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AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT AT ICHANG.
THREE AMERICAN LADIES WOUNDED,
The following account of a fracas on the
American ship Alice Dollar, at lehaug,
Shanghai Avea'ng Frwx- on July 31st is givra in a message to the
CANTON-HONGKONG CABLE COMMUNICATION.
in
A NEW LINE WANTED
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The Custon Dally. Yews stäteri--
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE REMEDY FOR CHINA'S
ILLS...
In the course of a debate in the Legisla- | A FRACAɔ ON AN AMERICAN SHIP. tive Council at Singapore last week on
[ro TUR EDITORIOS ALTER HONOLONG a new Labour Bill the Hon. Ir. J. W.
On account of the frequent breakdowns
DAILY PRESS,"] Campbell said: "The question of Inbour
telegraphie communication between in this country, is one of the atmost im
Canton and Hongkong, the runager of
Sin-Although Sif Robert Ho Tung portance, and the fact that we have no indigenous labour force, but are dependent
the Shanen Telegraph Office has peti. and others before him have muggested tioned the Superintendent of the Teleconferences and meetings of the different un vuosita,mudrces for our supply, render
Guarded by a detachinent of American graph Administration to have a separate political leaders for the unification of urativo ipat comtitions os innde as
blag jackets the American steamer Alica attracuyes as powoze, in utuer iu ino prst
nur is being held here with thirteen rap line between. Shameen and China, I am afraid it is now too late for pace to draw inbour to the, country and
hinese prisoners aboard following alongkong installed, so as to facilitate the administering such physic." It is evi". in the second place to retard at when we
two main sources outbreak in which Chinese officials sought transmission of telegraphic messages. dont that same drastic surgical opera But it here.. Vur
to take possession of the boat last night One of the chief causes, for the frequent tion is necessary. The discaso" bas supply are South India and Southern
when Capt. Tornroth, his wife and Mrs.
been allowed to eat its way so far that Chios! we sayo an excellent organization in the form of the indian Imigration P. C. Wadham and her daughter all
it has now beconic' a malignant tanker foster the recruitment Ar Committee to
in the body politic. Not only is the pati Inuman Labour, but I regret to say that
ent's life in danger, but the critical con- no similar organization exists for eu
dition of the patient is causing great couragement and assisÉANOD of Chinese
anxiety to his friends and well-wishers. or any other form u labour, which, may wish to come to afalaya, and it must be remembered that we cannot rely on indian labour alone to fill all require
ments
were wounded.
breakdowns lately are the typhoons and Boods which destroy the telegraph po.es and wires along the way. Another cause
the troops for their military messages. which often delays the transmission of other messages over the wires.
The disturbance arose when a Chinese oficial hoarded_the stemper accompanied by a military afforr who was accompanied attributed to the using of the line by by a group of armed soldiers. The official created trouble when he found fault with accommodation provided on the boat and when the soldiers were called upon they attacked Capt. Tornroth and then opened fire.
In order to remedy these evils, Shanen Othce suggests the restoration of the The years 1910-20 showed us a very con
former separate be between Shameen siderable shortage of labour, and there
Capt. Tornroth was assaulted when he and Hongkong. By having a reparate was no organization capable of "dealing
instead of passing with it. The Indian Immigration Com interfered in a quarrot between the purserne, all messages mittey did what it could, but it was onty and the General. The General struck through the Head Office, will pass between denlig with one class of labour, and it him and the soldiers crowded about and shanen and Hongkong direct, Mors was often hamperal by having certain disuddenly opened fire. Capt. Tornroth toessages cad thereby be handled and the tricts closed to recraiting owing to sick was wounded in the leg and is under earnings of the Shameen Office will be
increased. new, and by other causes. The position medical attendance.
For the maintenance of the was such at that time that the Planters' A number of shots were fred several of separate line, the Shameon Office is wil Association of Mainya appointed two
ther ricocheting, and Mrs. Torntoth, then to set aside a portion of its earnings Special Committees to consider the whole captain's wife, and Mrs. P. C. Windham, tion of the poles and wires of the old
for the purpose. Regarding the destruc question, and the fadings of those Com-wife of the Dollar line's Ichang agent, line, the Head Office is requested to have mitters were eventually made public. and her daughter, were wounded by steel them restored as soon as possible, so that Their value at the time was, however, con- siderably discounted by the altered con
Con splinters
direct communication with Hongkong can ditions due
be resumed, to the slump, which inter vened between the appointments of thes two
Committees and the publication of their reports and I am afraid that in enn sequence the reports did not receive the consideration which their importance merited.
The Alice Doller', siren was sounded and within a few minutes a party of Marines from the U.S.S. Isubri, Angship of the American Yangiste patrol, which was near, boarded the Dellar vessel and THE RECENT CANTON-KOw. captured the Genera]_and"thirteen soldiers
LOON RAILWAY OUTRAGE and placed them under arrest,
78 CAPTIVES NO RELEASED.
The Special Committee appointed to
The Alice Dollar is waiting at Ichang consider the Chinese Labour Question, in pending the receipt of information from their report dated 21st June, 1081. recom- Admiral W. W. Phelps, commander of mended the formation of a General Labour the Yangisze patrol, concerning the dis Board, for the Matar Peninsula and the position of the Chinese belligerents being Colony of the Straits Settlements, co-held on the ship sisting of representatives of the agricul tural and mining interest. I know that there has been a certain amount of
Mr. J. Harold Dollar of the Robert Dollar Company, informed a newspaper
The Canton Daily News reports:- Kowloon Train, hold-up were rescued as Two more victims of the recent Canton
lair on Shi Chi (Lion's) Hill, near the result of a successful raid of the bandits border of Tungkan and Tangchen dis
All patriotic citizens of the Chinese Republic are anxiously and impatiently waiting for a solution of the present poli tical deadlock, and the ending of the brigandage, suffering and misery, which prevail throughout the length and breadth of the land.
In spite of the fact that certain poli- tical lenders, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and various religious, tharit able, and educational bodies, have sug- gested conferences and meetings for the solution of the present political troubles nothing has eventunted, and the situation is growing daily from bad to worse.
In my humble opinion, the remedy is
combine and unite, it will not be a diffi in the hands of the people. If the citi zens of the different provinces hasten to cult matter to get rid of the robbers and brigands, who infest "the country, and peace and good order will naturally follow.
Since the ousting of the usurping Manchus I have retired from the poli tical arena; not wishing to participate in the party strife and civil war which I knew would follow the assumption of the Presidency by Yuan Shik Kai; and, al- though I warned my old friend, the late Dr. G. E. Morrison (Political Advisor) at downfall and death of Yuan Shih Kai, the time, he did not retire until after the when it was too late!
appion to that recommendation," and / Tepresentative at Shanghai that he had triots, made by the Canton police lasted by indescribable misery and suffering
I do not mind ndmitting that I was responsible for its inclusion, The oposition is inrgely due to misconception. The Indian Immigration Committes did not like it because they thought it was going to upset their status, and make Inroads into their funds. Our mining friends did not want any organization at all because it might cont money, and of coupe paying higher wages, they could,
as à rule, get all the labour they wanted. All very mor, of course, so long as cho planter was content to continue doing the spado work of recruiting Others again urge that the organization of Chinees and Tamil labour cannot be dealt with in one Committee My answer to this latter is that the actual business problems in Connection with both are the samu,
Recruiting, we know, cannot be done in China as it is in Indin, but the special conditions apertaining to each brauch of our labour supply are well known, and there should be no
led & Protest with Dr. J. G. Schurman, Sunday morning. the American Minister at Peking, in which he demanded that ships in the upper river trade be allowed to carry a marine guard for the protection of the foreign lives and property involved, ns they did two years ago.]
AUSTRALIA AND THE
JAPANESE.
VIEWS OF THE EX-PREMIER.
11
Hughes, the ex-Premier snid :-.
Writing in the Sydney Telegraph, Mr.
L
with them through city trees, and national pride blocks the way.
a cor-
were
JAPAN WILL REFUSE
Having learned of the whereabouts of the bandits, Wa Kuo Ying, chief of the detective division of the Felice Depart ment, took £ number of detectives and armed police by the Canton Kowloon train," and arrived at the place before day-break. After fighting the bandits for two hours, the police scored a complete victory and the bandits escap ed to the villages nearby. A search was made of the bandits' headquarters and vicinity, and the two captives were found ja a cave.
years of civil war and bloodshed, follow- After witnessing in pain and sorrow 13
by the millions. of China, I think it is. now my humble duty, in face of the pre- sent political chaos, to offer a suggestion for the salvation of China and for penco and happiness of its people. The first thing for the people to work and strive for is self-protection and self- preservation, and in order to accomplish this it is necessary for every city and town, and every big village and combina. tion of small village, to form local Volun teer rifle corps, And, in the event of scarcity of rifles, swer and dagger corps Vox populi, "vox Dei
Of the 86 victims kidnapped, 78 have f. It should be reniènibered that the been rescued and only right an still tyrant Chin Chi Wang Ti was driven held by the bandits. It is believed that | from his throne by an enraged and op
HANKOW CASE WON BY
CHARTERED BANK.
armed only with sharpened bamboo poles.
There should be mutual co-operation between the popular representatives of the different cities and villages of each province, and their one aim should be to ignore the demands and exactions of ali. robber handi-and militarist tyrants, and fearlessly to co-operate in fighting and disarming them.
lages and districts of the different pro
The popular representatives of the vil- vinees should meet and hold a general conference in Shanghai or Canton; and they should apply to the Governments of the Foreign Powers for advice and assist and Ronstruction, and able and experi ance in their difficult task of Unification
enced reiga advisers should be engaged by the Government and by the different departments of each Provincial Adminis-
tration.
Japan is in a position, wherein sheas soon as their whereabouts are learned. I pressed people who rose up against him, must and an outlet for her surplus po their freedom will be assured. pulation. This is not a mere matter of policy, but a necessity of life and death. She will possibly find a method of check- in dealing ing the increase of population, but especially if such Board is constituted. as I
"No country, haɑ made greater strides it suggest
be, with the Corin the last two generations than Japau. should
A DISPUTED ASSIGNMENT. troller of Labour at its head, and two She has great aspirations. deputy codtrollers, one to look after the already done great things; she believes sued the Chartered Bank of India, Aus-
She has
The Choking Industrial Bank, Ltd., special interests of the Chinese and the in herself and the greatness of her, des traits and China, at Kankow, in reference other of Tamils. There is so far no I
tiny. can see, we reason why that should not be done by renaming, and enlarging the
Is the door of opportunity to be slam.o a deposit of £2,000 made by Messrs functions of the present Indian Immigra
med in her face? Is she to be told that, Sopher & Co. in 1921 into the Charter. tion Committee which Committee with although the world has many sparsely ed Bank and claimed to have been later
passing of this bill becomes
cor populated fertile places, they are closed assigned to the plaintiffs, who asked for porate body. The question of the adjust to her is she to be told that she must payment as assignees. The defendants & declaration of their right to receive ment or relationship of the present Indian do what no other nation has been com-
denied that the assignment in question Imgration Fund to a General Labour pelled to do?
should not prove an insuperabic
was absolute, or that they had over re- difficulty if referred to an expert Com-
cognized it as such, and further pointed mitter and particularly if we
"Japan will refuse to do so.
out that at that time Mears Sopher & fortunate enough to have a man of the does not impose a check upon the increase rent account to the extent of over £10,060, Australia cannot complain, if Japan Co. were indebted to them in their cur gesius of the Hencurab's Member for of her population, but, if the latter does and were still some £7,000 in their debt. Finagoo on the opmittee.
side of the table, not do so, there is nothing surer than They asked for a declaration that they as head of such
It is of course true that present condithat, before many years have passed, the were entitled to the £2,000 and interest. tions have cased the labour position some overcrowded and half-starved millions Tulge Feter Grain beld that there had what, and that a revision of tapping will make a grand trek towards Ausbeen no absolute assignment of the funds systems has reduced the requirements of tralia. If the millions knock at our in question, and that the notice given to the rubber industry. This is all admitted. door, how can we deny them admittance? the Chartered Bank was not an express but the fact remains that today we have In this maser, we are facing stern notice in writing of an absolute assign not any too much labour in the country, realities of life and death. We cannot ment in fact I am informed from several disrufer the matter to the League of Nations Judgment was given for the defendants tricts that there is an actual shortage, nor find shelter behind some treaty. (the Chartered Bank) including costs.. The slump will not last for ever, we are Neither can we talk to Japan of the past the worst row (thanks to Rubber rights of small nations or our superior Restriction) and anyone who has any civilization. As well might the Romans belief in the future of Malaya, must see have attempted to hold the Gotha bäck that the demand for labour will increase by talking of the greatness of Rome and
We learn that a number of Chinese enormously, and the question is, will our the superior Roman civilisaton,
have been detained by the police in con- present organization be able to meet is
nection with the murder of Detective am convinced that it will not.
These millions with certain death be In a paper read by Dr. W. C. Goer, Cheang Obong who was shot dead outside India is, I believe, fast developing in if they do and find a mere handful of Company of America, on The Present Tuesday morning. These men are said. bind them may possibly never come, but the Vice-President of the B. F. Goodrich Mesars. Ullmann's jewellery store on dustrially, and a that development pro- creds she will have fower and por people in possession of this great com- State of the Eubber Industry and Its to answer to the description of the twa Inbourers available for emigration. I do tinent, wherein we have laboured and Problems," at a meeting of the Institu- men who were seen to run away imized- not wish to be understood to infer that worked wonders but are too few to tion of the Rubber Industry, hepudiately azser the shooting. They are to be I have any fears of the Indian supply be develop it, then for us, it is the end.
forth what he considered from as ordia placed on identification parade this morn- ing cut off, but I do consider that the
ary arithmetical calculation the future numbers for the best years in the past are
DEA TO VILL (UF' AUSTRALIÄ.
development of the industry would be in Police has offered a reward of $2,000 to ing The Captain Superintendent of nut capable of any
"Fair
words about moral rights, the next five years. In January, 1623, treaties, or the League of Nations are there were 14,507,000 motor cars in the anybody who will give information which recruiting from India will become more they must surely die unless they make razs in twelve months: Of these, America the murderer.
THE GROWING DEMAND
FOR RUBBER.
Chinese friends and colleagues for over Having laboured with my English and 20 years (1800-1911) for the welfare of China and the Chinese, and this being my last word in connection with the poli tical situation, I hope and pray that my humble words of advice will not have been uttereil in vain.Yours truly,
TSE TSAN TAL Hongkong, August 8th, 1923.
THE QUEEN'S ROAD TRAGEDY SEVERAL CHINESE DETAINED BY THE POLICE.
and the general tendence develop nothing to the millions, who know that world, an incredise, of nearly 2,000,000 will lend to the arrest and conviction of
and more difficult as time therefore it seems to me that
will be
on, and fertile land. The world will not protect had 10,784,000. America had 6 to 7 per got some
warg
tyres in
Whe
thing is done we will
It will be better for the world, if cent, of the world's population and 7 KRYPTOK LENSES sor or later, to the conditions of 1919, theas millions should settle here and not per cent of the land, Fest 84 per cent of are the most perfect double focus glasses when competition for labour will end up in other parts of the world. Certainly the motor cazo, He thought the rumain. wage rates, and a great deal of the good it is to the interest of the world that they ing 94 per cent of the world also wanted for, both reading and distant. In the work done in the past few years in reduc. should produce wealth rather be idle and motor cars America had one car to every ordinary bifocal lens, the segment or tion of costs will be lost,
die."
nine persons; Great Britain d had I am aware tha Government has just appointed a small Committee to advise on hope is to work while there is still time they used throe tyres per your on those surface of the main lens. The smack The writer says that Australia's only every 85; China had one for every 49,784 part for reading is cemented to the dis
There 72,540,000 tyres in use.
over 42,734; tant lens, raising the segment above the Chinese Immigration in Negri Sembilan, and to increase the population to 2000.000 cars, they would require five and the line of union aro always more or Johore and aineen. is doubtful if such a Committee can do
It is a start, ut id Austraira. He continues:- very much.
What is wanted is
A little time is loft, how long no one executive body on the lines I have sugges vacant spaces with men and women of an knows, wherein we can prepare to fill the ted, rather than an advisory body.
had hoped that the next revision of sary to make good our claim to this great the Labour Code would provide some or and fruitful country
our own race and to do everything neces
ganization for the assistance of other asses of labour than that from South India, which is provided for under Indian Immigration Committee in this now to make any such provision in this Bill and in this sense I must confess a present bill, but I trust that this ques certain amount of disappointment in the Lion will not be lightly dropped, and that Bill, because I feel that we are not look when it is again being looked into, the ing far enough then. It is too late needs of the future will be kept constantly
(Continued at foot of next Volumn.)
the
in view.
the ordinary sale, and requirements of the world year, would less noticable. In Kryptok lens, de ee ments for this meant 300,000 tons of ruth. Fianzales of any prescription in men 58,000,000 tyres and the quirment is used, but the reading segment details, he estimated that by 1928 the the main lens, while the whole lens ber per your Without Bring to bring in requirements of the rabber industry ground smooth on both sides to the desir-
will be somewhere in crude rubber of from 480.000 á 550,000 tona od focus. Kryptok lenses of any prescrip more rubber than it ever needed before Co., or to Clack & Co., Optical per year. The world was going to requiretion in either regular uz Toric form arw apart from any new uses. Therefore, ha tight they should come together, manu-manufactued, by the Hongkong facturers and producers alike, and to Prescription Specialists, located operate upon the things of common in torent,