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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, · 1928.
FRANK COMMENT. LONDON ELECTIONS.
STANDARD OF LIVING IN GERMANY.
life.
BIRS. BALDWIN LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN.
If in Berlin and Hamburg, there
During this year the whole of are no such slums as characterize London's local Government will other big cities, that does not mean bo in the electoral melting pot. that there is not Feal biting In March a New County Council poverty; It means simply that, even will be chosen, in April new Poor in extreme distress, the terman Law Guardians (perhaps the last socks to preserve at any rate some London will ever have), and in November new Borough Councils. In point of fact, the great masses The first is the niost important of the German population are of the three, and the London living in very hard conditions; they live, indeed, from hand to Municipal Society has begun pre- mouth, on the very verge of what Parations for the fight, in which is just necessary to existance and the women's section will take an in dally apprehension as their daily active part
Mrs. Stanley Baldwin (the bread. For upwards of 18 months, from 2 to 6 millions of the in-President) and Lady Brittain (the habitants had to subsist on un-Chairman) of big scetion bavo. employment doles which provided issued an appeal to women olec them with the bare necessities of tors to help the Muhlelpal Reform Party, which has held the reins of life.
Whoever reads attentively his Dower at the County Hall for by the constant reports of suicide They write: due to poverty. Only the initiated know what bitter struggles are going on for mere existence, what mental wrestling in secret on the part of hundreds of thousands who saw their hard-earned savings swallowed up by the inflation and now often find themselves face to face with the spectre of old age and possible starvation. It is but seldom that the cries of these people reach the ear of the public.
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"London, it is acknowledged, is the best run-city in the world, and its a question for Londonere to decide whether they still wish their beloved city to progress on these lines, or whether they are content, through indifference, to hand it over to the extravagant! polley of the Labour-Sociallat Party. These elections come but once In three years, and our ap- ncal for your assistance for a The individual shuns publicity; period of a few weeks (or perhaps. but, owing to unusual circum-longer) for London's sake, la sure- stances, an outcry of the judges and ly worth a little self-denial."
A Great Fight. magistrates of Thuringia recently
made itself audible through the. Great political importance at- medium of their official union. taches to this election, in view of How severe their needs must be is the certain dissolution of Parlia made terribly evident by the fact ment in 1929. This is why the that these men of such high stand-Liberals-who have only two seata ing were forced to declara in their on the present Council-are put- manifesto that the amullness ofling up candidates. In nearly all their Incomes hecessitated, their the divisions. It will be a test limiting the number of their chil-of the party's strength in London.
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Eloquent Figures.
The Socialists, of course, will fight practically every seat; so! will. Conservatives; and Liberals, who always declare themselves Anti-Socialists, acem determined both at local and Parliamentary elections to make things easy for the Socialists. Thus, they im- agine, they will have the balance of power in their hands at the County Hall and at Westminster.
Further, there exist eloquent figures to show that Germany is anything but a land of riches and luxury. In Prussia, the largest and most
industrialized state of Germany, the consumption of meat in 1926 was only 453 kg, per head as compared with 64.2 kg. in 1913; in other words, the consumption of one of the most important foods, especially for a manufacturing population, is how only 83.4 per cent. of the pre-war figure. More over, the consumption of rye reced-month. ed from 153 kg. per head in 1913/14 to 114.5 kg. in 1923/26
and the consumption of wheat from
The first of a series of mass meetings organised by the wo- men's section of the London' Municipal Society will be held at Caxton Hall on the 27th of this
06 kg. to 74 kr. Beer, the national In noting the change in the beverage of the German, is drunk Royal Style and Title, necessita- in considerably smaller quantities ted by the establishment of the Irish Free State, Debrett's than before the war; whereas, in "Baronetage, Knightage, and the Germany of 1913, the average per capita was 102 litres, it is Companiouage far 1928 points estimated at only 80 litres for gut that since the Union with 1926, while the consumption of Ireland there have been only two alterations In the Sovereign's wing hus dropped by 50 per cent. •
Tille-when Queen Victorin was The former, consumption of. textile goods was much greater than proclaimed "Empress of India," the present. Per Lead of the and again when King Edward VII. population, in 1913, 7 kg. was took the further style of "and of bought; but in 1926 Lardly 4.5 kg, the British Dominions beyond the Since it is well known that the de- Seas." The volume contains bio- of baronets, mands of the masses for a higher graphical details. standard of living have risen cun-knights, and other prominent peo- siderably in post-war years, it mayple, together with particulars of ensily be imagined what an in the Royal households, information| ereased consumption of mass on the corrbet use of titles, &c. articles-especially foreign pro- The publishers are Menurs. Dean ducts would be possible if the and Son. Ltd., 20, King-street, purchasing capacity of the German Covent Garden, W.C. 2. people could be augmented.
The Dawes Plan.
If, under the Dawes Plan, the re- parations are to be paid, they must | be paid at the expense of the work- men's standard of living. This means an enormously reduced pur- chasing power on the part of Ger- many with corresponding detriment to the foreign producer, parti- cularly to the foreign farmer. The German workman is no excep tion to the rule that people like to be well, fed and well clothed; but, as things stand, his wishes must remain unfulfilled. The deposits in the German savings banka totalled in August, 1927, 4.2 milliard marks; in 1913, they aggregated 17 milliards. If it be remembered that, in consequence of the general rise in the price of commodities, the mark has now only about half the purchasing power it possessed before the war, it will be seen that the real value of the present day Inga bank deposits is only 2 milliarda as compared with the former 17.
These facts will suffice to de- monstrate the superficiality of the assumption that there exists a high standard of living in Germany; such a view can only be formed by Those who judge merely from the sights presented in the streets of Berlin, Cologne or Munich,—sights which are just as characteristic of i Paris and London, of Buenos Ayres and New York-Dr. Oscar Wingen.
The British steamer Silverash (5,299 tone, of London), bound from Batavia to New York, has boon placed in quarantine at William Walker, of Nottingham, Colombo. The vessel was brought "If the gentleman who put his eye-glass into the alms bag on celebrated his 106th. birthday on in by the Chief Officer, as Captain 9. He enjoys a liberal Frank Cleary, aged 37, died on Bunday, December 18, instead of a Jan, coin, will call at the vestry it will dietery, including beer, and spends January 7, and was buried at sch. be returned to him"-Note in St. 3/6 weekly on tobacco. "I hope The Chief Officer reported that Mary's, Twickenham, parish all Australians are Lords before I he suspected Captain Cleary died
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