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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1931.
ROAD POLICY.
Whilst there is not the slightest doubt that there is ample scope in
motor ronds, which are almost in- variably the subject of commenda-
tion by visitors to our shores. If, however, we ponder the mutter, we
011
DAY BY DAY
TAXATION AND RELIGION HAVE EVER BEEN THE TWO PRIME MOVES IN HUMAN REVOLUTIONH-Morley.
The P. O. s... Soudan, from Singapore, is die here to-morrow at
8 p..
The P. and O. s... Kidderpore, from Shanghai, fa due here at 4 pm, -to- morrow.
A whist drive is being held in St. John's Cathedral Hall this evening at 845 p..
should probably reach the conclu- sion that a very great deal of the money which has been spent on these ronds might easily have been put, to better advantage. In the days when everything seemed to be booming, we appear to have thought niore of laying down moter roads, many of them being really luxury expenditure, than of spending our
the revenues essentials, This will explain why to-day the Colony lacks a modern priann, adequate hospitals and anything Jike 11 satisfactory asylum. In saying so much, we do not wish it to be inferred that we object to good ronds; far from it-but we do say that in the pro-
The raintall registered at the vision of amenities, first things Batanie Gardens during July tatalied should come first. These provid-11.04 inches. There were only Ave ed, we
should be justified in days on which no fall was recorded.
Six fuses valued at $80, were stolen undertaking luxury projects if
from a transformer at Fock Taung funds permitted.
Street, on Sunday, according to a But if the Colony may have been report made to the police by
Company.
T
THE SOVIET FIVE YEAR PLAN.
Smash It or It Will
-By-
COLLINSON OWEN. Smash Us.
THIS is an article designed to Javerywhere, from China to Alaska. make your flesh ercop. Thoj And what we have seen so far more it creons the better for the are the mercat preliminary akir- future of Britain.
miahes.
"It is a wor that is not bring Sitting at a dinner-table for! The E. and A. Company's .. Tanda, two somewhere in London I dia-waged with bayonets, yet. Ideas with the Australian malls, is due here cussed with a Considerablo Per-are doing it. They are Insane at daylight on Thursday.
sonage the outstanding political ideas. They laugh at all decency The General Electric Co., of China, question of the day, which, in his and honour. They exalt a code of
What the Ltd, advertise that they have re-opinion and in mine, is Russia, morals between nations which not nationality or calling oven a pickpocket would apply to moved their effices to the Chater
of the Personage does not mnt-his friends. They exalt the Road side of Queen's Buildings.
ter. It Is sufficient to
to say that he diplomacy of the ape, the cave a well placed to take what one man. But, we see how powerful may call a a mountain summit view they are. of Bolshevism and its possible effects
on the future of all. "Some people in England," he "This Five-Year Plan, for_In- was saying, "have shown a certain stance. It would be Itussin's affair indignation about a few thouased alone if it were merely designed barrels of dumped butter, a few to
galvanise an inert, semi- unwise in the allocation of its Manager of the China Light & Power thousand tons of dumped wheat, barbaric nation' into one highly Industrialised, proposing to com- "But Indignation is not enough. poto in the world's marketa ne- On the arrival of the .. Toyohino If you are Indignant with a foot cording to the accepted cole-- Maru in part yesterday, a Japanese Pad it merely provides him with a more or less.
"But the whole purpose of the senian, named Shigeru Maeda, was pleasant spice to his villainy. The taken. ashore to hospital suffering only way to make the criminally Five-Year Plan is to wreck the from head injuries stated to have minded respect you is to deal with rest of the world. It is not for resulted from an accident.
them with all the rigour in your Russin, but against us, It can
which 80
surpluses and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ronds which could have waited for better times, that is no reason why we should neglect the proper upkeep of thoroughfares on much money has been laid out. If the proposals of the Home Com- mittee are carried out, the present high standard of road mainten- ance in the Old Country will be lowered, That, in our opinion, would be a most regrettable policy. Yet it appears to be one which is at present being followed here in
the Old Country for cutting down economy.
for
go
Slum Areas.
+
the
A Chinese lad in attempting to cross. the rond in front of a public car was struck down by the mudguard and injured in one leg in Queen's Road yesterday. He was taken to hospital, where his condition la reported na fair.
་
or timber.
power.
611
The Wreckers,
only be thought of becauso n vagt, A Sleeping World. mutton-headed population can be whipped into slavery by these "The world has not yet begun modern Pharaohs, to grasp. the reality of this Bol-
hevik attack on
But
civilisation. It. "Takter,, wheat, timber,
Action Needed.
and
this preliminary dump- is sweeping, grandlose.
RO on. These operations Arc Here and there an individual merely fealers. They are small tronch Scaffolding around a house being has some real conception of what laboratory experiments; constructed at Lockhart Road, sudden. it may mean. But for the most raids, if you like, to teach them how to conduct mass attacks later. ly collapsed yesterday, throwing a part the world is sleeping.
"If it is possible to admire the
"Did you hear of their cou-de number of workmen to the ground, one of whom, Li Sang, a stonebreaker, assasin, if there is any virtue in Cologue experiment? Russia
the was seriously injured and was taken being
perfect confidence ed ean-du-Cologne, even into Ger- Hongkong. As our roads fall into
to hospital,
trickster, then we must admire the many, at prices which rained
fow men who are now som Keem
smaller distillers, and some of the disrepair, the authorities
Leung Sam, a hawker, was fined $4
sing 150 millions of de- left some of the leading firma content with patching them up at
at the Kowloon Magistracy before luded people to assassinnte the badly shaken. Having caused A little cost as possible. So Mr. Fraser this morning for crying rest of the world. We must ad-complete local disruption, Russian hia wares in a prohibited area. It mire them for their colossal In-interest in the eau-de-Cologne many evidences of this line of
was mentioned that the defendant action can be seen in various parts committed the offence in the heart of selence. They are doing it under market evaporated. It was an ex- of the Colony just now. Surely the European quarter and many com- ur noses. We watch them mak-periment.
plaints had been received by the police Five-Year Plans, for instance. ed a market by what we may call all their arrangements--their They had for a time overturn- this H A most short-sighted of this type of offences.
Yet the world remains almost un- a very small swing of the trade Policy, a classic example of false
Shock and the effects of an immer moved.
pendulum. They learned by Eventually, thesalon in the harbour caused tho Here in England I find people So they are learning by similar admission into the Kwong Wah indifferent, oven sympathetic. dumping raide on England. The much needless national expendi- roads will have to be taken pro-spital yesterday of Lun Est-ying People of a type one would never day will come-it we let it when
The money now
(20),
waitress, who yesterday dream could be so blind, so stupid. they will swing the pendulum vie- fore, the report of the Committee perly in hand.
flently, and markets will come which has been dealing with this being spent on them is sheer waste attempted suicide by throwing herself How do you account for that?"
into the harbour at Yaumati Sho
crashing down. Was rescued by a boatwoman who
The Crank Mind. matter leaves us with an impresa many instances. If we have a
"It is the crank mind," I re- sion the danger of pante good thing, let us preserve it. To dragged her out of the water on to
of
plied, "and that nobody can ac- "When they are really ready for remedies in times of depression. let it degenerate is altogether her craft,
indefensible.
Consequent on a complaint by the count for. The crank mind de our destruction tariff walls will That is a danger to which Hong-
proprietor of the Li Hing money-fenta all argument, all reason, all not count. They will throw their kong is at present also exposed.
exchange thon, 220, Queen's Road facts. These people are political goods in at no price at all, if West, police are searching for a man perverts. They smile at you pity necessary. They will invade mar- Whatever else* must by the
simployed as a shroff at the shop, who ingly if you mention the Russlankets, not to capture then, but to board, there can be no justification
is missing from his post after being record of massacre. But they destroy them. Money, as we think impairing efficiency.
Hongkong is not the only place banded $1,000 in notes of the Central would shriek with anger and dis-of it, means nothing to them n We
Bank of Kwangtung to change into may if a London policeman put his such operatione. They are out to fear, however, that both at Home where, in building activity, such
local currency. Enquiries showed boot behind them, just because he smash. Their people аге being human considerations as the pro- that he carried out the first part of felt like it. That would be a starved and dragooned to destroy and here in Hongkong this is just vision of open spaces and playing his instructions inasmuch as that he gross what may easily happen. Locally, heida is overlooked, by
tyranny." Govern- had changed the money at the Yau
"That is
ія но No. 7, Bonham
And you find these The world will only save itself the Retrenchment Committee has meat (principally) and speculator, but then failed to return to the Li political perverts in all countries. if we think as boldly in defence long since presented its report. alike. Herr Rosennauer, a dis- ing with It.
But the people I am most con as they are thinking in attack. but, for reasons which we cannot tinguished architect, who has
cerned about now are the great All this, by the way, has little to mass of ordinary, normal people,, do with the world trade depres fathom, its recommendations have built thousands of workmen's flats
who have not yet awakened to sion. It is
though a trader not been made public; they are in Vienna, has recently inspected sential, and with, better means of what the future holds for them whose business is bad, anyhow, transportation being developed in if we don't beatir ourselves. They has to operate in a bandit-infested known only to the Government, many of the crowded slum areas which seemingly prefers to keep in England and Scotland. Na- every town and district in the world, have no conception of the magni- country. This will be the banditry this should not be very dimeult.tude of the danger that menaces of 160 million people organised We have little patience with the proposals to itself. Not so inturally, he believes with the pre-
anthem. It is time somebody tried
clac. for
nothing over all this is mére- sent government that
to awaken them. the case of the Committee which should be spared to clear them authority which permits an
"This thing must be thought of ly a waste of nervous force. Ac- has been investigating the possi-away. As to the future residence like the Praya East Reclamation to in terms even bigger than those tion, combined action, is needed. be built over solidly for the sake of the Great War. This le The nations will have to combine bilities of economy in the Old of the people living in these Country. Thus we have a situa- slums, the advice he offers to that of a difference of a few thousand world war, and in varying de- to prevent themselves from being
green It is going on all the time, tion which makes it possible for the population should not be dollars. the Hongkong newspapers to give transplanted to new houses in the suburbs, but should be accom- the Home Committee's recommen-madated in special 12-to-20 storey- dations in detall, but to be unableed blocks of flats in the heart of to give even an inkling of what the city. He suggests that town local investigators have planners should not take the At Home, it is recognised town into the country, but should that the public has a right to bring the country into the town. When the pressure of population know these things; here in
in a given aren becomes too great Hongkong, we are merely told just obviously there are two methods as much as the Government thinks of relief. It may expand outward, it is good for us to know,
or it may expand upward. But There is one item is the Home population may be of two kinds- Committee's report which Is a day-time population working in deserving of notice because the offices, and a night-time populi- point dealt with has some local tion sleeping at home. The pro-
blems for the two are
not the application. We refer to the sug same. For the former it may bc, gested saving of nearly eight mil- and often is, of first-rate Import- lions sterling by the postponementance that it should be close to thu and alowing down of road gront banking, shipping and com schemes, and the lowering of the mercial centres. Sometimes na- impone further present high standard of main-tural features tenance. This is one of the pro. limitations, New York, for instance, posals which; we imagine, will being on an island, and Vienna sa Herr Rosenauer says, having "a arouse considerable opposition, kind of bolt round the city which especially on the part of motorists preventa building outward."! who contribute so much to the Generally speaking, however, the nation's Internal revenue. Leaving needs of a residential population aside the Home Issue, however, it are quite different from those of
the urged.
no effort
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. would be interesting to know what the same people in their working
Piece Goods Dept.
our own Retrenchment Committee hours. Fresh sweet air, as far as possible, is desirable. Lélsure has advocated in the matter of moments should be provided for. road construction and maisten-Easy access to open, spaces, parke ance. This Colony can cortainly and playing grounds and 80 00, pride itself on ita, magnificent should be regarded
url:
overwhelmed by the most subity crons uttack on civilisation in dangerous the world's history.
"It is useless for the lenders of the Churches to address maši meetings at the Albert Hall be- сливо the Soviets wipe out re- ligion, or wipe out Christians. You might as well reproach Al Capone for having a guy bu off. To them an indignant
is not oven a figure of contempt.- He is nothing. We are dealing with people who are drunk with
who cruel idea, are ruthless, who have the mentality of the
crook. A crook State. And wo dan! send finished diplomats to
with them. The British dor at Moscow dines out and finds his
stolen plate gracing the table.. Could anything surpass that? And this in a country which has re- contly stolen the Lena goldfields, a British enterprise worth £18- 000,000.
"When
Prohibition.
the
British Foreign: Secretary had a scoret conclave- with a Boviet envoy in an old- fashioned Sussex hotel he ought to have felt that he had been in contact with
Uncle
ently that didnlution. Appar
ocour to U Arthur Henderson pe
"Invite nam "Politics,"
will do anything.
said
· DEN LAURA But, one can: be'
and yet not seek pany of crooks 1
whelmed.: Twelve
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