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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931.
CHINA'S CURRENCY
REFORM.
MARCH 17, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
far remoto from the centros of Western contact, livos largely to himself. His dally needs aro easily met and so far as he has anything to do with currency he has not felt the repercussions of the silver slump which are more evident in the great outside world, To a lesser extent of course, the STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE WILL
IT 18
OF THE A COMMON PLEA FAINTHEARTED THAT SUCCESS DE ON LUCK. I AM FENDE NO BELIEVER IN LUCK, AND THE MAN Wsto 18 CONTENT TO WAIT FOR A
Treves.
MAINLY
Careers Ended at 35.
By Commander H. M. DANIEL, D.S.O., R.N.
same holds true of the poorer PROBABLY WAIT UNTIL HE HAS AURELY thore can be no other] sion takes place the rising genera
OF PARALYSIS-Sir F profession which regularly tion will have careers as easy as claseos in the big cities, people STROKE
auftera auch heavy casualties in the present generation of admirals, who live largely on local produco
its ranks as the executive officers now at the top of the troo.. which has not advanced in price
of the Royal Navy. on anything like the same scale as in the case of goods reported from abroad,
The Ben Line n.. Beneleuch, from Home via Straits and Manila, te duc here about the 24th instant.
The 180 lieutenant-commanders The float was rapidly expanding under the sentence of retirement when their turn came to jump the under the latest
"ax"
now awing fateful hurdles of promotion to ad- commander or captain. While they St. Stephen's College advertise that ing over the
with usual heavy were leaping theco fences But if, by a more counting of their annual sports will take place dition to Nays List are
on Saturday, March 21, at 2 pm, at wastage. Every six months a comparative case, about double heads, the conclusion is reached Stanley,
fresh page of the "Navy List" the number of cadets ware being that the silver slump has not badly
It is thesa The ordinary yearly meeting of the comes under review for the half- recruited to meet the needs of an
yearly promotions. The majority expanding fleet. hit China's millions, very much Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co
plach from the contraction of the the opposite is the case when we Lid, is advertised to take place at the of the names are doomed to dia- officers who are now feeling the
Company's office, on Monday, March appointment.
At the present rate, on each of fleet, at a time when it is harder- come to consider the business man, 80, at noon.
these occasions 20 lieutenant than ever before to find an open- the Government itself, and the
The forthcoming wedding is an-toirmanders are promoted to com- ing in civil life. Krowing number of Chinese who nunced of Mr. John Edward Ward, mander and no removed from the But 90 fresh names are adopting Western standards No. 6, Morrison Gap Road, Hongkong, roster of candidates awaiting ad-
to Miss Dolly Luiza Maher, of the vancement.
are added to take their place from of living. Commerce in China has same addresa,
the junior ranks. been made to suffer to an untold
been
***
On account of St. Patrick's Bail to- night and the Yorkshire Society's dinner dance on Friday, there will he
Бо no dinner dance at Hotel on those nights.
The
or two
of admiral.
*
Women Can't Grow
.
Up Now.
By EVELYN ‘IRONS.
•
LL this talk of modern "Boj
Ahistication is, nonsense; it
is almost impossible nowadays for
a woman to grow up,
a
A
A
our
tho
Thus for some time to come 77 extent as a consequence of the silver crisis, whilst nobody needs
Hongkong per cent, of officers are doomed to see their naval career ended at to be told that business Inter-
about 35, with several dreary course with the West has
Shanghai Yeure ahead to drag themselves Hongkong and rendered practically Impossible. Hotels, Ltd., advertise that the Direc-out before qualifying for maximu
Out of the surviving 23 These facts stress the urgency tors of the Company have decided to pension.
effer the chares of the now issue to per cent. of the lieutenant-com- of currency reform, with the one shareholders who are registered as manders who reach commander rank, one-half may be promoted end in view that stability may be such on March 31, 1931.
to captain, realised. The argument holds
Thus contrary to general, The condition of a woman would-be just as good for Hongkong as it suicide, named Yeung Wing-sze, la sumption promotion in the Navy
Paris dressmakers, who act as does for China. Trade and com-described as serious in a police report is not automatic until the rank of to-day which states that the woman post captain has been attained.
kind of baromator of the merco cannot thrive or expand
has been admitted into the Govern-Once the minimum sea time in that feminine mood, are showing Peter while the exchange situation is ment Civil Hospital suffering from the rank has been served there is Pan collars, absurd little dolla subject to Buch variations as wo effects of drinking Lysol disinfectant nothing to stop promotion to rank jackets, and straw hats like the helmets of French toy police- have encountered within the past
A destitute from Singapore, Loo
But how many of each term of man.
Skirts eighteen months. The worst fea Cheung-kwong (31), discovered yestor-
are longer, but are destined childishness is indomitable. tare of the situation is that the day standing underneath the Sham-young hopefuls first donning naval,
shuipo Ferry Wharf, was prevented uniforms as cadets
Time was when the average currency both of China and Hong- from throwing himself into the water. to command a ship, leave alone fly
woman of thirty was a responsible of her over- based kong is
The proportion varies from matron in charge on a commodity He was taken to the Government their flag?
Civil Hospital suffering from lack of
time to time, and since it mainly furnished house, several children which makes it possible for specu- nourishment.
depends
on the building pro- and comprehensive staff. It a little difficult Whilst China is looking to thelators and exchange manipulators
Haring three previous convictions gramme, only a prophet can fore- would have been a
nhead in these circumstances to acquire day when she will be able to adopt to play havoc with the monetary are. Yu Nam was sentenced sec conditions 20 years a gold standard, the fact is besituation. We wish China well to two months' imprisonment, by air. The fashion of mammoth battle- the infantile Insouciance that is Hamilton, at Kowloon this morning ships, commanded by one captain, the fashion in 1931. The mistress "executive of the house was tremendously coming more evident every day in her efforts to move towards
for the theft of a sack, a wollen administered by one
multitude dignified and adult personage, that the transfer from silver will gold standard, note with satisfac-jacket at a pair of trousers, the officer," but served by a
rituals of is property of Fung Ho and San Pul, not be effected in the immediate tion the intimation that she
from the ground floor of a koze in of younger officers intensifies the learned in the complex"
Inspecting Secing. Cook, competition to commander rank.
Out of a term of 70 cadets who Linen, and Party Calling. future. Apart from the cost of prepared to work hand in hand Tung Choi Street,
have reached the critical stage of Nowadays we play at house in the change-over, much prepare with other nations in any sound
Two scanem Kwok Kum-ming and eligibility for captain's rank, 7
couple of rooms and a toy tory work has to be accomplished scheme for rehabilitating silver, before the step is taken. It is and welcome the evidence that In Chau Ma-you, were each fined $100, were killed in the Great War, and kitchen, know too well how many months imprisonment, for ta were killed or invalided, died, buttons are missing from the new Soventeen reached pillow-cases, and are considered satisfactory to note, in this con- this all-important matter of ear-possession of ten gallons of Chinese or
wine in which the duty had not been commander'a rank, of whom
or resigned.
rather fussy if we even answer n nexion, that the Nanking Govern- rency reform her lenders are not paid at the Green Island Cemont Com- have been promoted to artuin party invitation. No wonder we ment is obviously alive to the ikely to be tempted into my work at Hunghom, by Mr.Twenty-six are on the retired list. taka to darts and shove ha'penny conditions it in our childish leisure. Not for dangers of precipitate action. advised action, but are seeking to Revenue Officer Humphreys prosecut-
needle-work, or Apparently as consequence of pay heed to first things first.
his flag as An admiral, the re- croquet. It seems odd that modern the advice tendered by Sir Arthur
Local estate to the value of $21,800)
people who have falled to produce was left by Ho Chiu-yu, a trader, late mainder retiring with flag rank.
What other profession is there their nurseryful children Salter, head of the League of Nations Mission now in Ching,
of ipoh, Federated Malay States, and formerly of No. 12, Wal Fuk Sai Lo, where only one in 70, judging by should themselves make a sub- the first step to be taken will
The scheme...for changing the of Yau Yee Hong, Canton, who died civilian standards, attains suc- conscious attempt to fill the gap be the establishing of effective composition of the Council of the intestate at the Ipoh District Hospital cess? Here about three-quarters in the generations. We chatter
of June 9, 1930. Letters of ad-in fact the average have to "baby" language.
Some of the more "sophisticat- unity in the provincial monet- League of Nations, advanced by ministration have been granted to the abandon their highly specialised
this Portugal in a Note addressed to all widow, Ho Chow-shi, who is tem-vocation between 35 and 40, with ed" shops are filled with Ettle. ary standards, and when
been carried suf- members of the League, breaks rarily residing at No. 45, Jervois a pension of about £300, to seek china dogu, doll-mascots, weird
Street. Hongkong.
a new one without the opportunity glass animais, queer wooden toys process has
special training! any
of which we say "How too ficiently far, the gold standard down on the point of vital concern
to the requleitlonist. It la
At the Kowloon Magistracy this The marvel is how many of chanting" or "How sweet" before will be adopted.
tugal's complaint that certain coun-morning, Mr. Hamilton delivered them, when given an opportunity, buying them.
At an art exhibition you will There is wisdom in the decision trics, like herself and Hungary, will judgment, convicting Tae Kan, Chau succeed in applying their naval
Wai and Chan Kwan, against whom
to useful account find us raving before the Intest to tackle the problem of provincial never get a seat upon the Council. evidence had been taken last week in experience
ashore. before embarking on They do not belong to any. group of connexion with twelve charges of
Promotion prospects for future masterpiece of someone who paints the larger scheme. Indeed, Buch Powers who combine to elect one larceny and receiving. The first two generations can only be judged by with the artlessness of a chlid
of their number to the three places four charger and sentenced in the probability of still further scribbling on the nursery wall.
I suppose there are reasonя. a step is an absolutely essential that fall vacant each year, and are months intprisonment in all, and the reductions in British naval arma "Girls" (we never think of our preliminary. At
The third defendant, who had originally ments in the light of France and salves as "women") of my genera- the present squeezed out consistently.
disarma- tion have stayed at school, where moment, the monetary system of seventeen members of the League pleaded guilty, was also sentenced to Italy's aloofness
mont treaties. If a naval expan they were taught to be "children" the country is in such a muddled in Latin America for instance, to and confused state that the notes all intents are assured of three Spain have and colas of one province hear no seats. Poland. and constant relation to those of an- practically permanent seats, and other. A unified currency, under the other "spares" go to a country the direct control of the Central of Asin, one of the Nordic States, and a member of the British Com- Government, is the first necessity.monwealth of Nations. Portugal, Happily, with the Nanking av indeed, is not far wrong in saying thorities now more firmly in the that she has no chance whatsoever Buddle than they have over been of making her weight felt through before, the task should not prase be extended to her, for the Council the Council. Some sympathy will insuperable. Once I la accom-
is undoubtedly the most powerful
currency
Portugal and League Council.
For-
plished, the path will be made League organ, being entrusted with
and the
In
clear for the change-over to gold the carrying out of the broad lines and the consequent Introduction of policy and progress Inid down by of an element of stability which the Assembly. All the actual ia.now so sadly lacking. Mr. T. V. detail work is done by the Council Soong, in his annual report on and in the case of an International dispute, it is the Counell which is the finances of the country, is invested with the authority enabl able to show that whilst the slumping speedy action. Dimculty, how- in silver has been disastrous from ever, lies in the fact that, try as the standpoint of business men the League may to make the elec consumers of foreign tions free and open in theory, it is gooda, the consequences have not almost impossible to achieve been so serious for the bulk of practice. Wires are pulled behind the scenes to a remarkable extent the population. This is because and it would be far from certain the purchasing power of silver that the new seat which Portugal for domestic purposes has not suggests should be created would greatly depreciated. In saying fall either. to herself or to Hungary. so much, Mr. Soong evidently has She is not powerful enough to in mind the masses of the people create a vested interest, or the who live in the interior, as dis-reason for her complaint would not now exist. It will nevertheless, tinct from the millions who reside be interesting, to see what response in the great cities. The ordinary the Portuguese note uvoles. peasant or small farmer, living
Hamilton, at Kewloon this morning-Under prevalguess that one us such worthy occupations
ed.
defendants
twelve months.
each convicted on
seems a reason
of the 6 captains will finally fly letter-writing.
of
guess we can hardly blame
from
of
on-
as long when until they were
cighteen
they have pro- bably proceeded to a university. There their development has been still further retarded. After that it hng
taken three or four years to accustom oneself to the ordinary habits of adult life, such as managing a cheque book and living alone. And so on, up to our present almost-middle-aged precocity. And, how long, how long with "rejuvenation" to spin out this fiction of childishness.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST. CABLED QUOTATIONS.
our
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday_has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.
London Terminals. March 1982 0/10 up d May 1031 5/111⁄2 no change, August 1981 6/8 up 14d.. December 1031 6/63⁄41⁄2 up 3⁄41⁄21⁄2d.' New York Terminala March 1982 1.54 down 1 pt.. May 1931 1.28 down 1. pt. July 1981 181 down 1. p. September 1931 1.39 to change. December 1931: 1.47 up 1 pt Samarang (16/8/81)--Regard- ing the plan for the restriction of exports now before the Voldsraad (People's Council); decision. expected: in a few days. case, Government
to carry