1939-02-07 — Page 2

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH February 7, 1939.

BRITAIN CUTS BILL FOR IMPORTS

BRITAIN'S overseas buying is costing us less.

Although food and tobacco bill was just as heavy in 1938 as in 1937, imports of raw materials and manufactur- ed goods cost less.

Many articles were cheaper than a year ago. We also curtailed our buying in many directions.

We bought, for instance, £19,142,786 less raw cotton in 1938 than in 1937, £18,872,261 less timber, and £9,445,604 less raW wool.

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Here is food for thought. We ordered 1,790,967ewt. more wheat during the year, but it cost us £11,220,034 less owing to a slump in world wheat prices following the bumper harvests of

1938.

On the other hand, butter importa cost us £3,471,774 more but the quantity received was a mere 90,842cwt, larger,

Engs took an extra £1,030.021 this time. This Item does not include CRES "quitt or frozen from China," an additional item in the Board of Trade returns, which cost us £2,500,- 395, or £456,890 more than in 1937. We are smoking ever mure und more

tobacco.

This luxury took £5,336,982 more than in 1937, the fotal bit being: £23,344,359.

These are just a few of the more curious facts hidden in the figures of the December returns of the Board of Trade.

ADVERSE BALANCE DOWN Here are the official dures for 1038, compared with 1937:

Imports Exports

Decrense

1938 on 1937

£ 120,437,588 107.380.842

£

Walks After

Two Years

Meet London's happiest parents:

Corish, f Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ellenborough Rond, N.

their

Here are Gustav Froelich, German zetor whose friends are reported to have seriously beaten Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, and Precileh's first wife, the singing actress Gitta Alpar, on honeymoon in Egypt. Froelich was forced to divorce her because she was the daughter of a Hungarian Jewish rabbi.

"MOST INCONVENIENT HOUSE

Recently they saw

eight 66 Sear-old son Philip walk unaided for the first time for two years; he cross- ed the flour of a ward in the Royal Northern Hospital.

(Brit.) 470,003,150 50,508.005 13,525,818 01.087,005

Re-exports.

Two years ago he felt 40ft, out of window at his parents' old hone Holloway Road, N., breaking his high and his Jaw. During the next nine months he developed a lung ob- Total exports 532,101,474 64,033,891, repticaemia, an infection of the

Owing to the cut in imports, our knee-joint and heart trouble. adverse balance of merchandise trade was reduced by £43,953,151, com- pared with that of 1937, although it was still high at £287,946.112.

"A MIRACLE"

Then he had a "walking calliper" Bitted to his leg and with this he was

Of the total decrease in British ex-able to make a few steps. Later, In ports, E39,283,875 was in roznufac- the presence of his parents, he walk- tured parads.

EVER" IS—A A CASTLE

Squandered £100.000 In Four Years

A man

who was stated to have fortune of more than spent

£100,000 in four years was senten- nt Bucks Quarter Sessions ced recently for fraud.

(54). Charles Edgerley

of West

41 Machinery made the ed around the ward. "My leg does best showing, with a substantial in-not hurt now when I walk on it,'

Textile exports, however. Philip said. suffered considerable shrinkage.

crease.

"We never thought we should see hin walle again," Philip's father sald. "It is nothing short of a miracle that 1

he has recovered so completely after to much illness"

But Soon It Will Go Modern

TRIDGE CASTLE, Tunbridge Wells,:

family mansion of the Marquis described in court of Abergavenny,

Incon- Street, Marlow,, a timber merchant, by his counsel as "the mugst was ordered three months hard venient house that was ever ball," labour for forging a receipt in con- is to be modernised. nection with a deal he was about to

LESS COTTON EXPORTED In cotton, the quantity of quod exported fell by 634,874,000 India icok 63,288,000 square yards. square yards legs, while there was a

Application was made in the Chan- A member of the hospital staff transact with another limber mer- drop in shipments to British West

cery Division recenity to obtain a de-1 Afrien of 107,428,900 square yards, tated that Philip may go home in a

Motor-cars and parts showed a de-fortnight. "As well as helping him chant.

said vacation by the Court that the pro- Detective-Sergeant Wright crease of 2051,600, but new ships to walk, the calliper is resting his leg

and strengthening #. He will need during the war Edgerley amassed a posed alterations were improvements of over £100,000 from within the meaning of the Settled Coal exports

settlement could pay the cost up to 1 £13,502 in value, but then time his leg should be almost as Government contract work. Accord-Lands Act, and that the trustees of a

to hig own statement ht Aron ak ever." quantity shipped fell 4,477,122 tons.

squandered this money in the four half the annual income out of capi-

tal. years after the war.

"Me. Justice Bennett granted a de- During that time he unsuccessfully claration that the frustees could pay fought

Parliamentary election. 30.400 out of capital towards the:

improvements of the castle.

were up towed a decrease of further massage and treatment, but fortune

only

On the import side, raw materials registered a decrease of £47,032,891 at £247,602,073, while manufactured goods were

or down

£233,841,022,

£41,059,875 at

The fuel, drink, and tobacco section showed an increase of £278,192 at

£431,377,000.

Lion Fatal In Death

Fate Foils Pastime

FOR FAMILY'S SAKE Bulit In the nineteenth century. Nairobi, Tanganyika.

Eridge Castle standis in beautiful YARMOUTH, N. S. Exports of British goods and pro- A man-cating Bon which terrorized dure in December amountett to £39ja district near Kigoma, Tanganyo, Robert Boutlier, 10, has been woodland. Many trees were planted 008,555, or 23 124,600 less than in killed five villagers before its dent forced to give up his favourite par by members of the royal house.

The Marquis said that the improve- be to the interior of November, but Derember contained and caused the death of a sixth man. time of hunting for birds' nests. The

The exterior would re- working day less than in Novem. Jumping, up and down with joy when boy saw a nest in a high tree andments were

the castle. he beard that the man-eater had limbed up to see what was in it. ber.

Imports,

November, been shot by a native policeman, the He discovered, too late, that it was against

Stunk, he fell 30f showed a decline of £3,000,425 at sixth man fell on a spear ant was a hornet's nest. £74,122,071.

killed:

feet, breaking both arms.

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These Dogs Made News

A dog who remembered fil tricks saved a house Trem destruc- tion at Totton, near Southampton, recently,

Don, a Dalmatian had been left In charge of the house by his E. JL. Wheeler. mistress. Mrs. teacher in a local school. A coal fell from the fire on to a mat, setting it alight.

Jumping on to chair, Don window catch pulled back the with his teeth, pushed down the lielp, window and barked for Neighbours put the fire auf,

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The constant loot-toot of a motor horn alisturbed the congregation during the sermon at St James's Church, Dover,

Someone went out to protest. He found that a dog left in a raloon car had climbed Info the front seat and was impatienily sounding the horn with its paw.

Jew Who Escaped

Lord

main unchanged,

Rothschild told a Glasgow "I have felt for seme time," he audience about the experiences of a gaid, "that the premises definitely fow who has escaped from the Ger- needed bringing up to date. A con-an concentration camp at Buchen-

lerable amouns of alteration is ne wald. CORSSTY.

am not doing it for my berent, but for the future of the castle and for the sake of my family. The tite of the castle will be lengthened by the work to be carried out:

own

"An entire wing will be modernised and we will use it as our residence,

HUNT DEATH RECALLED The Marquis added that he felt he

When he arrived at the camp it was announced that none of the Jews would be allowed to have anything to drink for two days. On the second lay his brother-in-law walked into the prison courtyard. It was raining and he raised his bead to catch some drops of water.

He Was spunished for that. A huge wolfhound was set on him and he

hitten.

ought to make the application to the was severely of the third day 14

Court before undertaking the in- On the night provements and he was very glad it people in the cell went mad. Shortly had been granted.

afterwards troopers came in and beat 343 uncle, the und Marquis, who these 14 people to death. was killed while taking part in a

is our belief that unless the children's meet of the Eridge Hunt at Jews in Germany are not out of Groombridge, Sussex, in January, Germany within two years, a vast 1938, ved at Eridge Castle, and the proportion of them will be in con- Marchioness lived there until recent-centration camps like Buchenwald and Dachau," said Lord Rothschild.

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Glasgow,

Two destroyers of the K. class were launched recently on the Clyde -the Kelvin, by the Fairield Ship- building and Engineering Company, Goyan, and the Kipling, by Yarrow and Co., Scotstoun,

Picture Frame

Risk In Trains

The Kelvin was launched by Lady In a number of railway accidentu Hetherington, wife of Sir Hector minor injuries have been caused by Hetherington, Vice-Chancellor of the broken glass from photograph frames University of Glasgow and the in compartments, states Colonel A. C. former Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool | Trench, Chief Inspector of Accidents

University. Mrs. Bambridge, daught the nistry, in a report

Thila

ter of Rudyard Kipling, performed issued the noming ceremony at Messrs. Yarrow's of the destroyer called after her father.

The repart

he adds, is thin and it might ho worth considering its clmination by the provision of some Sir James Lithgow, chairman of other form of transparent covering. the Fairfold Shipbuilding and En-

concerns the collision gineering Company, speaking after between a passenger train and a light the launch of the Kelvin, urged the engine on September 10 at Elderalle reorganisation of the shipping In-Station on the Glasgow suburban dustry to bring it into line with the system of the M.S steel

and shipbuilding indianised of them slightly, but one subsequently Many passengers were injured, most which had already been organised. While, he sold, it was well known died from meningitis. When the that the British merchantile maring accident occurred the light engine. And been built up to its position of in charge of Driver Robson, supremacy in the days of free trade, standing in the station.

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and lint the great supplying indus- Colonel Trench states in his con- tries of shipbuilding and steel- clusion that the accident would not molding had shared in its prospority, have occurred but for simultaneou free trade in the old sense. did not failures by two men, Stanaimals exint to-day,

MeLelion, who overlooked the pre- The necessary internal reorganisa sance of the light engine, and Driver tion had been carried out in the hobson, who failed to send his fire- steel trade and in the shipbuilding man to the signal-box to remind Industry. Sir James added. In ro-

cant months they had been waiting McLellan of his presence. for the shipping industry to reach a

similar state of prevaredness. The footing which would render them stauo was now set for a combined capable of unholding the supremacy effort to put the three industries on ief; the British mercantile marine,

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