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TUESDAY, MATCH 14. 1972;.
(5). We have decided to forgive the|· amsh. She is of them that nor not what they do." As for the "boy," no more benevolence-be shall have justice, if we can honestly define it, but no mare.
SPECIAL CABLE.
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PRINCES TOUR.
SINGAPORE'S WELCOME
PREPARATIONS.
(China Mail SPECIAL)
SINGAPORE, Mar. 19. Great preparations are being made here for the Prince's visit.
appear that it will not so much as be defested because it is only a digit plais contents of the lines them! mention the matter unless they of the undefeatable British Empire. selves.) In business there is a take their cue from these remarks, If every Chinese in China were to be sensible action row as "cutting a and add a postscnpt.
in such an affentire, our prestige less." We kept telling the employers If the statement says nothing on would emerge as shining bright as what was com ng, and advised them that head, we shall be in duty bound ever. The Chinese know this well to cut the loss," by easing up a bit
(6) Before finally deciding to sack to accept the Government's denial enough. It is only a few ignorant now to stare off the wone to follow. that it applied any such pressure. That younelings who may have the wrong If the shipowners in this instance had the Governor and half a dozen of the will place those who censure the idea that the Guilds have fought and replied civilly to the first demands at head officials, get into a quiet corner, settlement as a premature, an won a fight, The balk of the Chinese the Cante, and hd offered something put yourself in their shoes, and be uzdignified. and * disastrons are probably saying among themselves on account, they'd have not away clear what you would have done if surrender, in the position of having that the Government has behaved like with it, and the--and all of us you had been them, at the time.
(7) In that matter of "lost to blame the shipowners for the aninda'gent father, whose authority, would have saved much we have lost. weakness they detect in the ending of however, tands secure. He dislikes With astounding shrewdness someone prestige," don't throw the heive after this struggle. "Why," such people to see his children unhappy, and so objects: Ab, but they would have the hatchet. Don't throw your will be obliged to say, did the very loog as their demands are not recognized that weakness, and trousers away because the bottoms men who began the struggle, by roo preposterous he will hum-core again." What if so? Yield have got a little muddy; have 'em
them. Bat it be be ignoring the original demands, and our
again a little and yet again. so cleaned an I pressed. patting up & blaff for so many angered by serious faults! Well, long as the little yieldings represent a (S) If you really must tell Bob S. weeks, thus drawing us all into it, so Germany knows what the anger of the cost less than the strike Always what a bash he made of it, don't suddenly cave in?"
British Raj is, and Germany was consider the value of the candle in mind us; but watch his bands. He's That if the shipowners' state-stronger than a combination of Trade any game. If you invite five friends a Lefty chap mezt does not contradict the Union. A giant who in his own to poker, give them ten dollar's worth (9) Pray for all those pendo Government's denial. II iwisdom and discretion refrains from of dinner, $20 worth of drinks, and Christians who were demanding more **... should do so. we will believe using his full strength loses no prestige, win only 50 cents, you are still satis. bayoneting and shooting, as a remedy. them and not the Government, be- A bleating sissy who, having fancied fied, because you've had your fan. (10) If you don't like our plain. Cause we have had Government that some man has pulled his nose. But strikes are no fun. They are a speaking, that you demanded, and derials before, and know how public runs down str. et yelling: "He tried to nuisance, and the strikers know it have got, do the other thing. The officials by glazing words can glaze pall my nose. He has made me lose and calculate on it. What's more. Lord is is our shepherd, and is sure to their consciences so as to be able to prestige," never has any prestige to they come again, just as you feared provide. proclaim what from a simple citizen lose.
they would if you made the first would be a damred lie.
graceful concession. That sort of face
But now having referred to the There is an additional reason why sane view of the limits that exist saving isn't worth half a candle. The
the Trade Union's
power first man who asks you fer à match alleged
let success,
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Explicit.
LOCAL AND GENERAL-
The Kowloon Theatre holds its
you giving the match. You can always usual cabaret dance this evening. refuse the dollar if you feel like it, and be no worse off.
To-day the number of ships in So in the way we treat our domestic port. had dwindled from 10 to 100,
Just now this is a delicate The tonnage total was 191,560. servants. question. The horrible ingratitude
Over Pesos 50,000 were collected of well-treated servants lately is a by-word. Bors who got full pay on it opium fines during 1921, according report just made by the leave, loans when in trouble, help for to their families, and all sorts of Philippines Customs. considerate treatment, showed up no better than servants who had had
ungrateful want of
:
The Prince arcives at Port on March 28 and. Swettenham Singapore on March 31.
The Malaya-Borneo exhibition has. been organised on a lavish scale.
Visitors are arriving from all parts including Australia.
COMPANY MEETING.
MESSRS. A. S. WATSON 4.CO. LTD.
The 37th anual ordinary general. meeting of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., was held in the Hongkong. Hotel at 11.30 am.to-day.
Mr. B. Humphreys presided, and there were present Mr. H. P. White (director), Mr. J. A. Tarmant (Secretary), and Messrs. MS. Northcote, &. P. Santy, W, Morley, D.- E. Clark, F. W. Stapleton, G. Rapp. J. D. Humphreys and J. M. Wong
Shareholders.)
The Chairman said: Gentlemen:-At the last Annual
Meeting, I said it was gratifying to come before you with the best account in the history of the Company. It is therefore at more gratifying to come before you with a report which is even better showing as it does an increased profit of $23.851.16. It was the intention of your directors to for the yest under review, but taking have paid a slightly larger dividend into account that business ass been
February last, they decided to carry
larger amount forward as it was im-. possible to predict what the effect of the strike crisis would be, on-the current year's account.
If you will refer to the Balance Sheet, you will doubtless notice big increases in the assets under the
(in the said eventuality) we shall to believe the shipowners rather than and
as may ask you for a dollar if you give the Govemment. The Government not overlook the fact that it him one, but that doesn't prevent did not simply say that they bad has some power and some potentiality refrained from any kind of pressure of success.
This strike is settled, but it is not on the shipowners to make them ecd a state of things that was very uncom over! It was only a dress rehearsal, Ltd.fortable and growing daily more dan an experiorntal exercise of newly gerous. So dangerous, indeed, that if acquired and untried powers. the Government had done what they
The best judges, Chinese and say they didn't do, they would not European, expect more to follow. have deserved the cheap and easy cen-{
Therefore, instead of prattling sure of the inglorious but not mute about the rehearsal, and hunting for berces who said they would have scapegoats upon whom to wreak our
A Chinese attempted to commit preferred to fight on-when resentment of cur late discomforts,
hare justice, or even less than that. suicide yesterday by jumping off the the fight was over.] The Govern- let us look ahead. ment in its statement went so far as į
We have already admitted that we pitied them when we believed Pottinger" Street Wharf. He was to say that it had done nothing in these combined Guilds have power to they were scared and couldn't help rescued and taken to hospital. connection with the strike except to cause us temporary discomfort. A themselves, and then we heard of An extraordinary general meeting y to passerve law and order. That point is how much of it we are pre- their manifesto that they were leaving of the British Legion will be held on is not true. Its action in declaring pared to endure, and bow far we are as in "righteous indignation." We the seaten's guild an unlawful society willing to go to avert it or to shorten began to suspect then that they were Munday, March 20, for the purpose was a piece of intimidation that failed, it when it comes.
less intimidated than they pretended; i of electing officers and committee for virtually at a standstill since first of and that was at no time justified or Certain advantages Lave that their alleged fears were conning the current year. wise.
enjoyed and boasted of in these lies to cover really sympathetic Passing under the verandah of a Don't shoct! We knew you parts, as regards cheap labour striking. Even if that were so, and Yaumati house yesterday, a 15-year wouldn't like that; but, we are going particularly, we have allowed ourselves however much we may be disgusted old Chinese boy was struck on the to say some things you will like, to regard as somehow natural and by their presently, so you'll miss 'em if you inevitable and permanent conditions. consideration, we must be prepared for head by s bamboo pole which fell shoot.]
hospital. On that false foundation we have laid sympathetic strikes. They are a part from the first floor. "He is now in our plans; there is nothing stable of the game as it is played, part of Its extraordinary action in closing about recnomic conditions in any the machinery for the unity which is Local British residents wishing to headings of Building Improvements the Colony, (which you also ap- planded) also requires justifica part of the world at any time, though might, and the might which is right attend the reception and ball to be and Asrated Water Machinery. As We have to meet that somehow. Shall given in honour of the Prince of regards the former, these include a tion.
The original strikere were apparent stabilty may endure for
season, as it did here. We started it we be diplomatic or ball-headed! We Wales will learn where to apply for new storey on the European quarters allowed to go to Canton. Theyourselves, with
our missionaries have found out (thanks to thema Ives) invitations from an advertisement in at North Point, a new water tower at were skilled and essential labourers-pching doctrines that the Chinese that we can stage without them;
North Point, an Electric goods lift in this issue. The domestic servants, who Are were quick to apply logically, and our but do we want to? The shipowners unskilled labour, and easily re-
In response to a knock a small placeable, were prevented. Why? educational institutions introducing could manage without their men; but The probability is that by letting young and earrest students to all the other want to?
windiest nozzerse of our own sociali There is nothing impossible about bay living in a Park Street house them all go to Canton, to help eat up reformere.. inducing
economical the task of making this Colony entire opened the front door yesterday evening. Four armed men entered the Union funds, and the dwindling fallacies like Karl Marx. The stuff ly a white man's Colony, with every but promptly decamped when the food supplies there, they would have has been fermenting. The World job of work in it to be done by hastrnes the coming of a more War set the pot a-boiling.. There Europeans. The wages till would Teas.nable frame of mind in both the is no man knows what will be the jump enormously, but so would prices. Three men with revolvers and top authorities as may have been one of these larger ambitions and a new economic level would be one with a dagger broke into a snd desires, to get more out of social found. It could be done, and in sume Yaumati goldsmith's shop yesterday secretly encouraging the strikers. life than social life can possibly offer. ways it is a pleasing dream.
evening. Having boned and gagged Can'en would have felt the pitchs in the Great War, so in the Labour But the employer knows quite the inmates they stole $18 in cash sooper than Hongkong, and the terms Unrest, Hongkong scarcely realizas well that there would still and $140 worth of jewellery. of the certain settlement would have er feels the extent of it. Hongkong be strikes, and sympathetic been more satisfactory than they seem is parochially minded. Hengkong is strikes, and Unions every bit as The following forthcoming mar to be. For one thing, the Cantonese as the Bourbons, who learnt nothing difficult and stubborn to deal with. riages are announced:-Mr. C. S. would not have got the impress on, and could forget nothing. But We should have rounded a vicious Wood, Customs Officer of Hoihow, to which they undoubtedly have now, Hongkong is in the fur like the rest circle, like the losfer in the story, Dr. (Miss) Helen May, Tenrg, of the that the atrile weapon is necessary of the world, and must get used to persuaded to work in order that be Hospital for Women and Children HENDRIKSEN.-Or March 4 1932, effective in getting them all they the Trade Union menace and learn might rave, ard to save in order that Heibow. Mr. K. K. Staple, Overseer
I trust you will approve of the at Shanghai, Carl Frederick want, or may want in inture. In both how to deal with it.
he might retire from working and of the P.W.D., to Miss May Jack Hendriksen. Chief Cficer ea
these matters we do not doubt that.
Labour and Millar, of Kowloon.
proposed transfer to Reserve Fund the Government was siming at Why we at pry sent blame the resume his Luafing.
and the various writings off, also the "Kiargyu,” äged 58 yesia.
Returning home in a ricahe last proposed payment to the Staff ANTONCICH.-On March 4, 1929, at bastening the end of the trouble. It advisers of the shipowners is that they capital are eternally married; there Shanghai, Lucilia, wife of Lis fair to admit that either or both permitted this engagement before the is no divorce for them.. Like some
I have no further remarks to make, might seem to promise sacuers Had real merace had appeard. The real husbands and wires they are incom-night, & Tai Hang schoolboy was Provident Fund. they succeeded, the Government menace of Trade Unionism is its patible can never be wholly satisfied stopped on the Shackiwan Road near CHILVER-On March 4, 1922, at would 1erhape have heard no single belief that "might is right." It with each other, and mast both give the French Hospital by three men and have now to propose that the
jED❜t. There
somewhere a and take. It is not due to the per-armed with revolvers and daggers who Report and Statement of Accounts as- When the Shanghai Samuel Chilver, aged word of reproach. But they didn't
resolution has been duly seconded, I succeed. We shall attempt to show point beyond which employers soral vitiousness of employes that stole $25 in notes, a gold wrislet presented be passed,
ahall be pleased to aaswer any ques Wellington, New Zealand, to Mir. MARSHALL-On March 4, 1922, at that such methods never ran Encceed, cannot go, & wage standard beyond they are notoriously reluctant givers, watch, and a felt bat.
Shanghai, Elizabeth Sellars, any more than strikes
which industry could not pay, where- but to the system of including
The T.K.K. steamer "Tenyo tions before putting the motion to labour 28 commodity which widow of Mr. P. Marźball, Iste
upon it would naturally cease to
Mr. Northcote, who seconded the Manager the Eastern Extension
Here, by the way, let us mention continue and thus felt at the strongest must be bought in the cheapest Mara," which arrived at Nagasaki the meeting.
Bold in the dearest, from Hongkong on the evening of of Trade Unions. As to that point in and Telegraph Company, in her 48th
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TRUTE, CSTICK,'. PUBLIO EYEVICE."
LONGKONG, TURDAY, MARCH 14, 1922.
IF YOU MUST HAVE IT.
Any expletive you like.
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the Warehouse in Stanley Street.
ext.nsive Constructional and
to the Hongkong. alterations Dispensary store. At regards the latter, the additions include new bottle washing plant both here and". in Canton, a new power plant in Canton and new refrigerating plant in Hongkong in addition to extra bottl ing and corking machines.
The increases under the headings of Stocks in Trade and Local and General Liabilities are less than what might be expected from the big drop in exchange. It is obvious that sa we have to buy nearly all our goods from countries with a fixed currency, the lower our dollar is, the more valuable in local currency our stocks become, and the higher our
abilities become.
it, and that some of our own injudic-witnesses, because the present system for £15 a year, paid qua terly, and leaving Hongkong she developed the Company.
The motion - was carried
unanimously..
our feeling that this strike has not any industry the best informed must We recall (for its interest in passing) February 18, en route to San adoption of the report and accounts, been the triumphant success that be those engaged in it, but a case cisclosed at Home in which a Francisco, was towed into harbour by corratulated the Chairman on the some of the ignorant Chinese esteem unfortunately these are never the best firm of auctioneers employed a youth one of the Mitsubishi's tags. After steady improvemente in the affairs of ions and indiscreet brethren have of haggling for labour as a commodity farmed out his service to another engine trouble. The veel bad to re- been proclaiming it. The Government
makes them untrustworthy. They firm in the same line at thirty shillings main. for repairs by the Mitsubishi probably thought it was fast as well will resist a ten per cent, increase, not a day. On these days, numbering Zosan Kaisha and it was not expected to let the Chinese processionists because it would hurt them seriously, each year about 60, he was doings that she would be able to rexime her "blow off steam" a bit; and to view but because it might be a step to man's job and handling sums of ap voyage for some days. of the wore things averted, that may further increases, and because nat i to £250 in ready cash! also have been an exercise in discately hey have imagined themselves However. This is probably tion. Yet from another point of view permanently in the old happy situs enough to satiate the demand we have
A story of real enterprise, which
ut tam the other ronges of the
The Chairman proposed the re election of the Hon. Bir Paul Chater G. M. G., Mr. J. Scott Harston--and Mr. H.P. White sa directors of the company for the ensuing year.
Mr. Stapleton seconded. Carried nem com.
Carried unanimously.
SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.-
it was still another mistake. It is tion of being able to say "take it met for our comments on the situation world green with envy, comes from simply not true that the bances or leave it." That is why the present generally, so we will now sit back and Japan, says a Shanghai paper. Since Mr. Black proposed and Mr. Mockey If we continue to await the promiscared contaiced any offensive senti settlement is so bad, that it left out await the shipowners statement; September last an employee in a seconded, the re-election of Mr. C. eldest daughter of the late Major ed statement by the shipowners, it meats, for which a Briton needed to arbitration; and now we have no sure which we would have preferred to do forwarding agency with the assistance Bernard Brown, ACA., and Mr. H. William Bannatyne Graham, 2nd seems we shall wait until the nine bush. The people who said so were knowledge of whether eith-r-party to and meant to do, until discouraged by of a boatman has managed to Greenwood, A.C.A., as auditors of the Manchesters, and Mrs. W. B. days wonder has died its normal imaginative liars, whoever they were this dispute hat any moral right to the announcement of the extreme misappropriate a million yen worth company for the ensuing year at a Graham, of Claremont Gardens, death, until the people have lost We especially investigated this polit fight. We have no exact knowledge care and deliberation with which it is of lamber, duly selling it to a building remuneration of $500 each. Surbiton, Surrey, England, interest in it, and have turned to and were satisfied that there was of the alleged extortionate dedpetions | being prepared. We shall probably contractor. How it was accomplished
·BEITH-HOERTER-On March 2, other interests. In Isat night's Chino nothing objectionable on the banners
1922, at Bhat ghai, Ian Alexander Mad you would see reasons given for Bat the processions themselves were compradores and boarding-house discun it when it appears, and other has not transpired, but owing to the This terminated the meeting.
recruiters and zo notion how that points in connection with the strike fact that the pair were seen to be bering much too gay a time about Beith, to Jean Johnston, daugh- the delay in issuing the statement, objectionable. They persuaded the
town the authorities took cognizance TO this settlement.
Meanwhile, these memoranda: ter of Mr. and Ms. M. Hoerter, which we had been led to expect to non-partic pating Chinese, who know rumoured iniquity is to be affected by as we think of them, of Shanghai.
day at "latest. Those reasons might how difficult it is in normal timer to
(1) Don't squeal till you are burt. of their doings and locked them up. be the time oNER..
get permits for processions, that the
Thers messes (of labour) can never Don't cross bridges till you come to then the full mesenre "of their
iniquities teas We must (in view of the natural power of the Guilds is greater than it get all they are dreaming of getting; impatience of our readers) try to do is. It seems they have so persuaded but they can, and will, get some of it. our best without it.
some too impressionable Europeans. For years past we have been warning Our chief interest in it was not its who ought to know holky. The employers what to expect sod
dentally un carefully calculated decimals. We British Bay has lost no prestige what behave. wished to see if the shipowners would ever If every Chinese in Hongkangen endless confirm the intelligent guess that twee beartily co-operating in some it to hap at Shanghai, of Leart failure after lovernment had put pramure on them tamen
uggle in future, long illness, Charles Fríncia to settle the strike to avoid furthe
tempor MeWiliams, in his 19th year, 12, touble.
when it does
DEATHS.
LAMPERT.-On January 12, 1922, at Rydney, Australia, Cayrtain J. Lampert, aged 74 years,
BL-WILLIAMS ---Un March 8, 1922,
“Government? Cannot
to conquer that craving fór
Lis preliminary notices of forth- coming meetings, lectures and sfomenta, sent for insertions in columns of the China Mail tiberate of $1 each hoed in May, and.jme di
Killerther they do not Kir: four - linea In
exceeded theýi