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FRIDAY AUGUST. 19. 1991.
THE GERMAN CABINET.
GET-RICH QUICK SCHEMES, daro spelt rain for many honest EMPIRE
Dissensions In The Centre Party.
orash
ocours.
IRELESS CRAIN
not three, of the Dominions will
tradars throughout the connívy and increased the cost of all The Spread of Exchanges "* building and construction work. A Co-Partnership Of States
in China.
The whole thing seems to haro been absolutely immoral, and it For the first time in her inner
Mr. Robert Donaki, chairman political history Germany is con- of Chinese exchanges, stook and that the foreign firms took a very issued an interesting proposal for The recent rapid multiplication a matter for congratulation of the Empire Press Union, ban fronted with a difference of produce, with the attendant firm stand against having any- a new authority to construct and opinion in the Catholic Canire gambling, is the subject of the thing to do with the scheme. One operate the Empire Wireless Party strong enough to be called following leading article in the class of the community taking sa Chain. a split if mighty influences were| North Chian Daily News:
active part in such ventures as not at work to preserve « sac- Much has been heard in past
thess comprisen the inexperienced
The present position in that the the Berlin Correspondant of the produce exchanges which have limes of eighteen months ago recommended by the Imperial. blance of outward nuity, writes weeks canoerning the atook, anden who during the prosperous Cabinet has adopted the scheme Observer.
been springing op like mushrooms took a hand in all manner of Wireless Telegraphy Committee, The Centre, that great block of in Shanghai. A great deal more business, lured thereto, by the under which the General Post "TJIMANOEK"
opinion stamped with the is now coming to light, but the Steat profits in sight. To-day Office WAS to be the having arrived from the above solidarity that only approval tull story will not be told until their genuine business is practi-thority to construct and ope
lof the Vatican Can ports, consignees of cargo by her;
the inevitable give,
cally nothing, but still imbued rate the Wireless Chain. The are notified that all goods are the ODO opponant who A more perilous state of affairs with the craze to make money Post Office, Mr. Donald says, has, being landed at their risk into fought and conquered Bismarck has saldom existed in China Without hard work, they resort been unable to make the tele hazardous and/or extra-within his own, gates, the sole With so much chauvinism abroad to this business of gambling, graph service self-supporting, and Havre, Rotterdam & Liverpool hazardous godowns of the Hong-party to come unscathed out of it might have been thought that Fortunately the old-earsblished, iss administration of the tele- 8th Sept. Genoa, Marseilles & Liverpool kong & Kowloon Wharf & the revolution, has begun of late the best elements would be deeply majority of canes refused their although in these two services,it substantial people have in the phones has been * failure, Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool
Godown Co. Ltd., whance and/or to manifest now and strange concerned with the rehabilitation Genoa, Marseilles & Liverpool from the wharves delivery may
Rigns of slightly diverging of their once prond nation, but assistance, and so in a measure has enjoyed a monopoly. In an be obtained.
streams of thought and action. instead we see that the very the evil has been curbed.
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This secession into Goods not cleared by the 14th, Left differs from the general this end with honesty of purpose we fear. This craze for gambling of quick construction or success-
Right and people who should be striving for
Only in a measure, however.
would have to tace keen com- Aug, 1921 will be subject to rent-acceptance of the terms, inss-and unfaltering determination is the most demoralizing thing fal operation. Moreaver; twỏ, if petition, and he thinks fr incapable All broken, chafed and damaged mach as neither Conservatism find more congenial occupa in the world, and there must packages are to be left in the nur Radicalism is at the ront of tion in promoting get-rich-quick always be the danger that the have nothing to do with the Past godowns, where they will be it. The Right comprises the schemes. Without exaggeration good class merchant will suc-Office, and do not believe in State examined on the 13th Aug, sound school of politicians suggests the parallel of Rome cumb to it. Indeed there is no 1931 at 10 s.m. by Messrs. with A definitely religions in one of her hours of direct certainty that a proportion of this ownership. Goddard & Douglas.
basis to their general outlook in pari merchants haggling and class is not already entangled. The Cabinet having ruled ont Claims against the steamer life; the Left possess is a cor driving hard bargains and con-though happily it must be only the Marconi Company, some must be presented in writings ience of considen.b's more tractors cheating the army when a small number. Were it to be alternative has
ba within ten days after arrival of elasticity and a tendency to justify hostile force was at her gates. cama general business would found.
means by the end. The As time when every effort is have to look forward to a crisis for
There are precedants steamer, otherwise they will not the
co-partnership of powerful trades union organisa-required to restore the trade of the like of which it has not faced States and for a combination of be recognized.
tion of the Catholic Party, with a the country to the boas, to in the past. No Fire Insurance will be
As matters stand pubila and private enterprises from natural bias towards the ordinary recover affected by the undersigned in any acceptation of the word Left, effects of a period of reckless some critical times. For instance,f public ownership and at the parcicious we mast prepare ourelves for which can maintain the principle case whatever.
has become willy-ailly a species overtreding, these people are should there be Bills of Lading will be counter-of buffer between the extremes. threatening to swamp all legiti. these cotton yaro transactions, lines.
collapse in same time be roa, on business signed by
With all the views of the some- mate endeavour with a wave of it does not mean that yarn would JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, what reactionary Centre Right gambling. Some of it is a mero then return to what might be A BRITISH RADIO-CORPORATION.
General Agents.
they cannot agree; the best of game of pitch and toss with considered a correct economic them repudiate in unmistakable nothing at stake except their own figure. Do the contrary, the A British Radio-Corporation Hongkong, 5th August, 1921.
language the present policy of the paltry credit and money, if they probability is that prices would could be established by the Gov- Centre Left.
have any. Let them lose both descend to a rainous depth, and
eraments of the Empire. Each Erzberger, the leader of this they do not drag others down in whether as dealers, spioners or would include nominees by the sad nobody will mind so long as everybody interested in the trade, State or Dominion would parti
cipate. The Board of Control Left, is generally accepted as the their crash. But that is not the shareholders would have wire-puller of the Wirth Govero-whole matter by any means. suffer. And why All because
10 Colonial Unice, the Admiralty, meat. However maligned Erz- Some are also using coramodities the new generation is infected the War Office, the Air Ministry, berger may be with reference to in daily consumption for their with the old madness of imagin and the Post.ffice. For practi- his boancial transactions, there gambling and speculation, in ing that fortones can be made cal commercial reasons, an ex- is little doubt in Germany-of his addition to their other operations, without bard work. intrigues with the Austrian ex- and if allowed to go on uncheck-cipal offenders are the type of have to be appointed. Co-opera- ecutive board of experts armed with considerable powers would Empress Zita during the latter ed, they will push up the price of people who did so much damage tion with a commercial company part of the war and their in- these articles and consequently to the commercail situation & fluence on the fate of Central the price of living. If there is a year and more ago with their or companies might be an advan Europe. The enormous power public opinion in China, it should mushroom enterprises, but it is tha: he wielded in
tage if it distributed the risks and the old combine with the merchsat frumoured that Chinese with an Centre, the scandals attendant carrying on a legitimate trade to inadequate degree of foreigo ed-
promoted commercial success. upon the disclosure of his politic- combat this crying scandal.
The authority dnanced by the al past, are still loo fresh to the
ucation are also largely implicat-Governments of the Empire could As has already been pointed ed. The only encouraging sign build the stations by contract and
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BANK NOTES.
University Professor Arrested.
in the
bas been spurious
kronen.
denies any complicity, but he registered bere under a false name, and appears to have.come from Budapest where the gang also had its headquarters, for the purpose of dealing with the notes.
UNSOLVED PUZZLE.
in
Vast opportunities have been offered to the forger and the This professor formerly had a fraudulent by the wild variations post at Constantinople, and was Continental exchanges almost the chief Hungarian re- during recent months, and there presentative there. He had no
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output of financial worries, was happily particularly, married, and how he came to be notes,
mixed up with such a gang is stil Police in all countries have been an unsolved puzzle. ecgaged in investigating the The
specialised gang operations of the international Czechish Kronen nates, aud had gange at work in this direction, | forged, 9 Iar as is known, and the subjoined message gives 6,000.00 kronen wortb, equal to a dramatic insight into the in- some £25,050, but really enor stigators and abettors of this new | mously greater in purchasing class of criminal:
A sensation has been caused How serious these forgeries here by the arrest of a university | have become 15 shown by professor on a charge of being im the fact that the Hungarisa plicated with a gang of bank note Finance Minister has refused to forgers, the scope of whose opere-acknowledge liability on 400,000,- tions is the largest yet recorded in 000 Hungarian kronen nutes Vienna, writes the Daily Chronicle (more than £100,000) seat him by correspondent in that city.
an Austrian bank, as he claims Only a single arrest was made they are all falss, being in excess at first, but gradually further of the number issued by him. arrests followed, as revelation led on to revelation, and finally the Bungarian professor has boon also arrested. The professor
value.
At the same time the journal's Paris correspondent reports:-:
Six alleged bank-note forgers have been arrested by the French
SAVARESSES!
SANTALI CAPSULES
PHYSICI RECOMMEND THEN
**For the Blood is the Life"
ד'
tbe
The prin-
a
to
Sufferers public mind to allow of his ap-out, some of these exchanges deal is that Chinese public opinion, as then lease them for operation
from. Abcesses, Ulcars.
Pies, bidalar SweßINES, Zazouza, Bells. Pimples and Erupcions, Goat, Rheosaliam," must realise that the only sure way to complete and Casting te se! is to fire the blood of the poisonous Wante matter, the one cause of such troubles. Clarke's Blood Misture contama ingredients whack soon OTES-
Tome and
The impatik 1, that's why so many lastmg cures stand so its credit.
Plassent to take
Of wil Chemisi and Stores.
Refuse Substates
Clarke's Blood Mixture
"Everybody's
Blood Purifier.*
police. Three are French, one an Italian, another a Spaniard, while the sixth is an Argentinian.
This gang is said to have pass ed more than 130,000 francs of French notes in a week. Nearly öve million francs (nominally £200,000) of French paper money appears to have been printed.
unearthed
be
crisis.
J
the actual material
pearing openly as the one man in pura bypothetical stocks of expressed in their own news under conditions which would capable of steering a policy, either clear or more or leas veiled with produce in their operations, and Papers and in our columns as leave scope for initiative and ou regard to affairs in general. The quote prices at which nobody buys well, condemns the craze. If this (terprise. According to the Gov- The best opinion can only continue to ernment plan, the Post Office was news that very shortly there is to example of this is to be seen agitate on the matter, much way to limit its wireless service to the
a debate within the Centre Party, the upshot of which will in China cotton, which has re-be dane to resist and restrict the Empire. To do so would be a ceatly risen to such a figure that evil, and that is what we must shortsighted policy. We should decide the reappearance of
consumers bare taken the lice hope for. It does not appear like-cater Erzberger upon the open scene
for business from MIE or resolve bis permanent banish-their supplies from other coun- for while it will certainly not panies in France, America, and
and importingly that the law cau step in here,quarters. of igoosing it
. The wireless com- ment, will bring matters to a tries. Where. however, the mem-assist these gamblers to reap their Germany are
bers of these exchanges have ill-gotten harvest by any legal services. Unless prompt action raining world Upon this crisis and its devel-actual stocks to deal with, a very processes, it can hardly exercise is taken to speed up the construc- opments
the position of the real danger occurs. We have the so definite a restraint as to pro-tion of the Imperial chain there present Government depends. Not authority of one well versed in bibit all doubtful exchanges. is real danger that the Dominions, because the Wirth Cabinetsigned the spinning industry for saying Even if is could, they would sim-disappointed at the delay and at the Ultimatum and not because of that operations on the exchanges ply crop up again in another the narrow policy adopted, will the coming terrific fights on the bave brought the price of local guise. Public opinion must be break away and create their own taxation question is the unpopulyare to a figure about five taels encouraged in its condemnation organizations. arity in Germany an open secret. above what it night reasonably of these practices, and the whole Even the most short-sighted have bean expected to reach. community engaged in legitimate Nationalists recognise to-day that This is, perhaps, not s very business, must refuse all dealinge
with these people.
the Ultimatum had to be signed serious increase, and the local and that the losers must pay.milts are benefiting thereby. At The fact that both the Reich in the same time the final consumer ita entirety and Prussia asis paying so much more for the weight of authority, within the and this is not altogether good
with separate State.
its yarn or cloth which he wants,
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ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN CHISA.
WHEN A MAN'S FORTY,
if he has not previously worn glasses, be should lose no time in having his sight properly test- A marked development in the ed. If he has worn them, he Reich, are governed by influences for trade in, general. A more use of electrical machinery in should make qp.le sure by a A roll of French notes, having wielded by the Centre, that Wirth serious state of affairs, however, China occurred during 1920. The scientific test that his glasses do a face value of 60,000 francs. was in the Reichstag is supported by bas occurred in connection with demand for electric lighting in
under a tree the dangerously subtle Left wing iron. The formation of an
not want altering. This is im- Dear Limoges, where it had care- and that the Prussian Minister-change for dealing therein was ed the supply and
ex most cities altogether exceed-portant. Up to the age of forty tully been buried in order to give President 3tegerwald repudiates the signal for a deliberate and plaats were heavily overloaded.times make up for defect by existing the muscles of the eyes will some- the paper an appearance of having this Left, is the real reason under- well-planned attempt to engineer with the result that influential straining. After forty, the elas hundreds of persons. passed through the hands of lying the acknowledged weakness corner. Foreign firms import-merchants and shopkeepers in ticity of these muscles gradually
of Germany's present leaders in ing iron were approached to join the varions For the most part the forged their own country. Differences in the exchange, presumably with small electric lighting sets for taut. The Hongkong Optical Co., cities purchased lessens until they become quite notes have a face value of one in the Centre, that one stronghold the object of making the corner the lighting of their own shops Successors to Clark & Co., Re- franc, while some 2,000, it is said, in the midst of chaos, ara causing the more effective, and there is and perhaps two or three ad-fracting and Manufacturing Opti- are of the 5-franc denomination. the least Catholic of Germans to little doubt that, bad they con-jacent premises. The engraver and printer have wonder helplessly what is coming sented, prices could have been sets were supplied almost entirely Road Central, have the equip
These small cisos, located in 53, Queen's been arrested at Cherbourg,
raised to a figure which would from America.
ment to test your sight accurately.
next.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
APPERSHING
THUNDER STORM
That's the Way Some Storms Seem!
BANG-
BANG
BY BLOSSER.
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