EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
BKELANATION OF THE
»RECENT TROUBLE.
THE NATIONALISTS .. Reuter unnounces the release of
four Egyptian Nationalists, including two ex-Ministers, who had been deported to Malta for anti-British progaganda. Writing on February 19 the Cairo correspondent of the
ATTEMPT MADE TO POISON MALAY FOOD PRODUC
WHOLE-SCHOOL IN
CANTON.
5 DEAD, 19 SUFFERING.
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Five persons were found dead and twelve suffering fatally of ptomain poisoning as a result of criminal in tention on the part of some one con nected with Kou Ngao Hock Shuk, a private school at 32, Gong Nga Lee Street, Western Surb, Canton,
yesterday,
April
TION ENACTMENT,
THE CHINA MAIL.
In amplification and explication of a recent China Mail special telegram from Singapore, here is an extract from a speech by the F. M. S. Director of Production.
I now come to the contribution'] expected of planters and miners The Food Production Enactment in
AUSTRALIAN · ITEMS,
The total Australian war debt on December 31 was £231,60-4,858.*.
www
A Warwick Chinaman was fined
5 for having in his possession £15 worth of opium.
INDEMNITY FOR
SHIPPING LOSSES,
JAPAN'S METHOD,
THURSDAY APRIL 17, 1919.
NOTICE..
COLDS AND INFLUENZA The Way to Avoid Them
Some persona have been known to fall into icy water, and never experience the slightest ailment afterwards. Others travelling in a crowded train or sitting 4t home in a draught, are laid up with. LL PERSONS with the Exception beavy cald, or worse stül, fall victims
to influenza of those of Chinese races desiting to
The difference to all in the bodily pareon between the hours of 9 to strong, healthy, able to enjoy a brisk leave the Colony should apply in condition at the time. When a person is 1, and g pm, to 4 PM daily at the PASS OFFICE, Post Office Building cold day, chills and infections are set at Passports or identification papers. All the germs of influenas are quick to reize dufiunce. But when the systern ia below Applicants will be required so produce par, ran down, bloodless and nervous, remain in the Colony for more than feverish sign of influenza, cat little or 7 days, are required to. Register them nothing and callin the doctor. Remember PERSONE ORDINANCE 1910 Forms period follows during which the system selves ander the REGISTRATION of that when the fever has gone a long of Registration giving the particulars remains low and depressed; there is s required may be obtained at the G.P.O groat difficulty in regaining strength. and at all Police Stations.
and the victim is usnally unfit for a The Penalty for non compliance is a normal amount of work. fing not exceeding $50,
The War Shipping Losses In- vestigation Society," formed by Jap- The Federal Government has anese shipowners whose vessels had refused the request of the Tasmanian been sunk by German submarines, apple growers to form a fruit pool, he's decided that the value of the Pioneer tells the story of recent in- cidents which have no doubt some articles were discovered in the pot in that all owners of land may be called meets the position.
16. Poisonous the F. M. S. as, it stands, provides Messrs. H. Jones and Co, of 6/- a case Vessels in determining the amount of persons, with curtain, exceptions, who their opportunity. Go to bed at the first
on the ground that the offer made by connection with the deportations which soup had been prepared and up to grow sufficient food for the
indemnity should be based on current No change.has taken place in the
also within the premises. The
quotations at the time of the signing local political situation, and it looks dead were the teacher, Lai Fai feeding of their own labourers. The An episcopal visit by seaplane has of the armistice. To this value as if the British Government is Chung add four students and one penalty for a first offence is a just been made by Dr. Cleary, Roman should be added the money which inclined to let the matter slide in visitor, Lai Chen Lim, Ho Buen Sum, maximum fine of $500, and for subCatholic Bishop of Auckland, who the face of the many
more im- Lai Yin Ku, and Chung Cho. Sixsequent offences a portant questions at present under victims. including the cook, were
few from the flying school at Kohi- might have been obtained by charter- maximum of consideration. It is understood,
and reaching Kauntana, 65 miles the armistice. The expenses necessary marama, leaving there at 7.33 am,ing from the time of the sinking to however, that the Prime Minister,
away, at 8.37 3.m. Rushdi Pasha, has again presented
for operating the vessels during such period and the insurance money re- his resignation and has this time
there is no provision for the complates from America more rapid pro-would be deducted from the total, the With the heavier delivery of steelceived from insurance companies insisted on its being accepted as he wants to avoid the responsibility
pulsory obtaining of information as gress has been made with the con- balance to be "claimed as indemnity which would otherwise fail to him the resignation up to the time of
to areas under cultivation, areas un struction of the first steel steather as for the vessels. writing had not been accepted.
lying still alive in Canton Hospital $1,000, and or imprisonment up to 6 last evening, and six others were months. Owners cannot be required taken home by their parents when to cut out permanent crops, and the case was known. The only per sons within the school who escaped were Mrs. Lai Fai Chung, who was absent from home at the time, and two students, ho claimed that they were uncomfortable when attending break. and told by the teacher not to take too much food if not feeling well. The two students were reported to have answered, that they would feel better in, not taking anything and left the table together.
The value of
Too way to avoid colda, influenza, and all other infections is to keep the health up to the mihrk, the nerves andy, the digestion in good working order, the veins full of good, red blood Because A PARENT'S DUTY.
they make good rich blood, and so help VoUB boy is always gotting scratch-Williams pink pilis
the body to resist attacks of colds and influenza, thousands bave praised. Dra
pole people. For the same reason they are even mora valuablo in restoring strength and every injury is cared for immediately want to be well lose no time; bur, Dr. Chamberlain's Pain Balm and sea that begu weakened by such attacks. If
poison is too dangerous a disease to risk.dealer to day, or send $1.50 for a bottle, You can get nothing better, and Wood williams pink pills from any local for sale By All Chemists and Store $8 for 6 bottles, to The Dr. Williams' keepera.
Medicine Co... 96 Szechuan Road, Shang-
ed or eat or bruised. Because
It may be of interest if I expla! fast about ten o'clock in the morning that a land owning employer should Plates remain to be built. All the Y450 for vessels built in 1865, I sign they always will."'. Get a Bottle of Stress for work after the system has
the reason for the present Ministeria crisis and the resignation of the Prime Minister. For some time Eushdi Pasha had been thinking about signalising his tenure of office by securing from the British Govern ment some political concessioni for
was over, the
not be relieved of all responsibility for helping to feed his labourers merely because it happens that the whole of his land is planted with rubber, and I am therefore recommending that
der foodstuffs, etc. My own view is Williamstown, into which only 80 tonnage should be fixed at these wounds have bealed nil right is no
is proceeding. The report of the 1586 for those built in 1895, at Y654 decks have been laid, and tank-testing at Y518 for those built in 1890, at testing is proceeding.
for those built in 1900, at 1722 for those bullt in 1905, at Y790 for those but later. The calculation of the built in 1915, and at Y900 for those
Kaisha. The actual amounts neces annual averages reached in the usual
sary for giving relief to the families
items of information.
that the fruit crop in the Stanthorpe The State Fruit Expert reports
at Adelaide were each fined £5 for Forty-four carpenters and joiners having committed an act in the nature of a strike by leaving work.
the
of those members of the crews who were killed and also for the repatria- tion of those interned in Germany are also to be included in the amount already mentioned, the total number of the indemnity to be claimed. As of Japanese vessels sunk, so far as has been ascertained, is 32, aggregat ing 130,000 tons. It is believed that claimed is about Y200,000,000. the total amount of indemnity to be
in the last, resort," and no other district is an average one, but very / Charter rate is to be based on the means can be found of complying erratic. Taken all round the apple investigations of the Nippon Yusen his fellow countrymen, and, as soon from their spring vacation the day with an order to plant foodstuffs, the crop has been lighter than last year;
The students had just returned as the armistice was signed. he before and they went to their usual owner may be required to cut out but higher prices have compensated obtained permission from the Sultan, breakfast at about ten in the morn-the necessary area of permanent for smaller production.. who was in complete agreement with ing. The food, besides, rice consisted crops. Also as to the penalty for him on the subject, to ask the Re of soup made up of dried vegetables acn-compliance, it seems to me that sidency to arrange for him and Adly and pork; roasted pork, scrambled if the situation, is sufficiently serious several books under the naine of Major Oliver Hogue (who wrote Yeghen Fasha, the Minister for Education, whom the Sultan selected $885; and fried beef with bean shoot to call for compulsion at
all,Trooper Blue gun) died in London the breakfast the penalty must
be of such from pneumonic influenza. He was as his companion, to go to London, dressing. Before
victims began to a nature as to make the com a son of Mr. J. A. Hogue, a former to lay their views and proposals show signs of
distress inwardly pulsion as far as possible effective. Minister for Education in New South before the British Government. Their request was duly transmitted to the some going to bed while others With this end in view I have recom- inste Foreign Office, who replied that they stomach. The sounds of vomiting to comply with an order to plant;
trying to eject something from their mended that the penalty for failure would much prefer if the visit could and other signs of discomfort soon foodstuffs shall be that the default: be put off till a time when the British attracted the neighbours, and when ing owner's property shall be deemed Government would not be so occupied the place was visited, several were to be a place unfit for the employ with other important questions. This found already unconscious, and the ment of labour, within the meaning reply, which was, after all, what tables and dishes, in discrder. Mr. of section 221 of the Labour Code. under the circumstances one had to wong Yuk Hung, of Chen Kwong am also asking for powers to re expect, was taken by Rushdi Pasha and his colleagues as a refusal, and to be aear the scene, at once
Company, who happened quire owners to furnish all necessary in a fit of piquot could have been called by telephone on the Canton nothing else they tendered their Hospital for aid; and through the resignations to the Sultan, who of course had to await the approval of Fo. a secretary there, Dr. Wm. W.
prompt attention of Mr. Yao Kung the High Commissioner before he Cadbury, and seven other foreign could accept or refuse them.
and Chinese physicians were at the TWO MONTHS TÄLK.
school soon to render their services. Preferring to consider that this The Tai Hon. Red Cross Corps were step was due to impulsiveness the also sent for and assisted. Mr. Every such owner will be called British authorities declined to take it Yad Kung Pao, who answered upon to furnish fall and true particu seriously and did all they could to the call for · aid so promptly, lars as to the area" of the land, the persuade the two Ministers to recon was a very busy man at the Hospital sider their position. For nigh on yesterday afternoon, when seen along two months the pourparlers and con with the physicians who did every- versations went on with little or nothing possible to preserve the lives of effect: the Ministers refused to take the other victims, his duty being to their letters unless their request to condok with the relatives of the dead go to London were at once acquiesced and cheer up the friends of the suffer in and the British Government was ing, aside from" directing the under- unable, however much it had wanted takers in the removal of the dead. to meet them, to fix a time for their. One of the suffering students, Li visit owing to the Peace Conference Cho Yu, is a son of Senator Li deliberations at present in progress. Chung Kon. There the matter stood when the High Commissioner received his sum mons to London in connection with the various Near Eastern questions
which are
The Colonial Sugar Refining Com- pany is to be asked to establish Brigade, and also a member of the another canecrushing mill on
Federal Parliament, was sentenced
cepted by the Government the follow. Broadwater is too slow, as in 1917 If these recommendations are accontended that the present mill at
Lower Richmond River, N.S.W. It is to 60 days detention.
reference to all owners or managers which was not good for the farmers. ing procedure will be adopted with it was crushing for eight months, of 30 or more acres of Agricultural The Wardell and Empirevale Settlers land or 20 or more acres of mining Association, which is pressing for land and employing 10 or more the new plant, states that 10,000 coolies --
acres of land has been drained, and will be suitable for sugar growing.
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sent to market 2,000 bags of cab bages, receiving an average of 10/ per bag. Another Chinese has sent 600 bags ready.) away 1,600 bags, and has another.
for the establishment of a commercial Proposals made by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., radio service between the British Isles and Australia have been received by the Commonwealth Ministry, and are now being considered in the light. of their effect upon the Pacific cable service, which, according to the Post- area being worked or under cultiva-iversity under the auspices of the just been brought to a paying position. A meeting at the Queensland Un-master-General Mr. Webster), has tion, the area planted with foodstuffs, Royal Society of Queensland, decided and the kind of foodstuffs planted. If the District Officer is satisfied after to urge the Government to take steps enquiry that an owner has a suficient astronomical observatory offered to who irrigated his vegetables, has to secure for Queensland the A Chinese farmer at Killarney, area under effective cultivation of Australia by Harvard University. foodstuffs of approved kinds, no further action will be taken for the present In other cases: an order.
The Great Cobar Copper mine, N will be issued to cultivate a specified SW is closing on account of the area within a given time with impossibility of carrying on in the certain named foodstuffs (padi or present state of the market. Between other cereals ing Indians and sweet potatoes on
on places employ. 500 and 700 men will be out of em
ployment. places employing Chinese). Non- compliance with this order will be dealt wi under the Labour Code in
to the area that owners should be were passed declaring that the re the manner already referred to. As expected to plant with foodstuffs the Patriation scheme and its administr Enactment provides that they may ation were insatisfactory, and urging be required to plant sufficient to feed the appointment of three paid com their coolies. This would mean one missioners to replace the present acre for every four coolies, or 7 per centralised political control cent.. of the cultivated area in the case of agricultural land, and The nature of the poisonous subst-12 per cent. cf the alienated ance found has not yet been dis area in the case of mining land. covered, and parts of it have been For
purposes of calculation
Before
Mr Lai, the teacher who died within an hour after reaching the hospital, was Chu Jea. an M.A. degree Chinese scholar, also a gra duate of a Japanese university. Aside from private instruction, he was for some time a professor of ethics the Government Law School.
Discontent among returned soldiers it Tasmania found vent in a large
Resolutions meeting at Hobart.
the arrival of proper physicians, including some from Kung Yee and Dr. Chas. Swan, the police officers of the Ninth District at present in "course tried Chinese medicine on the of settlement. "At this request it victims. is understood that Rushdi Fasha and Adly Yeghen Pasha, who had absent ed themselves from their offices all the time, and who had signed none of the documents which have been awaiting attention during these two months, agreed to deal with the more pressing business; and it was in such circumstances that the decree for the renewal of the Mixed Courts was passed by the Council of Ministers. But Rushdi Pasha says that he did forwarded to Hongkong and Canton have taken one coblie to three acres this on the promise that, as soon as Christian College for further analysis. in agricultural land and one coolie to the High Commissioner reached Lon" Dr. Lee Chen, of Gong Nga Lee two acres in mining land. It is, don, a definite reply would be sent Street, and Dr. Chen Chong Tao of however, too much to expect that as to the proposed visit of the two Nam Wah Hospital, also took charge anything approaching the whole of a Ministers and the acceptance of their of a few or the victims-Canton coolie's rice diet can be replaced by resignations, and as to date no such Times. message has been received he con- siders that he is absolved from his promise and so returns to the charge However, all the efforts in that direc-foodstuffs as is indicated by these heads of the mutineers. The Germans with a "repeat" of his first letter of tion have proved unavailing; in fact, figures. Enquiry has shown that it showed their dissatisfaction with resignation. 1
Pursuing its policy of displacing existing trustees of Grammar schools and substituting Labour trustees, the two trusteess of the Brisbane Boys' Government practically has dismissed Grammer School and appointed two Labour supporters to the vacant positions.
Mutingjus conduct on the part of locally grown foodstuffs, or that Germand interned at Holdsworthy owners can find the labour to grow camp compelled the guard to fire such a large proportionate area with rifles and machine guns over the
the pet animals in the compound and
oisting their heads on poles.
it is understood that far from being has been practicable in some estates their treatment by slaughtering all more amenable the recalcitrant to substitute ragi for about two-fifths Ministers have widened the scope of of the Indian coolies rice diet, and to their demands.
grow sufficient ragi or rice to do this means one acre for every ten coolies, which in the case of agricultural land Corresponds to three per cent of the
IRRITATING EVERYBODY,
Mr. H. Y. Braddon (Australian representative); in a speech before the New York Chamber of Com- merce, said that Australia wished to increase her trade with the United
RIDICULOUS AFFAIR. The whole affair is as ridiculous as the attitude taken up by the two Ministers is unreasonable. They no doubt are very keen on obtaining at The crisis, which in its initial the earliest possible moment what details aroused the quiet amusement ever political concessions they can of more reasonable-minded Egyptians cultivated area. I propose, therefore, 'for their country, but their eagerness and of the European, clement, has to take three per cent, of the cultiv- should not have led them to lose all finished by irritating everybody, ated area or one acre for every ten States, but the Americans must sense of proportion in this manner, even the majority of those who ar coolies as the amount that owners realise that Australia was unable to and think that the question of Egypt the
outset supported the Prime should be required to plant with pay in gold for goods purchased. must take precedence of all other Minister; for since it is evident that approved foodstuff. If any dwners Nor could Australia export sufficient questions which might happen to be the British Government had no inten- can see their way to planting more, goods to pay for purchases. The on the tapis at the moment when tion of snubbing him and his 50 much the better, but one acre to United States must expect to invest they might raise that" of their own colleague, and that its reply was every ten coolies is to be the mini-money in Australia and purchase country. After all, compared with dictated by the circumstances of the mum. I may say that I also propose Australian securities in return for all that is being discussed and settled political situation in Europe, it is to ask the Government to make goods sold in the Commonwealth. at the present moment, Egypt is, but contended that the two Ministers arrangements to plant a correspon
a very small item on the programme, should have submitted to the post-ding area proportionate to the The shipment of 40 tons of silver, and the examination of her political ponement with a good grace, and number of labourers employed by the valued at £250,000, loaded in Mel- status or of her internal administra- not by their action have interfered Railway, P.W.D., and Sanitary bourne of February 28 for despatch tive organisation can well wait seriously with the smooth running of Boards. As to what constitutes com to India, was said to be the largest until the stage has been cleared the Egyptian administration in addi-pliance with an order, I am willing single consignment of silver in of the more important matters. tion to doing the Egyptian cause as I have said before, to interpret the ingots ever sent from Australia A Had it not been for the fact that incalculable harm in the eyes of the order in a liberal spirit. For instance, report froin Mesars. Samuel Montagu Rushdi Pasha and Yeghen Pasha, world. The two Ministers in ques- group of estates may elect to pool and Co., received by the English mere especially the former, have tion, it might be explained, have their requirements and plant an mail on Tuesday last, states that a rendered very valuable services at a always been regarded as the most aggregate of three per cent. of their shipment of 3,000,000dol. (£600,000) most critical time, the British Govern intelligent and enlightened of the combined cultivated areas, or a man of silver bullion, the largest consign ment would not have hesitated for members of the present Cabinet, or may by arrangement get his neighment even sent from America, has one moment to accept their resigna- for that matter of all the present bours to plant this three per cent, in recently been despatched to the tions, but in view of the nature of generation of Egyptians, and the only addition to his own, er a man-may Secretary of State, Calcutta, India. the services rendered, and realising conclusion one can draw from their take up Government land for the that the resignations were tendered attitude over this matter is that the purpose of growing his required area Having been found guilty of con- more from pique than from any Egyptian race is still far from having of foodstuffs. It is only if all other duct to the prejudice of good order desire to embarrass the British reached the degree of mental and legitimate means of complying with and military discipline, and of having authorities, it decided to see whether mural development entitling it to the requirements fail that a man will endeavoured to persuade troops on the difficulty could not be smoothed claia the right to have a greater be required to cut out permanent the steamer Somali to join inga ever and the old regime, which has phare in the government of its cultivation in order to comply with mutiny, Guni ter George Edwin Yates, proved so successful, be continued.! country.
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