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** COMMERCIAL COUNSELLORS"?".
The Daily Telegraph's Civil Service Correspondent writes:-
Broadly speaking, the functions of the Commercial Attaché, who, it seems, is to be officially styled Commercial Counsellor or Secretary of Embassy or Legatica
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
CAPE TO CAIRO AIR THRILLS.
80TH, ` - 1919.
UTPUT OFbours of labour in this country, the work
WORLD
MERCHANT HIPPING.
BRITISH DECLINE
[BY ARCHIBALD (HURD.),
No casual
FLIGHT OF 5,300 MILES.
Several officers, the Daily Chronicle learns, Aave just departed for Africa, and others are under orders to follow, with a
visitor to this country, view to completing plans for an aeroplane whether he went into our towns or our journey from the Cape to Cairo, 3,300 tons and coal mining villages, would Villages, particularly our shipbuilding miles
Apart from its great distance, the pend-imagine that we were at a crisis in our To advise and assist the British Eming African fight is in some respects a history---confronted with the peril of extinction as a Great Power. The fight fing is over, and an armistice has been dictated within a month the Navy will have been reduced from its swollen war to its slender peace, establishment, and the Army will have been brought down Only so far as Khartum will it be to about 900,000 men. But when those
bassy or Legation to which he is attached on the broader issues of trade, industry and finance and their developmenta abroad, and more particularly in regard to such matters as the following, viz, commercial treaties, tariff negotiations, and correspondence arising out of the
more interesting excursion: into the un- known than the pending Atlantic flight
For it offers a picturesque assortment of jungle hazards, ranging from wild beasts to the difficulty of buying "sparos," and petrol in darkest Africa,
- WATERFALLS AND SØDD'~*~*~*.
The type of machine that will probably be chosen requires 500 gallons of petro for every lap of from 800 to 1,000 miles Pioneers must go ahead, catablishing along the route dumps, not only of spirit, but of food and fitments.
ing classes in particular, and all classes in varying degros, are confronted with a most critical situation, for we live by ships and coal. Owing to increased ship- building in the United States, last year's output for the whole world was more than twice the amount required to meet the needs of the world's "trade--53 million tons instead of 9 million tons, or less.
that rate the losses of war will soon be replaced, and then a freight war will occur, as has been confessed openly on-the- question in British yards, not of the other side of the Atlantie; and it will be
number of hours which shall be worked and the amount of wages that employers shall be made to pay, but in many dis- tricts of no work and no wages and wide spread unemployment There will be a of holding our own will rest in cheapnes surplus of shipping, and our only hope.
plus quality.
And indications are not wanting that
practical application of tariffs; revenue familiar flying. The Nile route is likely or other financial or commercial legisis to be followed, and the question of using tion as affecting British interests claime large water-place is now being-con- of individuals and firms arising out ofsidered. British enterprise abroad; assistance to British firms and individuals to secure Government contracts and concessions; negotiations in regard to loans and other financial arrangements.
"To keep up a constant supply of in- formation on commercial matters to the Department of Overseas Trade, and to attord to inquiries from the department or from British firms in regard to com- mercisi questions of too general a charac- ter to be dealt with by consular officers"
As a rule the Commercial Counsellor will deal with the more comprehensive in. with questions affecting a country as whole, while the Consuls will attend to Ical inquiries relating to matters, in their respective districts. The Commer- cidi Counsellor will draw up annual re-variesy of creatures, from lions together in a few weeks; our shipping has ports, summarising the commercial, economic, and financial developments, of be year in the country in which he re- Fidicó. He will also furnish special re- ports as occasion arises.containing in- formation as to existing and potential markets for British goods, sources of raw materials for British industries, and fields for British enterprise in foreign countries, foreign competition in overseas markets, the finance, trade, and in- dustries of foreign countries.
two processes have been completed there when this slump in shipping comes pres will be a smaller proportion of men-sure will be put on Congress to subsidise, and-men
in one form or another; "the American are the home supporters-in shipbuilding and ship-owning industries productive employment than at any pre on the plea that "what we lose on the From Koka, for a few hundred miles,vious period probably for a century or swings we shall make on the sound the Nile unfortunately, is covered with so, unless we get busy, as the Ameriahouts. The theory is that no price will sudda floating mass of vegetable matter cans say. We shall still be living on the be too high to enable the United States, that would checkmate a water-plane as proceeds of loans, which means that we with its coastal trade protected and a effectually as it does ordinary vessels. shall be continuing to inertage our big export trade to develop, to become After an interval of open water the future production. We have no inerte carrying nation of the world. aviators will encounter 100 miles of baustible treasury on which We САР That means a fight for supremacy, long and draw, as some speakers seem to imagine and costly, if good tempered, unless we almost uninterrupted waterfalls rapids---
The expenditure will be little short of capitulato in advance because ship. what it is now-nearly £7,000,000 a owners and shipbuilders decide that day, and the national income from all they cannot succeed without the suppors forms of taxation will amount to just of shipyard and other workers. If this over £9,000,000, so that every twenty country is defeated in that contest, we four hours our indebtedness (allowing shall at
once lose about £70,000,000 £1,000,000 a "day" for the selling of annually our invisible imports," con- stoves and ships) will still be increasing sisting of the freight charges for carry- approximately £4,000,000, Our ing other than British goods-and every by foreign trade is, for the time practically trade and industry in the country will suffer disastrously, which is equivalent. dead; our output of coal has been re
to saying that the mass of the people... duced, and may have been arrested alto-
and especially manual workers, will be either been sunk or is in a bad state of brought face to face with a reduction of disrepair. In those conditions, the out employment in combination with & standing phenomenon is not a wide higher cost of living. spread · movement for peace, retrench- ment, and reform," with plenty of hard work, but demands for shorter hours of labour and higher wages, and a general slackening of production of the two things necessary to prosperity-coal and shipa.
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NEED FOR THE RIGHT MEN. The Commercial Counsellor, will also supervise and co-ordinate the commercial work of the Consulates." He will fre quently travel in the country in which he resides and periodically return to the United Kingdom to visit the principal industrial and commercial centres Jori the purpose of meeting chambers of com- merce and trade associations and of granting private interviews and
deliver ing addresses on subjects of general in- terest.
The duties bere outlined
comproben- sive and important enough to enable the future Commercial Counsellor to render very valuable services to British trade, but everything will depend upon the selection of the right mea Germany was a pioneer in the employment of the Commercial Attachés, who were not mere ly able to pass a literary examination,
in min-i
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but were highly qualified engineering,||
For most of the aviators a novel sensa tion should come of the knowledge that if they crash in the water crocodiles will assuredly get them," while should they descend in a belpless condition to earth they are bound to receive attention from Lizards
Only light N.E. and N.W. winds are likely to be encountered.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDERS 188UED BY MR. J. W. FRANKI, D.S.F. (R).]
LEAVE
The leave granted to 4.6.P. (R) and Adjutant Mr. T. F. Hough is hereby suspended until such time as he leaves
the Colony,
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SEARCH BUFERVISORS' DUTIES. These will be performed as follows:-
atto 9th May (inclusive) by No. 2
Platoon.
10th May to 1st June (inclusive) by No.
& Company.
XXXI
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We have had nearly half a century's popular, education, and it has never yet occurred to anyone in authority to teach tho essential lesson that wealth comes not from" strikes and fock-outs, but from production-taking some raw material and increasing its value by working on We cannot begin to turn the corner it. That process, organised with skill, until we have more sea-carrying capacity governs bours bf labour and rates of and more exports, and in normal times wages And when we get down to essen- more than three-quarters of our exports, tials, it must be apparent that the calculated by weight and not by value, amount of the fund out of which wager consisted of coal. We sent out ships with are paid, even if capital received o coal,"carried at low rates, and those thing for its services, depends ultimately vessels brought us back raw materials on ships and coal. For we must obtain and food, which were cheapened because from overseas almost everything we re- the ships carried coal instead of ballast quire, and a larga proportion of our
their outward voyages. Our coal ships must go out empty unless, we have. trade and our shipping industry are coal for them to carry Everyone is necessarily conducted in face of world therefore concerned in this matter of Inspectors and Bergeants having keys of competition because our ports are free, cheap ships and cheap coal.
When we the Search Supervision Office will, though most other ports are protected glance over the world, and compare the return them to Headquarters. Lawhich means that our coal and our ship speeches which are being made here Future a key will be attached to the services must be cheaper than the coal with the work which is being done else- 8.8 Occurrence Book.
and ship services of other nations. where, is it an exaggeration, to state
RECORD OF TEN YEARS,
that we are face to face with a greater As a shipowaing community, we have crisia as an industrial and trading been badly hit by the war, and now we nation than at any time for a century are being prejudiced by peace, sa the past? Only by work can a nation bên latest. figures issued by Lloyd's Register come prosperous, and all discussions. indicate The output of British, Ameriwhich ignore that essential factor :nre" - can, Japanese, and other countries dangerous to the individual ag to the tates a record that might well be posted yards during the past ten years consti State-Daily Telegraph, on every hoarding in the country in the hope that thereby the sporting instinct) -the spirit of emulation of shipyard and other workers, if no higher senti ment, might be roused. These are the eloquent, if sad, figures:→
&
MESTING.
meeting will be held at Headquarters on the 2nd May at 5.30 p.m. All Staff Officers, Inspectors and Ser- gests who have not hitherto per Formed S.S. Duties are required to attend Staff Inspector Eldridge will attend This order does not apply to the Band, Orchestra Buglers and Mounted Bee
tion.
"April 20th, 1819.
ing, agriculture, shipping, etc., and she placed them in the various parts of the world where their know, ledge of these subjects could be of the most advantage. The activities and the services of these experts are well, known.
The scales of payment fixed for the Commercial Counsellors are:***. First Grade£1,500 Second Grado £1,000-£60-£1,200 Third Grade £700-E25-£900 Fourth Grade. £ 500-£25 £700. by no means extravagant If we are to In addition to those salaries, which are secure the best brains for these important It is doubtful if any other servant of posts, local and office allowances will be the Crown has had imposed on him such granted, varying according to the cost wide and varied duties as the British of living in diferent countries.
Codeul, but, in view of the fierce com Appointments to the Commercial Coun-petition for trade in foreign markete sellor Bervies will be made by the Secre which awaits an in the immediate future, tary of State for Foreign Affairs on the the furtherance of British trade should be advice of a Belection Committee composed the paramount function of a British Con- of representatives of Government Depart sul, and his qualification for that purpose ments and at the business community. should be the main consideration. One of the principal recommendations of the Walrond Committee, of which Mr. Bonas "Law was a member, was the selection of men with commercial experience.
inquiry in cases of murder, missing per sons, lunatics, robberies, in which British subiccts are concerned to apply, under instructions from his Majesty's Govern- crinals, with a view to subsequent five with, il arrest of fugi-
DUTIES OF CONSULAR OFFICES.
While the functions of the Commercial Counsellor relate exclusively to commer cial and kindred questions, the cities of a British Consular Officer cover a much
UNCOMMERCIAL RECRUITS. wider range so wide, indeed, as to ex appointed during the nine years down to Among the seventy Consular Officers tend from inquiries in cases of murder 1913, whose antecedents I have before me, to the solemnisation of marriages. His we have school-masters, bank clarke, book- duties may be summfised as follows
To administer the Merchant Ship-keepers, translatura lasaiatant, naval store ping Acta, a task which takes up a great lerks, etc., and only three with any pre-
officers, Second Division.
clerks, Customs deal of his time-too much of his time,tance to commercial experience! How indeed, in a basy shipping port to the long will it take, under Sir Arthur Steel- detriment of Briish trade, which has zug Maitland's scheme of reforms, before the gested the advisability of some scheme servic
would free the consul, from
duties; to furnich-annual and #ch service is sufficiently leavened by the new
con:
BULLETS AS PLAYTHINGE,
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before. Mr. G. N. Ormo, a Chinese was charged with being in unlawful-possession of 12 rounds of revolver ammunition. : TONNAGE LAUNCHED, 1009:18.
Defendant said he had just returned U. KINGDOM. JAPAN. U.S. WORLD. from America where he was given the Year. Tonnage. Tonnage, Tonnage. Tonnager bullets as a cumshaw." He thought 1900 901,066, 52,319 80,455 1,002,057 they would be useful playthings to while 19101,143,168 .30,215 177,601 1,667,858 away a dull bour and brought them to 10111,803,844 44,350 19191,738,614 57,756. 184,273 2,901,760
95,693 3,650,140 Hongkong
Inspector Boulger stated that defendant 19131,932,153 84,684 228,214 3,332,882 was a cook on board the Brooklyn, and was 19141,683,553 85,861 102.937 2,862,753 arrested while on his way to Macao. 1015 620,919 49,408 167,167 1,201,638 As the man was a respectable person be 1916 608,230 145,894 354,890 1,683,980 did not press for a beavy penalty. 1917.1,182,856 250,141 821,115 2,937,788 1918 1,348,120 488,924 2,602,153 5,447,440
Mr. Orme fred defendant $35.
That statement shows the relative de line of British shipbuilding in the past ten years. But the position is revealed
At the Magistracy yesterday, before in even more convincing terms if we take Mr. G. N. Orme, a Chinese pleaded
longer period. Starting from 1884, for instant the following falling-off is guilty to stealing 4 lbs. of copper from
the Naval Yard. revealed:
Defendant, who had been employed in The tonnage launched in the United Kingdom during the five years 1894-1898 the yard for over a year, was searched by amounted to 74.7 per cent of the total the Indian watchman on duty at the main gate and the copper was found con- output of the world for that period..
During the three following quinquencealed underneath his trousers.
Mr. Orme passed sentence of six weeks' nial periods it was 60, 10.8, and 61.1
dard labour. per rent, respectively, thug showing ..that for the fifteen years 1800-1813 the United Kingdom's share of the world' outpat was quite 60 per cent,
During the War years 1914-1918 very serions decrease has taken place. only 38.6 per cent. of the world's mer cantile output for this period baving been launched in the United Kingdom. On the other hand, American and
available in revard, to tenders; to Loop Versant with Spanish, to be left at bis Japanese yards are turning out an
clase of recruits to be of advantage to reports on matters of commercial and brook delay 1. Is the present staff to bo British trade, whose interests will not general interrat; to furnish the Overseas eft undisturbed, are the round pegs to Trade department with hints of probable buyers of British goods and liste of mann, continue to remain in the square holes. factures: to report any information is Consul, for instance, ignorant of
the Easian language, but quite his Majesty's
diplomatic representative. Colonial authorities and captains of poet at Russia. In view of the urgency. amount of tonnage which a few years ago shios of war falls informed of all quar the overhauling of the present Consular would have been regarded as beyond the antine regulations, and the ampearance Service is not less important than the bounds of possibility. Japan builds at of contagious infections diseasen; to making of provision for its proper re about one-third the pre-war cost of con report to the Foreign Office every mouth cruitment in the future. Siced for Con: charges in that country are extremely #truction in this country, for labour on cattle diseasen etc.
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THEFT OF COPPER.
ALLEGED OPIUM DIVAN..
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. G. N. Orme, a Chinese was charged with keeping an opium divan, and an- other Chinese with smoking opium.
Mr. D. J. Lewis, who appeared for the first defendant, applied for a remand.
Mr. Orme remanded the caso," granting bail in 8100 and 85 to the first and second defendants respectively.
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'the native of the country to anhold the Miz anlaries of £800, or, of which is for ocean services, the average This Year:
HONGKONG. TRAMWAY CO., LTD. The scales of nayment
The approximate statement of traffic re-consideration, are:-
from 52,000 tons to 490,000 tone, in round receipts for the week ending. April seth Chnaula-General Fixed, salaries of figures. The progress of America is even
is as follows :- £1.200, £1,000, or 2000, according to the more noteworthy. Apart from the 440,000
Receipts 52 the
for pont
gross tous built on the Great Lakes, much rightfal interests of British anbiects the importance of the nort
do Acala
2000-£20-£700, according to the has risen from about 200,000 tons (1909 Last Year suffer, or are likely to suffer, injury, either
was a particularly low year) to 2,600,000 Torossa in their persons or property to reply
Vice-Coneala-E300-£20-£600.
In both countries this increased output. to inquiries addressed to him by the Over as in the case of Commercial Counsellors as and Austrians will come on the The mode of annointment is the same will continue, and eventually the Ger ses Trade Department, and by British The arrangements for the staffing of the scene again with about half a million subiecta ; to arrange for the relief and Trade Commissioner service - which ex tone annually
Patriation of dintressed de to the British Empire only, and;
-Jecta to Tag form all notarial
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HONGKONG C.C. TOURNAMEN in respect of births, deaths, and marrito recall that this service, which is doing on the eve of a period of great prosperi lage d, was played off on Mondayeven- practically complete. It is interesting ed States and Japan Instead of being
The final of the Singles Handicap, aves in curtains countries nuder the excellent work in our Dominion, was ty, justifying an upward movement of ing between, L. Forster (reta: 1/6), and Foreign Marriage Act, 1998; to make instituted be Mr. Lloyd George when henges and a downward movement in the 10-3,0 3/6). Forster won by
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