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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 1925

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'SER XIV FRENCH KEMEDY

THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION NO. 2 THERAPION No. 3

Ma, 1 lor Maddog Church? Ma, 3 for Trond & 'Skin-

·Diveness. Wo; & for Churmade WänkuonONE, SCALE XY BRANCH MERCRUNG VERON NI TANGANS, 26. DE EN Ourse MAS PROMO, Japan D. Xry Yon PRESY BEARD BAN FRAZOID.

EUROPE'S TRADE TROUBLES.

MR. LEAF BLAMES POLITICIANS, Addressing the Council of the Inter Rational Chamber of Commerce in Paris last month, Mr. Walter Leaf, chairman of "the Westminster Bank and presidens of the Council, said:-

· MARQUIS DI PINEDO'S BRILLIANT FLIGHT.

LACONIC MESSAGES.

One of the accounts sent from Rome

to London regarding the return of the Marquis di Pinedo alter his great flight -35.000 miles from Italy to Japan, by It is evident that the main-one might way of Australia and back again, says: almdet say the only cause of the The marquis is an extremely medest, economic troubles of Great Britain is to almost shyly reticent, man. His charac be found in the coal problers. The ter is eloquently shown by the collection crisis in this industry is, as we all know of telegrams sent from various stopping world-wide. There is serious reason to places Fifty of the eighty telegrams think that the falling off in the demand contain one word besides the ad for coal may be of a permanent nature dress, namely, the signature The re. and due to the increased development of mainder usually contain reference to the competing supplies of energy, mainly oil weather when progress was delayed. From and hydro-electric power,

Cebu. after many hours fight with a But be that as it may, it is certain storm which threatened to end his jour- that while there has been during the prey, he telegraphed, Stormy weather

broken

moorings hit steamer: slight sent year a marked decrease in British damage: making repairs." From Rock, exports, the whole, and more than the hampton he telegraphed, Four hours whole of it, is due to the diminution in bad weather: motor fine.", From Bris the exports of cond.

bane his telegram

said, Stopped owing to weather."

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It is the same with unemployment, the high figure is largely due to the coal in- dustry, and in particular to those coal felds which are concerned with the ex port, trade, mainly in South Wales and Durham.

The analysis of the proâts of indus trial concerns which is made by the Heongmist, and covers a very wide field, shows that the profits made in 1924 show 1923; and, so is: as it has been possible to analyse those for 1993, the general trading profits of the country have still maintained an increase, though at a somewhat less rate.

ed an increase of about 10 per cent, over

1.

When he arrived at Tokyo he found a peremptory order from the Air Ministry to send a detailed account of his journey. The airman answered with the following Taconic despatch:

Finished second

part journey. Arrived late owing dificulties encountered Zamboanga Terani region: owing storms, prolonged effort engine lasting 250 hours. Machine and crew excellent condition. Am overhaul- ing machine, changing motor. Shall wire when start again.

Ou another cecasion when news reached Rome that the airman had narrowly escaped death in a tremendous storm, the Ministry asked him for details. The air. man answered: Incident insignificant. Boat taking me ashore sank, reached shore swimming.

CENTRAL HEATING.

THE USE OF ENGLAND'S OFFICE TEAPOTS,

SHIFTING CITIES.

THE CURIOSITIES OF DESERT CUSTOMS,

That, the business of England, states

People who live in a country provided. the Daily Telegraph, has come to depend with an Ordinance survey, largely on the on constant floods of tea in admitted by scale of twenty-five inches to the mile, every observer. The greht offices, both which accurately marks the position of your own backyard and of your neigh in Whitehall and the city, do continually bour's pot monkey-puzzle on his lawn tinkle with teadups. Neither the affairs will be surprised to learn that important of State nor private enterprise can be towns still exist which do not know the teapot is filled where they are. It required the presence conducted unless early and often. The inferences which of the British Army in 1019 to quiet the philosophers have drawn from these facts uneasy suspicions of the inhabitanty of are generally gloomy. They suggest that Aleppo, who only then learned that they the recurrence of the teacup is proof off were really three miles farther east than a certain lack of zeal, of idleness, and they had hoped; and Hassanein Boy in dalliance. If it held anything but tea bis now book The lost Cases," is now they might perhaps condone it, but able to point out that Kutra is twenty

of the teapot implies an five miles wrong even on the best maps. reliance effeminacy in our conduct of affairs. But and Ziegben, nearly sixty. More than now a medical man has arisen to that, Jalo, a city of the Saussi, has declare that the office teapos is merely rigen, with help of the desert, no fewer and wholly natural, and, as the ad than 200ft in less than Afty years; for mirable butler says in the play. What the sand works hard to blos it out, while ever is natural is right." Not that Dr. the inhabitants work harder still to keep Bennett pronounces it natural for man. it as it were afloat upon the rising duner or even woman, to driak ten when at and build and plaat anew. It must large. By confining them in modern indeed have been fascinating, remarks the, offices we have driyon them to the teapot: Tines, for the explorer to navigate that sea of sand, trying to make some ineon- stant and uncertain port poised on ever. changing foundations, equipped save for a bag of instruments, a rifle, and some sardines and cigarettes, no more elaborately than was hie remote ancestor, Sheikh Ibrahim bin Terah. 4,000 years ago. Fiery com that celebrated pliment.

DRIVEN TO DRINK This discovery was confined to the Smoke Abatement League, which, on casual view, might seem to lack day But it is not so logical relation to tea

properly interested in central heating, The Smoke Abatement League is very But central beating, with which our and even men, to drink. Dr. Bennett saperstitions, and habits of the desert modern offices are blessed, driyes women, Hassanein Bey describes the customis

the public wanderers and of the oasis-dwellers; enjoys central heating in buildings of Warrington, and experiment from which it appears that in Siwa a on their vile bodies has proved that new-made widow must not wash herself. ***even the male clerks could not continue or be seen of human kind for forty days, their employment ufficiently without some that it is a high compliment desers maiden to fire your rifle so close to her kind of stimulant."..

toes that her slippers are scorched by the flash, that a Beduin host must personally wait upon his guests and overfeed them as much as possible on a multiplicity of rich dishes of which he should not partake himself, and that in one district it is mark of respect to sit as a superior passes. Hassanein Bey furnishes a brief but valuable account of the Senussi, their history and teachings, and showa how the spiritual

How many of us have felt that in our own persone without the comfort of the paternal care of Warrington! That be nign place, watching ita male clerks, discovered their working capacity under the application of central heat de preciated by about 20 per cent. and it hastened to order them cups of ten morning and afternoon, Dr. Bennett

BRITAIN'S DIFICULTIES, The general position seems to be that Great Britain, to whom ber export

THE HOG COMPLIMENT trade is so vital, Buffering from the

Asked for the most memorable event of general decrease of international trade, and in particular and most seriously the journey, he said it was being called from the falling off in the world demand a hog by savages in New Guinua. I for her one great raw material coal..did not get angry," he added, because There is, too, a falling of in the world was told that these savages, who still demand for shipping, which brings with practise cannibalism, have a veritable it'a great depression in the shipbuilding idolatry for hogs' meat. They meant to

pay me a compliment." industry. And, in addition, we append the most remarkable part of the fight to be passing through a transitional is the simplicity of the means by which seems to suspect that if they had had open period, in which our exports are coming to consis; more and more of the finished it was accomplished. No elaborate prefires they could have done without the while they relied solely ·

parations were made. The marquis set article and legs and lees of the pre-out mons, and unaided taking with him teapot. liminary and partly manufactured pro- only the clothes he stood up in and buying stores and supplies as he went.

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For instance, there is a falling off in Just as the flight breaks all records for the production of iron and steel, but a distance, his return journey from Tokyo growth in the exports of machinery. To breaks all speed records over long dis this new phase we have to adapt our {tances selves; and in the meantime there is no doubt that we are faced with great diff-| culties

It'must be confessed that the picture I have had to draw is not an encouraging one. The grievous sickness which we too euphemistically call unitaire économique is epidemic.

OVERSEAS LEAGUE.

MR. ERIC RICE'S TOUR IN FAR EAST.

THE WEDDING AGE.

ADVANTAGE OF A 15-YEAR DISCREPANCY.

What is the best age to marry? Should only one or two years separate the ages of lovers, or is it better to have a gap of fifteen or twenty years between them T A writer in the Daily Mail has decided views on the matter-but he signs himself a bachelor." so perhaps there is hope for young lovers after all.

There.aro many advocates of the eggal age" marriage, saya the writer a

arm their influence was, onormous, and how when one ill-advised leader drew the temporal aword he suffered overwhelming temporal disaster. How his policy was reversed and the spiritual prestige re habilitated is explained, and the author gives numerous instances of the exercise of the mysterious powers with which the Senussi are credited,

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·EPSTEIN PANEL PAINTED GREEN.

STUDENTS' EXPLOIT IN HYDE

PARK

reason to be satisfied with their handi. Madras from Colombo. He is now or matter of fact, however, lovers who Mr. Javoh Epstein's monument in

Mr. Eric Rice, Secretary of the Over: seng. League (formerly Private Secretary But after all I suppose that the polito Sir Edward Stubbs), has arrived in ticians' of every country in Europe have work, and may regard the present economic situation ns a great success They have been busily engaged in ham- pering international trade by every means in their power.

We have passed beyond the question of mere tariffs, and in various cases we have found that recourse has been had to actual prohibition of imports. Each country and I regret to think that even Great Britain must now be included-has set itself to exclude trade with its neigh- bour, to a greater or less extent; the policy has had a great success, with one considerable drawback, that each country, in hurting its neighbours has, of course, hurt itself still more; the policy leads 1. vicious circle, where every step leads on to another, and to put the matter plainly, it seems to me that Europe hes deliberately set itself towards economie Buicide.

May I hope that this chamber will set itself the task of trying to teach the world a better course!

**LOVING" CUP" FOR GERMANY.

DRAMATIC SCENE AT THE GUILDHALL BANQUET.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain (now Sir Austen), the British Foreign Secretary, and Dr. Sthamer, the German Ain. bassador in London, stood up "be-| forp & great gathering at the Lord Mayor'a banquet in the Guildhall last month and toasted each other from the City's great golden loving cup

It was, says & London paper, the most dramatic moment of an evening that was full of colour, of incident, of old-time ceremonial and tradition.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain stood, in his Privy Councillor's uniform and his monocle, holding the double-handlod eup: Dr. Ethamer rose and faced him. For. a moment they regarded each other with friendly steadiness. Then they bowed and smiled. WEND

CHEEKING COMPANY,

The British Foreign Secretary drank, then passed the cup to the Germad "Am baseador. Dr. Sthamer drank, and then the symbolical vessel went from hand to hand and from lip to lip round the cheering company, while the towering figures of Gog, and Magog looked down on the glittering scene from their corners. the gallery, and the two white garbed carvers in their little pulpit like elevations forgot for a moment dri two to slice the great barons of beet" that lay in front of them..

***I have drunk a loving cup with the German Ambassador," said Mr. Austen Chamberlain In his speech afterwards, and referring to the future he ded "What he and I have done this evening may our nations do tomorrow,

tour in the Far East with the object of marry in comparative poverty and go visiting some 500 branches and extending through the mill together more often than Hyde Park to W. H.Hudson, the interest is their activities. During his not come out soured and embittered naturaliser and novelist, which has been visit to Madras last winter the League Even though success be finally achieved, the cause of considerable controversy, secured the support of the Governor and it does not compensate for the weariness was painted green last month by a party

of seven or eight low students.. Viscountess Goschen and a number of of those years of toil.

Those who believe that husband Dinner at Gray's Inn, the students ob

After attending the Grand Night British subjects overseas The League headquarters in London, said Mr. Rice, should be anything from 10 to 20 years stained three tins of green enamel and was fast becoming recognised as a meet older than his wife have more reason on went to Chancery Jane Station to discuss ing place for members of the British Em: their aide. For one thing men, a rule, the details of their plot. pire from all parts of the Empire. There have a greater capacity for keeping

Shortly before 11 p.. they took a were about 40,000 members. During his young than women. So that if we lift up taxicab to Hyde Park-corner and walked last tour in India a number of Indians, the curtain on our imagined lovers 10 or to the monument. Two or three remain became members of the League, some of 15 years after marriage, we and that aed on guand while the others crept up to whom visited the League's headquarters man of 55 and a woman of 40 are far the monument and daubed the enamel. in London and were entertained by Lon, better mates and companions than a man quickly over the figure. A police whistle don members of the League About the of 40 and a woman of 38.

was, then heard and a policeman's lamp Furthermore, the middle-aged husband suddenly shone upon the monument. object of the League Mr. Rice said that the League's principal aim is to improve has some advantages over his younger Acting on a pre-arranged signal the and foster mutual understanding and rival quite apart from any financial or students ran in different directions, and goodfellowship among all-British subjects social position. He is more tolerant and although more whistles were blown and in whatever part of the Empire they may considerate, less. given to impetuous la policeman gave chase, they all escap-

ed.. whims and explosive outbursts.

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