Page
HAMBURG LETTER.
demonstration. The strikers have not returned to the works yet, whilst 300 men' [SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE "HONGKONG | have laid down their tools for a similar
-renson-at-another yard.
DAILY PAKKE."]
HAMBURG, May stb.
Tona.
70.00.
In March, 1911.
Tons.
COAL PRICES.
Prices of coal have declined since the LESSONS OF THE TITANIC DISASTER.
strike in Great Britain came to an end, The Titanic disaster continues to be
but are still considerably above the vue of the chief topics of the day, and the problem of securing greater safety at urdinary level. It is only now that, by sa is engaging the serious attention of analyzing the returns of the coal trade for the month of March, a correct "wide circles in all countries. The outery
estimate can be formed of the enormous on the part of the public for a more adequate supply of boats and other life-injury done to it by the action of the miners. The shipments of coal in the Having appliances on board passenger month of March this year were:- steaghers meets with only a qualified support from nautical experts, who seem to agree that they will not be of much use in any but very exceptional circun- stauers, and that it is far more important that efforts should be directed towards Fendering vessels more and more un. Hiokable, that the wireless telegraph system should be further perfected and more generally adopted at sea, and that international intelligence service should be organized to keep ships inform- ed-by-wirelese messages of the state of the weather, ice drifts and other dangers on the different routes. Above all, the
and unremitting care on the part of all concerned in the navigation of the steamer is strongly emphasized, without which none of the other safeguards will be of any avail.
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1,000,000 tons
To Gerinnny143,000 against 746,000 To Sweden ..
230,000 To Belgium 42,000
182,000 To France.....250,000
937,000 tutul. exports tu all countries The
against amounted to 5,000,000 tons last year for the same month. The difference is all the more significant, as the shipments in February were 800,000 tons in excess of those, last year, being 5,800,000 tons, as compared with 5,000,000 tons, from which it may
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TU SDAY, JUNE 4ra, 1912.
MALAYSIA RUBBER COMPANY
(LIMITED).
SUCCESSFUL YEAR'S WORK.
CONSPIRACY IN SIAM.
R. G. KNOWLES.
THE CELEBRATED COMEDIAN,
Mr. R. G. Knowles returns from Matila on his way to Shanghai, and will give one performance in the Theatre Royal on Saturday, June 8th. He is a comedian of the first rank, and a brief description of his career may not be in- interesting to our readers.
Mr. Knowles, it should be stated at once, is an American humourist, but London has made him her own. In June, 1011,
very
alsolute necessity of constant vigilance be concluded that, but for the strike factory, and compared-favourably with and to let the rest have the benefit of of laughter would follow the encounters
The German Government has appoint ed a Commission consisting of delegates from the Maritime States of the Empire, the State Seamen's Insurance Office, the German Emigration Authorities, the Nautical Association, the great Ship owning. Companies and other bodies con- nected with shipping, which hold its first sitting on Monday, with a view to the
ex-
INTIMATIONS
ERUPTION COVERED HIS 3 CHILDREN
From Head to Foot. Heartrending- to See Them Suffer Such Pain. Used Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment and itching Stopped.
"My three children were covered with sotes from head to foot and handa and armas, They first came ous on the back like a lot of te bilsters led with water, and then broke into large fores till their back, Aznar und legs wore nothing but .pores. It was heart. reading to see the little things suffer with auch
them any 2000.
and they would sematch themselves to pieces bad they not been stopped.
"I tried several doo tors' medicines and sil kinds of ointments but nothing seemed to do They simply EOS-WHITE until a friend of mine told me to gel sema Cuticure Soap sud give them a good hot bath and then apply some Custlenen Oint. ment. I did and after I had deessed them o time or two and used two tablets of Curfeurs Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment the places began to dry up and the itching Eccfood to have stopped, as the children couli go to sleep as soon as they were batbed and the Ointment applied.
They had aufered about two months balit I started with Cuticura flowdies. I used six inblots of Soap and about the same of Ointment and they soon began to look bright and healthy agato, and, now skin began to grow. 1 am pleased to say they are keeping so, but I am still keeping Cuticurs Soap and Olatuent by me. It is a good thing for scalds and burua. (signed) William Dyan, 145 Braustona Rd, Burton-on-Trent, England, Mar. 12, 1911.
A liberal sample of Cutlenra Boap and Dint. ment with 32-p. book free from nearest depot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charterhouse 4g London: R. Towns & Co., Bydney, N. &. W.; Lenton, Ltd., Cape Town: Muller, Maclean & Co., Calcul and Bombay; Potter Drug & Chena Corp, vote props., Boston, U. 9.
87-1
HIS MAJESTY COMMUTES THE DEATH SENTENCES.
The Bangkok Times of May 6th says:-- The sixth ordinary general meeting of The special court-martial ordered by the this Company was held on May 7th at King for the trial of the persons implicat the London Chamber of Commerce, ed in the recent conspiracy against the Oxford-court, E.C. Mr. George Corde-State has finished its labours and pre- roy presided.
aented a report of its finding to His The Secretary (Mr. George A. Mac Majesty. In the first instance it appear downld) read the notice convening the ed to the court as if the conspirators had banded themselves together with the single meeting.
The Chairman said this was the first object of bringing about a change in the your in which the Company were in these in
overnment of the country; but revealed beyond position to pay a dividend, and the
doubt a plot to commit violence against directors had given considerable atten the person of His Majesty the King. he celebrated his 20th anniversary at the tion to the form in which the accounts were presented to the shareholders, with Among the conspirators there were some Coliseurs, from which it may be gathored the view to their taking a permanent who were not altogether sent upon such that he is not exactly an unknown man. In shape, in order that comparisons might an extreme measure; but their action in Londen he was at first known as the “* be made from year to year. They had generally aiding and abetting by conccal peculiar American comedian," whose early been very fortunate in regard to their the plot and refraining from giving encounters with the Trocadero audiences
information to the authorities renders can only be described as a battle royal. further issue of capital during the past them, in the eyes of the law, equally culp
The official description of the newcomer was not a masterpiece of tact. The traffic your, and the amount they had received
able and punishable under section 97, sub-
between America and England, now vital as premion had been applied in writing section 2, of the Civil Penal Code, which off depreciation un
to our stage as it is to that of New York, buildings and
prescribes death for such offences. In the machinery and various charges incurred view of the court, while all the accused had not definitely begun. American hum- our was not understood. and might not since the formation of the Company were liable to the extreme penalty of the The cost of the production of rubber w, there were considerable differences in yet be understood but for Knowles' worked out at a. d. per pound, which the degrees of guilt among them, and this dogged determination to plant the flag, and keep it flying He has the rare compared very favourably with those of was to be considered, as well as the fact neighbouring estates in a similar stage that certain of them had materially assist Inculty of overlooking his audience, of of bearing, but that cost would be con-ed the course of justice by their confes-snatching a hostage from its ranke, of siderably reduced as the estate got more alon. The court was of opinion that there arguing the point with him humorously into bearing and their employees mure were sufficient reasons to confine the death inoffensively and effectually, then return- efficient. The price which had been penalty only to the few the nature ofing him to instruct his fellows and inspire realized for their rubber was very satis whose offence admitted no other course,
them to friendship. A hundred times 1 Shouts saw him do this at the Troen ra what they had anticipated in the early tenuating circumstances as provided by
The splendid, there might have been a like increase to
part of last year, and he hoped that this section do uf the Civil Ponal Code, and of quip and quiddity, report in March. April is not likely price would be maintained for the pre-have their sentences reduced by one-third sporting English public went out in sym
sent year and for the forward sales for or one-half, as the case may be, under pathy toward the plucky artist, and ab- to make up for it, as it took gome time
1913. The debentures had been paid off section 37 of the annie code. Accordingly sorbed his personality ere yet it quite ap-
preciated his genius. to get the pits into working order again, out of the money derived from the last the court decided to
suggest five degrees
Next, it began to be interested in such and the men returned but slowly to their issue of capital, and he thought it right of punishment to be applied to the pris
make up
"-the opera hat made so duties; besides, the extensive gaps in the to take the opportunity of pablicly oners in the present instance as follows: personal detail as that of the immutable thanking those shareholders who had I. Death penalty, 3 persons; II. Death stocks at bome will have left compara- financed the Company on such favourable penalty, reduced by one-third to imprison- quaintly disreputable by the simple ex- tively little available for shipment terms. He thought the board might take ment for life, 20 persons; III. Death pedient of breaking the front spring; the coat that had been the wedding garment abroad. Germany and the United States credit for the careful way in which their penalty, reduced by one-third, to 20 years
astern Covenanter; the white ducks, seen are reaping the benefit of the struggle, financial operations had been carried on. imprisonment 32 persons; IV. Death of Mr. Knowles' maternal grandfather,
a. most penalty, reduced by one half, to 15 years They had now on their, estate
hoosier," a queer old B persona; V. Death on the legs and it is to be feared, us stated in a
up-to-date factory, but it was probable prisonment.
him from the ground, and swap- previous letter, that England will and that they might have to duplicate their penalty reduced by one-half, to 18 years riding into town ou a horse that barely it difficult to cust such formidable commachinery at an early date, and in that imprisonment, 30 persons.
This report having been considered by ped." after long negotiation, for nothing connection they were fortunate in bay the Ring, His Majesty was pleased to
less than a complete new suit. I suppose. petitors out of markets of which she
manager, who was thoroughly competent
teristic, so well-known throughout the to deal with the installation of any
"Having fully examined the judgment world as that of Frick Knowles, unchanged machinery they might require
The sequel to It was dated May 4th, 181, of the court-martial through all these years. anticipated that the estimated crop of which tried the 31 persons concerned in his oner assured success at the Trocadero $0,000th. for the current year would be the attempt to create a mutiny, I find was remarkable. Nightly for sixty-eight realized, and if the present price that the court in passing the sentences on weeks he sang and danced-as none else rubber was maintained they should have the accused has acted in conformity with ever danced and let off his verbal fire- a prosperous year.
Coincidently, for forty. He concluded by the law in every way. The most impor-works there. moving the adoption of the report and tant point in their offence is the intention seven weeks, he appeared at the Empire.
But I do to do violence to my person.
It used to be a fashion to speak of this Trocadero triumph as Knowles first in- portant achievement in professional life, But this is ridiculous. He has the ances- next few months definite action may be
OTHER RUBBER COMPANIES.
try almost conventional to a comedian a Scottish and an Irish, but particularly taken in regard to the reform of China's Judicature. Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the
England can The report of the Riverside (Selangor) Therefore, the three persons sentenced Presbyterian strain. brilliant lawyer who now occupies the position of Minister of Justice, has the Rubber Company for 1911 states that the by the judgment to receive punishment claim this much stock in him that he was estimated crop of rubber for 1911 was under category I, which is death, shall born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, matter well in hand, and from informa-1,000lb, dry rubber, and the actual crop have their sentence commuted to that of rather more than afty years ago, discard- tion which has reached Shanghai it is instal and salg after allowing for ad caterinanty fared a dry goods store for the stage, and
Ofis vicissitudes was a member WATCHMAKERS, The amount at the credit of judgment to receive punishment under understand that his intention is to obtain
64,610lb.
The life, shall have their sentence commuted thereafter a popular favourite in a farce work, and will, it is hoped, yield valuable the assistance of other Chinese with for-profit and loss account (including £1,127 category II., which is imprisonment for terlude of Bhakpenny, with an in:
eign legal training in the stupendous work brought forward) is £8,885 39. 3d. results by clearing up points that may he has before him. & start will be made directors recommend a dividend at the to that ander category III., namely: im-comedy entitled "A Pair of Jacks," when prisonment for 20 years, to count from a holiday impulse brought him to Eng- still want explanation. In the mean-
absorbing £6,491.
The report of the Scottish Malay Rub-88 persons, of whom 32 are sentenced, ber Company for 1911 states that the total ander category III. to 20 years imprison 8, under category IV. to 15 years acreage of the estate is now 9,455 acres. The growth of the rubber continues to be imprisonment, and 30 under category V satisfactory. The number of trees now to 12 years imprisonment, the execution being tapped exceeds 37,000. This number of the sentences in these cases shall be is expected to be largely added to during suspended according to the provisions of the current year. The estimated crop for section 41 and 42 of the Civil Penal Code, to which deals with the conditional suspen- the
robber. The actual Bion of punishments. These accuser shall 100,000lb.
not to he deprived as yet of their collected and gold (after allow also crop
for adjustments through loss of rank. But with regard to the 3 person price realized for this crop was 4s, 10.70d.of the 2nd category and the 20 persons The sum at the credit of profit whose sentence has been commuted to that per lb. and loss account (including £2,930 brought of category 3, altogether 23 persons, as The interim divi already mentioned in the foregoing these dend of 10 per cent, less tax, absorbed persons shall all be deprived of their rank forward) is £17,802.
and position in accordance with the cus £4,150, and the directors recommend &
tom observed in connection with such final dividend for the year of 20 per cesit.. less tax, absorbing 28,300, leaving £25.31 sentences." to be carried forward, subject to income tax and directors' fees.
careful examination of the whole ques- formerly had the monopoly, now thering a qualified engineer as assistant zive his final decision' in the following there never was an equipment so charac
tion, prior to convening a Congress of the other Powers for the purpose of lay- ing down international rules and regola- tions on the various points.
The Washington committee has ter- minated its labours and finds that-the number of boats carried by the Titanic was in no proportion to the number of passengers and the crew, that there were too few sailors to man them, that fuli speed was kept up in spite of repeated warnings of the neighbourhood of great masses of ice, and that the watertight compartments, ie., the bulklicads, failed
to net.
The London court of enquiry, presided Over by Loedd Harunt,
have-once gained a foothold there.
CHINA'S JUDICATURE.
THE METHOD OF REFORM.
It is learnt that within the course of the
accounts.
Mr. P. J. Burgess seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.
terms:
not entertain any feelings of revenge against these persons, and consider that clemency, which is within my power to grant as the Sovereign, might be shown with regard to their punishment,
time the Lord Mayor's appeal for nssier. with the reform of the courts at Peking rate of 12 per cent... less tax, for the year, his day. With regard to the remaining lund in 1801 and there he stayed.
and from the capital the process of re- ance for the victims of the catastropheorganization will be extended over the
country lias met with an eager response, the amount collected so far reaching over
£90,000, to which will have to be added the various suma resulting from appeals in other towns, by newspapers; etc., so that what money can do to alleviate the aufering and distress will be done. furnish Unfortunately, recent
eventa
year
1911
dry
90,000lb. Was
mont
Chs. J. Gaupp
& Co..
ALEKANDRA BUILDINGS,
CHATUR ROAD,
OPTICIANS,
His twenty years on the music hall stage cover a remarkable and an important chapter of its history-the Trocadera type FINEST QUALITY
DIAMOND JEWELLERY of the old-style hall could hardly be im proved-on-for its initial letter; nor the Coliseum, standing for all that le brightest and beat in the variety world to-day, for its tail pires. Twenty years ago London
fresh pretexts for labour disturbances: civil and commercial code, never went height) was 101,75lb. The gross average whose sentence has been commuted to that few provincial halls with the prosperous
The example set by the firemen and stokers of the Olympic, who left the ship just as she was on the point of weighing anchor, and of whom 53 were tried at Southampton, found guilty hat let off with a warning, has been followed by other crews, who refuse to sign on, alleg ing an insufficiency of boats, etc., in the belief that that plea will gain them the sympathy of the public and help to secure their real object, an advance of wages. Union .10 Liverpool The Seamen's actually demand that before any of the v sign on, an officer of the Union shall carefully examine the boats and the general condition of the vessel; besides which they claim a rise in pay of 10/- a month.
LABOUR UNREST.
The strike of the dock porters and kindred workers here has been averted by fresh concessions on the part of the employers; an agreement has been con a term of three years. cluded for
such
In the system of uform which is to be followed a wide departure from the practice adopted up to the present is in prospect. It may be remembered that within the past few years Dr. Wu Ting fang has prepared two codes of Chinese law. One of these, the criminal code, was adopted under the Maachus; but the other, yond the stage of consideration. to Dr. Wu's chagrin it was submitted to the Viceroys and other officials of the old régime, and as they started to amend and drag it to pieces it was ultimately lost sight of. It may, therefore, he said that up to the present it has been the effort to bring the judicature and laws of the country into line with modern European practice by codifying them. It is believed that this line of procedure will not be con- tinued.
Sekong Rabber Company.A circular has been issued to shareholders contain. ing extracts from a report made by Mr. Edward Valpy, of Singapore, who visited
Instead Dr. Wang is credited with the intention of setting to work with the laws at present in force, but instead of immediately bringing about their the estate last February in the capacity amendment, to try what can be done with of visiting agent. Mr. Valpy attributes the best qualified men on the bench of the the force of inping coolies and to von Courts. With the returned students, many cient force tapping won of whom can boast a legal qualification, ther conditions, and recommends increas it will be possible to put his scheme into ed recruiting of Javanese and additional
supervision of tapping operations. operation.
GERMAN DEFENCES IN THE FAR
before them.
The laws will stand as at present, but such men as mentioned will be elevated to seats on the bench, and their endeavour will be to administer justice under the existing laws, tempored, however, with their trained knowledge of the subjects Then gradually, as ex perience dictates, the laws will be revised and brought into line with those of west
In countries as the circumstances of the people suggest to be advisable. This is a raised annually, beginning on April 1st complete departure from the custom of re- of the present year, until the increase form which has ruled hitherto, but doubt xoaches a certain percentage of the old less it has been dictated by the most care rates, which in some instances amounts ful thought. The first appointments are to 25 per cent. Scarcely had this expected within a few weeks.
EAST,
GENERAL, HERNHARDI ON BRITISH DESIÓNS.
cent
General Bernhardi, author of the re- Modern much-discussed work War," in an article in the Berlin Post, of May 5th, warns his countrymen defenceless condition in view of the mani-
MALARIA IN NORTH SIAM..
commun.
HEAYT TOLL OF LIFE.
to
A SPECIALITY.
had not heard the name of Oswald Stoll, country youth cogitating the improve ment of Levino's at Cardiff, into an Empire. It knew very little of Ed-
AND SWISS ward Moss, just by way of associating a ENGLISH, AMERICAN
The Palace was GOLD Edinburgh Empire,
AND SILVER citable as a reproach to a public that har
WATCHES. Trusts, been called upon to prove its honest love of music, and signally failed. syndicates and combinations were still un- known. The reconstruction of the London Pavilion from a glorified pol-house to what In fact, the first masic hall decture, apart from the Empire and the Alhambra, had induced a bubble of speculation which quickly burst, and the investing public was distrustful of that
Bage into which it has sinen millions. Mr. Knowles set foot in London at a most critical juncture in For more than a year past, the tangkok the development of the music hall as a euce says, the Chiengmni Valloy, has vast industry, saw it, sturdily shake itself been in the throes of an epidemic of together, and marched boldly forward Large numbers have with it. In the early success of the Tivoli Sudden deaths due an and the Oxford he played his part. And malignant malaria died, accumulation of the malarial parasites then a travel hunger came upon him-
the brain capillaries have been very desire to prove his new importance to The special appeal which has been America, and to see the remoter English Colonies, It is probable that no music made to the Presbyterian Board of Forhall artist has travelled so far and wide, eign Missions to cope with the epidemic has heard the laughter of the world in For R. G. is being widely responded to, and the such varying notation. money collected for the purpose of com- Knowles is still a music hall artist
critical of its social amenities, bringing allotted to Chiengmai and Nakawn. batting the malarial parasite has been jealous of the dignity of that calling, A-sum of $3,150 has been cabled by the to it the financial acumen that might have as he is in art. But he has shown a dis- position to be a delightful deserter from the variety theatre and to add his name to the long list of theatrical literary and music hall celebrities who have undertaken the responsibility of providing a complete er tortainment.
according to which the wages are to be Republic and varying conditions of the against leaving Tsingtau in its present Roard for fighting the epidemic, which made him as distinguished in commerce
It is believed by some to
A SCHOOL OF LAW.
La connection with the reform of the law of the country it is of interest to note that a school of law has been established in-Shanghai. This is situated in a building nene to the Mixed Court,
arme,
and the
one
Thousands have died during the eighteen months.
past
fest resolve of Great Britain to oppose has continued through two cool and
with
probability any real expansion of German power rainy season. that she can count on Japanese support in an onslaught on the German position in Shantung General Bernhardi, on a tour of the world he was making, visited FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES
story, already Tsingtau and heard a often quoted in the German Press, to the effect that at a critical moment in British! a the Morceco negotiations
IN JAPAN.
~Mr. Knowles has a perfect genius for descending upon a country, a city, for settled when 6,000 men turned out at the
seoing somewhat of interest that none has seen before and vividly reproducing it. Vulcan shipbuilding yards. here', an account of the dismissal of an officer of
2. The Japan Herald mentions a report Then he will dash off at a tangent to a one of their unions who had, contrary to
With tireless industry he will discourse the rules of the establishment, collected
squadron appeared of singtau. Accord that the Department of Agriculture and in, a nonsense verse, a snatch of a song. Con- of collecting local details for English the members' contributions during work- and the institution goes under the name ing to General Bernhardi, subsequent Commerce, having decided that it is neces- ̄| of the Republican School of Law, Dr. revelations removed all doubt that the
foreign insurance companies in Wu Ting-fang is understood to hold an squadron was merely waiting for a signal ary to revise the regulations controlling to Hongkong of England in the intervals
German settlement, honorary rank in connection with it, from London to attack a practically formity with the revision of the Insurance delectation. And so the work of bring the Law, is now carrying ont investigations ing the four corners of the earth into a while Chinese who have been called to the defenceless hat abroad have been nominated as authorities of which were not even aware of the Imperial Ordinance and other re kindly communion goes on
of the gravity of the situation. Since gulations concerning foreign concerns. directora.
then, the General contends, there has been Up to the present all foreign insurance
A nesting of the Sanitary Board will little change in Anglo-German relations, companies have furnished a security of in consequence of the revolution in China, to the remarkable development of their be held to-day, when Mr. F. B. L. Bowley and the question has become more urgent 100,000 yen to the Government, but owing
Registrar-General as an additional mem- in which Japan is believed to be deeply business in Japan of late it is reported will move for the appointment of the involved, and the possibility that the to have been informally decided to in- prevalent state of anarchy in the country croase the amount of the security to ber of the committee appointed by the may lead to a scramble among the Powers 500,000 yen, with a view to protecting the. for spheres of interest. From personal insured as well as preventing the reckless Board recently to carry out the provisions General Hernhardi pro establishment of new concerns. The revi- of the laws for the prevention et mitiga observation nounces the present defences to be totally, sion is expected at the same time as the tion of epidemic or contagious diseases in
the Colony, inadequate and the town and harbour to regulations relating to the enforcement of
the revised Insurance Law. be untenable against a heavy gunfire.
ing hours. have been a trick on the part of the men to secure a holiday on the first of My without incurring the penalty of a ten
The objects of the institution are not so "days" auspension. from work, which must of the industrial works in the neighbour- much, it is stated, the training of solici- kood had notified to their bands would tory of advocates, us the teaching of law to the people. The promoters seek to give be imposed on such as kept away on May the populace a general knowledge of the Day in order to join the ammual labour law, but while this is the present object procession. It may be mentioned, by the it is said that it may prove the foundation way, that the weather on that day was of a college where lawyers can be trained at some future period and whence they ideal, which, together with the strike at
can be called to the bar. This will de pend entirely upon the progress which 'the Vulcan yards, inay account for the
it is able to make.-N.-C. Daily News. large numbers that took part in the
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