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Opium Cultivation

N

It may be a sad reflection, but

the

and Everywhere

BEER. GLORIOUS BEER

THE ETHIOPIAN

AT HOME

SELF-SATISFIED AND CONTENTED PEOPLE

The Hong Kong Brewery has a OLD PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM STILL

strong

CUSTOM OF COUNTRY

(By "Magdala")

when it asks for Government protection to enable it; to compete on something like equali terms with imported beers, since. as the Chairman pointed out at the general meeting on Wednesday İNTELLIGENT, polite. hospit-in 1780, and notes are used in had exchange remained anywhere able, the Ethiopian-heland about the capital: In cer- near the level it was when the objects strongly to being called tain provinces, salt is the only A salt bar, a foot Brewery project was started weanything else is a delightful (currency

longis the family purse; could have supplied the Colony person to meet. with very much cheaper beer than But he is a better man than enough is cut off daily to bay that imported from anywhere else the man he meets by a long the household wants.

All that is true of the Ethio- except perhaps Japan Exchange way and with studied careless Auctuations, such as we have had ness. His superiority is not to plan country. In the towns-- His love of dis-it would be more correct to say in the last few months, are impos- be disputed.

sible to foresee, and it is extremely play runs it very close. For a large villages, for without in- hard that a large local industry.noble to ride out unattended is dustries there is no inducement supplying employment for some cne of those things that are un-to herd together-it is much the hundreds of workers, should be thinkable..

Mounted on a horse. he pro-|

The Capital forced to carry heavy losses In- curred through no fault of its own.jceeds in pomp, surrounded by

same.

As the philosopher remarked, retainers slung with rifles and Addis Ababa, the capital, but

Fifty years ago As 40.000 souls. festooned with cartridges.

there was not a house on the for the less important, a mule spot. for the good reason that As their lot Those still more there

there no bad beer: there is only igood beer, and better beer.

spending one's money on a

local

some

tinan but infinitely better imported varieties. Locally brew-

was. Do water. insignificant walk-a degrads made no difference to Mensiek,

sombrero:

duced by the rest of the world appeal for better support of thehiding, the Ethiopian is con-

The Indian cultivation is DOW strictly controlled, and is en

local article.

A

That appeal to support a local industry on the basis of "duty" is paycholoo xically wrong and bound to fail:

The big man, compelled by altitude of over 8,000 feet, then Emperor. The site, at am but there is some satisfaction in birth and station to keepUP pleased him, and there he erect product when it is not only good, ¡ppearances. has a large doubleed the existing palace.

white shirt, worm hotch-potch of buildings, differ optside tight-fitting trousersing in size and architecture, it led beer, being free from the tent leather shoes; and altands on a hill overlooking

large shawl round the neck as town that has just as much to chemical preservatives naially (an overcoat. found in imported beer, is in the The ordinary individual does recommend it. There are only "better" class; and local, quaffers pot trouble about

two well-laid streets, no pave- a hat A Even at that time it was will be both doing their duty shirt to the ankles is enough ents, many lanes and paths joficially estimated that

where goats and cattle wander a courageous concern and looking dress for him.

indifferent to the convenience of Chinese production had mount-after their digestions by respond- Happy On 1d. A Day

10237 Everything is new and Hong Kong, Saturday, June 29, 1935.ed up to 12.000 tons per annuming heartily to the Chairman's

Hard-working frugal law-ramshackle. jas compared with 1,770 pro-

The law is simple. Only in... tent so long as he is left alone cases of murder does the Gov to carry on his daily life as his ernment take the initiative. fathers did before him. In his No mercy is shown to the guilty. irely for domestic consumption THOSE ECONOMISTS:

house of stakes and thatch heif an offence is committed, it An occasional shipment from it is proved by everyday experi Persia by way of Bashire has tional Chambers of Commerce in just as many cattle, sheep and arrest the culprit and bring him

The congress of the

Interna-cultivates a few acres and rears is left to the injured party to ence that neither men nor been detected, but the Persian nations are much worried about;

Government has agreed to help Paris continues to afford the op goats as will supply his wants to justice. Until he succeeds, seen to abuses till they are

for world-famous He lives happily on a penny & the State refuses to interfere. portunity En stopping this, and the trade is That touch themselves.

to expound the as-day.

Likewise with a debtor. Elav- there is fairly easy to control economists. what has happened about the!

The rest of the world, when it tonishing theory, issued with the Bread. made of barley, wheat ing tracked his man down, the growth of opium and the exwants opium gets it from bland innocence which assumes or grass-seed, is his standby creditor brings him into court...

nerve This he dips, with the rest of If the charge is proved the tremely rapid increase of the

China, and the imports into the that it is something export trade from China to the United States are growing so,

shatteringly original, that there the family, into a bowl of gravy.debtor may be sent to prison Western countries. It is rather rapidly as to have caused a new car be no recovery of world trade kept over from the last feast But before this he has the right re-day, when a sheep was killed to collect the amount due. Thus ja new aspect of a very old pro detective force to be organised until trade, restrictions are

blem that has made plenty of

moved and/or some system of in-¡A few vegetables, and a light debtors, chained to their for the purpose of checking, history in this part of the what had become an open de ternational currency stabilisation beer which he brews himself, ditors, may be seen going from

fiance of the law.

is devised. One hardly needs to complete the sum of his daily door to door, asking help from-

friends. There is no need to" recount

be a world-famous economist to requirements. Hence the outbreak of the

Outside a limited zone radiat- the earlier stages of

discover that. If only they would the

Religion American representative, Mr. attempts to regulate the traffic Stuart J. Fuller, before the get down to business and tell using from Addis Ababa, barter is

en-still the method of exchange plies, has ceased to exist in Religion, and all that it in- from 1838 downwards, when the Advisory Committee at Geneva,bow these things are to be Emperor strictly forbade the a year ago. He said, and gave gineered, there might be some Maria Theresa dollars, minted

The ceremonies and Ethiopia cultivation and was in the end evidence that in the seven Pro-sense in all this talk

200 Feast Days are there Gefeated by disorder and dis-vinces of Yunnan, Kweichow, The fact is, and everybody

There is also an ecclesiastical lobedience in the Provinces.

hierarchy. Szechuan, Shensi, Shansi, Kan-realises it that the gold bloc, to

But as a general We may however recall that

rule the priests are too fully much praise was given to Tang was seven times more than for Plate

sub and Jehol the production save their faces, will not contem a sterling standard and

Two cases of enteric fever were occupied ministering to their Shao-ri in 1906 for his Edict the rest of the world; and that the sterling standard countries are reported as occurring in the Co-own wants and the only out- which provided for a complete the working of the Opium Sup-certainly not going back to a gold lony during the 24 hours ended ward and visible sign is the THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. cessation of cultivation within pression Act of 1932 was farci basis, with the allocation of gold Thursday-

Tithe. which is payable by law. ten years. It was in diplomacy

It amounts to a pittance, paid There is no doubt about stocks as they are that the subject most affected the fines inflicted but he stated And the answer is stalemate, or Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 in kind, and is all that the foreigners, for the Edict was that the farmers are ordered to the survival of the fittest; while hours ending at 10 am, yesterday ordinary priest has to live upon. the basis of the Anglo Chinese

America plays about with silver, was 0.12 inch. The total since) Neglected as it is in other. Convention of 1907, by which row the opium, and the fines

are regularly paid, and form a and the immense trade of China January 1 has been 22-36 inches; ways, however, religion pro- the Indian importations were to major item of Provincial

re-and incidentally Hong Kong is against an average of 37.01 inches vides a brick wall of opposition be limited, pari passu with the

completely disorganised by the fall in the domestic cultivation

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to abolition of the slave traffic. Slavery, the Ethiopian says, is Tenders in quintuplicate are

justified by the Bible and called for the supply of - three Launch Mooring Buoys, and will patriarchal custom. be received at the Colonial Secre-fied and out of the world people

A more contended, self-satis tary's Office until noon on Friday, exists nowhere east of Suez- July 19. **

But courage goes with content- ment and pride with self-satis It is notified for general

in faction

Anation which. formation that the names of the attempted to bring Ethiopia East Asiatic. Journal, Ltd. the into line with modern civilisa- Liberty Manufacturing Co. Ltd. tion by means of conquest "Auntie, they made me draft clerk the Union Leather Articles Co would have a hard task

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The production did fall off to Even more serious is the ex- the extent of a quarter, and port from China of the narco- then began to increase again.tic drugs morphia and heroin. Another Convention in 1911 Importation of acid acetic ordained that no Indian Opium anhydride is steadily on the ip

Two film magnates were talking should-be sold in any Province crease, and that particular im-"How'd the new picture turn out?" where the domestic cultivation port is useful only in the man-asked the first. bad been completely suppress-facture of heroin. It is said, of Not so good," replied, the other

"En afraid it's only colossal.” ed. A further Convention was course, that this drug has some signed by twelve Powers at the legitimate function in medicine. Hague in 1912, to control both That may be admitted. but (Opium and Narcotics.

many

a

*... *

Windbreak

exhaustive enquiries have pro-at the bank to-day b

jemali giriy

the Register of Companies.

ON DOLE—BUT HAD-

A BUTLER

Also Lived In House Worth £4,000

Even at that time it was freduced the estimate that the "Oh, that's mee what do you do? Hotel, Ltd, have been struck of quently alleged. with

whole world's requirements Open and shut the door?" facts and figures, that the only would be satisfied by a ton and object, or at least the only re- half a year. That quantity As the crowded London bas came salt, was to confirm and pro-passes through Shanghai every to a standstill, a stout, middle-aged A nine-year-old boy named Pilkem tect various Provinces in month Aman may reach an descended the staire carrying Wong Pit-cho, of 15 iucrative monopoly At any hale old age after many yen Tenderly placing his burden on the be missing since 3 pm on Down Street, 4 Kowloon, is reported to rate the growth of consumption of moderate opium smoking, buteur, be scended the stairs Thursday, and a 18-year-old girl was made a prominent argu-

the heroin addict becomes and shortly returned, carrying a king ment for the repeal of the slave in no time, and inevitably dog Placing the dog beside the named Lai Ting Kit, of 585 Re-

a wreck after a fame, sometimes, descended, bearing

child, he returned upstairs and again clamation Street, has been miss A man in Toronto had been Unequal Treaties and extra- territoriality.

ing from her home since 9 zin, drawing dole payments while Men who saw

in a very short time.

which he stood beside the first the poppy flowering

It is quite true that Dr. Hoofmore be ascended the stairs and square miles of good soil Chi-tsai put up the best defence returned, carrying third young suspected in both cases. were expected to believe that the uld, but it was by no means These evolutions were eagerly ob the whole of the mischief

ples; the bus, who, as the were to dismount "wit

due to the foreigners. On

ground Dr. CT. Wang in

arged the abolition of the Mono poly in Hong Kong and in territories governed

pean Powers, and

incur the

appearing to

the suppres

at the Conferen

.where" we

the te

to the man

ster

sert

Toronto

on Thursday. Kidnapping is ing in a house worth £4,000, and employing a butler. it has been {revealed:

Li Chan, 34, unemployed, and, de Fan Pat, 35,

He is no

peared before

at the Kowloon,

terday morning,

(a) unlawful possessio

of dyn

coils of use

"off the dole”

tenders in

to GPO

the Colonial Secretar noon on Friday, Ju