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made for help to thone no. Borofy in need of assistance in various ways. Some idea of the extent and seriousness of the problem may be gained from the estimate of name two hundred thousand un- employed In the Settlement at pre- nent.
DAY BY DAY
WHO EVER KNEW TRUTH PUT TO THE WORSE IN A FREE AND OPEN ENCOUNTER?-Milton.
The P. and O. sùs. Kashmir, which left Shanghai at 30 p.m. yesterday, is dus here on Friday at 8 a.m.
STOCK EXCHANGE DELIRIUM.
By CAPEL COURT.
Two cases of diphtherin and three | TN these Annncially depressing, The country was deluged with new of enteric fever were exported to the
days it is almost impossible projects requiring hundreds of Medical Officer of Health on Monday,
to realine what a boom on the millions of pounds to carry them Stock Exchange
to fruition. really means.
In the first nine months of 1845 The postal authorities notify that when the fever of speculation fren As from today the Parcef Post' the blood, when stocks and shares more than a thousand companies Service to Shanghai and North Chisu: Four skywards like rockets. and were floated; October added 264
heing
resumed
The problem facing the munt cipal authorities is immense-the drain on the food supplies, the extra work thrown on the police, ard the scope for lawlessness by hooligans who can Always be counted upon to exploit such situations. It is now becoming a the internal question whether situation will not be gravely con pileated if refugees are still per mitted to enter the foreign-con- | is trolled areas, Touching on this parcels only. point, one of the Shanghai news papers has remarked that whilst it must be conceded that forcing then to remain in their own terri- tory would subject them to seri- 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 mug port, constitute a dangerous men- nee at a time when all available defence forces are engaged on the boundaries. These are
song of
for
individual
which
Will
when
men are raised from com.more; and all were madly wal- | parative- poverty to riches they comed. A solicitor or two, an en- had never dared to dream of in a gineer, a Parliamentary agent, and Members of the Kowloon Union few days or weeks of almost len map of England were all that
was required to form a company. Church Young People's Society irtous excitement.
11 Is interesting to recall those
Panic-Stricken. were treated to a "novie" show last night, when Mr. D. R. Bolin, vanished delights,
murely camo again-probably From prince to portor nil Eng- of Taikani leper inland, screened filma showing work bong dooner than most of us imagine.and scrambled and struggled for
In normal times bioms usually allotments. The directors of com there. Mr. Bolin, who is associated
come in cycles, and it is at least a panics were content to recoiva the with Mr. John Lake, who is thew
coincidence that the most letters asking for allotments convalescing
enme at the end shares from Tom, Dick, and five
yearn. Hospital after a month's illness,
Harry, and consequently everyone
before the firs were shown.
tu { the
Matilda strof
of
ase a brief explanatory statement of a
Thus we had the rubber boom whe could write a presentable
in 1925: Whodeslan hom in 1910: hand was welcome to send in the
the problems which have been gives the following cases of infectioun 1845: For flway manin street had to do was to all up the
deaths
the South African in 1895; Amor prescribed form of application. "The Health Bulletin of Eastern cun 1890 and 1870; Bank share All that the very beggar in the Porth for the week ending January 30 brom
Stock buoni in 1835. for
form in a decent handwriting for of shares he therefrom and so on-back to the days of the whatever, aumbor created as a result of the hosti-diseases
1 great South Sea Bubble, which chose to name. tint which are still continuing. Plague, Baghdad case, Bazsein
caso, Cholera, Calentta 41 cases 23 harita cradling in 1720.
When at last the crash came. They should make us in Hongkol deaths, Pnom Penh i caso i denth. Much water has run under Lon- men who, a week before, had look feel that we are fortunate in re- Small-pox, Bughand 2 cases 2 deaths, on Bridge since n horsemaned upon the bundles of railway siding in such a haven of prace Bombay 3 eases 2 deaths, Calcutta 7. and quietude.
their attendance at the+
Tral triprompted by such a spirit are misled. M. Tardieu is essentially realist. The solution offered by Frane is part and parcel of her demand for security before con
cases
|
cases deaths, Cochin 3 cases I death, spurred his steaming horse down scrip neatly tied up and lying Rangoon fi8 cases. If deaths, Tuticorin the Queen's Road and to Change snugly in their safes and strong- cases, Saigon 43 cases 36 deaths, Alley, striking panic into the hoxes, as representing undoubted langkung 4 cases 1 death, Amoy 54 money market by the false news, wealth, were now madly eager to 29 deaths, Canton & enses, Queen Anne is dead"; and since, get rid of them at any price. ladies of heedless of the real value of many Formosa) 1 case.
fashion pawned their jewellery of them. It was a stampedo of and staid citizens tumbled over wild cattle rushing before ॥ each other to put their last guinea prairie fire. Those members of in South Sea stork, when its price the Stock Exchange who
boldly was souring with the dazzling went in for selling and bearing swiftness of a rocket,
OPIUM SMUGGLER
CAUGHT.
MEMBER OF LINER'S
CREW.
everything made more money dur ing the first few weeks of the panie than they had made through out the whole of the mania.
Few
France and Disarmament. Two kinds of activities have al-Shanghai 43 cases 18 deaths, Takoa few years later. ready manifested themselves at the Disarmament Conference. The British Government, together with those of several other irad for Powers, is anxious to secure
Burst Bubble. limitation and reductions by in ternational ascreetent, while
On May 20th, 1720, stock, which Ritie could have been bought a
On the afternoon of May 10, Frauer is the prime muver of a
earlier for £1 or 30s., was quoted 1866, London was paralysed by proposal 14 develop an interna- |
£600; the following day it was news that the great banking-house tional army and air forer. The
A Chinese member of the crew £600; in four days more
had it had of Overend, Gurney & Co. French proposal has incezt given of the Empresa of Canada, which riven to £710; and in the carly collapsed, with liabilities amount-
Within a the price was ing to £19,000,000. considerable prominence anal, inis lying at Taikoo Dockyard, was days of August sonse quarters, hailed as an ideal arrested by reveane officers gester. 31,200. Then the bubble burst, hours the shares fell from Mr. and Mrs. C. HI, W. Kew and solution presented by idealiste day in possession of 67% tards of By October £1,200 worth of stuck mium to 10 discount, and all other
uld scarcely find
a purchaser stocks and shares dropped heavily family wish to thank their numerous In point of fact, those who sap- prepared opium and, on his up could
with them. One great financial pearance before Mr. Schofield for £86. bern friends for their kind expressions of pose that M. Tardieu bas
The
Bubble at the Central Police Court this
South Sent
wan house after another came crash- nympathy
thirteen had morning, was fined $8,000 with the burst, and a hundred others with ing down, until funeral and the beautiful
alternative of one year's imprison- ft. Never outakle à lunatic asylum
The City was in a state of fallen. butes sent.
ment in default.
were such wild-cat schemes
de-panic, face to face with disaster. was devised for growing rich quickly Everything was sold at rainuus The defendant, who scribed as the atorekeeper of the empanies for extracting butter sacrifices on that terrible "Black Heating to a reduction of arma Empress of Canada, entered a plea from beach-trees: drying malt by Friday:" and it was only when the ie: for manufacturing square Government suspended the Bank cannon-balls and bullets: for ex- Act that the torrent of ruin was menta. France has, indeed, been
evenue Officer A. W. Grimmitting jackasses from Spain to stemmed. eunsistent in her contention that informed his Warship that
in-improve the breed of mules; air- An international force is necessary went on board the finer on before national fotecte can formation received and naked the pumps for the brain; and for mak safely be rednerd below a certain 4 remfant to have his kit searched. ing from from coal.
Surl are sumples of the hare that it level. In 1919, when the LeagueThe defendant replied
brained projects which drew mil- had been taken to Aberdeen, to Leon being mustructed,
which he later conducted the li-ions from English pockets Bourgeois pleaded strenuously for cers. He took them to a dilapidated! those days of gambling delirium. an international army, and in de-house which had not been occupied No scheme was too mad to lure its victims hy the thousand, Even fault of an international army the for the past Safe in the security assured in French have held that there The Puty rituril to the En company which Impudently an- this Hritish Colony, Hongkont should at least be specific inter-press heat again and in cabin 400 nounced as its hjert. "To carry an an andertaking of great ad- in the third-class section the vantage, but nobody to know what reuple can have little ronerb!ion
national engagements. And
officer found a Auitcase which,
it 1," had a large part of its Let the vonditions prevailing indoubtedly if it were possible to however, no-one claimed.
enormous capital subscribed Sanghai, which, at the niement.
asure those countries which fear The suitcase was forced open mor closely reserables a buge attack that the would be pro-and inside were found passes and most before the ink on its pros- we go to bed at night we are
tected against the aggressor, the other personal articles belonging task ef disarmament would be to the defendant as well a fifteen greally simplified, Two principal five-fael tins which contained the
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1932.
пеня.
SHANGHAT'S BIG PROBLEM.
Fitle:
of the
wh
13.
of guilty to the charge.
yenrs. seven
pectus was dry.
in
ONE HOLE AFTER ANOTHER.
THEN I got up this morning
I was in one of those ridi cutous moods when all sorts of absurdities occur to a fellow, and the particular one that struck me
al.
as dressed was that from the moment we rise in the morning CHI
Now, if a fellow happens to be a
The Stock Exchange bas on its engaged practically all the time records many suel stories of wild in the curious occupation of fill- curentation. Soon after Goorde ing holes, except when we are on- Stephenson had placed his first aged in empyting them. difficulties are that it is impossible opium mentioned in the charge.
The defendant, it was state, foramotive on the metals of the to say to what degrer assurances had purchased the optum in Liverpool and Manchester line all genius when a thing like that oc would be found necessary, and it Shanghai and was attempting to England was aflame the cura to him, he probably becomes maaia for railway speculation. Joesn't recover until he has writ obsessed with it altogether, and
armed camp than world's biggest commercial ce tres. So tease has the situation berume, that large numbers of re cidents have left for safer regions, many choosing Hongkong as place where they can find peace is unlikely if the nations in gen-smuggle it to Honolulu. and ingunity from risk. For the eral word be disposed at present moment, this is all to Hongkong's to irerense their commitments. advantage, ance
It means thair was indeed should come, nu- local hotels are filled to expneity, rality would hardly be feasible, whilst the addition to the Colony's but no nation in the world wishes population must be good for busto sacrifice Its neutrality in ad-
Yet we cannot but hemo
vance. The profilem renting 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 ron- tion in the North must be me of celve to be the safety Hne. Buz 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 21 general con. armaments; hal, very many more are crowd-Hent ing into it-thousands of poort for
nation har 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 Frunch theals actually newspapers, a very serious prol seems directed against the expec- lem is thus being created for the tation of drastic measures of ds- Selllement authorlikes. Driven by armament, this does not rule out Instinets of self-preservatlon to
Home measure of disarmament in stek a safe haven of refuge, these accordance with conceptions of poor people have been swarming safety. What over then can Into the forolgn-controlled areas, done now to augment the senti- carrying with them all their earth-ment of security will increase the ly belongings-young and old, prospects of disarmament,
knowing very hazily where they
they will finally settle or how they
10
710
decrease
be
will manage to exist, yet hoping Admitting a charge of picking the for the best, Never before in the pocket of a passenger on a tram in history of
Shanghini have auch the Wanchal District yesterday, a Chinese who appeared before Mr. scenes been witnessed. As is: na-Schofield at the Central Police Court: tural in the circumstances, din- this morning said that he had put his trons is now becoming evident hand in the complainant's pocket by mistake! Sentence of three months' amongst this huge army of hard labour was imposed... refugees, and appoals are being
with
"They are too roses, I know, 'cause I've seen lots of pic-
turos of thom."
ten a book in which everything that can be said about holes said, once and for all, and he ac neires a great reputation for hav- ing discovered the Philosophy of Holes.
But I'm not a genius-x. not at all; I won't allow you to say so therefore. I content myself with just noting down a few facts about holes, and anyone who cares can use them to base a Philosophy
on.
Well, the first thing we do when we rise in the morning is to take our arms and legs out of the holes in our pyjamas, and insert them Instead through, or into similar holes in our shirts, trousers, waist- conts. and Jackets. These Har- ments we further fix upon ourselves by pushing dozens of buttona through dozens of smaller holes. forgot to say that, previous to that, we had pushed our feet into our socks through holes in the top, and out (more than likely) at holes in the toes of them.
See That Spongel
I
Having no more holes to go. through so far as our clothes are ́concerned; we go out through a hole- in the bedroom wall, and into the bathroom by a similar hole. The water with which we wash our- selves comes out of a hole and runs away down another hole after we have washed ourselves with a sponge which is absolutely stuffer! full of holes, so to speak-or it might be more accurate to describe it as a mass of holen.
Then we RO downstairs and through a hols into the breakfant room, which is really just a big fiole in the houisa wa liva In, an are
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