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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.
COLONY'S IMPROVED
FINANCES
com- 10
TUESDAY, APRIL 26. 1932,
the greatly enhanced postal rates,
It is not taking too much from the
public. Estimated to yield $1,360,- 000, it actually produced $2,036,-
DAY BY DAY
938 laat year, and with its expendi-TAKAOS
ture only $564,893, it worked at a FREE INQUIRY AND FREE CON profit, of close 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 a revenue of $780,161 in 1929. profit of $447,340 was made, whilst in 1930 a balance of $494,778 was secured on income totalling $895,- 868. The comparisons with 1932 are luminating. At Home, Post Office is regarded, not profit-making institution, but
Mr. Jas. T. Debbie, formerly editor the of the Chino Mail and Sunday Herald, walled for Brisbane as Satur sday on board the a.. Kama Mara.
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A
THE RIDDLE OF GERMANY
By A. J. CUMMINGS
one of the two self-balancing de- The Colonial Secretarint forwards view. In some respects Germany steadily taxed out of existence.
of the:
partments of Government. Here
a
French FEW weeks ago
One must look at Germanay from It is advertised that Mr. J. D.
journalist paid a flying visit a different angle in order to get What Is Thomson has been appointed secretary! of the Dairy Farm & Cold Storage to Berlin, did a rapid round of the the true perspective. Co., Ltd.
Right enfes, and then rushed home actually happening is that the level to describe "dancing Germany" to of the most thoroughly organised his poverty-stricken compatriots civiliantion in the world is slowly, and to paint with a flourish the almost imperceptibly, sinking. Nof prosperous condition of a country only are the middle-classes, dis- the ranks of the pretending to be bankrupt,
appearing from One can understand the point of well-to-do, but the rich are being copy of the remulation
Apart from a few powerful in- Colonial Office Conference regarding presents a baffling problem to the in Hongkong, a handsome turnover the activities of the Imperial College outside observer with preconceived dustrialists, and perhaps not apart is realised whilst at the same time of Tropical Agriculture, together with notions about a nation on the edge from these, there will soon be no fudividually very rich men in the postal rates are much above the the Principal's report for the year of the abyss.
On the surface there is no German State.
When 1 drove through the normal level and meanwhile Kow-1930-41.
evidence at all of a degraded or
Tiergarten Strasse, the Park-Inne loon languishes for lack of real
The Cheero Club held its last dance demoralised people. postal facilities,
of the season at Lane Crawford's; in the heart of Germany, at all of Berlin, most of the great ornate Restaurant last night. A very inegevents, 1 witnessed only the signa mansions were desolately empty. gathering participated and a most
Scarcely anyone in Germany is enjoyable time was spent. The dance of a highgrade civilisation Func-
In now rich enough to live in them. was n apecial one for Service Men. tioning with extreme emelency.
Berlin to day there is The music was aupplied by Mr. G. W. the country districts the land is In True's "Cheero Band."
cultivated with skilled intelligence; equivalent of London'a fashionably the
and beautifully ателя great allotment
are dressed
men-about-town. Tho The Royal Observatory reports that superior in management and lay-groomed the anticyclone has moved rapidly out to any I have seen in England; social spectacle in drab, colourless,
central over the house, new and old, are well- doad. eastward and is now
The territorial magnates have South Japan. The depression has kept and spotlessly clean; men, passed into the Pacific to the north women and children look well-dress-stready lost their wealth. east of Hokkaido. Local forecast:-)
East winds, moderate; cloudy with ed. well-nourished and contented. with drizzle or mist, probably int- Disciplined Submission. proving
The Legacy at Shanghai. Japan has now produced a full- length apologia of its conduct in the Far East in a book by Mr. K. k. Kawakami. Called "Japan Speaks.”
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the it is inspired, necording author, by the complaints of a New Yark newspaper that. In spite of the fact that "Japan had, in many respects, a good case," she Incked "good publicity." From the title 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, und with proceeds to dull their elge the comment: "Hot for them (the the
to Shameen for another year at least,
many
women
no
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
In the towns State and communal Shameen residents are pleased to control continues at the highest welcome back Mr. R. K. Batchelor, pitch. The German is tended from may be are relentlessly diminish- Director of Dencon and Ce, who has the cradle to the grave by na ing. just returned from Honte leave. Mrs. Grganised Intelligence, which hel
There in no attrition of the Batchelor is not expected art instinctively obeys. Unemployment workless armies, and none la fore- since she has nut yet recovered from is high, and there are ton her very serious illness, which neees, taxiculs, anys Organized Intelli- seeably in the near future.
Is Germany, then, on the point Therefore, even numbers of total collapse, some gence,
na economista. sitated her leaving Shameen time nga.
only will ply for hire one day, and
stateamen aro financiers and odd numbers the next. Without a fond of assuring us? I do not
dia- An extremely interesting paper on murmur of resistance,
believe it. We have all acquired a fascinating personality ofciplined army of taxi-drivers oboys-slick habit of crying "Wolf" about Japanese) to go in for independent Mackinvelli was delivered by Profes- There is no sign of any weakening Germany; and Germans themselves*
Her R. Robertson at the Hongkong through economic strain in this are the arch-ollenders. University Union assembly room altitude of disciplined submission Just us in the early post-war
intervention' in the Shanghai The sinte of the Colony's
region with tits) complicated in finances, as revealed in the
terests is not only quixotic but pleted figures for 1931, must
Mr. Kawakami then foolhardy."
Ile described us eminently satisfactory.
looks around for a scapegoal. Indeed, an analysis of the position raises the point whether the time picks upon the foreign diehards in Shanghai," suspecting that they has not arrived for a remission. of Some of the additional taxation "covertly egged on the Japanese, imposed last year. Revenge has who, blinded by their apparent success in Manchuria, were in a come in surprisingly well, co-muciz
more mood in undertake the job which so, in fact, that $5,666,964
no other Power was prepared to was brought to account than was
That there are originally estimated. On the other do."
lielards in Shanghai is undoubted, hand, outgoings are rather than anticipated, the excess being That they have long entertainest
to 3 point
the sneaking hope that Japan would $1,352,919. The stressed, however, is that the year's one day "apank" the Chinese Na- vieldcu a surplus of tionalists is also true enough. But working
This is in their wildest imaginations they nearly two million dollars, the more striking when we recall never supposed that the Japanese
"quixotic" and that originally a deficit of over two would be st
as late as budgeted for, whilst October, when the 1932 Budget was
more
last night, when the speaker showed how Machiavelli was not the in. carnation of Machiavellianism, and that his life and work, viewed a whole, does not warrant associations of his name.
the
CLERK COMMITS SUICIDE
foreign | EMBEZZLEMENT
No
" hase
SEQUEL
Tam King-po, aged
The
the
į waiters I saw, all the railway
and comfortable..
们
re-
to authority. Apart from an in-
years the French, demanding on crease in the number of beggars, the one side impossible reparation which is common to all countries, sums and appealing on the other there are few obvious signs of in for lavish generosity from their dividoal distress or misery,
war creditors, were apt to whine The people of Berlin and of other about stricken France, so Germany, great towIM wear dull but good in order to kill reparation payments
kathos. The tradition of careful- ly-tended teeth and hands is still and for other reasons, exaggerates
All the consistently her present plight. i rigorously maintained.
She is not greatly worse alf in porters, the municipal workers, the her organle life than other nationa bending to the blizzard. A just Clerks, the taxi-men, the market and bold financial settlement is CASE women, the schoolboys, looked sterk clearly vital to the ultimate, needs
of Europe, as well as to the
the But if twenty- Submerging of the Middle Classes,covery of Gormling.
Ger to the worst, worst comes seven years, a clerk employed at | "You must remember," said af many could live on her hump much The Taul Yor Sub-Contractors' i high trade union olivial, s man longer than we could. Guild. 54. Wmsung Street, whose who is in administrative control of There is still a wide margin be- arrest had been sought under a
some five million workers, "that the tween a low subsistence level in warrant ebarking him with ety- bezzlement of Guilt funds amunt. German has a keen sense of per-Germany and collapse.
sonal dignity. A Germun workingi She produces more than 60 per
terday. and a quarter million dollars was "Toolhardy" as to use the neutraling to $310, committed suicide Suman would rather sacrifice full cent. of her present agricultural
Settlement of Shanghai as
About March 19 of this year, meul than go without a shave and requirements and could increase
this amount considerably. for the punking" operations. Tam disappeared from his post, clean collar."
I asked him to show me a typical Her technique of administrative is in many whys introduced, the Government did not Such a course must have left them leaving his accounts, it is said, interlin slimm.. On the eastern side, government
Guild reported that funds in Tam's after much research, I saw not superb.
There is
corporato expect 1931 to produce a surplus of ironsiderably discomfited. Of what very unsatisfactory state.
collection of dingy!
an intense is does Shanghai's neutrality consist? more than $50,000. The effect
rant was issued for his arrest.streets and dingy nts, the occup spirit which tends powerfully to. make seen on the Colony's credit balance, First, in keeping Chinese armed charge were missing, and a war-slum but a
wutside the Settlement: Although aware of this fact, the ants of which were manifestly try maintain discipline and to
anarchy and violence abhorrent. which at the end of last year had forres risen to well over eleven millions, secondly, arising out of the first, in missing man returned to the Guilding to keep up appearances.
The trade union ofletal, who re- The Gergins awear by and live by which is some two millions better keeping the Settlement from being premises some days ago, and ap-
parently managed to make his cently spent several weeks in the collective action. They have leagues was for everybody and everything: than expected when the estimates used as a base of offensive opera-pence with the Guild officials, as industrial parts of England,
there is even a league for those tions against Chinese forces. in the police were not informed of puzzled by my persistence. were revised in October last.
"What I want to see," 1 ux who suffer from hay-fever. any interpretation of Shanghai's his reappeuraser.
As a nation they have shown Yesterday, yielding to a fit of plained, is something which com-!
CHA endure calmity, neutrality, one obligation cannot go
it is believed, hepares with Glasgow, Sunderland that they
odlum and injustice with admir- without the other. It is true that despondency.
"Oh." he replied in astonish- able fortitude.. window, 70 feet above the ground.
1 Their expections of there is no statutory provision for suddenly threw himself from and the Rhondda Valley."
mild Shangbai's neatrality. But it has and fell into a yard below, suf- ment, we have nothing of course. had the force of an understanding fering injuries which proved fa- 15 equal the squalor and human amelioration of their lot are low.
misery of those" places," century bytal after numission to dospital. upheld for nearly a Chineng as well as foreigners, Now that the tumult of battle is over, there is a disposition on the part of the Japanese command to deny that violated $215,000. Japan has
Shanghai's more neutrality. But ocular evidence reported day after day is undenf- able. As Mr. Kawakami implies, Japan's Ret was the kind of blunder
sakd which Bismarck once
IN
in our issue of Saturday, we summarised the principal points of last year's working, and there therefore no call to recapitulate them. One or two items may, how over, be elaborated. For example, the Railway is continuing to show a stratifying return when outgoings are compared with income. With increased earnings and less ex- penditure, there is a proft on the twelve months of over The receipts were 3121,970 than the previous year, and $116. 5-18 more than was anticipated. On the other hand, the railway spent 368,356 less than the sum allotted,
worse than a crime. The least that or some $52,000 less than in the prev four 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 Shanghai. evidence to be found of the Gov- ernment habit of under-estimating income and thus taking a tnore pes- simistic view of the situation than
YOUNG GIRL'S
MURDER
POLICE SEEKING "WANTED" MAN
la subsequently shown to have been justined. Indeed, the remark- able disparity between the excellent stute of affairs disclosed at the end of the year and that which was forecnated after nine montha' working, is aufcient illustration of the point. Land sales are a
Case nexion
con-
Police investigation in
of a with the murder
in point. The original estimate young Chinese seamstress, at 86. Portland Street, reached a con- was a round million and a half clusive stage yesterday. dollars; actually, well
over twice
Officers called into the case on that sum was reallacd. It we turn Sunday morning.
discovered the
to the expenditure side und select body of the young woman on
北
an example, we find that the two bed with a cord from a kimono
Coincident with the murder, they were told that a man named Tseng Hing-chan, who had been living with the woman, was missing.
and a half millions allotted to tightly secured around her neck. Public Works Extraordinary was not absorbed, the actual amount apent boing $2,374, 931, which was some $475.000 less than the pre- vious year.
ane
course.
The Post Office is, of
of our always regarded as profit-making departments, but the question arises whether, in view of
Yesterday, the police issued poster, offering a reward of $500 for information leading to the ar rest and conviction of the missing man, who is wanted on the capital charge.
"Uncle Bill has his notes mixed up and he can't tell whether he's to wish little Hubert Quizzenberry a happy birthday, or
tell him to take his cod liver oil."
Something more than a further contruction of social and economie values will be required to provoke
physical upheaval.
Germany's Safety Valve.
I do not believe in the likelihood of a coup d'elat in the Mussolini strong manner. Hitlerism is force, but it is not in reality a rovalutionary farce: and Hitler is but a pinchback Mussolini, The strength of Hitlerlam lies, not in any active revolutionary spirit, but in its efficacy NH an organised movement for expressing the dis- illusionment and the discontents of the dispossessed chasses.
It is Germany's safety-valve. Hitler's 400,000 soldiers are not no military an army, and have effectiveness. If their leaders were so foolish as to protend that they had and to strike at the Constitu- tion. Germany's volunteer army of 100,000, the smallest, but most affelent national force in Europe, would deatroy them at a blow.
Hitler knows this and has ready fatully compromised himself by his "constitutional" methode in the eyes of the militant minority. most of whom have broken away into ineffectual fragments.
his. survives If Hindenburg second term of office I predict that the 'ex Crown Prince, an increas- ingly popular figure in Germany, and not Hitler, will be the strongest national candidate for the mucees- Blon.
The really dangerous element in Hitler's cheap and nebulous pro- gramme of reform is his policy of self- Autarkle,"
national or suficiency. As in other nations, including our own, self-sufficiency (Continued on Page 8.)
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