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for Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET,
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comon of it." Such an attitude is WOTHE than dangerous. It is Auleidni. Nover more was it necessary to fight, inch by inch. every step of the way towards a
THE HUMAN HEART 19 OFTEN THE broad scheme of taris.
VICTIM OF THE SENSATION OF THE Mr. Ituneiman's arguments MOMENT; SUCCESS INTOXICATES IT justifying his Anti-Dumping Bill TO PRESUMPTION, AND DISAPPOINT- MENT DEJECTS AND TERRIFIES IT.-- net devastating boomerangs,
Volney. Abnormal importations are threatening the pound sterling! The flood of foreign goods com- menced immediately emerged
that
แ
National-Conservativn Government was certain, In the first ten days of November, dump- inst h intensified to alarmlug The proportions.
demand for foreign currencies to pay for these goods offers a direct threat to the present level of the pound sterling, Something must be done to stop it. 131" WHEELBASE $2610
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to be told the causes of these The situation VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | developments.
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The
Hongkong Eclegraph.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1931,
FREE TRADE OR MADNESS?
exchanges, fogically, has provided a perfectly satisfactory solution for the economically-minded.
is unly the politico-partisan who 'still perceives a problem. Under Free exchange aystem, sach as is now operating in Britain, the trude equilibrium must automali eally adjust itself. If there is an excess of imports, in other words, if there is a greater demand by British traders for foreign cur- rency than there fais demand by foreigners for sterling. sterling losee in value. The loss in value
the decrease in
A Chinese case of typhoid and
The interport Cricket Dinner will take place at the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden at 7.45 p.m. this evening.
Mr. J. Russell will speak on "Powers Latent in Man" at the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, at his 17. Queen's Road Central, lat, Floor, to-lay at 6 p.m.
Owing to indisposition, Dr. J Morrison was not able to read his paper before The National Medical Branch, yesterday evening. Asaneintion, of China, Hongkong
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herved a number of sentences,
m
The Immaculate Mr.
Maxton.
By ALAN BELL.
WAR
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When Mr. Maxton says he would
SHOULD it be inquired what; mate. What bad Parliament done Mr. Maxton is doing in this to be vexed by such a presence? Chinese case of diphtheria were repolitical Black Museum, why he Members kept an eye on this new
comes holding the skirts of The Wat Tyler most vigilantly. ported to the M.0.II. yesterday,
Men (and n Woman) Who Mig
The first speech was gloomy and Ruled Us," the answer is that to' share pawer it is not essential to hostile, but the House discovered sit on the Front Bench, boast-that if Mr. Müxion had the aspoct of a poltergelat, he possessed the ing a seal and office.
The Prime Minister, pursuing voice of an angel. Sonorous, rich, the policy of taking hostages from and swolling, it has remained for would have been nine years the diapason stop, the opponents, delighted to have put Mr. James deepeat music of the Chamber.
robed
Thon, after an Interval, Mr. same seat. It is said that the ton was incautious
enough the flome Secretaryship. But to Clydeside chieftain
offered smile, with the effect of sun leader of the Immaculate was
Was it piercing thunder-clouds.
for a man to smile that possible dearer than to be Secretary of infectious smile and be a villain? State, and Mr. Maxton refused The most mistrustful began that he might remain free, and doubt it. And when the recusant AT OUR STUBBS HOAÐ GARAGE | would have offered no problem for For falling to report hiviself to the "that I may (like Jephthah's developed a practice of amiling at authorities while under two years daughter) go up and down upon himself in the middle of his own lu Kovernment but for the
pollen supervision, Mak Kan was sent the
and bewall my speeches, the House aurrondered. ve mountala,
come So it has inminence. In the eyes of business to prison for three months by Mr. virginity."
to this the Up there on With that bogey Schofeld at the Central Police CARITL then, of tariffs,
the third trench crouch, the sinister for this morning. Defendant was stated beyond the Gangway, the Glyde! prodding at the Conserva- out of the way, the trade balance to be well-known to the Palice, having
group righteously kept italf tetive benches 23.44 though appraising problem would evaporate.
itself, and Mr. Maxton, with the the ribs of the idie rich, the Were
corner seat for throne, directed scowling downdrawn brows, all g Britain tied to the gold standard.
A notification jaaned at the Harbour the militant kingdom of the latter for nothing. it might still exist a serious Office states that a bydrographical day
n well-chosen saints. It is survey will be carried out within the vantage from which the Ministry change the British Constitution Jasur, but the Treving
following aron.--Bounded to the north | ***** by lat. 22 deg. 18N; to the mouth by can be taken obliquely in the rear."even to the extent of abolishing lat. 22 deg, 17-2/2 N; to the east by and when the Government of yes the Monarchy, the House of Lords on erranda and even the House of Commons. long. 14 deg, 11-1/3 E and to the terday set forth
insured the west by the eastern coast line of the policy, they were never
threatened
Наике Lower him. When he Kowloon Peninsula. The survey will against the banditti suddenly lindocan't
believe be conducted In a series of squarea ing their ledge.
says, "I am willing to go out and whose sites will run N & S; F. & W.
create ill-will and
hostility of squares will be 1,000 ft. Sides
From time to time that Govern- amongst his Majesty's subjecta." Corners of squares will be marked by sampane flying red flags. Sampansent were ignominiously turned the House of Commons, to prove with red flags will also be stationed back, or passed on only under that Mr. Maxton creates only good- united memorial at intervals along two of the skies, escort of the Liberals the force will, nends Shipping is requested to give marked which the Commons dubbed the bidding him recover from the ill- Portagaeae." though perhaps they HORS that has just laid him up and squares a wide berth.
were even more like the old Swiaspeedily come back. Whon he mercenaries,
From first to last, tells the Government to seize Mr. Mac-everything without compensation an Intolerable creature; and who the skirmishes with by reason of this languid indifDonald's men victdet Mr. Maxton if you are going to rob a man. a good deal of booty, especially in
right up and do it"—the fervuce does infinite damage to his pitched combats about the divi- House of Commons, reflects that have ever been Also dend of the dole; and since it is highwayman ur her employer's business. af sterling internationally. re there is to he found the type of his hand that wrote some of the popular so long as they address with duces imports, and offers a bounty assistant who goes to the opposite provisions into the Statute Book, themselves to their work
he may truly be included among courtiness and charm. The increase of extreme, and by an overbearing the men who ruled. Mr. Walter Runciman's Anti-ta exporters.
Camilarity. also drives custom- It is only congruous that West- That dreadful mutineer Maxton Dumping Bill contains A moral esports and
ers away. But these types must minister's notorious rebel should is only a dreadful sentimentalist and a grave warning. Britain is imports goes on tatil the trade be regarded as abnormal, and, the have been adopted a Parliamentary (though admittedly sentimentalista
a!
of the mest danger- balance is normal. Dumping on acritic cannot, in fairness, make an candidate while in prison, and Mrjare a peril). Like Lincoln, le so far from being aahem believes that "God must prefer the Ler should all-embracing condannation. this twelve month durance, common people: that is ha ле pregnaut crussroads in her his large scale would
in the puts it in
the reference books. made 10 many of them." tory. Her people have a duty to force sterling down temporarily, is it experience that
majority of cases, assistants in The sentence capped a seditious child without a winter overcoat speech in 1916, a time when this reason enough for him to aturt
Wing
Louder was in the hey- a revolution, yot when have learned customary busines October 27 last they ly provide the check.
house etiquette. It does not delay of his work to hamper the volution was prepared, he would
War. An i pacifist and anti- give hia
own overcoat, and shirt brings supply National exchange peaster A
mandi fawning 431* familiarity.escriptionist, one who thought and
and trousers, to prevent it. If Government, nol a Conservative demand into line. The pound neither does it entail curtness to that peace should be sought by ever we
ever we had a September and i Government with the clear inten- sterling settles itself at the trade the point of incivility. It merely the world proletariat "getting to were on the list, my supplication. tion of changing the fiscal policy balance point, and the long period asks for a perfectly natural man-Pether" and not by the issue of would be to come up before Citizen of the country. Somehow it must during which the pound has hover-ner, deference to the customer's arms, Mr. Maxton conceived it a Maxton's
duty to create trouble in controll-
forty-six, the Clydeside he brought home to the leaders ofed round the 16/- mark suggests wishes, a ready willingness to at-ed factories and workshope.
already mellowing. No salubrious reputation, there and
runagate is
the process a likely to politics that the electorate voted that this is its proper "trade tend to his needs, even at the east
of a little trouble, patience to ad-fore, accompanied the school-continue. ability which is anti-Socialist rather than pra- balance" level. If the dumping vise, if advice is sought or needed, master-agitator when at last, in far in advance of the motley hand-
1922. he
he made his darkling appear ful he leads--will one day Tory, that they were frightened by complained of was really serious, and a display of interest in the ice in the flouse of Commons- him, half-indigannt, into a Govern- Labour's rash anti-bank campaign, the pound could not have held up. busineas. It is on the last point Members took one appalled glancement; and then, perhaps, will be Father Than that they were in any event it is only a passing that a number of our young assist-and felt their utmost apprehen-seen the spectacle of the erstwhile For here was the revolutionary laying out recrea- which ants fail in their duty to them-sions too mild. enamoured of the nation-saving | phase and, moreover, one
tion
grounds for children or car. Have ever the indulgent powering for the memorials of the past promises of the Government enn-would not have arisen but for the selves the customer and the em-very physiognomy of revolution.
The pity of it is ployer. They seem to seek to give granted an insurgent such a
uch a fort-
as paternally na Mr. Lansbury didates, that the tariff issue was tariff threat.
the impression that they are not nate face? The sunken swarthy himself. less in their minds than the fear that the threat still exists in spite doing their job because they like checks, the cavernous eyes, the But that time is not yet, and in
The of the elementary nature of these it or because they have to: it is lank segment of hair blackly the mu
meantime, especially in the Socialists were returned to power. jarguments.
a mere stepping-stone to their eclipsing a frowning forehead, the present time, when discontent and In the nation, Mr. This, we firmly believe, is the true realise what they contemplate true vocation in life-which is left angular, scant-covered frame and division are
tragie air-by comparison Cassiue Muxton will show himself
a true assessment of the attitude of mind i duity. The impaition of heavy to the imagination,
must have looked a rollicking play-leader if he remembers that what is and safely in the House of which sent a motley-hued govern-restrictions ou imports must cause
Commone may be a peril on Glas- ment dietatorship to Westminstera rise in the international value
Green. He
has eloquent over with the masses of his own with such an astounding majority of the pound sterling, which is the in the House of Commons, Mr. very thing that industrialists de Henderson's bitter comment that not want, if they have any sense the volers were grossly and deli- at all. Immediately sterling rises. Industry berately deceived my ultimately exports must drop off prove to be justified. But that will become "at you were" in Tory munoeuvring really, hi-relation to its position before the fluenced the voters seems to be as ubandonment of the gold standard, false an assumption as that of the The reduction in the number of Conservatives that the Govern- unemployed will come to a full ment has mandate for full-stop. Altogether apart is the blooded Protection. We refuse to forfeiture of international good- accept Mr. Churchill's and Mr. will if tariffs are introduced. The Anti-Dumping Bill has already Chamberlain's proposition. On
inspired France the facts as we know them, it is
to ¦ tarifl' not even plausible. Yet, as far increase. The sequel to a general us we can judge, the man most tarif we dread to contemplate. likely to be affected by an out-and-
fulfil with the minimunt of delay, but thr downward movement
clear would ultimately and automatical-Hongkong, both men and women,
They must make it crystal
thul clected
on
of
11
consequences
i{
out tariff policy has not awakened
A free and
The tariffists cannol
Shop Assistants and Civility.
to his responsibilities in his own The criticism which has been interests. A dangerous type of levelled through correspondence lethargy sucnis to have sottled | columns against Hongkong shop non large section of the com- asistants is not entirely surpris. munity. The feeling has growning. By the same token, it is dif fleult to accept, without some that the ponderous Conservative qualification, the denunelation majority, over friends and foes which calls down couls of Are on combined, renders a tariff inevit their heads for alleged lack of The tendency has been courtesy and civility in the courag able. towarde meek acquloscence even of their duties. It a perfectly among those people who harbour true that there does exist in Ilong- convictions against the windom of kong (as elsewhere, if we may sug- tariffs, The "inevitableness" of eat it), the type of shop assist- ant who makes a habit of being the policy has persuaded them to positively rude; who, by a none- throw up their hands in despair. too-well simulated air if boredom They`acem prepared to "see what and disinterestedness. becomes
fed of
NOUS I PAT, DUI,
"But I never have dates when I'm posing for a magazine cover. I can't hold that sweet, dumb expression more than eight hours.".
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