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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.

on

CHEVROLET

on smart

the greatly enhanced postal rates, It is not taking too much from the public. Estimated to yield $1,800,- 000, it actually produced $2,036,- 938 last year, and with its expandi- turo only $564,893, it worked at a

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profit of closa on one and a half SCIENCE ARE THE TWIN PILLARS OF millions. If we look back to the PROTESTANTISM-Morley,

two previous years, we find that on revenue of $780,151 in 1929, a

It is advertised that Mr. J. D.

THE

RIDDLE OF GERMANY

By A. J. CUMMINGS

FEW weeks ago a French One must look at Germany

THE PHAETON Certain to prove one of tho

prout of $447,846 was made, whilst Thomson has been appointed secretary A journalist paid a flying visit a different angle in order fro

What in finest looking phaeton models

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In 1980 a balance of $494,778 was Co., Ltd.

night cafes, and then relied homo actually happening is that the level capacity. Now passenger

to describe "dancing Germany" to of the most thoroughly organised features includo: Cowl vent!-secured on income totalling $895,-

Mr. Jas. T. Dobble, formerly editura poverty-stricken compatriots civilisation in the world is slowly, 868. The comparisons with 1932

the almost imperceptibly, sinking. Not lator. Chrome plated handica

are illuminating. At Home, the of the China Afall and Sunday and to paint with a flourish

Herald, sailed for Brisbane on Satur prosperous condition of a country only are the middle-classes dis- new hood porto.

Post Office is regarded, not as a day on board the B.R. Kama Mazu.

appearing from the ranks of the pretending to be bankrupt. Weather-proof sido curtains.

profit-making institution, but as

One can understand the point of well-to-do, but the rich are being Two deep, wide aide pockets.

The Colonial Secretariat forwards one of the two self-balancing de-

In some respects Germany steadily taxed out of existence, the resolution of the view.

Apart from a few powerful in- partmenta of Government, Horon copy of

Colonial Office Conference regarding presents a baffling problem to the in Hongkong, a handsome turnover the activities of the Imperial College mitalde observer with preconceived dustrialists, and perhaps not apart is realised whilat at the same time of Tropical Agriculture, together with notions about a nation on the edge from these, there will soon be no postal rates are much above the the Principal's report for the year of the abyss.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph,

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.

COLONY'S IMPROVED

FINANCES

True's "Cheero Band."

or

до

The Royal Observatory reports that superior in management and Iny-groomed the anticyclone has moved rapidly out to any I have seen in England; social spectacle is drab, colourless, castward and is now central over the houses, new and old, are well-dead.

The territorial magnates have South Japan. The depression has kept and spotlessly clean; passed into the Pacific to the north-women and children look well-dress- already lost their wealth. east of Hokkaido. Local forecast:-

men,

Individually very rich men in the On the surface thero is no German State..

When I drove through the evidence at all of a degraded

Tiergarten Strasse, the Park-lane The Cheuco Club hold ita last duner demoralised people. of the season at Lans Crawford's In the heart of Germany, at all of Berlin, most of the great ornate Restaurant last night. A very largel gathering participated and a most events, I witnessed only the signa mansions were desolately empty.

Scarcely anyone in Germany is enjoyable time was spent. The dance of a highgrade civilisation func-

In now rich enough to live in them.

IB The Legacy at Shanghai. was n special one for Service Men. tloning with extreme eficiency.

ie In Berlin to day there Japan has now produced a fall-The musle was supplied by Mr. G. W. the country districts the land

cultivated with skilled intelligenco; equivalent of London's fashionably and beautifully the great allotment arens are dressed women

men-about-town. The length apologia of its conduct in the Far East in a book by Mr. K. K. Kawakami. Called "Japan Speaks." the it is inspired, according to author, by the complaints of a New York newspaper that, in spite of the fact that "Japan had, in many respects, & good case," she lacked "good publielty." From the tille One would have imagined that Mr. Kawakami would defend Japan's action at Shanghai. But he is too conscious of its implications and potentialities to do so. He allows the official reports to take up most of his sketchy picture of this side of the Sino-Japanese trouble, and with proceeds to dull their edge

"But for them (the the comment:

East winds, moderate; cloudy with e, well-nourished and contented. with drizzle or mist, probably Im-Disciplined Suhmission. proving.

In the towns Slate and communal) Shameen residents are pleased to control continues at the highest welcome back Mr. R. K. Batchelor, pitch. The German is tended from Director of Deacon and Co, who has

grave by

Nobody In any class saves money for security in old age; few try.

In Berlin this month 15,000 families have removed into smaller and cheaper flats,

Personal resources, such as they may be are relentlessly diminish- ing. be

an

many

There is no attrition of the

just returned from Home leave. Mrs. the cradle to the Batchelor in not expected to return Organised Intelligence, which to Shanteen for another year at least, instinctively obeys. Unemployment workless armies, and none is fore- since she has not yet recovered from is high, and there are too

Is Germany, then, on the point her very serious linesa, which necen- taxicabs, says Organised Intelli- sccably in the near future,

Therefore, even numbers sitated her leaving Shameen some gence.

only whi ply for hire one day, and of total collapse,

financiers and odd numbers the next. Without a

time ago.

tho

fascinating

personality.

na economista, statesmen are

по

An extremely interesting paper on murmur of resistance, the dis- fond of assuring us? I do not ofciplined army of taxi-drivers obeys, believe it. We have all acquired a Germany; and Germans themselves Japanese) to go in for independent Machiavelli wan delivered by Profes- There is no sign of any weakening slick habit of crying "Wolf" about

sor R. Robertson at the Hongkong through economic strain In

this Shanghai University ** in

Union asserably

attitude of disciplined submission are the arch-offenders.

Just as in the early post-war region with (Ita) complicated in last night, when the speaker showed to authority. Apart from an in- of the Colony's

years the French, demanding but how Muchlavell was not Lerests is not only quixotic

carnation of Machiavellianism, and crease in the number of beggare, the one side impossible reparation

as which is common to all countries, Mr. Kawakami thon that his life and work, viewed Coolhardy."

com-

intervention'

tooks around for a scapegont. He picks upon the foreign diehards in Shangbai" susperting that they "covertly egged on the Japanese, who, blinded by their apparent sucress in Manchurip, were in a more mood to undertake the job which other Power was prepared to was

the in-

CLERK COMMITS

SUICIDE

I

on

A whole, does not warrant the ill there are few obvious signs of in-suma and appealing on the other for lavish generosity from their dividual distress or misery,

The people of Berlin and of other war creditors, were apt to whine associations of his name.

great town: wear dull but good about stricken France, so Germany, clothes. The tradition of enreful-in order to kill reparation payments ly-tended teeth and hands is still and for other reasons, exaggerates

All the consistently her present plight. rigorously maintained.

She is not greatly worse off in waiters I saw, all the railway porters, the municipal workers, the her organic life then other nations clerks, the taxi-men, the market bending to the blizzard. A just That there are foreign | EMBEZZLEMENT CASF women, the schoolboys, looked sleek bold financial settlement

clearly vital to the ultimate needs and comfortable.

of Europe, as well as to the (Submerging of the Middle Classes, covery of Germany. But if the Ger- worst comes to the worst, "You must remember," said many could live on her hump much

manlonger than we could.

į Tam

twenty-

ія

re-

The state finances, as revealed in the pleted figures for 1931, must be described as eminently satisfactory. Indeed, an analysis of the position raises the point whether the time has not arrived for a remission. of the additional tantian Some of imposed inst year. Revenue has come in surprisingly well. ro much so, in fact, that $5,655,064 was brought to account than originally estimated. On the other do.”

SEQUEL more diehards in Shanghai is undoubted. hand, outgoings are rather

King-po, aged than anticipated, the excess being That they have long entertained point to the sneaking hope that Japan would -$1,302,919. Tho

one day "spaak" the Chinese Nu-seven years, a elverk employed at the Tani Yee Sub-Contractors' stressed, however, is that the year's yielded a surplus of werking

This is in their wildest imaginations they arrest had been sought under a nearly two million dollars. the more striking when we recall ever suppescil that the Japanese warrant charging him with em some five million workers, "that the tween a low subsistence level in

"quixotic" and so bezzlement of Guild funds amount-German has a keen sense of per-Germany and collapse.

A German working She produces more than 60 per that originally a deficit of over two would be so

was "foolhardy" as to use the neutraling to $340, committed suicide yes.sonai diguity.

man would rather sacrifice full cent. of her present agricultural and a quarter million dollars

About March 19 of this year, meal than go without a shave and requirements and could increase Settlement of Shanghai as a base today. as late

this amount considerably. budgeted for, whilst

for the spanking" operations. Tam disappeared from his post, clean collar."

I asked him to show me typical Her technique of administrative October, when the 1932 Budget was

is in many Ways introduced, the Government did not Such a course must have left them loving his accounts, it is said, in expect 1931 to produce a surplus of considerably discomâted. Of what a very satisfactory state. The Berlin slum. On the eastern side, government

collection of dingy There is an intense, corporate does Shanghai's neutrality consist? Guild reported that funds in Tam's after much research, I saw not a superb. more than $50,000. The effect

arrest.streets and dingy flats, the occup-spirit which tends powerfully rant was issued seen on the Colony's credit balance. First, in keeping Chinese armed charge were missing, and a war-sium but a

outside the Settlement: Although aware of this fact, the ants of which were manifestly try maintain discipline and to make anarchy and violence abhorrent. which at the end of last year had forces risen to well over eleven millions, secondly, arising out of the firat, in missing man returned to the Guild ing to keep up appearances,

The trade union oficial, who re- The Germans swear by and live by to make his

Ак

is

tionalists is also true enough. But Guild, 54, Woosung Street, whose high trade union official, is

who is in administrative control of There is still a wide margin be

for his

to

which is some two millions better keeping the Settlement from being premises soine days ago, and apntly spent several weeks in the collective netion. They have leagües"

we

was for everybody and everything: used as a base of offensive opera-parently managed

there is even a league for those tions against Chinese forces. In peace with the Guild oBcials, as industrial parts of England,

the police ware not informed of puzzled by my persistence.

нее." І "What I want to

Ex- who suffer from hay-fever. any interpretation of Shanghai's his reappearance.

As a nation they have shown Yesterday, yielding to a fit of plained, "is something which com-

endure calmity, Sunderland that they can neutrality, one obligation cannot go

admir- without the other. It is true that despondenes, it is believed, he patres with Glasgow,

and the Rhuntido Valley."

odium and injustice with "Ok" he replied in astonish-able fortitude.

mild there is no statutory provision for suddenly threw himself from a

Their expections of Shanghai's neutrality. But it has window, 70 feet above the ground,

and fell into a yard below, suf- ment, "we have nothing of course,

human amelioration of their lot are low. had the force of an understanding Tering injuries which proved fa- to equal the squalor and

century by tal after admission to dospital. misery of those plnees." upheld for nearly a Chinese as well as foreigners. Now that the tumult of battle is ex-there is a disposition on the part of the Japanese command to deny that $215,000. Japan has violated Shanghai's ocular evidence more neutrality. Bul

than expected when the estimates were revised in October last.

In our issue of Saturday, summarised the principal points of last year's working, and there is therefore no call to recapitulate them.

One or two items may, how- ever, be elaborated. For example, the Railway in contiming to show a gratifying return when outgoings are compared with income. With increased earnings and less penditure, there is a profit on the twelve months of over The receipts were $121,970 than the previous year, and $146,-reported day after day in undeni- 648 more than was anticipated. On able. As Mr. Kawakami implies, the other hand, the railway spent Japan's net was the kind of blunder $64,350 less than the sum allotted, which Bismarck once

or some $52,000 less than in

£

Case

Shanghai.

over,

said Was

YOUNG GIRL'S

MURDER

con- of a

the worse than a crime. The least that. previous twelve months. Certainly can be done to palliate the offence most satisfactory showing. is for the Japanese to retire from: Speaking generally, there is ample evidence to be found of the Gov- ernment habit of under-estimating income and thus taking a more pes- simistic view of the situation than to have is subsequently shown been justified. Indeed, the remark- able disparity between the excellent state of affairs disclosed at the end of the year and that which was forecasted after nine months' working, is sufficient Illustration of the point. Land sales are a in point. The original catimate was a round million and a half dollars; actually, woll over twico that sum was realised. It we turn to the expenditure aide and select an example, we find that the two and a half millions allotted to Public Works Extraordinary was not absorbed, the actual amount spent boing $2,374, 981, which was some $175,000 less than the pre-

Yesterday, the police issued a vious year.

poster, offering a reward of $500 The Post Offee la, of course, for information loading to the ar- always regarded as one of our rest and conviction of the missing profit-making departments, but the man, who is wanted on the capital question arises whether, in view of charge.

con-

POLICE SEEKING "WANTED" MAN Police investigation in nexion with the murder Young Chinese seamstress, at 86. Portland Street, reached n clusive atage, yesterday.

Officers called into the cuse on discovered the Sunday morning body of the young woman on a bed with a cord from a kimono tightly secured around her neck. Coincident with the murder, they wore told that a man named Tsong Hing-chan, who had been living with the woman, was missing.

LUCHME

"Uncle Bill has his notos mixed up and he can't tell whether he's to wish little Hubert Quizzonborry a happy birthday, or

tall him to take his cod liver oil."

Something more than a further contraction of social and economic values will be required to provoke a physical upheaval.

Germany's Safety Valve.

a

I do not believe in the likelihood of a coup d'etat in the Mussolini Я strong manner. Hitlerism le force, but it is not in reality revolutionary force: and Hitler is but a pinchbeck Mugaolini. The strength of Hitlerism lice, not In any active revolutionary spirit, but in its officacy ሰሀ an organised movement for expressing the dis- Illusionment and the discontents of the dispossessed chasses.

It is Germany's. anfety-valve. Hitler's 400,000 soldiers are not an army, and have no military effectiveness. If their lenders were so foolish as to pretend that they had and to strike at the Constitu- tion. Germany's volunteer army of 100,000, the smallest, but force in most efficient national Europe, would, destroy them at a blow.

Hitler knows this and has ready fatally compromised himself by hla "constitutional methods in the eyes of the militant minority, most of whom have broken' away into ineffectual fragments.

hia survives If Hindenburg second term of office I predict that increas- the ex Crown Prince, an ingly popular figure in Germany, and not Hitler, will be the strongest" national candidate for the succes. sjon.

The really dangerous element in Hitler's cheap and nebulous pro- gramme of reform is his policy of self- "Autarkic" or national Buffleiency. As in other nations, including our own, self-suffieloncy- (Continued on Page 8.)