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PRACE CONFERENCE,“ PARALLELS WITH VIENNA
FORESHORE RIGHTS IN
SINGAPORE
PAUL CHATER.
THE ADMIRAL LINE. FOUR FIRST-CLASS STEAMERS FOR THE TRANS-PACIFIC
SERVICE
An important judgment relative to the
The Admiral Line bave now been matter of foreshore rights was delivered assigned by the 1.5. Shipping Board the in the Supreme Court of the Straits following steamers to be operated perman- Settlements, recently, by
Mr. Justice ently in the Trans Pacifc freight ser- Woodward. The case itself was heard à rie-3.1 Western Knight, Weat Hema week or two previous and arose out ofte, Wext Munham, and Feet Celina
Each of these ships is of 8.800 tons the acquisition by the Government of certain lands at Kampong Sambau bay.deadweight capacity, and about 10,000 To some parts of the bay the sea bad tons measurement capacity. All are of advanced on the land, whilst in other the TS. Shipping Board standard type
of steamers.
The first two on the list will be operat ed in the service of Puget Sound, calling
Another interesting point of compari-
parts it had receded. The Crown, in san is supplied by the dramatic persone of both illustrious companies.
the name of the Attorney-General and Ther were nearly all representatives of old others, claimed at that portion of the States, and there was a general agree land covered by the sea at the date of the Seattle, Tacema, Victoria and Van- ment among "most of them respecting notice of the acquisition while Sir couver, and the regular ports of call in the Far East will be Yokohama, Kobu, Catchick Paul Chater and Messrs. aims and objects, or what we should term
Shanghai, Manila and Hongkong-
The fundamentals But there was one excep- Guthrie & Co. claimed the lands exposed West Manhaws and the rest. L'eling will tion; a relatively new Power took partly the retreat of the sea.
The main contention of the Crown was Portland (Oregon), making the same be operated in the service of to and from in the deliberations of the Vienna Con- gress, and despite its loftier intentions, that when the land was originally perhaps, indeed, because of them, in-acquired from Sir Paul and Guthrie & troduced a jarring sound into the concert Co, the sen, at that date, did not form of nations, and caused the others to their boundary, but that another piece of gnash their teeth. Russia was then land intervened between these plots and newcomer in those European councils theses. In support of the contention, a which were convoked at irregular periods.
direction. The Powers, during the pre- Evious military campaign, had been.com
pelled by necessity to unite against 'a SY DE. J. DILLON.)
common enemy, but having worsted himJUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF SIE History never repeats itself.
Bat on the battlefield fell to squabbling whimsical circumstance sometimes cats among themselves in the Council Cham- two events in moulds so nearly alike that her as soon as they set about dividing the cursory glance of the average man the booty. Now in this respect the Paris seizes the resemblance and misses the dif. Conference is understood to tower aloft ference. Over and above these superfi- above its historic predecessor. Men who cial coincidences, however, there are must know tell us that the delegates to other deeper and more interesting traits the Quai d'Orany have been just as un- which have their common roots in human animous, disinterested and single-mind character, temperament, nervous statened during the armisties as they were and mental attitudes. And these occa-
throughout the 'was. sionally render the products of the thought and will-power of two actors. wely sundered from each other by time and space strangely alike. I have taken the trouble to wade through a number of half-forgotten memoirs, letters, and articles peaned by gifted chroniclers, French, German, and Swise, some of whom were delegates to the Vienna Con- grees, and I find that whole pages pf what was written in the year 1813 1820 might have appeared in a Pari Berlin, or Geners newspaper a few days
Outwardly, as one might expect, there striking difference between the frames of the two pictures. Vienna was
The Pext Munham sailed from Port- transformed into a sort of paradise of delights for the occasion by a brilliant tertiual atate systern shattered by ioned from the public archives and patland (Oregon) on May 3rd, and will leave
for repairing the meenanusia of the in-plethora of maps and plans were requisi Court which thought it had an interest wars.
35 she was hardly yet recognised
Hongkong on the return voyage about in pushing hospitality to the point lavishness.
European. Her gated Isar Alexander in, including the earliest existing survey In the Burg alone were two was an idealist-one taught even term map of the settlement, dated January, July 2nd. This was the first U.S. Ship- Emperors, two Empresas, four Kings,
him a visionary-who Wanted not so one Queen, two Crown
much
1843, the work of the now famous Thomping Board Trans-Pacific liner despatch-" Archduchesses,
threes, two
prace with the vanquished enemy and
ed from the port of Fortland in, the Princess
as a cumplete and radien reform of the son, Surveyor-General (who was sent Every day the Emperor's table cast ordering or the whole world, so that wars from Indin to surrey the Settlement) and Trans Pacific trade. The Western Anight, 50,000 gulden. Every Congress day cost cu him 500.000 gulden. Many of Europe's to weltare of wank.nd be set develop the map of his successor Moniot, which which sails from Beattle on about June
should be noquined thenceforward, and eminent personages strove to outdo each ing
like" a other in pomp and pageantry, and cum monile. And this blessed change was to
sort of pacine perpetuum of them to the
their
their secretaries, their their
So enter secret were the
relomere to enjoy then selves that the Cours did not go into mouring for Queen Marie Carpline of Naples, the last of Marin Tire
aughters. Her death was not even an nounced officially, lest it should trouble the festivities of the jovial peace-makers!
aga
Ele
of
(çulludential favourites, and led by nimself,
AUTOCRAT LE THE CONGRINS.
+
V
ports of call in the Orient
This probably marks the first step of" the U.S. Shipping Board in assigning their ships for permanent operation in the Trans-Pacific, trade,
soth, will be the first .S. Shipping Board steamer to sail from that port in the regular Trans-Pacific trade.
was published in the early sixties.
At the close of a very lengthy judgment capital taking, with school ginele aniscian to compasses not by the peeples of seats His Lacedony said he found in Sir Paul and deliberating in Chater's favour that not only was he
This gives the Admiral Line four first- entitled to access but he was also entitled class steamers for the Trans-Pacific ser This cur.oas type of public worker to the soil of such accretion as had formed vice, and, if conditions warrant, this feet a mixture or toeyst.cai and the practi- CR-98 c telur the delegates. He against bis land to the south. His Lord. will probably be increased at a later date.. put spokes in everyoody's wheel,' behaved ship said he had had no evidence before
autocrat of the Congress, and felt him such as would enable him to deter- THE EAST INDIES SQUADRÓN.
DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCRACY,"
aa seit-complacent as a scant. Countess voo Thurheim wrote of him:
Hemine how far the secretion had to be con-
SOME OF THE NEW WARSHIPS. The new East Indies Squadron is .000 well calculated to maintain the dignity embrnant le bonheur du monde, south-west of his land. He thought that of the premier naval power of the world. he realised in himself the dreams of the the Crown and Sir Paul Chater were It consists of the cruisers Carysfort (flag- philosophers about love for mankind,.
Pha froth Caporal, in fact were based upon the perfection both ofed between them, and his Lordship said line, Comur, and Conquest-all cruisers
ut their Utopias of human happiness entitled to have the accretion apportion-ship of the Commander-in-Chief), Caro-
The Paris of to-day, on the other hand, mistrusted his environment, and let sidered as having formed against his land is democratic--with a strong infusion of
himself te led by others But be wa plutocracy and makes ho attempt at thoroughly good and high-minded, and and how far against the piece of Crown such brilliant display and esthetic enjoy sought after the weal not merely of his land which he had found to exist on the ments as those which flattered the senses country, but of the whole world. Son
fired the imagination
tion of the Viennese 1910 mankind
ind is simpler in its tastes esthetic. It is certain that the
frivolity baa lost its snowy become turbid instead of sparkling. In subjects and or princes. And, as Alex Vienna balls banquets, theatricals, aleigh additions, his work remained unfinished.
ander could fulfi only one-half of these he was willing to take more evidence as of the famous "O" type as the initial Mary parties,
to how it should be apportioned, but he letter of their names indicate. followed each other in ren und cabled and the poor Emperor died a victim of imagined that apportionment, could be politicians their intriguca noticed by
and machinations un- The other personages, and Metternich made a matter of arrangement between except the secret polies in particular, were greatly put out by the partics. He found that Messrs. And 2.8 the Congress torminated one Alexander's prescr.ce. They labelled him Guthrie & Co's. claim failed. Bir Paul bloody campaign and ushered in another, a marplot who could not and would not Chater's claim succeeded to the extent one might aptly term it the amusing in- enter into the spirit or their game. He that he must be declared entitled to some terval between two tragedies Contem- always wanted something else, something portion of the recession referred to in
Governments are said to be less transcendental, something mistrustful than they were in those un-kiss heart was ever striving to
supernational
was entitled to the declaration in the counter-claim, subject to the amendments
and aduaners to carry on his high-minded illusions #
But
regenerate days, and one can safely con- the happiness of the whole 10 embrace the statement of claims, and the Crown the East Indies Station. Any two of tho jecture that in Paris they never resort they, antea not oftend bim. Without his to the devices practiced by the Austrian
1 brave troops police, who not only obtained possession the victory which could not have won he had previously referred to.
ture of
season
the
they
bad now
อน
given them the power to remodel Barope," And they did not know how soon they might need him again. For he represented a erous and
powertal
People, wh
U.S. COLOUR BAR
The fourth Light Cruiser Squadron haa been in existence for over three years and did splendid service in the naval war of 1916-18. The four cruisera make a strong contrast with the larger, but very much weaker, squadron formerly maintained on
squadron could easily out-class and out- gun" the cruisers of the Highter and Fuz type which for so long carried the White Ensign on the Station,
The Corpsfort is a very fine and to-date cruiser, well water line, gun.
positiontected on th and over the boilers, magazines, engines and other
kncts
speed, and carrica, an "armament of 8 inch. guns of the most powerful type of their calibre. The Carysfort was engaged in several affairs
daring the fighting in the North
elsewhere.
Leconomic and military resources promised ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION IN vital parts. She is of 25
gh
it were not Republican
So,
CALIFORNIA.
New York, April 24th.. A telegram from. Sacramento 'states
As
of all the fragments of torn letters and documents
nts from the waste paper haskets of political personages, but actually got the ashes taken out of the grates and examined them chemically;
For all its democratic form of govern- it in time the hegemony of the world. ment, the Ville Lumière loves pomp and Did not the defeated Emperor Napoleon pageant, and hails public festivities himself predict that Europe would. with delight Intense joy was therefore can
came Cossack it productant Bare-
recent announcement wit that a
and within a relatively short periodic of that, the Californian Benaze, ignoring the Carbine, Coms, and Conquert are up will be
theanged at Versailles, at the ̈
e end A. G. Consis & Co.'s
the great country which was now elbow Mr. Lansing's appeal to refrain from representative cruisers of the same typa Tabours in commemof a theatri also feared, felt that the enemy: fiity seven votes to four, a Bill to compet various actions in the North Sea.
of the signs. ng it way into European affairs, ther
and all did excellent patrol work in the It will peace.
nad therefore humoured, anti-Japanese, legislation, has passed, by North Sea and elsewhere, he "' in the
well as hall there, him. They
scouting and other duties, leading up to CIGARETTES. which is double the size of the Opéra defeated and humbied, was
Other
Japanese children to attend separate well as being speedy, economical of fuel features will be a grandiose fête !
the style of those given might at any moment rise phoenix-like schools in all places in which such in-
permanently disabled,
consumption, well armed, and overy Lind of scleral, service all four sir spectacle to be played before the cratic visionary was therefore fêted, and
(The Japanese question has proviously cruisers possess the best and most up-to- central door of t the
Like some lauded, and raised to a dizzy pedestal lad to critical moments in California. A date torpedo and anti-aircraft armament, vast transformation
the advertise
ise by men who in their hearts set him down grave situation arose in 1913 when the Cali- and their fuel storing capacity gives them ments say,
several thousands of persons as a crank His words were reverently formian Legislature passed. & Bill depriving a very wide cruising ar
arca will be grouped in this living picture repeated and his unites recorded and Japanese of the privilege of owning land. Rear of Victory" faint echo from the fairy reembered.
HD. Tothill, tales of Vienna, which provided sights bad taste to remark that even this millen: the Legislature not to take that course were Squadron, has been in the servile for over Hardly anyone had the Telegrams from President Wilson urging who commands the new East Indies and mounds almost for each hour of the nisl philosopher in the statesman's arm ignored. day and the night.
The Japanese Ambassador pre-3 years. He served as a middy of the chair lett asghtly flaws in bis system sented an earnest protest from his Govern-
Invincible at the bombardment for the welfare of man Thus, while
ment, and after protracted negotiations a
Alex-" favouring equality generally,
clasp and Khende's star). In naval war
of 1914-17
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INCREDIBLE FOOD PRICES. Side by side with the good cheer that kept the eminent Invgivers of the Con- obstinately refused to concede it to one affair aroused a feeling of strong resentment and of the struggle be saw much. gress of 1818 in high spirits went there; in fact, he would not hear of com- mon fairness being acted out to that prohibitive cost of living everywhere out-
side the charmed circle, in consequence Polish people which was treated thus rade. In Alexander's case it was the
in Japan which was dot msily allayert,]
afloat and ashore and did splendid zer- vice (mentioned several times in des of the high prices. The same is
is terribly
"patches, knighthood). Sir Hugh is no true of life in the French capital, and, And, owing to him, Poland's just claims and the change is to begin after the stranger to the East Indies Station, hav-
throughout France Paris, like violated, and the work of the peace ratified. It was in order to enable the
were ignored her admitted rights were covenant has been voted, aged, and served there previously in his junior fail of money. is
brought by fortune, who, like the child markers was botched. res of misfortune, are charged double and treble for
•rate to an irksome, or commit any
days.
TRADE.
:
delegates to devise such a wording of the SERVANTS OF THE ELECTORATE,
charter na would not bind any of them BRITISH MALAYA'S FOREIGN « Every writes one of the
Happily the Paris Conference has been
to an obnoxiouя article
sacrifice, thist the chroniclers of the Vienna Congress, #1
bat organised on a wholly different basis. Above all things else, it is democratic,
Treaty with Germany and the vredible bright fugl, Toge in price to in- Its members, modestly connder themselves. liquidation of the war were postponed
The Austrian Govern ale found it necessary, in consequence, bave to render an account of their strong criticism, but it had the advant
more servants of the public, stewards who This delay caused profound
tion in Continental Еигорс cad provoked its officials supplements to their salaries and indemnities."
stewardship, and who
therefore in
go me. 589 of bringing home to the victorious things
fear of the electorate at home. are much worse. There is
the marvellous recuperativ hardly any coal to be had, and even the
check was net felt by the pleat nations
But whether powers of the German race. wood fuel gives ant now and again.
tod a
ment o
in Vienna, Ari
The me summary of foreign imports and exports of the Straits Settlements and British Malaya for 1815 has just been published.
Butter is almost unknown. Wine i had said his delegates hav, every: they drew the right consequence from $506,989,835)
Pr
you
mont
they
тазвея,
Total imports were valued at £60,067,147 45 against 254,886,077 (467,880,860) for the year 1917.
Total ports were £67,447,91;3 (8578,194,925) as against £70,689,518 for the previous years, a
The differences are probably more in the values than in the quantities of im- ports but in exports tin has gone down by 150,000 pikul, coprn by nearly 400,000 is sometheupectva | pikul, while para rubber has gone up
for the pencat of the man this lesson the future will show. It also and terribly dear, from 800 to 1,000
gave time for the wording of a complet Perand cent. above
of it has been said and done Was You cannot unknown to these Thus the bold admirably tempered
to the human get a public conveyance unl Inte to pay double fare and a star chewed the incentive of publicity tions, whose passions were only kept an-
for weaknesses of the rival signatory n People are Always too late
their debates, and, in order to accelerate der by shoot exhaustion, that all their OT early
too
the advent of the new era, their
had re-sal engagements, and punctuality
ity course-in a shamefared way that does spokesmen saw their way to sign the in become a luxury of millionaires.
themi
credit-to some of the less respect draft, at least conditionally, and with The
for demand life's necessaries is great able institutions of the old era.
out definitely and the supply sometimes abundant, mis too, aimed at the
They out the authorities
Governments. There their satisfaction
almost keep
the two
genial in the simplicity of the means Apart sys of their
by tematically
aan natin plete
which thens latter-day covenanters Moving from pleasure to politicawn reform of the wholpirations, at
regenerate the And strong contrasts as well ne surpris permanent pence to be achieved by a world. Ther give them wredit for the in and out. Exports to the United States,
pooples of the the rights and
common virtues in the hope of
and at
to to
by 200,000 pikul.
valued at two hundred million dollars, Trade with the Netherlands. Indies is
ang resemblances between the two pence duties of nations. This remarkable docu- them by qualities they are doing reached 210 million dollars, there being
making earlier and naturally to the ment, which will for-ever-bo-sociated thus affording a superfluous illustration
of the Paris Conference with the name of President Thus, et the Austrian Constress, the mem
it
hers, while tegmingly united, were pull-pected to change fundamentally the of the truth that the one deadly solvent to be shunned by those who would re ing hard against one another, each in relations of peoples towards sach other, main philanthropists is a practical know- dividual or group tugging in a different (Continued et foot of next column.)" Jedge of men.-Daily Telegraph.
United Kingdom come next at by mil no figures for 1917. Exports to the lions, but to the whole of the British Empire to 287 million dollars. Imports from Japan run up to $1 millions exports, to Japan being about half that figure.