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THE STRAATE SUFELEMENTS.
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VIEWS OF LORD INCHCAPE.
IDEALS AND HARD FACTS,
& PROTEST AGITATION IN CHINA
Twelve million tons of shipping and at
The Government and the Educational least £400,000,000 of capital were, repre- authorities in the Straits Settlement will iented at a luncheon which the Inter-be interested in the following statement national Shipping Federation gave in communicated to us by a Chinese News honour of H. Albert Thomas (Director of Agency in Peking the International -Labour Office), at the
THE LANCASHIRE INDUSTRY.
FAMINE- RELIEF AN INTENSIVE NATION-WIDE
CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS.. Barclay's Bank Monthly Review, for December has this to say of the Lancashire We have received the following cables industry-In all sections of the Lancashire from the Peking Committee of the Inter industry there is a complete lack of cop national Famina Relief Fund: fidence in current rates. It is realised that An intensive nation-wide famine fund' valies are on a very low level, and raw drive has been initiated by most influential
Savoy Hotel, on December 1400 Lala Mise Fa Pei-kão, Principal of a cotton is being sold below the cost of Chinese and Foreign lenders, including Incheupe, who presided, had upon his Chinese Girls' School in the Straits production, buz a trade revival is not likely several members of the Cabinet at a immediate right M. Albert Thomas, J Settlements, is now in Peking appealing to take place until stocks of dear goods
THE FRENCH SILK MARKET.
Lard Inchcape, in proposing the bealth to the Government and the educational are reduced and until the general inter-mheon given by Dr. Yen, the Minister of their guest, said the institution of the circles regarding the enforcement of a International Labour Bureau was one of set of new educational regulations by the national financial situation becomes easier, of Foreign Affairs. the fruits of the upheaval inte which Ger-Straits Settlements Government. The quoting races which show no profit at all February and extend over one week. It Most spinners and manufacturers are now The campaign will begin late in many plunged the world now more than sole
object of the introduction of and humerous Bras are being compelled to six years ago. The oute which these regulations is to get control af face the alternative of booking orders at a is hoped that it will be nation-wide. Thomas had been called upon to All was Chinese education in the Straits Settle-definite loss or stopping more machinery. one which demanded qualifications of a ment and their enforcement is bound to
It was strongly recommended that the very high order. It was in: effect an arrest the mental development of the
campaign should be carried on under the industrial Papacy. which, while respan-Chinese young generation there. Miss
suspices of the various International sible to no Government in particular, was elected by the Chinese residents
The Lyons, silk mark is reparted on by Famine Relief Societies "The Tientsin nevertheless might be able to make its in the Straits Settlements and sent to Bears Cux & Co. (France), Ltd. as influence felt in every country One! Peking two months ago. On her way to follows:-The silk market is depressed and delegates present at the meeting indi- aspect of the matter upos which he might aking the stopped at Amoy and Shang.reflects the disturbot trading conditions cated that their Society undoubtedly claim to speak with some little knowledge hai where she succeeded in arounng the prevailing throughout the world. Busines was the way in which the interpretation interest of the people, especially the eduis cunsiderably reduced, and the tightening would unite in the effort. of the functions of the organisation was cational circles, in, the education of their of credit mareases the difficulties, but as The Chie! Secretary stated that Pre- likely to affect seamen and their liveti unfortunate brethren abroad. Upon her the price of silk has already been subjected. hood. In all dealings with industry it, arriga, in Peking Miss Yn has won the to a very heavy fall, there is no cause for sident, Esu would totally support the- was necessary to take the long view. Ha apathy of the Students Union, the Alarm Quotations, although weak, are campaign.“ need, not remind them of the very con Educational Association and all having at maintained, in spite of the general alack- ness. Manufacturers have suffered on
A strong committee of management was... siderable apprehension, with which during heart the welfare of their fellow-country Last summer they followed from day to men in the Straits Settlement Miss You for their sales, and with view to cur the fund locally, and this Committee account of the delay in obtaining payment appointed is Peking to take charge of day the procedings of the International called at the Waichinopu (Foreign Office) tailing production, are contemplating the Labour Conference at Genos. The chief on January 17th when she explained to stoppage of some of their spindles, which will co-operate with all other Societies. subject for discussion by the international the anthorities the nature of these regu are now working on old orders.
in promoting the national campaign.. delegates delegates not only of "mari-ations and requested that the matter, be time, but also of iniand countries without immediately taken up with the British
THE GENERAL SITUATION.
LATER. Describing the need for concerted action seaboard, all possessing equal, voting suthorities concerned. She was shown powers, whether they represented large much sympathy and promised that a tele- Barclay's Review has this to say of the Dr. Yen said that the most conservative or small population was the regulation gram would soon be despatched to the geral-commercial situation:While it is estimates showed that twenty to thirty Straits Settlements Government protest-almist impossible to forecast the duration of the hours of labour:alisch, the pros pout, which was before the conference ing against the said regulations
of the prewar depression, it may be useful millions of people were facing starvation.. sought to establish- a "working"week of
Mr. Lie, & representative of the Peking to consider certain of its principal under The periods most intense suffering had Students Union "called on the author- lying causes. The first is paychological, | fifty-six hours for the deck, Tarty-eighties of the Foreign Office the following for great ninases of people throughout the approached, and it was time to lay aslde
hours for the stokehold, seventy hours for the catering, departments. He was not day to make enquiries about the measures world are bolding off from buying in the all political differences and present a united-
The effect of such in the least exaggerating when he said to be taken in dealing with this matter. hops of lower prices.
front against the famine as the comtion. mass psychology le very difficult to estimate, that, after a fairly long experience sain. He was told, however, that the Foreign but it would seem that people, are abstain foe. All the relief agencies had accom shipowner, it was his considered opinion, to Representing the Students ing from buying for two reasons. In the plished excellent results in their own
Office had not-as yet decided, what step as well as the opinion of every ships owner with whom he had discuss the Union, Mr. Liz will call on the British which are known to be saleable at present fields, but the time had arrived for a
first place, they afe, waiting for stocką, matter, that if the conference, instead of Minister whilst Migs Tu is preparing & prices, to be liquidated at lower levels, and co-operative compaign and for all to give rejecting the proposal by z narrow majo petition to be anhmsted to the Waichiao- in the arcond place, they are waiting for rity of individual votes, had adopted that pu calling its attention to the importance the fall already noticeable in wholetale generously. hard and fast principle, the result would of the matter which concerns the future prices to be reflected is retail prices have bad a disastrous effect on shipPPS Straits Settlements.
of thousands of Chinese residents in the The second cause for reduced buying The suggested regulation of the sea
may be found in the gradual exhaustion by farer's hours of labour would have in?
continental: nations of their foreign credits. volved a great enlargement of crews, a
for which the only remedy, as has so often great increase in expenditure, and a
poetry and to cut their com according to Lecu stated, is for unions to realise their serious curtailment of space. He hoped the proposal would not be revived
and in expediting a return to normality appalling conditions of the famine area, their clath. Even so, however, some past President was deeply moved by the (Heat, hear.)," katanya, mAA
is reades, bus, the decision my to the form in, which this assistance can be granted has get to be made. The subject is a very mice is sitting it Geneva to consider how complex one, and the moment, a Com the desire of the better-off communities to reader assistance to the less well-of, can
CONDITIONS OF SHIPS.
In all British ships, at any rate and, he believed, in almost al ships thure had been for many years three watches in the stokehold. There, they had the eight-hour days, but in regard to dock
DEATH OF MR. D. M. MICKLE.
Many friends of Mr. D. M, Mickle, constructional engineer in the service of the Standard Oil Company of New York will learn with regret of his death at sea pa board thraa. Japan oneilandsyn
Admiral Teai Ting strongly endorsed the- work of the Peking, Tientsin, Hankow, Kaifeng, Tainnofu and Taiyuanfu. Inter- national Relief Societies.
Mr. Wu Shih Haieng stated that the
CANTON AND THE CUSTOMS.
A SHANGHAI COMMENT: The NC Daily News, commenting on
Mr. Mickle who was attached to the Hongkong office and who had resided in the Colony for a great bazy years, had onerous, and tissue-consuming; character ing out work for the Company in the of those below to watches only were in Straits Settlements. He joined the firm vogue. But there was no hardship in 1900 His house was at Hollysprings, this, as half the time the men had very › years of age.
hilippi. The deceased was about 69. little to do. If the eight-hour day were extended to the deck, it would mesh carrying many more hands, and to leave men on board ship who had little to do LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHT IN for a fall in prles there is the fact
hands, whose duties were not of the for the past two or three years-been carry- } be made effective in practice.ration of the order to the Customs issued by the
INDO-CHINA.
French military aviators have just accom plished two remarkable exploits with Breguet machines in Indo-China Governor General of Indo-China was con- Wittont say special preparation, the veyed from Hanoi to Saigon The Brst part of the journey was made by aeroplane from Hanoi to Thakick on the north eastern bend of the Mekong, a distance of over 500 kilometres while the remainder about 1.000-ilometres was necomplished by seaplane, making a total of over 1,500 kilometres,
when they would be on duty for only tro spellt of four hours each in the twenty four hours, with sixteen hours off duty would not be desirable. The eight-hour day was not suited to ship life, and if the idea was that it would give more en- ployment, he was perfectly satisfied that this was a fundamental error. (Hear, hear. He believed it would give less, and he was convinced that the men them selves did not want it. He did not know how many hours a day M. Thomas bad worked during the course of his strenuous life. He was safe to say it was more like sixteen than eight. He believed they were safe in. M. Thomas's hands, and that The second fight was in the extremely while he would do his utmost to improve mountainous and difficult region of Lacs, the conditions of labou, in which he Both flights were carried out with com- him, he would refrain from recommendag person or machine-French Wireless would have them all wholeheartedly with plete success, and without any mishap to
to his colleagues any Quixotic measures which would have the effect of strangling
In considering the probable the present trade depression, the relative value of each of these factors has to be Military Government of Canton, sayar- sasened. To do this with any wrtainty is Acquiescence in their plan would, there- mpossible, but it must be remembered that fore, mens that the Legations were even on the continent, the psychological faing two Governments in China, And if
recoga factor is operative to some extent, a certain
two! I Canton be allowed to keep its volume of purchasing power still being held two, why not twelve, or eighten, or twenty- that mdustrial nations are abstaining from Customs, why not. Hunan, Szechuan or This deprives the countries growing raw tests that it will remit to Peking its, pro- buying raw materials because of the Shans! 1 Moreover, though Cantos pre errainty of the future course of prices. materials of the means of purchasing mann portionate, share of what has to be paid re-entering of the industrial andons into tions, who is going to calculate what that factared articles, and it follows that the out of Customs/revenue in foreign obliga the raw material markets would in all share is, and how The whole project is probability have the effect of improving impossible, in principle and practice, and the demand for their own products. will have to be stopped, however much
It has also be remembered that while sympathy may be elilfor Canton. People are holding off from buying, their needs are accumulating, with the result that when buying recommences there should, for a time, be quite a considerable amount of business passing and probably because of this, a certain reaction in pries cavements
the extreme difficulty of the course which The episode is instruedve as illustrving the Diplomalle Body has to steer and of the argent, med of their arriving at some concerned policy sad sticking to it. There appear to be but two-courses-open The
THE COURSE OF PRICES.h
one is to abstain from all official admission Lloyd's Bank Monthly Financial Report line, while it shute the door against any of the internal discords which rend: China and to hold rigidly aloof from them. This for December says:Wholesale prices con los not clastly, designed for productive any industry, initiative, and enterprise,mation which tried by itself to liberate the fall during October was of sub of any act likely to interfere with the tinue to take a downward direction, and purposes, would equally forbid toleration and reducing the whole world to a con- itself from the heap, of ruins into which: stantial character, The Economist records orthodox michilery of the two great ser dition of inertia. (Hear, bear the war had plunged it found itself a drop of 470 points in Its inder number vices, the Customs and the Gabelle, which They had to face hard facts If they all hindered at every step. There was no of wholesale prices, bringing it down to the are the mainstay of China's finances. If eased of and did nothing, they would be reconstruction possible except inter lowest figure touched sinop the end of there has been inconsistency in this res consuming their own substance, and the national reconstruction.. Shipowners and November, 1919. The fall is chity due to world would be set back to the primeval seamen understood that better than a heavy decline in the textile group, while, in the past (as shown above), there age. It might be happier. He did not one else. By conferences they might meat has risen to the highest point yet the Legations should frankly face the fact
on the other hand, the group of cereals and
is all the more reason for no inconsistency think so. It might be better to stop multiply their draft convention and their reached. The total/index number at the that a Central, Government in China has in the future. The other course is that all railways, all 'bus traffic, all steamers, recommendations, but there would be no end of October was 7,175 as compareti with practically ceased to exist, that there ap at fye o'clock every night, all collieries, social reform and no cal transformation 7,615 at the end of September, and 6,986 at pears very small chance of order being all blast furnaces, all public utility works, possible if at the base of-economic pros- the end of November, 1919. At the end of restored without, outside assistance and such as electric lighting and to start perity, there was not at least normal July 1914, the number was 2,585 work again at nine o'clock in the mom activity of industry. That was why they percentage figure works out at 395,1 at the world mean representations not only in The that they must come to the rescue, That ing. (Laughter.) It might be better to agreed in demanding that human producend of October, a compared with 347.5 at Peking and Canton, but in many other confine theatres and cinemas to matiness tion, which was the basis of civilisation, the end of September The Statist also shows provincial capitals and then representa and to close all the public-houses and should be the first occupation of everyone, substantial fall in its index number of tions would have to be something zacra clubs at five p.m., but the world would and that the International Labour Office wholenie prices, which at the end of Octo- than the inept Nola ta Peking and Canton become extremely dull, and, so far as should undertake to study the means of berwis 230.9. na compared with 248.7 of December 2nd, 1918, vaguely urging life at sea was concerned, he would not restoring production But it was not month previous, the fall being chiefly acted them to settle their differences; but must care to be in charge of a vessel in a rough raticient that production should be reg in the textile. sea which had to heare to at five pastored. Some days ago Lord Inchcape April last, when the peak of high prices diferences may be adjusted and China, be group. As compared with include a defalte proposal to how those. and wait til the morning. He had a said that the only means of restoring was reached, foodstuffs have fallen 3.9 perk upon her feet. It is a task for which letter from a man the other day saying production was industrial pence. By what cent., and materials 10.1 per cent, while one can well understand that the Powers it was breaking the Divine law to keep means could they attain industrial peace of 9.8 per cent. At the end of November. But we believe there are numbers of in the general index number shows a reduction and their representatives have no appetite. P. and O steamers under way on Sun He heard people on the Left WIDE the Benoit indez number fell days. All that was not worth serious there could be no industrial peace with the percentage figure being 298.7.2
6,594, famtial Chinese who would hail such an consideration if the world was to be kept out complete social revelation; white on The substantial fall show in wholesale offer with relief and if us seems extremely going, the Right they might hear voices saving prices has not yet been reflected in the probable, the Diplomatic Body will be com
M. Albert Thomas, replying in French,old industrial system were speces the figure compiled by the Board of Trade, pelud do to more what they, fireitats said some time ago there was a war, and lished, if the workers of the world did show the courses of retail prices. Indeed, will certainly grow no easier for delay.
voluntarily to attempt today, the work collaboration was consequently neces- not obey as they did before, and if they highest yet recorded, the figure for the the retail index number has reached the sary, but who would dare to say now that took any part in the management of beginning of November being 876, as com we were not still in a state of war! Affaire. That reminded him of the dispared with 264 at the beginning of October, that the inder number should steadily in (Hear, hear.) The war had overthrown cussions they had during the war, when This increase for the month is exceptional crosso That prices are low in certain
RESTRICTION OF INDUSTRY.
be no industrial if
sil national and international seonomy it was said there could be no durable and, Apart from tensonal increases in directions is evidenced by a glance at any on which modern civiliantion rested, and peace if it was not based upon completely butter, milk, and age which always cos daily newspaper. More particularly in this they were obliged at the present time (o crushing the enemy. The peace they were more this time of the year, is due to the the case in regard to clothing, where quite endeavour to reconstruct the nations seeking could not be a peace unless it was reduction of the subsidy in bread, and the heavy reductions are advertised on all which had been shaken to their founds understood and accepted by all. A heavy consequent increased not to the consumer hands. The reason is to be found in the tions. It was in that spirit only that the responsibility had been placed upon him It is of course, largely due to the control overwhelming importance of the food grouỹ, International Labour Officer and ships chairman of the Brussels Conference of prices by the Government the the which is naturally very heavily weighted" owners of the world-and shipowners of of the International Federation of Ship variations in retail prices have no alaays in compiling the Index number, Leis Great Britain in particular could meet owners and Beaman, by the declaration of corresponded with the fluctuations in whole possible to postpone purchasing a new suit More than any others, the shipowners of Lord Inchape on the eight-hours ques-sale prices. In view of the undoubted factor new pair of boots, but food must be Great Britain understood that reconstruction, but he hoped that, when the time that in some directions retail prins have bad day by day to enable a man to lire. tion could not be merely rational reconeume they would be able to find a fall very considerably of late, may Consequently movements in food prices in struction, but must be international. Angolution which would be satisfactory, perhaps be considered somewhat surprising the upward direction have more than offset
Continued as foot of nest column,) (Hear hear.)
(Contfamed at fort of next column.). the fall in prices in other directiona.