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CHINA MAIL”, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1930:
FREEDOM-IN 26 DOSES
By Geoffrey Wakeford
the s
fung nurserymon into the expit- One little freedom-burst
uliet mow with the historic upon a grateful British publian
formula:
Growers are no longer re- every three or four days of the presenti Parliament's had been. Then, he waived the fanart stars of the Bill they quired to sign an undertaking carcer up to date by kind development charge on additions marched round seven times more, that they will devote a prescribed Sir Stafford Cripps crumbled. portion of their heated glass- pdrmission of H.M. Govern ofdwelling houses of up to 10
He uthause space to food crops in order "Sand found in the main per cent or 7,500 cuble feet, He just went-to-pieces. ment.
whichbyer was the "grouter" entertainments duty on puppet; to oblah" largo, cont"
engines of the aircraft cartide i Anybolty with calculustat liidrosdom was now being: moss marionette, and flower shows, First in race
Vengeance...could have- «been; / - Angers tips could, reduce the sured in cuble feet. And by the among other things.
Admiralty Aditor in 'Chief makapana.
steel, and He sat glumly by while his That would tench, Mr. Dalton sabotage,' an Reporters & General Office, 32812 average to a sharper, point, then end of May points,
that. The beale det is wint the retroll rutionlig had ended. You deputy, Mr. Jay, released, hoarnot to swank that he had made spokesman said." -
henhouse easier for
There is of course that four, Ings), 20%
British have been "liberated ??
could also go to the office in ascites, (pasonger-carrying hear things.
possibility, but, surely if could Subscription Raték?"
HK$18.00-20 tunes in 87 parliamentary non-utility suit no longer price sesy from purchase tax. He owners.
have, blown"." over" of Just as well Freedom on this scale, ral smiled, again only when Mr, Jay ednYdilda, HK$84.00 working days,
That, chjmuld work out in the By June a man could build n astfully pointed out that hears course, can cause a lot of trouble,from one of the nearby beaches? Ond Testehends of experto, ne point-come game ithout pay develops ettos aroused under another
thing of a freedom per day, or ment charge, for all Mr. Dalton Act, anyhow. So it went on. In gust 27 and soap will be dera addressed to^ Editor-in-Chief?,
Milk could be delivered July the Joy" Boys of a Govern- tioned on September 19. and Busines point-nought-something of cared. Advertizamahte
This puts Mr Webb first in the before 7.80a.m.without making ment gone gay were joined by communications should be freedoin" per hour.
Mr. Webb beat his breast;• Mi Harald: Wilson" (Trade), Mface with right freedoms. It can dreased to the Company CHINA:
And then comet the Finance Bull Richard Stoker (Works), and well be seen that other Ministers nay not like it. Sir Stafford MAIL LTD. CURREN
M.P. sport B1 hours in com- Mr. Dalton (again).. "mittee on this. They once sat all MTom Wililoms; the Agri" | "Cripps himself is becoming quite night. They took-8 hours, to culture Minister; felt he had boost profligate with six freedoms.
We shall idst/live/tó- take: it march 20 tires round- the left-out | With' only, eight days to division lobbies. On the later go before the recess ho positively calmly until they get it over.
1 montha 8 mont
BIRTH
To Dlann and Tony Dawcoh- Grove In Kowloon Hospital of 13th September. 1950, 'a' girl.
DEATHS PANG-Pan Yung Ting, manager of Lal Kee Company; at his residence, 161 Wanchal Rond, at 1 pm: September 10, 1960, aged 00. Cause high blood pressure. Funeral service will be held at 12:45 pm. today at Hong Kong Funeral Home, wanchai Road, procession! leaving for Tsun Wan at
1 p.m.
OXBERRY-Mrs, Annabella Oxborry, agail 70, widow of the Inte Mr. J. 11. Oxberry, peacefully at her residence, 18. Granville Road, Kowloon, on Friday, September 15, 1950. Funeral at the Jewish Cemetery at 5 pm, Sunday: September 17. No flowers by request,
THE ARMY OF HOMELESS.
Something gave'. Some say Mr.Attlee's un- certain majority" did iti
could Mr. Churchill's frown alone have caused it 75. Could Sir David Maxwell Fyto's warnings about hard times have purred on the Goclbilst liberators 7 Was it all duc to MP. Lyttelton's
pouutings of Sir Staford Cripps? Or 10. Mr. Eden's Demosthenie o something circ;
No. There wòs; The Socialists just became sud denly reckless. Something just quve. To
To coin a phrase, freedom came hustin' out, all over, te examine the phenomenon. In more detail.
Let
Evensong for Grand Hotel
Not being well versed in tho technical terms. I can only of Jasut that this supposo "super-broken rice" will come in powder form
#
exhausted "Two completely Gla...get their first sleep in eight days."
Wonder who teamt that
Up?
"Their offeln capacity is not recognited by . the Chinese Communists as there are.
two countries." We have had East-hopel his dwindled and hotel costs have, Besides their water nit staff diplomatic relations between tho
rocketti,
thesó live in and have all found, and Today muty of
Darned. dificult to work with, Martin's "Evensong" with the seasonal Grand Hotels are either there is a shore out of tips.
Recis.
T-bonor?
.
after-dinner coffee, and now "just getting by" or are runnink Gross receipts for the week there the musicians are putting at a loss, and the shareholder were, £1,875, which means that
It was their seventh consecutive"). their instruments away. In usually little people who sub each guest apent, on average, Three daya aflèr tilä Pärlla- | the lounge there is a lowscribed, the motiey to build them} just under £14" (plus, Bay, an vlctory, longest winning steak.
have not drawn a dividend for other £2 fer tips) on accommod for the Browns since.... 1044." ment opened Mr. George, Ishnes genteel buz of holiday talk years.
tlon, drinks, tennis, golf, or other
steamed into the 'Communs with
trolled fish.
are
:
By John Hall
Hotel, hare in the answer. The figures are for a typical seasonal Grand Hotel which has 90 sulles and bedrooms, a staff of. 98, and had during this week. 120.
*Eucate. It is owned by a company that is, by shareholders and there ure no interest-ori-mortgage charges Costs for this typical to "be" week were £1,040, and this where the
the money went: *Manager's saldry
P
Boosted staff.
Of course there had to, be a contrast picture from behind the Iron curtain: "There is no buffet!
Russia."
The Catering Wages Act boost-state separating Ching and Soviet An obvious opportunity for,
chain of hot-dog ed stait costs by nearly 25 per cent and the expenses of repairs sotiing up a and renewals keep rising. That slinity, ritzy carpet, for example, stands. costs £
per square yard. (Wat
could not chi that cigarette ash !), Before you say you
Somebody had lost no time in" care less about Grant Hotels you should remember that when you putting the machinery of the law
of the railways into motion. In-
If you have ever wondered extras. high-pressure, news. Direction of among the guests, but the
a Grand Inbour was no anore. The Con-staff watch the musiclans and what it costs to run trol of Engagement Order had wonder whether this hollday perished.
Mr. Churchill was blamed for season will be their Evensong, Mr. Isner's sad lapse. But Mr.
For this is Grand Hotel, a pre- Isaacs owned up. He had just tentious palace of chromium, deep let freedom got the better of him. pile carpets, comforts, and high And lobit what he started! charges and another indifférent Suddenly Mr. Maurica Webb, high season is ending with more the new Food Minister, decan-cost-cutting in prospect.
Thore It was April, and
more than 200 £1 to spring was here. You never enir of these four-star-plus, trust a Sosialist in the spring. £3-a-day luxury hotels in the But May was even worre. Mr. holiday and spa localities of Bri- Webb, emboldened by the great tuin, and for many the future is Fish Freedom, chose May Day to uncertain.
the ds. price limit on mcals. Three days later Mr. Aneurin Bevan stirred. The Health Minister restored the housing ratio, from one pri- vate-enterprise house to ten built by local councils, to one in five Most of them were built carly Mr. Noel-Baker, the Fuel Min- this century for more spacious
remain times and more spacious spend liter, is not the man to unchanged by revolution, Oning, for people who like lush com- May 8 he gave housewives free-fort and super-service dom buy coke from anyone."
Permitless
Ten days lator. the whole edince of bandage was tottering. Mr.. Wobb allowed housewives to
You
buy milk from anyone.
from tho eculd now buy milk coolman and coal from the milk- man
Life was becoming sudly per- The rot might' have mitless, stopped there but for Mr. Dal- ton, who had swept Mr. (now Lord). Silkin out of the Planning Ministry with his new broom.
Spacious times
While their aristocratie cousing in the big cities are still well died throughout the year, these hotels rely on holiday bustnicas.
and 'aro
prepared to pay for both. These are the hotels where a waiter is at your side with a lighted match as soon as you pull out your elg arctte-case; where you drop your hat and it is instantly recovered by a bowing pageboy. Service.
But the number of people who: an afford Grand Hotel charges)
*Chef's salary
£
10
10
Manager's assistants'
Salaries
13
salaries rest of
400 staff Food (guests and staff)...410 250 Wines and drink. Repairs, decorations, elc. 210 Healing, lighting (year's
Rates
Dverago)...
BO
National
Health,
uni
forms, etc.
70
80
Laundering (guests and
staff)
45.
Orchestra
50
Hent of telephones' (in
every room) Flowers
15
became owner
you also took over 45 hotels, cluding a number of these high- class, high-price, seasonal estab
A police motor-cycle disappeared from outside an English polica slation.
"More powerful alom bomba
lishments. If they prosper you will inevitably comes but no benefit; it they lose, money it is attempt in being made to doctor your loss:
For the sake of prestige, and especially for dollar visitors who like their comforts, the nation must have these super hotels.
present bombs
for. greater
Fizalon, heal thyself. effetency,"
"Ia ylew of the appearance of
Peking, is to re-register trade
But wille foreign visitors provide numerous immitations," we read, the fam, these hotels depend on British visitors and butteri
+
for their bread marks.
ing casts, cutting down on music,
In Hong Kong it's not only trade marks that are ersatz-
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Where they can they are prui
a--little
ttleAt that time I knew nothing
reducing service, going
less grand. Added problem for the of Beethoven's symphoniest."
them is that That's the most phony admission people who run besides the
decline there has also we've heard for some time. 5 been a tremendous shift in home
power.
.
Myrtle says it's mon who are
e people from the vain.
about- make-up. They
areas who have most think they don't need it.
There are nearly half a million people in the Colony who rank as squatters. Of these some 10 per cent only are in regular employment. The figures are startling enough in themselves. But placed in juxtaposition with the other basic facts of the problem, they are even more disquieting. The recent spell of dry weather has caused con- cern about the water supplies, Consumption: lately has ex- ceeded by two million gallons daily the amount consumed at this time last year. Sites available for the army of the homeless are few and are diminishing owing to other demands. There are shortages of all sorts-apart from the
Spurred by the threat of war, 18 inches, from Gretna to Super-rely heavily on tips find their perquisites perishing and the jobs less attractive. matter of cost of installing abroad that some of them, construction gangs are working for, Wisconsin.
The first ich of the Inter- proper latrines, pipes, and particularly the Cantonese,.14 hours a day to lay 1,150
Frantically some of the harder- other essentials. The problem might be sent across the bor miles of pipe which will funnel provincial Pipe Line Company
Brianced by several oil companier hit seasonal Grand Hotels are tariffs, especially for is a headache for all depart der, they raised an autery prairie oil of Alberta to hum sharing the pipe, was to contact cutting ments concerned, and though Actually it was a misunder-ming industries in Ontario and 2.100 different land owners, for the eff-season periods, trying to
Quebec.
authority to cross their property: bring their charges down to the purses of formore patrons. some of them are overworked standing, arising from the Cheap fuel from the West Will Some owners were located as faBut here is a limit to that, so. -especially the Social Wel-istration and classification of enable Canada's Eastern pre-away as Brazil and rates of long as taxation and costs remain
Next came the complex tusk fare Department-they carry the refugees, and from certain vinces, not only to double. Hieir
World War Two efficiency as dumping equipment and mater high. on their job with a distressing measures taken to deter arsenals of Britain, but to tackle fals at necessary points; housing feeling of frustration.
offences against camp regula. math bed any day from the the workers in the wide open Tourists welcome tioris. Infringement of these now expected
spaces any
bulfeing six main Others have lowered soncem had already resulted in a fire United States
pumplir stations American and Middle Eastern
The Japanese created their own problems during the
Mr. Dalton spent some time thinking how wicked Mr. Silkin
CANADA'S OIL
By McKenzie Porter
money to spend, often people. U
who
Gd.
the
have not been used to pay "Premieres throughout ing liberally for service, who give world's chief Metropoles."
What about the Grands, La tips where 25. was the custom. So Grand Hotel staff who used to Scalas and Majestics?
occupation; they were not which gutted' a great many oll-pipes are larger; and longer of thouffert PE the length aloof noses and now, welcomej
First go: the men who hack Limousines now
big. Banio
Pine is now being laid at the tourists. Liverfett porters who of their huts.
onep reacted only to long shiny than this These are the people, in- i nono bar Canada's first-bur rate us two miles per: dayis f
been leld at such speed. cidentally, over; whom two works monia 30,000 barrels Houses and offer obstacles, who meter-conchos. The e-
was begun in May last down trees, fences, walls, even open the doors..of storms in a single teacup were of of daily will flow through the burrow through hills; blast away signs have been chopped up for raised the other day. They pipe: from Exdmonton Alberts, to rack, and bridge rivers to pre-firewood and there are
the motor-touch figured in a fight with local the Western tip of Lake Superior pare the right of way. Close be- hotels which are courting the
in Wisconsin US. From there bind them come truck loads of patronago 0 trade unionists who asked will be shipped by tankers pind in 40-foot lengths and the touring Bons for trouble and in vigorous through the Great Lakes to welders who bend thein te sule Times and babita are changing protests from the Chinese Sarinin, Ontario whence it will be the terrair and fuse the joints.
distributed to heat homes, drive Communists, who insist one vehicles and power machities in
Machines.
..
go swiftly that few hotellera.care
1
to look far ahead. The low, who
do fear that unless their tagation
Sorry, It's
bright
Anti-sub port
By John Drummond
imposed upon them, as at pre- sent in Hong Kong, by cir cumstances beyond the con- trol of the local authorities They met them ruthlessly Thousands of people were compelled to leave. Manifest ly we cannot emulate them, though a good case could be made out for m. h stronger
the and expenses can be lightened, action than has so far been day on unrestricted entry, and the grant area around Toronto On their heels como taken. In
some instances protest the next against giving and Montreal, today the fastest machines Automatte stivels dig more of the seasonal Grand Hotels Hong Kong is between the accommodation to these Na-expanding Industrial regions in a trench five-fedt deep and, three will go out of business,
the world
feet wide, excavating. In one day devil and the deep sea. Peking tionalist, refugees!
Gushing Albertan wells itko s much earth as could 500 men broadcasts its wrath at any re- Messages from Taipeh in Leduc, Golden Spike and And by hand. Alongside them move gulation of immigration: It cidate that the Executive water which have all been tapped side-boom tractors which held the has one law for us and quite yuan is now showing a little since 1847 after 18 years of fruit end of the pipe up while it
less drilling now represent the dressed, first with a thiek cont another for itself. And the more interest. Sympathy has most vital sources of oil in North of tar, then wrapped spirally like d stick of toffee If asphalt paper. authorities in Formosa- Have been cabled to the local relief Amprica:
The side-boom tractors then been far from accommodating organisations. The Executive
lower the pipe into the trench There is the case of the resYuan has even held a special
and bulldozer fill in the earth. A clue 7. It stands Live miles] London It is contained in the fugees whor for quite a long meeting to consider the appeal
anti-submaring warfar time were established at the of the 1,000 to be allowed in
run existing wells in Alberta from the frontier of a nation contrastion B Canada, however, consumos 320, Give up 1 list Londonderry. Londonderry- ning to dry up.
900 barrels datis. This means that Northern Ireland, population Royal Navy, a" and | werd later transferred to certain recommendations have The Canadian me in being laid for the time beings Canids must 10,000 odd whichwiftly preserve, le turning into a chas Rennie's Mill. Some of them been made to the Government, in three sections to hurry Baul pill take two-thirds of her of secretly but surely is being swept mopollfari bat where dept came from Kwingtung, but and perhaps something will link-up; the first log, 30 inches from the sadly depleted American by world events into the head- charge are, talked about-ini-has
in diameter runs from Edmonton wells
Thes the majority were from be done about it at least in to Regin the second, 10. Inches But acologists, believe that MI5 there Northern Provinces, and sofar as the Northerners are from Regina to Gretna on the deling during the past threa
Vico-Auntrál Earl Mount Fave served From there In recent belonged to military units. concerned. The Nationalist border in Manitoba, and the third, years has murbly scratched the
underground reservoirs of Caza batten of Burha dropped in the The
obvious place for Government has had to take a 12 dinh, dll.They insist. there is ether day to see how thing worth the balloon goes up and them was Formosa, since great many jolts lately, but aspects of these many pro chuk (hero, to supply all the going. So did. Admiral S Robe lights at sen go down we they appea roluctant to everybody who has been to blems are being tackled, in roer of the United States as derick Matigar Commurdererau Uusony, royal, strategists In-Chier, Plymouth," When I was know that the surface strength try and get back to their own Formosa testifles to the great spite of the feeling that it is well
sequence, 70 companies there several other, strangers, in of the Soviet fleet will be a negli“, provinces by railway. But improvements in practically so exceptional." in some.
Pffentically to find sports conia-and-flanhel trousers,gible factor:@SENS
org iban. A 100,- vere around town. They were the Nationalist, authorities al domains, during the past pects that it belongs rather showed as
is not, per to the United Nations bodies 900.000 terest, in men who had
much to hope that than to the locali adininistration their
sibility of accepting tion. It seems no less fin ugees, undi, making portant to fac
Just in time They were located just in time, for /klahoma and Texas, though still
theoll
end of Mount Davis Road and try into Formosa. As a result major' producers," "ate, begin-produce 180,000-barrels a day neutral in the last war
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weeks
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and the development Half the operational section But Russia will have more Any day of the Royal Canadian Navy (thin five times, the number of sout of black drops arjohon or comes alongside Unbosis: Hider had of the beginn
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