THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BOTTLE"
"FROM APPLE
REAL
EVON CIDER
The Wine of Devon!
We bring you Real English Cider, the pro- duct of the Finest Devonshire Apples at, less than half the cost of other Ciders on the market.
$2.00
Por Dozen.
Teign Cider Company, Devon.
Sole Agents:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Aerated Water Manufacturers.
NOW
NOW ON SALE
Another very interesting consignment of
records from the films
INCLUDING POPULAR HITS FROM
"Flying down to Rio"
"Roman Scandals"
"Dancing Lady"
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 9, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY MEN IN THE NEWS
STUDEBAKER
1934
BRITAIN IN EUROPE
FURTHER ARRIVALS!
Magnificent Models
"DICTATOR"
Built Like Battle Ships
Now Priced Within Reach of All
LOOK IN TO INSPECT
G ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
PHONE 27778-9 Show Room. Stubbs Road.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1934.
COLONY QUOTA DECISION Whatever else may be said of the British Government's de- cision to deal with intensive Japanese competition in textile goods by applying the quota system to the Colonial markets, no charge of precipitate action can reasonably be laid. It is to be noted that, for the present. the system is being applied only in respect of textile goods, and that it will affect all foreign im- porters. There is no specific
"Going Hollywood"
"Sitting Pretty" discrimination against Japanese
Ask for a complete list to be sent to you.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
York Bullding.
Chater Road.
AMAZING VALUES
in SUMMER WEAR FOR MEN.
GOLF HOSE
3.00 ̊ ca. 1.25 pr.
2.00 pr.
ATHLETIC VESTS ATHLETIC DRAWERS SPORTS SHIRTS SPECIAL QUALITY SHIRTS ANKLE SOCKS Pure Wool
From $1.75
1.75
4 for 5.00
KHAKI or WHITE
COTTON COLF HOSE
CHEAPER QUALITY
WHITE SUSPENDERS
WHITE COTTON
HANDKERCHIEFS
PURE WOOL BATHING
COSTUMES
From
5.75
PURE WOOL BATHING
SHORTS
4.75
KHAKI or WHITE,
PITH TOPEES
WHITE MERCERISED
LISLE SOCKS
1.25 pr. 1.00
pr.
3.50 doz.
5.00 ca,
1.50 pr. AERTEX SPORTS SHIRTS $5.00 & $7.00 ca.
WHITE or KHAKI SHORTS,
SUPER QUALITY DRILL
Shirts to Measure From British Cloths From $3.50.
4.50 pr.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.
goods-there cannot be under the most-favoured-naton treat- ment provided for in treaties regulating Anglo-Japanese trade --but jausmuch as the quotas are to be based on the average imports for the period 1927-1931, the effects may be more keenly felt by Japan than by other foreign
competitors. That, however, is only reasonable, see- ing that the whole aim and object of the scheme is to keep Japanese competition within more normal limits than those which have been prevailed in recent years. Regarding other industries which are also feeling the effects of Japanese competi- tion, the Imperial Government is considering the question of their protection, and there is a hint that action may be taken also in this sphere, but the method to be employed is more likely to be by means of tariffs. than quotas. A point which naturally suggests itself is what action, if any, Japan is likely to tako in the face of the adoption of the quota system in the British Colonies. Under exist- ing conditions, she cannot dis- eriminate against British im- ports into Japan, and it is hard- ly to be supposed that she will overhaul her whole fiscal system to the extent of applying the quola system to foreign goods in general. There is, in fact, no call for such action on her part, for the simple reason that the, factor which has induced Britain to act-intensive com- petition from outside-does not apply in her case. It is worth noting, however, that as from May 1st Japan has decided to enforce the Trade Safeguarding Bill, which is designed to safe- guard
Japanese Industries against restrictions taken by other countries.
Under this Bill, the Government would bo empowered, after consultation with a permanent tariff com- mission of officials and business men, to restrict or prohibit the import of designated merchand- ise. Obviously, however, 'discrimination could be applied against a country enjoying most-favoured-nation treatment, ns Britnin is, until the treaty making provision for such treatment had been abrogated. That course is admittedly open to Japan as a counter-move against Britain'a quota decision, but it is hardly to be expected that the Tokyo Government will take such a drastic step at this juncture.
по
While no official statement has been made, it seems clear that the British Cabinet is determined to rosist any Impulse to enter into fresh commitments on the Contin- ent. Cireios close to members of the Cabinet state that a definite declalon has been reached and that although the Prime Minister In- elines to favour further guarantees to France, he has been overruled. The French Government has made it clear a score of times that It bases its fundamental poliev on the guarantees or lack of guar- antees which the other powers are
prepared to give or refuse. The
exchange of notes between London and Paris disclose that France. while ready to talk about "con- trolled rearmament" for Germany still elings to its "security" theals It nyks. for assurances against any disturbance, by violent means, of the the status quo. It puts in forefront of its demands the old requirement of security by collec tive pledges of action against a hypothetical aggressor in circum- stances which cannot be defined in advance. And as it has always been quite obviously, improbable that the great powers will make Buch promisce it follows that France is forced back to an al- titude of vigilance, of prepared. ness and indeed of distrust,
"AFRAID"
That is, expressed bluntly, the salient fnet in European life to- day. After 1870, when Prussia defeated France, and there was eyeated the German Empire, it is recorded that Bismarck, the Blood- and-Iron Chancellor, was "afraid." He was afraid of France, though ho had crushed and humiliated France. It was precisely because of the German victory that he was "fraid." And since 1918, France has been afraid" of Germany. That fexr has dominated its
foreign outlook. Everything France has done has been in- fluenced by the uneasy conselous neas that in victory there is menace.
CLASH ON HORIZON ..
in the
MR.
RUNCIMAN
The Very Idea!
TEA, TRUTHS, AND TEARS.
By George ▶EADING Lea-cups is quite a
Rhobby nowadays among
young women..
By A. J. CUMMINGS TOBODY has succeeded yet in gains with foreign countries dis- No
They realise that it's easier the ultra-Imperialists. than reading the stars and con- elucidating satisfactorily the xustod strange case of Mr. Runciman. His clumsy threats to Franco pro-tains more gossipy Itoma than
All his life a strait-laced Noncom- voked alike the censure of Free formist Liberal, he is now the Traders and pro-French Torics. the newspapers relate.
Besiden It's an easy way of most efficient member of a pre-It is now the fashion of those who dominantly Conservative Ad- want to wind up the Protectionist getting a free tea.
the machine to the last turn. aug ministration. All his life ablest, the most uncompromising Rest either that Mr. Runciman is stumbling-block or that his the most religious Free and Trader in British politica, he has enthusiasm is on the wane, put his signature in the last two years to more Protectionist men- sures than any British statesmun has sanctioned since the repeal When as ቤ kind of semi- detached Simonite he entered the National Government in 1931, he had given solema pledges against the taxation of food; and it was anderstood that he had merely put his stern fiscal views into cold storage for the time being in face of a national danger which to a shipping magnate and to a man of great wealth must have seemed in those moments of organised panic ilke the approach of the end of all things.
of the Corn Laws.
When you ask a charming per- Bon a certain question which she docan't like to answer right away, she can reply "You must let me rend your ten-cup sometime.". I doubt whether he ever had
Safely ensconced in some coBY "enthusiasm." Ho was cafe the girl then proceeds to eat any willing to swallow tariffs or any a gargantuan meal, stuffing herself other hereay which did not inter-with cakes and sweets in prepara- to bo fere with the balancing of the tion for the strain soon
a "national crisis." placed on her inventive faculties. Budget in
Then with a cigarette lighted le concerns himself with making the best possible use of the tariff and a contented stomach she ex-
dissatisfaction. at Protectionist presses
the instrument in 1 world. He seems impervious to young man's ten remnants and the scornful reproaches of former orders him to drink another cup.
nasociates. Ho
His third cup still being an ab. political ruffled demeanour, his capacity solutely blank he has to drink an- the last drops for keeping his temper and getting other, straining an with the job, is a useful per- through his front teeth to save a sonal asset but a great exaspera- few tea leaves.
Should the difficulty of drinking tion to his opponets.
un-
His mind is tinged with poll-the tea without the tea leaves be
Insuperable by normal tical scepticism. He said only a come Some of his friends VIL the year or two ago: "As years go on methods, the ten should be drunk Liberal Council-that queer little I am getting a lower opinion of through a strainer or sucked up body, whose chief function in by-the Parliamentary solution of through a straw,
If an ordinary strainer is not gone days was to mark down way- great problems. It was, in fact,
21
ភ
ward or heterodox Liborais no great wrench for him to turn available and there is no straw, assured me that Mr. Runciman's sharply to the Right and go all you had better eat your left boot presence in the Cabinet, would be the way with a Government of and hop through a top window
Kithi charged with
'cause there's nothing also we can vainable safeguard against the Protectionist extremism. When "national" daty. He was not a do for you. tariffs were put on, they assured Radical but a Whig. In a finan me that but for the resolution and cial crisis a rich Whig goes Right Ingenuity of Mr. Runelman they by instinct. would have been much higher.
Having arrived at the bottom of the cup for the street) we. flail a neat array of ten leaves spread- eagled in various gymnastic at- As the tarifs became steeper and After looking at his speeches titudes round the inside of the more extensive and the system and writings from the beginning up, or if your aim is not a good became more firmly established, of his public career 1 ennnot find one, somewhere round the saucer.
These latter are out of the heard less and less from these any evidence that Mr. Ituneiman's
and it is not within the apologists for an eering sheep of philosophy went very much begame the innermont fold. Now I do not yond a demand for rigid economy ethics of the sport to pick them hear from them at all.
and for leaving Big Business to and drop them inside the field of At first the Government and its conduct its affairs unhampered by play. Nor should any of the little Conservative supporters were in the State. He was n Free Trader fellows be tickled into positions so shipowner that they indicate good luck where transports of delights at the show- because he ing of this distinguished recruit Though kindly and humane, he formerly, they gave a true fore- who expounded a Tarif Bill with paid lip-service and little more to enst
All being now act the girl atarts more skill, clarity and force than the cause of those large social re- all the professed Tariftists com- forms which affect deeply, the off.
WOB
1
bined, and who confounded, lives of the poor and involve large
·
*
#
"I think this is going to be a
through his air of deadly accuracy spendings of public money.
He distrusted on that account very lucky year for you," she says and his atsperior knowledge of business. affairs and of the the fierce ardours of men like Mr.safely. technical intricacies of his sub- Lloyd George who framed People's "You are going to have an un- Jeet, a broken Opposition deficient Budgets and thought politically expected slice of luck-In your like in debating talent and in in terms of human beings. He profession. But a woman will help
with the believed honestly that the best you a lot later on," trained familiarity
way and the proper way of serving economics of trade.
the poor was to encourage Big eschew "ricky" Business and to State experiments.
•
·
"What sort of woman"? you usk, looking hopefully at your brunette captor.
"I can't quite sec what sort of a woman but she is young, Yes, and pretty."
"Will I marry her?
So sound observer can suppose that Germay to-day intends to precipitate war. But it is certain that unless there is a change in
It was a singular spectacle. As diplomatic methods of dealing with an untenable situation, there watched Mr. Runelman pouring will some day be a clash. That cold derision upon the feeble is why France is still claniouring efforts of the Labour Front Bench
Even in such a Government as and in the nature of the case must to meet his challenge I could not
he cannot conceal his continue to clamour, for help from help thinking how well he would this
argu intense dislike of State subsidies. Great Britain, and prestimably have answered his own
ments; and I wondered what He is for ever preaching against from the United States, event of fresh strife-in-Europe-emotions were being aroused in the economic evil of shipping sub- Yet such help cannot be affered the breasts of Liberal Free Trasidies; and it is known that he did in unknown and unforeseeable ders who sat beside him or behind not ace eye to eye with other him with the Government and members of the Cabinet in the cireuinstances. Even though ft Is
whose mouths and minds were long-drawn-out negotiations with inscribed in documents, these do
closed to the issue.
the Cunard Company uver, the cuments are little stronger than
building of the new liner. He is the support which the force of
In those early days the Conser- a capable and experienced bust- public opinion gives them. Eng- land and America made a pact vative Press, almost hysterical neas man, a first-class administra-
in its joy, over the discovery of a tor and shrewd in counsel. He in with France in 1919, but it was
new master of tariff exposition, knows his own job more thorough- never ratified. The Locarno pact. which guaranteed Germany as well singled him out as the statesman ly than any of his Ministerial out as France, served its historic pur-most fitted to succeed Mr. Ramsay colleagues know theirs; and pro- pose, but is not sufficient to satisfy MacDonald. It was but a passing bably he could do their work more you. the French, who perceive that in whim. Mr. Runciman is a dis- efficiently than they do it them- ugly woman."
the upshot Great Britain reserves the full right to decide for itself when a problem presents Itself and has not tied its hands. Europe cannot be stereotyped; and Tritain, as well as the United States, is raluctant to say anything which will irretrievably range it on one side or the other.
*
NOT TO BE DRAWN
Indeed, a feeling is growing in some quarters that the best way of keeping pence in Europe is to de- cline, flatly, to be drawn into a new war. There could not be a long war, unless Great Britain and the United States financed It, as they financed the war of 1914 to 1918. Hence the proposal of an embargo on exports and credits to belligerent countries by the Eng- lish-speaking peopics. The move- ment of thought which at one time might conceivably have led to the giving of pledges to France or any other country to assist it in a war has slowed down, If In fact it han not turned in the opposite direction. The withholding, not only
of military aid, but of com- moditics and of loans, is held by many to be a simpler, more prac tical method. Yet it also is guarantee, a negativo guarantee, which might be hard to fulfi. And it seeks merely to stop war, not to establish justice and good" will.
One truste that Franco will realine that is hope of pence lice in neither of those
paths, but rathor in coming to terms with its former onomy, French policy, in relying on guarantees, sanctions, alliance for security, is relying on a chimera. Security can be found only in the good relations of the people, and in this particular con- nection in the good relations of the French and German peoples.
A
·
carded favourlie. Protection is no longer in need of an artifical stimulus from a notorious Free Trade convort. Mr. Runciman himself is now a little suspect.
lis "black pacts" by which he has attempted to make Tariff bar
selves. A valuable man in any Government.
I do not agree with the caustic criticism I heard the other day from a well-known politician that Mr. Runciman's speeches are far (Continued où Page 43
"Dear air: In response to your recent order our firm la
putting forth every effort”..
"Oh, I can't say that. You see you, gargled with this little patch of ten leaves and upset the fates." "Anyway you will be going away for a long trip.""
"But they on contract!"
"And you will come back with something extra."
can't sack me! I'm
"It must be a honeymoon, then." "There is nothing dishonourable
your life until the end."
suppose that's when they find all about the beginning. "But again a woman will help and This time a very old
Probably still my wife," (vin dictively);
"No. Just
acquaintance, dear," says elio.
At this point the manager scents. trouble and taking the cup away puts a chit on the table.
an
The end of the drought at last,
will make
We gardeners smile again, For I've notice that my bulbs
have grow¡,
More hyacinth the rain..
IN
THE BURNING QUESTION Who is to captain England? Ye
priests and pundita, speak! We must make somo decision-tho-
Commitice meets next week; Shall it be Neville Chamb'lain--or
is his "drive" too "alows Who is to captain England? We
plain men want to know.
.
Who is to captain England? The
question doth perplex.
Why not select some member of the
moro pocalstent acx? --Mina Crool, the crochet
plon? Or Is her "hook” "Ano”?
cham-
too.
Who is to captain England? Who
fights, for me and mine?
*
Who is to captain England? Old
fogles, hold you back! Why not appoint some. "driver" with experience of the track? We might try Malcolm Campbell- or is his "glide" too "fast"? Who to captain England? "Fis
time the die were casti
A
Who is to captain England? Somo
stalwart soul and koon- Who understands "profection" and
tho uses of the screen?
What about Greta Garbo→or is hors
"glance" too "bright"? Who is to captain England in this
hor. greatest fight?