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FRIDAY, AUG.
1. 1930.
EMPIRE TARIFFS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1,' 1930.
DAY BY DAY This Thrilling World
NOTHING 19 EVER DONE, AND MUCH 19 PREVENTED, BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT REALISE THAT THEY CANNOT DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE- Bernard Shaw.
EXTRACTS FROM THE
WORLD'S PRESS
“Tageblatt" (Berlin):
Trade policy have always contend- ed that it is a polley which is not desired by the Dominions, who are jealous of their growing in- dustrialism and would under no conditions agree
to unrestricted competition from the Old Coun- try. There would appear to be
to spend several months' leave at some support for this statement in the fact that the General Election
The chauffeur was bringing out home. Then he returned she had The Colony had a clean bill of in Canada has resulted in an over-health yesterday.
the picnic basket, when the first left the tation.
for her in long He sarched party appeared. whelming victory for a party
We met about a hundred during journey, but "it was as though the earth hd swallowed her up.". which is likely to increase protec-
the day.
They came in a lorry decorated Years leer a white-haired man of tive tariffs, it being specifically
with gay flags, and lanterns, and T4. he entered the Tollygunge stated that in such a contingency
displaying slogans such as "Away Homes i spend the evening of his British imports will be badly hit. We have to remember in this con-
from Mother!" "To-day is Father's days, an there met another inmate Day!" "Long live the solidarity of his log-lost sweetheart. So ro- nexion that Canada, formarly the
H.MS. Medway and H.M. sub-men!" and one of them was in a mance turned to the lives of Mr. Dublin, nd Miss Mabel Smith. He producer of little else than raw marines Odin, Osiris, Oswald and flowing robe, another in a clown's John Wliam Brown, a native of
costume, etc.
Two little barrels of beer were proposed again and was accepted, materials and foodstuffs, has in Otus are now due to arrive in recent years become rapidly in- Hongkong from the United King-got out, and glasses. An accordion and thewedding bells sounded at dustrialised, her industries having dom on Monday, the 11th instant appeared, and a curious instrument the Metodist Church, Calcutta.
been built up behind the shelter
Hongkong's
increased
postal
rates came into force to-day."
The Ben Line 9.8.. Benledi. from Singapore, is due here on Sunday.
- broomstick with a small drum- The "At Home" on the Hong and bells attacked-and soon a none too of tariff walls. It is to be assum-kong CC. ground, at which the chorus went up from ed that she would not willingly Somerset Light Infantry band was steady throats. open the gates to outside com to give a concert yesterday after- petition, whether from Britain or noon, had to be postponed on ac- count of inclement weather. It any other country.
will, however, be held on Friday, 8th inst, at 5.30 p.m.
The British Government has, of course, a perfect right to decide' the fiscal policy of the Motherland, just as the Dominions have to adopt what they consider most
THE LITTLE CHURCH. Literary Digest (New York)
ITILY AND FRANCE. Cartin del Resto (Bologna). Ther is only one means of pér-- suasion which is any good with France it is fear. The history of centurs teaches us that France
Dr. George Hendric Houghtons ner taken seriously or treat organised The Little Church Rounded as a equal any but nations or the Corner in 1848. All races have Power of whom she has had sèri been represented before its altar.us rson to be afrald. It was the ce with the Spain of the Mr. B. Viliki, giving his ad-
People have
come there from Hapsirgs and with the German dress as care of Messrs. Leigh and
be married, to Empit of the sixteenth and seven- everywhere to
their children
christen-teenthienturies. Later again with have Orange, reported to the Police
ed. and ut last to go forth Engid and then again with the by letter yesterday that his wife lost a diamond pin on Wednesday from its doors to the grave; Germ Empire after the terrible beneficial to themselves. But no-
3, night whilst travelling from and it has friends in all parts of reawening of 1870. thing would be lost, and the pasi-Salisbury Avenue, to
the Star the world. Sixty-six years ago It st be the case similarly with tion would be made very much Ferry. Following enquiries by Houghton stood, crucifix in hand, Italy:
an infuriated mob
If rance once begins to fear us clearer than it now is, if the op- the Police a pin, similar to the holding back
recovered clamouring for the blood description given was
of the wo all be on the road to a possible portunity provided by the Im from a pawn shop late yesterday. negroes who had sought shelter undeianding. in the contrary during the race riots of 1864. And case bre persuasive developments perial Conference was seized
A Promenade Concert will be there is the memorable date of will necessary. upon to ascertain the exact atti- tude of the Dominions on such a given at the Hongkong Volunteer June 1910,
By someone's blunder, a' funeral Defence Corps Headquarters on scheme as that of Empire Free Friday, August 8, at 9.30 p.m. His cortege drew up to the gate pre- this Excellency the Governor, Honor- cisely at the time a bridal couple would be that it would be possibleary Colonel of the Corps, will dine arrived. Tactfully the young pair
at Volunteer Headquarters that were ushered through a side en-Asiat mystic, but that is a to see how far it is feasible
evening and will attend the con-trance, unaware. come to some closer understand-cert afterwards. Lady Peei will parked at the church's kerb, and humaspirit ought not be classed ing between the Mother Country also attend. Music will be pro- few moments later the body as ofic East or of the West, but
Trade. Ond advantage of
to
EAST AND, WEST. Rindranath Tagore in the "pude Nouveau" (Paris). Th have often called me an
of the hearse calun. Whatever is dear to the
It will have been noticed from and various parts of the Over-vided by the Corps band assisted of O. Henry lay in the mortuary as crersal. It is said that I re-
yesterday's Parliamentary
news
that the agenda for the forthcom- ing Imperial Conference has now been prepared, and it only requires
seas Empire, even if the question by local artistes. The price of of food taxation were ruled out.
In all these matters, the interests of all concerned are best served
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the most cursory of glances to by candour and unhampered dis- show that it is of a most compre-cussion, besides which there is hensive character. Every aspect
the further point that if the Em- Paris of inter-Imperial affairs is to be
Amsterdam covered, a fact which should result pire Free Trade movement in Brussels in discussions of the utmost value shown to be inacceptable to the Berlin
Dominions, it will once and for Copenhagen
Vienna to all parts of the British Common-
all be ruled out of the realm of Helsingfors
Lisbon wealth. Those periodical gather-
Bucharest practical politics. ings, at which statesmen from all
Buenos Aires Shanghai parts of the Empire foregather and
Yokohama The New Taxation. exchange ideas for the good of all,
New York the Government an-Geneva serve to strengthen the ties which
Milan bind the Mother Country and the nounced its intention of introduc- Stockholm great self-governing Dominions to ing a petrol tax and of increasing Oslo
Madrid gether, and experience has shown the tobacco duties we suggested Prague Athens that they are productive of most that the official estimates of the Mad revenues which these taxes would Rio beneficial results all round.
Honkong Between now and the conven- produce were distinctly conserva- Bombay
tive and that the revenue from
Silver (spot) ing of the Conference, we may ex-all new taxes in a full year would Silver (forward) pect to hear a great deal regard-probably be far in excess of the ing the Empire Free Trade move-catimatea. We also pointed out ment. On the economic side of that in January of this year His the agenda, the matters to be dis- Excellency the Governor said. "I cussed will include the effect of consider it would be advisable to successive tariff changes and of make provision for increased re-
current expenditure of about inter-imperial tariff preferences. million." Evidence that our con- It might be assumed from this tention was not by any mears fact that the Empire Free Tradewide of the mark is now forth- policy, urged so insistently by Lord coming by the estimated revenue Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere from the petrol,tax. The 1.G.P. would of necessity figure in the estimates that the petrol tax as affecting motor vehicles only will deliberations, but, from a gtate-
yield $291.618 in a full year, yet ment recently made in the House the Colonial Secretary, during the of Lords, it is clear that the Go Salary Commission debate put the vernment does not intend that yield from the tax at only $276,- this controversial issue shall be 000. There is already a difference debated. Lord Arnold, speaking between the figures, but it is to be remembered that the tax is not for the Government, told ques-
merely one on patrol. It is on all tioners in the Upper Chamber light hydro-carbon olls and there, few weeks ago that it would be will be some revenue from other made clear from the outset that oils, and also revenue from petrol the Government were opposed to used other than for the purpose. any new or increased taxation of of running street motor vehicles, foodstuffs or to any system of On the figures alone, therefore, tariffs in Great Britain. That au- the yield from the tax will be con- siderably greater than the original tomatically rules out the Empire
estimates. It has also been shown Free Trade question, which"would that the Tobacco tax is likely to involve both one and the other. yield nearer $800,000 than the es- Whilst we do not favour the timated, $700,000 and the new scheme propounded by the Press postal rates considerably more considered Barons, which is really nothing than the $300,000
likely, We suggest that in view but Protection under a new name, of the considerable increases in we cannot but regret that an op- revenue the Government should portunity for exploring the general entirely dismiss the suggestion for question is to be denied those at a new assessment and should also tending the Imperial Conference. walve the proposed amusement Indeed, it is difficult to see how, tax, at any rate until such time in any discussion of Imperial Pre- as the exact yield from the new
taxes has been determined. ference, the subject is to be avoid-
ed. There is another reason why
j
it would be well to have the issue It is advertised that the ex- threshed out by the Conference. change banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Opponents of the Empire Free Monday, August 4th.
London, July 31.
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West as materialiat. his ritual: "I am the Resurrection That not true. The West de- chapel and Dr. Houghton began gard he and the Life."
sires know the veritable nature of mar, but that is no reason for calling materialist, for the truth. of mer is situated beyond the mater fact; the exploration of matteis a' triumph for the hu
It was a plot the dead man would have relished.
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
The Yom (Egyptian Wafdist.)
60
THLETTER OF THE LAW.
Mail (Mafeking).
car
Egyptians should not imagine man nd. The pursuit of truth 123.74 that they cannot compete with at all its belongs to the spiritual .34.79 other nations In their own coun- order. .12.08% tries.
.20.375 In Marseilles there are
18.16 Egyptian porters who are an ex-
A Kberley owner-driver was of strength and energy. 193 ample
There is in Geneva an Egyptian summat for parking his 108.25 who was poor on arrival but is now "not win 30ft, of a street lamp."
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he makes a kind He plead that the new ordinance 40.15/32 a rich merchant,
1/64 of Egyptian sweet and sour milk, did not puate a tighted lamp, and 2/0.3/10 besides other Egyptian dishes. that thamp under which he had An unsym- We must not forget the Egyptian left hisr was unlit. .4.80 15/16
25.065 juggler in Paris-Gala Gala, a na pattinagistrate. found him
93.95 Live of Alexandria, who left home guilty.
This alls an incident in Hol-, 18.10 penniless. He now earns £30 or 18.165 £40 a day. He occupies in social land. city fathers ordained" 1644 life a position not inferior to that that eve citizen going out at
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of great politicians.
5.3/32
A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE.
.1/6%
1/314
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Times of India (Bombay).........
night shd carry a lantern. A townsmaras caught breaking the law andas fined. His defence was that carried a lantern, al-
Forty years ago a young soldier though it, for the law said .16.15/18 stationed at Jamalpur sald good-nothing but a "lighted" lantern. -British Wireless.
bye to his sweetheart on departing The law is amended.
"As I look into your bright and shining faces