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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931.

BRITAIN AND THE CRISIS.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931.

higher standard of living for her workers than any country in [ Europe. Cau” she afford to main- tain that standard? Labourities fear that the cutting of the dolo for the unemployed may be follow- ed by a determined effort to cut the wages of the employed. Necd- less to say, the Labour Party will. resist any such move to the ut- termoat.

DAY BY DAY

YOUR PRETENDED FEAR LEST ERROR SHOULD STEP IN, IB LIKE the Nan THAT WOULD KEEP ALL THE WINE OUT OF THE COUNTRY, LYST MEN BHOULD BE DRUNK. IT WOULD DE FOUND AN UNJUST AND AN UNWISE JEALOUSY TO DENY A MAN THE LIBERTY HE HATH DY NATURE, UPON A SUPPOSITION HE MAY ABUSE IT Meanwhile, there are all manner

WHEN HE DOTH ABUSE IT, JUDD of ideas being put forward as a Olive Cromwell to the Scottish Somo of Ministers. solution of the crisis. these may be found in the politi-

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An international business +x- verience which has been very

William Jennings Bryan. who fought two Presidential campaigna in America on the silver issue. Opinions may differ as to the wis- dom of such a move, but, na we hava previously had occasion to re mark, it is commanding more and more attention no time goes by.

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IN CHINA WITH THE FLEET AIR ARM.

By NIGEL LEE.

com-

The

the

observer

18 docu-

A great aircraft carrier lies in threatens Shanghai from

West. Shanghai is the sunshine at the Poo Tung South and wharf. From the Shanghai side the key to the trado of the vast of the river she resembles a mas-riches of the Yangtse Valley, and sive row of flat topped buildinge. both Generals desire to possess. From her

Bome off-t. quarterdeck,

the coolies, The Empress of Russia left Shang: cers are watching the

A signalman appears suddenly eal "platforms" which have roconthat at 9 am, to-day and is due in who work in pairs, unloading cot-on the carrier's quarterdock, boar antern. Ing a mesange. It is from a Bri- ton from a lighter just ly been announced. But outside Hongkong at 9 a.m. on Thursday,

The air is full of their weird tiah cruiser anchored in the have

the Thoy the ranks of pailtielans wa

of walk jerkily, Wangtse off the mouth The Hongkong Volunteer Defence chanting..

Frenado carrying the heavy bales slung Wantern Chinese cruiser has and reports that 4. prominent business men and econoCarpa advertise that a

they

the mlats urging bimetallism. In this Concert will be held at the Kowloon from bamboo poles which connexion, we may recall the recent Cricket Clue on Friday, October 23, support on pads on their naked arrived and opened fire on

commencing at 0.15.p.m. sharp. The shoulders.

Woo Sung Fort. The white enamelled hanger, A bugle sounds, a 11 Dis leclaration of Sir Henry Deterd-price of admission in $1.00 Including

which

gapes open on to the quarruslfed on to the quarterdeck, its Its ing, the Director General of the tax,

terdeck, contains a few 111 Dwings are then spread and Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, a

aircraft engines started, "A Connecticut Yankee," naw show-spotter-reconnolsannce

Having snatched up his Hfe- level-headed man of business, whening at the King's Theatre, is drawing and three single seater fighters. he asserted that "in my oplulon, large audiences, It is an extremely All are rigged as floatplanes, and saving packet, flying sunhelmet,

naval are and goggles, & funny film, which we can without their land undercarriages and I cannot reiterate it too strong- hesitation commend to cinema-goera-stowed overhead among the power climbs into the rear cockpit and AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE. an immediate adoption of bime-Will Rogers la here seen and heard at ful electric lampa which illuminate receives some trays of Lewis gun

the hanger.

ammunition from a scaman who tallism is the only possible remely

The accond fight of 111 D's has hands them up to him. A dying- for the recovery of our siek world

It is Interesting to note in con- been Innded. They are co-operat- officer II.A.F., scrambles into the in

to defend pilot's seat, and they wait for the uther words, the nexion with the death of Sir Bertram ing with the Army THE HONGKONG HOTEL | to-day :

silver stand-Mackennal, the noted sculptor, that Shanghal against the huge Chin-engine to warms up. GARAGE.

restoration of

he was the creator of the status of ese host which theatens it. For Överhand, the flying-deck juts ard. This he puts forward A Sir Henry May which occuplen£t

course In the middle of the city.sun. Cranes are mounted at the "profound conviction, based on prominent place near the Hongkong an aerodrome, they use the race squarely, shading them from the

Cenotaph.

and are housed in ingenious "mat- two foremost corners of the shed" hangers. These are

quarterdeck, and the purchase of A mishap on the s.. Taihoshek ledosed of a framework of bamboo one is hooked to the scoplane. to the ailmasion into hospital yester- vide." Its plea would have been day of a coolle with injuries to his polcs, covered over with mata of The pilot runs up the engine and They its temporary roar allences the musle to the ears of the Inte head and body. It was reported that interwoven palm leaves.

chant of coolies. The crane he went to sleep en name bags of are strong, watertight, and last- hny and toppled into the hold of the ing, and were built by native la-wire tautens, lifts the seaplane steamer dropping down a distance of bour in two or three days. The clear of the deck and swings her some 15 feet,

flight is photographing the surover the side, Fleet Air Arm sea- rounding country, to enable the men guiding her wings and tail. if war should "Got your ransom chit, old Convicted on the charge of being army to advance

boy" the observer aske the pilot. in possession of 100 tacin of non- become inevitable.

The organisation of this Fleet referring to the document writ- Government oplum, a young Chinese) was Aned $3,000 or one year by Mr. Air Arm

flight

intrigues the ten in Chinese, which each mem- Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy soldiers. The (naval) captain of her of the flent-plane's crow this morning. It was stated that the the carrier is their boss, but as supposed to

carry. The defendant was arrested nt

the they have been landed for more ment promises reward to anyone Kowlom-Railway Station.

than a fortnight, they are under bringing the bearer's body, dead Air Force discipline. The fight or alive, to one of H.M. ships. For keeping sly brothels in various commander happens to be a cap- The pilot grina and nods. The Cause of Crises.

places in Kowloom, two women were talp of Marines, who wears Marine The Boats slap the waters ES Bnr $100 or six weeks' hard labour

also a light the machine sits down, add, a mo- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who is by Mr Fraser at the Kowloon Magis uniform, but is

lieutenant R.A.F. One of the obment later, the crane wire becoming gradually understood in seeking almost dictatorial powers tracy this morning. Another saman

lieutenant alack enough for the observer to RAIE DA COSTA-ALEXANDER & MOSE DEREK OLDHAM, ETC. Britain that business and industry to rectify Great Britain's trade was fined $50 or one month for the servers in his fight is

never be as they have been balance and avert financial catas-saine offence. She was stated to tel commander it.N., who is of course, unhook it from the slings. When only a servant, but she had full senior to him, but under his or he has done so, he bangs the ders; It is a Chinese puzzle centro section with his open hand before. Change is needed, and trophe, in an illustration of the charge of the premises,

from the West; unworkable ex-signal to the pilot to go on. change wit have to come.

Fallingway in which ordinary modes of

The 6th general meeting of the cept by the actwill and deter- The pilot puts on his engine and taxios out into the muddy river, this, the financial and economic government get thoroughly upset

when finances ar at a crisis. Educational Society, Hongkong Uni-mination of the concerned.

versity, will be held to-morrow in The dango- which this flight anxious to reach the Woo Sung crisis, which the National Govern Whenever a Parliament is called Room "K" of the main buliding at faces in flying from the centre of Fort as soon as possible. ment was formed to overcome, will to handle urgent difficulties of this 8.30 p.m., when Father D. J. Fiana large city where a forced land- At the wharf opposite lice be only the firs, of a series of an- kind, no-one can forecast with any S., will deliver a lecture on "Sources ing would be fatal, are no worse Japanese cruiser, whose people of Western Culture," with lantern than those with which the float are critically interested. Salling nual crises when it come to chact-accurney just how things are go-lites. All interested are welcome. ing the Budget.

In England's Tea will be served after the meeting planes are confronted. Although slowly up stream Either Britaining to turn

the tortuous river is as wide as Boatplane, are three junks. Their case, the chances are probably will have to do more business, or its several hundred to one that the

the Thames at Westminster, it tall masts and high rectangular The election of a Justice of the bristles with masts of junks, fun- salla striped with bamboos make Government will have

Licensing to confer old order will survive unchanged. Pence to a seat on the

numerous it impossible for the seaplano to plate spending less And less

But history is full of cases that Board in place of Dr. W. V. M. Koch, nels of steamers, and

vacated on his retirement conscquent sampans and forryboats.

take off, particularly as the wind national purposes. Part of the brought in new eras entirely. One upon leaving the Colony recently, prevailing wind blows across the la blowing across the river. Be-

makes It atol nation's troubles, of course, are due of the earliest of such cases was which was to have been held to river, which

laden with sacks of rice. sampan, to circumstances over which it has furnished by England itself. The morrow, will not now be held, as no more difficult to judge u take off yond the junks is a flat-topped

the King sent

nominations to fill the post have been or landing,

She is being towed-up rivor...la- disagreement between

in. It in expected that His Both flights have to make the boriously by six Chinese. The had no control. World depression and Parliament which wound up Excellency the Governor will nominate heat of it. It is the boast of the Bontplane taxies on, stili secking is universal. it hits big countries with Charles, I

on the scaffold, a Justice of the Peace to All the Fleet Air Arm that they are al- a clear space from which to take and little countries alike.

.of éame into being because

ways ready for anything, any-

on. where. The lives and property of At last her engine roars, she In the past, Britain's wealth was financial crisis.. It started mildly

Three coolies employed

thousands of British and other akims along with one wing slight- founded mainly on shipping. In enough as a dispute over appro- surance business, export trade andpriations for the expensive and in- Shamshuipe Military Camp were foreigners were threatened, and ly down, and finally rises

charged before Mr. Franer at the the fleet Air Arm had arrived to the air with trails of water foreign investments. All of them glorious wars in which

morning protect them, two months, ahead streaming from her floats to be Kowloon Magistrney this with larceny of a quantity of clothing of the moal mobile R.A.F. torn into fine mist by the slip- have been hard hit by the world ended, some years later, in Oliver from the Camp and alternatively with squadro connaissance is made,

stream from her ropellor. depression. In practically every Cromwell. The French revolu- unlawful possession. After hearing

The flat country boyond the the facts of the case, his Worship port of any importance, ocean-go-tion started in the same way. That found that there was no evidence to look for the massing of troops river banks comes into view. It ing vessels can be seen lying up also began very mildly. Franch larceny, but convleted defendants on or Junks, The Northern Army is divided into small felds, inten- vivid freight for finances were in a chaotic condi- the charge of unlawful possession. under General Chung Sun Fungsively caltivated, vividly, green, cilmblox Marine and fire tion--due partly to France's inter. Hin Worship sentenced the first de- has retreated to the North bank and having a still more

fendant to three month's hard labour of the Yangtze, while Chang Kai- smell. Astern of the venion in the war for American and the other two to six weeks each. shek with his Cantonese Army seaplane the great city of Shang- independence. Louls XVI

hd lies in the sunlight, looking like Liverpool. Below and ahead, winds the Whangpoo, and upon it crawla a great "Dollar liner laden with expensive Americans. Following her is a small Chinese steamer Navigation Company's from up river, most of whose in- Chinese passengers expensive seem to be on deck. There are

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because there is no them to carry. insurance has also suffered much from the world slump, and this forced to summon the States Gen- Inushress, too, formerly brought eral to find a solution. The con- much money to London and Liver-fusion that followed did not ond pool. It was British money that until Louis had gone to the gull- developed countries like the Argen-lotine and Napoleon had arisen to tine and other fur-off places. Brit-Vex and rearrange Europe. Those are probably the two outstanding ish money built their railways examples. There are other minor and their electrical plant. The ones. The emergence of most of drop in grain prices has hit the Europe's presont-day dictators Argentine as well as British hold-came in just such a manner, al- ers of shares in companies do- though usually with less violence. ing business there. Finally, there To be sure, the chances that the financial crisis in England will re- Is Britain's export trade. Coal,sult in a revolution, or in anything textiles and steel products have even resembling a revolution, are been especially affected. Horo, it microscopic. England's gonlus must be confessed, not only the for orderly self-government .can world situation but the home situs-be counted on to meat almost any tion was at fault. Britain bas kind of emorgoncy. But the seeds lugged behind -in-industrial-or- of danger are there, navertheless. Government seldom faces a graver ganisation, compared with some of risk than when it has to devote her competitors, but there wore its

entire energies to acting other countries farther-bohind-than-finances in order................ Britain which have been able to undorsell her in her own marketa.

The sceret was wages, The Unit At Thursday's meeting of the Legislative Council, the first roadings ed States paid the world's highest of Bills to amend the Code of Civil wages, but by organisation got Procedure, the Arms and Aminunition. enormous mass production. Coun- Ordinance, the Peace Preservation Ordinance and the Saltors' Funds tries like Poland and Crecho-Slo-Ordinance will be taken; while second vakia could compete with Britain roadings comprise Bills to amend the law relating to Registration of Births in the coal business because their and Deaths, Liquors Consolidation miners were paid much less. But Ordinance, Gunpowder and Fireworks

and Fireworks Ordinance, Money In spite of all, 'Beltäin har main-lendara. Ordinance, Land Registration tained a higher wage scale and Ordinance; and Stamp: Ordinance.

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towards the

also many Junks and

into

sampans.

At last, the Yangtao comes in sight, and to the left, where the Wangpoo meots it, standa the WoD Sung

Fort-the centre of distur

banec.

An occasional names

and

fash

of

a puff of smoke from the fort'a guns, pro- claims that the gunkeopora, as they style themselves, are busy. Threa miles down the Yangtae, slowly turning, is a Chinese crui- Ber. She is the Hai Chi, Dagship of the Northern Flest, and, is bombarding furiously. An occa sional shot from the fort is seen to fall half way to the Hal Chi. Those from the Hal Chi, are not acen to fall at all.

The seaplane circles round watching with delight. She must remain strictly neutral or White- hall will not like it.

ACT

Presently-by mistake, no doubt shell from the Hai Chi drops on the parade ground of the fort. This arouses grave in the minds of the guns The Hal Chi could not have done that unaided, they ar gue. The British seaplane spotting for her Foreign Devilst Meanwhile, the Holy Chi is Sim prey to similar suspicion, 480 the

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