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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931.

NATIONAL ECONOMY ROAD RACING IN BRITAIN DEATH OF AGED

v. "EXPENDITURE.

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lated by the natural fnetinet of self-preservation, which amongst Anglo-Baxon nations is stronger than it is amongst Latin ones. There is a growing distrule of the credit of the Government, and v

growing suspicion ...the Govern munt securities are not of the glit odged nature to which the maxim "safety frat n be applied, 1 is this distrust which has caused the anomalous phenomenon of BEATCe money at home concurrently with high prices, and choop money

HOME OFFICE VISITOR TO IRISH T.T.

CHINESE.

MOTOR ACCIDENT STORY. DISPROVED.

Belfast, August 1Mr. Alfred. Short, Under-Secretary to the British Honda Office, is in Belfast DIED FROM PNEUMONIA. having a look at every plinan of the organisation of the British Car Grand Prix.

The rice is to be run on Saturday on the Ards circuit, five miles from the city boundaries.

He will attend in his official capacity the practices on Weduss day and Thursday, and will also be present throughout the race Saturday.

'An unusual series of circumstances, which culminated in the death of

THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING.

RECOGNISED, BY FAMOUS.

... BREWERIES.

PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF POLICY OF PUBLICITY.

Advertising history was mado Chinese, seventy years of age, when, in 1922, Arthur Guinness, was revealed at Control MagistracySon & Co. decided to launch a big when Mr. W. Scofield, sitting as advertising campaign. The results Coroner, conducted an inquiry into of that decision provod, beyond any the death of the old man,

shadow of doubt, the wisdom of the

From the evidence given, it would appear that the deceased was Board in abandoning a policy a native of Amoy who landed in which had been followed for years,

speed, and the narrow main streated to the morning, when he faile ever since the coal strike of Jase. of Combor village.

Safety Moamros,

WEALTHY GANG IN THE DRUG TRAFFIC.

AN AGENT TRACED TO LONDON

also discovered in the trunk, loose to one of thirty lins, each contain among the packing, several labeling 1 kilo of morphine hydrochlo» « of another British arm

ride, exported under loonco in Authority to Export.. ¡March, 1929, 'by the "mikors to the It was ascertained that the firm of "M. E. Koch, of Pärin, whờ 'heroin had been exported in Osto-had furnished an import certificate

ber, of 1999 to the firm of A. C. issued by the French authorities. Faret in Paris, and that very prob. The particulars were communicat ably the morphia seized also formeded to the French Government in part of the consignment exported July, 1930, with the request that a to this firm on the same occasion. thorough investigation might be The authority for the export bid made Into the whole chas with a been given on the production of an view to ascertaining how those Investigations made by the import certificate issued by the dangerous druga ronchod the illicit traffio No information in regard French Authorities. British Homo Offico have led to the

The loose Inbels discovered with to the case had (up to August 1, nurtallment of the activities of the seizure were similarly ascertain 1991) been received from the French. wealthy international of drug led to have been"originally attached Government. traffickers.

VAST TRADE SHOWN BY

·PAPERS.

gang

An agent of the gang was traced to London, and the boarding house where he was staying was searched.

was engaged in illicit activities in four countries France, Germany, Turkey, and Japan,

His plans include, if it is posHong Kong on August 19, boing In the year 1928-20 this famous It was 'discovered that the Japan- abroad concurrently with heavier sible, a visit to the various point than on his way to Annam to look Irish Arm, of hrowers began to ex-gnug for whom he was acting gold backings. For prices are of danger. high, for all that really matters in

These points will include the for a son who was working there. Inmily budgets, despite the elaborain street of Newtownards, located a nephew in Hong Kong perience falling ate Lables which endeavour to through which racers go at top and stayed with him that day, going sales, in prove the contrary, and the pain

returi at meat time, the ful fact that wholesale prices are

nephow, fearing that something had so low as to be unprofitable. It

happened, sent out a party to search is these, and the Take's progress,

for him, but without success. which as a nation we have been pursuing, which has so, weakened sterling as to have, necessitated a short time lean, by the Bank of France and the New York Foder al Reserve Bank, to the Bank of England, of no lest thng £60,000,000,

Committee Recommendations Involve Sacrifices.

lling revenues. English furt, had been declining

In the last quarter of the financial year,, ended June 30, 1020, the Directors decided to extend their advertising field to this country,

immediately and the returns for that quarter took

upward

course.

ad

Successful Campaigns. In 1926-20 net profits were £2,200,338. During the following

In nt Joast two of the countries- Germany and Japan-the authori ties were able to put a stop to the gang's operations

He will review all the measures taken by the police for the protes

As an example of the enormous: tion of both the public and the

"An Accident"

demand for drugs for the illicit racers, the medical organisation to deal with casualties and the vast of his uncle was when he read a The next that the nephew heard

traffic, another discovery modo in crowds which watch the racing. He paragraph in a Chinese nowspaper

London is illuminating.

S |· London, firms: revolved an inquiry will the accompanied almost every to say that an old man (name given)

from Japon for shipment to Shang- where by Mr. Bates, the Home had been admitted to the Govern

that of no faway than: ::1,400; kilo-: Secretary of Northern Ireland.ment Civil Hospital following &

grammes of herain -3,100lb.; or Each Bill promoted in the motor accident in Stubbs Rond. He

WAK nearly 300wt. British Parliament for permitting visited is unclo there and learned

annual report on Dangerous Drugs. Ticao facts ara mentioned in, tho motor racing on roads in England that he had a severe pain on his has been killed by Home Offies right wrist which he said had been year the advertising campaign, made by the British Government to opposition

which had so far proved highly the League of Nations. It is stated It was also the Home, Office in caused in a motor tccident. fuenes which brought about the Civil Hospital, in evidence, stated

Dr. Thomas, of the Government satisfactory, was intensified, and that drug addiction is not prevalent

in Great Britain. insertion in the Road Traffic Act of however, that the man died Ave continued over the full 12 months. There were no seizures of im the clause making road racing days after admission and that the The result was that instead of showportance, of drugs, in: Britain dur- illegal

found ne marks of external injuries cause of death was pneumonia. He ing for the fourth successivo yearing the year 1930, nor was there any” indicasion of illicit tráffidòn consistent with the theory that he

another shrinkage in proats,more than a very small scale in the had met with a motor accident there was an increase to £2,522,074 country. The doctor went on to say that a for 1929-30 The annual report post-mortem examination showed no which came out recently showed a internal injury. Decensod's right lung was sodden as a result of pneu decline in profits for 1930-21, and monia, but all other organs were while this is, of course, attributable normal.

to unemployment and trade depres sion, the previous year's experience suggests that the fall might have been really serions if the Board had decided in 1928 not to spend anything further on publicity.

One of the most striking features

As the law stands, motor racing, in Britain would not be possible until a short Bill amending the Road Act was passed.

0 FOR 0-DECLARED.

BRIGHTEST CRICKET.

GM Trunks in West-End..

The report gives the following

exo agent," Tsunamitau by name :

account of the tracing of the Japan-

Following a warning received from the authorities of the Nether- lands that Katsutoshi Taunemitsu, who had been discovered to be responsible for a shipment of 100 kilos (220lb.) of heroin smuggled from Constantinople to Hamburg, but scized at Rotterdam in transit, had fled from Hamburg to London, Were made, and Tsunamitsu was discovered to be residing in a boarding house in

There were two bruises on the top of the scalp and a fracture on the right wrist. The fracture was very Reduced to a one-day match be minor in character and the bruises cause of rain on the first two days, also were not serious. The doctor the visit of Surrey to Glamorgan was of the opinion that the deceased nt Cardiff would certainly have might have fallen against rond ended in a draw had not P. G. H. embankment in trying to get out Fender and M. J. Turnbull, the of the way of a motor car and in respective captains, resorted to the doing so his head must have come of the Guinness advertising "push" expedient which B. H. Lyon, of into contact with some rock; the must surely be that it was embark-North London. Gloucestershire and F. E. Green-fracture to the wrist might have Dead on despite similar endeavours by

eurred at the same moment.

This loan, which should never have been necessary, became so he ogitse of a threatened "fight from the which perturbed the Bank authorities and the Government, Even more ominobe, however, is the prospective further drain of gold from these shores, in spite of the raising of Bank Rate twice within a week. The pumps no longer functions properly, and the credit of England is no longer what it was. It was those grave circumstances that rendered" no cessary the doubtful expedient of the inercas in the fiduciary issuð, by no less than £15,000,000, in or der to enable, ordinary currency. demands for notes to be, met. Such an isuue, unbacked by, any." thing except the waning credit. of an effeta Government, is no more or less than inflation; th securities for it and for the nor mal fiduciary issue are Goveri ment, short-time promises to pay what it has not got, and can only honour by the dubious device et

dational printing more: «paper. economy is thus the only alterna- tive to inflation; followed by bank ruptes, and grentually the repu diation of debt. The methods by which the May Committee seeks to redress an adverse balance which threatans disaater, involve very heavy sacrifice's by many sections of the community which. have hitherto escaped alinost, unscathed. Its incidence is to be deplored. On In their second innings, however, the other hand, it must constant the Burrey batsmen hit hard and I be Berat in mind that all other aften, Hobbs practically sacrificing ginssen have already horno or are his wicket in an effort to score runs bring more than their share of quickly. After Bandham had com the country's burdens. It is time pleted his century Fender again de that burden was better distribut dared the Surrey innings closed ed, and the recommendations of with three wickets down, leaving Sir George May's Committee on Glamorgan to get 215 to win and National Economy will enable a hours 45 minutes to do it in. start to be made in an adjust Amid intense excitement Glamor ment which has already been tougan made the runs with three

wickets and 20 minutes to spare, long delayed.

wood, of Yorkshire, adopted two months ago.

On that occasion gach side declar ed after one ball had been bowled and allowed to go for four byes, But Fender and Turnbull went one better, the single ill that was tent down not being seared from, so that the score card read 0 for 0 innings declared closed,

THE STABILISATION ISSUE.

What's happened to those fulminating leader-writer-men Who proved to us so forcibly the power of the pen, And glibly wrote of silver-basis; gold and even yea

When Clegg and his financiers were here t

There scarcely passed a single day but what some leaderette Brought forth a host of arguments (which crities promptly met) And these were capped by other ones, as wild as any yet,

In hopes, perhaps, that Clogg would lend an ear.

These, men, maintained that merchant firms and banks were in the

wrong,

That we should base ourselves on gold, while China rolled along On silver; all their arguments, they claimed, were very strong:

In fact they almost proved that black was white.

They also urged insistently that we should stabilize, And while we were. about it, give each citizen a prize. (The cheek of their demand, of course, they didn't realize):

Our dollars would be doubled overnight!

Among their many reader there were some who couldn't seo That this was simply clamouring for things that used to be Before the wretched slump had hit, not only you and me,: But everyone with savings anywhere...

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These simple folk (who'd lost the modest fortune they'd possessed); Desiring now to get it back, with compound interest, Were fired with futile hopes, believing journalists knew best:

On looking back, I ask you: Was it fair 1

It seems n longish time since all these arguments held away, (How much was written tongue-in-check 'tis not for us to shy); The Currency Commission left the Colony in May

And no one writes such lenders any morn., One cannot say for certain what the experts recommend, But something seems to tell me, their conclusions will defend The case for liver parity-So what will be the end!

We'll carry on precisely as before!

The question of whether deceased other brewers on a lavish sonte, and met with a motor accident remains, yet brought a remarkable reward M 5. Rosselet stated that to the business. shortly after midnight he was going duwa Stubbs Road when he enw the man in a squatting posture right in the way of downward bound vehicles:

"Its success was so marked that another important decision was in Auenced in the brewery trade in the

investigations

gether with two trunks discovered

His rooms and belonginge, "to

to have been stored with a 00m- patrioting the Wont end, were searched under a warrant issued under the Dangerous Drugs Acts, A close examination of the docu ments discovered disclosed that Tsunemitsu was the agent of a wealthy gang of Japanese drug traffickers, for whom he was an gagod in smuggling dangerous drugs in very large quantities from Constantinople and Hamburg.

Motorist's Evidence.

case of Meux's Brewery. The Meux Mr. D. A. Ten Grotenhuis told his Board had been of opinion that Worship that at about midnight on advertising by brewery companies August 12 he was driving, up Stubbs largely conducting a “tied house/ Road when he felt that his car trade might not yield the same re had bumped into something when rounding a curve. He went on until suits as those relying on free trade, the road straightened out and then But, apparently on the ground that stopped the car and went back on

even a smaller percentage return, the road to see if anyone was in-

Ho found no one on the so long as that return yielded ad jured. road. An examination of the car ditional net profit, was worth hav-don, which could usefully be follow- showed that the left mudguard was ing, Merx decided to launch aties concerned, and, it is under ed up, were supplied to the authori- slightly damaged. Before returning

Now Source of Supply. The information thus obtained disclosed the names and addresses of a considerable number of illicit dealers, principally in Turkey, France, and Japan. Copies of all the documents, discovered in Lon..

Germany and Japan which follow-

the netivities if the persons con- ed resulted in a stop being put to cerned in those countries.

to his car, he stopped another car national. campaign under the stood, the thorough investigation in which came up Stubbs Road and slogan, "But the best of all is a inquired if anyone had been seen on Meux." It is too carly as yet to the road, but, received a reply in the negative.

eny whether the Board's action is Sub-Inspector, Nicola stated that yielding satisfactory results, but it The examined Mr. Grotenhuis' cars known that the business of the

the next day and found that the

The case was also important as derivative of morphine, benzylmor establishing the fact that the phine-supplied under the trade

paint on the mudguard, which was undertaking is proceeding satisfac slightly dented, appeared as if it torily in spite of trading difficulpae peronin which had hitherto had been scraped by a rock.

The Coroner, in his summing-up, informed the jury that in view of the evidence they would not be Justified in finding that Mr. Groten huis' car had anything to do with the accident.

The jury retumed verdiet of Death by natural chases,”

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

YANGTSZE RIVER-SOUTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE.

tice,

As there was no evidence that

been considered to be innotuous, was being used by drug traffickers Watney, Combe Reid & Co., for conversion into a dangerous Truman, Hanbury & Buxton and drug Bass, Rateliff & Gretton have all Taunemitsu had engaged in illicit tried, extensive advertising, and transactions in the United King maintained it subsequently in re-dom he was not detained. He im- mediately "disappeared, using a cent years, but there are many big passport in another name fraudu brewery 'companies which still seem lently obtained from the Japanes to be doubtful of the wisdom" of Consul-General in London, nation-wide publicity.

Morphine Smuggler.

No information was received that any person Dr firm in Great in Britain had been engaged smuggling drugs abroad. "In one

Conservative Outlook, The enlightened view is that now is the time for this conservative case drugs manufactured in Great Notice is hereby given that on, or outlook to be abandoned. Recent Britain and exported abroad under about October 6, 1931, and without results of several brewery com- licence (issued upon the production further notice, the Tungaha Light-

of an import certificate of the vessel, moored in the South Channelpanies have revealed the fact that Government of the importing coun entrance to the Yangtze River, will after several years of rising earn-ry) were seiked in the illicit trafic, be temporarily withdrawn from herings, trade depression and reduced The particulars of the case ar station and replaced by a relief spending power of the public ars

given in the report' as follows: light-vessel. A S

The relief light-vessel is painted beginning to make their influence red and has no name upon, its side. felt.

The light, which is dioptricnf

one

In March, 1030 the Home Office was informed by the authorities of the United States of Amarien that, Boll had attempted to the fourth order shows a fixed should give serious commideration the s.e. fale de France two trunks One concern, in particular, which smuggle into New York on board white light varied by an eclipse to this question of advertising as filled with morphine and heroin, every 10 seconds, thus E

an offset to lower salca is Hoare & and that Bell had immediately re- Light

Co., Ltd. This is one of the under turned to Europe under the name Eclipse

takings, in which Sir John Eller of Jacob Bloom man is interested. In recent years

5 seconds 5 seconda

and is visible in clear weather, for

a distancs of 11 miles. MTWAN During foggy or thick weather, fog ball will be struck ono blow every 16 astonda

Bell was detected on arrival at

it has expended beyond all recogni- Southampton and found to be iden- of the London trade, with a four had previously been convicted for tion and now is one of the leaders ten with Harry Weinhouse, who century record behind it.

smuggling opium into England from France. He was refused leave

In order to show the direction in which the light vessel is riding, It is becoming increasingly ob- a white riding light will be exhibit-vious to all large business firms

ed from sunset to sunrise at the that advertising is not something bow, at a height of 12 feet above that should be turned to as a las the dock

report when trade is slacking off and the firm is almost in extremis, but a very profitable undertaking that should have place in the regular administrative policy every commercial house;

On the completion of the repairs to the Tangsha light vessel she will be replaced on her station and the teliof light-vessel withdi With out further notice.

to land and returned to New York. where he was charged and sentenced. to g1 yeare' imprisonment.

The drugs in the trunks were dis covered to be the product of several European manufacturers, including kilogram (2b) of morphine-and kilogram-of-heroin-bearing-the labels of a British dru. There were

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