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To make room for new and up-to-date goods. Waaro holding a large stook of Reflex Cameras and Kodaks of every description, which must be sold within 14 days from March 10th, 1921, at a reduction of 20 per cent, cash only.
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DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH,
CHINESE NEWS. [ABLATIO NEWS AGENCY BERVICA.) JOINT ENTERPRISES BY CHINESE AND FOREIGNERS.
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA.
"' SQUEEZE*** BY CONTRACTORS, BANKERS AND OFFICIALS."
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THE NAVAL CONFERENCE AT SINGAPORE. SINGAPORE OR HONGKONG AS FLEET HEADQUARTERS ?"
FAR EASTERN, REPUBLIO. APPEAL TO UNITED STATES.
The Constituent Assembly at Chita sent the following address to the Ameri
A Chinese news agency is circulating "w|
In reference to the Naval Conference can Senate and House of Representatives lengthy article on this subject written which has just been held at Singapore on the occasion of President Harding'a by Gay, Morrison Walker an American. the Naval correspondent of the London inauguration - The opening paragraphs, which are given and China Express writes:— Government
below," give the basis, of the argument in the article:
PEEING, March 13th: A petition by La Ha-huan, formerly Foreign Minister and Chang Hsino-sang.
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In this soleinn hour in the life of Director-General of the
Whatever other results may ucerue the great American Republic, when the Wine and Tobacco Bureau, to the
from the Naval Conference which is to new Administration and Congress take Ministry of Finance, states that certain
be held by the Commanders-in-Chief of the fortune of the country into their one of the most critical mo- Fearing the use of railways as a means the China, East India and Australia hands, in Chinese and French capitalists have
of claiming foreign rights and prefer Squadrons at Singapore-presided over ments in the fe of the civilised world, organized a Sina-French Chen-yi Bank ences in China, the Chinese Government by Vice Admiral Sir Alexander L. Duff, we, the representatives of the people of with a capital of ten million dollars for has insisted that railways built by Commander-in-Chief of the China Station the Republic of the. Far East, send to the development of Sino-French industry foreign capital shall be owned and ope on thing is certain the naval value you, the representatives of the free and rated by the Government. Foreign of Singapore will be considerably en freedom-loving American people, our and commerce. The chief French pro-capital can be invested in Chinese rail-hanced, and it may eventually supplant congratulations and appeal. For years moters of the bank are the chief engineer ways only by way of a loan to the Gov Hongkong as the beadquarters of the our country, the Far Eastern Empire, bas Its strategic value is been the battleground for foreign in- of the Peking-Hankow railway and the erument. It built by Chinese, the Chinese Pacife Fleet.
railway company is prohibited from makimmense. Lord Jellicne has recommend. vasion and internal civil war, kept alive- owner af the Kouloty buildings in the ing any loans or borrowing any money ed that it should be the headquarters of by foreign interference with the internal
The result has been the Admiral commanding whatever forces affairs of our people. Legation Quarters, and the new enter from foreigners.
Tarn asunder by hostilities on end prise has been registered in the Ministry that almost all construction has been may be maintained by the Imperial and
separated from Central. dene in the name of the Government with Colonial Governments in the Pacific. less fronts, of "Finance.
foreign capital accepted as Government The safety of the route to India, the Russia by the limitless space of Siberia,' The former manager in Peking of the loans for railway construction purposes. Far East, New Zealand, and Australia, unwilling to become the base for a cam. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha has organized a The only possible way to make any money and the alternative route to the Cape, ispaign against Russia, our people have out of the construction of railways by one of supreme importance to the people risen to a man and taken the cause of Sino-Japanese Pacific Industrial Develop this method was to make it through con-of the countries mentioned, and many their liberation in their own hands. Now ment Corporation with a capital of five struction proäts. Heretofore all Chinese outlying parts of the Empire. This con- the internal enemy is conquered.
railway construction contructs have,ference of Senior Naval Officers is re- greater, part of our country, cleared of million dollars for exporting Chinese raw therefore, been drawn not only to cover garded as the preliminues to the Imperial foreign armies of intervention, is pacified. materials to Japan and other foreign enormous construction profit but also Conference which will be held in London Only in the southern part of the Mari large amount of Chinese in Jane next, when the representatives bine Province the scattered bands of countries, and also for doing general to cover a
14 squeeze." In one case that came to of the Imperial Government and those Semeno continue their lawless swar, banking business. This new corporation my knowledge the Government issued of the Colonial Governments will discuss taking advantage of the illegal occupa- has its head office in the Capital. bonds to the amount of $90,000 gold per the Pacific problem, the safety of the tion of that territory.
"East of Raikal to the Pacific, a now mile for the railway built, but only oversea Dominions, and other matters ANTI-BOLSHEVIK RISINGS. IN
$35,000 per mile was spent in the con-which the Great War has left in an un-independent democratic State is being struction of the railroad, the other settled condition. Absolute co-ordination organised. separate and distinct in its SIBERIA.
835,000 per mile being absorbed by profits is essential in naval matters the salety form of Government and social structure Russia. The Constituent Assembly of Chinese reports, received by certain to the foreign constructors and bankers of the Empire is to be put barond yea from the system prevailing in Soviet
and squeeze to the Chinese officials or nay.
the Far East. elected upon a basis of firms which have important business
concerned. When you realize that the
universal suffrage, representing all classes interests in Siberia say that, correspond- average Government loans per mile of
of society, and with the task laid upon it of laying the foundations of the young ing with the anti-Bolshevik risings en-railroad are shown by the official reports of China to be 8121,000 per mile, you
republic, looks tip to the great Republia gineered by the former Russian Prime can appreciate the extent to which Chinn
across the sea for inspiration and assist- THE INCOME TAX LEVY.. Minister, Kerensky, and other Socialist has suffered through this method of rail-
It is the earnest hope of our leaders in Petrograd, similar anti-way construction.
It has made the railways of China cost President Harding will receive some people that the new Administration and Bolshevik disturbances are now occurring so much that it has taken many years thing like $18.000 less compensation from Congress, true to the great ideals of absorb this the Government annually than President freedom and self-determination, will lend in Irkoutsky and neighbourhood where for the best of them?
"squeeze," while" aans them have Wilson received. The Treasury will pay a helping hand to our young Republic in the white... troops are being concen-
never been able to do
and are still Mr. Harding the same amount that it its struggle against intervention and for- trated in large numbers. Telegraphic being operated at a deit, as in the paid Mr Wilson-73,000 annually-but a separate, independent existence... connections have been cut by the counter-case of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. Internal Revenue Byrenu officials say revolutionaries. It is reported that this which was built at cost of $180,000 per that Mt. Harding must return nearly outbreak will prevent the Chita Governmile, and of the Amoy-Changchow, which one-fourth of this in income-tax.
was built at a cost of $110,000 per mile. ment from despatching Communist troops This squeeze," foreigu and Chinese in to co-operate with the Chinese for the re-connection with the construction of rail- capture of Urga, ANOTHER AMERICAN NEWSPAPER FOR CHINA?
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JAPANESE LOANS TO CHINA.
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THE US PRESIDENT'S --
SALARY.
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President Wilson was exempted from the income-tax under a Supreme Court ruling because he came into office before the enactment of the 1918 Revenue Laws, under which taxes were sought to be im- posed on the salaries of the President and of Federal Judges.
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ance.
"SKILOY. "Chairman of Constituent Assembly.
SUHOVEY,
"Secretary.
"House of Constituent Assembly of the Far East. "Chita, March 4th, 1991.”
INCREASE FORESHADOWED.
Although the movement of freight ships is paralysed, there is a tendency for passengers on the European lines to in- crease. It is even recorded that berths have been booked on many lines til July. This being so the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, is now inclined to increase the passenger fares. The first-class rate of the com- pany, which is now Y.000, is considered too low against the 2106 of the P. & O. S. N. Co., and the conditions are such, the company complains, that it hardly pays at the present rates even if the Prince Tuan has returned to Peking liners are filled with passengers to their but it is stated officially that no political fullest capacity. The company will prob significance attaches to the present visit. ably announce increased faren, as soon as It appears that the Prince brought the it is set free from the Ocean Navigation bodies of his son and daughter-in-law for Subsidy Law in April-Japan 'Chemiele, burial, and will return to Sinkiang after
PRINCE TUAN IN PEKING.
CONDEMNED TO DEATH-BUT
BANISHED FOR LIFE
roads has killed railroad construction in China, and it is apparent that unless the old system is abandoned, China will get no more railroads. It is absolutely im possible to make railroad construction in Revenue Bureau officials say that Mr.N.Y.K. PASSENGER FARES. The Kuugutaj and other vernacular China economical, or operation profitable, Harding, of course, will be allowed the papers are responsible for the report when "squeeze and official demands usunt exemption of $2,000 a year for a that after the retirement of Mr. C make the cast of construction from five married man, and may claim certain www.business exemptions. Facing bis eximp Will in conjunction with Mr. F. W. per mile is in America, where the freight tion, at $2,000 yearly, however, they Stevens. American representative of the trato is on an average three times as reckon his normal income tax at 85,480 new consortium in Peking, establish a heavy per mile as it is in China. The and his surtax at $12,940, a total of first-class Sino-American morning news futare building of railroads in Chipa 18.420- paper in the Capital with a capital of one must be so arranged that there is not a hundred thousand gold dollars and that dollar of
11 squeeze or profit in connee- Mr. R. Burr, of the Chung-Mei Newstion with the construction of road. Agency, will be its editor.
Profits in railroad.construction in China must be made out of the profits of ope ration after the railroad has been built. as cheaply and economically as possible. With reference to the repayment of the This is the way our American money' in capital and interest of Japanese loans to railroads has been made, and this in the China, totalling one hundred and fifty method that must be adopted in China, million dollars, all of which were con- if China is to get the rositoads that she tracted by the Tuan Chi-jui Cabinet, as needs. [“industrial" loans, the Government has been advised by General Ranzai, who has been despatched to Japan to discuss the question of postponement with the HANKOW RAILWAY. Japanese Government, that Japan agrees
On account of the outrage committed to the postponement of repayment under certain conditions. In this connection, by some soldiers in Shinkwan upon a there is a rumour that in view of the railway worker who died after having financial plight of China. Great Britain, been mercilessly beaten, the railway the 1.5A. and Japan may hold a special workers of this section in Shiukwan have conference for the solution of. Chinese addressed a telegram to the Government and local authorities announcing that questions.--
they have declared a strike as protest against this outrage. News of the strike in Shiukwan have stirred the workers of The Government at Peking is deter. the line in Canton to take similar action as a means of expressing their sympathy mined to carry out its plans. for a general election regardless of the objec that train service was interrupted for a with their fellow workers, with the result tions of individual military, governors. Regarding the South-west. Mr. Chang time. It is said that
a satisfactory Tse Tan. Minister of the Interior, is of arangement has been reached with the the opinion that, owing to their political workers.-Canton Times. instability. the provinces of Szechuan. Hanan. Kueichow. Yunnan and Kwang- tune cannot make any headway in the election of members for the new Parlia ment. But the Government has decideď
THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO RETAKE URGA
LABOUR STRIKE ON CANTON-
BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA IN
CHINA.
the burial ceremonies.
His name recalls the Boxer rebellion, HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE
CORPS. and he is specially mentioned in Art. II.
of the Pearce Protocol of 1901. which reads as follows:
ORDERS BY LIEUT-COL. L. G. BIED, D.8.0., ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT,
Prince Tuan (amongst others) has been condemned to death at the Autumn Assizes, and it further determined that if the Emperor thinks their lives The should be spared, they shall be banish- ed to Turkestan and there shall be im- prisoned for life with no possibility that their punishment shall ever be com- 'muted.
CHINESE IN BRITISH SHIPS
Supported by Mr. J. H. Thomas. M.P., and Mr. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., a des putation from the Trade Union Congress, accompanied by representatives of the National Sailors and Firemen's Union, waited upon the President of the Board of Trade, on February 9th, and discussed Mercantile Marine, and accommodation the question of Chinese labour in the an board British ships.
to formally open the new Parliament in Rosta Propaganda Service in the South The Canton Agency of the Russian Peking in August this year regardless of west of China, has announced its inten- the attitude of the five South-westerntion to distribute its telegraphic news to provinces.
the Chinese vernacular papers free of Sir Robert Horne said that while he charge, but the Chinese news agencies was unable to promise legislation to ex- ure protesting against this free distri-clude all Chinese labour from British bution of costly telegraphic news service ships, the Department would do all it to the journals because, they say, this could, under ita administrative powers, It was reliably reported among Chinese not on on the part of the Bolsheviks will to meet the points raised. On the ques- military officers at Mukden, on Mareb seriously affect their business. A special tion of accommodation experts were 11th. that owing to the lack of arms and conference of Chinese news agencies is engaged in drafting further regulations. money. the troops under Brig. General being convened to discuss this matter. Chow Fen, who has been making pre- Mr. Alexieff, who speaks Chinese man parations in Taolin for the re-capture of darin, and Dr. Chen Tu-hsin, former Urga since last month, are now in retreat professor of the Pering Government towards the Gobi desert and that Taolin University and now director in charge of was captured by the Buss-Mongolian social reforms in Canton, are the prin rabble on the afternoon of the. 9th inst.cipal directors of the Agency. The same But officially this report is denied. Owing conditions exist in Peking. to the cold weather, and the absence of
funds, neither the Fergtien nor the Hei- CHINA'S FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. lupakiang troops have started on their
BOSTOCK'S CIRCUS.
OPENING PERFORMANCE.
Dress
PARADES.
Corps will parade on Monday, March 21st, at 5.30 p.m.. at Head- quarters. Attendance. "Strong as possible.
Drill order with helmets and shorts, except:-
1.-Scottish Company who will wear balmoral caps and kilts without khaki aprons.
2.-Mounted Infantry Section will wear
breeches.
Machine-gun Company carry revòl-
vers and pouches.
Cadet Company form up in rear of
Corps.
Other parades during week ending March 26th. 1921, will be held in accordance with programme of work.
ENGINEER COMPANY.
Parade at Belchers at 5.30 p.m., o
Thursday, the 31st inst., for prac
. tice on Defence Electric Light. MOUNTED INFANTRY BECTION.
Parade at Polo ground. Causeway Bay, on Wednesday, the 23rd inst., at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Optional:
G. F. E. RAPSON, Bt.-Major,
Adjutant, H.V.D.O... Hongkong, March 18th, 1991.
TORIC LENSES ARE GROUND Workmen were busy, yesterday even ing, on the site next to the Post Office in with a deep inner curve, which conforms te Kowloon, preparing the ground and put every movement of the eye and makes the sight. ting up a temporary structure for the equally clear in every portion of the glass. way, wid the Sulun mountains, for the The Prime Minister, General Chin, has opening performance this afternoon, at reliet of Urga, whose re-capture is now wired to all the provinces stating that o'clock, of Bostock's Royal Italian Torie will set closer to the eye than the ordinary rendered more difficult for the Chinese pursuing a policy of retrenchment, the Circus, A record attendance is expected, dat lens thus doing away with the annoying forces if Taalia has been really captured monthly expenditure of the Central both at the afternoon and the evening reflections from the edge of the glass. For those by the Eusso-Mongolian bandits. It Government, administrative and military; shows-The management have, in conse appears that with the exception of hold has been fixed at five million dollars,quence, made every effort to present a who wish the very best in lenses, we recommend ing a series of so-called special con- The military governors are request, not ferences, both the Peking and the to ask the Government for money here-
torics The Hongkong Optical Do.. Succespors Mukden Governments have practically after nor to recruit fresh troops, because done nothing towards the actual-relief of the Government is not in a position to
to Clark & Co., Manufacturing & Refracting.
programme.
Urga and it is now anticipated in certain supply them with funds. The wire adde The United International Famine Re- quarters that unless, the Chinese Govern that the policy of the Government is not liet Committee records indicate that Opticians, located in Queen's Road, Central, ment authorities and troops wake up to negotiate foreign loans for adminis- 1,000,000 famine sufferers have migrated manufacture Torice ou all prescriptions in immediately, the whale of Outer Mongo-trative and military expenses, and at the to other provinces and many have died White, Smoke, Amber, Crookes or Ficuxa).- lin will be lost to China.
same time to reduce the monthly, ex- en route. The migration is impelled by
starvation" which is increasing daily. penditure to as low a figure as possible.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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