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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 28, 1934.
BRITAIN'S ADMIRERS ABROAD
REVERSAL OF U.S. ATTITUDE
PAEAN OF PRAISE
By Raymond Rutherford
So high is the American opinion of Britain just now that It is almost embarrassing for a Briton to do business with visitors from the other aide.
In the eyes of the United States there is something almost miracul- ous in the way this country wea thered the depression and is forg- ing ahead. It seems, in fact. un at wo can do no wrong.
Here is an extract from the letter of a prominent American society woman-"Every returning traveller brings new tales of British prosperity. De write and tell me how it is done."
Another extract, this time from an American store-owner'a letter written from London, and referring to a political demonstration he witnesatd in Hyde Park-"These British are marvellous, The way the police handled the crowd was. Indeed, a revelation, In our city it would have been a riot."
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What a complete reversal attitude from ten or twelve years ago, In the height of American prosperity, when we liritous could do nothing righti
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It is part of my Job to be con- stantly in the company of American visitors, and in those days when the average American's attitude to. words this country
one of boastful superiority not anmixed with pity, it was sometimes dificult to preserve even ordinary business i courtesy. A man would inquire the price of some article, and then sak in an unpleasant way. "How much I that in real money 7" Or he would pull aut a handful of Bank of England notes with a gesture which suggested that they worthless.
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CORSETS
FOR MONSIEUR
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SYDNEY SPECIALIST IN EARNEST
A famous specialist in Sydney. which has become the medica) and surgical centre of the Southern Ilemlsphere, is advocating corseta for men on the ground that the human animal, originally built on the quadruped plan and having be- come permanently upright only by evolution, needs support at the weakest spot.
"Some sort of bandaged support is required to assist an abdominal mechanism that is unsuited for biped progression," he says. "The development of bow-windows by men who do not trouble to develop their abdominal muscles indicates where lies the weaknesK."
He contends that this
was re
WORLD'S OLDEST FLEA
FIVE MILLION YEARS OLD
PRESERVED IN AMBER
Since first the flea came into our human lives he has been the ocen a'on of much talk and of still more evasive allence, and his movements always arouse interest In the human breast and elsewhere. Small men can be big news, as Napoleon proved, and the flea for all his lack of inches in the big
news at the moment. The oldest flea has been unearthed, and cognised in clasical times when brought to light-5,000,000 years women's flowing garments did not or so in age-and fortunately dead, permit of figure outline display, for what heights of experienced Women later swore corseta because cunning would he not have scaled experience showed that they were by now? conducive to health and servicenblo
In exertion.
Mia Violette Nozieres, 18, was sentenced to death on the suillotine when convicted in Paris recently of the murder of ber father and the attempted murder of bar mother. Having disin her father, she ran away with what money of his she could steal, about 3,000 franca. When arrested she explained that she "wanlad à good time." She is pictured above as the appeared in Court
NO SALVAGE FOR PLANE RESCUERS
SIAM'S AIR MISSION
WILL STUDY IN SINGAPORE
known.
now
The appearance has been made,
In an action arising out of the "Experiments have shown that as might have been imagined, rescue of the American flying gentle compression of the abdomen suddenly and in an unexpected family, Mr. and Mrs. George caused a greater flow of blood to place. Prussia le not old, as the Hatchinson and their daughters other parts of the bedy, with in countries of Europe go, and there Kathryn and Janet, off the coast
mental and
The names of the five officers of creased
muncular
of Greenland in September, 1932, activity. The ideal type for men," are many treatises to explain that, by the Aberdeen trawler Lord the Stam Air Force mission going he added, "would be a walathell
since it was never part of the Talbot, Sheriff Morton upheld at ing and organisation are
to Singapore to study R.A.F. train- with supporting straps over the Roman Empire. It has never learnt | Aberdeen recently the decision of nboulders."
to be properly part of Europe. Sheriff-Substitute Laing refusing But it is in the amber mines of their claim of £300 for the salvage Colonel Phra Velayanta Rangs
the crew of the rescuing trawler. The leader of the Mission is stores have managed to pay their Palmnicken, in East Prussin, that of cinematograph material from risth, director of the neronautical way, even through the worst of the this very distinguished old flea has the wrecked aeroplane. Sherlit department. and the others slump. He has seen them carrying been resting after his exertions, Morton held that the Hutchinson Lieut-Col. Luang Kach Songgram, on with moderate success while his What those exertions were 5,000,- seaplane was not a ship and that and Captaing Luang Jerd Vadhak- own stores showed fantastle In000 years ago, can only be con-gation Act were not applicable to Perm Limpiavasti.
the provisions of the Air Navi- as, Luang Lata Berngron of a million or so dollars on the jertared; but it is certain that this the circumstances of the case as the year's trading.
fun, could he spenk, would pour salvage took pince outalde. British "How," he asks, “ia it done?** In good deal of conventional scorn territorial waters. Our volume of retail sales shows on the pampered Ilves of his dea- —-
a steady rise month by month,cendants, the young fleas of to-day
is, in spite of N.R.A., is falling.
During the last month or two bave seen American, buyers amazed been use were
British awing to pressure of business,
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manufacturers,
who do not have to go through
the mill and rough It ma sturdy forebears did.
their
The pastures of old, the vast
were unable to accept-their orders | woolly hides of mammoths, the for delivery this year. This state impenetrable thicknesses that were
of affairs is, of course, by no means the skins of brontosaurs and general, and applies only to certain
plesiosaurs, the ungrateful texture lines of merchandise. But to en-
"DOWN AND OUT"
Another inunt was about our on- employed. Although the total in those days was stutt compared with the present time, it compared un-counter it at all in a new experience favourably with the United States,
for the American buyer, who writes where almost any man could find s
home by the next mail expressing job at high wages. Our system of Itis ustonishment. unemployment insurance came in for a great deal of abuse.
Our manufacturers were all fifty years
behind the
times. Our honses were wrong, our women did not know how to dress, and we knew nothing about how to govern ourselves successfully.
were
of the pterodactyl's wing. ren tests of vigorous teahood. Later on things became a little easier, though woad was always In nearly every department of woad and an obstacle.
But in life the American finds something those raw days, when ice was in in this country just now which everybody's minds, the great days arouses his surprise and envy.
Our financial stability compels his admiration. Time after time I am asked how many, banks failed here, and I am happy to explain
tu the
In short, we were more or less duisheul, ond all that remained for an was to cast ourselves on mercy of the United States and become a kind of colony of that progressive nation where the m lennium was just round the next
corner,
hig
All that was years ago. In the meantime the United States has passed through an unparalleled co- pression, and those days of pros- perity acem, to the average Amer- ican, like a beautiful dream.
To-day he is an entirely different person, Gone is his conceit, gone awaggering self-confidence. Gone is his sacred belief in the inevitableness of American pros perity and progress. And above all gone for over is hía disparage- ment of Great Britain, at which Hów gazon wonderingly, almost humbly. anxious only to learn how we have achieved our prescht re- lative prosperity. His present opinion la. In fact, flatteringly high, and his progress through London one long mean of praise.
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RETAIL PROSPERITY
From time to time he has read reports of the trading results of British companies, and what has Impressed him, perhaps, more than anything else is the way retail
that, owing our centralised system of banking, which used to arouse his senra, none did.
WORTH COPYING
The once deed unemployment insurance achenie is likely to be adopted in a modified form by President Roosevelt to cope with the huge total of American employed.
Vorsa.les and the Court of the Grand Monarch, the rich Victorian abundance of soft garments and softer ftes was an burevealed heaven which fleas never dream they would ser.
are
and
The Mission will remain one week-from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, as gucats of the R.A.F..
kur mug in lighting sharks or firing Ufs linas to persons in danger of drowning, this now and accurate harpoon gun has been invented by wa American, Mr. C. R, Klein.
STRANGE MONUMENT
Civilisation has been bought al A price. For all their formidable i dificulty, the monstrous animals of prehistory did not enslave their visiting ffens It is gentle modern, man who has not only invented un-deadly powders but has delighted
with barbarle delight to capture i his foes and make them, in brief and bitter lives of servitude, per-
Keblkoff, born without arms and form for his amusement, drawing It is comforting to remember that little carts or working ifttle see the Prater may remember one of its legs, was brought to Vienna by a there is hardly a British institution aws or masquerading in paper most which is not now being studied by eastumes. The
Fascinating roundabouts, circps company and exhibited in fine wire with "The Chinuman" of Calafati. In the Prater, becoming one of its
And so it goes on,
In the midst of our own troubles
Visitors to Vienna who have seen
This curious machine was establish. ed many years ago by a man called |Basilio Calafat, who sold it later
on to Koblkoff.
the erstwhile arrogant American, which a newly captured den is held the centre, standing but upright, in most popular figures. "The China. who is now very much more humble and strives to understand the twenty-four to thirty-six hours:
to a post,, for the period of from a huge wooden figure with a large man" was inherited by his grand- reasons for its relative success.
which is needed to break his proud head, showing the alit eyes of a son, who has now died at the age of The truth is, perhaps, that we and volatile spirit, is a torment mongol and wearing a Chines thirty-two, are an old nation, and possibly the flea of Palmnicken never had queue. The figure circles round "The Chinaman" is one of the wiser than we knew. Nelther to face. The flens of to-day can to the sound of muste, occasionally most popular Viennese roundabout prosperity nor adversity drives us look him in the face, as he lies lifting its tremendous right hand. and it has been suggested that it. to extremes of wild elation or des. there in his comfortable and valu- pair. It is only when one hears able amber, and say that after all, Round him runs the nerve-racking should be scheduled as a national American and other opinions that even if their lives are sweeter, yet railway with its multi-coloured cars monument to prevent it from being one realises how deeply our pro- their courage is not less than his. and strange-looking locomotives. either altered or sold. ·· greas during the last few years has impressed the outside world.
Cerininly, nt the moment United States looks up to us,
the
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