1933-04-07 — Page 6

DEWAR'S

THE

WHISKY

WHITE LABEL

Sola Agents.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

EST. 1841.

GRAY'S YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

For Finest Lingerie - Linens Peking Carpets, & Costume Jewellery.

Hong Kong:

Alex Bldg.,

Tel. 24566.

Hong Kong Hotel, Tel. 27424.

Curios:- Gloucester Arcade.

Kowloon -

Arcade, Peninsula Hotel.

COMING TO CENTRAL.

KARLOFF

THE UNCANNY in

-->

THE MUMMY

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG), LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS. DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (opposite G.P.O.)

Agenta for :-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,

· KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturori, High Class English Jewellery,

IN THE LONG RUN

Gas for cooking shows the greatest all-round economy

ECONOMY

time, in labour and

HIGHLY EFFICIENT

all-enamel Gas Cookers may be purchased for cash or on easy terms (one or two years), or a hired Cooker can

had for a monthly rental of $110.

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO. LTD.

Gloucester Building

Central Showroom Kowloon Showroom -246, Nathan Rosi Offices --West

Teignbons

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

NEW STOCKS OF TOILET SETS.

THE “GROSVENOR” TOILET SET.

THE

BUNGALOW

ENAMEL

TOILET SET,

Set consists of 5 ploces. Can be had in Canary

Green, Mauve or Blue..

PRICE $6.75.

Fine Glazed Plate

Earthenware Toilet Set

as Illustrated. 5 pieces..

PRICE

$12.50.

ENAMEL TOILET SET

FANCY TOILET SETS.

$19.50 to $27.50.

FIRST FLOOR SHOWROOMS. WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

Hong Kong, Friday, April 7, 1935.

showed 80

HERE. THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

German Railway Experiments. Germany hopes soon to have the] fastest train in the world... A series of experiments have been carried out on the railway between Hani- burg and Berlin. In the trials, the distance was covered in two, and a half hours instead of three and a half, which has been the fastest time up to now..

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933.

AMERICA'S OUTLOOK ON WORLD AFFAIRS

ADVERSITY CREATES

NEW VIEWPOINT

(By Percy S. Bullen.)

New York.

its where farmers have been badly hit

Amongst the moral "profits" of Into the fateful years: 1928-32 the depression you may count the The train, it is stated, reaches a there has been compressed the following to set against the financial speed of 100 miles an hour, and maximum prosperity and the great-losses: German engineers claim that the est adversity in the economic history The morale of the people in most run is faster than anything in of the United States.

parts of the country is high, except- of the cute ches, the golden England and America.

Plans are being made to put the dream of millions, reached new service into operation at once, climax in the former year; the by low prices, and mining districts, so that the Berlin business man will depths of the depression, sometimes where much destitution and unrest

have be able to do a morning's work in verging on panic,

been prevail. The rise in the stock, Berlin, an afternoon's work in Ham- plumbed in recent months, [bond, and commodity markets, based. burg, and be back in time for din- Three or four years, historically very largely on hope, furnished a ner. In coaching days the journey speaking, is but a day in the world's national stimulant in the nick of took over two days.

| record. In this case; however, the time. [day has been ao crowded and feverish, the contrasts between the Mr. Robey Sums Up..

high comedy of the orgy of spending A friend of mine had a telephone in 1928 and 1929 and the bitter conversation recently with Mr tragedy, national and domestic, of George Robey on the activities of 1930-1932 so violent, that the day

See America First. Mr. A. M. Wall, of Actors' Equity, resembles a lifetime.

But nothing can destroy the con- who threatens strong measures if The market smash of October, they may be, are better than else viction that things here, “bad as the famous comedian does not join 1929, was, not the cause of the de-where." that body. Mr. Robey summed up, bacle which followed, but it furnish fostered by, the American Press, This nolion has been his attitude in these words: ed proof that the structure of which finds in the woes of Euro-

"I don't recognise Mr. Wall at prosperity which had become the all. He is not one of us. The only envy of the world was built on of the United States!. Walls I recognise aro Wall's Bausages, Wall's ice-cream and the Great Wall of China."

#

economic gands.

There is more begging in the streets to-day in the big cities of America than in any other civil- ised country...

peans a sedative for the 'sufferings

It is my own view, strengthened

Millions of Unemployed. by a recent visit to England, that Efforts have been made to list the the unemployed and poor in your Mr. Robert Worth Bingham, the losses of the American alump to country are living in clover com- newly appointed American Ambas-date, and to show that the country pared with similar classes in sador, will undoubtedly be an ac-is just about 100 per cent. poorer America. quisition to diplomatic circles in to-day than four years ago. It may Owing to the spoils system," and The China Mail that he had much to justify him. London, for he possesses all the be that more or less according to the craving of one man in every ten Political assassinations, had be-amoothness, suavity, and grave of the method of book-keeping employ-for an official job with pension, the come frequent, the worst of all, the Southerner. He carries his 62 ed, but there are many clusive fac expense of Government, Federal, that of Raditch, the Croat lead-years lightly, and is tall and hand-tors in the situation on the financial State and civic, remains tremend er, having taken place on the some.

side, and the task of striking alously high, but the citizens general- floor of the Skupshtina itself. His. Mr. Bingham worked in his balance-sheet is practically impos-ly are practising economy. Unrest In Jugoslavia. legislators

little native State of North Carolina sole,

People who went to Europe every concern that the King felt called while studying for the law, and "There are, however, some out two or three years now "see their upon to act. Besides, corruption then went to Louisville, in standing features in the American own 'country first." - Men and Historians have often been was everywhere rampant.

The Kentucky. where be entered

crisis to-day which are beyond women who bought their clothes at dispute. puzzled to account for the fail- dictatorship, then, began with politics.

fashionable shops, where they were ure of civilisation to function in some excuse and many good in- For the past four or five years

First comes a total of unem-"individually tailored," now buy tentions, and for a time it effect- he has been coming regularly to .ployed; variously estimated from from the stores of "mass produc the Balkans. In no other parted visible reforms. But its later England, and knows the country 10,000,000 'to' 12,000,000 - In A tlon." High-priced motor-cars and of what, was once the Roman stages even the constitution thoroughly. He is a keen shot, and population of 124,000,000, of radios are replaced by the cheaper Empire has there been such ajof what is little more than a mock each year, rents a grouse moor for

which 40,000,000 are usually varieties.

3 breakdown of ordered law. It Parliament have pleased none the season. used to be held that Turkish rule instead of only Croats, Slovenes, but a few place-holders. To-day, had made the various races cor Macedonians, and Montenegrins Your Daily Smile.

Wellerism.

*

i

classed as "gainfully employed." Expensive clubs are losing their According to Mr. Green, president membership. The game of "keep- of the Federation of Labour, the ing up with the Joncees" has gone approximate number of the workless out of style. People write to the will be around 13,000,000 before the papers under the headline, "Enjoy winter snow disappears. And thereing the Depression," and there fa a is an army of dependents estimated growing class of correspondent, ap- parently, who wallows in penury

The loss of the spending power of and cheerfully relates how to live on. so many millions of unemployed is one-fifth the sum usually considered vitally important, and there is no necessary to sustain life. assurance whatever that, the public

"It's smart to be poor," and works and other relief measures "It's smart to be thrifty" are still planned will go for to provide a popular slogans. remedy.

rupt and savage; but now the being dissatisfied -- though that], Turk (after a Balkan-born world was surely bad enough the

a solid third] "Hanging's too good for them," war) has gone, yet the various Serbs, themselves

as the critic said, looking at some at 20,000,000. of the fourteen millions of popu- races continue to hate one anlation, are, says the "English ultra-ultra-modern pictures. ether even more than they hated Review" writer, a man of much him. The Balkans themselves experience in the Balkans, "seeth-Swish.

She was only a schoolmaster's seom more "Balkanised" than ing with discontent." The plea- ever, while the word and what it yar in a kind of new Hungar

sure of playing dominant Mag-daughter but she could raise Cain

means have spread to other and has ceased to console them for more important countries. Com-crushing taxation and official in- Small Girl: I want some powder paratively little complaint "ap-efficiency. The dictatorship, în for my sister, please. pears in the cabled news - due, short, has utterly falled to justify Clerk: The kind that goes off with say all the dissatisfied, to the itself in the only way open to it. a bang? strictness of official censorship. The signs suggest an early crisis. Girl: No, the sort that goes of Bat observers come and go, and It does not make encouraging with a puff.

they publish their impressions. reading, save for the friends of ........

It is certainly worth noting that disorder.

The Polish Corridor Attar-boy!

*

**

OFF AND ON

three of the English magazines constitutes perhaps Europe's Scent is the most acceptable pre- for February the "Nineteenth greatest menace to peace. How sent for a woman, says a writer. Century," the "English," and the few, this other danger-spot in the "Fortnightly contain articles Balkans again, reminds us, are fit Chivalry...

Americans generally have been

were

"The Drive For Subscriptions, inclined to place the blame for their Add to this loss of spending Their statesmen and economists. woon upon the doorstep of Europe. power a further loss Incidental to realise, however, that while the the reduction of wages of the e-Great War hastened the crisis, there ployed throughout the country—a reduction ranging from 10 to 50 per economic, which made that crisis other reasons, political and cent-and you will see there is far

inevitable sooner or later. Their leas cash than usual for distribution and circulation.

gargument to-day is this: By lack of co-operation" the world, America The loss in wages and salaries from unemployment and wage re means, of co-operation, friendship, included, has become deadlocked. By ductions in 1980 and 1981 totalled and understanding we shall find the

did the American Federation of Labour.

setting forth and deploring the to be trusted with power, espe- The visitor was struck by the £7,850,000,000 at par, according to key to the way out, internal condition of Jugoslavia, cially among these who most beauty of the village, but he {that curiously-named kingdom loudly demand it. Out of this not hit her back.

which in reality is Greater Ser-whirlpool came one earth-shak-

"

THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

Facts You Did Not Know

It will be rather more, proportion- ately, for 1982.

It is estimated that most of those.

(Continued on Page 11.).

IN RUSSIA

First Explorer's Relics To Be Shown,

Leningrad. Relics of the first Arctic ex plorers will be included in an The results of last year's cam-Arctic exhibition which is to be paign for funds were far below re-opened at the Russian: museum quirements, and the prospects, this here....- |autemin are still Jess ̧

"drive for subscriptions In every city, town, and village of the coun- fry Private benevolence has been severely taxed since 1980, and is not inexhaustible.,

bla Greater Serbia is, these ing wara fact which throws Settles That writers declare, and the kingdom no least reflection on Britain's Arguing that brunettes are unemployed last winter are now ARCTIC EXHIBITION merely a dictatorship, which has participation therein and the braver than blondes, a writer says without savings. In the absence of censed to satisfy even the Serbs chances exist of a second, scarce that it was a brunette who allowed any form of poor-law relief, or the themselves. As for the minorily less serious Jugoslavia has herself to be wheeled across dole," America's poor must rely ties, their grievances and discon- enemies' near at hand, and per- Niagara on tight-rope. So that for ford, upon private benevolence tents are stated to be heavier haps quite as powerful as her stops any jokes about Blondin Arrangements are being made, to and graver than ever existed allies of the "Little Entente" re- nearly dropping the blonde in. among the oppressed races of old consecrated few weeks ago. Austria. The Montenegrins be-France is no longer in close sym- lieve themselves to have been pathy with her, and Italy more Every man likce to think ho le a wit, hoodwinked and outwitted by than half hostile, owing in part Most of them are half right their stronger neighbours ever to clashes and contacts in Dal since the first weeks of the mafia. Internal reform is the World War, as Prime Milo of thing, most needed, the return to Montenegro shows in the "Nine-a reasonable measure of democra teenth Century," His article tic rule, and, above all, the insti Two United States Department of may perhaps be. discounted as tution of some federal plan giv-Agriculture chemists, have developed propagandist part of it is word ing a large measure of autonomy for word identical with that of to respectable minorities such as presence of sulphur dioxide gas rtable, apparatus to detect the the writer in the "English Re- the. Croata. It was federalism from factory chimneys in the air in view. But the others have no for Austro-Hungary that was be- unclent quantities to injure plants, and personal grudges. They are Bri-leved to be the hope and aim of

We find that a man who was emp tons who admire the Berbian the Archduke slain at Serkjeva. stock, but lament its present Those who still make public re-width of 274 feet and weighing during the good tim

Having a span of 161,4 feet, and fifteen or twenty domestic. leadership.

pajoicing over his death might well 145 metric tons, the world's largest to-day with a dozen, or Certainly no wise rulers would ask themselves whether they all welded bridge has been bullt at old motor car has not have permitted the erection at cannot discover in the plans. Serajevo of a monument In, hon-he seems to

our of the murder of Francis something.

And for this even, their own

*placchin 1980 – the Blav

nd ita advisers are in the

sponsible, seeing that

1929 tha

Issolved

The・・ standard). America, formerly

the world, is perce; Lower Living For, oplies

Pileen Crecho Slovakia, no rivela by a new model. nor bolis being used in Ita-c

ng. Many valuable historical docu

in ments will be among the ex-, inhibita, They include an extreme-/ ly rare book, published in 1611 in |Anisterdamin, Latin, recording. the voyage to Nova Zembla of the famous Dutch explörer Barenza,Reuter,

WANTED THE POLITEST TAXI-MAN

Prague

has started for the

wanapen

to cou

any ap