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DA ROZA-Died in London an the 4th of September as the result of a motor fatality, Augusto Alberto da Roza (Gussie), aged 22 years, dearly beloved MOT or Carton Augusto da Rorn, deeply re- gretted. [Cirina and Lisbon papers please copy).

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931.

OUR DEBT TO THE MERCHANT NAVY.

of

DAY BY DAY

It is notified that the name of the Kwong On Co., Ltd., has been struck off the register.

haro

America

Faces the Slump.

By A. J. CUMMINGS. to the News-Chronicle.

MERICAN newspaper mon] On the day of my arrival I asked

So

symp.

But en passant they asked me and we travelled to the East Side

citizen.

Sense of Shock.

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new

exposed, nowhere more so than along the treacherous China Coast. Possibly, most of us think little of these things until some auch disaster as befel the Kwang- sang brings vividly to mind the PEOPLE ARE NEVER BO NEAR PLAY- rieks run by those who go downING THE FOOL AS WHEN THEY THINK THEMSELVES WISE-Lady Mary to the sea in ships. It is" wall, Wortley Montagu. however, that we should constant. ly keep in mind the great debt which we owe to the mercantile marino, whose personnel played such a magnificent part in the left for a two months' trip through the ship was in quarantino.

Dr. and Mrs. M. O. Pfister have

came on board as soon as Mr. R. J. Cruikshank, your able The permanent correspondent, if the Great War, but who are daily Yunnan and Szechuan.

person they chiefly wanted to alump had produced any placing the rest of us under a debt

A revised senle of fees payable to question-and they had very poor toms of resentment or restlessness which can never be repaid. The the Registrar under the Patents luck-was Miss Betty Nuthall, in the great working-class popula who, like other members of the tions of New York. "Come and heroism displayed by the men of Ordinance appears in the Gazette.

Wightman Cup team, is not allow-800," he replied. the Kwongsang, who died at their His Excellency the Governor has ed give interviews. pants whilst lighting a losing bat.appointed Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen to

the other poorer quarters of what I thought of the European New York and spent several ex- tle, deserves to be commemorated, be an Official Justiep of the Peace.

situation, what I thought of the hausting but intensely, interesting for it ranks as one of the eples of At Tuesday's meeting of the Manhattan skyline and what' I hours among the vast alien popu the China Sea.

Rotary Club, Rotarian L. C. thought I should think of Amerien. lation of Jews, negroes, Italians

"Municipal

The New Yorker is still ready

and Chinese. Rut whilst we

mourn for the Bellamy will speak on

Socialism."

enough to talk to you with enor

In the famolis Howery I saw brave and gallant dead, we cannot

According to the terms of a new mous gusto oven about his new street corner groups: of contented looking mon and women, most of forget the wives and other depen-regulation, any permit for the obtain- skyscrapper and about his them decently dressed; hordes of dents of those who lost their lives. Ing of sand may be Emited to the bridge.

What really astonishes me is lively shouting children; women Their burden of grief, tempered as collection of a stated quantity.

his readiness-in fact, his anxiety gossiping from window to window, it Is with the knowledge that those

Mr. F. T. Sung, formerly Chineze to talk about the Great Slump. I and squatting by the thousand on departed maintained to the very Consul-General in Australia, is in have come very soon to the conclu- doorstops. They all had a surpris

Hongkong on his way to Batavia, sion that the slump has genuinely Ling air of carefree lolsure. end the grand traditions of the where he has been promoted to be frightened the ordinary American naw also some hideous slums merchant marine. is a heavy one. Coneul-General.

which. by comparison would make- ali but London's worst look Ilke In some quarters, we have heard

Passengers who arrived here by the

garden cities. Thousands of suggestion that some organised Empress of Japan yesterday Included It has come upon him with the houses in that gigantic network effort might be made on their be- W. A. Dowley fr. ang shocking unexpectedness of a Big of filthy tonements were condemn

S. O, Hill, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Stark, Berths shell. And it goes far to ed as unfit for human habitation half. Whether the circumstances Mrk. W. A. Hannibal, and Mrs. Slade destroy his unreflecting confidence a quarter of a century ago; and call for such action cannot be known

A now regulation provides that the in the foundations of American still they stand, and only just

stand, a monumental disgrace until the lot of the bereaved is made regulations fixing fees, rents

and prosperity.

Yet in New York itself there are the most enterprising city in civi clear. But we feel sure that if a royalties for prospecting and mining necessity for help were disclosed shall not apply to earth or mud, sand, few obvious physical signs of the lination.

And still the people who haunt clay of any kind, granite or limestone. prevailing depression, apart from there would be a ready response on

the closing down of a number of these grim corridors of discase Owing to the unsettled weather, the theatres, the dismal falling off in and dirt gossip contentedly on the the part of the people of this

concert arranged to take place to the hotel population and the ubi-doorstop and think no worse of Colony, not only as a means night at St. Andrew's Church, Kow-quity of almless loafers.

their city governors. showing

in loof, will be held in the Church Hall their *ympathy

The bread queues and the dime In the Harlom district, where and not in the grounds as was intend queues, which were such a glinst-more than half a million negroes practical form, but also of paying aed.

ly feature of unemployment in the live, the conditions seemed to be tribute to the Merchant Navy, on

Substantial increases

been winter months, have practically somewhat better. whose activities the very existence made in pawnbrokers" ilcence feet, disappeared: not because, uner- It is difficult to believe that the There has been a re-grouping of ployment has been reduced-it is negro birth-rate is declining. For of Hongkong depends.

districts, and the highest fee is now still increasing but because, in Harlom mawarma with bright-eyed $2,500, compared with $1,500 previous the summer, human needs in food little blacks. As I stepped down ly in force.

and clothing are not urgent, from my taxl-cab I nearly collid- Excusable Caution.

and thousands of unemployed ed with a family group of seven The utmost sympathy will be felt clerks and other relics of the negro boys and girls, dressed in The East will await results for Mr. and Mrs. C. A. de Roza in the blizzard have gone into the coun- gay scarlets and yellows, their fore waxing in the slightest degree heavy bereavement they have suffered try, in search of they know not fuzzy heads lost to view in the enthusiastic about the silver con- as a result of their 22-year-old son,

what.

Interior of mushy red water ference to be held in Paris a fort. Gussie, succumbing in London yester

But the slump is in everybody's melons of gargantuan dimensions. mind.

On the other side of the atrest night henee. And an attitude of day following a moter accident Hongkong hus and plenty of re- any, caution is not surprising. The name of Mr. L. N. Murphy has

In the newspapers and maga- two negro orators were holding minder latterly of the perils of Events have so closely followed the been added to the Committee appoint zines, advertisements tell you what forth at the top of their voices to the sen but noʻincident has stirred predictions of the pessimists and ed to advise regarding applications to do and what to buy in order to largo audiences. Communist or- excite the emotional negro tem- deeper emotions, than the disaster the sceptics in the last two years for authority to act as auditors in escape from the psychology of de-ganisors have been trying hard to

respect of companies, other than pression. which befci

They make sombre jesta about porament; it seemed, therefore, fr Kwongsang that their ranks have been heavily China companies, which keep their

the slump in the theatres and good opportunity to hear how the when she foundered and sent swollen. There has been talk of accounts In English.

music-halls.

negro pleads the cause of the pro- international conferences a dozen

lotariat. practically all hands on board to a times, and on each occasion the re- The Dollar Steamship Lines, Ltd..

All that one hears and reads at are distributing a new line of yest watery grave. The full story of ports have been falsified. To-day pocket matches, each box bearing a that dread night will never be told. while there seems no doubt that cer-picture of the Company's new liner, The three solitary Chinese sur-tain financial experts are to meet the President Hoover, and the motto silver depression, made in Japan, are well packed in "Serves the World." The matches, vivors were unable, owing to the to discuss the terrible experience which they un- there are other factors which tend wood cartons.

to stifle hopes of satisfactory re- derwent, to give a very coherent ac-

The conference is unofficial sults. count of the tragedy, but from what in character. It is admitted that they have stated it is possible to the purpose la to discuss means of xain a glimmering impression of preventing wide fluctuations of the the awful seven or eight hours white metal rather than stablisa- spent by those on board until thation. Moreover, it is difficult to vessel, no longer able to bear thend ground for a belief that the opinions of the Paris experts will fierce buffeting of the mountainous carry weight in circles where they seas, and badly holed by being flug can be translated into action. That, rocks, suddenly dis-besides being the only means of against the appeared beneath the waves. Im-achieving anything, seems to be the agination may fill in the details-- most remote eventuality. The people the terrible struggle gainst the and councils that really matter to consider the provision of place the number of unemployed own in. the great African contin- forces of Nature in her angriest seem to have taken shelter behind playgrounds in conjunction with a in the country at ten millions, and stolidity.

sound-proof doors. Otherwise, we larger scheme such as we outlined in that "as many more are only t- mond. the hoping against hope imagine, a great deal more would

a recent number of this magazine. fully and precariously at work. that the ship would finally come have been heard of the agitation in through, and the last final 'plunge favour of a return to bimetallism, when it must have been apparent a gold-plus-aliver standard. It to all on board that only by a seems the simplest solution to the miracle could they hope to cocape which is selling at ridiculously low world economic problem. Silver, death. We think of the engineers prices, is available in quantity. If working waist-deep in water, vainly it were endowed with a fixed rela- endeavouring to keep steam up; oftion to gold, its place side by sido the deck officers at their posts do with gold in bank vaults would keep ing all that was humanly possible unsteady currencies Inked firmly to save the battered vessel and the to metal. Moreover, by promoting lives of those board; of the panic-the outlet for silver, it would raise its price and ineroase the buying. atricken passengers wondering

power of India and China. So long as gold is the sole standard of the It was in the darkness of mid-West, the main problem In mone- Inight that the vessel was first lary policy is to promote a stable struck by the typhoon, and for over level of commodity prices in terms seven hours the frall craft was at of gold. But the maldistribution the mercy of the waves. Then the of the yellow metal has taken auch a decided turn for the worse that sens sent her hurtling on to the

the means has broken down and the rocks, but, though badly damaged, whole basis of the gold standard. Is she continued to ride out the storm. threatened. The issue may be forced There seemed a faint hope that unless redistribution is undertaken the worst had been experienced, without loss of time. but then, with a suddennoss which

the B.S.

when all would be over.

must have been awe-inspiring, the

crippled ship dived to the bottom. The following charges are to be giving those aboard practically nonade for medical inspection of pupils! hope whatever of escape. Such, ns from January 1st next:43 each in | the case of Queen's College, King's In brief, is the grim story pieced College, Belilios Public School, Ellis together from, the statements of Kadoorie School, Yaumati School, the three survivors. It graphical Wanchal School, Gay Road School. ly illustrates the tremendous dan-Vernacular Middle School, and Verna

eular, Normal School-for-woman;-$t. gers to which

the officers and each for Elite Kadoatia School for mon of the Morchant Navy are Indians,

the outset in New York suggests an The first speaker was a hand- amazing transformation in Ameri. Home young fallow, wearing a can psychology. Gone is the cele-black coat and black trousers and

garded pep and good business na brated American pep which re-a spotless white shirt. His voice throbbed with passionate fervour. "My friends," he was saying as interchangeable terms. Gone is the nonsensical optimlam which our life here is a problem the joined the throng about him. The fees to be paid for licences for regarded American opulenco na storage of dangerous goods have been immune from the ille that beset wisest cannot solve; but remem- every licence to store inflammable Chinese wall of high tariffs has increased. The new rates are: For an allen and inferior world. The ber that Jesus Christ gives to you

all the life eternal." liquids, whether packed or in bulk, been dealt a quivering blow

The other speaker, 50-yards where the permitted quantity exceeds 600 gallons, $100; for every other There Is a new sobriety, a new away, was much more violent in licence to sterre dangerous goods, $10. note of caution and apprehensive manner, and he had a voice

of ness in utterances

brass. That, America's

I thought is the Communist. "A raca that has We are glad to know, says the St. public men as well as in the edi- Andrew's Church Magazine, that the tdrial commenta of a large part of been freed from slavery," he was saying, "can never dominate in Rotary Club is interesting itself in the American Press.

the nation which has given it free- the provision of playgrounds for I may have to revise the es- children, and we hope that it will not timsate in the light of further knowing a home in Palestine, so ve dom. Just na the Jews are scok- be long before they are able to tow ledge: but I have been, told that must build a new empire of our their attention to the needs of Kow It would be no exaggeration to loon. It would be a pity, however,

ent. The negro crowd listened

not

"Oh; L_don't suppose. I really want any, I always start. cutting up when I get away from home."

ol

But this was certainly not Com- muijsm.

There is. In fact, practically no Communism among the negroes

or the other great immigrant ole- mants,

Their docility is preserved by the zeal and skilt with which the bosses of the political machines taka in hard any spectacular case of injustice and demonstrate their power to set it right. Not long ago, in a Congressional election, the negroes actually voted on the party ticket against a negro nominee-

have since been informed by several leading mon in New York. State that their docility, 'in spite · of labour disputes, is general, and that the privations and hardships created by the: slump ›have been endured with astonishing and un- wavering patience. But the real testing time is still to come. Dreary Outlook.

Very few responsible observers or business men expect a genuine break in the slump for at least two years-one eminent authority has made in private the

daleful prediction, that, there will bo no. decisive change for the better for seven years and in the meantime the textile industry and the Steel Corporation are organising wage cuts which. If they are unforced on the expected scale, will prob ably lead to a general wage stam- Bedo, with quite inconceivable social and economic consequences. In addition, with or without

wage cuts, city, administrators and business dictators 16ok: for ward apprehensively.to-one of the blackest winters osunemployment:

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