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SOLE AGENTS
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRARE:
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Disarmament.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
CANTON NEWS.
FRANCE AND JAPAN.
NOT INVITED
Chinese And The Taiyo Maru
of
Chat With M. Bapet. DISARMAMENT IS SOMETHING During the past few days large
"Monalaur Bagat, who forthe last A report from "high official NO NATION WANTS A MONOPOLY military movements have taken two years has represented France place in the Shacking, distriak at Tokyo, left yesterday afternoon'
A meeting was held at the Chinesa General Chamber Ngal Pong-ping' forces have by the s. Andre Lebon on his Commerce on Tuesday afternoon. quarters" at Washington in- OF. timates that the U. S. Govern-
To-marrow (being the birthday been ordered to Fungohusa' to way home to Paris, where it is; The cały item of interest on the ment has already made informal [national agreement for reduction Felegraph will be published at/whilst Yung Kwan-yua's foroestions to proceed to another #P: ' Chinesa ware not represented at avertures in relation to su inter of H. M. the King) the Hongkong support the troops on that front, stated he will receive instrucganda was a query as, to why
of armaments. It is added that, mid-day, A as America is not represented on
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE' 2, 1921.
A SERIOUS BUSINESS.
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and Loting to be the laft wing visitor was seen off by the French the recent luncheon given by the and Luk Ling's thirteen batta Consul General M. Rean, Rev. Fr. Toyo Kishen Kaisha on the ss. the Suprema Council, she hopes Owing to the need for larger lions have gone to Kwongning to Robert and other members of the Taiyo Maru to induce one of the member offee accommodation, work has form the right wing..
French Community.
The Chairman, the Hon. Mr. Powers to bring the matter, up. [been started for the addition of The Military Headquarters |
In an interview with a repre-Law Chu-pak, who was asked for ma Only a few days ago it was another storey to the building have issued a notice offering sentative of the Telegraph, which explanation by some of the members reported that Americs would occupied by the Telegraph Offices heavy towards to informers re necessarily had to be of brief of the Chamber, said he had no resume her place on the Council. The work is expected to take some garding spies, traitors and others duration owing to the impending knowledge of the waller and he did Perhaps the reason that six months to completa.
asslating the Kwongst forces, departure. of the steamer,, M. Do bother himself about it. The Washington profers another
result of which the Bapst vory courteously gave his antics absence of any Chinesa at the Power to bring the subject up is
The Police branch of the inhabitants of the military area views on the relations between Jue to the failure af these mem- Juncheon might possibly have been that the American Government's
And Japan as he return to the Council is to be Ministering Children's League have become uneasy in fear of France
accusations. All the saw them during the two years attend the entertainment, or to no bers who had been invited to only of a "semi-official" kind.is giving a variety performance falso
Canton he represented France at the invitations being extended to the However, one of the Powers, i: on Saturday night in the Police passengers may be assumed, will be ready to Gymnasium at 830. Great pre-Shamsci Railway are undergoing Court of the Japanese Emperor. oblige the Harding Administra. parations are being made and it strict search and questioning sad These relations, he said, have Chinese community at all. If the tion, for no nobody can wish is believed that the performance are detained if the replies are always been of a friendly charac latter case was true, the Chairman
unsatisfactory.
ter as testified by the fact that believed the T.K.K. must have bad Regulations for controlling arrangements have been made to reasons for doing so. To be invited stand in the way of such A
naziva patent medicines have been enable the Japanese Crown Prince to the Juncheon, continued Mr Lau desideratum as Uncle Sam's co- A woman, living at 36. issued by the Health Departmen1 to visit Franca on the complation Chu pak, would not be a greak operation. When the League of Upper Lascar Road, while out of the Canton Municipality. The of his English taur and to can honour and not to be invited would Nations held its first annual con- walking yesterday had the ex-regulations require all the medi-duet him over the battlefields of not cast any reflection on the vention in December the obstacle perience of being robbed of a cices to be analysed, the manu the late war. The war had cone Chinese community. Mr Lau urged to any really big advance was the gold ring set with diamonds facturers to be registered and the much towards achieving this the gathering to avoid any misun- absence of America. One cannot valued at $600, ~which was payment of a licence fee.
rapprochement and in one as- derstanding, which would be detri- refrain from a feeling of regret snatched from her by a man who We take the following from pect it had been particularly mental to the cordial trade relations that the United States did notļcame up fram-behind. De
to-day's Canton News
perceptible. This was the de- now prevailing with Japanese frms then decide upon the course just
Since reporting the Shameen cision of the Japanese education in Hongkong. announced: but now that, after
Mr Ho Kom-tong said be wAS We are informed by the Japan-robbery of about 85,000.00 from authorities to send students to numerous proposals, the more- ment shows signs of materialis-se Consulate in Hongkong that the premises occupied by Messrs France, whereas in the years struck by the absence of any Chinese among the 200 guests. It ing, it is indeed to be hoped that all foreigners who enter Japan Bozer, Mazot, & Company on the before the war it had been the
men custom to send them to Germany. was more surprising in view of the something concrete
must have a passporter certifcate French Concession, two will be achieved. In America, Japan, of nationality. Such document were arrested on the same pre-In the Universities at Paris and fact that the luncheon was given
have been rised by mises in the early hours of yes- Strassburg the
with the object of advertising the and Britain alike there have been must many manifestatiors of a desire Japanese Ambassador or Consul terday morning. The alarm was now receiving the benefit of excellent accommodation of the for such a restriction, and their within one year of the person's given by an Amah employed by French, tuition, particularly in, ship and the fact that part of the
the firm, and after blowing medicide. representatives may tee! assured arrival in Japan.
police whistle for a considerable In confirmation of a previous with Chinese. The Chinese were that in gathering at a round table
time, some police of the French report, M. Bapst told our re- only invited to a tea party. they will have an abundant A number of Chinese were pro- Concession put in an appearance presentative that M. de Fleurian, poeaker could not account for the measure of public support. secuted this morning before Mr. and effected the arrest of the distinguished French diplomas discrimination. It had been the Lindsell for being in possession of trespassers. Whether these two ist, has been appointed his suc- Practice of the T.K.K. hitherto to cigarettes on which duty bad not men are concerned in the recent cessor at Tokio.
entertain the Chinese community, Shanghai's Rice Troubles. confiscated and
been paid. The cigarettes were borgarly remains to be seen. Born in La Rochelle, the birth-like the Europeans, on occasions
heavy fines
Leading citizens in Shiuhing place also of M. Reau, the local of inspecting
sbips of There are symptions of alimposed. In one case where the held a meeting last Saturday to French Consul General, the new the Company and the - de.
WAS $18.45 recrudescence of Shanghai's rice duty
could not fail to pro fine welcome Mr. Liu Chuk-om. Freach ambassador to Tokio, bas troubles. It was hoped that the imposed was $165.
member of the staff of the Canton had a very distinguished diplo- duce dissatisfaction. recent formulation of regulations:
Municipality, In the course of a matic record. As councillor at slood that the T.K.K. subsequent- by the Municipal Council would A fire broke out in the early speech delivered by Mr. Liu be the London Embassy for the lastly invited their Chinese customers tend to provide sufficient powers hours of this morning in a emphazised the importance of twenty years, be was prominently to a dinner at a restauranÍ. to prevent hoarding or profiteer-matshed at Wong Nei Cheong, having a modern Municipality in associated with M. Cambon in M: Chang Kang-it asked the ing. The maximum fixed by the belonging to a Chinese gardener. all large cities. As a result of many of the conferences with Chamber not to tail at such a Municipal authorities, with the The fire Brigade turned out M. Liu's speech a committes of Allied statesmen resulting from trivial matter as it bad many im- Being so dependent as we are on abbreviated cables co-operation of the Rice Guilds. promptly and put out the fire four prominent citizens represent the late war, and was charge portant functions to discharge. for our news it is but natural that we should remain large-was $11 per picuf, but within a immediately,
Mr Wong Kwong-tin contended not potiling Shinhing were elected to draw d'affaires at the Metropolis on the ly in ignorance of the seriousness of the coal strike at day or two the commodity was damage to the extent of $120 up regulations for organizing a many occasions at which M. that some significance should be Muncipality in Shinhing on the Cambon was called away to the attached to the matter. Mr Ho Home, but one cannot have read the newspapers arriving being sold at $12.50, and it is had been done.
feared that unless drastic steps
plan of the Canton Municipality. Continent to attend meetings of Kom-long's remarks were quite by the last mail without realising that for the past two are taken the price may even A life banishee from Singapore It is planned by the Depart the Allied Council. Possessed of reasonable.
3r 31. h. Lo asked the compra- months the people of Britain have been living through one reach $16, as it did last year. was charged before Mr. Ormament of Public Works to have six an intimate knowledge of in- of the greatest industrial and social crises of the decade. During the
this morning with tobbing to slaughter-houses established international politics from Reuter gives but half the truth and that generally favour-wbich gave so much trouble on Chinese women of $370 worth of different sections of the city. A frequent participations in meet ing the Government's attitude. We little realise that there that occasion the authorities jewellery. He pleaded guilty. the case at present, no publicings of the Supreme Council, M. some difficulty Sergeant Vincent said that the slaughter house is inexistence, and de Flestiau should be well has been no coal available for domestic purposes, that in ascertaining exactly what!
man was banished fron Singapore it is absolutely impossible for the qualifield for his new appoint- many works and industries employing thousands of ren stocks
were for life, after serving seven years Department of Public Health to meat. have been either closed down or put on short time, that in Shanghai. It was done, bow for robbery. He was sant to goal enforce its regulations of proper
examination of meats, etc. Accord travelling services have been seriously curtailed, and that ever, and the figures proved that for six months.
there wers bindoubtedly hugel the poorer classes have suffered great hardships. We only stocks in Shanghai, which com-
ing to estimates made out by the get the academic pros and cons of the dispute between the platels belied
story of women living at Hok-la-Public Works Department it will miners and the owners and the Government's failure to shortage of supplies. By licens chung village states that white take about two hundred bring about a settlement. Yesterday's cables dealt with ing both wholesale and retail rice she was on her way from Kow-twenty thousand dollars to build Yaumati on the these six slaughter-houses. The that subject, but there is a significant meaning in the fact merchants, forcing them to keep loon City to
records of their stocks open to Taumati road. near the junction proposed plan to raise money for
I got a bundle o' home papers
On the other hand we read a that the Government has seen fit to extend its emergency session by the Police, and of Yaumati road and Matakok this purposed may be by farming out these proposed slaughter-
letter from Welsh miners to the powers. Those powers are indeed wide and would indicate securing obedience to regulations road, a man who was following
rather as a shock to me to see Prince of Wales and if the on conditions that this Coal Strike isna" by a that the Government is determined not to give way on the directed against the cornering of her came up and grabbed her by houses to merchants who will just the other night and it came
figures mentioned in it are true, attitude it has adopted towards the miners, but is prepar- the supplies of the grain, the the wrist, put a knife against her construct them
Council seemed to have establish chest and threatened to kill her. that they will take charge of ing to fight the matter out to a finish.
been getting bits o' telegrams now in a home nowadays for the er of an inter period, and within that period and again scout the miners but be money, let alone human beinga. And in view of that, Reuter's later cable, telling thated means of protecting the Chinese He robbed her of a gold bangle them on completion for a certain long way settled. yet. True, we're ya couldna' keep a well-bred dog
residents against the rapacity of valued 360.
they will collect rents and what tween you and me and the gate There's а precious lot in spite of resolutions being passed by miners against the the individuals dealing in a staple arrested.
ever fees may be so fixed by the post a body might as well be in squeeze going on somewhere. Government there are unmistakable signs that the end of recessity. Notwithstanding this,
Municipality as taxes or charges
org how. exorbitant price is again the struggle is approaching, would seem to be a little aa
new theatrical enterprise from these slaughter-houses. In prison for all the real news we
get here in Hongkong about the Among all the speeches I have over-optimistic. The of oil instead of cual will threatened. It looks as if still that should be of interest to this way the merchants will bare things that's going on in the read in connection wi' the crisis
more stringent regulations are Kowloon residents,is the erection sufficient
for the rudely needed. how
world outside. not settle the dispute
Now when it how very few seem to be ad- matter HO
of a new cinema hall st Kowloon repayment of the cost for the Coal is still an awakened the miners might be.
Crown Prince dressed to the large section of comes to giving with a seating capacity for 200 construction, and after the fixed a good time that's apparently a the people whose simple creed indispensible commodity and the sooner that is realised
persons. The foundation stone period expires for the merchants different thing compared to is summed up in, a desire to do for this structure is being laid to relinquish control, the city will letting us know about how nine right. on a newly-acquired site at the then own these six slaughter tenths of our ain folks are getting All that they ask is that the One of the first acts of the re-junction of Peking and Hankow houses. This plan is now under os in the way of getting bite and miners and everybody else should wages and one has to confess that the Government's constructed Chinese Cabinet has Roads, easy of access by consideration and will shortly be attitude has. at times, given the colour of truth to that been to conclude a loat
of European residente. à son of brought before the Municipal up and the wherewithal to cook "get fairplay. In our simple way
we understand that if goods statement. We are not claiming that the niners are Y10,000,000 with Japanese repre- Lee Kea, building contractor, is Executive Council.
It's a long time back since we coal or onything else are no' entirely right, but we recognise that the Government's sentatives. "Loan" is the name the promotor of the new enter-
were hapding our breath for fear saleable then there neither wages of revolution in the old country nor profits to divide and the consistent support of the owners is not calculated to given to the transaction, but see prise.
mingly this does not mean that quicken the arrival of peace. There has been a display of China will handle any money.
but since the necessity for real longer they baggle over the busi- worry in that connection coased ness the more money will go stubbornness on both sides and the costliness of that stub The som is, in fact, simply from the United States in January
to exist we all seem to have west. British coal at, it's in- bornness to the nation, both in the way of immediate and mean to defray interest on the last was brought up before Mr.
forgotten about the coal business flated price is not the saleable. future trade, will run into many millions sterling. Britain Nishihara advances. This gives Lindsell this morning charged
altogether.
article it once was. It either costs so ill-afford a continution of the stagnation and Japan a further hold on the with being in possession of many
Gold valued at a quarter of a All our home papers are chock too much to howk it out-one republic's railways. The deal rounds of ammonition, which were million from the Esthoniana block, wi' strike news and way or another-or, on the other dislocation brought about by the dispute that the Govern- is called the Kiria-Huising found concealed in the lining of Government bas arrived at Holl serious reading it makes, mind hand, overhead expenses and pro ment can hardly be praised for the ineffective work it has railway agreement, and as Mr. bis band bag. The man ploaded after being very nearly lost in the I'm telling ye, bat we out here fits are too big. Batween the done. Mr. Hodges has plainly hinted that the miners and Yeb Kung-cho, the ex-Minister ignorance of the law, and the ice of the Baltic. Caigues of have to be content wi Derby two there will have to be owners could possibly settle the matter if they got together, refused to endorse this bargain, could hardly be so, sa the ammuni- Lucky. Attempts are still being results and propagands pap about saddle the consumer, who is of Communications, consistently Magistrate remarked that this gold bave not always been so probables, golfing and cricket balance struck somehow for to laid their cards openly on the table and talked the matter which was originally made by ion was concealed in the bag. He made to salva a million from the Silesia when ita no gup about already carrying a double load out reasonably, but Reuter added that Mr. Hodges' state-the notorious Anfo Clab, those as fined $50 and the ammuni wreck of the Lutine, which sank Empire Day and what fine fellows of taxation, is pure stuff and ment was regarded as a stall advance to peace." By critics who have seen in the notion ordered to be confiscated. in the Zuyder Zee in 1799. Lost Mr. Hughes thinks the Japanese nonsense. It's a dead certainty whom was it so regarded?
for ever is £359,000, which went are. We're all Reuterised that when it comes to a re-ad- We are also told that in non-partisan quarters there of Japan will no doubt regard
Inspector Blackman prosecut-down with the St. Domingo in ostriches, that's what we are. justment of wages there will be This coal business is so darned anomalies but even if the scale is a general feeling that things are shaping towards a
ed a Chinese this morning for full view of a large convoy, in settlement and the men will resume work before the middle
returning. from banishment. 1830. H.M.S. Thetis took down hard to get hold of oarlow. be badly bent in lots of places, The man arrived yesterday with her £160,000, part of which] On the one hand the mine owners it seems to me that that's no of the month. Another fortnight of the strike is not a prospect to be cheerful about. And it should be clearly
from the country and, from was salved owing to the efforts of seem to have offered terms sufficient justification for tezre From January 1918 aotil last information received, the Police & Capt. Dickinson, who got almost beyond precedent in in ig national industry up by the -realised that if the miners are forced to go back to work without having had satisfaction, that a repetition of the March. 319,205 registered inquiries arrested him couple of hours nothing but litigation for his dustry, one might say, so far as root sl throwing millions of were made at the Y.M.C.A.' later in house at Wan trouble. The record in losses the share of profits of their under workers out to polish our cause-
ia held by the taking is concerned. In such a Ways, whole business is bourd to come so soon as they are strong kiosk, which is now being die-hal. Sergeant Vincent said that of bullion
When speaking of Onina and enough to stand it. This is a matter in which the whole mantled, in Trafalgar-square. In the man was banished from Laurentio, sunk during the war complicated business as getting nation and Empire is vitally interested and it is to be hoped the same period 6,760 people were Hongkong on October 1, 1919 for off the coast of Ireland, with a ton of coal from the hewer to the trouble between the North that the Government at Home has realised that fact. A conducted round London and ten years and had a very bad more than three millions. Salvage the cellar, grades of workers and and South we often kid our- to be just as selves on our savvy. ↑ In the light 58,855 sent free to places of enter-record, having eight convictions work is proceeding, and hopes are officials seem patched up resumption won't pay, but a little generosity tainment by the aid of the pro- against him. He was sentenced entertained of rescuing this trifle numerous as there are ranks in of things at home just now he
for the tax-payer.
the British Army. might.
really ought to shut up. to nine monthshard labour. -
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can
Minister of Finance an instrument |
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