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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, August 11, 1937.
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NEW VICTOR DANCE RECORDS
25323 Speedboat B1.
Trees. FT.
FT.
25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby. F.T.
Until The Real Thing Comes Along.
25105-Now Or Never. F.T.
Darling, Not Without You. FT.
25448-Little Old Lady. F.T.
F.T.
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
"Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
Ruby Newman's Orchestra.
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
Benny Goodman's Quartet.
Xavier Cugal's Orchestra.
Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You. F.T.
Now. F.T.
26481-Whispering. F.T.
Tiger Raz, F.T.
25503-Las Palmeras, Rumba
Inspiration. Tango.
25514-Moonlight And Shadows.
F.T......
25530-I Can't Break The Habit Of You, F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
You're Laughing At Me. F.T.
25552-Shaft We Dance, F.T.
For You. F.T.
25553-Turn Off The Moan. F.T.
Jammin', F.T
It's No Becret I Love You. FT.
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DEATH
CAN FRANCE HOLD THE FRANC?
which did not command the >[ the business.
...+++++++ asks*++++++++ confidence
HARTLEY
WITHERS
classes. Everybody knows what mistrust of
Government
巍
means; but this talk about over- valued currency and devaluation is still a puzzle to many and needs explanation.
Until September last, when
the authority on inter- the last devaluation of the franc
national finance author of "Money
say that anyone who bought the Melting Pot."
French goods, either by import- ing them or by going to France is HAT the and spending money there, got meaning of all 75 franes worth of goods for this trouble every pound spent.
and was carried out, the French ex- change ruled at about 75 francs in to the pound, which meant to
66 W
about
the
the
franc? And But devaluation can restore where is it going to end?" the selling power of a people These are the questions to only if the price-level is kept
fairly steady. This was which thousands of people point in which we were so lucky are wanting answers, people when we devalued in 1931-the to whom these problems of tendency of world prices was
then downward, and exchange, once left to
internal price-level moved only bankers and economists, to a slight extent and those who are in these times an almost bought from us got the full ad- receiving more vantage of pounds for their money.
SULLIVAN—AL His residence, 13, daily nuisance.
Dragon Terrace, Causeway Bay, on August 10, 1037, Charles Des Voeux Sullivan, aged 57, late of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. The cortege will pass the Monument at 5.15 pan. to-morrow.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937,
WAR PORTENTS
Prospects of pacific adjust- Paul Whiteman's Orchestroment of the Sino-Japanese .Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, quarrel appear to be definitely receding. The news of the past
25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-nigli. F.T.
25501-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz ......Xavier Cugal's Orchestra: few days suggests that Japan is in a mood to settle the dis- Bunne Berigan Orchestra. pute by force rather than 25504–There's A Luil In My Life, F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra. through diplomatic channels. Her withdrawal from Hankow, Carelessly. F.T. 25566-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed, F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra. and the Yangtsze Valley gen-
I Know Now.
'Cause My Baby Says It's 9o. F.T.
F.T.
25567- Ilum A Wallz. Waliz
Hold Me Tight. Waltz.
erally, strengthens this belief Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
rather than otherwise. This .Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.step has been represented by 25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra. Japanese official circles as in-
25509-Let's Call The Whole Thing Of. F.T,
Without Your Love. F.T.
Sweet Heartache. FT,
25573-Wake Up And Live. F.T.-.
Sleep. FT.
dicative of a desire to respect
territorial .Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. China's
integrity.
as
Rising Prices
So our
Fate of the Franc
is in their
hands
Two
Classes of
prople will play an important part in deelding the fate of the frane. The pictures show a Acene of the I'arts Bourse and whose in women peasant "stockings" is said to be a big reserve of wealth.
own, or control the investment
Simplifying the matter much as possible, it may be said that France is now suffering from just the same difficulties as As we all know, prices have of, the public's money.
couraging rather than checking the desire of property owners to look for safety abroad.
Not Desperate AND at the same time the extremist supporters of the Popular Front thought, up- parently, that devaluation gave them a splendid opportunity for securing improvements in the pay and conditions of the work- ers-an excellent object to work for, at the right time.
Such a sequel to devaluation could have only one result-the necessity for another, as has just been proved; and now the devaluation problem has to be faced all over again, and the caus that led to this fresh crisis have to be dealt with more effectively this time. But the position of France, though difficult and dangerous, is far from desperate.
She has been promised the support of America and of Great Britain, and this support, in the present state of world politic, we may be sure she can rely on receiving in full measure. It is a question of getting this great rich and eminently sensible Also, this Government had people to see that a chaotic finan- and managed to solve, partly by especially in France, owing to come into power pledged to cial position, and measures that the great effort that we made to well-meant measures by which balance the Budget and had, frighten the owners of capital, put our finances straight, partly the Government there has been before our a devaluation happen- by being forced to abandon the trying to raise the standard of ed, by measures of retrenchment life of the working population. and increases in taxation which
those which we faced in 1931
Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. tion is that it is a stragetic pound to be "devalued.""
YORK BUILDING
TO-DAY
AT THE
KING'S THEATRE
GEORGE ARLISS
in
of
currency
and
1
an over-valued
Socialist Government
been moving up since the autumn of last year,
and
can but lead to disaster.
The Remedies
only by the old-fashioned When prices rise in a country had been loyally accepted by the THE position can be put right by as much as the currency is nation as a whole, given practical remedies of a balanced Budget, imposed taxation devalued in exchange with the evidence of its determination to equitably moneys of other nations, de- do so. Government and people promptly and readily paid, and valuation, instead of being a were at one in their determina- a united effort by all parties to get their problem solved and the stimulus to trade and business,
tion to impose and support any
financial and industrial prestige becomes a source of uncertainty and mistrust, because it makes sacrifices that might be needed of France restored, so that the people think that it may have to put things right.
lamentably otherwise.
grent mngs of French money
owners.
to be done again; and so they In France it has been mest that has sought refuge abroad send money abroad, as French-
The may be brought home by its men have been doing so per-
may These remedies sistently, and since there is little Government, instead of trying
to demand for francs on the part to win the confidence of those of foreigners, there is a drain on who control the industry and casier to prescribe than
swallow, and French habits and the country's stock of gold financial resources of the coun- traditions may make them less -which increases the mistrust. try and so induce them to bring simple to apply in her case than
People Who Make This Week Interesting
The British
By C. A. LYON
Queen Who Was Sued For
Divorce
trowded by cheering people, who,
Beem
Its taxes were producing £10 m year, so the local Inhabitants thought the time for elvic dignilles had
come.
Ten years later it passed
a by- forbidding hogs to roam the population to-day is
A still more important dif- home the immense sums that in ours; but on the other hand, ference between France's posi- they had placed abroad in search the danger that France faces if tion and England's when we of safety, tried to deal with she lets matters drift are so menacing that her statesmen with rough handed should have little difficulty in was the fact that we had a methods, imposing on industry persuading her people to make The more reasonable explana- gold standard and allow the faced our devaluation problem, them
Government which was support conditions which made profit the necessary sacrifices. At the root of our difficulties, ed by the great majority of earning out of the question; move, determined, first, by fear
All well-wishers of France and CHATER ROAD. of possible isolation in case real as now in the case of France, those who organise and direct threatening those who did not
our industrial and business bring their money home with of the cause of freedom will war breaks out; secondly, by was
activities, and also of those who penalties; and otherwise en- hope earnestly for their success. the knowledge that Chiang Kai- shek's best troops are stationed in Central China; and, lastly, by a recognition of the danger of clashing with foreign in-
evacuation terests. The Japanese nationals from South China areas need not be taken as presaging any aggression by Japan in these parts; It is more likely to have been dietated by a THE Queen of Great Britain; sued by the King for realisation of the jeopardy in divorce, the intimate details of
by the At last it was feared which these isolated communi-her private life paraded in
would follow, streets. The ties might be placed in the event public-it seems incredible,
guilty a revolution Yet happened only last century believed her innocent. The ships Cabinet that if the Queen were found law
half months after it 3,350,000, of war. Here, again, the de-
to Queen Caroline, who died, broken-were decorated with bunting.
Every night she bowed to the Two and
started it was announced that the Wife Of Two Men velopments suggest that Japan hearted, this week in 1821.
It was probably the most sensa- crowds from her windows.
The Crown witnesses were nearly proceedings would stop. expects hostilities very shortly.
tional case in British history.
lynched. Eun- Revolutions threatened. A The failure of Mr. Kawagoe
Her Gipsy Hat IV.-spent! King-George to proceed to Nanking, together boat protected witnesses. with the evacuation of the thousands of pound on spies who
iler Majesty came to the House of families of Chinese officials in collected his evidence against the Lords dressed in a gipsy but with the capital, also tends to confirm Queen, who was then over forty,
Indiscreet. eccentric Caroline wash binck whg. the view that big-scale fighting
The lords bowed as she took a seat Viewing excluded from Court by a husband may soon
As soon as the first witness up- courier, announcing Napoleon's Japan's action as a whole, the who hated hier so much that when beside her counsel. impression gained is that she is death, said, "Sire, your Majesty's peared the Queen screamed "Truitor!"
Lord Dalmeny was horrified. To a fury.
avoid scandal he took a false name, replied, "Is slie, by Gou!"
Then followed evidence that kept:
That coronation was the biggest and tried to smuggle the body into the point of going to war, but
So Caroline wandered all over the Europe in a frenzy for weekn.
Stories of the Queen living in a in history, costing £250,000, includ- the country at Colchester. But the £24,000 for the King's own coffin was opened by a Customs offi- that she plans, if possible, to
Continent with a handsome Hallan to
in his shirt- robes, which flunkeys had exhibited cer who thought he was going to. North
Berguni. He tent in the Holy land-in which g scrvant, Bartolomeo confine hostilities
days detect a haul of contraband. China, where she is bent on re- had been a courier. She had had Bergami
him made a knight and a baron. sleeves. How they fed each other to him like mannequins for
Nothing was lucking except the The King had them watched. A with tender morsets in pantries. The before.
Lord Dalmeny was now under the taining the hold she has already
Queen, who was pressing through gravest suspicion and he had to re- secured. Any attempt to sub- special commission, comprising a servant feeding the Queen with a
the crowd outside to try to guin nd-veal the whole story. colonel, u KC., and a solicitor, trall-spoon. jugate China as a whole woulded her and spent-5:30,000 on their.
mission, but was refused by orders assis the queen in the bath and had
How Bergami had been scen be the height of folly; Japan's travels.
Then in 1820 the Queen was called for more hot water.
soon afterwards the King even tried united to honour the memory of the military leaders must be fully
They were reen kissing. conscious of that point. More brought to book before the House
Had the Queen really sat on his to stop her corpse coming through woman who had deceived them both. London, and there was a riot in- Lord Dalmeny had a splendid comr over, there is danger in attempt-
As the Queen came down to Weal-bed with her arm round his neck?
The landlord of an hotel at volving two deaths round the royall made for her and he and the par- over large, minster by water the banks were operations
what he had seen funeral procession betwen the mill-zon followed it to the grave. ing
Trieste told through the keyhole. The Queentary and sympathetic crowds, scattered areas; hence the de sire to confine hostilities to the part of Japan. It is difficult addressing Bergam! as "My heart," and presenting him with a picture North China. The full inten- to see what other policy is pos-of herself daringly dressed.
lovers caught kissing by tions of the Nanking Govern-sible at this juncture. To give ment have yet to be disclosed, in now would be merely to in-acrvants.
The great Brougham's speech for her but everything points to vite further inroads
the Queen's defence was nublime. resistance sovereignty in armed
the days to peer rushed from the House in policy of
leara. against any fresh aggression on come.
"THE GUV'NOR"
A Gaumont British Pictura
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The scenes that followed have only since been equalled on Armistice night 1018. Every town in the coun- try was lit up for three days.
Every carriage in London was taken to spread the glad news in
STRANGE story survives the death on August 11, 1755, of Lord Dalmeny, son of Lord Rosebery. He married a woman whom he together. During a tour of the Con- met in London. They lived happily She called Unent she was taken ill When George said he would not for paper, and wrote: "I am the wife have the Queen in any royal palace
the home counties.
a subscription was started to build of the Rev. Mr. Gough, rector of Thorpe, in Essex, and my lust request Is to be buried at Thorpe." Then she died.
her
a new one.
Caroline was not to live long.
fowed soon after.
prepared to contest the issue to Kreatest enemy is dead." George and rushed from the Chamber like George's coronation ceremony fol-1
of Lords.
on
The
was БЕСТЬ
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The real husband was summoned.
of the King. died of a broken heart There was a dramatic meeting. They
When she
Birth Of Chicago
HIS weeks In 1833 Chicago become 隐 town. It was a cluster of
'General Nikkul-Seyn
THIS week in 1057 Britain was in the throes of the Indian Mutiny. Among those killed later was the fourteen houses, an American fron-extraordinary General John Nichol-.
son, the Englishman who became Her post.
(Continued on Page 5.)
Its name was She-Kng-Ong "the god. place where the wild onfons grow,"