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SCENIC AND

VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932.

Money and Markets

(Continued from Page 3)

JAPANESE EXPORTS custom of the country that anTMlm="

TO IRAQ.

FLOODING THE MARKET.

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U.S. RAILROAD COMMISSION

MR. CALVIN COOLIDGE HEADS COMMITTEE

· [NBUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]

FIFTH OF WORLD'S SHIPPING IDLE

INCREASE OF NEARLY A MILLION TONS A MONTH

The Intdat returns of Inid-up-ship-:

STORM

HAVOC IN SCOTLAND

NEW

(Contjaued from Puge 1.)

ERTISEMENTS

THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUE,

ÑÓGRAMMES and ENTRY

PROGRAMMES AUTUMN

In a short time the whole station | RACE MEETING to be held in Macao ca Banday, 16th October 1982, may be obtained at The Sports Club, Hougkong

or, approximately, 21,000,000 dead till only the tone portions were weight tons, representing one-fifth, standing. of the works mercantile marine.

Buckle Damage.

The' quantity idle in Great Bri-

tain, it 18 per cent, is not quite up

reached 33, in

Mesars. Peroy Smith, Beth & Fleming, 6, Des Voeux Road, Central,

ENTRIES Close at 4 P.M. On THURSDAY, 6th OCTOBER, 1932. (12602

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY

CLUB..

For two hours at about four DRAFT Programmes and Entry Forma for the Eleventh Katra the perpratore ha but in do'clock in the morning Buckie ex Race Meering to be he'd on SATUR- France 28, in Italy 23, and in the storm, with terrifying peals of OCTOBEN, 1932 (weather permitting) pericnoed An intense electrical | DAY, 8th and MONDAY, 16th

thunder.

may be obtained at the Becretary's Office, the flub House, Happy Valley, Hong Kong Clah, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Hoad,

United States 24.

ping throughout the world show a staff were at work. Seeing it was retailer to porter guaranteed

further general increase, notwith-impossible to save the buildings | Jockey Club Stables, or at the Odloss of whom_be_sold a portion of a ship.

standing the extra absorption of they rescued books, tickets, and all tonnage into certain seasonal trades, ment that he would not reduce the

movable-furniture New York, Sept. 28. such as the Baltic, Montreal, etc., price of the rest of that shipment |

The roof. fell in 20 minutes after railroad says the Journal of Commerce. A NON PARTISAN before a certain date, until the re-

1. Compared with a month ago, there the station was struck, and the commission has been formed, is an increase of nearly one million building continued to burn fercely tailer had had a chance of dist

| headed by Mr. Calvin Coolidge, in- tons gress at 14,115,000 tons gross, Basra, Aug. 5.-An extraordin-

posing of his purchases at a reason! arily intensive invasion of Iraq able profit. Nowadays, no importer cluding Mr. Alfred Sinith, former by Japanese cotton and artificial are so anxious to dispose of their presidential candidate, and Mr. INDUSTRIALas been taking place stocke that they throw them on an Bernard Baruch with the object of

for the past few weeks, with the already overcrowded market at al- result that Japan has almost swept most any sacrifice. One well-known the re-organisation of railways, result that importer off the map. Bagdad merchant is reported to recommending legislation regarding on have recently disposed of a bal them and protecting investors who British goods, which once

ance of a shipment at a discount hold railway securities. manded the market, are at the mo Every Britisher should responsible for less than 10-ef no less than 45 per cent on the per cent of local textile imports, price which he had asked, and ob- know something about the Japan's share being over 70 pertained, for the first parcel of the cent. The stream of Far Eastern shipment. Naturally such tactics dirre- leave the retailer no chance, and Dominions, which comprise goods is coming from two

tions, by son in Basra, and over-a kind of mild panie prevails in the greatest common wealth and by motor-truck across the business quarters, of nations the world has ever | Syrian Desert. The latter inva sion is said to have been originat known. Here is Hongkong'sed by a recent Egyptian ruling which has temporarily prohibited chance.

Japanese Imports in that country, As a result importers on the wes, ern side of the Syrian Desert sud- denly found themselves saddled Fwith large quantities of goods, and apparently decided that Bagdad was the best market, and, dumped them there accordingly.

Price-Adults-Cts. 20.

Children Cts. 10.

A Job?

Consult

the

WANT ADS

OIL FROM IRAK

HOPES TO EXPORT 4,000,000

TONS.

The only consolation for Man- chester lies in the fact that higher class Manchester goods have kept their prices remarkably well. Mor- London, Soptember 17-Thabit chants are so grateful for this that Abdunoor Bey, director of petrol

undoubtedly Manchester's name

stands very high for the moment affairs to the Government of Irak, in the bazaars Could Manchester who intends to visit all the oil pro- only succeed in finding some meansducing countries, has arrived in of effectively entering the cheap! market with some materials that London from Bagdad. could be retailed at a price at A curious and almost mysterious which the native could afford to Irature of this new trade invasion, buy, one has good reason for be which has even left the efforts of lieving that her old customers the Russian Soviet completely in would be very willing to return to the shade, is the fact that impor- her. Unfortunately, independent ters assert that they can import, business observem here believe that Japanese goods at an even more Japanese goods can be shipped here favourable figure than the present extraordinarily cheaply, even with cheap rates, once their present out allowing for the depreciation stocks are exhausted. As a result, of the you, and they therefore re- the bottom has gone clean out of gard the new competition as per the local market. It used to be a manent.

POWELL'S

ANNUAL⠀

SUMMER SALE!

Now Proceeding

FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY

Large stocks will be cleared to make room for the NEW AUTUMN GOODS now arriving. Here are a few of the bargains. There are many more which you should not miss. As an introduction to OUR NEW PREMISES we are allowing 20% Discount off all regular stock for cash.

Oddments in RAINCOATS Usually $17.50 to $27.50

Now $12.75

FELT HATS

at $5.75, $9.75

Oddments in

SHIRTS

at $3.75

GOLF HOSE

From $1.00

Oddments in

Silk and Cotton SOOKS

at 75 cts. per pair

BOOTS AND SHOES.

at $9.75, $12.75

PULLOVERS and

SWEATERS

at 25% discount

BOW

TIES

From $1,00

DO NOT MISS THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Wm.

POWELL, Ltd.

The Gentlemen's House

Queen's Road Central-Ice House Street Cörder.

He declares that the Irak oil com- panion expect to export four million tons of oil as soon as the pipe lino is finished. This total will be dis

between the principal) tributed groups composing the Iraq Petro- leum Company, viz; the Anglo-

The following table shows the quantity of idle tonnage laid up in the more important countries, their total ownership, and the percentage Iaid up according to the latest esti. mater:

Total Idle ownership. tonnage.

G. tons.

1

Great

Two dwelling-bouses Western Boad wore struck, and, but for the charge earthing down a gaspipe, it would have completely demolished the buildings.

The lightning struck a double chimneyhead, barst a hole through G. tons, pc. the stone wall of an upper bedroom, U. Kingdom 18,072,000 3,470,000 18 emerged behind a picture, entered U. States 13,442,000 3,211,000 24 the next house burst the slated 4,105,000 1,375,000 33 roof, tore wallpaper off, and ran

083,000. 28 down a gaspipe which it burst. $43,000, 20 The house became filled with goa, 803,000 25 and the damage to the property 305,000 20 was extended owing to the rain 332,000

France

Germany Norway

Italy

Holland

Japan

Denmark Sweden Greece

יז'

3,557,000

4,107,000

-9,391,000

2,004,000

240,000 20 167,000 10

getting in.

After a sultry night the storm broke suddenly about 3 a.m. 180,000 12 Aloray and Banffshire, and for nearly three hours afterwanis sleep was out of the question.

138,000 11

4,255,000 -1;181,000 1,718,000 1,470,000. Spain

1,265,000 Other

countries 8,489,000 1,608,000 20

Total 09,743,000 14,115,000 29rine is lying idle in various ports.

The number of vessels laid up rase, The German Increase.

from 300 on July 1 to 392 on Ang.

gross tons. Another 70,000 tons are not included in the official statistics.

Persian, the Royal Dutch and Shell, Berlin, August 17.-About 35 per 1, representing an increase of 110,000 American and French.

BOYISH AMBITION

Dear Kiddies;

I

cent of Germany's mercantile mi- (Continued on next column. )'

The Children's

INK

DO YOU KNOW:

UNCLES AND ANTİS

No. I have not spelled, it wrong,

When I was a boy, nearly all my friends decided that as FOOD asly. they grew up they would be engine. As a matter of fact I have spell drivers. Now on my way to the ed the title u that new way to office this morning I was thinking make you think of relations in a about those days. I opened my now way, post, and the first lotter began:

Dear Uncle Jack,--Please tell me related, to your own uncles

Of course you know how you are how one learns to be an engine driver."

Corner

BY

UNCLE JACK

SECRET CODES

The word "code" in really term used to designate a system of laws properly classified.

Codes were first made by the Gothic fribes as well as by the Romans who formulated many codes of listatie importance."M-1 cluding the Theodosian code aum- merising the Roman laws from the And time of Constantine to 433 aunties and probably. you know As well as these codes there is tod of the relationships of animals, the more modern idea of "sceret First of all, an engine-driver be how your cat is a little cousin of, writing. For example here is one gins his service as a cleaner in the the great tiger and how the dog of the simplest shede To start with he must be at and the wolf are members of the least 5ft 4ina. in height and pass same family. a health and eyesight test.

Everything in the world has ite Straight from the beginning he own family and relations-even the has plenty of opportunities to very words we use. learn At the sheds he can watch

..

the fitters at work and can pick anti. For, of course, you have Now you know why I spelled it up countless tips. Of course, he used members of the anti family. Anti herself was a Greek word, when she was young.

must study mechanion and tho theory, of engines at home in the evenings...

Inspectors keep careful watch on the young apprentice, because they are always consulted before pro motion to fireman is made.

Then comes the

when great day his job is on the footplate. Care- fully he poles all that the driver is doing, and slowly but surely learn all about signals. When he is considered to be sufficiently ́ex- perienced he is given a slow goods train to drive, and this startz his life as a driver.

It may, however, be many years before ha geta further promotion. to the coveted position of a driver of a main-line express

Choorio.

ABCDEFGHIJKLM ZYXWVUTSRQPON

With this code we substitate a letter, say, on the top line for one

and for "p" put down "E" on the lower line and vice versan. That is, for "A" put down “Z”

Now say we want to write " The Children's Corner, we do it like this "GSV XSKOWIVM'H XLIN. VI."

She meant against or in opposi tion to. So that words beginning with anti form the opposite of the abstituting the proceeding letter. same words without anti. Sounds That is B for A. C for B, D for C,

Entrios close at 18 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 2011 SEPTEMBER,

· 1932.

By Order,

G.

B. A. SLEAP,

Acting Secretary.

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NOTICE.

APPLICATIONS for weeds are invited from ali Landlords within the Bider Main Areas.

In the case of all applications. received from the 18th August, 1932, to the 31st October, 1932, for metered connections in the Kider Main areas the connections will be made free of charge.

Applicants should obtain applica

tion form from the Water Authority, Public Works Department, to whom. the forms should be returned when. duly completed.

B. M. HENDERSON,

Water Authority.

Panic Work>DEPARTMENT, Hong Kong, 18: 8 pt, 1937.

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PUBLIC AUCTION..

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Bale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the dad Day of OCTOBER. 1939, at 3 P.#., at the Officer of tla Publio Werks

by Order of H25 EXOELLENOLTREG MOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND Bhumikuipo, is the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 70 yeats, commencing from 1st July, 1838. with the option of repayal at a Crown Rent to be fired by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY EU KING, for one farther ter of 24 years lees' the Inat thres, days

there

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Between

New Kowloon Inland

Lot No. 1941

Kowloon Inland

Lole

Nos. 187 and 1803,

No. of Bale

Begistry. No.

Locality.

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Another useful code, is that of KING'S THEATRE complicated, but it's easy. Septic hand so on, and A for 2, So if SATURDAY, 1st OCT, means poisonous, so antiseptic we wish to writ Daily Press in means that which acts against pui this code we do it like this: DAILY at 5.10, 7.16 and 9.30 P.M. Boning influence. A trade wind is" CZHKX ODRR" Now write uno that helps ships on certain some letters to your friends";

courses, but an anti-trade wind is

no that-blown in the opposite direction,

You must not mix up Anti with her Latin cousin Ante. She has n different family, and meaus quite another thing I'll tell you how to find the sales another time, but you will have to get up early, for they are early birds

Now see if you cân, guess what auto menns before I tell you.· Ás n inatter of fact I have told you.

JOLLY OLD

SCARECROW

We have a jaily old scarecrow. I always call to him "Hello!" "Hello!" I say, "Hello!!! says.

That's just the way ho answers-

M

No one but me can henr, bim

though,

They think he's only a scarecrow! He is a ichny old scarecrow i Sometimes I sen his; sont tails

blow And then I laugh out loud and

bo

Oh, o just laughs and langhe

They

They think he's only a

ASK THESE

Q. How do bees dispose of their honey

A. They tell it.

Q. If you threw a red brick into the Black Sea, what would it become?.

A. Wet.

Q. What is it which the more you take, the more you Icavo behind

A. Footsteps..

BIRD ADDITION

Add H and this bird is thá ̈? ory of a wolf.

II-ovi

Add D and bird becomes many people.

Add Er and this bird turns into a podlagi

Hawker

Add Off and this bird is vérð Hur gry:

RAVENOD

Add Ed and this bird har

Bwallowed.

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