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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15th,
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SUGAR TRADE CRISIS.
REFINERIES CLOSED.
SIR L. LYLE ON THE DARK OUTLOOK.
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British "sugar refiners, as nounced recently by cable, are
SCOTLAND YARD METHODS.laced this winter with one of the
OF DETECTION.
In spite of the fact that Mr. George Diluot, the crime expert; stabes in "Great Detectives and Their Methods" (Geoffrey Bles, IGs.) that the detective business is just a plain, ordinary business, just like a lawyer's business, or a doctor's business, or a railway manager's business," it becomes ob- vious, at an early stage in his nar- rative; that the detective has, in his life, an element of colour which is denied to the ordinary man of affairs,
In his dealings with his clients, for instance, the detective can stage ingenious practical jokes, such as would never be tolerated in a doc tor's consulting-room. It is diff cult to imagine anything reater than the method which Superinten dent Hawkins adopted to trap a blackmailer, who had demanded that a sum of money should be left for him in a certain place.
most serious cries in their history. Altogether lour out of five firms. of refiners in Greenock have now suspended operations with the “re- sult that thousands of workers will be unemployed this winter, and the Port of Greenock is lamenting the loss of harbour dues, amounting to vast sums which were, received an- nually on the imports of raw sugar.
Messrs. Tate and Lyle alone will, they close their three factories, have to put 8:000 men out of em ployment immediately and thou- sands of other men will lose their positions indirectly.
Three Main Reasons.
Sir Leonard Lyle, Chairman of Messrs. Tate and Lyle, explained, in n special interview with the re- of the London presentative Morning Post, why the sugar re- fining industry has been threaten- ed with ruin.
"The three main reasons," he said, "are the subsidy to the beet sugar industry given by the Labour Government; the preference to Five hundred pounds in notes were placed in an aperture of a Dominion sugar; and the dumping, wall in the cloak-room of a well-of sugar from mid-Europe. Last known hotel, and to the notes Haw. winter we were obliged to close Plaistow and Silver-town refineries. king attacted a wire, which com- municated with an electric alarm for a short period. This year the in a near-by room. He also de- situation is much worse.
"I anticipate that in the year rised a scheme by which anyone touching the notes should find his starting now the beet sugar indus hands covered with powder scrap- try, at a low estimate, will pro- ed from an indelible pencil" The duce about 250,000 tons of sugar. blackmailer arrived to collect the When a question was asked in the money, which he imagined himself House of Commons on the subject to have extorted. "At the expect-early this year, it was stated that, ed time the bell rang, and the de. from figures for the preceding year, teedive rushed to the cloak-room. only some 30,000 tous were produc An agitated man was trying so ed by the best sugar trade. This wash the powder from his hands, figure jumped to 160,000 in the with the result that the more water following year he applied the more pronounced. the stains became. There trouble in getting a conviction."
School For Spies. Mr. Dilnat, has an interesting chapter on the detection of spies during the wAT.
sugar, there is a direct subsidy of Now, co this home grown 10. 8d. perest, for white sugar, plus 38. 1d. subsidy on molasses, plus 4s 3d. protection per ewt., being the difference between the import duty and the excise duty. The total benefits 26s. 10ld, per cwt":
"British refiners do not get n penny of subsidy.
***--- Unfair Competition-
"The Special Branch at Scotland Yard does its job with silent and relentless efficiency. When war with Germany broke out it was the Special-Branch that cleaned up. in the first month or twe, practical- 1 all the big and highly-trained "Now, the total consumption per apies who had imagined that they annum of sugar in Great Britain were entirely unsuspected,
is about 1,700,000 tons, out of which Espionage in war-time is a riskywe alone roughly produce 787,000 business for those who practise it, tons. The home-grown output is in- but it is not extravagantly paid.erensing every season, and soon it During the war Herr Steinhauer, will reach some 300,000 tons a year. head of the German espionage "The question may be asked: headquarters, started "a school How can 300,000 tong out of this for spics, and recruits were raked large annual consumption cause in from adventurers of all classes Inte and Lyle to close down? The at cost of £100 cash and £30 a anewer is that the British home
month."
War,
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Mr. George Bernard Shaw and grówn product is all marketed Mr. Arnold Bennett were among within about four months, so that the crowded congregation in the it is quite useless to base any argu-Chapel of the Crematorium at ment on the yearly consumption.
was
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"We have no quarrel with enh does not bring home to us very ⠀⠀ Do. (single)******* ego bay....
$35 sal.
The chapter labelled Mrs. Wer them-Spy gives some idea of the methods of the Special Branch, A young American, Mr. Reginald
"The average monthly consump Golders Green on October 10th, Rowland, arrived at Tibury nine months after the declaration of ion is about 150,000 tons. Since when the body of Mrs... Wells, the East Ara Bank......
the beet sugar industry this year wile of Mr. H. G. Wells, the noted Caston Insurance 5540 buy..
Union Insurance ...$2924
1 bay His passport described him
Tle, 143 noma, as the agent of a New York firm is going to market. some 250.000
piano manufacturers, but Scottons in about four months, it means writer, was cremated. Mr. Welis North Chinx ins.
were the chief Yangtave korance .....M. $461 buy. land Yard had reason to suppoee that every month some 60.000 tons, and his two sons otherwise. For one thing, the out of a total of 160,000 tons, will mourners. The service, secular in Chias Underwriters....$1.20 sei. very simple. It China Fire Insurance....8215 nom. buy American Eagle on the official seal be supplied by the home grown in, character,
the dustry.
consisted of a few minutes organ Hong Kong Fire Ins.......8690
..#351 bay. had it claws turned round
...320′zel. “When price-cutting begins, how music, preceding a memorial ad- Dougisees... wrong way.
...$1.90 nom. $39 xam. Indo-Chinas (Prof.). Nothing was said, however, and can we who receive no subsidy com- dress written by Mr. Wells and Steamboat.......... Rowland went to his quiet hotel. peta with people who receive the read on his behalf by Dr. T. E. H.K. Togs........
Do, (Def.)
.....$48 num.
„„.89. nom. Within a day or two be called on a enormous subsidy of 26s. 101d. per Page, the well-known scholar, who
Bhall Transporta Mrs. Lizzie Wertheim, of Hammer cat. Widereas the beet sugar sub-an old friend of Mr. Wells.
It would be distonest to conceal Waterboats $17 nom smith. After they had visited sidy may increase employment in the depth of our present sorrow," Bournemouth, Mrs. Wertheim left the beet factories, thousands of men
Kailan for Edinburgh, with intent to exer- are being put out of work, in the Mr. Wolls wrote. "It would be Blue Mining Ad
foolah to pretend that this event Langkata (combined).....Tha. 17: buy.
The 83 buy, cise ber fascinations apon the more sugar refining industry. garrulous of the “Silent Bervice"
vividly sense of the extreme g'bat Explorations whom the might find in the neigh-sidies and preference on principle, brevity of life for all mankind.
Bhanghai Loan T. 51 bay, hourhood, while Rowland returned but we maintain that a subsidy Sorrowful though we must feel, we Raubsban van,
31 bay 19/8 nom. to London.*
should be granted on the raw
may yet learn from such lives" as Tronoh Miner
.....3120) buyer. Invisible Writing.
material which would not favour this that precious use can be made H.K. & K. Wharts FK & W. Dočti, Scotland Yard, however, had dis- an industry to the detriment of of brief days.
another.
China Providents cover that Rowland, alias Breec-
from White sugar,
Henghawa ...... kow, was undoubtedly a spy. But Dominions, for example, is given
New Engineerings. they made no move until the two preference. This is unfair competi-
Shanghai Dooks of them had shown their hands ion. Let the Government give pre more clearly, Mrs. Wertheim, in the meanwhile, was sending her reference on the raw material, but ports to Rowland in London, and not on the white sugar, which a
the finished material." Rowland was sending them on to Rotterdam in letters addressed to Messrs. Dierka and Co., iron mer- chants. Every letter he wrote came In due course, three quiet, un- under strict censorship.
obtrusive a strolled aimlessly "On the face of them, Rowland's into the smoking-room of Row letters were quite harmless, buta-land's hotel, as he was finishing his ness epistles on his struggles to sell after breakfast cigarette." Follow Pianos in the British market. But ing his trial, Rowland's nerve ut- the tricks of the trade were well-terly gave way. He was little het known to the censorship. Among, ter than a madman during the five the equipment for dealing with weeks which passed before the sen them was no electric flatiron. tence was carried into effect. He There is a mixture of formalin and was a terror stricken man when he lemon juice used for invisible writ was taken before the fring party, ing, which will display itself on It was a curious fact that he was the application of heat. A touch not killed by the volley from of the Batiron, and all the labours rites of the soldiers. He was dead of Mr. Rowland and Mrs. Wer before the bullets reached him. The theimhind been brought to doctors said that it was heart nothing.
failure, or, in plain English, that (Continued at foot of next column.) he died of fright."
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The city of the living world is a perennial city, bound to the im- memorial past and towering up in the future to heights beyond our vision. Its walls are fashioned ke mosaic out of lives, such as this
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