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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931.
therefore, some ground for think-2 ing that if British manufacturers |
are Anding it harder than of old to compete in world marketa, the cause is not to be found so much in a disproportionato increase in wages as in changes in the relative effielency of production and market- ing in various foreign countries.
DAY BY DAY
THAT CERTAIN MEN HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AS DEPUTIES OF THE PEOPLE, THAT THERE IS A MECE OF PAPER STATING BUCH DEPUTIES TO POSSESS
CERTAIN POWERS, THESE CIRCUMS- TANCES IN THEMSELVES CONSTITUTE ND SECRUITY FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT, -Macaulay.
A further point that is being mude is that it is ridiculous to be thinking in terms of reducing the The P. and O, .. Kalyan from consuming power of the mass of Hongkong, arrived at London on 14th
June at midnight, people in a work which is suffering from over-production and
from
The Ben Line a.. Beneruachan, from
here to-morrow morning.
Fashionable Ships.
UNL
Bu Captain DAVID bernard.
TNLESS A NATION is con-speaking inhabitants of the South tent to play second fiddle It American Republics, she has been
named La Reina del Pacifico. does not do for her to be super. seded in the matter of warships or liners. When the 73,000-ton
*
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Inability to use the productive Hume via Straits and Manila, is dus Cunarder makes her bow to the now-white deck houses' ride above
tu
waves the Blue Riband of the At lantic will doubtless be restored. Moreover, what the "great lady"
La Reina is already famous for ber appearance; tier after tier of the graceful lines of her white form, relieved at the water-line by pleasing shade of emerald green. A huge bonnet of cream in the form from
Cheng Shum, a patient at the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, yesterday on committed sulaide by hanging himself will reserve until her supremacy funnel distinguishes the Queen
In a lavatory on the first floor of the institution.
A Coroner's enquiry with a jury is to be held at the Central Magistracy to-morrow afternoon in connexion with the recent disastrous fire at No. 35, Staunton Street.
Is challenged probably none know until the time arrives.
will
powers that are at its command. As Tires Rear with Spare ele.
M. Albert Thomas remarked the other day. there. in a duty
ratify the Western nations
every other liner on the high acas. Nothing can. approach hor Washington Hour Convention,
One of the companies which have Highness for grace and dignity; which is closely bound up with this
changed liner fashions during the she is the acme of British ship form. She has a sensational rival in the matter of wages. Unless wages are
past two or three years is the tackled on international lines, the
Royal Mall. Ships of "A" class Empress of Britain, the 42,600- were built with squat elliptical ton, 26-knot liner launched by the
Prince of Wales on
the Clyde. pressure. of the world depression
The silk forwarded from Hongkongfunnels of enormous proportions, The Empress is coming into the may force down Continental wages, by the Empress of Japan on the 23rd until Britala is also compelled to May arrived in New York (St. John's which at first glance gave the Im-limelight of the Transatlantic ser lower hers, even though in so doing Park) and Hoboken on the 16th June pression of stability and, power, vice to set up now records, and and withal they were, distinctly should she not reduce the time of having been 23 days in transit. the depression may be made even
artistle and eminently of British passage between the Mother Gour- try and Canada by a day it will The Kowloon Football Club adver-
come as a surprise to the shipping worse. There is strong opposition
tise that booking for the smoking appearance. being shown at Hon to wage re-concert evening must be made on or It is peculiar how experienced fraternity.
seamen become familiar with the The Empress has been built with ductions, and it would be a thou-before Friday morning at the Club- VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED and pities if the present situation, accommodation being limited designs of foreign naval architects! specially strong bows to contest ice Her stem will act us. AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE
were further complicated and ap- Chan Kee, a returned banishee, was However much a British ship may conditions.
great steel bulkhead which will by Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon strange flag, she falls to erase the form a breakwater and make the THE HONGKONG HOTEL gravated by a series of strikes or sentenced to nine months hard labour try to disguise herself under an buffer between her hull and the
would be dis-Magistracy this morning. He WAN lock-onta, which
nativity.vessel doubly safe; an unusuaវ banished in 1980 for a period of ten whether by instinct, or something number of compartments has been GARAGE.
astrous for everybody concerned.
solid introduced into her form of provided to keep the ship afloat In construction, her nationality re-case of accident.
The new lines carries a gallery mains perceptible to the trained eye, even although she be a mile away of British art, famous British art- ists having contributed to a large
PRICE $950,
The longkang Shanghat Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongheng. 25. Queen' Road C, and Stabby Road
MARRIAGE.
LEE-NELSON-At
on
Arabian Romance. The mystery and, romance of the famous Rub al Khali desert, and the remarkable legends narrated
yeara.
Due to his pole breaking while he WAN carrying two big -pots of boiling soup, a hawker of Third Street, West Point, was severely scalded yesterday, und was taken to hospital by his wife.
"hall
mark
of
•
her
tired), to Mr. Lee Shan Chich of by Captain Bertram Thomas on his Kelly, G. H. Koster, O. Stka, Mr. H-trained naval man can, unless the Mid-Ocean Hotel, Port Hamilton,
Morrison Hall, Hongkong.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Another liner which will make her appearance shortly is the pus- senger motor ship Archimota, near-
Other nationals introduce dis- number of paintings and decora- tinctive characters into their ships.tlona.
Another floating hotel fast rising in Eastern market-places regard- Mail has, boon recolved at the The French, Italians, Germans, and ing this desolate region of south-American Consulate Generat, for the Scandinavians can usually be pick on the stocks is the electric linor Shanghai,
ed out on the high seas as casily Mid-Ocean, a fast de-luxe steamer lose colour following persons: Bruce, S. J. June 16, 1931, Lillas, adopted ern Arabia, seem to
Deiro, V. Desborough, P. Dry, J. R. as a much-travelled person can dis-expressly building on the Tyne for Inughter of Mr. R. T. Nelaun, henide the wonderful story related Eagan, A. Edson, T. F. Haskell, S. L. tinguish a foreigner. The average passenger service between the now Chinese Maritime Customs (re
return to London after his epic Stark, E, A. Sweet, H. H. Winburg.
form of a ship ia disguised, not only Bermuda, and New York, for the crossing of this impenetrable";
the define her nationality but also the New York and Bermuda Steamship Saved by two seamen from
from the wild waste.
The British explorer Yaumati ferry launch Man Tack, from class to which the vessel belongs. Company, an off-shoot
Should he be in doubt, a rough Furness Line. a is the first living man known to which she had thrown herself,
would-be suicide, named Chan Tai Tai sketch of her outline, and a re have accomplished the hazardous (32), a married woman living at 24, ference to the silhouette book, journey successfully, and he has Shantung Street, was taken to the which contains the "finger-prints" brought out of the Rub al Khali Government Civil Hospital yesterday of every class of fighting ship afloat, remove any doubt specimens of rare flora and fauna, er case will be referred to the will speedily
which may have been entertained. which serve to bear out an amaz-
The fashion ships of 1931 will ing account of his discoverion. Two applications for extension of
have a much improved appearance; after many years of sombre black allotments of shares were granted by
Then there is the new Bibby liner. THE WAGE PROBLEM.His collection, now reposing in the time in which to file a return
South Kensington Museum, the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) hulls and funnels, the F. and Worcestershire, which sailed early cludes hundreds of specimens of in the Supreme Court this morning. Company are about to adopt a new
India. This motor liner is the mammals, lizards, grasshoppers Mr. II. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. style. The new ships building for in March on her maiden voyage to
G. G. N. Tinson, of Mesars, Johnson, and butterflies, as well as valuable Stokes and Master, applied on behalf the Australian service of the com- fourth of her class built since 1926. geological specimena such as sand, of the Union Water Boat Company pany will, when they make their many improvements have been in- water and fossils. Some of the Limited, and Mr. Hin-Shing Lo, in-appearance later in the yead come troduced in the vessel, including
structed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, of out with sparking white dresses, larger deck spaces and the animals he found were unknown to Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, while their hats, or rather funnels, arrangement of public rooms and natural historical students, but applled on behalf of the Tai Kwong are to be of a pleasing yacht-like cabins. more romantic are his stories of Newspaper and Printing Company chrome-yellow. They will have a
One of the Intest British ship to be due to inadvertence and a seven
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931.
The question of wage reduction
siderable attention in practically all countries of the West, notably in Britain and the United States. In both these countries, however,
is at the moment receiving con-
Secretariat of Chinese Affairs.
of
ing completion at Belfast for the Elder Dempster Line. This vessel will supplement the service to and from West Africa.
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there is a deal of resistance being singing sanda, of a seven mile sali/Limited. Both omissions were stateil most ladylike form of hall, and it fashions is that of enlarging sa
shown to the movement, it being forcefully argued that whilst wage cuts will reduce the cost of produc-
excite
cxisting ship and giving her great lake below sea level, of caravan days extension was granted in each is feared that they may
jealousy amongst their more
of 17,000 speed power; a vessel tracks countless
Cazo. ages old, of
sedately-dressed sisters.
tons-la undergoing this treatment. thousand-feet high steppes, yet
Another fashionable innovation, on the Tyne by having her fore and Jittered with sen-sholl fossils.
and quite a departure in P. and after ends dragged bodily apart, nomenclature, is that their names after her hull has been divided for will commence with the Scottish the introduction of a new section. word "Strath." Thus they will en ter into a new liner class of entirement is completed the vessel will
When this ship-surgical treat- -
distinction.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY
INCIDENT.
VICTIM STARBED WITH KNIFE.
The man concerned,
tion, they will not help, but rather The caravan tracks may be taken the reverse, in expansion in the
as positive proof that the Arab home markets. The benefits ex-legend of abandoned cities in the pected from a policy of lower wages Rub 'al Khali is not without foun-I
leave the Tyne 4,000 tons larger; would accordingly have to be reap-dation, while the singing sanda
Another new palace of floating her outward appearance will have structure, entirely different from undergone a complete change, and ed either in the expert trade, or in phenomenon is of the greatest in-
terest. Similar sanda exist in the A highway robbery, accom- anything in the service of the Pac-she will have developed into a vessel the more successful competition
Gobi Desert and in the Sinal Poa-panied by the stabbing of the vic-fie Steam Navigation Company's of 21,000 tons: It would seem that provided by foreign imports. So insula. Captain Thomas's story of tin, has been reported to the fleet, took up her first sailing in during her 17,000-ton days she far as Britain is concerned, it is his memorable crossing-the great-polico.
April. This vessel is regarded as was only in her infancy, and one will have "grown Ho Yau. being "the ship of the year," and wonders if she not disputed that if she made large est piece of exploration since the states that he was reclining on is called the Queen of the Pacific, up" when she commences her new reductions in wages in the export-war-is expected to be published in piece of vacant ground behind the but in deference to the Spanish-Icase of life. ing trades, and foreign competitors book form shortly, and it will be Police Station at Shamshulpe left their level unchanged, British cagerly awaited. The few details when two men approached, one of trade would gain. But it is being which have been disclosed so far whom seized hold of him and ex pointed out that it is most unlike are sufficient to illustrate the tracted $1.80 from his pocket. As he in his turn seized this man, magnitude of the achievement, ly for this to happen, as most of which Sir Arnold Wilson, the Near struggle, the other footpad drew reluctant to give in without a Britain's competitors have unem East exploration expert, doctares what appeared to be a penknife ployment to face, and they would to rank with the finest exploits of and stabbed Ho You with it, in-
Scott. flicting u flenh be certain to meet any price-cutting Stanley, Shackleton and
wound in his with a similar attack on the ages Captain Thomas has not depended throat. Both men then ran away. The police report states that the aid of aeroplanes: or of their workers in the competing upon the
serious. trades. Such a policy of competi-motor-cars. He crossed the desert wound suffered by Ho Yau is not by camel caravan and made no
tive wage-cutting among the chief attempt to hide his nationality or exporting nations would be dis-religion when entering the lands nstrous, leaving everyone worse of unknown tribes. The strango off 'than at present.
Jurt of Arabia's Bonds haa no firmer devotee.
WATER LEVELS.
The trouble so far as Britain is concerned is that wages are alrendy low in the exporting trades, and whilst there is a stronger case for attempting reductions In the sheltered trados, this would not assist British exports; save dú-
The following table, issued by directly to a small extent, while it
tho Kwangtung River Conservancy would probably damage the home Commission, shows in English feet market. It is realised that if the the water levels on the West River,
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH
AND EAST RIVERS.
PRINCE GEORGE ON · BUSINESS TOUR,
TO VISIT DUCHY OF
CORNWALL
London, June 16. H. R. H. Prince George will travel by aeroplane, seaplane, and motor-car during the third of his end of this month. Industrial tours of England at the
Torquay on June 24th and will He will fly from London to then visit the principal towns of
fall in world prices goes much fur-North River and East River on the Cornwall either by seaplane or car.
dates named:
16 10.
The tour will include a vialt to. June June the Duchy of Cornwall, the Estate 10,6 of the Prince of Walas.-British 8.6 12.0 Wireless.
thor, wage reductions will become inevitable, but it is being contended that there is no evidence to show North River at Taingyen
West River at Shighing 21.0 that wages have been rising frater North River at Samahul 18.0 17.0
East
River at Sheklung 0.0 7.8 in Britain than in the world as a
The highest levels recorded are: whole. Since the war, it is as-Shlubing, 41 foet; Tsingyuen, serted, they have risen much less 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.8 feet; in Britain than in America, Den-Sheklung, 11.6 feet.
The lowest levels on record are mark, Sweden, and several other minus & feat at Samehul, and countries. There would seem, minus 2.7 foot at Shaklung
WEATHER REPORT.
The Royal Observatory reporta that pressure is relatively high over Japan, Depressions arə" situated over N.E. China and to the N.W. of Hanol.
"I don't wish to seem too severe with tard I realize that many of you are forced to park six oF
blocks away
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