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BRITISH AND AMERICAN- SHIPPING.

Twisting the Lion's Tail.

It is a regrettable fact, which not even the best friends of the United States in this country can help but admit, that the troubles which our transatlantic cousins are experiencing to connection with, their great merchant fleet) have had the effect of engender- ing

a section of the among American public a spirit of in- tense bitterness towards Great Britain. Frankly, we are at s loss to account far this feeling. though it would seem that in some circles there is a belief that we are endeavouring to binder: the development of the American mercantile matine. There are -of course, no grounds for such a suggestion on the contrary, the ambition of America to possess 1 merchant navy is quite under- stood in this country, albeit we naturally have our own views as to the means which are proposed to realize that ambitions to the alleged hostility of British shipowners towards their Ameri- can confreres, the public utter ances of leading

members

of the shipping industry are suficient to demonstrate that such a sentiment is non- existent..

It is obvious that such suapi- | cions are very harmful to goodj relationships between the l'oited! States and Great Britain, and it is therefore well that a British

shipowner occupying the promin-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY: MAY 15.

BIBBON IS

POPULAR

BY MARIAN HALE

Ribbon is playing a very big

7

part is the ornamentation of

summer frocks. It does a very novel thing in this gown when it fashions itself, by means of little squares, into a very bouffant

skirt.

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The unusual treatment given the ribbon is that of being folded

into square and caught together by a narrower ribbon, thus form-

ing a trimming with an openwork effect through which may be envisioned a bit of lovely las80-

der petticost

The bodice of the gown is saug and wears very short and snug sleeves, while the skirt is full and quite long.

ent position which Sir Frederick Opportunity "which Great Britain PARIS GREETS EINSTEIN. Lewis does should give the lie to adopted and used to the bitter the poisonous allegations which end in establishing the British

British

A Quiet Arrival.

| Mercadtile Marine and destroy- are so sedulously circulated on the other side. A good sample 10g that of America. He accuses

There is something very win- | of the sort of thing to which the Sir Auckland and others who

circulating

proning about the modesty of a president of the Chamber of Ship are ping referred is before us as we

paganda" of striving to make great man, writes the Times"

"meekly submit to a Paris correspondent. write. It appears in a journal America

While all learned Paris was oo which describes itself-quite an arine policy which would ensure warrantably, we should say the continued paralysis of the America's leading marine week-American merchant marine and 1. Mr. Winthrop L. Marvin, vice-president and general anager of the American

bas written

book 2.

2

tiptoe with expectation, awaiting the arrival of Professor Albert ensure the continued domination Einstein, whom it has invited to of the seas and the trade of the give four lectures on Relativity world by Great Britain." This is, of at the College de France, the Steamship Owners Association, course, sheer nonsense, and could famous German scientist himself entit only have been written by whom Professors Langevin and ed The American Merchant individual who is suffering from Charles Nordmann had been de Marine." which. judging from the the delusion that every person puted to meet at the frontier- passages extracted by the journal of British nationality, descent was discovered quietly seated in referred to, is largely intended to or sympathies is dangerous & second-class carriage with his convince the American public menace to the unsophisticated sombrero-like felt hat on the a mental cushion beside him. He had American. There is pre-Independence

to every been scheduled to arrive at the. days right down to the present time, Great Britain has been de- doctor, in which the patient Gare du Nord in the morning. termined to frustrate American firmly believes that all sorts of but did not reach Paris until 3spirations in connection with people are persecuting him and ocean transportation. But it is seeking to do bim an injury, and ast so much what Mr. Marvin that is apparently the case with

in bis

the editor of the journal we have book-ill-natured! and unjust as much of it is as referred to. He is convinced that Abe manner in which the editori Great Britain is plotting to:

coastwise trade of eizes upon every sentence with destroy the

sting

his own the United States, and be asks adds

what the American Steamship Tetomous comment. The poor

tout.

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condition.

familiar

midnight.

There can be no question about the heartiness and sincerity of the welcome prepared for the German Professor by his French brother scientists. It appeals to their imagination that Einstein should have steadfastly keptalouf

man has Angiophobia very badly Owners Association is doing to from politics, and, above all, they

indeed. and we can picture him

"watch in Congress legislation that

fo:

is

coa-

our

penetrate the

bonour bim for the courage which he displayed when he re- as he writes, for instance, his re- viax

of How England has stantly being introduced for fused point blank to sign the driven America from the seas: the purpose of furthering British famous manifesto of the intel lec.us An interviewer asked Canadian partic pation in taken BAS OUT deep-sea

sheries, and now seeks to de-coastwise trade, and to break M. Faul Painleve, the scientist xtras our coastwise trade." rolling down our protective coastwise and statesman, what was the secret of the society "qush" over his eyes and frothing at the sand what, if any, protests Einstein. M. Painlere replied: mouth at the thought of the in. The Association has or intends to sustained effort of the brain! quities of perfide Ahion. In make to powerful and influential ordinary circumstances we should newspapers of New York City is necessary to

which are openly and defiantly thought of the great German izmore such transparent drivel as this, but it is as well that people Pro-British in matters pertaining vast and to follow his logic. Thus the craze of society to on this side should know the sort to shipping." This would all be of stuff which is written about very dread!ul if it were true, but discuss Elostein between two this country, and which unforthe fact of the matter is that rubbers of bridge appears to me there can be little doubt that the to be the furnies: thing in the tunately, finds only too ready ariter has England on the brain |

world," welcome in a certain type of American paper. That any stick and spends sleepless nights con- is considered good enough to beat juring up visions of further de- us with is demonstrated by the vilries being plotted by British fact that neither Mr. Marvin nor shipowners or their American

my- PASSENGERS DEPARTED. From some bis Ieviewer see anything 9pporters. ridiculous in going back to the sterious source, we learn, orders calculated to advance British in- time of the second Charles to

show that England was then pre- terests, to the corresponding pre Per s.s. KOREA MARU for paring a policy which eventual. judice of American opes, are being San Francisco-Mr. & Mrs. C. is succeeded in sweeping the issued to American railroads, Brown, Mr. H. de V. Booten, American merchant marine from shipowners, and shipbuilders, the seas. In fact, nearly four not to speak of newspapers, Mr. & Mrs, P. Bouquet. Mr. W. Senators and Congressmen. R. Coe, Mr. JMCasss, Mr. A. W. pages of the paper are taken up

These orders, moreover, Are Davidson. Mr. & Mrs. R. D. Fry- with wild abuse of Britons of the present day for events which took obeyed without protest, and the

American Mr.Fong Ging Shun. Lt. Col. R place in the eighteenth and the result is that "any early part of the nineteenth cen-shipowner who uses the Panama R. Gibson, Mr. E. Garcia, Master turies! Thus, the reviewer in Canal to any extent bands out Garcia, Mr. R. J. Harrison, Mr. & vites his readers to lash them-meekly five or a thousand dollars

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H.E. Observatory, May 15. 1922.

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15th 77

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