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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931.

AMERICA'S PART.

The Hoover moratorjum scheme has, very naturally, once again directed attention to America's financial policy in regard to other Dations. Correspondents writing

DAY BY DAY-

TENTS HIMSELF WITH HOUGH! D'A=

American money have recently been irretrievably lost through the collapse of two European and For ALLOWED THEIR DUE CONSIDERATION, VIRTUE AND TALENTS, THOUGH! Eastern enterprises, whilst two YET ARE NOT ENOUOK TO Governments shewhere havo Bus... | PROCURE A MAN A WELCOME pended indefinitely the payment WHEREVER HE COMES. NOBODY CON- of their indebtedness to Ameri-MONDS, OR WEARS THEM SO. WHEN cans. Overlooking there, and POLISHED AND RET, THEN THEY confining ourselves to investments GIVE A LUSTRE.-Locke, that appear to be avand and The P. & O... Rawalpindi, from solvent, America has derived pro- Hongkong, arrived at London 21nt

August at 7 a.m. fits, to be sure, from intereat pay- ments. That is the normal course

of business. But there is no question that foreign countries and foreign business have derived gigantic benefits from the use of the billions of American mongy

made available.

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I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

By BEVERLEY. NICHOLS.

Iranto, which is the word for one word, saying "blah" in vary

KNOW only one word in Espe-confined their conversation to that

"ink-stand."

Ing accents, sweet, scornful, hot or In Esperanto it is called "ink-cold, according to the situation. It was learned to-day that the three stando," and why they should want They would be able to wriggle. suspects from the s.s. Helikon are still to call it that, I cannot entirely about just as much, and make their held in police custody, the investigu-understando. tions not yet being completed,

aheep's eyes, and twist their necks, It was partly in order to under-and very few people would even stando that I have read "Interna-guess that there Admitted with a fractured skull tional Communication," a sympo- missing. resulting from a fall down a enskloft, slum-on-the-language problem Chan Shek-san, a young barber, died which has just been published un- at the Government Civil Hospital this der the distinguished authorship of the cinema as a serious intellectunt If, however, you choose to regard morning.

international professors, and aristic force--and the authors

three

was anything

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robber made a leisurely search, steal the choicer conceits of the Es- cannot dismiss the problem

After trussing up the victim, the whoau very names sound like one of of this book do so regard Il-you ing $4.40 from a drawer and also peranto fraternity.

superficially. appropriating an electric torch valued They tackle the problem--which You have to give a straight an- nt a dollar.

is certainly a topical ono-fromswer to the question: "What would every conceivable angle-social, happen to the cinema industry if economic, artistic.

all countries made films in the same

In my language?

opinion, the elnema industry would die over-

A great deal more could be written of the actual financial aid rendered by the United States to foreign countrien, but as a world banker she has also done her part In helping to work out the finan

For returning from banishment before, the expiration of 10 years, a cial problems of other lands. man named Lo Kan was sentenced to Amorica has every reason to be pine mantha' hard labour by Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy gratifled at the results of the ser-this morning. It was mentioned that vices of Mr. Parker Gilbert in the defendant was banished in 1927. directing the administration of the Dawes Plas, of the efforts of Mr. Jeremiah Smith in directing the plan. for rehabilitating the finances of Hungary, and of the

And I still do not understando.

For after rending this book it night. seems more than evot clear that the

All that was rich and significant whole case for an international would be automatically barred. How language is based on a howling could you use the fierce virility of A junk master was fined $26 by the fallacy, namely, the idea that un-a Chiengo gangster, the quiet Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Marine derstanding und concord are charm of or English Indy, the melo the harbour without having obtained a ception that if nations could only ler, if they all apoku Court this morning, for having left synonymous, the extraordinary cou-dious passion of an Italian gondo- with the clearance. The accused said he was communicate their ideas with com-samic accents? ordered to go to Castle Peak about 2 plete freedom the nations would, Imagine, for a moment, that they p.at. on Saturday to bring back a load

You would kill drama at a single unce na the office was closed.

-The precise opposite is the truth.stroke if you did this thing. Your I have often reflected, when I have plays would resolve themselves into A tea-shed at Lokmachau, New Territories, was the scene of a robbery zine shops which are scattered over through which colourless puppeta paused at the little foreign mage-lifeless mechanical problems, with violence nt. o'clock yesterday London, that it is extremely for drifted like ghosts-puppete who morning. The tenant was aroused by

work of such men as Mr. O. M. W. bricks, and could not get a cleur-o facto, be united in a bond of fall spoke with an Oxford accent!

Sprague donned to the Bank of England), Mr. Charles Dewey and Mr. E. W. Kemmerer, who have rendered valuable assistance to nations which have found them selves in fiscal distress. We draw atttention to these aspects of America's financial activities in justlee to the United States. A sneering, critical atti- tude achieves nothing; it can, indeed, be extremely mischievous. The times

sall for Belpful criticism, not

for uncharitable innuendo or spiteful comment.

common

love.

the

a knock at the door, the man clamour-tunate that the average Englialiman should never have crawled out of wanted to buy cakes. Despite the late are published about him is lag for admission stating that cannot understand the jokes which the author's ink-stando. hour, the owner of the matshed allow-periodicals of certain supposedly

the man to enter and the next friendly nations. instaat he found himself clutched by the throat and forced back on his bed.

A

af

They point to the high cost of teaching children foreign languages

in schools. But it would cost, just

Reading this book, one realises more and more that the interna- tional language enthusiasts belong We need "name no names," but to that class whose manin is the could mention, ofThand, dozen atandardisation of life. They want which led to Fung Ho,

Police are investigating the events foreign papers of wide circulation the lovely faces of the nations to worker, being admitted to the Govern- enough insults against this country mask.

wharf which contain, dally or weekly, be ground into a grey composite men Civil Hospital this morning, with severe head injuries. Ils condition is to provoke a war.

They use fantastic arguments. It is general knowledge that the critical. Although the crew and

has often proved other whart workers declare that the interpreter

jured man fell down the hold 97 the supremely valuable buffer at in- steamer Wa Ping Yee, the captain of ternational.conferences. The sight as much to teach them Esperanto. An Encouraging Sign.

the vessel has told the pollee that he of a

a pale

person of oriental extrac

They imagine that the radio fe The old Arab saying "Thia,

heard the man crying out in the early tion making peculiar faces and largely useless because one nation to us within the past week or so too, will passought to go well, and found him at the bottom of the his lips may be faintly irritating Why should it want to? Why morning that he was being assaulted, causing odd sounds to come from cannot understand its neighbour. have sought to create an impres-framed, on the walls of business aftert the at the to Westare sion that the Valled States, in her men's offices these days. In the Chuet On short at the time.

should we deny ourselves the plea- But

be a great deal more sure of. tuning in to strange and dealings with other countries, has early part of 1930 men were pre-

irritating if they understood him, distant stations, or listening to wen animated solely by motives of dieting that prosperity would be MISSION WEDDING.

instead of receiving his romarks weird gutturals drifting through self-interest.

with the faint softening of meaning. the ethbr? Are we not standard- back in another month, at the They have sought to depict Uncle Sam as an infial-that the depression will never end longest; now they tend to believe

DR. DUNCAN FRASER AND

the delicate change of mannerised enough? which the best interpreters know ed #nancial colossus who is at the at all One is reminded of this,

MISS V. M. CHESWORTH,

so well how to accomplish.

Not long ago I was sitting in the The wedding took place at the sanie time a gouging skin-flint. somehow, by the news, buried in Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wan- and the common task that the aver the Alpes Maritimes. They were However, it is in the daily round square of a remote ifttle village in This, happily, does not reflect ex-the financial colunina recently,

chai, on Saturday of Miss Violet age man would be most affected by holding a fair, and there was a lightened foreign opinion, and it that the Hudson Bay Company had Mary Chesworth of Fatshun and an international language.

great babel and confusion as the Neil Duncan Fraser may therefore be well to look at announced its decision to pay no Swatow.

of the three professors men-villagers bargained for silks and One The Rev. F. Dewatowe tioned above draws a rosy picture hens and baskets and goats, and

sweetmeats, puny, unfortunately, is not unique was largely attended, the wedding of International language. Is this in that respect. It has been mission field.

being of

above t particular interest in the picture justified?

ve there came the sound of a "No, it is not. You may divide jazz band, from a wireless which year of passed dividends. The merve, delivered a radio talk on shareholders who gets dividend by the Res. J. C. Knight Anstey, like myself, who go to them be-distressing noise, especially as one The bride, who was given away fra fans into two classes those, was tuned in to Lyons. It was a Skin-flint?" warrants regularly can congratu- took charming in a dress of white cause they give amusement with a had heard the tune, ad nauseam, in Some of his remarks are worthy of late himself as being luckier than bouquet of white flowers.

net and Ince. She carried am minimum of mental effort, and London. And the only thing that wider notice than they have many of

The those who think that films are saved it from being quite unbear- his brethren. What Matron of Honour, Mrs. Knight

and all that.

of

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the matter from America's angle. lividend. The fludson Bay Com- | viliciated at the ceremony, which of the Now Cinema under a system denly through `a ̈window up

Quite recently, -Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary for Com-

"Is Uncle Sam a

received, and, in fairness to the makes this particular incident in- Anstey, Was attired in a dress orribly Important and Significant able was the fact that the words

If you belong to the first clasare sung in French. Instead of

You may call that a superficial example, but to me it is a signí- Acant one.

United States, we should like to teresting is the fact that the lud- blue gured chiffon, and wore a

crooning. "baby, give a

you will agree that it would not man crooned Jeradore bebe," or love you," the few pointers from hison Bay Company is one of the grey and blue hat.

Coldest companies clerots,

on earth. It After a reception, the happy much matter if the average motion words to that effect. Which guve Between 1914 and 1930, the since 1870. This depression is of beige face and georgette. She heroines do not say much more than sible to suffer it without overwhelm- has been in continuous operation the bride's travelling dress being or Russian or Chinese. Most of the tion in rhythm, which made it pes- couple left for their honeymoon, picture were produced in English to the tune a new quality, a varia- American people have loned to not the first it has seen, nor is it wore a green, hat and beige shoes. a variation of the word "blah," so ing resentment. foreigners no less a sum thum 23 the worst: and one is safe in gues-and carried a green bag.

it would be just as effective if they billions of dollars. This re-sing that it will not be the last. presents simply the net amount of One imagines that the directors of publicly-offered loans by Ameri-the company re not unduly cans to foreign Governments and alarmed by the present depres

sion. Their company was an old- corporations, plus the original

established jamounts, of the war debts.

house before the But

French that is not the whole story.

Canada. It lived To through the world-wide panic that the figure numed must be added followed the bursting the direct investments abroad on notorious "Mississippi

of the babble"

the part of American citizens, over two centuries ago. It sur amounting to more than five bivived the turmoil of the Napoleo Hons since 1924, as well as the nie wars and their troublesome hundreds of millions that have aftermath. It is nicer than most of the earth's existing govern- been poured out in recent years, in-absolute gifts to foreign clurilooks like a calamity that will ments. To some the depression- ties,, education, public health and never end-n prelude to universal the general betterment of foreign | downfall. But to the gentlemen! welfare. Dr. Klein is quite frank of the Hudson Day Company, pro when he says that these are not bally, it is vialble in its proper all philanthropies, by any means; perspective. In the days since Amerien has had "value received" 1870 it has weathered a good many In most of the transactions, and, atorma. "This, too. will pass." for that matter, so have the foreigners concerned. The point is that there has been no evidence

of parsimony: America's financial

SUGAR MARKET. THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

The following cable at the close

strength has abundantly helped of the sugar market. on Saterday.

others, and only the utterly has

been received by Moanra.

binused foreigner would dispute Pentreath and Co.

the point.

Keeping in mind the twelve or thirteen billions of strictly business loans, it may be

London Terminals.

. March 1932 6/2% up 3⁄41⁄4d. May 1932 6/41⁄4 up 1⁄4d. August 1982 6/6 no change.

pointed out that whlist the over-December 1091 6/11/2 up d whelming majority of them have turned out to. ba commercially

New York Terminal..

Market closed.

"Now enjoy your holiday dear; and don't worry about We'll be back for you. In an hour."

some

There is a possibility that, many thousands of years hence," future philosopher may come across these words, dip his pen in his ink- stando, and quote them as a brutish example of the small minds, the clouded visions of our

present epoch.

I may be on a par with those little acoffers whose giggles, still echo shrily down the corridora of

history.

However, I prefer to believe that I belong to the ranks of those who, even in an age of superstitution, were always politely sceptical of the exsitence of an adequate elixir of love,

or a really efficient philoso- pher's stono.

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, lsgood by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com miasion-hows-in "Boglish feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River, on" the dates named:

Aug. Aug.

· 23 · 23: Wast River at Bhfuhing. 26,6.: 25:8 North River at Samshuf 18.6 14.2 North River at Tsingyuen 17.9 East River at Sheklung 120 117. The highest levels recorded "ars!! Shinhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuan): 29.1 feet; Samahul; 27.8 feet Sheklant. by The lowest levels on record; ais mint feet at Jamshui ;and", astmen 5 12.7 feet at Shakking..