REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from page 13
THE NEW BUNGARIAN CABINET.
NO ROOM FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIALISTS.
Copenhagen, August 29.
A message from Budapest says the Friedrich Cabinet is chiefly drawn from the official and middle classes. The Premier, in a Note to M. Clemenceau, refers to the impossibility of forming a Ministry capable of satisfying all internal and foreign interests. He points out the varied interests represented and says the Labour leaders have either acquiesced in Bolshevism or fled, but the middle classes do not blame Labour and have embodied Labour concessione in their policy. Therefore he has not included in the Cabinet professional Socialist leaders, but working class representatives.
Vienna, August 30.
war.
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Bela Kun and other ex-Commissaries have been transferred to the castle at Karlstein, where the British were interned during the
REPORTED RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.
Copenhagen, August 31. -Cheonfirmed reports from Budapest that the Friedrich Government has resigned.
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THE RUMANIAN REQUISITIONS.
HOW THEY HIT HUNGARY.
Buda Pest, August 29. Unless the wholesale Rumanian requisitions are speedily stopped, Hungary will become a charge upon the Entente and be absolutely incapable of any reparation.
Anglo-American military representatives, in the course of visits, have inspected centres where the Romanians had stripped bare medical stores and electrical works, as well as enormous stores of foodstuffs, merchandise, clothing and machinery.
FIGHTING IN RUSSIA,
AUSTRALIAN UNIT BOMBED.
Archangel, August 30. Stern fighting is reported on the railway front in which 200 Australians, helping exhausted loyal Russians in the town of Kemtsa, were powerfully bombed by aeroplanes, after which infantry, supported by heary gunfire, carried the town. 350 Bolsheviks surrendering with all artillery and stores. The fighting
continues.
FHI EXCLUBING GERMANS,
for the next three years.
London. August 30. A message from Sava Fiji tays enemy aliens will be exploded
NEW AERIAL SERVICE.
Madrid, August 30.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
ANTIDOTES FOR REVOLUTION. | ing over at a time when our non-
AN ILLUMINATING ARTICLE
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producers are at their minimum numbers, and when they include thousands and thousands of men who for four years suffered and risked their lives to save, their country?
THE REAL CAUSE.
Indeed that cry may result in serious injustice. There a pro- fiteer is convicted Jet him be punished, but if all the profiteers were hanged it would make
little vary
difference. The
back
than
THE
SINCERE CO.
DON'T BELIEVE US. COME AND LOOK SEEI To Reduce our War Stocks We Reduce Prices.
AUGUST 19th to SEPTEMBER 8th.
REDUCTION
SALE.
We ordered and ordered again during the War, to make sure of having enough for
our Customers.
Goods keep coming and coming during Peace to such an extent that we have to
clear it at all costs.
So it is GOING, GOING, GOING at Giving away Prices!
AUGUST 19th to SEPTEMBER" 8th.
A. M. Drysdale writes in the Daily Chronicle thus-It must
I bave indulged in these pre- be very exasperating to the two and a half million wage-earners,liminary reflections to suggest most of them heads of families, that patience is needed all round, who are earning £3 a week and and that the cry of "profiteering" less, to read of gala dinners and is not sufficient to account for our. suppers in the West-and of present discomforts. - -, !'.. London at a guinea a head (without wine,) of a Peace Day lunch on & Strand balcony at £20, and of a furnished house for Ascot week for £800-the last of which I report on the hearsay of cause is further back than a friend.
further that, Isympathise with the exaspera- the excess profits tax, further tion. The displacement of money back than the high cost of labour which has been caused by the war and raw materials-back, back, bas resulted in scandalous ex indeed, to war. It is simply this, travagance; and, as the present that while the State can call forward to seeing a few of his money from the clouds it cannot dustrious man should be paid to low prices and low wages. The GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ON colleagues in the present Govern- In the same easy way produce more nearly alike. This would working men do not mind low ment hanging from lampposts in the food and elothes which money result automatically from the wages if the pound sterling, is Parliament street, I need not be buys and that while it has drawn highest educational opportunities made to buy double what it buys ashamed to say that I should not thousands of producers away for all, for brain worker and hand now, or, better still, treble. But wince if I saw certain social from production, it has actually worker would then be much the first essential thing is to set spendthrifts suspended: from the increas:d their capacity to con- closer together than they are the unemployed to work, even if were announced in the House of sume, and has provided them now, and the most flagrant of the it be at a loss, for the moment, railings of Piccadilly.
It is a waste of time to appeal with money which still buys, present social distinctions would to someone. The State must tide Law. They include:
Lord Chancellor once looked
.
and
to some people to show an ex- ample in harmony with proportionate to their greater advantages and opportunities: but upon poor and rich alike it is now incumbent to discourage all forms of unnecessary expenditure and to save every penny that
can be saved.
em-
JAPANESE GOODS...
A HOME OPINION.
BEER CONTROL.
CONTROL BOARD TO BE ABOLISHED.
Cabinet decisions on drink con- Commons recently by Mr. Bonar
1. Removal of restriction an quantity of beer to be brawed... 2. Gravity restrictions con- tinued, with a four degrees in- crease permitted. Beer under 1020 to be sold at 2d, a pint
3. Central Control Board to
Ministry of Food might now be safely modified.
They were of opinion that all restrictions on the quantity of beer that might be brewed should be removed. (Cheers.) But they
that
though it represents no product. in an educated nation be intoler-over that loss, ion itself-nothing in fact, but able.
Since I wrote the above the that intangibility. British credit. The introduction of the Gov. Chancellor of Exchequer has ex- I repeat these things because I, ernment's Minimum Wage Bill pressed it in his own succinet wish to insist that, whether we and Forty-eight Hours Bill is language The creation of are rich or whether we are poor. delayed by the obstacles which credits not represented by real we are all, for the present at least, have arisen in the way of setting additions to the wealth of the in the same boat: Drowning the up the National Industrial Coun- country lowers the value of
be replaced by a commission passengers will not improve the cil. Even from their own point money in terms of commodities.
under a Minister in Parliament. Fessel; it will be wiser to set of view of forcing everything on [In other words, the prices of com-
Answering a series of questions, MOONSHINE MONEY,
them to work.
in a hurry, I think the Triple modities rise." There it is, and the Leader of the House said the Let us clearly understand this, But (as a passenger) I would Alliance are mistaken in boy what we have to do now is to Government had come to the con- whether we are employers or em- rather drown the passengers cotting the Industrial Council, manufacture not create-com-clusion that some of the powers ployed, that the more money there the rest of them than starve the which is
a step forward in modities against these all too with respect to the brewing in- crew. It is absurd for people to the relations between is in circulation which does not
er-easily created credits, which the dustry hitherto vested in the represent production the harder talk of excessively high wages ployers and employed. the value man-in-the-street calls Treasury will life be for the producers, when these will not purchase of which will depend on whom notesforten shillings and apound. again whether they are
.more than the necessaries it represents. There is also a ployers. or employed. Someone of life: and there are still dead-set in some quarters against at some me or other and some.
some very low wages. By the the Whitley or Joint Industrial where has got to back hat money
way. I did the Federation of Councils in the trades; for those: with goods, if there are fewer Master Engineers an injustice who wish to increase the spirit goods and more money, the goods the other day in suggesting that of impossibilis naturally do not Prices will never come down-were farther of opinion that the will inevitablys be dear and the they wish to bring wages down desire to see harmony and co-so all but the Tariff Reformers restrictions on the gravity ought money will not go far. There is in the engineering, trades. This operation prevailing between are insisting until the Govern- to be continued. (An hon. Mem- now a great deal too much
turns out to have been only a employers and employed. Atment removes the existing re-ber "Oh, rubbish 1" and laugh-
ter.) money about and there are far too partial statement of the case, a the same time. it would be a strictions upon imports.
Take the case of Japanese They had also decided that the few goods in the background. If kind of misrepresentation which great blunder to lump all the we realised this clearly I think I warmly condemned in the same opposition to the Whitley Coun- goods." a well-known authority gravity of beer in each grade there would be more understand article. The claim of the employ cils together and attribute it to in the City said recently to should be increased by four.
the permitted ers for à reduction of 5. a week syndicalism. The greater body representative of the Daily News, degrees; An official decree has been published Authorising a Frenching and sympathy between em-
ployers and employed.
was made-in answer to a claim of opposition is more immediate Japan is manufacturing all the average gravity of the output of Aviation Company to commence a service between Toulouse und
It is obvious, and it is freely re-
fancy goods, the cheap crockery, brewers should be raised by a like by the employees before the and simple than that. Morocco, ever,Spanish territory.
cognised that wage-earners are Court of Arbitration for an in-
the toilet and clothes brushes, and amount; and that the price of CENTRES OF OPPOSITION. suffering severely from the high crease of 35s, which puts a veryFor
the thousand and one little knick-beer of a gravity under 1020 prices of commodities; but it is not different complexion upon it; and minority of the
example, spinners knacks that used to come from should be reduced to 2d. a pint
The effect of these changes perhaps recognised quite so freely if I had known these facts at the abject to being negotiated with Germany and Austria; but they that their employers are equally time. I should have stated them, in common with the weavers, country in limited quanti ies.
are only allowed to enter, this would be that the increased rate
of profit derived by the brewers. hampered by precisely the same for there is nothing which poisons who would submerge their vote difficulty Money which comes public debate so mach as mis-if there were a divergenca be all these things would be greatly spent in improving the quality of With unrestricted importation from the larger output would be from productive labour is good statement of the facts.
tween them as they confronted reduced in price, and English the beer supplied to the public, and money; money which comes from In the great skilled trades the employers. 50 in the ship- moonshine will in the end return wages are more or less stabilised building industry, a riveter would on with the high-class goods and not propose to levy any addition- manufacturers could be getting consequently the Government did It would be by legislation until November, not allow shipwrights and black- the things that really matter, in-al duty which otherwise they treason to say that money pour-when there will be much smiths to decide 2 question ed forth from the Government unsettlement. The employing affecting him that is only for
stead of thinking about the would have been able to secure. printing presses is bad money, class may take it for granted riveters on the one side and there are few, if any, facilities in Government to terminate the 'ex- It was the intention of the production of articles for which but it resembles moonshine money that discontent will continue masters on the other. This is this country, and would be, in istence of the Central (Liquor) in this that it increases the and impracticable remedies be the old dispute between The toasts
burden of production and industry advanced with much energy so industrial organisation and the addition, very costly to make Control Board at the earliest pos- without helping to
sible moment-loud cheers) and here." bear that long as on their side wages are crafts organisation. burden.
standardised just a little above" Unfortunately, the only form what unrestricted trade
Giving one illustrations of to replace it by a Commission- The Army is not self-support- what is essential for the healthy of organisation amenable to Whit Japan would mean to British Minister responsible to Parlia with (cries of “Oh, Oh!")-under a ing, the Navy is not self-support-working existence of the em-ley Councils is the industrial ing, the State is not self-support-ployee. It is right and proper, organisation, and the Whitley Purchasers, this authority men-ment: A Bill to this effect was
and indeed humane, to maintain Counels are impracticable intioned the cost, how £1, of the being prepared.
cheap alarum clocks which Mr. Will Thorne asked if the I believe that all these a horse on such a principle. But certain industries because of the formerly came from the Black Leader of the House was aware
men must have a margin and the conflict of crafts. There are. things are essential to our welfare, more educated they become the already, however, some forty Forest. and were sold in this that the low gravity of beer had but it is necessary that we should
greater will be the margin they Whitley Councils at work, and country for a few "shillings. been the means of driving people recognise them all as burdens require.
Japan is Unlike horses, they they have bad a distinctly benefi
now making these to drick whisky. upon the limited output of pro-look before and after. and pine cent effect. They give masters strictions on their impariation ion of the Government was to
clocks, and if 'all.
Mr. Bonar Law said the intent and men a too rare opportunity ofere removed the price would improve the quality of beer. educating one another-the mes:
come down, it was stated, from Capt. Ormsby-Gore: Are there Many persons have been enrag- Co-partnership in industry and ters of dwelling upon the economic ed by the unemployment dona- the assurance of an industrial incidence of world events, and £1 to 10s. Then there is the to be no changes in the hours of tion, and it certainly is pension, subscrbed partly by the men of showing the world hosiery which Japan has been sale? conspicuously uneconomic; but employers and partly by employ-wide reactions of petty hardships manufacturing on the lines of
that which formerly
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
"(From Our Own Correspondend.)
AT HOME ON JAPANESE FLAGSHIP.
Shanghai, September 1. Vice Admiral Chyiro Chisatna entertained the Officer Administer ing the Government and Mrs. James, together with members of the Legislature, to tea-on Saturday, on the flagship Iwate. of the King and the Emperor of Japan were honoured.
THE EGYPT DEPARTS.
Singapore, August 29.
A large crowd witnessed the departure of the Egypt
INTERFORT CRICKET.
Singapore. August 29.
A Straits cricket team will visit Hongkong, on November 24, for triangular games with Hongkong and Shanghai.
BARON MAKINO IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, August 29.
Baron Makino has arrived here on his way to Japan from the Peace Conference.
CHINESE PEACE DELEGATE RETURNS.
Shanghai, August 31.
Wu Chao-chu has arrived from America, from the Peace Con- ference, and is leaving by the China, for Hongkong-
MORE STUDENT TROUBLES IN CHINA.
Shangbai, August 31. Student demonstrations are more seriousin Peking and Tientsin. There have been numerons arrests and national troubles are again
feared.
THE WEISS MYSTERY.
Shanghai, August 31. The Weiss inquest will be resumed on Monday but no fresh evidence has been found and no clues are held.
to moonshine.
ing. Nor, let it be added, is te
out-of-work donation self-support- ing.
duction.
RETURN OF GOLD,
for what is not."
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
a
cotton trade)
the
so is war; this out of work payed, are ways of giving them that suffered at their bearths and has to be looked upon as a tailing nargin or elbow room in which bomes. off of the
have
re-
to-
Mr. Bonar Law: I have said came nothing about that. It is not from Saxony," She is now intended to remove all the re- prohibited from
it strictions at once. sending war expenditure the human organisation, liberat- BREAKING THE SPELL.· and without it there would ed from anxieties about the The same bugbear of high prices here, with the result that Japanese method to the British.
ladies are paying anything from battle, murder, present and the furure, works at which appale the small wage three to five times the ordinary plained, been
The Japanese," it was ex- and sudden death at home. its best. The majority ought to earner terrifies the private enter
are making just Yet it is one of the things, have a greater share in the good prises. We are all. waiting for Price for their stockings, which, those goods which we formerly however expedient--and this is things of life, and especially in prices to come down; and we are mitted, would at once come down tries, on account
were reasonable competition per-imported from enemy "coun- what I wish to bring home to my its sweetness and light. That waiting for an event which will
of their working-men readers which
cheapness, and greater share they cannot have not happen until we act. Some-100 or 200 per cent. or more. keep up and further send up without taking away from someone has to break the spell out day," this authority added, "will any extent in this country. It is because we English" manufacturers
never wanted to make them, to prices. More people than ever
one must "bell the cat." The State. before in our history are eating The brain-workers will have to has made generous grants to the only accept an order on condition pretty certain we have no labour who do not produce, and this fact be content with less, the capita- local authorities for road-making price may be ruling on the date them now. Japan is the only that they may charge whatever and very little desire to produce reacts in higher prices as much lists with a fixed maximum profit, bridge-building, any many other they despatch the goods, and they country, which will give us those I to
the disadvantage of the and shareholders with equitable local works; but the local authori employers as to that of the work dividends. I am quite sure of ties are holding back until the will give no date for delivery. low-grade goods and deliver them people. If there were no money this, that the wisest statesmen, price of materialsand Jabour comes but gold, the hard-hip would be looking at the nation as a whole, down. That price is not coming The Japanese, on the other reasonable conditions, and if there shifted from the producers to the as the wisest always do, will down, and we had better get on hand. will give a price which they were a business man at the head non-producers, for there is not desire that there should he less with the work at once. Let us will keep, and even an approxi-of the Board of Trade, he would the gold in the world to overtake disparity between the rewards of produce, and let us admit to our mate date for delivery. The see that the one way to bring the present paper currency. But different kinds of work, that the enchanted circle what others pro- trader, therefore, who must have down prices in to remove are we prepared for such a shift- clever man and the merely in- duce. Only so shall we get back his goods, naturally prefers the embargo upon them.”
one else.
UP-TO-DATE METHODS.
in a reasonable time and under
HARDWARE AND LOCKS
CYALE
LOCKS AND HARDWARE