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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication

Sa Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022. .....

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KOWLOON RESIDENT Here

IN COURT

Fined For Careless Driving

7. Garrick Street, London, WC2 CASTLE PEAK ROAD INCIDENT

Notice To Contributors.

There and Everywhere.

All communications intended for Before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfayden, THE STALWART PAIR

publication should be addressed to at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- Even the staid Financial Times

the Editor, and be accompanied byjterday, R. Baldwin, of No. 9 Mid-can unbend occasionally, as wil the Writer's Name and Address dle Road, driver of private car be seen from the following table not necessarily for insertion, but No. 1330, admitted a summons of pablished in that, paper recently: as a guarantee of good faith driving without due care and cou-in reference to the Townsend

tion at Castle Peak Road near Plan:- Subscription Rates.

One Year

6 Months

* Months

H.K.$36,00

HK$18.00

HK$ 9.00

Postage Abroad Extra

af

Tsing Lan-tan about 6 p.m. on Estimated population

the United States of August 9.

Amezion Traffic Sergeant W. facHardy' |said defendant was driving his Those subject to old-age

under pensions car from Castle Peak towards

Townsend Plan Kowloon, and arriving at the vil

Hong Kong. Saturday, Sept. 19, 1936 lage of Tsing Lân-tau, he passed

The Budget

private car T315 driven by Mr. An Yung-sing: At that time, mo- torcycle No. 478 and another motor car were parked on the left side

Hiew His Horz

A scrutiny of the Budget of the road. expenditure figures for the Colony for 1937 reveals the not uninteresting fact that 18.23

"

the

Balance, Minors ineligible to work under the Child Labour Laws

Balance Number of unemployed according to Father Coughlin

Leaving the number

produce the country's requirements

*

124,000,000

GERMANY'S AIMS IN

AFRICA

BURNING QUESTION

OF COLONIES

“COLONIAL KETTLE IS ABOUT TO BOIL OVER”

IT is a long time since Bis-sation is unde eo ped

marck said "I want no peoples independent, but no one colonies: they are good for is eager to act on this by grant- nothing but supply stations. Jing them independence." Sub- For us in Germany this colonial sequently, at Berlin, on Febru- 50,000,000 business would be just like the ary 16, he declared that Ger- silken robes of the noble many had too large a popuïs- 74,000,000 families in Poland who have notion for the area available.

shirts to their backs," or since! Only Official Statements 60,000,000 he stated that a colony "is tot! These somewhat cautious re- worth the bones of a single ferences to the need for colonies 14,000,000 Pomeranian Grenadier."

are about the only official state- These statements were made ments on the question that long before the German feet were made in Germany prior to had become a reality. Since the momentous declaration con- then a great deal has happened tained in the German memoran- 2 in the colonial sphere, but in dum of March 7.

13,999,998

of

Car No. 7315, on seeing the per cent. of the total expendi- motorcycle, drew to the centre of

spite of the loss of colonies and Even that epoch-making ture is to go for defence, in- the road, and defendant, who was

prestige in Africs another Ger-document only

expresses the cluding the Volunteer Defence behind, continually blew his hora.

man fleet is being built, and it expectation that in due course, Corps (52), the Naval Volun- T315 drew to the left and practi- DENTAL 'BUSMAN

A correspondent recently visit cannot be long before the claim by means of friendly negotia-- teer Force (14) and the Milically stopped to allow the defen- |tary: Contribution (17.57). dant's car to pass. Sergeant Mac-

come as important and insis equality will be clarified. The Police Force (10.74) and Hardy added that if T315 had noted his dentist. He said that he for colonial expansion will be- tions, the question of colonial

Everything depends. the Prisons Department (3.33) drawn into the left and stopped, was starting his holiday that day- tent as it was when the firm

Wondering what form of reisza-of Woermann was establishing course, upon the meaning of account for another 14.07 per the only result would have been!

on the West the term "colonial equality,” cent between them.

The that defendant would have gone tion comes best after 11 months' its business

Adolf and so far all the colony-own- Public Works Department takes over the bank, causing a serious oral excavation, the correspondent African littoral and

Was making hising Powers, Britain, France. 8.44 per cent. and Pensions accident. There was no room to asked him how he proposed to Luderitz

spend his first morning's leisure. pioneer efforts on the coasts of Portugal, Spain, Belgium and 17.19 per cent., while the Medi-pass at all.

he South Africa. "Ir my consulting room,"

Holland have not shown any Defendant said he could not cal Department and Education

Little Said Officially compelling desire to give what come a peor sixth and seventh recall the particular occurrence- said, “having my teeth examined with 6.99 and 6.98 per cent. He was not sure he was on that by any partner."

Officially, little has been said Germany would regard as a in Germany on the question of fair deal. respectively. These figures road that Sunday evening.

colonies. It is a question that Enormous Headway jmay all no doubt be taken as The Magistrate remarked, that

can only be settled, if settled at: a sign of the times, and it is Castle Peak Road was particular-

Nevertheless, the movement all, after long negotiations and for the recovery of the German but poor consolation to remark ly dangerous, but taking defen- that the times in consequence dant's good record into consider The group of police recruits were these will probably be carried colonies or the obtaining of ter- being taught the rudiments of their an behind the scenes and little ritorial compensation elsewhere seem somewhat out of joint.jation, he imposed a fine of $15. There appears to

"public at the expense of Portugal, "Now, suppose you wished to heard of them until another unfortunate tendency

tendent, "what would you do?" in the Government's attempts jat economy, and that is the apparently extensive use which has been made of the axe" among the subordinate levels! jof the Government services.

In the Colonial Secretary'sį

us

to be

Department

in the Sanitary

further retrenchment is seen!

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

20 Years Apart

job.

Your Daily Smile!

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the

hat. sir," answered

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and

and

disperse a mob," said the superis opinion" has been sufficiently Spain, Holland, or Belgiam, has

soothed or doped.

made enormous headway; and Herr Hitler himself has been

financial, the political, severely "edited" by the censor

economic newspapers and comparatively little of his other periodicals of Germany speech at Munich on January for паду months have The professor and a student were 26, 1936, found its way into the expounded Germany's need for discussing peculiarities of English

He said in colonial expansion and warned speech Said the former: "Now, German Press. Memorandum it is stated that Won Championships sugar is the only word beginning effect, that Germany is now so England and other countries with sx which has the sound of strong that she needs no help that the colonial kettle is about

from the League and that to boil over.United Empire. between the # and 22**

"Are you SITE 2 returned the colonies are acquired by right

of might. The white race, by!

BOY'S STRANGE ACCIDENT its heroic conception of life, he stated, is destined to rule.

When Edward Davison.. a 16. Europe needs raw materials

Anglesey, speaking generally on the was running away from a bull re- colonial question the Fahrer cently, a gun he was carrying went

lieved that the task of coloni-chest. said that "Nowadays it is be-off, injuring him seriously in the

in the abolition of two posts of!

motor-drivers, three of messen- PAT MCDONALD, who stands student.

well over 6 feet in height gers, six of foremen and 86.

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of

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other minor posts": in the and weighs in the neighbourhood of

200 pounds, is a mountain Kowloon-Canton Railway

"I hear that you have a very clever | trenchment in staff has been strength and power, and he has daddy who understands sixteen lan-and colonies, he asserted, and year-old schoolboy, of effected by the abolition of a always been a formidable conten-guages," said the teacher.

"Must be a mistake, miss," replied number of posts of watchmen, der in weight-throwing contests.

*When I took home my In 1907, McDonald won the Na- Tommy- drivers. firemen. brakesmer, fitters and coolies"; in the Elec- tional Junior Championship in the school report, he said, 'What is the trical Department of the 56-pound weight-throwing event, P.W.D. "the posts of Wireless tossing it out 97 feet. Years later,

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two coolies and one gardener York Athletic Club, he won have been abolished"; other A.A.U. Championship with a toss posts abolished are "one over-of 36 feet, 4 1/2 inches. seer in the Port. Development Mr. McDonald is now Captain Department and one lorry McDonald of Traffic "E", New driver"; while "the staff of the York Police Department, and still statistical office has been slight takes an active part in his favourite ly reduced." In fairness to all field event.. He has established 8 concerned it must also be reweight-throwing records including corded that it is not proposed 2 Olympic records the 16 pound

дет to ask "at present" for

shot put in Stockholm, Sweden, and fill to

the appointments

the 56 pound weight record, vacancies caused by the promo-

He has won more na- Antwerp. tion of Mr. N. L. Smith and

weights tional championships in the retirement of Messre.

than any other living athlete. Tratman and Breen, and that the recruitment for the Euro- pean Section of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff as they are painted.

and been suspended

the has

Nevertheless,

public vacancies are for the present should welcome the fact that being filled by local recruits the proposed new taxation is

seems to The point

The slight arise, comparatively nevertheless, that there has P.B. Motorist is again to be been a tendency to look for mulcted by an increased tax on economies at the wrong end of motor vehicles from 30 to 40. the scale. The dismissal of

per cent, and in accordance odd coolies, lorry-drivers, gar-with the theory of the French deners and messengers can philosopher of old, that a man surely not make such a vital takes a certain malicious plea difference to the finances of the sure in the discomfiture of even Colony as all that:

his best friend, the non-official Points which cannot bejsection of the community will ignored about the Budget esti-perhaps acquiesce in the deci mate statement 28. 2 whole sion to continue the Civil Ser include the following: That the vants levy for, another year deficit is estimated at $3,500,-with commendable fortitude 1000, even after the transference remembering always that lof $500,000 from the Trade Duties account for 22.30 per Loan Fund; that the only de-cent of revenue and Licences Revenue Not partment to show a saving in and Internal expenditure is the Railway to Otherwise Specified for 45.86 that these which no doubt the "watchmen,per cent., and drivers, firemen, brakesmen, revenues are found primarily taxpayer. the ordinary fitters and coolies" who have by been thrown out of work sub-Finally, in general we feel that stantially contributed; and that we must agree with an esti the total estimated expenditure mate which has frequently for 1937 is roughly. $2,000,000 (been made-that the possibili- higher than the revised esti-ties of balancing our local bad- mates for 1936. Further, the get will continue to be obscure, allotment for Public Works under present conditions, un- amounts to only about half of less the dollar is divorced from this year's figure. In the cir-the Chinese dollar and pegged cumstances there is scope for to sterling, in which medium the enquiry whether the pro- most of the Colony's commit jected economies are as bright ments are undertaken.

meaning of this?"

Tom

"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

THOMPSON

-Rockaway WALKED ON WATER

A DISTANCE OF 6 MILES

BILL HARRIGAN

Kansas Cly WAS FREED BECAUSE HE WAS TOO FAT TO BE PLACED

IN JAIL

JACK WARSHAVER General Agent WROTE 262 LIFE INSURANCE.

POLICIES IN ONE DAY.

-May 25,1927

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PROBLEM

LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING POTS

UNTIL THE TOPS RUN OVER TODAY WE REST UPON THIS SPOT

TOMORROW POST TO DOVER

FAT MEDONALD

WON THE 56-18,WEIGHT

TOSS IN 1927 -JUST 20 YEARS

AFTER HIS FIRST VICTORY IN THIS EVENT..

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