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Hongkong Daily Press.
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ESTABLISHED 1857
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.
Rotoloon Supplement BUY BRITISH AND BE PROUD
Hosa Koso, May-23, 1933.-
STONE WALLS
OF THE EMPIRE
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MR. G. W. SEWELL SPEEKS FOR FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES
Alr. G. W. Sewell, of Mesurs. Robertson, Wilson & Co., Ltd., gave the following broadcast ad- dress yesterday:
STONE walls, better than books, en- shrine the glories and tragedies of history. Reading the "Dochine and Fall" one may share with Gibbon i a respect for post deeds and for As representative in China of heroes long since turned to dust, the Federation of British Industries but that which one cannot share 18 I should like to congratulate the the profound emotion which he felt
the forthcoming organisers of when seated on the Roman ruins British Empire Fair on the enthu which inspired him to authorship.siasts and efficient manner
with In the crumbling battlements, now
refuge for bats and fertile for which they are carrying out their lichens and grass, one has a setting duties.
A fair where thousands meet,
but none ean stay;
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for those scenes and events which Public interest has been aroused. wrung men's minds in joy or terror by their propaganda and curiosity and which our imaginations can in, re-create more vividly than the writ- ten word. Thus our ancient monu- ments are living testimonies of the dead past and we should preserve them cs reverently as the dry, volumes of history, in which
has been whetted by dint of a wast sumption so often bridges the gaps apparatus of advertisement. There in truth, that mankind treasures in is, however, a grave danger that we its libraries and museums.
may be wafted by this publicity China, in common with other into a false sono of security and lands where the flower of civilisa regard the Fair more as an enter tion has bloomed, has temples, to tainment than a serious attempt to wers and palaces which astonish the beholder with their delicacy of This movement ought not to be commercially minded. design and the magnificance of their allowed to pass as a gesture but ornamentation. Yet there are humbler buildings than the Winter should be used as a deficite instru Palace which, while not inspiring ment for the expansion of Empire us with awe, nevertheless impress Trade, us with their melancholy charm. The British attitude towards Even the sight of a pagode, over-trade has been revolutionised dur grown with weeds and awaiting, 1ning the past quarter of a century. lonely vigil in the ricefields, the It was the custom to look down fatal typhoon which shall dissemble.
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I will result in a closer commercial- felationship between Great Britain
There and China.
are many officials in Goverment positions in China to-day who received part of! their education abroad and they! naturally favour the goods of the country in which they got their training.
Dificulties with Dealers.
were
It is a most difficult task for Manufacturers to get new goods | into this market ha dealers and loath to stock unknown branila even if there is an advantage in price and quality over the estab An inn where travellers wait, be given by consumers asking lished article. Considerabio help then post away
for British goods and two cases have recently come to my notice
gratifying where.
results. achieved by local ladies imbued with the Empire spirit, One is the wife of a Vocal ship broker and the other of a local doctor. They made their buying, a deliberately conscious act planned and thought articles by insisting on the dealere out and bought cheaper and better
uncurthing British products. It is not by conferences that our econo- mic problems will be solved but by. individual understanding and effort on the part of the man in the street and more particularly the woman in the home. Advertise- its pride, fills the sensitive mind upon those connected with the ments may cover multitude of with some of that sadness with manufacture, and sale of commodi sins and boosting may be forcigo which we associate all beauty. How ties, and, therefore, horses, tennis to our nature but in an age of much more do the ghosts of the rackets, golf clubs, etc., were ac-publicity, we must shed our false past whisper their plaintive ap-cordingly paraded at the expense modesty and tell the world in no peals from the ruins of Kam Tin, of commercial wares which were. uncertain terins how wonderful are that walled stronghold of the New the proverbial skeletoù in the cap our goods. We do not want this Territories where once the brandish-board.
Fair to be treated in a flamboyant. ed sword was 1 more familiar sight than the wooden ploughshare!
and frivolous spirit but rather as
Increased activity on the part of
To those who have not made our competitors and a changing sound sensible and sincero ap
pilgrimage to Kam Tin, which is world have cleared our vision and the loveliest as well as the oldest on less a person than the Prince of village in the Territories, it is Wales has taken up the role of perhaps necessary to explain that commercial traveller to show that it lie midway between Un Long the slogan Buy British" is not and Fanling, being approached by couched in any mendicant tone but
á natrow Inne breaking off sharply is a commcosense injunction to ob-
petitive without sacrificing quality,
peal to potential customers to solirl support Empire Trade on grounds,
Preference for British Goods. Living he wadlo the fringe of Chinn it is of the utmost import- power to see that preference is anes that we should do all in our
given wherever possible to British goods and incidentally to the-fur- therance of British trade. In this connection a great responsibility devolved upon the local Govern=" When I was last at Home Iment, Directors of Companies and stressed the importance in an ad- others in prominent positions with-" dress to the Council of the Fede-out whose willing co-operation the Fair will lose a good deal of its value. The spirit of the Fair must, be kept alive after its ashes, have been swept away and it is perhaps. unfortunate that there is no purely
Chinese Students.
to the right beyond Un Long Police tain the best value possible. Most Station. To visit it is to join British products are to-day com- hands across the centuries with those illustrious, sturdy folk who wandered forth from their native provinces, like the Magyars of Europe, to start life anew in A land free from corruption and tyranny. Two thousand years ago, in the Dynasty of Sung, a prince of the house of Tang marched ration of British Industries of at south, through Kwangtung Protracting Chinese students to Britain vince, and rattled in the fertile for technical training on the ground valley in which the village of Karo that they would be potential ein- Tin now stands. Assisted by his bassadors for British trade on their relatives, and a loyak band of fol lowers, he built a citadel to with return to China. I am glad to say British Chamber of Commerce here stand the attacks of marauding that my efforts met with a certain or any other organisation to pro- bandite as well as & punitive, ex amount of success and to-day a tect British interests. Disraell was pedition from the Emperor, and to scheme is in operation controlled one of the ablest business men feed the little populace he culti by Joint Committee of The Fedo-over ansociated with the British vated rice. So fertile was the soil ration of British Industries and The Empire and his words are well that not only were the harvests Chine Association which I trust worth repeating to-day. He said, plentiful but the grain was of such a size and quality that it soon be came famous throughout China, and two thirds of the bi-annual crop were exported to the Imperial granaries in Peiping.
gates, which a Government official took back to England when he re- tired and planted them in his garden. Later they were presented
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Economy, does not consist in the reckless reduction of esti mates; on the contrary, such course almost necosstrily tende
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We are clearing our few remaining beach pyjamas
at $5.00 each, and a pair of boach plogs will be given free to each purchaser.
THE JADE TREE, Ltd.
19-21 BANKOW ROAD
Golden
moit exquisite
Chinese Embroidered
Linens in the Colony. Ivory, Ambar, Crystal
Pagoda
Tel. 68538
Old and New
Embroidered
Blks.
Curios, Cloisonne,
Lacquer Ware, &c,| ̈
FOOK WENG 6 Co.
20, Hankow Road and Feninsula Hotel Arcade
Phone: 58762
STANDARD CARS
Agents
Alex Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.
KOWLOON GARAGE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co. (1918), Ltd.
Aiding In The Development of Kowloon and the New Territories by
PROVIDING ELECTRICITY.
for
LIGHT-HEAT POWER
USE MORE ELECTRICITY
Economical-Convenient-Attractive
Head Office
St. George's Bldg. Tel. 28537
Kowloon Office 27, Nathan Road. Tel. 57677
The Blue Taxicabs Limited.
NOTICE.
Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the lat. day of May, 1933 the fares for taxicab hire will revert to the old tariff-le, 40 cents-Firšt mille” and ten cente for each subsequent Quarter mile.
In Addition the Company will run small taxicabs from Now Ferry Pier Stand at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the - tariff to be 80 ponts First mile and 5 cents per quarter
mile for subsequent mileage:
Also public cars for hire Day and Night:-
4 senter car at $2.40 per hour.
$3.00 .04.20
Waiting time at half ch
to increased expenditure. - There The records of the House of
can be no economy where there Tang may be engraved on tablets the British Museum, where they is na efficiency." and scrolls but if so they have reposed beside other relics of ImThere are bound to be certain buy lost and are not available to mperial China, and a few years aging abuses locally and neveral oc dern research. We do not know they were restored to the inhabi- cur to my mind one of which affects what grim battles were fought on tants of Kam Tin through the a public utility Company and the the village green, where the village courtesy of the British Government other Government undertaking in elders now sit and meditate at even and the Governor at that time the New Territories. If we CAN tide under the banyan trees, but; Kam Tin, which is composed of viewing those formidable walls, we even walled villages, is prynblur British article on the same can imagine that a stout resistance ing ruin, parte of it wholly beyond terms se a foreign one it is up to was offered to all invaders who repair. The walls, three feet thick, us to do so. If we don't the Chi dared to storm the citadal. The have mouldered away and the roofs nese naturally assume there is last call to arms that this proud have saved in free and vines grow something wrong with our manufae Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon.
community saw, and the most in on the courtyards and the few intures. Of course, there are certain glorious, was when the British took hibdtents, descendants of the House types who consider it broad minded possession of the Leased Territories of Tang, live in insanitary condito ignore their country's interests under forty years ago. Contemptions in tiny hovels inside the walls but these people are usually in tuous of the commands of Feiping, There is no society in Hong Kong sheltered occupations or sufficiently
of the Viceroy at Canton, the for the preservation of old build- inhabitants warmly resisted the ad- ings, but it would be a splendid wealthy to ignore existing economic vance of the English soldiery, but gesture, for the Hong Kong Gov. conditions. their primitive weapons speedily erament to take in hand the re- gave way before a superior forcestoration of this beautiful relic of of arms. One of the acts of the the past, and thus earn the grati main buto remove the ay tude and e team of all the Cavinese
mued at font of next Column) inhabitants of the "Colony.
No More Disparagement.
a dreadful sad wholly unjusti- To-day we seem to have fallen
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