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EXTINGUISHER.

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA:

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel. Central 298.

2, Quoon's Building

SNAP BRIM HATS

FROM

HENRY HEATH

We have just received an assort- ment of Snap Brim Hats in New Greys and Browns. The quality, Henry Heath's, is of the best whilst the Turn Down Shape is quite the latest from London.

HUNGEONO

HENRY HEATH

AGENTS

MACKINTOSH & Co., Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS. Alexandra Building.

Dos Vœux Road-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST STE, 1923

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OPENING HOURS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

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1.10.

BUTCHERY DEPARTMENTS:-

to 9.

7 a.m. in 9 a.m.;

2 pm to 4 pm. SATURDAY:-

and

SUNDAY:

7 s.m. to 9 am

10.30 am to 12.30 pm.

19 to 1280 pin.

DAIRY DEPARTMENTS:-

7 to 9 ..

1989 am to 12.30 pm.

2 p.m. to 4 pon. SATERDAY tamam

/* am, fo 9.a.i7.

to 9 a.m.

Cam, to 12 noon SATURDAY:

2 p.m. to 3 p.. SUNDAY: --

10:30am to 12:30 pm.

2 plan to 3 pui.

PEAK BRANCH

8 am to 12.30 pm.

3

2 pm to 4pm.

SUNDAY:-- Mains, to 10 min

ICE DEPOT (Week Days)

i am to 830. a.m.

am. tu 8:30 am.

30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

SUNDAY !--

10 am, to 12.30 p.m.

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co.

SIE W. G. ARMSTRONG, WHITWORTH & CO., LTD. ELSWICK WORKS, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, CIVIL ENGINEERING CONTRACTING DEPARTMENT.

Contractors for the Construction of Railways, Docks, Harbours, Tunnels, Hydro-Electric Works, Structural Steelwork, etc.

St. George's Building,"

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103)

HONGLOM.

"JUST

AS

Telegraphic Addrenn: "UBIQUITY," flangkong.

Telephone No. Centro) 302

PRETTY

WHEN "TWAS NEW!

AS

IF YOUR GOWNS OR FROCKS CAN-

NOT BE WASHED.

WHY NOT HAVE THEM

DRY-CLEANED?

SATISFACTION

IS

ALL YOU WANT WHEN

YOU BUY ANYTHING,

ISN'T IT? SATISFAC-

''TION IS ENOUGH.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY Co., Phone C. 1279 or K. 32.

OUTLOOK ON BRITISH TRADE

HOME AND ABROAD.

AT

VIEWS OF THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

For the past 18 months the Economic | (1) The influence of heavy taxation. Staff of the Federation of British Indepleting the fund of savings available dustries, have been engaged in an ex- for industrial and foreign investment. hanslier examination of the present and diverting such savings as are avail- estion of the British trade, especially in able to gilt edged rather than industrial rption to world trade, and have drawn securities. up an exhaustive report on the subject. (2) The influence of the greatly in: This report has been sent by the Coun-creased expenditure on social services, Leil of the Federation to a strong Com | housing, unemployment relief, education, mitter of investigation, but pending au peisions, te,, which has directly stimu Camoyacenicht ly that body we are able | lated home trade) while at the same time to publish a summary of the findings of | cherking expert trade by increasing costa the Expert Staff. By means of im through the increase in incal taxation and mediate publicity the "Council state, that direct contributions, and reducing the they hopeão elicit comment and criticismi fands available for foreign and industrial which any throw further light on, the investment through-central taxation. grave and complex problems, involved. (6) The influence of post-war monetary

The present, tandé position in the policy, which by increasing the ex-l Fivuntry, the pepet states, gives every, change value of the E sterling has appearance of dissoming", permanent. I forced up the price of British goods British trade, after improving for sine relatively to work prices and thus gears, "has been checked and during the stirenlated house and import trade and pest fest months has born" actually going checkeď export trade. hack, and is going so at a time when ! ̧ (4) A great and progressive recaution the general editions of the world 'are

in the amount of investment abroad, parify the result of the influences already favorable to improvement.

mentioned, but during the Inst eighten The following memorandum is an atmonths intensified by a deliberate policy

stannarise the conclusions of restrictions which, has practically in reached after cared analysis of all the vived an embarge on foreign,jnvestments

of an industrial"nature, factors which have influenced British trafe since the middle f last rentary. The only factor omitted is that of cost of production, since this has already beru palaustively investigated in others and it is already accepted as axiomatic that neither an individual firm, an in-

tempt

The steps necessary during the pasty nine months to prepare for and achieve the final return to a gold standard have greatly intensified the effects sumarised under (3) and (4) above, and the neces

restrictions on the supply of money are, temparneily at baxt, affecting home! trade as well as foreign trade with the

HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS.

THE WEEKLY PRESS, WHICH IS PUBLISHED

TO-DAY, CONTAINS A.G.M."DETAILED REPLY, TO WU HON MAN'S RECENT MANIFESTO.

The Manifesto was published to the world; it is essential that the reply should also receive wide-spread publicity

At Home the disturbances in Ilongkong and olsenbere are still regarded as simply "Lahour (Troubles,”. Good service can be done by giving the people the ts."

The facts are contained in the WEEKLY PRESS.

Send copies to your Parliamentary Representatives and

to your local newspapers.

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SHORT SKIRTS AND DRESSMAKING,

DO THE LADIES' “CALVES” GET COLD?

INTERESTING IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.

By Sir Robert Ho Tung.

dustry. от A nation, can continue to

must forei

Ladies' dresses are so grand and grac Jesper anless its costs of production are consequenos of a further rise in The thing that strikes nie stently low to enable its products to unemployment.

hly each time I visit Leidon is the ful cannot help admiring them. Somet We have therefore the following pusi-andout of truth, and the hurrying times I think the skirts at a little too he sold at a competitive price in the wohl's markets.

tion: Industry organised and developed

H

If the conclusions;to las drawn from

Briefly summarised, the progreity of British Industry before the war primarily depended.

for a large and active export Lendo and crowds of people interit upon business or short, and I wonder if the ladies' calves

capable of giving full employment pleasure, and the splendid panner in fare not cold !

unless it obtains it at the economic which those crowds and vehicles are re- In China short dresses would be more fores which is pre-war days stimulated

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Perhaps the ladies like them short?

analysis of pre and post-war conditions are current, it is gheious, however, that just as the most favourable genéral con ditions of tra will not make a nation such a trade reaved, and their placeated by the ever-urtenus policeconomical. beenuse we pay for clothes in prosperous if it is inferior to its worn- forces which directly oppose it. The ae- Stationed at all crossings, making it neelance with the amount of material petitors, in effeiemy and economy oftion of these forers Bees to explain the quite safe to weud one's way where one that is in them. So I asked a friend if »» proluction, So, without such favorable relation as compared with pre-war in lists if only one follows the traffic re eonditions,

short dresses are cheaper, and he told the highest

conceivable pur" exports, both absolutely, and rela efficient ""Tantic" bring active trade aadi tively to our imports:" the inerva asgulations, writes ir Robert Ho Tung, in me No. | full suployment.

empared with prewar in our home con- article which is given considerable

mption of al: the fact that despite prominence in the Zandun Krening News, Rai hink they put up with them be the reducting of our export trade to 73 per cent of the pre-war amount, there Year by year I notice changes and cause they are the fashion. were in 12f approximately as many improvements in this great pity: some And if the shorter dresses ari 10t persons in employment as before the War;

cheaper for the ladies who buy them

sheltered and, unsheltered industries; they

makers. I remember when European Frelative prosperity, both of retail trad-

dresses reached to the ground: then they s and of industries serving the home

to long and pitied the pre ladies having to hold them up. It must market ditly, as compared with industries mainly dependent on export: and the in

have been fatiguing. vidence of unemployment, as between different trades and necupations.

(1.) On a continuously expanding for- eign trade rendered possible by the man-

tibus investment on a large scale of the alteration in the relative, position of old landmarks swept away to be replaced they must be cheaper for the dress-

tries.

purpose

of

nut

British capital for the develooing hitherto undeveloped, cöun-

In other words, part of national products of goods could only be sold abroad if the purchase was lent the inney to pay for them.

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(2.) On reasonably still political'con. ditions, at least in the principal trading watantries.

(3. On a plentiful supply of money in

The problem to be solved is whether it

is possible to reverse these tendencies

wider streets and splendid buildings.

IF LONDON MEN WORE SILK, Englishmen's clothes are as

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were

London streets are very well kept and clean, in spite of the great amount of trabic there. But some of them are not

some of the grey old buildings which ! love to see again and enjoy visiting. Per as if your men adopted as Chinese dress and to restore the conditions which as of flowered silk it might help te brighten far as pill previous experience can guide the appearance of streets-buk, notwith us are the only conditions in which standing, I do not find London a dull side. British Industry as at presnit organised

volving a general fendency for priems tol ris throughout the world...

British trade has never at any period in its history ben ketive stud prosperous can prosper, or whether we must accept city. It is in my opinion, a serious, unless these three condition's were attempt to reorganise and re-adapt In

just-war conditions ax permanent and bday one.

Some streets nail house look gloomy. bas others are gay and pretty, especially as this time of the year.

You

home trade.

lasting, much-discussed one of clothes think Chinese garments #TO more picturesque, warmer in winter, cooler in

But to return to our subject, the ever-

summer, easier to put on, and very cour fortable for the wearer. They have one

wide enough and many houses might be more artistic; though houses may he beautiful within, they are often ugly out-

the people who live in these houses made the outside beautiful would wa not conduce to a brighter London 1

London is much cleaner than it used to le. Thirty years ago you could not go out without getting your hands and neck dirty. Perhaps London is so much. less smoky that brighter-coloured paint could now be applied to the houses, | Many streets have trees, and the squares with their green lawns in thes centre are very beautiful in spring ant summer. Bas more streets should have

trees-evergreen trees so that they woul not be hare in the winter.

FINGER-COUNTING AFTER A

In addition to this, however, the pre-dustry to meet the new position. sener of the condition, throughout the Will political and general considera. drensic preceding the War exercised a

tions permit the Government to make a profound influence on the development action, not of a few millions, but of

must not change London very and balance of British Industry, as they 15 to 0 per cent, in untional expenditure much, or else visitors like myself and constituted a steady schnulus to the deve- and taxation 7 Can local authorities re-my wife and daughter, who enjoy coming toprant of export trade, as opposed to die the rates by the same percentage here so much, would not be pleased!

Is it possible without imperilling the capital and labour had moved stability of our newly regained gold ontinuously for many years into the standard (a) to provide more money for great exporting industries, rather than trade, (b) 10 allow-foreign investment to into the industries which worked, for the restaued 7 - Is it possible, pending the home market and even in, those in resumption of foreign investment on dustries which worked for leth markets scale comparable with pre-war which disallvantage. they make more luggage, the trudbacy had been for a steady devenust obviously be a prestion of time, too lopment in the relative importanes of themploy such fumtis as are available for changes of climate,

lending abroad primarily in the direction export branch to the home" Eranch.

The war demand still further develop which will create the most immediate and ed many of the industries, such as. Irun ffective demand for British goods? abd Steel. Shipbuilding, and many

If these questions cahoot anawer-reaching to the ankles, and a back riding branches of Engineering."which already in the affirmative, it is obvious that jacket which is quite short. relied on a substantial proportion of ex. the balance as between export and im. In the day time, and for tea parties, port demand to obtain full employment, port trade has been permanently alter etc, our robes and riding jackets are so that the end of the War found used and, while we may reasonably hope made of any bright coloured silk, like with industrins specially adapted for an for a substantial export trade, suffi-English ladies mummer gowns. active foreign trade,and only raquble of cient, probably to pay for essential im- rarely wear overcoats, but if the weather and hygienic. giving full enplayment when conditions poris, we camiot expect it to give us is very cold we have lining of fur, or

active trade and full employment as in cottonwool padding under our roles.

were favourable for such trade.

many suits are required for

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HANDSHAKE.

Loudon prople seem happy and healthy and often gay. like the custom of rais A Chinese wears satin clothes on alting the hat in salatation and the shaking formal occasions, viz, ma blue robe of hands-though sometimes my hand

squered so hard that i count my fingers. afterwards? In China we bow in saka- tation with the band's clasped, but in the Treaty Ports Chinese are beginning to shake hands too.

like English food-it in wholesome

But I think you coul reasonably dispense with afternoon ter excript for "social gatherings, beçania. three meals should be ampte.

Also, you, take your ter exceptionally rank, and that is not good for the Three or four times I have

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But in the whöt?post-war period from the immediate pre-war period. If this I do not ace why. Englishmen should | 1930 cowords, these conditions have not in the case, ought we to wait, as we are loot wear brighter colours such so we been present, in fact precisely opposite doing at present, notil the forces which use, although in any bumble opinion no economic forces have been at work. post-war conditions and our own post European costume.is more becoming than nerves.

There were many factors largely out-war policy have set in motion have the frock coat worn with fight trousers, drunk tea prepared by my English staff side-our-control, such as unstable brought about a readjustment of in and also the light grey frock suit with and I felt giddy after it

In China we take tea as a drink, not: exchanges, lack of balance in the dustry through the sheer pressure of hạt to match. I am sorry it in no longer world's markets, a great increase in the economic necessity, with all that this fashionable to wear a black frock cont: as a food. We drink it very weak whe restrictions and obstacles which impede implics.of unemployment and suffering, the tourning coat which has taken its we feel thirsty. We never drink col the flow of International 'trade,jand poli- or should steps he inken to stimulate place is a poor substitute.

water. Our 'ten is made without milk or tical instability in many countries These home development! Can the export

angar, and is paler than sinber, factors any, however, be confidered as trades be helped to divert a portion of

English people are industrious and the working-class do a lot in their working temporary in the sense that they may be their output to new home markets and expected to pass away and indeed are to adapt some proportion of their pro-

hours. They like jokes and seldom.. already doing so with the return of ductive capacity to new purposes? Can English evening dress, with the white quarrel one with another. I think they means be devised to assist them to pass bow tie and waistcoat, looks beautiful, are satisfied with London, as it is--mod There have been other in Suencer, how-with the minimum of dislocation through but the dinner jacket is in some re-so, on the whole, am L ever, operating on the whole trend of our the difficult transition period?

spects better than the tail cont.

In conclusion I must say how much 1 trade, which to a considerable extent have Those are some of the questions which As I am asked to express my, humble admire and greatly appreciate the a been the result of conscious and delibe- must be answered and it is obvious that opinion freely, I think the tails are a failing courtesy shown to me, a visitor, rate control,

a purely industrial organisation, such as little bit clampy, and the pockets bulge by all classes with whom I have come the Federation, cannot solve them by it in an ugly fashion, if anything is put in in contact in this wonderful and greak

city.

stable conditione,.

i.

The following are among the most im-

portant of these influences:

them.

SHIRTS TOO LONG, THEN

TOO SHORT."