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CONSULAR REFORM. THE STUDENT INTERPRE
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The new regulations governing future admission to the Consular service · hava recently Esen gazetted. The far-reaching na. ture of the reform, now introduced will
CORRESPONDENCE. *THE RELIGION OF WAR." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG [DAILY PRESE-"*]
Sia, I naturally shrink from any kind of religious controversy, but it would be
Apart from liners, and perhaps oil tank-thrifty persons who have invested theis { "rithmetic, "commercial geograpay, political My one desire on the very low occasiona..
ers, for which there is still a demand, no one in his senses would think of ordering new merchant ships at the prices which now rule, for freights have fallen so heavily during the past monthe and the running charges are so high that vessels constructed under the present conditions
savings in shipping. But the shipowner runs his ships only so long as he can make some sort of profit. When he can- not do that he lays up his vessels, with the result that officers and men are thrown out of employment, as well as a
Bus unfortunately E.I. was not present Candidates who do not take two living at the address in question, and the good deal of dockside labour, and the languages Section B will be required report he has read in the Press has beez cannot be made to pay. That statement flow of orders for new vessels 'coanes, 5. Other candidates will be required to abbreviated. My endeavour was to show
So satisfy the Commissionere in Subject may or may not apply generally to liners, with the result that there are no wages as the translation test in the second that the horrors of the late war did not but in that connection Sir William For for the men engaged in our shipyards i date who fails in either of these test afford a fair reason for saying that God.
be better understood if we first give the wrong if I were not to reply to the letter subjects of the old sxamination. They were appearing under the signature of E.I. in- English, French, German, or Spanish, low, to-day's lue of the Hongkong Dan Preu.
economy, and Kussian, ane standard set in each subject being of quite a demontary on which I now preach a sermon is to character.. Here is the new schome for bring some grain of comfort to the Consular services and to student interpre caused pain then I am indeed sorry. ppointment to the General and Levant boreaved, and if anything I have said has terabips in the Far East:- SLOTION TO BE TAKEN BY ALL CANDIDATES.
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does not exist at all, or that He is Marka wasteful, or that He is cruel; that while, perhaps, it might be fair to attack Édu- cation and Science, and to say that they have been proved failures because they nave tended to increase the horrors of warfare, it is not fair to make any such attack upon religion, which from the out- set proclaims war to be an active fact in life-and this is true not only of the Old- L'estament, but even in the New wo read that there was war in heaven-and I was careful, also, to point out at the beginning of my address that there are many men, who would like to believe that the Bible is not authentic, for the doo
s-English led 3-Prent Day Questions on contemporary subjects social, economic," and political ... 100 4.—Bolacca --Questions on general principles, methods, and ap plications of science, including geography,
100 5.ITanslation-Translation from one of the following languages not taken in Section B. TIL, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Partuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Raulau; Latin being also an option for those who take two modern languages in Section B 100 6.A viva voce examination 300
wood made some notable statements on the occasion of the launch of the new Cunardor. Samaria at the shipbuilding
In these arcanistances a mutuation has yard of Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co. been reached when it no longer pays to the ceremony was six months late; and as a greatest of sig the cost of the vessel had in the mean- or construction on tue one hand, and the
Dauding wantetes, aut owing to the cus time gone up by a quarter of a million igner operating charges on the other, it sterling. Aaked why the ship had been so we postule to run them. delayed and the cost bad increased, Sire question of laying up tonnage i William Forwood replied that the exabour-whether the men who work with sirendy being, discussed. What has planation was that the company had their bands at ses or in the shipyards | paid for eight hours of work per day and and engine-shops, or with their. Draine had only received five and a half to mi hours at the outside." He added that if petuating such an economie impasse I is offices on shore to gain from per the Samaria had been launched and in it not apparent that all concerned must commission when she was due her herth suffert. There is only one cure, a reduc would have been occupied by another tion" of wages, in association with in- ship, and the Cunard Company would creased output, while there are, on the have had a quarter of a million pounds contrary, demands for higher wages in hand towards the construction of that almost all round. The maritime unions jects in this section up to a total of 1,050 fit in with the human conception of what second ship,
Candidates are allowed to take up subtrines of the Bible do not by any means As it was, there were thousands of tion of their demands for a time, and marks, and will be required to take Sub-is right and are necessarily an offence to
have agreed to postpone full "considera- men walking about the streets of Birken the Joint Industrial Council decided that jest 11 and to reach high standard head instead of being in employment: the case for the shipbuilding men had therein. A candidates who fails to rough many readers. Unfortunately, they had adopted a canot been proved. But in the meantime
she standard will be disqualified. canny" policy, but he hoped wiser coun the Shipburiders' Employers' Federation LANGUAGES, WITH HISTORY AND LITERATURA sels would prevail, for they saw that they have been reviewing the position, and could not get work without the help of they have given notice that it is intended the capitalists. The men should see that it was for their own good that they should give a fair day's work for a fair day's
pay.
ployees. No one is going to operate ship. vards and engine-shops for the fun of the thing. Even if the Government, took them all over-as some wild men desire- the same economic factors would operate.
reduce ship joiners' wages by lka a dicate that the industrial lenders have week. That determination seems to in
The position of the cargo-carrying down wages must be brought to un econo concluded that unless they are to close vessel is worse than that of the liner, mic level, otherwise there will soon be because it faces krener and more unu work either for them or their em certain competition. We do not pay for the carriage of our imports and exporta what the British shipowner cazes to ask but what is the ruling world-price. That is a point which the trade union leaders and their members forget. They, seem ships cost so much to build and so to assume that the "capitalist" can get any sum he likes to ask for the services of his vessel when once it is ready for ses, and that if it has cost him great deal of money owing to the high wages paid for building it, he recoups himsel by charging more for carrying goods. That however-ia.mes by any means the position. If it were there appears to be no reason why the shipping interests should not dictate freights, fixing them at such a level as would ensure reasonable profit That the British ship owner, in rivalry with the shipowners of other countries who have access to out ports on equally favourable terms, is not in that protected position is proved by the fact that freights have fallen by about 50 per cent. in the past six months. On the other hand, the coat of building and operating ships is higher than it ever
WUS.
CNREMUNERATIVE DUSINESS.
What is the position? The answer can be given under two heads for the sake of lucidity:
much to operate that a loss is incurred, an archangel could not make ends meet, and sooner or later would be reached. It cannot be said that state of bankruptcy the allied shipbuilding and engineering industries are not well run, for in com- petition with the world more orders come to this country than to any other country
the years before the war. The change which has occurred is due to uneconomic wages and to slow production. The crisis must be faced. The workers will have to decide whether they will work with the masters, who obtain the orders (home and foreign) provide the expensive plant, organise the labour, and pay the wages week by week long before they are them- salves paid for the work done, or whether they will listen to the revolutionary ele ments, in their midst and bring ruin on themselves. Daily Telegraph.
SPORT
ORIOKET.
HONGKONG: C,C. “A”.
KOWLOON “A‚”.
In the first place we have some re- markable figures which were prepared to wards the end of last year as the factua tions in the price of a steamer of 7,500 tons ready for service. This statement is, as I have indicated, not new and it has never been challenged. Such a vessel
The following will represent the could be bought for 47,500 at the end H.K.C.C. "A" team v. Kowloon "A", of 1913, whereas at the end of 1919 the team on Saturday, on the Kowloon Club price had risen to £239,500. Who, in ground, at 2.16 p.m.-D. Lyon Brown, the present state of the freight market C. C. Dance, E. G. N. Grimble, H. W. is going to spend practically a quarter Hope, J. D. Humphreys, B. M. Madden, of a million sterling on such a ship: L. D. McNicoll, G. W. Sowell, H. H. The suggestion has only to be mooted to Tayler, and L. F. Townend.
FOOTBALL,
SOUTH CHINA A.A. H.M.S, "CARLISLE.!!!
ground on Saturday at 4 p.m., the In this free division match on the Navy consist of:-Lau Hing Cheung; Fang Tai South China Athletic Association team will and Chan So; Leung Yuk Tong (capt.), Lausg Tai Fong and Cheung Wing Shing; Ko Si Wai, Ip Kau, Wong Pak Chong, Kam Fook and Au Kit Bang
SOUTH CHINA A.A. v. CLUB RECREIO,
be dismissed. It is impossible to earn interest on such a sum at present, and there is no reason to anticipate that the present generation will ses conditions when it will be possible. The bottom haa dropped out of the market for ships, and since about 7,000,000 groza tons of ship ping will take the water in the next twelve months the immediate prospects are anything but rozeate. Generally, it may be said that it costa from three to four times as much to build a cargo Tessel as it did six years ago; the diner ence is explained almost entirely by the rise in wages, which are represented. in the cost of raw materials of all descrip tions, ship's engines and ship construoj tion. As a result of the cumulative rise, if no longer pays to build cargo-carrying Chias, ground on Saturday at 9.30 p.m. In this 2nd division match on the South merchant vessels in this country. That in the home team will be composed of Bui a bad business for the shipbuilders as Shing Yin; For Ping In and Kwok Bia well as the workers, for they have in Yan, Pang Kam Wing, Li Biu Ying and the past lived by turning out a large Lai Yuk Tat; Lau Tak Chung, So Chang volume of "tonnage for foreiga owaars. Ming, Leung Miag Tak Lau Hon Wing About half the tonnage now in hand in and Hung Kam To. this country is for foreign customers. Owing to the fall in freights, some of them have been cancelling orders given. many months ago. are fresh orders coming in? Anyone can supply 'an un- swer to that question who 3s familias with the cost of ship construction; and the downward movement of freighta
And then we come to the running of ships. As we have seen, the that cost
SECOND PIANOFORTE EEOITAL
ALEXANDER SKLAŘEVSKI,
Programme
1. Beethoven Sonata op, 20,
(d) Finale,
la prohibitive if you decide to build, and (a) Andante and variations. (b) Scherzo. the Chamber of Shipping has preparade) Funeral March.
some remarkable figures as to the post
11. Chopin
of operating vessels. It has got out some (4) 2 Etudes. (b) Nocturne. statistics showing the increase in running
MANATED TO) Polonaise.
charges during the past six years The 111 Balakirev Skylark result is astonishing, for the upward movement has been far greater than was IV, Liszt. thought
(a) Lorely.
Scribiane Etade.
(b) Bacoczy March.
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Christians one is bound to tako certain But in giving an address to professed beliefs for granted; it makes a great difference in asserting any principle of war whether wo assume that a discharge of artillery will merely knead down a certain quantity of red clay into, a level. line, or whether out of every, separate portion of the ruinous heap there goes out into the "smoke" and "dead-falion air" of battle some soul unwillingly or even willingly released. And the answer to EI' question as to whether any self- respecting man or
or woman should bring children into such a world of woe dependa entirely upon the view taken on this former question.
The other assumption that I made was that my audience had read, -and were familiar with, Ruskin's lecture on war, for the attack that El, makes is really on Ruskin and not upon myself, who frankly admitted that I was quoting Ruskin; and in that, lecture Buskin divides, was into three different heads,
not meant to apply to all kinds of war. and states clearly that his arguments are
Where, however," E.I. does me an in justice is that he does not notice that I have described war as the foundation of Art, not as the continuation, much less as the culmination of Arty and historically I still maintain that war has been the foundation of all Art. I further main- tain that War is the foundation of all virtue; any man who has lived in trench with soldiers in the last war will know that while actually engaged in trench life we all of us learnt the begin nings of certain lessons which we had never dreamed of in our life of peace, Indian Judge, a Russian jockey, about in my particular, crowd there were an ball-a-dozen convicts, and a number of school boys, and i am convinced that in every case we began to be better men.
Herein lies the religions lesson-that the foundation of virtue lies in the battle against evil We shall not always have to fight against evil, wo shäll in a future state have developed far higher virtus. and far nobler characters than we can on earth, but their foundation must be laid in the battle against evil that we have to wage on earth-1 am, air, Your obedient servant, :
B. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH. January 18th, 1991.
FATALAEROPLANE ACCIDENT
CLAIM AGAINST THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY.
A London wire says: The Alliance Aeroplane Co. is suing the Union Insur snes Society of Canton for 25,000 for loss of a machine in November, 1018. The sccident occurred a few minutes before.
the expiration of the policy. The defense contends that the policy covered only trial fights in England, and not a flight to Australia, na this accident Lieut Roger Douglass, of Queensland," and his companion, Lient. Thomas Hoss, lost their lives, shortly after leaving Hounslow for Australia in an Alliance machine, The aeroplane was flying low, when the engine. stopped, and the machine nose dived into sa orchard, six miles from the, starting paint. Both aviatozi waze instantly: 147- ed. The machine was headed for London and was probably putting back owing to the low visibility