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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.

LESSONS OF THE

EMPIRE FAIR

+-

2

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.

what the market needs. So far as was possible, excellent services were rendered

unoilicini in an way by Mr. S. T. Williamson on behalf of Australiaala and by Mrs. | J. B. Nowell in the interests of South Africa at the recent Fair, GREAT SOULS CAST, AND LITTLE SOULS

DAY BY DAY

FAME THAT SHADOW WHICH

but these two would be the first PURSUE to admit the need of bringing | Zangwill.

AS SUBSTANCE.-fruct

"AND WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS"

AN AERIAL IDYLL OF 1942

By Major Oliver Stewart. ERONAUTICAL PIGS are as a reminder that, somewhere.

sunlights.

proper machinery into being Men-of-war in port dressed ship A porionts. By the year 1942 there still exist green leaves anti

for the development of trade to-day in honour of Queen Mary's | between these centres and South 06th birthday. China,

p.m.

with

er thereabouts the farmer, goin in

It is this instinct to escape from market by nir, will no longer buy the destructive darkness and grime a pig in i poke, but a pig in a of cities that gives the aeroplage As the industrín1 plane. Seated in the cockpit of its impetus. his machine,

moustaches areas spread, so the need for fast streaming back in the wind, the transport to get away from them whiskered agriculturist will whizz Increases. The aeroplane la man's

grime. over the wold to the reiterated cry ally in his perpetual race against of "back to the landing ground!"

The

Mr. B. Paul will speak on "What On the purely local side, the Theosophy Is" at the usual weekly Fair was a convincing demonstra- public lecture of the Hongkong Lodge tion of the possibilities of poultry--the Theosophical Society today at raising in Hongkong and also of the greater rellance which couli

Money and Jewellery to the value be placed on locally-produced of $668 represented the extent of a

The Juxtaposition of the machine foodstuffs. As H. E. Mr. Sou-haul made by armed gangsters who

Already a number of hotels, broke into 23, Fook Chuen Heung thorn so pithily expressed at

Street, Shamshuipo, yesterday morn and the mangel-wurzel has not pre- situated in the open, have establish- the opening ceremony, from the ing. Four men were implicated, all viously been suggested; yet. It led their own landing grounds, and either with pregnant with possibilities and there is, in Kent, at least one tea

its breakfast egg to the savoury, of whom were armed

foreshadows the part the aeroplane garden with

own landing niso through the whole gamut of fah, knives or revolvers.

will play in the future.

ground. Country clubs aro flesh and fowl, some local sub-

Owing to Mr. R. E. Lindseli (Ausis-countryman, nesuming a black suit, beginning to establish their own bowler hat and a pendent landing grounds and by the end of stitute can be found for the im-

tant Attorney General) being engaged a

# if the New at the Criminal Sessions yesterday umbrella, and the townsinon

the present year there are likely But ported article.

more such places. So Territories are to be developed afternoon the further hearing of the spade, a smock and a wheelbarrow,e many

Happy Valley murder case, in which along the line of replacing much Cheng Kwok-ynu is charged with will change places for work and

And, when the village of the foodstuffs al present belag na accessory bofore the murder piny. And in this interchange of the step to the aerial villago la not brought in from the Canton delta of George Fung, was again una void-customs and costumes the aero-realises its now responsiblities it

the matter will ably adjourned. The case will be re-plane will prove indispensable.

sumed this afternoon if Mr. Lindsell

more like those villages that ap Those who have hitherto posed will no doubt become more idyllie; as prognosticators of the aerial peared so often on the stage (Act nge have not appreciated that the 1, Scene 1). need to be taken in hand along is available. organised channols, with Govern-

A would-be suicide was yesterday aeroplano's chief purpose will be ment help and encourage-

morning rescued from the harbour to act as an alternator between ex- the perfecting through and

the prompt action of antremes of civilisation and even, ment, of marketing

constable, Fazel Mahomed, perhaps, in a remoter period when arrangements. Indian This should not be an insuperable who, noticing the man struggling in all forms of civilisation begin to the water near the Wing Lok Wharf, task. We can only hope that the engaged a samspan and went to the pull, between extremes of savagery

assistance. The

man was and civilisation. Fair will prove to have been in-man'a

almost in the Inst stages of exhaus- strumental in encouraging com- prehensive efforts in this direction. on when he was taken oul and con-

Hospital.

and elsewhere,

to

to

veyed

Lo the

Governmet

SUGAR MARKET

Civil

along one.

Observe the lusty farmer's boys chanting and rhythmically waving their pitchforks, and the village maidens in their rustic dresses,

the

Carlo; from a Roof Garden in New

✔

down before it could he pulled up. A Even Mr. Aldous Huxley, when York to The Foyer of the Soixante- Brave New Quinze Night Club in Paris, all, leg fracture and a superficial scalp he constructed his were the extent of the injuries World, failed to realise that a large between eight and eleven-thirty. received by the victim, who has been proportion of machinery is to-day being manufactured in order to admitted to hospital.

allow people to get away from The aeroplane has arrived for machinery. The increasing Fordom the express purpose of fulfilling and boredom of industrial areas in this desire to be continually on the accentuating the desire for "plens-move. It will allow the business ant images of trees, of sea or sky, man, living in virgin country, and colours of green fields." get to his office in the city by ten To the Industrialist nothing can without rising either with the lark And it will Beem тоге desirable than the or the early worm village green with the village inn allow him to get back again in the in the foreground; that felicitous evening. admixture of the bucolic, and the Though industrial areas may

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

to

operation can avert disaster. The American ordeal is the plainest guide to present tendencies. Un- The following cable at the close less she is saved by some unfore-of the sugar market yesterday sern stroke of good fortune, couplert has been received by Messrs. Pen-alcoholic. His one wish is to fly grow, thore will always be the

London Terminals, August 1932 4/6% down d. December 1932 4/10%

change.

March 1933 6/1 up d. May 1933 6/2% no change. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking 4d-11⁄2d more.

away from the smoke and Boot of natural village over the horizon, a cities and to arrive at some natural little farther away to be sure, but beauty spot where the trees stand still to be reached by all who travel still in the fading sunlight, watch-fast enough or, in other words, all ing over the water, and the birds who travel by nir. In the eveuing. the sing--before closing time..

though the larger part of M. Felix de Grand'Combo has country may have become one vast, pointed out in his book "Tu Viens factory, it will still be possible to en Angleterre one of the few gather round. the parish petrol French books about the English pump for a quiet smoke while the that is more than an investment of shepherds and shepherdesses are up sales-flattory-thut the aspidistra isl at the cinema.

But atay! Who also chanting. comes? Farmer Hayseed on rustle bridge (O.P.) shades his eyes and scans the horizon. "Why It will improve the rate of ex-do be sure," he calls to the now at change-physical, not

financial. tentive throng, "If it baint Squire This has been ignored by the come back from Luunon." And 18 Civilisation Doomed?

an "Sire come back from Lunnon," Described as an absolute nuisance prophets, who have visualised With Europe sinking into bank-to visitors to the districi, a mendicant intensive and all-embracing in-echo the village maidens in unison, rupley and America turning this who appeared before Mr. Schofield a dustrialism, with huge factories "hurrah, hurrah, hurrah." And the way and that in her search for, a the Central Police Court this morning everywhere engaged in turning out Squire, having crossed the bridge on A charge of begging at Aberdeen, gramophones, wireless sets and at a run and come down through way out of the economic morass-

wna stated by Sergeant Cunningham aimilar automatic anaesthetics.

the avenue between the farmer'n and seeing no secure foothold--it is to be a grass cutter in the cemetery

The pictorial pabulum of Pabst, boys and village maidens, crics (not the day on a beggar small wonder that Britain's leading during

Pudovkin, and those other in altogether unexpectedly to those the tradition): "Now, publicists are beginning to predict nights. He continuously approached directors who rush in where Ameri- who know

the occupants of motor cars and

to trend, is composed girls, what do you say to a trip to a crash of civilisation. Mr. II. G. solicited alms. His Worship tegis cans fear of Beries production Caunes?" You remember the sub. Wells, whose prophecles from time tered a caution and ordered the de- entirely If there were any people in

time have been remarkably fendant to be sent buck to the country. factories upon the assumption, ap- sequent song and dance (refrain: parently, that man can live by "We'll take the Blue Train, the me. Hongkong who feared that the

A stonebreaker, Lee Yan-sin, at machinery alone, and that it will and-you train, to that southern city Colony's first Empire Products accurate, declares that the world

as we know it is visibly collapsing. Taipo Rond yesterday morning, was be posible in 1942 to dine of of delight"),

Those musical shows express the Fair would be a fallure, they must

Every week something is tumbling injured when struck by a car driven drop forging. No slightest sign is

the ere now have completely revised

by Mr. G. G. Wood. The accident shown of appreciation that there longing to be constantly on dowa or something breaking up

appears to have been enused by the ever is or was or will be such a move. The audience goes from the their views. The high standard

and it is impossible to say how man unexpectedly appearing on the thing as a village. Town and Village of Little Blottem to the and variety of the exhibits, the

far the ruin will extend. The roadway his indecision when in at factory appear as the epitome and Imperial Palace Hotel at Monte excellent lay-out of the exhibition,

tempting to avoid the car ke ran end-nli of existence. atross the road and was knocked the wonderful patronage accorded truth of the matter appears

be that the capitalistic system, rear- the Fair, and, above all, the busin- ness contacts established, have ailed on a gold-based credit cone, is Social, political and combined in registering the magni- collapsing. ficent success achieved. In the economic sciences are striving hard rircumstances, it is only natural to overtake the breakdown, but that the question of making the they appear to be working inde- function a yearly event, on an even pendently in each lending country whorens it is becoming increasing- larger scale, or of endeavouring to arrange a peramanent Empirely clear that only international co- Trade Exhibition, should now come within the range of practicality. With so much accomplished on the initial venture, the prospects for even bigger successes are extreme- ly bright.

with the restoration of a semblanceterath and Co. When we

remember that the of sanity to the counsels of Con- "Empire menis on Empire Day" greas, the United States appears to iden is primarily a movement for be heading for the greatest crisis for housewives, it is illuminating in her history. Economic activity is decending to new low levels. to know that any of the Colony's womenfolk who visited the Fair | The steel industry, for instance, is were impressed and surprised by working at only 22 per cent. the variety of Dominion products capacity and its output is less than available here. Especially was nulf no great as it was twelve this noticeable in regard to tinned | months ago when many people were fruity. The market here in these imagining that the world slump commodities has for long been had begun to touch bottom. Every largely monopolised by the United sign points to a stagnation that is States, but the Fair has demon [all but universal, and unemploy strated the fact that the Colony'sment is estimated at a minimum | needs can be just as well supplied" of 8,000,000. In the absence of from Empire sources. So is it also any regular dole system the public in regard to many other com- and private resources which have modities on show at the Fair.been organised for the relief Thus it will be seen that there is the unemployed are approaching ex- every hope of a growing demand | hanation, and some of the big cities for these goods of British origin. are actually insolvent. In recent Speaking of the Dominion displays months it has become increasingly as a whole, it was, however, note-

recognised that nothing can stop worth that whilst Canada was ex-

the rot but an arrest of the tremely well to the fore, Aun-

paralysing decline of prices. The tralasian and South African pro-

authorities are discovering that.n duce

not WAH

displayed

in

mere increase in the volume of great variety. So far as South

credit is of no avail unless borrow- Africa is concerned, of course,

ers are ready to come forward and shipping services are not avail-

that employ it productively, and able to the same extent as in the they will not come forward so long

Australia. This must

is totally lacking. necesarily be a factor hampering Meanwhile Congress, having broken trade expansion with the East. loose from any kind of disciplined It la totally different when we control, appears determined to take come to Australia, but the trona hand in the work of inflation at ble is that there is no official

all costs, and without the least dis- medium existing for the develop crimination between the legitimate ment of that Dominion's trade

and the disroputable varieties of with the East. There have been this process. Other agencies many Australlan products brought to the Hongkong and South China leaving no stone unturned to avert markets, notably meats and but-disaster, though the question arises

in mony breasts: In all tor, but we owe this fact purely to private enterprise. It is np. struggling worth while? Finally, parent that, not only in regard we must decide that it is. The to the two items named, but also more imminent the sign of collapse, in many other lines as well, Aus-the keener must be the effort to And if the endeavour tralian trade with Hongkong avert it. could be immensely developed if fails, wo may take heart in ́that, thoro wore a Trade Commissioner perhaps, we may have at least laid here directing the flow of com- the foundation for another civilian- merce and advising producers on tion, and a far better one.

ense of

as confidenCO

of

Are

this

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content with a two-hundredth part For the industrallet and the buji- of daylight. It is one of the fowness man the soll possesses an t- plants hardy enough to live in the during attraction, and the cry of haunts of man in the mass; it acts loam, sweet loam never falls to

vs brought my Three A English Hteraturo class to listen

to the song of the nightingale."

awaken an echo in their hearts.

In 1942 the aircraft will make it feasible

and for the countryman the townsman to work at their. separate tasks fifty, a hundred or even two hundred miles apart, and to change places in the mornings and evenings."

One may visualise two-way traffic on the air routes of the future. There will be the townsmen going to the country and the countrymen going to the town. The Squire will pass Sir John Bullion In the air, both keeping to the right in accordance with the Air Navigation directions.

When that day of aorial inter- course comes it will be possible to say in one's heart that all men are that Alera,

and to be satisfied everyone can find recreation and repose by opposites.

"Eck whyt by bink, by shame eck worthinesse, Ech sot by other, more for other semeth; As men may seo; and so the wyso it demeth." The acroplane will he the benign intermediary between town and country, preserving both from each other, and yot allowing each to beneft the other.

The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held youtoriay afternoon in the Banitary Board Room, the Chairman being Mr. W. I Carrio. Others present wore the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Director of Public Works, Dr. C G W. Pope, Modi- Officer of Health Mr. Wong Kong, Lin, Mr. M. Lo, Dr. R Castro-Basto, Mr. L. CF Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu-fin, and Mr. J. H. Gelling, Secretary. The business transsctod was of`n formal nature.