THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930.
AMERICAN CLAIM TO RELIABILITY TRIAL PRETTY CATHEDRAL CANTON CONSULAR
SEA PARITY.
WINNERS.
MOTOR CYCLE PRIZES NOW ALLOTTED.
TRADE ALMOST EQUALS DINNER ARRANGED.
THAT OF BRITAIN.
RAPID ECONOMIC EXPANSION
. . .
CHIEF CONCERN.
NEW WORLD
WEDDING.
CAPT, D. SKINNER & MISS
M. M. COLTON.
CHANGE.
MR. H.. PHILLIPS. SUCCEEDS \MR, G." S. MOSS.
A VARIED CAREER.
Canton, Feb. 5
of H. B.M. Consul General In Can- ton, vico Mr. G. S. Moss, C. B. E. Mr. Phillips will take over on Fri- day froth Mr. Moss who will leave' for Home on Saturday, by the ss. Karmala from Hongkong,
A pretty wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, the contracting parties being Captain Donald Skinner, The actual winners of the silver eldest son of Mr. J. H. Skinner, of trophies put up for competition in Auckland, New Zealand, and Miss
Mr. Herbert Phillips, C. M. G., last Friday's motor cycle reliabl-Mabel Musgrave Colton, L.R.C.M., lity trial are announced, following only daughter of Mr. Charles A. CO. B. E arrived in Canton a mutual arrangement between the Colton, A.M.I.C.E., and Mrs. Calton, his morning by the s.s. Tai
the post two riders who tied for the first of "Rockliffe," Burns Bay, Lane shantonssume place.
Cove, New South Wales, Austraila. Mr. B. S. Rogers wins the hand-The ceremony was performed by some silver cup presented by the the Rev. R. H. Brougham, M.A. Texas Company 'for competition The bride, who was given away among members of the Motor Cycle by her father, was attired in a Section H.K.V.D.C. only, and Mr. white Chantilly Inca frock, with 5. J. Clarke wins the imposing shoulder posy and trail of orange trophy which constituted the blossom, over pink Chantilly lace premier award in the open section. on white satin. She also wore a The second prize, also a silver Brussels bace veil over a pink Chan cup, goes to Mr. F.8. W. Smith, tilly lace train, with cerodet of the third to Mr. D. Davios and the orange blossom, and carried awa. fourth to Mr. H. G. Williams, bouquet of white roses and white
In addition, Messra. Rodgers, sweet peas, with tulle and stream University-Clarke and Williams each receive fers.
a silver cup as members of the most successful team,
COLOSSUS.
BY CHARLES HODGES.
Authority on International Relations at New York
(Second Article: Copyright, 1930)'. Against a picture of a Great Britain which lives off the world's trade, there is the contrasting position occupied by the United States, which claims naval parity with Britain, a principle which has been accepted.
from Home leave and is very senior Mr. Phillips is arriving from in the Consular Service in China; he is also the first full Consul- General to be in Canton since Sir- James Jamieson left early in 1920, He has enjoyed a long and suc- cassful career in the consular Service in China and is well known in almost all the Consular sta- Miss Gardiner was the brides. tions, having been appointed Inspec- The trophies are to be presented maid, and she, worn a dress of shail tor General of Consular Esta at a dinner, which it is hoped all pink crepe de chine and carried ablishmenta in the Far East dur-
and ing 1925 and 1926, competitors in the trial will at-bouquet of roses, with tulle
streamers. With the bridesmaid Mr. Phillips was born on the 8th tend, to be held at Messrs. Lane, was Mrs. Sanderson, a friend, who July, 1878; he passed the competi
a daté Other nations see the United States as a colossus that Crawford's restaurant on
Competitors and wore a dress of beige georgette and tive examination on the 19th Janu- dominates the New World. It is all in terms of the self-to be decided.
carried a bouquet of sweet peas ary, 1898, others desiring to
and was appointed attend this
with streamere. sufficiency of the American people the varied richness of
Student Interpreter In China on function are asked to send their natural resources, only approached by Russia; the primarily names to the Secretary of the trial
The bride's mother was attired in the lot March of that year. He
was decorated with the domestic food supply, still large enough to permit the surplus as soon as possible.
a gown of mastic georgette, with Medal in 1900, and was promoted to form one-fourth of the world's export trade in wheat; the
Ince coat, and she carried a bouquet to be Second Class Assistant on population, 40 to the square mile instead of Britain's 481, with
of chrysanthemums with tulle and the 6th April, 1002. He was Act- still room to grow; business mainly dependent upon the mosters purchase "in America. This streamers to tone, highly developed domestic market in the world, afforded by makes somewhat less than one- Dr. M. Nicolson was the "besting Vice-Consul at Tientsin dur ing 1903 and 1904; and Acting free trade among 48 States under a single government. third of the vessels in the Ameri-man."
After the ceremony, a reception Chief Clerk and Registrar of the This spectacle of 120,000,000 of people enjoying a stan-ean trades under the day of the
was held at the Roof Garden of the 1905. On the 16th August, 1906, Supreme Court at "Shanghai in dard of living for a continent far above that of even the most United States.
Though 32 other nations par- Hongkong Hotal, and later the he was promoted to be a First advanced Individual nations of the Old World, in short, enters.
tielpate, the British shipping couple left for their honeymoon, the Class Assistant. He was Acting every angle of the naval 'discussion.
amounts to 40 per cent. of the bride's going-away dress being a Vice-Consul at Chungking from navy and mastic crepe de chine foreign tonnage. Here, again; Bri-
December 12th, 1907, to April 12th, Lain most extensively feels the ensemble, with hat to match, and 1909. For a few months he was
large fox fur.
Assistant in the Mixed Court in Shanghai, and then was Assistant In the Chinese Secretary's Office in Feking during 1909, 1910 and 1911. He was Acting Chinese Secretary. during 1910.
THE COMMERCIAL STRUGGLE.
The changing International role In short, American production
•
economic development of the United States.
U. S. Is Veritable Island Continent."
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THE SINO-SOVIET PROBLEM.
China
If the insular situation of Great of the United States has come as has reached the point where Britain has dominated her world
On the 12th May, 1911, he wAB a shock to the rest of the world. foreign trade directly affects pro- policies the future of the United EMERGENCY DISCUSSION promoted to be one of H.M. Vice- Consula in China, and Was ap- The nations no longer find aperity. The exports of the Unit-States will tend more and more
AT NANKING,
pointed to ba Consul for the Con- themselves denlieg with a 19th ed States now represent from 10 to be determined by her own geo-
sular District of Wuchow, to coi century Americi one occupied to 15 per cent, of the nation's graphic position.
Nanking, Feb. 15.
the
14th overwhelmingly with the con-total production. More and more,
The United States, to all In- The Habarovsk Protocol was dis-side at Wuchow, on Industries tenis, is an
"island, continent." cussed at a meeting of the Central March, 1013, but did not proceed. quest of a continent A 20th important American century United States, emerging and foreign fields essential to Facing in the Atlantic and the Political Council: this morning. He was appointed Consul at Shang full-grown from the World War, their own stability and growth.
Pacific, the two great oceans of when the matter was again referred al, let April, 1913. On the 14th looks outward on world oppor- Despite Resources, U. S.
our times, the American people to the Foreign Relations Committee June, he was called to the Bar at the Middie Temple, and was made have a unique naval problem. for examination.. tunities. The pioneer iron trails:
an OBE, on list January, 1918. Their Inter-oceanic of trans-continental railways con-,
He was appointed Acting Consul tinue as beeunle highways of the
at Newchwang April 17th, 1919; new American business abrond,
in charge of the. Consulate, at Foochow from December 17th to April, 1922; received a now commission as one of H.M. Con- suls in China, on March 1st, 1922; and from the 3rd July, 1928, to the 15th December, 1925, he was in charge of the Consulate at Harbin, He was appointed Inspector General of Consular Establish- ments in the Far East, with the on July 1st 1925, and
and war.
...
pence
Not Self-Sufficient."
position An emergency meetings of the Varied though
makes the Panama Canal of pre- Council is being held to-morrow the resources
morning, when the matter will under the American flag are, the mier importance in both There is no comfort in the fact United States is far from being
again be discussed. It is expected Not only does the United States a decision will be renched, where that the "Innd of big business" self-sufficient. It is a contradic- has espoused peaceful overseas tion of the very conditions onfind itself obliged to think strate- upon Mo Teh-huel, who has been expansion.
Ita "painless im-which modern economie life reais.gically in terms of the Atlantic conferring with Government of perialism" has changed the world The most elementary geogra- and the Pacific. Both domestic ficials, will return to Mukden to re- invested phic facts make clear" what "de- and foreign trade lines converge port to Chang Hsuch-lang-Reu- scene. From dollars abroad to automobile exports and pendent America" means. Not upon this Central American cross-fer. the ocean carrying trade, Ameri-only are there many products, ca- ronds,
Nanking, Feb. 5. ca's economic power is the do-sential to industry which the Just as the British predominate It is learned reliably that Mar- minating post-war development. United States Incks-from anti-in the Suez Canal traße, so the shal Chiang Kai-shek will leave nickel United States leads in the use of for Canton on Thursday-Router A bird's-eye view of the inter-mony to manganese and national economic arena reveals among the ferrous alloys vital to Panama. Over 6,000 vessels puss a new commercial struggle under the steel business; asbestos for through this waterway annually,
the American flag United States disastrously in eco "way. Significant in the light of insulation; mien in the electrical these under
rivalry, industry; silk, among the textiles, constituting approximately half nomic organization. Aliove all, Anglo-American naval the United States has replaced: Being a temperate zone nation, the total number.
the ability of the navy to operate German competition. against Bri-the tropical produce now figuring
This volume of trade is vital to in either the Atlantic or the Paci- tain's pre-war market supremacy. 80 largely in modern life must be the efficient economic life of the file would be destroyed. To-day the international com- obtained from neighbours closer American people. Any interrup- merce of the United States ne- to the Equator. From bananas tion in the East-and-West move- tually rivals that of Britain her and coffee to vegetable oils, the self. Each of these industrial Caribbean, Pacific, and Far Eas- power is doing about, one-sixth torn lands play a valuable part of the world's „business."
in industry. Since the pre-war period when all eyes were turned on Germany's commercial challenge, the United States has increased its share of
U. S. Must Keep Open Highways of Trade.
If the United States is "selling
the world's import trade by one-the world," she is also purchas- third; her exports, the more fruiting heavily abroad. ful source of friction among na- Together, the outgoing and the tions, are a quarter greater. Incoming currents. of commerce These shifts in the proportione constitute a vast movement of to make market readjustments re-goods. This oversens
of the world's trade are sufcient,
trade ag
act upon the old world exporters. gregates 100,000,000 tons of cargo a year. Nearly 0,000 vessels,
U. S. Foreign Trade a Luxury, totalling 20,000,000 tons grosa, are employed. The cargo has a
The view that the foreign trade value of nearly eight billion dol- of the United States is a luxury | Inra-the freight bill exceeds 725 is prevalent abroad. To these million dollars. chell-shocked neighboura-Grent The "highways" of this trade- Britain, France, Germany-only merchant shipping-were_borrow- their own foreign trade is aled largely before the European necessity.
conflict by the United States
Even, the more fur-sighted Bri- from her competitors. The out- tish financial circles reflect the break of war jarred the American opinion that American trade in into the realization that foreign foreign fields "is a desirable side-commerce, carrying trade and sep line rather than an urgent neces-power were interwoven Inextri- sity," A 10-billion-dollar stake, cably. The acute needs of the however, would hardly seem to be belligerents in 1914 diverted ton- "in the nature of a by-product of nage overnight from the services America's economic activity," needed by the United States for
Gigantic though the domestle both the export of her manufac market is, American production turns and the import of essential
a capacity for expansion commodities.
'has
which presents a quite contrary From the catablishment of the picture. Whereas American ex-United States Skipping Board in ports formerly were predominant-1016 to the Merchant Marine Act ly raw materials, the proportion of 1928, steady progress has beep of manufactured goods lias risen made in the direction of greater sharply. These constituted but American Independence on the one-twentieth of American ex-high seas. Exclusive of the pro- ports a century ago. They were tected inter-constal services via only one-tenth of the whole at the the Panama Canal, some 1,700 time of the Civil War. But by American flag vessels of 7,000,000 1900, even, they constituted gross tons are engaged in foreign fourth. To-day,. finished, goods trade. "Thoy transport 40 per total over a third of the whole-cent, of the Import cargoes, what with semi-manufactured goods, the United States buys abroad," nearly ane-half.
and 22 por cent. of what foreign-
the
The control of these 6,000 miles ment of shipping would block vast of sea-way stretching from the cargoes of every kind of com-Pacific coast of America, down modity from foodstuffs to raw through
Panama Canal, materials; dislocate prices, and thence through the Caribbean up the Atlantic coast--is the pre- glut the land transportation, ·
In wartime, the Panama Canal, eminent factor in the sen power were it blocked, would affect the of the United States.
“Don't look now, but I think that man two rows back is trying to flirt with me.
personal rank of Comul-General,
Was
in charge of the Consulate General for Nanking (realding at Shang- hal) in 1927. He was mado C.M.G., on 1st January, 1928.
There will be other changes in the British Consulate-General in Canton this month. Mr... G. E. Vice-Consul for some time, is pro- Stockley, who has been Acting ceeding on Home leave by the 8.8. Kamala, and his place is being taken by Mr. Geoffroy. Another Assistant will be arriving towards the end of the month in the person of Mr. Hughes. Our Own Corres- pondent,
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