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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Hongkong Dollar,
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1
..Sir, WI you please favour me with a little more of your space before I take "Observer's" hint to close down?
DAY BY DAY.
NONE CAN SLAY ONE'S CHARACTER EXCEPT ONESELF; CHARACTER NEVER EXPIRES BUT BY SELF-SLAUGHTER.— Henry Frank
Commander D. C. Lang has been appointed to H. M. S. Hermes.
. A case of diphtheria and one of typhold are notified in yesterday's health return. Both were British.
The Very Idea!
One of our younger novelists is engaged as English specialist "at
achool in an industrial area. The other day, an employer was interviewing a boy who had just left this achool: "Let me 500," a master at your old school, is ko said he, "Mr. X, the writer, is not?"
"Yessir," come the ready. response, that's him what learn-
H.M.S. Titania and the Submarled me English." nes LS, L.15, L.20, L.19, L.27, and 433 will sall for the United King- dom on November 3rd.
ed the plants. The suggestion was, however, thrown out by the Committee that cotton might be grown with some measure of suc- coss in some parts of the New Territories if the fields were'shol- tered from the, winds. As to sericulture, we know of no reason why this should not be developed on an extensive seale in 'the New Territories. In the Shun Tak dis-
It now appears that, as many of trict of Kwangtung, which is not us had suspected, the labour ques- far away, the silk industry is one tion has given some incentivo for the dollar fall. Prices are on the of first importance, and it would increase all around us.rents will seem from the experiments carried be rising before long and it is be- out on the Ho Tung farm in the coming obvious that the workman Now Territories that there would is expected to pay the piper for
There will be a Tea Dance at the the tunn our financiers have called. be considerable scope along these But before "Observer" begins to Helena May on Thursday 31st Oc lines on the mainland. The Econo-crow over the reduction in pur-tober at 5 p.m. Tickets 50 cts mic. Besources Committee suggest-earnings, he would be well advised be booked in advance. Advt.
chasing power of the proletariat's each including tea. Tables must ed various plans towards this end, to give some little consideration to
Whilst engaged on a steel including the offering of induce the wide-sprend discontent and in- ments, by financial help and other-ing itself felt and also to the Lee Hung, a Chinese aged 7 years, dustrial unrest that is already mak-punching machine at Taikos dock, wise, for Chinese to take up the possibility of a labour shortare. received a fracture of the left leg.
Had the fall of the dollar been cultivation of mulberry bushes.
as the result of being struck by conclusively proved a necessity to the machine, Whether any attempt has been the survival of our trade. no-one made along these lines, we do not would have questioned the move but the real object, it seems, is to give more to them who heard of any Government action already had plenty, at the ex in the matter.
pense of those unfortunates here who, in the past, have had difficulty It is apparent that if the best in making ends meet. What about results are to be obtained, even the greatest happiness for the
Arrested on a charge of partici- within the limits possible in the greatest number in Hongkong? Apation in armed robbery and kid- prosperous Colony to the few is Colony, the Chinese will need to surely not consistent with the ad-pping on board a junk at Ching I Island in May, 1928, a Chinese be, educated un to the proper lim-vent of a Labour Government. It ing and manuring of soil. This done, fruit-growing and vegetable cultivation should flourish. Much useful work is already being ac complished along these lines by those who arrange the yearly agricultural shows, and in course
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THURSDAY OOT. 24, 1929.
CROP-GROWING.
found In various
as is to be
.
pros.
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Amongst the passengers who arrived here by the P. and O. a.s. Kashgar, from London, were Mr. and Mrs. Paterson, Mr. and Mrs. Portallion, Mr. and Mrs. Cryan and Engineer Lieut. Comdr. King,
novelist himself,
As this story is told by the
Is beyond question.
its authentielty
(Mosquitoes are reported to be or prevalent than ever in the Thames Valley)
Mosquitoes are increasing in
their number.
Yet more and more their
families encumber
Our heads and arms;
indeed,
they are a pest, While Ashers watch their floats
upon Thames' breast The blighters come and taste a
cheek or hand, The while, maybe, no fish the
watchers land.
Yet its au ill wind that blows
no one good:
When long those fishermen have
sat or stood.
Without success, at least they
can, that night Announce with truth that they
have had a bital-
A Scotsman went into
ад
a wire, and was told that he had to pay for his message, but that ́ his name went free.
tive to a silver basis was the closing Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- has been suggested that the alterna was charged before Mr. T. S. down of our industries but I con-Kistracy this morning and remand-American telegraph office to send tend that a labour shortage com-ed for one week, rentals are absolute proof, not of bined with preposterously high
an industrial decline, but of in creasing, prosperity. What then can be the motive behind this disintegrating currency fall?"
Kowloon, Oct. 24th, 1029,
Chan Kwong (28) of 3, Pitt Street, has been arrested on a charge of stealing from the dwelling house of Mr. O. P. Remedios, of 121, Kowloon Tong, a clock, silver and bronze vases, valued at $78. The clock, which is valued at $60, has since been re- covered.
He thought it over for a while, and then said in a broad Scotob accent:
"Yemay
or may до
think it, but I'm an Indian, and ma name is 'I won't be home till Saturday.""
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We want the world to know that Great Britain can no longer Party of H.M.S. Berwick is giving Europe. Mr. Snowden,
The Ships Company Concert be regarded as the milch-cow of concert at the R. N. Canteen. There are two Christian graces, Theatre on November 4th and 5th, humility and purity, which are commencing at 8.30 p.m. The ar- entirely spoilt by talking about rangements made, we understand, them-Dean-Inge. ensure that accommodation will be. There is just as much security strictly limited, and those who de-
of time the value of this, should There is nothing to be gained by be made apparent. One thing reiterating that I did not mean "freight" in talking of "ship work." which the Imperial Institute's re- Had it been a discussion on the port does confirm is that mar- Colony's shipping returns, «I. sup- ket garden produce can be grown similar difficulty in convincing our pose I should have experienced here with satisfactory results. This friend "Observer" that I was not is one respect in which we referring to the Star Ferry boats. need systematic effort, so as to Yours, etc.,
ONLOOKER. make the Colony more self-sup- porting than it is. We are con- vinced that there is much scope
Sir, "Onlooker's" diatribe deal-make reservations. under this heading, and we should ing with my letter to your every possible en- esteemed paper, introduces a lot couragement given to the growing Great War, the Bank of England of extraneous matter about the of fruit and vegetables under condi-rate, what happened to Sweden tions calculated to produce the best 1916, and to the Netherlanda in results.
1873, etc., but of the commonsense and factors of the subject under discussion he has apparently little. knowledge. My letter tended to show him something, and he had better read it again.
like to see
The French Crisis.
sire to attend are recommended to in a political agreement as in a regiment of soldiers or a fleet of battleships-Mr.Ramsay Mac
its own trained servants. method of performing that duty by
Donald.
Any book is a good book if you get any good out of it--Mr. St. John Adcock...
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The shipowners and his servants are not the paid servants of the State, nor are they paid or trained that a man is commonplace and un- To be safe and sane may mean to be Custom House Officers, enterprising. Dr Joseph Jast
earning his bread by the sweat The curse put on Adam of of his brow. can be ovaded. Professor Leonard Hill,
Brown, an inveterate" sponger," buttonholed his friend Robinson one day in the street."
The shipowner provides ships, as row. a commercial venture, concerned in the transport of persons, and goods by sea and he employs and His statement
that "our pays highly specialised servants to financial authorities are seeming-carry out that venture by naviga- ly incompetent" is gratuitous. His remark that my economically as possible. I submit, merely ting and propelling his ships as attitude in this important mater that, if these servants do this, they assumption that I have "taken a of the contract for which they are i8 "happy-go-lucky", and his have completely fulfilled the terms substantial haul on the dollar paid little enough). drop" are ignorant fulminations. Those who have suffered by the drop-including myself have my fullest sympathy.
But facts are facts.
If the Sovereign State of Borio boola Ghi objects to any of the goods brought to its door. It must discover these goods and reject or destroy them by its own proper methods, and trained servants... It. has no inherent right. to burn the hip, nor hang the owner and his officers unless he can prove con-
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"Look here, old chap," he said, "will you lend me a tenner?"
"Well-er-yes." Robinson re- plied. "At least, I will when I get back from Paris,"
"Oh, thanks very much," Brown exclaimed. "So you are going to Faris, eh?
"No, I'm not," said Robinson.
vance on their part. You, Sir, postulate that sailor- men should House detectives. Others desire
be trained Custom WHO WAS?. that they should be wireless experts. Still others expect them to be doc tors. China coast happenings make soldiers. it essential that they should be
ship's officers demands
Their own legitimate work as that they shall be meteorologists, geometric- ians, politicians, lawyers, cambista, accountanta and linguists, beside being journeymen of every known trade under God's round red sun. being human, covertly and humbly whispers that they would like a
JACK CADE.
May 81 of this year was ar important dute in British his- tory, but no less important was a certain 31st of May five hundred years age,
M. Briand's twelfth Government has endured for less than six months, the French hotheads have Towards the end of 1927, eight had their way, to a greater extent samples of soil and the same num-
| perhaps than they expected, ber of sub-soil, the majority being though the immediate outlook is from uncultivated land, were for-hardly disquieting. "The Chamber warded by HE. the Governor to split on, a major point of policy, the Imperial Institute for chemical namely, the relationship of the and mechanical analysis in order evacuation of the Rhineland to the that some idea might be, gained reparations settlement, and it is regarding suitabic crops for cul- evident that the French people, My letter explained the decline tivation thereon. If,
generally speaking, are unable to in exchange as being part of the realise the anachronism of foreign effects of a return to presumed, these samples were fair-occupation of any part of Germany normalcy. It was cold fact and currency ly representative of the soil to be while that country is a member if it just about flooted "Onlooker"
of of the League of Nations parts
it cannot be helped. After all, the Even the
Boor may not be a bad place for Colony, there does not so, it seems doubtful if the Chum him to rest and do some thinking appear to "be much
ber had the least idea that it was I have noticed that "Onlooker" pect of the Colony being a suitable voting the Government to defeat. has also been crossing pens with place for growing crops of com-Wing opposed M. Briand as a columns, and I hope the latter's It is more probable that the Left "Observer" in your esteemed mercial value on anything like a large scale: We rather so muching that M. Mandel would inter-in time, penetrate "Onlooker's" matter of course, never anticipat-very patient and clear letters will, from the report on the samples, vepe and sway the Centre. M.
darkness. which is being laid
I have not the pleasure of the before the Briand pleaded "for consideration acquaintance of either of your Legislative Council this afternoon. in view of the delicate Inter- correspondents, but cannot help All the spils, with one exception, national negotiations now proceed-comparing the heated and some are stated to have an acid reaction.ing and assured the Chamber that times pointless style of "Onlooker". The little appreciated fact of their and for the satisfactory growth of it would have a free hand to ratify with the coolness and correctness
in findings of Observer." most' crops, this condition needs or reject all agreements that might For my part I have nothing to little watch below occasionally. correcting by the addition of lime be concluded. Unfortunately, in add my letter, reiteration of facts that says "Every man to his job and the mass, French politicians find being unnecessary.-Yours, etc.,
SANITY. Hongkong, Oct. 23rd, 1929,
Opium Traffic.
AA Sir-have read your sub-leader downfall. The fact will be of last night with some little amuse- We have looked in vain through part which is demanded of France in opium demands drastic counter correspondent in to-day's S. C. M.
deplored by all who realise the thent, not unmixed with surprise. the report on these samples for if she is to contribute her quota methods, but I do not agree that it Post that I penetrated the nom-de-
I agree that the nefarious traffic
any reference to such
to the final pacification of Europe, is the business of the shipowner plume of "Musical Critic" in my as the cultivation of ten, cotton and immediate developments will or his ships officers to be concern letter to the Telegraph of 21st. and mulberry bushes. The grow-be watched with just a little ed in the undesirability of the im- inst,
anxiety.
or ground limestone. The con-it extremely difficult to see an inch clusion reached is that the soils, beyond the material interests of after proper treatment, should be France. International repercus. suitable for the rowing of marsions and complications interest ket produce which has a commer- them not at all, hence My Briand's cial value.
matters
We have a hoary proverb at' sea
the ocok to the fore-sheet", which you, kindly people sahore render more prettily as
"NE SUTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM.”. Hongkong, Oct, 24th, 19297
Musical Criticisms. Sir,It has been alleged by a
ing of sugar cane is not recom-
It is perhaps a little ports or exports of any particular I wish to make it quite clear that. mended, because it takes too much comforting to remember that country, or to devise and supply the I did not penetrate "Musical
drastic preventive measures out of the soil. In regard to ten, France is used to frequent politimanded by the community concern. Critic's" original signature in the de-Critic's" nom-de-plume. "Musical the Economic Resources
cal storms and as a rule weathers ed. Com-them without auffering great
S. C. M. Post last month was "Your If an undesirable person comes to quondam (or Helene May) Musical mittee which dealt with the whole damage. In the present case, your house do you hold the owner Critic," which placed him as the New Territories some nine years there is already an indication that and driver of the taxi responsible author or some able and well-in- ago, reached the conclusion that M. Briand's opporionts are repent for bringing the undesirable performed critiques which appeared cultivation could not be made an ing their ill-considered action, and son? economic success. In regard to are
If you receive a letter which is last season. This fact enabled me ready to compromise. A libellous do you proceed against the to be a very musical man" and in- to write "I know your correspondent cotton-growing, experiments made
general election is, therefore, im-messenger or the Postmaster Gen-cidentally revealed that he is very just before the war
probable. The dangers in the eral? were dis-
fond of Bach.. I submit that the duty of protect- situation will probable be met by appointing, as before the bolls
His actual identity is immaterial ing itself against any undesirable to me. for purposes of argument and some slight readjustment in the could form, the heavy rains and Briand Cabinet, with the Prime State which deems the thing un-ledge of it-Yours, etc.,
thing is purely the business of the I should never trade on my know gales experienced during August Minister returning to the Foreign desirable and that State or com and September completely deste.... | Offiée.
munity must devise its own proper
ALLEGRO. Hongkong, Oct. 24th, 1929.
On that day labouring people of England; under the leadership of Jack Cade, re- volted against the Govern-- ment, and marched on London to lay their case before the King. They complained that the country was misgoverned, that public money was being wasted, that members of Parliament were not properly elected, and that the Law Courts treated the poor un fairly.
Henry VI., a timid m
man, fed to Kenilworth, and Cade enter ed London in triumph. The reasonableness of his case brought all fairminded people to his alde, and the success of his enterprise seemed assured, Unfortunately, some of his followers sacked and looted several houses in the town,. and the Mayor and Aldermen, now fearing that Jack Cade was out, not for reforms, but for plunder, organised an army against him. Through the intervention of the Arch bishops a truce was declared, and pardons granted to ali the rebels; but later the pardóns were withdrawn, and the robel leader was killed while resisting arrest.
Jack Cade suffered the lot of many sincere reformers whose cause is ruined by the excesses of their followers, and his story emphasises the disastrous results of violence.