HONG KONG DAILY PRESS ENSTOR"
China's Foreign Trade
MUSICAL
GENERAL
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
BY ALLEGRO MODERATO
Cereals And Flour Head List Of Imports And "yeah man, swing it!" That's Some coloured alligator whispers.
F
Textile Fibres The List Of Exports.
or the period January to July this year, China's foreign trade returns totalled $511,146,050 for imports and $309,869,267 for exports, as compared with last year's corresponding Agures of $730:155,378 for imports and $571,640,554 for exports. Exports during July were headed by textile nitres, to the total value of $17,934,971, while at the head of the imports list were cereals and flour, to the total value of $9,945,397.
Nel Imports
Ancluding Bond Withdrawals) -
الوحدة
1938
894,114
19,172,383
..1,807, 129
what we hear frequently: It is all to his lady friend, "Honey, d'ye over the world«from Buenos Aires know who dat cullud boy 19?" to Rome and right back the other sho' "nuff, dat ain't nobody. way around. Now, what is swing?' 'ceptin' he ain't Louis Armstrong
the King of To understand this term one has Louis Armstrong
attend what is known in swing Swing!." And he is kicking out to- Vocabulary as a jam session, if you night. are fortunate enough to find one. Before we go any further, let us sot down for your benefit a glossary or these swing tema:
Now jazz and swing were born in the region between New Orleans and the Mississippi deita. Between 1905 and 1910, these naturally gift- Jam session-An Informal meet-ed mustclans grew in number. ing of performers for their own. They were mostly negroes, though 8,777.594 amusement, without a conductor or not altogether by any means for 6,911,731 even score aheats.
even race conscious New Orleans threw colour lines to the winds and all jammed together.
1008 0.5.5
063,635
315,671 Alligator-A non-playing swing "8.172,459 devotee."
January-July
0.5.3
Cotton Piter goeds, phy
2,295,600
+1917
C.S.E 6,829,071
Pioon white or dyed
2,424,750
3.004.842
Piece printed
Piece miscallaneous
181.690 37,381
477,020
4
Cotton, raw, yarn
1,570,25
Cotton manu sundry
193,972
Flax, rama, hemp
4105,414
10,304,177
Wool and Manu
1,048,717
330,550,761
Silk
1,970,350
£2.304.823 * || 2,609,92:
Metals and res
4,971.765
108,118,722
Machinery and tools
3,947,43
51,879,678
Vehicles and vessels
1,987,84
Metal Maru,*****
2,341,469
590,817
Fishery products Canned goods... Cereals and our Fruits, seeds Medicinal goods
Sundry
Grand Total
Animal products
Ifides, leather
Pish pralucta
94, 114
37,045,564 32,483,349 10.992,064 6,284,445 38,544,049 4,708,186 5,367,129
1.383,368 Piperman A musician who
2,717,010
6662,818 plays only written music,
Ride Easy-going rhythm.
By 1912 it burst out-excursion boats on the Mississippi with or chestras recruited in New Orleans
40,711,052 Screw-ball Crazy, unbridled brought and flung it Tar and 20,608,092
31,413,306 Swing.
10,688,00+ In the groove-Carried away or
4,218,469|Inspired,
1,779,953 Cats--The musicians of a swing 6,583.71 orchestra.
$4,301,346
I
3,458,650 Licking their chops or trisking 7,870,983 their whiskers Getting warmed up 1,177,093
to swing. 14,784,359
1,759,215 Gang-A medley of songs, 19,417,675 Lick-An original interpolated 61,73,751 phrasing.
25,355,343
2,348,387 Break-Dropping the rhythm for 9,960,029 a few beats.
037.731 Mugging light Soft, 1.387.826 swing.
1,840,780
staccato
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wide. St. Louis and Memphis weat wild over 1. In 1914 W. C. Handy wrote "St. Louis Blues," fol- lowing it with the Memphis Blues. Both are classics today.
Again, what is swing? "Now let say that Jazz in a body of music which can be recorded on paper and preserved. Swing is 2 manner of playing recorded or memorised music. You can swing anything from Bach to Berlin..
The manner of playing called swing is a way or creating as the music goes on. A swing artist will
1,740,035 Mugging heavy-As above, with, never play the same plece in the 81908, heavier beat.
same way. Thus jazz and swing Kicking-out--Very free; Impro-are twins almost. But swing has now produced music that is as- suredly by far richer and more ori- 6.5.8 Now at these jam sessions you sinal than jazz. Perhaps SOTES 58,109,702 will notice that one of the must-day we shall see swing introduced 12,802,106 cians will begin to play without into the field of the classics. Did
1.617,263
any further ado. There is 730.880
no we hear a chorus of curses from 758,385 leader. First you recognise the in-highbrows? 711,100 strument pleking out the thread of .. 5,592,318
same familiar melody. The others 7,133,400 31,823,290 seem to shake themselves awake 10,871,387 and first one and then another in-
0,945,507
1.385,912
100.30
1,000,05%
16.303,439
Wines, berr
271,467
Tobacco
4,038,072
Punraceutical
6,935,957
Dyer, varsles
y35,131 10,954,33 46,222,447 3,115,097 31,389,02%
"Candles, resins, etc.
3,925,807
77,243,24
Books, maps, paper
1,358.06!
54,445,653
41
ifides, lenther, ele.
363,42
3,735,050"
Timber
9,136,4
15.481,580
Ratiboo, raw, ei
489,140
5,757,009
Col. fuel, tar
1,173,051
Chinaware, etc......
Stone, earth
275,411 341,595 3,997,220
67,974,416
4,570,733 4,731,908
9,756,501 47,083,004
780.155250
515,144,080
visation.
i
Net Exports
C.3.8 13,52.372 1,883,917
180,009
Cereals
Beans and pars
283,172
230.911
Dyestuffs, vegetables
106,368
Fruits, preserves
723,150
Medicinals.........
1,297,015
C.5.3 81.238.29 47,542.059 2,000.356 5,16
1.795 14,120,820 1.130.943 8,378,829 6,818,835
Oils. tallow, wax
4,139,930
97,568,943
Seeds
2,672.553
29,150,702
Spirituous beverages
98,057
220,10
Sugar
10,030
4.160
Ten
3,430,809
13,101,838
Tobacco
899.9%
A1,018,150
Vejetables
1,099.930
65.730.885
Vegetable products
.315.230
5,316,611
minbo
119.623
-1,992,784
1,905.503
9.302.756
Katint
9,014
287000
31,452
*88,730. 2,308.246 4,031,874
2,63
97,173,952
Pince gris
15,611,022
Other ratilen
8,408,412.
Ores, metals
58,768,5907
Glass and Glassware
100 EN
เ 305,962
Stone, earth
631,6
3,027,770
Chemicals
5,117,175
Printed matter
305,328
13 1,623,856
Sultry
Grand Total
Timber"
Paper
Yarn, thread
Textile fibres
773.431 17,934,97) 5,653,741 2,319,151 1,175,732
11,661,692
1,0,469.
3.441.043- 15.923811
"
20 357
737,857 strument fall in. The first instru- 37,763 mentalist predominates by 12.362,209
un- 4,365,283 spoken consent, setting the rhythm 5,843,168 and the melodic trend. 2,260,350
After a while the melody is no 1,392,247 8,171,286 longer discernible; the Instrument 60,801 soars above and below it. We feel the original melody present but 4,200,000
only by 87,375,46
It persists
12.010.866 brilliant counterpoint and obligato 8.421,462 is immediately geen that the 05,335,275
inference,
20,133,08 through its very negativeness, by
395,670 musician is complete master of his 2,871,044 instrument. And he is one of the 3,620,77 masters.
1,020,701 19.019.825
77,203,330 371,640,554 390,869,20
IMPORTS FROM AND EXPORTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: VALUE OF GOLD AND SILVER: BY COUNTRIES.
British India......
July
Faspurted Frum
Great Britain
Hong fruc
100.247
Gold January-July July 1907
1:13+ 1939
* 231,108 281 154.680 2,497,172
Silver
January-July
1938
2
Japan.
54.978 6,718.81
487,000 112,680
549,880
24.355,001
Total Imports... 109,847
Esported To
Great Britain
Hong Kon
Japan
Other Countries...
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS
The latest forthcoming marriages announced Include those of an Army officer and 2 prominent European merchant:-
Captain Henry Charles Harland Royal Scots Regiment, at present stationed at Mt. Austin Barracks, and Miss Rache Osgood Harbury,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1938.-PAGE 7
THE K-Spring Mattress
CONTAINS NEARLY 1,000 COPPERED
STEEL SPRINGS, ENCASED IN SPECIAL WOVEN CALICO POCKETS, ARRANG- ED INDEPENDENTLY SO THAT PERFECT FREEDOM AND
comfort is ensured.
THIS IS THE MATTRESS OPENED TO SHOW THE CONSTRUCTION: THE SECRET OF ITS GREAT RESILIENCY AND COMFORT IS THETM SERIES OF SMALL SPRINGS, EACH IN A SEPARATE POCKET, AS CAN BE SEEN WHEN THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE CASES ARE TURNED BACK,
$175.00 each NETT
LANE CRAWFORD • LTD.
Department
Jurnishing
The House of Quality & Service
52525252525252
who is due in the Colony on bold FUNERAL OF BRO.
H.M. Troopship Lancashire"
Mr. Thomas' Addis Martin, mer-
chant, of No. 128 Kennedy Road. MARCIAN-JAMES
and Miss Lilian Constanice Seale Robertson, Principal:Emiritus" at Upton School, Windsor, en routè Then he subsides and without to the Colony on the s.s. Ranchi. any further arrangement another Mr. Robin Edward Legh Beards- instrument takes up the lead and worth, insurance assessor, Sha- soars into unparalleled improvisa-meen, Canton, and Miss Marjorie tion. The people all armind are Tremayne Edwards, en route to spell-bound. The trumpeter has Hong Kong on the as.. Antenor. taken the lead, without paper, without a leader, and yet the others are not a split second be- [hind" him.
hears-Screw-
REGISTRY
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Bishop Valtorta Takes Service
The funeral of the late Rev. Brp, Marcian James who died. at the French Hospital on Friday after a long illness, a few days after celebrating his 70th birthday, took place ut the Roman Catholic
MARRIAGE Cemetry on Saturday.
Mr. Eric Marshall and Misa
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All around one ball-lick. sack, ride and gang-
His Lordship Bishop H. Valtorta, the cats are frisking their whiskers, Dolores Dionezia Payne were mar- Vicar Apostolle of Hong Kong, 6,303,810 getting off! Oh, they're mugging ried at the Registry. Supreme conducted the service and was 84,021 14,090,571 54.73.199 67,102,473 it light, mugging it heavy, how Court, yesterday, Mr. TE. Whyte-assisted by the Very Rev. Father
they're in the groove! They're Smith officiating.
Spada, Rey. Father Grawelli, the 1,203,633
1,299,893 going to town Swing Blg. The bride was given away by Mr.Very Rev. Frs. L. Vireondelch and (84,02) 15,900,404; 34.973,800 79,720,155$ Boy!!!!!!! And does the Big Boy J. Van Der Lely and Mr. John Samson, of the French Procuration Nickel and copper subsidiary coins value 220,000 and bankages, face value Swing It, with his trumpet tiited Harvey attended the groom. and the Very Rev. Fr. Cooney. Chinese $33,047,150, £8083 and US $14,618, were imported during the tenth. at an angle of 45, his eyes Following a reception at St. Gallagher and Noval of the value Chinese 14164,785,353. Ven 21,400, Piastres 18,540, £54.94 and U.S. $1546, tion pour down his dusky face.
*Nicke and copper subsidiary dins, value $212,43 and banknotes, face closed, while streams of perspira Francis Hotel, the couple left for Spanish Procuration.
Macro on their honeymoon. ·· 665, were imported during the oth
Tlal Esports
24,555,20
عالیت
Not including bank notes, face value Chinese $8,215,012,
Not including nickel and copper subsidiary coins, value $210,000 and book. noted, face value Chinese 3414,707,442, Piastrex 890, and Hong Kong $2,811,700,
IMPORTS FROM AND EXPORTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES : VALUE OF GOLD AND SILVER
IMPORTS FROM AND EXPORTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: VALUE OF MERCHANDISE
July
אנע
July
January-July
Imporis
GIL
1939
A Importa
G.C.
S
Gold Coin
100,247
Gold Bullion
53,886 1,002
1938 6.0. 1,377.300 5.841,501
Len
ports Abroad 280,873
Gross Imports 29,744,305
Re-ex.
'Silver Coins
549,880
54.978
"540,580 6,718,881
Silver, Balion
Total Imports
109,247
Exports Gold Coins
Gold Bullion
Silver Coins
Silver Bullion
Total Exports...
Total Imports and
Exports
Exceus of
Imports
Exports
24,555,334
144,621
14.892.445 1,097,954
23,790.940 -31,182,863
109,247
15,990,401 24,500,366 54,423,923
January-July
1937
1938
G.C. 331,177,704
$28,063
0.0. 297,576,952
1,535,540
Net Insports 29,444,132 67,074,416 320,49,041 770,155,276 226,040,400 511,144,000
Imports
42
The deceased was formerly a Director of St. Joseph's College | from 1921 to 1922, and had only recently arrived in Hong Kong from Ipoh.
MR. E. A. HAYWOOD
The funeral of Mr. Ernest Alfred Haywood, who died on Saturday evening at the Royal Naval Boa- pital, will take place at 3.30 pm. 400,234,953 today after a short service in the
Methodist Church, Wanchai.
345,686
399,809,2
Gross Imports Less Re-ex.
porty from
77,313,574
571,836,604
Abroad
52.238
Net Esports
77,269,336
136,050.
571,640,554
Total Net Im..
ports and "Exports
144,377,752
1,001,700,830
911,016,31
Excess of
73,730,155
Imports.... Exports....
168,514,722
10,188,920
72,182,908 1,557,247.
· 15,890,404* 24,555,334 54,073,803 84621 73,720,155*
109,247 15,990,404 24,810,312 65,523,083 0,893,482 73,729,155
6,834,240
*Not including nickel and cupper subsidiary coins and bank-notes.
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STRANGE
THIS ROAD HASN'T
DIGGING UP.
THIS YEAR
REQUIRED
111.276,783
1525252525252525252525252525252525
The deceased had been ill for only two or three days, suffering from a sudden attack of preumonia, and was employed at the Engineer ing Department of the Royal Nayal yard. He was due for "furlough shortly.
He leaves behind a wife and son to mourn his loss.
Tel 28151.
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FROM HANKOW
Lankow, Septemóker 4. The War Ares Children's Rellez Association, which is under the chairmanship of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, has decided to seña 250 réfuree children
Most of those to go to the British Colony are from the war areas in the vicinity of Bhanghal Before their depaiture, they will be thornis against typhid and cholera-