fling, the Free State Finance Minister has decided to go in for a Free State coinage, and that will certainly not be popular with the very active agens Of course, the majority of listeners-in who are doing their. best to revive the once flourishing tourist industry in Ireland. American tourists were begin ning to revisit the country in consider able numbers, and the imposition of a new coinage will add a complication to their already complicated hustling that they will not in the least appreciate... A GREAT PRISON ESTOUMER.
Appreciative references are made in the Press on John Howard, immortalised as a prison reformer, whose bi-centenary is celebrated this week with a servies in incidentally. They take up the headpiece Paul's Cathedral. John Howard was in apprentice to a grocer in the City of or listen to a loud speaker as they might London, and he made himself a European listen to a band or a speaker in the reputation more by singleness of purpose is from the beginning. Domestic servants street. Only the dogged members listen- thaa by special qualities of intellect for instance usually listen-in in their spare, Howard and his wife were also pioneersmomente through the evening, sometimes in housing reform. The miserable mud between the courses at dinner.
The majority of people only listen-in
huts of their tenants were replaced by
No wonder so many thousands, ret "acat" cottages les out at the same rents as the hovels. Mrs. Howard's Knox's news thought the worst had having heard the introduction to Father jewels were sold to build cottages, and happened, and their alarm can be under. when once her husband offered her at stood. Incidentally, I may add, Father to London on the balance of his income left at the end of the year she chose one more new house instepd.
Knox has had such a drubbing in the presa that he is scarcely likely to regard himself as a humorist for the rest of his life
THE PROPOSED SETTING TAL
As a young man, when on his way to give relief to the sufferers from the Lisbon earthquake, Howard was captured at sea, kad spent some months as a prisoner 2 The possibility of the Chancellor of the war, and it was probably this experience Exchequer putting a tax pa batting as that turned his thoughts, when he became a means of raising revenue continues to "Sheriff of Bedford, to the condition of the engage attention. One hears it discussed prisoners for whom he was responsible. in the cluba Roughly, there are three From that time his life was devoted to different sets of opinion on the subject- the reform of the prisons of Europe.schools of thought, as que might any... MADAME TUSSAUD'S.
There are those who think it would be Madame Tussaud's, the famous wax rise to tax the big credit bookmakers and works exhibition which was destroyed by the course bookmakers, leaving the emall
street, "bookies fire nearly a year ago, has been sold There are those who would tax all betting, to escape untaxed. although it is said in London that the from no other motive than that of plac place may be re-built another waxing all betting men on a footing of works show. I think this is extremely un- likely. Most of the figures were lost in equality. At present the moneyed man the fire only the Chamber of Horrors can bet with impunity, on credit, and and the tableaux on the lower floors his bookmaker is subjected to no hund escaped The business was generally be rance, whereas the little man who stakes lieved to have belonged to the Tussauds shillinga in ready money is reduced to family, but the latter parted with their devious ways of backing his fancy" proprietary interest over half a century and his bookmaker is hunted and harried ago when a private company was formed by the police. Both these schools of most of the shares being held by trust bought are in favour of a tax in grin- People used to go to Madame Tussauds pipic, and simply differ da to its scope. because it was an old institution and for Then of course there is the anti-tax some generations had been an established copt who regard a tar as impracticable, treat of childhood. "But the waxworks is or we think & tax would give the sanc no longer an informative marvel since the tion of the State to what they regard as spread of the illustrated Press and the an immoral proceeding, or who think that cinema, and a waxworst show that had the step would be bad policy. The whole no tradition behind it very small chance question is complex, and the investigation of attracting
of it by Mr. Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, will naturally take time, since he will not move without full knowledge of the porsible effects of his action-LB.
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