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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER :

JAPAN IS WINNING

THIS WAR

She Has Swept Her

Trade Rivals

·

From Ethiopia

ITALY IS. NOT EVEN IN

THE PICTURE

Addis Ababa, Nov. 5.

Out of estimated Ethiopian imports of

·U.S. $5,000,000 for 1934, a total of U.S. $3,- 000,000 came from Japan. These figures tell the story of Japanese penetration of the Ethiopian market, as it stands at present.

The market is a tiny one, limited from every point of view. It is essentially a priee market, where quality makes little difference. It is a market which must undergo great expansion before it can be important.

Almost the entire Japanese import total was in textiles, a field dominated until 1926 by the United States and later by Manchester's mills in India. But even in textiles, trade has fallen off.

Imports of all kinds in the first six months of 1934, taken as a reasonably normal year, totalled 9,000 tons. In the same period of 1935 they were 4,000 tons.

It would have been even worse execpt for extraordinary Imports of gasoline in expectation of war By n special arrangement. the ten- government bought 6,000 gallon cases on condition that the company which closed the deal import and store within the coun try for hater purchase, 20,000 cases -five years supply for the govern- ment or two years supply for the entire nation.

Gray sheeting forms the basic import article: dimsy, transparent

MIGHTY WARTIME

WARRIOR

1935. 8,

Multi-Million Jazz NOVEL!

Completely remooched a modernised, the Queen Elizavechi, one of the largest of British Warsnips, has steanied to the Medi terranean, there to join the Hood and Renown, world's mightiest naval vessels,

Monkey Parasite

For Paralysis

Injected with a monkey para- site, known as apo malaria, a 83- pear-old miner auffering from neneral puralysis of the insane, in showing improvement,

A report on new treatment published in the last fesse of the "British Medical Journal" that the man is eating heartily, his perch much clearer and his grandiose delusiona https disappeared.

stuff no heavier than cheasc cloth, Treasure

used by Ethiopians for their loga- like shamas and the all-concealing body and head wraps of the wonien. Even imports of this commodity dropped from 3,200 tons during the first half of 1934 to 2,382 tons so far this year. The gray sheeting constitutes almost the entire textile import, ñnd it is completely Japanese.

Tonts From Japan

In a few special textile wares, tho United States and Great Britain still can compete, but they are only a tiny fraction of the total. Even the canvas text in which the Emperor opened the Ethiopian Red Cross was stamped each strip, Finest Japan Sheeting."

on

The reason for the decline of imports is obvious. There is too much uncertainty. No one, cares to put too big a stake at risk. Extension of credit his ceased. War risk insurance has risen from % of one per cent, a year to 3 per Addis eent. per six months in Ababa, & per cent. per six months in the interior, and double for Italians.

The American share of imports for the entire year 1934 was about $200,000, of which $150,000 repre- sented petroleum products and It would $40,000 automobiles.

have sunk to almost nothing this: year except for the extraordinary purchase of 140 trucks by the government, all intended for the army, which has given a $200,000 total for six months.

Exports Tied Up

great

Exports have been hunistrung by the slump in world prices, par- ticularly in coffee, the money crop, despite the artificially low price of the silver thaler-it sells at 13.5 to the pound instchu of the 10 which would be. Its proper price.

Coffee is the life blood of ex- ports, and Ethiopia's chief contri- bution to the world.

An Arab legend has it that Egyptian Christian monks, settled in Kalo 'province in the 3rd Century, dla- covered that their cattle became frisky and sleepless after eating a certain shrub." Out of their ex- periments, and especially out of the coffee culture of Yemon in Arabla, where seeds had been transported, arew the present boverage. "Coffee" is supposed

to come from "kaffa," and certain It is that vast virgin forests of coffee tres may be found all over the province.

Coffee, which stood at 16 conts, American, a pound in 1928, is now down to 4 to 5 cents. The 15,000 to 20,000 tons average crop has not

Trove In

The Pacific.

Paris, Nov. 7.*-- A man, EL

30-foot woman, a yacht, the "spirit" of Benito Bonita, Portuguese buccaneer, at the helm, passed through Paris this week bound for the Cocos lalands, treasure islands of the Pacific.

On Luxuries

AMERICA IN SEARCH

OF PLEASURE

H. K. Will Benefit

From Enormous Tourist Trade

New York, Nov. 1. America has started on a multi-million dollar pleasure chase which already is result- ing in the greatest box office receipts since. 1929, heavy gambling turnovers and revived business in luxuries, a United Press survey shows.

Shackles of depression-day penury are being thrown off. Perhaps nervousness over impending war has brought psychological determination to spend in amusement pursuits. Whatever the answer, the American pleasure bill for the winter is going to be the highest in several years.

Already there are such develop- ments as:

CINEMA OPERA IS

COMING

Three Famous Men With a

New Film Technique

CINEMA opera, with an entirely new technique, will be

the next development in films.

Mr. Harold Holt, the famous impresario, has joined forces with two men equally famous in the entertainment world-a film producer and a musical conductor--and the scheme is already well advanced.

All-three-are--convinced thul

A

Εκ to produce opera as opera fatal mistake. To use opera on the screen, they have decided to "get away from opera."

Mr. Holt has discolsed some of the details. Big romantic sub-

the

The man, sunburned, bespec-jects, such as Robin Hood or Ali tacled, fifty-eight-year-old German, Baba and other tales from

Thousand and One Nights, will be Hubert Merzurich, said that he

chosen. and his companion Margot, were spiritualists, and that they were un their long and being piloted hazardous voyage from Hamburg to the Cocos by Benito.

They left Hamburg two months ayu.

"Benito Bonita," said Herr Mer- zurich, "appeared to us in the cabin of our boat about two years ago. He told Margot and me that he had chosen us to lift his trea- sure and distribute it among the poor of the world.

"By means of the planchette he made Margot draw a map of the island showing where the treasure lics hurted.

"He told us not to get married until the treasure was found, and promised to guide us safely across the ocean to its hiding place."

diminished since then, but the price is ruinous.

No, Buyers At Markot Great quantities have been ex- ported this year-10,000 tons for the first six months, or the same as for all of 1934-but it is only war fear which prompts the ship- ments, and they are waiting at Djibouti for buyers. If the price drops further, exports will be fruitless and the crop will rot, or as in Brazil, be burned.

The coffee situation tells just about the complete export story, a yearly total of around 30,000 tans being maintained even under presunt conditions, but with an average price drop of 25 to 33 per cent. The peak year 1928 showed 50,000 tons Imported against 30,- 000 exportéd, but in a normal year they are about even.

Hides, the second largest export commodity, have fallen 15 per cent in price. Goat and sheep skins, keening their volume, have gone off 40 per cent.

From Rossini To Roy

Music will be gathered from every conceivable source-from Buch to Bax, Rossini to Harry reorchestrated, Rtoy. It will be the alm being to adapt it to the situation.

The entire cast, singers as well.

At as actors, will be chosen to their parts as carefully as a star' is chosen for the lead in a play.

The Grace Moore type of film. in which a single star dominates and only a few theme songs ap- pear, is already finished, accord- ing to Mr. Holl.

"The greedy weekly demand of millions for something new," he said, "makes it vital for the

ing if it is to live.

FRITZ KREISLER

£100,000 To £100 Bet

cinema to keep constantly chang Recalled

All Colour In Two Years

"In another two

years every film in the world will be in colour, and colour will have begun to pail.

"But by that time the three- dimensional film will be here, and stereoscopic vision will give new life to the cinema,"

A £100,000 to £100.bet has been recalled by the publication of the will of Mr. Alfred Heathorn, the prominent Tattersall's bookmaker and racehorse owner, who died in July aged 64.

Mr. Heathorn, who lived at Dryads Garth Bishops-avenue,, Hampstead, N.W., left £80,096.

Estate duty of £15.335 has been

Several New York City movle theatres have reported attendance for full weeft in excess of previous recorda.

The Baer-Louis fight drew a gate of more than a million dollars the first million dollar fight since the Dempsey regime. Prices at U.S. $25 top were the highest since the start of the depression. Betting on the fight U.S. $6,000,000.

exceeded

The national baseball league had enormous attendances with only two clubs under the good 1934 re- turns...

The Narragansett race track had a turn-over in pari-mutuel machines of $13.728,368 for a 30- day race meet while betting at New York tracks is running 20 per cont. ahead of 1934.

Steamship travel is running 20 to 30 per cent, ahead of a year ago with palatial liners filled. Around the world cruises for the winter- with reservations costing many thousands apiece-have been book- ed for months.

Diamonds In Demand

Diamond trade is increasing and Fifth Avenue diamond merchants whose business has been slim in re- cent years, are finding Increased demand.

1: These are just items in the

which general picture

extends nation-wide. Now York, centre of much of the winter'a galety, is out- standing in the rush to find fun.

Some Broadway restaurants have found it necessary to string silken

ropes across the door to. hold back crowds; the first time in six years these ropes have been taken from the store-rooms. There are more night clubs operating now than in recent years and consequently more

Beautiful Chinese lampshades whic fold absolutely flat. Frames lapse and shades may be folded.

an envelope. These are the latest creation. Reasonable

most effective,

Ideal Gifts.

Now on display at ------ 13, ICE HOUSE STREET.

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BELLAMY VILEY POST

Directed by TALA BIRELL

IMBIA RĪCIURE

AT

See Wiley Post

match his wits against the

mysterious "Death

Fay"

entertainers are at work. Charges. SUNDAY THE ALHAMBRA

are about the same,

Dun & Bradstreet surveyed the retail business and found the de-. mand for dress sults for men was increasing-the first time since 1929 that dress suits have even been mentioned. Women's fur evening wraps and expensive even- ing frocks are having a tremend- merchanta ous turnover. Some expect the greatest winter business aince 1929.

Meanwhile an example of how eager people are to sperid was seen in the Baer-Louis fight. Top seats were $25-if bought several weeks before the fight from the promoter. Speculator reaped a fortune. One Wall Street house bought a mezzanine box at $25 a scat. Just before the fight the hox was sold at $125 a seat. And the same situation provalls throughout the nation; 'as for ex- ample: In

the Madera, California, Madera Theatre recently played to pald

In 1931 Mr. Heathorn laid the 2,865 people in three days, a record. late Mr. H. F. Clayton £100,000 Portland, Oregon, reported movlo to £100 that his nominations would business 10 to 15 per cent, above not succeed in winning the Cesare-inst year and the best since 1929. For the first time since 1929 there witch and Cambridge.

Mr. Clayton nearly 'brought off are no "dark" houses. Jewellery In his own special field of the

the coup for his Six Wheeler was business is 10 per cent, above a concert hall Mr. Holt is also planning a new development-theeocond in the Cesarewitch and his year ago.-United Press. operatic concert. In the

Disarmament won the Cambridge- 1936-7 a galaxy of musical stars will be seen on the same platform, ho said.

have

Already experimentera given a plastic appearance to the single gure, said Mr. Holt, and it remains to solve the problem of group and mass.

HERSON

Among the stars he has secured for the present 3028011 aro Kreisler, Helfetz, Tauber, An'n होकर Dorfman. McCormack. Toti And tho

story is the same with beeswax, leopard skins and civet, the only other articles worthy of mention.

Monte, Simon Barer and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra undor Furtwangler.

sh're.

£1,000 EACH

children of his late brother-in-law

Mr. Heathorn loft £1,000 each to George Richard Sutton, his shares his brother George Heathorn and in A. Heathörn. Ltd., as to 1,002 the wife of his son Alfred Thomas to his wife and 996 to his son Henthorn. $200 and £t a week to | Alfred. Thomas.

his wife's alster. Emily Moore, He also gave £250-to his solici- and “ión (exch· to her children, tor. Philip Emanuel, as an appre £750 to Gortrade Colo. £100 to the clation of their association and children and grandchildren of his friendship. The residue of the brother George, £100 each to, the property goes to his wife.

LAST 2 WEEKS!

OF OUR

FIRE SALE

COME IN TO-DAY

VICTORIA SILK PALACE 37, Queen's Rd., Central

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central,

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain..

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