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JAPAN AND THE SOVIETS. AMERICAN TRADING ACTIVITIES 'IN SIBERIA.
THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. WAS HE AN ARMED ROBBER ?: As the result of an arrest made in the FINANCIAL, POSITION OF THE
early morning on the Kowloon City Road,.
COLONY.
LICENSED TAVERNS IN SHANGHAL PROPOSAL TO EXCLUDE WOMEN AND GIRLS.
At a meeting of the Legislative Council Chinese, who was Tound in possession Now light is thrown on the abortive |
the to Police Magistrates, Conference at Chingchun between the
The following is taken from the Minutes at Singapore H.E. the Governor deliver.of a fully-loaded revolver, was charged yesterday; with unlawfully having the the Far
of the Watch Comunity of the Shanghai vd his annual address to the Council.before Japalese Government and
W from: which extract the following!
weapon in his possession. Eastern Republic, and on the commercial
Municipal Connoit:"-
Mr. T. H. King Deputy Superinten activities in the Far East of American
In February the Moral Welfare Longue paragraphs: ---- groups by the following letter, which The approached the Council, enquiring wheThe memorandum which has been circù. Times has recently published from 'ather it was possible to do anything to hated shows that we expect to do a good drat of Police, Kowloon, conducted the discontinue the employment of women in deal better than pay our way, this year lease for the Police. The charge was
This enquiry It is anticipated that our revenue will well-informed còrrespondent in Meson.
bars in the Settlement.
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I have had an interview, with the chief was considered by the Council, and on its exceed the original estimate by about proved and the man was sentenced to of the delegatum which the Far Eatera directions reply was made an March 16th millions, while our experilitüre should two years' imprisonment with hard
unwilling at the presente less than our original estimate by ahor Republie recently sent to Washington. He that it was
police stopped & party of Chinese tus thuge told me that he does not expect much time to take any action restricting the about $11 millions. The year's working, appears that a patrol of Indian
"seewhat more than 851 millions. from the degotiations which are abad liberty of persugs, unless it on by shown should in fact increase our surplus, by; to begin between the Russians and that abous result therefrom."
La a farther letter, which is now sub This is an even better result than that were returning from Kowloon City. One Japanes at Changchun, because the Japaner will, in his opinion, manage in titted, the Moral Welfare League for of "the year 19, which produerdan of the Chine was seen to discard a ré keegi a hall on Vlatlivestock, which they wards for consideration a drafteen addition to my surplus of slightly over solver. He and three other Chinese were are lath to relinquish. When they met condition, which, it is requested, should so millions. To view of the fact that the arrested and taken to the Hung Hom the other three Bolshevist be substituted for 'Condition of the Colony has suffered from a continuance Police Station. Nothing tangible could the representatives of the
Nf1 PU Chinese, but is they are believed to be" Govenment and of the Chita Cosernment Chinese tavern licence, which provides of the depresion in two of the principal la proved agist at Daires last spring, the confereues that no girls under 15 be permitted to Malayan industries which was
congratulate ourselves on the mended for haachuteng broke up without reaching any resulg.; visit or frequent the premises for the nounced a feature of last year. I think bad characters they have been The Japanese are out for the northern purposes of singing or otherwise enter we ca
and should also be result from the Government point of
!view. half of Saghalin. and large concessions? taining customers,” in Kamchatka and the Priamur, and they opted in the case of foreign taverns,
Dealing first with the draft condition. It is true our revenue will be 20) amillions wall not be gontent with less.
less chat: 12 the rest
the CANTON LABOUR TROUBLES"
TEXTILE WORKERS THEATEN, TO Meanwhile, America is interesting her. 1, mbers observe that, in its prel
Grieral set form, its adoption could not be other hand our expenditure for the
STRIKE. self more and more in Siberia, Graves, formerly in command of the apprend ander any circumstances, sino current year is almost s milliers, less American fares which added at Vladivo its concluding terms are such as would than that id last year,
interstel in preclude any won folk dancing in ang is estrated that as the end of the stock 1918, and Marie Cerseions in the Priamur,is on l'hiacy of public anuisentent, in respect of current your the assets of the Colony will tries are demanding that their employers
licence is held. The 80
millions and owing to the fact that the Canton Tirs On account of the sudden,
are
and ts
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Workers in the various textile indus
along with Mr. Grossbardt, an engineer Astor House Hotel and Carlton Café.
Dealing next with the need for altera Federated Malay States have repaid to rias of cotton yarn prices some time ago. with extensive Siberian experienes and
vel, large tion in the existing licruce conditions, it the
810 millions, the liquid portion of measure of decreasing the wages of their the States. This #Pajustes ka members, on carriul considers, during the current year à sum of br textile concerns in the city took the representatives of financial concerts
it is the curtion of the views expressed by the Moral surplus has been considerably increased employes in order to lessen the loss thes General Wood, Mr. Henry Welfare League, and of the reports is anticipated that at the end of the had to suffer. As the prices of cotto llunt, of Cincinnati (ugingering dim). made by the Commissioner of Police year after earmarking from ous surplus yarns continue to drop, the workers now 31 ssrs. Montgomery & Co., of New York on their request for his views, that a sum adquate to carry to completion feel that it is not fair for the employers
presented by the Langue the New Post. Olier and the General to continue, reducing their pay.
A meeting of more than fifty represen (bunkers, the National City Bank, the the case
the facts therein Hospital schemes, the Colony will have Koehn Lab Company the Coranico much exaggerated. Trust Compar, the Equitable Bank, the stated largely inaccurate, and its whole available in cash and readily realisable tatives of the many thousand textile. workers in the city was hold, yesterday, Baldwin Locomotive Company (which is sale condemnation of premises hold securities some 3271 millions:
This you will agree is a strong posiate the Kiangsu Guild House, in Ho Pun It was re- talking of repairing all the railwass in the ing tarern licences unwarranted. Indeed, territory of the Far Eastern Repablie, it far from it being a fact that women are norum political relations are restored employed in all bars, there is not at the tion, bus upon a broad view of the situa: Kai, to discuss this master. required to meet the calls that are likely comply with their request.
strike will be called, between this Government and Washing present time a single bar in the Settleton, we have nut, I think, more than is so ved that if the employers do not ton, Messrs. Funsten, of New York and
Our estimated revenue for 1923 is and Hubert
to bude upon us. St. Louis (ur póply), Dollar. tindre merebant, who is geting
831,247,118, as compared with estimated i
It will be ob A BIG BUSINESS CONTRACT. forest mosessions in Fastern Siberia.
expenditore 826,483,841. More pared our budge: with the intention of $240,000′ DAMAGES FOR CHINESE-
PLAINTIFF. served that we have for next year pre-
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ment in which women an employed to dance with eustomers; whilst so far as members are aware, there are only two in which any women are employed at all. The concessions which General Graves One in which the proprietor's wife assists sail to hr after are, guld: had business and the other in which personally, think that no hard-and-Japarse waitress is employed. fast agreement has far been conf over drunkenness, disorderly conduct and no spending more than we expect to cluded betagen Che Government and immorality (inter aliu), the suppression receive in the "year" This is the only any American groups. General Graves, of which is the aim of the League, are sound policy in sizes like the present," I bake in is simply going to Sileria to fully provided against in the existing have a look around: and I think that he licence conditions, oreach of which has will frd labour, political, economic, and i been acted upon by the Council on more noi then one occasion with the result that the transport difficulties so
great bat
licences of the offenders have been with work can be done for years,
drawn and their establishments closed.
Having regard to these and other con- siderations members are of the opinion that new legislation is neither required nor advisable, and reply to the Moral A proclamation has been issued by barrels of indigo yearly during that Governor-General Wood, commending period: The defendant agreed to pay a Welfare League in this sense is directed, adding (a) that any speciic instances of the work of the Philippine Anti-Tuber- commission of $3 per barrel and 2 per breaches of the licence conditions alluded culosis Society and pleading for aid to cent, on the sale price. to should be brought specifically to the that organization, in its present campaign. Council's notice, when such action will. The Proclamation reads:
CAM-
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS.
PAIGN IN PHILIPPINES. PROCLAMATION BY GOVERNOR.
GENERAL
THE PEASANTS' ATTITUDE. As for e Petror insurrection, which was said to have interrupted traffic on the Trans-Siberian railway, I karn that there is nothing in it. There are regular trains to Chita from Moscow; nad Petrov, a bandi: pure and simple, with no more than two hundred men under him; has taken refuge in a wood far from the Siberian railway, and is of no neenant, be taken thereon as the circumstances may "To the people of the Philippine Islands This fact I learn from various reliabis require, and (b) that so far as bars outsi soures bere, some of them anti-Bolshe-side the Settlement an concerned, the vist. The bandit leader Antonov has League should bear in mind that the been killed; and, anyhow, his band has
Council has absolutely no licensing powers been dispersed, while Makhno is no longer over them.
said He is in Russia.
to be in
Warsaw,
The landowners tell me that the harvest is fairly good, but that, owing to the wet summer, the potato crop, on which the muzhik depends a good deal, has proved a failure almost everywhere. The tax. in-kind imposed on the peasants is not unjust or severe, and the peasants in out- lying districts manage in many cases to evad it.
PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION,
VOTES FOR WOMEN..
"Health is due of a nation's greatest assets. I desire to call the attention of very public-spirited citizen to the mem bership campaign being undertaken this year by the Anti-Tuberculosis Society of the Philippine Islands. The primary purpose of this charitable organization is
His Honour Judge Lobingier, in the United States Court for China, last week delivered judgment in the caso brought. by Chin Hing-hun against the Shippers Commercial Corporation. The complain. ant alleged that on September 9th, 1918, defendant contracted with to give your potitioner the elusive agency for the sale of indigos North China, for ten years, requiring petitioner to take 4,500
This was expressly admitted in "the answer, but the answer invoked by way of defence the following provision of the
contract:-
-The agent agrees to take up the whole of the goods if the large sample is satisfactory to him and then he will give to the Firm a Cash Deposit of $10,000,"
Plaintiff in his reply admitted that he
the stamping out of the dreaded white had not paid $10,000, to the defendant but plague in the Philippines. No better denied that repeated demands or any service can be done for the Filipino peo- demand has been made for such payment, payment constituted a breach of the con- Society, ple than the work undertaken by the and denied that the failure to make such
defendant.
WORLD THEATRE.
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dandant
I am confident that we have passed through the period of greatest depression
private organizatios. The Government about January 9th, 1990, and that better times as ahead," declared The Anti-Tuberculosis Society is a tract. He further alleged that on or Governor-General Wood in his message to
allots it a yearly subsidy, but its main waived the payment of $10,000, until the the Legislature, delivered last week. To return, however, to my intervisw
His Honour found that plaintiff was Governor Wood, among bis many other scures of income is derived from its mem- arrival of a shipment of 500 barrels of with the chief of the Far Eastern rommendations, asked the members of bership and from private donations and indigo,. etc. Republic's Washington delegation. By the legislature to give their Invourable endowments. It is my earnest hope that
amounted to $240,000, for which sum toge the time my informant and his delegation consideration to the Budget Bill; and the Government may be able to extend to entitled to recover the entire amount of reach Chita, General Graves and his sure providing for the reorganisation of the anti-tuberculosis campaign more sub. his fixed damages which the Court foun friends will be there, and arrangements certain government baredus; a bill for stantial support in the near future. about Russo-America commercial co. the standardization of salaries; a bill Tuberculosis is a disease that causes ther with costs judgment was accordingly, operation in the Far East will have been authorising & mill tax to provide more more deaths and more, eorrow among the rendered for the plaintiff and against the begun. It was probably a knowledge of revenue for the University of the Philip Poople of these Islands than any other this activity on the part of the Americanspires and another providing pensions fco disease. In the year 1920, twenty thou Siberia that caused the Supreme Court justices and judges of sand, people died of this disease. It is in Eastern
becoming a great secargo in these le- Japanese to announce recently, but they ret instance.
His Just recommendation was that the lands, and the steady in-road being made were leaving Vladivostock, and to agree to an exchange of views with the repre- right to vote be granted to the women of by it goes on almost uninterrupted.
Miss Pearl White as Mary Vantine in Something must be done to check its onward march.
the screen of the World · sentatives of the Moscow Government and the Philippines.
appearing on of the Far Eastern Republic...
I sincerely commend the work of the Theatre for four days only in the Anti-Tuberculosis Society whose progress beautiful dracia The Thie.." Mary I have watched with a keen interest, and Vantine, in "The Thief," is visiting for, urge all insular, provincial and mupi. the summer, with her husband, Andrew cipal officials, all teachers in public and Vantine, at the home of Richard and private schools, priests and ministers of Isabelle Lenwright, Mary and Isabelle citizens of these Islands to help in this fealty, even though one might sucosed in noble mission to protect the health of the the world and the other remain poor.. people. The public should give the Anti Isabells has won social position, but Mary Tuberculosis Society in its present drive soon realises that her cheap attire has for membership whole-hearted support marked her as" dowdy" at the country. and unstinted co-operation.",
KRYPTOK LENSES
A HONGKONG BAVOURITE ON THE SCREEN.
plaon. She, determines to get some new gowns, and every one, including her husband, is astonished when site suddenly bloscon's out in beautiful new clothes. Mary soon finds Berself persistently
The Baldwin locomotive people are to repair all the railways in the Far
Merkulov has no Russian backing. Eastern Republic, and other large Ame- ritan concerns are talking of undertaking General Diedrichy has no Russian army. other work and taking up other conces Semenov is stranded in Shanghai, and sions; but so far this has act got be either Merkulov nor the Japanese, want yond the talking stage, and all depends him lack in Siberia. In these circum-all churches, social leaders and all the were friends at college and swore eternal commercial relations between Russia and revolution in Vladivostock if the Japanese on the regularization of political and tances there will be no fighting and no the States. Possibly, said my informant, go. Merkulov will simply fade away; in American will first recognize the Far fact, he will probably go off on a Japastime Eastern Republic and do business with battleship, and the Red Flag will at once her, and then be led on to recognize they over the Vladivostock citadel.
The Russian Far East will thus, in all Moscow Government.
le maintains that the Far Eaatera probability, be, the scene of interesting. Repablle is not Communist, but a demo. but bloodless developments unless the cratic State, independent of Moscow, but Japaness find a new excuse for staying.
able young son of her friends, and also under Moscow's protection at present Brisk business relations between Vladivo owing to the Japanese menace. He looks stock and the Pacific Coast of America as conceded to be one of the very best woord by Fred Lenwright the impresion... forward to the time when Vladivostock will be resumed, and these business rela forms of bifocal lenses. The bilocal seg by an unscrupulous millionaire, Balph will be quite clear of Japanese and will tions, if satisfactory to the Americans, ment is ground and fused into the distant Blake. Fred writes, her endearing love constitute a door opening out towards will pave the way for the political recog
her bill at the modiste's when she is America, and with nobody blocking it. ition of all Russia by Washington and lens making the product practically one notes, which he leaves carelessly about, When that day comme America will do for the re-establishment of commercial piece of glass. The segments are totally and Blake takes it upon himself to pay very big business in Eastern Siberia, as relations between America, and Soviet inville and the lens han & beautiful pressed for funds. She soon funds bereelt Soms stolen money and the pressed of My own observations here in Moscow appearance. Kryptok leases cl any presin ad extremely compromising position. convince me that Communism is dead,cription in either regular or Toric form detectives in the house increase her dis Personally, I am convinced that the or rather an Rakovsky put it to me at are manufactured by the Hongkong comfilure. At length her husband begins Far Eastern Republic is, to all intents Gezas, that there are Communists in Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., to suspect and breaks out in a savage
." Individual and purposes, ruled by Moscow, despits Bussia, but no Communism."
The bread Manufacturing and Befracting Opticians, passion. The stolen money is traced to Fred end the "love affair to Mary. the camouflage of an autonomous ad trading has been restored.
One must the carda have been abolished.. ministration at Chita; but "all authorities whom I have consulted agres pay for everything-one's hotel bill, rail the most competent optical manufactar Fred is about to be sent away to South confession, assuming guilt for the stolen. with my Siberian informant in thinking way fare, tramcar ticket, theatre ticket, ing establishment in Bonth Chins America, when Mary makes a dramatic that Morkuler's puppet Government of rent, rates and taxes. At first glance 1 located in 53, Queen's Road Central, fonds, but denying her complicity in the Vladivostock will collaps the instant can see no esential difference in principle Fitting glasses and testing the sight in love anairs. Shs and huishand then des
between the economic system here and
their specialty.--knya. Japanese support is withdraw
that which obtaina'in Berlin,
she did before the war.
A COMING COLLAPIR.
(Continued at foot of next columns.)
Russia.
cids to go away and begin life anew.