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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919.
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MASSAGE HALL
23. FLOWER STREET.
America's. Everything there- CHINESE COOK IN LONDON. production. prices, and wages-
An extremely candid Chinese
A very hopeful view of Britain's has reached such a sky-high cook appeared before the Liver afterwar commerce and economics level that the drop when it comes pool
will come will
is taken by Mr. E. Mackay--and it
Stipendiary Magistrate Edgar, a City man who, as head nothing less than a crash.
be recently charged with having assaulted a compatriot in an of the great trading firm of
"I am confident that it will be establishment run as a boarding- Sperling and Co. and as a frequent visitor to the United very long while before the house for Celestial seafarers. It was stated that when a police States.speaks with high authority, supremacy of London is shaken. Especially is be reassuring regard. America has the money, but officer interrogated the accused ing the slump "in America. she has little else: She not the he said: "I cookey man. He "We in Great Britain have experience or the facilities or the complainant) spit on the floor. very little to fear from American geographical advantages that we hit him on the head with a competition." says Mr. Mackay bave for conducting the business saucepan lid. Velly good. Me go to gaol (Laughter.) The Edgars Whoever we may be of international £nance. bankers,
Stipendiary suggested that, if "For generations the commerce true, the defence seemed a good turers, merchants, shipowners, or of the world has got itself trans- one. but for the prosecution it ship builders-we in Great acted through London; the chan was stated that the accused some Britain can more than hold ournels have been cut very deep, and times became excited, and would. own. The winning cards are in they will not be easily changed: sometimes hit one person and our hands, and it is simply a "London to-day is as predomin-sometimes another." A fine of question of playing them rightly.antly the centre and clearing 40s.. with the alternative of 21 "Don't think that I am crabbing house of international trade and days' imprisonment, was inflicted. America. That would be absurd finance as she ever was. in view of her size, wealth,
financiers, manufac-
resources, and the industrial character and aptitudes of her people. Her position is a very
strung one. But so also is ours.
I have large shipbuilding in- terests in Great Britain, and I say quite simply that I do not fear American competition. Why not?
CHINESE ON THE CINEMA. The production of a new British film. The Parsuit of Patsela,” nearing completion, has been Chinaman in an important part complicated by the fact that a hardly understood English. He plays a servant to Pamela (Miss weaknesses and difficulties, and long 2 while tc come. Edna Flugrath)," said one of the we do not see hers. But America the special ships for the purposes
"Ma-Fu (bis name) company.
AMERICA'S TROUBLES.
"In the first place because their yards cannot turn out, and will, "We see and know our own not be able to for.
has some pretty considerable of special trades which are the as discovered in a troupe of troubles ahead of her and some backbone of the British mercan-Chinese acrobats at very heavy handicaps, to over-tile marine."
2
small
соте. In my opinion we stand af "Secondly, because their costs was found that he could not better chance of getting through of construction are very far ahead the rough waters than she does.
"This question of the American
exchange. It looks a very bad thing for us when the pound is only worth about 17s, in New York. So in a way it is. But it
of ours.
Thirdly, because their ex penses of operating a ship are also, owing to legislation, at least 30 per cent. heavier than ours.
London hall. At the studio it understand stage directions and did not know what film-acting was. He could not be stopped in the middle of a scene and told, That's all right, Mr Ma-Fu, but you overdid the last piece & little." is very much, worse for the. "Fourthly, because they have He had to be drilled in every action before the scene could be Americans. It means that we not even the beginning of that takes. In the end he did vary cannot afford to purchase. in the wonderful network and organisa-well, especially in a death scene. United States, that we will burtion of shipping agencies which we all talked Pidgin English anywhere except there, and that our own people have built up to spur bira on, but he could not. we will only take such American round the world.
understand a word." goods and products as we are **Fifthly, because a mercantile physically unable to get from marine, which is a necessity to GHOST STORY FROM NORFOLK. some other country where theļus, is a luxury to them.
What seems to be a ghost story exchange is less adverse. The
"Sixthly, because the instinct with a practical side to it comes fall in the value of the pound as for the sea has been very greatly from Norfolk. A Press corras- measured in dollars is the biggest impaired and because the ordin-pondent says that a mysterious LONDON DIRECTORY, obstacle to American exports that are American can always get a manifestation is now the subject
anyone could desire.
MR. T. TAKAYE, MRS. MORITA. CERTIFICATED MASSEURS. PATIENTA TREATED IN THEM Own Hours
I DIED.
PUBLISEED ANNFALLY,
THE
with Provincial L'Foreign Sections, anable traders to a minuzicato direct with MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS
in London and in the Provincial Towne ast Industrial Ceness of the United Kingdom And
Coutinant of Ecrupe The EOE. Adaron and other detalls are clamited undar more than 2,000 trade beadings, ineeding EXPORT MERCHANTS
with detalled particulare of the Goods shipped and the Colenia) and Foreign Markets inpplied; STEAMSHIP LIKES
arranged under the Porta to which they all, and indicating the approximate aliings
at
Swanton better paid and more congenial of investigation "America just only wants to job on land.
Novers Rectory. For four days export all she can. She is loaded
past liquids which appear to be NOT LIMITLESS RESOURCES. up with goods and products. She
petrol, parafin, methylated spirits "But I have another and and also water have dripped has paid extravagant and utterly stronger reason for not being without intermission from every uneconomic, wages to produce
These them, and she has done so in the alarmed by the prospect that lies ceiling in the house.
before Great Britain. expectation that Europe would
The liquids apparently ooze from the predominance have to purchase them at any enjoys by reason of her com-shown the plaster and laths to he which America ceiling, but examination bas figure. But the European demand mand of vast natural resources quite dry. The trouble was sup-
is falling of largely because of is a rapidly wasting asset. Ex-posed to be caused by the petrol
GED BUSINESS CARDS of Firming the chaotic state of the exchanges.cessive and improvident exploita- lighting plant, but this has been
to extend their comnestiorum, er Trade Garde of
· DEALERS- SEEKING AGENCIES
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THE LONDON DIRECTORY, DO LTO,
25, Abchurch Lane, London, R.C. 4, England,
BUSINESS EStablinged 105 TRANS.
"America must either sell at a tion, the growth of the country cut off, and an expert has certified loss or cut down production. In and the high consuming power of that the plant cannot be the either case there is bound to be a the people are using up her sup: cause. Meanwhile the house is drop in wages. And when wages plies of the basic metals and uninhabitable, and the annoyance begin to drop, then look out for minerals...:
ramains a complete mystery." It squalls.
Some day, and before very long. was in Norfolk recently that an LONDON'S STRONG POSITION.America will have to come to as oil field of great richness was "We talk a lot over Lere about for the oil, copper, and perhaps discovered. The Swanton Novers the demands of labour. We the iron are she needs just as she business seems to be one for the grumble at the high cost of living. has to come to us for the woo la Society for Psychical Research,
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