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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
tion would be that bimetalliam would stop the rot in British In- dustry and save millions of pro- throughout the Empire:
BARGAINS ducers
from ruin,
.
OCTOBER 7, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
IMPOSSIBLE 18 A WORD ONLY TO BE
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By MAJOR OLIV ER STEWART,
were coined and raised to four) ablllingu an ounce. it would asist Home £50,000,000 to the world's | Friday. currency, to the Immense adven- tage of business, though not to the
A gun boons, and for forty water passes It to the surfaces of further enrichment of gold owners,
minutes in young man, atrapped the wings and floats, and those' whose power would be lessened
ne down to a narrow little seat, an surfaces pass it onto the air. The No longer would those in need of
engine stressed almost to bursting of also comes hot from the engine, paint before him, and senlding carrying heat from the bearings rurrency and credit be driven to
Capt. Jael Schol, master of the swater and oil coursing round ra- and moving parts. It flows down beg for it. The British Empire, Thisandari has reported to the polier diators on all sides, moves in a the sides of the fuselage to the tail with all its resources, would, it is the theft from his cabin on bourd the given eircuit at a greater speedfin and also passes its heat through
argued, immensely benefit by such monetary reform, and in course of time other nations would be forced The to follow the example set. aftuntion han, of course, materially
Accidentally trodding on the tail off mongrel painter in Granville Rond, servant in the employ of Mr. Carvalho of No. 35, was bitten by the animal yesterday. There suspicions of rables.
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ship in Harbour yesterday, of 23 ponož
radiating surfaces to the air.
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notes, 250 Dutch guildera and $200 in than any of his competitors.
That is the nim and purpose for Hongkong currency, the total value being $3,271. The money was taken which technicians and mathema- Together engine and seaplane from his trousers pocket some time, ticians, chemists, metallurgists, represent probably the Onest com- between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m.
designers and mechanics have been plete machine that has ever been
Inonthe,
course of a tour
011
a vast during which
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Although Mc, and Mrs. C. II. Day.riving night, and day for weeks, prodnerd. The designers work alterior pacpose. Their amount of changed since Britain's abandon-who renched Hongkong in their light the, and years, Forty minuten, for no
nothing else. They are not ment of the gold standard, but, even neroplane on Monday afternoon, in the labour is brought suddenly to av is to produce a seaplane from New York by bright point of focus; during concerned with weight-entrying or so, the adventes of binælallism way of Europe An Axis, were anti-oral
which the accumulated knowledge
the comfort of passengers ar still continue to urge its benefits. cipating lening Hongkong to and experience of ages suddenly high degree of safety or other
they have decided to lengthen their}" There are, indeed, leading senno-stay, and will probably leave gushes oat in the form of material qualities which are apt to confuse That is the Sebret the lasue and lead to emasculating mists and bankera in Britain and Friday morning at daylight for Amy, achievement.
der Trophy race, the most amazing compromises. The Schneider Following a men) on fish which had product of this age of machinery. Trophy seapinnes, like the studies the United States who think that
wf the boon purchased 24 hours previously, a
of great artists, influence ali ather eventually this solution
Family of Chinese residing at 647. problem will have to be given a
The Schugiler Trophy race is productions, Street Shanghai
were taken tu the fastest race in the world; it is These are the material results. trial, and some are of the opinion
hospital yesterday suffering from policy poisoning, at their condition in stated also the ultimate test and proof But the material results are not Bat Britain's changed
not to be serious. The victime, Ip Yau of man's control over the machine the only ones. In fact the psycho- would make the reform all the (14), spinister, 1p Tin and Ip Pung and of his design and construc-logical results are more important. easier of necomplishment so far (12) twin boys. Ip Cheun (8) girl tional skill. It must not be con-It is one of the greatnesses of the
for record. race that it is flown AA. Intan- We were discharged frat hospital after fused with
speed As the Empire in concerned.
being medically examined.
Speed records are made by special gible prize; a row of figures on the red! ter are aware that there is
aircraft over short three kilometres time-keeper's sheet. Yet that row The following autice was issued at courses; they have their uses; but, of figures is a potent ionic, an Melam of thought diametrally
the Harbour Office this morning"It as the French and Italian with-junequalled mental stimulus, is hereby notified that on and fter drawals have indicated, the Schnei- Has not the whole nation, the Octaber 7, 1931, and until further fler Trophy race is a more severe whole Empire, experienced a quick- notice, twa pod vonleal buoys will be trial herause the seaplanes must cuing of the emotions, a heigh- Jakt in positions approximately 600 be ready by a given time and date, tened tone on every occasion when fent from the Frayn front. One buoy and they must fly 217 miles and Great Britain has won the Trophy. will be on the contre le of Queen turn 21 corners at something well Look back to 1927 after Flight Victoria Street and the other on over 300 miles an hour. centre Ting af Jubilee Street, ap
Hongkong Telegraph.sed to hintalism and
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7-1931.
ANOTHER PLEA FOR BIMETALLISM.
fust bolure Britain's derision
that it implies, but it is well at the present ritical juncture that all avenues to a solation of des world problem should be explored
to the atost
Where Courage Counts,
In the grand sente of h
to hates the and standard, a
blished in London andfesents it is unlikely that the lite
journal
devoted 1 Australian and Newtary works of the late Sir Hall
Caine will be immortal. but hi Zendand fairs suggested that no
life was a gleaming example of further attempt should be made cenlidener and courage. Jim
stop the muttfew of gold from culties were the difficulties of the Kurland, that silver take its place average man of the great masse:2 within then the world. Similar difliculties for settling acebuil
beare discouraging people in every Empire, mul that gold elei
walk of life every day. Yet, be utilised to settle Britain's his
had the confidence in himself and abroad, it foreign ervilitoes want the courage to surmount them. pl ft. Only leanan the means of He was left an' cophan at a very arbitrarily limited early, age, He spent his lice in exchange are
by a worship of the gold staplard, † poverty with relatives. When he and this journal. are goods and died, at the age of 78, he was sabl labour both a drag on the marsat
ance.
C'
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to be one of the wealthiest novelists
the
prroximately. The banys with bel The contest has two different marked during the day by red flags objectives, the material and the and at night by red fights, Vessels spiritual. In material development uge warned not to pass between those it has led to the production of an hany and the sea froni,"
SILVER FUTURES.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
Lieutenant S. N. Webster had hurled the Supermarine-Napier 85
to victory over the cheering crowds
of people on the shares of the Lidn. On the day the NOWA came engine which is the lightest and through everyone walked with emallest perime
mover for its power brisker step and worked with a in existence. From the cubic space greater will. So. again, after the taken by a cigar box holding fiftynte Flight Lieutenant Waghorn medium sized cigars the new had won in the Supermarine Rolls- racing Rolls-Royce contrives to ex-Royce S6 in 1929 there was that trnet one hundred horse-power risker outlook, that exhilaration Or, to put it fechnically, it obtains and increased confidence. more than one horse-power from
The Schneider Trophy race is n Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have every eubic inch of swept volume. been advised by cable of the ful-At this degree of compactness one square meal for the mind; it pro
herole pattern before the world lowing quotations for New York night slin half a dozen horse-powerviles food for thought. It nets a and presents a model of skill and silver future as at the close of the into a cigarette ease.
The lightness of the engine is daring, an example of high adven- market yesterday.
Devember 1931 29.60 down 10. not less surprising. For everyture which stirs the blood and
pound weight it dryclops consider-quickens the pulse. ably more than one horse-power and so it is some four times lighter Than the ordinary acro engine.
Equat in ingenuity to the engine is its enmplement, the Vickers Every pursuit will be degraded to Supermarine seaplane, built to Mr.
May 1932 30.65 down 35. July 1982 20.95 down 40.
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS,
named:
Det.
12
8.3
He knew what he wanted to do, West River at Shiubing 10.4
North River at Sanshui
1:
No doubt the time will come when everyone will condemn aeti vities which are not directed to
some immediate material gain.
strictly utilitarian lovel and Rd, Mitchell's designs. It is, as those who work and who accept it were, a seaplane within a sea- risks for the sake of adventure
hetween plaze, and in the spaer
cool-
But that time is not yet; and so
produced this testimony-that man is still not entirely engrossed with. the sordid aspects of civilisation.
When the outlook is gloomy, the tonic of this extraordinary contest has been of particular value. When the feeling has been pro
nothing valent that life consists
than a
in the world. His htt WELK producers and manufacturers
castle. These achievements inne yoing bankrupt because they are are not extraordinary. Many men unable to sell; and unable to sell Lave gone
he two there circulates the cost will be locked up. from rags to riches.
The following table, issued by the ing water and the oil. Every without work The important point is that biKwangtung River Conservancy Com- because workmen and wages cannot buy. It was party literary works were ridiculed missions, shows in English feet the square fch of surface is devoted
He was openly water levels on the West River, North to radiators, The engine is con- this year there was presented the further argued that Shortage of and laughed at.
that after it has used all it enn nations, with the whole resources ruinous to in derided. It took a great soul to River and East River on the dates verting petrol into hent se rapidly unprecedented event of three great motley, so afterly
Oct. for power development there is of their Governments behind them, + still much lost over. This extra competing for victory in a sporting dustry, it not the sule casts of transcend that. But his confidence did not flinch. Nor his courage.
contest. Great Britain, by being heat would melt the bearings and prevailing poverty and distress.
7cause the whole engine to fuse into the only one of the three entrants 8.1 of and continued, in this faith until North River at Tsingyuen is at least the root enage
7.8 an amorphous mass of metal in a ready to start in the race, won the Sheklung 7.8 3few seconds if it were not imme-major part of that contest before transcending all others in import-he achieved it. He studied archi-East River at
the day of the race, and did not The highest levels recorded are: dintet dissipated. tecture. He tried journalism. Shiuhing. 41 feet; Taingyuen. 20.4
Heat must be thrown overboard falter when it came to setting the What is the remedy to be . Then he became secretary to Dante feet; Sanshul, 27,3 feet; Sheklung
even as the machine rushes along.sen to that victory.
The age of machinery has pro- plivd? According to the journal iabriele Rossetti, the great poet-11.6 feet.
The lowest levels on record are Se the engine cylinder walls pass painter. This association fired him we are quoting, it is metallism.with the determination to carry on minus feet at Samahui and minus the heat to the water circulating duced many ugly things; but it in the jackets round them, the must be conceded that it has also 2.7 feet at Sheklang. As to how this could be put into his fight for recognition. Then.
fst book. Hin effert so far as Britain is co-he arrived." cerned, the suggestion is that all "The Shadow of Crime," was still that is required is to pass a law being widely read when his second. enacting that silver, reckoned at "Son of Hagar," appeared.
was acclaimed, and widely distri the price of four shillings
unbated. 11is novels were adapted should be equally valid for the stage. Royalties poured in discharging all by the thousands. New stories, with: gold for monetary obligations in Great new novels, and new plays follow- Because of the peculiar con- Britain, the Crown Colonies and ed. India. If such an Act were passtruction of his novels, they were ed, the self-governing Dominions, casily dramatized. This continued throughout the rest of his life. we are assured, would pass similarTo-day there are few persons who legislation, To Australia, with
have not heard of Sir Hall Caine its rich silver mines, bimetallism if they have not read him. Whe- would be a great bann, while the ther his works will survive the impetus which the aggression of time is of little con- Cormous system would give lu trade with sequence in this sense. He was a India and Chiba, would, it is sur-great writer, if not an immortal gested, be a powerful incentive to one, and became a great writer through courage. A lean courn- Its adoptina hy nations anxious-19
geous persoR might have with- share in a quindrupled markedrawn into oblivion when he was The measure proposed would rex-ridiculed. Sir Hall Caine might tore silver to two-thirds of what I have tried to make a living out of was, in terms of gold, with..it is architecture. iis fire was a pro- totype. It is a hint of the count- results.pn contended. benefenl
Iss other geniuses who perhaps the Lancashire cotton industry will never be discovered because and growing, markets for British they can not face ridicule. Society Empire bimetal-is sceptical of the man who lacks goods overseas. Hem would, it is pointed out, re-courage. sult in the issuing of a coin with Empire currency, as the bimetallic of the coinage, currency value without any exchange. This, how- aver, fa regarded as not of major importance; the main considlern-transit.
The silk forwarded from Hongkong by the Empress of Japan on the 12th September arrived in Now York (St. John's Park) and Hobpken on the 1st October having been 30 days in
25.
"Shay, offisher, how about getting behind and giving me a push7 Sheem to be shtalled here in middle of shtreet."
more a perennial competition with the tax-gatherer, and there is pre-occupation with the duller and more grossly material things, then the Schneider Trophy race flushes before the world an electric afr mation that man still ampires, and that he still holds somewhere in hla soul the unconditioned desire to achieve.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cuble at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.
London Terminals.
March 1932 6/10% no change. May 1932 6/11 up 40. August 1932 7/1 up d. December 1931 6/8% up d Buyers at aboye prices, sellers asking d-d more.
New York Terminals.
March 1932 1.38 up 4 pts.. May 1932 1.40 up 1 pt. July 1932 1.45′ up 2 pts. September 1982 1.48 up 2 pts.. December 19811.40 up 4 pts.