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THEATRE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEK 5TH. 1919.

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THE FRAWLEY COMPANY

Commencing TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, at 9.15 p.m.

In à Season of the Latest and Greatest of London and

New York Successes

TUESDAY,

Nov. 11TH:

WEDNESDAY,

* Nov. Ima:

THURSDAY,

Nov. 13TH:

FRIDAY,

Nov. ISTH:"

SATURDAY,

*THREE WISE FOOLS" Austin Strong's delightful comedy.

TURN TO

by Winchell and JL THE RIGHTest comedy.

POLLY WITH A PAST,” A Comedy with complications, by George Middleton & Guy

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BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Mr. Mackay Edgar, head of the great trading 6m vf Messrs. Sperling Co.. whose views on the future of British in dustry were recently published in the Daily Chronicle, replies to his critics by reiterating his faith in the power of Great Britain to win in the race for pre-eminence in the world's markets.

I am a bull on the British workinan and British captains of industry and, British enterprise and large-mindedness, be writes, and, finding the atmosphere

of the moment to be murky with the con Bolton.viction that the country and its trade:

were going rst to the dogs and than to the devil! I endeavoured to lighten it with some reasoned encouragement and to show that, after all, we were, not yet com- pletely done fur.

The Hattons latest Broadway Comedy Hit.

AND BATH,”

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Prices

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TO SAVE YOUR MONEY

We sell high-class Cigars,

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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

10. Des Voeux Road, Opposite King Edward Hotel.

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"I confess it does surprise sue to find Mr. R. P. Houston, M.P, against me. For I had lang reckoned Ur. Houston one

of the most formidable critics, in ör out|

of the House of Commons, of the Govern-) mental Leding with industry, which is

WISEMAN, LTD.

TEA DANCE.

To-morrow

(Thursday), November 6th. DINNER DANCE

Saturday, November 8th. Charges: Tea Dance 50 cents, Dinner Dance $1.09.

D. M. GOODALL, MANAGER.

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HONGKONG HOTEL.

TEA

DANCES

hap, the greatest obstacle to our will be held on the following Days nasional reeevery Tron the wiring the month of NOVEMBER.

Mr.

Houston is himself one of those enptnina

of industry on whom I confidently relied to "recapture whatever ground we have been temporarily forced to yield.

HOUSE OF LAMENTATION! am, therefore, nothing less than amazed when he puts himself forward an

the loudest mearner in the house of

lamentation, and refuses to be comforted

In bis acute depression he will not hear une word of faith and confidence in the future. His one thought seem to be to rush"oup into the street, put, up the shut ters, and scrawi, neross them 'Creat Britain-To Bel"

Butun reflexion. I see that the dif ference between, us is merely one of pers. petive. Mr. Houston bas his eyes glued on the troubled present. Fam trying to look a little ahead and to take stock of the assets we may rely upon in a strug- gle which will not be decided this year arnext, but may spread over two decades and more of determined rivalry.

If an American or any other foreign- er were to get up and say that Great Britain industrially and financially bad been knocked out, and was no longer worth troubling about. Mr, Houston would be the first to prove that, he was

OUR PRICE LISTS HAVA NOW BEEN PUBLISHED AND entirely mistaker. But he claims to bim-

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elf none the less the privilege of paint- ing our prospects in the blackest colors he can mix on his palette.

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"Why ? Because he thinks it good policy. The Briton, he argues, always at his best when faced with grave danger. Therefore, be magnibes the danger treats all the ephemeral advan

ages which the war has brought to Ame- rica as though they would endure for ever, and triumphantly proves that nothing is left for us but to get out of business on whatever turto, Ameriso graciously con serts to grant us.

It is all nonsense- this idea that British employers and British Inboug have to be scared out of their wits before be will buckle down to work. Mr. Houston under-rates altogether the intel ligence of his fellow-countrymen. They know, even if he does not, that for America to relieve ber congested state of ver-production by damping steed rails in Hasgow at a price below cost of manu facture is no more a sign of industrial strength than if we were to sell British ships to Brazil at £10 per tun. They know that there is hardly a mangfacturer in Great Britain who is not booked up with orders chead on profitable terms.

"With every word Mr. Houston says about the necessity for increased output. I entirely agree. But the way to get it, in my judgement, is not to put on crape and beat the breast, but to hammer it: home into every employer and every working man that there is still a decent livelihood to be made out of British industry, and that American competition, if it is faced with a sane and courageous- optimism that is to say, with faith in themselves will prove a stimulus rather than the death blow to British commerce and manufacturers.

PROPHET OF RUIN."

Let me assure Mr. Houston that the rôle of a prophet of ruin and a counsellor of despair does not become him. It was not by such means, but by resolution and| apeculative plack, and an invincible be lief in himself, that he built up the great position he holds to-day in British in- dustry. Only by displaying the same qualities of character and perseverance shall we, as nation. rise victoriously from the wreckage of the war.

"By all means let us face the facts. But don't let us take a jaundiced view of them or cower beneath them, or make pré- parations to throw up the sponge, That is not the British way, any more than it wai Beckett's way to beat McGoorty in the seventeenth round, or than it has been Mr. Houston's way throughout life, er the way of any other conquering man or nation.

Lenst. of all should he adops an atti- tude to alien to our instincte and our past at a time when the command of many of the basic raw material is steadily, all over the world, falling into British hende. and assuring to us & future far brighter than the American present."

Mr. Houston will leave the weep ing and wailing to the professional Jere minhs and climb the heights with me, he will not only get a good view of the pro mired land, but he will be of incom "parable service in leading the nation to

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