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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18th,

AMERICA'S NEXT PRESIDENT.

THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR CHANCES.

FAVOURITES AND "DARK HORSES."

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[BY JOHN S. STEELE (London Correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune")]

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1928.

UTILISING WATER POWER RESOURCES.

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JERUSALIM tion has been asked me scores off of the highest character. Mr.

Operations have begun on the times since my return from a hurri- Hoover is too well cown inpretentious scheme for the utilisa ed trip to America, and in every Europe to need much introduction. tion of the water resources of case I have made the same answer, The factors that will count againstalestine for irrigation and power, The glorified concession granted No one knows, and no one will him are probably such as will be to Mr. P. Rutenberg calls for the

but for the present the Palestine". Electric Corporation are preparing to use only the difference of levels of the Jordan river of fifty metres, Galilee and a place called Jisz-el. between Lake Tiberins or Sen" of

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know until the nomination is made hard for Europeans to understand, exploitation of all water resourc Indo-Obion (Pret.)....... buj.

hy the Republican Party conven- tion next June." That nomination ought to be equivalent to an elec- tion unless some entirely unfore seen development occurs, for since the Civil War only one democratie President-Grover Cleveland-has- been elected by a majority of the

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Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Propriador : MARTIN, Khond,,, Santkinjoni Tagland,

One" is

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his commercial abroad, and the other is that at one time he is believed to have considered or, perhaps, actually ap plied for naturalisation British subject.)

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At this point in Transjordan ter ritory, where the Zionist articles in Shanghai Loans.....

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Governor Lowden is" the candi. I the Palestine Mandate do not apgaube()

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slate of the Western agrarian in- for the hundreds of workers engagBK & K. Wharf.. $108 bay. 153 al. terests as opposed to the financiersed in building the "first Jordan H.K. & W. Docka.. and manufacturers of the East." He has been a warm advocate for legislation, and he is many years of "farm relief" a. practical farmer himself.

He owns

and

The power generated will be car ried by high tension transmission lines to Haifa and Jaffa, whence secondary transmission lines will carry the energy to their localities. When this is done the Jaffa, Haita. working will act merely as stand- by stations.

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tary of Commerce in President land in Illinois, and about. fifteen and Tiberias fuel power houses dowHK. &8. Hotels 89.90 bay, 94 sól.

At the moment the leading can

Herbert Hoover, at present Secre-

Coolidge's 'Cabinet, And EX: Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois. Of the two I think Governor Lowden's chances are a little the better; for while fr. Hoover has a large and powerful personal political organisation he also has many enemies, and he lacks personal magnetism. One of the shrewdest political observers in Washington told me a few weeks

works about ten thousand acres of thousand acres of cotton land in the South.

In addition to his arm holdings he is a rich man, having made a great fortune as a Jawyer before he took the land, and his wife who is a daughter of George M. Pullman, founder of the Pullman Car Company, is one of the richest women in America, This family wealth will do him no

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H.K. Lands

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ghai Landa .........Tia. 140 buy. Rostility.

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#1 bay,, 81 sol purely Arab territory under Emir H.K. Territonals was feared when the ELK. Tramways' Abdullah

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*5.80/.35 Jewish company came to plant its

on the imported workers

Peak Trame (old)........$13 buy. side of the river.

Bo. (DOW).........$72 bay. Both Arab and British authori-Star Ferries.

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harm in the East, while in the West ties in Transjordania anticipated China Lagbus (comb ago that in his opinion Hoove his farm record seems to outweigh widespread hostility because of this: would make a fine President, but any prejudice against him as a

capitalist. & damned poor candidate," while everyone who knows the man agrees that Mr. Lowden would make both a good President and a good can- didate.

Republican Favourites.

At the moment these two. mnen hold the stage. There are other

candidates in the field, such 43 Senator Curtis, of Kansas, ' and

Senator Willis, of Ohio, but they inny fairly be relegated to the ranks of favourite sous" who will be eliminated after their own States have cost a few complimentary hal- lots for them.

"Al" Smith.

Jewish penetration." At these fears appear to have subaid On the Democratic, side so fared, only a few Transjordan police

patrolling the plant. there is only one candidate, and

Unrelenting engineering is rapid while most of the political observers ly changing the face of the entire declare he cannot be nominated, vicinity, with its inspiring associ. others reply, "You can't beat tions, with only the moving pic something with nothing." candidate is Governor "A" Smith, future the appearance of the for That ture camera preserving for the of New York, who is undoubtedly dan as it the most popular individual Ameri- can to-day. He would make the most formidable candidate the De mocrats could put up, although I do not think he could win against a candidate like Mr. Lowden; but

meaning that he is opposed to Prohibition. "The reason for this is what is known as the "two-thirds rule" in the Democratic conven- tion. By this is meant that a can- didate to secure the nomination for the presidency must obtain two- thirds of the votes in the conven- ties. Now, the Southern States are both Protestant and "dry" and it seems as certain as anything can be in politics that they will refuse to swallow Governor Smith with both these disabilities.

WAS

before modern

machinery begue to divert the course of the river in order to use p nature and assure an all-the Palestine, whose rivers during the year-round supply of water for winter carry large quantities of water, but become in the summe: dry river beds.

"Greatly In Excess."

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Do (old)...$13,60 sal., 13js. Do.. (LOW) H.K. Electrica #71 bay., 71/714 sa. Macao Electrics Telephones...... China Buses Singapore Tractions......11/9 nom. Massonar. H...

sel. $18.45

$18 bay.

50 Luy *The of bay. .so.lv bay.

Cautan Icestom Malabon Bugars Comenta (combined)......$10 10m.

Do. (old;

nom, Do. (LOW)

tay. Do. (DOW)

HK. Ropas (olā)

United Asbestos Dairy Farms

Watsona

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$10 Ba

$22.00 bay. 113+ Bel, 936

$13.80 bay, 14 s

$0.60 nom, C. bay.

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Laxe Orawfords. Mackintoshs, Sinceres The power house under construc Wm. Powell....... tion will generate 24,000 hore

HK. Amusements power through it three 8,000 barst H.K. Constructions....81) nom. power turbine generator units. Abque. Indus. G. Bond....82% bay. fourth turbing will be installed H.k. Qort Loan....... 12% prem. later when definite data on the amount of water available will be bay-buyers; sel-sellers; mel

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he will probably be deprived of the While these two men are the lead-nomination because he is a Roman ing candidates to-day, even their Catholic, and because he is wet warmest supporters agree that, to win, either one of them must do so in the first half dozen hallots. To make this clear to the British reader it should be explained that After the preliminary speech-mak ing is over the Convention settles, down to ballot on the candidates who have been placed in nomina- tion. A clear majority of the de-

This power is greatly in excess of Jugates present is necessary to

anything Palestine's tiny industries nominate. On the first two or three

now need. "Mr. Rutenberg there. hallots it is to be expected that

fore is trying to persuade the Lon- various. States will cast their hal-

don directore of the Palestine Elec- lots for their favourite sons Alternative democratic candi- tric Corporation to agree to a wide who have no chance of winning. dates who have been mentioned are expansion in the activities of the Some may be obstinate, however, Governor Ritchie, of Maryland, company. Instead of merely sup preventing either of the leading who is Protestant and wet," and plying power and water, Mr. candidates from securing the neces- Sentor "Jim" Reed, of Missouri, Rutenberg wishes to create cus sary clear majority. If that hap- who is both Protestant and "dry." tomers for power by financing and pens the dark horse" may ap. Neither, however, is sufficiently aequipping industrial and agricul pear, and may succeed in attract-national figure to be a dangerous tural undertakings. ing enough strength from both to opponent to any good Republican secure the nomination.

candidate.

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A "Dark Horse,”

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This ambitious expansion would involve the corporation in the or ganisation of a credit system,, in obtaining fresh capital, "and in re- lessing whatever little foreign money there is in Palestine, while engaging in land development" in competition with other companies.

President Coolidge's "No,"* The most prominent "dark There remains the question of horse," if one can use the term another term for President #prominent in this connection, is Coolidge. The President has de- Vice-President Dawes, who is aclared as definitely as any man can close friend of Mr. Lowden, and that he does not intend to be who in the event of Lowden's find- candidate again. Many politicians, Capital From England. ing it impossible to win himsel! however, are looking for a situa It Mr. Rutenberg carries his is expected to inherit the Lowden's tion such as a unanimous call from point, the Palestine Electric Cor- strength, and perhaps détach some the convention, after a deadlock on poration, like power companies in votes from Hoover.

There may,

the other candidates, for the Pre-some great and advanced countries. however, be other still darker horses sident to sacrifice himself and will become the virtual economic who are being groomed in secret by the political managers, and who may make a sensational run on the day of the race.

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BRIDE TO DINE WITH HER MEN FRIENDS.-

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AND HER HUSBAND-TO-BE NOT EVEN INVITED,"

Lowoon, March 10th. The craze of novelty is leading to some amusing eve-of-the-wedding parties.

stand again. It is argued that he could not refuse a call like that. My judgment is that he could and would.

Royal Air Force, and is stationed at Upavon, on Salisbury Plain.

"Yes, I am having a stag party of about ten or eleven of my men friends," Miss Russell-Gregg laughingly admitted to the Evening Standard.

masters of Palestine. Already the Rutenberg company has Acquired a 1,500 acre estate for the plant in Transjordania, which, because of the light, power, and railway faci lities, will become one of the most active Zionist settlements, on both sides of the river.

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Most of the company's £1,000,000 capital was obtained in England, retura for the British Treasury the British Government guarantee guarantee, Mr. Rutenberg is oblig ing under the Trade Facilities Acted to buy all machinery in Eng a loan of £250,000 from the Praden land.

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"The machinery is of good General Electric Company provid-quality, although its cost is bigher ed another 2150,000. The Zionist than on the Continent," said Mr. Organisation invested £150,000, of Rutenberg, adding that orders for

came £100,000

from the steel have not been placed, in view Palestine Foundation Fund. In of the exorbitant prices" asked

(Continued on next Column). in England.

"Oh, no. I do not pretend they constitute the entire total of my men friends, but it is most difficult to get all one's friends together which from various places at the same

moment.

What was graced with the name We are going to meet in over. of a "bag" party a few days ago tain cocktail bar in the West End. is to be followed by a

then stag

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