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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1921.
OF TRIPLE
DEATH-KNELL OF
ALLIANCE:
MINERS SECRETARY RESIGNS.
· LATEST WABLES.
CRISIS.
INTERNATIONAL T
WILL GERMANY MERT HER" FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS!
LONDON, April 17th.
REPARATIONS PROBLEM:ternational crisis with the approach of
WILL GERMANY PAY?
INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE:
WAZIRIS ATTACK BRITISH TROOPS,
LATEST CABLES (THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
LABOUR TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
MINERS' DEMANDS.
LONDON, April 18th (12.50 p.m.) The 'miners' delegate conference has been fixed for April 2nd. In the meantime here will be no resumption of coal-min- ing.
permanent wages system
COMBINED STRIKE CANCELLED. LONDON, April 15th.. Mr. Thomas has announced that to night's strife has been caricelled.
LATEIL
in America.
FIGHTING ON AFGEAN FRONTIER.
WANA MAHSUDS LED BY ADVENTURER.
Sat, April 18th. Severe fighting is reported in the Wana Mahsud areas, following the reappear
CAIRO CAUSE CELEBRE. SIR WILLIAM-WILLCOOKS ROUND OVER.
HONGKONG SLAVERY
QUESTION.
The following contributed appears as a leader in the Nere of the 19th inst.:-
article ', Daily}
·RESULT OF THE FAMINE **DRIVE," " HOW THE MONEY IS BEING SPENT,
At a well attended meeting of the.
Famine Relief Drive, the ebaiman, Mr. Peking Compittee of the National
Sun Pao-chi reported that up to date House reffect the attitude of the author during the drive, the amount being die Hongkong and the answers given in the total of $2,119,934.10 had been raised ities in the Colony. This is that the tributed among the various cities in girls referred to ate adopted into the faccordance with the following list:- families of those who nequire them by
formed us that questions have been On several occasions" Reuter han in- naked in the House of Commons regard.
shanghai Peking
$833,398.09
800,000.00
Hankow Nanking
199,000.00
100,000.00
Tainan
*00,000.00
Taiyuan
50,000.00.
Kaifong
60,000.00
Canton
70,000.00
Hangchow
$2,300.00
Changala
30,000.00
Tientsin Anking
90.721.09
50,000,00
Chengtu
19,000.00
Sianfu
12,000,00
Chinking
5,400.00
7,700.00
4,400.00
1,000.00
5,000.00
2,115.00
Soochow Wahu.. Lanchow Changchowfu Pantingfu,
In the all in the industrial situation attention turns to the throat of an in.
pille: gotorious Afghan adventurering the prevalence of girl slavery in Alay 1st-the latest date for Germany's Abdur k, who organised the hostile meeting her financial obligations. The Waziri Mahids, Most of the fighting Berlin and Paris Governments are both was at Beghakot, which was captured on fully occupied with the problem. Heriin April 8th by the 41st Dugras, who were purchase and that their status is very is anxiously endeavouring to forestall however, subsequently driven back. The different from that connoted by the word further sanctions. The German Press enciny casualties wero 10 killed and 38" slave": the reply usually concludes: speaks of fresh proposals, which are to wounded, and our casualties were killed slavery does not exist in the island." It 43am assured by the Governor that be submitted in a faw days through the and i wounded. Boghakot was re-occu-is evident that the dispute largely binges intermediary of a neutral, including thepied on April 8th.
on the definition of the terms used. If following up of the original suggestion Further sharp fighting took place on
the girl referred to are slaves, then, by to assume responsibility of Allied debts lapril 10th, when 300 Mahsuds attacked once to be set at liberty. If they are the laws of Great Britain, they ought at u company of the 20th. Punjabis, whose wards of their foster parents, then those The French Government is determined losses were 28 killed and 24 wounded, in-
who adopt them are not only guiltless, to leave nothing to chaner, and has adopt- | cluding one British officer killed.
but may be rendering a service to the State. Considered dispassionately there. Fresh British operations have been begun.
can be no doubt that the position of the girls referred to partakes of the nature of slavery in that they are bought and owned by the purchaser and may be disposed of at his pleasure, They are not slaves inasmuch as they are not the children ul bondmen and bondwomen;. moreover they manumitted at marriage and no stigma attaches to their offspring. There
As will be noted, most of the cities is, therefore, room for endless, argument listed are provincial capitals and the according as ons views the question from amounts credited to them in each case
kong but also Shanghai and the whole the famine drive are administered by the the one angle, or the other...
also include amount raised by other The question concerns not only Hong- All funds raised under the nahie of
centres in their provinces. of China, but it is, perhaps, true that various the custom of purchasing girls at a tender Societies. These Societies are érrying International Famine, Relief drudges is more common in the province, and at the present time are caring 10t age and bringing them up as household on work in all of the famine provi-nes of Kwangtung than in other parts of 3,445,000 people. the country. It may be defended, and; The case arose from an enquiry by the the welfare of the children concerned, of the famine districts, as well as the sometimes is, as a custom that makes for
The following table gives thi, number" Nile Irrigation Projects Commission into but the arguments have a suspicious like, amount of money which the International prople now being provided for in each charges by Sir William Willcocks audess to those that were advanced in the Famine Relief Societies and the Ame Colonel Kennedy that Six Murdoch Mac order of society in western lands. It Relief in these arens:~
days when slavery was an established rican Red Cross have spent in Famine. donald, the Public Works Adviser, bad doubtless true that some of the little falsified documents to suppress facta.
protégées are fortunate enough to fall into the hands of naturally kind mis DISARMAMENT PROBLEM.
tresses but many fare far otherwise und the aggregate amount of misery endured RESOLUTION IN HOUSE OF
by the multitude of helpless slaveys must be unthinkable. REPRESENTATIVES.
FRANCE PREPARING FOR ACTION.
The cancellation of to-night's strike is fed the reports of M. Louchour, Minister due to the other Unions belonging to the of Hoconstruction, containing economic Triple Alliance disapproving of the penalties, and of Marshal Foch, advocat miners' refusal to re-negotiate on the basising the calling up of the 1918 and 1010 of Mr. Hodges' proposal that the miners classes, and extending occupation, beyond would consider the question of wages, Ruhr over a portion of the Westphalino The miners want. according to Mr. provided that the arrangement was not industrial area. Hodges, a operating nationally and uniformly, basis. Mr. Thomas informed the Execu- regarded as permanently, or a district as to cover discrepancies intween the protive of the Miners' Federation that in Huctive and the unproductive coal-fields.
view of the refusal he did not feel justi. Consequently, there is a demand for a natied in calling out the railwaymen. The tional board to apportion wages, and for leaders of the transport workers decided
national pool, by which the profits of
similarly, the richer miners may assist the poorer.
DEADLY BLOW TU TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
LONDON, April 16th (2.15 p.m.)
Yesterday was the heaviest defeat which has befallen to the Labour move ment within the memory of man."
These words in the Daily Herold, to- day, sum up the result of the railway men's and transport workers' dramatic, refusal at the eleventh bour to support the miners by permitting a general strike. Events on Thursday and Friday-the almost accidental discussion between cer tain members of Parliament and the coal- owners and workers,' the declaration of Mr. Hodges, the miners' leader, that they xere willing to consider provisional settlement of the wages question, the mid- night interview with the Premier and bis
SERIOUS DIFFERENCES IN THE
·MINERS' EXECUTIVE. After the docision of the railwaymen and transport workers, the Miners' Exo- entive decided to convene a delegates' conference to consider the future policy
Meanwhile the Govern organisation of the Defence Force and ment has decided to proceed with the with arrangements for mille supplies and other services.
of the miners.
Mr. Hodges has officially denied the persistent reports that he has resigned the Secretaryship of the Miners' Federa tion, but that serious differences have arisen appears undeniable.
•
PARIS, April 15th.
the
n year in
Cao, April 17th. The cause celebre tried by Mr. Justice The Chamber has adopted the motion as Court at Shanghai, ended in
Torain, the new Judge of the Suprune regards the 50 per cent, duty on all Gerengineer, Sir William Willcocks, who was proceeds are to be credited against Ger- tion, being bound over for mas goods imported into France,
The found guilty of criminal libel and seli- man obligations under the Peace Treaty, sureties of £1,000, after which he may According to some papers a conference be deported if his prisence in Egypt is is to meet to-day under the presidency considered undesirable. of M. Millerand to consider the coercive measures to be adopted, in case Germany again attempts to dodge her liabiles, Military measures, in conjunction with the Allied Powers, are contemplated, and, perhaps, the blockade of Hamburg. including occupation of the Ruhr district,
An Inter-Allied Conference will, a bly, take place in Paris at the beginning of May, and it is confidently expected that Mr. Lloyd George will be able to participate.Havas,
CONFERENCE OF FRENCH MINISTERS.
morning at the Elysee, M. Millerand
PARIS, April 15th. An important conference was held this
WASHINGTON, April 16th. Mr. Rogers, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has introduced into the House of Representatives a resolu-
conference in Washington, but emphasis tion inviting Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan to attend an armament
art
The system is the fruitful parent of many and great abuses. Children are poverty, sold by their parents to this life. sometimes, under the pressure of extreme and the traffic in kidnapped children is of bondage: Frequently they are stolen, Chino's shame: We can recollect that a
poles on our streets often bare advertise dangerous riot was once precipitated in implicated by this trade. The telegraph this Settlement by the arrest of a teman
the House of Commons this, afternoot. A most dramatic incident occurred in Mr. Clynes was explaining that it would avitation for a fresh conference, the Alliance to desert the miners when news War, "Finance and Reconstruction, Marhaving a pary second to none,, until dis. for information that will lead to the re bo an act of disloyalty for the Triple presiding M.Briand, the Ministers of ing the necessity of the United States mente affixed to them offering a reward |
failure of the miners to appear, the final breakaway of the allied Unions on this ground-all this must not be taken as representing the whole of the inuer truth of the situation.
BUMBACUS,
...
came in that they had already done so. The news spread throughout the House, he had completed his speech. Mr. Olynes alone being ignorant until
MINERS POSSIBLE WITHDRAWAL
FROM ALLIANCE.
LATER.
The Daily Herald itself admits to-day that the root-cause of the defeat was the Jack of solidarity in the whole movement, in organisation, understanding and sym- The outstanding fact about the railway It is beyond question that the men's and transport workers' no-strike pathy. deaders of the railwaymen and transport decision is that the Triple Alliance, the workers were rightly uncertain as to the greatest Labour amalgamation in Bri- response of the risk and file to the striketain, which has been intermittently threatening direct action for the past two Except in oue or two districts in Scot- or three years, has now broken at the land, there is complete orderliness, and first real test of its unity, and the miners' there is a general depression at the pros.withdrawal therefrom would not surprise pect of involuntary unemployment. With anyone. The miners were depending this temper prevailing the strike must In any case have been half-hearted and unsuccessful, resulting in internal schisms in the railwaymen's and other-Unione As things have turned out these Unious retain individual solidarity, but the Triple Alliance has been shattered for the tame being beyond hope of reconstruction. MINERS AND TRIPLE ALLIANCE DRIFT APART.
The railwaymen and transport worker's executives, also, met and subsequently issued a statement, saying that the cancel lation of the strike was due to the lack of solidarity which manifested itself yes torday morning. They expro regret at the necessity of taking the stop they have taken.
"
shal Foch and Petain, and General Woy-armament is agreed upon. gand wore present.
.:
According to the papers, the object was NEW FRENCH STEAMSHIP CO. appeals for help to recover lost children
to consider the situation which will arise on May 1st in the event of Germany's continued failure to meet her obligations under the Treaty of Versailles. It is reported that a military plan for envelop ing the Rabr region and possibly a blockade of Hamburg, and all measures for the economic coercion of Germany,
were examined.
GERMAN REPARATION RECOVERY ACT. BOARD OF TRADE ORDER. of a national pool, as opposed to a dis upon the Alliance to enforce the principle
LONDON, April 17th. trict wage basis, and, with their highest
The Board of Trade has issued an order trump-card beaten, the miners may be that articles imported into the United owners. forced to resume negotiations with the Kingdom before May 13th will be exempt remains, with the Government firmly op-
Meanwhile the coal deadlocked from the provisions of the German posed to the resumption of control. Reparation Recovery Act, which impones 1
GOVERNMENT'S, PREPARATIONS,'
a 50 per cent. tax, if it is proved that they are imported in pursuance of a con- LONDON, April 18th. Reuter learns authoritatively that the tract made prior to March 8th, and left Government preparations to cope with the place from which they were consigned the disorganisation threatened by the to the United Kingdom prior to April 8th. strike are of the most comprehensive character. These are in nowise intended
PRESIDENT HARDING'S
ATTITUDE,
Pants, April 10th,
FRENCH COLONIES.. COLONIAL MINISTER'S PLANS.
PARIS, April 14th.
Preparations in respect of the food situation are generally satisfactory. No shortage is anticipated, and it is con- sidered that there is no probability of railway sabotage. the community would be able to sorve and a former Governor of French Indo- It is believed that M. Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies. itselt ne regards the provision of trains, Chine, kas sabmitted to the Senate a bill
REPORT ON BILL.
Pane, April 16th, steamer services to the Far East, Aus The report on the bill concerning tralasia, East Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean, which has been placed on the table in the Chamber, specifies that the Messagerie, Maritimes, shall cease to be State-rabsidised, and a new company, based on the regle system, will be formed which will be capitalised at sixty million francs. The measure in
volves alterations of mail routes,
PERSIAN GOVERNOR'S
ARREST.
BY ORDER OF NEW GOVERNMENT
ALLAHABAD, April 18th,
covery of children decoyed away from their homes and destined to the hard life of the child verf. The pathos of the reveals the anguish of the parents; a sorrow surely which has no equal; not even in the bitterness of death.
of
9,410,214.10
$4,750,0.32
·YUNDS ADMINISTERED. WAC Chihli 1.F.R.S.
A.R.C. East Chibli' .F.R.S. Shantung 1.F:R.S.
A.R.O.
250,000.00
2,638,941.36
1,688,112,93
1,300,000.00
Honen
1.F.B
3,8-15,810.00
Shansi
I.F.R.S.
1,302, 1841D
A.R.C.
700.000.00
Shenst
1.F.R.S.
959,500.00
Total
..$15,881,411.70
NUMBER IN RECEIPT ON ÄID.
West Chibli East Chibli Shantung Hopan...
Shansi Shensi
1;428,300
840,000.
684,920
1,500,000
602,000
190,000
5,445,920
BRITISH GOODS IN GERMANY. CLAIM RELINQUISHED!
With reference to à Renter's telegrams
of children illegal and to punish with nefarious trafic is to make the purchase The surest way to put a stop to this
Chinese law is lamentably deficient in from Berlin of February 4th, which has provisions respecting the welfare of given occasion for some corresponderes China in also curiously a lent on the res the text of the German official com equal Reverity both buyer and seller.
children. The classical literature ponsibility of parents towards their off-
in the London papers, the following is spring while it over emphasizes the augue in questions filial duty which children owe, not only some time ago between the German and An arbitration treaty was concluded elders. Educationalists in China have an question affecting the interpretation of to parents, but to all who are their the British Governments in regard to a obligation laid upon them to remedy this the Peace Treaty. The question was lack in law and herature until public whether British subjects could demand opinion will no longer tolerate the abuses that their liquidated properties, in so far which the present attitude of the masses towards children's rights muke, possible them in kind. According to the Treaty as they still exist, could be restored to An advertisement in a recent issue of this demand could only be made by Shanghai well illustrates the difficulty of side have ordered no general liquidation. one of the leading Chinese papers in nationals or such States which on their dealing with this question. The adver- measures. Germany takes the standpoint on a journey between Peking and Shang garded as general liquidation measure, tiser atates that she has lost her daughter that the English war laws are to be re- bai and that sorrow has made her sick and that the English can lay, no claim so that life itself is despaired of and she to restilation in kind. The British adjures her daughter, if she sees the Government took the opposite stand- notices in the paper, that she will come point. at once to see her mother and so comments were laid before the arbitration The pleadings of both Govern- fort her heart that thereafter she may tribunal at the end of January. The
A message from Teheran says that the Persian Government has placed under arrest Prince Sarnam-ed-Dowlah, Gover- nor of Kermanshah and one of the mest. originators of the Anglo-Persian Agree AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL LIFE die in peace. All benevolent persons British Government has now ansourced who have any knowledge of the where that it accepts the German standpoint, abouts of the girls are begged to send and forgoes a decision by the arbitration information to the address given so that court.
SCOTTISH QUP FINAL
LONDON, April 16th.
LONDON, April 15th (4.40 p.m. }'`· No attempt was made, touny, to heal the breach between the miners find their for strike breaking, they are mer REPARATIONS COMMISSION, Triple Allianco colleagues. Each side has designed to keep the community going. taken decisions without consulting the Except for food supplies, the work 28 otter. The miners have decided, pending mainly delegated by a special Cabinet
MB. BOOVER'S APPEAL delegate conference, on April 22nd, to Committee, which is directing operations, return home, where, in the words of the to railway companies and local authori
PHILADELPHIA, April-17th. official statement, they will discuss the ties. Offices will be opened all over the
the several hearts may be reunited. The Mr. Hoover, in a speech bere, advocated mother will be for over grateful and will whole of the facts with their own district country for the enrolment of volunteers says it is highly probable that President the Department of Commerce. He said, soms fifteen years of age accompanies the meat mostly has in mind is the state of Le Hutin's New York correspondentment, particularly as regards the duties of information. A picture of a comely girl What we think the Hongkong Govern the re-organisation of the Federal Govern not fail to give a suitable reward for the arabers, preparatory to returning to Lan- for the maintenance of the central ser- Harding will shortly instruct Mr. Boyden" The economic changes in the world, advertisement that all men may know by things described in our contributor's first don to draw up a report for submission vices and for the special constabulary to resume his sent at the Reparations originating from the war, and the re-these presents who it is that is referred paragraph. On this subject we published to Friday's gathering.
companies have well over a month's sup Wallace to participate again in the Am- standards of living against the increas the so-called daughter is a sing-song girl, always needs careful watching, it appears The railways and the gas and electricity Commission, also the Ambassador action in American trade and industry to by the sorrowing mother. And a well two articles a few weeks ago, expressing ply of coal on which to draw, while hassadors Council. arrangements are being made to supply
make it vital, if we are to maintain the informed Chinese friend assures us that the opinion that while the practice trawlers with bunker coal...
ing ferocity of competition, that we that the "mother" is the mistress who on the whole to be free enough from evil should concentrate and enlarge our na owns ber and that she is sick of sorrow, tional effort in aiding, protecting, stimu- because of the loss of capital which she good, that interference with this very results, if not actually productive af lating and perfecting our industrial and invested in this pretty maiden which she ancient practice must be very chazily commercial life,
has now lost.
approached Where our contributor, we think, lays himself open to misconstruc tion is in apparently mixing up the del berate alo by parente of a daughter as described in the first paragraph, and the stealing of children by kidnappers For the latter practice nothing but abhor- The word "contributed" at the head rence dan be expressed, and the energies of a leading article may he a puzzle to of the great organization of the Chinese some readers. Why," they might ask, Anti-Kidnapping Society, which has bran LONDON, April 16th.
"thus differentiate, inasmuch as the obce all over China continually trying to G.O.M.G., M.V.O., at Mentone,
The death has taken place of General views expressed in a leading article highly praised. It is also, we believe, paper must take responsibility for the catch the kidnappers, cannot be too Cowans, G.C.B which it printat The answer is that
the fact that when kidnappers aro there are some quest'ons on which it is brought before Chinese magistrates, they [Sir John Cowans was Quartermaster. 14ore than normally difficult to lay down never fail to get their due. On the other General of the Forces, War Ofice, from the law-oven for an editor. In each hand, Chinere opinion clearly does not 1019 to 1910, and a member of the Army instances the word "contributed" means: condemn the practice of the mus tear, of Council in the War. Four years of his "These are not the views which the which a teeming population mostly very Army Camor were spent in India. He editorial o' haid; nevertheless there poor would be liable to think differently was a finud Oloor of the Legion of are many readers who hold them, from what Western races might think. The Treasure of Japan, Holy Redester respect. The particularly applies as would be a good thing if Chinese opinion Honour and held the following orders; perhaps more than those who side with distinction, however, between the two Crown of Belgium, Crown of Italy, Racred us and they are entitled to be heard with price is certainly very thin, and st (Greece) and Chin Ho of China Bir regards the question of slavery in China. Could be brought up to the abolition of John Cowans was in his 00r your (Continged at foot of neat colibrin, Wil
The Westminister, Gazette states that the miners' executive rejected Mr. Lloyd George's invitation-to-a conference with the conl-owners, yesterday morning, by a majority of one. Mr. Hodges then re wigned his office, but his rosignation was not accepted.
EARLIER GABLES-
In the Association football Scottish
OBITUARY.
is was done in Sweden. There is a four respecting the complete re-organization Cup Snal, Partick Thistle beat. Glasgow possible dificulties in the way of distri-economical viewpoint. Each Colony is months supply of petrol, but there are of the French Colonial Empire from Hangers, by one goal to mil. bution. A special Cabinet Committee is to receive special treatment according to to take greater responsibility in regard to the bus, electric, and gas services in Lontown particular needs, railway and don than in the country, If necessary,
water traffic is to be intensified and pro. naval stokers will be employed: The duction promoted in every way. The Government has a skeleton
nativea' welfare. is provided for. wireless service curing communication all over excution of the vast programme is to be
The SirJobh Steven the country, also an aeroplane service.
distributed over a period of 15 years Havas
YAP DISPUTE AND
BANDE
THE MINERS STIPULATION.
LONDON, April 18th. At half past three this afternoon, Mr. Lloyd George road in the House of Com- mone a letter from the Minera Federn tion stating that the only condition on which a temporary settlement could be renched who one conceding the principles Acknowledging receipt of the Note res
PARIS, April 16th. of a national wages board and a national-pecting Yap Isinad, M Briand wrote to. poolTherefore the Miners Executive the American Ambassador that an answer felt that no good purpose would be served is to follow in due course after an ex by a meeting of the owners in the absence change of views between France, Great of there tonditions
Britain, Japan and Italy.-llavas. ---
DISASTROUS, TORNADO
50 KILLED MANY INJURED,
Arkansas, causing widespread havon At
New Youx, April 17th A tornado has swept over Southern least 50 persons have been killed, and hundreds have been wounded.
COMMENTS ON THE ARTICLE,
following note
Our Shanghai contemporary indicates its own views on the subject in the
anything to which the