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THE SHAW CASE
THE EFFORTS OF BRITISH DIPLOMACY:
KOWLOON MARATHON RACE ORGANISED BY ST. ANDREW'S
MEN'S ASSOCIATION. SUCCESSFUL, SPORTING EVENT. The oft-repeated criticism that the-
of the Times wired to his journali
In November the Peking correspondent
The release of Mt. Shaw, nominally on bail but practically without restric Other countries are in similar onse.
tion, is satisfactory evidence that the Church is out of touch with the people Emigration to Australia has been so great efforts of British diplomsey are not in
was shown, yesterday, to be inapplicable - Mr. Thomas Catling, whose death has in the Commonwealth that causes serious that Mr. Shaw suffered four months.
that there is now an unemployed problem vain. Nevertheless, it has to be observed to St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, for curred at the age of 83, was for many concern In New Zealand only skilled detention, during which time the Korean the Church premise warn the general years a notable figure in Fleet Street. men with the Laghest references will be Administration was unable to formulate headquarters, the starting and finishing For over half a
Faccepted. It would be sheer folly for our say, charge against him. Mr. Shaw was century he was editor discharged fighting men to go to any of arrested by what is regarded as a trick, polut, and dressing rooms, for a marathon of -Lloyd's Weekly News, and retired these countrice in present conditions, and and bundled about like a convicted rage that proved to be quite an important about 13 years ago. He was one of the leave home on the slender chances of criminal, and later detained to the in- old school. He started life as a com- the frying pan into the fre.
finding work would be like a leap out of finite damage of his business interests, sporting event and attacted a good deal No instance of the improper usage of of interest throughout the peninsula. It positor in a printing office at Cambridge, Nothing could be crueller than to dia 4 British subject in recent times has was organised by the newly-formed St. and on coming to London studied at the patch British men and women so lands aroused so much resentment among Andrew's Church Men's Association, and Working men's College. He was promoted where there is no immediats prospect of British communities in the Far East." to reporter on Lloyd, and in 1888 became to think that there will be no eagerness Chronicle, that all the information sont of over 70 were drawn from the Army success before them; and I am disposed It is curious, says The Japan entrants to the entrants to the number news editor. Eighteen years later he was
to The Times on this important question appointed editor, and it was ander his to jump at the Government offer as re- control that the paper advanced by leaps gards emigration. This is one of the has emanated from Peking, not a single and Navy and from the ranks of local and bounds till it could boast of a sircula. ways that the Press is able to render a message apparently having been seat sportsmen. The principal cup was pre- tion of a million and a quarter copies per are made known beforehand. There is Tokyo. Similarly the foreign Press in nted by Sir Paul Chater; other eps-
mighty service to the nation. The facts from the journal's correspondent issue-the-first paper to reach such figures also the further consideration of national this country has been prestically silent ware given by Capt. Wheeler and Mesera
M. Catling was a very good friend to
on a question that is of so much interest Purvis & Farmer and by the proprietors young journalists, for he never forget his and racial well-being that we do not want
of the to every foreigner in Japan. We under- own carly struggles. He could claim to to facilitate the departure have been connected with two eras of youngest, most virile, and the most epter stand that not a single inquiry has been of the "Morning Post" and "Telegraph"; journalism. When he joined Lloyd's and prising of the population, especially made at the British Embassy by a sorres while Mr. E. J. Noronha gave twelve-
pondent or Press representative gord worked as a reporter Lord Northclife after a devastating war. kad not been born; and he lived to see summarised by the Daily Mail, which the negotiations in his case. In at accompetitors coming next after the first Public opinion on the subject is aptlying Mr. Shaw's arrest or the progress of silver spoons for distribution among the the revolutionary changes which havey, We are faced by this difficulty: count of the case given in The San Fran four. Cars for the use of the organisers been introduced, mainly by the activities the emigrants are of such a type that aseo New Letter on the 30th Obober the and methods of that famous pear.
To the inst Mr. Catling loved to talk they would be readily accepted abroad about incidenta in Fleet Street. And he cannot afford to lose them; while if brought off some fine scoops" in his they have suffered in health and have no time. One was an exclusive- account of spital they will not be permitted to for a direct charge preferred against bia, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and the death of the Prince Consort. He was
land." the only Preasman on the spot at. Wind- THE DAYS" BAST sor, and he knocked up a telegraphist and wired the story to his Sunday paper.
UXEMPLOYMENT.
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Starting from the Church, tha. cours
followed Nathan-Road. Dast the Yaumati Chinese Theatre to Ho Mun Tin and the
writer remarks on the fact that though and for the Press representatives were at that time Mr. Shaw had lain in gaolent by Mr. Abraham. Mr. Ramsey. Mr. for more than three months without ial W. J. Crawford, Mr. Lambert, and the- "not a line of comment was written in regard to the case by
gither the Godown Ca. This year for the first time since daily American daily," it being left to one Yokohama English daily or the Tokyo nowspapers were published none appear foreign journal at Kobe to take up the ed for three consecutive days at Christ matter. (We, omlt our sontemporary's for side... Your favourite guide, philo-landatory remarks on this head). But
sopher, and friend failed to greet you at the breakfast table on Saturday, which the China Association and the British 100 foot road to Kowloon City. the course was Christmas Day, or on Monday, which Chambers of Commerce in China have went back to the starting point by way was Boxing Day; and the Sunday papers taken up Mr. Shaw's case with energy. which all the gap between Saturday and Monday week by week also failed appear. The cessation of publication was arranged by the Newspaper Proprietors' Associations, and was loyally observed, which is evidence of the good-will and the spirit of co-operation existing in these
In spite of the widespread need houses in all parts of the country, and the thousands of unemployed who are tramping the streets, the Trade Unions in the building trade continue to refuse to consider the Government proposals for enlisting the ex-Service men. The matter is rapidly becoming a scandal.
The Union have been offered ample protection as regards their rules and re- gulations, but all they do is to adopt the policy of the dog in the manger."
it is still more remarkable that while
Ron Dairy. Passing along the new
miles.
Owing to the clashing of a military
Before many weeks or months have ram,days among the men who hold power as Japanese territory, for an offence which military entrants were provented at the
the Fourth Estate.
and determination, neither the branch of of Hunahom, the Cement Works. Chatham League of Britishers Overseas has op Road. the British Association nor the Fasristic Road, and past Signal Hill to Nathan
The distance whe six-and-a-half- parently taken any interest in his nerest, made any inquires, or passed any resolu tions. Yet it might have been expected that the arrest of a British subfect on tactical exercise, a great many of the if committed at all was committed in ter-" British subjects, his imprisonment for competitors left the starting point just ritory subject to British jurisdiction over last moment from taking part, but 28- four months without being brought to trial, and the indignity with which the after, four p.m: The forecasts of those arrest was made, would have been at who based their estimates only on what least a subject for investigation by a they knew of local form were upset by British Society. In view of the activity of Bri- the entry a
Association or a Patriotic
ed the Government will be forced to pro- rend with a scheme for ensuring that all publication was that it was desired to The reason given by the papers for non- workers in State-aided avenues of employ allow staffs to enjoy the Christmas holi ment must include a certain proportion day undisturbed. But a cynical friend of ex-Service men. It seems a great pity bascly whispered in my car that another that some action of this kind was not reason was that owing to the holiday taken long ago, or at all events before the being spread over three days, and with present gave period of unemployment everybody including newsagents and book set io.
Some idea of the charactor and extent it would have been impossible to got to by the Paking correspondent of The
stall clerks engaged in "Christmassing, tish organizations in China, referred Meir, who only reached Hongkong from of the depression may be found in the
papers distributed. "And. so,' said
aro ex-Service: men.
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dark horse "--Mr. Andrew
indifference has been shown by British Mr. Meir got out of the ruck" from
latest official figures. There are registorynic, they made a virtue of necessity"mes, This remarkable that so much the auid countree" on New Year's Day. ed in this country now over 410,000 men But three days without papers was societies in Japan. out of work, and well over half of them enough to give everyone a good idea of So far The Japan Chronicle; but a the start, kept the lead all through, and are ex-Service men. Beyond this there is what an empty world this would be de- word or two may be added says the came in an easy winner, running with a margin of unemployed who are not prived of news. A story is told that in Peting Daily News. registered. In the London area alone one of the sedate West End clubs the reason for the indifference of British
Part of the the long, elastic step characteristic of Over 100,000 men are idle, and 64,000 elderly gentlemen sat about in groups societies in Japan is doubtless the fact those of his countrymen who, like him- fact that wherever lack of work exists the pass the time, and that one apparently sontation at Tokyo by a diplomat who length of limb. It seems that Mr. Meir And there is the looking the picture of misery, unable to that Britons in Japan suffer from repre-self, have the advantage of height and workless are tied down. They cannot go in desperation called for a volume of does not believe in the expression of in- champion runner at his home, about the country in quest of jobs because the." Enclycopaedia Britannica."
dependent ideas He tried in vain to of the scarcity of houses.
The action of the Trade Unions is & the week-end all sorts of the most alarm merca in China, and there are current able style on the path, and, although the Another curious fact was that during muzzle the British Chambers of. Com. Dumbartonshire way. He has an admir peculiarly evil form of tyranny. It is ing and senzational rumours were adost reports, which, however, we have not day was warm, finished as cool as the the cause of unemployment in many in London. There was no means of con instances, as in the case of shipbuilding firming or refuting them-for there were further than that.
been able to verify, that he even went yarda. Ships requiring repairs are being no papers to tell the truth and shame the Japan are perhaps as wall represented
British interests in proverbial cucumber. sont to Botterdam because of the demands general public, which is the chief prone they were in Sir Claude Macdonald's petitors who left the starting point
The following are the names of the com- of the Unions as to conditions of work vince of journalism. Everyone was time, but that is the most that can be L Railton Pauloi Xavier, Carlos and wages and men are thrown out of heartily glad when the three days fast said; and what that means 'every Bri- Assumpcão, G. Chubb, Bibeiro, W. Old, work by their own trade organisation ended.-H. B. THE "EF.D." DOOMED.
tish resident in Japan knows to his sor
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There is a very general feeling that the Excess Profits Duty is doomed, and that it will either be dead in three months ting, or will drag og for perhaps another twelve months as the more ghost of its former self. In the inst two months the ." THE PEACE FOR WHICH WE acts 4.6 correspondent for Reuter's Pte. Elmos, Pte. Barter, Pte. Maddall,
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Food, the culmination has some in E. Souza, and A. Meir, L. Popple, J. the Shaw case. Again, the Japanese Darbyshire, E. Codling, P. Dance, E. C. Government takes good care what passes Pelling, L. McDonald, T. Linsley, J. over the outward cables; but even that Morrison, J. Hutchley, T. Hermitage, G would not preclude frank comment by Pemberton, H. Percival, and B. Meers letter on the part of the gentleman who (from HM.S. Titaniu); L/Cpl. Britten,
Agency, and who rejoices, according to L/Cpl. Hawkins, Pte. Potter, Pte. Wood- statement recently made in the House ward, Pte. Higgins, L/Cpl. Ralph, Sgt. of Commons, in British birth, whatever Rooney, L/CPL Phillips and Pte. H. hia nationality may be now. Nor does Smith (from the Wilta. Begt.); Gunner Times correspondent. Nor can we con- (Submarine L.15). it account, either, for the silence of The Hayley, B.GA.; Frost and Williams caive that the silences in Japan are sc counted for by the facts that Antung is
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Hutchley, who were 100, yards ahead of Old and Pelling. At four miles, Old and Williams were running strongly and look. THE BOENEO : COAL · FIELD.
ed like arriving in the first four. The Straits Times of January 28th Meir (still well ahead and running At Bailey's Shipyard the order was:
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tax has ceased to be a revenue raiser; and not only so, but under the rebate clause of the original Act large claims for the repayment of the duty have been the Archbishop of Canterbury says:→
In a New Year message to the country pouring into the Exchequer.
More than two years have passed since The tax is now 60 per cent, and in his our guns were silent. Whas of the hopes budget statement nine months ago Mr. which were curs at Christmas, 19181 Is Chamberlain promised that it should be
At Kowloon Dairy, Meir, Britten and reduced to 40 per cent. in 1920-21. Early to day's widespread feeling of disillusion in China, that Mr. Shaw is a resident of Codling were fairly close together, in the this month, however, be hinted that he ment either false or faithless? I dare Antung, and that the, spheres of labour order named. Thirty or forty yards be might keep it at 10 per cent. for another not say so. Who, without a sense of of both Reuter's and. The Timer corres- hind were. Morrison, Ralph and Darby- year, although, he did not definitely say disillusionment and even sinking of heart, pondents in China and in Japan are shire in a bunch; 250 yards separated 80. But the entire business community is can look thoughtfully on the almost unirrevocably and immutably separated by these from next two, Williams and now so hostile to the impost which was believable chaos of disorder and crime in the Yalu River. introduced purely as a war measure in Ireland; on the range and character of 1915 that few now think even the 10 per unemployment in England, and its bear cent will be retained.
ing on our industrial life; on the famine- There no longer remains a shadow of stricken areas of Europe and Asia: "on justification for retaining the tax. It is the ominous perplexities of India! Com- proving to be a stranglehold on British pare that plain vision of to-day's fects industry; and there is good reason for with what we thought and felt and hoped 200 Chinese miners left for Malayan Britten, and Morrison.
Yesterday Mr, England and party within great style) Codling, Darbyshire, saying that it is a powerful factor in the two years ago. We are said to have won Collieries new coal property as Pambe- creation of unemployment. No doubt peace. Have wet. If not, where lies the kan Bay, in Borneo, which the F.M.9. ing order, the times of the first eight The competitors finished in the follow- some other method of taxation will have root of what is so far amiss 7 May it not to be devised to take the place of B.P.D., Es in fundamental error or forgetfulness many mentioned is developing, for being taken- when it is discarded. The question is of how peace comes? Recall the delito meeting the needs of local shipping for bunkering trade purposes with a view what this substitution tax ought to be berate words of the Apostolic letter: a low-priced steam coal. The s.s. anyo One thing in certain it will not be the "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, Afaru is due in Port Swettenham within capital levy suggested by certain Labour peace, Members of Parliament. Perhaps it may Peace. We are apt to reverse the pica shipment of plant and stores
The Spirit comes first, not the a few days' time to take the new mine be a tax on turnover, which some great ture, and to await the days of peace for is already a labour force of some 250 There business men like Lord Leverhulme appear producing the right spirit. We are men on the newly acquired Colliery so [Mr. Chamberlain has now announced wrong, Pence is the fruit, not the seed. there will shortly be about 500 miners that the tex is to be abandoned and no of our creating. It is Divine. Let it be to increase this force to over 1,000 men, The spirit can be everybody's. It is not there and arrangements have been made substitute for it is contemplated.-ED.]
planted and grow, and its fruit will follow. A small steamer for use on the Borned
9.-T. Hermitage (Tstania),; 10-Sgt. Rooney (Wilts.) The spirit of self-sacrifice for the common coast has been purchased by the Company Emigration for ex-Service men, which good destroys by its Divine breath the in China and is on her way down, while
11.-Ptc. Patter (Wilts.) 12. Hutchley (Titania).... is one of the remedies officially suggested personal greed, the class selfitness, and contracts are being entered into for for unemployment, is severely criticised even the absorption of patriotic men in a chartering steamers to carry the coal to
13-Pte. Higgins (Wilts.)...... 14.-E. C. Felling (Titania).. in the Press. It is described as a counsel one-sided pursuit of national advantage. Singapore; one of which has already 16.-P.. Meca (Tilania)....... of despair. Have the Government no Hence, in the world's life, the immeazar been chartered and is on the rus. We
18-H. Percival (Titanio) better plan for assisting those who fought able blessing of the League of Nations, understand that the property has no for their country to regain a place and the spirit, that is, of deep-down fellow floated some two years ago in Singapore, Hall, Mrs. Lindsay handed the trophies to connection with Beboekoe, which WAS Afterwards, in St. Andrew's Church, independence in civil life than to offer ship, of genuine effort for mutual under- but is a mine which is already producing the successful competitors. them a passage to some distant shore standing: an effort penetrating to every
Apart from this important considera-home-circle in the Land. Here lies the coal and, which has been fully reported The following were the officials on tion, it is obviously essential to know to key to a solution of the unemployment own Engineers. It is claimed that it whose zeal the success of the affair largely what part of the world the workless are problem which weighs so insistently upon coal is superior for bunkering purposes upon and bored by Malayan Collieries to be encouraged to emigrate, and also whether they will be welcomed on landing every heart. Let that spirit grow, and to any conl, yet discovered or produced Lindsay; hon. secretary, Mr. D. J. Purves; and provided with employment. As far as it grows the change will come. But in Borneo and that even with the primitime-keeper, Mr. N. L. Railton; starter as can be gathered here, there are men first must come the spirit. Its outcome, tive methods by which it has hitherto Mr. T. W. Robertson; other members of out of work in every land. F
not its source, will be the peace for which It is reported that there are two millions we pray. idle in the United States, partly owing The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
RANDALL CANTUAR. -GANIZERURY, December 31st=1920;
to favour..
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to the vast numbers who have gone thero pence." from Central Europe. The House of Representatives bas even considered a BiT
2-H. Codling (Titania) .... 31. 3.-J. Morrison (Titania). 4. Darbyshire (Titania). 5.-L/Cpl. Britten (Wilts.).. 6.-Williams (Z. 25) 7-L/Cpl. Ralph (Wilts.) 33 B.-W. Old
depended: President, the Rev. G. E.
been mined, or rather blasted out, thereby the committee, Messrs, W. R. Farmer and producing an excessive percentage of Jackson Pointsmen: Messrs. Spradbury, dust and ash, it has given good results, Jennings, Wilcox, Bhackstead," Stokes, comparing favourably with most Japan Jenner, Staple, Watson, Nicholas, Hyde, ess and Indian bankering fuels on this G. Jack, A. E. Farrell, M. Morrison, T.
Arnott, Simpson and D. A. Purves.