MIXED GRILLS
By Kenelm Collins Illustrated by Arthur Moreland
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927.
ON ROAD TO RUIN. SALT EMPLOYEES TO HOW MUCH DO YOU
EXCESSIVE SHANTUNG
TAXATION.
lipa BRITISH FACTORIES CLOSE.
Spring cleaning out of the way. Two: Mrs. Parkison's natty summer suitings are now quivered, Mr. Parkison picked up
masculine *claiming
attention.
Unfortunately, It is very difficult to obtain any first hand informa- tion as to what the tailors and out- Atters, wish their victims to wear. Scrubs, at Lords, Wormwood Epsom, the Evangelical Congress, and the Martinmas hirings. How- over, there is an indiscreet whis- per of the inside story of the great sartorial conspiracy hatched out of Tooley nine tallors by the Street, and the Federated, and
utmout
Mr.
Medicated makers of Bifurcatel the newspaper to see if "Counted Out' was entered for the 2.80. "Reach-me-downs.". Of Importance is the news that ties "Don't stand there reading as if in future are to be known as poly- you were a Band of Hope superin- This des-tendent," interjeeted Mrs. William chrumie neckpiepes. cription, when properly used, will Parkison, "go and bring me a cup distinguish the discerning client: of water and then slip and get the (not customer) as a man of taste pint yourself and don't forget the and fashion in "contradistinction Insurance man's waiting "Eight to the country bumpkin who may ch," hissed. Mr. Parkison. have ignorantly wandered into the Parkison always hissed. It was salon of a polychromic neckpiece as he used to explain, the after artist in search of a new cap for math of his last attack of lumbago. next year's cup final. Apart from Bringing a bucket-full of water, the polychromie révolution, male he took the jug from the table and Mr. journeys, "Good evening, readers will be interested te kuo proceded to the door to save two that jackets, waistcoats, trousers, --and even back stnds, will still Parkison," says the shrill voice of be worn. Raincoats will be seen a fair young' when wet; they should be carried "Good evening, Bart. I thow ye
'surance
man," replied will: his usual across the arm only when the Were
Bathing costumes Alr. Parkison
"That's all right," sang froid. weather is dry.
responded Bert Tintwistle. It will not be worn in the city.
was undoubtedly he. "I've come to wipe that 'ere joint."
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Some "Ads."
"Salesman wanted. Experience not wanted, but essential."
"For Sale:-Baker's business; good trade; large oven; present owner been in it for seven years; good reasons for leaving."
with
"Expert poultry-keeper enfor any egg-laying competition." Young man---30 years clerical experience; and work; willing to
learn."
"For Sule-A good young cow! giving milk and furniture for two rooms."
"To Let". Window space for display by a lady with broad front. See it to appreciate it."
May Meelings.
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Will Bert wipe the joint Read next week's instalment for the plumber's thrilling escape, and Emma's lingering loyalty.
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Answers to Correspondents, Busy Bangolina, as Beethoven beautifully puts it in p.61 and with such originally too For as Pogson in his work on Greek Dipthongs s0 lucidly explains "Steady the Puffs”
Gillie. Don't be Impatient; forty years is not too long to wait
for your ly if he really loves you. Keep your hair straight with plass tersine, and trust him.
Hubby-Buffy Never let your married life interfere with your private life. Better change your lodge than continue to sleep in plus-fours.
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Prizes for Brains and Beauty,
The usual May meetings usual the will places. The National Congress of International Housebreakers, Bur glars, Crib-crackers and Allied
A lemon-skin toque and nose- Trades will meet under the Pre- sidency of Mr. 1. Winnit at Penton- muff is offered to the first beauti On the Agenda fui lady who succeeds in solving ville-Without.
cross-bore's are resolutions of protest against the following now
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(1) Continued maintenance of puzzle. Entries accompanied by Police Force as an act of aggres-photographs and birth certificates elon against Constitutional Crit of two grandparents must be for- crackers. (2) Increase in public warded to the Collector of Taxes use of burglar alarms, concealed under schedule D. locks, barber wire traps and sinis-1 ter devices designed to hinder members of 1.H.B. & C. A. T. ia their hazardous callings. Wee! Loo Tu will bring fraternal great-j ings from the Jankow branch.
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Interlude,
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The recent official notification [regarding the increase of the pro vincial surtaxes upon tobacco and cigarettes from the former 20 per cent, to the 30 per cent. now in force as from May 10, has had the immediate results that were only to be expected. Taxatlon, if, put in force heavily and increasingly by a Central Government through out the whole of a great country fa bad enough; but, with the im
tobacco and cigarettes ns they now are, and port taxes upon upon that if we add the crushing surtaxes levied until recently by the provincial authorities,. the manufacturers have been for some time facing an entirely impossible situation, comments the Tsingtao heaviest blow of all in the increase Times. Now comes this last and of the surtaxes by a further 10 per cent.
LOSE JOBS.
PEKING MINISTRY HAS NO MORE FUNDS.
WHOLESALE DISMISSALS.
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More than two hundred mem- bers have been dismissed from the payroll of the Salt Administration, and another batch of copyists and clerks is expected to be discharged scon, according to from Chinese circles in Peking.
information
When Mr Tuan Yung-ping as-" sumed office as director of the salt administration he decided to un- dertake a fundamental reorganiza- tion of the staff, believing this es sential if the pay of the members is to be issued regularly. As this necessitated a considerable reduc tion of existing personnel of the administration, the 'nowa, was re- ceived with great perturbation among the officials. They at onee got busy and induced their influen-- tial friends to write to the director with the result that the latter re- ceived hundreds of letters during the two months he has been in office. This put him in a difficult
carry out his decision,
Looking at the situation from a. purely businesslike and dispus position, but finally he decided to will come to the conclusion that sionate point of view, the inquirer only the divisions now rending the political parties of the country could have brought the provincial authorities to the point of "lling the goose that lays the golden egg." Had one Government been taxation could never in power have bean forced, to soar to the hopelessly ruinous extent it has now reached.
Cigarette Co's. Action. Exactly what has happened? The British Cigarette Co., Ltd.. with the tremendous energies that the activities of this great Com- pany has called into being at the come ta a stand-still because the Tsingtao Factory, has ordered it to
it to carry on either profitably or heavy taxation no longer permits even without heavy losses. Two thousand five hundred Chinese wage-earners in that. hive of ad- mirable industry are thrown out of work, and this fact means that, in- cluding the dependants of these factory people, ten thousand Chi- nese men, women, and children in Shantung who until now have de- pended for their livelihood upon the wakes earned at the British Cigarette Co., Factory are now absolutely without means of finan- cial support.
The loss of work to the indus- trial population is bad enough but there are other equally potent fac- tors to be dwelt upon when facing this terrible state of affairs. It is one thing to encourage the open- ing of factories in a place, but when conditions become so bad, or so impossible. that they have to close down it is not easy to regair. the confidence of the capitalists or the Companies to which they be long. The Company will be able to consider very carefully before recommencing an enterprise. that has been bled white, not by vora- cious owners but by the over-taxa-
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Two hearts. Mrs. William Parkinson
are at home. Mr. 6-10 Against. Clogg Alley Parkison improving, shove-half- 12-15
Emma. 14th 10 penny handicap; daughter, lipsticking, is requested 17 by Mrs. Parkison (mother) to bring a pint of milk. Knock at 19 door. Emma on hearing, told it 23-29 Is the Insurance Man; she faints, her head falling against silent 30 pair of Russian boats. Instalment
MUSSOLINI'S LATEST. AWAITING THE VITAL "MOMENT.
Move and mate in one. Imps 57-16; Bats 7 Inman 4,000, Borstal Har- riers 23 mius, 40 secs. Liberal gain.
Black to move and win on points,
(curtail
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kept their engagement not to nt. tack each other.
the gut.
Italy's armed forces must bo perfected, and she must be able at a moment's notice to mobilise and men. The navy Rome, May 27. arm 5,000,000 Speaking in the Chamber on the must be strengthened, and the air estimates of the Ministry of the forces made so numerous that the Interior; Signor Mussolini denied surface of the wings of the nero- the "stupid foreign assertions" planes would obscure that 200,000 Italians had been Thus when the vital moment in banished under the Fascist regime. European history was reached, le- The facts were that 1,527 common tween 1935 and 1940, they would criminals had been imprisoned, be able to make their voice heard, 1,541 politicians had been warned, and see that their rights wero and 698 politicians had been finally acknowledged. banished to two islands, where The Chamber voted by acclama- each was paid ten lire daily. tion public placarding of the Some of them had" written re- speech-Reuter. nouncing their anti-Fascist acti- vitles. No
amnesty
grunted before 1932.
would be
Nice. Mr. Francia Steele, aged
"I am convinced that although 63, a London visitor, has met his a ruling clasa may be in the denth in a remarkable manner course of formation, I must myself while motoring, accompanied by carry out the task of governing, several members of his family. The Italian nation is not yet A boulder fell from an overhang- born."
ing cliff and struck him on the head, and he died from his injuries a little while later. Mr. Steele, whose home was in Wimbledon, was a former assistant general manager of the Westminster Bank.
To Obscure the Sun. ferring to foreign politics, he and two policemen, Great Britain and Italy, were keeping a watch to sce that Franco and Germany
In dwelling, upon these things
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 18 of this issue.
1.What is "Beam Wireless?" 2.-Who was Tattycoram? 3.What is the earliest record of
the sale of matchest
Where and what is Doctors'
Commonst
5-What is gaveikind? 6.-Who was the author of the line "The light that never was na sea or land?". 7-What was "Peterloo""" 8-What peasant girl became an
Empress 8.-What was the Black Death? 10.-O. what nationality was our
first woman M.P.? - 11.What is the Qual d'Orsay?
still it 12-Who said, "And
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moves 18. What was the date of the
"Wonderful Parliament?" 14. Who were the "Potwallopers?" monarch 16.-What European
washes and kisses the feet of hia aubjects?
KING'S BIRTHDAY,
HAPPY VALLEY PARADE.
In order to save the face of those discharged only the names are retained are of those who written in a list issued by the director on Tuesday evening. The iden is that those whose names do. not figure in this list are auto- matically relieved of their posta,
In connexion with the King's The director anys that the admini-
The on June 3rd, the Jockey Club Stand stration will hereafter be able to Birthday Parade at Happy Valley pay its staff regularly. salaries of the staff have been in has been placed at the disposal of arrears for the past six months, L. E. the. Governor and will be re- despite the fact that the adminis-served for Lady Clementi's party. tration used to, be regarded as a Members of the Council and Heads revenue-producing government des and Assistant Heads of Depart-
ments. partment.
EMPIRE DAY.
Capt. C. H. Steele, M.O.. A.D.C. to H. E. the Governor laying a wreath on the ceng- (Photo taph on Empire Day.
Ming Yuen).
porary, we beg the authorities. though it be the eleventh hour, to reconsider their disastrous policy
THE TYPHOON.
WEEK-END WEATHER
PROSPECTS.
The Royal Observatory states that the typhoon at present appears to be stationary about 300 miles S.E. of Hongkong. No forecast of its future movements can be made. The Observatory does not forecast the week-end weather for Hong- kong.
Romance is associated with a pic- ture "The Lotus," to be hung at this year's Academy, the work of Miss Margaret Lindsay Williams, a Welsh artist. One afternoon, three months ago, Miss Williams Iwas in a Cardiff cafe. when she (noticed a young giri, petite and dark-haired, enter the cash desk. The artist studied the girl and afterwards suggested that she might sit for a portrait painting. Surprised and excited by the offer, the girl consented. Her name is Mabel Taylor, and the title the ar- tist gave to her picture was "The Lotus." Miss Taylor, aged 19 years, has sleek black bobbed hair, beautiful blue eyes fringed with pule com-
we cannot but feel that the Pro-with reference to the taxatin long black eyelashes, straight
vincial Cigarette Tax Bureau has hot sufficiently considered the gravity of the situation they have directly brought about. It will mean that the Government, in- stead of receiving a splendid, sure, and dependable income from the industrial enterprises that have been devoloped so thoroughly in the Shantung tobacco world, will by the elcsure of the factory, lose their largest, their best, if not source of revenue.
False Argument.
It may be argued that after the import duties are claimed and affer the 20 per cent, surtax plus the extra 10 per cent. surtax is paid, the manufacturer may then rest assured that he is free from further taxation. Nothing is fur- ther from the truth, because it is certain that he will be once again maleted to the extent of having to pay all the surtaxes over again" in other provinces. Under these conditions it is impossible for the manufacturer to carry on.
We have had no time to mar shal detalled facts to place before the public regarding this matter, but the broad facts are sufficiently serious to warrant our urging the Administration of this Kino Ao Commercial Port to take atrenuous action in order to repair this gross error. There is yet time to place before the Provinefal authorities in picture of what the outcome of this over-taxation will mean, not only to the manufacturer but to the people, the workers of the Shantung Province.
Lastly, there is the enormous loss that this closure of the fac tory must mean to the backbone of this country. We refer to the to- bacco farmers of Shantung, and it will be apparent that our origin- al modest estimate of the numbers of the factory workers who will Buffer is but a moiety of the total numbers that will be affected directly and indirectly by the crushing out of this industry.
Before the factorios áll close down, adds our Tsingtao contem-
now placed upon tobacco and cigarettes.
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