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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, FEB, 20, 1931.
NAVAL TREATY
HOPES.
So little has been heard latterly of the conversation in which Britain has been engaged with France and Italy with a view to
guarding clausé Was inserted permitting a revision of the figures if "the requirements
of
DAY BY DAY
national security" were "material
ly affected by new construction"
THEY
MEN ARE ALL THE SAME. on the part of any Power not ALWAYS THINK THAT SOMETHING participating in the agreement.THEY ARE GOING TO GET 18 BETTER Part IV, binding on all five THAN WHAT THEY HAVE GOT-Jöhn
Oliver Hobbes. Powers, prohibits unrestricted submarine warfare against com- part merce, this being the only of the Treaty which is complete
shows
Yesterday's health return three cases of typhold, all Chinese.
The offices of the Far East Aviation
CITY THAT LIVES
By
Sir Percival Phillips on "MUGS.”
PORTE
ORT SAID rises out of the furiously struggles to reach their
night like a string of shining pockets. heads inid across the windless sea.
-
within itself, and declared to re- Co. Ltd., wil be located in the Char-It is half-past ten and stickily, hot-ceivable variety of "souvenirs" as
a new
tered Bank Building from March 1.
The Hongkong Jockey Club adver tise that the tifin interval on the last four days will be taken after the Afth race on each day.
Shops crammed with an incoll- Passengers, bored by five days sail them right and loft. Around
Mediterranean calm, of
gaze wide open doors are piled carpets, speculatively at the thickening daring kimonos, gaudy sunshades, fringe of light. Novices eastward crude embroideries. Before each bound for the first time wonder sits a wily Asiatic who rises like Fung Hin (33), living 35, Canton if they are about to explore the an automaton at the approach of of passengers, Rood, Kowloon, was injured yesterday wickedest town in the world. Old successive WAVOB by a fall down the staircase, and was travellers, knowing better and and with monoyed words tries to admitted to hospital with scalp caring loss, dismiss all that and entice them into his net. Mothoda
ask but one question: wounds.
"Do we coal?
£519,485,
Good Yes?
salesmanship are suited to individual
range types. They
of them dis- We are informed by the Eastern
from salutes, all Extension Telegraph Company that Lord!"
interested, all køyed to the note of the estimated traffic receipts of the Com- the Imperial anil International
We creep past anchored fishing self-sacrifice. munications, Ltd., for January, 1931, craft and the dim de Lesseps Nothing could be farther from wore £412,908, compared with receipts statue at the harbour entrance. their minds than a desire to sell for January, 1930, amounting to Nat n algn of life. The son front anything. They are 'artista, con- in deserted; so is the shadowy noisseurs, amateur collectors of Cheung Ini, a coolie at the Talkoo trect abreast of which we move the rare curiosities of Asin. They te a berth opposite the custom recognise a kindred spirit in the sugar factory. was remanded March
the house. Port Said is obviously Lancashire lad who is bound for 5 by Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy this morning. for abed, unconscious, perhaps dend. Mombasa to do a job of marine alleged assault on a fellow coolie, The novices sigh with disappoint- engineering. They have sat up Tsul Lam, yesterday. Taul Lon was ment. Old travellers smile grim half the night to greet him. Their fospital with stabs wounds in the Frenently pandemonium will shut the final appeni, "Only please to the Government Civil and bid them take heart anguished crien die behind him in legs and breast.
min in force without limit of lime." By Part V, the duration of the Treaty is limited to Decem- ber 31st, 1936, but all five Powers bound themselves to meet in con- ference in 1935 for the purpose Treaty for of framing naval limitation, unless a more general agreement renders this step superfluous.
The main
of purpose negotiations which now look like coming to a successful issue is to facilitate an agreement between France and Italy so as to eliminate the necessity for the safeguarding clause contained in Part III. So long sa France and Italy stand autside this section of the Treaty, there would always be some anxiety fell over the power given to Britain, America and Japan to increase tonnage (though only on giving notice with a statement of reasons) should security
construc- menaced by increased tion abroad. The danger, of course, line in the fact that should one of the three Powerk feel compelled to increase cruiser or destroyer tonnage, the others might follow suit, and much of the effectiveness of the Treaty be thereby nullified. There will be widespread hope that Italy will
be
Into the Pact, thus now come to
securing for the London Treaty the united approval of all five Powers.
inducing those two countries berome parties to the full London Naval Treaty that it came as a pleasant surprise yesterday to learn that a complete ngreement had been virtually reached between
An Exchange Problem. Britain and France. It was only on
The impending departure for the previous day that the depar- Hongkong of an independent cur- ture of Mr. Henderson and Mrrency commission has revived the The Alexander for Paris
пла Atabilisation controversy.
to exist a
admitted
Charged before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with slowing away from Kobo UT board the 5.1. Hawachi Maro,
[ter the night.
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look, mister!"
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It comes before our ship la tied
One o'clock. Diminutive boys, La a buoy, Sinall boats, over-incredibly old, assafl. the passen- and gers with juggling and aleight of Japanese, Wuyada Katautia, was te laden with bales, boxes,
Dazed. manded until Saturday, pending his gesticulating figures, swarm about hand..
battered baby repatriation by the next N.Y.K. like files, Lights are being turned chickens are produced from the steamer. The defendant was stated on
Tow ashore,
by row. The folds of tattered gown and made
to have been discovered on board two Marina Hotel, suddenly blazes like to disappear and reappear in an days after the ship had left. Kobe. 11 beacon. Shops spring into artful way. Perambulating shops not be moved on.
Officers that an
to
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A shopkeeper at Wingshing Street, view like soldiers called to atten- halt and will who was charged before Mr. Williams tion. Motor-cara and cabs drawn Arabs hung like Christmas trees. this morning with Bring crackers by ghosts of horses appear from with imitation necklaces, bangles, without permit, said he chose that nowhere and press madly against brooches, chant their horrid song. particular hour (one o'clock this the harbour barricade. Port Said The babel is beyond belief. morning) as the lucky hour for open has mobilised its parasites. The ing his business for the first time in attack on easy money has begun. "Love-ly, love-ly! Good morn the New Year. He was made
ng. Mrs. Langtry, buy these beau- realise that it was an unlucky heur,
A straggling pontoon is strung tu-ful flowers. (Actually, cut for the Magistrate decided to convict between ship's ladder and floating roses and fresh, at one
in the and to impose a fine of eight dallam. pier. Passengers elamber across morning. Good evening, colonel, and fall into a seething mans of look at these ni-i-ce books...Tell A BIG HAUL OF
natives in dirty gowns. Bemusedly your fortune, my lord, I am Abdul- OPIUM.
they struggle towards the bright lah. famous magician...Quily. lights, followed by the pack in gully, gully. Watch little chicken full cry. The narrow High-street go away... Mister Lloyd George, I TAKEN FROM BOAT FROM embraces them with eager arms take money from your ears. Give
MACAO.
Follows then a scene which can me shig to see more tricks... Information received by Revenue only be witnessed here.
Very cheap real jade, your honour attempt to take No other port on the ocean lunes).. You like see some fine young oplum off a Macao boat would be of travel produces anything like dancing girls?...Say, boys, what made last night resulted in ait. No town in the world battons about a lock around the town, only party of officers waiting near the so shamelessly and tirelessly on 108. each? I am honest guido...' Yaumati typhoon shelter.
Inspector Grimmitt told of the community works right around the the credulity of mankind. No: nounced. The enpidity with which main fact that has emerged episode at the Central Magistracy clock at the
Two o'clock. Simon Arzt's de- business of selling partment store is fully function- progress has been made is no
this morning when a man and a next to nothing for as much as ing, tired but alart clerks at their doubt explained by the fact thint school of thought which would woman were charged with the possible. There is no article you counters, a sleepless cashler giving Mr. Craigie, of the Foreign Ofles condemn any attempt to place possession of 122 taela of opium. cannot buy In Port Said in the change in four currencies. Custo-
Hongkong on a gold basis until before Mr. Schofield.
middle of the night as easily as mors are buying tropical suite, has, since the Conference of last China has given the lead in this Inspector Grimmitt said that in Piccadilly in the afternoon. All writing paper, sun, helmets. quin- year, been a frequent visitor to direction. Their arguments, stale summith was pointed out, and re- hours are alike to the parasites. Ine, socks, films, even gramophone Paris and Rome, where he has in most respects, may be briefly fused to stop when ordered to do
They sleep between ships, and records. The chemlat at the next discussed the 'building pro- summarised as a 'fear that trade chase, but the gampan went along their sordid lives are regulated by corner of the street is dispensing prescriptions and wrapping up grammes with French and Italian would pass Hongkong by, eliminat-side a barge in Navy Street and the traffic of the Canal.
parcels of cosinetics. experts. He has obviously clearing the Colony as an entrepot, and two men escaped. The two defen
dants were leaving the sompan Midnight! It might be noon. The coffee-coloured bookseller that this sud state of affairs would ed the way for the Foreign be accentuated by the handicap of when they were caught. The man A motley ship's company straggles in the singularly emaciated shop wore rubber bands round his legs against the tide of frenzied mer-(twenty feet long and four feet Secretary and the First Lord of
and, admitted he knew the opium chants and hawkers, Cockney wide) passes the time of night the Admiralty, and it may be safe fortunately, correspondents studi- was there, but the woman said she clerks, world-wide planters, grand with old customers. He is a land-
was some relation to the man, and) assume that the Cabinet ously avoid any explanation of the Ministers would not have made why and the wherefore of the al-had been engaged only to row the mothers, prim spinsters, anxious mark. Always alert, imperturb mothers shepherding sleepy child-jable, neat, he is ready to discuss ren, uneasy fathers pursued by intelligently the latest best-seller boat. She was discharged.
Inspector Grimmitt said the seized opium was an exceptionally improper photographs, light-heart- or offer you "Lady Chatterley's ed youths (in coffee, cotton, or Lover." Usually he does both, I inrge quantity, but probably there was a lot more on the boat taken sieni), cynical globe-trotters small- ask him when he sleeps. away by the two men who escaped.ng at Inexperience-Port Said A fine of $14,000, or a year's weighs, dockets them all in imprisonment, was ordered.
second, advances to the attack,
to
failure
that there continues
an additional exchange rate.
Un-
had leged handicap. It has always the trip to the Continent there been any probability of the been our view that one complien
of their mission. It is ting exchange factor would be true that at the moment Italy has eliminated rather than otherwise, and the opposite contention takes still ta declare her intentions, us rather by surprise. At present, but it will be as surprising us it two violently fluctuating exchange will he regrettable if she stands factors have to be taken into con- out and preventa the consumma-sideration. There is the prevail- rate between London and ing tion which will round off the
hitherto partial success of the Hongkong or New York and Hong- kong, and the rate ruling between Conference.
which Canton Hongkong and
In order to understand the varies very considerably, some- as Canton position, it should be explained times being as much that the Treaty concluded in $150 to Hongkong $100, to-day's London last year was divided into figure being about Canton $123 five parts, to all but one of which to Hongkong $100. A gold dollar all the five Powers represented subject to small. fuctations be in Hongkong would doubtlean be Britain. the United States, Japan, tween here and London and New France and Italy-agreed. Part York, but the movement could 1, binding on all Ave Powers, never be such as would lead to a provided for a "battleship holi-disturbance of trade in the form of day" during the years 1980-36 repudiation of contracte, con- Part II laid down certain rules and stantly met with as a result of all- ver price fluctuations. The pro definitions relating to the replace-vision of one stable factor, in the ment age of warshipë, methods of way advocated by stabilisationists. scrapping and other matters on would also serve as an encourage- which It was found possible to ment to greator, enterprise by le- agree. It was in respect of Part cal importers in stocking spot car- III that the greatest difficulty go. Such enterprise would un- doubtedly result in consolidation was experienced. This was even of Hongkong's position as a real tually drawn up so as to embody entrepot for China's trade, and #t definite agreement between the possibility of such a result Britain, the United States and might well be employed as a strong' [Japan, setting out, by categorice, argument in favour of stabilisa- the maximum strength of their tion. It is quite certain that the importer to-day, however 01- respective flools on December
thusiastic and energetic, daro not 31st, 1986. Aa, neither Franeo take the risk of buying on "apec." mor Italy could be persuaded to With gold exchange mere or lass assent to this proposal, a safe, fixed the risk would be negligible.
80. The
revenue party gave
I wonder if my teeth are in bad enough
continued story,!!:
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"Not to-night, anyway," he re- plien. "The Union-Castle boat is due now; the Japanese arrives at 4 o'clock, and the Dutch mail is coming in from Suez at 6."
"Aud will passengers come ashore from all of them to buy books?"
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Half-past two. Someone nt a crowded table remarks that coal- ing should be finished by now. General exodus from the cafe. The parasites realise that this la a falling market. Prices come down with a bang. Mournfully, almost, tearfully, the escorting cortege moves, towards the har- bour.
"Oh, Miss Gladys Cooper, see, Buch love-ly fowers...... (By now, not so lovely.)...Half a minute, my lord, take this Ane real malacca cane with you, very cheap....Gülly, gully gully! Last chance to Bee little chicken disappear....Come Inside and I. give you free prosent. ...No need buy, only look at this fine old rug...Please, Mister Ramsay MacDonald!
Aboard once more, weary, be- yond words, Donkey ongines grind. ing out cargo, coal dust avery" where.' The lights ashore go out- one by one.: Ghosta of horses re- turn to their underworld... Walters. sit down and take up the endless, thread of Cairo polities. Hawkars put off their breastplates of neck laces and become Fort Bald gentle men sipping black coffee.
Another liner is, woaving her way through the darkntBUTT AI hour hence, she will Said will do it all
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