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THN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1928.

MARTELL'S

BRANDIES.

ONE STAR

y. O.

TWO STAR

V.

THREE STAR

V. S. O. P.

A... PROSPEROUS BANKRUPT-

--AMERICAN WRITERS VIEW OF

GERMANY.

· EXTERMINATING THE RAT.

DE J. “CRICHTON-BROWNE'S.

ADVICE.

The reparations problem and. Germany's The fourth annual dinner of the Incor financial position are dealt with in interporated Vermin Repression Society and eating fashion by an American writer in College of Pestology was held at the Cafe the London Morning Post. He says:

Royal Colonel the Hon. Cuthbert James, It would seem to the plain man that both MP was in the chair and Sir James Mr. Bonar Law and Poincare, have Crichton-Browno was the guest. been singularly unfortunate in their at tempts to explain the rights and wrongs of the matter over which they have dis- agreed in a way that the average news paper render, unskilled in international in ance, can understand. Now the genesis of the Reparations tangle, as I and many others seo it, is that the fronty of Versail Los was cast into its existing shape in the

which all its signatories,

with the the financial position of the German Government must necessarily reflect in the future the financial position of Gertuan in- versa-that if industry dustry and mice fourished, the Government would auto-

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Sir James Crichton-Browne said he had, from time to time under the auspices of the society delivered terrible philippics against the rat, but he was not sure that the rodent was a penny the worse.

(Laugh- ter.) The co

scope of the society was now many different clamos of the community. shed from this port 4.2.3. on TUESDAY, comprehensive, and should

Appeal to

carrying Hia Majesty's Mails, will be despat- the rat Would, he trusted, remain primary consideration, and he would keep the 13th MARCH, taking Cargo for the above the bands full for some time to come. He

Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, Franco. repression of vermin important laboratory hoped that we should yet arrive at Steamer for Marseilles and London discoveries were in store for them. They eyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay and there transhipped to the on carrying bacterial virus certain in its action and Parcels will be received at the Oco util S matically 463nme __12 courlition in which reparations could be squeezed out of it; wag tog safe, and one that would, aweop

He, Sir James,alue of all packages are required.

pam. the day before sailing. The contents and on the other hand, if the Germanwag the rat for ever. Government deliberately set

enme upon a paper

other day by five. out

For further particular apply to to authors working in the John Hopkins Uni- Bankrupt itself, it was bound

BE

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in the

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preven industry at the same time. In tion of rickets in

on the rats by

Agents.. But sunlight. compartively short time the Government did not want to prevent rickets in rats by made it clear that this assumption was

to which ia their natural habita incorrect, that A flourishing indust

were much averse. (Laughter.) He DAIRY Germany and a bankrupt German

the whole tribe to be as rickety as ment could, hi fact, live together. The

possible. (Laughter.) The old notion that French quickly saw their mistake, azid have ever since-been-trying-to- persuade and refuse as caploded, te svala bo

he was a good scavenger eating

.be a the British Government to assist them in

sorry system of sanitation that left any rectifying it.

scavenging to the rat. He Was bold enough to predict the practical extermination of the rat in this country. The day might come when their descendants might have to take

their children to the natural His

to tory

see a specimen. He need not. remin

them that there was a time

GERMAN TAXATION.

Looked at from this anglo it is easy to understand why Germany and Germany's hired scribes are so indignant at the French preparations to occupy the Ilubr. So far the Allfed occupation of German territory has was made by the Allies

ight

BOTTLED IN COGNAC AND GUARANTEED PURE GRAPE BRANDY been nothing but a military display. Not when there were not rats in Serrie England.

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affectually circum The society would have to indulge in persistent

and broadcast "in- agitation formation. Whatever might happen bere after they hail yet no panacea for rat des- truction and must diligently employ all the old methods, not neglecting the oldest xiously waiting for the discovery of all, the cat, And he was

the relics of cuts in the tomb of Tutank hamen. There could be no doubt that cats protected the granaries of Ancient Egypt against rats and mice, and so, were honoured with mummification; and he. tabby was found at Tutankhaman's feet. would not be surprised if his favourite

On the two recent occasions when I was in the Rhineland I found the German workman here as elsewhere in Germany travelling twenty-five times as far as a British work- man can for the same proportion of his in come, purchasing twenty five times as much tobacco and cigars and imbibing twenty-five times as much alcohol. Everyone knows that one of the reasons why the German Go- vornment has no money with which to pay reparations is that it flatly refuses to collect any taxes on tobacco or spirits or beer, or to charge economic farm on the State railways and freights and so raise enough revenue if not to pay a profit at least to pay wages and overliced charges, which at present are being met by con- startly increasing issues of

of paper marks. It is not, 1 unist repeat, & question of the exchange. The fares charged are absurdly low in proportion to the German workman's wages.

The freights are preposterously small in proportion to the value in marks or any other currency of the goods shipped.scholarships. Why, one may ask, should the German Government make any attempt to remedy.

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THE FEKICH MOVE

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TÜRKEY'S BECRET WAR TREATY.

at

Lecturing or "Turkey in Europe But the Ruhr is a different matter: Birkbeck College, on January 28th, Dr. Franco, having seen her mistake, proposes G. P. Gooch made an announcement said now to abandon squeezing the German to he not generally known that Turkey Government from which nothing can be entered into a treaty to join with Ger extracted, and prepares to squeeze Germany and Austria against Russia three man industry which is stuffed with months before" she actually entered open. wealth, She will succeed, and that is

The treaty was signed on August 1st, 1914, and after that (to quote the lecturer) they were just playing with us for three-months" Turkey when she entered the war was still a big Power, with a population of 20,000,000, divided into groups of Arabs, i-Christians, and Turks. She came out of the Balkan wars very much bruised, but her position in the end was not so des perate as might have been expected, be-

why the Germany and their friends, not into the Great War, merely those who are paid to befriend them but those who simply resent the exposure of the fallacies under which they have been labouring, are so full of wrath IF the new occupation was simply a military extension of the old urens on the old basis the German dustrialists would not complain. would rejoice, I repeat that German industry is stuffed with wealth, but that wealth is limited to two classes, personal

her victors quarrelled amongst property-real wealth-at home and ere dits abroad. As regards the real wealth, themselves. Explaining that Turkey the houses and gardens, the pictures and had no alternative but to stand out of shina and glass and gold ornaments and jewellery and furs and gramophones, and enemies, Dr. Gooch said that Russia had the war or go in on the side of our all the other things that really constitute decided for 200 years to get hold of human riches, that money is simply right. to acquire, Germany is the richest Thrace and Constantinople, and she was Germany country in the world, net excepting the Turkey's irreconcilable foc. United States. Ahr

says the German, did not want one single sore of Turkey's we can no longer afford

these possessions, but wanted to make Turkey things.

That makes no difference. The strong as an obstacle to Russia's ambitions. things are there, and they are the property Tarkey did not care very much for either

but

the

of the German people, of this cule it not Germany or Russia, but from choice it of that one. There is enough plunder, in

one and Frankfort alone to

the shops of Cologne

was obrious Germany was her lesser- pay three years interest on the British enemy.

debt to America. For some reason or an-

other the Allies will not go in and take

this stuff, nor will they make the Germans

pack it up, sell it in South America, and farmer. He buys a paper and fixes the price pay the proceeds to the Reparations of his produce, according to the day's_rate

Commission.

GERMANS WHO PROSPEE, *

With this self-denying ordinanco in vogue

of exchange on a strictly dollar basis. With the proceeds he immediately buys dollars or occasionally pounds, and puts them in a safe. place. When the time comes to pay his

it follows that anything the Germans can hands or buy fertiliser he finds that wages

got into Germany in the way of goods, and prices have gone up in the market but Russian fure, for example-in return

their paper marks, is so much to the.

not so fast as the increase in the number of

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and the rich Germans are denuding Aumarks he can buy for his dollara.

and

wealth and Russia of their material

the

kind

to

THE FARMZE'S POSITION.

The

other

of wealth

Of all the Gorman profiteers the "farmer Germans have is

Cap alone is invulnerable. He controls the ohasing power or call it that-bat they

credit, if one

necessities of life, and the public "mast not keep that in pay the prices he chooses to fix. If the Germany but in foreign capitals where State tries to fix or control prices he simply the Allies cannot touch it.

How this refuses to cultivate more land than will capital is accumulated is easy to sue. A suffice for his immediate needs and wide German manufacturer exports goods and spread famine results, as in Russia. The selle them in Buenos Aires for ten thou-

sand dollars. The price being an economie

neeris

therefore, must be allowed his

Bat the other profiteer is, not wo

one cover cost of material and & profit hole. The exporting manufact

The cost the

materials

materiale replaces

be

The profit remains the er must in almost every instance have coul Aires in the form of credit. If the Germ use is to continue to manufacture and mast often enough have and steel

Man

PH TOOK BIs profit in dollars and turned | Or he depends on the others;

And they Sathe jugular

it back into marks it would ultimately who must have these lose all its value as the value of the all come from the Rubr." mark dwindled: What the German manu- vein of German industry, and France pro- facturer does is to

to buy marks as he requires thom to pay Lais bills and poses to take it between finger and thumb. intra German expenses-and every time theIt is not the object of France to get the mark drops he pays more of these wages whose profits, paid in

money she is looking for out of Kulir coal,

keops the

wage

in Buenos Aires. The result

into any

And expenses with fewer dollar-end illusory, but out of arka are more or leas

the exporting manu

if they are must bisyo cool if t of this is obvious - The German exporter is area, who i

to export To them: France will coffing "money which ho dare nos Germany unless he intende immciliately to

in effect: Yes, you can have a thou- buy labour with it or to convert it into to the Allied account two thousand pounds

tely to sand tons of coal, first you must

transfer material wealth. He is the upper tullstone in cash. You know you have it hidden" beneath which the middle class German is away in Buenos Aires of Parcelnos so out being ground. The lower rillator is the with it. The process is not difficult to

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