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Seasonable Remedies and Preventives.

WATSON'S

PECTORAL COUGH BALSAM

For Cough, Colds and Bronchitis. in bottles $1.00 and $2.00.

MARTIN'S INFLUENZA MIXTURE

for

Cold in the head and Catarrh $1.25 per bottle.

WATSON'S ANTISEPTIC THROAT PASTILLES

for

Relaxed and Sore Throat, $1.00 per tin.

WATSON'S EU - PINE INHALANT

for

Cold in the head &c. $1.00 per bottle.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Established 81 Years.

GRAYS YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

HONG KONG:

Alexandra Bldg. Tel. 24566.

Hong Kong Hotel. Tel. 27424.

KOWLOON: Peninsula Hotel

Tel. 58081.

Lingerie, Linens, Embroideries,

Peking Jewellery, GLOUCESTER ARCADE.

́PEKING LAMPS, COPPER WARE,

AND CURIOS,

THE CHINA MAIL

WHITEAWAYS

We have just received a fresh supply of THE "M.P." HANDY KNIFE

SCREWDRIVER

HANDY M. P

KNIFE

CIGAR CUTTER

||MADE IN ENGLAND),

PARCEL

OPENER

STRING CUTTER

llustration showing actual size.

HERE. THERE

and

EVERYWHERE.

Steel Dearer Than Gold"

At a recent banquet in Stockholm.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932,

SOCIALISM'S ERROR

TEACHINGS MISLEAD THE POPULATION

the menu was printed on this sheet ALL ARE SUBJECT TO “MEANS TEST”

of atcel..

This steel, said to be the thinnest ever, manufactured, measures only

USEFUL AS:-

0.003 millimetres in thickness.

PENKNIFE PENCIL SHARPENER Penknife

CLEANER

Cigar Cotter Pencil Sharpener NAIL Nail Cleaner String Cutter

Parcel Opener

UNSCREW

Screw Driver, Etc.

HOLDER

INSERT

BLADE

PRACTICAL. CONVENIENT. DURABLE

NOW SUPPLIED COMPLETE WITH BLADE

·AT

50

AT

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ran to

(By SIR JOHN POWER, M.P.)

If evidence were required of how State, the utmost amount they are

It is principally used in the man-much the judgment of a large sec-legally entitled to exaet from him. ufacture of wireless accessories and tion of the population has been worth three times its own weight warped by Socialistic teaching, it reasonable objection on the part of There can, therefore, be no in gold.

Is surely to be found in the agita- an applicant for State relief up- tion in connection with the Means dergoing the same process, the only While a farm girl was milking a Test. cow, a buil tore across the meadow.

difference being, that he hopes to towards bar. The girl did not stir, divided into three classes. The first to, the State funds.

The unemployed can roughly be receive from, and not contribute but, continued milking.

class consists of those legally. en- Observers, who had

It used to be considered 'an ele- titled to Insurance benefit, and mentary principle that only these safety, saw to their Rmazsment that the bull stopped dead within numbers nearly 1,700,000 persons, who had exhausted their own re- a few yards of the girl, turned The benefit they receive is paid for sources were entitled to public re

by contributions from the emplo-lief or charity. The public con- round and walked sadly away. Weren't you afraid?"

asked vers, the workers in employment, science has long since recognised and the ordinary taxpayer. its duty of relieving destitution, everyone.

"Certainly not," said the girl. their benefit through the Unem-revention of starvation. It is an The insured unemployed are paid and accepted. the burden of the ployment Bureaux for a period of obligation and a burden which twenty-six weeks, after which presses heavily upon the struggling time they are held to have exhaust- taxpayer.

"I happened to know this cow his mother-in-law.”

Your Daily Smile.

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Cts.

AT GENEVA. The ever-open jaw.

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Each.

:

COMING EVENTS. November 22.

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WHITEAWAYS

reassembles.

is

Parliament

NEW GOLD SPELL. Now they've found gold there suppose they'll alter the name Labra d'Or..

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Old Standards Modified.

ed their. benefit-in order words, to have received all the insurance benefit the State can pay in return Let no one think that the tax- for the contributions made..

payer and the ratepayer has not Simply State Rollef

his difficulties and troubles in The second class of unemployed meeting demands upon him. The workers are those who have exauthorities concerned with the dis hausted their benefit, but are still tribution of relief in its various registered as belonging to the forms must, therefore, net with the classified trades, and they can ob impartiality of trustees, unless the Itain in certain conditions what is taxpayer is to succumb under the to called "Transitional Benefit.". weight of his ever-increasing bur

The money paid under this head- den.

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* ... AUTUMN CROAKERS. "Some people do nothing but The China Mail peet, medirection has this time of the year," says

nant, the scanty progress that has moan about coughs and colds

SUITABLE FOR XMAS GIFTS.

Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 9, 1932.

(SHERRY)

DRY SACK

Shipped Dotted & LLAMS & HUMBERTĮ;

JEREZ & URDOK

"DRY SACK"

For those who

appreciate

Sole. Agents:-

good Sherry!

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Hong Kong.

Tel. 20075.

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Annual Rent $5

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Central Showroom-Gloucester Building (East Arcade) ···

246 Nathan Road (Corner of Jordan Road) Kowloon

Phone 28181.

Disarmament.

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been achieved, quite independent-doctor.. ly of the League, by negotiations conducted by certain Powers on Dust A Little Too Much,

at

their own account. The results "Baby cars are much in the even of these attempts to call a public eye just now," I read. halt to rivalry have fallen short Come, come! They don't get blown The German attitude is again ton Naval Treaty, acclaimed as

of expectations. The Washing- about so easily as all that. proving a stumbling-block in the the dawn of a new era, merely Disarmament negotiations, but diverted competition into types of the negotiations this week re-craft. which that instrument did not cover, The London Naval,

Facts You Did Not

Know.

Law authorities.

flect a more hopeful atmosphere, Pact was deprived of much of its quakes, a United States Bureau of upon the Public Assistance "Com-[

a

POLICE SEEKING MURDERERS.

Labourer Slain On Lonely Hillside.

ing is purely and simply State re- Practical administration, how- lief. It la provided by the National ever, has proved that the stand- Exchequer wholly out of the pocket ards of the past will have to be how you will, is purely State of the present. The old doctrine of the taxpayer, and, disguise it modified in view of the necessities charity. There are over 1,000,000 of the survival of the fittest has of these "transitionals," who are gone for over. paid at the same rate and in the

Care of the sick has long been same mannor as the first class.

accepted as a charge upon' -- 'cur. ceipt of Foor Law relief, the dif- to the stage when the willing to The third class are those in re civilisation. We have now come ference being that the Poor Law work and the work-shy are treated relief comes from the pocket of the on the same basis, and we have to ratepayer, and is paid by the Poor rely upon their good faith not to ask the over-burdened taxpayer to The task of deciding the "need" provide them with State relief un- To warn of the approach of earth of a transitional has been placed less they are really in need.

From the point of view of the and the agreement in principle utility by the non-adhesion of Standards scientiat has invented on mittees. Here, therefore, we have State, past thrift should be recog by the four major powers gives France and Italy. As for the li-instrument employing a reflected the difficult position of a Publie nised as a virtue where a nian is ground for optimism. From the Article 8 might never have been of the earth that always precedes anquer on the one hand, and Poor eat himself out of house and home

mitation of land armaments, beam of light to record slight tilting

Assistance Committee administar genuinely unemployed. No end ing relief from the National Exche wishes to see an unemployed worker cable news received in Hong framed as far as several major earthquats. Kong it appears that there is a Powers are concerned. Commis-

Law relief from the local rates on during a long period of unemploy- general desire to reduce arma-sion after commission has report German railway engineers are, ex-

the other. ment expenditure for reasons of ed; conference after conference perimenting with

Although, as a whole, the Public ment, but the State must handle the locomotiva Assistance Committees have loyal

limited funds at its disposal, with economy, but that the disturbed has met; scheme after scheme boiler from which superheated steamy and impartially carried out the save the State, and also the inde- care and discrimination if it is to political' situation precludes ar- has been examined, but always is supplied to two high pressure duties entrusted to them in regard terminate weakling from himself. rival at a settlement which would these proceedings have had a ne- cylinders, after which it is returned to transitional benefit, it is hardly effect any immediate reduction gative result. Why, then, do the to the boiler to operate a single low to be wondered at that cases have in naval and military strength. nations waste time and energy in pressure cylinder. The attempt by the United the fruitless pursuit of a will-o

arisen" where Public Assistance States to dictate arms terms by the-wisp? Does not their inabi-

According to Smithsonian Institu- the taxpayer the same responsibi

Committees have not felt towardą bargaining on war debts should lity to find common ground aim- tion scientists the sun at noon on ailty which they have felt to the prove beneficial rather than ply emphasise their prejudices clear day gives 465,000

timca a local ratepayer. harmful as America is as sincere and suspicions? This criticism much light as the full moon at its as Great Britain in her desire to overlooks an important point. zenith and nearly 120,000,000 times ensure peace to the world. The The very fact that the nations, more light than all the stars on an American proposals have super- undiscouraged by previous fail unclouded night. seded the original French sugures, continue to explore the gestion. The salient points of possibilities of an understanding M. Herriot's plan are general is evidence of sincerity. Twenty conscription, the creation of an years ago the Powers would have international aerial police, in ridiculed the idea that the size [budgets, and the manufacture of governed by consultation with successful in winning an open sion of a longer, duration than any Water scheme was killed on a ternational control of military of their armaments should be Herridge, of Loxley & Co., has been ly new one, born of a trade depres a labourer at the Shing Man arms and the disbandment of one another. Each was the sole scholarship for Haileybury, one of in our history

England's most semi-military police forces. The judge of its own requirements..

famous public No reasonable man denies the lonely hill-sido. 'schools.

According to Wan Tak-cheung, last-mentioned provision is pre Any suggestions from outsiders

necessity of an inquiry Into the sumably aimed especially at such would not have been entertained.

"need" of an applicant for State uncle of the victim, he and his organisations as the German But now the principle of limita Arrested in Canton Road on the relief. To pay out benefit indiscri. nephew went to cut wood yesterday "steel helmets" and the Nazi tien upon terms arranged by mu evening of November 28, three men,minately would mean bankruptcy at noon and while approaching a path at Taun Wan were met by storm troops." M. Herriot's tual agreement has been definite Wong Hol, Wong Sang and Wong of the State. scheme is said to be acceptable, ly affirmed; the difficulty lies in Fat, were brought before Mr. The late Socialist Government three men, thought, to be friends. to Germany as a basis of dis- its application. Although the Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy tardily recognised this fact, and They set on Wan Pan and in his

excitement Wan Tak-cheung fled cursion," a diplomatic formula problem has not been solved, the esterday afternoon on charges of was responsible for the proposal of which may mean anything or new doctrine is a distinct advance with four rounds of ammunition raised a host of questions which

unlawful possession of a revolver a means test. Its imposition has On returning he found his nephew

dead. nothing. British opinion while upon the old one of go as you and two daggers. The hearing was can only be settled by experience. agreeing that any project, de- please. Enthusiasts for disar adjourned until this afternoon. It might here be remarked that signed to promote a cause which mament court disappointment by all nations profess to have at pitching their hopes too high,

we live in an age when democracy WOMEN ENTICED BY heart, deserves. serious consi- Disarmament will not come about most interesting talk on the has curtalled the liberty of the

TRAFFICKERS. deration, is dubious for various in one year or ten, and even rea Glasgow engineer, was given bevestigation. Viewed dispassion- Bennie Railplane, the invention of subject, both by enactment and in- reasons. Britain has no desire duction will be a gradual business. fore an appreciative audience last ately, there is no moral obloquy at Man And Woman Sent to amplify her obligations to in Many ages had to pass before, in evening, at the Institution of Ex- tached to an investigation tervene in European diaputes, private relationships, the rule of gineers and Shipbuilders, by Pro into one's means. The highest Would an international force of law supplanted the rule of self- fessor W. Brown, M.A., B. Sc., who class of taxpayer has to submit to the type contemplated by M. help, and in international rela-illustrated his paper with lantern an investigation into all his sources women who fell into the clutches The sordid story of two Chinese Herriot be workable in practice? tionships a similar road will slides. Mr. PT. Farrell, who of income In war, allied armies can co have to be traversed. As long presided, thanked the lecturer, after Income Tax Inquiries, operate harmoniously, but a com as a country feels a sense of inse which a discussion took place as to under Section 22 of the Finance tral Magistracy yesterday after paratively small permanent cos-curity it will keep a scabbarded the merits of Bennie Railplane. Act 1922, and Sections 42 and 44 noon, when Yu Sin-cho, a former mopolitan force might eaally sword to be unsheathed in the Among those who took part in the

News In Brief.

F. J. C. Herridge, son of Mr.

L

Assessing The "Means" No satisfactory standard has so far been discovered for the gui dance of the Public Assistance.

Police in the New Territories Committees in accessing the "means" of an applicant for tran-eged to be responsible for a mur

are searching for three Chinese al- sitional relief. Indeed, it may be der committed yesterday afternoon said that the problem is an entire at Taun Wan, where Wan: Pan, 96,

To Gaol

of white slave" traffickers was un folded to Mr. Grantham at the Cen

contain elements of friction, event of need. No one could pre-discussion were Mr. C. J. Waddell, of the Finance Act of 1927 he has, soldier in the Cantonese army, and Moreover, International super tend that the horizon is clear. Mr G Buchanan, Mr. DJ. Black when it pleases the authorities to Un Chi, a middle-aged woman, vision beyond the jurisdiction Russia is an unknow quantity burn, Mr. P. R. James and Me call upon him to do so. to give de were charged with enticing de already assigned to the League The situation in the Far East is F. C. Weller

of Nations might be unpalatable disquieting - to an individualistic people. To pano rapproc undertake and carry out a course cited comm of action adopted by consent is countries inɛ different from being subject to is Increa the perpetual scrutiny of an over demands seor Cynics have u asserted The Lon that although reduction of arma stra ments: is one of the

jects of the League,

peace

ciated in Article 8 of the Covej ces the axiom -

carry more weight than ebat an propositiong, however

maelves. with truth that

amant pre

tails of avery security - he pos- taining and procuring the wom Besses, and if necessary explain his for the purposes of prostitution. changes of investment. If he has Bath, defendants were convicted, been unfortunate in his ingest and sentenced to the maxim ments he

be called upon penalty of a year's hard labour.

Khaye

For fear

means test in ord

Thirty caves ofiarms

on were shipped

On yesterday, cons

The con

Chose hwise in

the of large

-authorities that he is paying to the firm.