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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, FER, 6, 1931.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN

AMERICA.

6. 1931.

DAY BY DAY

THAT COMBATS LOVE Colley Cibber. AMDITION IS THE ONLY POWER

unemployment in industry. It has been too readily assumed that, now inventiona

are responsible for the bulk of the idleness now being experienced. Some of It is duo to this cause, admittedly, as it is in most countries, but the goneral trade depression is a far It la advertised that the ordinary bigger factor. Equally, if agri-yently general meeting of share- culture in the States were caring Ltd, will be held at the offices of holders of the Ilongkong Tramways, for, the three or four milon Menses. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., on Friday, February 27th, at people that it has turned into the 12 noon. vities, the problem would not be so acuto as it now le.

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THE COLONEL'S RING.

A TALE OF HORROR.. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD.

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"The old boy's somewhere," ran

As a newspaper-

up against IL through bis

MONG the care experiences ? Since they had shaken hands that include real horror the ten years before, Hendrik, though Whilst working on a winch at episode of Hendrik and the acquiring no money, had acquired

n place. values of a sort. the Yee Woo bont yard at Aber- Colonel's ning deserves It will than be seen that part deen a Chinese, Chan Pak-wan Real horror, fortunately, la ex-reporter in New York, a cortain of the problem in the United (31), of 139, Main Street Aplichau, tremely raro. Emotions to-day knowledge of men in the FIW States is an agricultural one, and received internal injurica and died her so vulgarised that an insipid had come to him. Before the soup at mid-night at the Government person. is called a horror, and a was over, he had decided that la If agriculture could be restored to Civil Hospital.

mere pudding awe-ful. Hendrik uncle was badly worried, and "on Its old-time health, the cities

whose ten years in America had his uppers," as his Yankee lingo Convicted on a charge of having provided dreadful things enough, put it. A dozen signs betrayal would feel the beneficial effects as

stolen a watch from a fellow sub met his only "real horror,"

ke him. well. Work would be easier

He watched his nervous tenant in No. 118. Apliu Street, affirma, In a London service flat. fingers eternally plying with that And, and thore would be less com-

woman named Suk Suk, was His half-uncle, Colonel Seitz, was cord, then with the napkin ring, petition for jobs. Wages, too,prisonment by Mr. Butters, at the Horror slipped in quietly, almost it into a noose, a slip knot.

host. There were no trappings, then with the napkin Haelf, making would most likely be higher. The Kowloon Magistracy this morning. styly. trouble is, however, to set agricul

Hendrik had just arrived after Injuries to his right thumb were ten disastrous years in America, observant, watchful mind, as he ture on its feet, especially in such

received by a Chinese who was time and money wasted, longlug way as not to send up the coat working a machine at the llons only to hide himself from friends enjoyed the food, thinking of its of living' to the people generally, kong Rope Factory at West Point and relations, when he found at cost, and listening to his host's "Back to the fand" movements, yesterday. The ind Tam Yeo-ko, his cheap hotel near Victoria "these awful modern times" and rathor Incoherent talk about however desirable they may be. Aged 17 of 1, Ho Wo Street, was Station n note from his uncle: the "good old days when I saw meet with small response these Hospital for treatment,

removed to the Government Clvll] "Welcome back from your Wan-

derjahre! I've not forgotten your was a "great game, you knew," you off to Canada. Still, life days in most countrica, The

headstrong boyhood. I'm aloue trend is towards

in town. Found by the police in an un-

Do come and dine to- and he had been through

hell the city. We

conscious condition at the fune-morrow--New Year's Eve just myself." though he had always may regret this development, but tion of Shanghai Street and Bow-you and me. The ship's Purser, far found a way out. you ring Street, Yaumati, an unknown an old acquaintance, told me know, in the end." This, with Chinese, apparently a mendicant, where you had put up." A tact- occasional was removed to the Kowloon Hon- ful P.S. added: "Of course, family, rambled on

And then, pital yesterday suffering from In- don't dress. And I have much quite suddenly: "You've seen lots Juries caused through a fall.

to ask you."

of fellows go out, I'm sure-shoot-

it persists none the leas

Angora and Islam. The recent religious uprising in Turkey, partly Inatheated by an old enemy of Mustapha Kemal and partly arising fremt genuine tigious feeling, has drawn atten- tion to tie political situation in a country which for some consider

Fe-

able time gast has figured hat little in world news. The Intro- duction of a Latin alphabet and her part in the feit drug trafe embraced Turkey's Hole

references

to the

Henrik, after hesitation, went. Jing-hanging-the electric chair.. The annual prize distribution of the Dinner was what he had called in and the rest. Now, what about it? Diocesan Girls' School will be held Wisconsin a "major meal," and Tell me do they mind much? Be- in the school premises at 2.30 p.m. he had known years in which one forehand, I mean?" His fingers 0771 Saturday, when Sir Hornell. C.I.E. M.A., will give away away, the devil of hunger, cold, faded button-hole, pulling the wire William good meal a day kept the devil toyed with a metal ring round.a the prizes. Weather permitting, the misery. He remembered little of about somewhat feverishly. prizegiving will be followed by A sports afternoon in the school play- Colonel Seitz, beyond that he was ground.

WAS

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ho

2

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still

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* Sapper, his father's half- Hendrik, having witnessed such brother, and had sown remarkably thinga personally, told what Romanded from yesterday after- riotous wild oats. On sailing as could, but with reluctance. He News reaching this part of the

noon on a charge of larceny, Hau a boy for Canada, the Colonel did not like this turn in the con- world by mail from the United have

Ping-cheung,

to had shaken his hand, mumbled versation. His uncle, latening ordered receive twelve strokes of the cane something about "a chip of the with avidity, he noticed, was now States shows that the unemploy-claims to notice. Moreover, it is by Mr. Butters at Kowloon this old block making good," and had playing with his handkerchief, ment problem in America con-

now evidence that the attempt to morning. Inspector Lane Rald the given him ton shillings. Much fastening it tightly round his tinues to be of the utmost gravity.store the Caliphate is not to be defendant came of a respectable as he wanted to avoid his re-wrist, then loosening it again. taken tr seriously. However family and had got mixed up with lations just now, and wondering "Lynching, too, I daresay 7" came It is doubtful, indeed, whether

great the dimensions of the move-

a gang of thieves.

if the Purser had mentioned that after emptying his glase.. But anything like the full facts

he had been a steerage passenger, Hendrik shook his head. Io led arement, and there can be little doubt Following a fall in the kitchen he brushed his only coat, andthat he had never seen a lyuch- disclosed even in the newspapers, that the fragmentary reports of his house, a Chinese male walked to Half Moon-atreet,

Ing. for whilst estimates of the non-slipping through the censorship named Pun Shing of 26, Store

Ho disliked the talk ber idled are given from time to gave little iden of its magnitude, to his head before medical treat gentleman, far from soldierly, and he answered at length the in-

more: he felt a little fumpy. Nullah Lane died from Injuries A genial, rather collapsed old "I don't think they feel much," time, it is practically impossible evidently lacked the leadership

which would have given it force. slipped on the floor and struck him, as they shook hands nient WIN available. He to discover figures which set out Beyond. the activities of the der-his head against the hard surface second time, though, alas, with no natural mental funk, you know, And with a thick neck, Hendrik found sistently repeated question. "In the situation in all its nakedness. vishes in the Province of Smyrna His body

this my experience, there's just a It was recently stated

was removed to the ten shilling tip, and after a sherry beforehand. Death itself seems by the and the serious clash at Menemen Public Mortuary, President of the Federation of between the military and villagers,

and bitters they sat down to what painless," "Ah exclaimed his Labour that there were no fewer the revolt gained no headway. The Exhibition of the Yuck Chi Boys more than shy, he felt ashamed, painless. It amounts to very little the half-starved youth consider-host with a sort of excited guffaw. The sixth annual Handiwork

ret gorgeous dinner. He felt "That's what I thought, than 5,700,000 unemployed wagestern measures taken by the Gov-and Girls' College, Kowloon, is eurners in the country early in ernment, culminating in the past being held in the school building, coming home with empty pockets really. I wanted to ask you," he January, this figure, however, tak two or three years with the execu-491-193, Nathan Road, from to-day and still emptier history. But his added, "because I felt you would ing no account of farm hands or

tion of many

of the principale, to Sunday inclusive. The exhibi-uncle, rather pooh-poohing the be just the chap to know." He ollier workers, If these were added,tion. Nevertheless, the mere fact cardboard and bamboo work, and

checked the outbreak at its inception comprises needlework, embroi- ups and downs of life, soon made laughed, if a trifle boisterously,

dery, painting, plaster,

him feel at home. wax.

nt the same time more genially, there would be a huge addition to that it occurred at all would sug-inspection is invited. The hours to hear from

"There are several things I want Hendrik shrugged his shoulders, the figure. It is not easy to com-gest that the religious question are from 10 am to 4 pm. and marked easily over the Burgundy, uncomfortable.

you, boy, he re-taking a sip of wine. Te-fell pare the situation in the States may still prove a very unsettling 7 p.m. to 10 pan. daily,

as he played with his eye-glass "You" the other went on, with that in Britain, for the rea- factor in the Republic of which

cord. making a ring of it, "about face grave again, "you have been aon that the calculations are not Kemal Pasha is the virtual dieta 55, and described as a maring One thing." he added warmly, "isit, I take it. I needn't ask, poor A European, James Robert, aged life, I mean. not about yourself. hard up. You're been up against made on the name basis. There tor. Ever since the abolition of engineer who has been out of that you never wrote home and boy. Your face shows it," and are, for example, thousands the Caliphate there has been mis- employment, was removed to the squealed.'

of

He created a kindly, he handed a prime cigar to that Government Civil Hospital from comfortable atmosphere In this young guest. partly-employed men in America Kiving among the Moslems of whom no account is taken in begun and that some steps would

the disintegration of Islam

"A Corona," he Burnston House, 4. Glenealy at way. has

Only Hendrik wished he mentioned, "and I know you'll ap- 10.30 last night after having been would the statistica so far issued. I have to be taken to prevent its Prior to being taken to Hospital making loops and nooses with it, much left in life," he added, "but leave his eye-glass cord preciate a good 'un," as he held found unconscious in his room alone. for deed, according to private advices disappearance as a moral forve in the was attended by Dr. Skina, who got on his nerves a bit,

the way he kept an out a lighted match. "I haven't received, the employees in numer-the world. With the gulf between

His eyes, I've managed to keep a few of ous industries have at the moment the church and the

the too, were continually drawn to the these, sinte ever patient

and from thick neck. High living, he re-Kommel, I get it in a minute. marvellous flected, probably!

Keep it in my bed-room, you know, locked up."

to be content with part-time duty, widening, the feeling has grown, with a consequent shrinkage in, but apart from the vigorous pre- their pay-roll.

test of the Aga Khan some years

ARMED PIRACY GUARDS.

When we come to look at con-age, nothing has been done. But ditions in Amerien now and com-the new in Turkey is not to be the struggle between the old and pare them with those prevailing finally settled by the hanging of a before the situation first showed few sheikhs and dervishes. signs of depression towards the end of 1929, we realise how tre mendous the change is. At the first sign of a reflex action from the prevailing prosperity, it was common to hear talk of "techno- logical unemployment," which was a nice way of saying that more

Armed guards will be placed and more were being thrown out coasting steamers, according to on board all China Merchants' of work each year by the inven- news Issued fri Shanghai. A rigid tion of more efficient machinery. search of all passengers, crews and ships will be made before steamers

FOR CHINA MERCHANT CO. VESSELS.

Just now, however, the country leave part

la experiencing much unemploy

ment of the other variety. Some

Extra pracautions will be taken to guard the wireless rooms, while

interesting light on the situation a heavy steel and wire gate will be

has just been given by a leading way leading to the bridge deck of

pinced at the head of ench stairs American economist who points every C. M. coastal steamer. out that during the past ten years The above, in the main, are the agriculture has released no fewer of the China Merchants S. N. measures agreed upon by offcials than 400,000 workers annually, Company, at a meeting held as with the result that between precautionary steps against piracy. three and four million fewer por- The meeting was the result of the sons Ive to-day on farms than is believed, again to pirate the 8.8. uncovering of a plot engineered, It was the case a decade ago. In Hain Min.

dustry, trade and transportation

have been forced to find jobs for Yesterday's health return shows all those people, in spite of the one imported Chinese case alarm raised over technological typhold,

of

WAS of the opinion that

suffering

Was

pneumonia.

"

"Bo I let my hair grow till I'm the very image of Greta. Garbo, and then he falls for a Norma Shearer type,"

Rome

thu

his

He began trying to fit the cigar band on to a thick finger which refused to take it, and Hendrik noticed a ring he wore, with white diamond. "Ah, you apot the ring, I ace," came the romark. "It was your grandfather's. I thought of leaving it to you some day. Proud to, you know. I think it's wonderful the way you pulled through, my boy. I respect you for it."

grinned sheepishly,

î

Hendrik feeling rather foolfah, but he felt something else as well, something unpleasant, bitter, puzzling. This ceaseless preoccupation with ring disturbed him. Was it tele. pathy of a sort perhaps? Was his uncle queer in his mind some- where? An abrupt impulse came to him that he shrank from, and yet obeyed-the rowspaper re- poricr's

.Instinct

probably to speak of the very thing ho wish- ed to avold. He yielded anyhow. "Rings intereat you, str?" he asked cusually, and saw an extra- ordinary expression flash догова the other's face, and die away as quickly 簸轻 it came. "Ohf-for- the moment possibly, yes. only for the moment," Colonel Seltz said lightly.. Ho pulled out his keys at the and of a silver chala. "Now, that's not a bad one," ho remarked, examining the key ring: "only it doesn't "Give?" repeated the other puzz

Five

enough! led.

ought town't tighton when it

was the

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