Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February
1939.
BRITAIN CUTS BILL FOR IMPORTS
BRITAIN'S overseas buying is costing us less.
Although food and tobacco bill was just as heavy in 1938 as in 1937, imports of raw materials and manufactur- ed goods cost less.
Many articles were cheaper than a year ago. We also curtailed our buying in many directions.
We bought, for instance, £19,142.785 less raw cotton in 1938 than in 1937, 413,872,264 less timber, and £9,445,604 lean raw wool.
Here is food for thought. We ordered 4,790,907cwt. more wheat during the year, but it cost us £11,226,034. less owing to a slump in world wheat prices following the bumper harvests of 1938.
"On the other hand, butter imports cost us £3,471,774 more but the quantity received was a mere 90,842cwt, larger.
Eggs took an extra £1,930.621 this
time. This item does not include ega "liquid or frozen from China," on additional items in the Board of Trade returns, which cost us £2,500,- 305, or £450,800 ilan in 1937.
more
We are einoking ever more and This luxury took nore tobacco. £5,330,032 more than in 1037, the total bill being £23,344,300.
These are just a few of the more curious facts tikdilen in the figures of the December returns of the Board of Trade.
ADVERSE BALANCE DOWN Here are the official figures for 1930, compared with 1037:
Imports Exportx
Decrease 1930 on 1037
£
£
13,525,69
Walks After
Two Years
Meet London's happiest parents:
Curlsh. of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elenborough Rood, N.
ilere are Gustav Froelich, German actor whose friends are reported to have seriously beaten Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, and Froellel's Brst wife, the singing actress Gitta Alpar, on honeymoon in Egypt. Froelich was forced to divorce her because she was the daughter of a Hungarian Jewish rabbi,
"MOST INCONVENIENT HOUSE
Recently they saw their eight- 66 year-old son Philip walk unaided for the Grst time for two years; he cross-i ed the floor of a ward in the Royal Northern Hospital.
thigh and his jaw, During the next nine months he developed a lung ab- seems, septicnemia, an infection of the knee-joint and heart trouble.
Two years ago he fell 10ft. out of ..... 920,437,580 107,306,842
a window at his parents' old home (Brit.) 470,803,189 50,508,005n Holloway Road, N.. breaking; hin Re-exporis. 01,607,903 Total exports 532.491,474 04,033,80
Owing to the cut in imporis, our adverse balance of merchandise trade was reduced by £43,353,151, com- pared with that of 1937, although it was a high at £387,946.112.
"A MIRACLE"
Then he had a "walking, calliper" fited to his leg and with this he was
Of the total decrease in British ex-able to make a few steps. Later, in ports,
Aurea 283.875 was in intrufac- the presence of his parents, he walks-!
crease.
+
EVER" IS-A CASTLE
Squandered £100,000 In Four Years
ced
A man who was stated to have fortune of more than
11
nt
But Soon It Will Go Modern
Machinery made theed around the ward, "My ler does spent best showing, with a substantial in-not hurt now when I walk on it," £100,000 in four years was senten- Sessions Quarter Textile
Bucks exports, nawever, Philip sald.
TRIDGE CASTLE, Tunbridge Wells, suffered considerable shrinkage.
family mansion of the Marquis LESS COTTON EXPORTED "We never thought we should nee recently for fraud.
Charles Edgerley (54), of West
as "he most by his counsel In cotton, the quantity of plece him walk ngain." Philip's father said.
hard ventent house that was ever bullt," Koods exported fell by 534,074,000 "It is nothing short of a miracle that Street, Marlow, a timber merchant, of Abergavenny, described in court
India took C3,200,000 he has recovered so completely after was ordered three months
labour for forging a receipt in cons to be modernised. square yards.
so much illness," square yards less, walle there was a
nection with a deal he was about to drop in chipments to British West A member of the hospital staff Atrien of 107,428,000 square yards,
stated that Philip may to home in transact with another timber mer- Motor-cars and parts showed a de- fortnight. "As well as helping him chant.
Detective-Sergeant Wright
These Dogs Made News
A dog who remembered his tricks saved a house from destruc- tion at Totton, near Southampton, recently.
Don, a Dalmatian had been left in charge of the house by his mistress, Mira, E. M. Wheeler. teacher in a local school. A coal fell from the fire on to a mat, setting alight, incon-
chair. Don Jumping on to a pulled back the window catch with his teeth, pushed down the window and barked for help. Neighbours put the fire out.
The constant loot-foot of motor horn disturbed the enngregation during the scrimen at St. James's Church, Dover.
cree of £1.000, but now ships to walk. the calliper is resting his leduring the war Edgerley amassed a posed alterations were improvements
L4,417,014
were up
Coal exports showed a decrease of only £242,562 in value, but the quantity
tel: 4,477,122 tons.. shipped On the import side, raw materins registered decrease of £67,032,001 at £247,602,873, while manufactured Koods were down £41,059,075 at £231,811,622,
The food, drink, and tobacco sectiun showed an increase of £278,192 at
£431,377,800.
Exports of British goods and pro-
dues
ber
from £100,000
Application was made in the Chan- cery Division reeenlty to obtain a de- snid claration by the Court that the pro-
and strengthening it. He will need
within the meaning of the Settled further massage and treatment, but fortune
settlement could pay the cost up to in time his leg should be almost as Government contract work. Accord-Lands Act, and that die trustees of a
inf to his own
he statement strong as ever."
squandered this money in the four half the annual income out of cap!-
Lal. years after the war.
Lion Fatal In Death
Nairobi, Tanganyika.
A mun-cating lion which terrorized
of
Over
During that time he unsuccessfully fought # Parliamentary election.
Fate Foils Pastime
YARMOUTH, N. S.
Mr. Justice Bennett granted a de- daration that the trustees could pay 238.400 out of capital towards the improvements of the castle.
FOR FAMILY'S SAKE Built in the nineteenth century, Eridge Castle stands in beautiful woodland. Many trees were planted
Someone went out to profert. He found that a dog left In a saloon car had climbed into the front seat and was impatiently sounding the horn with its paw.
Jew Who Escaped
in December amounted to £39.- district near Kigoma, Tanganyikų, Robert Bouillier, 10, lng been 098,555
or £3,824,088 less than in killed five villagers before its death forced to give up his favourite pas-by members of the royal house,
The Marquis said that the Improve- November, but December contained and caused the death of a sixth man. time of hunting for birds' nesta. The one working day less than in Novem-Jumping up and down with foy when boy saw a nest in a high tree and ments were to be to the interior of he heard that the man-enter hnd climbed up to see what was in it. the castle. The exterior would re-
main unebanged.
Lord Rothschild told a Glasgow "I have felt for some time," he audience about the experiences of a Imports, against November, been shot by a native polleeman, the ite discovered, too late, that it was Stung, he fell 30 showed a decline of £3,908,625 at sixth man fell on a spear and was a hornet's nest.
said, "that the premises definitely Jew who has escaped from the Ger- killed. £74,122,071.
feet, breaking both arms.
needed bringing up to date. A con-man concentration camp at Buchen- siderable amount of ulteration is 10-wald. cessary.
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"I am not doing it for my boneft, but for the future of the easite and for the sake of my family. The life of the castle will be lengthened by the work to be carried out.
"An entire wing will be modernised and we will use it as our residence.”
HUNT DEATH RECALLED
The Marquis added that he felt he ought to make the application to the Court before undertaking the An- provements and he was very glad it had been granted.
When he arrived at the camp it was announced that none of the Jews would be allowed to have unything to drink for two days. On the second lay his brother-in-law walked into the prison courtyard. It was raining and he raised his head to catch some drops of water.
He was punished for that. A huge wolfhound was set on him and he was severely hitten,
On the night of the third day 14 Shortly people in the cell went mad. afterwards troopers came in and brat His uncle, the third Marquis, who these 14 people to death. was killed while taking part in a
13 our bollet that unless the children's meet of the Eridge Hunt at Jews In Germany nre got out of Groombridge, Sussex, in January, Germany within two years, vast 1938, lived at Eridge Castle, and the proportion of them will be in con- Marchioness lived there until recent-centration camps like Buchenwald and Dachau," said Lord Rothschild.
ly.
New British Destroyers
Two
Glasgow.
destroyers of the K. class
were inunched recently on the Clyde Picture Frame
|--the Kelvin, by the Fairfield Ship- building and Engineering Company, Govan, and the Kipling, by Yarrow and Co., Scotstoun.
Risk In Trains
The Kelvin was launched by Lady In a number of railway accidents Hetherington, wife of Sir Hector minor injuries have been caused by Hetherington, Vice-Chancellor of the broken glass from photograph frames University of Glasgow and then compartments, states Colonel A. C. former Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool | Trench, Chief Inspector of Accidents University. Mrs. Dambridge, daugh to the Transport Ministry, in a report Univer Rudyard Kipling, performed issued recently adds, is thin and it the naming ceremony at. Messrs.
This Yarrow's of the destroyer called after her father.
Sir James Lithgow,
glass, he
might be worth considering its
elmínation by the provision of seme chairman of other form of transparent covering. the Fairfield Shipbuilding and En- The report concerns the collision gineering Company, speaking after between a passenger train and a light the lunch of the Kelvin, urged the engine on September 10 nt Eldersto reorganization of the shipping in- Station on the Glasgow suburban dustry to bring it into line with the system of the L.M.S.
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steel and shipbuilding industries, Many pamengers were injured, most which had already been organised, of them slightly, but one subsequently While, he said, it was well known died
from meningitis. When the that the British merchantile marine accident occurred the light engine, had been built up to its position of in charge of Driver Robson, supremacy in the days of free trade, standing in the alation.. and that the great supplying Indus Colonel Trench states in his con- tries of shipbuilding and steel clusion that the accident would not making had shared in its prosperity have occurred but for simultaneous free trade in the old senso did not failures by
two
men. Stenolman axist to-day. O
McLellan, who averlooked the pre- The necessary internal reorganizuance of the light engine, and Driver tion had been carried out in the
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