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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929.

BRITAIN'S CHANCE WITH RUSSIA.

TRADE THAT MIGHT BE CAPTURED.

CABARET DANCERS BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

AT EYE LEVEL.

RISING FLOOR" IN HOTEL

SUPPER-ROOM.

DIY

WIRELESS.

Blue Mountain.-About 50 girl students of Blue Mountain College, Mississippi, were injured as the result of the fall of a second-storey verandah.......

Mr. Arnold Bennett, that expert,

Tokyo. In view of the impera- in the miccties of hotel luxury, lentive need for economy, the Japanese the approval of his presence recent Cabinet have issued orders for the ly to a gathering at the Savoy reduction of all official salaries over Hotel, London, held to celebrate £10 a year. some new ingenuities in the appare tus of life by night. Chief among these is the rising door," which may be regarded as an adaptation of stage technique to the after din- per and supper entertainment in

Russia' need for credits, and its bearing on English industrial pro- blems were recently discussed by Mr. E. F. Wise, M. P., the economic adviser to the Russian co-operative societies, at a luncheon at the Hotel Cecil given by the British-Russian Casette, at which Sir George Armstrong, who described himself as a "port-wine Tory," presided.

Mr. Wise pointed out that credit was vital to the expansion of any

Silently and swiftly a large piece trade whatever. He did not doubt that Russian trade would continue of the floor in the restaurant rises

hotela

Rome.-The first of the two Roman galleys in Lake Nemi is en- tirely out of water and has been inspected by the Archaelogical

Comutiasion.

,"

Pirmus. Pirmus dock labourers goes are at present affected, but it are on strike. Coal and grain car- is feared that the strike may be- come general.

Coblenz.-The 23rd and 151st Froach Infantry Regiments have battalion has evacuated Bad Eme,

quietly and steadily to expand up to about the height of the tables, left Coblenz, and a French infartry

without any extra credit facilities so that the guests sitting round see from Great Britain, but the great the Russian dancers, or what not, expansion which would be advan with their spry legs on a convenient level with the eye. There is no tageous to Britain depended on

other floor with precisely these gifts fi business-like and sympathetic

in the world, though the French extension of facilities. Though Russia had suffered very severely Riviera, where the possibilities of from the civil war, her need of pleasure devices have been so scien- foreign capital was no new thing tically explored, has something rather like it. One certainly gets since the Revolution.

Even before the war the main-a much better view of that part of tenance and development of her the performers anatomy which is so much more important than their resources required some £40,000,000

heads. of new investments each year. Her crops were moved by foreign mer- chant cupital, and her trade was

Perhaps the most interesting about this introduction thing is namely,

on the River Lahn.

Southend.A sack containing the proceeds of three burglaries "com- mitted in Baxter-avenue, Southend, during the night was found beside a damaged motor-cycle at Leigh-on-

Бел

Winchester. When returning from holiday with her mother, Nora Grace Maddocks, aged four, of Cosham Bungalows, Cosham, fell from a train at Winchester, and was killed.

Le Havre. The Britich steamer Ferngarth, of Cardiff, sank off Le Havre, following a collision with the Swedish vessel Hedrum, of

All the crew | Steckholm.

safely taken off.

Munich, Dr. G. A. Weltz, of

were

financed by English and German the tyrannous necessity of finding Munich, and Professor Storm, of

banks. Her position and her need for outside capital were similar to that of every agricultural country In the world.

Leyden University, are making a series of balloon ascents in Upper Bavaria in order to investigate climatic phenomena.

ever fresh novelties to amuse the sophisticated amusement-seekers of London's night life. We have got to the point at which entertain

Rotherhithe. Following a colli ments by themselves are not enough.sion with the steamship Baltonia, No Bad Debts Since Revolution.

The way in which they are present in the Thames of Farrants Wharf, Already under the Export Creditsed must be an entertainment in it Rotherhithe, a barge with a cargo of cottenséed was towed ashore in Act credits had been guaranteed by

a sinking condition. this country in forty-four coun tries; in forty-three of them bad debts been incurred: It was per- haps hardly fair to judge Russia by the few months' experience under the Export Credits Act, but the fact remained that not only in those few months, but in the whole ten years' trading since the Revolution, no bad debts had been incurred by British traders..

self. Hence this, Arabian Nights device installed with elaborate labour and high cost for raising the whole dance floor thirty inches into the air in a moment.

According to a philosopher who was present rising floors, will soon become as commonplace a lifts, which, when they came in were called "ascending rooms,"

"and were the subject of lyrical comment. The pace is stili swifter in the sphere of dancers and the music, and it is recalled that only five years ago the late A.B. Walkley was tasting the fresh literary sen- sation of jazz, the opium dream of De Quincey without the

Although the Export Credits Act had now been extended to Russin for some months, we were getting off the mark rather slowly, and there was, Mr. Wise found, a cer- tain. amount of dissatisfaction at headache." this in commercial circles.

Aden.-There is, famine in the Hadramaut, and that disease has broken out among the camels, so that transport 18 disorganized. Many starving people have como down to the const at Mukulla.

J

BIRD WORTH £5,000.

GREAT AUK SAID TO BE

ALIVE.

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Knowing it to be the best Malted Milk they serve"Lo other kind.

REV. D. F. PIKE BELIEVED MURDERED.

SHOT IN BACK BY BANDITS 1

port

CHINESE FARMERS

PRAISED,

AN AMERICAN'S VIEW.". Washington. An extensive To-

on Chinese agriculture, in cluding both its present status and methods, was published recently by the Department of Agriculture.

It was compiled by the Agricul- tural Commissioner, Mr. Nyhus of Shanghai, the data having been largely gathered on a boat trip up the Yangtze.

ture.

Is the Great Auk, the world's

A number of reports which have most valuable bird, still alive? A contributor to the journal of the been received in Shanghai during Royal Society for the Protection of the last few days point to the fact Birds states that while staying re- that the Rev. D. F. Pike of the cently on the Lofoden Islands, a China Inland Mission, who was The guests at the Savoy had the lonely group off Norway, the dis- taken by bandits in Kueichow some Russia was one of the few coun-

privilege of a special performancecovery of an unknown bird was re- months ago, is dead-murdered by tries where production was ΠΟΥ

his captors a few days after he had above the pre-war level. In 1913 from the very latest of dance or ported to him by two Norwegians.

Their description tallied with been carried off when on one of the

"The report show that lack of there were 58,000 kilometres of rail chestras-it hails from the coconut

groves of California-whose playing that of a Great Auk, and when regular itineraries connected with way in the territory now governed marke, they say, a new and subtle shown a picture of one, both said it his evangelical, work in the pro-transportation has been the princi by the U.S.S.R.; to-day there were change in dance music, for while was identical with the bird they had vince. There is still a possibility pal hampering factor in the econo- 77,000, although during the war and

the rhythm is more emphatic than seen..

that he is alive, it is understood, miu development of Szechuan pro- the civil wars 4,000 bridges had been

The last known Great Auk was but the reports of his murder have vince, although present road-build- destroyed and 23,000 kilometres of ever the actual tone is softer and

warmer." Sir London Ronald, killed in 1843. Since then the come from so many different souring activities are considered valu- track more or less badly damaged, whose views on jazz are well known, species has been considered extinct. ces that the assumption that they able as affording help for the fu-, The present production of oil yas double the pre-war production, and put this differently in saying that stuffed specimen sold in London are correct is more than justified.

Mr. Nyhus declared that the far- The Rev. J. Crofts of the same this jazz band made less of a hell this year realised £600. coal and textiles, also showed an of a row than others he has heard. Lord Rothschild, the naturalist, mission has been making Investigamers of China have shown them- increase....

Up till now this development had It was a bold thing to ask Sir was surprised when informed by a tions in the country where Mr. selves to be skilled in the rotation been financed largely by internai Landon Ronald to speak, but no one Press representative of the suppos rike was captured, abono small of crops, as well as in adjusting

could complain of bis verdict thated find.

risk to himself, and according to their activities to climate, nature savings through taxes and the pro-if you like this sort of thing this There has always been a doubt his inquirles the captive missionary of the soil and other factors. They fits of the State-owned industries.

it the sort of thing that you will whether a Great Auk still existed on was shot in the back by the bandits have learned by experience" what

an island of Iceland," he said. a few days after they had captured the Westerners have learned ine "This island has not been visited him, his clothes and the saddle of laboratories, thus producing crops since 1833, and it is just possible

na large as the land and climatic that some of the birds might still his "horse taken, and his body

would appear to confirm the one ing in any given locality, be there. But it is a very faint thrown into a river. This report conditions are capable of develop. possibility.

published previously that the clo thes and a saddle belonging to a foreigner had been found near the rondaide in a village in Kuichow.

The missionary was an Austra- tan and had been in Shanghai for a number of years before going to Kuichow, He leaves a wife and four sons. Mrs. Pike is still in Kucichow and from all accounts has borne her husband's martrydom and her own bereavement with great courage. The sympathy of a very wide circle goes out to her and her family-N.-C. Daily News

In this way ένα years ago like."

£100,000,000 had been set aside for capital investment; last year the figure had been £150,000,000, while this year the figure had risen to £200,000,000. Next year it would be nearer £300,000,000.

agreement provided that negotia tions should start as soon as normal diplomatic reintions were resumed, but such negotiations were idle unless arrangements were made for an increase of capital investment in Russia to make possible the ex-

ence

These savings had only been made possible by going extremely short on the consumption side. This ex- plained the constar shortage of all sorts of goods needed internally, port surplus which a-debt agree such as tea, textiles, and foodstuffs, ment would entail. a shortage which was always bring

Similar Cases, commented on in the newspapers.

There was absolutely no differ How Credits Would be Used

from the cores of Austria, Russia, needed foreign credits to Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and supply investment for such capital other States where a settlement of purposes as generating-plants, rail-war debts had been accompanied ways, harbours, and ships, expendi-by the necessary arrangements for ture which any business would fin- capital investment. There could be ince by the issue of debentures re- no question of a loan from one payable over a period of 10 to 20 section of British investors to pay years out of a depreciation fuad off Russia's creditors, What Russia Russia had been almost entirely deprived of these long-term credits, although she had been able to secure short-term credits for textiles and food-stuffs and agricultural ma chinery.

wanted was a long to finance the export of plant and machinery to Russia. The Russian authorities were prepared to come to an equit able and business-like arrangement, but it would be fatal for the negotiations to get involved in moral and metaphysical claims, for Russia, believed he could, carry on without a loan in the future just as she had in the past ten years. She knew it would be difficult, but the five years' plan

was based on this assumption.,, ' •

...

She needed more credits for all these purposes. Thus, though she now owned 32,000 tractors, chiefly bought from America and Germany, compared with a mere handful in 1922 she needed not 32,000 but 300,000, which she could put to good. and profitable use. Her credit, Mr. Wise pointed out, was steadily With regard to the future, Russia improving. He had recently analys could not afford to default, for it ed the credits given by a group of she prospered she would require leading British firms for the export more loans, while if she did not, of machinery. In 1923 Russia had only a loan would stand between But even if to pay cash, in 1995 the average her and a debacle. credit given from the time of ship there was a risk we ought to take ping was three months, in 1928 itit, for all British trade--the Indian was 16 months, in 1927 17 months, and the American trade, for ex in 1928 21 months, and in 1020 35 ample,-had been built up on risks, It was vital that we should accura inentha.

Mr. Wise concluded by examining new markets, but since 1925 our the question of security for loans Russian trade had dropped a quar. and the allied questions of cutter, while America and Germany. standing debts and claims Russia had increased theirs in proportion. "thed-always been prepared, he said. to negotiate business like setile ment. and the recent Henderson (Continued on next Column.)

This and every Government;".

Vicoyonglided is go think of Bouth Wales as well as of Bouth Kensington,

"A live specimen to-day would fetch any fantastic figure which 2003' or private collectors, cared to pay.

Mr. Edward Valpy, F.Z.S., who rented 50,000 acres of the Lofoden Islands for some years, said:-

Almost anything could exist on these islands. They are unutter- ably lonely and desolate. I would like to believe that the Great Auk was still there."

"If the Auk is still alive it might be worth up to £5,000," said another naturalist.

The farmers possess adequate crop knowledge, in Mr. Nyhus' opinion, but they lack collective organizations outside the families and also lack official leadership. Thus the processes of stabilization, of the, agricultural situation are retarded.

At Chengte there is evidence of One indica- proper progress in the use of mo dern improvements. tion of this, according to the American observer, is the fact that

street widening. the city officials are in favour of

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