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THE CHINA MAFL, `FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022.

London Office:

COUNTERFEIT INTIMATE STUDY OF EXPLANATIONS

MONEY

Some Distinguishing

Marks

STATEMENT ISSUED BY - TREASURY

7. Garrick Street, London, W.C2 Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for An interesting list of the pos sible ways in which counterfeit publication should be addressed to

SIR S. HOARE

MAN BEHIND BRITISH

NAVY

the Editor, and be accompanied by coins may be distinguished from FEATURED BY COLD PRECISION

the Writer's Nome and Address the genuine article. has been issued not necessarily for insertion, but by Mr. E. Taylor. the

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British Merchant Navy's Plight

Treasurer...

Colonial

Five cent pieces, though a few are occasionally returned by sus-

AND GRASP OF DETAIL

(By William J. Makin)

T six o'clock in the morn- ly in his political carcer.

picious shop-keepers and bus con- A ing, a

a

And Sir

de-

OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

JOHN HAY

THIS poet, lawyer, writer and The car, was of next door neighbour of Abraham

springfield Illinois in 1859. He became private secretary to the.. President Elect in 1860, Assistant Secretary of State under Hayes in 183, Secretary of State under Mc- Roosevelt 1895-1904. Kinley and

Lincoln, while practising law at

trere

assas-

Swinging For Health

ductors. are not so suspect at the

inidale-sized man; Samuel is the first to pay tribute and was offered a secretaryship by | Garfield which he refused. Three Treasury as ten cent pieces and wrapped in an overcoat comes to that.

of these Presidents so closely a5- Grasp of Detail dollar notes. With regard to five out of an imposing house

sociated with Hay cent pieces the Treasury notifica-Belgravia. He steps into Just now he is busying himself sinated, while a fourth Roosevelt tion remarks that no comments can waiting motor-car, nods to the with the details of cruiser pro-was fired on by a maniac. Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 11, 1936. be made since no counterfeits of chauffeur and in a few seconds grammes, naval fortifications, dock- this denomination have been found is gliding away through the yards, supplies of shells. sub- in circulation by the Department. empty and rather frosty streets marine bases and naval air With regard to ten cent pieces the of London at that early hour. Xence. Remarkable how quickly

An admirable example of cour- number of ways a counterfeit coin Not many minutes later the he can assimilate details and con-

age and perseverence is in the of car stops outside one the found the expert. may be told are very numerous.

of London. He did so when he Way Air form of the "Swinging Girl" of St. Lord Lloyd has returned with Apart from weighing the coin, popular ice-rinks

Ai: Ministry Albans, Vermont-little Rita Fos- vigour to the task which he has which should turn the scales at 40The man in the overcoat steps Minister. At the

the they still look upon him as one of ter, who has been swinging at set himself of rousing the grains, the cupro-nickel coin which out, and passes through

There he discards the most adventurous heads they least 6 hours every day for 7 years. British Government and the is counterfeit may be distinguish-doorway.

the overcoat and reveals him-have ever possessed. At Д tice After an operation in childhood. country to a due sense of the ed by: national danger arising out of The milling, which in the inner self as a lithe elderly man in a when civil flying needed encourage her life was despaired of by doc- the decline in the British Mer- rim of both sides of the coin is close-fitting, black jersey over ment and example. Sir Samuel tors and family because of her black trousers. Skates are Hoare flew 50,000 miles. I. 1926 anemic condition, but Rita imew cantile Marine. The facts, of irregular and the rim Itself is un-

quickly strapped to his feet be inaugurated the Cairo-Karachi outdoor life and constant exercise course, are thoroughly familiar even; to the President of the Boardi The crown's circle of diamonds and, in less than a minute, he man. As Air Minister he believed were her only cure. She conceived of Trade, Mr. Runciman. who is irregular and the feur-de-lis is is gliding easily and expertly in getting into the air. As First of swinging in an ordinary rope has had a life-long acquaintance out of shape on the majority of over the shining cold surface of Lord of the Admiralty he will be swing from the limb of an apple

the ice.

found in battleships, cruisers, sub-tree, and it has worked wonders. with all the problems of mer-counterfeits; chant shipping. It is very dis- The features of the Late King It is Sir Samuel Hoare tak-marines and maybe mine-sweepers. She has doubled her weight in 7 That passion for becoming an years, and is feeling better every appointing, therefore. that he are not clear cut and the external ing his morning exercise. Here, has not done more by his use auditory mealus (ear) stands out curvetting in figures of eight expert in whatever he undertakes day. of the instrument of bargaining too_prominently;

and occasionally twisting into is typical of the man.. During the Ito secure that "equality of The robe and collar lines are a spin, is the man who has the Great War he was sent to Russia upon.

conditions there. It seemed only inevitable that opportunity and treatment for not clear and bear indistinct mark-job of building up a new Bri- to investigate

tish Navy. Many millions With his usual thoroughness be the man who knew what was going British nationals," for which ings.

have been placed at his dis- began to learn the language 38 to happen should become Secretary Lord Lloyd

powerfully

this task. The soon as the task was given him of State for Foreign Affairs in the pleads. The subsidy of On the reverse side of the coin posal for $2,000,000 to tramp shipping the counterfeiters have made proudest and most vital of all By the time he arrived in Russia Baldwin Government.

Now it would and the "scrap and build" policy better job, and there are few the Empire's defences is now he was able to read the local news-

Within 2 papers himself.

few realised that Abyssinia would fail, have ribbled at a solution. The faults which appear to the naked controlled by this man. crucial difficulties remain

Fitness At 56

weeks he had surrounded himself (however gallant their defence, in un-eye. The words Hong Kong On touched..

few No doubt. in some some of the coins reveal

And there he is, a lithe black with the best secret service that the Italian invasion. And when he quarters, there is a tendency minor faults.

figure, obviously enjoying this had ever been seen in that coun-produced a plan for an immediate peace that would have saved a still to think in pre-war terms. In general. a clase scrutiny of early morning hour on the ice. (try.

Secret Service Triumph good deal of territory for the Em- The days when British ships the suspected ten cents reveals that Strange relaxation for à Cabinet carried the lion's share of the on the whole they are badly and Minister who is spoken of as a He predicted a revolution and peror of Ethiopia, the clamour world's cargoes may never re-unevenly struck and there are de- possible future Prime Minister the overthrow of the Czar months against him was such that he was

fore-forced to resign. turn. for other nations are pre-pressions on both the front and of Britain. Stranger still that before it happened. His pared to pay heavy, even

Bitter Moment ex-back of the coins which do not he should be indulging in this knowledge of events seemed

But canny, except to those who knew That was a bitter travagant, subsidies to build up appear on genuine issues. The pastime at the age of 56. shipping of their own.

general appearance of the counter-strangeness is typical of the the thorough methods of his work-Sir Samuel Hoare. He had been feit is inclined to bear a yellow Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel John Within a few hours of Basputin 25 years in polities. 13 a a Nevertheless, the way was

to Gurney Hoare, G.C.SI, G.B.E the moak, having been assassinat-Cabinet Minister, and never be made easy for them by the that and the coin is inclined"

He takes all matters of healthjed, he was giving the details to fore had he been placed in a posi- supineness of successive British sound more "tiny" and loud.

where his forgeries and intellect seriously, parti-the British Embassy and the off-tion

resignation was The one dollar. note Governments, while the lack of

demanded. With a loyalty to Mr. ananimity among British ship-also show many discrepancies when cularly skating, in which he cials of the Czar's Court.

All can claim to be one of the ex- At first, he was disbelieved. Baldwin which never wavered, he owners served almost to justify compared with the real note.

Then, when the news was confirm-¦dia not hesitate. those Governments in doing the forgeries detected are of the hibitionists in Europe to-day.

By seven o'clock, he is back in ed, officials of the Court actually Now he sits beneath the same nothing and hoping for the "A" series. best. Instead

The paper is of a poor quality his overcoat speeding along to his suspected that Sir Samuel Hoare roof from which Nelson received of the best

home in Bayswater for breakfast himself had been mixed up with his orders. Instead of commumi- there has come the worst, and and has a rough feeling;

So

The Reverse Side

a

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seem that he

moment for

the British merchant shipping The colouring is light green and There his wife, Lady Maud Lygon, the assassination. They did not eating with foreign Embassies he position has deteriorated to an dark purple whereas in the genuine whom he married 27 years ago realise that the secret service he sends wireless instructions to the greets him over the morning coffee. had built up informed him of far-flung fleet of the Empire on even graver extent than the note both shades are dark;

He has the power naval. Yet the dependence of The framework of the forgeries She is an ambitious woman, who every step the revolutionaries took the seven seas.

been decided

(Continued on Page 7) Britain upon its

mercantile on the front measures 114 by 69 has helped her husband considerab-"when action had marine is much greater now millimetres as against 115 by 69

BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley than it wwws in 1914. The illimetres on the genuine: population is 10 per cent. more;

The general esign of the frame-

but the country's tramp ship-work is, generally speaking, poor ping is 50 per cent. less. The and patchy; dangers besetting food ships!

Badly. Designed

would in case of war be im-1. The numbering in some forgeries. measurably greater because of may be smudged by rubbing it, in air attack, and the perils be-others the numbering is uneven; setting the Port of London and In the left oval the design is not the East Coast ports might con- neat or clear and the shading of ceivably render them unusable. the two Chinese characters is not! It is madness to neglect these clearly defined. The purple colour-į facts. To feed Great Britaing is too thick.

in case of war would be a In the right oval the background harder problem than to defend of the late king's features is too

dark and the eyebrows are It is not encouraging, therefore, to find that the num-thick and pronounced;

it.

many same

too

ber of idle British vessels laid The facial lines are not distinct, up at British ports increased especially on the left side, and the from 179 to 21 in the three general appearance of the shoulders! months prior to April 1, though and uniform are badly designed;

were scrapped in the The green and orange design is period. Nor is it poorly done and the colours do not encouraging to find that the show up well;

On the back of the note the co- tonnage of foreign shipping en- gaged in the British coastal louring on the forgeries is inclined the trade was 20 per cent. larger to be a little too dark and last year than in 1934. This is shading of the Chinese charactersj The mark an essential factor in a pros. is very roughly done. perous mercantile marine; to EK" on the design at the left of watch it dwindle without an the left tree leaf is out of propor effort to arrest the decline is tion, and in some cases is merely suicidal. All foreign shipping shown as three vertical lines. in the coastal service should be subject to exactly the same re- gulations as British shipping. It should be the first considera- tion of the Board of Trade to see that the British merchant

GOVERNOR OF MAURITIUS

navy gets fair play in all com- Sir W. Jackson's Term

mercial treaties. Security should always come first. whether cheapness comes second, third or fourth.

Extended

London, To-day.

The Colonial Office announces that Sir Wilfred Jackson, whose normal term of office as Governor Tsang Chu-chuen, driver of and Commander-in-Chief of Man- lorry No. 2788 was this morning ritius was due to expire on ́ ́Au- fined $25 by Mr. W. Schofield at gust 30, 1936, has been asked to the Central Magistracy for driv-extend his service to enable hims ing his lorry in Pokfulam Road on to complete certain outstanding September 2-without care and cau-tasks of importance in the Colony tion Mr. G. E. Wilson was the with which he has been closely con complainant.

cerned British Wireless Service.

SPHERE

3M

WITH A 3-INCH RADIUS

HAS THE SAME SURFACE AREA AND VOLUME

SOHN

HAY

WAS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LINCOLN ASST SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER HAYES SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER MCKINLEY SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER ROOSEVELT AND WAS OFFERED SECRETARYSHIP BY GARFIELD

THE PRICE OF A STOCK

FIRST FALLS 75% THEN RISES 300% THEN FALLS 80% THEN RISES 400%%% THEN FALLS 95% THEN RISES 900% WHAT PERCENT OF THE ORIGINAL PRICE

WILL IT BE??

INGING

GIRL of STALBANS,VI,

HAS BEEN SWINGING 6 HOURS A DAY FOR 7 YEARS

IN AN EFFORT TO REGAIN HER HEALTH

6°1996"Kong Foton Spokane"las Simmt