1934-03-29 — Page 9

THURSDAY, MARCH

CORRESPONDENCE.

of

COLONT'S TRADE - BALANCE

ITo the Editor, “Chime Mail.")

examination "SIA close

- that most informative Govern. ment publication "Hong Kont *Trade & Shipping Returns 1933" *Noronha & Co.) will repay the itromble taken, for it contains some

very interesting statistics.

ex-

For example it shows that last year the Colony's consumption

of imports over “(Le) excess

ports) of foodstus and consum- gablès alone amounted to over $39,-

000,000, made up as follows:

Foodatuks

.sions

Live animals

$11,091.568

£ provi-

13,324.073/

1,965,544

1,354,189

2835.513

Nuts & seeds

-Tobacco

Intoxicating liquor

130,570,887 ba- Our total adverse visible

amounted to lance (exclusive)

· close on $100,000,000.--

1:7would seem superficially that we are living on Capital resources to an alarming extent, but of course, this is not the case, as in norma]

times, we have very large invisible exports, among which may be men- Commercial tioned Banking and

1934

Just All Good, Clean Fun

Despite their conflicting statements before the Senate committes inree- tigating sirmail contracts, Postmaster General James A. Farley (left) and his predecessor, former Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, showed there were no hard feelings by posing for this picture after the inquisition.

SAFETY FIRST. IN BRITAIN.

Services to China, the expendi PLEA

ture from Home of large sums ex- pended on the Military and Naval establishments, remittances from abroad for Educational and Reli-

SC22.

THE CHINA MATE

To-day's Short Etory.

MYSTERY ON THE TRAIN

9. at the Gare de j

Dagn

Kjarsga

The man coat cast

I Lyon in Paris. The trains a glance through the ynder at

for the Riviera were still almost saw a typical third-class French empty. Only some third-class compartment with hard wooden passengers had come early to se-seats. For a moment he looked cure seats for the night.

hesitatingly at the passagers.

A tall mam in a grey cost drift-thinking to himself that these few ed rather aimlessly round on the passengers would be isolated ́all platform. His hat was palled night long in the small compart- down over his forehead and his ment. Suddenly he pulled his hat collar was turned up. His small still further down and entered the black eyes, under the heavy brows, compartment. The passengers scanned the platform as he slowly turned their heads and looked at approached a fruit-stall and asked him. When he reached his seat for some bananas. While they by the window they had already were being wrapped up his eyes lost interest in him

He said quietly in his corner caught the headlines of a rows paper in the stall next to him: and let his eyes wander from one "Night-watchman Murdered at to another of his fellow-passen- Work." Two Million Francs Stolen gers. There were four of them. from Suburban Bank."

The girl behind the counter handed him the bananas, be paid. and drifted back to the train. People were coming now; portara

BAR arrived with luggage, newspaper-

GOLD BAR ACTION

Continned from Pape 2.)

sellers ran up and down the plat- form, coming monotonously A man with a hand-cart laden with pillows of rough, white linen, with the black letters P.L.M. Acros them, went from one compartment

J.

SATURDAY'S STORY

· Saturday's story will be "Extradited From Bohemia," by O. Henry.

Right opposite him sat a small,

to another and hired his pillows dark man with a low forehead, a out to the passengers who were not in sleeping-cars.

LOITERER'S VIEWS ON MORRIS CAR,

"Peculiarity Of Such A Small Car.”

“I was only taking a look.

He

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE

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Offering people a wonderful opportunity for

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with Security & Protection,

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MOTOR TRANSPORT

SERVICE..

Duke Of York's Letter In Poster Form.

"I do not intend to let the mat- FOR ROAD

COURTESY er rest there," Mr. Chan told the

black moustache, and a feminine China Mail to-day.

mouth. In the rack over his head London, To-day.

bag with golf-clubs, CAMPAIGN'S ORIGIN

The man in the grey coat was he had a The campaign for road safety, The "Ice House Street" campaign|now Alowly walking along the father an unusual thing for a gious Institutions, our services in which is being conducted by the commenced on Tuesday when three train, looking. cautiously into the Frenchman who travelled third- the way of Shipping, wharves and anal safety First Association, Chinese foreign exchange brokers compartments. In front of him a class. That he was French could Docks, and remittances from Over-speed yesterday by the name whose accounts had been stopped by hig, stupid-looking soldier thrust not be doubted. Nobody but of a letter from IL R. H. the Duke the China Gold Bar Company owing his. head out of the window of a real Frenchman would read "LE the neas Chinese to relatives in

of York, Patron of the Associa- to them being in possession of quo-third-class compartment Also Colony, Tourists, etc, etc.

and de-Temps" with so much love and in- įtion. large investments of a permanent

tations some minutes ahead of the manded a pillow from the map terest as he did. - The letter, in poster form, is to exchange company, commenced, by with the cart. He got his pillow. Beside him sat the soldier. nature are made in the Colony by

30.000 boardings, and a code of signs, and later by num-handed the man a note and dis-had propped the pillow against the Chinese in China & from Over-appear on

reads:

bers. to supply free information to appeared again from view; wall and rested he head on it. He "Every day. 600 citizen are kill-all and sundry.

was already asleep. His faw had Moreover, a consideration ofled or injured on British roads, The affair caused a considerable :

dropped, and he looked perfectly the figures for a single year can mostly because of be misleading as large stocks of thoughtlessness.

somebody's stir among the brokers, since the

imbecile, quotations published by Mr. Chan, imported goods are carried in the

The third passenger sat very "To avoid accidents, be cour-from a window above the Ice House

[close to him. She was an old wo- Colony for re-export subsequently.teous and alert. Give special con-Tobacconista, were invariably cor while it is fairly well known that sideration to the aged, the infirm rect and some minutes ahead of

man in a big, rather formidable hat with artiñcial flowers, in the some exports may escape being and the very young.

the Gold Bar Company's quota- recorded. Similarly, it is obrious!

middle of which one could see the "The highway code is a code of tions.

shining head of a hat-pin, one of that a very large quantity of good road mannera.

Let UB ail treasure which appear as exportsjloyally observe it and make the Strect on Tuesday and yesterday The population belief in Ice House

The those dangerous things that wo- are merely re-exporta and have been unrecorded as imports. our behaviour on the roads"-Bri-ceived direct from Shanghai, where struck me," was the excuse given fashioned, this tiny, old woman, hold a Tabaksriving Service in Shantung Street, was removed to

She was so ridiculously old-

The Sabelan Community will Lu Chu, a married woman of 16 In addition large sums of money tish Wireless Service.

the Kulkiang Road Gold Bar Eby Lee Chu, an unemployed Chin-

her heavy shoes, and her once the Central Police Court this

Faster Sunday'at 3.30 p.m. in hon-fering from opium poisoning, and trading in the Far East, and were

black coat that was now green morning, when he was charged being telephoned direct to Ice House:

from wear. She too, slept with our of the Canonisation of their to have been self-administered, at Jervois Street her head bent so that her dace was

| Founder. Saint John Bosco, with loltering Street, thus maintaining

to steal an with intent

Pleading guilty to a charge of umbrella rapid quotation service than any at

almost hidden under her enormous

It is reported that the Hong cruelty to six pigeons in Connaught from car No. 3943, belonging to hat. Her hands in the katted Kong yacht, Tatmoshan, which Road Central yesterday, Li-Yuen, a present in operation.

Mainly owing to the rain, little Mrs. Turk, wife of Revenue-Ulcer gloves were folded over her bosom. went aground on Crooked Island toki, was fined $10 by Mr. Q. A. A. interest was taken in the quotations E. Tuck, last night,

The fourth-passenger, who sat on the last lap of her voyage from FacFadyan at the Central Police Įthis morning. This system, how-

Mr. Tuck, giving evidence, said

on the same sest as the man in the Jamaica to Plymouth, has been Court this morning, ever, still continues, Chinese figures that his car was just an ordinary grey cost, was a conspicuous wo-radosted.

man. She was about thirty years being used to make known the quo-cara Morris two seater,

Lau Sang, a püblis car driver, re- Sentence of three months' hard old and had the face of a "A visit to South Africa during ported to the Police, that while he labour was imposed on defendant- Madonna.-- Her straight black the summer of 19307 was the sub was driving his car along Des Voeux hair was parted in the middle, she ject of a lecture given by Prof. W. Road Central. he collided with had black eyes and full red lips. Brown, of the Hong Kong Uni-tram-car, No. 24. His car WEE She was dressed in red and wore a versity, before a large and appre-slightly damaged. chain with a cross of silver around clative audience at the Soldiers'] });

mast spirit of goodwill the keynote of was that quotations were being repercularity of such a small carmen used about thirty years ago.

have been remitted in the past

for safe deposit in the Colony, but such sums are in the nature of capital movements and are best left out of a discussion of Trade Balances

is as they are what known as "bad money” and are E- able at any time to be taken out of the Colony.

But one has every reason to judging from the steady growth of the Colony, that in the past we have been able comfortably to more than balance our adverse trade by invisible exports.

BRITISH TRAIN

MISHAP.

Expresses Collide In Dense Fog,

STEEL FRAMES BEAR SLOCK OF IMPACT

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

change is the centre of gold barese, to Mr. Q. A, A. MacFadyen at/with her black woolly stockings, the Roman Catholic Cathedral on the Kowloon Hospital yesterday auf-

tations. London. To day.

more

A mishap occurred at Doncaster during dense fog. early yesterday In these days however when the ring, when the London and ROUND THE WORLD solame of Trade handled by the

North Eastern Railway night ex- to Edinburgh Colony has shrunk se enormously. Press from London and the high Chinese Tariff Wailltan into another express which feft

same destinations | arts as a barrier to the many small Londen for the industries which could otherwise leven minutes enrlier,

de foodstuffs imported are consumed

in the Colony -**

Three mail vans and a brake-van were derailed. No passengers or

The cause of the

ON A BICYCLE.

German Tourist In Colony,

WOMAN KILLED IN EXPLOSION,

Dynamite Laid And Forgotten.

1. M

her neck. She was absorbed in and Sailors Home, Wanchal last Mr. Fin Shau-nam of No. 2 Yan. a modern French novel and paid

night. no attention to the other passen- gera)

Shau Lang; who caught a Chinese stealing a hand-þig from Hong

flourish in Hong Kong, it is becom-

Ng Yee-mul, a Chinese woman, Chan Ching-hing, a married woe It was time that the train should aged 45 of No. 8, Kwal Hing Street, man, in Wyndham Street last night- ing an increasingly difficult matter

Setting out on a bicycle from CHANG SHAU KEE QUARRY, leave. The conductor came to died at the Government Civil Hos was thanked by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac for the Colony as a whole to earn any of the trains' crews were hurt, Dresden in Septemebr 1982, Her-

shut the door. He looked into thepital at 9.15 last night. She was Fadyen for his public spiritat enough to pay out anasally such and the trains proceeded after 58bert Rietig, a German youth, has As a result of a dynamite ex-compartment and listened im-found unconscious in Queen's the Central Police Court this an enormoES SIDA ** $30,000,000 minutes delas.

arrived

in Hong Hong after plosion at Chang Shau Kee Quarry patiently to the Madonna lady Road West yesterday and was re-morning, ~~~for ~ imported foodstuffs alone.accident is under investigation.

at 3.65 p.m. yesterday, a Chinese who asked when the train would moved to the Hospital by Mr. And whatever doubt there may be

The escape from injury of the Journeying thousands of miles.

Rietig arrived in the Colony woman, Yip Chang of 57 Whitfield arrive in Marseilles. While sn Fung Yen-sing of the St. John's The case of Shi Yuk, who was as to the absolute accuracy of the hundreds of passengers who were

* charged with the embezzlement of Returns as a whole, most of the travelling in the trains involved from Haiphong yesterday by boat, Terrace, was instantly killed by a swering her the conductor bent Ambulance Brigade.

as he was unable to secure a Chin piece of rock.

and picked up a little white card

$215.03 from the Garden Company due to the fact that the steel

arier to the Admiralty of: 298 Des Voeux: Bosa – Ceniza! Under frames of the coaches bore the ese visa to travel overland. He It was stated by Police that the from the floor. He looked hastily

will remain in Hong Kong for eight dynamite was laid sometime ago, at it and read aloud: one for the carrying of reliefs to the after defendant had been rema days before proceeding to Hankow and that its existence had been for- HENRI PIQUENARD TH and then to Nanking. He hopes to gotten. The body of the women All the passengers, except the line reach Japan and later to cross over was removed to the Public Mor-old woman, who continued « ber Ito Ameries if funds permit.

tuary. Leaving Dresden, Rietig has visited Viếnna, Budapest, Sofa, Tehran, Kabul, Calcutta, Bang- bok, Saigon, and Helphone Rietig, who is travelling alone, has experienced no, ailment during

certainly as47*

ed sum of $30

the Impact-British

**and we must shock of

the estimat-

Wireless Service. →d is a minimum and any o .. from records must be only › increase the actual figure of sucs goods consumed.

It is therefore important for the Colony to endeavour to reduce its adverse sixible Trade balance as (much as possible, and the only way, if we cannot ând markets wil-

ANNIVERSARY OF 72 MARTYRS.

Commemorated In Canton To-day.

to accept an increase] The 23rd anniversary of the death his travels. He considers his of goods manufactured of the "Seventy-Two Martyr", who journey through Perala the most

well-known Blire ed, was adjourned by MF [{Q} Somersetshire arrived in A MacFadyan at the Central Po-

day. The Somersetshire Iice Court this morning, an main here until April 8, wim application of Berrant Guild, The the soldier woke up and stared she will return with naval drafta to hearing will be resumed on April:

looked curiously from one other He knew that the c longed to one of the cleve of the French detective

Has anybody hars Ing card he

@aleep, started at his word

SUICIDE PACT INQUIRY.

Medical Evidence.

Given

| stupidly" at " the conductor”

alias Phillip

MRS. EVANS AIDS

CH

MOTOR CYCLISTS.

Crash On Castle

us for export, is to reduce our were the first ones to lay down their pleasant, though he spoke highly Consumption of Imported goods.. lives for the Chinese Revolution in of Indo Chine

Foodstuffs appear to be the one 1911, is being commemorated to-day Stagory in which we have scop? ut Wong_Fa-Kwong, Canton, where

**marked improvement,

China's first revolutionary herpes In spite of the fact that the were buried. ·

of the New Territorien in mot « Government officials in Nanking fartile, la Government doing all and in other places are also holding

should to aid our uri memorial services."

{{acutiousmens, but I must gaffain

the' temptation to be Joct und to ask your readers to

Nobo

hing, tor,

and slams

Even will

Bouthampton, arriving at her, des 5, at 2,80 p.m..

An opium raid, indb Choral Service from Offeer Humphraya, on

fulam - Road," first floor,

resulted