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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930.

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[UNITED PÄZSA,]

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but that the present efforts of mili-

sidents here are beating a variety of fresh burdens with a philosophy surprising to those who have heard of the intolerance of the "Shang

hai mind."

tarists are alrering large areas of the country permanently for the worse. Governor Yen Esi Shan's erstwhile model province of Shensi is reported to have been saddled with staggering military burdens far beyond the ability of the people

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under present-day conditions. Yet

| lack of communications and military the international population of the activities, of food otherwise' avail-

Fort

seema disposed to acceptable. vicissitudes with better grace than it took the " good old days" of

yore.

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local currency are among the factors miles. Bandit zones are spreading which have given some cause for steadily, and within a bandit zone bitterness during the present season, life is, apt to be hardly worth living. which is always physically trying, Cities are periodically raided and and this year particularly so in a often destroyed, cultivation of crops number of other respects.

goes on only under great difficul ties, and personal liberty and even safety of life is constantly in jeo- pardy, with no authority toward which appeal can be directed,

Summer Holidays.

Shanghai Hopstul,

All these things have bad their

Built on mud flat originally, Shanghai stands to-day as a great modern city in appearance, but nonetheless the same undesirable | health risk as formerly when the summer season descends. Shanghai physical and moral effect on Chinese is hot, humid, and afflicted-in and foreign residents in Shanghai, outlying residential districts at least yet the fact remains that Shanghai is far more hopeful, far less bitter, -with clouds át mosquitoes. In former years it was possible at small than in the days of crisis in 1997 expense to go up-river to Kuling and ather resorts, but this year the the old hysteria, and the people of menace of banditry has closed these the vity appear able to face facts places to folk who prefer their and discuss them intelligently--to vacations unmixed with anxiety, and realize, as it has been anid, that only the coast resorts, Japan, and they live in China and not in some the Philippines are open.

blessed realm of their own to which the outlying hard-working Chinese owe gratitude and tribute." "

and 1025. There is almost none of

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have receirad

Instructions

TO SELL ET

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 Ar 12 O'CLOCK (NÓON) AT THEIR SALES ROOM, 4, DULDELL STREET, THE STEAM LAUNCH

#5

KUNG YICK " Lying in the Harbour," CHEUNG CHOW

LENGTH BREADTH DEPTH

116 ft. 0 ins.

.19 ft. 6 in.

8 ft. 6 in.

TERMS:-As Ustal,

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THURSDAY, JUNE 19,

AT 3 0.LOCK P.M.

Az Theit SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STEELT,

A STEAM LAUNCH

LENGTH.. BREADTH ... DEPTH

TONNAGE ...

63 Feet.

10 Feet 4 Inches.

7 Feet 2 Inches.

27,55 Gross. 18.74 Nett.

When travel on any large scale is contemplated, the dron in the value of silver must be taken into con-

Sympathy With the National' Government. sideration. In fact, the silver slumr has tightened the day-by-day budert Nanking's efforts toward stabiliza- of most Shanghailanders to such tion and national unity, have ob an extent as to render summer viously made a profound impression holidays problematic in any case. on the foreign business community Commodity prices. have riser of Shanghai. The present National. steadily, and never a day passes Government, bitterly attacked by but that the newspapers carry some the Chinese Left as a "Bund Gov-INSPECTION ORDERS ON APPLICATION.

such item as this:

Owing to the dron in exchange we have been compelled to advance the price for-butter by 10 cents per "pound, effective at once."

Importers Hard Hit,

ernment" of big-city capitalista for the peasants, is exactly the with no contact with or sympathy

kind of Government which the Shanghai foreign business-man 'can "understand and appreciate,

The individual bocats do not count for so much, but when the

Is the West a Safe Guide?

aggregate "chita" come in at the This, then, appears to be the end of the monthe the face of the fundamental reason for Shanghai's householder takes on a rueful cast. hope and tranquillity under stress Imported liquors and other items of circumstances which are bard and "have advanced one-half or, more far from encouraglig for the future. within recent months, in many Shanghai foreigners feel that China cases, and in addition to the ex- has at last stumbled upon a Govern- change slump, the purchaser of a

'ment and a governing group which motor-car or any one of several approximates the standards of dozen common imported com-Western lands." In this very fact modities has had for several months some few foreigners find cause for to reckon with the not unreasonable, perturbation, feeling that the West but most unwelcome, new rates of is not in all respects a safe guide;" the Chinese tariff.

but for the mass of foreigners here the position is as stated, "and Both foreign and Chinese import-tempers remain cool under summer

heat and commercial adversity. era of foreign goods have been hit hard by the silver alump... American exports to China for the first quar ter of the present year were 25 per rent. below those of the previous year for the same period, and American Consular officials are. To the Publishers conducting an investigation of the situation at the request of Wash-. ington; their preliminary impres- 11, sions are that other, nations have. suffered similarly, A few years ago the Chinese dollar, or yuan was far below the two-for-one level; now it takes around three yuan to buy one American dollar, and the future is uncertain and unencourag Ling. Importers can hardie profper_

-in such a situation:

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1-Hors d'Oeuvres

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9.-Lobster Toast

4-Jardiniera of Ves!

-Chicken a la Vent

G-Roast Saddle of Mutton

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