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THE FUTURE ECONOMIC POLICY IN RELATION TO GERMANY.
Sir,-"Mr. Robert MacWhirter" is a veritable David Lesley for adroitness in taking up a position, bat I'doubt (and this is the only doubt I have in regard to Mr. MacWhirter's Letters) whether he is not "ower food of red her rings": He has trailed them quite a lot lately, and, if he continues, he will
MACAO SWINDEE
WOMAN'S CLEVER HOAX
„A female swindler, absconded few days ago from: Macao with sum of no less than two lakba of dollars. It now transpires that she came to Manso some years ago and lived as a member of a very rich family. Duxing that "time" she "cultivated the friendship of all the wealthy ladies "of Macso, -- and -- told them that her husband was carrying on a very prosperous business. She added that by the Jinvestment of $94 in the business the investor would be entitled
́a share of $100 and receive thereon $5 monthly. During the first year the interest was paid punctually to several lady investors, who, however, refused to accept any more in terest, converting it into capital Some of them even sold their Trade," but that I also realise its jewels and gave the absconding defects as practised in the past, woman the proceeds for invest- and that, though I believe that if
ment. As most of the investors ! subscribed to by all it would an-are Chinese ladies, the fear that doubtedly be of great benefit to their husbands would discover Great Britain. I do not think it their foolishness has prevented follows that the same result would them from causing an outcry. apply equally to all other Nations
And I certainly consider that
it is not essential to the future Safety and Prosperity of the THE MACAO FRAUD Empire (which includes Hong-
CASE. kong) that a change of Fiscal Policy on the lines I have for many years advocated as above should be effected.
Cheer up, "Mac"; the Thistle is of a higher "order" need to than the "Fern" anyway, though change his "sign manual' from the latter might be useful as a "MacWhirter' to "Muckle-decoration for yön Maypole backit"!
which you find so requisite to He opines that my punch has make your "Whirligig" gee! as a Yorkshireman would put it-nowt to it":
but his
Yours faithfully,
J. SCOTT HARSTON Hongkong, 21st Sept., 1919.
The secret preliminary examin- ation of the four Portuguese and one Chinese in connection with the fraud case involving $44,000 has been concluded at Macao and the public examination will be held as soon as all witnesses and proofs are ready. It is said that fall the accused have engaged lawyers for their defence and that bail has been allowed in $50,000 each.
Two clerks in the Banco In- ternational Ultrumaninohave been dismissed for having, it is alleged, visited the prisoners in gaol.
DEATH OF LOUIS BRADFIELD.
diversions" are so wonderful and he "manoeuvres with such rapidity that I, at times, think I am taking part in a football
HONGKONG RENTS. match-and the course he finds it essential to thus adopt; he,
Sir,-In your leader of yester- forsooth, ascribes to his suspicion that I have it in mind to (figura-day re house rents, you quote
The death occurred at Brighton tively speaking) sand-bag" three-roomed flats at $140 and recently of Mr. Louis Bradfield, him with non-German-I beg his $150 per mensem, with no garden the well-known musical comedy. pardon non-germane facts or grounds of any kind." Such actor and vocalist. His first pro- which looks as if he realises that instances are, happily, very rare fessional essay was in Notting- he might find occasion to change and I might say that there ham pantomime, and he was at least one of the views he has are not more than one dozen identified with several London at $140 successes, including "Florodors." expressed, viz., that regarding my three roomed flats punch!
When, after some prefatory remarks-I venture to say that it would appear that the virtue or otherwise of "Free Trade as an Economic Policy for Great Britain is largely a question of "Degree", and that the same Policy is not necessarily an absolutely reliable
"Shibboleth" under all conditions,
CHILDREN AFRAID
or $150 per month in Kowloon. Moreover, these flats, and others ranging from £100 upwards, are fitted with every modern conven; lence and, as Hongkong is not a TO SAY THEY ARE ILL, DREAD modern place, those who require such conveniences must expect to pay for them. In compansion to other flats here the rents are not so iers are not the class of people to excessive and, after all, the occup-"
ING THE NASTY MEDICINES FORMERLY USED, ARE CURED WITHOUT TEARS BY BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
"Mr. MacWhirter", as an ardent whom high rents are a terrible children often conceal the fact It is pitiful to know that Free Trader. naturally differs from my views; but when. in inconvenience. If I might, I would that they are feeling ill from answer to "Mr. MacWhirter", I say that quoting such isolated pure dread
in some instances, a tennis court
of the horrible,
cite a Speech of Mr. Churchill Cases only tends to increase nauseating, griping medicines an equally ardent Free Trader-rents. After all there are many given them to make them well. as being distinctly in point with the Peak and in Kowloon, with, children.
five and six room houses both on Castor oil is a nightmare to some reference to the basis of my previous remarks, I am met with and in practically all others a dian medicine for little ones of Baby's Own Tablets, the Cana- the red herring" wherewith
nice garden in front, that rent at all ages, from the babe in arms to "Mr. MacWhirter" would induce
$120 per month. I could quote the child of ten years and over, your readers to brand me as a disciple of the cult of Doubt and houses (five rooms) rent at $90 bowels, and, being nice to take, one terrace on the Peak where the gently yet efficiently relieve the Darkness-what time he care-
do away with all fear *and fully casts into the gloomy shade per month.
раз
of "Solemnity" the other aspect The chief source of the trouble objection.
No parent need have che wherewith I dealt, namely that lies in the fact that many people
afford to
$100 slightest doubt as to the wisdom regarding the past and future cannot
or $120 for house vis-a-vis Germany.
rent of administering Baby's Own Despite "Mr. MacWhirter's" alone when ferry, ricksha, tram Tablets, for they are guaranteed. assertions to the contrary, I or chair fares add to this sum under a Government Analyst's another $30 or $40 monthly. All certificate, to contain no opiates, venture.to affirm that my letters the people in Hongkong are not narcotics or other injurious in- are free from the doubts he assigns to them. He admits that wealthy, and even $150 is a huge gredients, and to be absolutely sum from the ordinary man's harmless. Recommended for the I am not dogmatic, and I have salary if he has a family here. prompt relief of colds, and as a previously stated that I can see a world of truth in a lot of his very many people are thus remedy for infantile indigestion, compelled to take half constipation, colic, diarrhoea, remarks though I cannot by any
a house or a two-roomed flat with simple fever, teething troubles means "go the whole hog with cut modernsanitary conveniences. and worms, they are a blessing him. And he, again, recognises The rent for these flats is $75 per to worried, tired-out mothers, that unanimity is hardly likely to month and I could quote instances appear. But there is a great of a man and and his wife and difference between treating a subject in a manner devoid of child living in a two-roomed flet. dogmatism and sitting on the and paying this rent. There is inconvenience if you like, and at fence in considerable doubt.
a price too.
My own view-in contradistinct- ion to that of Mr. MacWhirter"
Sometime ago you had some is (as I have already indicated) correspondence on this subject, that by "Free Trade" as practisone writer saying that building houses on the Peak, where ed by her in the past (ie., by her
retaining walls and ground adherence thereto) Great Britain
levelling are very expensive, came very near to becoming a mere helot of Germany, and that cannot be done if they were to Great Britain's past policy in the let at less than about $120. Now above regard is accountable for this is not so in Kowloon, and in her present position. I may be Kowloon the houses are equally entirely wrong in this view, but I as expensive as the same type of hold it strongly; and (as I have house on the Peak.
also already indated both in There is no reason for this! your columns and those of the and it should not be so. Only a South China Morning Post) I hold shortage of houses makes it equally strongly-possibly also possible. erraneously, though I do" :not What is really needed is a big .think. so-the.. view that the scheme for building modern small dangers of the past vis-a-vis bangalows to rent, at about Germany could have been avoid- $60 and in the mezatime ed by an Economic Policy which a valuation of house property here distinguished between goods and the rents fixed, not on the carried in British "bottom" and present rates, but giving a fair those carried otherwise, and that rate of interest to their ownerE such Policy is equally necessary
in regard to the future.
I have shown that I recognise
the benefit conferred by "Free
Yours etc. FLAT-DWELLER.
Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1919.)
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