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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24. ̄ ̄ 1919.

SODA FOUNTAIN HABIT.

SEEN THROUGH BRITISH EYES

GERMAN NEWS AND VIEWS.

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CIGAR STORE

Our distilleries, like our other property, are distinctly personal and individualist: We avoid hot drinks like "tes, which in this matry is apt to be only alleged. But we have, devised a real 'London, December 9.-The Mr. P. W. Wilson, writing alternative to gia and bitters German Prees now contains a The drug store looks proe-good deal of evidence that from New York, says —

On December 1 brewing beer perou It is the foundation economic arguments are begin- will cease.

No revolution is of every akyscraper, on which aing to play a large part in all expected, as in Russia when the whole fabric depends. Re-non-Bolshevist calculations in vodka was out off; but people are move the drag store, and New Germany. It is, indeed, obriona saking. abrat passports for York would fall to the groand. that, if a National Assembly is England, where they hope to be Bat the saloon is not nearly so soon elected, and if an agreement ti free from taxation and temper-clean or attractive-not, at least, is reached about the future con- ance. Iam quite serious, and those that I have visited-and stitutional and political structure, you must expect a considerable liquor is obviously on the down-the success will largely be due to indux of American refugees after grade, Cocktails before dinner economic fear of any extreme the war. It may mean another are reduced to egg-cups, and Socialism and to economic ex- flag day, for our millionaires are the who imbibe are glad of peetiations about the peace. much impoverished.

the share of those who don't.

All moderate reformers seem At the movies all the laugh is to agree that the Prussian Pre- DEMOFITRATIONS AND FULL PARTICULARS, ON APPLICATION TO This contury is at oure lively

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sen into a saloon, which is what On December 1 immense stocks foreign opinion, even more atten- makes the soda fountain so pop-of brewers' grain will be releasedtion will be given-always assum- ular. The medical view is that for food. Many breweries willing that Germany does not really icod-water kills, and this I can become cold storage. Of the ten collapse-to economic stability confina from my own experience. thousand salons in New York than political stability. But other iced- mixtures are about one-third will drop their It is clearer than ever that wholesome, and numbers of these licences, which cost £300 in cash. Gertian economists see the fountains have been sent to our They do not care t, speculate on whole German future in troops in Mesopotamia.

two months' trade. Many eligible terus of foreign credit. Thus

Here the soda fountain is usua- corner sites will be available for Professor Max Weber, in his lly located in a drug store, where drug stores. In this State, sup-learned articles in the Frank- custom is divided between tonics posed to be wet, about twenty further Zeitung on the constitu- and ice cream, each physic saisons have, on local option, just tional problem, writes - ting the sale of the other, and gone entirely dry.

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Can the bourgeoisie be shut ous economically, as its political impotence leads laymen to sup pose? Whether one regrets it or hot, it is not the case. Both tem- where ou quaff amid the A meeting of representatives porarily and permanently our The other day. 1 of leading British manufacturing economic conditions make it sluak into a drag-store and stole firms, organised by the Associa impossible. The temporary a menu card. It has more than tion of Great Britain and France situation is simply this that one hundred items of refreshment: to encourage British mant-not only our whole process of and you can take them like tunes facturers to exhibit at the laterna reorganisation, but the simplest ou an organ in permutations and tional Fair at Lyons in March, reconstruction and the combinations, all the more 1919, took placent Princes Rooms feeding of the people, will for numerous because our organs here recently. Almiral Sir Charles years to come require credit. ring chimes of bells like Dandas Secretary of the Associa They will require foreign credit, A. TACK & CO., Bruges. The list included ❘tion of Great Britain and France, and, to put it quite plainly, they bot fudge, peach "Melba, sail that the two cations which will require American credit. honey float and tulip ice, with showed themselves before the war Nobody should be deceived about strawberry cobbler, mint freeze,most energetic in trade were the the fact

our inevitable grape rickey, and metal-ops Germans and the Japan, both economic subjection. Sunrise. Sometimes you drink of who owed their saccess Now, & purely proletarian through a straw, which is bygian, chiefly to unity and Government Government, however good in ic, or fou use a long spoon, support. Commercial unity in itself, will not get credit abroad. which takes time. If you want this country would mean that weits methods the printing to catch a car, you merely drink. could easily demand and get Gov-machine for the manufacture of Anyway, you sit perched up at a erament support. The Lyons notes, and confiscation-shift the high counter on a stool with one Fair, which provided a great burden on to the shoulders of a leg to which you cling with your opportunity to manufacturers to future generation without bring- ankles. There is an immense extend their foreign trade, would ing relief, and must lead directly sale of spots.

take place at about the same time to economic control by foreign The drug store is thus an that peace should be declared. countries. Only » Goveniment emporium for health and hap-M. A. Victor, Deputy Mayor of and economic system of bourgeois piness. It is well lighted, cool Lyons, said that the Lyons Fair structure can get crallt. Faced in summer, warm in winter, and would be, perhaps, for ever closed by the choice of crediting a scrupulously clean. You can to German firrus. Next year's particular sum purchase note paper or a picture fair would be a record in every bureaucratised apparatus of a postcard and write to a friend. way. Exhibits by British manu. Socialist system, or to a syndicate You may talk, you may blush, or facturers would be admitted with of free banks

industrial you may read a newspaper. No tout payment of duty, so long as organisations, foreign countries conceivable expenditure will they were afterwards returned to intoxicate you. You come out this country. inevitably as sober 18 дочь went ia. But you have

into gut

your

the system required amount of sugar. What America has done is to substitute internal for external fermentation.

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Professor Weber goes on to declare that all the talk of "nationalisation of finance and industry is sheer nonsense while Germany absolutely needs vast amounts of foreign capital. Thas the German economists, although they are hurriedly preaching the need for various reforms, such as the breaking up of large estates and heavily graduated taxation, expect re- volutionary changes to be pre- vented because of the need of obtaining forsign credit through a demonstration of stability. Their other great hope is, of course, the third of

other means of maintaining All the harder afterwards will be President Wilson's 14 points-existence than by international the compulsion to the utmost

the removal, so far as possible, economic agreement.

economy. A people weakened [of all economic barriers and the In one of its first proclamations by millions of dead and disabled establishment of and equality of the German Revolution an-will have to produce produce trade.conditions among all the nounced the eight-hour day, and for the indemnification of the nations conserting to the peace, assuredly the shortening of work Entente, for the widows and and associating themselves for is an extremely desirable goal. orphans, for the disabled soldiers, its maintenance." Herr Arthur But does the Revolutionary for the raw materials and Feiler, the Frankfurther Zei Government yet know how many food which we shall be tung's economic expert, is now hours a day every German will forced" t buy abroad at writing argent appeals for the in fature have to work for the enormous prices and with our: display by Germany of demo-Entente, if the Entente is able to depreciated currency and for the cracy" in the economic sphere. put through in their full extent payment of the debts that we

its disgraceful indemnity de have made abroad during the war What is Europe after this monds?

The writer argues that Ger- war? A colony for American In any case, our fate will be many can get through only with capitalism. In future the whole very grave, even if we are spared the help of President Wilson's world will owe tribute ou an all the further misery which still third point, and then by so. izomen se scale to American menaces us uncertainly. We intense effort, to which Germany capital: Germany and Bussis will have got still to pass through a can be encouraged only if she slag, owe tribute to English and period of grave economic dis-really becomes ** a new society, French capital. At present it is order; we have got to fight still quite impossible to see how against famine by buying food great this burden will be, and from America without considér whether all of us will be able to

sing the price or the heavy new bear it at all. In any case, one

gebl that we (thereby meur. think of any

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