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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912.
DAY BY DAY.
We are greater dupes to our own woukuess then to the skill of others...
America.
Left To-day.
Mails Arrived. The following mails arrived to day:8.8. Haimum from Swatow and Amoy 8.8. Yuen-sang, from Manila.
Mr. E. A. Irving Still Unwell.
Mr. E. A. Irving, J.P. still being ill, Mr. J. R. Wood again moruing.
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Shipping: Movement,"
ALLEGED STOWAWAYS,
Found Aboard the Guthrie in-
Sydney Harbour.
At the Police Court, this morn
LABOUR TROUBLES.
Registrar-General's Comments on the Printers* Strike.
Mr. E. R Hallifax, Acting
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TRADE MARKS CASE.
Remarkable Number of Exhibits Produced.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS”
The Canal Controversy. The trade marks onse entered the provisions of the Panama The controversy aroused, by Mr. and Mrs. 1. Graham lofting, before Mr. J. R. Wood, four Registrar Cloneral, in his report on its fifth day of hearing this Canal Bill hus, boon, advanced” a by the s.s. Persin to-day for stowaways on board the 5.8. following comments on labour Gompertz sitting in original notion in, attaching his signature men were charged with being for the year 1911, makes the morning bofore Mr. Justice stage by President Taft's latest Guthrie, in Sydney Harbour." troubles in Hongkong during jurisdiction. The case is not to the measure and sending up
· Mr. Master, of Messrs. Johnson
{last year:
without interost, for it involves a to Congrosa a suggestion that p Stokes and Master, said :-I ap- pour to prosecute four men for
A serious strike of the printers characters are used by the whole that the Bill is not considered by question as to whether certain resolution be passed to the effect board the and compositors occurred towards of the grass cloth trade to denote the U. S. Government as a viola stowing away Guthrie, a steamship of Messrs. the end of the year. The trouble different qualities of grass cloth, tion of Trenty. The arguments Butterfield and Swire's. The men originated in the office of the were brought back on the es. "South China Morning Post," in oroiter the characters are the which the Fresident advances, in exclusive property of one firma. the course of his memorandum they were arrested. They were Chinese employo, and was nursed that the characters are generally clauses of the measure, are clever, Changsha from Sydney, where an assault by a European on a The Lam Fat Shing Firm claim defending the discriminatory For over 80 Years WATSON'S E' has, maintained presided at the first Court, this found on board the Guthrio in by the agitators of a powerful used by the trade and move for but far from effective, and we are
Sydney.
guild which controlled the the rectification of the register of Mr. Wood-After the Guthrie "hands On the first column of Page 7 had arrived in Sydney from Hong-sections of the printing trade of marks of the We Loe firm who quibbles" worthier of a pattifog of practically all the trades marks as regards the not surprised that they are already dubbed more logal will be found a summary of vos-kong P-So I believe.
the Colony.
claim the charactors as thoir sols advertised to arrive and de- Not before she was leaving?- part to-morrow. This feature No. They were found leaving the exactly what the grievance was length, the case is remarkable by the fairness of the Bill can easily It was difficult to discover exclusive property. Besides its ging attorney than the President of a great Republic." After all, will be continued daily.
ship.
as by far the larger number of reason of the number of exhibits be lostail. President Taft him- After the arrival ?--Yes, the mon seemed antiefied and un- brought into court. Altogether self admits that the Hay-Paunce- Leave of absence on private from Hongkong to Sydney? Yes, there was no sympathy with the exhibits produced, including discrimination should be made The ship had made a journey willing to join in the strike, and there wore about one hundred fote Treaty provided that no affairs, to the neighbouring coun-
And these men were found strikers in the Colony, and even labels bearing the trade marks, by the United States that would tries, is granted to Captain G. H. Addison, R.E., from 10th Sep-leaving the ship Yes.
Canton found it necessary to ex-rolls of cloth and books. Pald No Fares, | tomber to 13th October, inclusive.
hort the man to return to work. Mr. Potter urged that the the present Bill give to Ameri- act against other nations. Does And they had not paid their Kalian Mining Administration.
application of a user in China fares? They had not paid. 'I The total output of the Admi-will ask your Worship to put the ending August 10 amounted to If they plead not guilty I will ask 27,252 tons and the Sales during for a remand; and, if they plead the period to 21,293 toys. guilty, I will ask your Worship to
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BONGKONG TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912,
CHINA'S RAILWAY PROBLEM.
of at noon as before.
question of guilty or not guilty.
reservo sentenco.
No Real Grievance.
:
can shipping advantages which It appeared in fact that there was of no use at all in a motion aro was no real general grievance, to expunge a trade mark from the
not to be enjoyed by the shipping of other na- and that the strike was engineered register. If the contrary wore tiona? Yes.
Then there can by agitators who put their own law, no man's trade mark was be no questioning the point that curious interpretation on the re-safe, because, however innocently the Bill seriously violates tho
ho put the mark upon volutionary doctrino of "indepond-
Treaty.
tho.
As far as
Mr. Wood:-Where does she ence" and wished to show the register, a man might come from gail between 7-Manila and poweroftheir guild:andthey seized another country and say the mark Lack of Foresight.
on the opportunity offered by the had been used by him for some as President Taft puts it, that, It may seem hard, or "absurd”, Queensland Ports.
Suppose, then, these men got small trouble already mentioned. Years o
Or he might say that the mark after the constraction, asinton auce and defence of the Canal, one of the other ports?-It All the printing business in the is an offence to obtain a passage Colony was affected for several was common to the trade and must the United States should find t wooks: the Chinose prosses had to come off the register. If such from anywhere without paying close down entirely for want of were the law a man would have self shorn of the right to deal Mr. Bolles Leaves.
the proper fare.
with its own commerce in its own- Mr. J. W. Bollos, manager of
They are charged with being hands, but the European concerns no safety for his mark,
way, the Standard Oil Company in on board the Guthrie in Sydney by dint of great efforts on the the evidence of a user in Hong which should have been foreseen but that is a development Hongkong, loft to-day by the s.s.I understand, if your Worship part of their foreign atalia conti kong was concerned he would sub by those who negotiated the non- Persia for Amorica, vin Siberia, will remand the case, there is a hued their work and slowed that it there was no evidence to famous Treaty Foreign nations, where he is going for five or six chance of gotting some aiders and the assistance of the strikers was justify his Lordship in holding that and Britain in particular, as the abottors through the instrumen-not indispensable to them. the mark was common to the trade.
Mr. Alabastor-All seven of greatest maritime Power in the world, have, their rights safe- tality of the prisoners; so, without nally there was a general rosump-
them? hearing the ease at all, I ask tion of work-in a fow cases on
Mr. Potter-All soven of them.
guarded under the Treaty. And your Worship to remand the case rather bottor terms, but generally Do you draw any distinction be there will surely have to be more until the Guthrie returns. I am on the same conditions us before; handicapped as your Worship while a fow of the more trouble tween them?
Mr. Alabaster-I don't know can see until the Guthrie returns. some men lost their appointments
if you do. Supposing I put the charge as altogether. The two leading agi- it stand? As a matter of fact tators were banished during the they all admit joining the ship course of the strike-as being at Hongkong.
mainly responsible for the use How the Charge Should Read.
of intimidation-and the resump-
months' vacation.
Pig-skins on Pavement.
A man who deposited a quan- tity of pig-skins outside his pro- mises was fined $5 by Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Court, the morning, for thereby causing an
obstruction.
Alleged Assault.
Mr. Pottor-If do I will
you answer them.
The Three Mark Rule. Continuing Mr. Potter said that
weighty reasons put forward than Taft ore they consent to surren have been advanced by President
der thono rights. We note that it is now suggested that the question be referred to the Hague · Tribunal for impartial settlement. This is a wise suggestion, and one
Au Indian was olarged before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Police Court, this morning, with assaulting a Chinese woman. The case was remanded so that witnesses could Sydney on 3rd August." What the be pardoned before work could be called for the defence. Pri-charge should beis, being on board be resumed. The demand was sonor had to remain in police the Guthrio from Hongkong Har-not granted and the main result custody.
of the strike luns boen suriouely to weaken the power of the guild.
That is not the charge. The tion was somewhat delayed by the to the evidence of users in which is far to be preferred to
Theft of Zinc.
· Shipwrights' Strike.
0186,
Hongkong there were three firms, More than passing significance is to be attached to the protosts
The three mark rule would not about 1800, using these marka. be permitted to test the validity! from the South, and from Canton in particular, against the revival
make the marks common to the of the Bill in the U. S. Courte of the idea of nationalising China's provincial railways. That these
trade, and common to the trade Wanted-a Railing. protests should be forthcoming, is by no means surprising, especially
bour with intent to obtain a
WOR, what he understood in the We do not so greatly admire Bo when it is remembered that this very question of railway
passage without payment 7-Yos,
common by reason of the condition of that part of the A sentence of four days' in your Worship; that is how it
the user and not common by ron Connaught Road near the Yau- nationalisation was one which did much to precipitate the Revolution prisonment was passed by Mr. should read. which eventually led to the overthrow of the Manchu Government. J. R. Wood, at the Police Court,
In June the increased cost of son of the description. If the nati ferry wharf. Over a very' When did the Guthrie leave It is well to recall now, that, when the Manchu oficiala floated their this morning, on a youth charged Hongkong ?-On or about 12th living led to an application by the mark was common at all it was large proportion of the road lie! shipwrights of the dockyards at common by reason of the user; heaps of ballast, sand, etc., and scheme for State ownership and control of the railways, the arrange from a godown in Kowloon.
by L. S. Wills with stealing zine July.
increase in it was not open to the trade by those can hardly conduce to the I will amend the charge.-The Hunghom for an ment was bitterly opposed, not only in Canton and the South:
wages, and on their demands be- reason of its peculiar meaning. comfort of foot-passengers who, in second defendant has expressed ing refused by the masters, a So, putting his friend's case at conformity with local custom!! generally, but also at points so far ronioved therefrom as Kirin.
Library Return.
his ability to pick ont a man, There was, in fact, a national agitation of disapproval aroused. The visitors to the City Hall Library on board in Hongkong; and, if he The masters at first refused any user of that mark. It was clear convenience of bamboo-bearing The following is the return of now in Hongkong, who put him general strike of shipwrights in its highest on the Hongkong mast, whether they will or no, Kowloon and Viotorin followed. evidence, he had only proved a walk in the roadway to suit the Peking authorities tid all they knew to stem the rising tide, and Museum for the week ending is allowed to remain in the police compromise and though they that shortly after 1800 only two coolies who claim an exclusive local officials being instructed to impress upon the people the the 25th August:-- axceeding benevolence of the Throne in thus relieving them of the
custody, he will go with the police cost of building the lines, and of all the responsibilities connected
Library. Mussun and point this man out. A re Messrs. Wei Yuk and Fang Wa- present day, according to the At this particular point the
were eventually persuaded by people used the mark. At the right to the covered pavement. 2 Non-Chinose......418... 156 therewith. This specious form of argument, however, did not appeal
nand until to morrow morning chun to meet the men's representa applicant's own evidence, there road is, we faney, a trifle wider Chinese....... .193...3,137 to the thousands of country people and goutry who had invested
in police custody will give us a tives, no settlement was resched, were only three persons using the flan elsewhere (a fact, how- their money in local railways; and who had a holy dread of Official-
chance. The Government here and the strikers were locked out, mark. Of course, as a matter of ever, which does not stand dom and all that they believed it meant. Hence was it that, in no
and the Government in the Com-At the end of July, however, the fact, they could not take the the way of the likelihood lengthy period of time, the agitation took on a serious aspect, An engineer who has been this down and the latter has now unsuitable, gave iu to the men's tion at all because one of the ques-korb.) Since junks must neces culminating in rioting, which, in turn, led up to the more stirring staying at the Royal George special provisions for dealing with demands.
monwealth are determined to put masters finding their new bands plaintiff firm as user in this ques of these sand-heaps' gradually extending right noross to the events of the Revolution.
tions that would have to be do-l The important point to note about the developments which we police that he has lost his pocket
Hotel, Kowloon, roports to the the matter.
cided eventually was whether the sarily unload here, would the The case was formally remand- This strike was closely connect present plaintiff had any right to erection of an iron railing be so have roughly traced above, is that the opposition was largely, if not book between the Station Hotel ed until to-morrow, prisoners to ed with a strike among the ship use the mark. There was an very expensive a matter? Such altogether, based on mistrust of Government officials. Then it was and Canton Villas, Kowloon. remain in police custody, yard carpenters at Aplichow, action against the plaintiff al-a rail running parallel to the a case of the people's lack of faith in the integrity of the Manchus. The pocket book contained a
where the arrest of two agitators Since those days the Manchus have gone, and, in their stead, Re-hundred mark note and steam
water's edge at a distance of about led to a general strike. The dis- ready for infringement. publicans ait in high places, Those latter are popularly supposed ship tickets and papers valued
ton feet from it, might possibly to be far more of the people than were the officials of the old regime. at $50. Yet, when they come forward with a like proposal, there is the same spirit of antagonism aroused. An interesting situation, truly. On the face of it, there might be road into this latest agitation on the
Total.........611...3,293
Lost His Pocket Book,
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PRETENDED MOTHER.
CASE ADJOURNED.
1842 or 1011?
>
This morning the case of Mrs. pute between masters and men Mr. Alabastor:That is inad-keep these heaps from encroach- Margaret S. Ogilvie of Enutsford was, however, soon compromised.missable. There may be an ac- ing beyond reasonable limits, and Teriace v. Major Walton of: Thore was also a short strike tion for infringement against us, from being as, at prescat: they Station Hotel, Kowloon, was to of the members of the blackwood but it cannot hold as an argu-are-a danger to those who trust have come before the Chief workmen's guild, who demanded ment against us that he is threat themselves in a rickshaw at night
Along this ill-lit thoroughfare,
part of the people, au oqual measure of distrust in the Republican Chinese Woman Admits That Justice, Mr. W. Roos Davies, K.O.. [more favourable terms from their ening us with an setion.
nebulous in character.
She Gave False Testimony.
native American citizens, went to
RICKSHAW COOLIE
FINED.
Mr. Potter: don't say that Dr. Sun's "Socialism”
it doos. But, putting my friend'a In our leading article to-day case at the highest, there are the question of Governmental three people using the marks, control of China's railways ja My friend's client started to uss dealt with. Incidentally, too, the thom in 1911.
We started to use them long before that; seventy years ago.
Mr. Potter:--From your own evidence you started in 1011.
The case was proceeding as we went to press.":
OMINOUS RETICENCE..
officials as was manifested against their predecessore. If this be the correct deduction to be drawn from present developments, it is a
who, this week is sitting in Sum- masters, to which the latter even- sorry state of affairs, for until the people can be brought whole-
Hong Shee, a Chinese woman, which tho. Puisne Judgo is pre-
mary Jurisdiction to take cases tually assented, heartedly to trust the officials, or, to express it in another way, until Lee Gin Len and Les Gim Dip oluded from taking on account of the officials are men of auch probity of character as to merit Chinese men, have been arrested We say this quite apart from the wisdom or otherwise of the on warrant charging conspiracy Ogilvie is for $32,67 for damage deep confidence, there can be no real, solid progress for Ohins. by United States Marshal Elliott the lengthy trade mark case.
The claim put forward by Mrs.
attitude of Dr. Sun Yat Sen to nationalisation scheme, which, so far, is certainly somewhat to defraud the Government. The done to furniture and effects hired
wards nationalisation is touched young men who claimed to be from the plaintiff at Renny's
upon. He is, it appeara, în fay A trumpet major, named
our of private control. He wishes I Dr. ja pertinent in connection with this mutter to note the attitude the immigration office recently for Mille on May 7, for which the Elliott, summoned a rickshaw
to have the lines constructed by of Dr. Sun Yer-sen on railway questions. It is well-known that he the purpose of arranging for "ro-
defendant was responsible for coolis to appear at the Police dreams of a day when China will be covered with a not-work of rails, turn certificates" to enable them to
private capital. One has no quar- breakage.
Court; this morning, for refusing
rel with him on that soare, but but he, too, rasents undue Government intinence. His great idea is land in America without delay on called on socount, we understand,
However, the case was not to accept hire.
one seems to remember that, not that the trunk lines, the provincial and the inter-provincial systems their return from a visit to China of the plaintiff being too ill to stationed at Knutsford Terrace, We learned this morning in the Socialist's platformy is the so long ago, he was an avowed oan be, and should be, built without Government interference. He that they intended to make. The
Complainant said that he was
Socialist. One of the first planks aims at private control, or, at most, provincial control, and is credited women attended them and awore with developing a scheme, whereby private capital shall be employed that she was their mother and The case bas been adjourned towards him, but, on getting that a robbery had taken place if Dr. Sun rejects that, his Boole
appear.
Kowloon.
The defendant ran through the courtesy of the police nationalisation of railways, and to construct lines with freedom from vital interference from Poking that they were natives of the or elsewhere, What this sohome is, the public does not yet know, United States. The men swore
within twenty yards of him, he last night: Where it took place, lism does not go very deep Dr but, in view of the revival of opposition to the nationalisation pro-likewise. It was subsequently ing oigar makers of the Tabaca lived eix minutes from the if anything, was stolen, was noted that China can vary wally do Emilio Reyes, one of the strik turned round and ran away. He whose house was invaded, what, it may be that he has wisely devid posal, its details will be awaited with deep interest. Our own ides is, ascertained by the immigration lern factory, for assaulting one of ferry and he had given the rick-vonoheated without Socialism for that, not by Government encouragement, nor by nonetary con- officials that she was not even the workmen who refused to re-shaw coolies the legal fare-five From private sources we have to come. Either. tributions from the merchant or gentry classes, can the problem be relative of the, men, and when main out, was sentenced last venta. People who could afford learned a few of the facts with re for the new Repu solved satisfactorily Foreign money and foreign engineering they pressed her on the subject Friday by Judge Camus, to suffer it gave more than five cents ference to which the police are plenty to do akilland both can be had will provide the only real solution of the she admitted the falsity of her twenty days imprisonment in Defendant was fined $1 or in. question.
Peak sooounted for ing leak zight
Manila Striker Sent to Gaol,
default, three da