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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930...
NOW IS THE TIME
TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY,
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
accuse the Government of doing nothing.
DAY BY DAY.
THE EARNESTNESS OF LIFE IS THE ONLY PASSPORT TO THE SATISFACTION OF LIFE-Theodore Parker,
The P. and O. 3.9. Kalyan, from Shanghai, is due hero at 6.a.m. on
AN ARMY CHAPLAIN
RESIGNS."
RESULT OF INTERCESSORY PRAYERS ORDER.
The Very Idea!
A story of a French peasant" woman of 55 years of age who is supposed to have been living for saveral months with a live snake. inside her is related by a journal TIME TO RE-CONSIDER. | published in Upper Savoy,
was
Obviously, the unemployment pro- blem cannot be solved in a day Account has to be taken of the root causes. Britain's first essen- tial is a large export trade. In the past, her best markets have Friday,
Some time ago the 'woman, con- been." Eastern, demanding bulk It is notified that Mr. H. Stehr
London, Mar. 11.
aulted a doctor, who ordered her quantities at low prices. Since has been authorized to sign for
Mesars. Siemssen & Co., per pro- Mr. Tom Shaw, the Minister to be X-rayed. When the print
for War, answering questions in was examined the doctor the war, the income of the averagę
curation.
House of Commons to-day, astonished to see the form of a the Asiatic, excepting possibly those
Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, stated that only one Army Chap-enake 20 in. long clearly outlined in the Treaty Ports, shows but
D.O.M.S. (Lond) has been appoint-lain had thought it necessary to in the woman's stomach. little increase over the 1914 ed Honorary Ophthalmic Surgeon tender his resignation on account It is thought that the woman of the orders issued by the Army must have swallowed a tiny viper figures. If Eastern produce shows to the Kwong Wah Hospital. an increase in price, this is mainly Yesterday's return of notifiable Council with regard to interces- while drinking water from a due to factors of Western nature diseases shows three cases of small-sory prayers for the Christians in spring in a field and that the rep-
tile is steadily growing. It was to be noted that the gen- and origin having an influence on pox and one each of typhoid and Russia,
cerebro-spinal fever.
tleman concerned was a Chaplain it, such as higher costs of freight, Chinese. insurance, etc. On the other hand,
"Believed to have attempted to the cost of Western manufactures take her life by Lysol poisoning, sent into Eastern countries has Wong Kik-ying, aged 21, of No. 720 also become greatly enhanced. Nathan Road, is now in the Kwong Wah Hospital, where she is re- The result is seen in greatly cur-ceiving treatment tailed. purchases. As an Illustra- tion of the decline in Lancashire trade, it may he pointed out that cotton piecegoods exports before the war were somewhere in the region of 7,300 million square
All
were
on.reserve.
E
The Mayor burried in to the gathering and exclaimed apologe Mr. Shaw was arranging that tically:"I am sorry to have kept this resignation should not be, ac- you waiting, but I have been cepted until the Chaplain in ques- addressing a board meeting."
"I can quite believe that it. tlen had had time to consider the precise interpretation of the re- was!" and a voice from the crowd- cent Instructions.-Reuter:
The new Orders state that off- Serious injuries were received cers and other ranks cannot be by Kwong Bun, aged 17 years, an compulsorily paraded to attend!
which intercessory apprentice fitter, who fell into a services at and he now lies in the Kwong Wahin will be offered, but will be free bunker on the 8.6. Adres, yesterday, prayers for the Christians in Rus- Hospital in a critical condition. to attend voluntary intercessorial
The Hongkong Volunteer Defence
Troops attending parade ser-
services.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. yards annually: to-day, the figure Corps held a practice parade yese vises not held in Garrison Church-
Sole Distributors HONG KONG & 8. CHINA,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
is about 4,000 million. Thus the terday in preparation for the
paraded to servis including in- unproductive machinery is caus- annual inspection by the Generales are not to lie compulsorily Officer Commanding the Troops ing an added burden on that which takes place to-morrow after tercessory prayers.
Parade
which is producing, and inci-bon dentally, the taxation on both has ground. been greatly increased.
As to the causes for the increas ed costs of British manufactures, these include more taxation and WEDNESDAY MARCH 12, 190. an increased desire for luxury,
UNEMPLOYMENT.
3
So far from unemployment in Great Britain decreasing, it is on the upward trend. It is this fact which has made, many people impatient with the Labour
when which,
it Government,
50 much took office, attached
solution of importance to the problem that it assigned one of its Cabinet Ministers solely to the task. The hard facts of economics, however, have been operating
immediate against remedies. Mr. Lloyd George and other critics of the Government may heap blame on the Labour Ad- ministration, but that does not help. It is, in fact, reasonable to suppose that, whatever
Govern
expressing itself in motor-cars, sport, etc. These luxuries, though possibly providing employment, must result in what may be termed an increase in the country's main- tenance costs and are certainly reflected in the costs of its exports. A vicious circle is encountered, and unemployment results.. The solution is not easy to find, but, apart from whatever the Govern- ment may be able to do, it does seem as if much of the ease, com- fort and luxury now being enjoyed will have to be cut out and the people get down to the hard facts of life.
· 1
on the Murray
It is advertised that the thirty- third ordinary annual meeting of shareholders of the China Pro- vident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., will take place in the Com- pany's Board Room, Alexandra Building, on Wednesday, March 19, at 2.30 p.m.
CHINA PROVIDENT COMPANY.
PROFIT OF OVER $70,000
LAST YEAR.
$18:
The annual report of the China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., for the year ended December, 1929, states:
Interest on loans considered to be irrecoverable, amounting to $40,714.68, has been treated as in previous years, so that the nett profit for the year amounts to $70,530.19.
CHANNEL TUNNEL
PROJECT.
COMMITTEE BELIEVED TO APPROVE SCHEME.
PILOT TUNNEL FIRST.
London, Mar. 11. The report of the Committee which has been investigating the question of a tunnel under the English Channel will be issued immediately.
The Committee has considered economic engineering and the
The newspapers understand geological aspects of the matter. that the Committee has approved the project and aees no insuperable difficulty in the way of construc- tion of the tunnel in any of the According to above resnects, commended that a pilot tunnel be these unofficial forecasts, it is re-
Prohibition Songs:
Tosti's Good Rye." "How Can I Beer to Leave
Thée ?".
"Hurrah for the Red Wine and
Brow!"
"O Thou Bright Gleaming Bar!" "There's No Pace Like Rum." "Home Is Where the Quart Is."
The following actual conversa-
schoolboys in Edinburgh.
tion took place between two small
"D'you ken wha Adam was?" "Aye."
"But you dinna ken' wha Eve was?"
"I dae. She was the
wumman.
first
"Ah, but ye dinna ken what she did."
"I dae. She ate the apple." "Aye."
"And if there had been ony rhubarb she'd hae-eaten it tae."
•
Mike--"Did ye ever
apake before a large audience, Pat?"
Pat "Oi did wance." Mike "An' phat did ye say?" Pat-"Not guilty!";
#
Little Emily, ran in the house, crying as though her heart would break.
"What's wrong, dear?" asked her mother.
"My dolly-Billy broke it," she sobbed,
"How did he break it, dear?" "I hit him on the bead with it."
EXCHANGE RATES..
ment had been in power, the in the Colony, the recent prosecu-General Reserve Account has also project to be considered.-British Copenhagen
position would be relatively what it is to-day. We do not say that in defence of Labour: the conclu- sion seems inevitable in view of the prevalent factors. Incidental
30-
London, Mar, il.
.124.26 4.86 6/32
.14.80 .25.115
.12.12%
.92.85
20.40
.18.115
.18.165
.18.17
Vienna
.34.515
Prague
.364%
GERMAN WEDDING IN CANTON.
Helsingfors
.1931%
.39.25
Lisbon
.108.30
Athens
Bucharest
.818
..0.25/32
Buenos Aires Bombay Shanghai
..42.1/16
1/5.27/12
.:1/10%
.2/0.11/32
19.1/16 .18/
-British Wireless.
RASSELAS.
It is proposed to carry forward first driven under the Channel, as this sum to the eredit of 1930 acan experiment, at an estimated
with cost of £5,000,000, together count, which,
It is suggested that the con- $63,040.92 brought forward from 1928, will leave 3 balance of struction of the Channel Tunnel Local Sweepstakes.
proper, which is expected to coat Paris $133,671.11 to the credit of Profit £25,000,000, should not be under- New York Instead of clarifying the and Loss A/c.
taken by the State, but be left to Brussels
Geneva for Loans Specific Reserves
private enterprise.
Amsterdam attitude of the police towards the
When the report is presented to
Milan numerous sweepstakes organised shows a surplus of $30,992.56 by various Clubs and institutions which sum has been transferred Parliament, there will be the poli-Berlin
Reserve to General
Account. tical and military aspects of the Stockholm
Oslo of Wireless. tions have resulted in greater con- been credited with the sum fusion. The Inspector-General $11,950.93 representing dividends appears to have gone back upon unclaimed and now forfeited for his regulations of eighteen months the benefit of the Company.
This account has been debited 3 Reserve for with $5,000.00 as ago, in which the Police quite definitely, were instructed not to Bad and Doubtful Debts. interfere with sweepstakes run Directors.-The Hon. Mr. J. P. ly, we must assume that the Con-under certain conditions.
In Braga has been invited to join MR. F. A. PETERSEN AND MISS Blo
M. INGWERSEN. servatives were equally handicap future. Mr. T. H. King tells the the Board of Directors. In
Canton, Mar. 11. ped by the economics of the public through the Magistrate, cordance with the Articles of As- sociation, Mr. P. M. Hodgson and
A very pretty wedding was cele- Yokohama situation when they were in organisations which run sweep-c. M. Churn retire from the brated at the Church of the Berlin Silver (spot) power, although the Labourites stakes, even if they do comply with Board, but being eligible, offer Mission at Ha Fong Tauen, Canton, Silver (forward)
the so-called regulations issued ip themselves for re-election.
on Saturday afternoon, when Miss the showed no disposition to concede
Accounts have Marianne Ingworsen became Auditors.-The 1928, may still be liable to inter- that point at. the time..
ference by the Police. The in-been audited by Messrs. Linstead wife of Mr. Fritz Andreas Peter-!
and Messrs. Percy sen.
The bride is the only daughter WHO WAS.. Assuming the summaries of dulgence of the Inspector-General & Davis
of Johannes and Metta Christian themselves for re-election. Monday's debate in the House or is, apparently, to be the only hall-Smith, Soth & Fleming who offer
Ingwersen of Hamburg-Langen- mark of pseudo-legality, and the Commons to give a fair impression position created is most unsatis- Hongkong Fire Insurance,
horn, Germany;, whilst the bride- of the discussion, the Opposition factory. To our mind, it over- We are officially informed that groom is the second son of Mr. and do not appear to have made out a steps the limits of what is neces- the General Managers and Consult Mrs. Peter Petersen of Hamburg. The bride only arrived in Canton case against the sary for the exercise of reasonable ing Committee of The Hongkong from Germany a few days previous Government. Indeed, Mr. Thomas control, and some explanation of Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., will re to the ceremony. She looked very seems to have had little difficulty/the change in policy should be commend at the forthcoming Meet-pretty in a lovely gown of white fothcoming. The responsibility ing of Shareholders to be held on silk marocain with train, carrying 28th instant, the payment out of a beautiful bouquet of white roses: in disposing of the criticisms. He taken upon himself by the Inspec- the Profits for the year 1928. of she was not attended by bride- was able to show that unemploytor General is open to criticism dividend of $47 per share absorbing ment is not peculiar to Britain, on several grounds, for while it $376,000 to pass £25,000 to credit but that it is a marked feature at may be granted that the Hon. Mr. of Sterling Reserve and £2,528-2-2 the monent of industrial life in E. D. C. Wolfe's judgment may to credit of Reinsurance Fund; carrying forward $511,112.36 in the United States, in Germany and difficult for him to dispel an im
be relied upon, equally may, it be respect of the year 1929.
in Italy. Convincing, also, were presston. among the Chinese, his statements on the effects of the already created to some extent by THE LATE MR. TAFT. slump in silver and in the value of the recent prosecutions, that raw materials
on. Lancashire, European clubs are favoured. where in the past twelve months There is, of course, no truth in such a suggestion, but truth does close on 150,000 men have been not always prevail. The trouble
dent. Washington, Mar. 11: added to the unemployment list. at headquarters is that the IG.P.
The body of ex-President Taft, Against these facts, he showed and his assistants are prepared to dressed in the robes of the Chief shut their eyes to breaches of the Justice, lay in state for two hours tioned schemes specifically de-law, but are not prepared to .com- beneath the dome of the Capitol.
fer immunity. There would be The coffin lid was open, and no signed to aid employment involv- no complexity but for this atti- fewer than 6,000 people passed ing an outlay of no less than tude, and as far as we can see along in double file-Reuter's £65,000,000. This money is to be there is only one way to avoid it, American Service." used in the development of rail-namely, to cut out the cont, admit
very strong
that the Government has
Banc-
6,000 PEOPLE PASS BEFORE COFFIN
that sweepstakes, are being run, the pinch, as a result of the fall waya, docks, harbours, water and legalise them as long as they in silver, perhaps consideration supplies, electricity and roads.
are organised along well-defined As yet, of course, these projecte lines. The Government at Home could be given to a new source of are not in full operation, but the has recognised the legality of bet-revenue in the form of a five allocation of this huge sum is ting by imposing a tax Since per cent, rake-off on sweepstakes! sufficient answer to those who the local Government is feeling Better that than pretending that
w something is not, that is,
maids.
Mrs. W. O. Kohler acted for the bride's mother and wore a dress of coloured satin rayon.
-The ceremony was conducted en- tirely in German and according to German custom, Superintendent Gramatte of the Berlin Mission whilst performing the ceremony, Mr Kunze, also of the Berlin. Mis- sion, was at the organ.
At the conclusion of the cere- mony; a reception was held at Ha Fong Tauen.Our Own Correspon
BRITAIN'S WORKERS. UNEMPLOYED LIST STILL GROWING.
are
London, Mar. 11. The Ministry of Labour an nounces that, according to the latest return, there proximately 9,941,400 insured per- sons aged from 16 to 64 years in
The total number of unem employment in Great Britain. played is 1,547.200. This is 7,935 more than the week before and 159,868 more than the year before.
British Wireless.
Rasselas is the hero of Dr. Johnson's romance of that name. Along with the other children of the Emperor of Abyssinia, Rasselas spent his childhood in the happy valley of Amhara.
As he grew older. he tired of Its monotonous delights, Nekayah to fare forth with and persuaded his sister him into the great, world. Together they escaped from the happy valley, and with the poet-philosopher Inlac for a guide, they set out to search * for happiness.z
.
They sought it throughout. the whole world, among the young and the old, among the wise men and the unlearned, In the midst of crowds and in a hermit's cell, and every- where they were disappointed. The laughter of youth rang hollow; the philosophers did not! practise" what they taught; the shepherds were not as simple-hearted and kind as poets had painted them; the recluse" in his cell pined for worldly joys,
im
Sadly Rasselas returned to the happy valley. There, the crowning disillusion awaited him, for the peace and delight of the land of his childhood proved, no less than all the rest, to be merely an illusion. of youth.