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BIRTHS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1918.
Everybody Pleased.
It is amusing to read from this! mosaing's telegram that all the Home papers are pleased with the
DAY BY DAY.
"Experience is the beat of
PUBLIC BATHING
MR. SUNG'S FUNERAL.
PLACES.
result of the Ieicester election.scholmasters, only the school How the Situation now Stands "Tas Liberal press professes that fees are housy."-Üarlyla, the Conservatives are chagrined over their failure to capture the
The Malls,
seat and sow discord among the Siberian MailDespatched per Labourites," This sort of thing
s.s. Cheann at midnight on Saturday.
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is so like the Radioal papers. If the Coneervatives are chagrined, American Mail-Arrival per 8.8 they were a good deal more Armand Bebic (er Shingo credulous than we have ever given Maru) this morning, them credit for being. The utmost French Mail-Arrived per 88. that they could hope to do
Ernest Simons this morning. and of this they must have Siberian Mail. Closos per been perfectly well aware-was Ernest Simosa at 5 pm. to create such a reduction in the
to-day. Radical majority as would show American Mail.-Closes per 8.8. Mr Asquith and his henchmen Peraia at 11am. -morrow. what even the one-time supporters French Mail.-Clocs per a of his party think about Rudical
Armand Bebic at moon to oddling, mismanagement and jobbery. This they have suc American Mail.-Closn por es ceeded in doing, for the Liberal ajority has been lowered by sure threa thousand, and the Conservative roll increased. by over seventega nundred.
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Artistes Arrive.
GODOWN FIRE.
'Enormous Blaze at Pootung.
As stated in our telegram of
The Bleum
loads were sent across very rapid-
An Imposing Ceremony.
In Hongkong,
The funeral rites of the late Mr.Sang Chixo-jan, the victim of Thursday, a disastrous fire eroir- [SPECIAL ARTICLE].
of the Railway Station tragedy, ed at Pootung on June 23, by Already two month of Hong took place on June 28, as elated which one of the large go lowas. keng's bathing season have gone in our wire of that date, the in the compound of Messrs. Muc- by, and people are beginning remains of the deceased. being Kenzie and Co., opposite the Band, wonder whether the Government laid to rest in a tomb in Chapei, was destroyed,“ ever intendu carrying out its Since the murder the body of Mr
About 5.15 pm, fire, was promises to provide public bath Suog haa lain in the Hapan seen to have broken out in ing places for those who caunos Guild, near Br.
Catherine's the central godown of three.com frd the luxury of regular Bridge, says the "North China paratively new buildings. facing launch parties. If, up to the D i'y News,"
the wharf, says the "North China present, expectations have not Shortly after 8 a m. the proces-Daily News." The three were been realised, it is not for wontaion was marshalled into order on stored with Tangohow cotton and of * pegging away by the the roads elöre to St. Catherine's the central one is said to have Telegraph ". More than Bilge. Faret of all came two contained from 2,500 to 3,000. year ago a leading article soldiers bearing the Chinese flag, balss." in its columns dealt at length with following whom was a squad of
was given, and the urgency of the matter, and munted troops After them since That time special articles marched infantry units, mambere among the first helpers to arrive have appeared on May 5 and May of the Chinese local volunteers, H.M.S. Newcastle Several boat on the scene were sailors from to-13 this year, commenting on var and studente. Some of the istter. ione developments of the scheme might be described as approx- In the second of these articles mating to a cadet corps, but they and before the fro had long Misses Moutes and Rynor, who some details were given of a
profession inolurled a number of been in progress some 200 Now! There are to appear at the Victoriaoheme which the Hongkong very young school-boss Next ja alle men were at work on the lore Conservative papera may Theatre, arrived in the Colony Tramway Company had conceived, orier to one of the volunteer spot. Landing parties also came also well be pleased. And this morning and are saying at and by which the Company pro- companies came members of the from the USB. Albany and Rainbow, and from the cruisers the Unionists' wishing the Astor House Hotel.
posed erecting groups of bath-
Chinese Women's Association,
Holland and Leipzig. There to sow discord among the L-
ing tents Од the beaches, about a dozen in number. Then bourites, the Radical papers need Consignees of cargo by the s.s. making a small charge for came a chuir lavishly decorated were also some Japanese." not excite themselves; the Labour Indraghiri are reminded that their ars, and running trams with flowers, in which reposed an Working in gange, the sailors Party may be relied upon to goods remaining undelivered to the bathing ground. This excellent photograph of the dec quickly cleared a large stock of quabble quite sufliciently with after to-morrow will be rubject scheme was approved by the eased, while a little further be cotton from the ground floor of itself, without any help from to storage charge.
writer of the article, always hind was a similar obair, borne burning godown. rutaiders.
Kailan Mining Administration.suming that it was made compl- by coolies, which contained a By this time the various com- The lot output of the Kailan mentary to that which the Gov- garment the deceased had worn panies of the Shanghai Fre Bri- Mining Administration's mines arnment had promised to put in on the fat 1 night and which still gade, and the River Police, and for the week ending 14h Juno, hand and for which a sum of bore the blood stain.
later men of the French Conces amounted to 31,588 08 tons and $2,000 was voted in this year's The hearse itself was drawn aion and Customs Brigades, were the sales during the pariol, to Estimates. That attitude was by four horses, draped in white, at work with hose. It was obvious 33,175.81 tous.
taken up because of the necessity while from the vehicle two long from the first that liule, or of bearing in mind the primary bands of black cloth were carried nothing could be done to object of the whole thing to away in front by a large con-ave the building, and attention political supporters. The hearee surrounding godowns, Those provide free b. thing for those who course of the late Mr. Sung's was concentrated on saving the was laviably decorated with on either side had valuable cargo wors and leaves, and above is stored in them, and there were numerous buildings at the rear waved the Chinese flag.
Following the hearse at the within the danger zone.
While etart were between fifty and sixty the bluejackets were dragging private carriages, all containing out bale after bale of cotton, the mourners, but by the time the walle of the burning building procession reached its destination and the godowns adjoining were this number must have been more being saturated with water. than doubled:
Within an hour the interior of Large matshele were erected the espiral godown from the first over and around the brick work floor upwards was a roaring me tomb, a piece of masonry rising of fire. There was no danger of
For Consigners.
Ammunition Posession.
A fine of $25 was imposed on man charged before Mr Mell morning with being unlawful those possession of 93 rounde of ammunition on the se, Shun Lee,
Praying for Parliament
There is a good deal in what KALE-On Firday, June 20, 1913, at 39A Weihaiwei Road, Professor Schafer, (of British Association and artificial creation Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Kale, a daughter,
SLEAP.-On June 22, 1913, at 73 Route de Say Zoong, Shang-fatae) said at a public dinner the other night, on the subjust of hai, the wife of S. M. Sleap, & 901.
DEATH.
prayers for Parliament and for CLAYSON,—On March 31, 1913, at the residence of his father-Obins. "He could imagine the in-law. Captain William Gore Annesley, R. E., Eastleigh, Farnham, Celestial smiling in bie aleeve. a Surrey, Frederick Clayson, Deputy Commissioner of the Chinese For hundreds of years we had been ourne, at the Police Court, this Marine Customs Service, aged fifty-four. Deeply regretted. R.1.P. praying for our High Court of
Parliament, but. prayers had not been very effeo when tiva." We suggested, prayers for China's Parliament wera first mooted, that English ople had enough to do to pray for their own provided it were not already past praying for; and we still stick to our opinion. But prayer without performance faith without works is notorious. ly futile. If to their prayers the British public would add a
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913.
FARM LABOURERS ON STRIKE.
These are days of strikes and rumours of strikes, and for that
Coolls Punished.
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Mr Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning feed a risk sha coolie employed by Miss Ada Mary Pitt, of St. Stephans House, Bowen Roal, $7 ric default, fourteen days, for refusing to perform bis duties.
Cautioned.
desired it.
With
It is satisfactory to know that the demand so frequently voiced by the "Telograph" is being met in some small degree, though not by the Government, cat wait ng any further on the Government, the Tamway Company baserected a number of tents on the foreshore at the eastern end of the city, near the cable bouse. Seven of there tent were placed in position for the first time on Saturday evening,
At the Pulice Cout this morn- and by to-night the number will some some twelve feet from the explosion, none of the balea be reason it is no matter for wonderment that a section of the farm little determination and united ing, before Mr Melbourne, Ser.be increased to a dozen. These ground. Ta front of it was an ing press packed, and the work of labourers at Home have laid down their implemente. It is none the effort, the present Parliament geant Cccklo abargoltwo Chinese are of excellent design, and for extemporized altar, on which were the firomen was made easier from
might soon be sent a boutits busi- lees a serious question, for those men of the soil perforin a very ness, and one substituted that was necessary work so far as the production of the food supply is really worth praying for. concerned. We are apt to overlook this most important point, but
it has been strikingly demonstrated in the present ease in Lancashire PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED. They were discharged with a exclusively for Europeans, but from the hearse and lowered into was partioalary strong, a huge
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on the scene to play upon the feelinge of lodge and his fellows..
31, 1913.
The plaintiff appeared in person
defence.
caution.
a distinct need.
with being in possession of a live the use of them of candles and joss-aticks as well as the fact that very little burzing shell, some springs, tools and twenty, ent3 is made, with the usual sacrificial offerings of material was lifted by the wind other articles, toppored to be for time limit of one hour. It is fruits and baked meata. With on to other buildings, although the purpose of makingcartridges intended to reserve certain tenta due solempity the coffin was taken at one moment, when the breeze these will be in no particular the tomb, and the photograph of piece of timber was lifted in the different from the other tents; the deceased was placed just besir, only to fall back again into A money loan association case
Bijou Theatre, by the fact that within a single day of the cessation of labour the
they will simply be est apart in a bind the altar. At this point the he furnace, which the interior Jacidentally different companies of soldiers and of the building very adequately prices of necessary commodities, for the production of which we rely came before Mr. Justice Kemp
Qaa was glad to es the effort distinotive group. on the agricultural labourer, advanced to six times the normal the Paisne Judge, this morning of the new management of the it may be mentioned that the volunteers marched up to the altar represented by jhis time.
With the complete destruction figure. This is the consequence of a strike which is confined to only at the Summary Court, when Tam Bijou Theatre, to provide a good special tramcars which run from and saluting the portrait, with
Yu Shi, a married woman, eded portion of one county; what the results would be were a general two widows, Lom Pat and Ah class entertainment, so well up/the Post Office to Quarry Point drew. This was the principal core of the roof some danger. to fire:
in the evenings will take intend-mony at the graveside. No priest preciated last night, There was
mea and sailors arose through strike.dcolored, it is less terrifying to imagine than it would be to Chun Yu Koo to recover $37a full house and the excellent ing bathers to the ground. The‹fficiated, although both a Japan the scattering of lengths of core experience. Happily there appeara-no prospect of this latter being the amount for five shares in
Among those who attended at rugated iron sheeting. These were peeling off like ribbons and contingency being realised, though it is well to bear in mind that the Daily money ioan associa-programme was well appreciated. enterprise of the Tramway Com-ase and a Chinese wore present.
tion" advanced by the plaintiff The dancing of les Chinita pany in taking up the matter of
were blown red liot from the roof. the strike habit, like all other habits, grows the more it.is en-to the defendants an bends of the Zerega was again most beautiful its own accord must be recog- the interment were Mr. Tang
meke it convenient to outch & Dr. Gilbert Reid, General Mesay narrowly escaped these dangerous couraged. And we may be sure that plenty of agitators will appear Association betwren January i and and fuscinating, especially her nised, and for those who cannot Shac-vi, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Several gangs of workers only Mendelssohn's SpringSong zene So far as we are aware, Miss annoh at the time they generally Mr. Y. C. Tong. Mr. Chang Munhowers, and a ChineES WAS leave Blake Pier, and who doew, Mr. Wang Yi ting, Chairman. unfortunate enough to be It may, indeed, be taken for granted that agitators are at the and Mr. J. H. Gardiner for theeraga is the only dancer Hong" dat object to incurring theoharges of the Nantao Chamber of Com-oaught by a piece which came king has ever see who takes involved, the scheme should mest merce, and Mr. Yeh Wei-ghing, twisting down with the wind and The defence was that the asco and those who have not been to dancing as a really serious art: bottom of the Lancashire strike; for the farm labourer as a rule in a
obief of the City volunteers. The finally landed on his head and What is to be strongly attendance at this stage of the back. He was very badly burned contented and happy mon. His wage may not be a prinesly one-ciation was an illegal one, and
witness her performance should
The films were argag, however, is that the proceedings was enormous, and nd had to havo his injuries though, all things taken into consideration, he is generally well of that noither of the defendants to
were heads of the association. decidedly good, especially the Government should at once its calibre may be judged from Iressed by a naval ambulance Zaza" preeeed with its own long the fact that along the narrow man. Meanwhile the sailors con- on the class for whom the public Shanghai the carriages waiting eastern godown, and the firemen promised spheme. Only by this, road on the way back to tinued clearing cotton from the... bathing places were intended for the conclusion of the ceremony were on the roof directing enjoy the felicity of surf bathing stretched out for about half a streams of water into bursing without fee or charge. The mile.
buliding. money has been voted, and the It is reported that Tls. 180,000 Government has undertaken to will be epeat on the burial
About half past seven the west- clear the foreshore of rooke ground. It is intended to conorn wall of the godown collapsed. We drew attentionin Saturday's and stones and to erect a shed vert it into garden, and close to wo or three filemen were walk- "Telegraph "to the kindness of for the convenience of those the tomb will be a bronze statueing between the buildings at the those who are responsible for the using the beares. Why does it of Mr. Sung. At the same time time, and it was fortunate for naming of our streets, in leaving not hasten to fulfil its promises? there is a proposal to set up a them that the wall fell inward; "i. With refrence to the letter a scoff ild in Des Veux Road for The shed, it appears, has been library and a lecture hall.
from the Honourable Colonial the convenience of any burglar designed; but the Government Ecoretary to the Secretary of who may be looking for a job, does not even quite know as yet EXPLANATION
Sanitary Board of the and may feel inclined to explore where the site for its oznation is 30th May (5 in 90/13) was the Hongkong Howl. We notice to be. All that is known is that the Governor-in-Council aware that it is still there. Thieves out of the Government intends going of the unanimous refusal of employment kindly take note. forward with the scheme-some- the Board to grant the appli- Thie thief-inviting scaffold time.
SANITARY BOARD.
A mealing of the Sanitary Board is to be held on Wednes day, at 3.45 pm,
"O LORD, HOW LONG?
in this respect-but his life runs on pleasant lines, and he is happily His Lordship without calling coloured pictur-play, free from the grind, the bustle and the nerve-breaking conditions of on evidence for the defence, non-which in itself is an evening's life in the cities. Moreover, bis expenses are practically mil. Loft suited the plaintiff with leave to
entertainment, alone, he would doubtless live his care-free, healthy life out in the bring a fresh action." open fielda without murmurings or discontent. But it so happens that in the essentially rural constituenoies, his vote counts for much; and thus is it that politicians of all parties clamour for Hodge's support at the polls, tell him how much better his lot might be, trot out no end of fanciful promises, and generally make him dissatisfied with his lot. There will doubtless. be much more of this sort of thing when Mr. Lloyd George lauaches out on his wonderful, land campaign: The matter of wages is pertinent in considering this question, and it is of interest to note that investigations show that the rate of pay is highest in counties in which other industries compete for labour with the offer of good money, and lowest where there is no competing industry. The question, in fact, seems to be simply one of demand and supply.
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Mr. F. B. L Bowley, pursuant to notice, will ask :-
It may be well, in concluling, to note the average weekly earnings of farm labourers in the United Kingdom in the last year for which detailed figures are available, namely 1907. In England, according to the Board of Trade returna, the figure was 184. 4d., in. Walls 183., in Scotland 19s. 7d., and in Ireland 118, 3d. These may, to those unacquainted with the facts, appear miserably inade. quate wages for men with wives and families, but it has to be borne in mind that in addition to their weekly wage these labourers have “all found," enjoy quite a few privileges peculiar to their calling and many are able to put by quite a respectable sum every, yeer in the savings bank. They may bave their little grievances, but on the whole their lot is one which is paradies compared with that of many an under-paid and over-worked city clerk. One day they may realise it.
the
ACCEPTED,
Falled to Respond to a Juror Call
This morning Mr Hans Ludwig
otherwise they could not not pos ibly have escaped. Gradually the flames died down and by about nine o'clock there was just a glow sorosa the river,
The damage is estimated at over a lakh,
ARMOUR PLATE?
British Guns for" Russia.
cation of the owner of Inland has now been in its present It is worth a passing comment Beyer of Mears Reiss & Co, was Lot 1355 under Section 162 of position since last Sunday that originally the idea of Mr. summoned before the Pasine the Pablic Health and Build-week. To plaster twelve enamel Osborne, who is really the faller Judge, Mr Justice Kemp, to ex inga Ordinance, 1903 to 1911 letters on a wall might of the whole plan, was that there plain why he failed to respond to If yes, will the Head of the be one of the lakouts of Hercules should be two public bathing an order calling upon him to not Sanitary Department aek the Even the British workman in his places-one at each extremity at a juror at the last Criminal Clerk of Councils under what moet casual mood-the mood of the city, and the Government Sessions. authority and on what grounds wherein he brings ladder one undertook to carry out this pro- Mr. Bayer explained that the The concession for the establish the Governor-in-Council, ignor day, fetches it away on the second, posal. That is proved by the summons was left at his office ment of the new gan factory in ing the unanimous decision of stays away on the third, and calls by the vote in Estimates, which with a junior clerk on the Satur- Russia by Messrs Vickers (Ltd.) the Board, and without further for at "advance" on the fourth is for the provision of "Pablio day previous to the Easions at a will be sanctioned by the Czar on reference to the Board, pur-day-ccald not cap this. Is it a Batbing Places" The plural time when he was away from the his return from his Imperial tour, ported to grant a permission fact that valgar puple who want form is to be noted. Now the office. The man forgot to give it and on order given for guns for under scotion 162, which apa simile for slows no longer idea has dwindled down to one to him on the Monday morning Dreadnoughts pending, the "oor pears in the absence of the Lf
Bay as slow as the wrath of bathing ground, and even that and he went away to Canton on struction of the factory Messrs. marvel viokers undertake to construct concurrence of the Board to be God," but as storas Hongkong existe up to the present in the business, illegal and void ?"
The explanation was groeptad," the factory within two years, imagination only,
street-namera