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TUESDAY, JAN, 20, 1931.
THE REMOVAL OF TRADE BARRIERS.
possibly object. Indeed, British Protectionists have never hesitated
DAY BY DAY
MERE FOOLISHNESS IN MEN LES PONSIBLE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF to declare that Free Trade would GREAT STATES 18 APT TO BE A CURSE be the ideal system, provided all As HEAVY AB THE CRIMES OF countries adopted it. Lord Par-TYRANTS-Froude. moor, in a speech during the week-
end, endorned Buch " Move- At the P.W.D. land sale yester
day, New Kowloon Inland Lot No. ment, urging support for
1444 at Ngautaukok consisting of world policy of free exchango of | 6,400 square feet was sold at the goods, unimpeded by Customs upset price of $612 to Mr. W. Fox. On behalf of Mr. Tsang Iu-ting, of House obstructions.
36 Queen's Road Central.
WE DON'T TAKE THE CHILL OFF.
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.
■T is a rather alarming fact that It is beyond me. How can you the average man, if asked expect clerks to be punctual at what he is living for, is quite un- their offices when they live in houses so cold that the idea of got- able to give a coherent answer. ting out of bed in the morning is Referring back to the Genova
Some men, whose honesty one in heer torture? How can you ex deliberations of 1927, is worth
Miss Jovita Flores, a Filipino mit that they are living for noth- when they have to wrap
bound to respect, win openly ad-pect your children to be "bright recalling that Major Walter Elliott, singer of repute, who has been ing at all, that life is a tale told wretched
bodies In ao much
WOO! one of the British representatives, making a short visit to the Colony, by an idiot, signifying nothing, to that their skins are suffocated? delighted the members of the be endured or even enjoyed, with How can you expect a party to be decinred that Great Britain has
Filipino Club yesterday evening. as much comfort as possible, ja svecesA when the principal one of the lowest tariffs in the with a few of her nongs, at a
It is that word comfort, which is thought of all the guests la how world, and proposed-to abide by it.reception given to her at the Club
really the keystone of the whole near they can possibly get to the He stated that practically ninety-House. Dancing followed.
Philosophical arch which all man fire without using actual physical eight per cent, of the imports into
ner of men build throughout their force? Britain went in duty free, adding Near Swatow, at about 8 o'clock lives. If you except the fanatic
can you expect this that Britain was sometimes criticis-on Saturday night, the sa, Hui- who considers, rightly or wrongly, country to lift itself from its pre- chow ran into a fishing junk, that the soul can only flower to Rent mood of pessimism If the only ed for her isolation, but he rather almost cutting it in two, and perfection in a body that is starv place where anybody can feel comi- doubted whether a decislan on her causing the capsizing of the crafted and tortured, you will And that fortable is in bed?
Five of the crew, who were the desire for comfort is behind a part to conform to Continental
rescued from the water, were great many aspirations that might,
And how
practies in the matter of Larifa brought into Hongkong by the at first sight, seem to be purely Cross-Word
would be received with any general steamer yesterday. enthusiasm. At the time these re- marks were muse, Mr. Baldwin's Party was not quite so insistent on Protection as it has latterly be
come. Indeed, it is certain that if the Conservativen come into power, their policy will be in the opposite direction to that sponsored by the League of Nations, which seeks a Lariffa progressive elimination of rather than uny move towards higher barriers. It may, of course, be idealistic to hope for universal Free Trade, but there would seem ground for hope of something ing done in that direct lasti if the whole of Europe took the first step.
altruistic.
Post-Mortems.
By PHIPPS.
Painters want it, scientists want it, lovers certainly want it. At about 4.16 yesterday mornAnd in England. largely through lag, fire broke out on the ground their own fault, they get so little flour of 47. Austin Rond, Kowloon of it that there is a very small caused through some blinds on the verandah catching fire from light-argin, la the average man's life,
joss-sticks.
between our normal national dia- The flames were extinguished by the Brigade, con- comfort and acute physical pain. NYONE who plays bridge, or, siderable damage being caused to
Which puzzles me very much in- worse still, does not play the floor and its contents, mure by!
bridge within earshot of bridge- water than by fre. No persons leed.
players, will know what I mean by were injured,
Yesterday I visited a prosperous "post-mortems." "Without wish- young portrait painter in hining to cry over spilt milk, Mrs. studio. It was a large, expensive Blottershaw, I think if you had
he
that, ridiculous ‣
A Chinese named Leong Yau studio in a small, expensive dia- pleaded guilty, before Mr. Butters, trict. In spite of its high cast, he taken me out in diamonds"
"Well really, Mrs. Crumbling. I at the Kowloon Magistracy, this could easily pay a year'a rent with morning, to a charge of having a couple of portraits. Yet, when hardly think you're in a position to turaged the property of a woman I visited him, he was unable to criticise after named Chan Shet-ying, at 109, work at all because he was too spade bid....."
Well, I have been observing the Temple Street, and also of having cold, assaulted her. The defendant and
He paced the room, chafing his growth of a similar practice in The difficulties are admittedly im-night, and a squabble arose. The feet. Ilis nose was blue. There shlonable among cross-word ad- weat to see the complainant last fingers together and stamping his the case of another national vice, Post-mortema are now very fa- mense, but, in view of the benefits complainant kicked him and he was a bright fire in the grate and
merrue, it would be kicked her. Mr. Buttera convicted the windows were closed, but that diets. which would
defendat of assault and fined him is not enough to heat a very targo | This new element of retrospec- foolish to regard them as insuper- $20, or three weeks'.
room with a high expanse of aky-tive mud-slinging is likely to prove able.
lights..
an even more ghouliah menace than I asked him why he did not put is, after all, confined mainly to the Bridge Back-chat. The B. B.
And Now Wheat.
At a moment when Lariffs are the subject of almost universal die- cussion, it is timely that Mr.
After silver, wheat. The United Arthur Henderson, in speaking at States, having another kirge com- Geneva before the Committee for modity surplus for which interest- no particular the Eronomie Union of Europe, ed parties can find should urge earnest consideration use, is again looking towards China of proposals for reducing economic for a way out of an economic dilti- polse is to give it away! We are nt the Fennomic Conference held nut joklág. Such a proposition has the advanced by under the auspices of the League been seriously
A
HONGKONG JUNK MISSING.
NO NEWS FOR OVER A FORTNIGHT.
locally registered
junk,
in central heating. He looked at
me as though I had suggested some the period immediately after the game and usually evaporates thing exotic and rather improper. Then he Haid that it was "un-peacefully in whisky-and-soda. healthy," and added that anyway But the Cross-word Cross-talk is he could not afford it.
becoming ubiquitious. You can All over the country, painters xet into a railway compartment are painting with numb fingers, with the odds standing at about 20 to 1 against a duologue about (cold handa, stockbrokers are sit- barriers. It will be recalled that suity. This firme, however, the im. No, T406H, which left for Macan dentists are clasping jawa with Robinson and his trump-trouble, on the 5th instant, with 1ling chilblains, patients in money on the two men in the corn- ancka of cement valued at $2,000, |
with cold feet, housemaids are But, by Heck, I wouldn't risk even has not been seen since.
consulting rooms are catching sents keeping their conversa- Anxious over the safety of the chilla, authors are writing love solution of cross-word puzzle.
tion uncontaminated a strong of Nations in 1927. * resolution Magazine of Wall Street, which is vessel. Lam Lai-chuon. the stories which refuse to flame, mas-
"Herbert, if you'd had any in- was unanimously adopted declaring much alarmed by the tremendous manager of the Chean Wo Ship- tere are teaching shivering pupiis that the time had come to put an hourd of wheat controlled by the ping Company, 32, Queen's Roadall because we will not follow telligence you would have got of the Part of a Prophet.' It couldn't end to the increase in tariffs and to Farm Board, purchased in the open West, who are the charterers, has the example of the reat
world and keep warm.
(Continued on Page 7) mové in the opposite direction. No market in a completely unsuccessful reported the case to the police. attempt to bister up prices. The fewer than twenty-uine Governfinnaelal journal now fears that ments have accepted the principles this huge, stock will simply ise cár. laid down at that Conference, but, ried over till next year and by its as Mr. Henderson has pointed out, mere existence have an extremely the promises to implement the re- depressing influence on the market for new wheat. It therefore makes been solutions by action has not
this suggestion: "Why not give fulfilled. Apart from the obstruc-
It away? Four hundred million tion to the free movement of com-
underfed Chinese would devour it modities which all tariffs imply, without unloosening their belts. there is, as the British Foreign At the sight of a pile of wheat be- Secretary has stressed, a distinct ng distributed by the Nanking danger that if some
is not Government the Communists would Communiata would taken to bring about a change in ernment the
fade away faster than they ever will Europe, a disastrous tariff war may
Blep
be waged in the near future.
before machine-guns. The wheat might be given to our people, but M. Briand's plan for a Customs home relief can better be handled. Union is that there should be by cash and without danger of
we
sur-
free interchange of goods between minking matters worse by upsetting Glv all European nations, all existing the flour and baking trades. barriers being wiped out There ing wheat to starving Chinese will would, of course, be a tariff wall upset nothing-and may set up, an ern of peace and reconstruction in raised by European nations China." If we were of the opinion ngainst those outside the Union, that the Wall Street journal is but it is to be presumed that the taking itself very seriously, several countries within the Union might be tempted to inughter. would have the right to negatinte Apart altogether from the sound- with outsiders us to the nature and ness of the conclusions reached re- extent of the tariffs imposed, duegarding the effects of such a gift Récount being taken of the treat Chinese politics, if it is merely
A question of getting rid of ment necorded by the Governments plus wheat, why not dump it in the of the latter. From the British een? Why bother about sending-| standpoint, it in easy to see that the it to China and meeting the exceed. adoption of such a polley would ingly heavy transportation costs, In addition to entirely upsetting the conflict with present fiscal concep-
American and Canadian wheat tions and ideals.of the country. A trade in China? Just as ferding we know, both the Labour and the it to America's own underfed un- Liberal Parties stand for the main-employed and cutting Into tenance of tho existing Free Trade purchases by relief organisations policy. Yet there would, as far no that is one of the principal fears- we can nee, be no reason why, in would damage the farmer's present addition to joining in the European prospects, so would any other pro- posal, 'except sheer destruction, hit Union, Britain should not agree to farmers directly or indirectly. The maintain her Free Trade attitudo economic world must have worked towards such non-European coun- Itself into a pretty thorough tangle tries as were willing to treat her if this scheme represents the pass in ilke manner, Thus the to which it has come.
whent
OH! THE THRILL, AND EXCITEMENT OF IT, THE DRAMA OF MAN'S
MIND PITTED AGAINST BIG GAME, I KNOW I SHOULD JUST ADORE IT
THERE
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