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*MINERS STRIKE. MINERS LOOK ASKANOE AT
OWNERS' OFFER.
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UNITED STATES. LABOUR :
UNREST.
HEAMEN'S UNION THREATEN
GENERAL STRIKE.
Naw Yönx, April gist. The industrial troubles, which have
FAR EASTERN CABLE A "BRITISH LEGION" FOR
NEWS.
(THROUGH RETRK'S AGENCY.) CHINESE SPECIAL ENVOY TO BRITAIN.
LONDON, April goth. Chu Chih-chen, the Special Envoy from
'CHINA. -
·AN ORGANISATION OF, BRITONS"
WHO SERVED IN THE WAR.
YESTERDAY'S MEETING.
CORRESPONDENCE.
EMIGRATION FROM
CHINA.
COOLIE
THE S.S. "GOLDEN STATE.”
The big liner Golden State, lying' mid-stream off Blake, Pier, was thrown open to public inspection yesterday afterà [TO THE EDITOR OF “THE HONGKONG' noon" and many residents accepted the
DAILY PRESS."]
invitation given to the public by the Bin-With reference to your leader on Pacifle Mail Co. who are the Managing Coolie
Agente of the vessel for the United Staton Emigration from China,"% although, as therein stated, & large num-Shipping Board. With ships of this size coming out the run, there should be no
passages across the Pacific. The Golden State is the first of the five steamers of the 633 tybe assigned to the Pacifie Mail. Steamship Company. The others, the Empire State, Palmetto State, Doorien State and Lone Star State, will follows upon completion of construction and will. be operated by the Pacifo Mail Steamship, Company in their service from San Fran cisco to Hongkong vid Honolulu,Yoko hama, Kobe, Shangliai and Munile:
recently become more threatening on China, will shortly arrive in Englaud'ou / which was held in the RA. Theatre, bor of Chinese coolies have proceeded to difficulty in meeting the demand for
LONDON, April 21st Though the coal-owners and "miners
account of wage reductions, are likely to have not yet met again, they are conduct-come to a head as a result of the Aineri- a prolific discussion in the Prrak.
can Shipowners' Association giving notice While the miners declare that the of a 25 per cent. reduction in wages from owvers' offer marks"no advance on their May 1st, to which the Seamen's Union previous offers, and does not meet the has replied with a threat of strike on demand for a national pool or levy, the Atlantie and the Preite sides, simul which the miners, apparently, are in no
taneously." way inclined to relinquish, the owners have published" a statement, declaring that the levy on tonnage is essentially the same as the profits pool, involving Government eoutrol and discouraging enterprise.
EARLIER UABLES.
ATTITUDE OF SOUTH WALES. LONDON, April 20th. The prospect of the Miners' Executive
·modifying their present demands has not been encouraged by the majority of the decisiotis hitherto published from various districts. One of the most important
CRICKET BOARD CONTROL. COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP SCORING.
LONDON, April 21st.
the latter case securing one point.
Over You ex-Servico- men attended the meeting, convened by Major-General Sir G. M. Kirkpatrick, EC.M.G., CS.1., Victoria Bucracks, yesterday afternoon, an official mission, and will present the for the purpose of discussing the forma King with letters from the President oftion of an ox Service organisation china!
At the outset Major-General Kins PATRICK apologised for the unavoidable RECIPTION BY FRENCH PREMIKA.
postponement of the meeting, which ind "Paris, April 19th.
been called for the previqua Friday; and The French Premier received, "in private then proceeded briefly to explain the pur- audience, Chen Chi-chion, the Chinese puss of the gathering. Since i have President's Special Envoy to France-boen in Hongkong," the General said, Haras.
i have felt very much that there is a need for an organisation of those Britons who sorved in the War and are now in civil life in Hongkong.”- di would, be continued, be a great pity if the memory
my country, I beg to inform you that I, personally, during my tenure of office since August 3rd, 1620, have not vissed
y passports or issued any permits of any description,
Thanking you for the courtesy---Yours,
M. HARRINGTON,
Consul for Cuba,
ato,
Hongkong, April 21st, 1921.
The Golden State is 635 ft. in length, A QUESTION FOR THE LEAGUE OF with a beam of 72 feet. She is of 31.107 tona displacement and has a regular speed. of 17 knots and is capable of doing g knots in an energeney.
NATIONS.
PESSIDENT HILLKHAND ENTERTAINS MISSION.
PARIS, April 19th.
In connection with this question which M. Millorand gave a dinner in honour
formed the subject of our leading article The Cricket Board Control has decided of members of the Chineso Mission, who of their common experiancen, their yesterday, the Asiatic News Agency says: that scoring in the County Championship have just arrived in Paris, with the streuuous times together, and their will be 5 points for win," completed former Premier Chou Chi-chien. M. match; and 3 points for a first inningsoumer, 1. Sarrant and M. Painleve victory, uncompleted match, the loser in were presoat.--líu sus.
FAR EASTERN MAILS DAMAGED.
LONDON, April 21st, The General Post Offee announces that portions of the Indian and the Far Lustern mail arriving in London on April 9th have been seriously damaged by a gule in the Mediterranean. larger portion of the mail will be deliver
GERMAN REPARATIONS,
GERMANY'S HOPELESS SEARCH.
PARIS, April 19th.
The
Her accommodation provides for 250 trat class and 300 steerage passengers. No expense has been spared in the con struction of the Golden State, and pas sengers surrd of every comfort in the way of large, room enbins spring beds and private tub and shower Her cargo capacity is 11,000 tons and the is equipped with all the latest cargo gear for efficient and speedy handling of freight.
THE PREVALENCE OF RABIES. RESTRICTIONS ON THE MOVEMENT. OF DOGS...
The Government at Peking his wired to glorious success was allowed to grow ding, Dr. Wellington Koo, who is now in Paris espoutally in a far-away part of the world for the opening of the League Confer like this, where they were a small body fence, instructing him to introduce into of Britons confronting unknown contin, the Conference the subject of prohibiting gencies which no could foretell. the enlistment of workers or labourera. Major-General Kirkpatrick went on to China contends that, even at the present speak of the British Legion, a combinatime, there are clandestine labour offices tion of ex-Service organisations whose in Hongkong, Macao and, in foreign name seemed to him to axpress very well colonies in the South Pacific Islands. their needs and aspirations in a place which are still engaged in an illegal and
The following notification was pablished like Hongkong. He had asked them to inhuman trade in Chinese labourers for come there that afternoon so that they foreign industries, and that generally yesterday by Governijent Gazells
Extraordinary might, if they thought fit, organise ignorant Chinese labourers of Kwang-
Regulations made by the Officer Ad theinselves in some such fashion here..
tung, Fukien and other coastal provinces ministering the Government in Council ander section 8 of the Dogs Ordinance, clandestine labour offices to emigrate day of April, 1821: without the knowledge or consent of the | 1-Except with the permission. `in Chinese Government. For the sake of writing of the Colonial Veterinary Sur
geon the removal of any dog from any one: humanity, the Government suggests that of the following districts into any other the proper procedures adopted by the district is prohibited: British and the French Gaveruments in
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occurred at Cardiff to-day, when a full According to the latest report. Ger- -delegates' conference of the South Walesany seemingly gave up attempts to Auers Federation reaffirmed its previ- find a mediator, in view of the cold ous resolutions insisting upon a national reception it met with in her tentative wage agreement and à profits' pool, de- rnquiries at Washington, Brussels, Berns, but some addresses are indecipher They had as their first object, the of China are induced by agents of the 1893, Ordinance No. 5 of 1893, this 21st-
manded rescission ofthe resolution of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain por- mitting safety work in the mines, and re quested the resignation of Mr. Hodges.
FEDERATION FIRM.
Replying to the owners' new próposals, the Minors' Federation declare that the offer, merely re-formulates previous pro- posais, and is vague and meaningless. The Federation reiterates its demand for a national wages board and a national
levy on tonnage. BOLSH&VIST PROPAGANDA IN BRITISH ISLES.
MONTHLY EXPENDITURE OF
£23,000.
and Prague.
The Allies are exported; very shortly, to receive direct proposals, which are said to be almost identical with those submitted at the London Conference in March laat..
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the British or French coast taking shape-floras.
FRENCH ESTIMATE OF RUKR COAL OUTPUT.
PARIS, April 21st,
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WHEEL.”.
LAST NIGHT'S PLAY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.
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General said, the continuance of their comradeship, and another great purpose was that of mutual help. It would mean as well that they would be able to keep in touch with each other by social gather ings and, as at home, the organisation should bộ absolutely non-political, nou- sectarian and democratic right through, the enlistment of Chinese coolies during It should be open to all who served their the war should be followed by the Powers, King and country, and to all who, if any of them want Chinese labour for through that service, had earned their industrial purposes, and that joint efforts country's gratitude and now desired to should be made for the suppression of keep alive the associations and recolle illegal labour offices and agents. This is tions of the time when they were serving the only bill China proposes to intro- together in their country's cAUNA. Heduce into the League Conference for dis
Humours of an impending meeting of
Butterny ou the Wheel," the the Allied Supreme Council at a place comedy presented by the . B.. Waring are Company at the theatre Royal last night, as from the pen of Mr. . . Hemmerde, A.C., and is precisely the kind of play that one would expect from an experienced counsellor-at-law. it unfolds as chapter is the lives of a Cabinet Minister hoped that the proposal would commend and his light-hearted young wife, who itself to them and that they would be able spends much of the simple teisure which to take the first steps towards the forma her husband's 'arliamentary duties leaves tion of such an organisation that after her in the society of an ardent admirer. noon-(Applauso). Under the mistaken impression that his Brig.-Gea. E B. MACNAOHTEN said that passion is reciprocated, this admirer coa-plained faily to the meeting the idea the General Officer Commanding had trives that they shail miss the train by forming a branch of the British Legion which they are to travel with a couple in Hongkong and throughout China, and of friends to Switzerland and spend he had much pleasure in proposing that
the League be formed. the Light, as though by chance, in
Lieut.-Col, LG. BIRD seconded. adjoining rooms in a Paris hotel. The
be motion on being put to the meet- ing was carried ananimously. ports-Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, etc.be included in the Association. that the words throughout China" wern The GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING muid
meant to include those ports,
A forecast states that French mining engineers will supervise the Germans in getting and distributing coal in the Ruhr aren, and it is estimated that the output, LONDON, April 20th.
thor, will exceed 76 per cent of the pre In the House of Commons, Major Sir J.vious output of 250,000,000 tons annually H. Baird, on behalf of Mr. Short, stated it in estimated that these new measures that the Government 'was paying atten- and the establishment of Customs on the tion to Bolshevist propaganda in Great eastern frontier of the occupied territory
cussion at this mecting.
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(a) The island of Hongkong. (b) Kowloon and New Kowloon:
(e) All other parts of the Colony
2.--Until further notice no joga brought- from any part of China will be permitted to land in the Colony without the consent in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
THE FOREIGN POSTAL AGENCIES IN CHINA
A PREMATURE REPORT. CHINESE LABOUR IN QUHA. According to the China. Times the local A report has been in circulation that Commissioner for Foreign Affairs has the foreign post offices in China, with circularized various districts in the pro will shortly be abolished. This report the exception of the Japanese post offices, vince on the subject of the recruitment says the Asiatic News Agency, is pre of Chines and that o
Cuba. The mature. But following on the decision of circular paints out that owing to indus the last International Communications trial conditions in Cuba more than 10,000 Conference in Spain, the Government Ka labourers have been thrown out of work, issued instructions to the Chinese repre und that if more Chinese are allowed to tentative to continue, in spite of the op proceed there, anti-Chinese feeling may position, of the Japanese representative, demand the early withdrawal - of result. Accordingly all authorities are to counselled to take steps to prevent any foreign post office within her territory, country such as has been proceeding of petent to handle all mails.
Britain. It fell under three heads--pay: will yield between 3 to 8 milliards gold wife's innocence is made evident in the member" proposed that the const secret recruiting of labourers for that because China's own post office are com
ment of salaries to Communist officials of £5 to 10 weekly; subsidies to the extremist Press; and free distribution of revolutionary literature. He believed this expenditure amounted to at least £23,000 monthly. There was evidence that some funds came from Moscow before the trade agreement was signed. Com- munist agents had undoubtedly been at
is to
con
tempting to exploit the unemployed, whose unofficial committees in many in dustrial centres are chiefly carried on by paid Red agents, whose policy centrate upon centres of industrial un reet. Much mischievous propaganda has been undertaken by persons who contrive to keep within the law, but the police are able to deal with some instances"
FOVARGUE MYSTERY.
JURY RECEIVE THREATENING
LETTERS.
marks annually, The new Customs ze gime on the Rhine came into operation, last night. There was the smallest delay caused to passengers.
EARLIER CABLES.
FURTHER FRENCH PROPOSALS.
PARIS, April 21st.
mittee.
THE COMMITTEE.
scene which follows, but when the hun bar, who has been warned of the plot by an anonymous, letter, arrives in the morning the situation appears to admit of only one construction. Divorce pro credings are instituted and the masthe nest business was to elect a com dramatic scene in the play is thaky which the wife is seen undergoing a piti less cross-examination in the witness-box. A forecast of France's proposals for The most daining fact against her penalties in the event of Germany's de-is the anonymous letter showing that fault on May 1st includes a tax of 50 the sojourn in Paris was pre-arranged, to to francs per ten on coal mined in the and not, as she honestly believes, the result of an accident. Before the Ruhr region, a tax on exports, and the
case class, however, the co-respondent seizure of a proportion of shares in indus is able to wring a confession of author
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A JAPANESE KILLED IN
HUNAN.
$50,000 COMPENSATION. DEMANDED.
The
Flow from a lady of fashion, who has Secretary and, if necessary, to call up which would impair the recruiting for the tions from his Government, in addition
COLOMBIA TREATY RATIFIED long bean jealous of the wife. From this necessarily sketchy outline it will be WASHINGTOS, April 20th: realised that the play is one of absorbing The Senate has ratified the Colombia human interest, with many highly drama Treaty, which provides for the cession of tie situations. It was enacted in a manner
Etates.
the Panama Canal Zone to the United that left nothing to be desired. The chief Commanding at present then filled their who had those qualifications The Asso, Provincial Government of Hunan shall
SHIPBUILDING TRADE
WAGES.
AGREEMENT REGARDING.
on it.
..
The GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING Mid' that his point of view with regard to the offer of help in case of emergency was that it would be of great assistance, but Lieut. Col. L. G. BIRD said that the the suggestion of issuing arms was one following gentlemen he had spoken to were which had to be carefully considered and
The Asiatic News Agency states that prepared to serve on the committee and do must be put before higher authorities. their best to further the aims of the He suggested that the matter could be General Chao, Commander-in-Chief of the Association-Brig. Gen. Macnaughton, held over until the Association had bad Hanna Army, has sent to the provincial and the tion for the killing of a Japanese subs Major Cassel, Messrs, Hill, Brayfield, its rules drawn up then the suggestion assembly of Hunan a claim for compensa- Cobb, Hall, Lapsley, James, Young, could be brought forward
ject named
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board Holmes, Hawker, Bell-Irving, Murdock, pros and cons thoroughly discussed. It Ur. Black, Dr. Allan and Police Surgt. Was possible that the meeting would like Japanese steamer at Hsiangtan by
a ride club, bat such a club could not Hunan soldier in June last year. Booker.
The UENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING said give the training one received in that despatch states that an official note has that the committee would have the power excellent body, the B.K.V.D.C, and been received from the Japanese Consul to form an executive and appoint nothing should be undertaken by them at Changsha stating that, under instruc suggestion, the to the making of an apology to the after his additional members. If the meeting did corps. The socond
own Japanese Consulate by the Human pró-- not have further names to suggest, he General said, was would propose those read out by Col. heart and it need not be confined vincial Government, and giving an assur to those who held His Majesty's comance of the protection of Japanese sub- Bird en bloc
Brig. Gen. MACKAGETEN seconded, and mission. It would be a democratie jects in Hunan and the bon repetition body with certain qualifications and all of similar incidents in the future o the motion was carried nem con.
On the invitation of the General Officer could apply for enrolment in the body Japanese Government demands that the burden foll on Miss Jeannette Sherwin membership forms and handed them in.
ciation's Executive could discuss the pay to the relatives of the deceased After re A member called attention to the fact matter with him later, The General also stain the sam of, 850,000. "Peggy Admaston"-the butterfly that Cel. Bird's name was not included in said that the headquarters of the Bouth peated negotiations between the Japanese who, though sorely bruised, was not the committer. He said it could not be China Command would give the Com. Consul and the Foreign Commissioner in brokes on the wheel. An emotional complete without the Colonel serving mittee and Executive what help it could Changsha, the Consul agreed to reduce. willingly and to the fullest extent the claim by $6,000, and now demands the
immediate payment of $45,000. actress of great talent, she proved fully
The GENERAL OPPICES COMMANDING said (Applause),
The GENERAL Added that he would be Japanese contention is that as the de equal to the exacting teak imposed upon that Col. Bird's name should be taken for ber. As her admirer, Roderick Colling granted; it was modesty which prompted going to North China to inspect his small ceased, as an employe on board the steamer commands at various places in about two usually received more than one hundred Col, BIRD expressed his willingness to weeks' time, and if by then-as he hoped dollars per month, therefore, for a period wood," Mr. Charles Quartermaine play him not to include himself in the list.
-the Association was fully developed ha of thirty years, the amount would run all the necessary fervour, All the minor committee
bodies of men like themselves there of General Chao regards the demand of the characters were in capable bands, con
what the ex-Service men here: had done Japanese Consul as excessive because in the Changli and the Chenchintan inci- (Applause). spicuous amongst them being that of "Sir Addressing the meeting, Brigadier Gen-
Admiral Bir ALEXANDER DUFF, K. C.B., dents, Japan paid only about $600 for Robert Exile, KC, MP" leading couneral MADRACHTEN said that many of it gave him much pleasure to pro each Chinese killed by the Japanese, and
those prosent could not join the volunteers: sol for the petitioner (Mr. Wordley either because they were buyurs pose & vote of thanks to the General further, as Hsisuga was declared g Officer Commanding for calling the meet "military precautionary area" by the various other reasons, but in case of
inst ing and so ably conducting it. He Hunan Government during Jung in
Kiir Tonight "A Marriage of Convenience emergency, they could be of use to the thought it was Stting that this vote of year, the decerned Tatsin was.
soldier will be staged-
General or the Police, and he proposed thanks should come from the Navy which mistake, being mistaken, by that those who wished to hand together was not largely represented at the meet Chong Chin-fang, younger brother of CX- to form a small body of reserves for that ing. Still, they were sister services and uchun Chatg Chin-yao. The Chinese purpose should have rifles and bandoliers CAUSE OF THE “ YANKEE TWANG, Laurd to them but provide their own the co-operation between them during the soldier did not recognise the deceased to Aammunition. Given a meeting place in war had been surprisingly successful and be a Japanee subject because thero teas Dr. Eugene Howe, Professor of case of emergency, they would be of great cordial, which was ne it ought to be. The no reason for a Japanese or any other Hygiene at Wellesley College (Massachu Another suggestion he would like:
useful one, especially as it required danger in Hsiangtan which had been ~—-sette) has startled his class-of-girla (esys to put forward, was that they formed Veration they had just formed was foreigner to piece mmanlfin personal Who deceased carried no the New York Herald), by declaring that themselves into a corps of roserve of great deal to keep together in a place declared to be a military precaution
General Bir LONDON, April 20th New England's traditional Yankee officera Such a corps would be a like Hongkong (Applause) passport with Lim. General Chao naks
GEORGE KIBKPATRICK material help in case of a general mobilisation, when its members could be having expressed his thanks for the the members of the provincial assembly
accepted
And the cordial reception his because he is reluctant to decide upon the used to all the gaps of regular officers prompt way his invitation had been to give their opinions on the question, who might be mured ahont
propossis had received, the m
the meeting ter claim without the previos approval of minated
the legislati
REDUCTION.
LONDON, April 2015. The inquest on the case mentioned in a message of the 5th inst. leaves unsolved the mystery of who murdered Fovargue, despite the greatest police efforts to solve The theory is that it was a Sinn Fein crime, the victim being shot an agreement whereby wages are to be fal the part of an ardent lover with serve, and his name was included in the would be able to tell members of various up to more than fifty thousand dolla
the critne
after leaving a dapes at Falham and the body conveyed to Ashford golf links in motor car. A sinister feature of the inquest was that seven jurymen received letters threatening that there would be
LONDON, April 20th. The shipbuilding employers and the shipbuilding Trade Union have reached
reduced by 3/- per week from May 1st and a further 30/ on May 30th
THE GUINEAS. GOVERNMENT SANCTION.
LONDON, April 20th.. The Government has sanctioned the bereavements in their families-if-n cer-running of the Thousand and Two Thou- tain verdict was returned: The verdict and Guineas Haces at Newmarket, both
on April 29th. “ given by the jury won," Murdered by
- koma person unknown."
SINN-FEIN-PROCLAMATION.
LONDON, April 20th.
SILVER MARKET. AMERICA UNWILLING TO SELL
CHINA INCLINED TO BUY.
Hulse},
"Sinn Feiners have issued a proclamation forbidding citizens of the Irish Republic to leave Ireland without permission and America is unwilling to sell silver. On Twang is due mostly to laziness of prohibiting shipping and emigration the Continent it was not offered. China the jaw. This is not attributed to lack agenta fram. ncaapting pussage money or is inclined to buy. Speculative buying of jaw exercise, but to an uncountable theo-sontributed to stir bar kerk failure to let the lower jaw-fallfor Issuing tickets therefor. Serious pen India out of the market.
though in articulating: ties for infringement are threatened.---
AMALL BODY OF RESERVES.--
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The