TIN AND RUBBER PRICES UP.
UNEXPECTED IMPROVEMENT
IN SENTIMENT.
HONG KONG TRADE.
LITTLE NEW BUSINESS IN
PIECE-GOODS.
The following reparts are coutain- ed in the fortnightly bulletin issued Sentiment in the Singapore by the Hong Kong General Cham- market improved on May 6 follower of Commeren :-----
ing the advance, in all markets, of the price of tin and rubber.
,
In New York thé rubber quotation commenced to improve towardsTM the close May 4, but it was not until late on May 6 that the London market registered a higher price.
The increase in the rubber price
Colton Place Goods.
·HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.
"YOGIS, BABUS AND
PUNDITS."
مجھ
The Little Brown Brother, "Not one of the glib propagan- dists that demand 'independenco"
ARRIVALS.
May 17.
would have a pair of shoes on his Deli Marn, Japanese str., 1,203 tons, AN AMERICAN HITS BACK. | feet today if America had not gone
PLAIN WORDS TO DR. TAGORE,
article in the Chicago Evening,
The visit to the United States of Dr. Rabindranath Tagore was the Some of the enquiries for July-occasion of an extremely forceful August cottons, which appeared to he so far out a fortnight ago, areTribune stating that it was time reported to have been booked. Gen somehody called the bluff of
rally speaking, there is very little new business to report. Local prices would appear to be rather firiner
is generally attributed to shots and deliveries continue fairly good. covering in all markets, and while! The latest catton quotations to
it is realised that the improvement hand are thuen of the 14th inst. is only temporary the change of gytlook has been noted with con siderable relief.
Middling American Spot, 5.20d. Egyptian Sakel, F.G.F. Spot, 18.20d.
Woollens.
Ax in the case of rubber, there is little to account for the rise in
Further considerable bookings ara the price of tin, but it is welcome
reported and many of the bulk none the less. A good deal more repeat lines have at last heen business passed in Singapore that negotiated. Rather a big proper morning that has licen retrded for tion of the orders during the nat many a day.
fortnight has been placed on Brad ford goods which were somewhat neglected earlier in the season in favour of Contintal qualities. Al- though it is not shown to any extent in the price for Tops," bath the Bradford and Contintal prices are aubject to considerable reductions over those ruling a fortnight; ago.
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the yogis, bibas and pundits from highly civilised India, the slick independence propagandise from the Philippines, the oily- tongued fakirs from half a dozen other tropical elimes who are be ginning to be a national pest." "The article states:-- "Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet and philosopher, was the guest of kunour at a dinner in New York the other night. The function was attended by 350 supposedly sane Americans, who paid 826 apiece to look at and listen to him.
to his rescue in 1808, and spent millions of good American dollnes and thousands of wood American lives on the task of giving him a civilised goverment. In fact, i America had not done that, and had not protected him with her army and navy ever since, he would now be dodging some head hunter in his native jungles, or would be pulling a ricksha for some
from Japan. "Protection and help for the masses of the natives of India and the Philippines are the offences which these self-appointed' spokes. men for the 'poor, downtroddon' Asiaties get so eloquent about.
"Law, order," sanitation, schools and colleges, highways, railroads and better wages are the oppression which Britain and America have imposed upon India and the Philippines.
"Dirt, disease, hunger, superati tion and appalling ignorance con
stitute the Oriental higher civili.
"The eminent Oriental was good enough to my in his speech that some things in. America met with his approval. Then, as is the habitsation which Tagore and his ilk of gentlemen of his type, he went on to remark that 'you of the Wes. torn world have exploited those who are helpless and thore who are weak.'
"There was more in that vein, and the sage concluded with the
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The greater part of this wor!], suffers from your Western civilisa tion."
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"His hearts, 350 of them, ap- plauded the sentiment.
Put it Over,"
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"Sane. Americans and British are slightly fed up with the Orientai gentlemen who come here to throw mud at Western civiliantion and Western idea?
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London, April 20. Between This sort of thing is an old healthy bites at a thick ham sand- story, and nobody can blainswich, besmudged and overalled Tagore or other celebrities from workman in a petrol refinery at Martinez (California) admitted neross the Pacific because they in-
that he was Mr. R. C. Geddes, the dulge in it. They have found that son of Sir Auckland Geddes, the former British Ambassador to the they can put it over with impunity -in fact, that a certain number of soft-headed Americans consider it 'so spiritual that they cheerfully pay real money for the privilege of being insulted by these visiting medicine men
Cap. E. Sanada, from Swa- tow, Stonecutters Arichornge- O.S.K.
Diomed, British str., 0,453 tons,
Capt. W. A. Turner, from Sin gapore, Kol'ts Wharf, B. & S. Honolula Maru, Japaneku str., 5,750
tana, Capt. 8. Matanda, from Moji, Kowloon Wharf.-O.S.K. Kwangtung, British str., 1,572 tons,
Capt. A. F. Summerfield, from Swatow, buoy No. B14-B. & S. Tai Yin, Norwegian atr., 4,109 tona, ||
Capt. E. Bjoliefs, from Manila, buoy No. 44.-Dodwell & Co. Taiyuan, British str., 2,100 tons, Capt. R. Robertson, from Arpay, buoy No. 320.-E. & S. Tjisaroca, Dutch str., 4,391 tons. Capt, T. J. Schattenburg, from Amoy, buoy No. A-CL
May 18, Altai Maru, Japanese str., 4,817 tons, Capt. K. Ishibashi, from Singapore, Kowloon Wharf. 0.8 K.
An Lee, Chinese str., 002 tons, Capt: S. Rato, from Swatow, buoy No, Ba1.-Yeo Tai Hong. Kingyuan, British str., 1,16 tons,
Capt. D. Wilson, from Swatow," buoy No. B8.-B. & B. Nitto Maru; Japanese str., 1,278
tona, Capt. E. Yamamoto, from Canton, buoy No. B23.-O.S.K. Suiyang, British str., 1,399, tons, Capt. J. Robinson, from Can- ton, buoy No. 30.-B. & S. Tjiliwang. Dutch str. 3,001 tons, Capt. A A. Beokhout, from No. A3.-- Sandakan, buoy J.C.JL.
Sir Auckland Geddes stated in an interview that his son, after taking an engineering degree at Cam bridge, decided to learn his job by starting as an ordinary workman.
No Secret About It. There is no secret about it," he said. "He simply did not tell his mates who his father was breause there was no reason why he should. They probably did not tell him the names of their fathers..
"He is doing this in the ordinary
United States, He is learning the course of his training. He has been petroleum industry from the in chemical works in the United ground-up," and said that his States as workman' and went out father had promised him a position again to California after a short in a large British firm of which ho stay in this country. was a director if he made good.
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When his training is finished he will have to find a job just as any other roung man wetld have to do.'
Mr. R. C, Geddes, who is 24, was married in January to 31iss Enid. Mary Butler.
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He had not told his fellow work men who he was, he added, because he did not want to be thought "high "In behalf of the rest of the com
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**Colossal Nerve," an "Tagore, for example, has colos. sal nervo to tell us what a terrible thing Western civilisation is for
the oppressed races of the East.. His own India is kopt from going to complete smash only by the power and the justice of Britain, as he knows. His own people are fed in times of famine by the hated British.
"His millions of Bengali brethren are saved from destruction' at the hands of fighting Mohammedan solely by these same British. His entire land is preserved from tyranny of anarchy only because Britain has the strength of char ncter and the strength of empire to preserve it. Then he comes hero and wrings his hands at 825 wring-about oppression.
"Or take our own Philippines, Every year we get a delegation of plausible native politicians to tell us how we exploit their un-' fortunate people. They, demand that we get out and give them liber- ty at once, if not sooner. The twelve million Filipino, peusants, who compose ninety-five per cent. of the population, have more razi liberty new than they ever had, and know what the politiciana would do to them if we did get out. But they have nobody speak for them in this country.
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