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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.
ECHOES OF 1859
32. Colonel Calñe's Last Days In Hong Kong.
MAY 12, 1850
One of our contemporaries states that Colonel Caine's retiring pen- sion has been arranged and that he will be shortly relieved of his public duties. Our information is to the effect that the situation of Lieut. Governor is to be abolished and that Colonel Caine has been told no pension whatever will be f allowed, except and beyond what he may induce the Legislative Council of the Colony to grant him. Furthermore we are told that even the Civil Superannuated pension is denied him, although he has con- | tributed towards it for many years. It seems that no fund was set aside out of the contributions to this pension, and consequently there being nothing to represent it, the ministers cancelled the whole affair on the principle that pension should go by merit and not by right.
present
The idea of the Colonel claiming anything from the resources of the Colony is about as ridiculous as could enter the mind of man.
He has been an Incubus, a sore, and impediment ever alice the first day he was thrust on the back of the Colony. He never said nor never did a good thing since he came here. It certainly would be an exquisite joke if we are made to pay for having borne such a load so quietly.
Now had Colonel. Catte
taken
END OF RADIO CONTROVERSY
US. And Japanese Agreements Cancelled
Nanking, Cet, 20.
With refers to the cancellation of the Sino-American and Sino-Japanese. wireless agreements, udicially, an nounced on October 1, it is pointed the same side in relation to the out here that the cancellation formally Praya that the three non-official formed a subject of discussion at the closes a prolonged controversy, 'which councillors took and stood by the Washington Conference. The Ministry Colony as they did in advocating of Communications in the old Peking water works, the multitude of sins Government in 1921 concludert he hath committed "would have loan agreement with the American been forgiven, and his career would Federal Wireless Corporation pro- have closed very differently. Butviding for the erection of u highpower no-he has persistently repudiated wireless station at Shanghai,ith less the principle that he was a public servant, and consistently acting under the conviction that the appointment he held had no virtue attached to it. beyond that of giving him salary, he not only passively allowed all chances of developing the resources of the Colony to be lost, but he has always taken an active part in that contemptible system so prevalent here, of keeping public affairs secret, to the end that by gross "misrepresentation, and culpable concealment, the Secretary of State for the Colonies might be deceived without a chance of being set right.
*
Advantage will be taken of Sir John Bowring's term of office having expired to separate the duties of superintendant of trade from that of the governor, The new governor will be Mr. Hercules Robinson who now holds the office of St. of Lieutenant Governor Christopher, West Indies.
SHANGHAI POWER COMPANY-
STRIKE
Loyal Clerk Kidnapped And Shot By
Picket
Shanghai, October 21.
men's feeling that unions which. did A sinister turn has been given to not strike were not worth supporting. the strike of certain emloyees of the Thus the dangerona garue--now so Shanghai Power Company, by the familiar-was begun. The driving attempted assassination of a loyal force was really in the hands of a clerk, who has remained at his post at small group of radicals who have boen the Head Office since the strike began, working quietly within the Power ^. He resisted all terrorist threats and Company's labour for several years. attempts to induce him to organise a It is believed that the strikers are strike among the clerks.
drawing something like 40 cents a day Yesterday morning, three ringleads strike pay; yet the large majority ers of the strikers kidnapped him from a road in Nautao about 8.30 o'clock, while he was on his way to office. They took him in a private car to "Union" sub-headquarters in Nantao, where he was interrogated threatened, and beaten.
Having engaged a hire car, his three assailants, escorted him through various roads the French Conces sion and the Settlement, to a point in Chinese controlled territory Ealf way between Yingzinngkong and the C.. grounds.
One alighted, the others ejected him, and followed. They dis missed the machine, and forced their victim to a field, where, without more ado, one of them drew a pistol and shot him.
One bullet entered above the beart, the other in the groin. They decamp. ed. Sometime later farmers found- him in a semi-conscious condition.
Critical Condition
are disposed to come back to work and only the terrorist technique of the organisation in whose clutches they now are has stood in the way.
Men A
Significance Realised
The Shanghai Municipal Police have been given the Power Company the protection and assistance demanded by the situation. The authorities of Greater Shanghai, as already recorded have done their best to induce the strikers to come to a reasonable frame of mind. This new development will undoubtedly raise acately the question of the preservation of the whole com- munity, against the dangers of a sub- versive movement of the
graveat potentialities,
"
Company's Statement The Shanghai Power Co. in having issued a statement in the course of They placed him in a rickshaw and which they say: After a reign of escorted him to the Settlement terror by beatings, bombings, and fin- boundaries, where they wished to ally by an armed attack in broad day. transfer their wounded man to a light, the pressure of intimidation, is vehicle with Settlement licence. being waged by radical labour leaders. A police radio van came on the scene and took him to the Sacred It is to be hoped that the public will Heart Hospital. His condition was finally realise that the industrious and pronounced critical At the time honest labourers of the Company have of going to press it was reported the for a long time before this strike been man might last the night, but there up part of their hard earned pay to forced by threats of violence, to give was little hope for him.
This was the climax to a definite radical strike leaders so that strike campaign of terrorism which in the leaders could live in luxury without last week is stated to have led to tho
work.. beating up of loyal employees-many The Company recognises its re- of whom have arrived at work with ponsibility to the public to maintain terrible marks of their sufferings but, its service upon which the law, order, owing to the danger of their position, and industries of this port are wholly have not been persuaded to give in- or partly dependent. The service has formation for the purpose of tracking and will be maintained but it cannot down their attackers. The Company allow terrorists and murderers to have has been able to give shelter and main access to its plant and equipment. tenance to those employees who haveIt is not a struggle between employer been ready to come into the Inter and employce, It is a struggle between national Battlement to avoid the daily ordeal of running the gauntlet honest, conservative labourers and of the strike pickets, whose methods radical leaders an unequal struggia in have now developed into a violence which the radials are armed- and which cannot be ignored. There are public and reliance upon facts will. desperata Moral support by the now about 1,600 men out on strike and the strike has behind it no formally greatly aid the restoration of peace. expressed grievance and no specific cause. The Shanghai Power Company has been able to secure the sympathy and support of all authorities respon sible for the preservation of law and order in Shanghai,
Radical Leaders Active
The Governight at Nanking
POPPY DAY FUND
Further. Contributions.
powerful installations at Peking, Hankow, Canton, and Harbin. The capital for the enterprise was to be. jointly advanced by Chinese and being G. $6,500,000. The Chinese Gov- American interests, the Chinese share ernment was to float bonds, the Amer ican company undertaking the under writing.
4%
As soon as this contract was signed, the Japanese Mitsui Company and the British Marconi Company protested claiming that the contract violated the terms of contract previously concluded with them. The Mits: i Company pre- viously had made a contrnet with the Chinese Goverment and haul erected a long-wave station at Shwangchiao, between Poking and Tungchow, and had successfully tested it with the Bordeaux, Naven, San Francisco, and Brentwood stations at Urga in 1820, Tikhwafu in 1022, and Kashgar in 1923. As both sides refused to give ground, the issue remained unsettled, in spite of protracted negotiations.
Bonds Not Circulated
The American federal loan bonds were never circulated but were kept in custody at the Chinese Legation in Washington... Finally, with the consent of the American Treasury Department, the entire bonds were destroyed last month in Washington under the supervision of Chineze and American representatives.
While the Mitsui and federal con tracts have been ignored in the past few years, and new agreements have been concluded with the Radio Cor- poration of America and other wireless corporations, the formal announce. went by the Chinese Government of their cancellation officially wrote "finis" to this chapter in Chinese radio history. Reuter, ··
MUNITIONS BOOM IN JAPÁN
Dearth Of Workers On Heavy Industry
Tokyo.
With the growing activity of in- dustries concerned with arina- ments, "the heavy industry in this country is enjoying improvement in its operations, which fact is re- flected in the difficulty of secur- ing skilled labourers already ex- perienced, in heavy industry cir cles
As a result of the absorption of practically all unemployed' effi- cient, labourers, it is reported by the Kobe Municipal Employment Agency, no more experienced-lab-
ourers can now be found out in the unemployment market, so fai as it is concerned with heavy in- dustry.
Such circumstances how foret heavy industry factories to give. up the engagement of experienced workers by converting their inter- est from it to the training juvenile laymen, the organ
ports.
of
The wages of skilled labourers in the heavy industry is said to ru around Y.3. while their actual in- comes amount to more, as they work overtime nowadays,
ported to be enjoying a good de
Domestic servants are also re-
mand, the Robe Employment Ex- change's figures indicate. In Sep- tember. 355 were applied for while their total applications for em-} ployment were only 144,
The prosperity, however, is said to be very uneven when the poor percentage of employment for the intelligentsia class is taken inta account. The average salary for the intelligentsia who got employ ment last month through the municipal organ was Y.33.07 month.
ADM. BERTHELOT'S SUCCESSOR
Fine Career Of Vice-Admiral Descottes-Genon
Vice-Admiral Descottes-Genon
understood to have, desired post-Previously Acknowledged $1,605.00 | who has just been appointed Com tively its disapproval of the strike Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ross
and to appreciate the fact that the Anonymous treatment of the Company's employees Prof. M, H, Roffey inch that the strike leaders cannot E, Cock, ER possibly be given any rope, otherwise
the whole fabrid of the.
life.
C. "B, W. Moore, Esq.
of Shanghai will be uncle The L01 R. K. M Simpson...
local Tengpu has shown ́s benivolent, Dr. G. W. Pope interest in the efforts of the raclicals Dr. H. D. Matthews ........ who have engineered this dispute, but Col ED Matthews..... it is believed to have become appre-
"RNVRS hensive of the exant trend of events. Falling in the subscriptions to unions had been attributed to the
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