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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 13th, 1928.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO-DAY

TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS:

THE CREATION OF A NEW STATE

DR. MASARYK'S HOPE.

time-table.

HIDDEN BARS IN NEW YORK

SOCIETY HOSTS AS BARMEN.

[BY W. BULLOCK.]

NEW YORK. "Wanted-Experienced drink- mixer. One who has had experience dating back to ten or twelve years ago preferred. Private family,"

This advertisement is no joke, but serious application for barman. Behind it lies one of the strangest and most amusing coase- quences of prohibition. Society in New York, not to be defeated by the Valstead Act, has equipped its own private bars.

-NAVY AND SALVAGE

SERVICE.

"' JERVIS BAY” RESCUE„

WHO BEARS THE COST?

HOW MANY ARE THERE?

RICKSHAS, CHAIRS, MOTOR DRIVERS, &, da

THE C.S.P.'S ANSWERS.

The report for the year 1927 of the Captain Superintendent of Police answers such questions, upon RUGBY, July 11th...

which we occasionally speculate The assistance rendered by the idly, as to the number of rickshas Navy to the Australian Common and chairs" in the Colony, and wealth liner Jervis Bay last month the exact number of people who get an easy and lucrative living by was the subject of further ques-changing our money-lor entirely tions in Parliament to-day."

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POINTS FROM THE 1927-

POLICE REPORT.

STOLEN PROPERTY. #613,2974

There were 230 gambling cases in 1997 as against 233 in 1920

Mendicants dealt with numbered; 145, and of these 491 were sent out of the Colony once and 41 more" than once,

The police found during the year 1,317 dead bodies.

74 banishees were "birched of whom 13 had had a previous taste of this punishment.

The estimated value of property stolen during the year. was 8613,293.30 as aguinat 8484,389,51] in 1926, an increase of $127,910.83) or 26.4 per cent. "...

"Whose taste, exact For accurate fact Amounts to a disease." Licencas,

during the year :-).

The following licences were issued years is $587,790, 13.

"Ten years ago, when I came to Czecho-slovakis as its frst Pre sident, there was no bread to eat.

Theme was ɑnoraiwny

inadequate amounts. The follow- The postal ser-

Asked as to the cost of auching may of interest to those vice was disorganised and unsafe,"

assistance, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, Thus President Masaryk in conver

said in the absence of details it sation a few days ago. "By the end

was estimated, at £500, but until the of the present year the Republic

Very often the host will himself full circumstances were known be will bare completed its first ten

acb" as barman, encouraging his years. I have spent a few weeks guests to imitate the jolly would be charged to the owners of could not say whether this expense of observation in Bohemia, Moravia, diness of the old swing-door and Slovakia, and have formed an saloons. Hilarity is the rule of the" impression of the work done in moment. Take one example. A those few years by a new State famous lawyer has his own privato bar. It adjoins his law library, on faced at the outset with unmeasur. the walls of which hang autograph able difficulties. Even without the ed portraits of great American comparative background recalled lawyers and statesmen, by President Masaryk the present spectacle of affairs in the Be- public would be impressive. Those are free from the people who Trianon complex or who like peace

and constructive work will find

something to enjoy and perhaps to admire in what has been done by President Masaryk and his lieuten

anta.

Frosted mirrors and lively pic tursa adorn the walls. The favourite cuspidar nestles against the brass foot rail of the counter, glasses and bottles of liquor stand gallantly la

one

the vessel.

It was the duty of His Majesty's Ships to give every possible aid to vessels in danger or distress, said Mr. Bridgeman, and if the services rendered came under the heading of salvage services, the Crown was prevented from claiming expenses under the Merchant Shipping Act.

Ho added

that the word

rows. The cocktail shaker is ready.salvage" was interpreted in a

The host himself, divested for the moment of his legal seriousness, rather wide sense, and he was ad- may be seen with large baahyvised that if there was any mutiny, eyebrows, a long waxed moustacher piracy or plunder 'concerned, the and wearing the overall of the time operator of drinks in the assistance rendered would be cover Building A New Cabinet.

saloons. On the counter in fronted by the word salvage." It is no fun, or it is strenuous of him lies a huge rubber mallet. fun, building a new country from with which from time to time ha its foundations even with Dr. keeps in order a too vivacious Masaryk as master-builder, It is spirit by gently tapping him (or still more strenuous when the work her) on the head. Dice and gam has had to be done in the back-bling games are at hand. wash of 1914-18 and against the re- It is reported that London has sentment of German and Magyar supplied the latest novelty for dépossédér. Yet after only ten making drinks. It is a top hat Fears the Magyars, Germans, and with the crown carrying tiny flasks Slovaks in Slovakia and the Ger- holding liquor for cocktails with a mans and Czechs in Bohemia are diminutive shaker to mix them pro- well ahead in welding their interests perly. In America the chemist and harmonising their feelings; Dr. shop (drug store) sella everything Spina, a Bohemian German, and in soft drinks, cigarettes, food, und Dr. Mayr Harting, a former Aus- medical requisites

two years.

"CONSIDERATION BY THE V DOMINIONS..,

CABLE AND WIRELESB REPORT.

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cerned, but he hoped it would be possible to publish the report and arrange for it to be debated in Parliament before the end of the session.

Public Jiariekabae Private Jinrickshas

199 1,717

930

Public Chairs Private Chairs

810

191

Drivers and Bearers

17,185

Truck Licences. Motor-cars (Livery)...

1,018

349

Motor-car (Private)

1,000

Motor-cars (Drivers) Motor-cycle (Licences) Motor-cycle (Drivers) Money Changers .................... Pawnbrokers

"9,717

511 420 200 119

"Motor Flanda. ** total number of persons

The ed as Motor Drivers during the year was 876 as against 884 in 1996

The total number of persons passed as motor drivers during the year was 680 as against $76 in 1926.

The total number of accidents reported during the year was 611 As against 503 la 1996.

The total number of fatal acci- dents was 39 as against 34 in 1990.

The total number of motor-cars examined and refused Licences during the year was 116 as against 91 in 1926.

The total number of motor-cars examined and granted licences during the year was 680 as againet 361 in 1996.

RUSSIA'S CORN.

THE PEASANTS.

RIGA.

The average for the last Ave

The values of property recovered during the year was $63,308.25” or: 13 per cent. of the value of the property stolen,

against $53,359.30 or 11 per cent. of the property stalen in 1826, an increas of 9 per cent,' în ratio between the property stolen and property re- covered:

On the 18th April, 1997, Euro- pean Revenue Officers searched a Chinese marriage boat in the har bour and seized 6 automatic pistola, with spare magazines, and'. 690, rounds of ammunition. Five per sons were arrested of whom one, quartermaster of a Blue Funne!

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Roger, July 11th The Prime Minister, in the Houss trian German, both Deputies in the The story is told of a Philadel of Commons to day, said the report present Parliament, have been memphis lady who came down to New of the Imperial Wireless and bers of the Government for the past York and entered a drug store to Cables Conference had now to be GOVERNMENT PLAN TO OUST AT THE EASTERN EXTENSION,

buy *particular brand of examined by the Governments of Truly to asacas political values cigarette. The shop was in the several parts of the empire con- in Czechoslovakia an English visitor

shady! part of Manhattan. has to adjust his focus to conditions "Certainly," said the clerk behind which in some ways offer a sharp the counter, and opening a door contrast to English conditions. One he escorted the astonished lady in has heard a good deal about the to a private liquor selling estab **Slovak problem." The Slovaks lishment. It happened that the themselves, a. I discovered when I name of the cigarette she wanted was visiting Bratislava, make a was for the moment. the password point of referring to their language to the bar. Two factories across always as Slovák, never as Czech. the Hudson are turning out Yet the difference is slight. A genuine "antique" bars for pri native Slovak of Bratislava would vate homes-Daily Mail. converse with a native Czech of Prague or Brno much more easily than a native of Manchester would converse than a Cockney. There is

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Addressing a meeting of students of the Moscow University Agricul tural Faculty, Stalin, Chairman of the Central Executive, reported that before the war Russia had. between 15,000,000 and 18,000,000 small farms. With the division of large estates the number was now approximately 25,000,000,0

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no "Manchester problem." Nor remember that the Republic is a there a Slovak problem in any new State. In England, by con important sense. What is true is trast, you have a State with old CAPT. CAMPBELL'S CHOICE. only obtaining a third of the grain that since the Republic was divided a year ago into the four adminis trative districts of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia and Ruthenia, the Slavaks have been perhaps more conscious than before of their

A Good Bit Of Work, distinction rôle. Dr. Hodza, how-

"That was the task when I came ever, the Slovak leader, Minister What it means is that we have to

Cabinet, deputy for a Slovak con- We have to weigh consequences. stituency, is as much at home in When we came here after the war Prague as Mr. Bonar Law ever was Bohemia and Moravia, being the in London

richest countries in the whole of Austria, had been impoverished, exploited by the army. There was no bread when I came. The first work was to provide wheat from America, from Roumanis, from other sources. The post was in such a tate in 1918 and 1919 that we had to be careful in the sending of money-letters. Money was not safe in the post, and was often lost. At the railway stations there were no time-tables. I goods were sent by rail, for instance, eatables or clothing, they were in danger, for

There were two courses open to the Bolsheviks. They could make RUGBY, July 11th. increased concessions to the farm- Barometer... Captain Malcolm Campbell, the ers, permitting them to sell grain Temperatury

motorist, after to private buyers, or they could Humidity searching along the British coasts intensify repressive measures and Wind and on the coast of Denmark for the system of confiscation, at the Direction

Force a suitable place for attempting to same time supporting the project break the world's fand speed, re for huge colony farms to grow Weather cord, has decided to make an at-grain for export.

Rain. 1. PUQ.10 The Government, said Stalin, had Het open-air Temperature, 11th:98 tempt in the Syrian desert in the

decided to take the second course, Lawast open-air Temperature, 12th: 81. and he urged students to prepare themselves to lead a movement to colonise peasants" group farme."

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Two women displayed great pluck when a fire broke out in the boot and shoe shop of Mr. R. Bakez, in Kong Clothfair, Smithield, E.C. An eye- witness said;

An Englishman used to the poli- tical quiet of the British Isles would find it & little tiring to be trans- planted into the political atmas- phere of Central Europe. If Bir Austen Chamberlain goes abroad the fact in itself makes no differ ence to the even tenour of English politics. It happens that Dr. Benes

(BRITISH WIRELESS BERTIČK has lately visited London, Berlin, Paris. It is known that he was dis

Rucar, July 11th cussing the Kellogg Pact. I saw him when he was in London and I

The Upper House of Convocation saw him in Prague when he return the people had been bereft of every-to-day placed in record the deep ed home. His first business was to thing they possessed. combat a rumour that had been State began with a minus, a sense of the loss it would suffer in "Year by year I watched, got the approaching retirement of the strenuously propagated in Central

Miss Bourne, who occupies, the Europe that his object had been to figures from my Ministers, and saw archbishop of Canterbury, who s canvass support for the formation how by and by the post office, the eighty years of age and has prearst floor, made her way through

amoke and flames up the staire Fri. of a Danubian Federation with an railways, etc., could be reorganised sided over the Convocation for

to warn two elderly women who anti-Italian bias! Such a rumour, So now our machinery is in good twenty-five years. totally divorced as it was from all order. That was the work of the nctual fact, could not simply be dis-new State. In addition we had to missed as silly. Its subtlety lay in ereasa an army, not a big army, but its relation to the current agitation an army. It has been created. It about the Treaty of Trianon,

is in working order. And so on. To travel through Czechoslovakia One of the biggest things we have in its tenth year is to receive an done has been done in Slovakia and impression of intense expansion, Ruthenia, There were no schools industrial, agricultural, and social in those provinces. There are now The number of buildings in the Re some 3,000 in Blovakia and about public has been doubled. Prague 1,000 in Ruthenia. It costs money, bas a whole new suburb, others are and has been a big financial opera- springing up, Bratislava is about tion that

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The advance of the Chicago new port, but a new building for money. We have succeeded, as you' its University a few miles outside know. Our Budget balances. We Federal Reserve Bank's re-discount the town on the bank of the Danube, have already paid our debts. We rate from 4 to 6 per cent, which Before 1918 there were no facilities have made economie treaties with anticipated, all expectations, im for navigation at Bratislava, Germany, with Austria, with other mediately affected the Stock Mar- The cultural exhibition now being countries. The Little Entente is ket prices which fell off sharply held at Brno gives an impressive our ides. We have two German following speculative selling and monument of ten years work. As Ministers in our Cabinet. All this liquidation by nervous traders. the Republic will celebrate its tenth has been accomplished in a short The Josses ranged from five to anniversary this year I asked Pre time In the old Austrian days twenty points and also embraced

sident Masaryk when I saw him at there was a continuous national investment issues. Lany Castle if he could give me a fight. Now there is some progress, Call-money rates advanced to snapshot of the difference between some hope. On the whole it in a seven per cent and the market what he found when he came to good bit of work. I may say I am closed weak, it being felt that it Prague in 1018, and what he has not satisfied. Lam an old man, but is merely a matter of time before the satisfaction of seeing now. I hope before dying I shall be the other Federal Banks follow

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