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scientific management, moral in- tegrity, and the will to recon- struct. These are arguments which
THE MOB HAVE NEITHER "JUDG- could not have been better ex- MENT NOR PRÍNCIPLE-READY. TO pressed, and they come as a whole-RAWL AT NIGHT FOR THE REVERSE OF WHAT THEY DESIRED IN THE MOUN- some corrective to much loo00 ING-Tacitus. thinking which at present pre- vails on the subject.
The tariff issue is one which at the moment la engaging attention in all parts of the world, and it lins well been said that local pride
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Engineer Lieutenant F. H, Smith has been appointed to HMS. Cumberland and Pay-Commdr. D. S. Lambert to Tamar,
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Amongst the passengers who left by the Empress of Russia for Manila were Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, and Lieut. and Mrs. R. F. Wright.
The Empress of Australia, now on a world cruise, arrived at Bom- bay yesterday. She is leaving next week and is due in Hongkong on February 13th.
and bitter nationalism will have to give why before the need for increased markets. It may, as one writerputs it, be many years before nations realise that the value of their exports is largely determined by the value of their imports, but remarkable progress has been made in this direction Nine further cases of small-pox, during the past few years. At the day. Five of these were from all Chinese, were notified yester-
same time, there is still much Kowloon. There was also a Chi- room for international co-opera-nese case of typhoid reported, tion in mutual tariff concessions, which is a sino qua non of the efficient readjustment which will make for world prosperity. Tariffs
General Chan Ming-shu Chair- man of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, in an order issued to The High Court of Justice and the
district magistrates Instructs that
"after all, are obstacles to In-action be taken to improve the con- dustrial progress and to the deditions of the prisons so as to re- move causch of undue hardship to velopment of commerce. Unfor- prisoners. tunately, the time has not come when there is à prospect of world- wide Free Trade, but that is the ideal to be aimed at. And any steps which are taken towards the KAY-On January 10th, 1929, at removal of unnecessary artificial the French Hospital, Captain barriers must be welcomed. One George Albert. Lloyd Kay, Chief Wharfinger of Hongkong thing la certain, namely, that an and Kowloon Wharf
and industrially undeveloped country Godown Company. Funeral passes the Mounment at such as China cannot afford to p.m. to-day.
embark on a policy of stringent Protection. To do so would be to invite disaster,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Australia's Future. Australia must be exceedingly grateful to the British Financial Mission, headed by Sir. Arthur Duckham, for the thoroughness of its investigations into present TARIFF AUTONOMY dny problema "down
FRIDAY. JAN. 11. 1929.
The virtual attainment of tarif autonomy by the Nanking Govern- ment is made the subject of some
under,"
Co. announces that the steamers The P. and O. Steam Navigation
Nagoya, Nankin, Nellore, and Novara are to be converted into one-class ships for the conveyance of passengers, at special fares, be tween London and Calcutta, They will be placed successively in such service, beginning with the Novara on Jan. 19, after which the new ser- vice will be continued at four-week- ly intervals.
Political
The Canton Branch Council has sanctioned the proposn! submitted by Mr. Lam Wan-koi, Chairman of the Canton Municipal Government Council, for removing the site of the Race Course pre- viously decided to be opened' at Yin Tong, to the vicinity of Ton Fan Kong Hilt in Shekpal, as the former site has been found unsuitable, owing to its proximity to the mili tury barracks.
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The Very Idea!
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE He
"TELEGRAPHI" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended January 11th, 1908.
rain-
The violent gales and storms by which many parts of France were recently visited are believed to be responsible' for the death of Mlle. Emilio Bothereau, a
The rate of the dollar on de-young dressmaker of Meung-sur- mand yvas 1s. 10.7/168.
Loiro.
When the Bordeaux-Paris ex- The French Convent Hospital was opened by H. E. Sir Frederick Pres arrived at Aubrale Station, near Orleans, the driver, making. Lugard, Governor of the Colony. the customary survey of his engine, Its site was formerly a Chinese cemetery.
Two thousand Hongkong ricsha- men went out on strike for a day, following a demand by owners of
PARENT CONSIDERADA DI SEmma
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART
SUPPLEMENT.
Topical Pictures in Issue
of To-morrow.
There will again be a wide variety of topical pictures in to-morrow's issue of the Tele- graph Art Supplement,
Of weddings, there will be groups taken at the marriages of Mr. C. L. Farmer and Miss Dorothy Goodman, Mr. C. N. Dragon and Miss L. M. Santos, Mr. L. McRae and Mrs. M. P. Hurley, and Mr. Liu Tai-mati and Mies Tam Sui-ha.
Sporting pictures will in- . clude groups of the K. C. C, and University ericket teams, Bri- tish and Indian officers who took part in a recent hockey match, and players and officials of the Wah Keung- Athletic Club'a football section.
Other pictures of interest will be one taken at the New Territories Agricultural Show, another of the Recreio Amateur Players in "What Happened to Jonce," and others showing the official landing of the Dutch Admiral, and Д farewell dinner at the Naval Can- teen to members of the com- munication staff ofH.M.S. Tamar.
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The Recreio Amateur Players the vehicles for an increase of four George K. Broadhurst's farce
repent performance of cents a day from each puller. "What Happened to Jones," at tho
Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard Star Theatre Inst night. With the paid an official vieit to the Viceroy experience acquired by their first of Canton.. public appearance, the members were on this occasion thoroughly
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WEB astonished to find a girl'a terribly mutilated body hanging from the front couplings. He had neither seen the girl on the track nor felt any shock, but inquiries showed that her hat and the wreckage of her bicycle had boon. found at a level crossing, and that hor body must have been carried. on the ongine far nearly fifteen miles.
At the time when tho express passed this crossing there was roaring gale and auch heavy rain that neither express driver пор lovel crossing. keeper could see the track clearly, It is supposed that the girl, there- fore, neither anw nor hoard the approaching express.
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Women are held much mare than mon by the old Iden of the. glorious glamour of wår-Mrs. George Cadbury.
It is in the end sufer to let people say what they think, what- ever it may be Mr. Geoffrey Faber.
It is a real fact of life that we are all tied to the Inveterato gambler, "clrcumstance," as part- ners. Mr. Amery.
The Anglican never talks about his soul to anybody at all, and dies as if he had a secret with his Maker-Dean Inge.
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Boys and girls did not nerves when I Was young | Judge Crawford.
For God's sake, believe in some- thing even if it is only in the existence of the Dovil-Mr. Ram- say MacDonald. ·
I have never insured my life.- Mr. Reginald McKenna.
Dr. E. H. Chapman, president of the Matlock Rotary Club, recently entertained Hucknall Rotarians with a choice selection of school, boy "howlers."
The best eample of unconscious humour was found in the follow ing"The lecturor varied his speech with sensational anecdotes,
interesting and timely observa-jand, and into all the principal and gave a really excellent per C.E., assumed command of the of which we might recall that of
tions by a Chinese writer in the current issue of the China Critic. The main burden of the article is to suggest that tariff autonomy is merely one of the menus towards national reconstruction and that, of itself, it cannot bring prosperity
it will
It is evident that the party spared themselves nothing in order to get a real grasp of essentials. Their fourneyings, covering a distance of over 20,000 miles, took them
During the absence of General over vast undeveloped tracts of at home in their respective parts, Broadwood, Colonel C. H. Darling, cities, and their report was sub-formance. The large audience troopa. initted only after long conferences was unstinted in its manifestation with every kind of authority, and of appreciation and enjoyment. of
the production. in addition, with the Labour Party organisations and business men. Since I has been the desire of the
others see them, they will readily Australians to see themselves as
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Spades are trumps and South has the lead. Narth and South must win five of the six tricks.
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The new comic song, "Why Is the Bacon So Tought" is said to be causing resentment in the provision. trade.
Take courage, oh, grocers; you
really must know, sirs, That popular ditties will do
you no harm.
A thousand old wheezes of over-
ripe cheeses
Havo nover yet moved you to
Tage or alarm!
The tenor who's eighing of
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Is free from the scorn of the
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Imply that your humour le
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to the country, The chain of perceive the value of the opiniona reasoning which supports the of the Duckham Mission, based opposite view is that tariff au- upon such remarkably compre- tonomy having been secured, ade-hensive survey. Where it is felt quate protection can be afforded that criticism is warranted, the to China's growing industries; the Mission expresses a perfectly frank industries will develop in res-opinion, while the recommenda- labon
tions outlined in a brief summary Bucharest ponse to the stimulation thus of their report yesterday contains Buenos Aires offered; and the problem of a some valuable pointers for future
Shanghat tional reconstruction will be ren-guidance. The general inference Now York Yokohama
dered easy, In the writer's to be drawn from the investiga-Geneva opinion, the weakness of this tions is that public services in Milan
Stockholm argument lies in the erroneous Australia are insuficiently cen-
Oslo conception that tariff protection tralised, and that State control, Pragu alone can contribute to industrial against national control, has Madrid
bren detrimental to steady de- development.
Rio velopment of the country's re- One of the popular beliefs.
Bombay Fources. It seems rather as Hongkong amongst certain sections of the tonishing that Australia, as a com-Silver (spot) Chinese is that, after full paratively new country, should re-
Silver (forward) fattainment of tariff autonomy, quire to be told of desirablity of the introduction of a uniform be possible" for China, by heightening the tariff guage on her railways, and it is, of course, financially unsound that wall, to prevent foreign goods different Statos should hove from entering the country. Deal different rates of income tax ing with this point, the Chinese The mission has also been un-
find the method of play that will Alderman Sir Harold Moore at give North and South five tricks. London Guildhall-I know busi- commentator mentioned has some favourably impressed by the
The Solution..
noas men in the City-some of pertinent observations to make. arbitration courts, set up as the A telegram has been received in ile takes up two elementary points result of the power of the Labour Singapore announcing the death at cular feature, but rather clever read or write, but most of them This problem contains no'parti-them very successful who cannot Port Said, where he had to be land. of economics, the first being that movement In Australia, and suged from the General Melzinger, on play is required to reach the solu- can draw some sort of signature.
gest that only in the very last re- the voyage from Singapore to International trade ia barter, and sort should these courts be per- Marseilles, of the Rev. Father
Reveller at Willesden-I was not South leads a diamond, North |so drunk but I could walk. Police if China attempts to prevent most, mitted to function. Much else is Louis Marie Duvelle, at the age of discards a club, and East wins the Sergeant-Yos; all the while I was or all, foreign goods from being im, auggested for Australia's economic 65 years. He was born in France trick with the sec. Eust then holding you up. ported, foreign nations will not have good, including the limitation of in 1878 and at the age of 23 arrived lends a club which South wing with Woman at Willesden-The lady the wherewithal with which to the protective tariff where it sup- Diocese of Malacca.
in Singapore as a missionary in the the queen, Now South leads who hit me on the head with n
another diamond, which Westbroom is my sister-in-law. Magis buy Chinese products. The
ports industries that are in-
During the 32 years he was out covers with the jack and North rate-That is no justification for ond point is that if Protection is efficiently organised. The Mis-East he was attached to the Tamil trumps. North next leads a low such an assault. rigidly applied by making the in due proportion to the ability of centres until he was
sion believes in safeguarding only | Mission and worked at various trump, South winning the trick Complainant in-assauft case at appointed with the eight and then leading Penge-I have witnesses to prove tariff rate prohibitive, the result Australian industries to offer the vicar of the Church of the Assump his last diamond, North discard-it. Defendant I have witnesses
North now to prove that there were will be the killing of the goose real article at a competitive price. tion at Penang, where he remained ing his last club, that lays the golden eggs, by the On the immigration problem, pro- Father Ruaudel went to France, he of trumps.
for many years. In 1920, when takes the final trick with the ace witnesses there. disappearance of Customs revenue,bably the most important of all, acted as Vicar of the. Cathedral of If West had refused to cover Bow County Court-if I do not Extract from a letter read at "The chief trouble with China,"caution is advised at the present the Good Shepherd, Singapore, for the second lead of diamonds, pay £2 a month I will pledge myself time. Briefly, the Mission has one year. On being relieved by North would have then discarded this writer wisely points out, "le completed a heavy task with great Father. Ruaudel he returned to his last club and North and South to be responsible for any fine, not that too much foreign goods credit to its members, and we are Penang,
sh-
THE REV. FATHER L. M. DUVELLE.
A Witness at Pengo taking the Lay out the cards on a table,oath: The evidence I shall give as shown in the diagram. Study] shall be the truth, and nothing, the situation and see if you can (more than the truth
tion.
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would have won the last three penalty, or sentence that may be are imported, but that too little sure Australia will be duly, at the Church of St. John the played his jack of diamonds at the
In recent years he was Vicar of tricks with trumps, If West had imposed on me. Chinese goods are produced," and ]preciative.
he goes on to submit that whilst
Protection In a mild form may do
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Evangelist at Kuala Lumpur, until opening trick, the problem would .... It was at a village concert, and
Inst November when, failing health have merely been somewhat simpli- the singing of a duet was in pro- compulled him to go to France. He died. The main object, of course, grega,
Flying Officer C. L. Dook has was the elder brother of the Rev. Is to establish a diamond trick In "Tam," said the old villager to some good, success will depend been appointed to the Kal Father Henri Marie Duvelle, Vicar the South hand. And this is his son, "it maun be gettin' gey still more on technical knowledge, base.
of the Church of Our Lady of Insured by leading that suit at the late, for see, they're singin' twa at Lourdes of Johore,
opening,
Ja time so as to get it feenished.”
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