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THE HONGKONG » DAILY » PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 12TH, 1923.

F. Di VXVI Road Central (Coɛsen or Icé BouAR STREET). TEL. NO. CENTRAL 4453.

RADIO PARTS

Just

Arrived.

NIKKO & CO.

71, Des Vœux Road, Corner Pottinger Street.

W. P. SIMPSON

(LATE OF DISS BRÓS)

TAILOR & BREECHES MAKER

has opened Business at

ASTOR HOUSE BUILDING

Queen's Road Central,

DRUGS

2nd Floor.

PRESCRIPTIONS

When the Doctor prescribes he expects the Druggist to fill the prescription with Pare Drugs The quality of our Drags, Medicines and Toilet Goods is not surpassed. Have the Doctor's Prescription filled here and the result will be satisfactory.

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THE PHARMACY,

IN A FRONTIER STATION.

The Peshawar Correspondent of The Tim writes:.

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`COTTON · TRADE IN U.S.A.

"A PESSIMISTIC VIEW.

PERFECT WEATHER. NEEDED TO AVERT SMALL OROP,

Life in a Frontier station, especially in one of the larger ones, seems at first aight mach the same as that to which Europeans

NEW YORK, June lat, are accustomed elsewhere in Upper India The cotton trade seems to have resched Newcomer«, however, very soon discover dif- the conclusion that only the most perfect furences and restrictions. "Bacing and poks | weather for the halance of the season can tennia and dancing, alternate as the pivots of gay social functions, and seen to be the prevent another small citon crop with solo interests of leisure hours; ut the attendant high prices, especially if barbed wire all round the cantoupent and | Europe remakers enough to resume even a the constant challenging of entries a fair proportion of its gual purchas night are reminders of the strong tiles of unrest, over ready to break in and rutile the At the same tine here stal there is found surface of the secluded pool—for quat is w

what

one who takes a more optimistic view of station life is-a calabackwater in a turgid the situation, as for instance a prominent and treacherous stream.

Every English man and woman who has up-town operator who is preparing to leave been any time on the Froutier knows that a

for a vacation in the Orient. He points break into the pool or an eddy ware may

to the season of 1920-21 as illustrating suck down one of their 'hamber at any moment. In the evening hour, between what the crop can do from a low start. garaes and dinner, the club suddenly empties The June condition (ns of May gath), that itself of men. With a hurried "So

!-- "Sorry be back as soon a

Menon slip frum quietly

the ladies met

room and room. the Alarm bagle and has passed heard quietly along. Another day, two or three of the cavalry fail to appear for poluj "chakkers are

is fuming, anti ganized, and Colonel X

it is explained that quadron was called out at lunch-time to chase a raiding gang. As for the officers of the police and constabulary, nobody seriously expects them to keep an appoint ment. One well-known figure among them has a habit of ostentatiously showing up at the beginning of a dance and being a hundred miles or more away at dawn, round- outlaws. ing up a nest of

More often than not these alarms and excursions end calmly or oven in bathos The alarm is due to a young sentry seeing bogies, and the raiding gang was over the border hours before the squadron could gain touch with it. But once or

the year,

somewhere along the line of stations, small and large, & inan finds himself following in slow time to the beat of crepe-covered drums, the last earthly journey of the friend who het ons

unfinished 器

twenty-four hours before. The

memory of these poignant inculente remains. Life ru- sumes its gaiety quickly, but can ALS quickly change to gravity when chance word, a photograph, the tablets on the church wall recall a succession, long in proportion as the individual's service, of such tragic disappearances.

SPORT UNDER-ESCORT.

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an amned escort.

was 69.4, the acreage around 37,045,000 and the crop, including liners, 13,800,073 bales, Few can be found this spring, however, who will admit the pissibilities of a thirteen million crop with the usual average of weather for the For this season, the test of the season. market is seeking an adjustment of values the basis of a possible yield of not over 12.300,000 bales, and probably less. Those who are concerned about the balance of the season, up to the time the crop beinga to move, are finding some consolation in the present small exports and the curtail- ment of an increasing number of New England mills. A Hoston bank points out that if exports and domestic consumption during the rest of the season should be t the same rate as in the month of April there would be about 1,000,000 bales left in the country on July 31st. The drop in exports and consumption, however, makes it see probable at this writing, that a somewhat larger amount than this will he carried over Stork at the ports is w ass than 400,000 bules for the first time this season, comparing with nearly 900,000 Lust, Owing to the lateness of the new It is expected that these stocks will eP; reach a very small figure before the new cotton begins to move. Some experts advocate the Stoppage of at least 25 per rent, of the spindles to averte au acute famine in raw material. The curtail- ment thus far has affected about 1,000,000 spindles Fall River, 600,000 New Bedford, 150,000 in Maine and not in excess of 300,000 scattered in other parts of New England. Rumours late in the week to the effect that the settlement of the Ruhr question between France and Germany was imminent gave an added interest to calculation, about the possible carry-over as such a development would doubtless considerably increase the buy ing power of Europe. Nevertheless, the trend of sentiment in cotton circles is in- creasingly bending towards the new crop outlook. If there is to be another short crop following the last, very high prices might easily he seen. It is evident, how- ever, and this is particularly true of Texas, that farmers will make the most strenuous efforts this year to produce s good crop. With a spell of good weather

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Nearly every cantonment is the base for #some "line" or other. Men who were at the club yesterday are up the line or stack for outposts for the next two months" to-day. That means separation from wives and children, bitterly resented when it breaks into the cold weather, which is the only time of the year when families have a chance of being together; for in the summer the women and children must go "home" or at least to the hills, and the mey must stay bebind. It also means leaving the pool and going out into the stream. outpost and the cau

up the line are bets and ships out in the full force of the torrent ; the officer's mast all take their watch, and the crew must always on the alert for squalls. Soue, however strang swimmer, may leave lifeline, in the form the ship witheat

To leave this m outposts is men life in the in the next month or two, the character for men only," and it is of crop advices might easily lose much of life of constant watchfulness by night their bullishness, although it will be hard and day against attack. There is not to convince the average trader that any the chance only but the positive certainty crop large enough to bring about a sub- that any relaxation of precaution, any failure stantial decline can be grown this season in observe one of even the smallest of the regardless of the weather. The boll weevil rules of the game, will mean the scuppering must, of course, be reckoned with. It of a patrol or a convoy, or even of the post has not appeared in any great numbers itselt. There are relaxations, but they are as yet, for the plant is not large enough very much on sufferance. You can play hockey, you can even play polo or have the weather, it is generally believed that for it to fred upon, but unless checked by race-meeting if there are enough of you ani enough level ground-provided the hills and its depredations this s'ason will be un- nullahs are well picketed. You can usually heavy. One hous, commeating go shooting sometimes--with strong on the crop possibilities, declares that they armed escort, or under the protection of a point to another year of scarcity with friendly tribe. You can ride or motor to prices maintained as a minimum some- next camp or post in the line-within where around the level to which we have picket hours. Attempt any of these things become accustomed, and "with consider without the necessary proviso and you are able probability that at some time the for it sooner or later, probably sooner. heights of last season may be attained

All this may suggest a picture of men again and perhaps surpassed.

The sea- living under a constant strain and of lone

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ly women weeping. It is not so in reality.n will start with a couple of million There are few gayer or more delightful balen less in the world than last year, and with industry your nearer to the final spots to live in,

socially, and direcovery from the results of the war? every way, than

the spring,

The Inbour problem seems to be more stations of Kobat, et in the Eastern belt than elsewhere, the old Banno, &c., bave

had always

reputation for cheeriness and real friendliness, Nor even in the Mississippi valley. Unques are this gaiety and cheerfulness force. Life tionably a very large number of negroes: is all the better for being lives in touch with have already left the fields for the North,

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THE RED BUILDING (OPPOSITE-ICE HOUSE ST. realities. Men and women who have passed but planters are now fully aroused orez

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is true:

Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble Courage in your own

ern negro is unfamiliar. There is another angle to this situation also, which has not been hitherto mentioned, and that is the fact that more white people have been seeking the more genial Southern elimats than ever before. Many of these are Sir George Fuller, Premier of New taking up farms in Georgia and Alabamaj South Wales, announces that agreement and a Georgia paper says "one thrifty has been reached with the Imperial Gov bustling Yankee who comes South on a erament on the main terms of the most farm is worth half a dozen negroes who ambitious scheme of migration and land may be leaving." settlement which Australia has yet at tempted. It provides. for the settlement of 6,000 selected British migrants and an expenditure of about £9,000,000,

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