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with anything like the requisite firm ness confirm and support and uphold the decisions of its own referees. A player "ordered off" one week may get a mild caution the next. There inust be more suspensions, not only! of individual players, but of clubs, and some way of punishing lawless spectators ( necessary and after warning, quspending all football for a period) mus: be found. Football is fficiently organized and controlled elsewhere; there is no reason why it
GRAVE STRIKE
CRISIS.
TROUBLE EXTENDS.
should be allowed to become the go BAKERS AND COOKS JOIN IN.
as-you- please pandemonium it is be- coming here. Why all this exceptional motion and frenzy, which is making the followers of the game so unruly and unreasonable? We can under- stand a healthy excitement, and two losing
even B man
their heads occasionally, but that kind permits of repentance for errors and fox faults, and for a reasonable frame of mind to follow. Here, and just now, the reasonable frame of mind never seems to be recalled. It is case of chronic unreason. Why? Partly, no doubt, that having been Blackly permitted to fall into bad habits, the habits are festering and We also establishing themselves. regret to learn that football bas become the occasion of an orgie of betting and gambling even more wild than the licensed one we have just passed through. That is bad hearing. means that the better team
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MARRIAGE.
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Hongkong,
DEATH.
MUNSIE-On January 5, 1922, at
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BREAD SUPPLIES THREATENED.
GOVERNMENT'S EMERGENCY MEASURE.
Fears that. following the failure of the mediatory efforts made by the lalour delegates who went to Canton, further sympathy strikes were likely to occur have proved to be wellgrounded. Without any warn- ing the Colony's bakers and cooks have cansed work and it is feared that before very long houseboys in private residences will have been drawn into the dispute as well.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922
2. The bill is based mainly on His Tai Coolies" Guild récently declared Majesty's Order in Council of the an unlawful society, was again October 26,
1890, which was mentioned in Magistrato Wood's proclaimed in the Colony upon the Court this morning. outbreak of the late war, and upon Detective Surgeant Fallon sad that the amending Order in Council of this on Sunday morning the accused took March 21, 1916. Paragrapbs (a) to him to several shops in Des Voeux (1) of cause 2 (2) are taken word for Road West whore he alleged he had word from the latter Order, and worked during the strike, Ent at every paragraph (b) of the same sub-section one be was not recoguise. is based on clause III, 5 of the earlier Order.
SEAMEN'S POSITION.
DEADLOCK REACHED.
the
Addressing the accused, Magistrato said: If you had not told lies, I would have Gned you. You said that jon had been expelled from the Guild. I find that you have not been expelled, and are still a member. One month.
SEAMEN'S UNION.
TWO MEN CHARGED.
J
Wong Kan and Choi Nam were
BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
At the moment" said the Sucre- tary Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax) caught by a reporter just as he was going away from the Exe- cutive Council meeting. "the position as regards the seamen's strike is at charged before Magistrate Wood this morning with having been members a deadlock,"
The seamen, it appears, have gone of the Seamen's Union, an uniawful right back to their original nine de-analoty mands and will hear of nothing else. Mr. W. B. Hind, who appeared for They turned down the labour delega- the accused, entered a plea of not tion with a bump and said to them in guilty. effect: "If you can get ne our de- Farther "sympathy" strikes are said to be pending and to provide for mands. we shall be glad of it; if you eventualities the Government is putting through a special emergency measure | can't we don't want you."
Meanwhile the main dispute, the strike of the seamen, has reached deadlock. the men having retreated right back to their former demands.
to deal with any crisis that may arise.
RESTAURANTS CLOSED.
HOUSEDUYS NEXT?
a
RUSH FOR PROVISIONS:
by the fact that a meeting of the Executive Council was held at noon There has been quite a rue! on to-day to consider E special stores and compradore shops to day, favourite in the betting. It means HOTELS AND CLUBS AFFECTED. Emergency Regulations Ordinance, crewde of people buying up foodstaffs. that the spectators who misbehave are
published below, which has been Anything in the nature of buying hurriedly drafted and will be submitt. panic is strongly to be deprecated. probably more concerned for their bets
ed to Д special aleeting than for the sport. Well, in that case
of A principal of a large department they deserve less consideration than All of the restaurante in town were the Legislative Council which has store when seen by a China Masi they have been getting. A strong closed down
this afternoon representative said that they always this morning and been called for
"We Association, determined to purify and
businessmen who went along for their at 3.45 p.m. It will be seen that the bad ample stores on hand. really regulate the spert, could cure that sort in one season. It wast, customary cup of couce at 11 o'clock Bill confers wide powers upon the have had a cush this morning" he a question of however, be determined and ruthless. were palpably dismayed to discover Governor in Council in case of said but it is only
that no meals of any sort were emergency and invests His Excellency delivery. We often send more stuff At present, by all accounts, it is available. They went away wonder with authority to make any regula- away on one shipment than we have vacillating and weak.
ing where their tiffins were coming tions that may become desirable in sold this morning." from and whether indeed they the public interest.
Another step the Government has might not have to go hungry for their dinner at night. The cooks seem taken is to enforce again the Travellera just to have packed up quietly lastRestriction Ordinance which makes night and cleared off without saying police passes necessary. anything about their intention of not resuming to-day. There have for some time been rumours that such' a step was imminent but nobody se me to have bean prepared for it to-day.
$10 Nat $240.
"Puzzled " wants to know how the writer of the paragraph about the cash sweeps which appeared in this column last night arrived at the con- clusion that the Jockey Club on |: aturday were making money at the rate of "just on $240 a minute." It was a typagraphical error. The figure should have read "840 a minute."
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE.
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CAN YOU BAKE?
As has been pointed out the most serious aspect of to-day's develop ment is that it threatens our bread supplies, and Messrs. Lane Crawford's request, advertised elsewhere, for volunteers to help ran a bakery, should meet with a prompt answer.
In connection with the bakers' strike, the French Store is the only bakery which is not affected as they have Anamite bakore who are not concerned with the strike.
THE POSTAL SERVICE,
Interviewed by a China Mail re- porter this afterncon, Mr. S. B. C. Ross, Postmaster General, said that in ca e of a general strike, the postal
Mr. T. H. King, DS.P., prosecuting, said that on February 7, about 2.15 p.m., while on his patrol rounds of the wharves and railway stations, Aoting. Detective Sub-Inspector Shannon visited the railway station at Tsimshatsui and there observed the acensed acting in a suspicious manner. When the accused were charged they admitted being members of the Union and it was understood they were going to plead guilty in Court.
Mr. Hind said that they still admitted being members of the Union before it was declared illegal,
Aceused were fined $100 each.
Owing to the strike the St. David's day dinner to have taken place at the Hongkong Hotel to- morrow evening has been cancelled.
the
The Hongkong Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel dinner dansants have been unavoidably cancelled owing to the strike.
COUNCIL MEETS.
EMERGENCY MEASURE PASSED.
The Legislative Council met this afternoon at 3.45. H.E, the Gover- nor presided.
His Excellency the Governor said that the council had been called to- day for a special object which was to pass a bill for conferring on the Governor in Council power to make regulations in cases of emergency or public danger. The necessity for
TEXT OF MEASURE.
The full text of the measure which Messrs Wireman Ltd's cafe, the Alexandra Cafe, the New Victoria, is being submitted to this afternoon's the On Lok Yen and the American special mecting of the Legislative cafes were some of the establishments Council is as follows:-
An Ordinance to confer on the in Queen's Road this morning that were displaying notices Governor in Council power to make. Mrs. Claud Severn distributes to the effect that they were regulations on occasions of emergency the University certificates at the closed ob account of the or public danger. inauguration of St. Paul's Institution
Some of strike.
the Hongkong Be it enacted by the Governor of | new lecture ball on Saturday after-Hotel cooks are on strike too but the Hongkong, with the advice and con- management are facing the position sent of the Legislative Council thereof, philosophically and making arrange as follows:- The total output of the Kailan ments to carry on as best, they can, 1. This Ordinarco may be cited as Mining Administration's mines for the even if it means that they have to go the Emergency Regulations Ordin-service would not be affected. He passing this legislation at this had already concluded arrangements time was that the result of the sea- week ending February 11, amounted into the kitchen and do the cooking ance, 1922. to 48 035 tons and the sales during themselves. The Hotel's compradore 2.--(1.) On any occasion which by for the delivery of letters to the offices. mens' strike had been to generally Cantón and efforts were the period, to 62 300 tons.
department has been closed with resolution of the Legislative Council The ladies of the Peak will have their unsettle popular feeling here and
being to conserving supplies. is declared to be an cecasion of letters delivered at the offices of their in
made to bring or public danger the men folka. Box holders will of course now The Hongkong Club is also affected, emergency
Apart from the fast that many Governor in Council may make any take delivery of their own letters as out other clasjes of workers who business folk will be hard put to it regulations whatsoever which he usual, while Chinese letters will have bad no to day to provide themselves with a quay consider desirable in the public to be called for at the Post Office. It which originally caused the strike. would be impossible to deliver It was essential, for the safety of the midday meal, the most serious aspect interest.
them "as they are so many." Frivate Colony that steps should be taken as of the crisis is that the restaurants are the Colony's chief suppliers of
letters may be delayed one day in de- early as possible to confer upon the bread. The management of Mesers
livery but that should not greatly in-executive most drastic powers to dea! Wiseman's were hoping that arrange.
convenience in view of the circum-with a situation which at any moment minguided efforts of persone who ments might be made to carry on
stances that business letters must be might result in disorder owing to the given preference.
followed this Bolshevistic doctrine.. with their baking business but in any
The Attorney Oeneral then moved the first reading of the Bill. case the outlook is not a very bright
The Colonial Secretary seconded. The Bill was read. Standing orders were then suspend-. ed and the Bill was passed in all stages.
Mr. R. T. Peyton-Grithia, former- |ly of Hongkong, who recently resign- el is position on the staff of the N. C. Daily News to assume the editorship of the Shanghai Mercury, was the recipient of a presentation from his former colleague in the form
of a clock,
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(2.) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub. section (1) of this section auch regula tions may be made within the classes of subjects hereinafter enumerated, that is to say→
Messrs J. Harold Rodier and N. or esteeming our football community. Armstrong, partners in the firm of
(a.) Censorship, and the control and They are rotting. They have got George Robinson and Co. Manchester,
maps, plans, photographs, com- maggots Football is corrupt. Con-arrived per s.2. "Devanha" on Sun- one from the view point of the suppression of publications, writing, sidering the thousands of people in- day and will remain here about two Colony's essential food supplics.
It is expected that the remainder munications, and means of com volved, this is not to be overlooked or three weeks. They left London in
of the cooks and boys of the Hong. munication or winked at or glozed over. | October, bave since been in
(5.) Arrest, detentions, exclusion, The Hongkong Football Association, India and Singapore, and from here kong Hotel will come out to-morrow.
In the meantime the management and deportation V has decided to close the main grill (0) Control of the harbours, posta room as such. Jo its place will be a and territorial waters of the Colony cafetería rún OD American lines and the movement of versels Here a menu will be provided for $1 but patrons will have to help
as the body in charge of the conduct proceed to Shanghai and Ja B of the game as an organized sport, Teaching home via the United States. must shake itself, rub its eyes, wake up, take a look, make a decision. For
thing it has not been putting its
Sir Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G., whose appointment as a member of
(d.) Transportation by fond, air, or water, and the control of the transport of persons and things
CANTON EXPRESS STOPPED.
The up-express of the Canton- Kowloon Railway was stopped this afternoon on instructions from the
Government.
COURT INCIDENT.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S URGENT BUTMONS.
At eleven thirty this morning when the prosecution in the Aboni. Santra
(f.) Appropriation, control, forfei-case at the Criminal Sesvious (reported
concern
in the
matter
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foot down when it might. It has not the Court of Directors of the Colonial themselves to what they require. been backing up its own referees as it Bank has just been announced, has Some of the big hong messes, in (c) Trading, exportation, importa unght to, if it is to be a live and retired from the Civil Service, though cluding the Hongkong Shanghai Bank. tion, production, and manufacture; afficient association. There are about he is only sixty-four. By the time he lost their boys this morning and more
Kashgar, (P. and O. S. N. Co.) daughter of Mr. W. E. Clarke of half a dozen of these men who are was thirty-one he had ectured five than one businessman got a distress ture and disposition of property, and in another column) had been closed, from Kobe, Shanghai trom
first-class referees. That means that medals and the D.8.0. After a spell ful telephone message informing him of the use thereof
the Attorney General (the Hon. Mr. Tangistan (Nemazce) Shang- theit abilities and knowledge as Governor at Hongkong, Sir Fred-that all was not well to with the com (g) Conferring powers on public J. H. Kemp, K..) applied for an hai, Keelung.-K. Bay. have passed certain recognized erick returned to Nigeria where he missariat department at home. There officers and other
adjournment of the hearing. Indus Maru, (0.8.K.) from Yok- tests. One is a Cap Tieman, spent the whole war period. is talk of the markets teing closed) Requiring persons to do work Counsel for defence, Mr. R. E. kaichi. Moji-A. 6.
Belifios, had no objection to this an English League referee. Another
Tamba Maru, (N.Y.K.) from Bom- down if the men's demands are not 02 render services; and has credentials from the Army Foot- ball Association and from a Home
Mr. J. E. Green, whose death is agreed to by next Friday and there () Providing for compensation, if course but the Chief Justica seemed bay, Singapore.-A. 3. county association: Yet every one of reported at Guildford was a well, was consequently a rush to-day to lay any, to be paid for work dole or loath to have the onse delayed. The these men has been protested against known writer on agriculture. He was in supplies of provisions, eervices rendered or in respect of Attorney General and Mr. Belliog The position is absurd and intolerable 54 years of age, and was born at Hong If the Government does, find it ghts affected, in consequence of the then and a few moments whispered It isn't only Chinese emotionaliem kong. He first hegan in a city office, anfessary to call for voluntes's to provisions of any regulations made conversation with the Judge across that we are considering. The but, se he put it, "bating the re- keep asential services, going there under this Ordinance, and for the the bench after which hio Hon European followers of the game are kimentation of commercialem and the will assuredly be a ready response. It determination of euch compensation. suspended the hearing while he every bit as bad. It is reported that boredom of suburbanism, he turned was felt in town to day that things (3) Any regulations made, under counsel adjourned to chamber one man who occupies a fairly, high to the land Mr. Green sat on the were fast appteaching & critical stage the provisions of this section shel Returning to court a couple of minu government position went up to a Royal Commission'on Agriculture, and when anything might happen" and continue in force until repealed by later, the Judge made the following
order of the the Governor In Council, announcemont did much work on behalf of the farm at different stages of the morning a referee, to whom he was a stranger.
3. Every person, who contravones labɔurer
Chita Muri reporter encountered four and complained that it was the worst
under this, men who were on their way up to the any regulation rafereeing he had ever seen! Wat
Ordnance, stall pelion station to enrol 68 special cons Riad of sporte smships that? The Chiot Inspector - of follow ong
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"TRUTH, SUKTION, FUBLIO" SERVIOK
Planazono, TUESDAY F#m 23, 1932.
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GOVERNMENT, ACTS
The Attorney General, bas just
ved an urge t summons attend a meeting of the Executi
noon,The meating. to of urgency. Under the circumste not I will have to adjourn the Okse
to-morrow mornläğ,
The Court accordingly adjourned
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