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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Japan's Siberian Policy.
The question asked in the House of Commons by Mr. Lunn indicates that some of the folk at Home are following developments
consequent upon the recent over- throw of the Vladivostok Ad- ministration (not the Far Eastern Republic) by "White" forces, Mr. Harmsworth, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, answered that the Government had not made representations with a view to in- ducing Japan to retrain from the invasion
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
i REMEMBER
LOSE IT.-G. H. Loringer.
To-day is the birthday of H. M. King Gustaf V of Sweden.
We learn that Lt. Colonel Bowen, will leave on furlough for England at the end of July.
THE RAILWAY STRIKE.
LOCAL MONUMENT.
A Misunderstanding Cleared. Up.
Canton Train Arrives
To-day.
as
per
·
TO-DAY'S SHANGHAI
NEWS
A Crime Wave, The Police Raport says that armed robbers were captured during the month of May.
THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE NIGHT YOU CAN
Members of the staffs of the Many Interesting Items, AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER,
It was learned on enquiries Far Eastern offices of Messrs. ¡ AND THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN made this morning at the offices Jardine Matheson and Company (From Our Own Correspondent.) WRONO YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO of the Kowloon-CantonRailway who were killed in the late war
that the trains from Canton, will have their memory
Shanghai, June 18. day owing to the labour trouble memorial. Parts of this have aling to Mr. Godfrey's criticisms, which ceased to operate yester-petuated by an appropriate war
The Municipal Council, reply. on the Chinesa section of the ready arrived in the Colony, and losists that traffic needs demand that the morning train line, bave resumed service, and are awaiting the marble status the cutting up of the public Canton arrived here at noon
from that is to form the crowning garden.
as feature of the monument. in the ordinary course of events. The statue sod pedestal, which
A Troublesome Crew. The Canton Tivis, in reporting are of marble, were ordered from
A lurid story of a near mutiny of Siberis, because A Chinese woman was knocked the matter, says -- Japan had no such intention. down yesterday by a tramcar in All day yesterday, no train was peared in a London paper con- told as the US. Court, it being Home. In a report which ap-on the a. Eastern Admiral was This statement bardly pases the Des Voeux Road Central, near despatched for Hongkong, white cerning this memorial, it was stated that the crew battled with position aright, Japan has the Macan wharf Her injuries the morning train from Hong-started in error that the memorial the officers at Miike. The US. of course, bad extensive are not serious..
kong was unable to return to was one representative of the Shipping Board is discharging tho forces in Siberis for
Kowloon on account of the strike whole Colony, and, in canse entire crew here. long while now. Originally a There were two cases of plague of the railway workers on the quence of that misleading state- composite army was sent to that reported yesterday (one fatal) line which was declared yester-mant, it was hazarded that s country for the relief of the There were also one non-fatal day
a result of the change had occurred tothe latest Czacho-Slovakian troops who had case each of enteric fever and refusal of the managing plans of the Hongkong War been transported thither as pri-¦ paratyphoid fever.
director to sign the agreement Memorial Committee for soners of war. This was secom-
|guaranteeing an increase in "simple and dignified" monu- plished, and the Japanese section This morning Revenue officers wages to the workers,
News of Mr. Stevens. meat on the lines of the London by far the largest of the com-arrested two Chinese with $,500 It is reported that some of the Cenotaph. The information wa
The China Inland Mission posite army alone remains. The cigars, on which duty bad not engineers, firemen and others were enabled to secure yester- has received Japanese Foreign Office has been paid. They were on the s.s.were taken from their work by day from the local offices of Mr.
news that Stevens is decreed withdrawal; the Japanese Sanning and will he brought up the strikers who waited the arrival Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and prisoner. He is not seriously still War Office interposes: hence the for trial to-morrow.
of the morning train from Heng-Co. was to the effect that the ill. position is that the forces are to
tong- The train was practically elaborate war memorial described be withdrawn at such date as thei What purported to be five cases deserted upon its arrival and left in the London press, was the one
Cause of Labour Troubles. dominant faction considers suitof joss sticks on the as, Chaenon the tracks near the station ordered by the Company.
The Police Commissioner at- able. In some places evacuation chow from Macao turned out to platform. has taken place, but seemingly be cases of dutiable "cigarettes.
According to this description tributes the widespread labour It is said that some of the the memorial consists of a female troubles to a rise in the price the bulk of the Japanese expedi There were 90.000 cigarettes in foreign staff on the line bad to get figure draped in a long flowing of rice and the flooding of tionary force is still on the main these cases. No arrests bave been on the train and have it shunted robe sad wearing a breastplate. Shanghai with debased copper lapd. Some controversialists made.
to a side track.
The bead carries a laurel wreath; | currency. · start from the standpoint that
The strike on the line bad been the left hand rests on the hilt of the presence of Japanese troops. The Chinese Consul in Mexico fomenting for some time and it a sword which has the point
-Girl Graduates. is a maleficent factor. In the has wired to the Tung Wah was to have gone into effect a resting on the ground, whilst the
Twelve Chinese girls grad- disorganised conditions that have Hospital Directors informing then few days previous but for the right hand grasps a sprig which is usted FIELDER-At Bournemouth. England. on the 10th June. 1921 prevailed their presence mas that there is
Physical uneraployment timely promise of the managing held aloft. Onthe front of the base Directors College from the to Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Fielder, a daughter. (By cable.)
have exercised a salutary check. among the Chinese in Mexico director to agree to the terms set of the pedestal is the traditional Y.W.CA School, whilst the There are still forces of disorder, and to prevail upon even Chinese forth in the compromise laurel wreath, whilst on either American school bas len to which Japanese officials point Mexicans from returning to the arranged by Gov. Chen in the side are sheaves of eorn sprayed graduates. as justifying their army of country.
negotiations to settle the dispute to left and right and tied with; | occupation, though another view|
between the mechanic labourers ribboos in the centre. The plat-
Prepared by A.S.Watson & Co.L Manufacturing & rebil Chemists'
Cable Address: Telegraph. Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street
Birth.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921.
THE HOME INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.
to
the
A Wet Spell. To-day it is not raining for the first time since Saturday.
Dearer Rice.
The
is that, due to political motives. An American Express touring and their employers. But when form is seemingly intended to be of the Japanese forces are at least a party arriving by the Tenyo the managing director was asked white marble, on which is a black contributory element infomenting Maru left for Cantos last even by the leader of the Mechanics design and border. disorder. The Japanese Foreigning to see the local sights. En.Union to sign the agreement office has issued disclaimers, even der the direction of WA. Shield of guaranteeing the promise, the bave been received in Hongkong. The four panels of the pedestal
Rice Dealers' Guild emphatic ones, yet, while re- San Francisco, the party, has director refused, which resulted in The three forming the sides and is of the opinion that luctant to question Tokyo's a toured the chief points of interest the calling of the present strike rear bear the names of those mem-
rice is going to *$15 A fides, it has not always been in Japan, China and the Philip-by the workers.
bers of the staff to whom the the holding up of rice in the in- picul, dae to smuggling and memorial is dedicated, while the front section bas the following Negotiations have been opened to terior, awaiting higher prices. inscription
This statue
is erected by secure rice from Saigon. Messrs. Jardine Matheson and
casy
to reconcile these with pines. the events. Is it that the Japan- ese authorities on the mainland
Communis: administration at Chita and ac Anti-Communist
ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.
No information has been receiv-
Between
B consulting
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
no in keeping wit the bigh cost of education. That, coming from a man that never had oný bairns to educate, only goes to show ya how sadly his own was neglected. So we had a few words over the business wi' the result that Mac took to looking at the ceiling and yawning his head off.
A boatman named Li Tim-tee act upon their own initiative? In appeared at the Marine Court. The industrial situation in the Old Country seems to regard to the recent happenings this morning charged with ap be getting worse instead of better. However much one Vladivostok, the Japanese proaching to within thirty yards Preparing for his Arrival. Company Limited, ip bonour of tries not to take a pessimistic view of things there is the declared neutrality, but there is a of the s.s. Pheumpenh, an infect- In anticipation of the arrival those members of their staff who inevitable realisation that Britain is losing a vast propor: Kappellists move was connived received the written permission Mannix on his way to Australia
pretty strong impression that the ed vessel, without having first in
CONSULTING SPECIALIST. the Colony of Archbishop fall in the Great War 1914-1918".
Colonel Hunter, C.B., bas tion of her overseas trade and that the forces of labour and at, if not instigated by the of the Health Officer. He was the local Catholic community is ed here as to the dispatch of the resigned the position of physician capital are widening the breach that now separates them Japanese, who assumed control cautioned and discharged. planning to give the prelate a statue, and it has not yet been to Charing Cross Hospital and instead of merging closer together. When one looks back so far as to take possession of the
bas become reception an his arrival here docided which is the best site for In this to the days of the war, when we were all wondering what telegr phic system.
physician. The Chinese third engineer of about the 23rd instant by the the erection of the monument. instance the Japanese may have the situation would be after the ressation of hostilities, exerted a desirable influence by the 3.5. Piegsbin living in Re-Kleist Maru. we must confess that few of us foresaw the struggle that preventing the
clamation Street, Yaumari, whilei Bishop Pozzoni, who has taken iral Russian leaving a Mongkok ferry boat the lead in this matter, has also is raging round the question of wages reductions. It is a factions from indulging in
the anti-Communist demanded $50 from him.
was accosted by four men who arranged that a Sermon Од question that is affecting every industry and on which there excesses.
He Roman Catholic Missionary has been displayed something or callousness on the part of bloodshed. At the same time they succeeded in robbing him of visitor a: the Roman Catholic coup being effected without refused to give the money, but Work in China" be given by the employers and something of unreasonableness on the part the prolonger stay of the of the workers. That there has to be an adjustment to Nipponese forces gives rise to Police whistle, bot
$15. He attempted to blow his Cathedral on the day of bis.
this was arrival, this to follow the recep- meet the altered conditions everybody is prepared to admit, disquietude. Now that there is a
snatched away.
tion which is to be held at the The fight is all raging around the question DF-“how much.
Catholic Union Club. Yesterday's news was far from reassuring. Reuter regime at Vladivostok, the island
Everyone who so thoroughly) We are informed that the visit plainly told us that when the engineers down tools that Empire appears to have a ready-ganised by the committee of the political significance whatever.
enjoyed the open-air concerta or-and reception will bave no was the first definite news we had had that they were going made casa for continuing in
We were later informed in the to) no fewer than five-and-a-half million workers will be possession, which renders desir-Kowloon Cricket Club last sum-
able a specific statement of! mer will be glad to hear that course of our enquiries that the idle at Home. That is a figure hard to realise. but it Japanese policy in relation to another series of these delightful object of the Archbishop's visit conjures up pictures of great hardship in which the general Siberia.
evenings is being arranged. The to China was one connected with temper of the industrial masses will be sorely tried. III
firs: concert will be held on purels.. religions work. He is the engineering dispute the workers are willing to accept Australia in the Ascendant. Saturday the 25th of June, and visiting the Far East to secure & given a fine evening, the usual first hand knowledge of the con- some of the employers' proposals, but not all; in the mining Are the Australians the super large crowd should be promenad-ditions of Catholic Missionary dispute the miners are prepared to accept some but not men of cricket, or are the Olding the illuminated grounds. The work in China in regard to which
Take Humpty-Dumpty, for in- all of the owners proposal: and in the cotton trade wielders an indifferent lot? As will play a selection of popular course of the last year been gain- Country's present crop of willow-Band of the Wiltshire Regiment a big movement has within the
stance. Mr. Humpty is supposed to represent an egg. But does dispute only "elevenpence in the pound separates is usually the Casa when the parties. In every case it is not so much a principle such
his predicament no embody the roosic and several ladies anding favour in Australia. The questions arise. the
the philosophy of the downfall of that is being fought for as it 18 a small margin explanation is probably to be gentlemen have kindly offered movement was at one time so
their services.
popular that the prelate, before
Kaisers, the collapse o' day. between the viewpoints of those who pay and those who found soraewhere between the
his tour to Europe, had to ex.
dreams and illusions, the ebat- ercise some measure of authority)
tering of hopes by the taking of receive. One cannot help thinking that it is a pity that points. That the "Cornstalks"
are an uncommonly fine collection the Industrial Disputes Arbitration Board under the does not now admit of doubt. The TYPHOON WARNINGS. to restrain the wholesale emigr-|
a false step in onything? Industrial Disputes Act) has no compulsory powers. in team bas no
ation of priests and nuns to
Aye,ye've guessed it first time. Then poor Old Mother Hubs star" batsman of spite of the fact that both labour and capital are averse to the Victor Trumper standard, no The telegram quoted below quired for local services.
China, as many of thera were reThis is a picture of MacPherson, bard found no bone in the cap. From the face a'him ye'd think board-and the moral is" of such a ruling. Had such powers been in existence it might corner yes its all-round Consulate General. Hongkong, Archbishop Mannix will be the aeroplane or for a mosquito but rainy de ag
bowler a par with Spafforth or was received by the American
was looking at an improvidence, the failure for the have been possible to have avoided all the disastrous efficiency bas
During his stay in the Colony, that he commanded industrial stoppages that have marked what was looked apprecedented degree of success. 9.00 p.m. last night:-
30 from the Manila Observatory at guest of Bishop Pazzoni, and it Fe've got another guess coming, There again are many lesson)S forward to as a period of re-construction. We are recon- The Australians, with their brilli-
has also been decided that the for all that's wrong wi' Mac is to be got from the troubles of the Typhoon in about 117 deg visitor will be asked to attend a plain ennui, as they say in Spratt family. Marry your op structing things, that is true, but at a cost that amounts to ant series of victories against the Long E. and 18 deg. N. moving W. concert to be held at the Catholic Society, or bored to death to put posite, to insure harmony. By a the destruction of a very great deal.
Received at 10.20 a.m. to-day Union Club. moring W.N.W.
115 deg. Loog E. 19 deg. Lat N.
·
FIRE.
they are willing to concede to some of the employer's Country bas good, tried cricketers, Japan to
that England has fielded, the Old proposes their transfer from storied building was completely folks onyway.
Now I'm one that thinks that the nursery rhymes embody” “ queer lot of the philosophy pro- daced by the intellect of mán.
Moral:
M.C.C., have now won seven Test.
it in plain English. I aye notice just interchange of commodities, All these disputes go to show what has so often been just concluded at Lord's, like the matches off the reel, the meeting
that the further I get from the the wants of all are satisfied. urged by pacifists, that the cost of war is by no means con- Erst Test match in England, re-
subjects of golf and stamps the Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, the wider Mac's mouth gets. stole a pig. Ye know the rest fined to the expense of actual operations. We are paying sulting in a win for them by
He's one of those men that would for the pig sometimes gate loose the price of the inflation that was witnessed during the eight wickets. Success has given career there will be plenty of
talk your head off wi' his own and you're before the beak and the -Australians period of hostilties-the inflation of prices and the inflation
Damage Estimated at confidence, congratulations for a band of
pet themes but the minute that into jail as like as no-unless ya while failure
$10,000. has apparently splendid cricketers. of wages. It is so comparatively easy to increase; it is so produced
an atmosphere of
A fire broke out at one o'clock try to get a word in edgeways can get somebody to say that thorny a problem to decrease. That there is on the part depression among the Home China's Finances.
this morning in the ground floor yourself he' worse than a bairn Don't steal.
about anything that interests you're a good man. of the workers a recognition that wages must come down players. Although certainly not The latest news about the of 6. Koshing Street. The fire in church wi a long sermon Little Bo-Peep lost her sheep. is proved by the fact that in all the contemporary disputes the equal of some former elevens Nishihara loans in that China spread so rapidly that the three before it. I hate them kind of Bu they Само home all right. The lesson: Don't worry, demands. Whilst these parties are quarrelling over but they hava struck a bad patch, presumably meaning the New Prevented
the Bank Group, gutted, although the Fire Brigade For instance the other night I Most problems solve themselves margins they are inflicting an irreparable injury on the due in a very considerable, mess Consortium. This looks as if further.
spending was speiring at the wee yin about if given time.
her school lessons. I eye like to Because Little Jack Hornet country and we cannot but view with regret the fact ure, probably, to Hobbs' cost Peking has overcome its dislike by the Kwong Hing Cheung, a the day and I can aye pretty plum in bis
The ground floor was occupied to hear bow she's got on during was a goodly lad, he found that the Government has no legislative power to unfortunate injury, which has de-real or ostensible, of that institu-
Christmas pië, fix the just deal between them. In addition to the news Prived England of a cricketer who tion. It is a moot question what medicine shop. The damage done well judge from her answer Cuorches and the Bible side already to hand by cable it is well known that a dispute on batsman on either ele. Enthus- would appreciate
is still, many think, the finest Japan would say. Probably she in this shop was $10,000. which whether she's has been paying being good is always rewarded- was covered by insurance, $5,000 attention or no. Besides it helps And so it goes. Plato is ad- similar lines is pending between the employers and employ-iasm for the game is evidently nancial standing ed in the electrical tradles and one can well imagine that undiminished, and one can but Consortium, but concessions of The first floor was occupied by far on yet but the learning of the old rhymes.
with the Sun Insurance Co. and to keep a body young oneself. "read, but his more important $4,500 with the Chuen On Co. Of course the wee yin's no' very philosophy has been passed on by practically every industry in the country will have to go the Mother Country will pull As the interest appears to be hope that the representatives of great potential value are at stake. through its phase of to-day's problem. One can only hope themselves together for the next hopelessly in arrear, however
shark fin dealer.
The fire is supposed to have ill-done.
even a nursery rhyme can be But as I've said before, ye can that the realisation of the seriousness of it all will soon be Test match, though if the visitors perhaps the Consortium, would stove used for drying medicinal Goose stuff is all nonsense and much,
ayo tell a Hielan' wan but by the Mac," be says that Mother Hokey Fly ye can never tell him" borne upon the whole of the disputants.
continue their all-conquering not care about the proposition.
the beiter
of
the.
the fire
originated from a spark from
herbs.