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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 19:12.
LESSONS OF THE EMPIRE FAIR
Services unofficin
what the market needs. So far as was possible, excellent were rendered in an way by Mr. S. T. Williamson on behalf of Australasia and by Mrs. J. B. Newell in the Interests of South Africa at the recent Fair, but these two would be the first to admit the need of bringing machinery Into. being proper for the development of between these centres and South China,
trade
DAY BY DAY
FAME THAT SHADOW WHICH GREAT BOULS CAST, AND LITTLE BOULH AS HUBSTANCE-Juraci PURSUE Zangwell.
Men-of-war in port dressed ship to-day in honour of queen Mary's 66th birthday.
"AND WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS"
AN AERIAL IDYLL OF 1942
By Major Oliver Stewart.
AERONAUTICAL PIGS
are ne a reminder that, somowhere, and portents. By the year 1942 there still exist green leaves
sunlights. er thereabouts the farmer, going to
It is this instinct to escape from market by air, will no longer buy the destructive darkness and grime Mr. B. Paul will speak on "What a pig in a poke, but a pig in of cities that gives the aeroplage On the purely local side, the Theosophy In" at the usual weekly plane. Seated in the cockpit of its impetus, As the Industrini Fair was a convincing demonstra-pabile lecture of the Hongkong Lodge his machine, with moustachesarens spread, so the need for fast tion of the possibilities of poultry- the Theosophical Society to-dny at d
streaming back in the wind, the transport to get away from them raising in Hongkong and also of P..
whlakered agriculturist will whizz increases. The aeroplane is man's the greater reliance which could.
Money and Jewellery to the value over the wold to the reiterated cry ally in his perpetual race against
grime. be placed on locally-produced of $658 represented the extent of " of "back to the landing ground!" foodstuffs. As H. E. Mr. Sou-haul made by armed gangsters who
The juxtaposition of the machine broke into 23, Fook Chuen Heung
Already a number of hotels, thorn so pithily expressed It Street, Shushuipo, yesterday morn and the mangel-wurzel has not pre situated in the open, have establish- the opening ceremony, from the ing. Four men were implicated, all viously been suggested; yet it led their own landing grounds, and egy to the savoury, of whom were armed either with pregnant with possibilities and there is, in Kent, at least one tea breakfast
foreshadows the part the aeroplane garden
with its own landing through the whole gamut of fish, kniven or revolvers.
will play in the future. The round. Country clabs are also fleah and fowl, some loen! sub.
Owing to Mr. R. E, Lindsell (Assis, countryman, assuming a black suit. beginning to establish their own stitute can be found for the im-tant Attorney General) being engaged a bowler hat and a pendent innding grounds and by the end of
the townsman # ported article. But if the Newab the Criminal Sessions yesterday umbrella, and
យ
the
acro-
the present year there are likely developed afternoon the further hearing of the spade, a smock and a wheelbarrow to be many more such places. So Territories are to be
Happy Valley murder case, in which along the line of replacing much Cheng Kwok-yau in charged with will change, places for work and the step to the nerial village is not
And in this interchange of
along one. And when the village foodstuffs at present being an accessory before the murder | play,
realises its new responsiblities it brought in from the Canton delta of George Fung, was again unavoid customs and costumes the
will no doubt become more idylle; and elsewhere, the matter willly adjourned. The case will be re-plane will prove indispensable,
sumed this afternoon it Mr. Lindsell Those who have hitherto pored more like those villages that ap as prognosticators of the aerial need to be taken in hand along is available. organised channels, with Govern-
age have not appreciated that the peared so often on the stage (Act
I., Scene 1). A would-be suicide was yesterday | aeroplane's chief purpose will be help
encourage morning ment
and
Observe the lusty farmer's boys rescued from the harbour to net as an alternator between ex- rund ment.
the perfecting through
un the prompt action of tremes of civilleation and even, chanting and rhythmlently waving marketing
constable, arrangements. Indian
who, enticing the man struggling in Perhaps, in a remoter period when their pitchforks, and the village This should not be an insuperable the water near the Wing Lok Wharf/ all forms of civilisation begin to maldens in their rustic
of
Fazel Mahomed,
and civiliantion.
dresses, ntan chanting. But stay Who the comes? Farmer Hayseed on rustic bridge (O.P.) shades his eyes and scana the horizon. "Why ex-do be sure," he calls to the now at It will improve the rate of change-physical, not financial tentive throng, "if it baint Squire And from Lunnon," This has been ignored by the come back
un "Squire come back from Lunnon," Described as an absolute nuisance Prophets, who have visualised to visitors to the district, a mendiennt Intensive and all-embracing in-echo the village maidens in unison, who appeared before Mr. Schofield at dustrialism, with huge factories "hurrah, Harrah, hurral." And the the Central Police Court this morning everywhere engaged in turning out Squire, having crossed the bridge on A charge of begging at Aberileen, gramophones, wireless sets and at a run and come down through was stated by Sergeant Cunningham similar automatic anaesthetics. the avenue between the farmer's to be a grass cufter in the cemeter duri during
the day turn beggar nights, the occupants of motor cars
He continuously approach solicited ulms. is Worship regis tered a cuation and ordered the "de fundnat to be sent back to the country,
task. We can only hope that the
assistance. The man's
man was Fair will prove to have been in-nged a sumpan and went to the pali, between extremes of savagery strumental in encouraging com- almost in the last stages of exhaus- |prehensive efforts in this direction,tion when he was taken out and con- veyed to ther Governmet Civil Hospital.
Cemetery
an
Is Civilisation Doomed? With Europe sinking into bank ruptcy and Amerien turning this way and that in her search for way out of the economic moruss- and seeing no secure foothold--it is
The pictorial pabulum of Pabat, boya and village maidens, cries (not small wonder that Britain's leading
Pudovkin, and those other filin altogether unexpectedly to those publicists are begiming to predict
directors who rush in where Ameri- who know the tradition): "Now, composed girls, what do you say to a trip to a crash of civilisation. Mr. H. G.
cans fear to tread, is
of keries production Cannes?" You remember the sub- Wells, whose prophecies from time
entirely to time have been remarkably
factories upon the assumption, ap- sequent song and dance (refrain: parently, that man can live by "We'll take the Blue Train, the me- accurate, declares that the world
A stonebreaker, Lee Yan-sin, at machinery alone, and that it will and-you train, to that southern city as we know it is visibly collapsing. Taipo Rond yesterday morning, was be posible in 1942 to dine of a of delight").
Those musical shuwa express the Every week something is tumbling injured when struck by a car driven drop forging. No slightest sign is
by Mr. G.
G. G. Wood, down or something breaking "Pappears to have been caused by the ever is or was or will be such a move.
The accident shown of appreciation that there tonging to be constantly en
The audience goes from the and it is impossible to suy how
appearing on the thing as a village. Town and Village of Little Bloltem to the
the
man unexpection when in at factory appear as the epitome and Imperial Palace Hotel at Monte
to
across
ran
far the ruin will extend. The roadway his
avoid the car he truth of the mat appears
tempting to
"the road and was
Carlo; from a Roof Garden in New knocked end-all of existence. down before it could be pulled up. Even Mr. Aldous Huxley, when York to The Foyer of the Soixante-
hia Brave leg fracture and a superficial scalp he constructed
New Quinze Night Club in Paris, ll were the extent of the injuries World, failed to realise that a large between eight and eleven-thirty.
admitted in hospital.
In the economic sciences are striving bara received by the victim, who has been proportion of machinery is to-day
to overtake the breakdown,
but
operation can averi disaster, The American ordent is the plainest
:
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
London Terminals. August 1932 4/G% down d. December 1932 4/10/
change.
10
seem
more
*
啡
for
iz If there were any people Hongkong who feared that the Colony's first Empire Products Fair would be a failure, they must ere now have completely revised their views. The high standard and variety of the exhibits, the excellent lay-out of the exhibition, The wonderful patronage accorded the Fair, and, above all, the busin-be that the capitalistid system, rear- ed on gold-based credit conc. is ness contacts established, have all
Social, political and combined in registering the magni- collapsing. ficent Success achieved.
being manufactured in order to circumstances, it is only natural
allow people to get away frum The aeroplane has arrived machinery. The increasing Fordom the express purpose of fulfilling that the question of making the they appear to be working inde- function a yearly event, on an even | penilently in each leading country
and boredom of industrial arens is this desire to be continually on the accentuating the desire for "pleas- move. It will allow the business larger scale, or of endeavouring to whereas it is becoming increasing-
ant images of trees, of sea or sky, man, living in virgin country, lo arrange 21 permanent Empirely clear that only international co-
and colours of green fields." get to his office in the city by ten Trade Exhibition, abould now come
To the industrialist nothing can without rising either with the lark within the range of practicality.
desirable than the or the early worm. And it will With so much accomplished on the
guide
Un- to present tendencies,
The following enble at the close village, green with the village inn allow him to get back again in the initial venture, the prospects for less she is saved by some unfore of the sugar
in the foreground; that felicitous į evening. market yesterday
admixture of the bucolic, and the seen stroke of god fortune, coupled has been received by Messrs. Pen-alcoholic. His one wish is to ly grow, there will always be the Though industrial areas may even bigger successes are extreme- ly bright.
with the restoration of a semblance terath and Co. When we remember that the of sanity to the counsels of Con- "Empire meals on Empire Day" | gress, the United States appears to iden is primarily a movement for be heading for the greatest crisis for housewives, it is illuminating in her history. Economic activity to know that any of the Colony's | is decending to new low levels. womenfolk who visited the Fair | The steel industry, for instance, is were impressed and surprised by working *t only 22 per cent. the variety of Dominion products capacity and its output is less than available here. Especially was half as great as it AWAR twelve this noticeable la regard to tinned months ago when many people were fruits. The market here in these imagining that the world slump commodities has for long been hat begun to touch bottom. Every largely monopolised by the United sign points to a stagnation that is States, but the Fair has demon- fall but universal, and unemploy strated the fact that the Colony's ment is estimated at a minimum needs can be just as well suppifed of 8,000,000. In the absence. of from Empire sources. So is it also any regular dole system the public in regard to many other comund private resources which have modities on show at the Fair.
been organised for the relief Thus it will be seen that there is the unemployed are approaching ex- every hope of a growing demandhaustion, and some of the big cities! for these goods of British origin.
are actually insolvent. In recent Speaking of the Dominion displays months it has become increasingly as a whole, it was, however, note-recognised that nothing can stop worth that whilst Canada was ex- the rot but an arrest of the tremely well to the fore,
paralysing decline of prices. The tralasian and South African pro-authorities are discovering that duce Was not displayed in
mere Increase in the volume of great variety. So far as Southcredit is of no avail unless borrow- Africa is concerned, of course,
Aug-
of
shipping services are not availers are ready to come forward and employ it productively, and that able to the same extant as in the they will not come forward so long case of Australia. This must as confidence is totally lacking. necesarily be a factor hampering Meanwhile Congress, having broken trade expansion with the East.
loose from any kind of disciplined It is totally different when we cente to Austraila, but the trou-control, appears determined to take a hand in the work of inflation at bla in that there is no official
all costs, and without the least dis- medium existing for the develop-crimination between the legitimato ment of that Dominion's with the East. There have beon and the disreputable varieties of many Australian products brought this process. Other agencies are to the Hongkong and South China leaving no stone unturned to avert markets, notably meats and but disaster, though the question arises in many breasts: In all this ter, but we owo this fact purely to private enterprise. It is ap struggling worth while? Finally, decide that it is. The parent that, not only in regard we must
trade
to the two items named, but also more imminent the sign of collapse, In many other lines as well, Aus- the kocner must be the effort to tralian trade with Hongkong avert it. And if the endeavour could be immensely developed if fails, we may take heart In that, there were a Trade Commissioner perhaps, we may have at least laid
com- the foundation for another civilisa here directing the flow of merce and advising producers ou tlon, and a far better one.
March 1933 5/1 up 1⁄4d. May 1933 5/2% no change. Buyera at above prices, sellers | asking 1⁄4d-%d more.
New York Terminals. Spot .58 no change. July 1932 61 down 1 pt. September 1982 .68 no change. December 1932 .75 down 1 pt. March 1933, 81 no change.
away from the smoke and soot of natural village over the horizon, a cities and to arrive at some natural little farther away to be sure, but.. beauty spot where the trees stand still to be reached by all who travel still in the fading sunlight, watch-fast enough or, in other words, all ing over the water, and the birds who travel by air. In the evening. sing-before closing time.
though the larger part of the M. Felix de Grand'Combe Tas country may have become one vast pointed out in his book "Tu Viens factory, it will still be possible to en Angleterro"-one of the few gather round the parish petrol French books about the English pump for a quiet smoke while the that is more than an investment of shepherds and shepherdesses are up sales-flattery that the aspidistra J at the cinoma.
content with a two-hundredth part For the Industralist and the busi-.. of daylight. It is one of the few ness man the soil possesses an eli plants hardy enough to live in the during attraction, and the cry of haunts of man in the mass; It acts loam, sweet loam
"I've brought my Three A English literature class to listen to the song of the nightingale,”
never fails to awaken an echo in their hearts In 1942 the aircraft will make feasible for the countryman, the townsman to work separate tasks fifty, a hu
even two hundred mile
to change places in
and evenings.
One may visualise t
on the air routes
of
Thure will be the town. to the country and the e
going
to the town. T will pass Sir John Bull air, both keeping to the accordance with the Air N directions.
When that day of aer course comes it will be po say in one's heart that all fiers, and to be satlan everyone can find recreati repose by oppositea.
n
"Eek whyt by blak, by sharte eek worthinesse, Ech set by othor, more for other semeth; As mon the wyse it And so may see; domoth." The aeroplane will be the benign intermediary between town and country, preserving both from each other, and yet allowing each to benefit the other.
The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday afternoon in the. Banitary Board Room, the Chairman being Mr. W. Carrie. Others present were Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Director of Pubile
Works, Dr. G. W. Pope, Medi- cal Officer of Health, MrWong Krong An
Mr. M. K. Ballany
Dr. R. A
Castro-Basto, Mr, LA CA
Dr. Ld Shu-fin, and Mr. J. H. Gelling,
|Becretary.
The business- transmeted;
war of a formal nature.