THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
BRITAIN, FRANCE, GERMANY, JAPAN STRONGLY ENTRENCHED
1936.
Lifting Of League Sanctions Has Not Ended HENRY HEATHT
Italy's Troubles: Fight For Old Markets
HARDEST
BATTLE
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS GIANT FOR HONGKONG
IS ON
THE
FRONT
ECONOMIC
WHILE ITALY. MADE WAR WITH
ABYSSINIA OTHER NATIONS
THE
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ENTRENCHED THEMSELVES
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IN HONGKONG, ELSEWHERE
"Telegraph" Staff Reporter
HE WAR IS OVER IN ABYSSINIA. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS HAS LIFTED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY. BUT-
Italy.
Hongkong so far has not exported one single item to
Italy's export trade to the Far East has received such a set-back that it may take years to recover.
Canopus, Imperial 'Airways giant seaplane which recently concluded test flights at Rochester, may make an experimental flight to Hongkong in December.
Twelve months ago, this tiny British Colony purchased 1,200 per cent.. more goods from Italy than we exported to Y her. We were one of Italy's best customers in this res- peet, for we have had to pay in bullion for our deficiency in exports.
In July last year our imports from Italy exceeded $255,000. In July this year, a month after sanctions were lifted, they were only $30,643, according to statistics just
"A Miracle Man", Says "Time" Of Former Hongkong Man
issued by the Statistical Office of the Imports and Exports AMERICAN NEWS-
Department.
For two months-May and June-our trade with Italy dropped For the whole of 1935 it totalled $2,032,111, of which $1,991,836 was imports into Hongkong.
to nothing.
There are hundreds of Colonies, Dependencies and countries as small as Hongkong. Italy is desperately seeking to regain her staggering loss of trade in all of them. What is happening in Hong- kong is happening all over the world.
While Italy' was fighting her costly campaign in Abyssinia, other countries were stepping in and grabbing her trade. She must now fight an even more desperate battle on her economic front to regain the position she has lost.
MAGAZINE ON
DR. ALEX. CANNON
"A Miracle Man" is the heading "Time", well-known American news-magazine, gives to an article in a recent issue on Dr. Alexan- der Cannon, formerly of Hongkong.
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The article says: "Disease can be diagnosed by its odour,
ailment having every Once upon a time we purchas- quantities. Italy has lost a long-different odour." ed all manner of goods from valued at $2,000 a month through the paper or walls should be in the bed- established tradle in Hongkong "A steady green light and green Italy. Take, for instance the loss of this market.
children rooms of young male statistics for March last year,
Japan
and Germany have also this colour ruises the male sex urge which were selected at random, benefited from Halya loss of its to a higher level...
market for certain Braids. These "It should be borne in mind that
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In that month our purchases from nations now share the $500 the high vibrations of red trans-
Ituly were:
Buildings Materials
Chemicals and Drugs .... Dyeing, Tanning Materials Foodstuffs and Provisions Liquors
Metols
$ 110V or with Embroidery
1.B15
1112231
that formerly went to Italy,mitted-light will, if played upon the and eyes for.. hatt an hour, remove 2,075
Lace. Excluding China and France, the symptoms of influenza." 1.050
"I am i Italy was at one time our biggest
with acquainted 1310 supplier of these items. Now Japan miracles.
117 and the United Kingdom have step- Such affirmations as these, if made
in, and taken. 5,000 in
of Southern California's ab-
222,801
the
A
lying in a trance several miles
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E RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music From Hongkong Hotel
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocyeles):
5-8 p.m. European Programme. 5-7 p.m. A Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden..
7 p.m. Orchestral Music.
A shepherd named Abdul Ouab asked a French army captain in Algeria to think of some object in his Paris home. The soldier thought of a valuable family por--
Concerto No. 7 for Organ and trait. Instantly the picture appisar Orchestra (Handel): Lyric Suite, the wall in Algeria; the Op. 54 (Grieg); Summer Night on
the River (Delius), stupefled Frenchman not only saw it but handled It.
7.30 He cabled his
p.m. Closing Lacul Stoels the Quotations. parents in Paris, Back came
7.33 p.m. Two Songs by Jan reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Polles at work and Kiepura (Tenor).
Surete announces arrest of thief Imminent,'
1. Sweet Melody of the Night; 2. I mean to say I love you,
7.40 p.m. The New Mayfair Orchestra.
Ballad Memories; Jerome Kern Melodies (arr. Henry Hall); Mile- stones of Melody.
pro-
market
· Paper-und - Paperware
Since publication of these marvels zurds, might pass with seant in Powers That Be and The Invisi Plece Goods. Textiles
Last year Italy was our principal seure Wearing Apparel
1887 supplier of Brst-grade tobacconists attention. But they are the state ble Influence, Dr. Cannon has enjoy- Sundries
ed a voluminous correspondence with Britain and France look ments of Dr. Alexander Cannon, one sundries. 5,994
after our wants in this direction. It of the most extraordinary figures in "businessmen and occultists,
parsons doctors Total
and Indian colonels, •
and ... $255,008 doesn't add up to much-Italy's British science.
tawyers,, Bald, round-faced Dr. Cannon is judges, hard-headed
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Weather In May and June our imports from monthly exports used to be in the
and
Report und Announcements. Italy were nil in July our imports AS
| vicinity of $409, but it only one
co-authour of respectable treatises women haunted by poltergeists."
8.03 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert. on psychiatry and neurology, an 'ac- This week Dr. Connan published a were Paper and Paperware to the item in many,
11 p.m. Close Down. Desperate efforts are being made tive staff member of the London value of $17,701; Piece Goods and
thin volume called The Science, of
8.05-11
European p.m. Textiles to the value of $0,000 and by Italian trade representatives all County Mental Hospital Service.
Since the author is a Hypnotism Sundries valued at $0,942, making over the world to regain the markets member in good standing of the Bri- capable practitioner of hypnotism and gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre- total of $30,643.
lost through League of Nations sanctish Medical Association, he was on uses it every day on London's sane quency of 640 kilocycles.
its Executive Council in 1934-35. and Insane, U.S. psychiatrists were 8.05 p.m. A Cinema Organ Norway hus stepped in and taken ans, But it is an uphill fight. Italy's market for Building Materials.
Other nations are now firmly en- Nevertheless he has delved so professionally interested, regardless Recital by Reginald Foort. In March, 1935 our purchases from trenched and it will be many years deeply into Oriental mysticism that of what they thought of his diva-
1. Poem (Fibich); 2. An Autunin Norway were nil, while
before Italy will fully
Blue the he has been elevated to the rank of gallons into yogism, perfect numbers, Serenade (Becce); 3. The our pur- chases from Italy amounted to $11.-position she held before the Abyssin- Master-the-Fifth of the Great White symbolism of colours.
Danube Waltz (Strauss); 4. Re- Lodge of the Himalayas, which he 719. In July this year, Norway sold an adventure.
miniscences of Frimi. considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind about the year 254,060 B.C."
us $31,175 worth and Italy .
JAPAN STEPS IN
Nearly all our Acetic Acid once came from Italy. To-day it comes from Germany which supplied $4,840. worth in July.
Italy was also one of our bigger suppliers of Dyeing and Tanning Materials. Now Japan looks this.
after
is trade, her exports to Horu:-
kong leaping up from $885 in March, 1935, t $3,528 in July this year.
Delicacies in conned goods, 011 Italian trade valued at almost $1,000!
cd
Give The Kiddies
regain
A Break----
MOTHERS ASK ZBW IN RADIO VOTE
Continental brands. Six nutions "L.FT.": Many children tell me now share this market, which, how that they do not like the voices of ever, should not hard to recap- the present "Aunts" and "Uncles." turc.
They use words that many adults, let alone kiddies, do not understand.
BRITAIN, JAPAN SHARE
He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves the cor- porul shell in sleep or death but an etherie body even more refined than the astral.
He has composed a kind of "music"
which consists of combinations of
colours.
the
humour.
♫
tery vanished into thin air.
A fig tree withered when a yogi pointed his finger at 11.
Three men made an appearance .before the monastery's Grand Lama, although they were actually
Dr. Cannon discusses not only his own methods but those of such ploneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bern- heim, Binet, Ferc, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey.
8.20 p.m. "Sca Shanties." 8.30 p.m. Orchestra Raymonde. Chanson d'Amour (Suk); By the Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates); Pol- onaise Militaire (arr. Walter); Invita- It is generally agreed among psy- tion to the Waltz (Weber); Poupec Dancing chiatrists that hypnotism is of value | Valsante (Poldini); The in treating stammering and certain Clocks (Ewing). hysterical neuroses.
8.50 p.m. A Relay from London. Dr. Cannon belleves it is useful in An eye-witness account of_the treating tetanus,strual disorders and Relayed from America.
tetanus, diabetes, prostatic Golf Competition for the Walker Cup,
#p.m. News and Announcements from London.
enlargement,
9.20 p.m. Soprano....Lily Pons.
Violoncello....Maurice
Marechal. Programme
He once offered to do the flndu in relieving the pan of childbirth, rope trick In London's Albert Hall pleurisy, selatien, lumbago, neural for £50,000. He has invented agia, cancer, ulcers. a month last year, now come from
Hypnotist Cannon makes it abun Canada and France.
MANY ladies who entered the thought-reading machine called
there is nothing Italian cheeses are now replaced by
recent Popular Radio Item paychostethokyrtographimano in eter dantly clear that
or difficult about the Dutch, Swiss, English and Austro- contest sponsored by the "Tele- which he intends to demonstrate In mysterious
U.S. this year.
technique. All that is necessary la
1. Songs Ah! I knew "La lion, these, four nations apparently graph" sent in accompanying He believes Armageddon may come for the subject to relax, drive all equally sharing a market that was letters with their entries, plead-minent mystic, he has no sense of tention on some object (usually loncello Solos-Dimanche de Paques in 1937, Like many another pro- thought from his mind, fix his at-Flute Enchanter" (Mozart). Let here the Gentle Lark (Bishop); 2. Vio- once worth $700 a month to staying with the local authorities to
British sausage makers now re
bright light), listen to the operator's sur la mer (Dupont). Indian Larment place the famous Italian makes. Input on better and brighter pro- Dr. Cannon relates wonders in the soothing suggestions of sleep. The (Dvorak); 3.
3. Songs-1 Dream too March, 1935, Britain supplied us with
East which make the notorious rope hypnotic state resembles sleep except much (Kern). I'm the Echo (Kern); only $152 worth of snusages. In Julygrammes for the children. British exports to Hongkong amount-
Some of these letters from trick (an illusion, according to him, that the unconscious mind is in touch 4. Violoncello Selos-Intrada (Ada-. produced by mass hypnotism) seem with the operator and can be sway-gio) (Nachez). Plece en forme de $1,287
parents have already been publish-like small potatoes. Examples: ed by his suggestions. Almost every-
Hubanera (Ravel). Italian vermouths, wines anded. Here are some extracts from
A lani of the Kum Bum Monu ile to resist and does resist, can miri Memories" played by Carroll
body, unless he is confident of being
0,50 p.m. "If you were the only spirits have been replaced by other others:
be hypnotized into the first "light"
Gibbons and his Boy Friends. state; three persons out of four con
10 p.m. Big Ben from London. be brought to the second "deep"
Dance Music state; and one out of two will go
11 pm. Close Down. Into the deepeat trance of all, the It is when we come to Plece Why not open up the studios to
somnambulistic. Highly susceptible DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES Goods and Textiles that we really Hongkong's kiddies, allowing them to
people may hypnotize themselves, ac- find how terrifle has been the drop give their
during own songs
the appreciated both by children and cidentally or intentionally, by star- in Italy's market.
Children's Hour?
adults. This could be composed of Ing at a bright object. Great Britain and Japan now ex .K."I suggest that the Child-nursery rhymes, ele.
In dealing with the insane; it is clusively share Italy's portion of the ren's Hour could be brightened and "Mrs. DLL."Give the kiddies sometimes necessary to resort to the Poplin market. All our Umbrelin made more interesting by affording Children's Hours twice a week In- Binet-Fere method of fascination by Cloths last July came from Germany, local school children the opportunity stead of once,
which,
if it is successful, complete while Japan completely stule Italy's of appearing before the microphone. "AFR." Why not select Sundays, automatism is induced. The subject market for Wool Blankets,
at the Having had personal experience in as the day for the children. The March
operator's right-eye, and the operator Artincial Silk Yarns Shanghal of this form of entertain- kiddies would be the Hour after the stores fixedly at the subject's left value of $140,033 this year, this market had become enjoyed by both children and elders.
By Junement, I noted it to be an item keenly church service think the kiddles at the same time grasping his hands Armly. In little while the an exclusive one for Japan. Even "AC"The Children's Hour is should be given more than one day operator's eye appears to shine bell- in July, a month after sanctions had most terrible. Give the kiddies A a! 4 weeks for their programme.
Hantly and the patient's expression ended, Italy had succeeded in re-real break, and let them have good "Mrs. MLA.B.”—--—I am, the mother becomes, vacant, Dr. Connan Anda gaining only $8,000 worth,
short stories, songs and, most of all, of three children who love listening, certain defecte in, this procedure: "If anic of hats and caps, which kiddies amateur The
hours.
Shirley
be gives programines more often. hypnotist is, tired, the hypnotist may Kingdom, and Italy last year, is now Templa" in Hongkong?
SUMMARY P-Give the kiddies | be hypnotized by the patient. · shared by Britain and Japari, with
The first sign of the hypnotism being A "JE.M."I think a Children's more programmes, and Institute
reversed is very unpleasant.' several other nations supplying small Hour" on Sunday avenings would be Birthday-Club, babe
Tast year, Italy suppilod the studio of the former XCBL in most suitable time for Hongkong asked to lock fixedly
In
Hongkong
With
to
the
relays.
eye,
tans, equally shared by the United | might be able to Surely we fand I would suggest that the kiddies the patient la refractory, and, the
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