THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921.
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"KOREA MARU."
From SAN FRANCISCO `via HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS.
SHANGHAI & MANILA. The above-named steamer hav ing arrived on Mon., the 12th inst. consignees of cargo are here- by notified to present theit Bills of Lading for countersignature, and take immediate delivery from alongside steamer or the Com- pany's Godown, where all engo impeding immediate discharge will be landed at Consignees' risk. Storage will be assessed on cargo remaining undelivered after Monday, the 19th Sept. 1921.
All broken, chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Company's Godown, where same will be examined on Tuesday, the 20th Sept., at 11 am.
No claims will be recognised after the goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after Arrival of steamet.
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From TACOMA via YOKOHAMA, KOBE NAGASAKI, SHANGHAI AND MANILA. The Company's Stearnship
ALABAMA MARU" baving arrived from the above ports. Consignees of Vargo are hereby nontied that their goods are being landes and placed at their mask in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Goods not clearer by the 19th Sept., 1921 will be subject to rent Damaged packages must be left in the tsudowns for examination by the Consignees representative and the Company's SurveyDIS, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Satur- day. All claims must be present- ed within Ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized. No clamr will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns. No fire insurance whatever will be effected.·
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for No fire insurance whatever will countersignature immediately. be effected.
Y. TSUTSUMI,
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TARIFF REVISION.
MANILA AS A FAR EASTERN CENTRE..
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This condition tells its own story, tells a story which should be different and could be made.
son to believe that certain már- chants in Shanghai hava boen asked for thair opinion by their (Continued from Page 3.)
The Question of Shipping obvious conclusions, which ir. Some Potent Reasons Against. Minister, but in such wise that they are more or less bound to
Facilities The Eastern News Agency confidence. But all merchants ritated his colleagues. These unhappy qualitios destroyed communicated a_telegram a fow have a right to know what the
"When I investigated freight the admiration, the affection, days ago to the fact that China's nature of that inquiry was and, rates I had to give up.” almost the respect, which the request for further revision of her incidentally, whether it was ad- This is a statement made by statesmen and politicians who tariff had been referred Home by dressed in time enough to make Mr. E. A. Silagi of New York in ware his closest colleagues and the foreign Ministers and not all any practical difference to the an address before the American the companions of his task of them had yet received an Diplomatic Body's disposition. Chamber of Commerce eace bad felt for him.
answer: "at the same time, it was we cannot forget that that Body (Manila). He was referring to It was the consolousness of the added, several of the Pawers were took-il-upon-itself to consent to the barriers responsible for the frak, "his inability to convince disposed to consent to revision in the famine surtax with ut any failure to establish Manila as a them of his sincerits, the martify-principle. This message is ob inquiry of the marcantile com-real trade centre for Far Eastern ing contrasts between the placeviously incorrect in one point munity's opinion: and in this business, and the freight rates be occupied in public estaens and There can be no question of the coundrion wa may quote under discussion were these be what he knew to be the inner Powers being disposed to consent report, not ill founded, that itween Manila and other poista mind of those earnest men wrom in principla, inasmuch as they has been suggested that the pre-
in the orient. he rainly tried to influence and definitely undertook to consider a
sent question of tariff revision guide, thesa composed the further revision two years later might be disposed of, without Tragedy of Lord Kitchecer." when they ratified the revised the bother of long discussion, by
tariff in 1919, which brought the clapping on a surtax of another through concerted action. We Customs dues up to an effective one-and-a-quarter per cent. In have talked and talked about the Eva.per cant. This undertaking all consciance, if there is to be advantages Manila offers na a was given on the ground of the any more talk of surtaxes, it possible trade center, says the slteration of values which, the must be in the direction of cut- Bulletin of that city. Every con Chinese Government argued, wasting them off, not of adding to scientious boaster for the Philip likely to be brought about by the them. The case as regards tariff pines has grown desperately in war, the then ravision having revision in a nutshell is this. earnest in the discussion of been based upon the average there were the faintest chance of the shipping needs of this values from 1912 to 1916. But the extra revenue going to the port and the territory of which there is a distinction between benefit of the Chinese people, it is the logical centre. This talk considering the revision of s tariff well and good. But there is not. has been accompanied by disap and accepting it when considered. Whatever money Peking can painting results so far as real which it should not be beyond the get, it will squander. The for-progress is concerned. Now it' ingenuity of diplomacy to draw: eign and Chinese communities Ketting, bigh time that a definite and there is a further distinction are this exposed to paying more decision should be reached as to which it needs no diplomat to for imported goods for the sale whether we are going to take perceive, namely, that it is in no personal benefit of a minority ourselves seriously and start on
Chins which asks for masquerading as a Government, a programme of concerted action. revision of the tariff but only who have already missppro- to render possible that which Peking, says the N.C.D.N. Andpriated millions to the
now is impossible. everybody is agreed as to the inconvenience of the nation. madness of giring Peking any Why in the name of all that is more money to play with un monstrous should they?
AN EINSTEIN TEST BY LIGHT SIGNALS.
American Scientists To Make Experiment. American scientists, under the auspices of the University of Chicago, will shortly undertake what it is said will be a con- clusive test of the much debated Einstein theory of relativity OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. The test be made by
Professor Albert A. Michelson, whose discoveries in the field of light led to the formulation of the "Professor R. A. Milliken, of the University of Chicago, explains in simple language what it is purposed to do.
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are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discbarged into Holt's | Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie | at Consignees' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Go- down os and after 13th Sept.
theory.
will
sense
"A score of years ago," he says, Professor Michelson pointed out that if the ether is controlled. dragged along with the earth at its surface is would have to be dragged in a different amount near the Equator than near the Pole," because of the fact that the motion of rotation of the earthbs
The tariff at present in force is the result of discussions that lasted throughout the whole of 1918. The first six months of that year were spent upon the actual details of the tariff; the
great
MRS. BESANT'S SUIT.
Verdict for Daily Graphie.* Mrs. Besant's action in the
It is easy enough to charge that: the steamship companies should lower their rates, but it is another | thing to bring about conditions tä
enable them to do so, or to offer? inducements to them to canse them to In this we shonid begin? at home. The port of Manila in not is a position to bid against strong competition for business.i Ifships were able to bandle cargo- offered the proper facilities in the matter of drydocks, if the busĪD DER. of the other parts of the Philip
Optional cargo will be landed, greater at the Equator than at second six months in persuading Scottish Courts at Edinburgh for here as they should, if they were:
anless notice has been given prior
to steamer's arrival.
the Pole.
pines could be made readily avail- able in kanila at reasonable rates, big arguments against the Philip
Japan to withdraw the objections ONE WAY OF TESTING.
raised by her delegates to every 1.000 damages against the Daily "Hence one way of testing provision which they fancied Graphic for alleged slander, said All broken, chafed, and damas whether we can detect motion of might cause any inconvenience to have been contained in so ed goods are to be left in the Goods, where ther will be points on the earth's surface with to their country's trade. Even-article stating that Mrs. Besant examined on any Tuesdays and respect to the ether would be to tually on January of 1919 it had been interned because she Fridays between the hours of send light signals in different was announced that the revised refused to discontinue to advocate 10.45 am. and noon within the directions round the earth's pole tariff bad been submitted to the sedition, was unsuccessful. The pines, arguments giving Manila s and see whether the two signals Powers for ratification and injury, after ao hour's ab black eye, would be removed. came back to the starting point due course it came into force.sance,
found Steamship companies desiring to the defendants. The value of the revision to for
return- make Manila their Far Eastern- Peking is, we believe, in the
a verdict in the follow-distributing cadire, with feeder neighbourhood of Tls. 3.000.000 terms It is the opinion of services to other points in the anoually. Certainly that is no the jury that, taking into con. Orient, have met obstacles which very great sum, from the stand. Isileration the period and the
free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th September, will be subject to rent.
at the same instant.
"If there were any relative motion of the earth with respect to the ether, they would not do 50. But if the ether in the neighbourhood of all portions of
ananimously
All Claims against the Steamer the earth had the same motion Point of States revenues, but it circumstances existing at the action, and their plans have not?
is enough, when taken in con- time the articles appeared in must be presented to the under-as the earth just beneath it, then junction with other pickings that New India, they tended to pro- signed on or before the 3rd Oct, the two signals would come back have come in Peking's way dur-mote unrest, and the defendants or they will not be recognised. at exactly the same time.
were justified in calling them ing recent years, to make one No Fire Insurance will be A lile computation shows wonder what has become of it.seditious.** effected.
it should be just as satisfactory to send a beam round a circuit of koown area in the latitude of Chicago as in the latitude of the
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 19:b Sept. 1921.
WORLD WIDE SPORT.
S
the word Turnberry is mentioned
Pole.
those 116 steps from the hotel to £4,000,000 A YEAR FOR INDIAN
the licks come in for criticism.
TRIBE.
For+xample, there bave been ip. Lord Anderson, in his address
were placed there by official -
been realized. It is starting at the wrong end of the line to csily upon the steamship companies to offer all the desired advantageaf for the Philippines when they are given no consideration in returns If all roade in the Orient are to lead to Mails, rates must be brought to a point which will afford the ships opportunity to- make money and which at the same time will not enable the
creases in Custom revenue inde to the jury, said that not a single pendently of increased tariff: witness bas come into Court to Boxer Indemnity money, cancal-say that be ever heard fall from led altogether as regards some Mrs. Beszat's lips one seditious "If the predicted amount of Powers and suspended from pay-expression. It was undoubtedly this effect is exactly checkedment for five years by others: true that Mrs. Besant had been experimentally. Einstein's theory the profit derivable from high interned by Lord Pentland, but shipper to compete with all: of relativity will receive support.exchange: and latterly, and sulll (said his Lordship) I know Lord comers. Shipping companies are: If, on the other hand, there should continuing, several million dol-Pentland perhaps as well as Mr. not in a position to-day to turu şi be found to be no observable lars Biched from the starving Harold Cox; and from what I deaf ear to proposals which would Miss Cecil Leitch, the lady difference round the circuit, or people of north China, for whose know of him, I don't think he result in business for them. If s golf champion, gives away anif the observed difference does supposed benefit the Diplomatic was fundamentally opposed to plan which would mean a lower interesting little trick which is not check numerically with the Body had been weak enough to
Home Kals in India for all time.cale of rates between Manila andă practised at Tarnberry. She says computed. then the Einstein
in the Golf Monthly-if ever theory will have been disproved assent to the imposition of what But I do, perhaps, think that other points to be supplied through" ware humorously called famine Lord Pentland, being "jompy, here can be realized in such a as Colonel Wedgwood suggested, way as to enable them to operate scr'axes. Against all this un- expected wealth all the practical thought that during the war it in a bigger commercial programme evidence we see of government is should be held in suspense. Mre, at a reasonable proft, they will However, even they have their A New York message says:- a series of lootings by unpaid Besant took a different view. I listen to suggestions. Hongkong, 19th September, 1921. advantages, and form a suitable. By the sale, with the consent of soldiers and Dot & penny forth have no doubt that Lord Peatland, Now is the time for action look-3
place for the taking of photo-Government, of 30,000 acres of coming in compensation: a series wishing to silance Mrs. Besanting to such a rearrangement of graphs and the playing of Osage Indian reservation oil of strikes by unpaid professors and to stop ber from writing, ratas. Concerted action is needed. jokes, only one of which I shall leads. gear. Tulsa, Oklahoma, and teachers; and Peking bor-resolved to intern her. If Mr.
give away." My reader, on the tribe have become the richest rowing a few thousands here and Cox had taken the trouble to capable of doing so. The third i starting an ascent, may be asked community ie the world: Oil a few thousands there from week quote the order, nothing could class were those who said that: to try how many times she can was discovered in abundance reto weak to enable it just to carry have been said against him.
the time bad now come whenk? cently, by prospectors, on the on. It is an edifying spectacle.
-Continuing, Lord Anderson said India could be made partner land allotted to the tribe years In face of such a record, no that there seemed to be three with England. That stage hadi ago by the Government. The undertaking thoughtlessly given camps of opinion with regard to now been reached, and the polle acreage mentioned has now been two years ago should be held to India. The first were those who had in fact been adopted by thei
• conquered Government, Mrs. Besant hads acquired for a little less than compel the Powers to pour more treated India as £1,000,000, plus a bonus of one-money into Peking's bottomless country class that was di-seen the triumphant carrying opt sixth of the oil produced. There pit without the most serious re-minishing every day. That sort of of those views. Mrs. Besant are about 2,000 Osage Indians flexion. Farthermore, this is a thing would not do. The second character had received the surviving, and it is estimated that case in which the foreign and were those who desired Indians highest support and approbation, each will receive an annual in-Chinese business communities to manage their own affairs but from a number of very influential come of £2,000.
have a right to ask for the fullest thought that they were not yet people.
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In Bags of 250 lbs. net,
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make a ball bounce as the steps Without thinking, she will prob- ably throw the ball as far as possible with the result that it will bounce once or twice only: her challenger will then lean over and drop a ball on the fourth or fifth step, and score about fifteen 07 twenty bounces. I was caught" perhaps that is my reason for spelling a joke!
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
He Thought It Shined Only at Home!
BY BLOSSER
OU SEE
JA SEE
TH' MOON FRECKLES
GEE-ITS
TU MOON
GONNA BE
TAG?
NICE AN'
MOONLIGHT TO-NIGHT.
WERE
ISN'T IT NICE OF TH' MOON T’COMÉ
ALONG WITH VS
ON OUR
VACATION?
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