THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915.
ALWAYS ASK FOR Time Waste of Strikes.
WATSONS
CELEBRATED
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WHISKY BRANDY SHERRY PORT
A.S. WATSON & CO, LTD
HONGKONG.
Under the above heading we published yesterday some remark. able statistics, showing the fright- ful loss occasioned to the in- dividual and to the country at large by labour strikes. If any of cur readers requires convincing of the anti-social and non-moral effect of these disturbancea,
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
MUNITIONS OUTPUT.
EVERYONE IS AS GOD MADE HIM AND OFTENTIMES A GREAT DEAL WORSE.-Cervantes.
A
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 84;
Count the Columns.
we recommend him to read | Bunchine. and re-read the figures At the Peak 8am. Temp. 78; mentioned. Regrettable as the sunshine. strikes daring the war have been," we cannot help thinking that. their ultimate effect will be a
Yesterday the Telegraph good one. The uation has be published 344 columns of solid come so tired of the tyranny of reading matter. To-day there the agitator that it is bound will be 42) published. to bring pressure to bear on the Government to push some enactment that will make French Mail-Closed per 8.8.
The Malls. striking an illegal deed.
Altantique to-day at noon.
OUR NAVY NOT ASLEEP.
The Warsaw Battle.
Mr. Lloyd George Confers with Trade Ualonists.
The Press Bareau issued the following at tement on Jane 16:-
to day
To-day we have news from all fronts. The Germans have not taken Waraaw; the French bave The Minister of Manitions had turned back a long series of most a further conference to with desperate counter-attacks, the Au- representatives of a number of strisne continue to suffer heavy workmen's societies as to the losses on the Isonzo, and Sir Ian methods to be adopted for scour Hamilton
reports fresh progressing a sufficient supply of labour: in Gallipoli in the consolidating for the production of munitions of positions won and the extension of war and other mattereconnected of trenches. In addition, we therewith. The following societies have one or two interesting side were represented; items: the failure, for a whole
LANGKAT OUTPUT
Messrs. Wright and Horab adviss us that the Langkat outpat for the current month follows:
July 1
243
$249
280
226
10
228
11-
238
12
230
13
240
14:
222
15.
249
16
$256
17
275
18
275
19
247
20
262
Unions.
National Amalgamated Union of Labour.
251
23
280
Total to 23rd. inst. 6009
Daily average 261.27
National Advisory Committee Liangchow at 5 p.m. to-day.week, on the port of the on War Output.
German enbmarines, to interfero
Up to the Minute-Share Market News,
Of course, one very quick way out Siberian Mail-Closed per se, of the difficulty, and a perfectly lawful and reasonable one, would be to look up every man who can be proved to live by agitating, as alogue and a vagabond. Next to that we hope to see every tale union that can be proved to exist (as ninety-nine per cent of them do) for the sole parpose of being able to
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The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve domineer over the public, as
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
Cable Address; Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.
Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.
DEATH.
"FOSTER. On the 20th June, at Quarr Court, Biastead, Isle of Wight, following on an operation for appendicitis, Frederick Thomas Pearce Foster, formerly of Hongkong, aged 71,"
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915.
GOVERNING KWAŃGTÚNG PROVINCE.
barehly d alt with as secret acoieties are in the East. But unless the Government, is prepar ed to protect the worker against the same class of browbeating against which it is asked to pro tect the public, it is idle to hope for ruch improvement. Sauce for the one is aauce for the other, and, unless the authorities are prepared to make it a criminal offence for an
employer to offer less wage" than a reasonable fixed minimum, the strikera will meet with more of sympathy than of condemnation. This is a give- and take world, and no one can look to have all the advantage on his own side.
The Peacemakers,
Closing prices:-
Co.
Douglas's $57, buyers." Unions.-$920, buyers. China Fires.-$135, buyers. Indo Chinas $1464 buyers. Hongkong and W'pos D.
Ld.-876, sales. China and Manilas
40 cents buyera x the of $4.50 per share. Star Ferries. $36, buyers. China Sugar.81274, buyers Luzona.- $45, buyers. Hongkong and K. W. and G.
Co. Ld. $77, sales
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 10 9 1/163.
of
Parliamentary Committee of the with shipping; the enthusiastic Trade Union Congress. welcoming of General Botha on Management Committee of the This return to Cape Town and the General Federation of Trade
mention, in the House of Lords, of a scheme for adequately re- warding the brave Indiane who bave left everything to fight for their Emperor.
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British Steel Smelters.. National Union of Railwaymen.: Amalgamated Solety of Car- penters and Joinere.
Shoe Operatives,
National Union of Boot and
Stem Engine-makers' Society, THE OPIUM ORDINANCE Coach-makers.
United Kingdom Society of
Amalgamated Tool-makers. Scientific Instrument-makers. London and Provincial Cogo
West of Scotland Brass Finish
The Fleet. The blank submarine week goes $5, returning the question that some local some little way towards answer-
malcontents are forever, asking: navy is very much alive just now, What is our navy doing? Oar
as witness the fact that the Ger mans have made attempte at attacking the east coast; and the same bluejackets makers. on for cruisers can do and are doing era. who can keep a sharp lookout!
likewise by submerines. We National Amalgamated Sheet notice that the total of neutral Metal Workera (Birmingham). 95. What are the owners going to sterers. shipa torpedoed has now reached Amalgamated Union of Uphol- do abort it? We hear nothing fur ther as to the doings of the flot at the Dardanelles, bat. General Hamilton's report of the land forces is cheering. In Turkey, as elsewhere, our men bave their eyes tolerably wide open and, in true British fashior, have taken up positions from which they refuse to abift, regarding geogra phical progress as comparatively Workers.
enemy and to force him to draw a secondary consideration so leng andnly on his reserven, as they can continue to tire the
To-day's Anniversary, To-day is the 11th anniversary
the capture of Gibraltar,
A Successful Examination in Cantonese. It is notified in the Gazelle that Mr. Erio William Hamilton, Cader, passed his final examination in Cantonese on Горе, 26 1915.
Notice to Consignees, Consignees are informed that all goods, ex e.e. Shinyo Meru, storage charges will be assessed remaining undelivered on July 26, at 5 p.m.
on
Memorial of Re-entry:
Excursion to Macao.
National Amalgamated Far- nishing Tradea Association,
of
Iron and Steel Federation. House and Ship Paint-ra. National Amalgamated Society General Union of Carpenters and Joiners.
National Federation of Women
The Regulatio as made by the Governor in Council unter Sed Ordinance, 1914, and published tion 62 (o) and (f) of the Opinm
on page 410 of the "Regulations of Hongkong 1914", are hereby repealed and the following sub- atitated therefor
opium sold shall be known as 1. The qualities of prepared Kamahan opium, Hongkong oping, Persian opium and Dross opiam.
2. Kamahan opium shall be sold in tins weighing 3 tsels at $30.75 a tin payable in nites.
3. Hongkong opium shall be Amalgamated Society of E18, 06, 04, 03, 02, at the rate eold in pots weighing faele 1, 36, gineere.
of $10.00 & tael payable in notes.. 4. Persian opiam shall be sold Friendly Society of Ironfound-in pats weighing taels 03 at the ers
rate of $800 a tael payable in uotes.
National Society of Brass- workers and Metal Mechanics.
bourers,
Gasworkers and General Ls
6. Drose opium shall be sold in weighing tiels 04 at the rate of $3.70 tasl payable in
notes.
HARBOUR OFFENCES.
Regulations Must be Obeyed.
At the Marine Court, this of Beckwith B.N., a Chinese plead- before Commander morning,
As-craft to the examination anchora
ed guilty of failing to take bis ge before entering the Harbour.
Defendant said he did not know he was doing wrong.
Wood-outting
The funniest thing we have Been lately is Reuter's dry account of that peace meeting at Kingston It is a sure thing that Bedlam and Colney Hatoh are not yet enter It has been persistently reported, for over six weeks, that the London district. No man in his taining all the lunatics of the Civil Governor of Canton, Li Kwok-kwan, is to change places with right mind, even if he he the Civil Governor of Kwangei Province, Chang Ming-chi. No one conscientiously convinced that is prefa-ed to accept responsibility for the rumour, though it is, of itain is wrong for carrying on course, a gecerally understood thing that Li Kwok-kwan has senting his opinions abroad at a time. the war, would dream of preach #in his resignation. Northern papera inform their readers what we like this. Those of our readers
That Warsaw Battle. in the sath already know: that this will make two changes in the who were at Home during the Clubs Exempt for Registration, compilers of the German, com- What bas happened to the Civil Governorship of Onatoa within a year; end, in that fact, they Boer War will remember that Wui Tung Kong Yu has been tive genius would appear to have
Is is notified in the Gazette that uniques of late? Their inven- Steel Shipbuilders.
Boilermakers and Iron and notably the Peking Gaz tle-see no little significance. It is sug times came in for an
pronounced pro-Boeré geated that General Lang Chai-kwong is no friend to the old idea healthy half-hour; and all that the Societies Ordinance of 1911.
BOM exempted by the Governor-in-deserted them badly, judging Liverpool Shipwrights' Ascocia.
Workers' Union.. Connoil from registration under from the poor show they make in tion." of “divide to rule," and that he has strong objections to sharing business was but a the government of the Province with a civilian. That General Lung to
flea bite
describing the doings of their is a firm advocate of military rule is no news to Hongkong prople.maddened by the villainous ac general information that the for at least six months, they seem
the present state of
United Brassfoundera and FiL- friends against the Russiana.iebers, He was appointed to his present. position at a moment "when
affaire. The British populace is It is notified in the Gazette for William has crippled his enemies. Notwithstanding the fact that Canton was turned upside down by the ladicrously futile declaration tions of Germany, and yet there Memorial of Reentry by the to be still able to bobble, and to
Scottish Pain'ers. of independence issued by Chan Kwing-ming, and the equally futile are people who can be silly Government on Inland Lot No. do work that succeeds in holding Smiths and Strikers,
Associated Blacksmiths, Electrical Trades Union. "revolution," or, more properly speaking, succession of military enough to pour oil ca fire by 1044 has been registered accord his asses at bay. The Aus
United Kingdom Society matinise, that followed it; ho declared mariil law in Kwangtang suggesting that we should stop ing to low. and may be eaid, without overstretching the truth, to have maintained the war. The worst part of it is
United Moobine-workers it more or less ever since.
that such madmen expect, and
trians, who, once or twice lately.ecciatio have shown themselves to be even Lang Chai-kwong has biadetractors, and these can be considered left to the tender merciee of the Mono Steamboat, Cos,,
get, police protection. If they were
Amalgamated The Hongkong, Oaton and allies, have also failed to come up
more flowery liars than their Machinists, vastly to oninumber bis friends and admirers. Europeans, however, egg and fruit throwing public we steamship Tai Shan will depart successes of their people. They tion. who may be presumed to view the matter impartially, are generally might soon hear no more of them. from the company's Wing Lolaim that the Russian line has Ualled Patterimakers' Associa - Scottish Bra Moulders' Union. to the scratch in detailing the Operative Plumbers Associa of opinion that many of his stringent measures have been emply justified; bearing in mind the intricacy of the circumstances with 11246 scorsary of the birth and return from Macao at 3 p.m. farther, while the Berlin commu-1 Ship Constractors and Ship
Street Wharf at 9.a.m. to-morrow been broken, but venture notion. which he was called upon to deal. His cardinal error-the shooting of 112th snaiversary of the birth cf Reduced fares for 2nd Class and niques make the mournful admis wrights' Association. that people do not quickly forget. The merits of the oase ara no we called him the greatest ro- Alexan ire Dames the elder. If business of oars, but it is impossible to deny that it was an extreme-mancer that the world ever Pro Macao on Sunday morning at 7.30 the essential railways are, up to
8 Chinese was fized $5, and for a steamer from repelling the German attacks and Workera, ly impolitic set, calculated to prejudice against him those who might daced we should probably not
Gereral Union of Textile failing to go to the proper authors
regard not so much the man himself as the net result of his two though, as a novelist pure and sim. P.m. from the Company's Wing report the Russian-claims that menting on the above says: It is
age he was farther fined $5. otherwise bave been bis staanchest supporters. But we have to stray far from the truth; for and from Hongkong at the present, intact.
The proceedings were private. The thir years' term of office. When all is said, he was the type of man most ple, he has to give place to his Lok Street Wharf,
The Press Association com- FLOOD RELIEF likely to be of use to China at the moment at which he was appoint-on and to perhaps a score of other
the right bank of the Bug ba understood that at yesterday's con ed; and he has not, seemingly, failed to fulfil President Yuan's Frenchmen from de Stendhal
been cleared of the enemy, fifteen ference the trade union représen expectations of him." Whatever may have been his own personal to Zo, as well as to close upon
Mr. Lloyd George's Speech exptured. hundred of whom have bentives pledged themselves to particnlara of what promises to be Our advertising columna give mctives, he came as a saviour to Canton at a time when "chastic" the same number of Britisher
Once morete pasionate principal scheme for the transfer the above fund. In the long was the only term that could be justly applied to its condition. The from Fielding to Kipling, it is a
support M. Lloyd George's an interesting effort on behalf of Eouth, like the north, had seen a deal too much of the pronounced certainty that no other man has 3 of the Licensing Ordinance, has carried the day with bisfactoris on certain conditions, leave their halla of residence and revolutionaries and rapublicans and had realised how ruinous to the ever succeeded in producing eo 1837, and published on pages 346 oɔuntrymen; and once more he They also decided to do every-visit parente, relations and friende elcquence of Mr. Lloyd George commercial work to munition majurity of university students to ence voluntarily of men from vacation it is quite usual for the well being of China sugh enthusiasts wore. At the same time.enormons a number of books, and 347 of the "Regulations of bas appealed to the loyalty of the thing in their power to prevent in the country. Many have lefte way was wanted and, just as the whole country found this way by superb) quality the interest in amended by the addition at the were not to be resisted by these and it is understood that, forza students in St. John's Hall have the election of Yuan Shih-kai, so the Province of Kwangtung found almost every case being purely end of Condition No. 4 of the diero stented ones. It is not by of arbitration has been determin- gallantly banded themselves into
every one of the interest in it in the latter'a appointment of General Lung.
romantic one. The supporters of the rumour as to the exchange between Li one would dream of mention ther no permitted in all other that powerful appeals of an ly compulsory upon both em-gala nights for Monday and Tues
historical novelias probably no Kwok kwan and Chang Ming-chi seem to see in the arrangement a 10g him in the same breath Hill District and in that portion backing of common sense. That bring a disputs to a head until stricken by the devastating foods As a serious following words:" and are for- any means always that we find ed upon which makes it practical. a committee and organised two parts of the Colony except in the emotional nature have a perfect players and employees so to day next in behalf of those. chi, like the Tutuh and like Yasn Shih-k'ai himself, cannot be called/Hewlett, or even, at times, with of the Kowloon peninsula to the is why sermen have so low the matter has been arbitrated in and around Denton. Up-t
mer. Chang Ming with Scott or with Maurice
still further move in favour of the "middle
Dumas Pere."
will also ran
Hawker's Licences,
now
Gazette of Jaly 23. The Conditions The folowing appeared in the a Hawker's Licence made by the Governor-in-Council under Bens
of
Director of Transports Appointment of Sir Quy Gardet Without Foundation.
Were you not shot at ?—Yes. A fine of $2, was imposed. Falling to Report.
Colony, to the Harbour Office,
For failing to report the arrival of big boat in the waters of this
ENTERTAINMENT.
date cinematograph films are to be shown, whilst eminent artisten: including Mr. Marley, Mr. Eng land, Professor Gonzales, string band, era to magical itome, Judging number of reserved already disposed of the
South of and including, Austin good final results and why theon. Road."
falminotoas of agitatora have so few really bad ones. But Mr. Lloyd George can
combine practicality with enthusiasm in a manner which no man living. unless it be President Poincare and Mr. John Redmond, has ever
The Press anspaarel.The consequence, is authorised to state that the report promires to be a
Association that the strikera and their published in the Press to the and's handrome
forthcomin
TYPHOON WARNING.
a product of the Revolution. In comparison with the Mancha Charles Kingeley. But there was officials of a few years back, they might have been regarded as somewhat omething about him; a reactionary, bu, by the side of the disciples of Sun Yat-sen, they are something that carried hia rendera conservatives of the conservatives. The men of their olas are on, helter-skelter, without thought frankly opposed to too much civil government, and who knows but of oriticism, breathless and im that they may be right, in theory-having regard to the condition patient till they reached the end of the China of to-day. Unfortunately their ideas, put into practice his work was hastily written and of the story.. We can say that as they have been in Kwangtang; have merely served to illustrate seldom or never read over before that theory and experience are more or less opposed. The Osnton it went to the publishers; we can of those few days of the Declaration Ohan King-wah's trained police then by the coolios and pirates who say that it contains impossible American Conal General the sympathieere lave been forcad, effect that Bir Guy
was better governed by
Through the courtesy of the formed the bulk of the army to whom charge of the city was next no real eye fo; character; but we coived from the Manila or inaction is of first class import Railway Company, hee given; and the militaryrule of Kwangiang Province continues to prove dare not deny that he possesed Observatory at 6 pm. July 23
situations and that its author had telegram quoted below was willy nilly, to ere that their cation General Manager of the Midland og may be what Britishers have ever maintained that government by soldiers, except as a last extremity to save the country, is like to prove fatal; the amazing gift of blinding his 1015. Cyclone or typhoon Er is concerned, and that there in connection with the new St. John's Hall
ance where the prosecution of the appointed Director of Transport entertainman.wi and that even in the one instance in a million wherein it is
readers to imperfections by the of northern Lason more than 300 justified, it had better not be followed unless it can be carried out vigour and magnificent glow of miles distant. Moving W.N.WA
fore the striker today is the munition scheme is entirely with Jadiciously
blokeat of all traitora to his sat foundation disol bis work
countr
19:
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opposite the Univ ham Roid