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LOGAL AND GENERAL..
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1918,
LOCAL AND GENERAL
HIGH RICE PRICES.
Today's return shows two cases GOVERNMENT MAKES ALLOW- plague and two of enteric.
ANCE TO CHINESE EMPLOYEES.
London, due here at 6 am on Satur The P. & O... "Nagoya" from day, brings a mail from Home.
The high price of rice has caused the Government to consider the question seriously. Besides institut. "The ss. "Haiyang" (Captaining the Government sale of rice Fassmore) cleared for Singapore to scheme, of which Mr. Hutchison is... day. She takes 1,400 tons of general in charge, they have had to consider the wage scale of their lower paid employees.
C. M. G., D. 5. O, is returning to - Brigadier General A. B. Hubback, Kuala Lumpur. His son Gordon has just passed first out of Dartmouth..
:
He and
Municipal Council is. And this is as a benevolent friend and pro-foodstuffs, common long before the what happened. The elderly kinder-tector and helper, not as a Germanwar, ought to be made criminal. garten that runs. Shanghai was smit Bumble. It you go to spend a week-Legislators everywhere are too busy, ten with that form of energy which end with German friends, the first making irritating life ordinances locks the stable door after the horse thing your hostess must do is to that could be dispensed with, and hereof is stolen. It thought that the power notty the police, and tell them all is a law which the commonsense of to control and muzzle the Press about you. At least, that was so mankind universally cries out for. In would be useful, as indeed it would. before the war. It a German "moved the world now being reconstructed, a Any future unpleasantness it could house," he had to tell the Police. The speculator in staple foodstuffs should promptly nip in the bud if it had principle was that every person was be treated as one of the worst and the power of a military censor, which a rogue until he proved his innocence. most dangerous criminals, to be dealt is practically what it asked for. Un In Hongkong, this tomfoolery that with summarily. The great American pleasantness is anything that makes requires us to notify every change of people, to whose better political ideals trouble for the administration. The address may have been a wartime we owe so much, might set the proposal, as our readers know, was necessity, though even then it must example by eliminating. corners. cargo, met by protests from the public. We have worried loyal citizens. Now that from legitimate commerce. A showed that it wasn't so much what peace has come, we cannot corner" in the share market is a The C. N... Wuhu (Captain; "As a first measure the Government it threatened to do that was objection-realize it fully, because of such petty gamble, and quite fair, since all Partridge) came from Malta and has approved of an allowance of $2 able as what it would have the power interferences with our liberties. Why gamblers at the outset concede to Tjilatjap with 2,230 tons of sugar for a month to all employees drawing to do. We now submit that the do they hang on to it so? Does it others the right to beat them if they the Taikoo Suga: Refinery.
$20 a month or less. same pigheadedness shown in ac make any difference to their pay? can. There is no need to gamble,
The Government hopes to have quiring the extra powers would be Or is it pleasanter work than catch-any more than there is need to scale likely to abuse those powers. when-ing armed robbers? Or is it just the Alps. The real reward is the Morse) arrived
The C. N. s.s. Luchow (Captain rice working by August 1.
Its scheme of the sale of cheep ever the time came. They actually pigheadedness? Or inertia? Whatever pleasurable excitement of the risk. and Hoihow this morning with from Bangkok
It intends ta self as drummed up the Japanese vote it is, for the Lord's sake let common. But corners in foodstuffs are not 1,200 tons of teakwood and salt.
cheaply as possible. The price will depend to carry their proposal at the rate sense come in, and drop these gambling, they are robbery. The
on its purchases in Saigon. Unfort- payers meeting. The Japanese, pinpricks. All our lives we have consumer has no chance and no notoriously indifferent to or ignorant been encouraged to beast that Britons pleasant thrill. His necessity is the
storekeeper furious at the tactics of unately the exchange there is high.
A China Mail reporter found a of the democratic liberties that are never, never, never, would be stares..) certainty" on which the decent
the rice market operators. safeguarded by a free Press, believ-There was no suggestion that we gambler must not bet. ing that the proposal was aimed were in danger of being bought
Avers that ir Macao only at the Chinese vernacular Press, and sold. Our boast meant that as
Canton rice is sold at 15 cents and remembering how anti-Japanese Britors we were free from little
The s.s.. "Tean "(Captain Scotta catty against 25 cents a catty that Press was, very, willingly did worries like that, free from bureau-
cleared for Shanghai to-day within Hongkong. He blames the big what they were invited to do. Their cratic tyrannies and arrogances. Not
1,500 tons of general cargo for exports to Japan. (There is a single vote enabled the pigheaded Municipal only are we losing the true favour
Shanghai. She carried 50 European shipment to Japan of 4,000 tons to- Councillors to get theirown way. Here and relish of peace by reason of the A full report of the Peace passengers.
day we understand). He says Saigon in Hongkong, a class vote could be local official attitude; we are in Celebrations will appear, with other
and Siam rice should be cheaper manipulated in the same way if we danger of becoming as sheepish as local news, in the Overland China
The M. M., 5. Andre Lebon" here than in Canton or Macao had it. If we could always have a the Germans were. Is the fine British Mail on Saturday: As there will be from Marseilles and Haiphong arrived He is longing for the Government governor as reasonable as M-spirit to be lightly relinquished? Not only a limited number of copies at 8 a.m. this morning. She brought scheme to begin.
The China printed, those who require the Ocea large number of cabin and deck Mail learns that the Government officials to be a little less godlike and M. Franks at the Reserves meet-
land China Mail should send their passengers.
is hedged about with difficulties and more humar, we would rat" on ing said "As regards the amendment orders at once. the Constitutional Reform Associa by P.c.. Gerkin I absolutely refuse it.
would warn people not to expect too tion and denounce it as a bunch of You may call
Mr. R. A. Ponsonby Fane, great a reduction. at any a at the me arbitrary, lä Today's dollar is worth 3s. 7 Private Secretary to the Governor, starting of the scheme. Bolsheviks. There's the "if," un- martinet or an autocrat "don't :3 16d...
has been unwell of late and is going fortunately. The public really does care' 1 need its Reform Association and its
to Japan for holiday. He leaves. China Mail to keep certain ideals in the forefront. Liberalism shall not die, though the forces of reaction do their worst, and predatory cliques and classes and arrogant Bumbledon have a sense of proportion. Yet if list of 70 German officers, including The Admiralty Eas prepared a fight hard and fight meanly and un- tolerated, it is the thin end of a wedge Admiral Von Tirpitz, who will be derhandedly. Let us not be misure whose entry we should have to resist tried for crimes at sea: derstood, We do not say, we never eventually by force. The proper answer have said, that modern Hongkong to it would have been a roar of has not a good government, as gov laughter, and perhaps a ribald "cock- ernments go. We do not agree with a-docdle-do." threequarters. of the criticisms of What we said before of Mr. Franks Sir Henry May for instance. We we say again. Like several other object to arrogance (which a banana local officials some of whose names skin can bring low) and pigheaded we have had occasion to mention in ness (which a microbe can cure per-censure before-his fault was an ex- manently). The pigheadedness of aggerated notion of his position. We the (representative) Shanghai bosses said he was more the official than is fortunately to be snubbed by the the chairman at that meeting, and consular or diplomatic powers above that instead of asking a seconder for foreign corporation doing business T. Weisbrod and Mr. C. T. Weisbrod them. The vote it secured in such a resolution, he proceeded to jump a questionable way is to be vetoed on it before it was properly before the In a way it is a sorry sidelight on meeting., As a matter of fact we had the worst weakness of democracy, In another it is a reminder that there is always the Higher Up. Our
ion. Aufkiarang.
Ltd Severn, and if we could get the if we know it.
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LUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.
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But we do care. We don't say that we would have felt like answer was delayed at Vancouver till July
The C. F.O.S. s. "Monteagle ing this line of talk, addressed to 11 owing to a strike of longshoremen.! Britons by a British public servant, with lethal weapons-because we
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during the first week in August.
SUGAR The price of sugar affects the European housekeeper more than the price of rice does.. The price of Captain S. Smith, M. S. V. R. is now retailed at 20 cents a pound, sugar has gone up tremendously. It and Major W. Sime, Malacca while a 5 lb. tin of cube sugar ceiving the O. B. E. (Military Divi is Volunteer Rifles, are gazetted as res being sold at $21 sion). and Captain A. R. Dupuis surely not be justified. Some wonder a big increase and can Brown, M. S. V. R. the M. BE. whether prices went up because one of the local refineries was shut for 10 days due to peace celebrations and non-arrival of cargoes of raw sugar?
On July 20, four cases of opium It is understood that some were found on board the Indo-China (twenty line battalions are being got 5. N. Co.'s s "Kwongsang,"on up to strength as rapidly as possible her arrival at Shanghai from Hong- to relieve certain Territorial batta kong. No arrests were made in cor- lions in the East and Far East. ection with the attempt to smuggle Some of these battalions have been it into the port.
over four years abroad without any
·relief..
Paying one of the biggest excess profits taxes assessed
in the United States, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has forwarded a cheque for G$2,941,000 to the
the extraordinary incident of the Internal Revenue Dept. of America. prepcser himself doing what Franks should have done, and asking for a
Information has been received
Lieut. D. P. Henderson, Mr. H. |
were passagers here by the Yingchow yesterday. The Yingchow (Captain E. B. Simons) came from Tsingtau and Swatow and brought over 1,000 tons of general cargo and 187 deck
Command," which to the loyal leaves Higher Up is enlightened Public Opin- seconder There is no temptation by the United Kingdom Pilots' Ag. passengers.
a mere
man
no choice. To know (or to believe that we know) the Divine Will takes all virtue from the act of "resigna tion", of "surrender of will.”
It is inconceivable that with such a faith would pretend to freedom of will. Thus far Free Wil is clearly disproved in the case of the faithful. In the case of the others, it is also clear that the possibility of a gift of which the recipient has no knowledge must spoil the concept. A perfect giver would give perfectly; that is to say, X would provide the consciousness of right to free, choice, and the
REAL PEACE.
to squabble over details, however:sociation that, at the suggestion of The purport of our complaint was has decided to apply the recently. the Admiralty, the Board of Trade that here was an example of bureaucrat indulging in an attitude established rule when licensing pilots we are out to check and thwart, an under which the master of a British attitude we will not as free Britons ship must be British born and the son bear, an attitude so repugnant to our
of British subjects.
public servant that we are surprised! racial sense of what is becoming in a Captain J. Stewart. formerly to find any Briton not in hearty Commodore captain of the Apcar agreement with us
Line, being in command of the Japan" which
It is quire safe to say, that far more than our conspicuously success brought peace home to the com ful celebration, the thing that has mercial community of Hongkong is censorship. With his code a mer the release of the cable service from chant can do something to.. get as a business. He can take chances, and we are
A recent correspondent hailed us Voice." Heaven knows that not perfect, and
cails
This
The sugar that is now selling for 20 cents was retailed at 12 cents a short while ago.
We have not succeeded in getting evidence of a sugar corner." al. though such an operation is freely alleged.
CIVIL SERVICE PAY.
HAS NEW GOVERNOR NEW RATES WITH HIM T
on
The Civil Service men are anxiously Fooksang (Captain T. A. Mitchell) salary as a result of the recent com
The Indo-China S. N. Co's. 3.5 awaiting, news of their increase of arrived from. Calcutta
Government salaries yesterday mission afternoon. The Fooksang brought generally, We understand the very 1,300 odd, tons of pig fron and low orders were recommended general cargo for other ports and for as much as 50 % increase 186 Asiatic passengers. 1,600 for Hongkong. She brought tapering down to about 10 for others. Some of the highly placed officials were considered to have enough of The pupils of Ellis Kadoorie mended for an increase. The Govern this world's goods and are not recom- School will hold their peace celebrament have no information and the at. Hongkong, regularly, and
tion in their Schock Hall to-morrow. idea is who retired soon after the fleet was There will be a Chinese play (lasting Governor brings the Colonial Office's average his telegraphic costs, and honest men who know anythine handed over to the B.IS.N. Co, died four hours) a dinner (lasting two decisions in his pocket.
prevalent that the new unconsciousness of any possibility and ingenuity. With costly plain claimed to be infallible. But while estate valued at £13,000:
earn the just rewards of enterprise of us know
Dever at Home recently, leaving personal hours) an address in Chinese by the that we of wrong choice which is
Hoa. Mr. Lau Chu Pak and a flashnews of the actual departure of Sir The Government are still without necessary
language telegrams he was handi- we are allowed to be a Voice, so to any exercise of capped in more than one way. It long as the breath that moves the
light photograph by Mee Cheuung, THOUGHTS ON THE PROBLEM omitted, and the will is ignorant, that
free choice. If the knowledge be wasn's only the telegraphic charges, vocal mechanism is not trampied out ignorance excludes freedom. Per-
though these were serious enough in in the mud of intolerance, we shall fection cannot punish unjustly, and
deals of doubtful profit. It was raise that voice in protest at every that sometimes he could not risk appearance and indication of these if unjust punishment follow, impersuch revelation of office secrets. It singularly un-British manifestations, fection is demonstrated, and again X ceases to be X. Approached from
was, strangely enough, that he could let who will be annoyed, let sneer who either side, in this way, the concept
not express himself so clearly, like, let lie and revile the creatures of Free Will seems to be a delusion,
Anyway, we can congratulate the who can. No intimidation will stop and we have to fall back upon some
relieved businessman heartily, for us. As for the creeping, crawling other explanation of the mystery of
we are all interested. When they insects that attempt to bite our heels, evil.
are doing well, we are all doing well. we simply disregard them.
There are several other ways
Boxgxong, Thursday, July 24, 1919.
OF EVIL AND THE FREE
WILL CONCEPT..
A Perfect Being (hereinafter for the sake of reverence referred to as Xin creating the world must have created a perfect world.
This geflection gave us that saying by Leibniz, so much jeered at by Voltaire in "Candide," "Everything for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Human experience, as well as Dr. Pangloss and young Candide, observes Lnmistakeable imperfections. An obvious conclu sion therefrom would be that X is imperfect, which would mean that Xs not X Regarding this as un thinkable, some good people hit upon the notion that X for his own purposes gave man freedom of will They unconsciously minimised the gift, and diluted the freedom of the freedom, by postulating that X retains an interest in the exercise of that freedom, being pleased by its exercise in one direction, and displeased by its exercise in an other. This introduces the element of knowledge of X. The logician discussing Free Will need not pause to discuss whence they derived this knowledge. It will be sufficient for his purpose to admit it for the sake of argument. He will then say that man, confronted with the choice of A and B, and well knowing that his Choice of A will please X, and earn a reward, while his choice of B will displease, X and earn punishment, has
PIGHEADEDNESS IN POWER.
Now it is desirable that we should
warn those who put too much faith in representative government that the granting of their desire would bring no millennium. The Constitu- tional Reform Association of Hong kong makes smaller headway than it realize that the real evil is not in the might do because men of savvy system of government so much as in the nature of men. If we had reform to-morrow, they say, Hongkong would still be in the hands of the same class of men, and we the thoughtful, the open-minded mern bers of the community would be no better of. There is a pigheadedness that seems to seize men who are put in possession of power....
in which peace could be 'brought home to us. if we could 'but persuade the official
About passports
we are
1J
CORNER IN SUGAR. ·
A record shipment of silk-4,800
bales, valued at Tls. 3,850,000, was shipped in the Messageries Maritimes 3.3. "Nera," which sailed from Shanghai on July 16. In addition she carried gold bullion valued at Francs of the Banque Industrielle, and 300 8,000,000 consigned to the Paris office
tons of general cargo loaded here.
the
·
R. Stubbs for Hongkong. All they know is he was to sail soon after
STOWAWAYS.
A new word recently met in a July 7. newspaper article shows how langu- age grows, but not how it should grow. The "Ententophil direction This hybrid product of a French and of Koltchak's policy" was mentioned. Greek liaison is not pretty. Philen-
Before the Fook Sang arrived in tente" would have been no better. this port from Singapore, four Chinese "Pro-entente" would have been who were found on board, were asked
They had none. They were brought
up before Mr. Lindsell to-day and charged with being stowaways. "
HONGKONG THEATRE.
Further details of the fracas on
3.5. Rotorua," when the salt worse. How would you express the by the chief officer for their tickets. coolies at Kiuklang attacked the thing? crew and took charge of the vessel's fore-deck until a Naval party arrived, With regard to the sale by the It turned out that the quartette had show that the coolies looted the Hongkong Land Investment Compaid $64 to someone on board in lieu fimpers to let go the extra By general consent in the last year vessel of everything moveable on the pany to the Bank of East Asia of of the legal gave them. The real reason for person. At Home the Government blocks, chickens out of the hen-the Hongkong Daily Press. Robinson powers and positions which the war or so a profiteer is an undesirable fore-deck, stealing the ropes and the block of buildings occupied by was
passage which retaning the censorate so long was has dealt with him at law in two coops and even the sailors' clothes Piano Company, and other business could travel without tickets, and on $92. Defendants upheld that they were told they thereof. Nothing will persuade us desire to obliterate him. The taxation their desire to retain the emoluments ways without animus or any real out of the forecastle.
concerns, one of the firms has a that admission were found guilty otherwise. and we
lease which does not expire till It was natural, of course, of excess profits" was motived by
The additional pay to be given October 1920, so it is unlikely there and fined $20 each, or in 'default to cannot blame them as the need for revenue rather than by to engineers in motor vessels from will be any rebuilding there for undergo three week's in jall. individuals, but we must protest in the any Mea of preventing them. The 1,000 to 3,000 tons gross will be as some years to come. public interest when the public is control of food prices was motived follows:-Chief engineer, £4; second, insufficient reason. inconvenienced for such an by the desire to pacify the protesting £3; third, £2; fourth, £1; filth, nil.
consumer and keep him in the mood These amounts are over and above chased the Linthouse shipbuilding The P. & O. Company has our- less to win the war. Except in so far as the National Maritime Board standard on the Clyde belonging to dogmatic. The King has bidden us the conduct of the profiteer was ard rates for cargo steam driven Messrs. A Stephens & Sons. This is loyally observe the peace, and calculated to embarrass the govern- vessels. They are to be additional to one of the most famous shipbuilding Saturday during the Matinee and at The 5th & 6th. episodes of the theoretically that means that we meat, it is doubtful if there was the special percentages given to yards on the Clyde and its acquisi-7.15 show, Saturday night "The Moon Child" will be screened on
should not persist in our determina- any moral resentment tion to keep out the Germaus. But him. Speaking loosely, everybody payable for carrying oil, such percen possessed of boats of the most mo- Thomas Dixon, in 7 parts will be against engineers on oil tank vessels where tion should mean the P. & Q. being Fall of a Nation," writter. recently by if the people still feel that way, the seems. to regard the profiteer tages to be calculated on people are for should be) entitied to as a product of the war. He may be standard rates of pay for steam the P. &O. boats were built by Caird and will surely bring a large house, the dern type. In pre-war years most of screened. The story is full of interest is why representative systems are
is true, and that decide, king or no king. Very well. called a discovery of the war, if you driven vessels. considered better than bureaucracies, system long after the way enables the He is at least as old as the Old Tes If the retention of the passport like, but he is older than the war.
and Co., Greenock, whose yard in as many tragedies and comedies will fact was practically monopolised by be introduced. The protagonist of for what they confer upon the people people to keep out the Germans, and tament, which has a special'curse for China Squadron will have a greater been accuired by Harland and Wolff, Virginia Holland, the heroine of the Under the new conditions the P. & O.. work, This yard has now the play is Leila Frost in the role of that but the power to take back the is not true representation-never the people want them kept out, it is him. The war created difficulties area to patrol than ever it had in who have made big extensions. power that is making their misrepre- passport nuisance. We are all travel-and
not much use grumbling about the which naturally affected public needs, modern years. The waters formerly
story written, as, a lesson to America war profiteers merely took looked after by the North, Pacific
on Preparedness." Teatre Invers sentatives pigheaded. The theory is lers, more or less, and we all detest advantage of opportunities, they did Squadron, and more latterly by a
should not miss this magnificent film, it is in the nature of his make up,result of failing to please the electors choose the lesser evil.
that the consciousness of the possible the things, but we are all willing to not themselves make. We doubt if couple of gunboats, with base at were 2.347 miles of telegraph and shown at intervals.
On December 31, 1918, there New comics and comedies will be for which X and not man's will makes the men in power more reason
it was fair to denounce them as Esquimalt, B. C, will be patrolled by telephone line, and 11,581 miles of That, however, does not cover the unpatriotic. Very few businessmen the China Squadron, thus practically overhead wire in responsible please and
able. So it might, if they did not Pass Office. By the Pass Office we would refuse such chances, seeing extending from the Pacific Coast of of which 8,844 miles were telephone DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY.
the FMS take steps to get a certain security Free Will is disproved in the very aive and troublesome. displease and be punished. In effect, of tenure, by making elections expen-already admitted to and Inside the and chances of trade. But a "correr" borders of Burma, or some 80 degrees miles of underground telephone VHENT Fou fail to provide your
mean the office which harasses those they came with the ordinary haps America, above the Equator to the wires. In addition, there were 26. act of postulating it. The only
Colony. Why, when we move from a foodstuffs, though it is "business" of latitude. As heretofore the cables, containing 2,433 miles of genuine Free Will conceivable is that,
A glaring instance of pigheaded one hotel to another, must we tell the and quite legal, is a proposition Southern Divisions of the Squadron wire, single line. These figures in sin's Calioand Diarrhaus Berendy it will which is exercised in uncons- ness in a representative administra Police, under penalty for neglect? It on which the public, needs to acquire will be based on Singapore, and the clude 1,122 miles of telephone wire this season of the rear, you are neglect ciousness of any other, will. Know- tion is provided by Shanghai is an irk that ten years of war would an enlightened moral opinion. The Northern Division on Hongkong, maintained by the Posts and Tele be provalent, and it is too dangerous
ing them, bowel complaint is sure to fedge of another will, even of a will". its wildest dreams the
not have got us used to. It is so local men who have been speculatively with coating stations at Weihaiwel, graphs Department for the police, malady to be trided with. This with less force than the Divine W Hongkong Constitutional Reform un-British, so like the ways of the cornering sugar are probably a mix etc. The East Indian Archipelago, but do not include the wires main especially true if there are children a (will of X) must tend to bias the Association has never conceived the
"lesser breads without the law."ture of the profiteer who seizes an the Ladrone and Caroline groups of tained by the Railway Department the fatally A dogs or two of this remo choice. Knowledge of the will of X possibility of making our legislative We want to look upon our opportunity that fortune offers, and Islands and the Marshall Islands in for their own use. The Post and dy will place the trouble within control must have overpowering influence. council as representative (in the local police as all honest of the scoundrel who himself makes the Pacific will be included in the Telegraphs Department also owns doctor's hill For sale By All Chemists and perbaris aave a life or least a A hint from a monarch is a "Royal technical sense) as the Shanghai people regard the London" bobby" the opportunity. Cornera" da Station.
242 miles of telegraph wire in Johore: and Storekeepers.
in reality no freedom of choice, since
was
be rewarded, rather than to
That
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