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Evidence of how two Chinese
London, July 21, members of the Labour Mainten-
The general strike in May is ance Bureau aszuped from police the pumping station at Pokfulam not to be the last or alternatively, re-Was destroyed, and yet most of us if it should prove to be the last. Sweitering in the hot sun dir- constables by drawing their
volvers
before Mir. resident on Robinson and Conduit that will not be because organ- was given ing the week-end some people have,
R. E. Lindsell at the Central Roads are not getting even one ised industrial labour has been maintained that the temperature Maistrues this morning when drop of water from the house convinced by its momentous for a realisation on the part of must, have been a "record.
charged with as hold taps. One month--and the periment of the futility of the Such is not the case. Opinions the men were may differ as to what constitutes saulting an employee of a fire-condition is still the
same as general strike weapon.
a thing a hal heat wave but the follow- wood shop at No. 16, Belcher when it "began! Such
Many leaders of labour, not to Street.
cannot be. 1 Hd not want ing are the facts.
to mention a manifesto issued with authorities they the authority of the General August is the hottest month of In the course of his evidence jeriticise the
mar have received much of late-but Council of the Trade Union Con- and with the Colony's welfare at the Hongkong year although the complainant said that mean temperatujes are about the named Chan Min came to his shop crnnot they see the reflection of gress, have recently proclaimed heart I would like to know when! at about 10 p.m. on August 16 such a thing? They said that in that labour unity emerged from the Government intend putting On Sunday the highest tempera-and again after midnight to-two weeks time there would be no the text of
May actually into force recommendations on ture recorded at the Royal User-gether with another man, to see more inconvenience on account of strengthened
shoaling in the Harbour made as vatory was 91 degrees at 2 p.m., an employee in regard to a mak the breakdown, but they
that have forgotten to look at the
long ago as 1905 by the firm of this being the maximum for the Jong debt. Witness said
when he told Chin Min that thejcælendar. If there is a tolerable" The programme of the annual Mitchell and re-iterated in 1920 by Code, Eitzmaurice. Wilson and werk-uid.
this delay, which Trade Union Congress, to be open-Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice when employee was not in the shop he reason for was seized by the other man and think is quite unnecessary and in-ed at Bournemouth on September he was in Hongkong? A "China Mai" reporter who put through a search in spite of excusable. I pray that we shall not 6. shows that among a fairly wice Incidentally, the papers have made inquiries was courteously the fact that he was dressed only furthermore be kept in the dark: diversity of industries a belief in referred to the shoal of the Clock informed by Mr. T. F. Claxton, in a singlet and short pants, and shall be ready to grow the efficacy, "of Director hat according to the The twn men charged in the case humbler and tender ar apology labour General Staff till time previously." I think I am all-powerful Tower having been dredged "some. igures, Sunday was hotter than were then stated to have prodded The authorities some time ago strongly rooted... Saturday.
him with revolvers until he man- did a thing for which we were Only sixty-six motions have previously was 1918 when the right in stating that "some time The record for August, and for aged to break away and escape then quite thankful. The extra been lodged. The any month. is 97 degrees, on into a laundry shop which later expenses incurred by every house-Amalgamated Furnishing trades Enoch," was engaged on the work.
National Government owned dredger. "St.|| August 19, 1900,
received a visit from a Chinese holder in paying coolies to fetch demand a maximum forty-four This dredger was afterwards put The Colony has experienced 92 constable.
water from nullahs and such hour week in all trades. Alout of action during a typhoon degrees._on_other occasions.? The constable in evidence, places were lessened by the national minimum wage of £3 Sund
These, of course, are official said he was held up on the way authorities, sending men to cer-sought by the National Union of figures, registered in the shade. to the Police Station by his pri-tain places where they connected Clerks, The Boilermakers and
Residents who keep thermo-soner. the first defendant. who fountains to street mains, thereby fron Shipbuilders Society submitt meters in open verandahs may drew his revolver and said he making it easier for the people to a motion for the introduction of claim to have seen over 100 de- VAK
himself. Wit-get water.'" For the last few days, decimal A constable grees But such figures can hardly ness blew his whistle for assist. the period during which water weights and measures.
coinage and metric be described as in the shade." ance and it was stated that an. may be obtained in this wise has
To the typhoon which passed to other constable who appeared was been shortened at many places. Miners Remain Qule!. the N.N.E. of Hongkong is attri-threatened by the second man with After three quarters of an hour or
The report to which our corres- buted the local heat waye."
It is remarkable that not a pondent refers is that on Hong- his revolver and both made their so the coolies simply walked away single motion stands in the game kong Harbour Improvements by with the taps on their shoulders. of the Miners Federation while the firm of Code, Fitzmaurice, This cyclone is not the one The complainant having made a Still, no one has grumbled against the complete whsence of the name Wilson and Mitchelf, issued in which was reported on Friday and denial in court that he knew the it; and I would not have hastened of the National Union of Railway- 1922 Saturday to be filling up near the two defendants, Divisional Inspec- with this letter, had I not witness- men from the section of the Paracels but the other one which cor Grant suggested that witness'sed the disgraceful behaviour of a agenda relating to the extension arm mentioned recalls the atten In the course of this report the came into the China Sea from reluctance to identify the men was police officer, trying to prevent of the powers of the Generation of the Hongkong Government. further out in the Pacific Ocean, because of fear and also that he the poor, unknowing coolies and Council may ako be regarded as to the fact that seventeen years beyond Luzon Island.
had been got at. It was further emahs from obtaining any water significant. Yesterday this typhoon entered suggested that Chan Min, who by scaring them away with
previously they had reported on: Early in the proceedings the shoaling in the Harbour. having! the coast near Foochow and fur-lived next door to the complainant threats, and using the most National Laundry Workers Union gone into the question very fully. ther intelligence is waited. and had since run away, enlisted shocking language.
will move a resolution expressing obtained much information from Mr. Claxton also explained how the aid of the two defendants to Yesterday morning, a little be the belief, inter alia, that the time the Admiralty on the subject and it is that when a typhoon "misses" collect the debt.
fore eleven, I chanced to be in one of national or group organisa-stated that "it is of great import- the Colony we usually get a period His Worship remarked that it of the houses behind the Jewish tions fighting for their rights is ance that the question which has of hot weather. Cyclones which was a very serious affair for the Club and synagogue, or Robinson out-of-date. This point of view been raised with regard to the, go to the East, or North-East, of defendants to use their revolvers Road. About fifteen minutes is reinforced by the more power feilting should be carefully con- Hongkong, start from the Equa- and resist the police when they after the tap was fixed, an Indian ful National Union of Distribu-sidered and thoroughly invesAITHFUL SERVICES tor, bringing the hot winds should be of assistance to them. constable came along and stopped tive and Allied Workers which tigated." The report went on to along with them and thereby The first defendant was sentenced everybody from getting the would urge the General Council recommend that a very complete causing the heat in adjoining to six months' hard labour. In the smallest drop of water, by turn-in view of the lessons arising out survey of certain portions of the pinces.
case of the second defendant, ing off the tap as tightly as he of the General Strike" to reconsi- Harbour should be carried out. who claimed to have taken no part could, with, the result that several, der its decision of last February In the assault or to have gone disappointed, were forced to go not to seek further powers from or necessary," continued the re- with the first defendant towards away. One coolie, however, suc- the affiliated organisations. the Police Station,
port, to make observations in a short ad- ceeded in turning on the tap journment was made to enable a again, but he did not obtain any One Control for Strikes.
Hongkong Harbour, at such close! intervals as are adopted in some witness to be summoned by tele-thing. for his action so disgusted! The Amalgamated Engineering other harbours. At Colombo, for the Indian that the latter kicked Union whose members have on instance, the whole area of the The following typhoon warning]
On the men being brought in him away. I watched him for the whole, probably suffered re-harbour,, amounting to 643 acres. appears in the mid-day weather again. His Worship said he pro-lover twenty minutes, thinking latively by the trade depression, is divided up into squares the report to-day.
posed to suspend the sentence on all the time that he was just more than any other industry, length of whose sides is 200 feet Typhoon in Lat. 18 N. Long the first defendant pending fur-playing. But I suddenly realised have tabled 118 E., direction unknown, posi-ther inquiries and remanded both that he had no right to stop instructing the General Council to amount of shoaling and dredging a composite motion and a continuous record of the men on bail until 11 a.m. on people from getting what they take over all trade disputes in an in each square is recorded. If Pressure ad decreased con- Saturday,
needed, (they were not wasting early stage and use all the re-standard lines at much greater water), and I wanted to go down sources of the whole trade union intervals were laid out in the situation. Before I could leave solution satisfactory to the work Harbour, it should be sufficient the verandah, I heard proceeding ers. Several other organisations for immediate requirements..... from the Indian's tongue the strike a similar note, adhering to In addition to taking soundings on most dreadful and indecent an- the policy of the General Council fixed lines, observations of cur- In English law you can only guage in Chinese. I shouted to having all power to call a gradual, rents, and possibly gecasional bor- The position and direction of claim against the dead man's him asking him to be quiet, partial or complete stoppage when tags, should be made." motion of the southern typhoon is estate and not against his wife or and then I went down. When they deem it advisable and ad-
Sir William's View. uncertain. The deduced position children, explained the Puisne reached the road, the Indian was vocating the strengthening of the The reference in our is Lut. 18 or 19 N. and Long. 118 Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) to nowhere to be seen; and as the General Council's hands by divers pondent's letter to the need of
a plaintiff at the Summary Court coolies were not disturbed
any means not the least important of dredging in Hongkong, as express- Local forecast until noon to this morning against whom a de-more I decided not to go after which is a closer alliance between ed by Sir William Fitzmaurice, is morrow: West or variable winds, cision was given.
him and start an argument. the trade unions and the Co-contained in a letter written to: moderate; fine to cloudy. That Sing Kee of No. 221, Hollywood I am sure that any one who operative Societies in order that the then Director of Public Works fot. Hongkong to Lamocks, and Road sued Cheong Kee and Li learns of this will naturally feel ample food supplies--maybe of Hongkong in November, 1920 Formosa
Channel, is: S.W. Poon Shi of No. 225, Hollywood very indignant, like I have felt readily available in time of (contained in the 1922 report winda moderate.
Read for $114, principal and in- and am feeling. I write this so trouble.
from which extracts have been Meteorological readings at 6tereat due under a borrowing that the police authorities, if they
Other Views.
given). [a.m. to-day were: Barometer note.
see it, will see to the Indian get-
The letter is as follows:- 29.49; temperature 82, humidity; Defendant was a woman whose ting what they think he deserves. Reaction is apparent in but one The large number of reclama- 190; wind force
1, direction husband was dead and she had To enable them to trace the man, resolution, viz. that of the Nations completed, in progress or [W.N.W.; weather bm.
been paying Interest at the rate of will tell them that the constable tional Association of Plasterers, proposed will no doubt make their $2 per month for 23 months.
had two stripes and spoke with a which asks that before all affiliat-influence felt in the future by His Lordship remarked that loud, sonorous tone; and as they ed unions be asked to strike, causing some alteratione, and it there was no legal obligation for already know the time, it will be due time shall be allowed for the is important that a proper har- the woman to have done so and, an easy job to find out who was on matter to be fully discussed for bour survey on standard lines, gave judgment in her favour. duty around that part at that the whole of the unions affiliated permanently marked, should be
time.
to take a ballot of their members. completed so that comparisons Meanwhile, I hope that the Following this, however, is an may be made from time to time. authorities will do their best to expression of opinion by the I would like to suggest that the see to an early completion of re- Amalgamated Society of Wood-staff of the Public Works Depart- pairs with regard to pipes, and so workers that workers cannot ment should be increased by the ei, so that we may be able to have avoid the use of mass industrial addition of one senior man, decus- seizure being made on Saturday in A corpse floating in a reservoir, usual water supply before long, action and a demand that the tomed to keeping records of Macro.
euch is the startling discovery made think it is most disencouraging, General Council shall continuous-soundings, current observations Detectives in the Portuguese to the police yesterday morning.
when the reservoirs are all so full, ly attempt to expedite union and other different matters which Colony raided an "iron shop" and The body was that of a Chinese to have become victims of this amalgamations. Reuter. (by form the history of a harbour, and are stated to have found a field boy of about 14 years of age, "dog-in-a-manger like, lack of mail).
a junior map who would assist pfece, which was in several parts found floating in Pokfulam Re- water,
[him and be an understudy." that could be fitted together.
It would be interesting to know what is the Government's attitude with regard to these views of a recognised expert and whether it The closing rate of the dollar, ever intends to put any of his on demand today was 2/1 15/16 recommendations into operation.".
TYPHOON NEWS.
LATEST WARNINGS AND POSITION.
tion uncertain.
siderably at Shanghai and moder-
phone.
"We do not. consider it possible
ately at Chefco: It has increased DEAD MAN'S DEBTS, and make him understand the movement in the effort to force a Western portion of Hongkong
moderately at Tokyo and slightly!
over. S. Chinu and the Philippines.
The northern typhoon is now a few miles west of Shanghai, mov- ing northward.
or 119 E. +2
CANNON CASE.
'SEQUEL: DISCOVERY IN MACAO.
ANOTHER SEIZURE..
Hongkong's cannon manufactur- ing case has had a sequel, a similar
CAN ONLY CLAIM AGAINST ESTATE.
STRANGE DEATH.
CORPSE FLOATING IN A RESERVOIR.
servoir, by, a. caretaker.
a
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I thank you, in anticipation, for
The mechanism is described as Relatives are stated to have iden- the insertion of this letter,
very elaborate.
Three men were arrested
| being subsequently released
ball.
tified deceased. Foul play is noti
one ruspected, the presumption being
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or swim, and was drówned,
Honga, etc..
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