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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1037,
WATER FACTS NEEDED
Whilst the promised Sessiona! Paper may thrów further light on the facts underlying the imposition of water restrictions on the island, the official reply to Mr. M. K. Lo's question on the subject leaves the matte. largely unexplained. The. out- standing fact is that although the latest returns show no less than 1,452 million gallons in storage on the mainland, com- pared with 441 million gallons a year ago-in other words, far more than the peninsula needs
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HORN-RIMMED SPECTACLES craze started in 1922. OXFORD BAGS craze, started by Oxford undergraduates, brightened summer 1925.
In Eights Week at Oxford trousers a yard round were worn.
YO-YO was the rage of the last six months of 1982:
BEAVER! For about twelve months, starting in 1922, people should "Beaver!" after
every one with a beard.
BULL-NOSED CARS. Late 1926 was the peak time for bull-nosed Morris cars. ETON CROPS were at their peak in early 1926.
Guns are Bread &
A woman is ruler
VER Essen at night island has run so short of sup
there is a red glare plies that rationing. has had to be instituted, The
in the sky. It comes given for the imposition of and goes as the giant fur- these restrictions are (1) deple-nace doors down below in tion of the island reservoirs by the town open, and shut. a prolonged drought, plus ex- ceptionally heavy consumption, and (2) the fact that the Shing Mun waters can at present be brought only to the level of the Public Gardens service reser-
The echoes of the clanging doors penetrate to every part of the world, some see in the red sky the glow of
war.
voir, thus serving only a strip For Essen Is Kruppa and of the city. The point which Krupps another word for the
instantly suggests itself is that tools of war.
Her Butter
-of the great German armament firm of Krupps-the woman who gave her name to the Big Bertha gun.
Krupps, in announcing their first dividend for twenty years, are shy of the word armaments.
Similarly British-firms are shu_of_the_ word. Latest reports of the Birmingham Small Arms Company stresses that a profts jump £158,018 in 1935 to 278,957 in 1936 toas due to normal trading activities
without the assistance of the Government's defence pro-
gramme.
Vickers, Ltd., showed a profit last year of £1,380,279, an increase of nearly £400,000 on the previous year. Their earnings on Ordinary capital showed a yield of 16 per cent. Their Ordinary shares have a par value of £6,157,741. Recently the market value of these shares
1005 £21.167.483.
Hnce of armour-piercing shells, last year declared a
Ltd., of Sheffield, the only Arm in the country with top dividend of 7 per cent, the first since 24 per cent. was declared in 1929. So far this year they have declared an interim of 34 per cent, on their Ordinary shares. Last year's profits were £158,993. The par value of their Ordinary shares is £920,892. Recently their market value was £3,000,000.
And latest market quotations show that investors expect even greater profits.
WHEN he died he left
no Crown Prince to succeed him. Only two gizle. The elder of these, Bertha, suc- ceeded him in 1002, became the world's first "Cannon Queen.” -Sald-one writer at the time: It. was "an event as romantić, as- when a young princess Inherita a throne."
No question then of an Amer can claiming the title of "the. richest girl in the world." These Krupps girls won easily. Even in that conservative and reti- cent age the income from the Kruppa worka was estimated at a million sterling a year.
If she wasn't a princess in her own right she was treated is one; she made her debut into society under the patronaga of unknown the Kaiser himself,
The "Cannon Queen" ruled
REVOLVING round the
"Cannon Queen's”.........
Not for twenty years have fourteen to direct the little made possible was the drought and exceptionally Krupps paid & dividend; the business. The widow was one when Alfred died in 1887, heavy consumption merely ex-world has been at peace, troubled, of two women famous in Krupps' though the discerning caught Essen firmly but benevolently, when the Germans marched on in the works or in their homes. plain the depletion of the island but at peace. Now Krupps an- history; the boy became a great a glimpse of what it might be little passed among her workers.
metallurgist. nounce a profit for 1995-96 of
that she did not know about. reservoirs; they bear no relation £1,200,000-about 9 per cent. on
Still, they were not a big Paris in 1870. business. Even by 1845 they THE "Cannon King's" She studied housing and hygiene, to the question of making good share capital of £13,300,000.
workmen,
Crown Prince was applied her knowledge to her the deficiency from the main- Krupps have moved up in the employed only 122
world's great business from scarcely did more than pay their Friedrich Alfred Krupp, born at model dwellings.
She took time off for that, bút Essen in 1854. With him the she really directed the giant. land supplies. What is needed their start just over a hundred way. is a definite statement of the and twenty 'years ago.
BUT in 1847 Krupp dynasty took a new twist...
bualness she Inherited. made 蟲 3-pounder His ancestors had been techni- reasons why "the Shing Mun
ROUND about that time muzzle-loading gun of cast steel, cal men, engineers and metallur. water can at present be brought
a twenty-three-year the first, but not the last, gun gists. He became a financier in throne were, perhaps naturally, only to the level of the Public old man bought a small forge in that made Krupp famous. the business, and as he 'counted
Essen, worked on the problem Gardens service reservoir." The of manufacturing cast steel. His
Then at the Great Exhibition and planned in his office the many seeking the position of prince consort. Naturally, not: only because she was very rich; : Government denies that the pre-name was Friedrich Krupp. of London in 1851 the brilliant businces boomed, expanded. sent difficulty has anything to
In 1816, while Wellington was Krupp showed a flawless ingot He looked beyond the town of but because she was not un-
of cast steel weighing two-tons, Essen not only to sell his wares pleasing personally. do with the capacity of the giving Napoleon his final defeat It was more than a lump of but also to make them. He "Gentle, sweet-faced woman. trans-harbour mains or of the at Waterloo, Friedrich put his steel, it was a sensation. The leased the "Germanin" ship of unassuming yet dignified de filtration plant on the island, al-steel on the market. Nobody little works at Essen became building yard at Kiel. Six years meanour was how a London re-
thought much of it, at any
later, in 1902, when the last porter of the time desribed her. though it significantly adds that rate they bought little of his world famous. "both these subjecta afford pro- | product.
Another Invention followed, generation to go into the great She chose Dr. Gustav von: the manufacture, of weldless War was in its cradle, it passed Bohlen und Halbach, a young. blems for the future." The After Friedrich's death the steel tyres for use on railways. into the hands of Krupps. The diplomat, who added Krupp to layman, taking into account the works were carried on by his The profits began to pile up, but wars to come would be fought his own aristocratic name when
he married her in 1906. fact that Kowloon has more widow and son Alfred, who, as water than it needs and that the eldest son, left school at Krupps then, as now, were con- on sea and land.
servative.
Not a bad employer, though, Busy times were coming Hongkong has not enough, can
They put the profits back into this financial Krupp. In his Europe was arming all round for only conclude that there is has taken place in the pipes and the works, used them to develop time was started the model its great struggle. Germany something wrong with the cross.that there is wastage of water artillery, guns, war materials settlement which arose out of was beginning to challenge... harbour pipe distribution sys-through seepage. And It is also until finally the name of Krupps the problem of housing the in- Britain's power on the seas. The German Navy was expand- feared creasing workers of Essen. tem. It may be mere hair-quite possible, that there have was known-and
throughout the world. From that sprang the various Armour plate and guns, tons ing, Krupps expanded with it.. splitting to say that it is, not a been engineering miscalcula- question of the "capacity" of the tions. At any rate, the public Alfred Krupp became the "colonies," separate villages dott of them, and in 1908 to the
Cantion King the term "mor- ed around the edges of the town, pipes, but that the pipos are not is entitled to ask the precise rea- chant of death" had not hoen with schools and libraries, clubs yielding the results expected is sons why Shing Mun water.can- Invented then; nor did anybody and playing fields. beyond dispute. There are rum- not be made available to the at that time look askanco at his He brought the number of ours that considerabló corrosion Island as u whole:
trade, War on the scale Kruppa Essen's workers up to 40,000.
20,000,000 capital of Krupps an other two and a half millions word" added. VREE
Then the war
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