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December 6, 1919, [emperature 63
December 6, 1918, Temperature 6ồ
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No. 17,819.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919. 六月二十年九十一百九千一类
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AMERICAN LABOUR.
H
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FALLRIVERS, MASS., Dec. 3 The Textile Council has accepted the advance of 12) per cent, wages, thus ending the textile workers' strike. Operatives at New Bedford have accepted a similar advance, averting a strike.
BRITISH QH:VALRY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2. The barque Paul, the first German ship officered by Germans to arrive in Canada siner: the war was driven in to Hallifax disabled by storms. She reports that signals of distress were disregarded by several shies which had suffered from submarine warfare. Finally a British steamer, whose captain had been torpedoed and the crew fired on in an open boat in wartime, offered to assist, but was unable to tow the Past owing to the heavy seas The Faul'succeeded in reaching Halifax.
HOT WÄNTED.
LABOUR REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK, December 2. Two representatives of the American Federation of Labour, who sailed recently for Panama to learn the grievances of 9,000 organised workers have returned and assert that the Governor of the canal zone would not permit them to land.
FINANCING EXPORTS,
NEW AMERICAN: CORPORATION.
WASHINGTON, December 3.
authorising the
The House of Representatives has adopted a B formation of an American corporation to finance exports."
CORRESPONDENCE.
OFFENSIVE SUGGESTION ·
REPEOYED.
(To the Editor of the "China Mať."] ཡར་
CHINESE LABOUR CORPS BRAVERY.
A TERI GILLANT` ACT.
(ltoutez's Service to the China Mail.)
PHYSICAL SUPERVISION OF OHILDREN.
LONDON, December 1st. The annual report of the Medica) De- partiment of the Board of Education em phasises that the scope of its dutim' and responsibilities are ever increasingly im portant, and involve the physical aur ture of childhood from the age of two years to adolescence.
Experience has shown that physical Faupervision of the child must begin early and continue unremittingly. There is no one solution of the numerous complex and far-reaching problems.
and
Consequently, only all-round vigilaned progressive policy-in- ystematic cluding improved nutrition, medical treatment, physical training, the touch- ing of hygiene, and more open-air fe can baiki up a healthy race.
(Further
The report declares that medical treat- ment must receive an increasing amount of consideration in all areas. more, the time has arrived for a re settlement and adjustment of the whole administrative machinery.
The report draws attention to the necessity of widely
schools, especially coading to all}
schools,
the teaching of mother-craft, which was begun last year in some centres.
It urges great extension of open-air schools for backward and malnourished and debilitated children. At present there are only 20 such centres, with accommo- dation for a few hundreda.
The report indicates that great work is being accomplished by the Schools" Dental Servias.
FIRST WOMAN M.P.
LONDON, December 1st. In the House of Commons, the debut of Lady Astor, the first woman to take a saat in the House, created a very great wbir.
The Peers Gallery was thronged. Lord Astor had to find a seat among other distingulabed Dersons in the Strangers Gallery, alongside the Ameri can Ambassador.
Lady Astor, dressed in a dark coat and The War Office Emigration Agency, shirt and a white blouse, with a dark Dear Sir,-Allow me a little space Tsingtao, has received information that tricone: hat, was introduced by Mr. in your valuable columns to lodge Wang Yu-shan (of Tach'engtsier, Balfour and Mr. Lloyd George with the compisins with reference to the state: Chilli Province), Labourer No. 15333 usia coremonial. She created great
Amusement by TUITALY ments put forward by "Not a Police of the Chinese Leucorps has becedy and conversing with Mr. Chamber- In your issue of to-day's cate awarded the Meritorious Service lain and other Ministers while preparing, He was apparently under the impres- Medal. The act for which it was to sign the roll, which she signed sion that the Police Accountant, being awarded is gazetted as follows
"Nancy Astor," after which she took Near Marcoing on June 6, 1919, her seat below the gangway. a Chinese, was not entitled to or del serving of a salary of $300 per month he observed a fire on a dump of am- and that a European, regardless of munition situated close to a collecting. On his own initiative he what position he holds, should at least station.
man
PREMIUM. BONDS.
be paid more than an Asiatic. I rushed to the dump with two buckets
LONDON, December 1st. "Not & Policernan " were to lookol water which he threw on the fre
In the House of Commons, Mr. Horatio. inner into the salaries meted out to and then seized a turning. British Bottomley, proposing a motion in favour Government clerks I have no doubt P" Bomb (apparently the cause of of the issue of premium bonds untaxable he will change his mind. I have no the outbreak) and hurled it to a safe and redeemable at a fized period, with a certain number be besitation in saying that well nigh 80 distance from the dump. He then compound interest,
off with per cent. of the clerical stall of the continued to extinguish the burning ing drawn at intervals and
He a prize urged finai
anancial Civil Service are drawing as salary dump which had spread to the sur said than the suggestion was economically under $100 per month, with od allow-rounding grass, in which rife gren sound and ethically unassailable. ances of whatever nature as are grant-ades and German shells were lying, He advocated that the interest should
The By his initiative, resource and dis-be t
cent.
130 the creation of a ed to European Policemen. majority of those who are getting over regard of personal safety this labourer fund equivalent to 1 per cent. for dis this mount have completed ten or averted what might have been a sori- tribation of prizes. even fifteen years' service, that is to us explosion.”
SINGAPORE CLERKS
UNION.
34
He believed an enormous sam would be produced. The buying of bonds by work- ere would help to prevent strikes and re- volutionary proposals.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, op posing, contended that the bonds would "spirit was too
encourags A
the
get-riching spirit Already,
much in evidence,
NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS FOR The country's salvation lay in steady,
MEMBERSHIP.
say, they have to work for that period before they can actually reach the starting point of a European Police Constable. In saying this, I do not mean that the latter is therefore draw- ing quite an ample salary and that he aught to be satisfied, but I dislike the opinion of "Not a Policeman" when he apparently conveyed to the public that Chinese in the Civil Service are too well paid, taking for example, as he did, the salary of the Police A countant, which salary is only attain- ed by not more than eight persons in the whole clerical staff of the Govern ment after having completed, say from thirty to forty years' good ser ing, the business being to elest officera, vice. I might mention that if the and committee; to fix entrance fees
honest Work He believed and anticipat ef that the rush to support the bonds was not likely to be realised,
announced that the Government whips had been taken off for the divi
Commons rejected the resolution
The
A general menting of the Clerks Union was held at Singapore en Nov.sion. 25. There were about 500 present, the Hon. Capt. Song Ong Siang being by 978 Totes to Bằ in the chair. Mr. Lin Kes Chick read the notice convening the meet-
THE SUPREME COURCIL.
PARIS, December int post of Police Accountant were taken and monthly subscription and any other The Supreme Council, atter bearing up by a European and not as in this business. The chairman said that this Sir George Clerk's report, he decided case by a Chincse, the position would was the first meeting of a new or to request the new Hungarian Govern pay from £400 to £500 per annum ganisation which was known as thement to send a delegation to negotiate with free quarters and other allow Clerks Union. He was informed the terms of peace. ancer which altogether would amount that about 1,700 men had applied for Government to show, more regard for It also decided to request the Estbonian to the neighbourhood of $500 per membership. 1 assume," he said, General Yudsnitch. month.
all those in this hall had applied for
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AMERICAN CONGRESS.
In view of the above facts, I sub-membership; if there are any present mit that, contrary to "Not a Police who have not done so they would not man's idea, the Chinese Police be entitled to take part in the business Accountant was very badly underpaid of this evening. He gave it as his
WASHINGTON, December 1st. Congres opened to-day. The Secretary: Enclosing my card.Yours, etc. opinion that as the rules had not yet of the Treasury, presented the estimates
** FAIRPLAY."
been framed the meeting would not be for 1991, totalling 35,000,000,000. The Hong Kong. Dec. 5, 1919.
able to elect officers and committees, päreipal, itëma are:-Army, $869,000,000; They could, however, elect a tempor-Navy, #542,000,000; annual interest on ary body who would retire at the next war debt, $1,017:000,000. meeting when the rules would be
STONE AGE RELICS
Interesting finds have been made ready. After some discussion It was THE. RI. HON, ÉL W. FORSTER. by Mr. Edwin Arnold, the authority moved and seconded that the present
mer stones.
INDIAN FRONTIER - FIGHTING..
LONDON, December Lat thorn the frontier situation is Tolegrams from India, dated November
the Mahsuds
on archaeology, at the site of the sup- provisional committes," who had been
LONDON, December 1st. posed palace of Edward the Confes responsible for the formation of the. The Rt. Hon. H. W. Forster, Finan sor in Windsor Great Park. These Union, be appointed to draft rules and cial Secretary to the War Council, bas inchide fint spears, axes and ham fix entrance fees and monthly subscrip resigned owing to ill health. He has been
tion. Mr. N. B. Westerhout, in elevated to the Poorage, Mr. Arnold says these are relics of lengthy address, gave reasons why the the Stone Age and were probably left Union should be known as the Clerical where they were discovered 10,000 or Union, instead of the Clecke Union. 15,000 years before Edward (died This motion received considerable at- 1066). He states that most probably tention: Mr. P. A. Beins moved that the men who fashioned the Imple the name fixed by the mass meeting.improving. ments had a camp in the rushy hollow when it was a forest pool and lived viz. The Clerks' Union, stand. The Air operations against - on the wild deer of the park. In time chairman addressed, the meeting at continue successfully, but most of the the pool filled up, fair weapons were length. Mr. Westerhout's motion other tribes hare intimated their inter- covered with slit, and on the top of was carried by an overwhelming ton of fulfilling the British conditions
A large unknown gang crossed the majority The meeting terminated border on November 96th raided the this an immensely long while after a vote of thanks, to the chairman; British cavalry lines at Kohat and killed wards the foundations of the buildings moved by Mr. Goh Hood Kit A sentry, now being excavated were placed.
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