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NOTES OF THE DAY

CHANCE FOR REFORMERS

BEST COUNTRY TO LIVE IN

By GEOFFREY NEWTON:

HE Englishman In all things (Although wages are no higher than

THE

plers?" Having met trans-ocean considered; better off than any ours, a meal that would cost us 8s.

The Balkan countries are cheap to keep alive in, for food is plenti- ful, and the peasant makes his clothes at home.

The Very Idea!

SOME MORE SCRAPS

Notes and News From The Kelly Note-Book

Edited by Eddie

"Why," asked a traveller, "is it so hateful an experience for Hong- kong people to have to meet an incoming vessel at the Kowloon

steamers there on various occasione,f his Continental neighbours. I 6d, costs the Swiss 7s. 6d.; a glass we attempted to explain. It is

am not talking about his freedom of lemonade as much as is. 3d., and particularly disagreeable, we said, from the alternations of tyranny the rent of two rooms on the aver when it is raining. Sometimes, un and anxiety which in these days ago £15 a month. : less one times the thing perfectly, make up the political history of

TWO Hollanda, one English, one is left standing on the end of

one Melbourne, one York and one three Scotts, one Ireland, the pler behind a barrier while the most of Europe.

I simply mean that he can buy

Marseille bear witness in the new master of a linor stampa the bridge

Telephone Directory, issued this. and curses at the shore gangs and better accommodation, mere to cat,

Wants are simple and few, and month, to the fact that Hơng- the shore gangs struggle to moor and clothes of finor quality with his a ship, which appears almost com- earnings than anybody in Contin- the people carry on very happily. kong is indeed a cosmopolitan

Colony. pletely out of the control of the ental Europe who works for the

But once you get into a town master. That is because of tide same length of time at a corres-

and begin to apply English stand. Those are a fow of the names and wind and such things. He ponding job.

ards fo becomes prohibitivo. taken at random from the Telephone who waits at the end of the pler has

Clothes, books, stationery, leather Directory and South China Morning

Post Business Directory. nothing to do with that directly,

Wages in Britain go 20 per cent. all cost twice as much as we have

The long-standing Anglo-Saxon except that he probably guesses the further than they do in Germany, to pay. Two things only are cheap race for supremacy of the Smith- cause of the delay and curses it 33-1/3 per cent. further than in and good-coffee and tobacco. Jones-Brown clans goes definitely to roundly. Gradually the crowd on France, and 250 per cent. further I must in fairness put in a word the Browns, of whom there are ning

Hotel-run than in Russia.

In the Telephone Directory, na com- the pler end swells.'

for Denmark and the Scandinavian pared with six Jones' and five nora, steaming coolies, urchins,

Here is a rough tablo worked out countries, whore, though wages Smiths. the man-who- baggage-men and came-to-meet somebody mingle to. by a man who spent more than two and prices are about the same as

completo colour chart They months in the chief countries of our own, there is undoubtedly los could be constructed from Hongkong gother 11 the rain.

Continental Europe living on the poverty to be noticed, and a higher residents with rainbow-hued names, rub shoulders. There expected and unmentionable sights Wages of a bank clerk of two years' proportion of well-clothed and well- There are, in addition to the nine fed people are met in the streets. Browne, four Whites, four Grays, throe Blacks, two Greens and two thero are Blues. The only Orange is an ex- On the other hand, fewer motor-cars on the roads and Resident whose name is coupled in the name of a firm. Silvas pre- dominate, but only one telephone subscriber is Golden.

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The

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Spain is the cheapest country for everybody except the Spaniards.

In

The standard of luxury Scandinavia is probably lower than oure, but the general level of com- fort is higher.

and

A German undergraduate, corres- ponding to an Etonian up at Ox- [ford, can seldom afford to treat his friend to a glass of beer, and is often without the tramcar fare. that will take him to the station. I have known the son of a pro-

minent barrister who once a week at least went to bed without having

A very

The Directory could stock 1 ZGO. Thoro are two capacious Wolfes, two Lions, two Bucks, a Fox and a Bullock,

In the flower garden there is a Tulip and a. Rose.

Hongkong is strong for Royalty. There are nine Kings, a Prince, a Knight and a Marques."

As a study in opposites there are: Two Days but no Knights; One Small and one Biggar;

A Boy but no Girl;

Two pages of Suns, and only one

planet (Mars);

I am always being asked about Tthe state of things in Germany. In every case I have calculated It is a very cheap country for the only child of Mr. and Mrs. George barrier together with a rush and the figures to show how much the foreign visitor. Meals are good Fairty-Halliday at Tynemouth, scuffle, tripping

foreigner would have to spend to and plentiful. The standard of

The apostles are well represented buy a commodity that would cost accommodation is the highest in by two Marks, two Matthews, three Northumberland, England."

books, Europe. Theatres, freight-car rails. There is another the Englishman £100.

cinemas, even in a provincial town Lukes, one Peter and one Paul. struggle on the gangway.

In the case of wages I give the of 50,000 people, are better than Several trades and professions wonders, by this time, whether amount the person in each particu-

phone Directory. or Paris.

There is something should not be done about lar country would, bo carning at anything to be got outside London are also represented in the Tele-

the all this. Perhaps

Banker, two Farmers, a Hunter, a man-work for which the Englishman is

Wages, on the other hand, are Marshall, two Carters, one Stoker, who-doesn't intend-to-wait-on-the- | paid £100.-

low. It is impossible for the Gor-four Cooks. one Guard, one pier and who would rather be a The Swedish figure applies pretty man to save out of them. A young Warden and three Potters. little late in meeting those who generally all over Scandinavia, the man with an independent allow- must be met will clip this little com- Rumanian Is a fair index for the ance of £250 a year is looked on as ment and upon it rest his whole de-the Russian worker is the most un- man in Britain, and the clerk with Balkans. Experience shows that we should regard a £5,000-a-year The frequency with which fence. It is much more thrilling comfortable in Europe, because out £10 a month-thinks himself well

to chat with the Number One boy side the crudest necessity, which is off. banishees return to the Colony

free to ♫ in the hotel bar than waiting for a provided practically before their deportation terms friend

Property Is not considered so at the end of a Kowloon privileged minority, everything is

In the Chinese Ilats. Kwongs and prohibitively dear, and the alight-Important as in Britain or France expire suggests the desirability pier

est luxury is unobtainable. For a-for hardly anybody has any. Wings are close contenders for most of a revision of the law dealing

pair of silk stockings the Russian Hours of work are long, which the popular names, each occupying five will give £15, if he can get it. On German does not mind (the Aus-pages in the Directory, with the expulsion of undesir- "STRIKING OUT" STRIKES

the off-chance of a passage in atrian, I hasten to add, does mind), able characters. Scarcely a day America should be encouraged bug-ridden boat down the Volga be and there is no spare cash about.

the readiness with passes without one or more such | by

which must wait as long as five days. cases coming before our crim- threatening storm clouds have re- inal courts, and in the course of cently been dissipated on the Labour a year-the total number of de front. The street car strike in portees dealt with for breaches Omaha, Nebraska, has been settled

Books in Britain are cheaper, of the law must total hundreds. by arbitration. The Toledo electri-

better bound, and better printed cal workers have agreed to resume than in any country outside Ger- The law at present allowa

work while arbiters are presiding many and Austria. for varying terms of `im-

over their demands for wage prisonment being imposed on increases.

In Paris just now these are the eaten all day. A predicted general monthly salaries to be earned: By Czecho-Slovakia is a busy, hard- returning banishees, according strike in South Bend, Indiana, bank clerk, 1,000-2,000 francs working country-half of it on the to the length of the deportation was averted at the zero (£13-£20); by u stenographer, level of Germany, half essentially perlod. But experience has hour when employees accepted the 1,200 francs (£16); by a shop asala-Balkan. abundantly shown that impri-peace overtures of the Oliver Farm tant, 800-1,200 francs (£11-£16).

In the western (the European) The most sonment is no solution of the Equipment Company.

A good suit of men's clothes half living, apart from food, is not problem; in fact, for the great dangerous appearing strike-that costs 1,200 francs (£16): a cheap cheap. A meal of the 38. Gd. stand-

of the entire bituminous coal' indus. ready-made suit costs 300 francs ard costa 28. majority of the deportees our try-has yielded to the President's (4); a five-room flat costs 1,200 | gaols have no terrors whatever: efforts for a truce.

francs (£16) a month..

The cheapest suit of clothes There are

costs £4. they are regarded as places several minor strikes, however, Switzerland is extremely expen-

A clerk who earns £11 a month where food and shelter are pro-heading. In the wrong direction. sive for the tourist, but for the

native wage-carner It is worse. is well patů, vided free of charge in return The consistency with which these for labour which is by no means other strikes have been turned into arduous. Not only do these re-non-violent channels cannot be curring cases of returning ban- ascribed entirely to inadvertent for- ishees needlessly occupy the tune, Employer and employee alike time of the police and the have shown considerable willingness to compromiso, as have publle courts, at a considerable cost to officials to play the part of media- the public, but committal to gaol tor In it not possible that the merely means cluttering up our various parties in these labour dis

puter have como together mora already over-crowded prisons, speedily because they have been The fact is, of course, that ban-habituated to seek the conference ishees will return to the Colony, table during the last two years under constraint of law? Section whether sent to gaol or not on 7A of the NRA virtually obligated being caught; indeed, it is not the employer to negotiate with infrequent to read of instances Labour. Now that this law is, at

least in which a criminal who receives Labour, Capital and the public seem temporarily, Inoperative, a life banishment term comes to be continuing of their own choice back within a few weeks of his the orderly procedure. The nation Axpulsion. But what good pur formed about the problems of appears to have grown more In- pose is served by giving such workers during the depression and men a term of imprisonment? more tolerant as a result of the None that we can see. The law, official recognition given to Labour's

therefore, might with reason be so amended that when a return-

chuse.

ed banishee is apprehended he raised in Legislative Council, in should merely be brought before which connection it would be the Magistrate for proof of much to the point: If details Identity and then be again de- could be obtained of the number ported. Where the period of of banishers returning in the banishment is less than a life course of a year and of the term, it should be increased as periods for which they are com- a punishment for returning be-mitted to gaol, there to live at fore the expiry of the period the public expense. Certainly To send such individuals to gol the law as it at present stands

LANE CRAWFORD LTD.de to involve the Colony in no way deters crimina a

ARTICLE

“coming back,

Picture of young, married woman, ez-resident of Hong- kong, starting housekeeping for first time in England.

*

Hongkong taipans and Govern- ment officials, when it comes to giving news to the press, are the tightest people in the world. Just to get our own back on them,-we're going to report to-day's play in the fourth Test Match something like this:

England, 2nd Innings Bakewell, b Crisp

Smith, e Mitchell, b Bell Barber, e Langton, b Bell Hammond, b Crisp ...

R. E. B. Wyatt, lbw, b Crlap.. Leyland, e Mitchell b Crisp

R. W. V. Robins, b Beli

Verity, lbw, b Langton., Tate, c Viljoen b Vincent Duckworth, e Nourse b Crisp Bowes, not out

Extras

Total

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