THE HONGKUNG STRIKE.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Investigation Into Its Origin.
appears:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
JUDGES AND POLITICS.
The Lord Chancellor and Lord Carson.
In the course of a saries of showed in his lecture on the
Mr. Reginald Smith, F.S.AW
The man in the street, who, 10- articles upon the late shipping "Bronza and Iron Ages" at the lording to Lord Dunedin, is to be strike which Mr. Rodney Gilbert British Museum, that the rapiar identified with the litigant, past, was furnishing to the North Chinu earliest form of the sword, states present, or potential, and is there- Daily News during his visit to was the a writer in a Londonpaper. fore directly affected by anything -South Chins the following It was the first development of the which might tend to impair or
The history of the activities of that this should take the form of a justies for detachment and im
spear, and it was only natural diminish the repulation of British the Seamen's Union in the early throating weapon. But it is clear partiality, cannot fail to be inter days of the strike both in Hong, that it speedily passed into disuse, ested in the debate between the kong and Canton
would being superseded by weapons Lord Chancellor and Lord Car see m to indicate that it which cut, for all the ancient spa on the relation of the Judi- was the union which made swords which have been discover-ciary to party politics. It is not the original demands and not in these islands or abroad are a question of Lord Carson's-bon- the men. In the first place the of this and not of the rapier type.our, the integrity of which no one first demands came from the It is true that most of them are suspects, but it is a matter of high | union to the shipowners at a time pointed, but all had sharp blades constitutional propriety, and as when the closest inquiry among and manifestly were principally such it concerns all subjects of the men proved that a very small used to hack. Then, cariously the King. Lord Carson claims, percentage of them were aware of enough, in the Middle Ages came as a member of the House of the existence of the union. When the revival of the rapier, Spaic Lords, although he is also a Lord Kuomintang influence was re- apparently inventing and France of Appeal, the right, and has put. eatablished in Kwangtung pro- naming it, and it had its vague his claim into practice, of mak vince two years ago, a feature of for centuries. But with the passing strong and emphatic party social life upon which Dr. Suning of the duel it ceased to be a speeches both in the House and Yat sen and his associates smiled fighting weapon, and rsday in out of its the Lord Chancellor has labour organization. This this country it has merely a cere taken him to task for so doing was artificially fostered inas-monial use.
and bas marshalled a number of much as the labour leaders were
arguments to show why." in the found first, not evolved through
interests of the administration of labour organization while onions
justice, he should refrain from political action is future.
ware
were first founded and the work- The sale by Lord · Breadalbana men then coaxed into them. In of his big Taymouth Castle the early days of the labour domain in Perthshire and bis
On the whole, despite the pre- movement, the union organiza.
departure therefrom Buzgest cedents-pone of them vers tion was the nucleus about which another version of an old Scots strong-which Lord Carson has the workmen
gathered. song, for it was the Breadalbane cited in self-justification, we be It was not as if the workmen branch of the all-pervading lieve that the country will side; in the Various trades
had Argyll who gave rise to the with the Lord Chancellor, on the themselves assembled and form song "The Campbells are Com- ground that the execution of the ed the union.
The Seamen'sing." This was through his an-highest judicial fucctions is so Union in Hongkong was formally cestor. Sir John Campbell. of exacting and so loity a duty that opened in Hongkong in January. the lands of the Earl of Caith-orders, has to do with politics the Glenorchy, Argyllshire, seizing the less the Judicial Bench, of all 1921. The authorities knew of it,} learned that its organizers were
whose title he claimed. better. To certain classes of for the most part ahip's stewards Sir John Campbell lent much Judges the rule is already ab. who had served, some in Pacific money to the sixth Earl of Caith-solutely applied, and is absolute. steamers, some in cossting boats, ess, and in some manner gotly observed by them: but those and gave it little thought.
himself appointed tha: nobleman's who sit in the House of Lords are The Union first made its exis: heir. So in time he became the of a more ambiguous status, and ence known to the shipping cam-seventh Earl of Caithness. But the degrea of their separation munity in a printed circular when the true Sinclair heir peti-trom the legislative and deliber addressed to the various shipping tioned the Scottish Parliamentative business of that Cham- companies on November 25, 1921, Sir John had to drop the title ber resta On convention, i and signed by P. S. Chan (other of Earl of Caithness; but to and depends, As much else mollify bim he was allowed to in constitutional practice depends, assume the minor titles associated on precedent. At present it can- with the Caithness warldom. not be said, that precedent in
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favour of their indiscriminate participation in current politics will wish to see it fortiñed, and is strong but no one, we believe, for that reason the verdict of the country will be with the Lord leading article. Chancellor, states the Times in a
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wise Chen Ping-shan). This circular announced that "a Union has been formed consisting of the
gain his point the British Prime Chinese members of the crews
Minister had threatened, in the serving os Cosstal and River
event of French refusal, to steamers which sign Hoogkorg Son of French father and
Avoiding Misunderstandings. terminate the Eatente. His reply articles." It gare detailed figures Welsh mother. Albert Chevalier
was emphatic bat incomplete. of the cost of living and the last month, celebrates his 61st
the relationship between Graat siderable feeling in the French An old controversy affecting Since the matter aroused con- incidents expenses of a msa, such as clothes, sampan hire of a drunkard character was his se-birthday. His first crest stay
Britain and France was recently Senate we bave felt bound to cali and the like, and concluded by imitation of Charles Warner in
revived in the French Senate. As attention to it. At the same time, asking for an increase of 40 per his famous part in "Drink," the
That any of the Law Lords, Paris informed us, states
Special Correspondent in it must be pointed out that in cent. in the wazes of men earc- English adaptation
the France, as in this of Zola's whose elevation to the peerage is Times in a leading article, the domestic dissensions are frequent- country, ing less than $30 a month, and of: L'Assommoir." The English due solely to their legal qualifica- former Minister of Finance. M.ly, unfortunately, entangled with 30 per cent. for those earning equivalent of Mine.
Yvette tions, should incapacitate them-Francois Marsal, who had been international questions. French more than $30 a month.
Guilbert, be is perhaps ourselves from beating certain kinds criticizing the recent financial politicians are sometimes tempted A SLANDER ON THE COMPANIES. greatest character actor. 53 of cases because of notorious arrangements in regard to Ger to score of their opponents by The shipping companies have writer in the Daily New political prejudice would be an man reparations, was stung by blaming England, just as British been persistently charged in the A friend once said to unseemly act of self-disqualifica remarks made by M. Poincare on politicians decasionally yield to praas, and are still charged in all Chevalier,
Why don't Foution which no one would care the part M.-Marsal bimself had the temptation of defending Chinese gossip, with having de-join forces with Yvette Guilbert?" to encourage. The interpretation played at Spa, into making a themselves by blaming France. liberately ignored this and sub. He said he would like to. Shortly of the law, and the reputation of confidential statement *quent communications from the afterwards he got a wire from the the Bench for susterity and fair negotiations at the Spa Controversies
00 the It would be deplorable if con Union. This is wholly untrue. Continent asking if he would join ness, must not be imperilled. terence. This
arising from
such Existing correspondence proves her on a tour. It transpired after-Lord Carson, in his defence, has made in a secret Session of the they take the form, as in the statement was accidental causes, even though that all shipping companies, wards that at the time Chevalier argued that what applies to bim Senate; but the substance of it present instance, of the resurrec although the communication and his friend wers discussing it, should also be made to apply to was comminuicated to our Specialtion of an old and painful dispute, seemed to contera only coast and Mme. Guilbert's husband had all who administer justice, the Correspondant, river boats, at once took a very made the proposal to his wife, Lord Chancellor himself not ex-journal, and reports appeared in tween the Allies. Our Special Cor- coaciones that should embitter the relations te- lively interest in this first and on her consenting had wired, capted. But the Lord Chancellor Wednesday's Paris papers. M. respondent rightly called atten document and made every effort with the result that they had has long been a member of the Marsal appears to have urged, intion to the incident, because, es to learn what it signified. The most successful joint tour. Cabinet: he is appointed to bis defending himself against the he notes, it threatened to wesken most important river steamer!
bigh office of State on politicalas charge of having made undue the foundations of the Entents in company immediately replied to
well as legal grounds, and the concessions. the Union circular saying that
that at Spa the that important body the French fortunes of the Ministry are by British it would have
Major Earl Winterton, the new
Prime Minister had Sonate. We may hope, however, sideration. Two deep sex com-tributed in pre-war days more wisdom. The Lord Chancellor, the coal delivered by Germany to swift course of our turbulent no means uniouenced by his adopted a very peremptory tone that the Senate will not linger con-Under Secretary for India, can contributions to its collective on the question of the prices of long over a dispate that, in the panies, whose agents in Hong-animation to the debates of the however, by virtue of his duties, France as reparation for kong did not consider that they House than probably any other which are to maintain in all wracked
directly affected
the times, seems distant indeed. Besumed that the circular was with him. however, that the golema and most ancient power Mr. Lloyd George bed threa between
member. He had such a w integrity and efficiency the most recounted the
French mïnes. He There are urgent tasks ahead, story of how and never was close cooperation seat to them for their information Speaker usually found himself only, wrote almost immediately to sympathetic spectator of his in hitherto been differentiated in the Prime Minister of France, with than now. The restoration of
which flows from the King, has tened
France and Great the Union asking for information discretions. Fortunately for the public mind from his colleagues the termination of the Entente Europe cannot be accomplishad 31. Millerand, then Britain more urgently necessary and for conferences with the Major, his peerage is an officers, These they had
one, thus permitting him the pri- of the Cabinet; and it is by nounless France would consent unless the Allies work in com several occasions before strike. The two most important Commons as its youngest mem Lord Chancellor into the dust of British export price. The general that
vilege of entering the House of means certain that some of the tha: the price of this reparation plete harmony. One of the grave
more modern excursions of the coal should be raised coasting companies, the China ber in 1904. His maiden speech the political arena have been effect of M. Marsal's speech was ing
to the errors of the Genoa method is Navigation Company, Ld, and was an augury of things to come looked upon with approval. No that the British delegation at Spa firmly
it aims at "build-
tbe the Indo-China Stasm Navigation an irrepressible gajety and ex-doubt a modern Lord Chancellor had exercised intimidation to the tions, the chief foundation being roof without Company, Ld, were duluberance of spirits. He apologised
laying the founds- interested by the circular and did for his 22 years, then made that has many more openings by which profit of the British Treasury. what anyone would naturally do inevitable allusion to Pitt which to express himself to the demo-
the Eatente. Progress hás re- under the circumstances, made always pleases the house. Lord cracy than his predecessors: bot every effort to find out what the Winterton bas waited, however, to the nation expects him to have Austen Chamberlain, commentin settling some of the matters in Seamen's Union was and what it be 39 before becoming a Minister, a strict regard for his dignity.ng, in reply to a question, on the dispute between this country and
It is
It is possible that he may attempt atatement which M. Marsal is France, notably in regard to the significant that,
He has had many adventures in correspondence proves,
fighting the Turks; he may now too much in his endeavour to creditably reported by his col-Far East. The work is not yet companies
these look forward to some of a differ fulfil his double part. Indeed that, leagues to bave made, declared complete; the politicians have which handreds
employ act sort in Sghting his Indians we regret to learn this morning, that it was a complete travesty not yet been able to re-interpret of Chinese sca hecklers.
is Lord Birkenhead's experience.
of the facts of the case. The in a strong and sincere compact mon 00 steamers calling
While other offices of State cap. Supreme Council had decided at the common interests of the two if necessary, be subdivided, that Spa the proposal of the peoples. Until this is done, until Canton also, were unable to get
of the Lord Chancellor probably Prime Minister,, that in view of the Entente is once more solidly satisfactory information through
cannot; and if the growth of his the fact that Germany was behind- cemented, it is to court grave their own organization and ware for a meeting after the holidays, legal duties points to the neces band with her coal deliveries, risks to rush into sach enterprises forced, after three days, to write which actually took place on sity of a withdrawal from the owing to the underfeeding of the as that of Gencs, where subile to the Chinesa Secretariat of the January 9. At that time the more strictly party does, the miners, a sam should be advanced and stubborn antagonists are wait- colony and ask for authentic in steamship companies, generally, nation, we belleve, will not be in-
to Germany for the purchase of ing to exaggerate and take advan-j formation about the Unica. The were charged with conspiring to clined to deplore such a change. foodstuffs for miners equivalent tage of all our divisions. Nothing reply received on December 9 ignore the Union's demanda, gave the rules of the Union but thereby aggravating the situation. confirmed the companies in their At this conference therefore, P. belief that the Union represented B. Chan, representing the Union, Do ποτε than # fraction was asked to make a statement
This country, Mr. Chamberlain BORN OR THE VICTORY. of their Chinesa employees. upon bis point to which he
added, had not profited by this Mrs. Mary Carr, probably the In spite of this conviction readily acceded, stating that the
About 25 rotormatory and in- arrangement, but had agreed to only person born on Nelson's old when the Union, on December shipowners had been acknow-dustrial schools have been, or are advance twenty-four per cent. of flagship Victory, has died 25, asked for conference, the ledged and had not been ignored being closed for reasons of econo- the advance to Germany. Mr. Portsmouth, aged 87, She re two coasting companies im and that there was no grievance my according to Mr. Shortt, Chamberlain made no reference membered seeing a man flogged mediately agreed and arranged on this score..
Secretary of State, Home Office to the statement that in order to on board in the olden daya.
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