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No. 23036. 「號陸拾捌仟萬弍第叁拾弍月陸年申壬 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932. 式拜禮 日陸拾式月柒年式训佰玖仟麼英 Price

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POLITICS.

VIGOROUS VIEWS OF A SOCIALIST

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MENACE OF JAPANESÉ COMMERCIAL

RIVALRY.

BY COMMANDER J. M. KENWORTHY, R.N.

So we are going ahead with a new Indian Constitution!

"Ranji" Gives a Lead.

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(July 18.)

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Settlement Day. ".

Rotary Club Tiffin: Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.

Whist Drive at Civil Servica Cricket Club, 8.30 p.m.

Lawn Bowls-Spey Royal Cup: Taikoo R.C. r. Civil Service (Police Green), 4.30 p.mf.; Open Chapion- ship: F. Cullen L. de Rome, B. We have already had a magnifi-W. Bradbury . W. Bussell (Club It involves a compromise accept-cent lead from his Highness Prince de Recreio), W. H. B. Muskett r

L. A. Gutierez (Kowloon 8.0.0.), able to no one im Indis except a few

| Ranjitsinhji, the Maharaja Jam 5.30 p.m. job-hunters And it will not help Sahib of Nawanagar, who, after

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay the greatest need of India-im-the Viceroy, occupies probably the Hotel, 8 p.m. proved trade.

In announcing the Government's intentions this week Sir Samuel Roare scarcely referred to India's

commerce.

King's Theatre: "Two Kinds of

Queen's Theatre: "The 'Sin of Madelon Claudet,"

most induential position in India, for our old friend and cricketing Women," hero “Hanji" is Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, and can speak for rulers governing one-third of the area of that vast country and lover 70,000,000 of her people.

For thirteen years I listened in Parliament to arguments about In- Many of the most important dian"reforms." Trade was hard- merchants in Bombay are his sub. ly ever mentioned. The trade of jects; he rules over an important India, and particularly Anglo-In- maritime State which he has de- dian trade, is being ignored during veloped and modernised in a mar- the academic controversies now in vellous manner since he succeeded' progress about the reforms." The to the rulership.

Central Theatre: "Murders in the Rue Morque."

World Theatre: Wild."

Star Theatre: col"

"King of the

Abraham, Lin-

Garden Theatre; "Tabu." Majestic Theatre; "Secrets of A Secretary,"

air is thick with discussion about Speaking out at the request of Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; franchiera, provincial councils, the most substantial mercantile Dinner Dances at Hong Kong federal administration, and the rest interests in India, "Ranji " has | Hotel, Poninsula Hotel and King's of the trappings of a Constitutional declared publicly: Government on European lines.

Trade, commerce, industry, agriculture are of prime import- noe for the grent Oriental sub- continent.

That the commerce of India. and particularly her trade with this country, has been neglected.

That if the business men of India and the business men of Britain would get together, with- out political interference, they could draw up the heads of a com- mercial treaty that in a few years' time would double the trade between the two countries.

Of the 320,000,000 people in the two Indias-British India and Padian India-about half of one per cent. are interested in politics. Even the Congress Party uwes its driving force to economic condi- tions. Congress certainly obtains His Highness is not speaking the bulk of its funds from mer-only of the Indinu States, but of

chauta dissatisfied with business British India slao. conditions.

What is Congress,

The Silver Standard,

The universities turn out law

No one knows the actual mem-yers, doctors and philosophers by |bership of the Congress Party, but the thousand. But it is extraordi- a year ago Gandhi himself told me narily difficult for an Indian youth that it had only 800,000 paying to obtain technical or scientific in- members.

struction or a course in business management.

The vast majority our fellow- subjects in India are primarily interested in the same things that interest us--the means of making A living.

For two thousand years. India has acted as a auction pump, drawing in precious metals to be buried or bangled.

Restaurant.

Tides:-High at 3.15 and 13.30; Low at 0.34 and 20.10.

WEDNESDAY.

(July 97.)

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8 p.m.

Lawn Bowls:-Spey Royal Cup: Kowloon C.C. r. Police R.C., 4.30

p.m.

Bliarda:-Final of Soldiers'

Club Billiard Tournament, & p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Sin of Madelon Claudet."

Centrai Theatre: "Murders in the Rue Morque."

King's Theatre: "Two Kinds of Women"

Star Theatre: "Abraham Lin-

coln."

World Theatro: "King of the Wild."

Garden Theatre: "Tabu." Majestic Theatre: "Secrets of A Secretary,"

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant."

Tides:High at 3.30 and 14.53;

There is an understandable com-

No one has been able to calculate plaint raised loudly by Lancashire the wealth of India's gold hoards; from time to time when an extra but in the evidenco presented to heavy duty is imposed on lier cot-the Senatorial Committee at Wash-Low at 11.2 and 19.52. ***

Home Mails: Inward from ton exports. But the constitutionington on silver this year it was mongers seem more interested in reckoned that fifteen billion ounces Europe via Suez by Ranpura; Out- juggling with franchises and de-of the white metal were in the ward for America and Europe via vising means to enable illiterate secrect possession of India's three San Francisco by Chichibu Maru, electors to vote with coloured balls hundred million people.

8.30 a.m.

of wool than in seeking means of Yet we drove India off the silver developing what is probably the standard, forced her to adopt a dominate the Indian market by greatest potential market in the gold standard, and stabilised her book or by crook. They have en rupee at an uneconomically high Three hundred million Individu- [Jovel.

world.

gaged in an orgy of dumping com- pared with which anything we have als, male and female, in India can- When I

was investigating in experienced in this country has been not read or write. Still, they un-India two years ago there was one child's play. derstand buying and selling well conversational precipice over which The Japanese are imitators, while enough, and they know perfectly we invariably plunged, whether the ancient industries of India were well that, owing to various trading was talking to a prince, a noble, a' original. Two hundred years ago and economic difficulties, their crops peasant, a merchant, or a soldier; fetek a low price, and they have less and that was the high valur fixed money with which to buy necessities. for the rupee,

We hear far too little about the commercial possibilities of India... Delegates to the last-Hound-Table

Japanese Dumping...

The other complaint of the manu Conference, and distinguished In-facturers in India was about Japan, dians now in this country, bave ex-whom they looked upon as a great pressed to me their amazement at commercial danger. our neglect of India's commercial possibilities,

all the finest cloths and materials came from India. „She still has a tremendous naset in her skilled and artistic workers.

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India happens to be still 'our best customer to-day, as we are hers. But how greatly this mutual trade could be increased if trust and con- fidence were restored and suitable The Japanese are determined to reciprocal

arrangements made; be.. (Continued at foot of next column) Tween the two countries !

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