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YOU their own way. It is now possibile MUST to assess, what the result "hns been, and on the' whole one has to OWN IT
admit that the imposition of high- er rentals has not been as ex- orbitant as many tenants feared, and in certain cases has been only- slightly advanced. This, how- ever, must be examined, not from the point of a normal period of industrial and commercial', pro' gress, but from the unexampled one of a serious slump in trading conditions, and the consequent
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
AUGUST 20, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
HEALTH IS THE GREATEST OF ALL POSSESSIONS, AND TIS A MAXIM WITH ME, THAT A HALF COBELER 19 A BETTER MAN THAN A SICK KING.- Bickerstaff.
The Gazette calls for tenders for the repair of the No. 1 Fire Float, the steam launch Stanley, and the No. 4 Police launch.
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. II.H. Fantham, master mariner, of the s.s. Mau- sang, and Miss G.E. Mead, on the way out on the s.s. Kashmir, whose home address is at Leamington Spa.
It is notified that, at the ox- The piration of three months Shing Fat Steamship Company, shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.
| Limited will, unless causo
1927.
THE RUINS OF ANGKOR.
A Traveller's Vivid Impressions.
Some time in the dim past, when journalist, Lord Northcliffe, view- the western world was yet young, ed with awe when on his Indo but the eastern already honry with Chinese, visit, there is also coupled a civilization evolved during cen- a sense of deep regret such as the turies, there lived a race of men, 'artist experiences who contem- half Aryan Hindu, half Mongol, of, plates the wreck of something which. whose great deeds we nowadays cannot be repaired. hear but little, but of whose high" In the square design of the tem- culture we still have traces in the ples and palaces of this lost city, architectural rains they have left there is traced the Hindu origin behind at Augkor. These were the of its builders: a race born into Khmers, one-time masters of the this world when it was young, and Indo-China, but now which departed from it when east- whole land completely vanished from thoorn civilization became too old. face of the earth. Like the plant There is very little in the way of. which is granted only a limited records, to show where they cama span of life, they grew un to their from, or if they were indigenous greatest splendour, then drooped to the land. But this is known, and faded away as they reached fuli that the Khmers were in the full maturity. Their existence was height of their greatness when ephemeral, like that of many other Kublai Khan swept down from the peoples of this earth who have pass-North, and the blight cast by that ed before the kaleidoscope of Mongol conqueror wherever he eternity..
went fell also on the soil of the Khmers. 1
As Scott said of Melrose: "Go visit it by the pale moon- light,
For the gay beams of lightsome
The 1925 trouble led to two main things-an exodus of large numbers of the population, and a shortness of money that affected the capitalists and landlords as much as anybody else. Indeed, the nian with big investments in landed property was most severely hit by the alump. These condi-
The ss. President Taft of the tions had their immediate reflec- Dollar Steamship Line will arrive
But in pussing, these Khmers tion in a reduction of the demand from Manila on Monday, August have left behind something of their 22nd and will sail for Victoria and civilization, something which has for dwelling accommodation, and Seattle via Shanghai, Kobe. and remained as a reminder lest, in our the necessity on the part of house-Yokohama on Wednesday, August pride of modern civilization and owners to accept rentals which 24, 1927, at 6 a.m.
modern progress, we forget the big they would otherwise have scorn-
achievements of the past. For there day With reference to Government is much in these achievements to Guild, but to flout, the ruine ed. Thus was much of the ex-Notification. No, 133 of 3rd March, compel our attention, and in the grey." cessive charging that might have 1927, it is notified that the ruins the Khmers have left us at
And how changed is the scene by followed the removal of rent Treaty of Friendship, Commerce Angkor, the traveller, as at Thermoonlight! Then the ruins become and Navigation with the United mopalae Pass, must porder over subdued in the soft radience, the restriction nullified; and those States of Mexico has been pro his own modern shortcomings, and broken outlines are smouthed just conditions, have continued
longed until the 31st December,wonder if the world is richer or as a frown is smoothed away by a better for having lost many of its loving hand, and the ruins are sur- operate to a great extent. The
olden possessions.
passingly beautiful and clothed in gradual increase in charges for
The 3.5. Pres. McKinley of the
A new-born glory. various necessities of life has American Mail Line will arrive One hot day in June, when the
The visitor becomes almost re- been accepted almok without a
from Victoria and Seattle via shroud of raincloud had been swept conciled. One's fancies of the grouse, but possibly only because Yokohama, Kobe and Shanghai-onaside, and a blazing sun was pour ruins, as reflected from a dark pool, Sunday afternoon, August 21st, ing its rays over a panorama do not belong to this world. They of its very insidious growth. 1927. This steamer will sail for visibly steaming with the moisture pierce into the veil of the past, the
G p.m.
on Monday, deposited by a heavy shower, the countless years recede, and from Almost before onc realises ft. Manila at
writer was in the shadow of these that distant age the world of one's August 22nd. things have cost more, and it is
rains, one of a band of excursion-fancy is born anew. only by a comparison with some
Much of Manila was under ists who arrived the previous day
rank One sees the ghosts of stalwart months past that the increase is water on Sunday due to the un-from Saigon. The air was
Khmers taking shape again in these noticed. Yet, at the back of it all, usually heavy rains and the defer with the odour of rotting Yeeund "murble halls, and the air is train
It had gripped the walls, and tive drainage system. The dis- tian. lies the remarkable fact of
antricts of Sampaloc, Troze and finding here and there a crevice tolled with such music as has never acceptance of the inevitable, al-Quiapo were flooded, water reach strike its manifold roots, was in been heard in this age, resounding the insidious process of enveloping through that long many-columned most a profound fatalism, which ing a depth of two feet in several the ruins and bringing them into gallery where the night wind now
streets in these districts.
the general decay.
sighs and eddies-through dts vast the present conditions of stress
emptiness, finally to lose itself in A constant struggle is being the jungle wilderness beyond. have bred. That, we think, is at In the death of Joseph F. Baler, waged here between the devoted Kings and Prinees, and the root of all the placidity ap-special policeman in the Escolta antiquarian and the jungle for the furs again throng those halls, parent to the casual eye. Habit District, Manila who was fatally possession of those ruins.
In a living over
their automobile
eventful injured when is a great thing for making one crashed into an electric power whelming abundance of moisture nation which is now no more.
region where there is such an over-ives, and winning glory for a resigned to altered circumstances. post at Avenida Rizal and Calie and sunshine, vegetation develops It is the common knowledge of Camarines, the Manila down-town quickly; and the jungle where these having to face hard facts which district mourns the loss of a well- ruins are, if not strongly combat-
Now and them, if the traveller is ted, would have laid the stones drtunate, he may still see some- known figure. must have overspread the general
ader a thick tangle of growth thing of that old-world splendour outlook, and thus checked that An Order-in-Council states that from which there would be little enacted in near-by Pnompenh, the
powers hope of preservation. As it is, Cambodian Capital growing resentment against in-in the exercise of the
vested in him by the provisions the ruins of Angkor, in their pre- The King of Cambodia is A remarkable feature of the creased costs of living which was of the Rope Company's Tramway sent state of preservation by leading stately procession past two years here has been the coming so pronounced "just a Ordinance, 1901, and otherwise Government which recognizes in through the principal streets resignation with which the mid- few years sp. But in consider His Excellency the Governor in them a great asset, present an im- of the
Council is pleased to order and pressive sight enough, although his palaquin embroidered with rich jority of the population appear to ing the matter this way, one has it is hereby ordered and declared ch of that which would have col trimmings, while the Princes of have accepted the "hard times," to bear in mind that cireșmstances that the duration of the rights,tributed to the harmonious effect Household and officers of state e- company him on ox-drawn carts or
Miss Iris Thornhill wishes to
convey her thanks to the many friends who have kindly expressed their sym- pathy with her in her bereave ment.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1927.
THE COST OF LIVING.
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FIRST IN GROCERIES.
Shanghai Fascisti.
as
to
af 1925, ami subsequent distur-change, aid a postponement of thee and maintained under the into insidious decay,
provisions of the Rope Company's Of what still remains for the ad-gay trappings. The Royal Um- hatices in China generally. One vital question of living costs does Tramway Ordinance, 1901, shall miring contemplation of the tra-rella is held aloft to shelter the bube extended for a period of one veller, that massive pile of greying King from the sun, and numerous bears little open grousing, and the not mean that it is likely to
year from the 15th day of De- stone which lifts its head above the pennants, unfurled, denote his royal inverore observer or recent arrival shelved.
Icember, 1927.
jungle draws the attention by the estate. The people incline them- effect of its solidity. Where blocks selves in reverential homage might be excused for persuming that conditions are little, if any,
After long enquiries the local of stone have dropped away, the their ruler.
There police have been able to trace the outlines of the building with its
is much pld-world worse than they were about four In our yesterday's issue we pubody of a Chinese woman named plaster tracery, présent a rather splendoar
seen in the But when the grays ago, when, it may be relished a long communication from Lam Wo Kin, who has been re- confusing aspect.
ailhouette of the procession called, there was a strong agila- our Shanghai correspodent in ported missing fir some time, pile recodes into the distance, as
the traveller moves back to see it round of the western sky, where ingainst the flaming back- which he told of the formation in | According to information furnish- Ben ainst the increased cert
from afar, gone in the rugged | the northern port of a Fascisti ed to the police the miss- of living in Hongkong. This organisation, also explaining itsing
effect; and because such artistry of the sun is setting behind a haze of wom:in Was 21 years
dust. But there is none of the paper at the time conducted an objects in very approving terms, of
proportion has been built into it by age. and lived at an
For these investigation, and a representation we do not agree, because the village. Her body was discovered
With his approval and commendaunnumbered hut in Sam Chuen a gifted hand, as has withstood the glory of the Khmers.
ravages of time, the building takes, men lived before the era of petty tiye who was detailed for the task. Fascist movement, as we under at a village call Sum Tsung. It
on anew the aspect designed by its modern pomps and ceremonies, and of their mighty deeds nothing re- creator. interviewed a number of heads of stand it, is not a constitutional is not yet known whether the wo-
mains but a tradition, a romance met
hardly to be reconciled with our departments, both official and pri- thing in itself although it might man committed suicide or
contain among its objects the up- with foul play but at the moment, But with full realisation of the knowledge of the race to whom this vate, and obtained a very interes holding of the existing con- the husband and the uncle of the splendour of this and other ruins land of the Khmers has been ing summary of the position.stitution. So soon 19 Fascism docensed woman are detained by included within the area of a bequeathed.
C. V. L. which we published as a special seeks to become executive it in the police. It is believed that cer- square mile, which that great stantly usurps the functions of tain marks on the neck of the de- article. Interest in the matter the lawfully constituted govern: ceased will reveal whether she was maintained, and for some time ing authorities of the district in was murdered or not. afterwards we received enquiries which it is operating and becomes on the subject, so that the oris inimical to good government as the evil and radical influences it
Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor ginal article was followed by seeks to combat. And unless it is further commentary later. Brief-executive, actively and actually of the Exchequer, has informed doing the things it thinks desir-Sir Frank Meyer, Cons., Yarmouth, ly, our investigations, which came able or preventing undesirable that it would be "most inexpedi at a time when house rents were things from being done, it loses ent" to allow off-licence holders to still being controlled by the the essential characteristic of the sell half-bottles of spirits, writes Fascisti movement and becomes the Political Correspondent. Sir
It is announced at Manchester Gazette to be circulated, the finan- Government, proved that the gen-merely an ordinary political or Frank last month withdrew his eral cost of living since the war ganisation. With many of the proposal to allow the half-bottles that a round table conference has cial statement of the Colony for had risen nearly 100 per cent., objects of the newly-formed Shang- to be sold on condition that the been arranged betwen representa- the month of May is published..
consider tie tives of the Federation of Master
It shows that the revenue for hai organisation we are, as must Chancellor would and that if rent control were re- be all reasonably-minded persons, matter. but in view of the public Cottonspinners' Associations and moved, the figure would be even in wholehearted sympathy. We demand for the removal of this the Cotton Yarn Association, to try the month was $1,020,627 and that
was shown, desire to see the very disturb restriction the proposal is to be to promote unity of action on the the expenditure was $1,339,502. higher. Wages, it
ing "Red" clements curbed and also brought forward when the Fin-Associations' policy of minimum.
and reduced output. sane and wise counsels prevail inance Bill is again before the prices the matter of China's slow but House.
sure evolution towards real -na-
had not advanced proportionately, except in the case of labour, which meant that the general cost of
tional consciousness and demoera- living to the middle-class con- tic government,
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MANCHESTER COTTON SPINNERS.
SEEKING UNITY OF POLICY.-
London, Aug. 19.
Reuter
but it will be the "saviour" of It by his munity was greater, owing to disastrous, we think, if there are ruthless suppression of radical ten- higher transport charges and more going to be three executive forces dencies, there are many others who THE CHINA COMMAND."
at work, namely, the t expensive industrial activities,ment (wherever it such as building. This was ad-centre, the F vanced as one of the reasons for and the E
a retention of the rent control
system. However, the authorit
There
ern-regret that, in the process, he has fe thrown Italy back into the Middle Ages so far as individual rights of thought and speech are, con- cerned. The subject is a thorny one, easily arousing class passions and hatreds, and so we will tent ourselves by hoping that the Shangha isation, which is gered
being so horously welcomed, by the formation will tread rily and make very lowing this partial de contrer, come end
of Fasc.mathely
although there Bure that it does not fan and in abolished the restriction al-
are possibly many who believe that flame the forces of disorder againet together, so that landlords had Signor Mussolini has proved to be which it is taking shape.
first allowed a 15 per
vance in rentals, a
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
London, Aug. 19.
"
THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
THE POSITION IN MAY,
In the latest Government
over
The balance of assots liabilities Was increased from $4,160,291-to $4,441,816.
Colonel Sir D. C. Cameron has been appointed Assistant Direc tor of Supplies and Transport, North and South China Commands. --Reuter.
Colonel O. C. Borrett, C.B... con- The War Office announces that C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., late A.D.C
Colonel O. C. Borrett has been to the King, was appointed Colonel appointed Brigade Commander of Commandant of the Seventh In- the Fourteenth Infantry Brigade, dian Infantry Brigade in 1922. He in the Shanghai Defence Force, in fought in South Africa, in the succession to Colonel Sir J. L. Great War, and later on the N. W. Burnett of Leys.
Frontier of India.