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Remanded from Saturday morn have worked for thany years and ing on a charge of trespassing in a spent the best part of their lives for Government plantation at Kowloon the interests of their employers. City, two Chinese wombu were at Men who have held many reapon- the Kowloon Magistracy thiasible positions of different kinds, morning fined $5 or seven days' in until they attained senior or au- default of payment.
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A Chinese, who stole a blanket those who have proved their abilities MR. T. V. SOONG'S GREETING. from 81 Woosung Street, was at the and honesty and held posts that com- Kowloon Magistraty this morning manded respect and conducted sentenced to three weeks' hard affairs of some departments or es- labour A-similar-penalty was tablishments with tact and skill, at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof An elaborate function was held given to another Chinese who plead both, in fat and lean years. This ed guilty to the theft of a indder type should never be placed for when the announcement was made Garden on Saturday afternoon from a contractor at Kowloon City. being dealt with under the retch-by the Rev. Yung Park of the of Nancy. the
Messrs A. S. Watson & Co.
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'There are also the inevitable book-engagement Limited, have sent the Chinn Mail keepers whose only work is the re-daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Li Shu- samples of Mesars Whitbread & petition of the usual periodical fan, to Lambert Gockchin, second Company's India Pale Ale, Double balance sheet for years, who have son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Gockchin. Brown Ale, and Finest London becanie old, and could be replaced by Stout. Mesura Whitbread & Com-the younger and cheaper element. A large and representative pany. Ltd., are the largest brewers These and other kindred workers gathering partook of tea, during of ales and stout in Great Britain, aise deserve some consideration for which the Rev. Wong Of-tong, in, and their product deservedly enjoys their tedious labours before being speech the customs of old and Chinese, recalled in a happy
summarily fired.
an immense popularity at Home. This is the first time that Messrs
I personally know a few local modern China. | Whitbread & Company, Ltd., have men of this high character being The Hotel band gave some live- exported their beers to the East and superseded by Home men who werely jazz numbers while a pro- the Far East, and this is now ac inexperienced and unfitted for the gramme of music, to which complished after years of experi
posts. The local men had to teach Messrs. Li Chor. Chi, Geall, and ment made to ensure that the pro-and guide them carefully until they Bailey contributed, was also duct shall be in every respect exact became fit to ride on their trainers' feature. Dancing was indulged ly as that consumed at Home; with shoulders (and then, ead to say, in aut preservatives
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other degeme ungrateful cases the game of leterious admixture. In short; "the beggar on horseback" started), Many representatives of the is the real "homeside" beer. *The When a person I have indleat various companies of the Colony high quality of Messrs Whitebrended has had to weather overy squall were present, as were also a num- & Company's ales and stout is ac- for his employers' interests before her of Chinese. medical practi- companied by very moderate prices. he reached the station of life tioners, among whom being Dr.
CORRESPONDENCE
RETRENCHMENT SCHEME.
1
to which he is by that time accus- Jew Hawk, Dr. Ma Luk, Dr. E. tomed and his hair is turning, and Dr. T. C, Wong. grey, and he is still able to carry on, Among the many friends and he should be told to step down for well-wishers of the future bride a younger man, whatever the latter's and bridegroom's parents were [To the Editor of "Chino Mail.")' ability, it would be genuine Dr. W. W. Cadbury of the Canton A person's past re- Christian University, Dr. E. W. Sir,-Anent the Government's culpable act. action in increasing tobacco taxes or must carefully and sympatheti- Kirk, Mr. Leung Wing-sun, and other methods of raising funds cally be considered before he should superintendent of customs at for termination of Wuchong, Sir Robert Ho Tung, to pay higher salaries to civil ser- be lined up vative Government, and now we kindly publish this distressing let against him.
yants, I shall be grateful if you will service, when there is no faultKt, LL.D., the Hon, Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., Profes. find a Conservative journal ter in your valuable paper. "
Where a man of long service is re-sor Gerrard, Messrs. Li Yau- The China Mail saying that "there
I am a dependant of a wage-earn- commended for dismissal the person tsun, C.B.E., Fung Ping-shan, Li thing 100, much like er whose only income is his salary making such recommendation should Yick-mui (Chairman of the Chin- decency about the negotiations service, he merited promotion to a
and by long, faithful and zealous be very minutely questioned and, if Cse Chamber of Commerce), Wong Kwong-tin, Li Tiwong. possible. for the modification of extra-substantially paid post. Until re- should be given a chance to speak sun, Wong Yuk-tong, Tung Shui- king, Choy Hing. W. Ngartse territorial rights in China, with cently, I was studying in Japan and for himself.
There are cases where seniors Thomas Tam, LL.B., Ma Ying- I received A cable from my
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is some-
in-
the unfortunate man
a Government under which for- guardian to return at once, because expect their juniors to do work piu, K. F. Lay, Hew Un-fan, T. N. eigners and their interests enjoy he has been told that he will most which they themselves ought to per-Chau, Ip Lan-chun and many and Chinese no protection but what their own likely be dismissed on reduction of farm, and there are also prejudiced other European Governments furnish, and which stuff. Renders of this letter will persons who frequently speak in gentlemen and lady guest..
realise my unhappy position and favour of those whom they fancy
Minister's Greeting. stands in imminent danger of that of my guardian and our and hide from their chiefs the In, a conversation with a China being swept away by a rival family. I wish to make it known names of those who merit promo- Mait reporter, Dr. Li Shu-fan causing profound sadness in many I have been told that some firms said that the very first thing he io got an Saturday morning
granted 30 per cent. increase
services? This has been done
Ten Years Ago.
[From the China Mall of
August 11, 1920.)
clique. The blunder made in the how this retrenchment scheme is tion. premature recognition of an un- homes. established authority was bad
Since 1925, trade generally has Home men to cover the low rate of was a message of greeting from enough, but the diplomatic farce been on the decline and employees the dollar; and dealing with local Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of now progressing is far worse." In many private concerns have not men drawing from $500 to $600 a Finance. Another thing was that
Evidently that: and other
received their usual periodical month, it was decided that they the occasion was marked by the rise; but they continued working should not get anything because presence of his brother, Dr. Li journals, in common with the sharing the misfortunes of their their salaries were very high. This Shu-pui, F.R.C.S., who has just arrived from London. Dr. Li | British Foreign Office, did not take employers, in spite of the ever in- is extremely unfair. The local Shu-fan laughingly remarked to
a scale of a long view of the situation in creasing high cost of living. They men drawing such
our representative: "You know would have carried on without com- salary must have proved themselves this is not a usual Chinese cus- China when the suggestion was plaint and remained contented until beyond
reproach and render- first made to give up the British better times came, but the Governed practically life-long service lom, but you know by the Concession in Hankow.
Whilst ment plied on the agony by increas- and more probable than not, they way, won't you have a beer?"
The Parents: the Nationalists leaders them-ing various forms of taxes with the will not live long enough to retire
Dr. Li Shu-far, M.B., Ch.B., selvea admitted that China was in result that living rose up exceed- en pension. As a matter of fact, D.T.M. & H., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), ig ingly high, and the value of the such services deserve recognition divisional surgeon of the Chin- a state of tutelage, the British silver dollar kept on dropping.
of some kind before it is too late. ese Y.M.C.A. division, St. John acted as if Chinese had trium- The Government's action has in- And, as I have already stated. a POWERS AND CHINA. phantly survived that perplexing directly-forced employees to turn to man having, by honest and faith-Ambulance Brigade, and a council member of the Hong Kong their only channel for relief, ful service, reached that station Chinese Medical Association. He and troublous period. And in namely, asking their employers to of life to which he has been acis the head practitioner of the It is perhaps fortunate for the spite of daily outrages by Com- increase their pay. The latter, find-customed, should not be made to Yeung Wah Hospital, British Government that Parlia- munists, bandits,, and pirates the ing difficult to refuse a just come down again whence he start. Mr. Philip Gockchin is the
demand while their earning powers ed. Why should he not receive ment, has been prorogued as British are speeding up the nego show no advancement, have decid-the same treatment as the others?managing director of the Wing On Company and is a member of otherwise undoubtedly it would tiations. concerning the gradual ed to cut down their staff and
If the answer must be no. then the board of directors of the have to run the gauntlet of point-abolition of extrality. Let the utilise the wages thus saved to pay let it stay at the test at the National Commercial and Savings cd questions regarding the posi- "diplomatic farce" be ended forth-The train of misery brought to bear are very thankful and grateful forlar members of the Chinese com- a higher wage to a depleted staff. local men do not protest and the Bank, Ltd. Both are very popu- tion of Britons and of British with. That is what unbiased upon the persons so dismissed and the jobs they hold. Is it fair to munity, property on the Yangtsze. The observers of the situation must also upon their wives, families and degrade them by putting forward British official wireless service continue to "rub in' to the Bri- dependants, must be obvious to all suggestions for terminating their
well thinking persons. informs us that "the foreign tish Foreign Office. Gestures lead] In this connection local men who Powers with interests in Han-nowhere so long as British lives receive a smaller scale of salaries kow have taken full precautions and British property are im- than Home-engaged men are the to deal with any emergency that perilled. may develop." It is added that Great Britain, Japan, the United States, and France have all war vessels in the river, and that they are "in close and satisfactory con-
Mr Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning ordered a tact in readiness for whatever Chinese boy to receive 12 strokes of action the situation may require." the cane for the theft of a cotton Although the British Concession quilt from outside a house at 430
Shanghai Street. at Hankow most prematurely
After all, this kind of economiy is and unfortunately-was given up
only at the expense of inefficient Charged at the Kowloon Police service. Leaving the Government about four years ago, there are Court this morning with the theft aside for the moment, I would like still large British trade interests of two loaves of bread, Lau Ping to query how many business con in the city, whilst the Japanese pleaded guilty before Mr. Whyte cerns (excepting a few very rich and American interests are also Smith, and stated that he did it ones), from the big firms down to
because he was hungry. He was the small lemonade shops, employ PLEASING FUNCTION AT THE to be detrimental to their busi- considerable.
fined $5.
a bigger staff than necessary? It There has been too great a ten-
all means more work and disheart- dency in the past to grasp at the Inspector L. P. Lane to-day ened mind for those whose ser-
Dr. Bruno Hahn, Consul for Ger- abadow in dealing with China, charged before Mr. Whyte-Smith vices are retained, and time will
at the Kowloon Magistracy two Chi- show the resultant effects and its many, was "At Home" this morn- with the result that the substance nese juveniles with the larceny of consequences which, needless tong upon the occasion of the, German itself has been lost through sheer some electric wiring from the Hung- say, will be of no beneft whatever Constitution Day stupidity on the part of the hom Railway Sheds, the property of to the employers.
Early visitors were the Hon. Mr. Powers, and particularly the Brithe K.C.R. Both pleaded guilty! In dealing with reduction of staff E. R. Halifax. C.M.G., Rear- and His Worship ordered them to great injustice is being done. Admiral R. AB, Hill, C.B.E., and tish Foreign Office. Those who receive 12 strokes each of the cane. There seems to be too much belief the G.O.C. (Major-General J. W. German Constitution Day was acclaimed the so-called "gesture" fo
in casting away-old hands and Sandliands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.), observed in the Colony by the open- on the part of the British toward A Chinese named Cheung Tasí engaging younger and cheaper man The reception was happily Ining of a new and palatial German a rite adjoining Stubbs China are already eating their (25), living in a matahed on the who are put down as more efficient formal, the Consul for Germany pro-Club on words and lamenting that, whilst hillside in Wong Chuk Hang village, before they have even begun to posing the toast of His Majesty, Road.
Aberdeen, was yesterday admitted work; as if the younger element after which the G.0.0.called the to the Government Civil Hospital are all so tremendously smart. health of the President of the Ger In order to show their apprecia suffering from Injury to his jaw. This cannot be conscientiously fair. man Republication of the work done by the Uni- Hembers of the Consular Body versity in the education of Chinese He was stated to have been the And, as to salaries, the younger men victim of an assault by four wood will very soon want much higher attended the reception, together a syndicate of rich Chinese, has cutters near the brick works, and wages,
with Official and non-official mem-resolved to relieve the Government The British Concession in Han. fell down the hill, wildng his fasThere are some local men embers of the Legislative Council of by giving an annual grant of
32 $350,000. kow was retroceded by a Conser against rock
who the Colony. various places
China is in a state of chaos, it is
not the time to discuss the giving up of the remaining British Con- ceaalons or extrality,
News in Brief.
To-day's dollar is worth 4/-
and they feel disgraced, and if their services are dispensed with, would like to, request those res- worse sufferers; for they are the onsible for such acts to refler' ones lined up in the front row for for a moment on the shame and diamissal. There appears to be no miseries brought upon to bear on remedy for such a state of affairs; these good men, their families, de-
14. therefore, I wish to invite the at-Pendants, and friends.. tention of some seniors, chiefs and I hope this letter will at least! employers to the fact that this re-receive a little attention of th
chiefs and employers, trenchment scheme should be care- seniors, fully considered. and justice and both in the Government and pri-open branches in Hong Kong.
et live," should be the forenlost fairness, and the motto of "live and rate concerns.
thought in their minda.
played In
::
Yours, etc.,
J. L. KWOK...
Hong Kong, August 9,
GERMANY'S DAY.
CONSULATE
A number of San Francisco firms of brokers are about to
One of them, Messrs. Wellish & Co., has already established an office here. This was predicted some time ago. These American rice brokers are going to make a bid for the brokerage business because there is a lot of money to be made out of it, and naturally Jenough the exporters of this cereal to the United States are rather perturbed, for it is certain
ness.
Ten Years Hence.
[From the "China"Mall” of. August 11, 1840.]