CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. (ESROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE RUBR. GERMAN SECRET POSTAL SERVICE
AEROPLANE ENGINES. ·
THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1923
ADVANCE TOWARDS ECONOMIC AIR TRAFFIC.
PARIS, April 4th.
The aviator Barbot, who holds the re cord for motorless flying, flow a quartor of an hour at a speed of ninety kilometres, at a height of wo hundred feet, in an aeroplane fitted with a seven borte-power Pans, April 4th
motor, at Toulouse The feat is hailed in The newspapers learn that the French France as heralding a now era in aviation, - have discovered the secret of the postal and an advance towards economia air
organisation at Mayence, where a milliard traffic with low-powered machines marks worth of stamps, and several sacks of letters and parcels were seired. A score of persons have been ordered to hold the abemsolves
the disposal of
authorities.
It appears that, despite the postal strike, the Germans have been receiving letters, which were sent to Mayence in
disguised automobiles.
EARLIER CABLES, FRENCH OCCUPATION AREA EXTENDED.
PARIS, April 4th. A message from Duesseldorf states that the first Fronch military train for the Bur passed through the British zone yesterday, in pursuance of the Godley Payot agreement,,
BERLIN, April 4th.
their Tho French have extended occupation to the outskirts of Hagon.
The newspapers state that the advance guard of four soldiers in a motor-lorry was hold up at Engen by an excited crowd. The Fronch used the butt-ends of their rifles, and eventually had to be protected by police,
denies
A
German note
to France
provocation for the incident at Krupps works, and demands full satisfaction for release of the the victims and the arrested persOKS.
PARIS, April 4th. An official explanation does not attri bate the railway accident at Pippo to sabotage, but to the Germans surropti Linusly sending out eight trainloads of metal products, The French confiscated part of one train and the whole of another, but presumably the remainder go through. ITALIAN EX-PREMIER ATTACKS
to dominate
LADY NORTHOLIFFE AGAIN
MARRIED.
LONDON, April sth." Lady Northelle. who married to Biz Robert Hudson at Hartlebury.
The wedding solemuised by special the chapel of Hartlebury licence in Castin. The Bishop of Worcester officiat ed, and Sir Charles Russell gave away the bride.
[Sir Robert Hudson, who is 50 years of ago, is chief agent of the Liberal party He was knighted in 1906.]
ACCIDENT TO THE B.M.S. "CERES-"
LONDON, April 4th. The Admiralty report that the accident to H.M.S. Ceres, is slight, and there were no fatalities. It is expected that repairs can be cveted at Malta.
LENIN'S CONDITION NO WORSE.
HELSINGPOES, April 4th,
The
A Lenin bullettin states that his temper ature is 99, and his pulse 101. pulmonary catarrh has not extended.
OBITUARY.
LORD CARNARVON..
'CAIRO, April 4th.
Lord Carnarvon, the discoverer of He Tulankhamen's tomb in Egypt, died peace fully at two o'clock this morning. was conscious almost to the end.
INSPECTOR-GENERAL LLOYD,
LONDON, April 4th. The death has occurred of Inspector General W. H. Lloyd (retired).
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, April 4th. The Italian ex-Premier Signor Nitti, in an article in the Fall Hall Gazette [Dr. W. H. Lloyd was Inspector-General asserts that the French Government, at of Hospitals and Floets from 1890 to 1898, the dictates of the French iron magnates, when he retired; and was appointed is craving
Continental honorary turgeon to HM the King in Europe. Ita motive in the occupation of 1901. He was born in 1830, and carved in the Bahr is not reparations, but to bring China as long ago as 1857-1558.]
German industrial magnates tbb France's feet, ready to accept the control
He says: of the French industry.
This cannot be called peace; it is foreign alavery of free peoples to capitalism, and it is not cuprising that the French are confronted by a barrier. not merely of suffering but chiefly of hatred."
to
TELEPHONE FEAT.
J
FAR EASTERN · CABLE NEWS.
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BETTER HAIL SERVICE TO TAE FAST. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR QUICKER DELIVERIES,
LONDON, April 4th.
In order to meet the complainta of agents and consigneca regarding the late arrival of manifesta, invoices, etc., the Post Office has specially arranged for a quicker delivery of mails to the Far East. Letters for Penang, Singapore, Hong- now being keng, and Shanghai aro despatched weekly to Bum, where they will overtake, the Holt liners bound for the Far East. The mails will then be carried on by the Holt steiners, which will have sailed from Birkenhead before the letters were posted.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] BIE FRANCIS, AGLAN LEAVES TOP HOME.
Customa.
INDUSTRIAL PRACE. THE TRUE BASIS OF CO-OPERATION.
PARTNERSHIP THE REMEDY. Lord Robert Cecil contributes to the London Observer the following article on this subject
beat
لله
&
the two parties Negotiations
cases in which
actly matters of businers on the that the interests of Capital and Labour were divergent, if not irrecon- silable At the worst industrial disputes became almost economic civil wars.
ich the remember avowed controversy over some relatively trivial question of the conditions of Labour had in truth little to do with the con establish the prestige of a trade union or tent which was really waged either to to break its power by financial exhaustion.
and he must work for such hours sa the same Beyond inexorable forces might determina. that he had, strictly speaking, no rights. A decent employer would desire to give to bia workmen humane treatment. "But that was a matter of grace and favour.
Later, when the principle of collective bar the rights of the Paris, April 4th.
established, gaining Sir Francis Aglen leaves Peking for
workman bocamo of greater value. But their cases the relations between employer unt Ha is going on
nature was unchanged. Indeed, in some Home on the 6th inst
employed became still more de-humanised. Mr. C. A. V. k several months' furlough.
In the striking articles recently con- Personal relations between them almost
С
board Bowra has been appointed by the Govern-tributed to The Observer by Lord Miler ceased. On the one side, you had t
company speaking through he asks what has become of the good
Outho
ethor trade union ment as officiating Inspector-General of resolutions we formed during the war, of directors.
at the. and sorrowfully replies, "Certain it is represented by its officials. that, from whatever 'cause, the atmosphere has completely changed, and that as far INSPECTOR-GENERAL·· or
as the two parties in industry are con- CUSTOMS.
cerned, we are back again in the old fead, the old misunderstandings and recrimina
and Mr. PEKING, April 4th.
tions." Coincidently, Mr. Sir F. A. Algan leaves Feking on April Sidney Webb have proclaimed in their most recent work the decay of Capitalist 8th on several months' furlough.
Civilisation, and the insufficiency of profit Mr. Bowra has been appointed by the making and private enterprise as the founda ofboiating Inspectortions of our industrial system. The ad vocates of State Socialism may be right, Government
though the events of the last few years, Mr. Wade is taking Mr. Bowra's place especially in Russia, are not very encourag-
my purpose in this article to attempt General of the, Maritime Customs as thief secretary, and Mr. Guernier,ing from their point of view. But it is not refutation of their doctrines or proposals. from Nanking, will go to Tientsin to ro
My object is a much more modest one. place Mr. Wade-Daily Bulletin.
Granted that Lord Milner and other au- thorities are right, let us see what can be of done, not by way of complete revolation of sympathetic consideration-they do not Frankly I our economic ideas, but by practical seem to me to " modifications of the existing system to do not believe that we shall ever make a real autocratio the industrial peace between Capital and Labour so long improve the working of
as what I have called the machine.
conception of industry prevails. I am quite sure that if I were a workman 1 could never be permanently content with such a system.
weal
or woe we have given
to all lmost
ADO every adult male.
to be over thirty the commuted on the affairs of the whole Empire, on intricate complications of foreign
and adminis
the mame rative detail of our
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BOXER INDEMNITY AND CHINESE [DY COURTESY OF THE " DAILY-BOLLSTIN."']
EDUCATION.
MR. BERTRAND RUSSEL STRIKES A WARNING NOTE,
LONDON, April 4th.
Mr. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S., M.A., in an artide in the Manchester Guardian, on the question of the Boxer Indemnity and Chinese education, strikes a warning note regarding the necessity for care is the spending of the money, if the greatest bencfit is be obtained, and serious mistakes avoided...
SHANGHAI STUDENTS' UNION. HEADQUARTERS REMOVING TO
CANTON.
SHANGHAI, April 4th. Following the dissolution of the bead- quarters of the Students' Union in the French Concession by the French Police, the Caion have decided to transfer their headquarters from Shanghai to Canton.
THE CURSE OP. UNEMPLOYMENT.
色
A VOICH IN MANAGEMENT. That is the position which we have
it call insistently for
Lord Milner desiree to mes that now reached and everyone, must admit change.
be said in may councils. experiments in nationalsation or industrial favour of these proposals and the, second
deserves the them cortainly
touch the
Whatever
spot
inost
industry here can prevent it. In many policy, on every legislati governme
It is impossible now to say-to
the management of the simplest poeple that they are incompetent to an opinion on
func bad if they до trent human beings as undertaking. Nor is it really reasonable to a machine or ploughing a field. To begin tion in business beyond that of tending proceeding is extremely The best and most valuable with auch wasteful.
What, then, is the chief actual grievance of the workman? I put aside unemploy ment, which is the greatest and most terrible of industrial evils, because I do not 400 bow any change in the organisation of DISBANDMENT OF TROOPS.
conntries in Europe, including, I believe, Russia, there is much unemployment. In SHANGHAI, April 4th. General Ting Huai is now in Shanghai others there is very little. But there seems to be no correspondance in any of those route to Canton in order, on behalf of the President, to offer to Bun countries between the amount of unemploy. The unemployment He says that the way the money is spent Yat Sen the post of Disarmament Comment and the adoption of any particular as a result of conversations with Sun Yat here is admittedly due to the falling off must be approved of by Chinese educa-missioner, but he may abandon bis mission economic theory. tionists; hence, it is desirable that scheraca Sen's representatives here, who declare of demand for our goods at the prices
throw his heart into his work. for spending the money should be drawn that Sun Yat Sen would reject the offer, at which we can afford to supply the faculties of amanity-the gpurit and the considering it an insult to the Southern A better organisation of industry may mind are thereby ignored. Even as a purely
encouraged diminish the cost of production, and so commercial matter the workman should be little indirectly diminish the amount of unem
How is that possible if he is treated as ployment. But by itself it could never put better than a superior kind of machine? The Chiness representatives should be
an end to the oscillation of demand, which Give him the feeling that he is working not employer, up by a joint Anglo-Chinese committee Administration,
is the root cause of the evil. It is arguable only for himself, still less for his educationists, appointed by Chinese uni-
that if we lived in a socialistic world but rather for the success of an under versities and other institutions for ad-
unemployment if it occurred would no taking in which he and his fallows are as
management, and vanced education.
me this view appears perverse. But taking plant and the manages as a common longer be an eril but a benefit, though to much interested as those who provide the things as they are and must be, at any rate place that a peasant, proprietor works batter for a long time, unemployment will be & and more contentedly than a mers labourer. terrible curse, for which practical remedies Give to the employés the statua nos of must be sought, not in social or industrial hired servants, but of partners, and they reorganisation, but in some system of will approach their labours from the stand equalisation in the demand for labour, point of a peasant proprietor. some mechanism for modifying or eliminat ing the alternation of "slump" "boom." All other remedies, whether by way of dele or relief work, are at the best only palliatives and not cures.
The sum involved
would be insufficient to produce any effect unteer is is concentrated on higher education, for which there is an immense enthusiasm. în China.
PRIORITY OF INTERNAL LOAN SERVICE
11
Paring, April 4th The Shanghai Bankers' Association have telegraphed to test Against, the Finsnes telegraphed to Sir F. A. Aglen supporting Ministry's proposal to withdraw the
BOYCOTT AGAINST JAPANESE. priority of the internal loan service,
Pero, April 4th It is reported that the Singer Cot and the Wing On Co., the largest Chinese generat stores in Shanghai, have rescinded several contracts with Japanese manufae turers as a result of the anti-Japanese boycott policy, which was decided upon
Mr. Hussell considers that the Govern ment is likely to ind, the best British advice, nat among businessmen and missionarice, but among officials; pointing out that the diplomatic and consular service in China contains men who have on March 28th,
themselves profoundly in interested Two audiances of electrical engineers, Chinese history and culture.
Mr. Rused is of the spinion that the one in New York and the other in IRISH AFFAIRS
Chicago, were brought together THOUSANDS OF EMIGRANTS FOR recently by means of simple telephonic whole of the money should be spent in devices, and mingled their applause and supporting and improving advanced odu AMERICA.
laughter exactly a though nine hundred
TWO AUDIENCES THAT LISTEN AS ONE.
as one
MILLION DOLLAR · INSURANOR COMPANY..
and
LABOUR'S DEMAND: CAPITAL'S EXPLY.
J
2
SUSPICION AND SECRECY OF
BOTH SIDEI.
manic
Ins is neces
1The
Labor
FIRST FEINCIPLES OF PARTNERSHIP. How can this be done There really is no
of a business. There is no reason why every
position difficulty, a partner is one who shares in
wage-earner should not be in this the capital, the profits, and she management
Indiced
in undertakings of various
кладу
Alter provid Apart from continuous employment, the kinds he is so already A typical arrange
of the chief demand of the wage-earner is forment is something like this.
for all the overhead charges out better condtitions of labour in the widest ing
the standard rate. Next must be sense of that expression. He wants higher profits, there are paid, first, sebristence
Hea PING, April 4th Chinese capitalists, including Chang wages. He wants shorter hours.
particular case. The surplus profits are then the monotony of his work, and, above all,sary to attract it in the circumstances of the of the fact that he is a more item in the divided in agreed shares between Capital china ating 1,000,000 issue wants grester amenities. He complains of provided such interest for capital as
factory rather than a human being with in- and Labour, each wago-earner receiving su the GOVERNMENT HARD PRESSED.
telligence and emotions as well as muscles, amount proportionate to his wages. this way recognition is givenr milen did not divide them. This is the cational institutions, under Chinese manance company at Shanghai.
workman All these demands are quite natural and principle that the labour of LONDON, April 4th..
PRANO, April 4th. Though peano-making is apparently fir time that there has been an actual agement, and the bringing of a certain
The Government is undoubtedly hard legitimate. But the employers reply, no entitles him to be treated as a partner or not progressing in Ireland, the captures union of audiences by simultaneous commall number of students to British
ho had brought into the business. of irregulars are proceeding steadily,munication in opposite directions.
The Now York Correspondent of The universitice, while one or two English pro Beporte of the arrest of a dozen or more
and Furthermore, the Chinese Chinese backers and business men are granted, industry would be economically shareholder, just as if it had been money
barrier between Capital Irregulars are received in Dublin almost Times gives the following account of the fessors might be sent to each Chinese pressed, but the Chambers of Commerce, doubt with perfect truth, that, if they were t
organising meetings of protest at Shang impossible. Unfortunately, this reply is Naxt, in order further to break down the university.
hal, Hankow, Tientsin and alsowhere too often not accepted. daily. It is noteworthy that they include feat
facilities are provided to enable the the In both cities technical papers wora
man-partner to invest hit share of the women, who act as couriers. There in
against the proposal to postpone
in the spitial of the business. BRITISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM strengthening of the Government's con
amortisation of the Domestic Loans for one year. fidence that peace will eventually be read on the general subject of electrical universitics argently need libraries.
TO BE STUDIED. members of the American Society of effected by the absence of fighting and communication, here before a thousand.
the Republican tbe
suppression of
Electrical Engineers, and in Chicago A number of prominent
audience of five hundred.
Mr. Fan, China ex-Minister of organisation. Irregulars have surrender in Kerry, before an
Lantern alides in Chicago were explained abore the farmers' union passed resolution requesting the Government to by voice from New York and vice versa. Education, has arrived on a two months' rease the executions as the county was When Mr. J.J. Carty, the vice-president becoming normal. Emigration to America of the American Telephone and Telegraph tour, in order to study the British educa Hundreds of Company in New York, and Mr. B. Etional system.
·TON ntinues unceasingly young men and girls from Kerry havo Sunny, chairman of the Board of the Illinois Telophone Company in Chicago, ailed during the past few days.
It is estimated that there are ten cagaged in a long colloquy over the wire thousand Irregulars and their sym-their voices wore heard as clearly as were those of the local speakers. Only the pathisers in the Government goala,
frustrated the illusion of complete unity, PROBLEM OF IRELAND'S INTER inability of one audience to see the other and that obstacle, it was predicted by NATIONAL RELATIONS With the abatement of violence through. President Jewett, of the Engineers' out
the country, new problems are Bociety, would be overcome within the
including
lifetime of those présent at the meeting. opying the public mind,
News The apparatus used consisted of a two- Troland international position. from Goneva that the coonomic commis way speaking telephone with specially sion of the League of Nations has constructed transmitters and loud-speak Toquested the council of the League to ing sound projectors... invite the Free State to participate in the Longue's international customs con-
The chao is arousing intense interest ference in October is the first inter national recognition of Ireland since the treaty was signed. The castorns barricare organising a public testimonial in
Free State and North the form of a monetary gift to Mr. A.. W. Chinees cirales, and subacriptions have between the Ireland, which became operative on April Still, Editor of the Straits Times, in been raised to bear the costs of the pro-able space, the new buildings will be big
recognition of his most valtiable corvices 1st, is working smoothly.
A BRUTAL EXECUTION. SARCASTIO COMMENT IN SOVIET
PRESS.
The Planters Association of Malaya
ALLEGED
"THIRD DEGREE". · IC
SHANGHAI
SUR-INSPECTOR AND SERGEANT COMMITTED.
SHANGHAI, April 5th. In the British Police Court this morn- ing, Detective Sub-Inspector Cabbatt, and mitted for trial on a charge of using third Detective Sergeant Balchin were come
degree methods.
THE “PURIEN SITUATION.
in
to the rubber industry of Malays by his socution. practical, unswerving and persistont advocacy of the policy of compulsory
PILING, April 4th. restriction of exports. Influential gentle men representative of all the territories
A combination of forces against Saa and interests of Malays bave readily so WARSAW, April 4th cepted invitations to become Patrons of Is transpires that Bishop Budkiewice the Fund, and an Executive Committer Chuan Yang has changed the situation in was executed at four o'clock on Friday has been entrusted with the duty of Pukion. Wang Yuan Chaan haa secured collecting subscriptions and generally The news was delayed, the morning. Boyton suspending telegraphic commun-organising the appeal. This appeal is the co-operation of the remnants of Hsu cation for four days. The sentence was not confined to planters and rubber com-
WIDENING THE STRAND. DEMOLITION ON SOUTH SIDE TO BEGIN THIS YEAR.
cier,
in
has.
16
to bo
been
profits the workmeni-partners, are given. The trouble in the industrial as in the the right to elest members to represent international world is the prevalence of them on the board of directors or other raspicion. Talk to an employer, and he similar body in the case of a privately- will tell you that his workmen would be all owned undertated that the abovo very
It is not suggested. right if it were not for the agitators paid, it may be, by Bolsheviks or Trade Unions, rough outline la applicable as it stands to business. On the contrary, it would. who stir up trouble for their own purposes. every business.
enit different undertakings. In particular, London is rapidly acquiring a new Strand. The workman will, for his part, assert with require amplification and modification to agriculture requires special treatment But. Presently provincials coming to London, who equal sincerity that his employer desires to
has shown that arrangements on experience have always complained that the Strand has exploit his workmen with ruthless tyranny been their greatest disappointment because so that he may live a life of idleness and these lines can be made to work satisfactorily number of industries. I am some parts of it are so carrow and shabby, luxury.
The dificulty is made the greater by the told the admission of turpen will not be able to recognise it.
•·good r young finan- Mr. Reginald M. Phillips, the
conse who is behind the scheme has discussed reserve, and even the secretiveness, of our directors would hamper the
here it been tried no such evil ployer, as often as not the workman whe to be carried out."
he will behave with just and how certain important developments ar go-race. Brought face to face with his em- ment of the company, I can only reply that
responsibility no complaint, though to his quences have followed. Give a workman ing this
year work is to be began on makes palling
down All the buildings on the and new bandsome business premises of or they enough. I remember when, other Britos. In that sense there is a ride from Wallington-street to the Savoy, flaws freely to third parties, be the same discretion and impartiality as any the latest type are to be ernatctl. The two or three years ago, I went round my much truth in the old slogan, Trust the frontages will be
be 14 to 15 feet further back, own constituency and talked to the en people" And it should be remembered that that the width of the Strand in front ployés cn the farms, it was a common it is one of the chief merits of the scheme of the great hotels will be continued, and experience to be told by the farmer in all that it does not displace from the direction
avail on his farm. But when I talked to the of those to whom it has hitherto
exclusively committed. But owing to rigid economy of all
WHY SOCIALISM. DISLIKES PARTNERSHIT. the present bottle neck done away with. good faith that I should find no discontent of industry the judgment and exporist.co The attack from the Socialist side has ger and better in every way then the old story. Conversely, it is rare for an em The new buildings will be much bigber ployer to take his workmen fully into his labourers privately, I heard a very different
reight stories. Archi randing into seven or e
plan for bolstering up Capitalism. If by tacts have already been engngail, and it is confidence, to explain to them, with details more reality in it. It is said that this is expected that work will begin fairly soon. and figures, why be cannot improve condi-
to make the industrial system work ed to When this improvement has been carried tions of labour, or may even have to ask that is theant that by giving to wage
officioner with the super cinema being erected them to accept lover wages or longer hours. carners the status of partners it is intend-
the charge is true. But such on the old Tivoli site, and the building What wouder suspicion prevails? What more smoothly and with greater
form does not preclude advances in other directions if Parliament should ever desir THE AUTOCRATIC TRADITION OF OWNERSHIP,
-as I hope it will not to make such that in going on at the Strand end of Ald wonder if the proposals of employers are This secretiveness is partly due to an
experiments. On the contrary, if at some is that on the site of No. 1, Stratton-street,. different place. Another important build rejected?
Yacht Club.
Labour, attempts to tako over the by business secret but pied by the Royal Thames ing scheme to start at the end of tho When the property, East come under the the autocratic traditions of our industrial debour, the
it was described as be
success will be be system. Doubtless there is a change i hammer last year ing worth £10 a foot. No: 1, Stratton-respect, but, according to the old view, the the new governing class has been atrect is
the historic family mansion of business belonged to the employer. It was familiar with the problems of industrial Criticisms of this kind decide not to the Burdett-Coutts "family and overlooks for him and for no one else
if unconsciously, am swayed by the It is considered one of only on the management of business details the Green Park.
sites in London, Mfr. Phillips which must be left to the individual charged the finest that it was hoped to put up with that duty, but still more all questions or would out the ground from rider
Tho
workman the discontent, essential to the accouplish hired servant. Ile had ment of their more far-reaching designs. such wages as the law believe they are right, and for that reason. right to buildings suitable for hark or insurance of policy and finance.
of high-class flats. The cost of the
ef demand and supply would give him, have written this article scheme will be about a quarter of a million. company and to erect over these a pum was just his
be a very
year
Tried out in a cellar of the Chokpanies; but is extended to all those who Sang Chi's army remaining at Foochow Piccadilly, together with that now occu almost superstitious dread of revealing some future time a Socialist Biate, governed
interventions. Hous
A PEKING APPOINTMENT.
building. The priest was placed with his are directly or indirectly interested in or and those of Chan Chi Ping at Amoy.. connected with the rubber industry- haar to the executioner, who fired with
shareholders, rubber dealers, merchants, revolver into the back of his head.
Soviet new papere sarcastically om.
Testo. No definito sum is in mind sa an objective. It is not the amount so much ment an foreign Westin furiously attacks England, the murderer of a hundred as the spirit of the gift that matters and The Prouda or will be appreciated by the recipient. thousand Trishmon!! horts Haiian Commusists to contents to Subscriptions of any sums will be wel death the Pope by default pending the comed and such may be sent to any branch Revolutionary of the Chartered Bank of India, Aus tablishment
tralia and Chian Tribunal
PEKING, April 4th. A mandate kesued that night appointed Liu Kuang Hsiung as Coast Defence Commissioner for Fakien and Kwang tung.
ber
to
in this
that
its chances of
Ta veution ne
mado