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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933.

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NOTES OF THE DAY WHEN THE BUBBLE BURST BULLS AND INNERS

GERMANY'S AIMS

otherwise of the document will

Thore has been a tendency to

"MY BATTLE”... ·

A TRAGEDY OF HONGKONG HOUSEBUILDING

By C.V.-L. for the Telegraph.

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Few Orchestral Seléctions from the "H.M.V. / HONGKONG HOTEL has been rampant. Distrust and by the board in an effort to stem slump that la already forcing

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The vaults of many native banks are filled with documentary tokens We notice that Mr. Papys is these "frozen assets", and wondering where is salads are com- their rapid depreciation in value has been the result (1)

Ing from. May we suggest the building, and (2) of a general endive the garden!

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·ច to eke out a living.here, to depart Australian Influence is growing from the Colony, and leave empty in Hongkong, says a Sydney paper. Roors on the owners' hands.

Yes, we've noticed some barracking at cricket matches.

many thousands of people unable

Germany's prompt denial of tho authenticity of the document published in the Patil Parisien

Thus a local purveyor of fashion, will not alter materially the effect

gossip:-"Mr.- setting a ̈now It must have upon the public mind in France, if not olnowhere. The YE

FESTERDAY we opened off the 10 or more per cent. fashion with mess jacket and black whole trend of the alleged in-

faterest оп the our morning paper up- Something also would be left over the smaller the waste!

encumbrance, waist-cost.” The higher the, cost structions to Gorman agents on a page of auction news. against the principal, but that abroad fits so closely what a It ran down for more than was merely by the way as you to be the real attitude of Ger- half the sheet, and the sal- would take the property off your good many people have suspected

looked for another speculator who many that the genuineness orient fact standing out from a hands with all its charges. When fighters was formerly a chauffeur. not be closely examined. Publica mass of detail was' that no you had found him you cleared A motoreador. tion, too; comes at the juncture fewer than 42 buildings of with a profit and were satisfied. when it can do most damage. all types and descriptions banking and private interests. The Week's Best Thought-A

Into this "ramp" were drawn JUST CONSIDER THESE AND look upon Germany as in a more were being thrown upon the Houses became an obsession. The man should finish sowing his wild ASK FOR DEMONSTRATION. conciliatory mood. All of that open market by six different sets now frozen in stone and oats and grow sage while there is

is gone as far French public

concrete, could have been usefully opinion is concerned. The man in mortgagees. It constitutes employed on

yet thyme: basic industries. Was It

口 Burprising when the ‚HK$3,400 | the 'stract is not likely to adopt a record for the largest num-"economie blizzard" at long last

the attitude of the Qual D'Orsay, ber being auctioned at any came our way and the bubblo Britons played a game something According to a historian, Early 3,600

which seems to be that of 4,500 porauading themselves that they

one time.

burst, that it should have attained like golf. So do lots of people the characteristics of a catan who go regularly to Fanling, have not read the Petit Parision.

Serious as the situation was trophe? 4,500

known to be in regard to local reat estate, the information impressed with the force of a revelation. The situation looks unpleasant. The Indications to be assumed The enmities of the war have been were of a growing acuteness and revived in recent months, Na- a further depression of hitherto tionalism of the narrowest sort accepted values: of prices going

suspicion

polluted havo

the the tide of impending disaster. atmosphere: Germany, feeling These wore the signs to be read herself subjected to intolerable by a layman. That, unfortunately, restrictions and humiliations, they were too well-founded was hau demanded equal rights, in proved by a subsequent investiga- armament. At the same time she tion, which disclosed the situation has talked force at home and to be something like this: Used Auch Inflammablo methods to regain her self-respect that the worst fears of her neighbours have been excited. Herr Hitler said the other day that "there exists för National Socialist organisations but one enemy, and that is Communism.”

of the months of grace extended. He argued

Property thrown on an already that all the militant marching in

much depressed market. with no her healthy complexion to walk- Germany Is not in preparation to

potential buyers, it was the morting. As far as the chemist's?. fight France and he gave. Bound Conditions grave enough to gagce's turn to suffer. He receiv- reasons for not fighting France provoko sober cogitation. And ed an amount much less than the but to keep Communiam down. when compared with a decade loan he made. Yot the peoples of other countries ngo-a porlod left not so far bo- rend in his autobiography "Myhind that it could not be remem pressed thereto by his own needs, It stands to reason that unless Battle" that: "It must be bered for its record building re- thoroughly understood that the turns, its top economic features it was to his interest not to resort foreclosure and attendant State Opera Orchestra, Berlin GERMANY AND THE lost landa will never be won back and its all-round propensity forced sale until he had fully ex

by solemn appeals to the good sense of desolation la cast by the

Cortali savage, tribes in the God, nor by pious hopes in any

At once plored alternatives. This is what reverse of the picture.

the South Sea Islands have never paid League of Nations, but only by the Colony's token of expansion la generally being done at force of arms," and they not un- and development and its "gurest" moment, and it is safe to assume taxes.. Then why are they savage? naturally grow uneasy..

Investment, what could, have in- that the number large as already fluenced this retrogressive step in, of buildings forced into auc- tion, represents but a fraction, of Troperty?

the general Imbroglio. Ten years ago when the first

Meanwhile he who remains in our broker's advice in line with possession is called upon to pay a the tendency of the day, would high water rate and a capacity A popular local bagpipe player have been "Buy-Lands". We im- assessment tax on partly occupied hardly ever practices his plocos. proved on it and did more: we bulldinge by Government sug- This, no doubt, accounts. for his bought real estate, and at once our gested as anxious that its re- popularity. whole outlook on life changed. venues should not be seriously

口 ᄆ From an investor we became a reduced by an unwise step taken speculator and a potential land- elsewhere in its oplum polley.

Maybe the Hongkong audiat ford; then a pioneer builder, and This is claimed to be in disregard movement would become the metamorphosis was complete. of a situation wherein landlords popular if gentlemen were por- We found ourself in a mixed are unable to make ends meet by maltted to retain their old school

Leading Orchestras.

D-1040

D-1080

Marche Slav (Tchaikovsky) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Flying Dutchman-Overturo (Wagner)

New York Philharmonis Orch.

D-1002

Twilight of the Gods (Wagner)

(Blegfried's Funeral March)

Symphony Orchestra,

D-1214/0 Casse-Noisette Suite (Tchaikovsky)

D-1284

D-1203

5

D-1295

D-1814

D-1867

T-1427

D-1482

D-1408

(Complete on three recorda) Philadelphia Symphony Orch. Valse Tristo (Sibelius)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Serenade, Op 63 (Volkman) Flight of the Bumble Beo

(Rimsky-Korsakov).]

Orphous in the Underworld-Overture (Offenbach) Parts 1 & 2

State Opera Orchestra, Berlin. Blue Danube-Wallz (J. Strauss)

State Opera Orchestra, Berlin.

Mastoraingers-Overture (Wagner)

Bavarian Dancea (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra, Fire Bird (Stravinsky)-Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or Khowantchina-Entr'acto (Moussoraky)

Philadelphia Symphony Orek. Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Slavonic Dance in G Minor, (Dvorak)

Chicago Symphony Orchestru. Tannhauser-March (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonia Orchestra. Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Bolero (Ravel) Parts 1 & 2 Bolero (Ravel) Part 8

D-1850

D-1860.

Gymnopedie (Satlo arr Debussy)

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BASTO.-On the 16th November, 1033, to Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Basto,

A son.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933.

CORRIDOR

ALLIES' POSITION

Property has dropped 30% in

value.

More than 60 per cent, is

mortgaged,

fats.

There are some 3,000 empty More than 30,000 jobless have left the Colony.

building boom was at its peak,

Lonna pn house mortgages were based on an average of 60 per cent. of the value; which means that if the property had depreciated by 30 per cent. na stated, and interest

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"Sinclair Injured in the Field,"

more than absorbing the romain- says a contemporary. That's bot- ing 10 per cent, the mortgagor's ter than in the tummy....

interest was automatically wiped

out, even long before the expiry

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The modern girl, is said to owe

The cafo may not make a boy

it often makes him smart. learn qufkar, but, none the less,'

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According to some people, the rising generation in Hongkong is sinking

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Any step towards an improve- ment in the relations between Germany and Poland is to be welcomed, since for many years the tension between these two

On their side, the former allies' countries over the future of the cling to forcor They disregard Corridor has been a distinct the pledge in the peace treaties danger-point in European poli- to reduce their own arms. They are in no real position to tics. Time will tell whether denounce German pleas for arme, force. But Germany is sincere in her latest German reliance on approaches to Poland or whe- what will force win for either Germany or her neighbours? Only ther, as the Petit Parisien Bug more strife, more hatreds, more gests, she is merely adopting a "unredeemed". territories. It temporary policy of conciliation should be plain that force is not the answer. If they are to escapo and has no intention of abandon-alsaster Europe must cease the company. Here the fugitive Chin- low rental return out of all pro-ties. ing her claim to the Corridor. battening of its thought

ese general and his money who portion to building outlay. For

In the olden days, wedding ringe It may be recalled, in this con- force which leads only to distrust had come to stay with us. There the first time within living

a woman who had done extremely memory, tenements along the were much wider than those of must turn nexion, that not many weeks of each other. They ago Herr Goebells declared that to more effective weapons than well from the purchase of a central sections of the two busiest the present time. It must be re- force. They must arm themselves Government licence. Other tyres thoroughfares, namely Queen's

there were, less interesting, but all, Read and Des Voeux Road, are bemembered, however, that they Germany could not regard the with the understanding that peace with few exceptions, part and ing vacated. The multitude in Were xpected to last a lifetime.

parcel of a bubble being steadily the quest for cheaper and yet Inflated,

cheaper living conditions, have boon moving over to the main-

on

alone, and the methods of gence, will bring them safety.

The US. Administration's search for means of putting new money in- to circulation promises to bring re- gular air mail and passenger ser. vices across the Atlantic much nearer realisation. The Green land route just surveyed by Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh would

creation of the Polish Corridor as a permanent arrangement, and that he desired to have it back, preferably by negotiation. SEADROMES In 1925, the late Herr Gustav Stresemann, in a disquieting letter sent to the ex-Crown Prince of Germany, laid down as one of the principal aims of German policy the retaking of this outlet of Poland to the sea, while two years later M. August Zaleski, the Polish, ex-Foreign Secretary, declared, with the approbation of all sections of his fellow-countrymen, that "every Pole would sacrifice life and fortune to defend this territory against any attempt to retake it, from whatever quarter that attempt might come." Here, then, is a clash of purposes which might well result in grave catastrophe. There can be little doubt that as the situation, in the Corridor assumes in Ger- many's eyes more of the charac ters of permanency, the more- docs she become obsessed with fairly

at best be a makeshift, subject to great difficulty and hardship for pllots in the winter. The South- orn route, via the Azores and the Bermudas, is too hazardous for public confidence. The scadreme scheme, discussed about three years ago and then dropped, has now been revived, An experi- mental "island" Is to be con- atructed and planted in the Pacific about five hundred miles from shore. If it proves successful and the test will be its ability to stand up to the Atlantle in bol- string of them across the ocean, sterous mood, and there will be a with regular services established almost as quickly as they become anchored to the bottom.

or unjustly treated. the feeling of how intolerable it Points like these could surely be is that territory inhabited by discussed in a friendly spirit BAGS

the Poles should divide up the with Poland. Undoubtedly the from $8.75 to $80.00 ||| posacasions of the Reich. It has Corridor to-day is more indisput

been contended, on behalf of ably Polish than for a very long etc., etc.

Germany, that the wrenching of time past, so much so that it has East Prussia from the body of been calculated that in another. the Reich under the Versailles ten years the Poles, with their Treaty was a grave territorial higher birth rate, will attain the blunder, but against this gen- overwhelming proportion of 95 cralisation we have to place the per cent. A fear which is further fact that Germany has agitating European circles is never yet particularised or that it is not merely the Polish clarified her claims. Pertinent Corridor provisions of the Ver- questions in this connexion are sailles Treaty to which Germany whether Germany is dissatisfied | obiects, but that the whole with details in the line of the Treaty, which is regarded by the frontier, or whether she alleges young nations of East Europe that the Germans still left” in as the very charter of their free the Corridor territory are un- dom, which is in jeopardy,

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Now that the Interports are The system was so simple we land. Deceptive gesture! as with- over, you Malaya wager or two on can appreciate it still now when it out the inducemente for a pro- the next series.

longed residence, they ultimately is all over.

You mortgaged your house as board the river-steamers and quit you built it just like many others these shores for the interior. were doing, In anticipation of more than an 8 per cent. return; and you looked to the tenant when he should have moved in to pay

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And, finally, that outstanding tragedy of a decaying West Point (Continued on Pago 0.)

"Lady, what have you been thinking of all these months

to let your öll got in this condition?

Hongkong business men have been fighting the depression this Meek from the cricket pavilion.

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According to A contemporary. "the male voice of Mr. Ll Chor Chi added the finishing touch to the balance of the programme." Homo geniusi

Although "Wouan-likes her dress to make her look, slim, likes other people to look round.

Even although' a certain gentle- man found over-indulgence Joke, it went down well.

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It cannot be said that Hongkong

is not in funds these days!'

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Bankrupts Prospects. Further

outlook unsettled.

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Wo suppose Mr. Woodin resign-

ed bocauea. President Roosevelt woodin let him have his own way!

A certain local resident Intended to compile a now dictionary, only worda falled him.

One thing about the good old

days of shining armour, It was

possible to keep the crease in ono's trousers!

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President Roosevelt is going to

Warm Springs.. And later on

may get into hot water.