BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA.
SCHEME TO ABOLISH THE LIKIN. STATIONS.
A SINGAPORE COMPLAINT.
;
CORRESPONDENCE.
POLICE UNIFORMS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The Straits Times says: Really the Legislative body fails to satisfy. Itt is becoming hopelessly sterotyped.! The best bruine are not sought for: [To the Editor of the China Mail..] they get a chance only if by accident In the course of a long article in they happen to be associated with The Times Trade Supplement on one of the firms which it is custom Brive trade with China, Mr. Lungary to regard as a kind of, electoral Chichao writew:
college. A question was put to us It is now generally believed that recently: How many seats the benefit to trade by the abolition. of likia would be so curious that the Legislative Council are
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PARK LANE'S WASHING.
COLONIAL MILLIONAIRE LAUNDRY DE LUXE. ·
•
BOLSHEVIK BUDGET...
· HUGE DEFICIT FOR THE LAST KALF YEAR.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1919
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The secret of Park Lane's weekly The Copenhagen correspondent of washing day is out, says the Daily the Exchange Telegraph Company Sir-I am indeed deeply grieved News. The aristocratic and wealthy sends details of the Bolshevik Budget to read that I have disgusted your residents of the neighbourhood have for the first half-year of 1919, which cœrwpondent "A Chinese." How not been forced by high prices to he says, estimates an expenditure ever in my daily patrol among his follow the economical habits of peo-of 50,702,627,888 roubles.
and fellow countrymen I have to put up ple in poorer districts. One of them 20,3-19,627,890 roubles revenue, leav with a great deal of that sort of at least is fighting the laundry pro-ing a deficit of over thirty milliards I believe the Chinese Goremment by men who are young enougis to thing myself-principally through fiteer, in proper Park lane, not East of roubles. [The nominal value of End style. This gentleman is the rouble is 2s; a milliard of roubles is now disposed to incur some suri-fiave served in the great war, and fe of revenue in that direction low muiny of the who hold "the He suggests I should publicly Colonial milicnaire, who has started is worth £100,000,000.] The most Foreign traders are often under the errodeus ingression that the actual sets live risked a crush for their apologise for what he is pleased to small private laundry adjoining his important item of expenditure is on to his com residence at the Piccadilly end of the Red Army, which costs twelve amount paid as import duty and country. We have picaded our call "My during insult transit dues does not excest 7. reluctance to enter upon no inquiry peers. My words were not intended Park lane. The enterprise has prov milliards, as against seven and a per went, and this combined duty which we have wason to believe as such but merely as a plain state- ed sa successful that doubtless many half in the preceding half-year The
of the millionaire's neighbeurs are Marine is 3 per cent, less than what theight prove delicate and embarras ment of fact.
Department's estimates worth! pay under the Mashay Treaty but we may gently bint to **Can I explain the word "buki already thinking.cf following his
amount to five hundred millions. This, however, is by no us overment this service with the stuff and that the Officers have example.
The Supreme Council of Nation ways the came, us boere are other
"It would be torture to allow the alised Industry spends six milliards tase, stoly as the destination treing's fortes feed not be regarded superior quality than the men." levied on importal gobe. Although disability. It pot so con- I wish to neure him that I have an the transit pas protects their good sidered by the electors who send men intimate knowledge of the material long suffering housewife, victimised on the nationalising of undertakings,
the Imperial Parlament, and in question, having were both the by the public laundry profitees, to and five milliards on running all the YU CHONG until they react on inland centre of distribution it ives sietu no further ugh we are a peculier people out inferior and superior quality during see this millionaire's washing," writes nationalised departments. The Food protection when Bulk is broken and flere people who were indispen an absence of, over four yens 0 a correspondent. "The amount of Commissarla: spends eight milliards. the gods retriatal from these sable in Mahaya until the armistice active service. He puts into a nut- made it quite safe to go Harge-we shell the object of my original let The present system of dikit not only impures allitional et 1 cerche fose who will ter. i.e. distinction of dress between Taxation but the moverents of the entired to wour ribbands over Ulcers and moc.
their hearts. Taking even the most. I do not wish him to believe that goods is delayed by the repolted
the discus Iain."a member of a noble family examination en route. As a resory glance over
lon one relies there that are what he thinks or believes is a DEY- foreign truckers do not believe that in in all its harms can be abolish-eat many thing to be done in ter af complete indifference to me. I on the earnedy, believe that Makiyu during the next few years, My faster was not written for the a seisen van be devised to carry there is need of a strong Legida alification of A Chinese
dive body. Indeed, we believe that with the object of bringing to the site body as it exists is antiquated notice of those who matter. what ind unfitted to the times in which Alive. The Asiatic population, to be a justifiable grievance..
pruting a great and important
With regards to the Government driven by
Petites.
ond the abolition effectively.
REFORM BY INSTALMENTS,
4.
work performed in a recent week would, according to present prices, Park-lane for £13, inclusive of wages power, and material.
have cost £45. It was turned out in
"The plant consists of two retary washing machines, one hydro, a but small calender, or flat-work ironer,
several electric hand and
smail hot-air
2
The Commissariat of Communica-
tions, five; Education, four; and the Departments of Public Welfare, Health and Finance each spend about a
millard.
Other estimates are: Commissariat
of Internal Affairs, 655,000,000 roub posts, and telegraphs, 500,000,000 les; agriculture, 500,000,000 roubles;
irons, roubles; trade and industry, 202,000,- drying 000 roubles; justice 202,000,000
I and my fellow commides consider room. The diminutive plant is roubles.
électric motor and The Bolshevik estimated revenue of approximately twenty miliard
One of the principal Efficulties will be the aneh arrangement
uring the period of transition from pars of the energy and wealth of the sending men over, from England for the steam for the washing machines Toubles is largely fictitious, as is embers for Singapore and one each the purpose of criticising, I would' and calender is generated by a shown by the fact that no less than
"the alli register to the new, It seins to ta thnt the best way to or some these diffculties is to bring about the change by instalments,
Suppose we dekle this all Line
may ought to have at least two
Penang and Mulaceu. To gruat me solitary seat to the Chinese and o mew all others is unworthy of Our deaxxruale principles.
remind my friend-it he will low Suel: a low nad inificent person as myself to call him such that Honglong became a British pones The
Bisher-Yours, etc.,
fatin ill be closed down in four Minder of Commerce nomination sion in 1841 sad, that I am a Bri- 30 spick and span as this bijou working half year, however, yielded only
wu thun. We can then aholisi one quarter of the stations in the first jaar. Luporte articles could barunged into four groups unst a new tarif applet so one of the groups. This group then could be exengt from all kinds of inland taxes sin all parts of China, while the re- maining three, grups could be truxit- red acesting to the present arrange- Iment. When, ab the end of the Sear, another group of articles comes under the new tariff, another ext of Hi phutings wald be closed down, and so on until the fourth yene is Teadesh. when the new taiff be comes univene and all bikin stadions ablished. By adopting this course en oppeturity would be given te
UNIFORM,
Hongkong. Nov. 10, 1910.
Mail.)
shop. The shafting is burnished so as to look like silver, the brass of the washing machines and the rim of the hydro are like burnished gold.
coffee pot boiler, whose toy-like proportions are belied by its steady fifteen milliards are credited to the production of an effective head of vague account, State "Properties and steam. No public laundry was ever Capitals." This item in the preced- 944,767,000 roubles, and even the official Izvestiya admits that the prents a sanil principle of selec. tion: but it needs to be more widely
Finance Commissary's vastly in- creased expectations "require some applied. We have not rachad yet
reasonable explanation." From in- Muut stage of development in which
Above all the faces of the five direct taxes the estimate of receipta firect section may be assumed to [To the Editor of the China workers shine with the happiness is two and a half milliards; from give the best results, but there are
inspired by congenial employment direct taxes one and three-quarter maar bodies representative of
For there is no drudgery, sweating milliards; from State undertakings are sections of the community, and
a little or inadequate payment in this man of different kinds, 810,000,000; from Sir Might I take up Then simula laive to pass through more of your valuable space in re- sion laundry. It would delight the duties, 97,000,000; and from repay- air discipline of public service ference to G.A.V.E.'s letter publish heart of an inspecting engineer.ments of expenditures by the State efore they are asked to join the cd in your Extrs of the 8th inst. break the heart of the
Treasury, 69,000,000 roubles.. runell, and they should have be- First of all, I would like to
klaundry wage-slave, and would cause
The admitted deficit is explained find thear something more than
the Nationalised industry account and a loss of 4,200,000,000 roubles on State Railways..
average
(A.V.H. who or what he is? if he the scrutinising factory inspector ton part by a loss of five milliards on į
heir more connection with particu, is an Asiatic, I will put it down ta,
rub his eyes in sheer amazement.
As to the work lying about in
ar firm. We are on the eve of a lie ignorance, but if he is a Euro- sew Clovernoent, and power will be near-well he ought to know better. orderly heaps ready to "finished off,"
n the hands of a man who is at He starts off by doubting whether it is as clear as crystal. It has been atirely unknown to be people of laga. He may do incalculably
Mr. Uniform is geablene treated with no injurious chemicals I am certain G.A.V.H. cannot be nor drastic soap substitutes..
'both foreign and Cricese inders turd work it, ne is strong enough to bed as such, or he would have the fannels are soft and fleecy.
sarily thenwelves that the abolition take an independent line and avoid ascertained the truth before he wrote of thin is being carried out effective-iding into the is which have such's letter. If he would only in ly, while the changer of lows of Te been made by its predecesscas,
Venue to the Chinese (ovemment in Sagacity and statesmanship
any one year woh be minimised This is, in fact, the same principle as adopted in blee Alcock convention. provisionally signed in 1800).
SKURSSITY A
DIFFERENTIAL SCALE
And
In a memorandum accompanying the Budget the Commissary of Finances, Krestinsky, argues that the vast deficit need not cause Lanxiety, as the paper money with which it is covered will be annulled quire from those who know he DESTRUCTION OF FRENCH in due time, and as the nationalisa
tion production system is now on the are wouk! find shut this grievance has
been put forward in the proper man
upward.path towards consolidation. ner, not once, but several times, | which date back a few years. You seem to think that the rank of In- spector can be attained in a few
needed, and it will be a fortunate thing for Malaya if the new regime
marks n Lew era.
SINGAPORE'S NEW PRESS months, I can assure you that it
LAW.
Tie Straits Times of Oct. 20 says:
tukes from 20 to 25-years-service to reach that pinnacle which is every policeman's ambition. So you al vise Mr. Uniform to follow the
It does not do to let a law be par excellent example of the Chinese
was
AND BELGIAN IRON .
WORKS.
We may clear the ground at the outset by stating that the damage suffered by the various iron and strel works from bombing by our airmen "comparatively insignificant, as also was the loss of life. There consider. may, however, have been able moral effect, involving a reduc- tion in output, for we are told in the case of one large werks that the
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THE
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THE NOISE OF
33-35 DES VEUX ROAD.
AEROPLANES.
COMMONWEALTH STEAMERS.
Engineering dealing with a paper
Beginning at the end of November, by Professor Bryan on the noise pro-
the Commonwealth Government kine. duced by aeroplanes, states that the of steamers will inaugurate a regular. observations led to the conclusion fortnightly cargo service between- that when an aeroplane was observed Britain and Australia. The vessels flying sideways the low organ pipe will load alternately at ports on the tones that were observed were due east coast-Middlesborough, Hull, to the direct action of the blades of and London, and on the west coast at the arrew upon the air, but their Glasgow, Liverpool, Newport, and intensity decreased as the angular. Avonmouth. The first ship loaded distance of the observer from the on the east coast will discharge her plane of rotation increased, thus cargo at Fremantle, Adelaide, Mel accounting for the rise and fall of bourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and the sound with the rotary oscillations the first ship to load on the west So far I have kept to the stipula-
of the aeroplane, as well as for the coast at Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, in the Mackay Treaty. But
unfavorable results obtainable in the and Sydney. Thereafter the sailings whirling arra tests, As, bow will be transported alternately, thus asjims been already point-d-out, the
ever, the pulsations of an providing frequent regular intervals. prent uniforme nite tends to re-
eight cylinder engine agreed in for direct shipment to the main strict the hortation of new mater e under an assumption that it will What would happen to the Colony
frequency with those of a four-blade Australian ports. The first vessels tads and machinery, and duties on ever be abused. Within the past we all looked to the Chinese for goal
The housing difficulty is being felt screw, tones of nearly the same to sail will probably be the "Carawa," See articles should be rechten norths we have had ex. examples? I dare not think of the German manager was evidently at Cambridge owing to the enormous pitch might also be produced by the "Boonah," "Teromeo," and "Boorak." Perience of an attempt to stifle free result, and I don't think G.A.V.H. very frightened, having constructed influx of undergraduates which will engine, and these were often heard When the tonnage, which has become Thi the other hand, the luxuries now criticism of Government officials by would, if he was in his right senses. a bomb proof portable cupboard for take place in a few weeks' time, says when an aeroplane was receding. badly bunched owing to the seamen's imported into Cuina can me deibt streutentog to prosecute a promnia- No doubt, Mr. Uniform" has himself." The appearance of the The Observer. This will easily beat They differed in tone quality from strike, can be rearranged, only the bear a heavier burden without being ent and obviously patriotic English taken up this Life to guard the likes manager in the role of a caddis-grub all orevious records. Rooms which those due to the screw, and the mo best ships will be utilised for the
a most encour-have been unoccupied for years are tion of the machine gave rise to a service.. adversely affected the raising of the journal under a law aimed at the of you (G.A.VH) tom those to must have had
west and host vilely seditious who you tell us to look to for a aging effect upon his staff, although being put into a habitable condition, slight difference in pitch. upita duty in 1987 supplies an ex-
enemy inspired vernacular papers. good example.-I am, yours, etc.. German ways are not our ways though this is being effected under In the case in which the tip velo- orllent example. The scale can be It was not a very successful attempt,
Such damage as has been done is considerable difficulties, owing to a city exceeded the velocity of sound, (pourangel dind the total duty col- and it would have ended a good deal
attributable almost entirely to the local strike in the building trade the disturbances produced in three betesë simsli not extend time 12.5 per more disastrously for its originators
acts of the Germans themselves, and Considerable additions were made to different positions of the tip might cent rate used to, but Luxurice
as one might expect, it is confined to college buildings just before the war, reach the observer at the same in- the French and Belgian-owned works, notably at Emmanuel. Pembroke, stant during a certain portion of Machinery was either taken away King's, Magdalene, and Sidney, but each period, and at the beginning on the lat November, 1919- wholesale and installed in German these are all proving inadequate. and end of this portion the distur works, or was smashed up beyond College officers have been touring bance theoretically became infinite,
A WHITE MAN, Hongkong, Nov. 9, 1919. P.S.-I "G.A.V.II." has travel.
they had ventured to carry it fur led at all. I would like to refer him should pay more
ther. But it must be realised it to any other Colonial Police Force Bol necessities the conductors of newspapers have for an example in dress, less, Nor need we make any com-large financial interests at stake, and plicated classification. As an illas they would be most seriously ham-" tration we may propose that the pored in the faithful discharge of inported articles be divided into, their public duties if some rampug Hay, five claw-es, each paying a difing Jack in office who had merited a finrp critician could bring their
ferent import duty in such a way business to a sudden stop. No sub- that more than 30 per cent. of the sequeat vindication of the freedom tolisi volutne of imports pay 12.5 per of the press would compensate them for the damage they would mastain.
restrictions of freedom.
than 25 per cent. ad valorem, which can never do any harm to the trade
in these articles, as it will still be
the comparatively lightest duty in
N
RIOT AT CANTON
"SINCERE" STORE DAMAGED.
•
THE WATER SUPPLY.
-Tarol and Storage of water la foservors
OLLY AND HILL DISTRICT WAZES WORKS LEVEL
Below overdow
the possibility of repair. Some of the town to obtain rooms out of thus accounting for the unpleasant! tete the scrap so obtained was melted college, and are still conducting their sensation and its limitation to a very aylais 18.30 to. down for munitions; but it is clear canvass, with Indifferent success. narrow zone near 'the plane of rota, rum Rvery 13 ft. that the main object alined at was The University Lodging house tion,
the
理
the prevention of future competition, Syndicate have been appealed to for because most vital parts help, and have consented to grant THE BLACKENING OF of the plants were systematically licences for
3. Below avardow Triam Intermediate
190.
ift. 4 in. Balow overflow.
17. 1 i.. Da,
à ft. 3 in. Abore vardow.
Level with overdon Tytam Tak. = 5. *Bolaw everflow Ware Nothing. It totes i m..
7. Below mëvetlove -
3 ft. 11 in. Below oruđơn.
Da
ELECTRIC LAMP BULBS 1.6 ft 2 in.
Do
Byewa
REINTRAGEN IN MILLIONS AND DROULALS OF HALLOWE.
JA14. 300 10 7.17
1,68
18.04 43.07
7,086 ES
Katimated population
day.......
2013.
23 13, 201, ta
$26.20
1.116.01
rooms, in houses There seems to have been quite a aclecled for destruction, even when situated within two and a half Qunt crding to the Musky The laws reating to the press are betty riot at Canton on Saturday there was ample material available miles of Great St. Mary's Church Treaty, and 25 per cent of the in already so drastic that public inter afternoon.
The pin-boycott students in other parts of the works. The measured in a direct line, pro-
The filaments of glow lamps disin-gam Sambre-et-Moselle works, perhaps vided that such houses comply with Several were porto pay less, and the remaining 25 este constantly suffer through neck. Were responsible.
The maxican wry sippression of facts, and we wounded. 130 youth and 25 girls the finest in Belgium, was left practi- the general regulations as to suit tegrate and volatilise, especially at m Per cent. more rate, however, zeed not be more mist jealously guard against further were locked up in the busement of cally intact by the Germans, and the ability laid down by the Senate. The high temperatures, and tungsten
Commission were informed that the effect of this concession will be to vapours or compounds are deposited many the store all night. There had been reason it was spared was because of bring in wide areas which have on the walls of the bulbs and blacken a parade, which had for a side-show the large interest in it, held by the hitherto been out of bounds for the glass. Various means are being Consumption of water in the City a demonstration inside the store. German capitalist Thyssen. The University lodging purposes. The used to prevent this blackening. On and District in millions and decimals They amuulted two-employees of the Belgian-owned works in the same dis college authorities are now trying the one hand substances are purpose of gallons during the month of Detober. GREEK TO THE CENSOR, store, and they suulted the police trict were, on the other hand, complete again what can be done, but it ly introduced into the bulb in which the
wie came to their rescue. They ly destroyed, and will take several appears that even under these chang they are to be volatilised in order to the world, but St will couble the
Cromettytiem par band } Locted the provisions, biscuits, candy, years to be reconstructed. At Ponted circumstances many hundreds of bind and to remove the residual Chinese Government to allow many
Constant supply in all districts, during A good story about a censor, with etc., while locked up in the store. a Verdun sear Lens, a coal-mine would-be Cambridge freshmen will bulb gas, thus to improve the vacu kinds of raw materials and meciulittle Latin and less Greek, at a police guards may have helped in annum, together with
The Canton Times hints that the producing 4,000,000 tons per be unable to obtain admission to the um and to deprive the black deposit October of both 1918 and 1918. ery to be on the free bist, thus en German prisoners' camp is told by the Outside a big crowd continued dern
University this October.
of its dark colour, 50 that zoWLOGN WÁTKE WORK LEVEL. A novel feature of the coming it will no longer weaken the light courging bonic industry as well as the Manchester Guardian. A British deinonstrating. The boys look away recovery plant, comprising some 580 term will be the number of married | intensity. Or, alternatively, the bulb icon Gravita fin. Below 4 lb. He
visitor who had done many things import trade.
It cannot be over for the prisoners received from them from a Police Sergeant his rifle, regenerative ovens was completely undergraduates. These require rooms is filled with an inert gas (nitrogen), empdruined that the richer a country a little medallion figure of Christ bayonet, und revolver, and refused destroyed by the Germans at the for their wives and families. All the at high pressure to prevent the becomes the ruore it will be able to which some of the prisoners had to return them. It sus tb.menuc beginning of 1917. The pre-war cost naval and military headquarters have volatilisation of the filament; the consume foreign sports. Inced fashioned in bronze out of their store ing crowd outsile mt decided the of the maine and works
been ejected from the rodes they vacuum is thus abandoned. The ' durdly add that British traders have of pence. Beneath the figure was police to keep their prisoners looked 200,000,000 francs, and it will be ten occupied in the colleges, and have second method has been successful, an Inscription in Greek in which up inside the stor Eleven ring years before they can be restored fo found accommodation in private and lamps of this type have become everything to gain by such a mea there appeared the letters "Kai" (the lenders were taken to the ponce their former level of production. Of houses. The increased laboratory known under the rather unfortunate stre, as many articles which oun Greek word for and.") This was align on Sunday, after 2,000 arm the 8,000, houses built by the com- and lecture-room space which will be name of half-watt lamps: Historically only be obtained in the British Em suspicious, and seemed to the censored troops trad turned out, with pany for its employees only 150 are needed next term is another difficulty the former method takes precedence,
to have some occult reference to the machine-gunu.
capable of being restored To read
&
coke oven and by-product
was
Den BeservoE.....)
low dow
STORLAS DE MILLIONS ARE SHOMALS OF GALLONE.
1135.
OVERDOR.
Kortion Gravitation
Comeumptiam pet dand { '
millons and decimals of gallons during the
much of Celober. option
asked population 102.600 pur day
171. 201.63 Consumption of water in Kowloon in
-102
* 345.10
ти
.2011, М -
104.300
pire will pay a reduced rate, ad Imperial exile at Amerongen, so it The students allege that the pass. of such cases makes one realise the with which the University is having but; the combination of the two The Govertiment Analyst's 'reports shew jurene development of British was not allowed to leave the camp ing parade was. attacked by two of meaning of the word "reparation to cope and being met by the putting apparently contradictory, almis, im that the water is of exoellent quality.
trade will certainly take plice to the until the lettering had been translated the Sincero" fokis, and that this to our Allies, and the justice of their
to his satisfaction. benest of bolly countries. ·
caused the invasion of the premises. Insistence upon it.-Engineering,
up of army hots as temporary ac pruvement of the vacuum and forma Public Works Department commodation, work which has also tion of a transparent deposit, is of
recent data Engineering. been impeded by the strike,
ORATZEN
Water Authority,