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6117弍拜 4七廿月三英港香 TUESDAY,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
FREIGHTS FROM AMERICA..
FOREIGN COMPANIES "AGREE TO UNIFORM KATES.
London, April 26.
IMPRESSIONS OF HONGKONG-
MR. MACONAPHIE'S SEVEN YEARS REVIEW.
APRIL 2. 1920.
sentable ministry, like to know actually expected.
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BAR SINGLE COPT: 10 CTS,
$36 PER ANNUM,
Red Leat
ANDERSEN,
KWANGTUNG CEMENT WORKS.
SALE TO HONGKONG
INTERESTS:
One would coming here may be hard put to kong and that though like other what was it to and a roof to cover them :) Obristians they have not all that that they will hara to compete attained unto perfection, their infar. for what housing there is with avarage is not below our own and in its an unlimited non-British popola- many of them have come well The British tion which finds Hongkong through tests such as we never to have a desirable and can ontbid most encounter. I think it likely that larger circulation than any other of us when it comes to if some emergency should evar At the Union Church on Sun-religious journal in the British buying sites of contracting for arise in which the necessity Another local industry may be A New York telegram says that after a two days' conference day morning, the Rav. 3. Kirk | Islands, lately inserted a kindly rear; that the competition is for mediating elements between lost to the Cantonese, if Mr. han the Shipping Board and foreign steamship companies agreed to Maconachie, who to-day left for note about this Church's Diamond unrestricted unless one can afford East and West became urgent,Kan-yu, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, and Christianity of other Hongkong Chinese, who establish uniform freights from all American ports and to eliminate Home leave, gave an address on Jubilee. In this it was art that to live on the top levels and finds the common
Seven Years Impressions of I preached an eloquent sermon it convenient to do so; and that English and Chinese Churches visited Canton last week, succeed
play ад important in acquiring Representatives of American. British and Japanese Companies Hongkong." Hebased his remarks which was reported, in the Daily the only remedy, suggested so far would
the Kwangtung meet on May 3 to determine the rates from America to the Far Eason the words: "Hə bimself stay-Press, and which I closed by is the magio ward "Kowloon," } possibly even a decisive part, 1Cement Works 'on' behalf of oer-
bas disadvantages ed in Asia for a whila" (Act)appealing to the Home Churches which
of am bound to say I regret vertain forsiga interests as allerød, OWN Ia 19'22) and said 1 had been not for warmer sympathy and greater ite
my "judgment, much that our Church members say's l'antan Times. is much longer than seven days in support! As you may remember, the situation
preposterous as a whole know so little about Government in
The Kwangtung Administratipa Hongkong when an interviewer I did not so much as mention the our
the Chinese Christianity and take so is negotiating to sell the coment has been called asking for my impressions. Home Churches. What happened past
culpably little pains to inform themselves works at Ronam for two million
competition.
PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.
QUESTIONS OF THE TREATY.
London. April 26.
atated that it was not proposed to reimpose the control of wool.
Lunny suppested that in view of the recan increase in freight, an inquiry be held into the profits of shipowners and also as to whether there was any justification for the increase of freights
at present.
Government will introduce an Anti-Dumping Bill this session. also stated that the Government did not propuse to make amendments of the Peare Treaty towards the Allies,
THE PRINCE IN NEW ZEALAND
A STIERING WELEDAÏE.
THE LABOURITES.
London, April 26.
A FOREIGN POLICY NEEDED.
He
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London, April 25. Presiding at a conference of Labour delegates consened by the Union of Democratic Control. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald deplored Labour passivity with regard to foreign affairs. If Labour is going to govern, it must have its own foreign policy and mast unite with the workers of other countries to secure world peace.
IMPORTED MUTTON DECONTROLLED.
London. April 25.
Control has been removed on imported mutton.
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TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 4s/10}££
My plea that these could be of no no doubt was that the para- remiss, and after one experiance The language difficulty, of dollars, allowing the bajars to In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Coote, Mr. Hayalue at so early a stage was set graphist. getting tired of scanning of "peaceful penetration" already, course, in largely the cause of have a monopoly on the trade for aride and I was assured they my eloquence, jumped to what it is surely extreme folly to this: I bare found it a difficulty fifty years in this province, aside would be of great interest, so rehe
the permit acother to go on before myself. I bave found also that from exclusive privilege to mine membering that a thing can be inevitable conclusion I have our very eyes Itmatters nothing some of our Chinese Churches do limestone at the Bat Qairy. Fai interesting without baing valuable written of course to corect such how many houses son build or a great deal of good-without-ad-Shu dam, Tsingy an
you baild thom, ifvertising it. How many of us did give a few, first impressions misleading error and to say that where
is the world for what they might be worth. So this Church has never needed to all
free to know--I did not till the other day sha-tao, is mortgaged to the The works, together with Tai- No real remedy-that the To Tsai Church main-Japanese Taiwan Bank for three Sir Robert Horne promised to bring the suggestion to the notice far as I can recollect them, there appeal home for support and the occupy them.
Was Dathing in these which only help we ask is that Churches for the difficulty can possibly tains a Home for hundreds of aged million dollars, one-half of which of the central committee.
Replying to Sir Frederick Hall, Mr. Bunar Law stated that the should wish to retract on after a accuss the seas will take the be found unless some suficient people in Kowloon Lity, or that having already been repaid. Supreme Council was considering the question of Germany's full seven years the length of trouble to send us the names of ares or areas be set aside for the same congregation gives It la understood that some
be required emigrating members, a matter in British occupation. If I say the
whole of its Sunday Cantonésa execution of the terms of the Peace Treaty in regard to the surren-time supposed to
will oppure the der or destruction of aircraft material. The Government intended before one knows a family well which they are app to be remiss anything like this someone writes collections far good works sala
very doabital to the Press to charge me with outside its own congregations the grant of a monopoly for to foreigners and also to have the Treaty carried out
enough to take the liberty of However I am Replying to Capt. Wedgwood Benn Mr. Bonar Law Stated thapaking its fra, not that I have whether my correction will be advocating a colour line, but real-needs? We ought to know these the manufacture of cement, a pra- autished, which is partly my ly that is most unjust. It is not a things and a great many more terial which will be in great dem- any desire to stir the furnace.
Hongkong is a Colony which reason for correcting it now. question of colour at albebut as regards not only the religions and in the coming years, when peuple at Home,speaking generai-
Well that is one pretty definite purely and simply one of arith-but also the social and commercial more and more concrete buildings impression I have ply. know very little about.
formed metic, and I should say just what lives of our neighbours. We are will be constructed and roads confess to having known net ajabout Hongkong. that it is I have said if the majority not here to make for ourselves built. The pressu: price of five
tao oals
little great deal before the request to not
kaown against us Britons in this British little English garden walled to six dollars a cask of cement is go to it dropped as it were from in the Homeland but in Colony happened to be as white around, and try to forget that we high enough, it is considered. the skies, neither was it easy to same respects is often damagingly as ourselves".
are on the borders of the great find out much one would have misconceived. We who live here. Let me pass from this paint to and wonderful land of Cains. Company, and the Wing On Com- The Sincere Company, the San and our predecessors, must be to another which may perhaps pas That mistake some do make, and pany, the three largest department A mesage from Auckland says there was a renewal of stirring liked to know.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica blame I suppose in failing to this colour question in a less it is a great one but I suppose stores in Canton and Hongkong scenes at the welcome to the Prince of Wales in the domain of the
encouraging. send home fuller reports. I hope equivocal light This is a place be that is insular of soa! will be have for a time considered on the Cricket Grindon Monday by 30,000 cheering spectators, including was
treatment of the subject whilst in England to do anywhere many races meet, and insular still, and go on interpret-purchase of this factory, but for the Premier and members of the Cabinet The Prince proceedslis
also.little thing for which there may have formed a very clear impresing the call of the East in terms some reason the deal did not south on the 27th instant aboard a train entirely manufactured by being too
as I have
discover-e opportunity to lift the cloud |sion that faller 'intercourse of cocktails, cash and flirtation materialize. New Zealand, and meets Mauris at Rotorua.
led, in some respects libellous, under which we rest.. I shall say amongst them is greatly to be As for our own Church life and The general aspect of the island, that whilst the summer is cer- desired. There are friends in European Christianity in general, as also the conditions of health tainly trying the climate and England who find it difficult to] there is much that one could say, for Europeans, would be
sa general conditions as anch, that believe are now that it has not but it comes up regularly, and agreeable surprise to any enquirer persons of ordinary constitution been necessary for me to learn to need not be enlarged on DOW. who went no farther for informs will do quite well if they keep speak Chinese. That comes from Church life here cannot be jast rion than the tenth edition of clea of the old Anglo-Indian failure to understand what a large as at home, in many respects, and that classis work and indeed the delusion that continual nipping British population we have here we have to make what we can of eleventh is not so very much of spirits is assesssity for health, and how greatly the lost sheep it rather than complain that it is THE WEATHER. better.
and in other respects refrain from of the house of Israel" need not otherwise. It is impossíbis, One man who did know said taking liberties which they would (shepberding.
eg to get the great Sunday
Forecast:-Rain. Barometer:- that if one is prepared to live in not permit themselves in their But in another view I could Schools we have across the 29.99. Temperature 2 p.m. :——68 a Turkish bath night and day for native climate.
wish these good folk were not ocean, neither can the week-night Humidity 2 p.m.-63. seven months in every Jea: Our Colour has its drawbacks. mistaken sad that while we can Clubs, meetings. Societies be it would be all right to go but the frequent admiration of all get on in 3 way here carried on here 24 there. It all¦ Hongkong. Acother, who thought tourists for what has been made though ignorant of the language means a loss of interest and be knew, sent me an urgent of this originally barren island spoken by the mass of our neigh sense of responsibility and that directly or indirectly, service to his sickroom under British administration and bours it were usual for Europeans is increased by the fact that the empire, to the East, and if we adjuring me not to entertain, the enterprise is thoroughly justified to acquire at least a little of it. I neither have we here the duties are Christians to Christ and the idea. Others, however, were foe magnificent water supply, was discouraged from making and opportunities of ordinary Church. It is easy to belitis our more cheering and 3
at the the invaluable dairy produce, any attempt of that kind when citizenship on which to what our hfe here, to wax sarcastic over same time they were less extrems, the drainage and sanitation as came here, and I greatly regret minds and exercise our rights. its pettiness, its aimlessness, its I thought they were probably whole, the efficient policing of having fallen in with such bad The change in the latter respect, affectations, and pretences. We the island, the handsome ware-advice. Those who are likely to which one experiences on coming see each other at close quarters, On actually arriving bere it houses, residences and Churches, be here for any length of time to this Crown Colony, is very which is always morally trying. soon appeared that the residents the glorious forestry, the safe and would do well, I feel sure, so great and at times very irksome and to the cynic tempting. In to place Germany and Rossix in a position to reconstitute them themselves expect newcomers 19 busy harbour-700 and I are ac-learn to excusage at least a few After a life of active citizenship my term here I have not hesitated, selves. Italy was most anxious to resume commercial relations be surprised agreeably. Hong customed 10 it all and we ordinary ideas with the Chinese. in a great city of our great coun-ss you know, to criticise. nor re- with both. The Allies must convince Russia that they have no illong folk seem quite inured to naturabily 5x Our thoughts The effect would be good in every try one takes badly with the sented criticism given ***** feeling, but Russia must guarantee not to interfere with their in-the common impression that theron what is still
lacking. way for both parties. Plenty of system under which everything which latter indeed has rarely. ternal auairs when calations are resumed. The workers were able live in a malarial stemp on a But this strikes strangers as a goodwill exists on either side but is arranged over our heads and been other than perfectly fair. to see that Bolshevist conditions in no wise resemble an El Dorado. dies of quining and spirits, that very remarkable place with not-ali¡ can never bave its due effece without our knowledge. The But I trust it will be recog- Signor Nitti added that it was less to discuss & revision of the they stand a fair chance of being few attractions and adzantages while the barrier of language demand for some system of nised that my aim bas never Feace Treaty, because Germany was responsible for the war, but the murdered in their beds, and live and I am not surprised to hear remains as it is. The great elective representation is reason been to denounce and expose for Treaty must be bonestly applied. The Allies should enable Germany (if they escape) in atsheds Americans say that if it were majority of Europeans here able and timely, though I do no: the sake of doing it but to to work, for her collapse would mean the collapse of the whole of stocked with J little bamboo theirs they would advertise i have friendly and respectful ser, democrat though I am, how stimulate, if Possible, toward Europe. What we defeated was German Imperialism. Germany famitare. One lady friend assur- Few of us seems to be aware that feelings toward their Chinese any Government, under our con- what has seemed to me the better ed us that it was useless coming we are living in one of the beauty neighbours, I am quite certain. ditions, can ever allow our float way. I am happy to leave with ME LLOYD GEORGES ASSURANCES.
here unless we could eat beans, spots of the earth, yet such is the Here and there you will finding population a mujarity in its that recollection, and shall hope San Remo, April 25. as these were the chiefarciole ollesse, logan prepared me in the spessorers of the type which legislative body."
to return with the same ATZIN needless 30 Mr. Lloyd George, an returning from Conference, received diet:
key. she least for that, except one. friend every country produces DENTON Another thing one misses per- Let us help one another because been out ofwho bad toured the world and minded. French journalists to whom he emphasised that the settlement left had never
provincial, ill-bred, sonally is the give and take of we love one another. Let our no question of principle outstanding. He declared that he had never England
never said that his two finest prospects instaly vulgar and I am afraid association with other Churches own minds be above the pettiness discouraged the employment of military means for enforcing the would go on any account farther had been Hongkong mountains their contemptuoOS bearing and ministers. The isolation of and pretension with which every Treats, but the Germans should not be prevented from restoring order, than she could swim from her from the barbour and Hongkong toward members of other races the position of your minister here small community is charged, and
Laying stress on the necessity of Anglo-French unity. Mr. Lloyd native shore. ---
harbourfrom the mountain. There is responsible for untold mischief. really creates a necessity to go probably chargeable. A great George maintained that there had been no disagreements, although Dace settled down, I soon is abuodant refresbroent for the "One sinner destroyeth mach home and get freshened up, were inheritance is given into there had been difficulties. He urged them not to magnify insects began to get communications be-eye and rest for the mind in the good," says the proverb, and there no other reason. Que's custody. The graves at Stanley, into rhinoceroses. The British and French must make allowances traging extraordinary misconcep- scenery of our wonderful island, certainly a few bulicked cabs brethren of other denominations which every Britan should for difference in temperaments. He hoped that in any future tion on the part of people who, different views on every level and one can call them nothing else have all been friendly, and the see.
and ponder difficulties they would talk matters over together, and not are at one would have thought, mighat every turning, prospects of can do a sad amount of harm, good feeling which exists is a the tablets on these walls, the long range.
hare known better. One seemed inexhaustible variety in the bullying the coolie or workman,thing to be thankful for. Still, ubiquitous reminders in every sort PRANCO-BRITISH AGREEMENT.
to be regarded as a sors of pioneer changing contours of hill and an looking downon the merchant one ploughs" a lonely furrow, and kind all around os instruct exploring the wilds or at least glen, the shades of brown and who is better educated and io-sod A0 it must be in the us each and all that though far Mr. Lloyd George has sonounced that as the result of a con- guarding an outpost of civilisa- green picked out with brilliant finitely better manpared than circumstances of the case. All from the land we count our home, ference with M. Millerend a joint declaration will be prepared tion. People from various parts blossoms, the witchery of cload themselves, as well as a far of us in our own way here must and here for but a portion of our be aware of the drawbacks I have time, be it shorter or longer, announcing Franco-British agreement to enforce the disarmament of the old country would write to and coastline worked into endless smarter man of business.
I have lately beard it suggested soslightly indicated. They prepare we have a past to live up to clauses of the Treaty and disavoring the idea of France occupying say that their young friend so-and-transformations with dented is let
so was coming out to Hongkong and ocean blue. If Nature any that some sort of international the ground but too well for the of which in its own degree and the right bank of the Rhine and the Ruhr coalfields.
one of these days and they would where calls upon man to worship Club is neaded here such as exists maskee microbe, which does far manner Christian men and AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ARRIVES.
be much obliged if I would she does so here, and one can but in some other ports. It would be more harm then the mälarial and women must consecrate by build- San Remo, April 24. meet him and help him to hope and pray that the march of well if practical shape could be is less easy to counteract, after ing it into the vast design which It is officially announced that the American Embassy from feel home. Ther
see what is called progres, otherwise given to the idea or any other all, we are bolding an outgast underlies the Kingkom which Paris arrived at San Remo this afternson, with instructions from to think it upoecessary to give the intrusion of the motor carides abich would promote here and one of nos mean hath on end, the Kingdom of our Washington, whereupon the American Ambassador at Rome particulars as to date or vessel or with its din and stenches, will not matusi acquaintance and un-importance, both commendlally, Lord and of His Christ, immediately proceeded to Villa de Vachan to attend the Conference. what the newcomer is to be so much farther in profaning the derstanding
politically and religiously. It is lupé sum of my impressions of engaged in. The only inference temple.
One is glad to note that com- often said we are not herd for our Honkong, is that if a man Or is that they picture this place as Someone would like perhaps to mon ground is being found to health, meaning that we are here woman cares about serving Christ a lonely spot where a steamer interject that we can't live on some extent in sport; nothing to make some motivy. **** three fuky be places where that calls occasionally and we all go facinors, and what about the could be better in its way, for And surely it is but fair that a genfr shut there can be few The United States has formally recognised the independence of down to look at the passengers. bousing question? Well I have indeed playing the game man who gives his working years where it is more needed and, the Republic of Armenis.
THE ITALIAN PREMIER'S VIEWS.
San Remo, April 26. Signor Nitti, on receing a number of journalists, said since the war was overit was absolutely necessary, if Europe is to be saved.
must disarm.
1.
San Remo, April 24.
ARMENIAN REPUBLIC RECOGNISED.
Washington, April 24,
U.S. OFFICIAL RESIGNS.
Mr. Hines, Director of Railroads, has resigned.
(Continued on page 7.)
Washington, April 24.
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As regards our churches the not been silent on that and 1 is a fine ideal in whatever to this Colony should be able, I therefore more effective, though same kind of.thing comes out need not enlarge OD iLWAY it be realised. There dots't say to get rich, but to secure neither,the effort nor the results continually. It is really interest now. The impressions I have also more common ground his later years and start his may be just on what to most of us ing to hear the surprise expressed gathered from fall observa than most are aware in religion, children in life. But, beyond are the accustomed Hines.” Best by many a visitor at finding here tions are distressing. I shall be I shall report in England that that, should we not cultivate stof all, here as elsewhere, it is shandsome church, a fine organ, obliged to confess to Eng- these are thousands of Chinese consciousness that we are here on always possible; where there is a la good congregation and a pre-land that ferollies thinking of Christians in and around Hong- high service?, For: such it is, will god opens the ways