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DEATH

The China Mail

Peak Tram Extension.

was first advocated in these co

had started

HERE, THERE.

and

EVERYWHERE

GRATITUDE

was

Recently, a cocktail party given in New York to celebrate the sale of the 400,000th copy of the novel "Anthony Adverse."

The party was given not by the publishers or the author, but by a pulp-and-paper company.

They supplied the million pounds

AMERICA'S NAVY IN FAR EAST

"MUST BE KEPT STRONG” WARNS NOTED WRITER

ORIENTAL OPPORTUNITIES

I have talked with

(By Bruce Barton.)

Americans, the first actions of the new Man- of paper and the acre of potatoes which went to the making of this Englishmen and Frenchmen who chukuo (Made in Japan) Govern- book, with its 1272 closely-printed This is their comment:

have spent their lives in the Orient.ment was to erect a tarif discrim-

Inating against American and Bri

Įpages.

FINANCIAL REFRIGERATORS

1. The old East is gone forever tish kerosene and in favour of the -the East of unlimited opportunity.Japanese product. Eventually tho Every year competition is keener, Tokio Government would like to Estimates are now being made of profit harder. The day is past compel the oll Into Japan and refine the losses, actual and prospective, when a young man can hope to in Japanese plants with Japanese suffered last year by depositors in come out at twenty-five, work until labour. Even those things which American banks which closed. |forty-five, and go home with a com- they must buy they intend to handle in such a way that the utmost pos-

It is believed that more than petence.

2. It is true that a young man sible profit shall be squeezed out | 800,000,000dol. has been or will be

that receives responsibilities that would and kept at home. totally lost. Three times amount is atili "frozen."

not come to him at home until mid-

"Keep Off" In Saigon

dle life. He is an executive almost French Indo-China is a tight lit- A normally canny American gave from the start. Also he may live the private French preserve with

a sidelight on one change these bank. closures have made in American paychology.

on a better scale than at home-aj"keep off" algus all over the place. bigger house, more servants. But If you don't believe in signs, just Baving money is difficult. Health try to get an automobile or a hair- In a letter enclosing a five-dollar conditions are not so good. There pin into Salgon that was not bill for a small girl's birthday, he is the terrible price parents must "Made in France." wrote: "Spend it now. If I had pay in having to send their children China spent the money I earned, I should back home for education-losing upon as 'our step-child, our big at least have the memory of some-them from the age of eight or ten business hope Most Americans thing more than the bank which lost until after they have finished college have the naive notion that the it."

at twenty-two.

MANY PROFESSIONS

Lord Drogheda, who has secured

Smaller Opportunity For

Trade

we have always looked

Chinese love us and that, if and when, they decide to put on leather shoes, woollen pants and Derby

3. Every nation in the East is hate, and ride around in automo

a second in his bar finaf at the age striving desperately to make itself biles listening to the radio, we-and

In Before the war he was

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you owe,"

A scientist declares that there

It is a fact that for the last two trade with China has been greater than that of any of our

of Chinese cotton interests,

the

saved as

rest for the of 50, has followed three other pro-independent of the of the no one else will sell them all these ten minutes average passenger at the aver-fessions,

world. While this effort continues things. MACKAY.-On Sunday, July 8,age rate.

the there will be a smaller rather than 1934, at 1.30 p.m. at the Kow. Three thousand five hundred pas Foreign Office. From 1914 to 1918 a larger opportunity in foreign years our loon Hospital, Mrs. Elizabeth senger units use the Peak Tram he was private secretary to Lord trade.

The last point bears enlargement, European competitora, but the totals Mackay, aged 67 years. Fane-every day; which makes over a

Hardinge. ral will pass the Monument this million and a quarter every year.

Then he took a commission in the Fifteen years ago we in the United are not what they were in the good States had the notion there was no old days. China, hardly less than afternoon at 8.30 p.m. Austra- Allowing for growth of popula lian papers please copy.

mit to the amount of business we Japan, is seeking economic sek- tion, for which a deduction must Irish Guards. be made in respect of the earlier On leaving the Army he went into were going to do. While Europe sufficiency. Last year the United years, we still find that over the City, where, among other posts. was running itself in the war welStates blithely authorised a loan of fifty-eight million units have he held the chairmanship of the had stepped into South America 350,000,000,000, expecting the Chi- toiled up that breath-taking bit Amalgamated Tobacco Trust,

and the Oricat in a big way. Ours nese to take 800,000 bales of our lot road, or hurried down ft; --

on the cotton and goodness only knows how He has done better in his bar was the only shop open mostly wondering whether they examinations than most of his world's business street, and the cus-much of our troublesome, surplus wheat. At the end of 1983 only Hong Kong, Monday, July 9, 1934. ought not to have caught the junior competitors. He took a first tomers had to come to us.

previous tram. We omit the enl in both Roman Law and Torts.

The war over, we said: "Now 48,000 bales of cotton had been culation of the waste of money

that we are in these foreign mar-jordered, and of these, 18,000 were involved in taking taxis or

Your Daily Smile!

kets we will stay in." We were go- still held by us awaiting shipping chaira.

ing to show the world. "Think of instructions from China.

I have But if we would emulate Siri Our Sunday contemporary James's shattering figures we

"This is the last time I shall the millions of shoeless Chinese, Just read that, owing to the protests

we said. "We will shoe them has revived the project which must take the wasted minutes. take the trouble to call upon you just contrast our per capita owner Chinese Government has been com-

Five hundred and eighty million for instalments which

ahip of automobiles with the figures pelied to say to us: "Take back minutes means more than eleven said the collector.

In other continents.... Detroit your Afty million; all we can let you lumns forty-six years ago of car-centuries. To put it in another| "Thank you," came the reply.

will never never be able to fill the give us is thirty." As for our hope frying the Peak Tram down to the way, let us suppose that one man.

potential demand.”

of getting rid of our wheat, the Queen's Road level; conces-had had to do all the walking. Evidently

Cheerfully we lent millions of Chinese wheat crop in 1983 was the sion to everybody's convenience Then if King Alfred the Great

customers. Part of so obvious that the only wonder those cakes he would just be ar by a thunderbolt. His wife has used in buying American goods. The famous "free ports" of Hong

off after burning is no such thing as being struck good American dollars to foreign biggest in history.

those they Singapore Free Port is that 80 many years should riving now in Peddler Street to obviously never caught him teach-To-day the bulk of the dollars are Kong and Singapore are getting, less have elapsed with nothing done. call for a cocktail,

ing a pretty little blonde to swim still owed, and the customers are "free" all the time, as England, too, Figures are elusive things, which But we are dealing, however

running away from un as fast as is compelled to resort to tariff bar- fail to produce as much effect frivolously, with a serious mat- Ultra Modern

they can. When I say "from us" I riers in the effort to recoup from as one would expect on the ima-ter. It is really important to The twenty-four-hour clock sys-do not mean we are being especial- her colonies and protectorate what gination. So few of us are really develop to the utmost the high-tem is now used in many London mathematical.. When a tician tells us that the cost of climate makes pedestrian hill dressing saloons barbers are giving running back home and bolting The ship on which I am writing statis-er levels, and the Hong Kong establishments., At up-to-date hairy discriminated against. Every she is losing in the rest of the

body's customers are running away world. something is equal to the num-climbing a very serious tax both their usual infallible tips for the the door. The universal slogan is: this is French: so are all the pan ber of pennies that could be on time and energy, particularly 14.50. placed side by side in a straight as the climbing has to be done at line between Trafalgar Square the end of the day's work. The and the moon, the picture of a strip of land is there, and there. painstaking shroff carefully lay-would be no engineering difficul-ance meeting who tried to blow ing pennies through the strato- ty in running the lines along froth from his glass of water. sphere strikes us as so grotes-that extra" thousand feet with- que a waste of labour that we out demolishing any buildings; are not impressed by the arith-though of course the hum of the metic. Every year the annual passing trams would be added to reports of the London under-the present traffic, noises of ground railways tell that such Garden Road, the problem is to. an incredible number of people get the consent of His Excellency have travelled by tubes that we, the General Officer Commanding knowing the population of the in Chief, and the War Office. country to be a small fraction of A story is told by Lord Bal-petition she keeps hearing to much be. From the point of view of the the total giran, simply don't be-four's Private Secretary that about. lieve there e no such persons, his chief and Mr. Lloyd George

Nonetheless let us follow in sent him one day to tell Lord Consistent the footsteps of Sir James Jeans Kitchener they wanted to see The drinker of strong liquor! I spent some time in Japanese and try to complete the incon-him at once. Hurrying over he who will never accept a cordial in-department stores. I wanted to see world capable of grinding as as venience and waste of time in, had the temperity to open the vitation. volved in the present arrange door of the Secretary for War's

how the Japanese handled their tronomical lens properly, and one ment, always remembering that Office unannounced; and to steb

gladden my eyes with the sight of New York glass makers, engaged janyone who lives on the higher Inside. As the Great Man went Second Thoughts are Best, Or merchandising, but I wanted also to of them is an ex-convict,

levels has to do the journey on writing the emissary's cour-

familiar American trade marks. Ion making a 72-inch. lens for the twice a day; and that habit songe oozed away, At last the

should have carried a microscope.]new telescope for the University completely dulla our conscious Great Man looked up and said in Facts You Did Not Know There were plenty of Japanese of Texas, which is to be the largest ness that in the course of a few such a marrow-freezing voice

trademarks that look like ours. The in the world, were dismayed when years nothing remains in the "well" that he fled without a Eight experimental kilns have been Japanese are wonderful smitators the mould for the giant lens broke, wired to the memory, and only a calculation word, and reported to the Prime established in Ave Australian states and adapters. But American pro-in despair, they will enable us to realise how far Minister that he thought he had or clentine study of seasoning vari- ducta, where I could find them at all, sheriff at Geneva, Illinois, asking

ous native woods, we have walked on our daily oc- better send a note. It is propos

were in, amall quantities and well-for the whereaboute of the only" casions, Many a man. if he sat ed to end a note in the form of The average life of automobiles in concealed. Japanese tolkt goods, man in America' capable of carry- down to figure out when he is widely-signed petition, and it the United States has been climated Japanese rubber: goods, Japanese ing out the work going on leave, how far he has is hoped that it will go forward at seven and a half years by the De-electrical goods, Japanese textiles, This man had been indicted, for walked between his house and well sponsored by the local partment of Commerce.

Japanese sporting goods-all the an offence in 1981, but had been his office during his tour of duty, authorities.

To meet the growing demand for Wings we taught them to use they allowed to continue working in his jwould find that he could have

radle In Spain the government is are now making after our pattern, laboratory owing to his unique got to Southampton on Shanks'a

planning to establish a national net-They are a polite people."Thank skill, until his imprisonment "at" pony hid he done the same dis- Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Judge at work of broadcasting ataționa.

you very much, they say. But no Geneva, orders f tance continuously. The addithe International Court of Justice,

The sheriff informed the glass tional tram line proposed would who returned to China Iast Thurs 103,768,859, pairs of boota and sacen

In the Arst four months this year They lack raw materials, so we makers that their expert had come down another thousand day, is expected to leave for Canton other than rubber wantacioren continue to sell them metals and been released a year ago and feet. We may take the time to-day:

in the Unliad · Hintaa.

lumber and petroleum. But one of had gone to California Reuter,

J

ABSENT-MINDED

The chairman of the temper-

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"We will not buy a nickel's worth sengers except my own party. On of what we can possibly raise or Italian ships one finds Italians by manufacture at home."

order of Il Duce, while an English- man will postpone his sailing a (Continued on Page 11).

Silly Psychology

When any United States Senator ** *

talks about the Orient as if it were OH, VERY CLEVER

la dry sponge waiting to soak up un Latest fashions demand plump limited amounts of the output of agures. The phase that launched our farms and factories, he is talk- a thousand hips. Muddled Again.

ing nonsense. The Japanese and are trying to do exactly what we Chinese and all the other Orientala Aunt Agatha is cager to try to are trying to do sell as much as win a prize in this Japanese compossible and buy as little as need

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economist it is a silly sort of world paychology. But it is very much in! the saddle.

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