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HERE, THERE

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EVERYWHERE

The Confidant of Kings Sir Thomas Horder; one of the six new peers, who recently took a short holiday in Hampshire, is not merely a great doctor: he is a great companion, a wit and a raconteur.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933.

PERSONALITIES IN

GENEVA

GLIMPSES OF NOTED DIPLOMATS

MOST FASCINATING

IN THE WORLD

(By Norman Hillson.)

LOBBY

It is called the Salle de Conversa-the few real generals of my

ww

In a remarkable degree be inspires the confidence of the many prominent persons who are his patients. He becomes their соц- fidant. They write to him not only about their allments but about tion. It is a long hall designed in quaintance who really looks like a their troubles and ambitions. the most modern style with a green-general.

The letters he has received must grey rubber floor-already showlag

There was make an amazing collection.

a time when Mr. De If signs of wear--which the statesmen Valera came into the salle--aloof, jever they were to be published of the earth tramp unceasingly. saturnine, his nose seeming to over- they would be more valuable to This salle de pas perdus is al-balance the rest of his body, closely the social historian as a sidelight ready the most historic and fascinat- followed by his Irish Free State on modern life than a whole hay-ing political lobby in Europe, al henchmen, Mr. cock of official documents.

Lester, though it has only been in existence friend of everybody, with the

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a twelvemonth. More hopes have shrewdest face in all Geneva. New Minister for Denmark. been inspired and more aspirations Mr. Hugh Garney, who has been dashed to the ground within its too much of a hurry to linger in the The great Dr. Bepes is always in appointed British Minister to Den-walls than history will probably ever Salle de Conversation. He burries mark, has two assets which should recount. stand him in good stead in Copen- It is the place where the League the Secretariat, inevitably accom- straight to the Council Chamber or hagen. He is a good "mixer" who of Nations gives itself breathing panied by feather portfolie, which has been immensely popular in all space. Delegates escape from the seems always about to slip from his posts abroad, and he knows a lusty atmosphere of the old Hotel junder his arm to the ground, but good deal about bacon. He is a National to promenade the vast ex-never does. champion. pig-sticker, whose panse of the Salle de Conversation. prowess earned the highest praise For many of them it is the only may catch a glimpse of M. Pierre If you have quick eyesight you of the native experts of Tangier. form of exercise the treacherous Cat, most brilliant of all the young

Mr. Gurney, who will now have winter climate of Geneva permits. French politicians," as to study bacon from an Empire

he flashes The Talking Shop.

past. point of view, was once the victim

Contrast him The Salle de Conversation of the Anthony Eden, destined for

with Capt jof 11 diplomatic practical joke. League of Nations was the foster equally brilliant career, When he was Counseller in Tokio child of the Disarmament Confer with the dignity of a Gladstone and who walks a secretary sent him a bogus tele-lence, It was built by the good the confidence of a Palmerston. gram appointing him to a higher citizens of Geneva to provide a place Over against the counter, where post and conferring on him a high there statesmen and journalists sits the concierge, you will see Baron

could walk and talk and eat and von Neurath, more drink at ease,

erect than the in the intervals of traditional cavalry officer, and with more strenuous oratory in the eauna face stern and firm and cil chambera.

changing. On each side doors lead lo vast! Mr. Arthur Henderson, his hands committee rooms and two huge co-deep in his cont pockets, walks in- ference halls. At the one end is a cessantly up and down, accompanied long row of telephone booths, and by his faithful assistant, Mr. Noe! near at hand the largest and best Baker, his serious face accompany- equipped Press room ever conceived ing a serious brain. Sir Eric Drum Part of one side of the mond occasionally honours the salle

honour.

As a Minister Mr. Gurney should soon come into his K.C.M.G.

Your Daily Smile.

happening on the Rand to-day When the Indian rupee, along from gold, the resultant rise in with sterling, divorced itself

its rupee value not only stimulat- ed production because of the ex-

A BREAK. tra profit to be made from it, but MARY: Did Henry tell you also induced the hoarders of long-rejected him? Perhaps because of its sudden-accumulated gold at last to sell

HENRY'S FIANCEE: Yes, he

The Gold Boom.

it.

I

by man.

never

ness the importance of the boom) Instinctively the hoarders often tells me of the lucky in salle is occupied by a long bar. with a visit, his curious unit making

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we shall have

nate

Below are post offices, tourist offices, his body swing from side to side in newspaper shop and tobacco kiosks uncertain equipoise. Geneva. It is the most perfect thing in! Next week

faces and personalities entering the The whole building is called the Salle de Conversation. "Batiment des Commissions," but it to happen thun.

It ir bound in the Salle de Conversation (and) WILLING ENOUGH.

And all the time there will be talk, AGITATOR: You should give mé important part of the whole struc-lones of the earth will pass to and its attendant bar) which is the most talk, talk. All the time the great

fro, never Hiring in their They say that the man about never-ending pilgrimage towards town, if he walks up and down better and more stable world. Bond-etreet long enough, is bound

in the South African goldmining

Telt that, the price of gold having cidents of his life. industry has not yet been fully risen to an exceptionally high level, a reaction was inevitable, recognised by the public; yet it and that the time had come to is strongly reminiscent of the reduce their holdings.

I read that only the very wealthy boom that took place on the Wit-Indian gold have been on a scule time of the year,

Sales of can afford to be aun-burned at this watersrand in the later part of equal to the annual supply from the great economic depression of the nineties. That phenomenon Africa has depreciated her cur- the Rand. Now that South was due to the discovery of the cyanide process, which raised the rency in terms of gold by about half of all you have..

130 per cent. the stimulation to its OLD FARMER: All right. AU 7 | percentage of the recovery from production will be very great; have left is rheumatism and tooth- gold ore by about 30 per cent for the Rand is not only the ache. Which one will you have! The consequent great increase in world's largest gold producer, but the output of gold was the mo-possesses vast reserves of hither- netary foundation of the subse-

ore

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INDUCEMENT.

Lure.

Lo meet the man he wants to meet. quent steady rise in commodity which it will be profitable now young Adams

to unpayable low-grade

MOTHER: Gladys, 1 saw that! In the same way, if you sit for an

boy kiss

hour at a terrace table of the Cafe! you! prices they rose, according to treat. A striking indication I didn't think he would dare to do de la Paix, in Paris, you are certain the Economist, from 87 in 1895

to see someone you know, and if you to 19 in 1914--which continued of the change brought about in such a thing!

GLADYS: Nor did I. In fact,

wander along the avenues of for two decades until the War the gold industry by the new with its vast expenditures led to currency policy of the Union Gov-I bet him, a pair of gloves he Barcelona you will encounter the

ernment is given in the mining wouldn't.

In some

of

a great inflation of fiduciary mo-returns for January. ney and changed the basis reckoning from gold to paper. The cases profits have been multiplied

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HOUSEHOLD HINT

very man you encounter.

do not

Changing Faces.

want to

CHINESE Y.W.C.A.

MEETING.

Election Of Officers.

A large gathering of members and friends were present yesterday

six to eight times. Informa- The best way to avoid banging rise in commodity prices after the tion on this point was given in a the fingers with a hammer is to hold, versation that if you linger long Miss F. C. Wos, welcomed on behalf cyanide discovery occurred sim- ply because gold, like other recent address by Mr. John Mar- the thing in both bands. things, is susceptible to the laws Lin, president of the Transvaal

that!

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NOT SO SURE.

WITNESS: I was until you crom-

wether I ever had a car at all.

Facts You Did Not Know.

usual amount of hand labour.

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- afternoon at the Chinese Y.W.C.A., One can say of the Salle de Con-Bonham Road, when the President, Jenough at one of the round glass- of the Association two distinguish

Lopped tables, sitting on one of the ed visitors in Miss van Asch van modern steel chairs, you must see all Wijck, President. of the World's

The procession Niven, Secretary of the same Asso-

ciation.

is never the same.

As world politics alter, and 'Gov- Mrs. Southorn, Mrs. Borrett, and

ernments rise and fall, from Peru the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, Bishop of

to New Zealand, so the aspect of the Victoria were present.. Salle de Conversation varies. Old delegates go; new delegates come.

of supply and demand; the in- Chamber of Mines. For many creased production caused a fall years leaders of the industry the prisoner is the man who stole latter-day world.

LAWYER: Are you positive that the statesmen and politicians of the YW.C.A. Geneva, and Miss Charlotte in its value, which meant

have attempted to impress the the prices of other thinga rose in Government with the startling your cart terms of gold. The cyanide dis-progressive decline in gold pro examined me. Now I'm not sure covery was therefore one of the old conditions.

duction that was inevitable under Even according major influences which brought to Government estimates the relief to the world from the econ-1

The President sald that the omic depression of the nineties, output would have fallen to less

Geneva representatives were in M. Herriot is no longer with us.China making preparations for an which is the most recent of the than one-quarter of its present depressions comparable, however Mr. Martin pointed out, the Low

Paul-Boscour has fallen from his International figure in fifteen years' time. AR

gathering of the high (and brief) estate. Both were World's Y.W.C.A to be held in remotely, with that existing to Grade Ore Commission, appoint track laying machine that removes stalking up and down, his great Peking.

An English railway is using addicts of the salle. M. Herriot, October, either at Shanghai or in day. Other things being equal, the present boom in goldmining ed to deal with this problem, ac

an old 60 foot section and replaces form exuding good spirits and 寫 should sooner

cepted the view that a reduction it with new ties and rails with an tolerance of weakness, was a most Board members of the Association. The following were' elected new or later exert a of working costs by 48. a ton powerful remedial influence оп world economy. It is not due on of the Rand. In present circum-

would more than double the life expenditure of about one half the familiar figure.

for the year 1933-34: Miam F. C. Then Paul-Boncour. As like as Woo; Mrs. Wong Kwok-shuen Mrs. this occasion to any new discovery stances, however, the policy of

not be was leaning against the par Kwok Wal, Mrs. Wong, Yu-yee, Mrs. either of fresh fields or of new the producers will not be merely picture studio lighting and aviation those nondescript drinks which the chuen, Mia Lai Tam-tak Kwong,

An incandescent lamp for motion at the distant end, sipping one process, but arises from

of Shin Kwai-wang, Mrs. Wong Chi the fact that the currencies of the the enhanced price of gold should Germany that requires 50,000 watts shoulders and equally broad head Ting-ken, Mys. Taoi Nal-shing. to reap the extra profit which beacons has been constructed in French call aperitifs, his broad Mr. Ng She-sheng, Mr. Chang chief producing countries have fallen substantially below their bring to them, but to work all of electricity for its operation. indicating whence he derives the Miss Kwok Sheung-man, Mrs. To gold parity. The boom' actually treated; and it requires little im For baking fruits and small pieces oration he has just completed.

ore of low grade which can be

strength to make the impassioned Shi-fong, Mrs. Ma started in Australia, which was

Wing-chan Mrs. Lam Chan-wal and Mrs. Woo the first gold-producing country agination to realize how far of meat metal skewers have been to leave the gold standard and to reaching may be the expansion invented that hold them up from may appear on the scene.

Presently Mr. Ramsay MacDonald] Yee-kai. Miss Shin Tak-hing is,

He likes the general secretary, and depreciate her currency.

The not only in the gold industry but even shelves and conduct heat into to stand in the middle of the salle, Elliott the English Becretary. cause of it was the fact that, in the economic activities of the their interiors, assuring even cook-junder the clock, his fingers lightly while the price of gold in Aus-country. More ore will be treating. tralian currency rose in exactly ed and new areas will be exploit-

Quite close, is ́Sir John the same proportion as the cured. Both will require more la-

-An electric furnace that generates Simon, his face covered with an rency was depreciated, working bour, more machinery, and more! costs remained unchanged, ard capital. Money will circulatej temperatures in excess of 3,700 earnest smile and his shoulders thus the whole of the currency more actively and all branches of has been installed at the California word for everyone,

degrees, high enough to boll gránite, slightly drooping-but having premium on gold became extra industry and trade will benent Institute of Technology.

- Men of Moment. profit. If, when the Australia No doubt a portion of the extra

Then, perhaps, grey-haired Lord pound was worth twenty shill profits will be taken by labour

Lyiton, pensively dropping a silce ings gold, an Australian mine and by the Government.

But ernment makes no attempt to of lemon in his third cup of tea as should produce 100,000oz., worth what matters is the future cur raise the value of its currency he stands at the bar amid the press £500,000, and make a profit of rency policy of South Africa and two very important qualifications of journalists, messengers, and de- £80,000, then its revenue would of the gold standard countries, so long should the expansion legates from the South American be doubled by a fall in the gold So long as the latter remain of the goldmining industry con- States.

ARSEN value of the Australian pound to effectively on the gold standard tinue and help ninancial history to Mr. Norman Davis, short, very ten shillings, but the pront would and buy gold in unlimited quan: resemble, if not precisely to redapper, loolding a little confused by be multiplied eleven times over. tities at the mint price, and so treat, Itself to the general ad. it all, used to be a habitue of the That is the kind of thing that is long as the South African Gor- vantage.

alls.50, was Gen. McCoy, one of

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News In Brief

Miss

Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by Shanghai against ar- rivals from Hong Kong on account of small-pox.'.

DEATH

SANTOS-On the 8th March, 1988 ||

At the General Hospital; Shang haf, JOHNNIE MARIA DOS SANTOS," aged 81. Hankow

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