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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1937.

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NEW VICTOR DANCE RECORDS

25323-Speedboat BMI. F.T.

Trees. F.T.

F.T.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby,

25405-Now Or Never. FT.

Darling, Not Without You, F.T.

25448-Little Old Lady. FT.

Now. F.T.

25481-Whispering. · F.T.

Tiger Rag. F.T.

25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba

Inspiration, Tango.

FT.

Hay Noble's Orchestra.

"Fata" Waller's Orchestra.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1037.

The Strange Story

Of

FRENCH

TOBACCO

I

ין

By

George Edinger

was John Nicot

(whence our word Nicotine), Ambassa- dor of the King of France to the Court of Portugal in 1558, who sent the first tobacco into France.

"It is most salubrious as they of Brazil bear wit-

Huby Newman's Orchestra. MERCHANT NAVY'S ness," he told the Queen,

...Ray Noble's Orchestra.

.Benny Goodman's Quartet.

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

25514-Moonlight And Shadows, F.T...........Eddy Duchin's Orchestra,

Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You, F.T. 25330-1 Can't Break The Habit Of You. F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

You're Laughing At Me. F.T.

Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.

.Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. ..Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

25552-Shall We Dance, FT.

For You, F.T.

25553-Turn Off The Moon, F.T.

'.

NEW ROLE

Marie of Medici, "for it Officers of the British Mer-dispels the evil humours chant Navy in Hongkong will no of the brain in smoke out doubt have noticed the recent of the nose and mouth." brief announcement made by Captain Euan Wallace, of the

Ever since companions of Board of Trade, regarding al

Christopher Columbus had scheme which is to be put into found the people of the New operation for co-ordinating the World smoking a lighted rolled efforts of the two sea services

leaf which they swore had in the interests of national de- fence. The plan is based on which they worshipped as a god, strange magical properties, and recognition of the point, that, in reports of the herb had drifted times of peace, officers of the 25666-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T... Guy Lombardo's Orchestra.

back to Europe with home- I Know Now. F.T.

Merchant Navy should be made bound mariners, gold earrings, ..Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.familiar with the problems with

highly coloured parrots and

Jummin'. FT.

25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago,

Waltz It's No Secret I Love You, F.T. 25502-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. F.T.

Bunne Berigan Orchestra. 25364-There's A Lull In My Life. F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra,

'Cause My Baby Says It's So. F.T.

Carelessly. F.T.

25587- Hum A Waltz, Waltz

Hold Me Tight. Wallz.

-FACTS-

Frenchmen woke up one morning to find tobacco up 20 per cent.

Price fixed by Government recently every year since 1674, when Covernment monopoly established. It brings in about £35,000,000 a year, devoted since 1926 to paying off National Debt,

Posts in Government Department controlling tobacco distribution are much sought after, the highest paid (£1,000 a yearl go to candidates passing out top from the Ecole Poly- technique, the French Woolwich. Sixty per cent, of tobacco consumed in France is grown in 29 French "departments" {counties) three in Algeria. Government fixes annual output.

Balance is bought by Government abroad and blended with home-produced variety before selling. Sate is at officially licensed bureaux run by ex-Servicemen, war widows and others the State wants to reward.

Petit Jourt

Sie

Before the War the French- man used to smoke on the average, 96 cigarettes a year, now he smokes 250, which more than makes up for the cigar Besides, drop from 16 to 10. France has already had a very awkward experience from tam- pering with her Government's tobacco monopoly. During the French Revolution the monopoly (since Richelieu's time it had increased its profits from £200,000 to eight millions) was abolished. Leave was given to every Frenchman to grow, sell and buy tobacco as he wished, subject to a smail tax.

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25569-Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. F.T.... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra, which they might have to deal stories of a city built entirely of England, Nicotine, more com- was worth £200,000, equivalent Assembly had replaced the old

Without Your Love. F.T.

25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T..... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

Sweel Heartache. F.T.

25573-Yake Up And Live, F.T.

Sleep. F.T.

Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.

gold.

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£250,000 a year. So he reverted to Richelieu's policy in

December 29, 1810.

an

And then suddenly the such restrictions on trade both highest powers changed their before and after.

Napoleon discovered that the minds. Both in France, and The monopoly in France then new tax with which the National

monly called Tobacco, from the to £800,000 at to-day's prices. monopoly was only bringing in if the country is ever again faeed | with war. It aims at putting

East Indian island of Tobago, The first smoking of tobacco Elizabeth of England had al-

whence it had

fell come, Merchant Navy officers (other

ready highly approved the

was everywhere from clay pipes; under a royal ban. than R.N.R. officers, who are novelty which Sir Walter Raleigh James I. told Raleigh he thought

King cigars did not come in until Imperial decree published on

1800, cigarettes fifty years after

Personally he disliked smok- were that. Indeed, cigarettes grateful to John Nicot.

"Counterblast to Tobacco," and

ing as much as Wellington did. never widely smoked until after He only tried it once, in his For it was precisely humours sent its pioneer to the Tower. operation have been received of the brain, or as we should

the Crimean War. It was cigars Egyptian campaign, as a pre- "Have you not reason," he that killed snuff-taking, both in servative against the Plague. from the Shipowners' and Off-

say headaclies, that gave her

11 wrote, to forbear this filthy France and England. cers' Associations. Instruction-

more trouble than anything else novelty, loathsome to the eye...

It made him cough till he lost In 1829 the first smoking his breath. al centres are to be opened in

in the world, Protestants not hateful to the nose, harmful to London, Liverpool, Glasgow, the

set aside in the excepted.

the brain, dangerous to the lungs Tyne, Southampton, Cardiff and

The new herb, taken as snuff and in the black stinking fume Ilull, at which officers who volunteer will be given a course at first, spread from Court to thereof nearest resembling the

duties) through # defence course, and assurances of .co.

room was

House of Commons. But Queen snuff-taker, collecting hundreds Victorin was as fiercely opposed to smoking as James I. had

in the general principles of trade/ City and soon the industrious horrible Stygian smoke of the been and to the very end of

count.

were pit that is bottomless."

fumes

But he was an enthusiastic

of snuff-boxes. Once one of them was stolen and a duplicate containing poisoned snuff was put out on his desk. But although he never smoked a pipe himself, his head served as a model for thousands of those fanciful pipe bowls made to look like a human head which were

over popular all

Europe

and frugal Frenchmen protection, convoy work, anti-

her long reign she insisted that own AC- Louis XIII, King of France, guests staying at Windsor submarine measures, gun drill planting it on their

forbade the sale of "this drug, Castle should smoke into the and fire control. The classes;

It was hailed as a universal save unto our Apothecaries, on fireplaces so that the will be open to all masters and

remedy for all ills. In fact, the pain of Four pounds fine."' navigating officers of British

went up the chimney. French did not fall short of the nationality, and the lectures on Indians in worshipping the leaf. Michael of Muscovy decreed the More drastic, the Grand Duke convoy and anti-gas work to chief

It was useful in love philtres, bastinado for the first smoke, a engineers as well. It is, of they said; no recipe for eternal slit, nose for the second, and Commander-in-Chief, course, seldom possible for offi- youth was complete without it. death for the third; while the 1845 the Duke of Wellington century. cers of the Merchant Navy to Judiciously applied to mercury Grand Turk commanded that proclaimed that "the attend a course even for one it could make a compound that snuff takers should have the pipes, cigars or cheroots is not And Napoleon, unlike some week in any one place, and it turned everything it touched in lips slit and smokers the nose only in itself a species of other opponents of smoking,

has therefore been decided to to fine gold. divide the course into ten self- contained three-hour sections which can be taken at any port where instructional facilities

during the first half of Inst

Her influence told with

the 40

and in

usc of

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It

slit, a penalty improved in 1670 intoxication occasioned by the could appreciate its uses. to being hanged with a pipe fumes of tobacco, but undoubt would have disturbed him a edly occasions drinking and great deal if he could have with the Fleet. According to thrust through the nose.

tippling by those who acquire foreseen one of them. For fifty experts, the training of men asi

the habit," and consequently years after he had died the gun crews is a comparatively

intreated "officers commanding great Bismarck (he once tried

more

exist, either as a continuous simple matter, but the training| But all this was vain, and it regiments to prevent smoking in to introduce a tobacco monopoly course or separately and, with of officers in the broad principles occurred to that great states- the mess-rooms and to discour- into Germany on the French certain restrictions, in any of trade protection and convoy man Cardinal Richelieu that the officers of junior rank in their discuss terms for the surrender age the practice among the model) received Jules Favre to order. Those taking the course work is a much

dificult State might benefit from what regiments."

of Paris to the investing German will receive allowances for meals proposition. In particular, it is the State could not prevent, for

of vital importance that masters which foresight M.

The Duke was fighting a rear armies. Bismarck offered him Bonnet guard action as determined as a cigar. and refunds for travelling ex-

or officers on watch in merchant should feel himself most grate the one he had waged in the "Thank you, I do not smoke," penses, within certain limits.ships should understand the best ful. Richelieu put tax of Peninsula against the French said Favre. It is hoped by these means to tactics to pursue if attacked, and threepenco a pound on tobacco, or in Parliament against the "Then you are wrong," said overcome big difficulties which how to make the most effectivel

subjects Reform Bill. But he was not Blsmarck. "When a man begins were encountered on the out-use of such defensive equipment would use it continually where successful. Indeed, the demand a discussion which may lead to break of the Great War. At as they possess. This is they no small hurt should come to for tobacco has grown so enor- heated argument or a show of their health." And in 1674 mously that the world output temper it is always better to that time, a few ships were primary object of the new Louis XIV. declared that as the has doubled since the War. smoke while one is talking." equipped with guns, but the per-scheme, and, with the co-opera- tobacco trade had been made a And Frenchmen are no more like sonnel had not been trained tion of the Merchant Navy Government monopoly in so ly than any other people to re- member this advice when they in their use, since those who be-assured, the plan should prove' many countries, France must strict their consumption very meet in their cafes to discurs longed to the R.N.R. were im- of the greatest value In times of make it one also, an argument drastically because of a small M. Bonnet's 20 per cent, increase mediately withdrawn for service national emergency.

familiar to all who have imposed increase in price.

on the tobacco tax.

"as otherwise our

The Parisians should

re-