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THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST

2ND,

1924

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JOHN

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BRITAIN'S TRADE PROS- "

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GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.

E. LLOYD GEORGE'S WARNING."

Mr. Lloyd George "was the guest on

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Mr. Llyod George did not touch upun controversial politics, but discussed the prospects of British trade and commerce. He expressed at the outset his doubts whether there was a thorough under standing and appreciation of the essential

which the captains of part

our great industries" played in our pomperity. **There is à a country in Europe where your class has been pretty well elimina ted." he said. am using the word ALSO

eliminated because I wish to be polite to a Government which is recognised (laughter)-1 but I do eat think the experi ment has been a success from the point The warning of view of that country. was worth recording.

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He welcomed the announcement by the President of the Board of Trade that an instituted into the inquiry was to be conditions of trade. He hoped the inves tigation would be thorough, fearless, and not be stopped impartial, and would

fear that the conclusions. through reached would be damaging to the pr conceived thesis of anybody. There is one more river to cross before i come to prosperity." sald Mr. Lloyd George, and that is the danger, you have got on the Continent of Europe.

Nations have been equipping in a way they have never equipped before. They have spent more energy and more money on improy- ing their equipment, an increasing

their power, than they have ever done. whole of their industrial history.te had been able to retain three-fourths our export trade. We had done that by son of the great sacrifices we made to restore our credit. While the credit of other countries had gone down and down ours had gone up and up. (Cheers.) But Continental credit was about to be re- stored. That was what peace meant. Our difficulties were going to begin then. men increased the wealth and the pro.. duce of the world this, country would.

and get its fair share of what was going. would be able not merely to hold its own. bat probably to do better than ever. (Cheers.) Bat we ought to be prepared to face the interval. He was not afraid "for this country in any emergency tha might befall it. Cheers.) I krowyn what the people of this country can do in an emergency, and I may not pessimist. I do not think British trade is going to beaten in the end by anybody in the world. (Cheers.) But I want us to be ready I want us to be prepared. want us to overhaul our accounts if there is anything I would rather equip

this country.

we can

and see

Forestall an emergency than face it. (Cheers.) Let us look ahead, and have a thorough investgation, a thorough in query, and see if there is anything that can be done in order to meet what wa

ce ahead." (Cheers)

LONDON'S, NOISE.

It is said to be the mark of a true lover that he adores his lady for her faults. Upon that principle we nward the Srst prize among the overs of London to Mr. Pett Ridge, says The Unity Trie graph, Even the noises of her congested streets seem to him delectable, or in his we audacious words. very good music indeed." There no heating that: Not.. Dickens, nor Charles Lamb, not even Johnson himself ever did so well. We have to suppose that Mr. Pett Ridge's idea home

is somewhere between a main road and a main line, so that buses fail him not by day nor goods trains by night. Such is the natural irference from his enthusiasm, yet we and in some of his expressions a certain ambiguity, which which may be accidental, or which, however un- may worthy a true lover, may be meant for moderation. Thus he tells us that Lon-

don is the most musical city in the world of traffe, and those who never found any town friendly may reply, that this

matter in which precedence is negli gibic for

modern every

city outrages the sensitive, ear. We incling to think that among large cities Lendon is not con- Our fellow-citizens are spicuously noisy mat-born with that inexhaustible joy in makanan races, nor with such a a row which is the heritage of capacity for neglecting din as has been Bequired by some Americans. But Mr. Pett Ridge went on to protest that "our "Sime noises are almost pure melody." recent developments in modern music have shaken our all confidence that we knew what melody it. We knew, appar. ently, only what it was and we are not prepared to

medley of Lon- deny that

don din would compare favourably with

the most advanced coMMAR. But

does that make it " very

in a

music in- dead The noise of London has changed much since the century began. It has almost ceased to be vocal. Who now hears the old tries of London? In the street

ers still shont markets the costers the praises of their waren But no chants ripe now allure us.

But once of cher from a by-street a plaintive voice melodiously inquires, Whe'll buy my lavender?

The small coal man is heard no more, and even the mikinan is silent, even the bus conductors no longer exifort us. But all that

we harn lost the vocal part has been much more. thas made up in the instrumental. railways, "the trams, the motor-engine,

motor-horn pride an àrchestra ber yond the dreams of those who grumbled at the din of last century. Carlyle re- quired sound-proof room to be built for him in the quiet groves, of Victorian

would

berm

Chelsen What da in 19247 deep enough for generation, some of which endured the pandemonium of war, while the rest heard the racket of air raids, in per- bars callous to noise. But even we have maa

ROMP small gains. No calger does whistling for a reluctant cab rend our PT In the last century Calverley cele brated the delights of him before whose deer two bands at least, most likely mara, Ara mingling at their own sweet will No longer do we suffer from the German band

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