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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1937.

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Trees. F.T.

25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby. F.T.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25405-Now Or Never. F.T. ....

Darling, Not Without You. F.T.

23148–Little Old Lady. FT.

Now. FT.

25481-Whispering. F.T.

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Tiger Rag. F.T.

25503-Las Palmeras, Rumba

Inspiration, Tango.

F.T.

.Ray Noble's Orchestra.

"Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

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Ruby Newman's Orchestra. MERCHANT NAVY'S

NEW ROLE.

Officers of the British Mer-

Benny Goodman's Quartet.

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

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

Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You, F.T. 25530-I Can't Break The Habit Of You. FT..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

You're Laughing At Me. FT.

25552-Shall We Dance, F.T.

For You. F.T.

20553-Turn Off The Moon. F.T.

Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. Jammin' FT. 25501-A Love Song Of Lour Ago. Waliz ..........Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

It's No Secret I Love Yon. F.T.

25502-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. FT.

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

Carelessly. F.T.

1 Know Now. F.T.

25557-1 Bum A Waltz, Waltz

Hold Me Tight. Waltz,

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The Strange

Of

Story

FRENCH

TOBACCO

I

By

George Edinger

T 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- ness," he told the Queen, Marie of Medici, "for it dispels the evil humours of the brain in smoke out of the nose and mouth."

gold.

-FACTS-

Frenchmen woke up one morning to find tobacco up 20 per cent. Price fixed by Government recently avery year since 1674, when Government monopoly established. It brings in about £35,000,000 a year, devoted since 1926 to paying off National Debt.

Posts in Cavernment Department controlling tobacco distribution are much sought after, the highest paid (£1,000 a year) 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. Sale is at with homo-produced variety before selling. had

officially licensed bureaux run by ex-Servicemen, war widows and others the State wants to reward.

minds. Both in France and before and after.

Petit Jour

In 1829 the first smoking

drastically because of a small increase in price.

BIRA

Before the War the French- used to smoke on the average, 96 elgarettes a year, now he smokes 250, which more than makes up for the cigar drop from 16 to 10. Besides, 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

from profits £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 small tax.

an

cers' Associations. Instruction-in the world, Protestants not the brain, dangerous to the lungs room Was set aside in the Egyptian campaign, as a pre-

excepted.

were

and frugal Frenchmen planting it on their own C- count.

chant Navy in Hongkong will no doubt have noticed the recent brief announcement made by

Ever since companions of Captain Euan Wallace, of the

Columbus Board of Trade. regarding a found the people of the New

Christopher

bad

scheme which is to be put into World smoking a lighted rolled operation for co-ordinating the

leaf which they sword efforts of the two sen services

strange magical properties, and Bunne Berigan Orchestra. in the interests of national de- which they worshipped us a god, 25504-There's A Lull In My Life. F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra. recognition of the point that, in back

fence. The plan is based on a reports of the herb had drifted 25660-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra, times of peace, officers of the bound mariners, gold earrings, England, Nicotine, more com-

to Europe with home-

The monopoly in France then ........Xavier Cugat's Orchestra, Merchant Navy should be made highly coloured parrots and

familiar with the problems with stories of a city built entirely of East Indian island of Tobago, to £800,000 at to-day's prices.

monly called Tobacco, from the was worth £200,000, equivalent 25500—Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. F.T. ....Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. |

Napoleon discovered that the Without Your Love. F.T.

which they might have to deal' 25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T..... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.if the country is ever again faced

whence It had come, fell

The first smoking of tobacco new tax with which the National Sweet Heartache. F.T.

Elizabeth of England had al- under a royal ban. King 25573-Wake Up And Live, F.T.......... Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. with war. It aims at putting

was everywhere from clay pipes; Assembly had replaced the old Sleep. F.T.

ready highly approved the James I. told Raleigh he thought cigars did not come in until monopoly was only bringing in Merchant Navy officers (other novelty which Sir Walter Raleigh "Rowley" of him, published a

1800, cigarettes fifty years after £250,000 a year. So he reverted Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. than R.N.R. officers, who are showed her, and Marie was "Counterblast to Tobacco," and that. Indeed, cigarettes were to Richelieu's policy in

aiready trained in their wartime grateful to John Nicot.

sent its pioneer to the Tower. CHATER ROAD. [ duties)

never widely smoked until after Imperial decree published on through defence

For it was precisely humours "Have you not reason," he the Crimean War. It was cigars December 29, 1810. course, and assurances of co- of the brain, or as we should wrote, "to forbear this filthy that killed snuff-taking, both in

Personally he disliked smok- operation have been received;

say headaches, that gave her novelty, loathsome to the eye... France and England.

ing as much as Wellington did. from the Shipowners' and Offi- more trouble than anything else bateful to the nose, harmful to

He only tried it once, in his

al centres are to be opened in

and in the black stinking fume House of Commons. But Queen servative against the Plague, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, the

The new herb, taken as snuff thereof nearest resembling the Victoria was as fiercely opposed It made him cough till be lost. Tyne, Southampton, Cardiff and at first, spread from Court to horrible Stygian smoke of the to smoking

as James I. had his breath.

But he was an enthusiastic Hull, at which officers who city and soon the industrious pit that is bottomless."

been and to the very end of

snuff-taker, collecting hundreds Louis XIII., King of France, her long reign she insisted that of snuff-boxes. Once one of forbade the sale of "this drug, guests staying at Windsor them was stolen and a duplicate It was hailed as a universal save unto our Apothecaries, on Castle should smoke into the containing poisoned snuff was put out on his desk. But remedy for all ills. In fact, the pain of Four pounds fine." fireplaces so that the fumes although he never smoked a pipe French did not fall short of the

himself, his head served as a model for thousands of those they said; no recipe for eternal bastinado for the first smoke, a

fanciful pipe bowls made to look It was useful in love philtres, Michael of Muscovy decreed the

like a human head which were nationality, and the lectures on youth was complete without it. shit nose for the second, and Her influence told with the so popular all over Europe convoy and anti-gas work to chief Judiciously applied to mercury death for the third; while the Commander-in-Chief,

and in during the first half of last engineers as well.

it could make a compound that It is, of

Wellington century. turned everything it touched in Grand Turk commanded that 1846 the Duke of course, seldom possible for offi-to fine gold.

Use snuff takers should have the proclaimed that "the cers of the Merchant Navy to

lips it and smokers the nose pipes, cigars or cheroots is not attend a course

And Napoleon, unlike some species of even for one

slit, a penalty improved in 1670 only in itself

other opponents of smoking, week in any one place, and it And then suddenly the to being hanged with a pipe intoxication occasioned by the could appreciate its uses. It has therefore been decided to highest powers changed their

fumes of tobacco, but undoubt would have disturbed him a thrust through the nose. divide the course into ten self-

edly occasions drinking and great deal if he could have contained three-hour sections with the Fleet. According to

tippling by those who acquire foreseen one of them. For fifty years after he had died the which can be taken at any port experts, the training of men as But all this was vain, and it the habit," and consequently great Bismarck (he once tried where instructional facilities Kun crews is

comparatively occurred to that great states, intreated "officers commanding to introduce a tobacco monopoly simple matter, but the training exist, either as a continuous of officers in the broad principles

mon Cardinal Richelieu that the regiments to prevent smoking in into Germany on the French model) received Jules Favre to course or separately and, with of trade protection and convoy State might benefit from what the mess-rooms and to discour discuss terma for the surrender certain restrictions, in any work is a much more difficult the State could not prevent, for age the practice among the of Paris to the Investing German order. Those taking the course proposition. In particular, it is which foresight M. Bonnet officers of junior rank in their armies. Bismarck offered him.

n elgar. will receive allowances for meals of vital Importance that masters should feel himself most grate- regiments."

"Thank you, I do not smoke," and refunds for travelling ex-or officers on watch in merchant ful. Richelieu put a tax of The Dike was fighting a rear-

said Favre, penses, within certain limits.jships should understand the best threepencé a pound on tobacco, guard action as determined

otherwise It is hoped by these means to tactics to pursue if attacked, and "as

the subjects the one he had waged in "Then you are wrong," said overcome big dificulties which how to make the most effective would use it continually where- Peninsula against the French Bismarck. "When a man begins were encountered on the out- use of such defensive equipment their health." And in 1674 Reform Bill. But he was not heated argument or a show of by no small hurt should come to or in Parliament against the a discussion which may lead to break of the Great War. At as they possess. This 18 thol Louis XIV. declared that as the successful. Indeed, the demand temper. It is always better to that time, a few ships were primary object of the new tobacco trade had been made a for tobacco has grown so enor amoke while one is talking."- equipped with guns, but the per-scheme, and, with the co-opera-Government monopoly in so mously that the world output The Parisians should re- sonnel had not been trained tion of the Merchant Navy many countries, France must has doubled since the War. member this advice when they in their use, since those who be assured, the plan should prove make it one also, an argument And Frenchmen are no more like meet in their cafes to discuss longed to the R.N.R. were im-[of the greatest valua in times of familiar to all who have imposed ly than any other people to re- M. Bonnet's 20 per cent. Increase İmediately withdrawn for service national emergency.

such restrictions on trade both strict their consumption very on the tobacco tax.

JOE LOUIS

VS.

JAMES BRADDOCK

CANTON

AGENTS

for the

Hongkong Telegraph

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volunteer will be given a course in the general principles of trade protection, convoy work, anti- submarine measures, gun drill and fire control. The classes will be open to all masters and

navigating officers of British

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Indians in worshipping the leaf.

More drastic, the Grand Duke went up the chimney.

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