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be profiteers that stocks might be taken over by the Government, the authorities concerned did a great deal to stabiliso the situation, and

FEW THINGS ARE NEEDED TO MAKE bring about the present happy state

A WIBE MAN HAPPY: NOTHING CAN MAKE A FOOL! of affairs. There has, of course; CONTENT; THAT IS WHY MOST arisci the usual criticism vid grum- MEN ARE MISERABLE. La bling from sections of the public,

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such as the complaints "about the Portable

price of pork. We think the Food Typewriter Controller has finally answered all with the erities by his explanation which Standard we published yesterday, that the

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The rate of the dollar on de mand to-day remains at 28. 3.15/164.

There was a clean bill of health keyboard. restriction of prices would result in the Colony over the wook-end.

in a greater shortage and far worse

"Nothing condition of affairs, After all,

BURMA AND CHINA. AMERICA AND CHINA,

WARNING TO MINOR POLITICALS.

MR. MAOMURRAY'S ADDRESS.

A recant iBall of the Rangoon "My Government is mindful Times, in the course of a leading of the efforts made by the article Loaded "A Shadow Ovor Provisional Government of China Burma," states;-

to realise the hopea expressed by It is necessary occasionally to the Powers, signatory to the romind the public of Burms that Washington Conference Treaties Chian exists upon our frontier in their note of December 9, 1954 and that hor people may not al-and-bas full confidence that' ways accept and respect that ling under Your Excelleroy's direc of delimitation. This subject wa tion the administration will con.. approach always with great difß-tinue to manifost its purpost to denge, because of our belief that respect the internal obligations

panic-mongering is detestable and that aro the outcome of the is not the least cause of the Treaties-is" which the Chinese to learn." pork is more of a luxury than. ap. &O, 8.9. Kashmir on the 11th national co fidence and to throw

The silk which left here by the world's failure to achieve inter- Government is a party," necessity, and it speaks well for July, was delivered in Marseilles off the curse of violent conflict. the new America Minister, John Thus begins the address which Nothing the Colony's food organisation that on the 9th August, a transit of 9 The fact remains that China, in Van Antwep MacMury presented unlearn, there are such supplies as are days.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925.

THE FOOD SITUATION.

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LATEST RECRUIT TO HK, POLICE FORCE,

a over-hasty attempt to progress to Marshal Tuan Chi-jul the is in a weltor of moral backward-Chief Executive, on the occasion avallable. In the main, nearly

ness, and that of all the larger of the presentative of his 'oreden. every week sees a further step to-dinga announced is that of Mr. to be the least capable of honour

Among the forthcoming wed-natione of the world sho appears tials on his arrival at Peking. School

wards normal; and, unless some 'un- Benjamin O. Randall, Jr., of No. ing any arrangement for inter-

"SUBJECT TO REVISION, necessity. expected, turn of events should 1 Prospect Place, Bonham Road, national peace, and the submis-

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arise, the whole food altuation to Mias Ada Mabel Loe, of No.sion of disputes to an

*Certain of these obligations "- for

inter the address continues, in accord- 23A Cameron Road, Kowloon. ought before long to lose its last.

national judiciary, which the pro-ance with the decisions of the ! Demonstra

sent world desire for the abolition Washington Conference, are sub-, "- tion.

remaining disturbing, features.

of violence may eventually make jact The usual Wednesday public practicable. Even if China should eventual revision.

to ro-examination. and lecture will be given at the Hong-by blessed with an entirely right- A Bathing Matter.

kong Lodgo of the Thoose phical minded central government it is loncy that it is the continuing "I bag to assure Your Excel- Sooloty, 7, Duddell Street, top extemely unlikely that it would desire of my 'Government to see Although it is, perhaps, a little floor on Wednesday, August any real power in the provinces the plans of the Conference car late in the season to raise the point 12th, at 5.45 pm. The meeting remote from it, and even if such ried out in such a manner as to now, it is nevertheless time that the is open to the public. Members power were gained it is uncertain assist the Chinese people toward Government had its attention drawn present.-Adet.

are specially requested to be that it would be maintained in the realization of a sound and

definitely.. to the extreme paucity of bathing

normal life. Recent events in China have facilities for the general public at

baen revelations of the illog cal confidence and goodwill-are-re- "To attain this purpose, mutual and destructivo passions which quisito, and I can assure Your Repulse Bay, Taking advantage of

TALLEST CONSTABLE. may reign more or less uncheck-Excellency that such feelings the very fine service of motor buses

et in that country. Whether toward China on the part of the which is operated by the Hongkong

they be ascribed to Chinese nation-Government and people of the Hotel Garage, large numbers of the

a'ism, or Communist "internation- United States are traditional and alism,

"ör any other force, makes may be relied upon to support public patronise Repulse Bay' for

very "Httle difference to their any effort in Chins to work in swimming purposes, yet apart from

effect. These outbreaks of vielent loyal cooperation with the friend- One of the directions in which

There arrived in Hongkong from fealing and violent acts should ly Powers for the establishment the privately-owned matsheds, Home by the P. and O. s.8. Khyber act as a reminder that China is of a more satisfactory basis of the moving spirits of the strike which almost jostle one another for during the week-end, Police Con-yat an undependable neighbour, international relationship." have signally failed to harm the

stablo Harry George Baker, a new no country. adjoining which can Colony is in connection with food one-man tents maintained by the can accurately be described as the existence.

want of room, there are but a few recruit to the Hongkong Force, who enjoy an unruffed and arcadian ACKNOWLEDGES OBLIGATIONS. supplies. These have all along Repulse Bay Hotel.

It is acknowledg- These tents tallest man in the force. P.C. Baker od, in all quarters that the welcomed the American Minister In reply, Marshal Tuan Obl-jui been ample, and there has been are for public hire, but on Satur-stands at 6 feet 6 inches in his Chinese make excellent citizens with these words, "As the Amer- day and Sunday afternoons, as well He is it is interesting to record, a Government is seldom that, and is conscious of its own duty al-

shoes and is as broad in proportion. but unfortunately

under a capable administration ican Government is correctly obtaining foodstuffs and a com-as on some week-day nights, the son of Mr. Baker, a well-known holda out no prospects of early their Own

aware, the Chinese Government paratively small rise in prices, number is hopelessly inadequate to former Chief Inspector of the Hong Improvement, Therefore, while to respect its internationst with certain items entirely un-accommodate all the would-be kong Police Force, who retired and the Chinese are a likeable and obligations, affected. Indeed, so far as the

went Home in 1913.

"However, three years have bathers. As many as "20 or 30

friendly pooplo, as long as they people against whom the movement people have been seen waiting on Great War, being a second lieuten and corrupt partisanship, liable ing China were reached at the

Having seen active service in the are cursed by inward dissensions elapsed since the decisions affect was directed, the Europeans, are the beach for a vacant tent. The ant when he was "demobbed," P.C. to break out in a fresh place, so

Washington Conference. concerned, there has been not the private matahėds monopolise nearly/Baker has now come out East after to speak; at any moment, & coun- ernment and the people of China At this time, when the Gov least hardship or anxiety, stocks all the beach back of high water After demobilization, he joined up to speak lightly of dispensing known legitimate aspiratione, in try like Burma, to desirable and are earnestly labouring towards somewhat interesting career. being sufficient for a long-period, I

80 easily vulnerable, cannot afford the realisation of their wall- mark, and the ordinary bather who with the North Russian Expedition with that safeguard with which order to consolidate still further and imports ample to meet the "

is not fortunate enough to be the as a private, and when he returned it has been invested by Provid: their friendly relations with the demand. Where there was a short-

possessor of a matshed and who Home, enlisted in the Gloucester once the safeguard of the might foreign Powers, it is especially age of local produce, it was merely finds the few tents already occupied, atable's office of which he worked

Constabulary, in the Chief Con- of Britain's army and navy. a case of doing without or finding

So, while once more disclaim-Excellency's assurance of the gratifying to have received Your is absolutely out of it. Repulse until calling for Hongkong. Increased cost was Bay as a bathing beach is easily

He is ing any wish to paint a disturbing continuing desire of the United 29 years of age.

picture, we would certainly point states to assist the Chinese out that the peronnial of anti- British Burmese politicians is

people." doubly petty in face of the in- firmed state of China-inflamed by a fire which may run hither

a minimam of inconvenience in

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Pacific

FATAL LANDSLIDE.

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has never been excessive. For this happy state of affairs we have if the Government can provide possibilities.

among the European residents, and to thank the suppliers, who co-matshed dressing rorms at Kennedy interpretations be correct, then, in and thither unexpectedly like the operated so promptly, and the Go-Town, where the patronage is the classic phrase, what about it? flow of burning oil. Without the vernment, which placed special negligible, and can maintain a Ourselves, we have never quarrel-upport of the British connection, facilities at the disposal of those service of bathing launches acroaa led with any instance of prepared-connection but a direct political

meaning not only a constitutional FIFTEEN KILLED IN who needed them. But it is into Stonecutters Island, surely, it has ness where aggressiveness is entire.and milltary connection, there

PHILIPPINES. connection with what might be every Justification and, precedently absent.

could be no feeling of security in termed the Chinese food supplies for providing public dressing rooma read an ulterior motive in the U.S. we are passing through. Nor were destroyed when a landslide. Those most ready to this country during such days as two were buried and six houses. Fifteen persons were killed, that the authorities have done a at Repulse Bay. So consistently naval cruise

does it make mush difference occurred in the mountain slope great deal to maintain normality have some bathers been disappointmanoeuvres are the very people who garding the position at the treaty on, Siaton, Negros Oriental, on

and the

what action the Powers take re-at sitio Maladpad, barrio Geliga as much as possible, and prevented on arriving at Repulse Bay that have had so much to say against ports and other spheres of Euro the afternoon of July 6, states actual dearth or famine prices. they have gone on to the next the Singapore base. So far as the Poan, influence. The men in charge of affairs gas- beach, where there is sufficiently visit to Australia goes, it is a wellness of China makes it quite ira- Oriental received at Philippines The immensity and unwieldivincial commander of Negros telegraphic report from the pro- tronomic, particularly the Food thick shubbery to permit of open-known fact, endorsed by all who possible for its own or any other constabulary headquarters last Controller, deserve every credit

air undressing. The Government have resided in the Commonwealth, Governments to guarantee the

Governnient or combinations of Thursday. for the success of their efforts in has provided rafts for the, bathers, that the "Aussies" have a very behaviour of provinces distant found, and the sitio was virtually No trace of the bodies could be a really trying period, when many yet it has done nothing to provide warm feeling for America and its from the capital and the eastern wiped out, the report states. The serious difficulties had to be met the public with bathing facilitics, people. It is a common experiencesions. While treating individual Apolonie Palen, Juan Gajano, coast under the present condi- victims, ad reported, included at the outset, and special tact had beyond renting out the beach to for most visitors to find the book-Chinese well and respecting what Silvestre Paleo, Anastacio Cain- to be exercised throughout. those able to afford a matshed of stalls chiefly stocked with American Chine to evolve order out of Gadiane, Venancia Samson, Ben- honest attempts are made in ocy, Mauricio Gajor, Patronila There are many persons who are their own. Something ought to be literature, including the very high-chaos, it is necessary to regard igno Pabela, Bonande Enople, inclined to question the efforts done in the matter, and if it is class production which have a that dangerously nobulous masa, Rufino Pabola, Cristela Palso, made to keep Chinese food supplies considered as being too late for deserved world repute. But who sudden overturning of our ideas no Palso and Honorata Palongo.

China, as a potential source of at a low level, apparently on the this year it certainly should be

Maria Palso, Timotes Palso, Bru- assumption that potential strikers-

borne in mind for next."

The causes of the tragedy could need scant consideration. By de-

not be determined, Lieutenant porting idlers, the Government has

Navarre to of constabulars report- Canada's fourth largost in-ed. Earth tremors, however, were discounted any criticism that might

U. S. Naval Tour.

has set the example of a young dustry, its tourist traffic, showed felt within the vicinity a few days. have been made that it is feeding There has been, a great deal said nation advancing to world great- an increase of 60,000 in the before the landslide. It is boller.. strikers within our midst. Then, and writters of the cruise by theness within a few generations? National Parks for 1924, accorded that the heavy downpour on ing to the roport of the Com-June 6 loosened the earth, contri- there is the general cost of labour United States fleet in the Pacific Rather are such sentiments to be missioner of National Parks. buting to the slide. to be considered, especially at a and its visit, to Australia. The encouraged, and that the Empire Banff and Lake Louise showed a time like the present: and it needs critics of what some people are over. We predict for the United visitors. At Banff 1,693 permits

combined advance of 15,000) no emphasising. that dear food pleased to call "militarism," even States navy a no less warm welcome were issued to camping parties, means dear labour. Finally, an when it applies to naval matters, in New Zealand, which is perhaps essential for a peaceable population have not failed to point the knowing more English than England of Paul Doyon, a blind pianist, is a sufficient supply of staple food-finger at this "demonstration," to-day. It is a natural manifesta-won the 1925 Prix d'Ecrops in

In the steps that were which they variously interpret astion of that deep-seated friendship the Quebec Academy of Music. Men who brought the first

the annual competition held at takon to keep the cost of rice and a gesture for the benefit of Japan which links the English-speaking The Prix d'Europe egasis's of a Canadian Pacific Railway train Brewood within reasonable limits, or as a means of extending Ameri-peoples, and which mere political purge of $3,000 and was founded Into Calgary in 1883 appeared in including the arrangement of cheap can induence in the world. It la differences, or commercial rivalries, by the Quebec Government for the Stampede and Jubileo pro- years ago. It entitled the winner cession on July 6, on a float de- Taales of rice and a warning to would not our Intention to discuss these cannot affect in the least.

to two years in Europa..

picting tholfirat engine.

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can cavil at an ndmittedly of political perspectives. democratic colony keeping a warm

place In its heart for a country that

A bowl of gold fish noted an a magnifying glass and started the carpat burning in the home of Mrs. Charles D. Storck in Wisconsin..