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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930.

SILVER SLUMP AND CHINA UNREST.

TRADE RESTRICTIONS AS A FACTOR,

HEAD OF BRITISH CHAMBER VOICES SHANGHAI VIEW.

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Not the least interesting part of the exhaustive review given by Mr. R. Calder-Marshall, who presided As the 15th annual general meeting of the British Chamber of Com- merce in Shanghai on April 15, of commercial and financial conditions

in China during the past year was his referenbe to the drop in the value of silver and its connection with internal conditions in the country; Mr. Calder-Marshall säid, in part:-

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To the unsettled conditions in the interior and to the restrictions on trade must be attributed'in small degree the depressed state of the silver market and the low ex- change. Were trade normally pros perous China could absorb a very considerable quantity of the white,

metal which now clogs the market; and as the price of silver depends upon supply and demand it scerns cbvious that were there greater absorptive power in China than' exists at present the silver position would show an improvement.

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PRINCESS' LIFE IN POVERTY.

DESTITUTE IN TWÒ ROOMS.

LOST GLORIES.

Story of tragic pride and faded splendour lies behind the sale in America of Napoleon's famous neck, Jaen, which was valued at £80,000,

on behalf of the Archduchem Maria Therein-sister-in-law of the late

Emperor Francis Joseph-who is now reduced almost to poverty in her old age.

The woman, who is reported to have received only £1,454 for this precious heirloom, was once the most powerful at the brilliant Court of Vienna, and is believed to have held the choice of peace or war for her country in her hands in 1914. ""

Since the mysterious affair of the necklace she has shut herself up in despair in the two rooms she retained in the immense modern palace in the Favoritenstrasse, the cupied by business concerns. greater part of which is now oc-

Is she paying the price of a great defeat and the verge of ruin?

Hated Serbia..

She is believed to have influenced the old emperor deeply against the Serbs, and it is stated that in 1814 she threw all her influence into the balance to urge the emperor to attack the country she hated.

But the greater part of her fami-

and these were confiscated at the ad of the war, leaving her almost

penniless.

The archduchess refused to bow to fate. She lived almost alone after the death of the Austrian Court official.whom she is believed to have married secretly after her husband died.

At the request of the Minister of Commerce and Industry the Chamy's estates were in Czecho-Slovakia, ber submitted its views on the silver question. While definitely against any attempt to increase, the price of the white metal in China by artificial means, such as duty or Lembargo, on imports, the Chamber strongly advocated the concentra- tion of the energies of the National Government on the few provinces under its control with a view to the removal of restrictions to trade and the stimulation of commerce and .industry. Such measures should have the effect of securing prosperity in these provinces and relieving the local silver situation, and the logical result of such con- centrated effort should be the spread of prosperity which should be a strong unifying factor, a more lasting unification than could be secured by force, as applied "in China.

The fall in the value of silver has accentuated the unsoundness of the system on which the usual indent trade is carried on at present. It kas demonstrated the need of arranging Solpe means whereby erchants will be able to secure reliable information not only re- garding the finances and standing of the dealers with whom they are doing business but with regard to their commitments also. A know- ledge of the value of these Intter is essential to the formation of a correct estimate of business. which can be done with reasonable safety. Piece Goods Association,

As a result of a suggestion made Chamber, an attempt is now being made to form an Association of Piece Goods Importers. It is hoped not only that the association will be formed bug that it will be well and conscientiously supported by all piece goods importers. It is only by co-operative effort of this kind that we can to some extent restrict the activities of unscrupul- ous dealers of the "Ningpo mo' far"-type, and at times of market depression avoid undue losses.

by this Chamber to the General

Unfortunately the commercial morality of the average Chinese dealer has deteriorated very con- siderably during the past twenty years and it is necessary to adopt some protective measure--protective alike to our interests and the good name of the better class Chinese dealer, whose grcdit suffers as a re-

recent years.

sign her title and privileges at the She indignantly refused to re-

request of the first Socialis Re- public in 1918, or to follow the ex- ample of the Archduke Francis Salvator, son-in-law of Francia Joseph, who vowed away the succes- sion of himself and hig children far over.

The archduchess was therefore not supposed to live in Vienna, but even a republie can be chival rous at times. and especially in the case of a dignified, courageous old aristocrat.

She was born an infanta of Par- tugal, and came to Vienna in her. les Louis Hapsburg. youth to marry the Archduke Char-"

Her striking beauty and magni- fernt carriage gave her a powerful influence over the Emperor Francis Joseph, and it was only due to her intervention that the heir to the tbrone, the Archduke Francis Fer-

dinnnd, whose murder at Serajevo precipitated the war, was enabled to marry the woman he loved, the Duchess Hohenberg.

whom

thek Court considered of inferior station.

Great Music

by Great Artists

Lovers of the best piano and orchestral music will welcome this month's release of Victor Red Seal Records. The outstanding features pro Schumann's "Carnaval" completely recorded by Rachmaninoff, and a Mozart symphony played by Toscanint and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Both of these pieces have been popular on the respective programs of these artists. Whether or not you have heard their spirited interpretations, you will want to own their records so that you can listen to them again and again. · And those who go in for modern opera will be delighted to know of the arrival of an album of records from Debussy's famous “Pelléas et Mélisande." We cordially invite you to call ut our store. We will gladly play these or any other Victor recorde for you."

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Symphony in D Major (K. No. 385) (Mozart) Orfeo ed Euridice-Dance of the Spirits (Gluck) (Act 2)

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Songs My Mother Taught Mo

(Dvořák, Op. 55, No. 4)

2. Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakow) Song. Without Words, In D

(Mendelssohn, Op. 109) Fioloncello

PABLO CASAL No. 7193, 12-inch Rio Rita (from the RADIO picture,

"Rio Rita") (McCarthy-Tierney) « Only a Rose (from the Paramount

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RICHARD CROOKI No. 1448, 10-inch Siegfried-Forest Murmurs-Parts I and 2 (Waldweben) (Wagner) (Act 2)

WILLEM MENGELBERG AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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No. 7192, 12-inch Adagio (from Concerto in G Major).

(Mozart) Violin Sarabande and Tambourin

(Leclair-Sarasate)

MASTER TEODI MENGHIN No. 7182, 12-inch

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Don Carlos-0 dön fatale

Fatal Gift) (Verdi) (Act 3) La Favorita O mio Fernando-

(Oh, Dearest Ferdinand) (Doni. zetti) (Act 3)

SIGRID ONECIN

Élégie-Parts 1 and 2 (from String Serenade, in C Major) (Tschai-. kowsky, Op. 48)

No. 7191, 12-inch

FABIEN SEVITZKÝ AND THE

PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER STRING

SIMEONIETTA

No. 4151, 10-inch Andrea Chénier-Un dî all azzurro

spazio (Once O'er the Azure Fields)" (Giordano) (Act 1) ]

La Fanciulla del West-Ch'ella mi

creda libero (The Girl of the Golden West-Let Her Believe) (Puccini) (Act 3) ARMAND TOLATTAN

No. 7183, 12-inch

All Through the Night (Boulton-

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My Lovely Celia (Old English)

(Monro arr. H. L. Wilson)

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SEE AMERICA

LAST."

INTERESTING US. TRAVEL

FIGURES.

(UNITED PRESS. ]"

In view of the recent visits to the Colony of several round-the-world tourist ships, the following statis- ties giving the figures and details of American travellers are of in terest,,

In the past, as has been said, the functioning of the Provisional Court has been most unsatisfactory Disregarding, the slogan "See and it remains to be seen whether America Firat," more native-born under the new agreement there willUnited States citizens visited for be any improvement. A court freeign countries during. 1999 than from political interference and ad- ministering justice impartially and naturalized citizens who expeditiously would be a boon to commerce and would do much rà establish a feeling of confixience which at the moment is sadly lack- ing. The future will tell.

commenced.

made visits to their homelands, accord ing to a passport survey compiled by the Department of State.

The report showed that of 198,920 citizens who were granted passports during the calendar year of 1029, 110,081 of them were native

Chater Road.

Censored; The Private Life of the

"PRIVATE LIFE OF Movie"

THE MOVIE.”

FARCICAL CENSORSHIP

AMERICA.

NO FLASKS; KISSES OR TIGHT TROUSERSI

[UNITED PREAS.]

Six states have boards of movie censorship, according to Messrs." Errat and Lorenz, and the wor thies on these six boards carry the IN Lburdens of the nation. Surround- ing states, unwilling to take the responsibility, depend upon their favorite board among the six for

Thus decisions.

West Virginia usually leans upon the standards of the Pennsylvania board, Missouri takes the Kansas board's deletions as a sufficient safeguard, and so on.

`. Sweethearts Must Not Bun, titude, West Virginia for instance, As a result of this trusting at-

state's trent is another

New York, February 28-One poison when it comes to movie cens state's

tion just completed, and, whereas sorship, according to an investiga-

eliminated from all subtitles and

in Kansas the word "whisky" is

no character is allowed to be shown thumbing his nose at anything, in New York nose-thumbing "and whisky are permitted but no col- luloid character under any circum- remark about politicians, stances is allowed to pass an ugly

depicting a lover advancing toward his sweetheart at a gallop because

is preserved from scenes in a movie

in Pennsylvania sweethearta muust Likewise Missouri is forefended walk, not run, toward each other

from nose-ihumbings und all scenes showing flasks or bottles, nud was on one occasion, at least deprived of the necesity of choking back its emotions at a close-up of hairpin. This because all such are anathema to Kansas censors.

In stately Virginia, celluloid de-

Pare Lorentz, motion picture cri- tie of the magazine “Judge” and Morris L. Ernst, prominent "liber- a lawyer, told the United Press picting chorus girls kicking bare that they have spent a strenuous

legs has been forbidden ss has also a scene in which a lady, intent and occasionally hilarious year in

upon making herself beautiful, attempting to classify and arrange for public consumption the idiosyn-bed her hair in front of her crasies of the boards of movie cendressing table mirror. In Ohio sorship in the United States. They the customers, among other things. found out some odd goings-on, were deprived of the spectacle of which they believe explain the low estate, artistically speaking, in

The results of their labours are which the celluloid drama reposes.

in A volume called

duchess at ease with one leg on a chair. Alan actors are forbidden te leer at Salvation Army lamies in Ohio, no matter if the lassie is well-known Hollywood star and the leor is more or less inti-

- Extraterritoriality. The unilateral declaration by the born and 80,846 were naturalized Nanking Government on December American citizens. That tourists 23, 1929, abolishing the extraterri comprised nearly half of the total torial privileges enjoyed by British was shown in the abulation of and some other nationals on Janu-Object of Travel," which showed ary 1, 1930, has made no difference that 94,051 or 47.78 per cent listed their object as "travel," and the whatsoever regarding the extrater ritorial status of British nationals larger part of the remainder, or 34,60 per cent, their object as in China and does not modify in family affairs, indicating that any way the oft-repeated policy of

this number was made up mostly HIM. Government regarding China, sult of the actions of dealers whose In accordance with arrangements, by the naturalized Americans who word and bond are equally unre-negotiations for the gradual aboli returned to their native countries

during the year, liable. If we do not take mesaurca tion of extraterțitoriality were

As to destination, Western gathered to protect ourselves we shall be about to be started and as Mr. encouraging others to gamble with Arthur Henderson pointed out the Europe drew 60 or 38 per cent of our money, taking all the profits British Government merely accept the total. A total of 133,470, or professional men and women who mately connected with the plot. In 67.78 per cent, listed Western were doing their travelling after the case of David Wark Griffith's and generously allowing us to bear ed January 1, 1930, as the date on the losses, as has been the case of which such negotiations were to be Europe as their destination, and finishing their life's work. "Hou"Drums of Love," the disappear the Department report stated that wives" comprised the next highestance of continuity in Ohio showings The deterioration in commercial Though preliminary negotiations it is believed that practically all figure, 25,047, or 1218 per cent. at some points may be explained morality is without doubt very have already been opened with Nan- of an additional 38,727 or 15.65 Those under the "miscellaneous" by a blanket order deleting scenes сате next, with showing the hero "in tight trou- largely due the ineffectiveness of king it would appear that further per cent, who listed "ali countries" classification legal action taken before the Pro-progress must be delayed owing, to as their destination, should come 20,914, or 10.62 per cent.

It was interesting to note that visional Court; for though judg. the fact that while the negotiations under the heading of Western ments may be secured they are not are concerned with the extraterri-Europe, Eastern Europe, with a next to these three rather inde finite clamos, ordinary labourers made effective.

torial privileges of British nation- total of 10,615, or 5.39 per cent,

visitors than Latin comprised the next highest number. The functioning of the Provision- als throughout China, the Nanking drew more al Court has become a byword and Government has, at the moment, America, Mexico and the West 16,343, 6.30 per cent, proving that a large number of, the labouring knowing what little prospect there only partial control over this area ladies, which were combined tog is of securing redress for evaded and cannot consequently give such ther with a total of 8,074, or 4.10 class in America can save enough money for trips abroad. Ordinary obligations, most of us have saved definite assurances and pledges as per cent. The number listed for

the Far East and East Indies, labourers were listed separately our money and either compromised must be required.

per from skilled labourers, the latter with the dealers or shouldered the Chinese nationals resident in combined was 4,720, or 2.40

numbering 6,085, or 3.00 per cent loss rather than attempt to obtain Great Britain enjoy full protection cent.. satisfaction through the Courts.

up the Jargest Twenty seven occupations, the Students made and absoluta security for life and The recent revision of the Pro- property, Similar security and pro- classification "none" and that of number next to labourers, with 5.60 per cent, followed visional Court agreement has been testion is necessary for British re- "miscellaneous," the latter mean- 11,095, viies of such comment and eriti-udents in Ching. We mis asume ing all occupations not otherwise by teachers with 10.79% or 5.48 per cism. The agreement may not be that in any gradual modification specified, were listed under the cent. Next in order. came clerks The and secretaries, listed together, perfect but it must be remembered which may be made in the present heading of "Occupations." that even a perfect agreement would status of British subiects the nose" classification headed this totalling 10,910, or 5.54 per cent. be valueless unless those operating British Government will insist list, with a total of 28,128 or 13.12 Writers, reporters and priests were it were imbued with the right upon adequate anfeguards being per cent. It is believed that most not extensive travellers, being the provided to ensure ample protec2 of these were retitid business or three lowest figures of the twenty spirit...

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tion:

scrs.

Maryland censors do not object to kisses, but they object to kisses which find their target on the neck. More than 100 kisses on the neck were cut from movies during six months of the Maryland crusade against seck-kissing.

Because of the present rage for gangster and "racketeer films, however, the New York board of censors has been experiencing one of the busiest years. In the movie, "Me, Gangster" they changed the title: "No more work for me now-I've got a real politician's job," to read: "Good news-a poli- tician's got me a real job."

Items involving crime caused sa percent of the cuts, sex next, taste" next, government next and religion slightly more than half of one per cent. -