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that the movement will spread in China se it has spread in England, and perhaps with greater reason, for the position of women in China is unquestionably much inferior to that of their Western sisters, and as Western civilisation is becoming better understood in China the greater dignity which is
A BRUSH WITH PIRATES. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
The French river steamer Paul Beau, trading between Hongkong and Canton, was attacked by pirates in the Caxton River early on Friday morning. Before leaving Hongkong, Captain Marabel was informed by the Harbour authorities that
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The Rev. Lord WILLIAM CECIL in bis book on "Changing Chium" has this remark on the changing attitude of the women: The Chinese women hear stories of Western life. At Arst such strange perversious are believed as that, in the West, women rule. One missionary explained that this absurd fig ment came from the rule of Quest VICTORIA another attributed it to the gustom men
the Tiger forts, and that he would pro- ceed in those waters at his own risk. When the steamer passed the forts, how- over, everything was quiet, but when the vessel slowed down approaching Wham- poa, the captain haard rifle shots from He rang for all the bank of the river. speed,, and the steamer passed the Barriers at. good fourteen knots. She bad just left the Barriers astorn when a fusilade of rifle shots came from the bank, some of the bullets hitting the hull of the boat and others falling short into the water. One bullet, fired from Mauser rifle, penetrated a door in the second class quarters, and narrowly missed the head of a Chinese passenger who was asleep in one of the bunks. The firing stopped as suddenly as it began, but thres
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THE MINERS' MINIMUM WAGE BILL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
THE COAL STRIKE,
EFFORTS TO MEDIATE,
THROUGH BHUTIE'S AGENOT.]
CHINESE LOANS.
LONDON, March 24th. With reference to the rumour current at PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT..
Peking regarding the refusal of the ad- LONDON, March 23rd.
mission of the Anglo-Belgian loan on the COMMITTER STAGE CONCLUDED.
A statement by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Paris Bourse, it is declared in Paris that Labour M.P., encourages a belief that the matter is still unconsidered. Router's LONDON, March 23rd.
agreement may result on Monday without agent has been informed that an Eastern The Labourites and the Nationalists legislation, but it is feared that the Southbank is acting for a syndicate of Russian, the second reading of the Wales owners are still obdurate, and even French, Belgian and British groups. The voted on Minera" Minimum Wage Bill with the ma- if the leaders accept the proposed district British
group consists of Mesire bards the question of the prolongation Schroeder, E. D. Sassoon & Co., Brown jority, which was larger than expected.
The figures (348 to 223) were received of the strike will depend on the men, & Shipley, W. Greenwell & Oc., Sir.
exultant cheers by the Miniswhose disappointment at not obtaining Marcus Samuel and others. Negotiations with
the promised rates, together with possible are still proceeding. Government measures to protect the men anxious to resume, may still lead to grave. disorders.
terial iste.
Sir Edward Grey, in winding up the debate, intimated that it was impossible for the Governinent to include a schedule
RAILWAYS SACRIFICE TASSENGER TRAFFIC. for hewers' wages in the Bill. He declar
A general agreement has been arrived ed that an early settlement of the crisis
at between the railways to sacrifice pas- was imperative and stated that should thesenger trafic to food trams throughout the Bill fail to settle the dispute the Govern country. It is astonishing that hitherto, ment would be compelled to protect the despite the rise in the price of coal, the prices of necessaries have nowhere in creased. Nevertheless in the mining and industrial districts the extraordinary 'con- ditions prevailing have caused suffering and poverty.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, (Europesus) have when travelling in China of walking while their wives remained in the carrying chair. To the Chinaman, such course admits of but one explanation: the woman must be greater than the man because she is carried while he walks." We doubt, however, whether either of these superficial reasons explains the growth of a woman's enfranchisement movement in China. Whatever the reason may be the fact is undoubted that the Women in China junka suddenly loomed up out of the darkation by every means in its power. the are beginning to look into their position.acss. The steamer ran one down, but one The increase of knowledge regarding social of the remainder threw grappling iroas the conditions in Europe and America has stimmuaboard, and the pirates, who were all and lated an earnest desire among Chinese women armed with modern rifter, commenced to clainber up the side.. Captain Marabel, who was on the bridge, around himself with a revolver, and, leaning over the starboard rail, commencal firing into the junk, at almost point blank range. He beard yells of pain from the pirates, and came to the conclusion that he had either killed or wounded a number of them. The junk sheered off before any of her occupants had time to got aboard the
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for education, and this desire in recent years has been met by the establishment of girla' schools in many parts of the country. Indeed wo read quite recently of a achool being established in Canton "for the training of ladies to qualify as members of the Natiount Assembly." The tutors were to be a number of law students who have 316.80 $145 studied in Japan-students, presumably of the male sex. Whether this is part of 1.50
a widespread organisation we do not know 1.90 but this announcement, combined with enf
fragette exploits in Shanghai and Nanking, 2.05
suggest that there is an organisation of women who have imbibed the doctrines 2.55 and copied the methods of the British Women's Enfranchisment' movement and that they have commenced to forcibly draw attention to their griov- ances by raiding the National Assembly and smashing the furniture, just to
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KULANGSU MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Council was held at the Board Room, on the 5th March, when there were present-Messrs. W. H.
Wallace (Chairman), Capt. H. Bathurst, J. S. Fenwick, W. R. MD. Part, H. F. Rankin, the Health Officer and the Secretary.
THE BECRETARY.
HOPES OF SETTLEMENT RISING. The impression in the Lobby is more hopeful for a speedy passage of the Bill, though it is possible there will be a stiff fight in Committee.
The coal-owners have prepared 47 amendments.
The Liberal papers say that the Govern ment will accept the 3 and 21- minima, but the Times is emphatic in declaring that the Cabinet yesterday decided to remain firm in its refusal to accept these figures,
MINERS' FUNDS EXHAUSTED. The miners' funds are mostly exhausted or will be next week, and this, despite the reduced payment. For example, out of nine large districts in England and Wales only two have any funds left. The- position of other trades unions in my instances is worse than has been seen for some time, being completely exhausted.
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RELIEF MEASURES,
This adds a most interesting factor to the situation. If the strike is not ended Consequently, throughout the country by the passage of the Bill, the Opposition town councils, boards of guardians, educa expect that the Cavernment will taketion boards, land-owners (prominent. among whom are the Earl of Portland! and Lord Crewe) and the clergy are dis- tributing food and firewood.
other measures.
The Government view is that the men will trickle back to work immediately the Bill is passed, and that there will prob ably be a general resumption by Easter, thas justifying the Act.
A. S. WATSON & CO. emphasise the urgency of their demands, Capt. Supt. of Police was renewed for a Bill, Mr. J. L. King, Liberal member for
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DEATH.
At her residence, "The Hut." Upper Castle Road, on the 24th inst., SYLVIA CAROLINA VANDERLERG LOS REMEDIOS, aged Deeply regretted, Shanghai 68 years. and Japan papers please copy.
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we assume that, like the British suffragettes they will not be happy till their ambitions ure fully realised.
The now regulations in connection with the Hongkong Volunteers are published in the Garctic.
Two fishing junks collided on Friday last off Gap Rock, one of the vessels being Bunk, and a life lost.
The agreement of the Secretary and
further term of three years from the 1st June, 1012, at a salary of $400 per month, with four months' full pay leave, the house and tolephone allowance to cease on and after the expiration of the lease of Poletti's house (1st August, 1912).
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Further correspondence, etc., concerning the electric lighting of the Settlement was considered.
VOTING BY PROXY.
The name of Dr. E.-E. M. Lobb-has-been added to the register of medical practi-asking for an authoritative decision as to tioners in Hongkong.
Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller, K.C.S.I., of the Indian Civil Service, is staying at the Hongkong Hotel.
Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson has been
appointed to act as Chairman of the Licensing Board until further notice.
Conditions of licences to store Acetone, Chlorate of Potassium and other Chlorates are published in the Gazette,,
Mr. J. S. Dobie has been appointed Acting Secretary of the Hongkong Club during the absence of Mr. James Craik on leave
Dr. John Bell has been appointed to act as Principal Civil Medical Officer. during the absence on leave of the Hon.
Dr. J. M. Atkinum.--
H.M.S. Newcastle will leave for Woo- Aung to.day. H.M.S. Hawke left for the north on Friday last, and H.M.S. Kent left on the same day for Mira Bay.
As a result of the troubles in China, which is the chief market for the iade won in the jade mines area in Upper Burma, the revenue of the Burms Government under the head of jade has fallen off in the past year by over one lakh of rupees.
what persons are qualified to vote by proxy.
DILL IN COMMITTEE. When the House of Commons went into Committee on the Miners' Minimum Wage
North Somerset, oved an amendment that the minimum wage be 5/- for men and 2/- for boys.
Mr. Asquith refused to accept the amendment. He stated that he was not disposed to set up a precedent by fixing a rate of wages by Act of Parliament and pointed out the dangers to the men them- selves because it would tend to be treated as a maximum.
Mr. King's amendment was subsequent
A letter from Mr. Emil Bauer was read,ly negatived without a division, but pro-
viously the debate tock a dramatic tara.-
The Labourites had been warning the Government that the rejection of the amendment would mean the prolongation of the strike. Then Mr. Ramsay Mac- donald intervened and announced that the miners would waive the insertion of
The situation in South Wales is perhaps most critical, and 21 canteens are feeding the school children, cn Saturdays and Sundays as well.
The most hopeful aspect is that work
GERMAN DEFENCE
DIG INCREASE OF EXPENDITURE.
LONDON, March 23rd. Reuter's Berlin correspondent reports that the additional expenditure on the Army and Navy involved by the new De- fonce Bills amounts to £4,850,000 for 1912 and £8,350,000 for 1913.
The Army Bill provides for two addi
a machine gun company to every infantry ́ tional Army Corps and the attachment of
regiment. This will increase the peaco effective forces by 20,000 men.
THE SUGAR CONVENTION.
LONDON, March 23rd. The French and the Belgian Chambers bave voted for the prolongation of the Sugar. Convention.
DEATH OF MR. WILLIE JAMES.
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LONDON, March 23rd. The death is announced of Mr. Willia
James, who was a close friend of the late King Edward VII.
NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.
LONDON, March 23rd." Heuter's correspondent at Wellington telegraphs that Mr. Thomas McKenzie has at the pits can be resumed immediately been elected Premier of New Zealand by or at the worst after two or three days' | 22 votes, toʻi. preparation.
INFORMING. THE KING.
Sir Joseph Ward, the present Premier, defers his resignation until Mr. McKenzie
Mr. Asquith and aur audience in the formed a Cabinet. afternoon with the King.
A PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE. Messrs. John Redmond, T. P. O'Con- nor, Dillon, and Birrell conferred with Mr. Asquith.
ANOTHER THREATENED STRIKE, The Seamen's Union threatens to go on strike as a protest against the arrest of Mr. Tom Mann.
·A PATHETIC SIGHT,
A queue of six thousand people at Bir ingham waited for five hours to buy two pennyworth of Corporation coke.
THE OKLAHOMA MINE DISASTER.
LONDON, March 23rd.
A message from Oklahoma atates that 36 miners have been rescued alive from the San Bois mine despite the abandon- ment of hope. So far 81 bodies have been recovered.
THE ENGLİSHI TURF,
LONDON, 'March 23rd. The betting for the Lincolnshire Handi- cap is as follows:0 to 9 against Hornet's Beauty: 5 to 1 against Warfare, 0 to 1 against Unele Pat and Long Set; 100 to
8 against Sobieski
For the Grand National the betting is:
STRIKE EFFECTS ON THE CONTINENT. The Secretary was directed to inform
The strike is beginning to be severely him that the persons qualified to vote by
lelt on the Continent. Shipping in Ger- proxy at all public meetings of rate- the authorized; agents or payers are
the districts schedule of wages if the 5/-ny and France is already affected and freights from Portugal to England have proxies of foreign owners of land on Kulangsu registered at a Consulate and
and 2/- were inserted. Mr. Keir Hardie been raised 40 per cent. Spain has pro- of an assessed value of not less than $1.000 suggested the withdrawal of Mr. King'shibited the export of coal and has sup- 5 to 1 against Rathnally; 7 to 1 against amendment in order to discuss Mr. Mac pressed the duties on foreign coal. The
Jerry M donald's concession. Sir Edward Grey, butter and bacon factories in Denmark however, adhered to the position that the
are threatened with stoppage and the Government could not accept any figures railways are economising, causing delays. in the Bill. He pointed out that the issue Copenhagen is threatened with darkness. had now been narrowed down to the 5/ and 2/- and there was room for a further conference.
who are absent from the port.
CORRESPONDENCE.
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STRIKE EFFECTS IN SOUTH AMERICA. Reuter's correspondent at
Rio de
MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES IN
CHINA.:
LONDON, March 24th.
A telegram from Shanghai states that Janeiro telegraphs that the coal mer- a party of Amazons, dissatisfied with the Mr. Macdonald said he could not at pre-chants have notified the shipping com- Kanking Assembly's lukewarm approval
Hongkong, March 23rd, 1912, DEAR SIWith reference to the para-ent pledge the Federation, but he would graph appearing in your issue of 23rd inform the House of their decision to panies that their stocks of coal are of the principle of votes for women,
night
Thereafter Mr. Asquith sent for Six Ratelife Ellis; and it is presumed that negotiations are in progress.
exhausted.
BOAT RACE TRIALS.
instant headed "Nippan. Yusen Kaisha's. Calcutta Line" and giving translation of an article said to have appeared in 2 recent issue of the Osaka. Asahi, we are in a position to state from our own private advices, as well as trom Japanese newsporate the wages schedule in the Bill was full course in. fairly favourable conditions, Į
papers to hand issued subsequent to the article in the Osaka Arahij.that the allega tion of the Osaka Amahi about the N.Y.K.
An amendment moved by Mr. E. Ed- wards, Labour M.: for Hanley, to incor-
rejected by 367 to 55.
ANOTHER CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED.
LONDON, March 23rd. The Oxford crew had a trial over the
taking 20 minutes 53 seconds.
LATER. Cambridge rowed from Hammersmith contemplating to curtail its Calcutta Ser. After further debate, Mr. Asquith stated vice is entirely-haseless. It is true that that he had reason to believe that to-day's Bridge to the mile post in mins. ōlsees. there is keen competition, but instead of discussions hail to fhe narrowed down the 13 secs. inside the record. the same forcing the N.Y.K. to adopt a points at issue that the Government was
invaded the Assembly house, broke
mauled the windows, and
guurde, and terrorised the members, who were re opening the discussion on female suffrage, although the latter were meanwhile sur- rounded by acldiers for protection."
THE HOME RULE FUND.
LONDON, March 24th The Nationalists have each contributed 260 of their Paliamentary salary to the Home Rule Fund.
HONGKONG, MARCH 251, 1912. CHINA is fast imbibing now ideas from the West. The most recent development is the Suffragette Movement. While the war' was in progress we saw reports of the formation of a corps of Amazons in the North. As to whether these ever saw "service" in the Geld, history is silent. Inspired possibly by the exploits of the Suffragettes in England, the women of raided one of the hotels in Hongkong, on suspicion that an employes had been Chins are beginning to strew thorns along engaged in gun running. It is alleged the path of the now rulers of Ching that they found in his room & revolver, to assure shippers and the general public 2 minima, which was the real outstand. Kaiser arrived and drove to the Schcen-bodies have been recovered from the
more improved permanent regular ing point at issue, though he did not say bruna Palace, where he was welcomed by debris of the recent explosion. service...
it was the main point. He paid a hearty the Emperor Francis Joseph The visit tribute to the co-operation of both sides was extremely private, in order to save and intimated that the Committee stage of the Emperor unnecessary fatigue. the Bill would conclude to-night and that JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. there would be no sitting to-mOITOW.
Last week. a band of women invaded
LONDON, March 25th.
On Friday afternoon last the police retiring attitude, that Company is aug-calling a conference of owners and men KAISER ARRIVES IN VIENNA. menting and improving its Calcutta ser- for Monday with a view to still furtker vice by arranging to place larger and narrowing down the differences between better typed steamore on the run in order the parties with reference to the 5/- and
& sword, and a number of incriminating the National Assembly at Nanking, documents relating to trading in arins. denauding for the women, of China The employee concerned could not be equal rights with men. The members found, and it is thought that he left the of the Nanking Assembly are probably less Colony before the police decided to make sympathetic towards the demand than are a search of his room. Mr. ABQUITH, Mr. CHURCHILL and Mr
An Observatory notice 'respecting the LLOYD GEORGE, and according to a tele- meteorologieni signals, published in the gram in a local Chinese newspaper tho depu Government Gazette, embodies the intima tation created a great disturbance in the tion that the signals are in future to be Assembly and began smashing everything repeated at the flagstaff of the Standard within their reach. No casualties among the oil Co. at Lai-chi-kok and the flagstaff members of the Assembly arereported. Also near the Field Officer's Quarters at the report, unfortunately, in silent as to Lysman. Captains of steamers seeking whether any, and if so, what retribution shelter either behind Stonecutters or in overtook these daring Amazons, so that we Junk Bay have heretofore complained are unable to institute a comparison between that from these shelters they have been Chinese and British methods of dealing with unable to see the typhoon signals. The militant suffragettes. Whatever methods above arrangements will remove this may have been adopted, it is very probable grievance.
Thanking you in anticipation for inser tion of this. We are, Dear Sir,
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
T. KUSAMOTO, Manager.
THE GONDOLIERS."
The Committee stage is continuing, but
in a perfunctory manner, the members wailing the result of the negotiations out- tween Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law.
A telegram from Vienna states that the
LoNDos, March 24th. .Reuter's correspondent at Wellington
The attendance at the Theatre on Satur-side, which have included a conference be-wires that the Japanese Antarctic Expedi
day night to witness the third perform
LATER
OPTINISM AGAIN, The House of Commons has concluded the Committee stage of the Minimum Wage Bill
tion has returned, all well. The expedi tion was engaged chiefly in coastal ex- ploring in King Edward Land. They say they saw nothing of Captain Scott.
INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.
ance of "The Gondoliers" was eminently satisfactory: The patronage-accorded the piece was, encouraging, particularly in view of the fact that the attendance on Friday night was so disappointing. The
LONDON, March 24th. piece was exceedingly well staged, and the
The international soccer match between acting and singing of the principals and chorus were, with scarcely an exception,not be less than the existing rates for England and Scotland at Glasgow result
"The Gondo-
ed in a draw, each side scoring a goal worthy of professionals. liers will be produced again to-night.
The Government accepted an amend- ment that the district board awards shall
precoworkers and day men.
THE OPORTO EXPLOSION,
LONDON, March 24th.
A wire from Oporto states that ten
OBITUARY..
LONDON, March 24th. The death is announced of the Marquis of Hertford, who was A.D.C. to the King.
REVOLUTION IN PARAGUAY
LONDON, March 24th. Reuter's correspondent at Buenos Aires telegraphs that a battle fought at Asuncion, in which six hundred were killed, resulted in a victory for the Revolutionaries.
The Christian Union Meeting to-day will be conducted by Mr. F. G White. The meeting will be held in the Rutherford. Hall, St. Stephen's College, at 5.30 p.m.