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London-the Automobile

Market of the World.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., announce the Organisation of the following Exhibitions:

ост. 14-22 1921

NOV. 4-12 1921

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THE 5th INTERNATIONAL

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COMMERCIAL MOTOR EXHIBITION

OLYMPIA

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1921.

LONDON comprehending the world's largest, display of petrol, ss and sctric motor vehicles for goods and passenger transport and general utility porporch, 12 well as the lates:' novelties in equipment, etc.

THE 15th INTERNATIONAL

MOTOR EXHIBITION

(PRIVATE CARS)

OLYMPIA & WHITE CITY, LONDON comprabanding the widest range of private motor cars over staged, including over 180 makos, priced at £100 to £4,000. The vexhibition will also include equally representative display of carriago work, ogaip- ment, tools, tyres and accessories.

THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS, LIMITED,

83. PALL MALL, LONDON, SW.I, ENGLAND

TIMBORITE

BRITISH-MADE

IN BROWNS IN GREENS

WOOD

PRESERVATIVE

and

STAIN

Saves its

Cost in Render-

ing Replacement.

of Woodwork a Less

Frequent Necessity.

PREVENTS DESTRUCTION OF TIMBER BY WHITE ANTS.

Stocks carried by "

WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK, LTD.

Alexandra Buildings,

HONGKONG.

AGENTS

The

International Buildings

SHANGHAL.

AUSTIN

TWENTY

A Triumph

of British Industry Built at the largest automobile works- In the Empire and of world-wide fame for the remarkable successes it has attained in trials and tests, the Austin Twenty demands the instant attention of overseas motorista, In the Austin Twenty you have a super,car at a moderate price. It is thoroughly tested car, built upon proven principles, and particularly suitable for overseas conditions Get in touch with local distributors.

DISTRIBUTING

Worthfield,

ALEX. ROSS & CO.

25, Des Vœux Road, Central. Immediate DELIVERY.

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THE PEOPLES IN U.S.A.. NEGRO INCREASE LOWEST ON REGORD.

Some figures of special interest are included in the latest sectional report of the American Census Bureau, just Issued, which gives the composition of the population of the United States ac cording to colour and race. The total population now amounts to 105,710,890, and the details of the last report, toge ther with the corresponding ones for 1910, are as follows:-

Whites......

Negroes

1821. 84,822,431 10,483,013

Indians

219,950

1910. 81,731,937 9,697,783 265,883

Japanese .....

111,093

Chinese

81,686

72,157 71,531

Others (Filipinos,

Hindus, Kor.

eans, etc.)....

9,506

3,173

The rates of increase during the decade

aro:-

Total population 14.9 per cent.

Whites 16 per cent.

Negroes "8.5 per cent

Japanese 33.9 per cent.

The Indian population has decreased.

8.6 per cent. and the Chinese 13.8 per

cent.

The rate of increase in the white po pulation is 'considerably less than that for the period 1910-1920, which amounted to 22.3 per cent. The falling off is be- lieved to be mainly due to the decline in inmigration during the world war. No such explanation will apply to the re- markable reduction in the growth of the negro population, whose rates of increase The is by far the lowest on record. proportion of the increase to the pre- vious total Ens now been going steadily down for several decades. It has declin ed from 15 per cent. between 1920 and 1000 to 11.9 per cent between 1900 and 1610, and new to 6.6 per cent. between 1010 and 1920. The report mentions that the available data of birth and death rates among the negroes indicate that the birth-rate has decreased considerably during the last twenty years while the death-rate has not greatly changed.,

Incidentally, the statistics now publish- ed show that there has been an actual decrease in the negro population. This is doubtless largely attributable to the mass migration northward, of which so much was beard a few years ago, since 1910 in all but one of the States includ. ed in the East South Central" and West South Central" sections of the country.

THE

BRITISH

ELECTRICAL &

ENGINEERING CO. OF CHINA,

ALL BRITISH

HD.

COMPRISING :—

C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd.... Turbines, Condensers

Lancashire Dynamo &)

Motor Co., Ltd. .................

Mather and Platt, Ltd...............

Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd.

Alternators, Dynamos AC. & DC. Motors Synchronous Motors Motors Converters Turbine Pumps

Mirrlees Bickerton & Day, Diesel Engines

Ltd.

ALL BRITISH

National Gas Engine Co., Oil & Gas Engines,

Gas Producers Ltd..

British Switchgear, Ltd... High & Low Tension Brook Hirst & Co., Ltd. "Switchgear Erskine Heap & Co., Ltd... Switch Boards Electric Control, Ltd................... Automatic Switchgear Whipp & Bourne, Ltd.......Motor Starters

Transformers

British Electric Trans-)

►

former Co., Ltd.

W. T. Hedleys Telegraph Electric Wires and

Works Co., Ltd..........} Cables

The travelling representative of the above Company is at present in Hongkong.

For Quotations and Specifications, address:-

ALL BRITISH

10443

WEATHER REPORT. September 3rd, ab 11.00-Warning to Hongkong, Coast Ports, &-A typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat 21 deg. N., and Long.. 113 deg. E moving N.W.

September 3rd, at 15,45,-Local signal No. 4 lowered.

September ard, at 15.45Warning to Hongkong, Coast Forts, &c.:-A typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 23 deg. N., and Long. 111 deg. E. moving N.W.

September 4th. at 11.38.-Proavure has in creased moderately in the extreme North, and decreased moderately over the Loochoos,

depression having formed in the Eastern Sea. It has increased slightly in the neigh- bourhood of Hongkong.

The typhoon entered the coast between yesterday Macao and Kwan-Chan-Wan afternoon, leaving a depression over SW. China.

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hours

In the Mid-Atlantia" section, on the ather hand, the regrocs have increased from 417,970 to 000,050, and in the "East

Hongkong rainfall for the 21 North Central" from 300.836 to 814,520.ending at 10 m. to-day. 1.16 inches., Total In Michigan, which lies within the since January 1st, 92.00 inches against an latter area, the increase is from 17,118 average of 67.25 inches.

to 60,082.

WHERE ARE THE HUMORISTα?

A COMPLAINT AGAINST S03

STUFF."

A writer in the New York Times aaks; Where are the humorists? T

To put the matter shortly, for the good of its soul the world needs a humorist and none appears to be available...

The other day I questioned an Ameri can kinema-play producer on the subject In order that he might not misunder- stand Why do

I put the query in his own language:

you keep on putting on all this sob stuff I asked.

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Because we can't get any other," he answered sadly "American humour died with Mark Twain."

Magazine editors tell me much the same thing. They would like to publish humor ous stories, but they cannot get them in sufficient-numbers.

FORICAST.

The forecast for the 14 hours anding at soon to-day is za follows :—

DEZECT

Yongkong to Gap Rock

Formosa Channel

จ

(S. winds, moder ate; squalty (occasional rain.

East winds

moderate.

South cost of Chiza between (The same es. Hongkong and Lamocka No. 1. South coast of Chins between The same as

No. 1. Hongkong and Hsinsa i

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BRITISH CHARACTERISTICS. "INSTINCT FOR THE ANOMALOUS."

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The first Angio Catholic Priests Con- vention opened at Oxford, on July 19th, and was attended by 1,200 clergymen, who came from almost every diocesa in the land, and from places overseas.

Following the celebration of High All our young writers--and we have Maas in St. Barnabas, the Bishop of explained one editor, Oxford, president, preached to a crowd Bome able ones,

appear to be wallowing fathoms deep ined congregation at St. Mary the Virgin. gloom. Seemingly they have never learn. He appealed to his hearers to refrain ed to laugh, and they don't know how to from egotism. They were ministering to make other people do it."

1 was inclined to blame the editors for not being able to recognise humour when

see it, and I said so.

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Very well; if that is your view, take dive into that," continued my editor friend, indicating a pile of manuscript. I did not dive very deeply, not being in search of tears and I found nothing else there.

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Oh, but what about So-and-so! you may object, naming some writer whose work appeals to you.

My reply is that although certain modern authors may have the trick, of turbing a phrase facetiously, that does not prove them to be humorists, since the humorous idea which is the thing that counts--is absent from their produc- tions.

race which was wonderfully illogical, with an uncontrollable instinct for the anomalous and an unparalleled capacity. for making the impossible work. Although it was a race wonderfully sensitive to the call of adventure it was extraordinarily impatient of authority if that authority

be were thought to capricious irresponsible. He would say to those who apologised for the Church that the Church emphasised and moulded the characteristics and tendencies of the English people. The world to-day was beset by tendencies to unreality and false sentimentality. Frothy expressions were substituted for steadfast service, and there was the evil influence of the mere catchword. In place of discipline was a fack of concentration and the ability to Almost anybody in these days can batch think things out. All these things pro-

invent an occasional an epigram of that is a trick born of duced a desolateness in life. He asked practice and sub-conscious plagiarism: the assembled priests to guard against surrendering to such failings, and to fight, Bat the fact remains that the person them whose pen, traca merriment because nature has endowed him with the faculty of seeing things humourously and expres sing

them in laughter-moving way was never a greater rarity among us than now, if one may judge by what is pub lished, and that is the only guide by which we have to go.

amart saying

Why is this! We have not lost tho capacity for laughter nor the desire to laugh. All we lack. is something to laugh at. We do not get it on the stage, or on the screen, and very rarely in the printed page yet we have never wanted it. so badly!

If you wish to see how desperately anxious people are to laugh, go to any place.. of amusement and notice how eagerly they wait for anything that will give them an excuse for wrinkling their Inces. But the laugh extracted from one by the false pretence of an unexpected inanity in not satisying; it is merely a ripple on the surface of boredom.

Wars are made in classrooms.-Mr. H. A. L. Fisher.

Although most of us have heard and even, sung, that Britons never shall be slaves, since the glorious victory in the Great War very few have been anything else. Mr. Eden Phillpotts.

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SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH · CHINA

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SPECIALLY BREWED FOR EXPORT

DAI NIPPON BREWERY COMPANY,

LIMITED.

TOKYO, JAPAN.

SOLE AGENTS I

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