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stand in regard to the Crown BRITTON MURDER.

Agents-a system that has been

condemned most trenchantly by

UNEMPLOYMENT.

every newspaper in the Middle, MADRAS PAPER'S “MISLEADING RATIONALISATION THE CAUSE

HEADLINE",

A JUSTIFICATION.

Madras, Aug. 14.

and Far East for at least thirty years to our own personal know- ledge. The Singapore President, in the course of the discussion, mournfully pleased that if the Home Agents received no re- muneration they would go out of came on the Bonch at the Criminal as Mr. Justice Reilly

As soon

murder.

OF IT ?

PROFESSOR'S VIEWS.

London, Yesterday. Professor T. E. Gregory, in a

power

btsiness, to which Mr. Griffith-Sessions of the High Court to-day. presidential address to the Econo- Jones promptly rejoined: "Mr. C. Brooke-Elliott, K.C.; obtain-mic Science section of the British would fur, rather see them go out ed special leave from his Lordship Association, meeting at Bristol, of business than a local "firm."

to mention a matter of urgency. That is the true local spirit to knew, he had appeared for the de- tionalisation and unemployment.

He said that, as his Lordship

discussed the relationship of ra- demonstrate one which is not, ferice in the case in which Privato He said that rationalisation in we fear, instilled sufficiently into Britton had stood charged with the short run was 'not' the remedy some of the merchants in this!

The proceedings of the case had

for unemployment. On the con- Colony in relation to the anti-been reported in the Madras Mall, trary it was a factor making for qunted system of Crown Agents. but on Tuesday last a misleading unemployment. The real problem We have here no Municipal Com-headline, "Soldier confesses his was what use the consumers could mission, but we do have a General of the proceedings,

guilt," had been given to the report make of the margin of purchasing Chamber of Commerce and al

resulting from the re- His Lordship asked Mr. Brooke capture or expansion of markets. Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Elliott if he thought that head-following the reduction of costs in Armed with the decision of the

line had prejudiced the jury against consequence of rationalisation. the accused. Singapore Municipal Commission Mr. Brooke-Elliott replied in the wants, then in the long run ratión If the consumers gratified new they might well plead that no negative, orders be sent to the Crown

His Lordship said that he would employment. Growing producti- alisation would not involve un- Agents at Home unless their in the matter.

consider what action should be taken vity gave society a margin to play quotations are at least three per

with, and this margin Commenting on this, the Madras source from which unemployment cent. lower than those of local Mail saya: suppliers. What seems wise and

The headline complained of was tries

could be relieved. Those coun

which the result of a misunderstanding of standards of life ought to be those

had the expedient for Singapore should be the legal import of the following re- employing the largest proportion highest wise and expedient for Hong ply given by the accused to the of their populations in the supply Kong!

judge on Tuesday:-

of luxuries,

News in Brief.

Quarantine restrictions have been; imposed against arrivals from Manila on account of cholera.

that the Home Agents do not pay as they pay out of Municipali

The Hon. Treasurer of St. John! funds at Home, but the local sup- Ambulance Brigade acknowledges plier has to use his own funds with thanks the receipt of the fol- and incur interest of about Tung Hing Knitting Factory Co., lowing donation to Brigade funds. $25.

Q. When after the shooting you handed over the revolver, did you say. "I have done it?"

Was the

Eventually, hopes must be based on the known elasticity and rea A.: Yes; that is true.

ponsiveness of capitalistic society. The mistake is unfortunate and ing the shocks of the war and post- An organisation eapable of surviv regrettable, and we have made war period, was hardly likely to proper representations to the Court perish because it was learning to in respect thereof.

THOSE BROTHELS.

SUPPRESSION OR CONTROL?

turn the arts of production to bet- ter use in the future than it did during the last hundred years.— Reuter.

FUTURE OF AIRSHIP."

DESIGNER STUDIES FAST- SWIMMING FISHES.

TWICE THE SIZE.

per cent. before handing over the documents at this end against payment. The cost of cable ex- terday Kowloon Inland Lot No. To the Editor of the Straits Times: At the Crown Land Office yes- penses is borne by the Municipal-2388, situated at Tung Choi Street. ity. The local supplier has to pay was sold to Mr.

Sir, One is prompted, to ask. Lo Man-chuen for with regard to the Bill for the con- both ways and in common fairness $49,100. The upset price was solidation and amendment of the should not be called upon to do so about 20,550 square feet and its and girls and the suppression of $41,100. The land has an area of law for the protection of women but be supplied with details at annual rental is $236.

brothels, how such suppression can the same time as they are mailed

really save to the Home Agents Again, local Lindsell took evidence in the case legalised brothels are suppressed signer af the airship R101, in an Yesterday afternoon Mr. R. E. from leading a life of shame. If unfortunate wonien

London, Yesterday, suppliers frequently incur their in which Chinese revenue

Colonel V. C. Richmond, the de- cost of cabling, both ways upon tive No. 62 and six other Chinese of the Government to help the girls of the British Association, at its detec-air ones will multiply and the aim address to the Engineering section business they do not get-one are charged with the unlawfut pos- will be defeated.

session on a motor boat in harbour thels are most undesirable, it must the shape of R101 was decided,

Although hro- firm recently spent $24 on cables on the night of September 2-3, of be realised that they are a neces-

meeting at Bristol, said that before re pig lead and did not get the 834 taels of prepared and 36 taeis sity to a certain section of the pub-special studies were made of fast- tender. On business they do get of raw Persian opizm. After furlic. They are like the safety valve,

ther evidence an adjournment was without which there would exist a future would not merely be a copy the Home Agents have to receive made to Wednesday next.

swimming fishes. There was now a possibility that the airships of the an overriding commission of 14

great source of danger to our girls of the shape of a fish, but their skins per cent.

and womenfolk. Since the enforcement of the re- Brothels sanctioned by the Gov-

would. bear something like As was only to be expected the all medical practitioners, to register trol of the Government Health providing special ducts through. gulation in Canton which requires ernment, are under the direct con- nature of scales or feathers, thus President of the Municipal Com with the Government, there are Officer. mission attempted a defence of more foreign-trained doctors apply-certain rules and regulations and

They have to abide which air entering the nose could the Home Agents.

ing for registration than Chinese is the inmates are subjected to medi-

escape. After giving the report recently made public. by cal examinations. If the Govers. sent indicated an increase in the The trend of development at pre- LOCAL SUPPLIERS HIT.expression to the fifteenth cen, the Bureau of Public Health. There ment really desires to help these

tury axiom that it was their duty are 189 foreign-trained as compared girls and women, it will not do so capacity, within a generation: but size of airships to twice the present to get for the ratepayers every practice in Canton during the first but by stricter laws governing the ships, as distinct from a smaller with 25 Chinese doctors admitted to by forcible elosure of these houses. larger number of smaller air- thing that they could buy in the half of 1930. cheapest possible, market as long as it was of equal value, he asserted that it was not their duty to favour possibly fifteen firms-individual ratepayers of Singapore-at the expense of the Municipal Fund.

London Offices:-S. H. Bywaters &Co., Ltd., 18-38, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C.2.

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1930.

There is very much of interest in a recent discussion in the Singapore Municipal Council on a resolution to accept tenders of the Home Agents only if their quotation is at least three per cent, lower than those of local suppliers; but that in the case of all tenders, when circumstances permit, reference should be made to the Committee for decision.

GEN. KOUTEPOFF.

'SENT TO MOSCOW IN A

HAMPER."

viewpoint.

the

management of the placea. Sly number of large ones, might be. prostitutes are a danger to the pub-more beneficial from an economic lic. They are not localised or sub- jected to medical examination.

He concluded by saying there They are the greatest carriers of filled with helium and driven by Teason why an airship disease..

was no

The suppression of prostitution heavy oil engines, and sheathed in is a problem which not only baffles metal, should not become the safest Europe, but the whole world. form of transpdet yet devised. Where others have failed, can our

Reuter, Government succeed?

Officialdom's defence of the Home Agents did not weigh

Paris, July 20: What should be the object of the greatly with other Commission-events which led to the disappear-disease.

Still another version of the Government is the decimation of Mr. O. P. Griffith-Jones, the jers. Thus, Mr. Wolskel could not ance sponsor of the motion, stated that agree with the President's state, Russian White leader, was given sult?

of General Koutepp, the brothels produce the desired re- Can the suppression of in Madras all orders are placed ment that only fifteen firms were in Paris on July 26,

by a Russian newspaper published demand be checked by legislation?; Can the law of supply and with local suppliers if their price concerned... It Was a matter

Can this simple law of nature be

๒.

Ten Years Ago.

From the "China Motl," September 9, 1920.1

Today's dollar is worth 47-

is not more than five per cent. affecting the whole community, known revolutionary in the time

M. Bourtzoff, who was a well-uppressed? above the Home Agents' quota. Local firms paid taxes, gave em- Koutepoff was kidnapped by Soviet tion, the public must be taught to

As stated previously, it is impos. 24d. of the Tsar, declares tion. He very pertinently pointed (ployment to people and their em-secret agents,

that able to put a stop to prostitu out what doubtless has many a ployees paid taxes. Local firms been relying for information about sure of brothels, but by systematic trade between Hong Kong and on whom he had avoid the evil not by forcible clo-creasing demand in the human hair The fact that there is an in- time and often been experienced were part and parcel of the pres- in Hong Kong-that the Home perity of the country. Pierce and, administered, but as the general tre, only serve the literate clays a United States. Consular.com

the Red Army.

propaganda work. The pamphleta Europe and America is referred to In the motor-car chloroform was issued by the Social Hygiene Cen- Agents are very favourably placed Williams had an office in London, was wounded in the chest during Health films have been shown, but that the stocks of hair in Hong in competition with local sup. They cut local firms' prices and the War he collapsed under the in- always under the auspices of cer- Kong are small, and price have been merce report.. It is mentioned pliers. They receive 1 per cent. their expenditure was in London uence of the drug and died almost tain clubs and associations and on any order they actually nego and the Colony did not benefit by

immediately. tiate or put through under it. Further than that as in the body was then placed in a wicker the films could only benefit these grades of hair, while Europe par

benefit was derived only by a small

advancing rapidly. The demand According to M. Bourtzoff, his section of the public. Moreover, from the United States is almost $100,000 and receive mail advice case referred to they went be hamper, which was sent with other who read English. What about the chases the shorter.

exclusively for the longer, finer of tenders to be called for by auch hind the local firms. Mentioning where it was burnt in the presence who compose the major portion of

diplomatic luggage to Moscow, the Chinese, Malaya, and Indians used mostly for industrial-purposes. and such a date in advance of a case in which his own firm was of the Central Committee of the our population and who enn only

conser grades local suppliers who, for some concerned, Mr. Wolskel said that Ogpu. reason or other, are only supplied telegrams cost them $45 to 550, information from

read their own language or who, with specifications three weeks which was largely due to the re-witnessed the cremation. He pro- cinemas should

M. Bourizoff aaya he received his perhaps, are entirely illiterate? I

a person who would suggest that after, or at about the time the quirements of the Water Enmised not to divulge the names of ed the Government

open air Home Agents' mall advices reach gineer, who asked for details the kidnappers on the understand- films

be establish-

[From the "China Mall" of Home. The local supplier is, which were not usually asked for told by the informant. If he does scheme may entail much expendle offering prizes for the best: Far-

and the ing that the full story would be derstandable

should be

September 9, 1940.] minde ud. therefore, called upon to pay cost and which, had they been given not keep his word M. Bourtzoff ture, but it la money well spent den in the Colony where no full by all.. This The Horticultural Society are. of cables Home, when he could to the firms in time.50 just as well, have malled it Homeable the quotation to be sent by

as to en- says he will publish the names."

Perhaps this is a matter for the time gardener is kert. had he been supplied with it at mail, costa could have been saved

League of Nations Health Confer the time it was sent to the Home and the quotation could have been addressing a meeting of parishionated from our dat but people can ident of the K.R.A. as the "mezt

The village churchwarden was

ence to tackle, Agents,

Prostitution can never be eradic- A proposal to nominate the Pre- When specifications are lower AX byggers, intricate and lengthy cable ex-

"My friends," he said, "you know if they are fully informed of the tive Council has been rejected by at least be taught to avoid brothels ber for Kowloon on the Legisla ponses must be heavy, but thene

Eventually the resolution was ur dear vicar will shortly be leav- dangers that confront them the Government, which desires to Carried in are not incurred by the Home pleading for those precious Home Parish, and therefore, I propose we

spite of all the special mg us to take up work to another Yours, etc., Agents. Interest is another item Agents. How does Hong Kong little mojantum."

take up a collection to give him a

C. H. YIN.

Singapore, August 26

Ten Years Hence.

ratalna free hand in the case of Its nominated members of the Council,