THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS,” SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10ra, 18%..
THORNYCROFT
JOHN L. THOENYOROFT A CO., LIMHE
SHIPBUILDERA AND ENGINEERS,
Loxdus, Bostramerun
AND BASINGSTORE.
Shanghai Office : 10, Kiukiang Road.
15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines in Stock
For quotation apply-
SHANGHAI OFFICE.
ACKINTOSH'S
REMOVAL SALE
A $105,00
"BURBERRY”
FOR
$8000
COAT
MACKINTOSH & CO., LTD.
MEN'S WEAR.
16, DES VEUX ROAD.
SPECIALISTS
Telephone 29.
DOUGLAS & GRANT LTD.
KIRKCALDY, SCOTLAND
RICE MILLING
The largest and
most widely
gole Agents in South China:..
MACHINERY
BO
experienced makers
in the world.
DODWELL & CO., HONGKONG,
[1128
WORLD THEATRE
PRONS
PHONE. (337
Hongkong's Most Modern Picture Palace
Friday, 9th to Monday, 12th.
5.15 pm, (except Sunday) & 9.15 p.m.
OLIVE
Triangle Special
THOMA
in
LOVE'S PRISONER
-99
Olive Thomas, Dainty Film Star. Plays Dual Role in Exciting Photoplay. Th iling Crook Drama Provides Plot to Mystify and Entertain.
2.30 & 7.15 p.m. performances
5th & 6th Episodes of "* THE DRAGON'S NET”
Featuring Marie Walcamp.
Booking at Messrs. MEHTA & Co
Hongkong Hotel Balldings: (Tel. 951)
1166
20,000 DOCTORS
are recommending
PLASMON
ALL NOURISHMENT COCOA Because
It vields a delicious beverage containing ALL inc constituents able to support Life,"
THE RECENT DEVASTATION OF YING TAK.
THE HOMELESS.
We have received the following from a correspondent at Yangiok :~-
THE PEKING BANKS. CHANG TSO-LIN'S DEMANDS,
PERING. November 24th. No settlement of the controversy be
YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE. BRITISH INTERESTS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE NEW WORK,
Further information is now available
THE GAMBLING IN PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
140 IN SHANGHAI,
A contributor to the N... Daily News begins a long article on this subject with
Aween General Chang Tso-lia and the as to the competitive design and tender An appeal has come from the officials [Peking Baoks. rägarding the terms on for this work, which was awarded to s
the following paragraphs:- and the gentry of Yingtak in behalf of which his $3,000,000 would be handed | Belgian combination made up of the
ver reperend General Societe d'Etudes et de Construction, the rubber and roubles cost, the Chinese of After learning what speculation in her. homeless people.
"About one month ago, there was a fire Chang is said to be adhering to the can Societe Belgo de Chemin de fer en Chine, Shanghai are now engaged upon a nów resulting in the destruction of almost theditions he laid down before these funds and the Compagnie Generale de Chenin and perhaps more dangerous pastime, entire city. The part left standing is reached Peking..
de fer et de Tramways en Chine. Of
namely, speculation in the securities of estimated as low as from one-tenth to
The publication of these terms raised these companies the two latter are well stock and produce excharges. As one three-tenths.
foreign circles, and while it is admitted Bridge the first-mentioned, is the active that the denstic measure he suggested member, and the work of preparing the subject in a foreign newspaper one smiles tegarding the Note Issue Department design and estimates was in its bands. and thinks that the day of reckoning will might have a salutary effect in the future, The Societe d'Etudes et de Construc soon ceme, but too few indeed realize it is pointed out that no Government. tion was formerly known as the Societe that, to date, 140 stock and produce ex- could promise compliance with such a
We are grateful for Eve tons of food considerable discussion in Chinese and known in Chinn; for purpose of the roads an accusional editorial on the.
from Hongkong and for several thousand dollars given by the Governor of Kwang tung Province. This has given relief to the people until now, but unless much more is done and done quickly, there is certain and intenso suffering ahead.
To us who live here and who have seen suggestion. Moreover, it-is pointed out Anglo-Belgo de Construction and is changes have been organized in this city
with our eyes this sad destruction, but to whom it came not nigh," there comes a longing to help. Thousands have no homes save the ruins of their former homes to which they have returned and where they are now living within tum bling walls, over which they have thrown grass roots. As might be expected. several deaths have occurred, the result of collapsing walls. The altitude of Ting tak is higher, and the north wind blows colder in winter, than at the coast or It is not even than it does in Canton. for food, but that these people may have shelter from cold and storm before the coldest weather, and the rainy season come, that this appeal is made."
Contributions may be sent in care of the American Baptist Mission, Yingtak, or to Dr J. 1. Saunders, Tungshan, Canton.
ADVENTURES OF A LIBRARY.
WHEN THE MORRISON COLLEC- TION WAS TAKEN TO JAPAN.
It was generally known that the lute. De: G. E. Morrison, the Times corres- pondent at Peking, had collected the most complete known library of books relating to China.. This library also contained many rare manuscripts.. It was sold by Dr. Morrison to the house of Mitsui in Japan.
The Mitsuis the Rothschilds of the Far East-were proposing to establish a seat of Oriental study, and desired the library for this purpose All this is a matter of common knowledge, but what happened to the library between the books leaving Dr. Morrison's house in Peking and their arrival at Tokio is not gen erally known and reads somewhat like a romance, says the Manchester Guardian.
These priceless volumes were packed by the Japanese agents of the purchaser in ordinary packing cases and made tha journey cafely through the Yellow Sen and were successfully landed at the Japanese port of arrival. The cases were then put into the ordinary warehouses of the port.
It is now that the strange, thing happened.
This Japanese port was suddenly visit-
on their silver supply than to an over issue of notes.
now
that the conditions of the two banks is subsidiary combination between Messrs. due rather to the exactions of Tengtien S. Pearson & Son (Contracting Depart and that the figures given by 98 of these ment), Limited, of London, the well indicate that $169,500,000 have been in- kaowa Constractors for Public Works vested in them. No figures are given and the Compagnia Balge de Chemins de for the remaining, but the average In Chinese banking circles it is stated Fer et d'Entreprises of Brussels (formerly for the 95 shows that $1,725,000 have gone that the Bank of China has been in the Compagnie General de Chemin de fer into each exchange. habit of giving $1,000,000 credit to other Secondaires) a well-known arm in Rail-
A perusal of the bulletins of the Gov- Chinese barks which deposited with it way Engineering.
nca Bureau of Economic Informa Two designs and tenders were prepared ion shows that almost all commodities $500,000, in specio and a similar amount
that several of these in mutual consultation, one by each of have had stock and produce exchanges in bonds and banks have agreed to
redeem the above firms, that of the larger spans organized in their name. Among them their boads by payment of silver. It is by the Compagate Secondaries Enown 19 are rice. gold, miscellaneous cereals. expected that about 83,000,000 will be design, and a more economic design flour, cotton, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, with more moderate spans known as metals and hardware, grasscluth, oil. received in this way.
design by Messrs. Pearsons. It is fax. fur, skins, eggs, sugar, fish, coul to the latter design that the first place beans, silver, pran, bennenkes, candies. has been awarded.
soap, paints, bolts, iron, tea, dried The Consulting Engineers for the pro- cocoons, liquer, tobacco, tinfoil, leather, jects sent in by the combination were Sir etc. Exchanges have been organized not Ernest Moir, Bart, of Forth Bridge only in Shanghai, but also in Tientsin. rénown, M. Clavier, Grand Cordon de Hankow, Hongkong,, Peking, Harbin, l'Order de Double Dragon de Ching, who Soochow, Hangchow, Canton, Nanchang, built the existing bridge over the Yellow Kiukiang, Kiarhin, Nanking, Nantung. River, and Mr. T. J. Bourne, C.B.E., who chow Sungkiang. Ning and many for over 30 years has been associated smaller cities. with Chinese Railways, who built the Huai Bridge at Peng. Fu. and was in charge of the designs for Messes. Pearson The firm of Pearsons is known to the Chinese as the Ta Cheng Kung Sau.
Other parts are coming to the assist. ance of the Peking banks, Hankow has sent $300,000 each to the Banks of China and. Communications. The expected con-" tribution from Shanghai is not yet re- ported.
The run on the banks continued to-day with scarcely any change.
CONFIDENCE. RESTORED AT
HARBIN.
HARDIN, November 26th. The run on the Chinese banks has ceased. The amount of notes redeemed to-day was only a fraction of that being paid recently. There has been a decided is better tone during the last few days and it is believed that specio reinforce ments have been received which will enable the banks, if necessary, to be in s position to cash all the notes in circu lation this week. The bankers have the utmost confidence in the situation and believed that it will shortly become normal. The Taoyin has issued a re assuring notice.
"RUN ON BANKS ENDED,
PERING, November 24th. General Tien Chung-yu has dispatched circular telegram to the other pro vinces anouncing that the run on the Banks of China and Communications in Shantung has ended-enter,
It will be of interest to our English readers to know that British interests are associated with this new and import- at work.
NOT A LOTTERY,
PRIZES AT THE MANILA CARNIVAL
The Manila Times says:- The sale of coupon bonds" for the fartherance of a plan, to provide in ad- vanes the funds necessary to carry out the ambitious plans of the Carnival Asso- nation to stage festival of greater brilliance and magnitule than ever be fore attempted here,ill be announced within a day or two. The plan has the official approval of the city fiscal, whose opinion rendered on Wednesday is con curred in by the highest legal authorities of the insular government.
Director General Arsenio Luz has been
ed without warning by a tidal wave of JAPAN EAGER FOR SCHOOLS. working out, the details of the scheme for
Y-340,000,000 OF PUBLIC MONEY
SPENT ON EDUCATION..
a force and dimension that was unpre cedented, and the whole of the warehouses were flooded and the entire library drenched in sea water. It seemed that the damage to the priceless collection of books must be irreparable. The hou of
Speaking at a mass-meeting of the Mitsui, however, has resources, every Seiyukai Party at Fukushima recently scrap of blotting paper in Japan was with regard to educational expenditure, secured, and literally thousands of hands Mr. Nakahashi, Minister of Education, wore set to work interleaving every dam-stated in the main as follows:— aged page with hiotting-paper. The entire approach to this particular port was blocked with wonderful books being dried-like Bombay, duck-in the sun. The damage, of course, was heavy but from the literary standpoint the library
was saved.,
WAR PRISONERS IN SIBERIA.
50,000 STILL THERE...
JAPAN'S ASPIRATION.
''
ALB
CEYLON COUNCIL REFORM.
The number is growing constantly and indications are that some will be organi- ed in every city in China, unless the crash comes sooner than" everyone èx- pects, even sooner than the organizers of exchanges admit.
IN
SHANGHAI DOCKS.
In the very interesting speech which Major-General Black delivered before th Pan-Pacific Association on the require- ments of Shanghai's harbour, he would seem to have doze rather less than justice to what is actually being done to serve ships. In speaking of the delays calised to big vessels by the shallowness of water at low tide on the Fairy Flats he said:-
A ship only pays when it moves, and a delay of one or two days at Shang- hai might mean a loss of between $8,000 to $10,000. These delays to-day are estimated as actually costing Shanghai trade from Tls. 500,000 to a million taels, which is a very heavy tax." He went on to describe lack of wharfage and godown space, and Shanghai's trado. Shanghai can give no wharf space, and cargo is left in the open, while ships have to unload in mid- stream.
RUBBER SHARES.
4-
The following buying quotations are given in Messrs. Fraser & Co.'s report dated December 1st:-Ayer Hitama $9.75. Parit Poraka 31.85, Perak River Valleya $1.15, Kempssans 89.25, Malakoff $3.30′′ Batang Benara $2, Kedahr $32.55, Temer- lohs 87 cents, Bassetts $1.02), Alór A mass meeting of Malays was held in Gajahs $1.76, Jimahs 81.40, Ulu Benuts Ceylon recently for the purpose of moving 32 oonts, United Malaccas $1.20, Seudais they be given a seat in the Legislative a. resolution requesting Government: than $450, Pajams $0.15,. Nyalas $5.20, Teluk Council
Adsons $6.50.
some time past. Briefly stated it pro vidce for the sale of numbered bonds the coupons of which consist of tickets, of adinission to the carnival. Twenty ve
No one, denica the need of greater" coupons at a unit value of 20 centavos
facilities for entering Shanghai at all fix the price of the bond, which is P.5. tides. Why. else, the Commission? But At the closs of the Carnival drawing the suggestion that wharf and doci com- is to be held, these holding winning num.panies are all behind the times is not bers being entilled to prizes ranging from quite accurate. At the last annual meet- "The total sum of Japan's educational a capital prize of P.10,000 and a seconding of the Shanghai and Hongkew expenses amounts to Y,340,000,000, of ary prize of P.6,000 down through a Wharf Co., the chairman described how which Y 50,000,000 is defrayed by the series of lesser amounts the total, aggre. the Company are spending over a mil national treasury and Y.290,000,000 by gating P.25,000. While the amounts have lion teels on improvement. The Taikoo urban prefectures, local prefectures, dia- not yet been decided upon,, and must in wharves are being enlarged and Holt's tricts, cities, towns and villages, show the final decision depend upon the total are building and graving enormously at ing an increase of more than 1.50,000,000 amount expected to be realised from the Footing. Nor are other companies idle. as compared with the 5th Year of Taisho sale of the bonds, it is the inofeis! There is every prospect that when the (1916).
opinion of the carnival executive commit. Harbour Commission's recommendations. This fact indicates how eagerly the tee that the above mentioned amounts are carried into effect, the dock and whart companies will be ready for the will be justified. Japanese people are now striving to pro In his opinion regarding the proposed extra demand.--G. Daily News. mote national education, which is a posi- plan Fiscal Torres states that the pro- It comes as something of a shock to tive, pacifie policy. be told that at the present moment, "The radical increase in educational posal is not only in strict accord, with nearly three years after the armistice, expenditure has resulted in the need of the laws of the Philippine Islands as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the 50,000 prisoners of wat are still lan-subsidies to meet the demand for elemen ense of the insular government versus guishing in Siberia. They are mainly tary education. In order to find the Walter E. Olsen & Co., But
The latest share liste "from Singapore 38 In fact Germana, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, necessary money, there is no way but beneficial in its effects in that it provides report rubber shares to be in strong and Bulgarians who were captured by the either to curtail administrative expenses for the distribution of a share of the demand. Russian forces from 1914 to the end of or increase taxation. At any rate, for proceeds to the gederal public. It may 1917. The dumber of prisoners taken by the promotion of education it is to be not in any sense, says the fiscal's opinion, Russia in this period was approximately hoped that the people will render be construed as a lottery. 2,450,000. Of this total many died in much assistance as possible."-Bustern
optivity, and many more escaped when Years Agency, the Russian revolution Dccurred, but 50,000 still remain in Siberia, unable, through lack fands to return home. Buggestions have been made that the means of repatriating these unfortunates
In the unavoidablo absence of Mr should be provided by the Allies, on the Lloyd George, the Japanese Ambassador ground that Germany, Austria, Hungary, was the principal guest at the Colchester 2nd Bulgaria have no money to spare for Oyster Feast which was held on October the purpose. But even were this prde 20th. Acknowledging the toast of his ticable it does not appear that the Rus health, Baron Hayashi made a brief sian Government is at all, anxious to reference to the Washington Conference aasist in the work The only feasible and to the attitude of the Japanese dele method or repatriating such a large gation number of men would be to concentrate
Since we entered the family of nations A representative Committee; was elected them at the nearest port, which, in thi (his Excellency remarked) we owe a great to take the necessary steps with regard esse is Vladivostock, ädd 'thêh to them away by ich ----
deal to the Amistance we have received to the resolution. But this could not, be
be done without not only from England but from the co-operation of the Bolshevik author our way with Russia. We had to fight America. Take one example out of many itles, who are said to
tobo adwilling to part with those of the war prisoners who for our existence. We were menaced by pro skilled craffanien and have in soms the most military Power in the world caso taken Bussian wives. Nor it is and we were obliged to light it. That altogether certain, that the majority of struggle would have been impossible the exiles are anxious to return to their without the assistance of Great Britain hothes, Their alleged miseries are und, America (Hear, hear.) Now, after The NC. Daily News, of the 3rd inst. doubtedly being exploited for propaganda the late Great War we all need peace says: purposes by the pro-Bolshevik elements at (Hear, hear.) You have to economise in Inquiries yesterday elicited the rassur home and abroad, and it would be beoes your national expenditure. You have to ing information that although all-por sary to have a far more trustworthy feed millions of your unemployed, you is prevalent in Shanghai the Municipal No. statement of the case than has yet ap have to find out new marketh yduftave Health Offloo has got the epidemio well in penrad before concerted action could be to restore ordet in these countries where hand. There hare, unfortunately, been No. taken for their relief. The cost of trag economic conditions are disturbed: We quite a large number of cases, recorded sporting each man from Vladivostock to all know we are going to meet in Wash during the past few days Bad the No. Lurope is estimated at 230. The total ington. I think and believe the Japanese mortality, while not heavy, has been suffi sun, though far, from trivial, would delegates are going there with a deep piort to inspire the beads of firms to see doubtless be treadily subscribed it a sense of what we owe to the English to the vaccinnation of their staff The appeal were made to the charitable ip speaking nations-England and America, Europe and America, but before any such We are going there with a deep moral step can be taken it is dearable to have sense that certain common understand
full and unbiased statement of the ing must be found in order that we may is being followed to a certain extent by facts, and this we do not likely to got live in peace. If we all go there with either from the Sovi puthorities or that feeling, I think the success of the their sympathisers abroad. Naval and Washington Conference will be assured,
(Света) Military Record.
CORPS.
The following resolution was carried That the time and occasion has arrived HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE. when the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, should be granted a sent in the Legislature of the country to protect their interests.
SMALL-POX EPIDEMIO-EK
SHANGHAI,
BUSH FOR VACCINATION.
DEDEÉS BY LIEUT. COL. L. G. BIRD, 'B.8.0.,.
ADMINISTRATION COMMANDANT,
PARADES, Infantry Drifl, will take place on Monday, Dec. 12th, at Volunteer Headquar". ters and Kowloon, Docks on Friday, December 16th, at 5.30 p.m., for -trained men and recruits. Dress: Plain clothes...
FROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The following promotions and appoint
menta will take effect from thir date...
Mounted Infantry Section.
37 Corporal H. B. L. Dowbiggin tó
to Bergernt.
257 Lance-Corporal J. Bartholomew
to bo Corporat.
338 Privata H. G. Macnamara to be
Lance Corporal.
OIDET COMPANY.
ters on Monday, December 12th, ab.
example set by the med of war in port on The Company will parade at Headquar Wednesday to have everyone from the captain to the squliery vaccinated
Dress: Drill order with carbines,
the local polce, members of the force who have not been vaccinated within the past three years being now called upon to undergo the ordeal.
G. F. E. RAPSON, Bt.-Major, Agate-Adjutant, B.K.V.D.O. Hongkong, December 9th 1921
H