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大英七月十二號 禮拜三 中華民國辛未年六月初八日

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931.

OCCIDENT AND ORIENT.

Some Causes of the World Depression.

VALUE OF CHEAP SILVER.

Senator Key Pittman made & comparison of the Orient and the Occident at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong yester day, dealing mainly with the causes

CRUISER EXETER COMMISSIONED.

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COST £1,750,000.

Rugby, Yesterday. The new cruiser Exeter,, which cost over £1,750,000, was commis-¦ aloned at Plymouth to-day for, ser- vice with the Second Cruiser Squa-

SEQUEL TO JUNK PIRACY:

Second Arrest After Four Years.

FIRM DENIAL,

A piracy on a junk, which was│ alleged to have occurred on Janu- ary 29, 1927, off Tai-0, was recalled yesterday afternoon when a Chin- ose was charged at the Central Ma- gistracy with having been concern- ed in the affair. This, it was stat- ed by the prosecution, was the SIR W. ROBERTSON.second arrest, the first being in

1928.

of the Occident reaching its pre-dron of the Atlantic Fleet--British sent position in the world. He Wireless Service. also referred to the silver question.

The speaker said at the opening

that he had been sent to China by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate to investigate the cause of the depression of American trade with China. Ac- cordingly he was making a gen- eral survey, and would piece to- gether his variegated information later.

Extension-of-Term

of Office.

Rugby, Yesterday. The King has been pleased of approve an extension

term of offlee of Sir There were two theories ga to William Charles Fleming Robert

Two Theories,

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The pirated vessel was a fishing “junk which had sailed out of Macao. As soon as it got into Chinese waters It was followed by another junk. Nothing happened until they were near a place called Fan Lau Point, which la off Tai-0, and about a mile from British waters.

Then the second junk opened fire on the leader with rifles and one of

the fokis was wounded. The crew of the fishing junk were ordered to lower sails and id so, and the pirate craft came alongside. Three men boarded the fishing junk, two

RADIO TELEPHONE.rmed with rifles and another with

the manintenance of trade in China.son The Republican Party in America mander-in-Chief of Barbados for contended that they should sell to one year from December 13 next. somebody else and buy nothing British Wireless Service. from them. The policy had work- ed well until the last two years, but was now a little discredited. The Hong Kong theory, he under- stood, was to make the only money they had so cheap that they could not buy abroad, but had to buy at home.. This had the same effect. as a prohibitive protective tariff.

Service to New Zealand Now Available.

Rugby, Yesterday.

General The Postmaster nounces that from Thursday July 29 the radio telephone service will be available between all parts of

It could be argued that the Occident was ahead of the Orient to-day, although civilisation in the East was 2,000 years older, In his opinion, the Occident had ad- Great Britain. and Northern Ireland vanced by reason of co-operation and all parts of New Zealand. and internationalism, by dealing British Wireless Service. with their fellowmen throughout ⠀⠀ ⠀

the world, and developing every Ho means. of transportation. wondered if the desire of the Occidental to travel, as opposed to the Oriental wish to build a wall round themselves, had anything to do with it. The Great Wall of China served no useful purpose. at the present time; nor could the walls which nations tried to throw around themselves for protection against trade competition.

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a weapon resembling a dagger.

Taken As Captives.

The pirates held the crew of the fishing junk as captives, and dis- covering the wounded foki in the hold, apparently dead, they threw an-him into the sea. Both junks were then sailed to Sanchow, in Samshul district. Arriving here at about 9 p.m., the junk master, with his wife and small daughter were marched a good distance along the shore and then made to climb A high mountain where they were held as prisoners. The wife was released some six weeks after, but the mas- ter did not regain his freedom until after about three months.

Chained At Night. During his captivity, the junk An aeroplane costing 248, of master was made to cook for the which amount 27 represents the pirates, wash their clothes and do cost of the 14 hotsepower Black-sweeping, always under armed. burn engine, has been successfully guards, and at night he was chain- tried out in Berlin, The wing ad up. The wife was released to apan is 25 feet and the total length raise ransom money for her hus She secured money in The Occident had reached its 17 feet. It is claimed that the band. present position because of a

in be built large Kwonghof (Tolshan) and paid $500 'planes can determination for concerted na-

to the pirates for her husband's quantities. tional action; recognition of the

freedom. Their daughter was not fact that there must be a safe and

returned to them and it is believed sound unit of value; and the non-world was in distress, and in that the pirates sold her. Husband obstruction of foreign commerce. danger. With the assistance of and wife stayed in Kwonghoi for

America and Silver, As regards silver, the position of the rest of the world, they could alx months where they worked to the United States was that she partially remedy the unhappy gold pay off the ransom money, and then they returned to their home in produced four million ounces

Cheung Chau Island. allver per month, two-thirds of which were consumed in America.

of

situation.

Confused Thought. Mr. Li Tae-fong, expressing

On June 26 last, the junk master:

A suggestion had been made that thanks to the speaker, said that saw the accused walking in a street the Foreign Relations Committee public opinion on the silver ques- in Cheung Chau, and suspecting of the U.S. Senate had been in- tion was rather confused, and there him to be one of the pirates, had

were different schools of thought him arrested. fluenced by silver Interests when about the present trade depression

In reply to the charge, the ac- they passed a resolution recom-

If the drop in cused said: "I was a foki with Hing mending a world conference for the the price of silver was a cause of Yung (the man who was also ar-

rehabilitation of the metal. 13ut

and its remedies.

in truth there was nothing selfish depression the remedy was to be rested in Cheung Chau in July When his boat was board-

found in promulgating some meanė 1928).

to raise it. A drop in commodity.ed by pirates, we were forced to prices would call for an adjustment proceed with them to pirate the of all the economic factors affecting other boat. I then left Hing Yang's production and consumption.

boat to work on another junk, Some time after this I had two! pirates who boarded Hing Yung's boat arrested:"de

Some evidence was taken, after which the case was adjourned.

about the proposition, but a great economic principle and polley.

His Committee believed that the uncertain silver conditions through- out the world, the purchasing

The United States of America medium of half the people of the world, were destroying the pur was the largest supplier of silver, chasing power of those masses, and, and China the largest consumer. both

worse

than that, were making They were undoubtedly

affected by the silver problem credit transactions with countries that had no gold standard to back China naturally wanted to buy her

Gustave Moliner, of Havana, à. their credits practically impossible, silver as cheap as possible. Al-

though he was not an adherent to former Cuban Government official,' A reasonably certain exchange

the principle, he certainly thought will make his headquarters at value, not fixed, but dependent on the law of supply and demand, was that cheap silver was a good thing Fredericton for the next two absolutely essential to trade and for China. It would encourage months in order to study potato the development of her own in- culture in this province. Another commerce, throughout the world, dustries, and act as a natural tariff Cuban representative la stationed at but, trade and commerce, to-day was

Hartland, Carleton County. wall in such a state that Germany was on the verge of anarchy, and the position of Great Britain was not improved. Many ty

Germany and Great Britain were in distress, with the result that the

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