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ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.:

"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."

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TRANSMISSION

OF

POWER ROPE

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DRILLING CABLES

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 10th, 1927.

BRITISH FARMERS' {

TROUBLES.

MANY FACED WITH RUIN.

ESTABLISHED 1834

ROPES OF ALL SIZES FOR ALIA

NO PROFIT IN CORN. MEAT, OR MILK.

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

PURPOSES

MADE FROM

PURE MANILA

HEMP

*ANUFACTUR.

ED BY THE MOST MODERN MACHINERY!

STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES ENQUIRIES SOLICITED.

P.I FACTORIES-MANILA

HONG KONG OFFICE:

KING'S BUILDING.

FA P..] TELEPHONE: (ENTRAL 3185.

ISAKO'S CIRCUS

For the convenience of Hong Kong Public the management of I8AKO'S CIRCUS have decided to perform for A Short Season only on the

NEW RECLAMATION GROUND

PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI (Next to Fire Brigade Station, Hong Kong) In A Huge Rainproof Tent.

GRAND

OPENING NIGHT

TO-NIGHT,

at 9.15 p.m.

SPECIAL MATINEES: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday,

at 4 p.m.

Booking at ANDERSON'S.

SPORTING.

Don't worry,

A

fm here!

and

GUNS by W. W. GREENER WEBLEY and SCOTT, and Other Makers-British,

American.

French

B.S.A. Air Rifles, and Miniature Rifles, 22 Calibre, Repeating and Automatic

SPORTING CARTRIDGES of all descriptions.

Agenta for W. W. GREENEE, LTD., BIRMINGHAM.

HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION STORE, B, BOOMSPILD ARCADE.

ON SALE.

EADS

household.

BRITISH CELANESE.

TWO SWISS

CHEMISTS.

SECURE CONTROL OF COMPANY.

£2,000,000 DEAL,

Control of the British Celanese Company has been secured by the On the eve of a full and unusually two Swiss chemists, Dr. Henri important programme of sunnaer | Dreyfus and Br. Camille Dreyfus, agricultural shows, says the Agricul- who n3ready hold the posta of joint tuent Correspondent of the Daily | managing directors, Mail, when the farmer and his in- dustry will be prominently before the public in every county, it is well that the present position of agricol. ture should be made plain.

The market squares and earn hails of this country have been depressing places for long past. Ever since the repeal of the Com, Production Act, in 1921. the corn!

There have Jarts have suffered. heen five lean years for ploughiand men, years which have seen a decline in our ploughland area of 760,000 Now meat has gone the same way as wheat. It is not pay. ing to prodate. Yet the farmers were told, when the future for honze-grown corn appeared hope- lessly dark, that they should con centrate on live-stock.

It is true that the prospects for horse-produced ment did not then But one of the two appear so bad, factors which have brought about the present slump was already at work. During the war the public at large was obliged to eat import ed meat. Its prejudice was over-

WOLLE.

The other factor is the tragic effect on the home producer of the war between the two great seat

trusts.

No Profit From Milk. Milk production, on the basis of the contracts at present running.

is leaving little or no profit for

By purchases in the open market. the brothers Dreyfus have increased their holding in the company to over £2,000,000.

We have acquired this hubding beenus, we are confideur of the enormous profit-making capseity of British Celanese under wise direr- tion. Shareholders will recrive alt that they have been promised, and more," Dr. Henry #reyfus told the Daily Sketch.

"Ft. is true that attacks have been made by interested parties an the prospects of the Celanese Cum- pany. The unsoundness of theer attacks can best be ganged by the fact that we have bought all these shures on the top of the market."

The Dreyfus Brothers are also juist general managers of the Ame rican Celanese Corporation, whose common stork, which recently had no par vale, cow stands at about

A Canadian Celanese Corporation has been formed, and negotiations are proceeding for the granting of brences to firns on the continent.

Though hardly known to the Eng- lish public the two brothers, th professors of chemistry, rendered valuable services to this country during the war.

Hear

When the war ended and the great war factory at Spendan. Derby, was on the brink of being closed dawn. Dr. Henri Dreyfus saved it for the manufacture of artificial silk.

The two brothers are still in the early forties,

OWNE

The British Government £500,000 preference shares in the company.

farmers who are not well favoured LORD BALFOUR'S SECRET.

receive.

be

DECLINES TO SAY HOW HE

KEEPS YOUNG AT 78.

by their holdings and the incidence of markets. And the whole milk position is being prejudiced for producers by the constantly increas. ing surplus of milk over the nation's

Although the Eart of Balfour, demands for it in liquid form.

Milk and sugar beet in the ingt Lord President of the Council will be 70 on July 25th, he still declines few years have been the only proto divulge the secret of how he ducts in which farmers have had has retained that youthful vitality any confidence because, producing which makes him one of the most under contructs, whether they picturesque figures in politics. This thought then adequate or not, they summer Lord Balfour again intends did know the price they would to play tennis and golf, at both of which he is vigorously proficient. With the automatic decline at The case with which he still drives hand of the subsidy given to set the his motor-car in London traffic young beet sugar industry on its shows that his nerves are as steady feet, there are beginning to as in those days, long ago, when qualms about the future of beet he went to and fro administering growing. The farmera and the. "firm government" in Ireland, sugar manufacturers will soon be though he well knew that his life meeting to fix the new price for the was in hourly danger from secret roots, and in the conditions of the societies, and as they were 20 years moment there is likely to be some ago, when he seated himself in an hard bargaining.

infant aeroplane and flew away A good deal more could be said bare headed before the eyes of a about the causes of the present great assembly at Hendon. position. There is the plight of When Lord Balfour was admitted large numbers of men who, when to the Freedom and Livery of the their landlords were cutting up Haberdashers' Company, the Mas. their estates, were forced to buyer (Sir Charles C. Wakefield) put their farms or go out of business. this question to him:

They got together all they could and borrowed the rest of the pur- chase price, and now, with all the markets against them, are at their wite end to keep out of the bunk ruptcy court.

Bankers and merchants are con- plaining to-day as they have never douc before. It was stated in the House of Commone last Wednesday that the return of one large bank shows that farmers are overdrawn to the extent of an average of £800 per account.

We should like him to let us into the secret of perpetuai youth. There are many who expound theories, more or less scientific, about the way to keep young.

Set Bis Lord Balfour has so far kept own counsel, but his wonderful

his and versatility

amazing vitality and vigour suggest that he could say much that would be to the point.

Before rising to reply Lord Bai! four made a pencilled note on a piece of paper and the company But he was waited for the secret. more than usually cautious

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW!

QUEEN'S

2.30, 5.10. 7.15, 9.20

When Old Broadway Was Young!

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

Flapperless, ginless, jazzless--but

a stirring time of real romance flower- ing amidst the conflicts and passions of a great metropolis in the making. Marion Davies, in her greatest triumph, shows herself à superb comedienne- She'll make you roar with glee, then move you to tears.

A rollicking, frolicking whirlwind of joy and thrills!

Directed by MONTA BELL Adapted by CAREY WILSON

ACosmopolitan Production

MARION

Metro- Goldwyn Mayer

PICTURE

DAVIES

in a MONTA BELL Production from the play Merry Wives)

of Gotham" by Lourence Eyre - with CONRAD NAGEL

Lights of Old Broadway

2.30, 5.15, 7:15,-9.15.

WORLD

Orchestra e 5.15 & W

A Mighty Screen Spectacle in"Two Thrilling Episodes,

THE FALL OF TROY!

PART L

(Showing Thursday to Saturday)

The Abduction of Helen

PART II.

(Skduing Sunday to Tuesday)

The Destruction of Troy

Story of Homer's Hind magnificently presented le

Cast of over 10,000

bouw 1080H

and

Recent 6gures, also given in the House of Commons, showed that the reaeiving orders against farmers wary, and defensively he threaded

in England and Wales in the last four years were as follow:

1923..... 317 1924..... 233 1925..... 238 1920..... 224 Banks In A Difficulty. These figures appear to show a Jistresa. of extremne diminution Actually, the fact is gravely the

Welcome opposite. The position has gone

Visitor

at any

time in

every Every

Bug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with

KEATING'S

TONG KONG HANSARD REO, LECLERC SALLONE HPORTS of the MEETING

of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for the Session 1996.

Revised by Moabera. PRICE

$8.

Howa Kowa Daily Pawse Oppim.

OVER HALF A CENTUR✔ REPUTATION

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SAVO AND MIRZAILS FOR SAMME JELJOMIS, DA LI CLECCI SOAP 18 of a Tablet

his way into a speech on the con- tinuity of the City spirit through the ages. He then left to keep an engagement elsewhere, and some- one exclaimed: "He didn't answer the question "

The One Helpful Thing. But the Government does not from desperation to hopelessness.

Those who have inside knowledge even give it the facilities for long- of the farming industry tell me that term credit which it promised and there are, now such large numbers which is the one really helpful thing of farmers in an unsound position possible for it to have for which it that neither the bankers, ineris urgently asking,

thus states the

chants, nor auctioneers dure press The Farmer's Express, on the their claims. If they did so there subject of that burning necessity wonld be wholesale bankruptcies.stabilisation, Single counties would equal the present figures for country.

the whole

At present agriculturists can sec But no hope for their industry. they know that it

numbers over 400,000 holdings and employs nearly 800,000 people. They are unwilling to believe that the nation is wish- ful to view its denth struggles or that the bulk of the populace ro garde it as of no national'import-

ance.

It has been told, both publicly and privately, that it can be given neither protection nor subsidy. It believes that its hope lica in one or the other, and that the Govern ment which told it that it can have neither one nor the other knows the

BAMC.

(Continued on next column).

Case:

The production of food for the nation requires to be recognised for what it is, namely, a national aervice entitling the producer lo How prices special treatment. can be stabilised is matter for wholly separate inquiry, but the nation can do it if it wishes, and that without any interferenec with or upon the farm.

As regards the inadequate re muneration of the farm lahnerer, we admit and deplore it; but as in the past, so wages will follow wheat. If they depart from the price of corn, either we have more pasture and increased un employment, or else we have an agricultural insolvency which ins- volves pasture as well as arable in the general wreck,

Á ALAN CROSLAND

PRODUCTION

a Paramount Picture

USUAL PRICES.

Contraband

LOIS WILSON

NOAH BEERY RAYMOND HATTON RAYMOND MCKEE

STAR

TO-DAY

and

TO-MORROW

2,80 to 11.15 p.m. CONTINUOUS