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SIR WALTER LAYTON ON

THE WORLD'S AFFAIRS

WHAT NEXT?.

The suspension of the World: Leonomic Conference is a frank, if | regrettable, recognition of the deadlock in which the nations tind themselves,

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It is no good deluding ourselves about the first stage of the World Economic Conference, It has terminated in abject fallure and has gone into indefinite adjourn ment without a pang of regret. Not a single basic question was settled and never will be settled until the contradictions of differ-] ing national economic systems are reduced. It is submitted s excuse for failure to find any sort of common understanding that this was inevitable in the face of grave world economic conditions. the "gold" countries that progress sion. The fall of prices has been

We understand that the spurs In economie matters is inpossible greatest in the United States, and It may be so but it is an argumentum ces there is at least an approach its effects have also been at their worn by swivel-cahir army officers we, catinol follow. We imagined towards-exchange stability, it has worst there larrely because of the indebtedness, the gravity of the world's troubles been obvious that the Conference great volume of n the spur and the goad, the com- cannot at the present time achieve capocially in the form of mortgages pelling force, persuading the any of its major objects. The on farms and houses. On the other delegates to sink their prejudices programme of international co-hand, America Is not greatly de-

pendent upon foreign trade. operation has thus been checked. ... in the commios cause.

THE END OF CO-OPERATION?

No wonder that with all these Antiques arranged by differences of circumstance it Connell. The official who doca has been impossible In new the arrangements for ZBW never weeks to formulate a common gets is name in print, policy.

O Ever since President Roosevelt's

An atom-weighing machine has The Immediate cause of the dond definite refusal to consider any common plan for controlling the lock has been the failure to agree been invented. Now we shall be fluctuations of the exchanges, and on the part that monetary policy able to get a true estimate of the

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AMERICA'S PART

But

MONETARY POLICY.

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are intended to keep from sliding off desks.

their feet

ផ Roosevelt's wage increnso appeal seems to suggest that he considers the labourer worthy of his higher.

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The grown-ups love to do.

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things,

When Willie got his Noah's Ark, From Uncle Cuthbert kind, 'Twas uncle made the creatures,

In twos of every kind.

And so it is with swings and

Of 808-Raws end of slides; as much,

Our Hongkong stenographers There will be many people in all Americans, therefore, are strong-may be careless about their spoll. countries who will be quick to draw ly impressed with the need for aing, but we doubt if the same could The United States must bear the the conclusion that the ideal of arise in prices as the first step to be said about their figures. Grunt of the blame for the swift peaceful, co-operative, interdepen.wards recovery, and they are, ro-

☐ 口 termination of the Conference.dent world must be abandoned, and latively speaking, sceptical of the

Things are looking up for Amer- President Roosevelt practically that each nation must henceforth benefits to be obtained from freer repudiated his own delegation, seek its salvation by concentrating trade and diminishing the fluctun-ien's unemployed. J. D. Rockefel cancelling their every move to- on its own resources and ignoring tions between different currencies. ler's grandson has just succeeded

and the outside world.

The gold countries, however, in finding a job with the Standard wards joint world effort swinging sharply back to economic

take this attitude is to have vivid memories of their in. Oll Company of New Jersey.. Isolationism. But even hero, we despair of civilisation. The de-flationary period ten years are faced with a conflict of feel mand of the peoples for a steadilyA rise of prices such as they ex- Ing. President Roosevelt, as we rising standard of living will, inperienced then would again wipe have said before, was both magni- the long run, drive the nations out the anvings of their people. ficently right and deplorably back to co-operation; sooner or They point out that a deliberately wrong. Knowing the direction of later we shall succeed where the engineered rise, of, prices has al his programme, he should not present Conference has failed. ways in the past led to a disaster.

no objection to have damaged America's reputa- Moreover, the dangers of an They have tion by encouraging the opening isolationist polley and the difficul- rising price level which of the Conference. On the sur- ties that it arouses are so great consequence of returning pro-park, face, it is pure selfishness to de- that unless I am much mistaken the sperity and expanding demand, clare that attempts to promote effort to reach an understanding but a rise which happens merely world recovery must wait upon the will be renewed in the not distant because the public has lost its such, result of the prosperity drive in future.

confidence in the qurrency is not the United States, that America Why, then, has the present at-only harmful in itself, but by

The grown-ups love them just cannot help others until she her-tempt not succeeded? The causes leading to speculation, defeats Its self is sitting pretty. Yet it of the anal disagreement are well own ends.

Although the Law derides. would be absurd to expect the one known, but they lle on the surface. The net effect of these difference"

Perhaps one day we'll have re- man with a defluite plan to throw The fundamental difficulty arises is that American publie opinion serves. it overboard at the behest of from the fact that the countries of regards, inflation as something With kiddies playthings fitted. academic theorisers. President the world have not reached the same ardently to be desired, whereas And at the gates of these pre- Roosevelt has an almost religious stage of development at the same French public opinion and this

time. bellef in his policy. If he can

view Ja held universally by those infect the people of the United Such divergences also exist in who have suffered inflation in the ted "CYN. States with his spirit, it cannot the case of political institutions, past-regards it as something to

but the differences are perhaps be avoided like the plague. even more striking in the economile

The Conference has been unable sphere, and the resulting inability

compromise between of one nation to appreciate an-to effect a ather's point of view is correspond-these opposing attitudes because at ingly greater.

the moment the strength of pre- The one hope the Conference

Misunderstandings and fundn-conceived idens on each side is too

The fact that Hongkong's rain. Jones following the sudden | had of success—and it was all

-mental differences In approach great. In such circumstances

can do fall has been below average for death of a Chinese youth. Dis too flimey-was that the Roose create such a gulf that even a Con-Conference of statesmen

change

the of years, somewhat supports missed at first as a "natural voitian lead would be followed. ference which started with so much little. The sudden causes" case, it was later dis- There was never any prospect of goodwill and with so many sincere American policy has upset the rumour that calculations include the covered that death was due to an achievement along other lines, declarations of the vital necessity assumption on which the hope of year of the Great Flood.

For that reason, the British Empire of success has taken less than a progress at the

WAS injury received during a scuffle.

two reading like

Having been told

The gentleman at the next table Mr. month to discover that it can make based, The surrounding circumstances Neville Chamberlain from beginn-no progress.

months ago by the American Pre-

to us the other day, who said "he do not warrant reiteration and ing to end, is a shockingly dis-

sident that to stabilise currencies felt like a grilled steak"-had-our we have no criticism to level at appointing piece of work.

was op- It DIVERGENT

was one of the chief-aims of the sympathy: certainly Conference, other countries find pressive. anyone concerned in the affair. practically throws the British INTERESTS.

themselves bewildered when told Nevertheless, it represents one Empire into the lap of the gold of a long series of incidents countries, despite the declaration that no commitments ave been which have been forcing upon us

entered upon. Fur botter had we selves in this fashion. We might at least have waited until the result of the great American experiment was clear for all to Instead we talk about work ing within the limits of sound finance." Orthodox poppycock!

SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1938.

but succeed.

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Edward Kelly complains that he able to got the splinter out of his tongue since he spilt his beer at a party last week.

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the conviction that the whole refrained from committing our protect from disaster. They are, in i revolutionary idens have system practised in this Colony for dealing with sudden deaths, deaths by accident or by viol- ence, or under suspicious cir- cumstances, is in need of drastic overhauling. Forty-five years ago, an Ordinance was passed abolishing the office of Coroner and thrusting the duties of that INHUMAN CRUELTY office upon magistrates. Magis- trates dealing with

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In spite of heavy defeats, the main, countries where the thrown into the arena by a leader small pensant proprietor and the of great courage who is not afraid understand that Hongkong's bow- experiment. Even within alors at Home are stiil all forlorn salaried middle-class are domin-to ant, and where the savings of country public opinion is slow to bowls! these classes are not generally in respond to innovation of this sort.

out of the question, that Another, Infamous saying: “Al- vested in industry and dependent It is on its profits, but are lent to the foreign countries should react to though it's only pot-luck, we always State and are dependent on the such a lend. value of the currency. All of But these new developments

to them have struggled. buck

have by no means diminished the necessity for International con- stability after a long period of economic adversity.

The United States, on the other

sultation.

paratively small population were The woman sent to prison for

three months yesterday for hand, is a country, where industrial A NEW probably in a position to cope crualty to a child deserved every evolution has been extremely rapid SITUATION. adequately with the additional moment of the sentence. There and where an unexampled boom has

duties required of them. To-

We have now to reckon, not with were features of the case which been followed by a dopression, the day, already overworked in the were too revolting to permit scale of which is without precedent an America on the gold, standard,

(Continued on Page 5.) Courts, they are not, however publication and no punishment anywhere in the world. willing they may be. Five could have been too Bovera afternoons at an inquest by one Cases Buch As this make us magistrate, merely means that wonder sometimes whether fines he is thrusting extra court work and imprisonment are really upon a colleague. Is it, there- infliction of pain upon a child deterrent: whether the inhuman fore, to be wondered at,, in these should not be countered by the circumstances, that the magis infliction of pain upon those trate's right of deciding whether | responsible. If the birching of or not an inquest is necessary is women were legally permissible and ever warrantable the VC- RO frequently answered in the

Jan before Mr. Schofield yes. negativé? Obvious murders are committed and no inquest is terday surely merited it.

held! How many less obvious

crimes get through as a result of EX-GERMAN COLONIES the system? In fact, Hong- kong's present method of meet-

Gorman Interest In colonial ing the problem of violent questions, which did Bot abato and sudden deaths is hopelessly when the country lost its colonies out-of-date and dangerous to after the Inst war, has greatly in- the community. We can anti- | creased of late with what is felt cipate the counter-argument in Berlin as the growing, poa- that what the police are unable sibility that some of these terri- to forret out is unlikely to torles may be returned to Germany be brought to light by the in the form of mandaten. German artists who lived in the German mere holding of an inquest, African colonies in pre-war days but it is just as well not to recently organized an exhibition be too sure about that. Many of their worke. In landscape, aro, the persons elsewhere who | native life and animal kingdom have easily survived the ordeal they found abundant wealth of of a police investigation and who material for their canvases. Tho have allowed an unguarded word German desire for the restoration to slip in the informal atmos. of their lost colonies was voiced phere of a Coroner's Court. In on this occasion by Dr. Sahneo, former Governor of Gorman East Hongkong to-day, there is more Africa, who expressed the hope than sufficient work for a full that Gorman youth. would again time Coroner and the need for be able to antiary its longing for his appointment is very real. It adventure. An appeal of this kind ls easy to got away with murder is much more likely to moot with in Hongkong to day. And our sympathetic response than the Prosent death inquiry system lator outburst by the Lord Mayor, renders it just a trifle casior of Berlin

"I had to give up stenographic work. I'm too

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Edward Kelly wouldn't mind fils

wife having the last word if it didn't last so long.

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Business is picking up, as the ball boy said at the K.C.C. tennia court.

Some of theso Hongkong grundlea think that there's nothing but noise and vice at the cabarets. Somewhere a vico is calling,

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roleased from Victoria Gaol. Steel bars do not a prison make.

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"We req-wireless noise," he said, as he cut his neighbour'a aerial.

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Several Hongkong people have. not been able to attend their offices, this week owing to in fluenza. Men who go down to the 'snooze.

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Contrary to general Impression,

ahroffs are very popular with Edward Kelly. He alwaya naka- thom to call again...

Are they going to be the East Windios 7.

In order to prevent the noise of the bands disturbing 'residents, cabarets may be confined to a non- residential aṛla."

Out at the Hongkong Brewery they're turning :Ha O into HOPS