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made for help to those so porely In need of assistanco in various ways. Some idea of the extent and borlousness of the problem may be gained from the estimate | of some two húndred thousand un- employed in the Settlement at pro Bont...
..
DAY BY DAY
Wito EVER KNEW TRUTH FUT TO THE WORSE IN A TREE AND OPEN ENCOUNTER-Milton.
***
The P. and 0, La. Kashmir, which left Shanghal at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, is dus here on Friday at 6 am.
-Two casca of diphtheria and thres of enteric fever were reported to the Medical Oficer of Health on Monday.
The postal authorities notify that from to-day the Parcal Post Service to Bhanghal and North China to being resumed for individual parcels only.
STOCK EXCHANGE DELIRIUM.
By CAPEL COURT..
theso financially deprossing: The country was deluged with new days it is almost impossible projects requiring hundreds of the millions of pounds to carry them to realise what a boom on Stock Exchange really means, to_fruition. when the fover of speculation aros
In the first nine months of 1845 the blood, when stocks and shares more than a thousand companies soar skywards like rockets, and were floated; October added 383 when men are raised from com- more; and all were madly wol- parative poverty to riches they comed. A solicitor or two, an on- had never dared to dream of in a gineer, a Parliamentary agont, and few days or weeks of almost de-a map of England were all that
was required to form a company. to recall those
Panle-Stricken..
The problem facing the munt- cipal authorities in immense--the drain on the food supplies, the extra work thrown on the police, and the scope for lawlessness by hooligans who сал always be counted upon to exploit auch situations. It is now becoming a question whether the Internal situation will not be gravely com plicated if refugees are still per- mitted to.ontor the foreign-con- trolled areas. Touching on this point, one of the Shanghai nowa- papers has remarked that whilst Members of the Kowloon Union It must be conceded that forcing' Church Young People's Society liriou
were treated to`n "movie" show It is them to remain in their own terri-
last night, when Mr. D. R. Bolin, vanished of Talkam lopor island, scrossed | surely como again probably From princo to porter all Eng- filma showing work being done sooner than most of us imagine, land scrambled and struggled for there. Mr. Bolin, who is associated In normal times booms usually allotments. The directors of com- with Mr. John Lake, who is now come in cycles, and it is at least a panies were content to receive the convalescing ut the Matilda strange coincidence that the most letters asking for allotments of Hospital after a month's illness, memorable have come at the end shares from Tom, Dick, and
a perled of five years. gave a brief explanatory statement before the films were shown.
tory would subject them to Heri- ous consequences, it has to be ad- mitted that vast throngs of these people within the Settlement and the French Concession, without food, money or the means of sup- port, constitute a dangerous men- ace at a time when all avaliable defence forces are engaged on the boundaries. These are some of
of
delights, which will
Thus we had the rubber boom who could write a presentable in 1925 Rhodesian boom in 1910: hand was welcome to send in the the South African in 1896; Ameri- prescribed form of application. can 1890 and 1870; Bank sharo All that the very beggar in the boom in 1866; railway mania street had to do was to fill up the and so on-back to the days of the whatever number great South Sea Bubble, which chose to name. had its cradling in 1720.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern the problems which have been for the week ending January 30 erented as a result of the hosti. Tives the following cases of infectious 1815: Foreign Steck boom in 1835.) form in a decent handwriting for
discasos and deaths therefrom: ties which are still continuing. Plague, Baghdad 1 case, Bassein They should make us in Hongkong case Cholera, Calcutta 41 cases 23 deaths, Prom-Penh 1 caso 1 death. feel that we are fortunate in re-Small-pox, Baghdad 2 cases 2 deaths, siding in such a haven af-peace Bombay a casos 2 deaths, Calcutta 7 and quietude.
case 3 doaths, Cochin 3 cases 1 death, Rangoon 68 cases 15 deaths, Tuticorin D cases, Saigon 43 cases 35 deaths, Hongkong 4 cases 1 death, Amoy 6
France and Disarmament.
CRS69,
cases 20 deaths, Canton G al-Shanghal 43 cases 18 deaths, Takao
(Formosa) 1 case.
OPIUM SMUGGLER
CAUGHT.
MEMBER OF LINER'S CREW.
of shares he
When at last the crash come. don Bridge ainco
Much water has run under Lon- men who, a week before, had look-
4 horseman ed upon
the bundles of railway spurred his steaming horse down scrip neatly tied up and fring the Queen's Road and to Change snugly in their safes and strong- Alloy, striking panic into the boxes, as representing undoubted money market by the false news, wealth, were now madly eager to "Queen Anne is dead"; and since, got rid of them at any price, a few years later,
ladies of hoedless of the real value of
many fashion pawned their jewellery of
of them. It was a stampede of and staid citizens tumbled over wild cattle. rushing each other to put their last gulnca prairie fire. Those members of in South Sen stock, when its price the Stock Exchange who boldly was soaring with the dazzling went in for selling and bearing swiftness of a rocket.
Burst Bubble.
before
| everything mnde more money dur- Ing the first fow weeks of the panic than they had made through. out the whole of the mania.
Had:
Two kinds of activities have ready manifested themselves at the Disarmament Conference. The British Government, together with those of several other lead- ing Powers, is anxious to secure Hmitation and reductions by in- ternational agreement, whlle
On May 20th, 1720, stock, which France in the prime mover of a
couk bave been bought a little On the afternoon of May 10, proposal to develop in interna
carlier for £1 or 30s., was quoted 1866, London was paralysed by tional army and air force. The
£600; the following day it was nowa that the great banking-house A Chinese member of the crow £600; in four days more it had of Overoud, Gurney French proposal has been given of the Empress of Canada, which risen to $710; and in the early collapsed, with liabilities amount & Co. had considerable prominence and, in lying at Taikoo Dockyard, wan days of August the price was Ing to £19,000,000. Within a Homo quarters, hailed as an ideal arrested by revenue officers yeater-£1,200. Then the bubble burst. hours the shares fall from 10
pro- solution presented by idealiata. day in possession of 571⁄2 taels of By October E1,200 worth of stock mium to 10 discount, and all other In point of fact, those who sup- prepared oplum and, on his ap could scarcely find a purchaser stocks and shares dropped heavily prose that M. Tardieu han heen pearance before Mr. Schofield for £80.
with them. One great · financial at the Central Police Court this The South Sea Bubble was house after another came crash- prompted by such a spirit are morning, was fined $8,000 with the burst, and a hundred others with log: down, until thirteen misled. M. Tardieu is essentially alternative of one year's imprison- it. Never outside a lunatic asylum fallen. The City was in austats of a realtat.' The solution'offered by ment in default.
wore anch wild-cat schemes de pante, face to face with disaster. France is part and parcel of her The defendant, who Was de-vised for growing rich quickly demand for security before con-scribed as the storekeeper of the companies for extracting butter everything was sold at ruinous on that terriblo "Black senting to n reduction of armn- Empress of Canada, entered a plea from beech-trees; drying malt by Friday:" and it was only when the
of guilty to the charge.
air; for manufacturing square Government suspended the Bank menta. France has, Indeed, been
Revenue Oficer A. W. Grimmitt cannon-balls and bulleta: for ex- Act that the torrent of rula wan consistent in her contention that informed his Worship that he porting jackasses from Spain to atommod. an International force is necessary went on board the liner on, in-improve the breed of mulès; alr- before national forces can formation received and asked the pumps for the brain; and for mak- anfely be reduced below a certain defendant to have his kit searched. Ing iron from coal. level. Fa 1919, when the League The defendant replied that it
being constructed,
had been taken to Aberdeen, to Leon
which he later conducted the om Bourgeois pleaded strenuously for
cers. He took them to a dilapidated an international army, and in-de-house which had not been occupied No scheme was too mad te Jure
THEN I got up this morning Safe in the security assured in French have held that there The party returned to the Em-a company which impudently an- this British Colony, Hongkong should at least be specific inter- press boat again and in cabin 406 nounced as its object, "To carry culous moods when all sorts of people can have little conception national engagements. And In the third-class section the on an undertaking of great ad-
The
Hongkong Eclegraph.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1932.
SHANGHAPS BIG PROBLEM.
Wod
fault of an international army the for the
un-
pust seven years,
Such are samples of the hare- brained projects which drew mil- ons from English pockets in those days of gambling delirium.
its victims hy the thousand. Evon
ONE HOLE AFTER ANOTHER.
of the conditions prevalling indoubtedly If it were possible toffeer found a suitcase which, antago, but nobody to know what absurdities occur to a fellow, and
one
it in," had
Shanghai, which, at the moment, assure those countries which fear
however, no-one claimed.
a large part of its the particular one that struck me al-as I dressed was that from the more closely resembles
The suitcase was forced open enormous capital subscribed armed camp. thun
of the attack that they would be pro-and inside were round messes and most before the ink on its pros-moment we rise in the morning till wo go to bed at night wo ara tected against the aggressor, the other personal articles bolonging
was dry. world's biggest commercial ce?-
Stock Exchange has on its engaged practically all the time task cf disarmament would, he to the defendant as well as fifteen
in the curious Occupation of all- tres. So lense has the situation greatly simplified. Two prinelpat five-tnel tins which contained the records many such stories of wing holes, except when we are en-
abeculation. Soon after George gaged in become, that urge numbers of re-difficulties are that it is impossible oplum mentioned in the charge. Stephenson had placed his first
empyting them. sidents have left for safer regions, to say to what degree assurances had purchased the opium, in Liverpool and Manchester line all genius when a thing like that oc- The it was stated, lacomotive on the metals of the Now, if a fellow happens to be a many choosing Hongkong as
would be found necessary, and it Shanghai and was attempting to Eneland was place where they can find peace is unlikely if the nations in gen-amuggle it to Honolulu. and Immunity from risk, For the eral would be disposed at present moment, this is all to Hongkong's to increase their commitments. advantage, since it mean that
If war indeed should come, neu- local hotels are filled to capacity, trality would hardly be feasible," whilst the addition to the Colony's but no matten in the world wishes population must be good for busito sacrifice its neutrality in ad- лева. Yet we cannot but bemoan
vance. The problem remains the circumstances which have therefore that countries such as brought about this influx of new France will decline to reduce their comers, to whom the present situa-armaments below what they con- tion in the North must be one ofceive to be the safety line. But considerable anxiety, and for certainly the safety line should be whom we must all feel a very live-lowered by the mere existence of ly sympathy.
peace pledges and Institutions. But if people are leaving the And it should surely be again International Settlement in Shang- lowered
by д general соп hal, very many more are crowd- sent to decrease armamente;
ing into it-thousands of poor,
for. no nation has any terror-stricken refugees from the
any absolute needs; each one has adjacent native districts who have only relative needs. Each time been driven from house and home the line is lowered makes further because of the hostilities. From lowering possible. Therefore, what we read in the Shanghai though French
thesis actually nowapapers, a very serious prob- seeme directed against the expee- lem is thus being created for the tation of drastic measures of da- Settlement authorities. Driven by
armament, this does not rule out Instincts of self-preservation to some measure of disarmament in seck a safe haven of refuge, theso nccordance with conceptions poor people have been swarming safety. Whatever. then can be Into the foreign-controlled areas done now to augment, the anti- carrying with them all their earth-ment of accurity will increase the ly belongings-young and old,
prospects of disarmament. knowing very hazily whore thoy they will finally settle or how they
of
will manage to exist, yet hoping Admitting a charge of picking the for the boat. Never before in the pocket of a passenger on a tram in history of Shanghal have such the Wanchal District yesterday a scenes been witnessed. As is nn-Schofald at the Central Police Court Chinose who appeared before. Mr. tural in the circumstances, dis- this morning said that he had put his trons is now becoming evident hand in the complainant's pocket by amongst this
huge army
of mistakei Senience of three months? refugees, and appeals are being hand labour was imposed.
aflamo with the cura to him, he probably becomes mania for railway speculation. obsessed with It altogether, and doesn't recover until he has writ ten a book 's which everything that can he said about holes in said, once and for all, and he ac- quires a great reputation for hav- ing discovered the Philosophy of Holes. But I'm not a genius-30, not at all; I won't allow you to Bay en-therefore, I content myself with just noting down a few facts about holes, and anyone who cares can use them to base a Philosophy
PAUDA
"They are too roses. 1. know, 'cause I've seen Igts
turas of them.”
plo
on.
Well, the Arst thing we do when We rise in the morning is to take
our arms and logs out of the holes In our pyjamas, and Insert them Instead through, or into similar holes in our shirts, trousers, walst coats, and jackets. These gar- ments wa further fix upon ourselves by pushing dozens of buttons through dozens of smaller holes. I forget to any that, previous to that, we had pushed our feet into our socks through holes in the top, and cut (more than likely) at holes in the toes of them
See That Sponge!
Having no more helpi-zko gó through so far as our clotties are concerned, wo goʻout through a hole in the bedroom wall, and into the bathroom by a similar hole. The water with which we wash' ¿qué selves comes out of a hole and runs away down' another hole after we bava washed ourselves with sponge which is absolutely sturoi full of holes, so to speak or „might be more accurate, to describe -ft-us-a, mass of holes, eð l
Then we go downstairs through a hole into the bankruES room, which is really juht hole in the house we liya la
(Continied on POSE