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TOO OLD AT FORTY? Some Hopeful Words for Middle-aged Workers !

From the beginning of the 20th century, up to 1914, we heard a great deal of being "too old

st 40"

When we reached that age, irreverent youth eslied us “uncle", or "the old buffer"; but for five years men of forty and over did some of the Any man who follows sport will be able to provide the names of inen of over forty years of age who are still first-class.

hardest work of the war

nd the Wouan too! A great many of thear are more interesting more energetic-more able to do their daily tasks at forty and over

than many of the girls

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you right,

TAB HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10TH. 18.

JAPAN AND CHINA.

AMBASSADOR'S FRANK WORDS. Baran Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassa or was the guest of the Foreign Press Association at luncheon at the Café Royal, London, on November 30th, and, in acknowledging the toast of his health tapoka of the forthcoming Washington

Conference.

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all of us are

THE CUSTOMS SURPLUS. SIR F. AGLEN'S DEFENCE OF HIS POLICY.

The following letter appeared in a recent issue of the Peking Leader:-

from the Chinese Government..

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LIVING ya DEAD IN CANTON. A MUNICIPAL PROBLEM AT

DANTON.

[BY ORBIN KEITH PỌR THE "BONGKONG, DAILY PRESS."]

most narrow-strected city in China That has all been changed now, however, and Canton is acquiring a reputation for bread-avenues and modern buildings.

gramma

In this way Mother Seigel's Syrup enables satisfactory to us all. We were friends obligations and other prior charges on seek.new places whereon to build their

your digestive organs to ila their duty, efficient

and without strain, and thus you are Pains after eating, headache, palpitation, dizzi- ness, languor, lliousness and constipation.

You find a new appetite

and gain from the food you eat the fullest pos- Throughout the Union it would be diffienit

sible near of strength and energy

-troubles and restore fitness.

between England" and America, and.

Now it

WORLD THEATRE

on

MONDAY, December 12th, at 9.15 p.m.

"By SPECIAL REQUEST

CAPTAIN E.R.G.R. EVANS,

G.B., D.S.O., R.N.

WILL TELL THE STORY of

.

SCOTT'S LAST ANTARCTIC

EXPEDITION.

H.E. THE GOVERNOR

는

(SIR R.E. STUBBS, K.C.M.G) WILL PRESIDE

ADMISSION: $2, $1.50, $1.00 ..

SIR, In the leading article in to-day's

In its attempts to transform itself into issue of your paper under the heading modern city with broad streets instead Customs Surplus" you, offer the sug- of" alleys and with human habitations gestion that I am perhaps erring on the instead of ant-hills, Canton has had to The Japanese Ambassador, acknowledging aide of over caution in retaining the handle some unusual problems. In form. the toast, said he was happy to have that National Debt Service Sinking Funder days the southern metropolis enjoyed opportunity of meeting the gentlemen of intact for the protection of Bondholders the reputation of being the most crowded, the foreiga Press. During the war the You adduce figures to show that it would We have not found any secret elixir of life. duty of the Press was as great as that apparently be safe to divert from this is simply that experience has taught us that of the sailors and soldiers, and the assist-fund, and the purpose of meeting obliga. it is to our own advantage to keep fit, and more ance of the Press brought them to victory tions incurred by the Government before, Now, after the war, it was created, a sum of $10,000,000 or than half the battle is to keep our digestive and final peace.

To is quite aparent that in a congested organs in efficient working order. Are you everyone had to make an effort to recon- 819,000,000, without betrayal of the trust likely to be too oki at 40P Certainly not if you struct the world and try to bring friend, which I accepted last April in good faith

city, where every house boasts twelve to keep well and fit, and the best way to do that is ship among all nations. "As you know,' to keep your digestive organs efficient by the Baron Hayashi went on,

In estimating whether it would be fifteen inhabitants at least-and some of regular use of Mother Seigel's Syrup! That is going in about two weeks' time to Wash the family remely which, for forty years, hasington. I do not say we are all going justifiable or not to draw on the Sinking them twice as many-that you cannot been the people's family medicine for digestive personally, but I think our hearts are Fund in present circumstances, it is widen the streets from mere alleys of when your stomach has lost tone and all going over here-(cheers)-and it is necessary to know all the factors of the cight or ten feet to broad avenues of atrength, your liver has become a little the duty, not only of statesmen and situation, and without such knowledge eighty to one hundred feet without tear-i sluggish, Mother Scigel's Syrup will quickly put dipomats, but of, all of us, to pray for it is not safe to adduce figures, so you ing down a lot of houses and thus in the success of that Conference. If we go have done, based on the releases of re The medicinal, extracts of which Mother there with that spirit, I have no doubt venue in recent years. It is true that increasing the pressure of habitation on (Cheers) I 1920 a sun of Shanghai Tacks 33,150,000, the remainder. That is just what hap-

pened in Canton. Seigel's Syrup is made act directly upon the we shall achieve success.

The elaborate pro- CAPTAIN organs of digestion, toning up the stomach in will not only be satisfactory to our Am representing the available. surplus after

of boulevard building has remarkable manner and gently stimulating the rican friends, but I hope it will be meeting all foreign loans and indemnity driven Canton's teeming millions" to action of the liver and howl.

and Allies during the war, and there is the revenues, was released, but it must homes. no reason to believe that after the war be remembered that in 1920 the silver- we shall come to crisis or to fight, (Host, gold exchange was very much higher than

so happens that Canton's teeming millions" have for many cen-

THE LECTURE WILL BE ILLUSTRATED hear.) I am happy to notice that there it has been during the current year, taries beer burying their millions of and relish for fuel is a growing sentiment of close friendship than it is at present." The Foreign oblig

hope and believe the same will come bention secured on the revenue are a gold ancestors in the neighbouring territory. BY LANTERN SLIDES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS arrivals. And if there is no place for tween. America and Japan. (Cheers.) If debt and to liquidate them gold has to This process has gone on until there is to find a place of any size where Mother Seigel's the delegates who are to assemble there be purchased. Loan agreements do not practically no room left for the later TAKEN by MR. .H. G. PONTUY. FRG.S. and to find a place of any size preciated. There are will deal with the matter in a friendly and exchange in these days is not the dead, the how find room for the OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION,

a living? The rivers. the creeks, the matter on which anyone with respot canals are already overcrowded to the few homes where Mother Seigel's Syrup has not and kindly spirit, not only with regard been successfully used to banish digestive to nations but with regard to all humanaibility for trust funds would be dis! limit. It would seem that the Cantonese

ity. I think there is no doubt that success. if you are not up to the mark, because your will be attained. There is the question posed to gamble. When estimating the must either find a way of living in the stomach and liver have lost tone and strength of China, which will no doubt be brought sums available for release to the Govern upper air or clac nature would at last or you are feeling "too old at 40" Mother; before the Conference. It is regrettablement in 1919 and 1990, it was always my put a positive cheek upon his tendency]

to propagate his kind. Beigel's Syrup will help you to shake off that to find that at the present moment the practice, in covering the Foreign ob are still ligations, to write down exchange six-

The Department of Pablic Works of feeling by restoring your health and vigour. internal struggles in Chira

the Municipality has been making, Buy a bottle, and put it to the test to-day! If going on, but I think the trouble in pence per tac! below the current daily you prefer, you can obtain Mother Seigel's China will at least be lightened if Eng-rate, and Anctuations have shown that murvey of the deal, as it wéro, and has land, America, France and Japan--the this margin was not by any means too established city limits of the Canton Tablet form R. 301. Syrup

four Powers most intimately connected wide.

estimated that there are within the newly.

THE PROCEEDS WILL BE DEVOTED TO with the Far East-were to agres in find-

lunicipality at least 18,000,000 graves! ing a certain common basis. It is neces

Eighteen million ancestors crowding THE LOCAL MISSIONS TO SEAMEN and OTHER sary that the Chinese should cease fight

within the city which is already over ing among themselves, otherwise develop

burdened with a million and a half of NAVAL BENEFITS. ment will not take "place, And the

the present generation! development of China, whose resources are so great, will be a great thing not only for China and Japan and America but for Europe as well, You will find there an enormous population, and to give them peace and the means of de velopment would mean an increase of their buying power in this country, where so many are suffering for want of work You would find a great extension of markets there, but this, I think, is only possible when the principal Powers are. really united in giving China sympath etic and kindly help. We have some people-I hope they are few-who are really mischief-makers, and I think it is the duty not only of statesmen and diplomats but of the gentlemen of the Press not to throw cold water on rela tions which are becoming more and more close. There are some of thess people in Japan, soma in America, andal think there are some in this country, and there are some in China as well. Just this morning I noticed in the newspaper that my old friend, a Chinese gentleman of the Southern Government, Dr. Wu, tried to induce Lord Northcliffe to believe that Japanese power over the Peking Govern ment at present is so great that the Chip. ese delegates to Washington will be in fluenced by the Japanese. Well, this is rather bad, when you are going there in. the spirit of co-operation, to throw out such sort of thought. If a powerful man like Lord Northcliffs believes it there will be thousands of people here who will "BENDOBAN”

believe it, too; but I hope you will not YONSIGNEES of Oarge are hereby inform believe any such story. What we want

ed that all Goods are being landed at to-day, on the eve of the Washington. Con their risk into the hazardous and/or extra ference; is mutual friendship and zo sus hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and, Kow-picion, and in that spirit only, I think, bos Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence we shall have peace, a peace including and/or from the wharves delivery may be China" About the Conference itself,

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THE Steamship

"CHAKSANG?. having arrived from the above porta, Consignees of cargo by her are hereby informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown -Company, Limited, whence, and/or from the

delivery may be obtainal. Goods not cleared by the 11th inst, will be subject to rest.

wharves

to

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are in the Godowns where they will be MR mined. Claims against the steamer must be within 10 days of arrival, otherwise Presented

ül be recognized. No Fire Lusurance will be effected by as in

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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Manager. Hongking, December 5th, 1921.

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 18th inst, will be subject All Claims against the Steamer must be prevented to the Underrighed on or before the 19th in-t, or they will not be recognized.

All brukes, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the fredows, where they will be eramined on the 12th mast, at 10 M

No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hongong, December 5th, 1921.

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The net revenue receipts available for Foreign Loan and Indemnity obligations. based on an average of, the receipts for ten months of the current yoar-January to October, 1921-will, for the year 1994, amount to Shanghai Taels 51,050,000, the equivalent at exchange 73 of 869,931,000. Foreign Loan and Indemnity obligations and other charges at exchange 3s. 4d-1 Shanghai Taal amount to $59,041,000. The estimated Surplus, therefore, avail. able in 1922 is $10,890,000. The balances in hand and estimated receipts for the remainder of the year 1021, all Foreign obligations being covered, amount to 816,438,000. That is to say, an estimated sum of 27,328,000 is available for the National Loan, Sinking Fund to end of 1992.

.....

The liability to be met at due dates in cash for bonds redeemed and interest coupons is as follows

1921

1921 Boad and Interest Cou

pons due but not yet pre- sented.....

Loan obligations to end of December

Consolidated Debt Ser vice January December..

1923

....

:

A total of

To meet this liability avail- able Bevenue Surplus in hand and in sight

amounts to

27,318,000.00

The new

It is quite ovident that before a great many years one or the other would have had to move to other parts Old China would have said "Let the living go. The dead must not be disturbed! China which would free itself from this sort of superstition has, however, decreed that the dead must give way to the living. The opening of the streets has brought the matter into the field of immul inte action and Canton's dead have already begun to move!

one small corner

On the outskirts there is a trax which has hitherto been a city of the dead. It covers some 48,000 chien of land which' is highly desirable for housing purposes. The municipal authorities have there- fore, determined that the graves must go and hare planned a modern "subdivi

on this ground. During the Sion" 1,640,858.00 month of November they exhumed from of this tract 20,000 8,451,378.24 coffins!

The method of handling. this rather 25,083,015.08 delicate matter is to issue an order that this land is to be used for building pur- .$35,177,451.32

poses and that, all bodies must be re- moved. The actual digging up is done by the authorities and cach coffin, as it, is disintered, is laid out for identifica tios. The descendants or other relatives are then permitted to inspect the remains The estimated surplus of 1922 cannot, and, when they have given sufficient evi- of course, be touched until all Foreign dence of identification, they are permit Loan and Indemnity obligations are ted to remove them for reburial “else- safely covered and this means that it where. will not be until nearly the end of 1922 | It is inevitable that such" a proceeding that funds derived from the surplus of delicate matter is to issue an order that next year will be avaliable for the Con among the superstitious Chinese with solidated Debt Service.

their uncanny reverence for the remains In the light of these facta, it will be of their dead. It must seem to them the And it hits the seen that to carry on the Debt Service last word in sacrilege. the Ambassador, proceeded he did not and to prevent redemption of bonds fall dead-revering descendant in his pocket For re- like to make any suggestion, but he hoped ing into arrear, it is imperative that as well as in his sentiments. they would discuss there only broad prin- remittances from the Salt and other reburial means a certain amount of ex- ciples, bread common ground on which venues assigned for the Service of the ense This will vary from the mere cost of transporting the coffin to a new they could all agree, learing the details Debt should continue to ge made punc to be arranged in the future. It was an turally and regularly, and that, so long a considerable outlay for fengshui doc- site in the case of the less fastidious, to almost impossible thing for the delegates as these receipts are not sure it tors and ceremonial in the case of those to remain in Washington six months or would be an act of criminal folly to a year and, they could not settle in a divert from the Sinking Fund any moneys toms. To pay all such expenses in exery.

who are still bound by the ancient cas few weeks matters which might take that properly belong to it, There is a years; but it would be easy to settle just old adage tha. a bird in the hand is financial impossibility from the city's case would reader the whole project a the common ground, just the principle worth two in the bush and the people point of view. The necessary cost of re- on which they could work in the future who, in ignorance of the true state of burial, however, it does attempt to cover. (Cheers.)

affairs, are now clamouring for, the re- It pays to each claimant identifying a Mr. Van der Veer expressing the lease of funds to help the banks, on the coffin from $3 to $10, according to the thanks of the company to the Japan Am- ground that they belong to the Chinese size of the coffin and the distanco which bassador for his speech, said there was and Foreign bondholders, are doing their no great body of newspapermen who best to destroy all credit fostered the idea that Japan would be the future mischief-maker of the world. Japan would not be so foolish as to fly the face of a world that was tired and sick to death of war.

The Japanese Ambassador, replying, said Japan remained disarmed for 200 years. We had a very happy sleep," he added, "a very happy dream, so ba disturbed only by our American friends!!

The Chinese banks have had ample warning that financial stringenes was imminent, and it was their duty to con- serve their resources and to be prepared Fam, etc., to shoulder their own, responsibilities.

(Signed) E. ANAGLEN, Inspector-General of Customs,

MADAME LÖTTIE GOEDON'S AFTER.

·HOON) X’MAS CONCERT.

it must be carried for reburial. So inr nearly 860,000 has been paid out for the coffins already removed and nearly half of the 20,000 are still unclaimed.

To those who argue that all of this is a useless sacrilege, let it be said that the contest between the living and the dead has been going on in China for centuries. That the dead have heretofore had all the best of it is in no small mexsuru responsible for the manifold difficulties, economic, social and political, in which the erstwhile great Middle Kingdom finds itself. Tatil the decision in this long- IF YOUR WEAR GLASSES

drawn contest turns in favour of the there is almost as much comfort and

living no great or permanent change im conditions can be hoped for. The youth- pleasure in wearing Pince-nez Eye. Madame Lottie Gordon's Concert at the merely to better the conditions in their ful city fathers of Canton, striving. Glasses, as there is in possessing City Hall next Thursday afternoon at own city have, wittingly or unwittingly, perfect pair of eyes-for they fit so com on behalf of the Christmas Gift Fund for to free China from the incubus of the 5.30 o'clock has been specially arranged taken a long step ahead in the strugglo fortable and secure that you forget you the Blind Home, the Pokfulam Home, past, have them on the most important im- and the Home for the Aged, Kowloon. provement in eye-glasses in the past Lady Stabbs has kindly promised to ***attend, and an excellent programme, has twenty-five years. Pinco-ner Eye Glasses been arranged, the following artistes (mezzo soprano), Madame Lottie Gordon of any prescription in either regular or having promised to assist: Miss Dorothy (colo pianists and accompanist), Mrs. A. Toric form are manufactured by the under the greatest masters in Italy, Paris Cameron (contralto), Mias Nellie Wil- Stobart (of London), who has studied Brawn (operatic contralto), Mis. Hongkong Optical Co., successors to and London, and possesses a beautifulliania (mezzo-contralto), M. Beaucaire Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Redramatic soprano voice which will be (French violinist) Mr. Crow (tenor),

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