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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.

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But now. How different the story. At the critical moment he had failed. Out to a stupid ball that bumped and chipped off the edge of his bat. It should have gone for a four bit -- and with last season's bat,

Week ago.(at the nets in fact) Jones had told himself that his bat was not what it was and now he cursed himself (alus toolate) that be had not got a new one.

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DAY BY DAY

GUNBOATS OF THE By Captain BERNARD YANGTSZE.

ACWORTH (RN., Ret)

THE

HE terrible floods now de-l JT8

To the officers and men of the vastating China, and the sale Yangtze gunboats Chinese and of the two veteran gunboats, H.M. foreign, owe a debt that it is Europeans, English na well a

the amount of labour per unit of i IT 18 NOT POVERTY SO MUCH AB PRETENCE THAT HARASSES A RUINED output is accompanied by a reduc-MAN-THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN A tion in the number of persons em- ¦ PROUD MIND AND AN EMPTY PURSE--- ployed. It must be borne in mind THE KEEPING UP A HOLLOW SHOW THAT MUST SOON COME TO AN END. that scientific research is constantly HAVE THE COURAGE TO APPEAR POOR, discovering fresh means for the AND YOU DISARM POVERTY OF material enrichment of human life

BRARPEST STING-Mrs. Jameson,

and it is for industry to take ad- vantage, in a practical manner, of the knowledge thus gained. It is through the development of new Industries that a large proportion of the surplus Inbour, Bet free by fresh Inventions and betler

or-

ganisation in the older branches of activity, must be absorbed and it is therefore very desirable that every effort should be made to further wisely conceived initiative and en terprise along these lines.

Min Edris d'Aquino, soprano, a Ships Teal and Widgeon, have impossible to exaggerate. Trade nupil of Miss Maria Gomes, is to give recently attracted attention to the fa secured in these disturbed times a song recital at the Club de Recreio

the

war which, for more than twoithe appearance little battin

of

m Monday next a: 0.16. p.m. She will mighty Chinese waterway and the by convey, or by armed guards be assisted by Miss Gumes and Pra- British feet of Lilliputian men of provided from

Potential disturbances subside on

The gunboats.. fessor F. Gonzalez.

of these generations, bas sailed and guard- but "ubiquitous, *Property to the value of $100 wased the Yangtsze-Klang River. Some

carrying two nix- stolen from 2. Married Quarters, It was in 1869 that Admiral inch guns which now, on occasion, Mount Austin Barracks, which are Keppel first entered and charted. are needed, in marked contrast to occupied by Mrs. Smithers some time in H.M. Ships Salamis and Opos-those earlier days when the two between R p.m. on Monday and 11.30 aum, the great reaches above Ilan-six-pounders of the Teal and a.m. the following day.

Widgeon were only required for kow, the city with a population of millions, and above which large saluting; and for an exchange of „Mra, Lillian K. 1. Kwong, the wife ships are unable to navigate, not compliments between Englishmen of the Chinese Consul General in for any lack of water but on ac-

and the Chinese aristocracy. Manila, in on board the Empress of count of the bends. In 1904 Ad- Marked, indeed, are the changes The position is never static and Asts arriving from Shanghal to miral Sir Gerard Noel, Comman-jof the past twenty years in gun- ninrrow. She will take the same boat der-in-Chief in China, performed boat lie on the Yangtse, once a the industrial history of Britain be-

to Manila to join her husband.

the remarkable feat of taking the paradise for the adventurous sex- for the War was a record of de-

British Fleet of six battleships of man and the keen sportsman, but clining activities in one direction

A fisherman was charged before the Glory class to Hankow, In Di-now, stripped largely of Its sport the Hon. Comir.. Hole, at the Marine visions ne ahead disposed beam. and friendly intercourse with being offset and more than offset Court this morning. with having

courteous Chinese, a seene of anxi- by fresh enterprise in others. It failed to carry a white light at the

of his nast-head

diplomuey boat. and

The river is cinsalfied for naviga-hazard of attack, or of lost re-

and

contitiual is pot minimising the importance of admitting the charge, was Aned $10tional purposes into three sections putation for some alleged error of

the basic Industries, apon which the prosperity of the country has been Iargely founded, if emphasis is fald upon the necessity of developing new activities wherever possible. for all the indications point to the fact that the pre lominant position | occupied by Great Britain in certain of the leading trules in former duša

is antikely to be fully regained. For

dustries, capital and fabout

the successful promotion of new in-

are

the

ade-

of little Use without other. if und when

for a week's Imprisonment,

an

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the lower, middle, nud upper judgment in dealing with a crisis rivers-the cities. of Hankow. In which life is at stake.

made by Wing Ya-yuen aged 25, ninand limits of each reach.

An attempt to commit suicide was Ychang and Chungkinng being the Still there hangs, round the native of Canton, of no Bxed nhide

Yehang is but 100 feet above sea romantle legend of fair ladies, earlier days of the gunboats the who jumped into the harbour 041

level, and because in the summer wives of commanding officers, tow- Arsenal Street yesterday afternoon. He was rescued and removed to the

in Government Civil Hospital.

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milca

mine, but whether as bachelors or of married is that

the river rises 40 feet above the ed inte the heart of China winter level of approximately feet. some iden of the volume of and Widgeon. Whether the story sampana behind the paffing Tent water imprisoned between The engagement fa annoumeed lie-river banks of silt.

this true I have been unable to deter- above tween John Kennedy, youngest son of thousands of

up the late Alex Ross (formerly of China, can be visuntised. In the early days on the upper runcher Mary, eldest daughter of the Rov. T.winter the ships that steam up and of the Yangtsd were golden days

a recd-crowned gorge about indeed. Eaton and Mrs. McCormick. The down Vienrage, Broad Clyst, Devon.

a mile and a half wide are; in the

Here was a sportsman's paradise, summer, lifted high above the The Chian Light and Power Co.surrounding country upon which pheasants, duck and snipe being those on the decks of the ships solemn feast was held with court-

bugged in thousands. Many (1918), 1.td., ndvertises that electrick down. elty supply will be cut off from 8 a.m.

Iy Chinese to 6 pan, on Thursday, the 17th Inst., The consequences

Mandarina, whose of a burst boards were as generous as they 15, Miss E. D'Almada e Castro,phere in which opportunity offers, and Friday, the 18th inst., In the bank can be appreciated from the were, and remain.

whole of Lai Chi Kok, and Cheung following incident. Recently | Sha Wan. N.W. of Yon Chow Street.stenmer was sucked through with chopsticks is an acquired art › average English taste. Exting break in the bank and was carried which, for my own part, I have Eight Chinese boatpeople, including infund on the stond without ground-been unable to master, finding it man, were charged before the log or any mishap. The anchors necessary to spike the slippery Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Marine were dropped and the ship repigeon's eg with a chopstick used Court this morning, with having turned to the river when the water on the bayonet principle. moored their boats within 150 feet of

DEATHS.

PALMADA E CASTRO-On Sept.

quate supplies of both are active. ly seeking employment in every

the dearly beloved and only new industries'will arise and a sub- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Xatantini advance towards the solu D'Almada < Cnstra, Funeral

passes the Monument at 5,30 p.m. tion of the unemployment problém to-dns.

| NORONHA--AL

12.05 i.112. # September 16, 1931. at the Government. Civil Hospital. Libanio Joaquim Noronha. Funeral will pass the Monu- ment to-day at 5.30 Murao and Shanghal papers please

copy).

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WIDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, W91.

INVENTIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

One factor which in recent years has serentiated the unemployment

problem in most enuntries--and it

tre made.

words can describe it." Then he

one

had

levelled off. The anchura,

the Government Slipway Pier, however, were recovered in the Yaumati Bay, yesterday. All were fined $5 or five days' imprisonment,

The following forthcoming weddings are announced:-Mr. James McLellan

the

:

the

unsavoury to

il

winter when they were found ent To-day the lighter and happier bedded in a dry fice-fleld, far from side of gunboat life is sharply the river bank.

an enviable and

J

A Gloomy Outlook.

The latest forecast of the prac-

curtailed. The sportsman, instend lien! nature of television, when it is really ready for general con

Above Yehan, 900 miles from of shooting pheasants, is likely to be shot himself, even could he sumption, casts a gloomy and dis- Walker, No. 376. The Peak, to Miss the sea, the first gorge rises to find the birds which are now large- turking atmosphere over the en-Helen Audrey Weir, of the Matikia from the plain, a gorge 26 miles

ly gathered into cold-storage to tire prospect, It is a picture of Hospital; Mr, Eric Woods, of the m.v.long and two hundred yards wide.er the

Wuseuh, c/o Messrs. Butterfield and the hills surmounting it being

groaning tables of trade labels, of coffee cans, rereal Swire, Shanghai, to Mies Finid Grace 2,000 feet high and sloping steeply gangsters in Chicago. The friend- boxes and window cards being Stephenson, en route to Hongkong on to the river. The famous Windy report of the shot-gun la sup

box forced upon our innocent eyes in hourd the s.s. Patroclus.

Gorge is flanked by clits planted by the sinister crack of rising a sheer 906 feet, through long since a form of O boat the rifle from the river bank. the midst of our eagerness to enjoy

An application for the confiscation feet in 150 feet. Up the Cricket against a gang of pro which roars the river, falling warfare was practised by II.M.S. Home attractive song or dance. The

of arms discovered in living quarters picture is drawn by Mr. Orrin recently varated by a dismissede British gunboats and Chinese Cri

Chinese bandits which Honlap. of the New York Times, European employee of the A.P.C. junks are steamed, towed and gresive.

was-holding-up-shipping-and-fir-- in his new book, "Radio in Ad- the installation at North Point, was Warped:"

granted by Mr. Scholield at the

ing from the bank en merchant vertising." He goes into quite a

The water in the gorges rises as junks and steamers. Central Magistracy

thin morning. detailed explanation of how this will Sub-Inspector Rogers, of the Bay View uch as 140 feet above the winter

level and the little Widgeon, now this gallant little craft proceeded Lashed on the off-side of a junk be done. "A new model automobile | Police Station, explained that th

comprised

for sale after thirty-four years' televisor," he suggests, “A silver Srizare.

component

scene of attack parts of three long Lee-Enfield rises service, was the first mun-af-war up-river to the polish visually demonstrated

in good condition and of a type used to seale these rapids which reach where the "Progressives of the Left" attacked what they conceived Done up in 12ja speed of over twelve knots. in a more effective way than mer in early 1914.

to be a helpless junk. Their alarm packages, they were discovered by It

upon this 1,600 miles of was only exceeded by the speed him, subsequent to his attention being goes into instructive detail. "Hold drawn by the A.P.C. in living quarters strangely contrusted waterway of their stuitle when the Cricket in, one which, perhaps, has not re-the tarnished silver knife," he says, attached to the installation at North that British seamen have establish-slipped and fired her G-inch guns, ceived the attention it deserves-is"in front of the electric eyes. Then Point, and which had been vacated ed

world-wide with moral rather than physfend the previous day by the flood Store- reputation for skilful seamanship{effect, upon the gallant foc. the effect of new inventions and use the magic polish and let the

keeper who had been dismissed and and a simple, good-hundred, fear- improved methods of production: It housewives of the nation see at a had sailed for Home the same day. lass and manly diplomacy. has well been pointed out that the glance how bright and new the old exigoncica of the Grest War provid-piere of cutlery looks after the magic remedy hast been applied." el a trentendous stiamlus to scienti- There must have been a snigger on fic research, with the result that Mr. Dunlup's face when he wrote many discoveries, made between | this, but what many idealists fear 1914 and 1918 have since been ap- is that advertisers are going to take plied to practical commercial use, him seriously. He goes on: "Tele- In the post-war years, also, new in-vision is likely to bring a revival of advertisting characters, and to ventions and improvements have give those who have been confined followed one another with great to cartoons greater scope and re- rapidity. At the moment, we may newed life." So, if advertisers take not be able to realise all that this the hint, those inevitable scenes of involves, but it is probable that pathos in musicnt comedies will bo- when the past twenty years come to come, in television, such affairs as. be viewed in their proper prospec-father smacking his lips over a cup tive, they will be found to have of coffee, or a bonneted Dutch wo

Įman chasing a speck of diri, or a constituted one of the most remark-young man turning his head away able periods of development in his-from his dancing companion. Cau tory. New mechanical processes there be anything more pathetic have not only called for a much than this, to offset a rollicking smaller expenditure of bumni comedy?" labour per unit of output; they have

so had distinct effect on the falling price level.

In some recent comments on. this question, a well-known banking journal called attention to the fact that in some industries the lower prices at which it is possible to market goods, owing to the saving in production cosis, may result in so large an expansion of sales that an increased number of workpeople will be employed. On the other hand, many commodities possess á

SILVER FUTURES:-

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have been advised by cable of the fol- lowing quotations for New York silver futures na at the close of the market yesterday:

Soptember 1931 28.05. up 05. December 1931 28.16 down (05. -May 1082 28.35 down..05. July 1932 28.56 up .05.

"Ain't that the way it goes7 First day for weeks I've felt like turning out a lot of work-and the boss away on

his. vacation."!

The Concessions on the banks

of the Yangtse have gone but the gunboats, Tortunately for China and Europeans, remain.

Eng

land's prestige on the mighty waters of the Yangtae is still pre- enriously maintained by British Lilliputian ships. The seamen in bulwark of what prestige remains is tho just, firm and good-humoured character of the officers and men of the gunboats, supported hardly at all by the little armament car- ried in these baby ships.

With the Anle and replacement of the smallest, H.M. Ships Teal and Widgeon, a proud chapter in Yangtse history clunca. Ave atque vale is all that remnina to be said.

WATER LEVELS,

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, Issued by the Kwangtong River Conservancy Com mission, shows in English foot the water levels on the West River, North River and East River on the dates named:

Hopt. Sept.

14. 15.› ' West River at Shiubing 10.8 12.8 North River at Samahut 124 10.6 North River at Tsingyuen: 9.1. 10.0 East River at Sheklung 11.0 11.0 The highest lavals recorded" are; Shluhing, 41 foot; Tsingyuen, (29.2 foot; Samshul, ́27,9 - feet;., Sheklung, | 116 feet

The lowest levels on record are minus 5 feet at Samabul`and"mintas 2.7-fect at Skeklung.