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69107 四拜禮 號五十月三英港香 THURSDAY.
APRIL 15, › 1920.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
STRIKE NEWS.
ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS.
DANGER OF ALLIED CRISIS PAST.
a serious inter-Allied crisis has been dispelled.
TAXATION OF WAR WEALTH.
AIMING AT £500,000,000,
London, April 13,
$36 PER ANNUM,
ANDERSEN, MAYER
STATEMENT BY GUILD OFFICIAL,
We to-day sought the opinion of the Machanics Guild on the
PEAK TRAMWAY OFFICIAL | increase of 25 per cent. inge
INTERVIEWED.
INTERESTIKU. STATEMENTS
CANTON PAPER.
by the Chairman of the ! Company, Whilst
may
083.90
whan
Talaphama
TO-DAY'S -EXGH
The closing rate of the demand, to-day wi
THE WHA
"Five thousand mechanics from Hongkong have come to Canton.
the headquarters of the Five hundred of them are staying Mechanica Union; somaare visit- lng their friends and relatives in
already found employment in the the country, and others have many workshops and factories in the city.
have been more equitable if it Humidity 2 p.m. represînted a permanent fixed London, April 12
The House of Commons Committee on the taxation of war
The engine man, brakesmen, increase. The inclusion of the Regarding the Anglo-French situation, a degree of tension still wealth has resumed its sittings.
Sir John Anderson, the Chairman of the Inland Revenus Rdard, greasers and fitters have thrown bagus of 19 coum per day sa persists but Allied diplomats generally consider that all danger of
submitted three alternative schemes to meet the suggestion that in their lot with the fitters of a separats fem of the masse It is reported that Lord Darby personally drafted the British liberal abatement based on the amount of pre-war wealth should be other companies and gone on must necessarily be insecure Note, which Mr. Lord George approved early on Saturday, before allowed in order to cover savings and to recognise the diminished strike, Consequently, the Peak and his departure for San Rema It is hinted that a personal interview value of the pound, the duty under each scale to be limited Tramway service was dislocated comes up for reconsideration on Under the yesterday, and the tram did not the date latimated by the Chair- of the Company. The between 1. Cambon and Mr. Lloyd George-would-have-facilitated in order nota reluce the post-war wealth.
first scale, which will affect 45,000 people, it is estimated to produce begin to roo today beface man progress, but this meeting was prevented.
£45,000,000; the second scale, affecting 105,000 people. Is estimated p.m. There was a slight accid- cessation of this bonus would to yield £700,000,000; and the third scale, affecting 75,000 people, is ent yesterday, and, as a result, leave only an increase of some 15 estimated to yield £300,000,000, Sir John Anderson said that unless the cars on the Peak stopped par cent. all round.
Asked if he is willing to renew they could aim at a yield of £500,000,000, it would be questionable running last evening at 7 o'clock. whether it was worth while facing the cost of the financial distur-About fifteen feet of cable got the discussion on the basis of this coiled up and the service had to offer, the official said that the The Committee adjourned after Sir John Anderson promised be stopped for the whole night.workmen have authorised their submit the result of an investigation into the effect of a levy on Owing to the strike of the men, representatives to stand out for
the Peak Tramway Company has the 40 per cent, incrsans. had to enlist the services of a faw businesses.
Service men, who are new to the work.
A Paris message says M. Millerand has handed Lord Darby the French reply to the second British Nota, which is believed to be most conciliatory and is expected to lead to happy results.
THE FRENCH ATTITUDE
Paris, April 12. it is understood that when the French evacuaia Frankfort and Darmstads they will likewise withdraw from Homburg and Hanau. The German request for a three months" extension of the period in which they are allowed to begin disarming will be the first subject discussed at San Remo.
The French will endeavour to limit the occupation to towns on the Main and will be willing to withdraw their troops sa soon as the German forces in the Ruhr region are normal.
M. MILLERAND'S VIEWS.
bance.
THE US. RAILWAY STRIKE.
NO FEARS OF PAMINE IN NEW YORK.
New York, April 12.
A gang of naval and military men were this morning at the Lower Station engaged in the repairs of the damaged part of the cable. The supervisor was of
London, April 13.-
While to railwaymen in the Middle West are returning to opinion that a resumption of the M. Millerand, interviewed in Paris after his speech in the Cham-work, the strike has spread elsewhere. There are now 40,000 service could not be expected Up to the time of going to press, ber, again emphasised that the recent minor divergence in no wise railwaymen out and several hundred thousand of other workers are until the afternoon.
trams had not resumed affected the deep-rooted Anglo-French friendship. He pointed out consequently rendered idle.
Fears of a famine in New York have been allayed through the the that the French living on the left bank of the Rbice know Germany intimately. He laid stress on the importance of a real Entente, e-arrival of supplies. The hotels in New York are overcrowded with running, although it was expected pecially at present, with a view to assuring fall execution of the marooned passengers, many of whom are sleeping in improvised that the service would again start Treaty of Versailles and solving a number of overseas problems, beds in the halls. The railway stations are also crowded with at 4 p.m. France was ready to help Germany, but the latter must show a real sleepers. willingness to carry out the Treats. Hitherto she had done little) respecting disarmament, the war criminals, coal, the surrender.
the Moreover,
militarist spirit still exists of guns, in Germany. He concluded that the question of the occupation of German towns had been finally settled between the British and the Lord Derby is French, adding that no bad feeling remains. resuming his sest at the Ambassadorial Conference. Boity is as complete as ever it was.”
etc.
THE IRISH HUNGER-STRIKERS.
A GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED."
Londop, April 12.
RUSSO JAPANESE CONFLICT,
HEAVY CASUALTIES REPORTED.
London, April 12
The residents of the Peak are exhorted to go home early, as communication with the Peak by the service will come after 10 o'clock each night until further
FROM THE EMPLOYERS
VIEWPOINT.
*The cause of the Hongkong mechanics leaving their work, a everyone knows, is due to the men
demanding
12%
increase af wages, that is a forty per cent. rise for all grades. The demand is based upon the fallowing reason, 20
fat Be We gather from Daian-The
in
We were having a chat with a
the Kochanics member of the staff of one of our
cont of living Dock Companies yestanday and solicited his view of the strikers in Hongkong has risen to soch attitude. He said that the state- an extent that it is impossible to liva, sad to meat that the fitters, who are for the mea cent, in their wages; cannot ekepancies' and déutä. From our asking for an increase of 40 per provide margin for tontin- decent living at the knowledge, the increase in the out present time owing to the high cost of living in Hougkong has cost of foodstuffs, was certainly gone up at least forty per cent. of port that opinion by saying that the high prices of rice prevailing · not irda. He preceeded to sup-what it used to be: for example,
It for the last four years the work and the high rentals in Hong
is argued
that shops at the Dock Companies kong. have been busy night and day, for the last ten
years the the three Hongking bara d anyone interested In this, if ma
not received he had gone along the Praya any docks night before the strike, would any increase in their wiges. notice.
have seen numbers of ́lanaches while the foreign staffs have had We interviewed Mr. D. E. Clark, carrying the workmen across their salaries increased from of the Peak Tramway Company for sight work, bringing and twenty to thirty-per-sant, besides this morning, and he informed us taking them back every hour of being allowed quarters. free and The demand for provided with a Provident Fund. that twelve Service men have the night. been put on the job of manning an increase of 40 per cent. None of those advantages go to the enginee These were quite|was outrageous. The ordinary the Chinese mechanics, although sufficient for the present, but man in the street did not quite they have undoubtedly been the
situation. the new draft was, of course, appreciate the
An means to provide the profits of strange to the work, unlike average artisan during the last the employers and the general the Chinese artisans who bad three or four years had never improvement of the conditions of gone on strike. He was confident done so well in his life. He had the foreign staff. that the Service men would soon made good money by working "The authorities of the dock zat accustomed to the work overtime. After a certain time companies are reported to have The number of Etters
and these workmen go: paid double agreed to give the men a thirty per who had struck was for overtime. A 40 per cent. in cent. increase for-the fitters and others
They gui crease.if granted, would mean that twenty per cent for the foremen. the usual fitters' wages that were the men would get 80 per cent. The strikers insisted, however, Mr.abour two dozen
current in the Colony There on overtime. That would be on having a forty per cent. was no bonus distribution during nonsense," remarked the speaker.increase all round, which their Chinese New Year. The men They are making good money employers could not see their
The Times Tokyo correspondent, writing on the 8th insi, saya in fighting at Khabarovsk five Japanese officers and 79 men were killed. Four hundred Russians were killed and 1,500 taken prisoner.
ARREST OF BRITISH CORRESPONDENT.
INDEMNITY DEMANDED FROM GERMANY. The Executive of the Irish Trade Union Congress has cstled a
Berlin. April 12. general strike throughout Ireland for the 13th instant, except news-
The British Charge d'Affaires has presented a note demanding papers, telegraphy, food supply and humanitarian services, as a protest against the treatment of political prisoners, and demanding jan apology and indemnity for the arrest and maltreatment of
Voigt correspondent of the Manchester Faurdith, at Essen.. their release..
PISCUSSION IS HOUSE OF COMMONS.
London, April 19.
In the House of Commons. Mr. T. P. O'Connor emphasised the gravity of the condition of the hunger strikers at Mountjoy who should be treated as political prisoners. He declared that the present spatem of military repression in Ireland had failed. It had only driven the people to greater exasperation and revolt. He said that if the strikers died, the effect upon the already inflamed people would be deplorable.
Mr. Yates printed out that convictions in Ireland were unpro-| curable owing to the terrorism of witnesses.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
CHINA AND RUSSIA.
Shanghai, April 14.
VLADIVOSTOK SITUATION.
Shanghai. April 14.
only got their wages.
not like going po strike.
bobos. B
The
is
at present, without any increase.“
way to complying with. From a Was former executive member of the Mr. Clark, continuing. said-The European staff, "Der engine drivers and brakes mentioned, have not received Mechanics Union we learn that men wrote to us & few days before such a rise. There had been no the men would agree to a forty they went on strike that they did general increase of pay for per cent. increase to the fitters They Europeans, but incrasses were and thirty per cent. to the fore- On representations being made by the Educational Party or the pointed out that being members given according to service only men, but they would not consent Mr. Clynes, supporting, wamed that there was a danger of recognition of the Russian Sovie: Government, the Ministry for of the Engineering Guild evers The only thing the Europeans to say other terms but these. Foreign Affairs is prepering a circular notification explaining that one of them had to obey all have enjoyed is a bonus. Bath and they would stand firm, as Latour action in Ireland spreading to England.
Hongkong Commander Bellairs pointed out that interned Bolsheviks in as the expressions contained in the Russian Note are very obscure orders and commands that might Docks have paid their assistants they feel that they are in a posi-
agree to them. obedience would put them to and Whampoa Dock Compaar tion to compel the employers to New York behaved similarly and the American Government pursu.and as no other Power has shown any inclination to recognise be issued from time to time. Dis
the Government. Chins should not be the first to take the step.
serious trouble, and possibly paid their European staff in 1915
The Mechanics Union is, wa ed the same tactics as the British.
danger. They were quite satisfied & bonus of 10 per cent.. the next with their conditions, and being year,it was raised to 15 per cent.. understand, backed up by local ex-fitters they had received an in-andfas: yp57 to 20 per cent. "Of guilds with subscriptions. It is crease only recently. After 1 couke, the Chinese workmen do also receiving financial belp from received that letter 1 expected not participate in these boars dis- the Chinese Engineers Institute that the men would go out. We tribations by the Dock Companies, in Hongkong, affiliated associal- told our haters, but nor the engine but this effect by the factions in Singapore. Tongking and give that the Chinese get paid wher-ports: The Union bas would drivers. that we
ofer-time, whereas the seventy thousand dollars as them an increase according to the for
European staff do not receive reserve fund providing for a sward."
vertime pay. They hayer to curry contingency of this kind, and is at their jobe. If & European disposed to use this money to return to bis office at night to their demands. comes to office on Sunday or bassist the strikers in obtaining finish bis job, he does not get That there is ample employ- double pay, as the Chinese do. ment for the men out on strike is The Chinese artisan is paid for confirmed by the report that every extra bit of work he does. many are now being employed When he works on double time in the following places The Canton Silk Factory, Engineering shops, Motor. Engine Builders,
The Irish Attorney General waged that the arrests were in ze- cordance with the law, and the men were simply attempting suir de. Ameliorative treatment for convicted prisoners had
Li Ku-ngo, the Commissioner at Vladivostok, has wired that in been demanded: -which Lord Fronch had no power: cire
View of the calling between the Japanese and Russian troops, the Untried prisoners were treated under special rules and they would certainly be tried possible. But in this regard, he re-emphasised Chinese troops should withdraw in order to avoid computations,
Mr. Yates point. He defended the use of military, pointing out that! 10,000 constabulary were no longer able to maintain order. By the use of military, large stores of expivelves, which otherwise could not! have been tackled. had been captured. Thus risings in different parts of the country were prevented.
Mr. Bonar Law re-emphasised that there was no possibility of a change in the decision of the Government, which must resist terrorism and arrest suspects. Any subsequent release because suicide was theatened would make the maintenance of lax and order impossible., (Cheers).
ROME-TUKYO FLIGHT,
TWO AIRMEN SHOT DOWN.
London, April, 12.
.............
Chun-bsun.
INTERNAL PEACE.
But why are you being guided Shanghai April 14- The Un Fook Club Party bas strongly protested against the by the Dark Companies, seeing direct negotiation of peace between the Government and Shumbat the Peak Tramway is a public
atility concern?"
It is usual. They employ a large number of fitters andChinese workmen, and therefore they must settle the dispute."
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
From Our Own Correspondent)
STUDENTS STRIKE.
Shanghai, April 14.
"If the strike continuas in-he gets double pay." definitely what would you do?”
J
a
to
In that case we should have SANITARY WORKERS' PETITION.New Dock Company, New Motor
men
to review the situation."
We understand that the fit Company, the Oxacetyline Weld Company, the Samebui "You engage a very small
ters and artisans employed by the ing
Canton-Han- number of filters. Surely you are Sanitary Department, numbering Fatsban and no: bound to wait until the
over two hundred, bave sent in akow Railways. Agants from fac The schools have closed bere. The French Consul refuses to Dock Companies setile. their
These tories and engineering works at in Fateban have come to offer em- arb employed News received in Allahabad from Bagdad says two airmen negotiate with the Students' Union whose offices are moving into differences with their men. This petition for more pag.
disinfecting stations.ployment to the strikers, and, wa
avail of. Bying from Rome to Tokyo report that Arabs machine-gunned and Chinese terntory.
convenience the Pask people con-
Should their demands not 'meet believe that many will A mess meeting and parade took place in the Chinese city this policy is very likely going to in- shot down two accompanying machines outside Aleppo. They kept the machines but allowed the occupants to return to Constantinople. afternoon.
The Municipal schools in the International and French Settle-siderably. Could you not afford with due consideration, it is it, as the wages are reasonable Later...
to pay your small band of strikers the increased demand without rumoured that they will come and the conditions are attractive out and may influence the inasmuch as the men will enter. £be The airmen shot down were Captain Ranza and Lieutenantments are not affected.
The French authorities have decided to allow the students taking your lead from
coolies in these stations, who lea a profit-sharing basis, which Harzars.
union to remain in the Concession. 15,000 studente paraded the Docks?" asked the interviewer total several hundred, to do like is so common and found to work Chinese city this afternoon. They were very orderly. The police "We have told our men that watched girls and boya, students of all ages, carry banners denounce consider, their demand un-wise. We learn that the petition so auccessfully with all Chinese ing the Peking government Neither police nor soldiers bothered reasonable. We do not think is receiving the consideration of industries. the paraders. There are no guards at the Settlement boundaries that they are justified in asking
STRILZES GET WONE :- » Labourers generally are unacquainted with the strike but the leaders for an increase of 40 per cent.
18' CANTON:
Kor are working. The vague generalities of the strike platform seem They are justified in getting some likely to defeat its success.
Increase but not 40 per cent. That is the whole point.,
The Canton Times of to-day tas We are pre-
the fall pared to consider scope rise,”
OBITUARY.
London, April 14. The death is announced of the Most Rev. Dr. J. B. Crozier, The death is also announced of the Dowager Viscountess
Primate of Ireland.
い
(Other Telegrams on Pages 2 and. 8.)-
the Government.
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*It would seem from the attitude of the 133-73 ··that strike will be prolonged several months
(Coulimis) on Paje