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EMPIRE TRADE.
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 5, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
A PEKING VISTA.
Chance Brings a Guide.
I was certain that he had been in the structure itself.
Were there
America There was something no temple, the terraces "In them-
It may be inferred that the ques- tion of inter-Empire commerce is only an item in the programmes of
WORK IS THE INEVITABLE CONDI the councillors of the various ter TION OF HUMAN LIFE, THE TRUE ritories affected, and the matter of SOURCE OF HUMAN WELFARE.—Tol- related foreign trade deserves full stoi. consideration. Now that an inter- The E and A, 9:8. Tanda, 19 national conference is drawing up a due here with the Australian plan to do away with tariff rates,mails on Monday morning at day-
light..
about the cut of his cont, an necen-selves would be a marvel." From customs cxnctions, and other so-
tantion of the waistline and a cer- this rich base rises the structure, called trade barriers, the Empire The continuance of the fine wea-tain "snappiness" of cut, which fu- of gigantis cedar timbers richly must become specially interested. ther over the week-end is predicted dicated an American origin, Then, painted, and above, the great coul by the Royal Observatory; the too, the shoes were unmistakable, en roof of ancient tiles, their No doubt there are opportunities forecast up to, noon to-morrow He was the complete picture of glaze as perfect as on the day when for Britain to extend her markets being: "Northeast winds, moder Young China on the American they were first made. They are of abrond, and the imposition of cer-ate; find."
model. I spoke to him.
a wonderful shade of blue, the The respouse was tain duties has enabled more trade
courteous, secret of which is lost. The loss of $200 from the ground affable: His English was excellent, to be done within the Empire. But floor of No.. 115, Queen's Road,with now and then an Americanism We proceeded up the steps and coramerce'must be universal, in the East, was reported to the Police by way of seasoning. Yes, he had into the temples
There, in the widest sense of the term, to be of Jesterday. A foki is stated to have studied for six years in America. ↑ dusky interior, we looked up into
illsappeared,
Some military training, and the be the complete darkness in which the ginnings of a professional couree, uppermost beams and rafters were connexions a narrow outlook would i Suffering from injuries received and then back to China to play his concealed. In this awe-inspiring be fatal. Both the mother country) daring a fight with others, a coolic on the stail of Li Yunn-bung at thefints i remote and shadowy pust, a part in the revolution. A major spot, which seemed to carry one
permanent good, and in building up
and
1
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Commission.
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working on the Morrison Hill exca- the colonies should try vation was taken to the Government age of 21, and then, as a reward, feudal age, of fierce celestial war- to extend business dealings with Civil Hospital for medical atten-appointment to the Railways riors in scaly armor, bearing two- ape another, but always along the tion.
I was to be in Peking for some strung from pillar to pillar at no handed swords, 1 was amazed to sec, path of open competition." Imperial As the result of being knocked. Weeks and permit him to introduce great height above the door, a score preference can be tucht--it need not down by a motor lorry in Des to the less frequented corners of yards of telephone wire. retire written agreements to en- Voeux Roaci, Central, a coolle was but two short days, and then must could hardly be imagined; no com-
of the ancient capital. Alas, I had
A more complete anachroniam sure adherence, whenever possible removed to the Government Civil be on my way to Mukden, ScouVination could have appeared more
Kyoto, Yokohama, and thence across.
to the slogan "buy British groda." It requires that the goods in ques- tion be there when wanted, and that they stand comparison," both as to quality and reasonable, cost, with the offerings of foreign com- petitors.
Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries to his left foot,
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A Chinese, in attempting to alight from a moving tram car in Des Voeux Road, Central, yester- day, fell and sustained concussion. Civil Hospital for treatment. He was taken to the Government
Among many new tenders being called for in the Government Gazetic is one for the supply of one Anglo-American Feeling.
teak wood motor driven launch, Perhaps one need not pay very speed 9 knots, to the Government, serigus hood to the foolish cuni- | The price is not to exceed $7,000. paign which has of late heen
using incomplimentary" language
banter becomes tinged
play of artificial flowers is to be seen in one of Whiteaway's win- dows. These are the latest from London, and reveal unusually clever imitation of the originals.
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The annual general meeting of members of the Hongkong Horti- the Board Room of Messrs. dar- cultural Society will be held in
the Pacific.
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incongruous. It was like finding At any rate, I must notify him to my friend, "What are those wires a sewing machine in the Acropolis! "How extraordinary" exclaimed ef my hotel. do for two days; I must command He had nothing to
doing here?" "Oh," he explained. as much on his time as I cared to were for our field telephone, you in matter-of-fact tone, those use. His name and address were
of bridging the broad Pacific,
on the eard which he handed to me. know." A striking name it was. The first Then he told me how, a year.be- name was. English, and the second fore, there had been fighting here and third Chinese. That first name between revolutionary and anti- he bore out of respect to a famous revolutionary armies. The Temple American who had been father's of Heaven had served one faction friend, patron and host when he for a time as military headquarters. first came to the United States alle himself had directed artillery generation ago.
A charming way fire from within the temple inclo- suru. So have old faiths crumbled, temples have become barracks, and I should have been a guest under the fragrance of Incense has yielded his roof, he told me, but he lived the nerid fames of gunpowder. in the Chinese fashion, and he he Next day, we drove in a Ford lieved I would not find it comfort-cay to the Summer Palace. Yuen- able. He hoped that I might meet mingyuen, several miles northwest his wife. Leould tell from the way of Peking. The roads wore made he spoke that he was very proud for fullock carts," rather than motors. Great stone slabs make level, but when they sink or slip at excellent roads while they remain
of her.
to
the hotel and in rickshas we set Next morning he came for me on an amazing round of visits. different angles, and become rutted Through narrow streets lined with with the wheels of centuries, they overlenging balconies, our conlies are a menace even to Fords. good-naturedly shouting to clear a road for us, with here and there My friend's wife came with us, a stop and a descent into a dark a perfect little Chinese lady of the the proprietor at my friend's re-beautiful and modest coat, and frou- and unprepossessing shop where new regime, wearing the simple but
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or embru black hair most wonderfully
waged by Mayor Thompson,' of,! A particularly attractive dis-it is of joining Orient and Occident, Chicago, for there appears to be SATURDAY. NOVEMBER'S 1997. plenty of effective retort forth
conting from serious-minded Americans who cannot but. de plore the anti-British vapouringa of so ignorant, and bigoted a man. I But, even if the majority of Bri-
It is announced in the Govern. tish people can find themselves ment Gazette that the names or able to mile at "Big Bill" Bought The National Optical Company, There is something particularly to be frankly recognised that Limited, and the New Kowloon refreshing in the declaration on the here is developing much acerbity Cinema Theatre Company, Limit subject of Imperial trade made by among the prominent writers and el, have been struck oil the Regis the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. speakers of both nations--a deter.
velopment much, to be regretted. Beure, on the occasion of a welcome While the idea of open enmity to the 121. Han, Mr. 1. C; M. S. between the United States and Amery, the Secretary for the serial as "unthinkable it will
Great Britain has rightly been de Dominions, who is touring the not become so very, unthinkable, dine Matheson & Co. Ltd., onquest displayed his best wares of sers of the Republican cra, her Commonwealth. Mr. Brite, with if, in the process of time, there Tuesday, November 29, at 5.15 | dispune, or bronze, characteristic Colonial directness,fication of the present habit of
develops an unfortunate intensi- | p.mi.
ideries, or porcelains.
smoothed back and knotted, with a stated that Empire Irade opportun
flower, plaited into it. She was a Then on to the old examination picture in a ricksha, but she looked ities had been left begging, Britain dhe towards another. Perhaps it Aniong, the recent events de-cells, where under the Manchu re-odd in the Ford. She had been having allowed many golden oppor- and know each other so well that will be screened at the Queen's posts in the civil service, after and anderstond our conversation, is because they are so much akin pięted in the topical gazette which gime those youths who aspired to to an English schedt in Shanghai, tunities to be wasted. He ent Britons and Americans seem to Theatre to-morro is the return years of study of the classies, sib- but was too shy to attempt to take phasised the desire of Australia to think that they say all manner of of the Prince of Wales and Prince mitted themselves to a trying ordeal part in it. develop the country with British hard and biting things in the way George after their seven weeks of searching examination, each lock-
On our return to Peking my ed in his litle rien, fasting through friend became even more persuasive stock, to buy Empire goods, and to ought to be a little more studied.
of "Friendly, criticism" but there holiday in Canada.
long days as he wrote and wrote.than before. I must stay longer in sell Australian exports in the Em-care test what is often intended The Christmas letter mail via On his answers to the questions de Peking. It was absurd to leave it pire markets. The result of such to be raillery and good-humoured Marseilles for Great Britain will meant the attainricnt of comfort consider it a tremendous honour if pended his whole earver. To pass after only two days. He would a statement will be nothing at all, offence-giving satire. It is rather Office on November 19, at 9.30 am.. with he closed at the General Post
and honorable position for life, to I would permit him to entertain me however, unless it be followed by playing with fire to tell each The mail will be shipped on the
fail meant degradation and often for a few weeks longer. ostracism. We visited many other actual accomplishments, and there other so often how and where we
9.8. Suwa Maru and is due in Lon-interesting places, among them the which only the direct necessity Finally, he made a proposal in lies the urgent need for a for- post-war events have not infre
are wrong, especially because don on December 20.
ancient astronomical observatory. obliged me to reject. If I would mulated policy of inter-Imperial quently found the two countries
We lunched at my hotel, and then, stay but one day longer, he, as commerce. Such a plan was out-on different sides in really serious will be held at St. John's Cathe-he gate of the Tartar city, and onion, would requisition n locomotive Harvest Thanksgiving services again in rickshas, rode out through member of the Railways Commis- lined at the last Imperial Confer
matters. The vexed questions of dral to-morrow, marking a revival until we came to a large inclosure, and a private car and take me to war-debts, disarmament, tariffs ence, and no doubt a great deal of and the like have not added to the after a long period. The church in the middle of which rose the Kalgan, to see the Great Wall. I
Except will be decorated and the collec-great Temple of Heaven. good bax followed. However, there amount of amicable feeling and tion at the morning service will the matchless Taj Mahal, I know of said good-bye to the most hospitable
wavered, but I had no choice. have been strikes, industrial unrest. H. G. Wells sees it to pen a pretty o towards Earl Haig's Fund.
when a responsible man like Mr.
no mare Impressive building. It friend I have ever made, and that and labour, agitation, not by any stiff tick-off" to American critics
is on a stupendous scale. The night was off to the northward. means confined to the home country, he is only inviting reprisals of from Japan via Shanghai by s.s.
Passengers arriving yesterday prouch consists of three circular But I saw the Great Wall where
terraces, each surrounded by a mas- which have impeded the attainment similar strain. And one
Hakone Maru, included Mfr. and sive white marble balustrade, in- it comes down to the sea at Shan- of a condition of flourishing trade
Mrs. J. H. Backhouse, Mr. A. G. trientely carved, with flights of which the legislators and conference
Midgeley, Mr. L. D. Legge, Dr. white marble steps leading up to F. F. Nord, Mra. M. A. Bennie, delegates visualised. It has to be
Mr. G. Quinn, and Mr. J. Sullivan, remembered that there are such questions as tariff walls, reciprocity, and so forth involved. The colonial dominions are no longer mere ap-
Paris panages to the British Isles, but in-
New York dividual nations, with their own Brussels cuminervial policy. Their
pro-Geneva
Amsterdam gramme has been of a vigorous na Milan Lure, and they have sought com- Berlin. mercial treaties abroad by which Stockholm
Copenhagen to improve their export business Oslo and swell the statistics of their Vienna Prague trade departments. Thus it cannot Helsingfors I said that the colonies have been Madrid
Lisbon
cannot
help thinking that really respon sille Americans ought to take a hand in checking the sayings of Chicago's Mayor.
EXCHANGE RATES.
The manager of the Tung Man Lee Import and Exports firm, of No. 3. Chin Lung Street, reported to London, Nov. 4, the Police yesterday that he gave ..124.06a foki the sum of $400 to be remit- 4.86 31/32 ted to the country through the Tai
34.94 Wan Bank, and that the foki ab .25.25
HOUSEHOLD WORKERS FOR AUSTRALIA.
sconded without either taking the .12.08
money to the bank or returning it .89% .20.40 to the shop..
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TRAINING HOSTEL TO BE OPENED..
London, Nov. 4.
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BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY.
CONFIDENCE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
London, Nov. 4.
The Prince of Wales, in opening
The Duchess of York has con- sented to open, on December 10th, the Scottish Motorcar Show at Mr. Charles Chamier's new Our 18.46 Cabaret company will open
a hostel recently established by Glasgow, to-day, said he was al- .34.00 short
the British and Australian Gov-ways glad to be associated with season at the Queen's 164%
ernments at Market Harborough, any British industry and specially .19314 Theatre on Sunday next. The Leicestershire, for training Bri- pleased to do anything to en- company will appear at all per- tish girls as household workers for courage an industry which had 2.29/32formances and will give a change employment in Australia.
gone ahead as the British motor industry had done. That indus-
.28.52
366 of programme with each new mov-
300
700 ing picture programme. After its The hostel is witness to the im- try had advanced from a position .5.29/32 eminently successful season inportance attached to the settle- which was little more than the .47.53/64 the Star Theatre last August, the ment of British women in the production of a means of pleasure,
20% company needs no Introduction in Dominions and marks an interest to be one of the moat important in- .1/5.15/16 Hongkong and it can rely upon aing step in the development of dustries in the country, employing
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condial reception at the Queen's State-aided migration. It is the a very large section of the popu. ..1/10.27/32
20% Theatre,
outcome of A recommendation lation. Fine and reliable cars .20.1/16
made at the last Imperial Confer-were now produced at prices well Honouring two people who have ence that the Dominion Govern within the reach of those of mo- done valuable service in the name ments should join with the Home dorate means. of France in Shanghai and China, Government in providing facili-
British Wireless.
le in the matter. The following. Athens from a recent Canadian review, is Bucharest eloquent of the position: "Cana-Rio
Buenos Aires- dians have exported Canadian pro-Shanghai ducts and acquired experience in Bombay the export business since the Yokohama Hongkong
coureurs de bois laid the founda- Silver (spot) tions of the fur trade in the Seven-
Sliver (forward)
teenth Century. At a later date, Canadian lumber and grain and
Divisional Inspector Albert Col-the French Government has con- ties for training and testing the The Prince emphasised that mo- other foodstuffs made themselves lett, formerly of the Hongkong ferred the Croix de la Legion fitness of intending women set tor manufacturers must not lose known in the markets of the world. Police, celebrated his silver wed-d'Honneur on A development of much more recent He was married at St. John's Mission at Nanking, and Mr.
ding at Home on September 20. Father Superior of the Catholic seas.
Father Verdier, tlera, prior to their departure oversight of the export trade. There were thousands of British over- date, however, is the interest shown Church, Coleford, Gloucestershire, Francis Schwyzer. Vive-President
seas who wanted British cars in by Canadian firms in securing for in 1902. eign markets for a variety of Cana- dian manufactured goods. A com paratively new element, therefore, has entered the arena of export trade."
TO-DAY.
2/- 1/16 5.44 p.m.
Dolar on demand Lighting-up
The course extends from six to preference to those of foreign of the French Municipal Council. ten weeks and includes free In- make. The local conditions In our The presentations were made last struction and maintenance. At great dominions were many and Monday at the French Consulate. Its conclusion, those trained are varied, but they were well worth General when the two decorations eligible for free passages to Aus-studying in order that cars might were pinned on the breasts of the tralia where household employ be produced for colonial use recipients by Admiral Stotz, of the ment at good wages is guaranteed. which would command a market. French Far Eastern Squadron. -British Wireless.
British Wireless,