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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1931.

CHINA DISCORD.

It, as now seems likely, the Can- tau pence delegation returns South without having accomplished any- thing, all hopes of peace in Chian the nr future will be dashed Looking at the the ground, situation, following Chung Kai- shek's latest outburst, the prospects

to

are that there will be a reversion to the state of affairs which existed before the delegation went North.

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1931.

comply with Chinng's demands would be to confess that the South- ern lenders have been in the wrong

DAY BY DAY

CERCANALON

OF

OF

The P. and O. s.s. Rajputana, from Home, is now due here at 6 s.m. on Friday.

Our Crisis Through German Eyes.

By VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE.

Berlin.

cont. It produces, after a compara- Inflation For Germans that tively short time, no additional re- British taxatlon on Jarge the incomes in now 78 per cent. word has a terrible significance. venue. They remember with dread period, seven years ago, when their

Taxable Copacity.

into Bank swiftly The P. and O. s.s. Naldera, from own currency

on utter worthlessness, and the whole To them. 46. to all intelligent system of life was totally din foreigners, it appears completely Shanghai, in due here at 6 am. Friday.

In consequence. organised

The impossible, under such ruinous

Me and

The P. and 0.5.5. Kalyan, from Hongkong, arrived in London on the 1st November at midnight.

mere

the sugges-

over

from the very start. Obviously there can be no adjustment of the

WHOEVER CONSIDERS THE STUDY issues on any such basis. Thero la

OF ANATOMY, I BELIEVE, WILL NEVER the further point that the recalelt- AN ATHEIST; THE FRAME

OF rants know a litle too much of MAN'S BODY, AND COHERENCE

115 PARTS, DEING SO STRANGE AND Nanking's past actions 'to' risk go-

HOLD IT TO PARADOXICAL, THAT I

MIRACLE ing back to the capital. The ex- BE THE GREATEST perlences of Hu Hon-min ard ̄EI || NATURE-Lord-Herbert, Chai-sum are all too fresh in their

memory.

As events

are developing, the Cantonese leaders might well tur Chiang's allegation of insincerity back on himself. But whoever is to blame, it in most regrettable that China's lenders cannot sink their personal prejudices and unite for the common good of the country, It is this failure to co-operate which has been at the root of many of China's troubles in the past. Those present had expected the who

a quick negotiations to result in settlement cannot have realised the innumerable obstacles in the way

injuries which included a fractured The fixed relation in gold in the of an adjustment between the con- dieting elements In the Kaomin skuli were caused to a coolie who while only protection against human de being given a lift on a lorry near Fal The whole history of the, fell backwards from the rony fault and human weakness.” Lang. Party has been a series of recurring board. He was taken to the Kowloon

Juspital. opposing between differences

The master of the s.s. Fooshing romana give when discussing Bri- for the groups; in such circumstances, it

ports that on November 2 he sighted tain's abandonment of the would have been amazing had these

a junk with a red light showing font-standard la: At all costo avoid those that we buy from him. Stu dents of international finance in ing in the middle of Chuenpei Chasnal inflation! differences been readily composed,

We have not yet set foot upon Berlin are convinced that this state As things are, we are back again to off Lanket Island, at the approach to

that slippery alopo. The pound has of things already exlated two years the Canton River,

undergone devaluation, ago. They say that we only man- the old position, with no progress

simply For bringing a mui tadi Into the Co-varying so far between 20 and 30 aged to conceal it by raising our whatever to be reported. The de-

Our paper currency has bank rate so as to keep foreign vefopment is to be deplored, but itong from Canion to see her mother per cent.

in Hongkong, Wong Wai-king a mat-not been increased to compensate money flowing to London. This en- ried woman of 33. Connaught Road. for loss of purchasing power, and abled storting to be maintained on cannot be said to be altogether on-

Central was fined $25 by Mr. Schofield it still commands the confidence of a par with other gold currencies, expected.

at the Central Pollee Court this morn our people. But the temptation to despite the fact that we were daily

Inflate will not be felt until prices sinking further into debt, begin to rise, and demands O summons accusing him of sel

higher wages are made. ofling Government oplum for $1.11 A nation yielding to such tempta- whereas the price fixed by the Govertion is like a man who fails under retailer; engaged by the Government, ordinary transactions of its daily of Great Britain was. Da some au thorities assert, $4,400,000,000 ur in Council was $1.10, an opiam the power of a deadly drug. The to me that if the national Income life become a desperate gamble

Prices uoar even years ago, he did not beliove ngulust weighted dice, with rocket-like velocity. Salaries, that our national income today ex- ceeded £3,000,000,000. So that if wages, profits, dividends, savingsce As a stick of dynamite was being all wither into worthlessness as seven years ago, on a national in- thrown into the fishing grounds yes. terday, two miles off Takinoon, it ex-on as they are received.

German Anunciers are men pluded and caused terrible injuries to

fisherman belonging to Junk No. great ability. They are devoting 1367K. The injured man was remov-the closest attention to Britain's

to the Kowloon Hospital where his predienment. condition is considered critical.

Mr. D. Strellett were) e Auggestion that Auch an ex-trade conditions at now exist, for

turn German faces pale.

£1,000,000,000 1 year on national amongst the passengers who arrived perience might return is enough to us to go on spending well

Dr. Luther, the President of the and local government. They do not German Reichsbank, protests most believe that the taxable capacity of on the a... UiymaDA,

energetically against tion that it would be to Germany's Britain to-day is greater than that of France, where the national res interest to follow England off the venue, as shown by her last Budget, gold standard.

is only £300,000,000.

our The German view is that "If some people have to-day for As amended notification states that

Anancial position has for several the B.1. .6. Takaka from Singapore is gotten the terrible suffering which

Inflation, caused us, I have not." years been much

worse than we due here to-morrow morning.

raid. "There is no such thing as

knew The Report of the Mac control. keeping inflation under

millan Commission, published Inst a debtor nation. It showed that of June, revealed that Britain is now our "invisible exports," made up shipping freights, agency commia. sion, and income from foreign in- The first warning which all Ger-vestments, have ceased to provide the difference between gold goods we seli to the foreigner and

Fighting Small-pax,

of

Tu most people, the days active opposition to medical agita tion for universal application of to Medical vaccination.. as a preventive

past. small-pox, are science has proved itself right, and the wise person has discarded his illogical arguments against such treatment, recognising, as he does,

It is there the necessity of it. fore doubly peculiar that a super hygienic and medically advanced country such as the United States should, at the present time, he in- grave danger

small-pox epi- | In one sense, recent developments | demics. Sach, however, is the have been reminiscent of happen- ease, if the warning issued to the ings in England, where, at a time American Public Health Association by a Metropolitan Life Insurance af crisis, a National Government. in which all parties are represented. Company expert, is to be taken seriously. The trouble. it seems, has been created. Was hoped is that in many neighbourhoods that the Canton-Nanking delibera- there is still strong public senti- tions might result in such a re

ment against vaccination. organisation of the central adminis- | precisely in these districts that tration as to include all elements of small-pox is most prevalent, while the Kuomintang Party, so that the it is noteworthy that the most nation might present a united front thickly-populated eastern

have the fewest cases of the against Japan. Unhappily, the disease. Here, in Hongkong, the likelihood of such an out-turn of

Scourge has been systematically events is now remote.

Lookerl

It

iL

retrospectively, AL would appear that the Canton deles

ing.

was fined $25 on his appearance bo fore Mr. Schoßeld at the Central Po-

lee Court this morning.

C.

C.

the

Avoid Inuntion!

* *

for

further

National Income.

One German economist remarked

ezi-

short cut to economic

national come of £4,400,000,000, the and local authorities

were deavouring to raise over £1,000,- reduced income, the burden is pro- As my in- 000,000 a year, to-day, on a vastly Our fail from the gold standard portionately heavier. was a very reat and unexpected formunt said, this is a prospect. The theft of a Plymouth car, val shock to them. They are amazed which may defer, and easily defcat, not at $1.800, has been reported by that we should have continued our anything except the boldest states.

until this manship.

Looking into the future, Germán the owner, Mr. Ping Yee-ho, of 11 national extravagance states that he left his car in Saigon There is no reason to doubt the economists admit that the deprecia. York Bond, Kowloon Tong. Mr. Ping step was forced upon us. Rond at 7.45 last night, and found friendliness of the advice they offer tion of the pound may for n time for it later in the evening The sum-

wards-Great Britain than to any ports in foreign marketa-though that it had vanished when he returned us. Germany is better diaposed to give an advantage..to British ex- with trade unions so well organised ber of the ear is 2734.

other leading European nation,

The views of well-informed Ger- as they are in England they do not The following forthcoming wedding's muss which I have heard in Berlin think that this advantage will last It is ure annuinced.Mr. Artur Brails deserve attention. Disquieting as long as it did in Germany, be

cost of living will be swiftly follow- ford, No. 11, Conduit Road, to Miss though they are, 1 believe it is my enuse the inevitable increase in the Caroline Mary Hardinge, No. 13, Wing Lok Road, Wing Lok Buildings, Kow-duty to give them publicity..

German authorities regard Bri-ed by demands for higher wages. In any case, they say, our ex loon; Mr. Antonia Ferreira Balalhu States Silva-Netto, junior, No. 208, Boundary tain's economic position as being

Road, Kowloon, to Miss Anne far more serious than most people port industries can only benefit at Josephine Barnes, No. 7, Granville in our country have yet realised, the expense of Continental coun- Road. Kowloon.

They do not believe that our Budget tries, many of which owe us money. is really balanced. They think Those countries will be ruined, and Mr. their ruin will drag down Britain new taxce which fought for years, and the succeed. Amongst the passengers who arriv- that the ing annual reports of the Modiealed on the Blue Funnel liner Ulysses Snowden imposed last month will and the whole of Europe to a lower The Germans think that by let- and Miss K.C.B.. D.S.0.,

There is a point where all Departments go to show how ane-were Lieut-Gen. Sir W. McCracken, bring in far less than he expects. level of national well-being.

••KKU that "wa" is proving. McCracken. General McCracken, who increases of taxation are found to ting the pound go we were trying gales were rather too optimistic of

Under the Vaccination Ordinance retired in 1922, has seen mitch service, yield a smaller instead of a greater to take a the results of their trek burth No. 12 of 1923, all Public Vaccina- including Egyptian campaigns,

ing from the formidable obstacle wards. They will possibly argue.

lors are under the control of the South African War, and the Great return. Germans believe that we stability. They accuse us of flinch-

War. In the last-named he was men.have already passed that point,

Their experience is that when that stands in the direct path. and with some show of reason, that Director or Medical and Sanitary tioned in despatches seven times and

That obstacle is the high British Income tax is raised abové 50 per

standard of living they have been tricked by Nanking. Services, who is the Superintend- promoted Lieutenant General. From the very creation of the Cast-ent of Vaccination. As Registrar- of Births and Deaths, the lead of fon Government, they insisted on

the Sanitary Department is also one point before they would con- sider rejoining the Nanking Ad-responsible for ensuring the vac-

eination of all children ministration. That was the rebirths are registered in Hongkong. signation of Chialg Kai-shek as the As a result of these mensures wo in 1929 no less than head of the Government. It would find that

per- appear. however, that they agreeil 323,769 vaccinations were to participate in peace negotiations formed, while in 1930, the various departments In charge of this by reason of some alleged report

work, which include the Public that Chiang had declared his will Vaccinators and the St. John Am- ingness to stand down, providedbulance Brigade, accomplished certain other points were agreed 244,759. In this manner le small- to. It is now seriously to be pox being gradually, but none the! doubted whether Chlang at any less effectively, stamped out in time intended to resign; his latest Hongkong, and those States in! America which are now threatened that utterance tends to support

with this awful scourge, might do view. Ever since the Canton dele-

well to adopt such widespread pre- Vaccination gates agreed to go to Shanghal, he

ventive measures. has been indulging in mere plati-offera a aure method of fighting tudes, until he now cumes forth small-pox, and any community that with a definito declaration that tho rofuses to use it is flirting with Canton viewpoint cannot be serious-

danger.

whose

ly considered. He chides them with Jack of sincerity, suggesting that "Via Bama", a now cigarette, has] if they are in earnest they should made its appearance on the local market, and it may confidently be without further ado abolish the expected to become as popular here co-as elsewhere. Manufactured in Eng Canton administration and

land by the famous old firm of Godfrey operate with Nanking, Seemingly, Phillips, Ltd., the quality is excellent by expects such action to be quite and the price most moderata, ting of unconditional; in other words, what afty selling at seventy. cents.

ho asks is complete surrender by

The health return for the past week the Canton leaders. In such cir-shows seven caqes of typhoid (two cumstances, how can there be any fatal), of which one was imported; and one non-fatal case of cerebro-spinol donths Hossible hope of a settlement

the, differences? For Canton to from taberealosis,

The fover. There were also di

"And another thing, Dean you've got to maks-that-dumb. math professor case up on my quarterback.”

me

Every German I meet confronts

with this question:

By what right do British people of every class claim to live more ex- travagantly and to work lese hard than the corresponding classes on the Continent?"

No World Monopoly.

"The accumulated savings of your forefathers." say these critics. of ours," are now in process of rapid exhaustion. You long ago cessed to have a world-monopoly of manufacture. You are faced by the compétition of rival nations even better equipped than yourselves. How can you expect to be able to go on paying all your workers, from Cabinet Ministers and civil ser- vanta to rallway portors and artisans, so much better than the similar grades are paid in other countries 7"

Germany's greatest reproach to Britain may be summed up thus: that we have far too great a respect for vested interests.

We try to maintain a trade- union wages agreement in the face of economic laws, but in the end, they say, the economie laws must prevail. It was all right to cut big coats for everyone when there was plenty of cloth but now that the cloth has shrunk the coats must be cut accordingly

In the opinion of Germans, the

same

argument should apply to our Government loans. They consider it hopeless for an impoverished. country, such as Britain has now become, to attempt to go on paY- ing away over £350,000,000 a year. out of revenue as interest on. Its public debt. The scaling down of (Continued on Page 7