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HARD TIMES.
times made reasonably prosper- ous continuously, instead of hard
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. 1923.
economic bàsia, and, if put into
operation, wobid - (probably
-
Ngravate the situation rather
DAY BY DAY.
THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS THAT than otherwise. Bat one point is WHICH DOES NOT DESERT ONE worth thinking over, namely, AFTER VICTORY.—Mussolini. |that the world has become so accustomed to hard times as a resotion from prosperity that may be it has hypnotised itself into expecting them, and, by that A case of rabies was contained process, bas helped to create dein last week's health report. pression rather than dispel it.; Perhaps industry needs a little of the Cous treatment!
The Soviet Mentality.
For one with a sense of humour, the entry of the Soviet Govern ment into the realm of world politics provides a source of many smiles and chuckles. There is all |
PAKHOI WITHOUT
-TROOPS
Looting in Linchow City.
1858–1861.
Monument to British Officers and Men.
A Pakhai correspondent writes There was a clean bill of health us as follows under date of UNVEILED IN CANTON. in the Colony yesterday.
January 3rd ---
As is well known to many re- It was reported this morning sidants of Canton and Hongkong wires had been out. Later on, it side the North East Gate of the at daylight that the telegraph there existed, until recently out- was known in the town that a City of Canton a cemetery fight had taken place in Lim-fin which were interred the Mr. D. W. Banner, living at chow city. What aractly happen- [remains of personnel both Marine Na 31 Humphreys Buildings,od is not clear, but the news to and Military who fell or died at- Kowloon, has reported the theft band is that the troops inside the Canton between the years 1858 to of $200 from a drawer,
city were under three different 1881. These graves do not commands. One command left represent the casualties which the city during the night and happened in the War with China. The reopening of the Garrison went towards the north to join of that period, as the naval School has been postponed until up with Sun Yat-sen's main casualties were burjed,olsøwhage, the 15th. instant, owing tô anfarces, which are at present:lo/notably at Whampoa outbreak of chicken pox among Kwangtung near the Kwangel For some time, however, it had the children of the Garrison. border. Another came direct to been felt that there were many
Pathol. The third remained difficulties and disadvantages in.
.
the seriousness of a Great Power The Robert Dollar Co., advise looted the city before they left the retention of this cemetery come to make its voice beard
us that the 8.5. Weser, the first The troops that came south com-and sdraciage was taken of a among the councils of the nations, steamer of the Norddeutscher menced to stream into Pakhoi fund raised by H. B. M. Consul. sne day, and then there follows Lloyd since the war, will leave about noon on the 4th. January General in Canton for the upkeep some childish move or statement Hongkong on her homeward vor-with some wounded and valuable of the graves, from among the that is absolutely ridiculous. We
age on February 13;b.
loot and bargains were on offer Corps and Regiments associated · wonder if Soviet Russia Cror
at the various places where they with them, to make arrangemanta expects to be taken seriously,
took up their quarters. The for the removal of the remains The notorious antics when the A Chinese man was picked up most noted place was the Chinese and their reinterment in a suit- different trading * agreements" in an unconscious state by the Merchants Guild where theyable monument in the compound with Allied nations were can police at the junction of Nathan wrote on the doors with chalk. ofthe-British Church, Shameen. relled ata whim, suggest and Mody Roads, Kowloon, in Chinese, that business would The Committee of the Cemetery ed that the Bolabevist idea yesterday, and was taken to the be carried on again early to Fand undertook the work and all of treaty sanctity is still a Kwong Wah Hospital. Ho is be-morrow morning. The town is the remains previously buried in low as ever-as low as one can lieved to have fallen from a motor in confusion and everybody is the old cemetery bare' now expect froni minds that visualis d bus.
wondering what will happen bean placed in their new reating the brutish methods of rule first
next. Limehow city is now place nearer to the care of the adopted by the ex-serfs of the
Mdile. Toska is appearing at surrounded by the men of three inheritors of the fruits of their Russian empire. However, for the Star Theatre, Kowloon, on well-known bandit chists. These bours. cheek of the best order, the Soziet the 10th and 11th, inst. are Sun Yat-san's men. authorities must really hold the classical dances. Oo the 12th.
The memorial is not in itself comprehensive and only includes palm when they request France13th and 14th, inst. the "Powder
personnel of: which does not recognise thera Puffs English Musical Company within the pals of European pay a return visit. Booking has
opened at Montria's.
nations.
',
bas
Last
week's health
in
return
fan.
the country.
The Royal Marines. The Royal Artillery. - The Royal Engideers. The Royal Regiment. The East Lancashire Regt.
The Royal Army Medical Corps. The 3rd. Regt. Bombay Light
Infantry
Writing on January 5th. the same correspondent says:-The troops that came down from Lia- chow city embarked on board civilisation-to send Marshal
three transports which WITH Joffre to reorganise the "Red'
anchored in the harbour and left army. Is it bluff, after all? One
to-day. It is said their destina- fancies there are many Germans A shopkeeper at Yung Shi Wao ton is Canton. Pakboi is now able, and willing, to undertake ascribed to arson the firing of his entirely without soldiers and all the task. Whatever lies behind cargo bost on the foreshore on the the doors
into the principal that request, the French Gavern- night of the 6th. intant. It was a streets are closed day and night, A question which is at present ment
been given the ruse, he stated to the police with a few volunteers keeping
The 99th Regt. of Naliva Infantry. agitating the minds of economists opportunity of administering one yesterday, to draw him away from watch.
The monument consists of a is whether or not there is some with which diplomatists have robbed, but like a wise man, bave fallen into the hands of Sun 18 in. broad and 1 ft high, the
of those neatly-phrased soube his shop, so that it might be
Hamchow city is reported todais or plinth in the steps, each way in which industrial con-been able to add (from remote rafrained from leaving his
Yatson's - men, commanded by ditions can be stabilised and historical times) to the gaiety of premises.
the Kwangsi General Sam Po-fronted with white marble. In- steps being in roarble chippings,
|scriptions have been cut on the. The men now holding on to top step. The top of the pliath times and prosperity following The Peril of Lonely Roads. two of small-pox, and one each and they are expected to surren-mounting the plinth is an ama shows three cases of diphtheria. Limehow city are local troops is in marble chippings. Sur each other like the spokes of a The attack on a young Portu- of plague and cerebro-spins! der to the bandi: troops infeating measuring 30 long. 22" broad, revolving wheel. It would almost guese in Conduit Road by three fever. The diphtheria cases were the city. All Chan King-ming' and 27 high, cut from a solid highway-robbere. two British and one Portuguese, forces have now left this part of block of white marble. This ma seem as if, in the sphere of io-Chinese
Saturday, again brings home the whilst one of the sufferers from
rests on four feet measuring ift dustry, life is either a feast or a need for better protection against smallpox was English. All the
Some Chinese merchants bere high. The total haight of the ismine; there appears to be no these desperadoes. The victim other cases were Chinese. There! halfway point, over any extended of this attack might very easily, were also three Chinese deaths Lave removed all their valuables monument is 6' 6," while the from their shops on to foreign monument measures 13ft by 11ft. period. It has recently been but for an element of good luck, from influenzs,
have been fatally stabbed, and as it
premises; others hava shipped Within the monument have been computed that in the last sixty was he was left to bleed to death..
them to Hongkong and Hai-laid the bulk of the remains, some. Fire believed by various in- phooz.
of the officers' reusins being in years, two out of every fiva years It happens that an Indian police vestigators to bave been io. have been periods of serious constable found him lying un-cendiary, on January 2od. de-l
Another correspondent, writing The marble was imported from a metal lining in the marble ura. conscious, balf an hour after the stroyed half of the fishing village ander date of January 6th, Sen Hing, near Shiu Hing, on the business depression. Here we robbers had decamped. For the of Navotas, one of the north 855- have the basic problem of econ present, the best means of suburts of Manila on the bay. The townspeople are at pres-and the lattering (which is load- ömies, from which sprout nearly protecting local residents who Tre number of houses destroyed eat passing through another ed) was carried out by Massrs.
find it necessary all the other serious problems of might
to was estimated at between 250 and
and, at the moment of Hung Yuen, of Canton, while the wik
aloce. along the less-400 with approximately 1,500 writing, there are no troops in the plinth was constructed by Mesars. the whole world.
frequented roads of the Colony people rendered homeless. Dam-port. Some time ago orders came Chsa A. Chang, contractors to Business experts declare that appears to be ED increased numage will probably total P40,000. to recruit men for Canton, and H.RM. Office of Works, under
her of police on patrol, so that
considerable number joined up. the direction of Mt. A. Jer, who business runs in cycle-up and
the intervals between a constable's
Fishing bosts and junks were is superintending the construction down, like waves. Prices rise to passing of any given point will be
Cinems-goers who have not yet commandeered to be used of the new Consular building.
will have at transports, but the actual despatch scertsio high point, then topple lessened to at least half what seen "The Storm
Sufficient room has been left they are now. Many people here to-day's performances at the Star of the troops was delayed from both in the monument and on the and slump far below normal, take long walks along the roads Theatre their last opportunity of time to time. Meantime rumours steps for the accommodation of then up, again down, and so and pathways around the Peak, geeing a fine presentation of activity on the part of General farther remains and inscriptious on, generation after generation. often returning at dusk, and of a dramatic Impasse as could be Wong Ming-tong (representing when funds permit, Business failures, industrial ac-apparently they are open to mur. witnessed in any picture. Parti Sun Yat-sen) became frequent. The monument was dedicated derous attack at any moment. cularly impressive is the great Wong's troops occupied Ling-on January 8:b., when the care tivity and all other branches of Even if armed, one would have storm scene, where the elementa aban, and the Generel himself mony was attended by the Lord our common system of earning small chance of a successful de produce a fitting backround far was reported as being in that city Bishop of Victoris. FLE. the a living rise and fall in similar force if taken unawares, either the play of human passions in nearly three weeks ago. cycles as waver. The economists from behind or in an ambusb, the lonely hot situated in the
These "hold-ups are truly be-vast wilderness. point out that all this is following coming so common that it is a natural law of cycles-that almost impossible to avoid further depression follows prosperity just reference to the subject.
ES winter follows summer. The industrial systern, however, which we have permitted to en- slave us, is not a natural system, speaking in a broad sense. It is system entirely created by man. And, therefore, it should be entirely responsive to man, absolutely under his control. Certain natural elements creep io, such
crop failures or abnormally large crops. But surely these should not dierupt
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our whole economic machinery.
•
FATAL LANDSLIDE.
Man and Wife Killed.
scare,
West River. The marble work
0.00. of the British Forcse în Within the Isa few days, more China, H.B.M. Consul-General,...... active developments have taken the Consul-Gefiers for France place, though it is somewhat and others.
A goods truck turning into Ice difficult to obtain accurate in- The ceremony took the form of House Street from the eastern formation to details. A short memorial, service in the section of Cbster Road came into company of soldiers in Limcbow church, where the remains con- collision with a private motor car (18 miles from here), are tained in the mɔtsilloing, in fura proceeding up the former street, said to "have murdered their contained in a anitable teak at about 1.30 o'clock this' after commander, andthen looted) casket, reposed in the Chancel noon. The truck was thrown part of the city. Some of The clergy and congregation then violently to one side of the street them came on here with part of repaired in procession, following.. while the left rear mudguard of the loot, and ofered it for sale on the casket borne by men of H.M. the car buckled up. Luckily none the streets. These men, together | West River Patrol to the Monu of the coolies was caught in the with all other troops stationed ment collision. The CAF Was not bere, have now embarked on three H.B.M.- Consul-General. then seriously damaged and soon pro- small gudboats and will, presum-unvelled the urn, the metal lining ceeded on its way.
ably, proceed to Canton.
was place therein, and the corez · Meantime the remaining troops finally placed.
HB.M. Consul-General then stirring in Limchow, loyal to the Canton the
"Steelbeart,"
1.
A fatal landslife occurred yes- terday afternoon at Morrison Hill, where work men are Eusily engaged in pulling down the bill in connection with the Praya Best reclamation scheme.
Soon after four o'clock, whilst Vitagraph picture which con- Government, bave closed the city addressed the congregation, the the workmen were all engaged, a stitutes the current attraction at against a further detachment of Naval and Military Chaplains. big fall of earth suddenly took the Kowloon Theatre, gets its Son Yateen's men (under our dedicated the memorial, and the place on Morrison Gap Road side name from the sterling qualities Lau Chi-wal, and such informs-service closed with the National of the hill, opposite the Indian of the bero. True as steel was too as has come to hand reports Anthem. Templo. Seven or eight men and his heart, yet tender as that the city is still holding out, The service was copɖunted by ed for the panics that periodically women were caught and buried woman's and when the heroine but little fighting appears to have the Naval and Military Obagisinë, The Berk H. G:G. Rorised and occur, but the question arises under the fall, willing hands happened along to the outback taken place. whether, in the last analysis, starting in at once to dig them mining town he took her, so to Apart from the serious disloca-M. W. She well, Mr. H. F. Champ
out. The Fire Brigade was called speak, under his wing. Dorgan, tion of business, and the distress bell presided of the organ. The over-production is a possibility and all possible assistance obfsio keeper of the local shanty, was caused to the people by the hymns sung were "O God, Our the real trouble may be that oured to speed the work of rescue. the villain and when the heroine unending rumour, the situation Help in Agts Past" and För all systems of distribution break Some of the trapped workman and her here entered a mine shall seems somewhat Gilbertian.. One the Saints."
were soon recovered, some being he pushed over a slide which theory offered is that the affair down. Many suggestions have none the worse for their experinearly entrapped bem Lu s has been more or lesï engineered |
Over-production is often blam
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been made for the elimination of ence, others slightly injured living tomb. More thrille follow by the leaders of the two parties board the gunboats now taking hard times, such as gigantic un-Two of the workpeople, how in the film and culminate in a concerned to enable one of them troops to Canton,
Until reliable: news : comes dertakings by the State, stabilisa-T were found to have been terrific fight fa which Dorgan to dispose of large quantity of
killed, these being a man and his and the heroine's missing husband oplum collected by him during through from Limehow -it is tion of currency, and periodical wife.
are killed. Thus is the way left the past few months. Repers dificult to say what the real price regulation. But some of The remains were afterwards clear for Steelheart, the bero, to states that a considerable quantity motive behind the present die
of the drug has been carried unfturbance is. these rest of 20 insecure conveyed to the public mortuary claim his rightful reward.
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