1934-09-27 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934.

P.& 0.-British India A Drink From A Running

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO - FOR STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULE WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)

8.6.

RAWALPINDI

"BANGALORE

From Tone Hong Kong

About

1934.

17,000

6th Oct. 6,000 13th Oct.

5,300 16th Oct. 15,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov.

6,000 10th Nov.

Destination

Bombay, Marseilles & London, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, S'pore, Penang, C'bo, Ebay, Karachi, Bombay, Marseilles, & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London,

Marseillos, Favre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

15,000 17th Nov. Marseilles &- London. ·

*KIDDERPORE

COMORIN RAJPUTANA. 1*BHUTAN

CHITRAL **BEHAR

CARTHAGE **SOUDAN

15,000 1st Dec.

RANPURA CORFU *BURDWAN

RANCHI- NALDERA

6,100 24th Nov.

Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam; Antwerp Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 7,000 8th Dec. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

17,000 15th Dec. 15,000 29th Dec. 0,000 5th Jan.

17,000 12th Jan. 16,000 26th Jan,

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

→ DO

B'bay, Mars., Havre, London

Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hall, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

DO

Stream

(Continued from Page 3).

ORTHODOX BUDGET

LAUDED

(Continued from Page 18.)

You know him by sight, of course; there watching it flashing in the disastrous economic depression. In he's dark and he's aquiline still, sunlight, and foaming over the our history could be so called. The seen side-face, in spite of his fat rocks. Spellbound' is, I suppose, Colony has had its ups and downs, But in those days he was like a the word; but whatever it was I but never has it passed through, a brooding eagle. An eagle on a stood motionless. Motionless I high place watching lamba.. remained perhaps for minutes, period of such a depression a now. The economic hurricane "Well, he took his share of the while that torrent went gilstening which has struck us is of unpre money, and got me another dozen; by. And all of a sudden I realis but he wouldn't say thank you for ed that I was wasting momenta cedented violence, and we may hope what I'd done or talk about what I of opportunity that in all my life that never again will the Colony suffer such an unhappy deluge. It was going to do. He was moodier were unlikely to come again. Very the present is not the time to make than ever, and ha mind was far palikely. And I ran to a place the best use of the surplus, when away from my whisky.

from which I could reach it easily,i

"So I went back through |border with my pink-and-blue

200 as Jiggerz was able to

me have it.

the

as

let

and got down on my hands and the time? I say that now is the knees and had a drink. And from time to do so, and to do it boldly.

Exchange Element the moment my lips touched. It I

I am confident that the Colony's

sufficient to say that filling all the

could tell that it was pre-War."

"Pre-War water?" said Falden. reserves would not, by these two remedial measures, be drawn be- "I won't say how I got it "Whisky," said Jorkeus, "If you low the margin of safety,but would through, for that's not in the

under-rate the abilities of Ludd's private interest: some other man Dun you'll be making a great mis-rather, through their amellerative will be working my scheme now, take. That was probably his first effect on business, and consequent- and I won't give him away. It's scheme the first we know about, on revenue, be found ultimately anyway-planned by him, worked to be in the neighbourhood of the hollow parts of the frame of out by him, and carried through Hon. Colonial Treasurer's own es- bicycle with whisky won't do at by him in every detail. And, as is timated figure for the end of 1985- all; they found it out as soon as perhaps the case with most great

This view is strengthened by past 1 tried it with water. "What's all men, his earliest conception was exchange rate being taken in fram- that? they asked. That's a Cana is greatest. Nothing daunteding the Estimates. I see the wis [dian Hydraulic,'. I said.

him, nothing turned him guide.dom la the adoption of the rate of "When you have to talk non-Instead of asking if it had been 1/4d as the basis for the 1985 Esti- sense for any reason, you must done before, its novelty was pro-mates, and feel confident that by talk the kind of housense they are bably what attracted him most: the end of that year our position accustomed to, and they'll accept instead of asking if it could be from this cause will be found to be it as they accept an advertise-done at all, he did it. Of the much better than anticipated. In his remarks on the surplus balan- whole scheme he spoke to never & "Well, I got my whisky through, soul. The distiller knew that he ces of the Colony, the Hon. Colonial and I was wandering about in the wanted an Incredible amount of Secretary referred to the necessity wooda on my way back, looking at whisky for the States, and com- for maintaining these balances at the glory of the fall, and suffering pelled by the giant size of the a high figure owing to heavy com afford to drink any of the whisky, him to get it through, and sup- the same time, however, he referred from raging thirst, for I couldn't man's personality he relled upon mitments not yet completed. The sun so late in the year was plid it.

But he never knew how to certain sources of revenue still shining quite warmly through the it was to be done. Of course it untapped, from which future re- glittering leaves, adding to the made his fortune too.

plenishment of our balances may pangs of my thirst, and I was get-

"Others dammed the stream in-be expected. I conclude from this ting near to the point when men side the Canadian border, but suggested measures would result and from the conviction that the drink water. Perhaps I should

were in increases in many existing Bour-

ment.

'burg, have done so there and then from they never knew what they

At

a rocky stream in the wood, only working for, except treble wages, cea of revenue, that it would be a that the stream was dry; so 1to be paid in a week.”

"Another man scooped the water the Colony's reserves,

policy involving no real danger to buoyed myself up with the hope out of the rock-hollowe, for fear that barely a mile across the of contaminating the whisky, but

In these times of uncertainty Canadian border, now only a few he never knew what was to come for us to adopt a

and doubts there is greater need yards away, was a dear old soul

que sense down that watercouse when all thei who was often good for a drink,

proportion as between the presenti I'd worked pretty hard, and it water was safely out of the way and the future. We may be in Frequent connection from rt Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- meant a lot of walking: and there were tanks all ready and sent for the future's sake than of And further down in the wood more danger of neglecting the prø cantinople, Piresas, Smyrna and other Lavast Ports by steamers of the Jiggers seemed to think it was the thousands of casks. One man leaving the future a little to itself

•Cargo only. † Call Cablanca.

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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS,

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†TILAWA

SANTHIA

Calla Rangoon

1934.

8,000 30th Sept. 10.30 8.m. 10,000 12th. Oct. 8,000 27th Oct.

Singa, re, Pert Swettenham,

Rangoon and Calcutta. S'pore., Penang & Calcutta, DO -

+ Call Port Ewettenham.

for them.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for course Ist and 2nd class passengers.

man

Too Much Pessimism

of

way with all great men towards

there must have known, but that everybody who is off the direct road

for the sake of to-day. The inter that they think destiny's beaten man was Porvis, who is Ludde esta of the present should not be

Dun's secretary to-day, a

under-estimated; they are, in a "I sat down on the bank of the rate not of Ludd's Dun's business. also, for a bright future cannot be

that never speaks a word, at any

sense, the Interests of the future! stream to rest before going back into Canada. I must have walked financed by the certainty which tinued and increasing depression in "And all these things were only built upon a foundation of con Penang fifteen miles before I disposed of)

that tremendous personality ea the present. the whisky, and another eight forced upon every mind, that this after that. I sat down in a heap, vast enterprise was bound to The stream was oddly dry; oven the pools that Ile in the hollows cash I brought him for the first

prosper. For ready money, the Many to-day are disheartended, and for that they cannot be blam of rocks in almost any dry water-

ed. But the pity of it is that our seemed to have all dozen of whisky must have been pessimists, in the absence of posi

about all he had. evaporated. But sliting there on remembers of that to-day:

And Hittle, he

tive action by the Government the bank the sun still got me

the pink and golden almost all great

"And in the end how simple are of the Colony. This depressing in- have gone about sounding the knall

leaves, and, late in the year Merely, ninety per cent of them,

enterprises!fluence is to be deplored, for it has though it was, I couldn't bear recognising some urgent need

already

through the produced, even the slightest aggravation of

working of mass psychology, disas the raging thirst that had been and satisfying it. Jiggers stood bles are in no small measure due to among men, and then going and trous resulta. Our present trou] made all the acuter by carrying like Cortez upon the boundary of whisky that I couldn't afford to Sahara....Well, whoever did first

paychological influence induced by touch. Because you see it WBS discover the Sahara. He stood length of saying that the present such talks. I would even go to the raw gold to the Americans. Their there and saw Dry Law was quite new, and they for drink.

a nation panting depression is due as much to pay Others had seen that' were just feeling the sting of it much, but what did Jiggers do?chological forces as to economie, if "So I climbed down into the He gave it to them. And that tor not more. This baneful influence watercourse and made mysafrennt went amongst them and dis-must be vigorously combatted, and comfortable against good

I smooth boulder under the shade

appeared,, as a rivulet in the de- can see no better way of doing it than the adoption of measures that| desert. of the bank that was on the side

"Yes, I was

present at the would restore public confidence.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, through

1934,

..

NANKIN

NELLORE TANDA

7,000 29th Sept. 11 a.in, 7,000 2nd Nov. 7,000

1st Dec.

Manila, Exbaul, Brisbane, Syingy á

Melbourne, and Hobart,

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

Haku Hong Kong to Australia.

Bay Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days,

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money is worth 28 per cent. more).

Sun Deck Swimming Pool-of the sun. And there I sat think-foundation of Ladd's Dun's for-

I would therefore most earnest- ask Your Excellency to give my

No Additional Charge for Deck Cabins. Orchestra carried Laundry Surgeon-Stewardess. Cy" E & A Cuisine and Bervice are, unsurpaucă.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New not, and wondering if I could "Yet, after all, I got the Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London aud

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suês.

ing about the Dry Law, trying to tunes. And little enough I got make out whether it was good or out of it.

utilise it further, to as to earn á of a lifetime. steady livelihood. My thoughts,

"Thanks, I will"

THE END

The New Zealand Shipping-Company's steamers for Southampton, and took a hopeful tum in this direc-

London via Panama Canal.

い

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

BEUTAN

NELLORE RAJPUTANA SANTHIA BEHAR CHITRAL

TARZA

ACUDAN QARTHAGE SIRDHANA "ANDA

ARADA FANPURA CRURDWAN

1934.

6,000 5th Oct. 7,000 4th Oct.

·∙17,000. 4th Oct.

·B60 4th Oct.

6,100 14th Det. 15,000 19th Oct. 10,000 18th Oct. 2,000 81st Oct. 15,000 End Nov. 8,000 1st Nov. 23.0004 NOT. 8,000 18th Nay, 17,000 18th NOT. 6,000 25th Nov.

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two proposals your early and sym- pathetic consideration. They are admittedly palliative rather than THE burative, and one, at least, is put forward as a temporary measure. 1 know that the finances and the trade of the Colony will never quite recover their former position un-outside machinations, and less world economic conditions money was hoarded through panic, have improved, and unless the tariff the Government in spite of oppo wall in China, especially in the sition and doubte from many in Kwongtung Province, is lowered fluential quarters in the Colony But I feel, none the less strongly, prevented a financial breakdown that, the measures suggested are and so saved the situation by de- essential, if the present already ciding within one single day, "to serious condition is not to become make to the public a trade, loan of Heritage of the Desert, fendtill worse; if public confidence is $30,000,000. To-day the Colony ring Randolph Scott, Bally Blene to be restored;, and if a return

Farrell MacDonald, is the better times is to be

Even If the results of

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tion, and they and the rest in the shade were so gently soothing that I must have almost fallen as- leep, when I suddenly heard a murmur. I may have been quite f asleep, but I was on my feet at jöntu;" ̈No one who has travelled about the world a bit, I have done, can mistake that murmur. It's not difficult to recognise, but your must recognise, it at once, if you're sitting as 1 was in the bett of a dried watercourse. It is death to stop and wonder if it 18 really the sound Wit you thought current attraction at the Orle it was.

ORIENTAL THEATREL.

The story deals with Scott, as It was the sound of a torrent coming 'round the corner, a little yours

yor, who way off in the wood banks

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