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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 11 1937.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937.

WATER FACTS NEEDED

Whilst the promised Sessional Paper may throw further light on the facts underlying the imposition of water restrictions on the island, the official reply to Mr. M. K. Lo's question on the subject leaves the matter largely unexplained. The out- standing fact is that, although the latest returns show no less than 1,452 million gallons in storage on the mainland, com- pared with 441 million gallons a year ago-in other words, far more than the peninsula needs

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island has run so short of sup- plies that rationing has had to be Instituted. The

reasons

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HORN-RIMMED SPECTACLES craze started in 1922.

ETON CROP

OXFORD BAGS craze, started by Oxford undergraduates, brightened summer '1925.

In Eights Week at Oxford trousers a yard round were worn.

YO-YO was the rage of the last six months of 1932.

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BULL-NOSED CARS. Late 1926 was the peak time for bull-nosed Morris cars. ETON CROPS were at their peak in early 1926,

Guns are Her Bread

A woman is ruler

VER Essen at night

&

Butter

of the great German armament firm' of Krupps-the woman who gave her name to the Big Bertha gun.

Othere is-a-red-glarean

Pn the sky. It comes given for the imposition of and goes as the giant fur- these restrictions are (1) deple-nace doors down below in tion of the island reservoirs by

the town open and shut. a prolonged drought, plus ex-The echoes of the clanging ceptionally heavy consumption, and (2) the fact that the Shing doors penetrate to every Mun waters can at present be part of the world, some see brought only to the level of the in the red sky the glow of Public Gardens service reser-war. voir, thus serving only a strip

For Essen is Krupps and

of the city. The point which Krupps another word for the instantly suggests itself is that tools of war.

Krupps, in announcing their first dividend for twenty years, are

Cups, la anancing

Similarly British firms are shy of the word. "Latest reports-of- the Birmingham Small Arms Company stresecs that a profite jump £158,618 in 1935 to £278,957 in 1936 was due to normal trading activities without the assistance of the Government's defence pro- gramme.

Vickers, Ltd,, showed a profit last year of £1,386,279, an increase of nearly £400,000 on the previous year. Their carnings on Ordinary capital showed a yield of 16 per cent. Their Ordinary shares have a par value of £6,157,741. Recently the market value of these sitares

was £21,167,483.

Hadhelds, Ltd., of Sheffield, the only firm in the country with long experience

nce of armour-piercing shells, last year declared a dividend of 7 per cent., the first since 22 per cent. was declared in 1929. So far this year they have declared an interim of 33% per cent. on their Ordinary shares. Last year's profits were £158,995. The par value of slicir Ordinary shares is £029,802. Recently their market value was £3,000,000.

And latest market quotations show that investors expect even greater profits.

metallurgist.

BUT in 1847

mado

WHEN he died he left

no Crown Prince to succeed him, Only two girls.

The elder of these, Bertha, suc- ceeded him in 1902, became the world's first' "Cannon Queen." Said one writer at the time?” It was "an event as romantic as when a young princess inherits a throne."

No question then of an Amer can claiming the title of "the richest girl in the world." These Krupps girls won easily. Even in that. conservative and reti- cent age the income from the Krupps works was estimated at a million sterling a year.

If she wasn't a princces in her own right she was treated as one; she made her debut into society under the patronage of

Alfred died in 1887, The "Cannon Queen" ruled Not for twenty years have fourteen to direct the little made possible was unknown the Kaiser himself. the drought and exceptionally Krupps paid a dividend; the business. The widow was one when heavy consumption merely ex-world has been at peace, troubled, of two women famous in Krupps' though the discerning caught Essen firmly but benevolently; when the Germans marched on in the works or in their homes. that she did not know about. plain the depletion of the island but at peace. Now Krupps an- history; the boy became a great a glimpse of what it might be little passed among her workers

nounce a profit for 1935-36 of reservoirs; they bear no relation | £1,200,000-about 9 per cent. on

Still, they were not a big Farie in 1870. business. Even by. 1845 they THE "Cannon King's" She studied housing and hygiene, applied her, knowledge to her Crown Prince Wig to the question of making good share capital of £18,300,000. the deficiency from the main- Krupps have moved up in the employed only 122 workmen,

She took time off for that, but world's great business from scarcely did more than pay their Friedrich Alfred Krupp, born at model dwellings.

Essen in 1854. With him the

she really directed the giant. Iand suppiles. What is needed their start just over a hundred way.

Krupp dynasty took a new twist.

business she inherited. is a definite statement of the and twenty years ago.

3.pounder His ancestors had been techni-

·REVOLVING round the reasons why "the Shing Mun

"Cannon ROUND about that time muzzle-loading gun of cast steel, cal men, engineers and metallur

Queen's" water can at present be brought

a twenty-three-year the first, but not the last, gun gists. He became a financier in

throne were, perhaps naturally, the business, and as he counted only to the level of the Public old man bought a small forge in that made Krupp.famous.

Essen, worked on the problem

Then at the Great Exhibition and planned in his office the many seeking the position of prince consort. Naturally, not Gardens service reservoir." The of manufacturing cast abeel. His

of London in 1851 the brilliant business boomed, expanded.

only because she was very rich,. Government denies that the pre-name was Friedrich Krupp.

Krupp showed a flawless Ingot He looked beyond the town of but becauso she was not un- sent difficulty has anything to In 1815, while Wellington was

a lump of but also to make them. He "Gentle, sweet-faced woman do with the capacity of the giving Napoleon his final defeat of cast steel weighing two tons. Essen not only to sell his wares pleasing personally. It was more than trans-harbour mains or of the at Waterloo, Friedrich put his steel, it was a sensation. The leased the "Germania" ship of unassuming yet dignified de- filtration plant on the island, al- thought much of it, at

market. Nobody little works at Essea became building yard at Kiel. Six years meanour" was how a London re

any world famous.

later, in 1902, when the last porter of the time desribed her. though it significantly adds that rate they bought little of his

She chose Dr. Gustav "both these subjects afford pro- | product.

Another invention followed, generation to go into the great blems for the future." The After Friedrich's death the the manufacture of weldless war was in its cradle, it passed Bohlen und Halbach, a young layman, taking into account the works were carried on by his steel tyres for uso on railways. into the hands of Krupps. The diplomat, who added. Krupp to

he married her in 1906. · fact that Kowloon has more widow and son Alfred, who, as The profits began to pile up, but wars to come would be fought his own aristocratic name when Busy times were coming.. Not a bad employer,, though, water than it needs and that the eldest son, left school at Krupps then, as now, were con- on sea and land.

servative. Hongkong has not enough, can

They put the profits back into this financial Krupp. In his Europe was arming all round for only conclude that there is has taken place in the pipes and the works, used them to develop time was started the model its great struggle. Germany something wrong with the cross-that there is wastage of water artillery, guns, war materials settlement which arose out of was beginning to challenge The German Navy was expand- harbour pipe. distribution sys-through seepage. And it is also until finally the name of Krupps the problem of housing the in- Britain's power on the seas.

feared creasing workers of Essen. tem. It may be mere hair quite possible that there have throughout the world.

Fror that sprang the various ing, Krupps expanded with it. splitting to say that it is not a been engineering miscalcula

Alfred Krupp became the "colonies," separate villages dott. Armour plate and guns, tons. of them, and in 1908 to the question of the "capacity" of the tions. At any rate, the públic: "Cannon King"the term "mer. ed around the edges of the town, pipes, but that the pipes are not is entitled to ask the precise ren- chant of death" had not been with stools and libraries, clubs 9,000,000 capital of Krupps an- other two and a half millióna LANE CRAWFORD, LTD. ploding the results expected is sons why Shing Mun water can- Invented then, nor, did, any body and playing fields.

were added. beyond dispute. Thore are rum. not be made available to the at that time look askance at his Ho brought the number of Then the war. ours that considerable corrosion island as a whole.

trade War on the scale Krupp Essen's workers up to 40,000.

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