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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1988.

OUR LONDON LETTER SIR JOHN JORDAN, AND OPIUM

CONTROL.

THE CHINESE MINES CASE

EVIDENCE ON FRAUD CHARGES,

WIRELESS TELEPHONY ACROSS THE The hearing was resunied, on January goth, when M. Marshall recalled Major QE. Webster, who in cross-examination,

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LONDON, January 25th

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Kombers British Chamber of Commerss (Shanghai). "MET. W BOWERN, Fellow of For a month he endeavoured to secure the Instituts of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor the return of bis 2000, but failed: Wit-porated by Royal Charter, London. ness alleged that Enever had constantly

SEKAMBRIF AGRETS AND SHIPBRCE.RES, deceived him, and that on one occasion he For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vassle. pained he had, been left. $20,000 by an of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New GREAT CHOICN149 VARIETY aunt. On the advice, of a Brigadier-Frie

Bod/ar Old, with delivery China at Very Low

General (now dead) witress said that the day after he learned that Enover was an undischarged bankrupt be accepted from him seven Anglo-Chinos Trust 2000. He remained with Humphry and Mercantile bonds "a full settlement of the

Denman for only six weeks, during which time the only work he did was to get little lumps of sample coal from China out of little boxes and put them on

a shelf: (Laughter.) Afterwarda be assisted in the "Sappho peart" business.

A few nights ago the wonderful achieve ment of hearing the human voice across the Atlantis Ocean war attained, a mes Baga being, received by wireless telephony in London from New York. The record of this scientific triumph has been duly Published to all the world, and the cable incesages on the subject that have reach ed London bear testimony to the pro found impression that has been created But it must not be top hastily assumed that long distadeo telephony by wireless is likely to become general yet nwhile Mr. F. Gill, the President of the Institu.v. tion of Electrical Engineers, who super intended the London end of the demon atration referred to, informs me that the success of that oxperiment does not mean business talk will be immediately

alised.

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EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY.

Road, Streatham, W., said that ch Mr. Paul Hasse, of Mount Ephraim April 3rd, 1922, he saw an advertisement notifying an appointment in the Far East.. class travelling expenses would be allowed, The advertisement indicated that first rothat the commencing salary was £1,000 a year, and that an investment would be He went so far as to say that for com required of from £2,500 to £5,000. It was termed an exceptional opportunity for mercial purposes the London New York business man anxious to make a large wireless telephone is possible in the and increasing income." Witness replied Bourse of a year or two, but it is not the letter he received paid & visit to to the advertisement, and as a result of imminent. The main reason for this Humphry Denman and Co., 71, Knights- carefully guarded expression of expers bridge. There witness said he taw the defendant Bennett, who indicated by opinion is that before anything practical maps of China which hang on the wall can be accomplished so as to make the what their business was in that country, servico commercially reliable a very grea Bennett also mentioned several con

and he also produced a prospectus. deal of organisation is requisite, and, intracts-witness understood at the time addition, special machinery is required.

that they actually existed-in which the

WHAT ABOUT THE FAR EAST?

company, was supposed to be concerned, amounting in all to £20,000,000. The I was naturally anxious to obtain confuse to was. It was proposed that wit. contracts included one for reconstructing some particulars about the possibilities of wireless telephony between here and tial representative of the company in ness, should act as commercial and finas- the Far East Mr. Gill does not think China. His salary he was told would be that anything can be done in this direc£1,000 a year, and it was suggested that tion, at least to a long time to come, he should invest £2,500, if at all.

The radio telephone," he witness agreed to take up shares for stated,

is destined to provide the cross £2,500 in Humphry and Derman. ocean link between countries or continents attended the office daily after May 1st He -say, across the Atlantic or the Pacific until August 14th, and so far as the For fand telephony the ordinary wire Humphry and Denman Company was lines are most suitable and will co-concerned, bo saw no business done cer tinne in re” He mentioned the tele-tainly none in connection with China. phone between Now York and San Fran. The only work he was asked to do was cisco a distance of about 3,000 miles, to condense a report on the possibilities of as an example.

In certain Burma oil proposition. The

only things witness saw in connection THE with China were a piece of flannel which came from Hongkong and a few cigarette. holders.

The case was again adjourned.

Theoretically it is possible for Lon don to telephone to Moscow, Hongkong, Peking, or Delhi," Mr. Gill remarked, * It

jay & question of demand. Given the demand, the engineering means could be applied. Australia might, in fact, bo ruched by telephone from Lon don by ricans” of land wire to Delhi,, FREDERIC HARRISON: plus a radiophone for the remainderf

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the distance." I gather that, despite a One of the few remaining veterans of good many speculations about wireless English Life and Letters identified with telephony orer long distances, it will be the Victorian era has been removed by from shon to shore, across the couns the death of Mr. Frederic Harrison at that developments will be sought for the advanced age of 91. While the stud- eat will recollect him as one of the ear- good while to come.

liest followers of M Auguste Comte in THE OPIUM COMMISSION.

this country, a far larger number will Sir John Jordan has just returned to he took in the struggle for trade-union cherish his memory for the manful part London from attending the Opium Com-rights in the sixties and seventies. But mission of the League of Nations at he had for the most part outlived his Geneva, which has frished its delibera contemparies. Lord Morley and. Mr. tions and adjourned till next May. Sir Thoms Hardy are the remaining names John is not very hopeful of practical that suggest themselves. Since 1912 Mr. results as regards the attempts to reduce Frederic Harrison had resided at Bath, the quantity of opium enltivated in differ and from there until a few years ago hot ent countries. But something has been used to write occasionally gained since the Autumn. After making the great questions of the day in a style rag INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

on some of several reservations which would have reminiscent of his old-time directness and qullified the international control of force.

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opium-supply, Turkey and Persia hare The interment, after eremation at Gold. both withdrawn their objections and

agreed to join the League. This is shouters Green, was in accordance with the all that can be recorded as the outcome burial service of the Religion of Humanity of the recent conference at Geneva.

used at the funerals of Positivists. I believe, however, it is seldom used. It

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In the opinion of Sir John Jordan, the began with a general declaration that aggregate production of opium has auth moving spirit of our lives should be been much reduced; and, in his opinion, regard for others." Instead of prayers Positivist faith which read: "We com- He also considers that there is not enough mit our departed brother to the earth in publicity about the subject. It is not the sure trust that, his work having been done fault of the Press. "I as. Britisk asses and his part played, his best and truest sor," he says, "urged the fullest publicity, life is yet abiding among us, for we know Inquiries are welcome. together with the representatives of that the lives of the good and just are China and America, for at least one public transmitted in the minds and hearts of 1962] meeting of the Commission, but

Wothers from generation to generation." failed to get it. Publicity is the only Mr. Frederic Harrison, although he

'weapon."

achieved so much, in other, directions as It can be readily understood that with a social reformer and writer, failed to so many nations interested in opiura, and win an appreciable amount of support so many divergent-views, coupled-with-for the doctrines of Comte. Positivism financial considerations, the problem of is a cold and arid creed." how to control the traffic in well-nigh DON THEATER RENTS. insuperable.

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Bome remarkable figures relative to BY AIR ROUND THE WORLD.

theatre ranta in London came into my The nori fight round the world has a possession during the last few days. strange fascination for those who have While so high a price as £600 a week has ambitions to circle the globe in that way. been paid for the Savoy Theatre in the I learn that Captain Macmillan and Strand for a period since the war—a sum Captain Malina are to make another that represents "capacity" takings for attempt, the flight being organised this thres performances, and thus an utterly time by the Legion of Frontiersmen. The reskless figure the new lessee has secured Enterate at Rates of a per cent, 4 per cent, machine to be used is described as amphi-the balance of Mrs. Irving's lease of the and & per cent, per Annum respectively. bian, but not strictly speaking, a sex theatre for about £200 a week. Even at plane, and that is as much as anyone not this rate Mrs. Irving will make the com- in the secret can discover about it at fortable pront of about £125 a week for present.

the next eleven years. The routs that has been mapped out is The Princess Theatre still remains shut, from England across Europe to Italy, and despite the fact that numerous offers have thence by way of Greece, Palestine, bein made to rent it for long periods as Bagdad, Penis, India, and Burma, to 240s week. The owners are determined China and Japan; thence to. Vancouver, to sell the theatre. and home again to England across North- £138,000, and, although I am assured that Their price is era Canads and the Atlantic a total within the past week they were bid air journey of about 30,000 miles. Ar- £135,000, they refused to take less These range tots forandre being figures are, I think, a good illustration pushed forward and start will be made, of the risks and responsibilities attaching it is expected, in the early Spring.

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