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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936.
U. S. Ship Subsidy Menace
And Hongkong
BRITISH
IN THE
SERVICES PACIFIC
The decision of British shipping companies to with- draw their services from the Pacific may seriously affect Hongkong, according to a Correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph.”
The writer states that, in addition to the Canadia- Australia and San Francisco-Australia British services, existing British services between Hongkong and Van- couver may be affected.
NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.
F289.
BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936, Selection PLEASE TEACHER. 'Selection. Pianoforte Solos. Patricia Rossborough,
F292, EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT, Selection BIG BROADCAST OF 1936.Selection. His Rhythm,
SERENADE. (Heykens)
Phil Green &
DESSYE KILLINGS
F287.
.F285.
F286.
I FEEL A SONG COMIN' ON, Vocal. Leslie Hutchinson EAST OF THE SUN.
The service between Van- The tourist class continued to at- couver and Sydney, via Newtract a large share of the travelling Zealand, is run by the Canadian- public, but it was doubtful if even Australian Line, a subsidiary of a sharp reduction of rates would the P. & O. line. Similarly the indice a flow of cheap traffic.
When the alterations they intend- Orama, service between San Francisco
ed currying out to the and Sydney is run by this line..
Oronsay. and Otranto were com)- The Vancouver-Sydney, service has already been suspended, as a pleted, they would choose an ap protest against the subsidy granted propriate title under which to offer American liners by the U.S. Govern- the public travel at a rate lower ment. This subsidy, it is state and conditions lesa luxurious than bombardments
British makes it impossible for vessels to compete with the Ameri- cans on Pacific waters.
·
tourists..
The Hon. Alexander Shaw, chair. man of the P. and O., announcing at the general meeting of the com- pany on December 11 the with- Australasia-San drawal of the
It is interesting to note that the subsidy is paid to American vessels trading between the United States Francisco service, said this was due and Hongkong in competition with to the disastrous effect of highly the unsubsidised Canadian Pacific subsidised foreign competition. line.
It was stated on Sunday that Mr. The withdrawal of British shin. Lyons, Australian Prime Minister, ping from the Pacific was referred would probably suggest a confer to last month by the Liverpolence of the British. Australian and Chamber of Commerce, who urged New Zealand Governments to con rosider the problem bf British ship- the British Government to
ping in the Pacific, af the Dominions operate with Canada and Australia to preserve these services, and by Sir Alan Suits For Man Anderson, deputy chairman of the Orient Steam Navigation Co.
The Liverpol Chamber of Com- meren passed the following resolu- tion:
That the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce views with grave concern the recent announcement of the withdrawal of Empire ships linking Australia zond
A wound --Abyssinian soldier he. Dessye following one of the Italian dresy a vedere suffer a
AIR TRAINS NOW
Air-trains are the nearest thing in aviation. Recently a train" consisting of three gilders and a tow plane inde 1,000-mile light aeross Russia. Both gliders and plane were staffed entirely with women.
These new Russian giklers are ordinary gliders. They can each carry eighteen passengers or an equivalent weight of freight. and Soviet authorities are export- ing to use them in all cases where speedy transport is essential.
SCIENTIST'S RAINBOW HUED WAISTCOATS
New Zealand With Veteran of 87 Women's Dress
San Francisco, and the possibility in the near future of a similar withdrawal of the Canadian- Australian Line services between such Dominions and Vancouver, and
of the British services between Vancouver and longkong.
with-
"That the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. regards such drawnis as
"Too Drab”
Sets Example "Too
IF you want to make the world a brighter place, wear
coloured clothes.
This is the advice of the veteran scientist Professor
a menace to the in- Henry E. Armstrong, who is 87 and who was elected to the dependence of the British Empire. Royal Society nearly 60 years ago,
and the development of its trade.
Recently, he appeared at a dinner in the Working Men's College, St. Pancras, N.W., wearing a magenta waistcoat with one lapel blue and the other mauve,
I Was dis- garb Was
10
"The termination of such services will result in the flag of the British Merchant Marine being driven off
He told the company that. he respondent. But routes served for many years by British shipping, and would break had designed it in memory of a appointed his
vital link in-Empire.communica-grent: chemist who was once his gayer than my own. He wore a luns,
teacher, and explained that the sober-blue-serge-suit, white shirt "Further it sees in this develop chemist introduced these colours and soft collar, with a blue-and- ment that unemployment will be in the early days of aniline dyes.white spotted tle and brown shoes. I expressed my disappointment, nccentuated in the shipping and
His "Sunday Best" Ahipbuikling Industries.
Chamber
Recently I visited the professor He shot an amused glance at me "The Council of the
brows and said: "Yes, I'm not accordingly most earnestly draws to discover how dazzling his "Sun-from under his bushy, white eye-
his Majesty's day best" might be, writes a cor
very gay to-day, it's true; but I've the attention
Immediate the Government to
plenty of bright things to wear for policy of
whenever I feel the need necessity for reaching a
colour. co-operation with the Governments of the Dominions to preserve the existence of British Empire ship- 'ping services on the Pacife routes,
of
Subsidised Competition
Sir Alan Anderson was speaking at the annual meeting of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. in London.
Subsidised foreign competition, he said, would secure for the Ameri can lines a monopcly of the Pacific route to Australia unless the British Empire sustained the old-establish- ed British linos on the Pacific.
The British lines were not belug driven off the sen by their own failure. They were not asking for a subsidy to shelter or condone in- efficiency, but no private nurse could compete against the concentrated wealth of a great nation.
Sir Alan added that the title "third class" was out of date for ships, and denoted conditions which were also out of date. Third, class passengers, who for more than 60 years were such important custom- ers, had now practically ceased to travel to Australia,
SALESMAN SAM
Scouts Drop The
Swastika
The swastika, symbol of light, life and glory, symbol, also, of Nazi Germany, is to be dropped from two badges. used by the British Boy Scout movement.
One is the Thanks badge, awarded in recognition of service to Scouts and Scout- ing; the other is the Medal of Merit, a comparatively rare distinction.
an
"The decision was made by the council of the Boy Scouts' Association," official explained. "It is es- sential that nothing should. be worn by Scouts to which objection might be taken. There are no politica in our movement; it embraces all creeds."
LOOKA HERE, YOU! THESE SCAP) THASS FUNNY, CHIPS YA SOLD MY WIFE ARE NO GOODI THEY DON'T EVEN
* MAKE SUDS!
MR. JOYBOY, 'CAUSE WESÉLY ONLY THE BEST SOAP CHIPS!
LEMME SEE THEM
CHIPS A SECOND!
"I've waisiconts in all the colours of the rainbow-all my own ideas. wear them when I feel that a touch of colour would be a tonic. "Everybody ought to wear colour. ed clothes," Professor Armstrong went on, in his sharp, emphatic | way. "Do them good. The world's
a very dull place to-day."
I suggested that women, ut any rate, were doing their best to put
a little brightness into life with their clothes.
Men. "Improving"
The professor shook his head im- patlently. "Not a bit of it!" he de- clared. "Women
almost an are
In afraid of colours as men are. the summer they wear practically nothing, and in these dreary winter days they go` about looking more drab than we men do.
"As for men, they're improving slowly, and beginning to wour But tweeds of brighter colours. the trouble with them is that they are afraid of looking conspicuous- they won't do a thing unless every- body else is doing it."
VOLGA SONG. (Lehar), Organ Solos. Marcel Palotti:
WHENEVER I THINK.
MY HEART IS HAUNTED.Vocal, Leslie Hutchinson.
F283. THE GHOST OF DINAH. F. T..
·TRUCKIN', F. T. Nat Gonòlla & His. Georgians. F284. OH PETER
PIDGIN ENGLISH HULA. Nat Gonella & His Georgians F282. GESHWIN FOXTROT MEDLEY: Harry Ray's Tiger Ragamuffins RZ126. SWING, BROTHER, SWING, F. T.
NICKEL IN THE SLOT. F.T. Wingy Mannone & His Orch.
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278.
LULU'S BACK IN TOWN, F. T.
OUTSIDE OF YOU. F. T. (both from "Broadway Con- dolier') Harry Roy & His Orch
F298. CHEEK TO CHEEK, F. T.
THE PICCOLINO, One Step.
Harry Roy & His Orch
(both from "Top Hat")
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Our british, CROSSWORDS
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1 Description of mean boxer
two words).
9 Perhaps an eyet but apparently-
it has a tenant.
10 This old English sport might be tried on the Stock Exchange (two words).
11 Drive.
12 M
a sailor cannot sleep in this part of the rigging.
15 A heraldic device.
17 Part of the body included in 31
down. 18 Scottish lake.
19" on the prow and Pleasure at
the helm" (Gray). 21 Can
2 2 2 2 38 89 E
Can there be no deductions front this number? 22 An old tip to be of value. 23 Name prominent in the begin
ning of Elizabeth's rolgn. 26 Fip about this for the girl. 27 Court.
No.
here.
28. This is usually now from
railwaymen cannot very well rest on this on the line.
33 A quaint but spirited card ganic. 36 Whereon one may talk of love" to a lady one has never met be-. fore (two words). 36 Often Channels have this fish in
them.
37 Outlny,
Down
2 A parasitic worm
B Suitablo material' for a sailor's
elothes?
4 Plant ungil for decorative "pur- poses and often having a mean- ing.
Mythical creature,
6 With this finger, of course, one shows the gardener his job. ·
Mistakes Will Happen
[GO AHEAD! LISSEN, MISTER YESTA? BUT I DAY YER WIFE BOUGHT STILLSAY *SOAP CHIPS ANI
ALSO SOME GRATED D!| CHEESE-THIS IS TH'
THEY'RE
NO
CHEESE!
WOT?
7 The progress of this disease is.
often arrested.
8 This market merchant is not so
12 Unespect all (two words).
13
"Send
peculiarity?
„ten more" (unag.),
14 Strained.
16 Exclaim.
10 Some games on 35 across.
20 Destruction.
24 Touchstone describes the Cir- cumstantial and the Direct var- iety
of this.
27 Much like reverence.
28
Either of two S Coast resorts. 20 Vessel made of nothing beside
light
wood.
31 Part of the lady that includes
17' across. 32 This man is often satisfied with this after 600 at the beginning of this.
34 Euphemism for secondhand.
Yesterday's Solution.
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O YEZ ADMITTANCE LWN IN CHEM ORTERMEN EROTIC UN COMMON
EEN ON IN ON ON BRE VENEER SINGULAR
By Small
MIGOSHI ANLAG NIGHT. SHE MADE A CHEESE PUDDIN
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