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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 18, 1931.

'Where Will It All End"?

It appears that, thconsciously er unwittingly, we were almost prophetic, in our article on Tues- day dealing with ways and

means of raising revenue to balance the Budget. We stated, in effect that little reliance could placed on official hopes of no increased, rates and taxes if the Government had its eye all the time on other sources from which to extort extra revenue, And we asked: "Where will it all end? The answer "No-; where" -comes-mach speedier than we imagined when penning our comments on Tuesday. The fresh blow descended yesterday!"

CO. LTD.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931.

to do, beyond either refraining using small hand luggage, most of Mr. R. M. Dyer, chief manager altogether from buying certain it light and short-lived, has done of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, and Mrs. Dyer taxable wares or curtailing their still more to destroy the habit.

But the Americans have had no were through passengers on the requirements. And that effect, such restriction and are eager as Empresa of Japas which arrived in in turn, would ultimately assist ever to take their luggage home Shanghal on Monday. to defeat the whole object of the plastered all over with names of

placca they have visited.. if only A Shanghal paper of September Government that of securing for an hour or two, and hotels they 14, states-His many friends and additional.revenue by means of have stayed in. Railway porters patients in Singapore will be sorry ncreased duties. But if the Bay that they are always very par to learn that Dr. Arthur Weerekoon ticular that none of these memen who recently' arrived here from Government persistently closes toes shall be defaced. The Hong Kong is lying seriously its eyes to the evils of profiteer-Shakespeare label is sure to have at his residence in the French Con- ing as a result of its action, what pride of place, and no doubt its cession, with cheat trouble. His else can it expect? Where is its success will lead to the production physicians have advised his early

of a small-scale national portrait removal to the sanitarium. claim to being described as a collection.London, Daily Tele- "benevolent" autocracy? "Where graph. will it all end”? -

From Other Pens..

Reduced Circumstances.

News in Brief.

The morning service in the Union Church, Kennedy Road, on Sunday will be broadcast.

One nen-Chinese case of typhold A report from Berlin states that fever (imported), and two. Chinese the ex-Kaiser has lost £15,000 in cases were notified yesterday. the collapse of a building society whose difficulties became public. The lowest open air temperature recently. It suggests a sad

The humidity decline in the affairs of the 71 at 10 am. and 69 at 4 p.m.

yesterday was 78. former War Lord." Since he has lost his throne and every A Reuter cable from London thing else 'that once must stated yesterday that the half have made life worth living for a yearly meeting of the 'Court of the very fifth-rate type of character, Bank of England maintained the perhaps it doesn't matter very much Bank's dividend at six per cent. what, else he loses and yet losses

in mere building societies are de-

The annual dramatic evening cidedly out of the pasture. One will be held in the Great Hall of feels that a Hohenzollern, however the University on Saturday, Octo- reduced, ought not to be in a build-bar 4 at 0 The following ing society at all any more than plays will be presented: "The he ought to be paying club money Teaching Teresa" and "A Collec or winning a prize in a suburban tion will be "Made." Songs will be bowling handicap. There is some given by Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith thing so terribly bourgeois about and Mr. G. McLeod. building society-one feels that ex-

actual consumers are made the Emperors ought to be hit by victims of profiteers.

The Government is not alone the steward of the community; it. is its administrative protec

nothing less magnificent than a first-class bank småshi

However, there was a time about twelve years ago when a good many people were very anxious to hit the investor of Doorn just as hard as

Splendid entertainment is being afforded at the Majestic Theatre by the screening of "Don't Bet on Women," with Jeanette MacDonald in the leading feminine role. Those who saw it at the King's Theatre are now crowding the Majestic, with

of rule at all the evening screenings.

him 19 Д Bort hors-d'œuvre, to the forthcom-

The following passengers for Hong Kong are sailing on the P. & 0. s.s. Kashmir which left Lon don on August, 20:-Mr. H. G. Arnott, Mr. E. Bolton, Miss K. Blackman, Miss W. M. Coles, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dick, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Estall, Ray, W. J. Feather- etone, Mr. and Mrs. W. HI and two infants, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.. Horwood and child, Mr. G. A. Hudson, Mrs. H. S. Keown and in- cown. Master W. Keown, Mr. E. fant, Miss G. Krown, Master A.

W. Mawson. Miss M. M. Mellor, F/O G..B. Musson. Miss L. C. Atal lows, Miss C. McNevin, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ridlington, and two, children. Mr. S. A. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Trout, Masters. Trout, Mr. H. Walier, Mr. A. W. Woodyatt.

CORRESPONDENCE.

"PLEASE DON'T SPIT."

To the Editor of "China Mall," Sir Please keep hammering away at this spliting evil. Touch the pockets. of all offenders and you will find a marked decrease.

How many little European chil- drer in the Colony to-day are in- fected with tuberculosia contracted through contact with amaha' and boys drinking and eating vessels or through servants spitting in children's playgrounds. This is real menace to children of Euro-

Yours, etc.,

ANXIOUS MOTHER. Hong Kong, September 18

tor. It has other inherent functhey could-in fact, they wanted to the result that good houses are the tions besides legislating and hang balancing Budgets. As the ing reign of peace and plenty, The following forthcoming wed-peans. Why to the Government so Malays say more expressively in In that Amiable intention dings are announced.-Francis timid to take action?

they were presently failed, in spite George Healey, Shinro, Tainan, of support from Mr. Lloyd George Formosa, to Mary Isabel Dixon, and the Coalition Government, but who is travelling to Hong Kong on if their mood has become milder board the

6.9. Rajputana; and with the passage of years perhaps Samuel Randle, Police Headquar news that the modern Machiavel is Louise. Gowers, No. 29, St. Mary's they will now be satisfied with theters, Hong Kong, to Eva Winifred reduced to putting his money in Road, South Norwood, London. building societies-nnd losing it Manchester Guardian.

their own soft language, the Government is the

father, mother, and uncle of the govern ed. The people naturally look to it to redress wrongs mitigate hardships, and relieve distress. Where burdens are urinecessarily made heavier through the wileg of profiteers, it is the Govern- Fallen by the Wayside. ment. to whom the victims look

Few of those who grin at an ald for measures to, remedy the motor-car or a photograph of one realise what a very large number situation. The Government can of makes have fallen by the way -not sit back all the time and pre-side during the evolution of the tend that its only role is that of petrol chariot which seems so per

feet to-day-as the quaint Heath- tax collector. On the occasion of Robinsonian models

of pre-war past increases in duties the facts years 'soomed, too, in their day, A.

MONEY LEFT.

Estate of Chinese Tallyman.

Armed robbers who gained access to the house of Mr. Kotabe at 557,

Wong Shiu-chau,"a"tallyman, who Nathan Road, yesterday, got away died at 144, Wellington Street, on with jewellery and clothing valued December 7, 1930, left estate valued at 3355. The loot included a

and portable gramophone records. Mrs. Ketabe, her children, have been granted to the and the servants, were bound hand widow, Wong Leung-shi. and foot, one man standing guard over them with a knife. Mrs.

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Kotabe later managed to free her

Cigarettes,.,tobucco, light olls have been moderately and rea- recent inquiry undertaken in the self, and gave the alarm.

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sonably pointed out authorities, only to be met with

and perfumery and tollet articles

United States shows that some Afty to the

Following closely on fta. success with a certain percentage of

makes of modern American car re ful run at the Queen's Theatre, the survivors of no fewer than "They Learned About Women" is alcohol have been called upon to

an ivy douce.. When the liquor about 1,800 that have flourished now drawing a good crowd to the contribute their "mite" to the-and-tobacco-duty increases-re-since the nineties. Many of these Star-Theatre Featuring Joe Schenck coffers of the Treasury. Always

were steam or electric.

the well known Lecived the formal approval of the

and Gus Van Attention is drawn to this

singers, the production contains tobgcco and cigarettes or tobac-.

Legislative Council-on-February-mortality-by American-financial-

| many musical items, although the cigarettes, and liquors !

26-after the Order in Council houses in connection with the reck- story is woven round two close "Where will it all end?"

lessness with which the public over "pals" whose "racket" is baseball. had actually become aperative there is pitching money into the In the off season they find an outlet Were retailers to pass on to the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga voiced several hundred concerns now

for their musical talent on the consuming public only the

an objection to dealers and re-making aeroplanes, with or without

stage. difference between the old and

Every little tailers putting up prices to the safety guarantee.

maker and his backers teo them- the new difties, the position

consumer in anticipation of the selves as another Wright or Glenn would not be so bad; but they go new scale." Therein, he was Curtiss group of pioneers evolving further for the sake of raising technically incorrect for, as he the perfect plane, but a go process their own profits. That has

Personal Pars.

the

at $22,100. Lettore of administra-

Chin Leung-shi, alias Mary Chin, alias Leung Lal-chee, alins Loung Chee-shing, Leung Lai Chee Tong, alips Daisy Leung, left local estate worth $62,400. She died at 325. Hennessy Road, on May 8 Inat, and probate has been, granted to Chin Ah-kam (widower) and Chin Tit-

To-day's Thought.

Lord Castlerosse

(Director of

the Evening Standard, Daily Ex- press and Sunday Express) comes out now and then with a brilliant tirade against. those who made a meas of the Peace, and then he leaves it alone for a time. That C is not the way to get things done.

Mr. Stanley Allen and Mr. R. B. The right way is for his genera-

of disfHusionment.Mantheater press of Asia for Manila. Governor, the increased duties Guardian.

been done in the past. It is bewas promptly reminded by the /of money disappears in the process David sailed yesterday by the Em-tien-to-get a Leader great"-or--

ing done to-day under the in- Pro- creased scale of duties. fiteering is rampant at the

had already taken effect, whilst

the opinion was hazarded by the The Shakespeare Label,

ganiser, like Auckland Geddes→→ appolat him, as their, director-gen- A. récent arrival in Shanghai, was eral, and then storm the heights. Mr. L. C-Parker Rees, Superinten- But the men of is generation are The Great Western Railway Com-dent of Crown Lands, Hong Kong.

too spathetic, tou cynical, too much wrapped up in themselves. Their expense of loyal citizens who Governor that wine dealers were pany has produced an outsize.and

entitled to protect themselves. novel luggage label. Printed In A Shanghai paper of Tuesday creed is that the other fellow would" willingly meet some, at

Not one official word of sym-yellow and black, it is almost four states-Sir William Hornell, owing should do it and so, of course, least_of_the_increased levies if

times the size of an ordinary stick to pressure of work in Hong Kong, nothing is done. The newspapers -pathy for the hapless-consumers Fetailers did not make the bur-left, to the mercy of conscience-cupied with the head of William hal to attend the meeting of the pears to be

ing slip, and half the space is oc- has not been able to come to Shang-aid-and-abet them for what ap a big national affair den heavier through a spirit of

less retailers Importers and Shakespeare. The words "Passen British Boxer Indemnity Commis-to-day la unaccountably forgotten

to-morrow-Newspaper World. sheer greed.

the large stores of repute have ger by Shakespeare express London sion.

to Stratford-on-Avon" will. In

As before, it is useless Bug- been noted for their fairness in future indicate to many envious Arrivals in Shanghai from Hong gesting either the formation of matters of this kind; but the eyes oversens that the man with Kong, an Monday by the R.M.S. a Retail Price Fixing Board or a Colony is honeycombed with the labelled luggage has made the Empress of Japan included the warning from manufacturers to small shope and street stalls, the set pilgrimage. Lots of other Mieses J. and M. Braga, daughters people travel to Stratford by the of the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Hong proscribe retailers selling their owners of which ever see in an Shakespeare express, but Padding Kong, and Mr. J. H. Ruttonjee, wares above a fixed standard increase in duty a splendid op ton Station makes no secret of the Hong Kong, accompanied by Mrs.

fact that the label is meant Ruttonjee, and Miss Ruttonjec, price. The Government expects portunity to add a little exira especially, for Americans. price. its pound of flesh and sees that "aqueeze" for their own pockets. it gets it, irrespective of whe Were any of the Unofficial mem ther the community is being un ber to make representations in necessarily bled-In the p

process. the Legislative Council, most Manufacturers do not mind the probably than not he would be heavier imposts so long as these told that retailers are entitled to are passed on to middlemen and protect themselves! Which, of retailers, heedless whether the course, they are not in a position.

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "China Mall of

September 18, 1921.)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/9%.

Loud firing of cracker strings. algnalised the advent of the Bank There was a time some years ago It, le learned that Madame Sun of East Asia Ltd., to Its new pre- when the British railways com Yat-sen sailed from Shanghal on mises at No. 10, Des Voeux Road old labels on trunks and suitcases September 12 for Fenang, where chief manager, Mr. Kan Tong-po, plained_that_the_habit of leaving the French mall liner Sphinx on Central, this morning whon__the

was a nuisance to the porters and tho will spend a few months received numerous callers, both delayed their work Many then Madame Sun la stated to be in bad European and Chinese, who came to destroyed old foreign labols that health, and is acting on doctor's congratulate the Bank on its enter they had cherished for years and orders. Her departure was kept prise and pledge its success. The have never had the heart to make secret, the news only leaking out Head Office was formerly situated

fresh_collection. The fashion for late last evening,, cabled Reuter, Lat No. 2, Queen's Road Central