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Indian Reform

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OPENING LETTERS

In all the controversy. about the right of the authorities to open let ters in search of sweepstake tickets there has seen no clear statement of the origin of this right. Now it fa supplied by a legal correspondent.

Five people (he writed) have the right in their uncontrolled discre tion to call for, detain, and open any letters entrusted to the post by anybody at any time

FORTUNES MADE IN TOBACCO

CIGARETTE INDUSTRY'S WAR-TIME GROWTH

AMAZING PROFITS EARNED

BY BIG COMBINES

(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte)

This power, carefully kept in the

London. ment regulations which cut down background-by officialdom in gen FFICIALLY – tobacco is & imports of dealers to one-tenth of

0 luxury. Actually it is, what they had been

| FALSTAFF INTO - CASSIUS

retaria of State the Home, Foreign, after food, one of the prime Math. Bernhard Baron- Indian and Colonial Secretaries, and necessities of life Year after 'While "Imps" were fighting the Minister for War. Afg

year a nerve-torn world inhales their American war a young The War Minister exercised it more smoke. In times of de-Russian emigrant was working oponly and straightforwardly dur- pression it chain-smokes. The on a new cigarette machine, in- ing the Wars Usually, however, it only American companies which vented in the spare moments of is exercised secretly,

earned more in the depths of 1982 his life in a United States than they did in "the sky's the cigarette factory. His name was limit" year, 1929, were the Bernhard Baron.. The machine Several London doctors are tobacco companies.

brought him money. He came to achieving remarkable successes la In Great Britain the tobacco England, bought up a tiny firm weight reduction by means of gian industry gives the Government, run by a Mme. Carreras, and dular injections.

out of its fantastic income, as started to make his fortune. He The most remarkable case is that much as one-half of the income lost steadily for five years. His of a West Indian magnate. He from customs and excise. The friends told him to cut the loss. came over here weighing over 22 cigarette industry alone employs But he went on, and in the sixth [stone. He la now a modest 12. hundreds of thousands, and turns year made a profit of £11,000.

After treatment he had so much out goods with a market value of When he died recently he left loose skin under bis chin that he nearly £100,000.000 every year. five millións. He gave away bad to go to Paris to have his face And the whole control of this 22,000,000 to charity. He lived lifted.

great industry is in the hands of to see his factory employ 8000 The result has been startling a few men.

workers and make over a million The former fat man has recovered The Cigarettee Monopoly" a year profit." his good books.

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The cigarette industry has had Directly after the war cigarette a stormy industrial career, which proits and shares jumped. From Your Daily Smile! has forced it in recent years to 598. 9d in 1918 the "Imps" protect itself behind a barrier of shares rose to 1098. in the next of civil disobedience and the re-

Milk, we read, can be put to dozens amalgamation and rationalisa-year. Other companies hitched birth of the Swarajist party will of different uses. This will be comfort- tion. This its critics attack asjon. to the same star, and thou- mean that Indian ̈ nationalism ing news for the holiday-maker. who Hong Kong, Monday, January 21, 1915 will be stronger and more unified, has forgotten to stop the daily supply monopoly. The industry is now sands of shareholders sold out

while he is away.

in the hands of one big combine for fortunes. although the loss of Gandhi as

to the extent of about 80 per The slump of 1921 hit the leader may bring disunion, as

Egotism and › mumps are very cent., and the remaining 20 per tobacco companies financially. well as conflicting interests of its sections. The Moslems fear that house in different places.

much alike, except that the awelling cent. is held by a few big firms. Though they continued to do The small man of yesterday, excellent business, Imps" shares Its importance for the Empire federation will mean Hindu con-

with his thousand-and-one fell to 448. But since then they makes the report of the Parlia-trol of the central government

blends, has gone to the wall. It have climbed steadily, and to-day mentary joint select committes But Hindu opinion tends to fear Teacher: "Have you spoken to your was hard on the small man. But stand at around 1878. on Indian constitutional reform a provincial autonomy because of boy about mimicking me?"

it saved a vast industry.

The Coupon Offensive document of great gravity. The the Moslem dominance in four of Mrs. Brown: "Yes, I told him not to

At the beginning of this cen committee has advocated certain the provinces. And the native let me catch him acting so silly again!"

The Armistice brought nơ tury the industry was a scatter peace in the tobacco war. A definite proposals as the result princes regard with suspicion

ed one. It was highly individual guerilla warfare went on between of its consideration of the White anything that might further re

and skilled, and blending to suit small manufacturers and the the palate was still an important combine, but, the result was in- and lucrative art. But American evitable. A few new firms

Paper presented to Farliament duce their curtailed power. last year, and its conclusions may Regarding the problem of

:

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

"

be said to be the fruit of six India broadly, the parties appear Two cases of small-pox were re- big business killed all that. sprang up, but met terrible dif years' earnest consultation and to have four courses open: preported in the Colony during exhaustive inquiry into the pro-servation of the status quo, re-week ended January 12, blem, conclusions arrived at by turn to a policy of reaction, the

Thom

the In about 1901 the huge United ficulties, only to fail or be bought States combine, the American out by the big men. Money was Tobacco Company decided to poured out by both "Imps and

on

in

annex the British market. They Carreras in one battle which had bought up a big Liverpool firm, no decisive results. And then, and began to flood the country when peace seemed nearer, the with heavily advertised cigarettes coupon offensive broke.

at 3d. for twenty. The un- It was the smaller manufac

men of experience and well-proven grant of Swaraj, and reforms The s.s. Takada left Singapore The proposals deal such as those contained in the Thursday and is due to arrive Judgment. with three main points; feders report. But it is felt that affairs the Colony on Wednesday after tion, provincial autonomy, and in India cannot be just left as noon. "safeguards." In each case the they are: in spite of the improve proposals are not in the nature of ment announced by Lord Willing marriage took place this organised British firms faced the turer who took to the coupon any revolutionary change, but don last August, conditions are morning before Col. F. Eaves. De alternatives of extinction or with enthusiasm, He looked to rather an extension of principles still unsatisfactory The re already recognised in varying deforms may be called "defeatism" Tang Waiki, shipping clerk, to Miss gamated. The Imperial Tobacco absorbed by Imps" ten-for-six- They amal it to regain some of his sales puty Registrar of Marriages, of amalgamation. grees in the Morley-Minto and by the die-hards, but a return to

Company, later to stride the in- penny cigarette which was hold- Lesing Kin-tong. the Montagu-Chelmsford re- "Dyerism" at this date would

dustry like a Colossus, was forming 60 per cent of the total forms, the Simon Report, and the only provoke revolution. Even

The forthcoming marriage of Jose ed by 14 of the major manufac cigarette sales in this class Round-table Conferences. The more impracticable is the com- Alberto da Luz, of No. 26 Granville turing companies. central purpose is that of the plete withdrawal of Britain from Road, Kowloon, to Amella MarA few days after its forma good to the sale of cigarettes A great trade war began, all about £16,000,000 did no

The coupon war which cost in: 1919 Act, the development of India in the face of such facts as Conceicao de Souza Carvalho, of 6 self-governing institutions" in the communal dispute, the con-Jordan Read, is announced.

tion, "Imps" (as the Imperial generally, but It boosted some Tobacco Company is known) fired companies into a position of im India, although the proposed flict of caste, and the lack of federatiu la tended to cover its broader questions of defence or steeling four pairs of a thousands of retailers a total lished brands. "Imps" refused federation is not only for British political training in India, as well

the first shot. They offered portante at the expense of estab the Native States, which would and international compitations 310, the property of Mrs. N. Rapp share of the profits if they would main brands, but capitulated and and two cattles of fish valued at bonus of £50,000, a year and a to give coupons with their two Jenter the federation. by the volun-|| The proposal for federation ap- tary act of their rulers. The Pears the most statesmanlike of from the back yard of 40, Kennedy freeze out the new United States introduced a number of other

elgarettes. Many accepted.

The American Retaliate

coupon types.

COR

nine States of British India suggested policies, but if the Road Te to Kwan was sentences would be altered to make pro Indians themselves reject the to six weeks hard labour by Mr.

But the power of a combine f8- vision for two new States in the compromise, how can a system of EI. Wynne-Jones at the Central

But the Americans caught the sometimes an influence for good. All-India Federation. The pro-government forced upon a people Magistracy this morning, vinces of British India already who do not want it help to ImS

bomb and threw it back with "Impa" killed the coupon, which enjoy a measure of self-govern- prove matters! It can only be The forthcoming marriage is an interest. They drew on their had grown into an artificial cur ment under the diarchy; but this hoped that time and reflection nounced between George William bottomless money-bags. At once rency, purchasable at standard would be Increased to a practical may help to bring about area. Wiggins, Inspector of the C.D. Do they quadrupled the bonus offer, rates by non-smokers. Power the was put on the retailers, secret autonomy, with the exception of sonable adjustment of the views partment, Naval Yard, and Florence and made the ref stated powers reserved to the of the extremists, whether in May Buxgy, of 42 Verdon Road, astounding offer of all the net ultimatums sent out, and Governors in such matters as India or in England, so that Bri-Hamble, Hampshire, England, now profits on goods sold by them for ferentele manufacturers de maintenance of „order," tish commonsense and the en route to the Colony by the ss, the next two years

For a while the pub allocated to the Federal Gov. genuine desire of the British Carthage, ornment in respect

Government to act for the best

cut-prices But the pac and tariffs, and the

welfare of the people of India. A fine of $50, in default one hot themselves may go some way a month's hard labour, was this morn- [com powers or the Governor-General in relation to the safeguards The

ards the solution of an ing imposed on Tam Kin-fat, anem Federal Government would

ricate and extremely difficult ployed, by Mr. W. Schöffeld with

broad national matters

estion

Central Magistracy for the the ja pine tree, valued at

Government Plantation 1 Pokfulam Road, yesterday,

or

currency spec

as are the concern of all federa tions, but the British Govern- ment, through the Governor General, would still control such vital matters as narice and

DILLINGER'S ATTORNEY NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY

Lanfa

For Jackot:

theft of s bluet cott

the

went

they had bought a was Angry

bonu

man

jon,

enjoy

clared peace. At once the sales of old favourite non-compon brands jumped. One "Imps brand raised its sale 200 millions:

week

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