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DAY BY DAY.
JUDGE OF A MAN BY HIS QUES- TIONS ZATHER THAN BY HIS AN SWERB-Voltaire.
1929.
THEFT OF PULLEY BLOCKS.
of markets, trade can, be kept on Its feet so as to provide for an ever-growing population, among which the standard of life is ever rising: or whether by a reorgnolsa tion of society what is produced by any national group can be hus- banded and proportioned to the from Messrs. Lane Crawford, Ltd. necting, a coal coolie with
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This antithesis may seem to be
The Aalatie Petroleum Company chimerical, and the economic pro-advises us that the price of Shell blem involved be so far beyond the petrol has been reduced by four brain to solve. It does not mean cents per gallon. the end of the capitalist system; It does mean the State oversight of capital for the good of the com- munity. Its complexity should not THERE ARE DOMESTICappal more than the prospect of the future opened up to us by the MODELS OF FROM FOUR
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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY DEO. 11, 1929,
THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.
Lieut..(F.O., R.A.F.) P. W. Humphreys, G. G. R. Rodd, R. H. S. Roundell, and N. S. Luard have been appointed to H.M.S. Hermes (Dec. 12).
the 16th November arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on the 6th December, having been 20 days in transit.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul acknowledge with grateful thanks the following: Brunner Mond and Ca.. fancy articies; Mrs. A. C. Botelho, fancy articles: and A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated Waters.
SLIGHT EVIDENCE BY POLICE.
The Very Idea!
James Brown, a Northern Trans-` vaal prospector, valued his pick more than his life, but managed to Owing to lack of evidence con-retain both when he encountered a
huge python.
the
The snake was asleep and colled up with its head stretched out. Brown crept up quietly and drove his light prospecting pick through the snake's head into the ground— then jumped clear.
thaft of three pulley blocks from the Italian Warship Labin, charges of larceny and of receiving wore not sustained when the man ap peared before Mr. W. Schofeld at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
The python, with its head pinned The defendant denied both to the ground, spun round and charges and before calling evi- round, and eventually worked the dence, Detective Sergeant Durn- pick loose, Then it made for a phreys intimated that the prose- rocky outcrop nearby, with thủ plek. cution could not trace witnesses still fast in its head. to connect the defendant with thei theft of all three blocks and desir- ed to amend the charge in respect of one'block.
"
The charge being amended, Lieut. Botti Ugo gave evidence of having lost three pulley blocks. The discovery was made at about p.m. on Monday, after the coal coolies had left the warship.
Prosecuting officer remarked
that the evidence was rather com plicated. The pulley blocks were reported stolen and a detective was sent to Wanchai to the fore- man of the gang of coal coolies who had been on the warship to ask him to assist the Police to trace the stolen articles.
The defendant was question and he took the head coolte to Traya East where one of the blocks was recovered.., Tho evidence, said De- tective Sergeant Humphreys, was very slight.
The silk forwarded from Hong-1 an unending competition for markong by the Empress of Canada on keta among the progressive nations of the world, carrying with it the exploitation of the nations which are economically weaker and the unavoidable rivalry of those which, are stronger. Above all. America now enters the world rivalry for markets and raw materials" in a daily increasing intensity. Through the last century' she had her ever receding western boundary to fill ont to. Now that she has reached the Pacific const her problems begin. The immensity of her business enterprise and its far reaching reverberations have just been illustrated by the Wall Street slump. She is threatened with an unemployment problem which la to be staved off by a system of public works such as the Government is contemplating in England. But that can be only palliative till the next boom and in future may come another slump, worse than before, as the trade of the country depends more and more on external mar- kets,
on 4
..
His Worship remarked that the Police Sergeant Pepperill, officer
before Mr. W. the block was to be found but if in charge of the Kowloon Court, defendant evidently knew where brought a man Schofield this morning, on a charge the prosecution were not prepared of cruelty to a chicken by carrying to prove anything more, the only It by its wings in Public Square thing they could do would be to Street. The defendant, on admit nak defendant if he was willing to ting the charge," was
be bound over to be of good be- haviour
fined $5.
Amongst the passengers who Maru to-day left by the Asama were Vice-Admiral Sir A. K. Wai stell, Paymr.-Capt, L. C. E. Ayre, Licut. D. P. Evans, Paymr.-Lieut. V. G H. Weekes, Mr. J. Scott Harstor, Misa Scott Hárston, and
Mr. A. J. Heard.
The prosecuting officer intimat, ed that the defendant had accused seven others of larceny but they could not bring them before the Court on the defendant's word.
Addressing the defendant his Worship pointed out that it was quite clear the charges could not
be substantiated and asked whe- ther he would be willing to sign a bond for $50 to ba"of good be haviour for one year.
Afraid of losing his pick, Brown grabbed the python by the tail and was dragged sixty yards before the held on grimly. Twice he fell, and struggle ended with the sudden death of the snake,
The snake measured 17ft. gin. Brown is 6ft. 2in, tall and weighs more than 2001b,
•
Apropos of a recent story of a forgetful child shopping for its mother, a correspondent in Homo paper recalls a tale heard in har youth of a very different child.
A
In this case it was a North Country child who was sent to shop, and when asked by the shopkeeper what she required, re- plled airily, "Keeps a shop and does not know what a body wants."
"Is it soap?" she was asked, "Soap, and ma mither washed yesterday!" "
"Is it sugar?"
"Sugar in a mutton pie!" "Pepper "
I thowt I should have had to have telled yel"
The child's attitude scoms dis
most tinetly "modern," but the leisurely of country shopkeepers nowadays would scarcely stand such outrageous behaviour by a customer,
Witness at Bow County Court: Women like to use a little bad lang-
uage; it makes them look grown up. Wife at Willesdon: I know I bet, but my husband drinks, and that's a gamble, isn't it?
Mra. Alden was about to engage. a new servant girl. "And do you have to be called in the morning?" sho asked the applicant.
·
On conviction of a summons ac
The defendant agreed. cusing her of throwing household
"I don't has to be mum," the girl fefuse into the street, female in reply to his worship to tenant of No. 6 Taku Street, Hung- whether the other two blocks had replied, "unless you happens to need bom, was fined $7 by Mr. W. Leen recovered the police officer me."-Pathfinder. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis said that one of them was found tracy this morning. A man, whe hidden under the admitted that his children had Fraya East while the other was thrown sugar cane skin into the recovered from a marine
dealer's shop. An unknown per non had taken it back to the coolic street, was fined $5.
shop.
The student of politics and economies will find much food for
The system of trade which de- thought on analysing Mr. JH. Thomas' approach to the problem nends on thene ever-extending mar- He will findkets seems like moving to a point of unemployment. that the most striking aspect of when there will be complete con- Mr. Thomas' proposals in that as gestion, and when only a reorgani
new a member of a Labour, and to some sution of society extent Socinlist, Government his economic basis may avail to save policy cannot be greatly differen- the world from a complete break-
Pleading guilty to n charge of tiated from that of the other up of civilisation. There is more
a filling station in Argyle Street, parties. He adopts in part the hope of that calamily being avert-larceny of two empty oil tins from Liberal scheme of the renewal ofed by the development of political Chinese, who appeared before Mr. industry by the development of institutions in England than in W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magia No political tracy this morning, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour. The des public works, in part the Conser-any other country, vative scheme of the growth and system is so stable, and so flexible. fendant, who had one previous con- development of Empire trade. One would hope that while Mr.viction for stealing, was stated to But he sny's nothing at all about Thomas seeks at present such tem- the reconstruction of society at porary solutions ns may be to hand Home, and the redistribution of to cure the evil of unemployment, wealth so as to encourage that the large question will not be lost interchange of goods within the sight of and what is done be bounds of the nation itself which recognised for what it is, no funda one might expect from his party, mental solution of the difficulty, That again is probably not because but merely an attempt to tide over the Government cannot command, a majority for such far-reaching changes as that he himself is not convinced that salvation lies that way. He is said to pin his faith in the main on the development of our overseas, trade.
of
from one hard time to another.
have been seen taking, the tins from the rear of the premises.
Band on the
store
All the coolies who were work: ing on the Libia hud since ab sconded and it was impossible to say who was responsible for the
theft
The defendant was accordingly ordered to sign a bond for his future behaviour,
ARMED JEWS' SHOTS.
(Oranges are recommended as as infallible cure for depression.)
F
eye
No more when matters go awry
do I feel tempted to Regard the world with jaundiced.
"And take a sombre.view; I utiliés a tangerine
And thereby
spleen.
overcome
my
The reason why this fruit has got
Such potency la clear,
And I'm surprised that it has not Been known for many a year: When oranges you suck (or sip) You must, of course, discard the pip.
Yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board occupied about two minutes. It was stated that Major D. G. Cheyne 0.B.E., M.C., of Lieut. Col. and R.A.M.C., would take the place on
Wong Chi-chau, alias Wong Szo
POLICE OFFICER'S Hing Tong, a native of Kun Yiu
ALLEGATION. village, Nam Hoi District, who died at No. 16, Lyndhurst Terrace
Jerusalem, Nov. 5. kong estate worth $70,000. en February 7, 1929, left Hong-
Major Foley, Superintendent of Letters of administration have Police in the Northern District, been gruated to Wong Leung-shi, giving evidence before the Com- the board widow, residing at the Lyndhurst mission of Inquiry this morning, Bravet Col. J. S. Boslock C.B.E.,. the dis-R.A.M.C.,`and that the next meet- Terrace address. A son and three said ho believed that
a re-ing would be held on December percussion of the events in 23 at 4 p.m. instead of on the concubines have renounced their turbances at Haifa, were
other busi Jerusalem,.although the Moslems following day." The lica.
had been excited over the ques-ness was formal. tion of the Walling Wall for nome time previously.
·EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Dec. 10.
.124.02
In reply to a question to Mr. Stoker, counsel for the Arabs,
Haifa as early as August 19.
Answering a question as to whether it was correct that Mr. Miller, a prominent Jewish rest dent, had been arrested for firing from his house and marched hand- cuffed through the streets, witness. replied that it was the customary manner of taking prisoners to the lock-up.
14
TOM GROGAN?
The stevedores of New York: Harbour were openly resentfal and secretly jealous when ther found out that one of the most. successful among them be longed to the female sex. It cast such a reflection upon their powers that a woman should prove herself so cap able in a man's job.
Shanghai's Future. However repugnant the idea to the die-hards nothing is likely to be gained by hiding the fact that radical changes in the future status
"Mr. T. H. U. Aldridge, Vice- of Shanghai will accompany the Now, given the present state gradual relinquishment of extrality President and General Manager of The lead taken by the the Shanghai Power Company, is in Chine. political and economic opinion in Shanghai Municipal Council, there relinquishing his office on December witness said that it was true that WHO WAS..... England it may well be that no fore, to formulate some construc-15, and will at an early date pro three cars filled with armed Jews tive scheme whereby this change ceed to London, via New York, had driven through the streets other courses are open but those may take place with due considera- where he will be associated with the
Replying to Sir F, Boyd Merriman, Mr. Thomas is taking. The question for Chinese aspirations and the American and Foreign Power Com firing upon Arabs of both sexes. tion remaine, however, whether need for the protection of foreign pany. Mr. C. S. Taylor, Deputy counsel for the Jews, Major Foley Interests during the transition Manager of the Shanghai. Power said that there had been extreme these methods of meeting the period, will ha welcomed by Company, will succeed Mr. Aldridge uneasiness among the Moslems at. situation are anything more than Chinese and foreigners alike. In this post. palliatives. Conceivably they may Mr. Justice Foetham, one of the mont eminent of ving carry us through another century
appointed jurists, hus been ay two; before that point the as an expert adviser to the Council, whole modern economic system to examine the whole question from may have come to an end, and have every angle and ultimately to work.
out a scheme which will accomplish Paris taken with it civilisation as we the end in view with safety. The Brussels
Chief Justice, know it. It is this prospect that Bouth
Amsterdam of his way to Shang Berlin makes the examination of Socialis-now
haf, is visiting the great in-
Copenhagen No-one is tic theory. so urgent.
ternational metropolis 181
Vienna frightened of the word "Socialism" judge, and there can be no question
Helsingfors to-day, The day when It meant that he fulfils the requirements of the sharing by those who have not the Counell that their advice should Lisbon...
come from an entirely disinterest Bucharest
Mr. Buenos Aires of the goods of those who have, ined and open-minded source, gone. Every party in the State Justice Feetham has already had Shanghai
considerable experience with issues Yokohama has conceded more and more to of a similar character. He has dely- New York Socialistic idea, so far as this ed with great success into such Geneva menns that the State Is ultimately problems as the delimitation of Milan
boundaries and Indian devolution, Stockholm · responsible for the welfare of all while he is an authority on mat- Oslo its citizens, and cannot leave them ters municipal. The task he has Prague
mercies of the undertaken is not an easy one by to the tender laissez faire school, in which the any means. It is one which can
at the same time appeal and at Athens strong economically win the battle tract merely because of its intric- Rio of life, and the weakest, including actes. That he will handle it worth. Bemboy women and children, go to tholy we have every confidence The Hong Kong
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now considered that the demons- 22% trations by Arabs on the night of 22 11/16 August 24 had started the trouble rlitsh: Wireless. at Halfa-Reuter,
But "Tom Grogan" took no notice of their resentment or of their jealousy. For one thing she could not afford to, with a small daughter and a crippled son dépendent upon her carnings; and for another she was too proud and Inds- pendent a spirit to care what: any man thought or felt. Bo she carried on her husband's. business and refused to join the Knights of Labor
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