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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19.

1927.

THE INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION.

FRIDAY,

AUGUST 19. - 1927,

DAY BY DAY.

A POLITICIAN: WHO SCREAMS IS

· NEVER LIKELY TO OCCUPY A COM- MANDING PLACE,-Augustine” Bir- rell.

Two cases of enteric fever were reported yesterday, both Chinese.

CORRESPONDENCE.

LIFE-SAVING.

[To the Editor, Hongkong.

Telegraph.]

The Very Idea!

Manager (to boy" applying for work)Where does your father work, my lad?"

Boy"He used to work in A brewery, sir, but he got the sack." "Got the sack? What for?" "For stock-taking, sir!"

the average standard of living has been fully maintained. The annual savings, moreover, though they have fallen substantially, are still more than adequate for all in- dustrial needs. In short the people are about as well off, as they used to be before the war, despite the reduction of working-hours and

While riding his motor-cycle No despite unemployment which has.

1029 In Queen's Road West, yester nover bean appreciably below a day, Mr. J. R. Jenkin, of the million. But the country has ceased Hongkong Amusenients, Limited, to go forward. The position as re-knocked down an old woman, who received injuries to her left arm gards the balance of foreign trade and had to be removed to the

It is a well-known fact that

The man: That is bo. among the uneducated class of is most unsatisfactory, and ren- Government Civil Hospital,

Chinese generally, there is a strong Judge Cluer: Don't say "prac- ders everything else precarious..

This morning's Harbour Office version, owing to superstitious tically," Mr. Robinson. "Pracil- Exports are down to about three-reports gave 12 arrivals and 13 de- reasons, to make any attempt to cally" has no meaning here. Unc quarters of their pre-war volume, partures, of which six and fourave a drowning person, and I won instead, "morally, intellectually

der whether the commendable and socially." and show no signs of any real respectively ware British. There action of the three men referred to :

was a free movement of vessels, with British ships carrying the The return heaviest freights. shows 67 vessels in harbour, Bri- tish 28.

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A fine of $600, or in default four months hard labour, was imposed this morning day in Water Street in possession of seven taels of prepared opium The man's record showed that he had served several previous terma of imprisonment for opium offen

Debts, Inter-Allied

Sir, I notico from the news- papers that during the past two or three days, there have been no less than three cases of attempted sus eido in Hongkong harbour and in each case, the resquer was Chinese of the working class.

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pany. Just you and

"You are practically this com- another person?" asked Mr. A. E. Robin- son, solicitor, of a man at Shore- ditch County Court.

Man at Willesden: I guess you. will receive any recognition.

I was an eye-witness of the case had better finish the case right which occurred on the 11 a.m. ferry away. Magistratet. I guess you from Kowloon on Wednesday, the are ал American. Man: You 17th., "The Solar Star." The woman guess again. I'm a Canadian. had no sooner jumped overboard, Haggerston landlady: Can you than a seaman named Wong Sang, expect..any self-respecting woman one of the ferry's crew, plunged in to be sworn at without swearing.

back?

resilience. The coal stoppage of fast year must have gone far to exhaust the reserves, of financial strength. The presont equill- brium of international payments comprises a variety of novel ele- menta of great importance-Re-Chinese who was arrested yester-after her; no doubt, had it not been parations, accumulations by the Bank of France in London, large-scale American investment in Germany and Central Europe--which make up a highly unstable situation. Britain thus has to face the possibility that it may be con- fronted at any moment with a heavily adverse, balance of foreign payments, which might entail consequences which would derange. ils economic life."

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Blasting at Morrison Hill yester- day afternoon caused a large fragment of rock to drop from the hillside on to Morrison Hill Road, A ricksha collie, who was passing at the time was struck and sus- tained injuries to the arm. He was moved to the Government Civil Hospital. One of the shafts of the ricksha which the man was pulling was broken.

Judge Cluer, to a giri applicant for the quickness of thought and action of this seaman, the woman must have drowned. In my opin- for money at Shoreditch: Don't ion, this was not a case which could buy clothes to go to the seaside; Man accused of drunkenness at warrant a recommendation for a you do not need them. medal of the Royal Humane Society,!

Oldstreet, referring to the doctor's the Iran Was £ power- ful swimmer, a lifebuoy test: I did the test all right but

hoel and toe. I tried had been simultaneously thrown the

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the out, and he apparently knew heel and toe after breakfast this how to go about saving a drown-morning, and I could do it then. ing person, but his promptitude, his

Overheard in the classroom: praiseworthy spirit and courage are

What léd Gregory the Fope to certainly deserving of some recogni- tion or reward.—Yours, etc.,

send Augustine to England? To sell his mixture. F. C. Mow FUNG. Hongkong, 19th August.

CHINESE CONSTABLE

CHARGED.

ACCUSED OF DEMANDING MONEY.

What was the Danelagh? The result of hearing a Danish joke. Why did Alfred build many new ships?-To give work to the unemployed.

Why was Ethelred called the "Redeless"?The people called him this because they thought ba devoted too much time to books.

January's hopes for a revival

A Chinese named Yuen Chuen have not materialised. The im-

was to-day sent to prison for eight provement in shipbuilding, has months for returning from banish- nearly spent itself. The cotton ment. The police record of this industry has still further reduced man shows that he had been im

prisoned for many offences since' its working hours, and the iron 1929. Last year he was banished and steel industry, which showed from the Colony, but within a few a marked increase in productioned and sent to prison. In July this weeks was back, and was arrest- White we out here are all more in the early part of the year, has year he was again sent away by or less hoping for the long-await-suffered a definite set-back. The the authorities, but he was rear,

rested yesterday hy Chinese de-alleged against a Chinese con-at which one uses a scooter. ed revival of trade, it is just as plight of the coal industry is teetives. well to note the fact that matters notorious,. Our total exports for at Home have not improved to the the first six months of the year

A deliberate attempt to obtain $20 from a Chinese whom he had arrested on false charge, is

stable, attached to the Shamshui- po Police Station, who appeared i Two Singapore carpenters, Chin-before Mr. W. Schofield, at the sive heat to woo the goddess of on a charge of misconducting sleep on the verandah of their himself as a public servant. house," had a tragle experience in

What was the Massacre of St.. Brice's Day and what was its result?A slaughter which took place on St. Brice's Day. Many people were killed.

What was "scutage"?-The age

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I am not a man given to gush.. Sir Austen Chamberlain. Britain still possesses a tre-

We must fill up the big empty

extent expected back in January, barely exceed in value those of ese, who were driven by the oppres- Kowloon Magistracy this morningmendous kick. Sir Josiah Stamp.

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for

the early hours of Friday last week remand to instuct counsel to de-ville Ryrie.

The defendant applied for aspaces in Australia.--Sir Gran-

tion of the wounds, one in the

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The British soldier is the finest waking up to find themselves bleed-fend and the case was adjourned

soldier God ever made.-General ing profusely, each from a serious till next Tuesday. stab wound. They had nothing

It is alleged by the prosecution Sir Walter Braithwaite. with them beyond their bed clothes, that the defendant, arrested Although we have cleared out and no attempt was apparently Chinese on a charge of returning the Reds we have a few pinks left made to search them for money or from banishment. The man was in this country-Commander 0. valuables. The nature and post-taken into a shop and told that Locker-Lampson, M.P.

he would be released on payment stomach and the other in the side, of $20, which the arrested man Bonable, or prudent, at present to both deep, indicate that their ncc- turnal assailant, or assailants, promised to pay at a later date establish suddenly complete self- meant to kill them but the injured as he did not then have the money. government

Fearing the consequences, the Olivier. men are unable to name anyone

report to the who might be implicated in this man later made a

Police and the constable attempt on their lives.

arrested.

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when everyone was hailing 1927 the corresponding six months of as containing the promise of a last year (which included two boom year. The

basic months of coal stoppage) and are trades, coal, iron and steel, ship-materially below those of the building, shipping. railways. first six months of 1925. Un- cotton, wool, jute and linen, employment, after having dropped which played so. preponderant a just below the million mark in part in Britain's nineteenth-cen- May, is now above it, and seems tury development, are in a bad more likely to rise than to fall way. Instead of expanding exu- further over the remainder of the berantly as they used to do before year. The expanding trades, like the war, they are tending rather motor-car manufacture, continue

"Why husbands leave home" to decline. Instead of being the to go ahead; but the basic export

Was categorically explained by chief providers of employment for trades, taken as a whole. present

Miss Inderrieden, director of the Chicago Social Service. Bureau. a rapidly growing population, as gloomy a picture as they have

the case under discussion en-

For many years Miss Inderrieden they are now the chief contribu-ever done. And there is now no

50,000 has handled

casea of lightens one as to the laxity per tors to. the heavy unemployment temporary untoward circumstance mitted by august authority in the

desertion annually, and while she has never heard A irst- which persista an obstinately in a to which this position can be case of the "proletariat," for even the autocratic law-makers of old

An investigator who seems to class excuse, she admits that slowly growing population. In- ascribed. As one writer at Home would not attempt to impose res- have had unusual opportunity and the wife is pretty much stead of leading the way in wages puts it: "Britain has to face the trictions that might have led to time for original research has to blame in 50 per cent of and hours and standards of liveli-probgibility that the tendencies evil. They appear to have follow compiled the following figures on the instances when hubby departe. ed the line of condonation of a

the use of paper clips in the On a percentage basis, forty-one hood, they now, for the most part, which are reshaping its economic

secondary, but respectable, union.

average office.,

men leave their wives for another contrast most unfavourably with life have come to stay. This will The case of adoption of sons fol- Of 100,000 paper clips, there are waman, phe says. Financial troubles are responsible for 12 other occupations. There is no mean facing some very formidable lows the ancient requirement for used for:

male offspring to worship the an- Lingerie clasps..

7,160 per cent, the wife's Infidelity for sign of any real recovery. On problems, the problems,

cestral tablets and carry on the Office warfare ammunition 7,458 10 per cent, too many children.. the contrary, their general condi- example, of how to provide for family. Incidentally, it has given Bobbed, hair holders

3,338 for eight, nagging for eight, 3,163 tired of her" for six, too much tion. it is to be feared, is becom-the quarter of a million miners rise to the many tragedies that Pipe cleaners

Emergency garter cluspe

802 "in-law" five, extravagance four.. ing worse, rather than better. who are unemployed. But it does have followed disappointed mar-Ear reamers

riage and subsequent more for- Lamp shade holders

192 disillusionment three, bad cook- And what is true of them is true not mean the abandonment öf

tunate concubinage, An instance Shirt sleeve adjusters 4,183 ing two, untidiness .75 per cent,

5,308 and unworthiness .25 per cent. also of agriculture, which had hope or the acceptance of national of this was argued for some days Ford repair parts

0,012 been steadily losing ground for decline. After all, we are, as a in the Castle Peak murder trial. Tooth picks ... The plurality of wives permitted Bachelor buttons fifty years before the war. Side people, despite all our post-war legally, and quite respectably, un- Cuff links by side, however, with the de-troubles, about us rich as weder the old Chinese domestic cus Poker chips

one of the main Eversharp pencil repair kit. pression of these basic trades, have ever been. The course of tom, has been

causes of contention in big estate Toys to use while telephoning 14,163 there has been a very considerable technical progress continues to

cases in British Crown Colonies HOLDING

GETHER boundless possibilities where Chinese bave settled. One expansion of others the manu- facture of motor-vehicles, artificial of increased well-being. Our pro- recalls references in the law books to a ruling case in the Straits Set- silk, electrical engineering, and abiem to-day is that of adjusting tlements which is known as "the large variety of miscellaneous ourselves to new conditions, of Six Widows Case," owing to a rich occupations. The growth of such organizing a difficult transition, man having died and left half a dozen claimants to his fortune, industries has provided partial Surely we have not so lost our

each of whom set out to prove that compensation for the decline in powers of adaptation that

she was legally a wife, In Chinese law. The matter was a source of the basic trades, in respect both need quail before it?”

long argument, and profitable hotn Paris

Now York of employment and the national

from the point of view of fees and

Brussels income. But it has to be noted

points of law, while the dozen or Geneva ño counsel engaged delved into Amsterdam that the expanding industries There is more than a little in- the ancient law of marriage in Milan make far more for the home terest in a case before the court China as it has probably never Berlin market and far less for export this week relating to a succession been explored before. In the end Blockholm

dispute in a local Chinese village. the Judge took a rather long Copenhagen The "olo custom," in its strictly chance, in, if memory serves," de- The economic position which legal sense, has been brought into ciding that certain of the claim-

Prague emerges as the resultant of these requisition, and the average west-ants were not. In fact, legal wives. Belsingfors

orner would do well to read the But such actions are likely to be- Madrid tendencies is profoundly unsatis- details of the case as they have come less and less frequent as the Lisbon factory. Britain's national in buen presented, and the references years go by, and the new customs Athens come is probably as, large, in The problems raised have been And, in view of the complications B

to traditional custom involved. become more widely adopted. Bucharest terms of real values, as it has essentially domestic, comprising that arise, one can hardly regret Buenos Aires ever been. Figures relating to the adoption of sons and the after- that in the mass of reform being Shanghai

Bombay the consumption of staple com-old Chinese code, the somewhat they are simplifying the matter of Yokohama behaviour of widows. Under the adopted by the Chinese of to-day, Hongkong modities suggest that, although censorious rule is that a widow domestic relationship, modelling Silver (spot) different sections of workers should not remarry. That has it more appropriately to modern Silvor (forward) | have experienced varying fortunes, been modified considerably, and ways of thinking.

than the basic trades.

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"Certainly," was the affable Teply.

"And not get angry?" "Of course not.".

"Nor say it's time I was in "bed?

"I won't do any of these things.” "Well, what I want to know fa where does a shake begin when it wags its tail?"

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Ephraim, an old age negro, had 124 put on a clean collar and his bost -4.80 8/32 coat and was walking majestically

up and down the street.

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"You were married fifty years .34.50 ago to-day?"

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....25% barking from the sa. Rawalpindi .25.5/10 from Shanghai to-day, were Capt. -British Wireless. H.F. Bloxham and Ft. Lt. Howell,