In concluding an.article on Hongkong trade at the close of 1919 Mr, George E. Anderson, U.S. Consul-General at—Hongkong, says Men of British nationality who are closing up their affairs with) a view of retiring are immensely large proportion of cases preparing to go to the United States and Canada. They base their plans upon the fact that the United States at the present time is a more pleasant place to live in than any country in Europe; that taxes promise to be} less than in any country' in Europe that returns from investments in the long run promise to be safer and better; and that life in the United States, on the whole, offers} more attractions to men of their class than life in Europe.
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