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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20022 London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, F.Ce

MISSION TO

STAM Chinese Goodwill Group's Visit

TOUR OF COUNTRY

Here There and I Everywhere.

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70 are the men behind the He is not an easy, indifferent Whins, the select circle which man to work for.

There is in

ing himself in detail. He does not As Prince of Wales, our pre-lounge or play up to the eleventh asent King had a host of friends and hour of some public ceremonial,

are now

Hong Kong, Thursday, May 28, 1936. the mi. Victoria.

Members of the Mission are coloured drink. This might have at least a dozen young men could and then stretch out a languid

(Vice-Chair-been either cold tea

Charles claim to be his intimates. They hand for a speech that he has On the contrary, that Mr. Kan Hauling Happy Days Ahead

man), Mr. Yui Ming, Mr. Lion Lamb's favourite "cald brandy were seen often together, dining not read.

together, going to dances to-speech has been read again and and certain Ho, Mr. Kaz Lee, Mr. Fonn Tse and water."

the past again, amended, There have been a number of tsing. Mr. Wang Tse-sing, Mr. Plain water, of course, sufficed gether. But during

West End phrases of his own inserted.

Restless Gestures local company meetings recent-Hwang Tien-chia. Mr. Ma Chao- for Mr. Snowden. So it did for three years those

acquaintances have disappeared. ly, and they have been remark-yang. Mr. Chen Tsung-kau. Mr. Mr. Lloyd George

Because of his own attention to unanimity able in their

in Yang Feng-ling. Mr. Chao Yu- When he introduced the "Peo-With the realisation that he was

Budget" Mr. Churchill's soon to be King Edward VII, detail and careful preparation he stressing the difficult trading ming. Mr. Liu Yih-liang. Mr. ple's

Thomson conditions which the Colony has Yung

and Mr. Yieh handing him a glass was one of there developed a serious outlook is impatient of ineficiency. No- itice his restlessness when listen- dramatic moments in the in this man of 30. experienced in the course of the Tsiang Fah.

He set out to discover serious ing to a speech of meaningless last year. The latest of these Mr. Ping Ling stated that they "longest ever" Budget speech.

They phrases, possibly of aldermanic and tactful men of affairs. was the meeting of the Hong were also returning the compli-

a little Cabinet whose adulation. The King's own staff Kong and Shanghai Hotelsment, so to speak of a Siamese IN OTHER DAYS.

wide knowledge and shrewd ad-known those jerky gestures. They Ltd.. at which Mr. Taggart. Goodwill Mission which had re- while being able to announce a! cently paid a visit to China. They Great Parliamentarians of ear-vice will be behind King Edward are an indication of the man who

when he discards traditions orcishes to get on with his job. the Isubstantial reduction in

Godfrey, no economic oriller times were less abstemious. carrying

why Sir Lord Brougham refreshed him-launches innovations. This little! That company's mortgage liability of other treaties to Siam from the

one long circle of men

Private Secretary contains some of Thomas, over $165,000. had again Nanking Government, and during self so often during point to the

their stay in Bangkok, which was speech in the House of Lords on the cleverest personalities in Bri-King Edward, is considered

of them are hold the most important and yet northern sections of the com- their first destation, they would Reform that he slid to his knees tain to-day. Many

of most difficult job in the little"

Once- pany's business suffered conske plans for an extensive tour in passionate entreaty to the peers old and tried friends. All

to pass the bill-and could not them work hard; all are devoted Cabinet of King Edward. siderably during the past year; of the country.

to King Edward.

when dining with him, I ventured from the unstable exchange:

That old Italian diplomato suggest that his position was conditions. Hotels generally,

used to suck oranges. He offered Niccolo Machiavelli, has written not entirely an enviable one. a manly and inspiriting spectacle own many pertinent remarks on, "On the contrary," he replied las pips, quips and classical quota-how a prince should choose his quickly, it is not only exciting

tions spurted from his mouth. friends. It can be said of King but enjorable."

Wilberforce had resort to secret Edward that he is a shrewd judge And everything that Sir God- and even furtive measures. To

rarely wrong-frey Thomas does, is performed

in

fact

to that the

inter-

were

Locally

¡rise.

Charles Fox on the other hand.

to

to

and especially in the East. WORLD TWO-WAY, depend to a great extent on the

TRADE FAIR tourist traffic. Anything there-i fore that tends fere with that traffic must Literature Available of necessity be reflected decreased takings by

steady his nerve and arrange his of men, and very establishments.

ideas the anti-slavery leader took And once a mar has been calist quickly and efficiently. The fact ed in his service, it is King Ed- that he was dining with me in the the "luxury"

ward himself who will defend midst of a busy official tour, arm However, the local institution. The World Two-way Trade as opium pill.

that man against the whispered duous enough to have sent two a upon has agreed

drastic Fair will be held in the Port

other officials to sick-beds, proved scheme of reconstruction. and Authority Commerce Building,

Your Daily Smile !

envies of others.

that he could find time to accept there is no reason to suppose New York City. from Novez-

A Judge Of Men

only know that that it will not return to its ber 23 to December 5. The fair

Wife: "Here's an advertisement of

I have watched King Edward hospitality. I former prosperous days in the is under the sponsorship of the

a new kind of shirt that hasn't any

during his official tours meet and when be left me at 10 o'clock in future.

American Manufacturers Ex-buttons."

three Hubby: "Huh?" I've been wearing converse, with 1,000 people in a the evening, it was with the ob-

week. Even with less than a min-ject of spending another We have been told that to port Association.

hours with State papers and cor- Literature regarding the fair that kind for years.”g

ute's conversation with a mention the "depression" is tabu; that to do so reflects a is on file at the American Con-

Asylum attendant (in hot pursuit}

New Secretary sulate-General at Hong Kong)

-Excuse me, sir "I've come to wara he could sum up the worth of the respondence.

chiefly in-

It is already understood that stinct and I have never seen it go All this may be so, but there is plication to the Commercial De-ing money he's a lunatic."

Mr. Mactavish "Mon, ye're richt."wrong. There are occasions when Lord Wigram. who

he has not hesitated to let his George's nothing to be gained by shut-partment of that office.

He'll Go Far:

instinct speak, and reveal a de wishes to retire. It seems almost Gotrux: "I can't let my daughter finite liking or dislike of a per-certain that Sir Godfrey Thomas his place at Bucking- marry a man who doesn't make least £1,000 a year; that's what it son he has met only for a min-will take

ute. Yet he always stripped the ham Palace, although the name costs me to support her."

Spiffe: "Then suppose we com sycophant or unmasked the char-of Major Alexander Harding has promise. I make £500 a year: you'd

to a King Edward will be following a

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defeatist attitude with unpro-and may be consulted upon ap you that if a man calls here demand-[îndividual. It

fitable psychological

effects.i

ting one's eyes to business con- LOCAL TRAFFIC.

ditions or in refusing to accept them at their real value. Sure-i

ACCIDENTS

13 People Injured Last Week

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save money by letting me marry her latan. A King who meets 1,000 been mentioned. In this respect, and then contribute £500 toward her people a week has to come

ly it is only axiomatic to say that without thorough analysis! of the difficulties to be over- come it is hardly possible that! the best means to do so can be! devised. There appears to us! In the Colony of Hong Kong, support." to be scope for certain including the Island, Kowloon "rationalisation" of business inland New Territories, during the the Colony. "Rationalisation," week ended at 8 am. on Saturday we know, is one of those bogeytast. there were altogether 156 words to which has been traffic accidents, as the result of attached a somewhat sinister which 13 persons were injured. meaning, generally "conveying Of the persons injured, 11 were the idea of frustration and in pedestrians who were either walk- terference. But it is used in

the road the absence of any other terming or running across

and were struck by vehicles. which expresses what is meant

One bicycle rider and one as well. Briefly the idea is

puller were in- that the various businesses of public ricksha

20 allied or complementary jured as the result of collisions nature should get together and between vehicles. decide on matters of policy, not

Of the 56 accidents, 32 were

in open or covert competition collisions between

vehicles: 14

20

but in combination. For, after were collisions between vehicles all, the interests of one mem-jand pedestrians; and 10 accidents ber of a group are the interests were due to other causes. of another, no less than the interests of the whole group)

A fine of $2,500, with the alter- combined To take hotels as an native of one year's hard labour, example. It is surely in their plus a year's hard labour without combined and collective in-the option, was imposed on

Kong m27 named terests that every encourage unemployed

Fa Fuen Iment should be extended to the Yik-tak, of No. 200 tourist traffic. The more people Street, by Mr. E. Himsworth. at that can be attracted to the the Kowloon Magistracy: yester- Colony the more money there day. Defendant was charged with will be spent here. Hotels and the unlawful possession of heroin) the entertainment industry pills and manufacturing them at; lespecially are presumably out the address.

to welcome any business which can be brought to the Colony by this means.

A collective and was, indeed, held up to the Singapore authorities 25. a This drive on the part of those in- terested would therefore seem criterion to be followed

We have to be only commonsense, for the is all to the good.

her unrivalled attractions for benefit of all concerned.

the visitor; there cannot possi- One has not heard much bly be too much publicity about of the Hong Kong them if tourists are to be en- locally Travel Association lately; but couraged to come here and like there is evidence that that body it. In spite of all the direful recent company is not sitting still Reference reports at was made not long ago in a Sin-meetings there was evident in a certain gapore paper to the excellent most folder recently issued by the optimism that conditions are, Association, advertising the improving. The next thing charms of Hong Kong. The seems to be to take advantage paper in question remarked of that rift in the clouds to the that the folder was infinitely very fullest extent Special better produced and printed co-operation would seem to be than those issued in the Straits, indicated.

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