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BRITAIN'S ADMIRERS ABROAD

REVERSAL OF U.S. ATTITUDE

PAEAN OF PRAISE

By Raymond Rutherford

So high is the American opinion of Britain Just now that it is almost crabarrassing for a Briton to do business with visitors from the other side,

In the eyes of the United States there in romething almost miracul- ous in the way this country wea- thered the depression and is forg- Ing ahead. It seems. In fact, as if we can do no wrong.

Here is an extract from the letter of a prominent American society woman-"Every returning traveller brings new tales of British prosperity. Do write and tell me how it is done."

Another extract, this time from an American store-owner's letter written from London, and referring to a political demonstration he' witnesstd in Hydo Park-"These British are marvellous. The way the police handled the crowd was, indeed, a revelation. In our city it would have been a lot."

What a complete reversal of attitude from ten or twelve years ago, in the height of American prosperity, when we Britons could do nothing right!

It is part of my job to be con- stantly in the company of Americau vialtors, and in those days when the average American's attitude to. of wards this country was ne boastful superiority not unmixed with pity, it was sometimes difficult to preserve even ordinary business courtesy. A man would inquire the price of some article, and than ask in an unpleasant way. How much is that in real money?" Or he would pull out a handful of Bank gesture of England nates with which suggested that they were worthless.

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"DOWN AND OUT"

Another taunt was about our un- employed. Although the total in those days was small compared with the present time, it compared un- favourably with the United States, where almost any man could find n job at high wages. Our system of unemployment insurance came in for a great deal of abuse.

Our manufacturers were all fifty

the times. behind

Our years houses were wrong, our women did not know how to dress, and we knew nothing about how to govern vurselves successfully.

In chart, we were more or less finished, and all that remained for us was to enst ourselves on the mercy of the United States and become a kind of colony of that progressive nation were the mil lennium was just round the next

corner.

All that was years ago. In the meantime the United States has passed through an unparalleled de- pression, and those days of pro- perity Reem, to the average Amer Jean, like beautiful dream.

his

To-day he is an entirely different person. Gone is his concelt, gone swaggering Bali-confidence. Gone is his sacred belief in the inevitableness of American pros- perity and progress. And above all gone for ever is his disparage- ment of Great Britain, at winca ne now gazea wonderingly, almost humbly, anxious only to learn how we have achieved our present re- lative prosperity. His opinion is, In fact, flatteringly high, and his progress through London one long prenn of prakse,

present

RETAIL PROSPERITY

From time to time he has read reports of the trading results of British companies, and what has Impressed him, perhaps, more than anything else is the way retall

CORSETS

FOR MONSIEUR

SYDNEY SPECIALIST IN EARNEST

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934.

A famous specialist in Sydney. which has become the medient and aurgical centre of the Southern Hemisphere, la advocating corsets for men on the ground that the human animal, originally built on the quadruped plan and having be come permanently upright only by evolution. needs support at the weakest anot.

"Somo Aort of bandaged support is required to assist an abdominal mechanism that is unsulted for biped progression. ho says. "The development of bow-windows' by men who do not trouble to develop their abdominal muscles indicates where lles the weakness."

Ho contends that, this

was re-

WORLD'S OLDEST FLEA

FIVE MILLION YEARS. OLD

PRESERVED

IN AMBER

Since first the flen came into our human lives he has been the occa- A'on of much talk and of still more Uvasive silence, and his movements always rouse Interest in the human breast and clsewhere. Small men can be big news, as Napoleon proved, and the flea for all his inck of inches is the big

news at the moment. The oldest ften has been unearthed nad

cognised in classical times when brought to light-5,000.000 years or so in age and fortunately dend, women's flowing garments did not permit of figure outline display.or what heights of experienced Women later wore corseta because cunning would he not have senled experience showed that they were by now? conducive to health and serviceable in exertion,

"Experiments have shown that a gentle compression of the abdomen caused a greater flow of blood to other parts of the body, with In creased

mental and muscular activity. The ideal type for men," he added, "would be a walatbelt with supporting strapa over the shoulders."

stores have managed to pay their way, even through the worst of the slump. He has seen them carrying on with moderate success while his own stores showed fantastic losa of a million ar so dollara on the year's trading.

'How," ho naks, "is it done?"

Our volume of retail sales shows

The appearance has been made, as might have been imagined, suddenly and

in an

It was never part

Mile, Violetta Nazieros, 18, was sentenced to death on the guillotine when convicted in Parla recently of the murder of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. Having alain her father, tho ran away with what money of his she could staaḥ, about 3,000 franes. When arrested abe expinined that she "wanted a good time." She is pictured abova as she appeared in Court.

NO SALVAGE FOR PLANE RESCUERS

SIAM'S AIR MISSION

WILL STUDY IN SINGAPORE

The names of the five officers of

known.

now

In an action arising out of the rescue of the American flying unexpected family, Mr. and Mrs. George place. Prussia is not old, as the Hutchinson and their daughtera countries of Europe go, and there Kathryn and Janet, off the coast

of Greenland in September, 1932, the Siam Air Force mission going are many treatises to explain that, by the Aberdeen trawler Lord to Singapore to study R.A.F. train- since

of the Talbot, Sheriff Morton upheld at Roman Empire, it has never learnt Aberdeen recently the decision of ing and organisation arc to be properly part of Europe. the crew of the rescuing trawler Sheriff-Substitute Laing refusing

The leader of the Mission Is But it in in the amber mines of their claim of £300 for the salvage Colonel Phra Vejayanta Rangs- almaleken, in East Prussia, that of cinematograph material from risth, director of the aeronautical this very distinguished old flea has the wrecked aeroplane. Sheriff department, and the othera дго been resting after his exertions. Merton held that the Hutchinsons' Lieut. Col. Lunng Kach Songgram, What those exertions were 6,000,- seaplane was not a ship and that and Captains Luang Jerd Vudhak- 000 years ago, can only be con-gation Act were not applicable to Perm Limpiavasti.

the provisions of the Air Navi- as. Luang Lala Rerngron and Jeetured; but it is certain that this the circumstances of the case as the

remalu The Mission will ften, could he spenk, would pour salvage took place outside British week-from Dec. 14. to Dec. 20, as a good deal of conventional scorn territorial waters.

guests of the R.A.F. on the pampered lives of his des

n atendy riso month by month. fcendants, the young fleas of to-day His, in spite of N.R.A., is falling.

who do not have to go through

During the last month or two I the mi and rough it as have seen American buyers amazed | sturdy forebears did. because British manufacturers, owing to pressure of business, were unable to accept their orders for delivery this year. This state of affairs is, of course, by no means general, and applies only to certain lines of merchandise. But to cu counter it at all is a new experience for the American buyer, who writes home by the next mail expressing his astonishment.

In nearly every department of life the American finds something In this country just now which arousen his surprise and envy.

Our financial stability compels bla admiration. Time after time I ni asked how many banks failed here, and I'm happy to explain that, owing to our centralised system of banking, which used to arouse his. Acorn, none did.

WORTH COPYING

The once despised unemployment Insurance scheme is likely to be ndopled in modified form by President Roosevelt to cope with the huge total of American employed.

their

Yas

The pastures of old, the woolly hides of mammoths, the impenetrable thicknesses that were the skins of brontosaurs and plesiosaurs, the ungrateful texture of the pterodactyl's wing, were real texts of rigorous teahood. Later op things became a fe easier, though wand was always woad and oltacie. But fa those raw days, when lee was in everybody's minds, th, great days

HAD

Versa..es and the Court of the Grand Monarch, the rich Victorian bundance of soft garments and witer Bosh-was-an unreveald- Heaven which deas never dream! they would see.

one

a uz me in ligating sharks or firing He.Unes to parsons in danger of drowning, this new and accurate harpoon gun has been invented by an American, Mr. C. R. Klein.

STRANGE MONUMENT

This curious machine was establish- ed many years ago by a man called Basilio Calafati, who sold it later on to Koblkoff.

Cielisation has ben bought a a price. For all their formidable, dithcuity, the monstrous animals of prehistory did not enslave their! visiting fleas. It is gentle modern man who has not only inventad un-deadly powders but has delighted with barbarle delight to capture his foes and make themi, in brief. and bitter lives of servitute, per. form for his amusement, drawing little carts or working little the Prater may remember one of its legs, was brought to Vienna by a or musquerading in paper mest fascinating roundabouts, circus company and exhibited in costumes. The fine wine with "The Chinaman" of Calafat). In the Prater, becoming one of its which a newly captured Ben is held the centre, standing but upright, is most popular figures. "The China- to a post, for the period of from a huge wooden figure with a large man" was inherited by his grand- twenty-four to thirty-six hours which is needed to bruk his proud head, showing the slit eyes of a son, who has now died at the age of The truth is, perhaps, that we and volatile spirit, fa a tormentongol and wearing a Chines thirty-two..

And so it goes on. In the midst of our own troubles it is comforting to remember that there is hardly a British Institution which fe not how being studied by

the erstwhile arrogant Amorican,

who is now very much more humble and strives to understand the reasons for its relative success.

HRW'S

Visitors to Vienna who have reen

Kobikoff, born without arms and

are an old nation, and possibly the flea of Palmnicken never had queue. The figure circles round "The Chinaman" is one of the wiser than We knew. Neither to face. The fleas of to-day enn to the sound of music, occasionally most popular Viennese roundabout prosperity nor adversity drives us look him in the face, as he lies lifting its tremendous right hand. and it has been suggested that it to extremes of wild elation or des. there in his comfortable and valu Round him runs the nerve-racking should Eu scheduled as a national pair. It is only when one hears able amber, and say that after all, American and other opinions that even if their lives are aweeter, yet railway with its multi-coloured cars monument to prevent it from being one realisea how deeply our pro- their courage is not less than his, and strange-looking locomotives. either altered or sold. stress during the last few years has Impressed, the outside world. -

the

Cortainly, at the moment United States looks up to us.

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