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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Keesheer & Shanghai Hotch, Lar
incorporated in Hongkong. IX, Queen's Bend C. and Kubby Hund.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Crest, 114, Peak.
DEATH.
BARR.-At the Government Civil
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 13, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
ling, though so much less In taels. The sterling difference represents the contribution of the importer) to the "drawback fund," which ho could not grudge in the face of
OP ALL THAT WE KNOW, THERE the immense compensation in tae!
18 PRACTICALLY NOTHING THAT HAS equivalents. What would other DEEN THE SUBJECT OF ANY DIRECT wine be a wrecking factor is ap- INVESTIGATION ON OUR PART: EVERY NOTION WE HAVE HAS BEEN ACCEPT- parently adequately met by ED BY US ON THE WORD OF SOME- proposal to limit the export of BODY ELSE-Claparede. aliver to five million ounces n month..
the
The Empress of Canada, arrived at Vancouver on the 20th instant.
son.
STAGNANT SCOTLAND.
The Causes of her Dwindling Population.
N April 26, 1931, there is to iron and steel making, and ship-
10
St.
of Great Britain. It is ten years by depression, with the result since the last censue, but on that that the population has moved to ocension, owing to amining the overseas Dominions, to the Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Cormie re-strike, the census was postponed United States of America, and to turned by the s.s. President Madi- from April to June, and on the some extent also to the south of
day selected many people wore at England, and especially London. the seaside enjoying the waTHA There has been a persistent cry sunny weather.
of Trado Moving Bouth" in Andrews. moreover, was crowded out with rocont daya. Is it true, and it competitors and visitors for the so, to what extent? Open Golf Championship, which It may be said to date frogs was held during the following that disastrous day when an un- wook. It will be no surprise if grateful Government decided to St. Andrews finds its population close down Rosyth · dockyard. considerably reduced when next Had all the dockyards been closed, English as well as Scottish, on year's figures are available.
The Empress of Japan, from Manila, is due here at 1.00 p.m. anchor of to-morrow and will
| Kowloon Docka.
Owing to the death of the Princess Royal, the Canton Branch of the Society of St. George have postponed their annual ball until February 28th,
the
4
the
We confess we see no overpower-: ing objection, no insuperable ob- stacle, to the adoption of the plan for China, drastic as it undoubted. ly is. The trouble is too grave, deep-seated, to permit of measures less vigorous if any offort at all is to be made to combat it. But what of Hongkong? The Colony's! situation is not less critical. The cost of living rises rapidly, the in-
But what about Scotland as a the ground of economy, the blow creasing cost of government adda
whole? According to the latest would have been easier to hear. to the heavy burden and the sav-
estimates of the Registrar-General, But only Rosyth and a small yard ings of the European community, so much because the debtor coun- Scotland's population is dwindling in Wales were closed. The tries do not like paying, but, bo- and has been on the down grada English yards were retained, and at Icant, are fast disappearing cause the colosal disiccation of for years. It is his belief that to this day they give employment Should the dollar remain at its trade which the payment of these during the twelve months of 1929 to many men, whereas Rosyth, the decrease was as much as 0.18 which, because of its magnificent present ludicrously low level, vast sums entails has had such
serious effect on the economic per cent. 9000, and that the strategical situation virtually won poverty will stalk the footsteps of situation. Quite recently, lead total now stands at 4,884,000. the war so far as the Flest was. a large part of the community ing British banking authority Bafere the war we had regarded concerned, has ceased to rank as showed that the United States and the population of Scotland as a dockyard. That decision was (presuming "adjustment" CD11-
France, the two creditor nations, Bye millions in round Agures. momentous, for since then succes
sive Governments have spent tinues to lag so heavily in the are themselves seriously feeling The heavy toll of deaths due to rear) and the Treasury will be the effect of pressure of war debts the war, the steady drain of millions on London and its neigh- the first to admit insolvency. The nations, thus wholeheartedly sup- of unemployment in the south of road bridge at Queensferry.
and reparations upon the debtor emigration, and the lower ratio bourhood, but refused Scotland its ship canal, or the Forth Ite best thought of our currency "ex-porting the recent statement of England as compared with Scot-
Sir Robert Borden in Ottawa that land, have all contributed to re- Add to these things the ofect perts" has not, as far as we are debt repayment is at the root of duce the total of Scotland's popu-duties have had. New factories
which Safeguarding and special · Miss W. E. Dakin and Mr. S. Aaware, carried them beyond the much of the existing commercial lation."
Sleap invite their friends to their ritualistic doctrine that Hongkong stagnation. The trouble Is that
What booming trade means to and by the side of the principal sprang up along the main roads In wedding at the Peak Church on
order to accumulate the nocea Monday, January the 13th. at must follow China. The question sary amount of foreign currency, country as compared with railways near London, but largely 3.30 p.m. and afterwards at Hill naturally arises. What would be the debtors have to atimulate their stagnant industries can best be missed Scotland. By mass pro- the position of Hongkong presum-exports on an uncommercial basis. Taped by, the statistice of the duction of new wares, keen of induces the cry of unemployed is now almost 90,000. of salemanship, the big multiple This process
Ministry of Labour. Glasgow'a ganisation, more modern methode ing the Nanking Finance Minister sweated labour and dumping, thought favourably of the silver with the result that tariffs are or years it has not fallen below traders from the south have Hospital, on Monday, 12th duty proposal? It is obvious at rafaed against the goods in ques the 50,000 mark. London, oight penetrated into the north of
tion. Yet somehow these goods times larger and growing every England and Scotland, and the.... January, 1931, William Robert once that, without considerable must be sold if the creditor is to year, has an unemployed total of trade which they are capturing is Barr, age 28, late of Shanghai, modifications, the plan is not ap-be paid, and so prices fall and only 188,468. In one year only son of John Barr former plicable to Hongkong. We have manifest itself in the debtor coun- rose by 125,000 or 1.82 per cent. country town
general unsettlement begins to population of England and Wales keeping factories busy In the south of England. In the smallest ly of the Hongkong & China
In Scotland the customa organisation | tries, whereupon the creditors get
That estimate of the Registrar English manufacturers and Gas Company, Ltd. Funeral no great
borne out by the traders have their retail stores on Wednesday, passing the adaptable for the primary work- uneasy and become still more in- General is Monument at 5 p.m.
the Labour elinad to take nothing but gold statistics of
Ex and their agencies, Ton years Ings of the scheme. The Governin payment. Thus a vicious cir- changes; for as men move about ago these were very rare; but ment would derive no advantage cle is being established the more the country seeking for work nowadays they are to be found The
from the savings on its sterling they demand gold; and the more the bureaux.
creditors are uneasy, the more their movements are tabulated at everywhore, and always with fino premises and on the best sites. commitments, heavy as they are, they demand gold, the more does if those savings were required to their uneasiness appear to be Crippled Industries.
Scottish Emigrants: Justified. On the point of the na- cover a drawback, while drawback ture of the war debts, it is per- the shadow of
It has been established beyond
During the boom years in. this contributions from importers could tinent to observe that they stand in the last five years the insured tion across the Atlantic was very...
a doubt that in United States the flow of emigrer not be collected in existing con- quite a different category
ordinary commercial debts. The population in the southern half great. It has fallen off now, ditions.
Allied debts were incurred, and of England has steadily increased. Commencing, however, about the the northern half of winter of 1921-22 artisans in their loans were made, not for the while
England has slowly declined,f thousands sought employment in separate advantage of
dwindled appreciably. пигрове The dollar and the tael are an
par of them, but for one great and Scotland's population has the United States. If unemploy
common
At the mout now prevails in America and minded moment the southern half of the flow of emigration has de- generously completely in the doldrums that be proved impracticable to place a amongst
people, the mere monetary aspect England includes almost 50 per creased, yet tens of thousands of any proposal having as its object heavy local duty on silver, what will never be regarded as a thing cent of the total insured popula-people from Scotland have now the improvement of monetary ex- becomes of the "Follow China" apart. It is the special nature of was supported by the coal fn-allen country. During five years Wales, whose population settled and become citizens of an these inter-Government war debta change rates Is certain to dictum in the
event of Nanking which provides justification for dustry, has dwindled rapidly, the it is estimated that emigration to attract the wident
attention, action along such lines? It falls concession and adjustment which population having to move else- Canada and the United States ...... carried with it as many Scota as Hongkong and China. to the ground so completely that it would be wholly impracticable, where to find employment....
to concedo to any other type of Scotland's Industries, and English, though the population of Things have reached such Humpty Dumpty of nursery fame
especially those af coal mining.
(Continued on Page 7.) a pass, indeed, that no suggested would offer a simple task of re- remedy can lightly be disregard-construction by comparison. If ed, no scheme, however drastic that were all, it would be quite and revolutionary in its essentials, enough. When, however, we con- can be dismissed except after the sider the probable effects on Hong- most careful consideration. Any kong's trade of such a situation, proposal that offers a reasonable China trading on an assisted tael prospect of feasibility, warrants a and Hongkong tied helplessly ta eloser examination. This much, silver, the demand gathers urg- at least, we think, can be claimed eney. We have at all times de- for the suggestion advanced clined to admit that stabilisation through our columns inst week offers serious difficulties. The jand amplified yesterday, involving Colony has been drifting to dis-
the imposition by
the
Chinese aster in the wake of a dead-wood Government of a heavy duty on dictum. It is fully in the hands of importations of silver, the collec-the Government to make life much tion of sumcient funds to provide easier for the residents of the for a drawback cover on the metal Colony, and to settle all its own already in the country, and strict financial problems at one and the supervisión over aflver movements, same time. Courage and resource in and out of China. The sim, brief- are the chief requirements. Even ly atated, is to give stability to the the Idea of litroducing the pound tael at a Bgure calculated to be stenling and ahillings and pence of assistance equally to importers into the Colony is not more fantas and exporters. The author, atle than the daily dollar devin- prominent bullion broker, who dotions.
Hongkong Gelegraph.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13, 1931,
THE 'DOLLAR AND THE TAEL.
both in
siren for good and sufficient rea-
We can conceive of no stronger argument in favour of Independent action by the Government.. If. It
for
sons to preserve hin anonymity, The War Debt Question. considera 2/- to bo the minimum When W commented, a fow rate to which the tael should be desirability of a cancellation or days ago, on the question of the allowed, to go. The propounis modification of the war dobts, in therefore call for the imposition of the interests of world trade, we nuch a duty upon allver, varying course to come so soon from an hardly expected advocacy of that from time to time with the forward | American quarter. As will be seen how- quotations of silvor in London, as
by an overnight telegram, over, the Chairman of the Chase will guarantee this end. An National Bank has now come ustration of the working of the ward with the view that it would
bo schomo reveals that while the im
Government to initiate debt porter to-day must pay 17,200 1/3 | reduction at this juncture. In our taols for $1,000 worth of goods recent comments, we showed that of the present burden of and, say, goven and a half portrade depression could be lifted cent. duty, under the assisted taalf this war debt problem ware arrangement he would pay 11,500 Aquarely faced. It is now certain that if the United States were to 2/ taols for the same goods. He bronch the matter, there would be would pay`n greater sum in ster a ready. response in Europe, not
[State business for the United
much
debts.
to
from
ench or
all,
and
of tion.
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