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THE HONGKONG DAILY BRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY. #2rn, ^-3999,

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... "DACRE CASTLE"

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FIUME having been re-opened for trafia, cargo is also socepted for this part on through Bills of Lading.

"TRACIA”

FOR SHANGHAL

railing beginning of Feb.

FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

TRACIA!!

sailing on or about 2nd half of Feb. Passenger' Luggage can be inured at the Office of the Agente

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS,

Bailing from Colombo to South African Porta — SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALOUTTA & COLOMBO,

Through Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong..

For Freight or Panago on any of the abore -Lines apply to —,

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

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YAMASHITA KISEN K

KAISHA.

(THE YAMASHITA SS, Go. LTD.)..

REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

ŻYETWEEN A

KEELUNG, HONGKONG & HAIPHONG.

· Salling from-Hongkong.

FOR HAIPHONG "via"Hothow &`Pakhöf

for keelunG via Switow&^Amoy

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ES TAIKWA MARU” .....

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No. 87, BónkathiBizand, Wes

Telid/335.

on or about 29th Jan.

on or about 7th Feb.

8.MITARAL

Top Floor, King's Building To. No:140

DECLINE AND FALL OF CIVILISATION IN EUROPE.

BY HG WELLS. IL

In a previous paper I have set out the plain facts of the condition of Contral and Eastern Europe. It is a break-up of the moda aivilization, due to the smashing up of money without which organized town life, factory production, education and systematic communica tions are unworkable.

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“GEEN” LINK LIMITED.

NOTICS TO CONSIGNES

FROM UNITED KINGDOM, GENOA, PORT SAID, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

Dan Motor Vessel

"GLENADE"

having arrived from the above porta, Con sign of Cargo.hr, her are hereby informed hat all Goods, are being landed at their risk to the hazardous and/or extra hazardons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon What and Godown Company, Limited, whence and/or from the wharves, delivery, may be

Lopta

tot cleared by the 1st Feb. 1997, at will be subject to Frut

́All broken, chafed and damaged packaged

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED

--BAILEN 98, –– SUBJECT TO ALTERATION"". TSINGTAO via SWATOW & SHANGHAI "WAISHING / „Tuva; KAIPHONG THOMOW --

BANGKOK

SHANGHAI SWATOW BANDARAN...

STRATIE, ECALCUTTA. MANILA

YOKOHAMA & Kosz CALOUTTA LINE:

TAKSANG

31st Jou, Dlight.

"HOPSANG" on, gist Jan, 10A.M.

HANGSANG...Taos “MAUBANG “ Tue,

FOOKBANG

"YUENSANG".

31st Jan, 10 AM.

31st Jan Noon

3 st Jan, Noon.

31st Jan 3 FM.. Sab Jan. 3 P.M.

"KWAISANG Tace, 31st Jan. 5 P.. This dime afceda, mgnjar allings to Calcutta, Penang 12 Eingapo; returning from Calgaába, somers proceed vis Ģiraita and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling si Bhangbais Allakamers bays arvellent passenger accommodation, fitted with Electrip Light and Fans, and carry "a fully-qualified

• If it goes on unchecked to its natura conclusion, Central and Etern Europe' will follow Russia to which the towns will be dying or dead, empty and ruinous, the railroads passing out of use, and in which, fany people will be left alive, except sineducated and def provided. and must also be submitted HAIPHONG

condition in areto-berjaft jn, kha Głodawps where they w SHANGHAI-LINE:sometimes calling # Swatow Through tickets ORI

be examined by Messrs. 'Goddard &} Dojglas, an. lat Feb, 1922, at 10am. Cisime against the Steamar incinding those for cargo

short MANILA delivered must be presented on the special within 30

of arrival, otherwise they will

gurated peasants and farmers-groot be will be affected by pe in

Sag their own food and keeping a rough. order among themselves in their own fashion. We are faced, indeed, with a return to barbarisio over all these areas. They are going back to the conditions of rural Asia Minor or the Balkans

How far is this degeneration going, to spread?

NKED SPELAD NO FURIRES.

Let us recognize at once that it noed spread 'bo furthes It is not an inevit- able process.” It could be arrested; it' could” be turned back and a rapid re storation could be sen going right away. 11 the leading powers of the world, sink- ing their political ambitions for a time, could meet frankly to work out a bank? ruptcy arrangement that would reicase the impoverished natione from debt, and give them again a valid money, a stable money, with a trustworthy exchange value that could be accepted

ted with fidence and saved without deterioration. Upon that, things could be set going again quite hopefully. Education bas not so degenerated as yet; habits of work and trading, and intercourse are still strong enough to make such a recovers possible.

Con-

Except perhaps in Russia. Rumis for all we know, may have sunken very deep, but if there is no vigorous world effort made soon, she trading class, the teachers and so forth, will have been broken up and dispersed. These classes are com paratively easy to destroy, extremely bard to reconstruct.. Modern civiliza tion will really have been destroyed-if not for good, for a long period-over great areas if these classes go

ITALY MAY FOLLW GERMANY.

And the process is at present still spreading rapidly. If it gets to Ger many, ther Italy may follow. Italy is linked very closely to Germany, economi aally and financially. The death of Ger many will chill the economic blood of. Italy. Italy passionately anxions to dining on load and R, but Italy can. not disarm while France maintains" a great army and makes great naval parations. France's refusal to pre preventa Italy from disarming. The Jiza sways and sini, its value fluctuates, not perhaps so widely na do marks and kronep bat much too widely for. healthy indus

No Are any case whatever.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATRESON & Co., Lav

Agents.

•Hongkong, January 28th, 1923. [$84

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trial life and social security and Italy. STUBBORN COUGHS

is troubled by its restless Nationalists,

a whooping flag-wasting crew of postur ing adventurers without foresight.or. genuine love of country. If nothing is done I think I would give Germany about six months and North Italy two years before a revolutionary collapse

OCCUTS.

BRONCHITIS

WEAK LUNGS

CATARRH

CONSUMPTION

And France, this Bew rhetorical France, which remains heavily armed, while no man threatens, which builds. Dew ships to fight non-existent German armies and guards itself against the threats of long dead German, generals one of M. Briand's hair-raising quota tions is to be found in the Encyclopedia Britannica and must be nearly twenty try suffers so greatly from the restless yeara atale the renascent France which activities of France. She is struggling 30stles against Italy and England and along, now, with unprecedented masses- believes that it can humbug America of unemployed workers and the state while it done these things, will it pull of affairs abroad through amidst the general disaster of diminution of this burden.

ond offers no hope of any Europe!

Will it achieve its manifesting of her population has degenerated ambition and rempin donnant in greatly since the war began; she cannot Europe, the dominance of the last sur- continue to feed, clother or educate ber vivor, the cock-upon-the-dungbill of a people as she used to do until Continen- general decay? I doubt it.

tal Europe is arrested.

FRANCE MAY BREAK' 'QUICKLY.

the true meaning of the French search Watch the "franc upon the exchange as for security" dawns upon the world Watch the subscription to the next French loan to pay for more submarines and more Senegaleze.

It may prove to be too difficult a fent all for. Erance to: wreck the reef after

of Europe, to destroy her, commerce, by

The hou

I don't know what political form, of

toward revolutionary violence is not very expression & great distress in Great Britain might take The tendency evident in the British temperament, but people who are slow to move are often slow to stop. The slow violence of

the might

not and

expression in lution and

expend itself might not

resentful might get France and perhout France, Germany

125ally.

destroying her customers and yet to save might be feeling resentful herself When France begins to break, too.. I will confess that I cannot imagine the may break very quickly Under the yet what an

surface of this oxuberant Franch. patrio Britain might or might not do. Yet it acutely distressed Great tim runs a deep tide of communism, red and raw and insanely logical.

BORNEO

TIENTSIN |BANGKOK

plain to me that the shadow that lies over Petrograd stretches as far as Lon--

We talk of the mner, graver Franco, don. the substantial France, that is masked-

THE JUROPE 07 REALITY, by the rhetorie of M. Briand and the

Buch, compactly, in the condition, of fag waving French nationaliste, of: Farepe, today. I submit to the reader France generous enough to help a fallen that it is a fair statement of facts in com- foe and great enough to think of the mon knowledge. This is not the Europe mankind.... I wish we could of the diplomatists and publiciste, git in hear more of the saner-France, and so on. I can see nothing but a warlike It is a process of decline and fall, going the Europa of reality and the comapn. orator empty and mischievons leading on under our eyes, swifter and more ex France" and "all Europo

destruction tensive than

to

approximately ovary throw daya derween Canton and be„obtained and through Bill of Lading are issued, 19" Northem and Yangtze Parts via Shanghai,

JUNK A weekly service in maintained, ish Manila by vessale with good

passenger accommodation, sailings from both ports every Friday. LINE:--Salling approximately weakly for passengers and cargo,

calling at Holhow when inducement offers LINE: Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 tom

" HINSANG” and *. * MAUSANG" both steamers axcellent passenger accommodation Cargo taken om -through Bill of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, busz Tawso

and Lahad Datu. LINE-A regular service is run from larch to Movember betwOED

Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Welbalwed and Chatoo. LINE-A weedy service is provided beswan Hongkong and Banghole

vis Switow, by dre steamers Ester with up-to-clase adding socommodation"}"

CALCUTTA

LINET

FOOKSANG" will be despatched on or about

Tuesday, 31st Jan, at 3. p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENAN

-&-GALOUTTA.

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PUKT SWET

· FENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES,

For Freight or Passage, apply

atman Kol $15.

Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd,

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGFUP

AND

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

U.K.-STRAITS. CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

I can't see that it-in-posible for a-France† Homan the doclipe end fall of the 19

empire in the fourth and fifth

The

of armaments and adventurers to dance centurieste immediate one is the along the edge of the abyss without all destruction of the monetary system undar ing in.

the burden of war expenditure and war BHADOW OVER LONDON, 100"

debt.

And the only possible hope that When we pass out of the optinental it may be arrested his in a prompt and to the Atlantic system and consider the rigorous world conference to put an end case of Great Britain, we find a country

towar

expenditures, including even with a stabler exchange, and a tradition arimaid's aidaireza aid soljustifiable, to French WBY expenditures that M. of social give and take stronger and extinguish, dehts, and reinstate stable and deeper than that of any other country in trustworthy money in the world. Europe. But he is not a self-maintain- ing country. Her millions live usery there is no avidance yet that the Walk largely on overstas trade. She is helpington conference, will take up this task

or will even cont

this task. | I

lessly, dependent upon the prosperity joi fand; myself on tough of the waves

other countries

and particularly today and less confident of the outcome, Europe, the ebly of prosperity abroad means ebb for her at home,

even the limited outcome of things here. No other I am increasingly doubtful whether the country feels so acutely the economic conference will get as far in the direc prostration of Germany, no other countion of a stabilized Pacific as I had

(Continued of foot of next column) hoped a few days ago.

"GLENAMOY," GLENTARA”

Vessel

M.V. "GLENAVY" MV. "GLENLUOB" B.S. "GLENSHANE

OUTWARDS.

Dae Hongkong

3rd FT. 18th Feb.

HOMEWARDS. Leaves Hongkong

Discharges 3rd Feb GINDA, LONDON, ROTTIEDÁK, & Hammuras, 10th Feb. LONDON, BOTTERDAM, ANTWERP & Hamrung 23rd Feb. Genoa, Manskiltza, Loynoy & Hamburg

Movements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to 1-

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. The Glen Line, Ltd;, sumar.

Telephone No. 115 sub-a. 12 and 2006-

Cable Address

Kawakisen, Kobe.

sal Biott's Codes.

KAWASAKI

KISEN

I'slephone HanismJy

14884432981,

– (KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO.)

(AKITAL “FAID-UF.

KAISHA

• 190.600.08)

Frondant Mr. Y. KawalaXL' Toe Emident: Mr, K. MatsuzaZA. Managing Director: Mr. Masată Äxa.

nomy any has on hand a Large Beraber of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

CHARTERS of all descriptions.

The following are comprised in the Company's Plants you

Eleven steamers of 2,190, $ons; esglų, jāpa

Ankender the Dompany's Managematch pane

- Twenty steamers of about 9,400 sons daadweight each. Two,akesziers of about 6,400 tons, deadweight basa In. "(Belarging to the Kawamki Dookysel Oo., Ltd.).

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