THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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TUESDAY: MAY 18 "1920.
DAY BY DAY.
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in 1831
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16th. inst. to Mr. and Mrs. W. McKenzie Pittendrigh, a són.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1920.
POLICE GRIEVANCES.
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CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES.
THE OBSERVATORY. The following are the changes in the pay of the staff of the Observatory ~~~
Director, from £500 to 800 by
CHINA SQUADRON..
REDUCTIONS -EXPLAINED. MORE NEW RATES.
The Admiralty announcement. As-will have been seen hy the
The new rates of pay approved published recently that on May 6 announcements made in the four
I think it was Bret Harte who for the Botanic and Forestry Rear-Admiral George B. Borrell, English newspapers of the Colons
wrote that "the expression on the Department are sa follows---
QB was to become Sentar Naval a decision has been coma to on
-A` Singalese stowaway was Chinese face in the aggregato is! Superintendent -£600 to £900 Occer on the Yangtse indicates fa reduction in the establishment their part to increase the charges found on the Blue Funnel vessel neither cheerful nor happy". Its annually.
Superintendent of offers si flag and cons for advertisements, and it is only Teirasias. He is being retained there is any aggregata to judge Assistant
modope'a rank in Chins. At the fair to ourselves that we should on board until the return of the by now, Bret Harte w fight. £400 to £500 by £10 annually.
The Chinese dealers and mer- • The previous rates were an the present time, Vice Admiral make oma
editorial comment vessel to Colombo
chants have been hard hit in busi (follows:-
Sir Alexander Duff is Cam Advertisers and explanation.
Superintendent.–£420 to £340|mander-in-Chief, with his flag in ness during the past few months A Chinese workman at the and trade is in a deplorable state. by £40 annually and an allow-the light cruiser Hawkins; Rear- assured and readers can be
Admiral Barrett is in cammand that the step has only been aval Yard yesterday sustained Whether they attribute their illance of $350 per annum.
an accident which resulted in his fuck to bad joss or insteption fa Assistant Superintendent of the Fifth Light Cruiser aken because it has
with aidol duty is not known. Juden|£30 to £360 by £10 annually Squadron, with his Dag in the fact, removal to Hospital [nécèssary.
fractored skull He died one of the losses suffered is traceable and allowances amounting 10 light cruiser Cairo: Commodore so far as Hongkong is concerned,
to gambling. You cannot teach $1,126 per annum,
W. Bowden-Smith la in charge of the gambler wisdom. If he can-
the Naval Establishments" ́at businesses in which no increase
speculate in shares he
Hongkong: and Commodore A. The total output of the Kailan not in price or charges to customers
OP in exchange
raw
A. Ellison is Senior Naval Officer has been made since the out-Mining Administration's mines will
as
on the Yangise, an appointment break of the war-a data which for the week ending 1st May, commodities. It is most
he took up on June 30 last year, stands out as marking the enhanc-amounted to 94,74800 tons and the tounding that at present, when ed cost of practically everything-sales during period, to 82,339.00| Exchange is so favourable to 220 annually, against 142) to and now relinquishes in favour
buyers of China commodities, the £340.
of Admiral Barrett. Business houses, both wholesale tons.
export trade should be dead. Chief Assistant Director, from When this organization was and retail, have been forced to
There is no movement of cargo, 2450 to £550, by 220 annually-approved a year ago for the post- increase prices, because first costs have become greater. Added to
tursements in the way of salaries and administration. such matters as these, newspapers have not been exempt, but every effort has been made here to avoid de- creasing the size of the papers, charging more for them or raising the rates of the advertisements. Ir har been different elsewhere. In England not only was the size There was quite a large con-publication of the Government's
considerably gregation at St. John's Cathedral terms for the sale of the old Fest PURSE SNATCHED.
A number of arms nawspapers
most enjoyable planning to make a bid for a The programme!
portion of the land. The exact
In
The
The health return for the past this there have been larger die week shows four cases of cerebro.and stocks of commodities are lagainst £360 to £420 previousls-war Fleet in China, it was pro- fairly large in the Colony. There Assistant Director, from £360 hably expected that a larger spinal fever (two fatall, three of
is no fear of a panic or a crisis. to £450 by £20 annually, against force would be maintained in small-pox (two fatal), two ol
but if there is no appreciable | £20 to £360 previously.
those walere.
battle- There improvement in the situation
The Director of the Observatory raiser New-Zealand-for-et- plague (both fatal), and two of enteric fever (one fatal.
soon I am told many small firms receives free quarters at the
ample, was mentioned as the from deaths We** also six
will go by the board.
Observatory. The Chief Assistant fature flagship on the conclu influenca. All the sufferers were
Director comes under the ordinary sion of her Empire tour with Chinese excepting one Japanese case of enterie.
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Office site.
Lord Jellicoe, but she is not allocated to his duty in the ap pendix showing the new "Flast Organization issued with the First Lord's Memorandam on
not, of course, any question of From hat-snatching to purse-breach of faith involved in the
reduced, but more was charged last evening, when Mr. Denman needing office sites are already FROM PORTUGUESE LADY the Navy Estimates. There is
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Hongkong has been particularly was well chosen from the point number of plots into which it snatching from ricksha passsen- circumsizure that the New
tained Nume really delightful
the vet known, but I believe that it of misdeeds of our juvenile to PITTENDRICH-At Craigmin West. 161 The Peak, on the fortunate, for it has suffered in lof view of variety, and it copis going to be split up is no: agers is but one step in the scale Zealand has now been reduced
none of these ways. But, owing to costs of paper and production numbers. Whatever the theme is not the intention of the Hoa criminals. Here is an instance | Although it was decided at the teadily increasing, the time has Mr. Fulier was always sympa Mr. Chatham to have it farmed of this new ruse which came to Imperial Defence Conference in come when a ebabge has become tie in his teach the more than Gre. The wind late cotice of the Police rester July and August 1969, that the
He revealed the artist fall for the Government from the imperative and it is believed tha:pieces.
New Zealand, which had been day-- the action decided on, namely in all his work and gave a neala of this property will be very Mrs. I. Franco, a Portuguese offered to the Empire by that increasing by twenty per cent, the idea of the capabilities of the large, and will offset the deficit lady, was in a ricksha going Dominion, should when complated rate of all advertisements received organ.
in the revenue of the Colony along Queen' Hoad Central be stationed in China waters, it I am confident of seeing the yesterday morning. when awas announced in the Memoran- as from yesterday's date, is one
A Chinese from Shanhai was land sold much higher than young thief Came up from dum of Mr. Churchill, dated that will appeal to the public as being fair and one that will meet referred to the Police for aid in the upset price placed on it be behind the vehicle, and snatched March 8, 1913, that in response with general approval. In making the securing of a passage back the Government This will have her hand-bag, which contained to a suggestion from the Admir tried his native city, whence he came the effect of raising the value of a sum of about $20, from alty the Government of New to act with the cantion that we the Colony a few months ago to the land in the vicinity. A nug her grasp. Mrs. Franco got out Zealand had agreed to this vessel sa often adjure others to observe take a share in the business profits ber of firms housed in the building of the nicksha and gave chase, being stationed wherever His and are convinced that the step of this place.
at present will have perforce to and the thief, being more agile, Majesty' Government consider No-one can have read the petition of the junior members of the will be viewed by the public as bat history of an unsuccessful bus go out of business, as spitable would certainly have escaped her services of most value." and are impossible to with his baul. had not timely the Admiralty, availing them Hongkong Police, which appeared in nut issue el yesterday, without an inevitable expression of the iness man, who had lost to his last shop sites
Their tendency of the times. It is cent, and has then nowhere to
came secure in Hongkong to-day. It help feeling that these inen have some very real grievances.
an selves of this generous permission. hes. On the
watchman. is quite likely that the land will Intian submissions were concisely and reasonably expressed, whilst the hardly necessary to make excuses. lay his worry
employed attached her to the First Battle- the Electric Company. erniser Squadron in the North comparisons made were much to the point. We are glad to feel and we leave the matter in the strength of his acquaintance with pass into outside bands by that by
local Chinese banker, heli
into the hands of who porsund the man and Sea, where she figured in all the that no obstacle was put in the way of these men gathering bands of our reading and advertis-a together and making joint representations, and we sincerely hopeing public, assured in the know-pestered the wife of the latter people who have no interests in captured him. The bag was stuck big actions of the war.
acder the boy's armpit and when that their case will be very thoroughly and sympathetically edge that we shall continue to for financial aid. He was unsucess the Colony just now.
The strength of the Fleet in asked how it came into his China as revised is thus, numeric- considered by His Excellency. It is in regard to the new rates receive the same cordial support ful in his object, and moreover misfortune of being pay that these younger policemen feel most keenly, and it is on this that we have enjoyed in the past. had the
A Society for the Prevention of possession, he blandly stated that ails, very similar to what it was banded over to the Police. His question that they ask for immediate relief. But at the same time
troubles were overcome for him Cruelty to Animals is sadly need-be picked it up from the road in 1914. There are now five light Occasion has been taken-to bring to the notice of the Governa:
this morning by the Magistare din Hongkong. The firs: aim and took it into bis possession cruisers, 12 submarines and two certain other grievances which demand equally earnest attention.
who proposed to send him to the of this Society should be to aid as there appeared to be no claim-depot ships, Tour loop, 14 god. These have to do with the stoppage of New Territories allowances. THE OLD POST OFFICE. the questions of promotion and leave, the inadequate quarters which
animals by Warning people. in view of the fact that the Police cartier, and a dispatch vessel. Warnings are, they occupy and the very inferior uniforms which they are required
know, had succeeded in proving a pre making a total of 39 pennants.. interest aroused by the decision could do for him. to wear when on duty.
and vious conviction against him, and Before the war there were three be inefective. to The manager of the Wo Ping Now, let us look first of all at this pay question. There has, of the Government to sell by
armoured ships, two light craisers, auction the very valuable site in
Colony like Hongkong, he was to-day sentenced by the 10
of the Chinese Magistrate to six months' hard 16 gunboate, eight dratroyers, apparently, been conceded to these nuen an advance which, on paper. works out at 60 per cent. In actual effect, owing to the changed the centre of the City, formerly Theatre was to-day summoned rate of the dollar, we believe that in some cases the increase is occupied by the old Post Office: before Mr. S. L. Smith for issuing have no sense of feeling, there is labour and 12 strokes of the four torpedo-boats, and three infinitesimal. But that point aside, what these junior members of that big plot on the corner of indecent advertisements. the Force canoot understand is that the higher ranks of the Queen Road and Fedder Street advertisements were in respect bound to be a large number of birch.
With the very great scarcity of of some pills which were said to Prosecutions. The primary object! Force bave received, on much bigger pay, advances of from 100 to business accommodation is may be efficacious for certain ailments of such a Society here should not before it of enriching the Colony vice-admiral, a 10 per cent. They naturally feel that the cost of living is just as
prevention of cruelty to animale. Hongkong bas within its and a captain as S.N.O. on the high, comparatively, to them as to the men higher up. Under the be expected that there will be keen The manager was defended by 2 Prosecuting society. but she with the works of man's bands. Chief, a commodore at Hengkons. I trust that Sir Edward Stubbs or limits a sufficient number of Yargise. After May 6 nex: the been given 151 new scale, the petitioning members ge: as commencing pay a yearly competition for the possession of Mr.
from only difference to this organiz. it, notwithstanding the cost. The having sum of £160 which works out at about $133 per month this rising.
We have cried ourselves their appeal to the aesthetic sense ation will by the employment of in two years, to $180, which is the maximum they can draw for ten public were informed be the respect of the existence of the Lady Stubbs will initiate some buildings which, apare
Government Gazell on Saturday advertisements the defendant or twelve years. London police constables start at £157 10s. per year, whilst in the F.3.S. the commencing pâr is £200 plus £ion that the area of the lot totala informed the Court that although boarse on this subiect, and have been constructed with some is rear-admiral on the Yangtse
the trust that the S.P.C.A. will be
future. The Department contains among its members a large European Folies below the rank of Inspector: that may or may not the upset price of it would be theatre and held a licence in his re-born shortly.
The distressing accident that number of highly-trained-engine be the case. But it does not greatly matter, for we presume that$50 per square for today at On oame, he had sub-ter the the duties of the lowest-ranked Police officer here are practically take a very clever mathametician premises to another man. He
of motorists high ideal on their profession and the same as those of the lowest ranked officer in the F.M.S. in any to discover that if the upset price bad had the intention also of attended L-Commander Kilgourers and workers. They place & a solitary are not incapable of taking wider case, it is definitely stated that the duties are equivalent to those of alone is paid, the Government transferring the licence over to and his party
will net $1,795.000. There this sub-lesse. The Magistrate is not likely to be Inspectors of London, whereas the pay of the local men is even
that the said that the transference of the one. for the cutor roads to views. The motor roads of the was further dated below that of the ordinary Londɔn lobby." What is eten more
annual crown, rent would be licence would not absolve the Castle Peak and Repulse Bay Colony are monuments of their
The following is an extract from striking is the statement that during a period of ten years the pay $4200, and so it will be seen that licensee from responsibility in the show signs, in some parts, of bad achievements.
Routine Orders issued at Head- of the Home Police has advanced by 350 per cent, whereas, over the Government stands to bene matter. The case was remanded workmanship.. In such parts the
Motoring in the Colony has quarters Office, Hongkong:-
municated to them. The pay now asked for by the men is a
There has been considerabl. S. P. to see what the latte-in the prevention of cruelty to ads. His excuse sounded hollow boats for river work, an aircraft
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submarines, & total of 35 reels, There were then in command a
Commander-in-
CHINA COMMAND.
NATIVE PAY INCREASED.
the same number of years, all that the juice members of our ass very considerably by the water for the making of further in- metalling is a very poor descrip
e of the hou, 303T OF DJ be surprising fattained large proportions:- Built War One Authority bas born Force have been ofered is the increase of 60 per cent. now com The concession made in the quiries, in consequence di minimum of £235, which, we are told, is the equivalent of that of a height of the building to be erect statement of the printer of the to read in the future of many there are immense opportunities received to increase the pay of all Commander Kilgour's the motoring trade are reaping ment Employ excluding Clerical Sanitary Ufficer. As to whether it is possible to concede this ed. namels 193 feet will probably advertisements who said that be more accidents of the kind that and already those interested in native workmen in Wer Depart
be an inducement to prospective printed them to oblige some bafell
party. Why some parts of the road rich results. Hongkong to-day ise Staff from April 19th, 1929, on the demand, without at the same time materially adding to the pay of
purchasers, because this will friends.
should be constructed of inferior Paradise for the motorist, and it following scale:-- the next grade of Police officer, we do not know. That is a point permit of a building of seven
"An increase of 3214 per cent. for executive consideration by those who are fully acquainted with stories, even presuming that all
Sergeant Cockle and other materials and others well-metalled has some of the most attractive all the factors. But we see no reason why a Police officer should the stories are as lofty as tbuse police officers working in accord-is not known, but I hope that the motor touring country in the to all employees including appren- be paid less than a Sanitary officer.
We ance with which information subject will receive the attention world. If these attractions which tices except No. 1, men. Thess of the Hongkong Hotel.
One of the Hongkong offers to the motor drawing $100 or less on January The other points in the petition should be given searching notice from the conditions of sale. they had previously received of the authorities.
were advertised it would 1st, 1920, shall participate to the investigation. for they deal with matters which are causing that the Government is prepared frustrated an
armed robbery soundest suggestions that I have ist
with the encourage tourists to come to fall 3235 per cent. No. 1, men the men a deal of justifiable irritation. It is petty in the
of our to permit (if suitable designs are which was being planned by a read in connection
motor Hongkong is larger shoals-drawing more than $100 a month, extreme to stop ice and other allowances to men in the out-stations. submitted) the construction of gang of criminals on a house at improvement
was that offered the It will be argued that the housing on January 1st, 1920, to receiva whilst the leave conditions are quite unworthy of the Government. verandahs over the public foot- Macdonell Road. A watch was roads
Telegraph, and botel accommodation of the so advance of 20 per cent.” We are thoroughly in sympathy with aux gand scheme which can verandas vereertenties kept in that locality and when other day to the be devised for securing more rapid promotion for the younger mem-the full height of the building one of the gang appeared to re-in a leaderette. The suggestion Colony does not permit spok bers of the Force, because the result is certain to lead to greater and over the public footpath in connoitre, the lay-out of the was the erection of feares, and advertising, but we hope that this walls to protect embankments disability will be removed in keenness in the discharge of duty. The complaints that the uniform
Queen's Rosd. extending for a bouse, he was immediately served out to these men and the quarters given them to reside in are height of three storeys only. The seized and Feart bed. This In my travels on the Repulse future years. both on a par with what is supplied to Government coolies seem to idea of a verandah on the ground i work brought to light a-dagger Bay road 1.bave often abaddered! betray a woeful lack of consideration to these Europeans who are Boor is good, because it provides a and coil
A filling a very thankless but necessary role in the Colony's life. protected sidewalk, a provision as would be used for the gagging ist whose car should happen to time that the finances of the
bad &
state, and that the wearer has been men- Taking the complaints en blue, they leave an impression that any that is apositiveboon in Hongkong of a victim. The evidence of the skid cear the edge of the ea University of Hongkong ate Victory Medal emblem, denoting Taing is considerai good enough for the lower-ranked-Europeans of
6X0 there weretioned in dispatches. will shonly. the Force, That kind of attitude towards men who almost daily giving shelter from tropical contemplated outrage was combankments. So I trust that the in
rumours that the Hongkong be ready for issue. The emblem risk their lives for our protection has prevailed too long in Hong-un and rain. But why should it closive, though the Police failed authorities will wall these em little while
Government were considering will be issued in two sizes. To The arrested kost. How can we expect to attract or retain decent men of necessary to carry out the idea to arrest the other members bankments at an early date.
ofe verandah on the upper floors of the gang.
he FLE of man admitted that
Nevertheless, the work of the the control of the institution. Mr. larger, to be worn with the medal, integrity and intelligence under such conditions? There can be no
A very valuable & mount disputing the fact that the European police officer has a far more dangerous job than any police constable at Home, in addition to pace would be wasted that could working in conjunction with two Public works Department de Irving, the Director of Education, will be affixed to the contra f Colony, the the Commission, had been spend-degrees from the inside edge of which he is living under far less congenial conditions, climatically otherwise be used as office accom- others, but stated he did not know serves our gratitude. The physical previous to the appointment of the riband at an angle of 67
Arraigned feaures of the modation. Office space is the prime their headquarters. and otherwise. The Government at Home has just made very big consideration these days and before Mr. N. L. Smith at the humidity, and the ranges of hills ing many hours daily in the the riband stem to the right. The
Berrica dreva, increases in Police psy. Hongkong must come into line. It is
of successful commendations of the Commisweater is la Inevitable, if we wish to have a Force composed of reliable, steady this extra room could be utilised Police Court this morning on a that run in all directions add to University. The raport and re-smaller will be worn when the The Department sion will be awaited with keen (transversely across the riband men. A dissatisfied Police Force is a very poor investment. Soweit would make the offered wite so charge of possession of offensive the difficulty
Istem to the right, trust that every effort will be made to remove any and every causs much more valuable to prospec-weapons, the prisoner was seo-achievement.
tive purchasersK,
tenced to six months" hard labour. I has a noble and a wide prospect interest. which these good fellows have for complaint.
of wire such to think of the fate of any motor-
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