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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1949.

THE DESERT MUST BLOOM, Good Morning!

L

OR ISRAEL WILL DIE

Coffee-Man Lloyd

By John D'Arcy-Dawson

From Alexander Clifford

It looks the bleakost spot in the world. Just a ro- moto, rocky hilltop, with nothing growing and, as far as one can see, nothing evor likely to grow.

on the Street and was shortly to move A small sprinkling of tents and ramshackle huts and million to Lombard Street,

The aur glittered Thames, reflecting a shimmering K$10.00

lights, broken every few minutes by a cascade he had built up HK$36.00

of flashing drops as ours lifted and fell while gigs and ferries HK$72.00

plied briskly from ship to shore. For this was the Pool of London in May, 1889, a year which had seen the abdication of James II and the crowning of William and Mary.

All new contributions to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief, Advertisements and Business com:

munications should be addros to the Company CHINA MAIL LTD.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

desires to

thank all relatives and friends for their attendance at the funeral, donations for Masses and Floral tributes,

RESURGENT JAPAN

foreshadowed

Being practically on the rive

a clientele of people interested in shipping and underwriting. No offices exister and business men mel on h

or else in the change. very popular coffee houses where would receive for a modest penny the customer adlah of coffee which entitled him to stay, there

all day. if he wished.

serve

ers

tables

were watchful to pens, ink and sand.

now

a brand new water tank, and here and there young men and women making fences and pil- ing stones into walls and building sheds with slabs of corrugated iron,

least the 1,300 odd merchants Shipping Intelligence is to live.

1,500

"New Yorker urges purge of two Shakespeare plays."Heading In a contemporary yesterday, ex- plaining that an attack was made an ""Oliver Twist" and "The Merchant of Venice."

This sort of thing is livble to revive the Bacon controversy in a mare complicated form than ever.

Scerns like Sweden would like to Join the Western delence scheme, but it can't help wonder-

kay.

Myrtle's grandfather's old goat swallowed a pair of trousers, and face then his breath has been coming in short pants.

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If Japan becomes the Ruke of Anio, China can count on maining rural.

Fur

And #1 perhaps years, resort. months,

pleasant-spoken from the taurist they will have to sleep three or receptionist

room, and wash bureau is already meeting pinnes ing what the, neighbours would four in one

They at Lydda Airport. under a tap in the open. will have to work from dawn r All in all-and given a normal dusk for no thore pay than their ration of miracles-Israel thinks

can live. meagre keep.

Oliva branches are not suc A year which

The coffee house was really

It is cold and

"All wet in winter,

this

will country

be cows in Far East diplomacy,' says great events abroad. Peter the large

room with a bug at me and it will be incredibly hot in covered with fruit trees," they correspondent. No, pulm oil Great was ruling his tempestuous end, Though ittle liquor was summer.

tell you, waving their hands airily works better out here. Muscovites with on icon hand served. In the early days plain,

range of But at the end of it thelp hill- towards the barren and France Louis XIV, "Le stoutly-built

were net Grand Soleil," was bleeding about

the room and customers up will be blossoming with crops hills, "There sand dunes will soon

city garden and vegetables and frult. Year by be n

for The family of the Inte MARIA | France white in useless wars.

and their friends would sit over year life wifi get, better and families. VIEIRA LEWIS

letters

"Haifa isn't big enough, so we their coffee, writing

or better, In London trade had never

The wait- transacting business, been better, The Gotden Mile of

At least, that's the idea. It has shall turn Jaffn into a modern the City of London lived up to

provide been done before, and it has got seaport."

Is of times

Their optimism thousands

sometimes its name, for even if the pave-

to be done iments were not paved in gold, at

again if the new State of Israel frightening.

But before they can start they who lived

about their within its

They are planning to do tan- must do something precineta were making money at

Shrewd Front

men like Edward tastic things here. They have got currency. For Israch will not be speed.

Lloyd employed runners whose a little country which appears to able to sell anything to anybody

already developed to the at her present prices. duty it was to collect odd scraps be Objections have

left looks just An ordinary shorthand-typist streets of news and particularly ship-utmost. What is voiced been

in Britain, rich man, poor man, honest man

An un- day here. Intelligence. The coffee about the most unpromising pert gets £2 ping France, Australia, the Philip and knave rubbed shoulders and house proprietor would write all of the earth's surface. But they skilled orange-picker gets £45 a

could tell the difference.

to create fertility month. And prices are correspon- pines and Hong Kong about few

this news down and read it aloud are planning

Our telephone company has now to hla customers breaking great god MacArthur's Down on the river the source of

In all over this barren desert, and at dingly high,

a post-war six storey building this trade revival was

Infintion is a war-time pheno- apparent with what we would today call the same time to absorb an enor

and 1 current policies, which seem to the eye.

post-war 16 storey bulld Great ships swung "stop press" news.

mous artificial Increase in the menon, but that makes it no Ing. All we now lack is tele- likely to revive the dumping at anchor or were tied up

casler to population.

handle. Prices

must phoneB. of Japanese slave products on wharves discharging their costly

come down I tourists are to be goods. work markets. Reports from

attracted. They must come down if Israel

in to compete wants Washington and Tokyo over

world markets,

A French peasant who removed the week-end gave rise to re-

They plan to do it first of all her clothes to be photographed newed fears.

by severe austerity campaign, cutting hay was fired 3,000 francs.

rationing. The reapercussions combined with rigid Then Imports will be cut to the to bear.

profits bone, prices controlled, reduced, and production ration alised. If they possibly can they want to avold devaluing the Israeil pound.

the

already

In the

Bristol.

crowded City

Most Revenue

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to

The name Lloyd was not un common, for at this time there Lloyds Society of was ever made up of members bearing

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Three Factors

In this year of Grace London was doing 50 times as much ship- the same name. We do know israel todny has around 750,000 ping trade as the new up

and that Edward Lloyd was a man of inhabitants, and she already hos coming port of Liverpool. and personality and presumably sym.to Import half her food. But she clipsed the prosperous port of pathetic manner, for he was able proposes to absorb 250,000 im- to move from his Tower Street migrants a year for the next five premises to the more favoured years. How can it be done? and expensive site of Lombard Isract has, three things to help Street near the Post Ofce.

her. At this time London was pay-

lle was married, with several. She is the world's most suc- ing two-thirds

cessful beggar-charity of the nation's children, but we do not know constantly from Jews abroad. revenue and the bulk of it was whelber he

Wag tall or short. through our coming

skipping. fat or thin. good tempered or she wants, and her Inhabitants True, the Dutch still outnumber- bad, but it was obvious from the are prepared to work to sacri-

fleet in

flourished the way his coffee

house

nece the present to the future. carrying trade but We were

severe competition from catching up on them when it was like establishments that he

3. She has unlimited faith in was her ability to produce scientific remembered that only a few

intelligent. Once established in miracles. years before the Dutch had pail-his new premises, he began to

In

+ our merchant

cate

wa

rolls in

2. She has all the man-power

The Meaning

What it all amounts to is this: If-Israel

All Japя have a yen for money.

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were harder

New German flag will have red, black and gold horizontal stripes. Red for the Communists, Black for the Nazis, and Gold for the Bonn Democrats?

China is going to succeed

is supporting Israel's membership for U.N. membership. economically it has got to:

Cut the cost of living by half: Ferhaps a Kuomintang desire to Treble the population in five get in good with the Mont de Piele

fraternity in these

A State Department state- ment said that if Japan is given limited responsibilities in several international fields, it would speed her economic recovery and help prepare it for the end of the occupa- tion. In Tokyo reports said that a plan is being discussed between Japanese banking interests and a representa- tive of the Chinese Commun- ists to develop barter trade. Japan wants to send de-

To begin with all legates to a meeting of the International Telecommuni-

be concentrated on the huge

Establish new cations Union at Geneva this

Southern desert called the Negev,

find markets; Bands month, and this may lead to

of young people must be Apart from ocid pieces of tn-

The doyen of the Foreign Office And get hold of enough capital is said to have to found a gradually increasing flow habit sat in his carriage one foot formation, nothing is known of sent out there

com-to finance the whole thing.

a penchant for heavily bandaged resting on the the date

OT co-operative settle-

wing quill pena. Well, they t Lloyd's birth. From munal

Even with miracles of Nipponese gentlemen to

opposite sent. He watched im- records of the Faculty Ofce of ments, and to live

primitive, all parts of the world. It is

patiently as a gig put off from a Canterbury it is shown he was gruelling lives, Pipelines must be planned that Japan should newly anchored ship. The gig of the age of about 50 in 1098, so Inld to irrigate the land. Processes be able to enter into such

the landing and a he must have been born about must be perfected to remove salt large burly as other coun-

man stepped ashore. 1048.

from what water there already agreements

and walking with the seaman's tries might be willing to con-

rolling rail, approached the In- As for his launching into Roads and railways mus! be clude with their former Paci- į valid." fic enemy.

news.

three.

учеять:

Pretty nearly double the culli- times?

ed impudently up this very same speelalise shipping river to sink and burn our ships. bringing with him many of his money, work and miracles must vated area:

On this bright May morning prosperous gentleman of full

swung into

old clients.

journalism this did not happen built. unil 1995, when a single-leafed The nuclei of fertility must "Com day to ye, Sir," said the broadsheet appeared under the spread out and out until they master mariner removing his hat name of "Lloyd's News,"

pub-

In a

sweeping bow which, for fished three times a week, ant/ Join up and cover the land. £250 Per Man

all his size, was carried out with bearing

the Imprint: "Printed for Edward Lloyd (Coffee-man) "Welcome. Indeed, Master Rld-in Lanibard Street." It was fin- ley," replied the gentlemen, anced by Lloyd, but there is no ain sorry I cannot rise for this evidence he wrote it. confounded gout,

as I guess from

bring good tidings."

but you arc

All this

industries and

and un-

uncertain

limited enthusiasm, it is obvious-the policies, in some cases.

ly an outsize job.

There is one thing about Israel you can be sure of: With all this on her hands she genuinely wants peace and security to do it in.

AIR FRANCE PILOTS STRIKE

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are to be renamed "City of Peace" and "Cultural City" respectively. Sure- ly nbtle satire on the American Way of Strife?

"We take great pride in our prescription department. Never have we unfailingly met with the specifications of the prescrip- tion as supplied by the doctor."

What does your pride.spring from-prompt delivery?

All this may be inevitable. America is unwilling to pour much more money into the occupied country. and as grace, wartime hatreds die down,

-must be done fast the authorities see no reason

enough to keep pace with the

Paris, May 8. why the Japanese should not

Passengers arriving at Orly annual avalanche of immigrants. be given progressively more

The Journalistic side was prob- They calculate each immigrant and Le Bourget airfields, Paris control over their own affairs, none the less welcome, especially ably done by one of the numer-will cost £250 before he is pro- today found delay and confu-

ond carning your face youous letter-writers who flourish-perly housed especially as they now seem

hission following the declaration! ed in the coffee houses of the keep. so charmingly "democratis-

and subsequent cancellation of Racial discrimination. day. "Lloyd's News" contained Thot

a year, a strike by pilots of the Air deal with the question of old is £60,000,000 ed." Others, admittedly not

"Aye, indeed, I have brought your cargo safely home, but it mainly it consisted of brief for is only a quarter of that.

few items about shipping, but and the country's total Budget France Lines on International saddled with the respon-

was a near thing off Ushoni

services. sibilities of the MacArthur where

war news, parlia- Money is the sign items,

the real headache. great storm *

Only one plane left Le Bourget dynasty, hold very different Perseus foundered with all hands,mentary reports and political in-

vective. views, and some extremists and was unable to save a soul."

of the Negev Is considerable delay.

and timed for Saturday, today possible. They are belleve that

A plane due to leave Orly for and Monday. Japan

certain they can rely on enough New York last night was delayed Air France services within should be permanently oc-

enthusiasm to get settlements nearly two hours.

France and the French union cupied and kept in a state

coing.

The strike, over wages, WES were not operating today.eu- could whereby she

But Immigrants and settle- called on all Air France services ter. again indulge her aims

ments can't start without capital,

This is world domination.

comes where charity

even

never

In

Neither of the speakers had noticed a shabby-looking man who had edged nearer and rearer

Did Not Last Long

In any case it did not last long. to listen to the conversation. Probably the printer, fearing that The moment he heard the ship's mis-informed item which had of

master tell of the loss of an-crept into one issue might get other ship he ran as fast us he him into trouble with the Parlis- In point of fact, these al could to Tower Street where, mentary nuthorities, refused to most certainly still exist, al-entering by the back way of a though conveniently shelved coffee house, he asked for the for the time being. Western proprietor and told him the news. eyes have tended to become blinded by Russian belliger-

Communism is

ence.

TC-

First News

fow seconds later

bring it out.

D'

The Jews are convinced that the for London this morning, after

in Israel believes it can depend on £30,000,000 n year from charity for the next five years. mestly in dollars,

That will pay for half the ins- migrants.

shoulders and

And the rest? They shrug their smile confidently, and say they hope Israel will attract private capital.

They liave got £25,000,000 in dollars as a port-Export Bank to go on with loon from the Im- this year. They will think about next year when they come to it..

Anyway It disappeared, Ed-i ward Lloyd eventually died In 1713, having progressed modestly in civic life, becoming a Sides man and a Constable and Quest- garded as the only possible respectably dressed

a man of a Ward for the South man wiped Precinct of St. Mary's, Woolneth. enemy, with Fascism' only a his hands on his apron, and

He was evidently held in con- memory from a previous de-standing on a raised dais called cade.

out in a loud voice: "Pray sil-siderable esteem for the "Flying Such contacts as this bar-

ence, Gentlemen. I have this Post" gave him the honour of a ter trade discussion should the barque Perseus has been lost

moment just heard tidings that brief obituary, a practice very

rare al that time. Ho left be taken as a warning, how with all hands off Ushant." daughter. Handy Lloyd, who was Oil Plastics ever, that Japanese opportun.

morried to William Newton. ists might well decide to Edward Lloyd, for that was his Newton died and "Handy" mar-

name, and the name of his cottes ried an old flame-Samuel Shep-ment the Jews

Alongside the Negev develop-| Join the Chinese Reds in a house, resumed his work

pard. a haberdasher, Ilving in turn themselves into a mildly in- are planning to new greater Asia co-prosper-supervision.

Lombard Street, who took over dustrial nation. ity sphere, planning that

Citrus fruits and potash are There was allence for a second the coffre house. eventually the direction and then two underwriters, pal- When Sheppard, died in 1727, their only natural exports.

from Tokyo. Ingat the news, rushed out of the business came into the hands they

intend

to concentrate Britain and countries of sim- the door, making for the Royal of his slater, Elizabeth, who was

making things which need lar Ideas would do well to Exchange to try and rid them- married to

and very deal. of kill Thomas Jemson, a contest at every step the selves of some of their loss be- member of the Shipwright's little raw material,

fore the news, became general. Company, who also devoted his They are going to encourage handing back of power to the

Such was the haphazard manner Ille to Lloyd' Coffee House. work like polishing diamonds, 100,000,000 who are so avid in those days in which news was

'grinding lenses, and making falac for it.

received and circulated.

would come

One statement in vester- day's report from Tokyo should be attentively studied in Hong Kong, for it looks like a cunning piece of pro- maxanda to remove trade

of

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A

under-

The underwriting element was teeth. very strong in the Coffee House They are going to make all Edward Lloyd, whose name and eventually, probably at their sorts of things out of citrus. fruit) was later to be indissolubely as suggestion, Jenson

brought out by-products, and they are going! sociated with Lloyd's List and Lloyd's List in 1734, From that to manufacture plastics from Lloyd's great Marine Insurance day on the "List" prospered. castor oil (which grows well in Corporation, was of unknown

the Negev). Edward Lloyd, therefore, al- antecedents. At the time of which I write ha had prospered though he did not influence of some 30 per cent, of their popula- They plan to employ eventually from the Colony. Chinese In his coffee house in Tower suggest the organisation which tion In these Industrial Communists, it said, were

bears his name, had, by his

takings. not interested in trade with

Integrity and enterprise created And they expect great things Japan

through Hong Kong charge duty on goods accept in his coffee house the atmos- from tourists. because of customs considera-ed for re-shipment elsewhere. phere which attracted his spc come to visit the holy places, tions. This is manifest none If we are aiming at trade called clientele, and it is per- and rich foreign Jewe will ne

fe just reward that bis name. sense, it being well known with the Reds, it would amhould go down to posterity with to see Israel. all over the Far East that that propaganda of our own all the accumulation of honour New hotels are already being the Colony exists as an en is needed to combat inten- and pride which is today amo bullt. The Sea of Galilee is al- randy, being developed as,á Zenithi trepot because it does not i tional "untruths,

ciated with "Alat Lloyd's."

Christians will

An amendment was raised to

civil servants who were aboot to retire."

Size

and thirst

WITH figures involving the s

square of the surface exposed to evaporation and arguments still less convincing, theories have been advanced that big men are thirstier than little men. Plausible perhaps, but every one regardless of size knows the point where he feels he can get no thirstier without catching fire. These are the glorious moments for Rose's Lime Juice, pure juice, of nature's most refreshing fruit, pure cane sugar, a rare flavour thirst- quenching in itself. With cool gleaming ice, drink one, or two or three (according to size) then settle down with the beat of short drinks, Gin and Ross's. Perhaps to discuss whether little men

can drink more than big mon.

ROSE'S

ime

to juice....

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