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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931.

TO BE MARRIED THIS WEEK.

Our photo shows Princes lienna of Rumania and the Archduke Anton von Hepsborg, who are to be married this week. The prin ces in a daughter of the Dowager Queen Marie, Photo was tahan At the Grand Prix Motor Races at Rome.

and commerce were probably the foundation of British wealth and power until the time when it could be said that a drum beating in the British Empire could be heard round the world, and, so It was to- day.

The China Puzzle.

as

The Orlent was 2,000 years ahead and the Occident was 2,000 years behind, and yet, to-day, it could be argued that the Occident was ahend Sonator Jand the Orient behind,

Pittman anid he had often wonder- fed why-why China's vast territory. Ins large,

the whole of the British

larger than the United States, and almost as big a the United States and Canada combined, with wonderful natural resources, should not to-day be as powerful as the British Empire, or The United States or that little Island of Japan.

The speaker continued be some- tings thought that the Occident had advanced by renson of co-opera- tion and internationalism, by deal- Ing with their fellowmen through- out the world, by utilising water. and, later, rails, for transportation. He had often wondered if the de- sire of the Occidental to travel, to provide transport and meet his fellmy men, And anything do with 31. He often dered whether the difference between the Oriental and the Oc- cidental was a desire of the former 1 establish a wall around them- selves.

to

won-

He thought the simpleat thing in the world was for a people to build A wall around themselves, but the most difficult thing in the world was for them to have communication. When he saw the Great Wall

in China, he realised that thousands of years ag wall round China was essential for protection against the Savage races who surrounded the cultured race. He did not think that the wall served great pur- pose at the present time, except as U. S. SENATOR ON gating the cause of depression in a reminder of engineering skill and their trade with China. For that cuture of that day; nor did he think 'SILVER.

purpose he was making a general that the walls which nations tried survey of the whole situation and to throw round themselves for pro- he had been able to gather a great tection against competition in trade the deal of information. What he had had any proper place in learned in Hongkong was not all in economic scheme. accord with information he had received at Shanghai, Hankow, and Peking, but he hoped to be able to piece it fogether and gel a general picture.

ROTARY CLUB TIFFIN ADDRESS.

INTERESTING TALK.

had

After speaking of his own love of gambling on horse racing, stock ex- change etc., he said that the British Empire borrowed from the world. and jent to the world; and the He would be quite frank and say United States, with its original A comparison of the Orientalį and the Occidental was made by that his country was selfiably in thirteen provinces, was in exactly

terested in not only maintaining the same position with regard Senator Keg Pittman yester dag's Rotary Clubs mesting, at its trade with Chinn bat in Increas money, transportation and defence which Sir William Hornel: presiding it, and he assumed that, pos China was to-day. They had just The tin was notable for sibly British business men were as many kinds of money na here, with the same exchange dificulties. the large number of us who interested in the same thing, but They were developed the trana.

found out there were two were present

continental railway and other works The following sent apologies for theories about it, and he was trying conti

were built with British capital: non-attendance. Retarian K. H.this best to analyse them,

and anyone who thought that a Kotewill, Rotarian K. Digby and Hongkong Theory. Rotarian B. Wong Tape, the latter It had been maintained by the young country could develop itself with its own capital, without out- being confined to his bed with Republican Party in the U. side help. was likely to find dis- Senate for many years that they

Blusionment. The following guests were wel- j should sell to somebody else and buy comed by the Chairman:-Senator nothing from them. That policy Key Pittman, Mr. Dougins Jenkins, and worked very well until the lust The Hon. Mr. W. 7. Southors, two years, but there was now some because of three things-Arstly. C.M.G., Mr. E. Taylor, The Hon. doubl tis 10 the wisdom of the determination for concerted na- M. C. Gordon Mackie, Mr. V. M. that

policy.

anderstoodtimal action: Hecondly, recognition 11. Compton

the theory in Hongkong Grayburn, Mr.

was of the fact that there must be a 1 that in making Capt. S. M. Barling, Capt. T.

"the

only sound, anfe, unit of value; and Ireland, Mr. George Potts, Mr. Goney they had so cheap, they could Champkin, Rev, A. S. Adams, Mr.not buy abroad but had to buy at thirdly, that foreign commerce must G. W. True, Mr. J. Coulthart, Mr. home. That was the same, in

pleurisy,

K. F. Lay. Mr. Ho lu, Mr. W. A. theory, as a prohibitive protective Stewart, Mr. S. H. Langston, Mr. | tariff.

s

Senator Pittman continued he believed that the Occident had reached the position it had to-day

not be obstructed.

United

The Silver Problem. On the subject of silver, the Lee Fong (Canton). Mr. O. G. Going back to the subject of the speaker said ho would not pre- Steen (Shanghai), Rotarlan F. A. Occidental and the Oriental, the sume to advise men who know more Flood Lincoln, Nebraska), Mr., C. speaker said he could not help re- of the local situation than he could J. Endert, Mr. A. Stokkink, and Mr. Imembering in history that only learn in twenty years. He felt

Inogensteyn.

few hundred years ago, when cul-Lound, however, to make clear to Mr. Pittman said that after meet-ture had existed in China for 2,000 them the position of the United ing a number of gentlemen present years, the savages of the British States. The United States pro- at receptions, tilfins and dinners, he Isles were alaughtering each other duced four million ounces of silver was reminded of the occasion of his tike bandits were doing in certain per month; but two thirds of that

consumed in the first public speech in Washington, parts of China at the present time, were

Yel those prosent were when he agreed to address a group

pre- States. By comparison with the of ladies without ascertaining dominantly British, this was Bri-output of lead, copper and zine, the who the ladies ware. At that time tish territory; and Its wonderful cutpat of silver in the United States the question of women's suffrage growth was largely due to British was an infinitesimal quantity. It was a very important subject and he enterprise. There had been re- had been suggested that in its re- naturally assumed that that was the markable growth in the British solution recommending a world object of the meeting. He deliver Isles, and those little Islands had conference for the rehabilitation of ed the strongest speech he could, at reached out and traded with all the silver, the Foreign Relations Com that time as to why women should peoples of the world. That trade (Continued on Page 11) have the right to vote, but the lady chairman told him afterwards that, in justice to himself, the Society was not in favour of votes for wo

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Was against them. (Laughter),

He continued that he had been sent to China by the Forelyn Re- lations Committee of the U.S. Sonate, for the purpose of investl-į

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