1935-07-12 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1935

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Some years ago Professor Leo Theremin, a Russian, gave demonstration of the extraction of music from an electrical bar without the box being touched..

The bar has since been perfected and christened the theremin. It is now a

NEWEST UNIT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

INDEPENDENCE CLAIMS SECURED TO BURMA

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COUNTRY'S STRONG PROTEST AGAINST EXTINCTION

(By EW. R. Stone)

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The most considerable reccgnised musical|THE British Empire has a new

Burnam

indigenous to races instrument, used frequently in unit concerts in America.

Included in the general Indian Burma are the million odd Shans It was beard in Londen, for the reforms which passed their third and the 1,400,000 Karens first time in its perfected state, reading in the House of Commons Shans are usually rather primitive. last month.

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SOFTEST PIANISSIMO

The

recently are provisions which will Many of the Karens, especially eventually make Burma, hitherto a those that have forsaken the province of British India, a separ-Karenni hills to live on the plains,

jare educated. .... It is played by movements of the late country.

They comprise most of the large. - What manner of country is this fingers and body within the

The Eng-indigenous Christian factor in the magnetic held of the box. The new dominion-to-be?

They are often known movements are graceful and hike fishman's knowledge of it. based country.

mainly on a scrappy reading of as "the Welsh of Burma," because- those of a dancer.

hill people.

Thei The theremin has a wide regis-Kipling is really no knowledge.they are a ter. and it is claimed, can range It ignores such essential factors Christianity is mainly Noncon from an unlimited crescendo to alas that Burma is sandwiched be-formist and pianissimo softer than that of any tween the teeming vastnesses of adepts at choral singing with

other instrument.

It blends well with string music.

Your Daily Smile!

China and India

That was one cause of the Bur- mese demand for separation from! India

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Imass musical sense

are

Legendary Barman

natural

In contradistinction, the Bur- man is generally known ast The demand was protest. (2) A natural gentleman and against extinction against being When Lloyd was a very little chap, reduced to a mere backwater of one of his sisters was given a bựu

sportsman,

(b). A hedonist,

(e) Lazy, bad tempered, and 3-

quick killer.

wrist watch-cne with a very carrow, Indian nationalism Indian politi oblong face. After it had been duly cians, generally, do not wish to

The Indian Con- The first may be heartily' con- admired by various members of the lose Burma. family, someone asked Lloyd for his gress, to whom Imperialism is sup-ceded. though there are exceptions,

opinion.

plying: “I don't like it.

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The China Mail in price artificially created: the between inch and dinner time!

irest of the American taxpayers; "So yen lost your job in the city.

would be paying the difference because the weather didn't agree with empire of its own.

not the Chinese purchasers you. What did the climate have to do Fren so. no great damage with

Hong Kong, Friday, July 12, 1935.

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Silver Hesitations

Poor Mr. Morgenthau!

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He caused much merriment by re-posed to be anathema, like to think caused by the vagaries of the

It's too lons of themselves as the Indian Gov-effect of Westernised education.

The Burma vi is 蛊 bedonist Jernment of the future--a Govern-

ment with a little Further East within limita The asceticism of the wide Buddhist monastic life But Burma wants to curb Indian and the grind stoicism with which immigration to control her own the Burmese withstand periods of tariff, to prevent the inroads of terrible privation proclaim those- would have been done if the I was the weather forecaster."

Indian landlordism, and to pre-mits: tarif was providing a surplas

The Burman is lazy as far as did you Macgregor: "How

serve Burmese Buddhism. Burma of revenue which had to be got barber raised his price

become increasingly his climate and cultivation condi- - wants The rid of somehow, as used to be shaves?"

Burmese. Instead of as she is tions not only permit, but make When way of transgressors is hard, in done through the Pensions De-Wife: "A ttle beard told me.”

to-day, increasingly Asiatic co laziness almost inevitable. economics as in ethics possi-¡partment. But that is not the'

you have only to scratch the mopolitan and especially -Indian. The tariff bly even harder. To him it present position.

ground and the crop grows it

When falls to find a reasonable ex-still continues to kill trade more that

The Burmese claims have been self," why “rush abou planation for a policy which and more effectually, so

The as. Mirzapore left Moji debated for years and will be de- he is in difficulties the Burman All the detail the can work. This was shown when will not admit of any explana- cther countries have practically tion that has not a political abandoned the attempt to climb

fmancial adjustments and so on Burman cultivators, unemployed" tinge: and at such an inconven-over it, and confine their busi last night and is due to arrive bated again.

does not. after all, alter the case through the rice slump, came to ient moment too when circum-ness to certain raw materials, here next Wednesday at 7 am.

The profits of!

No question of Empire Rangoon and literally (indeed, in No rainfall occurred in the 24much.

possi- the bloodiest sense of hand-to-hand stances have conspired to fix like rubber. the world's attention on the that trade are quite inadequate hours ended at 10 am yesterday. solidarity is at stake. American Treasury. Every to pay interest on ⚫ American thing depends on the American loans, about a thousand million The total since January 1 has been bility of a total loss of the battle) fought the Indian steve- of pounds' worth of which are now 26.61. inches, against an average allegiance of these fifteen millions dore labourer for a share of the

For some reason, several leading work. Treasury is the summary

Uncertain Temper : books of reference say that half! the market position put-for-jin default simply because of the of 42.50 inches.

For speeding in the controlled the population of Burma is Bur- The Barman's temper is one of ward in one of the most widely physical impossibility of mak- The only other

The pure Burmans, how the worst in the world. He may circulated of the Brokers' ciring payment. USE

of revenue is internal area at Tsin Wax, on June 22, Mr. man. culars: and ΣΤΟ description source OUR

would be more calculated to kill taxation, which means that in. Sanerbeck of the Oriental To-ever, actually number nine mil- turn and kill anyone who ar the many are rough hill people know his girl. On the other hand, and silver as a basis of currency the richest creditor country in bacco Company, was fined $10 by lions, and of the other six millions him for a farthing or smiles at

to Me E I Wynne Jones at For whatever may happen the world one citizen has MOTH

fof Bengal), he never conspires about the proposal to work to support another who happens to Kowloon Magistracy this morning. ing nothing of even the simplest unlike the people across the Bay

for violence. It is spar-of-the- PROOF wards a practical stabilisa-be out of work without any of

moment murder, or forgetfulness. tion" as suggested by M. Cor-the assistance that might be The postponed launch picnic of

She will leave that

The Burmans during the rebel- dell Hull, the Secretary of State gained from dealing with the the Australian and New Zealand

of port to-morrow for Shanghai and lion only a year or so ago showed the other day, it is quite certain citizens of the world outside. Association, which was abandoned afternoon.

In how "tough" they could be. that the rest of the world is not And the cost of the assistance on Saturday last on account

cidentally, when the news was going to perpetuate a condition required to escape from starva- bad weather, is to be run in con- Hong Kong.

Kadar Buksh, aged 22, an eye given out in England that from of dependence "on the American tion is colossal. During the junction with the YMC.A. Treasury." There is already last financial year two dollars Saturday.

specialist, was this morning fined time to time "Burmese villagers: something like a "corner in were spent for every dollar that

Ho Chuk Kan, a 30 year old $10 and ordered to be sent to assisted the troops in capturing rebels," these villagers were The Largest Sanitary Laundrymen, Dyers and Drycleaners in the Far East gold" which would have killed was received. The odd dollar

American foreign trade but for has been added to the debt, unemployed, was this morning Canton by Mr. Q. A.A. Macfad- the devaluation of the dollar by which a few years ago was in a sentenced to six months hardjyen at the Central Police Court usually Karens, not Buridans. over forty per cent; but a corner fair way to be extinguished al-labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfad-for entering the Colony without in silver on the top of it would together. There is no prospect yer at the Central Police Court a passport simply lead to the abandonment of the days of quick and easy for snatching a hand-bag from

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of political issues.

The average rural Burman in time of rebellion (and that is just any time in Barma) sits on the The body of the man who was fence.

How, someone will ash, can one- of the metal standard idea al-repayment returning; for every Hni Kwa Tin, a spinster. in together. Clever as the "Brain country now is adapting itself Queen's Road Central yesterday. killed when knocked down near

Shum Chum by the afternoon give such a varied, unstable cous- Trust" may be, there is no rea- to the new conditions of econo-

For the theft of six flashlights press rain from the Kowloon by a new constitution or any constitution? Because there are son to suppose that they have mic self-sufficiency.

The stage of welcoming ajand six battles of perfume, from Station on Wednesday last has engineered a "corner in brains.”

Let us consider for a moment mild form of inflation by put-the Hing Fan Company in Des been identified as that of Wu stable factors, and hope for the this silver buying policy from ting dollars into circulation for Voeux Road Central last Satur-Kin-thai, a 24-year-old farmer of fame is to encourage, and some different points of view. unwanted silver no longer wooks day, Lai Pin, a 34-year-old un-Shan Ha village. The body has large these. In an early speech the Treasur-so attractive, for quantities of employed, was this morning sen-been removed to the Kowloon er explained that his object was dollars are now being put into tenced to three weeks hard la-Mortuary.

But bour by Mr. Q. A. A Macfadyen Ito "rehabilitate silver as a basis circulation of necessity.

of exchange" The silver dollar when the Treasury would will at the Central Police Court, was supposed to have fallen songly stop at the half-way

it is accused of! Cheun Yat-tim, an unemployed the cash book with the intent torce and barbarous, has begun to low that Chinese traders could house.

In the jungle of Burma there is jungle law. But steel and con- crete Rangoon, with its paiz Alleged to have made, or con offices and rublic buildings. pro- curred in making a false entry in claims that the idyllic Burma,

no longer afford to buy Ameritreachery of having pro- barber, was yesterday sentenced defrand his employers of the sumyield and must go on yielding to and to four months hard labour for of $5.10, Tam Sun, alias Lam the influence of the civilized world. can goods. The cure was tomised silver at $1.29 raise the international value of leaving it at 76 cents. Some harbouring Yun Yat a girl of 17, sun, alias Lam Chu-fun, an silver in terms of gold, on which show of consistency must be by Mr Wynne-Jones at the countant employed by the Lam the American dollar is based, made. But never was any po- Central Magistracy. The girl Dore Company, was remanded Accordingly Mr. Morgenthau, icy so reprobated by the coun-stated that her father ill-treated until Thursday next by Mr. W. who could have purchased altries who find their trade upset her and that she had gone to live Schofield at the Central Police the silver he wanted at quite a by the market fluctuations of with Cheun Yat-tim of her own Court this morning. -Bail of $500 low price, had he bought in the their currencies and these accord. ordinary way, buys silver sensa are the countries that it is de

tionally at a fixed price of about sirable to conciliate The con The Public is hereby notified

Ition, and encourages the Sen

ators from Nevada and oth

three times its cost of produc sequence is that between con- that under instructions received motives Mr. Morgen- from the Inspector General of than in driven to ens com- Customs, the Customs Holidays

of oper

all have been revised and that in broker

fature the Custom House will be! “buying on

closed and the wording of cargo suspended

silver States to hope that

will buy up to the prio silver token coins

part of a the level of

gold has

the following days

was allowed

RETURNED BANISHEES

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on Lo Chnen by Mr at the Cen ourt this morni

the diffe